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Flying into Battle
There's an interesting (if misguided) piece in today's Washington Times, written by FNC military analyst (and retired Army Major General Bob Scales). General Scales' thesis is that our defense R&D priorities have been misplaced for a number of years, with the Air Force and the Navy receiving too much money for systems we ostensibly don't need. While I have the utmost respect General Scales, his arguments simply don't hold up.
Scales wonders how many casualties could have been averted if we had developed aero-mechanized maneuver doctrine, first postulated by an Army brigadier general, Huba Wass de Czega. General de Czega envisioned an Army equipped with aerial fighting vehicles that could fly into combat and fight from the air--think of them as airborne armored personnel carriers or infantry fighting vehicles. Army studies suggest that such units could rapidly defeat enemy forces, with minimal casualties.
But Scales suggests that development of such technologies have been sidetracked in favor of airpower and related "shock and awe" technologies, used in both Iraq and the Balkans. If you follow Scales's logic, such weapons have produced impressive results, but they are largely useless in the War on Terrorism. Moreover, such weapons are too expensive--siphoning off precious R&D dollars that might have been used in pursuit of aero-mechanized craft for the Army.
It's a familiar argument, and one that sounds rational--at least on paper. Combining the mobility of airpower with the firepower of ground units has long been a dream of military theorists--and it remains just that--a dream. Not too many decades ago, a relatively new contraption called the helicopter was supposed to perform similar functions, and it has, to a certain degree. Today, the Army owns thousands of combat helicopters to perform such functions as troop transport, medevac, surveillance and fire support. True, you really can't fight from a helicopter, but that's just as well. As we discovered in Vietnam and Somalia, helicopters can be extremely vulnerable to ground fire. The same would hold true for those aero-mechanized craft that Scales envisions. Allowing an entire infantry squad to engage the enemy from the air would be revolutionary, but knocking the craft from the sky would require only one terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile or anti-armor weapon.
Scales's complaint about "all those dollars for airpower" is a little bit shopworn to boot. True, a new F-22 costs over $100 million per copy. But fast-forward a few years, to a potential conflict over the Taiwan Strait, or against a re-armed Iran with nuclear weapons. What's the best way to guarantee air supremacy--and pave the way for ensuing ground operations. We can stick with our legacy fighters (F-15s and F-16s), but most of those airframes are already 20 years old, and the new generation of foreign fighters can more than match them in terms of technology, maneuverabilty and weaponry. As we found out during recent exercises with the Indian Air Force, a Russian-built SU-30 Flanker, in the hands of a competent pilot, is indeed a formidable threat. And that threat will only increase in the decades to come.
Instead of hoping we can sustain our technological and tactical edge, why not guarantee it by investing in the F-22, the Joint Strike Fighter and various unmanned platforms. If we don't troops fighting future opponents may find themselves without the air protection they've come to rely on. Ask any honest Army or Marine commander: ground operations are a lot easier if you're not worried about being attacked from above.
The "wasting money on airpower crowd" also ignores a couple of salient facts. First of all, there is no assurance that our military forces will not engage in a major regional conflict (MRC) in the future--the type of war that will require aerial supremacy and precision strike. Many future conflicts will resemble current operations in Iraq, but we have to plan, equip and prepare for other contingencies as well. The F-22 may look like a bad idea now, but defending Taiwan, Japan or South Korea against hostile attack--or carrying the fight through dense air defense systems--it may resemble a military bargain.
One final note: the failure to develop aero-mechanized warfare is more a reflection of Army culture, and not an example of Air Force or Navy dominance. In the 1970s and 80s, the Air Force gambled a sizeable chunk of its R&D budget on stealth, with no assurance that it would pay off. The Navy also gambled on the Nimitz-class carriers, the Aegis weapons system and stealthy submarines. Meanwhile, the Army remained over cautious, developing systems that were less adaptive and flexible. Making matters worse, Army leadership went along with force cuts that reduced the number of "boots on the ground." Four active duty divisions were cut during the Clinton years, but there was barely a peep from the Army brass.
The Army's failure to investigate and develop aero-mechanized warfare is not an Air Force or a Navy problem. The real issue lies in an Army culture that is resistant to transformation, incurring the wrath of the current SecDef, and (in some regards) marginally prepared for the challenges of insurgent warfare. As Cassius said to Brutus, "the fault lies not in the stars, but in ourselves."
Charlie Martin said...
Wow. An Army flag officer saying the Navy and Air Force get too much research money.
Who woulda thunk it?
HaloJonesFan said...
You'd think he'd call for more money into lasers, so that nobody could fly.
Seriously. Within ten years, the manned combat aircraft is going to vanish from the world. Emplaced lasers will shoot down anything that appears above the horizon.
johnh said...
great post. I agree with your analysis but I worry that the cost of the F22 is so high that we will be unable to fund a sufficent number of them to survive a MRC.
No, I don't have a better suggestion but I worry that we are developing a military with a high-tech "glass-jaw". By this I mean a military that can hand-out punishment but cannot take much punishment. For example, if we have too few F22s then each lost F22 costs us dearly in terms of percentage of air power. Remember Pearl Harbor: at today's airframe production rates the war will be over before a large loss could be replaced.
An Investor said...
No surprise that an Army guy would say this. As we always used to say (especially in front of our Air Liaison Officer), "If it flies, it dies."
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They're back! Two of our intrepid Explorers in Residence, Hazel and Luke, have returned from Alaska and are sharing some of their findings with us in this final 'Due North:Alaska' blog post. We're also really looking forward to hearing more about their expedition during their talks for the Inspiring People programme at the below locations:
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26-Oct-17 Helensburgh Victoria Halls, Sinclair Street, Helensburgh, G84 8TU
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Hazel and Luke with the RSGS flag at Exit Glacier, Alaska.
Luke and Hazel Robertson – Due North:Alaska Expedition Report
As we nudged the bow of our kayak into the inland waters of the Pacific Ocean, the prospect of travelling over 1,500 miles through the wilderness of Alaska by human power alone became very real.
Beginning this journey on the banks of the Tongass rainforest, we soon found ourselves engulfed by dramatic and spruce-packed mountainsides. We encountered curious and confident sea lions, held our breath as majestic humpback whales breached intimidatingly close to our little kayak and witnessed grizzly bears trawling the beaches for any form of summer sustenance at low tide.
Later in the expedition, whilst paddling through the equally remote, but barren, flat and tree-less expanse of the Arctic, we watched as foxes made fleeting attacks on flightless coastal birds and wolves tracked the path of a solitary caribou. On one memorable day in the shallow but enormous delta of the Colville river, we were forced to dragged our kayak through inch deep water far enough out to sea, that no land could be seen whatsoever.
Sandwiched in-between the kayaking stages, we cycled the full distance between these two bodies of water. Here, whilst on two wheels, we witnessed receding glaciers, climbed mountain passes and sped by sprawling tundra as we covered over 1,300 miles. Climbing over 40,000 ft., we bumped our way over the infamous 415-mile Dalton Highway dirt road in the process.
We were fortunate enough to setup camp on sandy beaches of remote islands, and dense forests in equal measure, as we made our best judgement as to the both the safest and comfiest spot to spend the night. Often, we wondered what surprise we might wake up to tonight – what was out there and what was making that noise?!
It was in the far north, however, where we came across the biggest surprise of all. After paddling carefully through sea ice at the start of our Arctic paddle, we headed inland to pursue a fascinating and historic Iñupiat trade route and to avoid any further pack ice.
Here, however, instead of huge lakes of water and deep flowing rivers as appeared on recent satellite imagery and topographic maps we found dry flats and grassy waterways. We trudged through mud instead of padding through water of any passable depth and streams that once flowed suddenly stopped in their path. We knew we could not go any further.
For us, exploration is about discovery, not necessarily solely about completing what you set out to do – although that would've been a bonus! So although our trip ended slightly prematurely, our main aim was to share and document this journey with others. It was a huge part of what drove us on each day and we'll continue to do so, even if we didn't reach our final coordinates.
Carving out a new path is always going to have more unknowns and uncertainties than following a well-trodden one. But it also makes it far more interesting and rewarding.
Thank you to Luke and Hazel for sharing their updates! To see more images from their latest expedition (and then their adventure on Mt Blanc) check out their Facebook page.
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Competition in the tablet market is fierce because the profits are potentially enormous (check Apple's financial statements as proof). No wonder everybody is desperate to get their way in, some giving up before they really started (HP), others with dubious concepts (RIM). Apple obviously is fighting tooth and nail to keep up their dominance which is expected by analysts to last at least until 2014. Into these turbulent waters Microsoft just jumped in by presenting the developer preview of Windows 8. I expect it to be wildly successful – especially on tablets. Read on to find out why.
There are many things a tablet needs in order to be successful. A top-notch display and enough computing power to run apps smoothly. Light weight and long battery lifetime. But that is just the hardware. Even more important is software, and by software I mean not only applications, but also content. The availability of books, music, movies, magazines and newspapers is essential for the success of a tablet platform. For this very reason I am skeptical about Android tablets (not much content) and confident about Amazon's brand-new Kindle Fire (very much content).
Many companies are capable of building a great tablet hardware. But the list of corporations capable of making a tablet platform come alive is much smaller: Apple (proven), Amazon (probably), Google (maybe) and – Microsoft (certainly).
Windows 8 – a Guaranteed Winner?
Microsoft is able to sell hundreds of millions of copies of Windows 8 without even trying. They are on a very promising course of keeping compatibility, a cornerstone of the Windows world, while at the same time pushing forward, bridging the gap between traditional PCs and modern tablets. With a modern touch UI, an enormous customer base, hoards of developers happy to be given new sources of revenue and a hardware industry that wants its share of the tablet market, it looks like Windows 8 is bound to be successful.
I have two additional reasons why that is going to happen.
If you are honest, you must admit that the iPad is a great toy, but try to get some real work done and you are so very much slower than on a real PC. I would guess that a factor of 10 is not too unrealistic. I expect Windows 8 devices to be great toys, too, but also powerful workhorses. I expect different categories of devices will emerge, some looking like today's tablets, some with a detachable keyboard unit, others with form factors we do not even know about today (I know, I expect a lot).
Is the iPad too Expensive to be Successful Long Term?
Today's tablets are not family devices. Try sharing an iPad in your family and you will fail miserably. Multiple e-mail, Twitter and Facebook accounts? No way! Separate calendars? A personal high score for each family member? None of that is possible with iOS, at least not as it is today. iPads are personal devices, and as such they are pretty darn expensive. A four-person family needs four iPads in addition to four smartphones and, very likely, at least four PCs. That is a lot of money, and not many families are capable and willing of spending it.
Windows 8 has two major advantages here: it has user profiles, allowing a device to be used my more than one person, separating each user's data and settings from the others. And a Windows 8 tablet might be able to replace both a traditional PC and an iPad, bringing the total number of devices and the associated costs down.
By the way, one of the reasons why I think that Amazon's tablet will be successful is the low price. At only $ 199 it does not hurt as much giving each family member his or her own.


