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Q: How to replace a heterozygote? My question is: how could I replace the "A:A" or "G:T"....(the heterozygote and homozygote in biology)
My code:
 for(int i = 0; i < index1.length(); i++){

        if (index1.charAt(i) == 'A:A'){index2 = index1.append('1');}
        else if (index1.charAt(i) == 'G:T'){index2 = index1.append('2');}

The " charAt(i) == 'A:A' " and " .charAt(i) == 'G:T' "  show the mistake when I edited the code in eclipse.
I'd like to replace the character of 'A:A' and 'G:T' as a specific number (for example: A:A=1 , G:T=2) in my string, how could I achieve it?
Thanks,

A: If you always want to replace A:A with 1, and G:T with 2 then you can just use a String replace.
public void formatString(String input)
{
    return input.replaceAll("A:A", "1").replaceAll("G:T", "2");
}

You can chain up as many replace methods as you like! You don't need to know exactly where it is. Java will do that for you (it's clever like that). You just tell it what you want to get rid of, and what you want in it's place!
Just another option
Your other option is to create mappings between your heterozygotes and their respective numbers, using an array implementation. You'd have a field that looks like this:
private String[] heterozygotes;

In your constructor you could build it:
public MyClass()
{
    heterozygotes = {"A:A", "G:T"};
}

Now, you've got A:A at position 0, G:T at position 1, so you can use that in your method, as follows:
public void formatString(String input)
{
    for(int x = 0; x < heterozygotes.length; x++) {
        //EG: A:A is as position 0, so replace with 0 + 1 = 1.
        input = input.replace(heterozygotes[x], String.valueOf(x + 1));
    }

    return input;
}

That way, all you need to do is add values to your array initialisation, and you'll never need to change the method.

A: A char is just that, a single character. You can't throw a bunch together surround them with single quotes and call them a char.
Instead use a String since what is a String but a bunch of chars in a certain order. Get subStrings if need be, and compare with the either String#contains(...) or String#equals(...) or String#equalsIgnoreCase(...).

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Astor Showcase was an Australian television variety series which aired from 1957 to 1959 on Sydney station ATN-7.

As the title suggests, it was sponsored by Astor Radio Corporation. The producer was Frank Strain. The orchestra was conducted by Tommy Tycho.

An edition broadcast on 26 April 1958 had an ANZAC theme, presenting songs made popular during the two world wars. An episode broadcast on 15 September 1958 was recorded in Melbourne for Sydney broadcast, and featured Graham Kennedy and Panda Lisner. The edition broadcast on 27 December 1958 had the theme of "Hits of 1958", featuring Margaret Day, Harold Rugless, Neil Williams, Nola and Olive Lester, Barry Davies, and Charlie Parker.

See also
 Astor Radio Corporation
 Astor Records
 The Astor Show

References

External links

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1957 Australian television series debuts
1959 Australian television series endings
Australian variety television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows

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President Obama Kills Dr. King's Dream
Racists on the Supreme Court.
By Will Offensicht | July 15, 2009
Scragged has often quoted Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech:
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. [emphasis added]
Dr. King reminded Americans that our vaunted justice system had been skewed against black people for centuries and that decisions were being made on the basis of skin color rather than on the facts of the case. He summed up his vision of what America should be:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
As vivid as Dr. King's speech was, though, instead of trying to get the various races to work together, many of today's political leaders try very hard to get people of different races to fight each other. This often works out well for politicians who use racial fears to get votes but it doesn't do our nation any good.
Slow Gains for Unity
There's a slowly-developing consensus among ordinary Americans that affirmative action, the practice of favoring one person over another because of skin color, harms our society. That's shown in the success of referendum-based Civil Rights Initiatives banning race-based preference; despite the unified opposition of opinion makers, the Democratic Party, and by large numbers of liberal Republicans, these efforts usually win with healthy majorities. Affirmative action is now illegal in California, Washington state, Michigan, and Nebraska, with more states joining the parade for racial justice at every election.
This change in the national mood has not gone unnoticed. When he was running for President, Mr. Obama said,
In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. ... when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear an African-American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time. ... Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends. [emphasis added]
We thought that our national leadership had recognized how harmful affirmative action and race-based justice were.
Back to Race-Based Justice
Unfortunately, we were wrong. At his first opportunity to appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court, Mr. Obama chose an avowed racist, Sonia Sotomayor. Ms. Sotomayor has been criticized for her belief that a "wise, Latina woman" would come to better conclusions than a white man merely by virtue of her sex and race - a blatantly sexist, racist sentiment if ever there was one.
A nominee's past rulings are scrutinized to see how the Supreme Court would be affected. Judge Sotomayor recently ruled against a group of white and Hispanic firefighters who were denied promotion by the City of New Haven. These candidates passed the test for promotion, but no blacks passed.
In the past, tests which blacks failed more often than whites had been held to have "disparate impact" which makes them illegal. The City claimed that they were afraid that blacks would sue because no black passed the test. They refused to promote anyone at all.
The "disparate impact" standard is ridiculous. It assumes that all talents, all skills, and all interests are spread evenly across all racial groups and across however many sexes there may happen to be. If whites pass the test and blacks don't, the test is automatically illegal according to "disparate impact."
Anybody who watches sports knows that this is absurd. There are far more black football and basketball players than whites. If abilities were spread evenly, the number of black athletes would be in line with their percentage of the population (about 13%), but there are a lot more black athletes than 13%.
The movie "White Men Can't Jump" pointed out that blacks are better at basketball than whites. Is this because of racism on the part of team owners? Some sort of genetic difference? Maybe a difference due to black culture more heavily emphasizing sports?
Doesn't matter; all that matters, legally, is the result - which is transparently imbalanced. Based on the liberal's own definition of racism, hiring policies in the NFL and the NBA which emphasize athletic skills have a "disparate impact" on whites and should be outlawed.
Facts? What Facts?
This obvious fact that different groups have different abilities and preferences doesn't go down well with liberals. When Larry Summers, President of Harvard University at the time, pointed out that the reason there were fewer women mathematicians than men might be because women weren't as interested in math as men, he was howled out of his job.
Our research agencies consider gender when giving out research money: if there aren't enough women interested in a particular area of research, that topic won't be funded regardless of the merits of the research or the credentials of the scholars.
The New York Times reported that Ms. Sotomayor's decision that the whites had no complaint against the City of New Haven was overturned by the US Supreme Court.
The court ruled, 5-to-4, that New Haven acted illegally when it threw out a promotion test on which minority firefighters had performed poorly. In doing so, it put a new, narrower definition on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is intended to root out discriminatory policies. [emphasis added]
The Times didn't see fit to print the news that no blacks had passed the test, nor did they report that the test had been professionally designed with the greatest of care to eliminate any possibility of racial bias; they said blacks "performed poorly" instead. Their motives became clear later in the article, which said, "In ruling against New Haven, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to diversity in the American workplace." The Times believes that it's more important to have a diverse group of firefighters than a competent group of firefighters.
Reaction to Sotomayor's being overruled split along party lines. Fox News reports:
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, applauded the decision and suggested trouble ahead for Sotomayor.
"The Supreme Court today reminded all courts and governments that equal justice under the law means refusing to tip the scale in favor of one race over another," he said in a written statement. "The Senate Judiciary Committee should carefully examine Judge Sotomayor's role in the Second Circuit's opinion on this case. Discrimination and racial preferences have no place in our courts, let alone on the highest court in the land." [emphasis added]
Dr. King would agree with Rep. Smith in saying that racial discrimination has no place in our court system. Unfortunately, Rep. Smith is in the minority; the Democratic majority believes that racial discrimination in the courts is not only acceptable but desirable even though their own President spoke out against rigged courts:
But Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said "it would be wrong" to use the decision to criticize Sotomayor and that her panel's decision exhibited "judicial restraint."
He said the Supreme Court's ruling is "likely to result in cutbacks on important protections for American families." [emphasis added]
What nonsense! Promoting people on the basis of their qualifications instead of on their race erodes "important protections for American families?" Having the most competent fire fighters would protect families - both white and black - whose houses catch fire, but we can't have that.
"This is a cramped decision that threatens to erode these protections and to harm the efforts of state and local governments that want to build the most qualified workforces," Leahy said in a statement. [emphasis added]
It's hard to see how throwing out tests when not enough blacks pass helps build the "most qualified workforce," but that's what passes for thinking in our Senate.
Whither Racism?
We now come to the main question.
Candidate Obama acknowledged the frustration whites feel when affirmative action puts less-qualified candidates ahead of them. He spoke frankly of the damage to our society being done by institutionalized racism. He seemed to agree with Chief Justice John Roberts who said, "The way to end racial discrimination is to stop discriminating by race" - but that was during the campaign when he needed white votes.
If he meant what he said, why would he appoint a candidate for the court who's so out of step with the Court's thinking, with the teachings of Dr. King, and with the desire of American voters which he articulated so well?
Mr Obama nominated a justice who's out of step with the Court's current thinking on racism because he doesn't like their race-blind way of thinking. Instead of a court which rules according to the law, Mr. Obama wants a court that rules from "empathy." Ms. Sotomayor's statement that she can be more sympathetic because she's a Latina is just what he wants.
Dr. King's dream of a race-free society is dead, killed by a black man.
Will Offensicht is a staff writer for Scragged.com and an internationally published author by a different name. Read other Scragged.com articles by Will Offensicht or other articles on Society.
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its not dead, just postponed indefinitely. Black leaders have been doing their best for years to attempt to keep blacks from succeeding. This has lead to a corrupt and ineffective social fabric within the black community that demands money instead of freedom.
My wife hates sexist men, but she hates feminists more. In her words, "I can vote, I can work, let me earn the rest."
My sister-in-law, a black Kenyan, hates affirmative action and hates people who blame racism for problems. She has experienced racism here in America and she didn't much care for it. But race simply doesn't matter to her, so she succeeds, not despite of it, not because of it, but because she is a talented woman.
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Il Gabriel è un missile antinave israeliano noto anche come Scorpion nella marina del Sudafrica.

