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Ganzfeld Experiment
From the German words ganz and Feld, meaning "entire field," this system attempts to use sensory deprivation of the subject as a "noise" reduction method, so that any psi input may more easily be detected. The subject may be equipped with headphones delivering "white noise," halved Ping-Pong balls placed over the eyes to diffuse light, and a comfortable, relaxing environment, thus deemphasizing any regular sensory input.
Charles Honorton and many other parapsychologists from 1972 through 1981 performed extensive ganzfeld tests. The work came under fire for alleged discrepancies, particularly from Dr. Ray Hyman, a psychologist who has been a persistent, skeptical critic of psi, and also from Dr. Susan Blackmore. As with all such tests, there are a great number of possibilities for errors in actual implementation of the conditions, data recording, and interpretation and statistical considerations. Previous ganzfeld tests had been found faulted, though at first it appeared, as it often does, that the long-sought breakthrough in parapsychology had been made.
Ganzfeld techniques continue to hold promise for parapsychology, and much more labor and money will be dedicated to that promise.
This herb is said to defend homes from witches and demons when placed at the door, and when worn on the person, to repel attacks by vampires and to protect the wearer from the evil eye. It is absolutely effective for those purposes and is also known to impart a delicious flavor to certain foods. It is occasionally used in this minor role.
Geley, Dr. Gustav
(1868-1924) A French researcher who was best known for his investigation and endorsement of the medium known as Eva C., the stage name for Marthe Béraud / Eva Carrière. However, in 1954, biographers discovered among his papers the evidence in the form of photographs, showing that he had actually exposed the cheating of Carrière, but had suppressed the facts. Charles Richet and baron Schrenck-Notzing, both co-investigators with Geley, along with Jean Meyer, the wealthy sponsor of the investigation, insisted that the evidence be suppressed.
Though it might be difficult to believe that serious researchers would do such a thing, the field is full of such events. Perhaps Geley's own words, expressing his philosophy in 1919, can best express his own very strong need for belief in the hereafter:
Robbed of its illusions, individual existence seems a real misfortune if it endures only from birth to death.
To accompany this sadly shallow outlook, Geley said that he also believed in reincarnation, for which he coined the term "palingenesis."
Geller, Uri
(1946 - ) Undoubtedly the "psychic superstar" of the century, whose name has become known in every language in every country. He has asserted that his powers are absolutely real, that he has never used cheating to achieve his results, and that in any case he is incapable of using sleight of hand to do conjuring effects.
Mr. Geller's major claim to fame is his ability to bend spoons using, according to him, only the power of his mind. He has also demonstrated, countless times, that he is able to ascertain the contents of sealed envelopes and to "see" while blindfolded. These are also part of the repertoires of many mentalists, and though Geller denies he uses their methods, it is interesting to know that he has attended conventions of magicians.
Reaching back as far as the sixteenth century, the handsome young Israeli, a former fashion model, borrowed and improved upon such basic demonstrations as Blindfold Driving and the Obedient Compass (see compass trick), though he claims that his performances are genuine, not using any trickery. Along with these numbers was a relatively current novelty in which a scrap of metal foil held by a spectator becomes too hot to hold, seemingly through the mental powers of the performer. Again, Mr. Geller says that his version of this demonstration is not a trick. (For the conjurors' method, see hot foil trick.)
In Israel, where the public was not quite as susceptible as in America, Geller was accused by a complaintant of doing tricks when he had promised to do genuine psychic feats. The Israeli court assessed him costs, and the price of the plaintiff's ticket was refunded to him.
But it was the newest marvel that he later performed — seeming to bend and break metal objects by mind power — that made all the news. That, it seemed, was original with him, unlike the other rather standard routines. However, in 1968 a conjuring magazine available in Israel published the instructions for a spoon trick that was indistinguishable from the Geller demonstration.
Insisting that his demonstrations were the real thing, in 1974 Uri Geller traveled the world with his story of having been given his powers through a distant planet called Hoova in another star system, and a UFO called "IS" or "Intelligence in the Sky." The unsteadier portion of the public ate up all this stuff, which sounded very much like bad science fiction, flocking to his performances and making him unquestionably the most charismatic and successful mentalist in history.
The magicians, with very few exceptions, were quick to offer solutions to Mr. Geller's numbers. In 1985, Australian conjuror Ben Harris published a definitive book on metal-bending methods, and in Norway, magician/author Jan Crosby amplified that to include a method of doing the "watch trick" (in which a watch advances time by apparently supernatural means) and an analysis of the bent spoons records. In Sweden, Trollare och Andra Underhållare("Magicians and Other Entertainers"), a book on the history of magic by author Christer Nilsson, expressed no doubts about the nature of Geller's performances. Writing on the requisites for an effective approach to conjuring, Nilsson said:
Certainly the first and last point to be made is that the quality of a performance is what decides whether it is good or bad. No one nowadays takes a magic trick as a fact; no one believes in black magic. Even though some commercial texts state the opposite, we know that Uri Geller is just another illusionist, nothing more.
But there was more to Uri Geller than just his unquestioned skill; he had the charm and charisma to convert admirers into worshipers. The portion of the public who believed him to be a real wizard were so fervent in their belief that they would defend their convictions even when confronted with incontrovertible evidence that he used conjuring methods. Scientist and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who was at one time said by Geller supporters to have been convinced by his demonstrations, said of that aspect:
One thing, however, remains to be explained — the Geller effect. By this I mean the ability of one able though perhaps not outstanding magician (though only his peers can judge that) to make such an extraordinary impact on the world, and to convince thousands of otherwise level-headed people that he is genuine, or at any rate, worthy of serious consideration.
Dr. Clarke's observation is well drawn. Even the U.S. scientists who first encountered Mr. Geller were aware of his conjuring tendencies. Parapsychologists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, who studied Mr. Geller at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as Stanford Research International) were aware, in one instance at least, that they were being shown a magician's trick by Geller. They described it in their book Mind Reach, where they said that they
had every confidence that Uri could do that trick [the blindfold drive] as well as any of the dozens of other magicians who do it.
Targ and Puthoff issued a lengthy and quite positive scientific paper extolling the psychic abilities of Geller. Their protocols for this "serious" investigation of the powers claimed by Geller were described by Dr. Ray Hyman, who investigated the project on behalf of a U.S. funding agency, as "sloppy and inadequate." In response to this criticism, Dr. Targ retorted, "Bullshit!" This is a technical term often encountered in parapsychology.
Geller has claimed that he is paid large sums of money ($1 million, nonrefundable, just to try) by mining companies to use his dowsing abilities for finding gold and oil, sometimes just waving his hands over a map to do so. He celebrates his claim that he has become a multimillionaire just from finding oil this way, though he declines to identify his clients. "It's nice to have money, because you don't have to worry about paying bills and mortgages," he says.
