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U.S. #1180 honors the Battle of Gettysburg. The stamp image is the result of the first nationwide contest sponsored by the Post Office Department inviting professional artists to design a U.S. postage stamp. Pictured are a Confederate soldier on a gray background and Union soldier on a blue background.
Lincoln Delivers Famed Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his eloquent Gettysburg Address.
In early July 1863, General Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces plowed northward, aiming to force Union politicians to end the war. Upon reaching Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, they met the Union Army of over 93,000 soldiers against their almost 72,000. A bloody three-day fight ensued, resulting in the largest number of casualties in single battle throughout the entire war (about 23,000 killed, wounded, captured, or missing on both sides).
Soon after the battle, the people of Gettysburg sought a dignified and orderly way to bury the more than 7,500 soldiers' bodies remaining on the battlefield. David Wills, a wealthy attorney, purchased the land needed for the cemetery that would be further funded by the states.
On November 19, 1863, the Soldiers' National Cemetery (later named the Gettysburg National Cemetery) held its dedication ceremony. The main speaker was Edward Everett, who held the crowd's attention throughout his two-hour oration. Then Abraham Lincoln stood up to say "a few appropriate remarks," as requested by the cemetery committee.
Soldier and lawyer E.W. Andrews was present that day, and remembered, "On this occasion [Lincoln] came out before the vast assembly, and stepped slowly to the front of the platform, with his hands clasped before him, his natural sadness of expression deepened, his head bent forward, and his eyes cast to the ground.
"In this attitude he stood for a few seconds, silent, as if communing with his own thoughts; and when he began to speak, and throughout his entire address, his manner indicated no consciousness of the presence of tens of thousands hanging on his lips, but rather of one who, like the prophet of old, was overmastered by some unseen spirit of the scene, and passively gave utterance to the memories, the feelings, the counsels and the prophecies with which he was inspired.
"…There was such evidence of wisdom and purity and benevolence and moral grandeur, higher and beyond the reach of ordinary men, that the great assembly listened almost awe-struck as to a voice from the divine oracle."
At the time, the President's main concern was maintaining the support of the Union in the war effort. His two-minute speech captivated the crowd of about 15,000.
Lincoln reminded listeners of the nation's past, acknowledged the present struggle to preserve the Union, and gave hope for the future. His opening, "Four score and seven years ago," referred to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which stated the equality of all men, and their inalienable rights.
Lincoln honored the soldiers who "here gave their lives that the nation might live," and encouraged those who remained to be "dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced." He looked to the future when the nation would have "a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
The speech was met with silence, which Lincoln interpreted as failure. To the contrary, the audience was in awe at the words he had spoken. President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has since become one of the most famous speeches in America's history.
Click here to read the full text of the Gettysburg Address.
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AmdocsONE's open, modular and integrated solution set introduces rich set of capabilities built on cloud-native, microservices and machine learning technologies, and delivered with DevOps practices to alter the economics of the industry
Barcelona ⎯ Feb 26, 2017 ⎯ Today, at Mobile World Congress, Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, announced the launch of AmdocsONE, an enabler of business-led DevOps deployments of cloud-native and microservices capabilities. The new solution set leverages industry-specific best practices and methodologies from serving over 350 customers worldwide to give service providers of all sizes the business agility to successfully navigate the continuous digital transformation process.
"AmdocsONE is a new way of doing business, a new speed of innovation, running on new technologies and practices," said Gary Miles, chief marketing officer at Amdocs. "AmdocsONE is designed to meet the challenges of our customers who are transforming into digital service providers within the framework of a hybrid IT environment, which requires them to rapidly introduce new cloud-native applications while still operating legacy systems. With AmdocsONE's modular structure, our customers now have the flexibility to choose compelling business offerings and realize value fast."
As opposed to the software implementation and upgrade projects typically performed today, which are both time and cost-intensive, AmdocsONE's low-risk approach delivers a series of short, business-defined projects with predictable cost and scope, delivering superior business value. Being open and modular, AmdocsONE provides service providers with the flexibility to choose which modules they want, when they want to introduce them, with Amdocs building the bridge between these new modules and their legacy systems.
Furthermore, AmdocsONE microservices-based architecture enables the rapid deployment of complex applications as suites of independently deployable services that can be frequently upgraded. In addition, AmdocsONE targets zero-touch operations through continuous enhancements via DevOps and machine learning driven business process automation. As a result, service providers are freed to focus on business needs, such as launching new services and enhancements in shorter intervals, increasing monetization and delivering a superior customer experience.
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For NAMM 2019, IK is proud to introduce a series of new products that go beyond our trailblazing mobile music innovations and enter into new areas of professional audio—expanding the musical horizons of our users.
In 2017, iLoud Micro Monitor established a new standard of sonic excellence for small-format reference monitors, and in 2018, UNO Synth took the analog synthesizer world by storm. In 2019, we'll introduce even more new products that use IK's design DNA to improve the way you make music. For musicians, producers and engineers, IK strives to help you take your craft to a whole new level, combining the technology and know-how we've amassed in over twenty years of software and hardware development—along with maintaining our track record of smart design ideas and quality Italian manufacturing.
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Measuring the Greats on Prime Performance
November 11, 1986 /in Articles.1986-BRJ15 /by admin
This article was written by Terrence L. Huge
This article was published in the 1986 Baseball Research Journal
Based on a ten-year span, Cobb batted .387, Ruth averaged 46 home runs and Gehrig had 152 RBIs per season, while Johnson boasted a 1.59 ERA and Grove notched a .724 winning percentage.
A game, a season and a career are baseball's traditional statistical time slices. For purposeful, analytical and definitive studies, all three of these perspectives are often inadequate and misleading.
A game as a time frame obviously is hardly valid for serious comparisons. A season as a unit provides a larger sample, but there have been many instances of meteoric but totally atypical single-season performances. Mark Fidrych stands out as a good example. He compiled a 19-9 record and a league-leading 2.34 ERA in his rookie year (1976) and then quickly faded. Generally speaking, a player's career statistics represent a more optimal capsule, yet even career totals can be deceiving for several reasons, including: 1) A few of the greats voted into the Hall of Fame played only ten to 12 years in the majors (Addie Joss, in fact, pitched just nine seasons) whereas others played as many as 20 to 25 years, and 2) some players fared dismally in their early seasons before going on to greatness.
