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TAR College Funding : Why Lim Guan Eng Entrust RM30 Mil to Alumni Body In Deficit? – "Want To Take Care of Students or Keep Cronies?"
Former prime minister Najib Razak has questioned the government's motive in entrusting RM30 million to a small alumni association of TAR College with only RM10,000 in assets and which is in deficit by RM6,900.
"Has anyone heard of university money being kept by an alumni association?" said the former premier in an online posting this evening.
Najib also questioned the association's links with DAP leaders such as secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, who is finance minister.
Najib said the leaders of the Tarcian Alumni Association had been photographed with LIm last year when the association made a RM100,000 donation to the government's Tabung Harapan to help pay off the national debt.
He said the same leaders were also photographed with Lim and other DAP leaders at a press conference at which Lim said a trust fund would be set up by TAA to handle the RM30 million government allocation for the benefit of MCA-owned Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.
Lim had previously announced that the government was withholding the annual grant to TAR college until the MCA relinquished control of the college.
Najib wrote that in 1971, Parliament had approved an annual government grant to the college.
He questioned the choice of TAA to handle the funds, and suggested it was because of the donation to Tabung Harapan, which was initiated by the finance ministry. "That's why Guan Eng chose this small group of alumni to receive a grant of RM30 million a year. He didn't want the one with 116,000 members. He chose the one with 7,000 members."
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He added: "Want to take care of students or keep cronies?"
Najib said TAA (set up in 2012) was the smallest and newest of the five TAR college associations. "Why did he not choose the oldest which has more than 100,000 members)?" he said, referring to the Federation of Tunku Abdul Rahman College Alumni Associations Malaysia, set up in 1989.
Najib said the TAR college issue was one of the causes for Chinese voters to reject Pakatan Harapan at the recent Tanjung Piai by-election.
The election defeat had caused Lim to panic and back-track on his earlier threat to withhold funds, Najib said. Before the 2018 general election Lim had made several promises to continue the allocation to the college, but later broke his promise, Najib said.
If Lim was sincere in wanting to help TAR college, he could have distributed the RM30 million a year directly to the 30,000 students currently enrolled, Najib said.
MCA president Wee Ka Siong also questioned Lim's links with TAA, and said the federation was more qualified to handle the funds.
"So why did Lim Guan Eng allocate the funds to TAA and sideline the more practical choice? Is it because TAA is independent? Or is it because TAA is an organisation that is more pro-Lim Guan Eng?" he said in a Facebook posting.
Wee also questioned Lim's call for MCA to relinquish its seats on the Board of Governors so that the college could operate free of political and government influence. However, he said the board also included four representatives of the education ministry and one from the finance ministry since 2013, a structure unheard-of among other educational institutions.
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"Does he not trust officials of his own government? He could always appoint his own representatives. Why make a fuss now?" said Wee.
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DETROIT (AP) - Pittsburgh missed out on a chance to clinch a playoff spot when Tyler Bertuzzi led the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-1 victory over the Penguins on Tuesday night.
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The number of cuckoos in the UK has fallen drastically over the last few decades. The British Trust for Ornithology has been tracking the migrations of cuckoos in order to discover why. By satellite-tracking cuckoos the BTO is able to learn more about their migration routes and their lives away from their breeding grounds in the UK. By identifying the areas of importance to these birds the BTO hopes to be able to better understand and explain the losses to the British Cuckoo.
In May 2011 five British Cuckoos were fitted with satellite-tags. The birds are called Larry, Peckham, PJ, Selborne and Victor. You can view their migration routes for the last seven years on the BTO's Tracking Cuckoos to Africa ... And Back Again. An animated Google Map allows you to watch the bird's fly south for the winter and return back to the UK in spring for each of the seven years.
You can find out what the scientists have learnt by tracking the cuckoos on What we have learnt so far. In summary it has been discovered that the birds tend to leave the UK much earlier than previously thought. They winter in and around the Congo rainforest. The birds actually only spend about 15% of their time in the UK. Important information has also been discovered about the birds' migration routes and important stop-over locations on these routes.
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Get Answers of the Most Asked Questions about OTT Platforms
Shalani 22:19:00 OTT platforms,
OTT is that revolutionary word in the world of entertainment that is used for the delivery of film and TV content through third party services. The word OTT stands for over-the-top where users don't require subscribing a traditional cable or satellite pay TV services.
Here are answers of some frequently asked questions about OTT platforms.
How does OTT platform operate?
While designing the OTT services, consumers are kept in center. With several cost-saving features (for example, worldwide calling and texting) are offered for either free or comparatively lower rates than those offered by mobile carriers. OTT services are usually accessed through apps which can be easily downloaded on user's smartphones, tablets or laptops. Most of the apps can be downloaded for free, while some have a cost associated with them. Pricing and availability of these apps may vary by location.
What are the biggest benefits of using OTT communication apps?
Free and affordable calling and texting
The most successful venture of OTT is VoIP. Among numerous of its advantages, the most significant is allowing communicators to save a lot of money both on local as well as international calls and on text messages. At present, we can avail services that allow users to use the network for making free calls and send text messages. All these have become possible as a result of OTT platforms.
We all are aware of the success of Netflix that have millions of subscribed users. It all has become possible due to internet TV which can be easily accessed on the smartphones, tabs or laptops of users. It allows legal distribution of videos and TV content over internet. Videos based on OTT services can be accessed online and that too free of cost. For example, YouTube that is constantly streamed with video contents and holds largest number of users all over the world.
What is difference between OTT and OVP?
OTT means over the top which denotes access to video over the internet. An OVP stands for online video platform which provides complete infrastructure required to support an online streaming service like transcoding, metadata, billing, server infrastructure, client application, etc. An OVP is used to send OTT videos.
What are essential elements for OTT solution?
For a complete OTT solution there should be following elements:
Allowing upload from multiple sources like device, server, URL, etc.
Transcoding into multiple qualities as well as formats compatible to various devices
Video management features like categorization, custom thumbnails, and tagging should be provided
Top tier server for streaming videos for viewers all across the world
For peak requirements, auto scaling should also be available
Secure streaming technology to prevent the piracy of the content
To measure the interest and experience of viewer, analytics should be provided
To stream the content custom multi-bitrate player
Is OTT a threat to cable companies?
It cannot be directly acknowledged because OTT apps and services are delivered over the Internet and users need a broadband connection for which they usually access cable providers. So, in any case users need them. The growth of OTT is promising. Still, traditional distributors will continue to play major role in the growth of OTT because they hold expertise in areas like sales, marketing, customer management which TV networks don't have.
How pay-Tv operators are responding to OTT videos?
Pay TV operators have taken a different approach to combat the situation, and the biggest example of this is Dish's Sling TV. It is a sole streaming service available for sale which doesn't require a Dish subscription.
These answers have surely given you an outline about OTT, and OTT platforms.
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The 2023 Honda HR-V Grows Up And Adds Refinement.
Honda's HR-V was always an affordable compact crossover. The second generation 2023 model is larger… on the outside. With a new independent rear suspension, it's far more comfortable for road trips now. It trades the Fit architecture for a Civic-rich platform with better seats and best-in-class cabin. It does lose...
The Porsche 911 Turbo S Lightweight. Fast Meets Faster.
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The all-electric Lyriq is the most important vehicle Cadillac has launched in a generation. This first-drive at the press event in Park City, Utah is a deep dive into its performance, ride quality, interior, interface and Ultium battery technology. Plus, there's that awesome grille. Tom Voelk drives a Debut Edition...
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The Ford Maverick is a compact pickup, that might be a better choice that a full-sized truck… or even a car. Affordable, fuel efficient and easy to drive, Maverick can replace the family car if you don't need a lockable trunk. Tom Voelk checks out an XLT model powered by the 2-liter EcoBoost engine and finds that...
Chevy Bolt EUV Gets A Huge Price Cut And Super Cruise
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Mayor Mongameli Bobani's administration has hit the news again – this time for late payments according to News24.
Jackson Ngcelwane, Nelson Mandela Bay's (NMB) acting chief financial officer, has written a letter expressing concern over how the municipality is paying its debts late.
The target for the municipality is to pay its debt within 19 days, however in September it took 38 days to pay its creditors, and in October it got worse – hitting 45 days.
Legally the municipality is supposed to pay its debts in 30 days.
The Creditor's System Efficiency Ratio has also taken a knock – the target is 80%, but Bobani's administration only achieved 64% and 55% for September and October respectively.
Bobani only came into office in August, so this represents his first two months in power.
Earlier this week Algoa FM reported that former mayor Athol Trollip has approached the public protector over financial irregularities within the Bobani administration.
According to that report NMB borrowed R700 million in order to expand its water and electricity infrastructure, but about R100 million is going into an unbudgeted housing scheme, and another R45 million is going into "festive events".
Which is a fair bit up on the R4 million these events were originally budgeted at.
According to EWN the ACDP had laid a criminal complaint against Bobani's administration over political interference in the actually running of the municipality at the end of November.
Bobani lacks legitimacy as a mayor.
He isn't there because he won an election, he is there because the EFF is both racist, and unhappy with the DA's unwillingness to support changes to section 25 of the constitution – expanding government's ability to expropriate land without compensation.
Trollip wasn't toppled because of his lack of performance, but because Malema decided that he would be the first coalition mayor to fall purely on the basis of his skin colour.
"Hahaha, you are going white man. I've got no sympathy for whiteness, it feels so good for a black child to determine the future of the white one," Malema had said in March.
Because Bobani lacks legitimacy he needed to prove himself a competent care-taker as mayor. He was already up to a rocky start in September when he had to walk back his claim that his party wouldn't provide services to rich areas, and it has only gotten worse since.
Late payment is actually a pretty serious problem with government. The thing is part of what we aim for with government is stimulating the economy by encouraging new businesses through tenders.
We want our government to favour smaller suppliers when it comes to contracts because that lets them get more established, and get past their initial teething phase when most business goes under.
The thing is these small businesses require reliable cash flows. If they get paid late, they end up paying their suppliers, or even their workers, late, which in turn creates a ripple effect of problems throughout the economy.
This is part of why we have such high joblessness in South Africa, the ANC has never been good at paying on time, so even if you get your money out of government it doesn't do you much good if its months late and your creditors shut you down six months ago.
Just doing the very basics is a very important part of growing our government, and government dealing with cash flow issues like this is very, very basic.
It isn't a point of political contention that government should pay its service providers on time, that shouldn't be a campaign issue – and yet Bobani is failing in that regard.
Worse we're seeing reports that instead of delivering lights and water – Bobani's administration is spending massive amounts on Christmas parties.
I don't think I'm alone in thinking that if you're running a municipality you should celebrate when you've delivered the services, not before then.
There is a basic level of governance which is almost an ur-politics, it is stuff which a government should be capable of doing no matter what its overall policies are.
Competently paying its debts on time, spending its money on the things the money was budgeted towards and not spending it on other stuff, that's not a matter of policy but just core competence.
If you cannot do that, it doesn't really matter what the rest of your policies are because this is the sort of stuff you need to be able to do in order to enact anything else.
If you can't pay your contractors on time, then you shouldn't even be discussing nationalising anything because you're already failing to do the job you've got, why are you looking to add to it?
And Bobani's failure is the EFF's failure as much as it is the UDM's, because it was the EFF that insisted on Bobani. It was their decision, and so far it is not paying off.


