The long-running joke is that there's a coffee shop on every street corner.
That might not be as hyperbolic as you'd think. Sometimes, the brand is incognito.
Starbucks announced Thursday that its Seattle's Best-branded coffee just reached a milestone — it's sold in 30,000 locations.
That marks a 10-fold increase in distribution points since March, when the Starbucks' subsidiary unveiled a controversial new look and new business strategy.
Contracts with Subway sandwich shops and Burger King went a long way to helping Seattle's Best reach the 30,000 goal, according to a statement from Michelle Gass, president of Seattle's Best Coffee.
"We're delighted to have reached our initial goal of 30,000 places consumers can enjoy our coffee, but we consider that the first step toward 100,000 or more," said Gass.
Since scaling back its cafe presence, the Seattle's Best brand has ramped up sales efforts in other cafes and restaurants.
Mac's, a Toronto-based chain of convenience stores, with more than 600 locations.
Already, Seattle's Best was available on Alaska Airlines flights, Royal Caribbean International cruise ships and Borders bookstores.
Franchises and packaged coffee products also factor into the Starbucks' subsidiary's plan for growth.
In other notable moved, Seattle's Best is asking fans to apply for the position of "coffee ambassador." The company launched a contest on its Facebook Page, telling coffee-drinkers to submit a 100-word essay on why they're Seattle Best's "best" fan.


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The European Neighbourhood Instrument Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus 2014-2020 announces the opening of the 3rd Call for Proposals.
The strategic goal of the Programme is to strengthen relations, raise capacities and share experience among people and organisations from Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus through implementation of joined actions aimed at increasing the overall quality of life in the border regions.
More information on the 3rd Call for Proposals please find here.
Applications for participation in the competition must be received by the Public establishment Joint Technical Secretariat (Konstitucijos Ave. 7, LT-09308, Vilnius) no later than May 30, 2019, 12:00 (Vilnius time, GMT + 2).
Within this Call for Proposals, the Applicants are kindly encouraged to actively submit applications for the Priority 2.2 "Strengthening society" in the framework of thematic area 2 - "Support for good governance at the local and regional level".
To clarify and discuss all the nuances of participation in the competition, the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus Program invites potential applicants to a seminar in Minsk. The seminar will be held April 18, 2019 in the hotel "President Hotel" (Minsk, Kirova str., 18). The working language of the event is Russian.
16.30-17.30 Session on the priority 2.2 "Strengthening of society"
We invite you to register for the seminar by filling out the electronic form by April 8, 2019. You will receive confirmation of registration after the end of the entire registration period. Registration can be closed before the deadline if the number of participants exceeds the limit. Please kindly mind that no more than two people from the same organization can participate in the event. Registration form must be filled in Russian individually for each participant.
You can register for the seminar HERE.
If you have registered for the seminar, but cannot participate in it, please let us know as soon as possible.
For additional information, please contact the Information Specialist Ekaterina Kukharenko via e-mail: belarus@eni-cbc.eu / ekaterina.kuharenko@vilniusjts.eu or by phone: +375 17 200 64 65 / +375 25 949 28 64.


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Q: Can't import facebook sdk, conflicting with google play services I have an app that involves a tab layout. On the third tab I have a Google Map, on the fifth tab I can share my whereabouts on the map in Facebook. I imported Google Play Services for the Google Maps, however I am trying to import the Facebook SDK. Then these errors pop up:
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide] Found 2 versions of android-support-v4.jar in the dependency list,
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide] but not all the versions are identical (check is based on SHA-1 only at this time).
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide] All versions of the libraries must be the same at this time.
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide] Versions found are:
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide] Path:     C:\Users\user\workspace\QuezonCityGuide\libs\android-support-v4.jar
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide]     Length: 556198
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide]     SHA-1: 4a6be13368bb64c5a0b0460632d228a1a915f58f
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide] Path: C:\Users\user\Downloads\facebook-android-sdk-3.5.2\facebook-android-sdk-3.5.2\facebook\libs\android-support-v4.jar
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide]     Length: 349252
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide]     SHA-1: 612846c9857077a039b533718f72db3bc041d389
[2013-10-17 11:58:48 - QuezonCityGuide] Jar mismatch! Fix your dependencies

I'm trying to use the Facebook Share Dialog. Can someone please help me? Thanks!

A: Just replace the android-support-v4.jar of your project with android-support-v4.jar present in Facebook-SDK>libs folder

A: Make sure you have not added the android-support-v4.jar library from your main project's libs folder. If you have done so then it will give library dependency error. Because the Facebook SDK also contains the same library.
So you just have to add Facebook SDK as library in your project by right click Prefrence>Android>from tab click on Add... and select Facebook SDK. Also remove your android-support-v4.jar from your build path if its referencing from your project.

A: I would suggest that you use the solution described in the accepted answer here: Facebook SDK for Android duplicate support library on dependencies
This way you would have the latest version of the support library in both your projects.

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Força recently contributed 14 competitors for an overall team points victory at the American Grappling Federation's Arkansas open on July 22, 2017. Força competitors took home 17 total medals, 6 being gold.
Team LDMA (Living Defense Martial Arts) won the honor of the overall team points at the state Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu open. A team points winner is based off the number of times a member from the team reaches the podium.
Local academy owners and competitors Brian and Cora Wilson at Força Martial Arts each teach weekly Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes at their facility for youth, teens, adult and women.
Cora Wilson, who recently was a guest instructor at a Women's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu event at Inferno Martial Arts in Bentonville, AR. taught self-defense techniques to a group of 37 women from throughout the state who train in the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Mrs. Wilson will be offering a free women's self defense seminar at her martial arts academy, Força Martial Arts & Fitness on Saturday, September 9, 2017 at 12:00pm. All River Valley women are invited to attend. Força Martial Arts & Fitness is located just off West Parkway near Downtown Russellville and Stoby's at 900 West E. Street.
900 West E Street, Russellville, AR. 72801.
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Valve is taking aim at adult content on Steam, and has threatened to delist a number of games it had already approved unless they're amended to remove sexual content.
A growing number of affected studios and developers have been sounding the alarm on Twitter, and seem taken aback at the abrupt nature of the decision.
Lupiesoft, an independent studio that creates visual novels containing adult content, says Valve has threatened to pull down its portfolio in the next two weeks after hearing "reports of pornographic content."
Notably, the studio claims to have followed Steam's guidelines to the letter, and even says its publisher, MangaGamer, was told its games were safe on Steam after meeting with a Valve spokesperson.
"It seems this new change violates what Valve agreed to before, and the entirely of the visual novel genre of Steam is feeling the effects of this nuclear option," the studio wrote on Twitter. "Every developer big and small, no matter how much they followed Steam's guidelines, is having games pulled.
"This puts us in a bad situation. while funding for Dizzy Hearts (the studio's next project) is secure, Mutiny!! was our biggest title. This threatens our future when a platform like Steam can decide on a whim to just pull our games even when we follow their guidelines."
MangaGamer offered more insight on its blog, and explained they are "wholly in the dark" following Valve's sudden change of heart.
The publisher revealed Valve failed to provide any clear guidelines or standards before threatening to pull its games from Steam, and reiterated that it went "to great pains" to run the game's content by Valve representatives, including sending along "every potentially questionable graphical asset" as well as advanced builds.
"We stand by our assertion then that content of the game is not pornographic, but an earnest and tasteful exploration of sexuality," wrote the publisher.
"Despite our best efforts to respect both the letter and spirit of Valve's content guidelines as we were made to understand them, we are wholly in the dark with this latest apparent shift in policy as no clear guidelines or standards have been provided."
Other developers including HunieDev and Neko Works, which also create titles featuring risque content, have been hit with the same email, with Valve again targeting those creators for inserting "pornographic" content into their games.
We've reached out to Valve for more information on the purported policy changes.


