After several years of exposure, a desire has grown among Chinese people to immigrate to the United States through EB-5 program investments, prompting the development of the entire program to unprecedented heights. Faced with increased demand, participants are satisfied, and the importance of immigration agencies has become clearer than ever before. At the forefront of investor immigration services, how exactly do consultants deliver solutions? In this issue, we are honored to have the chance to interview Mr. Wang, CEO of AucanLink, and Ms. Yang, General Manager at Can-Austra Information Consulting (CAIC), and to share both the factors that they take into account when selecting projects and their experiences in the industry.
Mr. Wang, CEO of AucanLink with attorney Robert Gaffney.
Hello, Mr. Wang. Thank you for participating in this interview! Would you mind first giving us a rough idea of what your company does?
The AucanLink headquarters is located in Beijing, but we also have branches throughout Shandong Province such as Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai and Weifang. Our group currently employs over 200 personnel, and our current business is predominantly in U.S. EB-5 investment immigration. EB-5 accounts for about 50% of our business, although we also provide European investment immigration services.
We began to work in the EB-5 industry in 2007. As of now, we have more than seven years of experience, and our initial EB-5 project was a collaboration with Marriott in Seattle. Since then, we have been working with more and more project types in increasingly diverse industries and areas. Apart from the popular hotel, we have also worked with special projects like nursing homes and the wireless network construction for the New York City subway system.
How did you personally get involved in the EB-5 industry? When did you enter the industry?
Actually, I first heard about EB-5 projects back in 1999 from colleagues in Taiwan. By around 2004, we had access to some reference documents on the Philadelphia project, and only after we started going over them did we gain a formal understanding on how EB-5 operates. In 2007, we started accepting clients that wanted to emigrate through the EB-5 program. Since then, we've had more and more collaboration opportunities for this project. I personally spent about a year in the United States to go around visiting projects. Sometimes, I'd visit 20-30 projects in a single month, and I also met with representatives from regional centers and projects. At the same time, I also met with a lot of lawyers to discuss the risks of individual projects and ask them to assist in the process of consultation with the project party. Within that year, I had visited nearly 100 regional centers, and in addition to a careful analysis, I was always equipped with the professional advice of lawyers for each and every visit. I also met several well-known economists who helped us gain a more comprehensive understanding of project advantages.
What factors do you consider when selecting cooperation projects? What is your due diligence process?
When I pick out a project, the first factor that I consider is how well it can guarantee the green card and repayment. In order to enhance the degree of detail and completeness that goes into the due diligence process, we launched our industry-leading U.S. EB-5 Program Immigrant Investor Selection Criteria Toolkit. Not only do we publish this for our clientele, but we also send it out to the industry to share and build communication. The key to the Toolkit is the security guarantee for the green card and repayment, but it also covers a total of 117 investigation entries and a list of selection criteria for employment calculations, how to judge and forecast commercial potential, and how to perform a credit investigation. At the time, we went over everything with a lawyer and regional center executives. You could say that it's the distillation of collective wisdom. Even now, whenever our team goes overseas for a project visit, we still do a screening based on this premium selection criteria and take every possible detail into consideration.
How do you match investors with regional centers? What are some of the qualities of a regional center that attract market interest?
In a single year, we will meet with roughly 200-300 investors, and most of these investors are distributed according to project characteristics. We will sign an agreement with the project and develop promotional plans. Then, we'll promote the project to investors, and guide investors based on their individual preferences. Our input is still very important for investors, and we'll usually push a single project for a certain period of time, and if we are promoting two or three projects at the same time, we'll go the extra mile and analyze them for investors so that they can make a decision based on their preferences.
For us and our clientele, the business philosophy of a regional center is very important. As for the regional centers that I approve of, first, they have a vision, which means that they can consistently provide high-quality projects for the long-term. Second, they have professional capabilities, which means they can't serve as a developer, lawyer or investment bank all at once; the lawyers that we employ must be professional immigration lawyers that are neutral and objective, and that can give full disclosure of their interests and priority to the interests of investors. Third, is a record of their operating performance, so we can see if they have had successful experiences, and whether or not their members have a grasp on legal and investment knowledge and expertise. All of these factors will determine the extent to which investors can place their trust in regional centers.
Do you have any suggestions to developers and regional centers that want to work with Chinese investors?
As for establishing projects, we feel that developers and regional centers must fully consider the interests of investors rather than blindly push projects through. Over the last few years, the EB-5 industry as a whole has grown rapidly. Investors have also accumulated a degree of awareness and have more projects to choose from, so if developers and regional centers cannot keep up in terms of safety guarantees, all of their efforts to promote to China will unfortunately be in vain. Also, they should be able to fully disclose all information on PPM-related projects to avoid future disputes. Also, during the investment process, developers and regional centers should strengthen communication with clientele, such as promptly providing them with information on the progress of the project and so on. In this way, they can gain a good reputation among investors which will then help promote projects in the future. As for clientele that have already obtained I-526 approval, they should do a good job of disclosing specifics on the progress of project operations so that clientele can rest assured and also give the project a good reputation.
