While travellers flock to Peru for their Machu Picchu moment, tango the night away in Buenos Aires and party till dawn in buzzing Rio, Bolivia can often get unfairly overlooked in favour of the big hitters next door.
This is definitely, definitely a mistake. Bolivia is bursting with fascinating cultures, brilliant wildlife, compelling history and some of the most stunning scenery on planet earth.
Stand wistfully on the banks of Lake Titicaca.
Aside from the funny name Titicaca is full of attractions. Stay the night on the Isla Del Sol – an island with no cars and some fantastic walking routes that lead you from shore to shore through Inca ruins.
You can also visit the homes of the Uros – indigenous people who still live on man-made floating islands in the lake. On dry land the lakeside village of Copacabana (not that one) is a fantastic place kick back, lie on the beach, pig out on fresh fish and enjoy sunsets that are truly a sight to behold.
You know all those pictures you see of groups of people standing on white ground against a blue sky and pulling quite frankly hilarious poses of jumping out of a shoe and being picked up by their giant mate? No? Just us? Well this is where they take them.
Walk on air at the Salt Flats of Salar de Uyuni.
The wild west of Latin America, Potosi and the surrounds are stuff of western legends. There's a mountain here that's reputedly made of silver (it's not) and mining is still a major economic driver.
If you're feeling brave you can descend into a working silver mine and observe working practices that have barely changed in centuries (be sure to take a gift for the miners). If you prefer the open air why not take a trekking trip into the wilds of the desert or visit the train reported held up by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid just a year before they were finally captured.
If you look carefully you can see Zorro peeking his head over the parapet (possibly).
Get back to nature and discover Bolivia's wild side on a trip to the Pampas Amazonicas. Though less famous (and therefore less crowded) than its Peruvian and Brazilian neighbours, there is fantastic natural diversity in this part of Bolivia.
Chit chat with the moneys and crocs in the Bolivian jungle.
Bolivia is one of the cheapest countries in South America so take a break from your intense itinerary, stay longer, slow down and savour the experience. The pace of life here is best characterised by the saying mañana, mañana (tomorrow, tomorrow).
Lunch often takes three hours and involves 3 courses, office workers go home to eat and take a siesta (followed later by afternoon tea at 4 or 5), and the customary answer to "when does the bus leave" is "when it's full." Race around like a headless chicken and you'll miss everything, which sometimes is actually nothing more than life passing by around you.
If you want to experience a taste of Bolivian adventure, take a look at our huge selection of adventure tours in Bolivia and our cheap flights to Latin America.


As the continued revitalization of Brookfield's Four Corners moves forward, a staple will stay, but with major improvements.
A long time eatery at the Four Corners in Brookfield, Connecticut has been the Subway restaurant. You can still enjoy them, but with an upgrade and a new address.
In a story from newstimes.com a home town favorite will become another part of the ongoing rejuvenation of the Four Corners.
Subway restaurant will move from its current spot on Federal Road into Brookfield Village. The new location is due to open in the middle of April and it will be the first commercial tenant to open up in the development intended for multiple uses. As people start to move in and call Brookfield Village home, the area will eventually include other places to eat and shop. The first Phase of the revitalization is almost complete, with the second Phase beginning soon.
When the new Subway opens it will be a first for Connecticut. I know you're raising your eyebrows in disbelief since the state is already populated with many Subway restaurants. But this one is different. It's going to be the first in Connecticut to feature their Fresh Forward design, with things like a fresh vegetable display, four-screen digital menus, brighter interior design, USB charging ports, free Wi-Fi and more.
With the history of Subway having its roots in Bridgeport, Connecticut where the first location opened in 1965, it's exciting to have this updated version being part of all of the updates to Brookfield's Four Corners.


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TNS, the world's largest custom research agency, today announced the release of Custom Surveys within Your Budget, a new reference for how to manage online research methods.
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"My goal when drafting this book was to develop something that can be used as a reference for specific market research needs as well as an instructional tool to educate readers interested in doing market research." said author, Brian Cooper.
Managing research programs cost effectively has become increasingly important over the last few years. Marketing budgets have been slashed and researchers have been forced to rethink their approaches. "Research is about trade-offs. Understanding the nuances and impact of specific research decisions helps to improve research effectiveness and manage research costs," Cooper added. "It is critical that researchers use a consistent strategy to manage their research programs and demonstrate the value of their research.
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Q: How to catch key pressed with the virtual keyboard and disable it for EditText in Android? I need to control pressed buttons, before they goes to my EditText widget. It's should work like filter.
For example: I need that user could fill EditText only with digits 1,2,3,4,5 other symbols must be ignored. So the part of buttons on virtual keyboard should be disabled or I need to catch last pressed symbol, analyze it and disable for EditText.
Who knows the way how to solve this problem?
Thanks..

A:     statusEdt.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher(){
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I used this TextChangedListener(TextWatcher) to keep a count of how many characters had been typed into an EditText for a Twitter client I made. You could probably use a listener like this. You'll want to override beforeTextChanged or onTextChanged. These methods will pass you whatever CharSequence has been typed. You can check what was typed in and if it is not valid input you can remove it by calling setText() and passing in whatever has been typed so far minus the invalid characters.

A: What you probably need is an InputFilter.
For example to allow only digits, sign and decimal point:
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The National Portrait Gallery is just around the corner from the National Gallery and displays historical portraits of eminent Britishers since the Tudors.
The National Portrait Gallery is just around the corner from the National Gallery and displays historical portraits of eminent Britishers since the Tudors. Walk around the gallery chronologically, viewing portraits of notable figures from British history - from Henry VII, Shakespeare to Blur and David Beckham.


LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — Ni Hao, everybody, said Grace Xin of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada, welcoming delegates in Chinese to her session at the Alberta Hotel and Lodging Association conference last month.
Welcoming Chinese tourists to Canada was a hot topic at the conference, since Hainan Airlines will be flying directly from Beijing to Calgary three times a week starting June 30, with plans to offer a fourth flight later this year.
Xin praised Hilton Huanying, a program that offers Chinese travellers a customized hospitality experience during their stay, rolled out to more than 110 Hilton Worldwide properties globally last year. Similarly, IHG's Zhou Dao program, which offers training on Chinese etiquette, culture and hospitality, has been rolled out to tens of thousands of the hotel company's employees.
The Chinese people coming to Canada are wealthy, said Xin, noting she once saw one person spend $20,000 (CAN) in 15 minutes.
Food safety is very important, as is air quality. In China, Alberta air is for sale, and buyers will pay upwards of $15 for a little can of it.
China is all about competition and density — that means they are looking for serenity when they are travelling.
When mainland Chinese tourists come to Canada, they are interested in shopping, gawking, seeking medical care, gambling and visiting schools. "Don't underestimate education as a tourism driver," Xin said.
Some of the cultural influences on service are tangible — for example, Chinese people do not like to have a mirror facing a bed or to have fans blowing on the bed. The number four is always bad because it is close to death — number eight is good.
China has a hierarchical culture, with the attitude, "When I pay money, I am the master." They complain that servers don't give them enough respect. At the same time, drivers at the International Motorcoach Association complain that the Chinese are too rude. "The two sides need to communicate to understand," said Xin.
In restaurants here, we serve glasses of water with ice cubes; Chinese visitors would prefer hot water with lemon and no ice. They don't like cold food; they don't drink without food; they have three precise meal times and dessert is usually just fruit.
They tend to travel during the winter school holiday or the Chinese Spring Festival. Sixty-seven per cent of adult travellers have a Bachelor's degree and 30 per cent have a Master's. They all have mobile phones. They are also affluent, and many have travelled a lot already — Canada is late with their ADS designation — we're the 146th country. This means that many are already sophisticated travellers.
Chinese hotels were built more recently than many of our Canadian properties, with grander lobbies and newer buildings. We often have to lower their expectations of other countries' hotels, Xin said.
When they are dining, a good centrepiece is important. At a business lunch, there are generally eight to 10 appetizers and a similar number of main courses. People share everything. After dinner, they might want a private room for Karaoke followed by a foot massage.
How to bridge the gap? Chateau Montebello arranges private rooms for groups of Chinese diners, who tend to be noisy when they eat.
Key to playing the Chinese game is offering UnionPay, as they have to pay more exchange fees on cards like Visa or MasterCard and those cards have a $50,000 (USD) per year limit — not helpful when they are looking to buy items such as a car for their kids.
In China, they are not allowed to gamble, and UnionPay cannot operate inside gaming establishments. Smart establishments such as Edgewater and River Rock casinos in the Greater Vancouver Area have large UnionPay signs and machines just outside the property.


