Phonon dispersion relation for a cubic crystal at a given temperature and pressure. The dispersion relation is provided for a single wave direction. It consists of multiple branches (three for a monoatomic crystal, more for crystals with more than one basis atom per unit cell).
For each branch (first index of the array), the response frequencies (second index of array) corresponding to the wave numbers in the wave-number array.
For each branch (first index of the array), the wave numbers of each of the k-points along the branch (second index of array). All branches must have the same number of wave numbers.
Components of the incident wave wavevector with respect to the reciprocal lattice basis vectors.
Label naming each branch, e.g. indicating whether it is longitudinal acoustic (LA), transverse acoustic (TA), longitudinal optical (LO), transverse optical (TO).


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Q: Is there any initialization callback of process in android? Suppose that my application has many processes.
I try to run some init code (Actually store the application context in a static variable) in Application onCreate(). But I find that in some process, onCreate() is not run before other code in the same process and hence can not access the cached Context.
Where should I put the init code (store the application context) so that it must be ran before any code in the same process?

A: Based on the discussion we had in chat, you have a problem because you are trying to get the application's Context during static initialization of some helper class. I suggested the following:
If your helper class is only used by Android components
then by the time an Android component calls your class
the Application.onCreate() will have been called
and you can get the context from there.
You just need to wait until you get an actual call from an Android component to go and get the Context.
Don't try to do it as soon as the helper class is instantiated. Only do it when you need it.

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On April 15, our annual spring Gin and Tonic Festival returns to all D.C.-area Jaleo restaurants and the newly opened Jaleo Disney Springs. This popular two-week festival celebrates Spain's national cocktail, which also happens to be one of José's favorites!
Gin and tonics were first created by British colonists in India in order to stave off malaria – the bitter herb quinine was mixed with gin, lime, and sugar to take the edge off. The Spanish take, known as "gin-tonic," incorporates a garden of garnishes – fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices – to the traditional gin and tonic recipe. The cocktail is also served in a large wine glass or goblet to amplify the aroma of the gin and garnishes.
Jaleo's Gin and Tonic Spring Festival, which runs from April 15-28, 2019, will add new gin and tonic variations to the menu as well as paired small bites. Try one of this year's new creations or an old favorite like the Ultimate Gin & Tonic, one of José's favorites. Get the recipe and learn how to make it in this video with ThinkFoodGroup's cocktail innovator, Miguel Lancha.


Welcome to the Broadway Gifts & Flowers Llc website.
Broadway Gifts & Flowers Llc delivers flowers and gifts to the Farmington, NM area. You can send flowers for any occasion including Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. We offer a large variety of fresh flowers and gifts. Enjoy the convenience of safe and secure ordering online 24 hours a day. The goal is to exceed our customers' expectations with quality, value and professional service.
Broadway Gifts & Flowers Llc, a leading flower shop in Farmington, is proud to offer a wide assortment of Mothers Day flowers, roses, gifts and beauitufl fresh Spring flowers. Our dedicated staff will help make any occasion memorable with an artfully designed arrangement. Broadway Gifts & Flowers Llc is a member of the nationwide network of trusted FTD florists and can help you send a thoughtful gift across the country when you can't be there yourself. Send Mom a stunning gift of beautiful Mothers Day flowers. Nothing says "I love you" better than a dozen red roses or a beautiful bouquet of Spring Tulps!
Nothing compares to the joy of receiving fresh flowers for all occasions, from birthday flowers and corsages to get well gifts. We have the perfect flowers to say just what you want to express. Whether it's a dozen long stem red roses, celebrating an anniversary with a majestic bouquet of anniversary flowers, new baby gifts, beautiful Mother's Day or Valentines Day flowers, a touching sympathy funeral flower arrangement, romantic flowers as well as gifts and flowers for any occasion. Broadway Gifts & Flowers Llc can help you make a lasting impression. We can help you express just the sentiment with beautiful flowers to make any occasion special.
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Freddy will welcome you to his quiet, vibrantly green farm with a short description about how his little pigs grow. He will show you their local grub: filipita bananas, yuca and palm fruit. He will then show you how to care for them. Feel free to give them a bath or just toss them some bananas. Then follow Freddy over to the biodigestor, where the pig waste gets turned into natural gas to light the stove in Freddy's kitchen. This type of farming produces little to no waste and contamination. Freddy takes pride in this.
Afterwards, Freddy's mom will welcome you into her quaint kitchen where you can have a snack, coffee, fresh bread or a fruit drink.
Boots, closed toed shoes, insect repellent, umbrella, rain gear, and a camera.
Freddy was raised on his family farm in Rancho Quemado. While agriculture is his primary interest, he has to find informal jobs to supplement his income. His family-run pig farm supplements his work in construction, repairing motorcycles and selling palm fruit to the palm oil companies. These jobs are not reliable on their own, but together Freddy is able to diversify his work to find stability.


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Power, Soul, Rock N' Roll - Live in Germany ist der Titel des 2019 veröffentlichten ersten Livealbums der kanadischen Sängerin Lee Aaron.

Während ihrer Tournee zum Album Fire and Gasoline spielten Lee Aaron und Band zwischen dem 10. Juli und 17. Juli 2017 auch in Europa. Die Auftritte in Nürnberg (Konzertclub "Hirsch") am 13. Juli und Balingen (Bang-Your-Head-Festival) am 14. Juli 2017 wurden dabei für eine spätere Veröffentlichung aufgezeichnet. Die entstandenen Aufnahmen wurden von John Webster produziert, der jedoch die Liedreihenfolge änderte. Das Album gibt daher nicht den ursprünglichen Ablauf der Konzerte wieder.

Neben bekannten Titeln aus ihrer frühen Karriere und Liedern vom zum Aufnahmezeitpunkt jüngsten Albums Lee Aarons sind auch drei Coverversionen (Mistreated von Deep Purple, Rock Candy von Montrose und I'm a Woman von Bo Diddley) enthalten. Aarons Version von Mistreated und der ebenfalls bei den Auftritten gespielte  Song Diamond Baby waren zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahmen noch nicht veröffentlicht. Sie erschienen auf dem 2018 herausgebrachten Studioalbum Diamond Baby Blues.

Neben der CD, die zusammen mit einer DVD im Digipak angeboten wurde, die neben denselben Liedern wie die CD auch drei Musikvideos (American High, Diamond Baby und I'm A Woman) und ein kurzes Making-of sowie eine Fotogalerie enthält, war das Album auch über Online-Musikdienste zu beziehen.

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Marin Römpp schrieb in Rocks, das Album habe "die starken Auftritte der Band sehr lebendig eingefangen", sie in der finalen Bearbeitung aber "mächtig ausgebremst". Die Songreihenfolge sei "wahllos durcheinandergewürfelt und mit Publikums-Geräuschkulisse aus der Konserve" hinterlegt worden.  Die "kraftvolle Version" von Metal Queen, das "packende" Barely Holdin' On oder das Medley aus Powerline und Lady of the Darkest Night hätten aber "einen besseren Rahmen" verdient.

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Album (Hard Rock)
Album (Bluesrock)
Livealbum
Album 2019

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Albrighton Trust - News - Plant Swop - Thank You!
Plant Swop - Thank You!
Thank you to those people who found the time to call in to donate plants for our Sensory Garden. Peter, our gardener was delighted with the plants he received. They will be very well looked after. Please call again to check on their progress.
If you have grown a surplus of plants and would like to bring them to the Albrighton Trust we may have plants you would like to exchange them for.
We have recently started construction of our long awaited Sensory Garden and we would like to include a diverse range of colour and texture in the garden.


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KINGSTON — Private sector companies are being urged to partner with the Government to address the needs of the nation's health institutions.
General Manager, Consumer Division, Lasco Distributors Limited, Peter Chin made the call at the media launch of International Nurses Day and Nurses Week 2011, held at the Terra Nova Hotel, yesterday. International Nurses Day is celebrated under the theme: 'Closing the gap: increasing access and equity'.
He further noted that the Jamaica Diaspora can also play a significant role in assisting with some of the country's health care delivery challenges.
"Let us be mindful that Jamaica still has a far way to go in making the provision of healthcare more equitable and accessible to all. The health of our population determines the overall productivity of our nation, so it is important that we provide the right health information and the right access to health care at all times for our people," Mr. Chin said.
He also recommended that health fairs be initiated in remote areas, so as to provide screening and treatment for chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.
The General Manager commended the nurses for their outstanding humanitarian service and professionalism. "International Nurses Day (May 12) is a fitting time for me to applaud all Jamaican nurses for their ongoing dedication to the people of Jamaica and the nursing profession," Mr. Chin said.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), Lyttleton Shirley said the nursing profession stands as the epitome of health care, not only in Jamaica, but around the world.
"This recognition is bound by the great deeds of sacrifice, love, dedication and professionalism that our nurses have given to health services across the length and breadth of Jamaica over the years," Mr. Lyttleton said.
He further noted that there is a need to fully understand the challenges which exist within the health sector. "Our nurses have to be prepared to meet these challenges head on, but they cannot do it alone, they must have the protection of our government and our private sector. The role of our nurses is pivotal to the direction in which our policies are made. These policies must ensure that we fill the gap between those who can and those who cannot afford health care services," Mr. Lyttleton said.
President of the Nurses Association of Jamaica, Anthonette Patterson, noted that the theme of International Nurses Day comes at a strategic time when government and people worldwide seek partnerships and collaborations.
"In an era when the government (has abolished) user fees in an attempt to make health care more accessible and equitable, where international assistance is being pursued to assist in the delivery of care, I urge you my nurses to stay focus and think widely on the theme before you. We must become part of the process of closing the gap. Let us encourage our stakeholders to take responsibility for their health, and continue to impress on the policy heads to make health care accessible and equitable," Miss Patterson said.
National Nurses Week will be observed from July 17 to 23.


