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October 9, 2017: 2017 ended up with the summer of unexpected bills: termite protection for my house, car, dentist, and vet. So when the renewal bill for hosting came due, I lacked the money to pay for it. By the time I freed the money to pay for it, everything had been deleted. Not to worry because I keep backups. But since the Library was down, I took the opportunity to do some behind the scenes housekeeping. So go click on your favorite story and leave a comment in Disqus at the end of it.


February 1, 2018 at 9:57a.m.
A Campbell man found overdosed in his car Wednesday afternoon was arrested on a charge of possession of drug abuse instruments.
Police were called about 4:05 p.m. to a home in the first block of North Whitney Avenue on the West Side and someone there said the victim was in a car on Weaver Avenue. There, officers found Joshua Maldonado, 30, who was incoherent and clutching a needle in his hands, reports said.
Reports said Maldonado told police he was a drug user and had taken drugs Wednesday. His arm was also covered with needle tracks, reports said.
Maldonado refused a trip to a hospital after being examined by paramedics and was booked into the Mahoning County jail.
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According to Fannie Mae's second quarter Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey, mortgage professionals are feeling increasingly optimistic about the housing market and the number of prospective home buyers looking to buy this year. In fact, the share of lenders reporting increased mortgage purchase demand over the prior three months hit an all-time survey high and expectations for the next quarter are well above last year's readings. Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae's chief economist, said the results – combined with recent improvements in consumer attitudes – reinforces their optimistic housing forecast this year. "We expect a continued housing expansion in 2015 after an uneven and disappointing 2014," Duncan said. In addition to increasing demand for loans to buy homes, lenders report that mortgage credit has been loosening so far this year, after tightening the year before. That's good news for creditworthy Americans who are looking to purchase a home. Tighter lending standards put in place after the financial crisis and housing crash meant otherwise qualified buyers had a tougher time securing financing. Now, with credit more available, mortgage rates still historically low, and an improved job market, pent-up demand for housing has begun to materialize, leading to boosted home sales and rising optimism about the months ahead. More here.


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Why Should Vartika Singh Represent India at Miss Universe?
March 3, 2016 January 25, 2018 / Vagisha Mishra
Vartika Singh: The Beacon of Hope!
The name which lightened the esteem of Indian pageantry, garnering highest placement of India amongst all international pageants in 2015, is the beacon of hope! Vartika Singh, the name which needs no introduction. The beauty represented India at Miss Grand International 2015 and earned the second runner up position at the same.
As gleaming as her personality, Vartika's performance at Miss Grand International was one to watch for! She is the first Indian lady to place in Miss Grand International pageant. The diva began her pageantry voyage in 2014 when she participated in Miss Diva 2014, a pageant which sends its winner to Miss Universe. During Miss Diva 2014, Vartika bagged the subtitle of Miss Photogenic and placed as a Top 7 finalist.
She was a huge favorite of Indian pageant enthusiasts and experts, who back then wanted to see Vartika again shining in pageantry. Vartika did not let her fans down, and once again combated for the title of Femina Miss India in 2015 to prove her invincible prowess. With her immense power, charisma and charm, Vartika not only won three significant subtitles of Femina Miss India by bagging Miss Photogenic, Best National Costume and Beauty with a Purpose, but also won the crown of Miss Grand India.
Celebrated for her convivial personality, Vartika was someone who has made such a huge splash with such little resources in a city like Lucknow. Vartika weaved dreams which were very difficult to accomplish at that time and place, a fact which makes one evolve more respect for her! In an interview, Vartika revealed that a year back she did not even knew to walk in heels! Who would ever believe that now? For she was now slaying every one with her mesmerizing runway skills and outstanding photoshoots!
Vartika Singh has been part of her state Uttar Pradesh World Bank's Health Care Project. She has been awarded by Uttar Pradesh government for her initiatives to nutrition and health of women and children and having promoted digital literacy. She is also the face of "Mera Lucknow" Project and believes in the non violence ideology of Mahatma Gandhi.
Vartika knows to play with her attire blending it with her vivacious aura at the stage. She walks like an angel, gliding gracefully at the ramp, making the audience spellbound with her beautiful personality. The effervescent smile which she owns is her biggest asset. Be it swimsuit or the evening gown round, Vartika has enjoyed and lived her moment with ultimate grace, elegance and spry.
Now coming back to the question, why should Vartika represent India at Miss Universe? Vartika Singh could be the best choice of India for Miss Universe right now. While many other nations have crowned their respective delegates for Miss Universe, India still is lagging behind. Winning Miss Universe or even earning a placement at Miss Universe is not a day affair. It involves extensive training sessions, headstrong grooming and a mental preparation for achieving the goal.
One can never win any beauty pageant within a month of crowning, and this is what precisely the Miss Diva organization fails to grasp. Although in its three years of inception, Miss Diva has given fruitful results, producing one Miss Supranational, one Miss Asia Pacific, one Miss Universe Top 10 placement and one Miss Universe Top 15 placement, but the crown is yet out of reach. If Miss Diva Universe organization is yet again planning on to have the pageant after July, then sending the winner of Miss Diva 2016 to Miss Universe 2017 would be a rather wise decision, for it will allow the lady to undergo extensive training and prepare herself adequately for the biggest pageant like Miss Universe. Hence, the question again comes back to same place, who is the best choice to represent India at Miss Universe 2016?
Vartika Singh has a huge fan following across the globe, and of course for the genuine reasons! Seeing the current criteria of Miss Universe under WME and IMG, one can clearly assert that the emphasis is on a good and amiable personality, who can be the spokesperson of the organization in the paramount way! The delegate should be modelesque, beautiful and appealing in both print media and on the runway. Vartika has already gained good international experience after competing at Miss Grand International, and the Miss Diva organization must reward the worthy woman with a deserving platform.
After India's bleakest performance in 2015, if Vartika comes as a savior, her presence would certainly be worth it. Vartika Singh is an idol to all the aspiring beauty queens, and if her resolute mind is given a chance she will show the world her prowess to reign over the universe! What do you think about Vartika Singh being India at Miss Universe 2016? Should Miss Diva organization allow Vartika Singh to compete at Miss Universe 2016?
Vagisha Mishra
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Q: Ifstream open() doesn't set error bits when argument is a directory In a C++ program, using std::ifstream, I'm attempting to open a user-specified file -- so far so good. However, I accidentally entered a filename that's actually a directory, and I was quite surprised to see that attempting to open() that directory didn't generate any errors.
Here's a minimal example:
std::ifstream f;
f.open("..");
if(!f.is_open() || !f.good() || f.bad() || f.fail()) {
    std::cout << "error bit set on open" << std::endl;
    return 1;
}

No sign of error here. If I go on and attempt to getline(), getline() sets an error bit all right.
std::string str;
getline(f, str);

if(f.eof()) std::cout << "getline set eofbit" << std::endl;
else if(f.bad()) std::cout << "getline set badbit" << std::endl;
else if(f.fail()) std::cout << "getline set failbit" << std::endl;

This outputs "getline set badbit", which is reasonable. Using the >> operator throws an underflow exception, which is also okay.
Now, my question is, how could I detect that the user entered a directory name instead of a proper filename? Is there any way to do that? Getting and ungetting bytes from the stream seem tedious and error-prone.
Also, why is this so? I realize that it's all just the same data from the point of view of the program, but I'd assume the OS would also send some "hey, this is a directory" kind of message.

A: You don't say what your system is, so it's hard to say, but generally,
filebuf::open will only return an error if your system level open
fails.  And I've worked on Unix systems where you could open() a
directory; I've even worked on some where you could read it after the
open (at least if it was a locally mounted filesystem).
As to what to do about it: about all I can think of is to try to get
the first character, then put it back.  But this fails if the file is
empty, so it's not really a solution either.  At the system level (and
from a QoI point of view, I'd expect filebuf::open to do this if the
system did allow opening a directory), you can use a system level call
(stat in Unix) to determine whether the file is a directory or not.
(There's a race condition, of course: between the moment you detect that
it's a normal file, and the moment you do the open, another process
could delete the file and create a directory.  It's probably not a
frequent occurance, however.)