Some of the other claims made by and for Mr. Geller are even more difficult to accept. In 1989, he says, he contacted the USSR Central Administration of Space Technology Development and Use for National Economics and Science and offered to repair, by his psychic powers, their ailing Phobos satellites. The project never took place. He also said he was contacted by NASA in the United States and asked to help unstick an antenna on the Galileo space probe by means of his powers; NASA's public relations office denied knowing anything about him. He offered to recover from the Moon, by psychokinesis, a camera left there by NASA astronauts; the camera is still there. In articles and books written about Mr. Geller, it has been said that he has created gold from base metals by alchemy, has discovered the location of the lost Ark of the Covenant, and has many times materialized and dematerialized objects.
A decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals on December 9, 1994, in a libel suit brought by Geller against James Randi and the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, said that "[James] Randi has set about attempting to expose various Geller feats as the fraudulent tricks of a confidence man." The lawsuit was subsequently dismissed.
Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.
Gematria
See kabala and numerology.
See djinn.
From the German geist, for "spirit." A specter, phantom, apparition, shade, or wraith. A figure, often described as semitransparent, believed to be the remaining trace of a deceased person. Ghosts are the favorite subjects of scary tales designed to impress children and some adults.
Ghost Photography
See spirit photography.
Ghost Portraits
See spirit portraits.
Originating in Arab demonology, this is a one-eyed fiend with wings and an animal shape with the reputation of devouring dead bodies. The term has come to refer to any person who deals with the dead in an obscene or diabolical fashion. Grave robbers or "resurrectionists" who unearth bodies for the illegal use of medical experimenters are also known by this name.
Many Christian evangelists encourage their audiences to engage in "speaking in tongues." While engaged in this practice, performers (both preachers and worshipers) mumble gibberish which is believed by the faithful to be a secret prayer language understood only by God. The fact that each person mumbles differently matters not a whit. God, angels, and anointed ministers, we are told, are able to understand.
Technically, this psychological phenomenon is known as glossolalia. Early Methodists, Quakers, Shakers, and Mormons adopted it, then de-emphasized it. It fell into disuse until about 1830, when it reappeared in England among "females of excitable temperament," Until recently, there was not much emphasis on it in Christianity but now the Pentecostal sects have revived it.
Scripturally, glossolalia is traced back to the Bible in Acts 2:4, and a meeting of the apostles, wherein
they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to talk in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them power of utterance.
Non-Christian glossolalia predates the modern version considerably, being described in very ancient religions and known in primitive societies untouched by Christianity. It was known to Plato, who described it in use in his day: Greek and Roman oracles spoke in tongues. Virgil wrote, in the Aenead, Book Six, about a Roman Sibyl who babbled that way. Moslems embraced the idea, too. Non-Pentecostal fundamentalists believe that their Pentecostal brothers might be inspired to glossolalia by Satan.
It says in 1 Corinthians 14:2 that
when a man is using the language of ecstasy he is talking with God, not with men, for no man understands him.
This is an exact use of magical spells and incantations, an intrinsic part of magical methodology, and is indistinguishable from it, though it is called "religion" by today's priests.
(from the Greek gnoma, meaning "knowledge") An elemental spirit of the earth, delighting in mischief.
(from the Greek word for "to know") A mixture of astrology, kabala, Christianity and Egyptian mysticism formed the philosophies of a number of Gnostic sects. They attempted to reconcile Christianity and the philosophy of Pythagoras. A preoccupation with rather heavy orgiastic rituals alienated them from some of the Christian churches.
These sects were inordinately fond of magic talismans of various kinds, usually carved on gems.
Among the various Gnostic sects were the Albigensis, Carbonari, Carpocratians, Cathari, Lollards, and Paulicans. All were looked upon by the Christians as heretics and sorcerers. The magicians Simon Magus and Apollonius of Tyana are said to have been Gnostics.
See also charms and Secret Gospel.
See Order of the Golden Dawn.
In Hebraic mysticism, a monstrous automaton given life through magic. Many such robots have appeared in Hebrew mythology. The sixteenth-century kabalist Elijah of Chelm wrote a mystical, divine name on the forehead of his android to bring it to life. Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague made a Golem to protect the welfare of the Jews, but in order to prevent the creature from working on the Sabbath, he removed the secret life-principle from it on the Sabbath eve. Rules are rules.
Grand Catholicon
See philosopher's stone.
Grandier, Father Urbain
See Loudun, Devils of.
(also, graphiology, a spelling invented by the practitioners) Graphology is not to be confused with graphoanalysis, the art of identifying samples and classifying styles of handwriting for legal and forensic purposes.
Graphology is a pseudoscience by which it is claimed that the character, disposition, fate, aptitudes, and potentials of a writer may be determined. Slant, flourishes, pressure, size, regularity, and curvature are some of the features that are believed to reveal characteristics of the writer.
To quote John Beck, secretary of the National Society of Graphologists in the U.K., some practitioners are so accurate that "sometimes they can tell what a person had for breakfast that morning." Graphology, he says, is "the most precise of the 'ologies,'" and it has shown that "99 per cent of persons in the U.K. are not in the right jobs." He also says that graphology is a brand of psychology. In contrast, Professor Michael Rothenberg of the Department of School Services, City College, New York, defines graphology as largely "pseudoscience, closer to fortunetelling than serious research."
In Israel and in Europe, many companies rely on graphologists to make decisions on employment, promotions, contracts, and other business matters. French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911), the originator of a well-known IQ test still in use, embraced graphology as genuine and published material on the idea in 1906.
Though certain very obvious physical traits and failings of the subject (tremors, lack of co-ordination, dyslexia) can clearly be established by studying the individual's handwriting, graphologists claim that hidden thoughts and attitudes, weaknesses and hidden desires, can be revealed through their pursuit. The fact is that double-blind tests of graphology have shown that it cannot perform as advertised, and certainly does not serve to indicate career choices or capabilities. The percentage quoted by Mr. Beck is perhaps more indicative of the failure of graphology to correctly determine proper career directions.
However, Susan Morton, who professionally practices graphoanalysis (not graphology!) for the U.S. Postal Service Crime Lab in San Bruno, California, can indeed tell the future of one whose handwriting she identifies. If it matches what she is looking for, she says, she can clearly tell where the writer will spend the next four or five years.
Great Arcanum, The
See Arcanum, The Great.
Great Pyramid of Giza
Known to the ancients as Khuit, meaning "horizon." Believed to be the intended tomb of Pharaoh Cheops (Khufu, circa 3000 B.C.) this is the largest of all the Egyptian pyramids, located at Giza, five miles from Cairo. A remarkable engineering feat consisting of over fifteen million tons of limestone, it is evidence of the superb skills of the ancient architects and engineers.
The Great Pyramid of Giza, near Cairo, in a nineteenth century stereopticon card photo.