Wine, olive oil and petiscos... What else could we need?
Start with a guided tour to our cellars and wineries and enjoy a tasting of 3 wines: learn the secrets of wine production and test your senses with a Defesa do Esporão White, Esporão Reserve Red and Murças Reserve Red tasting (depending on stock availability).
After your tour and tasting, our staff will be waiting for you at the Wine Bar to guide you to a delicious petiscos lunch combined with a perfect wine pairing.
Relax and indulge yourself with our Chefs' petiscos selection.
Guided tour to the wineries and cellars with a lectured vertical tasting of Esporão Reserve Red.


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News | Policy
Govt Responds to Report on Economic Potential of Senior Australians
Wednesday, 18th April 2012 at 10:35 am
The Federal Government is to spend $10 million on a new Jobs Bonus to help keep older Australians in the workforce while initiating a review of the existing laws around volunteering for those who want to retire, to ensure adequate protection from civil liability.
Wednesday, 18th April 2012
The Government has responded to the final report of the 'Turning Grey into Gold' report on senior Australians.
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The initiatives are part of a $35 million response to the Final Report of the Advisory Panel on the Economic Potential of Senior Australians (EPSA) called "Turning Grey into Gold".
The Report found that there needs to be greater choices for older Australians as to how they spend their golden years and better opportunities to stay engaged with the workforce and the broader community.
The Government's response to the EPSA Report includes $10 million for new Jobs Bonuses to help tackle age discrimination and encourage businesses to employ older Australian who want to stay in the workforce.
The Government says as well it will initiate a review of existing laws to ensure adequate protection for volunteers from civil liability. It says that for many people, retirement gives opportunity to give back to the community by volunteering and any barriers to these opportunities should be avoided.
The Government says it will convene a roundtable with the insurance industry, peak Not for Profit organisations and senior Australians to identify any gaps in the availability and affordability of insurance for senior Australians, including insurance for volunteers and travel insurance.
The report looked at senior Australians who provide an ongoing contribution to future generations by bequeathing money to philanthropic organisations working for the betterment of Australian society, especially in the areas of research and innovation.
The Government says it is considering ways to better promote philanthropy and will include the role of older Australians in the course of this work.
The Advisory Panel on Positive Ageing will provide advice on to Government on ways this can be further progressed.
The Government's response provides a package including:
$10m for a new $1000 Jobs Bonus for employers who recruit and retain a mature age job seeker for more than 3 months.
$15.6m to extend the Corporate Champions program to provide support to employers who wish to promote mature aged employment at their workplace.
$3.9m to extend the Career Advice service by two years to ensure mature age people have access to free, professional career advice.
$4.8m to promote education opportunities by adult and community education providers and community organisations to older Australians.
Expanding the More Help for Mature Age Workers initiative, to now be called the "Investing in Experience – Skills Recognition and Training program, to allow industries to benefit from improving the skills of their over 50s workforces.
The Government says an expanded Advisory Panel on Positive Ageing will be established on an ongoing basis.
On the issue of age discrimination and stereotyping of older people, the Government says it will:
Provide $2.1 million over four years to the Age Discrimination Commissioner to address age discrimination, age stereotyping and ageism more generally, to feed into a media roundtable and communication strategy.
Review Commonwealth legislation to identify age barriers that prevent continued participation in the workforce for people aged 45 years and over.
Working to consolidate the five anti-discrimination Acts, including the Age Discrimination Act 2004, into a single law as part of Australia's Human Rights Framework.
The EPSA Advisory Panel was established in March 2011 and was chaired by Everald Compton AM who will continue as Chair of the expanded Advisory Panel, along with Professor Gill Lewin and Professor Brian Howe AO.
Full details fo the report and the Government's reponse can be found online (PDF).
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Tags : Advisory Panel on the Economic Potential of Senior Australians, Career News, Careers, Employment, EPSA, Federal Government, Gillard Government, National, senior Australians, Seniors, Volunteering,
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Die Radrennbahn am Pferdeturm war die erste in der (heutigen) Landeshauptstadt Hannover errichtete Radrennbahn. Der Standort der im 19. Jahrhundert anfangs ausschließlich für Radrennen erbauten und bis in die 1950er Jahre betriebenen Sportanlage lag zwischen dem städtischen Schlachthof im Stadtteil Bult und dem Pferdeturm im Stadtteil Kleefeld.

Geschichte

Für den Bau der ersten Radrennbahn Hannovers hatte sich der eigens hierfür gegründete Radfahrer-Rennverein starkgemacht, bis eine anfänglich einfache Aschenbahn auf städtischem Pachtland am Pferdeturm 1888 schließlich eingeweiht werden konnte. Nur wenige Jahre später wurde der Renn-Untergrund 1895 durch Asphalt ersetzt.

Ab 1897 wurde auf dieser Bahn der Große Preis von Hannover  bis in die 1950er Jahre hinein ausgetragen.

1903 wurde ein umfänglicherer Umbau der gesamten Anlage vorgenommen: Die Rennbahn mit nun verstärkten und höheren Kurven wurde auf 500 Meter verlängert, im Innenraum ein 400 Meter lange Laufbahn als Leichtathletikanlage ergänzt. Durch eine neu errichtete Stehtribüne wurde die Anlage für nunmehr 10.000 Zuschauer ausgerichtet.

In den 1920er Jahren der Weimarer Republik und – nach der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus und dem Zweiten Weltkrieg – diente die Radrennbahn am Pferdeturm in den ersten Nachkriegsjahren auch zur Ausrichtung von Motorrad- und Autorennen. Darüber hinaus nutzte der Fußballsportverein Hannover 96 die Anlage bis 1958 für seine Heimspiele. Wenige Jahre zuvor war jedoch der Rennsport bereits ab 1955 amtlich untersagt worden aufgrund von Baumängeln der nun gut ein halbes Jahrhundert alten Anlage. Sie wurde bis 1960 vollständig abgerissen.

Ersatzbau für die Radrennbahn am Pferdeturm wurde fünf Jahre später die im Mai 1965 eröffnete Radrennbahn Hannover-Wülfel.

Siehe auch
 Eilenriederennen

Medienecho
 Simon Benne: Fotos aus der Gründungszeit / Historische Aufnahmen von Hannover 96 entdeckt, bebilderter Artikel zu wieder entdeckten historischen Fotografien aus sogenannten "Toni-Denecke-Mannschaft" und zur Ausstellung im Historischen Museum Hannover in der Hannoverschen Allgemeinen Zeitung vom 6. Januar 2012

Literatur
 Walter Euhus: Speichensport. Hannovers historischer Radsport. Die Speiche, Langenhagen 1999, ISBN 3-9807011-0-7.
 Christian Wolter: Die Radrennbahn am Pferdeturm (1888–1960) – als Fußballstadion eines der ältesten, in ders.: Zur Geschichte der Fußballstadien in Hannover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. Neue Folge. Bd. 60, 2006, S. 5f., 13–17
 Wolf-Dieter Mechler (Texte): Ein Schuss – ein Tor. Hannover-96-Bilder aus den frühen Jahren. Begleitheft zur Ausstellung Ein Schuss – ein Tor – Hannover im Historischen Museum Hannover vom 16. Mai bis 22. Juli 2012, Historisches Museum, Hannover 2012.

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Ehemalige Radrennbahn in Deutschland
Sportstätte in Hannover
Fußballstadion in Niedersachsen
Fußballstadion in Europa
Hannover 96
Erbaut in den 1880er Jahren
Erbaut in den 1900er Jahren
Abgegangenes Bauwerk in Hannover
Bult (Hannover)
Kleefeld (Hannover)
Ehemalige Veranstaltungsstätte in Niedersachsen
Ehemalige Sportstätte für Fußball in Deutschland


7758 College Avenue is known locally as the Simon Murphy House. It has long been known as the Simon Murphy house after the original builder, Simon Murphy. Vic and Carol Dennis purchased this as their home in 2008. Since that time, their goal continues to be to restore the home to its former glory.
This house is a simple Queen Anne Victorian residence and was built by lumber dealer, Simon Murphy in 1887. Murphy owned land in East Whittier and La Habra and was responsible for developing the water supply system for Whittier. He hired H.L.Reed to build the flume that carried water from the San Gabriel River to East Whittier and the Whittier colony. Additions to the residence were made in 1901.
The home was sold to the McGee family around 1904. The McGees were early Whittier residents involved in farming and the development of the Whittier Sanitary Dairy, predecessor of Quaker Maid Dairy. Other alterations made to the house include additional windows added to the side of the second story and enlargement of the carriage house in the rear of property.
A three-car garage was added to the property in 1991 built to blend with the historic architecture. The house was most recently listed by Claudia Todd at Whittier Brokers.
CURRENT PROPERTY DESCRIPTION WITH ADDITIONS: This property sits on a 19,080 square foot lot shared by the main house, carriage house, three-car detached garage and fenced off pool. The house is 3,362 square feet with 6 bedrooms and 2 baths.
The local designation date is September 25, 1991. This "local designation" is formally known as the CITY OF WHITTIER OFFICIAL LOCAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC RESOURCES.


