text:
World::World() {
}

World::~World() {

	//The entities structures created shall be destroyed in the creation opposite order
	if (!worldEntities.empty()) {
		for (std::vector<Entity*>::iterator it = worldEntities.end(); it != worldEntities.begin(); it--) {
			delete *it;
		}
	}

}

void World::welcomeToZork()
{
	std::printf("Welcome to Zork - Keep Going! This is a conversation game where you will get under the skin of a Intelligence "
	"Agency member, who among other qualified companions will try to obtain the antidote for the upcoming world spread disease. "
	"Mankind's future will be settled depending on the result of this mission." "\n");
}

void World::initializeEntitiesData()
{
	std::ifstream i(ENTITIES_JSON_PATH);
	nlohmann::json jCharacters;
	i >> jCharacters;

	jCharacters = sortJSONEntities(jCharacters);
	nlohmann::json::iterator sortedEntitiesIterator;

	for (sortedEntitiesIterator = jCharacters.begin(); sortedEntitiesIterator != jCharacters.end(); sortedEntitiesIterator++) {

		if (sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Type"] == ENTITY_KEY_ROOMS) {
			Room *room = new Room(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Name"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Description"], nullptr);
			worldEntities.push_back(room);
		}
		else if (sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Type"] == ENTITY_KEY_EXITS) {
			Item *exitKey = nullptr;
			Room *exitRoom = (Room*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Origin"], ENTITY_ROOM);
			if (!sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Key"].is_null()) {
				exitKey = (Item*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Key"], ENTITY_ITEM);
			}

			Exit * exit = new Exit(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Name"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Description"], exitRoom,
				sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Orientation"],sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Destination"],
				sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Locked"], exitKey);
			worldEntities.push_back(exit);
		}
		else if (sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Type"] == ENTITY_KEY_CHARACTERS) {
			Room *characterRoom = (Room*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentLocation"], ENTITY_ROOM);
			Weapon *characterWeapon = (Weapon*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentWeapon"], ENTITY_WEAPON);

			Character *character = new Character(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Name"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Description"],
				sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["HP"],sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Attack"],
				sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Inventory"],sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["IsAlive"],
				characterWeapon,characterRoom);
			worldEntities.push_back(character);
		}
		else if (sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Type"] == ENTITY_KEY_PLAYERS) {
			Room *playerRoom = (Room*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentLocation"], ENTITY_ROOM);
			Weapon *playerWeapon = nullptr;
			if (!sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Key"].is_null()) {
				playerWeapon = (Weapon*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentWeapon"], ENTITY_WEAPON);
			}

			Player *player = new Player(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Name"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Description"],
				sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["HP"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Attack"],
				sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Inventory"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["IsAlive"],
				playerWeapon, playerRoom);
			worldEntities.push_back(player);
		}
		else if (sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Type"] == ENTITY_KEY_ITEMS) {
			Item *item = nullptr;

			if (!sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentLocation"].is_null()) {
				Room *itemRoom = nullptr;
				itemRoom = (Room*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentLocation"], ENTITY_ROOM);
				if (!itemRoom) {
					delete(itemRoom);
					Item *itemParent = nullptr;
					itemParent = (Item*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentLocation"], ENTITY_ITEM);
				}
				item = new Item(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Name"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Description"],
					nullptr);
			}
			else {
				item = new Item(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Name"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Description"],
				nullptr);
			}

			item->setItems(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Items"]);
			worldEntities.push_back(item);
		}
		else if (sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Type"] == ENTITY_KEY_WEAPONS) {
			Item *itemParent = nullptr;
			if (!sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentLocation"].is_null()) {
				itemParent = (Item*)find(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["CurrentLocation"], ENTITY_ROOM);
			}
			Item *item = new Item(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Name"], sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Description"],
				itemParent);
			item->setItems(sortedEntitiesIterator.value()["Items"]);
			worldEntities.push_back(item);
		}
	}

}

//After getting back the unsorted Json Entities from the proper json files, this method will sort the entities in order to prepare the CORRECT creation of the c++ entities structures
nlohmann::json World::sortJSONEntities(nlohmann::json nonSortedEntities)
{
	std::vector<nlohmann::json> sortedJsonEntities;
	nlohmann::json::iterator jsonEntitiesIterator;

	for (jsonEntitiesIterator = nonSortedEntities.begin(); jsonEntitiesIterator != nonSortedEntities.end(); jsonEntitiesIterator++) {
		bool individualSorted = false;
		if (sortedJsonEntities.size() == 0) {
			sortedJsonEntities.push_back(jsonEntitiesIterator.value());
		}
		else {
			for (auto it = sortedJsonEntities.begin(); individualSorted == false && it != sortedJsonEntities.end();) {
				if (jsonEntitiesIterator.value()["Order"] <= (*it)["Order"]) {
					sortedJsonEntities.insert(it, jsonEntitiesIterator.value());
					individualSorted = true;
				}
				else if (std::next(it,1) == sortedJsonEntities.end()) {
					sortedJsonEntities.push_back(jsonEntitiesIterator.value());
					individualSorted = true;
				}
				else {
					it++;
				}
			}
		}
	}

	return sortedJsonEntities;
}

Entity* World::find(std::string entityName, EntityType entityType)
{
	Entity *entity = nullptr;
	for (auto it = worldEntities.begin(); it != worldEntities.end(); ++it) {
		if ((*it)->type == entityType) {
			entity = (*it)->Find(entityName);
		}
	}
	return entity;
}

//We split the user's written input in words in order to enable individual word evaluation
std::vector<std::string> World::buildUserFullInput(std::vector<std::string> structuredPlayerInput, const std::string playerInput)
{
	const char *playerInputData = playerInput.c_str();
	int wordBeginning = 0;
	int wordCounter = 0;

	for (unsigned int wordIndex = 0; wordIndex <= playerInput.length(); ++wordIndex) {
		wordCounter++;
		if (playerInputData[wordIndex] == ' ') {
			structuredPlayerInput.push_back(playerInput.substr(wordBeginning, wordCounter - 1));
			wordBeginning = wordIndex + 1;
			wordCounter = 0;
		}
	}
	structuredPlayerInput.push_back(playerInput.substr(wordBeginning, wordCounter));
	return structuredPlayerInput;
}


This 900 W Neff C17MR02N0B Built-in Combination Microwave gives you the convenience of a high-powered microwave with oven and grilling functions, allowing you to prepare all kinds of meals in one appliance.
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You can simply enter the weight of your food or choose the type of food you're cooking from a pre-programed menu. Just relax while the microwave takes care of the hard work.
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Enjoy all-inclusive cooking convenience when you install the Neff C17MR02N0B Built-in Combination Microwave.


