Your service is FANTASTIC - I have recommended FutureQuest to at least 5 people - anytime someone mentions needing a host I practically BEG them to choose your service. Thanks again for everything!
Well I have said this before and I'll say it again. Thanks FQ - the whole **** team. I am a long time customer and I still get super quick support and service and the things dont break and ... Great job you guys!
Thanks much, it seems to be working as it should now. Please thank Melissa and Bob for me for their help on this as well. I am sure you guys hear this all the time but you guys at FQ are the best. Being an IT consultant I work with a lot of ISPs, from the little guys to the national providers and none of them compare to FQ. Its so refreshing to ask a support question and get it answered in a timely fashion and more importantly receive a response from a skilled and knowledgeable support staff member and not just someone whose only technical skills are what they learned from completing a 3 week support training program and then reading some answer from a script.
Just a quick email to thank you all for your outstanding service during 2003. I had tried many hosting companies before my brother, Pete, recommended your company. As you may be aware Pete deals with all my hosting/web development issues so I do not have any reason to contact you myself. I just wanted to thank you all for your superb service. Problems or queries are always resolved very quickly and it is much appreciated.
Yea team! Thanks heaps for your work. That's why (at least one of the many reasons) you guys are the best. And don't forget it. Stay that way in spite of the nasty business world we live in. You the good guys. The guys in the white hats. We need you.
I just wanted to thank you profusely for helping me out on Friday night!! Terra from FQ called me because of my frantic email! I am really grateful for that. (It was late at night and I had to have the problem fixed by morning time.) You have an excellent company, and superior customer service!! It's absolutely unforgettable!! And a tremendous thanks to Bob, who always answers my emails quickly and explains the answers thoroughly! :-) You are greatly appreciated!
Having used the Command 'n' Control program for the first time tonight, I must say it is one of the most functional, attractive, and best designed web applications I've ever seen!! The user interface is so good that half-asleep newbies (like me) can do whatever they want with hardly a thought. And all the little Tips are great, as they answer most questions as soon as I formulate them.
You know, you hear people talk about quality customer service, responsiveness, good support, and customer focused companies, but few really pull it off or make the grade. I just wanted to tell you that being new to FutureQuest, your staff have been the most supportive, polite, understanding and patient group I have ever encountered in a business relationship. I cannot speak highly enough for Deb, Bob and Melissa (excuse me if I've left anyone else out). You are THE model for being what a company should be. Thanks again, as I move through this sometimes trying time of switching hosting companies and learning the ropes of your services. I salute you all.
It'll be nice for me not to have to worry about e-mail downtime. The uptime that my web-site on FQ has had is amazing. I've had a couple of uptime robots watching my web-site, but I'm going to discontinue those soon -- they haven't been able to find any downtime! I've never seen a company run as well as FutureQuest. Every other host I've been with in the past, for web or e-mail, always has had a fatal flaw (downtime, bad customer support, etc). Considering FQ's uptime, customer service, and prices (very reasonable for what you provide), it really is an amazing web-host. You provide a premium service at a low price.
I would just like to take a moment to personally thank you, Andrew, Bob and the rest of the Futurequest team. When we came to you four years ago we were spinning from one host to the next with no end to the madness in sight. Your amazing competence, stellar service and all-around pleasantness have made you an integral part of our business. I feel that FutureQuest is a major reason for our status as a leading provider of Internet design and consulting in our area. Sometimes it feels to me as if you are a part of our staff (except of course that I don't have to pay your employment taxes!).


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Q: Mysql adjacency list model alternative? I used the adjacency list model for my table in MySQL, along with a PHP function recursion to query and realised it slows down the website. Is there an alternative model i could use that i can use one query to get both parent and child elements, without recursion?
The table structure is like this:
    myTable:
+----+----------+
| id | parentID |
+----+----------+
|  1 |     null |
|  2 |        1 |
|  3 |        1 |
|  4 |        2 |
|  5 |        4 |
-----------------

I'm using a recursion query like below:
function  queryf($id) {

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `Table` WHERE id='$id'",$this->connect);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {

$sid = $row['id'];
//code
$this->$queryf($sid);
}

}

A: You can use nested sets approach.
See more info in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model
and Move node in nested set

A: How many records are you storing in your table? Nested sets are definitely faster but the table structure is very delicate. If it breaks it is very challenging to fix the table structure and it generally requires manual intervention.
If you only have a few hundred records, you are probably better off with the Adjacency method. If you are talking about thousands or records, definitely better off with nested sets but make sure the code for handling it is 100% bulletproof or your table will be like Humpty Dumpty.
Although adjacency lists are inefficient, there are methods of using them efficiently. I wrote a class for easy handling of Adjacency lists. You can download it from here:
http://www.pdvictor.com/en/?sv=&category=just%20code&title=adjacency%20model

A: If you are recursively querying the DB multiple times (which apparently is the case), you will have performance issues.
What you can do is query all the data at once and then let PHP handle/organize the items recursively. You should be fine with that.

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There's a chill in the air, but the library is warm and cozy! HPL is happy to welcome back the "HPL Knitting & Craft Group", a friendly, informal group of ladies who meet on a weekly basis to knit, mingle and swap yarns, patterns and tales. If you are a knitter/crafter and feel that you would enjoy the company of others, whether it be to socialize or you need help with your work, please come along and join us any Thursday between 12:30 and 2:30pm at the Library. On the other hand, if you would like to learn to knit there is always someone there to help you on your way. Just bring your own wool and needles and we will provide instruction and friendly conversation!
Our Preschool Story Time continues every Thursday at 10:30am. Children and their caregivers from our community and beyond are welcome to stop in for a story and quick craft. Recently we have been reading about falling leaves, pumpkins, and other autumn treats!
Extend the pleasure of your reading by discussing it with others. HPL's Book Club meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm. Selected titles represent a lively mix of fiction, nonfiction, classics, and genres. Members take turns choosing books and leading the discussions. Copies of the "book of the month" will be available at the library during the month prior to a meeting.
————October 18: The Postmistress by Sarah Blake————Pick up your copy today!