Some mystics like Erich von Däniken have chosen to claim that the early Egyptians were incapable of building this structure without extraterrestrial assistance. The methods of constructing the pyramid are well known and understood, and though an enormous amount of labor and skill was expended in the task, it was by no means beyond the ancients. One reason given to prove that the task was impossible is that the limestone used in the building had to be brought from a great distance away. Recent discoveries have shown that not only was the stone quarried locally (some three hundred yards from the base of the pyramid!), but that an entire small city, with all necessary amenities, existed there to support the large crew of workers who worked on the monument. The rubble from the ramps that were built to convey the stones into position as the structure rose in height was used to fill in the vast hole in the quarry at the conclusion of the project.
What makes the Great Pyramid seem much more of a riddle is that the mystics indicate certain aspects that they say make the Pyramid a secret record of the world's history — past, present and future. This all began in 1864 when a Scottish astronomer named Charles Piazzi Smyth, an otherwise competent scientist, seized upon the notion developed by an English publisher, John Taylor — who had adopted it from one Robert Menzies — that there was a cosmic message concealed in the measurements of the Pyramid. When the Royal Society of London refused to consider Smyth's passionate promotion of this absurdity, Smyth resigned his valued membership in a grand snit.
Aficionados of pyramid prophecy point out all manner of relationships in their chosen measurements of the edifice. For example, they say that by multiplying the height of the Pyramid by one billion, figure is obtained that is close to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun. That figure is quite close, 98.5 percent of the actual distance. Also, the figure pi (3.14159..., the ratio between the diameter of a circle and the circumference) shows up in an apparently mysterious fashion. The Earth to Sun figure showing up is no surprise, since with enough tries anyone can discover many such relationships. If, however, the width or height of a pyramid side is used, or the edge of the edifice, or the diagonal of the base, figures are obtained that are of no significance at all. The figure pi showing up is no mystery, and has been shown to be simply an artifact of the type of measuring tools and methods used by the designers and builders.
As author Martin Gardner has shown, relationships between obviously unconnected events and structures can always be found, as when he demonstrated that there were just as remarkable coincidences to be found when correlating the measurements of the Washington Monument and events in current history.
The claims of astounding accuracy of alignment of the Great Pyramid, long pointed to by the mystics as evidence of its extraterrestrial or divine origin, have been shown to be the result of overenthusiastic reports by amateurs. There is, as would be expected, the usual lack of precision, though this in no way detracts from the accomplishments of the builders and designers of this quite remarkable monument. The Great Pyramid of Giza does not represent a monument to wishful thinking; it is a monument to our species and to our ancestors.
A "black book" of magic, a manual for invoking magical forces. There are a number of famous examples of this type of document.
The grimoire of Pope Honorius III, titled the Constitution of Honorius, was written in the thirteenth century and printed in 1629 at Rome, the earliest known such book. The book describes methods of calling up spirits (conjuration), including the sacrifice of a black cock or a lamb as part of the procedure.
A grimoire titled The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis, actually of medieval origin) was a popular reference work in the Middle Ages, giving instructions on summoning demons, finding buried treasure, proper magician's costume, perfumes, and how to construct the magic circle. An extract from this tome reads (I:7):
Come ye, Angels of Darkness; come hither before this Circle without fear, terror or deformity, to execute our commands, and be ye ready both to achieve and to complete all that we shall command ye.
No doubt hundreds of expectant magi chanted these lines until blue in the face without any other noticeable result.
One of the famous grimoires, the Red Dragon, published along with another, The Black Chicken.
Other famous grimoires were Little Albert, Necronomicon, the Red Book of Appin, the Red Dragon, and Zekerboni.
Guppy, Mrs. Samuel
See Nichol, Agnes.
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch
(1877?-1949) Still a major cult figure today, this enigmatic, colorful Russian guru was, for a while, a close friend of Peter Demianovich Ouspensky (1878-1947), another but rather less picturesque mystic.
Gurdjieff organized the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, near Paris, where he managed to talk his followers — artists, writers, rich widows, aristocrats and common folk who could afford it — into laboring freely for him in exchange for his convoluted wisdom on every imaginable subject.
He was a charismatic, unpredictable character who praised and damned with impunity; constantly declared obscure, indefensible opinions on science and on mankind; and left behind him a bizarre philosophy that charms perhaps because it seems at first to be thoughtful but upon close examination looks more like a colossal joke.
Wondering what qualities of Gurdjieff enabled him to so captivate and control his disciples, U.K. psychologist Christopher Evans remarked:
Was it the long black moustaches, curled fiercely upward or the vast, dome-like shaven head? Perhaps it was the short, squat, gorilla-like figure? Or the one eye strikingly, but indescribably different from the other? . . . Most likely it was a combination of Gurdjieff's weird physical presence plus the special talent he displayed of uttering just about every remark he made, however commonplace, as though it was pregnant with great meaning and significance.
The guru published All and Everything, more than a thousand pages of his rambling philosophy, and required his followers to read it and live by it. He still has a large following internationally, and the man who was known as "G" to his devoted disciples has managed to command their continued respect well after one of his frequent automobile crashes led to his premature demise in 1949.
Derived from the Sanskrit word gur, meaning "to raise." A general term for a teacher or guide involved in spiritual matters. Today, loosely used to describe almost anyone who has some strange philosophical idea to sell, preferably involving incense, chanting, and surrendering all worldly goods.
(also, Bohemian and Romany) A designation for the ethnic group popularly believed to be originally from Romania, but now widely dispersed around the world. They are said to have first shown up in Europe in 1418. A rowdy group of them presented themselves at the gates of Paris in 1427, but were refused entrance.
Gypsies have, as part of their philosophy, a view that all non-Gypsies are fair game for their fortune-telling, curselifting, and other superstitious ministrations. Very class-conscious and fiercely partisan, they essentially live outside the cultures of the countries in which they choose to reside, almost invariably marrying within their own people and practicing a seminomadic existence.
The name came from a misunderstanding that Gypsies were from Egypt, while it appears from anthropological considerations that they are actually of East Indian derivation. The Hungarian term for the group is Pharaoh-nepek,meaning, "Pharaoh's people."
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Q: How do I remove the one "like" from that particular user? Trying do create a "like system" for a simple application with Laravel and Livewire. I have managed to add likes, but I only want the user to be able to add one (1) like to a post. At the moment a user can add as many likes as he or she wants.
This is my current function to store likes:
    public function storeLike()
    {
        // Check if the user already has liked the post
        if($this->collection->likes()->exists()){
            return $this->collection->likes()->delete();
        }