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Charles and Camilla wedding: Will The Crown end with Prince Charles and Camilla marriage?
The Crown: Olivia Colman stars in trailer for season four
Season four of The Crown landed on Netflix and has caused quite a stir with its depiction of Princess Diana (played by Emma Corrin) and Prince Charles' (Josh O'Connor) well-documented, tumultuous marriage. The series also features the ongoing affair between the Prince of Wales and his former girlfriend, then known as Camilla Parker Bowles (Emerald Fennell), who was married to Andrew (Andrew Buchan). However, will the drama finish with the marriage of the Princess of Wales to the Duchess of Cornwall?
Will The Crown end with Prince Charles and Camilla's wedding?
Netflix has confirmed there will be two more seasons of The Crown with the critically acclaimed drama wrapping up with series six.
The streaming platform made a U-turn on the series after initially announcing it would be ending with season five, only to later reverse this decision.
Speaking about the decision to conclude on season six, creator Peter Morgan said earlier this year: "Series six will not bring us any closer to present day – it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail."
Morgan's words suggest the 1990s could be covered over two 10-hour seasons, making it the most in-depth look of any era in The Crown to date.
Previous seasons of The Crown have covered 10-year periods over the course of 10 hours, but it looks like the last two runs will be jam-packed full of details.
While Morgan doesn't specify which year he will be rounding off the series, events could be ending with Princess Diana's death in 1997 – or at least going into the early new millennium.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall tied the knot in 2005 with the couple opting for a simple ceremony attended by the couple's families.
So, there is potentially scope to end things at this point and narratively dovetail The Crown by essentially ushering in a new era.
Then again, the show could also end with the marriage of Prince William and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge in 2011.
The wedding was widely regarded as a renaissance of sorts for the British monarchy with the couple symbolising a new era for the Royal Family as the next generation.
Season four of The Crown finished up in the early 1990s with the fall of Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) as the knives came out from the enemies within her party.
The final two outings are then expected to cover the rest of the decade – which is well-trodden territory for Morgan, who won critical acclaim for his 2006 film The Queen which dealt with the Royal Family's response to Princess Diana's death.
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Dame Helen Mirren won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II and the film cemented Morgan's career, paving the way for The Crown.
Morgan has also written the Blair trilogy – consisting of The Queen, The Deal and The Special Relationship – which focuses on various aspects of the rise of New Labour and the early premiership of Tony Blair.
Some of the cast for the final two outings of The Crown have already been announced with Imelda Staunton taking on the role of Queen Elizabeth II in her later year, replacing Olivia Colman.
Jonathan Pryce will be taking over from Tobias Menzies in portraying Prince Philip.
Lesley Manville has been confirmed to be donning the mantle of Princess Margaret following Helena Bonham Carter's performance.
Finally, The Night Manager's Elizabeth Debicki will play an older version of Princess Diana, taking over from Corrin.
Other cast members are going to be announced in due course with casting announcements expected to be made for Camilla, Prince Charles and Tony Blair.
There have already been reports The Wire actor Dominic West could be in line to replace O'Connor as Prince Charles.
At this stage it's not clear whether Anderson could be reprising her role as the Iron Lady in one last performance – much like John Lithgow did in season three while the rest of the cast was changed up.
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Trevor Daniel: "Falling"
May 29, 2020. Writer: Emma Kopelowicz
At first glance, Houston-native Trevor Daniel's stratospheric rise-to-fame might just seem like a stroke of good luck. His single, "Falling" off his debut EP from 2018 called Homesick became a viral sensation on TikTok two whole years later. Yet, the singer has been quietly building his music career since his teens when he was just learning to produce tracks from his bedroom. Daniel's story certainly embodies the phrase "patience is a virtue!"
After blowing up on TikTok, Daniel got right to work on his first full-length album Nicotine which "Falling" is featured on. The track itself pulses with the angst of a teenage lover who has gone through his first break-up. Synths and deep, riveting bass slowly boom in the background as Daniel's sing-rapping carries the weight of his spiraling emotions. His lyrics expose the raw scar tissue left over from this relationship that has left him broken and hopeless. "My last made me feel like I would never try again," he wails in the chorus.
Heavy and heartbreaking––Daniel uses this moment to lean into the overwhelming despair he feels to expose the dark side of young love. Trevor Daniel twists and bends his emotions until the last drops of teenage angst are squeezed out into emotive ballads that leave us aching.
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The criminal case was reviewed after the defense team's complaint.
The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow sentenced the Restrukt neo-Nazi movement leader Maxim Martsinkevich nicknamed Tesak to 10 years in a strict regime colony. The convict's lawyers appealed the first sentence issued in summer. Tesak was found guilty of extremism, hooliganism, causing grievous bodily harm, robbery, damage to another's property, REN-TV reports.
The Restrukt movement is known for searching for pedophiles, drug addicts, drug dealers and homosexuals on the Internet in order to conduct "educational conversations" with them and post their videos on the Internet as a warning to other potential victims. Martsinkevich was recognized as an extremist three times: in 2007, 2009 and 2014.
When the police began to detain the Restrukt members, the movement ceased to exist, but some of its participants created similar cells under different names.


A suitable site for a new Town Hall was found at Landport, at what had formerly been the residence of Sir Thomas Ridge, but was at that time the official residence of the Commander of Artillery. The design for the building was under the control of a sub-committee of the Council, the members of which greatly admired the architecture of the modern Town Halls in the North of England, particularly those of Leeds and Bolton. The latter had been designed by Mr William Hill who was appointed the Architect for Portsmouth. He copied many of the features from Bolton but made so many improvements that it was larger by some 412,000 cubic feet.
Local Architect Charles Bevis in partnership with Hill directed the construction, Hill died before the completion of the building with Bevis adding to the design. The building was originally called the Town Hall, but on 21 April 1926 it was announced that Portsmouth would be raised to the status of a city and the town hall was renamed the Guildhall. The lowest tender for the construction, which was carried out by Messrs. Armitage and Hodgson of Leeds, was £98,245. The Guildhall was opened by The Prince (later King Edward VII) and Princess of Wales on August 9th 1890.
On the night of Friday, January 10th, 1941 three waves of incendiary bombs hit the Guildhall followed closely by a high explosive device. The building was gutted and took some weeks to cool down sufficiently to allow Corporation staff in to assess the damage. In practice there was little to evaluate as the building was reduced to a shell with just three external walls standing. The building was rebuilt after the war for £1.5 million, using war compensation funds. However, the interior was much changed from the original and the external style is missing much of its original ornateness, especially the dome above the clock and the roofline.
"The foundation stone of this important new building is to be laid on the 14th of next month, and we herewith publish a double-page view of the design. Mr. Wm. Hill, F.R.I.B.A., of Leeds, is the architect of the work, which, in some points, is a replica of Bolton Town Hall, which was erected from the same architect's designs some thirteen years ago, Mr. George Woodhouse, of Bolton, being joint architect with Mr. Hill. The authorities of Portsmouth municipality so admired the Bolton building as to at once select Mr. Hill as their own architect. A view and plans of the Bolton Town Hall will be found in the BUILDING NEWS for June 13th, 1873, and a comparison of the two compositions is very interesting. The improvements now introduced greatly enhance the architectural effect. At an early date we hope to be able to publish some drawings of the interior of the fabric, and may then give some plans with a detailed description of the building. Portsmouth is to be congratulated on the choice of so suitable a design for its new Town Hall, and we trust that it will be furnished and finished in a complete and suitable manner at a not far distant date." As published in The Building News, September 24 1886.


