Hyde, Embriette and Burg, Martin G., "Construction of a transgene to analyze the function of the 3'UTR of the Hdc gene on spatial expression of histidine decarboxylase in Drosophila melanogaster" (2009). Student Summer Scholars. 19.
Histamine has been shown to be an important neurotransmitter used in the nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster. Histidine decarboxylase (HDC) is the enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of histamine. All genetic information necessary for Hdc gene expression has been shown to be present in a 9.4kb genomic DNA fragment. A previous study fused the 5'-UTR of Hdc to the gene encoding eGFP. Microscopic analysis of flies transformed with the pHdc-eGFP transgene showed a weak pattern of eGFP expression in the nervous system as compared to histamine localization, indicating that another genomic region may be necessary for robust Hdc expression. Studies in other systems have suggested that the 3'UTR of a gene may play an important role in its expression. Current efforts are focused on the construction of a transgene that fuses the 3' UTR of Hdc to the existing pHdc-eGFP transgene. Examination of GFP expression in flies bearing this new transgene (pHdc-eGFP-3'UTR) may demonstrate the role that the 3' UTR has in Hdc expression.


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TV's Jughead Won't Be Canon, Will Want Sex
Eve Peyser
Screengrab via YouTube
Jughead will not be asexual on the CW's upcoming Riverdale, a gritty reboot of Archie Comics. Cole Sprouse, who portrays the legendary Archie character, said he fought for the character to be asexual as he is in the Jughead comic series, but to no avail. Chip Zdarsky, the author of Jughead, spoke to the character's sexuality at New York Comic Con in 2015:
My view of Jughead is, over the 75 years [of his existence] there have been sporadic moments where he has dabbled in the ladies, but historically he has been portrayed as asexual. They just didn't have a label for it, so they just called him a woman-hater.
But he's not a misogynist — he just watches his cohorts lose their minds with hormones. People have asked me if there is going to be a romance if I'm writing Jughead, because I'm very romantic, and the answer is no, because there is enough of that in Archie. I think something like asexuality is underrepresented, and since we have a character who was asexual before people had the word for it, I'm continuing to write him that way.
Sprouse told Hollywood Life, "I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our public media. But at the end of the day, I still had to do my job." The actor confirmed, "Jughead will have romances with women . . . and burgers."
So Jughead will try to fuck—it's a CW show after all. I understand that sex sells, but using Riverhead to explore asexuality is a far more interesting choice to me. Oh well.
[Bleeding Cool via Hollywood Life]
Eve Peyser was the night editor at Gizmodo.
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As an ace, having the standalone Jughead comic that's been one of the only pieces of popular media to specifically address some of the problems I've got in my life has been absolutely wonderful. I was so damn excited to have a very openly ace character on a major show when they announced the series, so this is kinda a big downer, although not unexpected, as the other commentators have mentioned.

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Merkel Formally Nominated for Election
BERLIN (AP) -- Angela Merkel's conservatives have formally nominated the German chancellor as her party's top candidate for the September parliamentary election in the region where she has her political base.
The dpa news agency reported that Merkel won the support of 95 percent of delegates at a convention of the Christian Democrats' branch in northeastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state Saturday. Merkel has held her parliamentary constituency in Stralsund since 1990.
Polls show Merkel facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from the center-left Social Democrats, who have been boosted by their choice of former European Parliament President Martin Schulz to challenge her.
Merkel didn't mention Schulz in her speech Saturday. But she did make a point of praising the economic reforms enacted by her center-left predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, some of which Schulz has suggested he might amend.


Overview: Sorting garbage into compost, recycling or landfill can be a surprisingly difficult task. To help University of Washington (UW) students with it, the Smart Bins installation features separate receptacles, each fitted with a scale, a microcomputer and a digital screen. When in use, the digital screens show how much money is saved by proper composting and recycling and the hypothetical campuswide savings if everyone did the same; when not in use, the screens show correctly sorted trash items cascading into each bin. For the 10 to 40 people per hour who have used Smart Bins since it launched at a UW campus café, throwing out garbage just became fun.
•The project is powered by several Raspberry Pis, programmed in Python.
•After installation, correct composting increased by 20 percent, and incorrect recycling decreased by 15 percent.
•The project, originally a concept developed by UW graduate students, took seven months to complete.


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Q: Unable to Click Submit button in webpage using .net Im creating a automation using VB in microsoft Visual Studio like a app
the project path is Visual Basic>windows classic Desktop>windows form
app(.NET framework).
Code is written using VBA and it is a form which gets
user input and paste it into a webform and click a submit button and create a Ticket.
I already have this automation running via VBA excel. however due to some circumstances i need to create it as a standalone app instead. I have problem in clicking the submit button. can someone please assist me in putting the code right.
this is the HTML element taken from view source
    <input type="hidden" name="ticket_type" id="ticket_type" value="" />
    <input type="hidden" name="quicklink_id" id="quicklink_id"value="0"/>
    <textarea name="work_log" style="display:none"></textarea>
    <textarea name="correspondence" style="display:none"></textarea>

    Submit Ticket

    Save as New Quicklink

as you can see there are two buttons, one is Submit Ticket and Save as New Quicklink. i need to click the Submit Ticket button. The earlier code is used in VBA is
    Call sel.executeScript("ajax_submit()", "javascript")

This is my code in .net
     Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As System.Object,
     ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs)
     Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted

     MessageBox.Show("Document loading completed!")
     Me.WebBrowser1.Document.ExecCommand("ajax_submit()", "javascript")
     End Sub

so once the form is loaded, it will show a message box and then should click the submit button. however this is showing error as
Severity    Code    Description Project File    Line    Suppression State
Error   BC30455 Argument not specified for parameter 'value' of 'Public Overloads Sub ExecCommand(command As String, showUI As Boolean, value As Object)'.  My_First
Can someone help me on how the code should be. Sorry im a beginner in .net (and VBA as well)

A: This seems to do the trick:
Me.WebBrowser1.Document.All("ID-Of-The-Button").InvokeMember("Click")

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Rubies In Crystal
Does language hover between my nerve endings and the world, or is language my skin itself?
Sheath of feeling. Words groping to touch air.
direct link to 1min recording:disappearing
into a world
of disappearing forms
where figures
refract,
thick viscous glass
melted sand granules
falling into dream
Brenda Clews' poetry, voice and mix. Background music, a section from: "Trio for Flute, Cymbals, and Glass" by Matt Samolis - http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/49419
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Amnesty Internation calls for security review of G8/20 Summit
Amnesty International calls for security review of G8/20 Summit: "In a statement today (June 27), the organization expressed "very deep concern" that human rights have "suffered considerably" during the protests in Toronto.
"According to Amnesty, the heavy police presence in the city—as well as acts of vandalism and violence by some protesters—has helped to create an atmosphere of fear that has kept many people from participating in peaceful demonstrations.
"At a time when the public should be encouraged to actively engage in debate and discussion about pressing global issues, the security measures that were put in place in Toronto in the lead up to the G20 Summit held in the city instead narrowed the space for civic expression and cast a chill over citizen participation in public discourse," the organization stated."
Yes, I agree with Amnesty International's questions, reasoning and approach. But would say it's our leadership, our Pr…
A clip from the G20 Protest Rally in Toronto on June 26th
Direct link to Facebook, where I'm hosting this clip: G20 Protest March, Toronto, June 26th.
I've made it accessible to everyone.
A clip from some video I took during the march, near the American Consulate on University Avenue. You can see the police have blocked it off to the public (it's on the right in the footage) and the march continues on the other side of the street south.
Yes, that worried and caring police officer was for real. And I took his advice, slipping out through the back streets, re-joining the crowd of protesters later and then avoiding a few spots of conflagration by slipping into walkways and back paths (I lived in the area for 20 years, old stomping grounds) before making my way home.
More violence ensued as the Black Bloc mob hit the streets, igniting a flare to distract (I passed that corner, missing it by minutes), burning police cars, smashing windows of banks and stores.
At the time of writing, it is close to midnight. Where I live in the city it…
If I Could Write
direct link: If I Could Write
for JP
What would I write if I could write? I reach over continents and oceans into the Parthenon to find you pressing the shutter on your camera, the photograph you sent. Or ordered chaos, but this is my life. A leaf swollen with rain. Sleeping in a hammock in a barge with hundreds of others on the Amazon River in Brazil. Sun shining on metal. How sentences fold in on each other like white rose petals. Days pass endless waves in the lake. I found her, a spirit in the forest of the lake in the Canadian terrain where I fast for days. She broke the spell. Unexpectedly, in the silvery leaves of the maples standing in water. Abandon logic for metaphor. Speak in the tongues of the poet. I burn the fire on your eyelids in…
Brenda Clews
Amnesty Internation calls for security review of G...
A clip from the G20 Protest Rally in Toronto on Ju...
An Ecology of Earth
A Sunshiny Solstice Goddess
One Hand Clapping
Underground Vault
'from the Suite of Botticelli Venus Poems': a coll...
A Pantoum on Anger
Sporadic Music #1: -a crazy dance-
Learning from instructional videos on YouTube
State of Video Rendering Tonight
What is Hidden in Ourselves?
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Bogart es un pueblo ubicado en el condados de Oconee y Clarke en el estado estadounidense de Georgia. En el censo de 2000, su población era de 1.049.

