The final blog in our 'Out & About in Geelong' series, Director, Maree Herath gives some useful tips on Geelong's Business Networking landscape.
If you've decided to set up shop in Geelong we welcome you!
I made my Geelong "home-coming" almost 10 years ago.
I was born and raised in the region but had never done business in our town.
What I've found is that Geelong has no shortage of business networking groups, but finding the right group to match you and your expectations is where the challenge lies.
I've divided Geelong's forums into particular sub groupings which should assist you find the group for you.
If you're looking to meet peers, you can't go past The Geelong Chamber of Commerce.
With over 700 members and monthly "After 5's" with no fewer than 200 members in a room this is a good place to start.
However with the sheer volume you will have to put on the bravado and walk up to strangers. Once you say it's your first Chamber function members are obliging and will make you feel welcome.
Geelong Small Business Network is another group who can help you get acquainted with the region. Start with the Facebook group to virtually meet members and look out for impromptu coffee catch ups.
If you're in professional services then The Geelong Business club may be more to your liking. Monthly dinner meetings see orchestrated networking at its best. You randomly draw a table number meaning your dinner partner is a mystery until you sit down. The dinner format allows time to really get to know others as you'll be spending more than two hours together. There are a host of speakers lined up from politics, the Arts, Business and the local landscape which are often highly interesting also.
Finally the economic division of council runs breakfast networking. You may find such events on the Geelong Events calendar.
The most active and performance based group where you will be tasked with giving referrals to your peers as well as gaining referrals is BNI or Business Networking International. There are more than 6 chapters in the region for you to try.
This group is best for those who operate in Essential consumer products or services – such as trades, cleaners, iPhone repairs – or essential business services from telco and electricity to graphic design, printing, websites and the like. Once you move into the non-essential product/service realm, and if your target market is bigger businesses, BNI won't necessarily provide the return for its annual fee.
The Committee for Geelong or G21 are member based organisations and both have developed to support Geelong.
G21 would be more representative of the government sector while the Committee for Geelong has a mix of private and commercial businesses – start with The Geelong Leader's Breakfast. BIG = Businesses Investing in Geelong is also committed to growing Geelong as a region of opportunity.
If you're into supporting local, there is Localised, that supports local procurement and aggregates projects, events and business opportunities in the region. Go through Facebook Localised to find the next meet-up. You can pitch your business while learning more in a certain field of business.
Depending on the education you're seeking, a host of forums can accomodate and educate.
At Entrepreneurs Geelong, you will always hear from a speaker who's walked the journey of a start up. Great learning and tips to walk away with.
Small Business Smart Business has held a range of forums from setting up websites to time management. This group sits under Geelong Chamber of Commerce and it offers a number of workshops.
Other parts of the region offer workshop based formats where you can Learn while meeting peers. Both the Bellarine and Queenscliff offer informative workshops to help you grow.
The Torquay Chamber is also part networking and part education.
In August every year you can't go past the Small Business Festival. In Geelong over 30 events are structured around networking, business development, social media and managing people – here you put education in overdrive.
The Small Business Mentoring Service, while not a forum allows you to tab into mentors from the region who can also help you fast track growth.
Here, in addition to the Bellarine or SurfCoast, there is the Lara Chamber of Commerce, East Geelong Networking Group and more allowing you to find something on your doorstep.
Business and Professional Women International is one of the more established women's groups – the purpose is more for education, mentoring and lobbying women's issues. This group comprises aspiring leaders, divisional managers and business owners.
Geelong Women in Business can be found on Facebook. Started by GenY Samantha Krajina it is an informal group that comes together when a speaker is found or for a purpose where Samantha sees a gap. Stay on their Facebook page to know what's coming up.
This is a group of really diverse women from make-up artists to lawyers. This group allows for networking, support and education, usually around the challenges women face in business. Go to their Facebook page "Business in Heels" to learn more.
(iii) For Engineers and Manufacturers – The Geelong Manufacturing Council and it's subset Engineering Network Geelong are established purely for this industry and you can learn about advances in manufacturing or management thinking.
There is also the Geelong Women in Manufacturing Network – a subset for women who have found their way in manufacturing. This group aims at helping women progress and succeed within the manufacturing world.
If you are test running an idea and want to turn it into a commercial enterprise then you really can't go past Runway Geelong. It's an extensive program but it will get you onto a trajectory towards success quickly.
An advanced manufacturing incubator is Manufutures at Deakin. Selection criterion is stringent as there are only a certain number of bays which are provided at subsidised rates. Potential participants are encouraged to tap into Deakin students for research into an advanced manufacturing concept or hire a graduate from Deakin as you grow.
Technology Geelong is a small group, but worth exploring if you're in the tech field.
In addition to the above you may find a home in Rotary, the Lions Club or a Toastmasters Group. The list, for a Regional Centre, is endless. Get involved, get connected, find your tribe and go for it!
The Geelong Business Network is booming and there really has never been a better time to do business in Geelong.


The Irix lineup has mustered a bit of a cult following in the relatively short time that it has been on the market. Being fantastically sharp, with minor vignetting, and very little distortion, it is no wonder why so many photographers praise the optical prowess of the Swiss-designed, Korean-made lenses.
Though able to hold its own against the competition, the Irix 11mm f/4.0 and Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens aren't beyond the help of a bit of software correction, but what lens isn't really? Irix for some time has been providing its users with an in-house lens correction profiles for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for correcting the already-minimal distortion, vignetting and chromatic aberration that are found in ultrawide lenses. Thanks a recent update for the Creative Cloud, the Irix 11mm f/4.0, and Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens profiles are now supported by the latest from Adobe.
For those who aren't aware, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Camera Raw include numerous lens profiles, which you can use to correct common lens aberrations, distortion, and vignetting. With the new update, those who own either the Blackstone or Firefly versions of these lenses can now use the software to automatically correct for these issues when using Creative Cloud Applications.
For users of previous versions of Adobe software may still download the profiles direct for Irix, here.