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Redressing the dummy — Madame Tussaud's makes changes to defeated waxen Trump
By Vinnie Longobardo
While Donald Trump continues to insist that, no really, he WON the election against Joe Biden despite all evidence to the contrary, the rest of the world has already moved on.
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The renowned tourist attraction Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London has already started to revamp its Trump exhibit for a new era by changing its waxen replica of the 45th American president out of its boring presidential suit and tie and dressing it up in the more characteristic golf resort wear that the disgraced president will be likely to be wearing before he may be forced to exchange it for prison stripes.
Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London reports that it has already redressed its effigy of the American President to wear retirement golf clothes: pic.twitter.com/ssttAaFEfd
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 7, 2020
Here's a shot of how Trump was initially portrayed by the London branch of the famous hall of wax replicas of the famous and the infamous.
There is no word on whether the museum also bothered to change the Depends on the waxen effigy at the same time as the wardrobe renewal.
Compared to the Berlin branch of Madame Tussaud's, the London museum was a model of restraint.
Even before the fateful election day that confirmed Trump's fate as a massive loser, the Berlin outpost of the waxworks redesigned their exhibit featuring a Trump mannequin, still wearing an appropriately presidential suit, into a tableau of political prognostication.
The displayed the Trump dummy (please excuse the redundancy) in a trash bin festooned with a Dump Trump sign and surrounded by faux tweets and stuffed garbage bags with a caption in German that read:
"The US elections are imminent and we are making room for the next president."
Add your name to tell Trump: You Lost! Concede!
The incredibly life-like full-sized wax figurines of Trump are actually a better substitute for the soon-to-be-ex-president than the real thing.
The mute statues do not lie or cheat.
They don't tweet.
They don't attempt to destroy democracy with their phony claims of election fraud.
They don't try to con their supporters out of millions of dollars using fraud claims as a cynical ploy to rake in the dough.
While their IQs are a smidgen lower than the living version of Donald Trump, at least they don't display their stupidity by speaking or making social media posts.
Too bad we didn't substitute Madame Tussaud's version of Donald Trump for the one in the White House!
The last four years would surely have been a hell of a lot easier if we had.
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The names of several Trump campaign staffers were listed on the permit applications for the event according to the Associated Press.
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text:
package org.iotivity.service.sample.androidbundle.resources;

import android.content.Context;
import android.hardware.Sensor;
import android.hardware.SensorEvent;
import android.hardware.SensorEventListener;
import android.hardware.SensorManager;
import android.util.Log;

import org.iotivity.service.resourcecontainer.BundleResource;
import org.iotivity.service.resourcecontainer.RcsResourceAttributes;
import org.iotivity.service.resourcecontainer.RcsValue;

public class HumidityResource extends BundleResource implements SensorEventListener {
    private static final String LOG_TAG = HumidityResource.class.getSimpleName();
    private final SensorManager mSensorManager;
    private final Sensor humiditySensor;

    public HumidityResource(Context context){
        super(context);
        this.setResourceType("oic.r.humidity");
        this.setName("humiditySensor");
        mSensorManager = (SensorManager) context.getApplicationContext().
                getSystemService(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
        humiditySensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_LIGHT);
        mSensorManager.registerListener(this, humiditySensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
    }

    @Override
    protected void initAttributes() {
        this.m_attributes.put("humidity", 0d);
    }

    @Override
    public void handleSetAttributesRequest(RcsResourceAttributes attrs) {
        Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Set Attributes called with ");
        for(String key: attrs.keySet()){
            Log.i(LOG_TAG, " " + key + ": " + attrs.get(key));
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void deactivateResource() {

    }

    @Override
    public RcsResourceAttributes handleGetAttributesRequest() {
        Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Get Attributes called");
        Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Returning: ");
        for(String key: m_attributes.keySet()){
            Log.i(LOG_TAG, " " + key + ": " + m_attributes.get(key));
        }
        return this.m_attributes;
    }

    @Override
    public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent sensorEvent) {
        Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Sensor event " + sensorEvent.values[0]);

        setAttribute("humidity", new RcsValue( (int) (sensorEvent.values[0]) ) , true);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAccuracyChanged(Sensor sensor, int i) {

    }
}

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text:
<?php

namespace Stripe;

class RecipientTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testDeletion()
    {
        $recipient = self::createTestRecipient();
        $recipient->delete();

        $this->assertTrue($recipient->deleted);
    }

    public function testSave()
    {
        $recipient = self::createTestRecipient();

        $recipient->email = 'gdb@stripe.com';
        $recipient->save();
        $this->assertSame($recipient->email, 'gdb@stripe.com');

        $stripeRecipient = Recipient::retrieve($recipient->id);
        $this->assertSame($recipient->email, $stripeRecipient->email);
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException Stripe\Error\InvalidRequest
     */
    public function testBogusAttribute()
    {
        $recipient = self::createTestRecipient();
        $recipient->bogus = 'bogus';
        $recipient->save();
    }

    public function testRecipientAddCard()
    {
        $token = Token::create(
            array("card" => array(
                "number" => "4000056655665556",
                "exp_month" => 5,
                "exp_year" => date('Y') + 3,
                "cvc" => "314"
            ))
        );

        $recipient = $this->createTestRecipient();
        $createdCard = $recipient->cards->create(array("card" => $token->id));
        $recipient->save();

        $updatedRecipient = Recipient::retrieve($recipient->id);
        $updatedCards = $updatedRecipient->cards->all();
        $this->assertSame(count($updatedCards["data"]), 1);
    }

    public function testRecipientUpdateCard()
    {
        $token = Token::create(
            array("card" => array(
                "number" => "4000056655665556",
                "exp_month" => 5,
                "exp_year" => date('Y') + 3,
                "cvc" => "314"
            ))
        );

        $recipient = $this->createTestRecipient();
        $createdCard = $recipient->cards->create(array("card" => $token->id));
        $recipient->save();

        $createdCards = $recipient->cards->all();
        $this->assertSame(count($createdCards["data"]), 1);

        $card = $createdCards['data'][0];
        $card->name = "Jane Austen";
        $card->save();

        $updatedRecipient = Recipient::retrieve($recipient->id);
        $updatedCards = $updatedRecipient->cards->all();
        $this->assertSame($updatedCards["data"][0]->name, "Jane Austen");
    }

    public function testRecipientDeleteCard()
    {
        $token = Token::create(
            array("card" => array(
                "number" => "4000056655665556",
                "exp_month" => 5,
                "exp_year" => date('Y') + 3,
                "cvc" => "314"
            ))
        );

        $recipient = $this->createTestRecipient();
        $createdCard = $recipient->cards->create(array("card" => $token->id));
        $recipient->save();

        $updatedRecipient = Recipient::retrieve($recipient->id);
        $updatedCards = $updatedRecipient->cards->all();
        $this->assertSame(count($updatedCards["data"]), 1);

        $deleteStatus =
        $updatedRecipient->cards->retrieve($createdCard->id)->delete();
        $this->assertTrue($deleteStatus->deleted);
        $updatedRecipient->save();

        $postDeleteRecipient = Recipient::retrieve($recipient->id);
        $postDeleteCards = $postDeleteRecipient->cards->all();
        $this->assertSame(count($postDeleteCards["data"]), 0);
    }
}


