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The Animal Care League's mobile clinic will be parked in front of the fire house at 700 St. Charles Rd. once a month until at least September. Officials from the organization will be administering distemper vaccines, rabies and bordetella shots and microchips for cats and dogs at very affordable prices. I talked to Sean Elliott, a representative from the League, about his organization's mission, its presence in Maywood and its plans to expand the program to other communities, among other topics.
Give me some background on the organization and its fresh presence in Maywood.
The Animal Care League is a nonprofit in Oak Park that's been in operation for 40 years. At our clinic in Oak Park we run a low-cost spay neuter program, because a lot of people can't afford to spay neuter their pets. We also educate the public on the benefits of spay neutering.
We decided several months ago to start providing lower-income communities with low-cost vaccinations, because of the need for a program like this. We began a couple of months ago in Cicero and we've since expanded into Maywood. The initial response in Maywood wasn't as great as in Cicero, but our last couple of outings here have increased quite a bit.
Has there been a rise in the number of stray animals lately?
I can't say, but during the spring and summer times there's always an increase in kittens. Basically, the only time they're not giving birth is in the winter.
Are you all looking to expand into other communities besides Maywood and Cicero?
We've been in talks with Elmwood Park, but haven't had much luck with getting the go-ahead. I think the success of this program in Maywood and Cicero will be pivotal for us, because it will demonstrate to other communities that the program is worthwhile and can be successful if people take interest.
What are the community benefits of stay neutering and vaccination programs?
It's Cook County law that every animal be up-to-date with rabies, so it saves citizens the risk of getting cited and ticketed. There's also a public health concern that's addressed. Vaccinations help ensure that viruses don't spread and spay neutering decreases the number of strays on the street.
Did you all approach the Village to do this or was it the other way around?
Our shelter manager approached the Village and we got a pretty enthusiastic reception. The people who've come out so far have been very appreciative both for the low-costs and for the convenience. They don't have to go all the way into another town anymore. Some can just walk down the street with their pets.
The flyers indicate that the program will stop in September, but have you all thought about expanding beyond that date?
For more information on the Oak Park Animal Care League, visit here.


The economic dream of the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the kingdom of a diversified economy that is not dependent on oil and some of the largest of companies coming to the country to set up businesses is under threat because of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Money is fast flying away from the kingdom.
"Foreign investor sentiment has deteriorated," said Garbis Iradian, chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the Institute of International Finance.
"Some big names could continue to do business with the kingdom, but not enough to achieve the objective of diversifying the economy away from oil," he added.
While not announcing any strong action against Saudi Arabia and about its crown prince by saying 'Maybe he did, maybe he didn't', United States president Donald Trump however has also left open the possibility that bin Salman may have been involved.
"It could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn't," Trump said in the statement.
Such s statement from Trump is likely not to be reassuring for those investors and the global chief executives who stayed away from bin Salman's showcase investment conference in Riyadh last month.
Till earlier this year, the stocks of Saudi Arabia had been in demand and there was a lot of overseas investment in its financial market. And since the beginning of the current year till July, there was as much as 17 per cent gain in the main Tadawul.
But since then those gains have faded away and the gain is left at just 4 per cent for the entire year so far. There was a drop of 2 per cent in the index after media reports claimed that CIA assessment had clearly named bin Salman to be responsible in the murder of Khashoggi.
In the last few months, foreign investment has been leaving the country. In September before the Khashoggi killing, about $165 million of foreign investments were withdrawn from Saudi-listed companies according to data from the MEFIC Capital in Riyadh.
Foreign direct investment Saudi Arabia touched a 14 year low in 2017 $1.4 billion, according to a report by the United Nations which was published earlier this year.
And Saudi residents too are reportedly shifting their money out of the country. According to the estimates of lender JP Morgan, this year, Saudi national would shift about $90 billion out of the kingdom to other countries. To put things in perspective, in 2017, that number was at $80 billion. And according to a research report published this month, JP Morgan is projecting an even higher outflow for next year.
Uber has recently invested in the kingdom and lat week was forced to say that it was awaiting more concrete details to emerge before taking a call on any action over Saudi investment in the company.
A number of ambitious projects including Neom, a futuristic mega city of self-driving cars and passenger drones have also been announced by Saudi Arabia. But after the murder of Khashoggi, a number of foreign advisory board members have stayed away from the project.
The dream of 2030 vision of bin Salman will require more partners to be successful. And a number of such partners have already been disillusioned by the indefinite postponement of the proposed listing of a part of the state controlled oil giant Saudi Aramco.
According to some analysts however, the attraction of a market that is young and wealthy would prove to be too hard to resists and hence foreign investments in Saudi Arabia would eventually come back.
"Vision 2030 is a more holistic long-term transformation across all sectors of the economy," said Rabia Yasmeen, senior analyst at Euromonitor International.
"We see big regional and global names entering the Saudi market over the [next five years], with lucrative opportunities in retail, hospitality and tourism, real estate, healthcare and digitization," she added.


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Язык эсперанто был стабилен с момента его создания на фоне других искусственных языков. Это связано с документом Декларация Булонь (Declaration of Boulogne) от 1905 года, определяющим суть и основные принципы движения эсперантистов. Декларация была написана Л. Л. Заменгофом. Согласно декларации, обязательной для всех эсперантистов, фундаментом языка эсперанто является произведение «Основы эсперанто», в которое никто не имеет права вносить изменения.

Большинство попыток изменения языка отразились в проектах международного искусственного языка Эсперантидо, основанного на эсперанто и Идо. Основные изменения в языке эсперанто касались расширения его словарного запаса за счёт технических терминов, которые разрешались декларацией, но происходили и более тонкие изменения в синтаксисе и семантике языка.

Лексика
По поводу технических терминов в эсперанто велись споры — использовать ли новые корни или же использовать традиционное словообразование.

Высказывались критические замечания относительно использования префикса mal- для создания антонимов общих прилагательных, таких как mallonga «короткий» от longa «долгий», «длинный», или malmultekosta «недорогой», «дешёвый» от multekosta «дорогой». Было придумано несколько десятков неологизмов для антонимов (kurta «короткий» и ĉipa «дешевый»).

Фонология
Наиболее заметным изменением в фонологии эсперанто была почти полная потеря звука ĥ. Например, в слове ĥino «китайский» произошла заменена на ĉino. В большинстве других случаев звук  ĥ  был заменен на  k, как в kemio для ĥemio «химия». Единственными словами, сохраняющими звук, остались слова ĉeĥo «чешский», eĥo «Эхо», и ĥoro (или koruso) «хор», хотя звук и продолжает использоваться в транскрипции иностранных имен.

Еще одним обсуждаемым изменением было введение более продолжительное произнесение согласного звука. В традиционном эсперанто, двойные согласные могут существовать на границах морфемы, как в mallonga (mal-longa) «короткое». Большинство слов с двойными буквами (в том числе tĉ и dĝ) были изменены, например Buddo → Budao «Будда». Пожалуй, наиболее распространенным корнем, сохранившим двойную согласную был finno «Финн», который является почти омонимом с fino «конец». Несмотря на то, что слово suomo было введено в качестве замены слову finno, оно не использовалось в связках finno-ugra «финно-угорские».

С ростом популярности Эсперанто в языковых средах с не фиксированным ударением, в рече носителей этих языков оно начало сдвигаться на третий с конца слог в словах с окончанием на -io (Rádio, Ĉéĥio, nácio хотя нормативно radío, ĉeĥío, nacío) В том числе и слово "Википедия" Vikipédio/Vikipedío. Данная закономерность не рассматривалась Академией эсперанто, так как она нарушает одно из фундаментальных правил Эсперанто.

