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

namespace llvm_test.Parsing.Expressions.Logical
{
    public class EqualToExpression : BinaryInfixExpression
    {
        public EqualToExpression(Expression left, Expression right) : base(left, right) { }

        public override String print(int indentation = 0)
        {
            StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
            b.Append('\t', indentation);
            b.AppendLine("(Equal To Comparison Expression)");
            b.Append(base.print(indentation));

            return b.ToString();
        }
    }
}


Areva is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power and renewable energy headquartered in Paris La Défense. Areva is majority owned by the French state, through French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (54.37%), Banque publique d'investissement (3.32%), and Agence des participations de l'État (28.83%). Moreover, Électricité de France which French government had a majority ownership, owned 2.24%; Kuwait Investment Authority owned 4.82% as the second largest shareholders after the French state.
In 2017 the majority of its reactor business will be sold to Électricité de France.


Virtues and Vices are individual human character traits – why bother with them when dealing with states? Because states are created and composed by humans – inherently fallible and susceptible to greed, hatred, and falsehood, and at the same time striving for peace, love and justice. States are created to serve human purpose, whether individual or communal purpose. Their structures reflect the character, thoughts and beliefs of their creators towards the outside, the international, and the inside, its citizen.
Humanitarian aid is but one example that combines these basic human traits. Different theories of international relations highlight different human motivations that manifest themselves in the state: Realists argue for national interest in humanitarian projects; cosmopolitans argue for charity as motivational drive. Both are right, as both motivations are present in the human condition that combines them in the soul of humanity. And, also, the state reflects this human condition through its leaders, institutions and international ambitions.
But what can one learn from understanding the human condition in such a bipolar way of virtues and vices? Virtue ethics aims to help the bearer of virtues and vices to master vices through virtues. Its tool is phronesis, practical wisdom; its goal is eudaimonia - a state of harmony within oneself and within the community (polis). Phronesis might hold the key to international peace. But how to achieve phronesis in international law and politics is still unclear.


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var log4js = require('log4js');
log4js.configure({
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      level: 'ALL',
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      backups: 10
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var typesOfLogging = ['info', 'warn', 'error', 'fatal', 'trace', 'debug'];

function log(logger, level, param1, param2) {
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    typesOfLogging.forEach(function (logType) {
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    return createdLogger;
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Wroclaw Medical University
Dental and Medical Problems
Dent. Med. Probl.
Index Copernicus (ICV 2018) – 113.05
MNiSW – 20
Average rejection rate – 62.63%
Periodicity – quarterly
Preparing manuscript
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Journal Dental and Medical Problems has adopted and applies the rules of publication ethics in accordance with COPE guidelines (Committee on Publication Ethics).
Procedures securing the authenticity of publications
The Editors actively combat all forms of scientific misconduct and the lack of respect for good manners in science (www.publicationethics.org). An example of such practice is a situation when the Author's contribution was minimal or non-existent but he or she is still listed as the co-author (guest authorship) or if he or she contributed significantly but without disclosing their involvement (ghostwriting). To combat such practices the Editors have taken the following measures:
all co-authors should provide a written statement about the originality of the manuscript;
all co-authors should disclose their contribution to the manuscript;
the originality of the manuscript is assessed by two (2) expert reviewers, the theme editor, a language editor (including a native speaker), and the editor-in-chief;
the manuscript is verified by a web-based plagiarism program so as to detect any form of scientific misconduct.
The Autor(s) are also required to disclose the sources of the funding of the study, and the input of groups and other subjects (financial disclosure). In case of suspected plagiarism or other scientific misconduct, the Editors ask the first or the last Author of the manuscript for clarifications, at the same time putting the preparation of the manuscript on hold. The Editors decide the final fate of the manuscript. The Editors may notify the employer of the first or the last Author if they suspect committing scientific misconduct, or they may refer the matter for further clarification directly to the appropriate ethics committee. If someone outside the editorial team raised the suspicion of scientific misconduct, that person shall be notified of the action taken. The fact that the manuscript has been published does not mean that plagiarism or scientific misconduct have not been committed.
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Florida Manhattan Southeast Southern New England American New England Soup North Carolina Rhode Island Clams Shellfish Comfort Food Chowder
Your Ultimate Guide to East Coast Clam Chowders
BySusannah Chen
October 18, 2018 Edit
There's no better antidote to this season's cold and wet weather than clam chowder. After all, what could be more uplifting on a blustery fall or winter day than slurping down the essence of the summer shore? But ask cooks up and down the East Coast to distill the essence of the ocean to one steaming bowl of seafood soup, and you'll get half a dozen different chowders (at least).
So, which style's best? We've included a recipe for each, so you can answer that divisive question for yourself.
Scottish-Style Clam Chowder
The Scottish stew Cullen skink is believed to have been a predecessor to clam chowder. Like clam chowder, it calls for onions, potatoes, milk, and herbs; unlike clam chowder, finnan haddie (cold-smoked haddock) is the star rather than clams. Can't reconcile the two? Try this Scottish-Boston hybrid that calls for both. Get the recipe.
Sometimes referred to as Boston clam chowder, New England clam chowder is the archetypal seafood chowder most Americans have come to know: a thick, chunky, cream- or milk-based chowder filled with potatoes, bacon, onions, and clams. It's usually served with hexagonal-shaped oyster crackers, which are sometimes even used as a thickener in lieu of flour. Get our New England Clam Chowder recipe.
Maine Clam Chowder
The ingredient list for Maine-style clam chowder is sparse, with the goal of highlighting fresh shellfish: clams, potatoes, salt pork, onions, milk or cream, and pepper. You'll rarely see the addition of herbs or thickeners. Get the recipe.
Manhattan clam chowder, which favors tomatoes instead of the addition of milk or cream, is a little more piquant, not quite as rich, and far more divisive than its New England counterpart. James Beard famously declared, "That rather horrendous soup called Manhattan clam chowder … resembles a vegetable soup that accidentally had some clams dumped into it." Get the recipe.
Rhode Island Clam Chowder
Leite's Culinaria
Arguably the lightest of all, Rhode Island clam chowder (also known as South County–style clam chowder) has a base of clear broth and is flavored by the largest of clams, quahogs. Get the recipe.
Rhode Island Red Chowder
Five Minutes to Myself
Certain areas of Rhode Island express their love of seafood with a tomato-based chowder instead. This red chowder, sometimes known as Rocky Point or Crescent Park chowder, is not unlike Manhattan clam chowder, except don't expect chunks of tomato. Rocky Point chowder is almost always served alongside fried clam cakes, another Rhode Island standby. Get the recipe.
Hatteras Clam Chowder
Hélène Dujardin/Leite's Culinaria
Move farther south and you'll continue to discover distinctive chowders. The island of Hatteras in North Carolina's Outer Banks region is marked by a chowder made with clear broth, lots of cracked pepper, and a slice of white bread at the bottom to thicken the soup. Get the recipe.
Minorcan Clam Chowder
The spiciest of the bunch, Minorcan clam chowder is found near St. Augustine and the towns in the northeast corner of Florida. A byproduct of Minorcan immigration to Florida, the chowder is made with a base broth that's flavored with tomatoes as well as the datil, a fruity, habanero-like pepper native to the West Indies and, in America, unique to St. Augustine. Get the recipe.
Did we leave out your favorite style of clam chowder? Let us know more about it in the comments below.
Related Video: How to Make Clam Chowder Bites
Header image courtesy of Hélène Dujardin/Leite's Culinaria.