There are going to be cultural barriers between the regional centers, developers and clientele, but I believe that this isn't such a big deal after all, because to investors, the quality of the project is what really matters. However, the national disparities between China and the United States and different investment philosophies and ways of thinking will sometimes cause investors to miscalculate project risks. To make up for this, regional centers and developers need to better understand the culture and social norms of China to express project advantages in a way that Chinese people can understand.
What kind of changes would you like to see made to the EB-5 program in the future?
I hope that we can all combine our efforts to realize the healthy development of the EB-5 industry. Policies could also be more consistent. If the policies change too much, it will hurt investors and promoters and greatly add to the costs and efforts of intermediaries. Apart from the issue of the process quota, I also hope that market transparency and risk predictability can improve in the future through standardization.
Do you have any recommendations for article topics for our next issue? What kind of content would you like to see?
You can provide in-depth research into the impact of EB-5 program scheduling on immigration agencies. I personally think that this kind of research is extremely important because the scheduling may disrupt the plans of our clientele and impact customer awareness of EB-5 and the overall age structure of the application. Ultimately, it will also change the overall number of customers. Also, the wait times may bring big changes to the operations and profits of participating companies. I believe that everyone will be really interested in these topics.
Hello, Ms. Yang. Thank you for taking the time to participate in this interview. We hope to take this valuable opportunity to gain a better understanding of what goes on at an immigration consultancy. Would you mind telling us a little bit about your company's business?
Our company was founded in Dalian in 2006. As for our directly operated agencies, right now, apart from our headquarters in Dalian, we've also opened up two branch offices in Shenyang and Liaoyang. Initially, our business focused on immigration services for Canada and Australia, so we chose the name Can-Austra Information Consulting (CAIC). In 2008, we started to work with America's EB-5, and even though we already had a lot of people on the project side who wanted to work with us, we were still very cautious, and it took us nearly two years to gain a firm understanding of this project. So, we really started doing this kind of business in 2009. Right now, EB-5 accounts for over 50% of our business.
Please briefly describe your own professional background. How did you get involved with the EB-5 industry? When did you enter the industry?
My major in college was accounting, and I started working in the immigration industry right after I graduated. You could say that all the work I've ever done has had something to do with immigration. I've been working in this industry for over a decade. At first, I worked with other American projects like EW3 and L1. Since then, I've been in touch with a lot of American lawyers, and I gradually started to learn about the EB-5 industry.
My first consideration is the purpose of the EB-5 project party, or rather their true nature. I also want to know about their industry experience. Based on my standards, all of the project parties I choose have at least 10 years of experience in the industry and most continue to play a role in their respective fields because they have a level of professionalism and credibility that I can trust. Again, I will carefully consider the characteristics of each project. For example, if I am looking at a real estate project, I'll consider the land value and location and also the capital structure and whether or not the business plan shows legal expertise. Our company has a team for project site visits, and team members will typically spend six months out of the year in the United States. I'll also join in. I don't simply take a look at the site, but I'll also try to get a good understanding of the state of the local economy and study the suitability of the project for the local area. During the assessment, I'll also ask for the advice of American industry insiders, such as hiring auditors from the property sector to come and assess the value of the project, and I'll also have a lawyer review the business reporting. I always have local lawyers prepare the business reports.
Apart from the nature of a project, I mainly pair investors based on the type of capital structure. For me, capital structures generally fall into the three categories of equity, equity and loans, and simple loans. If it's an equity structure, I will focus on the business' potential for future growth. If it's a loan structure, I will stress that they guarantee supportability. Among the three categories, I will select one representative reference for investors, because every client has their own unique level of risk that they're willing and able to take on. Some clientele think that the project is great, and they feel that the market has a promising future, so they want to invest and will opt for an equity structure. Others aren't interested in the project itself and only want to bring their family to America; in the future, they don't want to be involved in business, so we will recommend that they go with a loan structure. If this is the case, project profitability isn't their concern; the investor only cares about a guaranteed repayment.
There are cultural barriers between developers and investors. I think that this mainly comes from a different way of thinking. I recommend that developers try to better understand the investment psychology of Chinese clientele and also realize that their own project can't meet the needs of every kind of client. Developers must be well aware of what their purpose is; if they simply want to complete their project with funds through EB-5, they should adopt a loan structure and then actively alleviate investor concerns about whether or not they'll get their money back. If the developer is optimistic about the client's background and wants to use these customer resources in the hopes that they can attract partners for other business ventures in the future, the developer should use an equity structure. Lastly, coordinated services are also very important and they must be done perfectly. Clients must have follow-up services after they invest. This includes services for clientele after they arrive in the United States, as well as a transparency of information throughout the course of operations. All of this needs to be readily available so that every phase can go as smoothly as possible.
The change that I look forward to, obviously, is greater visa availability. I also hope that developers can work together to promote projects. Right now the visa limits are too low, and waiting periods will occur sooner or later. When that happens, it will be difficult for this industry to achieve industrial development because the wait times will be too long.
From the perspective of a consultant, I would like to see more discussions on policy. For example, you could provide an in-depth discussion on policy meetings and immigration policy trends. Investors might want to see some different stories, such as stories of what successful immigrant investors do in the United States today. You could discuss the topic of life in America and provide them with some guidance.


