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Q: How to multiply N amount of floats using recursion? I'm practicing recursive problems for upcoming exams and have gotten stuck on this problem.
The program is supposed to take N amount of floats and multiply them together, all using recursion.
Example:
The user inputs 2, then the program will take 2 floats from the user, say for example 2.0 and 3.0. Then the result is 6.0.
My attempted solution is the code below. The core problem that I have is that I don't know how I'm supposed to multiply the floats together in a way that works.
Right now all my program does is that it takes N amount of floats and then just prints the last one without multiplying them all together. I do feel like the solution is simple but I really cannot find it. Would love some help on this one, thanks in advance.
    with Ada.Text_IO;         use Ada.Text_IO;
    with Ada.Integer_Text_IO; use Ada.Integer_Text_IO;
    with Ada.Float_Text_IO;   use Ada.Float_Text_IO;

    procedure Recprac3 is
       ----------------------------------
       procedure Calc(N : in Integer;
                    F : out Float) is
          Prod : Float;
       begin
          if N = 0 then
             Put("The product is: ");
             Put(Prod, 2, 2, 0);       -- 2, 2, 0 is formatting
          else
             Get(F);
             F := Prod;                -- <------- Problem area
             Prod := Prod * F;
             Calc((N-1), F);
          end if;
       end Calc;
       ----------------------------------
    N : Integer;
    F : Float;

    begin
       Put("Get an integer: ");
       Get(N);
       Put("Get ");
       Put(N, Width => 0);
       Put(" floats: ");
       Calc(N, F);
    end Recprac3;

A: Ok, so let's break things down from the requirements, "The program is supposed to take N amount of floats and multiply them together, all using recursion.":

*

*Get an integer, N, from the user.

*Get N number of floats, from the user.

*Multiply the N floats, using recursion.

*[Implied] Display the result of the previous requirement.

Well, an obvious way to hold some number of items is the Array construct; now, Ada has two forms of this: the constrained and unconstrained, where the former has some definite length. Given that we are getting N from the user we cannot use the definite form.
So, we use something like: Type Vector is (Integer range <>) of Integer;.
Ada also gives some interesting attributes: Length, First, Last, Pred, Succ, and so on. There is also the notion of a "null range", which applied to an Array would indicate a length of zero; this gives us a good base case.
-- There IS a bug here, you have to find it.
Function Multiply( Input : Vector ) return Float is
   Subtype Internal is Integer
      range Integer'Succ(Input'First)..Integer'Pred(Input'Last);
Begin
   Return (if Input'Length not in Positive then 1.0
           else Input(Input'First) * Input(Input'Last) * Multiply(Input(Internal))
          );
End;

Next, there's the problem of getting input, validating it, and using it; assuming there are functions of the form Function Input return Integer, and the same for Float, we could handle #1 and #2 in a single function:
Function Input return Float is
Begin
    Loop
        Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line( "Input a value:" );
        declare
            Text : String renames Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line;
        begin
            return Float'Value( Text );
        -- SOMETHING GOES HERE.
        end;
    end loop;
end Input;

Function Results return Vector is
Begin
   Return Result : Vector(1..Input):= (others => Input);
End;

That should be enough for you to complete your mission.
Note: Constructs herein will have to be adapted for your use.

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Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, 'Who do people say that the Son of Man is?' And they said, 'Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.' He said to them, 'But who do you say that I am?' Simon Peter answered, 'You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.' And Jesus answered him, 'Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.' Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah. Matthew 16:13-20.
When the Keys of the Kingdom were given to Simon Peter, the other disciples understood that Jesus was restoring Israel, that he was the Messiah and therefore, the King with authority to name a Steward for the royal house. Investing Peter with such authority did not mean that Peter was free to do as he pleased. On the contrary, by accepting his post as Vizier, Peter was surrendering part of his freedom. Tying and untying in the name of the king meant that he had to know and follow the king's rules. The first instruction following his ordination was: "Do not tell anyone that I am the Messiah." That simple command was followed by something nearly impossible to understand: the Messiah had to suffer and die at the hands of his enemies. That was too much for Peter's mind to process.
From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, 'God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you.' But he turned and said to Peter, 'Get behind me, Satan! [also: follow me resister] You are a stumbling-block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.' Matthew 16:21-23.
Only a few hours earlier Jesus had warned them about the "leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees" that is, the hidden political agenda the religious parties of that age. Now Peter was falling for it. The Romans had forced the Jews to break their tradition and now there were two High Priests in the Temple. The religious leaders had divided also between what we would call today purists and progressives. Among them, on both sides, there were zealots who thought the Messiah would manifest himself once they started a liberation war against the Romans. Apparently, Peter had some room in his heart for those ideas. Most followers of Jesus thought he was going to lead an armed rebellion — even Jesus' enemies thought that way! When Jesus began to speak about suffering and dying, poor Peter thought that was defeatist talk. At this point, Peter reacts impulsively and speaks his mind but this time his words were not inspired by the Father. The instantaneous reaction of Jesus caught Peter by surprise. In his first official act as chief counsel of the royal house, Peter inadvertently tried to tell the king what to do … Peter made his first big mistake. He was there to follow the king and for a moment he pretended that the king would follow him.
Then Jesus told his disciples, 'If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life? Matthew 16:24-26.
The ways of the Kingdom of God require that we follow the King no matter where he goes (see Revelation 14:4) and our King's battle is fought on two fronts: a heavenly and spiritual front, and also an earthly front. It will take the disciples a while to figure that out. We have to see the battle with the eyes of faith. Where the pagans see the foolishness of Christ crucified, we see Christ winning a secret battle invisible to the eyes of the world but perfectly visible for those who know. In time the earthly battle will come to an end and then the wisdom of the Cross will be revealed. Until that day we must follow the King and carry our cross.
'For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done. Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.' Matthew 16:27-28.