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Seafarers can limit the risks of working at sea and keep fit, healthy and happy by taking care of their wellbeing.
ISWAN has produced four new infographics, in partnership with the Shipowner's Club, using extracts from its latest self-help guide for seafarers, Psychological Wellbeing at Sea.
Psychological wellbeing enables us to function well, feel good about ourselves, and feel a sense of purpose and life satisfaction. With restrictions to wellbeing such as spending time away from family and friends, limited shore leave and long working hours, it is important for seafarers to take care of their mental health while working on board. ISWAN's new infographics, sponsored by Shipowners' Club and overseen by Consultant Clinical Psychologist Dr Pennie Blackburn, describe ways in which seafarers can boost their psychological wellbeing.
Drawing on guidance in Psychological Wellbeing at Sea, part of ISWAN's Good Mental Health Guides for Seafarers, the infographics identify some of the critical factors which characterise wellbeing and suggest how seafarers can enhance them. These include connecting with others on board, doing more of what makes you happy and how to find support while at sea.
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What do you think of when you're getting ready to head to the lake? I think of boats, swimming, fishing and floating! When I was gearing up for my day trip to Lake Como, Italy, all I could think about what how nice it was going to be to get some sun and enjoy the water. Lake Como is a different kind of lake, however. The residents and visitors do not even think of swimming! We even got funny looks for sticking our feet in the water. At Lake Como, being on "lake time" means taking a ferry ride across the lake, checking out all the little ships in Bellagio and eating a nice meal at one of the cute restaurants on the lakefront.
Enjoying the view from the back of the ferry at Lake Como, Italy.
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How to Get to Krka National Park from Zagreb, Split & Dubrovnik
Krka National Park is a notable hallmark of Croatia's blossoming tourism industry and it is characterized by an enthralling landscape, heavenly waters, lovely vegetation and beautiful azure waters; everything about the park is simply divine which is why many make the trip to witness this out-of-this-world scenery for themselves. If you'd also like to journey to one of Europe's most famous attractions, the following guide will avail the different travel options available from Zagreb, Dubrovnik and Split.
Zagreb to Krka
Taking a car
You can travel the 300-kilometer distance between the two locations by car via the E71 main highway which will take you about 3 or so hours to complete. The D1 route is also a good alternative to the first, albeit almost an hour longer, and this road will get you to the E17 motorway which basically passes across the periphery of Plitvice Lakes.
Catching the bus
You could also let someone else take the wheel by opting to take a bus at Zagreb's main terminal. The schedule features daily trips back and forth but in winter the frequency drops to once a week. A one-way ticket is priced at 12 euros while a return option costs 7 euros more.
Split to Krka
The distance is significantly shorter from Split with the entire stretch just summing up to a little over 90 kilometers which means you'll get to your destination in about an hour or thereabouts. The road network is quite expansive and consequently avails numerous route alternatives with one popular path passing through the D8 motorway. You could also take the D56 highway or the E56/E71 option that crosses right next to Dugopolje.
Taking the bus
You can get a bus from the town's main terminus for just 10 euros for a 1.5-hour travel. The trips occur every day but during winter, the buses make no more than three trips a week.
Travelling by private transfer
If you aim to travel like a king without having to worry about which route you'll take or where you'll lay your head among other nitty-gritty, then a private transfer is your best bet of getting just that and much, much more.
Dubrovnik to Krka
Renting a car
About 280 km of road separate Krka and Dubrovnik and you could cover that distance by leasing a car and driving yourself. The journey will take a little over 3 hours and you'll also need to keep in mind that you'll have to pay toll fees of about 80 kunas along the way.
A one-way ticket will set you back about 20 euros and you'll have to dig 10 euros deeper into your pocket for a ticket covering the to-and-from trips in their entirety. The bus ride takes significantly longer than the preceding option, 3 more hours to be exact, with there being the common tale of reduced winter trips and daily travels during other times of the year.
In 2016 alone, Krka National Park achieved upwards of 1 million visits and you too can see what fuss is all about now that you know just how to get there.
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In our increasingly complex work environment, organizations are realizing the health and safety of employees is paramount and the services of competent health and safety professionals are highly valued. The Occupational Health, Safety and Wellness (OHSW) graduate program provides a focused body of knowledge and skills required to monitor and assess the safety of people at work and related workplace hazards. In addition, to the fundamentals, students will explore the management skills required to lead the development, implementation and evaluation of workplace safety, health and wellness programs across all sectors. Students will learn about existing health, safety and wellness trends, analyze best practices, and utilize that learning to develop programs that address health, safety and wellness concerns within the workplace.The OHSW post grad certificate program prepares graduates to pursue the Canadian Registered Safety Technician (CRST) certification offered by the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP). The program meets the education requirements for the CRST certification (i.e., one-year certificate program in occupational health and safety). The program exceeds the CRST competencies by including courses in organizational effectiveness, project management, disability management and consulting skills.Interested in taking this program on a part-time basis? It's possible to complete this program while still working full-time and fulfilling your other commitments. For more information, please visit our Continuing Education Occupational Health, Safety and Wellness program.
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        FLIGHT_PRICE = 7
        FORMATTED_PRICE = 8
        FLIGHT_SALE_PRICE = 9
        FORMATTED_SALE_PRICE = 10
        IMAGE_URL = 11
        FINAL_URLS = 12
        FINAL_MOBILE_URLS = 13
        TRACKING_URL = 14
        ANDROID_APP_LINK = 15
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Every city is more or less turning into a metropolis these days and as the owner of a construction business, your need in the market seems unending, which is really great.
What's important for you to consider is the margin of error on your end, which is quite low. One slight mistake could result in the cost of hundreds of lives, which could include unsafe construction, inappropriate labor treatment, or simply a lack of proper order while constructing. The last of these can be definitely avoided with the proper usage of signage – sign boards which can help you flourish your business in more ways than you think.
Disasters do not wait before striking, and that is why we have been given intelligence and instincts to predict their probabilities beforehand. Any casualty from your end can result in fatal consequences unless you have proper signage ready with you which can inform people of the construction stage you are no undertaking, and that it can be dangerous.
The use of different colors with understandable figures painted on them can help people avoid any potential disaster by avoiding anything risky around the site.
It is not easy to find construction material in the center of a busy city where you will be carrying out just another day of business. The use of big vehicles is important for the process to further, and what are the odds that massive signage on the vehicles passing by the roads of busy cities will be ignored by individuals/groups wanting to contract a reliable service?
This is an excellent way to advertise yourself throughout the city 24/7 because the movement of items and vehicles never stop, and with the demand of building constructions on the rise landlords, leasers, and other businesses will be on the lookout for people who can work for them.
What's one thing about the red color on the notifications tab that compels you to never ignore it? It is the urgency brought about by the convenient positioning and colors to check them out. The same can be said about signage in construction sites; individuals passing by are very keen to note what is around them, and some of it can actually be useful.
Take, for example, a man who is planning to buy a multifamily house in a new apartment complex. A signboard with details regarding how to contact you suddenly meets his eye, and the next thing you know he's striking a deal with you! It is a great way for you to get your message out on the streets.
A 500 square miles plot of nothingness is theoretically quite a great place to build anything, but where does one start? And what if one needs to exit? All these questions are answered by signboards which can be conveniently placed throughout the construction site.
Apart from the efficiency of work, there is a certain humanity that is attached to assisting workers doing such tremendously laborious tasks.


