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Artists Exhibitions Gallery News
Where The Hell Is Babylon
Zach Reini
Friday, November 13, 2015 | 6-9PM
...The Less You GetLatex on canvas, cut18 x 18 in (45.7 x 45.7 cm)
D.F.T.S. (Tangled Up)Latex on canvas, cut, grommets, carabiner, cap gun key chains53.3 x 35.6cm | 21 x 14in
Untitled Crucifix (Power Is Power)Bleach, dental floss, safety pins, canvas patches on denim76 x 54 in (193 x 137.2 cm)
The metropolis is used to conquest. For its people of a hundred overthrown nations, revolution simply marks another shift in fashion . Still, the invaders must dance…
Trashfires burn outside the gates as studded leather and denim clad bodies slam against each other in the night to strange music. Sewn on slogans and icons identify individual tribes gathered to jeer at mom and dad cowering behind the city walls. As day breaks the horde rushes in to kill your idols. Man defeats man. God subjugates god. Symbol overtakes symbol. Calvin is pissing on the temple steps. Mickey and Minnie have left the building.
But what if the city hasn't fallen? Has never fallen. As the black flag goes up, a heathen notices the door to the master bedroom left open. There is a mirror beside the wardrobe. Tattooed fingers caress a silk tie as a dog collar falls carelessly to the floor. The takeover has begun. Things progressively become more important: the house, the car, the kids. Trim the lawn, buy a home entertainment center, pay into a 401k, build walls to protect it all. One evening one of the old patrician couples stops by for a cocktail in pre-ripped jeans and new matching leather belts gleaming with metal studs. It turns out it was just a minor threat after all. Welcome to Babylon.
Gildar Gallery is pleased to present Where the Hell is Babylon a new solo exhibition by the artist Zach Reini running from November 13 - December 26, 2015. Reini's artwork has gained notoriety for engaging with a visual archive comprised of recycled cultural and commercial symbols that have broken from their historical origins. These floating signifiers find themselves in a constant cycle of appropriation and re-appropriation, resurfacing across time and geography often with completely transformed meanings in each context. Reini exploits this open field with a wry sense of humor to create objects at once familiar to many contexts, yet particular to none. Reini's artwork has been exhibited at NADA in New York and Miami and was identified by Artsy as one of 11 works to see in 2014. He recently exhibited his works at Stems gallery Brussels and Castor Gallery in New York. He has previously exhibited works at LVL3 in Chicago, as well as NAM Projects in Milan. Reini was most recently featured in the exhibition Thief Among Thieves at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver.


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Some photos will not support prints in the largest size. When you choose that size under Products, photo will be greyed out.
You'll see "metallic" prints as an option. It's hard to describe how these glossy prints look - the metallic sheen is subtle, but it makes the photo really "pop"! Great for black and whites, but also when extra-vivid color is desired.
Grateful Dead played a 'stealth' set for the striking students, who had barricaded themselves into the plaza at NYC's Columbia University in May of 1968.
Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead, playing with feedback from their amps, Newport Pop Festival, 1968.


We left Murfreesboro early on the morning of June 24th and although there has been no fierce battle fought there has been constant skirmishing and heavy artillery firing. We all expected to participate in a general engagement at Yalahoma [sic], but the enemy was hustled from there in "double quick" time, leaving many prisoners and arms in our hands. Our brigade has lost twenty-five killed and wounded. Everything seems to indicate that the confederates have abandoned all hopes of saving Tennessee from the "invading army". Still I doubt not we shall hear from them again before we get into Chattanooga. We are delayed here on account of the roads having been blockaded through the mountains in our front. Probably the obstructions will be removed in a day or two.
We just received the news of our grand victories at Gettysburg, and at Vicksburg. Our artillery is firing a salute and the boys are wild with delight.
1st -- The collection of debts.
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6th -- The necessary action in cases of probate guardianship.
7th -- The granting of separate maintenance in suitable cases to married women and disposal of children and custody of property, in dispute between husband [and] wife.
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DUIs are embarrassing, especially if you are person that is in an authoritative position in your community. Former councilwoman Iya Falcone was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol on Monday, October 29th. Her attorney pleaded no contest on her behalf, but Falcone's blood alcohol level sealed the deal for her. She registered at a BAC of .24 on her first test and a .23 BAC on her second BAC test. Her first test results are three times the legal limit of .08. Falcone was ordered to pay $2,500 in fines and court fees as a result of her actions.
This is about $500 more than most DUI offenders need to pay. She was also commanded to attend more than nine months of alcohol school. Most offenders are only sentenced to three months of alcohol school, but local courts wanted to make an example of this public and political figure. The woman will also be forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings twice a week for the next month. She will be required to give four public lectures at schools or nonprofit organizations about the dangers that come with driving under the influence.
Falcone was discovered in her crime after she ran into a parked car in the Mesa Shopping Center on September 19th. Her attorney has refused to comment on the situation and is developing a defense in her favor in case there is an opportunity to appeal the harsh sentences. Falcone has apologized to the public for her actions. She says that she had two glasses of wine at a dinner and then took a strong medication. Between the two elements, she rendered a shockingly high BAC on the blood test.
She also allegedly bought a cocktail at a local café, according to the Mesa Café records. Falcone will have her license suspended as an additional punishment and will be allowed to apply for an unrestricted license after she completes nine months in alcohol school. If you are a public figure and you have been accused of a DUI then you will want a hardworking attorney on your side to help you get through your trial. Contact Adam Allen Arant today for more information!


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Q: Combine Dataframes at end of a loop for Web Page scrape I have started to write a programme to Web scrape a table of data from a number of URLs. I have got to the point where I create a list of urls from importing an Excel spreadsheet, loop through the url list and scrape a specific table on the webpage by searching for the table header.
The print statement at the end of the loop prints out the separate table for each url individually. Is there an easy way I can append() the DataFrame rows together similar to an easy list generation? The tables are the same layouts.
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, NavigableString, Tag
import requests
import pandas as pd
import re
import ssl
import lxml
import xlrd
import csv

# Ignore SSL certificate errors
ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
ctx.check_hostname = False
ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

#auto import excel file
ex = pd.read_excel(r'/Users/adamsewell/Desktop/GB_Basketball/Data/GB_Player_Tracking_Document.xlsm', sheet_name='Player URL')
yr = '2019-20'

#list urls from excel sheet
url_list = ex['URL'].tolist()

for url in url_list:
    #first header as a reference point
    table_title = 'International Regular Season Stats - Per Game'
    #replace to gain second header title to end loop
    second_header = (table_title.replace(' Per Game',' Totals'))

    html = urlopen(url, context=ctx).read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

    #find the table in the whole HTML
    start = soup.find('h2', text=table_title)
    end = soup.find('h2', text=second_header)
    content = '' #prime content as nothing
    item = start.nextSibling

    #while not at the end header, add content to the item
    while item != end:
        content += str(item)
        item = item.nextSibling

    #create a list and concat to a dataframe table
    dfs = pd.read_html(content)
    df = pd.concat(dfs)

    #remove unwanted row (if not year of interest)
    indexNames = df[(df['Season'] != yr) & (df['Season'] != yr + ' *')].index
    df.drop(indexNames, inplace=True)

    #abstract players name from GM URL
    name_split = url.split('/')
    players_name = (name_split[4].replace('-', ' '))

    #Add column of player name, add player name from URL, and move to first column
    df['Player Name'] = players_name
    col_name = 'Player Name'
    first_col = df.pop(col_name)
    df.head
    df.insert(0,'Player Name', first_col)
    print(df)

I am really new to programming and have only started using python about 3 weeks ago so the simpler the answer the better! Thank you

A: If I'm understanding the requirement, you just want to merge all the dataframe to a single dataframe.
Try this code:
dfFull = None
for url in url_list:
    .........
    print(df)
    if dfFull == None:
        dfFull = df  # start with first set
    else:  # append new df
        dfFull.append(df, ignore_index=True)

print(dfFull)

A: I have done bit more digging an found the a solution on a previous answer on the following link
#set new df
real_gm_append = []

for url in url_list:
........................

