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Setting up a community organisation
Incorporate an association
Apply to incorporate an association
Rules in an incorporated association
Change rules in an incorporated association
Register a co-operative
Rules in a co-operative
Incorporated associations
Amalgamation of incorporated associations
Accounts and audits in an incorporated association
Incorporated associations have a legal entity separate from their members and usually suit community-based groups as an alternative to other state-based company structures, such as a co-operative.
They are not-for-profit organisations and don't engage in trade or commerce unless approved by the Corporate Affairs Commission, which is administered by Consumer and Business Services (CBS).
A wide range of associations are eligible for incorporation, but they must benefit the community.
The how to incorporate (PDF 284 KB) document has a comprehensive list of eligible purpose categories on page two.
To incorporate an association you'll need to upload a copy of:
your association's proposed rules (sometimes called the constitution)
the completed checklist for the proposed rules
any trust documents connected to the rules, including documents which establish the trust.
The name of the association must be the same as shown in the rules.
Application fee: $216.00
You'll receive the Certificate of Incorporation in approximately 14 days.
Please read the guidelines on how to incorporate (PDF 284 KB)
Your committee members must have:
authorised someone to complete and lodge the application
approved the name of the association
assigned a public officer
approved the association's rules.
The association's name
The name should reflect the nature and purpose of the association. The name can't be:
the same as a name reserved or registered under the Corporations Act 2001
easily mistaken for another incorporated association
the same as a registered business or likely mistaken for one
undesirable or offensive to the public
suggestive of any connection with government.
List of restricted and undesirable names for associations - Government Gazette
You may reserve your association's name if you need extra time to collect the evidence needed for the application.
Fee: $152.00
Contact CBS Associations and Cooperatives
Email: associations@sa.gov.au
91 Grenfell Street
Amalgamation of Incorporated associations - CBS
Fee schedule for associations - CBS
Payment slip - CBS
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It's all been leading up to this. If you've been following our reviews of the Vault Comics series written by Alex Paknadel, art by Martin Simmonds, coloured by Dee Cunniffe and letters by Taylor Esposito – you'll know that we've been enjoying it quite a bit. Friendo #5 is the grand finale, and if you thought it couldn't get any weirder, oh boy, you're in for a surprise. Leo's character arc comes full circle in a violent showdown not long after he was injured by Zajicek the Cremator (who should be a contender for villain of the year). But does the issue deliver on the series' promise of exploring the relationship between a man and his malfunctioning A.I.?
IN AN ERA OF VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS, HOME HUBS AND SMART TECH – PAKNADEL AND CO HAVE CRAFTED A DARK LESSON FOR US ALL THAT WARNS OF EMBRACING IT WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
Undoubtedly. While we won't divulge any spoilers, Friendo #5 looks at Leo's life as a tragic comedy and how it's been turned upside down thanks to his partnership with Jerry's mischievous nature. He's the digital devil on Leo's shoulder, giving him the push in the direction he subconsciously wants – but definitely doesn't need. There isn't necessarily a full-blown fight with Zajicek, but the way their confrontation plays out feels satisfying considering how it all plays out. Zajicek is easily the most interesting character next to Leo and Jerry, so it was riveting seeing him in a new situation that was well out of his comfort zone. Plus, who doesn't love a violent hitman wearing pink bunny ears?
Friendo #5 quickly ties up some of the looser ends regarding the corporate higher-ups. We're glad it doesn't linger on them – mainly because the appeal here is the charismatic nature of Leo and Jerry rather than bureaucratic conspiracies. As the finale of the book comes around, the social commentary on consumerism (and more importantly; childhood) only float further to the surface as Leo openly embraces something missing from his youth. Another tantalising aspect to the issue is that it doesn't spoon feed the reader any answers or directions on how to interpret some of the digital hallucinations on the page. Sure, there's clear meaning in the subtext and certain elements link back to the initial issue, but it's largely down to the audience to find their own answers in the of the visuals and the somewhat bittersweet ending.
While this might be the end of Leo and Jerry's riotous adventure across America, it's hard not to imagine their appearance in our everyday lives. In an era of virtual assistants, home hubs and smart tech – Paknadel and co. have crafted a dark lesson for us all that warns of embracing it all wholeheartedly.
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This technologic parable only gets more entertaining with each page before the reader is faced with a hard-hitting finale.


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Somalia′s president cans US oil deal hours after it was signed | News | DW
Somalia's leadership has made a swift reversal on an oil exploration deal signed with a US company. On Saturday, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed announced that production sharing agreements had been signed with US-based firm, Coastline Exploration Ltd.
Ahmed said in a statement that the deal was "a huge moment" for the people of Somalia.
"Recently completed seismic programs indicate that Somalia has the potential to become a significant oil and gas producing country," he said in a statement. The deal would "accelerate our roadmap of hydrocarbon exploration offshore."
"We are pleased to announce that we have signed 7 Production Sharing Agreements with COASTLINE EXPLORATION LTD. It is a victory for the Somali people," the minister said in a tweet.
Same day cancelation
But with the ink barely dry, both Somalia's president and prime minister announced the deal was off.
In a statement, the office of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed said the deal was nullified. The presidential palace Villa Somalia tweeted that "it contravenes Presidential Decree 7/8/2021 which bans the inking of deals during elections so as to protect public resources from exploitation during elections."
The office of the presidency and the prime minister have a strained relationship but, in this instance, both leaders appear to have been on the same page.
Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble called the agreement "illegal" and "unacceptable" and said in a Tweet: "I will take all appropriate measures to protect our national resources."
Somalia's bumpy road to elections
The Horn of Africa nation is gearing up for long-overdue elections, scheduled for February 25. The road to the vote has been fraught with violent attacks and political tensions.
In December, President Mohamed suspended the powers of the prime minister over allegations of the latter being "linked with corruption." The country is also facing Islamist attacks, with an al-Shabab suicide bomber detonating a device in the town Beledweyne and killing at least 14 people.
The AFP news agency contributed to this report.
Edited by Darko Janjevic.
Somalia Signs Hydrocarbon Exploration Deal With U.S. Firm
On a drought assessment visit to Somaliland, Deputy UN Envoy highlights the need for support to drought-hit Communities – Somalia
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April 26 (Reuters) - Luxembourg's SES on Friday beat first-quarter core profit forecasts as strong growth in the satellite company's networks division offset weakness in video.
Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) fell 8.7 percent to 304.4 million euros on a like-for-like basis, but that topped the 287.8 million euros expected by analysts in a consensus compiled for the company.
"I am particularly pleased to see the underlying growth that we anticipated in our SES Networks business coming through, fuelled by strong performance in our aeronautical Mobility and Government business segments," Chief Executive Steve Collar said in a statement.
Underlying revenue in the networks division rose 8.5 percent to 153 million euros at constant exchange rates helped in part by the SES-15 satellite entering into service.
Underlying revenue in the company's core video business fell 3.6 percent at constant exchange rates, a smaller-than-expected fall helped by stability in the revenue of media service MX1 with new business in Europe offsetting non-renewals.
The company, which sees an "encouraging commercial pipeline" for its SES-9 and SES-10 satellites, said its financial outlook remained unchanged.


