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COMMENT: The Channel 4 Winter Press Launch 2000
First published December 2000
The Channel 4 Winter Press Launch 2000
Hi everyone. A few weeks ago, SOTCAA was invited to the Channel 4 press launch.
Due to an administrative error, surely?
No - they love us, the media.
What, even though we're inevitably going to destroy them and all they stand for?
Absolutely. They knew they couldn't have a big corporate event and not ask SOTCAA along. It'd be like King Stupid without William Vandyck.
They're a bunch of idiots, the media.
Well, fair play to them - they'd put on a good spread. Monkfish spears, sun-dried tomatoes...those ridiculous breadsticks that defied gravity. You wouldn't think they'd have time, would you, what with all the quality television they bring us.
Channel 4 buffets - where you'll be glad you had a bag of chips beforehand.
What were those strange cheese and strawberry things?
I don't know, but it's not something I can see catching on in the North.
Anyway, we thought we'd write something for SOTCAA about the day and what we got up to. Y'know, all the stars we schmoozed with, all the insider gossip, the sights, the sounds...
Well it all started with us getting hopelessly lost looking for Horseferry Road.
Er yeah. See, that's something we'll have to get sorted out before we start destroying the media - you know, actually finding out where it is.
You had the A-Z.
Well you told me you'd been there before.
Only for a piss.
Etc. Comedy. Well, anyway, we got there eventually.
Yeah. And there was no mistaking Channel 4 on this occasion. To tie in with it being their Winter press launch, they'd created a fake snowstorm in the entrance hall.
Mmm. I assumed that was some kind of rubbish cocaine reference.
Mm?
Well, I'd heard this rumour that if you go into a toilet cubicle at any big media event of that kind and run your hand along the cistern, you get traces of cocaine on your fingertips.
And you tried this out?
I did. Alas, my fingertips only picked up dust.
Well, I think that's a bigger scandal, personally. I mean they could at least have given the place a wipe. What with SOTCAA coming and everything.
Yeah. Actually, that's a point - we did seem to be the most famous people there, as far as I could make out.
Yeah. We were also the only people there who knew it was The Goodies' 30th anniversary the day before.
Bastards. It's just a job to them.
Yeah. A job with lots of free food. A lot of people had the word 'Freelance' on their lapels, like they were fooling anyone.
There was somebody there from Look-In magazine, I'm sure of it...
And the bloke from the Radio Times seemed to have brought his entire family.
Which was foolish of him, because the buffet contained both swearing and nudity.
Anyway, we sat around on these ridiculous blue chairs, drinking champagne out of these space-age glasses with flashing C4 logos sellotaped to the sides...leafing through the bumf they'd thrust into our hands.
And getting increasingly dismayed.
Yeah, and...is it just me, or is today's television targeted exclusively at drunks?
Targeted at and made by drunks, yes. The fact that they kept plying TV reviewers with champagne was a perfect metaphor for the decline of the modern critic.
It was nice, though.
Yeah, really bubbly.
Mmm.
Most of the programme information in the bumf was embargoed until 9 November, I noticed...
Embarged, for fuck's sake. It's Channel 4, not Diana's handbag. Anyway, we went downstairs into this viewing room...
Where they showed us this...fucking appalling promotional film.
No, fair play - it had Sgt Peppers on it.
Oh yeah, you couldn't fault the choice of soundtrack - or indeed the sound system. They played 'A Day In The Life' and it was in proper stereo with nice wide-panned 60s mixing. Even though it had Dom Joly's face in the middle.
Channel 4's winter programme didn't bode well though...
No. What was the most depressing thing on offer, to your mind?
Gotta be Teachers. An Ally McBeal-style comedy drama about a school, all shot on field-removed, and starring Egg from This Life.
My money's on Metrosexuality - a sort of gay, multicultural, crazy, late-night baroque comedy' according to Channel 4.
Only 'sort of' though. Proves their hearts aren't really in it.
Mm. 'Look, we're homosexual - isn't it hilarious?'.
The nadir will be that Boy Meets Girl thing about people swapping genders, though.
Christ, yeah. You can smell Time Out's droopy fucking typeface a mile off.
And God how everyone in the room cackled.
Yeah - and they still call us arrogant for saying television plays up to the pleb mentality?
What else? An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour, set in - and I quote - 'the chaos of the Second World War'.
It really was chaos!
What about The Greatest No.1 Singles Of All Time?
Yeah - a brief clip of Holly Johnson saying 'Gay sex couldn't have been further from my mind when I wrote Relax...'
I bet his handwriting was a bit shaky though.
And Lionel Richie saying that, whenever he walks into a room, people say 'Hello' to him.
Yeah, actually - on that occasion, the plebs' laughter was justified.
In contrast to the hysterics they reserved for Dom Joly crawling across a zebra crossing dressed as a snail.
Yeah, that was unforgivable. These people should be locked in a cell with first-series Absolutely and be forced to educate themselves.
Fucking right. 'The greatest success of Channel 4 in the past two years has been the explosion in its comedy output', he said...
He's sick.
All he means is 'Armstrong & Miller are back'.
So is Spaced. We saw far too many clips from that.
Couldn't see Dan L anywhere though.
No. Shame. Dan was great - he really took it to the edge.
There's The Real Cracker...
Who have we been watching all these years then?
And Shockers - dark films for the Blair Witch generation.
...which will consist of bleach-blonde blokey-bloke "film" "makers" throwing blood everywhere, presumably.
Small Potatoes has a second series...
...in 'a new, non-audience format', it says here. Playing it safe, eh?
And there's more tedious sex stuff - Better Sex, Silicone Teens, a documentary about the Kama Sutra starring Sanjeev Bhasker...
Called Position Impossible, for fuck's sake.
And the whole thing ended with footage of Channel 4 programme director Tim Gardam leaving his office looking all serious and getting into a taxi while Big Ben struck five.
Hmm. See, if I was Channel 4 programme director, I wouldn't do that.
No. I'd just stand there and apologise.
Yeah. Or do a little dance or something. Actually, some bloke came on afterwards and made a joke about the film not being very realistic because he'd 'never seen Tim leave the building at 5 o'clock'.
Yeah. I didn't get it, did you?
I think it's office humour. Maybe he never buys a round or something.
Hmm. He was a twat, Tim Gardam. Promoting all that shit in his bloody Prince Charles voice, being completely blind to its obvious awfulness.
And what was the line he used, about the BBC?
Oh yeah - 'Television doesn't have to be two episodes of EastEnders sandwiching The Weakest Link'. That was his fucking soundbite.
Didn't get a single laugh.
And that other thing he said - 'You can only put your cards on the table if you've got cards in your hand in the first place'.
Alan Partridge is alive and well.
They were filming it too, weren't they? Tim Gardam's speech.
Yeah - who for?
Tim Gardam's mum, obviously.
Anyway, then we went back upstairs to 'meet the celebs'.
Oh yeah - who was there?
Rory Bremner.
That's the one. B-boom - tsssshhh.
Graham Norton was there, surrounded by women.
Always had my suspicions about him.
Yeah. Leslie Phillips...
He was surrounded by blokes. Some sort of scheduling problem I imagine.
Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson...
And Dom Joly.
Was he there?
I'm sure he was. I saw him in the corner turning the humble practical joke into an artform.
Must have missed that.
The nibbles were more exciting than the programmes.
They were certainly more innovative.
See, I reckon you could successfully survive in London, simply by ligging onto these sort of parties. You'd never have to buy any food again, or find a place to sleep - you just find the nearest wrap party, scoff everything down, and kip on the vol au vant trolley next to Pete Baynham.
And why not? We're paying for Channel 4, after all.
Erm, well, we're not are we?
In tears, I mean.
True though. On the same day, there was a Dead Ringers writers' meeting at Broadcasting House. They must have had sandwiches at least.
Well, you'd hope so. Anyway, we pretty much ignored all the celebs. Although we did confront Simon Pegg. Yay. Direct action. I broke his fucking legs good and proper.
No we didn't. Stop trying to stir things up.
Alright, well I sort of fondled his leg.
You did. You also tried to touch his beard but he wouldn't let you.
He loved us.
Course he did. He's Simon Pegg. He always returns a smile.
Even though I told him to his face that I didn't care for Spaced.
See, this is what people like Dan L and those Comedy Lounge idiots don't understand. They think comedians respect constant toadying. But that's bollocks, because these people are surrounded by sycophants all day long...
Well, Pegg admitted as much didn't he? He said that comedians need to listen to people with actual arguments. He had a mouthful of breadsticks, but I think that's what he was saying.
So after all this time we've finally discovered the point of Simon Pegg?
No, but at least its further proof that comedians log onto SOTCAA, not despite the criticism but because of it. A breath of fresh air amidst the stale air of media crawling.
Exactly. See, I reckon if we ever met Charlie Brooker he'd probably try and shag us.
I think that's why we vetoed the proposed meeting actually.
What happened then?
Well, that woman gave us a row for not taking Channel 4 seriously. Then you fell over.
Don't remember that.
In the midst of your ridiculous drunkeness, you leaned on one of their displays and went arse over tit.
What? I broke Channel 4?
Twice. And it was much funnier than when Del Boy did it.
I don't remember this at all.
It's all on the tape. I'm sure Rob could stick it on the site as Real Audio download or something.
Er, no, better not. The bandwidth might, erm, be affected or something. I imagine we left shortly after that then?
Uh-huh. They didn't give us a piece of cake in a napkin or anything either.
Only because Tim Gardam had eaten it all.
He'd had his cake and ate it.
In what sense?
Well exactly...
Oh, right. I hope he choked on it.
NEXT MONTH: SOTCAA goes to the OscarsTM and eats all the fucking profiteroles.


