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Going to France this summer ?
Latest advice from European motoring body the FIA says that drivers of all motor vehicles, including motorcyclists, will have to carry a breathalyser kit when travelling in France.
It has been reported that reported that from 1 July this year all drivers would need to carry a breathalyser kit, as French drivers will have to, but new information dictates that this €11 fine is applicable to all road users including motorcyclists, but excluding mopeds.
With a start date for the new measure of 1 July 2012, the rules will apply to anyone travelling to or through France by motor vehicle in the summer holiday season, even just for a day trip. This measure won't actually be enforced until the 1 November 2012, giving road users time to prepare for the change.
Single-use breathalyser kits will satisfy the requirement. The legal limit in France is 50 mg per 100 ml of blood, lower than in the UK (the UK limit is 80mg). They cost between £1 and £2 and they will be available at ferry and tunnel terminals for crossings to France. It is intended that people will be able to test themselves to check whether or not they are over the French limit.
The advice to all road users travelling in France is to have at least two breathalysers at all times, so that if one is used you still have one to produce for the police if you are stopped.
Anyone driving in France is already required to carry a warning triangle and a fluorescent safety vest to use in an emergency. Motorcyclists should carry extra bulbs. Additionally UK motorists and motorcyclists must display a GB plate, and cars should have their headlights adjusted to the right.
The French drink-driving limit is 50mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood - much lower than in the UK where the limit is 80mg.
Motorists found with between 50mg and 80mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood can be fined 135 euros (£112) and lose six out of 12 points on their driving licence.
Above that, a driver could be fined 4,500 euros (£3,744), lose their licence and be sent to prison for up to two years.
Anyone driving in France is required to carry a warning triangle and a fluorescent safety vest to use in an emergency.
If a motorist carries the luminous vest in their boot rather than the main section of the car they can still be fined.
British motorists must display a GB plate and have their headlights adjusted to the right.
Drivers are not obliged to carry a spare set of lights, but if one of their bulbs goes and they do not have a replacement ready they can be fined.
A fire extinguisher and first aid kit could also be required in the case of an emergency so not to fall foul of a law about assisting in the event of an accident.
Still going to France ??
That's definitely not 'double Dutch' !
World Superbikes were at the Assen circuit for the third round of the season last weekend.
The first event on the weekend schedule, before the traditional afternoon Open Paddock, was the inauguration of the Assen Junior TT Circuit, built in record time at the entrance and designed to help Dutch youngsters enter the world of bike racing.
Six WSB riders were present at the event: Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike), John Hopkins (Crescent FIXI Suzuki), Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport), Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea), Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) and Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team), who posed for photographs and signed autographs.
Rea, Hopkins and Haslam did a couple of laps of the track together with the youngsters. The first two were on mini-bikes, while Haslam was on an even smaller pocket-bike.
Also present at the inauguration were Barry Veneman, the ex-IDM, World Supersport and wild-card Superbike rider last year at Assen, now coach for the Dutch Motorcycle Federation's youth sector, Paolo Ciabatti (SBK Superbike Director), the Mayor of Assen, the Governor of the Province of Drenthe, the President of the Dutch National Olympic Committee, the Board of Directors of the TT Circuit and the KNMV (Dutch National Motorcycling Federation).
That's how to do it !!
Although we do have one or two special 'faces' on our own BikeWise Mini Bike Club's bike's over the years !!
Photo's are now online from the latest meeting of the BikeWise Mini Bike Club which was held outdoor at Carrville Park & Ride, Durham on Sunday 22nd April .
The weather was very kind to us as it appeared to be raining heavily, everywhere in the County apart from Carrville !!
As always, 'Many Thanks' to all who helped build (and take down) the track, for signing riders on and marshalling throughout the day – your help and support is greatly appreciated as we couldn't run the events without you.
Cost of these sessions (which are not run by the mini bike club or under ACU Rules/regs) are £15.
BikeWise Mini Bike Club members will receive a £3 discount on this price on production of their ACU licence when signing on.
To view the pictures of the Carrville meeting, please CLICK HERE and then click on the relevant thumbnail image.
After the success of the 2011 Yorkshire Ride of Honour that took place on 03/04/11 the event organisers, Chris and Mike have decided to make the ride an annual event. This years Ride of Honour will take place on Saturday 9th June 2012 .
There will be 3 rides: Squires to Catterick Garrison, a new North East ride from Washington Services to Catterick Garrison and finally a sub 125cc and Learners who cannot use Motorways ride from The Sun Inn to Catterick.
The North East contingent will be setting off from Washington Services, County Durham and heading south down the A1 to Catterick Garrison. This ride will be running along the A1(M) in places and as such is not open to 125cc and learner riders!
This weekend a team form Merit Merrell Technology will be undertaking the "Coast 2 Coast Challenge".
Starting in Workington, Cumbria on Thursday 19th April they will be travelling 140 miles in three days, finishing at Tynemouth, Tyne & Wear on Saturday 21st April.
Over the three days the route will take them along Main Roads (4%), Minor Roads (50%), Cyclepaths / Off-Road (46%) and will include some very hilly climbs, the highest point being 609 metres above Sea Level.
At first they wanted to do this "just for the hell of it" but soon realised that they would be using up a lot of energy for nothing more than personal satisfaction and bragging rights.
Therefore, they decided to take on the challenge as a "Charity Event", so that their efforts can raise money for some very worthwhile causes.
Merit Merrell Technology is very lucky to have close links with the Biking Community and are delighted to announce that Bradley Smith, Brent Nichol, Taylor MacKenzie and Niall MacKenzie will be joining them for the last day of the "C2C Challenge".
Bradley is competing for the 2nd year in the Moto2 Class before graduating to MotoGP next season on a Yamaha. Taylor competed on the world stage last year in the 125cc Class and will be competing in the British Supersport Championship this season.
Niall MacKenzie is Taylor's father and is the only person to have won the British Superbike Championship 3 years in succession after competing for most of his career on Factory 500cc bikes in the World Championship. .
The first five hundred are up there in cyberspace...... your photo's from the 2012 BikeWise Easter Egg Run.
You can also order prints, direct from there and they will be delivered to your home usually within 24/48hours - so you could be 'hung', in a frame, on the wall of your house, on your pride and joy..... before you know it !
If you know of anybody who was on the run, then please send them a link to let them know where the photo's are.
Once again THANKS for making it a special 'BikeWise' day.. the costumes, helmet and bike decorations and smiling faces really make it 'special' to be part of the biking community up here in the North East.
We've now uploaded six video's from this years Egg Run.
If you CLICK HERE or on the picture it will take you through to the website page where you can view the video's and try and find yourself !!
The first of the BikeWise Egg Run 2012 video's has gone online.
This was taken at South Road, Durham, more video's will be uploaded over the next couple of weeks so keeping checking back.
Fantastic news from our BikeWise Mini Bike club riders who were racing up in Scotland at the first round of the Scottish Mini Bike Championship whilst we were taking part in the Easter Egg Run.
If the season continues like this we'll need 'Securicor' to bring all the trophies back over the border !!
so put them in your diary and come along and see our local riders racing – it's free to watch and you can get a cup of tea or coffee in the cafe.
Firstly a BIG – THANK YOU – for making our eighth Easter Egg Run the biggest yet.
The weather wasn't so good this year, however thanks to the six hundred and eighty eight (688) of you, with internet access, who took the time to pre-register on our website. It made it much easier for ourselves (and hopefully for you) at the start and we will also now be able to keep you informed via email as to 'What's Happening in the BikeWise world' in future. With those of you who registered on the morning we had over 800 bikes out on the road.
A fantastic mix of riders on the day, with quite a few new 'L' riders joining in the 'fun' as well as some nice trike's.
Some riders put some quite serious mileage in, to get to Durham for the ride and we really appreciate your support.
Yesterday we raised almost £900 for the Meningitis Research Foundation, that means since our first Egg Run in March of 2005 we have raised over £9500 for the Meningitis Research Foundation and is a testament to the generosity of YOU – the bikers involved quite apart from the hundreds of Easter Eggs handed in, which we will distribute in the coming week.
In addition, it was fantastic to see so many people 'camped out' at the side of the road to cheer and wave to riders on many with deck chairs in place, clearly set up to enjoy the spectacle!
It's great that the Easter Egg Run is becoming a social event not only for the motorcycle community, but also for the people of County Durham and Darlington who come out in force to cheer us on our way.
We were joined at HQ by as many as we could accommodate and riders were given a short road safety presentation by PC Ali Bonar of the Durham Police Motorcycle Section, who invited riders to sign up to BikeWise Training and Durham Advanced Motorcyclists to enhance their riding skills. Keith Fisher also presented a certificate of Appreciation to the Motorcycle Section from the Boundary 500 Group.
The Easter Egg Run is organised by the BikeWise team, but we couldn't do it without the support of the Cleveland Bike Section, Durham Advanced Motorcyclists, Darlington based stunt rider Dave Coates, all the volunteers who help prepare police HQ and serve the teas and coffees, members of the Durham Photographic Society and of course our own Chief Constable Jon Stoddart and the executive team of Durham Constabulary who have always supported the aims of BikeWise.
Please keep checking the website for photo's and video's of the event – we are working 'feverishly in the background to get these uploaded onto the internet but it will take time and we cannot go any faster than our bandwidth allows !!
But the biggest thank you is to those of you who took part; your generosity is beyond doubt and without you none of this would happen, so once again - thank you all you all for your support and look forward to seeing you at BikeWise 2012 on Sunday 1st July at the Police HQ.
We've been asked by one or two people where the BikeWise Easter Egg Run starts from this year?
It's Carrville Park and Ride on the Junction of the A1(M) and the A690 Roads on the outskirts of Durham.
If you click on this link it will take you to a Google Map of the location and you will be able to click on the top left where it says Get Directions to find a route from your home.