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PRESEASON | What are the biggest storylines entering camp?
22 January, 201711:34PM CST
It's finally here! The 2016 with it's two trophies and 60 points is all in the past. The road to the 2017 season opener starts on Monday as FC Dallas opens 2017 preseason camp. This is the fourth season under Oscar Pareja and is shaping up to be one of the most memorable ever. Last week, we took a look at some of the roster battles entering preseason camp and now let's take a look at the biggest storylines to watch.
While FC Dallas was actually statistically a better team once Fabian Castillo departed to Turkey in July, it's undeniable that FC Dallas missed that explosive option on the wing opposite Michael Barrios. The Colombian had just three goals and one assist in the last 15 games of the season, with opposing defenses able to key in on the winger.
FC Dallas addressed that hole this offseason with the signing of Belgian winger Roland Lamah. After an extensive career that saw Lamah play in La Liga, EPL and Ligue 1, Roland could be one of the most under-the-radar signings of the MLS offseason. Lamah's success will be one of the major X factors of the 2017 season. We know FCD is going to be one of the best teams in the league, but if Lamah can prove to be a force on the wing opposite Barrios, Dallas will be just that much stronger. with both players benefitting.
Shortest Offseason Ever
*Read that in Comic Book Guy voice please*
In the past couple years, the club has done many things that they hadn't before and this preseason will be a new experience as well as FCD prepares for their first-ever appearance in the CCL quarterfinals. Exactly one month to the day after Dallas opens preseason, they will host Panamanian champions Arabe Unido in the CCL QF first leg at Toyota Stadium.
While in the past, the first week or two of preseason is mainly just fitness, it's pedal to the metal in 2017 as FC Dallas has to get ready earlier than ever. Dallas begins the season with the home-and-home CCL quarterfinal before heading straight from Panama to Los Angeles to open the season. No easy task for sure.
A Legend Enters
As Mauro Diaz continues his long recovery from a torn achillies, FC Dallas acquired one of the best players in MLS history, Argentine Javier Morales, to contribute in the attacking midfielder role.
Having just turned 37, Morales is entering the twilight of his career, but there is no doubt he's still got plenty left in the tank. In just the last three seasons, Morales has 21 goals and 28 assists.
Re-energized after ten seasons with Real Salt Lake, it's going to be fascinating to see how he gels into FC Dallas and their group of South Americans. Look out for Morales to hit the ground running in 2017 and be a huge part of the offense early in the season.
READ: Homegrown draft pick posts inspirational message


All my supporting patches have been checked into the trunk. It should be possible to build with cairo on Linux by running configure --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 and get results similar to what I posted last week (better, actually, since I've fixed some image rendering bugs).
Can I ask what is causing these cairo builds to be so extremely slow compared to "normal" builds?
I don't know yet because I haven't run any profiles and I don't know the Cairo code.
Is it possible to build with Cairo on Windows ?
Oh ok, just wondering. thank you for your wonderful work on Gecko though, i'm an avid follower of your blog!
Can you build it with --with-system-cairo or something similar?
Roc will you also enable cairo builds on non linux os ? what are the plans for non linux users ?
Ernst: Yes you can, but I don't recommend it because our Cairo has some patches that haven't made it to trunk Cairo yet, and it's not tested with any system Cairo. I'm going to hack my build to use a hand-built Glitz to see how that goes. In the medium term we might have to pull Glitz into our tree.
Ludovic: We will set up non-GTK2 Cairo builds at some point in the future, but right now that is not a priority. If someone wants to hack on Cairo-Win32 then they can look at what we've done for GTK2 and contribute a Windows configuration.


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BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY CONGRATULATES ONE OF ITS COUNSELORS ON AWARD
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SPEARFISH - Dr. Thom Flamboe, Licensed Professional Counselor at the Black Hills State Counseling Center and Volunteer Mental Strength and Wellness Coach for BHSU Athletics, recently received the "2021 Distinguished Alumni Award" from the University of Wyoming's College of Health Sciences.
"I have loved this campus since I was here in the 80s doing new student orientation," said Flamboe. "My volunteer work in the Counseling Center has been very fulfilling and this is my way of giving back."
Dr. Flamboe has a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education – Special Education as well as degrees in Communication Disorders and Counseling, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. He has had a Clinical Mental Health practice in a family medicine clinic and been a trainer in the South Dakota DARE program for 20 years.
He served as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Presentation College in Aberdeen and as Faculty President and the Vice President of Academics. While in Aberdeen he also served as a Negotiator on the Special Response Team for the Aberdeen Police Department.
Since moving to Spearfish to be closer to family, Dr. Flamboe has worked as a consultant to the Pennington County Sheriff's Office and the Sturgis Police Department, assisting police officers and first responders in successful interactions with mentally ill and developmentally disabled persons.


If you want to be a cook or if you are planning to become a chef, then you need to get skills that are going to improve on your love for cooking. Taking the time and undergoing training for cooks ensures that you are able to get these skills and so much more. Also, what most people do not understand is that when you go through these programs, you are not only going to learn how to make different recipes, but you will also get to learn how to handle certain foods. For you to be a successful cook and for you to be able to complete the training for cooks successfully, below are the skills that you need to have or learn.
Since cooking is a kind of a science, a cook needs to be very precise with what they are doing. Every single ingredient that is going to be used needs to be measured in an exact manner. There are also other ways in which a cook needs to be precise at like figuring out when they are going to Palate Sensations cook certain foods or when they should order given products. As a cook, you need to be keen on details. Through your training for cooks classes, your instructor will be able to help you understand why this skill is important.
A cook needs to know how you should keep your kitchen sanitary at all times.
This is especially the case if you are ever planning on working in a restaurant. When the conditions are unsanitary or if this is the same case in the location where the food is been made, then the quality of the food been made is also going to be affected. This, in turn, may end up causing the restaurant to be closed. When you go through the training for cooks, you will be shown how to keep things sanitary at all times and why it is important to do so.
For you to be able to work successfully in the food industry, then it is important for you to be creative. As a cook, especially if you are the lead, you need to be open to any new recipe ideas and menus that may come in place. Your imagination and creativity are what is going to keep the customers coming back at all times.
This is one of the most important skills that you are likely to get when you go through training for cooks. Having this kind of skill will ensure that you are able to cook in an efficient Australian culinary program and precise manner. You also need to know how to recognize different flavors and also know how to balance the different seasonings.
In case you have been thinking of adding an extra language on the list the languages that you speak. Then you will need to learn it from the experts, you can only do this by enrolling in a language school around you. Language schools are specifically designed to teach languages and therefore are a good fit for you. With all the many language schools around the globe, you will need to be cautious when choosing where to enroll so that you can choose the one that best suits you. Learning language from a language schools comes along with great benefits, they include the following.
Whenever people are interacting they use language to communicate. Therefore, language forms a very important people in the interaction of people. One of the problem that many people face in their interactions is lack of confidence caused by lack of knowledge on the language used as a medium of communication. Whenever therefore you learn the language of your choice, you will be able to communicate effectively and articulately which in turn builds your confidence. Only a language can effectively teach you on how to speak and communicate in a foreign language, they therefore helps you build your confidence and improves your interaction with other people. Building your confidence is very essential as it helps you in your career growth.
Everybody at some point will need to seek employment so that he or she can put food on the table. With the employment world being very competitive, one must find ways of placing him or herself ahead of others. One way of doing so is learning a foreign language from a private high school in Florida What this does is that it increases the scope in which one can work. In addition, knowing more than one language places yourself ahead of the other candidates that you are competing for the position with thus helping you gain employment which is the dream of most people. In addition, these language schools helps you meet different people from different nationalities thus helping you increase your network and in turn employment opportunities.
Language schools incorporate different types of people from different countries and cultures. Therefore, whenever you enroll in them, you will get a chance to meet new people who come with different cultures and understanding. This in turn helps you improve your knowledge on different life situations. In addition, by interacting with different people from different nationalities, you are able to expound on their cultures and therefore be more accommodating thus enriching your mind. By studying in a language school you are assured of being knowledgeable.
Private schools are usually known for their high fees and excellent academic excellence as well as a curriculum that isn?t standard or normal in comparison to those found in government schools. Private schools aren?t easy to get to if a child doesn?t pass one of the mandatory entry exams and a lot of preparation usually goes before a child is admitted into one. Every parent wants their child to go to the best school and some of the time, they feel that private schooling that begins at primary level is the best option. Finding a good private school isn?t hard and you only need to have an idea of what to expect and what to look out for.
Being institutions that do not have government funding, the school fees are usually high as the location of the private school as well as the facilities the school has needs to be taken into account. Most private schools have very qualified teachers who are really skilled when, it comes to bringing out the full potential of a student and more often than not, this is what the high fees go out to pay.
The cost of private schooling doesn?t come cheap. When a parent decides to take their children to a private school, they can expect to pay up to around fifty thousand dollars in school fees a year. This fees as mentioned usually go towards running and managing of the school in order to provide a conducive environment for the children to learn.
As much as some private schools have programs where a student can be admitted on scholarships, the range from full to partial and are usually dependent on a good performance by the student in the area where they got the scholarship or they risk being dropped.
Private schools usually report higher academic grades due to the fact that their student to teacher ratio is low meaning that a teacher has an opportunity to focus on a student. This makes it very easy for a student to be pushed towards their strengths which in turn helps them realize their full potential. The fact that private schools have highly trained and highly qualified staff also plays a big role in the superb performance of their students.
The learning environment in private schools is also extremely conducive whether or not the students board or are day scholars. Coupled with the high tech facilities they have, you can be assured that the students are exposed to an environment that demands excellence.
Every student is unique in the way they learn and grasp what they are taught. Private schools have leverage on this by seeing to it that the ratio of teacher to student rarely goes above1:8 which means that a teacher can really be able to focus on a student as an individual rather than as a group.
They not only focus on academic achievement of the UBC students but also see to build them all round in their character. Every student's needs become addressed to the point that high academic performance happens by default and by the time the student is going to college or university, the skills they acquired serves them well and continues all through their adult life.
Without a doubt, you can be sure to find some of the highest tech and modern facilities like libraries, labs, and sport in private schools. High end means that the is ready to put it all into seeing to it that their students get to receive an all-round education of the highest quality.
By involving parents in the education of their children, private schools see to it that both the parent and child have a clear understanding of what to expect. They are also able to foster a community within the school that makes it possible for the children to perform even better. Students are also encouraged to participate in community activities that make it possible for them to appreciate and learn their civil and social responsibilities.
Whichever private school you are looking it, the above will help you make a wise decision so that your child ends up going to a high-quality private school.
Thanks so much for dropping by Home School Freedom, a new site that will reflect schooling options for parents and kids outside the public system. This will include online, home and private schools and how they relate to different areas. Be sure to drop back soon for great content and conversation.