    #append to new data frame
    real_gm_append.append(df)

real_gm_append = pd.concat(real_gm_append)
print(real_gm_append)

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package fr.baloomba.geocoding;

public class Component {

    // <editor-fold desc="GLOBAL VARIABLES (PUBLIC)">

    public static final String ROUTE = "route";
    public static final String LOCALITY = "locality";
    public static final String ADMINISTRATIVE_AREA = "administrative_area";
    public static final String POSTAL_CODE = "postal_code";
    public static final String COUNTRY = "country";

    // </editor-fold>

    // <editor-fold desc="VARIABLES">

    public String mKey;
    public String mValue;

    // </editor-fold>

    // <editor-fold desc="CONSTRUCTORS">

    public Component(String key, String value) {
        mKey = key;
        mValue = value;
    }

    // </editor-fold>

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    @Override
    public String toString() {
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    }

    // </editor-fold>

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Mnuchin now hopeful for tax deal by end of year after he calls August goal 'wrong'
Published: Aug. 26, 2017 at 2:16 p.m. ET
Robert Schroeder
Treasury chief also '100% confident' on raising debt limit in September
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, takes a question during the daily briefing at the White House on Friday.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he's hopeful about getting a tax-code overhaul done by the end of this year after flatly stating he was "wrong" about finishing a deal by August.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Mnuchin said: "Earlier in the year, I said I thought we'd get it done by August, and I was wrong, OK?
"I'm now going to say that I'm very hopeful, and I think we can get this done by the end of the year, but we will continue to revisit it."
Mnuchin is one of the top officials negotiating a tax-reform package, along with National Economic Council Director Director Gary Cohn and congressional leaders including House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady. The group has released a joint statement identifying shared principles including reducing tax rates for individuals and businesses and bringing back corporate profits "trapped overseas." Cohn said in an interview with the Financial Times it's now time for Brady's panel to "put flesh and bone on" the outline they've agreed to.
Read: Here's statement from Congress, White House on tax reform.
The administration's expectations about the timing of a deal have shifted. In addition to the August timeframe Mnuchin referenced, White House legislative affairs director Marc Short said in July that the Trump administration wanted to get a tax reform bill through Congress by November. In the FT interview, Cohn said he thinks a tax bill can clear Congress "in 2017."
President Donald Trump plans to push for a tax overhaul during a stop on Wednesday in Springfield, Mo.
Mnuchin was at the White House to speak about new sanctions on Venezuela at the beginning of a regular press briefing. He also said he's "100% confident" the debt ceiling will be raised in September.
Also read: Trump administration hits Venezuela with fresh sanctions.
For many, Wednesday's presidential inauguration brought tears, pride and a new sense of hope. It also created a new meme, courtesy of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Trump pardons former adviser Steve Bannon, 142 others — but not himself
Robert Schroeder is the Washington bureau chief for MarketWatch. Follow him on Twitter @mktwrobs.

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package uk.ac.ncl.openlab.intake24.services.dataexport

import javax.inject.{Inject, Named, Singleton}
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
import play.api.Configuration
import play.api.libs.mailer.{Email, MailerClient}
import uk.ac.ncl.openlab.intake24.errors.{AnyError, ErrorUtils}
import uk.ac.ncl.openlab.intake24.services.systemdb.admin.{UserAdminService, UserProfile}

import scala.concurrent.{ExecutionContext, Future}

@Singleton
class EmailSender @Inject()(configuration: Configuration,
                            userAdminService: UserAdminService,
                            mailerClient: MailerClient,
                            @Named("intake24") implicit val executionContext: ExecutionContext) {

  val logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(classOf[EmailSender])

  private def sendTo(address: String, subject: String, from: String, messageBody: String, html: Boolean): Either[AnyError, Unit] =
    ErrorUtils.catchAll {
      val message =
        if (html)
          Email(subject, from, Seq(address), None, Some(messageBody))
        else
          Email(subject, from, Seq(address), Some(messageBody))
      mailerClient.send(message)
    }

  private def sendIfAllowed(userProfile: UserProfile, subject: String, from: String, messageBody: UserProfile => String, html: Boolean): Either[AnyError, Unit] =
    userProfile.email match {
      case Some(address) =>
        if (userProfile.emailNotifications) {
          logger.debug(s"Sending '$subject' to <$address>")
          sendTo(address, subject, from, messageBody(userProfile), html)
        } else {
          logger.warn(s"User ${userProfile.id} has e-mail notifications disabled, cannot send message")
          Right(())
        }
      case None =>
        logger.warn(s"User ${userProfile.id} has no e-mail address, cannot send message")
        Right(())
    }

  def send(userId: Long, subject: String, from: String, body: UserProfile => String): Either[AnyError, Unit] =

    for (profile <- userAdminService.getUserById(userId);
         _ <- sendIfAllowed(profile, subject, from, body, false))
      yield ()

  def sendHtml(userId: Long, subject: String, from: String, body: UserProfile => String): Either[AnyError, Unit] =

    for (profile <- userAdminService.getUserById(userId);
         _ <- sendIfAllowed(profile, subject, from, body, true))
      yield ()

  def send(address: String, subject: String, from: String, body: String): Either[AnyError, Unit] =

    sendTo(address, subject, from, body, false)

  def sendHtml(address: String, subject: String, from: String, body: String): Either[AnyError, Unit] =

    sendTo(address, subject, from, body, true)

}


Two picture books published under Deseret Book's Shadow Mountain imprint recently received Mom's Choice Awards.
"A Christmas Train" is a childhood story about President Thomas S. Monson, prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Illustrated by Dan Burr, it tells of a lesson young Tommy learned about giving at Christmastime.
The book received a gold award in the seasonal, holidays and festivals category for children's picture books.


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import * as $G from '../core/Graph';
import * as $SU from "../utils/structUtils";

//Calculates the page rank for a given graph
class pageRankCentrality{

  getCentralityMap(graph: $G.IGraph, weighted?: boolean, alpha?:number, conv?:number, iterations?:number):{[id:string]: number}{
    if(alpha == null)
      alpha = 0.10;
    if(iterations == null)
      iterations = 1000;
    if(conv == null)
      conv = 0.000125;
    //First initialize the values for all nodes
    let curr:{[id:string]: number} = {};
    let old:{[id:string]: number} = {};
    let nrNodes = graph.nrNodes();
    let structure = {};
    for(let key in graph.getNodes()){
      key = String(key);
      let node = graph.getNodeById(key);
      structure[key] = {};
      structure[key]['deg'] = node.outDegree()+node.degree();
      structure[key]['inc'] = [];
      let incomingEdges = $SU.mergeObjects([node.inEdges(), node.undEdges()]);
      for(let edge in incomingEdges){
        let edgeNode = incomingEdges[edge];
        let parent = edgeNode.getNodes().a;
        if(edgeNode.getNodes().a.getID() == node.getID())
          parent = edgeNode.getNodes().b;
        structure[key]['inc'].push(parent.getID());
      }
    }
    //console.log(JSON.stringify(structure));
    for(let key in graph.getNodes()) {
      key = String(key);
      curr[key] = 1/nrNodes;
      old[key] = 1/nrNodes;
    }
    for(let i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
      let me = 0.0;
      for(let key in graph.getNodes()) { //Run through all nodes in graph
        key = String(key);
        //console.log(structure[key]);
        let total = 0;
        let parents = structure[key]['inc'];
        for(let k in parents){
          let p = String(parents[k]);
          total += old[p]/structure[p]['deg'];
        }
        //console.log("o:"+old[key] + " n:"+curr[key]);
        curr[key] = total*(1-alpha) + alpha/nrNodes;
        me += Math.abs(curr[key]-old[key]);

      }
      if(me <= conv){
        return curr;
      }
      //console.log("Error:"+me/nrNodes);
      old = $SU.clone(curr);
    }
    return curr;
  }

}

export {
  pageRankCentrality
};


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Jonathan Marc Sherman (born October 10, 1968) is a contemporary American playwright, poet, and actor. He submitted plays for several years to Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Playwrights Competition before they did a staged reading of his one-act, Serendipity and Serenity in 1987, followed by a full production of his next play, Women and Wallace (1988).

