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Iowa Football
New NIL World
Thread starter percyland
MVPFAN
HR Heisman
Michael1969 said:
You're exactly right. The way the NCAA set this up is it wasn't supposed to be used for recruiting purposes. The intent of it was for an athlete to deal strictly with an entity AFTER he's already started playing for said college, not before; the schools were to play no part in it. Somehow, the NCAA has already allowed the lines to become blurred.
scotthawk1964
MVPFAN said:
Luckily it will implode eventually. Boosters won't be able to afford to pay millions of dollars on the side for class after class that may or may not perform well and also keep donating millions of dollars to athletic departments forever. Going to be a lot of athletes that blow their money and owe a lot of taxes.
We can hope. LOL I will be 58 in May, so I am old school, but I have always thought that a full ride scholarship, and all the free meals these kids get are more then enough that they don't need this NIL. I guess a free college education is not important anymore. To be honest, if they can get paid for their autograph, fine, I have no problem, but that is about as far as I would go with NIL. These kids would hate me. LOL I went to DMACC and on year to a state school, (ISU, I dare to say) and it took me years to pay back my student loans, so I still think full ride schollies are plenty. But, I apparently am out of touch now days. LOL
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jonesy5960
nu2u said:
I'll dm you my venmo acct. Send it to me and I'll make sure it gets into the right hands. Tell your friends.
I think Venmo has a $5k limit. My friends and I are gonna need something way more accommodating than that. Also, I totally trust where you're coming from but my friends are more cynical. If you can forward me your SSN, birth date, and bank information for a quick background check I can get 6 figures into your account for distribution by the end of the week. Go Hawks!
Another thing that will stop it is when these boosters get burned by it. Give a kid some NIL money thinking the kid will be at that school for the rest of his eligibility, only to have the kid transfer to another school a year later because he got more money elsewhere. That booster won't ever take that chance on another kid.
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Pandora's box has been opened and the kids will never want to go back to what college football was, but the NCAA or someone better get some rules in place to curb it in some way, or it will eventually ruin the game for the General old fan like me. Same with the Transfer portal, I don't know all the TP rules, but I would say one and done so kids cannot transfer every year to a different school. I already lost interest in pretty much all pro sports, so this is all I have sports wise these days, and once I lose interest in college football, I guess I will take more interest in my yard. LOL
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IsaacHarrison said:
Ive asked many times on here...How much money is really there to pay college athletes? There is only so much money that is available to give to college programs so there is a limit somewhere. I dont think too many, if any, schools have the donors to be playing multiple player 6 to 7 figure deals and a annual basis. So many of these deals will fall through, kids will leave programs, kids wont pan out, kids get in trouble, teams dont pan out etc. These donors will stop giving. Coaces will avoid schools where the donors are paying the high dollars because they will want immediate results, or else. The big city schools donors dont pay near as much attention to collage sports as they do pros. Here in PHX we never see college athletes on commercial/billboards etc...Its always the cardinals, coyotes or the suns players.
look up how much players are making, its all over the internet. From 6 figured freshman QBs to 7 OL getting 50k in texas.
Kurt Warner
scotthawk1964 said:
NIL is going to be the death of college football as we know it and love it. This whole NIL thing is going to get very crooked very fast. Good thing I am getting old so I have fewer years left to watch this crap play out. LOL
Ad basketball also. One of the stupidest decisions ever made in college athletics. Kinda goes along with everything going on today😟
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IsaacHarrison
obfuscating said:
Again, thats whats happening right now. Point is will donors keep shelling out the $ year after year.
That is what donors do, especially at big time programs (AL, TX, OSU, ND, LSU, USC, etc - not Iowa).
IMHO this will end up dividing D1 into two, making your elite teams "semi-pro" and then the others. It's no longer about an education (hasn't been for sometime for most of the blue bloods), win baby is all the donors want.
LakeviewHawkeye said:
In combination with the transfer rules, I think you are spot on. Obviously blue bloods will use NIL $$ to lure players from other programs to shore up their rosters, widening the gap considerably. It's already started and will only get worse.
Hopefully there are people in positions of power that see that and can do something to curb it before it gets completely out of hand. Once it is out of hand, it's over because the kids will have been financially corrupted and will seek money over the game and will fight tooth and nail to keep it that way. There should at least be a cap put on what a kid who is receiving a full ride scholly can make.
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Already out of hand.
While at the Texas High School Coaches Association's annual convention, per The Athletic, Saban noted quarterback Bryce Young is nearing the $1 million mark in sponsorships.
"Our quarterback already has approached ungodly numbers—I'm not going to say what they are—and he hasn't even played yet. Hasn't even started," Saban said. "... It's almost seven figures. And it's like, the guy hasn't even played yet. But that's because of our brand."
Young's only known partnership is with Cash App, so it's unclear how close exactly he is to $1 million.
BYU football
NIL deal: $136,000 ... plus tuitions
This is an example of a university's athletic program thinking outside the box. In a deal with Built Bar, all 136 Brigham Young football players -- that's scholarship players AND walk-ons -- can earn up to $1,000 as brand ambassadors.
Oh, and the deal also pays for the tuition for all walk-ons.
McKenzie Milton, Florida State football, and D'Eriq King, Miami football
NIL deal: $20,000, plus signing bonus
Texas offensive linemen
NIL deal: $800,000
A non-profit entity will give $50,000 to each of 16 Texas offensive linemen on scholarship, with the twist being that the players must use the funds to support charitable causes.
University of Miami football
In an unusual deal, a line of fitness centers in South Florida is offering every University of Miami football player $500 per month to endorse the gym.
littlez
percyland said:
Listening to the podcast Bussin with The Boys they stopped in Lincoln and talked with Frost and the new QB transfer from Texas. Hearing how they are concentrating on NIL is a bit concerning because I'm guessing our coach who happens to be Medicare age isn't on board with doing as much as he can to get payers money.
As much as I dislike Fros, and Nebraksa is a garbage program Frost says he hates the new NIL world but it's currently the game being played so they are going to play it the best they can. They said they have multiple companies in Lincoln that are specifically there to help Football players get money. Do they have these in Iowa city?
The new QB transfer into Nebraksa said most starters for Nebraska are making at least 6 figures. Said he could probably double his money if he took all opportunities but is being selective. Again I think Nebraksa is trash but if they can throw 6 figures$$ in cash at each starter that has to help with recruiting.
So you're telling me every starter at Nebraska is getting 100K in NIL money. So that's $220,000. As I've stated in other threads, I see a few things being tossed out about money but very little TRUE information. Hearing the qb from Nebby saying the entire starting O and D is getting 100K I don't believe. And then everyone goes on about the NIL being the death of sport and blah blah blah. Wake me up when Nebraska has a winning record. And I'm being serious.
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kceasthawk
littlez said:
No doubt. And what dumb ass is going to fork over a 100K to the right guard on a team that is 4-8? And just how long before they expect some ROI? You know what they say, "about a fool and his money"....
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kceasthawk said:
Total BS. Agree KC.
The list just continues to grow. OSU alone raked in nearly 3million for 220 athletes. It is no longer about the student.
The 6-foot-3, 160-pound point guard out of Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis will make $2 million on the deal with Web Apps America, according to his father.
Miller is committed to Tennessee State University, where he'll play in the fall.
"It's incredible. This is gonna change the way college athletes want to stay in school," Master P told TMZ Sports.
Master P told TMZ Sports the deal had been in the works for some time, but he was waiting on various NIL rulings to make it official.
"I signed a deal with an American technology company. Like my dad said, it's a blessing," Hercy Miller said.
What's more, colleges are generally tight-lipped about how much their athletes make in these types of deals — and there's really no regulatory body that governs a requirement of disclosure — but it's estimated that at Ohio State University alone, a total of $2.98 million has been paid to 220 athletes for more than 600 reported NIL activities since July 2021.
And you thought fried chicken was racist when mentioned with a black person:
"We're thrilled to have Ky'Wuan join Team Bojangles as the first HBCU athlete on our roster," said chief brand and marketing officer at Bojangles, Jackie Woodward, in an official statement. "We look forward to continuing our partnerships with HBCUs and athletes throughout our footprint."
ESPN reports that the four-star quarterback prospect has signed a four-figure NIL deal with Athletes in Recruitment (AIR), a recruiting app. According to the outlet, the Pittsburg High School player is "believed to be the first high school football player to profit from endorsements," AfroTech previously reported.
By the Numbers: $200,000 in education
When Travis Hunter committed to Jackson State University, AfroTech reported that his last-minute decision to switch may have netted him a seven-figure NIL deal.
"Rumors have been circulating about the five-star defensive back landing what's said to be a seven-figure name, image, and likeness (NIL) deal with Barstool Sports and Penn National Gaming," we reported.
By the Numbers: Unavailable, but rumored to be in the seven figures.
The University of Central Florida wide receiver has not one, not two, but three NIL deals, proving that he's one of the hottest prospects in the sports industry today, according to Sports Illustrated.
His most recent NIL deal was with Your Brand Voice, a digital marketing company in Orlando, FL. Prior to that, he signed a NIL deal with Travous Dever, a real estate agent in the area. And his first NIL deal came from JS2 Cattle Company, located in Geneva, FL.
Alabama Crimson Tide freshman Ga'Quincy McKinstry's NIL deal was a full-circle moment. From his childhood to his collegiate career, his nickname has been "Kool-Aid." Then, he partnered with the drink company itself.
According to USA Today, Kayshon Butte — who plays football with LSU — announced that he'd signed a NIL deal in January 2022 with attorney Gordon McKernan, who is based in Baton Rouge, LA.
"Gordon is a great man looking to help out the LSU football program and its players. Very excited to work with Big G and see what the future holds," Boutte said in a press release on Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys' website.
17-year-old Mikey Williams was signed to a NIL deal with PUMA while he was still in high school. Although he's not eligible for the NBA draft until 2024, Williams' deal was historic in that he became the first American high school basketball player to sign a sneaker deal with a global footwear company, ESPN reports.
Ismellarat
Team MVP
I agree with your basic premise that NIL is going to be the death of college sports as we knew them, but the NIL concept is not "crooked"; it has been legalized by the United States Supreme Court.
