Nick Gammon posted some code to setup a counter on an Arduino UNO using timer2 to generate a 38KHZ signal, and I've used it on several IR projects.
On my current project, I'm using FreeRTOS for the Arduino, and the source says it uses timers 0-3 for its own kernel operation, so the timer code obviously will interfere with the RTOS.
I'm using an Arduino MEGA for this project, and AFAICT it also has a timer4 and timer5. Unfortunately, my programming ability for the ATMel products is lacking at that level, so I'm looking for some help to create a timer that will generate a 38KHZ output using timer4 or timer5 of the MEGA 2560 on any output pin. Interrupts shouldn't be used because it would also probably cause issues with RTOS.
BTW, on the Arduino MEGA, you can do a context switch between tasks in less that 200usec, and be able to determine what task YOU want to execute next.
Using a pre-emptive Real Time Operating System on a Arduino board with a AVR microcontroller (Arduino Uno, Leonardo, Mega 2560) is an academic exercise.
The FreeRTOS is reliable, and for someone that is used to write multitasking code, it can be useful.
Every task gets its own stack. The ram memory is limited on a AVR board. That means that every task should be written very careful to limit the stack usage.
Not enough ram when the fun is about to start.
When there are a few tasks and perhaps a few interrupt routines, then a number of buffers and message queues are needed. There is not enough ram memory for that.
The Arduino was not developed with a multitasking system in mind.
The Arduino libraries are not suitable for that. Some functions wait for something (Serial.parseInt, Wire.requestFrom, Wire.endTransmission) and that makes a RTOS work worse than expected.
The FreeRTOS is large, it requires memory and cpu time.
A Finite State Machine uses very little ram memory.
A Finite State Machine without delay() that uses millis() can be very responsive.
It is often possible to avoid interrupt routines. Reading buttons can often be done by polling the buttons in the loop().
Avoiding the String object and moving text into PROGMEM can be used to have enough memory for a more complex and reliable sketch.
At this moment the "FreeRTOS by Richard Barry" is in the Library Manager. It is a smaller version of FreeRTOS and it only uses the WatchDog timer. It has no conflict with Arduino libraries.
Not every version of FreeRTOS uses the WatchDog timer. Look for the file FreeRTOSBoardDefs.h to see which timer is used for your specific Arduino board.
crusader27529, I don't see a problem to remove the FreeRTOS and call the three tasks sequencially.
How to reset arduino Mega 2560 code automatically?
Is a power off sufficient to avoid problems with the Watchdog on Arduino Mega 2560?


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Montgomery, Alabama – Yesterday, Kyle Geoffrey Sandler, 43, of Auburn, Alabama, was sentenced to 63 months of imprisonment for wire and securities fraud, announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, Joseph P. Borg, Director of the Alabama Securities Commission, and James E. Jewell, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI. Those charges stemmed from a scheme in which he solicited and accepted nearly $2 million from over 70 investors while selling securities of a company that was not registered on a national securities exchange. Sandler's prison term will be followed by 3 years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. Sandler was also ordered to pay $1,903,000.00 in restitution to his victims.
Evidence showed that from 2015 through 2016, Sandler founded and managed a company called The Roundhouse LLC (Roundhouse), based in Lee County, Alabama. Throughout the Auburn and Opelika communities, Sandler advertised that Roundhouse was a business incubator that helped new and startup companies develop by providing services such as venture capital, office space, 1-gigabit internet, and management training in return for equity in the companies. During the course of his business, Sandler accepted approximately $1.9 million from at least 74 investors and he knowingly sold shares in Roundhouse that were not registered on a national securities exchange. In exchange for the fraudulently obtained investments, Sandler issued stock in Roundhouse and oversold the equity by approximately one hundred percent.
In addition, Sandler made false statements and omitted facts to investors. For example, Sandler misrepresented to potential Roundhouse investors in Lee County that he was a successful entrepreneur who was paid millions of dollars from Google as a former employee although he never actually worked for the tech company. He also failed to disclose to investors that he had two prior criminal convictions based on fraudulent conduct, nor did he tell Roundhouse investors that he was using their funds for personal expenses such as childcare services, rent payments, the purchase of automobiles and other personal items and/or services.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Alabama Securities Commission. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Denise O. Simpson, Special Assistant United States Attorney Amanda W. Senn, and former Middle District Assistant United States Attorney Steven H. Lee.


