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The 2013 CoH2 multiplayer experience in 2022.
donofsandiego
12 Nov 2022, 11:10 AM
So, me and my friends played quite a few matches together with the "COH2013" mod. If you're unfamiliar with it, it's a mod that claims to revert the multiplayer balance to how it was in 2013, to the best of the mod author's ability. Sadly, it was abandoned somewhat late into development, so it's not completely finished.
This post is pretty much just going to be an open letter about my thoughts and not-so-rhetorical questions that I would be happy to hear the thoughts of those who were there at the time when the shit was in the process of hitting the fan, so to speak. So... here goes.
First off... honestly? I kind of liked it. Obviously it's a complete shit show, but in a fun way. If everyone is playing for the first time, there's a kind of whimsical feeling where everything is new and silly and just a good time. It's a nice change of pace.
The balance design... I'll just start with the vanilla units and talk about veterancy later. I think it's quite interesting how Relic decided to make support weapons cheaper than the mainlines. And in a way, it theoretically worked. The support weapons are actually SUPPORT weapons. You can't spam MG42s because they suck ass at pinning, but when used in conjunction with the grenadiers, they become a formidable team. The conscripts, wanting to slither over to the MG42 and throw a god molotov, get ripped apart on the approach by the LMG42. If you want something to pin troops all alone, that's what the bunkers are for (AT guns don't outrange bunkers in this, so you are forced to HE barrage if you want to kill it, so mortars are the more economical option). Also, everything infantry wise is 6 pop, so you can afford to have a lot of support weapons and infantry together.
For the soviets, I finally understand what was said about them having to use "unconventional tactics". You can't build T2 at the start, so you're stuck with snipers and scout cars or guards if you go guard motor (I thought there were penals in 2013, but it's not in the mod. Probably because it is unfinished), or just conscripts and engineers if you skip tech (which is inadvisable because the MG42 and grenadiers are pretty good at countering even mass numbers if there is no flanking route. This obviously leads to silly things like the sniper car, or assumedly flame penal/ guards car (i never tried guards car, but I can imagine it being quite good against OST T2.
But you can't talk balance without mentioning the artillery. Yeah. We noticed very quickly how the mortars are kind of nutty. Honestly though, maybe I'm just bad at the game but since MGs can't really pin infantry, OST mortar didn't seem too insanely OP as long as soviets were playing offensively. Yes, they were VERY good, but it was manageable because of how mobile the soviets are in general compared to OST.
Now, SOVIET mortars on the other hand... dear god. These things you will see from when they build T2 until they are ended in a blaze of glory from a werfer strike. It doesn't matter if its the 82mm or the 120mm, both will absolutely ruin your day. In fact, the 82mm was better because it was much faster to rotate, and the PRECISION STRIKE... the best ability in the game... say goodbye to your squad. It was just as much of a spectacle in game as I had read it was in my dives into the archives on this site. I loved it. The iWipe button is real. Sometimes, I would have to retreat my mortar after I fired a few shots as soon as I heard the 120mm fire, because I knew exactly what was coming for my ass. You could leave the mortars on autofire, but soviets will gib you to hell. They, on the other hand, do not suffer from this weakness until the werfer.
Or... if they're ballsy enough to skimp on conscripts, you could just drive all over them with the flame HT. But I digress. The light vehicle phase seemed to pretty much be 222 or Flamer Halftrack. I never saw a T70. Probably because when the T34-76 is staring you right in the eyes, taunting you with its 60 fuel cost, the T70 could never measure up to it.
Speaking of; on the topic of soviet tanks, and epiphanies had while playing, I finally understood the tooltip during the loading screen which says "For the soviets, combined arms tactics are quite effective, though very expensive" or something to that effect. With the complete and total absence of snares (and apparently AT mines for OST!?! Was this the case in 2013 or is this simply an unfinished mod issue?), only Soviets could protect themselves from dives. Therefore, it was completely viable (and actually economical) to forgo infantry to start building only tanks. Since the T34 cost 480mp and 60fu, it was quite cost prohibitive to be using infantry at the same time, and T34s were absolutely required to be used en masse to be effective(and on top of it all, the ability to capture points, while seldom used nowadays, turned the T34 onto basically your complete package for replacement of infantry when all other factors were considered).
Also, the tank matchups were very very interesting. The Panzer 4 seemed to lose to a T34, despite costing around 500mp and 80fu. Even considering this, though, it was still very good against infantry, and could deal damage to a T34 if it had flanked it. So it was very much not useless.
StuGs, on the other hand, were the bane of the T34. If your soviet opponent decided to replace all his infantry with T34s, all you had to do was make StuGs, which costed 320mp and 25fu, and took AT LEAST two T34s to counter it!
Finally, this brings me to the Axis heavy tanks. Having experienced the kind of late game that can only be experienced once more in the COH2013 mod, I don't think I can ever again say that the balance team are wehraboos. Let me tell you, being able to stand in front of four ZiS-3 guns while they fire at you and finish of the T34 or SU-85 feebly limping away back to base is a kind of power trip which releases dopamine probably on the level of crack cocaine... if you're playing OST. If you're playing soviet... well, there is just so much helplessness. Yes, AT gun vet makes them much better, but when your enemy's tank has nearly one thousand HP, it makes you feel very helpless. (As opposed to the early game, where you actually are raping the everloving crap out of OST, and that is absolutely no joke).
Now, as a team that coordinates well together ("I will build T34s" "OK, I will build SU-85"), you can manage to beat the panthers back and indeed wreck them, but I can only imagine the horrors of allied random automatch in these times...
And okay. I've gotten this far, now it's late game. It's time to talk about the super heavies.
I do not know if this was the case in game actually, or if this is just the mod being W.I.P. and unfinished... but the Tiger tank... had 1.5k health... and you could build as many as you had the pop cap for. If this was the case in the live game, then I absolutely see why people called this game pay to win.
Only my teammate with IS-2, and me supporting with ISU-152 could hope to kill the Tiger. Again, I don't know if this was the actual case in game at the time, or if it's just the mod W.I.P. copy pasting the units directly from single player. Which is probably very possible.
All in all, I thought that while Axis had a major advantage late game, Soviets had the ability to fight back against it. The super heavy tanks just absolutely turned everything on its head though. The IS-2, if it could reach veterancy before the Panthers hit the field, would easily rape panthers. That's my one biggest takeaway. The gameplay was balanced (in a very weird and foreign way), but the doctrinal superheavies really destroyed it IMO.
After playing COH2013 I have a renewed respect for the game in it's current state. Doctrinal units are no longer unable to be countered by the vanilla units, infantry stays useful into the late game through being able to use snares and mortars not instantly gibbing them, support weapons also stay useful for the same reason.
But, on the flip side, there is something about COH2013 that scratches that itch that automatch doesn't. The pure spectacle of it all, the power dynamics, the give and take and tug of war with initiative that I felt where IMO, live is just a constant pressure (which I dislike, I admit, I am a scrub) the T34 horde blotting out the horizon, to be met by its equal in panthers, pz4s, and StuGs escorted by panzergrenadiers... it's grand.
I'm going to come out and say it: I enjoyed it. I did. I very much enjoyed playing COH2013. I think that I was the target audience for CoH2 in 2013. I'm not a hardcore RTS kind of guy. I'm not amazing at micromanagement or multitasking, my APM isn't high, my friends tried to get me into Starcraft 2, but it just doesn't click in my head. I do what I can, and I'm smart enough to see what the enemy is doing and attempt to counter it. At the end of the day, though, I just want to have some fun. As much as I want to win, I want to see fireworks while it happens, and if I lose, if I was able to see something cool happen in the meantime, I'm fine with that.
Well. In other words.. it was made for the lowest common denominator, scrubs, if you will. Which is me. That's me. And I'm proud to say it.
Thanks for reading this kind of ramble-essay. If you have any insights you'd like to share, or corrections you'd like to make, I'd really love to read what you have to say.
EDIT: I said I was going to mention veterancy, but I forgot to... Anyways, one thing I thought was very interesting was the AT gun veterancy. The damage increases with veterancy, so if you build an M-42 instead of waiting for a ZiS gun, by the time the M-42 is vet 2, it will actually do the same damage on penetration as a vet 0 zis gun.
Honestly though, the veterancy was TOO MUCH. It's like Relic saw CoH1, and heard that veterancy was important, so they decided to make it EVERYTHING. Once your tank becomes vet 3, it is a living god walking/treading the earth. And it's a double edged sword. The fact that AT guns do more damage with vet means that they can really do some good work, until they get gibbed with a mortar and then become pea shooters again. Very very rough around the edges. But again, being that Vet3 panther or t34 is an awesome feeling.