HOLLYWOOD, CA — KLR Group driver Erica Enders' GK Motorsports team repeated as the Full Throttle Hard-Working Crew Award winners for the ultra-competitive Pro Stock class, earning the honor at the NHRA Awards Ceremony Monday night at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center.
Enders' team was nominated for its performance in guiding her to an historic victory July 1 in Joliet, Ill. Enders became the first woman to won a Pro Stock race when he beat Greg Anderson in the final of the Route 66 Raceway.
ESPN's crew determines the Hard-Working Crew for each national event. After the late October race in Las Vegas, four teams from each of the four professional categories were announced as finalists for the award, and fans voted on the winner.
Led by sponsor Gaston Kearby and team owner Victor Cagnazzi, the GK Motorsports team is comprised of crew chiefs Tommy Utt and Dave Connolly and crew members, Todd Bevis, Johnny Utt, Rich Saulino, Wayne "Turbo" Hasenmayer and Dan Duncan.
The team received a $15,000 check Monday night for winning the award.
Enders finished her best season as a pro on Sunday when she ended up fourth in the Pro Stock points standings. She won four times, including back-to-back wins at Seattle and Brainerd, reached the final round seven times and won two No. 1 qualifiers.


Successful SEOThe process of creating a successful search engine optimization campaign, can be compared to the construction of a new building - without a solid foundation, (SEO friendly website design), the building, (your website) won't be sturdy or safe to occupy. Ultimately, the risk of the building collapsing (your website SEO campaign failing) significantly increases because of a poorly constructed foundation.
The process of creating a successful search engine optimization campaign can be compared to the construction of a new building - without a solid foundation (SEO friendly website design), the building (your website) won't be sturdy or safe to occupy. Ultimately, the risk of the building collapsing (your website SEO campaign failing) significantly increases because of a poorly constructed foundation.
Note: For the sake of sounding redundant and unoriginal, we have omitted the inclusion of "meta" tags (except for the tag) from our list, since everyone and their mother talks about the importance of meta tags.
* researched keywords in headings , , etc.
All of that juicy textual content that you want people to find and eventually read is worthless to Search Engine Spiders. When the spiders crawl your website, any Flash files that the spiders stumble upon will be ignored - including all of the content inside. If your entire website is built using Flash, then you're committing what is commonly referred to as "SEO suicide". Using Flash (especially for your entire website) is the worst thing that you can do and should be avoided at all costs.
"But I Absolutely Need Flash"
There is a great deal of web technology available that allows you to accomplish a lot of what you may need done in Flash; however, if you absolutely must use Flash, make sure to include an alternative textual description for your Flash file. Do not, under any circumstances, create an entire website using Flash. The only way to avoid destroying your website's SEO campaign when creating an entire website using Flash is to include, inside of your website, a link to view the website in Flash. This link should, again, be included inside of your website and not as an option to "View site in Flash" on the index page of your website. If you do this, then be sure that all of the content included inside of the Flash website is included in your regular XHTML website.
Trying to maintain a Flash website and a regular website is going to be a lot more work in comparison to only having to maintain a regular website using XHTML. However, if you're going to go down this road, then it is absolutely imperative that you create a separate website with content outside of Flash if you want people to be able to locate your website in the search engine results pages (SERPs).
This topic is debatable. Some people may disagree with us completely and instead advise you to avoid producing anything in Flash - especially an entire website. Although we advise against creating an entire website in Flash, if you must do so, then using this solution that we have provided is required if you want to have a SEO friendly website design and content that is indexable by the Search Engine Spiders.
"Sorry! You need a frames-browser to view this site."
If you can't already tell, using frames can be just as bad as building a website using Flash. None of the content inside of your frames is indexable by the Search Engine Spiders - all they see is that error message. Unless you're optimizing your website design for "Sorry! You need a frames-browser to view this site." you will not rank well in search engines that do not support frames.
"But I Absolutely Need Frames"
Although we believe that, trying to justify the usage of frames for your website design is even more difficult than trying to justify the usage of Flash, if you absolutely must use frames, then use the tag. Using the tag is a simple solution, that can be used so that the search engine spiders can index at least some of your content.


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Q: how to prevent re-installing Moxa npreal2 (real TTY driver) driver after kernel update on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS I am on Ubuntu (20.04.2 LTS) user and I am using the Moxa npreal2 drivers (real TTY driver) to connect to my serial device server. I have the problem with v5.0 and 5.1.
The issue is that every time I do a kernel upgrade (which happens around once a month) drivers stop working and I need to do a uninstall and then reinstall of the driver (and after that mapping the tty ports).
This although is quite simple is annoying, it seems like when you install the driver it actually attaches to the kernel and when the kernel is upgraded it won't transfer driver to it and you have to do it for it.
Is this something that can be prevented somehow? Is anyone with these drivers having the same issues?

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SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR geek ON THESAURUS.COM
a digital-technology expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often used disparagingly by others).
a person who has excessive enthusiasm for and some expertise about a specialized subject or activity: a foreign-film geek.
a peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, or socially awkward.
a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.
to be overexcited about a specialized subject or activity, or to talk about it with excessive enthusiasm (usually followed by out): I could geek out about sci-fi for hours.
Dork, Dweeb, Nerd, And Geek: Which One Are You?These names used to be roughly interchangeable when distinguishing the social outcasts from the in-crowd in school. Yet, those social rejects were destined to rule the world in the form of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, et al. "The geek shall inherit the earth," indeed. Oh yeah, and billions of dollars. There's a lot of overlap in meanings. Yet, some of these terms have …
TV Shows And Songs That Improved Our VocabularyWhile some TV shows might not make us smarter (that's right reality TV, we're talking to you), there are others (and popular songs, too) that help enhance our language skills. We take a look at ten songs and shows that help improve our vocabulary.
weirdo, freak, nerd, buffoon, guru, goon, curiosity, dolt, techie, dork
gee-whiz, geebag, geebung, geechee, geegaw, geek, geekspeak, geeky, geelbek, geelong, geelvink bay
Origin of geek
1915- 20; probably variant of geck (mainly Scots) fool < Dutch or Low German gek
Related formsgeek·y, adjective
Word story
Geek and nerd : are they marginalized rejects or cool pop culture specialists? It depends on the era in which these slang labels were applied.
In the first half of the 20th century, geek was the word for a circus sideshow performer who bit the heads off small live animals. Geeks were meant to put on horrifying spectacles for the normal people in the audience. Through what linguists call "semantic drift" (gradual change in meaning), a slang use of geek emerged in the popular culture of the 1980s to designate a newly marginalized group: smart and tech-savvy—but socially awkward—young enthusiasts of emerging computer technologies.
The term nerd in the second half of the 20th century similarly described an unpopular, overly intellectual young person who was interested in science or math. The stereotypical high school or college nerd was picked on by the stereotypical jock and never stood a chance with the pretty, popular girl. Nerds were not considered cool.
But in the 21st century, both words evolved to become nearly synonymous, and labels no longer to be ashamed of. Twenty-first century geeks and nerds are smart people of all ages (and genders) who are well-informed and care passionately about something. Though often an expert in technology, science, or math, a nerd or geek can be a specialist or fan of almost any subculture imaginable: a French-cuisine geek or a Jane Austen nerd .
Today these labels are not predominantly used to stigmatize. What changed? First, mainstream pop culture embraced science fiction toward the end of the 20th century. Sci-fi was no longer a private niche of films and comic books, known only to fans of the genre. Films like 2001: A Space Odyssey , Alien , and Star Wars became common cultural touchstones. Also, computer technology infiltrated almost every aspect of 21st-century life. The specialists in that technology, once belittled for their interests, became valued and pivotal members of society. Further, the Internet has helped people to find like-minded peers who share otherwise specialized and possibly isolating interests, connecting and creating thriving communities.
Geek and nerd , terms with a painful and exclusionary history, are not always appropriate labels to force on someone else. However, they are increasingly used by people to refer to themselves and others in reappropriated and validating ways. When used to mean specialist or enthusiast, geek and nerd need not be considered offensive labels at all.
Examples from the Web for geek
Every geek in the Free Culture movement had the idea for Kickstarter years before Kickstarter actually existed.
Death of the Author by Viral Infection: In Defense of Taylor Swift, Digital Doomsayer|Arthur Chu|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And Nanjiani, the side-burned and suave 36-year-old, is a geek icon.
Silicon Valley's Kumail Nanjiani and the Most High-Brow Dick Joke Ever|Sujay Kumar|June 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eventually, Cardonna decided to launch Geek Therapy, a website about how geek culture is "saving the world."
The Rise of Superhero Therapy: Comic Books as Psychological Treatment|Alex Suskind|February 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With his slight frame and tasteful Jew-fro, Seth was the anti-heartthrob who launched a nationwide trend of "geek chic."
From 'Mean Girls' to 'Clueless': Pop Culture's Best Back-to-School-Lessons|Amy Zimmerman|October 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I thought it was a bit boring and a bit slow, and I guess I thought he was a bit of a geek for liking it.
Alice Eve, the Beautiful New Trekkie, Talks 'Star Trek Into Darkness'|Marlow Stern|May 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When a geek prince hired out as a laborer for a year on Niflheim, he did so for only one purpose—to learn Terran technologies.
Uller Uprising|Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
In either case, it'll be a long step toward getting rid of all these geek despots.
Tell him there's a geek mob, or possibly Firkked's regulars, on the main highway from Skilk, two miles east of the Reservation.
"I heard what happened, how they found him, and about that geek chamber-valet being arrested," von Schlichten said.
It was a geek accent, and it made you sound like a smart-ass instead of a sharp operator.
Makers|Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for geek
/ (ɡiːk) /
noun slang
a person who is preoccupied with or very knowledgeable about computing
a boring and unattractive social misfit
a degenerate
Derived Formsgeeky, adjective
Word Origin for geek
C19: probably variant of Scottish geck fool, from Middle Low German geck
Word Origin and History for geek
"sideshow freak," 1916, U.S. carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck "a fool, dupe, simpleton" (1510s), apparently from Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat." The modern form and the popular use with reference to circus sideshow "wild men" is from 1946, in William Lindsay Gresham's novel "Nightmare Alley" (made into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power).
"An ordinary geek doesn't actually eat snakes, just bites off chunks of 'em, chicken heads and rats." [Arthur H. Lewis, "Carnival," 1970]
By c.1983, used in teenager slang in reference to peers who lacked social graces but were obsessed with new technology and computers (e.g. the Anthony Michael Hall character in 1984's "Sixteen Candles").
geek out vi. To temporarily enter techno-nerd mode while in a non-hackish context, for example at parties held near computer equipment. [Eric S. Raymond, "The New Hacker's Dictionary," 1996]