It would therefore seem to follow, that a time-span standard greater than one season, yet not necessarily embracing an entire career, would serve as a superior statistical perspective. The ten seasons of major league experience required for Hall of Fame eligibility could be regarded as an equitable compromise, and almost certainly all would agree that a stretch of ten consecutive seasons could be considered a player's "prime."
Using a ten-year period of a player's career also is convenient from a statistical viewpoint. For instance, the greatest base-hit collector in baseball history, Pete Rose, enjoyed his most productive ten-year span from 1968 through 1977 with 2,067 hits, which rounds off to 207 per season.
Who are the all-time leaders when only the ten-year "primes" are considered? As one might expect, the legendary Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Rogers Hornsby dominate batting honors. Cobb averaged an unbelievable .387 at the plate over a ten-year stretch (1910-1919), while Ruth enjoyed a ten-season pace of slightly better than 46 home runs. Gehrig averaged a bit over 152 RBIs and 141 runs scored per season, and Hornsby had a ten-year pace of 208½ hits.
With the exception of Ten Williams, the ten leaders in batting average are all pre-World War II performers. The only current player with a chance of adding his name to the list is another Red Sox star, Wade Boggs, who owns a robust .352 average for his first five seasons.
Several current-day players are included in the Top Ten batting tables. Rose ranks fourth in hits over a ten-year period, and Mike Schmidt is ninth on the home-run list. Even though 1986 was only Rickey Henderson's eighth season in the majors, he already had stolen enough bases (660) to gain second place and trail leader Lou Brock by only ten.
The tables devoted to "prime" pitching accomplishments, which are limited to twentieth-century hurlers with at least 100 victories in each prime span, exhibit a notable blend of vintage and recent stars, at least in winning percentage, strikeouts and shutouts.
With the Yankees being the winningest team in this century, it is not surprising that three of the top ten pitchers in "prime" winning percentage wore the New York pinstripes – Spud Chandler, Whitey Ford and Ron Guidry. However, even they had to take a back seat to the respective .724 and .718 winning percentages posted by Lefty Grove and Christy Mathewson.
Nolan Ryan truly dominates in strikeouts, averaging nearly 276 per season in his prime. His nearest rival, Tom Seaver, has a 238-whiff average, while Steve Carlton, No. 2 in career strikeouts behind Ryan, has to settle for ninth on the prime-time list.
In shutouts the two leaders, Walter Johnson and Grover Alexander, are separated by only one (78 to 77) over their best ten-year spans. Jim Palmer is the highest-ranking among recent pitchers and stands tied for sixth on the list with 50.
Pitchers from the pre-1920 "dead ball" era occupy all ten places in earned-run average. Walter Johnson easily tops the list with 1.59 as compared to 1.75 for runner-up Ed Walsh.
Interestingly, the ten-year "prime" of a player's career, based on the ages of the players shown in the accompanying tables, appears to be from age 24 through 33, give or take a year or two. The midpoint of the player's prime is approximately age 28 or 29. This, of course, can be a useful fact to both players and management at salary-negotiating time.
Terrence L. Huge has computer programs (written in BASIC) which quickly and accurately scan a player's career to determine the prime performance in various statistical categories. These may be obtained by SABR members at no charge by writing Huge at: Cincinnati Technical College, 3520 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45223.
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The Last Days of American Crime takes place in the not-too-distant future, where the U.S. government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts as a final response to terrorism and crime. To keep this from the public, the government creates a distraction, installing a new currency system using digital charge cards. Graham Bricke, a career criminal never quite able to hit the big score, intends to steal one of the charging stations, skip the country and live off unlimited funds for the rest of his life. But the media has leaked news of the anti-crime signal one week before it was to go live… and now Graham and his team have just a few days to turn the heist of the century into the last crime in American history.
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Speaking at the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore's property market update seminar, its President suggested that the new property cooling measures introduced by the Government could worsen the high supply situation of private residential units in Singapore.
On 6 July, the government acted to cool the residential property market. Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) rates were raised for some categories of residential property purchases, and the Loan-to-Value (LTV) limits on residential property purchases were lowered.
The Association's President, Mr Augustine Tan, noted that property market sentiments were altered and the enthusiasm which was trending upwards was curbed after the Government announced the property cooling measures.
Besides cooling demand from investors and foreigners, the new property cooling measures have also raised the cost of home ownership for locals, said Mr Tan. Locals buying a second home will now pay ABSD of 12 per cent instead of 7 per cent previously, and 15 per cent for their third and subsequent properties.
Barely one hour after the Government announced the new property cooling measures, home-buyers thronged several developers' hastily launched property sales. Thousands continued to swarm the show-suites at launches like Park Colonial show suites and Riverfront Residences well past midnight to put down an option fee for units of their choice before the deadline.
"The market is barely into its first year of recovery and has not been allowed time to find its own course and reach a sustained supply-demand equilibrium," said Mr Tan told the 260 participants, who included developers and property consultants.
The developer's group noted in their statement that market started to pick up only last year and the volume of transactions is within expectations and said that the market should be allowed time to find its own course.
The new property curbs were rolled out a day after the Singapore's central bank noted "euphoria" in the market. The new property curbs affected the Straits Times Index which dropped 2 per cent on Friday as property developers and banks led declines.
The rising prices in Singapore were not driven because of strong demand-and-supply, but because of strong property market sentiments. The Government announced the new property curbs fearing the record land bids and redevelopment deals threatened to undo previous restrictions which prevented a property market bubble from forming here.
It justified the new property curbs as being necessary to check sharp increase in prices, which could run ahead of economic fundamentals and raise the risk of a destabilising correction later, especially with rising interest rates and the strong pipeline of housing supply.
Besides leading developers, banks are also expected to be impacted by the Government's new property curbs. But as property market is but one source of banks' revenue, it will not derail them.
Paul Ho, chief mortgage consultant at the icompareloan.com, said that the unpredictable nature of if a bank loan would be approved after the announcement of the new property curbs is one major reason why buyers must use the services of mortgage consultants.


