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Frank Tripucka, the Denver Broncos first quarterback, and man who gave Peyton Manning his blessing, and allowed him to wear his #18 for the Denver Broncos, died last week at age 85.
In a fun and interesting piece on the Denver Broncos website, analyst Andrew Mason takes a look at the interesting route that Tripucka travelled on his way to the American Football League.
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John Spoulos September 17, 2013 at 11:41 AMLog in to Reply
Mr. Tripuka was as fine of a man as he was a player. Only last month, he signed all of my Bronco's helmets and got a laugh from the original brown Bronco helmet i had him sign with the number 23 on it.. He always had time for those who remembered him and seemed very honored that he was still known. Unfortunately, Mr. Tripuks was suffering from memory loss and had both good and bad days as he was in poor health for the last few years. May you rest in peace Mr. Tripuka. I for one am very honored to have known you.
Kevin Carroll September 18, 2013 at 9:07 AMLog in to Reply
It's a shame that another star from the early AFL years has passed. Mr. Tripucka had a memorable pro career and played on some of the strongest teams in the history of Notre Dame football. Rest in peace.
HH-Western Colorado Broncofan November 11, 2013 at 7:39 PMLog in to Reply
I contributed to the other Tripucka thread but will add a couple comments here.
He was important in Denver's development as a franchise. Just the sight of the yellow stripe socks should tell you something about their early beginnings. When Lionel Taylor joined up with Denver he and Frank hooked up on 500 plus passes.I got to meet Mr. Tripucka as a kid in 1962. Back then Denver was lucky to fill half the stadium. He was a classy player and a classy person. RIP, Mr. Tripucka.

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Anna has spent ten months in a psychiatric facility after the accidental death of her ill mother. Now her doctor feels she is ready to head home and resume her life with her father and sister Alex. Upon her release she soon discovers that Rachel, the nurse who had been caring for her mother, is now living with the family as her father's girlfriend, obviously making the old boy a very happy man.
Whilst in hospital Anna suffered from nightmares about that fateful night, nightmares that seem to continue on her release. Only now it seems that these nightmares/visions or whatever they are, are trying to tell Anna something. They are trying to tell her that Rachel is to blame for everything that has happened.
The Univited is a nice flick to look at; the setting is gorgeous. The score is decent too, along with the majority of the performances. However, there's always a however, this flick seemed to crawl along for the first two-thirds. Yes, I did know what was going to happen, but that isn't the point. It just seemed sedated to me. The scares, if you want to call them that never seemed to hit the right notes and it just played out like any number of films of this type. It felt to me as though the filmmakers were just happy to amble along until the finale.
Fortunately the latter third of The Univited almost made up for what had gone before as it was well executed.
Ok, so now I am going to go back on what I wrote earlier and mention the source material of The Tale of Two Sisters. If you are a fan of that, and yes I am, then you might be disappointed that the subtlety of that flick was sorely lost in translation. But, as remakes go it's not a bad one. If you've not seen that movie and watch this oblivious to the fact that it is a remake I think you will get far more from it, as it is a well made movie for the most part.
Would I watch it again? Probably not. This is a rental, one off kind of flick but not one that I regret watching.
Nice review. Still haven't seen this remake but I did enjoy the original. Hollywood doesn't seem to have any clue as to what horror fans want, do they? It's really sad. I'll check this out eventually.
Jude, do you know whats going on over at "Soiled Sinema"?, they haven`t reveiwed any films for 3 months. I`m starting to miss them because they always used to publish all the comments i submitted to their site no matter how absurd or objectionable they were.
Have you read their reveiw of "Poltergeist 3"?, they even put my name on it!!!.
We`ve already lost Ash Karreau and the 16mm shrine, dont let this site go the same way.
Sorry i doubted you pal, i just thought you`d done a midnite flit the way Karreau did.