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Shenzhen Timesun Electronics Co., Ltd. is a manufacturer specialized in developing, producing and selling electronic items and premium. Our factory is located in Xixiang, Baoan District, with advantageous transportation and about 500 workers. With professional production line, and independent mould develop dept., injection dept., paint dept., silkscreen dept., marketing dept., etc., we adopt advancement equipment, top grade management principle, strict quality inspection procedures for products' outlook designing, mould developing, injection, silk printing, installing and so on to keep the products with good quality and high efficiency. We keep "New, Unique, Special" as innovation idea to develop electronic gifts such as USB speaker, digital timer, digital alcohol tester, digital clock, pedometer, camp solar flashlight, etc. We meet customers' requirements, provide OEM/ODM service of IC program, workable prototype, housing tooling, and ensure the quality and on time delivery. Our products are popular with customers from home and overseas. Our main markets cover Europe, America, and megapolis in China. Based on "Special design, high quality, good reputation" to run the enterprise, we welcome the importers and exporters, wholesalers, gifts and premium suppliers, supermarkets and catena markets from all over of the world to contact us for business.


There is an avenue that runs through the heart of singer/songwriter Martin England. To know him, all you must do is travel it. The signs are clear and readable, the parks and haunts are accessible, and the pave is warm even when it is sharp. This road, his road, has its way of telling you exactly what there is to be experienced in his heart, and exactly where to find it. The heart-trip soundtrack of Martin England's music is that of all great American troubadours; Americana, folk, roots rock, and occasional old school country. It's the common language he shares with contemporaries like Ray Lamontagne and founding legends like Johnny Cash, equal ...parts light and shadow cast in emotionally-charged, heart-harvesting songs.
"I feel like everything I've written is already inside of me. It's really just a matter of living enough different experiences to hatch those songs and bring them to life," muses England. The hatching began at age 13, just two years after he started playing guitar, when his lack of formal musical training made it easier to write his own songs than to decipher the work of others. His rural hometown of Rollinsford, New Hampshire and its dearth of childhood stimulus required Martin to have a serious imagination to thrive, and through its thorough ordinariness evoked a mental agility that has benefited him greatly as a creator and deeply sensory songwriter.
It is his songwriting that sets him apart and defines his work to himself and others. With a signature that is accessible to people from all walks of life and ages and mentalities, he is a reporter telling stories, a doctor spooning out elixir, a traveler suggesting routes. That traveler thing is literal in England's case, as he is most often struck with inspiration while at the wheel of his car and makes use of any available scrap of paper to scrawl lyrics on, most notable among them being his marriage certificate. Yep, his wife loves that little anecdote. Yet, as she knows better than anyone, everyone and everything around Martin is fair game for the song tornado as he mashes up memories and philosophies and people from all decades and corners of his life for the sole purpose of poking at the heart of the listener.
The tornado has served him well with more than 350 songs to his credit, penned over 30 years of making music. Even so, he considers himself a late bloomer and feels like he's just now coming into his own in a time of transition from band member to solo artist. For 17 years England was part of the Northeast regional powerhouse Pondering Judd, writing and recording six records, rocking a national tour in 2006, and receiving a constant stream of nominations and awards. Having had his musical experience so deeply entrenched in being one of four in a band, it was a massive switch to understand himself as a solo artist, a process tipped off when Lost Sailor Records offered him a contract as a solo artist and called him up to a new level of confidence in his work.
Razed and Reconstructed is England's solo debut, sharing 10 of the 18 songs he wrote for the record in Americana style and sound. While the focus is squarely on the songs and not on any performance in particular, the list of players on Razed and Reconstructed include keyboardist Jason Cohen (Ryan Montbleau Band), guitarist Adam Terrell (Assembly of Dust), and 2009 International Bluegrass Music Association Mandolin Player of the Year Jesse Brock. This hit squad followed England at the helm on vocals, and acoustic guitar, creating a passionate, driven, imaginative collection of sounds and sensations.
In his solo work Martin England has found, after many years of music-making, another new road to welcome listeners down. Liberated as a songwriter with just one voice to write for and one opinion to satisfy, he is free to get at every song that waits inside him. The purpose for Martin, though, is not only to write the songs, but to take them out of his chest and place them in yours. "I want people to engage with the messages and melodies in my songs. If someone can hum a melody or recall a lyric from one of my songs three hours after a performance, it's nirvana. But it's not just what you take, it's what you do with it. If one person feels like they've truly connected with my songs, I feel like it's an unmitigated success." That service to the songs, and that hunger to impact, is why he and the road through his heart are here.


Since 1953, the Kokomo Rescue Mission has been proclaiming the Good News and demonstrating the compassion of Jesus Christ to the homeless, hungry and hurting in North Central Indiana. KRM's mission is to see the homeless, hungry and hurting achieve wholeness through Christ-centered programs and services.
Kokomo Indiana is billed as the "City of Firsts" due to its rich heritage of inventions in the auto industry, alloy metals and the food industry. Howard County and the surrounding five county area have a long history of steady employment in agriculture, automotive, steel and alloy product manufacturing. Unfortunately, the area has also seen its share of economic struggles over the years.
The 2007-08 economic crash hit hard and while the local economy has made some recovery, the permanent loss of many high wage and professional jobs continues to impact the overall economy and create challenges for our community. There are still many people in the six county area supported by the Kokomo Rescue Mission who need to know there is hope.
At the Kokomo Rescue Mission, our staff and volunteers want to share hope, not just in the form of a hot meal, a warm night of shelter or a Red Ribbon Christmas box, but most importantly through the Good News of our Risen Savior, Jesus Christ.
Great organization helping the homeless. Kokomo Rescue Mission cares about its people. You can help them save lives by donating today!


