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Facebook Instant Games In App Purchases
2. Creating Items to buy
3. Setting up for Testing
4. Displaying the Catalog
5. Purchasing an Item
6. Getting Purchases
7. Consumable Items
Create a Vertical Endless Runner
in this 100+ page book
Part 1 - Introduction to In App Purchases
By Richard Davey on 12th March 2019 @photonstorm
In this tutorial we're going to learn how to create In App purchases within a Facebook Instant Game Phaser 3 game. This is a powerful way for your game to generate revenue if handled correctly.
An In App purchase is the ability for you to sell items directly via your game that players purchase with real money. For example, you could sell a pack of extra levels which are always available to the player, once they have bought them, or allow them to buy a new character to play with.
Items can also be 'consumed' by the player, which you control via your game code. An example of consumable items could be in-game currency, stat boosts or enhancements. Things that, once purchased, are only added to their game once.
Before we get started it's important to be aware that In App purchases are only available on Facebook.com and not on Messenger.com. They are also available if a player is enjoying your game via the Facebook App on Android. Due to Apple limitations, they are not available on the iOS Facebook App, although if your player uses iOS Safari to visit Facebook.com, they do work on there.
Facebook handle all of the payment processing and local currency exchanges for you. All your game needs to do is ensure that anything purchased is instantly awarded to the player.
As with anything in Instant Games that can generate money, you'll need to register with several other Facebook systems first. These are business requirements, due to the different services that handle billing across Facebook. This guide won't cover the administration side of things, as it's nothing to do with the API, but it will provide links on where to get started.
Let's start by adding some products the players can buy in our game.


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Titans: Brenton Thwaites Is a Lover, Not a Fighter; Posts Training Vid
We understand how Titans star Brenton Thwaites might be feeling as far as Dick Grayson aka Nightwing goes, what with all of the changes going on with the live-action series as it heads into its third season. First, the series itself moves to HBO Max as the on-screen action shifts to Gotham. Curran Walters' Jason Todd is done being Robin and all about being the Red Hood, while Savannah Welch's Gotham City Police Commissioner Barbara Gordon (aka Oracle?) is back in his life- but we're still not quite clear what her position is on masked vigilantes. Let's not forget that Dr. Jonathan Crane is also waiting in the wings- and what that could mean. And with Gotham being Gotham, Hera only knows who or what could be waiting to spring up next.
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So with all of that still to come, it makes sense that Thwaites wouldn't waste any time getting back up to on-screen ass-kicking mode- as you're about to see in the following clip. Showing off his new gloves courtesy of his stunt double and stunt professional Mustafa Bulut, the actor shared the first of what he promised would be more training videos to come- along with a heads-up we completely respect: "Disclaimer. I'm not a boxer. I don't like getting hit. I will perform bad jokes or Shakespeare monologue to avoid a fight (which in turn usually gets me hit anyway…)":
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This season, executive producer Greg Walker wants to dig into the backstory on how Donna Troy (Conor Leslie) returns from the land of the dearly departed this season, and what that means in regards to an afterlife and spiritual connections. "It's true, but there are ways we can kinda skirt some of the normal life and death rules for those of us that are kinda more human bound. We've got some exciting opportunities and stories ahead for Donna Troy and Rachel, and the whole underworld we've made. We'll go into what it's like as a transition stage," teased Walker. As for how Donna could potentially return, Walker offered a response that fans on social media have been hinting about for months. "DC Comics loves the Lazarus Pit," Walker teased. "I have no comment about that." As for the impact her electrocution will have on her life moving forward, Walker says that aspect of her story that they will "absolutely explore.
Titans season 3 continues with production. (Images: HBO Max)
Walker also wants fans of Anna Diop's Starfire to know that they're be learning much more about the favorite this season. With Damaris Lewis's Blackfire being upped to a series regular, Walker says viewers will learn more about their home planet of Tamaran and their time there: "We're planning a big season for Kory this year. The arrival of her sister/nemesis Blackfire launches Kory down a path where she uncovers both secrets about her past and clues to her destiny… all of which will lead to her true calling as Starfire. Plus, we have a few other surprises in store for hardcore Starfire fans this season."
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Titans stars Brenton Thwaites (Richard "Dick" Grayson / Nightwing), Anna Diop (Koriand'r / Kory Anders / Starfire), Teagan Croft (Rachel Roth / Raven), Ryan Potter (Garfield "Gar" Logan / Beast Boy), Minka Kelly (Dawn Granger / Dove), Alan Ritchson (Hank Hall / Hawk), Curran Walters (Jason Todd / Red Hood), Conor Leslie (Donna Troy / Wonder Girl), Joshua Orpin (Conner aka Superboy), Savannah Welch (Gotham City Police Commissioner Barbara Gordon), and Jay Lycurgo (Tim Drake aka Robin). Weed Road Pictures and Berlanti Productions produce, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The series was developed by Akiva Goldsman & Geoff Johns & Greg Berlanti, based on characters from DC. Berlanti, Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, Greg Walker, and Sarah Schechter are the executive producers.
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Havana Brown, an Australian singer, born in 14 February 1985. She started her music career as a DJ with Island Records Australia in 2008.
"We Run the Night" is performed by Havana Brown. It was released on April 29, 2011 by Island Records. It was produced by More Mega, and written by Snob Scrilla and Cassie Davis. The song also features vocals from American rapper Pitbull. The official music video was released on May 11, 2011 and was directed by Been Jae. Remix video was released on March 7, 2012.
"We Run the Night" peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs, at number 15 on the Billboard Pop Songs, at number 16 on the Rádio Top 100 Oficiálna, at number 50 on the Romanian Top 100, at number 17 on the VG-lista Chart, at number 44 on the Mexican Airplay Chart, at number 5 on the RIANZ Singles Chart, at number 37 on the French Singles Chart, at number 66 on the IFPI Singles Chart, at number 48 on the Canadian Hot 100 Chart, at number 45 on the Ultratop 40 Wallonia, at number 1 on the ARIA Dance Singles and at number 5 on the ARIA Singles Chart.
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I am a fairly new but active shooter. I have a cz 75b. It was purchased in 2013. I believe it say that it sat whole time. At first I had a couple fte's. But that does not happen any longer. Mostly it will not finish cycling. It fails at least once per magazine. The slide will stop about 1/16th of an inch from locking. I can bang it with my hand and keep keep going. About 500 rounds and it still doesn't fix it.
I would like a suggestion on trigger spring and recoil spring setup. Is Wolff a good brand for this gun?
I haven't researched trigger spring, but read that I should pick the right trigger spring then pick the recoil to match it.
My friend said he always replaces the recoil spring, and said to go slightly heavier like 17#.
That is where I was at when I found this forum.
If you haven't done so already - field strip and clean/lube all the internals, slide rails etc...including behind the extractor and see how it runs before changing springs.
Is it 9mm or 40?I had similar problem with my sp-01 in 40,fixed it by sanding my breech face bit.
CZ SP-01 9mm,CZ SP-01 Shadow,CZ75B Compact,CZ75B Cold War Memo Commemorative,CZ75B SA,DW VBob,Kadet Kit,CZ75B Brushed Stainless,CZ75B Polished Stainless.
Do you shoot reloads and if so have you checked them for fit in the chamber? The rounds could be just touching the leads and keeping it from going into battery.
I cleaned it pretty well a few times, but I did not break down the extractor. I will try that.
It is a 9 mm.
I do not shoot reloads in this. but I will admit I bought armscor 115 grain rounds for practice.
Before we go there, I know that certain rounds perform better than others, and I should settle on one that my gun likes best.
I don't like the idea that I should require a quality round for my weapon to be reliable, however. aside from a limp wrist while shooting, it should work every time. I have a beretta 92fs, that works every time, and I own an Arex zero 1 tactical. both have never failed with the same ammo.
I have been simply working on bringing the gun up and taking two shots from a fairly close range. learning situational shooting, and trying to be able to make combat type shots, so I am ready to perform if needed.
So the quality of the round wasn't important.
Pretty much not interested in any handgun that I cannot trust to fire every time with any ammo.
Guys. I cannot find a video on how to clean the extractor. Can you link one?
If you have a dental pick (or similar) scrape the back of the extractor - the small gap between it and the breech face. Quite often carbon/fouling builds up in there. Removing the extractor is obviously more involved requiring a hammer and punch for the retaining pin (more info in the gunsmithing section of the forum...thread #9 in the stickys).
Dental floss also works while using a little Hoppes or other solvent.
JMHO: I don't lubricate this area. "A very tiny amount" of oil on the spring end is okay.
Thanks all. I ended up using a small finish nail as a punch to open it up, and the area was clean. the gun is too new. bought in 2013, but never used until recently.
I am of the opinion that the springs would help. I would like to lighten the trigger spring by 2 from OEM, and boost the recoil by 3 to 17#.
So far, I have seen much confusion on springs. This gun model has been around for so long, you would think you could get a perfect fit without having to cut a spring, and have it eject the recommended 6 feet.
Any suggestions on the best setup for springs? Manufacturer, and pressure/force?
Check out Wolff Gunsprings...they have a variety of calibration packs available.
Put a 13# hammer spring and a 12# recoil spring in a clean and oiled with Mobil 1 75b 9mm pistol, and it will run smooth as silk. Brass should fly 4-8' with decent 115-124 grain ammo from the big box stores.


