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Luciano Emilio (* 12. Dezember 1978 in Ilha Solteira, São Paulo) ist ein ehemaliger brasilianischer Fußballspieler.

Karriere

Frühere Jahre
1995 spielte er beim brasilianischen Drittligisten XV de Piracicaba. Im Alter von 16 Jahren machte Emilio dort seine ersten Erfahrungen im Profifußball. In der nächsten Saison wechselte er zu Rio Branco.

1997 wechselte er zum 1. FC Köln. Anfangs spielte er für die Jugendmannschaft des Vereins. Anschließend schaffte er den Sprung in den Profikader.

Nachdem er sich bei den Geißböcken nicht durchsetzen konnte, wechselte er zu Alemannia Aachen, wo er in einer Saison 24 Einsätze für sich verbuchen konnte. Nach nur einer Saison verließ er Aachen und wechselte zum Oberligisten FC Remscheid, wo er in 23 Einsätzen 3 Tore erzielte.  Dennoch verabschiedete er sich erneut nach nur einer Saison aus Remscheid und ging in sein Heimatland zurück und spielte beim aktuellen Drittligisten União Barbarense.

Honduras und Mexiko
Danach wechselte Emilio nach Honduras, wo er für Real España und CD Olimpia spielte. Danach spielte er in Mexiko bei Querétaro FC. 2005 wechselte er zurück zu Olimpia.

Major League Soccer
Ab 2007 spielte er in der amerikanischen Major League Soccer bei D.C. United in Washington, D. C. Am Ende seiner ersten Saison in den USA gewann er mit der Mannschaft den MLS Supporter's Shield. Er wurde mit 20 Toren Torschützenkönig in der Regular Season und erhielt dafür den MLS Golden Boot, außerdem wurde zum Besten Spieler der Saison 2007 gewählt.

Im August 2009 erhielt Emilio eine US-Green-Card. So fällt er nicht mehr unter die Ausländerregel der MLS. Ende 2009 verweigerte Luciano Emilio die Unterschrift eines neuen Vertrags, mit dem er erheblich weniger Gehalt bekommen hätte als vorher. Etwas später wechselte er zurück zu seinem früheren Verein Rio Branco EC. Im April 2010 unterschrieb er einen Drei-Monats-Vertrag mit DC United und kehrte nach Washington zurück. Nach den drei Monaten wurde ihm kein weiterer Vertrag angeboten. Während dieser Zeit spielte 4-mal für DC in der MLS und erzielte ein Tor im US Open Cup.

Daraufhin wechselte er zum Danubio FC nach Uruguay.  Für die Montevideaner bestritt er sechs Erstligaspiele und erzielte einen Treffer. Anschließend wechselte er Anfang Januar 2011 in die zweite mexikanische Liga zu Atlante UTN.

Nach weiteren Stationen spielte Emilio 2013 in seiner Heimat Brasilien bei Grêmio Catanduvense, wo er seine Karriere beendete.

Erfolge
D.C. United
 Major League Soccer Supporter's Shield (1): 2007
 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (1): 2008

Olimpia
 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras (3): 2004-05 Clausura, 2005-06 Apertura, 2005-06 Clausura

Querétaro
 Liga de Ascenso (1): Clausura 2005

Real España
 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras (1): 2003-04 Apertura

XV de Piracicaba
 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C (1): 1995

Spielerehrungen
 Major League Soccer MVP: 2007
 MLS Golden Boot Gewinner: 2007
 MLS Newcomer of the Year: 2007
 MLS Best XI: 2007

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Fußballspieler (Rio Branco EC)
Fußballspieler (1. FC Köln)
Fußballspieler (Alemannia Aachen)
Fußballspieler (União Barbarense)
Fußballspieler (Real España)
Fußballspieler (CD Olimpia)
Fußballspieler (D.C. United)
Fußballspieler (Danubio FC)
Fußballspieler (Querétaro Fútbol Club)
Fußballspieler (Toros Neza)
Brasilianer
Geboren 1978
Mann

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Q: Ujquery height arrangement I am using in my html code the automatic menu accordition of Ujquery.
The site is here
I managed in my css file to adjust the width of it with the following code:
.menu{

    position: absolute;
    top: 5%;
    left: 10%;
    width: 80%;
    background-color: blue;
 }

Why the width parametre works great and the height not? I want to set all this menu to 50% of my available space.
Thank you for your time in advance.

A: .ui-accordion-content{height:50%;position:relative;}

Don't initialize heightStyle at all.
  $(function() {
    $( "#accordion" ).accordion({
    });
  });

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/calder12/h8KhV/2/

A: If you are just trying to get the accordion to fill a given amount of space on your page. Try this-
http://jsfiddle.net/apaul34208/GxVYN/1/
js
 $(function () {
     $("#accordion").accordion({
         heightStyle: "fill"
     });
 });

css
body {
    height:500px;
}
.container {
    height:50%;
}

A: Thank you for your time.
I solve it following the code here:
Was my mistake not to look all the javascript documentation!
Thank you for you time once more!

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Mbeki warning ahead of ANC vote
South African leader says divisions could "destroy" party ahead of leadership vote.
Jacob Zuma is currently the frontrunner after branch nominations [EPA]
Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, has said that the acrimonious contest to lead his ruling African National Congress could destroy the party.
The warning comes two days before the ANC gathers to select a new leader and formulate policies for the next five years.
Mbeki, who has been president since 1999, is seeking a third term as the party's president against the current deputy leader, Jacob Zuma in a contest that has been dominated by personality clashes rather than policies.
"If division leads to retribution, that's what will destroy the ANC... Part of our responsibility is to avoid such an outcome," Mbeki told the Mail & Guardian newspaper on Friday.
Given the party's electoral dominance, whoever is selected as leader following the gathering that runs from December 16-20 would be virtually assured of winning the presidency in the next vote scheduled for 2009.
Fraught relationship
Zuma is the frontrunner after taking about 60 per cent of the votes in ANC branch nominations.
The relationship between the two men is now fraught and has led to a split in the party.
Zuma was chosen by Mbeki as deputy president in 1999, but was fired by his party leader after Zuma's financial adviser was convicted of fraud and bribery in June 2005.
"We must take this thing away from personalities - the masses of our people are not in the least interested in who dances best," Mbeki said.
Zuma is a controversial figure. He was acquitted of rape last year and has potential fraud and corruption charges looming over him.
If he is called to court before the 2009 elections, any campaign of his to become president could be disbanded.
Despite this, Zuma remains popular as a defender of the poor, contrasting to what some see as the aloof and intellectual Mbeki.
Were Mbeki to be elected he would be constitutionally barred from standing for a third term as the country's president, but will be able to influence who becomes the ANC's presidential candidate, most likely by selecting his deputy-president.
Professor Adam Habib, a political analyst at the University of Johannesburg, says that many of the cited differences between a Zuma and Mbeki leadership may not materialise.
"I don't think there would be a fundamental change of policy, if either were elected," Habib said.
'Stark divisions'
"South Africa's macro-economic policy has already changed over the last three or four years. We no longer talk about privatisation. We have a state-led industrialisation drive. We have a huge number of people on social support grants.
"What we are likely to see is changes in policy that are in line with what has been happening over the last three or four years."
However, Habib does not necessarily see Zuma or Mbeki uniting the ANC.
"I think the divisions between Zuma and Mbeki are too stark and too fundamental to create the circumstances for a bridge to be created between the two by either of the candidates' support.
"I think that both Zuma and Mbeki will advance the causes of their respective camps."
Were Zuma to win, Habib sees Mbeki as having to step down and ask the national legislature to choose a president from their own ranks or call early presidential elections.
If Mbeki wins, Habib says that power is likely to continue to be centralised but it will be contested more vigorously, as has happened recently with increasing opposition to Mbeki's consolidation of power in his national administration.
Alternatively, a more organised formation could occur much like the transition of power under prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the UK.
Nelson Mandela's former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has offered a compromise proposal to ease factionalism under which Mbeki would stay on as ANC leader and then Zuma appointed as the ANC candidate for the country's presidency in 2009.
Zuma's secretary, Nontokozo Luthuli, said Madikizela-Mandela held discussions with Zuma on Friday, but did not elaborate. SABC radio said she was also expected to hold talks with Mbeki. An ANC spokesman could not confirm those talks were scheduled.