A popular music star, Nigeria's finest and pioneer of Igbo rap, Okechukwu Edwards Ukeje, popularly known as "Mr Raw" has commended Abia Breaking News for their professionalism in news reportage, describing it as objective and unbiased.
In a chat with our correspondent in Umuahia, the Abia born Igbo rap star also added that Abia Breaking News is a leading brand in bringing current and up-to-date accurate reports within and outside the country to her teeming followers.
READ ALSO: Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has signed into law the Abia state 2016 budget.
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Třída Collins je třída dieselelektrických ponorek australského námořnictva. Jejich projekt vytvořila švédská loděnice Kockums jako Typ 471. Jedná se o zvětšenou verzi ponorek třídy Västergötland. Austrálie získala celkem šest jednotek této třídy. Do služby byly zařazeny v letech 1996–2003. Vyřazení třídy Collins bylo původně plánováno na rok 2026. V roce 2016 bylo rozhodnuto provoz ponorek prodloužit do 30. let 21. století, přičemž ve službě je měla nahradit nová konvenční třída Attack. V roce 2021 byl program stavby třídy Attack zrušen ve prospěch akvizice výkonnějších jaderných útočných ponorek. Čas potřebný na jejich stavbu si vynutí i prodloužení provozu třídy Collins, která proto projde modernizací. Možná zůstanou ve službě až do roku 2048.

Stavba
Stavba šestice ponorek, které nahradily dosavadní ponorky třídy Oberon, byla objednána v roce 1987. Různé sekce ponorek byly stavěny ve Švédsku a Austrálii, přičemž konečná montáž probíhala v australském Adelaide. Do služby byly jednotlivé ponorky zařazeny v letech 1996–2003.

Jednotky třídy Collins:

Konstrukce

Výzbroj ponorek tvoří šest 533mm torpédometů, ze kterých mohou být vypouštěna těžká torpéda Mk 48, protilodní střely UGM-84C Sub-Harpoon či námořní miny BAE Systems Stonefish MK III. Na palubě je neseno až 22 torpéd a střel či 44 min. Pohonný systém tvoří tři diesely Hedemora VIBB/14 a jeden elektromotor Jeumont Schneider. Lodní šroub je jeden. Nejvyšší rychlost dosahuje 10 uzlů na hladině a 20 uzlů pod hladinou. Maximální hloubka ponoření je 300 metrů.

Modernizace

Australská společnost Thales Australia v roce 2016 získala kontrakt na komplexní modernizaci sonarového systému třídy Collins.

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Andor John Toth (June 16, 1925 – November 28, 2006) was an American classical violinist, conductor and educator with a musical career spanning over six decades. Toth played his violin on the World War II battlefields of Aachen, Germany; performed with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini in 1943 at age 18; and formed several chamber music ensembles, including the Oberlin String Quartet, the New Hungarian Quartet, and the Stanford String Quartet. For 15 years he was the violinist in the Alma Trio. Toth conducted orchestras in Cleveland, Denver and Houston. In 1969, he was the founding concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under Neville Marriner. Toth taught at five important colleges and universities, and recorded for Vox, Decca Records and Eclectra Records.

Early years
Born in Manhattan in 1925 as the son of Hungarian immigrants, Toth began playing violin as a child. While he was still a graduate student at the Juilliard School, he launched his career in 1942 at age 17 as solo violinist with the original Ballets Russes. In 1943 at age 18, he joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. At Juilliard he studied with Hans Letz (formerly of the Kneisel Quartet and a student of Joseph Joachim) and Ivan Galamian.

Toth was married to Louise Rose, a soprano, who died in 2005. The couple had three sons: Andor Jr., a cellist; Thomas, a software engineer; and Chris, a programmer and network administrator. He formed the Toth Duo (violin and cello) with Andor Jr., his eldest son; they recorded the Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7, by Zoltán Kodály. Andor Jr. died in 2002 following a year-long battle with cancer.

Career

Toth was associate concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and concertmaster Josef Gingold. He was Associate Conductor of the Houston Symphony under Efrem Kurtz and Ferenc Fricsay before joining the Oberlin faculty in 1955. In 1955, Toth formed the Oberlin String Quartet with violinist Matthew Raimondi, violist William Berman, and cellist John Frazer. In 1957, violinist John Dalley (second violinist in the Guarneri Quartet), and cellist Peter Howard (for many years principal cellist in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra) joined the Quartet. In Summer 1958 the Oberlin String Quartet won fourth prize in the Concours International de Quatuor, sponsored by H.M. Queen Elizabeth Music Competition, in Liege, Belgium.

In 1963 Toth joined the Alma Trio with pianist Adolph Baller and cellist Gabor Rejto, following the death of violinist Maurice Wilk. After the retirement of Adolph Baller, William Corbett Jones became the pianist. Toth remained with the Alma Trio until 1976 when it disbanded.

Toth founded the New Hungarian Quartet in 1972 with Richard Young, violin; Denes Koromzay, viola (1913–2001), formerly violist in the Hungarian Quartet; and Andor Toth, Jr., cello (1948–2002), formerly principal cellist of the San Francisco Symphony under conductor Josef Krips. All members were faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory. From 1975 until 1979 the quartet was the first faculty quartet-in-residence at the Taos School of Music in Taos, New Mexico.

In 1984, Toth founded the Stanford String Quartet with cellist Stephen Harrison, violinist Mayumi Ohira, and violist Don Ehrlich. The quartet performed internationally until his retirement from Stanford in 1989.

In the summer of 1992, Toth toured Europe playing first violin with another Hungarian string quartet, the Takács Quartet.

Education career

Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1955–1960);
during the year 1960/61 he was conductor of Leonard Bernstein's musical West Side Story in New York City;
San Fernando Valley State College, now California State University, Northridge (1961–1963);
University of Colorado Boulder (1963–1968);
University of Texas at Austin (1968–1972);
Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1972–1978); and
Stanford University in Palo Alto, California (1978–1989).

While at Oberlin in 1958, he founded and conducted the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra. At Colorado, he founded the Baroque Chamber Ensemble that performed important Baroque works, including The Four Seasons with Toth as soloist.

In June, 1967, he taught and played at the New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida, for the first year of the Experimental Instrumental Performance Clinic, an event that became the Sarasota Music Festival. In the summer of 1968, Toth performed and taught at the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park, Colorado.

After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1978, Toth also taught briefly at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and directed the Morrison Artist Series.

In September 1982, The New York Times critic John Rockwell wrote about Toth's last New York concert: "Mr. Toth's principal virtue is his ability to invest even the most brilliant of passages with thoughtfulness; every phrase sounded shaped and considered, with a rich, ample tone ... And Mr. Toth is hardly one of those violinistic poets who wins one over despite an erratic technique; his intonation and articulation were secure in a way that was continually impressive yet never called undue attention to itself."

In 1988, Toth led the Stanford Symphony on a student-organized tour of South-East Asia, its first ever anywhere. The orchestra played in South Korea, Japan and Singapore, drawing a tremendous response and setting the model for numerous tours since. While in Singapore, Toth and his Associate Conductor Charles Barber honored two lifelong dreams by drinking Singapore Slings at the famous Long Bar in Raffles Hotel. The concert later that afternoon was rescued by its players.

In 1989 while at Stanford University, Toth led the conducting studio, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, and the Stanford Chamber Orchestra in several recordings and was an exceptionally generous mentor. Toth conducted the world premiere of Tenor Rhapsody, composed by William Thomas McKinley as a commission from the Stanford Symphony for saxophonist Stan Getz, also teaching at Stanford at that time.

