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THE AROP AWARDS 19/20
10 June 2021SAE EUN PARK PROMOTED TO ÉTOILE DANCER OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET 16 June 2021THE PARIS OPERA'S 21/22 SEASON: AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE
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The Arop 2019/2020 award winners are Camille Bon and Thomas Docquir for the Ballet Prize and Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur and Timothée Varon for the Opera Prize.
For the 2019/2020 season, the members decided to award the Ballet Prize to the « sujet » Camille Bon, for her performances in Blake Works I (William Forsythe) and Thomas Docquir for his performances « le pas de deux des vendangeurs » in Giselle.The Opera Prize go to mezzo-soprano Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur and baritone Timothée Varon, who are both in residence at the Paris Opera Academy. They were distinguished for their performances at concerts of the Academy and their roles of la Mère and le Chat in L'Enfant et les sortilèges by Maurice Ravel.
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Since 1986, AROP awards both a young female and a young male dancer from the Paris Opera Ballet who performed important variations of the repertoire on stage. The Ballet Prize is backed for ten years by the generous support of Mrs Jeannine Auber, who wished to encourage new generations of dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet and to pass on her passion for dance, thanks to the legacy she left to AROP.
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TV, Radio, and Film Writer, Producer and Director, On-Air Radio Personality, Concept Developer. Angela Onuora is a creative/broadcast media jack-of-all-trades; she is also an engaging motivational speaker.
Since she moved from Nigeria, and subsequent to her arrival in Canada in 2014, Angela has co-founded a Women-in-Filmmaking Collective called Studio D-20, under the auspices of the Commons Studio – a part of The Working Centre Kitchener, Ontario.
Angela's biggest passion is Creative Writing, and she is drawn to topics that celebrate all women, and tell stories fueled by their diverse experiences and from their perspectives. She identifies as a women's champion for equity (a story for another day).
2017 The Flood Project – A stage production workshop at the IMPACT THEATRE FESTIVAL Kitchener-Waterloo ON (research, script, character design, performer).
2016 More Than A Thousand Words – A short film (producer, set design & props).
2013 WE Woman – A 90-minute Radio Talk show on WE FM 106.3 Abuja, Nigeria (Producer, show writer & structure).
2013 The Conversation – A 60-minute Radio talk show on WE FM 106.3 Abuja, Nigeria (Producer, writer, research & show structure).
2013 If You Were The President – A 60-minute Radio talk show on WE FM 106.3 Abuja, Nigeria (Producer, writer, show structure, research).
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Q: CATextLayer is still in sublayers after calling removeFromSuperlayer I have a mapView, which has 34 CAShapeLayer to render each province, and another 34 CATextLayer to render the name for each province. I will calculate its center for each province.
Now I add this mapView into a UIScrollView, and when I zoom the mapView, I want to re-draw the CATextLayer to use another font Size. So after zoom, I will manually remove all CATextLayer and redraw them, like below.
However, I found that, after the for loop finished, there is still some CATextLayer in the sublayers, to be exact, everytime I test it, there are 18 CATextLayer not being removed. I have never met this issue, do I miss something? Please help, thanks.
-(void)drawLabelsWithFontSize:(CGFloat)fontSize {
    int i = 0;
    NSUInteger count = [self.mapView.layer.sublayers count];
    for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
        CALayer *layer = self.mapView.layer.sublayers[i];
        if ([layer isKindOfClass:[CATextLayer class]]) {
            [layer removeFromSuperlayer];
            // NSLog(@"%@, %lu",[layer class],i);
        } else {
            // NSLog(@"%@",[layer class]);
        }
    }
    // at here, some CATextLayer still in self.mapView.layer.sublayers
    __block typeof(self) weakSelf = self;
    NSDictionary *labelNameAndLocation = [self getLabelNameAndLocationInfo];
    NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[NSParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy];
    paragraphStyle.alignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
    [labelNameAndLocation enumerateKeysAndObjectsWithOptions:NSEnumerationReverse usingBlock:^(id key, id obj, BOOL *stop) {
        if ([(NSString *)key length] > 0) {
            NSDictionary *location = (NSDictionary *)obj;
            CATextLayer *label = [CATextLayer layer];
            CGPoint caculateCenter = CGPointMake([weakSelf longitudeToCoordinate:[location[@"lng"] doubleValue]],[weakSelf latitudeToCoordinate:[location[@"lat"] doubleValue]]);
            NSMutableAttributedString *text = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]
                                                     initWithString:key
                                                     attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:fontSize],
                                                                  NSParagraphStyleAttributeName:paragraphStyle,
                                                                  NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor blackColor]}];
            CGSize size = [text size];
            [label setBounds:CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height)];
            [label setString:text];
            label.position = caculateCenter;
            label.contentsScale = [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale];
            [weakSelf.mapView.layer addSublayer:label];
        }
    }];
}

A: You're making the classic mistake of iterating up during removal:
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
    CALayer *layer = self.mapView.layer.sublayers[i];
    if ([layer isKindOfClass:[CATextLayer class]]) {
        [layer removeFromSuperlayer];
        // NSLog(@"%@, %lu",[layer class],i);
    } else {
        // NSLog(@"%@",[layer class]);
    }
}

Change that for line to iterate down:
for (i = count-1; i >= 0; i--) {

The reason is that if you start by removing, say, sublayer 0, all the other sublayers move down one index. Thus, if you remove sublayer 0 and sublayer 1 is also a text layer, that text layer is now sublayer 0 and will never be removed because you proceed on to sublayer 1. Thus, as you quite rightly demonstrate, you end up missing exactly half of them.
I'm a little surprised, in fact, that you haven't crashed because of this, but I guess there are so many sublayers that you just never fell off the end of the array; a crash is what usually happens.