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Q:  with horizontal rule Does anyone know of a way to create horizontal rules within a <textarea> without using a background image?

CSS3 would be fine. I can bodge an image fallback for IE if necessary.

Example:

A: You can do this using linear gradients:

.notes {
    background-attachment: local;
    background-image:
        linear-gradient(to right, white 10px, transparent 10px),
        linear-gradient(to left, white 10px, transparent 10px),
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    line-height: 31px;
    padding: 8px 10px;
}
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JSFiddle Version

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A: I think that may be a background image. Look up on CSS background or background-image property then assign it the textarea in question.

A: I think using an image is the right solution.
Fallback: transparent background on the textarea, background-image on a wrapper DIV.

A: Short answer, it's not possible to format text inside a textarea.
If this is really important I'd suggest using

 which allows you to style the text (but it's open to potential abuse from pasted HTML), and then parse our innerHTML to a hidden input field upon submitting your form.

A: Universal solution

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*Create two divs with the same styling.

*First div is a "mirror" div with color: transparent; position: absolute.

*Second div is contenteditable="true", with injected span elements.

*Add any border-bottom and padding-bottom
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My new mentor came back from the field, so it was GO time last week. The basis of the work I'm doing now is sedimentology. Or the study of sediments. Gone are the long days on the microbalance and the small reactions that I never knew if they were actually working and here is the time of dirt. Carbonate dirt, specifically. Well carbonate sediment.
I actually started off the week by continuing my work with the heated gas making though. I got to buy dry ice at the CU chemstore which was a funky experience of grinding dry ice on something that looked like a medieval torture device and then using one of the grad students' ID cards to pay something like $1 a pound for a massive amount of dry ice.
I used this dry ice to make an ethanol slurry. This is super cool. Literally. I mixed dry ice into ethanol until it was a syrupy consistency, which meant that it was colder than the freezing point of water, but not cold enough to freeze my gas. Basically, what you do then is set up a glass canister of CO2 gas on a glass line. You move the gas through a series of valves, freezing out water with the slush trap and then coaxing the glass into the little tubes that I created last week. The tubes have necks in order to make them easier to remove from the line. Which is good because you end up torching them to get them off.
Beyond that, I also rinsed sediments (which took a full day and is about as exciting as it sounds) and ran them on the camsizer. The camsizer is a nifty little instrument (it's actually about 3 feet long) that you put sediment in to and then it takes photos of the sediment at an extremely high frame rate and measures the size of the sediment in the picture. It does this by essentially moving the sediment down a slide through vibration and then having it waterfall in front of two extremely powerful cameras. This could take up to 45 minutes for one sample so I spent a late Friday night in the lab with my sediments but it was a fun time and honestly it was super cool to see the camsizer measure 10,000,000 particles in one sample and then make a graph of all of their sizes.