Toth frequently amused his students (among them Charles Barber, Jennifer Brown, Peter Jaffe, Christopher Lanz, Jeanine Wagar) with a wry wit and an astonishing command of stride piano.

Toth retired at Stanford University in 1989. Following his retirement, he taught for one year at University of Arizona, then at the University of Houston from 1995 to 1998, and then moved to Friday Harbor, Washington, on San Juan Island. In Friday Harbor he founded Chamber Music San Juans, a successful chamber music series that still is thriving. He also presented annual children's concerts for area schools.

Students
Toth taught a large number of students during his 35-year career in higher education. Many of them occupy important positions in orchestras and higher education as performers, teachers, conductors, and in allied professions. As a teacher, Toth had very specific ideas about tone production, bow control, left hand finger placement and motion, vibrato, and all other facets of a well-developed artistic technique. His ability to use bow speed and weight with almost limitless variation to create phrasing and subtle tone variations was a hallmark of his own playing and his teaching. His musicianship was legendary. John Rockwell (in The New York Times review cited below) described Toth as a "violinistic poet". Some of his many prominent students are listed here.

 Stephen Clapp, Dean of the Juilliard School and violinist in the Beaux Arts String Quartet that won the 1965 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation award in Chamber Music; former dean of the Aspen Music Festival and School.
 David Zinman, Conductor Emeritus of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Aspen Music Festival and School; founder and director of the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
 Fred Nelson, former member of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra (1968), the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (1968–70), and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (1970–73. Violinist in the Purcell Quartet (1970–76), concertmaster of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra (1976–78); member of the Seattle Symphony (1979–81); and concertmaster of the Symphonie Canadiana (1981–85). Nelson has performed many concertos with orchestra, including those by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Henryk Wieniawski, Mozart, and Paganini.
 Dr. Paul Roby, violinist, violist, conductor, was a student of Toth at Oberlin Conservatory from 1955 until graduation in 1958. Roby has taught in many universities including the University of Oklahoma and Kansas State University at Manhattan, Kansas. He was the owner and director of Point CounterPoint Chamber Music Camp, Lake Dunmore, Vermont, for eighteen years. Roby was the concertmaster of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States.
 Rick Lohmann, violin, studied with Toth at Oberlin from 1973 until 1977. He was formerly a concerto soloist and concertmaster with the Omaha Symphony from 1985 until 2000. Lohmann currently is co-director of Santa Fe Talent Education.
 Charles Barber, conductor, AM, DMA Stanford, and later a student of the renowned Carlos Kleiber is conductor and artistic director of City Opera of Vancouver, British Columbia, and founder and guest conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Victoria, British Columbia.
Dr. Mary Ogletree, professor of violin at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania, studied with Mischa Mischakoff at the Aspen Music Festival and School and with Toth at Stanford University. "Andor Toth was generous (those marathon lessons, and the music he gave me, with all his markings!), a hard but fair taskmaster, and an inspiration. He compares only with Mischa Mischakoff, my other favorite teacher (at the Aspen Music Festival and School). None of us who were lucky enough to study with him will ever forget him."
Rodney Schmidt, violinist, educator and university administrator. BM Oberlin Conservatory (1961); MA California State University at Northridge (1962); DMA University of Colorado (1972), studied violin with Toth at each institution. "Andor was an incredibly sensitive and complete musician. He was a consummate teacher who gave his all to his students."

Andor Toth died of a stroke in Los Angeles, California, on November 28, 2006. He was 81 years old.

Selected discography

Laurel Records: Stanford String Quartet
William Bolcom: Tenth String Quartet
Ben Johnston (composer): String Quartet No 9
 Marc Neikrug: String Quartet Stars in the Mirror (Laurel)

Laurel Records: Stanford String Quartet
Frank Bridge: Quartet No. 1 in e
Darius Milhaud: Quartet No. 7 in B-flat
Gabriel Fauré: Quartet, No. 121

Eclectra Records, 1999: Duos For Violin And Cello / Toth Duo
Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 by Zoltán Kodály
Duo for Violin and Cello no 1, H 157 by Bohuslav Martinů
Sonata for Violin and Cello by Maurice Ravel

Arkiv Music VoxBox CDX 5022: Schubert, String Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Andor Toth (Violin), Richard Young (Violin), Denes Koromzay (Viola), Andor Toth Jr. (Cello)
String Quartet No. 13 (Schubert) in A minor, D 804/Op. 29 no 1 "Rosamunde"
String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert) in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden"
String Quartet No. 15 (Schubert) in G major, D 887/Op. 161
Quartettsatz in C minor, D 703/Op. posthumous

VoxBox (Classical) CD3X 3012: Beethoven, The Middle Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Andor Toth (Violin), Richard Young (Violin), Denes Koromzay (Viola), Andor Toth Jr. (Cello)
String Quartet No. 7 (Beethoven) in F major ("Rasumovsky 1"), Op. 59/1
String Quartet No. 8 (Beethoven) in E minor ("Rasumovsky 2"), Op. 59/2
String Quartet No. 9 (Beethoven) in C major ("Rasumovsky 3"), Op. 59/3
String Quartet No. 10 (Beethoven) in E-flat major ("Harp"), Op. 74
String Quartet No. 11 (Beethoven) in F minor ("Serioso"), Op. 95

VoxBox (Classical) CDX 3031: Debussy and Ravel Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Second CD of 3-CD Set. Andor Toth (Violin), Richard Young (Violin), Denes Koromzay (Viola), Andor Toth Jr. (Cello)
String Quartet (Debussy) in G minor, Op. 10
String Quartet (Ravel)

References

External links
 San Francisco "Andor Toth In Memoriam" by Janos Gereben, San Francisco Classical Voice, 12 May 2006
 Obituary by Charles Barber, San Francisco Classical Voice, 12 May 2006
 "Andor Toth 1925–2006", San Juan Islander