        // If not, add one like to the db
        $like = $this->collection->likes()->make();
        $like->user()->associate(auth()->user());

        // Save the like
        $like->save();
    }

And the part that im struggling with is:
        if($this->collection->likes()->exists()){
            return $this->collection->likes()->delete();
        }

It deletes all the likes for that post. So how can a disassociate, detach that like if it exists?
This is how I have made the collection:
        $collection = collect();

        $posts = Post::search('topic', $this->search)->with(['user'])->latest()->get();
        $urls = Urls::search('topic', $this->search)->with(['user'])->latest()->get();
        $news = News::search('topic', $this->search)->latest()->get();

        /** Push posts to the collection */
        foreach ($posts as $post) $collection->push($post);
        /** Push urls to the collection */
        foreach ($urls as $item) $collection->push($item);
        /** Push news to the collection */
        foreach ($news as $item) $collection->push($item);

A: I think the toggle (see docs) method could be very handy.
Let's assume we're building a component for a model called Post.
Livewire
public function clickedLike() {
    $this->post->likes()->toggle(Auth::user());
}

Template
<button wire:click="clickedLike">
    <3
</button>

Model
class Post extends Model {
    public function likes() {
        return $this->hasMany(User::class, 'likes')
    }
}


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High Holiday Nusach
Jewish Prayers and Sacred Music
A Letter From Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky
Dear Listeners,
It is with a sense of trepidation and excitement that I present to you this recording. allow me to share with you a little of the background and sources used in putting this together.
Over the years I have heard many great chazzonim and equally outstanding ballei tefila. I have always believed that the ultimate synthesis should be that of chazzonus and ballei tefila. I am not presenting this CD as an authority on Nusach but rather as a Talmid of so very many Ballei tefila. I have put together what I believe are some unique ideas in the presentation of the Nusach. however, of all the great chazzonim I have heard, none have had a greater impact than the one and only master of Nusach Hatefila, Chazzan Noach Schaul. the vast majority of the nusach presented here is derived from ideas I learned with this great teacher.
While I have spent much effort on perfecting the sound of this CD, I was more concerned with the authenticity of the Nusach and the attempt to share some new ideas that will help you, the chazzan and Baal tefila in your community.
I hope that in some way, this CD will be a source of enhancement in your Tefila and I would always be happy to hear from you with questions or comments. Ultimately, I would leave you with a thought I heard the great chazzan Yossele Rosenblatt used to say "before you go to the amud make sure you understand what you are saying." Nusach is only the spice that adds color to the delicacy; at its core we must know what we are saying.
Finally, remember that nothing can be more powerful than Tefila B'regesh. When you put your heart and feeling into the Tefilos it will be sensed by the Kehila and will inspire not only the listener, but the ba'alla tefila himself.
May all our tefilos be heard and answered.
- Benny
About Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky
Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky is a world-renowned Cantor, lecturer, teacher, mentor, and event producer. Affectionately known as "Cantor Benny," he serves as Cantor at the historic Park East Synagogue, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Born in Liverpool, England, he earned a bachelor's degree in Talmudic Studies in Manchester Yeshiva and an advanced degree in Music. He has performed for audiences of thousands at some of the world's most prestigious venues, including the White House and the United Nations. As a lecturer of music and its application to prayer, Cantor Rogosnitzky routinely studies and practices both traditional and modern liturgy and music. In 2012, he worked with Sony Music on the production and marketing of the historic album and concert series, "Eternal Echoes: Songs and Dances for the Soul," a collaboration between world-famous violinist Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot.
At Park East Synagogue, where he has served as Cantor since 2009, Cantor Rogosnitzky also leads marketing and community engagement efforts for both the Synagogue and Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School, where he serves as Director. He serves on the board of several charitable organizations and is the co-founder of Cantors World and the founder of Frum Divorce.
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Dividend Tax Info - Enbridge Inc.
Unless otherwise indicated, common and preferred share dividends paid by Enbridge Inc. (ENB), either in Cdn or US dollars, will be designated as "eligible dividends" for Canadian income tax purposes except as described below*. An eligible dividend paid to a Canadian resident is entitled to the enhanced dividend credit.
Canadian beneficial shareholders who received dividends outside of an TFSA, RRSP, RRIF or DPSP should receive a T5 Supplementary slip from their brokerage firm or intermediary. Canadian registered shareholders will receive a T5 Supplementary slip from AST Trust Company (Canada) for 2018. The deadline for issuance of T5 Supplementary slips is on or before the last day of February following the calendar year to which the information applies. Please refer questions regarding the T5 slips directly to your brokerage firm or AST Trust Company (Canada) at 1-800-821-2794. If you have any questions regarding the taxation of eligible dividends, please contact your Canadian tax advisor or your local office of the Canada Revenue Agency.
Please note that a portion of the $0.3150 September 1, 2013 Enbridge Inc. Common Share dividend was not designated as an "eligible dividend" pursuant to Subsection 89(14) of the Income Tax Act. The portion that was not designated as an "eligible dividend" under Canadian tax rules is $0.180382 per share. The remaining portion of the dividend, $0.134618 per share was designated as an "eligible dividend" for Canadian federal income tax purposes. The whole dividend will still be a "qualified dividend" for U.S. tax purposes.
Please note that a portion of the $0.2825 June 1, 2012 Enbridge Inc. Common Share dividend was not designated as an "eligible dividend" pursuant to Subsection 89(14) of the Income Tax Act. The portion that was not designated as an "eligible dividend" under Canadian tax rules was $0.237118 per share. The remaining portion of the dividend, $0.045382 per share was designated as an "eligible dividend" for Canadian federal income tax purposes. The whole dividend was still a "qualified dividend" for U.S. tax purposes.
Common share dividends paid by Enbridge Inc. will be subject to Canadian withholding tax at the rate of 25% unless the rate is reduced under the provisions of a tax treaty between Canada and the non-resident shareholder's jurisdiction of residence. Where the non-resident shareholder is a United States resident entitled to benefits under the Canada-U.S. tax treaty, the rate of Canadian withholding tax on dividends is generally reduced to 15%. You may be eligible to claim a credit or deduction against your local taxes with respect to these Canadian non-resident withholding taxes.
Enbridge Inc. is considered to be "a qualified foreign corporation" and the dividends paid on its common shares are considered to be "qualified dividends" as those terms are defined in the U.S. Internal Revenue Code". If you have any questions regarding the taxation of Canadian dividends in your local jurisdiction, please contact your local tax advisor.
Dividends paid to U.S. shareholders are subject to a 15% withholding tax; however, some U.S. shareholders may have experienced up to a 53% withholding tax on their dividend payment on June 1st if all of the required tax forms were not completed (25% deducted to the Canada Revenue Agency and 28% deducted to the IRS). To avoid any future withholdings on your next dividend, please return a completed NR301 and W9 tax form to the Computershare Trust Company of Canada at the address listed below.
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CLINT BOWYER – 2019 Daytona 500 Race Report
Event: 61st Daytona 500 (Round 1 of 36)
Location: Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway (2.5-mile oval)
Note: Race extended seven laps past its scheduled 200-lap distance due to a green-white-checkered finish.
Start/Finish: 6th/20th (Accident, completed 199 of 207 laps)
Point Standing: 16th with 26 points, 26 out of first
Race Winner: Denny Hamlin of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota) in overtime
Stage 1 Winner: Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
Stage 2 Winner: Ryan Blaney of Team Penske (Ford)
● Started sixth, finished 20th.
● Clint Bowyer held his position in the early going and pitted with Ford teammates on lap 15.
● Bowyer drove back to fourth by lap 24 as Fords ran first through sixth.
● Bowyer dropped to 19th by lap 41, running in the slower of the double-file lanes of traffic.
● Narrowly missed two spinning cars on lap 51.
● Pitted before the stage break and dropped to 25th.
● Started ninth, finished 11th.
● Bowyer pitted for fuel with other Fords on lap 73, dropping to the back of the field.
● Nearly fell down a lap to the leader, but a caution kept him on the lead lap.
● Bowyer pitted on lap 108 and dropped to 16th.
● Started eighth, finished 20th.
● Bowyer raced in sixth at the 150-lap mark.
● The No. 14 moved into the top-three in the race's closing stage and looked to be one of the favorites for victory.
● Bowyer was just a car length ahead of a 22-car accident that stopped the race for 25 minutes with 10 laps to go.
● He restarted fifth with two laps to go, but when he dove to the inside on the backstretch to grab third spot, he clipped another car. The contact sent Bowyer into a spin, collecting several cars.
● The No. 14 team attempted to make repairs but could not continue.
● Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500 to score his 32nd career Cup Series victory and his second in the Daytona 500. His margin of victory over second-place Kyle Busch was .138 of a second.
● There were 12 caution periods for a total of 47 laps.
● Only 14 of the 40 drivers in the Daytona finished on the lead lap.
Clint Bowyer, driver of the No. 14 Rush Truck Centers/Mobil 1 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing:
"Hey, it is the Daytona 500, I had to go for it. This just sucks, man. We had such a good Rush Truck Centers, Mobil 1 Ford Mustang. This is my best foot forward I have ever had here. We had a shot at it and I took it. I had a big run on the 34 and knew that I had to make quick work of him because in the mirror they were going three-wide and losing their minds so you knew that was going to come down on you. So I decided to lose my mind too."
The next event on the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series schedule is the Folds of Honor 500 on Sunday, Feb. 24 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The race starts at 2 p.m. EST with live coverage provided by FOX beginning with its prerace show at 1:30 p.m.
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Koseki stops Castle, sets new record!
Japan's legendary female fighter Momo Koseki (19-2-1, 6) created history earlier today as she retained her WBC Atomweight title and became the first ever Japanese fighter to record 14 world title defence, thus breaking the long standing record of Yoko Gushiken.
The tough Japanese fighter retained her title with an easier than expected victory over Britain's Denise Castle (2-1, 2), a former Muay Thai legend who simply came up short against one of the toughest and roughest female fighters in the sport.
Koseki attacked the body of the challenger from the get go and the intentioned seemed to be to win a battle of attrition rather than to box on the move with Castle. At 42 years old the stamina of the challenger was a big question mark despite her hard training regime and attacking the body seemed an intelligent game plan against the WBC #2 ranked challenger.
Castle, to her credit, hung in their and fought back, even forcing Koseki back occasionally though she never looked all that threatening to the younger, more experienced champion who looked in control for vast swathes of the bout.
With Castle slowing down, as a result of the body shots,Koseki started to look up top and in round 8 she started to land clean head shots that forced the referee to step in and Castle from taking any further punishment.
Whilst Castle had been fast tracked due to her Muay Thai experience she did lack the needed skills and experience to really test someone of Koseki's ability and experience. At 42 however Castle didn't have the time to waste getting more experience and took this opportunity whilst it arose, unfortunately for her it arose too early in her career but too late in life for her to even come close to testing the champion.
Although no one will really consider Koseki's title defence record as a more impressive feat than Gushiken's it is still a very impressive feat and we'd actually expect her to continue her run as champion for as long as she wants. There is simply no one at 102lbs who can beat her, including compatriot Ayaka Miyao, the current WBA champion.