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Website or site we can go to see your work: JamesStanfordArt.com and ShimmeringZen.com
Standout Quote: "I can't remember when I was unaware of the magic and power of art."
A lifelong explorer of the visual arts, James Stanford has a storied history that has spanned more than five decades in the Las Vegas art scene. Educator, business man, activist, creative innovator and early adopter of the technological marriage that exists between traditional, straightforward modalities and the new world of computer manipulation, Stanford's artwork uses stunning imagery to create movement and provocative visuals that challenge the eye. His latest project, a book and travelling photomontage exhibition entitled Shimmering Zen, draws inspiration from saved imagery from the iconic structures and signage of his Vegas youth. A kaleidoscope of visual excitement and spiritual reflection, Shimmering Zen pays homage to a life inspired by beauty, the beast, and a few things in between.
Born and raised in Vegas, you got your Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting at UNLV, yet most of what you do now is digital. How did this come about?
I graduated with a BFA in painting in the first graduating class in the newly formed BFA program at UNLV, then was accepted into the Masters of Fine Arts Painting Program at the University of Washington. After graduating from Washington, I came back home to Las Vegas. I wound up taking a job as a black jack dealer to try and pay off some college debts. It was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. It was an opportunity for me to learn more about life. I started teaching drawing at UNLV, became a technical illustrator, then, in 1986, formed my own graphics studio. It was through this transition that I discovered digital art. I started the first graphics studio in Las Vegas to make the transformation from traditional skills to Macintosh computers. By 1987 we had abandoned chemical typesetting and copy cameras and had entered the world of Photoshop and Illustrator.