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Man who fired gun outside York High football game faces trial on new gun charges
A man who was 15 when he shot two people outside of a York High basketball game in 2016 now faces trial in county court on new gun charges.
Man who fired gun outside York High football game faces trial on new gun charges A man who was 15 when he shot two people outside of a York High basketball game in 2016 now faces trial in county court on new gun charges. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/crime/2019/03/06/teen-who-fired-gun-outside-york-high-football-game-faces-trial-new-gun-charges/3078736002/
Christopher Dornblaser, York Dispatch Published 11:30 a.m. ET March 6, 2019 | Updated 2:40 p.m. ET March 7, 2019
Stephon "Mouse" Brown (Photo: Submitted)
A man who was 15 when he shot two people outside a York High basketball game in 2016 now faces trial in county court on new gun charges.
During a preliminary hearing Tuesday, March 5, District Judge Linda Williams determined there was enough evidence for Stephon Damieen Brown, 18, to face trial on firearm charges from January, online court records state.
Brown, according to York City Police, fled from an officer while holding a gun on Jan. 8.
He was 17 at the time, but he was charged as an adult. He recently turned 18.
Brown, of the 100 block of Springwood Drive, remains in York County Prison on $15,000 bail, according to online court records. Even if he posts the bail, he will not be able to get out because a probation-violation detainer was filed against him for incurring new charges while on probation.
Prison records confirmed Wednesday, March 6, that he remains in prison on that detainer.
He is charged with being a person prohibited from possessing firearms and carrying a firearm without a license, both of which are felonies. He is also charged with misdemeanors of possessing a firearm as a minor and marijuana possession.
More: Teen who fired gun outside York High football game charged with more gun crimes
PHOTOS: Small Athletic Field Shooting
A bystander sits on her phone, as police investigate a shooting outside of Small Athletic Field on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, in York City. The shooting, which happened during the fourth quarter of a football game between William Penn and J.P. McCaskey is still under investigation. Amanda J. Cain photo The York Dispatch
A police officer prepares to lift the caution tape to let people leave as it begins to rain during a shooting investigation outside Small Athletic Field on Friday in York City. The shooting happened during the fourth quarter of a football game between York High and Lancaster McCaskey. Two people were shot and hospitalized. Amanda J. Cain photo The York Dispatch
Police investigate a shooting outside of Small Athletic Field on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, in York City. The shooting, which happened during the fourth quarter of a football game between William Penn and J.P. McCaskey is still under investigation. Amanda J. Cain photo The York Dispatch
Charges: York City Police Officer Allen Henty was sent to the 200 block of Pattison Street shortly after 8 a.m. Jan. 8 for a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in a private area.
Brown was found sitting in the driver's seat, and the car was still running, charging documents state.
Henty knocked on the driver-side window, startling Brown, who refused to open the door or roll down his window, police said.
Henty went to the passenger side of the car, which is when Brown bailed out and ran toward Lynch Way holding a gun in one hand and two cellphones in the other, documents allege.
He ran east on Lynch Way, south on Elaine Place and west on Edison Street, police said.
Henty gave chase and took Brown into custody after the 5-foot-5, 100-pound teen apparently gave up in the 700 block of Edison Street, documents state.
"Brown finally dropped the gun and two cellular phones on the grass before going to the ground from exhaustion," Henty wrote in charging documents.
The handgun was a loaded .40-caliber Glock with an extended 22-round magazine, according to police allegations. Officers seized it and also seized some marijuana they found in Brown's car, documents state.
In Pennsylvania it's illegal for minors to possess handguns and also illegal for people to have firearms if they've been convicted of being a minor in possession of a firearm. Brown pleaded guilty to the latter charge for firing a gun outside a York High football game on Sept. 9, 2016.
The Pennsylvania Crimes Code prohibits people convicted of all felonies and certain misdemeanors from owning or even holding firearms.
Football game: Brown, who is known as "Mouse," pleaded guilty Aug. 7 to illegal possession of a firearm by a minor, reckless endangerment and three counts of criminal mischief in the case.
Two charges of aggravated assault were dismissed because the victims weren't cooperative, a prosecutor said at the time. Also dismissed were 1,999 counts of reckless endangerment representing the number of people in the football stadium when the shots were fired; Brown pleaded guilty to one all-encompassing count.
In exchange for his plea, Brown was sentenced to a minimum of a year minus a day in prison to a maximum of two years minus two days in prison, plus two years' probation.
He had already spent 663 days in York County Prison at the time of his plea, so it amounted to a time-served sentence, according to defense attorney Korey Leslie.
Brown was accused of shooting York City brothers Darius Allen and Antwan Jackson Jr. about 9:30 p.m. Sept. 9, 2016, outside the Small Athletic Field football stadium during William Penn Senior High School's home opener against Lancaster County's McCaskey High School.
He spent five weeks on the lam before being arrested in Lancaster in October 2016.
A message left for Brown's attorney seeking comment Wednesday morning was not immediately returned.
— Reach Christopher Dornblaser at cdornblaser@yorkdispatch.com or on Twitter at @YDDornblaser.
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Here's a Captain America painting I did for my fiancé's birthday back in February. All of the materials can be found at Michaels or any craft store. I didn't use anything fancy, just regular acrylic paint, a pack of multi-sized brushes and canvas. For all of the tiny text in the background, I used a black uniball pen. I wasn't sure how this painting would end up looking since I'm not the best at drawing human body proportions, but it helped having a reference image to look at while drawing/painting. The text in the background started off as a personalized message to my fiancé, but eventually I ran out of things to write and started describing the tv show I was watching at the moment.
Paintings are a wonderfully inexpensive way to give a personalized gift to someone if you have the time and patience for it. This took me about 3 weeks to complete and I spent maybe about 10-12 hours per week on it (can't remember the exact amount of time, but it felt like forever). The most time consuming part was sketching the initial drawing until I felt it was "perfect" because once I put paint on the canvas, there's no turning back.