This is the one hope, barring a change in the law. Boosters at every level could end up concluding that the whole thing is beyond their ability to fund and manage it.
General Tso
I hate the whole thing for college football but don't blame the players one bit for getting paid. Also, fighting and being stubborn about it isn't going to win many games .
pepsicock
5 miles from Willams Brice stadium
Can't wait when college football and basketball players join a Union. They can go on strike and not play
pepsicock said:
That would be self sabotage for any player that can make the league. Basically the opposite of leaving early for the pros.
HawkeyeGenius
Iowa better get their shit together with NIL.
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If this Twitter account is to be believed then it sounds like 30 schools may break away and form their own thing. Also talks a lot about what Big Ten schools are offering, some that don't care.
Hawk_4shur said:
OSU has set up a Foundation to promote NIL, with Urban Meyer at the helm. This is a major development IMO, and is simply the beginning of all this. It will be a quasi-pro sport very soon, if not already.
There is no doubt that KF is close to losing his lunch over this - and I admire that in him. The entire NIL thing is a disgrace to college sports and it will prove to be the undoing of it as we know it. Hopefully it will morph into something just as much fun.
Lincoln has a population of 283,000, which is larger than the 380 corridor (250k?), but corridor businesses are simply not as irrational about Iowa sports at the Lincoln businesses probably are.
OSU. Mich, Nebby are likely to have millions to throw around. It's just another thing that destroys parity.
And just when parity was starting to creep in, just a tad (with Cinci getting into the final 4).
Telling ya, there will be 2 D1 divisions within the next 5yrs if NIL isn't controlled or eliminated. There are 20-25 "Big" named schools that will be D1A\Semi-pro and have multi-million dollar NIL deals for the 5* and highly regarded4* athletes. The Iowa's of the world will be in the Small Business equivalent category or the D1B division.
There will be 2 National championships played for. The "student" athlete will virtually no longer exist in D1A. D1B will be on the CBS, ABC, NBC while D1A will be on Prime, ESPN, and other "pay" sites to keep their revenue stream flowing.
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HawkeyeGenius said:
All this just shows the Frost cannot win with kids he recruited, he will probably hit that magic "keep your job number" of wins, but the Nebby donors will get soured quickly when they have to shell out even more money to keep a 8 win coach around, plus pay for talent.
bumpstock
I think you're very close to describing the future of college football.
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pistachio1999
There is no parity. Remember when Kansas football played in the Orange Bowl in the last decade or two? Sometimes teams just hit a short term combo that executes.
pistachio1999 said:
More parity now then ever before. Still have the top 10 that will always be the top 10. Going undefeated is pretty difficult now, even the IAA top tier teams compete and at times beat a top 25 D1. NIL will cause another chasm that will be difficult to overcome for most teams under the top 15.
NCHawkeye24
HR All-State
While I am no fan of NIL, I have also not been a fan of all the corruption and cheating that has gone on in college sports either. So I do think something had to be done although it sure seems like the wild west right now.
I think if Iowa's athletic department is going to be dependent on big donors and the private sector to keep up with the competition with regards to NIL is just lazy. It does kind of seem like the department has kind of thrown its hands up and said, "hey kids, if you want to go make some money you are free to do it, but we really don't want anything to do with it". But on the flip side, the University has no problem licensing the tigerhawk logo out to whoever is willing to pay a royalty.
So if I was the AD, this is what I would do:
1. First thing would be to re-structure the athletic department top to bottom. Just brainstorming here, but I think it would be necessary to place marketing/merchandising, licensing and recruiting under the same umbrella. These endeavors all have to work hand-in-hand, and from the very beginning of recruitment there needs to be a team consisting of the recruiting coordinator, coach(es), and marketing involved.
2. The next thing is for the university to develop a merchandising agreement with each player (standard as an athlete), implement strategies to not only offer but promote individual merchandising opportunities. There should be no reason that only a few football or basketball jerseys are offered for sale. Every player needs to have at minimum their jersey offered for sale, but on top of that, merchandise that is specific for a particular sport, i.e. football, should have a percentage of the proceeds go to the general football NIL fund that would be split evenly among the players. The biggie biggie biggie here is whether or not the university is going to allow the athlete the usage of the Iowa trademarks including the tigerhawk.
3. I would also implement a "branding" department that would be available to help the players do exactly how it is named, build their brand. A lot of interns could be utilized here. This would consist of so many things: licensing and trademarking (like Tory Taylor's slogan), building and maintaining websites and online stores, legal agreements, merchandising contacts, etc. There is so much money to be made here by the athlete and the university of it is done right. It is not even that far away from providing representation of the athlete, because, if you think about it, why give all of that money away to Klutch Sports or some other agent when the school had a relationship with the player for much longer. Lets say that Old Spice wants to do a commercial with Keegan Murray? Instead of just allowing it to happen and let the Murray's try to fumble through the complexities of contractual agreements and negotiations, instead either Old Spice contacts the university or the university promotes the athlete through one of their partners and the university handles all of the business end of things and Keegan does the commercial and cashes his check. Why, again, allow all of that opportunity to be wasted and not taken advantage of.
4. One more thing I would do within the athletic department would be to have an outside sales team that actively procured marketing opportunities for the athletes, as well as providing a central location for fans or businesses to go to in order to request an athlete ambassador. This would be everything from TV and radio ads, personal appearances, birthday parties, camps, autograph signings, etc. This would then not just be available to those that have the contacts of knowing someone that knows someone, but a real professional way for the public to utilize these resources. I want to have a Hawkeye football player or two come to by 8 year old kids' birthday party for 2 hours and I am willing to spend 800-1000 bucks, this should be easy. I have a small business and I want to have them come to a grand opening? Call the number.
There are a whole host of other ideas, but these are just a few. The bottomline is that as long as there are fans that are willing to spend money then there is opportunity for everyone involved. Luka could have made a billion dollars because he was so good and such a great ambassador for the program, but hell, who wouldn't still buy a "Little Lick" jersey as a gag gift? I think there are so so so many opportunities for all of the athletes as well as the athletic department. And it goes much much further than what we are seeing right now which is the lazy way of doing things like "if you come to this school you will get a new Range Rover". In some instances that athlete will be cutting his own throat by taking that deal instead of a percentage of merchandise. If I was the athlete, I would bet on my myself, take the percentage without a cap and then play my ass off.
Hwk-I-St8
Lower Slobovia
NCHawkeye24 said:
Iowa already has the NIL branding support in place....has been since late last summer. Iowa cannot participate directly in NIL...cannot pay players for their NIL or serve as an intermediary for NIL contracts. They can educate the players, but they cannot participate.
Hwk-I-St8 said:
I didn't know they couldn't be an intermediary. I don't understand that, all it does is let that part of it be unregulated while the cheaters are going to be the intermediary. But, whatever.
That is interesting about the branding support. Do you know in more detail what they are doing with that?
Gotcha. I will look into this more.
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The effect of Ce3+ ions on the spectral and decay characteristics of luminescence phosphate-borate glasses doped with rare-earth ions
D. T. Valiev, Elena Fedorovna Polisadova, K. N. Belikov, N. L. Egorova
Division for Materials Science
The luminescent characteristics of Li2O-B2O 3-P2O5-CaF2 (LBPC) glasses doped with Gd3+ and Tb3+ ions and codoped with Ce3+ are studied by pulsed optical spectrometry under electron beam excitation. It is found that in glass with Ce3+ and Gd3+ ions a decrease in the decay time of gadolinium luminescence in the 312-nm band (6 P J → 8 S 7/2) was observed. It is shown that in the glass LBPC: Tb, Ce, an increase in the emission intensity in the main radiative transitions in terbium ion was observed. In the kinetics of luminescence band 545 nm of LBPC: Tb, Ce glasses, is present stage of buildup, the character of which changes with the doped of Ce3+ ions. The mechanism of energy transfer in LBP glasses doped with rare elements is discussed.
Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya)
https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X14050282
Borates
Valiev, D. T., Polisadova, E. F., Belikov, K. N., & Egorova, N. L. (2014). The effect of Ce3+ ions on the spectral and decay characteristics of luminescence phosphate-borate glasses doped with rare-earth ions. Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya), 116(5), 677-682. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X14050282
The effect of Ce3+ ions on the spectral and decay characteristics of luminescence phosphate-borate glasses doped with rare-earth ions. / Valiev, D. T.; Polisadova, Elena Fedorovna; Belikov, K. N.; Egorova, N. L.
In: Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya), Vol. 116, No. 5, 01.01.2014, p. 677-682.
Valiev, DT, Polisadova, EF, Belikov, KN & Egorova, NL 2014, 'The effect of Ce3+ ions on the spectral and decay characteristics of luminescence phosphate-borate glasses doped with rare-earth ions', Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya), vol. 116, no. 5, pp. 677-682. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X14050282
Valiev DT, Polisadova EF, Belikov KN, Egorova NL. The effect of Ce3+ ions on the spectral and decay characteristics of luminescence phosphate-borate glasses doped with rare-earth ions. Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya). 2014 Jan 1;116(5):677-682. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X14050282
Valiev, D. T. ; Polisadova, Elena Fedorovna ; Belikov, K. N. ; Egorova, N. L. / The effect of Ce3+ ions on the spectral and decay characteristics of luminescence phosphate-borate glasses doped with rare-earth ions. In: Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya). 2014 ; Vol. 116, No. 5. pp. 677-682.
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Q: Swift: How to get data from files in firebase Storage to a view in swiftUI I need help with a swift programming problem with the swiftUI framework. It is a social network, where at first you register or log in, the authentication is through firebase, then you fill out a form with your name, photo, biography among other things, and the information is sent to firebase and stored in firestore database, so far everything is fine, the authentication works and the data is stored correctly with the model (MVVM), the problem is that I have not found a way once I have the user information stored in Firestore, take that information a view in which the user's profile is displayed, could someone tell me how to achieve it please?
I'm new to swift and I still don't fully understand it, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the Model
import SwiftUI
import Combine
import Firebase

