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NPA used 'child warriors', APMs in Surigao clash
Philippine News Agency
BANNED MINES. Several firearms and anti-personnel mines were recovered after a firefight between the government forces and communist terrorist group New People's Army in Sito New Decoy, Barangay Diatagon, Lianga, Surigao Del Sur on June 15, 2021. Three NPA fighters, including a minor, were killed. (Contributed photo)
MANILA – The New People's Army (NPA) continues to use "child warriors" and anti-personnel mines (APM) -- two items that are strictly prohibited under International Humanitarian Law (IHL) -- in its deadly pursuit of establishing a communist government in the Philippines.
This was recently discovered after two separate clashes in Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur, where one minor was captured and three NPA combatants were killed. Also, a cache of firearms and explosives as well as other items used for bomb-making were recovered from the encounter sites.
The first encounter happened in Barangay Mabuhay, Prosperidad town on June 14 when elements of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion of the 401st Infantry Brigade, while conducting combat operations, chanced upon a group of around 10 communist terrorists.
The firefight resulted in the capture of a young female minor who goes by the alias "Cindy", 10 backpacks, three cellular phones and APM components.
The rescued minor is in the process of being turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Official reports indicated that "Cindy" revealed to government troops the location of their guerilla base, prompting the second firefight that occurred the following day, June 15, in Sito New Decoy, Barangay Diatagon, Lianga, Surigao del Sur.
Teams of Army Special Forces were sent out to information given by "Cindy" and while en route to the guerilla base, they were fired upon by a still undetermined number of CTGs who even detonated at least one APM. A ten-minute firefight ensued.
The Lianga clash resulted in the killing of three NPA fighters, including two females, one of them a minor. Likewise, several firearms, APMs, and bomb components were recovered. The seized items include an AK 47 assault rifle; two .45 caliber pistols; two bandoliers for AK 47s; one claymore mine; two blasting caps; three anti-personnel mines; four magazines for AK-47; four magazines for M16 rifles with ammunitions; 25 meters electrical wire; 25 meters detonating cord; one firing device; and two backpacks.
The operating troops then brought the cadavers of the slain communist terrorists to Sitio Manluy-a, also in Lianga.
The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines. (PR)


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Tiger's Tumble
Tiger Woods, who last won 18 months ago in Australia, has fallen to #12 in the world rankings which were released yesterday.
The last time Woods was outside the top 10 prior to this week was April 6th, 1997.
He began the season ranked #2, but has continued to fall down the list as he has dealt with health issues on top of poor play.
Woods was forced to withdraw from last week's Players Championship during the first round due to a leg injury. His game had been showing signs of improvement before this most recent setback, as he finished tied for 4th at this year's Masters. Coincidentally, that was where he tweaked his surgically repaired left knee which led to problems with his Achilles.
He has spent a record 623 weeks of his career atop the world golf rankings, including a run that lasted from June 2005 until last November, when current top-ranked player Lee Westwood knocked him off.
Eli Hardison May 24, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Everyone keeps waiting for Tiger to BE Tiger again, but he may never get back to that point. To me, he's the best ever, but his days of dominating appear to be over.

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Recession indicator big talk of the day. Here's what it means.
Recession indicator big talk of the day. Here's what it means.
August 14, 2019 | Frieda Powers | Print Article
(Image: screenshot)
Investors scrambled as the Dow dropped 700 points Wednesday following an economic alarm bell that sounded for the first time in over a decade.
A yield curve inversion occurred as the yield on the 10-year Treasury note broke below the 2-year rate, which many saw as a wake-up call that a recession is on the horizon.
(Video: CNBC)
The yield curve "shows how much yield investors are willing to accept to lend the government money," according to Fox Business.
"Typically, a bond investor receives a higher yield for holding longer-term notes than shorter-term ones. That causes the yield curve to be upward sloping, or 'steep,' signaling the economy is getting stronger. It also says investors think they can earn better returns in assets other than Treasurys," Fox Business explained. "But in some cases, the yield curve flattens, signaling the economy is slowing down and causing investors to shed riskier assets in favor of longer-dated Treasury notes and bonds."
An "inverted yield curve" (corrected version) means you are paid MORE to invest for the short term than for the long term. It results from increased demand for bonds, as investors move out of the stock market, out of fear. As the price of a bond increases, its yield decreases
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) August 14, 2019
"You are doing that because you are running away from risk assets, particularly from equities, and that's what makes you rush into 10-year paper or 30-year paper and that puts the 10-year yield below the 2-year yield," Sri Kumar, president of a California-based macroeconomic consulting firm, told Fox Business.
The last seven U.S. recessions, going back to 1967, have been preceded by such an inversion.
In case you did miss it! The US 10Y-2Y #yieldcurve has turned negative for the first time since June 2007. #recession pic.twitter.com/XwkkSOBcZH
— jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) August 14, 2019
And there it is – the US 2s/10s yield curve inverts for the first time since 2007. This development has preceded every US recession over the past 45 years. pic.twitter.com/I7UAeuhzGf
— Jamie McGeever (@ReutersJamie) August 14, 2019
But some on Wall Street are looking at the big picture and believe the yield curve as an economic indicator is just a "red herring."
"Markets are too complex to believe than any indicator can be an open and shut case once that indicator becomes widely discovered and gamed by trillions of dollars worth of trades," Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, told CNBC, noting how fewer eyes were on yield inversions in the 1980′s and 1990′s.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen doesn't believe the U.S. economy is advancing toward a recession at all.
"I think the answer is most likely no," Yellen Told Fox Business on "WSJ at Large" Wednesday. "I think the U.S. economy has enough strength to avoid that. But the odds have clearly risen and they are higher than I'm frankly comfortable with."
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
(Video: Fox Business)
Yellen, who was head of the Central Bank from 2014-2018, noted that the yield curve may be influenced by other "factors."
"So historically, it's been a pretty good signal of recession and I think that's why the markets pay attention to it," she said, "but I would really urge that on this occasion it may be a less good signal."
"And the reason for that is that there are a number of factors other than market's expectations about the future path of interest rates that are pushing down long term yields," Yellen said.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross downplayed the importance of the yield curve as a sure-fire indicator of a recession as well.
Here's what Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross thinks about the yield curve, which just flashed a troubling signal about the U.S. economy. https://t.co/LPHT4yjOud pic.twitter.com/mclRWbJaWY
— CNBC (@CNBC) August 14, 2019
"Formulas like that work when they work and they don't work when they don't work," he told CNBC Wednesday.


We are well rested and perform better tonight. The Velvets show is very different. They play the same songs, but it is apparent that Lou is going to do a fair bit of improvising, playing with tempo and structure. Sterling Morrison is playing bass on some songs, rhythm guitar on most (and he's a great player, all upstrokes), and a couple of great guitar solos on "Rock and Roll" and "White light, White Heat." Moe Tucker is amazing. She stands over her unorthodox kit for two hours, banging away, or maybe playing only a tambourine, or just the cowbell ("Some Kinda Love"). People will tell you that a band is only as good as its drummer - this is certainly true of the Velvets. Moe's stripped-down kit and style of playing are a huge part of the band's sound (listen to 1969 Velvet Underground Live against Live at Max's Kansas City, where Moe is absent, and you'll see what I mean).
I'm sitting up in the balcony and the guy behind me keeps calling out for "New Sensations." After the show we meet Sterling, Moe and Lou, who are all very friendly. Lou is especially funny in a very New York way, with a dry sense of humor.
I can't sleep tonight, due to jet lag I suppose. Justin and I sit up late watching Red Sonja on TV, and then World Championship Snooker. I keep hearing funny noises-either it's the seals in the zoo or else it's Stanley and Sean next door. I never do find out.


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Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape (born January 9, 1956 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican economist. He served as chief economic advisor to President Vicente Fox and as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón since December 1, 2006 to August 6, 2008.

Sojo graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) with a bachelor's degree in Economics and received both a master's degree in Economics and a doctorate in Industrial Organization and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania, where he published several papers on econometrics and time-series with Lawrence Klein, the 1980 laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Sojo has worked as a full-time professor at the ITESM Campus León, at the National Institute of Geography, Statistics and Informatics (INEGI) and served as the economic policy coordinator of Vicente Fox while he was serving as governor of Guanajuato. When Vicente Fox was sworn as president on December 1, 2000, Sojo was appointed his Chief Economic Advisor until his resignation in 2006, when he joined Felipe Calderon's transition team. From 2008 to 2015 Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape served as President of the Governing Board of INEGI, National Institute of Statistics and Geography. He was the co-chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM).