Jonathan is married to Alexandra Shiva, they have two children, a daughter and a son Thea and Sam Sherman

Plays

Serendipity and Serenity
1987. Young Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Horizons (staged reading)

Women and Wallace
1988. Foundation of the Dramatists Guild (now Young Playwrights Inc.) Young Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Horizons. Josh Hamilton as Wallace
1990. American Playhouse (PBS television), with Josh Hamilton (Wallace), Joan Copeland, Shaie Dively, Erica Gimpel, Joanna Going, Mary Joy, Debra Monk, Cynthia Nixon, and Jill Tasker. Directed by Don Scardino.

Jesus on the Oil Tank
Winner of the 21st Century Playwrights Award

Sons and Fathers
The short play is about a family of two brothers, Toby and Max, and their father, fifteen years after the mother committed suicide. Toby, an idealist who has never quite recovered from his mother's death, still wears diapers at the age of 21 and hardly leaves the house. His older brother Max often lectures him on the ways of life and love. Joanna, a new representative for the diaper company responsible for Toby's deliveries, makes a delivery and Toby instantly falls in love.  The play ends with Toby leaving the house, and more symbolically, his dependence on his mother's memory, to be with Joanna.

The play was written in 1991, and was performed by Ethan Hawke's Malaparte Theater Company in New York City. Calista Flockhart played Joanna, Josh Hamilton (actor) played Toby and Ethan Hawke played Max. In the play's earlier incarnation as a workshop reading, Sherman himself played the part of Toby.

Veins and Thumbtacks
 1991. Los Angeles Theatre Center. Jimmy Bonaparte: Fisher Stevens
 1994. Malaparte (theater company) in New York City. Jimmy Bonaparte: Frank Whaley
 2001. Basis for Frank Whaley's movie The Jimmy Show, with Frank Whaley, Carla Gugino, Ethan Hawke, and Lynn Cohen.

Sophistry
 March, 1993. Playwrights Horizons. With Linda Atkinson, Nadia Dajani, Ethan Hawke, Katherine Hiler, Scarlett Johansson, Dick Latessa, Anthony Rapp, Jonathan Marc Sherman, and Steve Zahn
 September–November, 1993. Playwrights Horizons. With Linda Atkinson, Nadia Dajani, Calista Flockhart, Ethan Hawke, Austin Pendleton, Anthony Rapp, Jonathan Marc Sherman, and Steve Zahn.

Wonderful Time
1995. WPA Theater in New York City.

Evolution
 1998. Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Directed by Nicholas Martin. With Matt McGrath (actor) (Henry), Dylan Baker (Storyteller), Anna Belknap (Gina), Marin Hinkle (Hope), Justin Kirk (Ernie), and Sam Breslin Wright (Rex). Sets by Alexander Dodge, Lights by Stephen Brady, Costumes by Marisa Timperman, Sound by Jerry N. Yager
 2002. 45 Below at Culture Project in New York City. Directed by Elizabeth Gottlieb. With Josh Hamilton (actor) (Henry), Larry Block (Storyteller), Peter Dinklage (Rex), Keira Naughton (Hope), Armando Riesco (Ernie), and Ione Skye (Gina). Sets by Andromache Chalfant, Lights by Jeff Croiter, Costumes by Daphne Javitch, Video by Edmond Deraedt

Things We Want
 2007. The New Group in New York City. Directed by Ethan Hawke. With Paul Dano (Charlie), Peter Dinklage (Sty), Josh Hamilton (actor) (Teddy), and Zoe Kazan (Stella). Sets by Derek McLane, Lights by Jeff Croiter, Costumes by Mattie Ulrich, Sound by Daniel Baker.
 2012. Oyun Alani in Istanbul. Directed by Cevdet Canver. With Kutay Kunt (Charlie), Caner Erdem (Sty), Mehmet Okuroglu (Teddy), and Aybike Turan (Stella).
 2015 (Coming in October). Columbia University in New York City. Directed by Eric Wimer. With William Sydney (Charlie), Maeve Duffy (Sty), Joseph Santia (Teddy), and Lizzy Harding (Stella).
 2018 in Manchester UK; Hope Mill Theatre; Directed by Daniel Bradford. With Alex Phelps (Teddy), William J Holstead (Sty), Paddy Young (Charlie), Hannah Ellis Ryan (Stella).

Knickerbocker
 2009. Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Directed by Nicholas Martin. With Brooks Ashmanskas (Melvin), Peter Dinklage (Chester), Bob Dishy (Raymond), Rightor Doyle (Steve), Annie Parisse (Tara), Susan Pourfar (Pauline), and Reg Rogers (Jerry). Sets by Alexander Dodge. Sound Design by Alex Neumann.
 2011. The Public Theater in New York City. Directed by Pippin Parker. With Mia Barron (Pauline), Alexander Chaplin (Jerry), Bob Dishy (Raymond), Christina Kirk (Tara), Drew Madland (Steve), Zak Orth (Chester), and Ben Shenkman (Melvin). Sets by Peter Ksander, Costumes by Gabriel Berry, Lights by Jeff Croiter, Sound by Walter Trarbach, Projection Design by Shawn Duan.

Clive
2013. The New Group in New York City. Directed by Ethan Hawke. With Brooks Ashmanskas, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke, Stephanie Janssen, Mahira Kakkar, Zoe Kazan, Aaron Krohn, Dana Lyn, and Jonathan Marc Sherman. Sets by Derek McLane, Lights by Jeff Croiter, Costumes by Catherine Zuber, Sound by Shane Rettig.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
2020. The New Group in New York City. Book by Jonathan Marc Sherman, Music by Duncan Sheik, Lyrics by Sheik and Amanda Green, Musical Staging by Kelly Devine, Directed by Scott Elliott. With Jennifer Damiano, Jamie Mohamdein, Ana Nogueira, Joel Perez, Suzanne Vega, and Michael Zegen. Sets by Derek McLane, Lights by Jeff Croiter, Costumes by Jeff Mahshie, Sound by Jessica Paz. Music Direction by Jason Hart. Consultant: Jill Mazursky. Based on the Columbia Pictures motion picture directed by Paul Mazursky and written by Mazursky and Larry Tucker.

Acting

Theater
Oliver! (as "The Artful Dodger") Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, 1983
My First Swedish Bombshell (TV) (Harrison Slide) NBC & Showtime, 1985
The Chopin Playoffs (as "Irving Yanover") American Jewish Theatre, 1986
A Joke (as "Grizzoffi"), Malaparte (theater company), 1992
Sophistry (as "Igor"), Playwrights Horizons, 1993
Wild Dogs, Malaparte (theater company), 1993
Unexpected Tenderness (as "Roddy Stern"), WPA, 1994
The Great Unwashed, Malaparte (theater company), 1994
Quiz Show (as Don Quixote Student #2), 1994
Southie (as "Eddie Eaton"), 1998
Pigeonholed (as Bartender), 1999
I Wanna Be Adored,  NY Performance Works, 2000
Zog's Place (as himself), 2001
Broadway: The American Musical (TV), 2004
The Baxter (as "Deaf Bar Baxter"), 2005
Escape Artists (as "Linus"), 2005
The Limbo Room (as "Guy Greenbaum"), 2006
Steam (as "Norman"), 2006
When The Nines Roll Over (as "the Australian"), 2006
The Hottest State (as "Party Philosopher"), 2007
Up For Anything (as "Walter Dabney"), The Kraine Theater, 2009
Ivanov (as "Dr. Lvov"), Classic Stage Company, 2012
Blaze (as "Sam"), 2018

Film
Tick, Tick... Boom! (as "Ira Weitzman"), 2021

External links

1968 births
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male film actors
American male stage actors
Living people

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Brenda Schuster is an academic detailer with the RxFiles Academic Detailing Service in Regina, SK, Canada, and a training facilitator for NaRCAD's 2-day academic detailing techniques course. Brenda has been providing academic detailing services for the last 15 years and she combines this with her clinical practice at the Academic Family Medicine Unit. She is involved in teaching family medicine residents and works along side them to assist in their daily prescribing decisions. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor with the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan and a preceptor for hospital pharmacy and primary care pharmacy residents.
Brenda has been involved in facilitating academic detailing trainings for RxFiles academic detailer on new topics and has co-facilitated academic detailer training skills workshops for academic detailers in Canada and United States. Brenda obtained her BSP from the University of Saskatchewan and her Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy from the University of Toronto. She serves as a lecturer on a variety of drug therapy topics at pharmacy and medicine conferences. She has a special interest in adult learning, geriatrics and gastroenterology.