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Q: bazel cannot find my android sdk path properly I want to generate tensorflow lite AAR file using bazel command. According to the tensorflow document Android quick start, I install bazel successfully and then, I set ANDROID_SDK_HOME and ANDROID_NDK_HOME in the system enviroment variables as follows :
ANDROID_SDK_HOME = 'G:\IT\AndroidStudioSdk\AndroidStudio'
ANDROID_NDK_HOME = 'G:\IT\AndroidStudioSdk\AndroidStudio\ndk\android-ndk-r17c'
NOTE: I put my android sdk manually in G drive, because I didn't have enough space in C.
And after that, I configure WORKSPACE using configure.cmd file in my tensorflow root directory (C:\Users\username\tensorflow). But, when I want to build TensorFlow Lite AAR with this command :

I face this Error:

Apparently, bazel cannot find path properly.

A: The NDK, SDK locations should be expressed using the forward slashes / instead of back-slashes \ as the path separator symbol. So, in your case:
set ANDROID_SDK_HOME = 'G:/IT/AndroidStudioSdk/AndroidStudio'
set ANDROID_NDK_HOME = 'G:/IT/AndroidStudioSdk/AndroidStudio/ndk/android-ndk-r17c'

And then run the configure.cmd script to use those values when setting up the Android WORKSPACE.

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MANSFIELD, Mass. – Senior Kylie Lorenzen (Holliston, Mass.) of the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team was named her sport's Northeast-10 Sport Excellence Award winner Wednesday.
MANSFIELD, Mass. – For the second straight year, Southern New Hampshire University seniors Brett Strawn (Wareham, Mass.), Kylie Lorenzen (Holliston, Mass.) and Ashley Elder (Bristol, Conn.), as well as junior Alanna Murphy (Nashua, N.H.), all claimed Northeast-10 Academic All-Conference honors the league office announced Tuesday.
ATLANTA – Senior Kylie Lorenzen (Holliston, Mass.) of the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team was feted as a Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America Honorable Mention on Monday evening.
PHILADELPHIA – Senior Kylie Lorenzen (Holliston, Mass.) of the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team was selected to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All- East Region Second Team, it was announced Thursday.
MANSFIELD, Mass. – Senior Kylie Lorenzen (Holliston, Mass.) of the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team earned a place on the Northeast-10 All-Conference First Team for the second straight season, the league office announced Monday afternoon.
Sophomore Gyanna Russell (E. Hampton, Conn.) and senior Kylie Lorenzen (Holliston, Mass.) combined for nearly half the team's points, but the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team, seeded fifth in the Northeast Division, saw its season draw to a close Friday night with a 79-55 loss to American International College, the Southwest's No. 4 seed, in the first round of the Northeast-10 Championship at Butova Gymnasium.
The Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team, seeded fifth in the NE10 Northeast Division, returns to the Northeast-10 Championship for the second straight season and will meet the Southwest Division's No. 4 seed, American International College, on Friday, March 1 (7 p.m.) at Butova Gymnasium.
Senior Kylie Lorenzen (Holliston, Mass.) notched a double-double of 17 and 11 rebounds, and became the program's all-time leading rebounder, but the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team dropped a 69-60 decision against Assumption College on Tuesday evening at the Stan Spirou Field House, and, as a result will head on the road for the opening round of the Northeast-10 Championship.
The Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team will try and claim a first round home game in the Northeast-10 Championship when it plays host to Assumption College on Tuesday, Feb. 26 (5:30 p.m.) at the Stan Spirou Field House on Senior Night. The game will air on both FOX College Sports and WGIR 610-AM.
Highlights: Women's Basketball Handles Pace, 58-46 The Penmen women's basketball team made it back-to-back victories after posting a 12-point win over Pace on Saturday, 58-46.
Highlights: Women's Basketball vs. Saint Anselm The Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team dropped a 78-64 decision to Saint Anselm College on Thursday.
On the Road with the Penmen: Women's Basketball In this special Tuesday edition of "On the Road with the Penmen," we take a look at the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team's trip to Caldwell College.
Highlights: Women's Basketball Cruises Past Concordia The Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team allowed a season-low 30 points, including just 13 in the second half en route to a 61-30 win over Concordia College.
Penmen Profile: Victoria Wiseman Graduate student Victoria Wiseman recently sat down to talk about what brought her from Montreal to Manchester, and what she is looking forward to in her final semester in a Southern New Hampshire uniform.
Highlights: Women's Basketball Rallies for Fifth Straight Win The Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to down the University of Bridgeport, 77-64.
Highlights: Women's Basketball Takes Down Nationally Ranked Assumption College The Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team picked up its first Northeast-10 Conference victory of the season with a 69-54 triumph over No. 13 Assumption College.
Highlights: Women's Basketball vs. Saint Anselm The Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team suffered a 54-43 setback on the road against Saint Anselm College.
Season Preview: Women's Basketball Members of the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team joined head coach Karen Pinkos in discussing their outlook on the 2014-15 season.
Highlights: Women's Basketball Runs Past Wilmington After shooting nearly 50-percent from the field and 40-percent from behind the arc, the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team posted an 81-67 victory over Wilmingoton College of Delaware on Saturday.
Highlights: Women's Basketball Tops Felician in Season Opener The Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team posted a 66-57 win over Felician College inside the SNHU Field House on Friday night.
SNHU Women's Basketball: Relentless Pursuit A sneak-peak at the 2014-2015 Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team.
SNHU Women's Basketball Chillin' 4 Charity SNHU head coach Karen Pinkos, along with assistant coach Mandy Pennewell and players Sara Ryan, Chelsea Dunham, Lorreta Rocha, and Vic Wiseman have accepted the challenge. In return, they have nominated several coaches and players to complete this challenge.
Women's Basketball 2013-14 Season Highlights Highlights from the 2013-14 women's basketball season.
WBB Highlights vs. Bentley Women's basketball highlights against top-ranked Bentley.
WBB Highlights vs. Stonehill Women's basketball highlights on Penmen Pink Day against Stonehill.
2014 Penmen Pink Promo Video Promo video for the annual Penmen Pink Day for breast cancer awareness.
WBB Highlights at Franklin Pierce Highlights from a women's basketball setback at Franklin Pierce.