References

See also
List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty

Living people
1956 births
Mexican Secretaries of Economy
Mexican economists
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni
Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Politicians from Guanajuato
People from León, Guanajuato
21st-century Mexican politicians

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The color, design and style are choices of the person wearing it as this can characterize the person wearing it. I tatuaggi caviglia possono essere fatti per diversi motivi, per essere alla moda, per esaltare la propria bellezza, oppure, e questo. Si usted es un candidato para este procedimiento, sin embargo, es posible que quiera hablar con aquellos que ense. When windy conditions prevail, the Moda II has the ability to handle that situation. es, acaba por ser fundamental, para permitir que todos os acess.
Nossa equipe acredita na forma''''o de parcerias constantes que tenham como objetivo o bem comum, a evolu''''o de todos, sempre na sintonia da harmonia e da tranq''ilidade. Brazilian model, Izabel Goulart closed the show and brought rampant applause and attention from the standing room only crowds. I remember the day I visited Moda Italia in Palo Alto to pick out a business suit. Roma La británica Vivienne Westwood puso hoy en las pasarelas de la Semana de la moda masculina de Milán la versión moderna del hombre bohemio con sus exageradas camisas de mangas amplias, mientras que Ferragamo llevó el arco iris a sus clásicos trajes.
They caught my eye because they came in designer colors. But trust us on this – you cannot betray the one you love and expect your marriage to survive and thrive. What I failed to mention, is that this fashion show and market is not the same that we see all over the fashion magazines and websites now. And finally, hop on a gondola or a water bus and complete your visit to Venice with a ride down Venice's Grand Canal.
If you are planning to give a gift to your dear ones, then make use of the gift voucher facility offered by Pantaloons. You may also have to get it cleaned up to look its best. n yapıldığı yaz okullarında, g. A New York-based start-up, Moda Operandi, has raised $36 million from venture capital firm RRE Ventures, and several strategic investors, including IMG and LVMH Mo.
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How Satyajit Ray's The Alien hovered above Hollywood before nosediving into oblivion | The Indian Express
How Satyajit Ray's The Alien hovered above Hollywood before nosediving into oblivion
The Extra-Terrestrial opened to applause that is yet to subside, Satyajit Ray had submitted to Hollywood's Columbia Pictures the screenplay of a film about the friendship between a small boy and a benevolent alien.
Written by Monojit Majumdar | Updated: May 26, 2018 10:57:28 am
Satyajit Ray, Madhur Jaffrey and Marlon Brando
Travails With The Alien
In 1967, 15 years before Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial opened to applause that is yet to subside, Satyajit Ray had submitted to Hollywood's Columbia Pictures the screenplay of a film about the friendship between a small boy and a benevolent alien. Ray had wanted the film to be an English-Bengali bilingual, called The Alien in English and either Avatar or Mangal-Kavya (Martian Tales) in Bengali.
Spielberg's Elliott was Ray's Haba, which literally means halfwit or imbecile. He was the orphan beggar-boy who was no one to anyone except a lumbago-afflicted grandmother, and who inhabited a "black-and-white world of geometrical forms" while drifting around fields and woods, an object of contempt and pity.
Ray's E.T. was called, simply, 'The Alien', and it had chosen to land in a village called Mangalpur, which had been forsaken, in the opinion of its more knowledgeable residents, even by God. The alien had a large head, sunken cheeks, a small mouth, nose and ears, and three fingers — it was with the appearance of these digits, gliding across the screen, that it would have announced its entry in the film. It was cheerful, affectionate, and mischievous — it danced with fireflies in bamboo groves, it healed bleeding wounds, ripened wilting paddy, and made lotuses bloom. It even awakened the dead — just to play a prank on a horrified pallbearer.
A 1970 illustration for the book Ek Dojon Goppo in which Bonkubabur Bandhu was included
But The Alien went beyond just this otherworldly idea — it also dealt with the human relationships whose explorations Ray was best known for: those for example, between the unwanted Haba whom the alien decides to take away in its spaceship that has, instead of control panels and switches, veins and arteries that makes it more like a living being; the newspaper reporter Mohan and his newly-wedded wife Kalyani; and the businessman Bajoria and the American engineer from Butte, Montana, Joe Devlin. In the climax that Ray envisaged, "Mr America" with the gun is cheered by villagers for saving them from the alien's magic, even as Devlin himself — who has at last understood what's been happening—is overwhelmed by uncontrollable laughter at the farcical absurdity of his situation.
The Alien was never made.
In an interview given to All India Radio the year E.T. released, Ray blamed Mike J Wilson, who had mediated his negotiations with Columbia. Several hundred cyclostyled mimeographed copies of his treatment of The Alien had been left with the studio, and several ideas had found their way into E.T. and Spielberg's earlier Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he said, ensuring that his film could no longer be made—for he would be "charged with plagiarism, (even though) the reality (was) just the opposite!"
Mike Wilson in Paris, Photograph by Satyajit Ray
A couple of years earlier, Ray had recounted in a resigned but deeply amused tone the tale of "bizarrerie" that had unfolded over several months in 1967, which had left him "firmly convinced that The Alien was doomed". He wrote of how Wilson had showed up in Calcutta with an introduction from Arthur C Clarke, and then taken him to Paris (where they negotiated with Peter Sellers for a role in the film), Los Angeles (where "no one walks because you can be held up for vagrancy if you do") and London (where Columbia USA decided to transfer the film). In Hollywood, Wilson had Ray ride a Lincoln convertible, stay at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard where Maurice Chevalier used to keep a permanent suite, and party in a mansion that was once occupied by Greta Garbo and her lover John Gilbert — all apparently paid for by a handsome advance that Wilson had wangled out of Columbia. Ray decorated his story richly with anecdotes, which included making a note of Sellers's remarkable ability to seamlessly switch attention from his second wife Britt Ekland to the cleavage of an "Amazonian blonde" who, by the way, was accompanied by a cowboy with a gun in a holster.
Sketches of the Alien by Satyajit Ray
For some months in 1967-68, buzz of The Alien streaked across Hollywood's starry sky like a meteor. Ray wanted Sellers to play the businessman Bajoria, and one among Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, the American, Devlin. Talks with Sellers went some distance, and both Brando and McQueen showed an initial interest. A report by The Associated Press appeared in publications around the world under variations of the headline 'Famous Director Of India Accepts Hollywood Challenge', The Los Angeles Times reported on 'Indian Moviemaker's Implausible Ingredients', The New York Times wrote about 'Ray, A Famine And A Fairy Tale', The Guardian published an interview about the 'Alien In A Lotus Pond', and The Times did a story about 'Sellers Under The Great Ray'.
Satyajit Ray's: Travails With The Alien
But The Alien vanished quickly, rather like the spaceship in Ray's screenplay. In June 1968, Sellers walked away, and even though Columbia continued to express interest subject to a replacement being found, Ray dissociated himself from Mike Wilson, and the project lost momentum. Ray did contemplate reviving it in the early 80s, but E.T. had been released by then — and Clarke advised him against either assuming that The Alien had been plagiarised or bringing a lawsuit against the makers of E.T. Clarke later wrote in a letter to The Times that Spielberg had been dismissive about suggestions that he was inspired by The Alien: "Tell Satyajit I was a kid in High School when his script was circulating in Hollywood."
The story of what might have been India's first science fiction film, chronologically ahead of not just E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind but also Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and George Lucas's first Star Wars film, is already known to a broad spectrum of Ray fans and students of Indian cinema. What Travails With The Alien does is to tell that story in Ray's own words: through transcripts of interviews he gave, the full screenplay of The Alien that he presented to Columbia, the pictures that he took — and were taken of him — in those years, and the letters and telegrams that he exchanged with his interlocutors. There is also a prologue: Ray's story Bonkubabur Bondhu (Bonkubabu's Friend) that appeared in the Bengali children's magazine Sandesh in 1962, and provided the idea at the heart of The Alien. It is a precious, extraordinarily compelling archive, a remarkable window to a cinematic effort to which is uniquely attached the names of, as Clarke put it, "two of the greatest geniuses the movies have
ever produced".
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"""
Always ignore lines with '# noqa'
"""
__version__ = 0.2

try:
    from pep8 import StandardReport, noqa
except ImportError:
    # Try the new (as of 2016-June) pycodestyle package.
    from pycodestyle import StandardReport, noqa

class RespectNoqaReport(StandardReport):

    def error(self, line_number, offset, text, check):
        if len(self.lines) > line_number - 1 and noqa(self.lines[line_number - 1]):
            return
        else:
            return super(RespectNoqaReport, self).error(line_number, offset,
                                                        text, check)

class RespectNoqa(object):
    name = 'flake8-respect-noqa'
    version = __version__

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pass

    @classmethod
    def parse_options(cls, options):
        # The following only works with (flake8 2.4.1) if you run like "flake8 -j 1",
        # or put "jobs = 1" in your [flake8] config.
        # Otherwise, flake8 replaces this reported with it's own.
        # See https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/66
        options.reporter = RespectNoqaReport
        options.report = RespectNoqaReport(options)

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The issues and difficulties involved in designing a school complex have as much to do with the treatment of the empty spaces as with the character of the constructed elements.
The complex has clearly-defined boundaries, with a choice of location that is not exactly at the centre of the site. This gives greater resolution to the front square, the transverse passageway, the gardens, the courtyards, etc. There is an unambiguous distinction between the spaces that are open to the public and those that belong to the school. The architecture is characterised by the grid pattern of the wood frame, the specific constuctive elements (overhangs, solar protection, etc.), the dimensions and proportions of the openings, the transparency of the halls and corridors, and the colour scheme. The facades alternate between dark green and a copper tone, with sun screens in wood and visible structural frames.
The ground-coupled heat exchanger and blown-air ventilation system that is adjustable for the different classrooms, the photovoltaic cells, the natural lighting and ventilation – these features illustrate the aspirations of the project in terms of sustainability.