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Walter Travis (1 Amateur, 4 US Amateur's, Journalist)
Walter J. Travis (January 10, 1862 – July 31, 1927) was an American amateur golfer in the during the early 1900s. He was also a noted golf journalist and publisher, an innovator in all aspects of golf, a teacher, and golf course architect.
Travis was born in Maldon, Australia. He arrived in New York City in 1886 as a 23-year-old representative of the Australian-based McLean Brothers and Rigg exporters of hardware and construction products. Travis married Anne Bent of Middleton, Connecticut, on January 9, 1890, and later that year, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Shortly after their wedding, Travis and his wife moved into their new home in Flushing, New York, where they would live until their move to Garden City, on Long Island, in 1900.[3]
In 1896, while traveling in England, Travis learned that his Niantic Club friends of Flushing, New York, were intent on creating a new golf club. He was scornful of the idea but, wishing to keep up with his friends, he purchased a set of golf clubs to take with him on his return to the United States. As he said, "I first knelt at the shrine of the Goddess of Golf" in October 1896 on the Oakland links, just three months before his 35th birthday. Within a month of hitting his first golf shot, Travis earned his first trophy by winning the Oakland Golf Club handicap competition. Travis became, in his words, "an infatuated devotee" of the game. He dedicated himself to the study of instructional books written by Horace Hutchinson, Willie Park, Jr., and others. He practiced relentlessly. Within a year, Travis won the Oakland Golf Club championship with a score of 82.[4]
Travis at the beginning of the downswing (c. 1919). Note the flexing of the hickory shafts used during the period.
In 1898, Travis entered his first U.S. Amateur and lost to Findlay S. Douglas in the semi-final match. By this time, he had caught the attention and respect of fellow competitors and, because of his late start in the game, Travis was respectfully referred to as "The Old Man"[1] or "The Grand Old Man". Driven by his intense and compulsive dedication to the game, Travis was soon the country's top amateur golfer, winning the U.S. Amateur in 1900, 1901, and 1903. In 1904, he became the first player from America to win the British Amateur, a feat that would not be duplicated for another 22 years even with "wholesale assaults and single attempts to duplicate" his feat by great amateur golfers such as Jerome Travers, Francis Ouimet, and Bobby Jones.[5]The news of Travis's British victory sparked a surge of interest in the game of golf throughout the United States.[6]
In 1904, champion British golfer Harold Hilton described Travis: "In style, the American champion is essentially what may be termed a made golfer, for his is a style which by the wildest stretch of imagination could not be called ornate. Still, it boasts useful attributes; it is business-like and determined, and is one in which no energy is wasted. Like all golfers who really scored a success at the game, he keeps the right elbow well in to the right side, holding the hands very low, like Messrs. Hutchings, Fry and G. F. Smith—three of the best examples of golfers who have risen to eminence while lacking the advantage of playing the game in their youth. The swing of the club is not long—in fact, it might be termed a three-quarter swing—but it is sufficient to get a free action with the wrist, and although Mr. Travis does not obtain an abnormal carry, he nevertheless gets a long roll on the ball, and against the wind in particular he is beyond the average as a driver, especially as he appears to have mastered the art of the scientific hooking."[7]
Among his other major victories as an amateur golfer were the following: Three North and South Amateurs at Pinehurst, and four Metropolitan Golf Association Championships. When Travis won his fourth MGA Championship, in 1915, at the age of 53, he beat 28-year-old Jerome Travers in the final match. Just the year before, Travers had eliminated Travis in the semi-finals of the U.S. Amateur. With declining health diminishing his skills, Travis announced his retirement from competitive golf in 1916.[3]
Overall, "Travis competed in 17 consecutive U.S. Amateurs from 1898 to 1914, compiling a 45-14 record, earning medalist honors three consecutive years (1900-02), and losing to the eventual champion on five occasions. He competed in six U.S. Opens between 1902 and 1912 and was low amateur five times and tied for third low amateur the other." Travis placed second in the 1902 U.S. Open Championship.[6][8]
In the January 28, 1922 issue of The American Golfer, the following response was given to a query about "How many tournaments Mr. Travis has won, counting in every variety?":
"Our opinion is that Mr. Travis has won more low gross, low net and open tourneys than any other living golfer. He was practically unbeatable for a stretch of six years from 1898 to 1904 during which time he played in double or triple the number of events entered by either John Ball or Chick Evans. A guess at the number of his trophies would place it over five hundred and perhaps nearer to a thousand. In 1901, Travis was national champion and in 1915 he was again the Metropolitan champion. His southern victories were numerous."[9]
In a 1927 Golf Illustrated article, titled "The Figures Prove It", author John Kofoed offered the following match-play records of noted amateur players in major events:
(Source):[10]
% Won*
Bobby Jones 42 9 82
Francis Ouimet 43 12 78
Walter Travis 45 11 80
Chick Evans 37 13 74
Jerome Travers 33 6 85
William Fownes 33 22 60
Jess Sweetser 28 11 72
Robert Gardner 35 15 70
"% Won" figures added to the Kofoed data.
Travis was a prolific writer who wrote extensively on a variety of golf topics, and was published in the leading sports magazines of the time. His first book, Practical Golf, published in 1901, received rave reviews from The New York Times (6/14/1901) for its depth, thoroughness, and clarity as a reference book. Practical Golf dealt with a variety of topics, including golfing techniques, golf equipment, construction of golf courses, the design and placement of hazards, rules of golf, and conduct of golf competitions. His chapter on "Handicapping" was first published in the July 1901 issue of Golf, and described as "the authoritative treatise on handicapping" of its era.[15] A second book, The Art of Putting, was released in 1904.
In 1908, Travis founded and published The American Golfer magazine. The American Golfer was widely regarded as the most influential golf magazine of its time. Travis, and other authors, used it as an effective voice for their views. Travis stayed at the helm of "The American Golfer" as editor until he turned it over to Grantland Rice in the spring of 1920, and severed his connection with the magazine by the end of 1920.
Travis was not hesitant about trying new equipment in his efforts to improve his game. He was the first to win a major event using the Haskell rubber-cored golf ball—the 1901 U.S. Amateur. As reported in the Travis biography, "The Old Man",[3] Travis had "dabbled with predecessors of the Haskell ball, but kept his involvement under wraps until shortly before the tournament" and he "had developed a feel for this type of ball with practice and was not afraid to debut it at the championship". As Labbance reports, "Travis's bold move had not only prompted a change in golf balls but a change in golf as well". It sounded the death knell for the gutta-percha ball, created the need for inserts in the face of wooden clubs to prevent splitting, and soon led to calls for the lengthening of golf courses due to the longer shots made possible by the Haskell.[3]
Travis was innovative in his approach to golf course design. In a Practical Golf chapter on hazards, Travis was critical of the ubiquitous and, to him, unappealing cross-bunkers that stretched all the way across the fairway at predictable intervals. Rather, he argued for more strategically and visually appealing bunkers placed along the edges of fairways, stating, "Hazards arranged somewhat upon the lines indicated, rather than slavishly following the system adopted on the great majority of our courses, would, I think, make the game vastly more interesting, and more provocative of better golf all around."[16]
Many other innovative steps were taken by Travis throughout his career. His use of the Schenectady center-shafted putter in his British Amateur victory attracted considerable comment and controversy. Some six years later, the Royal and Ancient would issue a ban on all mallet-headed putters, including the Schenectady. Travis conducted careful experiments with varying lengths of driver shafts, often using a driver with a shaft as long as 50 inches in his search for greater distance off the tee. At his home course, Garden City Golf Club, Travis installed smaller sized cups on the practice green to help hone the accuracy of his putting.[3]
Though he was innovative with his equipment, and practiced incessantly, Travis disdained the notion of physical training after his first trial of abstaining from smoking and drinking during an 1897 tournament. He reported that he "putted like a baby", and would never again depart from his usual habits.[3]
Throughout his career as a journalist, Travis produced numerous comprehensive and detailed golf instructional essays. Given the reputation he earned as an outstanding putter, it was natural that many of his articles dealt with his well-proven principles of putting. In one of his earliest articles, Travis wrote "The sum of it all is, that my experience shows conclusively that the really good putter is largely born, not made, and is inherently endowed with a good eye and a tactile delicacy of grip which are denied the ordinary run of mortals. At the same time, less favored players may, by the adoption of methods which stood the test of actual experience, materially improve their game."[17] His effectiveness as an instructor was demonstrated in the following example:
In 1916, while observing a 14-year-old Bobby Jones, Travis is reported to have commented that Jones' putting methods were "faulty". There are accounts that suggest that young Jones held Travis in high esteem and eagerly agreed to meet Travis the following morning at 8 am for a putting lesson. Unfortunately, Jones and his party awoke late and were over an hour behind schedule. When they arrived, Travis had left. The lesson did not occur until years later, when Travis suggested a change in Jones's grip, altered his stance and recommended a longer and more sweeping stroke. A key point was to try to "drive an imaginary tack into the back of the ball". There are some who have expressed the opinion that the Travis putting lesson helped Jones to become one of the great putters of all time.[18]
The Schenectady Putter and Walter Travis will be linked together forever in the history of golf. The Schenectady Putter was invented by Arthur F. Knight, a General Electric engineer, who created a model reflecting his ideas in the summer of 1902 at his home course, Mohawk Golf Club in Schenectady, NY. It is noteworthy that Devereux Emmet, the designer of Mohawk Golf Club, was the first golfer of note to be shown Mr. Knight's new aluminum putter while he was visiting Mohawk. Emmet asked to take the putter with him back to his home course, Garden City Golf Club, where he proposed to "play with it, show it at Garden City and at Myopia and will then send it back to you". It is reported that "A day or two later Mr. Knight received a telegram from Mr. W. J. Travis ordering a putter like Mr. Emmet's, and one was hurriedly made and forwarded".[19] Later, a second putter was sent to Travis which was declared "the best putter I have ever used." Travis used this putter to finish second in the U.S. Open Championship held at Garden City Golf Club. "Within a week thereafter, Mr. Knight received over one hundred letters from prominent golfers asking for a putter like Mr. Travis's". Knight was not prepared for such a response and was particularly concerned about what to call it. It is reported that he was "anxious to call it the 'Travis' putter'." He arranged a meeting with Mr. Emmet and Mr. Travis. Emmet had consistently referred to it as the "Schenectady Putter" and Travis agreed that Schenectady would be "a more suitable and lasting name for the putter than his own, in which view Mr. Knight rather reluctantly concurred." After his initial success with the Schenectady Putter in 1902, Travis used the putter to win the 1903 U.S. Amateur and then, of course, the 1904 British Amateur. The putter became an instant commercial success.[20]
Schenectady putters, marked "Patent Applied For", were produced prior to its patent on March 24, 1903. The Schenectady Putter was among the "centered-shafted, mallet-headed implements" that were banned by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club Committee on the Rules of golf in 1910, in response to a request from a golf club in New Zealand. The R&A's ban included the Schenectady Putter. There is no evidence that Travis's use of the Schenectady to win the 1904 British Amateur contributed to this controversial ruling, though the myth persists. The ruling became controversial because, for the first time, an R&A ruling was not wholly adopted by the United States Golf Association. The USGA agreed with the banning of mallet-headed clubs but ruled that the Schenectady Putter, and other center-shafted putters did not fall within this category. The R&A ban on center-shafted putters was finally removed in 1951.[3]
Long after he had retired from active competition, Travis agreed to a match with an old opponent, Findlay S. Douglas, to support the war effort of the Red Cross. The match was held at Garden City Golf Club. Following the match, Travis donated his Schenectady Putter to the Red Cross fund-raising auction. A member of Garden City Golf Club, Lewis Lapham, had the winning bid of $1,700 and immediately donated the Schenectady to Garden City Golf Club where it would remain for the next 34 years. In 1952, it was taken from the club, and never returned.[3]
Travis with 1901 U.S. Amateur trophy and rubber-cored ball
Travis became a student of the layout and design features of golf courses early in his golfing career as the result of trips to Great Britain. In late 1901, Travis wrote an article, published in the Bulletin of the USGA, titled, "Impressions of British Golf". He observed that in "England and Scotland ... you have golf—golf in its best and highest form". He referred to the "radical difference in their physical configurations in relation to our courses." He was impressed with the lack of trees, the number and placement of bunkers, the natural undulations of the greens, and the quality of turf.[16] In a later article, Travis presented his ideas for the design of a "first class" golf course.[21] In this article, Travis emphasized the importance of soil that provides natural drainage, land that is more or less undulating—neither flat nor hilly ... but a judicious blending of the two extremes and trees of any kind are non-existent—as they should be, and holes should be so laid out as to provide for the playing of every conceivable sort of stroke, with every club in one's bag. He noted, diversity of play should be the aim of the architect of a first-class course.[21]
Some have characterized Travis as a "penal designer". However, a careful study of his writings leads to the conclusion that he was a firm believer in "thinking" and "strategic" golf; with the golfer given opportunities to avoid difficulty with well-considered and executed shots.[17]
Travis's first project as a golf course architect was his collaboration with John Duncan Dunn in the 1899 design of Ekwanok Country Club in Vermont.[22]However, much of Travis's early acclaim and notoriety as a golf course designer may be traced to his extensive remodeling of the Garden City Golf Club's Devereux Emmet course, that was unveiled when Garden City Golf Club hosted the 1908 U.S. Amateur Championship. In all, nearly 50 golf courses bear his mark, either as an original design, or as a remodeling project. Through Travis's consultations with the original designers, several noted courses reflect his influence, including Pine Valley Golf Club, National Golf Links of America, and Pinehurst No. 2.[3]
Travis could lay claim to being the first "U.S. Open Doctor" with his remodeling of the Country Club of Buffalo and Columbia Country Club courses just prior to their hosting the U.S. Open in 1912 and 1921, respectively. Travis remained active as a designer to the end, making a last visit to inspect the construction of his course at the Country Club of Troy a month before his death on July 31, 1927.[3][23]
Travis died in Denver, Colorado on July 31, 1927.[1][23] His induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1979 was in recognition of his legacy as the first three-time champion in the U.S. Amateur Championship and the first non-Brit to win the British Amateur Championship. His willingness to experiment led to landmark changes in the landscape of golf equipment, especially his use of the Haskell golf ball to win the 1901 U.S. Amateur Championship. His most enduring legacy may be the many premier golf courses he designed or remodelled throughout his career. Four Travis-designed or redesigned courses are regularly included in Golfweek's rankings of America's top 100 "Classic" courses: Country Club of Scranton,[24] Ekwanok Country Club (assisted John Duncan Dunn), Westchester Country Club's West course, Hollywood Golf Club (redesigned Mackie's work), and Garden City Golf Club (remodeled Emmet's work).[25]
Other existing, original Travis-designed courses include: Camden Country Club, Country Club of Troy, Cherry Hill Club, Garden City Country Club, East Potomac Park Golf Club, Jekyll Island Golf Club (Great Dunes), Lochmoor Club (assisted by John Sweeney), Lookout Point Country Club, North Jersey Country Club, Orchard Park Country Club, Pennhills Club, Round Hill Club, Spring Brook Country Club, Stafford Country Club, The Golf Club at Equinox, and Westchester Country Club (South and Short courses).[25]
Noted courses that were extensively redesigned by Travis include: Canoe Brook Country Club (North Course), Cape Arundel Golf Club, Columbia Country Club (with Harban and White), Grand Mere Golf Club in Quebec, Country Club of Buffalo (now Grover Cleveland Golf Course), Sunningdale Country Club, Lakewood Country Club, Country Club of New Canaan, Louisville Country Club, Onondaga Golf and Country Club, Yahnundasis Golf Club, and White Beeches Golf and Country Club. Through consultations, he influenced the design of: Pinehurst No. 2, National Golf Links of America, Pine Valley Golf Club, Cobbs Creek Muni, and Park Country Club in Buffalo.[25][26]
In 1999, Golf World magazine ranked Travis second in its Top Ten List of Underrated Golf Course Architects.
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During these times of crash and dead cat bounce, what was happening to the money supply, and how did the money supply manipulation prior to 1929 affect these events?
Good question. I'll need to look more into this story. However, the money supply started to contract big time after 1929.
This DOES NOT MEAN, HOWEVER, that gold and silver are bad investments. No, GOLD AND SILVER are about the ONLY GOOD investments, or hedges vs. central-banking created inflation. Look, I AM A BIG, HUGE RON PAUL SUPPORTER. Don't listen to RP on the issue of a gold-backed currency. Listen to a an ECONOMIC HISTORIAN – BILL STILL! AND, MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA! WAKE UP AS MANY AS YOU CAN.
THe gold standard isn't perfect. However, I'd take it any day over fiat money.
I won't pretend to know what I'm talking about, but I listen, read and watch. It seems to me, that gold is a trading medium between high rollers. In our future won't be a "world currency", per se, but a number like a credit card. Money isn't printed these days. Everything is done via computer, $1M dollars in this account is transferred into that account….Wallaa. Chump change for the consumer worker, yes, still currency, but not for trading, nor for the high roller. And yes, no gold standard exists, nor will it ever. It fascinates me how Ben B. can talk about the central bank "helping" us out if push comes to shove and America doesn't snap out of her recession a bit faster….lol….joke. Like they're doing US a favor by "loaning" the government more money that they can't pay back. USA can barely pay the interest now for goodness sake, thus the huge debt. Geez. (nope they don't print it. Quantitative easing is another word for "easing America into default"…letting her down slowly is all. Not saving her. Yes, I'm looking for another crash to come soon, and am preparing for such. Thanks all you educated guys for your info to slobs like me who are just trying to learn.
I don't see Gold as real Currency … When Gold was at $300/Ounce all Central bank was the Net Seller of Gold … why they don't find any value in Gold that time .. This is just because Gold was falling for Last 20 year from 1980-2002 and was in a secular bear market … and right now all Central bank comes in Gold with higher price mainly after year 2010 above a price level of $1100/Ounc and suddenly they find value in gold just cuz Gold is rising since last 10 years… but i am a believe that Govt. always act lastly… if they are entering in gold .. Its just a clear signal that Long term Gold bull market is over … and we are in secular bear market … Gold 10 year graph will tell you everything where gold will go in near future and by that time all economist and Central bank again lose their trust on Gold.
Hey guys…you can't eat gold. Gold as any commodity, is worth only what you'll find someone paying for it. It is greatly inflated in price today like most other things. Does that mean it is worth that? Well, if you can find someone who will by it. Remember, a few short months ago, it lost a few hundred dollars of its worth. Anything that is used as a currency can be controlled by someone else, just as our monetary system now. Don't fool yourself. People need to be looking out for their independence on others to survive. Use your money today to secure your future in that way, not in money. What will your money in any form do you later if there's no buyer? Or if the commodity you are buying is way outpriced even if it IS available?
Also, yes, the only hope for the world is default…cancelling of all debts and starting over for everyone, from the smallest to the largest. But, alas, that won't happen. Greed and selfishness rules, folks. The "big" guys like the control over the "little guys" and that won't change. The "little guys" have to learn to be independent of those big guys and when they have no one to control, then like any predator, they will look elsewhere. But, that won't happen either cause there are plenty of people out there who like to be taken care of.