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Joseph Siffert (; 7 July 1936 – 24 October 1971) was a Swiss racing driver.

Affectionately known as "Seppi" to his family and friends, Siffert was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, the son of a dairy owner. He initially made his name in racing on two wheels, winning the Swiss 350 cc motorcycle championship in 1959, before switching to four wheels with a Formula Junior Stanguellini. Siffert graduated to Formula One as a privateer in 1962, with a four-cylinder Lotus-Climax. He later moved to Swiss team Scuderia Filipinetti, and in 1964 joined Rob Walker's private British Rob Walker Racing Team. Early successes included victories in the non-Championship 1964 and 1965 Mediterranean Grands Prix, both times beating Jim Clark by a very narrow margin. He won two races in Formula One for the Rob Walker Racing Team and BRM. He died at the 1971 World Championship Victory Race, having his car roll over after a crash caused by a mechanical failure and being caught under the burning vehicle. Siffert was married twice and to his second wife Simone during the height of his career in the late 1960s and at the time of his death. They had two children together, Véronique and Philippe.

Life and career

Early life
Siffert was born in 1936 in the town of Fribourg, Switzerland, 35 km (22 mi) from Bern to a poor family. Aged 12, Siffert and his father went to Bern to see the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix at the Bremgarten circuit, and it was at this event where Siffert wanted to be a racing driver.

Formula One

In 1968, Siffert drove into the F1 history books by winning the 1968 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch in Rob Walker Racing Team's Lotus 49B, beating Chris Amon's Ferrari into second place after a race-long battle. This is regarded as the last GP victory by a genuine privateer. In 1971 as a BRM team driver he scored his second Formula One Championship race victory at the Austrian Grand Prix held at the Österreichring.

Sports cars
While Siffert's status in F1 grew slowly, his fame came as a leading driver for the factory Porsche effort in its quest for the World Sportscar Championship. In 1968, Siffert and Hans Herrmann won the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring in a Porsche 907, marking the first major outright wins for the company, apart from a few earlier victories on twisty tracks.

Later on, Siffert's driving displays in the Porsche 917 earned him several major wins in Europe. In addition, Siffert was chosen by Porsche to help launch its CanAm development programme, driving a Porsche 917PA spyder in 1969 and finishing fourth in the championship despite few entries.

In 1970 he teamed up with Brian Redman to drive a Porsche 908/3 to victory at the Targa Florio. That same year, Porsche bankrolled Siffert's seat in a works March Engineering F1 since the German company did not wish to lose one of their prize drivers to rival Ferrari. His association with March in F1 was disastrous, so he was pleased to join rival Porsche racer Pedro Rodriguez at BRM the following season.

Death
Siffert was killed in the non-championship World Championship Victory Race at Brands Hatch, Kent, England, the scene of his first victory in 1968. The suspension of his BRM had been damaged in a lap one incident with Ronnie Peterson, and broke later. This was not admitted by BRM until much later when it was accidentally divulged by a BRM ex-mechanic. The BRM crashed and immediately caught fire. Siffert could not free himself from the burning car.

In the subsequent Royal Automobile Club (the UK organising and regulatory representative of the FIA at the time) investigation, it was discovered that Siffert had only suffered a leg fracture in the initial crash but because three fire extinguishers failed to work properly no rescuers could reach Siffert for five minutes and he died of smoke inhalation. A fire marshall stated that if the fire extinguishers worked correctly then they could have reached Siffert within 20 seconds.

This accident led to a rapid overhaul of safety, both in-car and on circuit. On-board fire extinguishers (using BCF—bromochlorodifluoromethane, an aircraft product) became mandatory and also piped air for the drivers, direct into their helmets.

His funeral in Switzerland was attended by 50,000 people and a Gulf-Porsche 917 of Team John Wyer led the hearse and procession through the streets of Fribourg. Benoit was a period Formula 1 sports reporter and knew Siffert well. He was also present at Siffert's tragic last Brands Hatch race in 1971. The night before the race, Benoit took pictures of Siffert, his wife Simone and his mother Maria as well as a friend Jean Tinguely at an evening victory celebration. He then also took the last picture of Siffert alive as he sat waiting in his BRM in the pole position on the starting line five minutes before the start of the race.

Legacy
In the final round of the 2007–08 A1GP season, at Brands Hatch, the A1 Team Switzerland car carried the message Jo 'Seppi' Siffert - 40th Anniversary - Brands Hatch. This commemorated his 1968 British Grand Prix victory at Brands Hatch.

Racing record

Career summary

 Graded drivers not eligible for European Formula Two Championship points

Complete Formula One World Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Notes
 – Formula Two cars occupied fifth to tenth positions in the 1969 German Grand Prix, however drivers of these cars were not eligible for championship points. The points for fifth and sixth were awarded to the drivers of the eleventh and twelfth placed cars.