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TURKISH CYPRIOT CENSUS UNLIKELY TO PROVIDE MUCH CLARITY
2006 May 2, 13:53 (Tuesday)
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CY - Cyprus | PGOV - Political Affairs--Government; Internal Governmental Affairs | PHUM - Political Affairs--Human Rights | PREL - Political Affairs--External Political Relations
Cyprus Nicosia
Austria Vienna | Greece Athens | Secretary of State | Turkey Ankara | U.S. Mission to European Union (formerly EC) (Brussels) | United Kingdom London | United Nations (New York)
C O N F I D E N T I A L NICOSIA 000643 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/02/2021 TAGS: PREL, PGOV, PHUM, CY SUBJECT: TURKISH CYPRIOT CENSUS UNLIKELY TO PROVIDE MUCH CLARITY Classified By: Ambassador Ronald Schlicher; Reason 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) Summary: Although authorities enforced a strict 13-hour curfew to improve prospects for an accurate count, lingering questions about the reliability of the Turkish Cypriot census on April 30 are likely to undercut the utility of what was -- by local standards -- an enormously complex undertaking. The most serious problem seems to have been the relative inexperience of the 5,800 census takers, many of them college students hired for the one-day event. The Director of the "State Planning Organization" (SPO) admitted to us that her office would need to develop a system for counting those who had been overlooked in the April 30 count. The big question, of course, is whether anyone outside of the "TRNC" will accept the results of the census as accurate and legitimate. Greek Cypriot officials got out of the blocks early in publicly dismissing the value of the Turkish Cypriot census. Having taken this step, however, it will be extremely difficult for Turkish Cypriot authorities to agree -- as the Greek Cypriot side is demanding -- that the question of a census should be included on the agenda for UN-sponsored technical talks. End Summary. 2. (SBU) As planned, Turkish Cypriot authorities enforced a strict curfew from 5:00 am until 6:00 pm on April 30 so that the "State Planning Organization" (SPO) could conduct a general census. Police charged at least 21 people with violating the mandatory curfew. Approximately 5,800 staff (mostly college students) fanned out across the "TRNC" with the goal of an actual count of all those present in the north. Even tourists were restricted to their hotels so that they could be included in the count. In addition to the raw numbers, SPO census takers had a list of 61 questions, with each staff member required to survey approximately 20 homes. Preliminary results should be available within a few days, but "Prime Minister" Ferdi Soyer told diplomats at an April 26 briefing that it would take at least six months to prepare a thorough analysis of the data. 3. (C) It is already clear, however, that execution of the census survey was far from flawless. Turkish Cypriot newspapers reported that the SPO failed to find a substantial (but unknown) number of people, even though it had extended the count beyond the 6:00 pm deadline. Some residents of Nicosia and Famagusta reportedly called the SPO offices to complain that they had not been counted. SPO Director Busa Erozan admitted to us on May 2 that there had been some problems, but she expected that there would be some announcement as early as May 3 regarding special procedures for those overlooked in the initial count. Erozan also noted that SPO had not yet counted the Turkish military forces present in Cyprus. This would likely take another couple of days. 4. (C) Soyer's Private Secretary, Erkut Sahali, downplayed the problems reported in the press. Organizers, he insisted, had allowed for a margin-of-error of 0.2%. Most of the error rate could be attributed to the construction of new residences that had not yet been recorded in the municipal records. Ozlem Oguz, the Central Census Controller for the Morphou region, agreed that the final results would be fairly accurate, at least with respect to establishing the total number of Turkish Cypriots and the number of Turkish settlers. Other statistical data collected may not prove as useful, however, as the inexperienced census officers often did not handle the questionnaires professionally. There were not enough census takers to handle the volume. For this reason, she believed, the SPO had missed a significant number of houses and had failed to solicit the kind of detailed information necessary for the forms to be truly useful. Moreover, the "TRNC's" tardy request for the Council of Europe to provide observers for the census exercise could even serve to emphasize the procedural shortcomings on display. 5. (SBU) Meanwhile, Greek Cypriots were quick to reject the exercise altogether. Government Spokesman Yiorgos Lillikas maintained that the Turkish Cypriot census was of no value. The Greek Cypriot side, he noted, wanted this issue to be discussed at the technical talks being organized under UN auspices. To be valid, the census itself would have to be conducted in the presence of observers from the EU and other international organizations. House President and AKEL leader Christofias criticized the Turkish Cypriot refusal to hold the census under UN auspices and dismissed the April 30 count as "unreliable." In their editorials, Greek Cypriot newspapers charged that the Turkish Cypriot census was primarily aimed at legitimizing the presence of Turkish settlers. 6. (C) Comment: Although it seems a simple enough exercise, the idea of a census on the Turkish Cypriot side is politically-charged and inherently controversial. The big question is whether outsiders -- and in particular Greek Cypriots, the UN, and the EU -- will be ready to accept the results of the April 30 count as representing a legitimate and reasonably accurate approximation of the north's population. This seems highly unlikely. Having taken this step, however, it will be equally difficult for the Turkish Cypriots to agree that there is a need to put the question of a census onto the agenda for the technical committees. Their argument is likely to be that the April 30 headcount makes this a moot point. We would not expect the Greek Cypriot side to agree, and it will be very difficult for third parties to say that the exercise was so credible that the questions attendant to demographics in the north have been resolved by the census. SCHLICHER
C O N F I D E N T I A L NICOSIA 000643 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/02/2021 TAGS: PREL, PGOV, PHUM, CY SUBJECT: TURKISH CYPRIOT CENSUS UNLIKELY TO PROVIDE MUCH CLARITY Classified By: Ambassador Ronald Schlicher; Reason 1.4 (b) and (d) 1. (C) Summary: Although authorities enforced a strict 13-hour curfew to improve prospects for an accurate count, lingering questions about the reliability of the Turkish Cypriot census on April 30 are likely to undercut the utility of what was -- by local standards -- an enormously complex undertaking. The most serious problem seems to have been the relative inexperience of the 5,800 census takers, many of them college students hired for the one-day event. The Director of the "State Planning Organization" (SPO) admitted to us that her office would need to develop a system for counting those who had been overlooked in the April 30 count. The big question, of course, is whether anyone outside of the "TRNC" will accept the results of the census as accurate and legitimate. Greek Cypriot officials got out of the blocks early in publicly dismissing the value of the Turkish Cypriot census. Having taken this step, however, it will be extremely difficult for Turkish Cypriot authorities to agree -- as the Greek Cypriot side is demanding -- that the question of a census should be included on the agenda for UN-sponsored technical talks. End Summary. 2. (SBU) As planned, Turkish Cypriot authorities enforced a strict curfew from 5:00 am until 6:00 pm on April 30 so that the "State Planning Organization" (SPO) could conduct a general census. Police charged at least 21 people with violating the mandatory curfew. Approximately 5,800 staff (mostly college students) fanned out across the "TRNC" with the goal of an actual count of all those present in the north. Even tourists were restricted to their hotels so that they could be included in the count. In addition to the raw numbers, SPO census takers had a list of 61 questions, with each staff member required to survey approximately 20 homes. Preliminary results should be available within a few days, but "Prime Minister" Ferdi Soyer told diplomats at an April 26 briefing that it would take at least six months to prepare a thorough analysis of the data. 3. (C) It is already clear, however, that execution of the census survey was far from flawless. Turkish Cypriot newspapers reported that the SPO failed to find a substantial (but unknown) number of people, even though it had extended the count beyond the 6:00 pm deadline. Some residents of Nicosia and Famagusta reportedly called the SPO offices to complain that they had not been counted. SPO Director Busa Erozan admitted to us on May 2 that there had been some problems, but she expected that there would be some announcement as early as May 3 regarding special procedures for those overlooked in the initial count. Erozan also noted that SPO had not yet counted the Turkish military forces present in Cyprus. This would likely take another couple of days. 4. (C) Soyer's Private Secretary, Erkut Sahali, downplayed the problems reported in the press. Organizers, he insisted, had allowed for a margin-of-error of 0.2%. Most of the error rate could be attributed to the construction of new residences that had not yet been recorded in the municipal records. Ozlem Oguz, the Central Census Controller for the Morphou region, agreed that the final results would be fairly accurate, at least with respect to establishing the total number of Turkish Cypriots and the number of Turkish settlers. Other statistical data collected may not prove as useful, however, as the inexperienced census officers often did not handle the questionnaires professionally. There were not enough census takers to handle the volume. For this reason, she believed, the SPO had missed a significant number of houses and had failed to solicit the kind of detailed information necessary for the forms to be truly useful. Moreover, the "TRNC's" tardy request for the Council of Europe to provide observers for the census exercise could even serve to emphasize the procedural shortcomings on display. 