// MARK: - User Model
struct FirebaseUserModel: Identifiable {
    var id: String
    var coverImage: String
    var profileImage: String
    var username: String
    var name: String
    var age: String
    var description: String
    var gender: String
}

Here is the firebaseViewModel class
class FirebaseViewModel: ObservableObject {

    @Published var data = [FirebaseUserModel]()

    // MARK: - Save info
    func saveInfoUser(coverImage: Data, profileImage: Data, username: String, name: String, age: String, description: String, gender: String, completion: @escaping (_ done: Bool) -> Void) {

        let storage = Storage.storage().reference()

        let profileImageIDName = UUID()
        let coverImageIDName = UUID()

        let directoryProfileImage = storage.child("ProfileImages/\(profileImageIDName)")
        let directoryCoverImage = storage.child("CoverImages/\(coverImageIDName)")

        let metadata = StorageMetadata()

        metadata.contentType = "image/png"

        directoryProfileImage.putData(profileImage, metadata: metadata) { data, error in
            if error == nil {
                print("Save profile photo correctly".uppercased())
            } else {
                if let error = error?.localizedDescription {
                    print("Failed to save image to Storage", error)
                } else {
                    print("There was a bug in the app")
                }
            }
        }

        directoryCoverImage.putData(coverImage, metadata: metadata) { data, error in
            if error == nil {
                print("Cover photo saved successfully".uppercased())
            } else {
                if let error = error?.localizedDescription {
                    print("Error saving cover photo to Storage", error)
                } else {
                    print("There was a bug in the app")
                }
            }
        }

        let db = Firestore.firestore()
        let id = UUID().uuidString

        guard let idUser = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid else { return }
        guard let email = Auth.auth().currentUser?.email else { return }

        let fields: [String: Any] = ["coverImage": String(describing: directoryCoverImage), "profileImage": String(describing: directoryProfileImage), "username": username, "name": name, "age": age, "description": description, "gender": gender, "idUser": idUser, "email": email]

        db.collection(name).document(id).setData(fields) { error in
            if let error = error?.localizedDescription {
                print("Error saving to firestore".uppercased(), error)
            } else {
                print("Data saved successfully")
                completion(true)
            }
        }

    }

    // MARK: - Show user information
    func getData(name: String) {
        let db = Firestore.firestore()
        db.collection("name").addSnapshotListener { (QuerySnapshot, error) in
            if let error = error?.localizedDescription {
                print("Error displaying user data", error)
            } else {
                self.data.removeAll()
                for document in QuerySnapshot!.documents {
                    let value = document.data()
                    let id = document.documentID
                    let coverImage = value["coverImage"] as? String ?? "No cover image"
                    let profileImage = value["profileImage"] as? String ?? "No profile picture"
                    let username = value["username"] as? String ?? "No username"
                    let name = value["name"] as? String ?? "Unnamed"
                    let age = value["age"] as? String ?? "Ageless"
                    let description = value["description"] as? String ?? "Without description"
                    let gender = value["gender"] as? String ?? "Unknown gender"

                    DispatchQueue.main.async {
                        let records = FirebaseUserModel(id: id, coverImage: coverImage, profileImage: profileImage, username: username, name: name, age: age, description: description, gender: gender)
                        self.data.append(records)
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

}

I want to show user information in this Swiftui view, I have tried with several tutorials but I can't bring the data from Firebase. (The data are already in the Storage with all information and photos).

