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The Kindness Couture
F*ck You Very Much: Observations on the Rise of Rudeness
Hey, readers, what the f*ck is up?
Whoa. Wait.
When did talking to each other like this become a good thing?
Growing up, I often referred to friends' parents as "Mr." and "Ms." which was no doubt the influence of growing up on various military bases. There, acknowledgement of such courtesy titles and rank designations were commonplace. Of course, my preference for politeness was also due to my upbringing; to this day, I recall the time my parents explained the appropriateness of saying, "And how are you," in response to someone who initially asked the question.
I'd like to think that — except for some foul language I once unleashed on a colleague or that evil expression I recently gave coffee shop staff when they ran out of French vanilla flavoring — I'm a kind, respectful person who values politeness.
I hold doors open for people behind me, even when they're at distances others would likely deem non-door-holding-worthy. I return the carton of eggs containing a broken shell to the customer service department, happy that I've saved another shopper from purchasing an oozing mess. I speak with my mom on the phone every day, have engaged in random acts of kindness, and always try to show others respect.
The rise of the middle finger and bad language
You can imagine then, my disappointment and shock every time I open my laptop. It's obvious that society is drowning in disrespect, even clamoring to find creative new ways to express such rudeness. Images of people posing with their middle fingers proudly extended are a "thing" across several social media sites, the blank stares behind them often empty and dark. Surely, this one finger salute is far from the military salutes and greetings I witnessed during my childhood.
Today's excessive, just-for-fun use of the gesture never fails to make me feel embarrassment and shame. Sure, some of it is (sort of) funny, but it's so overdone, that any humorous aspect has gone by the wayside.
Just to do it, I checked out #middlefinger on Twitter and sure enough, there's plenty to be seen. Indeed, people are so devoted to the gesture that a slew of images and comments are posted regularly. This, my friends, is what many people are doing with their time. Selfie sticks and middle finger pics, f*ck you very much. Unless, of course, they're all wrapped up in scrolling through #freethenipple pics, which of course include the best of both worlds: nipples and the presence of our digitus medius.
No, many stories really are not that f*cking amazing
Even the stories that our friends are sharing or "liking" are filled with headlines that often talk about celebs, political figures or historical people who "didn't give a f*ck." Articles entice us with images of people who "F*cking nailed the mommy thing" or even a recipe.
Really? Are we that excited about cupcakes that we must reinforce our emotions with a curse word? Is any food that marvelous?
In the case of a story about an individual, such articles often contain examples of what the author believes makes them a revered rebel. Typically, it involves actions that exemplify utter disregard for others, a breaking of rules and tendency towards gluttonous behaviors. There are stories of married people who didn't give a f*ck about cheating or even little children who didn't give a f*ck in the classroom. Together we giggle at these videos or stories, until our attention span wanes and another equally, er, f*cking interesting story, catches our eye.
The YOLO, "because I can" mentality has infiltrated the media and, I'm afraid, contributed to much of society's complacent, "F*ck you and the world I live in" attitude. Daily, we're exposed to brazen gestures or snippets of unnecessary nudity under the guise of a video that will "make you laugh for minutes on end." We're sharing images of cats that "call" people a "F*cktard," but it's OK because the animal softens the rudeness and well, because we F*cking can (*middle fingers of both hands in your face*).
Of course, I'm well aware of the feel-good sites and stories out there. Plenty of well-mannered, positive ones exist, brimming with edgy humor, sharp wit and intelligence. I've read and shared the stories that demonstrate humanity's kindness, but even then, steadfast F*ck-to-itiveness often weasels its way in. Eventually, someone is bound to comment with a semi-nude picture or off-topic racial jab. Or maybe Bart Simpson or the Queen of England flipping the bird.
We're better than this
The ability to lighten up (which I'm sure people — who miss my point entirely — will say I need to do) will undoubtedly be the response of those who see nothing wrong with such rudeness. So too, will those who hold tight to freedom of expression. Yes, I get it. However, too far is simply too far. Still, we continue to push limits, fast-becoming a who-cares-anything-goes-you-mother-f*cker society. We're in your face, brash and bold, bitter and disrespectful... and proud of it.
Call me strange, but there's something to be said for self-expression that involves tact and respect. We can express ourselves by raising hope instead of our middle fingers. People need not resort to jumping on the "F*cktard" bandwagon to make a point, provide information or convey a sense of humor.
We're better than that.
Note: post first published by Jennifer Lea Reynolds on HuffPost, where she's a contributor, in 2015.
Jumping off the Negativity Bandwagon and Finding Kindness
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Often, being kind is associated with being weird, wimpy or even up to no good.
"She's being so nice. What's her motive?" people ask. There's even a Reddit thread on the topic, in which folks talk about feeling "on guard" or express an uneasiness when receiving favors.
"Does he ever get angry? I mean, he's always saying good things about other people."
"He'll never make it in the workplace. He's a softie!"
"Such a Pollyanna. Are her glasses always rose-colored?"
Granted, there are some people who are so perpetually kind and happy it makes you wonder if they're capable of talking about something serious for just one second. You know, stuff beyond always holding doors for others or baking muffins for colleagues and occasionally breaking away to engage in deep conversations about politics, vent about strange gym experiences or inwardly curse tangled metal hangers.
Still, when kind gestures surface — the ones that are sporadic and genuine, not creepy and self-serving — they should be seen as anything but weird and wimpy.
A Culture of Negativity
So many times people are fast to jump on the negativity bandwagon, complete with name-calling, rumor-spreading and acting unkind for the sheer sake of it. Who wouldn't welcome more kindness in the world?
Social media posts: Take a scroll and chances are, you'll come across drama-infused innuendos directed at an unnamed person. Memes about "idiots" and strangers from around the world making off-topic, derogatory comments in a simple weather-related post is often par for the course. Social media can be a free-for-all where negativity is frequently regurgitated.
Driving: Middle fingers. Speeding up for no other reason than to prevent the person in the other lane from turning or entering the highway.
At work: Spreading rumors. Talking bad about other coworkers to others. Setting someone up for failure.
In daily conversation: I've observed people take on the attitude of someone else in a group, agreeing with their negative comments without even knowing the entire story – or even the person being belittled. "She's a horrible person," someone might say. Before you know it, others are nodding in agreement, illogically piecing together half-truths and unknowns that originate from someone who has likely based their comments on, well, half-truths and unknowns.
Turning Away from Bad-Mouthing and Negative Thinking
But what if we consciously sought to reverse all of these situations, or at least the way we think about them? People can be quick to judge, unleash unkind phrases, or incessantly bash someone else in a conversation.
Instead:
Social media posts: Say something nice. If others are saying something rude about another person, don't get in it. Share something on someone's wall (if on Facebook) to let them know you're thinking about them. Mention someone on Twitter, not because you hope they'll mention you and increase your visibility in return, but because you truly enjoyed what they shared. Compliment. Encourage. Bring people up.
Driving: Give people the benefit of the doubt. Not everyone drives in an offending manner because they're rude to the core. They could be, but still, consider that perhaps someone cut you off because the passenger started having a stroke and had to be rushed to the hospital. Maybe a bee landed on the driver's lips. Perhaps they just learned they won the lottery and couldn't contain their exuberance (ok, unlikely, but still). The list goes on. Rather than jump to negative conclusions about the person behind the wheel, take a breath and be kind.
At work: Sing the praises of another colleague. Do it in front of their boss, their team, the individual one-on-one. Strike up a conversation with someone you see in the halls, but rarely talk with. Don't bully just because the so-called prized employee (which could be a rumor anyway) does. Ask to help someone who's been experiencing work or personal challenges – or both.
In conversation: Question others who constantly bash another person. Whether it's one subtle remark or a series of accusatory words, ask about the details and if appropriate, point out something that's not adding up. Even just a "well, behind closed doors no one really knows" type of statement can often make the other person understand that speaking ill of another often isn't fair. If it is justified, perhaps ask the person to speak to the offending individual face-to-face, rather than vent so publicly. Say positive things to and about others rather than participate in behaviors that spin the muddy wheels of negativity.
How have you spread kindness today?
Kindness is always in style.
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Acts of Kindness: 7 Ideas to Spread Cheer
Who doesn't want a little more kindness in their life? Engaging in random acts of kindness has become increasingly popular, with more people helping others or being on the receiving end of thoughtful gestures. With this in mind, here are some unique ideas for you to help spread cheer to others—today and every day.
1. Send a Handwritten Note
In today's age of sending a quick text or clicking "like" on Facebook, it's easy to overlook that some people deserve more. Writing a handwritten note really stands out from the social media pack and tells others you truly care. It's a thoughtful gesture that brings about smiles and good feelings, so consider mailing a note to someone. No need to write a book (unless you want); conveying a special thank you or succinct, meaningful congratulatory words will be appreciated.
2. Be Nice in the Workplace
