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Q: Triangle $ABC$ with $P$ and $Q$ on $AC$ and $AB,$ prove circumcenter of triangle is orthocenter of another
An acute riangle $ABC$ has $P$ and $Q$ which lie on $AC$ and $AB$ respectively. If $\triangle ABC \sim \triangle BPQ,$ prove the circumcenter of $\triangle ABC$ is the orthocenter of $\triangle BPQ.$

I defined $X$ is the intersection of $QO$ with $BP,$ $Y$ is the intersection of $BO$ with $QO.$ $Z$ is the intersection of $PO$ and $QB.$
I have noticed that due to the angle conditions, we have $\triangle APB$ isosceles, and so we have $PO$ bisects $AB,$ because $AB$ is a chord of the circumcircle of $\triangle ABC.$ So I proved that $PO$ is an altitude in $\triangle BPQ.$ However, from here I am not sure how to continue. I have attempted to angle chase on proving $\angle PBQ = \angle QOZ,$ which would prove $BXOZ$ is a cyclic quadrilateral which implies $QO$ is an altitude, implying the result. However, I am getting no where with this approach. I've also tried proving $\triangle QOZ \sim \triangle POX,$ but to no avail. May I have some help? Thanks in advance.
Edit: If anyone would like to know, I found this problem, it was from a post on this aops blog a few years ago: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c288875h1283745
Edit: also notice $P$ and $Q$ do not necessarily have to lie on segments $AC$ and $AB,$ so such a configuration is possible.

A: Redefine $X$ the point such that $QX' \perp BP.$ Then $\angle ZOX = 180^\circ-\angle A$ from cyclic quadrilateral $BX'OZ.$ Note $$\angle QOZ=90^\circ - \angle BQX = 90^\circ-(90^\circ - \angle PBQ) = \angle A,$$ proving collinearity with our new definition of $X.$ Since you have $PO \perp AB$ and $QP \perp BP,$ the result follows.

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Some years of our lives ripple softly, gurgling from time to time over gentle protrusions beneath the surface. Clean, like glass. Quiet. Smooth.
And some years are class five whitewater. Terrifying. Exhilarating. Fatiguing. And, if survived, not without glimpses of glory.
My mother's 67th year has been of the latter variety.
Right around her birthday last year she received the dreaded diagnosis. CANCER. Terrifying to me. Because...my mom is invincible. When I was a kid, I thought adults didn't get sick. My parents never did. And even now, with five marathons to my credit, I visit my mom in the summer and she humiliates me. Not on purpose, you understand. I just feel like a slacker when I work alongside her.
And now my invincible mom had an invader inside her body. She felt it. "I just want to get rid of it," she said. And while I was trying to comprehend a world where my mom was not superhuman, she simply did the next thing. Next doctor's appointment. Next test. Surgery. Chemotherapy. Lose hair. Lose energy. Learn what it is like to feel pain in your BONES. Literally. Then, just when you have had about all the fun you can stand. Radiation. Every day. For weeks.
Did she ask questions? Yes. Did she wonder "Why me?" Of course. Was she bitter? Not once. So far as I know.
Here is what she could not wait to tell me when we talked: She told me about people who had called. Brought food. Sent notes. Made her a beautiful quilt. Bought hats...and scarves. Loaned wigs. Driven her. Spent the day with her. People she hardly knew who had invaded her world with kindness. People who had always loved her, but took time to make sure she knew.
I could tell you I saw a new side of my mother this year. But that would not be true. Not really. I think I saw the mother I've always known...amplified. More grateful. More aware. More courageous. More tenacious. Even more invincible. But maybe not in the way I thought.
I hope I have inherited her invincibility of spirit. I would like to think I could navigate the class fives with as much grace as she has shown.
Thanks, Mom, for showing me the way.
Again, a beautiful post and tribute to your mom. I agree with it all and, as we know, not only has she survived cancer with grace, she has survived other trials, as well, with grace. I am proud to have her as a sister.
What beautiful parents you have, Shelia! Happy belated birthday wishes to them both! Continued prayers for your mom's healing, too!


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A: you code works just fine, see here.
You should probably use ready.
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Cs Finish January on a High Note
By JD Pelegrino|2019-02-01T07:33:10-06:00February 1st, 2019|0 Comments
The Celtics continued their recent streak of hot play on Wednesday when they took on the Charlotte Hornets by rolling to a 126-94 victory at the TD Garden.
The Celtics have one of the best home records in the entire Eastern Conference at 21-6, and they showed exactly why they can be such a force in front of their own fans.
For the second-straight game, the Cs had at least six players score in double digits. This is what peak Celtics performances look like. Four of the starting-five scored at least 14, with Gordon Hayward and Jaylen Brown scoring 12 and 24 respectively off the bench. When the Celtics shoot like they did last night, they are nearly impossible to beat.
To close the month of January, the Celtics won seven of their last eight games, with the only loss being a narrow four-point defeat against the Golden State Warriors. Overall in January, Boston held a record of 11-4 as they have seemingly found their rhythm.
Although Boston was without their All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving on Wednesday night, they were dominant in almost every quarter, taking the edge over the Hornets 35-28 at the end of the first. Point guard Terry Rozier led the pack once again and pulled out another win. Rozier has been playing great basketball over the last three weeks and has earned every second of playing time. Rozier recorded his first double-double of the season against Charlotte with 17 points and 10 assists.
"You know exactly what you're getting," coach Brad Stevens said about Rozier's play. "I think his spark over the last three or four weeks has been really, really impactful."
While the starters set the tone for the night, the bench came in and didn't let up, led by G-Time and Jaylen Brown. The bench unit outscored Charlotte's reserves 57-42 in the game, yet another example of the depth of the Celtics this season.
Gordon's play on the court contributed to the outcome in a variety of ways as evidenced by his plus-31 rating in the game, which was the highest of the night on either team.
With six player scoring double digits, defending the Celtics is one of the toughest tasks an NBA team will face all season simply because anybody can score.
The Celtics are still fifth in the East, but within a single game of third place. The tides in the Eastern Conference could shift in the coming week as the unofficial first half of the season winds to a close for the All-Star break in mid-February.
The Cs will head to Madison Square Garden to face the New York Knicks. The game is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.