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Foreign-currency loans and systemic risk in Europe
Pınar Yeşin 26 November 2013
Before the onset of the financial crisis, European households and non-financial firms were borrowing heavily in lower-yielding foreign currencies to finance their home mortgages or business investments, even though they did not necessarily have a steady income in the currency concerned. Five years after the financial crisis, banks still hold a substantial amount of foreign currency loans to unhedged borrowers on their balance sheets. This column quantifies the systemic risk that these foreign currency loans pose to the European banking sector.
The new carry trade
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Before the onset of the financial crisis, foreign currency loans to the non-banking sector in Europe became remarkably prevalent. In particular, households and non-financial firms were taking bank loans denominated in lower-yielding foreign currencies and investing in high-yielding domestic currencies (e.g., in the form of home mortgages or business investments), even though these agents did not necessarily have a steady income in the foreign currency concerned. Therefore these retail foreign currency loans were usually dubbed 'small men's carry trade'.
Since the crisis, the outstanding volumes of foreign currency loans to the non-banking sector have been slowly declining in some countries due to macro-prudential measures, deleveraging of banks, and the continued slowdown of European economies. Nevertheless a substantial fraction of households and firms still have foreign currency bank loans. Figure 1 shows that as of the second quarter of 2013 the majority of the outstanding loans to the non-banking sector in many non-Eurozone countries continue to be denominated in a foreign currency. For example, in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, and Latvia, between 60% and 88% of the outstanding loans to the non-banking sector are denominated in a foreign currency.
Figure 1. Share of foreign currency loans as a percentage of total loans to the non-banking sector in Europe (2013:Q2)
Source: CHF Lending Monitor
Notes: CHF, Swiss francs; FCY, foreign currency.
While foreign currency loans offer some advantages to borrowers – such as lower interest rates and longer maturities compared to domestic currency loans – they also carry a significant exchange rate risk. A sharp depreciation of the domestic currency can prevent unhedged borrowers from being able to service their foreign currency loans. As a result, these loans could create a substantial systemic risk to the European banking sector. Banks could fail jointly as a result of their exposure to unhedged households and non-financial firms which default on their loans when the domestic currency depreciates sharply.
Policymakers and international institutions have recognised the systemic risk that foreign currency loans pose to the European banking sector. For example, the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), an independent institution monitoring financial stability within the EU, made an official recommendation on lending in foreign currency on November 22, 2011. In particular, the ESRB stated that "Excessive foreign currency lending may produce significant systemic risks for those member states and may create conditions for negative cross-border spillover effects."
While policymakers in Europe repeatedly express their concern regarding the systemic risk created by foreign currency loans, there is a lack of literature on the exact measurement of this systemic risk. The ESRB, European central banks, and the European Bank for Restructuring and Development (EBRD) (among other policy institutions) are concerned about the prevalence of foreign currency loans to the non-banking sector, yet their policy discussions do not elaborate on the measurement of systemic risk.
An earlier paper by Ranciere, Tornell and Vamvakidis (2010) made a first attempt to quantify the currency mismatch on banks' balance sheets due to foreign currency loans to the unhedged non-banking sector in Emerging Europe for 2004–2007. In a more recent paper, I take up this theme, build on their suggested method, and calculate accurate and detailed measures of systemic risk in 17 European countries for 2007–2011 using a novel dataset. I find that systemic risk is substantial in the non-Eurozone, while it is relatively low in the Eurozone.
Quantifying systemic risk
Systemic risk in the financial system is a multifaceted phenomenon. De Bandt and Hartmann (2000) and Georg (2011a,b) provide an in-depth discussion of systemic risk. One possible mechanism whereby systemic risk arises is through a simultaneous exposure of financial institutions to a 'common market shock'. Since foreign currency loans are widespread on European banks' balance sheets, a sharp exchange rate movement can trigger, for example, defaults of domestic households on their foreign currency mortgagees, which could lead to a simultaneous deterioration of the banks' balance sheets. The approach to measure systemic risk in my recent paper adheres to this 'common market shock' mechanism, and quantifies the systemic risk as the net unhedged foreign currency liabilities of the banking sector as a percentage of their total assets. In other words, it evaluates the impact of a joint failure of unhedged borrowers to service their foreign currency loans on banks' balance sheets in aggregate.
All data are from the CHF Lending Monitor, which is an ongoing Swiss National Bank (SNB) project to understand the scope of Swiss franc (CHF) denominated bank lending in Europe. Nineteen European central banks have been sharing their aggregate banking sector statistics with the SNB on a quarterly basis since 2009. The data are confidential and have not been published.
Table 1 lists the measures for systemic risk across European countries as of the third quarter of 2011. It also shows the currency breakdown of systemic risk arising from CHF loans and other foreign currency loans. It is worth noting that there is substantial cross-country variation in systemic risk. While systemic risk is relatively low for the Eurozone countries, it is fairly high for some non-Eurozone countries. For the non-Eurozone countries this high risk is not due to CHF loans, which have received considerable attention from the policymakers and the press. The data source does not allow for a further currency breakdown of foreign currency loans, but one can conjecture that euro loans are behind the systemic risk in the majority of the non-Eurozone countries.
Table 1. Systemic-risk indeces in Europe as of 2001Q3 due to foreign-currency loans
Note: Systemic risk = systemic risk due to CHF loans + systemic risk due to other FCY loans. A higher value indicates higher systemic risk. CHF, Swiss francs; FCY, foreign currency; NA, not available.
Source: Author's own calculations based on CHF Lending Monitor data.
Figure 2 shows the time evolution of systemic risk in the non-Eurozone between quarter on of 2005 and quarter three of 2011. Note that there is an upward trend in a few countries in the first half of the sample period. However, since 2009, systemic risk is highly persistent and not volatile for the majority of the countries. A slow decline can be observed for Hungary, Latvia, and Bulgaria, reversing their previous upward trend.
Figure 2. Evolution of systemic risk in the non-Eurozone
Source: Author's calculations based on CHF lending data.
Systemic risk measures show that foreign currency loans to the non-banking sector create substantial risks to the banking sector from a 'common market shock'perspective. High persistence and low volatility of the systemic risk measures indicate that short-term policies would be unable to swiftly reduce this risk. Encouragement of local-currency borrowing along with macro-prudential policies can help mitigate the risk in the long run, as recently promoted by an EBRD initiative.
De Bandt, Olivier and Philipp Hartmann (2000), "Systemic Risk: A Survey", ECB Working Paper, No. 35, European Central Bank.
Georg, Co-Pierre (2011a), "Basel III and Systemic Risk Regulation – What Way Forward? ", Working Papers on Global Financial Markets, No. 17-2011, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Georg, Co-Pierre (2011b), "The Effect of the Interbank Network Structure on Contagion and Common Shocks", Discussion Paper Series 2: Banking and Financial Studies, No. 12, Deutsche Bundesbank.
Ranciere, Romain, Aaron Tornell, and Athanasios Vamvakidis, "Currency Mismatch, Systemic Risk and Growth in Emerging Europe", Economic Policy, October 2010, Vol. 25, No. 64, pages 597-658.
Yeşin, Pınar (2013), "Foreign Currency Loans and Systemic Risk in Europe", Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis Review, Vol. 95, Issue 3, May/June 2013, pages 219-235.
Topics: International finance
Tags: international finance, systemic risk, foreign currency loans
Pınar Yeşin
Economic Advisor, Swiss National Bank; Economics Lecturer, University of Zurich

