People who own blighted properties, overgrown yards and more would face more penalties under Banks' proposed ordinance. Currently, property owners can face a fine up to $1,000. With the new ordinance, police could also charge them with a misdemeanor, which means up to 90 days in jail.
These are the highest penalties allowed under state law, but Banks said he also wants to talk to the State of Mississippi to increase penalties.
Banks introduced the new ordinance to the City Council at its July 31 meeting. The council sent it to the planning board to work out details before voting. Council President Melvin Preister Jr. asked to make sure that the Department of Public Works, the Department of Planning and Development, and the police department are at the planning meeting.
Banks said he wants to get the ordinance passed quickly since the school year starts Aug. 8.
"What if you have students that are walking to school, and they have to walk right in front of a blighted or dilapidated property?" Banks said at the press conference. "God forbid, what if someone pulls one of those young students in and does something that's unseemly? I think it is up to our government, our municipality, to make sure that we are providing a clean environment and a safe environment."
"We believe that our students shouldn't have to walk through these type of deplorable conditions when they're going to school to learn," Banks said. "We want to prevent these things from happening."
Ward 4 Councilman De'Keither Stamps, Ward 5 Councilman Charles Tillman and Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes said at the meeting that they support the ordinance.
As the ordinance is proposed, the mayor's office would enforce it, with the departments that report to the office, including the Community Improvement department. The Department of Public Works will also be able to enforce it because of the ordinance's provision for fixing infrastructure, including potholes and standing water, Banks said.
During public comment, Jackson resident and property owner Joe Lewis spoke against the proposed ordinance. He said the City already has similar ordinances, but they are not enforced.
"If you were to enforce what is already on the books, you would have no problems," he said. "If you take a 1-mile radius of every school in the City of Jackson, you're pretty much going to cover the entire City of Jackson."
The next planning board meeting is at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the Andrew Jackson Conference Room in the Warren A. Hood Building (200 S President St.).


JACKSON — Not everyone is supportive of expanding the pastel-painted affordable housing units in the Farish Street Historic District.
Helm Place, named for the oldest African American church in Jackson, which is also located in the district, is an 88-townhome affordable-housing development with a 300-person waiting list. Chartre Companies Ltd., the Oxford, Miss.-based developer, plans to expand the community with 70 additional homes, but first it needs the blessing of the Jackson Historic Preservation Commission, which approves all projects in the city's five historic districts.
At the commission's May meeting, developers presented their informal proposal to the commission, during the discussion part of the meeting and promptly walked out, minutes from that meeting show. Chartre Companies Ltd. owner Clarence Chapman said his group also withdrew their formal Certificate of Appropriateness application.
Chapman thinks the commission does not want to give his group a COA to build more homes because it is "'destroying the fabric of that community,' which is absurd," Chapman told the Jackson Free Press.
But the commission's chairman, Jeff Seabold, who was not a member when it approved Helm Place I and II, emphasized that no one is above the law. Seabold said that in large development projects like Helm Place, the massing (the shape, form and size of the buildings) and scale are important because they can start to change the fabric and feel of a neighborhood, something important under federal Department of Interior standards the commission must use as their guiding principles.
The department's second standard for rehabilitation of historic buildings, as well as the site and environment attached, adjacent or related to new construction, says that "the historic character of a property shall be retained and preserved."
"While it's a great thing for the City to be building housing and helping it out, the overall scale of that project is large. It's a very big challenge so we have to be very, very specific about some details and other things to be sensitive to the placement of it," Seabold said.
"When you've got two- and three-story townhouses next to ... the Scott Ford houses ..., it worries people in the neighborhood. We have to consider what that does to those historic sites as well. It's a district; it's not single houses that we're speaking of."
The Scott Ford houses are restored homes on Cohea Street that tell the history of midwifery and home birthing in the early 20th century.
The City of Jackson owns several properties in the Farish Street Historic District that it was prepared to hand over to River Place LLC, who won the bidding process for the land, before last week's city council meeting. The council agenda shows eight parcels of property that it could have voted to officially hand over to the corporation, which Chartre also manages, Secretary of State records show. During the public-comment section of the meeting, some Jacksonians expressed their concerns, however, and asked the council to delay the transfer.
Dr. Alferdteen Brown Harrison addressed the council, asking it to postpone the transfer of the City-owned properties for six months.
"We appeal to you to appoint a special commission or committee to look at what we have allowed to happen to the Farish Street Historic District," she said. "How do we want to enhance what we still have left? Nothing down there represents anything the way African Americans built it," she said. "... We need to look at the impact of Chartre and the new development there. What impact does that have on our heritage?"
Jan Hillegas, a Civil Rights Movement veteran, also spoke against the transfer of the properties to Chartre, mainly those on Cohea Street county land-roll records show.
"I had a civil rights-related office there 50 years ago on the corner of Cohea and Farish streets," Hillegas told the council. She mentioned other projects in the neighborhood that aim to restore the old structures to the way they used to be—not building uncharacteristic two- and three-story houses.
Council members voted to send the eight-parcel-transfer items to the Planning Committee, allowing the new mayoral administration and council members to address how to proceed with the process.
Farish Street itself was considered a "Black Mecca" back when Jim Crow ruled in Jackson. A project from the Southern Foodways Alliance and the Southern Documentary Project, called "The Farish Street Project," shows that the district served a "separate black population in as equal a manner as the constricting social mandates made possible," right off Capitol Street, the white, segregated epicenter of downtown Jackson in the early 1900s.
Clarence Chapman owns Chartre, an Oxford, Miss., developer responsible for the affordable housing built in the Farish Street Historic District. He plans to wait for the new city administration and council to renew discussions about expanding Helm Place housing.
Fast forward a few decades, and Farish Street is home to a handful of establishments, brimming with potential and partial economic-development opportunities with little to show for past efforts. The Farish Street Historic District was incorporated as a national historic place in 1980, and the City of Jackson designated it as a historic district in 1994.
The Greenwood Cemetery, which some of the pastel-colored Helm Place townhomes face, is also a City-designated landmark.
Chapman said his company went through three or four months of "grinding plan-changing efforts" with the commission the first time around in 2014 to get approved for Helm Place I and II.
He said there was a dispute over the nine rows of brick used on the front of some of the townhomes, which the City ultimately approved, but not the commission.
Both the Belhaven and Farish Street historic districts have specific design guides that developers and architects are asked to consult when proposing plans to build or renovate structures in those areas. Seabold said the City has added checks and balances to its system since the time of Chartre's initial application for Helm Place I and II.
Seabold said he has seen a letter sent to Chartre, which explained the discrepancies between what was permitted to be built and what was submitted in their initial application.
Chapman says the current pushback against the plans is a "bureaucratic turf war."
Seabold said Chartre's informal proposal discussed in the May meeting did not contain enough information to be considered.
"There was not enough information there for me to vote or make any more comment on, other than I need the specific information," he told the Jackson Free Press.
Chapman said his group will continue through the process and plans to work with the new mayoral administration and council members. He said the vacant units in the district that have "no character to maintain" should be removed so the families on the wait list can move into new affordable housing he plans to build.
Beyond historical preservation, however, other Jacksonians have raised concerns of accessibility in the current Helm Place development as well as the proposed extension.
Scott Crawford, who serves on Jackson's Americans With Disabilities Act Advisory Council, could not live or visit a friend in Helm Place if he wanted to, he says. The only ADA-accessible building he found is the clubhouse on Monument Street. All the townhomes have between three to eight stairs that lead into their entrances. Crawford points out that the construction not only affects the permanently disabled.
"We live in an aging society. Very few of us grow old and stay completely able-bodied as we age," he said.
Chartre built the first phases of Helm Place affordable housing with Section 42 federal tax credits, allocated through the Mississippi Home Corporation. But two-, three- and four-story townhouses without elevators are exempt from the Fair Housing Act requirement, which would have required Chartre to build their homes with seven accessibility requirements that Crawford calls modest—at best.
Crawford said he hopes that the next phase of Helm Place will include accessible and ADA-compliant homes. Chapman said he plans to have 5 percent, or about four of the next 70 townhomes in Phase III, be single-story and ADA-compliant homes.
Still, Crawford said that even the Fair Housing Act requirements are a "far cry from best practice."
For example, structures subject to the act must have reinforced walls for grab bars in bathrooms—but are not required to have the actual grab bars or a fully accessible bathroom at all.
Ultimately, Crawford said not having accessible housing is a short-sighted housing strategy. "These people are going to age, and when they age, they're not going to want to move," Crawford said. "The whole point (is) that this is such an ideal location for people who want to work in Jackson, and they've excluded a whole section of the population."
Clarification: This story has been updated to show that Chartre Companies LLC won the bidding process for the eight parcels of property on Cohea Street--the city did not just give Chartre the properties voluntarily. We apologize for the lack of clarity or any confusion. Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.