5. (SBU) Meanwhile, Greek Cypriots were quick to reject the exercise altogether. Government Spokesman Yiorgos Lillikas maintained that the Turkish Cypriot census was of no value. The Greek Cypriot side, he noted, wanted this issue to be discussed at the technical talks being organized under UN auspices. To be valid, the census itself would have to be conducted in the presence of observers from the EU and other international organizations. House President and AKEL leader Christofias criticized the Turkish Cypriot refusal to hold the census under UN auspices and dismissed the April 30 count as "unreliable." In their editorials, Greek Cypriot newspapers charged that the Turkish Cypriot census was primarily aimed at legitimizing the presence of Turkish settlers. 6. (C) Comment: Although it seems a simple enough exercise, the idea of a census on the Turkish Cypriot side is politically-charged and inherently controversial. The big question is whether outsiders -- and in particular Greek Cypriots, the UN, and the EU -- will be ready to accept the results of the April 30 count as representing a legitimate and reasonably accurate approximation of the north's population. This seems highly unlikely. Having taken this step, however, it will be equally difficult for the Turkish Cypriots to agree that there is a need to put the question of a census onto the agenda for the technical committees. Their argument is likely to be that the April 30 headcount makes this a moot point. We would not expect the Greek Cypriot side to agree, and it will be very difficult for third parties to say that the exercise was so credible that the questions attendant to demographics in the north have been resolved by the census. SCHLICHER
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Personal Video Online: YouTube and Beyond
Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on Friday, March 24. 2006
First, some new news bits...
6/29/06 - NBC signed a deal to become the first major network to partner with YouTube. The agreement calls for NBC to create an "NBC Channel" on YouTube to promote shows including "Saturday Night Live," "The Office," and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Back in December 2005, the companies clashed because of a popular "SNL" spoof rap, "Lazy Sunday," that was posted to YouTube in violation of NBC's copyright.
3/22/06 - Following the Hollywood adage that there is "no bad advertising", the video website YouTube.com gained a huge following through some "bad" press. YouTube is a user-submitted video hosting site. Users upload their short videos (under 10 minutes) for the world to see. The site hosts them as Flash files - viewable, not downloadable. But they also upload professional commercial/copyrighted video.
Saturday Night Live featured a self-censored & simultaneously Natalie Portman rapping video that has had way too many plays and a music video that parodied "The Chronic(les) of Narnia" which ended up on the Net through illegal uploads. YouTube had its traffic shoot up from the videos (5 million streams over 45 days for one dubbed "Lazy Sunday"). And the NBC demands sent even more to view it. No such thing as bad advertising.
It took 2 months for NBC's legal department to contact viral video sites like YouTube about "Lazy Sunday" when it appeared last December during the month of YouTube's official version 1.0 launch. They demanded the clip and hundreds of others be removed. (This all by invoking the DMCA - more on that in a future entry). Of course, by then NBC had already posted it on their own site (You can watch "Lazy Sunday" on the NBC site for free, or download at Apple's iTunes for $1.99 (huh? why would anyone do that?) along with other NBC shows and clips).
Even though NBC and others have made more of their product available on new platforms, it's just not fast enough for the NetGen. Clips appear within the hour after broadcast. So, when YouTube users uploaded the Natalie Portman rap clip this month, NBC sent another removal demand.
What really scares these networks is that this generation is not watching television. Well, not television like was watched in the 50s-80s. They watch online. They watch clips. They pass them around. And now they post them and send the link.
Internet television is hot. YouTube is not the only site - video.google.com is also popular (and was quicker with a business plan to make deals with producers to sell video, like CBS old & new) and there's also video.yahoo.com. How about Charlie Rose for 99 cents or classic Twilight Zone episodes for $1.99?
But then YouTube has the spoof "Brokeback to the Future," where Back to the Future clips are edited/mashed in such a way to suggest a forbidden romance between Doc and Marty McFly.
Someone uploaded part of a video used to train flight attendants on YouTube and Google Video in February and American Airlines subpoenaed those companies on Feb. 21 under DMCA since the video. "Flight Attendant, Upside Down," is under copyright.
Another popular YouTube link is a Rice Krispies advertisement from 1964 featuring a jingle written and performed by the Rolling Stones. In 1964, the band asked not to be identified as being involved when the ad was aired.
I do enjoy the Comedy Central Daily Show clips - like this bit on Social Networking and MySpace.- and since I have their RSS for the videos in my Bloglines list, I get a summary each day of what they have posted and can decide if I want to click any of them.
The first "official" YouTube film trailer was for Scary Movie 4. In 3 days it had half a million views, with 2300 people rating it at 4 ½ stars, and 800 comments. Go ahead - buy some viral video for your product. And remember who the demographic audience is for that film...
Unfortunately there's also pornographic, inappropriate material, and just plain junk uploaded too.
"There's a lot of experimenting and showing off going on," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "Eventually the better stuff will survive, and people doing it for a thrill will fade away."
I hope so, but I'm not so sure.
YouTube has instituted "fingerprinting" to try to identify video that was already removed from being re-uploaded.
Nearly half of all Internet users (about 34 million homes) have watched video streamed online [Forrester Research] That includes movie trailers, music videos the latest episodes of shows and homemade video.
This online video raveup is also encouraging young filmmakers who can get thousands/millions of viewers online. You might get numbers that could compete with some broadcast and cable shows.
They are using video cams, cell phones, digital cameras, animation software, simple editors and now they have the important last leg - DISTRIBUTION.
Not so different from blogs that created amateur journalists or podcasts for "radio" shows.
"We're starting to see that anyone with an Internet connection, a digital camera and computer can become a star overnight," says Steve Chen, the 27-year-old co-founder of YouTube.
A Michigan 21 year old, David Lehre, produced "MySpace: The Movie," a satire on that popular online site. Someone (not him initially) put it on YouTube and it quickly became a hit. I'm hearing that MTV and Hollywood has contacted him to do some work.
Some are not as original. Video "mashups," (splicing and blend film and TV clips). are popular, both as spoofs and as music videos.
There are sites where you can make some money by submitting video like Break.com, which targets 18-35-year-old males and buys the rights to clips.
And online video is hardly new. Didn't you watch that kid with the light saber pretending to be in Star Wars, or those JibJab animated parodies in 2004 of John Kerry and George W. Bush?
YouTube: from zero to nine million plus viewers a month [Nielsen NetRatings]
25% of YouTube's hits are generated by MySpace [Hitwise]
By 2007, people are expected to watch 29 billion streams of video, up from 18 billion in 2005 [AccuStream iMedia Research]
GOING COMMERCIAL
CBS and Yahoo are airing college basketball games online during March Madness. NBC
MTV is teaming up with YouTube to promote one of its television shows, one of many more potential deals.
Tagworld, has music videos by the Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent and the Killers in a partnership with Universal Music Group.
EBaumsworld.com - "Media for the masses" is doing a one-hour pilot on USA Network.
ABC is planning to experiment with streaming primetime television shows soon.
Producers eventually accepted that viewers were using VCRs to timeshift their viewing. Online video is a further extension. And it may bring new viewers to shows, or bring lost viewers back.
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Q: RxAndroidBle - Auto connect issue I am using RxAndroidBle library:
This code is working fine as expected, on click of Connect button on UI, it establishes connection.
Issue coming up when I wanted the auto-connect to the device when the device comes back to range. I don't want to click on Connect button again.
is there any functionality exists like that ? does 'true' flag helps me here, if yes, how to implement it ? Suggestion please. rxBleDevice.establishConnection(true);
If I use rxBleDevice.establishConnection(true), instead of 'false', I am getting below error, please help:
RxBleLog.setLogLevel(RxBleLog.VERBOSE);
scanSubscription = rxBleClient.scanBleDevices(
        new ScanSettings.Builder()
                .setScanMode(ScanSettings.SCAN_MODE_LOW_LATENCY)
                .setCallbackType(ScanSettings.CALLBACK_TYPE_ALL_MATCHES)
                .build(),
        new ScanFilter.Builder().setDeviceName("mydevice").build()
).take(1).subscribe(
        scanResult -> {
                final RxBleDevice rxBleDevice = scanResult.getBleDevice();
                // connect to device
                final Observable<RxBleConnection> connection = rxBleDevice.establishConnection(false);
                connection
                        .subscribe(rxBleConnection -> {
                                    DeviceInformation deviceInformation = new DeviceInformation();
                                    deviceInformation.setName(rxBleDevice.getName());
                                    scanSubscription.unsubscribe();
                                },
                                throwable -> {
                                    throwable.printStackTrace();
                                    System.out.println(throwable);
                                }