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President-elect Zuzana Čaputová announced further names of her advisors on Facebook on June 5,2019. (Source: TSS)
A week after president-elect Zuzana Čaputová announced on Facebook who her first three advisors in the Presidential Palace would be, she has used the social network again to reveal six more names.
They will help her make decisions in areas such as social policy, justice, foreign affairs, security, home affairs and communication.
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Zuzana Kusá: social affairs
Peter Bátor: foreign policy, security and defence
Radovan Pala & Peter Kubina: justice
Marián Leško & Vladimír Talian: domestic affairs
Martin Burgr: communication
Martin Strižinec: spokesperson
Juraj Rizman: environment & civic society
Michal Šimečka: EU affairs
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"Michal Šimečka will advise me in the matter of European politics, " Čaputová wrote on Facebook.
Šimečka, who serves as a deputy head of the non-parliamentary party Progressive Slovakia (PS), of which Čaputová used to be a member, has recently been elected an MEP in the EP elections.
Another member of her team, Radovan Pala, is a PS member.
A new advisory body focusing on ethnic minorities will be established as well. Representatives within this body will originate from various minorities living in Slovakia, Čaputová claimed.
"It will be an honour to listen to them because I want to be the president of all people who live in Slovakia," Čaputová confessed on Facebook.
Who are the new members of the team?
Čaputová's six new names on her team (6 photos)
Zuzana Kusá - social affairs
a Slovak sociologist who focuses on public academic research and lectures in the field of sociology;
works as a researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV);
deals with matters of education, poverty and social exclusion.
Peter Bátor - foreign policy, security & defence
studied international relations and diplomacy at Matej Bel University (UMB) in Banská Bystrica;
his focus in the last 20 years was on foreign policy and security;
worked as an expert and advisor at the Defence Ministry, Foreign Affairs Ministry and Slovakia's delegation to NATO;
spent short-term stays in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and the Middle East, as well;
since 2015, he has served as President Andrej Kiska's security advisor.
Read also:Čaputová introduced the first members of her team. Who are they? Read more
Peter Kubina - justice
studied law at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he also lectures;
manages the Bratislava branch of Dentons, the largest law firm in the world;
an expert at constitutional law;
in the past, he appeared in a number of important cases, including the scrapping of Mečiar's amnesties, freedom of speech, media freedom and the like.
Radovan Pala - justice
studied law in Bratislava, Prague, Berlin and Groningen, where he obtained a degree in international business law;
a founding partner of Taylor Wessing, one of the largest global law firms on the Slovak market;
took part in the drafting of legislation that restricts the activities of shell companies.
Vladimír Talian - home affairs
Read also:Leško: I wish for Čaputová to be an active president Read more
worked on the "I Vote, Therefore I Am" and "We Care" civic campaigns in 1998 and 2003;
thanks to the organisation Hlava 98, he helped the democratic opposition in Belarus
worked for public radio and served as an advisor of former justice minister Lucia Žitňanská;
helped current Bratislava mayor Matúš Vallo in the municipal elections.
Martin Burgr - communication
studied political science and media studies at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic;
once headed the Slovak Debate Association (SDA);
founded an academy for critical thinking;
for a few years, Burgr worked as an assistant of an MP;
in charge of communication in Matúš Vallo's campaign and Zuzana Čaputová's campaign.
5. Jun 2019 at 22:05 | Compiled by Spectator staff
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Movie Review – "Wonder" is Extraordinary!
Posted on November 17, 2017 by Reviews of the Arts SA
I screened the movie "Wonder," among a full house of adults and children, at the Regal Cielo Vista Cinema on Wednesday night. Since I did not read the book by R. J. Palacios, I didn't go in with any expectations. I did hear that it was going to be a tear-jerker but admittedly, forgot to bring tissues. So, if you don't get anything else out of this review, trust me, bring tissues. The screenplay, written by director, Stephen Chbosky, along with Steven Conrad and Jack Thorne, intertwines funny and heart-wrenching moments throughout the entire 1 hour and 53 minute runtime.
Rated PG, Wonder is the story of a ten-year old boy named, August ("Auggie") Pullman born with a rare genetic disorder called mandibulofacial dysostosis also known as Treacher Collins Syndrome (TCS.) Jacob Tremblay, gives a great performance as Auggie, who despite his distorted face, is a normal, loveable kid. The story is told by multiple viewpoints, opening with Auggie's point of view. Auggie feels that he is not an ordinary kid. But after watching this movie, you will come to the conclusion that he is correct, he's not ordinary; he's extraordinary! Jacob Tremblay is adorable!
Julia Roberts plays his mom, who is torn between being over-protective and allowing Auggie to learn how to function in the real world. Her performance is flawless. Owen Wilson plays his dad, who also worries about Auggie, but he's more of the "fun" parent – he too is perfectly cast. Izabela Vidovic plays Auggie's teen-aged sister, Via. She's had to live in her brother's shadow because he's had 27 surgeries in his short life. Izabela does an impeccable job portraying the overlooked child, who has more responsibilities placed on her because her parents are busy tending to her "sick" brother. She says that August is the sun and she, her mom and dad, are the planets that revolve around him. Being raised in a Greek/Italian household and the oldest of two brothers, I can sincerely relate. Sons generally tend to be the "chosen ones" of families. Though she understands why Auggie needs her parents' attention, Via can't help but feel neglected.
Auggie has been home-schooled, but his mother wants him to go to regular school and thinks this is a good time since all the kids will be new to the middle school. Auggie is scared. His sister whispers in his ear, to be himself, not to fit in when "you were born to stand out." A Dr. Seuss quote. As he expected, he is met with ridicule and extreme bullying. But he carries his mother's advice with him, "If you don't like where you are, just picture yourself where you want to be;" and ". . . be the bigger person." The other child actors in this film, Millie Davis, Noah Jupe, Bryce Gheisar, Elle McKinnon, and Danielle Rose Russell are also fantastic – you'll have flash-backs from middle school – or junior high if you're from my generation!
There are so many important life lessons to be learned from this movie by adults and children alike, lessons about friendship, love, compassion, acceptance, courage, and why society should adopt a universal, zero tolerance for bullying. The principal, Mr. Tushman, played by Mandy Patinkin, makes a profound statement to the parents of one of the bullies. I think it sums up the theme perfectly. He said, "if we can't change the way we look, maybe we can change the way we see."
As we were leaving the theater, a parent asked her child which was better , the movie or the book. The kid's reply was, "I liked the movie better because I didn't have to read it! Then she said, "plus, the movie was a lot more touching than the book." It was very touching. I highly recommend this movie as a perfect family outing during Thanksgiving break. Please let me know what you think of my review and come back and tell me what you thought of the movie. I'd love to hear from you. Thanks – BMT
(Images obtained from https://www.facebook.com/WonderTheMovie/ and http://rjpalacio.com/book.html)
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The view of the oil section of the 1894 Regional exhibition, situated on the vast area behind Baczynski's restaurant, in the siuth part of the exhibition, near the central alley. In the foreground there is a derrick of the so-called Canadian boring. The buildings of this project were designed by architect Pekarski. The section was composed of: businessmen Berheim and Mac-Harvey's pavilion (Mac-Harvey was the first in Galicia to introduce the Canadian boring system), Canadian tower, forge, boring equipment store, earth wax pavilion, oil credit society pavilion. The oil section was visited by Emperor Franz Joseph, accompanied by the organizers of the exhibition and the head of Oil society August Gorajski during his visit to Lviv on September 8, 1894. On September 12-13 within the framework of the exhibition the International boring technicians congress took place. Specialists from Sweden, Belgium, Hungary and Australia (!) took part in the congress. Besides other accomplishments of the boring industry from May 15 to October 23 1894 a system of Canadian machine boring was displayed. The upper part of Stryyskyy park, where the derrick was, was situated on the height of 343 m above sea level. Deep boring was started with a bore with the diameter of 474 mm, and finished in half a year's time with a bore with the diameter of 145 mm, which reached the depth of 501 m. Soil samples were taken every meter (500 samples all in all). First, a two meter layer of clay was bored through; then layers of sand and lime of different geological epochs. On the depth of 501 m the organizers decided to stop due to the impossibility of boring through a layer of chalk. The works were done by August Goraj's and Adam Trzeczielski's company under the supervision of engineer W.Remiszewski.
Regional exhibition, oil section
Interior of the Mikolasza Passage
The main train station platform
Monument to the Eaglets
Sst. Peter and Paul church