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DrAbdul-MajeedSalmasi
Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
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Central Middlesex HospitalCentral Middlesex Hospital
Dr Salmasi is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, and the Clinical Lead of the Second Clinical Attachment at the Imperial College London. He is a Consultant Cardiologist at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals NHS Trust
In 1979 he obtained his Ph.D. in Medicine from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School (currently Imperial College London) and continued his training in cardiology at St. Mary's Hospital, London. His interest in echocardiography and Doppler ultrasound dates back to 1980. In 1982 he published the first report on the use of Doppler ultrasound during exercise to characterise left ventricular function. Together with Professor Merril Spencer of Seattle, he was the co-founder of the International Cardiac Doppler Society in 1983 and became its first vice-president. He has edited four postgraduate text books in Cardiology and till now published 52 original articles in the cardiovascular field. He also published a few original articles on the usefulness of isometric exercise to study diastolic left ventricular function in patients with coronary artery disease, diabetics and hyperlipidaemics.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the British Hypertension Society and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health at the Royal College of Physicians of London.
His main research interest is left ventricular hypertrophy and the relation between hypertension and glucose intolerance, arterial pulse velocity and compliance, atrial fibrillation and cardiovascular changes in auto-immune diseases.
Zargaran D, Hardwick S, Adel R, et al.Zargaran D, Hardwick S, Adel R, Hill G, Stubbins D, Salmasi AM close, 2015, Sphygmomanometer Cuffs, Angiology, Vol:66, ISSN:0003-3197, Pages:118-121
Salmasi A-M, Salmasi H, Rawlins S, et al.Salmasi A-M, Salmasi H, Rawlins S, Baakil M, Dancy M close, 2010, Atrial Septal Aneurysm and Patent Foramen Ovale Are Less Prevalent in the Indo-Asian Than in the Caucasian or Afro-Caribbean Population, Angiology, Vol:61, ISSN:0003-3197, Pages:205-210
Salmasi A-M, Iskandrian A, 2012, Cardiac Output and Regional Flow in Health and Disease, Springer Science & Business Media, ISBN:9789401118484
Salmasi A-M, Nicolaides AN, 2012, Occult Atherosclerotic Disease Diagnosis, Assessment and Management, Springer Science & Business Media, ISBN:9789401134040
Salmasi A-M, Strano A, 2012, Angiology in Practice, Springer Science & Business Media, ISBN:9789401154062
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AI Uncovered: Part 1 - What Is AI?
Dr. Valerio Tenace
Being one of the recurring themes of science fiction, we all have at least a vague idea of what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is. In countless novels and movies, often in the guise of an ominous and threatening machine, other times instead portrayed as a technology so futuristic as to seem almost unattainable, AI has risen to the role of a mysterious entity that mostly belongs to fiction. At least, this was the scenario a few years ago. More recently, in fact, we all came to know AI by witnessing its expansion and pervasiveness to a point where it constitutes a substantial part of our daily interactions, either via smart assistants (e.g., Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri, just to name a few), or even by the AI-powered features of our smartphones (e.g., facial and fingerprint screen unlocking, or photo enrichment), not to mention self-driving cars. However, despite being already deployed in millions of products and services around the world, AI is still something obscure. This is in part due to the nature of AI itself, which is often regarded as a complex and expensive technology that is out-of-reach for most people. As a byproduct of this misconception, many Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are wary of adopting AI solutions that could actually represent a game changer for their businesses.
What follows is the first part of a series of articles aimed at shedding light on AI and its applications. We begin our journey by taking a look at what AI actually stands for, and what are the differences between the most popular AI techniques that most people might have heard of. It is worth mentioning that this series represents a piece in the mosaic of our company's mission. In fact, Expandigo is working to demystify, democratize, and deliver AI enabled tools to SMEs in an affordable and practical way that helps them achieve their goals as technology continues to trend in this new direction.
Given the context for a specific problem, AI represents a set of algorithms and techniques that enables a hardware system (a digital or analog device, a computer program) to be able to automatically generate a set of rules that lead to an optimal solution. This is clearly in contrast to traditional hardware or software design, where an expert (i.e., a software programmer or a hardware engineer) has to manually design the rules and instructions that solve a specific problem. In other words, AI gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. However, it is important to understand that AI is a broad and generic term that entails different flavours of machine intelligence. In fact, as depicted in the figure below, AI can be seen as the bottom level of an abstract hierarchy, where a subset thereof is represented by Machine Learning (ML).
The main difference between traditional non-ML AI and ML techniques dwells in how they intrinsically operate. If the former is mainly composed of specific algorithms that are able to solve specific problems mimicking human intelligence (e.g., finding the shortest path in a maze via the A* and Dijkstra's algorithms, or playing Tic-tac-toe leveraging Minimax, just to name a few examples), the latter achieves a similar result by also employing (usually large amounts of) data. In this case, the term "data" embodies the "past experience" of the intelligent system. Let us consider, for instance, that we want to create a program that predicts the variations of the financial market. In this case, our ML solution would leverage data collected by stock markets located across the globe during, let's say, the past 20 years. By relying on time-series analyses and forecasting techniques, it will then be possible to estimate the financial performance for the foreseeable future. As years go by, all past information will be encapsulated in what we could call the "previous knowledge" of our program, thus creating a self-sustained system capable of achieving more precise predictions as time goes by. In other words, data and algorithms are tightly coupled. Albeit being extremely powerful, ML techniques are usually applicable to structured or semi-structured data sources only, i.e., data organized schematically within a file or record, like, for instance, the localized stock market values in the previous example. Dealing with unstructured data (images, text corpora), however, requires a higher level of abstraction of the underlying information. This is where Deep Learning (DL), i.e., the highest level of the AI hierarchy, comes into play.