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Senior state prosecutor: 80% of intensive offenders in Berlin of "immigrant origin", 43% Arab, 32% Turkish
The person being interviewed here is Rudolf Hausmann, senior state prosecutor in Berlin, in charge of the Intensive Offenders Unit within the state prosecutor's office.
FOCUS Online: Young, male, foreign roots - is that what the typical intensive offender looks like?
Hausmann: In principle: yes. 80 per cent of the intensive offenders in Berlin have an immigrant background. Most of them - 43 per cent - are of Arab origin, 32 per cent of Turkish origin.
FOCUS Online: Why do these groups especially cause so much trouble?
Hausmann: It doesn't concern these groups as a whole. It would be wrong to say: All Turks and Arab boys are like that.
FOCUS Online: We've never said that …
Hausmann: … okay. I will just say: sweeping generalisations are unjust to the majority of well-integrated youth. A differentiation must be made.
FOCUS Online: Right. But it remains true that youths from the Kurdish-Turkish and Arab milieus make up the majority of intensive offenders. Why is that?
Hausmann: Sons from large Arab families mostly experience being raised in an archaic style in which physical violence also plays a major role. Unlike their sisters, everything is permitted to them. The parents impose no limits on them. They tolerate it when their boys don't go to school and instead beat their way through life with their fists. That's a huge problem.
FOCUS Online: A problem especially for the mostly German victims ...
Hausmann: We must attempt everything to stop this development. It's not uncommon for the families we are talking about here to have eight, nine, ten children. If the three oldest brothers have fallen into intensive offending, why should the fifth youngest then stick to the law? They have internalised the use of violence to such an extent that from time to time incredible crimes result.
Source: Focus
Notice how he's reluctant to talk about it but is pressed on the issue by journalists doing their job for once.
Labels: Berlin, Germany, Muslim crime
As I've said before, all of the courageous, patriotic men have died in world wars 1&2 and now we're left with these dickless scumbags who lack moral fibre and a conviction in their beliefs that they'd be prepared to die for.
No, this man knows if the going gets tough he can evacuate himself leaving us, the indigenes, left to take up the flack.
He has a pathological fear of appearing to generalise. It's incredible!
icr said...
They think they're worshipping the YKW by speaking and acting like this-though they'd call you a n-zi if you pointed that out to them. It makes them feel very holy. Paul Gottfried has written about this a lot, but he streses the American Protestant aspect of the disease.
FOCUS Online just got themselves a new reader.


New report published by Global QYResearch which offers insights on the global IT Robotic Automation market. The IT Robotic Automation market has been experiencing steady growth graph since past years. During the 2017-2025 timeline, the global market for IT Robotic Automation is expected to reflect a 7.3x increase in the revenue growth. In 2017 the global IT Robotic Automation market was valued at US$ 1,112 Mn and by the end of the assessment year (2025), it is estimated to touch a value more than US$ 8,228 Mn growing at a value CAGR of 28.42% throughout the period of forecast.
IT services providers are looking forward to leverage robotic process automation to enhance their capabilities and sustain in the competitive IT industry. Time savings and reduction in operational cost particularly are major factors while responding to the evolving consumer needs and these are key factors impacting the overall growth of IT enterprises.
Although there are factors supporting the growth of the market, increased security concerns of the technology is impacting the growth of the market. Additionally, existing outsourcing contracts in the BPO sector is hampering the adoption of IT robotic automation due to complexities involving long contract durations.
The report categorizes the IT robotic automation market into three major segments and their sub – segments. The IT robotic automation market is categorized into tools and services. The tools are further segmented into model based tools and process based tools. Services are segmented intoprofessional and training services. There are three more categories of professional services which includes consulting, integration and development, and BPO.
IT robotic automation can be utilized in a wide range of industry sectors to improve production rates while not hampering the quality. The factors leading to the expanding adoption of robotic automation includes reduction of cost and enhanced efficiency offered by robotic automation over manual processes in the IT industry. Robotic automation has observed significant adoption across various IT applications such as business process outsourcing (BPO) management, infrastructure management, and application management due to these benefits. Furthermore, growing implementation of cloud-based solutions is likely to boost the IT robotic automation market during the forecast period. Also, organizations are seeking alternate technologies to address the challenges arising from dynamic environments. Ever growing complexities in IT operations and management demanding the need for robotic interference is another factor fueling the growth of the IT robotic automation market.
North America remained the dominant region in the IT robotic automation market in 2017.The region accounted for almost one-third of the global market revenue share and is expected to continue its leading position throughout the forecast period. This is due to the fact that a large number of mid-sized and small enterprises are leaning toward automation software. Europe captured the second largest market share in 2017. Asia Pacific witnessed significant growth in 2017, buoyed by rising adoption rate of digitalization and automation over the years. Factors such as different regulatory compliances and limited availability of efficient infrastructure are seen as key reasons for the potential growth slag.
The major providers of IT robotic automation solutions include Blue Prism, Be Informed B.V., Appian, IPSoft, Inc., Tata Consultancy Services Limited., Infosys Limited, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Atos SE, Capgemini, Genfour, Genpact Ltd., Automation Anywhere, Inc., Sutherland Global Services, Inc., and UiPathSRL. As the need for more interactive and user friendly automation solutions increases in future, the market is likely to witness wider changes with intense competition. Furthermore, owing to tight training and development budgets, organizations prefer cost-effective solutions to offer training resources, thus enabling substantial growth opportunities in developing regions in the coming years.


Through experiments on many animals, including fish, reptiles, rats, mice, cattle, birds and monkeys he described many varieties of protoza, including Trypanosomes, which are responsible for sleeping sickness in humans, and the animal form of the disease, nagana. Laveran's study of these parasites led to the discovery that arsenic was an effective treatment for sleeping sickness, and to the development of the first drugs. He described and classified numerous species of protozoa, and his discovery that protozoa cause disease is considered a major advance in human and veterinary pathology.