Морфология
Морфология Эсперанто была расширена путём введения новых суффиксов. В качестве официальных были приняты два новых суффикса: суффикс -io, используемый для названия стран и государств, таких как Meksikio «Мексика» , Vaŝintonio «Вашингтон» против Vaŝintono «Вашингтон». Вторым официальным дополнением является суффикс -enda, указывающий на то, что что-то должно быть сделано (pagenda «с поставщиками (исполнителями)». Несколько других суффиксов из языка Идо также вошли в эсперанто (особенно в поэзию). Это суффикс -ozа «полно», как в слове poroza «пористый» и др.

Произошли изменения также в постепенном сокращении числа слов мужского рода.

Синтаксис
Ведутся дискуссии касающиеся синтаксиса эсперанто. Обсуждается вопрос, как писать фразу «он родился». Следует ли использовать в этом случае причастие настоящего времени -at-(naskata для «рожденного»), что предпочтительно для носителей германских и славянских языков, или использовать причастие прошедшего времени -it- (naskita), что предпочтительно для носителей романских языков.

В язык были введены новые предлоги путём удаления у частей речи окончания с существующими корнями. Примером является far из  fare de.

(*) Архаизм, очень редко используется.

(**) Seksindiferenta (нейтральный, определяется как объект без определенного пола). Используется для объектов или для людей. Однако, вероятно, будет использоваться только для животного или ребенка.

(***) Используется только для третьего лица.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Esperanto Grammar

История эсперанто

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EDGE Innovate invests £8m in new plant and new people as business grows
Pictured (L-R) are Alastair Hamilton, CEO Invest NI with Niall McKiver, Operations Director, Edge Innovate and Darragh Cullen, Managing Director, Edge Innovate.
Dungannon based EDGE Innovate is implementing a four year expansion programme focused on innovation, employment, skills development and export growth.
The company is investing nearly £8 million in the business including an expansion of its production and office facilities and the construction of a new 37,500 ft2 factory. The investment also includes the creation of 80 new roles and a leadership and skills development programme.
The new roles will generate nearly £2m annually in additional salaries.
Alastair Hamilton, CEO, Invest NI
The investment will support the company's growth plans as it wins new business in export markets, such as a recent order worth £750,000 in Oman.
Alastair Hamilton, Invest Northern Ireland Chief Executive, visited the company to hear about the investment plans. He commented:"EDGE Innovate is a global exporter on a significant growth trajectory. We have worked closely with the company for a number of years now, most recently with our Scaling Team and it is a pleasure to visit today to see the results of the company's commitment.
"EDGE has been focused on growing exports and has worked with our teams in a number of markets. Most recently the company secured a significant export deal with one of the largest engineering groups in Oman.
"This investment by the company is as a result of this ambitious growth and is a significant commitment to its future, its staff and the local area."
Recruitment of 80 additional staff is well underway with almost half of the roles already in place. The remainder are to be recruited by 2020. Invest NI has offered the materials handling equipment manufacturer over £957,000 towards its investments aimed at driving continued export growth.
Invest NI's support is helping us make this investment at a quicker rate, meaning we are able to capitalise on new export opportunities.
Darragh Cullen, Managing Director, EDGE Innovate.
"The new roles will generate nearly £2m annually in additional salaries once all are in place", added Alastair. "Equally important is the investment in training for staff, which will make a positive contribution to the collaborative work ongoing across Mid Ulster to build the skills pipeline in this industry.
"We are pleased to be able to help this innovative manufacturer to scale by implementing strategic investments across all areas of the business."
EDGE Innovate designs and manufactures a range of quarrying, mining, materials handling and recycling equipment. The capital investment will provide additional cutting and welding facilities as well as housing a research and development unit and a new quality control centre.
Speaking about the company's plans Darragh Cullen, Managing Director, EDGE Innovate said: "The success EDGE Innovate has enjoyed in recent years is ultimately a reflection of our people. As part of our growth plans we are investing in our staff with a major leadership and skills development programme across all business areas, including the introduction of a new welding academy. We are also growing our team with 80 new staff and are already half way towards this recruitment target.
"At the same time, demand for our products is increasing. This investment ensures we are able to capitalise on this demand with the additional space, equipment and people needed to achieve our export targets. Invest NI's support is helping us make this investment at a quicker rate, meaning we are able to capitalise on new export opportunities.
Niall McKiver, Operations Director Edge Innovate added, "Our Sales and marketing department has been working with Invest NI's teams in market to realise new export sales. The contract signed earlier this year in Oman for our industrial waste shredder was as a result of an introduction by Invest NI, and support from the team in UAE to help us close the deal. Our ambition is to continue to build on recent successes and to further expand our reach, particularly in North America."
Alastair Hamilton / Darragh Cullen / EDGE Innovate / Export / Innovation / Jobs / Manufacturing / Manufacturing NI / Niall McKiver / Oman

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Young, John (1827–1907)
by Robert Johnson and Alan Roberts
in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6 , 1976
John Young (1827-1907), building contractor, was born at Foot's Cray, Kent, England, son of John Young, builder. While articled to Garland and Christopher, architects and surveyors, he attended lectures at King's College, London. After engineering and architectural experience in London and Yorkshire, in 1851 he was superintendent and draftsman for the Crystal Palace under Sir Joseph Paxton. In London in 1853 he married Eleanor Southernwood.
In May 1855 Young migrated to Victoria and soon prospered; he constructed many metropolitan churches, the interior of the Bourke Street Synagogue, and the Ballarat gaol and powder magazine. His most important building was St Patrick's Cathedral, designed by W. W. Wardell. Over eleven years his contracts in Victoria totalled some £680,000. From the late 1850s he had simultaneous commitments in Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand and Sydney, but was over-extended and was badly served by two of his clerks of works. The construction of St Mary's Cathedral, supervised by H. Hunter, in Hobart Town was unsound and required demolition after only twelve years. More immediately damaging was his faulty work on the Hospital for the Insane, Kew, Victoria, in 1865; he offered to replace the bad work but his contract was cancelled and he successfully sued the government.
In 1866 Young moved to Sydney, where he had already built St John's College within the University of Sydney. He undertook many of the largest jobs in Sydney until about 1890, some concurrently. His contracts included substantial sections of St Mary's Cathedral, the Department of Lands building and the General Post Office; the old Redfern railway terminus, the Exhibition Building in Prince Alfred Park, and the Garden Palace for the Sydney International Exhibition 1879; and commercial buildings such as Farmer & Co.'s store, Dalton's Building and the head office of the Australian Joint Stock Bank; engineering works, such as Fig Tree Bridge; and, in a lighter vein, 'The Abbey' and the 'Witches' Houses', Johnston Street, Annandale. Known for 'extraordinary energy' and sound work completed ahead of schedule, he deployed his men and resources 'like a general'. He adopted the latest overseas technological innovations such as the overhead travelling crane, the use of arc-lights for night shifts, and reinforced concrete; he invented an improved form of scaffolding.
An early advocate of the eight-hour day, Young respected his men; nevertheless there was constant agitation for higher pay and strikes played havoc with deadlines. In 1873 he was founding president of the Builders' and Contractors' Association of New South Wales. He invested in quarries in Melbourne and Sydney and exported Lane Cove sandstone to Melbourne and Adelaide. He mined marble at Marulan and granite at Moruya, cutting and polishing it at Woolloomooloo; but, lacking protection against imports, the enterprise failed and he lost £10,000.
In 1873-94 Young stood unsuccessfully for parliament several times, changing from a moderate free trader to a strong protectionist. He represented Bourke Ward on the Sydney Municipal Council in 1876-87. He was interested in public health and persuaded the council to wood-block some streets. Mayor in 1886, he held lavish entertainments, but the brilliance of his term was tarnished towards its close with bitter attacks by the opposing factions. He bought Annandale as a real estate speculation in 1877 and was prominent in its development. An alderman on the Leichhardt Borough Council from 1879, he was mayor that year and in 1884-85. Returning in 1891 from travels in Europe and Asia, Young led a secession movement resulting in the incorporation of the Annandale Borough Council in 1894; he was foundation mayor until 1896. A member of the Royal Society of New South Wales from 1879, he was a commissioner for the exhibitions in Sydney (1879), Melbourne (1880), and Amsterdam (1883), the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London (1886), and the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893). He was also a member of the Board of Technical Education in 1883-89 and sat on the royal commission into charges against Edward Eddy, chief commissioner of railways. He published Ye Ancient Games of Bowls (1899) and The Proposed Federal City for the Commonwealth of Australia … (n.d.).
Young lived at Kentville, Annandale, where he cultivated a fine garden, laid down a bowling green and provided facilities for archery, billiards and skittles. He imbued bowls with the spirit of gentlemanly conduct, and initiated regular intercolonial matches with Victoria; the first was played at Kentville in 1880. He was foundation president of the New South Wales Bowling Association in 1880-1907 and led an Australian team to Britain in 1901. In the 1880s he was also president of the Annandale Skittle Club. In 1887 he bought Burrawong, near Cumnock, where he settled three of his children; with his family he developed the property and installed a fruit cannery.
Large framed and with a goatee beard, Young was hospitable and courteous even under stress, but he could be blunt when the occasion warranted. His ability, practical experience, energy and lucidity made him a commanding figure. After the death of his first wife, he married a divorcee Elizabeth Susan Ovenden, née Russell, on 23 December 1886 with Congregational rites. Survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters of his first marriage, he died, aged 80, of cancer at Kentville on 27 February 1907 and was buried in Waverley cemetery with Anglican and Masonic rites. A marble bust of Young is owned by the Royal New South Wales Bowling Association, and portraits by W. Reynolds Stephens and John Lamb Lyon by the Sydney City Council and the City Bowling Club, Sydney.
E. Lincoln (ed), New South Wales Bowlers' Annual (Syd, 1906)
A. Roberts, Burrawong & John Young (Syd, 1972)
Votes and Proceedings (Legislative Assembly, New South Wales, 1891-92, 5, 57
H. C. Kent, 'Reminiscences of building methods in the seventies under John Young', Architecture (Australia), 13 (1924)
A. Roberts, 'Relics of John Young', Leichhardt Historical Journal, July 1973
Illustrated Sydney News, June 1877 and supplement
Town and Country Journal, 6 Sept 1879
Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May 1880, 6 Feb, 28 Oct 1882
Evening News (Sydney), 2 July 1880, 28 Jan 1902
Bulletin, 20 Nov 1880, G. A. Gerathy, The Role Played by the Sydney City Council in the Development of the Metropolitan Area, 1842-1912 (M.A. thesis, University of Sydney, 1970)
A. Roberts, The Development of the Suburb of Annandale, 1876-1899 (B.A. Hons thesis, University of Sydney, 1970)
printed catalogue (State Library of New South Wales).
Robert Johnson and Alan Roberts, 'Young, John (1827–1907)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/young-john-4904/text8211, published first in hardcopy 1976, accessed online 2 February 2023.
This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, (Melbourne University Press), 1976
View the front pages for Volume 6
Foot's Cray, Kent, England
27 February, 1907 (aged ~ 80)
Annandale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
bowls administrator
employers' organiser
free trade politician
land speculator
local government head
protectionist politician
quarry owner