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Tiny Alabama town is shocked to learn a farmer has been secretly paying community pharmacy bills for ten years
Hody Childress – Courtesy of Tania Nix's family
Celebrating the funeral of a Hody Childress from Geraldine, Alabama, it turned out that for a decade this quiet and unassuming gentleman had been something of a guardian angel for the town's poor and sick.
A farmer and US Air Force veteran, Childress began his covert charity campaign when he visited the local pharmacy, Geraldine, and learned that too many of the town's 900 residents could not afford to pay for their prescriptions.
Life up until then had been difficult in terms of health. Childress lost a son in 1973 and his first wife in 1999, whom he carried to the stands for local football games due to her multiple sclerosis.
When he heard about his neighbors' inability to always afford their medication, he presented Brooke Walker, owner of Geraldine Drugs, with a $100 bill.
"Here, this $100 is for anyone who can't afford their prescription," Walker recalled in an interview with local news. "Don't tell a soul the money came from me, tell them it's a blessing from God."
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A month later, Walker saw Childress go back to her store to hand her another $100 bill with exactly the same instructions: "Don't tell a soul the money came from me, tell them it's a blessing." is of God."
For years, with the same motivation, he returned on the 1st of every month until late 2022, when he decided he needed to ask someone for help because he couldn't walk due to a lung condition and other health issues. He entrusted the task to his daughter, Tania Nix.
"I was shocked – I had no idea he was helping people in the pharmacy," WVTM said.
At his funeral on January 5, 2023, Nix shared the story of Childress' decades of giving and how it was able to cover the cost of expensive medicines for 2 Geraldine residents each month.
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Word has spread that they had an angel in their midst, and WVTM reports that the townspeople have agreed to carry on his legacy.
"There are so many people in Geraldine who have lived longer because of Hody," said pharmacist Heather Walker. "Hody was a truly humble servant who will always be loved."
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The kind of morning where no matter how beautiful it might be outside or how fine the walk feels, you still look forward to getting back home and curling up under warm covers.
On the other hand… the new snow coating is spectacular. It's wet and heavy and a bit slick in places, but it looks so fine on the branches, accenting the dark of the bark. It's the kind of morning where you spend some time torn between wonder at being the first person to walk the path, capturing sights that are only visible to the dedicated, and disbelief that you would have conceived of a project like this which requires such sacrifices.
Consternation and inconvenience; that's what these late spring storms are all about. And yet no winter is complete without them. And we didn't get anywhere near the amount the weatherfolk were predicting – which is more often the case than the reverse.
Now, if you've never experienced a late spring snow, there are a few things to keep in mind when you go out to take pictures of the white-coated trees.
Allow extra time to get where you're going. Sure, the snow is going to melt right smart quick; but until it does, it's packed hard to the road and slicker'n hydraulic fluid on a garage floor.
Dress for the wind, not just the temperature.
Boots. Always, always boots. You have no idea what the surface is like under the new coating; there could be mud, icewater, ice, or you might be about to step into a deceptive deep drift.
When behind the wheel, SLOW DOWN. Increase your following distance, because you have no idea when you might hit an unexpected patch of wet ice.
Overexpose your photos a bit to make the snow white instead of a sickly shade of bluish; remember, the internal software wants to make the image neutral – as many dark pixels as light – so you have to adjust your ISO, aperture or shutter speed so the light meter is a stop or two above center on your indicator.
If something catches your eye, make a point of getting a shot of it – or two, or three. You're never going to see that exact combination of snow, tree branch/building/fence, and light again. Preserve it.
Carry a spare pair of gloves. If you touch any of this kind of snow, your hands will be instantly soaked and cold, cold, cold.
Most importantly, HAVE FUN! And take a little time away from the camera to simply admire and appreciate.


Atlanta Real Estate Forum congratulates Windsong Properties for winning a Gold OBIE in the Single Family – Zero Lot Line $300,000 to $399,999 category for the Emerson plan at Bel-Aire Creekside in Powder Springs. Presented by the Atlanta Sales and Marketing Council, the OBIE Awards are the premier awards given in the Atlanta new home construction industry.
Searching for low maintenance, easy living while right-sizing your lifestyle, but still need some quality square footage? The Emerson is the perfect plan for you. A long rocking chair front porch welcomes the neighbors over while the open floorplan creates an amazing entertaining hub. A spacious island kitchen with corner pantry flows well into the dining area and great room making sure you won't miss a moment. A four-season sunroom maximizes the footprint providing additional living space year-round. A gracious owner's suite on the rear of the home provides privacy while the beautiful bayed window brings in plenty of natural light. Features throughout like flexible space, rounded corners, lever handles, rocker switches and a gracious owner's bath with walk-in shower and seat offer a touch of luxury for every stage of life. The second-floor bonus room with full bath provides the perfect retreat for when the grandkids come to visit while still offering plenty of storage for when you need it.