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Comerica Bank Buys 881 Shares of Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR)
Comerica Bank grew its stake in Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR – Get Rating) by 2.5% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 35,589 shares of the utilities provider's stock after purchasing an additional 881 shares during the period. Comerica Bank owned about 0.07% of Spire worth $2,335,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in SR. Wipfli Financial Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Spire during the third quarter worth about $30,000. Private Trust Co. NA acquired a new position in shares of Spire in the third quarter valued at $32,000. Quadrant Capital Group LLC lifted its position in Spire by 47.1% in the second quarter. Quadrant Capital Group LLC now owns 581 shares of the utilities provider's stock worth $43,000 after purchasing an additional 186 shares during the period. Cohen & Steers Inc. increased its holdings in Spire by 31.8% in the 1st quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. now owns 639 shares of the utilities provider's stock valued at $46,000 after buying an additional 154 shares during the period. Finally, Gladius Capital Management LP acquired a new position in shares of Spire in the 2nd quarter valued at $90,000. Institutional investors own 99.86% of the company's stock.
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Shares of NYSE SR opened at $70.39 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 0.50 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.15. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.70 billion, a PE ratio of 17.69, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.54 and a beta of 0.42. The firm's 50-day moving average is $70.17 and its 200-day moving average is $69.96. Spire Inc. has a 1 year low of $61.52 and a 1 year high of $79.24.
Spire (NYSE:SR – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, November 16th. The utilities provider reported ($0.66) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.64) by ($0.02). The business had revenue of $314.20 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $280.97 million. Spire had a return on equity of 8.48% and a net margin of 10.04%. Equities analysts expect that Spire Inc. will post 4.14 EPS for the current year.
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The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, January 4th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 12th were issued a $0.14 dividend. This represents a $0.56 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, December 9th. Spire's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 72.36%.
A number of analysts recently weighed in on SR shares. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their target price on shares of Spire from $78.00 to $71.00 and set an "equal weight" rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, October 19th. Mizuho dropped their target price on shares of Spire from $72.00 to $69.00 and set a "neutral" rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, December 8th. Bank of America cut shares of Spire from a "neutral" rating to an "underperform" rating and decreased their price objective for the stock from $78.00 to $61.00 in a research note on Monday, December 12th. Morgan Stanley lifted their price objective on Spire from $73.00 to $74.00 and gave the company an "equal weight" rating in a research report on Thursday, December 15th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada increased their target price on Spire from $69.00 to $75.00 and gave the stock a "sector perform" rating in a report on Monday, November 21st. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating and seven have assigned a hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, Spire has an average rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $68.86.
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Spire Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the purchase, retail distribution, and sale of natural gas to residential, commercial, industrial, and other end-users of natural gas in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Gas Utility and Gas Marketing. It is also involved in the marketing of natural gas.
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Poached eggs have always been a challenge for my husband and I to make, but after reading a blog post by Pinch of Yum, I suddenly became much more confident!
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The students lodged a detailed complaint to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) after which ASI has ordered probe over the entire episode.
A group of students from Manipur were allegedly restricted to enter the Taj Mahal premises by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel on January 8 and were asked to present the proof of their nationality. The students lodged a detailed complaint to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) after which ASI has ordered probe over the entire episode.
As per the complaint filed by the students from the Central Agricultural University in Imphal, they visited Taj Mahal as a part of an all India Educational Tour.
They arrived at the gate at 3:30 pm on January 8 but they were allegedly stopped at the entry gate with CISF asserting that they resembled foreigners and were trying to pass off as Indians with cheaper tickets.
The ticket cost at Taj Mahal is Rs 1000 for the foreigners (barring those from SAARC and BIMSTEC countries) while it's just Rs 40 for the Indians.
Even after showing their nationality proofs and letter which showed that they were on an educational tour, the students were not allowed by the CISF staff present at the gate. This led to an argument between the security staff and a professor accompanying the group.
Further, they were asked to show their Aadhar cards adding that only those would be allowed who have Aadhar with them. Later, the students were allowed to enter after the tourism police intervened.
"As alleged by the students, the CISF personnel misbehaved with them and asked to show their nationality proof. They the tourism police was approached, who reached the spot and intervened to allow the students to enter," said RP Pandey, SHO of the Tourism police station.
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women, and chest pain is one of the most common reasons people visit the Emergency Department.
Heart disease is a leading cause of debilitation and death worldwide in men and women over age sixty-five.
Overeating leads to many diseases such as, heart disease and diabetes, that result in death.
Heart failure can result from many forms of heart disease, including heart defects, heart disease, heart valves, heart infections or cardiomyopathy.
Patients can minimize the effects of heart failure by controlling the risk factors for heart disease.
A person can change or eliminate those risk factors and thus lower their risk of developing or aggravating their heart disease and heart failure.
CHD is the most common type of heart disease in adults.
The studies showed that adults suffered from heart disease, arthritis, allergy and sinusitis as a result of conventionally produced milk.
A family history of heart disease is a major risk factor of having hypertension in people over the age of 65.
Although age and a family history of early heart disease are risk factors, it doesn't mean that you will develop CAD if you have one or both.
Do not take hormonal replacement therapy, folic acid supplements, vitamin C or E, or antioxidants to decrease the risk of heart disease or stroke.
However, alcohol consumption can cause liver disease, cancer, high blood pressure, alcoholism, and, at high intake, an increased risk of heart disease.
The researchers also reported that a high intake of protein from vegetable sources like tofu, nuts, and beans lowers our risk of heart disease by 30 percent.
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Preventing heart disease is important, because people with diabetes are 2 to 4 times more likely to die of heart and blood vessel diseases.
Even if you're in your seventies or eighties, a healthy lifestyle can lower your risk of dying from heart disease by nearly two-thirds.
Many forms of heart disease can be prevented with healthy lifestyle and diet and exercise.
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High blood pressure and cholesterol, smoking, obesity and not being physically active all put individuals at risk for coronary heart disease.
Atrial tachycardia may occur at any age, although it is more common in children and adults with congenital heart disease.
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Lowering your blood level of cholesterol and fats may help to prevent heart disease, angina (Chest pain), strokes, and heart attacks.
If you have one or more risk factors for heart disease, talk to your doctor about possibly taking aspirin or other medicines to help prevent a heart attack.
Statins are the drugs that "lower cholesterol", apparently in an attempt to prevent heart disease.
Among these findings include evidence that green tea helps lower cholesterol, reduces your risk of heart disease and cancer, and helps you lose weight.
Atorvastatin is also used to lower the risk of stroke, heart attack, or other heart complications in people with coronary heart disease or type 2 diabetes.
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Obesity increases the risk of heart disease, 140 in part because weight gain lowers HDL cholesterol.
Eating fish has been reported to increase HDL cholesterol 20 and is linked to a reduced risk of heart disease in most, 21 but not all, studies.
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Billionaire investor Sam Zell is seeing inflation everywhere, and has bought gold as a hedge — something he says he used to knock others for doing.
"Obviously one of the natural reactions is to buy gold," he said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "It feels very funny because I've spent my career talking about why would you want to own gold? It has no income, it costs to store. And yet, when you see the debasement of the currency, you say, what am I going to hold on to?"
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Zell, 79, said he's concerned not only about the U.S. dollar but other countries printing money as well, and questioned whether inflation will be transitory, as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated last week.
"Oh boy, we're seeing it all over the place," Zell said of inflation. "You read about lumber prices, but we're seeing it in all of our businesses. The obvious bottlenecks in the supply chain arena are pushing up prices. It's very reminiscent of the '70s."
"It feels very funny because I've spent my career talking about why would you want to own gold?"
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While gold is an attractive investment, opportunities in fossil fuels are not, said Zell, who in 2019 agreed to set up a joint venture with Tom Barrack Jr.'s Colony Capital Inc. to invest in oil and gas.
"Right now, oil and gas is not priced to reflect the risk of what's going on, whether it be in the EV world, a climate changed world," he said. "As recently as a couple of years ago I thought the risk-reward ratio was appropriate. It's clearly become very inappropriate as our political situation has changed."
Zell also said he's concerned about renewable energy undermining the reliability of power grids, pointing to the recent blackouts in California and Texas.
In real estate, there are plenty of questions about what demand will look like over the next couple years in the office, lodging and retail sectors, Zell also said in the interview.
"Everybody's worried about going back to work and office-space occupancy. I don't think that's really an issue," he said. "The problem is that, before the pandemic, we were dealing with an oversupply of office space. Obviously the pandemic hasn't reduced that oversupply and has probably encouraged it accordingly."
Stores also present challenges, he said, given that the U.S. already had more retail space per person than the rest of the world before covid-19, and shoppers increased their reliance on e-commerce while stuck at home during the pandemic.
"Street retail today is like a falling knife, and you don't know how far it goes down," he said. While that "doesn't mean the best malls aren't going to perform," there's a "huge amount of real estate that's going to have to be reprogrammed in one form or another."
The challenges faced by hotels are more of a temporary problem over the next three to four years, Zell said. "We will see a slow recovery in business travel," he said. "In the interim period of time, it's going to be a slow recovery, and hotels are big overhead things and running them at less-than-optimum occupancy is a very expensive scenario."
(By David Westin and Simon Casey, with assistance from Mark Chediak)
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The Mile starts at Askinagap/Slievemweel Bridge and extends to 'The Pound' Crossroads. It runs between the Ballymanus and Askinagap Mountains, straddling the townlands of Askinagap and Coolballintaggart.
The name Askinagap may have been derived from 'the bog of the stumps' and the name Coolballintaggart may have meant 'the last townland of the priest'.
There was a stray animal pound at "The Pound" crossroads. This part of the local O'Mahoney estate in the 1800's. The stone-built white washed building at this site was once a barn for storage and also served as a dairy where milk was churned into butter.
The built heritage of the Mile includes a national school dated to 1897, which is now the community hall, St Mary's Church, and a GAA football pitch, which is home to the 'Billies' football team. Nearby there is a commemoration to the execution of Billy Byrne who was a commander in the 1798 rising. There was much activity in the Wicklow Hills during the rising.
Granite, which is prevalent in Wicklow, is much in evidence at Askinagap and the bridge is made of stone and capped with granite. Many of the gates to the fields have granite gateposts and a granite stone wall surrounds the community hall and the Church.
As was common in the past, local fields were named. These include the Glen Field, Carthy's Field and Wilson's Field.
There are two fresh water sprouts in the area one near the house in Wilson's field and the other near the old Barracks. The water was used by one of the houses to keep the milk cans cool while awaiting collection by the local dairy.
The old one roomed school building, dating to 1897 has its original wooden floors and wood panelling on the walls. There are studs in a semi-circle on the floor, where the children stood around maps on the wall during Geography class. Behind the community hall there is a ruined building which may have been the old Barracks, as both the front and back windows have bars on them.
There are two good examples of forged iron gates in the area, one opposite the football pitch and the other in a garden at the end of the Mile.
The hedgerows in this area have a rich variety of wild flowers and native trees including the primrose, Dog violet, Lesser Celandine, the ash, birch, hazel, holly and blackthorn.
Species of wildlife along the mile include foxes, squirrels, rabbits, mice, and frogs. Bird types to be seen include pheasants, water hens, robins, crows, pigeons and the cuckoo.
The Mile is also home to Wicklow Cheviot Sheep, cattle, horses, ponies, hens, dogs and cats.
The Askinagap Pure Mile entry for 2010/11 was given the award for the Best Pure Mile Photograph.
'The PURE Mile' is an environmental initiative of The PURE (Protecting Uplands and Rural Environments) project which aims to foster a greater appreciation and awareness of country roadscapes by rewarding and acknowledging local community efforts.