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As to the economy, on the one hand . . . .
That was the problem with economists, according to Harry Truman, who got so tired of hearing his economic advisers talk about on the one hand and on the other that he begged for a one-handed economist.
That`s a touch extreme. How about some of us non-economists taking a whack at it? The trouble with economists is that, on the one hand . . . no . . . is that they get too involved in the minutiae and they have too many opinions.
Not opinion but observation leads to the judgment that the economy is in dreadful shape for two reasons.
Reason 1 is that it`s difficult to run a capitalist economy if nobody is a very good capitalist. And nobody is, least of all the capitalists.
Capitalism requires capital. A society acquires capital by producing more wealth than it uses. What is left over can be put to work to produce more wealth in the future.
Producing more wealth than you use requires deferring gratification, having a little less now so that you and your progeny can have more later.
To say that this is not the situation would be an understatement. Not only are we not deferring gratification, we are getting more gratified than we can afford, borrowing in order to do it, and sending our progeny the bill.
And ''we'' means everybody, not just the government. The same banker who rails against deficit spending in the morning sends a mailing to several million customers in the afternoon announcing that he has opened a new line of credit for them. And the professor (or-OK-columnist) who pontificates against conspicuous consumption goes home to his remote-control TV, his VCR, his stereo and his computer, most of them built in Asia.
The rich spend as much as they earn, traipsing off to Europe or to a hike in the Northwest woods with thousands of dollars` worth of shiny jackets. The poor make sure they get designer jeans. No one saves much as an individual. And should anyone suggest that we save as a society (that means taxes), he loses the next election.
Deferring gratification is not without its disadvantages. It`s so . . . middle class. No wonder the intellectuals use ''bourgeois'' as an insult. Deferring gratification also implies suppressing emotions, instincts and creativity.
But fools that we are, we have given ourselves the worst of both worlds. We`re still suppressing emotions, instincts and creativity, we`re just not suppressing consumption. Sure, a fancy car and a VCR might be fun, but they`re nothing compared to abandoning all restraint. If we`re going to mortgage the future, we might as well do more than just buy some doo-dads in the meanwhile. Not that everyone buys the same number of doo-dads, which brings us to Reason 2, which is that too few people have too much money and too many have too little. According to a study by economics professor Wallace Peterson of the University of Nebraska, only the top 20 percent of earners (that`s a household income of $56,000 in 1988) are better off than they were a decade ago, and they just barely. Real progress was limited to those earning more than $119,000. The rest of you slobs lost ground.
This is not bleeding-heart liberalism. What is being expressed has nothing to do with sympathy or concern with all those ordinary folks who have too little money. On the contrary. Down with ordinary folks. If they didn`t have the good sense to be born to privilege, too bad. No, this is hard-nosed economics. It`s just that when more people have money, they spend it, and they spend it here.
Rich people spend money too. But they spend a lot of it abroad, either by going there or by picking up a new Porsche. For the price of one Porsche, you could get six or seven Chevys, which are made in Detroit. And the average $30,000-a-year guy hasn`t been to Paris in just ages.
Even when they spend their money in America, the rich often spend it in ways that don`t benefit the economy. They (and their businesses, which really have been saving) spend a great deal buying each other`s companies, and then defending those buyouts in court, allowing still more lawyers to take their wives or mistresses to Paris and to buy a Porsche. The purchase of antique carpets and paintings does not do nearly as much for the economy as the purchase of wrenches and mops.
We depend on the rich to save and invest, and they do, but not enough. They buy old paintings and new Porsches. And we don`t give them much incentive to save and invest in productive enterprise. President Bush wants to give them just that by cutting the tax on capital gains. Maybe they would, but probably they`d just buy more Porsches, more of each other`s companies and more lawyers.