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/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */
var Strategy = require('./strategy')
  , BadRequestError = require('./errors/badrequesterror');

/**
 * Expose constructors.
 */
exports.Strategy = Strategy;

exports.BadRequestError = BadRequestError;


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CCBA toasts to fifth anniversary since merger
KAMPALA – This week, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa celebrates five (5) years since its merger. This is yet another exciting and key milestone in the history of the beverage manufacturer. In Uganda, it brought about the merger between Rwenzori Bottling Company, the leading mineral water brand in Uganda, and Century Bottling Company, bottler of Coca-Cola products in Uganda, signifying economic growth and shared prosperity.
Over these past five (5) years in Africa, several opportunities were identified for realising the continents growth potential, including to expand into territories the company had not operated in before, and to consolidate existing territories.
CCBA has since introduced many initiatives to improve on the impact of its operations on the environment, focusing on the reduction of water consumption, energy usage and waste generation. "Here in Uganda, we are very enthusiastic and proud of our contribution to waste management via our Plastics Recycling Industry in Nakawa – where we have a firm commitment to ourselves as bottlers, to Uganda as our consumers and to Africa as our collective home," said MD CCBA in Uganda, Melkamu Abebe.
The company has also managed to contain its energy efficiency to 0.32 Megajoules for manufacturing a litre of product, despite facing the challenges to incorporate manufacturing its own supply of PET preforms and expanding into new countries, in many cases inheriting older equipment with less energy efficient profiles.
CCBA has significantly reduced the amount of water required to produce one litre of product over the past five years and in 2020 alone reduced its usage by 463 Megalitres, equivalent to 186 swimming pools of Olympic size.
Research by Fitch Solutions shows that the global soft drinks industry was worth around $295 billion in 2018 and is expected to grow to $377 billion by 2023. Africa accounts for only 3% of this total value, despite representing 16% of the global population, which is expected to reach 25% by 2050.
By October 2020, the company had successfully concluded acquisitions in four new countries, increasing its markets to 14 countries, and acquired significant business interests in Kenya.
The company now boasts a diverse African footprint, with more than 40 bottling plants servicing over 650 000 outlets that serve a combined population of over 450 million people across the continent. "We fully understand that selecting and nurturing the right talent will aid in the continuous growth of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa. The opportunities set before all of us as a company are limitless as long as we believe and execute our overall goals," said Manufacturing Director, Edward Ojede.
It directly employs more than 17 000 people and enjoys the number-one market position in most of its territories.
"We continue to focus on growth and inclusion where creating opportunities for more and more Ugandans is a part of our priority. We operate full capacity plants in both Namanve and Mbarara where we are keen on best practises to deliver to our customers and consumers quality products. We challenge ourselves everyday on our delivery and it is a commitment we deliver daily," said Ojede.
As a stronger, more successful beverage bottling business, we can create greater shared opportunity for the business as well as the communities we serve across the value chain through job creation, skills development and support for small-to-medium sized enterprises.
"At CCBA in Uganda, it is key for us to create difference; even when it is just one person. If we as a company can impact change, then we will be celebrating multiple achievements. This allows us to accelerate growth and social development in our value chain, something we can all be proud of as a company and Ugandans," said SHEQ Manager, Sauyah Nalukenge, in charge of Quality Assurance at CCBA in Uganda.
We have focused on accelerating growth and social development in our value chain and making clear commitments on waste, energy, water and land use to lead the way as a responsible business in Africa."


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package org.emmalanguage
package cli

import api._
import examples.graphs._
import examples.graphs.model._
import examples.text._
import util.Iso

import breeze.linalg.{Vector => Vec}
import org.apache.flink.api.scala.ExecutionEnvironment

import scala.reflect.ClassTag

object FlinkExamplesRunner extends FlinkAware {

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Config and helper type aliases
  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  //@formatter:off
  case class Config
  (
    // general parameters
    command     : Option[String]       = None,
    // union of all parameters bound by a command option or argument
    // (in alphabetic order)
    csv         : CSV                  = CSV(),
    epsilon     : Double               = 0,
    iterations  : Int                  = 0,
    input       : String               = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"),
    output      : String               = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir")
  ) extends FlinkConfig
  //@formatter:on

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Parser & main method
  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  val parser = new Parser {
    head("emma-examples", "0.2-SNAPSHOT")

    help("help")
      .text("Show this help message")

    opt[String]("codegen")
      .text("custom codegen path")
      .action((x, c) => {
        System.setProperty("emma.codegen.dir", x)
        c
      })

    section("Graph Analytics")
    cmd("connected-components")
      .text("Label undirected graph vertices with component IDs")
      .children(
        arg[String]("input")
          .text("edges path")
          .action((x, c) => c.copy(input = x)),
        arg[String]("output")
          .text("labeled vertices path")
          .action((x, c) => c.copy(output = x)))
    note("")
    cmd("triangle-count")
      .text("Count the number of triangle cliques in a graph")
      .children(
        arg[String]("input")
          .text("edges path")
          .action((x, c) => c.copy(input = x)))

    section("Text Analytics")
    cmd("word-count")
      .text("Word Count Example")
      .children(
        arg[String]("input")
          .text("documents path")
          .action((x, c) => c.copy(input = x)),
        arg[String]("output")
          .text("word counts path")
          .action((x, c) => c.copy(output = x)))
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit =
    (for {
      cfg <- parser.parse(args, Config())
      cmd <- cfg.command
      res <- cmd match {
        // Graphs
        case "connected-components" =>
          Some(connectedComponents(cfg)(flinkEnv(cfg)))
        case "triangle-count" =>
          Some(triangleCount(cfg)(flinkEnv(cfg)))
        // Text
        case "word-count" =>
          Some(wordCount(cfg)(flinkEnv(cfg)))
        case _ =>
          None
      }
    } yield res) getOrElse parser.showUsage()

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Parallelized algorithms
  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  implicit def breezeVectorCSVConverter[V: CSVColumn : ClassTag]: CSVConverter[Vec[V]] =
    CSVConverter.iso[Array[V], Vec[V]](Iso.make(Vec.apply, _.toArray), implicitly)

  // Graphs

  def connectedComponents(c: Config)(implicit flink: ExecutionEnvironment): Unit =
    emma.onFlink {
      // read in set of edges to be used as input
      val edges = DataBag.readCSV[Edge[Long]](c.input, c.csv)
      // build the connected components
      val paths = ConnectedComponents(edges)
      // write the results into a file
      paths.writeCSV(c.output, c.csv)
    }

  def triangleCount(c: Config)(implicit flink: ExecutionEnvironment): Unit =
    emma.onFlink {
      // convert a bag of directed edges into an undirected set
      val incoming = DataBag.readCSV[Edge[Long]](c.input, c.csv)
      val outgoing = incoming.map(e => Edge(e.dst, e.src))
      val edges = (incoming union outgoing).distinct
      // compute all triangles
      val triangles = EnumerateTriangles(edges)
      // count the number of enumerated triangles
      val triangleCount = triangles.size
      // print the result to the console
      println(s"The number of triangles in the graph is $triangleCount")
    }

  // Text

  def wordCount(c: Config)(implicit flink: ExecutionEnvironment): Unit =
    emma.onFlink {
      // read the input files and split them into lowercased words
      val docs = DataBag.readText(c.input)
      // parse and count the words
      val counts = WordCount(docs)
      // write the results into a file
      counts.writeCSV(c.output, c.csv)
    }

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Helper methods
  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  class Parser extends scopt.OptionParser[Config]("emma-examples") {

    import scopt._

    import scala.Ordering.Implicits._

    override def usageExample: String =
      "emma-examples command [options] <args>..."

    override def cmd(name: String): OptionDef[Unit, Config] =
      super.cmd(name).action((_, c) => c.copy(command = Some(name)))

    def section(name: String): OptionDef[Unit, Config] =
      note(s"\n## $name\n")

    def between[T: Numeric](name: String, min: T, max: T) = (x: T) =>
      if (x > min && x < max) success
      else failure(s"Value <$name> must be > $min and < $max")
  }

}


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Q: How do you allow a user to manually resize a  element vertically? I have 2 div elements inside another div, and they are displayed as a block each. So div1 ends up right above div2.
I want to add a "bar" of some kind that the user can click and drag which will end up resizing div2, and div1 will be automatically resized by the same amount.
The parent of div1 and div2 has style: display:flex;flex-direction:column; and div1 has flex-grow:1 so it automatically resizes.
I want the resize bar to be something like this:

How do I add something like this? Also is there any way I can change the look of it in CSS?

