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Using lexical language models to detect borrowings in monolingual wordlists
Tresoldi, Tiago
CALC, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;
Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;
Morozova, Natalia
List, Johann-Mattis
S1 Table
(Supplementary material)
shh2701.pdf
shh2701pre.pdf
(Preprint), 3MB
Miller, J. E., Tresoldi, T., Zariquiey, R., Castañón, C. A. B., Morozova, N., & List, J.-M. (2020). Using lexical language models to detect borrowings in monolingual wordlists. PLoS One, 15(12): e0242709. doi:10.17613/m051-e049.
Cite as: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-214E-D
Native speakers are often assumed to be efficient in identifying whether a word in their language has been borrowed, even when they do not have direct knowledge of the donor language from which it was taken. To detect borrowings, speakers make use of various strategies, often in combination, relying on clues such as semantics of the words in question, phonology and phonotactics. Computationally, phonology and phonotactics can be modeled with support of Markov n-gram models or -- as a more recent technique -- recurrent neural network models. Based on a substantially revised dataset in which lexical borrowings have been thoroughly annotated for 41 different languages of a large typological diversity, we use these models to conduct a series of experiments to investigate their performance in borrowing detection using only information from monolingual wordlists. Their performance is in many cases unsatisfying, but becomes more promising for strata where there is a significant ratio of borrowings and when most borrowings originate from a dominant donor language. The recurrent neural network performs marginally better overall in both realistic studies and artificial experiments, and holds out the most promise for continued improvement and innovation in lexical borrowing detection. Phonology and phonotactics, as operationalized in our lexical language models, are only a part of the multiple clues speakers use to detect borrowings. While improving our current methods will result in better borrowing detection, what is needed are more integrated approaches that also take into account multilingual and cross-linguistic information for a proper automated borrowing detection.


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De Rooms-Katholieke Gildenbondsharmonie is een muziekvereniging uit Boxtel, en is opgericht op 8 juni 1908. De vereniging bestaat uit het harmonieorkest, Big Band Boxtel, leerlingenorkest en blaasbandje.

Geschiedenis
De oprichting van deze muziekvereniging gebeurde meer uit religieuze dan uit muzikale motieven. Ieder jaar werd de Boxtelse Processie van het Heilig Bloed gehouden en voor het spelen van de processiemarsen had men liever eigen muzikanten dan de ingehuurde krachten uit de buurtgemeenten. Eerste dirigent van de jonge harmonie was J. Hermans uit 's-Hertogenbosch. Het traditionele Kasteelconcert op de binnenplaats van dit Boxtelse kasteel vindt in het eerste weekeinde van september plaats.

Onder de dirigent Antoon Stolwerk kon men zich muzikaal verbeteren en kwantitatief uitbreiden. Met de onvergeten dirigent Hans Klerx kon in 1980 de oranje wimpel bij de nationale kampioenschappen van de Federatie van Katholieke Muziekbonden in Nederland (FKM) in de superieure afdeling behaald worden. De dirigenten Frans Scheepers, Jo Diederen en Alex Schillings hebben het muzikale niveau gevestigd. Met de dirigent Jan Cober veroverde men opnieuw een nationale titel in de hoogste afdeling van de FKM.

Frenk Rouschop was dirigent van 1988 tot 2001 en een geweldige prestatie in de concertafdeling was goed voor twee eerste prijzen met onderscheiding tijdens het Wereld Muziek Concours te Kerkrade. Tot 2004 stond het orkest onder leiding van Sef Pijpers jr. In 2003 werd men op het zogenoemde mini-WMC te Kerkrade tweede, achter de Koninklijke Harmonie van Thorn. Na de jeugdige dirigenten Sander Teepen en Arjan Gaasbeek, staat sinds januari 2017 Erik Somers op de bok.

Samenstelling
De Gildenbondsharmonie bestaat momenteel uit vier verschillende onderdelen:
 Het Blaasbandje
 Het Leerlingenorkest
 Het Harmonieorkest
 Big Band Boxtel (voorheen de Bondsband)

Het harmonieorkest geeft diverse concerten per jaar en gaat regelmatig op concours waarbij het repertoire afhankelijk van het soort concert kan variëren van symfonische blaasmuziek tot moderne originele werken voor harmonie-orkest. Het harmonieorkest van de "Gildenbonds" speelt al vele jaren op het hoogste nationale niveau (1e divisie) en staat onder leiding van Erik Somers.

In het blaasbandje spelen leerlingen die net zijn begonnen met het bespelen van een instrument, hier leren ze al vroeg samen muziek maken. Wanneer het niveau van het A-diploma is behaald komen leerlingen bij het leerlingenorkest. Om tot het harmonieorkest toe te treden wordt het niveau van B/C-diploma verwacht.

Big Band Boxtel bestaat sinds september 2011 en is ontstaan door het samenvoegen van de twee orkesten de Bondsband en Big Band Double Key. Na begin 2011 samen het concert "De Muziek Draait Door" verzorgd te hebben, ontstond er een positieve klik tussen de muzikanten en is unaniem besloten samen onder de vlag van de vereniging Gildenbondsharmonie verder te gaan als één Big Band en wel onder de naam Big Band Boxtel. Big Band Boxtel staat onder leiding van dirigent Mari van Gils.

Dirigenten Harmonieorkest

Externe link
 Website

Zie ook
 Lijst van Nederlandse harmonieorkesten

Boxtel, Gildenbondsharmonie
Boxtel

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Cooper, White & Cooper partner and vice chair of the State Bar Commission on the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct, Mark Tuft has published an article in the most recent issue of the California Bar Journal entitled New Ethics Rules Affect You. In that article, Mr. Tuft addresses thirteen proposed professional rules for California lawyers, and the controversial nature of the proposals reaching such issues as fees for legal services, conflicts of interest among current clients, business transactions with clients, and more. The 90-day public comment period ends on June 6, 2008.


No man has made such claims.
and I await his return.
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Hate is not in God's agenda Prashant except that He hates all evil, He is Love and His Love is not polluted by a worldly, fleshy focus.
Your Poem has Truth but we remember that God's Grace does not give us the freedom to sin, it gives us the freedom not to sin.


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Mumbai, Jan 13 (IANS) Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut on Wednesday recalled how she celebrated Lohri during her childhood days in Himachal Pradesh.
The actress Kangana posted a picture on Instagram, where she is seen dressed in a purple outfit. "In Himachal we have a tradition of singing Lohri, when I was small, children made groups and sang Lohri in neighbourhoods and collected money/sweets, children in villages and joint families have much more fun than city kids in nuclear families, anyway #happylohri2021," she wrote alongside the image.
On January 12, Kangana on the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, paid a tribute to her guru and said that he gave her a purpose when she was disillusioned by the world. She took to Twitter to pen a tribute to Swami Vivekananda, and expressed how his teachings helped her in the time when she had no hope.
Meanwhile, the actress has started preparing for her next film, "Dhaakad". She will also be seen in the films "Thalaivi" and "Tejas".
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10 pilots and student-pilots from Brussels Aviation School flew to Shoreham (Brighton, UK) on Saturday 19 July 2010. We took off from the international airport of Charleroi in the morning of Saturday 10 July , crossed the English Channel at 4000 feet QNH, and landed on the lovely airfield of Shoreham. The next day we took off again, destination Le Touquet in France where we had a lovely stop before heading back to our home Charleroi.


