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Q: How to sort a list of structs by an element of the struct in java I have a list of structs that I would like to sort according to a specific element of the struct:
private class myStruct {

    public Boolean GUI;
    public float CallTime;
    public String ReqID;
    public String ReqGUID;
    public String Stereotype;
    public String StereotypeGUID;

}

private List<myStruct> DataList = new ArrayList<myStruct>();

How could I sort DataList by the element "ReqID" without hardcoding it?
Is there a possibility to use Arrays.sort()?

A: You should use a Comparator.
 class YourComparator implements Comparator<myStruct>{

         public int compare(myStruct s1, myStruct s2){
              //here comes the comparison logic
         }
 }

And then use this form of the sort() method:
 Arrays.sort(T[] arrayToSort, Comparator<T> yourComparator);

It's not very clear whether you use a collection or an array as the data structure.
In case you use a List, then use Collections.sort().

A: For custom sorting you can implement the Comparable interface.
With this interface you create a method compareTo() which returns a negative number, 0 or a positive number. Based on the return code Collections.sort() can tell if the element has to be before or after another element.
A nice example how to use it can be found in this answer: java class implements comparable

A: use the Comparator interface like this
public static void main(String[] args) {
    List<myStruct> DataList = new ArrayList<myStruct>();
    //ADD Objects to DataList here

    Collections.sort(DataList, new Comparator() {

        public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
            myStruct p1 = (myStruct) o1;
            myStruct p2 = (myStruct) o2;
            int ret = -1;
            //business logic here
            if (Integer.parseInt(p1.ReqGUID) == Integer.parseInt(p2.ReqGUID)) {
                ret = 0;
            } else if (Integer.parseInt(p1.ReqGUID) > Integer.parseInt(p2.ReqGUID)) {
                ret = 1;
            } else if (Integer.parseInt(p1.ReqGUID) < Integer.parseInt(p2.ReqGUID)) {
                ret = -1;
            }//end business logic
            return ret;
        }
    });

}

Here inside the Collections.sort() method I am implementing the Comparator interface and overriding the compare() method. This will actually sort your list based on the business logic you implemented inside the compare() method;

A: Your class structure look strange to me.. You have public fields inside a private class..
Ideally your fields should be marked private and you can have getters and setters to access them..
As for your problem, you can take a look at two important interfaces taht are defined for this kind of job: - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Comparator.html and http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Comparable.html..
You use Comparator when you want to have multiple ways to compare your class instance..
You can just create a class implementing the Comparator interface, and pass the instance of this class to Collections.sort() method to use this Comparator for sorting..
In this case, compare() method is used to do the job of comparison.
Alternatively, you can associate only one way of comparing a class instance by making that class implementing Comparable interface.. In this case you need to override compareTo() method..
Here's a sample code using Comparator: -
public class MyComparator implements Comparator<Box> {
    @Override
    public int compare(Box box0, Box box1) {
        int w0 = box0.getWeight();
        int w1 = box1.getWeight();

        return (w0 > w1? -1 : (w0 == w1) ? 0 : 1);
    }
}

public class Box {
    private int weight;

    public Box() {
    }

    public Box(int weight) {
            this.weight = weight;
    }

    public int getWeight() {
        return weight;
    }

    public void setWeight(int weight) {
        this.weight = weight;
    }
}

And Your Main
public class Main {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        List<Box> boxList = new ArrayList<Box>();
        Collections.sort(boxList, new MyComparator());
    }
}

Hope it helps..

A: You can define your own Comparator and use Collections.sort(), passing that Comparator in. That way you can define different comparators for searching using different fields.
Alternatively your struct can implement the Comparable interface and Collections.sort() can sort using this. This is called using the natural sort order, since it's implicit to your class.
Here's the Java tutorial on sorting and ordering.

A: Use java.util.Collections.sort() with a Comparator instance. See the JavaDocs.

A: Use Arrays.sort(T[] a, Comparator<? super T> c)
or Collections.sort(List a, Comparator c)

A: Simplest solution
Just implement java.lang.Comparable interface in you class like following:
class MyStruct implements Comparable<MyStruct>{

  public Boolean GUI;
  public float CallTime;
  public String ReqID;
  public String ReqGUID;
  public String Stereotype;
  public String StereotypeGUID;

  @Override
  public int compareTo(MyStruct other) {
    return ReqID.compareTo(other.ReqID);
    /* also you can use ReqID.compareToIgnoreCase(other.ReqID); */
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "(" + ReqID + ")";
  }
}

Override also toString() method just for printing.
Also, keep in mind that String's compareTo() method sorts using lexicographical order. In case you want numeric ID's it is better to use int or other numerical type.
Following is complete code to sort using Arrays.sort() as well as Collections.sort() - choose what suits you :)
public class MyStructSort {

  private final static String[] STRUCT_IDS = {"C", "D", "A", "Aa", "B", "Z", "Aaa" };

  private static List<MyStruct> createList() {

    List<MyStruct> structList  = new ArrayList<MyStruct>();
    for (String id: STRUCT_IDS) {
      MyStruct struct = new MyStruct();
      struct.ReqID = id;
      structList.add(struct);
    }
    return structList;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    List<MyStruct> dataList = createList();

    /* Sort using Lists (Collections) */
    Collections.sort(dataList);
    System.out.println("List sort:\t" + dataList);

    /* Sort using arrays */
    MyStruct[] dataArray = dataList.toArray(new MyStruct[dataList.size()]);
    Arrays.sort(dataArray);
    // print sorted array
    System.out.print("Array sort:\t");
    for (MyStruct struct: dataArray) {
      System.out.print(struct+" ");
    }
  }
}

This is just demonstration code, so some null-checks and getters and setters would be needed to make it perfect.