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Showtime Promotes Stephen Espinoza to President of Sports and Event Programming
Executive has led premium TV channel to its current position as champion of the boxing world
Tony Maglio | January 24, 2018 @ 9:00 AM	Last Updated: January 24, 2018 @ 9:11 AM
Showtime has promoted Stephen Espinoza to president of its Sports and Event Programming group. Espinoza has led the pay-TV channel to its current position as champion of the (televised) boxing world.
"Simply stated, Stephen is the heavyweight champion of his profession," said David Nevins, president and CEO, Showtime Networks Inc. "He is an innovator, equal parts thoughtful and tenacious, who has turned Showtime boxing into the market leader, while also driving excellence in our documentaries and sports series."
In 2017, Showtime Sports produced 33 world championship fights and 71 live bouts in all — twice as many as any other outlet. And Showtime Championship Boxing has a TV lineup for the first six months of 2018 that will be the largest ever in the sport, the network touted Wednesday in a media release. Its calendar through June will feature 10 world-class events including 12 world title fights.
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Under Espinoza's eye, Showtime got a nice piece of the two most-watched pay-per-view events in history: (No. 1) 2015's Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight and (No. 2) 2017's Mayweather-Conor MacGregor bout.
Espinoza helped orchestrate one of the biggest deals in boxing history when Mayweather moved to Showtime in 2013 under a six-fight deal. Across seven events in four years with Mayweather, Showtime PPV has generated more than 14 million U.S. and Canada buys and over $1.2 billion in domestic pay-per-view revenue.
Prior to joining Showtime in late 2011, Espinoza was a partner in the firm of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, where he represented fighters Oscar De La Hoya and Mike Tyson.
14 Moments That Rocked the Sports World in 2017, From Super Bowl Overtime to World Series Nail-Biter (Photos)
Sports are unpredictable in their nature, but 2017 gave us more heart-stopping moments and epic upsets than normal ... even before the president chimed in to share his opinion of the NFL.
New England Patriots Super Bowl LI comeback
Down 28-3 against the Atlanta Falcons, coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady engineered the greatest comeback in the history of the Super Bowl to win 34-28 in overtime. It didn't take long for Barstool Sports to make a "comeback" tee-shirt to celebrate the achievement.
College Football National Championship do-over
After losing to Alabama the year before, the Clemson Tigers met the Crimson Tide in a rematch for the national championship rematch on Jan. 9. Led by quarterback Deshaun Watson, the Tigers erased a 14 point deficit to secure the lead (and the win) with one second left on the clock.
On April 19, only days after being acquitted of a double homicide charge (but still serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd), former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell of an apparent suicide. Doctors later discovered that Hernandez was suffering from stage 3 CTE, the most severe case of the brain disease ever discovered in a person his age.
Fight of the century?
After about 18 months of "will they, won't they?" undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC superstar Conor McGregor met on August 26, 2017 for one of the most highly-anticipated fights in history. Mayweather won the match after McGregor tired out, but both men earned untold millions of dollars for one night of their lives. Did anybody lose?
Jamie Horowitz's abrupt Fox Sports exit
Just months after he signed off on multiple layoffs from Fox Sports and eliminated much of its online editorial content, Jamie Horowitz exited as president amid claims of sexual misconduct and harassment.
More ESPN layoffs
ESPN was hit with two major rounds of layoffs in 2017. The first most high-profile bout saw on-air talent such as John Clayton (above), Jay Crawford, Danny Kanell, Ed Werder and Trent Dilfer. In November, 150 people in studio production, digital content, and technology sectors got pink slips.
NFL players take a knee
Former 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick started a movement in 2016 when he decided to kneel on the sideline during the national anthem. While a few players followed his lead at the beginning of the 2017 season, President Trump added fuel to the movement caught fire when he called for any players who protested the anthem to be fired. as many more players protested against the president's by kneeling locking arms, or even refusing to come out of the locker room during the anthem. The movement has since spread to pro baseball, the WNBA, and Major League Soccer.
White House ban
On Sept. 22, two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry tweeted that he did not want to visit the White House after winning the championship with the Golden State Warriors. Trump quickly fired back, tweeting that Curry was no longer welcome. The entire team decided to stick with Curry and announced they would not go for the traditional visit while LeBron James, who lost to Curry and the Warriors in the Finals, called President Trump a "bum," adding that "going to the White House was a great honor until you showed up!"
USA out of the World Cup
With a 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 10, the United States Men's National Soccer Team stunned American soccer fans by failing to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1986. After less than a year on the job, Hall of Famer Bruce Arena resigned as the team's manager following the humiliation.
Jemele Hill v. Donald Trump
On Sept. 11, "SportsCenter" co-host Jamele Hill called President Trump a "white supremacist" during a series of critical tweets, prompting a backlash from the White House and the president's supporters. Despite calls for her firing, ESPN stood by Hill and clarified that her views did not reflect ESPN's position. The company later suspended Hill for two weeks after she suggested fans should boycott Dallas Cowboys advertisers after Jerry Jones threatened to bench players who knelt during the national anthem.
Hurricane Harvey hero
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Houston Texans star J.J. Watt started a drive to raise money for those who were affected by the devastation. With an initial goal of $200,000 (half of which Watt donated himself), the movement became a phenomenon that resulted in over $37 million being raised. His actions would later lead to him being named the 2017 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, which he shared with Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve.
2017 could easily go down as The Year of the Sports Injury. Arguably the worst rash of injuries in NFL history has seen an unusually large number of superstars such as Watt, Odell Beckham Jr. and Richard Sherman knocked out of the season too soon.
Graphic NBA fall
The NFL wasn't the only organization to suffer from injuries. Six minutes into his debut as a Boston Celtic, Gordon Hayward fractured his leg and dislocated his ankle after landing awkwardly during a national broadcast. The gruesome image horrified many, and Hayward was later confirmed to be out for the remainder of the season.
World Series stunner
One of the craziest World Series ever played, the 2017 Fall Classic was perfectly encapsulated by Game 5 between the L.A. Dodgers and the Houston Astros. No team (or fan) felt safe while ahead, nor out of hope while behind. In the end, the Astros won the game, and eventually clinched the Series for the first time in the franchise's 56-year history.
With epic comebacks, heartbreaking tragedies and politics galore, 2017 proved to a roller coaster ride for sports fans
Mayweather-McGregor: Twitter Crowns Illegal Live-Streamers the Real Champs
By Tony Maglio | August 26, 2017 @ 11:17 PM
Floyd Mayweather Jr Beats Conor McGregor in Surprisingly Close Fight
By Tony Maglio | August 26, 2017 @ 9:52 PM
Mayweather-McGregor Fight Delayed Due to Cable Systems Issues