So as 2015 rushes to a close, these were the posts that mostly drew your attention each month.
We started the year here at NOT PC the way we intended to carry on: pointing out in this case that much of what is most commonly passed off as being "The Wisdom of the Ancients" is neither very wise, nor all that ancient – particularly all the favourite books of today's western and mid-eastern religionists.
And also: To pretend everything that Islam is not evil is to share some portion of the blame. Both blame and much more wretchedness exploded across 2015.
"One of the best arguments against people who claim Islam as a religion of war"?
Right of reply: David Seymour… and eventually, thankfully, recanted.
February of course is also when New Zealanders ritually rend their garments over Te Tiriti—but we, just as ritually, argued there is nothing to be guilty about in freeing slaves.
The Herald named her Person of the Year—and as she approached her death, we saw demonstrated again that meddling religionists still insist your life is not your own.
2015: The year Putin began more openly seeing what he could get away with, while the west even more openly ignored the implications. We were onto it early.
Architecture Week, and with it a necessary clarification that not every old house is worth preserving … and those that shouldn't be should be 'quarried from' to rebuild those that should.
Anzac Day brought with it the question: why were New Zealanders were dying in 1915 to give Constantinople to the Czar?
Q: But what were the ANZACs fighting *for*?
Mostly unheralded, but organised Classical Liberalism died one-hundred years ago last May. On that centenary I began answering a question that plagued it, and helped it die: why is that in 1914 goods were so freely crossing borders, yet armies still did. And what did that say for the great Liberal project of peace and free trade?
In June we all stumbled across the strange case of a white woman pretending to be black. So I posted a cartoon.
In July, the never-ending Greek politico-economic crisis demonstrated yet again that "democratic fiscal policy appears to have an institutional problem with regard to sustainable public finance"—in other words, when politicians act like Santa Claus then voters will always try to vote themselves gifts.
But Greece is merely a canary in the Keynesian coal mine. You want to know what made Keynesianism possible, and with it all the economic disasters like Greece? Answer: intellectual decay.
Greece, Keynes & intellectual decay: What made it possible?
It was in July this year that Berzelius Windrip finally jumped from book to reality TV to, well, reality TV. But that doesn't make it safe to laugh at him.
As things looked shaky on "the markets" in August, we looked at a few of the more nonsensical prognostications made either side of the Great Crash in 1929.
It has a huge effect on the most talked-about local crisis, that in housing, yet this is one primary cause barely talked about. Yet an August report confirmed again that virtually all the rent subsidy paid to beneficiaries does little more than go to subsidise higher rents – leaving landlords richer, house prices higher, and beneficiaries and would-be home-owners as far behind the 8 ball as before.
In September, a little boy's body washed up on a Mediterranean beach, and things were never the same again. Yet how many knew his true story? Or even cared?
An ugly man, with ugly politics—yet neither were justifications for a home invasion by the police, on which he was ultimately vindicated.
In October, the Productivity Commission quietly suggested the government should confiscate your home, or let the council acquire it, compulsorily. Frighteningly, few – still! – have objected. Such is politics in NZ in 2015.
In November, while the media goggled and MPs talked about rapists and "hugging crims" there were many,many questions that should have been asked. So I did.
On Armistice Day I asked, why was the The War to End All Wars instead the war to end all peace. And is that why is it impossible to forget?
In December the great and the good announced in a city just ravaged by terrorism that the biggest problem facing the west is bad weather. For which they hold the thermostat. Wholesale ridiculousness ensued.
Paris: It's all about climate. Apparently.
And to close out the year, the Government demonstrated again that top-down planning is successful only in stopping others being able to plan.
So that rounds out our year here at NOT PC.
I hope your New Year's celebrations tonight are as raucous as your new year is filled with peace and prosperity.
Have a great New Year Peter. You've run a great blog as per usual.
I have today awarded the Medallion of Quixote to Peter Cresswell as best NZ blog of 2015. [And other years for that matter]. This is no Quixotic award // it benefits the holder with even more courage and tenacity.


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The event will feature LHS jazz band and symphonic band, with special performances by Renton City Concert Band and Mike Simpson.
Donations benefitting the LHS band program will collected at the concert.


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In case by cracking you mean to win it, that would require a lot of practice in competitive programming as you will face at the very least pretty good level of competition (Candidate Masters on Codeforces) for winning it. So you must already have a lot of experience in competitive programming for that. You can spend the next few months just trying to further improve your speed in rather simpler problems, since you are expected to solve all problems for being rank 1 and speed will be the deciding factor.
Next, to be in the top 100, you again require at least a little experience in competitive programming and I assume that you are good enough to at least get a rank in Round-1 and clear it. You must be good with implementation and easy problems at the very least. Try sharpening your skills with standard problems on sites like GeeksforGeeks. CodeVita does not have too high level competitive programming problems like Max Flow, Segment Trees, Bit-masking DP, etc. All you need to do is practice those standard problems from recursion, patterns, pattern matching, dynamic programming, etc. You could improve a bit if you practice implementation category of problems on HackerEarth / HackerRank.
Maths: Learn the standard topics like Sieve of Eratosthenes, Modular Exponentiation, Prime Factorization, GCD, LCM, Factorials, nCr, nCr modulo m, Modular Inverse, Fibonacci Series, etc.
Fundamental Algorithms: Binary Search (Try as many variations of problems using it as possible), Sorting using comparators &custom data structures, Pattern Matching (Rabin-Karp / KMP / Z-Algorithm), DFS, BFS. If you find a bit more time, proceed to some more graph algorithms like Dijkstra, Kruskal, etc.
Standard Implementation: Matrix Rotation, Array Transformations, Pattern Printing, Pattern Finding, etc. You can try to solve codevita problems from previous years to get an idea of patterns and standard implementation stuff. You can also find a lot of them on the links I mentioned above.
Standard Recursion / Dynamic Programming: Most of the recursion / dynamic programming problems are variations of standard problems like Coin Sum, Subset Sum, Knapsack, Min Cost Path, DFS with memoization, DFS in matrices, mathematical problems that break down into sub-problems that can be solved using recursion, etc.
Data Structures: A lot of problems are standard implementation problems that require basic or sometimes tricky use of Data Structures like Strings, Stacks, Queues, Priority Queues, Sets, HashMaps, Big-Integers etc. The only important point here is to be smart in choosing the language to solve a problem. For example, I always preferred Python in case of problems involving Big-Integers or too many strings as it is often easier. It is totally up to you what language you use but at least learn the use of standard data structures in that language.
These topics will cover almost all problems. Also, I would like to mention that CodeVita used to have a problem that required chess notations in the years prior to 2017. They have most probably been discontinued. But you can spend an hour or two learning about them if you wish.
Sit in the practice round, it helps you get the feel of the competition and makes you familiar with the interface.
The competition is 6 hours long. Choose a time slot that suits you best, in the 24 hour window you get in round 1. The time window used to be 3 PM on Day 1 to 3 PM on Day 2. I preferred either solving it late in the night (12 to 6) or early in the morning (7 to 1), the reason being that the servers are very stable by this time and I either felt refreshed in the morning after a good sleep or had my most productive hours at night. Choose the time slot that suits you. I would still suggest not being too early (3 PM Day 1) and neither being too late (8 AM or later on Day 2). Remember that you cannot exceed the 3 PM time on Day 2 and you must start at least 6 hours before it.
When you sit for the competition, have some food around you. It's a long competition that requires energy. Your mind won't work if your stomach decides otherwise.
In case you find errors in your code, try debugging and think of corner cases by dry running the solution on paper. Also cross check your optimized solution with brute force solutions. There is sufficient time for it, if you are smart about it. CodeVita is good with corner cases. Submit as many times as you need to but try to solve the problem.
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Do not share your code or be involved in plagiarism.
I have a lot of friends, more than most people have in general. A lot of them had asked me for code. I decided not to share it. 3 of the top 5 coders in my college could not qualify to the next round because there code was caught in plagiarism check. They had probably shared their code with their friends. This is a very common thing and it happens every year. I am not against friendship or helping your friends, but understand that this is a competition and people who have worked hard, deserve to make it. All your efforts should not go in vain just because you took an emotional decision. Have a fair play.
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Karl C. Agathon (callsign "Helo") is a fictional character on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series, portrayed by Tahmoh Penikett.

Appearances

Background
Agathon is an Electronic Countermeasures Officer, part of a two-person Colonial Raptor crew based on the Battlestar Galactica, and is paired with Sharon "Boomer" Valerii before the Cylon destruction of the Twelve Colonies. Unlike other major characters such as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace or Gaius Baltar, the series reveals little about Agathon's life before the events of the series. It is confirmed Helo is a Caprican, which is partly why he and Starbuck knew each other.

The (unofficial) backstory Tahmoh Penikett and Katee Sackhoff came up with to explain a comment from Thrace in "Scattered" that she and Helo "go way back" is the two were old friends for a long time who most likely attended the academy together as cadets and as "drinking buddies".