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By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | November 1, 2016
Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does Pakistan have?
Pakistan continues to expand its nuclear arsenal with more warheads, more delivery systems, and a growing fissile materials production industry. Analysis of a large number of commercial satellite images of Pakistan army garrisons and air force bases shows what appear to be mobile launchers and underground facilities that might be related to nuclear forces.
We estimate that Pakistan now has a nuclear weapons stockpile of 130–140 warheads (see Table 1). This stockpile exceeds the projection made by the US Defense Intelligence Agency in 1999 that Pakistan by 2020 would have 60–80 warheads (US Defense Intelligence Agency 1999, 38)…
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Saras Salil - Tamil - July 2021
Saras Salil is a very strong Delhi Press brand that is published in 5 languages namely Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Telegu, Saras Salil provides news, information and entertainment in a language that is simple to understand for the young educated masses. The magazine raises issues that are pertinent to the socio-cultural milieu of the urban and rural masses, including issues of class based discrimination, caste politics, identity, employment, economy, and societal framework from the perspective of working class households in urban and rural areas.
Over the last 2 decades, the magazine has toed an extremely bold and progressive line in raising these issues with the aim of aiding the societal and economic upliftment of the masses. At the same time, the magazine has an entertaining side to it with a mix of racy imagery, satire, and buoyant stories.
In the respect, Saras Salil is a complete read for the progressive working younger generation, with a strong emphasis on politics and social issues as matter to him, balanced with entertainment. Most importantly, the presentation of the magazine is such that the reader identifies himself with the context of the magazine, and which blends in with his socio-cultural environment.
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I uploaded this week's video on my Youtube that I took in Barcelona on my way home.
I wanted to spend some time alone, before I come back to Montreal. As many of you who have immigrated knows how difficult it is to deal with your emotions when you have to say goodbye to your family, friends, your favourite places, the scent of the air, the way the sun shines in your country… I knew I needed some time just for myself. Alone. Somewhere that is none of my homes, yet feels like it. I decided to go back to Barcelona. Am I becoming one of those old folks who goes to the same place on a holiday every year? Maybe… I already lived a fourth of a century, I guess that might be a good excuse, or I should just move to Barcelona so I never have to go on a holiday there again, because everyday is a holiday?! STOP ME!
So, I moved to Canada 3 years ago, because of my love and couldn't return for more than 2 years, which just by thinking about it still breaks my heart. I have a really strong and close relationship with my family and friends and it was the hardest thing I had to do in my life. Even my operation afterwards was a ride in Disneyland. But now, I am able to come and go whenever I want to, which makes my life much easier and less heartachy.
Despite staying in Canada for over 2 years, I used to and I still travel A Lot. I usually stay in an Airbnb, but the last time I went I stayed in one of the eco hotels, called Princess Hotel Barcelona. They have a sustainability plan called '360 Princess and You' in which they are reducing overall waste, do energy saving in every area of the hotel and they have EMAS certificate too. Such a great job they are doing there! I booked this hotel through Booking.com and I always book my hotels through them.
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If you prefer renting an apartment rather than staying at a hotel, I would suggest you to try Airbnb.
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AngryJesusMan
Hello again! I've been a fan of Final Fantasy since I was young. I've been waiting for a good version of a wizard that can cast healing spells to scratch my itch for a White Mage. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything that really fit the bill. Certain Cleric Domains touch on it, but they're just not the same. All of the Theurgy options I've seen fall woefully short of what I have in my head. So here I am, trying to do right by my vision. Hopefully I don't screw it up too much. So let me know if there's anything that I've done wrong. :smallsmile:
Divine Arcanist
Divine Arcanists are those that are dedicated to uncovering the secrets of casting divine spells without necessarily supplicating to the deities and other entities that normally provide it. Through hard work and study, you have made this discovery, wielding the sacred in the same way that most wizards wield their spells.
Student of the Divine. Starting when you join this tradition at 2nd level, your studies have led you to a profound conclusion: the only means by which to channel divine forces is to tap directly into a source of divine energy. This contact, for better or worse, fundamentally changes your spellcasting. From this point forward, you may only learn wizard spells from the Divine Arcanist spell list. In addition, you can learn any spell from the cleric spell list. Your spellbook loses any wizard spells that aren't on either of these lists. Each lost spell is replaced by a spell of your choice that you can learn and is of the same level. This also occurs for any cantrips you know. Cleric cantrips and spells that you know become wizard spells for you.
When you gain a level, you can add two spells of your choice from the Divine Arcanist or Cleric spell lists to your spellbook. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the Wizard table.
On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook (see the "Your Spellbook" sidebar). Any spells added to your spellbook must be from the Divine Arcanist or Cleric spell lists. Other wizards cannot copy cleric spells from your spellbook into their own spellbooks, and you cannot copy wizard spells that aren't from the Divine Arcanist spell list into your spellbook.
Divine Arcanist Spell List
Cantrips: Mage Hand, Message, Prestidigitation, True Strike
1st level: Alarm, Disguise Self, Expeditious Retreat, False Life, Feather Fall, Find Familiar, Fog Cloud, Identify, Illusory Script, Jump, Longstrider, Mage Armor, Shield
2nd level: Alter Self, Arcane Lock, Blur, Darkvision, Enlarge/Reduce, Gentle Repose, Gust of Wind, Levitate, Invisibility, Magic Weapon, Mirror Image, Misty Step, See Invisibility
3rd level: Blink, Counterspell, Haste, Leomund's Tiny Hut, Nondetection, Phantom Steed, Slow, Water Breathing
4th level: Dimension Door, Greater Invisibility, Leomund's Secret Chest, Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound, Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum, Otiluke's Resilient Sphere, Stoneskin
Cleanser of Undeath. Beginning when you choose this tradition at 2nd level, the positive energies that you have learned to harness make you a staunch foe of the undead. When you use a spell slot to cast a spell of 6th level or lower that would normally heal hit points but has no effect on undead, you may instead use the spell to damage undead. You cast the spell as normal, choosing targets as appropriate. If one of the creatures that would be affected by the spell has the Undead creature type, you can choose to have the spell deal radiant damage to that creature equal to the amount that would normally be healed.
Font of Healing. Beginning at 6th level, you can use your divine energies to aid others in tending their injuries when not in combat. If you or any friendly creatures within 30 feet of you regain hit points at the end of a short rest, each of those creatures regain extra hit points equal to your wizard level. Instead of healing hit points, you can use this feature to heal Wound Points. Each target can heal 1 Wound Point for every five of your wizard levels, though a creature may only be healed of Wound Points by this feature once every 24 hours.
Hand of Protection. At 10th level, you gain the ability to protect others with pure divine energy. As an action, you can extend your Hand of Protection. To do this, you begin performing verbal and somatic elements and concentrating as if you are concentrating on a spell. Your Hand of Protection takes immediate effect and remains in effect until you no longer spend your action to perform these elements, stop concentrating on this feature, are silenced, or voluntarily end it (no action required).
You choose two creatures within 30 feet that you can see to be affected by your Hand of Protection. This increases to 3 creatures at 17th level. Creatures affected by it choose one of the following benefits when you choose them and at the end of each your turns.
Resistance to all damage.
Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Beacon of Life. Beginning at 14th level, you have unlocked the secrets of a blessing of the gods that is normally reserved for their champions. You can cast Beacon of Hope without expending a spell slot. Once you invoke this blessing, you must complete a short rest before you can do so again.
Edit: I really liked the Protect feature presented here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?525953-Sorcererous-Origin-White-Magic), so I changed mine to reflect a similar idea with the Hand of Protection.
For anyone interested, I added a limited list of wizard spells back to this subclass's arsenal. It dawned on me as I was reviewing that there are certain things that a wizard uses to make itself useful and safe in certain situations that just aren't available on the cleric spell list. Rather than giving the wizard armor proficiency, which would only address some of the problem, I gave it back some of the tools it would normally use to protect itself. It's still not going to be a blaster, because that was never something that existed in the source material I'm drawing from, but now it should be able to at least avoid being completely destroyed the first time something runs up on it. Cheers!
Llama513
I was worried about this being something like the Theurgy, but it isn't, it is in fact something very intriguing, I haven't fully read the abilities, but this strikes me as something akin to the arcane cleric mixed with the life cleric, and it is a very interesting take on the idea, however due to the nature of how a wizard works I feel it strange to have it be that they can cast divine spells because of some change in how they cast, when it should be that they simply focused their studies into learning to cast divine spells.
I was worried about this being something like the Theurgy, but it isn't, it is in fact something very intriguing, I haven't fully read the abilities, but this strikes me as something akin to the arcane cleric mixed with the life cleric, and it is a very interesting take on the idea,
Thank you. That's kind of the feel I was going for. Glad to see I hit somewhere close to that.
however due to the nature of how a wizard works I feel it strange to have it be that they can cast divine spells because of some change in how they cast, when it should be that they simply focused their studies into learning to cast divine spells.
I can certainly understand that sentiment. I fought with how to do it. I wanted to find a way to shoehorn the subclass into using divine spells. I also didn't want to continue giving it access to the usual wizard offensive options because that would completely clash with the theme that I was shooting for. Originally, I just let it have access to Cleric spells and took away access to Wizard spells, which was cleaner, but it left it essentially defenseless and without a wizard's usual utility. At that point, I had the option to give it some armor proficiency, which would essentially just make this a low-rent Cleric with worse melee capability and spell selection. Ultimately, I decided on the kinds of wizard spells I wanted it to keep, and I went through the lists and picked them out. It's an awkward solution, but I feel like it preserves the feel of my goal: a true wizard (thus, it relies on magic for everything) that has a connection to the divine. The change in spellcasting was just an effort to provide mechanics to get it done and find a narrative explanation for the change. If you have a suggestion on how better to accomplish these goals, I'm all ears. :smallsmile:
My thought is to have it be that they turned their focus to divine spells, while still keeping some arcane knowledge for responding quickly to situations, the reason for forgetting spells not on the list provided, would be that the focus on divine spells takes up their time, and thus they are unable to continue to practice the other arcane spells
I really enjoyed the Protect feature presented here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?525953-Sorcererous-Origin-White-Magic), so I made a change to mimic the idea. Thus the Hand of Protection feature was born.