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Q: A fraction $\frac{p}{q}$ is a natural number iff $\left(\frac{p}{q}\right)^2$ is a natural number
Let $f$ be defined as follows
$$f: \Bbb Q \to \Bbb Q$$
$$f(x) = x^2$$
Show that $f(ℕ) ∩ ℕ = f(\Bbb Q) ∩ ℕ$

My attempt at solving this:
$$f(ℕ) ∩ ℕ = \{y \in \Bbb N \quad | \quad y = x^2, \quad x \in \Bbb N\}$$
$$f(\Bbb Q) ∩ ℕ = \{y \in \Bbb N \quad | \quad y = x^2, \quad x \in \Bbb Q\}$$
So it is sufficient to show that
$$\frac{p}{q} \in \Bbb N \iff \left(\frac{p}{q}\right)^2 \in \Bbb N$$
By definition it follows that
$$\frac{p}{q} \in \Bbb N \iff p = q \cdot l
   \qquad p,q,l \in \Bbb N \quad q \neq 0$$
I also found out that $$\left(\frac{p}{q}\right)^2 \in \Bbb N \iff p^2 = q^2 \cdot l^2$$
(the value of $l$ stays the same, do I have to prove this?)
So $q \cdot l - p = 0 \iff q^2 \cdot l^2 - p^2 = 0$? And if so, how to proceed?
Am I on the right track?

A: if $$\frac{p}{q}$$ is a natural number then it must be $$\frac{p}{q}=m$$ and $m$ is a natural number, then we get by squaring $$p^2=q^2m^2$$ and $$\frac{p^2}{q^2}=m^2$$ is a natural number.
if $$\frac{p^2}{q^2}=m^2$$ then we have $$p^2=q^2m^2$$ or $$(p-qm)(p+qm)=0$$ from here we get $$\frac{p}{q}=m$$ and this is a natural number.

A: I think the converse is a bit trickier than as shown in the above answer. In Travis's original post, when talking about the value of $l$ stays the same, yes it does, but we cannot assume that $l \in \mathbb{N}$ as stated in the previous line.
Here's my take at this:
It is straightforward that $\frac{p}{q} \in \mathbb{N} \implies \frac{p^2}{q^2} \in \mathbb{N}$. Let's now prove $\frac{p^2}{q^2} \in \mathbb{N} \implies \frac{p}{q} \in \mathbb{N}$:
Suppose $\frac{p}{q} \notin \mathbb{N}$. Then, $\exists \hat{p}, \hat{q} \in \mathbb{N}: \frac{p}{q} = \frac{\hat{p}}{\hat{q}} $ and $(\hat{p},\hat{q}) = 1$. (Reduced $\frac{p}{q}$ to its simpliest form)
Hence, $\frac{p^2}{q^2} = \frac{\hat{p}^2}{\hat{q}^2}$ and $(\hat{p}^2,\hat{q}^2) = 1\implies \frac{p^2}{q^2} \notin \mathbb{N}$. This is the contrapositive of the original statement.


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#ifndef _DT_BINDINGS_PINCTRL_TEGRA_H
#define _DT_BINDINGS_PINCTRL_TEGRA_H

/*
 * Enable/disable for diffeent dt properties. This is applicable for
 * properties nvidia,enable-input, nvidia,tristate, nvidia,open-drain,
 * nvidia,lock, nvidia,rcv-sel, nvidia,high-speed-mode, nvidia,schmitt.
 */
#define TEGRA_PIN_DISABLE				0
#define TEGRA_PIN_ENABLE				1

#define TEGRA_PIN_PULL_NONE				0
#define TEGRA_PIN_PULL_DOWN				1
#define TEGRA_PIN_PULL_UP				2

/* Low power mode driver */
#define TEGRA_PIN_LP_DRIVE_DIV_8			0
#define TEGRA_PIN_LP_DRIVE_DIV_4			1
#define TEGRA_PIN_LP_DRIVE_DIV_2			2
#define TEGRA_PIN_LP_DRIVE_DIV_1			3

/* Rising/Falling slew rate */
#define TEGRA_PIN_SLEW_RATE_FASTEST			0
#define TEGRA_PIN_SLEW_RATE_FAST			1
#define TEGRA_PIN_SLEW_RATE_SLOW			2
#define TEGRA_PIN_SLEW_RATE_SLOWEST			3