On the way to Alicante we tried to visit Marina de las Dunas, but the depth in the entrance was only 2.5m, so we headed on to Santa Pola to check out the harbours there.
After 3738 nautical miles (almost 7000km), we have arrived at our destination, the Real Club de Regatas Alicante, which will be our base for the next years!
Lazy sailing towards Torrevieja, but in the end the we had to start the engine in order to reach the SkipperTreff.
On the way we had some dolphins visiting us - always a joy to see these animals!
We moored in La Marina Internacional, which in our opinion was swelling a lot - even in a moderate breeze. We also visited the Real Club Nautico, not much better in the SW breeze.
For about a week we have been sailing along an almost unspoiled coastline and it is quite a change to go around Cabo de Palos to La Manga and Costa Blanca.
We anchored up in Caleta de Estacio just outside the lifting bridge in the channel to Mar Menor, to avoid being dependent on the bridge opening times.
The anchorage is shallow in parts and not up to date on our charts, but the sheet pile walls gives a nice protection against swelling.
A rocky fox was guarding the anchorage.
Already before passing into the Mediterranean, we started seeing flying fish - but they are difficult to capture with the camera! Today however - shooting from the hips - we managed!
Puerto Genoves was full of day trippers and was quite busy with jet-skis, water-skiers and speedboats doing slalom among the anchored boats.
At night the wind turned and the swelling forced us to move to the north-eastern part of the bay.
The scenery in this Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park is undisturbed and offers nice walks and snorkelling around the edge of the bay was really nice.
Motored the whole trip as there were no wind and it was incredibly warm.
At Real Club Nautico de Adra, the harbour was full, while public harbour was next to empty. Good thing we phoned up front to reserve place. Harbour fee was around 25€, with good WI-FI, but electricity was not included. There were noise from restaurant, which was very busy and with terrace facing the quays and from the fishing boats as they left in the middle of the night. The public harbour (www.eppa.es) might have bee a better choice, even if harbour office, showers and toilets were not near by.
Blue morning over Club Nautico de Adra.
Short and tall waves and a lot of rolling today again, but at least a good sailing wind!
A flamingo got stuck in the harbour during the gale.
We wanted to go to public harbour, could not find it, ended up at the Club Nautico. Public harbour is actually the quay to the east. Later Orion arrived there to get the jib down and to spend the night.
During night a ferry arrived, which was quite noisy. Motor running until we left next morning.
Official fee was well above 50€, instead of the 23, which was supposed to be the costs of the community harbour and included everything.
"Orion" from Jersey with a stuck flying jib!
Nice sailing today, but with a lot of rolling in the waves. The breakwater at Caleta de Velez is not breaking the waves, as it has a flat wall, the waves are reflected back and makes some funny standing waves with the SW wind.
Sailing in the Mediterranean - Click on image to see the video clip!
Arrived with very strong wind. None of the sailor of the harbours helped with landing. The guy in the boat next to us, continued undisturbed his siesta. Landed with the help of one of the three harbour masters. When checking in, we got the last access card and they said, that now the harbour is full.
Only 2 free places left in harbour, plus the waiting pontoon. First the places seemed to small, but then we fit in without problems. Despite the restaurants on the quay, it was quiet during night.
Fee 26.60 €, included everything, ok WI-FI.
Many restaurants with with different happy hours which covers 15:00-18:30, one pint for 1€!
Warm, lazy dead run with only the genoa up. Spotted a nice beach before Estepona and anchored up in front of a beach.
We took the dogs to the beach and our little blind dog was attacked by two dogs running loose, the owner's explanation was that the beach is free for everybody!
The forecast was 10kts wind, it turned out as 24kts. Although it came from land and the shore was only 100m away, we were rolling heavily the whole night! Not much sleep when you have to hold on to your bed!


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Devrim (dt.: Revolution) war das erste Automobil, das in der Türkei entworfen und gefertigt wurde.

Seit 1960 gab es Planungen für eine einheimische türkische Automobilproduktion. 1961 veranlasste Präsident Cemal Gürsel, dass 24 Ingenieure aus verschiedenen Fabriken für das Projekt abgezogen wurden, um ein türkisches Auto zu entwickeln und zu produzieren. Es sollte am Tag der Republik am 29. Oktober 1961 der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert werden.

Nach viereinhalb Monaten waren vier Prototypen des Fahrzeugs fertiggestellt, eines in schwarzer Farbe und drei cremefarbene. Das Modell wurde Devrim genannt – das türkische Wort für "Revolution".

Drei der Fahrzeuge wurden zum Tag der Republik per Eisenbahn nach Ankara transportiert, dabei wurde das schwarze Modell noch während der Fahrt lackiert. Aus Sicherheitsgründen waren die Autos nur mit einem Minimum an Kraftstoff zum Rangieren befüllt. Während der Festlichkeiten sollte Präsident Gürsel eine Ehrenrunde um das Parlamentsgebäude mit dem schwarzen Fahrzeug drehen, allerdings blieb es bereits nach rund 100 Metern mit leerem Tank stehen. Gürsel wechselte in einen der cremefarbenen Devrims und fuhr bis zum Anıtkabir-Mausoleum.

Aufgrund dieser Ereignisse während der Vorführung war der Devrim über Jahre hinweg Anlass für Witze und Spott. Die Presse schrieb: "Der Devrim fuhr 100 Meter und stoppte."

Der Devrim wurde nie in Serie produziert, unter anderem weil für die handgefertigten Prototypen kaum Dokumente oder technische Zeichnungen vorlagen. Zudem gab es keine funktionierende Zuliefererindustrie. Ein weiterer Grund war die mangelnde Nachfrage; in dieser Zeit waren Autos für die breite Masse potentieller privater Käufer noch nicht erschwinglich.

Drei der Prototypen wurden zerstört; der einzig verbliebene wird in Eskişehir im Unternehmen Tülomsaş aufbewahrt, wo er damals gebaut worden war.