LORTON, Va. (AP) — For a long time, says Loc Pfeiffer, his fellow Asian Americans were passive participants in American politics. But things are changing.
Candidates agree on South Asia: But is that good?
South Asia has become the new arena for the two presidential candidates' policies concerning the war against terrorism. The refrains of Bush's anti-terrorism offensive in Afghanistan and Iraq can be heard in both the Obama and McCain campaigns. However, Afghanistan's neighboring country, Pakistan, is the centerfold of discussion this time.
On Oct. 11, the young future leaders of tomorrow competed at the Lead from the Inside Out Competition in Redmond. The competition was based around a "community passion project" each young leader designed. The criterion was to find an innovative, practical vision to improve their community in some way.
International Community Health Services (ICHS) recently received the Washington State Hospital Association's (WSHA) Community Health Leadership Award in recognition of its Multi-lingual Community Outreach Program targeting diabetes and cervical cancer. The award was presented to ICHS at the Association's annual meeting on Oct. 8, at Bell Harbor International Conference Center.
About 300 people recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the city's Neighborhood Matching Fund. Stella Chao, director of the Department of Neighborhoods, reports that the fund has sparked 3,500 neighborhood projects around Seattle — including the new Chinatown gate, ID dragon poles, Lao Highland Association Community Center, Wing Luke exhibits and more. The fund boosts neighborhood projects with city money and has inspired other programs globally in 100 cities.
On Saturday, Oct. 4, Kin On held its first annual Open House and Crafts and Bake Sale. Over 200 visitors, volunteers and community vendors filled the nursing home with handmade crafts, delicious baked goods, snacks and a friendly atmosphere. Many came to Kin On for the very first time and received informative guided tours with a board member, CEO, and/or staff member.
After years of dedication and commitment from the community, the Wing Luke Asian Museum has adjusted greatly into its new home at the four-story East Kong Ying Building in the International District.
A languorous meditation on free will versus destiny, Chris Smith's fine film "The Pool" traces a few weeks in the life of Venkatesh, a teenager who labors at a modest hotel in the dusty city of Panjim, Goa.
Thirty-five-year-old Japanese animator Makoto Shinkai often gets called "the new Miyazaki." Having learned this, you should forget it. Hayao Miyazaki represents the gold standard of Japanese anime to the West.