A: In your column flexbox you can use resize on one of the divs and adjust the other automatically using flex-grow set to one - the downside is that the slider is not very customizeable:

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*add resize: vertical to one of the flex items

*add flex: 1 to the other flex item (so that this flex item will adjust automatically in response to the changing height of the other flex item as it is resized)

body {
  margin: 0;
}

.outer {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  height: 100vh;
}

.block {
  height: 50%;
}

.block-1 {
  background-color: red;
  resize: vertical; /* resize vertical */
  overflow: auto; /* resize works for overflow other than visible */
}

.block-2 {
  background-color: green;
  flex: 1; /* adjust automatically */
}

    Block 1

    Block 2

Solution
Instead you can use a mousedown listener that registers a mousemove listener that updates the block-1 height (and reset the mouseup event) - see demo below:

let block = document.querySelector(".block-1"),
  slider = document.querySelector(".slider");

// on mouse down (drag start)
slider.onmousedown = function dragMouseDown(e) {
  // get position of mouse
  let dragX = e.clientY;
  // register a mouse move listener if mouse is down
  document.onmousemove = function onMouseMove(e) {
    // e.clientY will be the position of the mouse as it has moved a bit now
    // offsetHeight is the height of the block-1
    block.style.height = block.offsetHeight + e.clientY - dragX + "px";
    // update variable - till this pos, mouse movement has been handled
    dragX = e.clientY;
  }
  // remove mouse-move listener on mouse-up (drag is finished now)
  document.onmouseup = () => document.onmousemove = document.onmouseup = null;
}
body {
  margin: 0;
}

.outer {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  height: 100vh;
}

.block {
  height: 50%;
}

.block-1 {
  background-color: red;
  resize: vertical; /* resize vertical */
  overflow: auto; /* resize works for overflow other than visible */
}

.block-2 {
  background-color: green;
  flex: 1; /* adjust automatically */
  min-height: 0;
  overflow: hidden; /* hide overflow on small width */
}

.slider {
  text-align: center;
  letter-spacing: 10px;
  background-color: #dee2e6;
  cursor: row-resize;
  user-select: none; /* disable selection */
}

    Block 1

slider

    Block 2

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They also got a call from Supre Tan almost the same day it launched congratulating them on a job well done on the new site.


Update: SOLD. Thanks to all who were interested.
For sale: my 1986 Suzuki Intruder. This is a great bike -- it's always run solid and it's a comfy bike to ride. Great for couples -- Erica likes the queen seat (she doesn't feel like she's going to slip off, like she does on crotch rockets, and she can sit uprightish). I rode the bike a lot for general transportation around Chicago, but we got a car and so I just don't ride it enough anymore to justify the space it's taking up in Shaun's garage.
The bike is not currently running -- it was running fine two years ago and then I put it into storage. I'm very confident that it's just that the battery is dead (that is one of the few annoyances of this bike -- the battery is in an awkward place and you really need a stand to get it out) but I should note that I'm selling it as-is. I added some of that tank stabilizer stuff to the gas tank before it went into storage.
Either Shaun or I has owned the bike for the last eleven years (he gave it to Erica and I as a wedding present three years ago). In that time it's been laid it down just once -- a nice slow topple at 5 mph at a rainy stop sign. That resulted in a scratch across the gas tank and a bent handle bar that Champion Cycle straightened out for me. I'm also always dinging the turn signals as I get it in and out of the garage. They're easy to replace, and also easy to bandage up with electrical tape (which is what they are right now). Other than that, no accidents. And the bike has been living in a garage for the last five years, protected from Chicago winters and summers.
I've got a whole gallery of photos up at Flickr so you can see the bike from all sides.
How does $700 sound? Questions? Give me a holler!


Pest controllers have been called in to King's Mill Hospital in Mansfield after a rat was found in an operating theatre.
Some 40 operations were cancelled after it was discovered that the rat had entered the theatre at night when the room was not in use. Hospital bosses have apologised for the inconvenience caused to patients and said the hospital was now fully operational. After it became aware of the rat issues, the hospital took steps to thoroughly clean the area with external pest control experts working to eradicate the problem.


There upcycling , then there's upcycling BKStyle . In TEhis EarthDay Ny Workshop, choose two of the three projects to up-cycle them. Repair holes by filling them in with your own funky recycled fabrics and embroidery stitches. Or, recreate your favorite old jeans into something beautiful and useful, again. Make a very cool denim flower embellishments to applique to a jacket or use as a hair ornament, etc. Or make a super cool bag!


