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Average initial bonus. Spending at least $1,000 during the first three months you have the Amex EveryDay Preferred Credit Card gets you 15,000 bonus points, which are worth about $128, according to WalletHub research. For context, that's below the average bonus offered in terms of points or miles (19,982) and slightly less valuable than the average cash-back bonus ($158), according to WalletHub's latest Credit Card Landscape Report. In other words, you shouldn't get Amex EveryDay Preferred for its initial bonus alone.
Fairly complicated regular rewards. There are a lot of moving parts in the Amex EveryDay Preferred Card's ongoing rewards offer. Its base rates are 3 points per $1 spent on groceries, 2 points per $1 on gas, and 1 point per $1 on everything else. But the top-end rate only applies to the first $6,000 you spend at U.S. supermarkets each year. Bonus fuel rewards are only available at U.S. gas stations. And that's not all. The number of purchases you make also matters. If you make at least 30 purchases in a month, you'll get a 50% bonus on the rewards you earned that month. So the 3-point supermarket earning rate becomes 4.5 points, the 2-point gas rate becomes 3 points and so on. As a result, if you use this card every day you'll earn the equivalent of 3.8% cash back on groceries, 2.6% back on gas and 1.3% back on everything else. All three earning rates are above the market average of 1.06% cash back. But it's clear people whose biggest everyday expenses are gas and groceries will get the most out of EveryDay Preferred.
Steep annual fee. Most of the best rewards credit cards either lack annual fees entirely or waive them the first year an account is open. And the average credit card market-wide charges $17.35 per year. Amex EveryDay Preferred is a bit different, charging a $95 annual fee from the get-go. Unfortunately, its rewards have a tough time living up to the fixed cost.
Nothing special financing-wise. Amex EveryDay Preferred offers a 0% intro APR on balance transfers for the first 12 months your account is open, which is slightly longer than average for a 0% balance-transfer card. But hundreds of other credit cards have 0% intro rates for at least as long, and many of them lack EveryDay Preferred's balance-transfer fee (the greater of $5 or 3% of the amount transferred). Furthermore, the Amex EveryDay Preferred Card's regular APR has the potential to be about average for an excellent-credit credit card. But it could also be significantly higher than the average among credit cards for people with fair credit. Either way, it won't do you any real favors if you carry a balance from month to month.
Ill-suited for international spending. Not only is American Express accepted in far fewer countries than Visa and Mastercard, but this particular Amex also charges a 2.7% foreign-transaction fee. And while you may not travel abroad or make purchases through internationally based merchants every day, using Amex EveryDay Preferred when you do would definitely be a costly mistake. Fortunately, there are many no foreign transaction fee credit cards to choose from.
Good credit or better required. Not just anyone can get approved for the Amex EveryDay Preferred Card given its good-or-excellent credit requirement. So you'd be wise to check your latest credit score on WalletHub before you apply – if you apply.
Earn 15,000 Membership Rewards® Points after making $1,000 in purchases in the first 3 months of Card Membership.
3x points at US supermarkets, on up to $6,000 per year in purchases (then 1x); 2x points at U.S. gas stations and on travel booked through amextravel.com; 1x points on other purchases. Terms and limitations apply.
Use points for rewards from over 500 leading brands in travel, gift cards, merchandise, or entertainment. You can transfer points to a selection of frequent traveler programs.
You can use Membership Rewards® points towards eligible charges you make on your Card, such as retail, dining, entertainment and more.
0% Introductory APR for 12 months on balance transfers requested within 60 days of account opening.
0% Introductory plan fee on each purchase moved into a plan during the first 12 months. After that, up to 1.13% of each purchase moved into a plan.
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Both cards are good. Still, when it comes to Amex Everyday Preferred vs Blue Cash Preferred, I'll choose the former for a greater return in value. Assuming you use your card a lot (30 or more times on purchases in a billing period to earn 50% more points), Amex's Membership Rewards points for the same purchases have a better value than the cash back you get with the Blue Cash Preferred.
All supermarkets located in the U.S. are included (superstores and warehouse clubs are not considered supermarkets). Have fun shopping!
The Amex EveryDay Preferred foreign transaction fee is 2.7%. It applies to purchases made while traveling outside of the U.S. or through merchants located outside of the U.S.. To better optimize your costs when abroad, it's best to also check an exchange rate calculator. I use this one: https://usa.visa.com/support/consumer/travel-support/exchange-rate-calculator.html/ . It's really handy.
You can start the balance transfer process by just calling them at 800-528-4800. Obviously, you need to have your details handy, but it's pretty straightforward.
If you want to transfer to the card, that also works just fine, as long as you've got enough left from your credit limit. The card you transfer from can't also be an Amex card.
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This reward program is a scam.
I went to claim reward points and they charged me 167 points per dollar because I didn't use there travel program through them which they obviously get a kick back from.
I asked the agent when signing up and was assured the program was 1 for 1.
Very disappointed with this company and will start to use my "NO Hassle Rewards" card from here on out!!


AFRICANGLOBE – President Barack Obama capped his eight years in office with a vacuous and hypocritical farewell address Tuesday night delivered at the McCormick Place convention center in downtown Chicago.
The first-ever presidential farewell address delivered outside of Washington, DC had the atmospherics of an overblown, cheap spectacle. Obama strode onto the stage like a rock star, flanked by oversized American flags, a massive illuminated presidential seal and an introductory soundtrack by the rock band U2.
As with every address Obama has delivered over the last eight years, his speech in Chicago was full of clichés, his rhetoric padded with empty phrases and delivered with a false gravitas, signaled by his trademark pursed lips and affected whisper.
The speech was rife with contradictions, the starkest being the juxtaposition of Obama's boasting of the great social progress achieved by his administration and his warning of threats to American democracy arising from ever-growing social inequality and economic insecurity.
The president declared: "If I had told you eight years ago that America would reverse a great recession, reboot our auto industry, and unleash the longest stretch of job creation in our history… if I had told you that we would open up a new chapter with the Cuban people, shut down Iran's nuclear weapons program without firing a shot, and take out the mastermind of 9/11… if I had told you that we would win marriage equality, and secure the right to health insurance for another 20 million of our fellow citizens—you might have said our sights were set a little too high.
He made no attempt to explain why, given this impressive record of social progress and foreign policy success, his party was routed in the elections and the billionaire demagogue Donald Trump was preparing to succeed him in the White House.
A basic component of the answer, of course, is the grotesquely false rendering of his record and the state of American society as he leaves office. Hardly a week goes by without a new report on signs of extreme social crisis or ever-more obscene levels of wealth among the financial elite. Just in the past month, studies have been published showing the first decline in US life expectancy in 23 years, plunging pay for young adults, a 72 percent surge in deaths from synthetic opioids, and home ownership rates at historic lows for young people.
Other surveys have documented a $237 billion increase in the wealth of the world's richest 200 billionaires, driven largely by the US stock market boom under Obama, and an acceleration of the transfer of wealth from the bottom half of the US population to the top one percent.
In boasting of presiding over a record number of consecutive monthly job increases, Obama neglected to mention that 94 percent of the new jobs created in the last eight years have been either part-time or temporary.
Noticeably absent from Obama's remarks was any mention of the social conditions in the city where he was speaking, which is ravaged by high levels of poverty and unemployment, an epidemic of police killings and violence, and a skyrocketing homicide rate.
He lamented in general terms the growth of social inequality and the dangers it poses to American democracy—that is, the threat of a social explosion in the United States.
As always, he spoke as if none of these social ills had anything to do with the policies pursued by his administration, including severe cuts in social spending on the one side and the bailout of the banks and flooding of money into the stock market on the other.
Another piece of monumental hypocrisy was Obama's pose of fighting to defend democracy when he has done more to destroy it than perhaps any other US president.
This is from a president who has personally authorized the assassination of American citizens and thousands of others around the world with drones-fired missiles, protected and promoted those in the CIA responsible for torture, kept the prison at Guantanamo Bay open, persecuted journalists and jailed whistleblowers, militarized the police, and expanded the illegal surveillance of electronic communications.
Obama also used his farewell address take parting shots at Russia and China, lumping the war against ISIS with efforts to counter both countries, and arguing that aggressive action against the world's second- and third-largest nuclear-armed powers was the only way to avoid war.
Obama spent his eight years in office waging war abroad and war on the working class at home. With Tuesday's speech, he passed the reins to Trump with a shrug.