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The Two Levels of Russia's South China Sea Policies
Post author By Alexander Korolev
No Comments on The Two Levels of Russia's South China Sea Policies
Courtesy of Lazopoulos George/Flickr. (CC BY 2.0)
This article was originally published by the East-West Center (EWC) on 28 March 2017.
Russia's policies regarding the South China Sea (SCS) dispute are more complex than they might seem. Moscow's official position presents Russia as an extra-regional actor with no stakes in the dispute. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Russia "had never been a participant of the South China Sea disputes" and considers it "a matter of principle not to side with any party." However, behind the façade of formal disengagement are Russia's military build-up in the Asia-Pacific region, and the multi-billion dollar arms and energy deals with the rival claimants. These factors reveal that even though Moscow may not have direct territorial claims in the SCS, it has strategic goals, interests, and actions that have direct bearing on how the SCS dispute evolves.
One-fourth of Russia's massive military modernization program through 2020 is designated for the Pacific Fleet, headquartered in Vladivostok, to make it better equipped for extended operations in distant seas. Russia's military cooperation with China has progressed to the point that President Putin called China Russia's "natural partner and natural ally." The two countries' most recent joint naval exercise – "Joint Sea 2016" – took place in the SCS, and became the first exercise of its kind involving China and a second country in the disputed SCS after the Hague-based tribunal ruling on China's "nine-dash line" territorial claims. However, Russia's relations with Vietnam are displaying a similar upward trend: Russia-Vietnam relations have been upgraded to a "comprehensive strategic partnership" comparable to the Russia-China relationship. Russia and Vietnam are developing joint gas projects in the SCS, and Moscow also is trying to return to the Cam Ranh naval base and selling Hanoi advanced weapon systems that enhance Vietnam's defense capabilities.
Moscow's actual behavior, therefore, hardly conforms to the neutrality of its official statements. The simultaneous enhancements of military cooperation with both Beijing and Hanoi – two of the major direct disputants in the SCS – make Russia's intentions hard to interpret, and require a more holistic framework that encapsulates different levels of Russia's foreign policy interests.
Great powers play multi-level foreign policy games that may overlap in specific issue-areas. For Russia, the SCS issue is where two levels of its policies – systemic anti-hegemonic balancing and non-systemic regional hedging – intersect.
The first level – systemic balancing – is driven by the global power distribution and perceptions of major threats. As a systemic balancer, Russia challenges the US-led unipolarity in multiple ways, as evidenced by its policies in Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria. The drive to balance the system leader (the United States) makes Russia seek alignment with China, which, like Russia, also challenges American unipolar dominance and perceives the US "Pivot to Asia" as a major threat to its security. Thus, Russian and Chinese assessments of external threats coincide in that both countries consider US policies – NATO's eastward expansion in the Russian case and the "Pivot to Asia" in the Chinese case – threatening. The pressure originating from the US-led international system and the resultant incentives to resist it generate a strong bottom line that pushes Russia and China together. From this perspective, the SCS for Russia is a part of a bigger global game that dictates that Russia does not go against China's interests, but rather provides some tacit, if not open, support.
The second level – regional hedging – is motivated by domestic and regional considerations and materializes in a combination of policies aimed at diversifying Russia's regional links and averting potential instability that could affect Russia's economic interests in the Asia Pacific. It also heads Moscow's commercial desire to profit from energy, infrastructure, and arms deals. By strengthening connections with Hanoi, including arms exports, military-technical cooperation, and joint energy projects, Moscow creates a more balanced power-and-interest configuration around the SCS, and simultaneously diversifies its portfolio of Asian partners, with Vietnam also serving as an inroad to the ASEAN community. This explains why Russia, while not opposing China's policies, also appears sympathetic towards Vietnam's concerns in the SCS. The intersection of the two levels creates the intrinsic ambiguity of Russia's SCS policies.
The main implication of this "two-level game" is that the nature of the SCS dispute for Russia, as well as Russia's corresponding policy responses, is a variable rather than a constant: the more the SCS dispute deviates from a regional issue of sovereignty into the realm of China-US confrontation, the more Russia's behavior in the region carries the features of anti-unipolar balancing. Conversely, the less the United States is involved, the more Russia's policies in the area remain aloof from the system-level balancing and the more likely they are to carry features of regional hedging.
So far, the aforementioned two layers of Russia's policies in the SCS have worked well without contradicting each other:
Vietnam has benefited from cooperation with Russia not only because such cooperation is valuable in its own right, but also because given the closeness of China-Russia relations, it provides an extra gateway for improving relations with China, which Hanoi values. Unlike relations with the United States, partnership with Russia provides Vietnam with needed access to advanced arms and energy technologies while simultaneously helping to avoid being locked between the hammer and the anvil of China-US competition. Plus, Hanoi has long experience using Russian arms and military equipment.
Russia's policies also resonate with Beijing's strategic calculations. While the Russia-Vietnam strategic partnership with its strong military component may look anti-China, in reality it works for Beijing's interests because it helps to prevent the consolidation of a Hanoi-Washington alliance. While being unhappy about Russia's arms transfers to Vietnam, Beijing recognizes that a decline or termination of such transfers would result in Hanoi shifting from its current policy of diversifying military contacts, to a stronger lean towards Washington; this shift would close the US-led containment ring around China. Therefore, despite the emphatic resistance against the internationalization of the SCS dispute, Beijing accepts Russia's greater involvement as well as Russia-Vietnam military cooperation.
Russia, by engaging both China and Vietnam, realizes its regional and global goals. It increases its stake in the Asian balance of power, slows down the US-Vietnam entente, and shapes the SCS dispute so that there is more room for multilateral negotiations. For Russia, maintaining the status quo, however imperfect it is, is better than dealing with a victory of one party over another.
Alexander Korolev is a Research Fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, of the National University of Singapore.
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Lisa Downing
Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality, Modern Languages
I welcome applications from PhD students in any of my current areas of interest, listed below: Theoretical and cultural studies approaches to crime and criminality Historical or contemporary sexuality and gender studies Interrogations of feminist, queer, Foucauldian, psychoanalytic, and ethical thought Identity politics and freedom of expression Women and power, women and the right wing, women and politics The gendering of 'extremism'.
13 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
1 Scholarly edition
Power for pleasure: review of Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2011)
Downing, L., 2013, In: New Formations. 80-81, p. 218-220
Review of Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizielińska (eds), De-centring Western sexualities: Central and Eastern European perspectives (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
Downing, L. & Gillett, R., 2013, In: Psychology and Sexuality. 4, 3, p. 325-328
Review of Mandy Merck and Stella Sandford (eds), Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Downing, L., 2012, In: Studies in the Maternal. 4, 1
Object-become-subject: when femmes look back, review of Del LaGrace Volcano and Ulrika Dahl, Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities (London: Serpent's Tale, 2008)
Downing, L., 2011, In: SQS: Journal of Queer Studies in Finland. 5, 1, p. 63-65
Review of Tim Dean, Beyond Sexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Downing, L., 2005, In: Archives of Sexual Behavior. 34, 2, p. 255-257


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power system representation
March 9, 2015 March 1, 2015 by Microcontrollers Lab
Power system representation, One line diagram another way Following methods are used to represent a power system:
One line diagram
Impedance diagram
Reactance diagram
1.ONE LINE DIAGRAM:
The symbolic representation of an electrical power system is known as one line diagram. A three phase power system is represented by a single phase power system. In a single phase system, there is a phase wire and a neutral wire. So to make an equivalent circuit, we show it through a symbolic representation as shown in the following figure:
In this diagram, three generators G1, G2 and G3 have been grounded separately through a reactor. The generators are connected to the bus bar through circuit breakers; furthermore the step up transformers are connected to the transmission line T1 through circuit breakers.
2.IMPEDANCE DIAGRAM:
To represent electrical components in terms of impedances is known as an impedance diagram. The one line diagram can be converted into an impedance diagram as shown in the following figure:
impedence diagram of power system
In the above diagram:
Load impedances are represented by RL.
The current limiting impedances between generators and their grounds have been omitted.
The shunt impedances of transformers have been omitted.
Transmission line is represented by a π circuit.
3. REACTANCE DIAGRAM:
If all the components of a power system are represented through the reactances, then such a diagram is called reactance diagram of the power system. Resistance is also neglected in such a diagram. Therefore, there is not much difference between impedance and reactance diagram. The loads of rotating machines are usually neglected because of no significant effect on line currents during a fault. Synchronous motor loads are always considered during fault calculations but the generated emf is considered in short circuit currents. Induction motor is neglected while finding currents. The impedance diagram can be converted into reactance diagram as shown by the following figure:
reactance diagram of power system


Hyderabad, (IANS) In a gruesome incident, a youth stabbed his cousin to death after she spurned his love and later committed suicide by jumping on to the high-tension electric wires.
The incident occurred in Bhupalapally, the headquarters of Jayashankar-Bhupalapally district in Telangana, on Wednesday night.
According to police, 22-year-old Ganesh committed the offence when his maternal cousin Sandhya Rani, 19, was alone at her home.
The youth, who had been pestering her to marry her, suspected she was in love with another cousin. During a heated argument over this, Ganesh repeatedly stabbed her with a kitchen knife.
On hearing the cries of the girl, neighbours rushed to the house.
While the girl died on the spot, Ganesh escaped. He went on to the terrace of an adjoining building and jumped on the high-tension power lines.
The youth's body was removed by the police with the help of rescue team of Singareni Collieries Co.
Ganesh, who hails from Paloncha town in Khammam district, had come to Bhupalapally three days ago and was staying at his maternal uncle's house.
Sandhya was a student of second year of graduation in a college.