Is your toddler ready for the exciting and adorable world of Grapat Nins?
The Grapat Nins Carla is one of the largest sets available from Grapat.
It is designed to help children develop logical and mathematical relationships from the many counting, stacking, colour matching and sorting games available within the 120 pieces.
Each Nin can be matched with its corresponding coins and rings making mathematical problems more visual and thus easier for children to understand and more fun as it can also be combined with play.
The Grapat Nins Carla set includes 12 Nins, 72 rings and 36 coins in 12 rainbow colours with Grapat cloth bag and gift box. Recommended for children aged 12 months+.
Nins measure 6cm in height, coins and rings have a diameter of 4.7 cm.
In this set – you get six brightly coloured rings allowing you to completely hide the Nin.
This is a simple material and allows many possibilities of play.
36 coins in the colours of the rainbow.
GRAPAT provides material without instructions, Open-ended for free and autonomous play. Our only premise is to let children play, slowly, without time limits. We suggest material that encourages, invites and stimulates the creation of several fantastic, realistic and invented little worlds. It is made following traditional processes, with thick soft raw materials, natural dyes which let the wood veins be seen and vibrant coloured waxes and oils that slightly shine. The products are painted by hand, homemade, surrounded by land, fire, rivers and many children nearby, who inspire us daily.


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Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez died in custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in May 2018. New information in an independent autopsy shows that she was severely beaten while in ICE custody. | Photo: Transgender Law Center
By Cassandra Devereaux
Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez, a 33-year-old Honduran transgender woman, died on May 25, 2018, in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Officials proclaimed her death as being a result of complications due to HIV. A recently released independent autopsy paid for by the Transgender Law Center has added a new wrinkle that government officials left out: she had been severely beaten while in the custody of the state.
This autopsy was conducted by forensic pathologist Dr. Kris Sperry. Dr. Sperry did not find bruising on her skin, but did discover profound hemorrhaging of deep tissues and muscles that indicate that she had suffered violence. The timeline under which this violence was inflicted upon her is unknown.
ICE spokeswoman Danielle Bennett said that "allegations that she was abused in ICE custody are false" but offered no explanation of the findings. Fellow detainees interviewed in the course of determining her true cause of death have stated that she had displayed symptoms that indicated severe dehydration over the course of the many days she suffered without medical care. She was only treated, they claim, once she became gravely ill. Marbeli Bustillo, 23, a fellow detainee, recalls that once she was taken for treatment, prisoners received no further word about her. What happened since, only agents of the state seem to know.
Hernández was one of many who had crossed the Mexico/California border seeking asylum. She reported having contracted HIV as a result of a gang rape by four men in her old neighborhood. Rape, murder and dismemberment, she said, is common there. Regardless of our own history of staggering violence and murder against transgender women of color, she had hoped to be safe from such violence in the United States. This autopsy indicates not only that she was wrong, but that it may very well have been the state itself to inflict said violence on her. The days she spent before getting the care she needed firmly places the responsibility for her death on the very country that she hoped would be her deliverer. The right-wing media frequently raises the specter of "diseased immigrants" posing a health threat to U.S. citizens. In light of these findings, it is clear that in reality, it is migrants with illnesses are at threat by the United States itself.
To understand the migration of Roxsana and so many like her, the history of U.S. intervention in Central and South America must be grasped. In the case of Honduras, a military coup took place in 2009 against the democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya. The homicide rate in Honduras had already been gravely high, but in leading up to and in the aftermath of this coup, the homicide rate in Honduras spiked by 50 percent. Particularly affected have been worker organizers, LGBTQ2+ activists and enemies of the new regime. In her book "Hard Choices," then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted using her power to "render the question of Zelaya moot." She claims this was in the service of "free and fair elections," ignoring the fact that Zelaya himself had been elected through just such elections. In practice, her use of power cemented the coup's overthrow of the will of the Honduran people and supported the dictatorial regime which had deposed him.
Zelaya himself was a member of Honduras' "Liberal Party." He instituted certain progressive policies including free school lunches, milk for young children, and pensions for the elderly. The simmering ire of the global capitalist class finally took to military intervention once Zelaya took the first steps to replace a constitution enacted under the brutal military dictator Policarpo Paz García.
García had been the beneficiary of U.S. military aid to serve the malign interests of the capitalist class, and this constitution was in place to serve their hunger by enabling them to extract ever greater wealth. The "aid" given was in service of combating the threat to corporate and imperialist interests posed by the Sandinista communist government of Nicaragua and to nip in the bud any spread of communist liberation in the region. Indeed, one of Ronald Reagan's last acts as president was to send 3,000 troops into Honduras, claiming that the Sandinistas had invaded. This claim was contradicted by the Nicaraguan government. Regardless, Reagan and the U.S. ruling class had the Sandinista government in their crosshairs for a long time, supporting the Contra militarized counter-revolutionary forces. Notoriously, Reagan sold weapons to Iran and funneled the profits to support the Contras. It has been broadly claimed that these funds were offered in exchange for cocaine manufactured by the Contras and was shipped to the U.S. in order to destabilize Black and Brown communities that were suffering under epidemic addiction to crack cocaine. The United States empire and the dictatorship of capital were certainly destabilizing Central America.
This was nothing new. Spain, upon losing the Spanish-American war, had ceded control of its colonies in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States, and Washington thereafter directed the military subjugation of Mexico and Central America, attempting to add these to its colonies. The United Fruit Company and the Standard Fruit Company greedily moved in, beginning what became known as the "banana wars." Honduras saw the advent of U.S. military presence starting in 1903 when Washington directed military forces to control indigenous workers who were organizing to resist the abuses and of the fruit company, inspiring author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) to coin the term "banana republic."
There are many stories like this in the many countries of Central and South America. There are no countries in this region that have not known the boot of colonial military powers and only French Guyana has not been touched by U.S. forces. This exception shows that one empire has regard only for another and none for the people they dominate.
It was into this long legacy of colonial violence and domination that Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez was born. It's impossible to know what her life may have been like if Honduras had never been a prize of U.S. imperialist powers. Perhaps Hondurans would have been among the many indigenous peoples never to develop a hatred of transgender people under colonial oppression. Maybe she never would have been raped for this difference, so fundamental to who she was as a person and to her personal dignity. Perhaps she might have thrived. Instead, she fled and sought asylum, but was incarcerated by a brutal xenophobic state. And so, she died, gravely ill and violently beaten in the care of the very powers that had brought subjugation and death to her region. As her body lies dead, the chorus of ruthless reactionaries and their agents cheer "Build the wall!" and drown out any reasoned examination of the blood on our hands. Until we rise as one to bring justice to bear, the ghosts of the dead will haunt us.
Say her name! Liberation for transgender migrants and all oppressed peoples! Revolutionary justice for Roxsana!
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Today is Ringo Starr's 69th birthday. I'm guessing that he won't be going back on Larry King Live this year, considering how things went down on his 68th (in case you didn't see it -- Ringo got pretty mad at Larry, who said Ringo's age, 68, over a dozen times during the few minute interview, but Ringo was funny and called Larry 102 yrs. old, which in all honesty seems a possibility), but I do hope Rings keeps the message of peace and love through this birthday celebration. I haven't followed his recent career as much, but I genuinely like sixties Ringo. He seemed sad-eyed, goofy, laid-back, and fun.... He also had amazing rings (naturally) and enviable dance moves (just rent A Hard Day's Night if you need proof).


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Polly Toynbee and David Walker The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
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The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow citizens and fertilised the ground for a rebellious Brexit. It has been a decade characterised by national tragedies from Grenfell to Windrush, and food banks to the property crisis.
But, as Adam Smith said, 'there's a great deal of ruin in a nation'. No truthful portrait of an era can be monochrome. Bright spots included the rise of renewable energy, lower crime rates, legalisation of same-sex marriage and the creative industries continuing to punch well above their weight in spite of cuts.
In this talk, Polly Toynbee and David Walker offer the definitive survey of this most tumultuous of periods in British history and look to what lies ahead for us. This is the anatomy of a dark decade, bringing hope for better to come.
Polly Toynbee has been a key columnist for the Guardian since 1998. David Walker is a contributing editor to the Guardian Public and former director of public reporting at the Audit Commission.
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was the day you quit wearing white shoes.
That was an easy-to-follow rule.
Rules like that made life simpler.
Jerry Lewis WAS Labor Day, with his Muscular Dystrophy Telethons.
I remember being frustrated that that was all that was on TV.
I guess my point in this blogpost: THE ONLY THING FOR CERTAIN IS CHANGE.
Would you believe I used to wear hose to Baylor football games!
Of course, everyone knows that about change- that it is certain.
Still. I like sameness. Rules. Predictability.
I remember in high school someone told me they liked to eat tuna fish sandwiches for breakfast.
You can't do that, I thought!
So that's my blog for today.... nothing earth shattering.... well, except that I might wear my white sandals TOMORROW!!!!!