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Adam Sandler grieves 'Grown Ups' son Cameron Boyce after sudden death
Adam Sandler on the set of 'I Hate You Dad' on Broadway Street Tuesday, June 7, 2011.
By Olivia Vanni | olivia.vanni@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: July 7, 2019 at 10:43 pm | UPDATED: July 8, 2019 at 12:26 pm
Adam Sandler is publicly mourning the loss of his former on-screen son, Cameron Boyce, after the 20-year-old actor died in his sleep Saturday.
"Too young. Too sweet. Too funny," Sandler wrote of his late co-star. "Just the nicest, most talented, and most decent kid around. Loved that kid."
"Cared so much about his family," he continued. "Cared so much about the world. Thank you, Cameron, for all you gave to us. So much more was on the way. All our hearts are broken. Thinking of your amazing family and sending our deepest condolences."
Sandler grew close to Boyce as they were filming the 2010 flick "Grown Ups" and its 2013 sequel. Sandler and the rest of the comedic cast — which included Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider — played a group of old friends who, after the sudden death of their childhood basketball coach, reunited for a Fourth of July family weekend away. Boyce played Sandler's son, Keithie, in the movies, which they shot in North Shore towns such as Essex, Marblehead and Swampscott.
In addition to "Grown Ups," Boyce is best known for his role as Carlos, the son of Disney villain Cruella de Vil, in the film franchise "Descendants," in addition to his character of Luke in the Disney Channel show "Jessie." His former "Jessie" co-stars Skai Jackson and Charles Esten, as well as "Descendants" director Kenny Ortega, also shared tributes to the actor after his shocking passing. And Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger tweeted his condolences, writing, "The Walt Disney Company mourns the loss of #CameronBoyce, who was a friend to so many of us, and filled with so much talent, heart and life, and far too young to die. Our prayers go out to his family and his friends."
The young star "passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated," a spokesperson for the Boyce family said in a statement.
"The world is now undoubtedly without one of its brightest lights, but his spirit will live on through the kindness and compassion of all who knew and loved him," the statement continued. "We are utterly heartbroken and ask for privacy during this immensely difficult time as we grieve the loss of our precious son and brother."
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Eastern Anatolian Montane Steppe
Bioregion: Zagros Mountain Forests & East Anatolian Steppe (PA27)
Realm: Central Eurasia
States: Turkey, Iran, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan
These immense, undulating plateaus in Eastern Anatolia form a mosaic of woodland and steppe. Lofty peaks that reach over 3,000 m are contrasted by sweeping valley floors and lowland basins, some of which host vast salt lakes. Rocky scree slopes are the ideal habitat for Gmelin's mouflon, a rare, endemic subspecies of wild sheep, and the ancestral form of modern domestic sheep. Brown bear, striped hyaena, marbled polecat, and saker falcon also epitomise the region's fauna.
The flagship species of the Eastern Anatolian Montane Steppe ecoregion is the Gmelin's mouflon. Image credit: Susan E Adams, Creative Commons
The ecoregion traverses East Turkey, Northwest Iran, the Nakhchyvan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and South Georgia. The mountainous terrain includes Turkey's highest peak, the 5,317 m tall Mount Ararat, and experiences a continental climate with extremely cold winters. Juniper-almond woodlands with a pistachio and rose understory are interspersed with steppes of sea-lavenders, feather grasses, fescues, and bulbous bluegrass. In lowland basins, salt lakes are fringed by saline steppes of goosefoot and leadwort species. Turkey's Lake Van and Iran's Lake Urmia are the two major salt lakes in the region, whilst Armenia's Lake Sevan is freshwater; all are wetlands of great importance for migratory birds.
Wolf, red sheep, beech marten, and Persian mole reside here, alongside mountain-specialist birds such as Caspian snowcock and Radde's accentor. Endemic animals include Hakkari dwarf racer, Armenian viper, and Wagner's viper. The steppes flutter with many rare butterflies such as the critically endangered Rose's Blue butterfly. As agile climbers, Gmelin's mouflon are adept at navigating the dry, open slopes of the mountain steppes. Habitat loss and poaching caused their numbers to steadily fall throughout the 20th century, and today there are no more than several hundreds of them left. Though the salt lakes support a wealth of birdlife, the highly saline waters are hostile to fish; only the endemic darekh survive in Lake Van.
Armenian viper. Image credit: Creative Commons
Livestock grazing has been a prevalent human activity in steppes across an evolutionary timescale, so grazing impact is integral to ecosystem dynamics. Transhumance is widely practiced in the mountains, in which livestock are moved between regions according to the season. Haymaking is also common in the highlands, whilst Lake Van's darekh population supports a thriving fishing industry.
Principal protected areas in Armenia include Sevani National Park and Lake Arpi National Park, the latter of which is contiguous with Javarkheti National Park in Georgia. Lake Urmia in Iran is a National Park, Biosphere Reserve, and Ramsar site of Wetland of International Importance. The majority of protected areas have been deemed insufficient to conservation, and Turkey's Lake Van is one of many noticeable gaps in the network.
Overgrazing is the main cause of land degradation in Turkey and Iran, altering steppe communities to represent more species of Euphorbia and Gundelia. Carnivores in the region are mostly threatened by human impacts: poaching, trapping, and vehicle collisions. Retaliatory killing is a particular problem as an increasingly scarce prey base of wild ungulates means carnivores target livestock more often.
Dam construction and overexploitation of groundwater have impacted waterways; this has resulted in a drastic decrease in Lake Sevan's water level and a subsequent ecological crisis. Iran has developed an integrated management plan for Lake Urmia, the first ecosystem-based strategy of its kind in the country. Turkey's Department of Wildlife has initiated projects to reintroduce wild ungulates and plant wild fruit trees, and has promoted ecological studies and social outreach programs to raise awareness about conservation issues.
The priority conservation actions for the next decade will be to: 1) increase the network of protected areas with a better representation of diverse habitats; 2) invest in greater inventory taking and scientific research of threatened species; and 3) enhance effectiveness of protected areas with ecologically informed management plans.
1. European Environment Agency (2008). The Anatolian region - the biogeographical transition to Asia. Europe's biodiversity - biogeographical regions and seas.
2. Ambarlı, D., Zeydanlı, U.S., Balkız, Ö., Aslan, S., Karaçetin, E., Sözen, M., Ilgaz, Ç., Ergen, A.G., Lise, Y., Çağlayan, S.D. and Welch, H.J., 2016. An overview of biodiversity and conservation status of steppes of the Anatolian Biogeographical Region. Biodiversity and conservation, 25(12), pp.2491-2519.


