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U.K. Conference Features Politicians And Far Left Groups With U.K Muslim Brotherhood
By gmbwatch on	 January 6, 2010 Daily
A group associated with former London mayor Ken Livingstone known as Pro London (Progressive London) has announced a conference titled "A progressive agenda to stop the right in 2010" to be held January 30. The announcement describes the conference as follows:
Progressive Agenda to Stop the Right in 2010 is a conference that will bring together leading figures in London and beyond to discuss the most important issues for progressive politics in 2010, nationally, internationally and in London. The ideas, alliances and policies we need to move forward, and how we stop the right from winning. Join the debate. Progressive London was initiated by Ken Livingstone in 2008 as a cross-party, multi-community forum involving politicians, artists, trade unionists, bloggers, community activists and campaigners to promote social progress in the capital.
Conference speakers include a mix of U.K. politicians, far leftwing groups, and Muslim Brotherhood figures including:
Mike Tuffrey – Leader, London Assembly Liberal Democrats
Sadiq Khan MP, Minister of State for Transport
Kate Hudson – Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Professor Tariq Ramadan
Dr Abdul Bari (Muslim Council of Britain)
George Galloway MP
Anas Altikriti – British Muslim Initiative
Tariq Ramadan is perhaps best described as an independent power center within the global Brotherhood with sufficient stature as the son of Said Ramadan, and the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood to challenge positions taken by important Brotherhood leaders. His statements and writings have been extensively analyzed and he has been accused by critics of promoting anti-Semitism and fundamentalism, albeit by subtle means. On the other hand, his supporters promote him as as example of an Islamic reformer who is in the forefront of developing a "Euro Islam." Ramadan is currently professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Theology and senior research fellow at St. Antony's College (Oxford), Dohisha University (Kyoto, Japan) and at the Lokahi Foundation (London).
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is a U.K. umbrella group dominated by groups tied to the global Muslim Brotherhood. The British Muslim Initiative (BMI) is an offshoot of the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), another U.K. Brotherhood group, and appears to be continuing the MAB's prior alliances with U.K far-left groups. Anas Al-Tikriti, the leader of the BMI, is the son of Osama Al-Tikriti, one of the leaders of the Iraqi Islamic Party.
Galloway is a far-left British M.P. who was expelled from the Labor Party over incendiary comments made at time of the 2003 Iraq War. He subsequently formed the Respect Coalition which prior to a 2007 split included the Socialist Workers Party and members of the Muslim Association of Britain and Muslim Council of Britain, essentially the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain. The Respect coalition was the sponsor of the February 2003 anti-Iraq war demonstration in London, reported by police to have been the largest demonstration ever held in the U.K. A previous post discussed the 2007 falling out between Galloway and the Socialist Workers Party and the speculation that the difficulties stemmed from Galloway's desire to focus more on developing a Muslim constituency. At that time, Galloway launched a new movement called Respect Renewal which helped to elect Mr Galloway as a Respect MP. Galloway has been a long-time supporter of Palestinian causes and another previous post discussed his participation in a fund-raising event for a Bahraini charity that is part of the Union of Good, a worldwide coalition of charities headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi and which has been designated by the U.S. in connection with its funding of Hamas.Galloway was recently banned from entry into Canada on the same grounds.

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February 2, 2019 February 6, 2019 Ajit glowfriend Economy, Public Matters, SOCIAL MEDIA, Union Budget	Bovines, Budget, Budget presentation, Income Tax, Insurance Sector, Middle class benefits, Patriotism, Tax saving Schemes, Tax Slabs, Union Budget 2019
Gone are the days when Indian middle class would switch on their TV sets in late evening on the budget day and try to calculate the gains and losses against Income tax slabs applicable to respective income groups.Over the years the poor electorate specially the struggling middle class and younger generation has reconciled to the fact that it may be a decade or two before we can be prosperous and advanced like some of the richer Asian/European countries. Chasing a dream of work Visa in Western country or job in oil rich nations is the only silver lining which younger generation can look up to after years of academic hard work . The glamorous life of young men with Mercedes and Audi and glamorous parties in farm houses are for blue blooded scions of builders and land mafia only.Hence there may not be much fun in calculating the impact of Govt budgets from the tit bits offered.
Being a reflection of the ongoing trends in the Society, today the presentation of budget ( broadcast live in almost all cases) is reminiscent of an exercise in marketing of a new product. The bitter pills are now a days not only sugar coated but also wrapped in silver foil and sometimes touted as acts of patriotism.The customer has to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The financial statements meant for public have been traditionally compared to Bikni which is expected to reveal everything except the vital information. The continuously emerging political challenges and fears of loss in vote banks have given rise to a trend for financial management focussed on camouflaging the gains and losses.
Over the years in the exercise for tax management, the middle class, which bears the burden of running the economy has been blessed by the various Governments with tax gains of inconsequential nature which are much hyped and blown out of proportion.Whenever some unwelcome adjustments are to be sold to the tax payers/vote banks the total figures of jump in collection are repeatedly trumpeted, (whereas individual taxpayer is concerned only with his individual gains and losses).
In earlier times the Budgets also had liberal sprinkling of of literary or humorous contents when the Finance Ministers (FM) would indulge into some funny anecdotes or Urdu Shairi before pushing through some major changes in rates of certain commonly used items.The literary content seems to have gone out of fashion in favour of patriotic/jingoist vocabulary.Blaming all the bad things on Governments of past lightens the burden on hearts of ruling classes while making the electorate feel guilty for having given reins of power to such catastrophic conglomerates .
While presenting the budget the proposals for reduction into Excise duties used to be focussed on items, such as cosmetics and bindi and kajal which the FMs thought would improve their ratings in the eyes of mothers and sisters without causing dent in revenue collections . The hike earlier traditionally used to be for favourite items of bad boys such as liquor and tobacco but these two industries have also woken up to the vulnerability and appear to be doing more philanthropic work viz. sponsoring sports events and social events. So now the taxman is back to favourite shortcut of milking the middle class while simultaneously dangling tax concessions which can generally be harnessed by honest man only after cutting out all luxuries from the domestic budget.Everyone has to tighten belts for ensuring that savings get channelised to some respectable banks and insurance companies .
The middle class should also appreciate that there is no need to be overtly distressed for the assessment procedures are set to get "Modernised" moreover nowadays for the taxpayer there is also option for subscribing to so many charities of all nature. These contributions would take care of bovines or devotees reportedly engaged in welfare of humanity.For such generosity while the taxpayer would get concessions in tax liability, it may also ensure happiness in after life for the donor taxpayers .