Complete Formula One Non-Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete European Formula Two Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

 Graded drivers not eligible for  European Formula Two Championship points

Other results
Targa Florio: 1st, 1970
Coppa Cittá di Enna: 1st, 1968
12 hours of Sebring: 1st, 1968
24 hours of Daytona: 1st, 1968
6 Hours of Nürburgring: 1st, 1968, 1969
6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps: 1st, 1969, 1970
1000 km of Zeltweg: 1st, 1968, 1969, 1970
1000 km of Monza: 1st, 1969
1000 km of Buenos Aires: 1st, 1971
6 Hours of Watkins Glen: 1st, 1969
1000 km of Brands Hatch: 1st, 1968

References

Sources

F1 Results include information from the following sources:

External links

 Official Jo Siffert web site (German and French) by Philippe Siffert, Jo's son
 Jo Siffert fan page authorized by Simone Siffert, Jo's second wife
 Biography at der Blick (German)

1936 births
1971 deaths
12 Hours of Reims drivers
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
BRM Formula One drivers
Deaths by smoke inhalation
Formula One race winners
March Formula One drivers
People from Fribourg
Racing drivers who died while racing
Rob Walker Racing Team Formula One drivers
Scuderia Filipinetti Formula One drivers
Siffert Racing Formula One drivers
Sport deaths in England
Swiss motorcycle racers
Swiss racing drivers
Swiss Formula One drivers
World Sportscar Championship drivers
12 Hours of Sebring drivers
Sportspeople from the canton of Fribourg
Porsche Motorsports drivers

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Hidiya Hanim Barakat (1898 – 1969) was an Egyptian philanthropist and social worker who worked to improve the welfare of Egyptian people.

Early life
Hidiya Hanim Barakat was born in 1898 to a palace official. As a child, she attended school at the Nôtre Dame de la Mère de Dieu convent. When she was twenty, she married Bahieddine Barakat, a lawyer from a prominent political family. The Barakat family encouraged her interest in welfare issues, seeing her and her work as a venue through which they could distribute Wafdist materials.

Work
With the help of Egyptian princess Ayn al-Hayat, Barakat formed a group of philanthropists. In 1908, the group opened a medical clinic in Cairo. In 1909, Barakat expanded the group to include other women, including Huda Sha'rawi, and renamed it to Mabarrat Muhammad Ali, later better known as the Mabarrat. The group continued to work to improve Egyptian welfare, later opening a hospital in the Abdin province of Cairo. Barakat served as the treasurer of the group, which continued their work to improve healthcare for people throughout Egypt, particularly focusing to improve the issues of infant mortality, epidemic response, and vaccination. She also worked to coordinate what became a group of clinics and mobile vaccination clinics.

In 1919, Barakat cofounded the Society of the New Woman to work on and sponsor not only welfare programs, but also programs for education, trade instruction, childcare, and orphanages.

By the 1950s, the Mabarrat had become the most wide-reaching organization within Egypt. In 1952, Barakat was elected the president of the group. In 1956, Barakat's youngest daughter followed her as president.

The Mabarrat was able to establish twelve hospitals in Egypt by 1961. By 1964, the government took over the management of these hospitals, as well as the control of the orphanages and clinics that the group had established.

Legacy
After Barakat's death, President Anwar Sadat stated "We are all pupils of Hidiya Barakat." A number of Egyptian projects were named after her.

References

1898 births
1969 deaths
Egyptian women
Social workers
Egyptian philanthropists
20th-century philanthropists


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A white luxury tour bus squeezes its way through a narrow Calcutta alleyway as child beggars claw at the windows. The kids inside the bus look like Indian children, except for their Walkmans, hip hugger jeans and Caucasian American parents. They're separated from the children on the street by a thin window and a stroke of luck. Adopted from Calcutta and raised in rural, Swedish-Lutheran Minnesota, these girls and their adoptive parents are visiting the girls' country of birth for the first time. The film follows three families – hog farmers, lesbian moms and a girl who is the only "brown" kid in her high school – as they travel from the prairie to the crowded, urban chaos of Northern India. It's a journey of friendship among Minnesota teenagers who find their reflection not only in the children on the street, but in each other.


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Nude Hippo's Nude Stock is a Glorious Event!
We live on a wonderful planet. It spins around the sun on a relatively regular basis and manages not to throw us off into the void. And, as long as we're stuck here it provides us with many wonderful sights. From sweeping vistas to towering waterfalls to epic plains to breathtaking oceans, they are all there for us to enjoy and revere. So it seems only fair that we return the favor. Some build monuments that inspire generations. Others create arts that touch souls and allow us to garner a different view of the world around us. But there are those who feel that nature should be met with nature. These hardy souls take the path of least resistance to share the gifts nature has bestowed upon them; they simply strip naked and frolic across the lands.
God I love those people.
And today we have news that these people are no longer content to dance with the occasional tree or swim in the random ocean. Nay and verily, I say upon you, they've done got naked AND politicized.
Fred Weir, from the unlikely location of the Christian Science Monitor, reports that women all over Russia are demanding that other Russian women strip naked in support of Vladimir Putin.
It calls itself "Putin's Army," already has more than 1,200 followers on Russia's main social networking site Vkontakte, and is urging young women to "tear" their clothes off as a message to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to step up and run for president in elections that are now barely eight months off.
Neither Mr. Putin nor President Dmitry Medvedev will openly state their intentions for the upcoming polls, and some very odd things have lately been rushing into the vacuum where normal political competition might otherwise be.
No one knows who is behind "Putin's Army," but its professionally-made video of a young woman praising Putin and preparing to rip off her T-shirt has gone viral since being posted last week on the blog of Kirill Schitov, a young pro-Putin deputy of the Moscow city Duma.
"Hi, my name is Diana. I'm a student. I'm mad about a man who has changed the life of our country," says the video's narrator, presumably the leggy blonde walking purposefully through central Moscow. "He's a first-rate politician and a chic guy. He's Vladimir Putin…. There are millions who adore him, who trust him.
"But there are a few who hurl dirt at him. Maybe they're scared? Or maybe they're just weak? Because they'll never be in his place."
The main point is to announce a contest for the best video of a woman "tearing" something for Putin, to be posted on the Vkontakte page. The winner, it says, will get an iPad 2.
I know a few people who would do darn near anything for an iPad 2 so I imagine this promotion will be a success and worth watching. Just FYI, Vkontakte is the Russian version of Facebook and is wildly popular there.
With contests like this you can see why.
But nudists aren't limited to silly promotional stunts. Huffpost Canada reports that one nudist is suing to have the right to be naked in public.
A man who is challenging the constitutionality of Canada's nudity laws received a boost Tuesday from a handful of naturists who descended on the small town in Ontario's cottage country where his lawyers were making arguments.
Lawyers for Brian Coldin spent the day trying to convince an Ontario court judge that it should no longer be a criminal offence to be naked in public. About six self-described naturists were in the courtroom to support him.
"I don't really have a nudist area that I go to so I pick areas around where I live that I can go naked," said Tom Balint, who travelled three hours from Ontario's Niagara region to attend the court proceedings.
"There's always that possibility that I could get caught one day and have to face the same kind of thing."
Balint said he risks having a criminal record if he's found nude, which can make it difficult to travel or find a job.
Coldin is facing five charges in connection with incidents at a Tim Hortons and A&W restaurant near the naturist resort he operates.
The Crown alleges Coldin went through a drive-thru without any clothes and pretended to reach into his non-existent back pocket and grab a wallet. Some witnesses who served him wept during the trial while testifying about seeing his genitals.
Seriously? An A&W? What? Couldn't he find a Hooters?
Of course not all Canadian nudist news provides humor. Nudists in Quebec are reporting that several of their cars have been fire bombed over a dispute about their beach.
(Suzanne) Blanchet believes the fires were sparked by a legal dispute over land development.
A recreation centre, bought by a man who wants to tear it down and build hundreds of new homes, is at the centre of the disagreement.
Legally, the nudists have access to the land and the recreation centre's services.
The developer is currently serving time for drug trafficking but the mayor of Saint-Lin-Laurentides said that's not an issue for him.
André Auger is defending the plan to develop hundreds of new homes.
"What's better…a good 200-home project or a dysfunctional nudist camp?" said Auger.
Despite all the trouble, Blanchet said residents of Eden will continue to fight for their rights.
Let's see, the developer's in jail, the mayor thinks that's fine and they're both trying to get the nudists to leave. Golly, who would be your first suspects? If you guessed "random acts of violence" you'd win, but only because you think like crooked cops and not real people.
But these people are clearly not aware of the positive economic impact nudists bring to the community. Queensland, Australia has made nude activities illegal so people are flocking to nearby Byron and are spending millions of dollars a year there. And in Virginia, not exactly the hot bed of liberalism, they're holding a rally to beat the Guinness World Record for the largest skinny dip which is expected to raise several million dollars for local businesses.
However, all is not sunshine and happiness in the world of naturists. Erik Kirschbaum, at MSNBC, is reporting that the number of German nudists is dwindling due to the fact that people are getting fewer and fatter.
The naked sunbathers who once crowded Germany's Baltic beaches and city parks are becoming an endangered species due to shifting demographics, the fall of the Berlin Wall, growing prosperity and widening girths.
Much to the chagrin of Free Body Culture (FKK) enthusiasts who have been stripping off their clothing on beaches and parks since the early 1900s, a cold wind has been blowing across Germany for nudists and their numbers are steadily dwindling.
"German society is changing and it's not easy to be a naturist anymore," said Kurt Fischer, president of the German FKK association (DFK). There are some 500,000 registered nudists and a total of seven million Germans sunbathe naked regularly.
"But the numbers are unfortunately falling by about two percent each year," Fischer told a group of reporters in the Foreign Press Association (VAP) while sitting, fully clothed, at a beach bar in Berlin's government quarter. "Times are tough."
The main problem is the shrinking population, Fischer said.
The number of Germans fell by more than 3.2 million over the last three decades even though the country's total population has managed to remain more or less steady at about 82 million thanks to immigration — often from countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as well as Turkey and Arabic countries.
"Our problems are demographic changes and the fact that immigrants aren't interested in social nudity," said Fischer, 70, whose association has such honored standing in Germany that it is even part of the Olympic Sport Federation (DOSB).
"Germany is relying more and more on immigrants to keep the population steady. But many come from countries with strong religious beliefs. They just aren't into FKK." Immigrants who arrive from cultures where headscarves are common will not usually be interested in becoming naturists in Germany, he said.
Fortunately no tax dollars were spent to arrive at that stunning conclusion. Nevertheless I'm not willing to throw in the towel on FKK just yet. They've survived the Kaisers, the Nazis and the Cold War. I truly believe they'll survive this.
After all, deep down, who doesn't want to be a nudist?
Regurgitator "I Wanna Be A Nudist" from David Granato on Vimeo.