2008 wurde ein Kinofilm über die Entstehung des Devrim gedreht.

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V603.02 VCSU Equal Opportunity Employment Plan
Modified on: Fri, Jan 11, 2019 2:39 PM
Valley City State University is fully committed to equal opportunity in employment decisions and educational programs and activities, in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws, for all individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age or Vietnam-era veteran's status.
More specifically, the University abides by the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as the implementing regulations of the Department of Education (34 CFR Parts 100, 106, and 104 respectively), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and North Dakota Human Rights Act of 1983.
Inquiries concerning compliance may be directed to the VCSU Director for Human Resources/Deputy Title IX Coordinator, (101 College St SW, McFarland 211, Valley City ND 58072; 701-845-7424), Vice President for Student Affairs/Title IX Coordinator (101 College St SW, McFarland 209, Valley City ND 58072; 701-845-7300), or to the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, 10220 N. Executive Hills Blvd., 8th Floor, 07-6010, Kansas City, MO 64153-1367.
The following policy will be followed in making any appointment to a payroll position for which the individual will receive fringe benefits.
When a position vacancy occurs and there is a pool of regular employees appropriately qualified for transfer or promotion (including former employees covered by the Reduction in Force policy) a supervisor, in consultation with the appropriate Vice President and Director of Human Resources, may choose to advertise a vacant position internally for a minimum of five working days, externally, or internally and externally (simultaneously). With the exception of length of posting time, procedures will be the same as for external searches. Employees who have not completed a six-month probationary review may apply as external applicants, and those who have completed a six-month probationary review may apply as internal applicants.
Although the department heads are encouraged to only announce any position throughout the University that offers an important promotional opportunity to employees in other departments, the formal position announcement procedures shall be optional in the following cases:
Time slip employment, which is not identified as a payroll budget appointment.
The transfer or promotion of an employee within a department or office provided that the employee is fully qualified for the new position and was originally hired through a competitive search.
The transfer of a faculty member from special appointment status to a probationary appointment provided that he or she had secured the special appointment on a competitive basis.
A reassignment of duties on a part-time basis, including any appropriate change in title, which does not result in more than a 10% salary increase, a change of more than 50% of the original duties, or the creation of a position vacancy.
The appointment of an employee to fill a vacant administrative position on an acting basis, normally for a period not to exceed one year, while a search is being conducted for a permanent appointee.
When there is a concurrence by the hiring department, reassignment due to:
An injury resulting in worker's compensation award and subsequent retraining, or
Reduction-in-force.
Recruitment for all full-time, benefited administrative/managerial, professional, technical and paraprofessional, office support, crafts/trades, and services classified staff positions (1000, and 3000-7000 band job categories) shall include:
Posting internally for the length of a five working days, and internally/externally for the length of a minimum of ten working days.
The use of a search committee of at least three people to be appointed by the Search Committee Chair at the same time as the request to recruit to fill a position opening. Search Committee Chairs are urged to consider the importance of diversity when making appointments to the search committee.
The search committee shall be involved in recruiting, screening and interviewing applicants,
The search committee is encouraged to solicit and include applicants from under represented and protected groups.
Selection from the group of finalists to fill the position is the responsibility of the Search Committee and Search Committee Chair.
Internal candidates are not guaranteed a interview.
The Director of Human Resources, depending on the type of position, shall be considered an ex-officio member of each search committee and will be available to assist the committee in fulfilling its responsibilities.
Recruitment for all full-time, benefited academic classified staff positions (2000 band job categories) shall include:
Posting internally for the length of a minimum of five working days, and internally/externally for the length of a minimum of twenty working days.
The Director of Human Resources and Vice President of Academic Affairs, depending on the type of position, shall be considered an ex-officio member of each search committee and will be available to assist the committee in fulfilling its responsibilities.
Appointment and search proceedings will follow V601.04 & V601.05, Selection and Appointment Procedures for Full-Time Tenure Track Positions and Selection and Appointment Procedures for Temporary and Part-Time Faculty (respectively)
With prior approval, the temporary appointment of a person to a grant-funded position when the individual has been instrumental in the development of the project, or is identified by name in the proposal as having unique expertise necessary to the project. This temporary appointment may not be continued beyond the period of the grant project, and the individual may not be transferred to any other University appointment without an appropriate search.
Exceptions to this policy may be authorized by the President in consultation with the Director of Human Resources. The request for an exception will be made by the appropriate vice president after consultation with the University's Director of Human Resources and the director of the department involved.
Grievances may be made by any employee of the University.
Sponsored by: Director of Human Resources
Reviewed: Winter, 1996
Revised: November 2018