Each November 2, the Chicago Waldorf School celebrates El Dia De Los Muertos, also called 'All Souls Day' and 'The Day of the Dead'. El Día de los Muertos is a ritual, a time to honor loved ones who have died and to acknowledge death as a part of life.
Our school builds an ofrenda, an altar beautifully decorated, to honor loved ones and to share the pictures of loved ones that have passed. Photographs of Cole's dad and grandparents take their place on the ofrenda, alongside the photos of the dearly departed loved ones of other family members in our communities.
It's not a sad time, it's a remembering time; it's a time of storytelling. El Día de los Muertos celebrations provide the perfect opportunity for connecting with the "thinning of the veil between worlds," celebrating and remembering loved ones who have passed on to another realm.
Our friend, Hawk wrote this poem for me to share with you in honor of El Día de los Muertos.
Read Hawk's love poem aloud. It's magical.
Today, I stopped at our neighborhood church to light a candle for Joe. As I was leaving the church, an old, church lady whom I had never met stopped me, holding her hand against my cheek, she whispered, "He lives in your memories." I stared at her, for but a moment, before she slowly continued her walk down the church aisle.
How do you celebrate your dearly departed loved one's?
Such talent Hawk. I dont really celebrate the dead. We remember them. We put flowers on there graves. We dont forget them ever. We remember them in our hearts and minds. Cherish the memories we have. I have never heard of this tradition. But this nice lady sure gave you words of comfort. Memories are all that is left after we are gone. Thats our comfort. 😐 Great idea and great comfort for you and Cole to have a wonderful tradition.
I think memories are one of the best celebrations!
I love the post where you shared how your grandmother would suggest your mom and her sister walk over to play on "grand pa's grave." Its wonderful Cole can attend a school that is open to honoring so many different kinds of celebrations.
Joe does love Milky Ways! Sugar Skulls are mostly just sugar! The reminded me of a rock candy. I love that are school has such an open festival life!
My most favourite person in the world, my mother, died over 24 years ago. We use the anniversary of her death to celebrate her life. Every year we (my sisters and dad) go to mass together, then we all gather at Dad's house for lunch, each of us preparing food to share and we talk and laugh about our stories of Mum. We haven't missed a year yet and it's been great for my kids too as they never got to meet her.
Hawk, what a beautiful poem! Let's cherish what we have here and now, and make each day count because we can never get it back.
How lovely Antoinette! What a heartfelt way to honor "your most favorite person in the world" I bet your mom is so pleased that she raised daughters that honor her memory by choosing to be together with their dad.
we used to do this service when i was a kid at church.
It is magical–the connection, memories, and sharing make the day very special. Thanks for dropping by Odd, Art!
I agree with Katybeth Hawk your poem is magical just like the author.
We honor our dead on the one year anniversary but then we let go. We remember naturally but not formally. Life is for the living and we focus on the future. We don't forget by any means but we simply always look forward to the next generation.
Remembering naturally, and telling stories of those that have passed is such a wonderful gift to the next generation.
Day of the Dead! Greetings From The Beyond!


Say one thing for Rob Gronkowski: When he makes a promise, he keeps it. Especially when that promise involves partying, lots of partying.
I believe that Gronkowski was, in fact, voted in high school as Most Likely to Rip His Suit Pants While Partying All Night. Of course, the folks at TMZ are likely to have video of anyone coming out of a Hollywood nightclub, and a 6-foot-6 Super Bowl-winning folk hero is especially hard to miss.
Yup, that's our guy, right in front of his party bus, spiking a bouquet of roses. Because when you're Gronk, things that wind up in your hands tend to get spiked.
But even a party-manimal like Gronk has to get some rest at some point. And so it was that on Tuesday, the Patriot took an opportunity to sack out while waiting for a flight to Boston.
Actually, it seemed that he had more time than he would have liked to catch some Z's, at least according to an agent who despaired over Twitter whether his client would ever be able to get to his ultimate destination.
But apparently, that problem was resolved, which, once again, proves that if you have any kind of problem, it's important to complain about it over social media.


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Q: Select filtered records from a table with composite primary key I have the following table on a SQL Server 2008 R2 database:

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║        Team Name         ║ Project Code ║ Actioned ║
╠══════════════════════════╬══════════════╬══════════╣
║ DC & Facilities Services ║ ZZ794419     ║ No       ║
║ DC & Facilities Services ║ ZZ794419     ║ Yes      ║
║ DC & Facilities Services ║ ZZ795164     ║ No       ║
║ DC & Facilities Services ║ ZZ795247     ║ No       ║
╚══════════════════════════╩══════════════╩══════════╝

Team Name and Project Code together are the composite primary key. In this case, the returned results I'm after are the last 3 rows. When a (project and team) has multiple rows (i.e. the first 2 rows in the table above), I want to select only the row(s) where Actioned is 'Yes'. If the project and team has only 'No' in Actioned (i.e. the last 2 rows in the table above), they also need to be included in my results.
Is there a way to get the results from a SELECT statement? It seems difficult to define the WHERE clause to get the expected results.

A: You can try grouping on the combination of the Team Name and Project Code columns, and then using the MAX() function to select the record with 'Yes' in the event that both 'Yes' and 'No' appear for a given group combination.
SELECT `Team Name`, `Project Code`, MAX(`Actioned`) AS 'Actioned'
FROM table
GROUP BY `Team Name`, `Project Code`

A: Using SUM() OVER:
;WITH CTE AS(
    SELECT *,
        Y = SUM(CASE WHEN Actioned = 'YES' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) OVER(PARTITION BY TeamName, ProjectCode),
        N = SUM(CASE WHEN Actioned = 'NO' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) OVER(PARTITION BY TeamName, ProjectCode)
    FROM tbl
)
SELECT
    TeamName, ProjectCode, Actioned
FROM CTE
WHERE
    (Y = 1 AND Actioned = 'Yes')
    OR (Y = 0)