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A self-confessed agnostic and aimless drifter turning into a missionary and going about converting people – converting Hindus to Hinduism – that is the story of Swami Chinmayananda, founder of the Chinmaya Mission which has just completed 50 years.
Balakrishnan Menon, a journalist at the National Herald, Delhi, started for Rishikesh "to find out how those holy men are keeping up the bluff!" A chain-smoker with a postgraduate degree in English literature, he was by all description an unlikely candidate to don the orange robes and enter a life of contemplation.
His innate compassion for his fellowmen was evident in several pieces he had written for the paper. But he was essentially an extrovert, always talking and always on the move. His easygoing and spendthrift lifestyle had often moved his uncle and guardian to sermonise him on the virtue of hard work and the importance of earning one's own bread.
As it happened, the intellectualism, the humility and dynamism of Swami Sivananda, the master at the centre he was visiting, attracted and held his attention. The man who came to scoff, stayed on. After a while Menon moved on to another teacher, Swami Tapovan of Uttarkasi, a stern disciplinarian from whom he learnt the Upanishads and obtained his diksha or ordination as a monk.
Many are of the view that Swami Chinmayananda's biggest contribution lay in taking the Gita to the masses. In doing so he even went against the advice of his mentor Swami Tapovan, who maintained that "scriptures have no charm at all for ordinary folk". He believed too that a swami should lead a life of seclusion and contemplation.
But the young mendicant was not to be dissuaded from his yagna of helping people attain eternal perfection in this very life. That, at a time when religion for the common Hindu has been reduced to performing rituals to obtain the favour of gods in the pursuit of mundane ends.
When Swami Chinmayananda was planning his Jnana Yagna at Pune, Swami Tapovan exploded: "Poona! There are so many Brahmin Sanskrit scholars in Poona! How will you tackle them; they will never countenance a swami talking on the scriptures which they consider their private domain!" However Swami Sivananda supported the young swami and told him: "Go, roar like a Vivekananda!"
Many experiences built in him the necessary motivation and resolve. The death of a long-time friend, Shroff, who fell victim to cancer after much suffering, moved him. As he was carrying the pot containing the friend's ashes in train, he mused: "The man who is usually with me is now in that small basket – a few bones and ashes… Flesh and life are gone!" He became aware that life is empty and shallow without the inner expansion, the inner depth. This inner wealth alone can reinforce against "the sledgehammer stroke of destiny, the conspiracy woven by the circumstances of life".
"Swamiji, why did you take to sanyasa?" his old associates, reporters from Delhi once asked him. "What would you have me do?" he shot back, "marry, breed, fight, and talk shop until, wrecked with age and sorrow, this body drops down dead?"
"Chinmaya was tired of living in the tomb, so he walked out into the open to breathe, to bask, to work and to live", the swami continued. This realisation of the uselessness of worldly values and goals prodded him on. He was determined to present the highest philosophy of the scriptures which largely remained unknown to the public. He wanted to present it in an easily intelligible form that would also make it practicable in immediate circumstances and daily living. At this crucial time in history, he felt, with "the Brahmins and Kshatriyas putrefying themselves in the leprous warmth of luxury and power", spiritual gurus should not "live in a cave and meditate" but need to be working among the people to spread the right values.
Once in a public address he had thundered: "If Hinduism can breed for us only heartless shopkeepers, corrupt babus, cowardly men, loveless masters and faithless servants; if Hinduism can give us only a state of social living in which each man is put against his brother; if Hinduism can give us only starvation, nakedness, and destitution; if Hinduism can encourage us only to plunder, loot, and to steal; if Hinduism can preach to us only intolerance, fanaticism, hard-heartedness and cruelty; then I too cry `Down, Down' with that Hinduism".
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We all know that friendly Farnell Newton is one of the funkiest men in town. Between blowing his horn on tour with Jill Scott and Bootsy Collins and being the nucleus of many a local musical circle, he's now officially rallying the funk scene for a two-day party at Portland's unofficial home for that delectable dance music. Folks like talk box master Steveland Swatkins, powerhouse vocalists Sarah Clarke and Arietta Ward, guitarist Agyei Marshall, and goofballs The Quick & Easy Boys will feel right at home on the Goodfoot's subterranean stage, as will legendary drummer Frankie "Kash" Waddy—who you can hear all over records by P-Funk and Bootsy. Saturday's an all-star tribute to James Brown while Sunday will show you just how funky our own scene is. And you can even get busy a night early at The 1905!


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Absolut was established in 1879 by Lars Olsson Smith and is produced in Åhus, Sweden.
Smith introduced fractional distillation which produces liquor without fusel alcohol in Sweden in 1877, under the name "Tiodubbelt Renadt Brännvin" (Tenfold Purified Vodka). Brännvin literally means "burn-wine" and is analogous to the German "Branntwein".
In 1917, the alcohol industry in Sweden was monopolized by the Swedish government. Vodka was then sold nationwide under the name "Absolut Rent Brännvin". The name changed with intervals, Renat Brännvin or Absolut Rent Brännvin. In 1979, the old name Absolut was picked up when the upper-price range ABSOLUT VODKA was introduced.
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UAW On The Verge Of A Federal Takeover After Latest Guilty Plea
by Thom Taylor on June 4, 2020
Man, becoming the head of the United Auto Workers seems like it attracts crooks like the ice cream man attracts little kids. We've lost count of how many of the top tier UAW overlords have pleaded guilty for embezzlement and headed off to prison. But the feds haven't lost count, and that's a huge problem for the UAW. After the latest guilty plea by a former UAW president, it looks like it is on the verge of a federal takeover. So, what's going on?
Former UAW President Gary Jones pleaded guilty to a variety of swindles yesterday after years of investigation. He'll get plenty of time to think about his embezzling, racketeering, and fraud. He has agreed to about 4 ½ years in prison. If he snitches on others involved he could see less time.
Since the federal investigation started 13 others have pleaded guilty
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We expected he would be sentenced in March but, you know, coronavirus. Since the investigation started there have been 13 others who have pleaded guilty. Jones already forfeited $32,000 seized from his house, $81,000 from his "flower fund," and $30,000 from another union account.
He also had to give up his Titleist golf clubs purchased with UAW money. It makes you wonder what the fed missed that Jones has squirreled away. With 14 guilty pleas and the recovery of so much UAW cash along with the discovery of multiple swindles you would think the feds would be happy. They are not.
The word is that they don't feel they are getting much cooperation from the UAW heads. That opens the door for the feds to file a civil racketeering lawsuit. If that happens it is easy for the government to walk right in and take over.
If there is a federal takeover it can fire UAW officers to establish new leadership
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Taking control of union operations also means they can fire UAW officers and set up elections to establish new leadership. "My patience has pretty much run out," US Attorney Matthew Schneider told the Automotive News. "I would like to have some serious dialogue and serious action about reforming the UAW itself, within a couple of months."
RELATED: UAW President Implicated In Federal Complaint
Without "serious action" the feds taking over the UAW ultimately means it can put in motion the same procedures that it did for the Teamsters 30 years ago. It could remove the Reuther Administrative Caucus which puts a monopoly on selecting candidates for upper positions in the UAW.
UAW members deserve what a union is expected to do for them
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Look, the UAW is a good thing. The members deserve what a union is expected to do when one joins. These swindles hurt the members and that is bad for all concerned. Especially now with plant openings as the COVID-19 pandemic is still swirling around, the UAW can give members added protections they need.
We'll have to wait until the end of summer to see if the UAW can satisfy the feds or it looks like the government will be overseeing the UAW. If it can break the chain of scams and swindles it can't come soon enough.
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Harry, Ron and Hermione see the knight with an arrow sticking out of his forehead speaking to the Fat Friar at Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington's 500th Deathday party on Oct. 31, 1992 (CS8). Before his death, he was a wizard (OP38).
Distinguishing Features Well, there is that arrow sticking out of his forehead.
It is possible that this is the ghost of could be Harold II (1022? - 1066). He was the last Saxon king of England. He was defeated at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 by William the Conqueror. Harold was killed when an arrow pierced his eye. Thanks to Mike Ball again for this excellent deduction.