Miniseries
During the Cylon attack, Agathon and Sharon's Raptor is damaged, he is hit in the leg and they are forced to land on Caprica. While making repairs, they are mobbed by a group of survivors desperate to get off the planet. A lottery is used to decide who will be allowed to escape due to the Raptor's limited space. Agathon sacrifices own seat to allow Dr Gaius Baltar, discovered in the crowd, to survive. Boomer lifts off with refugees aboard and Helo is left on the nuked and occupied Caprica with only a med kit and sidearm.

Series
After the Raptor leaves, Agathon flees into the wilderness and tries to elude Cylon forces, surviving by using anti-radiation injections and the other contents of his survival kit. Eventually, he is captured by a Number Six copy, but is rescued by Valerii (unknown to Agathon, his rescuer is another copy of Cylon model Number Eight). Valerii's true motive in accompanying Agathon is the participation in a Cylon experiment designed to attempt to create a Cylon–human hybrid offspring. The Cylons track Agathon's progress toward a military base in Delphi, placing him in situations designed to result in affection and ultimately love towards Valerii. The experiment results in Valerii becoming pregnant, though as an unintended side effect, she falls in love with him. Agathon soon discovers the truth about her Cylon nature after spotting another Number Eight copy while trying to infiltrate the Delphi military base. Believing that he is being led into a trap, he runs from the base and Valerii.

She eventually catches up to him and reveals she is pregnant. Despite shooting her in the shoulder, Agathon realizes he can't bring himself to kill her and instead, at her urging, takes her with him to the Delphi museum. It is there he is reunited with fellow Galactica pilot Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, who is on a special mission from President Laura Roslin to recover the Arrow of Apollo. After nearly being killed by Thrace, Valerii steals the Cylon Raider and flies off. Agathon and Thrace make their way first to Thrace's old apartment to retrieve a new mode of transport (an old army truck she owned) and then into the woods in search of another military base. While stopping to get their bearings, they run into a group of Pyramid players-turned resistance fighters. After Thrace is wounded and captured by the Cylons, Agathon and the others track her down and attempt to rescue her from the hospital where she is being held. They are, surprisingly, aided by Valerii, who returns in a stolen Heavy Raider. With the Arrow of Apollo in hand, Agathon, Thrace and Valerii leave Caprica and make their way to Kobol to rejoin Roslin.

Upon rejoining the Colonial survivors aboard the Astral Queen, Agathon pulls his gun on Lee Adama in order to stop him from shooting Valerii, whom Adama blames for the attempt another Valerii copy makes on his father's life. Later, while searching for the Tomb of Athena on the surface of Kobol, Agathon admits to Valerii he still loves and trusts her.

After finding the Tomb of Athena, Agathon returns with the group to Galactica, almost three months after being MIA and presumed dead. His homecoming is bittersweet; Helo's former friends turn their backs on him due to his love for a Cylon, let alone one whose doppelgänger attempted to murder Commander William Adama. Helo finds support from Starbuck and Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol, who was in love with the original Galactica crew member version of Sharon before her betrayal of the fleet and death. Helo eventually is accepted by the crew when he recommends the Blackbird should be encased in carbon-composite skin to make it a stealth ship.

After the appearance of the Battlestar Pegasus, Agathon witnesses Sharon's torture and attempted rape by Lieutenant Alastair Thorne, a Pegasus crew member and Cylon interrogator. Along with Tyrol, Helo stops Thorne from raping Sharon but in the process, they accidentally kill him. (This incident is subject to subtly different editing. In the DVD version of the episode, they interrupt Thorne while he is raping Sharon; in the broadcast version, they arrive just in time to prevent it.) Admiral Cain's summary trial and death sentence of Agathon and Tyrol bring Galactica to a confrontation with Pegasus. Although the death sentence is not carried out, Agathon and Tyrol remain in the brig, where Tyrol ultimately gives Helo his blessing for a relationship with Sharon. The two are eventually released by Colonel Jack Fisk, with all charges being dropped.

Following his captivity on Pegasus, Helo is reunited with his version of Sharon as her pregnancy continues. When President Laura Roslin proclaims her intention to force Sharon to undergo an abortion to eliminate the perceived threat Hera Agathon (Helo and Sharon's child) represents to the fleet, Helo begs Admiral Adama to overrule Roslin and allow himself and the pregnant Sharon to leave the fleet and find a world where they could live in peace. Adama refuses and Roslin rescinds her demand for a forced abortion when Gaius Baltar extracts blood from the unborn child for use as a cure for Roslin's terminal cancer. This leads to Roslin betraying Helo again by ordering Helo and Sharon's newborn daughter to be taken from the hospital after she is born. The infant's death is faked and Helo is given what are ostensibly her ashes, which he and Tyrol release into space.

Following the discovery and settlement of the planet New Caprica, Agathon remains on Galactica as part of her skeleton crew. He is promoted to captain and serves as Galactica's executive officer (XO), replacing Colonel Saul Tigh. Karl Agathon marries his version of Sharon Valerii, who is commissioned as a lieutenant in the Colonial Fleet and takes the call sign "Athena". He later assists Lee Adama in the latter's effort to lose weight.

During an attempt by Galactica to spread a virus to wipe out the Cylon race, Agathon disobeys orders and sabotages a key part of the plan because he considers such an action to be genocidal.

When Colonel Tigh finally returns to the position of Galactica's XO after a long depression brought on by his experiences on New Caprica (in particular his execution of his wife, Ellen, for collaboration with the Cylons), Agathon returns to the flight line. He pilots one of the Raptors used to guide the fleet through a nearly un-navigable and highly radioactive stellar cluster.  He becomes one of the second highest pilots left after the deaths of Kara "Starbuck" Thrace and Louanne "Kat" Katraine. He is next in line with Ricky "Two Times" Richardson and Marcia "Showboat" Case, respectively.

Two weeks after the death of Kara, Helo takes over as C.A.G. (Commander, Air Group) from the still visibly shaken Lee Adama, who is subsequently removed by Admiral Adama. Days later, he once again temporarily replaces Col. Tigh as XO, when it becomes apparent the latter has returned to the bottle. Helo returns to his duties as CAG after Colonel Tigh returns to duty. When Starbuck returns, Helo is placed second in command on the Demetrius in the mission to find earth. During the mission to destroy the Hub, Helo rescued the Number Three D'Anna before the Hub was destroyed.

During the mutiny, Helo was beaten unconscious by the mutineers and thrown in the brig along with his wife and daughter. After the mutiny was put down, he and his family returned to life as usual. This equilibrium was disrupted when Boomer, the Raptor pilot he had formerly served with, impersonated his wife and allowed him to seduce her (while Athena, bound in a closet, watched in helpless fury) and then abducted Hera for study. Boomer fled with the child to the Colony, where John Cavil intended to dissect her to determine the secrets leading to her conception. After the abduction, with Athena in a listless depression, Helo begged Adama to let him take out a Raptor for a search-and-rescue mission, despite the risk he would not find her or return. (Adama, stern if sympathetic, denied the request.)

When Adama finally obtained the location of the Colony, Helo and Athena were among the many who volunteered to crew Galactica for the attack-and-rescue mission. He devised the plan of using Raptors as boarding craft, inserting small teams of Marines into the Colony—a plan made extremely dangerous by the dense asteroid agglomeration and gravitational distortions caused by the Colony's orbit around a black hole.  He and Athena were the only Raptor crew to survive insertion, combat and withdrawal but (with a little help from a repentant Boomer) retrieved their daughter. Soon after, Galactica was boarded and Helo was shot in the thigh. Hera fled the scene and despite knowing he would die of blood loss unless Sharon attended him, Helo demanded she protects their daughter.

Helo did not appear again until the last few minutes of the episode. Though he used a walking stick to counter his limp, he was still alive, still mobile, and evidently not severely distressed by his injury; instead, he bantered with Sharon over what they would teach Hera (and who should get to teach her) on this new planet called Earth. While Karl and Sharon Agathon passed namelessly into history, Hera was eventually identified by Earth scientists as "Mitochondrial Eve".

