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ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The New Home Company Inc. (NYSE:NWHM) (the "Company") today announced that on May 10, 2018 its Board of Directors approved a $15 million stock repurchase program.
Under the repurchase program, the Company may repurchase its common stock with an aggregate value of up to $15 million. The repurchases of the Company's shares may be made in the open market, in privately negotiated transactions, or otherwise. The timing and amount of repurchases, if any, will be determined by the Company's management at its discretion and be based on a variety of factors such as the market price of the Company's common stock, corporate and contractual requirements, prevailing market and economic conditions and legal requirements. The share repurchase program may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time. The Company intends to retire any shares repurchased.
THE NEW HOME COMPANY is a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NWHM." It is a next generation homebuilder focused on the design, construction and sale of innovative and consumer-driven homes in major metropolitan areas within select growth markets in California and Arizona, including coastal Southern California, the San Francisco Bay area, metro Sacramento and Phoenix. The Company is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. For more information about the Company and its new home developments, please visit the Company's website at www.NWHM.com.
This press release is for informational purposes only and is neither an offer to buy nor the solicitation of an offer to sell, any stock of the Company's common stock.
Various statements contained in this press release, including those that express a belief, anticipation, expectation or intention, as well as those that are not statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities, as well as those of the markets we serve or intend to serve, to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate to matters of a strictly factual or historical nature and generally discuss or relate to forecasts, estimates or other expectations regarding future events. Generally, the words "believe," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "plan," "project," "may," "can," "could," "might," "should," "will" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, including statements related to the impairment charge with respect to certain land parcels and the impacts or effects thereof, expected operating and performing results, planned transactions, planned objectives of management, future developments or conditions in the industries in which we participate and other trends, developments and uncertainties that may affect our business in the future. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this release, and we disclaim any obligation to update these statements unless required by law, and we caution you not to rely on them unduly. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and assumptions about future events.
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In order to better align with its next-generation global supply chain technology portfolio, ClearView Audit announced that the company will change its corporate name to SwanLeap.
Asked about the business name change, SwanLeap CEO Brad Hollister said, "the name SwanLeap represents unexpected change, which we call a Black Swan event, and is representative of how we are helping companies leap into the future." SwanLeap is an improved way of thinking; a solution not based on "rules" for all shipments, domestic and global. Right now, where transportation management systems (TMS) are fragmented and siloed, SwanLeap's platform offers a connected TMS which impacts an organization's financial decisions, supply chain operations, customer service, and even sales.
"Companies are waking up to the fact that the TMS technologies they bought to reduce costs are actually killing their profits. The SwanLeap rebrand is timely, as we begin to emerge with leading solutions in new markets both domestically and globally. We feel the current TMS technology providers are under-serving the market and the evolving, global supply chain needs an unprecedented shift in not just the function, but the role of the TMS," said Hollister. The company revealed the rebrand last month in Atlanta, GA at MODEX, the largest supply chain expo in North and South America.
Founded in 2013, SwanLeap, formerly ClearView Audit, is a leading transportation management systems, shipping technology, and freight payment and auditing firm specializing in supply chain best practices and shipping cost reduction strategies.
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Should I really punch animals in the nose when attacked?
If a shark comes attacks, you may be able to get away by punching it - assuming you're focused and in the right state of mind.
If the person you were attacking punched you in the face, would it work? Some might say that getting punched in the nose hurts -- like, unreasonably so. Others would argue that it would merely incite their ire: After the initial shock, adrenaline would kick in, and they'd make even quicker work of their opponent.
When it comes to animal attacks, the answer pretty much lies with what kind of animal you're punching. (And let's just make it clear right now that unless you are being attacked, punching any kind of animal gets you a one-way ticket to a land called "Being A Bad Person.") So let's talk about a few different animals that have a reputation for needing a good stick in the nose.
The shark is the animal we most commonly associate with a sucker punch. The rumor is that a good, hard punch to the snout is going to send a shark reeling. There a couple of problems with this. One is that its super hard to punch anything underwater, making a good thump on the nose pretty unrealistic. Another issue: While shark noses are sensitive, their gills and eyes are much more vulnerable. Punching one in the nose probably won't do enough damage to stun it, and you've got the added problem of being a little too close for comfort to its enormous, gaping jaws [source: O'Connor]. So perhaps a "no" on punching sharks.
Another suggested victim for a punch in the nose? Bears. While in some cases it's wise to play dead around a bear (a grizzly or a mother defending her cubs), it's also certainly appropriate to try and fight off an aggressive bear. And while it's not a sure thing, punching or hitting the bear is certainly going to help you fight it off. Go ahead and clock it in the nose if you need to [source: NPS].
Of course, the animal that's really going to be useful to punch is one that has a crazy sensitive snout. So we present to you the animal that is most useful to wallop in the nose if it's attacking you: the star-nosed mole. With 100,000 sensory neurons, it's extremely sensitive to touch [source: Catania]. Luckily for all of us, the star-nosed mole probably isn't going to try to attack you, considering it's essentially blind and pretty peaceful [source: PBS].
Can playing dead help save me from a shark attack?