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The low-key, highly-talented jewelry designer IOANNA SOUFLIA, strikes a good balance between minimalism and maximalism, femininity and masculinity with her elaborate creations. Here, she reveals to MIKAELA THEOFILOU the secrets behind the confident dual nature of her jewelry.
She left Law School to study jewelry design at St. Martins. Since then, the low-key designer Ioanna Souflia has proven that she loves contrasts in both her life and her art. The most charming, creative and artistic contrasts. Like when she decides to tie different materials by combining the "hard" marble from Thassos, Tinos or Italy – which she sculpts herself – with more "trusted" materials, highlighting the beauty of diversity in her jewelry. She made her debut at London Fashion Week in 2014, and in 2015 she launched her first fine jewelry collection, Symbiosis – a black and white "game" of volumes and contrasts starring the white marble of Thassos, the shiny black gold, and black diamonds. In London, she won second place at the British ArtMedal Society awards and in the competition held at Central Saint Martins by a well-known jewelry brand. Her collaboration with fashion designer Jean-Pierre Braganza at London Fashion Week and her participation in an exhibition in London's Goldsmiths Hall, where she was chosen among young designers from the United Kingdom, are just a few of the important moments from her career. A more "gentle" series followed, called "Adoucissement", with smaller volumes and softer colors where she used pink gold and blue-gray Bardiglio Imperiale marble.
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-How did you decide to integrate a material as stiff as marble as the protagonist of your collections?
Starting with my first collection, Symbiosis, I wanted to explore the harmonious coexistence of contrasting elements and highlight the beauty of diversity. Far from the classic image of fine jewelry and framed with gold and diamonds, marble was the right material to highlight the uniqueness of the antithesis. Its processing requires accuracy, controlled movements, strength to use the tools that shape it, and obviously time and patience.
-Where do you draw your inspiration from?
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-What has been the greatest challenge in your career to this day?
The creation of jewelry, which were later recognized, that don't belong clearly under any of the usual jewelry categories: fine jewelry/fashion, jewelry/contemporary jewelry.
-You have already won a place among the most important international jewelry designers. Where would you like to be 10 years from now?
Full of professional achievements and successes with the same appetite for my work and the same authenticity I have today.
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Mike Sexton: Poker's Premier Ambassador
September 14, 2021 game by Alicia Woods
A gentleman, a consummate professional, and a star in his own right, Mike Sexton is one of the poker industry's finest ambassadors. Many years prior to the success of the World Poker Tour, Sexton was talking about corporate America's endorsement and sponsorship of poker tournaments to anyone who would listen. He was talking about bringing poker into mainstream America and making it a hobby to be enjoyed by everyone. The guy has always been way ahead of his time. He is an ideas man, a hard worker, and passionate about what he does. One need only listen to him announce on World Poker Tour telecasts to instantly know the guy loves his job — and I do mean love with a capital L. He explained: "I love the game of poker; I love watching poker, playing poker, and talking about poker."
Producer Richard Steiner (Topdog, The Producers, The Secret Garden, Hairspray, Big River, Little Shop of Horrors, and so on) told Steve Lipscomb and Mike that he was astounded that Mike is so good, adding that Mike's enthusiasm and joy come across extraordinarily well on screen. Steiner certainly knows about what he speaks. Not only does he know TV, he knows poker as well, having won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1992.
One Class Act
The amazing thing about Mike is that with-out any broadcast training whatsoever, he is a natural. His ability to discuss and explain poker in a way that anyone can understand is unrivaled. In that slow Southern drawl, he mesmerizes his fans with poker information spooned out in a palatable, interesting, and entertaining fashion.
Mike is simply a winner at life. He works hard, plays hard, and has a lot of fun at it. As a poker ambassador, he is generous with his time. All around the world, he runs into poker enthusiasts and always makes time to sign an autograph, pose for a picture with a fan, or shake someone's hand. He is one class act, deserving every bit of fame and fortune that have come his way.
It Wasn't Always Easy
Mike has surely paid his dues. His success was not just handed to him. As is the case with all of us, one experience built on another to bring him to this time and place in his life.
Mike laughed as he explained that in the late '60s, he thought he was a good poker online player. Was that before or after he lost his automobile in a poker game? It was a 1957 Plymouth. To add insult to injury, after the poker game, he got a lift home in his own automobile — make that his former automobile!
Some people seem to think that Mike is just lucky to be in the position he is in. He thinks that's kind of funny, because he has paid his dues. He credits his start with the exposure he received while being a Card Player columnist.
Because of that exposure, he had the contacts to launch a dream of his, poker's Tournament of Champions. Steve Lipscomb, producer of the WPT, filmed Mike as he announced the TOC and thought he was the best announcer he had ever heard; two years later, Steve asked Mike to host the World Poker Tour.
Because of Mike's continued exposure, PartyPoker.com offered him a job as their host, consultant, and domain expert, long before the site opened. He took the job and spent seven months of the next two years in India (where the software development team was located) and the Dominican Republic (where customer support was located) to serve as their domain expert, and hasn't looked back.
Mike describes his success as "a domino effect. Everything happened in sequence and for a reason. It was certainly not an overnight fluke. Working for Card Player gave me exposure and then one thing led to another. All the vision and hard work paid off."
Mike Sexton Fact Sheet
Mike is a multifaceted individual, with many credits to his name:
He attended Ohio State University on a gymnastics scholarship (and won the high score award every year).
He joined the Army in 1970, serving as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.
He taught ballroom dancing for years.
He was inducted into the North Carolina (Fayetteville) Shag Hall of Fame (a type of swing dancing) in 2000; he is a fabulous swing dancer.
One of his greatest joys was coaching Little League baseball. He said, "I've never enjoyed doing anything more."
He is writing a book for the WPT called Shuffle Up and Deal, which is aimed at bringing new players into poker.
He is making a poker DVD for PartyPoker.com that will be available exclusively for PartyPoker.com members.
Although he looks like a kid, he was born in 1947.
He was a bridge instructor.
He was the founder of the Tournament of Champions of Poker.
He gave Ben Affleck his nickname "Boston Ben."
He is the proud owner of a 1989 WSOP bracelet in stud eight-or-better, he won the inaugural World Poker Finals (Foxwoods) in 1992, and he captured the title of European Poker Champion in 2000 by winning the Euro Finals of Poker in Paris.
He has cashed in the WSOP more than 40 times.
He is one generous and amazing human being, and is liked and admired by all who know him.
Vince Van Patten's Home Game
Mike and co-host Vince Van Patten are having a blast on the World Poker Tour set. Like favorite cousins, they chat away endlessly; one begins naturally where the other left off. They are in perfect sync, neither interrupting nor contradicting one another. Vince says they both love the game of poker with all of its intricacies, and they have a healthy respect for one another's abilities. However, get the two of them in a poker game, and it's a far different ballgame.
Vince explained that he and Mike have a great time on the set, but get them in a poker game and they go after one another "in the friendliest way possible." Vince hosts a competitive weekly home game. Mike was quick to explain: "Many poker players seem to think the great players are all in Vegas, but there are many very good poker players who don't frequent the Vegas games at all. Take Vince, for example; he is often the guy with all of the money at the end of our poker game!"
One of the home game attendees tells a very cute story about Mike. As the story goes, Mike hadn't been to the game in about a month because of his hectic travel schedule. Finally, he showed up, sat down, and in that slow Southern drawl, sighed: "Ahhhhh, I missed you guys. It's better to play poker and lose than not to play at all." The gang busted up all night long over that telling remark. Mike loves his poker!
Ben Affleck: California State Poker "Chumpion"
Another regular in Vince's game is Ben Affleck. Mike described his first meeting with Ben: "Ben played in the championship event at The Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker in the WPT's first season. I walked up to him to introduce myself, wish him luck, and thank him for playing with us on the World Poker Tour. Just as I said, 'Hi, Ben, I'm Mike Sexton,' he interrupted me and said, 'I know who you are, Mike. I watch the World Poker Tour every week.' I thought that was very cool."
Not only does Ben love poker, he likes poker nicknames. So, during the WPT's Hollywood Home Game, in which Ben played, Mike and Vince dubbed him "Boston Ben."
The home game group was very proud of "Boston Ben" when he played in the Commerce Casino's California State Poker Championship recently and won it, pocketing $356,400. The next evening was the night of the home game, and they all thought Ben wouldn't show up. Not only did he show up, he was the first one there! He had the trophy in hand and the prize money in a paper bag. Proud as a peacock, he plopped the trophy down in the middle of the table for all to see, saying: "Boys, you're looking at the California State Poker Champion."
After the fanfare and congratulatory remarks were over, it was time to get down to the serious business of playing poker. Mike described it as one of the most enjoyable evenings he's had in a long, long time, as he and everyone laughed their heads off. Every time poor "Boston Ben" lost a hand, he got the good-natured ribbing of a lifetime, with comments such as, "I'll be taking that trophy home tonight," or, "You'd better stick to playing with those tournament players," or, "You may be the California State Champion, but you're just a chumpion here." Mike described the evening as "one of those nights you put in a frame and hang on the wall."
James Woods' Confession
One of the home game participants is James ("Jimmy") Woods, MIT grad and actor extraordinaire. He sounded like an excited little kid when he told his favorite Mike Sexton story. At the time, Jimmy was a fairly new player, and being the brainy type, he was trying to absorb everything he could about the game of poker. He noticed that Mike was a very solid player, and was always calculating the odds.
In one particular hand, Jimmy believed that Mike had two pair on the flop. There was a lot of money in the pot. The turn brought a third flush card on board. Here's where Jimmy's fabulous acting skill came into play. He pretended to have a flush and purposely overbet the pot (that is, he bet more than one should), trying to appear to be a novice who was excited to have hit his hand. Predictably, Mike started calculating the odds. After a considerable period of time, Mike folded the winning hand. Jimmy had bluffed him, and he was proud of it. It's no wonder that James Woods has so many Best Actor awards under his belt. Jimmy did add that only the great players can be bluffed, because they have the sense to throw away a hand that may be a loser.
Jimmy made me promise not to tell Mike about the bluff, so that Mike would learn about it when he opened Card Player and read about it along with everybody else. Imagine the ribbing at the home game now! Perhaps Mike ought to feel comforted; at least he still owns his automobile!
He Majored in Cards
Born on Sept. 22, 1947, Mike grew up in an upstanding middle-class American home in Dayton, Ohio. His parents were both dance instructors, which may explain why all of the Sexton kids are fabulous dancers. Steve Lipscomb said, "Mike Sexton can dance like nobody's business!"
At a young age, Mike and his brother Tom took tumbling lessons at the YMCA, and later became great gymnasts. By the time they reached high school, they were stars of the gymnastics team, and brought home a state championship. (Mike also played on the high school golf team.)
Both brothers became so good, they each received a full gymnastics scholarship, Mike to Ohio State and Tom to Oklahoma. Mike said his brother Tom was a "superstar," and in fact was the first All-American gymnast at Oklahoma. Mike was no slouch, either, as he won the Most Valuable Gymnast award at Ohio State.
Mike loved college, where he did gymnastics and played bridge and poker all the time. He changed majors a few times, but having played cards every day, he now likes to say he majored in cards.
Post-College Days
After those memorable college days, Mike joined the Army, serving as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. The physical fitness part of the military certainly wasn't a problem for Mike, and he came close to making the military a career. To make some extra money, he taught ballroom dancing at night. One of the students in the dance class was a multimillionaire who convinced Mike to leave the Army and work for him. The business was military sales, selling products to military bases. The job was a great education, but Mike still loved his poker and often played in a home game. The problem was that every night he played, he had to leave the game by midnight so that he could get a good night's sleep in order to wake up fresh and go to work in the morning.
Finally, in 1978, Mike quit his job to play poker for the rest of his life. He described his absolute love for poker as follows: "After one game was over, I couldn't wait until the next game started."
In 1985, he moved to Las Vegas. His advice to anyone considering playing poker for a living is this: "You not only have to have the poker skills and ability, you'd better love the game. I don't mean you like to play, I mean you gotta love to play."
Poker Prowess
Besides winning a WSOP bracelet in stud eight-or-better in 1989, Mike is proud of being amongst the top WSOP money winners, having cashed in at the World Series about 40 times.
His major poker accomplishments include winning the 2000 European Finals of Poker, the inaugural Foxwoods World Poker Finals $10,000 no-limit hold'em championship in 1992, the Four Queens Summer Classic no-limit hold'em championship in 1996 and 1997, the Euro Finals of Poker in 2000, and the €5,000 Heads-Up Championship in Paris in July 2003.
Although Mike isn't able to play in many tournaments anymore because of time constraints (he's not allowed to play in WPT events), he plays some when he gets a chance, such as the 2002 WSOP Seniors no-limit hold'em championship, where he came in second and won $68,860.
The Tournament of Champions
In the early 1990s, Mike was talking about his idea for a Tournament of Champions of Poker. He envisioned a tournament modeled after the PGA Tour's Tournament of Champions, in which only previous winners during a calendar year could earn their way into it. This model would produce the best of the best, and Mike dreamed of corporate America sponsorship for this magnanimous event.
In 1996, Mike's vision became a reality when he founded the Tournament of Champions of Poker. He believes the TOC was the classiest event in poker. This unique event, consisting of all of the champions playing multiple games, was held once a year, and any player who had won a tournament during the previous year was eligible to compete. Unfortunately, this terrific event failed to make money, and lasted only three years. David Chiu, Spencer Sun, and Brian Saltus were the three winners. Because of financial issues, Mike sold the rights to the TOC, which he just recently bought back.
During the taping of the TOC in which Mike announced, future WPT Producer Steve Lipscomb watched in awe. He had never heard a finer poker spokesman. Steve described Mike as "an extraordinary poker anchor with the ability to talk circles around anyone in the poker arena. Although Mike is a hard worker with pen and pad in hand, he also has this raw natural ability to talk about poker far better than anyone else. Where other announcers' language is riddled with poker-speak, Mike can talk about poker in an exciting yet simplistic way that everyone can understand." Lipscomb has a long memory.
The World Poker Tour: "The Good and the Bad News"
Mike with Chip Reese, Lyle Berman, Doyle Brunson, and Bobby Baldwin on the day the World Poker Tour first aired on the Travel Channel.
A year later, Lipscomb was pursuing his own dream of making poker a family activity, in which friends and relatives sat around a TV together, rooting on their favorite players, and watching the game with great anticipation. When Steve's dream became a reality, Mike was his natural selection as the host.
When Mike got the phone call from Lipscomb, Steve said, "Mike, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I'd like you to be a commentator for the World Poker Tour; the bad news is that you can't play in any of the tournaments." Well, it was something Mike would just have to live with, along with the fame, fortune, and notoriety!
WPT host Shana Hiatt said, "Mike Sexton is today's voice of poker. Besides being a perfectionist who always puts his best foot forward, he is unbelievably fun to work with and always puts a smile on my face. He is a great commentator and a wonderful person."
In December of 2000, Mike was hired by PartyPoker.com. A condition of his employment was that he had to go to India (where the software development team was located) within two weeks to help develop the site, so Mike started packing. It was the smartest business decision of his life.
The people building the PartyPoker.com domain were software and computer experts who had been in the online casino business for four years, but they didn't know anything about poker. Mike was the poker domain expert who knew nothing about programming. He described it as a match made in heaven. The software experts knew so little, they didn't even know where the button went; but, being professional software developers and hard-working, intelligent people, they made his job rewarding.
Mike, the eternal optimist and visionary, and passionate about the game of poker, came up with an idea that poker players would love. For a $20 entry fee, a poker player could win a seat in a tournament that guaranteed a million dollar first prize. Thus, the PartyPoker Million concept was born.
Mike presented his good friend Linda Johnson from Card Player Cruises with an idea for them to host the finals of the PPM on a ship. What a brilliant idea! Linda would not allow her good name and reputation to be involved unless the million dollars was actually in escrow. They struck a deal as partners in the venture, and then in August 2001, PartyPoker.com opened its virtual doors with $20 single-table qualifying tournaments for the PartyPoker Million.