The European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) strongly condemns the decision of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the Republic of Armenia to deny ENEMO an official invitation to observe the upcoming Parliamentary Elections in Armenia.
Election observers Inna Karezina, Kirill Samodurov and the expert of 'Golos' movement Vasily Weissenberg submitted a report to CEC addressing the electoral fraud committed by the election officials of Korolev city election commissions on September 18, 2016.
The European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) is deeply alarmed by the crackdown on civil society and human rights defenders in Belarus in connection to the Freedom Day demonstrations.
2017 will feature a series of continuous challenges to the current political system. For the first time in 15 years, the Federal Election in Germany and the French Presidential Elections are held in the same year. These are the two largest countries in Europe that determine the policies of European Union in many respects.
The chairwoman of Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, admitted a mistake made in respect to the composition of election commission of Moscow region.
The OSCE representatives congratulated the movement 'Golos' on winning the International 2017 Democracy Defender Award. In addition, they have expressed high appreciation for mutual cooperation and expect such combined efforts in the future.
The 'Golos' movement would like to emphasize that election funds could be raised just after the Election Day was announced. Respectively, the election law cannot be applied to the funds transferred to electronic wallet as contribution to the upcoming presidential campaign.
Voluntary donations transferred to the electronic wallet as contribution to the future election campaigns, before the Election Day is announced, are not in breach of the Russian electoral law.
The movement advocating voters' rights 'Golos' has received an International Democracy Defender Award. 'Golos' was awarded for 'outstanding contribution to the promotion of democracy and defence of human rights'.
Regarding the upcoming elections, similar estimates may encourage the misuse of administrative resources, what has been repeatedly criticized by the public, as well by the state officials themselves. The desire to please the government will impel the regional leaders to abuse their authority and that would undermine the confidence of citizens in the elections and the election results.
The chairwoman of Central Election Commission (CEC) Ella Pamfilova announced during the final CEC session, that this year one of the main CEC tasks is to run election officials training, as the news agency 'Zakon' informed.
The experts of movement advocating for voters' rights 'Golos' and 'Transparency International Russia' claim that it is extremely intricate to understand who stands behind one or another candidate. They have analysed the transparency of political financing in the last Election to the State Duma to prepare an analytical report.
he inter-district Investigation Department of Investigation Authority ruled that no criminal charges will be filed for forgery of signatures in Teykovo city, Ivanovo region. The law enforcement officials have decided that the falsification of documents is a minor offense requiring no further investigation.
The board of 'Golos' movement submitted a complaint to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia, claiming that the surveillance cameras installed at polling stations were operating on the Election Day, 18 September.
On December 3-4, the 'Defender of Free Elections' Award Committee has announced the medal winners at the II Citizen Forum held in St. Petersburg.
The Forum served as a dialogue platform where the representatives of election observation movements, experts, lawyers, election officials and activists gathered with a common goal to protect the electoral rights and prevent the violations. The atmosphere of trust and open conversation helped to outline future steps in this field.


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Smoking Ban Arrives Jan. 1 for Navy's Submarine Sailors
The USS Michigan got a jump on a dozen other Kitsap-based submarines, and its sailors are breathing easier because of it.
The Blue Crew of SSGN-727 went smokeless at 7:27 a.m. on July 27, matching the boat's hull number. By midnight on Dec. 31, the rest of the Navy's subs must follow suit.
On April 8, the Navy said it would ban smoking cigarettes below decks on submarines to protect sailors from secondhand smoke. The move was in response to a 2009 study by the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory that showed the ill effects on nonsmokers.
The Michigan was the first boat from Naval Base Kitsap, and possibly in the Navy, to kick the habit, said Submarine Group 9 spokesman Lt. Ed Early. It wasn't alone, however.
As of Oct. 22, 21 of the Navy's 71 submarines had gone completely smoke-free, Early said. Efforts to get an updated number from Submarine Force in Norfolk, Va., last week proved unsuccessful.
There are about 3,500 submariners based at Naval Base Kitsap. If 31 percent of sailors smoke, as a 2008 Department of Defense survey contends, then nearly 1,100 local submariners will have to either quit or subdue the urge to smoke while they're on patrol.
Submariners can still use smokeless tobacco, though the Navy highly discourages it. Ten percent of them do, according to the survey. They can take cigarettes onto the boat and smoke them pier side or while on liberty. If they get caught sneaking a puff on board, the commanding officer will determine the proper response.
"The goal is to educate smokers about the effect on smokers, and if they want to quit, to help them quit," Early said.
Sailors have had seven months to quit, and a lot of help. The Navy provided smoking-cessation classes, counseling, and nicotine patches and gum at Naval Hospital Bremerton, its Bangor health clinic and a substance-abuse rehabilitation center at Bangor, said hospital spokesman Doug Stutz.
"They have qualified counselors who have been accredited and have a thorough knowledge of how to deal with anybody who wants to undertake the process of weaning away from the nicotine habit," Stutz said.
That includes spouses and girlfriends, Stutz said.
The hospital is working with Submarine Group 9 leadership and submarine commanding officers so the crews have ample resources to kick the habit, Stutz said. Each crew has an independent duty corpsman who oversees the program on the sub and is responsible for the gum and patches.
A week from the deadline, all submarines should be close to smokeless, though there might be some stragglers, Early said.
"We've put the word out to all of our boats. We expect when Jan. 1 rolls around, the submarine force will be absolutely smoke-free," he said.
Anybody with access to the naval hospital can get help to quit smoking, not just submariners, Stutz said. Call (800) 422-1383.
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harleyrider1978 | December 29, 2010 at 1:08 pm |
They have created a fear that is based on nothing''
World-renowned pulmonologist, president of the prestigious Research Institute Necker for the last decade, Professor Philippe Even, now retired, tells us that he's convinced of the absence of harm from passive smoking. A shocking interview.
What do the studies on passive smoking tell us?
PHILIPPE EVEN. There are about a hundred studies on the issue. First surprise: 40% of them claim a total absence of harmful effects of passive smoking on health. The remaining 60% estimate that the cancer risk is multiplied by 0.02 for the most optimistic and by 0.15 for the more pessimistic … compared to a risk multiplied by 10 or 20 for active smoking! It is therefore negligible. Clearly, the harm is either nonexistent, or it is extremely low.
It is an indisputable scientific fact. Anti-tobacco associations report 3 000-6 000 deaths per year in France …
I am curious to know their sources. No study has ever produced such a result.
Many experts argue that passive smoking is also responsible for cardiovascular disease and other asthma attacks. Not you?
They don't base it on any solid scientific evidence. Take the case of cardiovascular diseases: the four main causes are obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. To determine whether passive smoking is an aggravating factor, there should be a study on people who have none of these four symptoms. But this was never done. Regarding chronic bronchitis, although the role of active smoking is undeniable, that of passive smoking is yet to be proven. For asthma, it is indeed a contributing factor … but not greater than pollen!
The purpose of the ban on smoking in public places, however, was to protect non-smokers. It was thus based on nothing?
Absolutely nothing! The psychosis began with the publication of a report by the IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer, which depends on the WHO (Editor's note: World Health Organization). The report released in 2002 says it is now proven that passive smoking carries serious health risks, but without showing the evidence. Where are the data? What was the methodology? It's everything but a scientific approach. It was creating fear that is not based on anything.
Why would anti-tobacco organizations wave a threat that does not exist?
The anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette prices having failed, they had to find a new way to lower the number of smokers. By waving the threat of passive smoking, they found a tool that really works: social pressure. In good faith, non-smokers felt in danger and started to stand up against smokers. As a result, passive smoking has become a public health problem, paving the way for the Evin Law and the decree banning smoking in public places. The cause may be good, but I do not think it is good to legislate on a lie. And the worst part is that it does not work: since the entry into force of the decree, cigarette sales are rising again.
Why not speak up earlier?
As a civil servant, dean of the largest medical faculty in France, I was held to confidentiality. If I had deviated from official positions, I would have had to pay the consequences. Today, I am a free man.