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GachiGasm
12 Nov 2022, 12:47 PM
Balance on the release was special, but I mean, a lot of the stuff was patched out pretty quickly by relic.
I guess, if you want to play truly "old fashion" game, you could try looking for a patch right before WFA release.
Game was pretty balanced, with some rough edges (like double soviet sniper) and required just a little bit more fixes, but WFA messed it up.
rumartinez89
Couple questions
Can you sniper clown car? That shit was insane when I first tried it.
Does the IS2 do stun damage? Depending on the patch they were similar in strength but a few good RNG rolls for stun would literally make any opposing tank unusable.
Do infantry still use armor in the mod or has it switched to target size?
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Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2022, 11:10 AMdonofsandiego
... is a kind of power trip which releases dopamine probably on the level of crack cocaine...
Fun read, even if for just this line alone
aerafield
Thanks for the summary, was a nice read. Doesn't sound like that patch is trying to be the V1.0 CoH2 from June 2013 though, otherwise you probably would have mentioned ISU-152 and Elefant being in t4, and the ridiculous damage system on top of complete lack of weapon profiles.
damage system: Back then, a penetrating shot of an Elefant or Tiger removed ~90% HP from a SU-85 or T-34, BUT both soviet units were able to bounce a shot from these tanks
weapon profiles: CoH2 launched without weapon profiles, like in CoH1. Meaning SMGs & LMGs had the same rate of fire and burst duration across all ranges, only the accuracy was affected by distance to target
Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2022, 12:57 PMrumartinez89
Yes, sniper clown car was available in all it's nutty glory.
The IS-2 did not do stun damage in the mod sadly. There were no stuns, but it hit like a truck with veterancy.
Yes, infantry got armor with vet from what I could tell.
Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2022, 16:39 PMaerafield
About weapon profiles; I did notice that conscripts lost to grenadiers without upgrades while the cons were behind green cover, which was funny. I don't *think* weapon profiles were implemented, because like I said, the LMG shredded the shit out of conscripts who got close.
Elefant was, in fact, in T4. However, ISU was only available to be built if you picked an ISU commander. Probably more WIP mod stuff (that will never be fixed because author abandoned it). I did notice, however, that the ISU did fuckloads of damage, but had trash penetration. It could bring a Panther to 90% health, but only if it penetrated. Maybe Elefant was the same way. Usually we preferred Panthers.
Tiger definitely didn't take away 90% HP though. Even from T34-85. Likely it was simply copy pasted from single player or something.
Technically only the Elefant was available. All the other heavies seemed to be able to be unintentionally made available at T4 if you picked the right commander. So yes those were probably not accurate to how they were at the time.
Oh. Shock Troops were one of those units that would become available to you, but seemed to be unintentional. They were 360 manpower, where I heard they were supposed to be 450. And this version had Fire Superiority.
EDIT: They were also f@#king b@#%sh%t because you could put them in the clown car and wipe everything until LVs came out. If they had cost 450 manpower, I think this would be like 20% more acceptable.
Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2022, 12:47 PMGachiGasm
So, I'm wondering , how exactly did it mess it up? If I was going to guess, the expensive riflemen were just too good against everything OST could field, and couldn't even be countered by MG because riflemen smoke. Was their teching too fast on top of that, or was it something else?
For OKW, if sturmpios were anything like they were today, I could imagine your only hope as soviet to combat them would be shock troops. But if those were indeed 450 manpower, then waiting for them to get built would probably result in the OKW rushing your base with le goobelwagens and suppressing anyone who tries to get out.
Am I somewhat close or no?
EDIT: I just remembered about snipers, so snipers could probably counter the sturms (duh), and the M3A1 I would assume could beat the kubel. So how exactly did the OKW break balance? Tanks too good? Fuel from wrecks pre placed on the map? The old OKW resource switch mechanic?
Also, snipers in the mod were 240 manpower. This can't have been the case for the actual multiplayer, right?
if you want to play truly "old fashion" game, you could try looking for a patch right before WFA release.
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Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2022, 22:48 PMdonofsandiego
So, I'm wondering , how exactly did it mess it up?...
First mistake was that when WFA where released instead of trying to bring USF/OKW to EFA levels they started changing the EFA. That meant that all the balance work that had been done up to that point went down the drain...
Did you test yet if this mod changes the Soviet Industry & Wehrmacht Elite Unit doctrines? If yes, I highly recommend going for that and grab some popcorn because you're gonna witness two things that are in the "top 10 most OP pay2win DLC in the history of videogaming"
patch right before WFA release.
I think you completely forgot how absolutely broken beyond repair many of the DLC commanders still were at that time.
Jump back to quoted post13 Nov 2022, 00:22 AMaerafield
Sadly, this mod was abandoned before it could have any changes to the commanders proper. All that was included at the time of writing was Festung Armor and Guard Motor Coordination.
Elite Unit doctrine... I'm guessing that's the pay for vet thing? Or I might have heard whisperings of every infantry unit starting with veterancy 1...
Tiger Ace (if it was in that commander at the time), I assume, was the version where it was free (or very cheap for it's performance idk wasn't there) to call in but took away all resources until it died?
EDIT: Soviet Industry. Did this give you access to the T34-85 at the time? Honestly when I was playing, fuel was never a limiting factor to making T3476, it was always manpower. And from what I saw, soviet industry increased fuel at the cost of manpower.
So how was this OP? Very early T34? KV-2 spam? I wonder.
Original Tiger Ace was 100% free and it froze your fuel and manpower income for as long as it was alive, so people used it for an all-in push.... which worked most of the times because back then the Tiger Ace could easily solo three SU-85s: it had very high armor and SU85 pen back then was not good, it had seemingly endless HP, and the PaK40 stunshot ability on top of the very lethal vet 3 performance with Blitzkrieg and smoke. If they had let's say a couple Panthers or P4s on the field at the time the Tiger Ace arrived, it was pretty much a guaranteed win.
You could buy veterancy too, that is correct. 80mp and 25 fuel for enough veterancy to turn a fresh gren squad immediately into vet 3. Funnily enough this could also be used to buy veterancy for your (OKW) teammates and OKW veterancy was very OP in the first years of that faction.
The original Soviet Industry did not have t34-85s but as you mentioned it had an ability at 0cp that boosted your fuel income by +50% at the cost of -33% manpower income. It also increased vehicle production speed by x10 (1000%)
The T-34 was in t3 back then so you could bring it on the field before the Ostheer player even got his building out to construct pak 40s or panzergrens... you just couldn't spam infantry with that doctrine, but you didn't need to anyway.
Didn't it start with vet 3 as well? Vet 3 panthers already took like 16 shots from the ZiS-3 to die, so I can only imagine how the Tiger Ace was.
Definitely really good. Though I don't even know if it would be particularly worth considering that they can disappear in moments from a mortar XD.
If this was a CP 0 ability though... yeah that would be REALLY op.
Yeah, I figured that it would probably be the fact that it came out so early rather than the fact that they could make a lot of them. The hit to manpower is actually a lot more impactful than one would assume going off of today's balance, I think. B/C tanks were very expensive in manpower from what I saw. But yeah, T34 coming out that early likely meant that it could go all the way to OST's base and there's nothing they could do about it (I didn't see OST engineers with any AT mines..)
Granted, even with the fuel increase, I imagine that T2 being built wouldn't be that far off, but that doesn't matter when the T34 can literally come into the base and kill the engineers while they build the structure lmao.
Didn't it start with vet 3 as well?
Yup it started at vet 3 and the "buy veterancy" was 0cp
Idk, from what I remember, things like Elite Tiger, tank hunters, windostry and so on were already fixed.
Still there was over-all BS, but in comparison to other patches where factions could have easily become just unplayble after latest changes or new DLC, it was the most balanced patch for vanilla game.
Ofcouse balanced, in a spectrum of old relic balance approach.
They were not. Soviet Industry ability got removed in December 2015 / early 2016, that was also the first patch where Tiger Ace got nerfed from 0mp to 800mp: https://www.coh2.org/topic/4307/coh2-changelog/post/515884
Well considering what I'd seen in game, I can't see it being used until you build your first warcrime halftrack at least. But after that it's pretty much busted.
When did veterancy get changed from special ability > extra durability > damage anyways?
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Q: Howto copy README.md into src/main/resources? I want to show README.md file like help page in my web application. In order not to create duplicate, I need to copy by mvn from project path into resources.
How can I do so?
Any idea?
I have tried:
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3</version>