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Q: NUMA thread memory management I have a server that has 80 logical core (model: DL580 G7). I'm running a single thread per core.
Each thread doing INTEL MKL FFT, Convolution and many Allocation and DeAllocation from heap with malloc.
I previously have server with 16 logical core and there was no problem. Each thread work on its core with 100% CPU usage.
When I moved my application from 16-core server to 80-core server with NUMA architecture, after creating the first thread, that thread works on 100% (kernel time 0%) and with the addition of each thread, performance of other thread decrease, until the CPU usage downgrade to 40% (39% kernel time).
Because kernel time is increased, I think the reason for this event is heap sequential mechanism and heap lock. Because of the increasing demand for memory allocation, each request increased the waiting time. Alternatively, maybe remote memory access to other NUMA node memory lead to degrade performance.
I use createheap() on each thread to eliminate wait for unlocking heap memory, but heapalloc can alloc memory up to 512KB, which is insufficient for me.
I use virtuallalloc, but it led to decrease thread performance.
What should I do to fix this problem?

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Often perceived as a dream-come-true for those who are still at their 9-to-5 office job, freelancing is a flexible, malleable beast. But precisely due to its highly adaptable nature, it's easy for those who are new to the game to either idealize the experience, or simply not conduct the necessary preparations for them to enter and stay in their desired career with success.
It's far from perfect, especially in an increasingly competitive environment, and for all your education, experience and other values, there is no unwritten promise that you will not come across obstacles. Chances are, you will, and they might deter you from pursuing your freelancing gig at all, but if you do your best to prepare for the hurdles, you'll give your future career a decent opportunity to thrive.
It's one thing to be eager to succeed and take on new projects with enthusiasm, but burnout is no joking matter in the world of freelancers, especially those who are just making their way into the already massive work universe. Yes, by all means, accept projects of reasonable scope and difficulty until you figure out the intricacies of time management, organizing yourself across several tasks and recognizing the limits of your workload so that the quality of your work doesn't suffer.
Moving forward – In order to stay realistically engaged on a daily basis, set up a schedule that includes regular breaks. Take your mind off your work by taking on something that relaxes your body and your mind, so that your can start afresh later in the day.
Learn to say no, because this will help you dedicate your abilities to the project you're already handling, without risking your clients' dissatisfaction or jeopardizing your own reputation. They will respect you for your honesty, and they'll gladly take you into consideration for their next project. The same doesn't apply if you work until breaking point and disappoint your clients with poor work.
The fact that you're isolated from the rest of the world (which is a whole different issue) doesn't mean that you'll be any safer from getting a cold every now and then. Unfortunately, fevers are as common among freelancers as they are in your typical office – if not even more prevalent, if you're not careful with your environment, or your diet and exercise regime. But unlike your 9-to-5 job that gives you health insurance and other benefits, including paid sick leave, freelancers have to cover it all on their own.
Protecting yourself – First and foremost, you need to take control of your environment. Freelancers do have the freedom to work from cafes, libraries, parks, or wherever they please, but if you're just starting out, it means you'll spend your working hours in a place with the safest internet connection and where you are certain you'll be distraction-free. Simply put: your home.
When designing your little home office, make sure you procure a back-supporting chair to avoid later aches and pains, find the best air purifier to get rid of pollution and airborne allergens, get a water bottle to stay hydrated instead of loading up on caffeine, and pre-prep your meals, so that you don't end up skipping lunch because you're on a tight schedule.
Finally, no matter what you do, you need to be financially ready for the moments you do get sick. Always put some money into your private sick fund, and you'll be able to finance yourself through those days or (hopefully not) weeks while you're unable to work. This is where your ability to say no to work will be tested – stay persistent and your clients will appreciate it.
Many new freelancers stick to a single source of work for the first few months of their career, simply because they wish to test the waters and see which areas work best. But, with limited sources comes the risk of limited work, so you'll often find yourself with no projects at all, as you have yet to prove your worth to the community, hence you're still not the first choice for your expertise.
Spreading your wings – There's a fine line between overburdening yourself with work and completely restricting your work sources. Get acquainted with other freelancers, they are not just your competition, in a sense, they will be your recommendation if you play your cards right. The freelancing culture flourishes best when its members know whom they can rely on to get recommended for projects when someone cannot take on more work, and to whom they can pass on their own offers if they are already otherwise engaged.
Plus, the online world is brimming with freelancing networks such as UpWork and Freelancer, but also numerous companies that are happy to outsource some of their work. Explore your options, research them thoroughly and in time, you will discover which clients need work at what times, and if there's a dry spell on the horizon, you'll know where to look for extra work.
Most traditional jobs, in addition to a fixed income and health insurance, offer many perks such as teambuilding opportunities, seminars and conferences to attend, specialization courses, and of course, you have your free time to do as you please. After five, you can take up any sport, head to the gym, or just relax with a few friends in the pub. But freelancers often spread their work throughout the day, work late hours, sometimes even at night, and networking is practically non-existent.
Unless: You start working in a collaborative office space where you'll meet all sorts of people from and outside your field of work. They may be a gateway to an interesting project, a fun conference, or a useful source of tips, or just coffee pals when you're all on a lunch break.
Time-management is of the essence for every freelancer as well, and the sooner you master the art of scheduling your work and recognizing your output limitations, the easier it will become to manage your daily duties and juggle work with your social life. It may seem daunting at first, a few slipups, all-nighters and even some procrastination might be inevitable, but you'll soon be on the right track. Preferably, not alone.
These are just some of the most common freelancing challenges that await just around the corner, but fear not – there will be many others as well, some of which will be uniquely your predicaments, others all-too-typical for the freelance lifestyle. Brace yourself, keep at it, and even these hurdles will become a pleasure to overcome once you start experiencing the many perks of your new professional path.