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OFR28 Potential for Ground-Water Recharge in the Coastal Plain of Northern New Castle County, Delaware Petty, S., Miller, W.D., Lanan, B.A. Dec 1983
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OFR8 Guidebook: Columbia Deposits of Delaware Jordan, R.R., Talley, J.H. May 1976
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Perhaps we are in urgent need to change the very dynamics of how we undertake innovation.
In my research I certainly felt also the innovation consultant is struggling. They might be in the wrong place for their service offering. Also countless studies on companies' innovation performance are indicating the 'needle' of improving total innovation performance is stuck or gradually being pushed up with a lot of effort, questionable reward. We are failing to push the needle into dramatically improved innovation performances.
Surely this is the time for a more transformational change in how we conduct our innovation business?
The innovation business failure that lies within our companies continues.
I would say a depressing picture but in many ways 'par for the course' in what I feel also. Surely the innovation model within our business companies is indicating that it is not working, it is a broken innovating business model. It needs something radically different to occur.
The consulting industry is currently caught in the classic Innovator's Dilemma, written about by Clayton Christensen. Christensen shows how most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. His answer is surprising and almost paradoxical: it is actually the same practices that lead the business to be successful in the first place that eventually can also result in their eventual demise. The consulting firm has become fairly caught up in a specific transactional business model with their clients and that is progressively not working as well as in the past.
The struggle is to find a different, sustaining business model and one of the keys must lie in the relationships between client and consultant. Constantly relying on outside help has considerable danger as the knowledge often does not reside inside and the employment of the consultant gives the needed expertise and experience that often never gets transferred or embedded. This might be great for reoccurring fees but not for all that is required for internal strengthening. It simply pisses the employee off.
Clients have been progressively attempting to change their reliance on outside help by employing the consultants within the organizations. Many large organizations have their own internal consulting teams deployed to offset external needs and bolster the internal capabilities.
I personally find this solution has not worked as well as intended, as they, the internal consulting team, over time, get sucked into issues detracting them from being the internal force of change, desperately trying to influence the leadership but eventually ending up as being allocated specific projects as project overseers or implementers. This reduces their impact and has an erosion of influence over time, they become simply part of the furniture, caught up in the ebb and flow, like everyone else.
So the innovation consultants needs to change – why?
I get the distinct impression the focus of most innovation consultants is still locked into product innovation or improving the process of the pipeline / portfolio, the idea generation and project execution model. It is not evolving into broader services or accounting for the transformations underway at the clients end.
Are the innovation consultants reacting to the massive changes in information asymmetries occurring and proving solutions to these? There is this growing redundancy of idle assets that are struggling to be reconfigured to take on new challenges and new purpose and failing to be agile, flexible and adaptive. The significant shifts deriving from technology change and digital disruption are not yet being translated into new innovation processes, frameworks or methods to extract the value of speed and unique insight and translate that out quickly into new products and services. The exploding position of mobile use and growing engagement opportunities with customers and other vested stakeholders this can offer is yet to be fully embedded into the innovation process.
There is a 'heady' mix of change swirling around the clients and are they being resolved with the outside help as much as they can. I'm not talking here of the technology consultant, I am asking is the innovation consultant as up to date on all the changes going on to improve the innovation process?
Equally are innovation consultants engaged across the whole innovation process, or participating in ever-increasing specialized niches of discreet work? Are they as influential on the internal innovation process or just simply providing the necessary resources on a 'as and when' need, due to resource constraints at the clients? Are they as 'tuned-in' and expert enough to be of value to specialized internal groups, working on their part of the innovation process or equation? Does the innovation consultant have depth in their own bench strength to provide ongoing value to their clients?
Can innovation consulting firms step up to the plate and deliver differently?
So I feel the business model mostly worked in consulting firms is broken. It is not in step with the changes going on. It seems 'steps behind.' It still wants to focus on the product, product idea generation, and the product pipeline and product portfolio as the main focus point. I think this is rapidly a focus of being in the past and new business models need to address the service provision far more.
The relationship with clients has been firmly in the transactional approach. They worked on specific problems, reviewed, recommended new designs, sold and delivered these and moves on (and out) of the clients.
Today the real value is not so much in transactional work but building longer-term relationship work. The idea of imposing solutions that fit their own capabilities and activities is missing the mark, I believe, in offering customers distinct, tailored solutions fulfilling their unique needs.
To get to this point, consultants will need a far more networked approach on who they are tapping into, drawing down from an array of outside specialists to deliver the right mix of activities, and expertise. It will lie less in-house, more recognized as specialized, contracted out to work within the solution delivery, seen to resolve the client's needs. This will require a more ecosystem approach, drawing in those who share in creating, resourcing and designing solutions, that deliver to specific customer needs.
We need to accept that innovation is a complex system; it is not any more delivering 'boiler-plate' solutions.
For this to work consultants need to think through their existing business models and construct these far more towards a service provision that delivers more exactly to customer needs.
Any new business model needs to focus on finding the real overarching value that the client wants from the service provider and what they can deliver. I believe it will be less transactional and will enter a richer- relationship partnership, that makes the consultant far more accountable to deliver on this, in all its forms but more 'vested' in the outcomes. The key becomes knowing exactly the value proposition.
Also any new consulting model needs to deliver less on outputs and more on real measurable outcomes, the value delivery part. How this needs to be constructed, to make it specific to unique client challenges, yet scalable in different client work taken on, so as to defray the costs and attract the partnership value into the ecosystem of value partners so as to sustain and nurture what it offers, as leading edge and highly value. One that is constantly adding, so it continues to push in how it evolves and keeps attracting the client to participate, with all its connected value, providing a value proposition that delivers innovation in radically different but highly rewarding ways.
To achieve this the real skill becomes the building up of any existing value proposition and reconfiguring it to create a more appealing and valuable value propositions and offering a better value delivery system to deliver on this, through an ecosystem approach.
I have been working on these in my own mind over the recent weeks and I plan to share some of this thinking in the weeks ahead. I have structured my thinking (so far) into six parts. At present I'm still mulling over how to deliver on these as separate posts or some mixing and matching up to bring this all together..
The six parts planned at present are: 1) the further case for building a new innovation service model, 2) the role of the navigator and orchestrator, 3) transformation- what does that really mean and its impact on whom, 4) plotting this out on an innovation road map, 5) structuring the innovation accordingly- between whom and where and finally, 6) technology is leading and we as innovators are lagging, the time to retake this ground for delivering real customer value.
Moving towards a new way of doing things.
It is based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to growing far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into a highly valued network partner, exploring innovation across all options and instead of delivering on discrete elements; it is managing the whole ecosystem of the innovation design differently.
Let's see where I go in this in the coming weeks, hopefully somewhere of future value, so as to shift our innovation thinking to exploring new solutions to improve on its mediocre current performance. How can the innovation process capitalize on all the changes we are undertaking at present in new ways, so as to adjust to a different world of ushering in greater 'engagement to deliver on the innovation opportunity'.
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6 May 1845 • Tuesday, continued Page 1 10 May 1845 • Saturday Page 4 9 September 1845 • Tuesday Page 13 30 September 1845 • Tuesday Page 33 4 October 1845 • Saturday Page 42 11 January 1846 • Sunday Page 85 13 January 1846 • Tuesday Page 109
See source note under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
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Investors often seek solace in precious metals instruments during a downturn. These investments are considered to be a natural hedge against a rapidly declining currency. Even a small portion of precious metals in a portfolio can provide significant protection against inflation. In addition, when markets are slowing down, securities related to these industries acquire greater significance. Precious metals funds are the best option for investing in this sector since they possess the advantages of professional insight and well-diversified portfolios.
Below we will share with you the 5 best performing precious metals mutual funds year to date.
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Van Eck International Investors Gold A #1 Strong Buy 45.3%
US Global Investors World Precious Metals A #4 Sell 39.7%
Franklin Gold & Precious Metals A #1 Strong Buy 39.5%
Tocqueville Gold (TGLDX) invests the majority of its assets in gold or companies involved in mining or processing of gold worldwide. The fund may also consider other precious metals for investment purposes. Up to 20% of its total assets may be invested directly in gold bullion and other precious metals. The precious metals mutual fund has a three year annualized return of 22.88%.
The precious metals mutual fund has a minimum initial investment of $1,000 and an expense ratio of 1.50% compared to a category average of 1.47%.
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals A (OPGSX) seeks capital growth. The fund invests primarily in domestic and foreign companies whose major operations include mining, processing or dealing in metals and minerals. At least 25% of its assets are invested in mining securities and metal investments. This precious metals fund is non-diversified and has a ten year annualized return of 27.45%.
As of September 2010, this precious metals mutual fund held 120 issues, with 6.79% of its total assets invested in Kinross Gold Corporation.
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Q: Is It Meaningful to Talk About Pure vs. Mixed States for (Continuous) Position? I see a lot written about pure and mixed states regarding state vectors and density matrices/operators that contain a finite number of states/elements.
For something like the continuous state vector of position $|\psi\rangle = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \psi(x) |x\rangle dx$, where $\psi(x)$ is the position wave function and  $\int_{a}^{b} \rho(x) dx=\int_{a}^{b} \psi^*(x)\psi(x) dx$ yields the probability of measuring the object within $[a,b]$. I think that we could also speak of a continuous density matrix/operator $\hat\rho(x) = |\psi\rangle \langle\psi|$ such that $\rho = \langle x|\hat\rho|x \rangle$ and when $\hat\rho$ is inserted into the resolution of the identity integrated over all x the result is $1$, confirming the $100\%$ probability that the object is somewhere in space.
For continuous position, is it meaningful to speak of pure vs. mixed states? I would think that a mixed state is where we have $\rho(x)$ but not $\psi(x)$? That might happen after entanglement? Consider the double slit experiment, using photons, where we put different polarizing filters over each slit and then have a radial $\psi(x)$ emerging from each slit, but not adding together. In that case, we would have
$$
\rho(x) = \frac{1}{2}(\psi^*_1(x)\psi_1(x) + \psi^*_2(x)\psi_2(x)).
$$
Is it not possible to find some $\psi_3(x)$ such that
$$
\frac{1}{2}(\psi^*_1(x)\psi_1(x) + \psi^*_2(x)\psi_2(x)) = \psi^*_3(x)\psi_3(x)?
$$
I believe that for QM, we demand that any $\psi(x)$ be a "test function", such as a Gaussian or a smooth function of compact support. Because of the restriction on $\psi(x)$, maybe there are situations where there is no such $\psi_3(x)$...