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Hawks All-Star Trae Young frustrated by media leaks after clash with head coach
Trae Young made it clear he is not happy that details about friction between himself and Atlanta Hawks head coach Nate McMillan became public, but insisted things were "all good".
A report from The Athletic's Shams Charania detailed an incident where McMillan had not approved Young's decision to skip a team shootaround to focus on treatment for his minor shoulder injury.
It is said to have resulted in an ultimatum, with McMillan telling Young he would have to come off the bench if he wanted to play against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, with the 24-year-old two-time All-Star instead deciding to not show up altogether.
The Hawks officially attributed Young's absence to his shoulder injury, before the report brought new information to light, prompting McMillan to call the whole fiasco a "miscommunication".
The report also included a line citing anonymous sources saying "it's the latest situation that has caused many people within the Hawks to question Young's leadership approach" – pointing to similar friction between Young and former head coach Lloyd Pierce as a main factor behind his departure.
In his first media appearance since the news broke, Young said he was frustrated it all became public.
"It's hard for people who don't know the full situation to understand it," he said on Monday. "Like I said, it's a private matter made public, which was unfortunate. If it stayed private it probably wouldn't have been as big of a deal.
"It's unfortunate. My job and my goal is to win a championship, and that's all I'm focused on.
"When you're an outside guy like [reporters] are, and you don't understand a private matter and private situation, you should probably stay on the outside.
"It's unfortunate that everybody has to understand and know a little bit of the details that went on inside. I mean, inside here we're all good.
"If you've got any more questions about that you can talk to somebody else about it. That's all I've got to say about it."
The Hawks ended up with an impressive win against the Nuggets, with rookie A.J. Griffin taking advantage of his opportunity in the starting line-up to score a career-high 24 points.
Nate McMillan
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Tiger rescued from NY apt.
Does anyone know if the "...wildlife refuge in Ohio..." is Tiger Haven?
I saw that cayman, and it was much bigger than three feet.
Well, the article got one thing wrong, sorta kinda. They would never release a tiger in any sort of traditional wildlife preserve, since those are usually just designated land that animals can freely come and go from and they would want the tiger contained. There are numerous other big cat rescue facilities besides Tiger Haven, quite possibly one or more of which are located in Ohio.
I spoke with someone at Tiger Haven. They are NOT the facility to where this tiger was sent. The article was correct - it was sent to a facility in Ohio.
The only Ohio group that I could find that might match what they're talking about in the article is The Siberian Tiger Conservation Association. The site is sketchy on specifics and they imply that they are only interested in siberian tigers, but it looks like they're actually a general big cat sanctuary.


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Q: Method to read a XML i created a method to read a xml file but it doesn't work twice, i have to place the pointer at start of the file but I didn't found how.
using Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{

    class Class {
    private System.Xml.XmlReader XML_File;
    public void DebugXML()
        {
            this.XML_File.Read();
            while (!this.XML_File.EOF)
            {
                Debug.WriteLine(this.XML_File.ReadOuterXml());
            }
        }

 public Class()
        {
            AdomdConnection conn = new AdomdConnection("Data Source=MyComputer;InitialCatalog=Database");
            conn.Open();
            AdomdCommand cmd = new AdomdCommand("Select Hierarchize([Projects].[Project Branch].Levels(1).Members) DIMENSION PROPERTIES PARENT_UNIQUE_NAME, HIERARCHY_UNIQUE_NAME, CUSTOM_ROLLUP, UNARY_OPERATOR, KEY0 ON 0, Hierarchize({{{[Period Calculations].[Period].&[0]}, {[Period Calculations].[Period].&[1]}, {[Period Calculations].[Period].&[2]}, {[Period Calculations].[Period].&[3]}, {[Period Calculations].[Period].&[4]}, {[Period Calculations].[Period].&[5]}}}) DIMENSION PROPERTIES PARENT_UNIQUE_NAME, HIERARCHY_UNIQUE_NAME, CUSTOM_ROLLUP, UNARY_OPERATOR, KEY0 ON 1 FROM [ProjectControl] WHERE ([Measures].[WIP]) CELL PROPERTIES BACK_COLOR, CELL_ORDINAL, FORE_COLOR, FONT_NAME, FONT_SIZE, FONT_FLAGS, FORMAT_STRING, VALUE, FORMATTED_VALUE, UPDATEABLE", conn);
            CellSet Cellules = cmd.ExecuteCellSet();
            this.XML_File = cmd.ExecuteXmlReader();
            DebugXML();
            DebugXML();
            conn.Close();
        }
}

A: Also, look at the Microsoft Support Article - How to read XML file by using Visual C# which has the following example.
using System;
using System.Xml;

namespace ReadXMLfromFile
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for Class1.
    /// </summary>
    class Class1
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader ("books.xml");
            while (reader.Read())
            {
                switch (reader.NodeType)
                {
                    case XmlNodeType.Element: // The node is an element.
                        Console.Write("<" + reader.Name);
                        Console.WriteLine(">");
                        break;
                    case XmlNodeType.Text: //Display the text in each element.
                        Console.WriteLine (reader.Value);
                        break;
                    case XmlNodeType.EndElement: //Display the end of the element.
                        Console.Write("</" + reader.Name);
                        Console.WriteLine(">");
                        break;
                }
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

A: if you execute your code twice, the second time you'll an exception telling you that the file is opened by anothe process.
So that means that you didn't ... close it. So close it !

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Putative cancer stem cells are a subpopulation of cancer cells that give rise to chemotherapy resistance and are therefore of prognostic and therapeutic interest, though their identification remains elusive in colon cancer due to lack of reliable and accurate markers. We previously identified a p53-dependent putative cancer stem cell population, the calcein low population (CloP), based on their exclusive efflux of the fluorescent dye Calcein. This functional identification method enables comparative live cell studies of subpopulations without differential toxicity that occurs with traditional Hoechst methods, which has confounded conclusions and limited the utility of this cancer stem cell marker. In this study, we examined the cancer stem cell-like properties of the CloP population in vivo in comparison with the parental and calcein-high population (ChiP) in human colon cancer xenografts. Serial dilution xenograft experiments in NOD/SCID mice revealed that the CloP is only marginally more tumorigenic compared to the ChiP or parental cells. However, serial passage of these tumors revealed that the CloP is uniquely enriched for self-renewal capacity in vivo compared to the other populations. Immunohistochemical analysis of these tumors revealed that the CloP possesses increased levels of nuclear β-catenin and furthermore, siRNA-mediated knockdown of β-catenin significantly reduced the CloP population. These findings highlight the CloP as an important subpopulation of tumor cells that are exclusively endowed with the ability to self-renew and propagate tumors. The dependency of the CloP on β-catenin provides a molecular explanation for this ability and suggests that this population can and should be therapeutically targeted by inhibition of Wnt signaling.