While reporting this week's cover story "Hosed," the Voice obtained two FDNY Entrance Exams (identified as "7029" and "2043"). We took all the questions ourselves, and were kind of amazed at how idiotic some of them were.
Answering them, we had to wonder: why shouldn't minorities be expected to do as well on these questions as white people? But equally troubling was this thought: is answering these questions correctly really going to make someone a good firefighter?
Here are what we considered the 10 most painfully obvious questions. Take them yourself and let us know what you think.
10. A group of firefighters and their officer respond to a fifth floor apartment in a seven-story building. When they arrive at the apartment, they are told that the contents of a wastepaper basket was on fire, and the fire was extinguished prior to their arrival. The officer instructs the firefighters to ventilate, or remove, the smoke from the apartment by first using a method that will not cause damage to property. Which one of the following would be the most appropriate method for the firefighters to use to remove the smoke?
9. Firefighters are required to operate on the subway tracks during emergencies in the subway stations. Which one of the following would present the greatest threat to the safety of a firefighter working on the subway tracks?
8. Firefighters conduct building inspections to locate potential life-threatening conditions in the even there is a fire. Which one of the following would the most-serious threat to life in the event of a fire?
7. A fire department instructor is explaining the hazards of operating on a frozen lake to a newly-assigned firefighter. Which of the following is an action that a firefighter should not take in this situation?
A) Put on a personal flotation device.
B) Bring heavy equipment onto the lake.
C) Prohibit civilians from going out onto the lake.
D) Engage firefighter safety line prior to operating on ice.
6. After firefighters are sure that a fire has been extinguished, and that there is no hazard in the building, they begin a salvage operation. Salvage involves moving and covering furniture and other properties, covering broken windows and holes in the building with plastic, and redirecting and cleaning up water to minimize damage. After extinguishing a fire in a high-rise apartment building, firefighters begin salvage operations. Which of the following pieces of property is in the most danger of being damaged?
A) A leather couch that has been burned on one side.
B) A large screen television with a broken screen.
C) An antique painting hanging under a leaking ceiling.
D) A pillow laying [sic] on the floor in a puddle of water.
One of the most idiotic illustrations included in the entrance exam, unrelated to any particular one of these idiotic questions.
5. Firefighters have responded to an apartment for an emergency water leak and are now standing in front of the door to the apartment. Which one of the following actions should the firefighters take first to gain entry into the apartment?
A) Knock loudly on the door and then try the doorknob.
B) Cut a hole in the door with a portable saw.
C) Strike one of the door hinges with the back of an axe.
D) Locate the fire escape and climb into the apartment through a window.
4. A fire department instructor is explaining to a newly-assigned firefighter the hazards of electrical wires that have fallen in the street. Which one of the following is an action that a firefighter should NOT take?
A) Keep people away from the fallen wires.
B) Use caution when working near energized wires.
C) Handle highly-energized wires while standing in a puddle of water.
D) Notify the utility company and tell them to respond to the emergency.
3. Firefighters must stop the flow of traffic in the safest possible manner when operating at the scene of fires or other emergencies located on highways. Firefighters have been assigned to stop traffic at night while operating at the scene of a car fire located on a highway. Which one of the firefighters is the most likely to attract attention of motorists in the safest manner?
A) Firefighter Reilly, who is waving her hands back and forth.
B) Firefighter Chang, who is jumping up and down.
C) Firefighter Ali, who is yelling as loud as she can.
D) Firefighter Diaz, who is waving his flashlight in a back and forth motion.
2. Firefighters are sometimes expected to administer aid to victims who are bleeding. To control bleeding, firefighters must perform the following actions in the order given.
i. Apply direct pressure to the wound by placing a sterile dressing against the wound and applying firm pressure.
ii. If #1 is unsuccessful, elevate the bleeding part of the body above the level of the victim's heart.
iii. If #1 and #2 are unsuccessful, find the nearest artery by the wound and press the artery against the underlying bone.
iv. If #1, #2, and #3 are unsuccessful, use a tourniquet, which should be placed between the heart and the wound. Note: Tourniquets should only be used for severe, life threatening bleeding that cannot be controlled by other means.
Firefighter Jacobs has just come upon a young woman who has just started bleeding profusely from the lower part of her right arm. Which one of the following actions should Firefighter Jacobs take first to control the woman's bleeding?
A) Hold the woman's right arm above her head.
B) Apply a tourniquet just below the woman's right elbow.
C) Press the artery that is closest to the wound against a bone.
D) Use a sterile dressing to apply direct pressure to the wound.
1. While operating at the scene of a car fire on a street, a firefighter was told to inform the officer of any dangerous conditions at the scene. Which one of the following conditions would be considered most dangerous to the firefighter operating at the scene of the car fire?
A) The car is leaking gasoline.
B) The car has four flat tires.
C) Vehicle traffic has come to a complete stop at the scene.
D) The car's windshield is broken.