A: Yes, it's perfectly meaningful to talk about pure vs mixed states regardless of the dimension of the Hilbert space.
On the other hand, your understanding of what the density matrix is suggests that you're only seeing a small part of the true core of the concept: by "density matrix" we don't just mean density, we also mean that it must be seen as a matrix i.e. as an operator, which can be queried (in the position basis) with different states on either side: thus, for a pure state, you can happily get
$$
\rho(x,x') = \langle x| \hat \rho|x'\rangle = \langle x| \psi\rangle \langle \psi|x'\rangle = \psi(x) \psi(x')^*,
$$
with different positions on the two factors. The diagonal of the density matrix, $\rho(x,x) = \rho(x)$, encodes the population (density) over the basis states in the chosen representation, much like it does in finite dimension, and (again like it does in finite dimension) the off-diagonal components $\rho(x,x')$ for $x\neq x'$ encode the coherence between the population present at different sites.
This then informs the answer to your subsidiary question: is it possible to find a state $\psi_3(x)$ such that
$$
\frac{1}{2}(\psi^*_1(x)\psi_1(x) + \psi^*_2(x)\psi_2(x)) = \psi^*_3(x)\psi_3(x)
$$
given states $\psi_1(x)$ and $\psi_2(x)$? Absolutely, just try $\psi_3(x) = \sqrt{\frac{1}{2}(\psi^*_1(x)\psi_1(x) + \psi^*_2(x)\psi_2(x))}$. But that's the wrong question: what you need to be asking is whether, given two linearly-independent states $\psi_1(x)$ and $\psi_2(x)$, is there a state $\psi_3(x)$ such that
$$
\frac{1}{2}(\psi^*_1(x)\psi_1(x') + \psi^*_2(x)\psi_2(x')) = \psi^*_3(x)\psi_3(x')
$$
for all (independent) real $x$ and $x'$? Then the answer is simple: no. The operator on the left has rank $2$ and the operator on the right has rank $1$, so they can never be equal.
That's probably still insufficient to clear away all of the misconceptions your post hints at, but it's hopefully enough to point you in the right direction.

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Cults made their name in black and white. A pair of film school dropouts who burst onto the New York scene with a perfect single and a darkly retro sound, the band's first two albums play like noirish documentaries on a lost girl group. Four years after Static, Cults returns with Offering, an exciting collection of songs bursting with heart, confidence, shimmering melody and buzzing life. The time off has given the band new energy and new ideas–Cults are working in Technicolor now.
The core duo remains the same. Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion, both 28, still live in New York. They still finish each other's thoughts and still share a love of catchy music and black humor (this is a band that sampled cult leader Jim Jones on their first hit). But the pair have put some blood on the tracks since their breakout debut: they've toured the world, built a devoted audience, survived a breakup, grown up in green rooms, parted ways with their old label and made a home of their new one. After the whirlwind of Static died down, Follin and Oblivion made a conscious decision to shift gears:
"I feel like we stepped into a tour van when we were 21, and basically didn't get out of it for the next few years," Oblivion says. "We wanted to give ourselves some space to have normal lives, and wait until there was something new to say."
"It was exciting, because writing stopped feeling like a homework assignment. I was able to sit down and do it only when I wanted to," says Follin. "These songs are less art projects, less thinking 'this is a heartbreak song, what would Lesley Gore do?' and more reflective of things that have happened in our own lives."
Cults took their time, going through a few dozen discarded demos before arriving on a pair of songs that felt special– the rollicking, sweet-but-dark "Right Words" and the buzzy earworm "Recovery." Once they had a direction, Follin and Oblivion enlisted longtime engineer Shane Stoneback to help guide the sessions, working bit by bit, never rushing, letting the material develop naturally.
Offering will thrill ride-or-die Cults fans. Songs like "Natural State" and "Good Religion" balance on the same after-hours wall of sound that brought the band its early audience. The title track, a rolling goth-ed out anthem for the kids in the back of class is surely, somewhere in an alternate universe, soundtracking an 80s prom movie directed by Jim Jarmusch.
But Offering goes places Cults haven't gone before. Pink Floyd was a big inspiration, freeing up the band to try new song structures and play with vintage synths, notably on the gorgeous, aching "With My Eyes Closed." "I had the classic high school discovery of Pink Floyd, only I was 24," laughs Oblivion. "I was in the back of the tour van, listening to Dark Side of The Moon on headphones for the first time, and I turned to the band and said 'guys. GUYS."
New Wave was also a touchstone, you can hear The Motels and Gary Numan's influence on chugging pop gems "Clear From Far Away" and "I Took Your Picture." None of these gestures are accidental, the band has developed a confidence in the studio and a strong, full sound. Gone are the days of chancing upon Garageband alchemy; Offering is the work of two artists who know what they want and how to make it happen.
Offering also marks the beginning of a more collaborative phase for Cults. The pair have always traded ideas, but for the first time they sat down to jam out ideas together in a room. Follin, who has always written her own parts, came into her own as instrumentalist during the Offering sessions, playing drums and keyboards throughout. Her equal partnership with Oblivion flies in the face of a far-too-common industry assumption that women are passive participants in their own art.
After three years of work in New York, LA, San Francisco, in studios and sweaty living rooms, the band finished the bulk of recording. But it was a classic "last day in the studio" demob-happy session that gave the album its opener and title track, a hope-in-darkness song that Oblivion calls "one of the most outward-looking things we've done, it's a lifeline." Follin adds: "we both decided independently of each other that it had to be the title."
"These songs have both instability and solutions for how to deal with instability," Oblivion says. "I think my favorite lyric is from "Took Your Picture": Tinge of blue/To the end/left our hearts/With regrets/I'm learning. That's as close as you get to a thesis statement for the album."
"We're in a happier place," Follin adds.
"I mean, the last track on our last album was called 'No Hope,'" Oblivion says, and they both laugh. "The first track on this record is called 'Offering.' That pretty much says it."
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'A Pope Francis Catholic': Now that Tim Kaine is Clinton's VP pick, will his faith matter?
Many of the most circulated names for Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick are Catholic – a fact that both says a lot about the influence of America's huge Catholic population, but also reveals, when you look more closely, how far the country has moved away from basic religious tribalism.
Clinton on Friday chose U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a former missionary who personally opposes abortion and who pleased anti-abortion advocates earlier in his political career by saying he would aim to reduce the number of abortions by promoting adoption and abstinence education.
Yet it's not clear what impact Kaine's faith — or that of any Catholic — would have on voters.
American Catholics have been growing in recent decades in political power and diversity. While they were once a Democratic voting bloc, today they are divided, particularly by ethnicity. Latino Catholics – 34 percent of U.S. Catholics are Hispanic – prefer Clinton to Trump by a huge margin of 77 to 16 percent. Among white Catholics, the preference is Trump by a margin of 50 to 46 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.
Kaine would likely solidify Clinton's lead among many Latinos; he speaks Spanish fluently (he was the first senator to deliver a speech in Spanish from the Senate floor) and ran for the Senate with a focus on immigration reform.
But white Catholics – 59 percent of Catholics are white – in each of the last four elections have favored Republicans. The margins vary greatly, though, with John McCain beating Barack Obama in 2008 by five points and Mitt Romney beating Obama in 2012 by 19 points, according to election day exit polls conducted by the National Election Pool.
In the scheme of Catholicism, Kaine might be described as a "Pope Francis Catholic," said William D'Antonio, a Catholic University sociologist who writes books on U.S. Catholic voting.
"Serving the poor has been a key aspect of [Kaine's] work — and social justice, however you define it. He's always looked upon that as a crucial part" of his life, D'Antonio said of why he puts Kaine in the Francis mold.
"At some point, if you ask: Who reflects more the way Francis looks at the world? To the degree that's important, it's certainly not Donald Trump," D'Antonio said.
In addition to Kaine, Clinton reportedly considered Housing Secretary Julián Castro, Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack – all Catholics. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, non-Catholic, reportedly also were discussed.
Kaine's attention to his faith has become well-known over his years in office, first as Virginia's governor and then as a senator.
Kaine's Catholicism has been strongly influenced by the Jesuits – the order Pope Francis is part of that has long been associated with education and social justice. In the United States, Jesuit schools and parishes are often seen as the most progressive and open-minded. Kaine was educated at an all-boys Jesuit high school in Kansas City, and the program where he worked in Honduras was founded by Jesuits.
Kaine is known to personally oppose the death penalty, which Catholic teaching comes close to banning totally. He has also spoken about his personal opposition to abortion, which is in line with his church. However, in both cases he has been able to convince voters he would not interfere with the law.
Abortion opponents in Virginia are familiar with Kaine, and see him as a genuine potential partner — but not a full ally to their cause.
Karen Swallow Prior, a professor at Liberty University in Virginia who writes about abortion, said Friday that Kaine is seen as a faithful Christian.
"This is a brilliant move on Hillary Clinton's part, because I think she's picking in Kaine someone who can give her the appearance of more moderation in general and particularly on abortion," Prior said.
Prior said that while the conservative evangelicals of Liberty might have preferred a more conservative governor, they saw Kaine as a moderate Democrat and particularly responded to his 2005 declaration on his campaign website in which he outlined how he would cut down on the number of abortions in the state. As governor, he carried through on some of those promises, regularly angering abortion rights supporters .
But after his votes in the Senate in favor of abortion rights – Planned Parenthood gives him a 100% rating, covering 13 votes in the past four years – Prior said she can't imagine conservative evangelicals will still be willing to support him. She's unmoved by his message, comparing him to Democratic Catholics before him, including Joe Biden and John Kerry, who state their personal opposition to abortion but say they won't restrict it as a matter of policy.
Younger, more liberal evangelicals are slightly more likely to see it differently, Prior said. They're more likely to respect Kaine for his personal convictions as well as his political choices – and among those religious millennials, Kaine's reputation as a person of faith might win some votes, Prior said.