Lo sviluppo del Gabriel per la marina israeliana ha avuto inizio nel 1962. Il primo modello entrò in servizio nel 1970 equipaggiando le Sa'ar II e venne usato nella guerra dello Yom Kippur del 1973 infliggendo gravi perdite alle unità navali di Siria ed Egitto armate di missili Styx di fabbricazione sovietica.

Versioni successive

Gabriel II
Lo sviluppo della versionel Mk 2 venne avviata nel 1972 e il missile entrò in servizio nel 1976. Tale versione è anche stata costruita su licenza a Taiwan con la denominazione di the Hsiung Feng 1 e in Sud Africa sotto il nome 'Skerpioen' (Scorpione in Afrikaans).

Gabriel III
Importanti miglioramenti sono stati introdotti con le versioni Gabriel III e Gabriel III A/S, con entrambe le versioni Gabriel III che utilizzano il sistema fire and forget (letteralmente spara e dimentica).

Gabriel IV
La versione Gabriel IV ha un raggio di 200 km, mentre è in fase di sviluppo la versione Gabriel V da parte della Israel Aerospace Industries, denominata Advanced Naval Attack Missile.

I vecchi modelli di Gabriel sono ancora utilizzati da Cile, Ecuador, Israele, Messico, Sudafrica, Sri Lanka, Kenya, e altri paesi.