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Q: Issues in referencing new elements in an existing Android application I have an existing android app. I wanted to change its menu structure without disturbing the existing code. For this I added 2 new java files and relative xmls in the existing project and updated the manifest.xml with the new starter activity.
The issue which I am facing is in the java code. I am not able to reference the elements of the new xmls xxx.findViewById(R.id.xxx)
The error coming up: cannot be resolved or is not a valid field
Please suggest something, I am a newbee

A: When you build an application, Android will create a file called "R.java". This file basically is an index to all resources in your project (strings, layouts, drawables, etc.). If you add new resources by hand, you cannot refer to these resources because they have no ID in the R class.
According to this page you can use the aapt tool to (re?)generate the R file, but I have no experience with this myself.


GBPAUD recently reversed up sharply from the support area lying between the lower daily Bollinger Band and the strong support level 1.7300 (low of wave (A) and multi-month low from August).
The upward reversal from this support area completed the earlier short–term impulse wave 5 – which belongs to the medium impulse wave (C) from the start of October.
GBPAUD is expected to rise further and re-test the next resistance level 1.7600.Strong support remains at the support level 1.7300.


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Dans la religion grecque antique, Hermès ( en grec,  en dorien) est une des divinités de l'Olympe. Il est le messager des dieux, principalement de Zeus, au même titre qu'Iris, et leur intermédiaire auprès des hommes.

Donneur de la chance, inventeur des poids et des mesures, gardien des routes et carrefours, il est le dieu des voyageurs, des bergers, des commerçants, des voleurs et des orateurs. Il conduit les âmes aux Enfers.

Il tient une place importante dans la mythologie grecque en intervenant dans de nombreux mythes. Son équivalent latin est Mercure.

Étymologie
Le nom d'Hermès Hermeíãs d'où ionien-attique Hermễs semble attesté dans les tablettes mycéennes. L'absence d'étymologie sûre a suggéré que le dieu pouvait être une divinité préhellénique ou empruntée, mais aucune de ces hypothèses n'a conduit quelque part.

Néanmoins, Felice Vinci et Arduino Maiuri rapprochent son nom du terme sanskrit gharmah, « chaleur », dont la racine se retrouve dans l'adjectif grec θερμός, « chaud », « ardent » (ainsi que dans l'arménien jerm). Selon eux, il est raisonnable de supposer qu'un ancien dieu du feu se cache derrière ses traits

Origine
Selon Jean Haudry, son origine lunaire « largement estompée » est néanmoins révélée par le jour de sa naissance : le quatrième jour du mois qui commence après les trois jours de la nouvelle lune. Pour Ernst Siecke, Hermès est un ancien dieu lune indo-européen. Son qualificatif d' peut être interprété comme celui « qui gonfle dans la clarté », une désignation de la lune dans sa phase ascendante. Il est lié à la déesse lunaire Hécate.

Des éléments importants de sa légende suggèrent d'identifier Hermès à un ancien « Feu divin » : comme Héphaïstos et Prométhée, il est présenté comme l'inventeur de l'allumage du feu par frottement. Son association avec Hestia, la divinité du feu sacré et du foyer, est caractéristique du couple contrasté entre feu mobile et foyer fixe. Hermès représente le feu ouvert, allumé dans les bivouacs par ceux qui voyagent, travaillent ou errent la nuit, tels les bergers, les marchands, les voyageurs et les voleurs, soit, tous ceux qui dans la Grèce antique le considéraient comme leur dieu tutélaire. Le feu des bûchers sur lesquels les corps des morts étaient brûlés explique également sa fonction de dieu psychopompe, qui conduit les âmes des morts vers l'au-delà (Od. XXIV, 1-10). Son caractère phallique est étroitement lié à sa nature de « Feu divin ».

Pour Felice Vinci et Arduino Maiuri, il est même possible d'identifier le pendant originel d'Hermès dans le monde romain : il ne s'agirait pas de Mercure, mais de l'ancien dieu Terminus, dont la dimension originelle liée au feu s'est progressivement estompée au fil des siècles, comme cela s'est produit aussi pour Hermès.

Mythe antique

Jeunesse
Selon la légende, il est le fils de Zeus et de Maïa, qui, fille du Titan Atlas, est une immortelle mais n'est pas une déesse. Il naît un matin dans une caverne du mont Cyllène en Arcadie « pour être le tourment des hommes mortels et des dieux immortels ». Selon le premier Hymne homérique qui lui est consacré, il bondit de son berceau quelques instants seulement après sa naissance et se met en quête du troupeau d'Apollon. Sur son chemin, il rencontre une tortue qu'il tue ; de la carapace, il fabrique une lyre sur laquelle il célèbre sa propre naissance ainsi que la demeure de sa mère. Quelque temps plus tard, il invente la flûte de Pan ou syrinx. Il gagne le soir même la Piérie où paissent les troupeaux divins. Il dérobe cinquante bœufs à son demi-frère Apollon, soit la moitié d'une hécatombe. En cherchant à faire cuire deux des animaux, il découvre l'art de faire le feu en frottant des morceaux de bois l'un contre l'autre, puis consacre la viande aux douze dieux. Lui-même s'abstient de toucher au sacrifice. Après avoir dispersé les cendres, il retourne chez sa mère à laquelle il annonce avec assurance son intention d'embrasser le meilleur des métiers, c'est-à-dire celui de voleur.

Quand Apollon découvre son voleur, Hermès commence par prétendre être un nouveau-né sans malice, proposant même de jurer de son innocence sur la tête de Zeus. Le dieu archer n'est pas dupe et veut saisir son demi-frère par le bras quand Hermès l'arrête par un éternuement. L'affaire est finalement portée devant Zeus. De nouveau, Hermès proteste de son innocence. Amusé par la précocité de son fils, le roi des dieux ordonne la réconciliation ; Hermès devra lui révéler l'endroit où il a caché le troupeau. Il devra aussi charmer son frère en jouant de la lyre, puis lui donner l'instrument ; Apollon lui accorde en échange une baguette d'or, le futur caducée, et le don de prophétie mineure par le biais de l'oracle des Thries (femmes-abeilles).

Selon Pausanias, il est élevé par Acacos, fils de Lycaon, par ailleurs fondateur d'Acacésion en Arcadie, d'où son épiclèse d'« Acacésien ».

Amours et descendance
Il apparaît souvent sous les traits d'un jeune homme « à sa première barbe, dans le charme de cet âge ». Il se plaît en la compagnie des Charites et des Heures. Devant le spectacle d'Arès et d'Aphrodite faits prisonniers par Héphaïstos, il s'exclame que lui aussi aimerait dormir dans les bras de la déesse, fût-ce au prix de trois fois plus de chaînes.

Avec Aphrodite justement, Hermès engendre Hermaphrodite, divinité bisexuée, mais aussi Éros dans les traditions plus tardives. Il est, selon les auteurs, le père de dieux rustiques à la sexualité débridée tels Pan, son fils par « la fille de Dryops » (Hymne homérique à Pan) ou par la nymphe Thymbris ou Hybris (pseudo-Apollodore), ou par la nymphe Pénélope (les Dionysiaques), voire par Pénélope, femme d'Ulysse (divers récits post-homériques) ; comme Pan ou comme le dieu phallique Priape, parfois également donné pour son fils (Hygin, Fables), il est d'ailleurs souvent représenté sexe dressé (il aime la beauté humaine) et ses amours sont aussi bien féminines (nymphes) que masculines (Pollux, frère jumeau de Castor et archétype du guerrier valeureux, ou le bel Anthéos d'Assessos par exemple). La tradition hésiodique lui prête des amours avec la nymphe-déesse Calypso, rencontrée par Ulysse dans l'Odyssée, qui le rend père du peuple des Céphalléniens (Hésiode, Catalogue des femmes). On le range également volontiers parmi les prétendants de Perséphone et divers chants des Dionysiaques (notamment le chant VI) lui reconnaissent pour épouse Péitho, la déesse de la Persuasion. Pindare, enfin, lui attribue la paternité d'une fille, la déesse messagère Angélia ou La Renommée, sans toutefois indiquer le nom de la mère de cette dernière.

Hermès est également le père d'amants mythologiques célèbres, comme Abdère (amant d'Héraclès) ou Daphnis (de Pan ou Apollon).

Apémosyne a été violée par Hermès.

Parmi ses autres enfants, on compte notamment :

 Autolycos avec Chioné ;
 Céryx ;
 Échion, son jumeau Eurytos et Éthalidès, trois argonautes ;
 Eudore ;
 les satyres, avec la nymphe Apémosyne ;
 Palaestra.