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Aloha Dreamboard Gives Back
AD GIVES BACK, AD WORKSHOPS, EVENTS
IOLANI SCHOOLS
The future of our world is in our children's hands. What do you do to make sure they succeed and make a difference in the world?
For Aloha Dreamboard founder Tiare Thomas, she has brought her passion for manifesting dreams to the classrooms at Iolani Schools this summer, holding a workshop for 10 to 12-year-old students who attend summer school.
"It makes me happy to do this because I feel a connection there because my grandparents got married at the chapel. Papa also coached at the school, became a dorm advisor and started the letterman's club. Growing up, I took private tennis lessons from one of my nana's girlfriend there."
This summer marks the third year of Aloha Dreamboard making an impact in the children's lives. "I have this great opportunity to offer a workshop to the kids and create a vision map of the life they want to lead which includes their career path."
Throughout the workshop, Tiare guides the students into listing all the things they want in their life, using various images to anchor those in. Initially a one day workshop, Tiare has expanded the workshop into two days so that the students could create their lifeboards on the first day and spend the second day sharing their personal desires and dreams they listed on their boards.
She initially asks them, "How would you like to be the boss of your own life?"
"The students get excited when they realize that today is focused on creating the life that they desire to live. They get to explore, create and have a lot of fun."
Using guided visualization, this manifesting woman chooses specific categories and have the students imagine what they would do in those categories. Having them close their eyes to imagine all the possibilities, Tiare shares how they become fidgety and open one eye from time to time, peeking at the other students.
"What would you do if you had $100? How about $1,000? $10,000?"
The more the money grows, the more children get excited. When asked what they would do with that money, students call out ideas of owning a dream home, car and private island. Some actually mention putting the money into savings or in stocks.
"The difference between kids and adults is that the things that adults would find most impossible or unnecessary are the things the kids wind up gluing on their life boards."
But at the end of it all, each human being, those I've done dreamboard sessions with, always ends up having the desire to give back to the world.
""I simply want to leave a sense of joy, love and hope. If I could just impact one child to help them dream bigger, and to see the world in a sense where there's a place for them to use their gift, for them to feel more courageous and feel more excited about their life, that's what fuels me, that's what I strive for when I do these workshops for the kids.""
— Tiare Thomas, Founder of Aloha Dreamboard
Tiare feels grateful to have the opportunity to connect with the children and help them to raise their confidence and gain more clarity in what their passions are. She truly appreciates that her friend, John Rankin, reached out to her about speaking to the kids at Iolani Schools.
"I learn so much about myself and life in general from the students here at Iolani. Observing them and hearing the things they want to live out opens up my mind and inspires me. They are brilliant, creative, courageous and they're so much fun. And I feel like they bring out the kid in me."
Tagged: Iolani School, Aloha Dreamboard Gives Back, Dreamboarding
AD GIVES BACK
Maui Dreamers of Today & Leaders of Tomorrow
We just finished up another fun and inspiring experience with the kids of Maui. This was our second year leading our lifeboard, dreamboard classes with Iao Intermediate School, thanks to a very caring and inspiring teacher, Ms. Joann Yap.
Ms. Yap's 8th grade Home Economics class focused in on creating a written and visual overview of the life they want to live. This made for an ideal segue from their nutrition quarter in class into career.
The energetic Maui students learned how their health and well being can effect all areas in their life. And in order to be successful in their career, it is important for them to keep happy, healthy, and active in all areas of their life, including their creative choices.
Our founder and dream coach, Tiare Thomas, lead 160 students with the intention of bringing awareness to each individual student that it's possible to create a life they will love and have a successful career that can actually be a lot of fun. Thomas shared with the class how their health and well being, relationships with others, creativity, and how they want to be of service to the world are all linked to career.
"To know the kids of today will soon be our leaders of tomorrow, I believe it's our calling to groom them into being authentic, innovative and happy individuals. The more our kids feel inspired to pursue and live their dreams and supported by our community, in return, our community will thrive." says Thomas.
Two of the many significant questions Thomas asked was, "How do you want to feel in your career?" Most students wrote things down like, "Happy" and "Fun." and "If you had everything you could ever ask for, including all the money in the world, what world issues would you like to share your money and power with to help make a difference?" Majority of the students added "help the homeless," "cure cancer," and "help kids in need."
Imagine a world where more of our youth understands the significance of this. Let's keep this movement going, encourage, and support our children around the world to enhance universal happiness. Who else is with us?!
Tawny, Kendall, and Kylee take pride in their dreams. These girls are so fun & kept the energy up in class.
A group shot of the last class of the day.
Tagged: Iao Intermediate School, dreamboard, Dream Coach, Tiare Thomas, Maui, Hawaii, Vision Board, Career, Health, Health and Wellbeing, Dream Big, Aloha Dreamboard, Aloha Dreamboard Blog, Aloha Dreamboard Gives Back, Happiness


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This list of tallest buildings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ranks skyscrapers based on official height. The tallest building in the UAE is Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which rises  and contains 163 floors. The tower has stood as both the tallest building in the world and the tallest man-made structure of any kind in the world since its completion in January 2010.

The second tallest building in the UAE is the  Marina 101 in Dubai, which also stands as the world's fourth-tallest residential building after 432 Park Avenue, 111 West 57th Street and Central Park Tower, all of which are in New York City. The tallest buildings in the UAE are mostly located in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

However, Dubai has more highrises than Abu Dhabi. As of 2022, Dubai has 28 completed and topped-out buildings that rise at least  in height, which is more than any other city in the world, and 97 completed and topped-out buildings that rise at least  in height, again which is more than any other city in the world. Based on the average height of the ten tallest completed buildings, Dubai has the tallest skyline in the Middle East and the world.

In 2015, the skyline of Dubai was ranked sixth in the world with 248 buildings rising at least  in height. As of 2022, Dubai is ranked fourth for cities with the most skyscrapers taller than , with 241 buildings.

Tallest buildings
This list ranks completed and topped out skyscrapers in the United Arab Emirates that stand at least  tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. An equal sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings. The "Year" column indicates the year in which a building was completed.

Under construction
This lists buildings that are currently under construction in the United Arab Emirates and are expected to rise to a height of at least . Buildings under construction that have already been topped out are also included.

On-hold
This table lists buildings that were at one time under construction in Dubai and were expected to rise at least  in height, but are now on-hold. While not officially cancelled, construction has been suspended on each development.

Approved
This table lists buildings that are approved for construction in the United Arab Emirates and are expected to rise at least  in height.

Proposed
This table lists buildings that are proposed for construction in the United Arab Emirates and are expected to rise at least  in height.

Timeline of tallest buildings

This is a timeline of the buildings in UAE.

See also
 List of tallest buildings in Dubai
 List of tallest buildings in Abu Dhabi
 List of tallest buildings in Asia
 List of tallest buildings in the world

Notes
 A.  Topped out, but still under construction

References

External links
 List of tallest buildings in United Arab Emirates - CTBUH
 List of tallest buildings in United Arab Emirates - Emporis

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Q: Why does hook priority affects admin menu permission error? On this answer, there was this final comment

For future readers, Roland's issue was a hook priority issue. Changing priority from 10 to 11 fixed it in his case

The answer seems already closed, so I couldn't comment, but why/how would a hook priority make an admin menu work or produce a permission error?