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Double glazed windows High Wycombe refers to the windows that are comprised of two distinct panes of glasses separated via layer of gas or air and then sealed. Such windows are much better than single pane windows as you get better protection from outside temperatures. The buffer layer here will act as insulator just like the glass. Even the glass is made differently featuring a coated surface to prevent the entry of hot air in hot weather and re-radiating heat in the colder months. The benefit of such windows is obvious from its unique features. You can choose decorative glasses for the windows to enhance your interior. If you are considering home renovation, the first thing to do is install aesthetically appealing and energy efficient windows. Although the cost is more than single pane window, you will save a lot of money in the long run.
If you are scared of the soaring energy bills, consider the installation of double gazed windows. You will pave the way for an airtight construction to restrict the flow of incoming and outgoing air. Thus, less energy will be required to heat the space or cool the area. Your HVAC system will get more efficient and help you save on the energy bills. Thus the electricity bills will be surprisingly lower. To improve further insulation, you can get more additional layers. With each glass layer, you will improve the property of windows and prevent heat loss.
Are you tired of the noises from outside? If you are looking for better sound insulation, you should try and create sound barrier between inside and outside your property. It is must to consider double glazed windows for the ones who stay on the road side and noisy area. This kind of window also enhances the level of security.
Condensation results to the building up of water droplets making the air cooler. Thus, the heating system has to work harder to warm the place. This problem gets eliminated with the installation of double glazed windows. It also reduces the amount of sunlight entering your place to protect valuable furniture pieces at home. Thus, there will be no sign of damage to carpets, walls and furniture.
Tinted glass panes employed are held in frame. Although clear varieties of glass panes are available but tinted ones are preferred. It absorbs solar radiation better and safeguards the interior from outside temperature.
Between the two panes, the barrier of gas or air is maintained. This gap reduces the loss of heat and offers noise insulation. Heat cannot escape or enter through the windows.
Since sound travels slowly through air, Double glazed windows High Wycombe can keep the noise levels at its lowest.
A lot many factors can affect the efficiency of the double glazed windows. The type of frame you choose and the space between the frames, the thickness of the glass matters a lot. Thus, to protect from UV rays and to prevent the loss of hot and cool air, it is must to consider such energy efficient windows.


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Mechanism of action of the epileptogenic drug pentylenetetrazol on a cloned neuronal potassium channel.
The action of the epileptogenic agent pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) on a cloned potassium channel of the rat brain was studied. The Kv1.1 channel was expressed in oocytes of Xenopus laevis and potassium currents were investigated in outside-out and inside-out membrane patches. The results show that PTZ increased the multi-channel potassium currents at strongly negative potentials and decreased them at potentials positive to -35 mV both in outside-out and inside-out membrane patches. The extent and manner of PTZ action, the concentration dependence as well as the onset and time course of the PTZ effect were the same both in outside-out and inside-out membrane patches. The single-channel potassium currents showed an increase in open probability and frequency of opening and a decrease in close time at -50 mV and vice versa at 0 mV with application of PTZ. The amplitude of single-channel current, the open time and the latency to the first channel opening remained almost unchanged under PTZ. The results indicate that PTZ acts via the cell membrane and influences the membrane-associated part of the potassium channel. Thereby, PTZ accelerates the transition from the inactivated to the open state of the channel at strongly negative potentials and reduces it at slightly negative and positive potentials. This mechanism may be the basis for a gate function which is in favour of the development of epileptic discharges.


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Malacatán is a town and municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala, located to the west of San Marcos town. It is fairly close to the border with Mexico - the border-crossing point is in the nearby village of El Carmen.

History

Spanish colony: Mercedarian doctrine

After the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in the 1520s, the "Presentación de Guatemala" Mercedarian province was formed in 1565; originally, the order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy had gotten from bishop Francisco Marroquín several doctrines in the Sacatepéquez and Chimaltenango valleys, close to the capital Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, but they traded those with the Order of Preachers friars in exchange for the doctrines those had in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes area. During the first part of the 17th century they also had doctrine in four town close to the city of Santiago, which eventually became city neighborhoods: Espíritu Santo, Santiago, San Jerónimo and San Anton —which was the capital of the Mercedarians, where they had their convent and where their comendador lived.

According to bishop Juan de las Cabezas memoir in 1613 and the bishop Pedro Cortés y Larraz parish visit minutes from 1770, the Mercedarians came to have nine doctrines, and numerous annexes, which were: Santa Ana de Malacatán, Concepción de Huehuetenango, San Pedro de Solomá, Nuestra Señora de la Purificación de Jacaltenango, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Chiantla, San Andrés de Cuilco, Santiago de Tejutla, San Pedro de Sacatepéquez, and San Juan de Ostuncalco.

However, in 1754, due to the borbon reforms implemented by the Spanish kings, the Mercedarins -and the rest of the regular clergy for that matter-, had to transfer their doctrines to the secular clergy, thus losing their San Juan Ostuncalco doctrine.

21st century

Towards the end of the 20th century San Marcos became a hot spot for drug trafficking in Central America, and one of the top lords was Juan Chamalé Ortiz, who was heavily involved in cocaine trafficking, and was accused by US authorities of helping to move over 40 tons of cocaine through Central America en route to the United States. Ortiz worked with local fishermen to smuggle cocaine in small fishing boats and may have also commissioned semi-submersibles to transport the drug. Ortiz also controlled a major opium poppy producing area, the San Marcos Department, where he was a popular local figure. He owned at least ten estates in his area of operations, including a large farm in Malacatán and provided numerous jobs, in addition to cultivating local support by throwing parties and sponsoring beauty contests.

San Marcos is one of the most important regions in Guatemala given its proximity to the highlands, Mexico and to the Pacific Ocean coast, where most of the drugs coming from South America land. Ortiz exerted influence over local politicians and police in the region, and relied on a powerful local support network to conduct his business. He is thought to have worked out a deal that made him the Sinaloa Cartel's top transporter, helping the Mexican group move drugs that arrived via Pacific routes.  Ortiz Chamalé was captured in 2011 in Quetzaltenango and extradited to the United States in 2014 where he was sentenced to 262 months in jail; when Ortiz was arrested in 2011, locals protested to demand his release.

Sports
Deportivo Malacateco football club played the 2010/2011 season at the highest level of Guatemalan football, the Liga Mayor. They play their home games in the Estadio Santa Lucia.

Climate

Malacatán has tropical climate (Köppen:Am), with a long rainy season from April to November, and a short dry season during the "winter". Although there is little variation in termpatures, April is normally the warmest month and October is normally the coolest month. The daytime afternoon temperatures are the warmers in February and March and coolest in September and October.

Geographic location

It is surrounded by San Marcos Department municipalities, except on the West, where it borders Chiapas, a state of México.

See also

Notes and references

References

Bibliography

External links
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Municipalities of the San Marcos Department

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Q: OneSignal PlayerId from android studio webview app There's been a lot of talk about this already, but I just found confusion.
I want to send notifications on my android app to a single user.
(I hate android studio, and I'm not that good at java)
I have my website with registration/login, and user id.
The idea is to create a mysql table with my Onesignal userId and playerId, and then send push notifications to a single user via curl.

I connected oneSignal to my app in android studio.