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Maritime occupations, such as working on an oil rig, are among the most dangerous in the U.S. Some reports show these workers have twice the likelihood of being hurt on the job as construction workers. Considering this, the court system has been trying to keep up with this risk since the early 20th century, passing laws designed to provide seaman and their families compensation for injury or death while on the job. Our judicial system's initial steps toward protecting maritime workers began around 1920 with various acts following, but still, general maritime law stands as the basis for seaman injury protection and the first in order with which to become familiar.
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Manning: This refers to the proper functioning of the staff onboard. The owners of the ship may be liable for injury if an accident occurs because of poor leadership, running a vessel that is understaffed, or failing to train the seamen onboard properly.
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The courts have unilaterally found that ship owners must provide for their workers if they become injured or sick during the voyage. This provision is known as "maintenance and cure" and provides compensation for the seaman until he or she fully recovers. If a seaman becomes injured or ill and needs to be taken back ashore for medical attention, he or she may be eligible to receive the wages expected to earn during the full length of the voyage. However, these are terms usually laid out in the finer points of an employment contract.
The Specifics of Maintenance & Cure
Although this practice is designed to take care of injured workers through their injury or illness, there are limitations to medical improvement, and ship owners will not be able to provide for treatment forever. To avoid the highest benefit payout, ship owners will instead resort to a maintenance rate between $15 and $35 a day, or pick and choose the medical treatments they will cover. The courts, however, will generally favor a commercial shipping crewman if the integrity of the shipowners' payout can be properly called into question in a court of law.
The Jones Act & Catastrophic Injuries
In 1920, the Jones Act was passed to help injured offshore workers recover compensation for accidents that their employers or other parties could have prevented. While maintenance and cure only covers part of an injury's cost, the Jones Act makes it possible for injured parties to receive maximum compensation. Specifically, this law is most useful when a worker sustains life-altering injuries—also known as catastrophic injuries.
Catastrophic maritime injuries include:
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
Internal organ damage
These injuries are notable because they have lasting implications on the people who sustain them. The Jones Act can help injured workers recover lost wages, medical care, and other expenses. It can also help them stabilize their finances with compensation for the lost ability to work, the cost of future medical care, and pain and suffering caused by their accident.
The best way to learn more about the Jones Act is to call our Louisiana maritime attorneys at (888) 493-1629.
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The legal team at Arnold & Itkin has extensive experience in maritime law and any other category that may fall under personal injury. As the leaders in maritime law, we have been involved with countless cases involving offshore injuries and accidents. For example, after the tragic Deepwater Horizon accident, more than a third of the crew turned to our team of Louisiana maritime injury and death lawyers for assistance. We stood up for them and helped fight for the compensation that they needed to take care of themselves and their families.
In addition to the Deepwater Horizon, we were there to assist the widows left behind after the El Faro sank. We've also reached a record-setting settlement of $29 million for a family who lost someone they loved during a fatal maritime accident. It's believed to be the largest known settlement for a wrongful death that occurred offshore. The list goes on, and we believe that it is indicative of our law firm's passion for protecting offshore and maritime workers. To see for yourself the difference that we have made, we encourage you to visit our victories page today!
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One of the oldest law codes in the United States comes from centuries-old maritime laws. Many of these laws were designed around the dangers of the sea. Though we've come a long way, offshore jobs remain one of the most dangerous occupations. From shipping vessels to energy production on oil rigs, American industry relies on offshore workers facing serious hazards every day.
Maritime accidents can leave you with a lot of questions, anxiety, and fear about your future. It can be difficult to know where you're going to get the help that you need and if you will be able to take care of yourself and your loved ones. At Arnold & Itkin LLP, we want you know that we are here to help you through this.
Over the years, we have helped countless individuals who were in the same spot that you are now. We have stood by their side, refusing to back down when companies failed to protect them and then failed to assist in the recovery process. If you would like to get answers and take the first steps toward recovery, contact us immediately. We offer completely free, confidential consultations, and we're ready to help you.
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Q: Android can't play H264/AAC video We are recording video files in iOS application and want them to be played on iOS/Android/Web. So we chose H264/AAC in MP4 container for that.
However, during different settings, iOS H264 videos are not played on Android devices (LG D335/Galaxy S4).
How we play videos? Simple way to test is to download the video from the direct link and then open it in Downloads on Android device.
For any iOS H264 video we receive "Can't play this file"/"Sorry, this video cannot be played"
Mediainfo of the video files are below.
Wondering, why these video files cannot be played on Android, while it's H264/AAC and Baseline profile?
Thank you.
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Alipay Introduces Two New Money Market Funds to Yu'e Bao Platform
Author: Ant Financial Source: Ant Financial
Alipay, the world's largest online, mobile payment and lifestyle platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group, today announced the addition of two new money market funds to Yu'e Bao, the spare cash management platform within the Alipay app.
The new funds, managed by Bosera Asset Management Co., Ltd and Zhong Ou Asset Management Co., Ltd, respectively, will be integrated seamlessly into Yu'e Bao alongside the platform's one existing money market fund, managed by Tianhong Asset Management Co., Ltd. Starting from May 4, 2018, Yu'e Bao users will have the choice of three money market funds with which to generate returns on their spare cash. To ensure a steady transition, the subscription of newly introduced funds will be made available to some Yu'e Bao users first, and rolled out to cover the rest in batches.
"The addition of these new money market funds to Yu'e Bao is in line with Ant Financial's commitment to using technology to make financial services more inclusive, and to working closely with traditional financial institutions," said Guomin Zu, Vice President of Ant Financial's Wealth Management Business Group. "Partnering with Bosera Asset and Zhong Ou Asset will enable Yu'e Bao users to access more funds with the same seamless experience that they have enjoyed since 2013. We look forward to adding other high-quality money market funds to the Yu'e Bao platform, giving users more choice and our partners the opportunity to connect with a much broader user base."
"We have worked together extensively with Alipay's team to ensure our systems can handle volume and deliver users the same seamless experience they have been used to with Yu'e Bao," said Xin Xu, Deputy General Manager of Zhong Ou Asset Management. "By partnering with Ant Financial, we look forward to providing first-class wealth management products and services to our users."
"Ant Financial is a key strategic partner for us," said Deying Wang, Vice President of Bosera Asset Management. "We are very excited to join Alipay's Yu'e Bao platform to provide more and better financial products and services."
Yu'e Bao is an online spare cash management platform within the Alipay app that is designed to enable users to safely and efficiently manage their spare funds. Users can seamlessly access the funds in their Yu'e Bao account to make online and offline purchases. This will continue to be the case whichever of the three Yu'e Bao funds users choose to invest in.
Upon its launch in 2013, Yu'e Bao integrated a money market fund from Tianhong Asset Management Co., Ltd, which quickly grew to become the largest fund of its kind in the world, with over 400 million users. To better protect the interests of investors, Tianhong Asset Management has been taking a number of proactive measures to control the pace of Tianhong Yu'e Bao's growth since 2017. The most recent adjustment was a daily total subscription cap enacted on February 1, 2018. Initially, the newly introduced money market funds will not feature a subscription cap, which will help improve the user experience on the Yu'e Bao platform.
About Bosera Asset Management
Founded on July 13, 1998, Bosera Asset Management Co., Ltd. was one of the first five fund management companies established in mainland China. Bosera strives to provide professional wealth management services to meet domestic and international institutional and retail investors' various investment needs. Bosera is headquartered in Shenzhen and has branches in Beijing, Shanghai, among other places. After 20 years' development, Bosera is one of the largest fund houses in China. By the end of 2017, Bosera's net assets under management totaled around RMB 758 billion, and it managed 192 open-end funds.
About Zhong Ou Asset Management
Zhong Ou Asset Management Co., Ltd. was established on July 19, 2006. Its investment management business dates back to more than 10 years ago. The business mainly encompasses mutual funds and providing financial advisory services to both Chinese and global institutional, as well as retail investors. The Company's mission is to provide preeminent long-term investment performance and first-rate customer service to its clients. It aims to become a leading asset management company with outstanding performance, and dedicates itself to growing the wealth of all its clients. The Company's exceptional contribution has been highly recognized and appreciated by its clients. It has been awarded one of the highest honors in the Chinese asset management industry – Golden Bull Fund House (by China Securities Journal) – for four consecutive years between 2014 and 2017.
Operated by Ant Financial Services Group, Alipay is the world's largest mobile and online payment platform. Launched in 2004, Alipay currently works with over 200 domestic financial institution partners. Over the years, Alipay has evolved from a digital wallet to a lifestyle enabler. Users can hail a taxi, book a hotel, buy movie tickets, pay utility bills, make appointments with doctors, or purchase wealth management products directly from within the app. In addition to online payments, Alipay is expanding to in-store offline payments both inside and outside of China. Over 40 million brick-and-mortar merchants now accept Alipay across China. Alipay's in-store payment service covers over 40 countries and regions across the world, and tax reimbursement via Alipay is supported in 29 countries and regions. Alipay works with over 250 overseas financial institutions and payment solution providers to enable cross-border payments for Chinese travelling overseas and overseas customers who purchase products from Chinese e-commerce sites. Alipay currently supports 27 currencies.
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Ant Financial Services Group is focused on serving small and micro enterprises, as well as individuals. Ant Financial is dedicated to bringing the world more equal opportunities through building a technology-driven open ecosystem and working with other financial institutions to support the future financial needs of society. Ant Financial and our partners serve 800 million users worldwide. Brands under Ant Financial Services Group include Alipay, Ant Fortune, Zhima Credit and MYbank.
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Original book illustration by David Roberts is available for purchase from Children's Book Illustration.
David Roberts was born in Liverpool. He always loved drawing from an early age and couldn't wait to escape school to go to Art College. There he developed a keen interest in pottery and fashion and went on to study fashion design at Manchester Metropolitan University. After university he worked as a milliner and began to get work as a fashion illustrator but always felt his true calling was in children's book illustration.
David signed up with Christine Isteed at Artist Partners in 1995 and finally realised his dream of becoming a children's book illustrator when his first book, 'Frankie Stein's Robot', written by Roy Apps was published in 1998. It was shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award for emerging illustrators.
Since then he has illustrated works by some of the most successful authors such as Philip Ardagh, Peter Bently, Daren King, Julia Donaldson, Jacqueline Wilson, Tom Baker, Chris Priestley and most recently Julian Clary on The Bolds series of books. David considers himself privileged and lucky to be doing a job he loves. His most recent works include Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty, The Troll by Julia Donaldson and The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Kate Greenaway Award. In 2015 David was shortlisted again for the Kate Greenaway Medal with Tinder, written by Sally Gardner. David is also the creator of the Dirty Bertie character about a little boy with bad habits such as picking his nose and trumping loudly!
David's work is exhibited widely and his The Wind in the Willows was part of the British Library exhibition, Picture This: Children's Illustrated Classics which ran from 4 October 2013 – 26th January 2014.
David Roberts – "Ahhh!" cried the sheep as they swerved and they swooped.
David Roberts – "An air race! An air race!" the lambs cried with glee.
David Roberts – "Gosh! It's those thieves with my plane!"
David Roberts – "Oh dear," muted Mabs. "It's a bit of a squeeze…"
David Roberts – and flamencoed in Spain –
David Roberts – And the Hairem Scarem is still snipping!
David Roberts – Ben, Bart & Babs doing the can-can (p.16 overlay)
David Roberts – Book Cover (Hairem Scarem)
David Roberts – Book cover artwork (Pongwiffy)
David Roberts – In one hand she held the troll's frying pan. In the other she held his cookery book.
David Roberts – In the side of what had seemed to be a snow-bank stood a solid-looking little door, painted a dark green.
David Roberts – In Tibet, little Ben found a mound of spaghetti …
David Roberts – It was dark when the pirates arrived at the next island.
David Roberts – Mabs in Delhi (p.22 overlay)
David Roberts – Marty & Eunice (p.7 overlay)