Being kind isn't just about extending pleasant words and actions to friends and family members, but also involves treating colleagues well. I've written on this topic many times, advocating the need for there to be more kindness and less rudeness on the work front. In fact, studies have shown that rudeness spreads in the work environment and lingers, creating one giant, unhappy mess day after day.
Share a smile with a colleague you normally don't interact with, express thoughts without yelling and cursing, and if you are in the position to do so, extend a realistic work-life balance approach throughout your work culture. All of these are kind behaviors that can boost morale, increase productivity, and make individuals happier in general.
3. Offer to Babysit
If you know of a couple that's been stressed and desperately wanting to get away, you can help. Contact a friend and let them know that you want to babysit for them, no questions asked and no payment expected. This way, they can head out and have some time to themselves, even if it's just about taking a drive around the area and seeing what's new in town. The offer will be music to their ears and will make you feel good knowing you're allowing good friends to spend some much-needed time to themselves.
4. Mail a Small Gift to Someone You Don't Often See
There's nothing like the element of surprise to put a smile on someone's face. Send a small gift to a family member, friend or even an acquaintance you may interact with on the computer, but rarely in person. This can range from an affordable movie gift card to a handmade item that suits their style. Sending a gift that has nothing to do with a holiday or special occasion sends a caring message.
5. Make a Recipe that Says You Pay Attention to Others
Anyone can hit the store and bring a box of cookies to a friend. While that's a thoughtful idea, why not do something even more unique to show them you've been paying attention to their favorite things? For example, if you know someone doesn't care for strawberries, make a dish that excludes it instead of going by what the recipe says. Or, if they love chocolate chips, add it to a recipe that doesn't suggest it in the ingredient list for an element of surprise and added thoughtfulness.
6. Acknowledge People on Social Media
Everyone wants to see more likes on their Facebook page. For many, it's all about the comments and followers. While it may be important to boost your social media message for business reasons, why not take a step back and call attention to another person's work or talents? If you're a fan of a certain blog or Instagram account, why not share it with your own followers, tagging them appropriately? This will show that you're open-minded while also giving the other person a lift.
7. Last but not Least . . . Be Kind to Yourself!
Don't forget to be kind to yourself, especially if you tend to put your needs last. Sure, it's good to be kind to others, but it's also important to treat yourself well. So go ahead and buy your favorite flowers, get a massage, or purchase that fun mug that caught your eye.
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Can Being Kind Really Boost Your Happiness?
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Between sayings about it being better to give than to receive or paying it forward, you'd think we'd be living in a world where happiness abounds 24/7. After all, participating in random acts of kindness has been said to not only be a nice thing to do, but there's often a lot of talk about the behavior as something that boosts our own happiness as well.
Win-win, right?
Well, experts from the universities of Oxford and Bournemouth set out to determine if kindness is indeed the mood-booster it's often touted as being.
And…it is.
The team assessed more than 400 published papers on the link between kindness and happiness, fine-tuning the process to analyze several papers that actually put the happiness claim to the test. They then ultimately examined the statistical results of the scientific papers to determine whether or not being kind makes people happier.
According to the University of Oxford, there truly is an association between kindness and happiness. You can view more details on the Open Science Framework, an open collaboration project focused on science, where the experts' 52-page abstract on the topic is housed.
Dr. Oliver Scott Curry, from the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and a lead author of the study explains the kindness-happiness association. "Humans are social animals. We are happy to help family, friends, colleagues, community members and even strangers under some conditions," he says. "This research suggests that people do indeed derive satisfaction from helping others. This is probably because we genuinely care about others' welfare, and because random acts of kindness are a good way of making new friends, and kick-starting supportive social relationships."
While the study does point out that the overall effect of kindness on happiness—based on their particular assessments—is somewhat small (approximately less than one point on a 0-10 happiness scale), let's keep our happiness hats on and hold on to the hope that kindness, no matter how large or small, can generate.
Additionally, it's noted that the research conducted didn't distinguish between various types of kindness. For example, there are certain dynamics that exist between family, friends, and strangers, colleagues, and more. This suggests that specific kindness as opposed to arbitrary kindness could have an even greater impact on your happiness level.
Study or no study, I'm of the mindset that kindness is a good thing. It never hurts to be nice, and I definitely feel lighter in my heart whenever I do something nice for others.
What kind act or words have you shared with someone today?
The Kindness Couture: What it is and Why We Need It Now
It's no secret that we're bombarded with bothersome headlines more often than pleasant ones. And I don't mean unpleasantries that can't be avoided like certain natural disasters. I'm talking about the ones we bring about and often cheer on ourselves; the rude-to-the-core, disrespectful, anger-fueled behaviors that humans engage in with a disturbing, brazen nonchalance. This is about disrespectful actions, hurtful innuendos, belittling, bullying, hurting instead of helping behaviors.
Enter The Kindness Couture, which I've created to help turn the tide away from such negativity so that we embrace the power of kindness.
It's simple. Much like a coveted fashion, kindness makes us and those around us feel happy, confident, comforted, and secure. So it is with my Kindness Couture concept, where all that is kind, nice, and happy is always in style.
The Kindness Couture's goal is to create an environment in which people unabashedly immerse themselves in kind actions and thoughts on a daily basis—towards others as well as themselves. It's about living without feeling as though good behaviors and genuine actions should be hidden under a cloak of negativity, gossip and rudeness. It's knowing that kindness isn't synonymous with weakness, but that it's something to be proud of.
So, let's walk around strutting our sincerity, flaunting our good intentions. This is about wrapping ourselves up in kind actions and routinely making it a way of life that permeates the corporate culture, the family culture, one's individual culture—and hopefully one day, all of humanity.
I've written previously about the topic of kindness in several Huffington Post articles, including one about my attempt to "put the 'kind' back in humankind." In it, I describe the challenges and lessons learned in trying to turn frowns upside down, drawing on studies that explain the feel-good health benefits of being pleasant and the importance of genuine compassion.
In another article, I wrote about those who often said I was too nice, as if that was a bad thing. So, I explained my "niceness promise," in which I declared that I will "… smile at others' mean spirited intentions, turn from their unfounded words and...I will choose niceness. And I will continue to be nice."
For the naysayers who think this is saying that cute puppy videos, helping others, and extending thoughtful words is too full of rainbows and unicorns and nonsense, I offer this from the aforementioned article:
With each senseless act, our souls are saddened and our spirits are shattered. From the Timothy McVeighs and Ted Kaczynskis, to the gun-toting maniacs found in schools and the ongoing ISIS horrors (let's not forget the tragedy that unfolds at smaller, local levels — the animal abuser in our town, the rape of an elderly woman a few counties away, and so on), violence is running rampant.
Niceness, while it won't take away the hurts or bring loved ones back, helps. It reminds us that while we may be down, we're not completely out, at least for long. It encourages the healing process. It makes things okay, if only for a moment. Whether it's a smile or a random act of kindness, niceness counts. In niceness (politeness, respect, manners — call it what you will) comes hope.
We need more pleases and thank yous. Not half muttered, obligatory ones that are said because we know it's the right thing to do, but because we genuinely mean the words. Compliments should be extended for the sheer sake of offering honest praise, not because we think saying someone's shoes look awesome will score us points in the get-a-promotion department.
On that last point, yes, kindness should also infiltrate the corporate culture. Sure, there are plenty of workplaces that encourage kindness, creativity and wellness, complete with resting pods and ping pong tables, but still, many unkind work environments linger. There are rude employees and employers, gossip-laden comments tossed about, and bad language used to describe others during pre-presentation chatter. I've experienced it myself, describing the need for kindness in the workplace in "Workplace Kindness: Why It's Not an Oxymoron, but a Necessity." For that article, I wrote:
A kind employee — one who doesn't drop the F-word at the drop of a dime, talk badly about other colleagues, cheat on their boyfriends in order to climb the corporate ladder, and yes, who makes the occasional batch of cupcakes — is often viewed as a too-nice individual incapable of going for the gusto and "making it happen." They're sweet and lovely and all, but void of brazen words and arrogant actions, are deemed not quite cut out for the business world.
Too kind is too much to handle for some people. And for those who have the ability to be nice and build business relationships (gasp!), it's hard for many employers to grasp. Apparently, workplace kindness is often viewed as an oxymoron.
But it doesn't have to be. An employee can be kind, well-intentioned, and caring and make strides in the workplace. There need not be such cut-and-dry "you're either vindictive or award-winning" or "you're either too nice and a so-so worker" thoughts.
It's time to make kindness—towards others and to ourselves—the norm. It's time to turn away from greedy tendencies, negative gossip, instigating, fighting, and all other disturbing behaviors. Time to focus more on giving and receiving more joy and kindness. The Kindness Couture movement strives to keep this in mind.
Let's bring each other up, not hammer one another down.