Fonctions

Messager des dieux

Sa fonction de dieu messager et accompagnateur a été préfigurée par sa fonction pastorale dont est resté encore plus proche son fils Pan.

Lors de la guerre de Troie, il prend parti pour les Achéens mais ne participe guère à la bataille. Cependant il se retrouve face à Léto mère d'Apollon et d'Artémis mais refuse de la combattre. Il se contente d'être le messager et l'interprète (on rapproche son nom du mot , « interprète ») de Zeus. Ainsi, il guide au mont Ida Aphrodite, Athéna et Héra qui concourent pour la pomme d'or, afin de les soumettre au jugement de Pâris. Il escorte Priam, venu chercher le corps d'Hector, dans le camp grec ; il avertit (sans succès) Égisthe de ne pas tuer Agamemnon ; il transmet à Calypso l'ordre de libérer Ulysse. Après la guerre, c'est lui qui amène Hélène en Égypte.

De même, c'est lui qui, d'après le pseudo-Apollodore, devant enlever Io sur demande de Zeus, tue Argos aux cent yeux, placé en surveillance par Héra, d'où son épiclèse d'« Argiphonte » (, « tueur d'Argos ») — l'interprétation de cette épithète est pourtant sujette à caution : la légende d'Argos est probablement postérieure à Homère, qui emploie déjà cette épiclèse ; une autre interprétation traduit par « à la lumière blanche, éblouissant ». Guide des héros tout comme Athéna, il conduit Persée dans sa quête de Méduse et guide Héraclès dans les Enfers.

Conducteur des âmes vers Hadès, d'où son épithète de , puis plus tard « Psychopompe » (en grec ). À la fin de l'Odyssée, on le voit ainsi conduisant les âmes des prétendants dans le pré de l'Asphodèle. L'hymne orphique consacré à l'Hermès souterrain, chthonien ou infernal, le dit fils de Dionysos et d'Aphrodite. Il le qualifie également de « maître des morts ».

Cette fonction de messager, de convoyeur et de héraut ne doit rien à ses origines pastorales, mais est typique des Feux divins : c'est celle du feu sacrificiel qui relie les dieux et les hommes. Cette fonction est également une des fonctions principales d'Agni, la divinité védique, seigneur du feu sacrificiel et du foyer.

Statut social
Il est qualifié de (w)ánax « roi », de despótēs « maître de maison ». Comme Janus et d'autres Feux divins, il partage le statut et les prestiges du maître du foyer où il brûle.

Mais, extension inverse, il est le dieu des serviteurs. Dans Prométhée enchaîné, Prométhée le qualifié de « valet », de « serviteur », qualifications qui sont en accord avec la fête des Hermaia au cours de laquelle les maîtres servent leurs serviteurs. C'est un dieu populaire qui sert les petites gens et dont le pilier se trouve sur les lieux de leur travail et de leurs divertissements.

Inventeur
Il est l'inventeur de la production du feu par frottement. Ce faisant, il donne le feu aux hommes, fonction comparable à celle de Prométhée.

Il est aussi l'inventeur de la cithare qu'il donne à Apollon. Ensuite, il invente la flûte de Pan qui reflète ses origines pastorales.

Nature
Il est, parmi les dieux grecs, le plus proche des hommes et le plus bienveillant à leur égard : il leur donne l'écriture, la danse, les poids et mesures, la flûte et la lyre, le moyen de produire une étincelle lorsque le feu s'est éteint. Aristophane dit de lui que « c'est le plus humain et le plus libéral des dieux ». C'est Hermès qui a fait don de parole à Pandore la première femme et qui a présenté Pandore aux hommes. Il réunit en lui la triade de la pensée de la parole et de l'action. Dieu de la parole, de la voix qui est liée à sa fonction de héraut et qui justifie l'usage de lui réserver la langue des victimes sacrificielles, il est celui qui donne la connaissance : « nous demandons la connaissance, don d'Hermès ». On lui attribue l'invention des mathématiques et de l'astronomie.

Néanmoins, contrairement à Dionysos « philanthrope », il est dit philandros : les hommes (ándres) qu'il favorise sont ses compagnons ou plutôt ses complices, ceux qui réussissent par chance, habileté ou malhonnêteté. Le vol des vaches d'Apollon lui a valu le titre de « Prince des voleurs » et il existe un culte d'Hermès kléptēs « voleur » à Chios comme à Samos. Cette activité se concilie avec son caractère nocturne et son premier hymne homérique le décrit comme un « brigand » et comme un « Ravisseur de bœufs ». Autant de qualités qui s'accordent aux origines pastorales d'Hermès à travers la pratique traditionnelle de la razzia et autant de points communs avec le dieu védique Rudra dont il partage les mêmes liens avec le feu. Dans les deux cas, elles sont liées au paradoxe traditionnel du feu qui se voit mieux dans l'obscurité.

Il est avant tout la personnification de l'ingéniosité, de la mètis (intelligence rusée) et de la chance. Le mot « coup de chance », lorsqu'un bienfait arrive inopinément, se dit en grec ancien ) et évoque le dieu également. Dans ses Caractères, le philosophe Théophraste rapporte ce proverbe antique : , « Hermès est à tout le monde », qui signifie que le dieu est loué pour avoir apporté la bonne fortune, le bon hasard. Il est qualifié de kunánkhēs et de kandaúlēs « étrangleur du chien », « qui triomphe de la malchance ».

Épithètes et attributs

 Ses attributs : le pétase (chapeau rond) ailé, le caducée, les sandales ailées (grec  / , latin talaria) et la bourse d'argent.
 Ses animaux favoris : le coq, le bélier, la tortue.
 Épiclèses :
 Son qualificatif principal Argiphonte ( / ) se laisse interpréter comme celui « qui brille de blancheur » ou encore celui « qui gonfle dans la clarté », une dénomination de l'astre lunaire dans sa phase ascendante ;
 Acacésien ( / ), dont la glose varie entre « bienveillant » et « intelligent », un qualificatif qu'il partage avec Prométhée. Laura Massetti explique toutefois l'épithète  par la racine indo-européenne *kenk- « sécher/brûler (?) », qui sous-tend plusieurs termes pour « faim, avoir faim », ainsi que certains mots signifiant « sec/brûlant », par ex. ,  'sec'.  aurait signifié à l'origine « tout sécher/brûler »* ou, peut-être, « très affamé », puisque la faim est traditionnellement associée à la brûlure, par exemple,  « faim brûlante ». Une épithète de ce genre convient parfaitement, selon elle, à la fois à Hermès et à Prométhée, qui partagent une association avec le feu, le vol et le sacrifice, trois composantes des divinités du feu.
 Chtonien ( / ) ;
 Psychopompe ( / Psukhopompós) ;
 phutálmios « qui fait pousser » atteste sa fonction fécondante illustrée par les épis figurant sur les monnaies le représentant. Il fait croître le bétail.
 Épithètes :
 « à la houlette d'or » ( / ).

Culte

Les hermès

La forme la plus ancienne de son culte s'adressait à ses représentations dites hermai, en Arcadie ou en Attique, sous la forme de colonnes de pierre quadrangulaires surmontées d'une tête barbue, pourvue éventuellement d'un phallus et souvent accompagnées d'une inscription. Ces hermès se trouvaient au bord des routes, sur les frontières, aux croisements, aux portes des villes et des maisons, mais également sur les places, dans les gymnases, les bibliothèques, les sanctuaires. Ils constituent la base de son culte.

Il était de coutume de placer des empilements de pierres en son honneur aux carrefours : chaque voyageur ajoutait une pierre à l'édifice. Ces tas de pierres ont été peu à peu supplantés par des bornes en pierre de forme phallique placées le long des routes, pour aboutir à la forme équarrie et quadrangulaire des hermès, surmontés de la tête du dieu et portant, en leur centre et en relief, ses attributs virils (voir le scandale de la mutilation des Hermès, Hermocopides, auquel fut mêlé Alcibiade).

Les hermai recevaient des couronnes, des onctions, différents dons comme de la monnaie, des fruits, des épis, des gâteaux, des victimes animales. Quelques-uns de ces hermai sont janiformes, présentent une tête féminine et une tête masculine. D'autres associent deux têtes masculines, l'une imberbe et l'autre barbue. Certaines sont tricéphales, d'autres quadricéphales.

Toute rencontre, tout événement, tout accident imprévu sur une route est appelé « don d'Hermès » (en grec  qui désigne aussi notre coup de chance).

Culte public

En dehors de ces hermès, le dieu n'a pas d'autres sanctuaires : « pas un seul grand temple, pas une ville où le dieu règne en maître incontesté dans une demeure centrale ».