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Harry Clement Stubbs (), mai bine cunoscut sub pseudonimul Hal Clement, a fost un scriitor american de science fiction. A fost unul dintre marii scriitori ai subgenului hard science fiction.   A pictat teme astronomice sub  pseudonimul George Richard.

Cărți
Needle (1950), ISBN 0-380-00635-9 (Primul roman din Needle Series. A mai fost publicat ca From Outer Space)
Iceworld (1953), ISBN 0-345-25805-3
Mission of Gravity (1954), ISBN 0-345-31622-3 (prima carte din Mesklin Series).
The Ranger Boys in Space (1956) (pentru copii)
Cycle of Fire (1957), ISBN 0-345-24368-4
Close to Critical (1958), ISBN 0-345-24508-3 (part e a Mesklin Series. Apărută în revistă în 1958, ca o carte în 1964)
Natives of Space (1965), ISBN 0345219503 (trei novelete)
Small Changes (1969), ISBN 0709110006 (colecție de 9 povestiri)
Space Lash (1969), ISBN (retipărite paperback a Small Changes)
First Flights to the Moon (1970), ASIN B000BCHC4Y (antologie de povestiri scrise de alti autori, editată de Hal Clement)
Star Light (1971), ISBN 0-345-02361-7 (parte a Mesklin Series, sequel al Mission of Gravity. Contine unele personaje care apar și în Close to Critical)
Ocean on Top (1973), ISBN 1-4510-1057-5 (tipărită în revistă în 1967)
Left of Africa (1976), ISBN 0936414014 (roman istoric pentru adolescenți, aparent publicat doar în 750 de copii)
Through the Eye of a Needle (1978), ISBN 0-345-25850-9 (al doilea și ultimul roman din Needle Series)
The Best of Hal Clement (1979), ISBN 0345276892 (colectie de 10 povestiri, inclusiv toate dinNatives of Space și două din Small Changes: Uncommon Sense și  Dust Rag)
The Nitrogen Fix (1980), ISBN 0-441-58116-1
Intuit  (1987), ISBN 0-915368-35-8 (colectie completă a 4 povestiri Laird Cunningham's, editie limitată la 820 de copii)
Still River (1987), ISBN 0-345-32916-3
Fossil (1993), ISBN 0-88677-573-6 (are loc în universul fictiv Isaac Asimov )
Half Life (1999), ISBN 0-312-86920-7 (umanitatea e pe punctul de a dispărea din cauza unui dezastru, cercetătorii pleacă pe  Titan după indicii biochimice care să facă posibilă descoperirea unui leac)
The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 1: Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter  (1999), ISBN 1-886778-06-X (colecție de 3 romane Needle, Iceworld și Close to Critical)
The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 2: Music of Many Spheres  (2000), ISBN 1-886778-07-8 (colecție de  17 povestiri, inclusiv din Small Changes și din The Best of Hal Clement)
The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton  (2000), ISBN 1-886778-08-6 (colecție cu toate povestirile Mesklin excepție Close to Critical: Mission of Gravity, Star Light, Lecture Demonstration și Under; plus articolul despre cum se scrie SF Whirligig World)
Heavy Planet (2002), ISBN 0-7653-0368-X (retipărire a The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 3)
Noise (2003), ISBN 0-7653-0857-6 (cu acțiunea pe o planetă ocean)
Men of the Morning Star/Planet for Plunder (2011), ISBN 978-1-61287-018-2 (două nuvele, prima de Edmond Hamilton, a doua de Hal Clement și  Sam Merwin Jr.)
The Moon is Hell!/The Green World (2012), ISBN 978-1-61287-087-8 (două nuvele, prima de John W. Campbell Jr. a doua de Hal Clement)
The Time Trap/The Lunar Lichen (2013), ISBN 978-1-61287-142-4 (două nuvele, prima de Henry Kuttner a doua de Hal Clement)
Hal Clement SF Gateway Omnibus (2014), ISBN 978-0575110151 (colectie formata din nuvelele Iceworld, Cycle of Fire și  Close to Critical)