The aim of this study is to describe and analyze learning taking place in a collaborative design exercise involving engineering students. The students per-form a time-constrained, open-ended, complex interaction design task, an "in-teractionary". A multimodal learning perspective is used. We have performed detailed analyses of video recordings of the engineering students, including classifying aspects of interaction. Our results show that the engineering stu-dents carry out and articulate their design work using a technology-centred approach and focus more on the function of their designs than on aspects of interaction. The engineering students mainly make use of ephemeral com-munication strategies (gestures and speech) rather than sketching in physical materials. We conclude that the interactionary may be an educational format that can help engineering students learn the messiness of design work. We fur-ther identify several constraints to the engineering students' design learning and propose useful interventions that a teacher could make during an interac-tionary. We especially emphasize interventions that help engineering students retain aspects of human-centered design throughout the design process. This study partially replicates a previous study which involved interaction design students.


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With a stagnant and declining detached house market, it was only a matter of time until panic buying began to fall out of favour and the slowdown spread into the condo market. Vancouver condo sales dropped 30% year-over-year in August, ticking in at a six year low for the month. With August 2008 and August 2012 just barely surpassing this year as the slowest on record.
With condo sales cooling off, inventory has begun to increase. The number of Vancouver condos for sale increased by a whopping 51% year over year. Despite the increase, inventory levels remain below historic norms, however, the quick jump in inventory combined with falling sales is a concerning trend. Expect condo inventory to swell in the coming months and even years ahead, as a record number of new construction apartments near completion. There are currently a record high 43,024 units under construction and a plethora of housing starts also underway. In other words, there's a pipeline of supply coming and the demand might not be there to meet it.
This could create liquidity issues in Vancouver's pre-sale condo space. Speculators who were once hopping to flip the contract prior to completion are running short on buyers. This creates a few problems for pre-sale purchasers who have a legal obligation to close upon completion of the building. In a market of declining values, which makes pre-sale contracts harder to flip, it also creates issues for the buyers who have to close.
While overall condo price declines have been subtle, perhaps even unnoticeable to the untrained eye, they have certainly regressed in recent months. Per the MLS benchmark, Vancouver condo prices have declined for three consecutive months, dipping a mere 2% in that time period. This is, however, on the more conservative side.
Vancouver condo prices per the MLS benchmark.
New listings remain low, moving up just 0.3% from a year ago. Sales volumes and inventory levels will be an important relationship to watch moving forward to determine future price swings.


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Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell are friends who have brokered deals in the Senate: Can they still work together?
Ledyard King Maureen Groppe Christal Hayes
WASHINGTON – When Vice President Joe Biden visited the Senate four years ago to bid farewell to his many long-time Senate colleagues, Mitch McConnell looked him in the eye and described him as "a real friend ... a trusted partner ... We're all going to miss you."
Several years earlier, after the two had worked together behind the scenes to broker a major tax deal, the Kentucky senator invited Biden to an event at the University of Louisville as a gesture of goodwill.
"You want to see whether a Republican and Democrat really like each other,'' Biden said as McConnell looked on. "Well, I'm here to tell you we do.''
That friendship will be tested now that Biden has been declared the nation's 46th president and McConnell is expected to return as the majority leader of a Senate that will be asked to pass the incoming president's legislative priorities, approve his cabinet members and confirm his judicial appointments.
None of that bodes well for Biden's liberal backers who expected voters would elect a Democrat-controlled Senate ready to pass a progressive agenda: undoing the Trump administration tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, enacting elements of the Green New Deal, and expanding government-sponsored health care.
South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, who will chair the Budget Committee if Republicans keep control, called such liberal priorities "dead on arrival" in the Senate.
Like McConnell, Graham counts himself as a long-time friend of the new president. He believes he can reach common ground with the incoming president on cabinet appointments and on legislation such as an infrastructure bill, targeted immigration reform and regulating social media companies.
But Graham said his personal affection for Biden won't make him give in on issues.
"I will try to help where I can and oppose him where I must," Graham told reporters Friday.
More:Mitch McConnell once called Joe Biden 'a real friend.' Now he's silent amid attacks
The prospect of continued GOP control of the upper chamber is already forcing Biden and his advisers to rethink who they might appoint to the cabinet, opting for more centrist choices that could win quick approval over liberal nominees whose confirmations could drag on for weeks and still fall short, according to news reports.
Biden brings to the White House four decades of experience and friendships in the Senate – including with McConnell. But without the ability to control the Senate, Democrats will have to take a more modest approach to the changes they want to make on taxes, climate change and other issues through negotiated compromises, said Scott Segal, a prominent Washington lobbyist.
"An institutionalist like Joe Biden knows that's all he can get," Segal said. "And I would stress here that Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell may have been gladiators against one another, both in the Senate, and in this election season, but they know each other very well."
Biden optimistic he can work with Republicans
Republicans have yet to secure their Senate majority in the next Congress though most analysts expect they will come January.
GOP incumbents are winning in two states (Alaska and North Carolina) that have yet to be called. That would mean Republicans would have to win just one of the two Georgia runoff elections scheduled for Jan. 5 to maintain their power.
Biden last week expressed confidence that he could work with Republicans on issues like health care.
"Why? Because I think they're seeing the reaction of the American people," he told reporters soon after casting his own ballot last month. "Overwhelmingly, the American people think drug prices are too high."
Throughout the campaign, Biden dismissed criticism from the left that he has too rosy a picture of Republicans' willingness to find common ground and that the political dynamics have drastically changed since the days when we worked closely with GOP Senate colleagues like McConnell.
Biden promised that one of his first actions would be calling Republicans to say: "We've got to figure out how we're going to move forward here. Because there are so many things we really do agree on."
Without the threat of President Donald Trump going after errant Republicans, Biden argued, at least some GOP senators would be willing to forge bipartisan deals.
But partisan feelings remain raw – especially toward McConnell – for Republicans' role in confirming Trump's pick, Amy Coney Barrett, to the Supreme Court only days before the presidential election.
And critics note that for all the on-the-surface camaraderie, McConnell did little to stop an investigation this year by GOP senators into allegations against Biden and his son, Hunter, involving Ukraine. The probe, which backers had touted would discredit the vice president, found no evidence of improper influence or wrongdoing by either Biden.
Still, the cloud it generated provided the former vice president's critics ammunition to use against his candidacy.
Despite friendship, deals will be difficult to reach
Former Senate aides say while McConnell and Biden have a better relationship than the Kentucky Republican had with President Barack Obama, Biden is unlikely to achieve the agenda he and other Democrats promoted on the campaign trail.
"I expect (McConnell) – and most of his caucus – will do everything in their power to block a Biden legislative agenda," said Jim Manley, who worked as a top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who often sparred with McConnell.
Manley said there was a measurable difference between the treatment the Kentucky senator gave Obama and other top Democrats compared with Biden. He cited Biden's lengthy negotiations with McConnell during the 2013 fiscal cliff crisis, which primarily featured the two leaders trading phone calls as the rest of Washington eagerly awaited a deal to prevent automatic tax hikes and spending cuts.
Biden's discussions with McConnell went around Reid, who was the top Democrat at the time, Manley recalled, adding at one point an upset Reid threw a draft of the deal in the fireplace to destroy it.
It was far from the first time Biden and McConnell went against the mandates of their own parties to work together on massive deals. The two leaders also came together for a bipartisan compromise during the debt-ceiling crisis of 2011 that prevented the country from going into default.
But just as progressives will push Biden not to cave, McConnell faces similar pressure from his right flank.
"McConnell may try to isolate Biden to cut deals, but I don't believe the caucus will agree with it," Manley said. "The Republican party has changed."
Manley noted the partisan tensions that have divided Washington and the country would not simply go away under a Biden presidency.
"There's a chance that McConnell touts his ability to cut deals with Biden as he's done in the past, but I'm not really convinced that's going to happen."
Biden could use executive orders to fulfill agenda
Elaine Kamarck, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who worked for Vice President Al Gore, expects tensions will lessen after Trump leaves office, even though the election revealed that the country is still deeply divided.
"I think that we will see a lessening of this polarization for one simple fact: the president of the United States will not be fanning the flames," she said.
More:With Biden winning the popular vote, here's how America could end the Electoral College
Molly Reynolds, an expert on Congress at the Brookings Institution, said Republican senators' reactions to Biden's cabinet nominees will be an early indication of their relationship.
"Do they confirm them? Do they simply not bring some of them to the floor?" Reynolds asked. "That's something I'll be watching closely."
Biden could also take a page from Trump who issued a flurry of executive orders when he couldn't get legislative proposals through Congress, a strategy that groups such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and the Progressive Change Institute want him to take.
But the incoming president indicated he doesn't want to be limited to such steps that could be reversed by his successor or by courts.
"I've got to get the votes," Biden said. "We're a democracy. We need consensus."