DL comprises biological-inspired computational models, called Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), that are capable of operating semi-autonomously, i.e., with limited human intervention. In fact, even if both ML and DL require data preprocessing in order to craft the inputs as needed by a specific predictive model, feature selection is no longer required. As a result, this relieves the user from tedious, and sometimes rather complex, data engineering tasks, like discarding non-relevant columns in a database (feature ranking), or projecting the original data in a different, and usually smaller, dimensional space (feature extraction). Therefore, DNNs mark a substantial paradigm shift, since there is no need to manually pinpoint where the focus of the predictive model should be. In other words, a DNN autonomously understands hidden patterns, thus extruding the knowledge from a cluster of data. Due to these unique capabilities that enable a seamless computation on heterogeneous data, DNNs have rapidly emerged in the last decade as a de facto standard approach for solving a variety of otherwise-hard-to-solve problems, including image and speech recognition, image segmentation, human language understanding, and many more.
After the recent breakthroughs of DNNs in different fields of science and engineering (e.g., AlphaFold, Tesla's Autopilot, just to mention a few), mainstream information sources have usually conveyed an inaccurate message by using machine learning, neural networks, and AI interchangeably. As we have seen in this brief explanation, there are several and substantial differences between each technique, like several and non necessarily interchangeable use-cases apply to each one. Even though such differences could seem slight and subtle, having a clear view on AI and its subfields could allow you to craft a more informed idea on what your business needs, how to evolve it, and, more importantly, recognize what works in your specific case and what to ask when you interface with an AI/ML/DL practitioner.
Initially conceived as a means to replicate human thinking through machines, AI, DL in particular, is rapidly changing our everyday life and how we interact with others or with the environment. Despite being introduced around 60 years ago, neural networks have gained an unprecedented interest only in the last few years. In the next episode of this series, we will give a brief overview of the origin of DNNs in the twentieth century, and we will see what made them the new holy grail of business, science, and technology.
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2016 Toyota Tacoma in Fayetteville, TN
Serving Columbia & Murfreesboro, TN & Huntsville, AL
Are you in need of a midsize pickup truck that you can use on a consistent basis? If so, visit Landers McLarty Toyota in Fayetteville, TN and put the 2016 Toyota Tacoma to the test. At our dealership, we house all of the latest Toyotas at our best price. Our dealership has served Columbia, Murfreesboro, and Huntsville, TN for a number of years with a great selection of new vehicles in stock. For a vehicle that can complete all of your tough jobs with ease, check out the Tacoma at our dealership. Stop by Landers McLarty Toyota at 2970 Huntsville Highway and test drive the new Tacoma today.
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When it comes to getting the ideal amount of versatility and capability, midsize pickup trucks are the way to go. To fulfill all of your driving needs, the new Tacoma comes with a diverse set of features that make it one of the most competent pickup trucks on the road today. The new Tacoma features a new Multi-Terrain Select system, which allows drivers to select different modes for varying driving conditions. Other features on the pickup truck include a locking rear differential, crawl control, hill-start assist and an electronic limited-slip.
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If you've been looking for a pickup truck that can be used every day, then the 2016 Toyota Tacoma is the vehicle for you. At Landers McLarty Toyota in Fayetteville, TN, you'll receive our best price on a new vehicle and have the opportunity to explore our large stock of new vehicles. Visit our dealership at 2970 Huntsville Highway and explore the new Tacoma today.
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Sir David Attenborough Slams Australia For Not Doing More To Combat Climate Change
Stewart Perrie
Published 21:29, 27 October 2021 BST
Sir David Attenborough has slammed Australia for not doing more to combat the effects of climate change.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison outlined his government's plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050 this week.
While it was big for a Coalition government to set their sights on greener technology and less reliance on fossil fuels, the Prime Minister was criticised for not providing proper detail in how net zero will be achieved.
As The Guardian explained, a third of the plan relies on 'unspecified "technology breakthroughs" and "global trends" while a further 20 per cent will be achieved through offsets'.
As countries prepare to send delegates to Glasgow for a climate change summit, the world's most beloved naturalist and documentary filmmaker has taken aim at those who need to do better.
Credit: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
In an interview with the BBC, Sir David said Australia needs to up the ante, especially considering we are already feeling the effects of climate change.
"There are still people in North America, there are still people in Australia who say 'no, no, no, no, of course, it's very unfortunate that there was that forest fire that absolutely demolished, incinerated that village, but it's a one-off,'" he said.
"Particularly if it's going to cost money in the short term, the temptation is to deny the problem and pretend it's not there.
"But every month that passes, it becomes more and more incontrovertible, the changes to the planet that we are responsible for that are having these devastating effects."
He said the developed world needs to do a hell of a lot more in the short and long term to help ensure the worrying predictions of hotter summers, wilder weather and possible sea level changes don't happen.
Not only that, but Sir David said it is also a 'moral requirement' that we help poorer countries with their climate targets so that everyone is doing their bit.
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"Whole parts of Africa are likely to be unliveable - people will simply have to move away because of the advancing deserts and increasing heat, and where will they go? Well, a lot of them will try to get into Europe," he said.
"Do we say, 'Oh, it's nothing to do with us' and cross our arms?"
While many people would be terrified of getting a telling off by Sir David Attenborough, it appears Scott Morrison isn't fazed.
Speaking on Sunrise, the Prime Minister was asked whether the documentarian's comments left him 'embarrassed' for his government's plans to achieve net zero.
"I'm not embarrassed at all when it comes to doing what is right by Australia," Mr Morrison said. "Everyone else who doesn't understand Australia, alchemy and the challenges we have.
"We are getting results. We are getting it done. Our emissions are down."
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Topics: Sir David Attenborough, Australia
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Juventus sign Ronaldo from Real Madrid – Royal Times of Nigeria.
Italian champions Juventus have signed Real Madrid forward and Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo.
Five-times world player of the year Ronaldo signed on Tuesday, the La Liga club said in a statement.
Ronaldo, who joined Real from Manchester United in 2008 for a then world record eighty million pounds, is the Spanish club's all-time top scorer with 451 goals in all competitions and won two La Liga titles and four Champions League trophies with them.
Boxing in Nigeria needs more promoters, official says.