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Fatherhood and Marriage Bring Out the Best in Men
Vanessa Calder / June 29, 2015
A father and son during a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. (Photo: Keith Gillett/Icon SMI/Newscom)
Vanessa Calder
Vanessa Calder is a Welfare Studies Graduate Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
Is fatherhood becoming a relic of the past?
The sad absence of fathers in American families is pervasive and has been growing for decades. In the 1960s, less than 10 percent of American children were born to single women, but as of 2013, the number had increased to 41 percent. Among Hispanic children, 54 percent are born to unwed mothers, and the figure is 72 percent for African-American children.
The institution of fatherhood is not merely a passé throwback to the mid-20th century. Active and engaged fatherhood is an integral part of nature's design. As Rutgers University's David Popenoe states, "The contribution of fathers to child-rearing is unique and irreplaceable."
Research shows the absence of fathers in the home is associated with poorer outcomes for children. Children with involved fathers are more likely to graduate from college, and children raised by both their married mothers and fathers are far less likely to be poor and less likely to engage in delinquent behaviors or become teen parents.
But children are not the only ones who benefit; fatherhood and marriage bring out the best in men, too. Recent studies show fatherhood facilitates biological changes that are linked to reductions in risky behavior for men and reduced anger and increased empathy.
Married men also are more likely to be healthy, practice self-control and remain engaged in the workforce. Marriage is lucrative as well. A 2014 American Enterprise Institute study found married men ages 28-30 are likely to earn $15,929 more a year than their single peers, and married men ages 44-46 earn $18,824 more than their single peers.
Unfortunately, government welfare policy penalizes marriage and therefore committed fatherhood. If a father marries the mother of his children, household income will increase provided the father works, which means the family can abruptly lose some or all welfare assistance.
Marriage is one of the best antidotes to child poverty and keeps fathers connected to their children. At the very least, policymakers must look for ways to reduce marriage penalties. In order to provide men and their children with the best opportunities for growth and development, leaders must look for ways to restore a culture of marriage.
Policies that do not undermine marriage can help encourage fathers' relationships with their children and restore the prominence of married fathers in their children's lives.

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More than 370 people have lost their lives, many lost their belongings, businesses are closed. This is the result of the flooding in Thailand as of today. When I was out of town last week I felt reminded of Kevin Kostner's Waterworld: water everywhere! Never have I seen anything like that before.
My girlfriend's house is about 1 m under water, and even though I still have dry feet, I have not been able to buy bottled water for a week, and customers cancel participation in my live events.
There is an enormous nervousness out there: "Can this bloody flood come now! I'm sick and tired waiting for the flood to come or maybe not to come or not here or maybe later or somewhere else or …" as someone posted on Facebook.
The situation is disastrous, no doubt. But does it help to be nervous? As the saying goes, you cannot prevent the pain, but suffering is optional.
1. You cannot control the events in your life. But you can control how you respond to them.
You cannot prevent flooding, earthquakes, or the loss of a loved one. You and only you decide though what you do in an extreme situation.
Whereas it is normal to be sad or to worry when things are not going as planned in your life or your business, you have to accept worrying does not help.
– How can I turn this around?
Focusing on the problem does not get you anywhere. It will just lead to more negative emotions and limit your ability to plan intelligently. Moreover, whatever you focus on, you get more of: focus on a problem, you'll get more problems. Focus on solutions, and you will find solutions.
Accept that you are in charge of your mind no matter what happens around you. The above mentioned questions are extremely powerful to help you focus on solving problems. The more options you create, the easier it will be for you to find a feasible way forward.
You can deal with any situation if you decide to, can't you.
If you are a manager or a business leader, you have a huge influence on how your team will deal with challenging situations. In times of crisis, people look up to a leader. They look for someone great who they can follow. Be this person.
In order to lead them, you have to lead yourself first and not give in to your worries and negative emotions. Create empowering beliefs, self-confidence, and know that you can handle the situation.
Go out there, let your team see and feel your confidence. Then instill this confidence in your team by teaching them how to apply the rules above. This will help you and your team to get where you want to be.
Thank you Gerrit for a great post. You're talking about real and serious stuff. That shows how resilience and the ability to lead oneself and others is not just a matter of nice words within the walls of a company.
Thank you for your comment, Myriam.
Indeed it's all about mindset, isn't it. We decide whether we give in to giving up (and blame the circumstances) or make the best possible out of any situation.
Those two questions are super powerful and will allow people to self coach themselves in life.


For the longest time, the stigma associated with mental illness only affected the poor, the old, the sick and healthy, it didn't discriminate. Hollywood has shone a light on the problem within the entertainment industry as shown by many articles and interviews written about stars opening up and sharing their own struggles with anxiety.
Hollywood has always been a fascination for me. I dreamt of being an actor when I was young. In my mind, celebrities didn't have any problems. Their lives looked so perfect. Now that actors are uncovering their personal battles with anxiety through the media, they're just like us–stars with anxiety.
I was standing in line to pay for my groceries the other day and noticed on the front page of Elle magazine was Kendall Jenner. I started thinking about the article I recently read in People magazine about her battle with anxiety. In particular, the incident where she wasn't able to get on a plane. According to the article, Kendall had her mom Kris attend Milan's Fashion Week along with her to help cope with her anxiety. Not to feel alone. Reading the article, I felt connected to her as I have suffered from a panic attack while boarding an airplane. It compelled me to research how to contact Kendall, as I did through email, in hopes to let her know about my book and the struggles I had with panic associate with flying on an airplane.
Just to name a few celebrities who share their stories, Johnny Depp is another favorite celebrity who struggles with panic attacks. Even though in the past he has been quiet about his struggles, he is starting to talk in interviews about his anxiety and how therapy has given him tools to cope. In connection with his new movie release Deadpool 2, Ryan Reynolds opens up in a New York Times article about his life long battle with anxiety. He talks about the symptoms he experienced with stomach aches, drinking alcohol to self-medicate, and then turning to therapy to help manage the symptoms.
Singer Adele suffers from panic attacks before she steps on stage to perform and Jennifer Lawrence battled with anxiety as a teenager. The one celebrity that was a surprise to me was Oprah. Huffpost did an article on how Oprah had a panic attack while filming the movie, "The Butler." She wasn't quite sure what was happening as she experienced a "numbness" and "speeding" in her body and mind. Oprah just told herself if she didn't calm down she would be in serious trouble.
With all the exposure related to anxiety and Hollywood, we can hopefully lift the stigma associated with mental illness. Celebrities are just like us, they suffer from anxiety. By opening up and addressing their struggles publically could probably coerce people to address their battles with anxiety and get some help. To silence shame and take down the walls that keep us in a secret place that isolates us from others who only want connection, understanding, and love.


NHS Tayside's Food, Fluid and Nutritional Care Policy has been updated with changes to Section 6: Decision Making in the Management of Patients with Dysphagia.
For more detailed information about the changes please see the version control on Page 2 of the document.
All managers must ensure that their staff read the Policy and the additional sections/sub-sections as they are published, that they understand these, and are implementing the Policy within their area of work as appropriate.
To subscribe and receive updates, please go to Staffnet (see search link top right corner) and search for 'Decision Making in the Management of Patients with Dysphagia'. When it appears, under the title link you will see a box 'Subscribe to this document' – if you click this you will be notified of any changes/updates.


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Q: Disable offline mode and rerun the build A problem occurred configuring root project 'customerapp'.
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*No cached version of com.android.tools.build:aapt2:3.2.0-alpha18-4804415 available for offline mode

*enable & disable Gradle offline mode?

*enable/disable offline mode in andriod studio 4.0

*Gradle not searching dependencies online

A: Disable Offline Mode
View > Tool Windows > Gradle from the menu bar.
Then, near the top of the Gradle window, click Toggle Offline Mode Gradle offline button in the Gradle panel.

A: I had a similar problem. This is solution that worked for me (Android Studion 4.1.1):

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*As Rodrigo said in the answer above above, go to View > Tool Windows > Gradle

*Right click on the project in Gradle tab and select "Refresh Gradle Dependencies"

*Clean / Rebuild if needed. You may also need to Invalidate cache and restart android studio (File -> Invalidate cache / restart).