This alien lizard continues to expand its range in California.
Black dots on the map indicate a place where Mediterranean Geckos have been seen. They might not be established in all of these areas.
These are just the locations that I know about. There are probably more. If you know a location where this gecko has been found that is not shown on the map or if you see a lizard that looks like this one anywhere in California that is not shown on this map, please email me at grynaf@yahoo.com and send a picture if you can for verification.
Adult, Azusa, Los Angeles County Sub adult, Ocotillo, Imperial County Adult, Ocotillo, Imperial County.
Adult, Fresno County © Patrick Briggs Adult, Sacramento, Sacramento County, found active in mid winter.
tongue when it licks its lips after eating a flying insect.
Mediterranean Geckos have soft skin with prominent knob-like tubercles.
Mediterranean Geckos have specialized toe pads that let them climb and hang on to almost any surface.
Juvenile climbing on a glass window.
The six pictures directly above all show the same large adult gecko found in Travis County, Texas.
The gecko was dark in color when I found it underneath a large limestone rock that was covered with ice after an ice storm.
I brought the gecko inside and took the pictures in its dark phase shown above in the top row.
It warmed up after a few minutes and lightened in color and I took the pictures in the bottom row.
Ocotillo, Imperial County, home of the Lazy Lizard Saloon. Mediterranean Geckos have been found in several locations in the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, including Desert Hot Springs, Rancho Mirage, and Palm Springs. Here you can see several geckos gathered under an outdoor light on the wall of a Palm Springs motel.
© 2005 William Flaxington These geckos been spreading up the Central Valley along the Highway 99 corridor in cities including Bakersfield, Fresno, Kingsburg, and Chowchilla.
Mediterranean Geckos have been found in several locations in the Imperial Valley, Imperial County, including Imperial, El Centro and Calexico.
And adult and a juvenile Mediterranean Gecko run around at night on a white exterior wall in Imperial County An adult Mediterranean Gecko licks its lips on an exterior wall in Yuma, Arizona.
A small, slightly flattened gecko with conspicuous large bumpy tubercles on the skin.
Eyes are large with no lids and vertical pupils.
The toes have broad pads with claws extending beyond them and no webbing.
The tail is round and ringed with dark and light bands. It will grow back if it is broken off.
with dark blotching and spotting sometimes forming indistinct bands.
Juveniles have more prominent light and dark tail banding than adults.
Males make mouselike squeaking sounds during fights and probably to claim their territory. Males also make a series of clicking sounds to advertise their presence to females during the breeding season.
The best way to differentiate these two species is the skin: the Indo-Pacific Gecko has smooth skin, while the Mediterranean Gecko has conspicuous large bumpy tubercles on the skin. The Indo-Pacific Gecko also has a yellow belly while that of the Mediterranean gecko is pale but not yellow.
Often seen sitting motionless at night under lights on the exterior walls of buildings where they are waiting to feed on insects attracted to the light. Also seen on walls and ceilings stalking insects.
When approached too closely, they will run into a nearby shelter.
The tail can be broken off as a survival strategy to distract a predator and it will grow back.
Active all year long, but more active when temperatures are hot.
These geckos appear to prefer hot climates in regions with short, mild winters, although they are apparently established in places with cold winters including Baltimore and Oklahoma. (Locey & Stone 2006) They are definitely capable of surviving short periods of freezing temperatures - I witnessed a population of these geckos survive a severe ice storm with freezing temperatures lasting for several days in January 2006 in Austin Texas, including one large adult found surviving under a large rock that was completely covered with ice along with the ground around it.
Males are territorial and will defend good hunting areas.
A variety of small invertebrates.
Mates from March to July.
These geckos are sexually mature in a year or less.
Females lay 1 - 2 calcereous eggs in communal clutches 1 - 3 times per year from April to August.
When present, eggs can be seen under the translucent belly skin of females.
Urbanized - often living in or near human dwellings. Often seen at night under lights on the exterior walls of buildings. In the daytime I have seen them sheltering under house shingles, cracks between bricks, under outside wall lamps, and under rocks, downed wood, and planters in the yard, and in and under boxes in the garage. They can also be found under palm fronds, and other surface objects such as rocks, wood, and tin, and in crevices in rocks and holes in trees. At one rural location in Travis county near the ruins of some old buildings we found many of them under stacks of old roofing tin.
Native to the Mediterranean area, Africa, and the Middle East region.
Reported in the United States in 1955 in Brownsville Texas, (and 1910 in the Florida Keys) this gecko has spread rapidly, and is established in the United States in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, and in a large part of eastern Mexico, including the Yucatan Peninsula. Most likely also introduced into Baja California. Introduced into Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and possibly Belize.
The earliest museum record documenting Mediterranean Geckos in California I can find is from Ocotillo in Imperial County in 1988, though it's possible they were established before then either in Ocotillo or somewhere else.
Below is a list of the locations that I have heard about where Mediterranean Geckos have been found in California since I started keeping track of them in 2010. I'm sure there are more locations that I don't know about. Most of these locations come from visitors to this web site who emailed me to tell me that they found them. Others come from museum records or other published records. Mediterranean Geckos may not be established in all of the areas listed here and shown on the map. A single lizard might be solitary or it might be a member of a population that was temporarily established but did not survive one or more winters or other environmental stress, but it is most likely that there are many geckos at every location listed. There were only a few locations listed in 2010, but the numbers of locations have grown rapidly and continue to do so.
I will continue to add locations here and on the map as I hear of them.
If you see any or know of any locations not on this list, please email me.
Recently introduced into California, this successful stowaway is expanding its range, although low winter temperatures in some areas will probably restrain them to the warmer parts of the state.
Unlike some alien species in the state, introduced Mediterranean Geckos are not the result of released or escaped pets. The most likely reason for the rapid spread of this gecko is the accidental transport of geckos and their eggs hiding in lumber and other commercial products on trucks, cars, trains, etc., from areas where the geckos have become established, originally the Southeastern part of the US, but now also Southern California.
One gravid gecko, or one egg mass could be responsible for the establishment of this gecko species in a new location.
For example, I was asked to identify a Mediterranean Gecko that was found in Manitoba, Canada in a shipment of pipes from Texas.
People have also told me that they found geckos at their new houses in California shortly after shipping their belongings from Texas and from Florida.
I have not seen any studies that describe any possible threat to native species by this invasive gecko.
turcicus - Latin, meaning "from Turkey"
Garrett, Judith M. and David G. Barker. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Texas. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston Texas, 1987.
There are no significant conservation concerns for this non-native animal in California.


My client has an exciting London based fast-casual food retail business that has opened to great success. Planning ahead for future growth, I am recruiting a Managing Director.
It is a small business at present but well-funded and ready to rapidly expand. The successful Managing Director will be a hands-on and pro-active operator as this will be a collaborative role to establish the brand identity and positioning in the market place and build on it.
The successful Managing Director will currently hold a senior position in the London fast-casual restaurant scene. Previous experience with fast paced brands such as Nando's or Five Guys would be beneficial.
A shrewd commercial mind-set is important as this role will hold accountability for Finance, Operations, Marketing, Trading, HR, Property, IT and Training.
The Managing Director needs to be the type of person who can step in to a mildly chaotic environment and just get on with it. Systems are important but the real priority for the Managing Director will be to win the hearts and minds of the managers and staff. They will be able to inspire and lead the team by example, great people management skills are essential.


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Rummikub celebrates 70 years with commemorative postage stamp in Israel
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The popular family gaming title Rummikub has been handed national recognition of its cultural impact in its country of origin, Israel, where it has received its own commemorative, bespoke postage stamp.
The new Israeli stamp features iconic tiles from the game first invented in 1950, including its much-loved Joker tile, celebrating 70 years of the game's influence and impact on the gaming space.
Rummikub was first created and developed by Ephraim Hertzano, who started hand-making sets in the back garden of his home with his family in Israel. Since then, an estimated 50 million games have been sold in over 60 countries around the world, and translated into 27 languages.
The game is distributed in the UK by John Adams Leisure.
Each game of Rummikub is as different as the combinations of moves a player chooses to play. The aim of the game to is to be the first to clear your rack of all tiles onto the table as part of a 'run' or 'group' and then shout 'Rummikub'.
Players must use strategy and sharp moves to outwit their opponents but beware of the Joker… he can fire up the game, and if he is smiling on your rack at the end of the round, you lose 30 points.
Rummikub is available in many variations including Classic, Travel, Junior, and more. It can be played with two to four players aged seven upwards (Junior from four plus) and is available in all good toy stores.
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Penns Grove Wrestling
2012-2013 138 pound
12/22/2012, Westampton Tech (34) at Penns Grove (44)
Win over Ariel Fernandez by Pin, :59
12/22/2012, Triton (37) at Penns Grove (36)
Loss to Cesar Dash by Decision, 10-4
12/22/2012, Clearview (55) at Penns Grove (16)
Loss to Robby Wittman by Major Decision, 19-7
1/9/2013, Penns Grove (32) at Schalick (39)
Win over Gerald Gilchrist by Technical Fall, 4:17
1/12/2013, West Deptford (44) at Penns Grove (27)
Win over Kevin McGlinchey by Pin, 2:35
1/12/2013, Penns Grove (6) at St. Augustine (72)
Loss to Nick Clark by Pin, 1:45
1/19/2013, Penns Grove (18) at Millville (52)
Win over Ruben Delgado by Pin, 1:15
1/19/2013, Middle Township (40) at Penns Grove (28)
Win over Jacob Kershaw by Decision, 12-9
1/21/2013, Oakcrest (27) at Penns Grove (48)
Win by Forfeit
1/21/2013, Penns Grove (51) at Gloucester Catholic (21)
Loss to Pat Rafferty by Decision, 14-11
1/23/2013, Pitman (24) at Penns Grove (46)
Win over Ben Leash by Pin, 3:06
1/26/2013, Penns Grove (38) at Deptford (34)
Loss to Ray Feigenbutz by Decision
1/26/2013, Cherry Hill East (38) at Penns Grove (32)
Win over Jon Cornatzer by Pin, 3:48
1/26/2013, Penns Grove (60) at Palmyra (9)
1/28/2013, Pennsville (30) at Penns Grove (35)
Win over Pat Finlaw by Major Decision, 11-3
1/30/2013, Gloucester City (24) at Penns Grove (50)
Win over James Bonilla by Pin, :36
2/2/2013, Cinnaminson (52) at Penns Grove (19)
Win over Andrew Destefano by Pin, :28
2/2/2013, Penns Grove (30) at Barnegat (39)
Win over Zack Massa by Pin, 2:45
2/8/2013, Kingsway (34) at Penns Grove (33)
Win over David McCullough by Pin, 4:32
2/11/2013, Washington Township (43) at Penns Grove (25)
Loss to Nick Gaspari by Major Decision, 12-2
2/13/2013, Penns Grove (45) at Mainland (28)
Loss to Garrett Ewing by Major Decision
2/16/2013, Woodstown (48) at Penns Grove (20)
Win over Bailey Gibson by Decision, 8-1
1/12/2013, Lower Cape May (51) at Penns Grove (24)
Loss to Ty Alteri by Pin, 1:16
2/16/2013, Cumberland (9) at Penns Grove (58)
Win over Nicholas Andersen by Pin, 1:36
Loss to Joseph Accurso by Pin, :45