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Our firm, Shellist Lazarz Slobin, is representing a flight attendant whose case made the news recently after being required by her employer to stop wearing medically prescribed clogs. 60-year-old Edie Hall is suing United Airlines, her employer, after they rescinded the permission to wear these medically necessary shoes at least three times during her employment working with the airline. United is requiring our client acquire a doctor's note ever year, as documented proof of her need for the shoes.
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Obtaining annual medical exemptions is not only an unfavorable and callous thing to do, it is also illegal according to federal law as it violates the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. United Airlines has responded, stating she is allowed to wear them while on the plane, but must return to her uniform of plain black shoes anytime she is in an airport. United Airlines claims this medically-necessary attire goes against their strict dress code. Hall has been working for United Airlines, as well as its predecessor, Continental Airlines, for 32 years.
This story has been featured on KPRC Channel 2 News, an NBC local, as well as KHOU Channel 11 News, a CBS local. Speaking about the case, our attorney stated: "This is a 60-year old woman with a 32-year career flying for United/Continental," Hall's attorney, told LawNewz.com. "She has plates and screws in her foot. Her doctor has ordered her to wear the clog for support. This is not a story about a lazy employee who is trying to take advantage of the system and wear her slippers to work …. It's unfortunate that United's obstinance has required her to actually file a lawsuit to rectify this injustice. But that is the route they've chosen."
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New Brazilian collagen producer says its reimagined production process provides differentiator
PepTech Collagen photo
A new collagen player has entered the market with a process it says reimagines the production of this popular ingredient to arrive at a product with a cleaner sustainability story.
The product, called PeptPure Collagen Peptides, is manufactured by PepTech Collagen Inc. and is produced at a facility in Brazil. It is the brainchild of industry consultant Felipe Chaluppe, who serves the company's president, and co founder Rudye Santos.
New niche in an old market
Any collagen facility needs to be located near the source of raw material, which in PepTech's case is cow hides. So having the new facility located in the western part of Sao Paolo State is no surprise, Chaluppe said. Brazil is the world's largest beef exporter.
But that's where PepTech's similarity to other collagen producers ends, said Chaluppe. He has a long history in the collagen business after working at companies like Rousselot and Gelnex, which is a major Brazilian collagen and gelatin producer.
Chaluppe said that experience gave him insights about what works and what doesn't in the business. And it gave him ideas about opportunities that were still to be tapped in what at first glance appears to be a crowded, mature market.
"Over the years I have visited about 40 different collagen and gelatin facilities," Chaluppe told NutraIngredients-LATAM.
Cutting out the gelatin
"To be a new producer in this consolidated market we needed to find a way to do something different," he said. "What we came up with was to skip the gelatin process altogether."
Chaluppe said that most companies offering collagen as an ingredient are in fact first and foremost producers of gelatin. The collagen is derived from the gelatin after that is extracted from the hides (or in the cast of fish-based products, the skeletons). It tends to be a complicated chemical engineering process with a lot of steps and can generate a lot of waste products, he said.
In PepTech's case, the co-founders say they found a way to simplify the process and do away with some of the chemical inputs. The process starts in a similar fashion as do the gelatin-collagen processes, with the grinding and cooking of hides. It diverges from there, though, by inserting a purification step based on a proprietary filtration process.
"We engage in an enzyme-based washing of the hides that is very minimal. Then we cook them and then the ingredient goes to a purification process that is all physical. We have achieved a better process with less water and no chemicals," he said.
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Another way the partners have sought to differentiate their ingredient is through their sourcing arrangements. The cattle industry in Brazil includes animals that environmentalists charge have been raised on plots of razed rainforest, with all of the dark images of displaced indigenous peoples, habitat destruction and global climate change that picture conjures.
To counter these potential drawbacks for their new ingredient, Chaluppe said the company made the decision to partner with a group of bovine hide producers that are certified by the Leather Working Group, an international consortium of tanners. This means they operate to the highest industry standards of environmental, social and trade protocols, Chaluppe said. The organization includes dozens of audited member companies in Brazil.
"Our process is a batch process, whereas the other guys use a continuous process that starts with gelatin. For us there is a clear cut from one lot to another, and our scale allows us to select specific partners," Chaluppe said.
"The Leather Working Group certification includes extensive audits of things like water and chemical use. Going through that channel we can trace the raw material of any batch back to the pastures where the animals were raised," he said.
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I think MS is eh pretty cool guy, eh is an acronym and eh doesn't afraid of anything.
Anyways, who here plays in Windia?
I used to play it, but a combination of not working on vista for whatever reason (I tried all the various tricks with no success) and the fact that it took a lot of time and energy just to get to a decent level made me stop.
Linux+computer that can't download anyything=no MS for me.
I do have an account with 4 different characters though, so once I can get it, I'll prolly start playing again.
Wow. Actually, I didn't know what you meant, I thought you were referring to Microsoft.
You need to re-install it one vista, and allow it through your firewall. And as for the other part, when did you stop?
D: wow, the last time I Played it was like a week ago cause I was so bored and ended up staying on it for 5 minutes.
I used to play in Windia. Fun times.
Ah... I see. They lowered the exp curve, so it's easier now to level.
... I may play in broa sometime. I'll post if I do.
I used to be so into that. I got a lvl 50 clericv then realized it was just boring grinding for a long time. I finnally quit when i tried a PS and realized that it didnt really get much funner after getting to higher levels.
FAIL. i have vista and it works fine.
also, if anyone on broa contacts me, my char is tristan260 and it's a lvl 34 cleric.
well td what time do you get on?