    <configuration>
        <!-- this is important -->
        <overwrite>true</overwrite>
        <!-- target -->
        <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/classes</outputDirectory>
        <resources>
            <resource>
                <!-- source -->
                <directory>/</directory>
                <include>
                    <filter>**/README.md</filter>
                </include>
            </resource>
        </resources>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

A: The simplest solution would be to move the appropriate file(s) to src/main/resources folder whereas the second solution could be like this:
  <build>
    <resources>
      <resource>
        <directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
        <includes>
          <include>README.md</include>
        </includes>
        <filtering>true</filtering>
      </resource>
    </resources>
  </build>

No need for maven-resources-plugin to be configured this can be handled by the usual life cylcle and resource handling. The only thing you might need to adapt is the folder where the README.md is located. If you like having filtering you need to add the <filtering>true</filtering> part as well.
Copying something via Maven during the build into src/** is in general a bad idea, cause those folders are controled by version control systems which will result in uncommitted changes which you don't like to have.
Note: It would be wise to check for up-to-date versions of plugins (cause 2.3 is of 2008!). The list of the current plugin versions can be found here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/

A: This works for me in one of my projects:
<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.3</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>copy-resources</id>
            <phase>validate</phase>
            <!-- when to execute copy operation -->
            <goals>
                <goal>copy-resources</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <resources>
                    <resource>
                        <directory>${basedir}/pathTo.MD</directory>
                    </resource>
                </resources>
                <overwrite>true</overwrite>
                <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/classes</outputDirectory>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

I see that i have the phase and the goal extra from your version. I also used variables for the output location.