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Today, my roommate served me with a two-week's notice to vacate the apartment, the day before I leave for 10 days of working in a completely different city 150 miles away. FML
Rock, hard place
Business savvy
By Anonymous - 6/3/2020 18:00
Our house, was a very very very nice house
Today, my house caught on fire. After it was put out, I realized the damage wasn't bad, mainly smoke damage. I went to my parents' for the night because my house smelled. While there, I received a phone call from my neighbor. Apparently, my house caught fire again. It's now a pile of ashes. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Honolulu
Today, I reconnected with my best friend from childhood, and after a tearful confession, found out that for most of my engagement to my husband, she was repeatedly connecting with his penis. FML
Today, I was working at the hospital front desk when an elderly man started hurling racial slurs at another visitor. A fight broke out, so I stepped in and forcibly separated the two. The old man tripped and crashed to the floor. Now I'm under investigation for "contributing to workplace violence." FML
Today, I was hanging out with some friends, and I had to take a dump. After I was done, I realized there was no more toilet paper, so I asked my friends to get me some. They threw in duct tape, sandpaper, and saran wrap, and told me to make a decision. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Redding
Today, I found out that someone I once babysat got a girlfriend before I did. FML
By thefoolwhorippedhispants
Today, I came home from work to realize I had a massive rip in my shorts from my crotch to my crack. I have to lean over constantly in front of dozens of people at my job. Not one person said anything, but now I know why they were chuckling. FML
By whydoidothis - United Kingdom
Today, my colleague and I played yet another wonderful game of 'Tapeworm or Toilet Paper?' in the homeless shelter's toilets we were asked to clean. FML
By leapple - United States
Today, I spent 2 hours doing my hair, doing my make-up, and picking out an outfit to meet some men. On chatroulette. FML
By Anonymous - United Kingdom - Wetheringsett
Today, my boyfriend dumped me for another girl, via a text message ending with "No hard feelings. Well xcept 4 my cock obvs. ;)" Fuck you, Rick. FML
By Andrew - United States
Today, my grandpa told me what he'd do if he was president. I sat there for 30 minutes listening to how he'd get rid of prisons, send all the prisoners to a desert for 5 years and give them a gun to fight over. And then he'd surgically attach child molesters' penises to their foreheads. FML
By RhiannonMuh - Germany - Starnberg
Today, I was on a date with a guy I really like. Everything went well, and then he wanted to kiss me. As he leaned towards me, I got slightly panicky and ducked out of the way, causing him to headbutt the car behind me. Now we know why I'm still a virgin. FML
By anerdmom
Today, while dropping my son off at the bus stop before school, I went to give him a kiss on the cheek. Then, before I was able to make contact, he jumped away, yelled "PSYCH!!!!" as loud as he could, and jumped on the bus. The kids all laughed at me and the other parents looked embarrassed for me. FML
By BackIGo - 15/1/2021 02:01 - Australia
Back to the drawing board
Today, I finished birthday shopping for my husband, my son, and a close friend, who all have birthdays within a week. I was proud of myself for being organized, until I remembered: my husband has a twin sister. FML
Alexa, play "I don't want to talk about it" by Rod Stewart
Today, my man believes he could never be the cause of a breakup. His strategy for eternal love? Try not to feel anything, and if you do, do NOT show it or talk about it. Just completely refuse to engage with your partner in any meaningful way. No fighting equals happiness. Right. FML
By not helping - 17/9/2020 17:02 - United States
Today, I confiscated my daughter's tablet, phone and laptop after I caught her exchanging nudes with boys. My ex then called me in a rage, threatening to take me to court over "stealing his belongings" since he purchased them. No concern for our daughter's behavior, just him wanting the stuff. FML
By bird - United States - Fort Gratiot
Today, I learned that my new parakeet hates her reflection, and will screech loudly day and night unless I take the mirror out. My other parakeet loves the mirror and constantly cries out when I remove it. I can't win. FML
By Melissa - 8/3/2020 14:00
Badmouth Strikes Again
Today, my 7-year-old sister had to tell my mom to watch her language. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Indianapolis
Today, what started as a fun family Easter egg hunt turned within minutes into my mother-in-law's big chance to be a dramatic cow by screaming at my 5 and 7-year-old daughters for participating in a "vile pagan ritual" and saying that we're all going to hell. They're still bawling. FML
By scalmon - United States
Today, while making love to my wife, I let slip her sister's name. I don't think it would calm her down much if I told the truth: I was actually thinking of an ex girlfriend who shares the same name. FML
By Theguyinthedark - Bangladesh
Today, my roommate and I were watching TV, and he ordered a pizza. After it was delivered, I took a slice. He yelled at me for taking his food and told me to stop mooching off him. I had to cover his rent last month and he still hasn't paid me back. FML
By figures - United States
Today, I got a card from the jewelry store thanking me for purchasing an engagement ring a year ago and wishing me and my fiancée a long and everlasting marriage. Too bad my fiancée took off with the pizza delivery boy 6 months ago. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Burbank
Today, I noticed the only time my husband stops snoring like a drunken horse is so that he can fart. FML
Today, my girlfriend dumped me after I told her I was learning how to start having lucid dreams. She was convinced the only reason I could possibly want to have them was so I could cheat on her in my own dreams. FML
By ohmygod582 - United States - Gilbert
Today, I was walking around school alone and felt someone tap my back. I laughed and turned around to find no one was there. I felt confused when I felt the tapping again, which is when I chose to yell at the nearest person, "What?!" I later found out it was a bottle in my backpack tapping me. FML
By ratqueen - Canada - Brampton
Today, I discovered that catching fewer mice in the traps I'd put out doesn't mean my pest problem is getting resolved. It means that rats have moved in. FML
By Kate - United States
Today, my mom said we are having a party for the 4th of July. Her definition of a party is my grandma coming over. FML
By ohai95 - United Kingdom - Worthing
Today, I came out to my parents. I don't really fit any stereotype, I'm just an average guy who happens to be into guys. Ten minutes later, I overheard my mother say to my step-dad, "Should we redecorate his room pink?" FML
By Anonymous - Germany - Bad Windsheim
Today, I went to the supermarket to get some Easter gifts for my kids. At the register, I was verbally abused to the point of tears by the cashier, for having way too many items for the 12 items or less lane. I had 13. FML
By Anonymous - Argentina - Villa Sarmiento
Today, I was giving my son a driving lesson. He blatantly ran a red light, so I told him to pull over to let me drive us home. As I walked over to the driver-side door, he instead locked me out and drove off by himself. FML
By nomorecookies - United States
Today, someone broke into my car just to steal the freshly baked cookies in the back seat. They also left a thank you note. FML
By Anonymous - United Kingdom - Wigan
Today, I found out that even though my girlfriend of 3 years believes sex before marriage or even me just jacking off is a big no, doing online strip-shows for money is a big yes for her. Both times that I've proposed, she claimed she isn't "ready" for marriage. FML
By alipallie - United Kingdom - Ipswich
Today, after running across London to catch my train, I collapsed, panting, into a seat across from a concerned elderly woman. She leaned over to ask whether I had my inhaler and I smiled and nodded. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I'm not asthmatic, just really unfit. FML
By Anonymous - Australia
Today, I laughed about a fold in my girlfriend's jeans that felt like she had a tiny boner. She started crying. Turns out she has a slight deformity. Oops. Explains why we've been taking it so slow. FML
Today, I was driving back from school 100 miles away from my home with my fiancé and dog. While stopping for gas, we accidentally left our car keys and cell phones in the car. The dog sat on one of the keys and engaged the locks. We were locked out of the car until the tow truck arrived. FML
By badadvise - Mexico - Guadalajara
Today, I found out my marriage counselor is currently going through her second divorce. FML
Oh, hai Mark!
Today, my boyfriend's antisocial father actually decided to talk to me. Too bad I couldn't respond, due to the fact that I still had his son's penis in my mouth. FML
Today, I was lost in a foreign city so I asked a girl for directions. She replied, "Directions? ONE DIRECTION!" and started screaming in my face and jumping around. FML
By now sharing the blessing - United States - New York
Today, while battling a severe flu, I was forced to come to work by my manager. Upon arrival, I discovered that a colleague he likes who should be covering for me is out today. The reason? Her shoes hurt. FML
By None - United States
Today, I auditioned for the musical at my school. Before I sang my song, I gave my music to the director. She said "Oh, I love this song!". After I sang it, she told me, "Its okay, I still like the song." FML
By Luckless
Today, I'm preparing my defense for allegedly stalking someone at work. The best part, I have absolutely no clue who it is. Now my skin is crawling as I go through all the messages and in person events that occurred with my actual twice-my-age stalker to show my boss what a real stalker does. FML
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#7789406 - Thursday 4 April 2019 0:40
Well, what do your local housing laws require as minimum notification of an "end of lease" in a written rental contract?
In the the US, each city has a local gov't housing dept. to help resolve landlord/ tenant issues.
Else let 'em know to contact your new contract attorney instead.
(Try the "bluff" first before contacting one - or do so yourself anyway for that free first consult to find out what your rights are.)
Or are you unfortunately illegally subletting/ have only a verbal rental contract?
By tounces7 | 27
Unless you're behind on rent or actively violating something in the lease, the standard requirement is 30 days notice in the US.
And that assumes that your roommate owns the place. If they don't, they can't do shit to you.
By 25000bees | 10
kill them take the apartment
or just ask for more time
davidfong | 14
I think you summed up what he needs to do perfectly.
By leximichelle | 13
They would need to file for eviction if you're not out by that time, which would rake at least a week, but maybe up to a month. Research eviction laws in your area, but you should be fine.
By TxKitten79 | 10
Your roommate can't do that. Talk to an attorney. after telling you to vacate, if you dont leave they have to go through an eviction process. and unless your roommate is your landlord, they cant legally evict you anyway.
You'll have 3 to 4 days to clear out.
Life's better when you're a math genius.
By Sarah_360767614 | 8
#7789504 - Thursday 4 April 2019 10:42
By MitiMiki | 16
As a former landlord, and assuming you live in the U.S., your roommate cannot do that. It is illegal. You can trust me when I say this, getting somebody out of a rental unit if they pay the rent and don't want to go voluntarily, takes a hell of a lot longer than two weeks.


Charles D. Martin has experienced tremendous success in the business/financial world and has made an impact on many levels. He has now turned his attention to becoming an author.
His second book, Nadia's Obssession was a follow-up to his pilot book Provacateur. Charles made the amazing transition from being the Founder of 2 mega-successful investment firms to becoming an award winning author.
Charles was on to speak what has motivated him all these years to keep going, to keep getting back up and fighting, and ultimately now to become a successful author.
We spoke about the road to success, not just the by-product and Charles had a lot to say about that.
Martin grew up in a small town in Ohio. His parents were poor, but he was able to put himself through college by working two jobs. Martin later had a highly successful career in venture capital and private equity. He founded a pair of investment firms that he managed for two decades.
He runs a thriving hedge fund, Mont Pelerin Capital LLC, and serves on investment committees for prominent universities. His wealth of knowledge about people, finance and technology translates well in his novels.
Martin's first book, "Provocateur" (August 2012, Chaney-Hall Publishing), invited readers into the intriguing world of Nadia Borodina, a Russian orphan who comes to America, is thrust into the high life of powerful men and transforms into a crafty femme fatale. "Nadia's Obsession" (August 2013) continues her story with bold twists and turns.