Demografía
En el 2000 la renta per cápita promedia del hogar era de $41,190, y el ingreso promedio para una familia era de $45,682. El ingreso per cápita para la localidad era de $20,081. Los hombres tenían un ingreso per cápita de $31,652 contra $28,580 para las mujeres.

Geografía
Bogart se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas  (33.294858, -82.200623).

Según la Oficina del Censo, la localidad tiene un área total de , de la cual  es tierra y  (0.0%) es agua.

Referencias

Localidades del condado de Oconee (Georgia)
Pueblos de Georgia (Estados Unidos)
Localidades del condado de Clarke (Georgia)

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With the on-going construction work for the additional lines for the 2020 Expo in Dubai showing rapid progress, public riders can expect that the city's metro rail system will only get better from this point forward.
This is the vision backed by the government's decision to integrate traffic control systems in decongesting areas in the city for the upcoming global event set to take place in Dubai starting next year.
The Dubai Metro has announced that passengers travelling between DMCC Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) (Station 37) to IBN Battuta (Sttation 39) will no longer have to take the free bus transport covering this route as the red line is set to reopen very soon, as shared in a report by The National.
According to the announcement, train services will be restored through DMCC directly heading towards IBN Battuta. However, the Nakheel Harbor and Tower station will remain closed until further notice.
Last year, the Nakheel Harbor and Tower station has been closed off to give way to the construction of Route 2020.
According to RTA Rail Agency Director of Rail Operations Mohammed Yousef Al Mudharreb, due to the closure of the DMCC and Ibn Battuta stations to accommodate the construction of Route 2020, the RTA has decided to provide free shuttle bus services between these areas so as not to inconvenience the riding public with the construction work taking place.
Al Mudharreb explained that the step reinforces the RTA's vision to provide safe and smooth transport for all.
With this development, the free shuttle services will remain operational only until April 18, as the line service from DMCC and IBN Battuta will be restored on April 19 to accommodate passengers directly travelling through this line.
As the modes of public transportation are widely varied within the city, resumption of this integral service line will only mobilize traffic conditions on roads and highways, which not only will benefit the public commuters but even all the residents within the city.
It's quite amazing to note that the government is truly committed in its role in providing quality service to the people in areas such as infrastructure and public transport, while accommodating other priority projects in its bid to boost the economy and the emirate's position and performance in the region as well as in the global stage.


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(E)-N-(pentan-2-ylidene)hydroxylamine
(E,E)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-1,4,6,10-tetraen-3-ol
(E,Z)-4-chlorophenyl(cyclopropyl)ketone O-(4-nitrophenylmethyl)oxime
(E-E )-3,3'-(1,4-phenylenedimethylidene)bis(2-oxobornane-10-sulfonic acid)
(ethyl-1,2-ethanediyl)]-2-[[[(2-hydroxyethyl)methylamino]acetyl]propyl]ω-(nonylphenoxy)poly[oxy(methyl-1,2-ethanediyl)
(ethyl-3-oxobutanoato-O'1,O'3)(2-dimethylaminoethanolato)(1-methoxypropan-2-olato)aluminium(III), dimerised
(hydroxyethyl)urea
215-304-0 1320-51-0 Full Individual 100 - 1 000 tonnes per annum View substance registered dossier
(imidazol-5-yl)ethyl-3-aminopropionamide dihydrochloride
(Isocyanatomethyl)(dimethoxy)methylsilane
(methoxymethyl)triphenylphosphonium chloride
(methylenebis(4,1-phenylenazo(1-(3-(dimethylamino)propyl)-1,2-dihydro-6-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-oxopyridine-5,3-diyl)))-1,1'-dipyridinium dichloride dihydrochloride
(N-benzyl-N,N,N-tributyl)ammonium 4-dodecylbenzenesulfonate
(N-phenylcarbamimidoyl)ammonium carbonate hydrate
(p-chlorophenyl)metaboric acid
(pentabromophenyl)methyl acrylate
261-767-7 59447-55-1 Full Individual 100 - 1 000 tonnes per annum View substance registered dossier
(Phenylethyl)-propylpyrandion
448-120-6 - NA Individual Intermediate Use Only View substance registered dossier
(phenylmethylene)di-2,1-phenylene ditetradecanoate
(R)-(-)-1-methoxy-2-propylamine
(R)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-6,7-dimethoxy-1-veratrylisoquinoline hydrochloride
(R)-1-((4-chlorophenyl)(phenyl)methyl)piperazine (3R,5S,E)-7-(4-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-isopropyl-2-(N-methylmethylsulfonamido)pyrimidin-5-yl)-3,5-dihydroxyhept-6-enoate
(R)-1-chloro-2,3-epoxypropane
(R)-1-cyclohexa-1,4-dienyl-1-methoxycarbonyl-methylammoniumchloride
(R)-1-hydroxy-1-phenylacetone
(R)-2-(4-hydroxyphenoxy)propanoic acid
(R)-2-acetamido-3-naphthyl-2-yl-propionic acid
(R)-2-bromo-3-methylbutyric acid diisopropylamine salt
(R)-2-tert-butoxycarbonylamino-3-(4-chlorophenyl)propionic acid
(R)-2-tert-butoxycarbonylamino-3-(pyridin-3-yl)propionic acid
(R)-2-{[(3-methyl-4-nitropyridine-2-yl)methyl]sulfinyl}-1H-benzimidazole
(R)-3-(2-benzyloxy)-5-bromophenyl)-N,N-diisopropyl-3-phenylpropan-1-amine
(R)-3-[(1-methylpyrrolidin-2-yl)methyl]-5-[2-(phenylsulfonyl)ethenyl]-1H-indole
(R)-3-chloropropane-1,2-diol
(R)-3-Methylhexanoic acid
(R)-4-(4-dimethylamino)-1-(4-fluorophenyl)-1-hydroxybutyl)-3-(hydroxymethyl)benzonitrile hemi (2R, 3R)-2,3-bis((4-methylbenzoyl)oxy)succinoate
(R)-4-(4-dimethylamino-1-(4-fluorophenyl)-1-hydroxybutyl)-3-(hydroxymethyl)benzonitrile
(R)-5-(2-Aminopropyl)-2-methoxybenzenesulfonamide
(R)-5-bromo-3-(1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinyl methyl)-1H-indole
(R)-6-(isopropyl)-3-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-one
(R)-[[(4-ethyl-2,3-dioxopiperazin-1-yl)carbonyl]amino]phenylacetic acid
(R)-Methyl-2-fluoropropanoate
(R)-N-[(1E)-1-(5-bromo-2-fluorophenyl)ethylidene]-2-methylpropane-2-sulfinamide
(R)-α-phenylethylammonium (-)-(1R, 2S)-(1,2-epoxypropyl)phosphonate monohydrate
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(R*,S*)-(±)-α-[4-[2-(dimethylamino)ethoxy]phenyl]-β-ethyl-α-phenylphenethyl alcohol
(R,S)-1-[2-amino-1(4-methoxyphenyl)ethyl]cyclohexanol acetate
(R,S)-2-amino-3,3-dimethylbutane amide
(R,S)-2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-3-one


The intellectual rivalry of F.A. Hayek and J.M. Keynes has recently caught the attention of historians of economic thought, journalists and the broad public. However, how was it viewed at the time? This article uses archival material in the form of marginal annotations made by G.L.S. Shackle to determine contemporary reading responses to the theoretical developments of the 1930s. Shackle's unique reading style that includes legible, dated, annotations and the fact that a substantial part of his academic library survives, gives us a unique vantage point from which to explore anew this period of intellectual history.


Dan Snow wrangles with a Python! He talks to comedy legend Michael Palin about his new book, Erebus The Story of a Ship. The book tells the devastating true story of the Franklin expeditions to find the Northwest Passage, and how their history only slowly came to light.
For more exclusive history documentaries and interviews head to HistoryHit.TV!