So on what projects do surveyors take curvature into account?
On projects where is actually matters. Geodetic surveys, by definition. Long-span suspension bridges need to take curvature into account. I'm sure an engineer could provide other examples. But most projects just don't need to be concerned about it.
Google the LIGO gravity wave detector. Curvature of the earth had dramatic effects on its construction.
Also, Railroads use actual survey data as input to plan, the local topography is vastly more variable than curvature anyway. Since the curvature is gravity equipotential it is neither up nor down - so the only affect on the rail is length and that is measured along the actual ground-plan so no 'curvature' adjustment is required since that is already in the data.


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Tennis-Konta not sure if she should have taken COVID vaccine
By Metro US
Tennis: National Bank Open
(Reuters) – Britain's Johanna Konta said on Sunday she is still not sure if she should have taken the COVID-19 vaccine despite having to pull out of the Tokyo Olympics https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/britains-konta-pulls-out-tokyo-games-after-covid-19-positive-2021-07-13 after a positive test affected her preparations.
Konta, who won the Nottingham grasscourt title in June, was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon a day before the Grand Slam got underway when a member of her team tested positive for COVID-19.
The 30-year-old then tested positive during her self-isolation and said COVID had affected her both physically and mentally.
"It was a combination of feeling quite ill so I was sleeping or just existing for a few days," she told reporters ahead of the U.S. Open, which begins on Monday.
"There was also a period there where I had to work through my own feelings of injustice at all of it, like: 'Why now?' sort of feeling. I needed a bit of space and a bit of licking my wounds."
When asked if she regretted not taking the vaccine, she said: "I don't know, I'm not too sure."
The Briton also said she did not want to be drawn into an argument about COVID-19 vaccinations being mandatory to play at certain tournaments.
Konta's compatriot Andy Murray has said players travelling around the world had a 'responsibility' to get vaccinated https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/murray-urges-fellow-players-get-vaccinated-2021-08-28.
"This is a tricky thing to talk about because it's a very inflammatory subject and there's no real right answer," Konta added.
"I don't want to talk about it because I wouldn't be able to get my point across without it being a case for argument."
Konta returned to action at Cincinnati earlier this month, falling in the first round of the tune-up tournament for the U.S. Open where she plays Kristina Mladenovic in the first round.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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When the Taliban regime in Afghanistan collapsed in November 2001, journalists who had been waiting in parts of the country outside the Islamist regime's authority or in neighbouring Pakistan rushed to bombed-out and deserted training camps where al-Qaida had built the strike force that had carried out the 9/11 attacks.
I was in the eastern city of Jalalabad as opposition forces still skirmished with al-Qaida remnants on the evening of the city's fall. After a night in the one functioning hotel, I drove a few miles down the rutted road to Kabul. On several reporting trips into Afghanistan under the Taliban I had heard of a training camp near a reservoir called Darunta, a mile off the main road. It wasn't hard to reach: a complex of mud huts and barracks down a short road.
Darunta plays a key role in the extraordinary story told in Nine Lives. It is rare that western secret services place an agent within an organisation such as al-Qaida. It is rarer still that the identity of that agent becomes known. It is unprecedented that any such individual publishes a detailed memoir of more than a decade of his activity at very nearly the highest possible levels of Islamist militancy.
Nine Lives works on many levels: as a human story of faith, violence, trauma and eventually a form of redemption, a deep dive into the inner workings of one of the most infamous terrorist organisations of all time and as a short history of the threat that we still face. Dean recounts his early life in Saudi Arabia, and how he is drawn into a religious study group that appears innocent but goes on to produce a large number of high-level militants. By 1994, still a teenager, he is in Bosnia, fighting with committed Muslims alongside Croats. He is involved in battles and atrocities. These mark him permanently but reinforce his commitment to the struggle to defend the Ummah, the global community of Muslims, against the supposed aggression of the west and its local allies within the Islamic world. He travels to Afghanistan, and to Darunta, where he becomes involved in the attempted manufacture of chemical and biological weapons. He also joins al-Qaida, and is interviewed by Osama bin Laden himself.
Bin Laden is far from the only top-level militant Dean meets. every major figure active in Islamic militancy in this period – from preachers in the UK through to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who planned the 9/11 strikes, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who went on to found and lead al-Qaida in Iraq – feature in the narrative. These are amazing "up-close and personal" portraits of leading figures whose thinking and actions are essential for understanding how Islamic militancy evolved as it did. Particularly significant is the importance of eschatological prophesies to jihadists. For a long time, often well-educated al-Qaida higher command have been thought to have despised such apocalyptic thinking. In fact, Dean points out, the belief that they could hurry the coming of the end times was central to their worldview and strategy.
Yet Dean's involvement in the manufacture of gas bombs – tested on hundreds of rabbits – worries him. Should such weapons be used on civilians? Is jihad justified at all? Eventually his commitment to the cause wavers. He ends up detained in Bahrain, then passed to Britain's MI6, who run him as an agent for several years, sending him back to Afghanistan and Darunta. It is an astonishing revelation to learn that the UK had an agent close to the top of al-Qaida, and working in such a sensitive place.
Dean's accounts of this double life – both before and after 9/11 – offer a fascinating glimpse into the reality of spying. A lot of this is mundane, involving innumerable debriefings in bland hotel bedrooms, but much is gripping. Plots are uncovered. Secret communications are sent. But above all it is the human story that captivates. Dean ends up spying on his own family, and is only reluctantly forced to give up his espionage after White House sources blow his cover in leaks to a journalist.
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Q: Downloading data and processing asynchronous with NSURLSession I am using NSURLSession to download xml files and then I want to do different processing to this files, like parsing them:
-(void)parseFeed:(NSURL *)url
{
    NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