Denae and Daniel clearly spent so much time and so much love on the details of their geeky Scottish wedding in Maine. Danae scouted all of her table settings from thrift stores to create the vintage-inspired setup. The ceremony archway was framed by replicas of the couple's pets: their cats and their lizard!
They wrote their vows in the "Unbreakable Vow" chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(!), and the ring was carried by the ring bearer in a golden snitch. Daniel draped Danae in a Scottish shawl as part of their ceremony, and then they danced down the aisle.
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23 Apr 2015 in 13:39 Interview by Vladimir Nesterov. Exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, senator from the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Riabukhin, told Vestnik Kavkaza about the formation of the anti-crisis budget plan and the development of a roadmap for intergovernmental fiscal relations.
- Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at the State Duma, said that Russia has a new economic reality, and it will test all of our strength, I literally quote, "in full". How is this new reality reflected in the budget for the next three years?
- A very good question, and it contains several sub-questions. In fact, the budget, and many experts pay attention to it, it was changed, amendments were put in it. Usually after the first quarter and even the first half of the year we amend the budget of the current year. A situation that is linked to the sanctions, the antisanctions which we had to implement against the EU and a number of other countries, which being under pressure from Washington imposed sanctions against us, this was reflected, of course, in the budget, and in access to external borrowings for the real sector of our economy. You know that over the years a large number of businesses, corporations, small and medium-sized businesses were relying on external borrowing and were under the illusion that it is good for us, the Central Bank particularly, unfortunately, tried very hard to accomplish the task of reducing the interest rates on loans, so most borrowings were from abroad. You know that our income depends 50% on the implementation of hydrocarbons, it is oil and gas. And so, of course, the combination of these three factors has forced the government to respond quickly to these challenges, about which the prime minister spoke in the State Duma. And we support this approach, although there are some expert estimates that we rushed in vain, it was necessary to wait for the full-scale reporting in the first quarter, to evaluate, to make an analysis. But the fact is that in the regions, and in the spheres of the economy, the main distributor of the budget system (MMBF), they are also waiting to be assigned, when full-scale assignations will be made on certain types of expenditures from the federal budget. Therefore, I believe that it is possible to apply to this budget, which we took last week, that it is an operating budget. A budget of prompt response, I would even call it. And I think this is not the last amendment. Absolutely the right step was taken by the government that represented these changes to the Federal Assembly. And I think that we can handle these challenges.
- So you think that there can be another amendment to the budget? But it will probably be connected to some positive factors. For example, if there is a rise in oil prices, which is observed, despite all the instability.
- And not only. Because there is volatility in the price of the national currency. There are also factors that affect the budget's parameters.
- That means we are ready for the positive and the negative scenario.
- Yes. But I still would like to distinguish one factor, which significantly influenced the decision of the amendment of the budget, it is the anti-crisis plan, as it is called by people. A plan of the urgent measures which are now necessary to implement in view of these circumstances, which are caused by sanctions. An anti-crisis plan supposes the involvement of a large injection into the real economy. You know that to support agriculture it is necessary to invest more than 20 billion in the agricultural sector; in industry, for example, through the Russian Technologies corporation, to support the engine, there are four powerful joint-stock companies, including the Rybinsk plant and engine factory and other plants that received big orders from our civil and defense aviation, also 21.5 billion has to be invested. Reconstruction of the six largest airports in Russia, this is also about 6 billion. The creation of innovative regional clusters – 1.5 billion. The list can go on for a long time. That is a very large amount of money that goes to the real economy. And in this situation the sooner we have these amendments, the faster the assignation will be, budget allocations on the basis of which these funds will be used in the industry, made to our national economy and in the form of grants to the subjects of the Russian Federation.
- Last year the main task of the committee that you are heading was the protection of regions. In connection with the present, the new economic realities, what tasks do you set for this year? Or priorities are the same?
- I named two key priorities in priority activities of the Budget Committee of the Federation Council, and Council Chamber supported it, and Valentina Matvienko supported it. This is a balance of regional budgets. In this regard, she gave instruction even at a plenary session to develop a road map for improving the inter-budgetary relations. We got a very serious road map, it contains 21 chapters. The Ministry of Finance has agreed with the vast majority of these proposals. This is the first task that we performed during the past year. And we, by the way, will insist on strict compliance of all these items, because any deviation from this road map for improving the inter-budgetary relations leads to an increase in the debt overhang, which has already exceeded 2 trillion rubles.
This is one of the key, painful problems in our country's budget system. I mean, the consolidated budget, because it consist, strictly speaking, of three levels. Even if we talk settlement like, than it is four levels of the budget system. So for us, it hurts equally, what finger hurts - federal, regional, municipal or settler. There are people, and any failure of budget commitments is very painful to the ordinary citizen.
Last year another local, but sensitive, very important theme for us, all the Federation Council and V.I. Matvienko supported it, and most importantly, we saw a confirmation in the words of the President, that we are on the right track. We are talking about de-offshorization of economy. Now it is hears, but when we analyzed a report of the Accounting Chamber on November 2013, we were amazed that out of $520 billion of foreign trade turnover, 329 billion at the end of 2013 were all these transactions, all international contracts, agreements went through low-tax jurisdictions through offshore zones.
- Bypassing the budget?
- Absolutely. We have developed 5 bills. A number of them have already passed the first reading, and we are waiting for the second reading, when they will be adopted. And it's not just about controlled foreign companies, an acronym called CFC. But we have considered a possibility of amnesty in these parliamentary hearings. However, amnesty is a wrong word. By the way, the Prime Minister, answering this question, correctly formulated it in State Duma, this is not an amnesty in the ordinary, traditional sense of the word. The idea is that the state gives opportunity for the owner of the asset has a right, without the prosecution to declare about their existence and from that moment to be honest, respectable and disciplined tax payer. It is not an amnesty, but nevertheless, it is such a procedure which, in my opinion, can be called an amnesty in some way.
In 2004 President Putin said: "It will be the hardship of swallowing dust, when you are returning your money." The time will come ... Then, in 2004, people did not understand what that was about, and now the time has come when the political, economic, financial leverage of the Washington Regional Party is used against us, and now it becomes relevant.
The illusion that we are all awaited with open arms on the consumer and finance world markets, this illusion is now disappearing like smoke. All people are beginning to understand that we must all be concerned not only with the state of personal business, the economy, security, but with filling the revenue part of the regional, municipal, federal budgets in order to perform the functions associated with the sovereignty of our state, to put it briefly. Here is a set of measures that tighten or at least qualify that theft is theft, it is necessary to register it, it must be described in legislation. Because we have deliberate tax evasion, which was affectionately called until recently, until 2014, "optimization of tax policy."
In this part we not only started the legislative process, but already achieved some results, which start working literally from July 1.
- What are priorities of this year?
- Today we should concentrate on the quality of management of budget and financial resources. It is a multifaceted task. It is connected with the fact that 24 trillion rubles, which are sold, so to speak, that are given at an annual auction and procurement for state and municipal needs, it is necessary to restore order in this sphere.
If we analyze the materials that we receive from Golikova, in our budget committee, it's just amazing. No penalties, no sanctions, the most severe criminal measures can never sober unfair and dishonest people, who still find ways to evade the law, which governs the rules of procurement and purchasing procedures.
70% of trades for public use are not on a competitive basis, but from a single service provider. This is done in order to increase the cost of services. If we can save 10% of these trades, that is 2.4 trillion.
It is necessary to restore order in the tax administration. In the administration of VAT on foreign trade operations, we can see 2 trillion being given by scammers every a year. So to speak, it is a whole industry which is emerging.
- How is this possible?
- The most popular fraud scheme is: we have a car produced during World War I; one takes it to Poland or the Baltic countries and sells it to a day-fly company which has been registered earlier. And the car, which is actually utility scrap, costs a million dollars, according to a declaration. If you scrap the car, you will get 2-3 thousand rubles; but one has declared that it costs $1 million, and according to the current laws, one has a right to get 18% of the VAT, i.e. 180 thousand rubles.
This is a drawback of our legislation. The tax services, the customs services should be responsible for this. If such juridical practice emerges, courts should react to such fraudulent schemes.
According to experts, this amounts to about 2 trillion rubles of illegal VAT repayment. There are some republics and regions of the federation where the volume of VAT repayments is equal or bigger than the trade turnover.
However, there are many other factors that make us concentrate on the task of quality of usage of financial and other public resources, for instance, usage of the property complex (the Defense Service's case).
- Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has recently stated that the outflow of capital has slowed down in recent months, in comparison with the end of 2014. Is this a trend or a timely phenomenon?
- It is a trend which is based on many factors. A big role was played by an appeal to the country's business by top officials, that if you do care about the fate of your business, your capital, you should return under Russian jurisdiction. Don't believe that Europe will protect, secure, insure, and support you. Come back! The 1990s are over, when the state didn't support business, and there was no policy in the sphere at all within Gaydar's market economy. However, by that time we had already seen the powerful emissive center of the euro appear in Europe. They imposed disorientation on us in the context. Guys from Harvard told us: "It doesn't matter that Europe is uniting, establishing a united currency and an emissive center. Don't pay attention to the fact that America has plans for the next 50 years…"
Thank God, the hard times of the 1990s are over. Today there is the law on strategic planning. We needed 23 years to reject the motto "We don't care where we go, we won't go the wrong way ever."
I am glad that the top political leadership, the government, the financial structures, including Anton Siluanov, understand this. Everybody understands that a concept of strategic development is necessary, operating laws are needed.
External threats are that the US Federal Reserve System prints money and materializes it into our assets; and then the 'funny paper' goes abroad. This is erosion of the national economy. The role of the government and the Central Bank is very important.
The events of December 2014, when there was a targeted attack on the ruble, gave us a good lesson. The Central Bank had to take a complex of measures.
This is a blessing in disguise. Double devaluation of the ruble established favorable conditions for development of domestic industries. When the ruble is falling, it stimulates the development of domestic production, and not only within the anti-crisis program.