Julie Chen's husband, Les Mooves is being forced out of CBS, many feel he's responsible for Big Brother being on the CBS schedule and Julie Chen being its hostess.
If you follow TV industry news, you may have heard that CBS boss Les Moonves has been removed from his position as chairman and chief executive of CBS. Leslie Moonves, who is also the husband of Julie Chen, will resign his position in the wake of sexual assault allegations.
Les Moonves will continue to advise CBS for one year "in order to provide for a smooth transition of his duties." CBS will provide Moonves with "office services" and security for up to two years. Moonves will be temporarily replaced by chief operating officer Joseph Ianniello, the network said.
Chen defended her husband on Twitter following the first round of allegations in July. "I have known my husband, Leslie Moonves, since the late '90s, and I have been married to him for almost 14 years. Leslie is a good man and a loving father, devoted husband and inspiring corporate leader," she tweeted.
Big Brother fans are worried this shake-up could result in the end of Big Brother on CBS, as this is the last season the network has under contract.
"BB has still not yet been renewed for Season 21. After a summer of issues, most all are panicking, a lot.
The ratings for BB20 are just slightly lower than BB19, but Big Brother always wins its timeslot.
The Big Brother franchise is owned by Endemol Shine Group, the Netherlands-based TV producer of shows including "Black Mirror," "MasterChef," "Fear Factor," "Grantchester," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Dancing With the Stars," and "Peaky Blinders." Recently the Disney Corporation bought portions of 21st Century Fox, of which Endemol Shine Group was included.
No wonder they allow JC's sexual antics to play out on TV, apparently it is normal in the Moonves home. He should be in prison and not collecting millions of dollars! Disgusting!!!
This Les shakeup, last season's abuse of Cody, the little pervert this season, also the allowing of Tyler to cheat his way into HOH this season, CBS has lost its credibility. This absolutely should be the last season of BB as the competition is now forever tainted as "fixed".
Could you please edit "Effect" in your title to "Affect". Makes it more legit. Thanks.
Before becoming "Batman," Adam West and Peaches the Chimp were the hosts of a kiddy show, "The Kini Popo Show" in Hawaii. Just one year before "Batman," he played Kenneth Cabot in the "Three Stooges" movie, "The Outlaws Is Coming."


Monkey Game Programming step by step: Getting started/learning/getting into game programming.
Getting started/learning/getting into game programming.
Invest enough hours in this.
It would probably be useful to learn how to use drawing/animation programs.
It would be usefull if you learn to model in 3d editing programs.
Video editing is something that you will probably need to learn about.
It could help if you could use sound/music editing programs.
Learn a couple of languages so you will be able to read more example code online and in books ect.
Look at gameplay video's and think on how you would be able to program cenrtain things from that yourself.
Study games by playing them.
Spend money to learn how to programming better.
Pay someone to teach you specific things.
Try and stay motivated and keep it fun.
If you spend a lot of time learning game programming then you will get better.
Make a lot of things.


The first of three workshops on everything you need to know to plan and start your own veggie plot. Get hands on experience in a commercial market garden and pick the brains of a professional.
No-dig gardening methods – how you can have lots of veggies and never dig again!


The TGO Challenge is now in full swing. Of course many of us cannot participate this year, either because of other priorities, we didn't get selected, or we didn't apply. Oh, but we're curious, aren't we? Even if we're just thinking about giving it a go for the first time next year?
Thanks to the excellent chaps at Adventure Trading Post, suppliers of the Spot emergency locator, a baker's dozen of this years contingent can be tracked live as they progress across the wilds of Scotland. Here is today's map.
Biology students will notice the unfortunate resemblance to spermatozoa rushing to fertilise the Montrose egg, for that is where they will all end up - eventually. In the meantime it's quite good fun to follow their sometimes eccentric progress by opening the map here.
These are just a dozen or so out of three hundred. Good luck to all of you - hope you have a fantastic time!


Contents of the competition The NPO Asian Institute of Low Carbon Design (AILCD) is pleased to invite students from all over the world to take part in the 7th AILCD International Student Design Competition. The theme of this year is "Low Carbon City Yahata". The competition addresses the problem of future developments within the Yahata area. The competition asks the students to re-design and make a proposal for a low carbon urban project within the Yahata area. The Yahata area should be considered as a real problematic area for the city of Kitakyushu.
Competition Site Yahata area, Kitakyushu (Japan)The Yahata area stretches from the Dokai Bay in the north to the Mount Sarakura in the south.
Theme Asian Institute of Low Carbon Design is actively mainstreaming the low carbon principles through international design competitions, conferences, workshops, and various student exchange programs where students, practitioners, and researchers from different countries exchanged their ideas and recent researches. As for this year, we have taken the main theme of Re-ruralize the Orio-Hibikino Urban Fringe which was basically derived from the phenomenon of urban shrinkage. Urbanization has probably encountered its turning point. In low carbon city, a compact urban area where people can live closer to their workplaces is expected to reduce travel distances and alleviate transportation demand. Reduced travel distances, in turn, will promote a shift from passenger cars to bicycles or walking. The shift to a compact urban structure should be tackled uniformly across sectors to allow cities to shift to low-carbon, high-efficient energy systems. A highly dense and complex land use in integrated centers can enhance energy efficiency. It is also important to pay attention to greenery as a key element in defining urban structures in order to switch to a low-carbon city. Greenery is not only a source of CO2 sink, but also mitigation of urban micro climates. These discussions were captured and elaborated in the Journal of Asian Institute of Low Carbon Design (JAILCD) of which contains quality research and design papers from all over the world such as Afghanistan, China, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and many others. These papers were categorized in several sections such as: Architectural Design; Energy and Environment; and Urban Planning and Sustainable Development. Therefore within this opportunity I would like to show my countless gratitude to the supports of all friends and colleagues from different countries who have been contributing and who will collaborate and work together with us for a better common future of the earth.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace SpaceSimulator.UI
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Contains constants for the UI
    /// </summary>
    public static class UIConstants
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The offset from the left corner
        /// </summary>
        public const float OffsetLeft = 10;
    }
}

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Q: is there a way to return an ordered top 10 of a group in SOQL I want to be able to return the the top 10 groups (referred to in syntax as subgroup) of product based on sales year on year. My SOQL looks like this
Select fiscal_year(Despatch_Note__r.Invoice_Date__c) Year, Part_Number__r.subgroup__c, SUM(Nett_Value__c)
From Despatch_Lines__c
Where Despatch_Note__r.Customer_Account__r.name = 'ACME HARDWARE LTD'
GROUP BY Part_Number__r.subgroup__c, fiscal_year(Despatch_Note__r.Invoice_Date__c)
ORDER BY Part_Number__r.subgroup__c, Sum(Nett_Value__c) DESC
LIMIT 20

My results are not what I wanted. It shows me the first 20 subgroups ordered alphabetically as opposed by nettvalue.

A: Are you sure your problem isn't simply the list of order by columns? Just put the sum first, so
ORDER BY Sum(Nett_Value__c) DESC, Part_Number__r.subgroup__c

It works for me as expected.


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UB to hold workshop on reading and preserving rare manuscripts
By BERT GAMBINI
"Much of our knowledge of the theatrical costumes, props and expenses in Shakespeare's day comes to us from a single set of handwritten notes known as 'Henslowe's Diary. "
Barbara Bono, associate professor
Sarah Powell, a paleographer at the Folger Shakespeare Library, will conduct a daylong workshop on April 24 at UB on how to read and digitally encode 17th-century materials.
The "Transcribathon" workshop will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Digital Composition Lab, 120 Capen Hall. It is free and open to the public.
Part of the Folger's Early Modern Manuscripts Online Project (EMMO), "Transcribathon" will be an in-depth lesson in interpretation and digital preservation of rare manuscripts that will teach participants how to best read the material while saving and organizing the contents for convenient and searchable access by wide audiences.
Letters, diaries, genealogies, wills, recipe books, songs and poems — all of these written materials rest at the foundation of the early modern period, and these critical documents provide fascinating insight into the world of the 16th and 17th centuries.
"Much of our knowledge of the theatrical costumes, props and expenses in Shakespeare's day comes to us from a single set of handwritten notes known as 'Henslowe's Diary,'" says Barbara Bono, associate professor in the Department of English and UB's representative to the Folger Institute, the scholarly branch of the Folger Shakespeare Library. "Isaac Newton left many of his works in manuscript, and these are likewise full of alchemical and theological speculation."
However, reading the texts presents specific challenges.
"We know that deciphering handwriting is difficult in today's digital age, so it's not surprising that reading early modern handwriting would require considerable skill," says Bono. "That's why we're fortunate to have someone like Sarah Powell leading this workshop."
Powell, an expert in paleography, the study of pre-modern handwriting methods, will explain and demonstrate the skills necessary to understand the texts and how to present them to modern readers.
Early modern manuscripts also present librarians with many challenges when it comes to sharing materials, most notably access, since unique items can only be in one place at one time. Location has limits, but the Folger's EMMO project expands the possibilities of their custodianship.
Once complete, EMMO will make these manuscripts available at no cost to readers and scholars around the world through a searchable website with high-quality images and meticulous transcriptions.
In addition to developing accurate transcriptions and an optimized and searchable database, EMMO, as part of a three-year plan, will design online tutorials and roll out shareable software.
"As an early modernist, I'm thrilled this event is happening," says Bono. "It is so important to save the contents of these manuscripts for future generations, and that we have the ability to transmit them easily and widely now."
"Transcribathon" is sponsored by UB's Center for Excellence in Writing, the Digital Composition Lab, the Early Modern Research Workshop, The Technē Institute, the Department of English, the Department of Theatre and Dance, the College of Arts and Sciences' Digital Humanities Initiative and the UB Libraries.
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I caved at Cracker Barrel this week and bought a tiny tub of fudge (plastic seal, plastic tub, plastic utensil included inside. Gah!). I love fudge and have clue how to fix it. My boss's wife makes delicious fudge – maybe I could convince her to teach me?
Don't know yet. Still working on it.
I can't buy that cream without the applicator. It's over-the-counter and I don't think it comes in anything but a plastic tube.
My fan died and I had to have a new fan. The fan itself is metal but inside it's cardboard box the three pieces (fan, 2 part stand) were wrapped in plastic. I have no way of telling if there's wrapping inside and given how hot it is, I have to have that fan.
I only have one more meat tray in the freezer, after that it's getting everything from the butcher and the counter wrapped in paper.
The bags that previously held the nuts and Just Veggies and soup mix were here in the house. I bought a case of Ball Canning Jars and transferred them into the glass jars for storage. Next time I buy nuts I'll get them out of the bulk bins instead of grabbing the bag with the ziploc seal.
Apparently mom still had one more plastic coconut water bottle, but that's definitely the end of those.
This week I bought cat litter in a cardboard box instead of a cheaper plastic container, so the only plastic involved was a plastic handle. I'd like to find one that doesn't have the handle, but that might take some searching.
I bought mayo in a glass jar, instead of the cheaper plastic jar.
This week is definitely looking up, though there is still quite a bit of plastic here in the house.
This entry was posted in Show Us Your Plastic Trash on July 3, 2012 by Challenge Participant.