Concept and creation

Character origin

Helo was originally conceived as a "red-shirt" character. After stranding him on the post-nuclear attack Caprica, the writers had no further plans for the character and intended his fate to be that he died (off-screen) in the radiation that followed the nuking of the planet. But Penikett impressed showrunners, and fans took a liking to the character and wanted to know what happened to him after he was left on Caprica. The producers revised their plans for the series to include the character and his activities on Caprica after the mini-series.

Name
Like many of the characters on the series, his name has its origins in ancient Greece, Agathon being the name of an Athenian tragic poet. The Greek proverbial phrase kalon k'agathon ("the beautiful and the good") — also written as kalos k'agathos — was used to describe the ideal man, the epitome of both aesthetics and ethics, as well as the Form of the Good in Platonic philosophy. Helo's full name, Karl C. Agathon, wasn't revealed until the release of "33" — after the writers revised their original plans and expanded the character's storyline. His call sign, "Helo," could possibly originate from the Greek Titan Helios, though it is also military slang for a helicopter.

Agathon is also the name of a Prince of Troy in the Iliad. King Priam scolds Agathon and his 8 brothers for being cowards after Hector is killed by Achilles. On page 475, beginning on line 263 in Book 24 of Stanley Lombardo's translation:

"And he [Priam] waded through them, scattering them
With his staff. Then he called to his sons
In a harsh voice--Helenus and Paris,
Agathon, Pammon, Antiphnus, Polities,
Deiphobus, Hippothous, and noble Dius--"

References

External links
 Karl Agathon on Battlestar Wiki
 Karl Agathon at Syfy

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Steve Kerr praises Kevon Looney playing through injury in NBA Finals Game 4
By Marcus White June 07, 2019 10:49 PM
Warriors center Kevon Looney played through considerable pain during Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday night.
Looney's first costal cartilage fracture originally had the Warriors rule the big man out for the remainder of The Finals, but he suited up for Golden State's 105-92 loss to the Toronto Raptors once it was determined he couldn't make the injury worse.
The UCLA product finished the night with 10 points, six rebounds, an assist and the respect of his coach, even as the Warriors fell into a three-games-to-one hole in the best-of-seven series.
"The ultimate competitor," Steve Kerr told NBC Sports Bay Area's Logan Murdock after Game 4. "He has some fractured cartilage in his chest, and he's out there battling ... playing his tail off. I have so much respect for that guy. He's amazing."
Looney scored eight of his 10 points in the first half, but he and the rest of the Warriors struggled as the Raptors seized control of the game in the second half. The four-year veteran was minus-7 in the second half, while eight of his teammates also posted minues over the final two quarters.
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Fellow injured big man DeMarcus Cousins (torn quadriceps) played just 14:48 and visibly labored for his second consecutive game. Reserve center Andrew Bogut, meanwhile, was a plus-6 in 10:47 off the bench for the Warriors.
It's hard to imagine Looney playing more than 20:24 in the Warriors' loss, but it was difficult to envision him playing at all as recently as Thursday morning. Kerr believes the fact that Looney did is a testament to his young center, and the Warriors will need him to play through pain (at least) once more.
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Steph Curry's one-word answer when asked if Warriors will make playoffs
By Drew Shiller July 15, 2019 7:57 PM
Kevin Durant. Andre Iguodala. DeMarcus Cousins. Shaun Livingston. What do they have in common?
None of them play for the Warriors anymore.
Klay Thompson is expected to miss a large portion of the season as he recovers from a torn left ACL. Combine all of this with the fact the Western Conference is insanely loaded, and you got people who believe the Dubs will either struggle to make the playoffs or miss the postseason altogether.
Steph Curry played in the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe over the weekend, and had the following interaction with Marcus Thompson of The Athletic:
The break in the action on the 16th hole was coming to an end. Curry's turn was near, leaving time for one final question.
Are the Warriors making the playoffs?
He was almost through the word "facts" when he realized it was a question and not a statement. Suddenly, his calm expression disappeared. His face scrunched and his voice elevated above a whisper, adding a shriek for emphasis.
"What?!" he said, playfully agitated by the sheer audacity of the question. "What?!"
Very early prediction on the Western Conference playoff teams (in no particular order):
-Clippers
-Lakers
-Warriors
-Jazz
-Rockets
-Nuggets
-Spurs
-Blazers
(sorry Pelicans, Mavericks, Kings)
— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) July 6, 2019
The Warriors have reached the playoffs seven straight years. They've appeared in five consecutive NBA Finals, winning three titles.
Curry is a two-time MVP and is on the short list of best players in the NBA. Draymond Green is incredible and always will be underrated.
Golden State added 23-year old D'Angelo Russell, who averaged 21.1 points and 7.0 assists last season en route to making his first All-Star Game.
[RELATED: Warriors didn't sign Russell just to trade him, Myers says]
Head coach Steve Kerr and general manager Bob Myers still are onboard.
Be careful doubting the Dubs.
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NBA2K20 ratings: Warriors' Steph Curry, Klay Thompson ranked in top 15
By Brian Witt July 15, 2019 7:50 PM
Who is the best player in the NBA?
If you asked five different people, you might get five different answers. But where's the fun in that?
Enter the NBA2K video game series.
The ratings for the top 20 players in the new NBA2K20 game were unveiled Monday, and while it's hard to argue with the players that were included, there's naturally plenty of controversy regarding their respective rankings.
For instance, Warriors fans might feel like Steph Curry belongs in the top five. NBA2K20 disagrees.
Curry came in as the No. 6 ranked players in NBA2K20 with an overall rating of 95, just behind Houston's James Harden and Brooklyn's Kevin Durant (both 96 overall).
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— Rob Lopez (@r0bato) July 16, 2019
Rounding out the top three: reigning league MVP Giannis Antetokounpo (96 overall), reigning Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard (97 overall), and finally, the Lakers' LeBron James (97 overall).
Just like his fellow backcourt mate, one could make the case Golden State's Klay Thompson is underrated as well. With an overall rating of 89, Thompson comes in at No. 14 in the player rankings.
The players ranked 11-20 in #NBA2k20
Kyrie Irving is a 91 pic.twitter.com/VMzBCMA58Y
While you can quibble with the Splash Brothers' overall rankings, you can't when it comes to their specialized skill sets. Out of all the players in NBA2K20, Curry and Thompson are ranked as the two best 3-point shooters, respectively. Curry has the maximum 3-point shooting rating possible (99), while Thompson isn't far behind at 97.
Top 5 shooters in #NBA2k20
Stephen Curry - 99 3PT Rating
Klay Thompson - 97 3PT
Joe Harris - 94 3PT
JJ Redick - 90 3PT
Buddy Hield - 90 3PT pic.twitter.com/WSM0qFwRDY
Now, the most pressing NBA2K20 ratings question remaining: Where the heck is Draymond Green?
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CTTI takes on site investigator turnover in new recommendations
The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) unveiled new recommendations aimed at reducing high rates of turnover among U.S. clinical trial site investigators at the Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS) Global Site Solutions Summit on Oct. 7. CTTI's practical solutions address the administrative, financial, and logistical burdens that are causing investigators to abandon clinical research.
"One thing we've seen from our work in this area is that there's no shortage of physicians interested in participating as trial investigators," said Duke cardiologist Dr. Matthew Roe, co-team leader for CTTI's Investigator Community Project. "The problem is that leading a trial is complex and the learning curve is steep. If you're new to the field or you don't have mentors, training, and infrastructure to support you, the burdens can quickly become overwhelming and lead to an investigator only doing a single trial—something we call 'one and done'. Then the imperfect cycle begins again with a new investigator."
Drawing on combined experience and insight from investigators, sponsors, CROs, patients, regulators, and representatives from clinical research professional societies and trade associations, CTTI identified the key challenges facing investigative sites.
"For an investigator to effectively manage their site and study there are many elements that must be given serious consideration—and are often unknown at the onset of the first study—to ensure they do not become a 'one and done,'" said Christine Pierre, president of SCRS. "These recommendations help guide that direction for the site and the rest of the industry. The true impact will only be realized when all stakeholders embraces these recommendations."
Although the CTTI recommendations were tailored for action by different stakeholders—investigators, sponsors, contract research organizations, and health systems—strategies such as supporting continuous training, maintaining clear communications and operational procedures, and fostering a climate of mutual respect emerged as cross-cutting themes.
"These recommendations are a blueprint for creating a system that supports successful and sustainable clinical trials," noted Sheryl Jacobs, vice president of Global Development Operations at Amgen. "The Investigator Community Project provides straightforward, actionable steps that the biopharmaceutical industry can take to ensure that clinical research remains an attractive arena for skilled and talented people looking to make a difference in patients' lives."
The new recommendations will be the focus of a panel discussion taking place at SCRS' Global Site Solutions Summit on Oct. 7 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. EDT. CTTI will also present the recommendations during a public webinar on Oct. 19 at noon EDT.
Global Funding for this project was made possible, in part, by the FDA through grant 5R18FD005292-04, views expressed in written materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does any mention of trade names, commercial practices or organization imply endorsement by the United States Government.