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EDITORIAL USE ONLY People hold a giant version of a new human rights flag designed by artist and activist Ai Weiwei to launch a week of activity for Fly The Flag, a project commissioned by a wide-ranging group of arts organisations and human rights charities to mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Somerset House in London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday June 24, 2019. Sir Michael Morpurgo has warned that Britons risk losing their human rights if they continue to take them for granted. The 75-year-old author said many had forgotten how flouting European people's basic freedoms had directly led to the "barbarity" of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Sir Michael, a former Children's Laureate, spoke during an event to launch Fly The Flag week at London's Somerset House. See PA story SHOWBIZ Morpurgo. Photo credit should read: David Parry/PA Wire
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Patent Hints at Amazon Self-Driving Delivery Truck Plans
This patented tech could have a big impact on the delivery business and how traffic moves in and out of cities.
By Doug Newcomb
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While tech titans such as Google, Uber, and Apple along with almost every auto maker on the planet have poured resources into the development of autonomous vehicle technology, online retail giant Amazon has been relatively quiet on that front. But a recently approved patent(Opens in a new window) shows the Seattle-based company could be ready to make a big move in the autonomous vehicle space.
The patent doesn't suggest that Amazon plans to sell self-driving cars through Prime. (Imagine having a new car delivered to your door autonomously.) Nor will it enter the ride-sharing market to compete against Uber, or produce technology that goes into self-driving cars, like Google's latest autonomous vehicle pivot.
Instead the patent, titled "Lane Assignments for Autonomous Vehicles," reveals a bigger-picture play that fits with Amazon's business strategy to deliver goods more efficiently. In particular, it provides a way to communicate with self-driving vehicles so they can adjust to changes in traffic flow when navigating what's known as reversible lanes that switch direction depending on the volume of the traffic flow and are often used to manage vehicle travel in and out of urban areas.
The patent, which was originally filed in November 2015 but granted earlier this week, notes that autonomous vehicles "may not have information about reversible lanes when approaching a portion of a roadway" that uses them. And it provides a glimpse of why Amazon would want to control traffic patterns as they relate to self-driving cars.
Anticipating Reversible Lanes
There's the obvious safety benefit of having self-driving cars—or in Amazon's case, autonomous delivery trucks and vans—not driving the wrong way in traffic and causing a head-on collision. But not being able to anticipate reversible lanes also means delivery trucks can't optimize their routes in advance, which means they'll spend more time in traffic, something Amazon wants to avoid.
The patent doesn't reveal much about Amazon's own plans to develop self-driving vehicles. But it's not a stretch to imagine that autonomous vehicles could be an essential part of the Amazon Logistics(Opens in a new window) division, which it launched in 2012 to take more direct control of its delivery network. And self-driving delivery trucks and vans would be a natural extension to Amazon's purchase of robotics firm Kiva Systems in 2012(Opens in a new window), which helped it automate its distribution centers.
Driverless Cars: When the Internet Takes the Wheel
Another interesting twist is that the division of Amazon leading its autonomous-vehicle research is its drone project, Prime Air(Opens in a new window). And one of the inventors listed on the patent, Jim Curlander(Opens in a new window), is a technical adviser at Prime Air.
It's easy to put the pieces together based on the recent Amazon patent and see it as a way for self-driving trucks to move goods more efficiently to consumers—and eventually eliminate delivery drivers. But I believe there's something larger at play here. When Amazon has entered markets such as streaming content or cloud services, the online retail giant has made a significant impact. With this patent, Amazon is not only extending its influence to self-driving technology and to the delivery business, but how traffic moves in and out of cities—and to the control of self-driving cars.
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Today is the 86th anniversary of the martyrdom of three great revolutionaries of India: Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev. Their crime? Their attempt to overthrow the British rule in India. The colonial rulers, like elsewhere, thought that with their death, their ideas and dreams of a democratic-secular and egalitarian independent India would also die. But they were wrong. These revolutionaries, and their ideals, continued to be an integral part of our collective memory.
However, on the 86th anniversary of their martyrdom, we should not overlook one fact. Though it was the British who hanged them, organisations like the Hindu Mahasabha, the Rashtriya Swayamsevan Sangh (RSS) and the Muslim League in pre-independence India not only remained alien to the ideals of these revolutionaries but also remained silent over their hanging.
Shockingly, the RSS, which had consciously kept its distance from the anti-colonial struggle, now claims to be the sole repository of Indian nationalism and patriotism has lately been making efforts to own Bhagat Singh as its hero.
RSS displays his photos in its public meetings but also twists facts . For instance, when Valentine's Day is celebrated in India on February 14, it comes out every year with sensational messages on social media. They demand that this day be mourned as a black day, since, according to their fictitious world, it was on this day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev were hanged. (They were hanged today, on March 23, 1931)This not only shows a complete disregard for facts but also a kind of farcical love for revolutionaries.
While studying in college, (we) youth were generally attracted towards the ideals of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh. Emulating Bhagat Singh we should do some or other act of bravery: this came to our mind often. We were less attracted towards Sangh (RSS) since current politics, revolution etc. that attracted the hearts of youth, were generally less discussed in the Sangh. When Bhagat Singh and his companions were awarded death sentence our hearts were so excited that some friends together vowed to do something directly and planned something terrible; and, in order to make it succeed we decided to run away from our homes. But to run away without informing our Doctorji (Hedgewar) would not have been proper. Considering this, we decided to inform Doctorji about our decision. I was assigned the job to inform Doctorji by a group of my friends.
Moreover, there is ample proof available in the documents of the RSS that establish the reality that the RSS denounced movements led by revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekar Azad, and their associates.
What Golwalkar thought of the people sacrificing their lot for the country is obvious from the following statement as well.
Perhaps this was the reason that RSS produced no pre-emiinent freedom fighter against the colonial rule. Unfortunately, there is not a single line challenging, exposing, criticising or confronting the inhuman rule of the British masters in the entire literature of the RSS from 1925 to 1947.
It seems it had only one task to accomplish: fracturing the united freedom struggle of the people of India.
1. Rakesh Sinha, Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, Publications Division, Ministry Of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Delhi, 2003. p. 160.
2. H. V. Pingle (ed.), Smritikan-Param Pujiye Dr. Hedgewar Ke Jeewan Kee Vibhin Gahtnaon Ka Sankalan, (In Hindi a collection of memoirs of persons close to Hedgewar), RSS Prakashan Vibhag, Nagpur, 1962, pp. 47-48.
3. M. S. Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 283.
5. C. P. Bhishikar, Sangh-Viraksh ke Beej: Dr. Keshavvrao Hedgewar, Suruch Prakashan, Delhi, 1994. p. 21.
6. M. S. Golwalkar, Shri Guruji Samagr Darshan, (Collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi) Vol. 1, Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, 1981, p. 121.
8. This evil appropriation of India's freedom struggle icons by the RSS has another dimension which we should not overlook. Mahatma Gandhi, Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev whom RSS wants to appropriate lived and died for a democratic-secular India which RSS abhors and decried all attempts to establish Hindu state in India unequivocally.
A slightly different version of this essay was first published in the National Herald. Reproduced here with the permission of the author.