These wonderfully light biscuits are perfect with soups, stews and much, much more.
I wanted a way to showcase sprouted spelt, so I created this recipe by putting the favorite aspects from my other soda bread recipes together into one loaf. The egg and the baking soda help the loaf rise a lot, so make sure you put it in a big enough pan.
Add the salt and baking soda to the sprouted spelt and mix together. Cut the butter into the spelt with a pastry cutter until grainy. Add the raisins and stir to coat. Add the egg to 1 cup yogurt and stir with a fork or whish to incorporate. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. With a circular motion, stir and fold the ingredients together, but do not over stir. Quickly shape into a small round loaf and cut a cross (about ¼-inch deep) in the top of the loaf. Place in the center of 10-inch pie tin and bake at 375°F for 45 minutes during which time the loaf will double in size. Cool on a rack overnight before cutting.


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Cortney and Jon Ophoff's Family Site - Journal - Ha ha, made you look.
Jon: "there's a red barn out daddy's window..."
Calvin: "red barn, Calvin's window!"
Jon: (said gently, so as not to disappoint) "I don't see one..."
Yeah, we see where this is going. No one is safe anymore, but the kid sure has one well developed sense of humor.
that so totally rocks! I love that he is teasing you guys. I was just thinking about you all since I am about to scrap the pics from your Dec visit.