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      String ldapHost="ldap://xyz.domain.com:389";
      String searchBase = "cn=users,dc=dom,dc=com";
      Scanner sn=new Scanner(System.in);
        String user=sn.next();
        String password=sn.next();
      String returnedAtts[] ={ "sn", "givenName", "mail" };
      String searchFilter = "(&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=" + user + "))";

      //Create the search controls
      SearchControls searchCtls = new SearchControls();
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      env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, password);

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i just need to authenticate the user and password. but cant figure out what the problem is. should i add security protocol(ssl/tls)? javx.Nmaing.AuthenticationException pops every time when i run it on the server? i cant hardly do anything. hlep me out.
thank you!

A: Your problem is probably this line:
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, user + "@" + domain);
You are constructing a username that may not be valid. For this to work, the user's userPrincipalName needs to match user + "@" + domain. Try using just user.

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David Castillo and Massimo Lollini, editors.
Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
xxiv, 358 p. ; 23 cm.
Hispanic issues (Vanderbilt University) ; v. 32.
David Castillo and Massimo Lollini-- Introduction: Reason and Its Others in Early Modernity (A View from the South)-- Part 1. Of Walls and Windows: Containment Machines and the Drive Towards the Unknown-- * Andrea Battistini, "Galileo Galilei's Sydereus Nuncius"-- * Silvia Contarini, "Descartes in Naples: The Reception of Passions de l'ame"-- * Leah Middlebrook, "Femando de Herrera Invented the Internet: Technologies of Self-Containment in the Early Modern Sonnet"-- * Bradley Nelson, "A Ritual Practice for Modernity: Baltasar Gracian's Organized Body of Taste"-- * Nathalie Hester, "Unreasonable Travel: The Place of Europe in F. Negri's Viaggio Settentrionale"-- * Dianne Dugaw and Amanda Powell, "Baroque Sapphic Poetry: A Feminist Road Not Taken"-- Part 2. Of Houses and Cities: Early Modern Spaces and the Aporias of Baroque Reason-- * John Marino, "The Foreigner and the Citizen: A Dialogue on Good Government in Spanish Naples"-- * William Childers, "The Baroque Public Sphere"-- * William Egginton, "Reason's Baroque House (Cervantes, Master Architect)"-- * Julio Baena, "Spanish Mannerist Detours in the Mapping of Reason: Around Cervantes' Novelas Ejemplares"-- * Anthony Cascardi, "Genealogy of the Sublime in the Aesthetics of the Baroque"-- Part 3. The West Wing: America and the Frontiers of Reason-- * Fernando R. de la Flor, "Sacrificial Politics in the Spanish Colonies"-- * George Mariscal, "Bartolome de las Casas on Imperial Ethics and the Use of Force"-- * Margaret Greer, "Imperialism and Anthropophagi: The Unthought Known"-- * Fernando Ordonez, "Reason and Utopia at the Imperial Borders: Modernity/Coloniality in the Jesuit Reducciones in Paraguay"-- * Giuseppe Mazzota, "Universal History: Vico's New Science between Antiquarians and Ethnographers".
By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy, Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussions on the early modern notions of reason and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and periphery, freedom and containment, self and other. We still dream early modern dreams (Reason, the Subject, the Nation, the Modern World), and we are still haunted by the void at the center of it all.
Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Baroque literature > History and criticism.
Italian literature > 16th century > History and criticism.
Italian literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Spain > Intellectual life > 1516-1700.
Italy > Intellectual life > 1559-1789.
Latin America > Intellectual life > 16th century.


The Bruins trail #10 Jamestown by ½ game in the North Star Athletic Association. They visit Viterbo April 9-10.
The Warhawks play Thomas in Ozark, AL in April 6, then host William Carey (ISR #14) April 8-9.
The Warriors lead the Golden State Athletic Conference, but are ½ game back of #13 Vanguard. They visit William Jessup April 8-9, and host Providence Christian April 12.


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Yugoslavia: NATO Bombers Target Serb Army And Special Police Forces
May 09, 1999 00:00 GMT
By Ben Partridge
London, 5 May 1999 (RFE/RL) -- A British military spokesman says NATO pilots in the past 24 hours have targeted Serbian army and special police forces deployed tactically on the ground in Kosovo.
Air Marshal John Day, speaking yesterday at a daily British Defense Ministry briefing in London, said alliance fighter planes hit Yugoslav tanks, artillery, other military vehicles, and troops. He called it a "very busy day of bombing."
In addition, more than 50 static targets were attacked throughout the whole of Yugoslavia. The targets included fuel storage facilities, bridges, army facilities, airfields, command and control centers and communication links.
Day said Royal Air Force Harrier jets flew 17 missions against Serb military and special police, dropping cluster bombs and 500 kg bombs. He said all NATO pilots returned safely to base.
British Defense Minister George Robertson told the briefing that NATO air strikes are cutting Yugoslav forces "off from resupply and reinforcement, and have already destroyed many of the structures on which these forces depend."
He said in the past few days NATO aircraft have "concentrated on pounding the forces in the field, the armor, tanks and the soldiers inside Kosovo."
French Defense Minister Alain Richard told the news conference by video link from Paris that there is "great solidarity" between the North Atlantic alliance and the EU in pursuing the air campaign against what he called "the aggressive regime" in Belgrade.
"Together in Washington [at a recent NATO summit], we [vowed] that [Yugoslav President Slobodan] Milosevic could not count on the allies being divided, and that we would remain untouched by his attempts to drive us from our clear and very simple goals, to make it possible for every inhabitant of Kosovo to live peacefully in security in their province."
Richard said the alliance is ready to stop the bombing if Milosevic meets the five demands of the international community.
These are an end to the killings in Kosovo, the withdrawal of Serb forces, the acceptance of an international military presence, the unrestricted and safe return of all refugees to their homes, and a permanent peace settlement.
French military spokesman General Xavier Delcourt said France and Britain are providing 50 percent of the European military contribution to the air campaign, and some 20 percent of overall assets.
While the air strikes are now in their sixth week, international aid agencies continue a humanitarian airlift to hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians who have been forced by Serb forces to flee to neighboring Albania and Macedonia.
Robertson says a number of non-NATO countries are contributing to this relief effort. Slovakia is providing engineers, while Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Slovenia have sent medical personnel.


