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Spotlight on Welshpool
Must do in and around Welshpool
Explore this historical mid-Wales market town
Stroll around town
Welshpool's main streets are lined with fine Georgian buildings. Unusually, many have façades built of brick, brought in via the Montgomery Canal or the River Severn in the town's heyday as a transport hub. The small, hexagonal building tucked behind Broad Street was an 18th century cock-fighting ring. It's very rare to find one still standing in Britain.
Powis Castle and Garden
Partly medieval, but with grand 17th century interiors, Powis Castle and Garden presides over the finest historic garden in Wales. It was created in the 1670s, by terracing the slopes below the castle in an Italian Renaissance style. Its quirkiest feature is a row of ancient, topiaried yew trees. From a distance, the castle seems to sit on a gigantic green cushion.
Powis Castle, Welshpool, Mid Wales
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Powysland Museum
Squeezed into a modest canalside building, Powysland is this great little museum of local artefacts and customs, covering everything from local railway history, canal building and farming to fashion. Make your way upstairs to the social history gallery for some fascinating insights into local life in centuries past, such as a set of 1950s kitchen equipment and a Roman recipe for stuffed dormouse.
Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
From April to October, you can ride the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway along this delightful narrow-gauge heritage railway from Raven Square to Llanfair Caereinion. It's a 16 mile round trip which takes around 45 minutes each way. For the ultimate retro adventure, book a Driver Experience course, which allows you to take the controls.
Wales on View
Montgomery Canal
Running for 33 miles, this late 18th century canal brings wildlife right into the centre of Welshpool. It's a Site of Special Scientific Interest, where aquatic plants thrive and otters, water voles and kingfishers are sometimes seen. An easy, 1.2 mile stroll with QR coded waymarkers and a 9.2 mile towpath trail to Newtown encourage you to explore. Alternatively take a canal boat trip.
The Montgomery Canal
Glansevern Hall Gardens
In a country estate which rolls down to the River Severn and the River Rhiew, Glansevern's 25 acre garden is full of colour and interest. If you're in a romantic mood, you could wander through the wisteria walk, gaze at the exotic trees or relax beside the lake. Nature lovers can watch birds from the secluded, riverbank hide.
Glansevern Hall, Berriew, Mid Wales
Welshpool Golf Club
The Welshpool Golf Club has a top of the world location with an appropriate name – Y Golfa (which actually translates as The Bald). With panoramic views of the Welsh borderlands, the 18 hole hilltop course is a magnificent spot to practice your swing. On a clear day, you can see Snowdonia. Visitors are welcome, all year round.
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Walk along Glyndŵr's Way
Glyndŵr's Way is a 135 mile National Trail which loops through glorious Mid Wales countryside. It starts from Knighton's Town Clock, heads northwest to Machynlleth, then turns northeast, ending at the Montgomery Canal, Welshpool. Most people walk it in that direction, but you could easily start from Welshpool and sample a section.
Glyndŵr's Way, above Llyn Clywedog, Mid Wales
The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture
The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture is the only museum in Europe dedicated to a living artist. The museum is a vibrant space that displays examples of Andrew's work. The museum features sculpture, water colours, jewellery, photos and mirrored portraits.
Llyn Coed y Dinas is a fantastic home for all sorts of wildlife. Entry is free and the site is fully accessible to wheelchair users, including the spacious bird hide. Well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome on site.
Severn Farm Pond Nature Reserve is an urban nature reserve with meandering boardwalks where you might spot creatures such as damselflies, dragonflies, newts, frogs and toads. There's a variety of birds too, with such as Coot, Moorhen, Mallard, Little Grebe and Reed Bunting set up home on and around the pond during the spring and summer.
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"I want other Indian nurses to feel welcome and to settle in"
An initiative of Royal Preston Hospital Nurse, Anu Thomas, called the British Indian Nurses Association (BINA), has been launched to help Indian nurses joining the NHS to settle in and meet people with similar backgrounds.
NHS nurses have been struggling more than most with the pandemic putting restrictions on socialising and meeting with others outside your own household
BINA has been launched as part of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) Annual Virtual Conference.
The voluntary organisation has been set up with the support and insight of NHS England, NHS Improvement and Health Education England.
The local Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community also had a large hand to play in the organisation's inception.
Latest figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council showed there were more than 24,000 professionals on the register who trained in India.
Anu Thomas, nurse consultant and clinical stroke lead at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is the BINA executive lead for the North.
Speaking on spearheading the new organisation, she said:
"Newly arrived nurses can feel frustrated, especially now with the pandemic, when they cannot meet people of similar backgrounds.
"We aim to provide Indian nurses support from those who know what it's like to be in their shoes.
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"BINA exists to provide a support network for new Indian nurses to help them adapt to change quickly and to help them to stay within the NHS.
"I myself know how it feels to join a workforce as large as the NHS, but when I started there wasn't a pandemic!
"I want other Indian nurses to feel welcome and to settle in as well as I did so that they can enjoy long and successful careers with the NHS."
BINA will provide Indian nurses with advice on staying warm in the British weather and help them choose a new school for their children.
The organisation aims to support them in any way they can, as the NHS and Anu Thomas believe it was vital that Indian nurses felt reassured and "welcome".
Anu added: "They just need that reassurance, someone who is supporting them and someone who speaks the same language.
"The organisation will make them feel homely and welcome so that they remain within the NHS."
Sarah Cullen, Director of Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said:
"We are extremely proud that our colleague Anu has set up such an important organisation.
"Here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, we champion equality and host regular listening events for our BAME staff.
"This is a welcome additional resource that we can signpost members of our workforce who have an Indian background.
"We are really inspired by Anu's passion for helping more Indian nurses who join the NHS to settle in.
"The organisation will be particularly beneficial in these challenging times.
"We as a Trust will support Anu in spreading the word about BINA and encouraging our staff to get involved."
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"Pindorama" by Rimon Guimarães in São Paulo, Brazil
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This followed a motion of urgent national importance moved by Senator Kabiru Marafa (Zamfara Central) outlining the level of insecurity in Nigeria with particular reference to the recent killings in Zamfara State.
The upper chamber therefore resolved to set aside N10 billion in the 2019 budget as Intervention Fund to cater for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and other individuals affected by the activities of bandits in Zamfara State.
Senators including the Deputy Senate President , Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who took turns to speak on the issue, profered various solutions to the rising insecurity across the country by calling for the amendment to the 1999 Constitution to pave the way for the creation of state police, the need to revisit the report of the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Security Infrastructure as well as ban on motorcycles in the affected states.


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Q: paste operator in macros I found the following snippet of code .
#define f(g,g2) g##g2
main() {

    int var12=100;
    printf("%d",f(var,12));

}

I understand that this will translate f(var,12) into var12 .
My question is in the macro definition, why didn't they just write the following :
#define f(g,g2) gg2

why do we need ## to concatenate text, rather than concatenate it ourselves ?

A: If one writes gg2 the preprocessor will perceive that as a single token. The preprocessor cannot understand that that is the concatenation of g and g2.

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   #define f(g,g2) g##g2

My opinion is that this is poor unreadable code. It needs at least a comment (giving some motivation, explanation, etc...), and a short name like f is meaningless.

My question is in the macro definition, why didn't they just write the following :

#define f(g,g2) gg2

With such a macro definition, f(x,y) would still be expanded to the token gg2, even if the author wanted the expansion to be xy
Please take time to read e.g. the documentation of GNU cpp (and of your compiler, perhaps GCC) and later some C standard like n1570 or better.
Consider also designing your software by (in some cases) generating C code (inspired by GNU bison, or GNU m4, or GPP). Your build machinery (e.g. your Makefile for GNU make) would process that as you want. In some cases (e.g. programs running for hours of CPU time), you might consider doing some partial evaluation and generating specialized code at runtime (for example, with libgccjit or GNU lightning). Pitrat's book on Artificial Beings, the conscience of a conscious machine explains and arguments that idea in an entire book.
Don't forget to enable all warnings and debug info in your compiler (e.g. with GCC use gcc -Wall -Wextra -g) and learn to use a debugger (like GNU gdb).
On Linux systems I sometimes like to generate some (more or less temporary) C code at runtime (from some kind of abstract syntax tree), then compile that code as a plugin, and dlopen(3) that plugin then dlsym(3) inside it. For a stupid example, see my manydl.c program (to demonstrate that you can generate hundreds of thousands of C files and plugins in the same program). For serious examples, read books.
You might also read books about Common Lisp or about Rust; both have a much richer macro system than C provides.