    NSURLSessionDataTask* task = [FeedSessionManager.sharedManager.session dataTaskWithRequest:request completionHandler:^(NSData* data, NSURLResponse* response, NSError* error)
                                  {
                                      Parser* parser = [[Parser alloc] initWithData:data];

                                      [self.feeds addObjectsFromArray:[parser items]];

                                  }];

    [task resume];
}

Parser object will parse the xml file using NSXMLParser. The parseFeed:(NSURL*)url is called from the ViewController:
Downloader* downloader = [[Downloader alloc] init];
[downloader parseFeed:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.engadget.com/tag/features/rss.xml"]];
NSArray* items = [downloader feeds];

And this is how I create the NSURLSession object:
-(id)init
{
    if(self = [super init])
    {
        _session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:FeedSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration delegate:self delegateQueue:nil];
    }

    return self;
}

Of course this approach doesn't work for me. Inside parseFeed method I want to wait until all data is downloaded and processed. Only then I want to access the self.feeds array in the ViewController.
Can someone point me into the right direction into doing this ? Or maybe point me to a different approach ?

A: I have used ASIHTTPRequest but now no longer maintained but you can use AFHTTPClient's operation queue
AFHTTPClient *client = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:nil];

// Important if only downloading one file at a time
[client.operationQueue setMaxConcurrentOperationCount: 1];

NSArray *videoURLs; // An array of strings you want to download

for (NSString * videoURL in videoURLs) {

    // …setup your requests as before

    [client enqueueHTTPRequestOperation:downloadRequest];
}

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Urban J, Fitzgerald L, Burkhalter B, Staskal D, Harris M, Haws L. 2011. BTEX serum levels in the general U.S. population: An analysis of 2003-2004 NHANES dataset. Presented at the Society of Toxicology's 50th Annual Meeting, March 6-10, Washington, D.C.
Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes (BTEX) are volatile organics compounds that are commonly found in many solvents and petroleum products. Although BTEX compounds are rapidly metabolized and eliminated in the human body, persistent exposure can result in a measurable internal dose. The National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey (NHANES) gathers data on a host of chemicals found in the general public and, as such, are useful for interpreting data gathered during exposure investigations designed to assess whether particular individuals are being exposed to chemicals in their environment. The objective of this investigation was to derive serum reference values for the national population using BTEX serum concentration data (ng/ml) from the 2003-2004 NHANES dataset. Weighted summary statistics were calculated for BTEX serum levels using NHANES subset-specific 2-year weights. Data were evaluated by several demographic variables including gender, age, and ethnicity, as well as by smoking status based on two biomarkers for smoking [2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) and cotinine]. Consistent with prior analyses of earlier NHANES datasets, data distributions for all compounds were right-skewed. m/p-Xylene (median: 0.13, range: 0.02-5.6) and toluene (0.1, 0.02-9.0) had the highest serum levels, followed by benzene (0.03, 0.02-1.4), o-xylene (0.03, 0.02-1.5), and ethylbenzene (0.03, 0.02-1.6). No significant trends were noted when serum concentrations were evaluated by demographic variables. However, smokers had elevated mean and median serum levels for all compounds except o-xylene regardless of the smoking biomarker. While historically cotinine has been the standard smoking biomarker, DMF is now believed to be a better measure of smoking because it is a direct by-product of tobacco smoke. We found serum BTEX levels in smokers were higher when using DMF as the biomarker for smoking activity regardless of statistic (mean, median, 95th percentile). In conclusion, these summary statistics are useful reference values for investigators assessing exposures to BTEX compounds.


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Q: Converting String to Date in java I am programming in java, and have a little problem since yesterday in parsing Date (converting from String to Date).
I am getting this exception :

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Fri May 24 18:47:31
  GMT+01:00 2013"

Here is my code:
String db= obj.getDebut(); // = "Fri May 24 18:47:31 GMT+01:00 2013"
String pattern2 = "EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss ZZZZ yyyy";
Date datedebutEntree = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern2).parse(db);

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

A: Your application language appears to be French. If your default Locale is likewise, it
will throw a ParseException when attempting to parse English day and month fields. Use Locale.ENGLISH instead:
String pattern2 = "EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss Z yyyy";
Date datedebutEntree = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern2, Locale.ENGLISH).parse(db);

A: You don't need to repeat the Z pattern. Use this:
String pattern2 = "EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss Z yyyy";


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A raposa-cinzenta (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) é uma espécie de mamífero onívoro da família Canidae, que habita um território compreendido desde o sul do Canadá até o norte da Venezuela e Colômbia, passando por vários estados dos Estados Unidos, tendo ocorrência também no norte do Brasil, estado do Amapá, pelas proximidades de Ferreira Gomes, com exceção das montanhas rochosas do norte. Esta espécie e a sua única congênere, a pequena raposa-das-ilhas, são os únicos animais ainda existentes do género Urocyon, que é considerado o mais basal dos canídeos vivos.

Embora já tenha sido a raposa mais comum no leste dos Estados Unidos, e ainda seja encontrada lá, o avanço humano e o desmatamento permitiram que a raposa-vermelha se tornasse mais dominante. Os Estados do Pacífico ainda têm a raposa cinza como dominante.

Descrição
A raposa-cinzenta distingue-se principalmente da maioria dos outros canídeos por suas partes superiores grisalhas, faixa preta na cauda e pescoço forte, enquanto o crânio pode ser facilmente distinguido de todos os outros canídeos norte-americanos por cristas temporais amplamente separadas que se aproximam posteriormente em um formato de de U. Há pouco dimorfismo sexual, exceto pelas fêmeas serem ligeiramente menores que os machos. A raposa-cinzenta varia de 76–112,5 cm em comprimento total. A cauda mede de 27,5–44,3 cm do comprimento total e suas patas traseiras medem 100–150 mm. A raposa-cinzenta geralmente pesa 3,6–7 kg, mas pode chegar até os 9 kg em alguns casos.

Distribuição e habitat
A raposa-cinzenta habita habitats arborizados, arbustivos e rochosos, desde a borda sul do Canadá até o norte da Venezuela e Colômbia. A espécie não é encontrada nas montanhas rochosas do norte dos Estados Unidos, ou nas bacias hidrográficas caribenhas de Honduras, Nicarágua, Costa Rica e oeste do Panamá. Desde o início do século XX, sua distribuição se expandiu para habitats e áreas anteriormente desocupadas ou dos quais foram extirpados.