A: I would recommend you to be more equal to this example: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/copy-resources.html
With "more equal" I mean like using <executions> tag.
You can of course leave out things like <id> and filtering.
The following worked fine for me:
<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.7</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>myID</id>
            <!-- here the phase you need -->
            <phase>validate</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>copy-resources</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/extra-resources</outputDirectory>
              <overwrite>true</overwrite>
              <resources>
                <resource>
                  <directory>src</directory>
                  <!-- Details about filtering: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/filter.html -->
                  <filtering>true</filtering>
                </resource>
              </resources>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
    ...
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(15 January 2019, Hong Kong) Colliers International (NASDAQ: CIGI; TSX: CIGI), a global leader in commercial real estate services, has released its Hong Kong Market Outlook 2019 to evaluate Hong Kong's property market over the coming year. The study explores factors affecting the Office, Industrial, Retail, Residential sectors as well as Investment Sales to forecast future performance.
While the Hong Kong property market show signs of undergoing adjustments this year, Colliers does not anticipate a "gloom and doom" scenario. Although 2018 concluded with market sentiment skewing negatively and many investors taking a "wait-and-see" approach (see Colliers Annual Investor Survey 2018), institutional investors remain confident in the Hong Kong property market after two years of above average performance.
"In 2019, we note that many investors are eagerly anticipating the outcome of US-China trade negotiations in early March, as this will play a critical role in shaping the city's economic outlook. In relation to property, the trade war could have direct implications on industrial and retail property rent and price," said Daniel Shih, Senior Director of Research, Colliers International Hong Kong.
"With availability of liquidity and a moderate interest rate hike in 2019, investors will return once property prices stabilise. For those chasing upside, we believe that industrial properties have the largest potential based on an expected new round of industrial revitalisation," said Antonio Wu, Deputy Managing Director, Capital Markets and Investment Services, Colliers International Asia.
Supercharged by the revitalisation scheme, Colliers expects industrial rents and prices to continue to grow in 2019 amid a lack of new supply exacerbating imbalanced supply and demand. Between 2010 and 2016, industrial stock decreased by 15.9 million sqft (6% of total existing stock), while forced relocation and lack of new supply meant increases in rent and capital value. In 2018, this continued to hold true as industrial rent and capital value increased by 7.4% and 15.9% respectively.
"Looking forward, the continuous conversion and redevelopment of industrial buildings for office, retail, hotel and residential purposes will sustain a further increase in industrial property rent and value. As more details of the revitalisation scheme emerge in 2019, many investors consider industrial properties to offer the greatest potential," said Joseph Lam, Associate Director of Industrial Services at Colliers International Hong Kong.
In 2019, Colliers expects a shift of momentum for Central/Admiralty with more office supply becoming available as PRC companies scale back expansion and vacate space. This slowdown could potentially bring the viability of co-working spaces for renters into the spotlight.
"Rents in Central/Admiralty could drop by 3.8% in 2019, which is considered a healthy correction following an over 40% growth since early 2015. On the other hand, rents at Kowloon East would benefit from active pre-leasing activities in 2018 and a lack of new supply in 2020," said Fiona Ngan, Head of Offices Services at Colliers International Hong Kong.
For potential buyers, Grade A office prices still increased 20% year-on-year despite a slow last half of 2018. However, this year could prove to be the opportune time to purchase as Colliers expects office prices to drop by 5%. Colliers sees that the lack of quality office supply (especially in the CBD) and current market downturn offer solid investment opportunities in 2019, especially for end-users looking to occupy the space themselves.
Overall, Colliers expects prime retail rents to grow below 2% in 2019 as they recover from a recent slump. Central is an exception that will remain under pressure due to its large shop configurations.
"Key retailers continue to look for first tier high street locations, leveraging adjusted rental rates in the current shifted retail market landscape to cautiously expand. Shops that come with great street-front exposure are the most sought after, while retailers can compromise on shop size as smaller shops (sizes below 3,000 sqft) are the most popular and efficient to operate nowadays amid the growing influence of online shopping. For investors, neighbourhood shopping centres attached to new residential developments are an ongoing focus, as rental in these outskirt malls is only marginally increasing y-o-y, offering relatively attractive value-added opportunities," said Cynthia Ng, Director of Retail Services at Colliers International Hong Kong.
With Hong Kong's record low unemployment and rising household income, Colliers expects local consumption to steadily rise in 2019. With this, F&B and premium labels will continue to expand their footprint in Hong Kong, while traditional luxury brands may not benefit as much due to dampened buyer sentiment. Though more tourists are expected to arrive via the new Express Rail Link and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, Colliers notes that mainland tourists may not spend as much in the short term due to China's weakening economy and a possible depreciation of the Renminbi.
After rising 576% from July 2003 to July 2018, residential prices have started falling from August 2018 and should continue falling into H1 2019.
"We believe developers will continue to offer discount rates in H1 for as much as 15% off, but the price drop in the secondary market will be more moderate. A lower price level could drive up the transaction volume with the strong demand for housing in Hong Kong. We expect the market to stabilize in H2 2019," said Hannah Jeong, Head of Valuation & Advisory Services, Colliers International Hong Kong.
On the other hand, there has not been a quick fix for the land shortage problem which would keep property prices high in the medium term. If the government relaxes the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio for residential mortgage, the liquidity in the secondary market will increase, but it will not increase property prices significantly with other "demand management measures" still in place.
"The leasing market should stay relatively firm and tenants are likely to be disappointed as residential rents in traditional luxury markets should stay relatively level. Expatriates can search for more affordable options in Kowloon and the New Territories as places to live following the expansion of the MTR network and new infrastructure, as well as new school campuses in Kowloon East and Sai Kung districts," said Letizia Garcia Gasalino, Head of Residential Services, Colliers International Hong Kong.
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Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis have claimed a spectacular attack on Saudi Arabian forces raising more questions about the Saudi appetite for war.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi alliance claims that they dismantled three Saud-led coalition brigades in the country last week, imprisoning some 2,000 fighters and killing or wounding 500 'soldiers'.
While the Houthi claims have not been independently verified, experts believe that if the claims are true, the tide of the war is turning towards the Iran-backed tribal alliance.
Riyadh has neither denied nor confirmed the Houthi claims.
"If they were able to inflict these kind of attacks to Saudi-led coalition, that would be a big blow [to Saudis]," said Mithat Rende, Turkey's former ambassador to Qatar, who was the country's permanent representative for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
But Rende was cautious about Houthi claims thinking that this might be part of a campaign of information warfare against the Saudi-led coalition after Riyadh's biggest oil facilities in the kingdom were recently struck by missiles and/or drones, disrupting the global oil supply for several days.
While the Saudis and their American backers blamed Iran for the attacks on Aramco, Yemen's Houthis claimed responsibility right after the shocking attacks. Iran denied any direct involvement in the attacks.
As a result, US President Donald Trump, who is facing an election, could make the choice that his administration cannot handle another crisis right before the upcoming elections and instead seek to meet the Houthis at the negotiating table, Rende viewed.
"If the Houthis can damage Saudis as much as they claimed, it could be a game-changer [for the future of the Yemen conflict]," Rende said.
Alleged members of Saudi forces walk after being captured by Houthi forces during an attack near the border with Saudi Arabia's southern region of Najran in Yemen, in this still image taken from video on September 29, 2019. (Credit: Al Masirah/Houthi Military Media Center / Reuters)
Saudis in the hot seat
While it's clear who the Houthis and their Iranian backers are, there are no definite answers for who makes up the Saudi-led coalition rank and file.
The Saudis are not conducting their Yemen fight with their own troops, Rende said. They will use mercenaries and Sunni Yemenis to do their fight in Yemen, according to Rende.
"But even the political situation regarding Sunni Yemenis is complicated because Sunni Yemenis are divided into two camps," Rende said.
The division also led to a split between the Saudis and the UAE, which supports the South Yemen faction based in Aden, the country's important port city. The two groups recently clashed with each other ending in multiple casualties.
When you look at who the Houthis are, "you will see Zaidis in their ancestry" said Rende. Zaidis, who have defended a moderate Shia version of Islam, are descended from Zaid, one of the great sons of Prophet Mohammed.
"Back in 900s, the Zaidis established two great states, one is located in Tabaristan in south Caspian region and another is located in Yemen," Rende said.
"Despite the fact that nobody wants to talk about, the Zaidis or Houthis had led Yemen until 1962. It's true that in the past the Ottomans defeated them, subduing their leadership, but they always come up with an imam [who would continue to fight for their cause]," Rende said.
In the face of the country's complicated history, Rende sees no possibility that the Houthi leadership could be uprooted from Yemen.
"Even the Ottomans could not uproot them. The Saudis could never ever uproot them," Rende concluded.
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An organism which contains genetic material from two different organisms.
Genetic engineering can be used in three main types of organism: micro-organisms, plants, and animals.
The most well-known examples of genetically engineered micro-organisms produce therapeutic proteins for medical treatments, but recombinant bacteria have also been developed that can extract metal from ore. This type of genetic engineering is well established and the risks are well controlled. Few people express any concerns about the use of genetically modified (GM) microorganisms to make human medicines or vaccines. Unfortunately, the biochemistry of prokaryotes means that there is a limit to the complexity of the molecules they can make – so microorganisms cannot solve all of our medical problems.
Transgenic plants are also relatively common. Many crops are grown in the US with a specific herbicide or pesticide resistant gene added. For example, 85% of the soy beans grown in the US, and 98% of the soy beans grown in Argentina are GM crops. Organisations such as the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) are working to develop strains of rice which are resistant to extreme weather conditions resulting from climate change such as flooding or dryness. Making crop plants more efficient, or more nutritious, through genetic modification, offers a way of meeting the food needs of the ever-growing human population.
Scientists are also looking to develop nutritionally enriched strains of rice and other staple foods such as cassava and sweet potatoes. These offer a way of preventing some of the many deficiency diseases which have devastating impacts on the health of millions of people around the world (see paragraph on golden rice). GM plants also have the potential to deliver medicines in a way which is particularly valuable in the developing world. Work is well underway on growing GM plants which contain specific drugs, vaccines and even monoclonal antibodies. Over 3 million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases, mainly in the developing world – if a locally grown food crop can be engineered to deliver the vaccines which are needed, many lives could be saved.
Another category of transgenic plants are the biopharm crops, which contain a substance of medical value that could replace a pharmaceutical product. For example, genetically modified plants are being produced that contain vaccines. In future these vaccines should be inexpensive, easy to deliver to remote areas and could even be orally administered without specialist technology. However, there are concerns that wildlife could be poisoned by eating biopharm crops. Recombinant vaccines have already been produced in micro-organisms: yeast is used to produce a vaccine for hepatitis B. A specific protein on the surface of the hepatitis B virus triggers an immune response when it infects humans; this protein is produced by genetically engineered yeast cells grown in culture, from which the protein can be easily extracted and purified. This is relatively cheap and safe - the virus is not present when the protein is produced and so there is no chance of an accidental infection, unlike the previous method of producing a vaccine which involved purifying the blood of humans and animals infected with the disease. However it is hard to get enough vaccine from the yeast cells. GM potatoes which can grow the hepatitis B vaccine are now being investigated.
wildlife could be poisoned though the overuse of herbicides on genetically engineered herbicide-resistant crops.
the herbicide-resistant transgene could transfer to weeds, creating 'super weeds'.
the genetically engineered crops themselves could become superweeds by growing out of control.
Some people think the use of genetically engineered crops promotes industrial farming, and creates large populations of identical genetically engineered organisms with the same unknown disease susceptibilities. Others are worried about the health risks: will new allergens be created (perhaps by inserting nut genes into other crops)? People wonder if it is possible that new toxins will be produced as inactive toxin production pathways become activated by gene insertion. Some crops are genetically engineered to be able to withstand high concentrations of toxic metal in soil and resist herbicides – but perhaps they will have high concentrations of these in their edible tissues and therefore be poisonous?
Of course, concerns must be investigated, and the use of GM plants constantly monitored, but once evidence is available to show that the process appears safe, it should be taken on board to benefit those in need. The use of GM plants generally, and especially in medicines, is well summarised in this paper from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Biopharm – the production of medicines from biological systems – doesn't just need GM microorganisms and plants. There is also a growing role for transgenic animals.
Mice are surprisingly similar to people – almost every gene in the human genome has an equivalent in the mouse genome.
Careful inbreeding has led to strains of mice which are genetically stable for specific characteristics. They are not clones, but they are genetically almost identical. Scientists have about 100 strains of mice available to them, each with a particular genetic makeup and in some cases a particular tendency to develop diseases such as cancer.
A chimeric mouse with its offspring. Chimera mice are named after the chimeras of Greek legends, mythical beasts with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail!
These are genetically engineered mice which have foreign DNA such as DNA from human cells inserted into their genome. So for example, the mouse may make a different protein. This technique allows scientists to investigate the function and regulation of specific genes, and investigate human diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. Two main techniques are used to make transgenic mice. In one, the new gene is added to a fertilised ovum, so the whole mouse which develops is transgenic. In the other, the new gene is added to embryonic stem cells which are then added to a host embryo, which is almost always a different coloured strain of mouse. The mouse which results is known as a chimera, because it is a mixture of two organisms. Some of the eggs and sperm will carry the engineered genes so by breeding these mice scientists can produce a strain with the engineered genes present in every cell of the body.
Knockout mice are becoming increasingly important as disease models. Gene editing enables scientists to inactivate or 'knock out' specific genes in mouse embryonic stem cells. These cells are grown on and then injected into early mouse embryos. The resulting mice have some knockout cells and some normal cells. As with transgenic mice, researchers then cross breed to achieve homozygous knockout mice. These mice have been developed to mimic human diseases including different types of cancer, obesity, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and ageing. There are limitations – sometimes a gene affects different tissues or behaviours in mice to those it controls in humans. But the potential value of knockout mice is both increasing our understanding of disease and finding effective treatments.
As with GM plants, there are concerns about the use of GM animals in medical research. Some people raise concerns based around animal welfare: whether pain will be inflicted on transgenic animals, the large number of animals required for genetic experiments and the invasive procedures carried out on them. The extent to which GM blurs the line between species is also of concern to many people. Some of the ethical concerns are related to how humans will use (or misuse) the technology: will it be accessed by those whose quality of life will directly benefit, or by those who will gain only economically?
Genetic engineering in humans is already occurring in the form of somatic gene therapy. This is a way of treating a genetic disorder, but it only works if the gene causing the disease is known, and if the replacement of this gene is likely to work as a treatment. A number of different processes are covered under the name 'gene therapy': replacing a mutated copy of a gene with a healthy one, inactivating a malfunctioning copy of the gene, or introducing an entirely new gene into a cell. Somatic gene therapy only alters the genetic material of the affected tissues in the patient; germ cell therapy results in the genetic change being inherited by the patient's descendants, so many people believe this should be banned until more is known about the technology. Somatic cell therapy isn't just restricted to treating genetic disorders: it has been proposed that athletes from many different sports might be tempted to use 'gene doping' to gain a competitive edge.
At the moment gene therapy is in its infancy. Success stories are just beginning to emerge. If we can get it right, gene therapy of both plants, animals and humans could play a huge role in the future of medicine.