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Q: numpy: unexpected result when dividing a vertical array by one of its own elements So, I created an vertical numpy array, used the /= operator and the output seems to be incorrect.
Basically if x is a vector, s a scalar. I would expect x /= s have every entry of x divided by s. However, I couldn't make much sense of the output. The operator is only applied on part of the entries in x, and I am not sure how they are chosen.
In [8]: np.__version__
Out[8]: '1.10.4'

In [9]: x = np.random.rand(5,1)

In [10]: x
Out[10]:
array([[ 0.47577008],
       [ 0.66127875],
       [ 0.49337183],
       [ 0.47195985],
       [ 0.82384023]])   ####

In [11]: x /= x[2]

In [12]: x
Out[12]:
array([[ 0.96432356],
       [ 1.3403253 ],
       [ 1.        ],
       [ 0.95660073],
       [ 0.82384023]])   #### this entry is not changed.

A: Your value of x[2] changes to 1 midway through the evaluation. you need to make a copy of the value then divide each element by it, either assign it to another variable or use copy i.e.
from copy import copy
x /= copy(x[2])

To understand why we need to do this lets look under the hood of what is happening.
In [9]: x = np.random.rand(5,1)

Here we define x as an array, but what isn't exactly clear that each element in this array is technically an array also. This is the important distinction, as we are not dealing with defined values rather numpy array objects so in the next line:
In [11]: x /= x[2]

We end up essentially 'looking up' the value in x[2] which returns an array with one value, but because we're looking this up each time it is possible to change.
A cleaner solution would be to flatten the array into 1d therefore x[2] with now equal 0.49337183 instead of array( [0.49337183])
So before we do x /= x[2] we can call x = x.flatten()
Or better yet keep it 1d from the start x = np.random.rand(5)
And as for the reason x[3] changes and x[4] does not, the only real helpful answer I can give is that the division does not happen in order, complex buffering timey wimey stuff.

A: It is only for odd size of vector in theory but if you do :
x = np.random.rand(5,1)
a = x[2]*1
x/=a