A Changing Climate Means A Changing Society. The Island Press Urban Resilience Project, Supported By The Kresge Foundation And The JPB Foundation, Is Committed To A Greener, Fairer Future. This Article Was Originally Published October 30, 2018 On Greater Greater Washington as part of the Urbanist Journalism Fellowship.
Sometimes local parents find themselves restricted to just a few neighborhood haunts or playgrounds to take their children, but across the Washington region, there are dozens of kid-friendly places to visit. They're also good places for people without children to host family-friendly events for those who do. With the help of fellow GGWash contributors, I created a map of neighborhood destinations, parks, food halls, and town centers where families can stretch their legs, eat, shop, and explore.
In DC, outdoor options range from small gathering places such as the Columbia Heights Civic Circle, Logan Circle, and Lamont Plaza to larger mix-used developments like The Wharf and CityCenter DC. When winter weather hits, cozy up inside of Union Station or Union Market.
The Maryland and Virginia suburbs have great waterfront destinations like the Old Town waterfront in Alexandria, Virginia and National Harbor in Fort Washington, Maryland. The 'burbs also have several town centers and shopping malls, plus urban-like locations such as Downtown Silver Spring, which boasts two movie theaters, a civic center, and a pop-up workspace with public wifi.
Whether you're having a family fun day or looking for a space to work remotely or meet a colleague with kid in tow, these are your best bets.
Scroll to zoom out and see more of the map. Click on the markers for more information about each place.
Readers: What other places are good for people with children?


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What is the right level of cash?
Amanda WhiteJuly 30, 2014
The $54 billion United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund has adapted to be more dynamic in its asset allocation, a result of lessons learned from the crisis and new stress-testing capabilities. The belief in active management still resonates with the fund beating its 10-year policy objectives. Amanda White spoke to the director of the investment management division (chief investment officer), Suzanne Bishopric.
One of the more recent modern investment questions is: what is the ultimate allocation to cash?
Suzanne Bishopric, director of the investment management division of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, is not a fan of "negative cash" and she says the fact that the practice was widespread and accepted was "emblematic of the time". Cash was seen to be a drag on performance, and compared with high returns in illiquid asset classes, seemed a costly place to allocate funds.
She points to a number of university endowments, which on the eve of the financial crisis followed the "negative cash" approach.
"A target of negative 5 per cent sounded low and reasonable, but when the crisis hit the effect was detrimental. A financial crisis is not the optimum time to apply for a loan or to ask for increased donations" she says.
By contrast, the UNJSPF was overweight cash which meant it could rebalance. But now Bishopric says the question is whether the fund has too much cash which might be acting as a performance drag.
"Cash doesn't beat inflation, so you want to deploy it properly. But in 2008 everything went down. There was a correlation of 0.99 among asset classes," she says. "Some universities had to sell publicly-traded equities at the bottom of the market because of liquidity pressures. My own alma mater, Harvard, was also challenged by underwater swaps.
UNJSPF is relatively new to private equity and only has a 2 per cent allocation now. The plan is to invest around 1 per cent of the fund per year until about 7 or 8 per cent, with Bishopric keen to be thorough in due diligence and also ensure a diversity of vintage years.
"We'll take a slow and steady approach and take stock around a 7 or 8 per cent allocation, eventually we'll match the allocations of the Australian or Canadian funds," she says.
While UNJSPF was overweight cash in 2008 it was not immune to the crisis, and also lost money.
The lesson, Bishopric says, is not to be overconfident about assumptions.
"We need to look at everything all the time," she says. "We try to have a long-term view but there are some periods like in 2011 where there were lots of twists and turns and the reaction is to just get out of everything. But at $40 billion you can't."
She says now the whole industry is assessing what asset allocation means, and her fund is looking at different ways to slice the portfolio so it can be viewed in different lights.
"With our own risk management software we look at the total portfolio every week and stress test it every week using historical and imaginary scenarios. It's helpful for decision making to see how different things move in different parts of the portfolio."
"We assess what lower rates of economic growth globally, or within emerging markets, might mean, we then extend that and assess the effect on base metals and commodities and we realised they were embedded in lots of other parts of the portfolio as well, like in very sound mining companies."
While Bishopric is loath to predict the future, she does say she expects lower interest rates "will be with us longer than we think".
The surprise of 2014, she says, is that interest rates went even lower, and the number of countries running negative interest rates is at a record level.
"We saw this in the 1970's when there was different pressure on the US$," she says. "But I think low interest rates as a way to stimulate the economy has been over-used, it's unnerving."
As a result, UNJSPF is at the lowest level of its fixed income range – the allocation is 31 per cent plus or minus 7 per cent, and it is now at 24 per cent. "We've remained overweight the benchmark, it's been a great equities year everywhere."
At the end of December 2013 the fund's asset allocation was 65.4 per cent in equities, 24.7 per cent in bonds, 5 per cent in real assets, 3.6 per cent in short term, and 1.4 per cent in alternatives.
The fund's members are truly global, coming from 23-member organisations including the United Nations, the World Health Organisation, and the International Criminal Court (its most recent Pension Board meetings were held in Rome, hosted by FAO). In line with these liabilities, the fund has investments in 38 countries and 23 currencies.
It has invariably been overweight emerging markets, but Bishopric is selective.
"They can do well, but we need to use good judgement in where to allocate, both at a country and stock level," she says.
It's an investment philosophy that resonates at all asset class levels, with the fund a strong believer in active management.
For example within fixed income the allocations are very underweight the Japanese yen but overweight peripheral Europe, such as Poland, which worked well last year.
Bishopric and her team will continue to invest with caution.
"It's a choppier year this year. It's not more volatile, it's very dull, but small oscillations make it a difficult environment."
The conversation around uncertainty is a conversation she has often, and as former treasurer of the United Nations, she's well connected.
"I was speaking to Paul Volcker today," she says. "The last time I spoke to him we were talking about Mexican bonds yielding levels under 6 per cent, in our conversation today I said we should have bought them!"
One of the continuing attributes of the defined-benefit United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) is its realistic return target – set at a 3.5 per cent real rate of return. The fund has outperformed its policy objectives in one, seven and 10 year periods with the 10 year return to December 2013 of 7.2 per cent outperforming the policy benchmark of 6.8 per cent
"The people who manage the fund are beneficiaries too and most have worked in different parts of the UN. They have pride and really understand their responsibility," she says.
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"A new wave of consciousness has entered our world."
"March for Our Lives" ~ March 24, 2018 ~ Washington, D.C.
The New Generation and the Plan of Evolution
In spite of the chaos dominating the headlines in 2018, remarkable things are occurring that bear the seal of a higher order. The awakening consciousness of the soul, penetrating the media slowly and sporadically over recent decades, made a conspicuous appearance earlier this year. The blueprints of evolution came alive with the mass mobilization by students in Parkland, Florida in response to the shooting deaths in their high school on February 14th. Signs of soul awareness -- a hallmark of the divine Plan for the new era -- are unmistakable among these 'kids.'
Higher awareness is especially evident among the students who have emerged as leaders of the movement for gun control in America. Their consciousness is so advanced and their capacities so developed that parents, teachers, school administrators and elected officials have deferred to them for leadership of this critical movement. In a matter of weeks after the shooting, they had impacted the political landscape in the United States to a degree previously unfathomable. Since that time, they have inspired innumerable individuals and groups to stand up to regressive forces in other spheres of life. A new wave of consciousness has entered our world, suddenly and unexpectedly, through the souls of teenagers.
Signs of this new consciousness were first observed in the 1980s, when children began to display extraordinary capacities. They arrived in streams, each one exhibiting different characteristics, which led observers to label them variously Indigo, Crystal and Seed children. Collectively dubbed 'the new kids,' they appear to share attributes such as extremely high intelligence, acute sensitivity, and penetrating insight into what lies behind outer appearances. They also commonly exhibit concern for others, starting at a very young age. Many of these kids have appeared in the media because of a particular kind of genius or because they launched an initiative to help people in need or to solve a global problem.
Two months ago, for the first time, we began to see the collective power of the new generation. Teenagers from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School* materialized an aspect of the evolutionary plan, demonstrating what can happen when power is wielded collaboratively by a group of awakened souls aligned with the Forces of Light. They mobilized almost immediately after their school was attacked, lighting a flame among millions of fellow students across the country and around the world. Together they manifested the esoteric truth that the soul is group conscious—aware of being connected to all souls. In so doing, they revealed that soul awareness is the only force that can radically remake our world.
This heightened level of awareness in so many young people caused bewilderment among seasoned political observers. Progressive media commentators appeared spellbound by the sophistication of those who organized "March for Our Lives"— the rally held in Washington, D.C. and locations across the U.S. and around the world on March 24th. Many adults struggled to comprehend what they were hearing and observing, as these kids exhibited a level of wisdom and strategic brilliance previously unseen in people their age.
Adults at both ends of the political spectrum were perplexed. Progressives who had given up hope of loosening the stranglehold of the pro-gun lobby were awe-struck by the organizing feat accomplished by the students virtually overnight. Conservatives, supporters of unrestricted gun rights, illogically accused the kids of being the pawns of adults—the same adults who had failed consistently to enact change. They all seemed to recognize that something new had entered the life of the nation, although they were unable to identify the mysterious source of power galvanized by these very young people.
Observing the students before and during the rallies in Washington and elsewhere, sympathetic commentators mentioned a number of qualities that appeared remarkable to them. All of them are qualities of the true Self—the Soul—prophesied by the modern wisdom teachings to appear as we enter the new age.
Soul Qualities Noted by Political Observers
They are mature, poised, sober and wise beyond their years.
They are highly intelligent, perceptive, and articulate.
They are authentic—there is no artifice about them.
They are courageous and unfazed by speaking truth to power.
They are self-motivated.
They have a clear sense of mission and purpose.
They are natural leaders as well as team players.
They are compassionate, empathic and inclusive.
They have a vision of possibility and exude confidence in a positive outcome.
Soul Qualities Predicted to Flower in the Aquarian Age
Through the teachings of the Tibetan Master in the books of Alice Bailey, one can recognize additional qualities of the soul exhibited by these teenagers, which signal that the plan of evolution is underway.
They act under the authority of their own souls and of their own free will. They do not look to external authorities for permission.
There is no one leader among them (the 25 or so Florida students responsible for the national media and organizing work). They function intuitively, with mutual respect and trust in each other.
They embrace diversity. When organizing the March 24th event, the largely white Florida students reached out to black students from cities where gun violence is endemic to give them a voice. There was a 'rainbow coalition' on stage—people of all races and backgrounds—all under the age of 18.
They demonstrated control of the mind over emotions, skillfully turning the deaths of their friends and teachers, and the threat to their own survival, into the cause of reducing violence in all American schools.
They generated an atmosphere of love, recognized by people present at the rally in Washington and those who watched it on TV. A unanimity of response to the speakers was visible in the sea of faces of all races and ages—a shared consciousness radiating joy, hope and love.
They projected a genuine sense of purpose and a long-term commitment to making fundamental change in the gun laws of the U.S. The energy generated on March 24th was immediately directed toward further demonstrations and upcoming elections.
They appear undaunted in their commitment despite personal threats and attacks by gun advocates. They are willing to sacrifice the comforts and protections of their teen-age lives to protect all children from gun violence. Some have said they are ready to sacrifice their lives.
The Mystery of Soul Impression
The modern wisdom teachings of the Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul, explain that the Spiritual Hierarchy works with awakened human beings to implement aspects of the divine plan through soul impression or spiritual telepathy. By this means, members of the spiritual kingdom contact human minds that are "oriented and disposed to react to soul impression." This is a way by which the Forces of Light can influence events in our world.
Witnessing the light flowing through these students, and their effect upon countless groups and individuals who have been standing for truth and justice, it seems inescapable that they are reacting to soul impression. This is what has eluded the comprehension of most observers. We are seeing the effects of a dimension of consciousness that is new in our collective human experience, but is destined to become prominent as the coming age unfolds.
An excerpt from a document received through spiritual impression, on February 28, 2018, offers insights into the evolutionary role of these teenagers.
The spectacle unfolding across the world is the forerunner of the return of the Light. In the U.S. you have the Forces of Light appearing in the guise of battalions led by young people. They are accomplishing what their elders have failed to do for two main reasons: (1) among them are numbers of highly evolved souls able to ignite the spark of the soul in their peers; and (2) they are unattached to the status quo and thus can act from pure motives. They are countering the fear of death with the spirit of life. This, too, is a breakthrough for the race among youth who can potentially bring great change.
The spiritual force unleashed by this new generation, the potential it holds for radical change, is in some ways reminiscent of satyagraha—'truth force.' That was the term coined by Gandhi for the non-violent movement he led to liberate India from the tyranny of its colonial occupiers—the movement by which his people gained independence from an occupying power. Now, in keeping with the plan of evolution, we may be seeing signs of a 'soul force' that can liberate humanity from the tyranny of the lower self, trapped in the destructive glamours of power and money. According to the Great Ones responsible for the evolutionary plan, this is how we will create a civilization unprecedented in human experience -- one that will be governed by the Soul for the good of all.
Nancy Seifer
* Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890 - 1998) was a journalist, prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction, advocate for women's and civil rights, and renowned pioneer of the environmental movement in America. In the last decades of her life, she shifted from writing about environmental destruction to becoming a crusader to protect the Florida Everglades. Curiously, the shift in her roles may have foreshadowed the change taking place in students of the school named after her, as they become crusaders for gun control.