                        );
        }
);

false
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D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:   QUEUED ScanOperationApi21(226148850)
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:  STARTED ScanOperationApi21(226148850)
I/Choreographer: Skipped 240 frames!  The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.
I/RxBle#QueueOperation: Scan operation is requested to start.
D/BluetoothLeScanner: onClientRegistered() - status=0 clientIf=6
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue: FINISHED ScanOperationApi21(226148850)
D/BluetoothLeScanner: onScanResult() - ScanResult{mDevice=6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3, mScanRecord=ScanRecord [mAdvertiseFlags=26, mServiceUuids=[00001805], mManufacturerSpecificData={}, mServiceData={}, mTxPowerLevel=-2147483648, mDeviceName=101-1], mRssi=-92, mTimestampNanos=1043849718860030}
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:   QUEUED ConnectOperation(890174706)
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:  STARTED ConnectOperation(890174706)
V/RxBle#BleConnectionCompat: Connecting without reflection
D/BluetoothGatt: connect() - device: 6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3, auto: false
D/BluetoothGatt: registerApp()
D/BluetoothGatt: registerApp() - UUID=542bd417
D/BluetoothGatt: onClientRegistered() - status=0 clientIf=7
D/BluetoothGatt: onClientConnectionState() - status=0 clientIf=7 device=6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3
D/RxBle#BluetoothGatt: onConnectionStateChange newState=2 status=0
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue: FINISHED ConnectOperation(890174706)
I/RxBle#CancellableSubscription: Scan operation is requested to stop.
D/RxBle#ConnectionOperationQueue:   QUEUED ServiceDiscoveryOperation(888759094)
D/RxBle#ConnectionOperationQueue:  STARTED ServiceDiscoveryOperation(888759094)
D/BluetoothGatt: discoverServices() - device: 6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3
D/BluetoothGatt: onSearchComplete() = Device=6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3 Status=0
D/RxBle#BluetoothGatt: onServicesDiscovered status=0
D/BluetoothGatt: setCharacteristicNotification() - uuid: b31e89de enable: true
D/RxBle#ConnectionOperationQueue: FINISHED ServiceDiscoveryOperation(888759094)

true
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D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:   QUEUED ScanOperationApi21(226148850)
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:  STARTED ScanOperationApi21(226148850)
I/Choreographer: Skipped 207 frames!  The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.
I/RxBle#QueueOperation: Scan operation is requested to start.
D/BluetoothLeScanner: onClientRegistered() - status=0 clientIf=6
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue: FINISHED ScanOperationApi21(226148850)
D/BluetoothLeScanner: onScanResult() - ScanResult{mDevice=6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3, mScanRecord=ScanRecord [mAdvertiseFlags=26, mServiceUuids=[00001805], mManufacturerSpecificData={}, mServiceData={}, mTxPowerLevel=-2147483648, mDeviceName=101-1], mRssi=-81, mTimestampNanos=1043935540628438}
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:   QUEUED ConnectOperation(890174706)
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:  STARTED ConnectOperation(890174706)
V/RxBle#ConnectOperation: Trying to connectGatt using reflection.
V/RxBle#BleConnectionCompat: Found constructor with args count = 4
V/RxBle#BleConnectionCompat: Connecting using reflection
D/BluetoothGatt: connect() - device: 6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3, auto: true
D/BluetoothGatt: registerApp()
D/BluetoothGatt: registerApp() - UUID=125a849aa38e
D/BluetoothGatt: onClientRegistered() - status=0 clientIf=7
D/BluetoothGatt: onClientConnectionState() - status=6 clientIf=7 device=6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3
D/RxBle#BluetoothGatt: onConnectionStateChange newState=0 status=6
W/System.err: BleDisconnectedException{bluetoothDeviceAddress='6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3'}
W/System.err:     at com.polidea.rxandroidble.internal.connection.RxBleGattCallback$2.onConnectionStateChange(RxBleGattCallback.java:76)
W/System.err:     at android.bluetooth.BluetoothGatt$1.onClientConnectionState(BluetoothGatt.java:181)
W/System.err:     at android.bluetooth.IBluetoothGattCallback$Stub.onTransact(IBluetoothGattCallback.java:70)
W/System.err:     at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:446)
I/System.out: BleDisconnectedException{bluetoothDeviceAddress='6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3'}
I/RxBle#ConnectionOperationQueue: Connection operations queue to be terminated (6F:AE:DE:3E:2E:C3)
D/RxBle#Executors$RunnableAdapter: Terminated.
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:   QUEUED DisconnectOperation(550952755)
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue: FINISHED ConnectOperation(890174706)
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue:  STARTED DisconnectOperation(550952755)
D/BluetoothManager: getConnectionState()
D/BluetoothManager: getConnectedDevices
D/BluetoothGatt: close()
D/BluetoothGatt: unregisterApp() - mClientIf=7
D/RxBle#ClientOperationQueue: FINISHED DisconnectOperation(550952755)-