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Loans of drought affected to be cancelled
The Government is taking measures to cancel the loans taken by the poor from the micro finance companies in the drought affected areas, Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera said yesterday.
He also said that the financial gap created by this move would be made up by the Samurdhi banks.
He also said that the independent auditing of the Samurdhi Bank was initiated last year.
"The government has planned to formulate a programme to monitor Samurdhi Banks," Minister Samaraweera said.
The Minister made these observations yesterday participating in the 'Samurdhi Bank Harasara' at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall.
Minister Samaraweera further said that the objective of the "Samurdhi programme has not been able to be achieved even after 25 years since its initiation. He added that however Sri Lanka is proud to be the country with the lowest poverty rate in the South Asian region.
Minister Samaraweera also added that the poverty rate which was 7 percent in 2012 has dropped to 4.1 percent this year.
"The Samurdhi Programme has also contributed to these achievements," Minister Samraweera said, adding that the government is taking measures to eradicate poverty in the country in line with the United Nations agreements."
He further said that there is no point in earning profits by investing Samurdhi funds in commercial banks.
Minister Samaraweera added that there should be some other mechanism to earn profits.
Social Empowerment Minister P. Harison, Social Empowerment Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake and Social Empowerment Ministry Secretary Shirani Weerakoon also participated.
(Source: Daily News – By Sandasen Marasinghe)
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MANADO AIR BASE, Indonesia — Exercise Cope West 2018, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored, bilateral tactical fighter aircraft exercise involving the U.S. and Indonesian air forces, concluded with a closing ceremony at the Sam Ratulangi International Airport, Indonesia.
PACIFIC OCEAN — The Carl Vinson Strike Group has completed a bilateral exercise in the Western Pacific with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. faces the most complex, volatile security environment in the Indo-Pacific region in recent memory, with North Korea posing the top threat, the commander of U.S. Pacific Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
PHILIPPINE SEA — The guided missile destroyer USS Mustin operated as Destroyer Squadron 15's flagship during MultiSail 2018, an annual combined training exercise designed to increase readiness and interoperability between U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force units.
WASHINGTON — The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy departed its home port of San Diego in support of the 13th Pacific Partnership, the Navy's humanitarian and civic assistance mission conducted with and through partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and other U.S. and international government agencies to execute a variety of humanitarian civic action missions in the Pacific Fleet area of responsibility.
WASHINGTON — Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan met the Australian prime minister at the Pentagon to discuss the robust defense relationship between the U.S. and Australia and the common strategic challenges the two nations face.
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrapped up a trip that took him to Wake Island, Australia, Thailand, Guam and Hawaii, where he visited the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.
WAKE ISLAND — By history and by blood, the U.S. is a Pacific nation and nothing says that better than this remote coral atoll. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stopped there during a trip to Australia and Thailand to meet with allies.


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Bob's boots were better from a basement
The weird mystery.
As a crate digger back in the 1990s, with a pretty deep interest in Bob Dylan recordings, there were bootlegs and there were bootlegs and then there was "Blood On The Tapes".
I clearly recall first reading about this pirate release, which was recorded in New York in 1974, in an article in the Irish Times – in which it was cast as buried treasure from a golden period in Dylan's songwriting. The 11 recordings were solo first drafts of songs that Dylan would later re-record in Minneapolis with a band and which would make up his famous "Blood On The Tracks".
The New York songs were rawer and closer than the re-made versions, most of which went onto the official release of Dylan's famed marriage break-up album.
I also recall travelling from Athlone, where I was working as a reporter on a local paper, to Dublin on a 1990s midsummer Saturday afternoon, solely to visit a basement record shop on Wicklow Street and pick up my £5 cassette of the bootleg.
This led to a probably-not-wholly-healthy period of listening to and learning to play all the songs, an activity which occupied most of the rest of that summer and probably didn't leave me in the sunniest state of mind. I've kept the bootleg close to hand ever since – buying it on CD, pushing copies into the hands of friends, and generally regarding it as 40 minutes of peak Dylan.
Last week's news then, that the songwriter is now set to release an exhaustive haul of "Blood On The Tracks" outtakes, alternative versions and forgotten takes (essentially "Blood On The Tapes" on steroids), should be a cause of celebration.
But it's not. After my initial excitement at reading the news, my heart sank. A piece of esoteric musical history, a little-known-of Pandora's box known only to the faithful, will now be cataloged, opened and exposed. The air of weird mystery that saw me spend weeks teasing out every nook of the recordings, learning every cadence and breath and bum note and cough, will evaporate.
The New York recordings will still be great, but they will be buried amidst many others, and the wonder of the 11-song artifact that was "Blood On The Tapes" will be lost. Except to those of us who have the old cassette or CD, though, and who know just when those coughs and bum notes pop up.
Tagged 1990s, Blood On The Tapes, Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan, Cormac Looney, Music
Environment, Music, Portland, United States
My end of the world nightmare sounds like this
"I shuffle along an empty beach…ash in the air". Pic: Cormac Looney
When I picture the aftermath of a catastrophic event – a nuclear attack, the eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera, the "Big One" hitting the Pacific Northwest – I'm rarely focused on the soundtrack.
In my mind I picture something not unlike the closing scenes of "The Road", John Hillcoat's movie of Cormac McCarthy's novel: I'm shuffling along an empty beach, polluted waves washing ashore, ash in the air, everything a tundra brown. It's raining, I'm hungry, I'm terrified. I hope my loved ones are safe, if not near. There's an acrid scent on the shoreline breeze.
This is how I think the apocalypse would look, smell and feel. For a while I've wondered what it would sound like – having listened to the new Low album, I think I know.
"Double Negative" sounds like an album recorded in the basement of the last, dilapidated house on that shoreline in my end-of-days nightmare. Huge, static bass, martial drums, vocals half heard, creeping in and out, broken radio transmissions, fragments of melody – it's exactly what I'd expect to hear as I boiled my last leather shoe for soup.
The lyrics may be more personal than 'death of civilization', but the themes of disconnection and doubt fit the vast, jarring eruption beneath them. It's the sound of something gone badly, hugely wrong, and the sound of its fallout.
I try not to think of a slow, tortuous Armageddon. But listening to "Double Negative", challenging and, in equal parts, brutal and beautiful, it's hard not to.
Tagged Cascadia earthquake, Cormac Looney, Cormac McCarthy, Double Negative, Low, Music, natural disaster, The Road, Yellowstone Caldera
The meaning of life, according to a ghost
George Saunders' 2017 novel.
The world's bookshelves – not to mention its places of worship – are filled with attempts to uncover the meaning of life. Not only is it hard to find (let me know if you have), it's also hard to write about.
In terms of fiction, at least. While philosophers and the religious can deploy a chosen strategy or belief system in their attempts to pin down and formulate it, novelists have no such overt frameworks to hang their theories on.
Sometimes it's best approached in a roundabout way. The gangster Pinkie Brown from Graham Greene's "Brighton Rock" comes to mind in this respect, a killer whose surface actions appear to motivated by understandable criminal hatreds, but whose cold-blooded willingness to kill underlies the great empty pointlessness of his situation.
On other occasions, it's tackled head on – the "Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name…" lines that the narrator speaks in Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"; the nothingness that the old man in the cafe in the story seeks to avoid, through brandy and company.
I recently came across a more positive – or less hopeless at least – outlook in George Saunders' "Lincoln In The Bardo". At its core a novel about death and bereavement, one of the main characters, a ghost who's speaking as he's about to ascend/descend into heaven/hell, provides as clear an account of the meaning of life as I've read in fiction in some time. Whether it enlightens, or provides consolation, is a different matter, of course (personally, I've looked to poetry for that), but it reads as good as any.
"None of it was real; nothing was real.
Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear.
These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and , in this way, brought them forth.
And now must lose them."
Tagged A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Afterlife, Bereavement, Cormac Looney, Death, Ernest Hemingway, George Saunders, Lincoln In The Bardo
Standing on West Street, NYC
One World Trade Center, September 2018
Marking the passing of time by registering certain dates seems remarkably futile – after all, why should a one year anniversary hold any more meaning than a one year and one day anniversary?
And yet. As I stood on West Street in downtown Manhattan this weekend it occurred to me that – 20 years to the day – I also stopped on the same street, perhaps even at the same spot, to take a photograph of the Twin Towers.
Back then I could barely visualize 20 days into the future, let alone 20 years. Staring up at One World Trade Center, I wondered where they went.
What of the hundreds of people I'd known, or worked with, or briefly encountered during those years? Or the smells and sights of the places I'd been? Or the high highs and low lows of those intervening decades. How many of them could I recall? Were they already disappearing? Twenty years hence, would I even recall the day I first stood on West Street?
In other words, what is the point of marking the passing of time? Shouldn't I take a hint from this most famous of forward-facing cities, and focus on the future, leaving the past to the past?
And yet, and yet – I still found myself standing on West Street, looking at the impossible skyward glass, absorbing its curious mix of hope and fear.
Tagged Cormac Looney, Labor Day, Memory, new york, One World Trade Center, Twin Towers, West Street, World Trade Center