I used to hate the pink tile on our bathroom floor, until about 10 minutes ago, when I realized it was a thing. I mean, it has a name, Mamie Pink -- named after first lady Mamie Eisenhower. There's even a blog about it. Who knew, right? Our eyesore was suddenly a vintage treasure. I showed Y.
Y: let's take a picture of the bathroom and send it to the blog! Clean the bathroom!
Me: Psh... you just want me to clean the bathroom.
Y: NUH UH. I'm just saying, we probably should pick up the branch on the bathroom floor before we send a picture into a blog.
Y: Yeah. Duh. The branch on the bathroom floor.
Me: Why is there a branch on the bathroom floor?
Y: I dunno. It's been there for about a week.
Me: Soo... you've been noticing this branch for a week, and you didn't think to pick it up?
And, that concludes another episode of When Med School Eats Your Brain.
The rest of these bathroom pictures are for my sister, who can't believe any bathroom of mine would exist without trash and empty shampoo bottles everywhere. I've moved on, sister, apparently to branches.


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U.N. Urban Summit Gives Rise to a Mixture of Optimism and Criticism
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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa (left) and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon during a meeting with journalists at the inauguration of the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), on Monday, Oct. 17 in Quito. Credit: Presidency of Ecuador
QUITO, Oct 18 2016 (IPS) - Experts and activists greeted with a mixture of hope and skepticism the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), which opened Monday Oct. 17 in the capital of Ecuador, and which seeks to produce a new urban agenda for cities and their inhabitants.
These voices are confident that the summit, which runs through Thursday Oct. 20, will contribute new elements to address the growing problems facing cities, such as inequality, violent crime, the effects of climate change and the lack of basic services such as access to clean water and electric power.
But on the other hand they fear that the participating countries will only pay lip service to commitments that will quickly be forgotten, as occurred after the first Habitat conference, held in 1976 in Montreal, and the second, which took place in Istanbul in 1996.
During the inauguration of the summit, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pointed to the dark side of urbanisation.
"Urban areas are expanding rapidly, especially in developing countries, and that expansion is frequently unplanned," he said. "Approximately a quarter of urban dwellers live in slums or informal settlements. Increasing numbers of poor and vulnerable people live in precarious conditions. They lack access to basic services and adequate living space."
Meanwhile, host President Rafael Correa of Ecuador criticised land speculation and profiteering that have favoured only a select few.
"This is common in Latin America, as are the poverty and exclusion fuelled by the free market system; the poor do not exist for the market," said Correa, who was elected Monday morning as president of Habitat III.
Advocates of the "right to the city", a set of rights for urban dwellers, share that view.
"Huge problems in cities are exclusion, segregation and marginalisation. We have undesirable, unacceptable cities, which are a reflection of a failed system. Habitat III has the niches to address these problems," Salvadoran activist Claudia Blanco told IPS.
Blanco, executive director of the Salvadoran Foundation for Development and Low-Income Housing (FUNDASAL), was taking part in Towards an Alternative Habitat 3, a parallel forum that brought together academics and activists at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO).
Activists from a number of countries debate on Monday Oct. 17 about the role of social movements in the construction of cities and communities for all, at FLACSO. Parallel to the official Habitat III summit, Quito is also hosting an alternative summit and social forums that question government proposals and viewpoints with regard to urban planning. Credit: Emilio Godoy/IPS
Blanco said: "The place where you live does matter; many Salvadoran young people can't get a job because of where they live, even though they have talents and skills."
FUNDASAL works with housing cooperatives and other civil society groups in a country which has a shortage of an estimated 450,000 homes.
Habitat III, organised by U.N. Habitat, has drawn some 50,000 delegates of governments, non-governmental organisations, international bodies, universities and companies, and will produce the "Quito Declaration on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements for All", also known as the New Urban Agenda, to guide political action over the next 20 years.
In this document, still subject to final negotiations between the states, governments pledge to fight poverty, inequality and discrimination, improve city planning, and build cities with resilience to climate change.
The debates in Habitat III are taking place in an area in central Quito, a city of 2.6 million people, with high walls and heavy security.
A people's social summit is also being held, Resistance to Habitat III, which has drawn NGOs from around the world, to discuss issues such as the rejection of evictions and defence of the right to the city and other urban rights.
Evaniza Rodrígues, the head of the National Union for Popular Housing, a Brazilian organisation, said the New Urban Agenda lacked "novel aspects."
Rodrígues told IPS that what was needed was "a renewed approach to the right to the city, and an understanding of territory as a common good," and questioned civil society's limited participation in drawing up the agenda, "which the states do not want to discuss."
The National Union for Popular Housing promotes access to affordable housing and seeks to influence the design of legislation and public policies in a country with a shortage of around seven million homes.
Of the 641 people in Latin America and the Caribbean, 80 percent live in urban areas, and at least 104 million are slum-dwellers.
For Horacio Corti, the chief public defender for Buenos Aires, the New Urban Agenda is too "generic" and should be more precise.
Corti, who presented his book "Right to the City, Cultural Rights, Culture of Rights" at the alternative summit on Monday, said that if it were possible to achieve the right to the city in Latin America, "why not think of building a consensus on the right to justice?"
In the Quito Implementation Plan for the New Urban Agenda, social and academic organisations and companies have already listed 52 urban projects, including initiatives in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico involving issues such as air quality, sustainable building and resilient design.
As the negotiations on the Quito Declaration prepare to wind up, the Morocco-based non-governmental Habitat International Coalition is preparing its own statement for Tuesday Oct. 18 while the alternative forum will release its own declaration on Wednesday or Thursday.
According to Blanco, the summit should not result in "a prescription, because the social production of habitat is a process, not a product".
The activist said the strength for making the commitments a reality "lies in us", not in the governments. "We can focus the debate on promoting the social production of Habitat, but that requires long-term solutions," she said.
For her part, Rodrígues said "public policies have to address rights," and thus, "the agenda is a call to work for our rights and to face the conflicts that will arise. The city has to be acknowledged as a common good."
Corti said "spatial injustice" is reflected in "territorial injustice", as exemplified by speculation in real estate and building of unconnected and unsustainable houses.
"Without social and urban justice there is no citizenship," he said.
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Jean-Pascal Beintus has won global acclaim for his highly expressive and compelling compositions. Born in Toulouse, France in 1966, he studied double bass and composition at the conservatories of Nice, Lyon, and Paris during the 1980s. When John Eliot Gardiner created the Lyon Opéra Orchestra in 1983, he selected Beintus as a founding double bass player. The versatile young musician used the ensemble as a source of inspiration in composing his first work, Samskara for double bass and chamber orchestra.
In 1996 Kent Nagano, then music director of the Opéra de Lyon, recognized Jean-Pascal Beintus's talents as composer and began to commission works from him. Beintus quickly built up a reputation as a fluent and versatile composer and a brilliant orchestrator, receiving numerous prestigious commissions. Since then, he has written music for nearly every type of ensemble; for professionals and amateurs; for theatre, concert hall and film.
The hallmarks of Jean-Pascal Beintus's compositions are their harmonic richness, inventive metrical play, and lush orchestrations. Recent commissions have come from the Berlin Philharmonic (He's Got Rhythm: Homage to George Gershwin), the Russian National Orchestra (Wolf Tracks), the Hallé Orchestra (Couleurs cuivres), the Berkeley Symphony (Berkeley Images, Luna Tree and Bremen Town Musicians), the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (Kobe Symphony), l'Orchestre de Paris (Cordes et lames), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Nature Suite), and the State of California (Manzanar: An American Story).
A recording of Jean-Pascal Beintus's Wolf Tracks featuring Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren as narrators (PentaTone Classics) received a 2004 GRAMMY Award. Beintus's Kobe Symphony is featured on David Benoit's 2005 release, Orchestral Stories, on Peak Records.
Forthcoming projects include a Spanish language rendition of Wolf Tracks, narrated by Antonio Banderas, and, in collaboration with Kent Nagano, an ambitious project to arrange and orchestrate the music of Akira Kurosawa's legendary films.
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It's clear that Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande have become Hollywood's It couple, but at the 2018 MTV VMAs on Monday night, August 20, they hit the red carpet looking seriously in love. The two – who got engaged over the summer – made their first official debut as a couple and proved once again why the world is so obsessed with their whirlwind romance. Their appearance definitely delivered on moments worthy of adding to their already adorable relationship timeline.
Pete was there to support Ariana, who was nominated for the Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, Best Pop Video, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects awards (as well as her EPIC performance for "God Is a Woman"), however, it was their love for each other that really stole the show.
From their PDA on the red carpet to Ariana's public declaration of love, here are the seven cutest moments that occurred between #Pariana during the awards show last night.
All eyes were on Pete and Ariana when they showed up on the red carpet. Do you blame us? Look how in love they are! They quite literally could not keep their hands off one another.
As soon as Pete and Ariana stepped onto the carpet, fans noticed that his bracelet had the letters "A.G.D." on it, which presumably stands for "Ariana Grande Davidson." Awww.
After posing for some pics together, the lovebirds ran down the carpet to avoid the photographers — crashing The Hills cast's reunion in the process. Oops.
They shared a smooch backstage, too. Yes, we're still swooning.
At one point in the night, Pete was caught giving Ariana the scoop. Though we don't know what the juicy gossip was about, you can see Ari mouth the word "Who" before Pete fills her in. SPILL THE TEA, PETE. SPILL IT.
During her acceptance speech for Best Pop, Ariana had a sweet message for the SNL star. She thanked her management team, her family, her fans, and of course, her future husband who was sitting in the audience. "Pete Davidson. Thanks for existing," Ariana said. "Love you." Ari stans couldn't help but notice how much different this relationship is than the ones in the past with exes like Mac Miller, Big Sean and Ricky Alvarez, when she was very private about her feelings for them.
So, there you have it! Pete and Ariana continue to be GOALS and we are here for it.