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Production Design was an integral and critical component of the pre-production process.
The "medical device wall" in Jack's apartment was an aspect of production design conceived during the writing of the script. It began with the idea of a gumball machine that dispensed medication and it evolved from there.
Jack's daily medication is stylishly and conveniently dispensed on the wall next to his blood pressure monitor
"I wanted to make a visually appealing space that conveyed the Muffin Man's adaptive nature," explained Eisner, "but which also depicted the inescapable medical problems associated with obesity."
Eisner had originally envisioned a much wider array of medical devices filling the room ... including fitting Jack with "CPAP" - a device used to treat sleep apnea (a condition commonly associated with obesity in which the extra fatty tissue around the neck of obese people results in periodic cessation of breathing).
"It may not seem like it," said Eisner, "but in this regard, I really managed to keep myself in check."
In the early stages of pre-production, the production company had somewhat naive hopes of landing a food sponsorship. However, after calling about a dozen companies, they realized they were always stopped dead in their tracks with one simple question: "Will the film portray the product in a positive light?"
"We didn't want to be sued for defamation ... or be held liable for infringing on anyone's copyright," said Executive Producer, David Workman.
"Can microwave pork rinds be portrayed in a positive light?" mused Eisner.
The production decided to go with completely fictitious brand labels for everything (except the Blue Dog Bakery Low Fat Dog Food and Philips Heart Start Home Defibrillator). Culpepper created and fabricated over 30 of these labels for the film
Since the Muffin Men were theorized to have spent most of their time sitting at home, the designers wanted the living space to reflect the imagined food-centric view of the species.
Michael Culpepper and Jessica Eisner came up with the concept of a fast-food apartment, "Like he's living in a mini-mart," explained Culpepper. An industrial style soda pop dispenser and refrigerator, and food warming lamps were gleaned from a Seattle restaurant supply store. The floor lamp is a modified order-wheel full of take-out menus and a winning bid on eBay led to the addition of a hot-dog rotisserie.
Jack rests on his hamburger couch after finishing a delicious meal
The focal point, as in most American living rooms, is the couch. Originally conceived as a giant peanut butter and jelly sandwich by Eisner, Culpepper's vision of a mound of ground beef eventually won out. Meat - especially raw meat - became a design theme.
"Half of the crew didn't even realize the pattern on the couch was ground beef until we pointed it out," recalled David Workman, the Executive Producer. "It was blatant and subtle at the same time."
The set incorporated meat everywhere; in addition to the couch there was a transparent clock stuffed with meat, a hamburger painting, a hamburger lamp, a beef cuts poster, hamburger pillows, a "chili moat", hamburger candles, and, of course, the hot dog rotisserie.
The dripping meat clock was disgusting,' recalls Angel (Pumpkin). "It definitely had serial killer origins."
"We even had a parking meter with stand that had been modified and filled with ground beef!" laughed Eisner "It was one of the incongruous touches we added to make the 're-creation' of the era seem more real - by being flawed."
Cheese was a prominent food and the source of inspiration for the "cheese chair" and parmiaganno round side tables.
Eisner and Culpepper collaborated on all aspects of production design from concept to shopping for the meat - and muffins.
Snack-cake sushi or "snushi" is one of Eisner's unique creations for the film
"There are a lot of odd details to discover in this film. Everywhere you look you can find something unique to the era of the Muffin Men," concluded Eisner. "Designing their world was a lot of fun."
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Atticus and I have been walking the streets of our neighborhood, counting political signs and dogs and (of course) trucks. He cranes his head to look for airplanes from the comfort of his stroller. We talk about his day. We watch the leaves fall.
Mike made a playlist that features songs we think Atticus can easily grab onto. "Help" and "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles, "Rainbow Connection" by Kermit. But lately he has listened to quite a bit of Mumford & Sons. His favorite is "I Will Wait," and his little voice echoes the chorus, "I will wait, I will wait for you." The best response is when "Hopeless Wanderer" plays. His whole body moves to the music when the banjos kick in.
I see in Atticus a certain restlessness that I recognize. From the outside, it may not look it – married 12 years, been at the same church 9 years, worked as a librarian for the same amount of time – but I have a restless heart. Is this part of what it means to live in this world? Or is it part of the already/not yet that is being a follower of Jesus?
I sing to him that I am a hopeless wanderer, and I am afraid of teaching him to be the same. But maybe he already knows it without learning it from me.
Is it so bad to open your heart to new experiences, to see the world as a gift to be opened? Can I teach him restlessness without faithlessness? We walk and sing together, and I think about what it means to wander.
I love this picture! Where is that?
There is something wonderful about wandering and wondering – something that is probably necessary to opening our hearts to those new experiences and the things God will teach us through them. And no doubt necessary to seeing the world as "a gift to be opened" – I really like that phrase. It is so important that you teach / let Atticus wander and wonder rather than over-protect him from his own questions and doubts. Perhaps being restless is being faithful, not faithless – wanting to know more and more of God – including this intriguing world he has given us – not being satisfied with just bits of the story. It is such a gift to have the opportunity to get new glimpses of life, the world, God himself, through a child's eyes.
I took that picture at a wedding over the summer. The reception was at a farm with horses.
Teach him to have purpose in his wandering; to have an anchor he can put down when need be; to have a place he can come back to for encouragement and refreshment.
I have a bit of a restless heart too. I can really relate to this.