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Q: Opening Excel spreadsheets maximized for a better user experience, I would like to make a spreadsheet downloaded from the web maximized when it is opened through the user's desktop MS Excel 2010 program.
Can this be achieved through preference configuration or is there Macro involved?
Thanks!
Che

A: This is a simple macro to do what you ask. You need to put it in the workbook module.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
    Application.WindowState = xlMaximized 'maximize Excel
    ActiveWindow.WindowState = xlMaximized 'maximize the workbook in Excel
End Sub

A: First, excuse me if I make spelling or grammar mistakes because I well know the French language, I am a Lebanese. Compared to Excel, I had the same problem, Excel (Excel 2010) can not open in Full window (maximized), I make several attempts to locate Excel, I do not manage to solve the problem and I think it issue is caused by a conflict between office and other software.
Finally, I solved the problem. How? - I have another hard drive (HDD), I installed Windows on that disk. - I installed Office (Microsoft Office) - I copied this new office Disc 2 - I erased (deleted) Disc 1 - I stuck to the Office Disc 1 The problem is solved.
Tip: For the next time, when you install Office, it is advisable to keep a copy of this office in another part of the hard drive to replace the original copy if it suffers from a problem.

A: *

*open excel from start menu

*when excel is launched, maximized the window. At the time , the excel without any document opened.

*drag a document with extension .xls into excel

*close the excel

Now, open any document from the explorer, you would see excel speadsheets maximized


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Delaware City Schools board of education members Michael Wiener, Frances O'Flaherty, and Jayna McDaniel-Browning are sworn in Monday evening during the board of education's organizational board meeting.
The Delaware City Schools Board of Education held its organizational meeting Monday evening and elected Ted Backus as board president with Jayna McDaniel-Browning now serving as vice president for the year.
The meeting was held in the board room at Willis Education Center and was the first meeting of the year.
At the meeting recently-reelected board members, McDaniel-Browning, Frances O'Flaherty, and newly elected board member Michael Wiener, took the oath of office.
After the swearing in, board members voted to elected Backus as board president and to elect McDaniel-Browning as board vice president. Backus has been on the board since 2008 and McDaniel-Browning has been a board member since 2014.
This was the first meeting for Wiener as a board member. He replaced former board president Deb Rafeld after she declined to run for reelection last year. Rafeld had been a board member since 2006.
Wiener lives in Delaware and works as an assistant prosecuting attorney for Crawford County. Wiener served as a member of the 2016 Delaware City Schools levy committee and was a member of the committee that promoted the levy that passed during the Nov. 7, 2017 election.
The board then approved meeting dates for 2018. Meetings will be held at Willis at 6 p.m. on Feb. 5, March 5, March 19, April 16, May 7, May 21, June 4, June 18, July 9, Aug. 6, Aug. 20, Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Oct 22, Nov. 12, and Dec. 10.
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New information regarding criminal complaint against Jorge Zorreguieta
Lawyers Liesbeth Zegveld and Göran Sluiter sent a letter to the National Office of the Public Prosecution Service regarding the criminal complaint filed against Jorge Zorreguieta. By decision of 16 March 2012, the prosecutor's office had informed the complainants that it would not be initiating a criminal investigation against Zorreguieta, inter alia because it did not expect further investigation to yield evidence. Even so, this decision could be reviewed in light of new facts and/or circumstances.
In the meantime new facts and circumstances have indeed come to light that increase the likelihood that Zorreguieta was co-responsible for the enforced disappearances. For example, research has shown that close ties existed between the military regime and (high-ranking) officials within the Ministry of Agriculture, and that the ministry was indeed aware of the disappearance of its employees.
Enforced disappearances, both as independant offense and in its capacity as a crime against humanity, constitutes a continuing crime over which the Netherlands has jurisdiction. Under the International Convention on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances, the Netherlands, and therefore the public prosecutor's office, has a far-reaching obligation to take an active stance in investigating enforced disappearances.
Read the letter of 31 January 2013 here (available in Dutch).
Annexes (in Dutch)
Decision by the public prosecutor's office of 16 March 2012
Letter to the public prosecutor's office of 25 January 2012 (additional information)
On Friday 2 September 2011–on behalf of the surviving relatives of a missing victim–Liesbeth Zegveld and Göran Sluiter filed a criminal complaint against Jorge Zorreguieta for deliberately allowing enforced disappearances and crimes against humanity to take place between 1976 and 1981 and for participation in a criminal organization, namely the Videla-regime, between 1976 and 1983.
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Der Saarschleife-Marathon ist eine ehemalige Marathon-Laufveranstaltung bei Merzig, welche zwischen 1998 und 2016 vom Verein Tri-Sport Saar Hochwald organisiert wurde. Veranstaltungstermin war August oder September. Neben dem Marathon fand auch ein Halbmarathon statt.

Organisation
Der Start des Marathons war an der Saarbrücke zwischen Besseringen und Schwemlingen, der Start des Halbmarathons in Dreisbach. Die Strecke führet zunächst auf dem Leinpfad des linken Saarufers stromabwärts entlang der Saarschleife nach Mettlach, wo man die Saar querte, und dann auf dem Leinpfad des rechten Ufers stromaufwärts im Innenradius der Saarschleife nach Besseringen. Während dort für die Marathonläufer die zweite Runde auf demselben Weg begann, begaben sich die Halbmarathonläufer direkt zum Ziel am Historischen Rathaus von Merzig.

Im Jahr 2007 verlief die Strecke des Marathons und des Halbmarathons nicht auf dem Außenradius der Saarschleife entlang, da Sicherungsarbeiten an den Felsen auf dieser Seite des Flusses infolge Steinschlags durchgeführt wurden. Der Marathon startete an der Stadthalle von Merzig, führte die Saar entlang über Mettlach hinaus bis hinter Saarhölzbach, wo sich der Wendepunkt der Strecke und der Start des Halbmarathons befand. Von dort ging es den gleichen Weg zurück nach Merzig.

Die letzte Austragung des Saarschleife-Marathons fand im Jahr 2016 statt.