Kochi: A Rs100 crore programme for replantation of pepper covering 23,000 hectares in the northern district of Wayanad in Kerala and the north-eastern region of the country covering Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya should help the plantation sector raise productivity, according to Anand Sharma, Union minister for commerce and industry.
Deliberations with the Planning Commission to raise the subsidy for rubber replantation from 20% to 30% will also help the plantation sector to be competitive over the next few years, he also expressed.
He was at Rubber Research Institute of India under the Rubber Board at Kottayam in central Kerala on Tuesday to release two new rubber clones which were presented to farmers.
"I do not blame the farmers for their concerns over the reduction of import tariff under the free trade agreement with Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to become operational from 2010," he said, adding that it was in this backdrop that the government was initiating steps to improve the productivity.
The pepper replantation programme comes after a similar Rs200 crore one for the pepper-growing district of Idukki in central Kerala was announced early this year. The Spices Board, the government trade promotion agency, will overlook the new replantation programme too which will have a subsidy element of Rs53 crore.
Root wilt disease and bee wasp attacks on the poles on which pepper vines creep have literally destroyed 70% of the crop in Wayanad which till two decades ago accounted for an annual production of 40,000 tonne that has now gone down to 8,000 tonnes.
He said his ministry was aware of the issues facing rubber growers who had to go in for massive replantation. Given the seven-year gestation period before the tree starts giving yield, the ministry would request the Planning Commission to raise the subsidy from the preset 20% to 30. The cost of replanting is estimated to be Rs1 lakh per hectare and now the farmer gets Rs20,000 as subsidy.
The Union Cabinet would soon be clearing a massive proposal for debt waiver aimed at small growers having less than 10 hectares of plantation, he added.


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Assistant chief constable Matt Ward said: We continue to work in partnership with mosques and local communities around the West Midlands.
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Citizen Science: Introducing Malformation Nation
Members of the public – and children in particular – play a key role in our scientific community. They are often the eyes and the ears for detecting and reporting emerging phenomena. This is especially true for deformed frogs. Many, if not most, observations of abnormal amphibians originate with kids, who pass along their observations to parents and, in turn, to scientists. Recognizing the importance of these reports, we have worked closely with FieldScope and the National Geographic Society to develop a citizen science platform through which people can easily report their observations and learn more about deformed frogs.
Because the online interface includes data from locations across the United States, including over 30 amphibian species, school groups and interested researchers can also use the database to map patterns of deformities by type, by time, or by frequency. To learn more about malformations in amphibians, how to identify species, or to report a malformation observation in your area, visit Malformation Nation. Your reports are often very useful and greatly appreciated; however, for your safety and that of the animal we advise against getting too close to or handling any sick or diseased animals.
Have you found a deformed frog? Report it HERE
Additional information on amphibian deformities (downloadable brochure)
The Life Aquatic: Freshwaters Illustrated
We have cultivated a close collaboration with Freshwaters Illustrated, a multimedia non-profit organization devoted to the conservation of freshwater organisms and their habitats. They work tirelessly to bring the world of freshwater to life – using imagery and video to capture the cryptic but fascinating interactions unfolding within ponds, lakes, and rivers, sometimes in our own backyards. Through our ongoing working relationship, we have highlighted the ghastly nature of frog deformities and the critical role of parasite infection in driving such abnormalities, producing both high quality imagery and video vignettes that have been used extensively by educators, media outlets, and conservation groups. New videos and projects are currently in development so stay tuned!
Freshwaters Illustrated Deformed Frog Page
Interview with Dr. Johnson about the state of our frogs
"Weirdest Events Episode 6" BBC Series features Dr. Johnson and Freshwaters Illustrated footage
Aquatic Parasite Observatory
Ongoing emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife has prompted renewed interest in the effects of disease on conservation. Infections ranging from salmonid whirling disease to crayfish plague have had devastating effects in managed and wild populations of freshwater organisms. The purpose behind the Aquatic Parasite Observatory is to investigate infections and their consequences for freshwater taxa, with a focus on amphibians, birds, snails, and fishes. This effort was initially launched to examine the role of infectious agents for amphibians, which have become the most threatened class of vertebrates worldwide due in part to infectious disease threats. In cooperation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, we examined parasites of amphibians collected across National Wildlife Refuges in the United States, which formed the initial nucleus of APO. The website currently includes information on a wide range of parasites found in different freshwater hosts and detailed information on their identification, taxonomy, life cycle, and pathology, if known. It also features information on which parasites have been recorded in different hosts and, for well-studied species, maps of their geographic distribution. Ultimately, this dataset – which continues to grow every year – will be invaluable for understanding large-scale patterns of parasite diversity and abundance, which has enormous relevance for assessing environmental quality (bioindicator species), detecting newly emerging infections, and testing macroecological theory applied to infections.
Link to the APO Platform
Biodiversity and Disease: The Boardgame
Our lab is working actively to connect K-12 students with the biological world around them through experiential education. We are currently collaborating with the Science Discovery Center, which is a education outreach program at CU that brings students and researchers together through interactive programs. This program introduces students to the importance of biodiversity in ecosystems and explores its influence on system-level responses, including pathogen transmission. As one educational component, students play a 'biodiversity' board game that incorporates our research on interactions between hosts and parasites to understand the importance of species composition and richness.
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Q: How to send ajax to the same page? I'm using pure js to send ajax request to other .php page, I'm really new to ajax concept so I don't know a lot.
I've seen jQuery ajax, but I prefer learning the pure js ajax so I can understand how ajax works.
I need to send ajax to the same page instead of sending it to another page to process the data. is it possible to do that? and How?
My Index page:

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        Age:
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A: Try using Jquery

A: That is possible. On server you only need verify ajax request (When you make a request using ajax, a header X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest will be attached to request). If you want make that easier, you can add new params to url, to notice server know this is an ajax request, something like: ajax-thing.php?uname='+uname+'&age='+age + '&ajax=1',  and return whatever you want if that is ajax request.

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Jane Hope Bown, née le  à Eastnor, et morte le , est une photographe anglaise.

Biographie
Jane Bown travaille pour le quotidien The Observer qui l'emploie depuis 1949. Elle est connue pour avoir été l'auteure de portraits emblématiques en noir et blanc de Samuel Beckett, John Lennon et la reine Élisabeth II, Jean Cocteau, Orson Welles, Mick Jagger.

Membre de la Royal Photographic Society, elle était également distinguée en tant que membre de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique.