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

A: Priority
All hooks & filters have a priority. Those are used to order the functions that are attached to hooks. By default the priority is 10.
As the default is 10, there's a big chance that your filter/action gets hooked too early and therefore can't affect the actual output.
Edit:

*

*Imagine that the plugin hooks it's bootstrap into the 'admin_init' hook to add something that needs permissions to access. Inside that bootstrap it hooks something to the (fictional) 'fantastic_hook'.

*Imagine that you hook some extension of a plugin to the 'after_theme_setup' hook. There you add some function to the (fictional) 'fantastic_hook' too.

So the result of print_r( $GLOBALS['wp_filter']['fantastic_hook'] ); would be the following:
[10] Array => ['fantastic_hook']
    (
        Array => ['your_custom_extension']
        Array => ['the_plugin_bootstrap']
    )

As your extension and the bootstrap run both at priority 10. But yours got added first and will therefore run first. And there comes the problem...
About the menu items
The admin menu works pretty similar: You have a priority (the (sub-)array index) that cares about ordering and placing the menu items.
// Example for your functions.php:
function dump_filters()
{
    $output = '';
    foreach ( array( $GLOBALS['menu'], $GLOBALS['submenu'] ) as $item )
        $output .= var_export( $item, false );
    echo "<pre>{$output}</pre>";
}
add_action( 'adminmenu', 'dump_filters', 999 );

Note: I wrote a pretty intense post about the menu order, where you can see how you'd reorder the menu and read a little bit about the behind-the-scenes of the menu and it's limitations.


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package org.motechproject.mds.test.domain;

import org.motechproject.mds.annotations.Entity;
import org.motechproject.mds.annotations.Field;
import org.motechproject.mds.annotations.IndexedManyToMany;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;

@Entity(recordHistory = true)
public class Movie {

    private Long id;

    @Field
    private String name;

    @Field
    @IndexedManyToMany(relatedField = "movies")
    private List<Actor> actors;

    public Movie(String name) {
        this.name = name;
        this.actors = new ArrayList<>();
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public List<Actor> getActors() {
        if (actors == null) {
            actors = new ArrayList<>();
        }
        return actors;
    }

    public void setActors(List<Actor> actors) {
        this.actors = actors;
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (this == obj) {
            return true;
        }

        if (obj == null || getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
            return false;
        }

        final Movie other = (Movie) obj;

        return Objects.equals(this.id, other.id)
                && Objects.equals(this.name, other.name);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return Objects.hash(id);
    }
}

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Virtual Event - Women's Speaker Series: Abbi Waxman, author of I Was Told It Would Get Easier
July 7, 2020 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Lynden Sculpture Garden's Women's Speaker Series and Boswell Books welcome Abbi Waxman, author of I Was Told It Would Get Easier, for a virtual, BYOS (bring-your-own-snack) conversation with MKE Read's Margy Stratton on Tuesday, July 7, 7 pm.
Registration: Register for the free Zoom event here. Order your copy of I Was Told It Would Get Easier from Boswell Book Company here: https://www.boswellbooks.com/book/9781982146948
About I Was Told It Would Get Easier
Stuck in a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into something far less predictable.
Jessica and Emily have very different ideas of how this college tour should go.
For Emily, it's a last-ditch effort to get excited about her future, because every day in the present feels like such a slog. Can't she just skip straight to the adulting part? It looks so much easier…at least on social media.
For Jessica, it's a chance to bond with the daughter she seems to have lost. They used to be so close, but then Goldfish crackers and Play-Doh were no longer enough of a draw. She isn't even sure if Emily likes her anymore. To be honest, Jessica isn't entirely sure she likes herself.
Together with a dozen strangers--and two familiar enemies--Jessica and Emily travel the East Coast, meeting up with family and old friends along the way. Surprises and secrets threaten their relationship and, in the end, change it forever.
Abbi Waxman was born in England in 1970, the oldest child of two copywriters who never should have been together in the first place. Once her father ran off to buy cigarettes and never came back, her mother began a highly successful career writing crime fiction. She encouraged Abbi and her sister Emily to read anything and everything they could pull down from the shelves, and they did. Naturally lazy and disinclined to dress up, Abbi went into advertising, working as a copywriter and then a creative director at various advertising agencies in London and New York. Clients ranged from big and traditional, (AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, IBM, American Express, Unilever, Mercedes-Benz) to big and morally corrupt (R. J. Reynolds) to big and larcenous (Enron). Eventually she quit advertising, had three kids and started writing books, TV shows and screenplays, largely in order to get a moment's peace.
Abbi lives in Los Angeles with her husband, three kids, three dogs, three cats, a gecko, two mice and six chickens. Every one of these additions made sense at the time, it's only in retrospect that it seems foolhardy.
The Great Sambusa Community Cooking Class
July 19, 2020 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
In collaboration with Tables Across Borders
On Facebook live at https://www.facebook.com/LyndenSculptureGarden/
Find the schedule on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/983127418790495/
Watch the preview video here.
The HOME Refugee Steering Committee at Lynden and Tables Across Borders invite you to join us for the first episode in our (virtual) bimonthly community cooking series.
Tables Across Borders is a global food tour collaboration highlighting local refugee chefs and the cuisines and cultures of refugee communities in Milwaukee. With restaurants closed during the pandemic, TAB is sharing the skills of its chefs through these online cooking classes. The community cooking series is an opportunity for chefs across cultures to share tips and recipes from their own cuisines while also allowing us to explore how cuisines cross-pollinate as people migrate and need to adapt techniques and ingredients in a new homeland. Cooking is a place where we interact, exchange, borrow, and invent and imagine new ways of being with each other.
In the Great Sambusa Community Cooking Class, you will learn how to make your own sambusas by cooking along with featured chef Hasina Begum Ashraf Mia. Sambusas, also known as samosas, are common across many cultures: they are portable treats that encase (usually) savory fillings in baked or fried pastry. Hasina will be joined by Norjan Jaan, Rahena Aziz, Ifrah Yusuf, May June Paw, Sumeya Osman and other Tables Across Borders chefs who will be cooking their own version of the sambusa, sharing tips, and illustrating the way cuisines mix and grow in new places.
Visit the HOME virtual platform at https://www.home-at-lynden.org for Hasina's samosa recipe and to sign up for the HOME e-list.
About Hasina Begum Ashraf Mia
Hasina Begum Ashraf Mia is a Rohingya refugee community leader from Myanmar/Malaysia. Prior to resettling to Milwaukee, Hasina was the head and supervisor of a refugee kindergarten learning center under the Penang Stop Human Trafficking Campaign. Through leading this work, Hasina played a pivotal role in developing strategy and approaches to case management, community health clinics, resettlement issues, and arrest and detention faced by her community. In Milwaukee, Hasina continues to lead, organize, and support community initiatives and events, including advising community advocates on refugee issues, presenting Rohingya/Burmese/Malaysian cuisine for Tables Across Borders, organizing and participating in community fashion shows and celebrations, co-coordinating Lynden's HOME event for World Refugee Week, and impacting and involving community members in the arts. Through her life's work, and inspired by the active Lynden community, Hasina's interests and involvement include batiking with textile artist Arianne King Comer and community worker/artist Kim Khaira, modelling for Rosemary Ollison's Beyond Fashion show, and building the refugee and immigrant community through HOME.
More about Tables Across Borders
Coordinated by Kai Gardner Mishlove, Tables Across Borders is a global food collaboration highlighting the cuisines of refugee chefs by linking great chefs together and creating connections to Milwaukee-area restaurants, such as Amilinda, The Tandem, Tricklebee Café, and beyond.
More information available at https://www.facebook.com/Amilindatandemtricklebee/