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Road test: DS 3 Crossback
By Steve Nelson
FIVE years ago the DS brand split away from Citroen to become a fully-fledged premium player.
Now, in 2019, it is an established French luxury brand in which "savoir faire" meets advanced technology.
Whereas in the past you might have popped down to a Citroen dealer to view a DS, you can now only buy a DS at one of 35 DS salons – and there are big plans for a much larger network.
So, with the divorce amicably settled, DS is embarking on a product expansion that will see a new car launched every year, with the whole stable electrified in some form by 2025.
First of the new breed was the DS7, and now we have the DS 3 Crossback promising the same sort of features as its big brother. That means you get what the French firm calls dynamic serenity, avant garde, advanced technology and lashings of refinement coupled with an obsessive attention to detail.
It is built on a new common modular platform to enable a choice of drive trains, but for now there's a simple choice of petrol and diesel engines mated with six-speed manual or eight-speed auto gearboxes.
The PureTech 100 petrol engine is available with a six-speed manual gearbox, while the PureTech 130 and 155bhp engines are mated to an eight-speed electronically-controlled automatic transmission. The diesel choice is limited to 100 and 130 engines.
The diesel units get four cylinders, while the petrol engines are of the three-cylinder type, and all of them are turbocharged.
I have not driven the manual version or either of the diesel offerings, but I can vouch for the smooth progress of the auto box, which must be the transmission of choice for those who will spend much of their time stopping and starting in an urban/city environment.
The 130hp petrol will suffice for most needs, even on motorways, but the 155 will be more satisfying to drive. With a soft chassis, the DS 3 plays its trump card – it rides with ease over rough surfaces and bumps.
The big news is that later in the year an electric version called the e-tense will go on sale offering an "haute couture" experience coupled with a 280-mile range. There will also be an electric version of the DS 7 Crossback 4x4 offering 300hp. But more of that at another time.
The new DS 3 is packed to the gills with features that firmly establish it in the premium sector, such as matrix LED vision headlights, flush-fit door handles that pop in and out, smart access from your phone, park pilot, a top-end hi fi system and a bunch of driving and braking assists.
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The recently concluded General Elections had all political parties presenting their manifestos. There were many interesting proposals. Some fractions wanted to cut the defense budget. Others proposed better ways of running our healthcare system. Many felt that we could do more to help the poor.
Whether or not these suggestions will work in isolation or even as a whole is highly debatable. What it has led me to realise is that for every decision made there has to be a compromise.
The role of a good government is to find that balance and work towards the greater good of all its citizens. And a large part of that lies in allocating resources for the production of public and merit goods.
Students of economics would be familiar with the term 'public goods'. Typical examples of public goods are national defense and street lighting. These are goods provided without profit by the government.
Because public goods are 'non-rivalrous' in nature, the consumption of a public good by a person does not reduce the amount of that good for consumption by another person. At the same time, it is also not possible for exclude someone from the consumption of that public good. Every citizen benefits from having a strong SAF!
Of greater interest to us today is the production of Merit Goods. Economists define merit goods as goods and services that have external benefits to society when they are produced and consumed. Unlike public goods though, they are both rivalrous and excludable in nature.
Education is the classic example of a merit good. An educated population brings widespread benefits to the society. Crime rate decreases and productivity increases. This leads to a more prosperous population, a higher standard of living and for governments, higher tax revenues.
There is a stark difference between defense and education though. For every person that attends school, he or she deprives someone else of the chance to. Schools can also be exclusive – more often than not they turn away students, especially good schools which fill up fast.
There is a very interesting conundrum regarding the production of merit goods. When left to the private sector, merit goods will be under produced and under consumed. This is because the private sector will charge too high a price and most people will be unwilling to pay that price.
Let us think about it from a business point of view. The firm producing education services will not reap the rewards from the society it benefits. The higher productivity and increased in standards of living is not its concern. It is only looking to maximise its profits.
Hence, firms that provide education will charge as high a price as they can get away with. The end result is that many will be deprived an education.
This is where the government steps in to subsidise schools and make education affordable to all. Because if they were left to its own devices, widespread education will never take off in modern societies.
The financial education industry is a murky one. In choosing that word, I have two uses for it.
Firstly, the boundaries of the financial education industry is largely undefined. No one is sure where it starts and where it ends.
A brokerage firm that conducts classes educates their clients on how to pick good stocks. Financial advisors, in the process of sturcturing a portfolio teach their clients about proper asset allocation. The blogger who shares his thoughts freely and exposes many people sound investing principles. Financial educators come in all shapes and sizes.
I also choose the word murky because the industry is a very tainted one. For years it has been plagued by dodgy trainers who have promised sky high returns. Many have also perpetrated scams under the guise of courses. The investing public, easily seduced by slick sales people have parted millions for courses and products that are not what they actually are.
It does not have to be this way. In its purest form, financial education is a merit good and and financial literacy is an absolute neccessity.
We live in a capitalistic society and we cannot afford not to understand money. To be functional, we need to understand debt and the effects of it. We need to understand the neccessity of saving and the power of compounding.
Government policies affect our lives in major ways, we need to be kept informed and updated. On the other hand, financial literacy would also see us taking charge to plan for our own financial future.
We need to understand investing – if not active, then at least passive. We need to know what is a realistic rate of return we can expect. The moment we do, we will be able to differentiate between scams and genuine investment products.
Financial literacy is not about knowing how to make more and more money. Financial literacy instead is about knowing how much is enough. When financial literacy increases, there will be lesser societal issues, people feel more in control and the overall well being of the population increases.
Unfortunately, like all merit goods left to market forces, financial education will be under produced and under consumed. The level of financial literacy will forever languish.


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James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire is a 2001 first-person shooter video game based on the James Bond franchise. Developed and published by Electronic Arts, it was released for PlayStation 2 (PS2), GameCube and Xbox. It originally began development as a PS2 and PC game based on the 1999 Bond film The World Is Not Enough. However, the game was delayed and eventually reworked into Agent Under Fire, featuring an original storyline that is unrelated to the Bond films. Playing as James Bond, the player must thwart an attempt to replace world leaders with clones.

Agent Under Fire was released for PS2 in November 2001, followed by the other versions in March 2002. The game received "mixed or average" reviews, according to Metacritic.

Gameplay
Agent Under Fire features over fifteen different types of firearms, as well as other weapons. Each firearm is based on a real firearm, but is given a pseudonym, the same manner as the weapons in GoldenEye 007, and The World is Not Enough. Most of the gadgets are concealed in a mobile phone, including a decryptor, grapple, laser, and remote transmitter. Bond is also provided with a card that disrupts electronic signals, as well as a jetpack. During the course of the game, players may encounter opportunities to utilize the level's environment or their gadgets to dispatch enemies, clear obstacles, or open up alternative pathways; doing so awards the player a "Bond Moment" which contributes to the player's end-of-level score.

The multiplayer mode in Agent Under Fire features up to four players, with several unique arenas to host multiplayer battles in. The multiplayer games can also be played with one player against an AI player.

Plot
CIA agent Zoe Nightshade, a mole in the Hong Kong-based botanical research firm Identicon Corporation, is discovered and captured while investigating Identicon as a possible front for a weapons-smuggling ring. MI6 agent James Bond infiltrates the Identicon facility in an attempt to rescue her, as well as retrieve a suspicious courier case in the same building. After rescuing Nightshade from a submarine set to launch, the pair flee the facility with the courier case. Nigel Bloch, the head of Identicon, has his henchmen chase the agents through the streets of Hong Kong. The two steal a second case of vials from a nearby Identicon factory, then rendezvous with R, who provides Bond with a gadget-laden BMW Z8. A limousine pulls up, and a figure inside fires a rocket at the agents, killing Nightshade, and steals the case. Bond pursues in his new car, stopping an armoured van containing the stolen vials.