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At least banks can cling to the thought that they have proved the loan market can still finance deals of this size. Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland had underwritten the €4.1bn and £1.33bn of debt.


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What Is Ranking Academy And Who Is Luc Durand? Wiki, Review and Background
By -OBpedia.com
Courtesy of Ranking Academy website https://rankingacademy.co.uk/
What is Ranking Academy?
Ranking Academy is founded by Luc Durand in 2016. Aside from the website, it is also known for its YouTube channel that focuses in helping small business owners to get higher ranking and better online visibility through search engines. It has been on YouTube since June 1, 2015, and as of the time of this writing, have approximately 170k subscribers and 7,955,154 total views.
According to Ranking Academy website,
Thousands of business owners have now followed my videos – and guess what – they've seen a huge difference in their online visibility as a result.
Ranking Academy Background
Luc Durand is the founder of Ranking Academy.
In 2016, he founded Ranking Academy to assist local business owners with their web strategy.
He began by offering in-depth video courses to help entrepreneurs navigate the online world. He provides small businesses with free digital marketing guidance in the form of video tutorials, recommendations, and tools, as well as private consulting or 1-on-1 tailored consultations.
As a proof of his video tutorials, according to the website:
With almost 8 million views on YouTube, I've received positive feedback from people all over the world who have successfully applied my tips.
The topics covered in Ranking Academy are Local Search Engine Optimization, Local Paid Marketing (Adwords, Facebook, etc.), Performance Analysis (Google Analytics) and Local Ranking Tracking.
Ranking Academy YouTube Channel
Courtesy of Ranking Academy YouTube channel.
As of the date of this writing, it currently has 170k subscribers and has accumulated 7,955,154 total views.
As of right now, the three most popular videos on the channel are:
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The Entire 'Sister Wives' Fam Upped and Moved *Again* — This Time, They're Arizona-Bound
By Carly Sitzer
They're making moves! Sister Wives star Kody Brown and his loyal family of four wives and most — if not all — of his 18 (yes, 18!!!!!!) kids are on the move again as they recently announced they're leaving their beloved Las Vegas compound to relocate to Flagstaff, AZ.
The reality TV star and his four wives — Meri, Christine, Janelle, and Robyn — first moved to Las Vegas in 2011. In August 2018, the family said in a statement, Kody and his large brood are ready for a new adventure in the Grand Canyon State.
"As much as we've loved making our home and memories here in Las Vegas, we are excited to embark on a new adventure in Flagstaff, Arizona," the statement said, per People. "We are looking forward to cooler temperatures, the mountain air, scenic views, and the slower lifestyle of Flagstaff."
The move was documented on Season 13 of the reality show. After calling Las Vegas home for more than seven years, the move was a bittersweet time for the Browns. "Vegas has been good for us, I'm not saying that it hasn't, it's been really good. And it's been great for our kids. They've all really grown here and done so many wonderful things and it's been great for us," Christine said. "I'm just ready for the next adventure."
Unfortunately, though, Meri's initial move to Flagstaff hit a bit of a bump in the road. A sneak peek of the Jan. 12, 2020 episode of Sister Wives showed Meri in the midst of moving all of her belongings from her rental home in Flagstaff, Arizona, into a new place. Evidently, the landlady ended up getting flak about Meri from her neighbors, who weren't happy about her plural lifestyle. It's for this reason Meri temporarily moved back to Las Vegas until a more permanent living situation could be arranged in Flagstaff.
Mixed feelings/emotions about staying in Vegas for 3 months while I found another house in Flagstaff. I LOVE Vegas (no secret) but it was hard being away from the family. I traveled back and forth often those months!#SisterWives
— Meri Brown (@MeriBrown1) January 6, 2020
Source: Meri Brown/Twitter
Though they came to love Sin City, the decision to make Las Vegas their home wasn't an easy one for the extended Brown family.
The first time we saw the Browns move, they made the jump to Las Vegas from their native Utah, where they were being persecuted for their polygamist lifestyle. Though Kody can only be legally married to one wife at a time (he was legally married to his first wife, Meri, from 1990 until 2014, when he legally divorced her so that he could legally marry his most recent wife, Robyn), he's spiritually married to all four of his wives, making it technically legal despite laws in Utah saying it's a felony to marry or cohabitate with more than one person.
Fortunately, the Browns were safe from any persecution once they settled in Arizona; while one local article from 2008 said that the state's rules on polygamy are "fuzzy" at best, there are only laws banning bigamy, which is legally defined as marrying a second person. Unlike Utah, there are no laws against cohabitation in Arizona, meaning Kody and his wives were legally sound for their new life among the mountains.
We can't wait to see what new adventures await them in Arizona! Watch the premiere of Sister Wives Season 13 when it premieres Sunday, January 20 at 8 p.m. EST on TLC.
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In his new role at DASA, Mark will spread the word about how organisations and individuals can develop competences that bring them a better return on their DevOps investments in IT.
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Posted on September 10, 2011 by jay sutton
By: Bryan S. Rogers, Kerrwil Publications Limited
Tapping daylighting's potential for office buildings has been receiving renewed attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Part of the reason, of course, is the potential for energy savings. But much research has been done recently into the proper daylighting techniques for worker comfort and illuminating offices with VDTs. The potential for energy savings and increased office worker comfort can be impressive.
In a recent issue of the CADDET (Centre for the Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Technologies) Newsletter from The Netherlands, for example, Swiss researchers Juliette Fong and Miklos Kiss report that in some cases, simple systems can improve daylight lighting levels by a factor of three. The two suic rules asggest some bas to how this can be achieved:
* High windows
* No suspended ceilings
* Use of light colours
* No 100% covering of windows with glare control.
They add that to get the most out of natural light, correct use of shading (venetian blinds) and a daylight-dependent control of artificial lighting are essential. The Swiss Federal Office of Energy's Daylighting Project has provided useful information on the implementation of daylighting strategies in office buildings, and on the mistakes all too often made.
During the project, which has been carried out as part of Switzerland's Energy 2000 program, a number of daylighting implementations were observed, measured, analysed and assessed. Say Fong and Kiss: "The study showed that in daylighting practice, the same mistakes were often repeated, although they could have been easily avoided.
The study of various buildings, all with allegedly good daylight usage, uncovered many shortcomings in the use of natural and artificial lighting. Fortunately, though, remedies were at hand and were easily implemented." The researchers point out that computer work stations have completely changed the office world, and that it is not surprising that visual discomfort such as glare and reflections are the complaints most commonly mentioned.
The solution is simple: where practical, the monitor should be placed so that the viewing direction is parallel to the window. In larger offices, however, the problem becomes more complicated. Often, when natural lighting is provided by large window surfaces and no room dividers are fitted, most of the office has to be shaded to cut out glare.
The result? Artificial lighting is often switched on, as the lighting level is insufficient. Where glare is a major problem, workers have reported that they erect cardboard barriers around the screen to reduce reflections. The authors suggest that, ideally, a separate blind, acting as a light diffuser, should be fitted along with sunblinds to protect the worker(s) not only from glare but from heat as well.
"Completely independent of the prevailing weather," say Fong and Kiss, "artificial lighting was switched on in eight of the nine buildings studied, and was left on all day. Not exactly what one expects from daylighting projects!" Possible causes for this situation included:
* lights were switched on in the morning, when daylight was insufficient;
* lighting was not switched off later when enough daylight was available;
* during changeable weather, employees did not want to be constantly getting up to switch lights on and off.
For a balanced lighting situation in the office, the researchers say that, in an ideal case, a room where work is carried out should have general, homogenous lighting (natural or artificial) with additional point sources providing lighter and darker zones. The addition of task lighting and desk lamps was also noted at several work places.
Here are some tips for small, but effective, changes in the office that the authors suggested after their study:
* Place desks and work places near windows
* Place PC monitors parallel to windows
* Individual glare protection for monitors, or on windows in the field of view
* Place furniture and room dividers so that natural light is not blocked
* Use modular, individually combinable furniture instead of large, inflexible, angled desks
* Fit light-coloured blinds with automatic or manual control
* Automatic control of artificial lighting, switching at least the window zone
* Continuous control with lighting levels of 300 to 500 lux is ideal