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Warzones!: 1602 – Witch Hunter Angela
Frazer Irving
Irene Coh
Kody Chamberlain
Marguerite Sauvage
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North American Publisher / ISBN: Marvel - 978-0-7851-9860-4
Contains adult content?: no
Does this pass the Bechdel test?: yes
Positive minority portrayal?: yes
Categories: Fantasy, Period drama
Review by Ian Keogh
In keeping with the spirit of Warzones dealing with alternate realities we trip back to the recasting of Marvel heroes in the early 17th century, when mutants were referred to as 'witchbreed' and of all their persecutors none was as zealous as Angela. Here, though, she's more concerned with Faustians, super powered beings who've made a deal with Faerie.
Marguerite Bennett sets up her plot with the spectre of Shakespearean tragedy hanging over it. Angela has a mission, and it's a duty, yet she's aware of a prophecy that should she fulfil that mission then she'll lose someone very dear to her.
Angela wasn't part of the Marvel pantheon when the original 1602 was published, and her inclusion and purpose here is logical, but the first chapter of that original graphic novel is presented for comparison. It doesn't serve the new material well. While he was just mucking about, there's a subtlety to Neil Gaiman's writing that's missing from Bennett's work. Everything is over-egged: the cod-Shakesperean dialogue, the obnoxious attitudes, the opening gaggle of the era's literary celebrities trading quips, the self-aware commentary… It comes across as a writer attempting to disguise a lack of confidence by parading her learning and research, and the effect is that what ought to be an attention-grabbing premise is tedious.
The artist for the main sequence is Stephanie Hans, and her individual panels are finely composed, every one an impressive miniature painting with a decorative and distinctive application of colour, but collectively they're not the best at moving a story forward. Other artists feature, each illustrating a segment in which Kieron Gillen in partnership with Bennett segues pages into the main script with guest artists. Kody Chamberlain, Irene Coh, Frazer Irving and Marguerite Sauvage all have a sense of style, although the latter's figures are severely deformed, and their interludes toy with versions of Marvel characters in unique incarnations.
There's the germ of something good within Witch Hunter Angela, but it's buried so far beneath the off-putting surface that it'll take a generous soul to locate it.
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A curtain used in the tabernacle of the children of Israel and later the Temple of Solomon to separate the Holy of Holies, resting place of the Ark of tthe Covenant and God's presence within the temple, from the rest of the tabernacle.
Composed of the finest linen and very thick, the veil hung within the holy place in the temple, and divided it from the Holies like so:
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The veil's purpose was to keep people out of the presence of God, but not as an act of exclusion, but as an act of mercy. We are told that sin can not abide in the presence of God and to go into His presence unclean would cause the person to die. Hence, God had the Ark of the Covenant separated from the rest of the temple or tabernacle by the veil. It served as a constant reminder to the priests as well as the nation of Israel of their sin and how it separated them from fellowship with God. Only one person would pass beyond the veil and that only once a year. The High Priest on the Day of Atonement would go beyond the veil into the presence of God and present a sacrifice for the sins of the nation.
In the Gospel of Mark (Mark 15:38), after the death of Jesus on the cross, the veil within the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The tearing of the veil illustrates the redemptive work of the crucifixion. Humanity was separated from God by their sin in the time before Christ's sacrifice, but with the atonement made by His death, humanity was given open access to the throne and presence of God. The veil no longer served a purpose and was therefore torn in two.
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Veil (?), n. [OE. veile, OF. veile, F. voile, L. velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably fr. vehere to bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship on. See Vehicle, and cf. Reveal.] [Written also vail.]
Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
Matt. xxvii. 51.
She, as a veil down to the slender waist,
Her unadorn'ed golden tresses wore.
Milton.
A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
Shak.
3. Bot.
The calyptra of mosses.
A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
4. Eccl.
A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
5. Zool.
Same as Velum, 3.
To take the veil Eccl., to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun.
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To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight,
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
To keep your great pretenses veiled.
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How do we know social anxiety is getting worse?
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People with social anxiety have higher levels of social anxiety, but they also have higher rates of anti-social behaviour, according to research from the Australian National University.
The study looked at more than 17,000 adults in Australia.
It found social anxiety and anti- social behaviour was a common concern for people with social phobia, with nearly two thirds reporting that they or someone in their family had experienced it.
There was no difference between people with and without social anxiety.
Dr Sue Gwynne, a lecturer in mental health at the University of Melbourne, said it was important to consider that the results might be an underestimation of the prevalence of social phobias.
"The fact that people with more social anxiety tend to be more socially isolated is also an important finding," she said.
"It's important that people are aware that the research shows that people who have more social phobic tendencies are also more socially disconnected and less socially engaged with others."
So we need to understand why they do that.
"I think we know that social phobe are more socially disengaged, more disconnected, more isolated and less connected with their friends and community."
Dr Gwynnes said that the study could help people who had previously felt isolated and isolated themselves in the workplace, because it showed that the impact of social isolation was felt more intensely in the face of other social phos.
She said people who suffered from social anxiety might be at risk of being isolated in their own workplaces.
The University of Queensland study is published in the Australian Journal of Psychiatry.
It follows a report by the World Health Organisation that social anxiety disorder was the most common mental health disorder in Australia in 2015.
A similar survey published in December found nearly one in four people suffering from social phobos did not seek treatment, and the majority had no clear reason for not doing so.
More than two thirds of respondents reported that they had experienced some form of social exclusion in the past year.
About a quarter of those who reported having suffered social exclusion reported being physically or sexually assaulted, while more than a third had been physically or psychologically threatened.
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Retired steamer paddle on display just off the Mon River and near Station Square in Pittsburgh, Pa. A plaque says it's from the Sternwheel, Towboat Jason, built in 1940 and retired in 1959.
Shot in RAW. Separated the sky and paddle during post processing.
The composition is wonderful and unique. Strong colors and good detail -- nice image for the challenge.
Excellent take on the challenge. Great curves, lines & colors.
A very nice photo but for me, not screaming 'Boat'.
Angles, angles, angles. Everything is on the horizontal. Did you take any where the axle bar was at the 45? Giving the illusion of the wheel coming up from the bottom corner rather than shooting in from the left. I'm talking about the black bar.
Colors work well together, though.
Lighting, colour, DOF, composition... all wonderful! My highest vote so far.
Nice shot. Love the colours except for the sky.
I like this image, however, it needs to have the emphasis on the boat, not just the paddle. Nice crop and good color.
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Noomi Spook is not only a co-founder of independent film company Strawberry Corpse, she's also a writer, director and animator of enough odd and disturbing things to make you squeal with delight and revulsion. She wrote and directed award nominated horror/comedy short Annabelle's Tea Party (featuring both cake and maggots, making it a hit in my mind) as well as working on a documentary about bespoke limbs for amputees and directing music videos. She's currently preparing a stop-motion animation about serial killer HH Holmes which is in need of experienced animators, model makers and funding – just have a look at the website below.
UKHS – The new film looks very exciting! Can you tell us a bit about it?
NS – This is a film I've always wanted to make, and part of the reason why I chose to move to Bristol from London, because of the animation scene in this city. As soon as I discovered who Holmes was and what he did, I immediately pictured telling the story as an animation. Which I doubt is how most people would interpret this story but to me using models and miniature sets was an opportunity to create a perfect medley of fantasy and reality. It's hard to believe that what he did actually happened, but of course it's all true.