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The Beatnuts, Do You Believe: We need your help!
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There are currently two groups:
1. A American Hip Hop group.
2. A Japanese instrumental latin jazz-fusion group.
1. The Beatnuts are a hip hop group and production duo from Queens, New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les. JuJu (born Jerry Tineo on December 4, 1968) is Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les (born Lester Fernandez on April 10, 1972) is a Colombian American from Jackson Heights. The Beatnuts were originally a trio before Kool Fashion, now known as Al' Tariq, left the group to start a solo career. Read Full BioThere are currently two groups:
1. The Beatnuts are a hip hop group and production duo from Queens, New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les. JuJu (born Jerry Tineo on December 4, 1968) is Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les (born Lester Fernandez on April 10, 1972) is a Colombian American from Jackson Heights. The Beatnuts were originally a trio before Kool Fashion, now known as Al' Tariq, left the group to start a solo career. The Mighty V.I.C. (Groove Merchantz, Ghetto Pros) was also a member of The Beatnuts' production team for a while.
Early on in their career they produced whole albums for Posse members Common Sense and Chi-Ali. Their production is noted as some of the finest and most accomplished, if unheralded, in all of hip-hop, often intricately detailed (as in their finely honed work for Mos Def on two tracks from Black on Both Sides) but more regularly barnstorming, club-friendly, flourish-laden party music. Jennifer Lopez used their track "Watch Out Now" as the instrumental for her song "Jenny from the Block". The Beatnuts produced more songs for the artists they had previously collaborated with as well as Fat Joe, Suprême NTM and Da Youngsta's. At the same time, The Beatnuts made their name as remix specialists by remixing songs for MC Lyte, Da Lench Mob, Naughty by Nature, Jomanda and others.
The Beatnuts are noted for being unabashedly, bullishly ribald and in-your-face performers. Recent Beatnuts albums are characterised by more Latin influences.
Less known is they are considered part of the Native Tongues collective. The Beatnuts are the only Latino members of the Native Tongues collective. Although only peripheral members, they are routinely acknowledged by Q-Tip.
01World Famous1:29
02Bless The M.I.C.3:22
03Intermission1:10
04Here's A Drink3:04
05Off The Books4:42
06Be Proud (interlude)0:27
07Do You Believe3:20
08Finger Smoke0:47
09Stone Crazy3:36
10Niggaz Know4:11
11Horny Horns0:34
12Find That3:54
13Supa Supreme3:27
14Thinkin' Bout Cash4:57
15Uncivilized4:45
16Give Me Tha Ass3:50
17Strokes3:14
by The Beatnuts
Juju:
Ayo , its ill when i'm heated how my heart stay cold
write a rhyme that make the gats around the world explode
now behold the burning malice of a treacherous soul
first time I shot a gun duke , I was 12 years old
But since then , I've never put it down my friend
she go to war when I tell her
fuck a who , why , when , til the end
indeed its good to have and not need
even better when you can shoot back and not bleed
take heed , poppin like an El full of seed
my team is gettin bigger , got more mouths to feed
Shorty let me tell you bout my only vice
it got to do with lots of money and it ain't nothin nice
it ain't nothin nice
Chorus: (2x)
Ay , you believe in God?
you do , tell him to save you
cause me and these niggaz here
we ain't tryin to save you
regardless of the fact that its close to home
I gotta finish your life , so I can start my own
my own nigga
Psycho Les:
Ayo , my audios guaranteed to lift the audience
it was that time again
so we gathered up 40 men
40 ounces , trees burning , heads bouncin
dollars is the mission
sittin in the yoga position
isolate my mind from your bitchin
lose you in the mix in
lets get this poppin , lock down the top 10
knockin pretty boy cats on they ass each time we drop kid
yeah , you know how we comin
raw grooves with the funky drum drummin
and when my song goes off
you'll still be hummin
noddin your head , or singin my chorus
the after midnight feen
the 4 in the morning blunt feen
peelin dutches
fill em in like taco shells
willing judges
wheeling jake with half a cake in my coat
pointin gats like remotes
at cats with federal notes
tossin bodies off boats
our own nigga , our own
Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: NINA PERSSON, PETER ANDERS SVENSSON
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A fairly simple description of an aquatic weed is a plant that grows (usually too densely) in an area in ways that it impedes the usefulness as well as enjoyment of the particular area. Several widespread examples of aquatic plants that can become weeds are water milfoil, duckweed, pondweed, hydrilla, water hyacinth, cattail, bulrush, ludwigia, and many others. They can flourish in ponds, lakes, streams, streams, navigation channels, storm water basins and channels, wetlands and lagoons. Typically the growth might be due to a wide variety of factors which include an excessive amount nutrients in the water or the arrival of rapidly-growing exotic species. The difficulties caused by aquatic weeds are numerous, which range from unpleasant growth and nuisance odors to blocking of waterways, flood damage, motorboat damage, and in many cases drowning and impairment of water quality.
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New Delhi: Three Left parties Tuesday demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe into the Rafale "scam", alleging that the "needle of suspicion points directly" towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The opposition led by the Congress has been accusing the government of benefiting Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence Ltd from the Rafale deal. The BJP has dismissed all the allegations as false.
The Rafale controversy took a new turn last month after Francois Hollande, who was French president when the Rs. 58,000 crore deal was announced, was quoted as saying by French publication Mediapart that France was given "no choice" on selection of the Indian partner for Dassault and the Indian government proposed the name of Reliance as offset partner for the French aerospace giant.