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Venous and arterial thromboembolic complications in COVID-19 patients admitted to an academic hospital in Milan, Italy
Lodigiani
Iapichino
Thrombosis Research
Background: Few data are available on the rate and characteristics of thromboembolic complications in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Methods: We studied consecutive symptomatic patients with laboratory-proven COVID-19 admitted to a university hospital in Milan, Italy (13.02.2020Italy (13.02. -10.04.2020. The primary outcome was any thromboembolic complication, including venous thromboembolism (VTE), ischemic stroke, and acute coronary syndrome (ACS)/ myocardial infarction (MI). Secondary outcome was overt disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Results: We included 388 patients (median age 66 years, 68% men, 16% requiring intensive care [ICU]). Thromboprophylaxis was used in 100% of ICU patients and 75% of those on the general ward. Thromboembolic events occurred in 28 (7.7% of closed cases; 95%CI 5.4%-11.0%), corresponding to a cumulative rate of 21% (27.6% ICU, 6.6% general ward). Half of the thromboembolic events were diagnosed within 24 h of hospital admission. Forty-four patients underwent VTE imaging tests and VTE was confirmed in 16 (36%). Computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) was performed in 30 patients, corresponding to 7.7% of total, and pulmonary embolism was confirmed in 10 (33% of CTPA). The rate of ischemic stroke and ACS/MI was 2.5% and 1.1%, respectively. Overt DIC was present in 8 (2.2%) patients. Conclusions: The high number of arterial and, in particular, venous thromboembolic events diagnosed within 24 h of admission and the high rate of positive VTE imaging tests among the few COVID-19 patients tested suggest that there is an urgent need to improve specific VTE diagnostic strategies and investigate the efficacy and safety of thromboprophylaxis in ambulatory COVID-19 patients.
Nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score (NEMS)
Moreno2,
Iapichino3
NEMS is a suitable therapeutic index to measure nursing workload at the ICU level. The use of NEMS is indicated for: (a) multicentre ICU studies; (b) management purposes in the general (macro) evaluation and comparison of workload at the ICU level; (c) the prediction of workload and planning of nursing staff allocation at the individual patient level.
Low-Frequency Positive-Pressure Ventilation With Extracorporeal CO2 Removal in Severe Acute Respiratory Failure
Pesenti
Forty-three patients were entered in an uncontrolled study designed to evaluate extracorporeal membrane lung support in severe acute respiratory failure of parenchymal origin. Most of the metabolic carbon dioxide production was cleared through a low-flow venovenous bypass. To avoid lung injury from conventional mechanical ventilation, the lungs were kept "at rest" (three to five breaths per minute) at a low peak airway pressure of 35 to 45 cm H2O (3.4 to 4.4 kPa). The entry criteria were based on gas exchange under standard ventilatory conditions (expected mortality rate, greater than 90%). Lung function improved in thirty-one patients (72.8%), and 21 patients (48.8%) eventually survived. The mean time on bypass for the survivors was 5.4 +/- 3.5 days. Improvement in lung function, when present, always occurred within 48 hours. Blood loss averaged 1800 +/- 850 mL/d. No major technical accidents occurred in more than 8000 hours of perfusion. Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal with low-frequency ventilation proved a safe technique, and we suggest it as a valuable tool and an alternative to treating severe acute respiratory failure by conventional means.
Lung anatomy, energy load, and ventilator-induced lung injury
Andreis
Milesi
ICMx
BackgroundHigh tidal volume can cause ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI), but positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is thought to be protective. We aimed to find the volumetric VILI threshold and see whether PEEP is protective per se or indirectly.MethodsIn 76 pigs (22 ± 2 kg), we examined the lower and upper limits (30.9–59.7 mL/kg) of inspiratory capacity by computed tomography (CT) scan at 45 cmH2O pressure. The pigs underwent a 54-h mechanical ventilation with a global strain ((tidal volume (dynamic) + PEEP volume (static))/functional residual capacity) from 0.45 to 5.56. The dynamic strain ranged from 18 to 100 % of global strain. Twenty-nine pigs were ventilated with end-inspiratory volumes below the lower limit of inspiratory capacity (group "Below"), 38 within (group "Within"), and 9 above (group "Above"). VILI was defined as death and/or increased lung weight.Results"Below" pigs did not develop VILI; "Within" pigs developed lung edema, and 52 % died before the end of the experiment. The amount of edema was significantly related to dynamic strain (edema 188–153 × dynamic strain, R2 = 0.48, p < 0.0001). In the "Above" group, 66 % of the pigs rapidly died but lung weight did not increase significantly. In pigs ventilated with similar tidal volume adding PEEP significantly increased mortality.ConclusionsThe threshold for VILI is the lower limit of inspiratory capacity. Below this threshold, VILI does not occur. Within these limits, severe/lethal VILI occurs depending on the dynamic component. Above inspiratory capacity stress at rupture may occur. In healthy lungs, PEEP is protective only if associated with a reduced tidal volume; otherwise, it has no effect or is harmful.
Low-Frequency Positive Pressure Ventilation with Extracorporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal (LFPPV-ECCO2R)
Kolobow
Anesthesia & Analgesia
We describe a new form of mechanical pulmonary ventilation, low-frequency positive pressure ventilation with extracorporeal CO2 removal (LEPPV-ECCO2R). In a series of animal studies the rate of mechanical ventilation was 0.66, 1, 2, and 4 min-1 at a tidal volume of 3, 10, and 15 ml kg-1. We were able to maintain normal blood gases and normal lung volumes and lung mechanics even at the lowest ventilator rate with tidal volumes of 10 or 15 ml kg-1. Each experiment lasted 7 hours. Our data suggest a possible new dimension in the management of a difficult patient on mechanical pulmonary ventilation.
Thromboelastography-based anticoagulation management during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a safety and feasibility pilot study
Panigada
Ann. Intensive Care
BackgroundThere is no consensus on the management of anticoagulation during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMO is currently burdened by a high rate of hemostatic complications, possibly associated with inadequate monitoring of heparin anticoagulation. This study aims to assess the safety and feasibility of an anticoagulation protocol for patients undergoing ECMO based on thromboelastography (TEG) as opposed to an activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT)-based protocol.MethodsWe performed a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial in two academic tertiary care centers. Adult patients with acute respiratory failure treated with veno-venous ECMO were randomized to manage heparin anticoagulation using a TEG-based protocol (target 16–24 min of the R parameter, TEG group) or a standard of care aPTT-based protocol (target 1.5–2 of aPTT ratio, aPTT group). Primary outcomes were safety and feasibility of the study protocol.ResultsForty-two patients were enrolled: 21 were randomized to the TEG group and 21 to the aPTT group. Duration of ECMO was similar in the two groups (9 (7–16) days in the TEG group and 11 (4–17) days in the aPTT group, p = 0.74). Heparin dosing was lower in the TEG group compared to the aPTT group (11.7 (9.5–15.3) IU/kg/h vs. 15.7 (10.9–21.3) IU/kg/h, respectively, p = 0.03). Safety parameters, assessed as number of hemorrhagic or thrombotic events and transfusions given, were not different between the two study groups. As for the feasibility, the TEG-based protocol triggered heparin infusion rate adjustments more frequently (p < 0.01) and results were less frequently in the target range compared to the aPTT-based protocol (p < 0.001). Number of prescribed TEG or aPTT controls (according to study groups) and protocol violations were not different between the study groups.ConclusionsTEG seems to be safely used to guide anticoagulation management during ECMO. Its use was associated with the administration of lower heparin doses compared to a standard of care aPTT-based protocol.Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, October 22,2014. Identifier: NCT02271126.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13613-017-0352-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
The performance of SAPS II in a cohort of patients admitted to 99 Italian ICUs: Results from GiViTI
Apolone
Intensive Care Med
Anticoagulation Management and Antithrombin Supplementation Practice during Veno-venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Iapichino2,
Nardo3
Background There is a lack of consensus on how to manage anticoagulation during veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, including antithrombin monitoring and supplementation. The authors' aim was to determine current practice in a large number of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation centers around the world. Methods This was an electronic survey disseminated in 2018 to directors and coordinators of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation centers as well as to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation experts. Participating centers were classified according to some covariates that may affect practice, including 2017 gross national income per capita, primary patient population, and annual extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patient volume. Results The authors analyzed 273 unique responses from 50 countries. Systemic anticoagulation was routinely prescribed in 264 (96.7%) centers, with unfractionated heparin being the drug of choice in 255 (96.6%) of them. The preferred method to monitor anticoagulation was activated partial thromboplastin time in 114 (41.8%) centers, activated clotting time in 82 (30.0%) centers, and anti-factor Xa activity in 62 (22.7%) centers. Circulating antithrombin activity was routinely monitored in 133 (48.7%) centers. Antithrombin supplementation was routinely prescribed in 104 (38.1%) centers. At multivariable analyzes, routine antithrombin supplementation was associated with national income, being less likely in lower- than in higher-income countries (odds ratio, 0.099 [95% CI, 0.022 to 0.45]; P = 0.003); with primary patient population being more frequent in mixed (odds ratio, 2.73 [1.23 to 6.0]; P = 0.013) and pediatric-only centers (odds ratio, 6.3 [2.98 to 13.2]; P < 0.001) than in adult-only centers; but not with annual volume of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cases, being similarly common in smaller and larger centers (odds ratio, 1.00 [0.48 to 2.08]; P = 0.997). Conclusions There is large practice variation among institutions regarding anticoagulation management and antithrombin supplementation during veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The paucity of prospective studies and differences across institutions based on national income and primary patient population may contribute to these findings. Editor's Perspective What We Already Know about This Topic What This Article Tells Us That Is New


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import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
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    public static void main(String[] args) {
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Fresh from our experience at the Sea Lion Caves, we decided that rather than not see things that are supposed to be there, we'd go and see some things that don't exist. Ripley's Believe It Or Not fits the bill perfectly. Becky came here once when she was 18 (and it hasn't changed much since then), but this was my first time.
The kids were delighted and creeped out by all the crazy things inside. And when we left, we crossed the street and saw sea lions on the docks!


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Home » News » Initiatives » Joint Letters » Call on the Government of Zimbabwe to Respect and Protect Citizens' Right to Protest
Call on the Government of Zimbabwe to Respect and Protect Citizens' Right to Protest
Ahead of protests planned for August 16 in Zimbabwe, a coalition of human rights organizations from across Southern Africa issued the following statement:
We, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned about the threats from various government and state security actors in Zimbabwe against people intending to participate in a demonstration planned for August 16 in Harare, which is being organized by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC Alliance).
The MDC Alliance has called on citizens to participate in the demonstration to protest the increasingly untenable economic situation in the country. The organizers have reportedly notified the police of their intended march in accordance with the Public Order and Security Act. However, reports indicate that senior government and state security officials, including the minister of home affairs, deputy minister of defence and war veterans, deputy minister of information, publicity, and broadcasting services, and the commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, amongst others, have issued direct or veiled threats against both the organizers of and potential participants in the protest.
We urge the government and security forces to respect and protect citizens' right to protest. Section 59 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe states, "Every person has the right to demonstrate and to present petitions, but these rights must be exercised peacefully." This is in line with various international human rights instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The government must therefore respect its own constitution and international human rights instruments to which Zimbabwe is a signatory.
Whilst we urge the protesters to act peacefully, we believe that there is no reason for the government and state security actors to anticipate that the protest will be violent, and therefore do not consider concerns about unrest to be a valid reason for prohibiting it. In the past, security forces, particularly the Zimbabwe National Army, have used excessive force and violence against protesters, leading to the deaths of unarmed civilians during the August 2018 and January 2019 protests. Another violent response to unarmed civilians marching to highlight their grievances would be unacceptable, and would put another dent in the country's image at a time when the government is making frantic efforts to engage the international community both politically and economically.
We therefore present the following recommendations:
The government of Zimbabwe must respect and promote its citizens' rights to demonstrate and petition by allowing the protests to proceed on August 16.
The police, army, and other state security agencies must refrain from violence, including the use of live ammunition against members of the public. We urge the Zimbabwe Republic Police, like any other professional police force, to guide and assist the protesters as they march through the streets of Harare or elsewhere in the country.
The organisers and protesters must maintain peace throughout the protest, and ensure that all those who violate the law are reported to the police.
Signed and Endorsed by:
Botswana Labour Migrants Association
Gweru East Trust for Development
Bloggers of Zambia
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC)
Southern African Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN)
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Center for Young Leaders in Africa (CYLA)
Youth and Society, Malawi
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Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World
Label : AFM Records | Archive under death metal / grindcore
Release type: Full-length CD
Vera : After the release of the magnificent 'Dawn Of The 5th Era' (late 2014), Mors Principium Est could finally go all the way in touring. A trek with Onslaught, Spain, the Far East, Japan,… their fetching melodic death metal was an international success. Yet it seems to be quite hard to keep a second guitarist in the band, since the Frenchman Kevin Verlay left as well in the meantime. But well, fortunately guitarist Andy Gillion had already gathering some new material and the four-headed band worked on the songs until they could start recording the sixth studio album in 2016. For the mix and mastering they went to Sweden, just as for the predecessor, to cooperate with Thomas 'Plec' Johansson at the Panic Room Studios. The result is 'Embers Of A Dying World' and that sentence instantly reminds me of 'Embers Fire' from Paradise Lost. This as a side-note, now let's have a look at the musical developments in the eleven new songs of these Finns.
With a dramatic, orchestral intro called 'Genesis', we are led to the first energetic stunner 'Reclaim The Sun', right away the track for which they shot a video clip. The melodious guitar skills and the tight rhythms are completed with ultra raucous, yet intelligible grunts from Ville Viljanen. It is a hectic and fast song with a refined guitar solo as nice eye-catcher. They keep up the pace with proper dynamics in the slightly epic 'Masquerade' (slower chants on ultra fast guitar ornaments), the tight-as-hell 'Into The Dark' and the bonus track 'The Drowning' with its slower start. In addition to the rough vocals and the marvelous guitar skills, we have an extra element that leaps to the eye: the songs are wealthily regaled with thick layers orchestral arrangements, sometimes just in the background, other times a solo spot on violin or classical piano. Many of the songs have a length of five to six minutes and this gives the band the opportunity to build up tension. One of the most striking tracks is the rather slow and calm 'Death Is The Beginning', which is actually the meaning of their band name. It goes from thoughtful plucking guitars and fragile female vocals (only one verse) to rough male chants. An intermezzo with cello and piano and a magnificent guitar solo makes us really enjoy this song. Also the next songs have an interesting flow from quiescent to ultra vigorous, relished with splashing arpeggios and the short 'Agnus Dei' happens to be the only remaining moment of contemplation. The two last songs are chockfull and multilayered again, so that several spins are needed to fathom, but the catchy choruses of the guys help us to see the woods from the trees. Soon any of their amazing melodies kept haunting us. And that's how we know them: harsh, but yet very melodious. Again a stunner!
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This area of support can be extremely complex. Clients may have a diverse range of need and different diagnoses that impact on how they experience life, the challenges they face, and level of support that they require. The combination of these very unique needs can affect cognition and/or physical functioning.
People may have impaired ability to understand, communicate, or process information, making effective decision making, engaging everyday activities (both leisure and ADLs), socializing and learning new skills, in some cases, very challenging. Support often focuses on trying to enable people to be as independent as possible while being aware of their personal needs.
Multi-Sensory Environments (MSEs) can provide a space where a variety of interventions can be tailored to meet a need (or needs) quickly and easily, whether it be therapeutic, educational, or focused on using sensory equipment to calm, soothe, or stimulate. Object recognition and context, as well as following direction and sequencing activities, for example, can be purposeful goals.
If we take an example of carrying out a specific ADL, such as tying a shoelace for example, one can use an MSE to concentrate on learning this particular activity. A system with projection within the MSE can be tailored to show various multimedia to suit the learning needs of the individual. This can be particularly beneficial. Our clients use these in various ways to suit the user by playing videos of the activity being carried out, using static photographs in sequence, using simple text and words, recognizable symbols/illustrations etc.
Storytelling also can be wonderful in a MSE as the whole room can be used to create an immersive environment. If telling a tale for example, about the sea, small tactile items could be bought into the space such as sand or shells for the user to touch and feel, while the breeze blows (using a fan), an aroma panel emits scent of the sea, the sounds of the sea can be heard, and the whole room can be programmed in blues and yellows. One can supplement this with perhaps words or images from the book.
Again, as with all therapeutic, educational, or play experiences, the limits using an MSE are with the imagination of the facilitator and the possibilities are endless.
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Distilling has been in our family for generations. Five generations ago in 1822, Benjamin Prichard of Davidson County, Tennessee passed his "still, tubs and utensils thereto" to his son Enoch. Benjamin's will provides documentation of the last known "legal" distiller in the Prichard Family. Benjamin Prichard made his Tennessee whiskey with a high sugar content white corn, pure Tennessee spring water and it was distilled using ancient pot still techniques. Much of the unique character of Prichards' spirits may be directly attributed to its production in small batches using our classic copper pot still techniques and rigid quality control standards.
In 1997 Phil Prichard opened Prichard's Distillery in Kelso. Prichards' Distillery represents the first legal distillery to be built in Tennessee in nearly fifty years. Using some of the highest quality ingredients and the same techniques, Phil was able to craft some of the finest tasting rums and Tennessee whiskeys produced in America. The production of Prichards' Fine Rum may truly represent the restoration of a lost art form.