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Builders in the early 20th century referred to this type as "truly American . . . the square type of modern home," "massive" and "conservative." Whether done plain or embellished with Prairie School, Arts and Crafts, or Colonial Revival details, the Foursquare (1895–1929) was an economical house to build—and suited to small lots, prefab parts, and the housing boom.
Foursquares seemed to spring up almost overnight. There were none in 1890. By 1910, thousands had been built. This familiar house got recognition and a name in 1982, in an article by Old-House Journal publishers Clem Labine and Patricia Poore.
• BOXY SHAPE It's nearly a cube (practicality usually dictated a slightly greater depth than width), with two full storeys and an attic that was often made livable by large dormers.
• HIPPED ROOF Exceptions exist, but most Foursquares have a hipped or steep, pyramidal roof.
• WIDE PORCH The piazza normally extends the full width of the front, with a wide stair and entry either at the center or to one side.
• LARGE WINDOWS Grouped windows became popular with this style, admitting plenty of light.
• QUIET STYLE Yes, there are Foursquares with lots of art glass, jutting bays, and tiled roofs, but in general the "style" of the house is quietly announced in the use of simplified motifs, whether A&C, Prairie, or Colonial.
The debate rages: is "foursquare" a house type or a true style? When you can narrow down a building phenomenon to a period of about 25 years, what's the difference? There's no mistaking these houses for earlier cube forms like the Georgian Manor or the Italian Villa.
PRAIRIE: Many Foursquares throughout the Midwest incorporated the "modern" motifs of the region: horizontal banding, porch with a slab roof, geometric ornament, and "Prairie" art glass after Frank Lloyd Wright.
CLASSIC: Houses like this might be called Free Classic: note the Palladian-style window and oval "cameo." After 1915, most examples could be termed Colonial Revival.
Built-ins such as bookcases and window seats were popular enhancements; those building planbook or kit houses could order room-dividing colonnades and kitchen cabinets. The style of furnishings was eclectic, in keeping with the fast-changing times and the affordability of catalog and mass-production furniture. Interior style changed from decade to decade. Look for hardwood wainscot, woodwork, and trim; stenciled or papered friezes, and machine-printed wallpaper; upholstered and leather furniture; a strong focus on the hearth and mantel. Craftsman ("bungalow") interiors—Mission oak furniture, mica lamps, square-spindled staircases—would have been common with the first wave. But Colonial Revival styles were ascendant after 1915, and lush Jazz Age rooms came along in the Twenties.
Beyond the Bungalow by Paul Duchscherer and Linda Svendsen: Gibbs Smith, 2005. This book of lavish photographs goes further than the bungalow: to chalets, English Revival houses, and the occasional Foursquare.
Bungalow Kitchens by Jane Powell and Linda Svendsen: Gibbs Smith, 2000. This is documentation and nitty-gritty advice for restoring, renovating, or re-creating the rather plain yet evocative early-modern kitchen of the era: tile, glossy cream-painted cabinets, linoleum. A good place to start if you don't want a 2007 "showroom kitchen" that will soon look dated, and if you don't need to spend six figures on cherry woodwork and European fixtures. You may also or alternatively want to refer to books about Prairie School (Midwest) house interiors.
A celebration of timber construction, Victorian-era Stick Style houses are the culmination of a tradition that began in the 1840s with the picturesque movement.


You hire an interior designer to work on the internal aspects of your home. But for the exterior, you will need to call someone else and that is where landscaping companies come in.
Landscaping companies can do a better job than you because they are the experts in this field. But since there are so many out there and you don't know who to choose, here are a few points that you should remember.
First, you have to know what you want in your garden. It is best to put this on paper so when you talk to a representative of a landscaping company, they have an idea what you want done and offer suggestions and comments.
When you go looking for landscaping companies, see what services they have to offer by calling them up or visiting their website. It will also be a good idea to get referrals from friends and family who have used similar services before so you know what to expect from them.
The only time that you should set up a meeting is if you feel that the landscaping company is able to undertake the project. The first meeting is free. Here you will discuss with them what you want. Don't forget to ask them questions like what are their credentials and if their certificates and licenses are still valid.
The landscaping company should also have insurance so if anything happens, they will be the ones liable to pay for any damages incurred.
If they have been doing this for many years, you can ask them for a list of their previous clients so you can call them up and see the landscaping work they did before. You should talk to the owner of the property to see if there were any problems and get their opinion if they would hire them again.
Should everything check out, you can then invite them to your home to conduct an ocular inspection of the garden and give you a quote which will tell you how much they will be charging for the whole project.
For those who are still unsure, arrange a meeting with another landscaping company. Do a similar background check and then compare their rates. Naturally you want to get the best services that will give you good value for your money so don't think that going for someone that is expensive or much cheaper is always the best way to go.
From here on end, it is now up to you do decide whether or not you will avail of their services or not. For your safety, the contract should state that the agreed upon price should be followed and that no additional charges will be added in the future. It should also contain the plants to be used, the design system, terms of payment, length of project, maintenance terms and a guarantee.
Those who follow what was agreed upon strictly to the letter won't have any problems later should something go wrong since this is a binding contract that must be followed.
Landscaping companies who are able to do a good job are able to get repeat business and more clients in the long term. Those who fail to live up to their standards will fold.
If you don't want to be a victim of negligent landscape companies, do a background check so you know that you are getting your money's worth.


Hawaiian Electric Co., still awaiting final approval on the 3.3 percent interim rate increase it was granted in September 2005, has filed a notice of intent with the state Public Utilities Commission that it intends to boost rates on Oahu again.
Maui Electric Co., a subsidiary of HECO that serves Maui, Molokai and Lanai, also filed a similar notice of intent to raise rates.
HECO spokeswoman Lynne Unemori said both companies are still calculating the amount of the requests, and have not decided yet when they will file their rate-case applications.
"We (HECO) have been incurring much higher operation and maintenance costs for the electrical system to maintain reliable service and we've made some significant capital investments since the last case," Unemori said. "That would be the same overarching reason for the Maui Electric case as well."
Hawaii Electric Light Co., a HECO subsidiary that serves the Big Island, is still awaiting a PUC decision on the 9.2 percent rate-increase request it filed for in May. A decision on that case is expected no earlier than the spring, Unemori said.
HECO and MECO filed their notices of intent with the PUC on Sept. 22; the filings were disclosed by parent company Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. in a quarterly filing last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Oct. 15 Hawaii earthquake and resulting power outages occurred after the filing.
"We've been evaluating a rate-increase request long before the earthquake occurred," Unemori said. "Also, any increase request must be based on what must be considered a typical year anyway, and if there were one-time costs related to taking care of the earthquake, like maintenance costs, they would not be included. I think the significance of the October earthquake really drove home how critical electrical power is in both our homes and our businesses."
HECO, which serves about 292,000 customers, hadn't sought a rate increase for a decade until it filed an application in November 2004 for a 7.3 percent increase, worth additional annual revenue of $74.2 million. That rate-increase request was later bifurcated, with about $40 million related to energy conservation programs stripped out and transferred to a new docket that is being looked at separately by the PUC. In September 2005, the PUC granted HECO an interim rate increase of 3.3 percent, worth $41.1 million in annual revenue. The PUC is still studying whether to make that increase permanent.
MECO, which has about 64,000 customers, last applied for a rate increase in January 1998, when it asked for an 11.9 percent increase, worth $16.4 million in annual revenue. An interim rate increase of 8.5 percent, worth $11.7 million, was granted in December 1998 but lowered to 8.2 percent, or $11.3 million, in April 1999 when the PUC issued its final order. MECO awarded its customers refund credits, including interest, for the difference in the interim and final rates during that four-month period.
HELCO, with about 74,000 customers, applied in May 2006 for a 9.2 percent increase, worth $29.9 million in annual revenue, that was tiered with a set of rates to award lower payments to people who conserve energy and to require higher payments for bigger power users.
In the recent HECO and MECO intent notices, both utilities said their financial returns are "expected to be lower than that required to provide a fair return ... unless a rate increase is obtained."
Unemori said any interim decision likely would not become effective until roughly a year from when the cases are filed.
"It will be a long time before there would be a potential impact on customers," she said.


Only 4 days now and Katie and I get to set foot aboard the Dawn Princess for a 2 night practice cruise from Sydney to Melbourne. This will be our first cruise and we get to check out the the same ship that we will call home for 53 days, hope we like it! I just looked at the weather for Melbourne to Sydney next week and it shows rain and some more rain. Never mind, we'll find plenty to do between the rain showers and then when we get to Sydney we can shop for cruise "things" . Then it's back to work to count down the days until I have 3 months off.............bliss!