Ainsi, bien qu'il soit un dieu très populaire, son culte public est peu développé. Plusieurs régions de la Grèce, au premier chef l'Argolide, intègrent dans leur calendrier un mois qui lui est dédié,  /  (mi-octobre à mi-novembre). Il semble avoir été associé à une fête des morts. Dans une symbolique similaire, un sacrifice lui est offert, toujours à Argos, le trentième jour suivant des funérailles. À Athènes, au troisième jour des Anthestéries, une offrande de gruau de graines est consacrée à Hermès chthonien. Ce rapport à la mort est lié au cycle du sommeil sur lequel il exerce une influence, notamment sur les rêves. Alors que pour la plupart la mort est un sommeil, Hermès éveille les siens pour une survie consciente. Cet éveil ouvre aux initiés la « voie » hodós des dieux. Ce rôle sera probablement l'origine du lien entre Hermès et la littérature ésotérique dite « hermétique ».

Il est célébré sous le nom de Kadmilos au sanctuaire des Grands Dieux de Samothrace comme le compagnon d'Axieros-Déméter, la Grande Mère.

Hermès, messager des dieux était le patron protecteur des Céryces, hérauts officiels qui portaient le caducée comme lui. Hermès est, avec Héraclès, le patron des gymnases et palestres, où son buste est toujours présent. Il protège donc les sportifs et est le fondateur des concours de lutte (sa fille Palaestra  est d'ailleurs tout à la fois l'inventrice de ce sport et sa déesse). C'est donc le dieu du commerce, des voyageurs et des voleurs, des pasteurs et de leurs troupeaux, ainsi que des orateurs ou des prostituées.

Sa victime préférée est le bélier et il est souvent représenté en portant un, c'est l'Hermès criophore, figure typique de ses origines pastorales. Comme offrande, il apprécie beaucoup la pâtisserie, affinité commune qu'il partage avec Vesta. Comme dieu des orateurs, ses offrandes préférées sont le lait mêlé de miel et les langues d'animaux.

Correspondances et postérité
Dans la Rome antique, Hermès est assimilé au dieu romain Mercure.

Il correspond à Sarmis ou Armis chez les Daces, Armes chez les Scythes et Sarruma en Anatolie
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Les trois Hermès
Vers la fin de l'Antiquité, notamment dans l'Égypte hellénisée, Hermès est assimilé à Thot (nom grec — le nom égyptien était Djehuty), le dieu des savoirs cachés. Il devient ainsi l'auteur mythique, sous le nom d'Hermès trois fois le plus grand, ou trismégistos, ou Hermès Trismégiste, d'une véritable bibliothèque ésotérique qui nourrit par la suite, notamment, les travaux des alchimistes du Moyen Âge.

 (Antoine Faivre).

Pour André-Jean Festugière, la tradition « hermétique » n'a utilisé le nom d'Hermès que comme un prête-nom pour contenter le besoin de révélation propre à l'époque hellénistique.

Hermès au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance

Au Moyen Âge, Robert de Chester affirme :
  (préface au Liber de compositione alchemiae, 1144).

Plus tard, Hermès apparaît notamment dans les travaux des alchimistes et des hermétistes (qui lui doivent leur nom) sous le nom d'« Hermès Trismégiste ». L'adjectif référant à Hermès est hermaïque.

Dans l'islam, Idris-Hermès est associé à Hénoch, fils de Yared, arrière-grand-père de Noé. Il est mentionné dans le Coran (XIX, 57 ; XXI, 85).

Hermès dans les arts après l'Antiquité

Littérature
 Au , certains poètes français, appartenant au courant du Parnasse, aiment à traiter des sujets antiques empruntés notamment à la mythologie grecque. José-Maria de Heredia inclut ainsi une épigramme « À Hermès Criophore » (porteur de bélier) dans son recueil Les Trophées publié en 1893.
 À partir du , dans les littératures de l'imaginaire, notamment la fantasy, Hermès apparaît régulièrement parmi les autres grandes divinités grecques dans les romans qui les mettent en scène. Il apparaît ainsi dans la série romanesque Percy Jackson de l'auteur américain Rick Riordan, publiée entre 2005 et 2010.
 Hermès fait partie des nombreux dieux cités dans la série de bande dessinée Astérix.

Notes et références

Bibliographie

Sources primaires

Sources secondaires
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 Dominique Jaillard, Configurations d'Hermès : une "théologie hermaïque", Liège, Centre international d'étude de la religion grecque antique, Kernos supplément , 2007.
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  Paul-Louis van Berg, « Hermes and Agni : a fire-god in Greece ? », Proceedings of the Twelth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2001, p. 189-204.

Annexes

Sources radiophoniques

 Pierre Judet de La Combe, Hermès, le dieu fourbe et farceur, qui conduisait les âmes des morts dans l'Invisible, 54 mn, 1 octobre 2022, France-Inter.

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Ariana Grande is on her way up in the industry (Twitter/@ReasonsSmile).
Ariana Grande's popularity is growing, and 2014 was a busy year for the 21-year-old singer and actress. As the year comes to an end, here are her top moments of 2014.
While the angels made their way down the runway, Grande got a whack in the face by some angel wings. After a flash of visible pain and surprise, she continued right on. Her reaction became an instant internet meme hit.
She came forth with her boyfriend Big Sean
The couple have the song "Right There" together and are not strangers to showing off some PDA.
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Ariana Grande and her "Sam & Cat" co-star, Jennette McCurdy, are no longer pals. The two carry some beef together as McCurdy said she wants to be treated with the same respect as Grande. Their show was canceled.
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Global Payments Earnings: An Early Look
Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool, AOL.com
Apr 1st 2013 4:20PM
The new earnings season is about to begin, but a few laggards are still getting around to reporting their quarterly results. Global Payments is about to release its quarterly earnings report. The key to making smart investment decisions with stocks releasing their quarterly reports is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever inevitable surprises arise. That way, you'll be less likely to make an uninformed, kneejerk reaction that turns out to be exactly the wrong move in light of the news.
The way people pay each other has changed dramatically in just the past few years, and Global Payments is on the cutting edge of trying to transform the electronic-payments industry in an era of smartphones and other mobile devices. Let's take an early look at what's been happening with Global Payments over the past quarter and what we're likely to see in its quarterly report on Tuesday.
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Will Global Payments pay off for investors this quarter?
Analysts have been more optimistic in recent months about the earnings prospects for Global Payments, as they've boosted their consensus for the just-ended quarter by a penny per share and now see full fiscal-year 2013 earnings coming in $0.06 per share higher than they did. The stock has also done well recently, rising almost 10% in the first three months of 2013.
Global Payments is a big player in the merchant-processing area. Acting as a go-between for merchants to accept payments from customers using popular credit card networks, Global Payments has profited from the big upsurge in use of credit and debit cards over other forms of payment.
But this time last year, Global Payments faced a threat to its survival when a security breach jeopardized 1.5 million cardholders. Card network giants Visa and MasterCard both booted the company off their lists of payment processors meeting their security standards, putting Global Payments' future in doubt.
More importantly, competitors are looking to cut Global Payments and other middlemen out of the business. Mobile-payment upstart Square has joined eBay's highly successful PayPal in offering simple acceptance of credit cards at low costs. That may not pull high-volume merchants away from Global Payments, but as Square announced a partnership with Starbucks last year, it's entirely possible that traditional merchant processors could disappear in time.
In its quarterly report, watch for Global Payments to benefit from reasonably strong payment-volume growth in the overall economy. If it doesn't, it could be a troubling sign that Global Payments isn't maintaining its market share in the payment processing industry, and that in turn could be a sign of further trouble to come.
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« Book: Getting to YesWeek ending September 26, 2010 »
Systematically eliminating choices
Posted: Sep 27, 2010 - Modified: Feb 19, 2011 | life
I confess: I sometimes feel overwhelmed when researching choices. I find it really helpful to write options down and then systematically eliminate them as I learn more.
For example, we're planning how to take 11 people (ourselves included) to Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake. Based on a few Internet searches, we identified the following options:
Rent a 12-passenger van and take everyone.
Rent a 7-passenger minivan and go in a convoy.
Charter a yacht and go across the lake.
Charter a private tour van from Toronto.
Take a pre-determined Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake tour.
Go to Niagara Falls by bus.
Skip Niagara entirely.
Decisions are less stressful when you've got a basic plan in place, like the way that writing is easier once you've written a first draft, and like the way negotiations are easier when you've identified your best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA).
Our "first draft" was option 6: taking an inexpensive bus to Niagara Falls, and then doing a self-directed tour. That beat option 7, which might've involved making more preserves. ;)
We briefly looked at option 5 (public bus tour), too, but it didn't feel like a good fit. So we struck that out.
Our ideal would've been to rent a 12-passenger van, but the companies that listed them as available seemed sketchy (mixed reviews on the Internet, complaints about transactions), and the larger rental companies didn't have any 12-passenger vans available during that period. (Update: the smaller companies reported not having any vans for those dates, either. Moot point, then.)
We played around with the idea of taking a yacht (3) because it would be an awesome experience, but we decided it wasn't worth it.
Renting a minivan and going in a convoy (2) was much better than going to Niagara Falls by bus, so we made that our current working option.
A bit of digging turned up the IBM discount for Enterprise Car, which was okay. (I found out from Ian Garmaise that Enterprise also has 12-passenger vans, but none were available for the period we were looking at.)
W- reasoned that it made more sense to rent a minivan for the entire time than to hire a van and a driver, considering many people in our family can drive.
When you feel overwhelmed with choices, it helps to list those choices and then get rid of them one by one.