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'Lord of the Rings' Bow, 'Titanic' Dress, 'Star Wars' Model Net Six-Figure Prices at Auction
December 17, 2012 5:11pm by Andy Lewis
Profiles in History's sale saw well-known movie and TV memorabilia go under the hammer.
Profiles in History's Drama, Action, Romance: The Hollywood Auction saw some contemporary memorabilia fetch eye-popping prices during the weekend.
The top seller during the Dec. 15 and 16 auction was the bow used by Legolas (Orlando Bloom) in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which sold for $372,000 (prices include the auctioneer's premium -- the hammer price was $310,000).
Heat Vision breakdown
The presale high estimate was $120,000.
Bloom used the brown-painted composite plastic bow made in Weta's New Zealand workshop in all three films.
After filming, toy company Hasbro gave it away as one of the grand prizes in a sweepstakes contest.
Also fetching a high price was Kate Winslet's dress from the famous scene early in Titanic where her character Rose DeWitt almost jumps overboard. This is the moment she meets Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays her love interest, Jack Dawson.
The dress went for $330,000 (hammer price: $275,000), just above its $200,000-$300,000 presale estimate.
Designed by Deborah L. Scott, the red chiffon dress decorated with glass beads took more than 1,000 hours to sew.
It originally was sold by clothier J. Peterman in 1998, the year after the hit movie's original release, as part of promotional sale of costumes and props from the movie.
Profiles in History describes it as the only screen-used "jump dress" in private hands.
A screen-used X-Wing model from the first Star Wars movie in 1977 sold for $270,000 (hammer price: $225,000), more than twice its high estimate of $120,000.
The 22 x 18-inch model made of polystyrene, resin and brass is the only painted and finished X-Wing Profiles has ever seen offered at auction. The auctioneers say many of the models were blown up and rebuilt or shot in their unpainted gray state.
This particular X-Wing model was owned by an Academy Award-winning effects supervisor who received it from a member of the original Star Wars effects crew.
Just crossing the six-figure mark was a blue jersey worn by Mr. Spock in Star Trek's second season.
The blue velour tunic with gold trim sold for $114,000. The estimate range was $80,000-$120,000.
The item was the prize in a 1968 contest. The jersey came with the original 1968 letters of authenticity from Leonard Nimoy who played Spock, and the show's costume designer, Bill Theiss.
It has been in the private collection of the contest winner since 1968.
Gort's robot head from 1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still sold for $180,000, above its high estimate of $150,000.
The fiberglass and metal head was worn by an actor for close-up scenes and it measures 14x13x17 inches. Profiles calls it "the most famous robot in film history."
The head remains in original condition except for the ear pieces and eye visor, which were replaced with accurate reproductions.
Also selling were a full Alien creature costume from the 1986 sequel Aliens for $96,000 and Johnny Depp's costume from Sleepy Hollow, which also sold for $96,000.
Also notable were several high-profile items in the catalog that did not sell.
The most well-known was the Rolex Oyster watch worn by George Lazenby in the 1969 Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which had a presale estimate of $100,000-$150,000.
See the complete results of the auction at Profiles in History here.
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Axel Adolf Samuel Svinhufvud, född den 18 augusti 1867 i Västerås, död den 16 december 1939, var en svensk officer och brandchef.

Biografi
Axel Svinhufvud var underlöjtnant vid Södermanlands regemente 1891 och kapten i armén 1908. Han var officer i Kongostatens tjänst 1893–1896 och hade sin verksamhet huvudsakligen förlagd till nordöstra Kongo, där han bl.a. tjänstgjorde på stationen Kabasidu, uppkallad efter en Mangbetuhövding med samma namn. Han deltog med lysande tapperhet i striderna mot de upproriska Mahdisterna i Kongo och erhöll till minne därav en ovanlig utmärkelse: den svenska guldmedaljen för tapperhet i fält.

Han var anställd vid Stockholms brandkår, först som brandkapten 1899, sedan som brandchef 1910–1932 och genomförde på denna post en epokgörande utveckling av eldsläckningsväsendet, i det att även det förebyggande brandskyddet inlänkades i arbetet, motoriseringen verkställdes o.s.v. Han ansågs vara en sällsynt skicklig brandchef. Han företog ett flertal studieresor till Tyskland (1903, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914 och 1921), Ryssland (1912), England (1903 och 1911), Frankrike (1911, 1913 och 1920), Belgien (1911 och 1920), samt Italien (1904).

Han har skildrat sin tid i Kongo i ett postumt arbete: "I Kongostatens tjänst", Stockholm, 1942. En del av hans etnografiska samling är avbildad i denna bok, och där anges även under vilka förhållanden han förvärvade föremålen. I samlingarna på Etnografiska museet i Stockholm finns ett flertal av dessa föremål, främst vapen och musikinstrument, bl.a. en Kondiharpa, vilken gavs som gåva av Mangbetuhövdingen Meusere till Axel Svinhufvud under hans tjänstgöringsperiod i Nordöstra Kongo.

Han medverkade i filmen Luffar-Petter från 1922.

Familj
Axel Svinhufvud var son till sjökapten Gustaf Axel Rudolf Svinhufvud (1838–1920) och Matilda Emilia Charlotta von Brömssen (1837–1913) och hade fem syskon. Han gifte sig 1903 med Louise Gunilda Koch (1878–1951) och de fick dottern Maj. Makarna Svinhufvud är begravda på Gamla kyrkogården i Strängnäs.

Utmärkelser

 GM tf - Guldmedalj för tapperhet i fält.
 GVO1M - Gustav V:s olympiska minnesmedalj.
 KVO2kl - Kommendör av andra klassen av Kungliga Vasaorden.
 RFrHL - Riddare av Franska Hederslegionsorden.
 RNO - Riddare av Kungliga Nordstjärneorden.
 RVO - Riddare av första klassen av Kungliga Vasaorden.
 SM sjv - Svenska frivilliga sjukvårdsväsendets silvermedalj.

Källor

Män
Födda 1867
Avlidna 1939
Militärer från Västerås
Svenska militärer under 1800-talet
Svenska militärer under 1900-talet
Svenska officerare
Kommendörer av andra klass av Vasaorden
Riddare av Hederslegionen
Riddare av Nordstjärneorden
För tapperhet i fält (guldmedalj)
Gravsatta på Strängnäs gamla kyrkogård


>> It is a rare day when Warren Buffett can't buy something he wants, but his firms nine billion dollar bid for electric power transmission firm Oncor fell short. A Texas utility holding company instead accepting 9.45 billion from Sempra Energy. It's a blow for Buffet, his firm, Berkshire Hathaway, avoids bidding wars for companies.
It's also a defeat for Greg Abel, seen here at a meeting with President Barak Obama. Abel is CEO of Berkshire's energy unit. Many investors see him as a top candidate to succeed 86 year old Buffet at the Omaha based company's helm. News of Berkshire's loss breaking after a decision Sunday by Encore's board, to go with San Diego based Sempra.