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Q: How to store data elements in groups/clusters by union-find I have implemented union-find algorithm inspired by this code with this API:
void unify(int p, int q)
int find(int p)
boolean connected(int p, int q)
int clusterSize(int p)

Then I detect clusters with a nested loop like this:
for i = (0) to (data size)
    for j = (i+1) to (data size)
        if ( "i" and "j" meet this condition )
            unify(i,j)
    end for
end for

To actually store each cluster/group in a separate array, currently I loop over all my data elements and call find like this:
for i = 0 to data-size
    k = find(i);
    // ... Store data element "i" in cluster "k" (array "k")
end-for

I have a feeling like, the last for loop to store data elements in different groups/clusters might not be necessary. I wonder if I'm on right track?

A: First you need to initialize by making each element a separate cluster. While doing so there's no need to call find method as initially each of them itself is a cluster.
int clusters[data_size];
for(int i = 0; i < data_size; i++)
{
  clusters[i] = i; // each element refers to itself initially, indicating that it's a separate cluster
}

Now upon the nested loop check which elements are needed to be clustered, and then unify those -
for i = (0) to (data size)
    for j = (i+1) to (data size)
        if ( "i" and "j" meet this condition )
            unify(i,j)
    end for
end for

In the unify(p, q) method, what you can do is -
clusters[find(p)] = find(q); // indicates p belongs to cluster number q

Or the vice versa is also true -
clusters[find(q)] = find(p); // indicates q belongs to cluster number p

There's a ranking technique in the Union Find algorithm, to choose which of the above to use. That ensures - we will always merge the smaller cluster into the bigger cluster. But I assume you are not worried about that right now.
Now, the next question would be - why are we calling find in the above expression. It's because, we are actually finding out the root element of a certain cluster(Or simply find the element which actually represent the cluster).