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A crisp, dry rosé made from 100% Pinot Noir. The elegance of this wine is the result of painstakingly delicate handling of the fruit. Hand picked, hand sorted, destemmed and lightly crushed, the grapes were transferred by hand into the press using 20-litre buckets. A light squeeze was followed by 7 hours of maceration on the skins to extract a perfect balance of colour and flavour. Only free-run juice made its way into this wine.
The vibrant nose has the hallmark aromas of wild strawberry and raspberry. On the palate, the entry is bright and juicy, dominated by raspberry, wild strawberry and rhubarb. Crisp acidity with only the slightest hint of sweetness, this wine finishes dry.
Refreshing on its own, our rosé is also a highly versatile wine on the table. The textural complexity, deep flavour and crisp acidity enables Omertà to pair well with many different dishes. Fresh market salads, grilled fish and aged cheese comes to mind.


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Bellevue Avenue Colored School is located in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1883 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

It is a two-story brick Italianate building, built as a "new school building for the use of the colored
children of Trenton".

It has also been known as Lincoln School, Old Lincoln School, Public School No. 14, and as King David Lodge No. 15 F & AM. It was owned by the Aracia Temple Building Corporation (King David Lodge No. 15) in 1996.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey

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Masonic buildings in New Jersey
Masonic buildings completed in 1883
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Trenton, New Jersey
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Q: Ember data relations in single rest call I am using ember data and I have one model ie Husband with some relations like Wife(one to one) and Children (one to many). I know that I can provide links to that resources so ember load the necessary data for each relation. For example the list of possibles wife (Husband has just wife id).
Because my business scenario I want to load all relations in a single request ("../configuartion/husban_id"). I already build a rest service that provide all that information for an specific husband.
There is any way to tell ember data to load all relations from one single point in a single rest call?

A: As described in EmberJS guide you could sideload relationships:

Sideloaded Relationships
To reduce the number of HTTP requests necessary, you can sideload
  additional records in your JSON response. Sideloaded records live
  outside the JSON root, and are represented as an array of hashes:
{
  "post": {
    "id": 1,
    "title": "Node is not omakase",
    "comments": [1, 2, 3]
  },

  "comments": [{
    "id": 1,
    "body": "But is it _lightweight_ omakase?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "body": "I for one welcome our new omakase overlords"
  },
  {
    "id": 3,
    "body": "Put me on the fast track to a delicious dinner"
  }]
}

For more complex scenarios you could also use DS.EmbeddedRecordsMixin, which documentation could be found here. DS.EmbeddedRecordsMixin allows you to define how a relationship should be serialized and deserialized. Supported values are records, ids or false. They could differ for serialize and deserialize if necessary.
In most cases like this one EmberJS Guide and api documentation are providing all necessary information.


Client testimonials can make or break a web site. They are a vital factor in establishing a relationship of trust with new visitors to your site. Visitors want to see that others just like them have hired you or purchased your products and have successfully overcome some hurdle or some issue. Better yet, when the testimonials specifically note how the client's life or business has been enhanced by buying your product or service, the visitor then begins to believe that it will help her overcome a similar issue, as well.
Several years ago I updated one of my sites. I continued to get phone calls from potential clients who wanted to hire me, but the calls were much different than I had gotten previously. The difference was that I spent the duration of the phone call in sales mode to convince them to hire me, which is something I hate to do. I'd never had to do that before. Typically when someone would call me, they were already sold on the concept of hiring me and just wanted to know when we could get started.
I racked my brain to try and figure out what in the world was going on and what had changed with these prospects. Suddenly it hit me that in the update of my site, my client testimonials had gotten lost in the process and weren't on the new site. This gave me the motivation I needed to get additional testimonials from satisfied clients and determine how to best display those testimonials for maximum impact. Once I added those to my new site, things returned to normal and those rave reviews did all of my selling for me.
So, now you know that testimonials can serve as an important sales tool on your web site. How do you go about getting testimonials that say something more compelling than, "Jane is great to work with!", which is useless for all practical purposes.
If you don't have any client testimonials on your site, it's not to late to go out and solicit a few. Use some or all of the questions noted above to increase the trust visitors have in your services and products and increase your sales dramatically!