• Billings up 16.6% to £36.929 billion.
• Reported revenue up 20.9% to £7.477 billion, up 9.0% in constant currency.
• Like-for-like revenue up 2.7%.
• Headline EBITDA up 20.4% to £1.291 billion from £1.072 billion.
• Headline operating profit before interest and tax up 20.5% to £1,118 million from £928 million.
• Headline operating margin of 15.0% against target margin of 15.3% including TNS.
• Headline profit before tax up 18.5% to £968 million from £817 million.
• Profit before tax up 3.8% to £747 million from £719 million.
• Diluted headline earnings per share up 21.2% to 55.5p from 45.8p.
• Reported diluted earnings per share down 1.1% to 37.6p from 38.0p.
• Second interim dividend up 12.6% to 10.28p per share making a total for the year of 15.47p up 15.0% over 2007.
• Average net debt, up £614 million to £2.206 billion from £1.592 billion (at 2008 exchange rates), including the impact of £1.0 billion net cash outlays for acquisitions and earnout payments.
• Estimated net new billings of almost £2.9 billion ($5.6 billion) and ranked first in two of the three leading industry new business surveys.
• TNS integration going well with synergy estimate revised upwards and benefits expected sooner than original forecast.
• Revised operating margin targets of 14.3% and 14.8%, including TNS, for 2009 and 2010.
• As previously announced, rolling share-buyback programme to be reduced in 2009 and 2010 to 1% per annum and dividend growth target to 15% per annum.
The Board of WPP plc ("WPP") announces the unaudited preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2008, the Group's twenty-third year and which include the results of Taylor Nelson Sofres plc, "TNS" for two months. 2008 was another record year for the Group, on most dimensions, despite the worsening economic climate.
The full year results for the Group show billings up 16.6% at £36.929 billion, or $67.381 billion.
Reportable revenue was up 20.9% to £7.477 billion. Revenue, including 100% of associates, is estimated to total over £8.9 billion. On a constant currency basis, revenue was up 9.0%, primarily reflecting the strength of the euro and US dollar against the pound sterling. Like-for-like revenues, excluding the impact of acquisitions and on a constant currency basis, were up 2.7%.
Reported operating costs together with direct costs (but excluding goodwill impairment, amortisation of acquired intangibles and profits on disposal of fixed asset investments), rose by 20.9% and by 9.4% in constant currency. Like-for-like total operating and direct costs rose 2.9%. Reported staff costs, excluding incentives (which includes the cost of share-based compensation), were up 22.5%. Incentive payments (including the cost of share-based compensation) totalled £213.8 million (£230.7 million in 2007), down 7.3%, which represent 16.6% (20.6% in 2007) of headline operating profit before bonuses and income from associates. Before these incentive payments, operating margins remained strong at 17.8%. On a reported basis, the Group's staff cost to revenue ratio improved slightly to 58.2% compared with 58.3% in 2007.
Part of the Group's strategy is to continue to ensure that variable staff costs are a significant proportion of total staff costs and revenue, as this provides flexibility to deal with volatility in revenues and recessions or slow-downs. In 2007, the ratio of variable staff costs to total staff costs fell marginally by 0.3 percentage points to 12.7% and in 2008 to 11.4%. As a proportion of revenue, variable staff costs were 7.4% in 2007 and 6.6% in 2008. These variable staff costs provide a "shock absorber" to operating margins as revenues come under increasing pressure. We estimate that at least half of these variable staff costs can be reduced in the course of a recession. There is, therefore, a potential buffer of 2 - 3 margin points.
The number of people in the Group, excluding associates, averaged 97,438 against 84,848 in 2007, an increase of 14.8%. On a like-for-like basis, average headcount was up to 97,438 from 93,788 an increase of 3.9%. At the end of 2008, staff numbers were 112,262 compared with 110,869 at the end of 2007 on a like-for-like basis, an increase of 1.3%, indicating that recent actions taken had moderated the rate of increase in headcount, which is now more balanced with like-for-like revenue growth.
Headline earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation ("Headline EBITDA") rose 20.4% to £1.291 billion and 6.6% in constant currencies.
Headline operating profit or profit pre-goodwill impairment, amortisation of acquired intangibles, interest, tax and investment gains and write-downs was up 20.5% to £1,118 million from £928 million and up 6.4% in constant currencies. Headline operating margin was flat at 15.0%, slightly down from the target margin of 15.3% for 2008, on the same basis, including TNS for two months. Reported profit before interest and tax was up 9.0% to £922 million from £846 million.
Net finance costs (excluding the revaluation of financial instruments) were £149.8 million up from £110.7 million last year, largely reflecting higher average net debt as a result of acquisitions, including TNS and higher interest rates.
Reported profit before tax rose by 3.8% to £747 million, reflecting incremental goodwill impairment, amortisation of intangibles and investment write-downs.
The Group's tax rate on headline profit before tax was 25.3%, the same as 2007.
Diluted headline earnings per share were up 21.2% at 55.5p. In constant currency, earnings per share on the same basis were up 5.5%. Diluted earnings per share fell by 1.1% to 37.6p.
The Board recommends a second interim dividend of 10.28p per share, an increase of 12.6% over the final dividend for 2007, which together with the first interim dividend of 5.19p per share, makes a total of 15.47p per share for 2008, a 15.0% increase over 2007. The dividend paid in respect of 2008 is 4.0 times covered by headline earnings. The second interim dividend of 10.28p per ordinary share will be paid on 6 July 2009 to holders of ordinary shares in the Company on 5 June 2009.
Income access share arrangements have been put in place by the Company, the mechanics of which mean that the Company will declare a second interim rather than a final dividend. The Board has no plans to announce any additional dividend in respect of the year ended 31 December 2008. Share owners who hold more than 100,000 ordinary shares and who wish to receive their dividend from a United Kingdom source must make an election. Share owners who held 100,000 or fewer WPP ordinary shares on the date of admission of the Company's shares to the London Stock Exchange, or (if later) on the first dividend record date after they became share owners in the company, will be automatically deemed to have elected to receive a United Kingdom-sourced dividend. All elections remain in force indefinitely unless revoked. Unless share owners have made, or are deemed to have made, an election under the Dividend Access Plan, their dividend will be paid from an Irish source and be taxed accordingly.
Further details of WPP's financial performance are provided in Appendix I.
As a number of our competitors report in US dollars and inter-currency comparisons are difficult to make, Appendix 2 shows WPP's preliminary results in reportable US dollars. This shows that US dollar reportable revenues were up 9.7% to $13.6 billion, headline profits were up 6.4% to $1.984 billion and diluted headline earnings per share up 5.6% to 97.8¢.
2008 was largely a year of two contrasting halves. A strong first half, where organic revenues grew more than 4%, in comparison to 2007's overall 5% (although second quarter revenue growth wobbled a little), and a weaker second half with slowing organic growth of over 1%, as the impact of the sub-prime and insurance monoline crises, that started towards the end of 2007, was intensified by the collapse, emergency acquisition and restructuring of financial institutions in most parts of the world. The Group's like-for-like headcount continued to grow faster than like-for-like revenue growth in the first half and third quarter, although this did not have a significant negative impact on achieving the Group's operating margin target of 15.5% (ex-TNS) and 15.3% (including TNS), until the "Beijing bounce" anticipated in the Group's budget and reforecasts for the third quarter of 2008 failed to materialise. In the fourth quarter, better than the latest forecast revenue growth (and better than some competitors) and decisive action taken to reduce the like-for-like growth in headcount, improved relative performance. The average like-for-like headcount growth for the year of 3.9%, contrasted sharply with the year end like-for-like headcount growth of 1.3%, as headcount fell through a mixture of non-replacement, the attrition rate and increased severance.
Although the UEFA football championship, the Beijing Olympics and the US Presidential Election had the usual positive maxi-quadrennial effect on client spending, worldwide advertising and marketing expenditures only rose about 2-3% in the year.
Despite the overall slow-down in the industry growth rate, three engines of relative growth remained. Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe, iconically represented by the BRICs and the Next 11 markets (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Turkey and Vietnam), continued to grow faster and now represent almost 27% of the Group's approximately $15 billion pro-forma revenue. As did new media and the application of technology in the form of internet, PC, mobile, video content and social networks, which now account for almost 25% of Group revenues. And finally, as did consumer insight and information, insight and consultancy, which now account for almost 27% of Group revenues, on a proforma basis.
¹ If Central and Eastern Europe is included with the faster growing markets of Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, the proportion of Group revenues represented by these markets rises to 27.0% and Continental Europe falls to 23.6%.
Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East continued to be the fastest growing region, with Africa and the Middle East being the fastest growing sub-region. Asia Pacific remained strong across the region, with mainland China up almost 9% and India up 21%, although Japan and Australia were weaker. Continental Europe and the United Kingdom, although suffering from the deterioration in economic conditions, both grew over 2% like-for-like, with Central and Eastern Europe buoying Continental Europe's overall growth. In 2008, Continental Europe remained two-paced, with Western Continental Europe softer and Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the other CIS countries, in particular, more buoyant. This remained the case through the end of the year. Of the big five Western European markets, Spain and Italy were weakest, France and Germany were stable and the United Kingdom was stronger. North America was the weakest region with like-for-like growth almost flat, although revenues in the fourth quarter were stronger than forecast. There were conflicting trends in North America as, on the one hand, smaller businesses may be more rapidly affected by the recession and, on the other hand, FMCG companies may be maintaining their brand investment spending, even in more difficult times.
Estimated net new billings of £2.9 billion ($5.6 billion) were won last year, reflecting a consistently high level of wins throughout the year. The Group was ranked first in two of the three major industry new business surveys in 2008 and was, therefore, the leading group overall in new business acquisition, excluding re-appointments, as is the industry convention.
Public relations and public affairs was the fastest growing communications services sector on a like-for-like basis. New technologies and new media have, once again, demonstrated the power of editorial publicity through fast-growing new applications such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Wikipedia, along with the risks and difficulties of making money on social networking sites through advertising, as even experts like Facebook have found on two occasions. In addition, public relations and public affairs have benefitted from the impact of polling techniques, which have provided a more scientific basis for the industry. Advertising and media investment management also grew above average in 2008 and this communications services sector was strengthened particularly by media investment management, which grew at almost 9%. Information, insight and consultancy continued to show resilience in difficult economic conditions, growing above the average. This part of the industry certainly seems to have a lower 'beta', growing less rapidly in the upturn and more steadily in the downturn. Branding and identity, healthcare and specialist communications was the slowest growing segment of our business as the significant growth in direct, digital and interactive services was overpowered by slower growth in healthcare and specialist communications. The specialist communications segment of our business, includes a number of smaller companies, largely in the United States and Western Europe, which have particularly felt the impact of the recent slow-down and recession.
In constant currencies, advertising and media investment management revenue grew by 4.4%. Like-for-like revenue growth was 3.6%. The combined operating margin of this sector rose by over 1 margin point.