On 13 March 2019, the Supreme Court concluded that the rejection of the Appellant's further submissions did not attract a right of appeal after the Appellant sought for the Court to find that the Secretary of State for the Home Department's (SSHD) approach to further submissions (and that of the Courts as well), since the amendments to the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, was incorrect. As a result, it follows that the status quo continues and if the SSHD finds that an Appellant's further submissions do not satisfy the fresh claims test then their only remedy is to challenge that decision by way of judicial review.
Where a person has already had a human rights claim refused and there is no pending appeal, do further submissions that rely on human rights grounds have to be accepted by the SSHD as a fresh claim, in accordance with paragraph 353 of the Immigration Rules, if a decision in response to those representations is to attract a right of appeal under section 82 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (2002 Act)?
The Appellant is a Jamaican national who arrived in the United Kingdom on 9 October 1998 when he was seven years old. His immigration status was never regularised. He committed several criminal offences and the SSHD initiated deportation proceedings against him. On 17 July 2013, a deportation order was issued and he appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (FtT) that it would be a breach of Article 8 of the ECHR on the basis of his private life in the UK. It was accepted, at the time, that the Appellant was not relying on a breach based on his family life. His appeal was dismissed, and he was refused permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal (UT). He exhausted his rights of appeal on 1 May 2015.
On 13 May 2015, the Appellant's previous solicitors made further submissions to the SSHD, focusing on the fact that his partner at the time was pregnant. The SSHD treated the representations as an application to revoke the deportation order on the basis that it would breach Article 8 of the ECHR. In a letter dated 23 June 2015, the SSHD concluded that deportation would not breach Article 8, refused to revoke the deportation order and decided that the submissions did not amount to a fresh human rights claim under paragraph 353 of the Immigration Rules.
The Appellant's son was born on 26 July 2015. The Appellant made further submissions to the SSHD on 28 July 2015 regarding the birth of his son and providing documentation from the hospital. In a letter dated 31 July 2015, the SSHD again concluded that deportation would not breach Article 8 and that the further submissions did not amount to a fresh claim.
The Appellant appealed against the decision of 31 July 2015 but the FtT declined jurisdiction on the basis that there was no right of appeal against the decision. The UT dismissed his application for judicial review of the SSHD's decision that the further representations were not a fresh claim and the FtT's decision that he had no right of appeal. On 4 May 2017, the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal.
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal. In summary, the Court found that a "human rights claim" in section 82 of the amended 2002 Act means an original human rights claim or a fresh human rights claim within paragraph 353. As a result, the SSHD's response to the Appellant's further submissions did not attract a right of appeal.
The Court rejected the Appellant's submissions that the line of authority beginning with R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Onibiyo  QB 768, which established that it was for the SSHD to decide whether further submissions constituted a fresh claim giving rise to a right of appeal, did not survive the Supreme Court's decision in BA (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department  UKSC 7.
Following suit, the Court rejected the Appellant's submissions that the amendments to the 2002 Act introduced by the Immigration Act 2014 fundamentally changed the operation of the statutory scheme, with the result that paragraph 353 no longer applies.
The Appellant was seeking for the Court to find that the SSHD's approach to further submissions (and that of the Courts as well), since the amendments to the 2002 Act, was incorrect. The Court rejected those arguments and maintained the status quo, that is, the SSHD acts as a gatekeeper to further submissions; if the further submissions are rejected but the SSHD says that they satisfy the fresh claims test in paragraph 353 then the Appellant will have an in country right of appeal. If the SSHD says that they do not satisfy the fresh claims test then the Appellant's only remedy is to challenge that decision by way of judicial review.
The Appellant was represented by Stefan Vnuk of Duncan Lewis with Michael Fordham QC, of Blackstone Chambers, Ronan Toal, of Garden Court Chambers, and Catherine Robinson, of One Pump Court Chambers, instructed as Counsel.