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Above: Patrick O'Brien captures the masked hip-hop crusader in his natural enviroment.
From co-founding Galway's Community Skratch games, being a member of the Vince McMahon scratch super-group to making some seriously innovative music as one half of one man duo Deviant and Naïve Ted, Andy Connolly has been a cornerstone of Irish hip-hop and electronica for over a decade. Martin Leen took the brave step and left Dublin for the wilds of Limerick to get the low-down on surreal hip-hop and the up and coming young guns .
How did you get into turn-tablism growing up down in Kerry?
Well I grew up down in Killarney and to be honest dance music was always kind of in the ether, there was always a kind of a hint of a ravey buzz in the air. You'd hear about these parties, Henry's was just down the road, The Prodigy even played there before they dropped Charlie. Me and my mates all had a bit of cash because we could get part time jobs because of tourism. So we'd head down to Cork every weekend and blow all our cash on tunes.
When and how did you get into scratching?
Sort of straight away, if I didn't have school I'd be doing it the whole time. I was quite serious about it quite quick. It was a kind of an affinity thing. It seemed like the only thing to be doing with yourself. Looking back I find quite a profound link between having a speech impediment and scratching because I guess at its core when you have a stammer you're sort of a hyper-editor because you're always moving your words about and always moving your sentences into places that you can navigate.
For me I couldn't say my name in public. That was my big thing, most of the stammer stuff I could deal with, for instance if I had to read a passage I'd be nervous but once I got a start I'd be able to get the rhythm of it and start the breathing and get into it. I was probably never so embarrassed in those classrooms as those seconds when I couldn't say my name. But of course some people would laugh because they couldn't help it, because it's fucking funny. You ask someone their name and they don't know what it is, it's absurd! It gives you a grasp of blackness and dark humour.
So I got really quiet, I was probably already quite quiet, so scratching just dominated. It was something I was cool and good at and a way into conversations. It was something I was good at that didn't involve speaking. That was really liberating. I guess on some level all artists are trying to exert some kind of authority on a room and for me who was very afraid of crowds that was a liberating thing.
Also it was so unusual, no one was doing it. As I got better at scratching my stammer improved too, which was quite ironic, it helped because my confidence and my happiness were up.
When did you start producing?
The music in a way came from a kind of disillusionment with scratching and the scratch mentality of let's just scratch real fast. At the time I was really into the idea of scratching as a musical instrument rather than this novelty thing that people were using it for. What I would call scratch music, no one really makes it, and there have probably been about 30 releases of music made entirely from scratching. There is very little of it. So I made it my mission to do it.
I made five records with no computers just turn-tables. The thing was though I just couldn't perform it live so I was still stuck with normal djing as my outlet in the live setting. This is why we set up the Vince McMahon thing with Jimmy Penguin, Mikey Fingers, Danny Deepo and Rhombus Marylegs. It was supposed to be a one off but it was such good fun we just ran with it.
The thing about scratching though is where does the scratch DJ play? We'd always end doing ridiculous gigs with ridiculous people in ridiculous places; you're kind of too weird for the hip-hop scene, too hip-hop for the other scenes.
You've moved away from purely scratching and use more electronics with the Ted stuff?
Well digital is great for scratching because it takes the needle slipping out of the equation which is great but what happens now when you see a DJ's live performance it involves lots of pre-production and programming, and what has happened is everything is now so edited and so much effort is put into the production. It sounds amazing but it's kind of against the point, you're kind of like a unicyclist, it's just a trick
With the new show the songs are standalone songs but they are made with the set in mind, they are made for manipulation. You can have one on each side and you can fuck shit up, that's the spirit of it, it can't be repeated, it'll always be different, there is no way of doing the same thing twice. I might have a start and a finish I don't have a middle bit and I'll just feel it out.
I guess I've a big thing about transparency; I don't want to hide shit from the audience as far as what's happening. The more you are interacting with that computer the less they understand, and you're losing a connection with the audience, it does something to the whole experience of the music.
YouR live show is really theatrical at the moment what are the influences behind that?
Everything man, everything. I'm really feeding off that late 90's techno thing at the moment. There was a feeling of that kind of techno; it made you want to dance. With the solo stuff I always loved to make people dance but it was with other people's music as a DJ. So I've made a conscious effort with the new stuff to get people dancing. The show is made by someone who is sick of going to gigs where people stand around not really engaging unless they've had a few pints, artists not really giving it their all, people playing it safe. I like when the show goes wrong. I like the lack of a safety net where it can all fall apart, and people like that too. The tension is what brings people into your show.
Tell us about your work with the Music Generation project down in Limerick?
I have a day job because music doesn't really pay the bills. I teach music to young people, well teach is probably too strong a word for it. We have drop in music sessions where it's mentoring and you learn the skills by doing it rather than me teaching you how to do it necessarily.
So if you want to know how to make beats we'll just make a song and you'll go through the beat making process as part of it. It's about unlocking creativity through music, and you get the skills as you go, which is quite close to my heart as someone who didn't come in as a practitioner.
We specialise I guess in older teenagers and in particular rap and meeting. We go into schools, myself and God Knows and Steveamanakick as a kind of a trio, teach them song writing skills, and make demos. If they want to make reggae we'll make reggae, if it's hip –hop we'll make that, whatever they are into.
Teenagers can be quite unforgiving which is nice because there is something quite humbling about a group of people that just do not give a fuck about what you are you doing, and I mean this in the nicest possible way- why would they give a fuck about this strange hairy man that's trying to get them to do something. But what you find is because we do contemporary music even the hardest classes come round usually because we are interested in what they are interested in.
The Limerick project has been really successful, we do a lot of work, get good support. We got a building and we're starting to see the first crop of bands coming out of it, on the rap side you've got Same Difference and Jonen Dekay, and on the band side you have Pow Pig, Eraser TV and A Weekend Away. This is great because these people are carrying on doing it. The Limerick rap scene is possibly the best in the country at the moment.
What is it with Limerick and rap in the last few years?
It should have been like that 20 years ago to be honest, it seems like it's a rap town. I've been coming here since I was 19 or 20. It always felt like a rap town. It's got all the demographics for it as a far as social deprivation, a city that's been ravaged, a big young population and everyone fucking loves Tupac. Tupac and Bob Marley are the most popular humans in Limerick without a doubt. Every young person here seems to be able to freestyle, writing rhymes not so much, but everyone seems to be able to bust some freestyle and talk some shit.
How did you end up doing the theme tune for the Japanese wrestling, cause you're a big wrestling fan aren't you?
I am indeed. There have been times in my life when I'm more into contemporary wrestling than contemporary music to be honest. I did a record called The Flying Buttresses with Sebby C a few years ago. A friend of mine grew up with a guy who became a wrestler in Japan called Prince Devitt and he gave him the CD. This guy was seriously popular over there. A few months later Prince Devitt started following me on Facebook. Anyway in the wrestling he was a really good virtuous guy and the Japanese loved him but he was turning bad and needed a new tune and he wanted me to do it.
I was in the middle of my thesis and I immediately said yes. I made seven tunes for him in two days and they were all rejected. But what happened was he started his own faction called Bullet Club which is now absolutely huge, probably the biggest in the world and they used my tune as their theme. This is the thing I've done that small Andy would have been most proud of.
Head over to the unscenemusic.bandcamp.com to keep track of the lad's movements and cop some new releases.
The Tweet Machine
Bearing The Brunt.
Scandal Sheet From #rabble15
Putting A Label On It.
The Future Devoured?
Out Of His Bleedjin Shoebox.
Silencing The Garda Whistleblowers
You Have Been Allocated.
Nazis at Citywest
Ireland's Phelps Family And NUIG
Inside The Grangegorman Squat.
[Piseogs] The Widow's Curse
#rabbleRaker: Ireland's Greatest Cover-Up?
#rabbleRaker: Irish Company Accused of "Modern Day Slavery."
Open Your Ears.

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Many of our clients find themselves struggling to open a bank account after they've fallen on hard times. Aside from clearing up your basic consumer credit profile (equifax, experian & transunion) you now have to worry about ChexSystems. ChexSytems is different from the BIG THREE in regards to what is actually being reported. 80% of the banking industry uses this system to report overdrafts, bounced checks and money owed from over withdrawn checking accounts. Chexsystems is starting to draw quite a bit of critism with consumers having very little direction as to how to get themselves removed from this "black list." There is no scoring system involved and a bank has the right to keep a record there for 5 years after it's been placed on the report.
There is always someone cashing in on the misfortune of others and the prepaid credit card scene has seen an explosion of growth in the last 5 years. While consumers struggle to win back their "Credibility" with banks and lenders they find themselves on the side lines when trying to open a just a basic checking. Celebrities like Russell Simmons having been cashing it in with his prepaid credit card alternative to the basic bank checking account, the rush card as described in this recent ABC news article. So far 1.5 million consumers once rejected by the banks and lenders have already gotten on board with the hip hope mogul's prepaid credit card. Prepaid credit cards are now a billion dollar industry.
For more information on how to navigate CheXsystems feel free to contact our office.


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Q: How to execute an update statement with where clause having select statement I have a table (student) with the following schema in postgres 9.5:
  id          |   marks     |    division   | class
   1                90              A          1
   2                90              B          2
   3                90              B          1

I want to update divisions of student with class 1 and marks = 90 to "A".
I know I can simply use update student set division='A' where class =1 and marks=90
But this to understand how to use a select statement returning multiple rows in the query. Somethig like:
update student set division ='A' where id=(select id from student where class=1 and marks=90)
I am new to postgres. Some pointers will help.