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The 2021 Bredene Koksijde Classic was the 18th edition of the Bredene Koksijde Classic road cycling one day race, which was held on 19 March 2021, starting and finishing in the titular towns of Bredene and Koksijde, respectively. The 1.Pro-category race was initially scheduled to be a part of the inaugural edition of the UCI ProSeries, but after the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it made its UCI ProSeries debut in 2021, while also still being a part of the 2021 UCI Europe Tour.

The race was won in a sprint by Tim Merlier () ahead of Mads Pedersen () and Florian Sénéchal ().

Teams
Twelve of the nineteen UCI WorldTeams, ten UCI ProTeams, and three UCI Continental teams made up the twenty-five teams that participated in the race. There were several teams that entered less than the maximum of seven riders: , , , , , and  each entered six, while  only entered five.

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When I Found out The Kentucky Headhunters was doing a concert in my town, I started thinking how great it would be to meet Fred Young and possibly get a photo with him to share here in the magazine. Mike Braswell, my close friend, told me that he would be taking photos of the band, so I asked him if he could help me meet Fred. It was having my people call his people. I always wanted to do that. Mike talked to Bob Johnson who called Scott Keys who spoke to Fred. I wanted to be sure it would be alright to meet him and get some photos. I also asked if it would be okay to take a road trip to show Fred my drum collection also. I think that cinched the deal. Fred and Scott love vintage drums. It was all set, I could come to the venue around 3:00 p.m., I think Fred sleeps pretty late, meet Scott, the road manager, meet other members of the band, and then meet the man himself, Fred Young.
Mike and I had a lovely time on the tour bus with members of the opening act band, The Dukes, members of the Headhunters, and Scott. The guys were sharing funny road stories and memories. I could have listened all day. It is fun just to hear Fred talk with his thick Kentucky accent. He is a fantastic storyteller with a lot of knowledge about music, musicians, and gear. Fred took us inside the venue to see his iconic drum set. As you know, it is an eclectic set of vintage drums from the 1940s to the present. The drums are dusty, crusty, and beautiful. Scott told me no one is allowed to clean them or monkey with them in any way. Fred didn't want the "Mojo" disturbed. I was able to sit behind them. Fred sits very low on his stool. I did not so much as tap on the heads, but it was tempting to thump the big double bass drums.
Scott, Mike, Fred and I traveled across town to visit my drum room. I think Fred had told Scott that it better not be a bunch of new modern drums he was going to see. I think Fred and Scott were pleased with what they saw. We opened cases and looked at the kind of drums that Fred knew and loved. I had a 1960s Ludwig Downbeat Ringo style kit set up. Fred asked if he could play them. I really hoped he would play them, and play them he did. He seemed to love that little kit. Fred delighted in showing us Ringo, Bernard Purdie, and Clyde Stubblefield beats. He is a great drummer. We had a great time talking about drummers, drums, and playing on the road. We even talked a little about farm tractors, something else Fred knows a lot about.
When it was time to get back to the venue to meet the others to go out to eat, Scott started trying to pull Fred out of the drum room. It was not an easy task. I think he would have stayed longer if time would have allowed.
We drove back to the venue, and Fred sat up front with me. He shared some of the trials he had faced and was now having. He knew I was a minister and was opening up about his faith. I was glad we also had that in common to share. I began to realize how hard it must be for road warriors like Fred to cope with everyday life struggles we all face with family and home. He declared it was his faith that helped him through it all. He told me he sometimes sat and did paradiddles saying "Thank you, dear Lord."


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The challenging arguments in court against FCC are highly technical.
Tech companies and almost two dozen US states have clashed with the government in federal court over the repeal of net neutrality, a set of rules aimed at preventing big internet providers from discriminating against certain technology and services.
Obama's FCC had imposed a strict set of regulations on Internet providers to ensure they wouldn't be able to prioritize certain websites and apps over others. The FCC chairman at that time, Tom Wheeler, had stated that no individual or group should be allowed to control the freedom and openness to access the internet. Various consumer groups, Democratic-led states, and technology companies expressed their dissent against this decision openly. It therefore should be regulated as an information service and not subject to the utility-style oversight of phone companies, he said.
"Open access for internet users is a core digital free expression issue". The case also helps pave the way for these necessary legal fights to protect (and hopefully resurrect) a free and open internet. The FCC defended its decision to revoke the rules.
Markey, who has long advocated for open internet rules, said Friday that the FCC "ignored" the Communications Act and Congress's intent when it repealed the rules. More than 20 million public comments were filed with the FCC - a lot of them arguing against repealing the rules - though many of those were later discovered to be fake, NPR reported. The legal counsel of public radio system, NPR, also filed comments with the FCC on behalf of NPR in opposition of the FCC's repeal decision. But when Donald Trump became president, the political balance of the communications agency changed. Since the repeal of the Obama-era rule took effect in June 2018, internet speed went from 12th to 6th fastest in the world, according to media reports.
Johnson conceded that providers could block or throttle traffic under the FCC rules but said it was unlikely. "The Internet was not broken", Pai said, as reported by NPR.
The Democratic takeover of the House in November's midterm elections could revive efforts to enshrine net neutrality in federal law, though Trump likely would veto any such attempts. "Except that here, there was no flea". The new regulations would allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs), like Comcast and Spectrum, among others, to give preferential treatment to certain types of content and charge more for certain types of traffic. Pai also wrote that the Federal Trade Commission could ensure consistent safeguarding of Americans throughout the Internet economy.


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Former Maine, N.H. State Director Phillips dies
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Former Maine-New Hampshire State Legislative Director Ernest "Ernie" A. Phillips, 77, died March 27.
Phillips was born Jan. 4, 1936, in Milford, Maine. In February 1956, he went to work for Bangor and Aroostook Railroad as a trainman. In July 1962, he was employed by Maine Central Railroad as a trainman and conductor. He was a member of Local 663 at Bangor, Maine.
In 1980, he was elected as general chairperson for UTU General Committee of Adjustment GO 529 representing Maine Central, Portland Terminal, Grand Trunk Railroad CN, CP Railroad, Lamoine Valley Railroad and Central Vermont. He also went on to be elected UTU International alternate vice president.
Phillips was a 33-year member of Portland Elks Lodge No. 188, a member of the Air National Guard and a member of American Legion Post No. 24.
He is survived by his wife, Donna; children Dawn, Michael, Randy and Patrick, and seven grandchildren.
A funeral service was held April 2 at Brookings-Smith, 133 Center St., in Bangor, Maine. Interment will be at Lakeview Cemetery in Glenburn at a later date. Condolences to the family may be expressed at www.Brookings-Smith.com.