(I receive push notification if i send it from onesignal)
I have this code which allows me to save the playerId of OneSignal in my database, but I can only get the playerId from website, not from android app.
<script src="https://cdn.onesignal.com/sdks/OneSignalSDK.js" async=""></script>
    <script>
      var OneSignal = window.OneSignal || [];
      OneSignal.push(function() {
        OneSignal.init({
          appId: "bb1bf59b-fb3b-4906-a0a8-279d5623f9d7"
        });
      });

  OneSignal.push(function() {

  //playerid salvato in mysql
  OneSignal.isPushNotificationsEnabled(function(isEnabled) {
  if (isEnabled) {
      // user has subscribed
      OneSignal.getUserId( function(userId) {
          //console.log('player_id of the subscribed user is : ' + userId);
          // Make a POST call to your server with the user ID
          AjaxOneSignal('onesignal.php', '?uid=<? echo $user_uid; ?>&rand=<? echo time(); ?>&playerid='+userId);
      });
  }
});
});
</script>

How do I get it from android app?
(Sending my userId as a tag to OneSignal would also be fine for me, I just need a quick and easy way that works.
Please help me get out of this stupid nightmare...
(No, i dont want to use firebase, that thing doesn't work, it breaks with every update of a plugin, a module, an sdk, android studio, etc, etc, etc... I wasted three days of my life with that crap without getting anything.)

A: Updated:
As I see you have OneSignal SDK in your application. You can use this method to get playerId
OneSignal.addSubscriptionObserver(new OSSubscriptionObserver() {
    @Override
    public void onOSSubscriptionChanged(OSSubscriptionStateChanges osSubscriptionStateChanges) {
       String playerId = osSubscriptionStateChanges.getFrom().getUserId();
    }
});

Here can use JavascriptInterface, it allows to call java code from the javascript.

*

*When you get userId from OneSignal store it in some variable.

*Then create method like this. In this case I create it in Activity:
@JavascriptInterface
public String getUserId() {
    return userId;
}

*After that you need add JavaScriptInterface to your webview:
webView.addJavascriptInterface(this,"OneSignalBridge")
webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());

Here we use this, because our method with JavascriptInterface annotation located in Activity.
OneSignalBridge - is just a random name, you can use any name you want

*Now you can call this method from javascript code.
<script>
  function someFunc(){
      var userId = OneSignalBridge.getUserId();
  }
</script>

A: So...
i do this

And this

but no id from android app and i see this error in firefox


Published at Monday, April 15th, 2019 - 03:35:14 AM. Bathroom. By Bernyce Lapierre.
Even though it's less common than the living room fireplace, when you think about it, a fireplace in the bathroom seems like a very natural addition. It makes the room feel warm and cozy and it's just the type of atmosphere and decor a bathroom should have. Of course, the bathroom should be spacious enough to accommodate the fireplace.
Bathrooms should be one of those places that you can luxuriate in for a few hours without feeling guilty. No other color gives a sense of opulent luxury in the same way that red does. So, if you want to give your bathroom, or en-suite facility, a little extra try out using some deep red to bring a touch of glamour to bath time. Most bathrooms stick to white, chrome and occasionally blues. By going for lipstick reds your bathroom will stand out from the crowd. The key to incorporating red into your bathroom is not to overdo the use of the color.


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Q: Change dialog button color (Next/Back) : Intro JS React I am using a React wrapper for intro js,
and I am trying to change the default background color for dialog buttons.
Here's a codesandbox given in the documentation
I want to change the background color of the Next button here
I have been trying to look this up all over the web but I cannot find a solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: I had to inspect the element and override the CSS to make it work.

Then the color got changed correctly

Reference - https://stackoverflow.com/a/67566764/9977815


In Florida, equitable distributions are presumed, as a starting point, to be equal distributions between the spouses unless special circumstances exist that warrant an unequal distribution. One of those special circumstances is a spouse's misconduct with marital funds. Even if a spouse is guilty of misdeeds with marital funds, there are limits to what a trial court can impose. The Fourth District Court of Appeal recently threw out an equitable distribution because the trial court's decision would have essentially made a husband pay for the income tax consequences of withdrawing money from the wife's individual retirement account not once but twice.
After S.P. (wife). and D.P. (husband) separated, but before they divorced, the husband allegedly forged the wife's name on three documents in order to make three withdrawals totaling $58,800 from the wife's IRA. The proceeds from these three withdrawal requests were placed into a trust controlled by the husband.
The unequal distribution favored the wife, who received a sum equal to the $58,800 the husband improperly withdrew from the wife's IRA and the amount of income taxes that were assessed to the wife's IRA as a result of the withdrawals. The husband challenged this part of the trial court's order on appeal, and he won. The reason his appeal was successful was that the taxes on the withdrawals were already paid. Of the $58,800 the husband withdrew, he only received $47,000 of that money. In the forged withdrawal forms, he directed that $11,800 was to be withheld from the withdrawals for payment to the Internal Revenue Service. The taxes were paid from these withheld amounts. They were not additional sums taken out of the wife's account.
In other words, the trial court's distribution essentially made the husband pay for the income tax consequences twice. On the original withdrawals, he withdrew $58,800. In the trial court's ruling, it made the marital distribution unequal to a sum of roughly $70,000 or, in other words, the $47,000 the husband personally received plus the income taxes plus the income taxes again. Fashioning the distribution in this manner was improper and required the appeals court to reverse and send the case back to the trial court.
Deciding on an equitable distribution as part of a divorce can be complicated. In order to make sure that you assert your right to your fair share, you need hardworking, capable counsel on your side. The experienced South Florida equitable distribution attorneys at Sandy T. Fox, P.A. have the skills you need to pursue a fair outcome. Contact our attorneys online or by calling (800) 596-0579 to schedule your confidential consultation.


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Vladimir Arko, hrvaški poslovnež, * 16. september 1888, Zagreb, † 6. junij 1945, Zagreb.

Arko je končal trgovsko akademijo, nato ojnološke in pomološke študije v Klosterneuburgu pri Dunaju in agrarno šolo v San Michelu. Sodeloval je pri ustanavljanju mnogih bančnih in industrijskih podjetij. Sam je ustanovil in imel v lasti tovarno špirita, kvasa, etra, likerjev in konjaka in drugih kemijskih izdelkov. Svojo tovarno sodov je združil z drugimi podobnimi podjetji v  »Zagrebačko tvornico bačava d. d.«. Njegove industrijske naprave so se za tisti čas odlikovale po tehnični naprednosti. Arko je živel v Zagrebu, in tam sodeloval kot delničar v mnogih podjetjih. Bil je  predsednik: »Saveza tvornica i rafinerija špirita v Jugoslaviji«, »Slavenske banke d. d.«, zagrebške trgovske in obrtne zbornice in podpredsednik zagrebške borze. Leta 1914 se je poročil z edino hčerko  Ivana Tavčarja, Josipino (Pipo) Tavčar (1891-1974).