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Q: Queueable class throws Uncommitted Work Pending error in one test, but not others I noticed yesterday that one of my new test cases was failing, and determined from the logs that I was getting the beloved System.CalloutException: You have uncommitted work pending. Please commit or rollback before calling out error. The exception was actually caught and only discovered after I added an assertion for an edge case - remember those System.assert() calls, kids!
The code runs fine in practice and makes the callout and subsequent future method call as expected. This appears to be limited to my test method. The strange thing is...I'm only getting the error in one of the two test methods that executes that code. The two test cases are more or less identical, and follow a pattern similar to this:
Test.startTest();
Test.setMock(HttpCalloutMock.class, new ThirdPartyAPICalloutMock());

RestContext.request = newRestRequest('/v1/someendpoint', 'POST', new Map<String, Object>({'param'=>'blah'}));
RestContext.response = new RestResponse();
ExposedRestAPI.doPOST();

Test.stopTest();    // this is where the Queueable class would be executed

// bunch of assertions to validate the results of both doPOST and the Queueable class

The ExposedRestAPI.doPOST() method is rather complex (although I doubt its implementation is the problem here), but for the purposes of this question it should suffice to say that it queues up the Queueable class in question:
System.enqueueJob(new StrangeQueueable(new StrangeQueueable.Config(rec.Id, false)));

The Queueable class has a structure similar to the following code. It makes a query and then calls another class to make a callout:
public without sharing class StrangeQueueable implements Queueable, Database.AllowsCallouts {

    public Config conf;

    public StrangeQueueable(Config conf) {
        this.conf = conf;
    }

    public void execute(QueueableContext context) {
        System.debug('StrangeQueueable logic');

        Stopwatch.start();
        API_Log__c log = new API_Log__c(Request_Body__c=JSON.serializePretty(conf));

        Some_Object__c rec;
        try {

            rec = [select Id, Custom_Field__c, Custom_Field_2__c, Etc__c from Some_Object__c where Id = :conf.recId];

            ThirdPartyObject cr = ThirdPartyAPI.doSomeStuff(rec);

        } catch ( Exception e ) {
            System.debug(LoggingLevel.ERROR, e);
            System.debug(LoggingLevel.ERROR, e.getStackTraceString());
            log.Has_Errors__c = true;
            log.Errors__c = e.getMessage() + '\n' + e.getStackTraceString();
        } finally {
            log.Resource_Path__c = 'StrangeQueueable.execute()';
            log.Request_URI__c = 'StrangeQueueable.execute('+conf.recId+')';
            log.Request_Method__c = 'ASYNC';
            log.Request_Duration__c = Stopwatch.getElapsedTime();
            log.Callout_Time__c = Stopwatch.getCalloutTime();
            log.Some_Object__c = (rec==null ? rec : rec.Id);
            Database.insert(log, false);
        }

        if ( conf.someFlag ) {
            // apparently we can't call another Queueable from a Queueable that makes a callout! this is madness!
            //System.enqueueJob(new AnotherQueueable(parama1, param2));
            callAnotherFutureMethod(param1, param2);
        }

    }

    @future(callout=true)
    public static void callAnotherFutureMethod(Id appId, Id clientId) {
        System.debug('callAnotherFutureMethod logic');

    }

    public class Config {
        Id recId;
        Boolean someFlag;
        public Config(Id recId, Boolean someFlag) {
            this.recId = recId;
            this.someFlag = someFlag;
        }
    }

}

The ThirdPartyAPI class makes a callout and I've confirmed it makes no DML statements prior to calling out (wouldn't be a very effective callout method if it did!)
Now the kicker...in the one test method, my Queueable fails with Uncommited Work Pending. The other not only runs to completion, but also executes the callAnotherFutureMethod future method (but not in any context where we can test the results...it seems that it runs after the test method has finished...I suppose it's just another oddity of testing async Apex).
Here's the failure:
USER_DEBUG|[24]|DEBUG|end of REST context
USER_DEBUG|[24]|DEBUG|queries        :  10 of 100 (10.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[33]|DEBUG|query rows     :  5 of 50000 (0.01%)
USER_DEBUG|[42]|DEBUG|DML operations :  9 of 150 (6.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[51]|DEBUG|DML rows       :  9 of 10000 (0.09%)
USER_DEBUG|[60]|DEBUG|callouts       :  0 of 100 (0.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[11]|DEBUG|StrangeQueueable logic          // Test.stopTest() would have been called here
SOQL_EXECUTE_BEGIN|[19]|Aggregations:0|SELECT Id, Some_other_fields__c FROM Some_Object__c WHERE Id = :tmpVar1
SOQL_EXECUTE_END|[19]|Rows:1
USER_DEBUG|[136]|DEBUG|generateRequestXML: <REQUEST_GROUP> ... </REQUEST_GROUP>
USER_DEBUG|[24]|DEBUG|some debug info to show no DML operations...
USER_DEBUG|[24]|DEBUG|queries        :  2 of 200 (1.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[33]|DEBUG|query rows     :  3 of 50000 (0.01%)
USER_DEBUG|[42]|DEBUG|DML operations :  0 of 150 (0.00%)        // no DML operations before callout
USER_DEBUG|[51]|DEBUG|DML rows       :  0 of 10000 (0.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[60]|DEBUG|callouts       :  0 of 100 (0.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[70]|DEBUG|ThirdPartyAPI request: System.HttpRequest[Endpoint=https://demo.somethirdparty.com/blah.aspx, Method=POST]
EXCEPTION_THROWN|[74]|System.CalloutException: You have uncommitted work pending. Please commit or rollback before calling out
USER_DEBUG|[41]|ERROR|System.CalloutException: You have uncommitted work pending. Please commit or rollback before calling out
USER_DEBUG|[42]|ERROR|Class.ThirdPartyAPI.sendRequest: line 74, column 1