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Q: remove duplicates in java Write a program that reads a file of numbers of type int and writes all the numbers to another file, but without any duplicate numbers.
Assume that the numbers in the input file are already ordered from smallest to largest. After the program is run, the new file will contain all the numbers in the original file, but no number will appear more than once in the file. The numbers in the output file should also be sorted from smallest to largest. Your program should obtain both file names from the user
 Scanner data;
    PrintWriter result;

    ArrayList<Integer> numbers;
    numbers = new ArrayList<>();

    try {
        data = new Scanner(new File("C:\\Users\\hp\\Desktop\\data.txt"));
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        System.out.println("Can't find file data.txt!");
        return;
    }

    try {
        result = new PrintWriter("C:\\Users\\hp\\Desktop\\result.txt");
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        System.out.println("Can't open file result.txt!");
        System.out.println("Error: " + e);
        data.close();
        return;
    }

    while ( data.hasNextInt()) {
        int inputNumber = data.nextInt();
        numbers.add(inputNumber);

    }

    for (int i = numbers.size()-1; i >= 0; i--)
        result.println(numbers.get(i));

    System.out.println("Done!");

    data.close();
    result.close();

}

A: You can use a SortedSet instead of the arraylist to get a sorted list of numbers without any duplicates.
Or if you still want to use ArrayList you can read, ignore duplicates and write in a single loop.
...
    while(data.hasNextInt()) {
        int inputNumber = data.nextInt();
        if(!numbers.contains(inputNumber)) {
             numbers.add(inputNumber);
             result.println(inputNumber);
        }
    }

    System.out.println("Done!");