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Imran calls on Pakistanis to take part in 'Kashmir Hour' on Friday
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. File photo
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday called on all Pakistanis to take part in "Kashmir Hour" being observed on Friday at 12pm, to send a strong message of solidarity to Kashmiris.
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"I want all Pakistanis to come out tomorrow 12 noon-12.30pm to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people and send the Kashmiris in Indian-occupied Kashmir a clear message that the entire Pakistani nation stands in solidarity with them and against Indian fascist oppression, the inhumane 24-day curfew, the daily injuring and killing of Kashmiri civilians, including women & children - all part of the ethnic cleansing agenda of the Modi government and its illegal annexation of IoK," Imran said in a Twitter post.
"The plan to change demography of IoK is a war crime under 4th Geneva Convention. We must send a strong message to Kashmiris that our nation stands resolutely behind them. So I am asking all Pakistanis for half an hour tomorrow, stop whatever you are doing and come out on the road to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people."
India's government decided on Aug.5 to repeal of Article 370 of the Indian constitution, that granted occupied Kashmir special status. The government instituted a security lockdown and communications blackout to avoid violence. The clampdown is now on its 25th day.
While addressing the nation on occupied Kashmir on Monday, Imran Khan announced that an event will be held every week to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people, starting with Friday (Aug 30) between 12pm-12:30pm.
The premier, taking the nation into confidence on the government's strategy regarding occupied Kashmir following India's revocation of Article 370, had vowed that Pakistan "will go to any lengths" to support the cause of the oppressed Kashmiri people.
On Wednesday, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said that in accordance with the premier's announcement regarding Kashmir Hour, sirens will be sounded at 12 noon and national anthem and Kashmir's anthem will be played across the country.
All the people and vehicles will come to a standstill" when the national anthems are played.
Pakistani celebrities to show 'solidarity' with Kashmiris
Pakistani artists and celebrities have also jumped into the fray to show their "solidarity" with Kashmiris while appealing to people to boost the government's efforts to highlight the Kashmir issue.
Desperate to keep the Kashmir issue alive in the national imagination, the Pakistan government has urged all Pakistanis to stand for three minutes at 12 noon on Friday to "show solidarity with Kashmiris" as part of "Kashmir Hour."
Several film and television artists have also supported the government's call on Kashmir.
Singer Rabi Peerzada said she will be at Liberty Chowk in Lahore at 12pm on Friday to express solidarity with "our Kashmiri brethren" and exhorted people to join in.
Singer Shehzad Roy said he would also observe 'Kashmir Hour' in Karachi on Friday while actors Fakhar Alam and Faisal Qureshi said they too would participate.
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Tens of thousands of Pakistanis hold anti-India demonstration over Kashmir
The Pakistani national anthem and an anthem for Kashmir played across television and radio, while traffic came to a standstill, traffic lights were switched off and trains stopped,
Pakistan denies use of airspace to Indian president
The decision comes at a time of high tension between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
India 'sowing seeds of war' with Kashmir actions: Pakistan army
"I want to give this message to Kashmiris that we stand by you and will continue to do so. It is sad that your independence struggle was presented as terrorism. Kashmir is our jugular vein and we will go to any lengths to protect it."
Twitter sends notice to Pakistan President over Kashmir post
Slamming the move by the microblogging site, Pakistan Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said: "Twitter has really gone too far in becoming mouthpiece of the rogue Modi govt! They sent a notice to our President! In bad taste and simply ridiculous."
Biden's first day is expected to be packed, with aides saying recently he would sign perhaps a dozen executive orders that could address the pandemic, the ailing US economy, climate change and racial injustice in America.


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Into Loving Arms HypnoBirthing: Welcome Baby Brynn!
I've had a few full circle moments in the scope of my career teaching and supporting families in birth, but I have to say that this family is particularly special. Not only is Mom my best friend, she is the reason I started birth work. You see, when I gave birth to my first daughter, she was right behind me giving birth just 6 weeks later. I went to her house the morning of that birth, 6 week old newborn in tow, to support her during her labor. This was my "aha" moment that led me to my work. Now, a little over 4 years later I have been teaching HypnoBirthing and supporting many other families in their birth journeys and I could not be happier. So yesterday, when I was blessed to be present at her third birth, at home, in the water, I couldn't help but wipe away a tear or two of happiness over what this truly means to me.
Mom also ROCKED this birth, and beautiful Brynn was born a little under an hour after I arrived, after just a few hours of regular labor and a few minutes of breathing her down. I've known this amazing lady for 10+ years, and yet watching my friend birth still amazes me. She is STRONGER than she lets on, and as devoted to her children as anyone I've ever known and this shows when she births. She does this for her babies, and yet has grown herself with each of her births. I was so impressed at her focus and awareness with this birth, allowing it to happen in it's own way. When posting the picture below Mom said "about 16 hours old! A very content little girly so far! Must be a HypnoBirthing baby :)" Congratulations to an amazing family, and a very Happy Birth Day Brynn!