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Q: Dragging and Dropping the bitmap in specific location in Android, otherwise restoring to initial position colorballs is a class that has two bitmaps (not Shown Here), and I am struggling to find that if the bitmap is dragged and then dropped within the "Square" (please see On Draw Method below) on the screen. Then bitmap should never be dragged again, if the same bitmap is moved anywhere-else but not within the square, it should restore to original position when i stopped moving the bitmap. Please help with the Code.
     // the method that draws the balls
       @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        //canvas.drawColor(0xFFCCCCCC);     //if you want another background color

    //draw the balls on the canvas
    for (ColorBall ball : colorballs) {
        canvas.drawBitmap(ball.getBitmap(), ball.getX(), ball.getY(), null);

      }

    // draw the square.
    Paint rectPaint = new Paint();
    // color of the border
    rectPaint.setColor(Color.BLUE);
    rectPaint.setStrokeWidth(1);
    rectPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);

    int w = this.getWidth(), h = this.getHeight();
    int offset = (h - w)/2;
    int step =w/3;
     rect= new Rect (0, offset+0*step, step, offset+step*1);
    canvas.drawRect(rect, rectPaint);

}

       // events when touching the screen
      public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    int eventaction = event.getAction();

    int X = (int)event.getX();
    int Y = (int)event.getY();
    ballTouchedFlag =false;

    switch (eventaction ) {

    case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: // touch down so check if the finger is on a ball
        balID = 0;
        for (ColorBall ball : colorballs) {
            // check if inside the bounds of the ball (circle)
            // get the center for the ball
            int centerX = ball.getX() + 25;
            int centerY = ball.getY() + 25;

            // calculate the radius from the touch to the center of the ball
            double radCircle  = Math.sqrt( (double) (((centerX-X)*(centerX-X)) + (centerY-Y)*(centerY-Y)));

            // if the radius is smaller then 23 (radius of a ball is 22), then it must be on the ball
            if (radCircle < 23){
                balID = ball.getID();
                initPoint.x=X;
                initPoint.y=Y;
                ballTouchedFlag =true;
                break;
            }

          }

         break;

    case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:   // touch drag with the ball
        // move the balls the same as the finger
        if (balID > 0 ) {
            colorballs[balID-1].setX(X-25);
            colorballs[balID-1].setY(Y-25);
        }

        break;

    case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
        // touch drop - just do things here after dropping
        // Determine if the ball is touched.

         break;
    }

    // redraw the canvas
    invalidate();
    return true;
}

A: I figured out what i wanted to achieve, Here is my updates in the above code,
In the MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN, I did the following changes
  // if the click image is not inside the rectangle

    if (radCircle < 23 && rect.contains(colorballs[balID-1].getX(), colorballs[balID-1].getY() == false){
            balID = ball.getID();
            initPoint.x=X;
            initPoint.y=Y;
            ballTouchedFlag =true;
            break;
        }

In the MotionEvent.Move, add following lines
   if ( balID > 0 && rect.contains(colorballs[balID-1].getX(), colorballs[balID-1].getY() == false )
   {.....}

in the MotionEvent.ACTION_UP, I added following Code
     // Now, when you drop the clicked bitmap, if it is not not in the square, store it            //  first position
   if ( rect.contains(colorballs[balID-1].getX(), colorballs[balID-1].getY() == false )
 colorballs[balID-1].setX(initPoint.x-25);
        colorballs[balID-1].setY(initPoint.y-25);


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{% extends "myhome_base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}

{% block title %}{% trans "Log In" %}{% endblock %}

{% block extra_style %}

{% endblock %}

{% block nav %}

    {{ LANGUAGE_CODE|language_name_local }}

        {% for LANG in LANGUAGES %}

{{ LANG.1 }}

        {% endfor %}

{% endblock %}

{% block main_panel %}

{% trans "Log In" %}

<form action="" method="post" class="con">{% csrf_token %}
    {% trans "Email" %}
	<input type="text" name="username" value="" class="input" />
	{% trans "Password" %}
	{% trans "(forgot password)" %}
	<input type="password" name="password" value="" class="input" autocomplete="off" />
    {% if form.captcha %}
    {% trans "CAPTCHA" %}

    {{ form.captcha }}

{% trans "Not clear? Refresh it." %}

    {% endif %}
    <input type="hidden" name="next" value="{% if next %}{{ next|escape }}{% else %}{{ SITE_ROOT }}{% endif %}" />
    {% if form.errors %}
      {% if form.captcha.errors %}