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NBA AM: Who Still Has Cap Space?
A look at which teams still have cap space as well as which teams are paying the luxury tax.
Steve Kyler
Who Can Still Play In Free Agency?: While the bulk of the deals have been finalized, there are still a few NBA teams with salary cap room to play with. Here is who has cap cash left:
Portland Trail Blazers – $19,477,606 Under The Cap
The Blazers currently have the most available cap room of any team in the NBA and have 17 players currently on the roster. There is a good chance that swingman Mike Miller will be bought out at some point, and the Blazers do hold three players with non-guaranteed deals.
There is no question that when LaMarcus Aldridge opted to leave in free agency things changed. As Blazers GM Neil Olshey has explained a few times, the plan in Portland is to surround Damian Lillard with players in his age range so that they can grow into something together, and most of the team's free agent moves and trades have lined up with that.
With so much cash left to spend, the Blazers can leverage that space to extract assets, much like they did with Cleveland and the Brendan Haywood contract. It's unlikely the Blazers throw cash at anyone left in the market place, but if a large salary guy becomes available in trade the Blazers have the resources to make a deal.
Cap space is a commodity and, as the Philadelphia 76ers have proven for the last two years, having room to park a contract can help you collect a lot of assets. That seems to be the Blazers' plan for the immediate future.
Philadelphia 76ers – $13,907,212 Under The Cap
The 76ers come in second to the Blazers, and surprisingly they may use some of it for an offer sheet on restricted free agent Norris Cole. The 76ers' plan for the last two years was to amass assets and talent, and this year seems to be the year they plan to put that talent on the floor and try and compete.
The 76ers have made leveraging cap space into assets an art form, so even if New Orleans opts to match an offer sheet on Cole (which is still in discussion), the 76ers will continue to work the field as long as they have room to do it.
Playing the cap game as Philadelphia has done isn't overly sexy, but when you look at what they were able to extract in payments for parking players on their cap, they have done as good a job as anyone in the NBA at stocking up the cupboard. If Cole doesn't pan out, you can expect more of it, as this may be the last year where that tactic yields fruit.
Utah Jazz – $6,738,065 Under The Cap
The Jazz have some real cap space available, but it's unlikely they are going to use much of it. With 17 players under contract and 13 fully guaranteed deals, there isn't much room on the roster for more guys.
While improving and competing for a playoff berth is something the Jazz are expecting this year, there is a belief that the biggest gains will come from internal growth not external additions.
Having space is always a good thing, especially when the trade market opens up in December, but as things stand the Jazz's free agency is mostly complete. The question becomes which guys at the end of the roster make the team? There is a real debate on who gets those final roster spots.
Denver Nuggets – $2,643,907 Under The Cap
The Nuggets' cap number likely goes up if they follow through on waiving Kostas Papanikolaou, who has an October 4 guarantee date on his $4.8 million. The Nuggets have some time to try and re-trade him for an asset, especially for a team trying to shed cap cash or create some roster flexibility.
As things stand in Denver they have 16 roster players including Papanikolaou and a partial guarantee on Erick Green. It's unlikely that the Nuggets are going to add much more to the roster than they already have and will likely have flexibility around the trade deadline, which could make them buyers, especially if they waive Papanikolaou as expected.
Cap flexibility in and of itself is an asset, especially for a Nuggets team that's always mindful of cash flow.
Orlando Magic – $1,889,998 Under The Cap
The Magic have a little bit of breathing room under the cap, but not enough to make a splashy move. The more likely scenario is Orlando uses some of the cash to guarantee some money to camp invites with the intention of stashing them in the D-League like they did a last year with Seth Curry, Peyton Siva and Kadeem Batts.
The Magic currently have 14 players under contract not including second rounder Tyler Harvey or guard Keith Appling who they were reported to have reached a contract with, so there isn't much room on the roster for more.
The Magic could trigger a trade or two to open up spots, but the general belief is this is the group that's going to open the season. How the parts fit together will tell if it stays that way throughout the season.
While the number of teams with space is fairly small, the number of teams staring at the luxury tax is significantly bigger; here is what to watch for with each:
Oklahoma City Thunder – $12,417,411 Over The Tax
As things stand today, the Thunder are over the cap more than any other team in the NBA. That's a little surprising considering how many assets the team has given up over the last few years to stay under the tax line, but it's clear that the Thunder are all the way in on this roster.
All 15 roster spots have a guaranteed salary, so there won't be any relief or reductions via camp cuts.
There are a couple of contracts that could be movable to reduce the tax bill, but in talking with sources close to the Thunder there isn't a lot urgency to cut cost and there is a belief it's now or never with this roster. Given the looming free agency of star Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook's future not that far behind, this is the window the Thunder have been waiting for and they are ready to spend to prove it.
Now if the injury bug resurfaces or the parts just don't fit under new head coach Billy Donovan, things could change but it's more likely than not that the Thunder stay where they are which means a tax bill of more than $22.293 million, when you factor in the gradually increasing tax penalty on over spending.
Los Angeles Clippers – $10,765,710 Over The Tax
Given how little the Clippers had to work with this summer in terms of cap space, they did a great job re-tooling their roster. There is almost no scenario in which the Clippers are not tax payers, and given the moves they have made they are fairly locked into this current roster.
The lone exception might be swingman Jamal Crawford. With the arrival of Lance Stephenson and the re-signing of Austin Rivers, it's unclear how big a role Crawford will play. This one could go both ways, moving off his $5.675 million contract might return a decent lower priced player and reduce the tax bill a little. But given how quickly the Clippers ran out of gas in the postseason, hanging on to Crawford for the playoffs might make more sense.
It's unlikely the Clippers do anything before training camp; if Crawford gets traded its likely because guys like Stephenson and Rivers live up to expectations making Crawford expendable.
Golden State Warriors – $10,747,927 Over The Tax
The Warriors look fairly locked into their tax overage, as there really isn't any combination of players that could be offloaded to clean up their books. The Warriors recently flipped Gerald Wallace for Jason Thompson to reduce their tax burden, and there may be one more smaller move to get the number lower as the season goes on, but this seems like the roster the Warriors are bringing to camp.
A little luxury tax is a small price to pay for a NBA championship, and if healthy it's hard to imagine the Warriors won't be in the hunt for a repeat.
Cleveland Cavaliers – $10,668,795 Over The Tax
The Cavaliers will be monster tax payers, the question becomes how much will they ultimately pay? There are still two roster spots under negotiation, the biggest being restricted free agent Tristan Thompson. Word is the two sides are still having on-going conversations but the gap between what was originally agreed to be workable – five years, $80 million – seems to have been tabled after others in the free agent class received more. The problem with more for the Cavaliers is that every extra dollar given to Thompson gets taxed at a much higher tax rate. For example, Thompson's $6.77 million qualifying offer costs the Cavaliers $12.085 million in new tax. If Thompson signs a deal at $13 million, the tax cost jumps to $29.05 million, and that's just the cost of Thompson. Not the other $88.63 million owed to the rest of the roster or the $5.83 million in tax they owe to that spending.
While having Thompson pick up the qualifying offer is risky, as it would make him an unrestricted free agent next summer, is he really worth more than $13 million in salary and $29.05 million in tax? Next summer when the tax ceiling rises tremendously, fitting a big deal for Thompson likely makes more financial sense even if it means bidding against a much higher salary cap environment. Waiting could shift more of that expense into Thompson's pocket.
The sense from the Cavs is either they'll do a deal in the $80 million range, or Thompson plays out his qualifying offer; there seems to be almost no interest is trying to solicit an offer sheet from another team.
The last chip for the Cavaliers is guard J.R. Smith. Sources close to the situation say the value of his deal will be based on how much the team has to pay Thompson, but there continues to be a sense that Smith will be back with the Cavaliers and that he's not overly interested in other situations. Given the Cavs' tax situation, it's hard to imagine they offer a ton to Smith in a new deal.
Miami HEAT – $7,133,745 Over The Tax
Not only are the Miami HEAT $7.133 million over the tax, they also qualify as "repeater" tax payers which almost doubles their tax penalty. To put that into perspective, the HEAT's current tax bill as a "repeater" is $18.367 million. That's not an insignificant number. The HEAT have been linked to situations involving forward Chris Andersen, who is poised to make $5 million this season. Point guard Mario Chalmers has also been talked about as a trade candidate; he is set to make $4.3 million.
The problem with moving money and not taking any in return is it usually costs draft picks and young talent, something the HEAT don't really have to spare. Luol Deng's $10.151 million ending deal could become a reasonable trade chip, especially closer to the trade deadline when the HEAT has paid the bulk of the salary.
The HEAT have ways to reduce their tax bill, and it seems likely they will do that as the trade deadline gets closer, but their message is that if healthy, they believe they are a contender and want to see if that's true before making any more cost cutting trades.
Chicago Bulls – $4,284,375 Over The Tax
The Bulls as a franchise have been somewhat resistant to paying the luxury tax which puts their current $4.28 million overage on center stage. Combine the pending tax burden with a log jam in the front court and the proverbial clock seems to be ticking on Bulls forward Taj Gibson. Long considered the odd man out, the Bulls have until the trade deadline to reduce their tax bill and moving off most of Gibson's $8.5 million salary would get it done in one transaction.
Sources close to the Bulls say there have been no decisions made on anyone's future as they want to bring everyone to camp and see who really fits in new head coach Fred Hoiberg's system. But with rookie Bobby Portis and second year scorer Doug McDermott expected to see more minutes, someone may not play the role equal to their salary and the Bulls do not like to pay the tax.
San Antonio Spurs – $2,331,718 Over The Tax
Considering the offseason the Spurs had, it's amazing they were able to work the cap rules as they did to not only land LaMarcus Aldridge but get the bulk of their guys re-signed and stay relatively close to the luxury tax line. There isn't a single non-role player that could clean up the projected $2.331 million tax overage, although Patty Mills' $3.578 million could do it and then some. The guy to watch is Kyle Anderson; while the cap value of Anderson is only $1.142 million, combined with partially guaranteed guys like Jimmer Fredette, he could get the bill significantly lower if neither finds a role in training camp.
Houston Rockets – $493,113 Over The Tax
The Rockets are over the tax line with all fully guaranteed contracts so there is no room for relief in partially guaranteed players. What's worse is the Rockets are only carrying 12 players at this point so the odds are pretty strong that Houston will add to their tax bill before it's said and done. Being over the tax in a minor way isn't a terrible thing, but it does restrict what a team can to in trade construction.
If the Rockets wanted to get out from under the tax line, they do have guys like Terrence Jones and Donatas Motiejunas that could clean up the cap and return reasonable assets. With both headed into restricted free agency next summer, those might be the names to watch.
Brooklyn Nets – $184,480 Over The Tax
The Nets get under the tax line after training camp. The Nets have five players on partially guaranteed deals, and cutting almost any of them in camp gets them below the tax line, so it's highly unlikely Brooklyn faces the tax this year. Considering where they were two seasons ago, that's pretty impressive cap work.
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David Yapkowitz continues Basketball Insiders' "Grading The Offseason" series by taking a look at the Chicago Bulls.
David Yapkowitz
With summer league over and the big name free agents all signed, we're now approaching the doldrums of the NBA offseason. Most big moves have all been made, and we shouldn't expect to too much movement between now and the start of training camp.
Most teams probably have an idea already of what the bulk of their roster will look like come training camp, and as such, we're starting a new series here at Basketball Insiders taking a look at each team's offseason to this point.
Next up in our series is the Chicago Bulls.
The Bulls are a team clearly in rebuilding mode. After this offseason, they've done a pretty solid job at filling out the roster with young talent at every position. It's obvious now that they were clear winners of their trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves two years ago that netted them Zach LaVine, Lauri Markkanen and Kris Dunn.
LaVine continued his ascent to stardom this past season. There may have been initial concerns when he was traded to Chicago as to how he would respond after his torn ACL, but since then, he's showed no lingering limitations. He's well on his way to becoming one of the elite shooting guards in the league. Few can match his scoring prowess whether he's slashing to the rim or shooting 37.4 percent from the three-point line.
Markkanen has emerged as one of the top young big men in the NBA. He made some strong steps forward in his second year in the league. He's moving closer to becoming a double-double threat every night. He's exceeded projections from when he was drafted that pegged him as little more than a three-point shooting big. He has shown a lot more versatility to his game.
One major addition the Bulls made last season was the trade deadline acquisition of Otto Porter Jr. When he arrived in Chicago, he quickly played some of the best basketball of his career, fitting in seamlessly with the team and solidifying himself as part of their future core.
They've also got Wendell Carter Jr. in the fold. Their top draft pick last offseason, Carter quickly established himself a great defensive complement to Markkanen. An injury cut his rookie season shorter than expected, but he still showed flashes of being a capable around the rim scorer.
They do have some other decent rotation guys in Antonio Blakeney, Chandler Hutchinson and Ryan Arcidiacono. Blakeney is an instant offense scoring guard for the second unit, and Hutchinson was showing flashes of his talent before he too went down with an injury during his rookie season. Arcidiacono was re-signed by the Bulls after being one of their most consistent outside shooters last season.
The Bulls came into draft night with the seventh overall pick. It might have seemed like a disappointment seeing as how the Bulls probably had a shot at a top three pick considering their record. But ultimately, Chicago might have gotten what it wanted in the end. Point guard has been an area of need for the Bulls for quite some time, and they used their pick on North Carolina's Coby White.
White is a little more in the mold of a scoring guard, but if you could take away one thing from his performance in summer league, it's that he can thrive as a playmaker as well. It's unlikely that White will get to start right away, but he's got the makings of developing into the Bulls eventual starter at the point.
Chicago also picked up Daniel Gafford in the second round. The Bulls needed frontcourt depth after losing Robin Lopez in free agency, and they may very well have found their answer with Gafford. Summer League isn't always a great indicator of how a player will translate to the NBA, but Gafford was solid as a finisher around the rim and a shot blocker in the paint. He may end up becoming one of the steals of the draft.
In free agency, the Bulls made some rather solid moves. On a team full of young players, it's necessary to have a couple of key veterans for the young guys to lean on and to provide leadership and stability in the locker room. Thaddeus Young certainly fits that bill. Entering his 13th year in the league, Young played in 81 games last season and was a key guy on a Pacers team that made the playoffs. He'll provide the Bulls with consistency on and off the court.