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Contexte départemental

Assemblée départementale sortante

Avant les élections, le conseil général de la Nièvre est présidé par Patrice Joly, (PS). Il comprend 32 conseillers généraux issus des 32 cantons de la Nièvre.
Après le redécoupage cantonal de 2014, ce sont 34 conseillers qui seront élus au sein des 17 nouveaux cantons de la Nièvre.

Assemblée départementale élue

Résultats à l'échelle du département

Résultats par nuances du ministère de l'Intérieur
Les nuances utilisées par le ministère de l'Intérieur ne tiennent pas compte des alliances locales.

Résultats par canton

* Conseillers généraux sortants ne se représentant pas

Résultats par canton

Canton de La Charité-sur-Loire

Canton de Château-Chinon

Canton de Clamecy

Canton de Corbigny

Canton de Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire

Canton de Decize

Canton de Fourchambault

Canton de Guérigny

Canton d'Imphy

Canton de Luzy

Canton de Nevers-1

Canton de Nevers-2

Canton de Nevers-3

Canton de Nevers-4

Canton de Pouilly-sur-Loire

Canton de Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier

Canton de Varennes-Vauzelles

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Voir aussi

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 Liste des cantons de la Nièvre
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I Secretly Left $20 Bills for Perfect Strangers: The Relationship of Giving & Happiness.
Imagine coming out of the grocery store only to find a white envelope with a hand written note on the front that says, "This is a sign you are loved!" and a $20 bill inside.
Or imagine walking along a forest trail, seeing something blowing in the wind on that rock outcropping ahead and picking up an envelope that says, "More good things are coming your way!" and finding a $20 bill inside.
Imagine amongst that stack of bills in your mailbox is one lone envelope that says, "You are being taken care of!" and a $20 bill inside.
For the last month or so, I have been imagining the faces of people who discover the tiny gifts of love and support that I left all over my community. Since early July I have anonymously dropped over $300 (a small amount, really) into white envelopes with a special note and left them around Durham region, the area where I live just outside Toronto, Canada.
I have told no one. Until now.
And I am sharing now because perhaps, just maybe, this post will inspire you to pay it forward in any small way, or at the minimum it will be a good news story in your day. I don't want kudos or recognition—in fact I deliberated sharing this ever; not even my husband knew about this (until now). I did not do it to get anything in return. At all.
I have studied Law of Attraction, Manifestation and creation for over 15 years and I sometimes felt a tone of "if you do something good, you will get what you want" in some of the teachings. I don't want to bargain with the universe over my karma. I don't want to say, "Hey universe, I am a good person. I do good things. Where is my payout?" So I challenged myself to just give with no expectation at all. Well that and, because it made me freaking happy—like gleefully, I just ate all the cake, happy.
The idea struck me during the week of my birthday in July. I was in a bookstore and I snuck $5 into three different books and put them back on the shelf. I was giggling as I walked out of the store, imagining someone picking up a book and five bucks falling out. Then I thought, "Let's take this further." I went home and wrote out my envelopes with tiny messages and started dropping $20 bills all over the place. It was so fun!
In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali speaks of the term "aparigraha" which is often translated as non-grasping or an awareness of the abundance of the universe. We often consider that we would like to receive that abundance but what if we could actually be it too. I wanted to give, just for the fun of giving. I don't want to come off as self-righteous or as a do-gooder, but it was actually a challenge to myself. I wanted to see if I could walk the talk so to speak. And I did have a moment when I thought, "I should really put this on my Visa!" but I decided to give it away and trust the Visa would be taken care of.
I did not win the lottery. No uncle left me a fortune. I did not receive a visit from Ed McMahon but I was happy. And that's the point, don't you think, of all we do in this life—to experience a semblance of joy, and for a moment to make another smile? We are here to experience our truth: that we are happy, radiant, worthy beings now.
To paraphrase Abraham Hicks: all that we want in this life is because we believe we will feel better in the having of it. That is, we believe we will be happy when the money comes, when the lover shows up or when the mortgage is paid. We want those thing to make us happy. But nothing can make us happy—we are happiness, we are joy, we are abundance, we are Divine, and all those things we want in this life are really just a mirror of what is already there.
When we access that truth within us, well that's when the tiny white envelopes start showing up (or the big envelopes) but happy comes first.
I don't know who picked up my white envelopes. I don't know whose mailboxes I dropped envelopes into, whose windshield I bombed or whose favourite park bench held a surprise, but now my secret is revealed. I hope it does not take away from the magic but only adds to it. I plan to keep doing this and much more to keep the circle of giving full and to feed the field with surprise, delight, magic and wonder.
Wishing you many happy, white, anonymous envelope moments!