Statistik

Siegerlisten

Marathon

Halbmarathon

Entwicklung der Finisherzahlen

Siehe auch
 Liste von Marathonläufen

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website

 Ergebnisse und Urkunden auf davengo.com für das Jahr: , ,

Einzelnachweise

Marathon mit Halbmarathon
Sportveranstaltung im Landkreis Merzig-Wadern
Saar
Laufveranstaltung in Deutschland
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Q: Show item info on selected item in RecyclerView using Kotlin I am using kotlin language with android studio. I want to get the properties of the element I clicked in the RecyclerView.
Ben bu kod ile saderc id alabiliyorum
Ex: date
ListAdapter.kt
class ListAdapter(
    private val context: Context
) : RecyclerView.Adapter<ListAdapter.ListViewHolder>() {

    private var dataList = mutableListOf<Any>()
private lateinit var mListener: onItemClickListener

interface onItemClickListener {
    fun onItemClick(position: Int)
}

fun setOnItemClickListener(listener: onItemClickListener) {
    mListener = listener
}
    fun setListData(data: MutableList<Any>) {
        dataList = data
    }

    override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): ListViewHolder {
        val view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.item_row, parent, false)
        return ListViewHolder(view)
    }

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: ListViewHolder, position: Int) {
        val question: Questionio = dataList[position] as Questionio
        holder.bindView(question)
    }

    override fun getItemCount(): Int {
        return if (dataList.size > 0) {
            dataList.size
        } else {
            return 0
        }
    }

inner class ListViewHolder(itemView: View, listener: onItemClickListener) :
    RecyclerView.ViewHolder(itemView) {
    fun bindView(questionio: Questionio) {
        itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_policlinic).text = questionio.policlinic
        itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_title).text = questionio.title
        itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_description).text = questionio.description
        itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_date).text = questionio.date
        itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_time).text = questionio.time

    }

    init {
        itemView.setOnClickListener {
            listener.onItemClick(adapterPosition)
        }
    }
}
}

My code in onCreateView inside list fragment.Edit
ListFragment
recyclerView.layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(requireContext())
            recyclerView.adapter = adapter
            observeData()
adapter.setOnItemClickListener(object : ListAdapter.onItemClickListener {
                override fun onItemClick(position: Int) {
                    showShortToast(position.toString())
                }
            })

this function is also my observationData(),
I made new edits
private fun observeData() {
        binding.shimmerViewContainer.startShimmer()
        listViewModel.fetchQuestinData("questions",
        requireContext())
            .observe(viewLifecycleOwner, {
                binding.shimmerViewContainer.startShimmer()
                binding.shimmerViewContainer.hideShimmer()
                binding.shimmerViewContainer.hide()
                adapter.setListData(it)
                adapter.notifyDataSetChanged()
            })
    }

A: You can pass highOrderFuction into the adapter then setonclickListener for any view you want. Like this:
class ListAdapter(
   private val context: Context,
   private val onItemClick:(questionio: Questionio)->Unit
) : RecyclerView.Adapter<ListAdapter.ListViewHolder>() {

 override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): ListViewHolder {
        val view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.item_row, parent, false)
        return ListViewHolder(view,onItemClick)
    }
...

inner class ListViewHolder(itemView: View,private val onItemClick:(questionio: Questionio)->Unit) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(itemView) {
        fun bindView(questionio: Questionio) {

            //set on any view you want
            itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.root_view_id).
            setOnClickListener{onItemClick(questionio)}

            itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_policlinic).text =
            questionio.policlinic
            itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_title).text = questionio.title
            itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_description).text =
            questionio.description
            itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_date).text = questionio.date
            itemView.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.txt_time).text = questionio.time
        }
    }

}


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Zednik hopes for playoff return as condition improves
Florida Panthers right winger Richard Zednik is helped off the ice by a trainer and teammate Jassen Cullimore during the third period of a game against the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo, N.Y. on Sunday. Buffalo won 5-3. Don Heupel, The Associated Press
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Upon hearing Richard Zednik's recovery from a life-threatening neck laceration could last six to eight weeks, Olli Jokinen checked his calendar.
That would be playoff time in the NHL.
And suddenly, the Florida Panthers have a huge source of postseason motivation.
Zednik continued what some termed a remarkable recovery Tuesday, when his condition was upgraded to good and he was moved out of the intensive care unit at Buffalo General Hospital.
That was just two days after Jokinen's razor-sharp skate blade sliced the 32-year-old forward's neck, cutting his carotid artery and stopping just shy of his jugular vein.
As Zednik recovers, so do the Panthers, who returned to the ice Tuesday, albeit still somber and shaken, yet somewhat uplifted by the continued good reports about their teammate.
"We've got 24 games to go," Jokinen said. "If we do our jobs, there is a possibility Richard's going to play with us and join the team in the playoffs. The doctors say six to eight weeks … there's a possibility he could play this year. So every game now, it's going to be big, big for us."
Zednik playing again this season is a real longshot. Doctors in Buffalo have already told him next year is the realistic return target.
Still, the notion just might be enough of a reason for the playoff-starved Panthers to have some hope.
"We have to set it aside now and play hockey," said Florida defenseman Jassen Cullimore, who helped Zednik off the ice. "That's what we do."
The Panthers hope Zednik can travel home to South Florida by the weekend.
As he helped Zednik leave the ice, Cullimore didn't fully understand the magnitude of the moment.
Then he looked down, and the shock hit him.
"I had blood splattered all over my shirt and my hands and everything," Cullimore said. "It's quite a shocking experience to see that much blood, and if I felt that way, I can just imagine how Richard felt."
Knowing that Zednik – who can talk and is alert – is doing as well can be expected, the Panthers also felt a sense of some relief. Zednik isn't believed to have suffered any long-term brain or nerve damage, and one surgeon described him as "very lucky."
"It's a sign of how good medicine can be and how good medical people can be," Panthers coach Jacques Martin said.
The accident remains the dominant topic in the NHL.
When Jokinen's skate hit Zednik's neck, a significant amount of blood immediately began pouring from a 1 1/2-inch wound, leaving a wide, ghastly red trail on the ice. Zednik skated to the Panthers' bench, desperate for help. His carotid artery – which carries blood to the brain – was nearly severed and emergency surgery that night at Buffalo General probably saved his life.
"Shows how tough the guy is," Jokinen said. "He was able to skate to the bench, with the cut in his throat, losing blood like that. It was pretty amazing, you know?"
Zednik never lost consciousness. He actually complained that Sabres' orthopedic surgeon Dr. Les Bisson was applying too much pressure to his neck in an effort to stop the bleeding.
By the time he reached the hospital, Zednik needed five units (roughly five pints) of blood, a figure that suggests one-third of the blood in his body gushed from the wound before bleeding could be controlled.
By all accounts, his recovery was going as well as could be expected.
Practice seemed normal Tuesday for the Panthers, who had a team meeting before the 60-minute workout, filled with all the usual skating and puck handling and shooting drills.
Rob Globke, who was called up from Florida's AHL affiliate in Rochester to fill Zednik's roster spot, was with the team for the session.
A 12-year veteran, Zednik had 15 goals and 11 assists in 54 games this season, his first with the Panthers, and was clearly playing his best hockey of the season.
He didn't manage a single point over 16 games – spanning 361 shifts and 4 hours, 32 minutes of on-ice time – between Dec. 28 and Feb. 1. But he had six goals and three assists in the four games that preceded Sunday's game in Buffalo, giving the Panthers a clear boost as the team tries to make the playoffs for the first time since 2000.
"It's not like he wasn't having some scoring chances," Martin said. "They just weren't going in. Suddenly they started going in, and there's no doubt that the last two weeks that line had been very productive for our hockey team."
The Panthers entered Tuesday in fourth place in the Southeast Division, two points behind Washington for first place and the No. 3 spot in the Eastern Conference playoff standings.
Montreal visits Florida on Wednesday night.