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You are here: Home / Analysts / We sold Berkshire Hathaway because buy and hold forever is dead, this investor says
We sold Berkshire Hathaway because buy and hold forever is dead, this investor says
April 19, 2018 by Nick Waddell
With both chief executive Warren Buffett and vice chairman Charlie Munger now well past traditional retirement age —and with Buffett yet to name his successor— should investors be wary of Berkshire Hathaway?
Not really, says Contra the Heard's Benj Gallander, who at the same time expects a selloff when Buffett passes away.
The Oracle of Omaha may still be adept at steering holding company Berkshire Hathaway towards even greater riches —the company reported a net annual income of US$44.94 billion last year, an 87 per cent increase on 2016— but many are curious if not downright concerned about what will happen to the company once Buffett hands over the reins.
In March, Buffett released his annual letter to shareholders, where he stated frustration over being unable to find new stand-alone businesses to acquire, claiming that valuations were too high. But little was said by Buffett, now 87 years old, on the topic of succession, other than to don more praise upon two men seen by many to be in the running, namely, Ajit Jain, head of the insurance group at Berkshire, and Greg Abel, head of non-insurance operations.
"You and I are lucky to have Ajit and Greg working for us," wrote Buffett. "Each has been with Berkshire for decades, and Berkshire's blood flows through their veins. The character of each man matches his talents. And that says it all."
But investor Benj Gallander says that worries about Berkshire post-Buffett are overblown, even though the stock will likely take a hit when Buffett is no longer at the helm.
"It's a great company, no question," says Gallander, in conversation with BNN. "One of the risks now — and I think they've mitigated it, to some degree — is when Charlie [Munger] dies and when Warren dies, and when that happens, I think some people will sell the company, but they seem to have plans in play for succession."
"Warren has done an amazing job, obviously one of the best investors in the world," says Gallander. "I don't believe in buying and holding forever. We sold our [Berkshire] stock because we thought the value was pretty good on it. We were happy to get out; we made a nice profit on it."
Shares of Berkshire Hathaway have treated investors well over the years. Although down roughly seven percent from a late January high, the stock has doubled over the past half-decade.
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The gastrulating vertebrate embryo develops three germlayers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. Zebrafish endoderm differentiation starts with the activation of sox17 by casanova (cas). We report that spg (pou2/Oct4) is essential for endoderm formation. Embryos devoid of maternal and zygotic spg function (MZspg) lack endodermal precursors. Cell transplantations show that spg acts in early endodermal precursors, and cas mRNA-injection into MZspg embryos does not restore endoderm development. spg and cas together are both necessary and sufficient to activate endoderm development, and stimulate expression of a sox17 promoter-luciferase reporter. Endoderm and mesoderm derive from a common origin, mesendoderm. We propose that Spg and Cas commit mesendodermal precursors to an endodermal fate. The joint control of endoderm formation by spg and cas suggests that the endodermal germlayer may be a tissue unit with distinct genetic control, thus adding genetic support to the germlayer concept in metazoan development.