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As we begin this new year of 2016, I would like to share with you some exciting developments at the Alexander Shulgin Research Institute (ASRI) and Transform Press. For a few years now, ASRI and Transform Press have been growing into distinct organizations, and I am pleased to announce that they are now officially separate sister institutions. My daughter Wendy Tucker, who worked closely with Sasha at Transform Press for many years, is now the legal owner of that enterprise and is moving forward with her own vision for its development. ASRI is helmed by Paul Daley, Scott Bodarky, and Tania Manning, who are continuing Sasha's research legacy and managing the Shulgin Archive, respectively.
Wendy is supported at Transform Press by an outstanding team, many of whom have joined us within the past four years. These new contributors and our close supporters of many years have been working diligently behind the scenes, and I would like you to know who they are as they continue to maintain and give voice to the Shulgin legacy of research. Some of our staff members have roles at both Transform Press and ASRI. Transform Press staff are listed first in preparation for their website launch with ASRI staff following. Full staff biographies will appear on the Transform Press and ASRI websites.
Melitta von Abele is an independent consultant who has worked closely with Wendy over the past four years developing new publications and advising on new directions for the Press. She has provided hands-on PR consultation in the creation of the new Transform Press website and she has also been contracted to lead the organization of the Shulgin Archive from 2016 to 2017.
Keeper Trout serves as technical editor of Transform Press and will be working alongside Melitta von Abele in overseeing new publications. He is also assisting Melitta this year with the organization of the Shulgin Archive and will stay on to co-manage with Tania Manning. We are very happy to officially acknowledge his many years of generous contribution to both Transform Press and the Shulgin Archive.
Sylvia Thyssen serves as a consulting editor assisting Melitta von Abele and Keeper Trout with new publications.
Stacy Simone handles Transform Press orders and accounts, and provides regular administrative support for Wendy. She also digitizes and systematizes documents, photographs, and other materials for the Shulgin Archive and assists Tania Manning with Archive office administration.
Paul Daley continues his dedicated exploration of Sasha's legacy of research and preservation of Sasha's lab at the Shulgin Farm.
Scott Bodarky administers technical consultation and support for ASRI, and provides entrepreneurial leadership for key ASRI projects. He has also worked tirelessly on the first phase of organizing much of the Shulgin Archive material.
Tania Manning worked alongside Sasha for ten years providing many forms of support. She co-authored The Shulgin Index with him and Paul Daley and now manages the development of the Shulgin Archive. She provides daily administration for matters at the Shulgin Farm and serves as my personal assistant. She also curates Sasha's cactus and ethnobotanical gardens, and is rebuilding the greenhouse.
Greg Manning, Tania's husband, maintains the Shulgin Farm property and technology interface. He also serves as a website administrator for ASRI and manages Sasha's Facebook page.
Others who continue to contribute on a project by project basis are Jon Hanna and Earth and Fire Erowid. Their past, present, and future support remains invaluable.
Researchers Nicholas Cozzi and Simon Brandt serve as scientific advisors on many projects at both Transform Press and ASRI.
Mark Martini acts as fundraiser for projects at ASRI and the Shulgin Archive.
Craig Noble, a new arrival, is our marketing director and is guiding us in the branding for ASRI and Transform Press.
And Bradley Bryan, another new arrival, is redesigning the ASRI website and creating a new website for Transform Press, both of which will be fully integrated with social networking platforms.
Transform Press is bringing out three new publications in 2016: The Nature of Drugs, Volume I, which is derived from Sasha's SFSU course from 1987; Forensic Toxicology, based on Sasha's lecture notes for the course that he taught regularly at UC Berkeley; and a special memorial edition of PiHKAL and TiHKAL prepared by Joshua Marker featuring unique photographs, additional text, and special commentary by many members of the Shulgin community. We anticipate the Transform Press website launch for March 7, 2016. Please continue to check the ASRI website for upcoming announcements. This promises to be a very productive and rewarding year, and we are grateful to have all of you in our community.