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Poet Dominic Hoey reflects on life and its funny games in I Thought We'd Be Famous, his third poetry collection. Photo / Jason Oxenham
By: Dionne Christian
Remember those years, probably in your teens, when you thought anything was possible? The halcyon days when, despite the fact you didn't have much money and worked in a minimum wage job, you were certain you'd make a great and lasting contribution to the world that might earn you fame and fortune? Because, they say, fortune favours the brave?
Dominic Hoey remembers them well, so well that's he named his latest poetry collection – his third – I Thought We'd Be Famous, packing it full of raw, yet tender, poems. They survey a life spent chasing dreams, perhaps not quite achieving them but keeping on keeping on and, eventually, settling into his own – heavily tattooed – skin. It's shown in poems like the brief but thoughtful I Can't Light A Fire But I Can Write You A F***ing Cool Poem About Lighting A Fire:
the poets went to the beach
they had to catch a bus because none of them could drive
it was cold but they didn't know how to light a fire
so they sat by the water in silence shivering until the bus came to take them home
the next day they wrote the most beautiful poetry about the beach.
"The funny thing about that is I can now light a really good fire," says Hoey, 42. "I was living in a flat that was so cold and no one else could light a fire, so I thought, 'I'm going to learn to do it.' If I hadn't, we were going to freeze. I just take the everyday experiences and try to find a way to make them beautiful or funny or whatever the tone I want."
Not so long ago, Hoey was known as the rapper Tourettes, who released five critically acclaimed albums. Before that, he was an MC battle and slam poetry champion, travelling and performing all over the world. Glamorous as it sounds, he spent much time working in kitchens to save enough to fund his music and poetry and travel.
The kitchens were often cramped, the flats – as he says – frequently cold. There are poems about that in I Thought We'd Be Famous; one, about landlords, has the bitter-edged but wryly observed lines:
dear landlord
when are you sending someone round
to fumigate the feeling of desperation?
It's got into the cracks in the floors
And the rats in the walls
Are planning something
When he ran out of money, it was back to work in hospitality. There's a whole section called A Low Rent Magic where Hoey writes of performing, unemployment and losing jobs – "I lost my job recently looked for it down the back of the couch but couldn't find it anywhere" – but persevering even when all seems lost. Because that, he believes, is one of the most important things of all.
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"The title of the collection – it's not so much about being nostalgic," he says, over a beer in a Mexican restaurant in Mt Albert, "because I think that's about a longing for the past. This is more of a reflection about growing up with not a lot and being surrounded by creative people who were also poor. Because of that and the barriers that exist, so many people I knew didn't do what they could have done and that's a loss not just to themselves but to the arts community of New Zealand. There are a lot of talented people out there but they're working in factories and kitchens and not doing what they're best at.
"How did I do it? I just kept going – keeping on is so important – but I also had a lot of luck. When I was writing my novel [2017's Iceland], I had a flatmate who could get me a cheap flight to Iceland. All along there's been stuff like that but also what I've been doing most of my life is now more in vogue."
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He says he doesn't rap anymore because he's old and that would look foolish. Instead, Hoey concentrates on writing and publishing. He and friend Samuel Walsh started their own publishing company, Dead Bird Books, to ensure writing for a wider range of people can be seen and heard - and youth work.
Hoey, who struggled at school because of dyslexia and dyspraxia, says his parents were big readers who read to him. His own desire to take on the world through words developed early. He wrote his first poem when he was 12 and says poetry has been the most consistent thing in his life ever since.
As he got older, he drifted into spoken-word poetry and, almost a natural corollary, rap.
But Hoey recalls organising slam poetry events and inviting friends who would come along to make up the low audience numbers. And think it was all a bit odd. "But now I go to events and there's like 600 people there, so it's really changed," he says.
And his own life has changed, too. He was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a rare and painful arthritis that fuses together bones in the spine and sometimes affects the lower back. Hoey spent months in bed and long periods of being misdiagnosed. The fears and frustrations – there all in his book in poems such as A True Story That Is Also a Metaphor For My Experience With The Health System.
But asks him if there was just one thing he could change about this life and he doesn't want his health restored. Instead, he wishes that the work he does as a youth mentor, through places like The Kindness Institute, was better funded.
"I didn't particularly have a fun childhood – and it took me a long time to write about it – but the work I do shows me a lot of people have it worse than I did. I don't know where I'd be without being able to create but I don't think I'd be in a very good place if I wasn't writing and performing. It was the only thing I got validated for from a very young age so I gravitated more towards it."
He likes working with young people, encouraging them to use art to express themselves.
"What do I tell them? It depends who they are but sometimes it's just, 'Keep going because you've got talent but you need to develop it.' Other kids might not have that natural talent but they've got ambition and drive and they're motivated, so I tell them my story and say, 'Don't listen to if people tell you can't do it or you feel you can't because, really, anyone can do anything.'"
I Thought We'd Be Famous by Dominic Hoey (Dead Bird's Books, $25) is available now.
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Matthew Lloyd says North Melbourne's Todd Goldstein is struggling to win his position, and says he needs to lift or Brad Scott might consider a change.
"Goldy is either breaking even or getting beaten every week", Lloyd said on Sportsday.
"I'm not seeing him win his position at all.
"I can't see them dropping him, but I think it's not far off the way he's performing at the moment."
Goldstein is currently ranked 12th in the league for average hitouts per game (33.2), having finished no lower than sixth in that statistic since 2009.
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Tudor Pro Cycling Team is een Zwitserse wielerploeg die in 2018 werd opgericht onder de naam Swiss Racing Academy.