it will be working

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Matt Nieto happy to be back with Avalanche, will be a 'trusted player' in stretch run
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Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon, right, is defended by Indiana Pacers guard T.J. McConnell during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Aaron Gordon continues to feast on mismatches for Denver Nuggets
By VINNY BENEDETTO vinny.benedetto@gazette.com
Vinny Benedetto
A smaller menu and simpler decision-making process is keeping Aaron Gordon well-fed this season.
One of Gordon's trainers compared Gordon's skillset to that of an expansive menu featuring multiple pages – think Cheesecake Factory. There's plenty of variety but no real specialty. Instead of a little bit of everything, Gordon's switched his focus to sustenance.
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"You got to go to your bread and butter and your steak and potatoes. That's going to be what gets it done for you," Gordon said.
"Every once in a while, you can throw on some sides or desserts."
Through 46 games, Gordon's strong defense has been his steak and the ability to exploit mismatches is the potatoes. With many teams switching screens for every position but center, Gordon mix of size and skill presents problems.
"The thing about Aaron, I think, that's so unique in today's NBA is a lot of teams have small power forwards that, if you switch, that's it. There's nothing to be gained," acting Nuggets coach David Adelman said after Friday's win over the Pacers. "(With) Aaron, if you switch, you're going to deal with him. He's going to take you down there, and you're either going to have to help, he's going to score or he's going to get fouled. That's a major advantage to have in today's NBA."
Gordon's decision-making process is dictated by whatever advantage presents itself. Gordon's confident he can drive past bigger, more traditional post players. If a smaller defender ends up guarding Gordon, it's time to put his chiseled 6-foot-8, 220-pound frame to use.
"They're either too big and too slow or too small and I'm stronger than them," Gordon said.
The 3-pointer has a decreased presence on Gordon's refined menu. Just after the midway point of the season, Gordon's averaging 2.5 attempts from deep per game. That's the lowest mark since his sophomore season in 2015-16. Back then, he was a 29.6% shooter from deep. His 37.6% this season would go down as a career-best.
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"He's simplified his game," Adelman said prior to Friday's game. "He's too athletically gifted and skilled for it not to work out, but sometimes when you're that gifted, you're looking to be everything at once. I think he's really found what he's great at. He runs the floor as good as any four man in the league. He spaces the floor as good as any four man in the league. … I think the 3s he's taking are good 3s. They're rhythm 3s. They're at the right times."
Jamal Murray shows strides in second-half takeover of Nuggets' win over Timberwolves
That process continued to be productive against the Pacers. Gordon posted a team-high 28 points to go with six assists and five rebounds. He made 11 of his 15 shots, including 1 of 2 from deep, in 30 minutes of playing time. He scored his first bucket when Indiana's 6-foot-4 shooting guard Buddy Hield got switched onto Gordon after Kentavious Caldwell-Pope's screen. Gordon sized up Hield for a couple of dribbles before he started to back him down. Once Gordon got to where he wanted to go, he hit a short bank shot to score the game's first points.
"When he's one-on-one down there, they have to bring somebody or else he's going to get fouled or go up," Jamal Murray said after recording the first triple-double of his career. "That opens our perimeter up. He was just being aggressive."
Gordon kept it going with a pull-up 3-pointer and a couple of dunks off two of Murray's 14 assists on the night. When Pacers center Myles Turner played off Gordon early in the third quarter, the Nuggets forward used the open space to hit a jumper from the free throw line. He exploited another mismatch against Andrew Nembhard, Indiana's rookie point guard, to score his 14th and 15th points early in the third. He finished his scoring by sealing a small defender and rolling toward the basket for one of Denver's season-high 16 dunks on the night.
With the game in hand in the fourth quarter, Gordon went back to the menu for dessert. He initiated the offense for stretches and recorded four of his six assists in the fourth before the bench closed out Denver's ninth straight victory.
"We want him on the attack. We want him in the paint. We want him at the rim, but you can't tell a guy to do one thing all the time," Adelman said. "So, I think he's found the balance, and the simplification of that has led to, arguably, an All-Star season."
Up next: The Nuggets conclude a five-game homestand Sunday. Altitude's broadcast of the game against Oklahoma City starts at 6 p.m.
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REVIEW POTPOURRI: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Part 2
August 29, 2018 /0 Comments/in Review Potpourri/by Peter Cates
by Peter Cates
(Read part one here.)
Zito Francescatti
Zino Francescatti had a style of playing that was elegant, vibrantly alive and communicative and recorded an early '50s Columbia mono LP with Dimitri Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic in which this style truly shined. A late '50s second recording of the firebrand Jascha Heifetz paired him and Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony, a performance that was slightly tamer than the earlier Beecham but an excellent example of the RCA Victor Living Stereo process during the mid and late fifties into the early sixties.
Jumping ahead to the early '80s of digital sound, violinist Uto Ughi and the very underrated Georges Pretre conducting the London Symphony recorded a larger than life, grandly romantic performance for RCA that was so communicative I listened to it several times in a week. Jean Jacques Kantarow recorded a Denon cd in the early 2000s, featuring a smaller scaled, reserved approach, perhaps more suitable for Bach and Vivaldi but delectable in its musical charm; Emmanuel Krivine and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra provided superb accompaniment.
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Due to limited time and space and an overwhelming multitude of violinsts and their contributions to the catalogs, I could not cover very worthwhile interpretations by Milstein, Stern, Oistrakh, Martzy, Perleman, etc., but I recommend that those who love this music follow their own instincts in picking violinists, scrolling through numerous YouTubes as a start.
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Bitcoin and every cryptocurrency has dropped like a sack of potatoes, hitting lows they haven't seen in over a year. The Bitcoin Cash fork war, the U.S. Justice Department probe into price manipulation by Tether and the Mt. Gox trustee that takes a big Bitcoin dump every now and then, are hard to ignore and have been causing tremors.
The market cap of all crypto is just $121.5 billion, and the entire ecosystem is hurting. Ripple overtook Ethereum in the number two spot, as ETH looks like it could drop below $100, something we haven't in a while. This dip is hurting blockchain startups. Altcoins have difficulty showing product market fit, that would allow them to build the momentum they need to truly succeed.
Depending on the country they operate in, most miners have been drained by the continuous price decline on 2018. With the dropping prices, mining crypto has become an expensive proposition.
Has the market bottomed out yet? I have no idea, I am not in the speculation business.
Yet, some are even claiming crypto funerals are coming in 2019. Well, that just ain't true. In the long-term, Bitcoin's declining price could actually be a good thing for the market. It could rid us of all the shitcoins that are obsolete and don't serve a real purpose.
The recent price drops have exposed for one more time, the delicate nature of cryptocurrencies and their perceived values. Personally, I think they show a complete lack of investor understanding of what is going on in the market. Last year we saw an irrational bull market, that's been followed by this year's irrational bear. Its crazy, considering all the market developments and positive sentiment in 2018.
Amazon sees a lot of opportunity with blockchain technology. Amazon introduced two new blockchain products for its AWS customers. It will offer Quantum Ledger Database and Amazon Managed Blockchain for developers, using its cloud-computing services. Customers will be able to deploy a blockchain network with a few clicks, that can scale to support thousands of applications running millions of transactions.
Switzerland's national railway completed a proof of concept (PoC) digital identity pilot, to ensure railway construction workers had the appropriate qualifications to work on the railways. A year ago the City of Zug introduced a digital ID, that uses similar technology. In conjunction with Lucerne University, they used the IDs in a voting test at the end of June.
Today, December 2nd, marks the 10th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. This is a unique point in the history of money. Over the last decade. we have build a way where a few people no longer can control the wealth of people.
Crypto markets are undeniably down right now, and prices will always go up and down. What is important now, beyond any price, is to lay the foundation for more widespread adoption.
Bitcoin's original vision is largely dependent upon the integration and adoption of new technologies that are still being built and tested. Solutions for decentralized exchange protocols, scaling and privacy, as well as better user interfaces, are all critical for overcoming Bitcoin's current price volatility and gaining mainstream trust.
I think its not the time to give up on the market, be scared or let crypto critics that lack any sort of objectivity, influence your decision making. Do your research, understand what crypto is where it going and I think you'll be able to make the right choices.
It might take another decade to get there, but in its first ten years, Bitcoin has become a potential alternative currency, and the game has only just begun.


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Better late than never. The much-awaited sewage treatment plant will finally see light of the day and may give some respite to residents of the city and villages, living alongside sewage drains, especially the ones situated in the vicinity of the river Ghaggar, from the foul smell emanating from these drains.
Constructed over an area of six acres at a cost of Rs 27 crore, the plant is expected to be commissioned in the coming month as the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on Thursday gave its nod for a new power connection of 1300 kilowatt to the Patiala Municipal Corporation for running the treatment plant.
In the absence of a sewage treatment plant, untreated sewage was so far being discharged directly in 'Chhoti Nadi' passing through the outskirts of city, which later on fell in the river ghaggar.
Acting on the complaints of local residents, the Punjab pollution control board authorities took notice of the direct discharge of sewage into Ghaggar and directed the civic body authorities to come up with sewage treatment plant at the earliest.
As per available information, around 46 million litre of sewage water will be treated at the sewage plant and then discharged into 'Chotti nadi'.
Patiala Mayor Amarinder Bajaj said the treatment plant will not only help in discharging treated water into Ghaggar but also make the water fit for irrigation of agriculture fields and for construction purposes.
"We have had a contract with some private company which would manage and maintain sewage treatment plant for five years before handling it to Patiala civic body for further use", Bajaj said.
"The plant will be commissioned by the last week of February", he said.
However, the commissioning of the treatment plant would put a financial burden on the municipal corporation as it will have to make arrangements for Rs 45 to 50 lakh per month to pay the electricity bill for running the plant.
"It would surely increase financial liabilities of the civic body as arranging such a huge amount separately would remain a herculean task for us", he said.