So rather than portray him with actors in a live action film, I wanted to juxtapose the real life story with a format often associated with make believe, even children's films. It's my intention to make an old school dark fairytale, like the Brothers Grimm tales, because their stories always had a strong moral message to them. It's unorthodox, but that's just the way my brain works. I'm obsessed with dark animations, particularly The Brothers Quay. I came up with the idea back in 2008. It's taken me up until now to start putting the ideas together. I think the sheer enormity of it has been putting me off, but now is a good time and I'm finally ready to get it off the ground.
UKHS – What drew you to the story of HH Holmes?
so few people have heard of him in comparison to other serial killers like Jack the Ripper who lived around the same time as Holmes. Jack the Ripper didn't kill anywhere near as many people, nor was he as imaginative. He just got away with it.
UKHS – Is this something you've written and directed?
NS – I have written the script yes, and I am planning on directing and producing the film. I may even do one of the voices, so this will be my Citizen Kane.
UKHS – Is it the most ambitious project you've done?
NS – It's definitely up there!
UKHS – Has shooting begun?
NS – We need to raise some more of the funding before we will be ready to shoot. If anyone would like to find out more about how they can be involved in the film, they can find more information on the films website www.thecastlefilm.com.
UKHS – What's the most disturbing fact in your opinion you've discovered during your research?
NS – There are so many disturbing facts about his story! But one fact that stands out is: after Holmes' arrest the police finally searched the castle (which had fallen into disrepair many years previously) and they discovered a maze of air tight windowless rooms, each fitted with gas lines. On the walls were hand prints made by his victims frantically clawing to escape as they slowly asphyxiated within.
UKHS – You also wrote and directed the short Annabelle's Tea Party, can you tell us a little about that?
NS – Annabelle's Teaparty was great fun. It was a very silly, off the wall idea. I wanted to make something as funny as it was twisted, and I feel like I achieved that! It recently found it's audience as well, because the B-Movie Underground and Trash film festival in the Netherlands found the trailer online and asked me to submit the film for screening this year. They specialise in surreal black comedy, and psychedelic horror, which is exactly what Annabelle's Teaparty is. So after all these years my crazy film finally found it's home.
UKHS – It looks like a cartoon, is that what the inside of your mind looks like?
NS – Very much so! Everything about my brain is half child like, half terrifying, so most of my work is a combination of those two opposing forces. I was very influenced by cartoons like count Duckula and Ren and Stimpy when I wrote that film. A lot of people say when they watch it it's like a live action cartoon, which is exactly what I wanted. So that's a real compliment.
UKHS – It was nominated for an award, wasn't it?
NS – It was nominated for best horror in the London Limelight film awards in 2012. We didn't win, but I am OK with that. We are up against serious horrors in the competition, so it was fair enough that a weirdo black comedy didn't take home the award for best horror. It was very nice to be nominated though!
UKHS – The premier was entertaining, zombies serving cakes. I bet you were very happy that night when it was finished?
UKHS – Both films are being released by Strawberry Corpse, who are they and are they purely a horror production company?
NS – I initially started Strawberry Corpse with my business partner Ioanna Karavela in 2007. We felt that the name adequately summarised the ethos of mixing light and dark, beauty and ugliness. We certainly have a leaning towards making dark work, but it's not an exclusively horror production company. We do light-hearted things too.
UKHS – Your online info says you're an 'offline editor' for them, do you edit other people's films?
NS – Not really. I have done it in the past on a freelance basis, but I find editing other people's work tedious. Editing is a bit like doing an elaborate jigsaw puzzle and only you know what the finished picture is meant to look like. I get ravenously excited fitting the pieces together when I've filmed it, but I get no enjoyment at all from cutting up other people's ideas.
UKHS – Is there anyone else who's work is/was released by Strawberry Corpse that you feel people should know about?
out of god knows how many entries, and for Baylea's first film we were both very pleased with that. I expect great things from that girl, she is a very talented writer and I would like to work with her again in the future.
She also has a cameo role in my latest music video, which is also a kind of short horror film. She plays a timid nurse in a nightmarish a mental asylum.
UKHS – You also directed a documentary, how did that come about and how different was it from a fiction project?
NS – I'm still working on it. The short version called Ryan's Leg will be available online soon, but I am actually starting shooting the first part of the feature length version this weekend. The documentary is about bespoke prosthetic limbs which really have to be seen to be believed. I fell in love with the craftsmanship first, and then with the idea of creating beautiful and bizarre limbs reflecting the personality of whoever wears them. It could be a really positive thing for challenging stereotypes around disability.
They are so amazing, and even though it's very different from the other work I do, I just wanted to be the person to tell this story. And it's incredibly rewarding. I've teamed up with a production company called Available Light, who are very experienced in producing factual documentary for T.V. So watch this space for more on that one!
UKHS – What does the future hold for you and/or Strawberry Corpse?
NS – We may have some very interesting music video projects lined up in the near future, but I can't say too much as nothing is signed on the dotted line yet. But I can say this, it's going to be brutal!
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UAPB Names Dustin Sahlmann New Head Volleyball Coach
PINE BLUFF, Ark. – The University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff named Dustin Sahlmann its new head volleyball coach, according to Athletics Director Lonza Hardy Jr.
Sahlmann, a former interim head coach at the University of New Orleans, comes to UAPB with 20-plus years of experience on the court.
Sahlmann began his coaching career at the University of Arkansas as a student-assistant coach for two seasons. In 1994, the Razorbacks' inaugural season of volleyball, he helped lead Arkansas to a 19-17 overall record and a 10-5 mark in Southeastern Conference play. In the following season, the Razorbacks finished 25-15 overall and 11-4 in SEC play.
After his time at the University of Arkansas, Salhmann moved to the high school ranks and was named head volleyball coach at Pulaski Academy High School in Little Rock, Ark., a position he served in for two years. He also served as head coach and board member of the Little Rock Junior Volleyball Club.
Salhmann later became the head volleyball coach at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark. His 2012 team finished fifth in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference volleyball tournament – leading two student-athletes to earn all-conference honors. He then ventured to Pelican State, becoming assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of New Orleans in New Orleans, La.
In 2014, Sahlmann was named interim head coach at UNO, a position he held until he was named assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La.
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Stephen Fry selects paints & art materials as Desert Island Discs castaway luxury
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Stephen Fry chooses canvases & paints for Desert Island castaway luxury
Stephen Fry book signing by vpjayant via flickr
The long-running BBC Radio 4 programme, Desert Island Discs – and its current presenter Kirsty Young, have secured Norfolk and national treasure Stephen Fry, for a second time, to quiz him on his castaway music, literature and luxury choices. One of his biggest regrets, it turns out, is that he feels that he cannot dance or paint, and rather than take a dance teacher as his luxury item he's opted for the easel life of a marooned and abandoned artist.
After choosing T.S. Elliot's Four Quartets, alongside the supplied Bible and Shakespeare, he opted to take as a luxury item on which to spend "all the time in the world":
"canvases, and easels, and watercolours and oils and acrylics, I think, and all the brushes and turpentine and linseed, that go with them, and possibly an instruction manual." – Stephen Fry on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs
Stephen Fry's love of art & artists
Fry admires art and respects artists, as revealed to Kirsty Young:
"Well it's is a whole area of endeavour that I admire enormously, is art, yet I can't paint."
When younger, at the Groucho Club, Fry recalls meeting a young artist and being fascinated by his confidence.