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Forty Years Later, Reds Is Still One of the Best Films Ever Made About Revolutionary Politics
By Jim Poe (Jacobin magazine)
In 1981, Warren Beatty directed Reds , a retelling of John Reed's classic firsthand account of the Russian Revolution. The film still stands up today as one of the greatest and most faithful depictions of revolutionary politics.
Reds is a grand-scale historical drama based around the life and career of John Reed, a North American journalist who traveled to Russia to chronicle the Revolution. Based on his firsthand observations, Reed wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, his 1919 classic account of the events of the Revolution which took place two years prior.
Released in 1981, Reds is one of the best movies of its era. The most amazing thing about the film is perhaps the fact that Beaty was able to make it in the first place. Just consider: Reds depicts the Russian Revolution in the same heroic light as a Hollywood film might the signing of the Declaration of Independence or the invasion of Normandy. It presents Reed and Louise Bryant — played by Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton — as entirely correct and justified in giving up everything to support the Bolsheviks.
And although Reds hit the screens in the first flush of the Reagan era, with the Cold War still in full swing, it was both a critical and box office success. Incredibly, even Ronald Reagan himself liked the film when Beatty screened it for him at the White House — though the president did wish "it had a happy ending." Nominated for a record twelve Academy Awards, Reds won Warren Beaty (who also produced and directed the film) Best Director.
Forty years later, it's well worth revisiting Beatty's fifteen-year labor of love. The film is a homage to the Russian Revolution and the generation of North American writers and intellectuals it inspired.
The Last Stand of the New Hollywood
It's a safe bet that most people who packed cinemas to see Reds weren't socialists. Beatty himself was no Marxist. He was and remains a staunch and influential Democrat, who even as a young actor was involved in fundraising for the party. (As it happens, however, his cowriter on the film, playwright Trevor Griffiths, is a Marxist).
Nevertheless, Reds remains true to its subjects' revolutionary politics. Indeed, the film is arguably the last great hurrah of the New Hollywood. Sparked by the French and Italian New Waves, this American filmmaking movement of the 1960s and '70s combined looser, more experimental filmmaking styles with searching themes and rebellious politics. Beatty's role as both a producer and actor in Arthur Penn's 1967 Bonnie and Clyde, a film whose violence and antiestablishment protagonists shocked and thrilled audiences at the time, made his reputation a key figure of the New Hollywood.
Reds tells the true story of the relationship between famed leftist journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant. In 1915, they met in their native Portland, Oregon and began a scandalous affair before moving to New York together. Eventually they married and traveled to Russia in 1917 to report on the October Revolution as it unfolded. The experience radicalized them, and both committed themselves to the communist cause for the rest of their tragically short lives.
Both Reed and Bryant wrote books that helped English-speaking audiences understand the Russian Revolution. Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World and Bryant's Six Red Months in Russia still hold up as essential documents of the Revolution. Their writing showcases a knack for vivid, street-level detail — a result of their having placed themselves in the action at great personal risk.
As early as 1966, Warren Beatty became interested in making a movie about Reed. Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1969, the director developed a serious interest in the idea and spent years working on the screenplay. After producing, cowriting, and starring in two massively successful comedies — Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978) — Reed had accumulated enough Hollywood clout to raise money for his leftist passion project. Paramount Pictures gave him a green light, although from the beginning, Beatty refused to accept studio input on the screenplay. Amazingly, he prevailed, ensuring that Reds would remain a faithful tribute to Reed, Bryant, and the Revolution.
Shooting on Reds began in 1979, and the process generated enough drama to justify its own film. With locations in several countries including the UK, Spain, and Finland, the budget ballooned out of control as filming took an entire year. Beatty became notorious for his fanatical commitment to shooting countless takes — some scenes took up to eighty before he was satisfied.
At one point, the process drove supporting actor Jack Nicholson to tears. It also placed a huge strain on the real-life relationship between Beatty and Keaton. It took another year to edit the millions of feet of film Beatty had shot, a record that surpassed even the obsessive madness of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.
In one sense, however, Beatty finished the film just in time. The cultural influence of Reaganism — as well as the rise of the summer blockbuster — largely put an end to the artistic and political ferment of the New Hollywood.
The Genius of Beatty and Keaton
Reds is very far from the ponderous pacing and drab winter tones you might expect from a historical epic set in Russia. Despite its massive scale, Reds is marked by a light touch and brisk storytelling; it consistently defies genre clichés. It's also beautifully shot by Apocalypse Now cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, with a rich palette that contrasts well against the more desaturated look that has become more popular today.