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Candidate's Gubernatorial Campaign Inspired By Hillary Clinton's Loss
By Karen DeWitt | April 6, 2018
ALBANY, NY (WSKG) – Cynthia Nixon spent Thursday traveling the New York State Thruway from Syracuse to Rochester as part of her upstate campaign swing. In between stops, the actor and underdog candidate talked about how Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 presidential race helped inspire her to run for governor, and why she thinks Andrew Cuomo is not doing enough to help the state.
Nixon, who said she's been lobbying for 17 years at the State Capitol for education spending reform, said she's thought about running for governor for eight years. But she said this political moment in time — with Clinton's loss, Donald Trump's win and the inspirational presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — led her to finally take the plunge.
"Time's up," Nixon said. "Time's up on waiting for progressive change in New York. We have to make it happen."
Nixon said she doesn't believe Cuomo is a true Democrat and believes that, until recently, he was too cozy with Republicans who rule the state Senate.
"Andrew Cuomo is trying to discover the progressive part of himself, and the anti-Trump part of himself," Nixon said. "But the fact of the matter is that for eight years, he's completely governed like a fiscal Republican, and he's completely empowered the Republicans."
Cuomo appeared with the leaders of two warring Democratic factions in the Senate this week to announce a truce between the mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC). They said they will merge and work to get more Democrats elected to the Senate.
Nixon, who's been calling for a Democratic-controlled state Senate, said it's too little, too late.
"For eight years, he's been saying this had nothing to do with him and it's beyond his control," Nixon said. "But as soon as he wants to pull the trigger on this, he pulls the trigger, and boom — the IDC is reconciled."
"It's an incredibly cynical move," she added.
She said if the governor had announced the unification just a couple of weeks earlier, he might have succeeded in getting several progressive items into the state budget, which was approved on March 31. They include the Dream Act to give college aid to the children of undocumented immigrants, the Child Victims Act for survivors of childhood sexual assault and early voting procedures. Those measures were dropped in the final spending plan because of resistance in the Republican-led state Senate.
Nixon is an underdog in the race. Cuomo is far ahead in early public polls, and has a $30 million campaign war chest and the support of some key labor unions.
Cuomo has been reluctant so far to address any of his political challengers directly. There are also two Republican announced candidates, state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco and Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro.
The governor was asked about the race when he spoke with reporters after the Senate Democrats' reunification announcement on Wednesday.
"I take every candidacy seriously; you make a mistake if you don't," Cuomo said. "Anybody can run, and I've very proud of what I've accomplished. I'm proud of my record. I think we have the most progressive record in the country in this state."
Cuomo said even with a Republican Senate, he's achieved passage of marriage equality, an increase in the minimum wage, paid family leave and raising the age of incarceration in state prisons from age 16 to 18.
Cuomo said he'll "put that record against anybody's record anytime."
Nixon said in addition to running in the Democratic Party primary, she's also competing with Cuomo to actively seek the nomination of the Working Families Party, a progressive group that gave Cuomo the nomination four years ago but has had its differences with the incumbent governor.
"They are a really important force in this country fighting for working people," she said.
Nixon said she's "not prepared to say" whether she'd stay on the third party ballot until November if she wins its nomination but loses the Democratic primary.
The executive director of the Working Families Party, Bill Lipton, is staying neutral, saying the 232 committee members will "carefully evaluate the arguments on both sides" and make the decision that's best for the state's working families.
Attorney Says Ithaca Police Investigator Asked For, Never Got Help With Cases
ITHACA, NY (WSKG) - The attorney for Ithaca Police Investigator Christine Barksdale said his client is being used as a scapegoat. Barksdale is accused by the City of mishandling dozens of cases, including sex offenses.
CDC To Screen For New Strain Of Coronavirus At JFK, Other U.S. Airports
Updated Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. A new strain of coronavirus — named 2019-nCoV — has been discovered in China.
Governor Releases Budget Proposal Tuesday As New York Faces Largest Deficit In A Decade
ALBANY, NY (WSKG) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo releases his state budget plan Tuesday afternoon, and he's expected to detail how he will close a $6 billion budget gap. With resistance in the State Legislature to new taxes and spending cuts, the governor may have to get creative to thread that needle. The budget gap is largely due to overspending on Medicaid beyond Cuomo's self-imposed 2% per year spending cap.
An Art-themed Cabaret Performance
The Cherry Arts presents 'Apple:Tree', a 'rolling cabaret.' Creator and performer Caitlin Mathes joins us by phone to talk about choosing songs to pair with abstract paintings by her father, to show that "apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
Challenges, Including Issues Surrounding Citizenship, Face Organizers Promoting 2020 Census
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Q: sbt: How can I add a local filesystem jar to my project? I have a library compiled to a jar (not an sbt project, just the jar file) that's not available on a repository.
Is there a simple way to add a reference to the jar in the filesystem/project directly?

A: You can put the jar in your project's lib folder (create it if it doesn't exist), it will then appear on your project's unmanaged-classpath.
To publish a jar file locally, if you have an sbt project that produces the jar, it should be as simple as invoking "publish-local" to publish the jar to your local ivy repository so that you can use that jar in another one of your projects (on the same computer).

A: Your SBT project should be structured like this:
README.md
build.sbt
project/
src/
target/

Create a lib/ directory to add a JAR file (e.g. spark-daria_2.11-0.2.0.jar) to the project:
README.md
build.sbt
lib/
  spark-daria_2.11-0.2.0.jar
project/
src/
target/

The location of the lib/ directory should line-up with the output of the sbt "show unmanagedBase" command.
Refresh the project in your IDE and import the code just like you would import an external dependency.
import com.github.mrpowers.spark.daria.sql.DataFrameValidator

A: If you have multi-module project you should:

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*add lib to module dir (not to root). E.g., if you have module core, you should add jar to core/lib.

*remove explicit dependency for specified jar in your build.sbt (or in another place). E.g., remove libraryDependencies += <your jar in lib>


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The Tomorrow People ist eine US-amerikanische Science-Fiction- und Mystery-Fernsehserie von Roger Price mit Robbie Amell, Luke Mitchell und Peyton List in den Hauptrollen. Es handelt sich um ein Remake der gleichnamigen britischen Serie des Senders ITV aus den 1970er Jahren. Die Serie besteht aus einer Staffel und 22 Episoden und wurde von 2013 bis 2014 von Berlanti Productions, FremantleMedia North America und Warner Bros. Television für den Sender The CW produziert. Die Serie folgt einer Gruppe von jungen Menschen, die besondere übernatürliche Fähigkeiten besitzen und damit die nächste Stufe der Evolution erreichen. Die Erstausstrahlung fand in den Vereinigten Staaten am 9. Oktober 2013 im Anschluss an Arrow bei The CW statt.

Handlung

Die Serie dreht sich um die sogenannten Tomorrow People, eine Gruppe junger Menschen, die durch natürliche Mutationen den nächsten Schritt in der menschlichen Evolution erreicht haben und über besondere Fähigkeiten wie Teleportation, Telepathie oder Telekinese ("die drei Ts") verfügen. Stephen Jameson ist scheinbar ein ganz normaler Jugendlicher, bis er anfängt, Stimmen zu hören, was zunächst als psychisches Problem angesehen wird. Seine gute Freundin Astrid sorgt sich um ihn und unterstützt ihn. Als er beginnt, sich im Schlaf zu teleportieren und schließlich einer der Stimmen im Kopf nachgibt, führt sie ihn zu John, Cara und Russell, drei anderen Tomorrow People. Durch sie erfährt er, dass auch er dieser besonderen Gruppe der Menschen angehört und findet heraus, dass bereits seine Eltern Tomorrow People waren. Aus Angst vor Verfolgung müssen Stephen und die anderen Tomorrow People ihre Fähigkeiten geheimhalten. Die Organisation namens Ultra, die von Dr. Jedikiah Price, Stephens Onkel, angeführt wird und um die Fähigkeiten der Tomorrow People weiß, sieht sie als eine existentielle Bedrohung für die Menschheit an. Die Organisation jagt und foltert Tomorrow People und schreckt nicht davor zurück, sie zu töten. Im Verlauf der Serie lässt Stephen sich als Doppelagent von Ultra anwerben; der Kampf gegen diese Geheimorganisation und die Suche nach weiteren Tomorrow People und der Schutz derselben vor Ultra bestimmen das Leben der Gruppenmitglieder.