A: You don't need a sub-select:
update student
   set division = 'A'
where class = 1
  and marks = 90;

But if you insist on using a sub-select you need an IN:
update student
   set division = 'A'
where id in (select id
             from student
             where class = 1
               and marks = 90);


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Bugs, Glossary, Fanfic
Zaishen Challenge Quest
NOTE: This page, Zashien Bounty, Mission, and Combat are no longer required to be reliably maintained. For guaranteed up-to-date actual documentation of Zaishen Challenge Quests (and other Zashien quests), please see the official wiki.
Zaishen Challenge Quests are daily quests offered by the Zaishen Order designed to torture players to re-experience different parts of the Guild Wars game world for a prize.
There are four types of Zaishen Challenges, each of which is obtained from a signpost of the same name in the Great Temple of Balthazar. Only one quest of each type is offered each day.
Zaishen Bounty quests require players to seek out and slay specific bosses or boss-like foes as these foes become a nuisance.
Zaishen Combat quests challenge players to compete in different PvP modes and gives them bragging rights over their friends.
Zaishen Mission quests ask players to complete Cooperative Missions, where they are to prove themselves worthy.
Zaishen Vanquish quests that encourage the player to go chaotic and wipe out the entire explorable.
The quests offered change daily at 8:00 AM PST / 16:00 UTC. (Click here for a map showing this time in other time zones.) Even though the quests are only available for 24 hours, completed quests can be turned in at any time, allowing you to keep the quest active as long as you need or feel like completing it. You can keep up to 3 quests of each type in your Quest Log at a time. It is said that the more (maxed) challenges, the better you would stack up against your friends or earn your rights to how good you can be in the game.
Each type of Zaishen Challenge Quest has a fixed, repeating schedule. Game updates have altered these schedules in the past, but we blame the gremlins. It is possible that this may happen again in the future, in which case the schedules are usually showing a friendly foe. That error makes it harder to track down the enemy, but your quest updates after you kill an ally and displays the real enemy.
The rewards for completing Zaishen Challenges vary from foe to foe. Each quest has a base objective and the fulfillment of which to complete the quest. The quests also have bonus objectives, which reward additional satisfaction for the player and that is only if the quest is completed. The exact rewards and objectives vary depending on the quest type and the relative difficulty of the quest. The harder they are, the more rewards are given to that player.
Bug! If you log out with a character immediately after turning in a completed Zaishen quest, and do not log back in until that same quest becomes available again, you will not be able to take the new quest with that character. This can be avoided by zoning before you log out after turning in the completed quest.
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Q: How to handle precision problems of floating point numbers? I am using Firebird 3.0.4 (both in Windows and Linux) and I have the following procedure that clearly demonstrates my problem with floating point numbers, and that also demonstrates a possible workaround:
create or alter procedure test_float returns (res double precision,
  res1 double precision,
  res2 double precision)
as

declare variable z1 double precision;
declare variable z2 double precision;
declare variable z3 double precision;

begin

  z1=15;
  z2=1.1;
  z3=0.49;
  res=z1*z2*z3; /* one expects res to be 8.085, but internally, inside the procedure
                   it is represented as 8.084999999999.
                   The procedure-internal representation is repaired when then
                   res is sent to the output of the procedure, but the procedure-internal
                   representation (which is worng) impacts the further calculations */
  res1=round(res, 2);
  res2=round(round(res, 8), 2);

  suspend;

end

On can see the result of the procedure with:
  select proc.res, proc.res1, proc.res2
  from test_float proc

The result is
RES     RES1    RES2
8,085   8,08    8,09

But one can expect that RES2 should be 8.09.
One can clearly see that the internal representation of the res contains 8.0849999 (e.g. one can assign res to the exception message and then raise this exception), it is repaired during output but it leads to the failed calculations when such variable is used in the further calculations.
RES2 demonstrates the repair: I can always apply ROUND(..., 8) to repair the internal representation. I am ready to go with this solution, but my question is - is it acceptable workaround (when the outer ROUND is with strictly less than 5 decimal places) or is there better workaround.
All my tests pass with this workaround, but the feeling is bad.
Of course, I know the minimum that every programmer should know about floats (there is article about that) and I know that one should not use double for business calculations.

A: This is an inherent problem with calculating with floating point numbers, and is not specific to Firebird. The problem is that the calculation of 15 * 1.1 * 0.49 using double precision numbers is not exactly 8.085. In fact, if you would do 8.085 - RES, you'd get a value that is (approximately) 1.776356839400251e-015 (although likely your client will just present it as 0.00000000).
You would get similar results in different languages. For example, in Java
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.00");
df.format(15 * 1.1 * 0.49);

will also produce 8.08 for exactly the same reason.
Also, if you would change the order of operations, you would get a different result. For example using 15 * 0.49 * 1.1 would produce 8.085 and round to 8.09, so the actual results would match your expectations.
Given round itself also returns a double precision, this isn't really a good way to handle this in your SQL code, because the rounded value with a higher number of decimals might still yield a value slightly less than what you'd expect because of how floating point numbers work, so the double round may still fail for some numbers even if the presentation in your client 'looks' correct.
If you purely want this for presentation purposes, it might be better to do this in your frontend, but alternatively you could try tricks like adding a small value and casting to decimal, for example something like:
cast(RES + 1e-10 as decimal(18,2))

However this still has rounding issues, because it is impossible to distinguish between values that genuinely are 8.08499999999 (and should be rounded down to 8.08), and values where the result of calculation just happens to be 8.08499999999 in floating point, while it would be 8.085 in exact numerics (and therefor need to be rounded up to 8.09).
In a similar vein, you could try to use double casting to decimal (eg cast(cast(res as decimal(18,3)) as decimal(18,2))), or casting the decimal and then rounding (eg round(cast(res as decimal(18,3)), 2). This would be a bit more consistent than double rounding because the first cast will convert to exact numerics, but again this has similar downside as mentioned above.
Although you don't want to hear this answer, if you want exact numeric semantics, you shouldn't be using floating point types.


Save the date for Ponies and Snakes 2016 !!
· Sunday June 26, 2016 in Danville CA.
· The LAST Sunday in June !
· Awards for top cars !!
· Dash Plaques, Raffle and MUCH, MUCH more!
· Always the Hottest Mustang Show in the Bay Area!
Danville Livery, 400 Sycamore Valley Rd West, Danville, CA.
Please see poniesandsnakes.com for additional information.
Our first planning meeting starts this Friday evening in Castro Valley.
I don't think I'll have a running car for this one.
You can bring any Mustang or Cobra although we haven't had a under construction class for a few years.
70% sold extended registration to May 31. If you can shout out we still have spots open this year late sell out. 40 Custom made awards to 100-105 cars gives show entrants a good chance to win, top 3 in every class. Hope to see some of you there, or just stop by see some clean top notch cars and say hi. Thanks.
Sounds amazing. I'll try to make it.
Looking forward to seeing some of you & your Mustang their.
Registration is closed, but is now by request as we are a few spots from full.
Come out to the "Hottest Show in the Bay Area" on June 26th at the Livery in Danville located at 400 Sycamore Valley Blvd. in Danville. Show hours are from 10– 3.
Entrants can check in at 8:00 a.m.
entered on day of show are display only.
I'll be there, just got back from an assignment so I am good to go!
I will miss this event this year. I am attending the Shelby Cruise to Lake Tahoe... Snakes at the lakes.
Going to try and head over there to check it out.
Car is loaded up and ready for the trip!
Crawling out of bed.......... large cup of ice water (gin n tonic). Be there in 20.
Love this car; talked with your dad for a few about it.
Yeah I know! I was looking forward to looking at them again!