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DR WHO "FIVE DOCTORS" VINYL & POSTER BUNDLE
A very special bundle (with a very special price!) to celebrate the arrival of our updated Vinyl collection.
Peter Howell And BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Doctor Who - The Five Doctors (Original Television Soundtrack)
Composer Peter Howell's score to BBC TV's 1983 special.
The bracing, spine-chilling and atmospheric music soundtrack was composed by Peter Howell at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with special effects by Dick Mills. The Five Doctors album features both the original score and the BBC Video special edition version which was, in 1995, produced, reworked and extended by Peter Howell.
Peter Howell comments: "Listening again to the score for The Five Doctors, it seems to represent a very particular period in time when the variety of sounds at our disposal was becoming extensive, yet the ability to memorise them was yet to come; when the quality of taped sound was impressive but the equipment was large and the use of it sometimes clumsy and mechanical. In those days, you
really did need a studio full of gear and you really did need to play it all."
The Five Doctors (1983), was a 90 minute TV special made by the BBC to celebrate 20 years of Doctor Who. In this extraordinary story The Doctor and his previous incarnations are brought to the Death Zone on Gallifrey as part of a renegade Time Lord's scheme. Here, Peter Davison joins previous Doctor Who incarnations - Richard Hurndall (standing in for the deceased William Hartnell),
Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. Famously, Baker declined to appear so some footage from "lost" story 'Shada' was used instead.
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The 2018 Tennessee Titans season was the franchise's 49th season in the National Football League and their 59th overall. It also marked the franchise's 22nd season in the state of Tennessee, their first under head coach Mike Vrabel, and the first with new uniforms and blue helmets, as they have worn white helmets since the club was based in Houston, Texas. This season marked the third of four straight in which the Titans finished 9–7. The Titans failed to qualify for the postseason after losing a Week 17 win-and-in contest against their division rival Indianapolis Colts.

In Vrabel's first year with the team, the Titans went 3-3 against divisional opponents, sweeping the Jacksonville Jaguars for the second straight year. The Titans also beat the New England Patriots for the first time since 2002. Quarterback Marcus Mariota had a difficult season, going 7-6 as a starter, throwing 11 touchdowns to eight interceptions, and missing three games due to injury. Backup quarterback Blaine Gabbert started three games, including the season finale against the Colts in which the Titans were eliminated from the playoffs. One major highlight was the breakout season of running back Derrick Henry, who rushed for 1,059 yards and 12 touchdowns. This would be the first of Henry's three-straight 1,000-yard seasons. In a 30-9 Week 14 Thursday Night win over the Jaguars, Henry would rush for 238 yards (franchise record) and four touchdowns (tied-franchise record) on 17 carries, including an NFL-tying record 99-yard touchdown run.

Coaching changes
In their second full season under head coach Mike Mularkey in 2017, the Titans reached the playoffs for the first time since 2008. The Titans won their first playoff game since 2003 in an 18-point halftime comeback wild card victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, winning 22-21. They were then soundly defeated by the New England Patriots 35-14 in the divisional round. The next day on January 15, 2018, the Titans and Mularkey agreed to part ways, ending his three year tenure as head coach with a record of 20–21. Owner Amy Adams Strunk stated that Mularkey and the front office "saw different paths to achieve greater success," specifically with Mularkey not wanting to change any of his coaching staff. Five days later, the Titans named former Houston Texans defensive coordinator Mike Vrabel as the new head coach. Vrabel became the 19th head coach in franchise history. Two weeks later on January 30, the Titans announce the hiring of new offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur. LaFleur was with the Los Angeles Rams in 2017, and was credited for the development of Jared Goff and a Rams offense that led the league in points on route to an 11-5 record. On the same day, the Titans hired their new defensive coordinator Dean Pees. Pees had retired two weeks earlier with the Baltimore  Ravens, citing his comeback with the Titans due to missing the game. Pees served as the Ravens defensive coordinator since their 2012 Super Bowl run, and his 2017 defense led the league in shutouts and takeaways. The next day, the Titans announced several additions to the coaching staff, including quarterback coach Pat O'Hara, secondary coach Kerry Coombs, outside linebackers coach Shane Bowen, inside linebackers coach Tyrone McKenzie, and wide receivers coach Rob Moore.

Notable acquisitions
On March 15 the Titans signed two notable former New England Patriots players, running back Dion Lewis and cornerback Malcolm Butler. The two reunited with current cornerback Logan Ryan, who also played for the Patriots, in which their last season in New England together was capped off with a Super Bowl comeback win. Lewis was most known for his performance in the 2017 season, and Butler was most know for his game-winning interception in Super Bowl XLIX. The Titans signed their new back-up quarterback on March 26, seven-year veteran Blaine Gabbert, after releasing Matt Cassel earlier in the offseason. On August 4, the Titans signed safety Kenny Vaccaro following Johnathan Cyprien's season-ending ACL tear. On August 28, shortly before their final preseason game, the Titans traded their sixth round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft to the Baltimore Ravens for outside linebacker Kamalei Correa.

Draft

Undrafted free agents

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Staff

Final roster

Team captains
Marcus Mariota (QB)
Delanie Walker (TE)
Jurrell Casey (DE)
Wesley Woodyard (LB)
Daren Bates (ST)
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Preseason

Regular season

Schedule
On January 11, 2018, the NFL announced that the Titans would play the Los Angeles Chargers in one of three London Games at Wembley Stadium in London, England, with the Chargers serving as the home team. It was the Titans' first appearance in the International Series. The game occurred during Week 7 (October 21), and  was televised by CBS in the United States. The exact date, along with the network and kickoff time, were announced in conjunction with the release of the  regular season schedule.

Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

Game summaries

Week 1: at Miami Dolphins

Due to two weather delays, the game lasted for 7 hours and 10 minutes, the longest game since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970.

Week 2: vs. Houston Texans

Week 3: at Jacksonville Jaguars

Week 4: vs. Philadelphia Eagles

Week 5: at Buffalo Bills

Week 6: vs. Baltimore Ravens

Week 7: at Los Angeles Chargers
NFL London Games

Week 9: at Dallas Cowboys

Week 10: vs. New England Patriots

Week 11: at Indianapolis Colts

Week 12: at Houston Texans

Week 13: vs. New York Jets

Week 14: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars

Week 15: at New York Giants

Week 16: vs. Washington Redskins

The Titans were the only AFC South team to defeat all four of their NFC East opponents in 2018.