When the PartyPoker site was launched, it guaranteed a million dollars for the unprecedented tournament in which a player could win a luxurious cruise for two and entry into a tournament with a guaranteed $1 million in first-place prize money by investing a small $20 fee. This was a way to get players to the site. Taking a huge risk and believing in Mike's idea, PartyPoker and Card Player Cruises guaranteed a million dollar prize before PartyPoker.com had even one customer!
Mike said, "In that first year, we lost $600,000 in the PartyPoker.com Million. Although the event lost money, it was successful in that it brought in players and PartyPoker.com continued to grow."
Prior to the advent of the World Poker Tour, Producer Steve Lipscomb said he thought he could get the Travel Channel to foot the expenses and show the inaugural PartyPoker Million tournament on TV. Steve was successful, and the tournament was aired. The audience loved it. Mike believes the success of that show on the Travel Channel is what led them to agree to a deal with the WPT, because a poker show was now a proven commodity.
Although they lost money on their PPM promotion that first year, Mike convinced PartyPoker to do it a second year. In the meantime, the World Poker Tour was created and PartyPoker.com was invited to be-come a charter member. With the exception of the WPT Championship, the PartyPoker.com Million has had the most entrants and largest prize pool on the WPT for the last two years.
Mike smiled when he recalled: "I always believed that the PartyPoker Million idea was a winner. Then, I was fortunate to be asked to be the WPT host. PartyPoker.com made the right call when it bought the first TV ads right off the bat in Season I before the launch of the first WPT show. I was hosting the WPT, and was in the commercials promoting PartyPoker.com. It paid off in spades. Within 30 to 60 days, we quadrupled our business at PartyPoker and never looked back. The site continues to grow and get better and better. I am proud of the part that I played in PartyPoker.com becoming the world's largest poker room. I am especially proud to be affiliated with a site that cares about its customers and does everything possible to run a successful site that provides an enjoyable experience for the poker player."
Mike believes that the WPT has brought class, dignity, and acceptance to the poker world. He stated, "Whereas most people used to think of poker as a backroom, shady activity, the entire industry has benefited from the WPT and Steve Lipscomb's vision. Every poker room has benefited because of what Steve has done."
Mike with Doyle Brunson after Doyle won the 2004 Legends of Poker championship.
Mike feels passionate about the next step for poker: "The future of poker must include the poker industry becoming big in its donations to charity. The most ardent adversaries of poker could not be against poker if we were to start donating huge bucks to worthwhile charities. And why not? It's the right thing to do. Once we do that, I foresee huge corporate sponsorship. That is why the PGA Tour gets so much money. It would be nice if every event had a title sponsor, whereby some of the money went to players, some to the venue, and some to charity. If a certain percentage goes to charity, everyone wins. Every event on the tour could have gold, silver, and bronze sponsors, with a charity event prior to the championship event in which 25 percent of the money would go to charity. The PGA model is perfect, and the poker industry would do well to learn from this tried-and-true business model.
"For poker to go to the next level, we must embrace charities. I am proud to say that I'm going to push hard to move the poker industry in that direction. I would like to see the WPT become involved in charity events, and I know it is interested in doing so. For example, the night before a WPT event, there could be a charity event with some money going to charities designated by the WPT and some to local charities designated by the host casino. Also, on the entry fee form, there should be a little box to check that reads: "I want 1 percent of my winnings to go to WPT charities." At the end of the year, there would be millions of dollars going to charity. My next goal in life is to lead this change, because there are many worthwhile charities, and it's a win-win situation for all. The time is here for this to happen."
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PKZIP for the AS/400 PART 2: Compression Techniques
In the last issue of the TUG Magazine we presented the first part of this article, entitled: PKZIP, the Product which was an introduction to PKZIP for the AS/400, how we came to use it in a concrete situation and a list of pros & cons.
In this issue we present Part 2. Several data compression algorithms will be covered, how they work, and how they are used by PKZIP.
Part 2: Compression Algorithms & Technical Highlights
If you read the previous article, you discovered that data compression is not for the faint of heart but certainly is an eye-opener as far as the variety of techniques used. The use of probabilities, statistical models and the unsuspected potential use of binary trees were most interesting to me. The information you will find in these technical highlights is more for general software culture than directly applicable knowledge; but then what fun would this article be if it did not peek under the covers?
Following this paragraph, you will find the definition for the Probabilistic compression methods, the Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression algorithm, the Shannon-Fano Coding method and the Huffman Coding method. Note that this is not a complete list of compression methods available, simply the ones I found the most interesting to read about. Beyond these definitions, you will find a write-up on how PKZIP uses these algorithms when it sends the familiar "Reducing", "Imploding" and "Deflating" messages. Also, as a little trivia, did you know that the PK in PKZIP stands for "Phil Katz", the founder of PKWARE?
Data Compression Techniques
As an introduction to the subject of data compression, we can say there are two basic forms of data compression: "lossy" and "lossless". Lossy compression algorithms give up bit-for-bit accuracy for higher compression ratios. Lossy compression is often used to compress video images and sound recordings, where the loss of small amounts of data does not affect the overall quality of the output. A Lossless data compression algorithm ensures that no information is lost in the compression/decompression process. Naturally, lossy compression would be completely unacceptable for data processing applications where every byte is important and losing even a bit could completely alter the meaning of the data. For relevance to this article, it is important to note that PKZIP is a lossless compression product.
1. Probabilistic compression methods
Probabilistic compression works on the principle that it is possible to compress a file by using varying numbers of bits to represent different characters (or character patterns). Frequently occurring characters are assigned the fewest number of bits, and characters that appear infrequently are assigned the greatest number of bits.
For example, suppose the letter A appears 2,000 times in this document but the letter Q only appears 40 times. Stored as 8-bit EBCDIC or ASCII text, the letters A and Q would occupy 2,040 bytes. Assume that the letter A could be represented in 4 bits, while the letter Q must be represented with 12. Now A and Q would account for only 1,060 bytes – 1,000 bytes for the letter A (2,000 characters at 4 bits per character) and 60 bytes for the letter Q (40 characters at 1½ bytes per character).
This is obviously a more efficient way to store the data and would result in compression ratios in the region of 50%. This is a simplified example of how probabilistic compression works. It does not take into account the fact that a probability table must be attached to the compressed data, partially offsetting any gains achieved.
2. Lempel-Ziv-Welch Compression Algorithm
The Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) algorithm analyses a file's content, therefore producing higher compression ratios. LZW works by building a dictionary of phrases (groups of one or more bytes) from the file. When a new phrase is found, the compression mechanism checks to see if that phrase is already in the dictionary. If not, the phrase is added to the dictionary and a token that identifies the phrase's position in the dictionary is output. If the phrase was already in the dictionary, then the compression mechanism simply outputs the token for the existing phrase.
The Sliding Dictionary LZ is a derivative of LZW, it works by writing tokens that identify where repeating phrases have previously occurred in the file. Instead of checking the entire file for matching phrases, it uses only a part of the file. The term sliding dictionary is used because the algorithm uses fixed-size blocks whose addresses are repeatedly incremented as the file is read.
While the LZW and the Probabilistic compression methods are fairly easy to understand with a simple explanation, the Shannon-Fano and Huffman coding methods do stretch the math cells in your brain a bit more.
3. Shannon-Fano Coding
For a given information source, the best compression rate that we can archive is the source entropy.
Entropy is a measurement defined to measure the uncertainty of an information source. In Communications, entropy is the statistical measure of the predictable accuracy of a system in transmitting information.
The basic idea behind Shannon-Fano coding is using a variable length of bits to encode the source symbols according to their probabilities.
I did not find what the definition of the words "source symbols" really mean in this formulation of Shannon-Fano Coding. I suspect it is simply a regular character. In the Huffman Coding, the "source symbols" are clearly the characters that are found in the file to compress. The Huffman example, to be found later in this article, illustrates very well how the Shannon-Fano tree works.
The Shannon-Fano algorithm is as follows:
Sort the source symbols with their probabilities in a decreasing probability order.
Divide the full set of symbols into two parts such that each part has an equal or approximately equal probability.
Code the symbols in the first part with the bit zero and the symbols in the second part with the bit one.
Go back to Step 2, continue the process recursively for each of two halves until each subdivision contains only one symbol.
4. Huffman Coding
What are Huffman Codes?
Huffman codes are a subset of a larger family of uniquely decodable variable length codes. Not all variable length codes can be uniquely decoded. Here is a simple example:
Codewords
It is obvious that using this code would produce ambiguous results. For instance, 0110 could be interpreted as ABBA, ADA or ABC.
But, for a code to be useful, it is not sufficient to be uniquely decodable. Let us consider the following example:
This code is uniquely decodable, but it is not suitable for any practical use. The reason is that, while (for instance) 001111101111 is uniquely decodable to ACDBD, it cannot be decoded before the message as a whole has been received. If we only had, say, the first five bits of this message, we could have mistaken it for AAC... This type of coding would place a great burden on memory and as theory proves it, would not yield anything in terms of compression efficiency.
This brings us to the fact that for any practical use, a variable length code must be constructed so that a codeword can be recognized by examining only its own bits (the bits used to encode it). This type of code is then termed an instantaneous code. An example of this is the "comma" code:
A received message 010111000 can now be decoded (ABDAAA) without previously memorizing it as a whole. Huffman codes are instantaneous, as well as some of the other codes used in data compression (e.g. Shannon-Fano).
How do Huffman Codes Work?
A Huffman code is constructed by examining the probabilities of source symbols and assigning appropriate codewords, so that the resulting code has a minimized average code length. It has been proven that Huffman codes have the minimum average code length among the uniquely decodable variable length codes.
The algorithm for creating Huffman codes is as follows:
1. Line up the source symbols according to their probabilities, from highest to lowest.
2. Combine the two least probable symbols into a composite symbol whose probability is equal to the sum of their probabilities.
3. Repeat step 2 until there is a single (composite) symbol with a probability of 1. This is commonly called the root and the structure obtained is called the Huffman tree.
4. Now trace the route from the root of the tree to the leaf corresponding to each symbol, writing down a 0 for left (up) and a 1 for right (down) branch. This will in the end give you a valid Huffman code.
Constructing a Huffman Code
Have a look at Table 1. For best understanding of this chart, read it from left to right starting from Column 1, and make your way to the root of the tree from the leaves. In (Column 1, Rows 4 & 5), D and E have the two lowest probabilities. They are combined and ported to the next column, yielding DE in (Column 2, Row 4). In (Column 2, Row 3 & 4), The two lowest leaves of the branch (both in terms of position and probability) are combined to give CDE. CDE has now a probability of .04, and it beats the letter B at .02 probability. CDE goes up one level in the next column (column 3, row 2), and B goes down to (Column 3, Row 3).
In (Column 3, Rows 2 & 3), the two lowest leaves of the branch (both in terms of position and probability) are combined to give BCDE, which is ported to (Column 4, Row 2). At this point, we only have two leaves and we are one away from the root. There is no more reducing necessary. Note that in Column 4, A does not go down one notch because it is still the single character with the most probability, where BCDE's probability is a combined one.
A 0.4 (1)
CDE 0.4 (0)
BCDE 0.6 (0)
C 0.2 (0)
B 0.2 (1)
D 0.1 (0)
DE 0.2 (1)
E 0.1 (1)
Table 2. The resulting Huffman codewords for each symbol
To figure out the resulting value of each Huffman code (it took me a while), go from the root and follow the path of each letter. A appears only once with (1). B appears in Column 4 with (0) and column 3 with (1) and thus gets the value 01. C appears in Column 4 with (0), Column 3 with (0) and column 2 with (0) and thus gets the value 000. You can figure out the rest.
This is where the compressing ability comes from: In this sample data, it was determined that there will be more "A" letters than any other characters. The tree algorithm therefore gave it a "1" code word, the smallest possible space available, at one bit. The letter that was deemed least probable to appear was deemed "E" and it gets the largest code word: "0011". The net result is as follows: if, for example, the text sample contained a large proportion of letters "A", each of these letters "A" would hold only one bit. Other less frequently occurring characters like the letter "E" can occupy more space, but since they would occur less frequently they would still occupy minimal space.
Please note at this point that it is possible to create various (different) Huffman codes from one set of source symbols and their probabilities. Each one of these codes will have the same average code length. If we need a unique way to construct a Huffman code, we can define a canonical Huffman code.
Extending the Huffman Concept
There are several extensions to the basic Huffman coding explained above. Adaptive Huffman coding enables dynamically changing the code as the probabilities of input symbols change - this is much more flexible than static (standard) Huffman coding.
Another improvement is extended Huffman code. In this coding scheme, we encode sequences of input symbols rather than symbols themselves, to obtain better coding efficiency i.e. shorter average code length.
PKZIP's usage of Probabilistic, Lempel-Ziv-Welch, Shannon-Fano and Huffman Coding Methods:
The following excerpt comes from Technical Support Magazine. It shows what methods are used behind the scenes when PKZIP yields messages such as "Reducing", "Imploding" and "Deflating" as it compresses a file. It is apparent that compounding different compression methods produce better results.
The Reducing Algorithm:
The Reducing algorithm is actually a combination of two distinct algorithms. The first algorithm compresses repeated byte sequences. The second algorithm takes the compressed stream from the first and applies a probabilistic compression method.
The Imploding algorithm:
The Imploding algorithm is also a combination of two distinct algorithms. The first algorithm compresses repeated byte sequences using a sliding dictionary (as explained in the LZW algorithm earlier). The second algorithm is used to compress the encoding of the sliding dictionary output, using multiple Shannon-Fano trees.
The Deflating Algorithm:
The Deflate algorithm is similar to the Implode algorithm using a sliding dictionary of up to 32 KB with a secondary compression from Huffman/Shannon-Fano codes. The compressed data is stored in blocks with a header describing the block and the Huffman codes used in the data block.
As a closing word, the algorithms shown here barely scratch the surface of data compression technology. Other methods used are "Arithmetic Coding", "Pulse Code Modulation", "Differential Pulse Code Modulation", "Run Length Coding" and more. This is a huge subject for anyone who is interested and there are a number of web sites dedicated to this field.
Data compression is an obscure science that does not get a lot of visibility in our every-day programming lives. While only a few of us will ever apply these techniques in our own code, this whole area is none-the-less a fascinating one to explore.
Demand for data compression on digital voice and data networks is exploding. With data mining technology, plain old data has suddenly become much more valuable. Increasingly large quantities of data are stored for mining, trend analysis and decision support purposes. In this context, I suspect data compression will be used more and more for all types of applications from storage to data transmission. While most of us will probably not invent the next Huffman Coding rule, most of us did not write the OS/400 operating system either. My point here is, it may be an advantage to understand how things work and what our options are for data compression. We may have to use it eventually.
Credits, Disclaimers and Other Definitions:
The data compression subjects on Shannon-Fano and Huffman coding algorithm explanations have been taken from the World Wide Web at http://www.rasip.fer.hr/research/compress/index.html .
ASCENT SOLUTIONS Inc. can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.asizip.com , where I have also found valuable information used in this article.
Technical Support Magazine can be reached at (414) 768-8000.
Other articles on FTP and other AS/400 related subjects can be found at http://www.tug.on.ca , the TUG web site. The author or his employer have no links or partnerships of any kind with ASCENT SOLUTIONS Inc.
The author thanks the individuals who took time to proofread this paper before it went to press.