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Even with Devontae Booker on the shelf through training camp, the Denver Broncos have a wealth of options coming out of the backfield this season. Last year's starter, C.J. Anderson, entered training camp at the top of the depth chart, but is battling for the top spot with two-time All-Pro Jamaal Charles. Anderson, who is coming off a knee injury last season, joined Eric Goodman and Les Shapiro on AM 1340 | FM 104.7 to talk about his outlook this season.
Anderson has been very positive going into this season. Knee injuries can linger in a player's mind, but the veteran running back seems comfortable with where he is physically.
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Lithium Batteries Pose Fire Risks for Scrapyards and E-waste Recyclers
October 30, 2018 Author: ScrapyardPro Category: Scrapyard Safety
Lithium batteries are dangerous for recycling centers.
Used to power popular accessories such as smartphones and cameras, the batteries are often discarded along with their devices but cannot be recycled in the same manner because they can be combustible.
A 3,000-pound ferrous stockpile caught fire at a Tacoma scrapyard when a lithium-ion battery was included with a large load of consumer scrap. "People are unaware of these batteries and are getting them into the shredding stream," Simon Metals President Paul Olsen said, according to a Recycling Today article.
Small but powerful lithium-ion batteries can retain much of their charge after the device that contains them is thrown into the trash or in with recycling. The batteries can then ignite if their terminal touches metal, thereby closing the circuit and creating a spark.
"If it's at a recycling facility where it's mixed in with paper and other items that are burnable, that goes up like you wouldn't believe," Carl Smith, CEO and president of the nationwide Call2Recycle program told USA Today for a story about how exploding lithium-ion batteries are causing trash fires. Lithium-ion batteries caused fires at an Indianapolis recycling plant and a recycling facility in New York City, for example, the newspaper reported.
Managing lithium-ion batteries
Call2Recycle has launched a battery safety campaign to prevent safety incidents such as fires. The organization estimates that 175 million pounds of lithium-ion batteries alone were sold into the U.S. market in 2017, USA Today noted.
Call2Recycle encourages consumers to recycle batteries by dropping them off at approved recycling locations. It also recommends taping battery terminals so that they do not cause a fire by rubbing against surfaces that could ignite sparks.
Employees at IT asset disposition company HOBI International manually remove all batteries, tape over their terminals and put them aside for shipment to battery recyclers, according to a Scrap magazine article about end-of-life hazards and product design. Scrap suggested that battery designers help mitigate fires by incorporating risk-reducing features like internal insulators and external terminal covers.
Olsen said that Simon Metals would take new precautions to prevent fires like the one it had at its Tacoma scrapyard, such as by forming smaller piles of materials and being more discerning in the materials it takes.
"We're going to more closely watch what suppliers bring in," Olsen said, according to Recycling Today. "We have radiation detectors, but [lithium-ion batteries] can be hard to find. So, suppliers have to isolate them. They have to get the batteries taken care of and out of the supply stream."
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package org.apache.camel.component.file;
import java.io.File;

import org.apache.camel.ContextTestSupport;
import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
import org.apache.camel.component.mock.MockEndpoint;
import org.apache.camel.impl.JndiRegistry;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

public class FileBeginFailureOneTimeTest extends ContextTestSupport {

    private MyStrategy myStrategy = new MyStrategy();

    @Override
    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        deleteDirectory("target/begin");
        super.setUp();
    }

    @Override
    protected JndiRegistry createRegistry() throws Exception {
        JndiRegistry jndi = super.createRegistry();
        jndi.bind("myStrategy", myStrategy);
        return jndi;
    }

    @Test
    public void testBeginFailureOneTime() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint mock = getMockEndpoint("mock:result");
        mock.expectedMessageCount(1);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader("file://target/begin", "Hello World", Exchange.FILE_NAME, "hello.txt");

        assertMockEndpointsSatisfied();

        assertEquals("Begin should have been invoked 2 times", 2, myStrategy.getInvoked());
    }

    @Override
    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() throws Exception {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            @Override
            public void configure() throws Exception {
                from("file://target/begin?initialDelay=0&delay=10&processStrategy=#myStrategy")
                    .convertBodyTo(String.class)
                    .to("mock:result");
            }
        };
    }

    private static class MyStrategy implements GenericFileProcessStrategy<File> {

        private volatile int invoked;

        public void prepareOnStartup(GenericFileOperations<File> fileGenericFileOperations, GenericFileEndpoint<File> fileGenericFileEndpoint) throws Exception {
        }

        public boolean begin(GenericFileOperations<File> fileGenericFileOperations, GenericFileEndpoint<File> fileGenericFileEndpoint,
                             Exchange exchange, GenericFile<File> fileGenericFile) throws Exception {
            invoked++;
            if (invoked <= 1) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Damn I cannot do this");
            }
            return true;
        }

        public void abort(GenericFileOperations<File> fileGenericFileOperations, GenericFileEndpoint<File> fileGenericFileEndpoint,
                          Exchange exchange, GenericFile<File> fileGenericFile) throws Exception {
            // noop
        }

        public void commit(GenericFileOperations<File> fileGenericFileOperations, GenericFileEndpoint<File> fileGenericFileEndpoint,
                            Exchange exchange, GenericFile<File> fileGenericFile) throws Exception {
        }

        public void rollback(GenericFileOperations<File> fileGenericFileOperations, GenericFileEndpoint<File> fileGenericFileEndpoint,
                            Exchange exchange, GenericFile<File> fileGenericFile) throws Exception {
        }

        public int getInvoked() {
            return invoked;
        }
    }

}

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Elton John: Free Show in NYC for Tribeca Film Fest Opening
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by Roger Friedman - March 2, 2011 4:36 pm
Elton John is coming to Tribeca. He's going to play a free show with Leon Russell in Tribeca on April 20th to launch the Tribeca Film Festival. The concert will follow an opening night screening of Cameron Crowe's documentary, "The Union," about Elton and Leon's album collaboration of the same name. Who better to have made such a doc? As I told you when Elton and Leon played here at the Beacon last fall, Crowe was shooting his movie back then. "The Union" is an amazing album that came out after the Grammy deadline was over. But it's my favorite record of 2010 by far. Crowe, of course, has a long association with Elton John. He covered him when we were in high school back in the 1970s, for a magazine called Rolling Stone. (It's different than the one that comes out now.) And in Crowe's wonderful movie, "Almost Famous," a group of characters memorably sings along to Elton's "Tiny Dancer," one of the most timeless scenes in all of moviedom. That April 20th show will follow an April 14th show, by the way, where Sir Elton and guests will be performing at the Pink Ball for breast cancer research. It does sound like the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival is going to be great if this is their opening night!
PS If you don't have "The Union" CD, you must get it. The song "If It Wasn't for Bad" has my favorite line of the year in it: "If it wasn't for me you'd be happy." That says it all!
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Puchar Króla 2011/2012 – 108. edycja Pucharu Króla. Rozgrywki rozpoczęły się 31 sierpnia 2011 i zakończyły się 25 maja 2012. W finale spotkały się dwie bardzo silne drużyny: FC Barcelona i Athletic Bilbao. Finał odbył się na Estadio Vicente Calderón w Madrycie. Obrońcą tytułu był Real Madryt.