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Blood?brain barrier delivery of protein and non-viral gene therapeutics with molecular Trojan horses
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/Home/Biologics Delivery - Protein Synthesis
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Journal of Controlled Release
Copyright ? 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
aDepartment of Medicine, UCLA, Warren Hall 13-164, 900 Veteran Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
The products of biotechnology, recombinant proteins, monoclonal antibodies, antisense, RNA interference, or non-viral gene transfer, cannot be developed as pharmaceuticals for the brain, unless these molecules are re-formulated to enable transport across the blood?brain barrier (BBB). Large molecule drugs, and plasmid DNA, can be delivered across the BBB with receptor-specific molecular Trojan horses. Trojan horse BBB delivery systems, coupled with one of 3 different technology platforms (fusion proteins, avidin?biotin, or Trojan horse liposomes), can enable the BBB transport of virtually any large molecule drug or plasmid DNA.
Keywords: Blood?brain barrier; Drug targeting; Insulin receptor; Fusion protein
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Bill Clinton in Blue Bell Tuesday; Trump, Kaine in Pa. Friday
BLUE BELL, Pa. (WTXF/AP) - President Bill Clinton is getting ready to campaign for his wife, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, at a public event in Montgomery County.
Organizers say he'll lay out the high stakes of November's election for Pennsylvania families and highlight Hillary Clinton's vision for an America that is stronger together, with an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top.
The former president should start at 3pm at Montgomery County Community College's Parkhouse Atrium, 340 Dekalb Pike in Blue Bell.
Doors opened at 2pm.
On Friday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent's running mate, Tim Kaine, will both be campaigning in Pennsylvania.
Trump plans a 4pm rally at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena, a 4,000-seat junior league hockey arena in Johnstown.
Kaine will be in State College, near Penn State University's main campus. Details of Kaine's appearance have not yet been released.
Pennsylvania is considered a key battleground state.
Last Clinton-Trump debate LIVE WEDNESDAY at 9pm on FOX 29. Moderated by FOX News' Chris Wallace in Las Vegas.
'He wasn't breathing': Burlington County man thanks couple who performed CPR after heart attack
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Q: Probability intuition: Value or Ratio? While doing some unrelated work, I ran into a dilemma on probability, which can be stated as follows.

In a game of chess, you can either lose ($0$ points), draw ($\frac12$ points), or win ($1$ points). At some specific moment, you can make two moves, $A$ or $B$. You know, for both the moves, the probabilities of winning, drawing, or losing.
  $$\begin{array}{c|c|c|c}&Win&Draw&Loss\\\hline A&0.2&0.6&0.2\\B&0.3&0.1&0.6\end{array}$$
  Which move should you make?

Here's where I get a bit confused. $B$ has a higher win percentage than $A$, so I should play $B$. But in $A$, I have equal chances of winning or losing, while in $B$, I have twice the chance of losing as winning.
The expected point value of $A$ is $0.5$, and $B$ is $0.35$. However, I am playing only one game, so I should play $B$ because it has a higher winning percentage.
Which move should I play?
Please help.

A: As already stated in the comments, the objective function needs to be specified as part of the problem statement and can't be deduced mathematically.
Near the beginning of a round-robin tournament, the expected utility a player derives from a game result can be approximated by the expected number of points. In this case, you should play $A$, as the expected number of points is $\frac12$, whereas it is lower for $B$.
Near the end of a round-robin tournament, especially in the last round, a player typically knows which result she needs in order to win the tournament. For instance, you may need to win the game in order to win the tournament, or you may know that you're sure to win the tournament if you can secure a draw. In this case, if you need to win, you should play move $B$, since it has the higher probability of winning, whereas if you want to secure a draw, you should play $A$, since it has the lower probability of losing.

A: As others have said, it depends. Decisions require probabilities, value of outcomes, risk-aversion, etc.

*

*If you get your head cut off when not winning, play B.

*If you get your head chopped off when loosing, play A.

*If you get the number of points in dollars you can use expected
values. A is then worth $.2+.6/2=.5$ and B is worth $.3+.1/2=.35$,
hence play A.

*If you get the number of points in billions of dollars you may want
to play it safe and play A.
ps. I am assuming you are not infinitely rich and want to keep your neck intact.
 :)

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Is My Horse Getting All of His Vitamins?
I bought two Thoroughbreds from the racetrack in Oct '09. I began by feeding a store brand sweet and SafeChoice pellets and fed on the maintenance level. I switched to Purina brands-Strategy Healthy Edge (texturized) and Omolene 100 or 200 (sweet) whichever I could get. I feed according to the recommended exercise level printed on the bag. I was told by feeding two different feeds that the horses are not getting the recommended vitamins from the grains. In my thinking, as closely related as these two feeds are that the horses are still getting full vitamins. I said if I eat half of your broccoli and half of my broccoli, I am still getting a full serving of vegetables! Could you explain what the difference is? Thank you! By the way, my horses also get daily SmartPaks!
We appreciate your business! However, your statement about switching grains frequently worries me. So my first piece of advice is to find a grain that you can reliably get and afford, that the horses like, and that seems to work well for them, then stick with it. Changing grain (or forage) on a horse "upsets the apple cart" of the microbial population in the intestine and can cause digestive imbalances.
Next issue: I completely see your point that you ought to be able to feed two similar grains and meet your horses' recommended daily requirements of important nutrients. In the past, I've always recommended that horse owners simply trust the wisdom of the fortified grain manufacturers and choose one product, feeding it at the level recommended on the bag for the horse's age, weight and workload. However, if you're good at math (and weighing things) and want to do the homework, you can probably figure out how much of each product needs to be provided to complete and balance the vitamins, minerals and protein in your horse's diet. I guess I'm lazy and prefer to have it done for me by experts in the field!
Just remember that it's the weight of the grain, not the volume, that matches up with the guaranteed analysis and feeding directions. So no feeding by the quart or coffee can! Also, fortified grains like the brands you mentioned have their vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other nutrients tied to their calories (when one goes down they all go down). That means if you start feeding less pounds than the recommended amount because your horses are gaining too much weight, you'll also be feeding less vitamins, minerals, etc.
So, then, if you have an easy keeper or chubby horse, couldn't you feed LESS of the of the fortified grain and add a ration balancer?
Hi June, thanks for your question! You're absolutely right that an easy keeper could be fed less or even NO grain. He probably doesn't need the sugar or calories! However, he does still need the vitamins and minerals that a ration balancer or multi-vitamin/mineral supplement provides. Keep in mind that the difference between a ration balancer and "multi-vitamin" is that the ration balancer also contains protein and is fed at a rate of 1-2 pounds per day, while the multi-vitamin usually just contains vitamins and minerals and only 1-2 ounces per day is given. So typically a ration balancer is fed alone as the "grain," while a multi-vitamin can be given with a small amount of fortified grain or fed alone.
We have found that all of our OTTBs as well as our currently racing Tbs do awesome on Triple Crown's feeds. My Mare who is a VERY hard keeper was originally on a Purina feed for a few years was not really putting substantial weight on. She was using twice the dose of weight builder as well as hay stretcher and was still "ribby" she is wormed regularly, teeth done every 6 months etc. after suffering her first 2 colics (which occured 7 years after i purchased her) During the course of a year had 7 colics the first she was hospitalized and the last they thought she had ruptured as she went down while being tubed and were ready to euthanise her. Due to me and my mare personally having the unofficial record of most colics in the area, we as a farm started researching feeds. we switched our hay from locally grown hay which had basically nothing for nutritional support to upstate NY or canadian hay. we switched to triple crown complete. now all of our OTTBs are at healthy weights have fewer to no issues with their ulcers and are maintining their weight very well. the feed is easier to digest and we are feeding half of what we fed of the purina pelleted feed and getting excellent nutritional support. our current trainers and racers are blooming on TC Training formula and our 2 metabolically challenged warmbloods are on TC low starch and their vet says they "look awesome". My mare has also had her ulcers treated twice and currently recieves smart digest daily. and i hope i don't jinx my self but my mare and the farm have also been colic free since the whole changeover. I'm not saying it's a cure all but it worth taking the time researching and hooking up with the feed that meets your needs rather than bouncing from brand to brand or having to mix brands or 2 different feeds.
I know this blog post is back from 2011, but I have an 8 year old paint quarter horse who is on Purina Strategy and gets 1 pound in the morning and 1 pound at night. He is on a timothy grass round bale all day, salt lick, and Magnesium because he is constantly worried about things. He is a very picky eater and did not like the ration balancer I had him on. Is there something else to put him on or keep up the grain?