The vials contain nine blood samples, eight of which contained blood of world leaders. The ninth one contains the blood of Reginald Griffin, a British diplomat serving at the British embassy in Bucharest, Romania, who is obsessed with protecting a room, outside his jurisdiction, in the embassy. Bond investigates the embassy, and also encounters a strange woman after bursting into her room. He pretends to be a lost security guard and obtains a security card to Griffin's office. In the office, he finds Griffin dead, before a man, identical to Griffin, confronts him. After overcoming him, Bond finds a message from Bloch on Griffin's computer that mentions Malprave Industries, based in Switzerland. Bond takes the information from the computer and escapes.

At the Malprave Industries' branch in Switzerland, Bond poses as a journalist and notices that the woman he encountered at the embassy is actually the company's CEO: Adrian Malprave. Knowing that she will recognise him, he plans an escape. After collecting evidence, he makes his escape from the facility. Analysis of the computer message from Romania mentions "Defective Merchandise", believed to be a code name for Dr. Natalya Damescu, formerly an employee of Malprave, now under protection at the British Embassy in Bucharest, the same one in which Griffin was serving as a diplomat. She also has inside information to offer. Carla the Jackal, an infamous terrorist who also killed Zoe in Hong Kong, leads a raid on the embassy. Bond fights the terrorists before running into Damescu. After a confrontation with the Jackal, Bond kills her and picks up a data chip on something known as "Poseidon".

The data chip leads Bond to an oil rig located in the South China Sea. After running into Bloch, Bond follows him into Poseidon, an underwater base devoted to cloning. After seemingly killing Bloch and destroying his lab, Bond escapes the complex by climbing onto a submarine bound for a Royal Navy aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. On board the submarine, Bond finds Zoe, still alive, where she reveals that the woman he "saved" from the Identicon facility was actually a clone meant to gain information from Bond on what MI6 knew about Poseidon and then to infiltrate the CIA, and that the Jackal had intended to kill Bond.

Depending on whether or not the player picked up the verification code, Bond and Zoe are either captured and taken to the brig, or have a sexual encounter as the submarine is automatically piloted to the aircraft carrier. In either case, the pair investigate the ship. It is discovered that eight world leaders have been cloned, and are to be replaced by Malprave-loyal duplicates. Bond destroys the craft carrying the clones, and the pair make their escape. They head back to the Malprave Industries building in the Swiss Alps, where Bond successfully rescues the eight world leaders. Before he can escape from the base however, Bond encounters Malprave, who has set the base to self-destruct. She also reveals that Bloch is still alive, and that Bond had merely killed his clone. After a firefight with him, Bond follows Bloch into Malprave's main office and shoots him with a rocket launcher, sending him crashing through a stained-glass window to his death. Just as Bond manages to leap free of the base before it explodes, Malprave appears and tries to jump clear too, but is consumed by the blast and ultimately killed. Bond lands on a military aircraft being commandeered by Zoe, and together they escape the smouldering base.

Development and release
Agent Under Fire originally began development as a PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PC game based on the 1999 Bond film The World Is Not Enough (TWINE). The game would include 10 large levels, featuring a combination of stealth and action gameplay similar to the 1997 Bond game GoldenEye. The game would feature boating, skiing, and casino levels, and the player would have access to 20 gadgets throughout the game. Players would have multiple ways to complete a mission, with interactive environments playing a role. Multiplayer would be a prominent part of the game.

Electronic Arts (EA) was developing the game, which would run on the id Tech 3 game engine, commonly known as Quake III Arena. It was initially scheduled to release in late 2000, subsequently changed to late 2001. However, EA announced in February 2001 that it was delaying the game until the following year. The delay would allow the company to achieve its vision of a game that would be noticeably different from the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation version of The World Is Not Enough. Two months later, EA announced that The World Is Not Enough had instead been reworked into a new Bond game with an original storyline, under the title James Bond 007 in...Agent Under Fire. It also uses the Quake engine, as well as the Electronic Arts Graphics Library engine.

Jon Horsley of EA said, "We thought we could deliver a good TWINE game for the PS2--but we also thought we could combine forces with some of our other studios and deliver a great original Bond experience with Agent Under Fire. The extra time has provided us the opportunity to create an entirely new game, not tied to a specific movie, and address some points that we knew we couldn't get into TWINE under that timeline". EA worked with MGM and Danjaq to create the game's storyline, and EA Canada developed the game's driving levels, after previously working on EA's Need for Speed series. The developers played previous Bond games as research.

The game features some returning characters from the films, but without using the actors' likenesses. John Cleese appeared in a commercial for the game, reprising his role as R. However, he and other actors from the films did not reprise their roles for the game itself, which instead uses sound-alike voice actors. R was originally modeled after Cleese, but his likeness was removed from the final game. CGI companies, such as Industrial Light & Magic and Pacific Data Images, worked on the game's cinematic cutscenes.

The PS2 version was completed on October 31, 2001, and shipped to retailers on November 13. Versions for the GameCube and Xbox were announced shortly thereafter. The GameCube version features the addition of bot players in the multiplayer mode. It was released in North America on March 12, 2002, followed by the Xbox version at the end of the month.

In 2003, a hacker discovered a method to make the Xbox run Linux software, using a copy of Agent Under Fire.

Reception

James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. It was a runner-up for GameSpots annual "Most Disappointing Game" award among console games, but lost to Luigi's Mansion.

The Cincinnati Enquirer gave the PlayStation 2 version three-and-a-half stars out of five and called it "Slick, sexy and jam-packed with action — but this adventure is short with limited playability over time, except perhaps for its multiplayer modes." However, it later gave the other two versions a score of four stars out of five. FHM gave the PS2 version three stars out of five, stating, "There is the usual mix of chick[s], cars and guns to keep even the most special of agents happy." Maxim also gave the PS2 version six out of ten and stated that "At last you'll infiltrate the secret lair, where you'll discover…you've been playing a very standard-issue game."

By July 2006, the PlayStation 2 version of Agent Under Fire had sold 1.5 million copies and earned $58 million in the United States. Next Generation ranked it as the 30th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube between January 2000 and July 2006 in that country. Combined sales of James Bond console games released in the 2000s reached 4 million units in the United States by July 2006. The PlayStation 2 version also received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom.