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Q: Segmentation fault when freeing at specific indices Following this tutorial on Hash Tables, I implemented a sort of simplified version. However, whenever delete_entry is called on every 4th index(4,8,12...), I get a segmentation fault. Else, it works fine
Here's the code I run:
#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct {
    int key;
    int value;
} entry;

typedef struct{
    int length;
    int count;
    entry** items;
} table;

entry *new_entry(const int, const int);
table *create_table();
void destroy_table(table *t);
void delete_entry(entry *e);
void table_insert(table *, const int, const int);

int main(){
    table *new_table = create_table();
    printf("[INFO] Created new table successfully!!\n");

    for(int i=0; i<16; i++){
        table_insert(new_table,i,i+i);
    }
    printf("[INFO] Inserted %d items\n",new_table->count);

    destroy_table(new_table);
    printf("[INFO] Destroyed table successfully!!\n");
    return 0;

}

table *create_table(){
    table *new_table = malloc(sizeof(table));
    if(new_table == NULL){
        printf("[WARNING] Malloc failure, returning NULL");
        return NULL;
    }
    new_table->length = 16;
    new_table->count = 0;
    new_table->items = calloc((size_t)new_table->length, sizeof(entry*));

    return new_table;
}

entry *new_entry(const int k, const int val){
    entry *new_item = malloc(sizeof(entry));
    if(new_item == NULL){
        printf("[WARNING] Malloc failure, returning NULL");
        return NULL;
    }
    new_item->key = k;
    new_item->value = val;

    return new_item;
}
void destroy_table(table *t){
    for(int i=0; i<t->count; i++){
        if(i== 4 || i == 8|| i==12) //Without this program terminates after 3rd index
            continue;
        entry *e = t->items[i];
        if (e != NULL){
            delete_entry(e);
        }
    }
    free(t->items);
    free(t);
}
void delete_entry(entry *e){
    free(e->key);
    free(e->value);
    free(e);
}

void table_insert(table *t, const int k, const int v){
    entry *e = new_entry(k, v);
    t->items[t->count] = e;
    t->count++;
}

A: Try to replace delete_entry() with:
void delete_entry(entry *e){
    free(e);
}

Freeing values of integers e->key and e->value will likely result in Undefined Behavior. You should use free() only on objects produced by malloc() and friends.


As part of yesterday's Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo showed off a whole ton of indie games they have on the way. Some we already know, some we've already played. With nearly 30 titles on the way, though, Wii U and 3DS owners will have plenty to do.
Games like Octodad: Dadliest Catch and Don't Starve have been out for a while, so they'll likely appeal mostly to gamers who play games mostly on Nintendo systems and not elsewhere. Regardless of where you play, though, there should be something worth picking up in this list.
One interesting thing to look forward to is that if you purchase a copy of Don't Starve: Giant Edition, you'll get a second copy to give to a friend.