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package org.springframework.boot.test.mock.mockito;

import java.util.Map;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTestContextBootstrapper;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.test.context.BootstrapContext;
import org.springframework.test.context.MergedContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.TestContext;
import org.springframework.test.context.cache.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate;
import org.springframework.test.context.cache.DefaultContextCache;
import org.springframework.test.util.ReflectionTestUtils;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.BDDMockito.given;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;

/**
 * Tests for application context caching when using {@link MockBean @MockBean}.
 *
 * @author Andy Wilkinson
 */
class MockBeanContextCachingTests {

	private final DefaultContextCache contextCache = new DefaultContextCache();

	private final DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate delegate = new DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate(
			this.contextCache);

	@AfterEach
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	void clearCache() {
		Map<MergedContextConfiguration, ApplicationContext> contexts = (Map<MergedContextConfiguration, ApplicationContext>) ReflectionTestUtils
				.getField(this.contextCache, "contextMap");
		for (ApplicationContext context : contexts.values()) {
			if (context instanceof ConfigurableApplicationContext) {
				((ConfigurableApplicationContext) context).close();
			}
		}
		this.contextCache.clear();
	}

	@Test
	void whenThereIsANormalBeanAndAMockBeanThenTwoContextsAreCreated() {
		bootstrapContext(TestClass.class);
		assertThat(this.contextCache.size()).isEqualTo(1);
		bootstrapContext(MockedBeanTestClass.class);
		assertThat(this.contextCache.size()).isEqualTo(2);
	}

	@Test
	void whenThereIsTheSameMockedBeanInEachTestClassThenOneContextIsCreated() {
		bootstrapContext(MockedBeanTestClass.class);
		assertThat(this.contextCache.size()).isEqualTo(1);
		bootstrapContext(AnotherMockedBeanTestClass.class);
		assertThat(this.contextCache.size()).isEqualTo(1);
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
	private void bootstrapContext(Class<?> testClass) {
		SpringBootTestContextBootstrapper bootstrapper = new SpringBootTestContextBootstrapper();
		BootstrapContext bootstrapContext = mock(BootstrapContext.class);
		given((Class) bootstrapContext.getTestClass()).willReturn(testClass);
		bootstrapper.setBootstrapContext(bootstrapContext);
		given(bootstrapContext.getCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate()).willReturn(this.delegate);
		TestContext testContext = bootstrapper.buildTestContext();
		testContext.getApplicationContext();
	}

	@SpringBootTest(classes = TestConfiguration.class)
	static class TestClass {

	}

	@SpringBootTest(classes = TestConfiguration.class)
	static class MockedBeanTestClass {

		@MockBean
		private TestBean testBean;

	}

	@SpringBootTest(classes = TestConfiguration.class)
	static class AnotherMockedBeanTestClass {

		@MockBean
		private TestBean testBean;

	}

	@Configuration
	static class TestConfiguration {

		@Bean
		TestBean testBean() {
			return new TestBean();
		}

	}

	static class TestBean {

	}

}


Spirit Airlines announced 10 new routes earlier this month, demonstrating how its route selection strategy is evolving.
For the past few years, Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) has been growing rapidly, thanks to the steady expansion of its fleet. The ultra-low cost carrier ended 2016 with 95 aircraft in its fleet, up from just 45 at the end of 2012.
Spirit Airlines plans to increase its capacity by another 18.5% in 2017, growing its fleet to 107 planes by year-end. Its plans for this extra capacity indicate that Spirit's strategy is evolving under new CEO Bob Fornaro.
Spirit Airlines plans to continue growing quickly in 2017. Image source: Spirit Airlines.
The carrier isn't abandoning growth at busy airports. In fact, it plans to face off against United Continental (NASDAQ:UAL) on one of United's key hub-hub routes starting in late April. At the same time, Spirit continues to build up its presence in midsize cities. It will also operate more seasonal service this year, in order to react more nimbly to demand patterns.
Earlier this month, Spirit Airlines revealed its next group of new routes, which will start this spring. In late April, it will begin two new daily flights from Houston. Spirit will fly year-round to New York's Newark International Airport, and on a seasonal basis to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Another eight routes will start in late May, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Spirit will launch year-round daily flights from New Orleans to Baltimore/Washington, Cleveland, and Orlando. It will also begin seasonal service from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Oakland, San Diego, and Seattle and from Detroit to Oakland and Seattle.
Over the past year, Spirit Airlines executives have indicated that they want to expand in midsize cities that have plenty of demand but less competition than big hub markets. Among Spirit's new year-round routes, flights from New Orleans to Baltimore, Cleveland, and Orlando all fit the bill.
This route selection shows that Spirit Airlines remains flexible in its route strategy. Newark Airport opened to new flights last fall after years of being slot-controlled. This unlocked an attractive new opportunity on the underserved Newark-Houston route.
Spirit will go head-to-head with United on the Newark-Houston route. Image source: The Motley Fool.
In the coming years, Spirit may continue its buildup at Newark Airport alongside its growth in midsize cities. This will provide some much-needed competition to United Airlines at one of the most expensive major airports in the country.
The other interesting aspect of Spirit's recent new service announcement is that six of the new flights will be seasonal. Spirit Airlines has always operated some seasonal routes, but this represents a substantial increase in the carrier's roster of seasonal flights.
Five of the six new routes are transcontinental flights from Baltimore and Detroit to the West Coast. East-west routes like these tend to see fairly strong demand over the busy summer travel period but traffic typically dries up during the fall and winter.
Last fall, Spirit Airlines began a slew of new routes to Florida -- particularly Orlando -- in order to take advantage of strong seasonal demand during the winter. In all likelihood, it will add even more routes to Florida this fall, using the new planes that will be operating Spirit's seasonal transcontinental routes during the warmer months.
During 2015 and 2016, Spirit Airlines suffered from steep unit revenue declines due to a big increase in fare competition from legacy carriers like United Airlines. Since then, it has worked hard to adapt its business model in order to stabilize its unit revenue performance and maintain its above-average profit margin.
Growth in New Orleans and the planned introduction of more seasonal routes both represent further progress in this direction. Spirit's unit revenue is already stabilizing and will probably return to growth in the first half of 2017. The carrier's upcoming new routes should help it maintain this momentum in the second half of the year and beyond.


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Ranking Member Eliot Engel Opening Statement at Hearing, "Modernizing US International Food Aid: Reaching More for Less"
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at today's committee hearing, "Modernizing US International Food Aid: Reaching More for Less."
The statement follows:
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this very timely hearing and for your leadership in tackling the issue of food aid reform. Secretary Glickman and Administrator Natsios, as Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I'd like to welcome you here today.
Since 1954, the Food for Peace program has fed more than a billion people around the world, and saved countless lives. This reflects the compassion and generosity of the American people, and it's something we should all be proud of. However, despite its great success, Food for Peace is now showing its age, and is in urgent need of reform.
One of the key problems with the current system is that it takes too long to deliver US-grown food aid – an average of 130 days. By purchasing food in the recipient country or region, we can cut that time in half, and in the process, get food to starving people before it's too late. Hunger pangs shouldn't be subject to shipping schedules.
In addition, it's very expensive to transport the food from the US heartland to recipient countries. In fact, shipping, transportation and handling costs account for approximately half of the food aid budget. We can save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars by purchasing food aid closer to the destination countries.
And third, the current system sometimes harms agricultural markets in the countries we are trying to help. This is the result of a somewhat bizarre process called "monetization", in which non-governmental organizations sell U.S commodities overseas in order to fund other development projects.
In my travels to Haiti, I've seen firsthand how the sale of American rice under this well-intentioned program has driven local rice farmers out of business, thus making it harder for Haitians to feed themselves.
"Monetization" is also exceedingly wasteful – according to the GAO, at least 25 cents of every dollar is lost during this process.
I commend the Administration for its food aid reform proposal, and I'm pleased to support it, along with Chairman Royce. In this time of increasing political polarization, I think it's a testament to the strength of good ideas and common sense that this plan has garnered bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, and from groups as disparate as the Heritage Foundation and Oxfam.
Sometimes it seems that we lose sight of why we have a food aid program in the first place. It isn't to subsidize growers, shippers, or NGOs. It's to prevent men, women and children in the developing world from starving to death.
For those who worry about the impact of this proposal on the farm community, there's a reason why Cargill, the National Farmers Union and other Ag interests have expressed support for additional flexibility in our food aid programs.
Mr. Chairman, the easy thing is to do nothing on the issue of food aid reform. But the right thing to do is to enact sensible reforms that save taxpayer money and, most importantly, save lives.
I look forward to working with you to get some of these reforms implemented, and to hearing from our distinguished witnesses.
Permalink: https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/2013/6/ranking-member-eliot-engel-opening-statement-hearing-modernizing-us


Art Deco and steampunk collide in this brutal fantasy series set in an alternative-world Asia. It follows its young heroine, an outcast named Maika Halfwolf, as she searches for the source of her violent powers. Dark in both style and substance, Monstress isn't for the faint of heart but recommended for those looking for an intense new graphic series.