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Brigadier-General Buba Marwa(rtd) becomes NDLEA boss
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of former Military Administrator of Lagos and Borno States, Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (Rtd) as the Chairman/CEO of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this to ait.live via SMS on Saturday that the President has given his go-ahead for the appointment.
"It's true. The President has approved General Marwa as the new NDLEA Chairman," he said in the SMS.
Before this appointment, Marwa was the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse, PACEDA, between 2018 and December, 2020 at which time he presided over the development of a blueprint on how to end drug abuse in Nigeria.
A graduate of the Nigerian Military School and the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA Kaduna, Marwa also has a master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University and another Master's degree in International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Is Prabhu Deva Ready To Tie The Knot Soon For A Second Time?
Authors: Arunita Tiwari (Editorial Team)
Director and choreographer Prabhu Deva is all set to tie the knot once again if reports are anything to go by. Buzz is that Prabhu Deva is dating his niece and the two might tie the knot soon.
While there is no confirmation on this from Prabhu Deva himself, a report on the Cinema Vikatan while busting the rumour of the filmmaker's secret wedding stated that he is in a relationship with a doctor and a wedding might be on the cards soon. On the other hand, a Times of India report claims that the woman in the filmmaker's life is his niece.
A post shared by Prrabhudeva (@prabhudevaofficial) on Nov 15, 2019 at 5:40am PST
If true, this would be Prabhu Deva second marriage after his divorce to wife Ramlatha in 2010 after they had been married for 16 years. The two had three kids while their eldest son passed away in 2008. The choreographer's wife blamed his affair with actress Nayanthara for them parting ways. Prabhu Deva parted ways with the actress in 2012.
On the work front Prabhu Deva has wrapped up shoot for Salman Khan starrer Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai in October and has been in Mumbai completing the film which also stars Randeep Hooda, Jackie Shroff and Disha Patani.
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{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
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{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards   #-}
module EModule where

-- hp
import qualified Data.ByteString             as B
import           Data.Int

-- 3rd party
import           Data.Generics.Uniplate.Data
import           Data.Vector                 (Vector)
import qualified Data.Vector                 as V

-- this project
import           AtomTable                   (AtomTable)
import qualified AtomTable                   as AT
import           Beam
import           ETerm

data EModule =
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    , emodModNameAtom  :: AtomNo
    , emodCode         :: Code
    , emodImports      :: Vector (AtomNo {- mod -}, AtomNo {- fun -}, Arity)
    , emodExports      :: [(AtomNo {- fun -}, Arity, Int32 {- label -})]
    , emodLabelToIp    :: [(Int32, Int)]
    , emodLiteralTable :: [Literal]
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newtype Code = Code { unCode :: Vector Op }

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  showsPrec i (Code v) = showsPrec i (V.toList v)
  showList vs = showList (map unCode vs)

opAtIp :: Code -> Int -> Op
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makeCode :: [Op] -> Code
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beamToModule :: Beam -> AtomTable -> (EModule, AtomTable, Beam)
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Discussion in 'Pokémon Role Play' started by Tailon, Apr 28, 2011.
A young woman awoke in Lilycove City's Cove Lily Motel. She sat up, reaching vaguely toward the bedside table until she found her glasses. The girl stood, looking around the room groggily until her view centered on the bathroom. Somehow managing to wander in the small room, the girl made her way there and showered, then exited to the closet she had hung her clothes in for the extended stay in Lilycove. The young woman chose a pair of unnecessarily large jeans, a blue t-shirt and a darker blue hoodie with a pin shaped like a Premier Ball on the left breast, near the zipper. Finally, she vaguely bothered to comb her long brown hair, though for once it managed to fall vaguely into place.
The young woman locked the door as she left her room, then meandered her way out of the hotel to the nearby cliffs. Not wanting to go the long way around to the beach, she took a Poke Ball from her bag and tossed it, releasing a large, Blue, amphibious looking Pokemon. Cody the Swampert blinked a bit, but managed to surmise the situation. The girl, Lindsey, patted him on the side as she climbed onto his back. The Swampert rose off of its forelegs as they began to glow, the digits extending with white light into claws as he leapt onto the cliff's sheer surface, Lindsey clinging to his neck. Mere seconds later, the two stood on Lilycove's relatively small beach.
Lindsey looked with a smile, though as much as she loved the look and smell of the ocean; she would never go in without a Pokemon to Surf on. There were simply too many wild Pokemon in the water to want to deal with. Reaching into her bag, Lindsey took several varieties of Pokeball and threw them in the air, releasing five other Pokemon; Farfetch'd, Torkoal, Breloom, Parasect, and Seviper. A few of her Pokemon went off to play in the water, though the Torkoal, Claire, simply followed her as she climbed up on to a rather large rock, curling up beside Lindsey to nap. From the bag, Lindsey withdrew a sketchpad and pencils, and began sketching the ocean view and the Pokemon flying and floating within it.
Young Samuel Vekkner was sitting in the shadows of a building, looking out towards the sea through a pair of binoculars. Aqua activity had been increasing as of late, and the still rookie member had been assigned to spy on their primary base in Lilycove City, along with several other members. He was the one who was supposed to draw attention if anything happened, and thus, he was in his uniform, while his comrades were plainclothes.
Next to him was a small orange Pokemon, a Buizel, named Seth. The Pokemon was his closest friend, given to him by an odd scientist named Dr. North. The Buizel looked as bored as Sam felt, and was paging through a small book. The Magma operative never really got why the Pokemon looked at books, acting as if he could actually read. There was no real way for the two to communicate, so the teen would never know for sure.
Suddenly, the radio sitting a foot from the trainer cracked to life. It told him to get to work as a distraction while his comrades escaped. The trainer called back an affirmative, took the book from Seth, and placed it into his backpack. Taking out an item ball, he put the radio inside, then placed that in his pack as well. He then quickly checked to make sure all his Pokeballs were in their place, then grabbed the Buizel and took off towards the beach.
Once there, he slid to a halt, looking towards a whole in the rocks out to sea, where he could just make out people, waiting for him to get to work. So, he did just that, grabbing one of his Pokeballs, or a Great Ball in this case, and released the Pokemon inside, a Flygon named Vincent.
"Sandstorm and Sand Tomb," the trainer ordered, not caring that there was another trainer and Pokemon on the beach.
The Flygon nodded, flying up into the air and kicking up and sandstorm that began to rage through the beach. Out of the center of this storm, a massive cyclone of sand swept up, detracting the citizens of Lilycove and any Aqua members nearby long enough for the trainers hanging out at the hole that would lead to the Aqua base could fly out, heading in the direction of Mt. Chimney.
Their work done, the Trainer had the Flygon blow away the Sandstorm and cyclone, leaving the beach in a mess. Returning Vincent to his Great Ball, Sam started to look around, making sure no one was coming for him before he himself made his escape.
Quite suddenly, the winds picked up to buffeting speeds, launching sand all around them. Cody leapt to shield his trainer and Claire the Torkoal from the attack as five beams of red light flashed from underneath him, recalling the other Pokemon to the safety of their Poke Balls.
Soon enough, the swirling sands died down, leaving a teenager in a Magma uniform standing in their wake. Sensing the threat was gone for the moment, Cody pulled away from his trainer, who quickly scrambled to her feet. The girl angrily pushed her glasses up from their precarious position at the tip of her nose as she looked around to find whoever it was attacking random beaches, only to find an agent of Magma, recalling a Flygon and scanning the beach for others.
"It figures one of these ridiculous teams would be behind something like this," she nearly shouted as she strode quickly toward the boy, "I hope you weren't planning on getting away scott-free for that one," she continued as Cody stepped between them, "cause you're not going anywhere just yet."
Sam smirked. There was indeed a Trainer on the beach, that made his job a hell of a lot easier. She had a Swampert with her, which complicated things a little, but not too much.
"Guess again. You being here makes things a lot easier for me," the Magma recruit smirked, pulling an Ultra Ball from his belt and releasing the Pokemon inside. A Hypno now stood on the beach, ready to fight.
Her newfound opponent released an odd, yellow, bipedal, tapir-like Pokemon onto the field of battle, Hypno. Weighing her options, Lindsey had Cody step aside, and took a Premier Ball from her belt, throwing it onto the battlefield. In a bright flash of light, a strange, insect-like Pokemon with an enormous mushroom on its back and no pupils appeared. Ceasar the Parasect took the field, awaiting orders.
A fire seemed to ignite behind Lindsey's eyes, as she raised a hand toward her opponent, "Alright, let's rumble. Ceasar, start with Spore, then Swords Dance to X-Scissor," she ordered, lowering her arm.
The Parasect immediately complied, shooting a large cloud of spores from its mushroom at their opponent before raising its attack with Swords Dance, which caused its claws to grow, glowing purple. The Bug type then charged forward as fast as its small legs would carry it, crossing its large pincers in an X shape as they glowed bright white.


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Q: Flexible system call in Ruby I'm working on a Sidekiq worker that's sole purpose is to make several long-running system calls. I have the following requirements:

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*Able to set environment variables

*Real-time output (stdout, stderr) stream

*Block thread until finished

*Get exit code

*Thread-safe, since sidekiq is multi-threaded (read: no $?)

I'm running on Ruby 1.9.2. Thanks for your input!

A: $? (as well as most other "magical" variables like $1 etc.) is local to the current thread and thus using system and $? is perfectly thread-safe and meets all your criteria.