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Despite Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen's work to streamline the brand's massive dealership network, many dealers moved fewer than 50 cars for the entire year in 2017.
The Detroit Free Press reported on Tuesday that de Nysschen said half of its dealers reported the minimal sales figures. Cadillac currently operates 924 dealerships across the United States; 463 dealers sold less than 50 cars. The Cadillac President has carefully worked to include smaller dealerships in future plans without overwhelming them with the need for more investments.
The first solution was found in Project Pinnacle, which nearly 100 percent of Cadillac dealers are now enrolled in. The dealership overhaul effort included five tiers—the higher the tier, the more potential for greater bonuses and rewards. However, the fifth tier, reserved for the smallest Cadillac showrooms, was eliminated last October.
The tier called for a virtual reality (VR) showroom to replace physical inventory, which would have kept new investments at a minimum for small dealers. However, the same dealers saw it as a way to squeeze them out of the business. Instead, many dealers have opted to place themselves in higher tiers and make the necessary investments to potentially reap larger rewards.
Cadillac sales dropped 28.6 percent in the United States last December and fell 8 percent year-over-year.
I wonder if healthy Tier 4-5 dealerships could open Tier 1 stores in traditional retail mixed-use or mall to expand the presence and relevance of the brand in larger markets?
Think Mini Cadillac House meets Apple/Tesla Store to display brand and technology with the help of local dealership inventory and Tier 5 service. Great way to change perception and coach consumer on Autonomous, Electric and Book. Perception changer.
The article is interesting on several levels. First is that Project Pinnacle is a failure for Cadillac, like it or not.
If the factory makes it difficult for dealers to profit, then they move to selling things that do.
As I have said for a long time, if the Sales people can make money, it is of benefit to the customers to own it.
If the dealers or Salespeople do not make money, they go elsewhere, and it is no longer a benefit to make money.
Cadillac's advertising is Way off the mark, if there is any advertising.
In its "Hay Day" the advertising would portray, a young couple, playing golf, driving a Large sedan to the course or on the road. People wanted to be those couples. Something to strive for.
Now GM thinks people want "Race Cars" that no one except 18 year olds can get into or out of, but not afford.
The Advertising Rarely if ever shows the cars. They show inner cities. OK Who approved that?
Or the Advertising focuses on Price, and monthly payment ignoring the product.
Advertising needs to promote the product, and what it can do for the owner.
The Time Share industry did not make Billions of Dollars selling Room Rates, they sold "Fun Vacations".
They do not need to show people that are obviously models and could not afford the car unless they won the lottery yesterday. Sure show young college graduates etc.
There are so many ideas that can be done that would make great ads.
Show country roads, show Golf courses, show young families, even if a majority of the owners are 60+ years old, in their minds they are still 20.
I understand the world is changing. Yet you cannot forget the existing customer base as you move into the future.
Just an example of an ad I would like to see although I submitted it to the factory, it was ignored.
Picture an Airport Car rental counter, the young couple come up with the hundreds of other travelers behind, and ask for their Cadillac.
The rental person, says, Sir, your Lincoln is ready.
The wife goes Ballistic, and says NO, We reserved a Cadillac We expect a Cadillac, A Lincoln is not a Cadillac.
The rental person says, Mam could you step aside and let the next person, approach.
No, she says, We reserved a Cadillac, I expect to leave here in a Cadillac….
Next scene, the couple loads their luggage and kids in the Cadillac sedan….and drive off.
You have to create the desire.
Sorry for that…Glad I wasn't behind you in line!
I don't see many free-standing Cadillac stores – some, yes, but often ganged with Chevrolet, or Buick/GMC.
ATP is good, but the overall business model seems to be less than optimal.
I agree on some points, but spending money on golf ads would be a waste. GM has the old guys already buying the cars. My Dad is one. He remembers Cadillac as a sign of "you've made it". Younger folks do not even come close to buying into that. They want the German brands that guarantee you "made it " cred. They want blacked out packages. They want performance.
Caddy's marketing has been horrific in my mind. And the dealers are not educated on the newer options. When I would service my Midnight ATS the guys would crowd around. " Where did you get that done??" . They did not know or sell these things. Mine also had a wing at the back that looked awesome. No one in sales new about them. I have only seen one midnight package in Toronto. Yet the roads are filled with AMG etc.
Then there is the dealer experience. As great as my dealers are, they are sharing space with a SPARK, Malibu etc. Go to one of the uber cool BMW dealers here and see the difference in how you feel. How they MAKE you feel. Google BMW Toronto or Audi dealers here. The buildings alone make you feel freaking cool walking in.
But Steve, a Cadillac at a rental counter is no different from a Lincoln. You'd either have gotten a FWD Fusion-based MKS or a FWD Impala-based XTS. Both are merely tarted-up versions of their respective makers bread-and-butter sedans. Neither was really anything special.
Today if that scene repeated, one might get a Continental although I don't think Ford puts them in rental fleets but if they did, I sure wouldn't huff and puff for a Caddy as the Lincoln is far and away the better product in my opinion.
Sounds like that would be a good commercial for Maven. Get the car you pick. And no offbrands only GM.
That sounds like a great commercial! Reminds me of the Coke VS Pepsi debate.
Well here is the problem that Cadillac just has too many dealers and holds little power to cull the heard.
The only real way to kill over half of these dealers is to buy them out. But that is not possible as it would be very expensive at a time they need the money for new and better products.
GM has tried many tactics on killing dealers and only can go so far before the government comes in or if it become cost prohibitive.
The thing that hurts at Cadillac the most is they want to raise the ATP and lower the volume or spread them out to where the Cadillac is not seen as a mass market or fleet sale car. This is not my thinking but what Cadillac management has stated.
It is hard to make someone feel special in your product if you see on just anywhere. Others have done this and failed like Porsche and others.
High end Luxury is a fine balance of price and volume. The only area where you can get away with more volume is SUV models. Cars tend to require more limited numbers to make them desirable.
With China sales GM can play the limited numbers here in America much easier than if they were only a single market car.
GM just needs to keep working to kill dealers as they go and in time they will arrive at the proper number of dealers needed.
Not too many dealers, it is that they let too many GM dealers include Cadillac, so they end up treating them like another Buick or Chevy that they stumble into.
They are not selling them they are just delivering expensive Chevy's without any regard to what they are doing.
Stand Alone Cadillac Stores like ours are rare. We fight the "Big Box" guys all the time. No one wins.
GM as usual is working overtime to kill off their market and their customers.
What they forget, is it is Sales that makes a company prosperous and great.
I worked for a manufacturer years ago that had been around since 1925, they outsold their competitors 3 to 1. Then they and made 3 times the profit.
New management decided that if they switched to distributors they would sell more. And make more money.
So they cut their prices in half.
They are out of business today.
The competitors are still there.
Too many dealers of all kinds are GM's issue.
You have too many in one market and it dilutes the profits and service suffers as they can not afford to keep the best people or have enough qualified staff.
On the other hand I just bought a GMC from a Cadillac GMC dealer and got Cadillac treatment as it should be done. The benefit can go either way and if done properly it could benefit the other brands.
The key to killing many of the small unprofitable dealers has been the larger dealer networks buying them out and closing them. It helps GM and it helps them in the markets where they can not support 3 Cadillac dealers in a small area.
GM tried to sell the volume big market luxury cars and ended up selling them to rental fleets to keep the from rotting on the lots. Not the thing you want to do if you want to improve an image or retain resale and create demand.
Volume and exclusive are not terms that work together with anything especially with cars.
Even though Cadillacs are good looking vehicles to me, they are not catching peoples eyes on the roads and in the ads. The cars somehow don't measure up to the older Cadillacs in appearance. I think they blend in to the traffic but in a boring sort of way. There isn't enough distinction between the different models. They all look like the same car but slightly different sizes. When I see a Cadillac I haven't the foggiest idea what model it is and that is partly because there isn't any personality differences and distinctive model names. I don't know what a CT6 or an ATS is but I can damn sure tell you what an Eldorado is, or what a Sedan De Ville is or what a Coupe Deville is. The letter/number name tags don't mean anything to the public. it takes time to learn those. I know that a Z28 is a model of Camaro, and LS means luxury sport and LT means luxury touring and LTZ means top of the line. It takes years to learn that and most of the public doesn't know those meanings. Get some new model names that people can remember or relate to.
For what its worth I can assure you that going back as many decades as you wish you'll find that consistently 20% of Cadillac Dealers (large) have sold 80% or more of the vehicles. Much of the domestic industry's franchise network stems from a period when vehicles were much more service intensive than nowadays and business was done on Main Street USA. Not one single import badged brand was even doing business in this country when domestic brand dealer networks were established and when the invaders showed up they never bothered to move into small-town America.
State laws make it virtually impossible for manufacturers to cancel franchises without good reason (criminal behavior, and such). It isn't hard to get the impression from some of the remarks here that the commenters don't even know that dealerships are independently owned businesses, don't belong to the manufacturers, and that in the United States federal and state laws require parties to a contract to uphold their part of the agreement. Dealer franchises are contracts that can't be arbitrarily cancelled.
And if a customer lives in smalltownsomewhere and buys a Cadillac he'll/she'll have a better chance of getting it properly serviced than perhaps otherwise. So what exactly is the problem here?
Too many dealers in the wrong zip codes and too many dealers outclassed by neighboring mainstream dealerships.
if GM decides to concentrate only in large markets, they will not survive.
It is not about focus on large markets. It is about going to where the most sales are.
If you have a worthy vehicle people will come to you. That is how most major luxury brands are.
It use to mean you were someone if you owned a Cadillac. You had found success and accomplishment to afford one.
Then Cadillac started to make more of them and sell them cheaper and that is when the image began to erode.
The Cadillac image fell to the Faux Rich.
As we can see the Escalade is not cheap but is generally bought by only those with the means and the image has grown.
The Mary Kay, blue haired, bingo playing Walmart shopping buyers do nothing for you image wise.
The Classic Sienfeld episode where he bought the Cadillac for his parents was a great warning to what was wrong. Cadillac had become a prop and punchline.
For some of these Cadillac dealers to survive they have had to sell other brands as well . If some of those dealerships were stand alone businesses they wouldn't survive .
Which is the conundrum for Cadillac , if they rid themselves of some of their smaller dealerships which are in smaller cities customers are not going to drive extra miles for a Cadillac , that's a sad fact .
The Cadillac dealership in my area used to be the only one around for the city but now the dealership has been bought by a company with several dealerships around the state , so now Cadillacs are sold right next to Hyundai's and their luxury car Genesis . XT5's are parked right next to Tuscon's and XTs and CT6's next to G90's and 80's .
And right down the road we have a Chevy dealership that ONLY sells Chevy's .
For a franchise to sell Cadillac's next to Hyundai's takes away from the image that Cadillac needs so badly .
I always get good treatment and the facility is nice and clean but when I am buying GM's best vehicle I want to be sure that the sales people and technicians treat my car better than something else they may sell . Thank goodness my salesman still works there so I do get treated right but something like this shouldn't be allowed on the sales side of the company .
And Cadillac can get rid of VR , that is buying something that you haven't test drove etc….
People can go shopping for a car and see two of the same parked next to each other , but they will pick the one that speakes to them . I know I've done it .
Lot's of work needs to be done at Cadillac .
What many of you keep wanting to do is the same things that failed and brought us to this place in time.
As the old saying goes the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different results.
I think this sums up the thinking of many pining over old times that were not nearly as good as they like to remember them as.
I think dealerships are a scam in general. We're deep into the age where cars should be sold in 'stores'. Scion had the right idea but simply setting a price. Their only mistake was not to offer the occasional 'sales' on those prices.
Cadillac could have stores in upscale malls. Just like Tesla. Want a test drive? A Cadillac will come pick you up.
Cadillac can not go to stores as they are trapped in the franchises system forced on automakers years ago.
Some have tried to do the store deal but they end up in court.
If GM could erase all the dealers tomorrow they would and they would sell direct. But to do so they would have to buy out all the dealers and that is cost prohibitive.
Even today they have to use the customer servers as leverage to with hold discounts and holdback to the dealers to get them to do what GM wants. Even then most ignore GM and do not adhere to the dealer plan set fourth by GM.
The only way out for automakers is if the Goverment lets them negate the dealer agreements with no penalty. But that would never happen.
So they do not want new comers to the auto market to go with direct sales. It is not Tesla that worries the automakers but China automakers coming here selling direct at rock bottom prices.
As long as they are stuck with dealers they will prevent others from getting a leg up.
Pandora's box was opened years ago and is damn near impossible to close today.
Disagree, it is not just automotive dealerships. Companies like Amazon and Walmart have destroyed local retailers in favor of big box stores. The factories still have to deal with returns. However what that kind of thing has done is reduce the quality of the goods sold.
Tesla would close tomorrow without government subsidies. So do not tout how wonderful they are.
European and other countries receive protection and breaks from their countries to make them competitive here. Yet the Media types cry anytime we try to protect in any way business here.
Cadillac cut back on the margin dealers had to work with saying "It was to keep the brand Competitive." A lie.
Wonder why the cars are not selling?
Point the fingers at GM Corporate.
Having observed business for many years, When Accounting types run companies, regardless of who they are, they go out of business.
When Engineering types run companies, they all are profitable.
Why is that? It is the mindset they use.
Accounting wants to know how can we cut costs, reduce what we give the customers raise prices and make more money.
Engineering types think, How can we make this better, last longer, and be more user friendly.
It is not just the auto industry.
As I have said before, when you let the Score Keepers run the train, the train derails.
But it wasn't their fault, they made money for the investors by not fixing the rails. So it was the steel company that made the rails that was at fault.
Tesla would not close tomorrow without government subsidies. Remember they still have that stocks scam going on. If they need some more money they just sell some more stock. Is Elon musk the reincarnation of PT Barnum?
Just as Cadillac did with GM Performance and HPVO, to develop and build the V-series cars, they need to completely overhaul their dealerships and advertising. All Caddy dealers should be like the Caddy house in Manhattan and there should be less of them. Cadillac's are exclusive cars, no need to sell them alongside Chevys, GMC and made for China Buicks. Instead of showing snowflakes-who would never buy a Caddy in the first place-cruising through lower Manhattan-another not gonna happen, show the CTS-V-3 smoking an AMG Benz or BMW M5, or negotiating the Nurburgring or carving a mountain road on the way to the steakhouse, that's Cadillac. Everyday we hear how incredible the energizer bunny Teslas are, but we hear nothing about Cadillac, who has stormed back with world class products. The cars are where they need to be, now adjust the dealers and the advertising and sales will increase.
Not really interested in Cadillac for the ability to beat a Benz or BMW, even less interested in Nurburgring. A Cadillac is supposed to carry one in glorious luxury to the all you can eat buffet, not the steakhouse.
Project Pinnacle's early stages w/ dealerships is interesting to say the least. Keep in mind that PP will have room for adjustment in the future.
Also, what I find interesting is that nearly half of the Cadillac buyers are under 56 years of age. That number will increase in the future for sure.
Maybe its just me, but I think the biggest problem with Cadillac is that as someone who would like to consider them for my next car, I just plain don't care for their styling. The XT5 (for example) is just not appealing. For the money (or less) there are just better-looking cars out there.
I really want to like Cadillac vehicle but they either don't have the type of vehicle I want or the styling to draw me in.
Cadillac is supposed to be a luxury item bought by the rich few, us unwashed masses buy Chevy.
A single Mercedes dealer in Toronto near my place sells 300 to 400 cars per month. I rarely see any Cadillacs on the road.
Where i live we dont have stand alone Cadillac dealerships. It isn't practical. I could care less if a Malibu is beside a CTS. My experience is that the majority of Cadillac buyers are like me, long time GM faithful that want to move up.
Thank Project Pinnacle. That idea has destroyed dealers all over.
The GM thinks of Volume and ignores the facts.
Take Wyoming for example, 50th in population, No Cadillac dealers, want one you have to drive 8 hours to get one.
GM was built on the concept of moving up.
These clowns want Cadillac to be an expensive Chevy, or under the last administration an Audi, or BMW.
They do not know their market.