"I can't paint… except use words, use language, so that's what I've poured all my joy into…I'm not an artist and I really respect artists. I can remember… Damien Hirst…he just has some strange gift in his head that allows him to look at one thing and one thing only and decide upon it and think about it, hard and not get distracted by what people think… But you can't be an artist if you care about what other people think."
Learn to Paint by watching other artists
Stephen Fry has given us such joy with his use of words and language. Perhaps, Stephen will get his chance to explore art in his home county of Norfolk. As James Colman and Will Buckley of Paint Out have said:
"There is no better way to learn how to paint than to be able to watch and talk to people actually painting. It is the opposite of watching paint dry."
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Stan Baum broke his hip and his arm when he tumbled from his bike after a motorist opened his door into the cyclist. He's at New York Methodist Hospital getting healed.
Mean Streets: Beep, activists to police: Quit blaming cyclists in fatal crashes!
A driver's carelessness in opening a car door — not a collision with another vehicle, as witnesses reported — caused a serious cycling accident on Sixth Avenue last week, according to the biker who broke a hip and an arm in the ugly crash.
Witnesses originally reported that 60-year-old rider Stan Baum had been sideswiped by a car, but Baum told us on Monday that he slammed to the pavement after a driver opened his car door into him.
Baum, a long-time biker, remains at New York Methodist Hospital, where he is recovering from hip-replacement surgery and a broken left arm. He doesn't remember anything after he hit the roadway in the Nov. 8 crash — but he does know what caused it.
"The guy opened his door right into me," said Baum, who was between St. Marks Avenue and Prospect Place en route to his family when the car door flung open.
"There was nothing I could do," said the city Sanitation worker, who was riding with head and tail lights.
Baum's elbow and left hip shattered when he hit the street. Witnesses thought he had been struck by a car because the driver of another vehicle got our and talked to Baum before driving off.
"But two people knew that wasn't the case — me and there was the person who opened that door," he said. While Baum crumpled in pain, the car-door opener slinked away into the night.
A spokeswoman for the bike advocacy group Transportation Alternatives reminded that it's illegal to open a car door without looking. The spokeswoman, Caroline Samponaro, said that three fatal dooring incidents this year — in the Bronx, Harlem, and the September crash that killed Jasmine Herron on Atlantic Avenue — as evidence that the law is being ignored.
The best way for motorists to avoid dooring a cyclist is to simply look before opening the door, Samponaro said. Cyclists can avoid doors by claiming an entire lane, which is legal, but most riders would rather not anger drivers by getting in the way.
Baum took his first steps this Monday. He hopes that his recovery will draw attention to the dooring crisis.
Excuse me, but I just had to comment. As an experienced bike commuter I want people to know that drivers DO NOT check for bikes before opening their doors, and probably never will. Law or no law. Fact of life. To avoid getting doored keep your eyes on the cars in your path. If you see either a driver or passenger on your side of the street assume they will open their door and move a foot or two over while being mindful of the cars behind you. Not easy, sure, but that's biking in the big city. As far as the driver not stopping to offer assistance, that's another matter.
I applaud you Joey P. for explaining that bike riders should have a defensive mentality. Being an experienced defensive car driver in brooklyn, it is getting harder and harder to anticipate both bikers and pedestrians that seem to come out of nowhere. Especially on 6th Ave.
A big problem I always notice are the bikers that dont want to wait for traffic and start weaving all over the road to get by, like when a car is waiting to turn for example. When riding on the street, a bike rider is supposed to adhere to the same traffic rules that cars do. When you don't, you put everyone at risk as it is impossible for someone exiting a car to see you in their sideview mirror because you were in the middle of the street 3 seconds ago and not where you should be riding, in the sight of a drivers mirror.
While Im at it, why is it that when Im parellel parking a car, there is always a pedestrian that decides to get off the sidewalk ant stand right in the middle of the spot WHILE MAY CAR IS MOVING BACKWARDS RIGHT INTO YOUR PATH. Some defensive pedestrian sense would be great as well, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE HOLDING A CHILDS HAND.
This is exactly why I want to use the new Prospect Park West bike path to ride northbound, rather than ride on 8th Avenue as its opponents would prefer. Eighth Avenue is equally narrow.
My daughter and I once tried to ride to church on 8th Avenue. I kept yelling for her to move to the center away from the doors, but she was more terrified of the cars whizzing by and honking. She didn't want to ride anywhere for a while after that.
There are two places where I've run into seriously dangerous agressive drivers -- 8th Avenue and Downtown Brooklyn. Using a PPW route, I avoid both 8th Avenue and Downtown Brooklyn entirely.
Cyclists need routes that allow them to ride four feet from the cars without running the risk of being nailed on the other side by a passing SUV mirror.
Of course bicyclist must ride defensively. But the laws of physics tell us that bicyclists and pedestrians do not come out of nowhere. If you think they do, you are not paying enough attention. Please look before opening a car door.
No excuse for the driver to door the biker, but how many avenues have bike lanes, and why was he on the avenue that does not have a bike lane????
This was a good, informative article! I hope Stan has a full recovery, but it is a tough road of rehab for him. I remember my first bike ride 5 months after breaking my leg. It was a year before I could run.
I take 6th ave in Park Slope all the time. Like any driver I take the road that goes to where I need to go. The only bike lane in the area is 5th ave, which is out of the way, and like 7th ave is full of double parked cars which makes for a cyclist obstacle course. On the other hand, 6th ave , because it is two way and residential has very few double parked cars. The problem is though that it is narrow and cyclists are forced to ride too close to the parked cars putting them in danger of being doored. There is no way to see inside cars to know this is about to happen. you have to keep 5 feet away from car doors or you will end up like poor Stan or worse. Drivers have to be more accommodating and stop honking at us for doing so.
we need bike skyways...Should be constructed with public transit money..
I ride a stretch of 6th Ave daily on my bike. My defensive tactic is to take the entire lane - the traffic lights on 6th are timed so no one's going anywhere fast anyway.
At the same time, I feel for this guy --even a few seconds in the door zone are too many; it can really come out of nowhere.
And I agree with Larry above -- this, right here, is the best reason of all to keep the bike lane on PPW.
It's worth noting that dooring a cyclist is also against the law in New York.
Not that any citizen alone has the power to get the NYPD to issue a citation to any driver who hits or kills a pedestrian or a cyclist.... but that's another story.
First thing to say about the idea that bikers don't occupy a lane because they want to "not anger drivers by getting in the way." Well, that's partly true, but it's the next step that's actually at issue: They don't want drivers to try and kill them. I got doored once. The cop looked at me and asked, "What do you want me to do about it?" Great attitude, eh?
"Like any driver I take the road that goes to where I need to go. The only bike lane in the area is 5th ave, which is out of the way"
That would explain why bikers ride the wrong way and blow thru lights.
Why isn't this being treated as a hit and run accident and why aren't the Police looking for the criminal who fled the scene of the accident?
I've been trying to get in the habit of opening my car door an inch after looking, just in case I miss seeing a biker in my rear view mirror. I figure that second will give the biker a chance to let me know that they are there before I open my door all the way.
Another problem is that some cars have really small, crappy mirrors. Maybe it's time to have stricter rules for rear view mirrors, make a law that they have to be a certain size, and that they are usable.
I was always afraid of getting hit by a truck if I open my door without looking, that is just as likely as dooring a biker. Now I'm afraid of both.
When I'm on a bike, I'm not going to be near any car doors, bike lanes be damned.
P.S. @ Bob from PLG. I'm sure it's being treated at least as leaving the scene of an accident. I'm not sure how the laws work considering that the car was not moving at the time.
@BobScott: Bikes are allowed on any road. If everyone has a little common courtesy, meaning bikers stay to the right if possible, and cars only pass them when it's safe, it should work ok.
Personally, I think the protected bike lanes are a sad statement. If everyone didn't behave like savages on the road, we would all be able to share them.
@common sense— you are correct, of course. but bikers should pick one: expensive and (to some) annoying bike lanes, or street shares. sharing the streets, ultimately, is a better choice. now, can't we all just get along?