Director Andy Muschietti has added yet another cast member from his adaptation of Stephen King's It to his next project, a pilot for a new TV version of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's comic book series Locke & Key.
Following the hiring of It cast members Jackson Robert Scott (the movie's unforgettable little George Denbrough) and Megan Charpentier (who played mean girl Greta Keene) for the pilot as two of the Locke children, Muschietti has also brought Owen Teague on board. Teague's role in It was brief but memorable: He played Patrick Hockstetter, a member of Henry Bowers' gang who Show Spoiler meets an early demise in the Derry sewers at the hands and teeth of Pennywise.
In Locke & Key, he'll play Sam Lesser, a disturbed, violent adolescent who kills his own father and then shoots the Locke kids' father to death, while also assaulting their mother. It is this incident that drives Nina Locke and her three children to their family's ancestral home in Maine, where the children gain various powers through a set of magical keys, but are also terrorized by a demonic entity that wants the keys for itself.
Muschietti (who replaced Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson on the project) is prepping Locke & Key for Hulu, with this being the second time a TV adaptation of the comic book has been attempted. The first pilot, developed by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and directed by Mark Romanek, was rejected by Fox and did not become a series. Although a feature film was mooted for a while, the property has gone back to the small screen, where services like Hulu are eager to develop their own content.
The cast also includes Danny Glover as teacher Joe Ridgeway, Frances O'Connor as mother Nina Locke, Nate Corddry as uncle Duncan Locke, and Jack Mulhern as the eldest Locke sibling, Tyler. Carlton Cuse (Lost) will act as showrunner, and Hill himself (who's Stephen King's son, just to keep it even more in the family) has penned the teleplay. An air date has yet to be unveiled.