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I remember hearing a quote in my institute class from the late Hugh Nibley, who is reported to have said something along the lines of, "In order to be a good Latter-day Saint you need to have an infinite capacity for boredom." This quote, I think, humorously holds some truth, but for certain reasons that I think it shouldn't be true. Put differently, true, honest discipleship does not afford us the chance to ever get bored. And the reason for that, I believe, is found in the reflective margins of the ninth article of faith, which will be the basis of this post today.
Our founding prophet believed that creeds fixed limits on human ingenuity and closed the doors for truth and further light and knowledge to spring from any source, regardless the label. The astounding paradox here, however, is that even Joseph would soon come to learn that this sort of untrammeled, unbounded freedom that he wanted the Saints to experience and enjoy had to be regulated and ordered within a community of restraints, lest it spin wildly out of control. We can bring to mind here several examples from church history.
Suddenly Joseph was faced with a very challenging question. He wanted at one point for everyone to voice scripture and see God. Though without procedures, without order, leadership or law, the question would remain how he could avoid the pitfalls of other charismatic religions that did not circumscribe boundaries for human expression. And would differences of opinions about what counts as divine revelation oblige him to then tolerate a diversity of views indefinitely? Well, according to Joseph the answer was no. There had to be a single spokesmen divinely appointed whose amplification of authority at the center would in turn amplify and energize the authority of the entire congregation.
And that is a wonderfully fascinating and unique paradox to consider, because while the structure of the church from an outsider's perspective may look like tyranny or despotism, from an insider's perspective it looks like ordered benevolence—the kind that means to empower each of us individually, as well as collectively. To get a taste for how rich this paradox is, consider a passage from Richard Bushman, a reputable and faithful church historian.
Revelation meant freedom to Joseph, freedom to expand his mind through time and space, seeking truth wherever it might be. But [Joseph also had] a desire for order [to] balance the freeing impulse. By licensing his followers to speak with the Holy Ghost, he risked having the whole movement spin out of control. Against the centrifugal force of individual revelation, Joseph continually organized and regulated. Though he was the chief visionary of the age, he showed little sympathy for the extravagant behavior of people possessed by spirits. He preferred edification and orderly worship to the uncontrolled emotions of the camp meeting…[This] balance between freedom and control makes it difficult to keep Mormonism in focus. Was it authoritarian or anarchic, disciplined or unbounded?
That is a really good question because it addresses the tension of our want for an open canon, and by implication continued revelation, yet also our need for stakes, order and authority, all which can be seen in the Prophet, as he was often torn between the impulse to obliterate the creeds yet also sanction them within a legalistic vocabulary of authority, priesthood, laws, and ordinances. These outward manifestations, which are believed to be eternal and unchanging, are what give our religion its pulse, its structure, its feelings of safety and superiority, but they can also be great stumbling blocks for those who may have suffered abuse of authority in the setting of organized religion.
I would like to shift gears a bit and focus on the tension inherent in revealed religion and what it implies for how we as members of the church interpret revealed doctrine in the light of our continual need to clarify and expound what has already been given. And I would like to provide some suggestions on how we can be anxiously engaged in this latter-day work by performing what is probably the most oft repeated phrase in the New Testament; "to ask, knock, and seek" revelation for ourselves, as well as our families.
I've had friends of mine tell me that because we live in the "dispensation of the fullness of times," and that because we belong to "the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth" (D&C 1:30), that this must unequivocally mean that our quest for truth and understanding has come to an end. They've said things to me like, "We have it all right here in the standard works," an attitude that seems to say: "A Quad! A Quad! We have got a Quad, and there cannot be any more Quad." This is somewhat of an ironic attitude because, as Bushman points out, "The Book of Mormon . . . prepares the way for itself by ridiculing those who think the Bible is sufficient." But it also warns against anyone who restricts God in the present from speaking anywhere and anytime, even if His voice at times appears to go against the grain of rigid orthodoxy (2 Nephi 29).
Elder Neal A. Maxwell warned that "such members move out a few hundred yards from the entrance of the straight and narrow path . . . thinking, 'Well, this is all there is to it'; and they end up living far below their possibilities." The belief that our search for truth can come to an end because we think we already possess all the truths pertinent to our salvation is, I believe, one of the more subtle attitudes that lulls us into the mistaken belief that "all is well in Zion." It is to incorrectly believe: (1) that we already understand fully what has been given, and (2) that we need not educate ourselves beyond the standard works, despite the Lord's mandate to "seek out the best books" and to "seek learning, even by study and also by faith" (D&C 88:70, 74, 77-80).
This myth [of the unruffled Mormon is] simply the commonly held picture of the Mormon as a complete, integrated personality, untroubled by the doubts and uncertainties that plague the Protestant and oblivious to the painful searching and probing of the non-believer. The Mormon is taught from Primary on up that he, unlike his non-Mormon friends, knows with absolute certainty the answers to the [thorniest] problems of existence, that in fact his search has come to an end, and that his main task in life is to present these truths to others so that they too may end their quests.
I think there is enough scriptural precedent for us to be suspect of this attitude. I've mentioned two here already, specifically how the Lord's calls us to "seek learning, even by study and also by faith," or otherwise to "seek out the best books words of wisdom . . . that we may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine . . . in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God . . . of things both in heaven and in the earth . . . things which have been, things which are at home, things which are abroad . . . a knowledge also of countries and kingdoms—that ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you" (D&C 88:70, 74, 77–80).
I would like to close by sharing my own testimony on this path towards deeper meaning, deeper revelation, both for myself and also for my family. There are many that know me who will be the first to admit that my approach and methodology to studying and teaching the gospel isn't always the most orthodox. I can be challenging at times, but hopefully my challenges have been served in a faith-promoting context. And while some reading this may not agree with every jot and tittle with what I've expressed, I hope you know that I am deeply committed to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is everything to me—as my wife can attest to you, it is basically the only thing that I know how to speak passionately about. And that passion has come from years of allowing the Holy Ghost to be my companion.
 Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook, ed., The Words of Joseph Smith (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1980), 256. The spelling, punctuation, and grammar of the primary sources quoted here have been standardized for readability.
 Ehat and Cook, Words of Joseph Smith, 184.
 See generally Mark Lyman Staker, Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations (Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2009), 71–91.
 Joseph Smith, History, circa June 1839–circa 1841 [Draft 2], 54, online at http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/history-circa-june-1839-circa-1841-draft-2?p=60 (Accessed July 20, 2014).
 Richard Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York, N. Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 285.
 Ehat and Cook, Words of Joseph Smith, 319.
 Harold B. Lee, "The Message," New Era, January 1971, 6.
 Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, 101.
 Neal A. Maxwell, Men and Women of Christ (Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1991), 2–3.
 Frances Lee Menlove, "The Challenge of Honesty," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 1/1 (1966): 46.
 Ehat and Cook, Words of Joseph Smith, 229.
 History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ed. B. H. Roberts (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1971), 5:215.
 Brigham Young, "Building the Temple—Mormonism Embraces All Truth," in Journal of Discourses, 11:375.
 Eugene England, "What it Means to be a Mormon Christian," in Dialogues With Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience (Midvale, Utah: Orion Books, 1984), 180.
 Bruce R. McConkie, "A New Commandment: Save Thyself and Thy Kindred!" Ensign, August 1976, 11.
 B. H. Roberts, "Book of Mormon Translation," Improvement Era 9, no. 9 (July 1906): 713.
 Ehat and Cook, Words of Joseph Smith, 366.
 Terryl L. Givens, "Joseph Smith: Prophecy, Process, and Plentitude," in The Worlds of Joseph Smith: A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress, ed. John W. Welch (Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2006), 59.
 Joseph Smith, Letter to the Church and Edward Partridge, 20 March 1839, online at http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/letter-to-the-church-and-edward-partridge-20-march-1839?p=12 (Accessed July 20, 2014).