They also made a big step to addressing their point guard woes. They acquired Tomas Satoransky in a sign and trade with the Washington Wizards. He'll provide a perfect stop-gap as the starting point guard while White develops. He proved himself as a facilitator with the Wizards, and he's one of the better three-point shooters in the league, He's a versatile guy who can play and defend multiple positions.
The Bulls also picked up Luke Kornet who spent last season with the New York Knicks. Kornet is relatively young and gives the Bulls a solid stretch big man on a decent contract. He's also a solid shot blocker and should compete with Gafford for minutes off the bench.
Chicago also picked up an intriguing prospect in Adam Mokoka. The French combo guard initially declared for the draft a year ago but ultimately withdrew. He re-entered the draft this summer but went undrafted. In summer league, he showed flashes of playing both wing positions and being a capable defender who can shoot from three. He'll be on a two-way contract so he'll see significant time with the Windy City Bulls, Chicago's G League affiliate.
PLAYERS IN: Adam Mokoka (two-way), Coby White, Daniel Gafford, Luke Kornet, Thaddeus Young, Tomas Satoransky
PLAYERS OUT: Brandon Sampson, Rawle Alkins, Robin Lopez, Shaquille Harrison, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, Walt Lemon Jr., Wayne Selden
The Bulls roster currently stands at 15 guaranteed contracts and one two-way contract. They're likely done with any roster additions unless they find someone to take that second two-way contract slot. They'd most likely move Cristiano Felicio if they could find a taker for his contract, but it's probably unlikely.
With the additions of Satoransky and White, that likely spells the end of the Kris Dunn experiment in Chicago. If Dunn remains on the roster through the season, and the Bulls aren't able to move him, it's highly unlikely Chicago tenders him a qualifying offer. In all likelihood, this is his final season in the Windy City.
The Bulls have done a decent job at filling the roster out with good, young talent. Making the playoffs, even in the Eastern Conference, is still likely a few seasons away. But there is reason for optimism for the Bulls future.
OFFSEASON GRADE: B
Spencer Davies opens Basketball Insiders team-by-team "Grading The Offseason" series with an overview of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Spencer Davies
On Monday night in Las Vegas, the 2019 NBA Summer League champions will be crowned. The Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies are set to square off at the Thomas & Mack Center as the last teams standing over the course of the 10-day period.
Once that winner is determined, the world will be without NBA basketball for quite some time. Though the FIBA World Cup will be fun to watch, it's not until late September that the association returns for training camp.
In order to hold you over until that date, Basketball Insiders has begun a "Grading The Offseason" series, featuring in-depth analysis on how each franchise has done during this wild summer.
To start things off, we're going to break down arguably the quietest team of them all regarding roster turnover—the Cleveland Cavaliers.
It's no secret that, on the floor, the season didn't go quite as expected. Following the second departure of LeBron James, the organization felt it had enough remnants of the conference championship team to move forward and compete while developing young talent under head coach Tyronn Lue. A detrimental injury to Kevin Love changed that quickly.
Lue was fired six games into the 2018-19 campaign and then the wheels fell off pretty quickly. Top assistant Larry Drew pushed for a raise to take the interim role, due to the mixed bag inside of the locker room, and he was granted one. But as the losses piled up, the internal battle between the veterans and the younger players grew. Most of the criticism shaded toward upstart rookie Collin Sexton, yet he later proved what he was capable of to some of those teammates later down the road.
There were bright spots when Love re-entered the picture around February and played until late March, as he helped steer the inexperienced youngsters like Sexton, Cedi Osman and Ante Zizic in the direction of winning basketball. When all was said and done, the final record was ugly. However, the energy surrounding the group was clearly in a much more positive light than it had been beforehand.
What shouldn't be lost in the shuffle is the job Cavaliers' general manager Koby Altman and his staff did to revamp the team's salary cap situation. Entering the year with inflated contracts, via veterans that didn't want to sit through a rebuild, moves had to be made to tighten up the locker room and lower the cap a significant amount. Ultimately, they were successful in doing so.
Cleveland was able to move Kyle Korver, George Hill, Sam Dekker, Rodney Hood and Alec Burks (acquired in the Korver trade) and turned that into Brandon Knight, Matthew Dellavedova, John Henson, Nik Stauskas and a boatload of future draft picks. Altman's been in asset accumulation mode since he took over during LeBron's last season, and he's done wonders with the opportunity to chop down those loud figures on the cap sheet, even adding future capital in the process.
Not only has Altman done a great job in obtaining that, but he's also turned "good" into "great" often—i.e. turning Korver into Burks which he then flipped for a 2019 first-round pick, using the second-rounders to acquire another first-round pick. Even landing Larry Nance Jr. and Jordan Clarkson at the 2018 trade deadline to kickstart a new direction was impressive.
After parting ways with Drew at season's end, the Cavaliers set a new course with the hiring of John Beilein in mid-May. Over the span of these past few months, he's constructed a fresh coaching staff with former Memphis Grizzlies head coach J.B. Bickerstaff as his associate, University of California women's head coach Lindsay Gottlieb and five-year Utah Jazz assistant Antonio Lang in complementary roles.
Beilein's graduate assistant at Michigan, Jay Shunnar, is also a part of the staff. Team favorites Mike Gerrity and Dan Geriot are staying on as well to continue developing the players they've worked with.
All in all, the people assembled to take on this task of changing a culture are entrenched in teaching and doing hands-on work. It's the on-court product with an extremely inexperienced group of coaches—three of which are coming from the collegiate level—that could be a challenge. Luckily, the process seems to be about a collective group with an open-mindedness that won't allow for egos to get in the way.
Despite the lottery results going south (Cleveland had the second-best odds in the top three and dropped to five), draft night was a smashing success for the organization. The wine and gold came out with a trio of highly touted rookies—Darius Garland, Dylan Windler and, after trades were officially cleared, Kevin Porter Jr. Adding talents to the roster was the top priority for the front office — today, that stands as the most noise from what's been a mostly silent offseason.
With a lack of roster spots and an understanding that there would be little money to spend in a chaotic, competitive free-agent market, the Cavaliers have had to stand pat with what they have. JR Smith's contract had reportedly fielded some offers between NBA Draft Combine time and around the draft, but the team didn't like the idea of taking back a bad contract. Instead, they found an easier way to get a third pick in the 2019 first round by using the plethora of second-rounders acquired in the past to flip for Porter.
Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com reported Monday that Cleveland plans on waiving and stretching Smith's contract for $1.4 million each over the next three years. The move will allow the team to stay under the luxury tax, avoid the repeater tax penalty and also provides a full mid-level exception amount at its disposal. Fedor does mention the front office won't likely use it heading into the season to remain flexible financially and to keep a roster spot open.
Smith not being traded came as a surprise to many, especially knowing the salary relief his previously-grandfathered CBA deal offered to a team searching to clear space for a big free agency offer. The summer moved fast, though, and other franchises with similar predicaments acted quickly. The Cavaliers could've facilitated a few trades to get more future draft assets in return, but they didn't feel like taking on an albatross contract that would've been worth paying the extra tax this upcoming season.
The only other real decision to make was whether or not to retain David Nwaba, who, when healthy, displayed flashes of defensive excellence and aggressiveness on the offensive end, Cleveland did not extend the qualifying offer to Nwaba before the deadline, making him an unrestricted free agent. He recently signed with the Brooklyn Nets on a two-year deal.
This move was not so surprising as Basketball Insiders reported at the beginning of June that Nwaba's representation would be looking for a multi-year deal. A league source said that last summer's one-year agreement between the Cavaliers and Nwaba was with the understanding that he'd be strictly looking for a newly re-structured multi-year contract with no qualifying offer in his 2019 plans.
The latest addition the franchise made was inking Dean Wade, an undrafted rookie from Kansas State, to a two-way contract. He played in five NBA Summer League games for the organization between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
PLAYERS IN: Darius Garland, Dylan Windler, Kevin Porter Jr., Dean Wade (two-way)
PLAYERS OUT: JR Smith, Marquese Chriss, David Nwaba, Channing Frye
Following the waiving of Smith, the Cavaliers roster will be at 13 players. You'd imagine they wouldn't keep two roster spots open, so seeing a free agent signing or even nabbing a player from a summer league team could be in the cards.
Per Fedor, the franchise will be above the $109 million salary cap by $22 million once the Smith news is made official by the team. It's a much healthier number than they've been at in years past — so, going into next summer, that cap sheet is going to be as clean as it's been in quite some time.
Cleveland is going to have numerous attractive contracts on its hands as five players on the roster are on deals set to expire following this year. Tristan Thompson ($18.5 million), Brandon Knight ($15.6 million), Jordan Clarkson ($13.4 million), John Henson ($9.7 million) and Matthew Dellavedova ($9.6 million) are all trade chips that Altman can move to stockpile the future even more. Depending on what offers come their way, it could be yet another busy season regarding roster turnover.
There's plenty of speculation that the team should trade Love to a contender to both satisfy the player and allow the team to get out of his sizable deal. What people are forgetting is that the Cavaliers want to have a championship-caliber player in the locker room as a guiding voice. Remember, this team has one person that is at least the age of 30, and it is the All-Star big man. The next guys up are 28 years old—Henson, Dellavedova and Thompson—and who knows how long they'll be around.
Cleveland will have to be blown away to take back what it thinks it should receive in return for Love. No deal will be made just to make a deal. The organization values him too much as a person and a player.
On the court, the focus is going to be on player development, mainly in watching how Sexton and Garland play off one another. Different looks and combinations with the frontcourt of Love, Nance Jr., Zizic, Windler and Osman will be available for Beilein to tinker with. A new coaching staff with a freshly enthused group of players should be intriguing to watch.
OFFSEASON GRADE: C-
Stay tuned to the rest of Basketball Insiders "Grading The Offseason" series over the next few weeks.
Having NBA veterans that can ease young players into the league can be very helpful, which is why Thomas Robinson and Darius Morris have been nice additions to the Spurs' summer league roster.
Matt John
The Summer League is a time for many things.
It's a time for young players to get a taste of what professional basketball is like. It's a time for teams to evaluate what young talent they have their roster. Most importantly of all, it's a time for growth.
The Summer League, whether it be in Salt Lake, Sacramento or Las Vegas, serves as a transition for the new blood. Most are either fresh out of college or just arrived into the country, who are also either just beginning or have recently begun their NBA career. Making that transition isn't always seamless. As talented as some of these kids are, they are prone to make mistakes. That's where having a veteran who has been around the block can help.
For this year's summer league. San Antonio brought in two who fit the profile: Thomas Robinson and Darius Morris.
Morris has bounced around between the NBA and the G League since being drafted 41st overall by the Lakers back in 2011. He's been around the league long enough that playing in the Summer League wasn't originally in the plans. That all changed when the Spurs called him.
"They actually reached out to me and told me they were interested," Morris said. "When an organization like the Spurs calls you, you can come in and show that you can blend in and the high character is going to follow you the rest of the way."
Robinson has also been a journeyman since being selected sixth overall by the Kings back in 2012. Now that he has found himself on the Spurs, he praised the organization for its player development.
"To even get any type of time under anybody on this staff is helpful for any player," Robinson said. "Whether it's summer league, mini-camp, or the real roster, it's always helpful to learn from these guys. They're like the Mecca of NBA basketball."
Not many can say that they are the veteran of a summer league team, but Morris not only has that role but also appears to have embraced it since coming on for the Spurs. So much so that even though he takes that responsibility seriously, he and his teammates can have a laugh about it.
"I joke with the guys that I'm transitioning to that vet stage like a little baby vet," Morris said. "To be able to extend whatever knowledge to the young guys, and kind of getting me in that mode as opposed to being that guy that was drafted, just transitioning to being a mentor and just helping where I can."
There are various ways in which those are designated as mentors decide to use their role. Some give very little advice while others give nothing but advice. For Morris, he has implemented a "trial by fire" strategy for his younger teammates.
"First, you want them to go out there and play freely," Morris said. "You don't want to give them too much advice at first. You just kind of sit back and just watch… You don't want to put too many things in their ear. Everything is already going 100 miles per hour for you out there and as they go along, just give my advice as we go along."
As the other veteran/mentor on the squad, Robinson's approach is simple on the court – just being himself for the Spurs.
"I'm not trying to show that I can do anything different," Robinson said. "I just want to show that I'm doing everything that they ask me to do the first time."
Since coming to San Antonio, Robinson has gotten to know some of the Spurs' young talent. He even took the time to praise some of the Spurs' young talent – in particular, one of the Spurs' most recent first-rounders, Keldon Johnson.
"'Baby Russ'. That's what I called him" Robinson said. "He doesn't get tired. He's super aggressive… He's big, athletic. I definitely see the makings of a superstar."
Both Morris and Robinson are leaving impressions with the younger players on their squad. The Spurs other first-rounder this season, Luka Samanic, spoke highly of what they've been able to do for him primarily with how he handles his mistakes.
"If I do one quick mistake in the beginning, then it affects my game later," Samanic said. "So they're all about 'Don't worry about mistakes. You'll miss shots. It's all normal here.' So they helped me a lot with that."
Blake Ahearn, who coached the Spurs at the Utah Summer League, praised both Robinson and Morris for the calming influence they have on the team.
"It's huge," Ahearn said. "Having some of those calming-presence guys on the floor helps those younger guys… That's a good luxury for coaches to have."
Spurs assistant Becky Hammon also heaped praise for the two veterans primarily for what they have been able to do for the Spurs' young players off the court while also reiterating the value guys like that have on these teams.
"They've been talking to them in their ear the whole time about what it takes to be a professional and get opportunities," Hammon said. "Their leadership on the court, off the court has been very helpful. Obviously, having guys like that in a situation like that is very helpful and invaluable."
Now, undoubtedly, the goal for Robinson and Morris is to be in the NBA again. They've been there before and their willingness to play in the summer league shows that they're not giving up on their dreams.
Regardless of whether they make it, they can take comfort that, in the end, they positively impacted the Spurs of tomorrow.


Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.


New phase will introduce 35 new brands in Spring 2019.
After welcoming nearly 10 million shoppers since opening in July 2015, the award-winning McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Vancouver Airport is announcing the start of construction on Phase II. Scheduled to open in Spring 2019, Phase II will deliver 84,000 square feet of additional retail space and up to 35 new luxury, premium and lifestyle brands to the center. In addition, the expansion will result in the creation of 400 jobs for the construction and retail sectors.
The new phase will adjoin east of the existing center and will mirror the current European design, expanding on the center's notable open-air village style, with luxury piazzas, cobblestone walkways and a variety of facades. Phase II forms part of McArthurGlen Group's plan to develop over 1.6 million square feet of retail space over the next three years across its 24-center portfolio.
Following a record-breaking opening weekend where the centre welcomed over 170,000 shoppers, the expansion comes after 32 months of successful operation with ongoing growth in footfall, as well as several accolades including the prestigious Best New Development at the ICSC Canadian Shopping Centre Awards, the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Award of Excellence for Retail Development and the MAPIC Best Outlet Centre.
The 240,000 sq ft center will remain fully open during construction and will continue to offer its shoppers year-round savings of up to 70 percent at over 70 luxury, premium and lifestyle brands including Polo Ralph Lauren, Coach, Tommy Hilfiger and Tumi, as well as the recently opened Kate Spade, Sandro, and Maje.
Tourism has also been a major driver for the center due to its close proximity to the Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Over 24 million passengers transit through the airport annually and the center caters to these visitors in various ways. In addition to the free Canada Line connecting guests to the airport in just three minutes, the center employs multilingual staff, real-time flight information on digital screens throughout the center, free charging stations and a free luggage locker facility.