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Another professor at UC Berkeley, Richard Walker, has just written a book on the subject of the Bay Area, Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area, which both traces the history of information technology and considers the implications climate change will have for Silicon Valley. In the words of a recent study of the area, "San Francisco won the information age lottery, becoming the world center of that technological revolution."2 To a millenial such as myself, this "luck" of the Bay Area is obvious, but, as Walker shows, the economic focalization of the Tech Industry in the Bay Area has far little to do with luck.
Walker, Professor Emeritus of Geography, has a wealth of experience writing about the area; he has published three books on California since 1990 on topics ranging from agribusiness to conservation of ecology.3 In Pictures of a Gone City Walker appears comfortable applying his geographer's lens while conducting a tour de force of class analysis, geographic history, and prediction of the future of the Bay Area's tech sector. The book gets around to the subject of climate change in the chapter titled "Saving Greenland: Environmentalism in the Age of Global Warming." He praises the past environmental accomplishments of the Bay Area, "but praising past achievements is no longer enough." This sentiment could be applied to the entirety of Pictures of a Gone City. Ultimately I was left questioning the point of starting on a positive note—praising the Bay Area's past environmental, economic, and technological achievements—when these efforts have always been entangled with the exploitative imperatives that Walker criticizes.
The dream of the internet was disintermediation—the removal of the cultural and physical mediators that influence our lives—and yet the internet is mediated by wires and physical infrastructure that is vulnerable to climate change. The type of disintermediation that we now call "connecting" on the internet, both to other users and to the information that is being organized, is ultimately only the illusion of disintermediation. Our lives on the internet are mediated by algorithms and software, and even by the font on your favorite social media platform. Mediators exist on the internet, and their design is inherently political. Walker looks at how we came to trust the infrastructures and creators of the internet. He thinks that "there is more at work here than the love of machines and technologies." Considering the capitalist idea of progress and the wish to dominate the natural environment, he concludes that the separation of humanity from nature has underpinned the dream of capitalism (he invokes the famous Marx quotation, "all that's solid melts into air.") This feeling of immateriality in many ways perfectly describes the internet.
Walker takes time to describe a world which is now quite familiar. As he spends the opening chapters describing the terrifying—albeit fascinating—ahistory of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, he is not only nostalgic, but even expresses wonder at the world these technology giants have created. He forgets that many of his readers, and most students, grew up in a world where many of these economic and technological changes were already under way; many of the innovations he marvels at are only astonishing to those who can remember a world without them.
Pictures of a Gone City is divided into three parts, the first of which takes a look behind the facade of wealth and celebrity that tends to obscure some of the technical aspects of how Silicon Valley operates. Walker traces the history of growth that has occured in San Francisco since the 1980s. While the rest of the country faltered during the recession, the Bay Area continued full throttle into prosperity with growth in personal income exceeding that in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Boston.
Much of the first part of the book, "The Golden Economy," looks at the development of enterprise forms that are now commonplace: the startup, social networking sites, and web portals. He acknowledges the effect of the Silicon Valley entrepreneur on the larger economy: "The mythology of the plucky tech entrepreneur has diffused around the world, becoming a key element in the capitalist dream world of today." The unfurling of Silicon Valley capitalism has not only changed the way we interact with the economy, but also formed a whole generation. If people are socialized to be productive human capital within the economy in which they are raised, then millennials were shaped to be productive within the confines of Neoliberalism. It is from this tech-dominated social imaginary that we seek to escape.4 The internet provides this escape, if only for a few minutes on the subway, or at the office. The escapism the internet offers may feel like connection, but in a time of environmental catastrophe our lives in the virtual world appear more like a disconnection.
In the second half of part one, Walker flips the spectacle of continual upward financial growth on its head, showing how the vast majority of the wealth generated from Silicon Valley is funneled to a handful of billionaires. He illustrates how the housing market has struggled to respond to the quick changes in market caused by the tech industry, and he shows that San Francisco has a higher poverty measure than any other Bay Area county. The reader is not only meant to question why this disparity exists, but to ask who is responsible. In a list of the "Bay Area's Fifty Billionaires, 2016"5 tech tops the list with a total of 24 billionaires compared to 11 in finance.
Walker understands the problems climate change poses to the physical infrastructure of the internet. The Bay Area sits precariously along the largest estuary on the West Coast. The rising sea levels are only made worse by high tides and coastal storms. King tides, which mostly occur in the winter, can add a foot or two to already enormous storm tides, creating storm surges over 50% larger than regular tides. Walker points out that real-estate developers have been eager in the last decade to buy up low ground, which is needed for most industry, housing, and transportation. While Save The Bay, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and restoring the San Francisco Bay Area, has done much to stop this development, they may be too late. Although Houston and Miami have "set the bar so low that the Bay Area cannot help but look good by comparison," Walker makes a contrast with the Netherlands. On an ancient estuary, the Dutch have transformed the Rhine and Scheldt into dry land and have engineered the way the river flows. But Walker does not see this as a likely solution for San Francisco. The studies that have been done, such as the "California Sea-Level Rise Guidance Document" from 2010, have been "strong on warnings but short on specific responses to sea-level rise." He points out that, although Save The Bay helped vote in Proposition A in 2016—a $25 million per year tax on all property in the nine county Bay Area which goes to the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority—there is only so much that can be done to transform marshlands, and more drastic measures must be taken.
The Rockefeller Foundation is named as giving $5 million in "resiliency design projects" for the region. What is it that they are looking to protect? It is clear that although the dream of the age of Information Technology was to have complete disintermediation and a shift from the physical to the virtual, the physical world is crashing in on all sides, and ecological systems will not bend to the utopian ideals of Silicon Valley. Fires have been tearing through Northern California and in the Bay Area; "farther out, idyllic housing developments for second homes and miniranches are even more exposed. The people who move into such neighborhoods love the sense of open space and contact with nature, and just to put an exclamation point on it they plant up their yards with more trees and shrubbery and fail to adequately prepare safety cordons around their houses. Such places are urban wildfires waiting to happen." It is ironic that those attempting to leave the city in an effort to reconnect with nature are subject to this violent awakening. Is this the reconnection suburban Californians in the Bay Area are seeking? The planting of shrubbery and trees only illuminates the degree to which the connection is an imaginary one. However, with global climate change nature is no longer something that is acted upon, but something that acts on us. With the realization that nature can no longer be compartmentalized into a cute, controllable state, an escape into the virtual world that Silicon Valley idealizes may seem all the more appealing.
The third part of Pictures of a Gone City traces the "Dreams, Nightmares, and Political Realities" of the Bay Area. Here the analysis turns to global warming, the future of the left, and utopias and dystopias of the IT revolution. In the ninth chapter Walker inquires into the creation of the virtual utopia of cyberculture and disintermediation. He concludes that many of the leaders of Silicon Valley are disconnected from the world they have created. "To their way of thinking" he says "the new digital technologies have opened up vast horizons of possibility for humankind, and with evangelical fervor they have spread the gospel of cyberculture." While the Bay Area tech giants he investigates indeed spread this gospel of cyberculture, the seeds of their creed had been planted long before many had heard of the internet.
The theory of cybernetics, created by Norbert Wiener when he was a professor of mathematics at MIT, devised a new way of understanding regulatory systems. Wiener set out to explain how we can understand all systems on the basis of treating information as a measurable quantity, allowing it to be studied statisticallly. In his 1950 article, "Cybernetics," Wiener writes, "any system for the transmission of messages must be continually ready for the transmission of one or the other of a set of alternatives. In order that these alternatives may be read clearly, it is essential that the line be cleared from the confusion of past alternatives. This is done with the aid of filters and similar selective apparatus." This understanding of information has since been applied to Earth's systems, humans, and computers.
As the internet broke out of the confines of the military, cybernetic theory was picked up by early tech pioneers, many under the influence of the Bay Area's psychedelic counterculture. Early internet influencers such as Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, and literary agent John Brockman, were ready for the idea , to use Wiener's words, of a "selective apparatus filtering the alternatives of transmission"—much of the literature surrounding psychedelic drug use coming out of the Bay Area at the time told a similar story of the human mind. Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture, notes the connection between USCO, a media art collective Stewart Brand was involved with, and cybernetics: "Light, electricity, and mystical 'energy' generally played a role in USCO's work very much like the one 'information' plays in Wiener's cybernetics: they became universal forces that, functioning as the sources and content of all 'systems.'"6 The coming together of the Bay Area's art scene and counterculture with the philosophy of cybernetics shaped the way the web we now know was devised and constructed. To understand the ways in which the web fails to connect us, it is necessary to understand how the creators of the web failed to see us as people.