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A Look Back at Sharon Tate's Glory Days
Sharon Marie Tate Polanski (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress and model. During the 1960s, she played small television roles before appearing in films and was regularly featured in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic acting performances, Tate was hailed as one of Hollywood's most promising newcomers.
She made her film debut in 1966 with the occult-themed Eye of the Devil. Her most remembered performance was as Jennifer North in the 1967 cult classic film, Valley of the Dolls, earning her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Tate's last completed film, 12+1 was released posthumously in 1969, with the actress receiving top billing.
On August 9, 1969, Tate, along with four others, was murdered by members of the Manson Family in the home she shared with Polanski. At the time of her death, she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with the couple's son.
A decade after Tate's murder, the actress' mother, Doris Tate, in response to the growing cult status of the killers and the possibility of them being granted parole, organized a public campaign that resulted in amendments to the California criminal law. Tate's mother went on to say that the law would "help transform Sharon's legacy from murder victim to a symbol of victims' rights". A book by Tate's sister, Debra Tate, titled Sharon Tate: Recollection, was released in 2014.
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News & Notes: Campbell Steady And Sure
How much has Jason Campbell progressed since last year?
Just ask the Arizona Cardinals.
Last year, the Redskins defeated the Cardinals 21-19 at FedExField, but Campbell struggled, completed 12-of-18 passes for 95 yards.
On Sunday, it was a different story.
Campbell was steady and sure for the second week in a row. He completed 22-of-30 passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns in the Redskins' 24-17 win over the Cardinals at FedExField.
"I have to admit, coming into the game, I wasn't too hot on [Campbell]," Arizona safety Antrel Rolle said. "I knew he was a big play guy and I knew he could definitely beat you with his arm, but I didn't think he was that comfortable in the system.
"He came out and was very poised. I think he knew what he was doing with the ball and he made some clutch throws. I take my hat off to him."
Many of Campbell's passes were of the short and intermediate variety, and he proved to be accurate in that range on Sunday.
"He didn't try passes that he couldn't make," said linebacker Karlos Dansby, who played with Campbell at Auburn. "It was screens and underneath [passes]. You have to get in a rhythm as a quarterback and that's what he did. We couldn't get them off the field."
For his part, Campbell has worked hard under Jim Zorn to improve his accuracy on short and intermediate throws. Short passes, of course, are a staple of the West Coast offense.
He threw a pair of short passes that turned into touchdowns, a 2-yarder to Todd Yoder and a screen pass to Santana Moss that turned into a 17-yard score.
"Short passes are tough to make sometimes because you've got to throw around linemen," he said. "At the same time, if you can get the ball into Santana Moss's hands quick, then it gives him an opportunity to get up-field, make someone miss and get positive yards.
"That's something we work on every day--trying to find those open lanes to get the ball in."
For the season, Campbell has completed 61-of-93 passes--a 65.6 percentage--for 647 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions.
-- HEYER UNCERTAIN FOR DALLAS GAME
Stephon Heyer is uncertain for Sunday's game against Dallas due to a sprained shoulder.
"This is going to be a little wait-and-see over how his shoulder responds," Jim Zorn said on Monday.
Heyer suffered the injury in the first half of the Redskins' 24-17 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
Heyer was replaced by Jon Jansen for several series, but he returned to play the entire second half.
Heyer's availability for Sunday's game depends on his availability for practice later this week.
"I think he would have to start practicing by Thursday for me to feel comfortable with him [starting on Sunday]," Zorn said.
Heyer replaced Jansen at right tackle in Week 1.
If Heyer can't go, then Jansen would "step right up there," Zorn said.
"He has been our starter before, so I don't see any problem with that," he added.
Commanders select Christian Holmes with No. 240 overall pick
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Police standoff in Danby continues
A police standoff with a man barricaded continues.
Police standoff in Danby continues A police standoff with a man barricaded continues. Check out this story on ithacajournal.com: http://ithacajr.nl/1zw0o7X
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Police officers in tactical gear work Thursday morning on Hornbrook Road in Danby as a standoff with a man barricaded inside a home continues.(Photo: SIMON WHEELER / Staff Photo)Buy Photo
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A police standoff with a man barricaded in a home on Hornbrook Road has continued into today.
As of 10 a.m., the road remains closed and multiple agencies are still on the scene.
The incident began around 7 p.m. Tuesday when Tompkins County Sheriff's deputies attempted to execute an arrest warrant at a rural residence on Hornbrook Road.
Deputies identified the suspect, and he refused to come out. Through negotiations, family members, two children and a woman were removed from the home and taken to a secure location, leaving the suspect alone in a "darkened residence," according to the sheriff's office.
Deputies attempted to negotiate with the suspect to come out of the residence, however, he barricaded himself inside. A shot was fired at a patrol vehicle, according to the sheriff's office.
The sheriff's office said law enforcement is attempting to peacefully resolve the situation.
A 1.7-mile stretch of Hornbrook Road has been closed from Route 96B at one end and Nelson Road at the other since the incident began.
The frigid, rural landscape, surrounded by farmland on one side and car hulls from a nearby salvage yard on the other, has been filled with police vehicles shuttling in and out.
Armored vehicles from the Ithaca SWAT team, which includes members of the Ithaca Police Department and Tompkins County Sheriff's Office, and its command vehicle were among police at the scene Wednesday.
An armored vehicle from the Broome County Sheriff's Office was also there and had been assisting Tompkins since midnight Tuesday, Broome County Sheriff's Capt. Fred Akshar said.
Other agencies on the scene include: police from the cities of Ithaca, Elmira and Syracuse, sheriff's office personnel from Broome, Onondaga and Cayuga counties, state police, and officers from Cornell Police and Ithaca College Office of Public Safety. Also providing assistance is the Tompkins County Office of Emergency Management, Bangs Ambulance, Gutherie Air, and Tompkins County Mental Health, according to the sheriff's office.
On Wednesday, a woman who lives on the upper part of Hornbrook Road, Daisy Wallace, said she learned of the barricade from her sister, who had tried to come up Hornbrook Road that morning from the bottom part of the road near Route 96B but was not allowed through. Wallace said police did not tell her sister why.
"It's a little unnerving, but I'm glad maybe I didn't know about it last night when I went to bed," Wallace said Wednesday.
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Q: How do i implement the push pop peek methods for an inverse array? Create a class called inverse_Stack where our 'stack' is organized in such a way where the first/"bottom" element is located at index (-1). Each element pushed is placed into the array slot before the [current] top-most element. if(size=0)store at index: (length -1); if(size=1), store at index:(length -2);if(size=2), store at index: (length-3);
This is all i have so far. Lost with the push pop peek methods for an inverse stack. I know how to make them work for a regular stack
public class Inverse_Stack<T> implements StackADT<T>{

private T[] stack;
private int top;
//private int bot;

public Inverse_Stack(){

 this(100);

}

public Inverse_Stack(int capacity){

 top = 0;

 stack = (T[] new Object[capacity];

}

public int size(){
 //returns size of array
 return stack.length;

}

public void push(T element){
    //fill in code
}

 private void expandCapacity(){

T[] newStack = (T[] new Object[stack.length*2];

for(int i = 0; i < stack.length;i++)

newStack[i] = stack[i];

stack = newStack;
}

public T pop(){

if(isEmpty())

throw new RuntimeException("Empty Stack");

//fill in code

}

public T peek(){

if(isEmpty())

throw new RuntimeException("Empty Stack");

 //fill in code

 }

A: length tells you the capacity: the number of items the stack can hold. You also need to keep a count variable so you know how many items are currently in the stack.
I won't write the Java code, but I can give you the general idea:
In your constructor, set count to 0.
isEmpty returns true if count is greater than 0.
push
    if the stack is full, expand the capacity
    add element at stack[count]
    increment count

pop
    if the stack is empty, throw empty stack exception
    decrement count
    return the value at stack[count]

peek is like pop, but you don't actually decrement count.

A: Is not ArrayDeque doing exactly what you want?
public class InverseStack<T> extends ArrayDeque<T> {
…
}

and toArray( T[] a ) would get Your inverse array

A: this is my answer. I think this is more help you.
class StackX {

    private int maxSize; //size of stack array
    private char[] stackData;
    private int top; //top of stack
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------

    public StackX(int s) {
        this.stackData = new char[s];
        this.maxSize = s;
        this.top = -1;
    }

    public boolean isEmpty() {
        return (top == -1);
    }

    public boolean isFull() {
        return (top == maxSize - 1);
    }

    public void push(char item) {
        if (isFull()) {
            System.out.println("Stack is full");
            return;
        }

        stackData[++top] = item;
    }

    public char pop() throws Exception {
        if (isEmpty()) {
            throw new Exception("Stack is empty");
        }
        return stackData[top--];

    }

    public char peek() throws Exception {
        if (isEmpty()) {
            throw new Exception("Stack is empty");

        }
        char peekValue = this.pop();
        this.push(peekValue);
        return peekValue;

    }

    public void display() {
        if (isEmpty()) {
            System.out.println("Stack is empry");
        }
        System.out.println("Start printing stack data");
        for (int i = top; i >= 0; i--) {
            System.out.println(stackData[i]);
        }
        System.out.println("End printing stack data");
    }
}