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Q: Starting an Activity Using Intent's Action and Limiting it to Within an App I have 2 Apps which have the same package name but different package IDs(set in gradle config).
An activity is started by setting an intent's action string in both the apps which are same in both Apps.
This means that if I have both the Apps installed on the same device then starting an Activity shows me a Complete action using.. dialog which asks the user to choose an activity to complete the action with.
My question is as to how I can separate them without going through changing the string itself in the manifest files (a lot of them due to multiple modules) and the setting of action string before using startActivity() itself in the codebase so that the actions are limited to the current App only?
Update #1: Do we have anything closer to intent.setPackage() as to use Application Id instead?

A: If I do not miss-understand your question, you can archive it via below code:
// start exactly component
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("yourPackageId", "yourPackageName.MainActivity"));
startActivity(intent);

//or you want to start launcher intent
Intent intent = getActivity().getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("yourPackageId");

You shoud make sure that your MainActivity has android:exported = true as describe here android:exported:

Whether or not the activity can be launched by components of other applications — "true" if it can be, and "false" if not. If "false", the activity can be launched only by components of the same application or applications with the same user ID.

A: Here's the shortest possible way to tackle it in it's current state:
android:exported = "false" for every activity declared in android manifest setting it's intent filter with an action.Check here for reference
I overlooked the fact that's something we also do in case of GCM's broadcast receiver and other background services generally.
This has to be done in both the Apps for tighter integration.