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Antagonist Vs. Villain
March 15, 2016 March 14, 2016 ~ gotmeghan	~ 5 Comments
I am a big nerd! I may not be all about books, but there are films and TV shows that were inspired from novels and comic books that brought the characters to life. As you probably know I am a big fan of superheroes; mostly on the Marvel side than DC or any other comic books. I don't know how it started exactly, I just remember being in the living room lying on the couch watching X2 with my dad and that's how my obsessed with Wolverine and Rogue started!
I've wrote a couple of different X-Men posts over the years. Starting with Mutant and Proud after I watched X-Men: First Class and we were introduced to our favorite mutants a whole lot younger! I've always seen Erik/Magneto as this troubled mutant who basically hated the human race. When I watched this film though, I finally understood why he was like the way he was and what changed him. In all honesty, I understood both sides of the argument of Charles's way of blending in and controlling their powers. Whereas Erik was more about embracing your true self, letting yourself have everything and don't care about what everybody thinks. Somehow after watching First Class and then changing direction and watching Man Of Steel the story of Superman, I wrote Waiting For Superman explaining how I saw the stories of these characters in a different way. Trying to explain to the reader that people and young kids with disabilities feel the same way. We're being pulled both ways of attempting to blend in and embracing yourselves. It's a complicated process that never really ends.
I didn't want this post being about my previous posts, I wanted to discuss the theory that we're looking at villains all wrong. What we think is a bad guy may not be. Several weeks ago, the question was asked during a Twitter chat for nerdy bloggers, like myself, "is there a difference between an antagonist and a villain?" I first said Draco Malfoy was more like an antagonist than a villain because he mostly wanted to impress his father and the rest of Voldemort's party. I never thought he was a bad guy, he just had a lot of bad influences around him. And then I started thinking about Magneto and how in ways, he's not exactly a villain either. He genuinely had a good heart; he hid it very well, but it was still there. He showed it for other mutants that were being abused by others who wanted to use, and ultimately destroy them.
Everybody is born with good intentions, even our most prized super villains like Dark Phoenix, Mystique, and Magneto. We keep forgetting–I keep forgetting–that people have a breaking point and they just lose it. The good runs out and the evil overcomes them. The ego takes over and controls their power, but like Professor X, you have to dig deep to find the good in that person. Everything can harden, but you can't harden your heart. No matter how you try, of course, you have to also understand that not everybody can be saved either.
Are there any characters in books, movies, and TV shows that you've found more like an antagonist rather than a villain? Why do you believe in them that they can change?
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Mutant And Proud.
August 27, 2012 August 25, 2013 ~ gotmeghan	~ 2 Comments
Do you know what it feels like to stand out? Have you got something that is very noticeable or very personal, that nobody knows about? Everytime I watch movies about different characteristics, like the X-Men movies or any other Disney Halloween movie. It makes me feel all weird. When I was younger, I use to think I was the only one that was handicapped. Kind of like Raven "Mystique" played by Jennifer Lawrence said at the beginning of X-Men: First Class when she first met Charles Xavier. We all think we're alone at first, then we find something or someone is just like us and it's the most closest thing in the entire world.
"Mutant and proud" is what Mystique kept saying during the beginning. At the beginning of my life, being proud for my physical differences, was not in my deck of cards. I was never bullied, but I could tell nobody understood how everything work with me. Growing up and going to public schools, it could lead to a disaster. I was depressed over my looks, it first happened when I was in middle school, sixth grade and I didn't gain control over my emotions of my strange beauty until my last year in high school. In school, I was more concerned of being in the popular crowd than feeling confident and being proud of myself instead. It sucked, but I'm glad I've learned my lesson at that.
I was just looking at pictures of some of the St. Louis Cardinals players going to Shriner's Hospital earlier last week. It made me think of my time there and I remember how much time has really gone since then. I miss it a lot. I've been asked this question a lot, and it's "if you could, what year would go back to and do all over again?" My answer was always be 2002, because it was not only the year I went to Shriner's and had my surgeries, but it was also my last year in Elementary, that was difficult for me, because I had a school there and I had made friends there, but everybody at 10 years old wants to be around people they're familiar with. Taking people or kids out of something they know for so long and into something new can be very hard to accept.
When I was at Shriner's, it was very nice to know that the kids around me where about the same as me. Meaning they had physical and/or mental problems with them that they can't help. The best example I can give is this, it's putting a bunch of rich kids into a private school and everybody having one common thing about them, they're rich. We were all at this hospital being treated for our different diseases, but we all had that common thing, we were different. The nurses, doctors, therapists, and families could do things with their bodies and we couldn't, at least some of us couldn't. It made us feel loved and kind of showed me that I wasn't alone. Even though later on in high school, I still felt like I had those moments where I was alone, hell I still have those moments every now and then. I never once felt like I was proud of my own skin in school. Everybody just showed me I was just another person wanting to leave school. I was just passing through. I had fun in different classes, but I felt very alone outside of school.
I started thinking that was the reason why I haven't been doing any college courses at all. I don't want to feel alone and be depressed over stupid things. Everybody asks me "why aren't you in school?" I always tell them it's not my time. It isn't my time. I am still learning to love my body and insecurities. I think it's important to learn those things before anything else. You don't want other thing inferring with everything else. So back to the reference of X-Men. I am a mutant in my own right. Feeling proud of who I am? Eh, I'm working on it. These things take time. They can't be rushed.
Movie Review: X-Men First Class
November 17, 2011 ~ gotmeghan	~ 2 Comments
I'm actually into different "superhero" movies. However I think out of them all X-Men is my number one favorite. I love when FX did a whole weekend of X-Men movies. I like seeing how good our technology is and artistic makeup can transform these actors and actresses into their characters and make them do anything with their newly fake powers. It excites me!
I've seen all three movies and I just finished the X-Men: First Class and it was very interesting to see how these characters of Professor X and Magneto came about. As I watching it I kept looking at these actors and actresses thinking, "where have I seen you in?" I was right on about two characters. Since I don't watch media news all that much or read any of that before a movie comes out the first time I watch a movie is the first time I see who the actors and actress are who play these characters. I was right on Kevin Bacon and Rose Bryne. I recently just watched Bridesmaids and hated her character in that movie, but loved her in this movie. I've seen a few movies with Kevin in it, and his face is recongizable.
I love how while I was watching it after Hank turned blue everything started to make a little sense with his name and how he was a doctor in the other movies. I just didn't think he looked normal until you saw his feet. When he shot himself with that stuff and started changing everything came to my head so quick I got excited. When Professor X and Magneto were looking for mutants at the beginning and found Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and he told them to fuck off. That was awesome! Then when Raven came into Magneto's room and changed her look to older, and she changed to her older self from the other movies played by Rebecca Romijn.
I think my favorite character was Raven. She hated being a mutant and just couldn't accept herself. She and Hank wanted to get rid of how they looked but keep their strength. While they were training to control their powers, Raven was struggling to lift a weight in human form and Magneto came in and she should just accept herself and that she was beautiful the way she was. He released the weight and she caught it in mutatnt form. Then after Hank figured out the cure to it she presented it to her and she started to realize that Magneto was right. There are a couple parts that reflect normal people. The Society does not accept different people. Mutant people are sometimes like disabled people. People don't accept us and make us feel like we don't belong. I'm not talking like Magneto and say "we need to rule the world" because that's stupid. Although people do need to start accepting us for being different. Nobody's the same. We should just get used to that.
X-Men.
June 2, 2011 August 23, 2013 ~ gotmeghan	~ Leave a comment
I am watching the second of the X-Men triology. I haven't watched this movie in a long time. I think the last time I watched this movie was probably two years ago. I've only seen the first one and this one. I haven't seen the third one and I really, really want to see the new one that comes out this month or July. Can't remember when it comes out. My favorite mutant is Storm, but I like Halle Barry. I also like all of the special powers the rest of them have. Since I'm handicapped when I first watched these movies I thought I was one. I know I'm weird but when people start to push you away like your a monster or something. You start to think of yourself as one. I really want to know who plays the guy who can make everything cold. He is REALLY cute! I might look him up later.