A: There are multiple possible solutions to achieve the expected behaviour so the action will start on the first click on Connect button and if the connection will be lost to reconnect without user interaction.
What you basically want is to:

*

*Scan a single device

*When device is scanned—connect to it

*When connected—do your stuff

*If an error will happen—retry connection

There is a bug in Android regarding connecting to a device after BluetoothAdapter being switched on that needs to be addressed by scanning the device first if the disconnection happened because adapter was switched off. We will just complete a part of the flow in this situation and repeat from the beginning.
Observable<Boolean> canUseBleObservable = canUseBle();
subscription = scanSingleDevice() // first scan the device
        .flatMapObservable(this::connectAndDoStuff) // when scanned connect and do your stuff
        .takeUntil(canUseBleObservable.takeFirst(isReady -> !isReady)) // if the BLE will be not ready (off) then unsubscribe from scanning and connecting
        .delaySubscription(canUseBleObservable.takeFirst(isReady -> isReady)) // delay subscription to scanning and connecting till BLE is ready (subscribing goes from bottom to top)
        .retry() // if scan will emit an error (connection should not as it has `.retry()`) just resubscribe to the upstream
        .repeatWhen(observable -> observable) // if the upstream will complete (due to `.takeUntil()` as `connectAndDoStuff` does not complete on it's own)—resubscribe to the upstream
        .subscribe(
                aVoid -> { /* consume */ } // `aVoid` should be changed to your model/events emitted by `.connectAndDoStuff`
                // throwable -> {  } => should not happen since there is `retry()` in the upstream
        );

Other building blocks could look like this:
private Observable<Boolean> canUseBle() {
    return rxBleClient.observeStateChanges()
            .share() // share observing state changes
            .startWith(Observable.fromCallable(() -> rxBleClient.getState())) // on each subscription emit the current state
            .map(state -> state == RxBleClient.State.READY); // map to `true` when ready
}

private Single<RxBleDevice> scanSingleDevice() {
    return rxBleClient.scanBleDevices( // scan the device
            new ScanSettings.Builder().build(),
            new ScanFilter.Builder().setDeviceName("mydevice").build()
    )
            .map(ScanResult::getBleDevice)
            .take(1) // after the first device being scanned stop the scan
            .toSingle();
}

private Observable<Void> connectAndDoStuff(RxBleDevice rxBleDevice) {
    return rxBleDevice.establishConnection(false)
            .flatMap(rxBleConnection -> {
                // do your stuff
                return Observable.<Void>empty();
            })
            .repeat(); // if any error (going out of range) will happen then resubscribe from `.establishConnection()`
}

This is a simple decomposition of your use case. One could further complicate the flow if needed.