So many biopics are plodding and stiff, with every shot a golden-filtered saintly portrait and every line of dialogue a portent. In contrast, although Reds doesn't stint on drama and tragedy, it often has the feel of a screwball comedy or an indie romance. The screenplay is dense, layered with politics and history and is frequently laugh-out-loud funny.
In large part, this is thanks to Keaton and Beaty's acting talent: they light up the screen. They ramble, talk over each other, crack jokes during tense moments, and lapse into awkward silences. Bryant and Reed feel like real people — a rare feat for a biopic that helps the viewer feel invested in their radicalization.
Keaton brings the same oddball charm that made her a '70s cultural icon in Annie Hall, and combines it with fiercely independent toughness. Early on, Bryant's struggle to be taken seriously as both a writer and a woman outside of her relationship with Reed is central to the conflict within the film. Keaton navigates all the passion and tension with tremendous wit and verve, lending her performance a contemporary resonance.
Despite how exhausted he must have been from the scale and length of production, Beatty is magnificent as Reed. By all accounts, his passion for completing Reds was in part born of an affinity he felt with the film's protagonist. From his brashness, risk-taking, and his inability to separate his art from his politics, Warren is not so much playing Reed as channeling him.
Unusually, Reds includes documentary interviews with old friends and colleagues of Reed's and Bryant's — including noteworthy figures like novelist Henry Miller and Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. These "witnesses" regularly interrupt the narrative like a Greek chorus. It's a brilliant storytelling device that tethers historic events to what was, in 1981, a living memory.
A Bohemian Elegy and the Exhilaration of Revolution
The first hour of the film focuses on Bryant's and Reed's budding romance and their life in Greenwich Village and on Cape Cod. They write and live together as lovers while socializing with a lively community of artists and philosophers. These include Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson at the peak of his talent) and legendary anarchist Emma Goldman (a wonderfully wry performance from Maureen Stapleton). The amazing texture with which this bohemian world is depicted is the upside to Beatty's obsessiveness.
Similarly, Reds does not skirt over details about Reed's work as a radical journalist covering militant labor organizing or his conditional support for Woodrow Wilson's candidacy for president. The film makes clear that the latter was motivated by the vain hope that the Democrats would keep the United States out of World War I.
That said, these early scenes are more concerned with the concept of free love and its implications for Bryant's burgeoning feminism than they are with socialism. The turning point comes when Reed and Bryant arrive in Russia, just in time to witness the birth of the first government run by workers, peasants, and soldiers.
As exhilarating as these sequences are, many key events of the Revolution are presented in montage. We are only given tantalizing glimpses of the storming of the Winter Palace or of Lenin's and Trotsky's historic speeches in the Smolny Institute. But after an abbreviated insurrection, Reds's next act focuses in fascinating detail on Reed's role in the formation of the Communist Party of the United States. Then, the film turns to his journey back to revolutionary Russia as a delegate to the Comintern, and his assignment as a propagandist for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War.
The dramatic tension animating these final passages revolves around Reed's inner conflict between his life as an artist and husband, and his obligation as a revolutionary. At one point, Comintern leader Grigory Zinoviev (brilliantly, if unexpectedly, played by anti-communist playwright Jerzy Kosiński) tells Reed, "You can never, never come back to this moment in history."
The way Reds resolves that tension is breathtaking: Bryant and Reed come to realize that they are comrades as much as lovers.
"You'd Never Be Cynical About Anything Again!"
The film's consistently favorable view of Bolshevism is remarkable. You would forgive the liberal Beatty if he balked and presented Bryant and Reed as well-meaning but naive in their support of the Bolsheviks. Many great political biopics compromise in this way, and had Reds followed them, it would still be laudable.
However, the screenplay never once sells out. In a pivotal scene, Reed argues with Emma Goldman about the Bolsheviks' ruthless tactics during the Russian Civil War. In a lesser film, this is when Reed would begin questioning things. And yet, against Goldman's antiauthoritarianism, he retorts: "What did you think this thing was going to be? A revolution by consensus, where we all sat down and agreed over a cup of coffee?"
In one of the film's best scenes, Bryant gives a fiery defense of revolutionary politics against O'Neill's misanthropic individualism. "If you'd been to Russia, you'd never be cynical about anything again! You'd have seen people transformed, ordinary people!" This sentiment — that our dreams and our labors should be for the people and for revolution, not just for ourselves — is the heart of this beautiful film. And forty years after its release, it explains why Reds is still a classic.
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A poker hand evaluator built with [Angular2](https://angular.io/) and
[TypeScript 1.8](http://www.typescriptlang.org/). Its goal is to
evaluate any hand and output its poker rank.