É o único canídeo cuja distribuição natural abrange as Américas do Norte e do Sul. Em algumas áreas, altas densidades populacionais existem perto de penhascos cobertos de arbustos.

Comportamento

A habilidade da raposa-cinzenta de escalar árvores é compartilhada apenas com o cão-guaxinim asiático e o cão-cantor-da-Nova-Guiné entre os canídeos. Suas garras poderosas e curvas permitem que escale árvores para fugir de predadores ou para apanhar frutas ou aves. Pode escalar troncos verticais sem galhos a alturas de 18 metros, descendo principalmente pulando de galho em galho, ou lentamente para trás como um gato doméstico.

A raposa-cinzenta é principalmente noturna ou crepuscular, mas é ocasionalmente observada durante o dia. Geralmente esconde-se durante o dia em buracos de árvores, troncos ou esconderijos. É considerada mais social do que a raposa vermelha ou ártica, porque apenas a raposa-cinzenta exibe catação social. A raposa-cinzenta é considerada monogâmica, e unidades familiares consistindo de um macho, uma fêmea e possíveis juvenis foram indiretamente observadas. Acredita-se que essas unidades familiares ocupem áreas residenciais espaciais ou temporais distintas do que outros grupos.

Como outros membros da família Canidae, as raposas-cinzentas são capazes de se comunicar latindo e rosnando. Os machos têm sido observados tentando atrair parceiras em potencial levantando as patas traseiras para mostrar a genitália. Quando juvenis, as raposas cinzentas costumam brincar de luta. Quando adultos, eles usam suas glândulas odoríferas para marcar territórios e fontes de alimento. A urina e as fezes desempenham um papel na comunicação por deposição em áreas como solo descoberto, em troncos, pedras, locais elevados ou ao longo de trilhas. As fezes são frequentemente depositadas em grupos.

Reprodução

Presume-se que seja monogâmica. A época de reprodução das raposas-cinzentas varia geograficamente; em Michigan, a raposa-cinzenta acasala no início de março, em Alabama, os picos reprodutivos ocorrem em fevereiro. O período de gestação dura aproximadamente 53 dias. O tamanho da ninhada varia de 1 a 7, com média de 3,8 filhotes por fêmea. A maturidade sexual das mulheres ronda os 10 meses de idade. Os filhotes começam a caçar com os pais aos 3 meses. Com quatro meses de idade, os filhotes terão desenvolvido sua dentição permanente e agora podem facilmente forragear por conta própria. O grupo familiar permanece unido até o outono, quando os jovens machos atingem a maturidade sexual, então se dispersam.

O ciclo reprodutivo anual dos machos foi descrito através de esfregaços epididimários e tornam-se férteis mais cedo e permanecem férteis por mais tempo do que a fertilidade das fêmeas.

Tocas são usadas em qualquer época do ano, mas principalmente durante a época de procriação. As tocas são construídas em regiões com arbustos ou bosques e são menos óbvias do que as tocas da raposa vermelha. Troncos, árvores, pedras, tocas ou moradias abandonadas servem como locais adequados para tocas.

Dieta

As raposas-cinzentas são onívoras. Embora se alimentem de pequenos vertebrados, frutas e invertebrados também constituem uma parte substancial de sua dieta.

Frequentemente ataca coelhos-da-Flórida (Sylvilagus floridanus) no leste dos Estados Unidos, embora pegue prontamente ratos-do-mato, musaranhos e aves. Na Califórnia, a raposa cinza come principalmente roedores, seguidos por lagomorfos, por ex. coelhos.

Em algumas partes do oeste dos Estados Unidos (como no Parque Nacional de Zion em Utah), a raposa-cinzenta é principalmente insetívora e herbívora. A fruta é um componente importante da dieta da raposa-cinzenta e eles procuram tudo o que frutas estão disponíveis, geralmente comendo mais matéria vegetal do que a raposa-vermelha.

Subespécies

Existem 16 subespécies reconhecidas para a raposa-cinzenta.
Urocyon cinereoargenteus borealis (Nova Inglaterra)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus californicus (Sul da Califórnia)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus cinereoargenteus (leste dos Estados Unidos)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus costaricensis (Costa Rica)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus floridanus (Estados do Golfo)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus fraterculus (Yucatan)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus furvus (Panamá)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus guatemalae (mais ao sul do México ao sul da Nicarágua)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus madrensis (sul de Sonora, sudoeste de Chihuahua e noroeste de Durango)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus nigrirostris (sudoeste do México)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus ocythous (Estados da Planície Central)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus orinomus (sul do México, Istmo de Tehuantepec)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus peninsularis (Baja California)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus scottii (sudoeste dos Estados Unidos e norte do México)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus townsendi (norte da Califórnia e Oregon)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus venezuelae (Colombia e Venezuela)

Ver também
Raposa-cinzenta-argentina

Ligações externas

Raposas
Mamíferos descritos em 1775


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Sitamgar () is a Pakistani romantic drama serial directed by Fahim Burney, broadcasting on Hum TV every Thursday between October 2012 to March 2013. The serial is written by Sarwat Nazeer, stars Angeline Malik, Nadia Hussain, Sajal Aly, Azfar Rehman and Ali Afzal. The serial was first aired on 18 October 2012 and last aired on 7 March 2013.

This show was broadcast on Indian Channel Zindagi from 28 November 2015.

Plot
The story starts with Zoya (Sajal Aly) who is wandering around a mall in Dubai where she finds a cute doll that she wants to buy. At the same time, Zohaib (Faisal Rehman) sees the same doll and pleads Zoya to give it to him. Zoya disagrees, saying she found it first and leaves with it. Upset by this, Zohaib walks away and sits on a bench all alone when Zoya comes up to him and gives him the doll. a few hours later, he finds Zoya sitting alone outside ad finds out that her car has broken down. He offers her a ride home, where she asks him to play loud music and does very childish things. Suddenly she faints and Zohaib takes her to the hospital, where her finds out she's anorexic and hasn't eaten for a couple of days. On finding out that Zoya is in the hospital, Sheena (Angeline Malik), Zoya's Ani rushes to the hospital to see her. On seeing Zohaib with Zoya, she asks Zoya who he is and she says he's her boyfriend. Annoyed by this, Zohaib quickly escapes and goes back home.

Meanwhile, in Pakistan, Zohaib's wife Zahra (Sunita Marshall) is shown visiting her sister's house, where she meets Asad (Hassan Ahmed), her sister's brother-in-law who had proposed to her years ago. Zahra had rejected Asad as she was in love with Zohaib, leaving Asad heartbroken for the rest of his life. Zahra is always annoyed by his presence as she thinks her wants to make her feel guilty for rejecting him. Zohaib returns to Pakistan and gifts his daughter the doll that Zoya gave him. On seeing the gift tag with Zoya's name, Zahra asks Zohaib who she is where he explains to her everything that happened in Dubai. When he goes to work a few days later, he finds out that Zoya is his boss Shiraz's (Ali Afzal) daughter. On seeing how uninterested Zoya is in his business, Shiraz asks Zohaib to train her and  make her as hard-working as him. When it is Zoya's birthday, and her dad leaves her for a business trip, Zohaib arranges a party for her just to cheer her up, only forgetting that it's his wedding anniversary the same day. As they dance playfully, Zeba (Nadia Hussain), who is Shiraz's partner, walks in and questions them. Zoya, having hatred towards Zeba chases her away and talks to her harshly. Meanwhile, Zahra is waiting for Zohaib at home. He arrives home very late and tries to make it up to Zahra by dancing with her, but he still thinks of Zoya.