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Handheld gaming PCs aren't the future (yet?)
2013-01-07 14:00:00by Allistair Pinsof
No, really
If tech reporters seem excited today about the prospect of Project Shield, a new handheld PC gaming console by Nvidia, it's probably because they are at CES where there is little else to be excited about within the confines of gaming. Perhaps they'd be better served by moseying on down to the Adult Entertainment Expo to pick up one of the those state of the art crank-operated, Bluetooth-enabled Fleshlights. It's times like this that make me wish we lived in a world where Razer's Switchblade, the talk of last year's CES, had been released and bombed commercially so I could simply point at some news article and say "Look! I made hyperlink. I are smart."
Instead, the Switchblade is still awaiting its retail release (sometime in Q2 Never), leaving game/tech journalists to praise it, gamers to doubt it, and developers to half-heartedly endorse it -- the kind of endorsement you would give Pauly Shore if you'd been sent five free Pauly Shore's to use as you please. Despite not having the Switchblade's retail performance, there is a history to awkward, expensive handheld gaming PCs that is best summoned on a day like today #slownewsday.
I don't live a very portable life. When I'm on a plane, I like to stare at a book. Not necessarily read it, but stare at it very intently in hopes that an attractive girl will spot me doing so, recognize the book, and then ask me what's it about. Then *hopefully* she'll know the book so I can just ask her what it's about. Soon, we'll be having a kind of deep, meaningful conversation. That's the idea, at least. Hasn't happened yet. (I don't actually do this but I don't doubt there are many that do.) But, there was one time where I played Unreal Tournament 2004 on my MacBook during a red eye from New York to Houston. That was kind of neat, because I had the whole plane to myself. I'd do that again if the same conditions were met, but red eyes and empty planes are variables that don't often repeat, especially not together.
It will take some serious brain juice, but I'm going to imagine that I'm the person that really wants to play World of Warcraft on a tiny monitor with a tiny keyboard -- perhaps I'm just a tiny man -- or Xbox-like controller while traveling on planes, riding on buses, and waiting in lines at midnight movie premieres. OK, now that I've imagined being this person, all I want to do is kill myself. Disregarding my total lack of interest in WoW, I can't possibly fathom why you'd want to play games designed for the home environment outside the home. There is a novelty in playing Darksiders 2 while outside the home, but it's just not worth sacrificing the big screen, comfort of your living space, and a proper audio setup.
Not to mention that most PC games you'll find on Steam don't cater to those with only a small amount of time to commit. I feel like I need a spare lifetime to sit down and dig into Dark Souls, not a spare 15 minutes. As such, puzzle games with low time commitments are the only portable games that have resonated with me over the past decade. When stuck at the airport, I start playing Valkyria Chronicles 2, realize it's a poor approximation of its previous console entry, turn it off, and pick-up my book. Are people going to buy these cutting edge handheld gaming PCs to play Dark Souls, only to discover all they really play is Bejeweled 3 on them?
Japan was obsessed with pocket PCs in the '90s and they were right in feeling that way: Not many things had as great of an impact in cutting costs and time as the rise of the pocket PC in the workplace. Now Frito-Lay can pack those delicious snacks at a rate that our forefathers could only dream of snack goods being packaged at. These devices by Fujitsu, Sharp, and other leading electronics manufacturers didn't cater to snaggletoothed hunchbacks waiting in line for the midnight premiere of The Hobbit, unable to socialize or even breath in the direction of another human being without contemplating what they must look like naked and/or dead. So, the Fujitsu AcutTote 3000 wasn't really made with them in mind.
Disregarding sad versions of Tetris and popular board games appearing on PDAs, it wasn't until 2010 that we got a glimpse of a real handheld gaming PC. Panasonic's Jungle. Yeah, I didn't remember this thing either. First of all, it's called Jungle. Second, it's by the manufacturer that gave us the 3DO. It looked like a cheap Taiwan netbook with a mini-DJ set for your iPod next to its miniature keyboard designed for elves that make cookies in a tree. Naturally, it was marketed toward MMO players that just couldn't get enough of that, uh, Battlestar Galactica MMO (apparently this existed.) A 720p screen would be nice but RuneScape on the toilet is still going to play like RuneScape on the toilet. Jungle never arrived and Panasonic's brief flirtation with gaming handhelds was soon forgotten.
(Ok, so I lied: I played a fair amount of Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity and Jagged Alliance 2 on my netbook at the airport. I did this mostly out of a wish that some heavyset man with a ponytail and goatee, wearing a promotional T-shirt for some obscure, defunct tech company, would see me and recognize my work. Maybe even give me a fist bump.You know, keep the dream alive. I also played a fair bit of FTL on it while visiting Vancouver.)
Later in 2010 came OpenPandora. At long last, a console made for homebrew enthusiasts by Koreans that want to make money off homebrew enthusiasts while cutting every corner possible. One thing OpenPandora has over Jungle is that it was released, though that may not be, in fact, a positive. Somewhere in a landfill outside a town in China is a kid breathing the fumes of discarded OpenPandoras burning, slowly attributing to the Elephant Man-size tumor growing on his forehead. OpenPandora looks like an aborted Nintendo DS that somehow merged with one of those weird, massive all-in-one-card readers that my university's film lab used to have -- I swear it even had a Zip Drive somewhere on it. Like most Korean handhelds, the device focused primarily on console emulation and it didn't even do a good job of that.
(Although it doesn't quite fit in with the rest of these, I feel a need to mention the Visteon Dockable Entertainment device. This highly dockable system was basically one of those seemingly titanium-plated "portable" DVD players, except you could play GBA games on it. This whole novelty of watching movies on a dedicated player seemed obscene to me in 2003-2004. After all, I could watch DVDs on my laptop which wasn't much bigger than these devices. Nevertheless, my brother bought one of these things so he could watch Eyes Wide Shut while running at the gym. He would do this after midnight, which I'm not sure makes it more or less creepy. I always saw a future in a portable device that plays DVDs, but I had the foresight to wait for that device to come in a more convenient form, as in phones and tablets -- which, yeah, I didn't know that was coming but I did know that THIS couldn't be the future.)
After a botched effort by Panasonic and a Korean piece of junk, Nvidia and Razer stepped in to show the world what handheld PC gaming could be: not much better. Both of these PC hardware juggernauts are taking a different approach to making the PC mobile. Razer has touch controls and a smart keyboard that reconfigures itself to fit each game. Nivida's Shield has a controller that could be mistaken for a Xbox 360 third-party peripheral. The main difference between these two, beyond default input options, is that Nvidia's streams games from your PC to your handheld. According to reports from CES, the device worked -- at least, it worked on a high-end PC in a very controlled environment.
Disregarding price and the likelihood of these ever reaching retail, I'm still not sure where these devices fit into my or anyone else's life. Do I really want to play the best PC gaming has to offer on a screen that isn't much bigger than a clamshell? Do I want to cramp my fingers trying to play an action game on a keyboard that is half the size of my netbook's? No and no, which is why these devices are always promoted to niche audiences. Like this make believe audience that doesn't know how to connect an HDMI cable from their PC to their computer, so instead they buy a Nvidia Shield that does all that hard work for them. Or the make believe audience that is so hopelessly addicted to WoW that they need it in portable form, but not actual portable form, just a portable device that squishes it down so it could slide in the big pockets of a tiny giant's Levi's. OK, so that audience actually exists but I like to pretend it doesn't.
So these devices don't exactly "blow my mind six ways from Sunday" (Engadget actually wrote that about the Switchblade and weren't alone in their enthusiasm). They are the games industry toothing, much like those silly DVD players that emerged right before the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle was won. Soon, our tablets and phones will be offering us the latest Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty with graphics comparable to a high-end PC in 2012. We'll have Bluetooth keyboard, mice, and controllers to play them with. It's the only logical place things can go. Having a controller tied to a tiny monitor or a touch-controlled netbook is a road that takes us far away from logicville, a very lonely place where the Jungle and OpenPandora await any and all possible neighbors.
I don't listen to music through my iPhone's speakers and I don't watch films on my iPod's screen. There are limits to how we consume our media. The technolust that pumps through the veins of CES reporters has a way of clouding their judgement, forgetting this axiom. But when they all come home from the war, they'll regret the hyperbolic headlines they wrote about these misguided devices that serve a non-existent audience. If not, we'll just have to remind them on Twitter.
To bring us back to the topic (which I never really established but please do pretend that I did and did a very good job at it), the Fleshlight has evolved as much as it ever will need to evolve. We are at the brink of Fleshlight technology -- the time and place where we start applying the tech to the labias of dragons and other mythical beasts. If you buy a Fleshlight today, you know damn well that you are also buying the Fleshlight of tomorrow (hopefully one that you have maintained through proper use [see here]). So, go buy a Fleshlight and have a crafty wank on your next plane trip, while some millionaires sort out the future of portable gaming.
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by Carla Loevenc on October 12, 2016
High School Student Assembly Week 3: Kayla Douglass & Chris Hobert
Every Friday the Waldorf School of Garden City High School gathers in the student room for the weekly Student Assembly. Most Student Assemblies consist of (1) an extended speech by a senior on a topic of particular interest to them, and (2) the recitation of a poem, either existing or original, by a junior. The Senior Speeches and Junior Poems are a rite of passage for Waldorf students and are a required part of the high school curriculum. This series of articles seeks to highlight their efforts.
Senior Speech: Chris Hobert
On Friday October 7th Chris Hobert delivered his senior speech highlighting his unique experiences as a Waldorf student. Chris began at the Waldorf School of Garden City in Nursery. He explained that although it is sometimes hard to articulate what makes his school so special, he believes that "[The Waldorf School] is a hidden gem." He especially appreciates the way Waldorf education is tailored to the life stages of the students and how the arts are incorporated in all subjects to develop more creative thinking capacities. He explained that, "…this is key because the world has too many followers" and needs more independent thinkers. Chris concluded by expressing his deep gratitude for his education and the part it played in making him the person he is today. At this time, Chris is interested in studying Sports Management in college. Good luck Chris!
Junior Poem: Kayla Douglass
Junior Kayla Douglass also took the podium on Friday to deliver a poem. She has been a student at the School for 5 years and was excited to share her favorite poem with her peers. Her selection is below:
A Life-Lesson: by James Whitcomb Riley
There! little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your doll, I know;
And your tea-set blue,
And your play-house, too,
Are things of the long ago;
But childish troubles will soon pass by. —
They have broken your slate, I know;
And the glad, wild ways
Of your schoolgirl days
But life and love will soon come by. —
They have broken your heart I know;
And the rainbow gleams
Of your youthful dreams
But Heaven holds all for which you sigh. —


In the not-too-distant future, residents in the Heights will have the option to bypass traffic-jammed interstates and hike or ride their bikes along a scenic trail to work, school or play in downtown Houston. An important path to that destination is the five-mile MKT Trail, a rails-to-trails bikeway project that officially opens with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, at 2424 Spring St. The new trail is built on part of the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad corridor. Restoration of railroad bridges on the path delayed the project earlier this year. But with its opening, Houston Bikeway Program clears the 300-mile mark, said Dan Raine, the city's bicyclist and pedestrian coordinator. Counting Harris County trails, the city's bikeways now cover 459 miles, he said. At the ribbon cutting, the city will announce its Bicyclist Education Web site, www.bikeed.org, done in conjunction with the League of American Bicyclists to provide a safety course called Traffic Skills 101 online for free. The MKT trail extends south along Nicholson Street from 26th Street to 7th Street and east along 7th from Shepherd to Spring Street and White Oak Bayou under Interstate 45. From there, it will connect to the Heritage Corridor trails, which are expected to begin construction next year and complete the link from the Heights to areas surrounding the University of Houston downtown.
• Little White Oak Bayou Trail: Parallels Interstate 45 and connects neighborhoods with bike lanes on Cavalcade.
• Halls Bayou Hike and Bike Trail: Runs from Hirsh to 600 feet east of the intersection of Bretshire Street and Rebel Street and connects to Tidwell Park.
• The West Houston Phase II Trail: Multi-use path from Enclave Parkway and Eldridge through Harris County's Terry Hershey Park to Langham Creek south of I-10. This trail segment provides connection to 27.8 miles of bike lanes and designated bike routes west of Beltway 8, between Old Katy Road and Richmond.
• The Columbia Tap Rails-to-Trails project: Extends from Dixie Drive past Polk Street and into downtown along the former Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way in the Third Ward and downtown area.