Week 17: vs. Indianapolis Colts

Standings

Division

Conference

References

External links

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Tennessee Titans seasons
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O Lord, giver of life and source of freedom, we know that all we have received is from your hand. You call us to be stewards of Your abundance, the caretakers of all you have entrusted to us. Help us to always use Your gifts wisely and teach us to share them generously. May our faithful stewardship bear witness to the love of Jesus Christ in our lives. Amen.
..and gives all things to us..
We are thankful for God' generosity in giving us Jesus but also for all the other things that he has given us both as individuals and as a church.
How are All Saints' & St. Luke's funded?
As a Church of England parish, we are responsible for funding our own church ministry and the maintenance of our buildings. The money comes largely from regular monthly giving.
How are these gifts used to grow the church and further God's Kingdom?
These gifts are used to pay our Parish Share (more info here: https://www.oxford.anglican.org/support-services/finance/parish-share/). They also enable us to employ a children and families worker and a youth worker. The rest helps us to fund and resource other aspects of ministry such as conducting services, running a church office, maintenance of the buildings and much more.
The Bible tells us to be like God and live generously in every area of our lives.
God gives us gifts to be used to build up the church; There are many areas of our church life together where you can contribute whether you have a few hours to give occasionally or several hours a week. If you are able to give of your time and gifts, please contact the church office or speak to Richard or one of the wardens.
The Bible also has a lot to say about how we use our money. Why not prayerfully consider whether God is asking you to review what you give to the work of the church.
A gift in your will can be an expression of your gratitude and thanksgiving towards God after your death. Remember, you don't have to be old to add a legacy to your will.


I have built and flown many different Tiny-Whoop-style micro quad's, so far the BeeBrain V2 Tiny Whoop is by far the best experience I have had. Check out this build log and review to find out more.
Many thanks to Newbeedrone (NBD) for sending me the kit for the review. Check out our post about the best Tiny Whoops in the market.
What's special about the BeeBrain V2 Tiny Whoop?
It has VTX Control as well so you can change VTX settings in the OSD!
This is indeed an expensive micro quadcopter, but the quality of the components is top notch and it requires the least amount of DIY compared to some other cheaper Tiny Whoop alternatives.
The FPV setup consists of a "BeeTX" VTX and "BeeEye" FPV camera. They are designed to be stacked on top of the BeeBrain V2 flight controller.
The FC, VTX and camera can be bought as a bundle. You can also buy them separately if you wish. It's very thoughtful of NBD as they provide one extra screws and rubber grommets.
The FPV camera is a 600TVL CMOS with 120° FOV, and it's protected inside a plastic housing with 20 degree up-tilt.
The BeeTX is a 40-channel 25mW video transmitter. You can select band, channel, and output power between 1mW and 25mW in the Betaflight OSD.
I am not sure what the 1mW power is for, it probably acts like PitMode? Or maybe it's for allowing more racers to fly together in a small indoor race without interference. I just use 25mW and I have clean video flying in the house and playground.
The VTX has built-in Betaflight OSD, notice the MAX Chip on the right. And it sits snugly on top of the FC and they are connected by two 6-pin connectors.
The only downside is the lack of physical push button to change channel, you can only do so in the OSD. But actually this could be a good thing, I don't remember how many times the VTX channel is changed accidentally on the other Tiny Whoop I have when it hits a wall.
The BeeBrain V2 FC is an F3 board with 3A FET's integrated (A FET is basically an ESC for brushed motors). It has built-in radio receivers for Frsky or Spketrum users.
One cool thing about the BeeBrain V2 FC is the two RX antennas: there is a piece of wire soldered to the board, that's the default and primary RX antenna for maximum range. But in case it's damaged, you still have a back-up antenna in the form of a copper trace built-in to the PCB. You can select which antenna to use by bridging the antenna solder pads (see manual).
The BeeBrain V2 is really designed to be used with their own VTX, but you can use this FC with other FPV setups if you wish.
The battery connector is a 2-pin JST PH (2mm), which is the same connector used on the Eachine E010.
The motors I received are the BDR "sampler" 0615 brushed motors.
There are 3 different speeds indicated by the colour of the motors. The faster the motors, the less flight time and the harder it is to control.
According to NBD these motors should have 4 to 5 hours life time before you have to replace them. That's about 100 flights. Brushed motors don't just die suddenly, but the performance will degrade over time where you get less flight time and punch.
Be aware that brushed motors are designed to spin at a particular direction, spinning the motor at the wrong direction can result in shortened motor lifespan.
I have the Nitro Nectar HV version (LiHV) which allows the battery to be charged up to 4.35V per cell. I should have gotten the normal LiPo battery because my charger doesn't support LiHV, I can only charge them to 4.2V and I am using 80%-90% of the actual capacity.
Further reading: what is LiHV LiPo battery?
These batteries weighs 6.8g each.
NBD suggest to use the Kingkong 31mm triblade propellers with their motors (on the left), rather than the more common quad-blade (on the right) probably because of the high KV.
On the contrary I found the quad-blade props actually perform a little bit better in terms of power with similar flight time.
It's easier to bind the RX to your TX first before putting everything together.
This Tiny Whoop is super easy to build, it took me about 10 mins to assemble, another 10 mins to setup Betaflight and start flying. No soldering, just plug and play, great for kids and beginners.
It's a lot of fun flying this little beast in the house. It's fast and stable in both acro and angle modes, control is very precise, and it has no problem of doing flips and rolls indoor. I will upload some footage shortly.
NBD also offer this "travel case" – a foam padded cardboard box for storing your batteries and tiny whoop which can be pretty handy for transportation.
Does the newbee drone bind with any receiver and antenna of my fatsharks?
These things finally arrived in Australian retail stores, got myself a beebrain v2 stack and built it with the unicorn motors.
First few flights were fine, but afterwards whenever I power up and then do a yaw or a flip or even sometimes throttling will just shut off the quad. I then need to disarm and then re-arm.
Thinking I had a faulty board, but wanted to see if anyone can help.
I tried again and just manually recalibrated the gyro with the stick commands and it seemed to have done the trick for now… will do some more testing later.
Running the Project mockingbird setup.
Flight times (3:30-4:00 min) it's with 4.20 or 4:35 charged batteries?
I get about 3:20-3:30 with 4.2V, so you should get longer with 4:35.
Im not the best pilot, can you slow stick response on taranis so its easier to control ?
Stick response can be adjusted through changes to your Expo curve either in Taranis or through Betaflight.


Day two was up early in the morning at 8.30am, breakfast at the hotel and off out to the boat for some island hopping! We were going to go rock climbing first, but due to the tide we decided to go and see Thale Waek (Separated Sea) which is joined at low tide and see the rest of the islands after rock climbing.
The weather was pretty grey, but we still had fun on the way across.
It was pretty dramatic – you can see how clear the water is!
The weather got a little better as we reached Thale Waek, the beach was covered in driftwood though.
This is the place where you can actually walk between the islands on a sand bank during low tide.
You can see the string of people all the way across.
After that I had a wonder round the small island and took some pictures.
After the intermission for Rock Climbing (which I'll cover in a separate post tomorrow) we headed back out to the ocean to check out the remaining 3 islands.
The weather still wasn't ideal – but not bad.
The beach was covered in driftwood again but beautiful nevertheless.
This is Chicken Island – you can probably guess how it got it's name.
After that a spot of snorkeling, the water was crammed with Tiger Fish!
Matthew Ong – host for the Breakfast show.
We had dinner at the only Muslim restaurant/hotel in Krabi (Ao Nang Princeville Resort)…then had a wonder around the market.
It's pretty standard stuff, trinkets, jewelry, sandals, clothes, shorts, shirts, hats, sunglasses and so on. Plenty of tailors too of course and DVD's, plus whiskey everywhere! There's not as much shopping as Phuket, but then that's not why you go to Krabi…and still nothing can beat Bangkok for shopping.
Watch out for Rock Climbing – coming tomorrow!
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10 Responses to Krabi Thailand Trip Day 2 – Island Hopping (Thale Waek, Poda, Chicken and Tup Island), Snorkeling & A Thai Massage!
Wow, the place just looks great! Taken with your 10-24mm lens?
What this is?! Where are pics of the chickoos with dickoos?!
I sure missed those massages..!
Bernsy: Yup have taken some pics of it, will get round to posting it soon.
Mama BoK: Yah…really missing it too, 20RM an hour and it's REALLY good.