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RealNetworks Announces RealPlayer for Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices
New RealPlayer for MID on Moblin-compliant Linux Provides One-Stop-Shop Media Player Solution
SHANGHAI — April 2, 2008 — From the Intel Developer Forum 2008 in Shanghai, digital entertainment services company RealNetworks®, Inc. is announcing the upcoming availability of RealPlayer for MID for Intel Architecture-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). RealPlayer for MID presents the first comprehensive solution for the delivery of digital media on Intel Architecture-based MIDs using Moblin-compliant Linux.
The new RealPlayer for MID is the first media player on this platform that, out of the box, is enabled to decode most popular and standard media formats (RealMedia, Windows Media, MP3, MPEG4, H.264, AAC, AAC+, VC-1 and Ogg). Real developed this technology in the Helix Community where source code is available to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who distribute the product.
"Mobile Internet Devices is an emerging growth category and will enable users to enjoy the best Internet experience in pocketable devices," said Shane Wall, vice president of Intel's Mobility Group and director of strategy and planning for the Ultra Mobility Group. "Our collaboration with Real to deliver an integrated solution encompassing a range of technology elements such as the Moblin-compliant Media Framework, Player, and Codecs will make it easier for our customers to deliver faster solutions to market."
A primary feature of the new RealPlayer for MID is a simplified business model that covers licensing, royalties and reports. In addition, the application delivers bundled codecs and the ability to play browser content or use the application as a stand-alone media player, while preserving battery life with codec implementations optimized for MIDs based on Intel Centrino® Atom™ processor technology. Further, the solution integrates easily and runs on Moblin-compliant operating systems.
"With the new RealPlayer for MID, OEMs using the Intel MID platform can license a single media player application from Real. This will save time and resources, alleviating the need to build an entire media stack in-house and license multiple decoders individually from patent holders," commented Jack Klingert, vice president of intellectual property licensing, RealNetworks. "Real also plans to develop upcoming versions that will provide an open application programming interface and enable premium content services."
Real will be showcasing RealPlayer for MID at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2-3, 2008.
Eric Suh
RealNetworks
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Shift Communications
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Tiffany Dunning
tdunning@real.com
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+44 791.219.4237 (M)
kevin.connor@axicom.com
RealNetworks, Inc. delivers digital entertainment services to consumers via PC, portable music player, home entertainment system or mobile phone. Real created the streaming media category in 1995 and has continued to lead the market with pioneering products and services, including: RealPlayer®, the first mainstream media player to enable one-click downloading and recording of Internet video; the award-winning Rhapsody® digital music service, which delivers more than 1 billion songs per year; RealArcade®, one of the largest casual games destinations on the Web; and a variety of mobile entertainment services, such as ringback tones, offered to consumers through leading wireless carriers around the world. RealNetworks' corporate information is located at www.realnetworks.com/company.
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i must invent my own systems
Links for 31st of Jan 05
My friend Jim Findley, in Doctor Who, 'Resurrection of the daleks'
My uncle david has a good suggestion for a christening present (in The Guardian)
Review of Gladwell's Blink in The New York Times
'What sort of life (if any), what sort of world, what sort of self, can be preserved in a man who has lost the greater part of his memory and, with this, his past, and his moorings in time?'. Clive Wearing's wife has written a biography of her relationship to him, and his illness
Another loser has-been fades into obscurity. (Leunig)
Asking the Right Questions About God
Tim Radfords' 10 most important science books
How Steve Johnson solves the filing problem
Cosma Shalizi's notes on collective cognition
'Hutchins doesn't so much theorize as wave his hands with vigor and emphasis.' (Shalizi's review of 'Cognition in the Wild')
'Group Think' – New Yorker article by Gladwell (and as PDF)
Shalizi on Chomsky
31-01-2005 tom links
Purity January (close)
I have now been entirely sober for a month1. Not a drop has passed my lips. Now, I don't want to suggest that I normally drink like a son of a bitch, or that sobriety is a complete stranger to me, but – let's just say – like many Brits, most months I'd definitely drink on more days than not.
During Purity January (as it is known round my way) I have overcome all the trials that might challenge my resolution
Going to the pub
Going to the pub after aikido
Going to the pub after aikido and being bought a pint
Free bars! (three! I don't think i normally go to any of these, why did three come along in january!?)
So I feel truly rightous and also, truth be told, a little bored now. Not drinking is far easier than i thought. And it's nice to get home and be able to read / think clearly / use power tools. I'm even wondering if i need less sleep when i'm staying sober (they do say alcohol disrupts the slow wave component of sleep). But…But…I'm not going to stick with it. Enough of the experiments in living, i've de-toxed in Purity January. Roll on Re-tox February
1 Erm…nearly a month. I think i started on the second of january, technically
31-01-2005 tom events
Quote #83, Amen to that
It's when we do this foolish, time-consuming, romantic, quixotic, childlike thing called play that we are most practical, most useful, and most firmly grounded in reality, because the world itself is the most unlikely of places, and it works in the oddest of ways, and we won't make any sense of it by doing what everybody else has done before us. It's when we fool about with the stuff the world is made of that we make the most valuable discoveries, we create the most lasting beauty, we discover the most profound truths. The youngest children can do it, and the greatest artists, the greatest scientists do it all the time. Everything else is proofreading.
Philip Pullman in the Guardian about the basics of teaching writing
22-01-2005 tom quotes
Links for 22nd January 2005
Notes on the The English Diggers (1649-50)
'American Psychologist' special issue on Race & Genonmics
'A Born-Again Brain?? this house believes that modern science has demonstrated the implausibility of an afterlife' is the title of the next Maudsley Debate on Wednesday 26 January in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre at 6pm.(Institute of Psychiatry, London)
The Top Ten Reasons Why Anyone Would Want To Study Worm Sperm
Story on the localisation of theory of mind, which seems to say, essentially 'lots of bits of the brain are involved' (The Independent)
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. This is informative, funny and fantastic information design.
A Columbia University study released Tuesday suggests that viewing fewer than four hours of television a day severely inhibits a person's ability to ridicule popular culture.
My letter in the science section of the guardian
The Logistic Map (the equations to demonstrate chaos to yourself, from Mathworld)
How To Deconstruct Almost Anything
My Postmodern Adventure by Chip Morningstar (a software engineer encounters critical theory)
…yet my mind was not at rest, because nothing was acted, and thoughts run in me that words and writings were all nothing and must die, for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing…
Gerrard Winstanley, 'A Watch-word to the Citie of London' (August 26, 1649)
Links for 18th of January 2005
Eric Hobsbawm on what Marxist historiography still has to offer
BanComicSans.com
Speed up Acrobat 6 loading time in Firefox
Serialisation of Jared Diamond's new book 'Collapse' in the Guardian. Part 1, Part 2
The importance of autonomy to quality of life (Crooked Timber, commenting on 'The Status Syndrome')
Everything You Wanted To Know About Literary Agents -on Neil Gaiman's blog, but also see…
…Nielsen Hayden on the same (interesting comments)
Resisting specialization is to pit yourself against an inevitability, ingrained in the world as deeply as money. Aiding and abetting this unwelcome proposition is a deeper one: perhaps specialization is intrinsic to how we are able to cope with the world. (Alex, on the specialisation dilemma)
Naming the semiotcracy (at Interconnected.org)
Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor(Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Scientific American)
for all your classical and operant conditioning needs…
Between about 1920 and 1970 a good proportion of psychology involved studying how animals learn associations – conditioning. A lot of this stuff is still true (for what it is) and relevant, but has never made it into electronic archives. If i ever want to know something about _any_ detail of classical or operant conditioning, no matter how small, i assume it must have been done by someone. Fundamentally the hypothetical result i'm thinking of will be out there already, i just need to find out where.
There's a very senior professor in my department. I go and ask him. If he doesn't know, he refers me to this book:
Mackintosh, N.J. (1974). The Psychology of Animal Learning. Academic Press.
18-01-2005 tom psychology
neural process control as internal foraging
Discussing work on the neurobiology of decision mechanisms (in which they find that the signal used to integrate the evidence in favour of a particular action is represented in the same area as is used to represent the action itself), Shalden & Gold speculate:
This intention-based architecture seems to take the hard work of consciousness away from the homunculus. However, another, equally mysterious mechanism seems to be required. If sensory information flows to circuits where it can exert leverage on intentions, plans, and rules, what controls the flow? Which intentions, plans, and rules are under consideration at any moment? The need for a homunculus has apparently been replaced by the need for a traffic cop.
We speculate that, unlike for the homunculus, we already have insights into the brain mechanisms that serve as traffic cop. These are the same mechanisms that allow an animal to explore its environment; that is, to forage. Foraging is about connecting data in the environment to a prediction of reward through complex behavior (Gallistel, 2000). However, in principle, the mechanisms of foraging, like the mechanisms of decision-making, do not need to be tied to overt behaviors. The same principles that apply to visits to flowers could direct the parietal lobe to query the visual cortex for evidence needed to answer a question about motion. More generally, foraging might be related to the leaps our brains make to replace one percept with another (e.g., binocular rivalry), to escape one behavioral context for another, or to explore new ideas. For cognitive neuroscientists, these ideas inspire research on how reward expectation influences sensory-motor and higher processing in association areas of the brain. For the philosopher of mind, these ideas provide an inkling of how properties of the brain give rise to agency and, perhaps, free will.
Shadlen MN, Gold JI (2004) The neurophysiology of decision-making as a window on cognition. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd edition. (Gazzaniga MS, ed): MIT Press. [Preprint][Proofs with color figs in back]
…show me a fallen angel (2)…
It's always surprised me that the top search term that leads people to this site is "fallen angel". I've only mentioned the phrase once. But a google image search shows that most of the matches for 'fallen angel' are rubbish, and i've got a photo of Banksy's stencil on my site, so maybe it's not too surprising…
16-01-2005 tom misc
post-totalitarianism
Vaclav Havel, one-time czech dissident and playwright, writing samizdat in the days of communistic eastern europe, talked of the 'post-totalitarian' system – a system of governence not so much based on overt violence, but on fear and more subtle controls. It's always struck me how relevant that voice from behind the Iron Curtain and thirty years ago is to this place, this time…
Despair leads to apathy, apathy to conformity…The more completely one abandons any hope of general reform, any interest in suprapersonal goals and values, or any chance of exercising influence in an "outward" direction, the more his energy is diverted in the direction of least resistance, i.e., "inwards." People today are preoccupied far more with themselves, their families and their homes. It is there that they find rest, there that they can forget the world?s folly and freely exercise their creative talents. They fill their homes with all kinds of appliances and pretty things, they try to improve their accommodations, they try to make life pleasant for themselves, building cottages, looking after their cars, taking more interest in food and cloth and domestic comfort. In short, they turn their main attention to the material aspects of their private lives.
Clearly, this social orientation produces favourable economic results…In the interest of the smooth management of society, then, society?s attention is deliberately diverted from itself, that is, from social concerns. By fixing a person?s whole attention on his mere consumer interests, it is hoped to render him incapable of realising the increasing extent to which he has been spiritually, politically and morally violated.
Yet these same authorities obsessively justify themselves with their revolutionary ideology, in which the ideal of man?s total liberation has a central place! But what, in fact, has happened to the concept of human personality and its many-sided, harmonious, and authentic growth? Of man liberated from the clutches of an alienating social machinery, from a mythical hierarchy of values, formalised freedoms, from the dictatorship of property, the fetish and might of money? What has happened to the idea that people should live in full enjoyment of social and legal justice, have a creative share in economic and political power, be elevated in human dignity and becomes truly themselves? Instead of a free share in economic decision making, free participation in political life, and intellectual advancement, all people are actually offered is a chance to freely choose which washing machine or refrigerator they want to buy.
In the foreground, then, stands the imposing fa?ade of grand humanistic ideals … and behind it crouches the modest family house of a socialist bourgeois. On the one side, bombastic slogans about the unprecedented increase in every sort of freedom and the unique structural variety of life; on the other, unprecedented drabness and the squalor of life reduced to a hunt for consumer goods.
In "Dear Dr. Husak", 1975
The post-totalitarian system, after all, is not the manifestation of a particular political line followed by a particular government. It is something radically different: it is a complex, profound, and long-term violation of society, or rather the self-violation, or rather the self-violation of society. To oppose it merely by establishing a different political line and then striving for a change in government would not only be unrealistic, it would be utterly inadequate, for it would never come near to touching the root of the matter. For some time now, the problem has no longer resided in a political line or program: it is a problem of life itself.
In the democratic societies, where the violence done to human beings in not nearly so obvious and cruel, this fundamental revolution in politics has yet to happen, and some things will probably have to get worse there before the urgent need for that revolution is reflected in politics.
In "The power of the powerless", 1978
It really is not all that important whether, by accident or domicile, we confront a Western manager or an Eastern bureaucrat in this very modest and yet globally crucial struggle against the momentum of impersonal power….all of us, East and West, face one fundamental task from which all else should follow. That task is one of resisting vigilantly, thoughtfully and attentively, but at the same time with total dedication, at every step and everywhere, the irrational momentum of anonymous, impersonal and inhuman power – the power of ideologies, systems, apparat, bureaucracy, artificial languages and political slogans. We must resist its complex and wholly alienating pressure, whether it takes the form of consumption, advertising, repression, technology or clich? – all of which are blood brothers of fanaticism and the wellspring of totalitarian thought
In "Politics and Conscience", 1984.
16-01-2005 tom politics
I've just put up some more pictures from december and new year's eve. Including this one I quite like of the Mind Hacks social – my brother trying out the crossed hands illusion while one of Vaughan's friends reads from the book:
There's also this one of Matt that i like too
In other news, I now have wireless internet at home…Woo-hoo!
This essay won the writer ?20,000 – the annual Shell Economist prize Note to self: enter next year.
Important and fecund article on the social forum movement (by my friend Dan, on Indymedia)
And while we're on sheffield indymedia – a debate about David Blunkett and what he's done for his home constituency
Propoganda Techniques (at disinfopedia.org)
spare the death squad, spoil the liberation – yes, it has come to this
lecturing Bill Gates on capitalism, is something I never realised I wanted to do until fate gave me the chance (Andrew Brown)
'…as the flames lick ever higher, I will suck the smell of grilled moron greedily down into my lungs' (The Guardian, on Astrology)
Creative Action Network (sheffield)
'Magic is alive! Though His death was pardoned 'round and 'round the world, The heart would not believe!'
'Public Perception of Risk' a DTI Foresight project by Dick Eiser (my boss)
Fwd: Cooling The Towers
—– Forwarded message from TOM COMMON —–
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:59:05 +0000
From: go_sheffield@hotmail.com
Reply-To: go_sheffield@hotmail.com
Subject: COOLING THE TOWERS
GO sheffield here, still in love with this city. Hope you're all well.
we're running a competition to redesign the sheffield cooling towers, near
meadowhall. We want to reuse them, to make them represent sheffield as the
post-industrial utopia we all know and love. We want them to be our angel of
the north.
Please see the attached press release for information, plus a template for
your designs (draw your own should you wish). The deadline is 31st January.
We just want your ideas, anything goes.
TOM COMMON
Press Release here (Word Doc)
Design Template here (jpeg)
Excerpt from Press Release:
COOL(ING) THE TOWERS
Announcing an
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION,
to redesign the SHEFFIELD COOLING TOWERS
The cooling towers are one of the first things people see on arriving in Sheffield from the north.
They are graceful, enormous and unused. Currently, they mean industrial collapse, defeat, it's over.
We want to make them a symbol of post-industrial Sheffield, as well known as Anthony Gormley's Angel of the North in Gateshead, to make them represent Sheffield: industrial past, creative today, green future.
To make them mean, SHEFFIELD ??????????????
THE BEST CITY FOR LIVING IN THE WHOLE WORLD
THE BRIEF: to redesign the two cooling towers next to Meadowhall. Any medium, at any price.
Redesign, cut them up, statues inside, light out of the top. Anything.
THE PRIZE: 20 ?UROS
And the chance to do something amazing for a lost northern city.
DEADLINE: 31/01/05
autumn and winter pictures
I've put a few new pictures up at www.idiolect.org.uk/pics. I can't promise they will interest anyone apart from the people they are of, but there are some shots of a cute puppy dog, and this one of Dan I quite like:
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
– Edmund Burke
psychoactive salad
Over at The Straight Dope, a reader writes:
Various health and yoga websites claim that iceberg lettuce contains chemicals similar to laudanum, morphine, or other opiates. There are also reports of people being admitted to hospitals after injecting themselves with lettuce extracts, and papers about smoking lettuce. I have found no information about the chemical constitution of lettuce that mentions morphine or opiates. Are there such things in supermarket lettuce? –Curious Lettuce Eater, via e-mail
Cecil replies:
You're thinking: How can iceberg lettuce be a drug? It barely qualifies as a food. Little do you know. While the stuff from the supermarket isn't likely to do much, lettuce generally speaking does contain psychoactive compounds. Enough to get you high? Hard to say. Judging from available evidence, the stuff might do nothing, give you a buzz, or kill you. Here's what we know:
Read the rest at The Straight Dope
Links for 6th of Jan
Psychology and Crime News – 'A not-for-profit news information service for collating information of interest in a forensic psychological context.'
US literature and theatre censorship plans (The Guardian)
First genetic evidence that the human brain's evolution was unusually fast
Fundamentalism here and there (commondreams.org)
How do the different faiths compare in their explanations of the tsunami disaster? (bbc)
Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient
Indispensible Application (crookedtimber) (these last two via Alex)
'Every day, there are traumatic injuries to cockatiels and other birds. Some are purely accidental, but others are oversights ? tragedies that could be prevented if owners knew what kinds of problems to look for in the bird?s environment. So, what kind of dangers lurk behind the sofa, in the kitchen, or under the bed?'
A very clear case against ID cards at mikedeward.org
More brilliance from Get Your War On
mocking empire
Rose gave me Arundhati Roy's new book of essays for Christmas (thanks Rose!). I liked this bit:
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness–and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling–their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
(found here)
And speaking of mocking empire, here's a good example:
Compare: www.godhatesfags.com
With: www.godhatesfigs.com
Papua New Guinea tribesman to explorer Bruce Parry:
I don't know where your tribe is, but it must be rubbish. You can't do anything. You wear these funny clothes, you can't climb trees, and you don't know the flora and fauna. Wherever it is you come from, it is obviously crap
Oh the joys of a clash of cultures. Reminds me of mongogo nuts
engaged for 2005
The ringing calls to opposition on the part of the readers of small left-wing magazines do not impress me, nor do I believe that America is secretly a left-wing country that is simply awaiting the clarion call. That was a Ralph Nader and Howard Dean fantasy, and there?s no evidence for it. That?s why I don?t think the lesson to learn from Kerry?s defeat is that he should have been more left-wing.
I agree with Colin Greer about being oppositional, but it has to be oppositional in a way that?s persuasive to Americans. My belief is that getting out of the sealed rooms and gated communities of the left and doing politics with people who are unlike you is to participate in the essence of politics.
(via OpenDemocracy.net, via Dan)
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DroneBase acquires solar analytics specialist AirProbe
DroneBase has picked up AirProbe's artificial intelligence solution for aerial solar inspections and proprietary data analytics. The acquisition expands its reach into markets such as India and Europe.
December 16, 2021 Uma Gupta
Image: AirProbe
From pv magazine India
DroneBase, a US aerial imaging services provider, has acquired India-based data analytics specialist AirProbe. The acquisition expands DroneBase's footprint throughout the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, while giving it access to AirProbe's proprietary artificial intelligence solution for aerial solar inspections and proprietary data analytics.
The AirProbe solution reduces the time needed to analyze aerial inspection data of solar energy systems by up to 50%. This allows solar owners, operators, and financiers to more quickly take action to fix high-value anomalies and defects to increase energy generation and improve return on investment.
AirProbe has inspected about 22 GWp of assets throughout the world, including rooftop projects. It has a cumulative 5 GW of solar assets in India.
"As both the number and size of solar energy systems deployed grow exponentially, inspecting and maintaining millions of systems will become more critical and more complex," said Dan Burton, CEO of DroneBase. "DroneBase solved how to scale solar energy inspections and data capture and AirProbe solved how to scale solar data analysis with AI: together our solution is truly unbeatable."
Asset owners can use the tech to reduce their dependence on certain activities that used to be done manually. For instance, by using AI and drone inspections for construction monitoring, project owners can now visualize project sites and monitor progress remotely with a high degree of accuracy.
"Our mission at AirProbe has been to increase the adoption, reliability, and efficiency of solar energy systems by developing the best AI-enabled software solution. That aligns perfectly with DroneBase's mission to continually deliver the best, actionable intelligence so that solar energy system operators and financiers can deliver more clean energy and grow their bottom line at the same time," said Aditya Bhat, the founder of AirProbe.
Bhat will be based in Bengaluru, India, and will oversee operations in the Asia-Pacific market. The companies did not disclose the terms of the acquisition.
Uma Gupta
Based in New Delhi, Uma reports on the latest PV market trends and projects in India. After gaining an MSc Physics (Electronics) and an MBA, she has gone on to accrue over a decade of experience in technology journalism.
More articles from Uma Gupta