* Installed power should be 6 to 12 watts per square meter
* Use light-coloured walls and smooth ceilings
In their conclusion, Fong and Kiss stated that trivial but often repeated mistakes hinder the sensible use of daylight. "One certain imperative is that, on a sunny day, the artificial lighting of work places near windows should be switched off. Also, on cloudy days, unnecessary glare protection and shading should not cause lighting levels to deteriorate." In other words, good glare protection, good shading and sensible light control are integral parts of an optimal natural lighting system. Closer to home, a U.S. lighting consultant, writing in the February issue of Energy User News, states that "Modern electric lighting, cheap electricity, and the interest in fully conditioned environments are responsible for the transition to a situation where daylighting has often been ignored in contemporary (North American) building design.
"However," continues John L. Fetters, principal of Effective Lighting Solutions Inc., "with recent advances in microelectronics, high-performance glazing, electrochromics and fabrics, there has been a renewed interest in active daylighting." He warns, however, that daylighting is not a total substitute for electric lighting, which is needed at night and when daylight levels are too low to provide general ambient and task lighting. Geographic location and local conditions, he points out, determine the extent to which daylighting can be implemented.
Geographic considerations include proximity to the equator and the orientation of the building. "One of the challenges of a daylighting design," he says, "is to provide a uniform distribution of light. Those closest to the daylight source may have adequate light, but people located in areas farther away may not.
The design should either light the space evenly or compensate through shading devices or controlled electrical lighting." Turning to these controls, Fetters explains that "active daylighting" is the term applied to the control of electric lighting to supplement daylight. The goal of active daylighting, he says, is to couple photosensors to luminaires in ways that will reduce energy use while optimizing illumination levels for worker comfort. New technologies have emerged in recent years that increase the opportunities to apply daylighting techniques cost-effectively, the author states. New sensors and electronic dimming ballasts provide distributed control that operates independently to detect conditions in small areas and controls the light from a small number of luminaires in that area. For example, in an active daylighting design for fluorescent lighting, a photosensor reads the ambient light.
If the daylight is sufficient to light the space, the connected electronic dimming ballast is signalled to reduce light output to its minimum value. As sky conditions change, the photosensor output will signal the dimming ballasts to increase the light output of their associated luminaires to supplement the daylight. Silicon photosensors are analog devices in which output signals vary in proportion to the amount of incident light, he goes on.
A fade feature is needed to ensure that lighting is not changed too abruptly. The fade control originally was provided by an interface circuit, but now can be integrated in the sensor. Multiple dimming ballasts with low-voltage control leads connect directly to each sensor. The dimming ballasts can dim down to 10 per cent. In many cases, the hardware for these systems is modular, allowing them to be plug and play. The low-voltage control leads can be plugged together in daisy-chain fashion.
"This flexibility allows control zones that are independent of the restrictions of the power zones. The keys to the effectiveness of daylighting controls are the careful placement of photosensors and proper calibration of controls during the commissioning phase of the installation." A well-designed daylighting application may optimistically realize annual energy cost savings of 20 to 30 per cent, he concludes, compared to buildings without daylight design or controls.
Electrical energy used for lighting systems can be reduced as much as 70 per cent during peak natural light periods. "Predicting the economic effects of daylighting systems is difficult because of the many assumptions involved. According to the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, a sample calculation shows that energy costs saved per year can be approximately 25 cents (U.S.) per square foot of daylighted floor area. This assumes that there are 260 working days per year, electricity costs 10 cents per kilowatt hour, the daylighting system turns off the lights five hours per day, and the connected lighting load is two watts per square foot.
Many installations will have a lower lighting load or a lower electrical rate. The calculation also assumes that there are no cloudy days or holidays. "With the initial cost of a new daylighting system and the energy cost savings, even these broad assumptions result in a longer payback period than many businesses seek." Meanwhile, here at home, researchers at the National Research Council's Institute for Research in Construction (IRC) in Ottawa are currently involved in assessing modelling tools that can help engineers, architects and lighting designers predict indoor illuminance from daylighting and assess the impact of daylight-linked control systems on energy consumption in buildings.
According to Dr. Morad Atif at IRC, daylighting is a preferred source of light that can be exploited in building design. The use of computer programs for the design and analysis of daylighting systems, he says, is becoming the preferred method, as this approach is faster and much less expensive than experimental testing. "However, despite the fact that there are several computer programs that can simulate daylighting, most of them have limitations that restrict their ability to replicate the complexity of daylight distribution in actual buildings." This is where the IRC comes in.
Through its involvement in the International Energy Agency's Task 21: Daylight in Buildings, IRC has undertaken the modelling of an existing daylit building using a computer package developed as part of this task group's work. This work, which is supported by the Buildings Group, Natural Resources Canada, will not only determine the accuracy of the software, but also provide Canadian building designers with examples of how to achieve retrofits that conserve energy by using daylighting. IRC researchers monitored the daylight parameters in a building and used the data to create a computer model to simulate the impact of outdoor conditions on the building. They then compared the measured data with the results of the computer simulations in order to verify the accuracy of the computer program. Finally, they evaluated the energy savings achieved by using different daylighting design options (such as lighting control systems) or retrofit measures with the help of the computer model that they developed. "From a survey of the available daylighting software, only one program was found to have the capability to analyse the effects of replacing electric lighting with daylighting on the total energy balance of a building," says Dr.Atif. "Although this program too had some limitations, by making a few adjustments IRC researchers were able to validate the model according to measurements and study energy-conserving retrofits for a real-life daylit building." The results from this research will help building designers, not only in Canada but throughout the world, to optimize the potential of using daylight – both as a source of light and as a means of saving energy (and money).
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The UK and Ireland governments are committed to sustainable growth and increasing their 'green' credentials. They have signed up to various legally binding targets and standards such as the Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA), this act mandates that an 80% reduction in CO2 must be achieved from the levels recorded in 1990 by 2050.
Recent government policies require all new homes from 2023 to mitigate, through various measures, all the carbon emissions produced on-site as a result of the regulated energy use. The definition of regulated energy includes energy used to provide space heating and cooling, hot water and fixed lighting. It does not allow for energy used by consumer appliances.
These government policies are well aligned with European Policy, specifically the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive which requires all new Public Buildings to be nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) from 2020. It is noted that in achieving this mandatory nZEB standard the performance of the building fabric will need to be close to that of the Passivhaus Standard.
What is a Zero-Carbon / Carbon Neutral Home?
A building must generate all its regulated energy without adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. If the building generates more energy that it requires, the surplus can be exported to the grid and if it is at a deficit, energy can be imported. The building emissions must however, taking these factors into account, be zero over the space of a year.
The energy used in dwellings accounts for more than a quarter of energy use and carbon dioxide emissions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The amount of energy a home will need and the CO2 that it will produce each year can be calculated using SAP software and this allows architects to calculate the amount of renewable technologies that are required to offset the CO2 produced.
How to achieve Zero-Carbon / Carbon Neutral Building?
To achieve a carbon neutral home, renewable technologies must be used to offset the CO2 produced from regulated energy use. The renewable technologies installed to produce on-site energy can vary depending on the circumstances, location of the property and the desired outcome. Solar PV (Solar Photo voltaic Panels) are widely used to generate on-site electricity, and when combined with the efficiency of a heat-pump can provide the space heating, hot water and electric lighting for the house.