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הפקולטה לניהול ע"ש קולר סגל אקדמי בכיר
A short biography
Email: spiegel@tauex.tau.ac.il
Office: Recanati - Business Administration
Yossi Spiegel is the Louise Lea Flack Chair in Game Theory and Interactive Decisions, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at the CEPR and ZEW. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University (1991), M.A. in Economics from Tel Aviv University (1987), and B.A. in Economics and Accounting from Tel Aviv University (1985). Before joining Tel Aviv University he was a member of technical staff at the Economics Research Group at Bell Communication Research for three years. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) for the Chief Competition Economist in the European Commission's DG Competition, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Competition Economists. For a complete C.V., see http://www.tau.ac.il/~spiegel
Industrial Organization, Economics of Antitrust, Regulation, Corporate Finance
"Small Steps for Workers, A Giant Leap for Productivity," (joint with Igal Hendel) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, Vol. 6(1), 73-90.
"Investment and Capital Structure of Partially Private Regulated Firms," (joint with Carlo Cambini), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2016, Vol. 25(2), 487–515.
"Can Collusion Promote Sustainable Consumption and Production?" (joint with Maarten Pieter Schinkel), International Journal of Industrial Organization (CRESSE special issue), 2017, Vol. 53, 371-398.
"Consumers' Activism: the Cottage Cheese Boycott," (joint with Igal Hendel and Saul Lach), The Rand Journal of Economics, 2017, Vol. 48(4), 972-1003.
"Partial Vertical Integration, Ownership Structure and Foreclosure," (joint with Nadav Levy and David Gilo), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, Vol. 10(1), 132-180.
"Antitrust Enforcement of the Prohibition of Excessive Prices - the Israeli Experience," forthcoming in Excessive Prices and Competition Law Enforcement, Jenny F. and Katsoulacos Y. eds., Springer.
"The Antitrust Prohibition of Excessive Pricing," (joint with David Gilo), International Journal of Industrial Organization (CRESSE special issue), 2018, Vol 61, 503-541.
"The anticompetitive effect of minority share acquisitions: evidence from the introduction of national leniency programs" (joint with Sven Heim, Kai Huschelrath, and Ulrich Laitenberger), forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
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That means more supernovae, black holes, and a new model of star formation.
For fans of drama, the Universe can be a bit of a disappointment. Most of the stars it currently produces are red M-dwarfs. With masses less than half that of the Sun, these will burn fuel contentedly for trillions of years and then gradually fade. Massive stars, with 10 or more times the material found in the Sun, will explode and possibly leave an exotic object like a black hole behind. But they're relative rarities in the present Universe.
Or so we thought. A new survey of a star-forming region adjacent to the Milky Way has found an excess of stars with 30 or more times the mass of the Sun—and an even larger excess above 60 times the mass of the Sun. The find suggests that we could see a lot more supernovae and black holes. And it also implies that there might be something fundamentally off about our models of star formation.
Stars form from a mix of gas and other material that are drawn together by gravity. But things like angular momentum and the heat of friction fight against the pull of gravity. Star formation ends up being a balancing act, with limits on the amount of material that can accumulate before the star ignites in fusion. Once that happens, the heat and light of the star will drive off any material it hasn't already ingested.
Overall, this makes smaller stars a more probable outcome in the present-day Universe (the physics were somewhat different early in the Universe's history, when there was little more than dense clouds of hydrogen around). So, if you survey a large-enough portion of the galaxy and then plot the number of stars against their masses, you should see a steady decline in number as the mass goes up. Simulations of star formation have allowed us to estimate the rate of that decline.
Implicit in all of this is that the slope will eventually hit zero at some mass. Above this point, forming a star through this mechanism should no longer be possible.
This seems to work out in the nearby galaxy, but there have been hints that it doesn't hold up in areas of intense star formation. Most of those are found at great distances, where the young Universe frequently saw periods of intense star formation, creating what are called "starburst galaxies." There is, however, one example relatively close by. The Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, contains a region called 30 Doradus. 30 Doradus has a large number of young stars, including many very large ones—possibly including the largest star ever observed.
So a large team of astronomers decided to analyze data from 30 Doradus that had been obtained by a survey done using the Very Large Telescope. The work focused on the spectral properties of stars that could be resolved individually, as analysis of binary stars can be difficult, since you don't know how much either star is contributing. The spectral information was used to estimate the age and the size of the stars.
And it turned out a lot of the stars were big. Of the 452 stars the astronomers were able to observe, 247 were bigger than 15 solar masses, which means that all of them are fated to explode in a supernova. Overall, this data favors a slower decline in frequency with mass—there seem to be more really big stars than our models suggest. Because of this, the maximum mass of stars formed in 30 Doradus isn't as low as we'd expected. The expectation has been that 150 solar masses would be the upper limit, but the researchers found one that's more than 200 solar masses (other researchers have claimed a star in the area is about 300 solar masses). And their data can only rule out stars of 500 solar masses with a 90-percent confidence.
This doesn't mean that the numbers in 30 Doradus are typical of the galaxy as a whole, as starburst events involve a distinct set of conditions from that typically found in mature galaxies like the Milky Way. It's not even clear that it's typical of other starburst regions, given that this is the first we've gotten a good look at. But if it is, then there should be a lot more very massive stars out there than we thought.
On a basic level, that means that our models of star formation are incomplete and don't successfully account for the conditions of a starburst event. But it also means our expectations for the rate of various phenomena could be way off. Supernovae would occur 70 percent more often than we thought and be producing three times as much metal. Black hole collisions, which we've only just detected, should be occurring at 2.8 times what we'd previously estimated.
These numbers have a very large experimental error, so they're consistent with a large range of values. But, as our ability to detect transient events and gravitational waves increase, we can start putting some limits on the frequency of these sorts of events.


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ArtSouth's: Arts Beyond the Classroom (ABC) is a comprehensive arts enrichment program taking place September-May after-school, weekends, evenings and during no school holidays for youth ages 4-17. Children are trained in various classes by professional local artists in visual arts, music, dance and theater. The children also participate in arts-based service learning experiences such as mural making. The program ends in May with a public musical theater performance and the display of student-made original works, self-installed and exhibited for public view. ABC includes all supplies and is cost-free. This program takes place in South Miami at the Gibson-Bethel Community Center and Branches/Mt. Olive Baptist Church. All ABC programs are dependent upon grant funding.
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Q: Find the page that the user intended to see I'm rebuilding a site with a lot of incoming links, and the URL structure is completely changing. I'm using the stock mod_rewrite solution to redirect all old links to new pages.
However, as I'm sure a few links will slip through the net, I've built a small script that runs on my custom 404 page, to log the incoming visitors' referrer URL. This will help me track down any broken links.
In addition to referrer, is there also a way of logging the url that the user entered, or clicked that caused a 404? I ask this as referrer is obviously a bit 'hit & miss'.
I suspect not, but thought it worth a question.

A: You could determine from the logs what happened a short time earlier for that user. The referrer alone may not always put you into the right context.

A: You could maintain your old virtual folder structure during a transition period and put redirect pages in place to the new content.  If the structure is changing very radically so that is not possible then you basically don't have enough information from the old URL's to direct them.