Produktion

Entstehungsgeschichte
Im November 2012 wurde bekannt, dass Greg Berlanti und Julie Plec daran arbeiten, die britische Science-Fictionserie Tomorrow People für das US-amerikanische Fernsehen umzuschreiben. Die Originalserie wurde zwischen 1973 und 1979 im Vereinigten Königreich gezeigt. Eigenen Angaben zufolge sind auch Berlanti und Plec Fans der Serie, mehr als zehn Jahre hatten die beiden Produzenten schon versucht, die Rechte daran zu erwerben. 2012 erhielten sie den Zuschlag von FremantleMedia, die ihre Produkte normalerweise nicht lizenziert. Im Januar 2013 gab der Sender The CW eine Pilotfolge in Auftrag, erteilte am 10. Mai 2013 dem Projekt grünes Licht und bestellte eine erste Staffel mit 13 Episoden. Am 11. November 2013 wurde die erste Staffel um neun auf 22 Episoden aufgestockt.

Im Mai 2014 gab The CW die Einstellung der Serie nach der ersten Staffel bekannt.

Casting
Die weibliche Hauptrolle wurde Mitte Februar 2013 an Peyton List vergeben. Einige Tage später wurde die zentrale Hauptrolle mit Robbie Amell besetzt, und Luke Mitchell für die Rolle des John Young, die es auch schon in der Originalserie gab, verpflichtet. Am 25. Februar 2013 wurde Mark Pellegrino für die Rolle des Wissenschaftlers Jedikiah Price gecastet. Im Oktober wurde Alexa Vega für die Rolle der Hillary Cole verpflichtet, die zur Rivalin von Stephen wird. Im Dezember 2013 wurde bekannt, dass Nicholas Young, der die Rolle des  John Young in der Originalserie spielte, eine Nebenrolle in dem Remake erhalten hat.

Besetzung

Hauptbesetzung

Nebenbesetzung

Gaststars

Ausstrahlung
 Vereinigte Staaten
Die Erstausstrahlung erfolgte am 9. Oktober 2013 auf The CW. Da die Serie im Anschluss an Arrow zu viele Zuschauer verlor, musste sie zum 5. März 2014 ihren Sendeplatz wechseln. Daraufhin lief sie ab dem 17. März 2014 montags vor Star-Crossed. Das Serienfinale wurde am 5. Mai 2014 gezeigt.

 Deutschland
Laut dem Medienmagazin Quotenmeter.de hat sich die ProSiebenSat.1 Group die Rechte an der Serie gesichert und entschieden, die Serie zum Sender Sixx zu geben. Dort war die Serie vom 6. Februar 2015 an zu sehen.

Episodenliste

Rezeption

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website von The CW
 The Tomorrow People bei Serienjunkies.de

Einzelnachweise

Fernsehserie (Vereinigte Staaten)
Fernsehserie der 2010er Jahre
Mystery-Fernsehserie
Science-Fiction-Fernsehserie
Fernsehserie (The CW)

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Tenderness and the Tragic Lens
It is in the nature of my work that people bring to me those situations that challenge them beyond what they are able to handle with their own skills. More often than not, I have the joy of supporting them in finding a way to go back to the situation and respond in a new way, with more love or understanding for another, with more willingness to express some previously hidden truth, or with more capacity to attend to everyone's needs. From time to time, a situation that someone presents to me is such that I, too, don't see a way that it can be handled externally. Sometimes, the only place where we can effect any transformation is internally, in how we frame a situation to ourselves. Since we are, as I often see it, meaning-making creatures, what we tell ourselves about a situation can radically alter our experience.
One frame I find to have extraordinary potential for such inner transformation is the tragic lens. It's a soft and loving approach which dissolves the stiff walls we hold up in protection from life, that softly embraces everyone and extends tenderness to insurmountable obstacles we encounter along the way to living a conscious and human life.
Understanding the Tragic Lens
Recently, during a call that's part of my teleclass series based on this blog, I had one such opportunity to engage with a man, let's call him Ben, who was facing a situation with so much challenge for so many people, that the tragic lens was my best offer to him. I suggested that embracing a situation as tragic rather than wrong allows us to mourn it, and in that way liberates us. It took some effort. Initially, Ben, like so many of us, couldn't separate "tragic" from "wrong," and remained outraged and helpless. He couldn't see his way to having empathy for the person in his situation whose actions most affected the whole group. Gradually, he discovered that he didn't have to first receive empathy for himself so he could let go of his reactivity. Instead, he saw the possibility that the tragic lens, which holds compassion for our human fallibility, all of us at once, could support him in finding tenderness for everyone in the group. The man in question would surely be horrified at the effect he was having on others if he had the capacity to open himself up to the feedback others were attempting to give him before they lost their cool and reacted to him, one after the other. He couldn't, because the amount of mourning he would need to encounter would knock him out. The people who had been trying to give this man feedback and disappeared into rage and threats instead would surely vastly prefer to find a way to stay connected with him so they could be effective in transforming his behavior which had been so destructive for the group. And Ben himself, as someone committed to Nonviolent Communication with all its attendant intention to make things work for everyone, would surely prefer to have found an empathic way to respond to all, including himself.