The Finance Templates and Calculators for Excel are a suite of calculators, tools and Excel templates for performing a wide range of business finance and accounting related analysis.
The Finance Templates and Calculators for Excel consist of 73 different financial calculators. These calculators simplify basic financial calculations, saving time and effort in a wide range of evaluations including cash flows, loans, investments, future values, rates of return, financial analyzes and personal finances. Data simply need to be entered as required and the calculators automatically give the results.
The Finance Templates and Calculators for Excel have a professional design, are flexible with sensitivity tables and offer charts and help notes to make them easy to use and understand.
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This demo shows that if an aggregation is executed after a full table scan, the time needed to process the aggregation can also be larger than the time required to access the data. But, also in this case, the difference strongly depends on disk I/O throughput that the database server supports (in the recording it's a good one).
This demo is based on the The Importance of the In-Memory DUPLICATE Clause for a RAC System post.
This demo shows the performance impact of accessing data stored in the in-memory area that is not up-to-date. Note that in the demo 1% of the data is "stale" and that automatic repopulation is temporarily switched off.
in Demo "FTS with Filter", there is a huge difference in Exadata offloading with / without storage indexes. What other offload optimizations (other than storage indexes) can reduce 18 seconds to 4 seconds?.
Also, please let me know which software/tool you used for recording.
Not sure whether I get your question. In fact, the elapsed time with/without storage indexes is 1.6 to 1.2 seconds. Hence, no huge difference. The main difference in that case is the fact that because of offloading only a small amount of data is sent from the cells to the database instance. That makes the elapsed time go from 16 seconds down to 1.6 seconds.
For the recording I used Camtasia Studio.