In 2008, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, JWT, Y&R Advertising, Grey and United Red Cell generated estimated net new billings of £865 million ($1.686 billion).
Also in 2008, GroupM, the Group's media investment management company, which includes Mindshare, Mediaedge:cia, MediaCom and MAXUS generated estimated net new billings of £1.261 billion ($2.459 billion).
On a constant currency basis, information, insight and consultancy revenues grew 27.8%, largely as a result of the acquisition of TNS, with like-for-like revenues up 3.0%. Gross margin grew by 2.9% on a like-for-like basis. Overall reported margins fell by 0.2 margin points to 11.3%.
Strong performances were recorded by Millward Brown - MaPS and Dynamic Logic in the United States, Canada, Millward Brown and Sadek Wynberg in the United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, ACSR in China, Firefly in Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines; Research International in the United Kingdom, France, Poland, Kenya, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand; IMRB in India; Lightspeed Research in the United Kingdom, the United States and Singapore; Japan Kantar Research; The Futures Company and Kantar HeadlightVision; Cheskin Added Value in the United States, Oracle Added Value in China and Hong Kong; Management Ventures in the United States; BPRI in the United Kingdom; Glendinning in the United States, France, South Africa, Australia and Thailand; Cannondale Associates in the United States; TNS Worldpanel, iTRAM and Custom worldwide.
Public relations and public affairs continued its strong growth with constant currency revenue up 6.9% and like-for-like growth of 4.9%. Particularly strong were Hill & Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide and Clarion in the United Kingdom.
Overall reported margins for this sector remained flat at 16.6%.
The Group's branding and identity, healthcare and specialist communications revenues rose by 7.6%. Like-for-like revenues rose marginally. Reported operating margins were down by 1.6 margin points to 12.6%. The Group's direct, internet and interactive businesses showed particularly strong revenue growth.
• in branding and identity – Landor in New York, France, Germany, Dubai, Mexico, China and India; The Brand Union in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Dubai, South Africa, China, Hong Kong and Ray + Keshavan in India; Fitch in India, Malaysia and Singapore; VBAT; Lambie-Nairn; The Partners.
• in healthcare – Sudler & Hennessey - CMD in the United States, France and Germany; ghg - Catalyst Online and Vogel Farina in the United States, Darwin Grey in the United Kingdom and France; CommonHealth in the United States.
• in promotion and direct marketing – OgilvyOne - in Global Strategies, The Lacek Group, Canada, Neo@Ogilvy in Canada, Ireland, Neo@Ogilvy in the United Kingdom, Neo@Ogilvy in Germany, Neo@Ogilvy in Italy, Neo@Ogilvy in Spain, OgilvyOne in the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Argentina, Datasearch in Brazil, Mexico, Neo@Ogilvy in India, Lee and Jang in Korea, OgilvyOne and Redworks in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Logic, Redworks and Neo@Ogilvy in Japan; Ogilvy Activation; Wunderman - in Chicago, Irvine, Seattle, RTC, KBM, Fortelligent and ZAAZ in the United States, Burrows and Wunderman London in the United Kingdom, Haehn & Partners and Fact n Fiction in Germany, Kassius in France, Wunderman and Futurecom in Portugal, Wunderman Belgium, Pan Mail in Greece, Aqua Online in South Africa, Wunderman and Action Line in Argentina, Wunderman and Action Line in Brazil, Chile, Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea; G2 - in Direct & Digital Media in New York, Direct & Digital in Los Angeles and Chicago, Sales Promotion, Interactive Marketing in the United States, Data Dynamics in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, China, Malaysia, Vietnam and RAMS in India.
• in specialist communications – The Food Group in the United States, Metro Group, Spafax and The Farm in the United Kingdom.
• in digital – 24/7 Real Media; Schematic in the United States; BLUE in the United Kingdom, China and Singapore; Quasar in India.
Revenues and profits at the Group's manufacturing division were up slightly in 2008, against the recessionary trend.
The unaudited preliminary Group consolidated balance sheet as at 31 December 2008 is attached in Appendix I. Net debt averaged £2.206 billion in 2008, up £614 million from £1.592 billion in 2007 (at 2008 exchange rates). As at 31 December 2008, the Group's net debt increased to £3.068 billion compared with £1.286 billion at 31 December 2007, reflecting the net acquisition cost of TNS and other smaller acquisitions and earnout payments totalling £1.0 billion, debt acquired on the acquisition of TNS of £578 million, the impact of the weakness in the pound sterling against the Euro and US dollar, which amounted to £449 million, mitigated by lower spending on share repurchases. These net debt figures compare with a current equity market capitalisation of approximately £4.8 billion, giving a total enterprise value of approximately £7.8 billion.
Cash flow strengthened as a result of careful working capital management and cash flow from operations. In 2008, operating profit before goodwill impairment, amortisation of acquired intangible assets and charges for non-cash based incentive plans was £1,131 million, capital expenditure £221 million, depreciation £173 million, tax paid £182 million, interest and similar charges paid £134 million and other net cash inflows of £10 million. Free cash flow available for debt repayment, acquisitions, share buybacks and dividends was therefore £777 million. This free cash flow was absorbed by £1,049 million in net acquisition payments and investments, share repurchases and cancellations of £112 million and dividends of £162 million. This resulted in a net outflow of £546 million. An unaudited consolidated cash flow statement is included in Appendix I.
In the first seven weeks of 2009, up until 20 February, the last date for which information is available prior to this announcement, net debt averaged £3.263 billion up £1.441 billion versus £1.822 billion for the same period last year at 2009 exchange rates.
Your Board continues to examine ways of deploying its substantial cash flow of over £1 billion per annum to enhance share owner value. As necessary capital expenditure, spent mainly on information technology and property, is expected to remain approximately equal to the depreciation charge in the long-term, the Company has concentrated on examining potential acquisitions and on returning excess capital to share owners in the form of dividends and/or share buy-backs.
The cost of the acquisition of TNS was £1.6 billion and was funded principally by debt. The company has previously announced that for two years following this acquisition, the Group's share buy-back programme will be targeted at 1% per annum and dividend growth at 15% per annum, subject to review by the Board. These actions, together with a reduced level of acquisition spend targeted at £100 million per annum, are expected to generate surplus cash and a reduction in the borrowing levels.
In October 2008, the Company successfully completed the acquisition of TNS, a major information, insight and consultancy group, operating in over 80 countries with almost 17,000 people worldwide. TNS is a market leader in Continental Europe with strong positions in the United Kingdom, Asia and the Middle East and is a major supplier of consumer panel, media intelligence and TV and radio audience measurement data. It is competitively strong in key industries, including automotive, technology, healthcare and retail and packaged goods. The combination of TNS and the other companies within Kantar – the Group's information, insight and consultancy business, has created the second largest global insight, information and consultancy group and the fourth largest information services company in the world, after Thomson Reuters, Nielsen and Bloomberg. This combination now provides leading positions in Shopper research and marketing, Media (outside of the US), Healthcare, Communications and Innovation. In a recently announced reorganisation, TNS Custom Research has now been merged with Research International and four specialist research units have been formed – Kantar Media, Kantar Healthcare, Kantar Retail and Kantar Worldpanel. Kantar Operations will consolidate back office operations at Kantar and TNS.
TNS performed well in line with its revenue and profit forecast at the time of its acquisition. Our estimates of synergy benefits are being met and in fact being added to. The cost benefits identified will also be realised sooner than originally anticipated and the cost ratios will be in line with our original projections. Integration has gone well so far and the new organisational structure for the combined Kantar and TNS has been implemented as indicated above.
In addition to the acquisition of TNS, the Group continued to make small to medium-sized acquisitions and/or investments in high growth geographical or functional areas. The net initial cost of all acquisitions was £1,049 million in cash, (including £736 million for TNS), and other than TNS was concentrated in advertising and media investment management in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ukraine, the Middle East, Kenya, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore and Vietnam; in information, insight & consultancy in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil and India; in public relations and public affairs in the United Kingdom, China, Korea and India; in direct, internet and interactive in the United States, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Russia, China, India, Japan and Malaysia; and in branding and identity in the Netherlands.
In 2008, 18.8 million ordinary shares, equivalent to 1.6% of the share capital, were purchased at an average price of £5.96 per share and a total cost of £112.2 million, the same figure as announced in the Group's third quarter trading update. All of these shares were purchased in the market and subsequently cancelled. As the Group was required to withdraw from the buyback market during the TNS bid, which started at the beginning of May, no further shares could have been repurchased until the TNS offer became unconditional on 29 October 2008.
Including associates, the Group had over 135,000 full-time people in almost 2,400 offices in 107 countries at the year end. It services 345 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, 29 of the Dow Jones 30, 50 of the Nasdaq 100, 33 of the Fortune e-50, and 705 national or multi-national clients in three or more disciplines. 443 clients are served in four disciplines and these clients account for over 58% of Group revenues. The Group also works with over 313 clients in six or more countries.
These statistics reflect the increasing opportunities for developing client relationships between activities nationally, internationally and by function. The Group estimates that over 35% of new assignments in the year were generated through the joint development of opportunities by two or more Group companies. New integration mechanisms, sensitive to global and local opportunities, including WPP global client leaders and country managers, continue to be developed. There is an increasing number of major client creative and integration opportunities at a Group level. The Group continues to be extremely successful in most, if not all, of the integrated marketing competitions that clients are increasingly initiating. These opportunities range from the creation of teams across the Group to the integration of various operating units and to the creation of individually tailored agencies to meet clients' needs. The Group's integration record leads its competitors by a considerable distance.
As the first year of the quadrennial cycle, there were to be no mini- or maxi-quadrenial events in 2009, to boost client spending. 2009 was always likely to be a weaker year but the unprecedented current financial crisis has triggered a vicious recession across the globe. Our budgets for 2009, initially indicated flat like-for-like revenue growth, but revenue out-performance in the fourth quarter of 2008 versus forecast and the prudent addition of further budgeted revenue contingencies, resulted in final budget revenues for 2009, being down 2% like-for-like, with relative decreases in costs. GroupM forecasts that global advertising spending (equivalent to approximately 40% of the Group's revenues) will fall by 4% versus 2% growth in 2008.
The first half is budgeted to be weaker than the annual average, with a relative improvement in the second half, partly due to weaker comparatives in the second half of 2008.
Geographically, there are relatively brighter spots budgeted in Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East, reflecting the continued relative strength of the BIC and Next 11 markets. Central and Eastern Europe, as a whole, remains relatively softer, as Russia is under extreme pressure, exacerbated by the falls in the oil price and the ruble, although we expect Russia to recover quickly, when the oil price does too. The United States and Western Europe remain relatively weaker, with recession biting hardest there and in Southern Europe.