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    public double executeCommand (Model model) {
        return myParameters[0].executeCommand(model) * myParameters[1].executeCommand(model);
    }
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Are you desperate to eliminate the effects snoring is having on your life? Almost everyone will snore once in awhile, but if you're snoring regularly it can damage the quality of your life. The following hints and tips can help to relieve your snoring or to eliminate it from your life completely.
If you suffer from snoring and you smoke, consider quitting smoking. Inflammation caused by smoking irritates the tissue in your throat, and increases the possibility that you will snore. If the tissues in your throat are swollen, you are more likely to snore.
Sleeping pills are known to cause snoring: stop snoring by avoiding sleeping pills if they have this effect on you. The main effect of sleeping pills is to relax every one of your muscles. This also includes, of course, the muscles in your nasal passages and this means a narrower path for the air. This can lead to snoring.
TIP! Make sure you are hydrated well to help prevent snoring also. Should you be dehydrated, the secretions that come out of the nose are stickier and thicker, and that makes them a lot more likely to block airways which leads to you snoring.
Nasal strips can be very effective at eliminating snoring. These strips look much like a Band-Aid. That being said, they don't perform the same way as a Band Aid. These strips open your nasal airways automatically. Keeping these passages open ensures easier breathing through your nose, which means those snores that keep your or someone else up at night become a thing of the past.
If you snore, you should avoid drinking alcohol. Additionally, you should stay away from sleeping pills, tranquilizers, and certain antihistamines at night. These products work to relax your muscles, which causes your airways to be limited and this contributes to snoring.
If you lose weight, your snoring will naturally be reduced. Extra fat, especially the fat that surrounds your neck, adds pressure on the airways. This causes the airways to collapse slightly while you sleep. Just a couple pounds can make a big difference in your breathing and cut way back on snoring.
TIP! Illegal drugs should not be used. These drugs are not only bad for you health-wise, but they can be a cause of a snoring problem.
Check your current medications for any side effects that involve snoring. Certain medications dry out the nasal membranes, which can make them swell and reduce how much air can pass through them. On the other hand, some medications are sedating, which can cause too much relaxation of the muscles of the throat that you can't get enough air during sleep.
If you eat less at night, you will not snore as much. When you eat a large dinner too close to going to bed, your stomach gets filled up. A full stomach results in your diaphragm beings pushed up against the esophagus which can narrow or block your throat. A primary cause of snoring is a partially closed airway and the reduced airflow that results.
Limit the duration of exercise you get during the hour before going to bed. Exercising this close to bedtime can leave you breathless as you try to sleep. This causes airways to tense and constrict, leading to the progression of snoring.
Even if you never noticed you were lactose intolerant, dairy products can cause snoring. Dairy products encourage your body to produce more phlegm which can obstruct nasal and throat air passages. To determine if this is the cause of your snoring, avoid that glass of warm milk and try a cup of warm tea instead.
The home remedy "tennis ball cure" is something many supposedly former snorers swear by. This is when you place a tennis ball in a pocket that you have sewn on the back of your shirt or when you place one inside a sock and pin in on your back. If you roll over on your back during your sleep the tennis ball will make it very uncomfortable. Once you are accustomed to staying off your back at night, take the tennis ball off.
There are a number of methods to stop snoring. By using the tips that were in this article, you will finally get a good night's sleep, which is a big step towards improving life in general. Do not allow your restful night of sleep to be spoiled by snoring anymore.


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Behind the scenes, Calthorpe Estates actively supports local facilities so they can be maintained and improved for generations to come. For example, long term lease agreements for the Edgbaston Golf Club and Edgbaston Priory Club have helped secure their future. Land around Pebble Mill is dedicated for sports with King Edward's School now creating first class hockey facilities, which will also be used by the wider community.
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Q: When I use angularJS ng-repeat, it doesn't show what I append in javascript
In HTML, I want to display multiple rows of items(tasks timeline).
          In each row, gantt-items,gantt-days is used to plot 365 small boxes which are presented
          365 days in a year.
          And each row need to display a blue block, which means the assigned period of this task.
          {{timeline(item.data.sDate,item.data.eDate)}}, each row only contains one blue block.

HTML

     {{timeline(item.data.sDate,item.data.eDate)}}

JS
angular.module('myApp', ['ngResource']);
   function MainCtrl($scope,$resource){
      $(document).ready(function(){
         ...
         for(var i = 1; i < 366; i++){
            $(".gantt-item ul.gantt-days").append('
' + year + "-" + d.getMonth() + "-" + d.getDate() + '
');
            d = new Date(d.getTime() + (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
         }
         ...});

$scope.timeline = function GetLength(startDate, endDate){
    var firstDay = new Date(new Date().getFullYear(), 0, 1);

    var st1 = startDate.split("/");
    var dt1 = new Date(st1[2], st1[1] - 1, st1[0]);

    var st2 = endDate.split("/");
    var dt2 = new Date(st2[2], st2[1] - 1, st2[0]);

    var startPoint = ((dt1.getTime() - firstDay.getTime())/1000/60/60/24)*25;
    var length = (1+(dt2.getTime() - dt1.getTime())/1000/60/60/24)*25;
    $(".gantt-item ul.gantt-days").append('Duration');
};

When I am using ng-repeat, $(".gantt-item ul.gantt-days").append doesn't work.
    And timeline(item.data.sDate,item.data.eDate) is repeating n times in each row,
    which supposes to show only one item per raw of n rows.