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Swiss Racing Academy was een team voor (hoofdzakelijk) belofte renners (U23-categorie), eerst nog enkel Zwitsers, vanaf 2021 ook andere nationaliteiten. In 2019 verkreeg het een UCI-licentie als continentel team. In 2020 werd Fabian Cancellara adviseur/mentor van het team. Nadat Cancellara in 2022 eigenaar van het team werd en Tudor als hoofdsponsor toetrad werd de ploegnaam per 15 mei 2022 gewijzigd tot Tudor Pro Cycling Team.  Swiss Racing Academy zelf bleef bestaan als eliteteam op nationaal niveau. In 2023 verkreeg het team de status van ProTeam en daarmee startrechten voor de wedstrijden op de UCI ProSeries-kalender en kwam daarmee ook in aanmerking om wildcards te ontvangen voor wedstrijden op de UCI World Tour-kalender. De selectie in 2023 omvat tien elite renners en tien U23-renners. Acht van de twintig hebben de Zwitserse nationaliteit.

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The series from Emmy Award-winner Jason Katims will premiere on January 21
Today, Prime Video released the official trailer and key art for As We See It, from Emmy Award-winner Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights). All eight episodes of the Amazon Original series will premiere exclusively on Prime Video on Friday, January 21, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
As We See It follows Jack (Rick Glassman), Harrison (Albert Rutecki), and Violet (Sue Ann Pien), twentysomething roommates on the autism spectrum, as they strive to get and keep jobs, make friends, fall in love, and navigate a world that eludes them. With the help of their families, aide, and sometimes even each other, these roommates experience setbacks and celebrate triumphs on their own unique journeys towards independence and acceptance. Series stars Glassman, Rutecki, and Pien all identify as living on the autism spectrum. The series also stars Sosie Bacon as their aide Mandy, Chris Pang as Violet's brother Van, and Joe Mantegna as Jack's father Lou.
Katims serves as showrunner, writer, and executive producer, with Jeni Mulein, Danna Stern, Dana Idisis, Yuval Shafferman, and Udi Segal also executive producing. Jesse Peretz directs and executive produces the first episode. Based on an Israeli format created by Idisis and Shafferman, As We See It comes from True Jack Productions, Universal Television (a division of Universal Studio Group), Israel's yes Studios, and Amazon Studios.