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A crew of archaeologists and explorers, led by historian Milo Thatch, board an incredible submarine and head deep into the mysteries of the sea in search of the legendary kingdom of Atlantis. The underwater expedition takes an unexpected turn when the team's mission must shift from exploring the submerged kingdom to protecting it from the mystical powers that be.
The world's most highly qualified crew of archaeologists and explorers are led by historian Milo Thatch as they board the incredible 1,000-foot submarine Ulysses and head deep into the mysteries of the sea. The underwater expedition takes an unexpected turn when the team's mission must switch from exploring Atlantis to protecting it. Filled with stunning visual effects, this captivating story is loaded with laughs and messages of friendship and teamwork. Contains tobacco depictions.


At Revive Family we have a heart for kids struggling with depression. the impacts upon the family is significant especially since it is so hard to understand if you have not experienced it yourself.
Unfortunately we are encountering more kids at younger ages struggling with depression in our coaching. Today about 20 percent of adolescents will experience clinical levels of depression before they reach adulthood. (Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General). Many more suffer symptoms of depression.
In Revive Family's research and coaching of parents and adolescents we have found that the lack of true understanding of depression on the part of parents can limit the ability of youth to escape depression. Having experienced depression, I know first hand how the attempts to help made by people who do not understand depression can leave a depressed person feeling both more down on themselves and more trapped within it.
Understanding and giving credence to a youth's lack of motivation or desire to do anything is essential rather than pressuring him/her to get moving. Such pressure will only add to their sense of falling short and failure. Listening, encouraging, and sharing, rather than telling them that the way they see themselves is not right or giving correction, allows youth to hear themselves and begin to assess their thoughts. When they ask, "What do you think?" give them positive feedback.
In many of the adolescents' struggling with significant depression, whom we have coached, we have found that one of the roots of their depression stemmed from a collapse of their internal belief in themselves and their abilities. They had become so negative internally about themselves that it altered their perspective of everything around them. Any youth who is encountering significant signs of depression should seek the help of their physician and or psychiatrist who can prescribe medications. One question we like to ask when meeting with youth is if they feel a pressure or a physical ache in their chest. Often depression manifests itself with just such an ache. At times it can be so significant that people have gone to the hospital believing they are having a heart attack.
As parents you can do a great deal to help your child address their depression. Change your focus from performance to what is really going on inside and make a shift from external pressure to perform to targeting their internal beliefs and desires. While this is something we recommend and encourage parents to do with every child, it is critical with those who are depressed. This approach allows for more open and real communication and gives parents access to tap the discouragement that can build up within their kids often without any indication.
Tap discouragement by giving your adolescent a safe place to dump and evaluate it. Draw close through understanding. Listen, encourage and help them process the things that have become an energy drain within. This approach will greatly help your adolescent escape depression. All children want to please their parents. When youth come to the conclusion that this is not possible, depression may occur. Depressed youth need to once again feel close and connected to their parents.
Today more than ever our adolescents need to feel heard, understood, believed in and trusted. Understanding this and targeting the internals rather than the behavior and performance are at the heart of Revive Family's Influential Parenting. Learn more by watch our free webcast today and consider taking the Influential Parenting Online Class in easy to digest 10 to 12 minute modules.


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Returns the versions available for the project of given id or identifier (:project_id). The response may include shared versions from other projects.
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Raiguer oder Es Raiguer ist eine Region (katalanisch: Comarca) auf der spanischen Baleareninsel Mallorca. Sie liegt am Südostabhang der Gebirgskette Serra de Tramuntana zwischen der Halbinsel La Victoria und der städtischen Region der Hauptstadt Palma. Raiguer ist eine Übergangszone vom Gebirge zur Ebene Es Plà in der Mitte Mallorcas. Hier gibt es reichlich Wasser, aber wenig flaches, kultivierbares Gelände.

Die Region des Raiguer und im Besonderen die Stadt Inca sind als Zentrum des Schuh- und Lederhandwerk auf Mallorca bekannt. In der Region leben 127.743 Bewohner (Stand: 2008) und sie hat mit Inca auch eine Art Zentrum, wenngleich die Gemeinde Marratxi als Vorort von Palma etwas mehr Einwohner zählt. Drittgrößte Gemeinde ist die Stadt Alcúdia an der nach ihr benannten Bucht an der Nordküste.

Angrenzende Inselregionen sind im Nordwesten Serra de Tramuntana, im Südosten Plà de Mallorca und im Südwesten die Inselhauptstadt Palma.

Gemeinden

Strände und Buchten des Raiguer

Gemeinde Alcúdia

 Platja de Can Cap de Bou
 Platja sa Marina d'Alcúdia
 Es Corral d'en Bennàssar
 Platja des Barcarès
 Platja des Morer Vermell
 Platja de Sant Joan (Platja de sa Font)
 Platja de Sant Pere
 S'Illot
 Ses Caletes
 Cala Solana
 Sa Platjola
 Cala des Clot
 Platja des Coll Baix
 Platja des Secs (es Faralló)
 Platja d'Alcanada
 Cala Poncet
 Platja d'Alcúdia (Platja Gran)

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Q: Images are losing there height when set programmatically VS in XML Setting images horizontally chained, with match constraint for both height and width with a ratio works perfectly in XML, but not programatically
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            android:id="@+id/secondVotes"
            tools:text="NAMETEST"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/secondName"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/second"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="@+id/second"/>
    <ImageView
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="0dp" tools:srcCompat="@tools:sample/avatars"
            android:id="@+id/third"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/second"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/second" app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1"/>
    <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/thirdName"
            tools:text="NAMETEST"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/third"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/third"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="@+id/third"/>
    <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/thirdVotes"
            tools:text="NAMETEST"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/thirdName"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/third"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="@+id/third"/>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

This is (What I believe to be) the exact mirror of the above but done in code! The images are properly chained and spaced, I can verify via the TextViews, but the images lose all height and width and simply don't show in my app.
private class LeaderBoardView(ct: Context, leaderBoard: LeaderBoard): ConstraintLayout(ct) {
        init {
            this.id = View.generateViewId()

            val cs = ConstraintSet()
            cs.clone(this)

            val roleName = TextView(ct)
            roleName.text = leaderBoard.roleName
            roleName.id = View.generateViewId()
            roleName.setTextColor(Color.WHITE)
            roleName.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 17F)
            cs.connect(roleName.id, TOP, PARENT, TOP)
            cs.connect(roleName.id, START, PARENT, START)
            cs.constrainWidth(roleName.id, WRAP)
            cs.constrainHeight(roleName.id, WRAP)
            this.addView(roleName)

            val first = ImageView(ct)
            first.id = View.generateViewId()
            cs.connect(first.id, TOP, roleName.id, BOTTOM)
            cs.constrainHeight(first.id, MATCH)
            cs.constrainWidth(first.id, MATCH)
            cs.setDimensionRatio(first.id,"1:1")
            this.addView(first)