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Q: Custom Progress Bar's drawable does not fit I am trying to implement the below progress bar:

and the result I am getting is:

The problem here is that the lines do not fit in the progress bar as it is clear in the left and right side of the image. The reason is that I am using the progress bar's height and width to draw the lines, but the progress bar has a corner radius which is not considered when getting the height and width.'
I tried adding paddings to the progrss bar, but I don't want any empty space as seen in the first image above.
Here are my main classes:
ProgressDrawable.java
class ProgressDrawable extends Drawable {
private static final int NUM_LINES = 60;

private Paint mPaint = new Paint();
private ProgressBar progressBar;

public ProgressDrawable(Context context, ProgressBar progressBar){
    super();
    init(context);

    this.progressBar = progressBar;
}

@Override
protected boolean onLevelChange(int level) {
    invalidateSelf();
    return true;
}

@Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
    float width = progressBar.getWidth();
    float height = progressBar.getHeight();
    for (int i = 0; i < NUM_LINES; i++) {
        float startX = width * i / NUM_LINES;
        float stopX = startX + 2f * width / NUM_LINES;
        //mPaint.setColor((i + 1) * 10000 / NUM_LINES <= getLevel()? 0xff888888 : 0xCACACA);
        mPaint.setShader((i + 1) * 10000 / NUM_LINES <= getLevel()? new LinearGradient(0, 0, 0, height, Color.parseColor("#77F5FF"), Color.parseColor("#31AFF5"), Shader.TileMode.MIRROR) : new LinearGradient(0, 0, 0, height, Color.parseColor("#D9D9D9"), Color.parseColor("#D9D9D9"), Shader.TileMode.MIRROR));
        canvas.drawLine(startX, height, stopX, 0, mPaint);
    }
}

@Override
public void setAlpha(int alpha) {
}

@Override
public void setColorFilter(ColorFilter cf) {
}

@Override
public int getOpacity() {
    return PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT;
}

private void init(Context context)
{
    Resources resources = context.getResources();
    mPaint = new Paint();
    mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
    mPaint.setStrokeWidth(resources.getDimension(R.dimen.vertical_divider_width));
}
}

MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

LinearLayout mainLayout;
ProgressBar pb;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    mainLayout = findViewById(R.id.mainLayout);

    LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(this);
    ll.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);

    mainLayout.addView(ll);

    pb = findViewById(R.id.progressBar);
    Drawable d = new ProgressDrawable(this, pb);
    pb.setProgressDrawable(d);

    SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener l = new SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser) {
            int newProgress = pb.getMax() * progress / seekBar.getMax();
            Log.d(MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(), "onProgressChanged " + newProgress);
            pb.setProgress(newProgress);
        }
    };

    startProgress();
}
}

activity_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" android:orientation="vertical" android:gravity="center">

<ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressBar"
        android:layout_width="600dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:max="60"
        style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
        android:background="@drawable/rounded_layout"/>
</LinearLayout>

rounded_layout.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:shape="rectangle">
   <solid android:color="#D9D9D9"/>
   <corners android:radius="15dp" />
</shape>

Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

A: Thanks for @0X0nousugar's answer to this question.
Clipping the canvas was the right way, but my main mistake is that I was drawing the lines with canvas the progress bar's rounded shape is done in xml. My solution was to remove the rounded_layout.xml as background of the preogress bar, draw a clipped rectangle and then make sure to draw the lines inside it.
Below is the code snippet:
@Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
    mPaint = new Paint();
    mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
    // get the height and width of the progress bar
    float width = progressBar.getWidth();
    float height = progressBar.getHeight();
    Path rectPath = new Path();
    RectF rect = new RectF(0, 0, 0,0);
    // set the size of the rectangle to the size of the progress bar
    rect.set(0, 0, width, height);
    // set the corner radius (mine is 15) to have a rounded rectangle
    rectPath.addRoundRect(rect, 15, 15, Path.Direction.CW);
    // set the color for the rectangle
    mPaint.setColor(Color.parseColor("#D9D9D9"));
    // clip and draw the rectangle
    canvas.clipPath(rectPath);
    canvas.drawRect(rect, mPaint);
    // a loop to create the lines inside the rectangle, one at a time
    for (int i = 0; i < NUM_LINES; i++) {
        float startX = width * i / NUM_LINES;
        float stopX = startX + 2f * width / NUM_LINES;
        mPaint.setShader((i + 1) * 10000 / NUM_LINES <= getLevel()?
                         new LinearGradient(0, 0, 0, height,
                         Color.parseColor("#77F5FF"), Color.parseColor("#31AFF5"),
                         Shader.TileMode.MIRROR) : new LinearGradient(0, 0, 0,
                         height, Color.parseColor("#D9D9D9"),
                         Color.parseColor("#D9D9D9"), Shader.TileMode.MIRROR));
                         canvas.drawLine(startX, height, stopX, 0, mPaint);
    }
}

Note: Make sure that all the lines are drawn with in the rectangle.


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Tommy Woelfel
Tommy was born Thomas Carl Woelfel in Thomasville, Georgia. In Thomas County. But he wasn't named after his geographical location. He was named Tommy after his older brother's favorite storybook character. His dad, Stanley, managed a cattle ranch, Winstead Plantation. He then moved to Kingsville, Texas, where his dad took over the family farm and ranch. Tommy was active in his Lutheran Church youth organization, 4-H, FFA and student government. He was president of both his freshman and junior classes. He was Student Body President his senior year. He showed Santa Gertrudis cattle across the southern U.S. attending national shows in Nashville, Shreveport, Jackson, and Tulsa.
Tommy worked for his dad on the farm after school and during summers. He would drive his tractor up and down the long rows of his dad's fields while listening to 8-tracks of Barry Manilow, KISS, Alabama, Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson. All the while, he dreamed of going to Hollywood. And being a guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. But he was raised to be practical. So he attended Texas A&M University where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics ('87) and his Master of Science degree in Agricultural Economics with an emphasis in Marketing and Advertising ('88). Graduate school offered him the ability to emulate the character and story of one of his favorite movies, Nick, played by Rob Lowe, in Oxford Blues. He didn't quite make it to Oxford, but did attend Manchester University for a semester and was on the rowing team. He competed in two races, one in Manchester where his crew of 8 won a medal, and another in Liverpool.
After graduation, he finally moved to Los Angeles where he used his degrees for 3 years working at Sunkist Growers, Inc. Then he made the jump to the entertainment industry, working as an assistant to the executive producer of the television show, the highly acclaimed but lowly rated Homefront. But what he really wanted to do was act. So when Homefront was canceled, he became a waiter, and a freelance production assistant working on commercials and music videos. One of the highlights of his production assistant career was working with photographer and director, Matthew Rolston, on Mary J. Blige's music video, "I'm Goin' Down". Which was filmed at A&M Studios, where "We Are The World" was recorded. Formerly the Charlie Chaplin Studios, it was built on a lemon and orange grove that Chaplin had purchased.
While waiting tables and free lancing, Tommy relied on his LA family. Especially, his uncle and step aunt, Newell and Rosemary Alexander, and his ex-cousin-in-law, Del Shores. Newell and Rosemary took Tommy under their wings and provided him with many opportunities in the entertainment industry. From helping with their Wells Fargo Radio Theatre dramas at the Gene Autry Museum for NPR, to being the Stage Manager of Leslie Jordan's first one-man show, Hysterical Blindness & Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life Thus Far. Tommy's practical side took over once again as he took a 9-to-5 job in marketing for an online education company, OnlineLearning.net (though Tommy hadn't even owned a computer before that point). The day job prevented him from auditioning for Del's play, Southern Baptist Sissies, but Del believed in him enough to cast him as an understudy for the role of Andrew. When the play was revived for a second run, Tommy was fortunate enough to be cast in one of the four lead roles, Andrew, where he had to kill himself every night for six months. This role proved to be one of the two highlights of Tommy's acting career. He was even nominated for a Robby Award. The other highlight came as a result of his work in Del's play as he was cast as the "Coat Check Guy" in the "Cowboys and Iranians" episode of NBC's Will & Grace, where he was cast alongside his Southern Baptist Sissies co-star, Leslie Jordan.
Nowadays, Tommy is acting more as a spinning instructor, husband and dad. Tommy has been teaching indoor cycling for 22 years. He has taught at many gyms in LA, starting at Todd Tramp's Bodysculpting LA and still currently at Crunch Fitness. Del has consistently supported Tommy as a student and enthusiast for most of those 22 years! Tommy has been lucky enough to find his true love, Rich Vaughn, and to have been married to him for 12 years and together for 18 years. Rich is a family law attorney whose firm, International Fertility Law Group, specializes in surrogacy, which is the process by which Tommy and Rich became dads. They have amazing twin 12-year old sons, Aiden and Austin. Rich and Tommy are active in causes that they feel are important to families like theirs. The Family Equality Council, The Human Rights Campaign, and The Los Angeles LGBT Center. Tommy inherited much of his desire to participate in charity from his mom, Sylvia, who started as a kindergarten teacher but then devoted her life to her family and charitable organizations throughout Tommy's life. Del introduced Tommy to the Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth, in which Tommy became so involved that he twice co-chaired their annual fundraising event, "A Cracked Xmas" which is now known as "TrevorLive." So it is with great honor that I have been asked to become a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Del Shores Foundation. I am looking forward to focusing my time and energy into this great and worthy cause.