Just imagine: mooring spontaneously and going ashore. No bridges en route to restrict your freedom and oceans of space on board. Perhaps you as a sailor occasionally toyed with the idea of exchanging your sailing boat for a motor yacht. That switch is not easy if sailing has always been your great passion. We understand that at Linssen Yachts. At the same time, we are convinced that you will not regret it. Our steel motor yachts in the new Grand Sturdy series offer you a splendid boating life after sailing.
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Sailing means working, which is also one of the delights of having a sailing boat. Hoisting the mainsail, furling the headsail, adjusting the sheets and, last but not least, anchoring. The tasks on board are often physically demanding, and the older you get, the more difficult they become. Let's be honest, the transition to a Linssen is a huge step – in a positive sense. You continue to enjoy life on the water, but in a different way. Totally relaxed and at a much slower pace.
Linssen motor yachts are renowned for their excellent stability, wonderful manoeuvrability and easy navigability. Whereas manoeuvring with a sailing boat requires navigation expertise, handling a Linssen yacht is real child's play. In that respect we make it as easy and comfortable as possible, e.g. by equipping all our Grand Sturdy models with a bow thruster as a standard feature.
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Alzheimer's Disease Caused By Proteins
by Gary Chandler | Jan 26, 2006 | Alzheimer's Disease Causes, Prion Disease | 0 comments
Prions Behind Many Neurodegenerative Disorders
Proteins that act like prions – copies of a normal protein that have been corrupted in ways that cause diseases – might be responsible for disorders that attack the brain and spinal column, according to a new research. Earlier it was thought that only one particular protein could be corrupted in this fashion, but the new research is suggesting that another protein linked to Alzheimer's disease and many other neurodegenerative conditions also behaves very much like a prion.
According to the research, protein, known as tau, could be corrupted in different ways, and that these different forms of corruption-known as strains-are linked to distinct forms of damage to the brain.
"If we think of these different tau strains as different pathogens, then we can begin to describe many human disorders linked to tau based on the strains that underlie them," said senior author Diamond, the David Clayson Professor of Neurology, in the press release. "This may mean that certain antibodies or drugs, for example, will work better against certain disorders than others."
Prions are made of normal proteins that have folded into an abnormal shape but aren't alive. However their effects can be similar to infectious microbes such as bacteria or viruses. Prions are unstoppable and prion disease is fatal.
"When we infected a cell with one of these misshapen copies of tau and allowed the cell to reproduce, the daughter cells contained copies of tau misfolded in the same fashion as the parent cell," Diamond added in the press release. "Further, if we extracted the tau from an affected cell, we could reintroduce it to a naïve cell, where it would recreate the same aggregate shape. This proves that each of these differently shaped copies of the tau protein can form stable prion strains, like a virus or a bacteria, that can be passed on indefinitely."
Researchers said they are now working to find a way to isolate tau prions non-invasively from individuals for diagnostic purposes. The findings of the study will be published in Neuron.


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Scholar Profile - Andrea Carafa
Andrea Carafa serves as Director of the Blackstone Launchpad powered by Techstars and as Rachel Carson College Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a member of the UC Office of the President's Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative which enables the UC system to continue creating bold solutions to today's biggest challenges through innovation and entrepreneurship. He also serves on the Internal Advisory Council for the UCSC Innovation and Business Engagement Hub.
Born and raised in Italy, Carafa came to UC Santa Cruz after founding two ventures as well as teaching and conducting research on innovation at Stanford, CERN, and other European institutions. He created and chaired the Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative at President Obama's Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford and advocated for the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations. He was also an EU Marie Curie Fellow in emerging technology for health, sustainability, and impact.
Carafa finds UC Santa Cruz an ideal setting for finding new ways of designing and developing new technologies and ventures that yield shared prosperity while tackling environmental, health, and societal issues. "This should be one of the foundations for society to tackle the world's biggest challenges through technology solutions created with diversity, inclusion, and equity in mind," Carafa said. "UC Santa Cruz is a great lab for that because it leads in social mobility and diversity, it is just a few miles away from the birthplace of tech giants such as Netflix and Apple, it has a growing, diverse entrepreneurial community tackling complex global issues, and it has built an impressive track record of research achievements in just a few decades, from publishing the human genome on the web to pioneering the fields of conservation biology and organic agriculture, among others."
Currently, Carafa is developing a framework for unlocking the creative potential that is rooted in diversity and fueled by global challenges. His focus extends to creating new ventures and technologies that embody the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion under the umbrella of shared prosperity.
Through the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED), he has helped students and faculty design and build new technologies and companies through translational research turning science into innovations. Primarily founded by underrepresented groups, some of these products and companies have won awards at CES and from Techstars.
Leveraging inter-departmental and international collaboration, Carafa has worked with faculty from the Coastal Science Campus to launch a new course called "Hacking 4 Oceans." The course uses the lean startup methodology to tackle ocean-related problems and was developed with faculty from Stanford, a former senior engineer and founder of Google Images, and a UC Santa Cruz Trustee who is also a former Googler and entrepreneur. Together, they co-teach this course, which will be opened up to the entire UC System. Carafa also teaches a similar Rachel Carson course that uses the same methodology and design thinking to tackle environmental problems and the SDGs.
He has noted that the learning experience in the U.S. is evolving in relation to changes in the industry and in the real world. There is a rapidly growing pool of experiential courses offered in many universities, which use methods that were pioneered and made popular in California. "Experiential learning flips the traditional schooling system instituted centuries ago when the world was very different," Carafa said.
"As we grow up, we usually learn that making mistakes is not good and it will result in a bad grade. But innovation is a learning process that clashes with those beliefs. Innovators make mistakes all the time and learn from them quickly," Carafa said. "In experiential courses, the students learn by doing. They learn how to be comfortable with making mistakes, how to learn from their mistakes, and how to thrive in the ambiguity of complex problems and solutions. These soft skills can't be taken for granted but are necessary to innovate in today's world, which is facing unprecedented and interrelated crises on many fronts, from public health to democracy, inequality and climate change."
Visit this website to learn more about Andrea Carafa's work.