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The Ghost In The Sky: Mystery of the Ghost Blimp
The airship, USS Akron, was built for the United States Navy by the Goodyear tire and rubber company, at the time it was the largest blimp ever built in the United States. The Navy began flying the Akron in 1931, mostly around Lake Erie and the upper Midwest. On October 10, 1931, the Akron was scheduled to fly from Detroit to Huntington, West Virginia. What happened that day remains unexplained.
In an age of radio and newspapers, people along the flight path of the USS Akron waited with anticipation just to get a brief glimpse of the mighty airship. The residents of Gallipolis, Ohio, were no exception. They scanned the sky for the Akron, then they saw it. The Akron was approaching, it had already been seen by witnesses in Point Pleasant, just across the Ohio River.
Then, to everyone's shock, the USS Akron exploded and crashed into the rugged West Virginia terrain. Witnesses said it appeared that 3 people managed to parachute to safety. An extensive search found nothing and it was soon revealed that whatever observers on the ground had seen, it was not the USS Akron. The airship was still in Detroit, the Navy had canceled the flight due to bad weather along its flight path.
Less than 2 years later, in the early morning hours of April 4th, 1933, the USS Akron was flying off the coast of New Jersey when it encountered a sudden and powerful storm The Captain ordered full speed ahead but the Akron could not out run the storm. The airship exploded and crashed into the Atlantic. Of the 76 men on board only 3 survived.
The USS Akron, as it turns out, was not the first blimp built by Goodyear to carry the name Akron. In 1911, the company built a blimp that was to be used in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The first try failed and on the second attempt disaster struck. While off the coast of New Jersey the old Akron exploded and crashed into the sea, very near the location that the USS Akron would meet its end about 20 years later.
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Capital | Bamako FLAG DESCRIPTION: three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), yellow, and red *note: uses the popular Pan-African colors of Ethiopia
Population | 13,443,225 (July 2009 est.)
Area | 1,240,192 sq km (slightly less than twice the size of Texas)
Official language | French
Holidays | Independence Day, September 22 (1960) - Mali gained independence from France in June of 1960.
Currency | Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF)
Time Zone | UTC 0
Best time to visit | October to February (before the heat)
Connecting with the Culture | Hunting for bargains in Bamako's pavement market stalls. Trekking through the magnificent Bandiagara Escarpment. Watching a gorgeous sunset at Gao. Photographing the mud-brick houses and mosque at Djenne. Buying colorful handwover fabrics at the market in Segou. Making your way through the desert to enigmatic isolated Timbuktu
Read | The Unveiling of Timbuktoo: The Astounding Adventures of Caillie by Gailbraith Welch, and account of the first Western explorer to both reach and return form Timbuktu
Listen | to the beautiful and intimate tracks on Je Chanterai pour Toi by Boubacar Traore; Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure's Talking Timbuktu
Watch | Yeleen by Souleymane Cisse, dipicting the struggle of a young warrior to destroy the corruption of older society
Eat | fried Nile perch; poulet yassa- chilli spiced grilled chicken; riz yollof- meat or vegatables cooked with tomato
Drink | ginger and hibiscus juices sold in plastic bags
In a word | Merci (thank you)
Characteristics | Castellated mosques; desert landscapes; the Bambara and Dogon cultures; bustling markets; archaeological ruins; faded French colonial glory; ancient rock paintings; the indigo turbans and robes of the Tuareg; griot music; desert elephants
Surprises | The music and dance performances held in local carrefour (cultural centers); the riotous football matches; the villages carved into moutain cliffs.
NEWS ABOUT MALI:
Mali interim leader threatens 'total war' on Azawadis
(Video: Al Jazeera)
(HN, 4/13/12) - Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore, the country's former parliamentary head took office in Bamako Thursday, returning to constitutional rule 3 weeks after a coup overthrew the nation's democratically elected leader. Traore will serve as Mali's president for 40 days according to the constitution though regional leaders already acknowledge it will take longer than that for the country to form new elections. The agreement to bring Mali back to constitutional rule was done between the head of the military junta Army Captain Amadou Sanogo & West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS. Longtime President Amadou Toumani Toure emerged from hiding Sunday to render his official resignation. The coup soldiers said they grabbed power because Toure mishandled an uprising that began in northern Mali in January, but it was only after he was ousted that Tuareg rebels, aided by Islamist `Azawadis' succeeded in taking the 3 largest cities in the north & declared independence - plunging Mali into crisis.
Mali Timbuktu Rebels End Operations, Declare `Azawad'
(Video France 24)
(HN, 4/10/12) - Mali's MNLA separatist rebels, working with the group Ansar Dine & some of the Tuareg breakaway tribal group announced Thursday they had ended all military operations in the northern part of the country; claiming it had now achieved its goal of creating the state of "Azawad". Some definitions also include parts of northern Niger & southern Algeria - & reports say gunmen took 7 workers from Algeria's consulate in Gao forcing them to an unknown location. The area has been under siege by separatist groups most recently since January, tho the area has seen 4 major rebellions against Malian rule over the years: the First Tuareg Rebellion (1962-64), the rebellion of 1990-1995, the rebellion of 2007-2009, & a 2012 rebellion by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) & Ansar Dine. The rebellion was further complicated by - & was the reason for the toppling of Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré by Army commander Amadou Haya Sanogo March 21st.
(MAP: Proposed Azawad region/TMB) After the coup, the MNLA & Ansar Dine took control of the regional north capitals of Kidal & Gao along with their military bases; on April 1, Timbuktu was captured. After the seizures the MNLA stated it had gained effective control of most of the territory they claim for an independent Azawad. In a statement released on the occasion, the MNLA invited all `Azawadis' abroad to return home & join in constructing institutions in the new state. In the meantime, coup commander Sanogo has said he is reinstating the 1992 constitution & is planning to hold elections soon. The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) along with other international states have condemned the coup & placed sanctions on the country. In Ivory Coast, military chiefs of the nations bordering Mali met Thursday to discuss a plan for military intervention.
ECOWAS sanctions begin in Mali
(Video: TV2Africa)
(HN, 4/7/12) - The 14 West African leaders of ECOWAS which do not include Mali (15th) - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo have implemented harsh sanctions on Mali's new military junta ahead of emergency talks at the UN Tuesday. In Bamako, the capital, Malians lined up outside of petrol stations (the country imports all of its oil & without new supply will have 15 days worth); stood in line for hours at banks (as the country's bank accounts are being frozen), & cleaned store shelves of food in anticipation of the country's borders & trade routes being closed as sanctions took hold after a coup last month on March 21 which removed Amadou Toumani Touré as President.
(PHOTO: In Bamako on Monday/Issouf Sanogo) ECOWAS had given Mali's coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo a 72-hour deadline to restore civilian rule, which expired Monday; sanctions went into effect immediately overnight. Non-ECOWAS members Mauritania & Algeria, which border Mali to the north & west, were at the emergency summit in Dakar on Monday & will also implement the embargo. The soldiers who grabbed power said they did so because of the former president's mishandling of a Tuareg insurgency in the north (who want their own nation); but since then, coup rebels have essentially seized control of the entire northern portion of the country taking the 3 major towns of Kidal, Gao & Timbuktu over the weekend. Meanwhile, close to 200,000 people have fled fighting in Mali & the violence has forced the World Food Programme to suspend its activities in the area. (Read more at AlManar)
Mali rebels get deadline, face challenges
(Video via Al Jazeera)
(HN, 4/1/12) - Leaders of the African regional Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) led by the Chair, President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d'Ivoire is due in Mali within 48 hours to secure the speedy restoration of constitutional order in the country following the March 22 coup that ousted President Ahmani Toumani Toure; after the group's plane was turned back from Bamako airport by protestors Thursday. The dispatch of the delegation, which also includes the Chair of the African Union, President Thomas Boni Yayi of Benin, & the Presidents of Burkina Faso, Liberia, Niger & Nigeria, was 1 of the decisions of the March 27 summit of regional leaders held in Abidjan which also included Senegal, Togo, Mauritania & Algeria; & which named President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso as mediator in the Malian crisis. ECOWAS officials are asking Mali coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo for a rapid return to constitutional order & warned the nation of the possibility of sanctions for non-compliance. ECOWAS has condemned the coup & announced the immediate suspension of Mali from participating in all regional decision-making. Meanwhile, in addition to dealing with the coup aftermath, Mali's junta says the strategic city of Kidal has been invaded by Tuareg rebels fighting to carve out a homeland in the nation's north since January. ECOWAS gave coup leaders a 72-hour deadline to hand power back to civilians or else face severe consequences.
Mali's Neighbors, ECOWAS Meet: Won't tolerate "Military Adventurism"
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(HN, 3/28/12) - Mali's regional neighbors voiced concern today at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan after mutinous soldiers toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure March 22. Toga Gayewea McIntosh, vice president of ECOWAS, said the conference is focused on solutions to resolve the crisis & to see how quickly "we, as ECOWAS, can bring to some logical conclusion, or some basic understanding, of what is currently going on in Mali & get the democratic process back on track". ECOWAS, the African Union (AU), the EU, the UN Security Council & members of the international community have condemned last week's coup; some such as the US - where coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo was trained - have suspended aid to Mali.
(PHOTO: Demonstrators protest coup/Boubacar Ibrahim) In a statement released Monday, the UN called on coup leaders to "cease all violence & return to their barracks"; demanding "constitutional order be restored & elections held in April, as previously planned". Coup leaders said Monday they are partially reopening the West African nation's main airport even as demonstrations organized by a new political alliance called the United Front for the Restoration of Democracy, which is seeking the immediate restoration of law & civilian rule in Mali took place in the capital Bamako. 21 years ago today current ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré led a coup ousting longtime dictator Moussa Traoré. Touré eventually stepped aside, then came back years later to win 2 presidential elections.
(PHOTO: Mali refugees at the Niger border/UN) As the situation continues, the Tuareg tribe uprising is gaining ground in the unstable north of the country - with an unfolding humanitarian crisis still of concern to the international community. It is unclear how military coup leaders are dealing with the Tuareg situation - a main reason for their ouster of President Toure. (Read more at Ghana Broadcasting)
Leader of Mali coup trained in US
(PHOTO: Mali coup leader, Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo/Mali State TV)(HN, 3/25/12) - A US defense official said Friday that Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, leader of the Mali coup "received military training in the United States on several occasions". Sanogo led a renegade military unit Thursday in deposing Mali's democratically elected president Amadou Toumani Toure just 1 month before national elections were to take place; upset at the government's handling of a Tuareg peoples uprising in the north of the country, which started in January. Patrick Barnes, a U.S. Africa Command public affairs official based at the Pentagon in Washington, DC said Sanogo, "visited the United States several times to receive professional military education, including basic officer training" as part of the "International Military Education & Training" program which the State Department funds, & foreign officers are generally selected by US Embassy officials.
Mali has been a strong US partner in efforts to deal with al-Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa & the State Department condemned the coup, calling for restoration of democratic rule. Tho it has not suspended aid - $140 million promised this year alone - or diplomatic relations yet. However by law, the U.S. government will be required to suspend military relations with Mali because of the coup. The European Union said it would stop non-humanitarian aid, & the African Union on Friday suspended Mali's membership. The coup claimed 3 lives, with 40 wounded. (Read more at the Washington Post)
Mali Soldiers Stage Coup d'etat
(TV5Monde)
(HN, 3/22/12) - Soldiers in the Western Africa nation of Mali stormed the presidential palace of Amadou Toumani Toure on Thursday and said they had taken control of the country, just 1 month before national elections. They closed the airport in the capital of Bamako, imposed a curfew, & announced that Mali is now under the control of the military's National Committee for the Reestablishment of Democracy & the Restoration of the State, (CNRDR). The soldiers are upset with the government because of what they says is a mishandling of an ethnic Tuareg uprising in the country's north that began in mid-January. The rebellion grew when fighters who had supported the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi returned home.
(MAP: Wikipedia) The unrest has forced tens of thousands of the country's 14.5 million people to flee the violence seeking safety in neighboring countries of Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal & Mauritania, raising international fears of a humanitarian crisis. The soldiers say they "solemnly swear to return power to a democratically elected president as soon as national unity & territorial integrity are established." The West African regional bloc ECOWAS said it "strongly condemns the misguided actions of the mutineers." (Read more at News24)
UN refugee agency seeks $35 million to assist thousands uprooted by Mali conflict
(PHOTO: Tuareg refugees from Mali who have fled fighting arrive at Fassala village on the border with Mauritania/UNHCR, A.O. Barry)(HN, 3/1/12) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is appealing for $35.6 million to respond to the growing humanitarian crisis resulting from renewed fighting in northern Mali between government forces & ethnic Tuareg, Songhai, Moor & Fulani rebels. An estimated 130,000 people have been uprooted in & outside Mali since clashes resumed in mid-January & the appeal aims will cover needs of 85,000 until July inside Mali & neighbouring countries, Niger with 28,858 arrivals, followed by 22,958 in Mauritania where UNHCR has begun relocating people to the Mbera camp; & 17,499 in Burkina Faso. UNHCR has already delivered tents & relief items for 22,000 people who are currently hosted in remote arid border villages already affected by food crisis, severe drought, & the general insecurity in the Sahel region; & are in desperate need of adequate shelter, food, water & sanitation, healthcare & education. They need basic household items such as sleeping mats, mosquito nets, blankets & kitchen sets. (Read More at UN News Centre)