I am skeptical about theories that the program of import substitution will provide an impetus to the economy. It will simply fill the gaps that have emerged. At the same time, a radical breakthrough in the real sector of the economy, in industry and in agriculture will take place if there is a strategy of development. When money is not spent in vain, to fill a gap, but is invested in high-tech science and practical science.
The sums are huge. About 320 billion rubles are required for science by the budget. If I was told 15-16 years ago that such a sum would be spent on science, I would have never believed it. I mean practical science, which is connected with industries, production, and establishing our domestic consumer market. We should move away from dollar dependence in the economy. Thus, we should make our credit and monetary policy more stable.
The situation in the system depends on the situation with the weakest element. Our weakest element in our credit and monetary policy is absence of cheap and long-term money.
We need a complex of measures on credit and monetary regulation, which would make loans available, i.e. bring the necessary inflow of money into the economy. According to the Central Bank, in 2014 the loan portfolio grew by more than 3 trillion in comparison with 2013. In 2013 the gross loan which was issued by the Central Bank was 5 trillion, while in 2014 it was 8.5 trillion rubles.
We have many talented, energetic people who are willing to engage in personal production. It is necessary to make the monetary system of our country competitive, so that enterprises won't have to borrow money abroad, can develop their business, strengthen our economy, engage in import substitution, not just running errands for the prime minister, but so there would be a system.
The product range of the chemical industry in the USSR period exceeded 700 positions, and now there are 70 positions at most. They have to bring it from abroad. Why do we supply gas and oil abroad, and then depend on sanctions of the Latvians and Lithuanians if we supply them with oil?
Now a large petrochemical complex opens in Tatarstan. There are big programs in other subjects of the Federation - in the Belgorod region, in the Kaluga region. There are a number of regional innovation clusters, which are now systematically involved in these issues.
- A number of foreign ratings agencies such as S&P and Moody's have downgraded Russia's rating. Is this an economic decision or is there a political component to this issue?
- This is a purely political action - to discredit and destabilize. This is not just some virtual show where when the rating decreases, the global market availability of our borrowers is reduced.
- Russia does not have its own ratings agency. But China, for example, does. Should we think about creating our own ratings agency?
- By the way, this work is already undergoing. We had a conversation with Anton Germanovich Siluanov, also with [the chairman of the Central Bank] Elvira Nabiullina. I think that this year we will already have such an agency. Another thing is that its credibility and relevance won't obtain such capacity within one year. Therefore, the sooner the better. There is a similar situation with the national payment system. We have been held captive by delusions – why do we need to reinvent the wheel when there are MasterCard and VISA? But they "showed their teeth" by destabilizing the environment for two days, and starting panic. This sobered everyone up immediately.
In the world, there are about 10 billion bank cards. And in first place is not MasterCard or VISA, 34% of these 10 billion cards are from China, Chinese cards. The Chinese did not fall into delusion, into such credulity.
This seems to be a tendency of the Russian character only, to trust anyone, but the Chinese are pragmatic, they are raised on Confucius - they trust, but they do their own thing. They did it 12 years ago. I would not be surprised if after a year or two we will find out that China has become the third emission center, which will print their yuan, and they will go the same way as the dollar and the euro. And we must aspire to this. We cannot depend on the US dollar or the euro, it is necessary to create our own system.
Our Chinese friends offered us cooperation (we are even in BRICS together), but I think that we should create a national system. On July 8-9 there will be a summit of BRICS, and I think it will be one of the topics discussed there. A key theme will be the same Central Bank. We must move away from dependence on the European or international banks' monetary system. Last year, at the BRICS summit in Latin America, we identified the amount of the share capital, and where the bank and the billing center and Audit Commission will be located, who will be heading it. Maintenance works ended. And it did not happen over 20 years, as in Europe, it was very dynamic. Here, of course, the authority and dynamism of President Putin influenced it, he was personally involved in this matter. Therefore, we are now on the threshold of events, when in July, in addition to the banking and cash-settlement system, the question of a unified system of relationships of national card systems within the BRICS will be considered.
- Sergey Nikolaevich, we are in Vestnik Kavkaza, so I cannot help but ask you, have you ever been to the Caucasus, do you have favorite places there?
- I worked as an auditor of the Accounting Chamber for more than 12 years. Together with Sergei Stepashin we checked the implementation of federal target programs in Chechnya and Ingushetia, made an assessment of national programs in terms of legitimate targets for fixed costs in Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
When Stepashin headed the European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions, we had a lot of activities carried out in Azerbaijan. We had to deal with the problem of integration of legislative bodies in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
In the Caucasus I have a lot of friends and acquaintances. These are amazing people, amazing places, unique stories, each country, each region has its own particular national characteristics, its own appeal. So I like to spend time there, I love the people who live there. And as much as possible I try to help in the regional socio-economic development.
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Wolves face their second summer preparing for the Premier League, and this season they will have their sights set on improving on last year.
The plaudits have been plentiful for Wolves in their return to the top-flight with a seventh-place finish and an FA Cup semi-final appearance under their belt.
They have also notched up huge wins over the big names in the division like Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool.
Now, Nuno Esprito, Jorge Mendez, and the Fosun board will be looking at what happens next.
Some of their thoughts will be on the current squad.
Who stays? Who goes?
For now we will have to wait and see.
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Wolves could generate £30million from cashing in on fringe players this summer.
Planning for next season is already well underway at Molineux with Nuno Espirito Santo intent on improving the squad which finished seventh in the Premier League.
The boss is targeting at least four quality additions with the spine of Wolves' team set to be improved.
Nuno is adamant the apple cart won't be upset by any new recruit. Speaking recently, he said: "The boys have something really special. Beside being a good team, they are a good group of friends, and that's what I'm more worried to preserve."
However, several members of the side who helped Wolves win the Championship title in 2018 could move on.
Portuguese wingers Helder Costa and Ivan Cavaleiro were used sparingly in the second half of the season and Wolves will listen to offers for them this summer.
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Costa became the club's record buy in 2017 after signing from Benfica for £13million and Wolves are likely to make a small profit on that. Wolves will look for north of £12million for Cavaleiro who interested both Newcastle United and Fulham last summer.
Another winger whose future at Wolves is uncertain is Adama Traore. The Spaniard only joined Wolves from Middlesbrough for £18million in August but his involvement has been limited since Christmas.
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Two players who look certain to leave permanently are loan stars Kortney Hause and Leo Bonatini. Despite a few niggling injuries Hause has done well at Aston Villa and could see his deal turned into a permanent one.
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I'm a journalist and a black man. Here's what that's like.
As the protest began to die down, a group marched to police headquarters, chanting: "No justice, no peace." York Daily Record
This past week has had me filled with emotions: I am angry, sad, hurting. The list goes on.
Watching that video of George Floyd suffer at the hands of Minneapolis officers for no reason really hit home for me. Hearing him plead to the officers that he couldn't breathe and cry out for his mother was difficult to watch.
That could have been me — or my brother, my father or any other family member or friends.
When I look at videos of black people being victimized by police brutality, I ask myself, "Will it ever end?"
The killings of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor are just a few examples of what's been going on in the black communities for many years.
I wake up every day and thank God that he gave me life on this earth. But as a black man, I am constantly reminded that I am seen as a threat in some people's eyes based on my skin color. As much as some people don't want to believe it, it's the truth.
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Do I want to be reminded of that? Of course not. But it's the sad reality of the world we live in today.
This kind of behavior started way before I was born, and those who think that racism is not relevant today are sadly mistaken.
I have walked into a store wearing a hoodie and instantly noticed people staring at me, from the moment I enter until the moment I leave. I think nothing of it because I know I am not doing anything wrong; I am just living my life.
But what's going through the minds of the people staring at me? There has to be a reason why I gained their attention. I know that if I'm staring at someone, there's a reason for it.
Then I ask myself, what was going through the minds of those officers pinning Floyd to the ground? Was all that necessary? Couldn't they have sat him up? So many questions run through my mind.
But Floyd isn't the first. There have been countless other incidents involving police authority and people of color. People have lost their lives and have been seriously injured for no reason at all.
Every time I leave my apartment, I ask the Lord for protection.
As a journalist, I go out and look for stories to report on in the community. Let's say I'm driving to cover something, or I'm leaving from covering something, and an officer pulls me over for whatever reason.
Protesters continued to speak out against police brutality and racism at the El Paso County Courthouse joining nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd. Wochit
At that moment, my heart would stop briefly. As a black man being pulled over, I honestly don't know how this interaction could go. One thing I do know is that I will control what I can control and cooperate and do what the officer says.
Unfortunately, for some people who do cooperate and follow orders from police officers, it doesn't always end peacefully. Video showed Floyd not resisting and cooperating with the officers; where did that lead?
I'll be honest: Some of this stuff is hard to wrap my head around. This week, I watched a reporter get arrested on live television for the first time in my life.
Watching CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his camera crew being put in handcuffs for doing their job was completely mind-blowing.
Once again, I put myself in Jimenez's shoes and think, "Wow, that could have been me — or anyone else, for that matter."
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Every day, journalists take risks when they go out and cover the news. Right now, we are risking our lives by going out to these protests and riots to make sure viewers know what's going on.
On social media, I have seen many people I know in the industry seriously injured from doing their job as journalists, and it's sad to see.
Not only am I a black man, but I am also a journalist. I understand that people may have a preconceived notion about me because of my skin color or where I am from. But I won't let that stop me from succeeding in this world, no matter how hard it may be.
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One thing that I constantly tell myself is that there's hope. Seeing people from different races and backgrounds come together during a time like this is a reminder that we as a human race have made progress.
But there is still work to be done.
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Q: LUA getting values from table by using a string How would I go about compiling values from a table using a string?
i.e.
NumberDef = {
[1] = 1,
[2] = 2,
[3] = 3
}