>_Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It
>should be faced._
>
>-- [Edward Norton](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/edwardnort418306.html)

## Build

From the root directory of this app, run the command:

```
npm run-script build
```

_Additional scripts can be found in the package.json file in
the project root._

## Development server

From the root directory of this app, run the command:

```
npm run-script server-debug
```

This will start the
[webpack-dev-server](https://webpack.github.io/docs/webpack-dev-server.html)
and automatically as changes are made to the source files.

Point your browser at [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)

## Running tests

### Unit/integration testing

From the root directory of this app, run the command:

```
npm run-script test
```

The [Karma](https://karma-runner.github.io/1.0/index.html) test runner
is used in conjunction with the [Mocha](https://mochajs.org/) test
framework and [Chai](http://chaijs.com/) assertion library.

### End-to-end testing

From the root directory of this app, run the commands:

```
npm run-script webdriver-update
npm run-script webdriver-setup
npm run-script test-e2e
```

These tests run using [Protractor](http://www.protractortest.org/) and
are written with [Mocha](https://mochajs.org/) and
[Chai](http://chaijs.com/).

## Coding guidelines

The naming and coding conventions use the
[TypeScript StyleGuide and Coding Conventions](https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/styleguide/styleguide.html) guide.

Important distinctions include:

- Interfaces use the suffix _Interface_.

## Next steps and lessons learned
- Consider building from scratch using the
  [angular-cli](https://github.com/angular/angular-cli) tool. This would at
  least make deployment to GitHub pages easier along with blueprints for
  creating components, services, classes, etc.
- Use json files to describe rank, suit, hand rankings. Here's an
  example describing the _Royal Flush_ hand ranking:
```json
{
	"name": "Royal Flush",
	"rank": 1,
	"formula": {
		"isSequence": true,
		"isSameSuit": true,
		"sameTwoRank": 0,
		"sameThreeRank": 0,
		"sameFourRank": 0,
		"requiredCard": "Ace",
		"tieBreaker": ""
	}
}

```
or a command-driven approach:
```json
{
	"name": "Royal Flush",
	"rank": 1,
	"requirements": [{
		"name": "isSequence",
		"value": true
	}, {
		"name": "isSameSuit",
		"value": true
	}, {
		"name": "requiredCard",
		"value": "Ace"
	}]
}

```

## References
### Poker
- [Rules Of Poker Hand Rankings](http://www.cardplayer.com/rules-of-poker/hand-rankings)
- [Poker Hands Order](https://www.pokerstars.com/poker/games/rules/hand-rankings/)
- [List of poker hand categories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poker_hand_categories)
- [Poker card images](http://byronknoll.blogspot.com/2011/03/vector-playing-cards.html)

### Starter project
- [Angular2 Seed project](https://github.com/angular/angular2-seed)

## Acknowledgements

- Big thanks to the Angular2 and TypeScript development teams.
- Hat tip to all the other libraries and developers.
- [JetBrains WebStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/) - love their tools!
- Thanks to [Byron Knoll](http://byronknoll.blogspot.com/) for his work on the poker card images.

## License

MIT © Bryan Green

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The Broken Hill Complex (code BHC), an interim Australian bioregion, is located in both New South Wales and South Australia, and comprises an area of  of inland Australia.

IBRA 5.1 describes BHC as being:
Hills and colluvial fans on Proterozoic rocks; desert loams and red clays, lithosols and calcareous red earths; supporting chenopod shrublands Maireana spp. - Atriplex spp. shrublands, and mulga open shrublands Acacia aneura.