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New Agriculture Minister Warns Critics May Face Defamation Charges, Admits Sectors' Challenges
18 October 2022 3:15 PM
Agriculture Minister Dith Tina speaks during a news conference at the Agriculture Ministry in Phnom Penh on October 17, 2022. CamboJA/Pring Samrang
Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture Dith Tina acknowledged the difficulty of addressing the agriculture sector's long-standing challenges and warned potential critics of his ministry he was willing to take legal action against them, in a press conference on Monday.
While informing the assembled press that he was open to receiving constructive feedback, Tina noted public criticism against him could be met with legal action if he believed it was defamatory of him or his ministry.
"I would accept criticisms based on…fact, and I will respond with an explanation," he said. "However, I reserve the right [to file a] defamation case, even if it was not directly insulting me. If it damages the institution's dignity, we will consider [legal action]."
Tina also highlighted what he saw as the biggest issues within the agriculture sector, such as expanding markets for oversaturated products like mango and cassava, reducing farmers' production costs and mitigating the impacts of deforestation and flooding.
"These are the difficult issues because if the issues were easy to address, they might not have continued so long," Tina said. "These are deeply rooted issues for which we have no quick solution, so we need to have a clear plan to do so in the future."
Theng Savoeun, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community, said the agriculture sector's issues will require sustained commitment from the new minister and cannot be solved quickly.
He recommended the minister boost local processing for farmers and create a more favorable environment for investors, which could include strengthening respect for human rights to help Cambodian agricultural products reach more international markets.
Cassava farmer Yan Thach said high production costs and severe weather were a significant issue for her. She told CamboJA her crops in Kampong Thom province were damaged last year by heavy rainfall, slashing the annual yield of her five hectare field from 25 tons to 10 tons. The cost of fertilizer is still increasing while the price of cassava has decreased, she added.
"This year, I lost a lot because the fertilizer is too expensive while the price [of cassava] is low," she said. "We need a higher price, or I may give up the crop."
Tina did not share specific policies for how he planned to address the issues he highlighted in his press conference, which paralleled the struggles of farmers like Thach and some of the recommendations by industry experts like Savoeun.
Tina, who holds degrees in mining engineering and physics from French universities, admitted he had no prior background in the agriculture sector but said he would do his best to learn on the job.
"I always work in various sectors which do not involve my [skill]," Tina said. "That's why I can work with all kinds of people and even though this sector is new for me, I think that I can learn it."
The well-connected Tina is the son of Supreme Court president Dith Munty and brother of Cambodia Microfinance Association vice chairperson Dith Nita, whose husband is Environment Minister Sam Sam Al, the son of Senate president Say Chum.
The CPP-controlled National Assembly unanimously approved Tina's appointment last Friday, less than a week after Veng Sakhon was removed from the position. Sakhon was later made a delegate to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Tina said his background in economics, gained from years working as an under-secretary of state at the Commerce Ministry from 2009 to 2013 and later as secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines, would guide him as Agriculture Minister.
Cooperation within the ministry and across the agricultural sector would be key to boosting the agriculture industry, Tina said. Economic policies should guide the ministry rather than a focus on solely increasing production capacity, he added.
"Now, we are relying on the economy-based market," he said. "We cannot rely on production only. So, we need participation [across the sector] and not only the minister working alone."
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The Fire Department of New York has agreed to pay $ 1 million to settle a discrimination - based employment lawsuit that was brought by five employees who claimed that they were denied promotions, in spite of excellent performance on the job, because of their gender.
The lawsuit was filed by five female members of the Fire Department of New York emergency medical service, who claimed that they were denied promotions, and passed over when promotional opportunities came around, in spite of the fact that they had excellent scores on promotional evaluations. The women were able to prove, that in fact they did have better credentials than many of the male employees and colleagues, who were promoted in their place.
The lawsuit named the Fire Department of New York, the City of New York, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as the former Fire Department of New York commissioner.
The Fire Department has now agreed to pay $ 1.06 million in compensatory damages. The money will compensate for the difference in salary had the women been promoted, and means that the women will now enjoy pensions that correspond to their increased salary.
As very often happens in settlements like this, the Fire Department of New York has also agreed to increase its investments in eliminating gender discrimination in the workplace. The Fire Department has agreed to increase its efforts to educate women about promotional opportunities, and to educate women about the rights that they have to appeal, if they feel that they have been unfairly passed over for promotions. However, as part of the settlement, the Department will not admit any guilt or wrongdoing.