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It's New Year's Eve and Las Vegas is the place to be to welcome the year 2020. America's Party encompassed both the live entertainment at the Fremont Street Experience and the much-anticipated fireworks show on the Las Vegas Strip. America's Party, co-produced by Fireworks by Grucci, launched from seven rooftop locations. In this clip, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman greets party-goers at the Fremont Street Experience and leads a countdown. Las Vegas, Nevada. January 1, 2020. Credit: John Higgins/Las Vegas News Bureau
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It's New Year's Eve and Las Vegas is the place to be to welcome the year 2020. America's Party encompassed both the live entertainment at the Fremont Street Experience and the much-anticipated fireworks show on the Las Vegas Strip. America's Party, co-produced by Fireworks by Grucci, launched from seven rooftop locations. In this clip, partygoers and the new Viva Vision at the Fremont Street Experience. Las Vegas, Nevada. January 1, 2020. Credit: John Higgins/Las Vegas News Bureau
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LAS VEGAS -- Prior to the official unveiling on New Year's Eve, Fremont Street Experience held a special preview of the dazzling, all-new visuals created exclusively for its newly-upgraded Viva...
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Prior to the official unveiling on New Year's Eve, Fremont Street Experience held a special preview of the dazzling, all-new visuals created exclusively for its newly-upgraded Viva Vision screen on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, featuring a sneak peek of the all-new signature light show, "MIXology." In this clip, video of the new show. Las Vegas, Nevada. December 19, 2019. Credit: John Higgins/Las Vegas News Bureau
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Fremont Street Experience President and CEO Patrick Hughes speaks during a preview for ìAmericaís Partyî New Yearís Eve events Wednesday, December 18, 2019, at the Fashion Show Mall. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas News Bureau)
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by Mathieu Gorse / AFP 17th February 2019 13th August 2020 0868
Eight months after ousting his rival and taking power in Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been forced to call early elections for 28 April, the latest in a series of setbacks for the survivor politician.
The move comes just days before the 46-year-old economist publishes a book called 'Resistance Manual,' the first leader in office to do so.
The book recounts the rollercoaster years that saw him lead the socialists to two crushing election defeats in 2015 and 2016, forced out by his party's leadership before being re-elected secretary-general by grassroot activists in May 2017.
Just over a year later, he filed a no-confidence motion against then conservative prime minister Mariano Rajoy – a risky bet given the socialists had just 84 lawmakers out of 350.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arriving at the Llotja de Mar in Barcelona where a Spanish cabinet was held on 21 December 2018. (Javier Soriano / AFP)
But with the help of far-left Podemos, Catalan independence lawmakers and Basque nationalists, he was able to topple Rajoy and take over, the first time such a motion had prevailed in decades.
'From attack to defence'
Given the 1.90-metre-tall former basketball player's track-record of bouncing back, all bets are off for the upcoming elections on 28 April.
Sánchez 'sees politics as a basketball game,' writes Enric Juliana, deputy director of Spanish daily La Vanguardia.
'He can go from attack to defence in just a few seconds.'
Always immaculately suited and booted and with a disarming smile, Sánchez was once dubbed 'Mr. Handsome' for his Hollywood good looks.
Born in 1972 in Madrid, he grew up in a wealthy family, his father an entrepreneur and his mother a civil servant.
He studied in the Spanish capital before getting a Master's degree in political economy at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
He then wrote a thesis in a private Madrid university over which he was later accused of plagiarism.
An opposition town councillor in Madrid from 2004 to 2009, he entered parliament, replacing another lawmaker, under Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's administration.
That ended when the conservative People's Party (PP) swept to power in 2011 with an absolute majority, kicking the struggling Socialists (PSOE) out of power.
But he returned to the lower house in 2013. He went on to become Socialist party chief the next year after winning the first every primary elections organised by the 139-year-old grouping.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during the budget debate in Madrid on 13 February 2019. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou / AFP)
Catalan hot potato
Once in power in Spain in June 2018, he appointed a government with a majority of women.
He also drew praise in Europe for accepting to take in a charity ship stranded in the Mediterranean with 630 migrants on board after Italy and Malta refused to let it dock.
He also raised the minimum wage by 22% after years of austerity.
But he has so far failed to complete one of his pet projects – to exhume late dictator Francisco Franco from an opulent mausoleum near Madrid.
ALSO READ: Sánchez: Franco mausoleum cannot be 'place of reconciliation'
Sánchez also got embroiled in the hugely cleaving issue of the secession crisis in Catalonia.
Determined to re-start talks with separatists of this northeastern region after a failed attempt to secede from Spain in 2017, he ended up losing their crux support in the national parliament this week.
ALSO READ: Sánchez a 'felon, illegitimate, traitor' for Catalan 'rapporteur'
Catalan lawmakers, along with right-wing parties, rejected his 2019 budget, which prompted the early elections.
And while several opinion polls see his Socialist party winning elections, it would likely not be able to form a majority in parliament with Podemos.
But polls say the PP, centre-right Ciudadanos (Cs) and far-right Vox would be able to form a majority.
ALSO READ: Far-right Vox forms agreement with PP
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (centre) poses with ministers before a cabinet meeting at the Llotja de Mar in Barcelona on 21 December 2018. (Javier Soriano / AFP)
KEY DATES IN 3 YEARS OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN SPAIN
The elections on 28 April will be Spain's third general election in three and a half years.
Spain has since December 2015 been suffering chronic political stability because of an increasingly fragmented political landscape.
Here are some key dates:
20 December 2015: Two-party hegemony shatters
Since the early 1980s, power in Spain had alternated without interruption between the Socialists (PSOE) and the conservative People's Party (PP). But 20 December 2015 put an end to over three decades of two-party hegemony when two new parties, centre-right Ciudadanos (Cs) and far-left Podemos, entered parliament for the first time.
Prime minister Mariano Rajoy's PP won the most seats but lost its absolute majority in Spain's 350-seat parliament and was not able to cobble together a governing coalition.
Pedro Sánchez's Socialists, which came in second but also lost ground, reached an agreement with Ciudadanos (Cs) but this too was not enough to form a government.
Due to the political impasse, fresh elections were held on 26 June 2016. The PP gained ground but still fell short of an absolute majority and political paralysis persisted.
29 October 2016: Rajoy sworn in for second term
Rajoy is sworn in for a second term as prime minister after winning a confidence vote in parliament, putting an end to a 10-month spell without a government.
He won the vote thanks to the support of Cs and the abstention of the Socialists. Weeks earlier, the Socialists ousted their leader Pedro Sánchez who had steadfastly refused to back Rajoy's attempts to form a government.
Rajoy's minority government managed to pass its budget in 2017 and 2018 by making generous concessions to a Basque nationalist party and regional parties from Spain's Canary Islands.
Pedro Sánchez (left) shakes hands with Mariano Rajoy after a vote on a no-confidence motion on 1 June 2018. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou / POOL / AFP)
1 June 2018: Sánchez ousts Rajoy
Sánchez becomes prime minister, ousting Rajoy in a surprise no-confidence vote in parliament after the ruling PP was found guilty of benefiting from illegal funds in a massive graft trial.
Sánchez had been re-elected Socialist leader in May 2017, in a stunning political comeback just seven months after he was ousted.
Rajoy was the first prime minister in Spain's modern democratic history to be ousted by parliament after losing a no-confidence vote.
Sánchez won the vote with the support of a hodgepodge of different formations, including Podemos, two Catalan independence parties and a Basque nationalist party.
Ciudadanos leader Abert Rivera labelled it a 'Frankenstein government' because of its lack of unifying views.
13 February 2019: Sánchez budget rejected
Sánchez, whose government had the smallest majority of any since the return transition to democracy following dictator Francisco Franco's death in 1975, submits a left-leaning budget with Podemos which boosts social spending, in the hopes of governing until the end of the current legislature in mid-2020.
But the talks with Catalan independence parties, whose demand for a legally binding independence referendum is unacceptable to Sánchez, broke down and he fails to win their much-needed votes to approve the budget in parliament.
Catalan lawmakers joined those from the PP and Ciudadanos in voting against the budget, prompting Sánchez to call early elections.
Opinion polls suggest Spain's political landscape will become even more fragmented, with new far-right party Vox poised to win seats in the national parliament for the first time.
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Austrians at odds about Schönborn
One in five Austrians consider Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn as a reactionary clergyman. Public opinion research group Karmasin found that 20 per cent of people think that Schönborn, the highest representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria and head of the Conference of Bishops, has a conservative attitude. The poll – for which […]
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Rebel priest deplores Church's 'leadership crisis'
A Catholic preacher who established a group of "disobedient" priests reacted coolly to Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn's warnings. Speaking to Italian daily La Stampa last week, Schönborn said regarding the Austrian Church's reaction to the Preachers' Initiative: "Now is the time to clarify the various issues. We might take disciplinary measures, but I hope […]
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Schönborn warns disobedient priests
Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn is upping the pressure on Helmut Schüller's Preachers' Initiative. Schönborn, the highest representative of the Austrian Catholic Church, told Italian newspaper La Stampa yesterday (Thurs): "Now is the time to clarify the various issues. We might take disciplinary measures, but I hope that this is not necessary." The conservative Conference […]
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Homosexual's success scares off priest
A Catholic preacher plans to withdraw from his local parish after a gay man entered the community council. Florian Stangl, a homosexual carer of disabled children, received a majority of votes in the recent Stützenhofen parish community council ballot. Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, the highest representative of the Austrian Roman Catholic Church, gave the […]
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Preachers' Initiative head happy about Pope's reaction
The head of the Austrian Preachers' Initiative has reacted positively to the Pope's criticism. Pope Benedict XVI. said in his Maunday Thursday sermon held in Italian in the Vatican that disobedience was no solution. The Pope mentioned a "group of priests from a country in Europe" without directly referring to Helmut Schüller or his movement. […]
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Church rebels worry the Vatican
The highest representatives of the Austrian Catholic Church gathered with Vatican officials to speak about a group of priests who declared themselves "disobedient", it has emerged. The Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper revealed yesterday (Weds) that Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and two other members of the Conference of Austrian Bishops, went to Rome on Monday to […]
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Anger as archbishop gives church away
Members of a small parish in Vienna are outraged by Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn's decision to hand over the church to the city's Serbian-Orthodox community for free. Neuleuchenfeld parishioners harshly criticised Schönborn for his decision made public last year. Now the Vatican decided to reject their appeal. It promised to rule on the issue by […]
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Schönborn failed to act, abuse victim claims
The highest representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria has been accused of keeping quiet about a case of sexual abuse. A lawyer said yesterday (Mon) he will launch legal action against Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn. The advocate's client explained she consulted Schönborn in 1994 to tell him of sexual abuse by a […]
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Archbishop and carollers visit mosque
Carol singers in Vienna were accompanied by Viennese Archbishop Cardinal Christoph Schönborn as they visited the city's biggest mosque yesterday (Weds).The children, who collect money for impoverished countries in the traditional singing procession between New Year's Day and Epiphany (6 January), and the highest representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria, were shown round […]
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Let integrated families stay, says Fischer
Federal President Heinz Fischer has come out in support of a more human approach to the asylum seekers issue – but it is yet to be seen whether his appeal will have any impact.Fischer said in his National Day speech yesterday (Tues) that well integrated families should be allowed to stay in Austria. The former […]
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Q: Regular Expression validation in ASP.NET for special chars I need to validate the scenario in Regex, I'm using RegularExpression validation in ASP.NET.