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MammaPrint testing pinpoints risk of breast cancer recurr...
MammaPrint testing pinpoints risk of breast cancer recurrence from the primary tumour`s genetic make-up
Deciding whether or not women with breast cancer require adjuvant chemotherapy after removal of the primary tumour has traditionally been based on a series of prognostic clinical features such as tumour size, lymph node involvement, and other factors. If risk of recurrence is deemed low, adjuvant therapy and its associated toxicity can be avoided. Molecular technology is now available to help clinicians decide on the risks of a particular tumour recurring, based on its genetic fingerprint.
Last Updated: 27-Aug-2010
Women with very small breast cancer tumours <20mm, are usually considered by clinical guidelines to have a good prognosis. However, results of a small study reported at the recent European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) annual congress in Stockholm, Sweden, suggest that for a substantial proportion their risk of recurrence and later distant metastases is much higher than previously thought.
The study conducted by researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, and the Bioinformatics division of Agendia Laboratories, used the latter's microarray gene-expression analysis tool, MammaPrint, to assess whether tumour tissue showed gene profiles indicating a high or low risk of metastasis. The MammaPrint test compares how many of a reference set of 70 key genes linked to breast cancer, and which have been shown to influence risk of recurrence, are present in a tumour's gene signature.
Lead study author Dr Annuska Glas of Agendia, said that, of 319 small tumours analysed with MammaPrint, 39 were below 11mm and of these 19 (49%) showed a good prognostic gene signature with a predicted 10-year overall survival of >90%. The remaining 20 (51%) had a poor prognostic gene signature and their 10-year distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) was calculated as being only 60%. In the 280 patients with tumours between 11 and 20mm, the probability of remaining free of distant metastases at 10 years was 85% in the group with a good prognostic signature (44%) and 60% in the group with a poor prognostic signature (56% of patients), In a further sample of tumours from 145 patients of indeterminate clinical risk (lymph node-negative, estrogen receptor-positive and grade 2), 90 (62%) had a good prognostic signature with a predicted 10 year survival of 92% while 55 (38%) had a poor prognostic signature with a 10-year projected survival of 60%.
Even when tumours in the study were very small, below 11mm, patients at high risk were able to be identified by their tumour gene signature in comparison to the reference gene set in MammaPrint, said Dr Glas. Results of the test have important implications for how women are then treated over the next 10 years and choice of any adjuvant therapy selected for them. The test can also predict tumour sensitivity to specific chemotherapy agents. Patients identified by the test as being at high risk can be pre-tested to see what treatments offer their particular cancer the best chance of tumour response, progression free survival and a good outcome. The MammaPrint DNA microarray will complement other tests such as TargetPrint used to decide which patients are likely to respond best to certain targeted therapies
MammaPrint results provide extra guidance for oncologists over clinical guidelines on whether or not adjuvant therapy is required, said Dr Glas. The test has been independently validated in several cohort studies and is claimed to be a more reliable predictor than tests involving standard prognostic markers. Identifying patients at low risk is as important as identifying those at high risk for purposes of deciding on adjuvant chemotherapy. Oncologist Michae Wolf of Vivantes Klinikum am Urban, Berlin, Germany, commented: "In comparison with the St Gallen criteria, MammaPrint identifies significantly more patients (approx 40% vs 15%) with a lower recurrence risk."
New era of personalised medicine
Molecular testing with sophisticated assay technology is an essential component in new moves to offer patients treatment tailored specifically to their individual cancer rather than treatments that have been demonstrated to benefit average patients in large groups, commented pathologist Professor Giuseppe Viale of University of Milan and a director of the European Institute of Oncology during an Agendia-sponsored briefing. "There are approximately 400,000 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed in Europe each year but currently they are treated with one of only 10 chemotherapy combinations. This means 40,000 of them get exactly the same treatment. Patients are not being treated according to their individual risk profile and predictive parameters but according to what worked best in large groups of patients," he pointed out. Basing decisions on results of tests like MammaPrint was introducing a whole new philosophy, he said. "It's a new paradigm where we are listening to what individual tumour cells tell us they need to transform, grow, progress and survive and then choosing treatments targeting those processes."
Agendia CEO Professor Rene Bernards, claims the test is superior to conventional means of assessing risk of future metastatic disease such as histological assessment of tumour aggressiveness, and has been well validated. The fresh tumour samples used in Mamma Print testing are considered more effective at yielding RNA-based information than parrafin-fixed samples in conventional laboratory testing yielding degraded RNA.
MammaPrint's FDA submission was supported by a study in women up to age 60. Tumour samples and clinical data from 302 patients under 61 at five European centers in the TRANSBIG study confirmed the test was useful in predicting time to distant metastasis in the two earliest stages of the disease (Stage I and Stage II) where tumour size is equal to or less than 50 mm and when the cancer is lymph node negative. A prospective study MINDACT (Micro-array In Node-negative Disease may Avoid ChemoTherapy) is now comparing the relative accuracy of MammaPrint against traditional prognostic assessment methods in predicting the outcomes of 6000 patients focusing on patients where there is discordant assessment between the two methods.
By using MammaPrint testing as a basis for clinical decision-making, it is hoped women at low risk can be spared the hazards of unnecessary adjuvant chemotherapy which can cause myelosuppression, mucositis, cardiac problems, peripheral neuropathy, central neurotoxicity or leukaemia. This is particularly important where treatments are likely to have no impact on tumour recurrence. "Approximately 70% of all breast cancer patients with stage 1 or II disease could stay free of metastases without any adjuvant therapy," said French oncologist Dr Joseph Gligorov of Tenon Hospital, Paris. "It is important to identify this group accurately." Cutting out unnecessary treatment, improves quality of life and could save costs of up to €50,000 per patient, he estimates.
• MammaPrint was the first in vitro diagnostic multivariate index assay (IVDMIA) device to be approved by the US FDA and was cleared for use in August 2007. Before then it had been approved by European regulators in 2005. It is now available in a large number of centres worldwide, said Prof Bernards. "MammaPrint technology is just the tip of the iceberg. We are at the beginning of a new era of truly personalised medicine where precise tumour diagnosis will mean we will be able to identify the right drug therapy for the right patient. There will no longer be a one size fits all approach."
As well as MammaPrint, Agendia has developed TargetPrint, a test to determine gene expression levels of ER, PR and HER2 in tumour biopsies; and CupPrint, a test which identifies the origin of a metastasis when the location of a primary tumour is unknown. In addition, it is involved with DiscoverPrint, a collaborative service with Pharma companies to develop personalised cancer drugs.
Reference: Glas AM, Roepman P, de Snoo F and van't Veer, L. MammaPrint predicts survival in small T1 breast cancer tumours. Abstract 189PD Annals of Oncology 2008 ; vol 19: suppl't 8 pviii79.


ERIK MATTI won as best director in last year's Metro filmfest for "Honor Thy Father". But he complained about his film being disqualified as best picture and this led to an investigation that revamped the way entries are screened. Is he happy now?
chance of hitting it big at the box office since horror flicks are almost always blockbusters in the filmfest. "Seklusyon" is set in 1947 when candidates for priesthood, called deacons, are separated from society and put in a secluded place to make sure they will not be seduced by the devil to turn their back on their vocation and avoid their ordination as full fledged priests.
An ensemble film, "Seklusyon" stars Rhed Bustamante as a child faith healer who turns out to be the devil's disciple. Neil Ryan See is the priest investigating the case of Rhed. Ronnie Alonte, Dominic Roque, Johnvic de Guzman and JR Versales are the four young deacons who experience paranormal activities while in seclusion. Also in the cast are Lou Veloso as a former priest who's the caretaker of the old house, Phoebe Walker as the nun who acts as the guardian of the faith healer, Elora Espano as Ronnie's ex-girflriend, Sherry Lara as the mother superior, plus Jerry O'Hara and Teroy Guzman.
Direk Erik is really very busy these days as he is also doing an action film, "Buy Bust" with Brandon Vera and Anne Curtis, and the pioneering "On the Job, The Series" for HOOQ with a star-studded cast.


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New Group Plans to Offer Education Grants
A new source of grant money will be available to Ashburnham and Westminster schools with the opening of a fund-raising foundation aimed at helping teachers and students.
The Ashburnham-Westminster Foundation for Academic Excellence is a private, non-profit organization run by volunteers from the community. Members spent the summer drafting bylaws and filing paperwork to make the foundation official in time for the new school year.
"We hope to help with at least 10 to 20 grants and wish-list items for the teachers in all of the schools," said Foundation President Ronald Hurd.
Hurd updated members of the Ashburnham-Westminster School Committee about the foundation's status earlier this week.
Michael Zapantis, Superintendent of Schools, reached out to community members in May to look into forming a local education foundation.
"The concept here is to supplement the operating budget of the school, not to supplant anything" said Zapantis.
Though the foundation will partner closely with schools, Hurd said it was important to note that it is a self-governed organization, independent from the school system.
The foundation is set to announce itself through a mailing to all Ashburnham and Westminster teachers, residents and Oakmont Regional High School alumni, in the next couple of weeks.
A Web site should be up and running in a couple weeks.
Hurd hopes the publicity will prompt people who care about education to donate.
Hurd said teachers who are interested will be able to contact the foundation directly, and apply for grants. Foundation members will review requests for approval.
Hurd, the father of four Oakmont Regional High School graduates, said a "keen educational bent" has always existed in his family. He is excited about the prospect of bringing extras to the schools not covered in the school budget.
For example, Hurd said the foundation could pay for a composer to come in and speak to elementary school students learning music.
So far, the foundation has received a $2,000 matching gift from Norfolk and Dedham Insurance, and a $2,000 anonymous donation.
"We have sufficient funds to cover all start-up expenses, so 100 percent of any contributions to the foundation will be used for the intended purpose to help teachers and students," said Hurd.
In November, the foundation plans to hold a formal opening celebration, to thank those who have contributed, and make the public more aware of its existence. The date and time have not been finalized.
For more information, or to donate, contact Ronald Hurd at (978) 874-2350.
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>"I have studied this problem for three years now. The thing that makes this forum stand out for me is that it is supposed to be dedicated to men who feel they have had an atypical penile fracture and are experiencing ED because of this. No one else will listen to them and urologists keep on telling them that nothing is wrong, the problem is psychological or at best they diagnose peyronnies desease."
>Years ago the common cry was that erection problems are almost always psychological. That they were in your head, then the magic pills came out, that can help most sufferers, and the urologists changed their tunes, saving that "all in your head" status for those of us who the pills couldn't really help.
>i realize that this post turned from my evaluation of our medical options, to me crying about my own specific plight, forgive me.


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For some reason, I walked into Bastille expecting a really terrible, poorly made, unimpressive bloody mary. So I was pleasantly surprised when an ultra-fresh, acidic tomato juice jolted my taste buds into action. Cracked black pepper and a zangy hit of lemon beat me with the flavor of a thousand brunches, while a quiet, sneaky heat eradicated any lingering doubt. In fact, all of my unfounded skepticism was promptly replaced with pure, unadulterated day-drinking joy.


As Abraham Lincoln's two hundredth birthday approaches, the sixteenth president occupies a uniquely prominent place in our consciousness. Lincoln has always been a favorite subject of writers and scholars, and the steady stream of Lincoln biographies has recently become a torrent. Museums throughout Washington, DC, and beyond are cutting ribbons on new Lincoln exhibitions. While the state-of-the-art Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield anticipates a banner year, the National Archives prepares for the huge crowds that will encircle the building while the Emancipation Proclamation is on display.
To celebrate the Lincoln bicentennial year, Humanities Texas has developed an educational resource for classroom teachers. A striking poster, one of a series with the theme "A President's Vision," quotes the immortal passage from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: ". . .we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The poster and a corresponding web page will feature images of Lincoln, slavery, and the Civil War, as well as facsimiles of handwritten documents. The web page will also provide a contextual narrative, classroom activities, and bibliographical suggestions. The posters will be available to Texas schools this spring. Happy birthday, Mr. Lincoln!
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Poster from the Humanities Texas series. Design by Kevin Osborn, 2009.