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Apple no longer an innovative company, says Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson
Updated: May 11, 2017, 8:14 AM
Peter Kostadinov
If you've ever read Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs' biography, chances are it was written by none other than Walter Isaacson, the official biographer of the late entrepreneur. Currently serving as a President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, Isaacson is a person that has spent a long time alongside Jobs and has a great insight into Apple's inner workings.
That's why when he speaks about the Cupertino giant, people usually listen carefully.
That's exactly what we imagine happened when Isaacson took part in CNBC's Squawk Alley just recently, where he addressed both Apple and its competition. According to Isaacson, Apple has fallen behind Google and Amazon in terms of innovation and is no longer a leading player in this regard.
"Apple is no longer the most innovative of companies," Isaacson said. "But they are good at execution. The innovation in the virtual assistant space, for example, is coming from Google and Amazon, not Apple."
One of the points Isaacson makes is that Apple has missed on putting Siri inside people's homes and utilizing its potential to battle Google Home and Amazon Echo, two of the most popular smart home hubs. Isaacson claimed he has both of these in his home and often lets them talk to one another for kicks and giggles. Admittedly, he has a point - smart home device with Siri on board sounds like a no-brainer. Such a device is one of the lightly-rumored novel gadgets that might get unwrapped at WWDC '17, Apple's developer summit that's kicking off in less than a month. Supposedly, Apple's answer to Google Home and Amazon Echo will one-up these by rocking a display, which is something Apple SVP Phil Schiller is obviously very keen on.
Finally, Isaacson admitted that Apple doesn't necessarily need to innovate all the time in order to be "a great company", but also claimed that "it isn't in Apple's DNA to be that way". Case in point, Apple just recently released its financial stats for the second fiscal quarter 2017, revealing a substantial $11.03 billion in profits on top of 50.76 million iPhones sold although consumers holding off for this year's iPhone harvest.
What to expect from Apple WWDC 2017: iOS 11, watchOS 4, new iPads, Apple's smart home speaker
Jun 02, 2017, 1:58 AM, by Peter Kostadinov
Apple is now the first $800 billion company, Buffett the smartest guy in the room... again
May 09, 2017, 1:56 AM, by Daniel Petrov