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By: Hanif Ghaffari
Trump hopes to conquer the White House again
TEHRAN, Aug. 01 (MNA) – In recent days, many articles on the 2010 presidential election in the United States are published. Some analysts believe that Trump will have a difficult path in pursuit of his rival candidate, while others believe he will eventually be elected as President of the United States. However, analysts and US citizens seek to assess and measure the outcome of the presidential election, while there are still two years left until the presidential elections in the United States!
It should not be forgotten that, in the 2016 presidential election, Trump didn't really succeed in defeating his rival Hillary Clinton, and she has won the popular vote by more than 2.86 million ballots. However, Trump moved to the White House based on the Electoral College (which is an example of an objective violation of democracy in the United States). Trump has now received news on his declining popularity with American citizens in important and determining states. Under such conditions, most American analysts don't predict a good, stable political future for their controversial president!
What is certain is that Trump will not have an easy path to win the upcoming presidential election. Public opposition to the policies of Donald Trump, the controversial president of the United States, is still on the rise. Polls conducted in the United States indicate that many of the American citizens who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential elections, are now regretting their choice.
In any case, Trump's controversial policies and actions such as his withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran and moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem have imposed hefty costs on US domestic and foreign policy. This same issue has led to more anger and dissatisfaction with Trump in the United States.
As Vox reported, The 2018 midterm elections are just getting rolling, but 2020 is on the horizon — and a new poll might give President Donald Trump something to sweat about. According to a Politico/Morning Consult survey released on Wednesday, just 36 percent of voters say they would vote for Trump over a generic Democratic candidate in the next presidential election, while 44 percent would pick the Democrat. One-fifth of voters still aren't sure. While presidents typically don't face a tough road to get their party's nomination, six in 10 voters, including 38 percent of Republicans, say they'd like to see Trump get a Republican challenger in 2020. But it's not clear whom they'd like to see take on the former reality television star. (And it looks like it is not going to be Vice President Mike Pence.)
If it comes down to Trump and Pence, more Americans would prefer Trump keep the job of president over Pence. Thirty-four percent of respondents said they would have Trump, and 23 percent said they prefer Pence. (Forty-three percent said they didn't know or were unsure.)
As Politico notes, just because Trump isn't particularly popular among voters doesn't mean he couldn't win. That's what happened in 2016, when 38 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of him in exit polls and 61 percent said he wasn't qualified to be president. Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by about 3 million votes, but he did win the Electoral College.
Of course, there were some specific circumstances in 2016 that are unlikely to be repeated in 2020 — both Trump and Clinton were historically unpopular candidates, and there was a surge in third-party voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. And, of course, there was the now-infamous letter from then-FBI Director James Comey announcing that the Clinton email investigation would be reopened days before the election.
But Trump does better than a generic Republican against a Democrat in a theoretical 2020 matchup, according to Wednesday's poll. Twenty-seven percent of voters say they would support a Republican candidate who isn't Trump over a Democrat, while 40 percent say they would rather have the Democrat. One-third of voters aren't sure.
Trump has been ramping up 2020 campaign efforts essentially since day one — he filed paperwork for his reelection the same day he was inaugurated. He has kept up fundraising, ending 2017 with $22 million in cash, and he has had multiple campaign rallies across the country.
Finally, many analysts believe the Democrats' performance (if they win the congressional elections) will remain decisive over the remaining two years before the end of the Trump presidency, as a result of the presidential elections of 2020. However, if the Democrats fail in Congressional midrange elections and Republicans win the congressional majority again, Democrats will have little chance of winning the upcoming US presidential election.
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Coach Ron Wilson returns to Sharks with vote of confidence from GM
Ron Wilson and assistants Tim Hunter and Rob Zettler will get another chance to coax post-season success out of the Sharks despite a second-round playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings last month. The post-season exit - culminating with three straight losses - infuriated Doug Wilson, apparently prompting the GM to consider major changes to his winning club.
"This coaching staff will be back, and I'll look forward to the work we're going to do," Doug Wilson said.
Ron Wilson has won 138 regular-season games and four playoff series over the last three seasons with San Jose, but hasn't led the Sharks to the Stanley Cup finals despite a loaded roster led by Joe Thornton, last year's MVP and the NHL's second-leading scorer this season.
Doug Wilson signed his coaching staff to an undisclosed contract extension last season during a 10-game losing streak. The Sharks acquired Thornton shortly afterward and embarked on an outstanding three-month run that ended in the second round of the playoffs.
The Sharks then set franchise records with 51 victories and 107 points this season, but lost another second-round series despite Doug Wilson's late-season additions of forward Bill Guerin and defenceman Craig Rivet.
Doug Wilson said he needed two weeks just to cool down and gain perspective on the season after it ended. He then had a lengthy period of evaluation for every Sharks employee - including Ron Wilson, who went through a series of tough meetings with Doug Wilson over the last two weeks.
"Ron and the staff, they're our coaches, and they will be our coaches going forward," Doug Wilson said. "There's some things that the players want to work on, and the coaches want to help address. We're looking forward to the challenge ahead of us. In some ways, it's similar to the challenge Ottawa faced last year, and hopefully we can respond to it in the same way they did."
But Doug Wilson wants to see more discipline and a businesslike attitude from the Sharks, particularly on the practice rink, saying the Sharks were "not being accountable enough" late in the season.
Ron Wilson publicly challenged captain Patrick Marleau's leadership and sub-par play during the Sharks' loss to Detroit, but his biting words didn't help. Marleau is a favourite of Doug Wilson, and the GM still believes the coach and his captain can work together.
"When you're winning, everything is great," Wilson said. "When you're not, or you're not playing, I don't expect everybody to be happy. We challenge each other, and we've got to be honest. If there's no communication, that's the biggest issue."
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Q: Error when modifying vector member of another class I have two classes and one has to change the value of a vector of the other class.
This is the first one, where the vector X to be changed resides:
Grid.hpp
class Grid{
  public:
    vector<double> X;
}

The other class has a reference to the first class and has a function that should modify X:
BC.hpp
class BC{

  public:

  Grid &grid;
  BC(Grid grid);
  ~BC(){};
  void add_to_X(int n_values);
}

BC.cpp
BC::BC(Grid grid): grid(grid){}

void BC::add_to_X(int n_values){
  vector<double> new_X;
  for(int i=0; i<n_values; i++){
    new_X.push_back(0.1);
  }
  grid.X = new_X;

main.cpp
int main(){
// grid and bc classes initialized above
bc.add_to_X(10);
}

When I run the main.cpp above I get the error malloc: *** error for object 0x7fb6294027b0: pointer being freed was not allocated.
I also tried another solution. I wrote a function into the class grid which assigns the new vector to the X vector from within the class grid itself, but still I have the same error.
If I comment out the row grid.X = new_X; the error disappear.
What is wrong with the code above? What is the right way of coding?