Similar in size and general appearance to the pumpkinseed and a member of the Centrarchidae family of sunfish, the longear sunfish is a small, excellent gamefish on light tackle, although in many places it is generally too small to be avidly sought. The white and sweet flesh is excellent to eat.
With a stout body, the longear sunfish is not as compressed as the bluegill or the pumpkinseed, its close relatives. It is one of the most colorful sunfish, particularly the breeding male, which is dark red above and bright orange below, marbled, and spotted with blue. The longear generally has red eyes, orange to red median fins, and a blue-black pelvic fin.
There are wavy blue lines on the cheeks and the opercles, and the long, flexible, black ear flaps are generally edged with a light blue, white, or orange line. The longear sunfish has short and rounded pectoral fins, which usually do not reach past the eyes when they are bent forward. It has a fairly large mouth, and the upper jaw extends under each eye pupil.
The longear sunfish may grow to 9.5 inches, averaging 3 to 4 inches and just a few ounces. The all-tackle world record is a 1-pound, 12-ounce fish, taken in New Mexico in 1985.
Spawning takes place from late May to mid-August, when water temperatures range in the upper 70s and lower 80s Fahrenheit, with longear sunfish that are at least 1 to 2 years old moving to gravel bottoms. Males build shallow, saucer-shaped nests in water 8 inches to 2 feet in depth, guarding the eggs until they hatch about a week after being deposited. Many nests are usually found close together.
Longear sunfish feed primarily on aquatic insects but also on worms, crayfish, and fish eggs off the bottom.
Similar in range to the green sunfish, the longear sunfish occurs in east-central North America, west of the Appalachian Mountains from southern Quebec and western New York throughout the Mississippi Valley, and westward through Minnesota and Nebraska and south into Texas, as well as along Gulf Coast drainages to western Florida.
This species inhabits rocky and sandy pools of headwaters, creeks, and small to medium rivers, as well as ponds, bays, lakes, and reservoirs; it is usually found near vegetation and is generally absent from downstream and lowland waters.
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It's This Lady's Day! Audra McDonald Celebrates Her Birthday July 3
Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: June 27
Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: April 13
Audra McDonald To Reprise Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the West End
Critics Review Audra McDonald in HBO's Lady Day
Photo Features Look Back at Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill The play with music, based on the events surrounding one of Billie Holliday's last performances, opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre April 13, 2014.
By Marc J. Franklin
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre April 13. Directed by Lonny Price, the play with music played 20 previews and 173 performances before closing October 5, 2014. The play earned two Tony Award nominations and won both: Best Actress in a Play for Audra McDonald's performance as Billie Holliday and Best Sound Design of a Play. McDonald made Tony Awards history with her win, becoming the first woman to take home Tony Awards in all four eligible acting categories. She now holds the record for the most Tony Award wins of any actor in competitive Tony categories.
Written by Lanie Robertson, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill recounts one of Billie Holliday's last performances before her death, weaving in more than a dozen musical numbers in the play's portrait of the singer.
McDonald preserved her performance when Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill was filmed before a live audience at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans for HBO.
The production featured scenic design by James Noone, costume design by ESosa, lighting design by Robert Wierzel, and sound design by Steve Canyon Kennedy, with music direction by Shelton Becton (as Jimmy Powers).
Look Back at Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Audra McDonald in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill
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Look Back at the Original Production of Ragtime
From Ragtime to Shuffle Along: Celebrating Brian Stokes Mitchell's Greatest Stage Roles
Celebrating 6-Time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald
A Rent Reunion: Go Inside Opening Night of Anthony Rapp's Autobiographical Solo Show Without You
The show opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages January 25.
Go Inside 1st Rehearsal for Broadway Revival of Camelot, Starring Andrew Burnap, Phillipa Soo, and Jordan Donica
By Andrew Gans, Heather Gershonowitz | January 26, 2023
Directed by Bartlett Sher, previews begin in March at the Vivian Beaumont.
Every Actor Who's Played the Angel of Music and Christine in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
The history-making show will celebrate its 35th and final anniversary on January 26, three months ahead of its closure in April.
See Lea Michele and the Cast Of Funny Girl Sign Cast Albums
The Broadway cast of the revival signed copies of the new cast album for fans on January 20.
Photos: Go Into the Recording Studio With Lea Michele and the Cast of Funny Girl
The Broadway revival's new cast album gets a physical CD release January 20.
Get a 1st Look at New Production Photos of Les Misérables in London's West End
The revival, which is currently running at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, has released updated shots of their newest cast.
Go Inside Rehearsals for The Wanderers Starring Katie Holmes
The Anna Ziegler play will be running off-Broadway at The Laura Pels Theatre beginning February 16.


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Chargers' CC Boys Win at So. Hamilton; Girls Second
With ACGC senior Trevin Suhr literally leading the way, the ACGC boys' cross country team took first place at the South Hamilton Invitational yesterday. Trevin, who is ranked fourth in class 1A, bested the field of one hundred and six runners with a time of 16:45 over the 5K course at the Jewell Golf and County Club.
The Chargers scored 39 points to lead the eight team field and placed all of its scoring runners in the top twelve. Justin Reinhart took seventh place with a time of 17:54, while Andrew Mayaffey was right behind in eighth place with a time of 17:56.
Three Charger runners came in with the exact same times, with Lance Bunde (11th,), Noah Kading (12th), and Kaden Thompson (13th) all running a time of 18:09. Gavin Sloss also figured in the team score when he took 14th place with a time of 18:18.
Nine other ACGC runners participated but did not figure in the scoring. Bo Arrasmith completed the course in 18:19, good for 15th place and just one second behind Sloss. Other Chargers and their times were Zander Kenyon (19:40). Jackson Sloss (20:01), Tyconder Ellis (20:06), Easton Stringham (20:23), Tucker Carroll (20:48), Jarrett McClain (20:56), Carter Neff (21:58), and Justin Davis (22:57).
The ACGC girls' 78 points took second place behind Roland-Story's 45. Charger runner Ava Campbell made the best showing for ACGC with a 5th place finish in a time of 21:22. Hayden Coffman finished in 8th with a time of 22:00. Others who figured in the team's score were Adalyn Benson (11th, 22:30), Kiersten Knobbe (25th, 23:40), Paige Van Meter (29th, 24:01), Jayla Hoover (32nd (24:22), and Katelyn Schafer (33rd, 24:24). Also running for ACGC were Emmarae Ellis (25:59) and Mia Ocheltree (28:41)
"At our meet in Jewell the girls got second behind 2A ranked Roland-Story and our boys were champions," ACGC coach Colin Shawgo commented following the meet. "The girls had two junior varsity medalists and three varsity medalists.
"The boys walked away with six JV and five varsity medals. Lots of hardware for the Chargers at the last regular meet of the season."
The WCAC meet will be next Thursday at Panorama, and the state qualifying meet will be on October 21.
Girls' team scores:
Roland-Story 45, ACGC 78, East Marshall 105, West Marshall 107, Soth Hamilton 110, Madrid 125, BCLUW 125, Colo-Nesco 208
Boys' Team Scores: ACGC 39, East Marshall 55, West Marshall 108, South Hamilton 129, Roland-Story 137, Madrid 141, BCLUW 145, Colo-Nesco 215


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Schindler prepares for party after seeing Huddersfield into Premier League
Posted on May 29, 2017 by London
Huddersfield's penalty hero Christopher Schindler put the club's Championship play-off victory over Reading at Wembley down to the effort put in over the whole season.
The German converted the final spot kick to seal a 4-3 penalty success after the game had finished 0-0 at the end of extra-time.
Schindler told Sky Sports 1: "It's unbelievable. We put so much effort into the whole season. I think we deserved it and the feeling is unbelievable now."
He said of his decisive contribution: "The heart rate was pretty high. I think nobody is 100 per cent comfortable taking a penalty.
"I'm s o happy that I'm here with this wonderful team. I think we are going to have a party now."
Huddersfield goalkeeper Danny Ward, who saved Jordan Obita's penalty to give Schindler the chance to score the winner, paid tribute to manager David Wagner after the victory.
He said: "I think the manager plays a huge part, especially with the people he brought in during the summer."
Ward added: "It still hasn't quite sunk in. It just sums our season up to be honest. It's fully deserved.
"The desire the group have got to hang in there is unbelievable."
Michael Hefele missed his own spot-kick early in the shoot-out and admitted: "It was the worst moment in my career but I think we just stick together.
"Everybody achieved such a big thing, we are now in the Premier League with Huddersfield Town. Such a small club is now in the best league in the world, it's just crazy."