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Dispatches from Hiring Success EU
Adela Sandru
Hoo boy, where to begin… I don't know what you were up to last week, but the SmartDreamers team was off on a whirlwind adventure in Amsterdam.
What were we doing there, you ask?
We were attending this year's Hiring Success EU—an annual conference led by our friends at SmartRecruiters that covers everything related to recruitment, hiring, and talent acquisition.
This year's conference was held at the Compagnietheater on September 10th and 11th, and it attracted hundreds of industry professionals, thought leaders, experts, and investors from more than 30 countries—including yours truly!
We had a great time and experienced and learned much more than we could possibly fit into a short blog post, but for those of you who weren't able to make it, here's a quick recap of our time there.
This year's conference focused on a number of topics that were near and dear to us as recruitment technology enthusiasts: diversity and inclusion, the intersection of marketing and talent acquisition, and HR technology more broadly.
• On day one, Jerome Ternynck, Founder & CEO of SmartRecruiters gave a fascinating talk about the changing nature of work and people management, and encouraged HR teams to treat candidates like customers—which is a message we can very much get behind. We also learned about open hiring and its role in bias management from Ingeborg Zwolsman, Program Manager for the Start Foundation. Again, there was much more than we can fully recount here.
Diversity and inclusion is a top high priority for talent acquisition leaders everywhere, so we were excited to enjoy an inspirational (yet practical) guide on how to hire refugees directly from Pieter Eyck (Capgemini), Eugene van den Hemmel (Heavenly Thoughts—and heavenly shoes, might I add) and Anne Adé Lopulissa (Randstad).
Refreshing bonus: these thought leaders made a point of openly tackling matters like unconscious bias and limitative thinking, both of which are so important yet so often overlooked in the business world. This unique trio walks the talk: they have created and are constantly developing programs at multinationals, they have collectively hired hundreds of refugees in high skilled roles, and they are committed to tirelessly teaching the whole world about the compelling benefits of hiring refugees.
What are those benefits? For starters, a thriving company culture, increased creativity and innovation, boosted productivity, and the opportunity to impact their lives, your business, and our society in a positive way.
• Day two proved to be just as engaging, beginning a talk by Natalia Baryshnikova, SmartRecruiters' Head of Product Management about the value of consistency that kicked off with an anecdote about Vincent Van Gogh. We connected with global TA and HR execs, laughed together, and learned a lot about the real drivers of success during the (very) out-of-the-box F#@! Up JAM session hosted by Dominik Hahn.
Later on, Khalil Osiris delivered a keynote talk on the importance of dedicating oneself to meaningful work. For those of you who might not be familiar with Osiris' work, he's spent decades working as an activist and educator, and is perhaps best known for his work on the psychology of the American prison experience (based in part on his own experience being incarcerated). Today, Osiris works to advocate for people overcoming challenges similar to his own.
If there was one theme that really resonated with us throughout these talks, it was the overarching idea that the relationship between recruiters and candidates is changing rapidly, it's 'adapt or perish' time for both recruiters and business leaders; they need to evolve ASAP if they wish to stay competitive. This is something we've believed for a while, and it's inspiring to be able to spend time with a group of likeminded people who are all working to improve life for recruiters and candidates alike—whether that's through automation technology, the introduction of new KPIs and metrics into the talent acquisition ecosystem, or a simple reframing of the status quo.
SmartDreamers Automation in Action
Of course, we weren't just passive observers at this gathering. On the contrary! We were actually hard at work showing off our technology and engaging with our current and future users.
For two full, excitement-packed days, our team worked tirelessly to perform more than 40 demos of our SmartDreamers Automation technology—giving our industry colleagues a crash course in all things recruitment marketing automation and showing off all of the cool features that we've built into this technology over the years. There's nothing quite like sharing your hard work with people who really care about new developments in the world of recruitment, and we were lucky enough to get to do that a lot last week.
Mind you, this wasn't just a case of simple self promotion. Like we said, one of the key topics on the second day was diversity and inclusion (addressed eloquently by Dr. Steven Jones, an Aikido master and the first African-American certified meditation master), and one of the things that's most exciting to us about the way our technology operates is that it can be easily applied to this goal. By expanding your reach to new pools of candidates and carefully deploying content to keep them engaged where they spend time online, SmartDreamers users can greatly mitigate the "pipeline issues" that often make diverse hiring seem impossible.
Not only that, but our automation tools help you to spread your employer brand and your EVP—both of which can be tailored around inclusion in particular—all at unprecedented speed and scale, so that they're able to have a real, concrete impact on both your current team and any prospective applicants. Here, again, we try to give businesses the tools to treat candidates like customers—meaning that we automate both ad posting and reporting in a way that gives time back to HR professionals so they can concentrate on what truly matters: people.
Okay, now, I know what you're thinking: "Pics or it didn't happen." Well, here's a picture with me, our sales superstars Cristina Rotari and Adelaida Paponiu with Dominik A. Hahn—so there you go.
In all seriousness, however, we're extremely grateful that we were able to spend a couple days recharging our batteries, laughing a lot, and connecting with people. We'd like to extend a big "thank you" to the folks at SmartRecruiters who made this possible, to all of the fascinating speakers and presenters, and everyone who was able to drop by our booth and experience our platform in action. At this point, we're already looking forward to next year's conference. Given how quickly the global talent acquisition landscape is changing, who knows what exciting new trends and technologies we'll be talking about.
Well, that's all for now. To everyone reading this who wasn't able to attend this year's Hiring Success, we really do hope to see you next time around. (And if any of you are disappointed that you didn't get to experience a demo, just click here and we'll fix that posthaste) Here's to another year of growing, innovating, and working to build the future of hiring.
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Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to offer summer research awards to support our graduates in their cutting edge work. Below, Yairamaren Roman Maldonado describes how she used the funds to research Cuban and Dominican Republican literary content.
This summer I focused on writing chapters dedicated to Cuba and the Dominican Republic in my dissertation. I was able to visit Cuba for a second time to further explore new media practices in the island. After this, I focused on concluding the first chapter dedicated to the work of Cubanwriter Jorge E. Lage. In this part of the dissertation, I argue that Lage's database aesthetic (Manovich) in his text Archivo dialogues with Cuba's political and technological infrastructure. Furthermore, I explore how this aesthetic mediates subjectivities that have been erased from Cuban national discourse. Through these strategies, the writer proposes writing as a performative process that is closer to how we interact with new technologies and distances itself from more traditional literary frameworks.
A fragment of this chapter was published in Cuban cultural criticism journal Hypermedia Magazine—another project I was able to take on thanks to BCNM's generous grant. I also began the second chapter of my dissertation titled "Afro-caribbean Subjectivities, New Technologies and Catastrophe in Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omniculé". In this chapter, which I will continue to develop throughout the fall, I explore how ocean catastrophe and its relationship to fiber optic networks is used as a metaphor to represent the materiality of marginal bodies in the Caribbean. More specifically, this text deals with the marginalization of black bodies in Dominican Republic and reconfigures power relations through a narrative that highly relies on new media. In both cases, these artists have chosen to represent new media through literary content and form in order to develop decolonized accounts of Caribbean history that bring alternative subjectivities to the fore.


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Giants Stadium var et amerikansk arena som er hjemmebane for New York Giants og New York Jets som er amerikanske fodboldhold og den er også hjemmebanen til fodboldholdet Red Bull New York (tidligere Metrostars). Den har en kapacitet på 80,242 tilskuere. Den blev åbnet for første gang i 1976.

29. September 2005, blev det offentliggjort at Giants Stadium må vige pladsen for et nyt stadion til 800 millioner dollers. Det nye stadion – The Meadowlands Stadium – er planlagt til at åbne i 2010. Nedrivningen af Giants stadium begyndte 4. februar 2010. Det bliver svenske Skanska AB der designer og bygger The Meadowlands Stadium.