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Naissance en mars 1925
Naissance dans le Herefordshire
Décès en décembre 2014
Décès dans le Hampshire
Décès à 89 ans
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Reviews > Current Releases
G.I. Joe: Retaliation; The Host
Sunday, Mar 31, 2013 by Joseph "Jay Dub" Wade (@JayDubSA) and Ian "Professor Clumsy" Maddison (@professorclumsy)
Remember last year? In retrospect, we were absolutely spoiled for great movies. 2013 has done everything in its power to fix that. Another week of atrocious releases is upon us, bearing G.I. Joe: Retaliation and The Host. By this time last year, we'd already had the likes of Coriolanus, The Grey and 21 Jump Street. Just bear that in mind.
by Ian "Professor Clumsy" Maddison
EXPECTATIONS: While last year's Battleship gives me a glimmer of hope for the latest in Hasbro's cinematic outings, it is important to remember that Battleship was an anomaly in an otherwise terrible selection of extended toy adverts. What we really should be looking at is this film's predecessor, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which tried so hard to replicate the essence of mindless Saturday morning cartoons that it did the worst thing it possibly could: It succeeded. It was bad, very bad, and the marketing for this ill-advised sequel seems to take an apologetic tone. "We know we can do better," they plead. Yeah, that must be why they held this one back a year for extensive reshoots and post-conversion into 3D! Let's face it: None of this bodes well for Retaliation.
Don't shoot, Bruce! I liked Die Hard 5 at least!
REALITY: G.I. Joe: Retaliation doesn't start well, but it pulls off the amazing feat of getting progressively worse as it goes on. How does this happen? Well, it's a total piecemeal production, thrown together from randomly gathered ideas. It often contradicts itself, wastes its own screen time and makes very little sense. Good thing they did those extensive reshoots, or else this might have turned out to be just an incoherent shambles rather than a backward, dishonest, ugly, incoherent shambles. I should warn you now: This review is loaded with spoilers. It is the only way.
Now pay attention (or don't, it makes little difference), because this plot is really unnecessarily elaborate. After a bunch of stuff happened off screen between the first film and this one, Duke (Channing Tatum) and his best buddy Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) are sent to a nonspecific Middle-Eastern country to retrieve nuclear warheads. They are then betrayed by the President (Jonathan Pryce) - who is really ZARTAN: MASTER OF DISGUISE (Arnold Vosloo) - and Duke is killed unceremoniously by Firefly (Ray Stevenson), leaving only Roadblock, Flint (D.J. Cotrona) and Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) to perform the titular retaliation.
Meanwhile, in what might as well be a completely separate film, bad ninja Storm Shadow (Byung-hun Lee) mounts a ridiculous escape plan to free Cobra Commander (Luke Bracey; I guess Joseph Gordon Levitt wasn't available) from an overacting Walton Goggins. For some reason, they leave Destro behind (I guess Christopher Ecclestone wasn't available) and split up. Storm Shadow returns to his mountain home, but is pursued by good ninja Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and his sidekick Jinx (Elodie Yung). Back in the first plot, the remaining Joes seek out their namesake General Joe Colton (Bruce Willis) in order to get close to the imposter president and save America.
Did you get all that? Do you care? I can't imagine the thought process that leads the writing team on a G.I. Joe movie to decide that what they really need is a stupidly convoluted plot. I guess it worked for Batman, right? The real problem here is that there's so much stuff set up in the first act that leads nowhere. We are introduced to the Joes as they rescue an unnamed person from unspecified enemy forces. During this operation, Roadblock reacts negatively to a flag. Why? I have no idea.
Storm Shadow's rescue plan involves disguising himself as Snake Eyes, assassinating the Pakistani Prime Minister and getting locked up in Walton Goggins' pickle-jar prison. He then stops his heartbeat with ninja powers to distract the guards so Firefly can walk in the front door and blow everything up. I have to wonder at the efficiency of any plan that involves the assassination of the Pakistani Prime Minister as an incidental preparatory step.
There's an entire scene dedicated to Joseph Mazzello (of Jurassic Park fame) explaining his new smart bullets that he can control in the air remotely. In the following scene, he uses one to kill an unnamed enemy soldier. Mazzello then goes on to die off screen and neither he nor the smart bullets are referred to again. At one point in the third act we think "Oh, they're going to use that smart bullet thingy," but they don't; they do something dumb instead. That's valuable screen time you're wasting.
Yeah, you'd look like that too if you were in this movie.
The whole film is loaded with loose ends like that. In a climactic scene, for example, the good ninjas are poised in a doorway to stop ZARTAN: MASTER OF DISGUISE and Cobra Commander during their ridiculous world-domination gamble. The scene itself is a ludicrous series of double-bluffs where the imposter president launches all of his nukes, causing the rest of the world to retaliate, only to then self-destruct them all, causing the rest of the world to follow suit. Now there are no nukes left in the world! But wait, there are! Yes, of course Cobra had a bunch of nukes left over because why the hell wouldn't they?
For some reason, the ninjas decide to just wait and see how this pans out and only act after ZARTAN: MASTER OF DISGUISE has obliterated London. Maybe that was part of the plan? Save the world apart from London, why not? London is a shithole. Mass death is treated with such dismissive flippancy in this film, much like in the works of Roland Emmerich: The more people you kill at once, the less it matters. From a distance, it just looks like massive property damage anyway.
All of this could be forgiven if the film were in any way compelling. An entertaining group of protagonists banding together to stop a scenery-chewing villain would have been a good starting point. Instead we get The Rock with the two blandest sidekicks you've ever seen facing off against a mostly non-present Australian soap actor in a mask. Johnson has charisma to spare, but he has absolutely no chemistry with Cotrona and Palicki. Cotrona is the worst presence in this film. As Flint, he's basically the blandest stand-in everyman soldier you could find. There's absolutely no life to the character, and Cotrona has nothing to do but stand around and stare into space most of the time. Channing Tatum, who has gone from an actor nobody cares about to a genuine crowd-pleaser in a fairly short time, had to die to make way for this placeholder character? I can't imagine Cotrona going through the same career transformation only to be killed off in G.I. Joe 3.
Oh no! A Woman! Don't let her in.As for Adrianne Palicki as Lady Jaye, well... this is where the film gets really troublesome. Now, it would be easy to get lost on a tangent about women in the military here, but let's leave that can of worms for another day and focus on what G.I. Joe: Retaliation has to say on the matter. The truth is, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a damned idiot on the subject. Its contradictory stance can best be summed up with a scene in which Lady Jaye - who literally has the codename "Lady" - stands in front of a mirror in a cocktail dress and says "If only my dad could see me now."
"Buh?" inquires boring Flint.
"He said women shouldn't serve in the military. He said he could never trust his life to a woman." She explains as she gets undressed. Boring Flint looks at her arse and drools slightly. "I enlisted the very next day and spent the next seven years trying to outrank him so he'd have to salute me."
"You look real pretty." replies Flint, shyly.
Bear in mind this takes place after the second instance of Jaye using her body to get the better of her enemies. The first time, she gets into her workout gear and bends over in front of a Secret Service agent so he can enjoy her buttocks in jogging shorts. Powerless to resist a butt, he is immediately ensnared into the Joe's clever plan to get close to the president. The second time, she stuffs herself into a tight cocktail dress and uses her cleavage to worm her way past White House security. Good thing the president employs only straight men. You see, women should be allowed to serve in the military, claims G.I. Joe: Retaliation, BECAUSE BOOB AND BUTT IS POWERFUL WEAPON IN FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM DUHHHHHHH!
Oh, and here's something else that you may have noticed yourself just from the plot synopsis: Yes, this is a film in which the U.S. President is not what he seems and is really an African who has ulterior motives in disarming his citizens. He can only be defeated by an old man's massive stockpile of automatic weapons hidden in secret compartments in his kitchen cabinets, because the value of a true American is measured in lead! Considering the impressionable age of the target audience, this all starts to feel very insidious after a while.
You don't have to agree with a film's politics to like it, though (and you may well agree with the film's politics and still not like it). G.I. Joe: Retaliation makes damn sure you won't enjoy any of it by being as ugly as possible; that post-conversion to 3D is one of the worst I've seen to date. One particularly egregious sequence has Snake Eyes and Jinx in a zipline chase with a bunch of bad ninjas. As the bad ninjas swing around and fall at random (I'm absolutely certain the same CGI animation of a falling ninja was reused twice in one shot) they hurtle toward the audience. Nothing new there, but it's fascinating how they seem to shrink as they get closer, leaving you with the instinctive desire to pick tiny ninjas out of your eyes. Every action sequence is the same, with no sense of geography at all, leaving you confused and bored as the heroes bang their guns at bad guys from indiscernible directions. Eventually it just stops, though, so that's okay.
Don't get too attached, he dies in the very next scene.
This shoddy, slapdash attempt at filmmaking does have one redeeming feature, though: Jonathan Pryce is absolutely brilliant in it. He plays both ZARTAN: MASTER OF DISGUISE and the captured president at the same time, often in the same scenes, and it's a testament to his talent and professionalism that he can deliver lines like "They call it waterboarding, but I never get bored" without a hint of contempt or suicidal depression. I just wish he had a better film around him. Of course, this means that Arnold Vosloo isn't really in this film beyond a single flashback scene and a few photographs that pop up after a DNA test. Why a MASTER OF DISGUISE would allow himself to be photographed and have his DNA on file is beyond me, but hey, it's G.I. Joe: Retaliation, nobody gave a shit. This is a film in which an imposter president makes his Secret Service agents wear pin badges bearing the emblem of a known terrorist organisation, so we can't expect intelligent characterisation here.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is the kind of film that happens only by brute force. All the forces of God, man and nature - all the better judgment in the universe -- conspired against this thing, but they released it anyway. The Heavy's "How You Like Me Now" plays over the end credits, a clear indication that the filmmakers think this will shut the smug critics up once and for all.
Overly Elaborate Plot
-10/10
Jonathan Pryce
MINORITY REPORT: I said it last year when Magic Mike came out and I'll say it again: Hollywood chose the wrong Channing Tatum film to delay for a 3D conversion. They had the opportunity to print money, and instead they chose to punch themselves in the face. - Joseph "Jay Dub" Wade
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Q: Selecting distinct timestamps from an ORACLE database I am trying to limit the amount of data I pull in prior to processing/analysing it in python.
Mainly due to memory constraints.
Each transaction results in ~3-4 different transaction_events.
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trx_id     timestamp
trx_1    | 2021.01.01 15:45:40
trx_1_2  | 2021.01.01 15:45:40
trx_1_3  | 2021.01.01 15:45:40
trx_2    | 2021.02.01 14:15:40
trx_2_2  | 2021.02.01 14:15:40
trx_2_3  | 2021.02.01 14:15:40