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CAS dismisses Chinese weightlifters' appeals
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeals filed by two Chinese women weightlifters who were stripped of the gold medals they won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics after failing doping tests conducted eight years later.
In January, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ordered Cao Lei (75kg) and Liu Chunhong (69kg) to return their medals from the Beijing Games after re-tests of samples tested positive for prohibited substances.
The athletes tested positive for banned human growth hormones along with compatriot Chen Xiexia, who won gold in the 48kg category in Beijing and was also disqualified by the IOC.
CAS said in a statement on Monday that it had upheld the IOC's decision against the two athletes.
"As a consequence the athletes are disqualified from the events in which they participated: Chunhong Liu – Women's 69kg (gold medal), and Lei Cao – Women's 75kg (gold medal)," CAS said.
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Q: JavaFX Populating ListView from Oracle Database value I am doing a project with JAVAFX to populate a listviiew with values from database. i am doing it with Scenebuilder as follows,
MainWindowController.java
public class MainWindowController implements Initializable {

    @FXML private RadioButton connRadioBtn;
    @FXML private ListView<MainWindowController> poListView;

    public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb){

    }

public List<MainWindowController> getPurchaseOrder() throws SQLException{
        DBConnection sqlCheckConn = DBConnection.getInstance();
        Statement stmt = DBConnection.getStatement();
        String listSql = "SELECT DISTINCT VSI.PO_NO PO_NO FROM VW_SUPP_INVOICE VSI";
        ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(listSql);
        List<MainWindowController> list = new ArrayList<>();

        while (rs.next()) {
            String s1 = rs.getString("PO_NO");
            list.add(new MainWindowController(s1));
        }
        return list;
    }
}

and i get this following error,
Error:(48, 22) java: constructor MainWindowController in class weltes.finance.controller.MainWindowController cannot be applied to given types;
  required: no arguments
  found: java.lang.String
  reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length

please help me what am i doing wrong ? and pardon me im just starting to learn java

A: You get the error since your MainWindowController class doesn't provide constructors other than the default constructor, but you call new MainWindowController(s1) in the while-loop.
You try to populate your ListView with instances of your controller class, which doesn't make sense to me. (I know few scenarios where adding instances of a controller class as items of a ListView would make sense, but none of them are similar to your code.) You should use the type of the data you want do display as type parameter of ListView:
@FXML private ListView<String> poListView;

...

List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();

while (rs.next()) {
    String s1 = rs.getString("PO_NO");
    list.add(s1);
}

You could also use your custom class and customize the ListCells displayed in the ListView using the cellFactory, but if only Strings should be displayed, the default cellFactory and a ListView<String> should suffice.

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Labs.AbstractClasses
{
    public abstract class Conta
    {
        private decimal saldo;
        private string titular;

        public Conta(string t)
        {
            titular = t;
        }

        public decimal Saldo
        {
            get { return saldo; }
        }

        public string Titular
        {
            get { return titular; }
        }

        public abstract string Id
        {
            get;
        }

        public virtual void Depositar(decimal valor)
        {
            saldo += valor;
        }

        public virtual void Sacar(decimal valor)
        {
            if (valor <= saldo)
                saldo -= valor;
        }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return this.Id + " " + Titular + " " + Saldo;
        }
    }
}

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Q: R Split string and keep substrings righthand of match? How to do this stringsplit() in R? Stop splitting when no first names seperated by dashes remain. Keep right hand side substring as given in results.
a <- c("tim/tom meyer XY900 123kncjd", "sepp/max/peter moser VK123 456xyz")

# result:
c("tim meyer XY900 123kncjd", "tom meyer XY900 123kncjd", "sepp moser VK123 456xyz", "max moser VK123 456xyz", "peter moser VK123 456xyz")

A: Here is one possibility using a few of the different base string functions.
## get the lengths of the output for each first name
len <- lengths(gregexpr("/", sub(" .*", "", a), fixed = TRUE)) + 1L
## extract all the first names
## using the fact that they all end at the first space character
fn <- scan(text = a, sep = "/", what = "", comment.char = " ")
## paste them together
paste0(fn, rep(regmatches(a, regexpr(" .*", a)), len))
# [1] "tim meyer XY900 123kncjd" "tom meyer XY900 123kncjd"
# [3] "sepp moser VK123 456xyz"  "max moser VK123 456xyz"
# [5] "peter moser VK123 456xyz"

Addition: Here is a second possibility, using a little less code.  Might be a little faster too.
s <- strsplit(a, "\\/|( .*)")
paste0(unlist(s), rep(regmatches(a, regexpr(" .*", a)), lengths(s)))
# [1] "tim meyer XY900 123kncjd" "tom meyer XY900 123kncjd"
# [3] "sepp moser VK123 456xyz"  "max moser VK123 456xyz"
# [5] "peter moser VK123 456xyz"

A: I'd do it like that (with stringi):
library("stringi")

a <- c("tim/tom meyer XY900 123kncjd", "sepp/max/peter moser VK123 456xyz")

stri_split_fixed(stri_match_first_regex(a, "(.+?)[ ]")[,2], "/") -> start
stri_match_first_regex(a, "[ ](.+)")[,2] -> end

for(i in 1:length(end)){
    start[[i]] <- paste(start[[i]], end[i])
}

unlist(start)

## [1] "tim meyer XY900 123kncjd" "tom meyer XY900 123kncjd" "sepp moser VK123 456xyz"
## [4] "max moser VK123 456xyz"   "peter moser VK123 456xyz"

A: Why not one more approach to show there are many ways to an R solution. Split the string by / symbol. Separate the first names from the rest of the string. Then combine with paste. Interesting question btw:
unlist(sapply(strsplit(a, "/"), function(x) {len <- length(x)
  last <- gsub("^(\\w+).*", "\\1", x[len])
  fill <- gsub("^\\w+ ", "", x[len])
  paste(c(x[-len], last), fill)}))
# [1] "tim meyer XY900 123kncjd" "tom meyer XY900 123kncjd" "sepp moser VK123 456xyz"
# [4] "max moser VK123 456xyz"   "peter moser VK123 456xyz"

A: Here's one approach:
a <- c('tim/tom meyer XY900 123kncjd','sepp/max/peter moser VK123 456xyz');
do.call(c,lapply(strsplit(a,' '),function(w) apply(expand.grid(strsplit(w,'/')),1,paste,collapse=' ')));
## [1] "tim meyer XY900 123kncjd" "tom meyer XY900 123kncjd" "sepp moser VK123 456xyz"  "max moser VK123 456xyz"   "peter moser VK123 456xyz"

An advantage of this solution is that it performs the split and recombination for all words in each string, rather than just the first word, properly returning the full cartesian product of all word variants:
a <- c('a/b/c d/e/f g/h/i','j/k/l m/n/o p/q/r');
do.call(c,lapply(strsplit(a,' '),function(w) apply(expand.grid(strsplit(w,'/')),1,paste,collapse=' ')));
## [1] "a d g" "b d g" "c d g" "a e g" "b e g" "c e g" "a f g" "b f g" "c f g" "a d h" "b d h" "c d h" "a e h" "b e h" "c e h" "a f h" "b f h" "c f h" "a d i" "b d i" "c d i" "a e i" "b e i" "c e i" "a f i" "b f i" "c f i" "j m p" "k m p" "l m p" "j n p" "k n p" "l n p" "j o p" "k o p" "l o p" "j m q" "k m q" "l m q" "j n q" "k n q" "l n q" "j o q" "k o q" "l o q" "j m r" "k m r" "l m r" "j n r" "k n r" "l n r" "j o r" "k o r" "l o r"


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Skullyville County was a political subdivision of the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory, prior to Oklahoma being admitted as a state.  The county formed part of the Nation's Moshulatubbee District, or First District, one of three administrative super-regions.

History
The county was also called Iskvlli Kaunti, from the Choctaw word , which means a 'small piece of money or coin.'  (The apparent lower-case letter "v" is the Greek letter upsilon, which makes a short "u" sound, for a pronunciation akin to "iskulli.") Skullyville County was home, from 1832, of the United States agency for the Choctaws in the Indian Territory.  The agency was located about fifteen miles west of Fort Smith.  The village which grew up around the agency came to be known as Skullyville, that word being a corruption of  with the suffix, -ville, suggesting a literal translation of money town.  The agency itself, however, was called , or 'the place where money is donated or presented.'