YouTuber Primitive Technology made himself a bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials he has previously made. The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. The stave was made from a tree that was cut with a stone axe and split in half with a stone chisel. The string was made from the bark of a fibrous tree.
Arrows were made of the same wood as the bow and were fletched with bush turkey feathers picked up from the ground. The tip of the arrow was fire hardened and sharpened to a point. The fletching was trimmed using a hot coal. Each arrow took about an hour to make. A quiver was made of bark to hold the arrows.


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P.J. Sparxx, T.T. Boy, Debi Diamond in vintage fuck scene
Actors: P.J. Sparxx AKA ( K.C. Kerrington, P.J. Kerrington, P.J. Sparks, P.J. Sparx, P.J. Sparxxx, PeeJay, PJ Sparxx, PJ Sparxxx ).
Birthday: February 11, 1969. Astrology: Aquarius. Birthplace: CO, United States. Years Active: 1991 - 2012.
TT Boy AKA ( Butch, D.T. Boyd, J.T. Boy, Max Reynolds, Phil Rivera, T. T. Boy, T.T. Boy, The Troy Boy ).
Birthday: April 30, 1968. Astrology: Taurus. Birthplace: Puerto Rico. Years Active: 1986 - 2012.
Biography: T.T. Boy (born Philip Troy Rivera on April 30, 1968) is the stage name of a Puerto Rican pornographic actor who has starred in over 1500 pornographic movies. He made his adult-film debut in 1989 he has twice won the XRCO Male Performer of the Year award and was named the 1996 AVN Performer of the Year. In 2000, T.T. Boy was elected to the XRCO Hall of Fame. He has also worked under the names T.T. Boyd, Max Reynolds, Max Cash, Harry Dutchman, Bark Star, and Butch. T.T. now runs two of his own adult production companies, Evasive Angels and T.T.B. Productions, headquartered in Van Nuys, California. His flagship lines include Black Street Hookers, Spanish Fly Pussy Search, and Orgy World. Boy's guy performs in heterosexual porn as Talon (and used to perform in gay porn as Lex Baldwin), and their uncle performs as Dirty Harry. Before entering porn, Boy was a boxer. His name comes from a boxing nickname, "Troy the Boy." Controversy came when T.T. Boy was involved in a high profile HIV case. He convinced his friend Darren James to go to Brazil to film some scenes. Condoms were not used and the actor contracted HIV from an actress named Bianca Biaggi, then returned to L.A. to work another two weeks in the porn industry there, passing on the infection to two actresses. The industry suffered a public relations shock and work stopped on all films for 60 days. As a result, Boy's reputation was damaged. Many in the porn industry claim he had been reckless in his disregard of testing before shoots.
Debi Diamond Aka: Debbi Diamond, Debbie Diamond, Debbie Hanson, Debbie Lester, Debi Dymond, Debra Ann Diamond, Josi Emerson, Kaviar, Shelli Rey, Shelly Ray, Shelly Rey was born Deborah Lester on 1 May 1965 in San Fernando Valley, California. She came from an upper-middle class family and attended Monroe High School in Granada Hills, in Southern California. After finishing acting school she attempted to break into Hollywood, appearing in such TV series' as V, The Dukes of Hazard, Fall Guy and Knight Rider. According to Debi though "People were such stupid's! Everybody wanted to fuck me? I didn't wanna give them sex for this, I just said 'fuck it!' So I was just waiting 'till I was the right age, and I knew what I wanted to do? She appeared in her first pornographic film in 1980 (Suze's Centerfolds) and quickly built a reputation for willingness to perform nearly any sexual act with any other performer. For example, in Deep Inside Debi Diamond, she impales herself on the 12-inch phallus of an ice statue. Debi posed for numerous hard-core magazines. She lacked any inhibitions and was often photographed having anal sex or taking part in double-penetrations. She also appeared in a number of male bisexual shoots alongside Marc Wallice and various gay actors. Despite her self-confessed fear, she became one of porn's anal queens. She acquired the reputation of a girl that was willing to do just about anything in front of the camera, and claimed that when horny she would simply "work cheap." Apart from anal sex, Debi became renowned for her facial cum-shots. "It gives me great skin. I love to swallow cum if the guy is clean. Peter North has a lot of it, but it has a strange flavor. Tom Byron's tastes the best. I'm good at taking a whole cock down my throat. I have no gag reflex so I can take the whole thing down, no matter what size it is. Debi had a reputation for losing all control and inhibitions during her sex scenes. While shooting 'Buttslammers 6' she became so carried away with Krysti Lynn that she managed to destroy director Bruce Seven's window blinds, side lamp and damage his sofa. Half way through she stopped the scene saying "Let me catch my breath for a minute? I can't help it when I get turned on like this." She then proceeded to squat down beside his bar and masturbate before twisting her nipples and rubbing herself against a light boom. Only after this two-minute break did she return to the set. "Debi's parents were never happy with their daughter appearing in porn films. When her mother died she actually left Debi a large inheritance so that she could leave the business. The high point of her career was arguably in the early '90s, when she worked virtually non-stop and her performances garnered many industry awards, including induction into the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame.