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5 Things you Need to Know About the Nation's First Marijuana Resort
By Alexis Evans | September 30, 2015
Attention all stoners, occasional smokers, and cannabis curious! South Dakota has announced that it will soon become home to the nation's first marijuana resort. Owned and operated by the Santee Sioux tribe, this weed lover's paradise promises to be the ideal spot for vacationers looking to blow off some steam with the help of a few blunts.
But before you begin booking your ganja getaway here are five things you need to know about the nation's first weed resort.
1. It's Legal Even in a State Where Weed is Illegal
In 2014 the Justice Department determined that Native American tribes can grow and sell marijuana, even in states where pot is illegal. So far the Santee Sioux tribe seems to be the only reservation taking advantage of the ruling, but others will surely be monitoring their experiment to see if it is economically viable. Something tells me it will be, especially when tribe members are already projecting the project to generate up to $2 million a month in profits.
2. There will be 30 Different Strains
This isn't amateur hour. The Santee Sioux tribe hired Denver-based cannabis consultants Monarch America to teach them the weed growing basics. According to the Associated Press, workers at the Flandreau indoor marijuana farm are "working to grow more than 30 different strains of the finicky plant, including those with names like 'Gorilla Glue,' 'Shot Glass' and 'Big Blue Cheese.'"
3. It Will Have Some Awesome Amenities
"We want it to be an adult playground," said tribal President Anthony Reider. And from the sounds of it, it definitely will be. This stoner's paradise will sell weed in a smoking lounge that comes complete with a nightclub, arcade games, bar and food–for when those munchies hit. They also have plans to later add in slot machines and an outdoor music venue.
4. Don't Plan on Bringing any Weed Home
Even though marijuana will be legally sold at the resort, it cannot leave the reservation. According to AP, leaders of the project plan to ensure that this won't happen by assigning a bar code to every plant in the Flandreau's growing facility. AP writes,
After being harvested and processed, it will be sold in sealed 1-gram packages for $12.50 to $15 — about the same price as the illegal market in Sioux Falls, according to law enforcement. Consumers will be allowed to buy only 1 gram — enough for two to four joints — at a time.
5. The Resort's Future Isn't Certain
Currently four states and Washington, DC have legalized marijuana, but pot remains illegal on a federal level. The Obama administration has agreed to let Native American tribes legalize the drug without interference, but our nation's next president may not be so lenient. If one of the current Republican presidential candidates (especially Chris Christie) is elected, we could soon be saying farewell to lawful Mary Jane.
If you're interested in being one of the first to visit the resort, be prepared for a bit of a wait. The tribe says that joints won't be going on sale until Dec. 31 at a New Year's Eve party. But if all goes well, this reservation could soon become the U.S.'s #1 destination for marijuana tourism.
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Mori Calliope
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Streams on YouTube
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Streams aren't super long
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Mori Calliope is a popular VTuber with a beautiful model who debuted September 2020. She's appreciated for her niche musical interests, as well as her laid-back communication, and accessibility to viewers. Please enjoy this wholesome review.
Mori Calliope's appearance is created by Yukisame, feel free to check out his Twitter. VTubers tend to affectionately refer to their creators as their parents, in this case she's known as Calliope's "Mama!" She gave the "Rapping Reaper" what's widely accepted as one of the best VTuber models known.
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Calliope has long, straight pink hair which has been programmed to flow as she tilts her head. She's tall, taller than most of the other Hololive girls that she works with. Living in the Underworld doesn't get her much sun, leaving her with pale skin and blood red eyes, the latter of which is fitting as an inhuman creature.
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Calliope's very name references this unique trait, meaning "beautiful voice" in it's Japanese Kanji. It's also shared with a Greek muse of epic poetry, which relates to her love of rap. She does musical performances about her job reaping, which many people enjoy simply for it's originality. Other VTubers don't tend to start out singing careers, let alone release an EP! Her debut EP, by the way, is titled "DEAD BEATS." Furthermore, her voice itself is lower than many of her counterparts in the genre. While VTubers tend towards high-pitched, "kawaii" voices, Calliope's is beloved for being truer to an everyday woman, while remaining melodic and smooth. If you would like to hear a voice; this is a good fragment to get started!
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She splits her streams into multiple portions seamlessly, where she can show-off tricks she can do with her scythe, sing to the audience, or host a guest. So while her streams are just over an hour on average, they feel entertaining throughout.
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She's an easy talker whether with others or simply the audience. So even with her shy nature "on stage" so to speak, it's rather relaxing to listen to her. Furthermore, she's down to earth, allowing her viewers to simply sit back and enjoy her company rather than feeling like they need to be overexcitable.
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Her audience spans a large amount of people, from those who enjoy her gothic style and reaper past, to those who enjoy how shy she gets. She drank wine during a stream, allowing more mature viewers to appreciate a glass with her. But she also tries not to swear, and makes an effort for her services to remain kid-friendly.
She's spoken of highly, even by those who aren't exposed to the VTuber world but have simply seen her model or heard her name. It's known that her model is one of the best-made, and that she has something for everyone.
Since her start in July she's already increased her following to 700k subs and 30mil+ views:
Calliope is rather accessible, streaming on her YouTube channel multiple times a month. She often works with other Hololivers, giving streamers a chance to meet new members.
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She has no issue speaking to her stream and enjoys conversing with them as well. In fact, she's regularly streamed just to talk to her viewers. She enjoys answering her "chat", or those who type to her while she's live. She's easy to talk to with her shy personality, and enjoyable to communicate with. She's highly recommended for these traits.
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Kennedy Kimwetich (né le ) est un athlète kényan, spécialiste des courses de demi-fond.

Biographie
Sur , il se classe  des Jeux du Commonwealth de 1998,  des championnats du monde d'athlétisme 1999 et  des Jeux africains de 1999.