Stadioner i NFL
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Q: Hide Frame Numbering on certain slide I don't understand why "noframenumbering" does not work in my example. I just want to blend out framenumbering when needed. Anyone has a solution?
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A: You can redefine the \insertframenumber macro to be empty or \relax.
To keep the redefinition local (i.e., only for the current slide) you need to put the slide in a group that starts with \begingroup and ends with \endgroup (or equivalent put an extra pair of {} around the redefinition+the frame).
MWE:
\documentclass[9pt]{beamer}
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\setbeamertemplate{footline}{\hfill \color{black!85}\insertframenumber \hspace*{6mm}\vspace*{3pt}}

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Note that as a side effect the number is also removed from the slide overview pane in some viewers (for example Adobe Reader and Evince) but not others (for example Okular), which may or may not be a problem - if you just present the slides somewhere then it is probably fine, but if you distribute the slides afterwards and you want people to be impressed by your LaTeX skills then maybe it is an issue. A solution is to use \texorpdfstring, which prints the first argument to the pdf itself and the second argument to the PDF metadata. Code:
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A: The noframenumbering option actually tells beamer not to step the framenumber counter, it is not meant to hide the frame number. To hide the frame number from a frame, you could use the plain option.
To hide the frame number, you could also change how the footline is produced on the corresponding frames using \setbeamertemplate. For example,
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Many of our members join the club to involve themselves in the sports culture and North Cott works towards providing opportunities to participate in all surf life saving disciplines. The list below details the main events available and, in addition, the club provides other means of physical activity such as fitness classes and yoga.
To participate in a sport and represent the club, a member must satisfy all SLSWA and club criteria concerning bronze medallion qualifications and minimum patrolling hours. Currently the minimum patrol hours for North Cottesloe is 18 per season.
SLSWA 2018/2019 Planning Calendar
Running is one of the basic skills for surf life saving and is also an exciting area of competition to get involved in.
Beach events include the beach sprint (90m), beach flags, the beach relay and the 2km run.
North Cott continues to be a powerhouse in Australian surf boat racing. The current open women's crew, Mermaid Marine, represented Australia in 2013 in an international contest against New Zealand, and remain a dominant crew.
Surf skis are a very well supported discipline within the club with competition, development and social paddlers on the water daily. Various programs exist to encourage members of all abilities to gain exposure to the sport.
Swimming is the primary skill required of surf lifesavers. All club members need to pass a swimming proficiency test to ensure they are competent in the water. Swimming is also a surf sport events and forms part of the Ironman and other relay events.
Board paddling is one of the basic skills for surf life saving and is also an exciting area of competition to get involved in. Board events include single board races, board rescues and relay events.
March Past involves a team of 12 members who are required to carry a surf reel and march in time and complete various components to the satisfaction of the judges. Points are awarded or deducted in areas such as presentation, timing, wheeling etc.
North Cott has a very large contingent of trained IRB drivers and crew. An essential aspect of lifesaving and club patrols, qualified members can also represent the club in SLSWA IRB racing carnivals traditionally held in the winter months.
Every club is required to provide officials at surf carnivals and the ratio is based on the number of competitors. North Cott strives to have participants in as many disciplines as possible which then requires us to have a strong presence in the offciating arena.
Masters Training
You don't need to be a world class athlete or an ex competitor to enjoy the fellowship and enjoyment of participating in masters sport.
CLUB SWIM
The Club Swim will start again Sundays in Summer….stay tuned!
SLSA Proficiency and Patrol Hr Requirements


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Blockchain trade finance platforms see value in network effect
By Paul Golden
There has been a distinct shift towards collaboration rather than competition as new distributed ledger technology platforms continue to emerge and more established platforms extend their reach.
The number of blockchain trade finance platforms continues to grow.
A report produced for TradeIX earlier this month suggests there are more than 30 groups of banks and other financial institutions working on systems for incorporating blockchain technology into trade finance.
While some of these platforms are still in development, others are supporting customer transactions.
For example, UniCredit in March completed its first Italian transaction through we.trade, facilitating a trade between metal packaging producer Gruppo ASA and its supplier, Steelforce.
However, recent developments suggest these platforms have recognized that to expand their reach effectively they need to work together.
An obvious example of a platform that was developed with collaboration in mind is komgo, which, after two years of proof of concept and pilots, incorporated in August and went live with its first letter of credit in December.
Souleїma Baddi,
komgo
The platform is only used by its shareholders – which include some of the world's largest commodity trade and finance companies – although CEO Souleїma Baddi says it will be available to non-shareholders later this month.
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Paul Golden
Paul has written about finance since the early 2000s, with a particular emphasis on foreign exchange, treasury and wealth management. He is a regular contributor to several industry titles in addition to Euromoney.
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Corporates need to keep subsidiary capital structures simple
Sberbank targets e-commerce dominance
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Virtual accounts, part 2: The key to treasury optimization
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I don't know, but it was in 1935 to 1952 time, wonder what the spay and neutering was like then. I also hope she wasn't used for a kitten mill type thing either.
Thanks for the comment. Yea, poor Dusty, I couldn't imagine having that many kittens to keep up with.
Thanks for the comment and visiting. Have a meowy day!


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KIX 360 and Singtel TV offer action on the go
Life in Singapore can be hectic. People are always on the go, even consuming their entertainment while on the move. KIX 360, the streaming action entertainment channel and Singtel TV have announced an exclusive collaboration with taxi-hailing service Grab, to offer its riders in Singapore free GrabHitch rides every Friday until 10 June.
During those four Fridays, GrabHitch riders can get a complimentary ride using the promo code "KIX360ACTION" via the Grab app (one ride per person per week). A few lucky people will also get the chance to ride in one of KIX 360's "action cars" an Aston Martin, a Ferrari, a Maserati, or a Porsche driven by an action hero.
While cruising in the "action cars," passengers can check out KIX 360's mix of combat sports, reality TV series and action movies via Singtel TV GO. KIX 360 is one of the Live Channels offered on Singtel TV GO. KIX 360 is the streaming version of the pay TV channel KIX HD (Singtel TV channel 309), the ultimate destination for action entertainment in Asia.
KIX 360 is offering an exciting slate of new programs in May and June for action fans in Singapore. Such programs include LuchaUnderground, the sensational Mexican professional wrestling event brought to you by mega-producer Mark Burnett and hit director Robert Rodriguez; Bellator MMA: Bellator 149, the first and exclusive MMA event featuring an electrifying bout between combat sports legends Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie; and Top Gear USA, the U.S. edition of the most well-known and popular automotive show in the world.


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These are albums which have been recorded, produced, or mixed and mastered at The Digital Age's Asterisk Sound studio.
All information on this page from asterisksound.com
Taylor Epps
"Highest Lows" - E.P. Recorded at the studio in 2014.
Mike Romero Music
"Limitless" - Album recorded fall of 2013 (released August 31, 2014)
"We Will Shine" - Album recorded in June of 2012. Deluxe tracks recorded in November of 2012.
"Acústico" recorded summer 2014
The Avid Light
Self titled E.P. recorded in December of 2012
James Curlin
"Stories To Tell" - Three songs recorded for this E.P. in the spring of 2012
The Advance
"The Great War" - Single recorded in April 2013.
Sons And Shadows
Self titled E.P. recorded in January of 2013
Calling Jonah
"Always Have Me" - Song for E.P. "Eden" in August of 2012
"And Still" - Album mixed and mastered in the fall of 2012.
Chad Chaney
"I Am Here" - Single recorded in January of 2013.
"Come Alive" - Album recorded in August of 2012.
Price Hill
"A Sense Of Adventure, Singing Of The Things Unseen" - Album recorded and mixed in September of 2012.
"Always" - Single recorded in August of 2012.


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Q: Creating multiple functional buttons on application start up I'm having a difficult time wrapping my mind around how to get my program to assign action commands/action listening to a group of buttons created from a stack. The buttons are created from lines on a text file.
public void getLaunchButtons(){

    File list = new File("resources/programs.txt");

    String line = null;

    try{

        FileReader fr = new FileReader(list);
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

        buttons = new Stack<Button>();

        while((line = br.readLine()) != null){
        buttons.push(new Button(line));
        add(buttons.pop());

        }

        br.close();

    }
    catch(Exception ex){

    }
}

How could I go about assigning an Action Listener to the buttons that are created?
My overall goal is to create buttons that when clicked launch the program associated to that button. The user will be able to add program titles (button title) and the directory to the program to be launched (button action command)

A: Very basic stuff, get the reference to the Button instead of trying to stick it straight into the stack.
Button b = new Button(line);
b.addActionListener(referenceToActionListener);
buttons.push(b);
add(b);

A: try this one
Button b = new Button(line);
b.addActionListener(listener);
add(b);

//In global
ActionListener listener = new ActionListener()
{
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        JButton button = (JButton)actionEvent.getSource();
        String line = button.getText();
 }
};


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Q: Keep google-chrome --headless always on I would like have
google-chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222

always on 24/7 on my ubuntu server.
So far, when I close my ssh connection, it also closes the remote-debugging.
I tried to run it through a php script as well, but without success.
Any suggestions?