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During Trump's Paris visit, Macron positions himself as intermediary between Europe and president
French President Emmanuel Macron invited President Trump and his wife Melania as his guests of honor to Friday's Bastille Day celebration. Though he noted their political divides, Macron made a point to affirm the historical US-France alliance.
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French President Emmanuel Macron and President Trump attend the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France on July 14, 2017.
By Lori Hinnant and Vivian Salama Associated Press
With a military parade on the Champs-Elysees and a gilded tour of France's most storied monuments, French President Emmanuel Macron laid on the charm as he positioned himself as the indispensable intermediary between Europe and President Trump.
The Bastille Day demonstration on Friday capped two days of Parisian glitz for Mr. Trump and his wife, who were Mr. Macron's guests of honor in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of America's entry into World War I.
Thanking the United States for the decision that turned the tide of a devastating conflict, Macron said the Trumps' presence on France's national holiday "is the sign of a friendship across the ages."
Macron made a point of detailing both the long history of ties between France and America and the areas where he and Trump disagree. But he made clear it was in the spirit of bluntness with a friend and ally, even offering a conspiratorial wink during a joint news conference.
The two-day visit beginning Thursday featured a personal tour of the golden-domed Invalides monument and a private dinner high in the Eiffel Tower prepared by chef Alain Ducasse himself.
Trump had front-row seats at the reviewing stand Friday, applauding during the hours-long parade carried out under blue skies as various French military units marched past. At one point, Trump saluted a combined group of US Army and Navy troops and Marines taking part in the annual event.
Macron and Trump both came to office as unlikely outsider candidates. The youngest president of modern France – and the same age as Donald Trump Jr. – Macron started his own political movement just over a year ago. He won strong parliamentary majority and is riding high in the polls.
The flattering French visit gave Trump a respite from his troubles at home, and he amended the opinion of a friend he calls Jim, who believes that "Paris isn't Paris any longer" because of the blight of Islamic extremism.
Asked about Jim's criticisms Thursday, Trump deflected and said Paris was "going to be just fine" because France now has a "great" and "tough" president. At Macron and Trump's first encounter in May, the two shared a white-knuckle handshake that the French president said was intended to show he was no pushover.
As Friday's visit ended, the men embraced and then the arm wrestling seemed to begin anew. As Trump walked to his motorcade, he gripped Macron's hand firmly, pulling the smaller man off-balance and held fast as they walked together toward their wives.
Still, both seemed to minimize their differences, said Spencer Boyer, former national intelligence officer for Europe and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"President Macron was highly skilled at putting President Trump at ease and avoiding any land mines that would have derailed the show of unity," Mr. Boyer said. "Macron was especially adept at sidestepping questions about US political controversies, which Trump clearly appreciated."
Although the welcome may have taken some of the sting out of their first encounter, Macron's amiable meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier in the day showed the balance Macron appears to be striking.
With Ms. Merkel, he emphasized their agreement on nearly every issue as well as their joint development of a fighter jet.
The German leader said there was no getting around interdependence in the 21st century. "Europe alone cannot win the war on terrorism," Merkel said.
"There is no divergence between France and Germany in the manner of treating President Trump," Macron added.
Still, the German chancellor, who was less than a block from the US Embassy when Trump was ensconced inside, left the presidential palace before she and Trump could cross paths.
Trump left open the possibility that he would reconsider his decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accord – the main source of disagreement with European Union governments. But he said if it doesn't happen, "that will be OK, too."
Macron's ability to firmly acknowledge his differences with Trump are part of modern French tradition. His invitation to Trump was "a way of illustrating the history of France and America, allied but not aligned," said Thomas Gomart, director of the French Institute for International Relations.
Trump's parting tweet showed a photo of the two men looking out over the Champs-Elysees, standing shoulder to shoulder during what the American described as a "magnificent #BastilleDay parade."
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Q: A down-to-earth introduction to the uses of derived categories When I was learning about spectral sequences, one of the most helpful sources I found was Ravi Vakil's notes here.  These notes are very down-to-earth and give a kind of minimum knowledge needed about spectral sequences in order to use them.
Does anyone know of a similar source for derived categories?  Something that concentrates on showing how these things are used, without developing the entire theory, or necessarily even giving complete, rigorous definitions?

A: I'm going to make a radical suggestion (and hence I have marked this community wiki), that there is a rewarding way to study derived categories as the localizations of "categories with weak equivalences", or more specifically, homotopical categories in the sense of Dwyer-Hirschhorn-Kan-Smith.  That is, any functor preserving weak equivalences between homotopical categories descends uniquely to localizations (by the universal property of localizations), so derived functors become the images of homotopical approximations  of functors between the original categories (where homotopical approximation means in some sense the closest weak-equivalence preserving functor from the left or the right).
Indeed, using the simplicial localization of Dwyer-Kan (hammock localization or its more modern variant "Grothendieck-style simplicial localization" detailed in sections 34 and 35 of Dwyer-Hirschhorn-Kan-Smith (Homotopy Limit Functors on Model and Homotopical categories), we can embed the case of homotopical categories into the case of simplicially enriched categories.  This turns our ordinary derived categories into categories enriched in weak homotopy types of CW complexes such that $\pi_0Map_C(X,Y):=Hom_{Ho(Set_\Delta)}(\Delta^0, Map_C(X,Y))\cong Hom_{W^{-1}C}(X,Y)$, where $W^{-1}C$ is the derived category.  The papers of Dwyer-Kan (or the recollection of these techniques in Chapter 17 of Phil Hirschhorn's Model Categories and their Localizations) give a way to compute the mapping space in terms of simplicial and cosimplicial resolutions.  This formulation is interesting because it lets us use the well-developed techniques of homotopical algebra in a simplicially-enriched category as well (for instance, there is a very mature theory of homotopy limits and colimits in this setting).  This also gives the correct data and bypasses the need of working with triangulated categories, for instance.  To use the language of the nLab (which is often scarier-sounding than it actually is), this is the $(\infty,1)$-categorical approach to derived categories.
(Note that in the above, we would let $C$ be an appropriate category of chain complexes (of sheaves)).
If I remember correctly, this approach is roughly discussed in SGA 4 exposé 2.

A: For what it's worth, I learned most of what I know of derived categories from the last chapter of Weibel's book on homological algebra (and in particular, doing the exercises there).  However, I also often looked at Hartshorne's Residues and Duality, Gelfand-Manin, and occasionally derived categories for the working mathematician.
My goal at the time was to understand better things like Grothendieck duality.

A: For someone interested in algebraic geometry, the first chapters of Lipman's "Notes on Derived Functors and Grothendieck Duality", (in Foundations of Grothendieck Duality for Diagrams of Schemes, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, no. 1960, Springer, 2009) is a must. (And, btw. it is way better to read chapter 4 in this work for understanding Grothendieck duality than Harthorne's notes).