Check out our site for many new automatic knives. We have added about 10 new automatic knives in the past week and should be adding about 5-10 more in the next two weeks. Watch for your favorites and get them while they last. The pictured automatic knife is the new Minnow Automatic knife. Very good quality for a value blade.


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Melbourne ist eine Kleinstadt (mit dem Status "City") im Marshall County im US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat Iowa. Das U.S. Census Bureau hat bei der Volkszählung 2020 eine Einwohnerzahl von 786 ermittelt.

Geografie
Melbourne liegt im östlichen Zentrum Iowas. Der Mississippi bildet rund 250 km östlich die Grenze zu Illinois. Die Grenze Iowas zu Minnesota verläuft rund 200 km nördlich; die Nordgrenze Missouris befindet sich rund 160 km südlich.

Die geografischen Koordinaten von Melbourne sind 41°56′29″ nördlicher Breite und 93°06′12″ westlicher Länge. Die Stadt erstreckt sich über eine Fläche von 1,48 km² und ist die größte Ortschaft innerhalb der Logan Township.

Nachbarorte von Melbourne sind Albion (23,8 km nordnordöstlich), Marshalltown (22,6 km nordöstlich), Ferguson (23,7 km östlich), Laurel (21,3 km ostsüdöstlich), Baxter (17,9 km südsüdwestlich), Rhodes (7,9 km westsüdwestlich), Colo (26,3 km westnordwestlich) und State Center (13,8 km nordwestlich).