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Kodak kicks off auction process for patents: WSJ
Published: Aug. 17, 2011 at 5:02 p.m. ET
Wallace Witkowski
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Eastman Kodak Co. ek has kicked off an auction of its patent portfolio, The Wall Street Journal reported late in its online edition Wednesday, citing people close to the matter. Speculation of the sale boosted Kodak shares nearly 26% to $2.69 during the trading session. Investment bank Lazard Ltd. LAZ, -2.86% started marketing the portfolio earlier in the week. One interested buyer is "a large, strategic buyer in the wireless industry looking to use the patents for defensive protection," according to the Journal.
Wallace Witkowski came to MarketWatch from the Associated Press in New York, where he was a business reporter specializing in pharmaceutical companies. He previously reported for trade publications in covering the drug and medical-device industries back to 1998. Based in San Francisco, his focus is on U.S. equities. Follow Wally on Twitter at: @wmwitkowski.


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Suing Gilbert Kuta and Capitol Securities
Stoltmann Law Offices is investigating Gilbert Kuta and his firm, Capitol Securities, in Timonium, Maryland. According to his Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) BrokerCheck report, Kuta allegedly recommended unsuitable investments in mutual funds and unit investment trusts, improperly used margin, generated high commissions, misrepresented material facts related to a municipal bond, and engaged in conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of good trade, among other transgressions.
Gilbert Kuta was registered with Merrill Lynch from December 1982 until July 1984, Laidlaw Ansbacher Inc. from July 1984 until February 1985, A.G. Edwards & Sons in St. Louis, Missouri from February 1985 until September 1989, Painewebber Inc. in Weehawken, New Jersey from September 1989 until December 1992, Lehman Brothers in New York, New York from December 1992 until July 1993, Smith Barney Shearson in New York, New York from July 1993 until January 1994, Ferris Baker Watts in Hunt Valley, Maryland from February 1994 until March 2009 and RBC Capital Markets Corp in Hunt Valley from March 2009 until September 2009. He is currently registered with Capitol Securities in Timonium, Maryland and has been since August 2009. He has seven customer disputes against him.
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If they want a piece of the Middle East's action, businesses have to do a deal with one of the region's family-owned conglomerates.
It's 2010 and the new owners of Harrods have parked their luxury sports cars on a busy street outside the department store in Knightsbridge, rather than avail themselves of the valet service that their latest acquisition could provide. Sporting the renowned baby-blue colour of Qatar's Al Thani royal family, the Koenigsegg CCXR and Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce, two of the world's fastest cars, were promptly clamped by parking inspectors.
With an estimated family fortune of €1.5 billion to €2.3 billion it's safe to say that the owners wouldn't have had a problem paying their fines. But if the truth be known, they were just doing what they'd normally do at home: park as close as possible to the entrance of a building to spare themselves the walk. After all, it gets pretty hot during the summer in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, and their casual approach to parking is a widespread practice in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. Everybody does it, including the billionaire and millionaire owners of supercars. But in London it's news, which probably came as a surprise to the Al Thanis, who are not used to seeing their names bandied about in the public arena. Maybe they'll have to get used to it as their empire expands.
While the huge fortunes of some GCC countries were produced on the back of their oil reserves, it is the family conglomerates that form the backbone of many of their economies. In fact, about 80% of businesses in the GCC are family run. They may have started out small – many began as simple trading companies – but they have grown to become major conglomerates that span a diverse range of industries, including luxury retail, construction, property, transport, media and hospitality.
Their influence will only grow in the coming years, as "olde world" enterprises on their steady march east (or west, depending on where they are headquartered), try to get a foothold in the region. It's not gone unnoticed in the boardrooms of Boston or Beijing that the Middle East is an emerging region that boasts a large proportion of the world's millionaire households, and that it has weathered the post-Lehman Brothers storm relatively well. The families are, in many cases, the gatekeepers to the region, and if businesses from elsewhere want access to the region they will have to get into bed with conglomerates such as the Al Thanis, or UAE company Majid Al Futtaim Group.
That's because if you want to move into the Middle East you have to do a franchise deal with one of these families. That might not be common in other countries, but in the Middle East it's the way things are done.
And it's big business. One of the largest of these conglomerates is the UAE-based BinHendi Enterprises, which was founded by Mohi-Din BinHendi in the 1970s. It has franchise deals with some of the world's biggest luxury names: Cerruti 1881, Hugo Boss, Porsche Design, Shanghai Tang, Carrera and Gianfranco Ferré, just to name a few. The company's most recent expansion has been overseen by the billionaire founder's 29-year-old daughter Amna BinHendi, who became chief executive in 2007.
Even such firms as French luxury group LVMH and Indian steel business Tata have had to do deals to get a toe-hold in the GCC. But it is retail that would have to be considered as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the region. And everybody wants a slice of the market. French supermarket chain Carrefour and Swedish flatpack behemoth Ikea both have deals with local families, for example.
It's a canny move by the region's dynasties that is embedding their power and influence, even as their countries open up. It should ensure that if we ever move to a world beyond oil, the sheiks will still be able to afford their baby-blue Lamborghinis – and parking tickets.


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Former Prison Guard Convicted of Aiding White Supremacist Gang
A former correctional officer who worked at the California Institute for Men in Chino was convicted yesterday on federal racketeering charges for assisting the Nazi Low Riders prison gang by helping members distribute narcotics and assault inmates.
Shayne Allyn Ziska, 44, of Fontana, was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, commission of a violent crime in aid of racketeering, and deprivation of rights under color of law after a two-week bench trial before Senior U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. of the Central District of California.
Prosecutors described the NLR as a white supremacist organization with a philosophy centered on "racial pride," and said the group controls a significant portion of the illegal activities committed by white inmates in California prisons.
Witnesses said Ziska assisted the NLR by engaging in a series of acts that include conspiring to distribute drugs such as methamphetamine and heroin, and that he allowed an NLR member to assault an inmate by stabbing him underneath his eye.
Ziska, who prosecutors said was placed on administrative leave by the California Department of Corrections in 2000, is scheduled to be sentenced by Hatter on May 8. Prosecutors said he faces a maximum possible sentence of 50 years in federal prison.
The Department of Justice said the investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with assistance from the state Office of the Inspector General.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Adam D. Kamenstein and Kevin Lally.