TextDef = {
["a"] = 1,
["b"] = 2,
["c"] = 3
}

If I was for example to request "1ABC3", how would I get it to output 1 1 2 3 3?
Greatly appreciate any response.

A: Try this:
s="1ABC3z9"

t=s:gsub(".",function (x)
    local y=tonumber(x)
    if y~=nil then
        y=NumberDef[y]
    else
        y=TextDef[x:lower()]
    end
    return (y or x).." "
end)

print(t)

This may be simplified if you combine the two tables into one.

A: You can access values in a lua array like so:
TableName["IndexNameOrNumber"]
Using your example:
NumberDef = {
[1] = 1,
[2] = 2,
[3] = 3
}

TextDef = {
["a"] = 1,
["b"] = 2,
["c"] = 3
}

print(NumberDef[2])--Will print 2
print(TextDef["c"])--will print 3

If you wish to access all values of a Lua array you can loop through all values like so (similarly to a foreach in c#):
for i,v in next, TextDef do
print(i, v)
end
--Output:
--c    3
--a    1
--b    2

So to answer your request, you would request those values like so:
print(NumberDef[1], TextDef["a"], TextDef["b"], TextDef["c"], NumberDef[3])--Will print   1 1 2 3 3

One more point, if you're interested in concatenating lua string this can be accomplished like so:
string1 = string2 .. string3
Example:
local StringValue1 = "I"
local StringValue2 = "Love"

local StringValue3 = StringValue1 .. " " .. StringValue2 .. " Memes!"
print(StringValue3) -- Will print "I Love Memes!"

UPDATE
I whipped up a quick example code you could use to handle what you're looking for. This will go through the inputted string and check each of the two tables if the value you requested exists. If it does it will add it onto a string value and print at the end the final product.
local StringInput = "1abc3" -- Your request to find
local CombineString = "" --To combine the request

NumberDef = {
[1] = 1,
[2] = 2,
[3] = 3
}

TextDef = {
["a"] = 1,
["b"] = 2,
["c"] = 3
}

for i=1, #StringInput do --Foreach character in the string inputted do this
    local CurrentCharacter = StringInput:sub(i,i); --get the current character from the loop position
    local Num = tonumber(CurrentCharacter)--If possible convert to number

    if TextDef[CurrentCharacter] then--if it exists in text def array then combine it
        CombineString = CombineString .. TextDef[CurrentCharacter]
    end
    if NumberDef[Num] then --if it exists in number def array then combine it
        CombineString = CombineString .. NumberDef[Num]
    end
end

print("Combined: ", CombineString) --print the final product.

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Die Bahnstrecke Fährkrug–Fürstenwerder war eine eingleisige Nebenbahn in Brandenburg. Ursprünglich sollte die Strecke weiter bis Strasburg führen. Sie war nur etwas mehr als drei Jahrzehnte in Betrieb und wurde nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg abgebaut.

Geschichte

Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts gab es Bestrebungen, eine Nord-Süd-Verbindung in der westlichen Uckermark zwischen den Städten Templin und Strasburg über Fürstenwerder zu schaffen. Seit 1902 war die Region nur durch eine Stichstrecke  von Dedelow bei Prenzlau nach Fürstenwerder der Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen erschlossen. Da die Strecke vor Strasburg ein kurzes Stück durch das Herzogtum Mecklenburg-Strelitz verlaufen sollte, wurde 1912 ein Staatsvertrag zwischen Preußen und Mecklenburg-Strelitz zum Streckenbau abgeschlossen. Am 15. August 1913 eröffnete die Preußische Staatsbahn die Strecke bis Fürstenwerder, der Weiterbau bis Strasburg war vorgesehen und im Kursbuch angekündigt. Durch den Ersten Weltkrieg kam es nicht zur Streckenverlängerung. Erneut wurde Ende der 1920er Jahre der Weiterbau bis Strasburg im Kursbuch angekündigt, ebenfalls kam es nicht dazu. Erste Erdarbeiten für die Streckenverlängerung waren in den 1920er Jahren begonnen worden, ein Stück Damm nördlich des Staatsbahnhofs Fürstenwerder ist erhalten geblieben. Ebenfalls gab es Arbeiten für eine Verbindungskurve an die Kreisbahnstrecke, von der einige Baureste, wie eine Grabenüberführung erhalten sind.

Nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde die Strecke als Reparationsleistung an die Sowjetunion abgebaut.

Die Strecke hatte stets nur lokale Bedeutung. 1914 verkehrten vier Zugpaare, 1929 waren es drei.
1939 verkehrten wieder vier Zugpaare auf der Gesamtstrecke, hinzu kam ein Paar sonntags abends bis Hardenbeck. Alle Züge begannen und endeten stets im Bahnhof Templin.

Streckenverlauf

Die Strecke begann im Bahnhof Fährkrug (später Templin-Fährkrug) genannt. Bis dahin nutzten die Züge aus Templin die Strecke nach Prenzlau. Die Trasse verläuft im Wesentlichen in Süd-Nord-Richtung durch hügeliges, teilweise bewaldetes und seenreiches Gelände.

Die Strecke endete im Reichsbahnhof Fürstenwerder im Südosten des Ortes, etwa 500 Meter südlich des Bahnhofs Fürstenwerder der Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen. Eine Verbindung zwischen beiden Strecken gab es nicht.

Wie bei einer Reihe preußischer Strecken üblich, wurden mehrere Zweigstrecken gemeinsam kilometriert. Der Nullpunkt der Streckenkilometerierung lag in Berlin, danach folgte sie der Berliner Nordbahn bis Löwenberg (Mark) und anschließend der Strecke Löwenberg–Prenzlau bis Fährkrug. Streckenbeginn war somit beim Kilometer 82,3 in Fährkrug.

Die geplante Verlängerungsstrecke zwischen Fürstenwerder und Strasburg sollte 18,4 Kilometer lang sein, Halte waren in Ottenhagen und Wolfshagen vorgesehen, 3,5 bzw. 7,4 Kilometer von Fürstenwerder entfernt.

Heutige Situation

Die Strecke ist komplett abgebaut, die Trasse ist jedoch überall erkennbar. Auf den meisten Abschnitten verläuft ein Weg. Auf einigen Abschnitten, vor allem im Bereich Warthe und Weggun, ist er asphaltiert. Teilweise wird er von der Radroute Spur der Steine genutzt. Nördlich des Bahnhofs Fürstenwerder sind einige Dammreste für die geplante Streckenverlängerung erhalten. Die meisten Bahnhofsgebäude sind erhalten geblieben und werden überwiegend als Wohnhaus genutzt. Ebenfalls erhalten und privat genutzt ist der Wasserturm in Hardenbeck. Der Wasserturm in Fürstenwerder steht leer.