In a study released Monday by the non-profit Sustainable Energy for All Group, more than a billion people are estimated to be at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep people and things cool.
About 1.1 billion people in Asia, Africa and Latin America – 470 million in rural areas and 630 million slum dwellers in cities – were at risk among the world's 7.6 billion people, the report said.
"Cooling becomes more and more important" with climate change, Rachel Kyte, head of the group and special representative for the U.N. Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, said.
"We have to provide cooling in a super-efficient way," Kyte said. Companies could find big markets, for instance by developing low-cost, high-efficiency air conditioners to sell to growing middle classes in tropical countries.
The U.N.'s health agency said that heat stress linked to climate change is likely to cause 38,000 extra deaths a year worldwide between 2030 and 2050. In a heat-wave in May, more than 60 people died in Karachi, Pakistan, when heat rose above 40 degrees Celsius (104°F).
In remote areas in tropical countries, many people who lack electricity and clinics are often unable to store vaccines or medicines that need to be chilled, the study said. And in city slums, electricity supplies are often intermittent.
Many farmers or fishermen, meanwhile, lack access to a "cold chain" to preserve and transport products to markets. Fresh fish goes off within hours if stored at 30 degrees Celsius (86°F) but stays fresh for days when chilled.


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Jones, Edward (1 of 11) National Life Story Collection: Architects' Lives
Interviewee's home, London
Jones, Edward, 1939- (speaker, male)
Dillon, Niamh (speaker, female)
Part 1: Edward Jones (EJ) Born in St. Albans, Herts. in 1939 – mentions his mother's fears of giving birth during the War. Mentions his mother having a drawer full of knives to repel the Wehrmacht. [00:02:10] The number of people in his family, his grandmother was involved in his upbringing, mentions going to boarding school aged seven. Reflects on the public school system and its role in servicing the empire [00:03:51] his school was Imperial Service College, Haileybury. Considers his maternal grandmother's background; reflects on the possibility of some Jewish heritage thorough her family. His mother was a painter, father was a sculptor, [00:06:56] his background and parents' influence on his later career. Reflects on his mother's upbringing in Birmingham, his father's heritage in Wales, anecdote about his paternal grandfather serving in the Black and Tans, he was later in manufacturing [Section from 00:09:38 to 00:09:45 CLOSED and muted on playback track]. EJ – talks about class differences within his family, mentions how he doesn't know that much about family history. [00:11:52] Talks about his father's need to leave home in order to follow his interest in art and design – he later worked as a car designer – their distance from their extended family, his affiliation to the Irish. Father's family's interest in music, EJ had a good voice (a record was made of him aged 11) – [00:16:34] mentions how generally children were distanced from the adult world – mentions going on painting/drawing holidays to the south of France with his parents' – mentions his mother teaching him about art, [00:20:05] EJ interest in rugby. EJ talks about his mother's work as a portrait painter; its popularity, reflects on how usual it was to study art at the time. His father studied at the Royal College of Art. His parents' marriage at registry office [00:24:25] EJ later also married at a registry office. Discusses his father's war work on camouflage. EJ mentions their Anderson air raid shelter, seeing flying bombs. [00:28:10] Describes the family home in St. Albans, remembers falling through a window, [00:30:09] talks about his childhood speech impediment, mentions film The Kings Speech. [00:32:05] talks about having the speech impediment at school, situations which exacerbate it. Talks about the film The Kings Speech. [00:35:44] Returns to talks about his childhood home in St. Albans, talks about the medieval centre of the town. [00:37:35] Describes his home and how it was decorated, remembers his father bringing home car prototypes as toys, drawing as a boy [00:41:44] and his parents' encouragement. Talks about his sister Sonia (check spelling) and perhaps having more attention as a boy, academic qualifications when EJ was applying to university, his sister's education and subsequent family in the United States. [00:45:52] Mentions the age difference – different expectations/toys for boys and girls, reading comics. [00:47:56] Watching Westerns at the cinema – later being influenced by American popular culture (Elvis, Marilyn, teddy boys). Wanting to be non-conformist at school, his clothing as a young child (sailor suits). [00:51;05] Describes his clothing as a young man/teenager, his father's sense of style; describes his father's clothing, [00:53:53] EJ talks about his interest in clothes, and considering working as a fashion designer. Describes his father's handsome appearance.
Jones, Edward (2 of 11) National Life Story Collection: Architects' Lives Jones, Edward (2 of 11) National Life Story Collection: Architects' Lives
Jones, Edward (10 of 11) National Life Story Collection: Architects' Lives Jones, Edward (10 of 11) National Life Story Collection: Architects' Lives


Brilliant introduction to the channel! Got another subscriber on board!
Haha very nicely edited mate.
HA ha! it's so true! Far less glamorous and obnoxious than most people think!!
lol @ the ending !
that my friends was worth a sub…..
I'm sure you've read this many times but very funny trailer man. Piqued my curiosity so now I've subscribed to your vlog. Good job from across the big pond sir. Fine job indeed.
Love it big man! Made me laugh when the pushy beats ya off the line and gets away without a slap!! Parrp!
I carry a rag, for this. Also means can wipe the seat when it's been raining! It's like there's petrol hidden in the pump, and it just jumps out before I get it to the hole, no matter how careful I am! Always give it about 50 taps before taking it out though!
I like the scarf particularly. Probably a little hot in the summer though.
the spout is meant to in the hole weem!
I was about to say, did you change this? Love it.
Haha. Epic stuff Mr Weem!
Haha! you know when people say LOL! well i actually did laugh out loud!Nice one!
Same wheelie school as grumble?
Hahaha! Was the quad footage from wheelie school?
Lol nice short vid mate.