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Royals' Potential Buy-Low Free Agent Targets
By Hunter Samuels
Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports
As you read this, millions of people are shopping. Millions of people are always shopping, of course, but today, that shopping looks a little different. Today, people will became raving lunatics in an effort to save a hundred dollars on a television. They'll push down middle-aged women to grab the coolest new toy that their kid will end up tossing aside in a few months. They'll run over anyone who stops them from getting to the toaster oven they so desperately need. It's really quite a spectacle.
MLB free agency is not like Black Friday. Teams don't scratch and claw at each other to get to all of the bargains, because the highest quality players on the market typically are worth their financial cost. Low cost tends to mean low quality. There are exceptions, though, and teams working with a limited budget must seek out those exceptions to get as much bang for their buck as they possibly can.
The Royals have been connected to a few big names on the market, but despite their financial windfall from the postseason run, it's still unlikely they bring in one of the major stars available. I won't rule it out, but the team has several holes to fill, so pouring a ton of money into just one of those holes may not be the best use of resources. Even spending on someone in that second tier may force them to readjust their budget in filling the other positions.
To squeeze more value out of every dollar available, the Royals may turn to some buy-low candidates on the market. That is, players who have decent track records, but a poor showing in 2014 means they won't be able to make as much money in their next contract. Any team signing one of these buy-low players wants to pay a small amount of money for a chance to see the player return to his former level of success.
These deals tend to be low-risk, since the financial commitment isn't substantial enough to prevent the team from moving on if the player doesn't turn things around. They aren't usually high-reward, but they're also not no-reward, which is important.
With that in mind, let's look at a few players who fit into the buy-low mold, who could provide some value to the 2015 Royals, presented in a not-quite random order.
Chris Denorfia – He hit .230/.284/.318 in 358 plate appearances for the Padres and Mariners this year, well below his .272/.331/.394 career line. Denorfia doesn't possess a ton of power, but he can hit lefties (123 wRC+), and can handle himself in the outfield. Signing the 34-year old to be a platoon bat with Jarrod Dyson is definitely an option.
Corey Hart – The 32-year old former Brewer and Mariner is coming off a terrible 2014, in which he had a 70 wRC+ while dealing with numerous injuries. Sure enough, Hart has had problems with durability, but he also has a career 114 wRC+ and a career isolated slugging percentage of .208. While he can play first base in a pinch, Hart is likely looking at a DH role, hoping to rediscover the power he displayed from 2007-2012.
Kendrys Morales – Like Hart, Morales is really only a DH at this point, and he didn't really do that "hitting" thing very well this year. His 72 wRC+ was simply dreadful. However, you may remember Morales didn't even start playing until June due to the draft pick attached to him, so one could argue he was just rusty, having not played for so long. He put up back-to-back seasons with a 119 wRC+ in 2012 and 2013, so there may be some hope the switch hitter can get back to that level soon.
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Mark Reynolds – After spending most of his career as a bad defender at third, Reynolds mostly played first for the Brewers last year, and the defensive metrics thought he did a very good job. His numbers at the plate were much less good. He hit just .196/.287/.394, and his 87 wRC+ was nearly 20 points below his career average. Reynolds strikes out quite a bit, but he can also provide some power from the right side, with a 114 wRC+ and .226 ISO in his career versus lefties.
Jonny Gomes – The Royal killer had a down season in 2014, hitting .234/.327/.330 in 321 plate appearances. He still drew walks, but his power plummeted. In his career, Gomes has a 108 wRC+, but against lefties, he has a 133 wRC+, so he could be used in a platoon role as a DH, while also giving the regular corner outfielders days off, although his defense is not something you want to see very often.
Justin Masterson – Dave wrote about Masterson last week, and the sinkerballer's value is definitely low right now, having put up a 5.88 ERA in 128.2 innings for the Indians and Cardinals this year. He also walked 4.8 batters per 9 innings, and gave up 12 home runs, which is quite a few for a guy who gets ground balls almost 60% of the time. He's had issues with consistency for his entire career, but when Masterson is on, he's a solid number two starter.
There are some other players who could probably be signed relatively cheaply – Brett Anderson, Brandon Morrow, Carlos Villanueva, and Kyle Kendrick, to name a few – but they didn't fit my completely subjective criteria I mentioned above. Anderson was good in 2014. Morrow has had a couple of consecutive poor seasons. Villanueva and Kendrick don't have great career numbers. I do think they all could be decent fits in Kansas City, though.
This isn't to suggest I want the Royals to go out and sign every one of the players I detailed above. I'm not a big fan of Morales or Masterson, and Gomes' defense would limit his value. However, if they are able to sign someone like Ervin Santana or Brandon McCarthy or Melky Cabrera, the Royals will likely need to turn to the bargain bin to help round out their roster.