See also

 Geography of Australia

References

IBRA regions
Biogeography of New South Wales
Biogeography of South Australia

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March 25, 2015 By Fausta
Thank you, Newsmax
Theodore Kettle of Newsmax included me in Newsmax's Top 50 Conservative Blogs of 2015
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Blue Jays 1 Yankees 9A person negative inning can exceptionally ruin a working day. Moving into the backside of the 6th, we had been down 2-1, however not as well concerned precisely but. Marcus Stroman was accomplishing the undertaking. For the duration of 5 innings, he authorized accurately 2 hits and 2 walks. One particular of the hits was a Aaron Decide residence work, nonetheless other than that, he truly hadn been within just challenge all recreation.That altered within just the 6th Inside the 6thBrett Gardner singled and went in the direction of minute upon a 'wild pitchAaron Decide walked upon 4 pitches. I was all right with that. Didi Gregorius singled residence Gardner. Runners movement up toward minute and 3rd upon one more wild pitch.Giancarlo Stanton wander, bases rich.Aaron Hicks tapped just one in opposition to the initial foundation which includes, Marcus developed a wonderful engage in, flipping it back again passed towards the plate, nevertheless Luke Maile shed it. Maile ought to include experienced it, it wasn a hard perform, other than the runner sliding in the direction of him. That out may well consist of modified components. Neil Walker struck out. Miguel Andujar doubled everybody property upon a 2-2 pitch. And that was it for Stroman. Yourself may perhaps whinge that Gibby still left him inside of far too prolonged, still then, we require a rookie in direction of acquire us some innings, faster or later on. And Marcus incorporates toward attain himself out of some jams from time to time. I don consist of much too substantially versus the principle of leaving him inside of. Experienced Maile saved upon towards that toss......John Axford arrived within, a single out, runner upon minute. He gave up a wander, solitary, sac fly, RBI solitary, prior to turning into out of the inning. The video game went against 2-1 towards 9-1 within a rush. Offensively, we experienced our opportunities earlyWe prosperous the bases, with 1 out within just the 3rd inning, however Teoscar Hernandez struck out and Yangervis Solarte popped out. No operates. In the direction of begin the 5th, Randel Grichuk walked Lourdes Gurriel singled, and Steve Pearce singled inside of our simply operate. Gurriel and Pearce moved up towards moment getting comfort of a bad toss against Gardner. Yet, Hernandez struck out back again, Solarte popped out and Morales floor out. Towards the 6th inning upon, we didn consider a strike. Wee observed the beneficial in opposition to Teoscar, these days we noticed the negative, he struck out 2 times with considerably less than 2 out and runners upon. He appeared nervous. And he virtually ran into Kevin Pillar inside of the outfield. We way too noticed the poor Pillar, additionally 0 for 4 with 2 strikeouts and strikeouts chasing. However then Luke Maile and Yangervis Solarte seemed undesirable also. Randal Grichuk took 2 good walks, still then struck out within his 3rd at bat. Lourdes Gurriel was 1 for 3 in just his instant vocation start off Tim Mayza T-Shirt. We simply experienced 4 hits and 3 walks at present. Jays of the working day Steve Pearce , Grichuck and Gurriel all experienced the selection. Suckage Stroman , Hernandez , Solarte and Pillar .We haven experienced a great number of undesirable game titles this period, I seeking this is a a person-off. Tomorrow it is Jaime Garcia Severino. We haven misplaced a sequence nonetheless this time, We want a gain tomorrow towards hold that up.
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Q: Firebase Unity: iOS Push notifications don't work in production mode I am using the Firebase Unity (BETA) v1.1.1 package. So far everything worked fine, I implemented Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) to send push notifications from a node server and uploaded the Apple push certificates for development and production (and double-checked that later). Also I made sure to use production provisioning files.
It worked smoothly, but when I uploaded the App to Testflight, Notifications did not make it to the device any more. No matter if I send them from the node server or the firebase console.
I read that on iOS there is a sandbox parameter that has to be set, but I cannot find it in the unity plugin. What could I be doing wrong? I can happily provide more information, I just don't know which you could need.