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Athlète kényan
Coureur de 800 mètres
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Barbara Kasekende is a Ugandan businesswoman and corporate executive who serves as the Head of the Advisory Department at Uganda Development Bank, the country's only indigenous, government-owned development financial institution. She took up this position in February 2022. Before that, she was the Corporate Social Investments Manager at Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited, Uganda's largest commercial bank by assets.

Background and education
Kasekende is a Ugandan national, born circa 1979 in the Buganda Region of Uganda. She attended Mount Saint Mary's College Namagunga for her high school education. In an interview that she gave in 2020, she describes herself as the firstborn in her family.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, awarded by Elmhurst University, in Elmhurst, Illinois, United States. She also holds a Master of Business Administration, obtained from the Naveen Jindal School of Management, at the University of Texas at Dallas, in Richardson, Texas, United States.

Career
At the time she joined Uganda Development Bank in February 2022, Kasekende's business career went back nearly 14 years. She has had managerial responsibilities in various businesses and companies during that time. She has been a manager at AIG Uganda, Wild Places Africa, NFT Consult and Stanbic Bank Uganda. Her work experience includes business development, customer service, high-net worth customer relations and corporate social responsibility functions.

At Uganda Development Bank, Kasekende heads the bank's business advisory department, responsible for advising and guiding the bank's business clients and customers.

See also
 Hope Ekudu
 Veronica Sentongo

References

External links
 Personal Profile at LinkedIn.com

Living people
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21st-century Ugandan businesspeople
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using ABSharp.Console.Models;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Configuration;

namespace ABSharp.Console.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            List<TestDesc> openAndRecent = new List<TestDesc>();
            using (var conn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ABSharp"].ConnectionString))
            {
                conn.Open();
                using (var cmd = conn.CreateCommand())
                {
                    cmd.CommandText = "SELECT [TestId],[Option],Count(*),MIN(EnteranceTimestamp),MAX(EnteranceTimestamp) FROM ABSharp_Samples INNER JOIN ABSharp_VerifiedUsers ON ABSharp_Samples.UserId = ABSharp_VerifiedUsers.UserId WHERE TestId IN (SELECT DISTINCT TestId FROM ABSharp_Samples WHERE (EnteranceTimestamp > @cutoff)) GROUP BY [TestId],[Option] ORDER BY [TestId],[Option]";
                    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@cutoff", DateTime.UtcNow.AddDays(-60));
                    using (var reader = cmd.ExecuteReader())
                    {
                        string lastTestId = "";
                        TestDesc lastTest = null;
                        while (reader.Read())
                        {
                            string currentTestId = (string)reader[0];
                            int currentOption = (int)reader[1];
                            if (lastTestId != currentTestId)
                            {
                                if (lastTest != null)
                                {
                                    openAndRecent.Add(lastTest);
                                }
                                lastTestId = currentTestId;
                                lastTest = new TestDesc { Id = currentTestId, First = (DateTime)reader[3], Last = (DateTime)reader[4] };
                            }
                            lastTest.Options[currentOption] = new TestOptionDesc { Id = currentOption, TotalCount = (int)reader[2], ConvetCount = -1 };
                        }
                        if (lastTest != null)
                        {
                            openAndRecent.Add(lastTest);
                        }
                    }
                }

                foreach (var currentTest in openAndRecent)
                {
                    using (var cmd = conn.CreateCommand())
                    {
                        cmd.CommandText = "SELECT [Option],Count(*) "+
                            "FROM ABSharp_Convertions "+
                            "INNER JOIN ABSharp_Samples ON ABSharp_Convertions.UserId = ABSharp_Samples.UserId "+
                            "INNER JOIN ABSharp_VerifiedUsers ON ABSharp_Convertions.UserId = ABSharp_VerifiedUsers.UserId "+
                            "WHERE ABSharp_Samples.TestId = @tid AND [ABSharp_Convertions].[TestId] = @tid GROUP BY [Option]  ORDER BY [Option]";
                        cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@tid", currentTest.Id);
                        using (var reader = cmd.ExecuteReader())
                        {
                            while (reader.Read())
                            {
                                int currentOption = (int)reader[0];
                                currentTest.Options[currentOption].ConvetCount = (int)reader[1];
                                /*if (lastConvert != null)
                                {
                                    Dictionary<int, TestOptionDesc> check = new Dictionary<int, TestOptionDesc>();
                                    foreach (var opt in currentTest.Options.Values)
                                    {
                                        check[opt.Id] = opt;
                                    }
                                    foreach (var opt in lastConvert.Options)
                                    {
                                        check.Remove(opt.Id);
                                    }
                                    foreach (var opt in check.Values)
                                    {
                                        lastConvert.Options.Add(new TestOptionDesc() { Id = opt.Id, TotalCount = opt.TotalCount, ConvetCount = 0 });
                                    }
                                    currentTest.Targets.Add(lastConvert);
                                }
                                TestOptionDesc optData;
                                if (currentTest.Options.TryGetValue(currentOption, out optData))
                                {
                                    lastConvert.Options.Add(new TestOptionDesc { Id = currentOption, TotalCount = optData.TotalCount, ConvetCount = (int)reader[1] });
                                }*/
                            }
                            /*if (lastConvert != null)
                            {
                                Dictionary<int, TestOptionDesc> check = new Dictionary<int, TestOptionDesc>();
                                foreach (var opt in currentTest.Options.Values)
                                {
                                    check[opt.Id] = opt;
                                }
                                foreach (var opt in lastConvert.Options)
                                {
                                    check.Remove(opt.Id);
                                }
                                foreach (var opt in check.Values)
                                {
                                    lastConvert.Options.Add(new TestOptionDesc() { Id = opt.Id, TotalCount = opt.TotalCount, ConvetCount = 0 });
                                }
                                currentTest.Targets.Add(lastConvert);
                            }*/
                        }
                    }