And here's it running to completion:
USER_DEBUG|[24]|DEBUG|end of REST context
USER_DEBUG|[24]|DEBUG|queries        :  6 of 100 (6.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[33]|DEBUG|query rows     :  1 of 50000 (0.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[42]|DEBUG|DML operations :  7 of 150 (4.67%)
USER_DEBUG|[51]|DEBUG|DML rows       :  7 of 10000 (0.07%)
USER_DEBUG|[60]|DEBUG|callouts       :  0 of 100 (0.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[11]|DEBUG|StrangeQueueable logic          // Test.stopTest() would have been called here
SOQL_EXECUTE_BEGIN|[19]|Aggregations:0|SELECT Id, Some_other_fields__c FROM Some_Object__c WHERE Id = :tmpVar1
SOQL_EXECUTE_END|[19]|Rows:1
USER_DEBUG|[136]|DEBUG|generateRequestXML: <REQUEST_GROUP> ... </REQUEST_GROUP>
USER_DEBUG|[24]|DEBUG|some debug info to show no DML operations...
USER_DEBUG|[24]|DEBUG|queries        :  2 of 200 (1.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[33]|DEBUG|query rows     :  3 of 50000 (0.01%)
USER_DEBUG|[42]|DEBUG|DML operations :  0 of 150 (0.00%)        // no DML operations before callout
USER_DEBUG|[51]|DEBUG|DML rows       :  0 of 10000 (0.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[60]|DEBUG|callouts       :  0 of 100 (0.00%)
USER_DEBUG|[70]|DEBUG|ThirdPartyAPI request: System.HttpRequest[Endpoint=https://demo.somethirdparty.com/blah.aspx, Method=POST]
CALLOUT_REQUEST|[74]|System.HttpRequest[Endpoint=https://demo.somethirdparty.com/blah.aspx, Method=POST]
CALLOUT_RESPONSE|[74]|System.HttpResponse[Status=null, StatusCode=200]        // mocked callout went through as expected
USER_DEBUG|[78]|DEBUG|ThirdPartyAPI response: <RESPONSE_GROUP> ... </RESPONSE_GROUP>
SOQL_EXECUTE_BEGIN|[70]|Aggregations:0|SELECT Id, Blah__c FROM Some_Object__c WHERE Id = :tmpVar1
// a lot more log info from what happens next
// and later...the future method runs AFTER the test case has finished? weird.
CODE_UNIT_FINISHED|StrangeQueueable_Test.testInbound
CODE_UNIT_STARTED|[EXTERNAL]|01p630000005jdc|StrangeQueueable.callAnotherFutureMethod
USER_DEBUG|[65]|DEBUG|callAnotherFutureMethod logic

Anybody seen anything like this? For reference, all classes involved here are on API v36. I've also confirmed that I'm not calling Database.setSavepoint() anywhere in either test method.

A: Found a possible explaination here: Uncommitted work pending in unit test with trigger and queueable callout
Looks like queueing the job counts as a DML


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Top 10 Rarest Birds in the World
Our lives are persistently affected by these wonderful creatures, with over 10.000 different species of birds worldwide.
But as the human population grows, these helpless creatures that make our life wonderful are struggling to survive.
The majority of such threats come from excessive hunting, deforestation, pollution, and land transformation.
Nearly 13% of birds of the earth are on the brink of extinction.
As an awareness initiative here are the top 10 rarest birds in the world:
10. Philippine eagle
Location: Philippines- eastern Luzon, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao
Threats: Deforestation, mining, pollution, exposure to pesticides that affect breeding, and poaching.
Endemic to the Philippines and one of the largest and most severe eagles in the world, the Monkey eating Philippine eagle remains threatened to extinction due to human ignorance and deforestation.
The eagle is native to four main Filipino islands: Luzon east, Samar, Leyte, Mindanao.
The Philippine eagle is typically 86–102 cm long (2 ft 10 in–3 ft 4 in).
But a survey of several specimens from some of its largest collections of natural history concludes they used to be much bigger.
Mindanao is home to the largest number of eagles, with breeding pairs between 82 and 233.
9. Great Indian bustard
Location: India- Gujarat and Rajasthan
Threats: Shrinking habitat, climate change, industrialisation, mining, and intensive agricultural practices.
The Great Indian Bustard (GIB) is on the verge of being declared functionally extinct, now only 150 of its are remaining since 100 of them in 2011.
The GIB currently native to two Indian states, Rajasthan and Gujarat — the last surviving male sub-adult in Gujarat flew off last year, so the feeble presence of birds in Gujarat is about to collapse.
These birds have been living in there to the Thar Desert and the deserted grasslands for years.
Nevertheless, the government's lack of political will and development projects such as windmills and power lines have brought these avian species on the brink of extinction.
There have been no efforts to conserve the grassland – GIB's natural habitat – nor have efforts to control power transmission lines to prevent fatal accidents between birds and wire lines.
A major factor behind the decline of the bustard is flying into power transmission and windmills.
The Bustard faces a minuscule potential against the march of agriculture and development with one of the fastest mass extinctions in the world's history underway.
8. Christmas frigatebird
Location: Christmas Island, Australia.
Threats: Yellow crazy ants ( introduced accidentally by humans), hunting, getting trapped in fishing gear, habitat destruction for phosphate mining, and the ecological fallout from the phosphate dust.
The Christmas frigatebird is a large, light-built seabird, with brownish-black, long, narrow wings, and a deep bent tail.
It covers a wingspan of approximately 2.15 m (7.1 ft). to attract a mate The male has a striking red gular sac which it inflates and an egg-shaped white patch on its belly.
The female has a white breast and belly and sizewise is slightly larger than the male.
These frigatebirds can fly vast distances in search of food and are known for stealing the catch of other seabirds (kleptoparasitism).
This bird can remain in the air more than a week at a time so that it has a wide range of food.
It spends much time at sea, plucking calves squid fish at the vicinity of the water surface.
7. Bali myna
Location: Bali Barat National Park, Indonesia.
Threats: In the cage bird trade, the beauty of birds attracts many people. There is an economically successful bird market in Denpasar, the capital of Bali. The cages are crammed into thousands of different species of birds and sold at one or two dollars each. A Bali myna is considered a status symbol for a private collection, therefore poachers are encouraged to keep capturing these endangered birds species encouraging illegal animal trade.
The Bali myna is the lovely snow-white bird with black tips and striking sky-blue skin patch surrounding its eyes.
It is probably because of its beauty that this bird depiction is used in the cultural art of the Indonesian Island of Bali.
In a small area of Bali, an island less than Rhode Island, you find the Bali myna or Bali starling.
Even if they are found only in a small part of the world, they seem to have all they need to prosper, the Bali mynas, also known as Bali starlings.
It's fascinating to note that in Indonesia this bird can be found elsewhere but some Jalak Bali has been discovered in Lombok once.
Unfortunately, there is not a single bird of Bali Myna in its indigenous place of origin. Less than 100 Jalak Bali have left the wild to date, elsewhere.
6. Blue-eyed ground dove
Location: Cerrado region of Brazil
Threats: Deforestation of Amazons.
The Blue-eyed Ground-Dove was considered to be extinct hardly five years ago.
Some wildlife researchers found 12 individuals in the wild after 75 years without a confirmed sighting.
In Brazil, a country where many rare species survive, the Blue-eyed Ground-Dove is one of the rare birds with a confirmed population of sixteen individuals in wild.
Named after its bright blue eyes, this small dove has the spots on its wings and the rest of its rich tawny and rufous plumage.
The ornithologist Rafael Bessa found that the species was extinct until 2015, making a discovery of a lifetime.
5. Kakapo
Location: wetter parts of the South Island, New Zealand
Threats: There is an existential threat in the form of a lethal fungal infection. The fungus has already jeopardized a fifth of its species.
The kakapo is the only parrot in the world that can not fly and is large, plump, and nocturnal in appearance.
There are only 211 remaining in the wild, only confined to four small islands on New Zealand's coast.
Poetic and incredible for Kakapo, that might go extinct in the coming days.
The flightless bird is the heaviest parrot in the world, is known as the owl parrot.
Humans introduced mammals into their habitat, bringing it to the brink of extinction as low as 50 birds in the wild in the 90s.
It was common in New Zealand forests before people arrived.
Intensive intervention in all stages of its life led to an increase in the transfer of the whole population into predator-free islands.
4. California condor
Location: California, Arizona, southern Utah and Baja California, Mexico.
Threats: Habitat loss (housing developments and oil and gas drilling), poison ingestion (most notably by lead poison from hunters' bullets left in carcasses).
California Condor is the biggest bird in North America, spectacular but endangered.
These excellent gliders travel extensively to feed deer, pigs, cattle, sea lions, whale, and other animals.
Their massive black wings, extraordinary foresight, inquisitive and wise intelligence make this bird extremely alluring.
Thousands of California Condors once lived in the wild across the west of the USA and in Mexico.
When people settled on the west, the condors were often killed, poisoned, taken, and disturbed.
Their eggs were stolen by other animals or humans, and their natural food supply of antelope, elks, and other big wild animals was reduced.
In the end, condors in most places could not survive anymore.
By the late 1900s, the rest of the population fed on dead animals, sheep, and deers, and were restricted to the mountains in southern California.
In the 1980s, there were only 22 birds, but in California, Arizona, and Baja California, there are now some 230 free-flying birds, and another 160 are captive.
The poisoning of plum remains a serious long-term threat.
3. New Caledonian owlet-nightjar
Location: New Caledonia's Melaleuca savanna and humid forests.
Threats: Deforestation and extremely low breeding rate.
A type of bird, with swift and goatsuckers, the New Caledonian owlet-nightjar has a vermicular gray-brown and black plumage.
The tail is long and slightly round, short, round, and stiff legs. Its voice is unknown, but birds like that make sounds of whistling and churring.
According to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the New Caledonian Owlet Nightjar is facing an extremely high risk of extinction.
Researchers thought the population before to be extinct.
In 1880, when a single specimen, one bird of the species, was collected it was identified as the New Caledonian Owlet Nightjar.
The New Caledonian owlet-nightjar was declared extinct and there were no other birds seen.
The species was not extinct, however. In 1998 there was a new Caledonian owlet-nightjar, and the condition has changed.
Only 1 sighting, 3 reports and two specimens held in Liverpool and Italy museums are known.
2. Giant ibis
Location: Yok Đôn National Park, Vietnam
Threats: Destruction of habitats, hunting, and human turmoil. Deforestation and drainage by agricultural watersheds decrease the amount of wetlands that can be lived and breeded by these waterbirds. Unlawful hunting and harvesting also threaten the survival and breeding of these rare birds. Giant Ibis often lives and travels a few kilometers away from the villages in wetlands because of their sensitivity to the population.
Although the bird of Cambodia may be critically endangered, efforts to bring the bird back from the point of extinction are underway.
The Giant Ibis is an enormous, striking ibis that is unique in being the most important member of its family and the only member of its genus.
This decrease is unfortunately expected to continue unless significant and successful conservation efforts are used.
Only about 200 mature individual Giant Ibis, or about 300 adults and young birds are estimated alive. In Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, ibises are mainly found now.
1. Madagascan pochard
Location: Inland wetlands in Madagascar
Threats: Introduction of numerous fish species by humans in the wetlands that killed most of the species' chicks and damaged nesting sites.
This tiny brown duck with a brownish sand color is called 'The Madagascar pochard.'
And It also couldn't end up in Madagascar, the film.
But if you look closer, you will see that this poachard is a lovely bird, elegant, with a beady eye. It also is the rarest duck in the world.
Very rare duck thought to have extincted in a distant location in northern Madagascar before it could be rediscovered in 2006.
This last population of ducks was removed and struggled to survive from their natural habitat.
The depth and temperature of this crater lake meant that the young could not feed and survive when used for finding food in shallower, marshy habitats.
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"Lyrics for the heart - Music for the soul"
Grethe is a multi-artist with a passion for music and the creative process. Her current project "Get Her" sees her joining forces with musician Ian Riley.
She has collaborated with numerous wonderful artists throughout the years and is known for writing beautiful melodies with catchy hooks.