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The Guest Blog
Guest Blog: Don't Live Fast, Don't Die Young
Published Wed, Feb 22 201212:28 AM EST Updated Fri, Sep 13 20134:33 PM EDT
Moorad Choudhry |Treasurer, Corporate Banking Division, RBS
Unemployment is a terrible thing. Youth unemployment has knock-on pernicious consequences in the wider society that can last a generation.
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Jobless levels have been coming down in the US recently, although we need at least two more quarters of continuing falls before we can feel optimistic, but in the European Union (Germany excepted) they remain stubbornly high. It is the number 1 issue for governments in the West, or if it isn't it should be.
At the same time, workers are being urged to make greater provision for their retirement, and indeed to put off retiring until later in life. In the UK the retirement age has been raised from 65 to 67 for workers currently under 40, and in France it was viewed almost as sacrilege when the retirement age was raised from 60 to 62 recently. Pension provision is a major worry for workers and future liabilities are a major issue for governments' welfare budgets.
Are these two issues connected? Some people think so. Journalists on the Financial Times and The Sunday Times, for example, have opined recently that high levels of youth unemploymentarise partly from the fact that current workers are not leaving to make room for them. Making employees delay retirement still further will only exacerbate the problem, they believe.
This is a form of economic illiteracy. In fact it is analogous to mercantilism, the prevailing orthodoxy of the time that was refuted utterly by Adam Smith in the 18th century. The amount of jobs in the world isn't a finite number, to be shared out as one might a box of chocolates.
Jobs are generated (and lost) all the time in a dynamic, not static, environment, and a growing economy will always generate more jobs no matter how long people put off retirement (by the logic of the mercantilists, if we all retired at 40 there would be more jobs for young people).
Even a stagnating economy that loses jobs in one sector, say shipbuilding or agriculture, creates jobs in new industries such as telecoms or media services as its structural makeup responds to changing competitive advantages.
Youth unemployment is particularly prevalent in economies where labor markets are inflexible, and is often found to be lower in countries with a higher percentage of elderly workers in employment. There is very little direct correlation between the two.
The need to delay retirement arises from the issue of funding. The idea that one retires at 60 with a pension provision until death dates from Bismarck's era when life expectancy was in the 50s or 60s rather than in the 70s or 80s as it is now. To fund an annuity that pays out for 30 years or more means either a bigger pension pot or a later retirement age. It's a simple choice.
These two issues are related insofar as they both cry out for flexible labor markets and other incentives for companies to create jobs. But it would be refreshing if more commentators realized that there isn't a finite number of jobs to go around, and lowering the retirement age, something that we can ill afford to do in the current climate, is not the way to create jobs for the young.
The author is Professor Moorad Choudhry, Treasurer, Corporate Banking Division, Royal Bank of Scotland. The views expressed in this article are an expression of the author's personal views only and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, its subsidiaries or affiliated companies, or its Board of Directors. RBS does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this article and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use. This article does not constitute an offer or a solicitation of an offer with respect to any particular investment.


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Q: Change Button custom shape states color programmatically There are a lot of answers on this site regarding changing button colors, but none that I  have managed to use in my case.
I want to be able to dynamically change a button's color, that button still needs to have a visual feedback on press, and it needs rounded corners.
The rounded corners part was decided upon recently, so previously I used something like this:
    StateListDrawable states = new StateListDrawable();
    states.addState(new int[]{android.R.attr.state_pressed},
         new ColorDrawable(hsvDarkenColor(theme.get_buttonsBgColor())));
         states.addState(new int[]{android.R.attr.state_focused},
        new ColorDrawable(hsvDarkenColor(theme.get_buttonsBgColor())));
         states.addState(new int[]{},
       new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor(theme.get_buttonsBgColor())));
     ((Button) button).setBackgroundDrawable(states);

//this is for the focused/pressed state of the button
   private static int hsvDarkenColor(String originalColor)
        {
            float[] hsv = new float[3];
            int color = Color.parseColor(originalColor);
            Color.colorToHSV(color, hsv);
            hsv[2] *= 0.8f; // value component
            return Color.HSVToColor(hsv);
        }

However this doesn't preserve the rounded corners shape of the buttons, it makes them into squares.
My default buttons' backgrounds are a list of states each with it's own drawable, for pressed and unpressed, etc.
In styles.xml:
    <style name="xx.Light.ScanButton" parent="android:style/Widget.Button">
    <item name="android:focusable">true</item>
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/xx_scan_button</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">normal</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/text_light</item>
    </style>

In drawable/xx_scan_button.xml:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- Non focused states -->
<item
    android:state_focused="false"
    android:state_selected="false"
    android:state_pressed="false"
    android:drawable="@drawable/xx_scan_button_normal"
    />
<item
    android:state_focused="false"
    android:state_selected="true"
    android:state_pressed="false"
    android:drawable="@drawable/xx_scan_button_pressed"
    />

<!-- Focused states -->
<item
    android:state_focused="true"
    android:state_selected="false"
    android:state_pressed="false"
    android:drawable="@drawable/xx_scan_button_pressed"
    />
<item
    android:state_focused="true"
    android:state_selected="true"
    android:state_pressed="false"
    android:drawable="@drawable/xx_scan_button_pressed"
    />

<!-- Pressed -->
<item
    android:state_pressed="true"
    android:drawable="@drawable/xx_scan_button_pressed"
    />

<!-- Disabled -->
<item
    android:state_enabled="false"
    android:drawable="@drawable/xx_scan_button_normal"
    />
</selector>

And in drawable/xx_scan_button_normal.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"             android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners android:bottomRightRadius="5dp"
         android:bottomLeftRadius="0dp"
         android:topLeftRadius="0dp"
         android:topRightRadius="5dp"/>
<solid
    android:color="#C74700"
    />
<padding
    android:left="0dp"
    android:top="0dp"
    android:right="0dp"
    android:bottom="0dp"
    />
<size
    android:width="270dp"
    android:height="60dp"
    />
</shape>

TL;DR: I need some way to extract the shape drawable from a drawable state list from a button in order to change it's color.
 Or if you guys have a better solution, I'm all ears.