I often wonder if it is ultimately helpful to see humans as another information system like a computer, taking information as "a quantity which measures order, instead of disorder."7 I was recently advised by a friend to turn my iPhone colors off, rendering everything black or white. His point was that the color on our phones stimulate us, and much of the time we spend staring at our screens is for the pleasure of this stimulation. The change—texts, photos, email, were all deprived of color—was not hugely noticeable at first, but when I eventually switched the color back on I was shocked. Every app became immensely more appealing. When turned back to black and white, I began to realize the ways in which some differences fade. The blue and green text boxes that distinguish iPhone users had vanished. How was I to discriminate the iPhone users from others—the green clearly being a classed identifier? With no color I began using my phone less on the subway, opting for the less accessible gadget—a novel. When we read a book we live in a world that is black and white, all attention working to piece together words and meaning.
I later learned that the black and white theory was from a lifehacker.com article, and there have been many articles since claiming to disprove the trick. However, I am still enthralled by the need felt by so many people to break the addiction to our phones. If the current structuring of information technology is centered around a philosophical system that views the brain as a giant processing machine meant to measure order instead of disorder, where does this leave us?
Facebook, and all of social media, is one place where disintermediation and cybernetic theory combine, with the result that humans are expected to "connect" more on the internet by breaking down the barriers between people and information. Walker looks at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, who reiterates that "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission—to make the world more open and connected." In a New York Review of Books essay on Facebook, Zadie Smith comments on Zuckerberg's commitment to connection: "He uses the word 'connect' as believers use the word 'Jesus,' as if it were sacred in and of itself."8 The connection that the internet makes us feel by removing mediators—or as Facebook put it with its new motto in 2014, to "move fast and break things"—does not produce greater knowledge, lasting friendships, or opportunity simply by nature of creating connection in and of itself.
Walker understands the falseness of "connection," even though he praises the good that seems to come out of the interconnected world of the internet. However, he does point to some structural changes that could be made, such as algorithm accountability legislation. In Walker's eyes, the solution is not to turn away from your phone, but rather to democratize the technology—taking control of the internet out of the hands of technology corporations. Much of the book looks historically at how the internet became commodified, and the jobs this created in the Bay Area. However, as highlighted in the third chapter, this wealth has not been shared, as the Bay Area has one of the most concentrated populations of billionaires, and problems of growing inequality between different strata of the labor force.
The billionaires are continuing to insulate themselves from this inequality. Walker highlights the partnership between Paypal founder Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman, grandson of economist Milton Friedman, as emblematic of neoliberalism, an economic model much indebted to Milton Friedman, and its entanglement with tech entrepreneurialism. Thiel and Friedman's organization The Seasteading Institute is working to build completely wired floating islands on the ocean. The institute claims to be "working to provide a machinery of freedom to choose new societies on the blue frontier." To do this, the institute is building a prototype on a Polynesian lagoon. While the wealthy will float on the rising seas, the locals will be left to fend for themselves.
Elon Musk, who co founded Paypal with Thiel, is also devising plans for escape. "Technotopian escapism," Walker says, "is fully manifest in Elon Musk's obsession with rockets and establishing a colony on Mars. Tesla's Musk has created a space exploration company, SpaceX, to carry out his scheme." The dream of space travel is much like the idea of the internet in offering the promise of escape from physical and ecological realities. However, as the tides rise in the Bay Area, Musk and Thiel might have to find a bigger spacecraft. Thiel imagines that his lifeboat of floating islands will succeed in avoiding the implications of global climate change—but he is wrong. Every device that provides us with the feeling of interconnectedness uses materials that were drilled from the earth, and these devices now clutter landfills and amass mountains of waste. Below the Bay Area run millions of wires, wrapping themselves around the estuary that now is sinking into the sea. Information technology and cyberculture intend us to leave the physical ecological setting to which we are bound. However, as tech billionaires plan their next attempt at escape, the natural world is closing in on all sides.
Pictures of a Gone City surveys almost every aspect of internet technology in the Bay Area. The book is published by Spectre, and it is easy to see it being courselisted. Many of the chapters—all exceptionally well researched—could stand on their own. The book's strength is its scope; its main weakness is that there are issues that Walker touches on and quickly abandons, shifting his lens elsewhere. While this gives an all-encompassing view of the Bay Area's relationship to IT, the focalization of the book is unclear, and Walker does not present one clear thesis or solution to the problems he identifies. At its strongest, Pictures of a Gone City demonstrates Walker's skill as a geographer. The reader truly gets a feeling for the landscape where the action is taking place. If there is one thread tying the whole book together, it is San Francisco itself, and Walker's deep feeling for the fate of his city.
Griggs, Troy. "More of the Bay Area Could Be Underwater in 2100 Than Previously Expected." The New York Times, March 7. 2018
Storper, Michael, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Philip Makarem, and Taner Osman. The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Stanford University Press, 2015.
And see his article "It's (Still) Chinatown, Jake", in Field Notes, November 2015.
Harris, Malcolm. Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. Little, Brown, 2018.
Source: Guzman 2016 based on Forbes 400 annual list.
Turner, Fred. "Stewart Brand Meets the Cybernetic Counterculture." From Counterculture to Cyberculture. The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Wiener, Norbert. "Cybernetics". Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 7 (April 1950)
Smith, Zadie. "Generation Why?" The New York Review of Books. November 25, 2010.
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Kaepernick Finds Support For Anti-American Protests In Last Place You'd Expect
Colin Kaepernick is trying to weasel his way back into the NFL.
The anti-American quarterback has been out of the league since being released by the San Francisco 49ers.
But he may have found support for his comeback in the last place you would ever expect.
Adidas is one of the biggest sports paraphernalia manufacturers in the world with their only competition being Nike and Under Armour.
The famous company recently announced they would endorse the anti-American former quarterback but with one caveat.
An NFL franchise would have to hire him first.
That possibility looked promising when Kaepernick was invited to work out for the Seattle Seahawks as Russell Wilson's back up.
However that quickly fell apart.
The Seahawks asked Kaepernick whether he'd intend to stand for the anthem if signed to a team and he said no.
So he was promptly uninvited for a work out with the Seahawks.
Kaepernick disrespects the national anthem, proving he doesn't care about the millions who sacrificed their lives and we're supposed to applaud this?
Apparently Adidas thinks so because once Kaep is signed to a team, they want to give him a contract.
Breitbart reports:
"Sportswear giant Adidas has promised to sign Colin Kaepernick to an endorsement deal, but only if an NFL team signs him first, according to reports.
Speaking to the Arizona Republic, Adidas North American President Mark King insisted, "If he signs on a team, we would definitely want to sign him."
Of course, many suspect that the reason the former San Francisco 49er is no longer an active player and has been left unsigned is because of his protests during the national anthem, protests that Kaepernick has not promised to end.
Kaepernick even recently had a meeting set up with the Seattle Seahawks that was scuttled reportedly because he would not pledge to put an end to his protests.
Then, the very next day, the Seahawks announced that they had signed another player instead of Kaepernick.
But, apparently, the anti-American protests do not bother Adidas.
"We love athletes that have a platform to make the world a better place," King told the Republic.
"If they're an activist in a way that brings attention to something that moves the world forward, even if there's controversy at that moment, we're really interested in those athletes because I think it represents the world today.
"We're not in the business of activism, we're in the business of sport," King added. "But allowing our athletes to tell their story, it's really important to us."
Still, the announcement that he would sign Kaepernick to a deal, but only if a team signs him first may seem a bit like self-serving, virtue signaling for King and Adidas.
The Seattle Seahawks had more anthem protesters than any other team in the league last year, other than San Francisco.
If even a politically active team like Seattle wouldn't sign Kaepernick, then the chances of him getting picked up anywhere else seem extremely small."
Adidas knows this, of course. Which makes their overture to Kaepernick just as much—if not more—a virtue signaling ploy as opposed to a real offer.
Adidas is trying to make a name for themselves as a "woke"company, but what they haven't considered is that it could backfire spectacularly.
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The United States Dollar
作者:	Grace Tse
As you may know, the currency most used in the world is the United States Dollar ("USD" or "US$" in short). It is also called the "US Dollar" or "American Dollar". Like Hong Kong Dollar, the US Dollar is divided into 100 cents.
In everyday English, you may hear American people use the word "bucks" as in, "Can I borrow 30 bucks from you?" What does "bucks" refer to? American people use this word to refer to "dollars" in a very informal way.
What is the smallest denomination of Hong Kong banknotes? In Hong Kong, the smallest one is HKD10. However, in the USA, the smallest one is USD1. Americans call a banknote a "greenback" because the original banknote was printed in green on the back side. All banknotes are called "bills". The second smallest denomination of American banknotes is USD5 or informally a "fiver".
American people also use coins. There are some informal money terms to name different coins. For example, a penny is one cent; a nickel is five cents; a dime is ten cents; and a quarter is a twenty-five cents.
In recent years, some American singers have used a new term "Benjamins" to refer to the USD100 banknote, which has a picture of Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States. There is a famous song called "It's All About the Benjamins", which is about the importance of being seen to be rich.
Nowadays, people do not need to bring a lot of money when going out. The use of bank cards has replaced cash transactions and cheques ("checks" in American English).
Denomination:面額
Banknote:紙幣
Bank cards:提款卡;信用卡
Card transactions:現金交易
Cheques:支票
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На профессиональном уровне дебютировал в 2014 году, отыграв два матча за «Хапоэль Ирони Нир» в чемпионате Израиля. По итогам сезона 2013/2014 клуб вылетел из высшей лиги и следующие два сезона игрок провёл во втором дивизионе. В 2016 году в качестве свободного агента перешёл в клуб высшей лиги Румынии «Тыргу-Муреш». 25 сентября 2016 года дебютировал за команду в чемпионате, отыграв весь матч против «Поли Тимишоара». В феврале 2017 года перебрался в ирландский «Дерри Сити», однако не провёл за команду ни одного матча и в мае того же года покинул клуб. 15 сентября 2017 года подписал контракт с клубом чемпионата Литвы «Тракай».