                    //currentTest.Options = null;
                }
            }

            openAndRecent.Sort((a, b) => -a.Last.CompareTo(b.Last));

            ViewBag.OpenAndRecent = openAndRecent;

            return View();
        }
    }
}

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Our company is about to get bigger yet again. We announced the acquisition of the McPherson News, Harvey County Independent, The Ledger, and the Hesston Record in this week's paper.
We haven't looked for the growth, but rather have been asked to purchase papers and let them be a part of our Kansas Publishing Ventures family.
I think that is a testament to the people who work here primarily. I think we have a great team.
The growth likely means nothing to those reading this in Marion County outside of some more advertising options if you own a business and any of those markets matter to you.
We will continue to provide local content in Marion County and we continue to look for a leader to take the helm as Managing Editor of this newspaper, something we wish we could have found already.
Thank you for trusting us to provide news and advertising to you. We take the responsibility seriously, and even with our growth we won't turn our backs on the responsibility to be a source of information for Marion County.


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Q: maxdatetime in odata URL Hi have list of dates I need to get name where the maximum date is there.
In oData Service there is function maxdatetime(). I used like this
url/services/List?$format=json&$select=name&$filter=date+eq+maxdatetime()

But it is showing exception
{"odata.error":{"code":"","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"An unknown function with name 'maxdatetime' was found. This may also be a key lookup on a navigation property, which is not allowed."}}}

How can I solve this ?

A: Function maxdatetime() should be implemented by service code. According to your exception, the service does not implement it. If you have right to change server side code, you can try to implement. Otherwise, Try:
RootUrl/List$filter=date eq 9999-12-31T11:59:59-00:00


Making homemade Pizza can be so FFC as well as much healthier and cheaper than ordering it! It's fun to get creative with the toppings. With some whole-wheat dough, I made a pizza topped with spinach, sun dried tomatoes, some red onion, mozzarella shredded pizza cheese and finally sprinkled with some oregano! It was absolutely delicious!
What type of homemade pizzas have you made?


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1998 Beringer Merlot Private Reserve - very good Merlot.
1998 Beringer Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve - very good stuff. Consistent year after year.


With a population of more than 1.3 billion, China has a correspondingly vast and complex cuisine. Most Chinese dishes combine sweet, salty, sour and bitter, but on a per-dish basis, one flavor theme normally dominates the rest. The rule of thumb then when it comes to pairing wine and Chinese food, pair the wine with the dominant theme or flavor.
To find the dominant flavor of a Chinese dish, follow these simple rules. Bitterness will almost never be the dominant flavor. Sweet dishes are cooked in coconut milk and will contain natural or refined sugar. Sour dishes are usually made with rice vinegar, and salty dishes generally contained generous quantities of soy sauce.
To balance an overpowering sour or salty dish, try a sweeter wine like a German Riesling. The sugar and acid levels in Riesling complement each other and facilitate an ideal match for sour and salty Chinese dishes. Riesling is also an excellent wine to quell the spicy hotness found in some Chinese cuisines.
Gewurztraminers and Reislings (left) are excellent choices for spicy dishes containing Szechwan pepper, chili pepper, wasabi, curry and hot mustard and are the varietals most often paired with Chinese food. However, try to stay away from pairing one wine with many Chinese dishes. There are so many regional cuisines found in China, that one variety of wine couldn't possibly compliment all.
Szechuan cuisine for example, is extremely spicy and differs from the rich dishes of Shanghai, the heavier meat dishes of Peking and the milder dishes of Canton. If a variety of Chinese dishes are on the menu, opt for a Riesling that is not too sweet and slightly dry, a Merlot that is medium-bodied with a solid acidity or a Chardonnay with a slight touch of oak, but not too much.
Conventional wisdom regarding pairing Chinese food with wine, is to stick with the whites like French Pouilly Fuisse or a Sauvignon Blanc. While this may be true in most cases it does not hold water in certain instances. Mildly spiced dishes pair beautifully with light bodied red wines.
Rich heavy dishes like Peking duck and several beef dishes pair well with Merlot, Bordeaux (right) and Pinot Noir as the tannins in the medium bodied wines cut through the fattiness of the dish. These reds pair well with many beef dishes as well. Another rule of thumb is to avoid full-bodied, very dry, bold reds as they generally clash with Chinese culinary spices.
Herbacious dishes like those flavored with Thai or purple basil or cilantro generally pair well with younger, lighter wines like a Sauvignon Blanc.
Many Chinese dishes contain sweet fruit like mangoes, bananas and peaches. These dishes generally pair well with Gamay, Riesling, Muscat or Gewurztraminer. Barbequed duck and smoked (barbequed) pork pair quite well with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Chinese desserts like those rich in almonds, peaches and peanuts pair nicely with Tawny Ports and Late Harvest Riesling and Madeira.