A: You will have to make separate drawables for individual color and change drawable programmatically not color. Changing color from program overrides the drawble.


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Corker's vote is needed to advance the fiscal blueprint, which GOP leadership hopes to pass this week.
Rumors are flying about his reason(s) for doing so.
Sen. Bob Corker is holding up a much-awaited GOP budget deal, barring Republican leadership and top budget negotiators Monday night from filing the agreement that was weeks in the making, his office confirmed to POLITICO.
The Tennessee Republican said on Tuesday it was because of "policy issues on the budget" but would not elaborate. However, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) said GOP leadership was talking to members about the holdup and thought it had to do with Corker's opposition to a budgeting tactic that lets appropriators claim savings from some mandatory programs, a move many consider a gimmick.
Corker's office would not confirm that, however. His refusal to sign on to the deal stops the agreement for the time being. Budget negotiators had wanted to announce the deal Monday night.
The topic will take center stage at the Republican caucus luncheon Tuesday.
Corker's vote is needed to advance the fiscal blueprint, which GOP leadership hopes to pass this week before the House goes on recess the first week of May.
Rumors were running wild among budget followers both on and off the Hill that it could also be related to his objections to provisions in the budget that boost Pentagon spending without offsets — or even have nothing to do with the budget deal at all.
Corker disagrees with a number of budget provisions expected in the budget deal — and holding out could help increase his leverage.
The obscure provision in question has rankled the budget negotiators over the past few weeks, dividing not only the House and Senate but fiscal hawks versus appropriators.
On the Hill, it's called changes in mandatory spending, or CHIMPS, and deficit hawks like Corker have long considered it a budget gimmick.
Although it allows appropriators to delay mandatory spending for a few years, and use the "savings" to spend more on discretionary programs, budget hawks don't view the savings as real because the government will still have to pay for the mandatory programs sometime in the future.
Corker is a fierce critic of an appropriations budget trick that he and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) tried to restrict in the Senate budget, adding in provisions to cap it and phase it out over time. It became one of the last sticking points between negotiators and was said to still be fluid as recent as Monday, according to one GOP source following the matter.
Appropriators fought hard to get the Corker and Crapo language to rein in the practice, dropped. House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said throwing out CHIMPS would force him to cut another $20 billion from domestic programs next year when the purse strings are already tied extremely tight.
Negotiators would not say how the CHIMPS dispute would turn out Monday evening — though sources following the matter on the Hill expected a compromise, suggesting it was unlikely to affect 2016 spending bills but could be restricted at some point in the future.
The Senate Foreign Relations chairman authored the Iran bill slated to hit the floor this week, which allows Congress to approve the Obama administration's agreement with the Persian nation to freeze its weapons systems in return for sanctions relief.
Republican critics of the Iran deal are plotting to try to trample it with amendments that, if adopted, could tank the bipartisan agreement Corker carefully crafted with his Democratic counterpart, Ben Cardin (D-Md.). Corker and other supporters had made a tentative plan to band together to defeat such amendments, including one that would make Iran recognize Israel.
But POLITICO reported Monday night that GOP leadership is refusing to help the Democrats defeat them, jeopardizing the deal. Corker said earlier Monday that he hadn't spoken to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) about how to proceed on Iran amendments.


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Over Budget and Late : Coral Springs New City Hall is a White Elephant
Back in September, I wrote an article providing factual information concerning the new city hall and taxes and shared two points:
The City Hall is over budget.
The City hall is behind schedule in its opening for December.
I also said that the increase in cost for this Taj Mahal white elephant will be a part of what we pay in taxes. Our commissioners do play pocket pool with our tax money shifting it around to make it look like increases in the millage rate was for other purposes, but make no mistake: the reason for increase in taxes is to pay for this glorious structure towering the residential area around it looking nothing more than a white elephant.
Originally estimated cost was $18 million with a $4 million parking garage needed to satisfy their own parking regulations, the $23 million venture kept growing over the last four years. The commissioners were taken advantage of by a smart local developer that was supposed to develop downtown Coral Springs and quickly doubled the parking garage upon a promise that the developer would pay the interest on the loan. The cost of the garage quickly increased to $8 million and the total cost then became a whopping $27 million.
The developer then pulled out of the deal last year, when he could not secure a cinema and promised hotel.
"Downtown" is now "What Town"
It's not the first time the developer pulled out of the same deal. Downtown Coral Springs has been around a long time. The only developer to bid on the first one several years ago was not able to complete due to 'economic conditions' changing. The city changed zoning laws, set back requirements and gave the developer a lot of great stuff – including a lease for the development department when the city condemned their own building – the old Morrison Cafeteria. The city then signed a juicy deal with the developer to move the whole department to his building – where it currently is since the building is late. Then they worked with the same developer to push the concept of moving city hall to this new Taj Mahal instead of buying a building twice the size as the one they are building ( the black building on Unviersity refered to many as the "Darth Vader "Building ) with the promise of this elaborate Mizner Park style adventure – which is now costing the city, and us, $40 million and change.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on the city commissioners.
I have been told that not all is lost. The contractor that is late in building has liquidated damages against it under $100,000 per month. The city hall is now scheduled to open sometime at the end of the first quarter – which means by the end of March. So we may be able to retrieve $300,000 of the $40 million bringing the total cost down to $39,700,000 for a full $10 million or 30 percent over budget .
Fake news you will hear again from various city commissioners who are democrats that should know better than to use this language. No doubt one of the commissioners will say my figures are totally off…. it really cost us only $32 million for the city hall and $8 million for the garage….as they play with the numbers to make it seem that there is no big deal to being 30% over budget.
No matter. You elected these commissioners. Two of them ran on blocking this project. Three of them ran on that this building was the best thing for the city since swiss cheese. You have another chance this year to change the popularity contest of electing city commissioners to perhaps one that puts qualified people in charge.
Meanwhile, this structure is nothing more than an eyesore for the people living around it. It should never have been built and we should have bought the $11 million Darth Vader building that had five times the parking and three times the space of this $40 million white elephant.
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We have an image that we need to crop. Specifically we have a stretchable image but we want to control which cap is visible on the image.
We ran into this when creating custom segmented controls. All we had was a stretchable image with rounded corner caps on both sides and a stretchable 1 pixel in the middle.
But the buttons for a segmented control have either only the left or right cap showing for the end buttons and for the middle button, neither cap is showing.
We will use a graphics context to do the image cropping. If you haven't used contexts before, Apple's Quartz 2D Overview has a nice description.
To demonstrate, let's use a stretchable image ('image' variable) with 14px caps ('capWidth' variable) and let's generate images 150px wide ('buttonWidth' variable).
Remember that you can tell stretchable images to draw at any width and they will stretch to accomodate this width.
To draw only the left cap, we'll tell the image to draw at (0,0), but we'll expand the width enough so the right cap is drawn beyond the bounds of the context.
To draw only the right cap, we'll tell the image to draw at (-14,0), and we'll also expand the width enough so the left cap is drawn beyond the bounds of the context.
To draw no caps, we'll tell the image to draw at (-14,0), and we'll also expand the width enough so that both caps are drawn beyond the bounds of the context.
Images for your iOS apps are too big. You're creating variations of the same image that only differ in width.
A great way to reduce the size of images and reuse images is to use stretchable images.
Smaller image sizes reduce the app size and users will have to wait less for the app to download from the AppStore.
Make resource files as small as possible.
Files reside on the disk but must be loaded into memory before they can be used; compress all image files to make them as small as possible.
A stretchable image has 3 parts: A left cap, a one pixel stretchable area and a right cap.
These images when scaled or resized will draw both caps on either side and repeat the middle pixel.
If we create two images then we can set the background image of a button for the normal and highlighted states and get some very nice looking buttons using very small images.
To recreate features of existing apps, we can use a big clue: the images an app uses. This will often give us insight into how the feature was built.
You can right click on an App in iTunes and see the app's .ipa file.
An .ipa file is just a zip file that is easily expanded resulting in a Payload folder that has the actual .app.
But we can't just double click on the images and open them in something like Preview.app.
During app compilation Xcode optimizes all images so they aren't readable by standard tools like Preview.app.
We need to undo the optimization and restore the images back to their original form.
The tool that the SDK uses to optimize the images is pngcrush and starting with the 3.2 SDK, Apple added the 'revert-iphone-optimizations' option to undo this optimization.
I wrote a quick ruby script called appcrush that automates this process.