Peter Keen, one of the country's leading experts in high performance sport, is to join UK Sport on a full time basis as part of its drive to move Team GB up the Olympic medal table in Beijing 2008 and, crucially, London 2012.
The former British Cycling Performance Director had previously worked for UK Sport in an advisory capacity, joining in April 2004 to lead the development of the new 'No Compromise' funding strategy rolled out following the Olympic Games in Athens last year. He worked on the project alongside his existing commitments to GlaxoSmithKline, where he was the founding Performance Director of its Lucozade Sport Science Academy and British Cycling, where he remained as a consultant to the World Class Performance Programme - roles which will now cease.
"British sport is facing an incredible seven year journey and, put simply, I want to be where the action is and where I feel I can make a real difference.
"My past experience has provided me with a unique insight into how the high-performance system works, having effectively worked on both sides of the fence. As a former performance director I know what you strive to deliver for your athletes and with my recent experience at UK Sport I understand the challenge of trying to allocate resources openly and effectively to support the delivery of medals at the world's biggest sporting events.
Peter Keen built UK Sport's 'No Compromise' funding approach with an eye on the future and the model used is able to be adapted to consider the implications of a successful London bid. On this basis, Keen is already beginning to look at what is required to deliver high level performance in 2012, especially in some of the Olympic sports that have not traditionally held centre stage in the UK.
He continued: "For some sports, the London 2012 Games represent an immense challenge and seven years is only just sufficient time to build a truly competitive performance base, when you consider the number of nations out there who are already competitive and just keep getting stronger. At the same time, we can't take our eye off the sports we are already working with and supporting their medal ambitions for the 2008 Games in Beijing."
The 41 year-old was formerly coach to Olympic champion Chris Boardman, and was instrumental in creating the Lottery funded World Class Performance Programme for British Cycling which saw the GB team move from 13th to fourth in the world rankings between 1998 and 2002.
"Being at the cutting edge is vital in today's elite sport environment, where the smallest of margins determine victory. So we are building a world class team to help make that difference. Peter's expertise has greatly enhanced our capacity to support performance staff in Governing Bodies, Institutes, BOA and BPA to deliver a world class support service to athletes, improving their chances of winning medals in Beijing and London in 2012."
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Vrabel backs up decision to play for win vs. Chargers
Published: Oct 22, 2018 at 04:02 AM
Herbie Teope
Don't expect Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel to second-guess his decision to go for a win Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers in London.
The Titans scored a touchdown with 31 seconds remaining in regulation to make the score 20-19, and Vrabel elected to keep the offense on the field instead of kicking the extra point to force a potential overtime.
And the first-year head coach made the decision to go for two points long before the Titans scored.
"I told the team that we made a decision that we're going to be aggressive," Vrabel said after the game. "And early in the drive, when that drive started, I thought in my mind that if we scored -- when we scored -- if there was less than 40 seconds we were going to go for two, we're going to win the game. And if there was a minute and 30, we're going to kick the extra point and go play defense."
The Titans got exactly what Vrabel was looking for with 4:55 remaining in the contest after forcing a Chargers punt.
Starting at their own 11-yard line and with quarterback Marcus Mariota leading the charge, the Titans methodically marched down the field with a 13-play, 89-yard drive, which Mariota capped off with a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Luke Stocker.
The two-point conversion attempt produced drama, as the first crack at it failed after Mariota's pass in the end zone fell incomplete. A Chargers' defensive holding penalty, however, provided another at the 1-yard line.
But instead of running the ball, the Titans called for another pass play and Mariota's pass to wide receiver Taywan Taylor fell incomplete.
While the decision to go for the win didn't provide the desired results, Vrabel's confidence in his players didn't waver in the critical moment.
"I'm just trying to do what's best for the team," Vrabel said. "I'm trying to find a way to a football game and haven't done a very good job the last three weeks. Again, I have a lot of faith in our players. We prepare, we work together, and then I've got confidence in them to go out there and execute. And so faced with the same situation, I'd like to think that I would do it the same way."
Sunday's loss dropped the Titans to 3-4 on the season and the team enters the bye week on a three-game slide.
The two-point conversion plays didn't work, but Vrabel's players appreciated the aggression to go for the win.
"I loved it, I loved the call," Mariota said. "I love that he has the confidence in us to go make that. We just didn't execute."
Stocker echoed his quarterback.
"We love the aggression, we love the play call," Stocker said in the locker room. "We hope he does it every time."


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Q: Compiler confuses variable declaration with a function prototype Consider the following code
struct A {
    A() { /* do something */ }
};

struct B {
    B(const A& a) { /* do something*/ }
};

int main() {
    B b(A());
    // the rest of the code
}

So I intended to define b as a variable constructed from a temporary instance of A. However, compiler comprehends this line as a function prototype declaration:
warning C4930: 'B b(A (__cdecl *)(void))': prototyped function not called (was a variable definition intended?)

Can someone explain what's going on and how to do what I intended? Is this some known ambiguity resolved by the standard towards a function prototype rather than variable definition?
I know B b = A(); works, however, I don't like how it looks. It doesn't show the intent.


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Q: RecyclerView onClickListener not firing (Kotlin) I'm trying to implement a onClickListener for my Kotlin RecyclerView. It's simply not firing. The code isn't marked red or something like that. The Log and Toast you see in the NotesActivity.kt are not being executed. My recyclerview is working in itself, but simply the onClickListener wouldn't fire.
NotesAdapter.kt
class NotesAdapter(private val dataSet: MutableList<Note>) :
    RecyclerView.Adapter<NotesAdapter.ViewHolder>() {

var clickListener: ClickListener? = null

inner class ViewHolder(view: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(view), View.OnClickListener {

    val textViewTitle: TextView
    val textViewBody: TextView

    init {
        // Define click listener for the ViewHolder's View.
        textViewTitle = view.findViewById(R.id.textViewTitle)
        textViewBody = view.findViewById(R.id.textViewBody)

        if (clickListener != null) {
            itemView.setOnClickListener(this)
        }
    }

    override fun onClick(view: View?) {
        if (view != null) {
            clickListener?.onItemClick(view, adapterPosition)
        }
    }
}

fun setOnItemClickListener(clickListener: ClickListener) {
    this.clickListener = clickListener
}

interface ClickListener {
    fun onItemClick(v: View, position: Int)
}

// Create new views (invoked by the layout manager)
override fun onCreateViewHolder(viewGroup: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): ViewHolder {
    // Create a new view, which defines the UI of the list item
    val view = LayoutInflater.from(viewGroup.context)
            .inflate(R.layout.adapter_note_layout, viewGroup, false)

    return ViewHolder(view)
}

// Replace the contents of a view (invoked by the layout manager)
override fun onBindViewHolder(viewHolder: ViewHolder, position: Int) {

    // Get element from your dataset at this position and replace the
    // contents of the view with that element
    viewHolder.textViewTitle.text = dataSet[position].title
    viewHolder.textViewBody.text = dataSet[position].body
}

override fun getItemCount() = dataSet.size
}

NotesActivity.kt
    adapter = NotesAdapter(mutableListOf())
    recyclerView.adapter = adapter

    adapter.setOnItemClickListener(object : NotesAdapter.ClickListener {
        override fun onItemClick(v: View, position: Int) {

            Log.i("test", "pos: $position")

            Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "pos: $position", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
        }
    })

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A: You just need to set your listener before you set your adapter to recycler.
Just change your code from
adapter = NotesAdapter(mutableListOf())
recyclerView.adapter = adapter

adapter.setOnItemClickListener(object : NotesAdapter.ClickListener {
    override fun onItemClick(v: View, position: Int) {

        Log.i("test", "pos: $position")

        Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "pos: $position", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
    }
})

to this
 adapter = NotesAdapter(mutableListOf())
 adapter.setOnItemClickListener(object : NotesAdapter.ClickListener {
    override fun onItemClick(v: View, position: Int) {

        Log.i("test", "pos: $position")

        Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "pos: $position", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
    }
})

recyclerView.adapter = adapter


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Escondido, CA - Escondido Public Library invites adult readers to join the 2nd Tuesday Book Club meeting on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, at 6:00 PM in the Board Room. This month's selection is The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened to the police, her husband, Bazil, or their thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. The 2nd Tuesday Book Club will continue on January 14, 2014, with a discussion on The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. The selection for February 11, 2014, will be The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier.
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Hopefully this new update fixes a lot of problems with this box. It seems that corruption of kodi & my TV online will get fixed it, as it seems to happen the more I use this box. I know that it is fairly new but a little disappointed that I have had to do a factory reset twice. Not a big deal for me, but other people with less knowledge would be more frustrated with a lot of bugs on this box that they would not know how to fix.
My optimism, and enthusiasm for the z7+ is on its last legs. All week won't boot, cycles of reboots and now I just did a factory reset and Ali get is the circles of death. The factory reset I did from the menu and it never booted again. What else can I do to make it work? I really wanted to love this box but I'm thinking to send it back and return to the T2.
When is the next sw update due to fix all these boot and stability issues? I want to be supportive but I just can't find a fix for my problems and it's been every time I want to use the box. Never experienced anything like this on the T1 or T2 and as I said it won't boot after factory reset!
After a factory reset everything went back to normal. I took out my SD card just in case reloaded a couple of apps & it seems to work fine. Not sure if the latest update is causing this issue or not. Will wait for the official update & see what happens.


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Theodore W. Allen Shied Away From The Term "whiteness"
Tags: Theodore W. Allen, Ted Allen, whiteness, #whiteness, #whiteprivilege, #whiteskinprivilege, white race, white privilege, white race identity problem, white skin privilege
Theodore W. Allen on "whiteness"
Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) did pioneering work on "white privilege" and "white skin privilege" from the mid-1960s until his death in 2005. He shied away from the term "whiteness." As he explained:
". . . it's an abstract noun, it's an abstraction, it's an attribute of some people, it's not the role they play. And the white race is an actual objective thing. It's not anthropologic, it's a historically developed identity of European Americans and Anglo-Americans and so it has to be dealt with. It functions . . . in this history of ours and it has to be recognized as such . . . to slough it off under the heading of 'whiteness,' to me seems to get away from the basic white race identity problem."
The fullest treatment of the development of Theodore W. Allen's work can be found in "The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights From Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy," available in PDF format HERE (at the top left) and HERE.
For articles, audios, and videos by and about Theodore W. Allen CLICK HERE.
For a video on Theodore W. Allen's "The Invention of the White Race" Click Here
For information on Theodore W. Allen's Vol. II: "The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo America" (including comments from scholars and activists) published by Verso Books with a new, internal study guide CLICK HERE.
For information on Theodore W. Allen's Vol. I: "Racial Oppression and Social Control" (including comments from scholars and activists) published by Verso Books with a new, internal study-guide CLICK HERE.
For Sean Ahern's review of Theodore W. Allen's "The Invention of the White Race" (Verso Books) in "Black Commentator" CLICK HERE.
For another video "On Theodore W. Allen, 'The Invention of the White Race,' and White Supremacy in U.S. Labor History" – An Interview with Jeffrey B. Perry at the Labor and Working Class History Association Conference in New York City CLICK HERE.


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Even Pierre and Oliver are getting in on cuddle season.
Meanwhile, Belle will more than likely go to her new home today and Ranger hopefully will go to his home on Wednesday. It occurred to me that as I adopt each kitten out, they will probably never see their siblings again. That feels awful. I know they will have plenty to enjoy in their new lives, but it makes me really sad knowing they will lose relationship with their biological family.
Before I pack Belle up, I'll tell her to say goodbye to darling siblings for the last time. Makes me cry just thinking about it. I don't think this fostering thing is for me, too emotionally hard.
don't worry, they don't seem to have the same feelings about family.
my cat Missie is larruping her mother big time. her mother is afraid like hell of her daughter, she would be more happy to be the only cat in the house.
I've been fostering for almost 2 years now and I can promise you, that kitties thrive in their new homes, if they are the right homes, of course. Even if we think they will be suffering their loss (both their cat and foster human family), they really don't. THey can be feeling lost at the beginning but they adapt soon. My fear was that they will think we don't want them anymore, but I am sure they don't think in those terms. They live for the now, not for the past, not for the future. I think they are lucky to have had a good foster home. now your "job" is done and you can offer you love and care to another kitty in need.
Don't fret the fostering...after this litter I'm willing to lay odds that you'll get the desire again eventually. Although it's gotta be hard to let go.
Yep, it is most difficult but oh how they need you.
I know that those who do rescue/fostering especially experience the ups and downs of finding forever homes. I watch on the sidelines and feel the pull of wanting to keep the families intact. But, I suppose that the cats feel differently than we do. WE have the capacity to foresee the future and they look no further than the moment. Once a kitty is in a forever home they don't look back...so give yourself the gift of knowing you are doing what is actually the best for them, even though it may not feel like it. I say that, and I would probably be in tears too.
I love Angel Abby's reply. Giving them up although you have to in fostering would be so hard.


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Labor's appalling track record on VLine
Labor's appalling track record on…
Frustrating delays on country train lines are leaving more and more regional Victorians stranded at the station with VLine punctuality plummeting again in July.
Seven of VLine's 11 services failed to meet their targets while more than half of the services on the north east line ran late last month, according to the latest VLine performance figures.
Geelong, Bendigo, Gippsland, Warrnambool, Ararat/Maryborough, Albury-Wodonga and Bairnsdale all failed to meet the 92 per cent punctuality target.
The north east line recorded just 48.3 per cent of trains arriving on time in July – plummeting to its lowest point since month performance data was published.
A quarter of all trains on the Bairnsdale line also ran late (76.8 per cent) last month.
Comment attributable to Shadow Minister for Regional Public Transport Steph Ryan
The Premier for Melbourne has hit the brakes on VLine by failing to make the investment that's needed to deliver reliable, modern, comfortable, fast regional rail services.
Labor are deaf to the countless Victorians who are inconvenienced on a daily basis by delays, breakdowns and cancellations.
The Federal Liberal Nationals continue to do the heavy lifting to deliver better country rail services, contributing more than $1.6 billion towards $1.75 billion in rail upgrades across regional Victoria.
Daniel Andrews has found billions to pour into level crossing cost blowouts in Melbourne but he's abandoned country Victorians.
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PUBG Patch 1.2 brings a new single experience, Runic Power mode, and more
Post author:mahaite
Post published:13 January، 2021
When it comes to commitment PUBG Corporation With new corrections and additions to its game, "PUBG"There is no timeline for the company to settle on, as in December there was no update, and now there are additions to PUBG 1.2 including new content for everyone to enjoy, and a Runic Power mode that enables players to choose from three new skills, to Along with new weapons, options and many improvements.
And through the trailer below, the PUBG 1.2 patch introduces a large number of new content to explore, and perhaps the most prominent addition is the new and upcoming Runic Power mode to enhance the unique abilities that will be useful in battle.
Starting today, players have the final chapter, called Metro Royale: Honor, and in which ratings and inventory will be reset in Metro Royale, keeping Fame and NPC favorites, there's even a new Honor system that will give players the ability to stack Honor from To unlock new audio packs, outfits, and bonuses.
As for weapons, there is a new assault rifle that uses 5.56 mm ammunition and it supports 25 rounds per store, making it an ideal rifle for close range combat, its printing supports the accessories of binoculars and much more.
In terms of improvements in the game of PUBG, there is an improvement in Cheer Park's performance and a significant reduction in the size of resource downloads along with support for downloading in the background, last and as usual, more content will be released with the launch of the last season, and this means that players can expect the arrival of the new Power Armor mode At the start of February, they'll be collecting and equipping powerful armor pieces in an effort to unlock Dragon's Breath Grenade / so there's definitely more content to look forward to next month.
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Death Lies Waiting - new book.
I am overwhelmed by how many of you are asking me to do a sequel to 'What Lies Within'. For some reason it seems to be enjoying a new lease of life. I am humbled, thank you.
If you've read my previous blogs you'll know that I've been working on a sequel for a long time now, but Scrivener keeps strangling it at birth!