. The Bell Canada Boutique Repair Bag!
Elgin, Quebec Canada Oct/96- UPDATE!
Want HIGH SPEED? SIGN THE PETITION!
Three winters ago, a metal cover somehow got knocked off one of those green telephone junction 'monuments' in a field near our house. It was probably hit by heavy snow tossed from a snowplow.
The boxes are part of the buried telephone cabling system and serve presumably as access points for Bell Canada technicians to check/modify/repair the connections.
Anyhow, the telephone service managed to survive, and within only three weeks, the resourceful Bell repair service had quickly fixed the broken monument with a plastic 'Bell Boutique' bag and some duct tape wrapped tightly around it.
Well, that duct tape survived almost two years. Pretty impressive. A year or so ago, the duct tape finally rotted away and now, during a strong wind the boutique bag blows off, exposing the wires to the elements.
However, it's a credit to Bell Canada that their boutique bags are so sturdy. I don't think a supermarket bag could have lasted this long. And the telephone system still keeps humming away (sometimes literally) with those exposed wires, even during a strong rainstorm. Recently, however this hum has become more noticable, and our modem speed has dropped drastically from its once 28.8 kbs. (Thank God for V34/V32bis!) And of course we've given up all dreams of installing an ISDN connexion. We're probably beyond the 11000 ft exchange limit anyhow.
It's probably time to replace that Boutique bag with one from Sprint, Unitel or perhaps even Nynex just across the U.S. border. We are currently researching this possibility. The bag has to be extremely durable, if it is to meet the excellent standard so far set by Bell.
Still think the telephone company provides only dial-up to rural internet users?
Oct, 2006! - Bell Canada Rural Initiative! High speed 10 YEARS AFTER ! Check it out!
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Bell's Sabia, George Cope and Gort (forbidden Planet) caught in LOVE NEST!
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"George Cole should take our high-speed fibre optic cable and shove it up rural peoples' asses, not their laneways!"
"Bell Canada shouldn't GIVE A DAMN about these rural hicks!
High-speed internet service should be only for rich executives like us!".
With his tony boutique bag, George Cole seemingly agreed, but was too afraid of the CRTC to comment.
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RUMOR: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Still NX Exclusive, Semi-Reboot for the Series, CGI Trailer Coming with NX Reveal
Motwera Monday, October 17, 2016 GamingLeave a Comment
Beyond Good & Evil 2 is back again with Ubisoft recently re-announcing the project but we have little information about what the game is going to be like or if the title is even a sequel to the original game. LetsPlayVideoGames recently talked with a source and they told them a lot about the direction this title will be going in.
Before I quote them, I have to say this the following. This is a RUMOR and rumors can be wrong. The rumor discussed here comes from a publication who trust's their source, leading me to feel confident in publishing a piece about this rumor on 3WIREL. However, this might not happen due to the nature of rumors so please do not take this as an official announcement from Nintendo or Ubisoft.
According to our source, the currently planned direction for the game is that it will partially retell Jade's origin tale from Beyond Good & Evil, flesh out Peyj's backstory, then continue to extrapolate on the ending of the original game. The intention is that players who have not played the original will be able to jump into the new game, which will feature a subtitle rather than a number at the end of its title, and understand both who Jade is and what drives Pey'j. It also seeks to provide closure to fans of the original wondering what the cliffhanger at the end meant for the series' ongoing plot.
While many existing fans of the series may be upset about the new game not being a direct sequel, the idea of modernizing the original tale and fleshing out the world while continuing the story beyond where it once ended offers the series a better chance of an ongoing life than it previously had. Additionally, we have learned from a separate source that there are plans for a new CG trailer for the game to be shown alongside the NX reveal. Much like the 2008 trailer, this is planned to be a tone piece rather than a plot or gameplay reveal, and will be used to announce its NX exclusivity. The game is currently aiming for a Summer 2018 release window, according to sources at Ubisoft.
So the game will still be a Nintendo NX exclusive and will be a Year 2 title for the console if this rumor is correct. Very interesting news and hopefully we will be hearing more on Beyond Good & Evil 2 in the near future.
Source: LetsPlayVideoGames


No doubt that research 'outputs' are important in today's university environment. What underpins this output-driven research management scheme is the presumption of rationality in the process of knowledge production. That is, one sets up a set of 'projected outcomes' at the onset which are then to dictate the whole process of knowledge production thereafter. It imposes an illusion of linearity and predictability on the way we relate to each other in producing knowledge. We find this rationalistic approach to knowledge production problematic. Instead we recognize the inherent messiness and surprises (both pleasant and unpleasant) in the process of collective knowledge work. In our work, hence, research outputs are not something be unproblematically projected in advance before relations are formed and a degree of trust and collegiality is nurtured. And we recognize both tangible and not-so-tangible (hence not so quantifiable) ramifications of our collective work as part of our research 'outputs.' But of course talking about all these wonderful things is easier than actually putting them into practice. This session tells you a little bit about the processes of collective knowledge production work we have undertaken over the last year and half as well as sharing some joys and bumps that we have encountered along the way.


The small G protein Rheb (Ras homologue enriched in brain) is known to promote mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling. In this study, we show that Rheb like-1 protein (RhebL1) rescues mTOR signaling during nutrient withdrawal and that tuberous sclerosis complex-1 (TSC) and TSC2 impairs RhebL1-mediated signaling through mTOR. We identify critical residues within the switch I region (N41) and 'constitutive' effector (Ec) region (Y/F54 and L56) of Rheb and RhebL1, which are required for their efficient activation of mTOR signaling. Mutation of Rheb and RhebL1 at N41 impaired their interaction with mTOR, which identifies mTOR as a common downstream target of both Rheb and RhebL1.
Tee, Andrew R., Blenis, John and Proud, Christopher G. (2005) Analysis of mTOR signaling by the small G-proteins, Rheb and RhebL1. FEBS Letters, 579 (21), 4763-4768. (doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2005.07.054).


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Q: How to get the View position relative to Parent after Scale, Rotate and Translate Operation in Android? I'm working on a feature which includes image Scale, Rotate and Translate Operations. All these operations are working fine for me.
Now, I have a requirement to check the view position relative to the parent. I have developed the below code to get the view position after scale and translate.
private fun findViewPosition(view: View) {
    val left = view.left.toFloat()
    val top = view.top.toFloat()

    val px = view.pivotX
    val py = view.pivotY

    val tx = view.translationX
    val ty = view.translationY

    val sx = view.scaleX
    val sy = view.scaleY

    val rx = view.rotationX
    val ry = view.rotationY
    val r = view.rotation

    // Getting correct value for startX  and startY after scale and translate.
    // After the rotation, I'm not sure how to applied the formula.
    val startX = left - (view.width * sx - view.width) / 2 + tx
    val startY = top - (view.height * sy - view.height) / 2 + ty
    Log.w("Start", "$startX , $startY")

    val endX = left + view.width + (view.width * sx - view.width) / 2 + tx
    val endY = top + view.height + (view.height * sy - view.height) / 2 + ty
    Log.w("End","$endX , $endY")
}

I'm facing difficulties in finding the position after Rotation of the view. If anyone can help me on this will be a great help to me.

Here is the sample code if you want to try out the code:  AndroidViewScaleRotateTranslate.zip
Thank you!

A: You probably need to calculate the positions manually using the rotation value of the view.
Remember that the actual view doesn't rotate, only it's content. It can be represented like this (red=rotation, blue=actual view):

A: center of the view.
B: upper-left edge of the actual view Rect.
C: upper-left edge of the view rotated.
 (alpha): angle between AB and AC.

We have A, B and . We want to know C. So, using trigonometry, we get this formula:

Using the following values (assume B is the origin of coordinates):

*

*A: (Ax = view.getWidth() / 2) (Ay = view.getHeight() / 2)

*B: (Bx = 0), (By = 0)

* (alpha): ( = view.getRotation())
Since B is always 0, we can simplify:
  =  - ()cos + ()sin

  =  - ()sin - ()cos

The code would be something like this:
float aX = view.getWidth() / 2.f;
float aY = view.getHeight() / 2.f;

float alpha = Math.toRadians(view.getRotation());

float sin = Math.sin(alpha);
float cos = Math.cos(alpha);

float cX = aX - aX * cos + aY * sin;
float cY = aY - aX * sin - aY * cos;

If now you want the position relative to the parent:
float relX = view.getX() + cX;
float relY = view.getY() + cY;

That's the position you were looking for.