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Toxicity swirls around January 26, but we can change the nation with a Voice to parliament
There is a quiet process underway, aimed at achieving the recognition of the First Nations that has so far eluded Australia.
Megan Davis | UNSW Newsroom
Photo: Lukas Coch/AAP
We are on the eve of the nation's annual ritual of celebrating the arrivals, while not formally recognising the ancient peoples who were dispossessed.
Each year the tensions spill over, rendering Australia Day/Invasion Day/Survival Day a protest as much as a celebration.
But there is a quiet process underway, aimed at achieving substantive recognition of the First Nations that has so far eluded Australia.
A new report on an Indigenous Voice
This process of constitutional recognition is now in its second decade – yes, it has been ten years since the process began. In early January, to kick off the second decade, Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt released the Indigenous Voice Co-design Process Interim Report.
It runs to almost 300 pages and offers First Nations peoples about three months to provide a response.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt has just released a paper on an Indigenous Voice. Photo: David Mariuz/AAP
The genesis for the Voice lies in the historic 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart and First Nations' preference for a constitutionally enshrined Voice.
The report is a solid first run at designing a Voice. It brings Australia a step closer to realising the Uluru Statement. But it falls short of the Voice to parliament sought by those consulted in the lead up to the Uluru Statement and the statement itself.
A Voice for the voiceless
Previously, I have set out the lengthy and complex process that has led us to this point.
I have also explained why First Nations people chose a constitutionally protected Voice as both symbolic and substantive recognition — and why a legislated voice is not able to deliver the transformative change communities so desperately need.
The process of constitutional recognition for First Nations peoples is now in its second decade. Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP
The push for a Voice came from the voiceless — those less likely to be afforded a seat at the table in Indigenous affairs — because the regional dialogues privileged their participation.
It was their view that those who filled the leadership vacuum left by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (abolished in 2005) were unrepresentative. This includes ever-present and overbearing Commonwealth bureaucracy on Indigenous affairs and other organisations who purport to represent community but are not accountable back to community.
In 2018, the joint parliamentary committee on the Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Peoples — chaired by Labor's Pat Dodson and Liberal MP Julian Leeser — found the Voice was the only viable constitutional option. But it also found the concept required more meat on the bones before Australians could vote at a referendum. It said this should be done through "co-design" with First Nations peoples.
The 2019 budget saw $7.3 million for a co-design process for the Voice and $160 million for a future referendum once a model is determined. The Coalition's 2019 election policy also reflected the two-step approach:
A referendum will be held once a model has been settled, consistent with the recommendations of the [Dodson/Leeser] Committee.
The interim Voice report is the settling of that model.
A Voice to government only?
Wyatt has been clear in the past he is only designing a "Voice to government", which aligns with his worldview as a career public servant.
However, the Voice interim report expressly sets out two components for comment: a Voice to government and a Voice to parliament.
Read more: Ken Wyatt's proposed 'voice to government' marks another failure to hear Indigenous voices
The Voice to government component is one for First Nations communities to contemplate.
Only First Nations people on the ground can tell the inquiry whether the various local and regional mechanisms function in the way the report suggests they do. Only they can tell the government whether they feel their voices are represented effectively by the structures and entities that exist. This is why their input is so crucial to this report.
It is important to note that at the regional dialogues that led to the Uluru Statement, there was not a single existing entity that communities identified as representing their voices. National peak bodies and constituent organisations, were expressly singled out in regional dialogues as not representing grassroots voices.
Read more: Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians must involve structural change, not mere symbolism
They were also criticised for being unaccountable and not reporting back to communities about what they say and do in Canberra.
Even so, the interim report has some alignment with the Uluru dialogue's deliberative method, this includes the proposed transitional arrangements for local and regional entities, allowing communities to conceive of and design new entities.
However, it is difficult to gauge whether this can give voice to the voiceless.
Voice to parliament falls short
The Voice to parliament component of the interim report opens the door to submissions on a constitutional Voice. There is no other way to assess the efficacy of the legislated approach, which unsurprisingly falls short of the voice sought by delegates at the regional dialogues, the national constitutional convention and in the Uluru Statement.
This is because the Uluru Statement sought a mandated place at the table with the force of law. The interim report falls short of this by studiously avoiding power.
While the proposal suggests there is an "obligation to consult" on race power matters and "expectation to consult" on broader matters, there is no power that animates an actual obligation.
January 26 is as much about protest as it is about BBQs and a public holiday. Photo: James Ross/AAP
After all, it is based on legislation that can be overridden by subsequent legislation, which is par for the course in Indigenous affairs. Media reports talk of the "obligation to consult" on race power as if it is hard law, but this Voice is mediated by the government of the day and therefore the antithesis of what people sought.
It carefully crafts a process that still renders the voice supine to government. This is both in terms of reporting to a parliamentary committee and the transparency mechanisms, where inevitably, the government becomes the Indigenous Voice to parliament.
Read more: Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day: a long history of celebration and contestation
The most prominent misalignment with the dialogues was they wanted a voice protected by the Constitution via a referendum, so it could survive successive governments and avoid being subject to the whim of the government of the day.
This would give our communities the certainty and security they need to make long-term plans for the future. First Nations peoples understand our affairs are a political football. And that our working and community lives are subject to a three-year cycle of one government to the next. It is a driver of disadvantage.
This is why so many Indigenous organisations are expressing disappointment at this proposal. The "anything is better than nothing" approach does not apply when the change is akin to the status quo; it just looks more officious with more squiggly flow charts.
A path to friendship
This is now an opportunity for Australians and First Nations peoples to make their views clearly heard. It is only an interim report, and it requires the feedback of many.
All Australians want to find a way through the annual debates about Captain Cook, the First Fleet and national identity, to a more inclusive and nuanced narrative of who we are.
Read more: An Indigenous 'Voice' must be enshrined in our Constitution. Here's why