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Q: How to include a locally compiled C++ library while compiling? I have compiled this library https://github.com/xdspacelab/openvslam successfully, but I am having trouble now including it in C++ programs.
Here is the final directory structure:
.
├── 3rd
├── build
├── camera_params
├── cmake
├── docs
├── example
├── frames
├── frames_to_localise
├── maps
├── orb_vocab
├── ros
├── src
├── test
├── videos
└── viewer

Now this is the command I used:
cd /path/to/openvslam
mkdir build && cd build
cmake \
    -DBUILD_WITH_MARCH_NATIVE=ON \
    -DUSE_PANGOLIN_VIEWER=OFF \
    -DUSE_SOCKET_PUBLISHER=ON \
    -DUSE_STACK_TRACE_LOGGER=ON \
    -DBOW_FRAMEWORK=DBoW2 \
    -DBUILD_TESTS=ON \
    ..
make -j4

As per docs, https://openvslam.readthedocs.io/en/master/installation.html#subsection-common-linux-macos
My understanding is that this install the library locally not system-wide (like in /usr/local/bin).
So I try to compile one if their examples https://github.com/xdspacelab/openvslam/blob/master/example/run_image_localization.cc
like this: g++ run_image_localization.cc I get this error:
In file included from run_image_localization.cc:2:
./util/image_util.h:19:33: warning: defaulted function definitions are a C++11 extension [-Wc++11-extensions]
    virtual ~image_sequence() = default;
                                ^
run_image_localization.cc:10:10: fatal error: 'openvslam/system.h' file not found
#include "openvslam/system.h"
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.