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Eva Wozinski was born Abt 1803, and died 10 Oct 1845 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Eva Wozinski was born Abt 1803, and died 10 Oct 1845 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany. She was buried 14 Oct 1845 in Evangelisch, Langenau, West Prussia, Germany. She married Johann Nawrocki on 28 May 1820 in Evangelisch, Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Children of Eva /Wozinski/ and Johann /Nawrocki/ are:
Henriette Nawrocki was born 22 Aug 1822 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Carl Nawrocki was born 1 Jul 1824 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nawrocki was born 31 Jul 1839 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany, and died 14 Sep 1839 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Stillborn Nawrocki was born 7 Dec 1840 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany, and died 7 Dec 1840 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Pauline Nawrocki was born 22 Mar 1842 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Stillborn Nawrocki was born 30 Sep 1845 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany, and died 30 Sep 1845 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Henriette Nawrocki was born 22 Aug 1822 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany. She married Friedrich Gross.
Children of Henriette /Nawrocki/ and Friedrich /Gross/ are:
Carl Ferdinand Gross was born 19 Jun 1846 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nawrocki was born 31 Jul 1839 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany, and died 14 Sep 1839 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany. He was buried 17 Sep 1839 in Evangelisch, Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Pauline Nawrocki was born 22 Mar 1842 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany. She married Gottfried Wegner on 4 Dec 1862 in Evangelisch, Langenau, West Prussia, Germany, son of Johann /Wegner/ and Louise /Hoffmann/. He was born 4 Oct 1835 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany, and died 6 Jun 1871 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany. He was buried 9 Jun 1871 in Evangelisch, Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Children of Pauline /Nawrocki/ and Gottfried /Wegner/ are:
Auguste Wegner was born 4 Feb 1862 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Wilhelmine Wegner was born 27 Sep 1863 in Langenau, West Prussia, Germany.
Gustav Wegner was born 4 Feb 1866 in Heinrichau, West Prussia, Germany.


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Tech-firm Ripple inks deal with Israel's largest financial firm GMT
Ojaswita Kutepatil December 17, 2018 Business
Ripple, a San Francisco-based technology company has reportedly entered into a partnership deal with GMT, Israel's largest bank and the fifth largest financial institution in the world. Apparently, Ripple has been rigorously expanding its palette of partnerships, despite the crypto market hitting for a bottom.
If industry experts are to be believed, Ripple made a major expansion move through this deal to strengthen its footprint, while supporting the regional financial industry expansion.
In a public announcement, GMT said that both the companies share similar ideologies which have allowed them to reach terms that are mutually favorable.
According to InvestInBlockchain, GMT, which has been chosen to be Ripple's representative in Israel, will be joining companies including MoneyGram, CIBC, American Express, AKBANK, EarthPort, and many others, who have already been authorized to use the Ripple platform.
Sources closely related to the matter state that GMT's decision to choose Ripple came along the heels of long negotiations between the two. The company believes that by working with Ripple and its partners, it will be able to contribute into creating a worldwide financial system by leveraging high-end technology and values that are transparent and affordable.
Reportedly, the GMT team expressed joy over the collaboration deal and stated that using the technology of Ripple is a major innovation for the company and will also encourage several fintechs of the region to follow this developmental move.
For the record, GMT was started in 2001 and has more than 250 branches in Israel.
It has also been reported that the partnership deal between Ripple and GMT is a threat to industry-leader SWIFT on the matter of making Cross-Border Remittance.
Meanwhile, besides cementing its relationship with financial institutions in Israel, Ripple is also making development moves in Turkey. For instance, Akbank, a major bank in Turkey, has recently started using the xRapid technology of Ripple.
Ojaswita Kutepatil
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Once a simple meadow, today is a square and one of the most characteristic places of the city. A jewel among jewels, piazza Campo de' Fiori is placed between piazza Navona and piazza Farnese and is the typical scenario of old Rome. The picturesque market that lives up the square is very typical of the city. It was moved here from piazza Navona in 1869, and it owes its name to a wonderful field full of flowers, a pasture for animals until the 15th century. The market has still wooden stands and the umbrellas protect the products from any weather. In 1440 the square was paved and around it were built many inns and hotels for pilgrims. This is why the image is almost unchanged compared to Alinari's pictures of the 19th century. In the middle of the square is the 19th century statue of the philosopher Giordano Bruno, sent to the stake in 1600 because he was considered an heretic. Campo de' Fiori is an example of continuity between ancient and present Rome.