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SA formally withdrawing from ICC
Pretoria - South Africa has formally requested to withdraw from the Rome Statute, a treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC).
On Wednesday after Cabinet approval, the South African government sent an 'instrument of withdrawal' letter to the United Nations Secretary-General explaining its intention, Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha confirmed on Friday.
"Written notice to withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court has been submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in accordance with Article 127(1) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
"The withdrawal will take effect one year after the Secretary-General has received the notification. South Africa will remain obligated under the Rome Statute for the duration of the 12 months' notice period," Minister Masutha said.
The Justice and Correctional Services Ministry has already informed in writing the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Chairperson of the NCOP of this executive decision.
Minister Masutha said the decision to withdraw was an executive one.
"Authority to negotiate and enter into agreements is up to executive. But until Parliament withdraws from the Rome Statute, our legal obligations will remain."
The ICC, which opened in July 2002, has 124 member states. It was set up as a means to try war criminals and perpetrators of genocide, who were never tried in their home countries.
South Africa was the first African country to assent to the ICC and adopted the court's founding Rome Statute into domestic law.
However, Minister Masutha said the South African government has found its obligations, with respect to the peaceful resolution of conflicts, at times incompatible with the interpretation given by the ICC.
Other African Union member states have accused the ICC of unfairness in servicing its mandate. They claim the court is targeting African states over other members.
Since its inception, the ICC has opened probes involving eight nations - all of which are African. These are Kenya, Ivory Coast, Libya, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda and Mali.
Minister Masutha explained that last year's legal arguments around the failure to detain Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir pinpointed Pretoria's main problem with the ICC obligation to arrest heads of state.
Bashir is wanted by the ICC in connection with alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity over atrocities committed in the Darfur conflict.
Bashir was attending an African Union summit in Johannesburg last year. He was allowed to leave South Africa, even though the High Court in Pretoria had ordered authorities to prevent him from doing so. The Supreme Court of Appeal also dismissed the State's appeal against the high court ruling.
Minister Masutha said an application for leave to appeal the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal, set down for hearing at the Constitutional Court on 22 November 2016, will now be withdrawn.
"This is so, especially as the Supreme Court of Appeal has removed the uncertainty around customary international law in relation to diplomatic immunity, in so far as it affects heads of states and others who may be wanted for serious violations of human rights and other serious crimes but who enjoy diplomatic immunity under international customary law."
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Elaborating on the reasons behind South Africa's exit from the ICC, Minister Masutha said in exercising its international relations with foreign countries, particularly with countries in which serious conflicts occur, South Africa has been hindered by the Implementation of the Rome Statute of the ICC Act, 2 (Act No 27 of 2002).
"This act and the Rome Statute compel South Africa to arrest persons who may enjoy diplomatic immunity under customary international law but who are wanted by the court.
"South Africa has had to do so, even under circumstances where we are actively involved in promoting peace, stability and dialogue in those countries," said the Minister.
He said the implementation of the Rome Statute of the ICC Act, 2002, is "in conflict and inconsistent" with the provisions of the Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act, 2001, which provides for the immunities and privileges of diplomatic missions and consular posts and their members, heads of states, special envoys and certain representatives.
"We wish to give effect to the rule of customary international law, which recognises the diplomatic immunity of heads of state and others in order to effectively promote dialogue and the peaceful resolution of conflicts wherever they may occur, particularly on the African continent," the Minister said.
Quizzed about South Africa's rationale of choosing the Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act over the ICC obligations, Minister Masutha said South Africa's wish is to remain a key player in conflict resolution in Africa.
"What may need to happen is that we host conflicting parties, thus our international legal obligations may hinder our efforts to remain a key player in conflict resolution in Africa."
In order to ensure South Africa's continued ability to conduct active diplomatic relations, a bill proposing the repeal of the Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act, 2002 will soon be tabled in Parliament.
The focus, Minister Masutha said, is on ensuring that South Africa's international law obligations are fully aligned with local law obligations, without contradiction.
Despite sending an instrument of withdrawal letter, Minister Masutha stressed that South Africa remains committed to the fight against impunity and to hold accountable those who have committed crimes against humanity and other serious crimes.
"Our unwavering commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights throughout Africa and elsewhere in the world is further demonstrated by our continued participation in various international and continental human rights instruments."
The Minister said South Africa will work closely with the African Union and with other countries in Africa to strengthen continental bodies, such as the African Court on Human and People's Rights, created to deal with such crimes and to prosecute the perpetrators.
South Africa will continue to actively promote dialogue and the peaceful resolution of conflicts on the African continent and elsewhere. - SAnews.gov.za
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Planning & Zoning Fills Open Commission Seat
by Heather Borden Herve, GMW Editor June 6, 2017 November 28, 2022
Last Friday, June 2, the Wilton Planning & Zoning Commission interviewed two candidates in the effort to fill an open seat left vacant when Franklin Wong resigned last month. After interviewing residents Brian Lilly and Melissa-Jean Rotini, the commissioners voted 6-1 on the motion to appoint Rotini to fill the seat and join them on P&Z.
Rotini, a municipal attorney in the Westchester County Attorney's office, submitted her own name for consideration rather than go through as a member of a political town committee. During Friday's meeting, P&Z chair Joe Fiteni noted that Rotini is a registered Democrat; however, according to preliminary minutes from the meeting, Rotini clarified during her interview that she is considered a member of the Democratic party "for statutory purposes" but recently changed to unaffiliated status. P&Z was required to fill the vacancy with either a Democrat or an unaffiliated candidate, as under minority representation laws, the commission already has a maximum number of Republicans serving.
According to the meeting minutes, Rotini also said she "has witnessed the change in the community and respects the concept of balance between growth and community preservation." She also acknowledged how "polarized positions…often occur in communities over such issues as school budgets, community growth and community services."
During a discussion about growing the grand list, one area Rotini suggested that could be addressed is in improving Wilton Center's visibility from major thoroughfares, including "efforts…to enhance connectivity between Rte. 7 and the village center."
Recently Rotini has spoken up as a resident during the last two P&Z public hearings about age-restricted zoning and development on Ridgefield Rd..
She told GOOD Morning Wilton that she is looking forward to serving the town.
"I'm very pleased to have been selected by a 6-1 vote of the P&Z Commissioners to fill the vacant P&Z seat. I've been interested for some time in becoming more involved in town matters, and particularly P&Z. My family and I really enjoy being part of the Wilton community and I want to help it thrive. We've lived in Wilton for 10 years, and our oldest child is going to be entering kindergarten in the fall, so I'm not going anywhere!
"I'm a municipal attorney and public service is something I believe is very important. Through my legal work I've been able to familiarize myself with many of the issues that come before P&Z. I've been involved with cases about environmental review of proposed projects, I am involved with permit matters, and I work with the departments of Planning, Environmental Facilities, Health, Finance, and many others. I believe that I bring well-rounded experience to P&Z, and will endeavor to engage in thoughtful analysis of our town's past, present, and future in matters before the board, including the upcoming POCD review.
"I look forward to working with the other Commissioners and using my experience for the benefit of our town."
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Amidst the ongoing war in Yemen; torn between being "safe" and "away", weighed down by the ever-present mental and emotional baggage that still holds you back. How does one move forward and heal? How to deal with so much suppressed pain? In this profoundly affecting documentary, we investigate these questions and explore what it feels like to be suddenly uprooted and displaced by war.
Mariam Al-Dhubhani is a Yemeni-Russian journalist and filmmaker. She is currently a senior at Northwestern University in Qatar. Al-Dhubhani co-founded a production named Background Group for Media. Her first short film 'We are the Peace' (2011) received an award in Yemen's first film festival. 'Wishes for the New Year' (2012) was the first chalkboard animation in the Middle East. Her recent film 'Just Another Memory' (2018) is her directorial debut and was produced as part of the Doha Film Institute's annual Documentary Lab in 2018 which was led by world-renowned Cambodian documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh.


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Q: Why doesn't "cd D:" change the command context to D:?
Possible Duplicate:
Using cd Command in Windows Command Line, Can't Navigate to D:\

Every time I want to change directory context to another drive (D, E, F, or whatever..) on a Windows command-prompt, I must use "Drive letter":\ command to actually change it. If I try with "cd command" on cd H:\ it just echo H:\ for me and do nothing:

Is there some reason for such a behavior? I mean, shoudn't cd command work to do this? Why does't it?

A: The straight-forward answer is that "because it is not written to work that way".  Simply entering D: will do what you want.
Curiously entering cd D:\somedir will, in fact, change the current directory on D: to \data, but will not change the current command prompt to D:.

A: Try:
cd /d d:

/d will also switch drive letters as well as directories, for other information, see cd /?

A: The reason Windows behaves this way, is because DOS behaved that way.
In DOS, each drive has its own current directory, and the cd command changes the current directory on a drive. If that also happens to be the current drive, then your working directory changes along with it. If you want to change the current drive, you simply specify the drive letter as a command.
Notes that Windows doesn't actually work this way anymore -- you only have one current directory at any time -- but the command shell goes to great lengths to pretend that there are still per-drive current directories. Presumably this is to preserve compatibility with existing DOS batch files.
The reason DOS works this way dates back to the very earliest versions of DOS, and CP/M before it. The gory details can be found on Raymond Chen's blog.