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Q: Entity framework many to many, reading does not work I have created many to many relationships between Users and their roles. whenever I add the role to the user it works fine if the user and the role were not previously inserted (same key), but I can't read the middle table. If I search for the connection whit a user or with a role result is always 0.
how can I fix this?
public User()
{
  Roles = new HashSet<Role>();
}

public virtual ICollection<Role> Roles { get; set; }

public Role()
{
  Users = new HashSet<User>();
}

public virtual ICollection<User> Users { get; set; }

SomeDbContext :
 public virtual DbSet<User> Users { get; set; } = null!;
 public virtual DbSet<Role> Roles { get; set; } = null!;

modelBuilder.Entity<User>(entity =>
{
entity.ToTable("users");

entity.HasIndex(e => e.id, "users$UNIQ_34634663476347")
                    .IsUnique();
entity.HasIndex(e => new { e.CrmId, e.CrmResident }, "users$crm_unique")
                    .IsUnique();
entity.Property(e => e.Id).HasColumnName("id");

entity.Property(e => e.CrmId)
                    .HasColumnType("numeric(20, 0)")
                    .HasColumnName("crm_id");

entity.HasMany(d => d.Roles)
    .WithMany(p => p.Users)
    .UsingEntity<Dictionary<string, object>>("UserRole",l => l.HasOne<Role>()

 .WithMany().HasForeignKey("RoleId").OnDelete(DeleteBehavior.ClientSetNull).HasConstraintName("user_role$FK_2DE8C6A3D60322AC"),r => r.HasOne<User>()
.WithMany().HasForeignKey("UserId").HasConstraintName("user_role$FK_2DE8C6A3A76ED395"),
          j =>
          {
            j.HasKey("UserId", "RoleId").HasName("PK_user_role_user_id");

            j.ToTable("user_role");

            j.HasIndex(new[] { "UserId" }, "IDX_2DE8C6A3A76ED395");

            j.HasIndex(new[] { "RoleId" }, "IDX_2DE8C6A3D60322AC");

            j.IndexerProperty<int>("UserId").HasColumnName("user_id");

            j.IndexerProperty<int>("RoleId").HasColumnName("role_id");
          });
}

I am trying to access data with :
user = SomeDbContext.Users.FirstOrDefault(a =>  a.CrmId == userData.CrmId);
user.Roles.Count(); // always 0

var MatchingRole = SomeDbContext.Roles.FirstOrDefault(role => role.Role1 == "someRole1");
MatchingRole.Users.Count() // always 0

// Adding

MatchingRole.Users.Add(user); // or
//user.Roles.Add(MatchingRole);

SomeDbContext.SaveChanges();

A: Something like that:
var user = SomeDbContext.Users.Include(x => x.Roles).FirstOrDefault(x =>  x.CrmId == userData.CrmId);

var rolesCount = user.Roles.Count();

var matchingRole = SomeDbContext.Roles.Include(x => x.Users).FirstOrDefault(role => role.Role1 == "someRole1");

var usersCount = matchingRole.Users.Count()


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Starboy (Live From The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2016 in Paris)
by Lisa on November 11, 2017 in Videos
Starboy ft. Daft Punk (Live From The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2016 in Paris).
Taken from the new cd Starboy.
Enjoy the full episode of The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2016 from Paris on CBS.com and CBS All Accessibility!
Music video by The Weeknd doing Starboy ft. Daft Punk. © 2016 The Weeknd XO, Inc., Manufactured and also Marketed by Republic Records, a Department of UMG Recordings, Inc
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Starboy ft. Daft Punk (Live From The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2016 in Paris)
Taken from the new album Starboy
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Watch the full episode of The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2016 from Paris on CBS.com and CBS All Access!
Music video by The Weeknd performing Starboy ft. Daft Punk. © 2016 The Weeknd XO, Inc., Manufactured and Marketed by Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Bruno Mars – 24K Magic [Victoria's Secret 2016 Fashion Show Performance]


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Banks and Steelz
Banks and Steelz Song list
Conceal (2016)
I'm Gonna Make It (2016)
Speedway Sonora (2016)
Wild Season (2016)
...Baby One More TimeBritney Spears
"Baby One More Time" was originally offered to TLC but they passed on it. The R&B trio felt uncomfortable singing "'hit me baby one more time."
LandslideFleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks wrote "Landslide" before she joined Fleetwood Mac. She was considering going back to school when she and her boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham were asked to join the group.
DarlinAvril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne said her Goodbye Lullaby track "Darlin" was "probably" the second song she ever wrote. The Canadian composed it when she was an unsigned 15-year-old living in Napanee, Ontario.
AberdeenCage the Elephant
"Aberdeen" by Cage The Elephant is named after the birthplace of Kurt Cobain. It's in Grays Harbor County, Washington.
Jailhouse RockElvis Presley
The name "Schoolhouse Rock," which was a series of educational cartoons, was a play on "Jailhouse Rock," the title of an Elvis Presley song.
UnbelievableEMF
The EMF song "Unbelievable" samples the raunchy comic Andrew Dice Clay saying, "What the f--k was that!"
AdeleFact or Fiction
Despite her reticent personality, Adele's life and music are filled with intrigue. See if you can spot the true tales.
Jay, Peaches, Spinderella and other Darrining VictimsSong Writing
Just like Darrin was replaced on Bewitched, groups have swapped out original members, hoping we wouldn't notice.
They Might Be GiantsSongwriter Interviews
Who writes a song about a name they found in a phone book? That's just one of the everyday things these guys find to sing about. Anything in their field of vision or general scope of knowledge is fair game. If you cross paths with them, so are you.
Dave EdmundsSongwriter Interviews
A renowned guitarist and rock revivalist, Dave took "I Hear You Knocking" to the top of the UK charts and was the first to record Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk."
Tommy JamesSongwriter Interviews
"Mony Mony." "Crimson and Clover." "Draggin' The Line." The hits kept coming for Tommy James, and in a plot line fit for a movie, his record company was controlled by the mafia.
Motley CrueFact or Fiction
Was Dr. Feelgood a dentist? Did the "Crüecifixion" really happen?


OBJECTIVE Cells releasing glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) are distributed predominately in the proximal and distal gut, respectively. Hence, the region of gut exposed to nutrients may influence GIP and GLP-1 secretion and impact on the incretin effect and gastrointestinal-mediated glucose disposal (GIGD). We evaluated glycemic and incretin responses to glucose administered into the proximal or distal small intestine and quantified the corresponding incretin effect and GIGD in health and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Ten healthy subjects and 10 patients with T2DM were each studied on four occasions. On two days, a transnasal catheter was positioned with infusion ports opening 13 cm and 190 cm beyond the pylorus, and 30 g glucose with 3 g 3-O-methylglucose (a marker of glucose absorption) was infused into either site and 0.9% saline into the alternate site over 60 min. Matching intravenous isoglycemic clamp studies were performed on the other two days. Blood glucose, serum 3-O-methylglucose, and plasma hormones were evaluated over 180 min.
RESULTS In both groups, blood glucose and serum 3-O-methylglucose concentrations were higher after proximal than distal glucose infusion (all P < 0.001). Plasma GLP-1 increased minimally after proximal, but substantially after distal, glucose infusion, whereas GIP increased promptly after both infusions, with concentrations initially greater, but less sustained, with proximal versus distal infusion (all P < 0.001). Both the incretin effect and GIGD were less with proximal than distal glucose infusion (both P ≤ 0.009).
CONCLUSIONS The distal, as opposed to proximal, small intestine is superior in modulating postprandial glucose metabolism in both health and T2DM.
This article contains Supplementary Data online at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.2337/dc18-2156/-/DC1.