A: I won't claim to be fluent in the language of derived categories, but I understand it and can make myself understood. For most people, that's the right level of proficiency.
Since you already have plenty of references, let me instead share few thoughts about the relation between the old and new languages. This is an
imperfect analogy, but in the older differential geometry literature, everything was written
in coordinates leading to messy formulas ("the debauch of indices"). By  contrast, modern
treatments are coordinate free which is better much of time, although not all of the time.
I tend to think of spectral sequences as writing things in coordinates; derived
categories are coordinate free. (This obviously a stretch. In hindsight, this seems to be my answer to the  question
Thinking and Explaining
as well.)
Let me spell this out. Given left exact functors $F:A\to B$ and $G:B\to C$ between abelian categories, under the usual assumptions, we get the Grothendieck spectral sequence
$$E_2^{pq} = R^pF (R^qG M) \Rightarrow R^{p+q}F\circ G M$$
By constrast, in the derived category world we see a composition law
$$\mathbb{R} F\circ \mathbb{R} G\cong \mathbb{R}F\circ G$$
For 3 or more functors, the last formula generalizes in the obvious way. On the
spectral sequence side, we get something too horrible to comtemplate. Well no, let me
comtemplate it:
$$E_2^{pqr\ldots} = R^pF (R^qG (R^rH\ldots))$$
$$d_2^{2,-1,0,\ldots}: E_2^{pqr\ldots} \to E_2^{p+2,q-1,r,\ldots}$$
$$d_2^{0,2,-1\ldots}\ldots$$
$$\ldots$$
Don't get me wrong, spectral sequences are still useful, but not here.

A: I would suggest "Fourier-Mukai transforms in algebraic geometry" by Daniel Huybrechts.

A: "Derived Categories summer graduate school" is also a very good introduction.

A: "Derived Categories of Sheaves:  A Skimming," by my colleague Andrei Caldararu, might do the trick.  It's the notes from his lectures at the Snowbird summer school.

A: In Bernhard Keller's list of preprints and publications you will find characteristically nice expositions on derived categories (with the point of view of someone interested in representations, mostly, I'd say): Derived categories and their uses, from the first volume of the Handbook of algebra, and Introduction to abelian and derived categories, the notes from his lectures in a school at ICTP (Trieste 2006), &c.


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The sound of buzzing saws and drilling echoed throughout the halls of Mahanoy Area High School as the district received a facelift outside the gymnasium.
A group of carpentry students from Schuylkill Technology Center built a 30-foot-wide, by 10-foot-tall trophy case. The large structure built with oak and splashed with a little stain and polyurethane was a project these students had some fun with.
"It's been, I think, the past four weeks that we've been working on it, then the half before us worked on it. It's been a good time and a lot of work," said carpentry student James Womer.
"I go to regular school and I'm going to tell everyone that I meet that I learned way more at STC than I do at regular school. I'm way more interested in everything. It's very fun, actually, too," said carpentry student Zachaeus Omlor.
Mahanoy Area had four or five of smaller trophy cases lined up, so the new massive trophy case is a huge upgrade for the entire district.
"It's not even comparable right now just looking at it without anything in the cases. Before, we had a couple of smaller trophy cases here. We had a bunch of trophies and awards that we weren't able to put anywhere because we didn't have the room," said Mahanoy Area Assistant Principal David Holman.
A different group of students from STC will install lights next week. A glass company will finish it off with a glass casing.


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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has once again warned that striker Carlos Tevez will not be sold cheaply. Tevez returned to Argentina earlier this month without City's permission and has yet to return to England, just days after he was punished by the club for refusing to warm up at Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Widespread reports in Italy have linked Tevez with a move to Serie A, with…
Hopes Of Tevez Reconciliation Become Impossible
A reconciliation between Carlos Tevez and Manchester City becomes "more impossible" by the day. This was the message delivered by Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor on Monday. The club had requested their Argentina striker return to England but he opted to remain at home in South America. And while there is still dialogue between the 27-year-old's representatives and City officials Taylor thinks the longer Tevez remains out of…
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Q: Corrupt data from StringBuilder() in Android Java App I have some code in an Android app that formats data like this. "[x, y, z]".
We mostly use java's StringBuilder() class, with it's append method like so:
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("[x, y, z");
sb.append("]");

but in some cases's we do basic string concatenation with the plus operator like so:
String str = "[x, y, z";
str = str + "]";

We've recently encountered a situation where I'm seeing the "]" character being translated to this "Ԃ3ҡ嶴u)" but only in places that use the stringbuilder class. It started out working properly, but after it started converting this character it did this conversion every single time the character was seen and in multiple places in code. This caused the output to look like this: "[ x, y, zԂ3ҡ嶴u)";
It's an extremely rare occurance, as I've only seen this happen a couple times, but I'm hoping someone here may have an idea on why this is happening, and if there is anything that can be done to prevent this from happening. I would prefer to not remove the stringbuilder from our project to fix such a rare occurrence.
We've noticed this on an Android device, and it started very suddenly. (It was working correctly, and then suddenly all subsequent instances of "]" were converted)
Any ideas or suggestions to prevent this from happening? Unfortunately I don't have access to the device that reported this data to test.
Thanks!
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I've encountered this same thing again (also with StringBuilder() class), but this time it translated the same character "]" into a "U".
So the output looked like this "[x, y, zU"
It seams like it's always the same character "]" that the StringBuilder() class has occasional problems with. (Maybe because it's always the final character?)
Cheers!
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Sample of one method used which displayed this behavior: (Only the last "]" has an issue, the rest of the string looks as expected)
public static String convertArrayToString(double[] array) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.append("[");
    for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        sb.append(String.valueOf(array[i]));
        if ((i + 1) != array.length) {
            sb.append(",");
        }
    }
    sb.append("]");
    return sb.toString();
}


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Fellowship-trained Non-Invasive Cardiologist – Staten Island University Hospital
Fellowship in Advanced Ventricular Arrhythmia Mapping and Ablation
St. George's NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Staten Island, New York
Internal Number: Non-Invasive SIUH
Northwell Health's Cardiology Service Line is seeking Fellowship-trained Non-Invasive Cardiologists to join the highly skilled cardiac team at Staten Island University Hospital conveniently located in Staten Island, New York. Northwell Health's Cardiology Service Line has seen tremendous growth over the past five years within Long Island, New York City, and Westchester; with the goal of providing comprehensive, integrated health care and wellness services.
As we expand cardiovascular health services across Northwell, we are seeking dynamic BC/BE non-invasive cardiologists to join Staten Island University Hospital and support our cardiology services. This is a full-time, academic position with vast clinical, research, teaching opportunities. The ideal candidate will be Board Certified/Eligible in cardiovascular diseases and echocardiography, will have proficiency in TTE and TEE. Nuclear Cardiology certification is a plus.
To make the transition as smooth as possible, you will have partners who have a wealth of experience in all the specialty areas of cardiology. There is a true camaraderie within the group. Moreover, you will have access to the expertise of largest health system in the New York Metropolitan area.
Northwell Health is dedicated to advancing heart care through providing access to exclusive clinical trials, developing groundbreaking treatments and leading the way in novel research that redefines care. By participating in research and exclusive clinical trials, our physicians are able to provide patients with medical treatments of the future, today.
Northwell Health is New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, with 21 hospitals, 850+ outpatient facilities, and more than 16,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 80,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,900 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We're making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Our professionals are relentless about staying ahead of the latest clinical trials and research, partnering with our own Feinstein Institute and other world-renowned institutions.
Northwell Health offers a competitive salary and benefits package. In addition, an academic appointment with The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell is commensurate with credentials and experience. Physicians will be employed as members of Northwell Physician Partners, the fifth largest medical group in the country.
Cover letter should be addressed to:
Mitchell Weinberg, MD
Chair, Department of Cardiology, Staten Island University Hospital
To apply, please send your CV to the Office of Physician Recruitment: OPR@northwell.edu
Northwell Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EOE M/F/D/V
Full-time clinical base compensation at Northwell Health ranges from $125K to $750K, which is impacted by various factors, including but not limited to physician specialty, level of experience, quality of care, academic accomplishments, patient experience and productivity. The base compensation range listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.
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