All I need is 1 record per timestamp.
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trx_id   timestamp
trx_1  | 2021.01.01 15:45:40
trx_2  | 2021.02.01 14:15:40

I've already tried the following suggestions:
On the ORACLE community forum
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select distinct(date) return the same date several time
I've tried various variations too
SELECT DISTINCT TRUNC(timestamp, 'DD')

SELECT DISTINCT TRUNC(timestamp)

SELECT DISTINCT to_char(timestamp, 'yyyy-mm-dd')

However with no results.

A: You can use the ROW_NUMBER analytic function and partition by the first 5 characters of the TRX_ID and the timestamp:
SELECT trx_id, ts
FROM   (
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  FROM   table_name t
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WHERE  rn = 1;

Which, for your sample data:
CREATE TABLE table_name ( trx_id, ts ) AS
SELECT 'trx_1',   TIMESTAMP '2021-01-01 15:45:40' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'trx_1_2', TIMESTAMP '2021-01-01 15:45:40' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'trx_1_3', TIMESTAMP '2021-01-01 15:45:40' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'trx_2',   TIMESTAMP '2021-02-01 14:15:40' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'trx_2_2', TIMESTAMP '2021-02-01 14:15:40' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'trx_2_3', TIMESTAMP '2021-02-01 14:15:40' FROM DUAL;

Outputs:

TRX_ID
TS

trx_1
2021-01-01 15:45:40.000000000

trx_2
2021-02-01 14:15:40.000000000

If you can have other TRX_ID with different length patterns then you can look for the second underscore character and get the substring before that:
SELECT trx_id, ts
FROM   (
  SELECT t.*,
         ROW_NUMBER() OVER (
           PARTITION BY CASE INSTR( trx_id, '_', 1, 2 )
                        WHEN 0
                        THEN trx_id
                        ELSE SUBSTR( trx_id, 1, INSTR( trx_id, '_', 1, 2 ) - 1 )
                        END,
                        ts
           ORDER     BY trx_id
         ) AS rn
  FROM   table_name t
)
WHERE  rn = 1;

db<>fiddle here

A: You can use aggregation:
select min(trx_id), timestamp
from t
group by timestamp;

Here is a db<>fiddle.