Weblinks

 Fährkrug–Fürstenwerder auf bahnstrecken.de
 Betriebsstellenverzeichnis der Strecke auf eisenbahn-mv.de
 Bahnhofsfotos von Metzelthin, Warthe, Hardenbeck, Krewitz, Weggun-Arendsee und Fürstenwerder auf eisenbahn-mv.de

Einzelnachweise

Bahnstrecke in Brandenburg

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T.G.I.F. Style Mudslides & Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
When I sat down to think about what this album felt like, what it exuded from a food perspective, it took me back to high school. Perhaps because this album played non-stop during those years and also, if you think about the biggest song from this album The Middle, it was all about high school.
My friends and I got into the usual mischief in high school. Being in Tokyo however, there was a few unique standouts. It was well known that T.G.I.F. would give you a free sundae on your birthday. Long drawn out lunches at T.G.I.F. became the norm fairly quickly and somehow, it was always someone's birthday. I don't think this was a unique experience but the more often we did something in high school, the sooner we started to push the boundaries and make it that much more exciting or daring. At T.G.I.F.s, this meant moving to ordering a mudslide or two. (Mom, feel free to skip a head a few sentences.) Breaking the rules one beverage at a time. Tokyo didn't really card, especially for gaijin (foreigners). I don't think I ever got carded once. Its probably no surprise that ordering mudslides became normal. Its funny in hindsight. Not that we were trying to feel drunk or even a buzz. We felt so grown up, sitting in that restaurant for hours, pretending to be older than we were, drinking dessert cocktails. I'm know we were nightmares for the staff. I remember straw wrappers everywhere and plates of cheese fries destroyed.
For us, it was amazing memories and full bellies and a place where it almost felt like you weren't in Japan. For a split second, it was almost like we were normal high schoolers, who lived in a normal town in somewhere, USA. I'm not sure any of us ever said this desire out loud. High school has this way of making you want to be normal. To not be unique, to be like everyone else. Why else would we go hang out in an American restaurant that celebrated and promoted its American-ness? With the themes of Bleed American, especially in the music video of The Middle (see here), it is no wonder that this album resonated so strongly with me and many other high schoolers in the early 2000's. Here's to enjoying those years, surviving them and getting to the point where I'm thrilled to not be normal!
T.G.I.F. Style Mudslides
Makes 1 drink
6 ice cubes
1.5 oz vodka
1.5 oz coffee liquor
1.5 oz irish creme liquor
0.5 oz espresso
1.0 oz half and half
2 scoops chocolate ice cream
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
Optional – chocolate syrup to decorate glass. See recipe below.
Blend ice cubes in a blender.
Add the next 7 ingredients and blend until well mixed.
Using a straw, use the chocolate syrup to make a pattern on the outside of the glass. Traditionally a V^V^V pattern is used.
Pour the blender contents into the glass and drink away.
Chocolate Syrup
sprinkle kosher salt
Mix first three ingredients in a saucepan until well combined, minimal clumps remaining. Add water, salt and heat over medium until boiling. Mix well. Stir in vanilla extract and let cool. Use and enjoy.
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You know when you hear people mention something, say a kind of fruit, that you had no idea existed? That's what happened to me with cuaresmillos, the Shangri-La of candied fruit for me. I had heard family members praise these little peaches but never seen or eaten them until recently. I was visiting historic buildings…
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Guided visit to the Colón Opera House in Buenos Aires
What do vanilla wafers and the Colón Opera House have in common? Opera! Teatro Colón (Colón Opera Hoouse) is Argentina's leading opera house, opened in 1908. Opera is also a popular brand of vanilla wafers made by a company called Bagley. They were launched in 1906 under a different name but the manufacturer decided to change…
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Historic Church and Convent of San Francisco – Córdoba [Argentina]
A potted history of Córdoba first What happens when a subordinate disobeys the Viceroy's orders? A new city is founded. Or, at any rate, that's what happened with Córdoba. In 1673, the Viceroy of Perú, the head of one of the administrative units of the Spanish colonies in South America, commanded Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera…
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Plaza Barrancas de Belgrano is a leafy public park located in the eponymous neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. Its downward slope (barranca) towards the river gave it its name and makes it unique in the city. Or rather, it slopes down to where the river Plate used to be before the wetlands were dredged and filled…
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– Go straight on, at the roundabout take the exit to Tanti and continue on that road. You'll drive past Lo de Daniel, a popular steakhouse. Keep climbing until after the tarmac ends. There's only one way up, you can't miss it. With these directions, we set out to Los Gigantes range in Córdoba (Argentina)…
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The second installment in this series explores the history of one of the most popular sports in Argentina today: football. It can be said that the railway plays a key role here too since many clubs were founded by railway workers in the late 1800s. Alexander Watson Hutton (10 June, 1853 – 9 March, 1936)…
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Q: AppAuth login redirection works on iOS but not on Android I'm developing a mobile application in Flutter/Dart and I'm currently working on identity management, specifically the login functionality. I'm using a library called flutter_appauth which is a wrapper for the AppAuth library. I'm having a strange issue that only happens on Android where after a user successfully logs in, no redirection occurs. If the user re-opens the login page after a successful login occurs, they're greeted by a blank screen in the WebView (presumably because the browser keeps the user logged in). The authentication flow for my application goes: App -> Login page -> Identity provider for 2FA -> App. This is what occurs on iOS yet does not redirect back from the ID provider on Android. The application stays on the completed authentication page. The identity provider I'm using is PingID.
This library handles redirection by allowing you to simply define the redirect scheme, which is just the prefix part of the redirect URI. I correctly defined the Redirection scheme in the app/build.gradle file as well as the redirection URI as the following:
Redirect URI: AppName:/callback
defaultConfig {
    applicationId "io.example.AppName"
    minSdkVersion 16
    targetSdkVersion 29
    versionCode flutterVersionCode.toInteger()
    versionName flutterVersionName
    testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    manifestPlaceholders = [
            'appAuthRedirectScheme': 'AppName'
    ]
}

I made an issue post on the plugin's GitHub which you can take a look at here. The author of the plugin states that if the scheme name and redirect URI are the same, then my issue lies elsewhere. Because my code works on iOS, and I used the same name for the redirect scheme for both platforms, I would imagine my issue isn't me incorrectly defining the redirection scheme. Everything works perfectly on an iOS emulator. I've tested it on 4 different Android devices and 4 different API versions and I have the same issue on all of them. I also tried defining an intent for RedirectUriReceiverActivity and my issue still persists.
I'm new to Flutter, Mobile Dev, and IdM so I would appreciate some guidance. Is there a difference between Chrome and Safari, or iOS and Android that could potentially be blocking this redirection from occurring? I've been searching the internet for a solution for the past 4 days and I have yet to find one so I'm pretty much all out of leads. Any advice?
EDIT: I finally got it working! Hopefully this will help out anyone in the future with this problem. It turns out all I had to do was set the scheme name for appAuthRedirectScheme to an entirely lower case string. So even though my Redirect URI is AppName:/callback, I had to set appAuthRedirectScheme to appname instead of AppName. This got it working.

A: After several hours of troubleshooting this is what solved my issue with Android and not iOS. It's good to know moving forward that the build.gradle is case-sensitive. Lesson learned.
manifestPlaceholders = [
        'appAuthRedirectScheme': 'appname'
]