A: The problem is this line:
BC::BC(Grid grid): grid(grid){}

What this does is, it copies the argument that you pass to the constructor into a temporary grid. You then assign your member variable, a reference, to point to this temporary. However, as soon as the constructor exits, that temporary gets destroyed again, so your reference is left dangling.
So you either have to make it references all the way down:
BC::BC(Grid& grid): grid(grid){}

and then ensure that the caller keeps the respective Grid object alive, or have the BC store a copy of the Grid instead of just a reference.
As was suggested in the comments, you should use this opportunity to improve your debugging skills. Your dangling reference will be pointing to an invalid object when the crash happens. Dangling references are hard to detect automatically, so it's useful to know what such problems look like in the debugger. See if you can track down what's going wrong by analyzing the problem in the debugger before fixing it.

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Q: Android app fail to start after adding admob I'm trying to implement admob in my app, but the app failed to start after I added it.
This is the activity code:
http://code.google.com/p/zhuang-dict/source/browse/trunk/ZhuangDict/src/cn/wangdazhuang/zdict/ZhuangDictActivity.java
The main.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:ads= "http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    >
        <ImageButton
            android:id="@+id/ts"
            android:contentDescription="@string/tts_contentDescription"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:src="@android:drawable/ic_btn_speak_now"
        />
        <ImageButton
            android:id="@+id/search"
            android:contentDescription="@string/search_contentDescription"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/ts"
            android:src="@android:drawable/ic_search_category_default"
        />
        <AutoCompleteTextView
            android:id="@+id/edit"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/search"
            android:hint="@string/edit_hint"
        />
    </RelativeLayout>
    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/result"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    />
    <com.google.ads.AdView android:id="@+id/adView"
                     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                     ads:adUnitId="myId"
                     ads:adSize="BANNER"
                     ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
     />
</LinearLayout>

A: Have You added this to Your Manifest?
    <activity android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity"
          android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"/>

Like shown in the tutorial by google:
    <com.google.ads.AdView android:id="@+id/adView"
                     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                     ads:adUnitId="MY_AD_UNIT_ID"
                     ads:adSize="BANNER"
                     ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID"
                     ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"/>

The adUnitId has to be the Id for Your app, did You set this ID or did You really set "myid" like in your code shown above?
EDIT
Here is some additional information, All seems to be that the AdMob Lib is not bundled to Your project. This could cause of many different reasons. Read the steps and get sure, You have really done this, if not, do it:
Update Eclipse and Android SDK:

*

*open Eclipse as Administrator

*go to Help-->Check for updates and run the updates

*set everything checked thats shown in the next window. It is not necessary but it would not be amiss to update all

*accept the terms and licensees and press finish...the updates will start and needs some time

*restart Eclipse as Admin if updates finished. It is possible that You get an error message that not all updates could be done...go forward

Update Android SDK:

*

*in Eclipse goto Window-->Android SDK Manager

*at the Column "Status" You see if a update is available or not. Select all updates...

*if finished, restart Eclipse again

Work With Admob - put jar file and set path:

*

*download AdMob SDK from Google site(could be a different link depends on country)
https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/download?hl=de

*unzip the file into a directory (no matter where)

*create a "libs" folder inside your project in Eclispe.
BE SURE THAT THE FOLDER IS NAMED "libs" AND NOT "lib". THIS MISTAKE IS OFTEN DONE

*copy the jar file from admob folder into Your project into the libs folder

*click right mouse button on jar file inside lib folder and choose Build Path-->add to build path

*To get sure everything is really done, click right mouse button on Your project and choose properties

*select Java-Build-Path and go to Libraries Tab

*select add external jar and select this jar from your admob folder

*select ok

get started

*

*put this into your Manifest.xml
<activity android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity"
   android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"/>
 </application>

Your Manifest.xml should look similar to this:
       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
         <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          package="com.company"
          android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0">
       <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"
           android:debuggable="true">
       <activity android:label="@string/app_name" android:name="BannerExample">
           <intent-filter>
           <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
             </intent-filter>
       </activity>
      <activity android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity"
             android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"/>
        </application>
        </manifest>

NOTE: Put this line above under Your activity, not inside

*

*set permissions inside the manifest.xml
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>

*create the xml layout for example like shown in the tutorial
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
      android:orientation="vertical"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <com.google.ads.AdView android:id="@+id/adView"
                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                 ads:adUnitId="MY_AD_UNIT_ID"
                 ads:adSize="BANNER"
                 ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID"
                 ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"/>
   </LinearLayout>

*Additionally, if the steps above did not work, You could do this inside Your Activity where You want to show the admob. Refer to Your admob xml id in onCreate() of Your Activity:
    public class AdMobActivity extends Activity {

   private AdView adView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.main);

        // Create the adView
   adView = new AdView(this, AdSize.BANNER, MY_AD_UNIT_ID);

       // Lookup your LinearLayout assuming it's been given
      // the attribute android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
    LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.mainLayout);

       // Add the adView to it
     layout.addView(adView);

       // Initiate a generic request to load it with an ad
    adView.loadAd(new AdRequest());

     }

In my App, I have done both, usually it is only necessary to do it in XML or Code, but with both it works fine too.

A: Make sure you are initializing AdMob, otherwise you will get this error:
Fail to get isAdIdFakeForDebugLogging
MobileAds.initialize(this, AD_MOB_ID);

A: Try these steps:

*

*Create a libs folder in your project.

*Add the Google AdMobs jar file to the libs folder.

*Import the AdMob library from the libs folder.

*Confirm that the new method of adding the libray works by: Right Click Project -> Build Path -> Configure build Path -> switch to the Libraries Tab and confirm the Google AdMobs library is present in the list.

I had this problem after upgrading to the 15th or he 16th version of the ADT. I do not remember which.
Don't forget to remove the earlier reference to the library before doing the above.

A: If you have added Google AdView from the palette and app stopped working.
Go to "Gradle Scripts" folder in Android Studio
Find the build.gradle(Module: app)
Remove this line from the file end

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:18.1.1'

Save the file and Build the Project again. Everything will work fine again
dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.1'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:18.1.1'
}