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The average UK property value has hugely outpaced wages over the past decade, according to new analysis from independent mortgage broker Private Finance.
The broker found that the average UK property value experienced a 43 per cent rise between 2008 and 2018, from £160,954 to £229,861.
In comparison, the average annual UK salary has increased by just 15 per cent from £24,606 to £28,860 over the same period. Had wages experienced the same percentage increase as house prices, the average employee would now be earning £35,187 per year.
London boroughs and the Home Counties have seen the largest increases in UK property value over the ten-year period.
The average property price in Kensington and Chelsea has soared by 85 per cent over the ten-year period, while wages have increased by just 3 per cent.
Had property owners in Kensington and Chelsea seen their wages increase to the same extent as the value of their homes then the average salary in the borough would now be £112,124.
Not only have property owners benefitted from rising UK property values over this period but falling mortgage rates mean that the monthly cost of owning a home has become considerably more affordable – making their return on investment even more lucrative.
From 2008 to 2018, the average two-year fixed rate mortgage at 75 per cent loan-to-value (LTV) has fallen from 4.77 per cent to 1.73 per cent. While UK property values have increased, the average UK property owner who purchased at the end of 2018 would only be paying £18 (3 per cent) more per month on their monthly mortgage payments thanks to falling mortgage rates, this is despite the average loan size increasing by 43 per cent.
Simon Checkley, Managing Director at Private Finance commented: 'Property first and foremost provides a roof over your head and a place to call home; however, over the long term it can act as a lucrative investment. With falling mortgage rates making the cost of owning a home even more affordable, homeowners' potential return on investment could be set to become even greater.'
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'Breed the best to the best and hope for the best' is the maxim by which many top-class horses were produced, and Royal Ascot winners September (by Deep Impact out of Peeping Fawn), Benbatl (by Dubawi out of Nahrain) and Highland Reel and Idaho (both by Galileo out of Hveger) prove the approach can be effective.
Hveger, third in the Australasian Oaks at the highest level in her racecourse pomp, is among three out of the eight dams of Group 1 winners this week who have black type, along with Grade 2 Rampart Stakes winner D'Wildcat Speed, the dam of Lady Aurelia, and Louisiana Downs restricted race scorer Mekko Hokte, the dam of Caravaggio.
Laddies Poker Two, without black type, earned a Racing Post Rating of 114, higher than any of theirs, for her wide-margin victory in the Wokingham Handicap in 2010 before producing Winter at stud. Persario, the dam of The Tin Man, also had no black type but a decent RPR of 97 for winning a 20-runner Class 3 handicap on Kempton's old six-furlong straight sprint course.
But the mares who produced the other three top-level winners at Ascot give hope to all breeders operating on a shoestring.
Ribchester's dam Mujarah, a Marju mare out of a smart daughter of Mehthaaf, was well beaten on all five starts, struggling to a best RPR of 58 before being sold by Shadwell to the Queen Anne Stakes winner's joint-breeder Andrew Thompson for just 18,000gns. Mujarah was sold privately to Godolphin, presumably for a tidy profit.
Alina, a daughter of Galileo who is the dam of Barney Roy, was seventh in both her starts in decent French maidens and was awarded a best RPR of 71 before being moved on to the St James's Palace Stakes hero's breeders Sun Stud for 65,000gns. She has now joined the champions and star producers who comprise Dubawi's book of mares.
The Fasliyev mare Miss Brown To You, meanwhile, was raced by Bill Gredley and although her only success came in a Class 4 handicap at Chelmsford – for an RPR of 79 – she was persevered with as a broodmare by the owner and rewarded the loyalty by producing for him the popular Gold Cup winner Big Orange.
Habitually exceeding punters' expectations, Spectre has quietly risen to become one of the most valuable racemares in training in Europe still in the ownership of a smaller organisation. The equal of Al Shaqab Racing's Duke of Cambridge Stakes winner Qemah with a Racing Post Rating of 116, only the Coolmore pair of Minding and Seventh Heaven and Elite Racing Club's classy sprinter Marsha have better figures among the older fillies and mares in Europe.
The four-year-old won the Prix Imprudence last year at 22-1 before finishing fifth to La Cressonniere in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches at 20-1; then came a third to Zelzal in the Prix Jean Prat at 18-1; fourth to Ribchester in the Prix Jacques le Marois at 40-1; and second to Vadamos in the Prix du Moulin at 20-1.
After a few below-par runs this year, she once again put it up to the cream of the colts at a huge price when beaten just two and a half lengths by Ribchester into fourth in the Queen Anne Stakes on Tuesday at 50-1.
Former Bayern Munich defender Markus Munch is the breeder, owner and trainer of Spectre, who is by exciting young French sire Siyouni – on the scoresheet at Ascot this week with Jersey Stakes winner Le Brivido – out of a half-sister to high-class international performers Ibicenco and Irian.
If Munch chooses to cash in by selling his enormously talented mare to one of Europe's leading breeders, he should net a profit that will give him a bigger thrill than topping the Bundesliga with Bayern.
A small but not insignificant enhancement to the appeal of Spectre as a future broodmare is that Siyouni is by Pivotal, who is developing into a highly influential broodmare sire and was in red-hot form in this department at Royal Ascot.
Daughters of Pivotal produced Wolferton Handicap winner Snoano; Queen Anne Stakes second Mutakayyef; Hampton Court Stakes second Orderofthegarter; Gold Cup third Harbour Law; and Coronation Stakes third Hydrangea.
The identities of the fathers of those horses demonstrate that Pivotal mares appear to click with many different lines. Although Sea The Stars, sire of Mutakayyef, is a half-brother to Galileo, sire of Orderofthegarter and Hydrangea (and Rhododendron, for that matter), Nayef supplied Snoano and Lawman is responsible for Harbour Law.
The other Group 1 winners out of Pivotal mares bear out their versatility. Mayson is by Lawman's sire Invincible Spirit and Precieuse is a daughter of Nayef's son Tamayuz; but Main Sequence is a son of Aldebaran, Polarisation is by Echo Of Light and Winsili is by Dansili.
Spectre is not the only paternal granddaughter of Pivotal who shone at Royal Ascot. Queen Mary Stakes heroine Heartache – already a precious long-term breeding prospect as the sort of sharp and speedy filly that has worked so well when mated with Galileo – is by Pivotal's son Kyllachy.
Only weeks after Pour Moi, switched to covering jumps mares at the start of the year, supplied Derby hero Wings Of Eagles, two other sires who have recently been repackaged as 'dual-purpose' showed they are still serious sources of Flat talent at the royal meeting.
That the pair in question are Champs Elysees and Mount Nelson will rub salt into the wounds for British Flat breeders on smaller budgets as both were ticking over with respectable results while standing at reasonable fees in the vicinity of Newmarket but were not receiving enough support to prevent them from being sold to jumps-oriented organisations across the Irish Sea last winter.
Champs Elysees, who has no less than a Gold Cup winner on his record with Trip To Paris, joined the Castle Hyde Stud roster after seven seasons at Banstead Manor Stud. He made his mark this week with fast-finishing Hardwicke Stakes second Barsanti and Ascot Stakes runner-up Endless Acres.
Mount Nelson did little wrong in his eight-year spell at Newsells Park Stud before being sold to Boardsmill Stud – in fact he also had a Royal Ascot winner to his name in Berkshire. He very nearly added at least another to that tally with Majeed thrusting late but just denied by Snoano in the Wolferton Handicap and Librisa Breeze a rather unlucky-in-running fourth in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, while Bartholomeu Dias was fourth in his attempt to emulate Berkshire by taking the Chesham Stakes.
Of course, just because Champs Elysees and Mount Nelson are marketed primarily as jumps stallions that is not to say they are unavailable to Flat breeders, and perhaps those who think outside the box by using them might be rewarded by useful winners in their own colours or even a fair result in the sale ring with a good-looking individual.
Dabirsim will rightly be the toast of the first-season sires after putting a first black-type scorer on the board courtesy of Different League in the Albany Stakes to go with his impressive strike-rate of six winners from 12 early runners.
But spare a thought for his fellow freshman Havana Gold, who went agonisingly close to getting the winner of arguably the most prestigious two-year-old contest of the meeting, the Coventry Stakes, when Headway failed by just a head to reel in Rajasinghe to finish second.
Compensation surely awaits for Headway and he looks easily capable of striking in black-type company, as did National Stakes winner Havana Grey, who is probably better than he showed when tenth in the Norfolk Stakes.
Havana Gold fielded no fewer than five first-crop runners at the royal meeting this week, a creditable achievement in itself even if Headway was the only one to trouble the judge.
The Tweenhills stallion was the recipient of another fillip of sorts at Ascot this week as his sire Teofilo is the source of the admirable King Edward VII Stakes winner Permian.


dandy bohemian: What happened to Glee?
There wasn't a new episode last night and there would not be for a while. I know, it's sad and I don't know how to blog about Glee now. Except maybe share some photos and videos I got online.
Glee is on hiatus for about two months and they'll be back on February 6, 2011! What episode you might ask? It will be the epic Super Bowl Episode. From what I hear/see/read actually, they'll be singing Michael Jackson's Thriller. I mean, how awesome can that be?!?
Anyway, let me share to you first this video from youtube. It shows Lea Michele trying on a football uniform.
Cute, right? But, wait... There's more! This time, let me share some photos.
Lea Michele in full on Football uniform. Nice!
Of course, she is number 1!!!
Lea with her football buddies, Cory and Chord.
Its the Hummel family, together with a friend, Blaine!
How awesome does Chris' facial expression is?!?
Wait, why is Lea jumping?
Did they already win? Oooops, spoiler!!!
Last one is a short video in celebration for them hitting the 10 million mark in Facebook!!!!!!
It says Part 1 so expect more!


Should I finish with another drop?? Hope you Enjoy bois!!!!
the hats and kicks are way off beat.
ok i would fix it but audiotool next must of had a stroke and lost some memory because it says it does not exist????
that intro... Nice use of the reverb.