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One of the biggest problems about Tumblr's demise is that it will permanently and irreparably fracture the communities that have been built there.
Artists whose content is no longer acceptable on Tumblr (or whose content Tumblr's bots keep incorrectly identifying as not acceptable, and there are many of them) find themselves with a wide range of other platforms to choose from. And that wide range is a negative, not a positive. Because it doesn't matter how awesome and welcoming a platform is to a content creator if there isn't an audience on that platform to consume it.
Sadly, I don't see that there are any good outcomes. Two weeks isn't enough time for a critical mass of content creators to rally around a couple of platforms and have their followers follow them there. Instead, content creators will fracture across multiple different platforms, take root, and hope that they aren't just screaming into the void. Content followers will be forced to create accounts and follow creators across multiple different platforms. And that's going to be too much work for many people.
It's generally accepted that the death of Tumblr is inevitable and nigh. It's sad that they will likely take a large portion of their content creators with them, ironically because there are too many places for the creators to go.


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I recently watched a National Geographic documentary called Solitary Confinement. It is supposed to be a discussion on whether or not solitary confinement is necessary to control the most severe inmantes, or a form of torture. My views on the humans in the study were conflicted. There seemed to be a legitimate need for some of the inmates to be kept away from other human being, and some situations that truly perplexed me. However, the reason that I am writing about this particular film has less to do with humans than it does another highly social group of animals that weren't even featured in this movie.
The correlation to dog shelters and kennel situations seems obvious to me. And let me be clear, I have volunteered at the Buffalo City Animal Shelter, I interned at the Erie County SPCA, and I have visited numerous shelters and kennels as a veterinary assistant who had to pick up and drop off deceased animals for cremationat my least favorite job ever, not to mention as a family of dog lovers our family has spent a lot of time in shelters picking out dogs as those are the places our animals come from. I have been in a lot of kennels, but I do not claim to be an expert in running a shelter. I have simply seen their setups and will be making comments about what I have seen.
Inmates also talked about how much it pained them to not ever get the chance to exercise outside. Having no interaction with other people is one thing, but they also exercised indoors, and did not get the chance to feel the sun on themselves, or the wind blowing.
A counselor in the SC (Solitary Confinement) progam was interviewed, and talked about how the inmates had ZERO self confidence in themselves. None of them believed they would be able to make it in society. This is another sentiment I relay to dog owners all the time. When your dog is on the end of a leash lashing out in aggression, more often than any other reason this happens out of fear, and lack of confidence in a multitude of things not excluding the owners handling skills themselves. But I usually see it in dogs that lack confidence in all areas of their lives.
One of the biggest eye openers of this movie in relation to dogs, was a section that covered an experiment done with lab rats. I haven't been able to find any info on the study, but if one of my 3 readers has any info on it I would be greatly appreciative. The study basicaly confined rats in a similar situation to both SC and a dog shelter for a period of time and studied the rats behavior. After the rats had been confined for a while where they could see and hear other rats but not interact and create actual relationships, they transferred them to a larger cage with objects such as a small house and some other toys to play with.
The rats behavior was incredible. They behaved in a state of constant hyperalertness, basically pacing the perimiter in frenzied paranoia. They ignored the new objects and the opportunity to stimulate themseves, to only look for potential threats.
My thoughts are that because rats are very social animals they have learned to survive by distributing the tasks of guarding among one another, and without this safety net to be watching their back they are reduced to constantly watching for predators. This makes me think of something we call, "Kennel Crazy" which I will probably talk about in a future article.
This is also a behavior I see in dogs that have not been socialized ever, or in a long time. I see many leash reactive dogs walking up the street ignoring the sights, sounds, and smells of the outside world, to only be scanning the horizon for a potetial threat. And then address that percieved threat aggressively.
The only convict who seemed normal and connected to reality was a man who spent signifigant amounts of his day meditating. He described using self control, and activly using his mind as the only thing that kept him alive.
1) Don't be a criminal.
2) Your dog needs opportunities to be, and become social. As social animals the negative effects of isolation are abundant and clear. Animals that are normally social, and do not have the opportunity to be social will end up paranoid, hyper active, self destructive, and difficult to exist with. Not to mention genuinely unhappy.
As I stated before, I am not a shelter expert; and I do think many shelters are doing everything they can to help dogs (and cats) find a better situation and by no means am I trying to villify or demean what they do. But I do believe there is much that could be done differently. I think having shelter employees educated in how to socialize dogs would be incredibly helpful to the overall quality of life of dogs in shelters. This would ultimately make many of them more adoptable as they would get to interact with other animals on a regular basis, and therefore build useful social skills for the rest of their lives outside of the shelter.
As all creatures do, dogs fear the unknown. And to a dog that has never been around other dogs, or visited new places, everything is unknown. I watched this movie on Netflix, and it is available for instant viewing if you choose to check it out. As always, any questions or comments are welcome!