Zakwalifikowane drużyny
20 drużyn z rozgrywek Primera División w sezonie 2010/2011:

21 drużyn z rozgrywek Segunda División w sezonie 2010/2011. (Villarreal B nie brała udziału ponieważ jest rezerwową drużyną klubu Villarreal CF, w podobnej sytuacji znalazła się FC Barcelona B, która jest rezerwową drużyną FC Barcelony):

24 drużyn z rozgrywek Segunda División B w sezonie 2009/2010. (Drużyny zakwalifikowane to pięć najlepszych drużyn z każdej z czterech grup (z wykluczeniem rezerw) i cztery z największą liczbą punktów z pozostałych drużyn):

18 drużyn z rozgrywek Tercera División w sezonie 2010/2011. (Zwycięzcy z każdej z 18 grup (bez rezerw)):

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Pierwsze mecze rozgrywane były pomiędzy 9, a 13 listopada 2011 roku, natomiast rewanże pomiędzy 20, a 22 grudnia 2011 roku

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Pierwsze mecze rozgrywane były pomiędzy 3, a 5 stycznia 2012 roku, natomiast rewanże pomiędzy 10, a 12 stycznia 2012 roku

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Pierwsze mecze rozgrywane były 31 stycznia i 1 lutego 2012 roku, natomiast rewanże pomiędzy 7 i 8 lutego 2012 roku