    data.close();
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Omaha Fire reminds parents of youth fire setter program
Updated: 9:12 AM CST Jan 20, 2020
Sarah Fili
JULIE: CURIOSITY LEADS TO CONSEQUENCES. THAT'S THE MESSAGE FROM OMAHA FIREFIGHTERS TONIGHT. THEY SAY YOUNG PEOPLE STARTED DOZENS OF FIRES IN THE METRO LAST YEAR. THAT INCLUDES THIS ONE RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. TONIGHT, WE HAVE EXCLUSIVE ACCESS INSIDE THE PROGRAM TEACHING KIDS NOT TO PLAY WITH FIRE. HERE'S SARAH FILI. >> AN ORANGE BLAZE AS A THREE ALARM FIRE RAGES AT THE CHAMBERS CORE APARTMENTS OFF 16TH STREET FIVE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. >> IT WAS DETERMINED THAT IT WAS STARTED BY A FIVE-YEAR-OLD PLAYING WITH A LIGHTER. >> A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, BABYSAT BY AN OLDER SIBLING FINDS A LIGHTER , AND SPARKS A DEVASTATING INFERNO. HE'S LEFT WITH JUST A BLISTER ON ON -- ON HIS HAND, BUT 30 PEOPLE ARE LEFT WITHOUT HOMES. >> IN WE HAD 40 THAT WERE 2019, STARTED BY YOUTHS. >> THE OMAHA FIRE DEPARTMENT ONCE THAT NUMBER TO BE ZERO. >> WANT TO GET THE WORD OUT THAT THE OMAHA FIRE DEAPARTMENT DOES HAVE A FIRESETTER INTERVENTION PROGRAM. >> THAT FREE PROGRAM TARGETS CHILDREN AND TEENS. OFD SAYS FIRES STARTED BY KIDS ARE USUALLY CURIOSITY OR A CALL FOR HELP. >> WE CALL IT TROUBLED YOUTH FIRESETTERS. SOMETIMES, THEY CRY OUT FOR HELP, SOMETHING ELSE IS GOING ON IN THEIR LIFE AND THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO REACH OUT OR WHO TO REACH OUT TO, SO THEY START A FIRE THINKING WELL, THAT'LL GET SOME HELP HERE. >> FOR THOSE CHILDREN, OFD PARTNERS WITH PROJECT HARMONY FOR HELP THEN OFFERS THE CLASS. , IN THE PROGRAM, FIREFIGHTERS SHOW CHILDREN THE DANGERS OF FIRE AND THE CONSEQUENCES. >> I PUT THE OVEN MITT HERE FOR LIKE 10 SECONDS, AND IT CAUGHT A SPARK. >> ANGELO INSERRA ISN'T A TROUBLED YOUTH, JUST ONE WHO SAW A CHALLENGE ON INSTAGRAM BY A POPULAR BLOGGER, AND TRIED IT WITH A FRIEND. >> I WAS ONLY GONE FOR LIKE MAYBE FIVE TO TEN MINUTES MINUTES, AND WHEN I CAME BACK, HIM AND HIS FRIENDS WERE LAUGHING. >> HIS MOM, CANDRA, HAD RUN TO THE STORE, LEAVING HER 13-YEAR-OLD BOY AT HOME. WHEN SHE GOT BACK SHE SAW A , VIDEO ANGELO HAD RECORDED OF THE FIRE, AND ANGELO THROWING THE OVEN MITT IN THE SINK. >> IT WAS PRETTY LIKE DUMB FOR ME TO DO IT AT THE END BECAUSE I GOT A CONSEQUENCE. >> CANDRA CALLED OMAHA FIRE AND ENROLLED ANGELO IN THE FIRESETTER PROGRAM. I LEARNED ABOUT ARSON CHARGES. I'M NOT TRYING TO GET 30 YEARS IN PRISON OR 40 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A LITTLE SPARK. >> SHE TOOK PART TOO, SEEING VIDEOS FROM A BURN NURSE ABOUT WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES IF THEY'RE CAUGHT IN THE FIRE. >> THE VIDEOS WERE VERY INTENSE. THEY SHOWED WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE'S SKIN WHEN THEY GET BURNT. >> OMAHA FIRE SAYS THEY HAVE A 100% SUCCESS RATE WITH THE PROGRAM MEANING NO YOUTH WHO HAS , BEEN THROUGH IT HAS SET A FIRE AGAIN. >> I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT AGAIN, AND IF I SEE SOMEONE DOING THAT, I'M NOT GONNA PARTICIPATE, AND I'M GONNA CALL. ONE SPARK CAN CHANGE SOMEONE'S LIFE. JULIE: AGAIN, IT IS A FREE PROGRAM. YOU HAVE TO ATTEND THE CLASS WITH YOUR CHILD. CALL 402-444-3560 TO REGISTER. WE POSTED A LINK WITH MORE INFO
Omaha firefighters want kids to know curiosity leads to consequences.Young people started dozens of fires in the metro last year, including one right before Christmas.Omaha Fire gave KETV Newswatch 7 exclusive access inside the free program teaching kids not to play with fire.A three-alarm fire raged at the Chambers Court apartments off 16th Street five days before Christmas."It was determined that it was started by a 5-year-old playing with a lighter," OFD Battalion Chief Scott Fitzpatick said.A 5-year-old, who was being babysat by an older sibling, found a lighter and sparked a devastating inferno. He's left with just a blister on his hand, but 30 people were left without homes."In 2019, we had 40 that were started by youths," Fitzpatrick said.OFD said wants that number to be zero."We want to get the word out that the Omaha Fire department does have a fire setter intervention program," Fitzpatrick said.It's a free program targeting children and teens.OFD said fires started by kids are usually due to curiosity, or a call for help."We call it troubled youth fire setters. Sometimes they cry out for help, something else is going on in their life and they don't know how to reach out or who to reach out to, so they start a fire thinking, 'Well that'll get some help here.'"For those children, OPD partners with Project Harmony for help, then offers the class. In the program, firefighters show children the dangers of fire and the consequences."I put the oven mitt (on the oven) for like 10 seconds and it caught a spark," said Angelo Inserra, who completed the fire setter program.Inserra isn't a troubled youth, just one who saw a challenge on Instagram by a popular blogger and tried it with a friend."I was only gone for, like, maybe five to 10 minutes and when I came back him and his friends were laughing," said Candra Inserra, Angelo's mom. Candra Inserra had run to the store, leaving her 13-year-old boy at home. When she got home, she saw a video Angelo had recorded of the fire, and Angelo throwing the oven mitt in the sink."It was pretty dumb for me to do it at the end, because I got a consequence," Angelo Inserra said.Candra called Omaha Fire and enrolled Angelo in the fire setter program."I learned about arson charges. I'm not trying to get 30 years in prison or 40 years in prison for a little spark," Angelo Inserra said.Candra took part, too seeing videos from a burn nurse about what can happen to people or their loved ones if they're caught in the fire. "The videos were very intense. They showed what happens to people's skin when they get burns Omaha fire says they have a 100% success rate with the program," Candra Inserra said.That means no youth who has been through it has set a fire again."I'm not going to do that again and if I see someone doing that, I'm not going to participate and I'm going to call," Angelo Inserra said. "One spark can destroy your life."Call 402-444-3560 for more information, including how to enroll in the program.
Omaha firefighters want kids to know curiosity leads to consequences.
Young people started dozens of fires in the metro last year, including one right before Christmas.
Omaha Fire gave KETV Newswatch 7 exclusive access inside the free program teaching kids not to play with fire.
A three-alarm fire raged at the Chambers Court apartments off 16th Street five days before Christmas.
"It was determined that it was started by a 5-year-old playing with a lighter," OFD Battalion Chief Scott Fitzpatick said.
A 5-year-old, who was being babysat by an older sibling, found a lighter and sparked a devastating inferno. He's left with just a blister on his hand, but 30 people were left without homes.
"In 2019, we had 40 that were started by youths," Fitzpatrick said.
OFD said wants that number to be zero.
"We want to get the word out that the Omaha Fire department does have a fire setter intervention program," Fitzpatrick said.
It's a free program targeting children and teens.
OFD said fires started by kids are usually due to curiosity, or a call for help.
"We call it troubled youth fire setters. Sometimes they cry out for help, something else is going on in their life and they don't know how to reach out or who to reach out to, so they start a fire thinking, 'Well that'll get some help here.'"
For those children, OPD partners with Project Harmony for help, then offers the class. In the program, firefighters show children the dangers of fire and the consequences.
"I put the oven mitt (on the oven) for like 10 seconds and it caught a spark," said Angelo Inserra, who completed the fire setter program.
Inserra isn't a troubled youth, just one who saw a challenge on Instagram by a popular blogger and tried it with a friend.
"I was only gone for, like, maybe five to 10 minutes and when I came back him and his friends were laughing," said Candra Inserra, Angelo's mom.
Candra Inserra had run to the store, leaving her 13-year-old boy at home. When she got home, she saw a video Angelo had recorded of the fire, and Angelo throwing the oven mitt in the sink.
"It was pretty dumb for me to do it at the end, because I got a consequence," Angelo Inserra said.
Candra called Omaha Fire and enrolled Angelo in the fire setter program.
"I learned about arson charges. I'm not trying to get 30 years in prison or 40 years in prison for a little spark," Angelo Inserra said.
Candra took part, too seeing videos from a burn nurse about what can happen to people or their loved ones if they're caught in the fire.
"The videos were very intense. They showed what happens to people's skin when they get burns Omaha fire says they have a 100% success rate with the program," Candra Inserra said.
That means no youth who has been through it has set a fire again.
"I'm not going to do that again and if I see someone doing that, I'm not going to participate and I'm going to call," Angelo Inserra said. "One spark can destroy your life."
Call 402-444-3560 for more information, including how to enroll in the program.