All but one of the 15 seats was filled at Peabody City Council meeting Monday, as citizens turned out for discussion on the county's proposed southern wind farm.
Some community members expressed concerns about the wind farm being outside the city's zoning limit of one mile.
Since the population is not growing, Peabody cannot expand its city limits, Peabody mayor Tom Spencer said.
The zoning radius means the city cannot impede wind farm construction as long as the company has proper landowner approval.
"We're not an expanding city, so we don't project out three miles," Spencer said.
The city could try bringing the matter to court, but that would be unwise because of Peabody's unfavorable financial situation, councilman Travis Wilson said.
Increased enrollment at Peabody's schools sounds like a benefit of wind farm construction, but isn't guaranteed, said Evan Yoder, Peabody resident and Hillsboro elementary principal.
Harms said he didn't know if the leak was caused by traffic from the weight of the city's garbage trucks.
He said the department would seek bids from APAC Shears and Kansas Paving. Councilman Travis Wilson suggested getting a bid from the company doing street work in Marion, Baker and Baker Construction, Inc. of Hutchinson.
Sand will get packed down if it is used to fill the hole. Councilman Jay Gfeller suggested putting up snow barricades.
The council also approved police chief Bruce Burke to test the city's emergency sirens once every other month, which will ensure the city is aware when needs arise for repairs, Gfeller said.
According to Burke, the main siren at city hall had been struck by lightning and need to be fixed last week.
Burke said he will get a bid on an offer for refurbished sirens, and would like to replace some other parts.


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Harlingen: UTRGV/HCISD Campus Ready to Break Ground This Summer
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Harlingen: UTRGV/HCISD Campus Ready to Break Ground This Summer|
Feature Illustration (above): Concept rendering of the UTRGV/Early College High School building. Courtesy: Gomez Mendez Saenz Inc.
Posted: 3-5-2020
by Adolfo Pesquera
Harlingen (Cameron County) — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley anticipates starting construction by June on a new campus being financed and operated in collaboration with Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District.
The building itself is estimated at about 60,000 square feet and comes with a total project cost of about $14 million. The educational institutions agreed to split the cost of construction 50/50, in an memorandum of understanding that was negotiated a year ago.
However, it was not until January 2020 that the Harlingen City Commission finalized a real estate agreement with UTRGV, essentially transferring ownership to the university. The 6.7-acre project site is undeveloped agricultural land located north-by-northwest of Medical Drive and Doctors Memorial Drive.
Since about March 2019, the UTRGV and Harlingen school district have shared oversight of the architectural/engineering project team that has been designing the building.
The architect firm is Gomez Mendez Saenz Inc. of Brownsville, and David Monreal is the lead designer, according to Marta Salinas Hovar, UTRGV's associate vice president of Facilities Planning & Operations. Ethos Engineering in Harlingen is the MEP.
"The project is under design. It will be put out for competitive sealed bid around April," Salinas Hovar told VBX.
Google Earth view of the project site for the UTRGV/ECHS campus.
The bid procurement process will go through the Harlingen CISD purchasing office, she said. VBX is tracking this project at Project ID 2020-1F8E.
Known as the UTRGV/Early College High School campus, the concept is to prepare hundreds of students for a successful experience when they go on to university life. Under the guidance of UTRGV professors, ECHS students earn up to 60 hours of college credit by the time they complete high school.
They leave Harlingen CISD with their academic core, or are on a fast track toward careers in engineering, computer science or teaching.
The new building, once in operation, marks the first phase of UTRGV's goal for establishing a baccalaureate programs in Harlingen. UTRGV has campuses in Edinburg and Brownsville, and an educational medical program in Harlingen at a separate site.
This project was not included in the UT System Capital Improvement Program. Salinas Hovar said that step was not required because the UTRGV portion cost was below the $10 million threshhold.
The building is expected to be completed about 12 to 13 months after construction begins.
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By Adolfo Pesquera|2020-03-06T12:31:52-06:00March 6th, 2020|Construction Preview, Feature Story|
About the Author: Adolfo Pesquera
Adolfo Pesquera (Reporter/Editor) is a veteran news journalist. He has worked for Hearst Corp., American Lawyer Media, News Corp and Freedom Communications. His work has been published in newspapers and magazines across the USA. He is a journalism graduate of UT-RGV. He writes, edits and creates digital pages for VBX.
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US senator questions support to Rwanda over human rights, function in Congo
In a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Senator Robert Menendez called for a comprehensive review of US policy towards Rwanda.
Menendez said he would begin by placing a hold on several million dollars in support for Rwandan peacekeepers participating in UN missions, according to the letter, which was leaked to media and which his office confirmed was authentic. A hold is a Senate procedure that prevents a motion from reaching the floor for a vote.
Menendez said he feared that US support for the Rwandan military while it is deployed to Congo and backing rebels would send "a troubling signal that the US tacitly approves of such actions."
The M23 rebel group began a major offensive in Congo's eastern borderlands with Rwanda at the end of March. Congo has accused Rwanda of backing M23, which Kigali denies.
The United States allocated more than $147 million in foreign assistance to Rwanda in 2021, making it Rwanda's largest bilateral donor.
Menendez also cited what he said were…
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Jaguar has added some more style to their mid-size offering, the XF and XF Sportbrake, as part of the latest model year updates.
Called Chequered Flag special editions, the exterior enhancements include side vent badging, 18-inch Chalice alloy wheels in gloss black finish, sporty front bumper, body-colored side sills, boot spoiler, and a choice of three exterior colors – Yulong White, Santorini Black and Eiger Grey.
Inside, the XF Saloon and Sportbrake Chequered Flag models feature interior badging on the treadplates, Dark Hex aluminium instrument panel finisher, R-Sport full leather interior, and a choice of Jet/Jet or Jet/Red color combinations with contrast stitching.
A selection of optional features are standard on the special edition, such as Navigation Pro with InControl Connect Pro which includes a Live Traffic function. Other online services including Share ETA function, car parking availability and fuel pricing are also part of the features list. More features include the 12.3-inch Interactive Driver Display and keyless entry. As part of this model year update, a new Smartphone pack which features Apple CarPlay and Android Auto is standard on all models.
The Chequered Flag models are available with a choice of petrol and diesel engines. The line-up includes rear-wheel drive (RWD) and all-wheel drive (AWD) models.
Prices start from £34,950 OTR for the saloon and £37,390 OTR for the Sportbrake.