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Q: How can I produce a table into a data.frame? I printed out the summary of a column variables as such:
Please see below the summary table printed out from R:

I would like to generate it into a data.frame. However, there are too many subject names that it's very difficult to list out all, also, the term "OTHER" with number 31 means that there are 319 subjects which appear only 1 time in the original data.frame.
So, the new data.frame I hope to produce would look like below:

A: Here is one possible solution.
Table<-table(rpois(100,5))
as.data.frame(Table)
   Var1 Freq
1     1    2
2     2   11
3     3    9
4     4   18
5     5   13
6     6   20
7     7   14
8     8    8
9     9    3
10   10    1
11   11    1


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Bob Copp naît le  à Port Elgin, au Nouveau-Brunswick. Il a joué dans la Ligue nationale de hockey pour l'équipe des Maple Leafs de Toronto au poste de défenseur. Il meurt le .

Naissance en novembre 1918
Joueur néo-brunswickois de hockey sur glace
Joueur des Maple Leafs de Toronto
Personnalité liée au comté de Westmorland
Décès en décembre 2006
Naissance au Nouveau-Brunswick
Défenseur de hockey sur glace
Décès à 88 ans


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Home Article Talented Singer Kennedy Holmes Family Life; Know About Her Parents & Wiki-Bio
Talented Singer Kennedy Holmes Family Life; Know About Her Parents & Wiki-Bio
Updated On 06 Aug, 2019 Published On 20 Jan, 2019
Know about the finalist from the 14th season of The Voice, Kennedy Holmes. Know how she began her singing journey bringing it all the way in making 5 superstars to eventually plead for her.
Looks like fame flocks to you even faster when you throw yourself early into the spotlight. And being able to turn the fondness of not one but four Grammy personalities, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson the ridiculously young talent, Kennedy Holmes seems to be destined for the inevitable eminence in the coming days ahead.
So how come this rising pop diva ended up mesmerizing these music veterans with such a juvenile tone of hers? Let's take it from the start!
Kennedy Holmes' Early Life, Family
Kennedy Holmes was born on 7th December 2004, in Florissant, Missouri to parents-Shawn and Karen Holmes. Kennedy also has an older brother named Jordan Bow.
Kennedy Holmes
SOURCE: St. Louis Magazine
According to Kennedy's mother Karen, Kennedy began singing when she was as young as a 2 year old toddler. Kennedy also considered dancing as her passion in between her growing ages. In fact the moves she made at the age of 10 on the cover of 'I am changing' became her first ever stage performance.
Her singing carrer began when in the following year she made her professional debut as little Inez in a production of 'Hairspray' at an outdoor theatre in St. Louis named, 'The Muny'.
Kennedy became a sensation when on 4th july, she performed the national anthem before a St. Louis Cardinals game.
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Eventually when asked about trying out for the voice at that age, kennedy replied:
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Kennedy Holmes began her voice journey by hitting her notes first with song of Adele entitled 'Turning the Tables' in the blind audition. With all of the shows mentor beseeching her to join their team, Kennedy chose to tag along with her childhood idol Jennifer Hudson.
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Kennedy then competed in the last three among the likes of Reagan Strange and Makenzie Thomas. Nonetheless, she bounced back in the competition's top 4 much to the public's twitter vote.
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On December 17th in 2018 Kennedy dueted with her mentor Jennifer Hudson on the voice finale in the cover of the song 'Home' with her solo on 'confident'.
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Kennedy Holmes: Quick Facts
Kennedy Holmes was born on December 7, 2004, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Kennedy Holmes became 4th runner-up in the season 14 of The Voice.
Kennedy Holmes is from African American Ethnicity.
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We spent New Years Eve with family and at midnight enjoyed the killer view across the Neckar valley to Ludwigsburg. It's amazing to see the night sky light up with fireworks all over town. Here's a short video to get an idea what this looks like.
Of course we launched our own rockets, too.
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IPTV Software Engineer
OmniAccess
Headquarters:Palma de Mallorca, Spain,Europe
http://www.omniaccess.com
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Q: git clean only tracked files It is an extremely unusual use case, but I would like to remove all tracked files from git repo. Yes, the tracked files, not the untracked ones.
I have a big set of code generation files, some of them binary some of them text files. I would like to be able to track the history of the text generated files. I have the ignore list set, etc. The problem is that the next time I run the generation process it will change the needed files, add the new ones, but it is not going to remove old ones that are not generated anymore. Deleting the whole work-tree will do, but it will also remove the binary and other files that are already there, and I do not want to do that.
If I have the option to use git to clean only the files that are tracked will be the best using already prepared complex .gitignore file to distinguish the files, but I do not see anything in the documentation.
Is there tricky or not an option how to delete from the work-tree all files that are tracked.

A: If you wanted to remove every file under version control in the master branch, then you could try:
git ls-tree -r -z master --name-only | xargs -0 git rm

The first part of the command before the pipe recursively finds all files in master which are versioned, and the git rm removes each one from the remote repository.
git rm <file> removes a file from being tracked by the remote repository.

A: You can merge empty tree with work tree update:
git read-tree -m -u $(git mktree < /dev/null)


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Q: How do I replace buttons horizontally in Navbar I am new at coding. Right now I am trying to create a navbar with Bootstrap. But i cant place the buttons horizontally. I have tried class="float-right"  literally in every element. And i tried to ovverride with !important in css. Again no response. Can you help me how to do it.
Thank you in advance.
This is the code

A: If you're using Bootstrap 4, the navbar needs one of the navbar-expand-* classes to make it horizontal, otherwise the navbar will be vertical/mobile (the default).
Also, there is no navbar-btn class in Bootstrap 4. Just use btn btn-*.

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