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Leonardo da Vinci may have painted another 'Mona Lisa' and there's a legal battle over it
With her straight dark hair and beguiling smile, the so-called "Isleworth Mona Lisa" bears an uncanny resemblance to her namesake in the Louvre.
To some experts, these similarities suggest the painting is a mere copy, though a handful of art historians believe it to be an earlier, unfinished version by Leonardo da Vinci himself.
This debate has raged for decades. But now the portrait stands at the center of a new dispute: an impending legal battle over its ownership.
And if 2017's record-breaking sale of another disputed Leonardo — the "Salvator Mundi," whose authentication is still hotly debated — is anything to go by, there could be millions of dollars at stake.
(Photo by Chris Radburn-Pool/Getty Images)
Known to some as the "Earlier Mona Lisa," the painting has spent much of the past five decades hidden in a Swiss bank vault. Acquired by a secretive consortium in 2008, the painting has since been shown in a number of galleries, most notably in Singapore in 2014 and Shanghai two years later.
Then, in June, it went on display at Florence's Palazzo Bastogi — the first time it has been seen in public in Europe this century. As the show came to its conclusion, an anonymous claimant made a dramatic legal grab for a quarter ownership of the artwork.
The claimant's lawyer, Giovanni Battista Protti (who, during a telephone interview, would only describe his client as a "distinguished European family"), says he has historical evidence showing that the painting's former owner agreed to sell a 25% stake in the artwork that was subsequently inherited by his client.
Worried that the painting will disappear back into storage in Switzerland, Protti has asked a Florence court to sequester it — essentially impounding the artwork in Italy — while its ownership is investigated. The request will be heard by the court on Monday.
The owners — or majority owners, in Protti's view — remain anonymous, and thus could not be contacted for response.
But a Zurich-based organization called the Mona Lisa Foundation, created to research the painting's history (while insisting that it is "distinct and separate" from the owners), said in an email that the family's case is "without merit."
The Mona Lisa Foundation has confirmed to CNN that it will be participating in the court hearing.
A century of questions
The unidentified family's claim is rooted in the painting's colorful recent history.
While there are large gaps in its early provenance, art historians trace the work's story back to the early 20th century, when it was discovered by artist and collector Hugh Blaker in an English country house.
Blaker moved the painting to his studio in Isleworth, a west London suburb after which it is now unofficially named. Convinced that it was an earlier portrait of a younger Lisa del Giocondo, the subject of the Louvre's "Mona Lisa," Blaker's stepfather John Eyre published research declaring it to be the work of Leonardo, who was known to produce multiple versions of the same painting.
After Blaker's death, the artwork was sold to collector Henry F. Pulitzer. Like Blaker and Eyre, he was certain it was an authentic Leonardo. The collector even went on to publish the 1966 book "Where is the Mona Lisa?" in which he argued that his painting was, in fact, Leonardo's only portrait of Giocondo.
Pulitzer moved the work into storage in Switzerland in 1975, and, upon his death four years later, it was left to his partner Elizabeth Meyer. When Meyer herself died in 2008, the "Isleworth Mona Lisa" was acquired by the international consortium that currently owns it — and the Mona Lisa Foundation was established that same year to research its origins.
But Protti claims that Meyers only ever owned three-quarters of the painting.
He says that in 1964, The Pulitzer Gallery sold 25% of the painting to a Portugal-based porcelain manufacturer named Leland Gilbert. A purported 1964 purchase order — a copy of which was seen by CNN — appears to show Pulitzer agreeing to sell the stake for £4,000 (around £80,000, or $98,000, in today's money). Protti says his clients are the heirs to Gilbert's estate and are thus entitled to his share of the painting.
A lawyer for the Mona Lisa Foundation, Marco Parducci — who stressed that he does not speak on behalf the owners — told CNN in an email that Protti's claim "is clearly without merit."
Although he did not specifically comment on the purchase order, he said that the evidence submitted to the court "show(s) precisely that Pulitzer's heir was the full and rightful owner of the painting to the exclusion of all third parties."
Legal wrangling
The spoils could, potentially, be huge. The aforementioned "Salvator Mundi" became the most expensive artwork ever to sell at auction when it was bought for $450.3 million in November 2017. It, too, had long been considered a copy before it was speculatively bought by a group of art dealers for under $10,000 in 2005.
After the painting was restored and extensively researched, the National Gallery in London unveiled it at its Leonardo exhibition — an endorsement that ultimately led to the historic sale.
With fewer than 20 Leonardo paintings believed to have survived, of which only the "Salvator Mundi" remains in private hands, the owners of the "Isleworth Mona Lisa" may be hoping for a similar outcome.
But according to Protti — who is working on the case pro bono — the family he represents is not motivated by future windfalls. The claim, he said, is about leveraging ownership to return the painting to public view.
"As owners of the painting, their (aim) is to let this painting be shown to the public, because they don't want to keep it for another 40 or 50 years in Swiss bank vaults," he said, adding: "When you own this kind of (artwork) you have to be a custodian.
"It's not a matter of money. It's just a matter of patience, of something that has to be done. It has a value not just for private (individuals) but for humanity."
The Mona Lisa Foundation, however, questioned the timing of the claim. In an email to CNN, general secretary Joël Feldman suggested that Protti's clients may have been motivated to act by newly published studies backing attribution to Leonardo — or the huge interest surrounding the painter on the recent 500th anniversary of his death.
"We note that this legal action has only been taken now, although the painting has been on public exhibition internationally over the past few years," Feldman said, while his organization's lawyer, Parducci, added that the timing and nature of Protti's claims were "very curious and contradictory."
Protti, meanwhile, argued that the decision to lodge his client's request during the Florence exhibition was a matter of jurisdiction: "This was the first time that the painting was shown to the public in a European country. This was just the time that we were able to ask the court to do something."
Scholarly disputes
As the "Salvator Mundi" demonstrated, attempts to authenticate artworks as original Leonardos can be difficult and divisive. And given how long the "Isleworth Mona Lisa" has spent in storage, few experts have had an opportunity to examine the artwork and determine whether it's the work of the painter, his studio, a follower or a forger.
The Mona Lisa Foundation cites a range of research, some of which dates back to the time of Blaker and Eyre. Its arguments often center on the differences between the Isleworth and Louvre paintings. The former's unique composition, background and subject's sitting angle — as well as the fact that it was painted on canvas, not wood — suggest, to some, that whoever painted it was not attempting to produce a copy.
A 2015 paper in the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage concluded that the paintings are "two original works… both painted by Leonardo in two different periods."
"The subject is the same, but the paintings vary considerably, making them two works in their own right and not a copy of each other," the paper said.
But leading scholars have continued to dismiss it as a copy. One of the most vocal critics is Martin Kemp, a Leonardo expert and professor emeritus at Oxford University who questions the quality of the scholarship surrounding the painting.
"The picture has never entered the Leonardo mainstream," he said in a phone interview. "All of the people who have written substantially and seriously about Leonardo have either ignored it or have dismissed it."
Kemp described the painting as one of a number of "non-Leonardos" existing in "limbo" on the fringe of art history scholarship. He also cited a spectral analysis that revealed structures underneath the painting that are, in Kemp's view, "very unlike Leonardo."
"You see a lot of 'Mona Lisa' variants … and this one I would classify in the middle of the range. It's not nasty, but it's equally not overstatingly convincing."
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Testament to the work done by the coaching, training and medical staff, added to a little luck along the way, the Sharks will head into round one with a full complement of players available.
With all players having recovered from any off-season injury concerns, all 30 full-time Sharks NRL squad members have been named to turn out in either Townsville against the Cowboys or at Henson Park for the opening game of the Intrust Super Premiership where the Jets tackle the Canterbury Bulldogs.
The embarrassment of riches has caused some selection headaches for NRL Head Coach Shane Flanagan, who has named 19-players for the game in Townsville, with Gerard Beale and Joseph Paulo in jersey's 18 and 19 respectively on an extended bench.
The team trained strongly again on Wednesday morning, reporting no players in doubt for the weekend's match against North Queensland.
Mitch Brown, chosen on the wing for the Jets season-opener, has recovered from a rib fracture and is expected to be fit to play.
After a morning field session on Wednesday the Sharks NRL squad had weights in the afternoon, with Thursday a rest day.
The Sharks travel to North Queensland on Friday and will have their captain's run in Townsville later that afternoon, ahead of the round one match on Saturday. Kick off for the NRL game will be 6.30pm (7.30pm Sydney time).
As for those Sharks assigned to the Jets for this week, they have Wednesday off, a Thursday night training session at Henson Park and a game against the Canterbury Bulldogs on Saturday afternoon, that match getting underway at 3.00pm.
For all the up to date injury news throughout the 2016 season, go to the 'Injury Report' page located under the 'Team' drop down menu.