{{ form.captcha.errors}}

      {% else %}

{% trans "Incorrect email or password" %}

      {% endif %}
    {% else %}

    {% endif %}

        <input type="checkbox" name="remember_me" class="checkbox-orig"/>
        {% blocktrans %}Remember me for {{remember_days}} days {% endblocktrans %}

    <input type="submit" value="{% trans "Log In" %}" class="submit" />
    {% if enable_signup %}
    {% trans "Signup" %}
    {% endif %}

    {% if enable_shib_login %}
    <button id="shib-login" class="submit fright">{% trans "Shibboleth" %}</button>
    {% endif %}
</form>

{% endblock %}

{% block extra_script %}

{% endblock %}

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Interest expense: The most common tax break, all homeowners can deduct interest paid toward a mortgage. Homeowners can deduct interest expenses on up to $750,000 of mortgage debt from their income taxes, though when they itemize these deductions, they forgo the standard deduction of $12,000 for individuals or married couples filing individually, $18,000 for head of household & $24,000 for married filing jointly.
Capital appreciation: While the home increases in value during ownership these gains are not taxed at the federal level. For Single status homeowners, you can exclude up to $250,000 in home appreciation when figuring capital gains. An exclusion of $500,000 for filing jointly.
Home Office: If you work from home, you may take deductions for your home office. Although mortgage principal is never deductible, only interest, you can also deduct a portion of property tax, utilities, homeowners insurance, etc.


Wrap SocketIO client for SSR and testing.
Ignore socket.io for server-side rendering (SSR).
Proxy and delay socket.io connection for testing.
Since this is a wrapper around SocketIO io function it supports all the same arguments as socket.io does.
A URL for socket.io connection.
Optional parameters to be passed to socket.io.
A proxy socket that can delay establishing socket.io connection.
If your application uses real-time communication with socket.io and your server supports SSR then its a good idea to ignore socket.io module during SSR completely.
The steal-socket.io module maps socket.io-client/dist/socket.io to an @empty module, and stubs socket.io as minimally as possible.
This wrapper is aware of can-zone module which helps to track asynchronous activity. It uses can-zone.ignore to skip the tracking of socket.io calls. For more information about what can-zone is checkout this article as well as the documentation.
This wrapper helps with testing and demoing applications that use socket.io for real-time communication.
Often some modules that use socket.io call it to establish a socket connection immediately. This makes mocking of socket.io impossible.
The wrapper delays the creation of socket connection till StealJS is done with loading all the modules (including the ones where we can mock socket.io).
The delay-io wrapper returns io-like function that resolves with a ProxySocket. The ProxySocket is a replacement for io.Socket and acts as a proxy for it.
Initially the wrapper records all calls to io and its socket into a FIFO storage, and then, when StealJS is done with loading all modules, it replays the recorded calls against the real io and its socket.
After replaying the wrapper directly proxies all the subsequent calls.
Import steal-socket.io which includes this wrapper as its part, or directly import steal-socket.io/delay-io to use just this wrapper.


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public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("f(40) " + Fibonacci.fibonacci(40));

        CoinChanger changer = new CoinChanger(new int[]{1,2,3},5);
        changer.waysToMakeChange(true);
    }
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Complacency is sweeping through the stock market
Brian Sozzi
Editor-at-Large
Yahoo Finance April 8, 2019
Investors could be getting too fat for their britches.
Across an array of asset classes, there's no question that a lot of what Wall Street titans call "easy money" has been made this year. Ride-hailing firm Lyft, which has a No. 2 market share in the space, saw its first trade on the sizzling Nasdaq Composite on March 29 at $87.24, above its $72 IPO price. Slow-growing consumer companies such as McDonald's and Hershey also find their stocks sniffing 52-week highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq and S&P 500 are closing in on the record highs achieved with great fanfare in August 2018.
Whether the appreciation in risk asset values is due to the Federal Reserve promoting Helicopter Ben Bernanke-like monetary policy for as far as the eye could see — or investors are betting for a spring revival in global growth — indeed the action in markets wreak of the stench known as complacency. Good old-fashioned, get punched in the face amid a dose of bad news type of complacency.
It's almost laughable, until it isn't
If the Fed secretly wanted to prop up the stock market after its December 2018 swoon, it has done a masterful job. Actually, it has done a superbly splendid job in getting investors to ignore risks within certain asset classes and swing for the fences in the pursuit of massive gains.
Apple's stock is up for two straight weeks, 14% in the past month alone. How can one rationally think Apple's most recent quarter will be meaningfully better than its ugly holiday season report card? China is still likely a weak spot for Apple and smartphone demand remains sluggish.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) reached a record high late last week, despite a global economic growth slowdown that has caused chip inventories to remain elevated (which has kept prices under pressure). If that isn't complacency on the part of investors then color me silly.
Meanwhile, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is back around the lows seen in fall 2018, just prior to the market tanking as investors reassessed risk assets. Ultimate complacency.
"A rapid rise in asset valuations and plunge in volatility point to creeping market complacency," cautions the investment strategy team at BlackRock in a new note. BlackRock is advising clients to stay selective in these inflated markets and use rallies in stocks to "dial back" exposures.
Some of the risks ahead deserve to be priced more into asset valuations. Unfortunately, they are largely being ignored by the masses. BlackRock thinks a resurgence of recession fears, inflation pressures that force the Fed to resume interest rate tightening, or a geopolitical shock — such as a U.S.-Europe trade showdown could dent the enthusiasm for risk assets.
Not enough worthwhile risks to get you reconsidering lightening the load on stocks here? Then how about what may be a lackluster first quarter earnings season. Warnings from FedEx and Tiffany & Co. in recent weeks suggest as much, yet the market has stayed on autopilot.
But the bottom lines for Corporate America probably looked much different in the first quarter of 2019 than the fourth quarter of 2018.
Deutsche Bank points out that S&P 500 earnings are expected to have dropped 2.5% in the first quarter, down sharply from 15.5% growth in the fourth quarter. Declines are forecast in the energy, tech, financials, consumer discretionary and industrial sectors.
The outlook for profits isn't anything to jump for joy over, either, despite the market's suggestion to the contrary. Earnings for the S&P 500 are expected to be flat in the second quarter, rise 1.3% in the fourth quarter and then pop to 8.1% in the fourth quarter.
Yet, the out-sized bullishness on the Street persists.
"We would be careful not to extrapolate too much from the quarter over quarter earnings results and also year over year like comparisons for 1Q19," said Jefferies strategist Sean Darby.
Market complacency is worrisome
Complacency is a bad thing in life. As soon as you think you have it all figured out — boom — life roundhouse kicks you in the jaw. More often than not you deserve that roundhouse kick for not staying appreciative of what could go wrong... and safeguarding accordingly. Complacency in investing is also a bad thing. One day you are sitting on a 20% gain on a stock, the next its down 25% in a session following an out-of-the-blue earnings miss.
But is it really out of the blue? Not really — you just got complacent.
"Yes, a lot is already priced in and the market is arguably due for a modest selloff," said Deutsche Bank chief U.S. equity strategist Binky Chadha. "It has been 3½ months since the last selloff, while the market typically sees modest 3%-5% sell-offs every 2-3 months. This rally is already in the top one-fifth by duration and the chances of a pullback increase the longer it goes."
The team at BlackRock concludes, "We see scope for the risk rally to persist in the near term, but are wary of market complacency and the potential for volatility."
Brian Sozzi is an editor-at-large at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @BrianSozzi
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