On Shiraz's arrival, he asks Zohaib to take Zoya to an art gallery so she can buy a painting she really likes. Zoya buys a painting for Zohaib and goes to his house to give it to his wife, where she tells her about the birthday party that Zohaib had give her. Zeba tells Shiraz what she saw the other say and how she thinks that Zohaib is using her to get Shiraz's money. Shiraz immediately sends Zoya back to Dubai against her will, where she meets Adil (Azfar Rehman), who is staying over at her Ani's house. She becomes very silent and unhappy, and feels alone. She starts missing Zohaib and even tries to call him. Sheena gets worried when she sees Zoya in this condition. She tries her best to turn her into the old Zoya, but nothing works. She refuses to marry Adil when her fathers asks her to do so, since she is in love with Zohaib. Meanwhile, Shiraz has taken the Dubai assignment away from Zohaib and given it to someone else. Zohaib asks Zoya to help him in vain, but she says no and seeing Zohaib's greed, she gets engaged to Adil. In this time Zeba and Shiraz also get married. Zohaib gets his Dubai project back and meets Zoya again. After having coffee with her and Adil, he finds that Zoya forgot her phone and goes to her house to return it to her. Zoya expresses her love to Zohaib, where Zohaib finds that he loves her too. They start dating and she becomes the same Zoya again. Sheena finds there is something suspicious that is going on and meets with Zohaib. She tells Zohaib to leave Zoya alone. On seeing that everyone is mistaking his love for greed, Zohaib leaves his job at Shiraz's company, and returns to Pakistan in order to sort things with Zahra.

In Pakistan, he sees how dependent Zahra and his daughter are on him and debates on leaving them or not. He tells Zoya he cannot marry her and that she should also forget him. Zoya, brokenhearted agrees to this and continues her relationship with Adil. One day, Zoya suddenly faints and is rushed to hospital. It is soon found that Zoya is suffering for Brain Tumor and is at her last stages. Adil, scared to marry a sick person, breaks his engagement with Zoya and goes back to Australia. Shiraz soon arrives and finds out that Adil has left. Zoya calls Zohaib and tells him what has happened. Zohaib becomes tensed and tells her that he loves her and will come to see her. Zahra overhears all of this, and cries, but lets Zohaib go. Zohaib goes to Dubai and meets Zoya. He brings her back to life and eventually marries her. Zahra is devastated by this news. In this time, Asad comes to help and takes care of her daughter. He tries to slowly bring her back to life and feels as if he has almost won her over. Zoya faints once more, and when taken to the hospital, she  finds out she is pregnant. On hearing this, Zeba objects to her pregnancy saying that she is too sick to be pregnant, but Shiraz doesn't pay much attention to her. Zeba soon starts to get jealous of Zoya and asks Shiraz for their own child, so Zoya's child will not inherit all of Shiraz's empire. Zahra's sister asks her to marry Asad, which she agrees to.

Asad's mother is dying and asks Zahra to decide in Asad's favor. After his mother's death, Asad starts missing her a lot and asks Zahra to marry him. Zahra says nothing and leaves the room. Soon, Zohaib has sent Zahra divorce papers, which she signs against her will. Zeba pressures Shiraz to give her a child, to which he says no. She accuses him of loving Zoya and wanting to give her his whole empire, to which he replies that the money is not his, but his ex-wife's and according to her will, the money now belongs to Zoya and her children. After hearing this, Zeba leaves him. Zohaib starts missing Zahra and his daughter.  He tries to call them and find out what has happened. He asks Zoya if they can keep his daughter with him, to which Zoya says yes. They return to Pakistan, where on seeing Zohaib, Zahra hugs him and professes how much she has missed him. Asad sees this and leaves forever, carrying all of Zahra's memories in his heart. Zohaib tells Zahra that he only married Zoya so he could give her happiness in her last few days. Zoya overhears this and faints. Eventually, Zoya gives birth to a girl and asks Zahra to be her mother, to which Zahra agrees, and afterwards, Zoya dies.

It is shown afterwards that Zahra is now taking care of Zoya's daughter who is named after Zoya. Zohaib asks her to forgive him, to which she says that she had forgiven him, but it will take her time to forget everything he has done to her.

Cast
 Angeline Malik as Sheena
 Nadia Hussain as Zeba
 Sajal Aly as Zoya
 Azfar Rehman as Adil
 Ali Afzal as Shiraz
 Sunita Marshall as Zahra
 Faisal Rehman as Zohaib
 Hassan Ahmed as Asad

Soundtrack

Sitamgar OST is composed and sung by Sohail Haider and the lyrics written by Sabir Zafar.

References

External links
  of the serial

Hum TV original programming
Urdu-language television shows
Pakistani drama television series
2012 Pakistani television series debuts
2013 Pakistani television series endings


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Q: Swift "UDP Read" code - unsaferawbufferpointer compile error I'm sure someone can solve this in seconds but I'm very new to swift, using playgrounds on the iPad. I'm trying to modify some SendUDP code to recieve instead, but I can't solve the compile error (unsafepointer is not convertible to unsaferawbufferpointer) on the readResult= line. The SEND works fine with very similar code, but I'm really struggling here, way out of my depth...
Here's the code

func readUDP() {
  guard
  let addresses =
    try ? addressesFor(host: "192.168.4.1", port: 80)
  else {
    print("host not found")
    return
  }
  if addresses.count != 1 {
    print("host ambiguous; using the first one")
  }
  address = addresses[0]
  fd1 = socket(Int32(address.ss_family), SOCK_DGRAM, 0)
  guard fd1 >= 0
  else {
    print("`socket` failed`")
    return
  }
  defer {
    let junk = close(fd1)
    assert(junk == 0)
  }

  var message = [UInt8](repeating: 0, count: 1024)
  let messageCount = message.count
  var readResult = message.withUnsafeBytes {
    (messagePtr: UnsafePointer < UInt8 > ) - > Int in
      return address.withSockAddr {
        (sa, saLen) - > Int in
          return recvfrom(fd1, messagePtr, messageCount, 0, sa, & saLen)
      }
  }
  guard readResult >= 0
  else {
    print("read failed")
    return
  }
  print("success")
}

A: You can use Swift's implicit bridging to simplify to something like this:
var message = [UInt8](repeating: 0, count: 1024)
  let messageCount = message.count
  var readResult = address.withSockAddr {
    (sa, saLen) - > Int in
      return recvfrom(fd1, &message, messageCount, 0, sa, &saLen)
  }
  guard readResult >= 0
  else {
    print("read failed")
    return
  }


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The plans, contained in a document drawn up by TP Wind – the European Wind Energy Technology Platform - show how public and private investments totalling €1.4 billion could be spent over the 2010-2012 period.
The funding is part of the broader €6 billion identified by the European Commission for the wind sector under the wind energy road map from 2010-2020. This roadmap, which is privately and publically funded, is one of the European Commission's tools to help Europe achieve its target of 20% renewable energy by 2020.
For offshore wind farms, the focus is on the large scale deployment of substructures, including innovative substructures.
"For grids, the aim is to ensure a secure and stable operation of the future power system with a very large scale integration of wind power," Nicolas Fichaux, Secretary General of TP Wind and Head of EWEA's policy analysis unit, said.
Work on developing the future of wind energy technology is due to start from June this year.