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Discover: Opportunity for aspiring South Asian women playrights
We're working with Kali Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Hampstead Theatre on the Discovery programme – a free writing programme for women writers of South Asian descent*.
Discovery is open to UK based female writers of South Asian descent who are eligible to live and work in the UK, and who have not had a play presented as a full production. No previous playwriting experience is necessary.
The programme runs from September 2021 to March 2022 and includes:
3 playwriting workshops led by leading female practitioners
Dramaturgical support to develop their 10-page submission into a 20-minute play
Rehearsal with actors and director
Two public performances of a staged reading as part of a showcase for industry, friends and family
A bursary towards travel expenses and childcare
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Thursday 29 July.
Learn more about the application process and apply here: kalitheatre.co.uk/how-to-apply-to-the-discovery-programme
Our Reader Panel at each venue will read and select the four most promising plays. We will let you know the outcome by mid-September.
*At least one parent must be descended from the diasporas of the Indian subcontinent


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Nel 1991, poco dopo la pubblicazione di Brave Heart, ha aperto il tour: for Amy Grant 's Cuore in Motion tour insieme a Wes re. Di volta in volta nel tour, la Hill intratteneva il pubblico, nella sua strana rappresentazione di Cher.

A parte la sua carriera come artista solista, Kim Hill ha anche cantato background vocali presentati da artisti come Rich Mullins e altri.
È stata la voce femminile dei Black Eyed Peas nei loro primi due album in studio, Behind the Front e Bridging the Gap. È stata poi sostituita da Fergie, quest'ultima divenuta componente ufficiale del gruppo.

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Kent, Ohio, residents got their first look at a new permanent addition to the city's history this weekend when Kent sculptor George Danhires unveiled a large bronze sculpture.
The sculpture, commissioned by the city's Bicentennial Committee in 2007, includes The Davey Tree Expert Company founder John Davey and his son Martin L. Davey, who won the governor's race in 1934 after serving as a congressman and mayor of Kent.
Read the story below or see it and the accompanying video in The Record Courier.
Kent celebrated two chapters of its history, both new and old, downtown Sunday.
The ceremonies led with the unveiling of Kent's bicentennial sculpture, by local artist George Danhires, at its permanent home on Franklin Avenue, between the gazebo and The Pufferbelly Ltd.
The 4-foot tall, 6-foot wide bronze sculpture is designed to be a narrative of Kent through its history, from the native settlers to students and technology. Impressions of Kent historical figures such as Kent namesake Marvin Kent, abolitionist John Brown, former Ohio Gov. Martin Davey, Davey Tree Expert Co. founder John Davey make up the piece. It also contains figures representing native Americans, students and railroad workers.
"If you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you're going, and I think today is going to show that," said Kent Mayor Jerry Fiala during the sculpture ceremony.
The four students killed at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 are also in the sculpture, making it the first permanent acknowledgment of the incident in Kent that is not found on campus.
Following the dedication of the bicentennial sculpture came a celebration of the 134th anniversary of the opening of Kent's Stone Arch Bridge, which opened in 1877 and leads into downtown Kent from the west.
Following a performance by Theodore Roosevelt High School's A.C.E.s choral ensemble, speakers including retired TRHS history teacher Bruce Dzeda, Phoenix Properties, LLC President Ron Burbick, architect David Sommers, Wick Poetry Center Director David Hassler and others gave speeches resembling those given 134 years ago by Marvin Kent, former mayor Charles Kent, Bridge Contractor T.B. Townsend and more.
The event concluded with a bridge crossing on horse and buggy by Harold and Harry Ruggles, descendants of Oscar Champney, the first person to cross Kent's historic Stone Arch Bridge.