Discuss payment method with seller - had weird response from seller's email to use a 3rd party ID verifyer which was to involve me to load a new program and allow it to take control of my emails and, etc. NO!
Told the seller NO, I could wait for the delays in communication. He agreed it was annoying and it was not a problem.
Had a good communication exchange.
There were a couple issues which ended up meaning instead of like a 5 miles extra drive to pick up fish from the trans shipper it would be about 50 min. to 1:15 min. drive each way. Understandable for the particular personal circumstances.
The fish was to arrive Dec. 2 at least that was my understanding. Trans shipper corrected me it was to arrive 3rd.
Then called the trans shipper about the probable time to pick up the fish. I was told I would be contacted.
At the end of the evening Dec. 4th, got a contacted/ text about the fish arrival. It was too late to go get the fish I worked the next day all day. So arranged to pick him up after work the next night.
Got all the info on pick up and got the fish. He was packed in new water with Prime and IAL extract. In a box as if it was going to be shipped and a heat pack to keep him warm. I was told he was looking pretty good getting better color. A solid specimen.
The trans shipper gets a shipping label and the fish. So the TS doesn't really know what the fish should look like.
I realized it didn't look like the fish I bought and discussed this with the guy had picked him up from. He offered to assist and contact the seller about the wrong fish. I told him I would let him know after the next days work.
So here is the fish I got. It was a very different looking fish than the purchased fish.
After a bit of time in the QT, he started to get a bit of color in the rim of his tail. Bluish sort of.
Then I noticed a mark on his head which seems similar to the purchased fish.
So I email the guy I picked up the fish and told him the similar places, which could be the same fish. Or maybe it's brother????
After a couple hours it seemed his body color was transitioning a bit more towards light blue.
This evening his body was a bit more light to medium blue. Fins still super reddish.
It is a dragonscale body - white base in the metallic scales.
So I am waiting on how the fish recovers. He seems pretty curious and is swimming around. There is moss and a plant. I added Epsom salts as well.
Worried for his health either way if he is the same fish or not.
Hmmm, fingers crossed on colour!
I've been reluctant to buy a betta online for this exact reason. Not much you can really do if they did send you the wrong fish. I have read that they do fade and will completely change colors during shipping so let's hope that is all it is.
Doesn't look like the same fish to me.
His reddish fins are lightening up just a touch more - with new food and a 60% pwc, maybe.
Funny story, I once bought (in a store, probably 5 years ago) a white Betta with 2 red circles on him, think Betta that looks like the Flag for the nation of Japan - I was excited thinking about such a striking color patterned fish, lol. And after a day or 2 he was all white. Joke was on me. So traveling and stress can be hard on them, of course.
But it barely looks like it could be the same fish. Still thinking possibly a brother fish.
The person I know in the fish club gets imported fish all the time. Maybe this situation is unusual. The person helping the TS says they have like 50 Bettas, many shipped. He thought the tail looks slightly off.
Throwing this experience out there was both to give a heads up and also to see how others experiences have been if any. I really haven't heard the bad parts from people at CAS club and I know of a few who order in fish.
5 for shipping to trans shipper - and I dont know what the usual fee is, I would guess 15 maybe for shipping 5 or 10 for handling?
gave the guy $15 for caring for the little guy - the heat pack and boxing and insulated box, etc.
So $50 dollars - a fools folly perhaps. Birthday fish gone wrong?!?
The pic of the fish I thought I purchased was a color combo/pattern/looking fish I had always been wanting. Looks similar to the Petco Bumblebee fish which I might add costs about 20.00. But the wysiwyg - what you see is what you get, for real.
The traveling really does seem to be hard for the fish. I am disturbed about it. About it in general, and personally for a fish which is not looking good and may not be MY fish. I had already accepted the higher cost for the opportunity to keep a fish which I really liked.
Seems way off colour to me. Maybe is just the travel stress.
I'm sorry you had this experience. I would be willing to offer a helping hand. I could watch my pet stores for one similar and send you pics. If you want it I would be willing to buy and ship the one you like. I have yet to see one of that color pattern though. I see the more common bumblebee betta like you mentioned.
Thanks guys. I appreciate the care.
I don't need another for now. This one has me working extra to try to get him better, if he isn't fine right now and just a different fish/color after all!!!
Today I tried 3 different pet stores and found no IAL or extract. I had to work out of town and will get to the other lfs tomorrow or Monday where they usually DO have IAL.
What I did get was a medium size Mopani wood, and some Stress Coat.
I will try and get the pics loaded. Still feel like I would be shocked if the fins turned to the yellow in the sales/original pic.
Tomorrow I plan to online order a few additional botanicals and will use some for this new Thai Betta, because I have a new surprise small paludarium build coming up. Also tap one of my hobby friends in a not too far away town who usually has lots of some kinds of leaves like banana, IAL, Guava and Mulberry leaves, maybe some Alder cones, too. Haven't talked with him for awhile so not positive I can get a hold of him, sometimes he's away for work or family.
Didn't end up getting any online botanicals, I am going to wait until after Christmas. Hectic right now.
It's been a few days of just coasting along and at a point the fish turned from all white pinkish to medium, then after a couple days from the last discussion it seems the fish has yellow tinted but mainly orange red fins and the correct color body.
Had been adding Stress Coat and the water was pretty slimy feeling and the fish not seeming too happy about it.
He has been getting fed a couple types of pellets Hikari Bio Gold mostly trying that, then Micro pellets too. A couple times tried some defrosted frozen food.
The fish seems to eat a bite, seems a little bit interested and then really doesn't seem to eat it.
I have started trying to feed the little guy in the big cup. It is good because I can watch him eat the food. Tonight I tried the frozen defrosted Brine shrimp with spirulina. He ate a few bites and then a few more. He had a little bulge in his stomach.
Sorry about the pics sideways.
The stuff in the bottom of the cup is the Brine shrimp, and the tannins from the Mopani wood is tinting the water.
Just to show the fish at least so you can see the color and it is in no way yellow - a hint of yellow in the orange but not this.


The IRS-100 is EN 50155 compliant and meets the requirement for railway environments. Endowed with multi-functional capability, it is not only a surveillance system but also an entertainment system and functions as a control unit, passenger information system (PIS) and network video recorder (NVR). IP cameras can also be integrated to provide real time video monitoring to ensure passenger safety.
Focused on the rolling stock market, the IRS-100 incorporates a variety of advanced technologies including multiple bays for data storage, lockable connectors, GPS function and Wi-Fi for wireless communication. At 2.7 inches high, the IRS-100 can fit in the most restrictive spaces and the fanless design, extended operating temperature and Isolated COM/DIO connectors offer protection in a static prone railway environment.
EN50155. Additionally, the IRS-100's DDR4L memory offers lower power consumption and reduced latency over its DDR3 predecessor.
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In my last article, I talked about the different types of conflict managers can experience and how prevention is better than cure when it comes to dealing with conflict in your team.
Something I have noticed when I discuss this topic with clients and participants on our programmes is little consideration is given to how the manager controls their own emotions during this difficult time. As you might have guessed, this is the topic of today's blog.
It is natural to get worked up emotionally when you are facing a potentially tense and uncomfortable conversation. You might be thinking that you have to make a concession or give something up that you feel strongly about, or even relinquish some power.
In response, our body physiologically prepares its self for a fight. Your heart beat starts increasing, you notice your palms maybe get a little sweaty, your mouth goes dry, or your throat starts to tighten up. None of which puts you in the best frame of mind to handle a conflict situation.
The problem with this is if our body goes into fight or flight mode, or what Dan Goleman called "amygdala hijack," we can lose access to the part of our brain responsible for rational thinking.
If that was not bad enough it is likely that the person we are having the conversation with will become aware of our 'stress level' as our face flushes red and we speak unusually quickly.
When you imagine both individuals responding in this way, it is not surprising emotions start to run wild, and conversations quickly get out of hand.
Susan David the author of Emotional Agility suggests that we give a label to our feelings in the same way we do our thoughts.
What's the benefit of that I hear you ask? This approach allows you to see things for what they are; pieces of information that are transient and may or may not be helpful to you.
This also reminds me of a simple process a colleague shared with me some time ago, that I find helpful.
When you are reviewing the conflict run the situation through 3 separate filters.
Describe for yourself what you saw, what behaviours did you notice being used by those in the conflict.
What did you hear; note down what precisely was said. Note only the words and stay away from how the words were communicated.
Finally, review the facts of the situation. Think of this as what facts a court of law would be looking for.
It is easy to see how tensions rise when you listen to how these words are delivered originally and recounted later.
The ground rule for this process is simple. You must stay away from using the words I feel. Do that, and you will give yourself a great opportunity to deal with the situation at hand, which leads me to my next point.
It is easy to avoid conflict, and we do so because we do not want to have to deal with our own emotions or those of the other person. However, you do now have two strategies that will help you to manage your emotions.
We have all heard the saying, and I make no apologies for sharing it again. "Fail to plan, plan to fail." It is precisely the same when it comes to having difficult conversations.
It is worth taking time to step into the other person shoes and to consider the situation from their perspective. I have been known to rehearse a conversation so that I am clear with what I am saying which in turn helps me to stay calm and be clear; i.e. stick with the facts.
It is all too easy when speaking, to allow emotions in and those I feel words.
As a friend of mine reminds me, "One story is good until another is told".
Be prepared to listen without judgement. Seek to understand the other persons view, including what is important to them and what meaning they have taken from whatever the cause of the conflict was.
So often conflict arises when there is misunderstanding, a clash of values or beliefs or people create meaning from a situation that is far removed from what the original intention of a communication or action was.
Take a moment to reflect on ways that you demonstrate coming from a place of 'strength' as a leader versus warmth? What opportunites can you identify to show more warmth?
Smile and mean it; listen and hear what others are saying, acknowedge and let them know it is ok to feel how they are feeling. Invest time in building your relationships with each team member.
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    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.official_data2);
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The constructor SimpleExpandableListAdapter(Official_Activity.setList,
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How can it be solved?
code of getJson: Intent with ListView (JSON data)
9/8 update:
After I've change "this" to "Official_Activity.this", another error is found:

08-08 09:34:33.975: E/AndroidRuntime(335): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.android.abc/com.android.abc.Official_Activity}: java.lang.NullPointerException

Is there any bugs in the code?