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Протесты в США (2022) — серия непрекращающихся акций протеста в поддержку прав на аборт и контрпротестов против абортов началась в Соединенных Штатах 2 мая 2022 года после утечки проекта по отмене решений по делам «Роу против Уэйда» и «Планирование отцовства против Кейси».

24 июня 2022 года Верховный суд официально постановил свой проект, что привело к новым протестам за пределами здания Верховного суда и по всей стране.

Предыстория
Дело «Роу против Уэйда» было значимым в истории решением Верховного Суда США о законности проведения абортов. Тогда суд постановил, что женщина имеет право прервать беременность по собственному желанию до тех пор, пока плод не станет жизнеспособным, то есть до 28 недели беременности. Являясь одним из наиболее значимых решений принятых в США, в течение многих лет велись дискуссии по этому решению. Основанием решения послужило право на неприкосновенность личной жизни, проистекающее из статьи о справедливом суде.

Ход событий

2 мая 2022 года Politico опубликовала первый проект постановления, написанного судьей Сэмюэлем Алито, подлинность которого, по словам Politico, была проверена. Проект отменил бы действие решений по делам «Роу против Уэйда» и «Планирование отцовства против Кейси», если бы его поддержало большинство Верховном суде. Вскоре после публикации документа в городах по всей стране прошли многочисленные акции протеста, в которых также приняли участие различные юристы, политики и группы активистов, по поводу просочившегося проекта.

24 июня 2022 года решением по делу  Верховный суд США официально постановил, что конституция США не предусматривает права на аборт, и штаты вправе регулировать эту сферу самостоятельно. Однако, из-за достаточно высокой поддержки права на аборт, число протестующих возросло.

По данным The Hill, протест запланировал забастовки в более чем 20 университетах.

Также в ряде американских городов прошли митинги сторонников запрета абортов. В городе Форт-Коллинс в штате Колорадо произошла стычка между сторонниками и противниками запрета абортов.

За пределами страны
Акции солидарности прошли в Берлине (Германии), Париже (Франции), у американского посольства в Лондоне, (Великобритании), в Монреале и других городах Квебека, а также за пределами американского посольства в Дублине (Ирландии). Митинг также прошел у консульства США в центре Торонто (Канаде).

Примечания

Акции протеста 2022 года
Аборты в США
Акции протеста в США
Полемика вокруг проблемы аборта


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Scottsdale Update - April 28, 2022
Attend tomorrow's Arbor Day Celebration, our final Earth Week event. The program takes place at 8 a.m. Friday, April 29, at the Bell Road Sports Complex, 9390 E. Bell Road. Mayor Ortega will read the Arbor Day proclamation and participate in a tree planting ceremony. Guest speakers include representatives from the Scottsdale Garden Club and Scottsdale Environmental Advisory Commission. Scottsdale is proud to be recognized as a Tree City USA community for the 40th year, more times than any other Arizona community. Read more about the Arbor Day Foundation and the criteria to be a Tree City.
The Scottsdale City Council approved the 2022 Transportation Plan at its April 26 meeting. The plan is focused on flexible transportation planning, implementing new technology and investing in existing infrastructure. TAP 2022 is divided into five elements: Streets, Transit, Bikeways, Pedestrian Use and Trails.
TAP 2022 was developed alongside the city's 2035 General Plan and replaces the 2016 Transportation Master Plan. Approval by the City Council was preceded by a year-long public involvement process including stakeholder meetings, input from the Scottsdale Transportation Commission and a work study session with City Council members. Learn more about the plan.
Scottsdale Water Administrator Kevin Rose captures Arizona's "Operation Leader of the Year." Rose, who started with the city in 2017, oversees 180 employees and directs all utility operating departments including water, wastewater and recycled water. Scottsdale Water also was recognized for its outstanding safety performance with eight facilities receiving awards. Read more.
Enjoy free concerts at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, Sundays, May 1-29. Rock and roll at the railroad park is back on track! Enjoy free concerts, from 7:30-9 p.m., showcasing a variety of local bands. Bring a blanket or chair and relax in the park. Pack a picnic, or enjoy something tasteful from Hartley's General Store or one of the food trucks that will be onsite. The park's iconic steam engines pull the Paradise & Pacific Railroad. Train and Carousel rides are $3. Children two and younger ride free with a paying adult.
New theatrical work, "DANCING WITH THE UNIVERSE | Native Style," debuts May 7, at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. This production, created by Derrick Suwaima Davis, tells the story of seasons and cycles and the value of respecting the natural order of the universe. It combines individual numbers focusing on music and dance to tell a story of universe, this planet and the living creatures who dwell here, including human beings. Some of the performances draw on traditions of specific Southwest tribes, from the Tohono O'odham to the Apache, while others refer to common powwow performances, most often linked to the traditions of Great Plains cultures. Learn more and buy tickets.
Prescription Drug Take Back available at two Scottsdale locations Saturday. The collections – which take place 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 30 – are part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's 17th Annual National Prescription Drug Take-Back. Bring your pills for disposal to the Granite Reef Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef Road, or Foothills District Police Station in the Market Street Plaza at DC Ranch, 20363 N. Pima Road. Please do not bring liquids of any kind. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6 million Americans misused controlled prescription drugs. The study shows that many abused prescription drugs were obtained from family and friends, often from the home medicine cabinet.
Scottsdale Senior Services adds new food program for adults 60 and older. Granite Reef Senior Center recently started participating in the "Commodity Supplemental Food Program." This program, in partnership with St. Mary's Food Bank and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides food items to the 60 and older community in Scottsdale. There is a limited supply of boxes given each month. This service is provided in addition to the 200 seniors served in the Brown Bag Program. Call the Granite Reef Senior Center at 480-312-1700 to find out how you can help or get help.
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has issued a high ozone pollution advisory for Friday-Monday, April 29-May 2. Those with respiratory sensitivities are advised to take precautions during outdoor activities.
Please reduce ozone by doing one or more of the following:
Use gas or electric instead of burning wood
Ride transit, carpool or telework
Eliminate unnecessary driving and/or combine trips
Avoid dirt roads
Avoid using leaf blowers
If burning wood for heat or food preparation, use dry wood (burning wet wood releases more particulate matter)
Thanks to you, the Adopt-a-Road program achieves record-breaking cleanup. Seventy-one volunteer groups participated in the Adopt-a-Road citywide cleanup April 23 to celebrate Earth Day. Just more than 500 people cleaned 142 miles of roadway and removed more than two tons of trash during the event. That's a 14% increase in participation over the fall 2021 event. Learn more about the program.
Pima Park Butterfly Garden is ready for residents and pollinators to enjoy. The garden includes a new pedestrian path, more than 125 plants, 15 trees, four benches and metal art. More than 40 volunteers from PHX Architecture, First Christian Church and HonorHealth Ambassadors provided about 240 volunteer hours at a value worth over $5,000 that resulted in significant enhancements to Pima Park at 86th Street and Thomas Road.
Ross Aviation, a fixed-base operator at Scottsdale Airport, achieves certification as a Green Aviation Business. The certification is in accordance with the National Air Transportation Association's new sustainability standard for aviation businesses, which provides a certification process for pursuing cost-effective options to lower their carbon footprints. The company plans to play a role in crafting new sustainability standards with its carbon offset programs, offer customers sustainably obtained aviation fuel and pursue other key initiatives.
View Scottsdale traffic restrictions. Access information in our map center.