Around 2010, there were already some canvas to help the creation process of traditional business models, but none took into account the social or societal dimension.
For this reason, in 2011, was realized a first attempt to create a social business model canvas, integrating approaches from the Logic Framework, issued from the development cooperation movements, and from the Business Model Canvas Generation by Alexander Ostervalder and Yves Pigneur.
After beeing used many times, this first canvas has undergone some changes since the beginning of 2013, mainly with the organizational values in its center, giving more consistency and coherence.
As you can watch a precious stone from multiple angles, you can look at an organization in multiple facets.
The integration of these looks gives an overview of the organization and helps understanding the interactions between its various components. It also promotes awareness of the potential impacts when certain pieces of the puzzle are changing.
The canvas of shared values, as the name suggests, is, somehow, the fuel of the organization, providing consistency in its actions, balancing its logic and directing his vision.
The business model canvas represents the logic of the organization, its purpose, the needs it will respond ... in a word: its mission!
This is a relatively permanent facet, not moving relatively little over the years. We can represent it as the engine of the organization.
The canvas governance may appear to have less importance, is somehow a simple list of stakeholders. This is however not the case and this framework comes into its own when it is integrated with communication issues, influences in decision making and in the reflections on the social responsibility of the organization.
While the business model is a permanent facet of the organization, the strategy canvas reveals its whole dynamism. It does so encouraging the organization to make the diagnosis of the actual situation and choose the best path leading to its vision of the future, further declining it into pojects and actions.
The last canvas being integrated at the top of the others is the corporate social responsibility one. It may seem somewhat superfluous or redundant in relation to the others. However, integrating the seven core subjects of ISO 26000 to the business model canvas, it strongly encourages proactive thinking.
Context: In what context the organization is immersed?
Needs: What are the needs, problems and opportunities that the organization will solve?
Beneficiaries: Who are the users, clients and beneficiaries of the organization?
Channels: How will the services be communicated, provided and delivered?
Products and services: What are the products and services the organization will provide?
Resources: With which people and resources the organization can it produce its benefits?
Results and impact: How to verify that the organization meets the needs properly?
Support: What are the different stakeholders who can support the organization?
Internal governance : Also called "corporate governance"
Then converting the strategy objectives, action plans, projects, schedules, budgets, etc.


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Lewis "Beau" Beech III (* 1. März 1994 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida) ist ein US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler.

Karriere
Beech spielte an der Ponte Vedra High School unter seinem Vater Bud als Trainer. Seine guten Leistungen als Schüler weckten das Interesse von Universitäten, er landete an der University of North Florida in Jacksonville und gehörte dort von 2012 bis 2016 zur Basketballmannschaft. Er schloss seine Uni-Zeit mit einer starken Saison 2015/16 ab, in der er in 34 Partien im Schnitt 15,4 Punkte pro Einsatz traf sowie 6,4 Rebounds einsammelte. Beech traf in seiner Abschlusssaison 97 Dreipunktwürfe für North Florida.

Im Juli 2016 wurde er von der NBA-Mannschaft Brooklyn Nets mit einem Einjahresvertrag ausgestattet, kam in einem Vorbereitungsspiel zum Einsatz, wurde im Oktober 2016 aber noch vor dem Saisonbeginn aus dem Kader gestrichen. Er spielte in der Saison 2016/17 dann für Brooklyns Ausbildungsmannschaft, die Long Island Nets, in der NBA G-League und erzielte in 36 Einsätzen im Durchschnitt 7,4 Punkte. Beech blieb anschließend bis Mitte Januar 2018 vereinslos, als er von den Erie BayHawks (ebenfalls NBA G-League) verpflichtet wurde, für die er bis zum Ende des Spieljahres 2017/18 in 20 Hauptrundenpartien auf dem Feld stand und einen Mittelwert von 5,9 Punkten je Begegnung erreichte.

Im August 2018 unterschrieb Beech seinen ersten Vertrag im Ausland, er schloss sich den Hamburg Towers in der deutschen 2. Bundesliga ProA an. Mit den Hamburgern errang er in der Saison 2018/19 die ProA-Meisterschaft. Beech trug zu diesem Erfolg als zweitbester Korbschütze (12,6 Punkte/Spiel) sowie bester Distanzschütze (89 getroffene Dreipunktwürfe) und bester Rebounder (6,3 pro Spiel) der Mannschaft bei. Im Juni 2019 wurde sein Vertrag in Hamburg verlängert. Er wurde im Vorfeld des ersten Hamburger Bundesligajahres zum Mannschaftskapitän gewählt. In der Bundesliga erzielte der US-Amerikaner in 19 Einsätzen im Durchschnitt 9,7 Punkte für die Hanseaten.

Im Sommer 2020 nahm er ein Angebot von PAOK Thessaloniki an. In 25 Spielen für PAOK erzielte er im Schnitt 6,9 Punkte. Zur Saison 2021/22 wechselte Beech nach Polen zu Czarni Słupsk und nahm im Sommer 2022 ein Angebot des Vereins KK FMP Meridian aus der serbischen Hauptstadt Belgrad an.

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Spielerprofil ProA

Spielerprofil NBA G-League

Einzelnachweise

Basketballspieler (Hamburg Towers)
Basketballspieler (PAOK Thessaloniki)
Basketballspieler (Czarni Słupsk)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1994
Mann


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Four funky drummers and six hot horns bring to life a fabulous selection of the most iconic Bollywood scenes, all driven by the huge beat of the dhol drum.
The evening starts at 7pm with a delicious Gujarati meal that's included in the ticket price. The films and the music kick off at 8pm so come and enjoy a sizzling celebration of the very Best of Bollywood!


The Jan Van Brabant team are on the road again. This time brining Go2B to an Erasmus + conference. What are our intrepid explorers up to? They're helping to promote Go2B to other interested parties. People that might want to use Go2B to enable mobilities in their own programmes!
Go, go Hans & Nicole.


Registration of past Birth under Section 24 ,Recension of Birth certificate will be commented section under 27, 27 (A), 36, 52(1)and 53.
Three (03) written evidence for corrected name used more than one year.
A stamped envelop & file cover inscribing applicants' adress.
If details of father are not included, should have an affidavit from JP for include that details.
Divisiona Secetary has power of registration of kandyan marriage, giving divorce orders and recension of certificates.


The Australian Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Turnbull has announced major changes to the subclass 457 temporary work visa programme with the introduction of a new Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) visa which will come into effect in March 2018. Mr Turnbull said the new system would be "manifestly, rigorously, resolutely conducted in the national interest" and will no longer allow 457 visas to be passports to jobs that could and should go to Australians.
Current 457 visa holders will not be affected by the changes which will see the introduction of two new temporary skilled visas - a two year visa and a more specialised one for four years which will be targeted at applicants with a higher level of skills and work experience.
The TSS visa will have two distinct streams comprising of a short term stream of up to two years for applicants whose nominated occupation is on the new Short-Term Skilled Shortage List - STSOL (previously CSOL) and a Medium-Term stream of up to four years if the occupation is on the Medium and Long-Term Strategic Skills List - MLTSSL (previously SOL).
Although the 457 visa programme will remain open until the TSS visa comes into effect in March 2018, there has been an immediate reduction of 216 occupations available for subclass 457 visa programme applications and 59 caveats introduced to specified occupations which either relate to work experience, regional location or are occupation specific.
Another key change has been to restrict applicants whose nominated occupation is only on the STSOL to a maximum stay of two years in Australia with only one further extension allowed for another two years with no pathway to applying for permanent residence through the Employer Nomination or Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme. Applicants whose occupation is on the MLTSSL can be granted a visa for up to four years and will be able to apply for permanent residence after three years if their employers are willing to nominate them. Students graduating in Australia will also be affected by the changes and will not be eligible to apply for temporary or permanent company sponsorship after March 2018 as they will require at least two years full-time wok experience first.
removing English language exemptions based on a skilled migrants salary.
If you need to know more about how these changes will impact on your application please contact Jane Smith on 020 8468 1076.
Jane, I just wanted to thank you. My Dad was in a state of disbelief when I told him his visa had been granted. My brother had only just advised him that he probably would not be granted his visa in time and therefore we are all delighted with the outcome.