Survey research shows a clear majority of Australians want to recognise a First Nations Voice in the Constitution.
As we approach yet another national day replete with swirling toxicity, the path to friendship offered by the Uluru Statement — an expression of peace — provides a roadmap for Australia.
This is not about changing the date, but changing the nation.
Megan Davis, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous UNSW and Professor of Law, UNSW
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The 3 oldest were playing rugby at the time, and my oldest daughter, Jessie was shall we say 'blessed with her fathers build' and played in the forwards.
She was an awesome rugby player, in a mixed team, picking up 2 player of the year trophies in 3 years. (incidentally one of those years Michael, the second oldest also won player of the year in his rugby team as well), the only thing that was impacting her was her fitness.
So I was watching my kids growing up and being impacted by the same problem that I'd been battling all my life, being overweight and unfit. It was time to do something about it, make a positive move for my family.
That was when my brother Martin came along talking about parkrun, a community based, timed, free 5k event every Saturday morning at 8.00am about 2km from home.
Me and the older 2 kids ran parkrun virtually every week, except in the rugby (now soccer) season and soon made a habit of it. As the other kids got older, they joined in and so did my wife, Jo.
I started to get interested in longer distances and did a few 10k events, and a few halves (The first 3 were all frustratingly 2hrs 28) and then a marathon (in 5hrs 06 which was a lot harder than I expected).
The next goal was to get under 2 hrs for the half. In my mind at the time, that would make me a 'real runner'.
I know now that running makes me a real runner, speed is irrelevant, but I only worked that out once I got faster. Which is kind of ironic!
So in the process towards the elusive 2hr half, I had several 2:07-2:10 runs but just couldn't nail it.
So I went to an info evening and saw the super charismatic Kerry Suter talking about Squadrun and it looked awesome, way out of my league as these people looked like super athletes and a bit on the pricey side for a 43 year old average recreational runner, but it looked really awesome.
Kerry said at the time that he couldn't take on any more clients but was looking at a different way of delivering coaching, a cheaper more mass market internet based approach.
And then it happened, Kerry's $10 per week coaching deal came onto the scene, and I was away. I had recently changed my diet as well, so had lost a bit of weight which really helped.
So how on earth was I going to get fit enough to run an ultra, I have a busy full time job, an amazing wife and 4 kids to bring up.
And so I needed to become an expert in time management as well as a semi competent runner.
More often than not, my long runs start at 5am. On a weekend this gets me back home about the time my wife wakes up and the kids are happy watching Sunday morning TV. Midweek runs are squeezed in, the 16k/90 minute run into work in the morning is a really useful one, or even on the way home on a Friday night. Add in a fast 8k at lunchtime once or twice a week and before you know it I'm just about done.
So it can be done, if you really want it, it can be done, and the Squadrun programme helps that, with the flexibility of the 'Priority based' runs each week.
Does it get boring training a lot? Absolutely not. The variety of the programme is great with everything from Super Sunday long runs, to 1k intervals, long hills grinds, short hill sprints, double days, deeks quarters, every week is exciting.
Before you know it, my 5k pb is 22:32, my 10k pb is 49.58 on a terribly windy day so will come down 2-3 minutes next time, my last race half marathon was quite a while ago now and was 1:56, but on a recent casual training run I ran a controlled first 10k then decided to push the pace for the last 11k and did a 1:54, so again, the next time I race it I'd expect to be 1:48 – 1:50. I haven't raced a flat marathon for quite some time but ran the Kinloch off road challenge in 4:51, which I think should equate to about a 4hr marathon on the flat.
And then came the Tarawera Trail Marathon and 50k.
What an amazing event. I completely love it. On the day I finished in 6hrs 34minutes, and was in the top third of the field! The overweight middle aged man who 3yrs before couldn't run 500metres finished in the top third of an Ultra Marathon! Unbelievable, in fact even writing this now it doesn't seem real.
I couldn't have done it without parkrun or Squadrun.
One of the best things about Squadrun is the facebook community that surrounds you, it's really great, and I've made so many friends there, genuine friends who inspire me and who I feel lucky to have met.
And on the running side, people sharing results, experiences, helping each other, it's just fantastic.
One Squaddie came down from Auckland and wanted to go for a run, this resulted in 8 of us starting at 5am at Frank Kitts Park and running 16km to Miramar and back before work, and it was awesome!
It was great fun being around such fabulous people, but I realised that they were all going on to a different event, something bigger, much, much bigger, something called the Tarawera Ultra Marathon with distances of 60, 85 or 100km. So while I was suffering a severe case of FOMO (Fear of missing out), I raised the stakes on my running and signed up for the 100km event. Gulp…..
So on the 6th February 2016, in the rain, I left The Redwoods in Rotorua for Kawerau, and what an adventure that was.
Due to the rain, my choice of shoe and significant time in swimming pools in the 2 weeks before the event (which softened my feet), I had some unexpected issues with blisters, big, big painful ones.
But my training was great, my mind was focused and my Squadrun mates were there all through the field and on the sideline, and they got me though to Kawerau.
And who do I meet as I cross the line, Kerry & Ali, my coaches.
It was 12:55am, I was 6 hours later than expected due to my blisters, and my Squadrun family, my real family and the fantastic race directors Tim & Paul, were still there waiting for me. With a smile on their faces and the best hugs ever.
'Never leave a squaddie behind' they said, and they sure didn't.
Well I'm up for a fast marathon, with a sub 4hr run being a key goal this year.
I also want another crack at running a 100km, without blisters, so I've entered into the inaugural Taupo Ultra 100km event, and the best part is that my family have watched all of this.
Now my wife has joined Squadrun and signed up for the Tarawera Trail Marathon and 50km event in November, and my oldest is getting on my case about when can I do it Dad? I want to run an Ultra as well.


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Q: State changed from starting to crashed So I deployed my Discord bot and it seems fine until at any minute it just crashed. All my files has no errors at all. So here's my log in Heroku.
2020-04-17T13:20:43.077260+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from crashed to starting
2020-04-17T13:20:46.867420+00:00 app[web.1]:
2020-04-17T13:20:46.867435+00:00 app[web.1]: > edinburgh@1.0.0 start /app
2020-04-17T13:20:46.867435+00:00 app[web.1]: > node index.js
2020-04-17T13:20:46.867436+00:00 app[web.1]:
2020-04-17T13:20:47.375288+00:00 app[web.1]: Edinburgh is ready to go.
2020-04-17T13:21:45.447426+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to crashed

Can anyone help me? I have no way now to solve this by myself.

A: Seems like your application crashed.. a bit more details would be nice.

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*I assume it runs flawlessly when you just execute node index.js on your machine

*Back when I used Heroku, it was always a pain in the ass to configure everything around dependency installing, this could be a reason why it crashed, however a JS error would make things much easier

*Also, could you perhaps show your Procfile? I guess it doesn't include a lot but seeing it would be nice