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Tweets, chirps, and owls… this week's My Five is an avian-heavy one, and it's an absolute hoot!
You are reading: My Five #448
Chirps, Twitter, YouTube
Ali Cort
Client Services Director
Five things worth sharing from the last week or so, brought to you by a different member of the Browser Media team every Friday.
This week's My Five is by Ali.
1. Twitter gets chirpy about design update
In a series of tweets this week, Twitter announced a number of changes to its design to make the platform 'more accessible, unique, and focused on you and what you're talking about'.
I don't know what this statement really means either but it manifests itself in several updates.
The first is a new font, called Chirp, that was announced a while back but wasn't immediately available. Like the BBC, that created its own font recently, Twitter had been reliant on someone else's typeface and was probably paying a premium for the privilege. The company describes the new font as being 'sharp and legible (with good density), but with personality and distinctiveness'. Twitter adds that all Western-language text now aligns left, making it easier to read as you scroll, while non-Western languages remain unchanged.
Twitter has also updated its colours to be high-contrast a lot less blue and will be rolling out a fresh colour palette soon.
And the company says it has cleaned up some of the 'visual clutter' – removing unnecessary divider lines, increased space to make text easier to read and fewer grey backgrounds.
Of course, inevitably, the changes were met with mixed reaction in the twittersphere with some people saying these changes were unnecessary and don't tackle the real user issues. Edit button anyone?
2. Controversial PaddyPower goes too far in targeting children
PaddyPower has made it into our My5 previously with some seriously creative work and some less savoury tactics and the company got into hot water yet again this week.
PaddyPower's owner, Flutter Entertainment, also owner of Skybet and Betfair, has seen revenues surge 99% to £3.1bn, following the return of sport after the Covid-induced break.
However, the brand has been caught trying to lure under 18s into the murky world of gambling by advertising on social media with tempting gifs/cartoons that appeal to this age group: sadly there are 55,000 problem gamblers between the ages of 11-16 in the UK
In some tweets, the gambling giant was compared to the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang under the hashtag #paddypowerleavethekidsalone.
3. YouTube going big on 'Shorts'
YouTube is putting some serious wedge behind a campaign to promote its short-form video content, 'Shorts'. With stiff competition in the form of TikTok and other platforms also jumping on the short-video bandwagon, YouTube is trying to appeal to Gen Z (also known as 'Zoomers) by promoting the ease of posting via a create button.
The main focus of the campaign is tie-ups with high-profile artists including The Weekend and Camila Cabello.
Whilst all the big platforms are developing new tech and splashing the cash to drive engagement and build trust in their new initiatives, they know that they are ultimately going to earn even bigger bucks from brands and businesses, keen to tap into the audiences that they win over.
4. Twitter's image cropping software bias
Twitter had come under fire for its image cropping software back in 2020 when users noticed that it seemed to focus on white faces over those of black people.
This embarrassment caused the company to launch 'the algorithmic harms bug bounty', in which it promised to pay prizes to researchers who could prove that the company's image cropping algorithm was biased or had harmful consequences.
Bogdan Kulynych, a swiss student, was the first winner of the prize ($3,500) this week as by producing artificial faces with different skin tones and features, he was able to demonstrate that Twitter's algorithm was indeed biased.
5. Ring doorbells having a hoot
This sweet story to round up my My Five is courtesy of Ring doorbells. During their first night in their new home, an Arizona family received some surprise visitors that were caught in action – a group of three owls.
In a statement to Ring, the homeowner, who just happens to be an owl lover, said: "The first night in our new home, I received three notifications, one after the other at 10:30 pm! I finally answered the Ring and caught three amazing owls on our new porch having dinner!"