I've won a nice little battle in my personal struggle with Cuda recently by hacking in dynamic texture memory updates.
Unfortunately for me and my little Cuda graphics prototypes, Cuda was designed for general (non graphics ) computation. Texture memory access was put in, but as something of an afterthought. Textures in Cuda are read only – kernels can not write to them (ok yes they added limited support for 2D texturing from pitch linear memory, but thats useless), which is pretty much just straight up retarded. Why? Because Cuda allows general memory writes! There is nothing sacred about texture memory, and the hardware certainly supports writing to it in a shader/kernel, and has since render-to-texture appeared in what? DirectX7? But not in Cuda.
Cuda's conception of writing to texture memory involves writing to regular memory and then calling a Cuda function to perform a sanctioned copy from the temporary buffer into the texture. Thats ok for alot of little demos, but not for large scale dynamic volumes. For an octree/voxel tracing app like mine, you basically fill up your GPU's memory with a huge volume texture and accessory octree data which is broken up into chunks which can be fully managed by the GPU. You need to then be able to modify these chunks as the view changes or animation changes sections of the volume. Cuda would have you do this by double buffering the entire thing with a big scratch buffer and doing a copy from the linear scratchpad to the cache tiled 3D texture every frame. That copy function, by the way, acheives a whopping 3 Gb/s on my 8800. Useless.
So, after considering various radical alternatives that would avoid doing what I really want to do (which is use native 3D trilinear filtering in a volume texture I can write to anywhere), I realized I should just wait and port to DX11 compute shaders which will hopefully allow me to do the right thing. (and should also allow access to DXTC volumes, which will probalby be important).
In the meantime, I decided to hack my way around the cuda API and write to my volume texture anyway. This isn't as bad as it sounds, because the GPU doesn't have any fancy write-protection page faults, so a custom kernel can write anywhere in memory. But you have to know what you're doing. The task was thus to figure out where exactly it would allocate my volume in GPU memory, and exactly how the GPU's tiled addressing scheme works.
I did this with a brute force search. The drivers do extensive bounds checking even in release and explode when you attempt to circumvent them, so I wrote a memory-laundring routine to shuffle illegitimate arbitary GPU memory into legitimate allocations the driver would accept. Then I used this to snoop the GPU memory, which allowed a brute force search, using cuda's routines to copy from cpu linear memory into the tiled volume texture, then snooping the GPU memory to find out exactly where my magic byte ended up, revealing one mapping of a XYZ coordinate and linear address to a tiled address on the GPU (or really, the inverse).
I'm sure the parts after the 15th output address bit are specific to the volume size and thus are wrong as stated (should be done with division). So really it does a custom swizzle within a 64x32x32 chunk, and then fills the volumes with these chunks in a plain X, Y, Z linear fill. Its curious that it tiles 16 over in X first, and then fills in a 64×32 2D tile before even starting on the Z. This means writing in spans of 16 aligned to the X direction is most effecient for scatter, which is actually kind of annoying, a z-curve tiling would be more convenient. The X-Y alignment is also a little strange, it means that general 3D fetches are memory equivalent to 2 2D fetches in terms of bandwidth and cache.
July 29, 2009 in graphics.
Hey Cyril, good work with the gigavoxels research, very interesting stuff! I've been working on similar research in my limited free time. I wish I could have seen your siggraph presentation.But anyway, getting the starting address is actually the easier part. The cuda driver seems to have a simple linear memory mapping, and it allocates cudaArrays (textures) in the same space as regular large cudaAllocs. So basically, what I do is allocate a regular device memory chunk of the same size as the array (properly padded and what not), record the pointer where cuda allocates it, and then free the memory and allocate the cudaArray. I have some verification functions that can then copy into it, read back the data, and verify its where its supposed to be.There's some caveats: textures are always allocated with large pages and thus come from the large page heap. There is another memory area for smaller allocations, so this trick probably doesn't work for smaller textures. Also, you have to make sure to pad your texture to the chunk size, (at least in the X & Y dimensions). I could post some more example code if you're interested.One thing I'd really like to do is be able to use DXTC textures, because the memory cost is already a problem for voxel bricks if you want to store alpha/coverage, albedo, normals, specular, cached illumination, etc.Sadly DXTC isn't supported in Cuda and I don't know if Nvidia will ever add it to Cuda, but maybe OpenCL or DirectX Compute will allow DXTC textures.
Hey, thanks for GigaVoxels, too bads you missed the talk, but you can find the slides there: Slides.Thanks for the trick for the starting address. I am also definitely interested by some more example code !As you are, I would also be very interested to be able to access DXTC textures in CUDA. It's a request I already made to NVIDIA. As you mentioned it must be only a software problem.


Waste King Vs Insinkerator - Which Brand Offers The Better Product?
Waste King Vs Insinkerator – Which Brand Offers The Better Product?
It's a showdown between Waste King vs. Insinkerator, which brand offers the better product? If you are moving into a new house chances are there is already a garbage disposal installed, and there is no need to change it out for a new one. However, when the time comes to purchase a new garbage disposer, it is wise to conduct a little bit of online research to find the one that's going to give you the most bang for your buck. We have researched a lot of different makes and models of garbage disposals, and two of the top brands are Waste King and Insinkerator with each company putting out models that received rave reviews from consumers. However, after studying hundreds of reviews on dozens of different disposers, it looks to us like the Waste King disposers have the edge over Insinkerator.
Insinkerator's lowest price option, the Badger line of disposers received a large number of negative user reviews online, but their other options in the Evolution series received outstanding user reviews. All of the Waste King disposals that we have researched received excellent reviews including their lower-priced options that would be comparable to the Insinkerator Badger line of disposals which is one reason why Waste King gets the overall edge.
If we forget about the cheapest, entry-level disposers, the midrange and high-end models are comparable, and each manufacturer's product lines include products with excellent reviews. With both manufacturers people are saying that the disposers are quiet, corrosion resistant and most importantly, they do a great job of grinding up food waste.
So looking at Waste King vs. Insinkerator, when it comes to the entry-level models, Waste King wins hands down. For the more expensive models, each manufacturer is neck and neck, but the Waste King models pull ahead in two categories. Waste King models typically have faster motors that spin at higher RPMs than comparable Insinkerator models, and Waste King disposals typically have longer warranty periods than comparable Insinkerator models. When comparing two garbage disposals that have the same horsepower, the one that operates at higher RPMs gets the edge and with all other things being equal a longer warranty period is always good.
One area where Insinkerator gets an edge over Waste King is in the ease of installation (at least when you are replacing an existing Insinkerator disposal). All Insinkerator garbage disposals come with a Quick Lock Sink Mount which makes it very easy to install a new Insinkerator disposal when replacing an older model.
With any product, the price is always an important consideration. During our research we also found Waste King to be the less expensive of the two when looking at comparable models. Both manufacturers make a number of different best garbage disposals that both have excellent reviews from happy customers. But if we had to choose one manufacturer over another, after conducting extensive research into various garbage disposals on the market, we would give a slight edge to Waste King for their higher RPMs, longer warranty periods, and lower prices.
Hope you like this article and keep reading best garbage disposal reviews from our blog.
You tout Waste King brand disposals, but in recently trying to replace the rubber splash guard part (that fits in the sink drain hole) I was told it was no longer available. I even tried Home Depot to no avail. The implication was that the Waste King company had gone out of business. In fact, some plumbing shops actually told me that.
Our Waste King disposal is ? several years old and soon will be due for replacement. Will we need to go with Insinkerator the next time? Where are Waste King (and their parts) still available?