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Here's Who Will Be Debating Each Night Of The First 2020 Democratic Debate
The debates will be on NBC June 26 and 27.
By Ruby Cramer
Ruby Cramer BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on June 14, 2019, at 1:34 p.m. ET
Joshua Lott / Getty Images
Joe Biden campaigning in Davenport, Iowa, June 11.
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden will share a stage with Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang. Elizabeth Warren will debate alongside Cory Booker, Beto O'Rourke, and Tulsi Gabbard. The first matchup of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary was set on Friday in a process as chaotic as a double-header debate between 20 candidates.
The Democratic National Committee and NBC News, the host of the first primary matchup, announced the candidate makeup for the June 26 and June 27 debates through a random selection in New York City. NBC News executives and producers drew names from a set of two boxes to determine the two groups — one dubbed "purple" and the other "orange" — before deciding which group would debate first.
The result has four of the polling leaders debating on the second night.
Here's who will be debating on the first night, June 26:
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney
Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro
Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
And here's who will be debating on the second night, June 27:
California Sen. Kamala Harris
Former Vice President Joe Biden
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet
Author and speaker Marianne Williamson
California Rep. Eric Swalwell
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
The first round of debates, hosted by NBC News, MSNBC, and Telemundo, will take place in Miami at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, starting at 9 p.m. ET each night and running until 11. Both nights will have the same format. Candidates will be allowed one-minute answers, 30-second follow-ups, closing statements, and responses to other candidates based on the moderators' discretion, according to campaign operatives briefed on debate planning.
The candidates qualified for the debates by either hitting at least 1% support in three qualifying polls or by pulling in 65,000 unique donors by June 12. Three Democrats running did not meet that threshold: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, and Miramar, Florida Mayor Wayne Messam. Mike Gravel, a former senator and past presidential candidate who has been running a 2020 campaign mostly on Twitter, also did not qualify.
Biden and Sanders, who have been leading most polls in the last month, will be debating on the same night. The two candidates offer radically different visions for the party: Sanders a democratic socialist agenda, Biden a more traditional Democratic platform rooted in what he's repeatedly referred to as the "Obama-Biden" administration. They have already knocked one another in campaign stops, if obliquely.
They will be joined on the second night by two other candidates who have consistently polled in the top five: Harris and Buttigieg. Warren, who recent polling shows closing in on Sanders, will be by far the strongest polling candidate in the first night.
Here's how the random draw worked:
In an effort to avoid the appearance of an unfair balance at the debates, with top-tier candidates appearing on June 26 and a "junior varsity" group on June 27, the DNC set the makeup of the debate stages from a random draw split evenly between two groups — candidates polling below an average of 2% and candidates polling above 2%. The DNC delegates the process for the random draw to the debate host, NBC News, and will do so for all future debates that require a random draw. (CNN will host the second round of debates July 30 and July 31 in Detroit.)
In the weeks leading up to the NBC random draw, the process was opaque to reporters and even the participating campaigns. Candidates who qualified each sent a chosen representative to NBC News headquarters at Rockefeller Center on Friday at noon. The draw was closed to press. Not even NBC journalists were allowed to report on the event as it happened. "This is a sort of strange question because I work here," NBC's Chris Hayes told DNC chair Tom Perez in an interview on the eve of the live drawing, "and I have no idea how this process is being run."
Campaign representatives present watched as NBC drew names from two gold boxes — one for the purple group and one for the orange group. Names were printed on 3x5 sheets of paper and folded into fourths.
Those in the room then waited to see which group, purple or orange, would debate on June 26 and which would appear on June 27. Campaign operatives and DNC officials present were taken aback when NBC officials deliberated behind closed doors to make the decision.
When NBC News executives announced that Warren's group would be debating first and the Sanders and Biden group would be debating second, campaign representatives present asked how they came to the decision. According to multiple people at the drawing, an NBC News official told the room it was because they wanted to "maximize viewership."
A DNC representative present, communications director Xochitl Hinojosa, then spoke up to say that while they appreciated wanting to ensure as many viewers as possible, the DNC was hoping for "more randomization of the process," even in choosing which group would debate first.
Hinojosa, who confirmed the interaction, declined to comment further.
DNC officials, even in the face of criticism, have tried to be deliberate and methodical about each step in the debate process. As one presidential campaign representative put it, "This is something that was sprung on everyone."
How we got here:
Perez, a former labor secretary who stepped in as DNC chair more than two years ago, first outlined his plans for the debate process last December, making a point to address widely felt concerns about the fairness and transparency of the nominating process four years ago.
Early on in the 2016 Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton's two main rivals, Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley, both raised questions about the way the schedule benefited the frontrunner by limiting the process to six debates — all slated late in the primary. Months later, stolen emails from the Clinton campaign, released on WikiLeaks as part of the Russian cyberattack on the election, showed that senior Clinton advisers sought to influence the process by minimizing the number of debates and pushing the schedule back "as late as possible."
Outlining his plans for reporters in December, Perez said that he and his aides consulted former candidates and campaigns during more than "100 hours of conversations" for advice on revising the debate process ahead of 2020. "Our north star principle is to give people a fair shake," he said.
Not all campaigns have been happy with the process. The rules for qualifying for the first round of debates became a hurdle for even some big-name Democrats. Bullock, the Montana Democrat, said that the DNC rules in particular punished him, a sitting governor, because he wanted to delay his campaign launch until after the end of his state's legislative session, where he was working to pass an expansion of Medicaid. "Yeah, I could have gotten in earlier, but I'm a governor. I have a job to do," he said in an interview last week with BuzzFeed News. "The arbitrariness of that, when literally, I would not have health care for 100,000 Montanans if I had gotten in earlier."
The rules to qualify for the Democratic debates this fall — to hit an average of 2% in polls and 130,000 unique donors — struck some campaign operatives as even more arbitrary. Inside some campaigns, it seemed like the DNC had just decided to double the thresholds.
Apart from Bullock, most other candidates have held off on criticizing the DNC debate process. Kirsten Gillibrand, a US senator from New York who up until this week had to appeal to supporters to help her reach the 65,000 benchmark, has called the criteria "odd."
If you're complaining about the DNC rules, some have reasoned, you've already lost.
"I'm not taking shots at the DNC," Cory Booker said during an interview last week when asked about whether he thinks the rules have been fair. "We will make the debates."
More on the 2020 election
The Only Democratic Presidential Candidate To Win A Trump State Said The DNC Is "Trying To Shape" The Race Ruby Cramer · June 6, 2019
The New Presidential Debate Rules Immediately Have Some Democrats Frustrated With The DNC Nidhi Prakash · May 29, 2019
Nineteen Presidential Candidates Showed Up In One City And It Was Utter Chaos Ruby Cramer · June 9, 2019
Ruby Cramer is a politics reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Ruby Cramer at ruby.cramer@buzzfeed.com.


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Civil Liberties Debate at Cato
By Andrew C. McCarthy
About Andrew C. McCarthy
Follow Andrew C. McCarthy on Twitter
Yesterday in Washington, I debated Bruce Fein at the Cato Institute on the question whether President Bush has endangered our civil liberties in the War on Terror. For those interested, Cato has now made the debate available on its website to be watched or listened to. It's here.
Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. @AndrewCMcCarthy


Did Lord & Taylor's Hot Instagram Campaign Thumb Its Nose at FTC Disclosure Rules?
Last weekend, Lord & Taylor scored a social media coup with an Instagram blitz that had 50 fashion influencers wearing the same dress, which sold out right away.
There was, however, one blotch on the campaign's success: Neither Lord & Taylor nor its content partners disclosed to followers that this was a paid promotional campaign. The brand told Adweek earlier this week that it provided influencers with the dresses and an undisclosed amount of compensation.
By not including #ad or #sponsored in the posts, the effort would seem to contradict the FTC's disclosure rules, which require businesses and content creators to let audiences know when social posts are paid placement.
So excited to be dressing for spring in this dress from @lordandtaylor's new #DesignLab collection!!
Lord & Taylor is certainly not the only brand whose sponsorship has been played down in social posts, but some who specialize in influencer marketing say that bypassing disclosure violates the unofficial ethical codes of social media professionals and risks FTC backlash against the entire industry.
Regulators in the U.K., for example, are far stricter about this sort of thing. Last November, Britain's Advertising Standards Authority banned a series of YouTube videos in which British influencers promoted Oreos, with the ASA noting that parent company Mondelez did not make clear to consumers that the clips were paid ads.
Danielle Wiley, CEO of influencer agency Sway Group, said although she loved the Lord & Taylor campaign "from a results perspective," her company was concerned with the lack of transparency on paid placement.
"It was disheartening to see the lack of disclosure," she said. "We insist on disclosure on the part of our influencers and ensure it with our QA [quality assurance] department, who checks every piece of content. I think they are discouraged when they see high-profile Instagrammers who don't bother to disclose. It's confusing, for sure."
And, of course, when a campaign like this succeeds without disclosure, other brands could point to it as an example of FTC rules being optional.
"As an agency who connects brands to influencers, it makes our job a lot more difficult. When brands see a successful campaign like this without the ugly little "ad" disclosure in the caption, they want the same thing for themselves. 'If not disclosing is OK for Lord & Taylor, why isn't it OK for us?'"
Ted Murphy, CEO of content creator network Izea, said it's good to see the success of an Instagram campaign like Lord & Taylor's, which "speaks to the power of the medium."
But Murphy, who said he helped advise the FTC on its guidelines for social disclosure, said that by not including a clear statement of sponsorship in posts, the campaign "hurt brands, creators and consumers."
Though he admits the FTC is usually (but not always) silent on enforcement in such cases, Murphy argues that if more marketers skip disclosure, it could become a standard industry practice.
"There are two issues here: What are you legally required to do, and what's the right thing to do?" Murphy said.
When agencies and content creators insist on transparency, he said, it helps "protect the creators' credibility for the audience" in the interest of developing long-term relationships, as opposed to "short-term gains."
This stance is not always popular with marketers, and Murphy said Izea has "lost clients who asked us to remove such disclosures."
So what's the worst that could happen if nondisclosure becomes the norm? According to Murphy, regulators could move from suggesting guidelines to more hands-on enforcement.
"If the FTC thinks the consumer is being tricked, they will eventually step in," he said. "If the industry can't police itself, then we force the government to do it. I don't think that's what we want."


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Tasklist parse Github Flavor Markdown format task list into taslist.

## Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'tasklist', :git => 'https://github.com/sumipan/tasklist.rb.git', :branch => 'master'
```

And then execute:

    $ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

    $ gem install tasklist

## Usage

```ruby
require 'tasklist/github'

github = Github::Client.new
github.setup(options)

github.issues.get(:number => number).body.tasklists.each do |tasklist|
  tasklist.attr('attribute name')

  tasklist.tasks.each do |task|
    task.is_done?
    task.title
    task.assignee
    task.remaining_time
  end
end
```

Or

```ruby
require 'tasklist'

tasklist = Tasklist.parse(text)
tasklist.attr('attribute name')

tasklist.tasks.each do |task|
  task.is_done?
  task.title
  task.assignee
  task.remaining_time
end
```

### Filter

```ruby
tasklist.tasks.select{|t|
  !t.is_done?
}.each do|task|
  # do something
end
```

### Sort

```ruby
tasklist.tasks.sort{|a,b|
  a.tasklist.attr('priority').to_i <=> b.tasklist.attr('priority').to_i
}.each do |task|
  # do something
end
```

### Merge

```ruby
tasklist.merge(tasklist2)
```

Tasks are sorted in the order in which they are added.

## Writing rule

Only issue of comment is subject.
Comments must begin with the word "タスク".
Describe the task at Github Flavor Markdown format.

"=>" And "," can not contain attribute key and value. These will be used as a delimiter.