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I will always pray for Azerbaijan - pardoned Nigerian citizen [VIDEO]
18 March 2019 [11:00] - TODAY.AZ
A citizen of Nigeria, Obu Oniedike Mozes, pardoned and released today, thanked President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev for this, Trend reports.
"I expected President Aliyev to make such a decision because he is a humanist. My family is happy. I spent four years in prison and now I am free. I thank the Azerbaijani government. I thank Azerbaijani citizens. I will always pray for Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani President, Heydar Aliyev Foundation," he said.
Under the presidential decree, a total of 431 people were pardoned. Among them, 399 people were freed from the unserved part of their prison sentences.
The punishment of one person sentenced to life imprisonment has been replaced by 25 years in prison and that of two people by 20 years in prison. In addition, one person is exempt from serving delayed sentence. Eleven people have been exempted from conditional sentence.
One person was freed from public works, 12 people were exempted from punishment in the form of a fine.
Among the pardoned are 14 foreign citizens, including three Georgian citizens, two from Russia and Nigeria each, and one from Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Cameroon, India and Belarus each.
URL: http://www.today.az/news/society/180422.html
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Goodyear half marathon and 10 km results
More than 2,000 runners hit the streets around Goodyear headquarters in Akron on Saturday morning for the sold out Goodyear Half Marathon & 10K.
Antonio Cardona Rodriguez from Puerto Rico set a new race record when he won the 10 km, beating the previous record of 33:14 with a time of 31:09.
The women's 10 km winner, Paola Ramos Lugo from Puerto Rico, crossed the finish line with a time of 36:07.
Aiman Scullion from Akron and Catherine Joecken from Bay Village were the respective winners in the Goodyear men's and women's half marathon with a time of 1:09:07 and 1:24:50.
The Goodyear Half Marathon & 10K was the second race in the Akron Marathon Race Series presented by Summa Health.
To ensure the safety of all participants during the COVID-19 pandemic, runners had to fill out a COVID-19 questionnaire 72 hours before the race. In addition, 200 runners started at the same time, socially distant, in five separate waves for the half marathon and in eight separate waves for the 10 km. Each wave was three minutes apart
"We are incredibly grateful for the athletes, volunteers, partners and spectators who completed the sold out Goodyear Half Marathon & 10K, and we share our deep appreciation for their flexibility and cooperation in support of the new iconic health and safety races," said Anne Bitong, President and CEO of Akron Marathon Charitable Corp., in a prepared statement.
Goodyear Half Marathon & 10K Results
HALF MARATHON MALE TOTAL:
1. Aiman Scullion, Akron, 1:09:07
2. Nick Stricklen, Akron, 1:09:57
3. Chris Fyock, Middleburg Heights, 1:10:33
HALF MARATHON FEMALE TOTAL:
1. Catherine Joecken, Bay Village, 1:24:50
2. Teresa Ferguson, Akron, 1:31:51
3. Brittany Graham, south Lebanon, 1:33:47
HALF MARATHON MASTER MALE:
1. Jeffrey Schneider, Strongsville, 1:25:49
2. Jed Koops, Shaker Heights, 1:26:11
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3. Michael Hicks, coat of arms, 1:29:27
HALF MARATHON MASTER:
1. Danelle Villers, Copley, 1:43:35
2. Lisa Dolgowicz, Wadsworth, 1:46:02
3. Dianne Laheta, Broadview Heights, 1:48:25
10K FINAL MALE TOTAL:
1. Antonio Cardona Rodriguez, Puerto Rico, 31:09
2. Arnaldo Martinez Reyes, Puerto Rico, 3:12 pm
3. Jack Good, Hudson, 32:50
10K FEMALE TOTAL:
1. Paola Ramos Lugo, Puerto Rico, 3:07 pm
2. Becki Spellman, Galloway, 36:14 pm
3. Amy Manning, Columbus, 3:09 pm
10K MASTERS MALE:
1. Luis Rivera Rivera, Puerto Rico, 33:28
2. Paul Stock, Hudson, 37:48
3. John Zaranec, Chagrin Falls, 39:01
10K MASTERS:
1. Alejandra Hernandez, Troy, Michigan, 42:33
2. Michelle Farr, Medina, 4:03 pm
3. Nicole Gareri-David, Canton, 43:33
The Akron Marathon takes place on September 25th
The marquee – the FirstEnergy Akron Marathon, the Half Marathon and the Team Relay – will take place on September 25th. The marathon is sold out, but places are still limited for the half marathon and the team relay.
For more information about the Akron Marathon Race Series presented by Summa Health, please visit AkronMarathon.org.
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The British automaker produced luxury cars independently until 1947 when it was bought by Aston Martin. Although Aston used the Lagonda name as a model designation from 1976 to 1989 for a quirky angular four-door, with a handful of coachbuilt specials and concept cars in between, the last model Lagonda produced was the 1961-65 Rapide, a nameplate which Aston is also revived with its upcoming four-door coupe model, previewed by the 2006 concept in Detroit. While the production Rapide is expected to continue as an Aston Martin, the company is planning a unique concept car to be unveiled at the Geneva show next March that will show the way forward for the rejuvenated marque.
Aston Martin Chief Executive Officer Dr Ulrich Bez has today confirmed his intention to revive the Lagonda marque.
In a statement today he said, "After my eight years with Aston Martin, four with profitability, and 16 months of independence, it's time to think about a longer term future. Aston Martin is an honest, authentic brand which builds the most beautiful sportscars combining modern technology with craftsmanship. Next year we will launch the four door Rapide sportscar, and this will be followed by the project 'one 77', the most spectacular Aston Martin ever. Aston Martins are currently available in 32 countries but we will remain limited in our market penetration by the pure character of our cars - sportscars.
"We have now investigated and concluded that the revival of the Lagonda brand would allow us to develop cars which can have a different character than a sportscar, and therefore offer a perfect synergy. Lagonda will use a unique design language as Aston Martin does. We will take elements of DNA from the past but will be very future orientated as we are with Aston Martin. With Lagonda offering exclusive, luxurious and truly versatile products with high quality and usability and suitable for both existing and emerging markets, I believe we can be present in more than 100 countries in the world.
"In 2009 Lagonda is about to celebrate its 100th birthday and in its centenary year we are confident that we will show the first concept of a car which could be in the market in 2012," he confirmed.


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