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UFC on the big screen: how good are MMA movies?
UFC is a global phenomenon, with millions of people tuning into UFC 196 to see Conor McGregor take on Nate Diaz.
Despite McGregor's loss, there's no doubt that he's one of UFC's biggest stars. And history suggests that he will eventually, like other big UFC fighters, star in his own movie. In fact, another UFC star, Ronda Rousey, has gone on record to say she'd like to star as Samus Aran in a Metroid movie and was rumoured to be cast in a remake of Roadhouse.
But should MMA stars stick to the octagon? We had a look at some of their previous movies to find out.
Produced by Tap Out, Locked Down stars Kimbo Slice and Rashad Evans. Neither has to stray too far from their roots either, as they both play fighters.
The plot sees a cop set up by a criminal boss (played by ex-soccer star Vinnie Jones) and forced to join an underground fighting circuit to clear his name.
Although Slice and Evans do a decent job, the movie only scores 4.3/10 on IMDB. Still, it's pretty good if you like your MMA with a bit of story.
Héctor Echavarría, a real-life karate master, directs and stars in this tale of an underground fighting circuit a dude has to survive. The stakes are much higher than your usual UFC bout though, with most fights descending into blood-spattered death matches.
This one is billed as starring 'the world's top MMA fighters in their first feature film'. It's not lying on that front either, with a good chunk of the UFC roster appearing: Georges St-Pierres, Anderson Silva, B.J. Penn and Quinton Jackson to name just a few.
Unfortunately, audiences don't seem to have taken to this one either. It only has 2.7/10 on IMDB, with a lot of the criticism aimed at the fight sequences and acting. That score would land it in IMDB's Bottom 100, but it wasn't released theatrically so doesn't qualify.
Unrivaled
Two of the biggest forces in MMA moviemaking, Tap Out and Héctor Echavarría, teamed up for Unrivalled, which sees the best fighter in the world (who doesn't realise it yet) join a competition to fight in Maximum Cage Warriors, the movie's version of UFC. He'll have to defeat his arch-nemesis to win though.
It's a bit like Karate Kid, but more brutal and not quite as good: IMDB users scored it just 4.1/10.
Hell's Chain
Yep, it's another Héctor Echavarría production/starring vehicle! This time, Héctor moves away from the Octagon to take on the world of international assassination.
After his family are murdered by his old cronies in 'The Deadly Assassins', Héctor goes on a revenge mission. It's like Kill Bill, except with tons of MMA fighters. Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierres and Frank Mir all make an appearance.
Despite the 4.6 rating on IMDB, we think Hell's Chain sounds pretty awesome.
Every 'Scorpion King' movie that doesn't star The Rock
Various UFC stars have tried to the fill the Rock-shaped hole at the heart of The Scorpion King franchise, with Randy Couture appearing as the main villain in the 2nd, Kimbo Slice appearing in the 3rd and Royce Gracie starring in the 4th.
Despite their best efforts, none of the sequels are as good as the original.
The Eliminator
The Eliminator is a 2004 direct-to-video movie starring Bas Rutten, one of UFC's greatest fighters ever.
While it's not going to be remembered as a cinematic classic, it sounds like pretty good fun. Bas enters a boat race to win $250K but is drugged and kidnapped by Michael Rooker, AKA Merle from The Walking Dead.
He's then forced to compete in a survival game with 6 others, a bit like The Hunger Games but with ex-fighters. It only has 3.6 on IMDB but we reckon this one has 'guilty pleasure' written all over it.
Warrior is maybe the most famous MMA movie of them all, despite having no actual fighters in a lead role. Instead, acting heavyweights Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton star as warring brothers who meet in the Octagon, with Nick Nolte as their father.
Actual MMA fighters do appear though, with Rashad Evans the most notable. With 8.2 on IMDB and 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, this is the pinnacle of MMA movies.
Sly Stallone obviously loves MMA as he cast Randy Couture in a major role as Toll Road, a demolitions expert, in all 3 movies.
In the 3rd movie, Ronda Rousey made her debut on the big screen too as Luna, a nightclub bouncer.
What is your favorite movie starring a UFC fighter? Let us know in the comments!
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The hidden life of a shopaholic
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Debbie Roes is a reformed Shopaholic [Debbie Roes]
Accusing someone of being a shopaholic is usually done in a light-hearted fashion after their latest spending spree. But for many people, it really is no laughing matter.
Oniomania, more commonly known as shopaholism, is the irresistible desire to purchase things that are not needed. People with a compulsive shopping habit often experience guilt, depression, financial problems and stress – which is usually the main factor that leads people to overspend.
According to a previous study by The Guardian, roughly eight to 16 per cent of British adults were affected by oniomania in 2011.
Harriette Parnes, honorary trainee counselling psychologist at the Centre for Compulsive and Addictive Behaviour (CCAB) told Artefact that anyone who suffers from underlying anxiety or depression can be affected by oniomania.
She said: "For a behaviour to be considered addictive, we would similarly consider the following criteria; a level of tolerance (need for more, decreased effects from the activity), withdrawal symptoms (discomfort and need to self medicate), time spent on the activity, interference with everyday functioning and unsuccessful attempts to stop continued use despite undesirable consequences."
Parnes believes that if shopping is becoming an increasingly problematic behaviour, the first line of defence is stimulus control: avoiding shopping centres or internet shopping sites, cutting up credit cards and avoiding other relevant triggers.
Jerrold Mundis, a writer and a financial therapist who has worked with shopaholics through workshops and seminars across the United States over the years, said: "Compulsive shoppers come from every cultural, educational, and social level imaginable – clerks to cardiologists, professionals to potters, journalists to jacks-of-all-trades, male and female, young and old."
He believes that people can prevent themselves from becoming compulsive shoppers by recognising the symptoms, just like any other addiction.
He continued: "Be honest with yourself. Denial, hiding, rationalising, or justifying are common among compulsive spenders. Recognise and take action against the problem as soon as you can.
"In general, the younger the individual, the less powerfully the condition has settled in. But once young adulthood is reached, the progression can be, and usually is, rapid."
Reformed shopaholic Debbie Roes started the blog titled Recovering Shopaholic in January 2013. It was created as a way for Roes to help both herself and fellow sufferers.
"I wanted to inspire and uplift other compulsive shoppers, so that helped me to stay on track when I faltered." Debbie Roes
Roes realised she was a shopaholic at the age of 22 or 23, when she had to go to her dad to bail her out of credit card debt – twice.
She told Artefact: "He made me promise not to use credit cards after the second time he paid off my bills. I kept my promise for a few years and only shopped with a debit card or cash, but soon fell prey to store credit card offers and gradually got myself into trouble again."
Being a shopaholic really affected Roes' life, as she faced several problems. She explained: "Of course, the most obvious problem is debt. However, there are a lot of other problems such as relationship issues, low self-esteem, and an imbalanced life. I lied about my behaviour, which led to a lot of difficulties in my relationships, especially in my marriage."
But she eventually turned the corner. "Starting my blog was instrumental in my recovery. I wanted to inspire and uplift other compulsive shoppers, so that helped me to stay on track when I faltered."
Roes shares her advice for young people on how to avoid the problems of being a shopaholic: "I would tell them to seek help as soon as possible. I would recommend that they find one trusted friend or family member in whom they can confide and to whom they can be accountable.
"If they don't have such a person in their lives, there are online communities, like my blog, where they can receive support. They can also visit a Debtors Anonymous meeting or seek out a therapist if they have the means to do so."
The blogger believes that people can prevent themselves from becoming shopaholics by valuing themselves more for what they do and who they are rather than what they look like, as people will less likely want to seek acceptance through what they wear.
"It's important to see value in oneself beyond one's appearance, which can be difficult in today's very image-conscious society," she said.
Artefact spoke to some shoppers in Oxford Circus to get their take on why young people tend to shop a lot:
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