```
タスク attribute 1 => value, attribute 2 => value

- [ ] Task title @sumipan 1h
```

## Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/sumipan/tasklist.rb/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create a new Pull Request


Internet Librarian and Rockin' Battledecks video.
One of the most entertaining (and strangely informative) parts of Internet Librarian in Monterey 2009 was Rockin' Battledecks on Tuesday night. This video is just bits and pieces of everyone's battle. I missed filming the winner, but it was Amy Bucland who did an amazing job. To be fair, everyone's presentation was spectacular and fun!
Throughout the conference I was most impressed with the level of presentation abilities in just about every one of the sessions and I'm inspired to find something to present and see what I can do. Battledecks only highlighted the level of shear talent that was present at this conference. hope this becomes a part of more library conferences.
Hey, thanks for the IL coverage. I've never been, but this year was curious. Maybe I'll make it next year. See you in Boston?
Absolutely you will! I'm so stoked about Boston I can barely make it through a day without thinking about Goodwill Hunting (one of my favorite movies) See you there!


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Ford's Fields the Second Manufacturing CEO to Reverse Mexico Decision Since Trump was Elected
Ford CEO Mark Fields announced yesterday that his company will no longer be moving 'small car manufacturing' to Mexico.
He's not even president yet, but Donald Trump seems to have found the key to motivating American CEOs collectively and individually to the kind of action he wants from them: Speak loudly and carry a huge Twitter following.
The latest case in point was the decision announced this week by Ford CEO Mark Fields to reverse the company's plans to build a new plant in Mexico to build small cars that are currently being built in the United States.
Seeming to acquiesce to one of Trump's biggest complaints on the campaign trail, Ford won't add capacity south of the border to build Focus and other small-car models. Instead, it will make them at an existing plant in Mexico. Meanwhile, Fields announced a beefing up of jobs in Michigan as the company ramps up production of new electric vehicles and heads toward self-driving models.
"This is a vote of confidence in President-Elect Trump and some of the policies he may be pursuing. We see a more positive U.S. business environment under Trump."
Some complain that Trump is constructing an ad hoc industrial policy 140 characters at a time even before he gets to the White House. They observe that he picks selectively on certain companies. Ford, Carrier, Boeing and Lockheed Martin's CEOs all have been subject to Trump's pointed post-election criticism. In any event, their spotlight serves as a warning to other CEOs.
But there has been another effect of Trump's frenetic activity during the transition: Collectively, CEOs are looking right past the Obama administration to a near future in which they believe that growth will take hold and the economy will gain over its sluggishness of the last eight years.
"This is a vote of confidence in President-Elect Trump and some of the policies he may be pursuing," Fields told reporters about his Mexico decision. "We see a more positive U.S. business environment under Trump."
At the same time, Fields also insisted that Ford would have made the same decision about the new plant in Mexico regardless of who the president would be. Small-car sales have been fading for some time, he said, making it perhaps wiser for Ford to forego construction of an entire new plant—anywhere—to make them.
Beyond winning such individual showdowns with CEOs in his crosshairs, Trump also has been managing to build a collective confidence in American CEOs that appears ready to hatch in one of the most important ways: an uptick in business investment and spending, even despite rising interest rates.
"We could be in store for a significant [capital-expenditure] boom" as CEOs gain confidence that the Trump administration and Republican congressional majorities will bring regulatory rollbacks, corporate tax breaks and increased infrastructure spending, Charles Mulford, an accounting professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, said.
One way or another, President Trump is likely to continue to focus on the actions, interests and concerns of CEOs. Business leaders seem to be ready.
YouTube's CEO Reveals Her Favorite Interview Questions and a Few Other People-Management Techniques
Exxon CEO's Job-Creating Spending Spree is Hardly About Trump
Updated Travel Ban Seen as an Improvement, Though Some CEOs Remain Defiant
U.S. Railway Company Bets Heavily on Superstar CEO


The signature trademarked non-alcoholic drink at Red Robin Restaurants.
Serves: 2 people. Preparation time: 5 minutes.
De-stem and chop up the Strawberries in small pieces. A quick run through the blender works good too.
Half fill the glass with Chopped Ice.
Add half the Strawberry Puree to each glass. Sweeten with Sugar to taste.
Pour half the Lemonade into each glass. Stir with a long spoon.
Garnish each with a Lemon Wedge or Whole Strawberry on the rim. Add a straw if you like.
There's a Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews in Ocala.
"Lemonade" - Lemonade can be cloudy or clear depending on the ingredients used. In North America and India, it is cloudy and made from fresh lemon juice and sweetened water. In the rest of the world, it is more of a lemon flavored carbonated drink. In fact, in most of Europe, the French word "Limonade" has come to mean "Soft Drink", regardless of flavor.


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The Apartment House
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Let go - relax - be active
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Have fun... and discover something new
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As soon as you arrive in our **** star apartments, the following services are included:
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Biking without limit: 30% discount on all bike tickets for unrestricted use including bike transport of up to 8 gondolas in Saalbach Hinterglemm and Leogang, the largest bike region in Austria
Kohlmaisbahn: Montelino's Adventure Trail, Montelino's water playground, Bird of Prey Show, Montelino's Wild Animal Feeding, Monti Trail, Root Trail and Panorama Trail
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Westgipfelbahn: Buchegg Trail & Hacklberg Trail.
SVV regional bus lines (except Stadtverkehr Saalfelden)
Pinzgauer Lokalbahn (PLB) on the Zell am See - Krimml route (except steam and special trains)
ÖBB trains on the route Taxenbach - Zell am See - Saalfelden - Leogang
Noddy Train: Devil's water
Tennis courts in Saalbach and indoor tennis hall in Hinterglemm
Free guided walks
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Many discounts offered by Joker Card partners, such as Golden Gate Bridge, Treetop path, High Ropes Course, Jump'n Slide Park and the Schnitza's Wood Park.
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There is something for everyone here - there are tours for all levels. For a perfect family experience the adventure trails "Montelino" and "Berg Kodok" where there is much to discover.
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Q. How can I access the archives of the Chicago Tribune?
Oakton Library provides a couple of databases that you can use for retrieving old Chicago Tribune issues. An Oakton username and password is required for both of these resources.
The Historical Chicago Tribune via Proquest includes full-text and full-images of the Chicago Tribune in a searchable archive back to the first issue, from 1849 through 1991. The Chicago Tribune via ProQuest provides searchable full-text from daily Chicago Tribune articles published 1985 to the present.
You can identify additional Chicago-related information sources in our Chicago Region research guide (http://researchguides.oakton.edu/chicago).


This is a list of the explored content within the save games. For learning to use this information, also have a look at Editing_Savegames!
Please aware that some information might be incomplete or even incorrect.
Offset 0x0151 to 0x0153 unused?
Offset 0x0160 to 0x01AF present (or in production queue) "one per empire" 2 byte building IDs, 40 entries max.
Offset 0x0038 to 0x003B = if >0 sector monster occupied?
Offset 0x0314 to 0x0317 = update worker assignments marker (f.e. after pop loss) -> bugged!
Offset 0x0318 to 0x031B = update powered buildings marker (f.e. after energy output reduction) -> bugged!
Contains 5 entries - one for each empire.
Number of entries equals number of races listed in this file. The list of tech entry indexes links each race to it's tech entry. The first entry carries the index 0, the next 1 and so on.
+0x3FC = index for reports 41+ (loops 0-27h) -> overwrite/clear old pointer ?
+0x9 = opponent race ID ?
+0xC = index for report list ?
+0x2C08 (4 bytes * 5 empires) = turn number of last intel attack?
shipnames aren't in the same order with these in shipname.bin of stbof.res!
These are global list headers.
Stored in blocks of 92 bytes.
Each entry in this file contains two segments - a header and a body.
Size of the header is constant for all entries and is 32 bytes.
Size of the body depends on type - it might even vary independent of type. Body size of orders for fleets and systems seems to be 52 bytes which together with the header amounts to 84 bytes per entry.
Offset 0x002C to 0x002F = scan range ?
Offset 0x0030 to 0x0033 = map speed ?
The source sector row and column mark the sector that the fleet was in when it initially received the order not the current location. For ships terraforming planets the source location is usually set to row -1 and column -1.
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