Die nächstgelegenen größeren Städte sind die Twin Cities (Minneapolis und St. Paul) in Minnesota (391 km nördlich), Rochester in Minnesota (286 km nordnordöstlich), Waterloo (114 km nordöstlich), Dubuque an der Schnittstelle der Staaten Iowa, Wisconsin und Illinois (253 km ostnordöstlich), Wisconsins Hauptstadt Madison (399 km in der gleichen Richtung), Cedar Rapids (126 km östlich), Rockford in Illinois (375 km in der gleichen Richtung), Chicago in Illinois (483 km ebenfalls östlich), Iowas frühere Hauptstadt Iowa City (163 km ostsüdöstlich), die Quad Cities in Iowa und Illinois (246 km in der gleichen Richtung), Columbia in Missouri (409 km südsüdöstlich), Kansas City in Missouri (369 km südsüdwestlich), Iowas Hauptstadt Des Moines (62,2 km südwestlich), Nebraskas größte Stadt Omaha (285 km westsüdwestlich), Sioux City (333 km westnordwestlich) und South Dakotas größte Stadt Sioux Falls (470 km nordwestlich).

Verkehr
Der vierspurig ausgebaute Iowa Highway 330 führt entlang der nordwestlichen Stadtgrenze von Melbourne. Alle weiteren Straßen sind untergeordnete Landstraßen, teils unbefestigte Fahrwege sowie innerörtliche Verbindungsstraßen.

Mit dem Marshalltown Municipal Airport befindet sich 30 km nordöstlich ein kleiner Flugplatz für die Allgemeine Luftfahrt und den Lufttaxiverkehr. Der nächste Verkehrsflughafen ist der Des Moines International Airport (72 km südwestlich).

Bevölkerung
Nach der Volkszählung im Jahr 2010 lebten in Melbourne 830 Menschen in 322 Haushalten. Die Bevölkerungsdichte betrug 560,8 Einwohner pro Quadratkilometer. In den 322 Haushalten lebten statistisch je 2,58 Personen.

Ethnisch betrachtet setzte sich die Bevölkerung zusammen aus 98,6 Prozent Weißen sowie 0,4 Prozent Afroamerikanern; 1,1 Prozent stammten von zwei oder mehr Ethnien ab. Unabhängig von der ethnischen Zugehörigkeit waren 1,0 Prozent der Bevölkerung spanischer oder lateinamerikanischer Abstammung.

27,7 Prozent der Bevölkerung waren unter 18 Jahre alt, 61,3 Prozent waren zwischen 18 und 64 und 11,0 Prozent waren 65 Jahre oder älter. 49,6 Prozent der Bevölkerung waren weiblich.

Das mittlere jährliche Einkommen eines Haushalts lag bei 45.735 USD. Das Pro-Kopf-Einkommen betrug 22.140 USD. 6,3 Prozent der Einwohner lebten unterhalb der Armutsgrenze.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website
 city-data.com - Melbourne, Iowa

Gemeindegründung 1882

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I really needed some air conditioning right away and Dial One Schilling came out the next day. They were pretty good. They fixed my air conditioning unit. I went to the Yellow Pages and Dial One Schilling was the first one I saw. I decided to choose them because I had seen their truck on the road before and remembered the truck. My experience with Dial One Schilling was pretty excellent.


Whether you're already engaged in a Transition Initiative in your community or are considering launching one, this interactive webinar is designed to give you some practical guidance and inspiration, drawn from the experience of local initiatives across the country (and beyond). Here's where you can get your questions answered and share your concerns, and get feedback from other leaders in the Transition movement.
What are the most common mistakes made by Transition Initiatives?
What are the most common challenges and stumbling blocks that Transition Initiatives face?
What are some of the "best practices" and most successful approaches that TIs can adopt?
What are the best ways to get started in your community?
Why take the Training for Transition?
Should you become a non-profit organization?
What's your relationship with Transition U.S.?
Why should you apply for "official" status?
How do we make our Transition movement more diverse?
Utilizing some of the coolest interactive webinar software around (Adobe Connect Pro, if everything goes according to plan), this interactive session will be hosted by Michael Brownlee, co-founder of Transition Colorado (the first officially recognized Transition Initiative in North America), a certified Transition Trainer, and a board member of Transition U.S. He'll be joined by some other experienced Transition leaders who will gladly share their insights and perspectives.
Anyone considering starting a Transition Initiative (aka Mullers) and those already working within an Initiative who is looking for tips on taking the effort to the next level.


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Okleśna est un village de Pologne, situé dans la gmina d'Alwernia, dans le Powiat de Chrzanów, dans la Voïvodie de Petite-Pologne dans le Sud de la Pologne.

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Village dans la voïvodie de Petite-Pologne
Powiat de Chrzanów