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Home » FA Cup » Football » Coral take a look at FA Cup third round shocks down the years
Coral take a look at FA Cup third round shocks down the years
Matt Haynes | 08.12.2014
The FA Cup third round is nearly upon us and, ahead of the draw, Coral take a trip down memory lane to look at some of the shocks from previous years, which have seen big teams knocked out by lower, and even non-league, opposition at this stage of the competition.
Unsurprisingly, Chelsea are favourites with Coral at 5/1 to win the oldest and most iconic club trophy in the world, while Manchester City and United are both joint-second with 6/1 odds.
Manchester United 0-1 Leeds United: 2010
Everyone remembers League One side at the time Leeds United stunning the then champions of England on their own backyard. It was the goal that elevated Jermaine Beckford's status onto a national level. Jonny Howson winning possession in his own half and playing a sublime long ball to the former Wealdstone striker, who slipped it past goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak with ease.
Wrexham 2-1 Arsenal: 1992
They're still talking about this one in north Wales. The Gunners were second in the country's top flight when they took on Welsh side Wrexham in the third round, who were the lowest placed club in the football league at the time. Arsenal shouldn't have had a problem right? Wrong. George Graham's side were 1-0 up and cruising with 20 minutes to go, before veteran Mickey Thomas smashed in a free-kick, and Steve Watkin netted the winner.
Shrewsbury Town 2-1 Everton: 2003
Former Toffees captain Kevin Ratcliffe came back to haunt his ex-club by inspiring the Shropshire outfit to a famous victory. David Moyes' men, many of whom were established internationals, were completely outplayed at Gay Meadow. Former Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday player Nigel Jemson netted the opener and decider for the Shrews, cancelling out an equaliser from Swedish winger Niclas Alexandersson.
Havant and Waterlooville 4-2 Swansea City: 2008
To earn a replay against the run-away leaders of League Two at the time was enough of an achievement; though, to smash four past Roberto Martinez's men and humble the south Wales side in the process was quite remarkable. Charlie Oatway's outfit went on to draw Liverpool in the next round, and almost shocked them, twice taking the lead at Anfield, before eventually losing 5-2.
Manchester United 0-0 Exeter City: 2005
Like with Burton Albion the season before, Sir Alex Ferguson's side struggled to beat non-league Exeter City, who took them to a replay, which the Red Devils won 2-0. Although United brought on Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes and Alan Smith on around the hour mark, they were still unable to make their huge advantage count.
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A long-suffering Leeds fan, Matt studied Sports Journalism at university, and has a plethora of multi-industry experience. Having worked on behalf of multiple hedge funds and top-tier investment banks in executive search, he has also had a stint with the BBC and the Press Association. Outside of work, he pursues entrepreneurial activities and likes to keep fit.
Although he has interviewed current England manager Roy Hodgson as well as Rafa Benitez and a number of other names, he is honoured to have spent time in the company of Gordon Banks. Matt enjoys cultivating long-lasting professional and personal relationships, is solution orientated, and supports Coral's sports content provision.
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using System;
using Lucene.Net.Index;

namespace Lucene.Net.Search
{
    ///
    /// Subclass of FilteredTermEnum for enumerating a single term.
    ///

    /// This can be used by <see cref="MultiTermQuery"/>s that need only visit one term,
    /// but want to preserve MultiTermQuery semantics such as
    /// <see cref="RewriteMethod"/>.
    ///
    public class SingleTermEnum : FilteredTermEnum
    {
        private Term singleTerm;
        private bool _endEnum = false;

        ///
        /// Creates a new <c>SingleTermEnum</c>.
        ///

        /// After calling the constructor the enumeration is already pointing to the term,
        ///  if it exists.
        ///
        public SingleTermEnum(IndexReader reader, Term singleTerm)
        {
            this.singleTerm = singleTerm;
            SetEnum(reader.Terms(singleTerm));
        }

        public override float Difference()
        {
            return 1.0F;
        }

        public override bool EndEnum()
        {
            return _endEnum;
        }

        protected internal override bool TermCompare(Term term)
        {
            if (term.Equals(singleTerm))
            {
                return true;
            }
            else
            {
                _endEnum = true;
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
}

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Many people are uncertain about the level of market volatility they can or should tolerate in their investments. The information gathered here will help you and your advisor determine your tolerance or capacity for volatility. Your advisor can then decide if there's a conflict between the asset allocation you need and the asset allocation you can comfortably accept, given your ability to tolerate investment volatility. When answering the following questions you should have your specific investment objective in mind, as this will impact things such as your time horizon and the types of securities that are appropriate for this investment.
The driving force behind all of your financial decisions should be your end goal and how you want to work towards it. Whether short-term or long-term goals, saving for your child's education or a yearly vacation, you should have a strategy in place that works for you.
After establishing your goals and their timeframes, you must determine your investing comfort zone. These are all things that LCM will help you assess, but in thinking towards these decisions, you can use this guide to determine the "type of investor" you are.
You prefer a portfolio that is less likely to fluctuate in volatile markets. You are willing to accept lower returns in exchange for a good nights sleep during a stock market downturn. You may have accumulated assets sufficient to allow you the flexibility to choose lower returns and lower volatility and still meet your income needs.
You prefer a cautious approach but are willing to have some exposure to short term market volatility in exchange for slightly higher potential long term gains. You may require an element of growth in your portfolio in order to meet your long term savings goals but are uncomfortable with more than a small percentage of stock market holdings.
You understand that a diversified mix of investments, using conservative holdings to balance riskier ones will create a portfolio that will exhibit short term fluctuations. You also understand that you will likely achieve slightly higher returns over the long term. You plan to accumulate a significant level of retirement assets and realize that growth will be an important element in the process. You may be close to taking an income from your portfolio so an exposure to income producing investments for those payments would be prudent.
You are comfortable with stock market investments and expect your portfolio to exhibit some volatility, realizing these movements are both up and down. You are either in the process of or have already saved significant amounts allowing you the flexibility to watch short term down turns without the pressure to sell. You see short term down periods in the stock market as a buying opportunity, not a time to sell as you have the time to be patient for the next eventual upswing.
You will not likely see any benefit to holding even a small portion of your portfolio in conservative, income investments. It's all or nothing at your stage of the game. You know your portfolio will decline, possibly significantly at times, but also see this as a buying opportunity for eventual long term gains. You may be young, with lots of time to save, or closer to retirement but with a good comfort level and experience with stock investments in order to find yourself in this category.
Not exactly sure into which category you might fall? Complete the following risk tolerance questionnaire and submit it to us. We can provide you with a brief summary of a portfolio allocation that will suit your return and volatility expectations.
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