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European retail recovers, but luxury needs big spe...
European retail recovers, but luxury needs big spenders
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As Europe begins to emerge from lockdown, early data shows that retail, one of the hardest hit sectors, is showing signs of recovery in demand. The pattern is similar to that seen in China when its lockdown was lifted in April. While this is clearly positive, time will tell how much of this recovery is just pent-up demand that will subside and how much of it is sustainable as furlough support fades. For luxury, however, the absence of big-spending Chinese tourists that account for as much as 40 per cent of sector demand makes the near-term outlook more uncertain.
Revenge spending or sustained demand?
Early data on retail sales from Europe looks promising (chart 1) as the drop in footfall shrinks (chart 2), but it remains to be seen how much is so-called "revenge spending" - a term used to describe shopping-starved consumers during lockdown who then overcompensate by splashing out. Germany and Switzerland retail, in particular, have recovered more strongly than expected in the first few weeks since their economies reopened.
Luxury demand in Europe falters as tourists stay at home
Unlike retail, the near-term outlook for luxury demand in Europe is more uncertain, due to the complete absence of Chinese and other tourists on European shores. The propensity to buy luxury in China is unprecedented and tourists account for some 50 percent of luxury sales in Europe. Overall, China represents around 40 per cent of all luxury sales and 70 percent of global luxury growth.
With Chinese tourists staying away and spending at home instead, demand for luxury in China has recovered strongly. The Hermes store in Guangzhou, for instance, saw a record US$2.7 million in sales the day it reopened in April. LVMH, which is considered a bellwether for the sector, said it had seen a 50 per cent growth in key brands such as Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Bulgari and Sephora in April alone, while Tiffany recently reported an increase in sales of 90 per cent year-on-year in May.
By contrast, in Europe, luxury stores in fashion capitals of Milan and Paris, appear deserted amid fears of a second wave of infection and the severity of the global recession. The next big test for Europe's path to recovery - and return to tourism - will come as nine countries including Germany and France open their borders to other EU nations.
Longer-life luxury, casual wear and wellness in vogue
As economies begin to normalise, we expect to see a meaningful shift in consumer behaviour. Worried about recession and job uncertainty, consumers are likely to save more and spend less. Where they do shop for luxury items, they are likely to opt for established brands and classic styles that have been ethically sourced. Meanwhile, millennials, who have driven growth in luxury spending over the past few years, may be less resilient than older customers, while the trend of moving online is - as everywhere - being accelerated by the crisis.
In response to this changing consumer behaviour, fashion house Gucci recently said that its collections would have a longer life, essentially "seasonless", as it slashed the number of fashion shows it holds each year from five to two. Meanwhile, casual wear has been boosted due to working from home and is likely to remain strong. Demand for health and wellness products, which has enjoyed a surge in the past few months, is also expected to grow.
In retail, while there has been a pick-up in demand, there are still questions around the pace of recovery. There are broader concerns around the implications of the shift to online and appetite for fashion in a socially distanced world. Inventory overhang and the expected large scale discounting will also act as headwinds for the sector in the short to medium term.
Luxury leaders may grab market share, but many retailers will struggle
Over the past 12 months, luxury has outperformed the broader sector, driven by resilient demand from China. Despite this and the very uncertain consumer outlook, we are still positive on luxury. Companies in the space typically have strong balance sheets, high margins and a better inventory position due to more flexible supply chains. The leaders in the sector have used this outperformance to further strengthen their positions by putting more emphasis into sustainability of their supply chains and operations. And this plays nicely into what consumers want today - durable, sustainable products that also have resale value. We continue to favour some of these more established brands that have proved most resilient and are recovering quickly.
For retail, while short-term data has surprised to the upside, the long-term outlook is extremely challenging given structural questions around retailers' business models in a post-Covid world, and the threat of a second wave. Recovery is coming through reasonably quickly at present but it is clear that in the second quarter the companies will report steep sales declines and discounting will have negative impact on profitability.
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Lord Swinfen voted for fewer MPs in the House of Commons
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On 9 Feb 2011: Lord Swinfen voted against requiring that the number of MPs from each of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will remain within 10 per cent of the current number. Show vote
On 9 Feb 2011: Lord Swinfen was absent for a vote on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Reduce Number of Members of the House of Lords Before Reducing Number of MPs Show vote
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Maryland coach Randy Edsall spent Saturday night and the beginning part of Sunday watching and waiting, unsure for which bowl game the Terps would be selected.
Ultimately, Maryland (7-5 overall, 4-4 in the Big Ten Conference) landed in a good spot, selected to play Stanford in the Foster Farms Bowl at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Dec. 30.
The Foster Farms Bowl — formerly the Fight Hunger Bowl and, before that, the Emerald Bowl — will typically feature the sixth- or seventh-best team in the Big Ten.


Slate roofs are very attractive in appearance and offer excellent protection from fire. They are also a unique roof and provide for a long roof life. Slate roofs can really make your Long Island home look great! If you can do it though, nothing looks like a slate roof.
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When I open documents it starts loading something (I can tell it by the busy shape of the mouse cursor) and never stops...
Also moving word's window becomes very laggy.
I have Office 2003 Service Pack 3 on Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, it used to work without problems before...
Any hints?

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Dar al-Burhan
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Year one commences in January 2021. Admission into this first cohort is through an application and interview process (see Admissions). The next cohort is scheduled to commence in September 2021.
How long will it take to graduate?
Dar al-Burhan is a three-year Hifz Diploma Program with Prophetic Authorization (Ijaza). Students who may not require the full three years can request advanced placement in their online application.
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Where is the school?
Dar al-Burhan is located at Masjid Vaughan, 9954 Keele St. Vaughan, ON. Canada.
Does the school have a bus service?
Yes, transportation for qualifying students is available for a fee. If you are in need of transportation and wish to learn more about the service, please indicate this in the online application.
Can I see what a class is like?
Dar al-Burhan welcomes inquiries and one scheduled visit. Like any private school, only enrolled students can attend the classes.
What about the risks of COVID-19?
Safety is our top priority. Staff and students at Dar al-Burhan are regularly screened for COVID-19 and are required to follow strict safety guidelines during this pandemic. Our first cohort of students for January 2021 is limited to 15 students, which facilitates exceptional physical distancing in the massive study hall, masjid and recreational spaces. Cleaning and screening protocols are already strictly observed at Masjid Vaughan to ensure everyone's safety.
Will parents be kept up to date on student progress?
Yes, the administration at Dar al-Burhan ensures that the line of communication with parents and guardians is clear, frequent and bilateral. The administration gathers reports on progress from three sources: (1) The Lead Teacher; (2) The Supervisor; and (3) The Student Guidance Counsellor. Meetings and seminars for parents are scheduled throughout the school year.
Will my son be positively influenced by others?
The admissions process at Dar al-Burhan is designed to enrol students who are serious about memorizing the Quran and emulating the one who embodied it ﷺ. Our behaviour policy is designed to ensure that all members of the school work together in a positive and accountable manner. This is why Dar al-Burhan has a full-time on-site Supervisor who oversees, reports and mitigates any behavioural issues. Moreover, a trained Guidance Counsellor regularly meets with students, listens to their experiences and guides them through their journey.
Who is the main teacher?
To learn more about the Lead Instructor, click here.
Does the school offer any core subjects?
If you require formal lessons in Math, English or Science, please indicate your interest under the Accommodations section of the application.