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Brad William Henke On The Stand And More - Exclusive Interview
Robert Falconoer/CBS
By Don Kaye/Feb. 4, 2021 1:54 pm EST
Changing careers can be a difficult thing at the best of times. But that's exactly what Brad William Henke did in 1994, two years after his short pro football stint — which included a run with the Denver Broncos that yielded both a string of surgeries and a Super Bowl appearance — came to an abrupt end. Tipped off by a fellow ex-player, he tried out for commercials that were looking for actors to play football players — and was instantly hooked.
More than 25 years later, Henke hasn't stopped working, moving from bit parts to supporting appearances to featured roles. Among his movie credits are World Trade Center, North Country, Pacific Rim, Draft Day, Fury, Split and Bright, while his TV resume includes guest and recurring roles on Dexter, Law and Order, Lost, Justified, Longmire, Manhunt: Deadly Games and a breakout role as the sadistic yet tormented prison guard Desi Piscatella on Orange Is the New Black.
Henke also appears in CBS All Access' limited series adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. He plays the good-natured, kind, and developmentally disabled Tom Cullen in the epic post-apocalyptic tale, in which a pandemic wipes out most of humanity, leaving two groups — one "good" and one "evil" — to battle for survival. The show's series finale airs on Thursday, Feb. 11.
While Tom in the book and the 1994 ABC miniseries (where he was played by Bill Fingerbakke) is conceived more as a gentle, soft-spoken child in the body of a man, the new series' Tom is still challenged by his disabilities, but has been reconfigured to fit into a more modern understanding of the disabled. That made Henke more comfortable about taking the role, as he tells Looper in this exclusive interview about The Stand, his career, and more.
How he got the role in The Stand
Were you a fan of the book The Stand or a Stephen King fan in general?
I was a King fan, but I had never read The Stand and I didn't see the (original) miniseries. Ben Cavell, one of the executive producers/showrunners, he wrote on Justified, which I was on, and Sneaky Pete. He called and offered me the job. He just thought I was who he wanted to play the role, so that's how it happened with me. So I actually read the scripts first and then I read the book.
Tom is very different in this version of the story than he was portrayed in the book and in the 1994 miniseries. How important was it for you to take the essence of the character and update him according to what we know about developmental disabilities in 2020?
I didn't want to play a one-dimensional character or a caricature or anything like that. Fortunately for me, in the first script I read, it said that he'd had a head injury, that's what that scar was, and I felt... How do I say it? If he was born that way, then I think I wouldn't have probably wanted to play the character, just because I'd rather give someone else a chance. You know what I mean? I would just feel like it was a weird situation, so the fact he was injured gave me permission, I thought.
How Brad researched his part in The Stand
What research did you do on your own for the part?
Well, I did research, but I've also... When I was a football coach at this junior college, I had a weightlifting class and the special needs students would come in there in the morning. There was a kid, Tom Evans, who I ended up making a manager of the football team, kind of like that movie Radio, so I was very close to him.
Also, when I was in high school, a kid that was couple of years older than me went to the University of Colorado to play football. His name was Ed Reinhardt Jr. He had a blood clot in his brain that broke, and ever since then, he was not himself. He said to me once, "In here, I'm still me," which made me feel like... that's got to be very frustrating. Do you know what I mean? That's got to just pull on your self-esteem. I just tried to put a lot of these feelings — which weren't written — in there, and just carry them with me, with Tom.
Is that something you had seen from your days in football, the long-term effects of CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) or head trauma in a lot of those guys?
The only one was Ed, and that happened, I think, his sophomore or junior year of college. I don't really know anyone personally that has CTE, and I don't feel like I do, but I know it's a possibility, always.
Look, I don't know a lot about CTE, but I do know that if you play football, rugby, boxing, martial arts, you're going to injure your brain. People hurt their ankles all the time and they're fine. I hurt my ankle really bad in college and there hasn't been one day since that it hasn't hurt me. Some people respond to things differently... That's kind of how I look at it. I think if I personally had any effects, I would have them by now.
Why Tom Cullen is a challenging character
You mentioned earlier that Tom having the head injury in his past gave you permission to play the character. There was some criticism about Henry Zaga, a non-deaf actor, playing the Nick Andros character, who's deaf. On one hand, actors are supposed to act and take on roles that are not like them in real life, but there's a legitimate argument for casting actors from those communities.
That's exactly how I feel too. My ex-manager had a client who played the main gangbanger in Training Day. He's Maori from New Zealand, but he can play every ethnicity. You know what I mean? He can do all the dialects and the accents. It's amazing, and, as an actor, that's what you want to do. But then, if you're an actor with a disability, you want your chance to play those characters too. I feel like everyone should have a chance, and then they should choose the one who brings it to the screen the best.
Did you see the performance in the '94 miniseries by Bill Fagerbakke?
No, I didn't, just because I didn't want to be influenced one way or the other. I didn't want anything in my head. It's like, "Try not to think of the number two." You're going to think of the number two. You know what I mean? So I just tried to do my own thing.
Filming the end of the world
Was it eerie to finish filming this literally as a real-life pandemic was just starting to happen?
Yeah. I had to fly back to shoot... the last thing I shot was the scene where I drove away on my bike. That's the last thing I physically shot in the series. So I drove my truck and my dogs home to L.A. from Vancouver, and then I just flew back to do that one scene. When I landed in customs, which usually takes you like three hours to get through, there was no one there. I was like, "Oh, no." I went to a hotel, there was like five people in this huge waterfront hotel.
If it was the end of the world, and you had to leave your home and you had to resettle somewhere else, what would you take with you?
My dogs. That's it. And my bike. I love my bike as much as Tom loves his.
How Orange is the New Black changed Brad's life
Is there one show that people stop and ask you about the most? What do you think you get the most recognition for these days?
Orange Is the New Black, by far. My whole life, after a while, I feel like I was respected as an actor... you know, in L.A., it would be like, "Oh, I saw you in this Sundance movie," or this or that. Then in New York you would get more like — they saw you on one episode of Law and Order or something. But when Orange came out, I was in New York shooting my second season of Orange, and literally every 10 feet someone was stopping me and taking a picture. It was a whole culture shock.
You recently starred in Manhunt: Deadly Games. What was that experience like?
Michael Dinner, who was the main director, was also the main director on Justified, so that's how that came about. A lot of people have been coming up to me about that lately because it was on Spectrum and then CBS, but now it's on Netflix. This guy came up to me the other day and he's like, "Hey. Do I know you, man?" and I'm like, "No, I don't think so." He's like, "Yeah. You were in that militia," and I was like, "No." He's like, "Yeah." I thought he was really thinking I was a dude in a militia. He's like, "No, I saw you on TV..." I didn't realize it was on Netflix or whatever.
That dog that led our charge on that show was a Doberman that made me want to get a Doberman because it was so sweet. Some of the younger actors that I worked with that were in the militia were great kids and just really serious about acting. Nick (Searcy) played the sheriff, and Nick and I used to have the same manager who just passed away last year, Jill Rice. I just knew a lot of people there, so it was really nice.
Brad loves acting and has never looked back
If you could put together your own dream project, what would it look like and who would you want in the cast and crew?
That's so hard to say because there's so many people, and I am trying to get a show made. I really just want to get a show made that is to me what The Sopranos was to James Gandolfini. Something that will be able to showcase me and push me and let people see what I can really do over a long period of time. I love working. I love working 15 hours and having to get back up the next day at 4:00 AM. I love finding time to rehearse. I love acting, so I want to be challenged and super tired and do something that effects some type of positive change.
When you moved from football to acting, was there a role that you got that made you feel like, "This was the right decision"?
I booked the first commercial I ever went out for. It was for Hungry Hunter restaurants. I booked this thing and I shot it and it took half a day. I thought, "Oh, that's easy." But when I was walking in, I saw this older man that I had seen at the callback, so I guess they had hired us both in case I crashed and burned. I was so oblivious.
My first three auditions, I booked for films. Space Jam, where I played the catcher when Michael Jordan's at bat; The Fan, which was a baseball movie with Wesley Snipes and Benicio del Toro — I think I ended up with one line in that movie; then a movie called Mr. Wrong, an Ellen DeGeneres movie where I played Joan Cusack's boyfriend. Those were my first three auditions, so I thought that was the universe telling me, "This is what you should be doing."
The series finale of The Stand streams Thursday, Feb.11, on CBS All Access.