A: It happens because the elements in the ng-repeat directive appear after the DOM compiling.
Try using $watch:
$scope.$watch('items.entities', function(){
    for(var i = 1; i < 366; i++){
        $(".gantt-item ul.gantt-days").append('
' + year + "-" + d.getMonth() + "-" + d.getDate() + '
');
        d = new Date(d.getTime() + (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
     }
});


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Forums > Off Topic > Tin Foil Hat Lounge >
Q's about the halfpasthuman web bot
Discussion in 'Tin Foil Hat Lounge' started by enough, Jul 23, 2009.
enough Monkey++
On whim, I forked over a couple bucks and bought a copy of the latest HPH web bot report. Holy cow, I could barely read the thing. For being a linguist, that one guy sure can't write. It was like trying to pick through hieroglyphs.
Does anyone read them regularly? I only got about 1/4 way through before I had to put it away and save it for a more focused day.
What kind of percentages do these guys get?
Are they more accurate in some areas than others? I could buy some of the economic stuff, but the getting into the NWO was dicey.
enough, Jul 23, 2009
I;'ve seen a couple of free ones on halfpasthuman I think...yeah alot of big words strung together.their biggest claim to fame is one of the first reports "predicted" a world shaping event before 9/11
Tango3, Jul 23, 2009
I've been getting them for years (which explains many of my psychological difficulties ). Occasionally frighteningly accurate (land driven back into the mud - Dec2004 tsunami, woman with 2 blind eyes will destroy a city in the SE USA - 2 weeks later Katrina, big earthquake on 34th parallel - Pakistan on date predicted) sometimes right with a big but (NE power outage - right date but "terrorism" and "abandoned city") a lot of "the linguistic data isn't clear". The last report is very negative, but the way things are going I would expect that. Clif says he's interpreting psychological irruptions from the unconscious into language, which are going to be a lot like dreams, so even if he's right I don't think it could be really linear/logical.
Also, I believe a lot of media bias/fear-based programming gets incorporated into the webbots data. The "Israeli mistake" has been predicted for "very soon" in the reports for years but hasn't happened. It sound a lots like a rehash of anti-Israel propaganda, picked up and interpreted by the bots as legit fears.
QuietOne, Jul 25, 2009
cliff high july 29th
http://webbot-project.blogspot.com/2009/07/playlist-journeys-with-rebecca-radio.html
Clyde Jet Set Tourer Administrator Founding Member
Here at Survival Monkey, we believe the Webbot is a powerful tool. In fact, we have created our own webbot and named it Tango3. It is a posting machine and can find ever obscure and varying articles varying from the number of aliens anticipated to invade the world to how long it will take for the earth to begin to spin backwards and the extent to which Big Brother will go to undermine the people by tracking the number of toilet flushes it takes to "finish a job".
We call this our Tangobot project. We should start a blog.
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector" - Plato
Clyde, Jul 30, 2009
Why ,I'm flattered.( buy a subscription $9.95 a month)
from a latoc thread:
http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
We may never get the chance to find out.
There has been so much ripping off of the "Shape of things to come" report in torrent sharing and on web sites out of places like the Netherlands, that we're being forced to shut down the whole project. While it may appear to some (low-life types) that file-sharing of the reports wouldn't be noticed, not only has it been noticed, but it has driven a stake through the project.
The reason is that the costs of the project run in excess of $20,000 per month and we'd been counting on revenue from sales of the reports to pay for bandwidth. Since the rip-off artists have effectively killed the paid downloads by giving it away free, Cliff is forced into the position of shutting down future reports unless we can find another way to cover the $25K/month in project costs.
Best reply in that thread about thewebbot going away:
"The webbot shoud have seen this coming and planned accordingly.
Recent webbot news: Clif said he's going to do one more report, probably in September, after which so much S will be HTF that there won't be any point in continuing.
P.S. The "alien wars" start next year. THEY are coming. Get you shotguns loaded and your tin foil hats ready.
QuietOne, Aug 2, 2009
Let 'em come on down there's plenty of fermented grain beverage in the temperature reduction container for all!...And I've got the new "blorgs gone wild III" DVD!
Tango3, Aug 2, 2009