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China to send 13th medical team to Eritrea
Source: Xinhua| 2019-08-05 20:28:24|Editor: mingmei
ZHENGZHOU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The 13th Chinese medical team will leave for the East African nation of Eritrea to provide medical services in mid-August, health authorities in central China's Henan Province said Monday.
With an average age of 39, the 18 members of the Chinese medical team are from hospitals and colleges in Henan. After six months of training, they will work in Eritrea for more than 400 days.
In order to meet the needs of the recipient country, the medical team will strengthen the operation and management of six completed projects including a Chinese medicine center, maternal and child health center and trauma center, promote exchanges and cooperation in traditional Chinese medicine technologies and establish a mechanism for prevention and control of infectious diseases.
Since 1973, Henan Province has dispatched 57 medical teams to the developing countries and regions, providing over 7 million treatments for people living in the regions and carrying out more than 57,000 operations, according to the provincial authorities.
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"Guizhou Day" event held at Beijing horticultural expo
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Constitutional Conference, Notes for Introductory Comments, Progress Report from the Committee of Ministers on Official Languages (14-15 September 1970)
By: Committee of Ministers on Official Languages
Citation: Constitutional Conference, Notes for Introductory Comments, Progress Report from the Committee of Ministers on Official Languages (Ottawa: 14-15 September 1970).
THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Second Working Session, Constitutional Conference
NOTES FOR
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
Progress Report from the
on Official Languages
1. C'est le 6 novembre 1969, que le Secrétaire d'Etat, lors de la seconde réunion du Comité Ministériel sur les langues officielles, annonçait la politique du gouvernement fédéral en ce qui concerne les recommandations contenues dans le volume II du rapport de la Commission royale d'enquête sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme.
2. Par la suite, une série de renconctres ont eu lieu entre les représentants du gouvernement fédéral et ceux des provinces concernant la mise en place du programme.
3. C'est lors de la dernière réunion du Comité Ministériel, le 25 mai 1970, que l'on se mit d'accord sur la formule à employer pour la distribution des fonds.
4. After several months of further bilateral discussions every province has now confirmed this agreement and, as you know, the Secretary of State made an announcement of this fact last week.
5. This programme is to be retroactive to January 1, 1970 and since all provinces have provided the necessary statistical data, payments will be made to them shortly.
6. I think the committee has made a remarkable effort to help further the opportunity for all Canadians to educate their children in the official language of their choice and to allow them to learn, as a second language, the other official language of Canada.
7. I would also like to express my appreciation to those provinces for whom the implementation of such a programme has required a particular effort.
8. You will note the Committee's proposed future programme of work in the last paragraph of its report. I would propose that we approve of it.
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9. We must not forget that one of the main purposes of this Committee is in fact to consider the constitutional aspects of official languages. The federal government hopes to be able to present to the Ministerial Committee soon a working paper clarifying its position on constitutional language rights as set forth in the document called The Constitution and the People of Canada.
10. Suggest that the Conference may wish to record this important progress in the statement of conclusions of the Working Session.
Conferences, Government Documents, Public Papers of Intergovernmental Conferences
Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and of the House of Commons on the Constitution of Canada, 28th Parl, 2nd Sess, No 8 (10 September 1970)
Constitutional Conference, Briefing Paper, Progress Report from the Committee of Ministers on Official Languages (14-15 September 1970)


In Japan and around the world, cherry blossom festivals represent the beautiful and transient nature of life. Imagine pale petals from cherry trees being carried by spring breezes. Imagine couples strolling and families picnicking beneath a billowy canopy of pink and white blossoms. Imagine a place of such intense beauty that admirers from around the world travel to Sacramento to experience it. That is our vision for Sakuramento and the Hanami Line.
Implementation of the the Hanami Line is reliant upon funding. Your donation brings us a step closer to making this vision a reality. The Sakuramento committee is charged with raising private and in-kind funds to implement this project. No public monies will be used.
In 2013, the Tree Foundation solicited proposals to bring this vision to life. Learn more about the winning design and the people behind this project.
We seek to plant at least 200 cherry trees and to install pathways, lighting, art pieces, and special historic features along the Sacramento River between Old Sacramento and Discovery Park. Find out how you can help us bring Sakuramento and the Hanami Line to Sacramento.


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Olympics: Pogačar Wins Bronze in Road Race (Video)
The battle for silver and bronze Screenshot
STA, 24 July 2021 - Reigning Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar won the bronze medal in the men's cycling road race at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday in what is the first Olympic medal in cycling for Slovenia. Ecuador's Richard Carapaz won the race.
The photo finish showed that the 22-year-old Pogačar was within a hair's breadth of the silver Olympic medal as he crossed the finish line only a few centimetres behind the second-placed Wout van Aert from Belgium.
"This is something completely unbelievable, I'm speechless," he told the public broadcaster TV Slovenija after bagging the bronze Olympic medal, adding that "a medal is a medal".
He described the 234 km road race with the elevation gain of 4,865 metres as one of the toughest ones in his career so far, saying there had been a lot of factors that made it difficult such as heat and high humidity.
"I'd been suffering since the last climb, but I gave it my best shot," he added.
Primož Roglič, another pre-race favourite and Pogačar's compatriot, placed 28th. The 31-year-old withdrew from this year's Tour de France due to several crashes and ensuing injuries, but told the public broadcaster ahead of today's race that he was feeling better and was ready for the Summer Olympics.
He will have another chance to bag an Olympic medal on Wednesday when he will compete in the men's time trial.
The other two Slovenian riders competing in the race, Jan Polanc and Jan Tratnik, placed below 40th with Tratnik having done the lion's share in keeping the Slovenian team ahead as he set a hard tempo train for some 100 kilometres.
The race featured five climbs, including an ascent partway up to Mount Fuji (14.3 km at 6%) and the culmination of the event, the steep Mikuni Pass climb (6.5 km at 10.6%), where the first attacks to cross the finish line first started today.
Pogačar's bronze medal is the first medal for Slovenia at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the first Slovenian Olympic medal in cycling.
When it comes to the Summer Olympics, the country fared best at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when it won a total of five medals. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics it got four medals.
A total of 54 Slovenian athletes are in the running for Olympic medals at the Tokyo Olympics, which will end on 8 August.
Cycling: Roglič Takes the Lead in La Vuelta (Video)
Slovene-English Dual Text: Tadej Pogačar Je Na Dirki Po Franciji Osvojil Drugo Mesto
Cycling: Pogačar Finishes Tour de France Second (Video)