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Aslan Albakov (Russisch: Аслан Албаков) is een Tsjetsjeens voormalig worstelaar in de Grieks-Romeinse stijl. In deze discipline is hij bekerwinnaar geweest van de Sovjet-Unie.

Eerder is hij Europees kampioen geweest bij de junioren. Sinds 2001 woont hij in België, waar hij trainer is van een worstelclub in Verviers. Met zijn ploeg heeft hij al meerdere prijzen gewonnen. Verder treedt hij op als scheidsrechter van worsteltoernooien en is hij officieel FILA-scheidsrechter.

Tsjetsjeens persoon
Russisch worstelaar


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package com.example.ezbluetooth.client;

import android.bluetooth.BluetoothDevice;
import android.bluetooth.BluetoothSocket;
import android.os.Parcel;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.util.Log;
import android.util.SparseArray;

import com.example.ezbluetooth.BluetoothClient;

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.InvalidParameterException;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Locale;

/**
 * Created by innocentevil on 17. 2. 1.
 *
 */

public abstract class AbsBluetoothClient implements BluetoothClient {

    private static final String TAG = AbsBluetoothClient.class.getCanonicalName();

    private volatile Thread mClientThread;
    private BluetoothSocket mClientSocket;
    private boolean isConnected;
    private DataOutputStream mOutputStream;
    private int mDevId;
    private SparseArray<BluetoothDevice> mDevices;
    private HashSet<Integer> mDevIds;
    private int currentDevId;

    protected AbsBluetoothClient() {
        mDevId = 0;
        currentDevId = 0;
        mDevices = new SparseArray<>();
        mDevIds = new HashSet<>();
    }

    public AbsBluetoothClient(Parcel source) {
        int devId, size = source.readInt();
        mDevices = new SparseArray<>(size);
        mDevIds = new HashSet<>(size);
        currentDevId = 0;
        for(int idx = 0;idx < size; idx++) {
            devId = source.readInt();
            BluetoothDevice device = source.readParcelable(BluetoothDevice.class.getClassLoader());
            mDevIds.add(devId);
            mDevices.put(devId, device);
            if(idx == size - 1) {
                /**
                 *  guarantee last device Id with value larger than the largest among the saved.
                 */
                mDevId = devId + 1;
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int onBindDevice(BluetoothDevice device) {
        if(device == null) {
            return -1;
        }
        mDevices.put(mDevId, device);
        mDevIds.add(mDevId);
        return mDevId++;
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized void start(int devId) throws IllegalStateException, IOException, InvalidParameterException {

        if(!mDevIds.contains(devId)) {
            Log.e(TAG, String.format(Locale.getDefault(),"Invalid device Id (%d)", devId));
            throw new InvalidParameterException(String.format(Locale.getDefault(),"Invalid device Id (%d)", devId));
        }

        final BluetoothDevice device = mDevices.get(devId);
        if(device == null) {
            Log.e(TAG, String.format(Locale.getDefault(),"No device is bound to service %s", getServiceName()));
            throw new IllegalStateException(String.format(Locale.getDefault(), "No device is bound to service %s", getServiceName()));
        }

        isConnected = false;
        mOutputStream = null;
        synchronized (this) {
            if(mClientThread != null) {
                throw new IllegalStateException(String.format(Locale.getDefault(), "Client is already started %d", currentDevId));
            }
            mClientThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    try {
                        mClientSocket = device.createRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(getServiceUuid());
                        mClientSocket.connect();
                        isConnected = true;
                        mOutputStream = new DataOutputStream(mClientSocket.getOutputStream());
                        DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(mClientSocket.getInputStream());
                        onConnected();
                        Log.e(TAG, "Service Ready");
                        byte[] rxBuffer = new byte[getReadSize()];
                        while (isConnected) {
                            if (dis.read(rxBuffer) > 0) {
                                byte[] txData = onDataReceived(rxBuffer);
                                if (txData != null) {
                                    mOutputStream.write(txData);
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        Log.e(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage());
                    } finally {
                        if (mClientSocket.isConnected()) {
                            try {
                                mClientSocket.close();
                                synchronized (AbsBluetoothClient.this) {
                                    mClientSocket = null;
                                }
                            } catch (IOException e) {
                                Log.e(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage());
                            }
                        }
                        isConnected = false;
                        onDisconnected();
                    }
                }
            });
            mClientThread.start();
            currentDevId = devId;
        }
    }

    protected void write(byte[] data) throws IOException {
        if(mOutputStream == null) {
            throw new IOException("OutputStream is not ready");
        }
        mOutputStream.write(data);
    }

    protected void write(int b) throws IOException {
        if(mOutputStream == null) {
            throw new IOException("OutputStream is not ready");
        }
        mOutputStream.write(b);
    }

    protected boolean isConnected() {
        return isConnected;
    }

    public synchronized void stop() {
        if(mClientThread == null ||
           mClientSocket == null) {
            return;
        }

        synchronized (this) {
            try {
                mClientSocket.close();
                mClientThread = null;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage());
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    @Nullable public final BluetoothDevice getBluetoothDevice(int id) {
        if(!mDevIds.contains(id)) {
            return null;
        }
        return mDevices.get(id);
    }

    protected abstract int getReadSize();
    protected abstract byte[] onDataReceived(byte[] rxBuffer);

    protected void saveToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
        dest.writeInt(mDevices.size());                     // save the count of client devices
        for(int devId : mDevIds) {
            BluetoothDevice device = mDevices.get(devId);
            dest.writeInt(devId);                          // save the device Id
            dest.writeParcelable(device, flags);           // save the corresponding device to the Id
        }
    }
}