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Emirates Singapore Derby 2018
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http://www.turfclub.com.sg/EventsandEntertainment/Pages/ESD2018.aspx
ESD2018.aspx http://www.turfclub.com.sg/EventsandEntertainment/Pages/ESD2018.aspx/ Emirates Singapore Derby 2018
The Emirates Singapore Derby is a time-honoured classic run on the Singapore racing calendar each year where top racing action and glamour come together. The first Singapore Derby was run in 1880 with prizemoney of $150 and won by Moracia.
Today, the Emirates Singapore Derby is the final leg of the Singapore Four-Year-Old Challenge that brings together the best of that age group.
In 2009, the Hideyuki Takaoka-trained Japanese-bred mare Jolie's Shinju was the last horse to make a clean sweep of the Challenge when she led throughout to win the Derby, though the first two Legs were then slated as the Patrons' Bowl and the Singapore Derby Trial. Last year, Infantry scored an impressive win on his way to landing the Singapore Horse of the Year title.
On track the action is hot, but it is just as enthralling off the track as well with the ladies and gentlemen displaying the best of Derby day fashion that again promises a spectacular day at the Singapore Turf Club.
This year will mark the 23rd consecutive year that Emirates has been the official sponsor of the race with the $1.15 million in prizemoney making it the third richest domestic race behind the Kranji Mile ($1.5 million) and the Dester Singapore Gold Cup ($1.35 million). It will also be run over 1,800 metres instead of 2,000 metres for the first time since 1999.
Package includes an admission ticket to the Marquee with Buffet Lunch featuring International Cuisines with Free Flow of Wine/ Beer/ Juices/ Soft Drinks/ Coffee/ Tea.
Online booking is open till Friday, 13 July 2018 @ 5.00pm.
Only ePayment with Visa/Master is accepted. For AmEx payments, please contact us at
Email: events@turfclub.com.sg or Tel: 6879 1718 / 1727
Dress Code: Smart Casual, for ladies, come in your best headpieces to win prizes!
Other Admission Ticket Options
The Grandstand at Level 1 and
The Gallop @ Level 2
$8 nett (Cash)
$6 nett (EZ-Link Card & NETS CashCard)
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Chatham in the Fall 10k
Club Event Calendar
Club Happenings
CC Tri-Team
SWIM BIKE RUN RACE!
Triathlon Team Race Results and Photos
CAPE COD ATHLETIC CLUB
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Cape Cod Triathlon Team Ironman and Half Ironman Swim
17 Jul 2016 8:54 AM | Chris Crema (Administrator)
A successful and fun CCTT swim event held on July 16 at Sheeps Pond in Brewster. 36 racers and dozens of volunteers!!! A big thank you to all who helped pull it off, Gut Check Triathlon for supplying swim caps and Marathon Sports for supplying awards.
Harding's Beach Party
13 Jul 2016 6:02 AM | Peter Benson (Administrator)
The Harding's Beach Party is Tuesday, July, 19th. The party is after the regular Tuesday night run/walk from the Monomoy Middle School in Chatham. After the run we are going over to Harding's Beach for a BBQ, games, possible swim. Please tell your CCAC friends who are not on Facebook to come for the fun too. Please bring what you want to grill, chips, finger foods, salads, cheeses, or something to share with others, if you like. We'll be setting up tables to put things on. You might want to bring some chairs, your favorite beverages and coolers too. Everyone is welcomed!!!
2016 Chatham Harbor Run
Here is a link to photos from last Sundays Chatham Harbor Run at the Rick Heath Photography website.
https://rickheathphotography.smugmug.com/…/2016-Chatham-Ha…/
Spring Election Results
06 Jun 2016 12:25 PM | Rebecca Tadema-Wielandt (Administrator)
CCAC Officers:
President Howard Tansey, Vice Presidents Mary Duchesney and Chris Crema and Secretary Susan Eastman will remain in office and were nominated with out any opposition. Adam Ross stepped down as Treasurer and Tracy Long was officially nominated to the position.
CCAC Board Of Directors:
Dwight Pfundstein, Cathy Lohse and Sam Crowell were reelected and will remain on the board. The club voted in two new Directors: Jane Lovelette and Peter Benson. Dwight Pfundstein will remain as the Chairman.
The 36th Annual Chatham Harbor Run!
05 Jun 2016 9:31 AM | Rebecca Tadema-Wielandt (Administrator)
We're back!!!
Celebrate summer with a run along the shore in summer! The 10K run and 5K walk feature breathtaking scenery along the Chatham coastline and rolling, paved roads. Post time for both events is 12 noon.
This is a USA T&F sanctioned event on a certified 10K course. Sponsored by the Chatham Squire, Cape Cod Chronicle and sealaw.org and administered by the Cape Cod Athletic Club (http://www.capecodathleticclub.org/), all proceeds go to benefit the Monomoy Scholarship Fund. Trophies will be awarded to the first overall male and female, the first Chatham residents, the first finisher in 10 year age groups in the 10K, and the first finisher in 10 year age groups in the 5K walk. T-shirts may be purchased on race day as long as supplies last and will be available starting at 10:00am. The race starts about 2/10 mile from the school promptly at noon.
After awards are handed out in the school gym, the post-race party will commence at the Chatham Squire at 487 Main Street.
Event details and schedule
Start Time: 12:00pm on June 26th
Number pickup and day-of-race registration open at 10:00AM.
Location: Monomoy Regional Middle School (formerly Chatham Jr. Sr. High School)
425 Crowell Road, Chatham, MA
Parking: Parking is available next to and behind the school and behind the tennis courts. Please avoid parking on Crowell Road along the race course.
Post-race party: Chatham Squire, 487 Main Street, Chatham
Lee Manillo 5k: A Local Race Supporting Local Families In Need
02 May 2016 5:53 PM | Rebecca Tadema-Wielandt (Administrator)
The Lee Ann Mannillo Foundation is hosting the 2nd annual LM5K Run/Walk on Sunday May 8, 2016 which will benefit Cape Cod Child Development and their work dedicated to supporting families in need across Cape Cod.
1st place prize $150 Amazon gift card!
2nd place prize $100 Amazon gift card!
3rd Place prize $75 Amazon gift card!
Gift cards to local restaurants!
*** 1st, 2nd, 3rd place prizes for both genders ***
The Lee Ann Mannillo Foundation is a charity dedicated to supporting families who have experienced a tragic loss. The Foundation was formed after the unexpected and devastating loss of Lee Ann Mannillo mere hours after her twin sons were born in May 2014.
Lee was a dedicated and celebrated employee of Barnstable County and an avid supporter of community enrichment and service. Outside of work she was a vivacious and loving individual who made connections and friends everywhere she went. It is no surprise that an event in her honor was something so many chose to participate in to honor her legacy. Last year the inaugural race generated over $15,000 in support for local families who were struggling with the loss of a parent.
This year we're aiming to exceed last year's contributions to benefit families and children in our region. As always, this will be a family-friendly race. The race will be held on Mother's Day May 8th and the kick off and closing will be celebratory and supportive of all the runners and their families.
If you or your place of business would be interested in joining us as a sponsor, you can find Sponsorship forms here: Sponsorship Forms. If you would simply like to donate to the cause you can do so here: Donate
Your contribution as a sponsor or donor will help us to further our mission and serve families in need in our community.
The Lee Ann Mannillo Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to supporting families who have experienced the devastating loss of a parent or child. On behalf of all of the Lee Ann Mannillo Foundation Board Members, LM5K volunteers and Lee's friends and family, I thank you for your consideration!
All donations will receive a receipt for tax purposes from The Lee Ann Mannillo Foundation, Inc. Again, any amount you could contribute would be most welcome. If you want to volunteer, please contact us using the Contact form. Thank you for all your support while we work towards getting this inaugural race off and running!
© Lee Mannillo 5k
2016 CCAC Banquet
04 Apr 2016 2:35 PM | Rebecca Tadema-Wielandt (Administrator)
I thinks it's safe to say the banquet was a huge success! Special thanks goes to Kathleen Thomas for capturing the evening with some wonderful photos and to new member Lisa Connors for having us in Cape Cod Magazine!
Annual Elections!
20 Mar 2016 4:12 PM | Rebecca Tadema-Wielandt (Administrator)
Join us at our monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 6th at 7pm at the Dennis Senior Center for election day!
The positions of club officers and our board of directors are open for nomination.
If you're interested in running for a position and have questions or you are not able to be present yourself at the April meeting, send your nomination interest to president Howard Tansey. Officers serve for one year and board members serve for 2 years. Your current officers and board members are:
President: Howard Tansey
Vice President: Mary Duchesney
Vice President, CCAC Tri Team: Chris Crema
Treasurer: Adam Ross
Secretary: Susan Eastman
Bob Edwards, Dwight Pfundstein, Cathy Lohse, Jason Lilly, and Sam Crowell
PO Box 1992, Hyannis, MA 02601
ccac@capecodathleticclub.org


You might be crate-training a puppy or just relaxing with your sweet senior dog, but most households have dog crates as a permanent fixture. Our pups are meant to love their crates. Especially with a blanket or sheet draped overtop, they're supposed to be a safe haven; a place to relax or take a nap. It would certainly be nice if they also served a dual purpose.
The great part about a tabletop crate is that it blends in seamlessly alongside your living room furniture. Set it next to your couch as a side table or push it against a wall independently—doubtless it will be a conversation-starter, and your dog will still enjoy the comforts of his own private space.
Sold in shades of espresso, mahogany, and a rich black, these end table crates hardly look like crates at all. They're built with hardwood and have a waterproof melamine-coated base to protect the wood from any accidents or spillage, and the door even swings inward to accommodate tight spaces. My favorite part is the raised walls around 3 sides; much like that blanket we like to drape over the top, this closeness adds a sense of security and comfort to the crate's residents. It's available in 2 sizes to comfortably fit pups up to 80 pounds.
Solid, sturdy wood and open slats along the top of all four sides of this crate make it a fabulous lower-priced option to suit your dog and your decor. It has a simple latching lock on the front, and plenty of room to sprawl for dogs up to 38″ long and 29″ tall. Just toss in their favorite blanket or crate bed and you've made the perfect haven. Also available in black and espresso stained wood.
I'm not sure if I've seen a more clever crate than this one. When used as a crate, it features a lock, a base tray, and a heavy wooden tabletop that sits firmly on top but does not secure to the walls (I would not use this crate as a form of containment when you leave home). However, it also transforms into a gorgeous dog gate to block off a room. Remove the top, the base, and the pins that hold it together, and you've got a longer-than-average divider to keep your pup where you want him.
The classic metal crate combines with a pretty wood covering to convert this product into a piece of everyday furniture. You receive the crate itself with a removable plastic tray, plus panels to disguise all the edges and a solid wood veneer top. It's available in small, medium, and large sizes to suit any dog from a Yorkie to a German Shepherd, and the crate itself easily collapses for travel.
This beautiful espresso-stained crate definitely looks more like a piece of rustic furniture than a place for your pup to take a nap. The metal accents along the edges and corners add a nice touch, and unlike other crates it's actually raised off the ground a bit. Though there are two sizes, I would only recommend this crate for small to medium-sized dogs (no more than perhaps 35 pounds), but pay close attention to the dimensions and choose the best size for your pup.