In recent years, life expectancy has gone up considerably: we live longer and better lives. This is clearly positive. However, it also means that health problems that previously didn't happen have started appearing.
One of these problems is dementia. The passage of time entails, in some cases, cognitive deterioration. It makes it difficult to live alone and do everyday tasks.
In fact, illnesses like dementia are the main cause of dependency in developed countries. So, how does this situation affect the family?
All families have conflict in their day-to-day lives. Usually, these conflicts are solved, for better or worse, depending on the problem-solving abilities of each family member. But when one member of the family suffers from dementia, arguments and tension may increase.
This is true because dementia involves numerous stressors that did not exist previously. First, there is often a lack of information about the disease. In addition, it's hard to tell how the disease will progress. This creates uncertainty in the family.
On the other had, caring for someone with dementia can be expensive. Especially since it may require hiring help, paying for membership at a day center, or placing them in a residence for the elderly.
Conflicts may arise because one family is requiring so many resources and time that there's none left when other family members need help.
Finally, disagreements often come up about how to care for the person with dementia. Not only that, some may also perceive that the right decisions aren't being made, that they're being made out of selfishness rather than the best interests of the patient.
Why do these conflicts stick around?
Now that we know the sources of conflict, we need to understand why they go unsolved. Then we can learn how to solve them. Communication problems are the main thing preventing members of the family from finding an alternative that satisfies everyone.
This blockage of communication often causes some some of them to have trouble expressing how they feel and what they think about dementia. They're afraid to ask for help, and this can lead to arguments.
And then, children or other family members may have had problems in the past with the person who is now sick. This can create guilt and cause some family members to react more aggressively than others.
Finally, children may end up competing to prove that they're the best caregiver.
What can we do to resolve conflicts?
When a family member has dementia, it's going to create a complex situation for the entire family. However, it's possible to minimize conflicts.
To do so, it's important to modify all the harmful dynamics in the process of caring for someone with dementia.
It's vital to work on communication. Being able to express our emotions and opinions in relation to the disease will help resolve quarrels.
Furthermore, we should remember that a family who communicates and is cohesive will be better able to support each other.
In addition, being flexible to the changing roles and routines when caring for a loved one with dementia means greater support.
Finally, we have to learn to make decisions in a focused manner. All of this will help the family adapt to dementia much better and minimize the suffering this terrible disease causes.


Jomo Cosmos will be targeting a quarter-final slot in the Nedbank Cup when they host PSL log leaders, BidVest Wits in a potentially explosive Round of 16 tie slated for next month.
In the Second Round draw held at SuperSport headquarters in Randburg Thursday night, Ezenkosi were paired against the Clever Boys in what could be a turning point for Jomo Sono's promotion-chasing outfit.
To reach this stage of the money-spinning tournament, Cosmos easily dispatched Castle League upstarts, United Rovers 3-0, while Wits eliminated Cape Town All-Stars 2-0.
In other Round of 16 fixtures decided on the night, Kaizer Chiefs drew giant-killers Acornbush United, while Orlando Pirates must travel to Free State Stars for a repeat of last season's semifinal.
Mamelodi Sundowns are at home to Lamontville Golden Arrows, while defending champions SuperSport travel to another giant-killing side, KwaDukuza United.
Other Last 16 games see Chippa United host Polokwane City, Bloemfontein Celtic entertain National First Division side Mbombela United, and Baroka FC host Platinum Stars.
The matches will be played between April 5-9, with the exact dates, times and venues to be announced by the Premier Soccer League in due course.


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Q: MySQL Creating Tables from ER Diagram I am working on creating a database from an ER diagram however I don't think some of my primary and foreign keys are correct. The tables that I don't think they are correct in is the primary key in section and the FK and PK in enrolled table. I also don't think I am properly enforcing my FK constraints so that I can detect referential integrity violations.
Here is the ER Diagram I am basing my database off of.

Here are the tables that I have made
CREATE TABLE Student
(
    StudentId INTEGER,
    FName VARCHAR(20),
    LName VARCHAR(20),
    DOB CHAR(10),
    Major VARCHAR(20),
    PRIMARY KEY(StudentId)
);

CREATE TABLE Phone
(
    sID INTEGER,
    Pnumber CHAR(20),
    Type CHAR(3),
    PRIMARY KEY(Pnumber)
);

CREATE TABLE Class
(
    ClassId VARCHAR(6),
    Description VARCHAR(30),
    NumCredits Integer,
    Prereq VARCHAR(20),
    PRIMARY KEY(ClassId)
);

CREATE TABLE Section
(
    ClassId VARCHAR(6),
    SecNo CHAR(10),
    Semester CHAR(4),
    ClassRoom VARCHAR(6),
    TimeOffered VARCHAR(18),
    PRIMARY KEY(SecNo),
    FOREIGN KEY(ClassId) REFERENCES Class(ClassId)
);

CREATE TABLE Enrolled
(
    StudentId INTEGER,
    SecNum VARCHAR(40),
    ClassId VARCHAR(8),
    Semes VARCHAR(6),
    GorDD VARCHAR(30)
    FOREIGN KEY(ClassId) REFERENCES Section(ClassId),
    FOREIGN KEY(StudentId) REFERENCES Student(StudentId)
);

CREATE TABLE Professor
(
    EmpId INTEGER,
    FName VARCHAR(10),
    LName VARCHAR(10),
    Dept VARCHAR(2),
    QualClass VARCHAR(40),
    PRIMARY KEY (EmpId)
);

CREATE TABLE Teaches
(
    Class VARCHAR(5),
    Section INTEGER,
    Semester CHAR(4),
    EmpId INTEGER,
    FOREIGN KEY (EmpId) REFERENCES Professor(EmpId)
);

CREATE TABLE Qualified
(
    EmpId INTEGER,
    ClassId VARCHAR(5)
);

Thank you for the help in understanding how to create a DB from an ER diagram.

A: You really should have a simple, standardized, AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY for every table. That makes referring to specific records a lot easier. It's also better to refer to tables by their primary key only when building relationships. String primary keys can be trouble, especially if those strings can change.
Additionally, your arbitrary limitations on string lengths is extremely annoying. Who are you to say people should only have names twenty characters long, or professors can have names only ten long? That's really sloppy. Unless you've got a very good reason, leave it wide open for these sorts of free-form fields, default VARCHAR(255). Hard drives are measured in terabytes today and you'd need to have a hundred million students to fill up your drive with name data.
Otherwise, as a database this is okay. I'd probably discard this schema entirely and rebuild from your entity diagram, a great tool to have by the way, using the conventions of whatever development framework I was using. For example, Ruby on Rails, Django, Drupal, and Tapestry will all have their own ideas on how to name tables.