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Joel and Victoria Osteen Arrive At SiriusXM And Oprah, Reese Witherspoon And Donald Trump Are Really Excited
By Maricielo Gomez
Joel Osteen Radio is now live on SiriusXM.
To celebrate the launch of their brand-new channel on SiriusXM, preacher Joel Osteen and his wife Victoria hosted a special Q&A with a live audience and some of their famous friends called in to wish them well.
And when we say "famous friends," we mean REALLY famous: Donald Trump himself called Joel and Victoria, saying, "You're going to give a big blessing to the city; we can use more of you folks!"
In return, Joel praised Mr. Trump: "Mr. Trump is a giver… You can't find a more giving, gracious person than Mr. Trump." Piling on the praise, Donald responded: "It's really nice that you say that, but you know that you're going to ruin my reputation!" (Fun fact: The Osteens apparently are big Apprentice fans — their daughter has even been known to run around the house yelling "You're fired! You're fired!"
Later, an audience member with a drug-addicted past asked Joel about the greatest test of his faith. In response, Joel talked about the passing of his father and how it influenced him to take the next step in his life. "Before he died, I would tell Victoria, 'You know, my world was really tied around my father. I wonder what's going to happen when he goes,'" said Joel. "I fell in shock for a little while. But you know, in a day or two I felt a peace and a strength. I felt God's presence was there."
Joel went on to say that during this time in his life, he felt an undeniable responsibility to step up and pastor the church. "My mind was telling me, 'Joel, you are not a minister. You are too quiet, you haven't gotten up there and ministered before,' and a thousand thoughts were telling me that I couldn't do it! But down here, in the spirit of my heart, something was saying: 'Joel, this is your time. This is your destiny.'"
Even Reese Witherspoon called in to wish Joel and Victoria Osteen well, saying, "Every time I see y'all on TV, I am mesmerized!" Witherspoon even touched on her latest movie, Wild: "It's just one of those movies that makes you feel like you really need to appreciate your life."
Finally, Oprah called to the Q&A, where she talked about everything from her start on radio at the age of 16 to the day she realized she wanted to be a journalist. "I said I'd like to be a journalist, and I would like work in a world where I can tell stories and let other people see themselves through these stories," said the talk show queen.
Oprah also added, "The platform that you both hold, the gorgeous light that you bring into the world through the words and experiences that you share with people is SO powerful… And now we will be listening to you on Sirius!"
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Yogi's Hideaway offers the best in luxury, relaxation and things to do! If you're looking for a romantic retreat for two or an exciting family getaway, Yogi's is the place to be! You're only steps from popular Bear Creek Trail as well as Pinhotti Trail where hiking and biking is a favorite! Yogi's is nestled in a beautiful setting surrounded by the Chattahoochee National Forest. With your own private tennis court complete with basket ball goal too, there is always something to do at Yogi's! After a fun filled day of activity, enjoy a luxurious soak in the hot tub or a massage in the outdoor living area in front of a roaring fire. This outdoor space is perched in the tree tops and is one of the highlights of this property. There is also a small stocked (catfish) pond on the property for your enjoyment. Lake Conasauga, the highest lake in Georgia at 3,150 feet above sea level is only 14 miles from the cabin and provides a place for swimming and picnicking as well as Fort Mountain State Park which is 11 miles from the cabin. Choosing Yogi's as your getaway destination is not only a smart choice but one that you will enjoy making memories at for years to come!
Linens for each bed, (2) bath towels (1) hand towel (1) washcloth per person listed on reservation, dressers or closets for clothing storage, central heat & air, vacuum and/or broom and dust pan, mop, cable or satellite TV, internet, telephone for local calls.
Amazing stay. Cozy cabin with incredible outdoor space that made us get outside and play with the dogs and our kids and their friends (ages 15, 16, 21, & 25) Everyone stayed busy outdoors - playing basketball, going in the hot tub, making smores on the outdoor fireplace, walking around the pond and beautiful creeks, letting our city dogs run and play off leash and even had a fierce tennis match. Inside we cooked, played monopoly, watched a scary movie, did a puzzle, and enjoyed the fireplace. We ventured out each day to the falls above the cabin, another waterfall that was quite a drive away, had a picnic at the falls, and visited a local animal sanctuary and got to pet and hold baby goats, donkeys, horses, chickens, etc. It was truly an amazing family vacation.
Beautiful home!! Had everything we needed and then some. Games, movies, pool table, tennis court, basketball, jacuzzi, and hiking trails close by. Very clean, beds were comfortable, nicely decorated and pet friendly!
The only reason property did not get a 5 was because of some ants in the kitchen.
Overall we thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Yogis Hideaway. There was plenty of room and lots to do right there at the house. We enjoyed walking the property, feeding the fish in the pond and playing out on the tennis court. The pool table and hot tub were a huge hit. The kitchen had everything we needed to be able to cook and access to the washer and dryer was great! Thanks for everything!!
Yogi's Hideaway was everything described and more. The interior is even better than the pictures. We were able to ride our mountain bikes to Pinhoti 1 trail right from the cabin! The kitchen was well stocked. We cooked most of our meals and had plenty of pots and pans and serving dishes. The cabin was very clean and the beds were comfy. The outdoor covered deck was a perfect place to relax after a long day of riding. We even played a set of tennis on the courts outside. If you are looking for a nice relaxing getaway, this is your spot. I would highly recommend!
We loved Yogi's Hideaway! We will be back! The reservation process was easy, any questions we had were answered promptly, the cabin was immaculate, the amenities outstanding. Thank you!!!
Yogis is our happy place! On the last day as we drive away we feel sad to say goodbye until the next trip.
Great place. Clean and comfy. No problems at all. Sweet place. Loved the tennis court, central location for mountain biking, and relative seclusion.
Such a great little getaway! Everything was perfect!
Although our visit was cut short due to a family emergency, Debbie at mountain oasis cabin rentals treated us like family and not like a number. This day and age it is truly amazing to have had such kind caring attention given to as during and after our emergency. I have never seen the likes of a company with such integrity and honor. If there were more companies like mountain oasis cabin rentals traveling on vacation would be a effortless experience. Booking the cabin was easy, the staff gave as plenty of choices based on what we were looking for during our stay. Offered plenty of ideas of things to do while we were in the mountains. And we were very pleased with how easy it was to find the cabin. And most importantly the cabin was as beautiful In person as it was on the website. We look forward to many more years booking our anniversary vacation with mountain oasis. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for taking such good care of us.
We had a very nice stay at Yogi's Hideaway. The location was perfect to hiking Bear Creek, Pinhoti, Consanauga, Mountain Creek, Emery Creek and many other trails in the area, all beautiful. The deck and the hot tub were amazing. Booking was easy, the direction to the cabin was spot on, and it was wonderful to go straight to the cabin with the lock box rather than having to drive somewhere to check in and out. Having the lights on, the hot tub ready and the music playing when we arrived was an amazing welcoming touch. The kitchen has all the dishes, glasses, pots and pans that we ever needed. The toiletries, abundant soft, fluffy towels and availability of hot tub towels were wonderful. Thank you for your prompt response and attention when we had a minor issue.
We really enjoyed your place.
Thanks for much for the lovely stay. This was our second time at Yogis Hideaway and it was again delightful. Thank you for being pet friendly! We love hiking with our dogs and so enjoy the easy walk to the hiking trails. The home is perfect for our group of women who like to hike, cook and converse. Weather was perfect to use the lovely outdoor room. Thanks again for a great stay.
Our experience with Mountain Oasis Cabin Rentals has been so easy and efficient. The booking process was smooth, the office staff was well informed and replied quickly to my questions. We stayed at Yogi's Hideaway for a long weekend for a family wedding and are so impressed with the cabin and it's amenities. The place was spotless, beds were comfortable, and the kitchen was the most well-equipped kitchen I've ever seen. Really good experience all around.


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Telltale Updates Older Games
April 20, 2008 November 3, 2006
As you may know by now, Telltale have updated their older games. Out from Boneville and The Great Cow Race have been updated to the newest version of the Telltale engine. It looks like Texas Holdem will soon be updated too.
Unfortunately, they've also updated the resource files used by the games – these are all now encrypted. The end result of this is that Telltale Explorer cant handle the new resource files. CSI will still work, as will the old versions of the games, but the new updated ones wont. I'm trying to fix this, but its very difficult, since the new resource files are heavily obscured and encrypted. In the meantime, people can keep an eye on the SCUMM hacking forums to see what progress is being made.
Happily, there's also good news. Music can still be extracted using the Telltale Music Extractor, and the tool also works with the new Telltale game – Sam and Max: Culture Shock (which you should all be buying).
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Does the LangDB Editor work with S&M: Culture Shock?
And thanks for your work during all those years, your software has proven useful more than once 🙂
bgbennyboy
At the moment it doesnt no. All the newer versions of the Telltale games have an encrypted ttarch (the main resource file) and the files within that are also encrypted. So to add support for the newer games to the langdb editor I'd have to:
1) Add support to telltale explorer to decrypt the ttarch and decrypt the individual files so that the langdb file could be dumped
2) Update the langdb editor to support S+M and to re-encrypt the langdb file.
3) Update the ttarch creator to support encrypting the ttarch, so that the files could be put back in the game.
Step 1 is almost complete, thanks to John_Doe, he's done amazing work figuring out the encryption. Steps 2 and 3 are now theoretically possible, but would involve a lot of work and I'm not really sure that it'd be worth the effort for such a niche tool.
NEORYU
please, don't stop the work of the langdb for S&M.
I wanna make a spanish translation of the game. It's a great game, and i wanna be sure that all the spanish players understand all the jokes humor and eastern eggs, so please, pleaseeeee


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This number called my cell phone more than 5 times a day for the past two days, this is the second time I have received strange calls from a number with an area code 201. I ended up blocking both numbers, and call the service provider status report.
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