Skullyville town was settled in about 1832, after the area served as a landing site for Choctaw Indians who came to the new Indian Territory via the "Trail of Tears" by steamboat.  The steamboats used a landing on the south side of the Arkansas River featuring a large rock shelf.  Later, the town served as county seat.  It also served as one-time capital of the Choctaw Nation.

Fort Coffee was built and garrisoned by the U.S. Army in 1834 to secure the region from incursions by the "wild" Wichita and Comanche Indians to the west.  Skullyville was visited the same year by George Catlin, an American painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the old West.  Catlin painted Choctaw Indians playing stickball at Skullyville, and provides the only surviving descriptions of the Ball Play Dance and Eagle Dance.  Catlin depicts the stickball game in a valley framed by the rolling hills which are iconic to the Skullyville region.

Skullyville County was one of the original 19 counties created by the General Council of the Choctaw Nation in 1850.  The county's boundaries were established and designated according to easily recognizable natural landmarks, as were the boundaries of all Choctaw Nation counties.  As example, the Arkansas River formed the county's northern border.  The Arkansas state line formed the eastern border.  The western border was a line drawn from the mouth of Cashier Creek on the Arkansas River southward to its source.  From there it followed a straight line to an area known as the Narrows, near Red Oak.  The county's southern border threaded its way through well-defined valleys along Cavanal Mountain and adjacent ridges, following Cedar Creek, Fourche Maline, and the Poteau River.

The county served as an election district for members of the National Council, and as a unit of local administration. Constitutional officers, all of whom served for two-year terms and were elected by the voters, included the county judge, sheriff, and a ranger. The judge's duties included oversight of overall county administration. The sheriff collected taxes, monitored unlawful intrusion by intruders (usually white Americans from the United States), and conducted the census. The county ranger advertised and sold strayed livestock.

Statehood
As Oklahoma's statehood approached, its leading citizens, who were gathered for the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, realized in laying out the future state's counties that, while logically designed, the Choctaw Nation's counties could not exist as economically viable political subdivisions. In most the county seat existed generally for holding county court and not as a population center. While this was not generally true of Skullyville County, with its bustling commercial towns along several railroad lines, and particularly Poteau, it would have to be dismantled to accommodate changes required by the region at large.

This conundrum was also recognized by the framers of the proposed State of Sequoyah, who met in 1905 to propose statehood for the Indian Territory. The Sequoyah Constitutional Convention also proposed a county structure that abolished the Choctaw counties. Skullyville County was divided principally into the proposed Thomas County and Rutherford County.  Stigler and Bokoshe would have been Thomas County's principal towns.  The prosperous railroad junctions of Poteau, Spiro, and Wister would have anchored Rutherford County.

Almost none of this proposition was borrowed two years later by Oklahoma's framers, who adopted a very different county structure for the region.  The territory formerly comprising Skullyville County, Choctaw Nation now falls primarily within Le Flore, Haskell, and Latimer counties. Skullyville County ceased to exist upon Oklahoma's statehood on 16 November 1907.