A: After a quick look, it looks to me like you would want to have a compound primary key for Section made up of ClassId, SecNo, and Semester assuming those three attributes make up the uniqueness scope for the entity of Section. You could also just have a SectionID that is unique (such as an auto-incrementing int)
For Enrolled, I would make an auto-incremented primary key and have a foreign key that links to the Section table depending on how you solve that entity/table's uniqueness.
Hope this helps. Of course, there are many ways to go about this.

A: It is usually more useful and more practical to use primary keys specific to the database domain because in real life most entities don't have truly unchanging and unique keys perfectly suited for primary keys.
For example, data entry errors may necessitate the change of a student ID in the database. If you use a property that ends up changing then you'll have to create (effectively) a new student for every change in primary key(StudentId).
The alternative solutions:

*

*Use an automatic key in the database and make the StudentId unique but not primary.

*Use a StudentId as the primary key and have it be auto updated every
time it changes in the parent table.

I don't recommend the second option because it is just a workaround the old problem.


Tulum, Mexico, Fly Fishing Day Trip Charters to Ascension Bay and Boca Paila. We provide full day trips from Tulum or from Punta Allen. We can pick you up by skiff from Tulum and you can fish Permit Alley and El Rio, or you can drive to Punta Allen and fish Ascension Bay proper. Either trip includes all licenses and taxes, a full lunch for two, and a cooler full of ice and bottled water.
Total cost is $550US total for one or two anglers max. If you will not have a rental car, we can arrange roundtrip transportation to the dock from most locations in Tulum for $100US.


Mackerel is a fish of the same family as tuna. But it is way less expansive (only 6 euro for 1 kg), it is very rich in omega 3, and absolutely delicious.
The first time I bought it I was very scared by the smell, which seemed too strong for me! But believed me, once cooked it tastes very good.
When it's time for dinner, put a no-stick pan on a high heat to get really hot.
In the meantime chop some parsley together with 1 clove of garlic, very finely.
Put the parsley-garlic all over the fish, sprinkle some chilly flakes and salt to taste.
Put the fish skin-side down on the hot pan and cook until the skin is crunchy and the fish is cooked.
I served with cabbage and fennel salad.
salt, lemon, black pepper and olive oil to taste!


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Military Record of Castleisland
It was inevitable that Michael O'Donohoe, son of Castleisland Garda, Matt, and a former resident of Barrack Lane, should take an interest in the military history of the town.
The collection holds material on the general development of law and order in the Castleisland district including notes on the barracks, bridewell and courthouse and notes relating to social control for the period 1680 – 'It was felt that a company of troops quartered in Castleisland would benefit the town and keep control over the local rebels or tories' – to 1843, 'No yeomanry corps in Castleisland'.
There is also record of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) including the resignation, on 18 April 1887, of thirteen RIC constables stationed in and near Castleisland who opposed the new Criminal Law and Procedure Bill.
Emblems of the constabularly
Their action was applauded by Daniel Crilly, MP for North Mayo, during an open-air demonstration held at the Crown Hotel.
Patrick McDonagh, Skreen, Co Sligo
One of the resigning constables, Patrick McDonagh, addressed the crowd and said that if he was 'forced to go hewing timber in the wilds of Manitoba or coal picking in the mines of Pennsylvania' his mind would at least be undisturbed by the thought he had done injury to 'the poor widow and orphans who would be left homeless'.
Patrick McDonagh did not make it to the coal mines or, like his colleagues, to a clothing house. The New York press recorded how:
The twelve Irish ex-constables from Castleisland, county Kerry who were engaged at fifteen dollars a week each for six months by a Bowery clothing house entered upon their duties this morning. The thirteenth became insane shortly after leaving the other side and had to be put in a strait-jacket on board. He is now in the asylum on Ward's Island. His name is Patrick M'Donogh and conversation with his comrades today, developed a romance as the cause of his mental trouble. M'Donogh it appears fell in love with a maid who was in a convent near the barracks at Castleisland. It broke his heart to leave her and made him a maniac at sea.1
A maid from the Castleisland Convent broke McDonagh's heart
Information on RIC officers can be garnered from Michael O'Donohoe's register of the children of constabulary officers compiled from school registers, with index. The material can be accessed below.
IE MOD-63-63.1
Ten page register with index of children of RIC men extracted from roll books. Information organised into columns by Surname (Anderson to Williams), Name, Enrolled Convent, Off Rolls, Enrolled Boys, Off Rolls, Father & Occupation
Three page document entitled 'Yeomanry and Constabulary' contains chronologically organised notes assembled from a number of sources relating to law enforcement for the period 1680 – 'It was felt that a company of troops quartered in Castleisland would benefit the town and keep control over the local rebels or tories' – to 1843, 'No yeomanry corps in Castleisland'
Four pages of notes on the constabulary, bridewell and courthouse in the Castleisland district for the period 1798 to 1930s
1 IE MOD/63 & IE MOD/64.  Kerry Evening Post, 1 June 1887.  Patrick, son of J McDonagh of Skreen, Co Sligo, later returned to Ireland: 'He improved very much on the homeward voyage and is quite as rational as ever and expresses his intention of joining his companions in spring.  The twelve other ex-policemen are still in the large clothing warehouse in New York in which they first found employment.'
Filed Under: 1800 - 1849, 1850 - 1899, Law, People, Places


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Stankovic has faith in Benitez
19th November 2010 Eurotips
Serbian midfielder Dejan Stankovic has defended his Inter Coach Rafa Benitez who has come under increasing scrutiny of late following the team's poor performances. Now the veteran Stankovic has shown faith and belief in Benitez and urged his team-mates to prove the doubters wrong.
"Benitez is the right man for Inter. We have great people working at this club and if they have chosen him, then it wasn't by chance" , the Serb told Inter Channel. He insisted that the team was aware of the bad phase it was going through and were eagerly waiting to get back on track.
"Each of us gives everything out there on the field. If the results start going against us, people think that we lack desire, motivation and hunger to win". 'The Dragon' stated that the criticism of the team makes them want to react stronger: "As the days go by, the desire to prove these claims wrong becomes even stronger. And I think now we are hungrier than last season".
Inter may be six points off the pace in Serie A and behind leaders and city rivals Milan but Stankovic is not worried yet: "As they say in Italy, all that counts is what you have at the end. Now we have an important month ahead of us to close this year that will forever be remembered in the history of Inter".
Having played at the top level for nearly 15 years now, 'Stanko' assures fans that ups and downs are a part of the game: "Certain things happen, even in football as in life there are highs and lows. The most important thing however is to be ready to react".
Stankovic and his team-mates will travel to Chievo this Sunday afternoon hoping to get a positive result after having drawn two and lost one of their last three games.
Bologna receive referral for unpaid wages
Brescia's Diamanti wanted by Wolfsburg


With the iBook in the shop and plenty of field trips, I've not been reading the papers (ST online), not read my RSS feeds, not updated my blogs much, have let my email replies lag (about 100 unread), not corrected erroneously-marked spam nor watched the news.
I'll catch up on round 2 of the NKF saga on the 26th, with a weeks worth of papers, hopefully.
In the meantime, the empty office is filling up, there are deadlines to meet for a few articles and Habitatnews posts, claims in the tune of $4,000, planning, presentations, and syllabus to write and prepere.
Bad time for the iBook to be in the shop - the LCD screen on this refurbished 1GHz iBook that Apple gave me last December went kaput on 4th December and will cost about $800 to repair.


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"andrew birkin"
Andrew Birkin is a writer and film director. He won the Royal Television Society's award for "The Lost Boys," his trilogy of films based on his biography of J. M. Barrie. Later he won a BAFTA award for "Sredni Vashtar" as well as an Oscar nomination, and in 1993 won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for "The Cement Garden."


While previous decades have witnessed impressive accomplishments in the design and realization of conventional computing devices, physical boundaries and cost restrictions led to an increasing interest in alternative technologies (often referred to as Beyond CMOS or More than Moore technologies). In addition, these accomplishments also triggered many "complementary" applications and led to technologies providing an additional value to the conventional logic (often referred to as More than Moore). This led to a variety of emerging technologies such as Quantum Computation, Optical Circuits, or Microfluidic Biochips out of which many are considered very promising and some even entered the market recently. This poses new challenges to researchers and engineers working in computer-aided design. In this tutorial paper, we provide an overview on the main concepts of selected emerging technologies as well as the resulting design methods. To this end, we review the respective technological background and introduce the correspondingly used circuit models. Based on that, we show how computer-aided design has to adapt the common design tasks and review recently proposed solutions.


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Q: App shows black image on Image View instead of actual image at runtime The ImageView fills with black color after setting an image.
I'm setting image with this line
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    Root = findViewById(R.id.Iv);

    sensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(Service.SENSOR_SERVICE);
    Proximity = sensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_PROXIMITY);

    //Root.setBackgroundColor(Color.MAGENTA);
   Root.setImageResource(R.drawable.a);
}

Please Help!

A: Please try with this
  Context mContext = this;
  Root.setImageDrawable(mContext.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.a));

A: As mobile screen comes with different sizes, so may be your image resolution is high or not compatible to the width & height of ImageView. Try to decrease the size of image so that it loads on Runtime also.