            Picasso.get().load(leaderBoard.first!!.headshotURL).transform(PicassoCircleTransform()).into(first)

            val firstName = TextView(ct)
            firstName.id = View.generateViewId()
            firstName.text = leaderBoard.first!!.firstName
            firstName.setTextColor(Color.WHITE)
            cs.connect(firstName.id, START, first.id, START)
            cs.connect(firstName.id, END, first.id, END)
            cs.connect(firstName.id, TOP, first.id, BOTTOM)
            cs.constrainWidth(firstName.id, WRAP)
            cs.constrainHeight(firstName.id, WRAP)
            this.addView(firstName)

            val firstVotes = TextView(ct)
            firstVotes.id = View.generateViewId()
            firstVotes.text = leaderBoard.first!!.firstName
            firstVotes.setTextColor(Color.WHITE)
            cs.connect(firstVotes.id, START, first.id, START)
            cs.connect(firstVotes.id, END, first.id, END)
            cs.connect(firstVotes.id, TOP, firstName.id, BOTTOM)
            cs.constrainWidth(firstVotes.id, WRAP)
            cs.constrainHeight(firstVotes.id, WRAP)
            this.addView(firstVotes)

            val second = ImageView(ct)
            second.id = View.generateViewId()
            cs.connect(second.id, TOP, first.id, TOP)
            cs.constrainHeight(second.id, MATCH)
            cs.constrainWidth(second.id, MATCH)
            cs.setDimensionRatio(second.id,"1:1")
            this.addView(second)

            Picasso.get().load(leaderBoard.second!!.headshotURL).transform(PicassoCircleTransform()).into(second)

            val secondName = TextView(ct)
            secondName.id = View.generateViewId()
            secondName.text = leaderBoard.first!!.firstName
            secondName.setTextColor(Color.WHITE)
            cs.connect(secondName.id, START, second.id, START)
            cs.connect(secondName.id, END, second.id, END)
            cs.connect(secondName.id, TOP, second.id, BOTTOM)
            cs.constrainWidth(secondName.id, WRAP)
            cs.constrainHeight(secondName.id, WRAP)
            this.addView(secondName)

            val secondVotes = TextView(ct)
            secondVotes.id = View.generateViewId()
            secondVotes.text = leaderBoard.first!!.firstName
            secondVotes.setTextColor(Color.WHITE)
            cs.connect(secondVotes.id, START, second.id, START)
            cs.connect(secondVotes.id, END, second.id, END)
            cs.connect(secondVotes.id, TOP, secondName.id, BOTTOM)
            cs.constrainWidth(secondVotes.id, WRAP)
            cs.constrainHeight(secondVotes.id, WRAP)
            this.addView(secondVotes)

            cs.createHorizontalChainRtl(PARENT, START, PARENT, END, intArrayOf(first.id, second.id), null, ConstraintSet.CHAIN_SPREAD)

            cs.applyTo(this)
        }```

A: Try this
// You can also set ScalType attribute of imageView
 <ImageView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    android:scaleType="fitXY"
    android:id="@+id/img"/>

// also set placeholder in picasso
Picasso.with(context).load(img url).placeholder(default_img).into(view name);

// you can also resize image with picasso
 Picasso.with(context).load(img url).placeholder(default_img).reSize(width,height).into(view name);