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In Fairfax Stars Summer League championship games both held at Lee High School at 8:45 last night, the 10U Matrix Black team and the Matrix 11U Black team brought home runner-up trophies.
Coach Kevin Brown's Matrix 11U Black team fell to #2 seed Vienna in the G11 Division 1 championship game. It was a tight game in the first half as the Matrix trailed by 1 at the break. However, Vienna ran off a 17-3 scoring spree at the beginning of the 2nd half. The final score was by the final score of 44-21.
Coach Jim Butler's Matrix 10U Black team fell to #2 Braddock Road in a similar fashion. The 10U team was also close at the half, trailing by just 4 points after leading early in the game. But Braddock Road's pressure defense created too many turnovers as the Matrix ultimtely fell short in its championship run by the final score of 22-8.
Still, congratulations to the players and coaches of these two Matrix teams as making it to the finals is still an excellent achievement. Click here to read more about how these two teams qualified for the finals and how the Matrix 10U Green team fell just one point short of joining the 10U Black team in an all Matrix championship game.


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"Свети Никола" () е православна възрожденска църква в прилепското село Вранче, Северна Македония. Църквата е под управлението на Преспанско-Пелагонийската епархия на Македонска православна църква.

Църквата е разположена в центъра на селото. Пред входа, от западната страна има много антични мраморни надгробни стели.

Църквата е дело на българската община и според надписа над южния вход отвътре е издигната в 1874 година при "патриарх" Антим I Български (като титлата му Български е издрана в надписа по-късно) и изписана в 1875 година от майстор Петре и сина му Глигур от Тресонче. Енорийски свещеник е "папа Ристе", а еклисиарх Тоше. Църковни настоятели и заслужили за изграждането на църквата са: Аризанко, Найдо Гайда, Йосиф, Найдо Костадинов, Стойан Боте, Мирче, Богдан, Иван, Петко, Тале и всички селяни вранчани. Над тремот има втори надпис за спомен на покойните Блажко и Васил Трайкови от 1913/15 година, които подарили "два каменни дирека" за црквата.

Църквата представлява еднокорабна сграда, с петостранна апсида отвън на източната страна и галерия на кат от западната. На западната страна има дограден трем, над който има камбанария. В началото на ХХ век старата живопис е покрита с нова. Църквата е реставрирана в 1926 година от Милан М. Дукич от Осой, Дебърско, но реконструкцията е лошо направена и оригиналните стенописи са повредени.

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Q: Performance Analysis of Node.JS application I have developed an application on Node.JS and stress tested it with JMeter. I have provided the throughput below which I dont understand.
Case 1:- For normal single node application:
1000 concurrent users X 1000 request made in 1 second -> throughput is 65,885 request/minute
(total 1000000 requests)
Case 2:-For application with a cluster of 4 nodes:
1000 concurrent users X 1000 request made in 1 second -> throughput is 32,215 request/minute
(total 1000000 requests)
P.S.: Both the tests are made on same 4-core machine. Cluster of 4 nodes is created using 'cluster' npm and there is no communication between any cluster nodes. As Node.JS is not multithreaded, No context switching among threads or processes, ideally if Case 1 process 4 request in 1 second, Case 2 should process 1 request in 1 second. I know this case is not possible in a multithreaded application. I thought Node.JS will provide some 4X throughput in Case 2 than Case 1, but right now it provided only 2X in my test.
Can anyone explain the rational behind it? Is it because all the worker nodes listening to the same port? or Inbuilt load-balancing among worker nodes is naive or something else?