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We're Here: Try some sweet eats at Belleeah's Apples and Treats
We're Here: Belleeah's Apples and TReats
By: Dennis Kingsbury
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — At Belleeah's Apples and Treats, chocolate has been put on just about anything for the past seven years.
From chocolate covered pretzels and Rice Crispy Treats, to candied apples, pickles, grapes and pineapples.
"It's been a little tough with the virus. Soon as, you know, the numbers go up, we tend to slow down a little, but we're getting through it," said owner Esmeralda Lopez.
Lopez says February is the busiest month for the shop. On top of chocolate treat baskets, they have stuffers for baskets, including chocolate covered pretzels, Oreos, Rice Crispy Treats, and a fun specialty... chocolate high heels.
"Top sellers right now, we're seeing a lot of Chamoy apples, especially when we cut them up and put the gummy bears and the fruit and all that in it. They're too pretty to eat sometimes," said Lopez.
If you'd like to try some of their sweet treats, you can visit Belleeah's Apples and Treats at 5433 S Staples St. Suite B in Corpus Christi.
Digital Content Producer Alyssa Flores contributed to this article.
3:14 PM, Mar 20, 2020


freifunk.net | English | Meet Freifunk people in May and August!
The day before our annual Wireless Community Weekend starts, the OpenTechSummit will take place for the first time in Berlin, Germany at the "Kalkscheune" venue close to Friedrichstraße station. Topics range from open hardware to design, graphics, software, networks, knowledge and digital policies. There will be DIY workshops for kids and techies. Freifunk will present itself with an information desk and provides workshops e.g. on upgrading Wifi routers. After the evening there will be an "OpenTech-Himmelfahrt" lounge. You can find information on the schedule and how the get tickets on the OpenTechSummit website.
Like every year german speaking communities will meet with international guests at c-base in Berlin. The "official programme" starts at May 15th and lasts until May 17th. In fact, the final version of the agenda will be created by attendents on-site. If you add your idea or wishes to our wiki upfront, we can take care of your talk or workshop. Hack sessions are taking place the whole time.
This year we focus on topics like crypto, IPv6 and new services, but also like always latest firmware, new installation setups and last not least legal and political update plus public relations. We'll also build an advisory council to settle on disputes and write down a Memorandum of Understanding on freifunk. Following the tradition we'll have barbecue in the evening hours at Spree beach and we don't charge entry fee. For more information and taking part, please look at http://wcw.freifunk.net.
Add your ideas and proposals for workshops, talks or projects to our wiki. If you have limitations on time, please make a note to your proposal. Our timetable will be compiled on runtime.
Please add yourself to the list of participants, too. If you need accomodation, or if you can offer a couch, add it to the accomodation page.
We're excited to meet you in Berlin!
The battlemesh is free of charge and open for all, every year we strive to keep participation costs low by negotiating deals for accommodation and food. This year the event will take place from 3rd to 9th August 2015 in Maribor, Slovenia and will be hosted by Wlan Slovenia.
If you are interested in dynamic routing protocols or wireless community networks you can't miss this event! You want to talk about topics in this context? Propose your workshop or talk until May, 1st. Here's the official announcement.
The Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg is an open-air hacker camp and party that takes place every four years, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists and utopians get together in a field for five days in the Brandenburg high summer – to communicate, learn, hack on things and party together. You can find Freifunk communities at the Freifunk Hacker Village. Visit us there, bring your tent.
Place of the event will be Ziegeleipark Mildenberg. Hackers will meet there from August 13th to 17th. Prices for tickets aren't fixed for now, but a pre-sale is announced. Save the date for a summer vacation with like-minded people, including working hand rail trollies and locomotives!
darum installieren wir mit solar, computer n schulen, wo kein elektrizitat netz und internet gibt.
wikipedia, bibliotek und videos auf einem raspberry pi mit wireless access point installiert. wir moechten weiter und dieses service nicht nur rund um die schule zu verfuegung stellen,a ber fur ds gesamte dorf. damals war ich bei der openwireless.ch und wir habe linksys mit freifunk software isntalliert und so grossse flaeche erreicht. ich stelle mit so etwas vor. kann so ein treff mir helfen fuer "mein" projket?
Hi, I'm looking for someone that could help us build/integrate mesh capability into a new hardware project we are created.
Any help/introductions would be appreciate.


In order to motivate us, my awesome upline Alison, rewards us with classes just for Demonstrators!
This card highlights a few products from the Holiday Catalog.
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While not all skin care fads are necessarily the best ideas for everyone's complexion, the latest think with Google™ trend in skin care can be beneficial for any skin type and condition. Read on to learn more about this trend and why you might want to adopt it to help you achieve and maintain brighter, healthier-looking skin.
Each year, Google releases internal data compiled from the most popular internet searches in a particular area. The 2017 think with Google™ skin care report uses data from three primary markets–the United States, France, and Japan–to generate information about what consumers in each of these geographic locations are and are not interested in regarding skin care habits, trends, and news. This year's report found that consumers in the United States are hugely interested in vegan skin care products and ingredients, with those in France not far behind on this trend. In fact, searches for vegan skin care in the U.S. have grown by 83 percent within the last year, with "vegan skincare," "vegan soaps," and "vegan face wash" being some of the top searches in this category .
Good for the environment. Not only is animal cruelty a huge concern when consuming or using any animal-based product or ingredient, but these industries can also have a multitude of detrimental effects on the environment, including pollution, deforestation, and depletion of natural resources . Using skin care products that do not contain animal by-products is one way you can help to make a difference in these areas.
Good for your skin. Vegan skin care isn't just great for the animals and the environment; it's also hugely beneficial for your skin. Because animal by-products can contain the same hormones, antibiotics, and other food additives included in most animals feeds, putting these ingredients on your skin can lead to irritation and sensitivities. On the other hand, plant-based ingredients can help to nourish, hydrate, and protect your skin without an associated list of adverse side effects.
Better manage existing conditions. Because vegan skin care tends to be much gentler on the skin, these products can be excellent choices for people with chronic skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis, which are often triggered by harsh skin care ingredients.
When choosing vegan skin care products, it's best to look for both "no animal by-products" and "cruelty-free" terms to ensure that the ingredients contained in that product are 100 percent vegan. AminoTherapy by AminoGenesis, for example, contains only naturally-derived plant-based ingredients and does not contain animal by-products. This amino acid formula is also cruelty-free, GMO-free, paraben-free, and gluten-free. AminoTherapy and other AminoGenesis products rely on the natural power of single, free-form amino acids to nourish key proteins within the skin, provide vital moisturization, protect against free radical damage, rebalance skin surface pH, and much, much more. Whether you want to improve the appearance of lines and wrinkles, are struggling with acne and acne scars, or simply want to use a safe and gentle product that won't damage your skin, plant-based amino acid skin care products are the most scientifically advanced and effective choices for you. You can learn more about plant-based amino acids in skin care, as well as receive exclusive deals, offers, and flash sales on AminoGenesis products when you sign up to become an AminoGenesis Insider!
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Skattereduktion (äldre svensk term: avkortning) innebär att ett skatteuttag minskas. Begreppet används ibland om politiska beslut att minska skattesatser eller andra skatteuttag i största allmänhet, men oftare syftar det på en minskning av skatten under specifika omständigheter. Skattereduktionen kan ha konstruktionen av ett avdrag för vissa specifika utgifter, en minskning av skatten med en procentuell andel eller ett fast belopp under vissa omständigheter, eller något annan form.