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Poker Players Alliance Director John Pappas Leaving Lobbying Organization, Shepherded Online Poker Through Black Friday to Legalization
Posted on: February 8, 2018, 03:00h.
Last updated on: February 8, 2018, 02:17h.
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Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas is leaving his post after almost a decade as the advocacy group's top lobbyist. He will be succeeded by current vice president, Rich Muny.
Rich Muny, left, will take over the top spot at Poker Players Alliance (PPA) from John Pappas, right. Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist is seen between the two men in this 2015 CPAC photo. (Image: Twitter/Rich Muny)
Pappas led the PPA, which lobbies for the interests of players and the online poker industry, through a tumultuous decade for the game, including the 2011 federal shutdown of FullTilt, PokerStars, and the Cereus Network that comprised Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet.
That shutdown — which became known as Black Friday in the poker community — was an awkward moment for the PPA, since much of its funding up to that point was from those three big players in the online poker market, whose owners were subsequently indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
But it was after that turning point that the PPA came into its own. It advocated for the financial victims of Full Tilt and Cereus, and lobbied for online poker regulation. And just eight months after the notorious online takeover, the DOJ did a complete turnaround, reinterpreting the 1961 Wire Act in such a way as to allow US states to allow online gaming, except for sports betting.
After that move by the Justice Department, the PPA, under Pappas' direction, tasked itself with keeping a vigilant eye on Sheldon Adelson's legislative pushback, which became known as RAWA: the Restoration of America's Wire Act.
The bill's goal was to revert the Wire Act's definition to its original meaning, before the DOJ reinterpretation, but millions of dollars spent by Adelson have, to date, borne virtually no fruit, and the bill remains unpopular in Congress.
Pappas pushed more than three million Americans to contact lawmakers via email, phone calls, visits, and social media to express their support for legalized online poker, and PPA membership grew to over one million under his leadership.
2017 Lowest Lobbying Spend Ever
The PPA formed in 2007, as a response to the enactment of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (2006), which prohibited financial institutions from processing transactions related to US-generated online gambling.
Pappas, a career lobbyist, has offered no specific reason for his departure, but it may well be due to funding issues. As a non-profit, tax exempt organization, the PPA is required to declare its revenues and lobbying expenditures.
According to OpenSecrets.org, the group spent just $105,000 on lobbying throughout 2017, its lowest figure ever. In 2007, it spent over $2 million.
While revenues for 2016 and 2017 are unavailable, in 2015, the PPA declared $2,355,107, but this was a time when PokerStars, the organization's main benefactor, was lobbying heavily for online poker regulation in California and New Jersey.
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PokerStars has since seemingly of its California efforts, and he figures for 2016/17 are likely to be much lower.
This means the PPA is prepared to go where the funding is, and right now, that means sports betting.
"The PPA is gauging its membership interest on the topic of sports betting and consumer advocacy," the group said in the same press release that announced Pappas' imminent departure.
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MSNBC reporter: 'I am convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted'
Published: Monday May 8, 2006
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MSNBC's Keith Olbermann: There are stories -- possibly apocryphal -- from the medieval courts of chancery in England, of lawsuits that took so long to resolve that they were passed down from generation to generation like property or some really good axes. Our fourth story on the Countdown: if Karl Rove hasn't thought of that analogy yet, somebody else probably has mentioned it to him. Or they still have time to get around to it. Though maybe not a lot of time. An end, of one kind or another, may be in sight.
The Washington Post reports Plame-gate special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is reviewing just one aspect of Mr. Rove's five appearance before the grand jury. Namely, whether Mr. Rove testified falsely in February 2004 when he failed to disclose that he told Time magazine's Matt Cooper about Valerie Plame's position at the CIA. That particular testimony came only seven months after Mr. Rove talked with Mr. Cooper. But Rove has said he forgot. And that the discovery of an e-mail about that conversation jogged his memory. Rove reportedly expects to know as early as this month whether Mr. Fitzgerald will indict him. We've heard something like that before. To check this one out, let's call in MSNBC's David Shuster. Thanks for your time, David.
MSNBC's David Shuster: Good to be with you, Keith.
Olbermann: What are you gathering on these two main points. Is the decision by Mr. Fitzgerald coming soon, would it be an indictment?
Shuster: Well, Karl Rove's legal team has told me that they expect that a decision will come sometime in the next two weeks. And I am convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted. And there are a couple of reasons why. First of all, you don't put somebody in front of a grand jury at the end of an investigation or for the fifth time, as Karl Rove testified a couple, a week and a half ago, unless you feel that's your only chance of avoiding indictment. So in other words, the burden starts with Karl Rove to stop the charges. Secondly, it's now been 13 days since Rove testified. After testifying for three and a half hours, prosecutors refused to give him any indication that he was clear. He has not gotten any indication since then. And the lawyers that I've spoken with outside of this case say that if Rove had gotten himself out of the jam, he would have heard something by now. And then the third issue is something we've talked about before. And that is, in the Scooter Libby indictment, Karl Rove was identified as 'Official A.' It's the term that prosecutors use when they try to get around restrictions on naming somebody in an indictment. We've looked through the records of Patrick Fitzgerald from when he was prosecuting cases in New York and from when he's been US attorney in Chicago. And in every single investigation, whenever Fitzgerald has identified somebody as Official A, that person eventually gets indicted themselves, in every single investigation. Will Karl Rove defy history in this particular case? I suppose anything is possible when you are dealing with a White House official. But the lawyers that I've been speaking with who know this stuff say, don't bet on Karl Rove getting out of this.
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Clinton Morrison has joked that he taught Brentford star Ollie Watkins everything he knows when the pair were at Exeter City together.
Watkins has made a flying start to life at the Bees after moving to Griffin Park from the Grecians in the summer and netted the third goal in his side's 3-0 win over Bolton Wanderers on Saturday.
Speaking on Channel 5, Morrison said all three Bees goals were impressive but Watkins' was the pick of the bunch.
"Barbet, great free kick great technique, but got to give him third," said Morrison. "Yennaris, this is another great strike into the top corner, but that's second place.
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In Tratado de Libre Commercio, LLC v. Splitcast Technology, LLC, C.A. No. 2019-0014-JRS (Del. Ch. Mar. 6, 2019), the Delaware Court of Chancery examined the requirements for perfecting service upon a dissolved limited liability company ("LLC"). In ruling that Tratado de Libre Commercio, LLC ("Tratado") had failed to perfect service of process on a dissolved entity, Splitcast Technology LLC ("Splitcast"), the Court highlighted its broad authority to establish service of process requirements under Court of Chancery Rule 4(d)(7) ("Rule 4(d)(7)") in claims against defunct entities. The Court's decision both illustrates the scope of its authority and confirms its willingness to hold that court-mandated standards for delivering service upon defunct corporations also apply in the context of defunct LLCs.
In Matthew Sciabacucchi v. Matthew B. Salzberg, et al., C.A. No. 207-0931-JTL (Del. Ch. Dec. 19, 2018), the Court of Chancery invalidated a provision in the charter documents of certain Delaware corporations that specified the federal courts as the exclusive forum for claims arising under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "1933 Act").
In Durham v. Grapetree, LLC, Civil Action No. 2018-0174-SG (Del. Ch. January 31, 2019), the Delaware Court of Chancery granted in part and denied in part a suit to compel books and records under Section 18-305 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act. Durham is illustrative of the rule that books and records requests are not a proper method to conduct plenary discovery into a business entity or its management, especially if driven by animus, but must be related to a proper purpose established by the requestor in his or her demand on the business.
The Court found that the LLC agreement defined 1-MCP business as business relating to 1-MCP products. The only product the Company ever developed, manufactured, or sold was TruPick. The Plaintiff pointed out that, pursuant to the judgement in the MirTech-AgroFresh litigation, the Company could no longer market TruPick. Defendant argued that the Company could still rely on Defendant's "know-how" and "trade secrets" to conduct 1-MCP business. The Court rejected this argument, citing the previous judgment as having assigned all MirTech "know-how" relating to 1-MCP to AgroFresh. Mir admitted at trial that his proposed 1-MCP business required measuring 1-MCP, and that he could not think of a way to measure 1-MCP without relying on "know-how" that had been assigned to AgroFresh. As such, the Court found that there was no practicable way in which the Company could continue any 1-MCP business.
While the LLC agreement did contemplate the Company's engaging in potential non-1-MCP business, the Court pointed out that any venture in that capacity was subject to a right of first refusal by Plaintiff. Seeing as how Girin testified that he no longer trusted Mir, the Court found that no new non-1-MCP venture would survive Plaintiff's right of first refusal. Defendant argued that a non-1-MCP business already existed, and therefore survived Plaintiff's right of first refusal, relating to "in-transit ripening" and "nano-absorbent films," neither of which was purportedly 1-MCP technologies. The only support that Defendant provided for these assertions was testimony from Mir about conversations with low-level employees of Plaintiff regarding these technologies. Mir also conceded that nothing was ever signed or even definitively agreed to with respect to any non-1-MCP business or technology. Despite Defendant's assertions otherwise, the Court found that there was no practicable way in which the Company could continue on by engaging in any non-1-MCP business. Consequently, Court dissolved the Company and appointed Girin as the receiver.