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The trailer shows Peter and his furry friends raiding Mr. McGregor's vegetable garden and trashing his home in a wild party, then frantically dispersing when the farmer returns home unexpectedly. The critter exudes so much charm that even a fox who previously tried to eat him is a welcome party guest.
The movie is based on the character from Beatrix Potter's children's book series. Peter Rabbit first appeared in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" in 1902 and the series has since sold more than 150 million copies worldwide in 35 languages.
"Peter Rabbit" hits theaters on Feb. 9, 2018.


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With Arsenal drawing plaudits for their ability to outmuscle mid-table teams in recent weeks, Unai Emery's side finally came unstuck against Roy Hodgson's plucky Palace, with the Eagles bagging two penalties, scoring their first point since September, and ending Arsenal's run of 11 straight wins.
Though their Leicester-esque title challenge has slowed in recent weeks, Watford impressed in conclusively battering the Premier League's weakest team on Saturday. They did so while scoring some "absolute bangers" too, in particular with Gerard Deulofeu skilfully beating two before smashing the ball past a hapless Jonas Lössl from an acute angle.
After cutting a distant, bench-dwelling figure for much of his early Chelsea career, Ross Barkley is thriving under the guidance of new boss Maurizio Sarri. In setting up both Alvaro Morata and Willian, plus scoring a belter of his own, it's safe to say that Saturday's result was more Ross Barkley United 4, Burnley 0.
Putting four goals past an out-of-their-depth Cardiff side probably won't rank among Liverpool's stand-out performances come the end of the season. But, with the result sending the Reds to the top of the table (for now at least), it was another sign that Klopp's side look increasingly likely to pose a major threat to Manchester City's title defence.
Despite both sides making a surprising 28 shots between them, none went in. As such, Newcastle and Southampton played out what can easily be considered one of the most interestingly uninteresting draws in recent memory. One for the history books, for sure.