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Q: Computing dot product of sparse vectors in less than O(n+m) complexity, where m and n are the number of non zero entries in the respective vectors Given an operation memset(array of values, array of memory location) which stores the corresponding values in the corresponding memory locations and takes O(1) time irrespective of the length of the array. How do you use it to calculate the dot product of sparse vectors in less than O(n+m) complexity? Each vector is represented as a triplet of [val,index,len], where len is the number of non zero entries, index is an array of indexes of non zero entries, and val is an array consisting of the non zero entries, so size of val=size of index=len.
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The Education Forum
Political Discussions
Controversial Issues in History
Australian Federal election
By Evan Burton,
August 21, 2010 in Political Discussions
John Dolva
Interests:remembering the two towers of 13,000 children that fall down, dying of starvation, preventable diseases, lack of clean water and basic health needs every 1 1/2 hours 24/7/365... 9/11? Bah... ...Viva Che'... living in a nice world
Evan, the ''kingmakers'' seem to wish for a stable government. While they come from the right to varying degrees, they also are progressive on some issues that could see them working with Labor. (the gov gen is just reported seeking advice, btw).
The problem with an early re election is that it would be tainted by the past few days events and I think most people want stability. I think a lot of donkeys would vote differently, particularly if a major party came out more strongly on rural and Indigenous concerns and the issue of asylum seekers and other issues. No, I don''t think we should go back to the polls even if it was ever on the agenda.
The results of the five seats in doubt, the certainty of a minimum of 72 + 1 green Labor plus the near certainty of Labor holding Denison - and an outside chance of taking Dunkin and Hasluck - could make (with the Labor-Green controlled Senate) a Labor victory more likely given it would provide the greater stability and therfore be more the choice of ''the 3'', particularly one of them.
There looks like a primary recount is on the card for one electorate and possibly more to come.
I'm sure you agree we're in for an interesting few days/weeks.
I'd say we''ll see a relatively early election unless Labor can get a solid workable deal.
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the ABC 7.30 report should give us a better idea of who ''the 3'' are. Perhaps even to the extent that one can comment with some certainty re the final result.
edit add : counting for the day is not*over.
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Edited August 23, 2010 by John Dolva
Interesting commentary :
http://abc.com.au/news/stories/2010/08/23/2991142.htm
''South Australia's independent senator, Nick Xenophon, says he hopes the hung Parliament will provide an opportunity to improve the practice of politics.
The nation's political fate could rest on three sitting independent MPs - Rob Oakeshott, Bob Katter and Tony Windsor.
Senator Xenophon told The World Today that it is important Lower House independents get the resources they need to do their job.
"They actually will need extra staff," he said.
"I could imagine they each would need a full-time media person just to deal with the avalanche of media enquiries because every piece of legislation, every vote, will be critical."
He also called for a boost to the resources of the parliamentary library.
"The parliamentary library does tremendous work in giving objective, unbiased advice to all sides of politics," he said.
"I think it's important that their resources are adequate as well to deal with what clearly will be more work coming from the three independents."
Senator Xenophon described the current situation as a "one-in-a-100-year opportunity to actually get it right, to make the Parliament work in the way it's meant to, to reinvigorate democracy".
"In terms of election funding, the way that political donations have a pretty corrosive impact on our democracy - I think there's a chance to sort that out," he said.
He also identified freedom of information laws, laws to protect whistleblowers and shield laws for journalists as issues that deserve reform, and says he hopes for more opportunities for conscience votes.
He says it is clear the views of Mr Oakeshott and Mr Windsor on reforming politics reflect the views of voters.
"I think it's pretty clear they reflect the views of voters, given that independents and minor parties have done exceptionally well at this election campaign and most disturbingly the informal vote is at a record level," he said.
"I think that shows a level of disenchantment and disillusionment with the major parties and I like to think these developments will be a breath of fresh air in our democracy." ''
Evan Burton
Location:NSW, Australia
Interests:Manned spaceflight with emphasis on the 'space race' to the Moon.
It is a great opportunity - but methinks the powers-that-be won't risk it. A shame.
One of the worst possible outcomes is touted by a ''kingmaker'' Rob Oakshott : The inclusion of Malcolm Turnbull in a unity government.
This can be seen as a longrange ''coup'' by some of the most powerful right wing elements in parliament. There is pressure for the GG to excuse herself. Rob Oakshott may need to be neutralised from any desicive involvement.
I'm a Liberal voter but also dislike Turnbull, and agree with you there John.
What about the GG? Should she recuse herself? I think she has to; even the appearance of bias - which will certainly be made by one side or the other - compells her to withdraw.
The question is then: who decides? The Queen on the advice of the PM?
Om that one (GG) I disagree, Evan. It is an insult to her to suggest lack of integrity. Whatever she chooses will be rational. If it is Labour, she, in spite of any defamation she can be proud she has maintained her integrity even if the heavens may fall. Ultimately, unlike the cur, her legacy will triumph. So, no, I don't think she should excuse herself. In the end, it will all come out in the wash.
Oh, I don't doubt her integrity but it's the code of conduct.
For instance, I hold shares in a company that makes military arms. If there were ANY situation involving this company in which I had any possible influence, I would have to declare it and recuse myself from any part in the decision making process.
Now i would not let my personal interests (small as they are) sway any decision i had to make but the APPEARANCE of bias has to be avoided.
Well in that case many/all MP's could be argued that they should excuse themselves. They all act on interests.
Besides, the code of conduct of the GG, particularly since Kerr, is, (while not specifically written) is one of signing off on the PM's presented directions and that is not determined (unlike the cabal that dismissed Whitlam) by the GG.
edit add: Evan, where do you think Brisbane will go? There seems to be a drift to Labor at the moment.
''Mr Abbott was repeatedly pressed by journalists about whether or not he would allow Treasury to brief the independents on the Coalition's policy costings. The Opposition leader repeated a number of times that he felt his shadows and the accounting firm which audited the costings are in a better position to brief the trio of independents. Mr Abbott was pressed on how this stance was consistent with the charter of budget honesty, introduced by the Coalition when in government and which requires both sides of politics to submit costings to Treasury for auditing towards the end of an election campaign. In reply, Mr Abbott said he simply believed his team and the Coalition's accounting firm were more intimate with the Coalition's plans than Treasury ever could be.... '' - can''t help himself, can he
'' Governor General Quentin Bryce has been given the all-clear after potential conflict of interest issues were raised over her ability to handle the current political impasse. @AndrewGreeneABC: Solicitor-General finds GG's relationship to Shorten "gives rise to no constitutional or other legal impediment" to her duties.
Labor MP Bill Shorten is married to Ms Bryce's daughter.''
1 Abbott now thinks the Treasusy IS competent....
2 ''The Labor Party says up to 3,000 votes cast at a pre-polling booth in the Adelaide electorate of Boothby were tampered with on Saturday night.