Sverige
Exempel på skattereduktioner i Sverige är jobbskatteavdraget,, allmänna pensionen ROT-programmet, RUT-avdraget och ränteavdraget.

Skattereduktion ska ej förblandas med skatteavdrag, som innebär att summan undantas från de resurser som är skattepliktiga, medan skattereduktion avser en faktisk minskning av skattebördan (t. ex. 10 % på en skattepliktig inkomst på 9750 kr, vilket innebär en skatt om 9750 - 975 eller 8775 kr). Jobbskatteavdraget är alltså i realiteten en skattereduktion, inte ett avdrag. Med avdragsgillt avses endast en utgift som kan dras av från den sammanlagda slutgiltiga skattebördan (t. ex. ett avdrag av moms på resekostnad för resa i tjänst om 225 kr varav 33 % moms och bensinskatt, varav 225 kr kan dras av från den sammanlagda skattebördan. Om skatteavdrag endast gällt moms och punktskatter, hade endast 75 kr fått avdras).

Skattereduktion för gåvor

Ett annat exempel är skattereduktion för penninggåvor där möjlighet ges att göra avdrag (upp till 25 procent skattereduktion, max 1500 kronor) för gåvor till godkända gåvomottagare med inriktning att främja social hjälpverksamhet eller vetenskaplig forskning. 2013 gav över 761 000 personer tillsammans 1,3 miljarder kronor, att jämföra med 2012 då knappt 627 000 personer tillsammans skänkte 960 miljoner kronor.

Att ansöka om att bli en godkänd gåvomottagare kostar organisationen 10 000 kronor, oavsett om organisationen blir godkänd eller inte. Därefter tillkommer en årsavgift om 7 000 kr för åren efter ansökningsåret.

Skattereduktion för gåvor infördes av Regeringen Reinfeldt den 1 januari 2012 och avskaffades av Regeringen Löfven I den 1 januari 2016. Motivet till införandet var att stärka den ideella sektorn. Vid avskaffandet anfördes att skattereduktionen inte var förenlig med inkomstskattelagens "förbud mot avdrag för personliga levnadskostnader och att den ökar komplexiteten i skattesystemet" samt att "prioriteringar av stöd med skattemedel till ideell verksamhet ska avgöras av demokratiskt valda organ och deras representanter".