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Q: how do I find the mean value of one variable for every 5th percentile of another variable I want to find the mean of one numeric variable for each percentile of another numeric variable. To essentially replicate this graph (Marian et al(2012) but for my own data:
Figure 6. Average orthographic neighborhood size as a function of word frequency.
Frequency bins are evenly spaced divisions of words in 5% increments. Bin one represents the average orthographic neighborhood size of the top 5% most frequent words in the language, bin twenty represents the average orthographic neighborhood size of the 5% least frequent words.
I have tried the following:
tapply(quantile(CLEARPOND$word_frequency, probs = c(.05, .10, .15, .20, .25,.30,.35,.40,.45,.50,.55,.60,.65,.70,.75,.80,.85,.90,.95)), CLEARPOND$Colthearts_N, mean)
which returns the following error:
Error in tapply(quantile(CLEARPOND$word_frequency, probs = c(0.5, 0.1,  : arguments must have same length
Is there anyway to fix this/ do this in a more logical way?
I basically want to divide the variable word_frequency into bins of 5% increments. And then find the mean of Colthearts_N for each of those bins. I would also ideally like to plot this on a scatter plot.
My percentiles for word_frequency are as follows:

5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80% 85%
90% 95% 1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   2   2   2  3   4   6  11

Any help would be appreciated

A: I invented data to test the solution; I believe it achieves your goal
set.seed(42)
CLEARPOND <- data.frame(
  word_frequency = rnorm(1000),
  Colthearts_N = sample(1:100,
    size = 1000, replace = TRUE
  )
) %>% arrange(
  word_frequency
)

mutate(CLEARPOND,
  bin = cut(
    x = word_frequency,
    breaks = c(
      -Inf, quantile(word_frequency,
        probs = seq(from = 0.05, to = .95, by = .05)
      ),
      Inf
    )
  )
) |>
  group_by(bin) |>
  summarise(avg = mean(Colthearts_N),
            n= n())