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As any artist will tell you, composition is everything. Over his 30 year career as an artist, Curtis Miller has fashioned custom furniture, worked as an animator and had his paintings and photographs sold in galleries. Now at 59 years young he's begun applying his skills to custom motorcycle building and as you would expect they are bona fide works of art, but in terms of composition, it's how his bikes are put together that really makes them special…
"As an artist, I love beautiful things. I also love making things. When I get passionate about something, it's only a matter of time before I want to start making them. I've built classical and electric guitars, a wooden kayak and many radio controlled gliders. Now I make motorcycles.
My history with motorcycles is actually quite short. I only started riding four years ago, at the advanced age of 55. I started on a Harley Sportster and moved up to a Softail Slim so I could travel longer distances with my partner. Within a year I had started customizing my bikes. The following year I started my first full custom build and since then I've been building full time. I had absolutely no mechanical background when I started out. I knew how to use tools of course, but hadn't even performed an oil change on a motorcycle before."
"I started teaching myself how to work metal and weld, how to use an English wheel and a mallet and shot bag. Before long, I got to the point where I needed help and advice. I found an excellent motorcycle program at a local Community College. The first course I did taught me the mechanics of motorcycles. I then took welding, machining and metal shaping classes and I'm now a certified mechanic and I'm still taking advanced classes in engine building, Dyno operations and tuning.
My first build was a classic chopper with a raked springer front end and a hard tail. You have to remember that I came from the Harley-Davidson world. It was awful to ride. Harsh on the backside and almost unmanageable at the front end. When I finished and rode the thing, I decided right away that the next motorcycle I built would be something with real, working suspension that handled well. I loved the clean, compact, elegant lines of Cafe Racer styled bikes so that's where I started. I decided to build a modified featherbed style frame and built everything around a 2009 Harley Davidson Sportster engine I bought from Ebay."
"I built the bike entirely by myself and it took me a full six months to complete. I used no outside services other than getting the logos 3D printed. When I bent and welded the frame on my jig I carefully checked the rake and trail to make sure the handling would be correct. I made the engine mounts and I fabricated all of the aluminium bodywork by hand then welded, sanded and polished them. I built the electrical box from aluminium sheet and even welded up the swingarm from flat stock. I painted the frame and electrical box (under the seat) and even masked off the graphics. I also wired the bike, starting with a Sportster wiring harness, cutting it to pieces and reassembling it. I made the gas and oil caps, the timing cover, the rearsets, everything. Although I suppose I need to also mention my neighbour Jeff, who sometimes came over and held something while I tack welded it!"
"Even the caps for the brake reservoirs were hand made, as were the bar end fittings and the cap for the steering neck. I've since replaced the plastic reservoirs with commercially made ones that were cleaner and more compact. I even made the license plate holder, though the one in these pictures has been replaced with a more compact, simpler and stronger one.
Commercially purchased parts included the engine, a complete CBR1000rr front end and rear shocks, the wheels, the brake rotors and tires. The headlight is from Dime City Cycles and I used LED lighting for the turn signals and the tail light."
"I'm most proud of the way the overall build hangs together. I think it works as well as it does because of its proportions. The way the electrical box fits under the seat, the size and shape of the gas and oil tanks, the rough and ready looking swingarm and exhaust pipes. Best of all it rides and handles great.
Due to the incredible reaction I got from people when I rolled this bike out of my workshop I decided to start building bikes commercially. To help fund Ardent Motorcycles next build my featherbed Sportster is for sale."
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