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Esperanza, Auberge Resorts Collection
Cabo San Lucas, BCN
3.7 miles to city center
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Just like other Auberge properties, Esperanza provides guests with extravagant amenities like yoga classes, an oceanfront infinity pool and a sculpture garden. If you're craving a little rest and relaxation, head to the spa for a replenishing massage; though spa treatments will cost you a pretty penny, recent visitors said they're well worth the splurge. Once you're feeling relaxed, dig into some tantalizing dishes at Cocina del Mar, which offers fresh seafood prepared using cooking styles and traditions from across North, Central and South America. Or, if you would prefer more casual dining, sit down at one of the other on-site restaurants – La Palapa, Las Estrellas and La Terraza Americana. Afterward, retreat to your spacious casita, suite or villa. Each features a private terrace, lavish bath products, a flat-screen TV and (of course) personal concierge service. You'll find Esperanza in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, flanking the Sea of Cortez.
Hotel El Ganzo
Los Cabos, BCN
Perched along the scenic Los Cabos corridor (within 4 miles of downtown San José del Cabo, Mexico), the adults-only Hotel El Ganzo offers prime access to the beach and San Jose del Cabo's dining venues. But with three dining establishments serving everything from contemporary Mexican fare to international cuisine, there's hardly a reason to leave the property. When you're not indulging in a relaxing massage or body treatment at the spa or catching up on some light reading with your feet dipped in the rooftop infinity pool, you can lounge at the hotel's private beach club. Afterward, kick back in your well-appointed accommodation. Each comes with a soaking tub, complimentary Wi-Fi access, a flat-screen satellite TV and a stocked minibar. Apart from the modern rooms, past visitors heaped praise on the hotel's courteous, friendly staff members, adding that they go above and beyond to take care of guests.
Casa del Mar Golf Resort & Spa
Upon entering this hacienda-style retreat (situated 13 miles northeast of downtown Cabo San Lucas), guests are greeted with breathtaking vantage points of the surrounding Sea of Cortez. Though previous guests said Casa del Mar Golf Resort & Spa's Zen-like atmosphere induces repose upon arrival, R&R-seekers looking for an extra dose of luxury should head straight to the Sueños del Mar Spa to take advantage of a relaxing massage. You'll also have access to stimulating enrichment programs and facilities, such as cooking lessons and wine tastings, as well as two swimming pools, two tennis courts and fitness classes. And as far as dining is concerned, you can recharge at one of three on-site venues before kicking back in your digs. Accommodations feature 42-inch flat-screen TVs, Jacuzzis, BVLGARI bath products, daily replenished minibars and expansive outdoor terraces. What's more, members of the I Prefer program can earn or redeem points for bedding down here thanks to the hotel's Preferred ties.
Cabo Surf Hotel & Spa
San Jose del Cabo, BCN
Standing above Playa Acapulquito's aquamarine waters in Los Cabos (roughly 5 miles south of San José del Cabo), this boutique retreat boasts prime access to one of the area's best surfing beaches. All 36 accommodations are stocked with L'Occitane bath products, flat-screen TVs, free Wi-Fi access and private terraces with unobstructed ocean views. After you've had a good night's sleep, suit up for some surfing. If you're a novice, never fear: At Cabo Surf Hotel & Spa, you can rent equipment and sign up for private lessons. Once you've caught some gnarly waves, refuel at 7 Seas Seafood Grille, which boasts delectable seafood fare crafted by executive chef Alejandro Rodriguez. Recent patrons report a pleasant dining experience thanks to tasty seafood entrees and top-notch service. Visitors also recommend booking a service at the small Sea Spa Cabo, which offers an eclectic selection of replenishing body treatments, including Thai massages, warm stone therapies and mineral-rich facials.
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Your favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies made for the holidays - just add peppermint! Peppermint Chocolate Chip cookies are easy to make & perfect to share.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In an electric mixer, beat butter and sugars until smooth and creamy. Continue to beat, adding vanilla and then eggs, one at a time. Beat until creamy and well incorporated.
Gradually add flour mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate and peppermint chips.
Using a small cookie scoop or spoon, drop a tablespoon of dough on ungreased cookie sheets, spacing about 2" apart.
Let cool about 5 minutes on cookie sheets then remove to wire racks to finish cooling.


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Be sure to check out the new exhibit at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River, Utah which opened May 4, 2018. It's titled "Glen Canyon: A River Guide Remembers" and features river stories and memorabilia from legendary Colorado River guide Ken Sleight and others. Part of the exhibit is devoted to Dave Rust, Ken's predecessor in floating Glen Canyon. You can hear more about Ken Sleight, Glen Canyon and the exhibit on KUSU-FM's "Access Utah" for Monday, June 4 (audio here), and you can visit the exhibit web page here.
One of Dave Rust's canvas-covered canoes on display at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River, Utah. The exhibit runs through March 2019.


Fairweather friends usually are the people you deal with until proven innocent.
The people who will be around during the good times and will be scarce in the bad. I am ashamed to say that I have been guilty of this. I have been rethinking my use of the word 'friend' when it comes to the people I come into contact. I have very few 'friends'. I have many 'acquaintances'.
Upon this reflection I had to look at myself and think about how many people to whom I was a true 'friend'. Do I ask about their problems? Do I really care about making their lives better? Would they think of me when they are in need?
You might find that your friends will deny that they're struggling with anything. That may be so. But it is most likely that they are afraid to share their problems with you. They've turned into 'Lonely Liars'.
We have all fallen into this category as a by-product of being and having 'Fairweather friends'. Humans NEED relationship. No one can argue this point. To make myself more clear, Humans need IN-PERSON relationships with other Humans. Not through text or email. Yet because we do not want others to feel uncomfortable or that we do not trust others with our problems, we lie (out of omission) about the true state of our lives.
Everything is NOT going well.
We are very intelligent when it comes to social cues. You have instinctual feeling when you cannot trust someone with your 'true' life. But if we're all trying to be on our guard nobody actually develops a real relationship and we never actually share our burdens with others. It's a vicious cycle in which we all experience a slow, lonely death.
ACTION: Visit your friend, one-on-one. Be real with them and DARE to be vulnerable in your conversations.
Choose this person carefully. You probably have a person that comes to mind. Even still, being open with anyone requires strength and understanding between both people. It takes courage to be vulnerable. You'll need to clearly state that you want your conversation to remain private as we often expect our friends to 'read our minds' about where 'to draw the line'.
Nobody is a mind reader.
Express that you want a closer relationship. As the two of you confide in one another about your problems you'll FEEL the weight of your loneliness being lifted.
Listen twice as much as you speak. I have hurt others by interrupting them as they pour out their heart to me. I have dismissed their problems because I do not struggle with their problem. It doesn't matter what YOU think of their struggle – what matters is that they are experiencing pain.
Don't give advice unless asked. In my haste to 'solve' another's problem, I've pushed my advice because I wanted them to see that it was 'so easy' to fix their problem. People want to be heard. They're not stupid. They know HOW to solve their problems. But in their hurt and loneliness, they been crippled from doing so. Be a place of healing for them. Ask for permission to help them. Allow them to accept your help rather than forcing it down their throats.
Relationships are built on trust. And it takes a LONG time to build trust. In your lifetime you will have your trust betrayed. Keep in mind that the 'betrayers' have been so hurt in their own lives that in their pain they only know how to hurt others. If you do fall victim to this hurt, embrace your pain and ask God to give you the Grace and the Heavenly Love to forgive that person.
We're all broken people who need constant love and affection. Although we have been numbed by our society to have deep, meaningful friendships, it's not too late and have FULL friendships. Share your joys, achievements and PAIN with others.


Author, The Palimpsest, "Davenport's Golden Building Years," March/April 1982, Vol. 63, No. 2, page 61.
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Significant roles in a $562,500,000 sale of a broadcast business involving two public companies, a $749,000,000 purchase of a media company involving a private and public company and a $1,460,000,000 purchase of a media company involving two public companies. Primary responsibility for Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification submissions for these transactions to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
Acquisition or sales of well over 150 small and mid-size businesses across various industries.
Representation of publicly-held companies involving federal securities law compliance, Exchange Act reporting and corporate governance, with primary responsibility for preparation of Securities and Exchange Commission filings disclosing a $840,000,000 debt financing of a public company and a $993,760,000 debt restructuring through a prepackaged Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
Primary responsibility for preparation of a Securities and Exchange Commission shelf registration statement in connection with the resale of common stock received by warrant holders.
Negotiation of almost 350 real estate leases for a leading wireless communications company and its legacy companies.
Negotiation of supply chain contracts with several of the largest Fortune 500 companies and several other large international companies that are expected to reach in the aggregate many billion dollars in volume.
Representation of a major employee-owned international service firm in corporate governance matters involving stock valuation methods and seeking approval of the changes by the firm's large number of employee owners.
Ed has been recognized by Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers in the fields of corporate law and mergers & acquisitions. Ed has also been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in the fields of corporate law and mergers & acquisitions since 2010. From 1985 to 1986, Ed served as a counsel for U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. In 2007, the Scott County Family YMCA awarded Ed the Visionary Leadership Award.
For over 21 years, Ed served as the Iowa Chair for the Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Program. Also, for at least 20 years, Ed served as the Chair at the Assumption High School Foundation (Davenport, IA).
Ed received his B.A., in History, with distinction, from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctor from Marquette University Law School. He resides, with his wife Molly, in Bettendorf, IA. They have three adult children, working in San Francisco, New York City, and Columbus, OH.