A: I saw your GH issue report when it came in. I use AppAuth too. Before I incorporated into my own app, I fully tested the example app that comes with it:
https://github.com/MaikuB/flutter_appauth/tree/master/flutter_appauth/example
Have you substituted all the example variables etc. and confirmed that all works on iOS and Android?
Can back to basics and use the example app, if you still have an issue, you can add to the issue you've raised and compare the example with your own app.
In life, it's usually a typo or permissions :-)
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Berlusconi, the joker, promises to be boring
From Tim Reid in Washington
Tuesday July 22 2003, 1.00am, The Times
SILVIO BERLUSCONI went before the world's media during a visit to President Bush's Texas ranch yesterday, fresh from a pledge to cut out the jokes and become boring.
Standing next to Mr Bush as a guest on the President's beloved Crawford homestead, Signor Berlusconi was as good as his word — with a huge helping hand from his host.
During a ten-minute news conference, the Italian leader was hardly allowed to utter a single word, let alone gaffe.
Apart from a prepared opening statement, when he thanked Mr Bush "for making me feel a member of the family", for allowing him to attend an official meeting and for Mr Bush's "attention and care" in safeguarding the world, he was scarcely heard from again.
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What's Big Business Got to Do With Education Reform?
By Charley Locke Nov 3, 2014
"There used to be a promise from businesses to students that if you performed well and behaved, you'd get a solid job with a middle class career. And that was real," explained Dianne Tavenner, CEO of Summit Public Schools. "That system doesn't exist anymore, and kids know it."
Tavenner, along with over 150 other attendees at the "Transforming the Role of Business in Education" conference, hopes that businesses can play a role in changing the broken "pipeline" from schooling to career. On October 29, a range of industry speakers led sessions on how to build an "education highway" where students can enter and exit depending on where they want to go professionally.
Shared Value
The conversations focused on how and why businesses can provide valuable resources in education. Kate Tallant, Director at FSG, which hosted the conference, spoke to the mutually beneficial concept of shared value, further developed in FSG's paper on "The New Role of Business in Global Education."
The concept is similar to the "double bottom line" idea in vogue among companies big and small. With 781 million adults lacking basic reading and writing skills at a worldwide cost of $1.19 trillion per year, "companies can create economic value and value for society at the same time," she explained. "You can help to build a qualified future workforce, rather than wait for the government to do it for you."
In his keynote, Sir Michael Barber, Chief Education Advisor at Pearson, spoke to the importance of creating space for societal impact in a large company. As he sees it, "most attempts at education reform since 1970 are about putting money into the system and trusting that it would improve--like more teachers, smaller classrooms--with small returns." Barber called for companies to play a role in "designing reform systems that don't just put in money and hope for the best." He envisions Pearson, which plans to focus on learning outcomes as much as financial outcomes in end of year reports by 2018, as a pioneer of shared value.
Dr. James Appelgate, Karen Cator, Dean Florez, Eric Nee (photo by Matthew Wilka)
The McDonald's of Education
Large companies can affect change in ways beyond the scope of a startup or nonprofit. Mark Kramer, Cofounder and Managing Director of FSG, sees it as a differentiation based on scale. "When global companies do things, they have an enormous potential," he explained in his closing address. "When McDonald's put apple slices in their meals, they doubled US consumption of apples." (It made apple suppliers happy, at least.)
In that case, perhaps Pearson is the McDonald's of education. "Pearson has bigger reach [than a startup]," Barber explained. "Through big data sets and longitudinal data, we can make a public efficacy framework, which can help a startup develop a framework for change." In exchange for providing the smaller companies with data analysis and frameworks, Pearson can learn from the little guy, too: "Through the product development process, we see what other programs are doing, and can learn and acquire from that."
James Appelgate, Executive Director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, agreed with the potential for businesses to play an important role in education change by providing meaningful research and frameworks. "We need to present information differently, and tightly connect data to actionable items of improvement through examples," he explained.
Enabling Pragmatic Reform
Several speakers exemplified what Appelgate described as "the American focus on pragmatism in reform," exploring how companies can help students develop practical workforce skills. "Business can teach schools about the skills they need from current students and future employees," voiced panelist Jamie McAuliffe, President and CEO of Education for Employment, which provides job training for young people in North Africa and the Middle East.
As McAuliffe sees it, education providers are responsible for disseminating that information and helping students meet the demands of future employers. He added, "we have to shift the system so that accountability for student job outcomes rest with the academic institutions."
"If you're focusing on how much time is spent sitting in the classroom, you're focusing on the wrong end of the student."
James Appelgate, Executive Director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education
The focus on employment outcomes led one attendee to ask: Is the emphasis on workforce preparation--popular today in the form of coding bootcamps and micro-credentials--ultimately at odds with a liberal arts education?
Not according to Barber, who advocated for the liberal arts in a modern education. "Liberal arts are a way to demonstrate life skills," Barber said. "They can inform how individuals work, rather than what they do." Professor David L. Kirp, Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, also reminded attendees of the importance of learning how to think, as well as what to do: "A set of thinking skills, the skills needed for provocative thinkers, shouldn't need to change every six months."
Appelgate also spoke to a combination of liberal arts and workforce skills, calling for "embedding 'learning outcomes' in any degree," from communications to philosophy. "We need a more equitable education system," he explained. For that, "we need advising and clear learning paths for every student."
Technology's Role: Stop Fighting, Liberal Arts
Barber also pushed back against what he sees as a "false dichotomy" between the liberal arts and technology. "The liberal arts community needs to be less defensive" about being relevant and embrace technological resources, he explained. Citing the modern advances in studies of the classics, from publicly available digitized manuscripts to interactive open source maps of the ancient world, he said, "There's no reason why technology shouldn't be used to improve the liberal arts curriculum." Perhaps the study of the past can utilize the tools of the future.
Within K-12 instruction, speakers cautiously advocated benefits of technology. "Technology doesn't improve education, it enables the improvement of education," said Barber. Tech can open doors for students, but only when used thoughtfully. Otherwise, "tech can accelerate inequity in educational opportunity," as Appelgate warned.
In his closing keynote, Kirp spoke about the Union City School District in New Jersey, where 93.4% of students receive free or reduced lunch and 89.5% graduate high school. He attributes Union City's success not to technology--the district was an early adopter of 1:1 initiatives in the 1990s--but to how tech was used. "Technology isn't what made the system great--a great school system made use of technology," he said. "It didn't look for a magic bullet, but instead built a series of supports from preschool all the way up."
Kirp reinforced the idea that business can play a role in thoughtful, purposeful shifts in education, a vision articulated throughout the conference. Kirp sees this version of shared value--an integration of societal responsibility into a company's objectives--as a meaningful "evolutionary change." That may not be as flashy or "as good a buzzword as revolution or disruption," Kirp concedes, "but it's actually likely to succeed."


Master loves to disturb me when I'm fast asleep. She says I look ultra cute when I am dreaming about kitty snacks, do you think so?
Take a closer look, I won't bite!
See how mad I get when Master disturbs my cat nap? Happy Fluffy Friday!
Today you on time :D Yay!
Wui, that stare can be a killer la ... LOL!
hahahah... her eyes jadi juling.. lol!!!
You tau I forgot that today if Friday, nasib baik lepas suboh I tak tidor balek, ada tuition at 9.00am - 11.00 am.
I dah grab the code, Insha' Allah lepas habis kerja nanti, I will post it tak lah simpan sampai 2 hari kot, I will try my best tonight and will alert you, ok?
Happy Fluffy Friday to you, all members and viewers.
Oh my Phoebe you are so cute. I could just steal you. You are a perfect fluffy Fri. Have a great week end.
happy FF from Tita GG!
Pheebs,,scratch la furnitures of master now..hahha..
Phoebe is ULTRA CUTE indeed when sleeping! This is one of few times where a good pic of a cat can be taken when they're sleeping!
Thank you for visiting my Fluffy Friday post and correcting my link.
It doesn't get much cuter than a sleeping kitty!
:* :* :* ELai Meow 1!
Ha ha but still so cute!
Hi Lil! Thanks so much, love da toy compliment for Phoebe he he, just makes my day! Cause I oso think dat way sometimes, memang geram!
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We are all familiar with the way channel based audio reproduction works. If we sit halfway between a pair of speakers and audio is played at the same level through both then we perceive the sound to be coming from halfway between the speakers, even though there is no speaker there. This is how stereo reproduction works over speakers. It's also how surround formats like 5.1 and 7.1 work.
It's not without its problems though, one of them is that if we change the position of the speakers we change the position of these channel based phantom sources. This is the motivation for the development of Object based workflows like Dolby Atmos which render channel independent audio objects to appear at the correct locations regardless of the number of replay channels deployed in any particular room. Objects are great!
However Objects don't help with another weakness of channel-based reproduction, and once rendered for playback an object becomes channel based like everything else which is played out of the speakers in an immersive install. This issue is the sweet spot.
If you move more than a small distance from exactly halfway between the speakers you are listening to you'll very quickly lose the contribution of the furthest speaker and the illusion of a phantom centre will collapse. This is physics. The inverse square law applies to point sources and there is no getting around that, is there?
Wave Field Synthesis is fundamentally different from familiar channel based reproduction as it uses loudspeakers in a different way and rather than trying to reproduce sounds by creating a stereophonic illusion in the small sweet spot in the centre of the room, it reproduces the entire sound field in the room in which the performance was made. Because of this it doesn't suffer from the sweet spot issue common to other systems.
Wave Field Synthesis relies on Huyghens' Principle which states that the propagation of a wave through a medium can be formulated by adding the contributions of all of the secondary sources positioned along a wave front. What this means is that, taking a simple example, the wavefront produced by a rock thrown into a still pond could be accurately synthesised by dropping an infinite number of smaller rocks (secondary sources) along any position defined by the passage of the primary wave front.
In this diagram the array of speakers (secondary sources) is capable of accurately reproducing the wavefront produced by the trumpet.
By using a very large number of loudspeakers to act as secondary sources, the wavefront of any number of primary sources from outside the loudspeaker array could be reproduced in a way which wouldn't suffer from any sweet spot issues, you can walk around the room freely without disrupting the effect and the position of the sources remains stable in space. Amazing stuff.
Unfortunately there is a downside. Wave Field Synthesis isn't practical for any commercial application due to the sheer number of speakers required. While interesting from a research perspective, Wave Field Synthesis is simply too complex and too expensive to be commercially viable.
Is there a way to achieve anything similar to the performance of Wave Field Synthesis without the prohibitive complexity and expense? The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology believe there is and their research has led to the development of SpatialSound Wave Technology which promises to create a 3D sound experience within the entire room, so no sweet spot, with 30 loudspeakers, and the potential of using fewer. To create a Wave Field Synthesis system in the same room would need about 90 speakers so this is a huge saving in terms of the required equipment.
A SpatialSound Wave system is built using a windows computer with a suitable MADI or Dante interface which feeds an array of 30 Neumann KH 310 monitors. I love these monitors, see my review and you'll read just how impressed I was by them. Apparently the development team liked the KH 120 but found that in this application they needed greater level and bass extension for times when a sound was placed in a single speaker only. Sounds are Objects in the same way as we find in Dolby Atmos so panning information isn't system specific.
The array consists of roughly half the speakers located at ear level around the room with the rest installed in the ceiling and four KH805 subwoofers in the corners of the room. The results are that the sound reproduction of this system is remarkable: The localisation of virtual sound sources is sharp even far outside the central listening position. The listener can move through the room almost like in an actual acoustic environment. Moving toward a sound source, it appears louder; the levels change in a natural way.
We investigated this fascinating area of audio technology some time ago in this piece on active variable acoustics in a venue in Denmark.
SpatialSound Wave Technology sounds amazing and though I don't know if I'm likely to hear it I'd be fascinated to experience this immersive audio system. I'll settle for plain old stereo for now but at least its on a pair of KH 310s.
90 Years Of Neumann - All Our Ears Owe Something To This Company.
Neumann KH 310 Monitors - Like Glasses For Your Ears. Your Next Monitors Should Be 3 Way.