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Spencer Stuart Heading President Search for Emory University
January 5, 2016 – Spencer Stuart has been selected by Emory University to lead its search for a new president. Current Emory president James W. Wagner has announced that he will step down from the presidency post at the end of August. He has led the school for more than a decade.
"Following consideration of several highly respected search firms, the committee has selected Spencer Stuart as its executive search partner," said John Morgan, chair of the Emory University board of trustees, in a recent statement. Spencer Stuart is no stranger to Emory, having consulted with the university on numerous executive searches over the past several years.
Founded in 1836, Emory University is a research university in metropolitan Atlanta. It is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia and among the 50 oldest private universities in the U.S. It is 18th among the list of colleges and universities in the U.S. ranked by endowment, 21st among universities in the world by ranked by endowment, and 21st in U.S. News & World Report's 2016 National Universities Rankings.
During the past five years, Spencer Stuart has conducted nearly 250 senior-level searches for academic organizations, including assignments to identify presidents, chief financial officers, provosts, chief investment officers, deans and vice presidents, according to Hunt Scanlon Media. Michele Haertel leads the firm's education, non-profit & government practice as well as the firm's academia & research sector group. Ms. Haertel's search efforts focus on leadership positions in research universities, liberal arts colleges, independent schools and non-profit organizations.
This past fall, Spencer Stuart placed Brian W. Casey as the 17th president of Colgate University. He currently serves as the president of DePauw University. In December, the firm also recruited Ronald D. Liebowitz as the ninth president of Brandeis University.
Contributed by Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor, Hunt Scanlon Media
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E-Coli or Escherichia is a strain of bacteria commonly found in the guts or lower intestines of warm blooded organisms, also known as endotherms. Though E-coli have earned the reputation of a lethal pathogen often hidden in eatables, it might be worth mentioning that the bacteria have many more befitting aspects to it.
Several strands of E-coli are present in the digestive tracts of organisms and most of them are harmless. On the contrary, some of these bacteria like the O157:H7 are highly contagious, leading to the occurrence of deadly and malicious disorders like anemia, diarrhea or an absolute kidney failure.
The pathogenic bacteria of Escherichia coli, first discovered by Theodor Escherichia, the famous German bacteriologist, and pediatrician in 1885 have been assigned a class and family, Gammaproteobacteria and Enterobacteriaceae respectively.
They are anaerobic in nature and rod-shaped in structure, approximately 2.0 micrometers in length and 0.25-1.0- micrometer in diameter. Studies show that E-coli colonize with hydrogen-consuming bacteria like methanogens in anaerobic conditions using mixed-acid fermentation. As byproducts, E-coli releases ethanol, lactate, acetate, succinate, and carbon-dioxide. It has been observed that temperatures ranging from 37 degrees Celsius to 49 degrees Celsius are ideal for the growth and multiplication of E-coli bacterium.
E-coli is highly contagious in some cases. For example, if you happen to gulp down food or drink water that has been infected by feces, chances of getting afflicted with serious discomfort in the abdominal tract is quite obvious. Sometimes proteins like animal meat, if not cooked properly at a minimum temperature of 71°, continue to carry bacteria that if left unchecked can poison the meat completely.
Dairy products, especially raw milk are a chief source of E-coli. Are you curious to know how? Well, bacteria can easily be transmitted from a cow's udders to its milk. Hence dairy farms progress with a technologically advanced method of pasteurization before selling milk or other dairy items.
You should know that organic eatables like fruits and vegetables if left peeled and exposed for a very long time eventually becomes infected with bacteria. Therefore, it is imperative for people to learn about regular hygiene conditions and ways to maintain higher standards of sanitation in order to stay free from diseases caused by E-coli.
Completing the E. coli proteome.


Teagasc has added to its team of beef specialists. James Keane has been appointed as a Cattle Knowledge Transfer Specialist covering the West and Midlands region.
He joins the team of Teagasc Cattle Specialists led by Pearse Kelly, which includes Aidan Murray, Adam Woods and Karen Dukelow.
Based in the Teagasc office in Mohill, Co. Leitrim, James Keane will be working with the Teagasc Business and Technology drystock advisers, cattle farmers and the wider beef industry to increase the adoption of technology at farm level to improve the physical and financial performance on farms. He will work with Teagasc research teams in identifying and implementing relevant cattle research and work with advisers to develop and expand the beef advisory programme in conjunction with the Drystock specialist team. James will continue to facilitate his own BTAP discussion groups until the end of this year. Other priorities include providing support for the joint Teagasc/Industry programmes and contributing to the development of new industry initiatives.
From a farming background in county Leitrim, James was working with Teagasc as a Business and Technology Drystock adviser in Longford. He joined Teagasc in 2001 initially based in Cavan. His early career was as a Reps planner with Philip Farrelly and company. He qualified with a B.Agr.Sc from UCD and then completed a Masters in Environmental Science.


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En matemàtiques, un element x d'un anell R es diu que és nilpotent si existeix algun enter positiu n tal que xn = 0.

Exemples
 Aquesta definició pot ser aplicada en particular a matrius quadrades. La matriu

és nilpotent, ja que A3 = 0. Veure matriu nilpotent per a més informació.

 En l'anell factorial Z/9Z, la classe del 3 és nilpotent, ja que 3² és congruent amb 0 mòdul 9.

 Suposem que dos elements a,b d'un anell no commutatiu R satisfan ab=0. Aleshores, l'element c=ba és nilpotent (si és no nul), ja que c²=(ba)²=b(ab)a=0. Un exemple amb matrius és:

 Es pot veure que .

Propietats
Cap element nilpotent pot ser una unitat (excepte en l'anell trivial {0} en el que únicament existeix un únic element 0 = 1). Tots els elements nilpotents són divisors de zero.

Una matriu quadrada n dimensional A amb elements en un cos és nilpotent si i només si el seu polinomi característic és Tn, la qual cosa succeeix si i només si An = 0.

Els elements nilpotents d'un anell commutatiu formen un ideal; aquest fet és conseqüència del teorema del binomi. Aquest ideal és el nilradical de l'anell. Cada element nilpotent d'un anell commutatiu està contingut en tot ideal primer de l'anell, i de fet la intersecció de tots els anells primers és el nilradical.

Si x és nilpotent, aleshores 1 − x és una unitat, ja que xn = 0 implica
(1 − x) (1 + x + x² + ... + xn−1) = 1 − xn = 1 i (1 + x + x² + ... + xn−1)(1 − x) = 1 − xn = 1.

Nilpotencia en física
Un operador  que satisfà  és nilpotent. El BRST charge és un exemple molt important en física.

Com que els operadors lineals formen una àlgebra associativa i per tant un anell, aquest és un cas especial de la definició inicial. En general, des del punt de vista de la definició anterior, un operador Q és nilpotent si existeix n∈N tal que Qn=o (la funció zero). Per tant, una aplicació lineal és nilpotent si i només si està definida per una matriu nilpotent en alguna base. Un altre exemple és la derivada exterior (una altra vegada amb n=2). Ambdós estan relacionades, a través de la supersimetria i la teoria de Morse, com va ser provat per Edward Witten.

El camp electromagnètic d'una ona plana sense fonts és nilpotent quan s'expressa en el llenguatge de l'àlgebra de l'espai fisic.

Referències
 E Witten, Supersymmetry and Morse theory. J.Diff.Geom. 17:661-692,1982.
 A. Rogers, The topological particle and Morse theory, Class. Quantum Grav. 17:3703-3714,2000.

Teoria d'anells

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On Artprice.com's Standardized Marketplace, you can buy or sell artworks by Jaromír SCHOR.
Updated on 26 Apr 2019: Jaromír SCHOR (1912-1975/87) is an artist born in 1912 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a painting sold in 2000, at Meissner Neumann, and the most recent auction result is a drawing-watercolor sold in 2015. Artprice.com's price levels for this artist are based on 64 auction results. Especially: painting, drawing-watercolor.


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Q: Unable to import python module in JYTHON using java I have a java code in which I am executing python file using jython. I works well for default python dependencies but not work when I give some addition python modules. Python code is working fine in python console.
java code
PySystemState sys = Py.getSystemState();
sys.path.append(new PyString("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/"));
sys.path.append(new PyString("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/"));

PythonInterpreter.initialize(System.getProperties(), System.getProperties(), arguments);
PythonInterpreter python = new PythonInterpreter(null, sys);
StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
python.setOut(out);
python.execfile("/home/lucy/input.py");

input.py
import nltk
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize

error
  import nltk
SyntaxError: ("mismatched input 'as' expecting COLON", ('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/__init__.py', 35, 15, 'except IOError as ex:\n'))

sys version

'2.7.6 (default, Oct 26 2016, 20:30:19) \n[GCC 4.8.4]'

jython version
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.python</groupId>
    <artifactId>jython-standalone</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.2</version>
</dependency>