A: You are in an innerclass, so "this" is Official_Activity.setList class, which is not a context, you have to write Official_Activity.this instead, like the following:
new SimpleExpandableListAdapter(
            Official_Activity.this,
            groups,
            R.layout.list_item,
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            new int[] {R.id.ItemTitle, R.id.ItemText},
            childs,
            R.layout.list_earthquake,
            new String[] {"ItemTitle", "ItemText", "latit", "longit", "date", "tzone"},
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A parent's "cliff notes" guide to Autism Spectrum especially in children.
6. What is Autism? • ―Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by • impaired social interaction • Impaired verbal and non-verbal communication, and by • restricted, repetitive or stereotyped behavior.‖  • And more . . . . • Boys affected more frequently than girls 4 : 1 • Autism is a label that covers a LARGE range of behavioral and learning challenges . . . . • That's why you hear the term . . . .
12. History Some people with potential High Functioning Autism / Asperger's. Not a formal diagnosis . . . . Just speculation based on historical accounts  • Isaac Newton • Nikola Tesla • Albert Einstein • James Joyce • Lewis Carroll NOTE: Most kids with HFA will NOT become famous theoretical physicists / authors. Compare to employment rate later . . . .
16. Hereditary Factors • There is lots of evidence from studies of Twins (identical and fraternal), Siblings and Parents suggest a strong genetic linkage • ―Experts estimate that 400 to 1,000 individual genes may play a role in the complex neurological issues involved in autism.‖  • ―The largest-ever study of twins with ASD—192 pairs—reported last year that when one identical twin has autism, there is only a 70% chance that the other twin will, despite their identical genetic makeup.‖ (if it was just genetics it should be 100% chance) • ―Among fraternal twins, the likelihood that a second twin will have autism is 35%—nearly twice the risk other [non twin] siblings face, the study found. ‗That suggests there was something about their shared prenatal environment that really increases the risk,'‖ • It's not JUST genetics . . . . Prenatal environment then?
19. So many causes . . . • The problem is that Autism is a label that covers a LARGE range of abilities • Although the symptoms are the same (but varying in severity) the underlying causes are probably different – some solely inherited, some solely environmental, some a mix • So there will likely be targeted drug and other therapies . . . .
24. Behavioral Therapies • ABA = Applied Behavioral Analysis • Collect data on behavioral responses • Determine if progress is being made • If not reevaluate & try something new • Focus is on positive reinforcement - No response to negative behavior • RDI = Relationship Development Intervention • Breaks down experiences into smaller chunks • Teaches ―intuitive‖ things explicitly • Lets the kids practice forming and maintaining relationships in different contexts.
25. Behavioral Therapies (cont.) • DIR/Floortime • ―therapists and parents engage children through the activities each child enjoys. They enter the child's games . . . Therapists teach parents how to direct their children into increasingly complex interactions.‖  • ESDM = Early Start Denver Model  • My description ―A cross between ABA and RDI/Floortime‖ • Others . . . .
26. Do these therapies work?
33. Diet • The link between GI issues and ASD is very interesting • ―Research is showing that a common cause of autistic children acting out is simply because they're constipated -- which, from there, can mean they stop sleeping and eating well.‖  • Some early results suggest that a Ketogenic diet – High Fat / Low Carb (known to be beneficial to kids with epilepsy) may be of help  • Gluten-Free/Casein-Free diets . . . Being studied  • Again this is NOT advice . . .
37. Key Take-Aways • ―The Spectrum‖ covers a big range • Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention is key • Many potential causes . . . . . • Many hopes for treatment in addition to EIBI • Many Doctors, Educators, normal people are just beginning to learn about Autism . . . You as the parent are your child's best advocate. • Teach your child to swim!