References

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

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The world comes together for Christmas
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Russian princesses Maria (Natasha Prohoroff) and Anastasia (Sydney Cochrane) take a magical journey back to their beloved homeland in Once Upon A December, part of Christmas Around the World taking place at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre Friday, Dec. 13.— Image Credit: Photo Submitted
For many, Christmas is a season of celebration and tradition.
People throughout the world embrace this time of the year with their own unique ways of ushering in the holidays.
Christmas carols may vary from country to country, foods that we place on our tables may not all be turkey, and the giving and receiving of gifts may be different, but a common thread of family and merry making is the same in each region of the earth.
"We live in a world with so many amazing cultures, it is fun to discover and explore the nations, especially at this time of year," said local music theatre and vocal studio owner/instructor Charity Van Gameren.
That's why Van Gameren Studios, which operates out of the Vernon Community Music School, is presenting a journey through 12 different countries, featuring festive music and dance relating to each culture at this time of year.
Written by UBC Okanagan creative writing student Lyndsay Thornton, Christmas Around the World takes place Friday, Dec. 13 at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre.
"Christmas Around the World has been intriguing to me for many years," said Van Gameren. "I love to take a look into the way others celebrate and the traditions that are important to other countries."
Van Gameren, along with her students, will give audiences a glimpse into the musical world of Christmas through song while students of Cherise McInnis at Silhouette Dance Studio will weave a story through dance.
"It is a beautiful collaboration of two art forms," said Van Gameren, who is also working alongside Kelowna pianist Neta Petkau as accompanist and musical arranger of several of the songs.
The show will follow Santa and his elves on their magic sleigh to tell the story of each country as they travel through Russia, China, Israel, the Congo, Austria, France, England, Ireland, the North Pole, Mexico, and the U.S., ending their journey in Canada.
Adding an element of rhythmic excitement to the performance will be the six-piece drumming group, Jubulani, which will accompany the African spiritual, Noel.
"It is simply fantastic," said Van Gameren.
The show also features a haunting rendition of O Come Emmanuel, fused together with a violin solo by VCMS student and Our Kids Have Talent finalist Eli Garlick.
Garlick will also perform along with Van Gameren's version of a Celtic women's choir in a rousing rendition of Ding Dong Merrily on High while in Ireland.
"The finale is a surprise but will have the audience enraptured with more than 125 voices singing together in harmony," she said.
Limited tickets are available for the Dec. 13 performance of Christmas around the World, which starts at 7 p.m. Contact the Ticket Seller at 250-549-7469 or www.ticketseller.ca.
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UK's Persimmon warns on housing demand amid higher mortgage rates
Persimmon signage is seen at a building site in Durham, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues. Durham, Britain, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith
The second-largest homebuilder in the UK, Persimmon Plc, issued a similar warning to its larger competitor Barratt on Thursday, predicting a decline in house demand as a result of increasing mortgage rates and broader economic uncertainties.
A rise in mortgage rates and a decrease in loan availability have both hampered the UK property market recently. More pressure has been put on the economy due to worries about rate hikes in the near future and the effects of soaring inflation on households.
Last month, housing prices slid the most since the 2008 global financial crisis, while the number of mortgages approved by UK lenders in November fell to its lowest since mid-2020.
The FTSE 100 firm said market conditions worsened in the fourth quarter with weekly private net sales more than halving year on year to 0.30 units per outlet, and dropping to 0.19 in the last seven weeks.
"Higher mortgage rates, inflation, heightened market uncertainty and the end of reservations under (the) Help to Buy (scheme) in England had a sharp impact on the group's private sales rates in the fourth quarter and will have an adverse impact on the outlook for 2023," the company said in a full-year trading statement.
The government-backed incentive for first-time buyers was closed to new applications in England on Oct. 31.
The homebuilder provided limited detail on its 2023 outlook, adding that it was too early to predict a recovery in demand.
JP Morgan analysts in a note called the full-year trading update "mixed" and said booking levels were below their expectations.
Persimmon said current forward sales – deals signed between buyers and builders with a future date – stood at 1 billion pounds ($1.21 billion), down from 1.6 billion a year earlier.
Britain's largest housebuilder Barratt on Wednesday said it would build fewer homes this year than last, while its order book in the nearly four months to end-December slid about a third.
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Influence of Motivation on Turnover of Library Personnel in Some Public Universities in South West Nigeria
Oyetola Solomon Olusegun, Ladoke Akintola University of TechnologyFollow
Library Philosophy and Practice 2012
A characteristic of organisations in the 21st century is the continuous and rapid pace of change. Volatile free market economic environments, rapidly changing technologies, global competition, workforce diversity, and new organisational structures are some of the challenges an organisation faces. Organisations may differ in the priority they attach to the human resource component, in their efforts toward achieving high productivity and competitive advantage, yet they all recognize the value of a qualified, motivated, stable, and responsive team of employees (Huselid, 1995).
Retention and productivity levels of the existing workforce are an essential concern in human resource management. Employee turnover is one of the most studied topics in organisational psychology (Mitra, Jenkins and Gupta, 1992) and is of interest to other professionals, including personnel researchers, and managers of organisations (Mobley, Griffeth, Hand and Meglino, 1979).
According to Tella, Ayeni and Popoola (2007), the management of people at work is an integral part of the management process. To understand the critical importance of people in the organisation is to recognize that the human element and the organisation are synonymous. A well-managed organisation usually sees an average worker as the root source of quality and productivity gains. Such organisations do not look at capital investment, but at employees, as the fundamental source of improvement. An organisation is effective to the degree to which it achieves its goals. An effective organisation will make sure that there is a spirit of cooperation and sense of commitment and satisfaction within the sphere of its influence. In order to make employees satisfied and committed to their jobs in academic libraries, there is need for strong and effective motivation at the various levels, departments, and sections of the library.
Motivation is a basic psychological process. A recent data-based comprehensive analysis concluded that competitiveness problems appear to be largely motivational in nature (Mine, Ebrahimi, and Wachtel, 1995). Along with perception, personality, attitudes, and learning, motivation is a very important element of behaviour. Nevertheless, motivation is not the only explanation of behaviour. It interacts with and acts in conjunction with other cognitive processes. Motivating is the management process of influencing behaviour based on the knowledge of what make people tick (Luthans, 1998). Motivation and motivating both deals with the range of conscious human behaviour somewhere between two extremes: reflex actions such as a sneeze or flutter of the eyelids; and learned habits such as brushing one's teeth or handwriting style (Wallace and Szilag 1982: 53).
Luthans (1998) asserts that motivation is the process that arouses, energizes, directs, and sustains behaviour and performance. That is, it is the process of stimulating people to action and to achieve a desired task. One way of stimulating people is to employ effective motivation, which makes workers more satisfied with and committed to their jobs. Money is not the only motivator. There are other incentives which can also serve as motivators.
Motivation is something that can come and go in an instant. The workplace often can be a fun and enjoyable place, but other times it can be the pit of hell. Not only do most of us cope with stress, fatigue, mental and physical anguish, but we must also complete the mission that is set forth for us. Motivation is delivered in many different ways. Each person may be different, but sometimes we share the same types of motivation with others.
Along with perception, personality, attitudes, and learning, motivation is a very important part of understanding behaviour. Luthan (1998), asserts that motivation should not be thought of as the only explanation of behaviour, since it interacts with and acts in conjunction with other mediating processes and with the environment. Luthan stresses that, like the other cognitive process, motivation cannot be seen. All that can be seen is behaviour, and this should not be equated with causes of behaviour. While recognizing the central role of motivation, Evans (1998), states that many recent theories of organisational behaviour find it important for the field to re-emphasize behaviour. Definitions of motivation abound. One thing these definitions have in common is the inclusion of words such as "desire", "want", "wishes", "aim", "goals", "needs", and" incentives". Luthan (1998), defines motivation as "a process that starts with a physiological deficiency or need that activates a behaviour or a drive that is aimed at a goal incentive". Therefore, the key to understanding the process of motivation lies in the meaning of, and relationship among, needs, drives, and incentives. Relative to this, Minner, Ebrahimi, and Watchel, (1995) state that in a system sense, motivation consists of these three interacting and interdependent elements, i.e., needs, drives, and incentives.
A simple definition of motivation is the ability to change behaviour. It is a drive that compels one to act because human behaviour is directed toward some goals. Motivation is intrinsic (internal), it comes from within based on personal interests, desires, and need for fulfillment. However, extrinsic (external) factors such as rewards, praise, and promotions also influence motivation. As defined by Daft (1997), motivation refers to "the forces either within or external to a person that arouse enthusiasm and persistence to pursue a certain course of action".
People who are committed to achieving organisational objectives generally outperform those who are not committed. Those who are intrinsically rewarded by accomplishments in the workplace are satisfied with their jobs and are individuals with high self esteem. Therefore, an important part of management is to help make work satisfying and rewarding for employees and to keep employee motivation consistent with organisational objectives. With the diversity of contemporary workplaces, this is a complex task. Many factors, including the influences of different cultures, affect what people value and what is rewarding to them.
Motivation is the stimulus, incentive, or inducement to act or react in a certain way. Purposeful human behaviour is motivated behaviour, which means that either physiologic or social stimuli activate or motivate a person to do something.
According to Stephen (2000), motivation is the willingness to exert a persistent and high level of effort towards organisational goals, conditioned by the efforts' ability to satisfy some individual needs. The key elements in this definition are intensity of efforts, persistence, direction towards organisational goals and needs.
Decenzo (2001) stated that motivation is the result of the interaction between the individual and the situation. Certainly, individuals differ in the motivational drive, but an individual's motivation varies from situation to situation, from culture to culture. Robbins (2001) defined motivation as, the willingness to exert high levels of efforts to reach organisational goals, conditioned by effort's ability to satisfy some individual needs.
Motivation is the activation or energization of goal-oriented behaviour. Motivation is said to be intrinsic or extrinsic. The term is generally used for humans but, theoretically, it can also be used to describe the causes for animal behaviour as well. This study refers to human motivation. According to various theories, motivation may be rooted in the basic need to minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure, or it may include specific needs such as eating and resting, or a desired object, hobby, goal, state of being, ideal, or it may be attributed to less-apparent reasons such as altruism, selfishness, morality, or avoiding mortality. Conceptually, motivation should not be confused with either volition or optimism.
When management was first studied in a scientific way at the turn of the twentieth century, Frederick Winslow Taylor worked to improve productivity in labour situations. Taylor developed efficiency measures and incentive systems. When workers were paid more for meeting a standard higher than their normal production, productivity increased dramatically. Therefore, workers seemed to be economically motivated. At this time in history, social issues involved in human behaviour were not yet considered. A more humanistic approach soon developed that has been influencing management ever since.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Elton Mayo and other researchers from Harvard University conducted studies at a Western Electric plant in Hawthorne, Illinois, to measure productivity. They studied the effects of fatigue, layout, heating, and lighting on productivity. As might be expected when studying lighting, employee productivity levels increased as the illumination level was increased; however, the same effect was noted when the illumination level was decreased. The researchers concluded that the attention paid to the employees was more of a contributing factor to their productivity level than the environmental conditions. The fact that paying attention to workers could improve their behaviour was called the Hawthorne effect. As a result of this research, it was evident that employees should be treated in a human way. These findings started the human relations movement –a change in management thinking and practice that viewed increased worker productivity as grounded in satisfaction of employees' basic needs. Many years later, it was discovered that the workers in the Hawthorne experimental group had received an increase in income; therefore, money was probably a motivating factor, although it was not recognized as such at the time. (Daft, 1997).
Motivation theories have continued to evolve and have their roots in behavioural psychology. They provide a way to examine and understand human behaviour in a variety of situations. On - going changes in the workplace require that managers give continuous attention to those factors that influence worker behaviour and align them with organisational goals. No one theory is appropriate for all people and for all situations. Each individual has his or her own values and differing abilities. In business settings, managers apply motivation theories to influence employees, improve morale, and implement incentive and compensation plans.
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