A: You could use nohup to run your browser:

nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty

e.g.:
nohup google-chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222


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Brian Hurley raises standards in Cork panel, says McCarthy
By Denis Hurley
Cork's Brian Hurley scores his second goal before Limerick duo Sean Finn and Iain Corbett can challenge during the Munster SFC semi-final at Páirc Uí Rinn. (Photo: George Hatchell)
Cork boss hails the impact of Castlehaven forward
THE road to recovery has been long and torturous for Brian Hurley, but his two goals against Limerick showed that he is approaching his best again.
Cork manager Ronan McCarthy certainly subscribes to that view and he believes that there is even more to come.
'I think people underestimate what a loss he has been to Cork football over the last two-to-three years,' he said.
'It's not just the quality of his forward play, it's his workrate off the ball for his team-mates, it's his absolute love and passion for Cork football and his attitude, which is infectious and raises standards in training and everything else.
'He's been a seismic loss to Cork football over the last couple of years. He's not fully back yet, he's obviously making great progress and you can see the benefit of being 12 months of football on from last year.
'He's certainly moving very well but we have to mind him and be careful with him. The beauty of Brian is that, at this stage, he's old enough to know that, if he's at training on a given night and he's not right, he'll step out of it and we leave that up to him.
'He's minding himself well and we're minding him well. Every team should have one of him.'
Of the 21-point win, in which Cork led by 15 at half-time, McCarthy could have no complaints.
'It went well, and I'm not going to complain,' he said.
'After 20 minutes, we were 3-7 to no-score up and the game was put to bed at that stage. What would have pleased us is that we kept at it and didn't back off, didn't relent.
'The conditions in the second half were very difficult, when you have a hard pitch underneath and the surface is so greasy, it can be hard.
Cork Masters on lookout for talent on and off the field
'I thought we kept at it, kept working the scoreboard and kept working hard. It was a good night at the office.'
Though Cork had been relegated from Division 2 of the league, they had won two of their last three games and had gone well in challenge matches. Even so, was there some trepidation until that was shown in championship?
'I wouldn't say trepidation,' McCarthy said.
'If we didn't see it against Limerick, you're just waiting for it. I'm repeating myself, but I believe it to be there in that group and we got some signs of it this evening, certainly in the first 20, 22 minutes.
'We were clinical and ruthless and it wasn't just our attacking quality, it was our workrate and rate of turnover and so on. You saw elements of it and, to some extent, people shouldn't be surprised, with the quality of players that we have.
'You can talk about it and do it and we did it, to some extent.'
A bigger test will await, but McCarthy feels that competition for places will drive Cork, as was seen in the second half.
'Obviously, at that point we had more than one foot in the Munster final and the message to guys is that, 'If you want to slacken off, off you go, but there are other guys coming to look for your place.'
'We have Tom Clancy from Fermoy, Seán White, Stephen Cronin, Michael Hurley, they'll have a big say in this team and this panel in training for the next couple of weeks. They didn't get on and they're not going to take that lightly.
'Fellas know there's competition for places so that means that they keep driving on.'
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A same-day crown is an increasingly popular dental procedure that allows you to get through the entire crown process in a single appointment. While the convenience is a great benefit to a same-day crown, this procedure can also spare you pain and irritation. Two ways that a same-day crown can help you avoid unnecessary pain are because it will fit perfectly before you leave the dentist's office and there is no need for a temporary crown.
A same-day crown will fit perfectly before you leave the dentist's office during the single appointment that is required to make and fit your crown. This means that you will not have to deal with a poorly fitted crown for days or weeks. A poorly fitted crown can allow moisture and air to reach your damaged tooth, which can result in prolonged aching or sharp pains.
The reason that you would have to deal with a poorly fitted crown for days or weeks is because a traditional crown is sent to a third party by the dentist to be created. If the crown arrives and fits poorly, then the dentist will have to order another one from the fabrication facility.
Same-day crown procedures will eliminate the need to wear a temporary crown. A temporary crown is required in order to protect the tooth in a traditional crown procedure while you wait for the permanent one. Since your permanent crown is available at the end of your same-day crown appointment, a temporary crown is not necessary.
This helps you avoid pain because a temporary crown can often be loose, which will cause it to scrape along your gums and dig into your gums if you accidentally bite down on something with it. The scraping can cause your gums to bleed and even lead to infection. A temporary crown is also still going to allow liquids reach the damaged tooth, which can make it painful to eat or drink.
Speak to a dentist at a clinic like Downtown Dental today about the benefits of a same-day crown procedure. A same-day crown is ideal for preventing pain because it will eliminate the need for temporary crowns and because the dentist will make sure that your crown fits perfectly before you leave the office.