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The Brother: memories of Brian
Sat, Oct 1, 2011, 01:00
In the following extracts from 'The Brother (Myles)', artist Micheál Ó Nualláin reflects on the hard life of his older sibling.
MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH BRIAN (MYLES)
I MADE MY first acquaintance with Brian as far back as 1932, yet I remember this as if it happened yesterday. I was four years old at the time. I was out on the raised lawn in our back garden on a beautiful summer's day. I was wearing a floppy summer hat and a child's suit with two ducks in front staring at each other. I was amusing myself with a hatchet, or as Maureen Potter would have called it, a hacha. Brian must have seen me from one of the windows at the back of the house and rushed out to ensure that I would not do myself a grave injury. I remember seeing him approaching me up the steps. He had a pale white face and two slightly prominent front teeth, like those of a rabbit. He came up to me and said in Irish (which was the language of our home) "Tabháir Damh" (the north of Ireland dialect; "Tabhair Dom" in Munster).
I did exactly as he bade me do. I gave it to him when he was about eight feet from me. It hit him on the most delicate part of his anatomy. No, no, not there. It hit him on his ankle, where the skin is next to the bone. He hobbled about on one foot, holding his pained ankle, and issued a string of words I had never heard before. All I know is that they were not Irish words.
Some months later I was moved from the nursery to share a bedroom with Brian on the top floor of the house. Behind the lawn in the back garden stood a twelve-foot high trellis stretching across the entire width of the garden. Behind the trellis was a vegetable garden and at the end of the garden a hen run girdled its width.
The trellis had 3in by 4in uprights at 5ft intervals which was the main support of the trellis. During winter gales, part of the trellis would be broken and knocked to the ground. There were many broken parts of the trellis in the house. Around 1937, Brian made a small table; the top measured 5ft by 2ft approximately. This table was made solely from parts of the trellis. He brought it up to his bedroom and wrote At Swim-Two-Birdson it.
Whether the molecules of the table got mixed up with the molecules of the script, the main character in the book is called Dermot Trellis. You will not find the name Trellis in any Irish telephone directory.
FROM EARNING A TOP SALARY AS A SENIOR CIVIL SERVANT TO COPING WITH A PAUPER'S PENSION
Few people are aware that Brian was very poor for a long time. From the time he was forced to resign from his senior position in the department of local government, to receiving a pauper's pension, he had to live on a pitiable pension and also support his wife.
I was at this time still living in the family home at number 4 Avoca Terrace, Blackrock. Brian was living around the corner at number 81 Mount Merrion Avenue (the numbers on these houses have since been changed). I went around to his house to see him. This was in 1954. He was wearing his overcoat and typing an article. There was no heat in the house. My young brother Niall and myself clubbed together and bought Brian a modern paraffin oil heater.
The payment Brian received for his Cruiskeen Lawn column in The Irish Times was derisory and did not improve until Douglas Gageby became the paper's editor some years later. In the meantime Brian started to write a column for the Nationalistand Leinster Leaderunder the pseudonym George Knowall. Later in the 1960s, he wrote for television, including a series for his friend Jimmy O'Dea which was called O'Dea's YourMan. With sundry other articles, Brian subsidised his pension, but he remained a poor man for the rest of his life.
The republishing of At Swim-Two-Birdsby MacKibbon Kee gave him a new lease of life. He embarked on two new novels, The Hard Life and The Dalkey Archive. His best novel, The Third Policeman,was still unpublished and languished at home in his house. It was eventually published by MacKibbon Kee posthumously. It was an enormous success and was published worldwide, as far away as Japan and China. If Brian were alive today, he would be enjoying huge royalties from all his works.
HIS FINEST ACHIEVEMENT
Brian joined the civil service in 1935. Soon afterwards he bought his first car. He worked in the Custom House in the department of local government. He used to drive into town, giving our father a lift in; he worked in Dublin Castle as a revenue commissioner, one of those people we used to hate because nobody enjoyed paying their taxes.
In July 1937 our father died suddenly. Brian was the only member of a family of twelve with a proper full-time job. He became the father of a family of twelve, obviously with no experience. He accepted his position gracefully and supported the entire family for over eleven years. Myles was given his father's keys to the hall door. At this point he moved from sharing a bedroom with me. He would hang his overcoat on the hallstand. The overcoat soon became his flag of residence. The family lived mostly in the basement and I would be asked to see if he was at home in the evenings. I would go out to the hall to see if his overcoat was there. Brian often told me that there was a bag of sweets in his overcoat pocket.
Brian and his close friends Paddy Kavanagh and Brendan Behan were considered to be alcoholics, and Brian was thought the worst of the three of them. I believe that drink ruined his life.
Brian achieved much in his short life, especially his two great novels, At Swim-Two-Birdsand The Third Policeman, and his famous column Cruiskeen Lawnin The Irish Timeswhich he wrote for over twenty-five years.
But his finest achievement was to support and carry a family of 12 on his back for 11 years until some members of the family were earning a living. He was never recognised for this achievement during his lifetime.
In 1966 Brian was undergoing X-ray treatment for throat cancer. He was saved from the agony of dying from throat cancer by having a major heart attack. He died in that early morning of April 1st (April fool's day, his final joke).
I would like to think that when he presented himself for entry at the Pearly Gates, St Peter asked him, "Is it about a bicycle?"
PAINTING MYLES
IN 1947 I enrolled as a student in the National College of Art and Design. I was determined to get involved in portraiture. To gain entry to this class of work, it would be necessary to get a well-known sitter for the portrait, so that the public could decide whether it was a good or a bad likeness.
I did not know any well-known person, so I felt stymied from the start. Then eventually I thought of Myles. After all, we shared a room, which was my studio at home and his writing den on a Sunday. I broached the subject and asked him to sit for me. He would not hear of it. I was greatly disappointed.
Then I realised that Myles was in fact sitting at his typewriter in my studio every Sunday. I could not put a canvas on my easel and paint him at work: he would see me and the canvas. But I could make covert studies and paint all the background – work-table, typewriter, and so on – when he was away the rest of the week. I did this.
Then in December of that year, 1948, Myles got married and left the family home. I was left with a surreal-looking canvas of effectively a finished and detailed painting of the background and foreground, while the subject of the painting was just blocked out and unfinished.
I kept it in the hope that I would finish it some day in the mid-1950s. I moved from the family home in Blackrock and rented a studio flat in Monkstown.
Myles, who had been fired from his job in the department of local government, visited me some years later. He explained that his wife was ill in hospital with TB and since he could not buy half an egg, he asked if he could stay with me for a few weeks. I said certainly, but I warned him that I was doing a lot of painting and he might have to sit for me. He said he was game ball; everything had changed.
I put him in the place in which I had started the painting in the family home in Blackrock.
In about two hours I had his portrait painted. I swung around the easel to let him see the large painting (40in x 36in). He looked at it, bewildered and said, "How can you remember all that detail, the bookcase, my table and typewriter?" I answered, without batting an eyelid, "I have a photographic memory".
This is an edited extract from The Brother (Myles) by Micheál Ó Nualláin, Dublin, 2011
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Q: java Buffered image gray level after converting a java image into grayscale and making some manipulation(average filter for example) on the image the new value of the rgb is transformed into a colored pixel.

example

i have buffered image.
transform into grayLevelImage
adding * pixel sum(getRGB)/9 will create new rgb which is color not gray
 so how to preserve the value as gray level?
or is there a java object that work only on gray level not on colored image such that the value of the pixel is from 0 --> to 255 with out any colored attrribute.
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suppose i have the color(x1,y1,z1)  c1 which have the rgb value of u1

and we have the color(x2,y2,z2) c2 which have the rgb of u2
if we transformed the c1 to g1 and c2 to g2 (the gray transformation ofthe color)
if we added (g1.getRGB()+g2.getRGB())/2; the new color is not gray it is colored again (error value) and that is due to rgb value of color is an integer that represent r , g and b values


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Фувал ( тубал; ; ) — согласно Книге Бытия пятый сын Иафета, внук Ноя ().

Библейские и апокрифические источники
Книга Юбилеев локализует его потомков вблизи удела Луда (Лидия) — на северо-западе Турции. Упоминается также в книге Иезекиля «Иован, Фувал и Мешех торговали с тобою (Тиром), выменивая товары твои на души человеческие и медную посуду» ().
На территории Малой Азии существовало позднехеттское государство Табал.
В ассирийских надписях XII и IX веков до н. э. упоминается «земля Табал», граничащая с Мушки (Мешех), в юго-восточной части Малой Азии, к западу от Ассирии.

В Книге праведного упомянуты сыновья Фувала (Тубала): Арифи (Арпи), Кесид (Кесед) и Таари.

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Армянские историки Ованес Драсханакертци и Мовсес Каланкатуаци полагали что потомками Фувала были фессалийцы, обитатели северо-востока Эллады — Фессалии.

Ненний называет потомками Фувала иберов, испанцев и италийцев. Иосиф Флавий называет их фовелийцами, при этом отмечает что их современное название — иберы.

К потомкам Фувала также причисляли тибаренов () обитавших вместе с народом мосхов на юго-восточном побережье Чёрного моря, на территории которого, по Геродоту, находилась 19-я сатрапия империи Дария.

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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra – 80th Anniversary Gala Concert with Zubin Mehta
On December 26th 2016 the Israel Philharmonic celebrated its 80th anniversary with an all-Beethoven program.
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) was founded in 1936 by Bronislaw Huberman and its inaugural concert, on 26 December 1936, was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. 80 years later on the same day, Zubin Mehta, the orchestra's musical director for life, conducted the IPO in a veritable Jubilee Concert. Mehta – who celebrated his own 80th birthday earlier in 2016 – was joined by his longtime artistic friends Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth, and Yefim Bronfman.
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Works: Leonore Overture No. 3 op. 72 b
Violin Concerto in D major op. 61
Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello in C major op. 56 "Triple Concerto"
Conductor: Zubin Metha
Soloists: Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
Amanda Forsyth (cello)
Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Venue: Charles Bronfman Auditorium Tel Aviv
In co-production with: SRF/Arte
Directed by: Georg Wübbolt
Picture Credit: Shai Skiff, Murray S. Katz Archives/IPO