makes sense because openvslam was not included. I tried different flags such as -L, -I etc but nothing worked so far. Is there a standard solution to this ?
PS: A temporary solution was to set VERBOSE = 1 while running make and copy paste the command that was used to compile the examples... That command is 40+ lines long, it takes more time to render the command on my terminal than compile the .cc file...
EDIT: I am using a Mac

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The biggest challenge facing marketers in Asia Pacific today is measuring and proving return of investments for their ad spend in integrated campaigns.
In addition, marketers are also uncertain about how to properly optimise media investment and understand cross-channel behaviours. They also face issues like shrinking budgets for advertising and research, find it hard to develop custom content and have doubts about programmatic advertising.
This means marketers are missing opportunities for growth, with 43% still using ROI measurement approaches that are primarily focused on short term-sales, according to a new report by Kantar's Insights Division, titled 'Getting Media Right'.
This is despite the report finding a majority of respondents (81%) saying that the most important approach to ROI is a blend of both short and long-term measures.
- Marketers are struggling to connect the dots on performance across channels, with 82% agree that it is difficult to assess how well brands perform across channels. Marketers in the region are also most likely to have gaps in their data (60%) which is preventing them from making decisions.
- Confidence in their media mix has grown, with 81% of marketers in Asia confident that their organisation has the optimal media mix – the highest globally - and that they strike the right balance between brand building and performance marketing (70%).
- Marketers have moved the optimisation process up earlier in their campaigns, however those in region are least likely to do so , with only a third of marketers in APAC (37%) saying they have moved the optimisation process up earlier than they were doing last year (as compared to 47% globally).
- 82% of marketers (globally and regionally) believe they have integrated media strategies across channels and platforms, but their efforts are not translating fully to consumers.
In addition, the report also found APAC to be the least confident globally when it came to integrating data and extract meaningful insights as only one in 10 marketers in APAC said they were able to do so with confidence, compared to 18% in North America.
"Marketers need a holistic understanding of how their campaigns are performing across a huge range of channels if they want to be able to identify where the strategy is working or where it needs refinement," said Pablo Gomez, head of media for APAC at Kantar's Insights Division.


Lisa Leary was declared dead at the scene on Gore Road.
OXFORD — An Otisfield woman died Tuesday morning when her car went off Gore Road, rolled over and struck a large boulder, according to Oxford Police Department Capt. Rickie Jack.
Lisa Leary, 52, of 203 West Andrews Road was declared dead at the scene, Jack said.
Leary was just over the Otisfield town line when her 1999 soft-top Volkswagen Cabrio went off the right side of the road and she apparently overcorrected, causing the car to roll over before striking a boulder, the officer said.
A passer-by spotted the car and notified emergency personnel.
Jack was the first officer at the scene, joined by Officer Joshua Daley of the Oxford Police Department and Oxford Fire and Rescue personnel.
Maine State Police Trooper Dan Hanson is reconstructing the crash to determine the cause, Jack said.


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Trafford Golf Centre installs advanced golf ball tracking technology to its driving range
By News4Trafford on 19/11/2018
One of the UK's leading golf venues, Trafford Golf Centre has revolutionised its driving range by installing the most advanced ball tracking technology, Toptracer to 16 bays.
Offering the same ball-tracking technology that traces the shots of the game's best players on TV, Toptracer provides instant shot replays and statistical feedback on interactive game screens in the bays, which allows players to make swing adjustments and immediately see the impact on their golf shot. The fun, tech-driven experience appeals to seasoned players, range rivals, friends, family members, and even first-time golfers.
Now the UK's busiest driving range, hitting almost 14 million balls in 2018, Trafford Golf Centre has also introduced convenient waiter service, serving food and beverages, out on the range for customers to enjoy.
Pete Styles, director of golf, at Trafford Golf Centre and Dino Falls, said: "The ball-tracking technology is a complete game changer as customers can now use the Toptracer Range Community App to access their history of shot data, as well as how they rank against other players on leaderboards.
"This latest attraction compliments the ongoing improvements and new facilities at Trafford Golf Centre, including Dino Falls Adventure Golf, extended catering facility and consistent supply of new Srixon golf balls and equipment. We look forward to seeing both existing and new customers enjoying the new technology."
Work is currently underway on a new putting green and chipping practice area which is due to be completed by early December. There is also a new hot food menu including Chicago Town pizzas plus alcoholic beverages and Starbucks refreshments complete with waiter service now available in the Top Tracer bays, making Trafford Golf Centre the perfect destination for mates, dates and family get togethers.
Top Tracer will be charged at £5.00 per hour before 5pm Monday to Friday and £10.00 at all other times. This price excludes balls and club hire.
Trafford Golf Centre and Dino Falls Adventure Golf, located next to the M60 close to the Trafford Centre and also offers a 'We proudly serve Starbucks Café and Bar', 53 bay golf range, nine PGA professionals teaching from the Academy and the largest American Golf retail store in the North.
Trafford Golf Centre and Dino Falls Adventure Golf are part of the Peel group, this advanced golf ball tracking technology and other improvements have cost around £90,000.
For more information on Trafford Golf Centre, visit:www.traffordgolfcentre.co.uk
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Q: How to create an algorithm for a raffle, where each raffle guarantees a winning ticket? I am looking for an algorithm to create a raffle, where each participant is assigned a ticket with a random series of numbers.
Each raffle hast N participants, and there should exist same amount of raffle tickets, one ticket per user.
The user should know her ticket numbers before the draw, so she can follow the draw, and anticipate if she is a winner.
Each raffle has a minimum of one winner.
Some raffles can have two or more winning tickets, whereas each ticket can only win once. A winning ticket is removed from the current raffle.
If there is more than one winning ticket available, this should be determined before the beginning of the raffle.
It should be impossible to draw blanks.
How could a raffle with such properties be created. Or more specifically:
How can we generate the raffle numbers, and tickets as such, that each raffle has one or (1+N) guaranteed winning ticket.
How can we avoid blanks?
Pseudocode would be great, and/or a few pointers of maybe well known algorithms solving similar issues.

A: If I understand what you are want, then:
create empty list
for 1..N:
    do
        r = random number
    while r in list

    add r to list
    give ticket with r to person

 for number of winners:
    r = random element in list
    announce r as a winner
    remove r from list

A: It seems that the hard part of your problem is stated in your comment where you say you want to choose the winning number by 'drawing' random single digits and combing them
To guarentee a winner you have to pick a winning ticket from a list of sold tickets. Normally you would simply record a list of tickets sold and pick.one of them randomly to get the winner.
You could then annouce the winning digits one at a time?
If you want to randomly draw the digits though, you are going to have to restrict the possible results. Ie. If you have only sold 1200 tickets, you can only pick 4 numbers and the first one can only be 1 or 0 and so on.
You might find then that the resulting winning number or numbers is no longer random. Ie. If you can win by matching 3 numbers, 1 and 0 are good ones to pick.
In fact thinking about it this also applies if you select the whole number from the list of winners and allow players to select their numbers.

A: Having a series of numbers on a ticket (eg. 3 7 11 13 14 25) randomly given to N participants where N is a very low number (eg. 23) and then devising an algorithm where you can draw one number at a time making sure that you will pick a winner (most likely having a few participants still believing they could be a winner quite far into the drawing) just doesn't add up.
You can't.
Of course you could give the 23 participants the ticket 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5+n where n is the number of the participant. Then draw the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and then draw 5+x where x is between 1 and the number of participants. But I doubt that people will find it entertaining in week two.