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What if everything you read was up to 30% shorter and more easily understood? What if everything you wrote was up to 30% shorter and more easily understood? Would that be a skill worth developing? Would your employer or clients notice if your work improved this much? Would their opinion of your skills change if they did? Reducing the number of words in a text without losing information is easier than you might think. Reducing or eliminating nominalisations (verbs turned into nouns or adjectives) and the passive voice can substantially improve the clarity of the text as well as shortening it. In this article, I review these two grammatical constructions, describe their strengths and weaknesses, tell how to recognise them, and explain when you can change them to improve your writing.
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Jonassen DH, editor. The technology of text: principles for structuring, designing, and displaying text: vol 1 and 2. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Educational Technology Publications, 1982:317-40.
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Charrow PR, Charrow VR. Making legal language understandable: a psycholinguistic study of jury instructions. Columbia Law Rev. 1979;79:1306-733.
Lang TA. Letter to the editor. Response to the article titled "Use of the passive voice in medical journal articles." AMWA J. 2011;26(1):46.
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James Zellmer at Zmetro.com queried Rep. Tammy Baldwin about projects receiving earmarks in her district.
SEGM of A Mostly Political View phoned and emailed Rep. Melissa Hart about projects in her district.
Matt Duffy called the office of Rep. Tom Price about the $10 million that the state of Georgia is due to get.
Most interesting is the last item, the one to benefit Missouri. $100,000 of your taxes is going to Produce for Better Health Foundation a Wilmington based organization that promotes eating fruits and vegetables. However, the money will be used for a program in Cape Girardeau, MO, not Delaware.
The Produce for Better Health Foundation plans to focus marketing efforts on color and begin promoting 5 A Day like a brand. With this new marketing focus in place, PBH will begin to move 5 A Day from something important to know to something essential to do. The campaign will permeate retail, foodservice, and every PBH program. The color campaign also communicates the importance of eating a variety of fruits and vegetables for the purpose of achieving a variety of health benefits. The marketing direction also provides an umbrella strategy able to cover the fresh, frozen, canned, dried, and 100% juice industries to increase sales.
…Our strategic priorities are to: 1) Enhance the business climate for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, 2) Be the health infomediary for fruits and vegetables and 3) Leverage partner marketing resources for greater impact on fruit and vegetable sales.


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import { OPEN_ADD_MEDIA_MENU, CLOSE_ADD_MEDIA_MENU } from '../constants/ActionTypes';

const initialState = {
  open: false,
  position: { x: 0, y: 0 },
  playlists: [],
  type: null,
  data: null,
};

export default function reduce(state = initialState, action = {}) {
  const { type, payload, meta } = action;
  switch (type) {
    case OPEN_ADD_MEDIA_MENU:
      return {
        ...state,
        open: true,
        type: meta.type,
        position: meta.position,
        playlists: meta.playlists,
        data: payload,
      };
    case CLOSE_ADD_MEDIA_MENU:
      return initialState;
    default:
      return state;
  }
}


What is the one thing you want to remember 10 years from now :: How absolutely perfect it was! Between the weather, ALL of our vendors, and our family/friends making the trip to Atlanta, we could not have asked for a better day. There was so much happiness and love on that day and we want to remember that feeling for years to come!
At what point did you feel the most joyful on your wedding day :: The second after we did our first look. There was so much anxiety built up before the ceremony and we were so happy we did the first look and got to spend that time together with no one else around. Once we saw each other, all of the anxiety of the ceremony went away. We were so relieved once we saw each other and it made the rest of the day absolutely perfect.


On December 20, 2010, the Court of Appeals issued a decision in Ireland v. Shearin (No. 26, Sept. Term 2010) reversing the judgment of the lower court and adopting the position of the Public Justice Center, which represented the appellant, Mr. Robert Ireland.
The case, which the Court of Appeals took up on its own initiative (sua sponte), involved the question of what constitutes a "denial" of public records under the Maryland Public Information Act. In 2008, Mr. Ireland, formerly an inmate at the Western Correctional Institution, submitted a request for public records to the warden of WCI pursuant to the Maryland Public Information Act (PIA). As the official custodian of WCI records, the warden had a legal duty to either provide Mr. Ireland with the requested materials in a timely fashion or explain any decision to deny the request. Instead, the warden improperly instructed Mr. Ireland to re-direct portions of his request to several different subordinate offices within the prison. Mr. Ireland did so but never got the documents and, accordingly, filed a pro se suit to enforce his rights under the PIA in the Circuit Court for Alleghany County. Apparently believing that the warden's actions were valid, the circuit court dismissed Mr. Ireland's complaint on the grounds that the warden had not "denied" his PIA request.
On appeal, the Public Justice Center argued that a records custodian "denies" a PIA request when he or she re-directs the requester to subordinate government officials. Following an evasive response of this sort, the requester is under no obligation to pursue numerous individual officials for individual records that they may or may not possess, and is instead entitled to vindicate his or her PIA rights to swift production of public records by a government custodian such as the warden. Any other approach, the Public Justice Center asserted in its written and oral presentations, would render meaningless the statutory right to prompt access to public information.
The Court of Appeals embraced the PJC's position without reservation. In its published opinion, the Court reasoned that permitting records custodians to "unduly prolong [an] applicant's request by continually rerouting [him or her] through each level of bureaucracy" would threaten the "spirit of disclosure" at the core of the statute. Based on the language and purposes of the PIA, the Court concluded that the "burden to collect and assemble the requested records falls squarely on the State rather than on the applicant." Its decision makes clear that agencies may not respond to requests for public records with delay and diversion, and must instead afford individuals with prompt access to information about the operations of the government.


text:
Internal Air Services— No Time to Lose
7th April 1933, Page 39
Page 39, 7th April 1933 — Internal Air Services— No Time to Lose
TOE fact that the Great Western Railway announces this week the commencement of a regular daily air service between Cardiff, Torquay and Teignmouth is a clear indication that road-transport operators should lose no time in studying the possibilities of air transport, which are being put forward regularly and comprehensively in the columns of The Commercial Motor. • It niust not be overlooked that, as announced in this journal long ago, the railways obtained powers to operate air se.rvices as early as 1929, since when they have had the matter under close observation, awaiting -their opportunity to enter the new transport field.
There is every scope for private enterprise in the establishment of new services which will offer most attractive facilities to the travelling public. Cross-country and cross-water routes, -which cannot satisfactorily be served by the rail way, and on which even motor coaches are unable to afford anything like the facilities of an air line, provide numerous attractive possibilities for those who are considering this important matter ; whilst no organization could be more suited to take up air transport than that of a well-run road-transport and road-travel concern.
Almost every week our air-transport news page announces one or more services that are commencing, and there is no doubt that this summer will see the nucleus of quite a network of internal air lines.
Locations: Teignmouth, Torquay, Cardiff