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Competing in Melee and Ultimate Simultaneously
May 5, 2019 by rishi
Ultimate has been out for a few months now and has taken up the majority of the time I can dedicate to smash. The game is a lot of fun and I'm pretty optimistic about its merit as a competitive game. But trying to improve at the game with everything else on my plate is proving to be an extremely difficult task, and keeps pushing me to ask of myself: what do I really want to get out of smash?
It's a pretty wide question because smash isn't just one thing. It's improvement, competing, friends, writing, streaming, podcasting, traveling, and much more. I also don't really have an answer to this question. In this bl0g post I'll reflect on my experiences this year so far and hopefully by the end of it I'll have a better idea of where I'm at with smash.
So far, I've decided to give competing in both Melee and Ultimate at the same time an honest shot, but I haven't been competing in Melee in earnest in the way I was last year. Not yet, at least.
I'll save some time and say that it was the same story for both Melee tournaments I've entered so far – I basically only played Melee a few times in the week leading up to the event. A bit of concentrated solo practice to get my movement back up to speed, and some netplay sessions with good people to get my brain back up to speed. And the result for both was the same – almost everything is still there, but it's clear that if I need to be preparing further in advance for when I really return to form, as I was upset in winners bracket of both tournaments (by FatGoku at Genesis, and by Reesch at Full Bloom).
I've known this was a risk, and debated playing secondaries or not entering Melee at all at both events. But I figured that the experience actually competing in both games simultaneously would be worth it, even with reduced preparation for Melee. If I'm serious about competing in both Melee and Ultimate at a high level, I need to learn what does and doesn't work for switching games and managing my time at tournaments. I was in n3z's chat at some point talking about it and Kalindi pointed out that if I'm sick at both games in a year, nobody will care about a few bumps along the road right now. And he's right. If there's anything I've learned about smash, it's that the long-term investments are basically always worth it. Before you know it, months and months go by, tournaments come and go, and you have to live with the decisions you've made in the past.
The story of Genesis was: scheduling. I came to the venue early to warm up Melee, then transitioned to warm up Ultimate until my Ultimate pool started. I made an upset and won my pool, and was feeling good. Then I had to transition to Melee (which was round 2 pools at this point – round 1 was the day before) and I started off hot, winning my first set against R2DLiu with a 4 stock. Then an hour goes by, and I'm waiting for my stream match against FatGoku. Another half hour, and we still haven't played. It was around 3:30pm when we played, and my Ultimate round 2 pool was at 4pm, so I was pretty annoyed. I'd informed the streamrunners about my situation but I guess it was too late to bump me any further up the queue, so we had to wait it out.
Of course, I did end up losing the set to FatGoku. I was letting too many external factors get in my head, such as people from his region talking smack (playfully, not maliciously), and ultimately slipped up majorly in game 3. I was really tilted after the loss, and had to play another set immediately. It was around 3:50pm at this point.
I knew I should have taken a longer break, but some twisted part of my mind told me it was a good idea to try and play and force myself to recover from the tilted state of mind. I lost game 1 to BIGkiD, and very nearly lost game 2. I think I made a 2 or 3-stock comeback. By game 3 I was back in the right headspace and I won. Then I immediately got up and walked over to Ult, had 2 minutes to warm up, and played (and lost) to Cosmos. It was all really frustrating, and I felt that it could have been avoided with greater mindfulness of the fact that I had to switch games back-to-back. Scheduling pools is one thing, but scheduling within pools is important too. In an ideal situation, my stream match would have been planned to be early ahead of time, as I had already qualified for Ult round 2 by this point, so that I could finish my Melee wave in a timely manner.
I lost to a Mario in losers bracket of Ult not long after that. The same Mario beat Mang0 one round earlier (in the same matchup), so in another universe, Mang0 and I would have faced off in losers bracket.
After getting knocked out of Ultimate, I only had Melee bracket remaining. I was in round 1 of losers top 64, so still in shallow water. I took a break and stepped away from the crowds a bit to kind of re-center myself. I realized that in order to stay cool, I couldn't let external factors affect me as much as they were. They were giving me excuses to not perform to the level I know I could reach, so I willed myself to take things in stride and place my focus on the task at hand.
There were two goals I wanted to achieve, and decided that a success for that day would be that I tried my best to accomplish those goals. The first was to stay mentally composed throughout the bracket, and the second was to produce good gameplay. The latter seems a bit obvious, but there's a fine line between actively trying to play well and just… playing. The former draws your attention to your gameplans and encourages you to stay engaged in the process.
My first opponent would have been Swedish Delight, as he was upset in winners bracket by Joyboy, but he decided to forfeit, citing hand issues. So I passed that round and played Azel. I won that set pretty solidly, staying engaged and sticking to my gameplans against Falco. Next I played Moky, who I had beaten a couple months prior at Don't Park on the Grass. I dropped a game but ended up winning the set. And to round off my string of spacie opponents, I played Westballz.
Most people would consider this a dream bracket for a Marth player, but historically my victories have not looked like the traditional rise of a Marth player. I don't start by making a series of upsets against spacies, and eventually learn the other matchups. Instead, I was stronger against the floaties and midweights, and, in my view, basically brute-forced my way against all spacies that I beat. It's not that I was getting upset by spacie players in bracket, but I just wasn't beating similarly-ranked or higher-ranked spacie players.
I really worked hard on the matchups in the last half of 2018 because I wanted to push through that barrier. Most of this practice came in after getting into Summit, at which point I could really focus on grinding, recording netplay sets with top players, and analyzing them any chance I got (e.g. when I grab lunch). I also sent some of the sets to PPMD for feedback, and he was very helpful in getting me to see the matchups in different ways. And although I didn't discuss the matchups at length with Duck, some of what Duck and I have discussed in the past about other matchups sort of clicked for me.
I beat Westballz at Shine 2018, which was a big step for my personal journey with improvement because it meant I was on the right path, and I felt I could finally make some headway. Just two weeks earlier, I came short of winning a set against Lucky at SSC (after a near-loss to Uncle Mojo, too), so it was on my mind.
It's not like I'm a Marth versus Spacies g0d now, but I feel a lot more confident in those matchups. I'm a strong player anyways, so I feel myself learning fast. I still can improve quite a bit. In any case, back to the G6 bracket.
Last time Wes and I played, he went Falco. This time he decided to go Fox, which wasn't entirely surprising because I've heard him say he was done playing Falco versus Marth in the past. I went up 2-0 against his Fox, and he took a game on Stadium, then beat me on FD. Game 5 was on FD again. I felt it wasn't my punished that were holding me back, but rather I was just losing neutral. I was heavily fishing for grabs and Wes was sniffing it out. There was a distinct turning point in the match, though, where I had that realization and brought out counterplay. On a stage where one character's punish game is so fatal to the other, one or two shifts in neutral can mean a huge swing, and that's basically how it ended. I got a big combo to death, then took out the last stock and won.