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Argument, Assumptions, Business, Decision Making
Bitten by assumptions
Date: November 29, 2010Author: Tim van Gelder 0 Comments
Two recent articles in the business press underscore the importance of unearthing and challenging the assumptions which are shoring up your inferences. They also provide fascinating insights more generally into organisational decision, a topic which always becomes more interesting when things go badly wrong.
The first, Potash: The deal that didn't have to die appeared in the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail in the aftermath of the failed attempt by mining behemoth BHP Billiton to acquire Potash Corp. Potash Corp makes a lot of money digging up – you guessed it – potash in Sasketchewan and selling it around the world. Potash Corp is part of a cartel, the existence of which helps keep the Saskatchewan state coffers replenished.
As authors McNish, Bouw and Reguly state, in the lead-up to the bid,
[BHPB CEO] Mr. Kloppers had every reason to believe that the takeover odds were on his side. Potash prices were still climbing out of the cyclical basement, and few other companies in the world could match BHP's financial heft to top the bid. A government-backed company from China probably could, but no Chinese entity has ever tried to make such a large acquisition in a developed, democratic country. Even better, the widely held Saskatchewan company had no blocking shareholders. The Canadian government had never rejected a foreign takeover of a major resource company, and just three years ago allowed Rio Tinto PLC to take over Alcan Inc. of Montreal in a deal of similar size.
Focusing on one aspect of this, it appears that BHPB were reasoning that if the Canadian government had never rejected a foreign takeover of a major resource company, then they'd be unlikely to disapprove the takeover by BHPB of Potash Corp. Which seems a perfectly reasonable argument.
Of course there is an unstated premise in this argument, viz., that Potash Corp is a major resource company. This seems so obvious that it is hardly worth mentioning – and ipso facto hardly worth challenging. But often the critical weakness in a case can be disguised as a truism even after we take away the cloak of invisibility. Sometimes the highest level of critical scrutiny is not challenging the dubious but daring to question the obvious.
The real force of the assumption "Potash Corp is a major resource company" was the idea that Potash Corp was just another major resource company, just like all the previous ones that had been taken over. That, in other words, there was nothing special about Potash Corp, in Canada in 2010, that would prevent it being taken over just like others before it.
But that assumption was wrong. Potash Corp was in fact, at the time, quite special due to the close connection with Saskatchewan state funding, and the special connection of Saskatchewan politicians to the Canadian federal government.
As Andrew Mackenzie, a key BHPB executive, conceded after the failure of the takeover bid: "We didn't grasp how significant potash is to Saskatchewan."
If the authors are correct, this "failure to grasp" – a kind of unchallenged assumption – was the critical error leading to a failed bid. Some of the consequences: immediate waste of some $350 million dollars, loss of potential billions in future profits from selling Canadian potash, embarrassment for BHPB, and a major headache: what now should it do with the mountains of money it is making due the resource boom?
The second article appeared in today's edition of the Melbourne paper The Age. In AXA deal could bring $2.6bn headache David Symons recounts how some financial sharks spotted a design weakness in superannuation giant AXA's offerings and tricked AXA into granting them the right to exploit that weakness mercifully for decades to come – hence the $2.6 billion dollar lawsuit. The details are of course somewhat complex but on Symons' account AXA management – apparently lurching from one feat of incompetence to another – repeatedly made assumptions which turned out false. For example:
"anxious to resurrect a faltering product, AXA ignored the embedded option risk. AXA management had referred the special terms to the legal department and the board product committee, but not to the chief actuary. The three-day option was considered a tweak that didn't require costing. Nothing could have been further from the truth. AXA had effectively written a multibillion dollar series of puts over the equity index."
Quite a different domain, but the same basic point: sometimes an unquestioned assumption comes back to bite you in a very costly way.
Of course in both these cases we have the wonderful benefit of 20/20 hindsight. It is relatively easy to spot a false assumption after its falsity has caused a calamity. It is much harder to expose all the assumptions one is making at the time of decision, and to know which of those many assumptions need to given especially rigorous scrutiny.
One of the great benefits of argument mapping, rigorously applied, is its utility in the former challenge, i.e. exposing hidden assumptions.
Before closing it is worth noting another kind of assumption in play in the AXA case. The aforementioned sharks clearly devoted much of their exquisite intellectual power to figuring out how to exploit the financial system so as to attract to themselves vast amounts of money of unearned and undeserved money. Rather than doing anything productive, anything that might generate tangible value for society, these knaves are prepared to follow their greed to the point where they might even ruin an enormous institution (cf Equitable Life), with presumably masses of shareholders and policy holders and perhaps even taxpayers to take the hurt. They are assuming that this is reasonable, legitimate conduct. That assumption may not come back to bite them in this particular case. But when large parts of society unconsciously and unconscionably adopt that assumption, it can be disastrous for almost everyone – as Ireland's current problems illustrate.
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