Michael Brown, the ALP secretary in South Australia, says the matter was reported by a Labor scrutineer.
Mr Brown says he raised it with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on Monday and the AEC told him one of its employees had handled the ballot papers improperly.
He wants the matter considered by the Court of Disputed Returns even if it holds up the federal election's final outcome.
"I'm informed this incident is unprecedented in Australia's political history," he said.
"It is not sufficient for the AEC to simply conduct an internal investigation into this matter.
"Only a truly independent and public inquiry will serve to restore trust and the integrity of our electoral system.
"The most appropriate body to conduct such an inquiry is the Court of Disputed Returns." ''
John, was the costing business a bit of a fuphy? I am not certain, but I heard on radio that the Treasury costing was a service offered to the opposition but there was no requirement for them to do so.
I agree that to be open and honest they should have done so, but there was no requirement - unlike the government.
Evan, yes, I understand there is no such requirement. However, imo, it shows the type of prime minister Abbott would be if in power, and hence the direction (hidden agendas, vacillation), of Australian Politics till the next election. iow Instability and unaccountability, telling of an agenda.
He categorically stated his private acounting is superior and will not be scrutinised because the treasury is not competent to do so,
this becomes a sticking point,
after a couple of days he totally reverses his position, now the Treasury is competent.
Guillard made no equivocations on any issues. imo She simply has displayed Leadership qualities worthy of trust superior to those of Abbott.
I get the impression that no matter what happens, we'll have another election in about 3 months time.
Incredibly stupid of Fielding to threaten to block supply - the guy deserves to be voted out.
BTW, did you see the Press Club interviews with the independents? I always knew Bob Katter was a bit rough, but he came across as a raving nutter. I know he wants to get a fair deal for the country areas and I agree - but he came across as some type of loud idiot. I hope he isn't riding roughshod over the other indys.
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Raincoats are jackets made of fabric that is specially treated to repel water. In 1836, Charles Macintosh invented a method for combining rubber with fabric, which was used in the first modern raincoats. Because of his inventions, all raincoats are called Mackintoshes or Macs by those in Great Britain. Most modern day raincoats are inspired in one way or another by Macintosh's brainchild.
Today there are many kinds of raincoats made of all types of fabric. An all-weather raincoat has a removable lining so it can be worn in any weather. Fold ups are foldable and usually made of vinyl. Vinyl raincoats are made of vinyl or of fabric that has a vinyl finish. Trenchcoats are worn by both men and women, and are often made of lightweight cotton/polyester fabric.
What is important to raincoat manufacture is efficient waterproofing. There are two important qualities: absorption (how much water can be soaked by the fabric) and penetration (the amount of water that can sink into the fabric). Raincoat fabrics are either absorbent or repellent. The best raincoats are made of tightly woven fabric.
People have been trying to make items of clothing waterproof for hundreds of years. As early as the thirteenth century, Amazonian Indians used a milky substance (rubber) extracted from rubber trees for this purpose. When European explorers came to the Americas in the sixteenth century, they observed the indigenous people using a crude procedure and rubber to waterproof items like footwear and capes.
By the eighteenth century, Europeans were experimenting with waterproofing fabric for clothing. François Fresneau devised an early idea for waterproofing fabric in 1748. Scotland's John Syme made further waterproofing advances in 1815. In 1821, the first raincoat was manufactured. Made by G. Fox of London, it was called the Fox's Aquatic. The raincoat was made of Gambroon, a twill-type fabric with mohair.
While these early attempts at waterproofing fabrics sometimes involved rubber, they were not particularly successful. When rubber was used in clothing, the articles involved were not easy to wear. If the weather was hot, the clothing became supple and tacky; if cold, the clothing was hard and inflexible. This problem was solved in the early nineteenth century by Macintosh.
The native of Scotland was a chemist and chemical manufacturer. Through experiments, Macintosh discovered a better way to use rubber in clothing. At the time, the gas industry was new. Coal-tar naphtha was one byproduct of the fractional distillation of petroleum, which was used in gasworks. This volatile oily liquid was a hydrocarbon mixture. Macintosh dissolved rubber in naphtha, making a liquid. This liquid was brushed on fabric making it waterproof.
In 1823, Macintosh patented his process for making waterproof fabric. This process involved sandwiching a layer of molded rubber between two layers of fabric treated with the rubber-naphtha liquid. It took some time to develop the industrial process for spreading the rubber-naphtha mixture on the cloth. The patented waterproof fabric was produced in factories beginning in 1824. The first customer was the British military. Macintosh's
Once designed and sized, the raincoats are sewn.
findings led to other innovative uses of rubber, including tires.
The process for vulcanizing rubber was developed by Charles Goodyear, a hardware merchant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1839. Vulcanization means to heat rubber with sulfur, which made rubber more elastic and easier to meld. Four years later, Thomas Hancock took the waterproof fabric invented by Charles Macintosh and made it better using vulcanized rubber.
Americans continued to improve on Macintosh's process with the advent of the calendering process in 1849. Macintosh's cloth was passed between heated rollers to make it more pliable and waterproof. Another innovation involved the combination of only one layer of cloth with a layer of rubber. While such improvements made the cloth lighter than Macintosh's original, these raincoats were still rather hot even into the early twentieth century. Many raincoats were designed with slits to make them cooler for their wearer.
Macintosh's fabric was not the only kind of waterproof fabric invented in the nineteenth century. In 1851, Bax & Company introduced Aquascutum. This was a woolen fabric that was chemically treated to shed water. This raincoat became popular at the end of the Crimean War (c. 1856).
Chemicially treated fabrics gradually began to predominate by the early twentieth century. For World War I, Thomas Burberry created the all-weather trench coat. The coat was made of a yarn-dyed fine twill cotton gabardine. The gabardine was chemically processed to repel rain. Though these trench coats were first made for soldiers, after the war ended in 1918, they spread in popularity. They were also much cooler than those made of Macintosh's fabric.
By 1920, raincoat design moved beyond the trenchcoat, though that coat remained a classic. Oil-treated fabrics, usually cotton and silk, became popular in the 1920s. Oil-skin was made by brushing linseed oil on fabric, which made it shed water. Car coats were introduced in the 1930s. These raincoats were shorter than trenchcoats and made for riding in automobiles. Rubber-covered and-backed raincoats, made of all kinds of fabrics, resurged in popularity between the wars as well.
After 1940, raincoats made of lightweight fabric became more popular. Military research led to the creation of raincoat fabrics that could be dry-cleaned. Vinyl was a preferred fabric in the 1950s for its impressive waterproofness, as was plastic (through the 1970s), though such raincoats retained heat. Innovations in fabrics continued to affect raincoats. Wool blends and synthetic blends were regularly used to make raincoats beginning in the 1950s. Such blends could be machine washed. There were also improved chemical treatments of cloth. Heat-welded seams were introduced as well, increasing how waterproof the fabric was.