For the lovers of trendy patterns who like to be stylish even on the bike. Fresh, colorful and unconventional Minimal Jerseys to welcome the warmer days.
Vichy is an evergreen and fresh pattern that dates back to the '50s.
This motif has signed the fashion scenes of the most beautiful years, that's why we decided to include it in our collection. The Minimal Vichy Jersey combines preciousness with functionality thanks to the premium dyed Italian fabric on the main body, that guarantees a perfect fit, and the colorful laser row-cut long sleeves. It is enriched by some important features like a laser cut collar, a covered reversed full-length zip with Cam Lock puller, a silicone waist gripper with our Worth The Effort pay-off and an inner bottom zip cover. A final touch couldn't be missing: reflective LaPassione wordmark at the top of the right shoulder and reflective Hold The Line logo on the rear pockets. Welcome your new season rides with our colorful Vichy collection.


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Q: How port can close when Im close the program I dont want to change port number , but I receive an exception "Exception in thread "main" java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind"
ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket(1234, 180);

A: You have another process bound to the same port.
If you are using Windows then open CMD and run this command
netstat -aon | findstr 1234
you will get the process ID which you can find in task manager which is using that particular port. i.e 1234 in your case


Slip explores artist's engagement with sculptural materiality, production processes, allusions and connections between corporality and architecture, liquids and surfaces, nature and artifice and two vs three dimensionality. The exhibition takes as a point of reference Marcel Duchamp's concept of the 'infra-thin', the minimal sensory space which he describes as 'the warmth of a seat that has just been left, when tobacco smoke smells also of the mouth, or the difference between two mass produced objects from the same mould'. Each artist navigates a space through a materiality of anatomy and environment, be that industrial, technological or organic. In each case there is a dynamic tension between the intrinsic transformative states of matter.
Olga Balema (b. 1984 Lviv, Ukraine, Lives and works in Berlin) presents a series of sculptures consisting of raw materials, found items, and hand made parts submerged in water and sealed in an outer shell of soft PVC plastic. Assembled on site, the sculptures are low, malevolent looking objects changing appearance during the course of the exhibition. The process of mutual agitation between water, concrete, and steel affects their colour and internal texture. The sculptures possess a physical presence that not only absorbs space but also insists on the objects existence in reality outside the human. Balema's work explores materiality, in particular as it relates to objects and subjects that exist on the border between the alive and the inanimate.
In the mid-1970's, Heidi Bucher (b. 1926, Winterthur, CH, d. 1993 Brunnen, CH) began to dip old underwear, shirts and aprons into latex, transforming the garments into smooth pictorial surfaces. She soon extended her practice to creating latex 'skins' of furniture, architectural features and whole rooms. The intensely physical process of skinning the rooms is a performative action, which the object is only one part of. The objects themselves have a unique quality, as the casts are taken from very personal spaces known to the artist and are psychologically resonant as such. Often her latex works are covered in a pearlescent pigment that distances them from the original. Like very few artists of her generation, Bucher emphasises how strongly the human body remains bound up with architectonic reality and how memories, obsessions and dreams are materialised in the surface of interior spaces.
Alice Channer's work (b. 1977, Oxford, UK, Lives and works in London) traces the disappearance, mutation and possible evolution of a body and of materials in post-industrial environments. E-Lites is comprised of stretched elastics that extend from the floor to the ceiling of the gallery. Suspended from the elastics are aluminium casts of clothing's edges or entranceways, like an arm hole or waistband, reflecting Channer's on-going concern of revealing the absent or negative space of the body. The stretched oval shape of the waistband doubles up for a 'smoke ring' – an object consumed and then exhaled to form a temporary residual shape in the air. The casting process transforms the object through various toxic, liquid-solid states to finally being chromed–entering into a highly industrial manufacturing process. Machined and hand polished marble cuffs at the base anchor the work and add to the dynamic tension. This is coupled with the digitally printed silk work 1 Terabyte. This work shifts from human to non-human scale and from condensed technological data to expanded silk materiality.
The works of Sophie Bueno-Boutellier (b. 1974 FR, Lives and works in Berlin) sit between the materiality of painting and sculpture. The two gestures that make up Bueno-Boutellier's work are the painting and the folding of the canvas. Both intuitive and induced by the materials, they seem to complete each other, each following a different characteristic of the material, its malleability, its severity and its potential entropy. There is a liberating ambivalence as to what they are: as minimal surfaces, they have no direct pictorial reference, but create a sensual textural reality. At the same time, Bueno-Boutellier's engagement with the surfaces and edges of the canvas, gives them a sense of inhabiting the wall they hang on, a relationship of contact to another surface. Conscious of their architectonic presence, as well as their physical creation, the works seem to carry the memory of the manipulation they have been subject to.
Nicolas Deshayes (b. 1983, France, Lives and works in London) explores the architectural surfaces and 'skins' of our bodies as a parallel threshold, drawing connections between the human subject and its residual traces and the industrial, corporate landscape. His works often have an organic quality but are created using mass production techniques. For example in his work in this exhibition, a visceral, textured, vacuum-formed clear plastic mound is made by pouring plaster into a mould and moving it around when it was in a state between liquid and solid. It stretches and slumps, eventually coloured in the toxic palette formed by a chemical reaction with the aluminium. This mould reappears in various incarnations in different works, as mass production becomes customised.
Patrick Hill (b. 1972, Royal Oak, MI, Lives and works in Los Angeles) makes concrete paintings which traverse the relationship between two and three-dimensional space. In both his sculptures and his paintings, a view of the 'whole' is never possible; the viewer is forced to physically navigate the space and different views onto and through the work. The paintings are covered in heavily applied concrete, a classic building material staple, which brings them closer to relief than traditional painting. When wet, the concrete is changeable and Hill captures in its form a sweep of movement, which then sets as a preserved action. The pink, purple and blue palette of bruised flesh tones reoccurs within Hill's abstract, bodily sculptural vocabulary of pierced, leaking, hard and soft surfaces.
Magali Reus (b.1981, Den Haag, Lives and works in Amsterdam) is interested in the dynamics of sculptural materials and the aesthetics and architecture of our movement through transitional and public spaces. In her video Highly Liquid, the body of a male figure is shot in slow-motion high definition. The video features a man's body in extreme close-up: the details of his figure are in friction with a continuous flow of water from an unspecified source. The man himself remains neutral and detached; his age, character and whereabouts undefined and irrelevant, as the fragmented vignettes of image flatten what might be a full body, into a single plane of focus. In a kind of mechanised voyeurism, the camera pans his abstracted contours, obsessively trained on the dips, outlines and sculpted moments of skin. This is combined in this exhibition with the sculpture Parking (Window), a resin version of a modular stadium chair, a common feature of public architecture. All the works in this series refer to the form of the original, but deviate in their colour, texture and appendages. Instead of inviting the activities of sitting or rest, these chairs act as platforms for further object interruptions: things that prop open, divide, hold locked and surround, are integrated in and around the forms.
Richard Serra's (b.1939, San Francisco, Lives and works in New York) film Hand Catching Lead, 1968, reconfigures a transitory action as a sculptural form. Serra's hand continuously attempts to catch falling lead elements. When he does catch one, he immediately lets it go. The artist's hand becomes blackened by the lead over the course of the film, emphasising the hand as the sculptural form as well as the object. There is an echo of his early process based works Splashing and Casting created by throwing lead against his studio floor, the act of aggression creating casts from the impact and exposing the physical properties of industrial materials. In Hand Catching Lead, the gesture is fleeting rather than fixed and the object has a fluid rhythm of perpetual falling. On this loop, it is never captured and instead is forever in a state of potential materiality.