My next set was to be on the mainstage for stream, and it was against Axe. I felt that I could win so long as I kept up what I was doing – staying mentally composed and producing good gameplay. I know enough about Marth versus Pika and have played Axe here and there. I know the basics of not getting gimped and I know how to combo Pika, though I can definitely improve the latter (especially anticipating the extra invincibility on tech-in-place, because this still trips me up). I do think I played well for the most part, but a flub cost me a game on Yoshi's that could have set me up for a game 5, and instead I lost 1-3. You know what I say about Axe, though.
In retrospect, I was a little rusty on my Pika knowledge. There were a few elements in the matchup that I had been experimenting with a few months ago that I forgot to implement in the set, and they would have inched me a bit closer to victory. But this was one of the prices I paid for primarily practicing Ultimate.
I did find it kind of amusing how my bracket progressed. I went from not even playing my first set (Swedish), to losing no games (Azel), to losing 1 game (Moky), to losing 2 games (Westballz), to losing 3 games (Axe).
In assessing the day overall, I felt my best when I was competing in Ultimate in the morning, and in Melee in the evening. The bad parts were in the middle and for both games, basically when I was playing both games simultaneously. I decided that, should I continue competing in both games, I would need to be proactive in discussing it with the TOs so that someone is aware and taking ownership of my scheduling needs. A lot of the issues could have been avoided if there were more visibility across teams.
Full Bloom 5
I won't go into quite as much detail for FB5 as I did for G6, as much of the story is the same. This time, however, I had the foresight to talk to the TO ahead of time (shoutouts to Louie). I requested that my Saturday pools for Melee and Ultimate be at least 1 wave apart from each other, meaning if my Melee pool were wave A, I wouldn't play Ultimate until wave C. That way, the entirety of wave B would be available to me to transition and prepare. This request was granted and implemented.
As I mentioned, I got upset in Melee pools, but it happens. I told myself that I could rally and still do well, and my own experience was evidence that this was the case – I did it at G6, after all.
In Ultimate, I wasn't seeded to make it to Winners Finals of my pool, but I suppose I made an upset. I was still seeded pretty low because I had to play MVD to make it out, and I lost. At this point, I had just been playing Link (I played all Wario at Genesis). But losing Winners Finals qualified me for bracket the next day.
Unfortunately, the master schedule had top 48 for both Melee and Ultimate overlapping on Sunday. I knew there was nothing I could do about this, so I accepted it and resolved to do the best I could with what I had. I reached out to Louie again and requested that I play one of the games first as much as I could before they asked me to transition. So I would either lose in one game, or go far enough that the bracket wouldn't need me for a while. They asked if I had a preference and I said, if I had a choice, I'd play Ultimate first.
I 3-0'd a Zelda in round 1 of losers, then had to play Ravenking, an Ike player who was a top 8 seed and upset from winners bracket. He went up 2-0, punishing me really hard throughout, but I started adapting. I learned how to get around him in neutral and how to pressure him offstage, and ended up taking two more games. It went to the very last hit in game 5, and he caught me with a dash attack. And that's how I learned Ike's dash attack kills! Regardless, I played well up through the end, so I wasn't upset about it.
In Melee, I had a couple of close calls early on. I nearly lost to NMW but made a big comeback and won game 5. I also nearly lost to Boyd but I pulled that together as well, despite nearly losing game 5 with a 4-stock lead. I beat Bladewise and Kels after that. I'd played Bladewise last year at SSC, but I hadn't fought Kels since Smash'n'Splash 3 in 2017, where he beat me very solidly in losers bracket. So even though I was seeded to win, it was a personal victory.
I started to feel pretty sick around this time, getting some combination of a fever and a headache. We had some hours to kill before top 8 so we grabbed dinner. When we returned to the venue, we found out there were tech issues and that top 8 would be delayed by… 2 or 3 hours? So I went back to my hotel and took a nap before coming back to the venue to warm up. The noise in the venue was really exacerbating my headache, but I knew that it was still possible for me to pull through.
My opponent was Duck, who I've never beaten. I'd gotten some good tips from Zain earlier that day and was actually pleased with my ability to implement them during the set. But there were a great deal of unforced errors on my part that didn't let me push as far as I could have, and I lost the set. Not to discredit Duck at all – he's an amazing player. I just hope that I can come back stronger next time and finally take the W. The closest I've actually been was at the Twitch Holiday Bash invitational a year and a half ago, where I took it to game 5, but his stamina was stronger than mine and he came out victorious.
All in all, a successful test run of competing in both Melee and Ultimate. Some logistical challenges, but I planned ahead, did my best to minimize potential issues, and played as well as I could.
For a while there, I was seriously grinding time into Ultimate to catch up to the 4 players and get better. I've gotten way better at the game and have learned new skills, but frankly, it was taking up way more time than I think was healthy. On top of that, competing at Full Bloom reminded me how much fun I have really giving it my all at the top level, which I got a taste of again through Melee. In Ultimate, I'm still at the stage where sometimes I'm fighting facts of the game rather than my opponent, usually when I'm faced with a matchup I have no experience in.
The conclusion I came to was that I need to stress less about my results in Ultimate. I'm going to keep learning and competing, but will always be checking in the back of my mind – am I having fun? There will be tournaments for years, there's no need to stress myself out right now. So I'm not committing to a main yet, and I'm not sacrificing more time and effort than I feel necessary to enter tournaments.
To satisfy my passion for competing, I have Melee. The way that I prepare for tournaments in Melee right now is very different from where I'm at in Ult. It still requires effort and time, but it's a much more familiar routine for me. It's also still really fun for me. Melee hasn't lost any of its charm.
There's another element to this, though. I want to invest in other aspects of my life, so I'm going to be more proactive about deciding to not play smash. For a long time now, whenever I have time that isn't dedicated to work or health or the occasional commitment with friends, I'm watching or studying or playing smash. I want to re-engage with some of my other hobbies like reading and writing, and find fulfillment in other aspects of my life. This doesn't mean I want to stop competing, but I want to experiment with some different balances.
Already this year I've been limiting myself to traveling no more than twice per month for a tournament. I'd like to push that even further and say no more than two weekends of travel per month at all, and maybe just one tournament per month. In May, I'm only attending Smash'n'Splash. I thought about going to GOML, but that's the weekend of the Game of Thrones finale, and some things are just more important than another tournament.
I also realized a little bit ago that I was not having fun streaming Ult. I'm not good enough yet to entertain a stream and focus on the game at the same time, so I'm going to keep Ult off-stream while I practice. That, and deciding to commit learning the game instead of one character has helped me stay having fun in Ult. I'm picking up new characters basically every week and working on my fundamentals. I may be settling on one character as a primary focus for May as I prepare for Smash'n'Splash, but I'm not making any long-term commitments.
Melee, on the other hand, is still fun for me to stream so I've been doing that a bit. I've been feeling really hot in that game, and as an extra plus, me and lloD will be returning to compete in teams at Smash'n'Splash for the first time since House of Paign. Before that, we hadn't teamed since last June. SnS is also a tournament that feels like a vacation to me, which I sorely need. So yes, I'm super excited.
That's about all I've got for now! For thoughts on other things such as PPMD and crabs being thrown at Hbox, check out Analog, my podcast. You can find it by searching "analogcast" on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, and SoundCloud.
Thanks as always for reading!!
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