Many people dream of starting their own business. The independence of being your own boss is enticing. However, before starting your own business you need an idea. Consider the various types of businesses you could form, your strengths and weaknesses, and what kind of business model would work for your needs.
List your interests. The key to starting a solid business is figuring out what you're interested in. Many people desire to start their own company because they want to pursue their passions. The first step to making a decision about forming your own business is listing your own interests.
Take a sheet of paper and start jotting down your interests. You can start with the very obvious. For example, what do you like to do on the weekends? Do you read? Go hiking? Play sports?
Reach back a little. What were you interested in before you got the job you have now? Did you minor in literature in college? Did you used to knit or engage in another hobby? Is there anything you miss doing that once captivated you?
List your skills. Once you've determined your interests, now it's time to explore your skills. What are you good at? What do you think you could contribute to the world?
People tend to have surprising skill sets unrelated to their field of work. Jon Stewart was an outstanding soccer player. Neil Patrick Harris is an accomplished magician. Do you have a special skill unrelated to your field of work? Do you, say, quilt on the weekends? Is there any way these skills could be made into a business model?
Make a list of abstract skills as well. Take out a piece of paper and write at the top "These are seven things I'm good at" and proceed to list your most marketable skills. For example, "I am a good problem solver" or "I know how to stay calm in a crisis."
Pay attention to what's missing. The most successful business models fill in the gaps of an existing market. That is, they figure out what service or product is missing from an existing in demand industry. Consider what's missing in a field of interest to you.
Once again, making a list can help. Write a list of 5 products or services that would be useful to you but do not currently exist. Think about moments when, driving your car, watching your TV, or using some electronic device, you wished for a specific feature not on the market.
Keep in mind this may take a few days. A frequent complaint of the middle school essay topic "My Most Memorable Moment" is that when forced to think of something memorable on the spot many people's minds go blank. While you might come up with product ideas all the time, when you push yourself to write them down you might find you've forgotten quite a few. Take a couple of days to think about it, keeping your list on hand if an idea comes to you in a free moment.
Look for inspiration. A lot of anecdotal evidence speaks to the fact multimillion dollar ideas come at unexpected moments. The concept for Netflix, for example, began when Reed Hastings got a $40 late fee at his local video rental store. He wondered why movie rental companies couldn't work like health clubs, where you get charged a flat fee for using a given product. This is where he began to formulate the idea for his idea for an online DVD rental company. Pay attention to the world around you. Carry at notebook at all times. When you have a moment, like Hastings, where you wish things could work slightly differently write that down. A great idea could come of this later on.
Assess your personality. Starting a business is a big risk. You need to know what your strengths and weaknesses are going in so you can reduce the chance of failure.
In your current job, what are your strengths? Are you a behind-the-scenes type, making things work from behind a computer desk? Or are you out on the field, making connections and networking with others?
What do you genuinely enjoy about your current job? People tend to be more successful in jobs they truly love. Do you love attending conferences? Running meetings? Are the sort of person suited for a leadership position? If so, starting your own business may be a good plan for you.
Ask co-workers and colleagues to give an honest assessment of you. It can be hard to self judge so ask someone you trust what they think your best qualities as a worker are. This can help you see what role you can play in your own company and what roles you should assign to others.
Decide how much of a commitment you want to make. Are you looking for a side business, something to do for fun and make a little extra money? Or are you looking for something that could potentially replace your current job? Starting your own business, regardless of the size, is a huge commitment and carries a lot of risk. Spend some time assessing how much of yourself you'll willing to put into this new endeavor.
Look into education. If you don't have experience with running a business, consider getting educated. Even if you already have a degree, taking extra classes or pursuing some kind of supplementary training can help.
Consider going back to school for something like an associate's degree in business, marketing, or managing. Associate's degrees tend to be only two years and the course load may be less strenuous.
If you can't commit to getting another degree, consider taking a few business classes at a local college. There are also courses in business and start up companies offered online, which can be convenient if you have existing obligations.
Consider a sole proprietorship. A sole proprietorship is the simplest business structure available. In a sole proprietorship, you are the sole owner of your business and entitled to all the profits and also responsible for any debts and losses. You do not have to do anything special to form a sole proprietorship. You just need to be the only owner of the company and the status is set.
The main advantages of a sole proprietorship is that it's easy and inexpensive to form. You also have full control of the company and tax preparation is fairly easy.
The main drawback to a sole proprietorship is that there is no legal separation between you and your business. This makes you liable for all debts an obligations. As you can't sell stock as a sole proprietorship, it can be difficult to raise funds for expenses. It can also be very stressful to handle all responsibilities alone.
Learn about partnerships and LLCs. If you're worried about too much responsibility and liability, consider a partnership or LCC. In these arrangements, you're more protected and it may be easier to raise money for expenses. In a partnership, two or more people share ownership and responsibility of a business. In an LCC, your business would be a hybrid of a corporate structure and a partnership.
In a general partnership, you and another business partner share responsibility equally. In some types of partnerships, like a limited partnership, one person has slightly more control than the other. The main advantages of partnerships are they're easy and inexpensive to form, commitment is shared, you can find someone whose skill set compliments yours, and partnerships tend to attract more competent employees. The drawbacks are you will still have a lot of liability, disagreements between partners can hurt business, and profits are shared.
In an LCC, you're not an owner but a member and the way the structure is set up limits your liability. This is the main advantage to the LCC structure. Other advantages include less record keeping and profit sharing is far more flexible. Drawbacks include the fact LLCs can dissolve if too many members drop out and the self employment taxes associated with this structure can be complicated.
Familiarize yourself with corporate options. Forming a corporation can be a complicated process. However, forming a corporation can make running your business easier. Consider the corporate model when making a decision about your business.
The main advantage of a corporation is that you save a lot on taxes. Tax rates for corporations are generally lower. Your business will also have an independent life, separate from you, which limits your personal liability.
The biggest drawback about corporations it that operating processes are much stricter. Shareholders also have compensation requirements that can be difficult to meet if you're a smaller company.
Consider buying a franchise. An easy way to start your own business is to buy up an existing franchise. Franchises are well-known chains, such as McDonald's, that allow independent owners to purchase and operate a location.
Before you start a franchise, do your research. You'll have to follow certain corporate guidelines, so make sure the corporations overall ethics match your goals as a business owner. See if the type of franchise generally performs well in your area.
Understand you have less freedom as a franchise owner. You have to follow guidelines based on layout, designs, prices, specials, and other aspects of your business. On the upside, however, you'll receive support from the corporation through training sessions, corporate seminars, and networking opportunities.
Read your contract carefully. Contracts for corporations often benefit the franchiser more than the franchisee. Make sure you can feasibly make money running your franchise.
Look into an online business. If you're running a business on the side, running an online business can be convenient. You'll also have a more flexible schedule and slightly more creative control.
You do have to know a bit about web design in order to start an online business. You'll probably have to register a domain name, design and website, and advertise and market yourself. If you have an existing background in online media and marketing, an online business might be a good choice for you.
There are also separate regulations for online businesses, based on your state. Contact a lawyer who specializes in internet law to ask about policies if you're interested in starting a business online.
Learn about retail. Retail is a viable business type in which you sell goods and services. Retail is somewhat on decline due to the convenience of buying products online, but clothing items and other items that need to be tried on tend to sell better in a physical store.
Retail items tend to do well when they initially open up. Customers are usually drawn in within a couple of weeks. Procedures for taxes and initial opening are less rigid. Having a physical presence also helps you stay in consumer's minds.
It can be expensive to maintain a retail outlet as opposed to other businesses as you have to buy your supplies. Scheduling is more rigid, as you need to be physically in the store waiting for customers.
Consider consulting. If you're interested in self-employment, consulting is a fairly straight forward business type. Consulting also allows for a more flexible schedule and can be done on the side while you keep a more stable job.
Consulting tends to pay fairly high. This means fewer working hours. Having consulting experience also looks good on a resume for future employment opportunities. There are also many chances to network and grow your business.
The main downside of consulting is that it does not always provide a steady income. It also takes a lot of time and money to become a consultant. You will also have to take care of your own benefits and taxes.
What business can I start with a friend in my yard that doesn't involve my parents?
You could start a lemonade stand or a stand selling DIY crafts that you make.
Where can I find help for money to start my business?
You can try using websites like Kickstarter.
Would getting a degree in management be a problem if I didn't take any business classes in high school?
No. You can study anything you want in college regardless of what classes you took in high school. People who took business classes in high school might have a slightly easier time in the introductory classes due to already being familiar with some of the material, but you will be taught everything from scratch regardless and should be fine.
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Keep in mind that the vast majority of new businesses fail. Always maintain a "Plan B" just in case and keep some money in savings in the event of failure.
To find out what kind of business to start, first look for gaps in existing markets for which you have a passion. Next, consider your skills, like problem solving and staying calm during crises, and look for inspiration in your day-to-day life. Starting a business is a big commitment, so decide how much time and money you want to invest. For an easier option, consider buying a franchise or starting an online business. Whatever you choose, research your market and business type, and even consider taking a business or management class. For more tips, including how to determine your business model, keep reading!
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PKF Francis Clark has appointed Nicola Manclark as a partner at its growing Bristol office.
Nicola previously worked in the legal sector as a corporate tax partner at Ashfords LLP. She brings 20 years' experience of advising a wide range of clients, including tech companies and property businesses, on the tax implications of a wide variety of business issues, particularly transactions such as the sale of companies and real estate.
She joins a team of over 40 tax specialists across PKF Francis Clark's eight offices and will work closely with the firm's corporate finance team to guide clients through acquisitions, disposals and other deals.
Nicola said: "One of the main attractions of PKF Francis Clark for me was the opportunity to be part of a dedicated tax advisory team. I'm looking forward to working alongside some outstanding specialists as part of a bigger tax team which has real breadth and depth of experience, and will give me a great opportunity to develop my practice and expertise."
Nicola is ranked as a Next Generation Partner for corporate tax by the prestigious Legal 500 directory, which notes that she is praised by clients as "an outstanding professional who delivers high-quality advice".
John Endacott, head of tax at PKF Francis Clark, said: "We're delighted Nicola has joined us to help lead and develop our tax advisory team. As a tax lawyer, she brings a wealth of experience on complex corporate transactions and property deals, as well as strengthening our team in Bristol."
Since it opened nearly three years ago, PKF Francis Clark's Bristol office has grown rapidly, with a team of around 50 people now advising a wide range of clients across the city and beyond from their base in Victoria Street.
Nicola added: "I knew about PKF Francis Clark's friendly and inclusive culture, which is really important to me, as well as the firm's flexible approach to hybrid working. It's also a really exciting time to join the Bristol office, and I'm looking forward to building on our growing presence in the city's business community."
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Desaparecidos, Bright Eyes, Cursive, Lullaby for the Working Class & more, Concert for Equality, Omaha, July 31, 2010
by Becky Gould on 08/05/2010 in Immigrants & Communities • 0 Comments
Reblogged from Losanjealous – Written by Lindsey
Shortly after getting involved with the Sound Strike to protest SB1070, Conor Oberst, a Nebraska native, announced he'd be putting together a street festival, Concert for Equality, to raise money for Nebraska's ACLU chapter in order to help fight a similar law that had passed in Fremont, NE.
The line up included a reuniting Desaparecidos (who hadn't played together since 2002), Bright Eyes, Lullaby for the Working Class (who hadn't played a show in ~11 years), Cursive, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, David Dondero, Simon Joyner, Conchance, the Envy Corps, Vago, the So-So Sailors, Flowers Forever, and Fathr^.
The concert took place in downtown Benson, Omaha, and included an outside portion which lasted until 11PM, and then an after show, which took place next door inside the Waiting Room. Along with the bands that played there were speakers in between sets and also several booths set up with literature to educate people on the matter.
Speakers came from the following organizations: the Sound Strike, Nebraska's ACLU chapter, and [Nebraska] Appleseed. Most notably, Oberst invited a childhood friend of his, Erica Munoz, to relate an emotional personal story of hers and her family's where she explained how her mother, after living in the US for over 20 years, tried to re enter the country legally and was then told she couldn't apply for citizenship for another ten years and is now separated from her family.
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