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Nuvo | Ace Hotel | Travel | Alex Calderwood
THE ACE HOTEL EMPIRE
By Joshua David Stein | April 9, 2014
Acing the appeal.
The Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles.
If you were to total the tonnage of a modest boutique hotel, the mass would be staggering. Hundreds of steel beams, acres of thin carpet, sheets of glass wall. So it is particularly impressive when a hotel is transparent.
Before it was reborn in September as the Ace Hotel London Shoreditch, the Crowne Plaza London stood out. The disconcertingly beige building with the type of charmless glass awning that only hotels have was aberrant on Shoreditch High Street, one of the most stylish stretches in London.
When Alex Calderwood (who co-founded the Ace Hotel, arguably the coolest hotel chain in the world, in 1999) used to visit London, he would check into the Crowne Plaza. With his wild mop of curly, black hair and designer clothes, Calderwood would stick out in a lobby of business travellers. But what Seattle-raised Calderwood saw in the bland Sahara of the Crowne was the bones of an Ace.
He and his team ripped out the carpets, poured concrete, and laid timber flooring in its stead. They replaced the beige façade with dark bricks, and they removed the awning. The in-house creative team, Atelier Ace, outfitted the staff in handsome black-and-brown duffle coats, a collaboration with the English brand Gloverall. The 258 rooms, once hospitality clichés, are now most likely cooler than your apartment. They are filled with the sorts of hipster accoutrements that populate the other Ace properties (New York, Palm Springs, Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles), such as C. F. Martin & Co. acoustic guitars and A.P.C. quilts over low-lying beds featuring raw-denim headboards with pouches for remote controls.
Many of these touches are a direct result of Calderwood's catholicity and penchant for collaboration. A bathrobe by Vancouver-based Wings + Horns was born out of his friendship with Craig Atkinson, the company's founder. The leather change trays are a collaboration with London-based designer Ally Capellino. Even the restaurant, a wood-panelled, constantly crowded space called Hoi Polloi, pairs up with restaurateurs Pablo Flack and David Waddington, who run the city's Bistrotheque.
In short, Calderwood rendered the hotel transparent. It's not invisible, mind you, but it's not opaque either. The Ace London could only exist in London and only through Calderwood. It's his take on Shoreditch, just as the Ace Hotel New York is that city through his stained-glass eyes, or the Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles (which opened this January in a former United Artists building) reimagines what L.A. could be.
Judging from the bustle of the Ace London lobby, Calderwood's is a vision shared by the locals. Sadly, among the people you won't find at the hotel is Alex Calderwood himself. He died in November, at age 47. There is nothing not heartbreaking about his passing. The only balm might be found in the continued vibrancy of these Calderwoodian visions. He may be gone, but he's not invisible. Not even close.
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Sister Wives' Christine Brown Admits She and Kody Were 'Struggling' While Still in Las Vegas, Robyn Claims That's a 'Lie'
Not buying it! Robyn Brown calls out Christine Brown in an upcoming episode of Sister Wives for allegedly "struggling" in her marriage to Kody Brown while they all lived in Las Vegas.
Where Do Sister Wives' Meri, Janelle, Christine, Robyn Stand With Each Other?
"I cannot figure out why I am so angry," Kody, 53, says to Christine, 50, in Us Weekly's exclusive sneak peek of the Sunday, November 6, episode of the TLC series. "You've been in this place for a really long time and I'm just gradually getting clued in."
The Wyoming native, who announced his split from Christine in November 2021, claims that his and Janelle Brown's daughter Madison, 26, told him that the Utah native was contemplating their breakup well before she told him she was done.
Robyn Brown and Christine Brown. Courtesy of Robyn Brown/Instagram; Courtesy of Christine Brown/Instagram
"She told me, 'Yeah, Christine has been thinking about leaving for a long time,'" Kody says in the upcoming episode while addressing his wives amid his breakup with Christine. (He is still legally married to Robyn, 43, and in spiritual unions with Meri Brown and Janelle, 53.)
"When you hear things through the grapevine there's a whole other conversation you don't get. You should maybe address the source," Christine tells her estranged spouse, claiming that some of their children asked her, "Why are you staying? Why don't you just leave?"
The Cooking With Just Christine star — who shares son Paedon, 23, and daughters Aspyn, 27, Mykelti, 26, Gwendlyn, 20, Ysabel, 19, and Truely, 12, with Kody — chose not to reveal which of their kids voiced concerns over their marriage pre-split.
Sister Wives' Christine Brown and Kody Brown's Ups and Downs Over the Years
"They saw how separate we've been in Flagstaff. They also saw that Kody and I have been struggling for a long time," she says to Kody and her fellow sister wives Robyn and Janelle. "The kids were like, 'It looked like in Vegas that you and dad weren't very close anymore.'" (The family moved from Nevada to Arizona in 2018.)
Robyn, however, doesn't think Christine is being truthful about the timeline of her marital troubles, firing back, "In Vegas? That's a lie. I remember the conversations. I remember what was going on. I remember you guys having fun dates and hearing about that and seeing your guys' relationship. So either you guys were faking it in front of me … I don't know."
Sister Wives' Christine Brown's Quotes About Moving On From Ex Kody Brown
The TLC personality was upset about Christine's claim that Kody and Robyn's romance was the only one thriving while they were located in Nevada.
"I don't know exactly why she's saying that I'm lying. Kody and did struggle in Vegas and my kids did say it," Christine tells the cameras.
Robyn, meanwhile, doubles down on her comments, expressing frustration at the entire situation.
"She's sitting here saying everyone's relationships were struggling in Las Vegas and we didn't have what we had," Robyn says during a confessional of Christine. "And that Kody and I were the only ones that were OK. That's not true."
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Only a Patent Owner's Action Triggers § 315(b)'s Time Bar
On January 31, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") issued a decision in Sling TV, L.L.C. et al. v. Realtime Adaptive Streaming, LLC, IPR2018-01331, Paper 9 (PTAB January 31, 2019), holding that only a patent owner's complaint will trigger the one-year time bar under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b).
Section 315(b) states that an inter partes review ("IPR") "may not be instituted if the petition requesting the proceeding is filed more than 1 year after the date on which the petitioner, real party in interest or privy of the petitioner is served with a complaint alleging infringement of the patent." Here, the petitioners (Sling TV, et al.) were served with a complaint on June 6, 2017, from Realtime Data, but did not file an IPR petition until July 3, 2018, more than one year after being served. Accordingly, the patent owner (Realtime Adaptive Streaming) argued that Sling TV's petition was time barred under § 315(b). The PTAB rejected this argument in light of the fact that Realtime Data (not Realtime Adaptive Streaming, who owned the patent) had filed the complaint on June 6, 2017. Realtime Data had recorded an assignment to Realtime Adaptive Streaming three months before filing suit. As a result, after filing the complaint, and in view of the assignment, Realtime Data voluntarily dismissed its complaint without prejudice, and Realtime Adaptive Streaming then filed a new complaint on October 10, 2017. The PTAB held that the October 10, 2017 date was the correct date from which to measure the § 315(b) time bar.
In reaching its conclusion, the PTAB reasoned that, "[a]lthough the statute's text is not explicit as to who must file and serve the complaint, § 315(b) is titled 'Patent Owner's Action,' thus suggesting that only service of a patent owner's complaint triggers the one-year time bar." The PTAB further relied on legislative history purportedly demonstrating that "Congress envisioned that only a patent owner's complaint would trigger the time bar."
The PTAB also rejected Realtime Adaptive Streaming's reliance on the Federal Circuit's holding in Click-to-Call Techs., LP v. Ingenio, Inc., 899 F.3d 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2018) (en banc). As the PTAB explained, "Click-to-Call established that a complaint's later dismissal has no bearing on the one-year time bar" but Click-to-Call did not address "whether a complaint filed without standing triggers § 315(b)'s time bar."
As the PTAB now makes clear in Sling TV, L.L.C. et al. v. Realtime Adaptive Streaming, LLC, standing is required to trigger the time bar.
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The MacBook Air M2 is able to charge itself, but it's useless
The MacBook Air M2 has just been released, but a hidden feature has already been spotted by several users. The computer would be able to charge itself using only the MagSafe cable that came in the box.
Credit: Apple
More than a month after its official presentation, Apple finally launched the new MacBook Air M2 a few days ago in France, and some users have already been able to find a hidden feature that is amusing to say the least. On Twitter, Gregory McFadden posted a video revealing a "secret" feature of Apple's new computer.
In his video, he can be seen charging his computer in a rather unusual way, since he plugs both ends of his MagSafe cable into the device, i.e. the USB-C connector in the lower USB-C port and the MagSafe connector in the magnetic port of the same name. We can then see that the LED of the cable lights up, and that the computer notifies the user that it is charging. In other words, the MacBook Air M2 seems able to charge itself.
Read also – Macbook Air M2: a YouTuber has found a solution to fix the overheating problems of the device
The MacBook Air M2 is already a victim of its own success
Since a computer capable of recharging its own battery does not arrive on the market every day, the MacBook Air M2 seems to have been a hit with Apple fans. As a reminder, the MacBook Air M2 is significantly more expensive than its predecessor, since it is available at a starting price of 1499 euros with an 8-core CPU, an 8-core GPU, 8 GB of unified memory and SSD storage of 256 Go. It will take 1849 euros for an 8-core CPU, a 10-core GPU, 8 GB of unified memory and 512 GB SSD storage.
If you want to get a copy, we advise you to go to the store, since the official site already shows quite long delivery times. In effect, for the Midnight version, shipments will only be made between August 11 and August 18, in just under a month. For the Starlight, Space Gray, and Silver colorways, estimated delivery is between August 4 and August 11. Apple was likely forced to extend delivery times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which paralyzed its factories in China.


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I am in progress of completing my 3D top-down action shooter game using Unity3d.
At this point in time I am trying to create and complete +-6 unique new levels for my game. All of my 3d model assets thus far have some from the asset store purchase found here: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/34497.
1) 3D model assets needs to be mobile friendly. I.e. they need to be simple enough to generate great performance on mobile devices. (Simplified meshes) - something like just over 2000 tris per enemy model would be fine.
2) All assets need to look good and work well using Unity's standard shader.
3) A minimal amount of textures to reduce download size of game. So a nice atlas would work well.
4) Game assets need to work straight out of the box. Example: scale needs to be consistent and models would be easy to drop-and-drag into Unity. Pre-built prefabs would be a bonus.
5) I need a unique look and feel for each new "level". I.e. I need a single level pack for each new level. a. We can negotiate about art style – I am open to any good ideas – but naturally all art work will need to remain consistent throughout the game. Looking at the link above will give you a good idea of what I like.
6) The main categories of assets I am looking for would be a. Enemies (mostly vehicles) + end of level "super" bosses. b. Buildings c. Floor tiles d. Some simple props – like rocks and trees, etc.
I am happy to make payments on a per-level-pack provided. Please let me know your "estimated" quote price – given all the details shown above.