⬅ Not knowing what to do about Santa.
1. We really don't make time to question why we do what we do.
5. We ask the wrong questions.
#3. We tend to think that tweaking existing things is innovation. That is absolutely right.
Great post. I think as a whole we need a R&D department for Children's Ministry. I know some curriculum companies have this department but right now there are very few if any who are willing to take the risk of innovation because it is very risky.
Oh, darn…. and all these while i thought I was innovating. thanks sam, trust you to be the one to burst my bubble.
Let me go on record saying that these things are more a product of self reflection that of finger pointing, I never want to use my blog to beat up another ministry but rather build the kingdom. I want what I do to be more innovative. I believe the church needs to do this more. We need to leverage our social network skills and come up with some stuff that will make the gospel more life giving and contextually relevant than ever.
Lets do it. Lets innovate.
gotcha sam thanks for that note cos i think you're doing great.
I think the key to CM (or the entire church for that matter) in not innovating is in #1 and #5! We are too fearful to question what we do and why we do it and we ask the wrong questions. I'm not attacking anyone with that or pointing blame. It's understandable to be fearful of those two. We are talking about faith and ultimate Truth and people's souls so we tend to be cautious when questioning.
I think, though, that we've let fear overcome the need for us to be innovative. Maybe innovation isn't our problem so much as the need to be willing to be dynamic (willing to change and morph in order to present God in a way that people will understand). I think we can do that and still not compromise Truth. Truth is a lot bigger than we give it credit. God is a lot bigger than we give him credit for.
So, I say question away! Questions won't kill God. Questions aren't bad. No question should be off limits. Then we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us through those questions as we try and find ways to love God and love others.
For me, reasons #2 & #3 (and to a lesser degree, #4) are why I don't innovate. I get so bogged down just trying to keep things running on a weekly basis that I don't take time to think, plan, question, reflect – even pray – and strategize for future ministry. It's difficult to even maintain the ministry as it is with the time I have (I get paid for 10 hrs/week in CM, have another 24 hr/week "real" job, plus a husband & two kids). I don't know – is it any easier if CM is your full time job?
Mate…great post! #1 is the biggest in my mind. Sometimes the goal is to run a sweet, growing ministry but do we ever stop and think about how busy our families are these days and what we can do to help them position God in the center of our lives. Totally wrestling with that at the moment and how I can best serve our families not just be focused on everything running smooth. There must be more than running programs and if you have the answers please tell me!!! Love that you challenge us and yourself to think outside the box.
I am with ya. It is such a difficult balance because sunday comes around every week. I so often find myself evaluation last week and tweeking for this week that I never give myself space to dream, innovate or even breathe. We need to for ourselves for our church and for kids Ministry as a whole.
A little birdie told me you might be attending Napkin after all. If that is the case I would love to connect and pick your brain.
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The Bell Tolls for the 'New Majority'
June 14, 2013 by Linda
Next year should be a banner year for the GOP, and may yet be.
Obamacare, a "train wreck" about to happen, says Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, goes into full effect Jan. 1, with the popular IRS as enforcer.
The Obama media feel betrayed by the secret intrusions on First Amendment rights. Libertarians see the National Security Agency's data mining as a massive violation of Fourth Amendment rights.
The White House is bedeviled by scandals, the second-term curse has caught up with the Obama presidency, and prospects for the U.S. economy seem dicier than a few months ago.
History is also on the GOP's side. In the second midterm elections, Presidents Wilson, FDR, Eisenhower, JFK-LBJ, Nixon-Ford, Reagan and Bush II all suffered big losses. It has become a tradition.
But if the GOP is favored to hold the House and make gains in the Senate, the long-term prognosis for the party remains grim.
First, libertarianism is breaking up that old gang of mine.
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham call for air strikes on Syria. But no echo is heard, as the Republican Party becomes anti-interventionist.
Yet the acid test comes after Friday's Iranian election, as the neocon war drums begin to beat.
Libertarian Republicans believe the National Security Agency is Big Brother and the Brave New World at hand. National security Republicans back the agency's right to access private data banks to protect us from terrorism.
On how to deal with 12 million illegal aliens — send them home or grant them amnesty and a "path to citizenship" — the party's rancorous division will be starkly visible when the bill reaches the House.
But the existential crisis of the GOP, from which it has turned its eyes away since George H.W. Bush, is demography.
Yet the matter cannot be avoided now, for it is on page one.
"White Numbers Shrink," was the headline on the lead story in USA Today. "More Whites Dying Than Being Born," blared The Wall Street Journal. What does this mean?
In demographic terms, more white Americans died in 2012 than were born. Never before — not during the Civil War bloodletting, not during the influenza epidemic after World War I, not during the Great Depression and birth dearth of the 1930s — has this happened.
In ethnic terms, it means that Americans whose forebears came from Great Britain, Ireland and Germany, Southern and Eastern Europe — the European tribes of North America — have begun to die.
The demographic winter of white America is at hand, even as it began years ago for the native-born of old Europe.
In political terms, this is depressing news for the Republican Party. For nearly 90 percent of all Republican votes in presidential elections are provided by Americans of European descent.
In 1960 white folks were close to 90 percent of the entire U.S. population and 95 percent of the electorate. Nixon's New Majority was created by pulling Northern Catholic ethnics and Southern conservative Protestants, white folks all, out of the Roosevelt coalition and bringing them into a new alliance that would give Nixon a 49-state landslide in 1972, which Reagan would replicate in 1984.
But since that New Majority gave the Republicans five victories in six presidential elections, four of them 40-state landslides, the political world has turned upside down, and demography is the cause.
Mitt Romney won 59 percent of the white vote, a 3-to-2 victory over Obama among America's majority. In any year before 1980, that would have meant victory. But in 2012 whites were only 74 percent of those who went to the polls.
Thus, Obama's sweep of 80 percent of the African-American, Asian and Hispanic vote, one-fourth of the electorate and rising, enabled him to coast to a second term.
Between 2008 and 2012, the Hispanic vote rose 1.4 million, the black vote by 1.7 million, and the white vote fell by 2 million.
Where is America going? What does the GOP future look like?
America's white majority, 64 percent of the population and 74 percent of the electorate, still declining in relative terms, has begun to decline in real terms. Deaths outnumber births. Among all U.S. births in 2012, white babies were outnumbered by babies of color.
If Republicans are opposed to what mass immigration is doing to the country demographically, ethnically, socially and politically, there are, as Reagan used to say, "simple answers, just no easy answers."
Those answers: No amnesty, secure the border, enforce laws against businesses that hire illegals, and impose a moratorium on new immigration so wages can rise and immigrants enter the middle class and start voting as did the children and grandchildren of the immigrants of 1890-1920 by 1972.
So what are the Republicans doing?
Going back on their word, dishonoring their platform, and enraging their loyal supporters, who gave Mitt 90 percent of his votes, to pander to a segment of the electorate that gave Mitt less than 5 percent of his total votes.
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
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A Reluctant Warrior Tiptoes to War


In the previous chapters Isaiah illustrated God's sovereignty over the gods of Babylon and all nations and the only God able to deliver his people. Isaiah now looks at Babylon. He represents the empire as a beautiful and arrogant woman who is forced to abandon her proud and luxurious living and take the place of a slave. God is not a creation of humanity, he is God. And any nation or human that dares to try to rise over his place will only find themselves caught in an unequal contest, the end of which is never victory, but either ends in surrender or destruction.
The times in my life that have been the most miserable are the times I replaced God with myself as lord of my life. It always ended in some level of destruction to myself or others, and then falling on my knees and repenting and asking forgiveness from God and others. When God is the most complete Lord over me, and I am the most completely his servant, is when my life contains the most joy.


Cut in four parts, peel and remove seeds.
Dice finely, put in saucepan.
Add 1 tbsp of cold water and sugar. Stirring, bring to a boil.
Reduce heat at once and let it stand covered with lid for 5 min. Apples should become soft, but better, not to bring them in state of puree. Add cinnamon and juice from 1/4 of lemon. I added lemon juice, to get not very sweet taste, but a bit sour. If on the contrary, apples more sour, add more sugar.
Cook for another minute and put aside to cool it.
Cut layer of dough in 6 equal parts.
Put on edge of each part 1,5 tbsp of stuffing.
Cover with other edge and, most responsible job, pinch the edges very well, for our filling not to split out!
I pinched as vareniki, then tuck and pinch again.
Grease «pockets» on top and from sides with mixed egg two times and sprinkle with sugar at once.
Put in heated oven for 25 min. If possible, for last 5 minutes turn on mode of baking just below. This is in order to get crispy pies from both sides.
Hope, you also like it!
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Bundaberg, bears and Bargara Beach – what a beauty with a capital 'B'!
By Scott PodmoreDecember 23, 2011 No Comments
> Destinations > Australia > Queensland > Brisbane > Bundaberg, bears and Bargara Beach – what a beauty with a capital 'B'!
So, you've jumped in your Brisbane hire car after lobbing in Queensland and don't know where to head next? Head north, hug the coastline and you won't be disappointed.
Bundaberg is a city with plenty of "big" appeal. Start with the mighty Bundaberg Rum Distillery and Bondstore, a place where you get to meet a world famous big "drop bear" called Bundy R. Bear and explore the distillery in one of its daily tours taking place at the Queensland landmark. Bundaberg is also the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, is also home to the world's finest ginger beer (Bundaberg Barrel), and there's also a beaut interactive museum in town that pays homage to one of our country's great aviators at Hinkler Hall Of Aviation.
Reaching "Bundy", as it's affectionately known, is easy from Brisbane. Hit the Bruce Highway (or M1) and the signs will do the rest for the four hour journey.
While Bundy has plenty by way of things to see and do, and places to stay, it's worth venturing out a little further to check out the "small" delights. Head 15 minutes east towards the coastline and you will stumble upon an absolute pearler of a little beachside town called Bargara, the gateway to the Coral Coast, and a place where the world's biggest population of nesting Loggerhead turtles come home to hatch an army of babies.
For accommodation, I chose Bargara Beach Caravan Park, a tropical holiday park across the road from the palm-lined beach. This park offers an excellent range of cabins, caravan and camping sites plenty of facilities and services to suit all walks of life: WiFi internet, playground, tennis court, basketball court, skate rink and park, walking and bike tracks, camp kitchen, bbq and picnic areas, and a convenience store on site.
As the owners say, "it's the seaside haven without the traffic jams", plenty of great restaurants and shopping for a small destination, and the world famous Mon Repos beach and turtle rookery offering night tours with rangers. It's also worth throwing the golf clubs in the back of the campervan or car hire as there's a popular scenic golf course in the heart of town.
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