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Oliver excels in providing pragmatic, solution-based advice in an industrial relations context. His background provides him with a rare understanding of the role of the HR manager and his advice is designed to assist clients to achieve their objectives, rather than frustrate them in their efforts to run a business.
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Denise joined the company in 2002 and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives. After many years of experience within the Litigation Department, she is also a member of the Employment Team.
Denise manages the bespoke debt recovery service within the team as well as assisting the dispute resolution team with its general litigation matters.
Denise is mainly instructed by employers and assists them in drafting Contracts of Employment and Company Handbooks as well as advising on any issues that arise during day to day business. This can be concerning grievance or disciplinary procedures, assisting clients who have to go through a redundancy process or advising and taking action in respect of a breach of restrictive covenants. Denise is also experienced in drafting and negotiating Settlement Agreements, both acting on behalf of an employer and advising employees on the obligations contained in a Settlement Agreement.
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Everyone loves to eat different dishes, cuisines, desserts, and many more other food items. Things that make the dishes tastier are the ingredients used in it. Regionotch is a leading Malaysian company that provides various food ingredients and additives to customers. This company provides every type of ingredients used in dishes whether you want it for bakery, beverages, confectionery, snacks, and others.
Regionotch is distributing these types of products from more than 20 years. This company imports these products from different countries and then supplies and delivers to their customers. Almost every Malaysian food industries are served by them. In the beverages category you will get the products like color, flavor, sweetener, and stabilizer whereas in snacks and noodles category you will get seasoning, oleoresin, native starch, potato flake and solidifies starch.
While making bakery products you need ingredients like egg powder, enzyme, phosphate, emulsifier, malt extract, sweetener, hydrocolloid etc. You will get all these types of products from Regionotch. For more details, you can check all these items under 'Product' link available on their site. Their research and development team focus on creating new ingredients. You can also check other food ingredients and products supplying industries os Malaysia. These are GK ingredients, Nestea, Hershey, and Baskin Robbins.
If you also want to buy ingredients and additives from Regionotch then you need to contact them. There are many ways of contacting them. Either you can contact them via call/mail or you can visit their office and meet them directly. We have provided Regionotch office address with supporting, contact numbers, fax numbers, and email ID. You can use these details according to your queries. For more help, you can check the links section which provides you with some useful links of their site.
You can get in touch with Regionotch by using telephonic support. Their customer supporting members will help you and provide you the solutions for your queries.
Regionotch main office is situated at Kuala Lumpur. You can visit their office and meet the officials there personally.
Make your visit to the website of Regionotch and check all the ingredients and products supplied by them. You can also check the facilities that are provided by them.
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If you have any questions or queries, and then you can use this link. There you just have to fill your supporting email ID, phone number and complaint.
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Welcome to the Simple Android Chat App Tutorial with Firebase Integration tutorial which will take you on a step by step guide on how to create your very own chat app with a back end that integrates to Firebase.
Once you have logged into your Firebase console you will need to create a new project using the create new project wizard by selecting the "CREATE NEW PROJECT" button.
Once your project is created you will be presented with the following console window, Select the "Add Firebase to your Android app" menu item.
You will be prompted to provide your app's package name for the sample project please enter, com.chatt.demo in the Package name field. Now select the "ADD APP" button.
You will notice that when you select the "ADD APP" button a file called google-services.json will automatically get downloaded. To allow you application to use the Firebase services you will need to add this file to your project as illustrated in the image below.
The resulting dependencies section should look at follows.
like the following, once you have completed the editing select the "Sync Now" link refresh the build configuration.
To support our application we will need a place to store our users and there associated messages, in the project files you will find a firebase_db.json. In the console select Database from the left menu, once the database tab opens select the … menu on the right a select "Import JSON".
Once the import completes successfully your new database should look something like the below image. There is two structures in our database one for messages and one for users.
Finally we are through the setup and we can get down to coding, our first task is to setup the registration form to use the FireAuth and FireDatabase to allow for users registering with your application.
In the class com.chatt.demo.Register we need to handle the onClick event, the first thing we need to do is register our user to the FirebaseAuth module using the Firebase singleton of the same name.
We provide the email address and password the user enters to the createUserWithEmailAndPassword, upon success we set the user profile properties by issuing a call to the updateProfile method.
Now that we can successfully register new users we are going to hook the com.chatt.demo.Login class to allow us to authenticate.
This is done by calling the signInWithEmailAndPassword method on the FirebaseAuth sigleton.
Once authenticated our next step is to get a list of all users from our database. We will need to add code in the com.chatt.demo.UserList, we will start by initializing our database variable in the OnCreate method.
Next we will build a query for all users and iterate over them to provide a the data for our ListView.
Within the onDataChange we will process the results and create ChatUsers and add them to our list.
To support users sending messages and retrieving conversations we will need to add the following code to the com.chatt.demo.Chat class.
We will start by doing a call to get all the current messages in our messages collection using the loadConversationList method.
When the data is returned we will filter for conversations that the current user is a party too.
This data will provide the content of our messages ListView if you select one of these Conversations you will be shown the message entry view. To support sending messages to the other parties in a conversation we will modify sendMessage method. Messages are sent by creating Conversation objects .
Once the conversation has been established we will create a new message in the messages collection by first creating a object key.
Then using the .child() method in the FirebaseDatabase we will insert the new message.
As part of the completion code we set the status on the message record to show that the message was sent successfully or if it had errored.
Congratulations you've now got a live Android Chatt app running on Firebase! We hope you've found the course interesting, and we'd love feedback about what you liked and what you'd like improved.


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@Olof Are you guys using any of the new automation features they added to Trello??!! They look super fun!
I wish not. The beauty of AirportCEO is grid system and being 2D while details give 3D feeling.
Actually, i would wish a 3d plan to navigate between floors and build them correctly.
IMO, the game is way easier to play in 2D than in 3D if you want to build large airport. However, I also think it would be a mess to not have a tilted plan (like 45° with a fixed camera). I really hope the multiple floor will allow us to have more than just 1 extra floor but, in the futur, build 3-4 floors (for instance, the airport in Geneva has 5 floors if we take in account all all the rooms from the parking lot, train station, stores outside the secured aera and the terminal). The risk to make a mistake or have a bad view on the whole will be hard without a tilted camera. Airport CEO should be able to get this feature since the 3d models looks to be in 3d and a tilted camera is fixed at a certain angle, thus the game is still in 2D and not in 3D.
How about a building mode which uses top-down 3D/2D, then if you're finished it will revert back to full 3D?
I would say the game is already in 3D. If you zoom in and move the camera you will see each object showing a different side depending on its position on your screen. I am not sure if this is the case all objects (especially for older ones) but new objects are def designed in 3D.
Anyway, isn't this discussion unrelated to Alpha 30 as a whole?
Lol, when Railroad Tycoon 3 turned out to be 3d, I never got used to the grid… never played it.
This happened in Anno 1404 in the most zoomed in view, then the game changed in a 3d view. All other zoom levels were 2d.
I have the same feeling, and I thought I had read somewhere that there were many more tracks to the soundtrack.(like 10 or so).
The tracks I do hear are just awesome. When I think about mixing a soundtrack for an airport tycoon my brain just goes: "Hell, how do I know. No damn clue what kind of music fits in an airport game." But this soundtrack fits perfectly, great choice of music. What brings me back to the initial quote. I would like to hear more tracks like this.
Oh, sorry about that. Some miscommunication from our side. Here you go!
4 days from last release, no bug, no reply, no comments. Pretty boring days for devs, I believe.
I did stayed home with my kid and also worked intensely on multiple-floor. This is one of the reasons the experimental branch has not been prioritized last week.
Good to hear Frederik! Cant wait to See new multiple Floor progress!
Actually i would rather have less bug updates (especially if they are not critical for playing) than every day or so. It will leave them more time to develop the multi-floor, big planes and services ! I'm so excited to see them coming out !


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