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April 20 National Day, National Day in April
National Look Alike Day
National Look Alike Day:
The National Look Alike Day comes on the 20th of April every year and serves to celebrate those who resemble each other and reminds them that despite their similarities, they are each unique in their own way.
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#NationalLookAlikeDay
#LookAlikeDay
Why National Look Alike Day?
The National Look Alike Day comes to mark the celebration or appreciation of people that look like one another. While doing so, it also highlights the fact that they are each unique in their own ways.
This day first came into play as a fun day to tease people that have a very close resemblance to each other. Growing up, there were definitely instances when friends or other members of the family would comment that a student looks like another or siblings. There were even more instances, in a school setting for example when teachers would confuse between two or more students because of the close similarity the two shared in terms of physical appearance. At one point in your life, comments such as "you remind me of someone" and "you like someone I know" have been said to you, which meant that there is someone that the speaker has met in their lives that almost or totally looks like you. If you have fallen victim to either one of these scenarios, then this day is for you also.
In the entertainment industry, professional look-alikes leverage their appearance to create a brand for themselves, and therefore a source of living. Among the most renowned roles played by professional look-alikes include Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. There are also instances when people from different continents or worlds look alike. For instance, it is common to find a person that looks entirely like the president of the country wherein this person claims residency or citizenship.
When you finally find someone who is a spitting image of yourself, that person is described as your doppelganger. There are theories that propose that one's doppelganger is their own spirit after an instance of doubling up and going out to roam the world. There are yet other beliefs that suggest it is a bad omen to meet your doppelganger. Nonetheless, time and knowledge have come to reveal that doppelganger simply means that person looks like you. The chances of finding an individual who is a complete mirror image of you are entirely dependent on whether or not you believe in this resemblance.
How we can celebrate National Look Alike Day:
There are many ways through which we can observe/celebrate this amazing day. Some of these ways include:-
The first way to observe this holiday is by posting on social media using the hashtag #NationalLookAlikeDay or handle and posing this on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram among others. This will achieve much in raising awareness to this auspicious day, bringing the interest and attention of doppelgangers and those around them or those who know them to this very day.
Research on the main causes of two people having a similar appearance
You can also observe the National Look Alike Day by taking the time to research and find out why two people who are not related by blood would look the same way. You can research on factors such as environmental influence, and the possibility of them tracing back to a common origin as a means to explaining why they take after each other. In this research, strive as much as possible to eliminate or disqualify or discredit the element of coincidence and chance because these are not worth supporting arguments.
Interesting Facts About National Look Alike Day:
Some of the most interesting facts about the this day include the following:-
Another name given to look-alike people is doppelgangers, particularly in the legends of old.
No one really knows the odds of you having a look-alike
Mythical doppelgangers didn't cast a shadow.
Mythical doppelgangers were harbingers of bad luck.
History of National Look Alike Day:
The history of the National Look Alike Day traces back to Jack Etzel, a feature TV reporter from as early as the 1980s. Jack was at Downtown in Pittsburgh alongside his photographer Rick Minutello. The two had been in search of a light feature in the news before Jack spotting that someone approaching their direction was very similar in appearance to Humphrey Bogart. Jack later interviewed this person, asking them who they thought they looked like. The next day, Jack reached out to the Chase Calendar of Events people proclaiming the Look Alike Day.


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