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Western Conference-leading Colorado hosts Florida
Oct 30, 2019 at 3:16a ET
Florida Panthers (5-3-4, fourth in the Atlantic Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (8-2-1, first in the Central Division)
Denver; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT
BOTTOM LINE: The Western Conference-leading Colorado Avalanche play the Florida Panthers.
The Avalanche are 4-1-0 at home. Colorado leads the league averaging 4.0 goals per game, led by MacKinnon with six.
The Panthers are 3-2-3 on the road. Florida ranks eighth in the league averaging 3.5 goals per game, led by Evgenii Dadonov with six.
TOP PERFORMERS: Ian Cole leads the Avalanche with a plus-11 in seven games played this season. MacKinnon has totaled 14 points over the last 10 games for Colorado.
Dadonov leads the Panthers with six goals and has recorded 10 points. Jonathan Huberdeau has five goals and six assists over the last 10 games for Florida.
LAST 10 GAMES: Panthers: 4-2-4, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.4 assists, three penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game with a .878 save percentage.
Avalanche: 7-2-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.4 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game with a .923 save percentage.
Avalanche Injuries: Mikko Rantanen: out (lower body), Gabriel Landeskog: out indefinitely (lower body).
Panthers Injuries: Vincent Trocheck: day to day (lower body), Michael Matheson: out (undisclosed).