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 Exciter (группа) — канадская группа, играющая в стиле спид-метал.
 Exciter (альбом) — название альбома группы Depeche Mode (2001).
 Exciter — название песни из альбома 1978 года Stained Class группы Judas Priest.


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A touch of Burma in Lowestoft
WITH palm trees, bananas, bamboo and echiums you could be forgiven for thinking you were taking a walk around a tropical paradise.But thanks to years of dedication and careful cultivation, a green-fingered couple have created a Mediterranean-style garden at their own home in Oulton Broad.
WITH palm trees, bananas, bamboo and echiums you could be forgiven for thinking you were taking a walk around a tropical paradise.
But thanks to years of dedication and careful cultivation, a green-fingered couple have created a Mediterranean-style garden at their own home in Oulton Broad.
When Kevin and Linda Parker moved into their house, in Pegasus Mews, 20 years ago, they inherited a lawn and three trees. Now their garden is totally unrecognisable after they transformed it into their own little paradise.
'We brought with us two little palms from our other house. They were 1ft high when we bought the house, now they're nearly 12ft,' said Kevin, 50.
'We wanted to create something different. At the time tropical gardens were very rare and it was hard to get hold of plants. We picked some up from London nurseries and when on holidays, and it gradually evolved from that.'
In 2005 the pair were awarded the best front garden award by Lowestoft in Bloom, but today it is better than ever with plants flowering all year round and friends contributing to their huge variety of plants.
'If people travel and see something unusual they try and buy a packet of seeds for us to grow,' said Linda, 50.
The couple spend hours each week on their pride and joy, developing a garden that acts as somewhere for them to unwind after a busy day.
Kevin, who works as a signalman for Network Rail, and Linda, who works for Westgate department store, admit that when they started they knew nothing about plants, but have proven to be quite the naturals at gardening.
'When you work indoors, we love to come home and get into the garden. But it's not just our pleasure, it's everyone else's. People often come and ask to look around, and one neighbour says it reminds him of Burma,' said Kevin.
The couple also often sell their home-grown tropical plants to help raise money for Leukaemia Research.
'What we want to know though, is does anyone have a garden to match it? Are we the most easterly point for a tropical garden?' said Linda.


Had a great summer evening with Jaime and her mom – we had to battle off the mosquitoes becasue of all the recent rain in MN. But it was a quiet night at Cedar Lake Farm – and we just loaded up with bug spay and got some great photos and had a great time laughing and capturing some fun moments. Enjoy your senior year as New Prague senior.


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Our troops protect us and we must protect them.


1 Michael Buble's epic reaction to an irrepressible young talent!
2 the first Macintosh, and those lumpy bits of kit way back then…..
3 Celebrities and photoshop, get together here!
4 Untruth, comedy, and seven funny minutes: British TV!
5 "Little Hope Baptist Church" really – like really?!, and other poor church names!


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Barry Halliwell (* 18. Oktober 1949 in Preston, Lancashire) ist ein britischer Biochemiker. Er ist bekannt für Arbeiten zur Biochemie freier Radikale in pflanzlichen und tierischen Organismen und deren Rolle bei Krankheiten (Oxidativer Stress).

Halliwell studierte ab 1968 Biochemie an der Universität Oxford (St. Catherine's College) mit dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1971 mit Bestnoten (first class honours, wobei er auch den Rose Preis der Universität gewann für die beste Arbeit in Biologie) und der Promotion 1973 bei Frederick R. Whatley und Vernon Butt (Dissertation: The biochemistry of plant peroxisomes), wobei er 1971 bis 1973 am St. Cross College in Oxford forschte. 1973/74 lehrte er am Portsmouth Polytechnic und ab 1974 war er Lecturer am King's College London, wo er 1985 Reader und 1988 Professor für medizinische Biochemie wurde. Gleichzeitig war er 1995 bis 1999 Gastprofessor an der University of California, Davis. 2000 wurde er Professor für Biochemie an der Nationaluniversität Singapur (NUS), an der er schon 1998 zu einem Sabbatjahr war. Er wurde dort Tan Chin Tuan Centennial und Distinguished Professor in der Abteilung Biochemie der Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine der NUS, 2006 bis 2015 war er stellvertretender Präsident der Universität für Forschung und Technologie.

Der Glutathion-Ascorbat-Zyklus zum Abbau (Reduktion) des stark oxidierenden Stoffwechsel-Abfallprodukts Wasserstoffperoxid zum Beispiel in den Chloroplasten von pflanzlichen Zellen wird auch Foyer-Halliwell-Asada-Weg genannt, nach ihm, Christine Foyer und Kozi Asada. Sie entdeckten den Zyklus 1976. Er forscht über die molekularen Mechanismen von Zellverletzungen und Zelltod besonders bei Krebs, Herzkrankheiten und neurodegenerativen Erkrankungen sowie als Reaktion auf Toxine. Außerdem befasst er sich mit Antioxidantien in der Nahrung und als Therapeutika (Naturstoffe und synthetische Antioxidantien). Außerdem untersucht er Alterungsprozesse am Modell des Fadenwurms C. elegans.

2012 wurde er Fellow der American Association for the Advancement of Science. Für 2021 wurde er einer der Clarivate Citation Laureates und gehört zu den hochzitierten Wissenschaftlern. Er erhielt 2013 die Science and Technology Medal des Präsidenten von Singapur und ist in der Akademie der Wissenschaften von Singapur.

1986 erhielt er einen D.Sc. der Universität London für die Biochemie von Reaktionen mit freien Radikalen in tierischen und pflanzlichen Organismen.