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*whole string shouldn't contain two special char "@" & "?"

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"as#d qwe2", "&^%$$(&+_", "12#$.p"

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"  ", "asd ", " asd#", "ksdhf?kh", "asdf@asd"

I'm trying with this:
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A: Untested RegEx: ^([^ @?][^@?]*[^ @?]|[^ @?])$

A: There are a couple of problems with the regex you are currently using:

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*^[^\s]+ is matching almost all of the string if it does not start with a space character (thus matching @ or ?).

*Due to the way the regex is constructed, you can only input strings of length 2 and above. This is a minor setback, but can be avoided.
I would suggest using negative lookaheads since there are multiple 'checks' to do on the first character:
^(?!\s|.*\s$)[^?@]+$

(?!\s|.*\s$) will prevent a match if the string begins with \s or ends with \s and [^?@]+ matches all characters but ? and @. Space only strings will automatically be rejected because space only strings will have to begin with a space.


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WARD'S DEALER BUSINESS WINS NATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Ward's Dealer Business won a national editorial excellence award from the American Society of Business Press Editors. Winning silver honors in the feature series category was our two-part State of the Industry. It reviewed and analyzed auto events of 2000 and looked ahead to 2001. The series ran in the December 2000 and January 2001 issues. The State of the Industry series won a gold award in AMSBPE's
Ward's Dealer Business won a national editorial excellence award from the American Society of Business Press Editors.
Winning silver honors in the feature series category was our two-part "State of the Industry." It reviewed and analyzed auto events of 2000 and looked ahead to 2001. The series ran in the December 2000 and January 2001 issues.
The "State of the Industry" series won a gold award in AMSBPE's regional competition.
Contributors to Ward's award-winning project include Cliff Banks, Steve Finlay, Tim Keenan, Tom Murphy, Christie Schweinsberg and Laurel Wright.


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Autograph recently assembled a formidable array of golfing talent to take on the challenge of the inaugural PLASA golf day, held at the beautiful and challenging Drift Club just after the PLASA London show. Autograph's Duncan Bell and Scott Arnold were joined by DiGiCo MD James Gordon and Dave Wiggins from RMS, and after a team briefing over coffee and bacon rolls, the combatants headed out to the ninth tee where battle commenced with a shotgun start.
Despite some rustiness among some members the team dovetailed very well together, contributing a range of complimentary skills around the tees and greens, and when the scores were added up the total was a very respectable 87 points.
It soon became apparent however that Team Autograph and Team Meyer had tied for first place with the same totals. An executive decision was thus required to break the impasse, and the organisers took the very sensible view that Team Meyer should be deducted one point because their captain Roger Harpum had been on the practice range at 0730 that morning, and thus had obviously taken the whole thing far too seriously. Consequently Team Autograph were declared the winners!
Bryan Raven from White Light said, 'The clean sweep by the audio companies means we need to spend more time on the golf course before the next time!'. Delta Sound's Lee Dennison endorsed Bryan's view by espousing the possibly controversial view that, 'Yet again, we have proved that the sound side of the industry leads the way in all areas...'.
PLASA CEO Matthew Griffiths commented, 'A round of golf in the sunshine was a perfect way to round off the week that also saw the last ever PLASA show at Earls Court. We also managed to raise £3,500 for the Light Relief Charity which is a great result – we look forward to organising another Golf Day in the spring next year'.
Autograph director Duncan Bell, who is also vice-chairman of the PLASA EU regional board, said afterwards, 'Commiserations to Roger Harpum and the rest of Team Meyer, but also thanks to all the organisers for a great day. It was important to me that Autograph should enter a team in the first PLASA golf day, and also that we had a team who would be sure to have fun at the same time as raising money for a great cause. If you had seen the extensive ball-searching that took place on the first few holes you would never have predicted team Autograph a podium finish let alone gold! All in all, a great team effort and a perfect end to Autograph's sporting summer'.


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Carver Non-Woven Technologies, a manufacturer of non-woven parts, plans to establish operations in Fremont, Indiana. The company plans to create up to 65 new jobs by 2018.
The company will invest $17.13 million to renovate and equip the former Amcast Automotive plant at 706 E. Depot, which has been vacant for nearly 10 years. The 143,580-square-foot facility will house state-of-the-art equipment allowing Carver to create high-end, lower weight, quality fiber products for automotive, recreational vehicle and household products for customers.
Carver is a new subsidiary of Indiana-based R3 Composites Corporation, which announced plans to establish a manufacturing facility in Grabill, Indiana, in 2011.
"The technology Carver Non-Woven will introduce to the non-woven market will be cutting edge in its ability to create low variance sheet weight (density), highly homogeneous resonated blends and multiple fiber/glass matrixes with superior dimensional stability and mechanical properties," said Kirk Klein, CFO of R3 Composites Corporation.
Renovations are already underway, and the company plans to begin production in the second quarter of 2016. Carver has already begun hiring and plans to employ 65 associates by 2018.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Carver Non-Woven Technologies up to $475,000 in conditional tax credits and up to $75,000 in training grants based on the company's job creation plans. These incentives are performance-based, meaning until Hoosiers are hired, the company is not eligible to claim incentives. The city of Fremont will consider additional incentives at the request of the Steuben County Economic Development Corporation.