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package com.rishi.mylibrary;

/**
 * Created by rishi on 15/10/16.
 */

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.content.pm.PackageInfo;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager.NameNotFoundException;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.util.Log;

import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesUtil;
import com.google.android.gms.gcm.GoogleCloudMessaging;
import com.google.android.gms.iid.InstanceID;

import java.io.IOException;

public class inConstant_GCMClientManager {
    // Constants
    public static final String TAG = "GCMClientManager";
    public static final String EXTRA_MESSAGE = "message";
    public static final String PROPERTY_REG_ID = "registration_id";
    private static final String PROPERTY_APP_VERSION = "appVersion";
    private final static int PLAY_SERVICES_RESOLUTION_REQUEST = 9000;
    // Member variables
    private GoogleCloudMessaging gcm;
    private String regid;
    private String projectNumber;
    private Activity activity;

    public inConstant_GCMClientManager(Activity activity, String projectNumber) {
        this.activity = activity;
        this.projectNumber = projectNumber;
        this.gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(activity);
    }
    /**
     * @return Application's version code from the {@code PackageManager}.
     */
    private static int getAppVersion(Context context) {
        try {
            PackageInfo packageInfo = context.getPackageManager()
                    .getPackageInfo(context.getPackageName(), 0);
            return packageInfo.versionCode;
        } catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
            // should never happen
            throw new RuntimeException("Could not get package name: " + e);
        }
    }
    // Register if needed or fetch from local store
    public void registerIfNeeded(final RegistrationCompletedHandler handler) {
        if (checkPlayServices()) {
            regid = getRegistrationId(getContext());
            if (regid.isEmpty()) {
                registerInBackground(handler);
            } else { // got id from cache
                Log.i(TAG, regid);
                handler.onSuccess(regid, false);
            }
        } else { // no play services
            Log.i(TAG, "No valid Google Play Services APK found.");
        }
    }
    /**
     * Registers the application with GCM servers asynchronously.
     *

     * Stores the registration ID and app versionCode in the application's
     * shared preferences.
     */
    private void registerInBackground(final RegistrationCompletedHandler handler) {
        new AsyncTask<Void, Void, String>() {
            @Override
            protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
                try {
                    if (gcm == null) {
                        gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(getContext());
                    }
                    InstanceID instanceID = InstanceID.getInstance(getContext());
                    regid = instanceID.getToken(projectNumber, GoogleCloudMessaging.INSTANCE_ID_SCOPE, null);
                    Log.i(TAG, regid);
                    // Persist the regID - no need to register again.
                    storeRegistrationId(getContext(), regid);
                } catch (IOException ex) {
                    // If there is an error, don't just keep trying to register.
                    // Require the user to click a button again, or perform
                    // exponential back-off.
                    handler.onFailure("Error :" + ex.getMessage());
                }
                return regid;
            }
            @Override
            protected void onPostExecute(String regId) {
                if (regId != null) {
                    handler.onSuccess(regId, true);
                }
            }
        }.execute(null, null, null);
    }
    /**
     * Gets the current registration ID for application on GCM service.
     *

     * If result is empty, the app needs to register.
     *
     * @return registration ID, or empty string if there is no existing
     *     registration ID.
     */
    private String getRegistrationId(Context context) {
        final SharedPreferences prefs = getGCMPreferences(context);
        String registrationId = prefs.getString(PROPERTY_REG_ID, "");
        if (registrationId.isEmpty()) {
            Log.i(TAG, "Registration not found.");
            return "";
        }
        // Check if app was updated; if so, it must clear the registration ID
        // since the existing regID is not guaranteed to work with the new
        // app version.
        int registeredVersion = prefs.getInt(PROPERTY_APP_VERSION, Integer.MIN_VALUE);
        int currentVersion = getAppVersion(context);
        if (registeredVersion != currentVersion) {
            Log.i(TAG, "App version changed.");
            return "";
        }
        return registrationId;
    }
    /**
     * Stores the registration ID and app versionCode in the application's
     * {@code SharedPreferences}.
     *
     * @param context application's context.
     * @param regId registration ID
     */
    private void storeRegistrationId(Context context, String regId) {
        final SharedPreferences prefs = getGCMPreferences(context);
        int appVersion = getAppVersion(context);
        Log.i(TAG, "Saving regId on app version " + appVersion);
        SharedPreferences.Editor editor = prefs.edit();
        editor.putString(PROPERTY_REG_ID, regId);
        editor.putInt(PROPERTY_APP_VERSION, appVersion);
        editor.commit();
    }
    private SharedPreferences getGCMPreferences(Context context) {
        // This sample app persists the registration ID in shared preferences, but
        // how you store the regID in your app is up to you.
        return getContext().getSharedPreferences(context.getPackageName(),
                Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    }
    /**
     * Check the device to make sure it has the Google Play Services APK. If
     * it doesn't, display a dialog that allows users to download the APK from
     * the Google Play Store or enable it in the device's system settings.
     */
    private boolean checkPlayServices() {
        int resultCode = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(getContext());
        if (resultCode != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
            if (GooglePlayServicesUtil.isUserRecoverableError(resultCode)) {
                GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(resultCode, getActivity(),
                        PLAY_SERVICES_RESOLUTION_REQUEST).show();
            } else {
                Log.i(TAG, "This device is not supported.");
            }
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
    private Context getContext() {
        return activity;
    }
    private Activity getActivity() {
        return activity;
    }
    public static abstract class RegistrationCompletedHandler {
        public abstract void onSuccess(String registrationId, boolean isNewRegistration);
        public void onFailure(String ex) {
            // If there is an error, don't just keep trying to register.
            // Require the user to click a button again, or perform
            // exponential back-off.
            Log.e(TAG, ex);
        }
    }
}


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Guests are invited to roam the trails on site throughout the 6 acres aside the Blue Ridge Peaks or play in the cool Roche River that runs through the Singing Springs Villa's estate.
This home boasts a unique architectural style that creates a warm and open atmosphere with high ceilings, plenty of natural light and filled with a wonderful mix of antiques, family heirlooms, and modern themes.
The natural, one-of-kind settings invites your escape from the city scape, with three outdoor patio seating areas, and a 6-seat hot tub where you can feel the mountain breeze, and listen to the relaxing sound of gently flowing waters, the perfect place to unwind at the end of our day.
Hike and bike the Blue Ridge Mountain Region of Virginia for beauty and enjoyment. The Appalachian trail passes within two miles of the house, so work up the appetite exploring the many trails of the Shenandoah National Park just above your bedroom window. (Access to the Skyline Drive entrance 18 minutes away).


Young hero Sudheer Babu is striving to make his mark in the tinsel town. He has two films lined up for release. His one more film is launched today. The launch function of the film was attended by Mahesh Babu's sister who gave Sudheer Babu her best wishes.
This film will be directed by debutante Sri Ram Aditya while the lead actress is Vamika Gabbi. The regular shooting of the film will start very soon. It is produced by Vijay Kumar Reddy under the banner 70 MM Entertainments.