In the 1960s, nylon was used to make raincoats, and in the 1970s, double-knit became a preferred fabric. Double-knit raincoats were not as water repellent as those made with other fabrics, but were designed differently to compensate. Still such raincoats were not as comfortable, and double-knit faded throughout the decade. Vinyl raincoats briefly had a renewed popularity, especially among women.
Modern day raincoats come in many fabrics, styles and colors. The gabardine trenchcoat remains a favorite. While natural and artificial blends, rubber and plastic are still used, plastic-coated artificial fibers used for Gore-Tex are very popular. Microfibers and other high-tech fabrics are taking over more of the raincoat material market.
The primary material in a raincoat is fabric that has been specially treated to repel water. The fabric of many raincoats is made of a blend of two or more of the following materials: cotton, polyester, nylon, and/or rayon. Raincoats can also made of wool, wool gabardine, vinyl, microfibers and high tech fabrics. The fabric is treated with chemicals and chemical compounds, depending on the kind of fabric. Waterproofing materials include resin, pyridinium or melamine complexes, polyurethane, acrylic, fluorine or Teflon.
Cotton, wool, nylon or other artificial fabrics are given a coating of resin to make them waterproof. Woolen and cheaper cotton fabrics are bathed in a paraffin emulsions and salts of metals like aluminum or zirconium. Higher quality cotton fabrics are bathed in complexes of pyridinium or melamine complexes. These complexes form a chemical link with the cotton and are extremely durable. Natural fibers, like cotton and linen, are bathed in wax. Synthetic fibers are treated by methyl siloxanes or silicones (hydrogen methyl siloxanes).
In addition to the fabric, most raincoats consist of buttons, thread, lining, seam tape, belts, trim, zippers, eyelets, and facings.
Most of these items, including the fabric, are created by outside suppliers for raincoat manufacturers. The manufacturers design and make the actual raincoat.
To capture part of the market, raincoat design changes with the season and current fashion trends. Fabrics, lengths, cut and look are important to appeal to the consumer. Style is everything; the cut is important to distinguishing items on the market. For men, women, and children, there are many different styles of raincoats: short, commuter, car coats, sport, utility, and long raincoats. New fibers and finishes are regularly introduced.
Computer-aided design (CAD) gives designers the ability to combine fabrics, styles, and colors onscreen without having to make a sample. Designers create the patterns for the manufacturing process using CAD.
Much of the manufacturing process is done by Computer Aided manufacturing (CAM). Machines are run by computers, ensuring speed and efficiency.
Waterproofing the fabric
In this automated process, fabric passes through a series of rollers and into a tank
Waterproof material used for raincoats is tested for its level of absorption or ability to repel moisture.
containing a bath of the appropriate waterproofing materials.
Chemicals are allowed to soak into the fabric.
After the material leaves the bath, it is heated so the chemicals soak evenly into the fabric.
The fabric passes through another series of rollers and allowed to cool. This allows the chemicals to harden and stay in place on the fabric.
The treated fabric is re-rolled into bolts and readied for shipment to raincoat manufacturers.
Manufacturing the raincoat
The pieces that make the body of the raincoat are cut by a computer-operated cutter or large electrical cutter. The fabric is cut according to patterns that have been graded to each size the raincoat will be made in.
The interlining (which makes collars, cuffs, front facings, sleeve straps, belts and pocket welts stiff) is put inside the appropriate parts. Each part that contains interlining is fused by an automated fusing machine. The fusing process uses high heat and pressure to ensure the interlining is put in evenly.
An industrial sewing machine operator uses an industrial machine to sew all the small parts of the raincoat, including the collar, belt, sleeve straps and pocket welts.
The facings (the underply of the coat that is sewn to the front edge) are set to the front edges of the fabric shell that makes up a coat's exterior. This is also done by a worker on an industrial sewing machine.
The large parts of the shell of the raincoat are assembled on an industrial sewing machine by a worker. Most come in pairs. First the right back panel and left back panel are joined together, creating a back seam. Then the rest of the large parts of the raincoat (the front of the raincoat, the sleeves etc.) are created in similar fashion.
On a separate line in the factory, a lining has been made. It is sewn into the appropriate pieces of the shell by a person.
All the large pieces of the raincoat are now assembled and sewn together by a worker using an industrial sewing machine.
An automated machine makes button-holes and sews the buttons on the raincoat.
Using an industrial sewing machine, the trim and sleeves are sewn on by hand. The belt is put on by hand as well.
The finished raincoat is examined by a inspector for quality control purposes.
A worker puts tags on the coat and puts it on the hanger.
A polybag is put over the coat, usually by a machine called an automatic bagger.
The bagged coats are loaded into the shipping container by a worker.
Quality control takes place at many steps of the manufacturing process. Before raincoats are even made, the quality of the fabric and dye are inspected. After the fabric is cut, the patterns must match and sizes must be right. As each piece is sewn together, the sewing is checked. The qualities inspectors look for include: stitch length, hem stitching, button-hole stitching and alignment, and seam type. Anything defective is corrected. When the raincoat is completed, each part of it is inspected by hand.
In the actual production of raincoats, only scraps are created. They are usually thrown away.
The raincoat's fabric and its finishes will change. There will be improved water repellency, stain resistance, and wrinkle resistance. The fabrics themselves will have new weaves.
Another direction the future of raincoats might head is toward mass customization. This means the coat would be specially made to fit the consumer's body. Such a process would involve computers and the advent of certain kinds of software and scanning devices.
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Stone, Elaine. The Dynamics of Fashion. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1999.
Bober, Joanna. "Fashion 101: In the Trenches." InStyle (March 1, 1999): 141.
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Accomplishments of Mayor de Blasio (as of December 2014)
I realized that de Blasio's accomplishments go unnoticed, primarily because affluent white people do not benefit from them. The benefits the mayor has brought are often corrections to the abuses of Bloomberg's, along with prior mayors', policies:
The NYPD conducts fewer stop-and-frisks.
The city dropped its stop-and-frisk appeal.
NYPD officers are starting to use body cameras.
New York police officers are being retrained.
Carrying a small amount of weed will probably result in a ticket, not an arrest.
Teenage inmates are no longer put in solitary confinement at Rikers Island.
The city has settled with the "Central Park Five."
There are 23 new homeless shelters in the city
There's a new rent subsidy program for homeless families.
More public housing units are available to homeless families.
Pedestrian deaths are at a record low.
The speed limit was lowered from 30 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour.
There are harsher penalties for taxi drivers involved in accidents.
New York has universal pre-K.
Troubled city schools are no longer being shut down.
City schools are getting more art teachers.
71 percent of city employees have new contracts.
New York has a higher living wage, and it applies to more workers.
New York businesses must provide paid sick leave.
Fourth of July fireworks returned to the East River.
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Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've always had a particular sympathy for people that overcome barrier...
James Igoe's Reviews > Godel's Proof
Godel's Proof by Ernest Nagel My rating: 4 of 5 stars Interesting and not terribly written but in a few areas highly repetitive. My b...
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