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5 Most Expensive Players At IPL 2021 Auction
This year's IPL again topped itself with total purchases amounting to a cool $20 million (approx). We list the 5 biggest buys and some other notable stories from this year's auction which took place on Feb 18 in Chennai.
The Trendsetters: Chris Morris
Having a base price of Rs 75 lac, he took the lion's share when Rajasthan Royals took him on at a record breaking Rs 16.25 crore ($ 2.2 million approx). The 6'4 allrounder from South Africa is renowned as a top bowler in the death overs of the game
Also with a base price of Rs 75 lac, the towering 6'8 New Zealander was sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 15 crore, making him the highest paid Kiwi cricketer. The bowler made his mark when he fetched 6 wickets for 7 in the Super Smash game in 2019. The figures are the best recorded for a New Zealander and the 5th best overall in T20 cricket.
He fetched Rs 14.25 crore, leagues above his base price of Rs 2 crore. The Aussie allrounder was snatched up by Royal Challengers Bangalore, where he looks forward to playing with Virat Kohli.
Jhye Richardson
The Australian bowler expressed his surprise and disbelief when he was purchased for Rs 14 crore by the rebranded Punjab Kings. His base price was Rs 1.50 crore. His career highlights include the stellar figures of 8/47 in 2018 against New South Wales, and taking Virat Kohli's wicket 3 times in ODIs. He recalled being dismissed by coaches in terms of fast bowling prowess due to his relatively average height and weight of 5'10 and 70 kg.
Krishnappa Gowtham
The Bangalore-born allrounder was sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 9.25 crore, far above his base price of Rs 20 lac. This makes him the costliest uncapped Indian player of all time. He has history with the IPL, having played for Mumbai Indians in 2017 and Rajasthan Royals in 2018. He is currently part of the Indian team playing a Test series against England.
Notable Buys and Surprises
Varun Aaron, Marnus Labuschagne, Martin Guptill, Corey Anderson, Shaun Marsh and Aaron Finch (current third-best batsman in T20I rankings) among others went unsold.
Arjun Tendulkar, son of icon Sachin Tendulkar, was snapped up by Mumbai Indians for Rs 20 lac which matched his base price. He will be making his IPL debut at age 21.
Tamil Nadu batsman Shahrukh Khan (named after the original SRK) turned millionaire on Thursday when Punjab Kings bought him for Rs 5.25 crore, above his base price of Rs 20 lakh.
Potential Breakout Star
The new personality with humble beginnings is Chetan Sakariya of Bhavnagar, Gujarat. He has received a Rs 1.20 crore contract from Rajasthan Royals.
The youngster will be returning from the tragedy of his younger brother's suicide. The small house, helmed by his father who is a tempo driver, he grew up in didn't have a TV, so he was left to watch cricket either at his friends' places or outside of TV stores. He had played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the previous IPL edition hosted in the UAE. He has played 15 first-class and 16 T20 games. The fast bowler has a superb economy rate of 4.9 per over.
With enough excitement drummed up for the new IPL edition, it remains to be seen which one of these buys pays off and which falls short.
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The Day I Changed The Conversation Around Our Chinese Family's Dinner Table
Katharine Chan
Editor's Note: Katharine Chan is a Chinese-Canadian author, mother, and culture blogger behind the site Sum on Sleeve. The views expressed in this piece are solely her own.
It's my time to reflect on those (sometimes annoying) mandatory Chinese family dinners growing up, and how they've changed as I got older and became a mom.
I've known how to cook for myself since I was very little. As a kid, I would go to the kitchen and cut apple slices for myself. The apple slices turned into sugar cookies, and then whatever I saw on the Food Network. I am a fast and efficient cook, so when I became a mom the whole dinnertime part wasn't that bad until one night.
I come home, daughter in one arm and my purse in the other (I swear I can bicep curl a cow with my just left arm). I put her down and open the fridge. I had made beef tomato with egg and stir-fried green beans the night before. There wasn't enough for the three of us, so I steam some dumplings.
A typical dish I would make for my family dinners: stir-fried green beans, carrots and cashews.
My husband comes home and we start eating. There are two dumplings left. I'm stuffed. My husband's full. My daughter's playing with her food.
I start feeling angry at my husband for saying no to more dumplings. I'm frustrated that I can't eat another bite. I'm upset that my daughter's pushing away the dumpling that I put on her tray. Why am I feeling this way?
I take pride in estimating the amount of food people will eat. That night, I didn't want leftovers. I wanted to create a new meal the next day. But so what if I made two dumplings too many? I was scratching my head. Does this stem from my history of perfectionism?
It's customary in the Chinese culture to make more than enough when preparing food. If there are empty plates, that meant the cook didn't properly estimate how much people could eat, and it can be embarrassing. So, by having leftovers that night, was I internally rejecting my Chinese culture since I don't agree with that etiquette?
My favourite dish to make: peppers stuffed with fish paste and black bean sauce.
It was more about my feelings of telling people how much they should eat that brought back childhood nightmares memories. Growing up in a Chinese family, we often had dinner or dim sum together. This could be with my immediate family or with other relatives. The conversation around the table would often be about how much people are eating.
Then it would be about who should eat more, who should eat less and why — which turns the conversation towards who is skinny and who is fat. Age also mattered; young people should eat more and old people should eat less. Because the adults were leading the conversation, the kids frequently became a dinner topic.
"Wow, look at Albert over there, eating up a storm. Look at how big he has gotten."
It was like open season on the kids as the Lazy Susan played Russian Roulette with who will be the first to bite their tongues into a bloody pulp as they hold back their instincts to faan toi (flip the table). And if there was more than one young person there, comparisons would be made as to who was taller, shorter, fatter, thinner, darker, lighter, smarter, dumber and so on. As I reflect back on these conversations, why were they so interested in talking about this?
"Oh, look at how little Sandy is eating. She must be trying to lose weight for her ballet performance next week. I wonder if she weighs less than her younger sister, Karen? Look at their arms. Sandy's arms look much thinner than Karen's. But Karen's skin is lighter and her eyes are bigger than Sandy's."
That's how our parents grew up. They honestly think it's a normal thing to talk about. An article from NextShark explains how it's merely an observation, rather than an insult.
There's a stereotype that Chinese parents are very strict; therefore, when dinnertime rolls around, the adults dictate the conversations. The children sit quietly, possibly reading a book or playing a game, while their parents either ramble about all things untrue about their kids and/or they start comparing them.
As Chinese-Canadian kids, we develop internal mechanisms to shut off our listening skills at dinner so our parents can talk about us without evoking a single emotion. Instead of talking back to the adults around the table, we passively absorb the comments and eat our food, waiting for the bill to get paid or permission to leave.
I'm stereotyping, but how come we are often seen as the good kids, soft-spoken, polite, respectful of their elders and who do well in school? I wonder if this type of upbringing contributes to why we often lack boardroom presence during work meetings, limiting upward movement in our careers. Bamboo ceiling, anyone?
A cartoon of my parents and my daughter.
I was in high school when I told my parents about my eating disorder and mental health issues. It was at the time I was starting to recover and had the courage to be vulnerable with my parents. I told my dad that his statements about my size and how much/little I ate were hurtful. I told my mom that her obsession with weight made me feel insecure.
I needed to tell them because I wanted them to know that their words had consequences. They didn't judge me, discipline me or show signs of disappointment or shame. They listened and nodded. My mom stopped talking about diets and weight with me. My parents apologized and started to change topics during dinners with other relatives.
From that point forward, my relationship with my parents changed for the better. Trust was built between us in that conversation. I believe that by confronting them, I demonstrated my level of maturity and they respected that. I started sharing more with them. I told them who I was dating, my relationship issues, who my friends were, when I was hungover, when I wasn't coming home, when I skipped class and needed a mental health day for myself, what I wanted to do in life and how I was going to get there.
My mom and my daughter watching the fish.
In return, they've shared with me their stories of reckless behaviour, past relationships, challenges (and fears) of parenting us and when they've hit rock bottom and how they've climbed back up.
As I became an adult, and now as a mom, I continue to include them in my life. Just like those two dumplings, they weren't left behind.
My favourite dim sum dish: steamed dumpling.
As the tears retreat back into my tear ducts, I take the dumpling from my daughter's tray and the other from my husband's plate, put them in a container and into the fridge. I say to myself, "I can't wait to eat you with some black vinegar tomorrow."
About the Author: Katharine Chan is a Chinese-Canadian author, mother, and culture blogger behind the site Sum on Sleeve. She writes about things to hopefully empower others to have a voice, to feel connected and to raise awareness about issues that never got talked about when she was growing up (only felt them).
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Just a short & sweet post today. I thought I would show you how I store my LUSH bath products. I needed something that kept them dry & I wanted to be able to see what I had. This Jar is quite large, I need to buy a few more so I can fill it (any excuse to shop in LUSH). It reminds me of an old school sweetie jar. I bought it from Wilkinsons for £6 & I have bought my mum one for her Christmas and I am planning on putting a few of her favourite LUSH products in. I know she will love it.
How do you store you LUSH products?
I'm always looking for ways to store my makeup without spending a fortune. I keep out the makeup I use most often. I like to store it in these four jars / pots. The first one is an old Twinning's Coffee Tin and that holds my Mascara's, although it is becoming a tight squeeze.
The second jar I found at a carboot sale in Scotland a few years ago. It is an Old Stilton Cheese Jar, I love this and I have some Lip Crayons, Concealer's and a few other bits stored in it. It is quite wide and holds a far few products.
The cute animal tin is from Paperchase and holds a few of my brushes, this needs to be swapped for something a little bigger really – as I have a few new brushes that need a home.
Lastly I have my eyeliners in this Wales Jar – This was bought by my husbands dad when he was a little boy & was passed onto my husband years ago. It is perfect for my eyeliners.
What unusual storage do you keep your makeup in?


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About two-thirds of the world's patent applications come from 3 countries
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Global innovation has become a three-horse race. Three countries—the US, Japan and China—accounted for over 60% of patent applications in 2014, according to a report released by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) today.
The US continues to lead the pack, and has blown past its pre-recession output. "Patent filings do tend to go along with business cycles," Carsten Fink, the chief economist at WIPO, tells Quartz. When companies are looking for something to cut during a recession, often they will look at the cost of filing patents—although not necessarily the research that produces them.
The US had six companies in the top 25 patent applicant list: Google, Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft, HP, and United Technologies. Companies can apply for a patent through WIPO for patent protection in 148 countries.
Only four of the top 25 companies applying for patents in 2014 were Chinese, but they were busy.Huawei, ZTE, Tencent and Shenzen combined to apply for over 7,500 patents, just trailing the roughly 8,000 by top US companies. Fink says China's patent push is part of the larger trend of the country's economic growth over the past two decades, which has resulted in a greater investment in research and development, both by the Chinese government and private companies.
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