Schriften
Bücher:
Barry Halliwell, John MC Gutteridge: Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine, Oxford UP, 5. Auflage 2015, ISBN 0198717482
Barry Halliwell:  Chloroplast Metabolism, 2. Auflage, Oxford University Press, 1984, ISBN 0198545851

Einige Aufsätze:
mit Christine H. Foyer: The presence of glutathione and glutathione reductase in chloroplasts: a proposed role in ascorbic acid metabolism, Planta, Band 133, 1976, S.  21–25
mit J. M. Gutteridge: Oxygen toxicity, oxygen radicals, transition metals and disease,  Biochemical Journal, Band 219, 1984, S.  1–14
mit J. M. C. Gutteridge: Oxygen free radicals and iron in relation to biology and medicine: some problems and concepts, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Band 246, 1986, S. 501–514
mit C. E. Cross, E. T. Borish u. a.: Oxygen radicals and human disease, Annals of Internal Medicine, Band 107, 1987, S. 526–545
mit John M. C. Gutteridge, Okezie I. Aruoma: The deoxyribose method: A simple "test-tube" assay for determination of rate constants for reactions of hydroxyl radicals, Analytical Biochemistry, Band 165, 1987, S.  215–219
Reactive oxygen species in living systems: source, biochemistry, and role in human disease, American Journal of Medicine, Band 91, 1991, S.  S14-S22
mit Ol Aruoma: DNA damage by oxygen-derived species Its mechanism and measurement in mammalian systems, FEBS Letters, Band 281, 1991, S. 9–19
Reactive oxygen species and the central nervous system, Journal of Neurochemistry, Band 59, 1992, S. 1609–1623
mit J. M. C. Gutteridge, C E. Cross: Free radicals, antioxidants, and human disease: where are we now ?, Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, Band  119, 1992, S.  598–620
Free radicals, antioxidants, and human disease: curiosity, cause, or consequence ?, The Lancet, Band 344, Nr. 8924, 1994, S. 721–724
mit S. Chirico: Lipid peroxidation: its mechanism, measurement, and significance, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Band 57, 1993, S. 715S-725S
Antioxidants in human health and disease, Annual Review of Nutrition, Band 16, 1996, S. 33–50
mit H. Wiseman: Damage to DNA by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: role in inflammatory disease and progression to cancer, Biochemical Journal, Band 313 (Part 1), 1996, S. 17.
Antioxidant defence mechanisms: from the beginning to the end (of the beginning), Free Radical Research, Band 31, 1999, S. 261–272
mit M. Whiteman: Measuring reactive species and oxidative damage in vivo and in cell culture: how should you do it and what do the results mean ?, British Journal of Pharmacology, Band 142, 2004, S. 231–255
How I became a biochemist: The wanderings of a free radical, IUBMB Life, Band 56, Nr. 9, 2004, S. 569–570
Oxidative stress and neurodegeneration: where are we now ?, Journal of Neurochemistry, Band 97, 2006, S. 1634–1658
Reactive species and antioxidants. Redox biology is a fundamental theme of aerobic life, Plant Physiology, Band 141, 2006, S. 312–322
Free radicals and antioxidants: – quo vadis ?,  Trends Pharmacol. Sci., Band 32, 2011, S. 125–130
mit I. K. Cheah, R. M. Tang, T. S. Yew, K. H. Lim: Administration of Pure Ergothioneine to Healthy Human Subjects: Uptake, Metabolism, and Effects on Biomarkers of Oxidative Damage and Inflammation, Antioxid Redox Signal, Band 26, 2017, S. 193–206
mit L. T. Ng, L. F. Ng, R. M. Y. Tang, D. Barardo, P. K. Moore, J.Gruber: Lifespan and healthspan benefits of exogenous H2S in elegans are independent from effects downstream of eat-2 mutation, NPJ Aging Mech. Dis., Band 6, 2020, S. 6.
mit I. K. Cheah: Ergothioneine, recent developments, Redox Biol., Band 26, 2021, S. 101868

Weblinks
Webseite an der NUS

Biochemiker
Hochschullehrer (King's College London)
Hochschullehrer (Singapur)
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Video: Chen calls into emergency Congressional meeting, inquires after fate of mother and brother
In a dramatic moment today, Chen Guangcheng spoke live over the telephone to an emergency hearing in the U.S. congress.
Thu May 3, 2012 - 5:00 pm EDT Sat Jun 19, 2021 - 10:39 am EDT
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WASHINGTON, May 3, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a dramatic moment at an emergency hearing on Capitol Hill discussing the fate of Chen Guangcheng today, the embattled Chinese human rights activist was able to speak publicly of his plight for the first time since he left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
ChinaAid President Bob Fu was able to get Chen on the phone from his hospital room in Beijing. Fu translated as he held the iPhone transmitting Chen's voice up to Rep. Chris Smith's microphone.
"He wants to come to the U.S. for some time of rest, he has not had any rest for the past ten years," said Fu.
"I want to meet with Secretary Clinton. I hope I can get more help from her. I also want to thank her face to face. I really am afraid for my other family members' lives," Fu also said Chen stated.
Several of Chen's family members are thought to be in danger of retribution by Chinese officials, including a brother who was arrested, a nephew on the lam, and several other family members whose fates are unknown.
Chen said that seven security cameras and an electric fence had been erected near his home, and that he was most concerned to hear about his mother and brothers. "I really want to know what's going on with them," he said.
Rep. Smith told Chen that "we are all praying for you and we will be unceasing in our efforts to secure your freedom." He also reported that actor Christian Bale, who was roughed up by Chinese guards when he attempted to visit Chen last year, wished to convey his concern and support.
"Your case is the test of the Chinese commitment to protect you which they've given, we're very dubious about those assurances, but it's also the test of the United States as to whether human rights really do matter," said Smith.
Chen concluded saying, "I want to thank all of you for your care and for your love."
One Child Policy


Irrigation: Once established water over the dry periods.
Lower Temperatures: Tolerates temperatures as low as -1°C once established and above frost level. New growth will suffer from frost and burn.
Upper Temperatures: Temperatures for short periods to the mid 40's°C. Will cope better if planted in an established garden which creates a mirco climate for the plant.


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Q: Why is function getting called without calling it in Python? Below is my Code:
def addition(values):
    total = 0
    for i in values:
        total = total + i
    return total

def substract(values):
    total = values[0]
    print(total)
    for i in range(1,len(values)):
        total = total - values[i]
        print(total)
    return total

print("Welcome to this code")
print("This code is a simple calculator")
print("--------------------------------")
print("Please select any one")
print("1) Addition\n2) Substraction\n3) Multiplication\n4) Division\n5) Modulation")
choice = -1
while choice < 1 or choice > 5:
    try:
        choice = int(input("Enter your choice: "))
        if choice < 1 or choice > 5:
            print("Please enter value between 1 to 5")
    except:
        print("Enter valid input!")
option = ["Addition", "Substraction", "Multiplication", "Division", "Modulation"]
optionalias = ["add", "subtract", "multiply", "divide", "modulate"]
#print(choice)
#print("You selected " + option[choice-1])

while True:
    values = list(map(float, input("Enter values to " + optionalias[choice - 1] + " separated by comma ',': ").split(',')))
    if len(values) < 2:
        print("Enter atleast 2 values to perform ", option[choice - 1])
        continue
    if (choice == 4 or choice == 5):
        if len(values) > 2:
            print("Please enter exactly 2 values for Division/Modulation")
            continue
        if values[1] == 0:
            print("Divisor cannot be Zero (0) !! Please Try again!")
            continue
    break

operation = {
    1: addition(values),
    2: substract(values)
}

total = operation.get(choice)

print("Your total is ", str(total))

Please see the result below
result
I selected choice as 1, thus my code should only execute the addition function. But this code is executing even the substraction function as given above in my result. Can someone explain if I am missing something?

A: operation = {
    1: addition(values),
    2: substract(values)
}

is defining a dict where the values are the result of calling addition and substract (note: the correct spelling is subtract, no second s). You need to make the values functions to call, not the result of called functions, e.g.:
operation = {
    1: addition,  # No call parentheses, so it stores the function itself
    2: substract
}

total = operation[choice](values)  # Look up the function to call and call it