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The electron (blue) orbits the nucleus (red) -- and its orbit encloses many other atoms of the Bose-Einstein-condensate (green).
What is inside an atom, between the nucleus and the electron? Usually there is nothing, but why could there not be other particles too? If the electron orbits the nucleus at a great distance, there is plenty of space in between for other atoms. A "giant atom" can be created, filled with ordinary atoms.
FCT's broad product portfolio now in stock at TTI, Inc.
FCT's broad product portfolio including a range of connectors, contacts, hoods, tools and more is available in Europe through TTI, Inc. A Molex company, FCT's products also encompasses customised solutions meeting individual needs and providing design flexibility.
Anritsu A/S announced today the successful completion of the 2nd NFV Plugtests™ at an event organised by the European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute (ETSI) with the scope of validating and testing Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) interoperability.
Anritsu Corporation has announced the release of three new software packages to expand the measurement standards supported by the Universal Wireless Test Set MT8870A, enabling fast and fully automatic testing in accordance with the IEEE 802.11ax test specifications.


Figure. New collectible figures of past silver screen greats can soon be yours! SD Toys is bringing the past to life with a new series of collectible film figures. Distributed exclusively in North America by Dark Horse Comics, Movie Icons will launch Spring 2006 with Charles Chaplin, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, and Steve McQueen. Each 7" tall figure comes packaged in an attractive metal movie reel box. Included with each figure is a plastic "movie reel" base, clapboard, and actor appropriate accessories: Steve McQueen's baseball, Chaplin's walking stick, Oliver with removeable hat, and Stan with thrown cake and alternate hands - one scratching his head, one holding his hat.


All signs must be approved by Planning and Zoning before applying for a building permit. If an electrical sign is installed, the electrician must be listed on the application by the sign contractor. The sign contractor must have the electricians power of attorney to pull the electrical permit for necessary electrical work related to the sign installation.
The Sign Permit Application (See Forms) must be completely filled out and marked approved by P&Z and submitted with the building application and 3 sets of plans.


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Everywhere you look, there's laughter and fun! "Namur en Mai" Le Festival des Arts forains will be setting up its big tents, its carrousels and its trestle tables from 13st to 16th May 2010. Over 4 days, in the stunning surroundings of Namur, the capital of Wallonia, 300 artists, actors and acrobats, dealing in dreams and illusions, will take you on an emotional rollercoaster with all the fun of the fair – and all for not more than a few Sous!
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Johnny Cisneros (born February 5, 1980) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division. A professional competitor since 2010, he has also competed for King of the Cage and Bellator MMA.

Mixed martial arts career

Early career
Cisneros began his professional MMA career in 2010. He compiled an 8–2 record, competing for promotions such as King of the Cage and Gladiator Challenge, before beginning his stint in Bellator MMA.

Bellator MMA
In a Catchweight bout, Cisneros lost to Mikkel Parlo in his promotional debut at Bellator 115 on April 4, 2014, via unanimous decision. Parlo was able to control Cisneros on ground en route to a decision.

In another Catchweight affair and his second bout for the promotion, Cisneros was defeated by Ricky Rainey via first-round TKO on October 3, 2014, at Bellator 127. Rainey landed a knee to the head, hurting Cisneros and knocking him down, before subsequent hammer fists prompted a stoppage by the referee.

Cisneros defeated Gabriel Miglioli via a unanimous verdict, on August 28, 2015, at Bellator 141, thus, recording his first victory inside the promotion.

Cisneros faced Andy Murad at Bellator 160 on August 26, 2016. He lost the fight by unanimous decision.

Cisneros next faced Curtis Millender at Bellator 170 on January 21, 2017. He lost the fight via TKO in the second round.

Cisneros faced Marlen Magee at Bellator 192 on January 20, 2018. He won the fight via submission in the second round.

Cisneros faced Dave Terrel on November 24, 2018 at Golden Boy Promotions: Liddell vs. Ortiz 3. He won the bout via unanimous decision.

Cisneros faced John Mercurio on March 29, 2019 at Bellator 219. He lost the bout via majority decision.

Cisneros faced Mike Jasper on September 28, 2019 at Bellator 228. He won the bout in the second round after Jasper was unable to continue fighting due to an ankle injury.

Cisneros faced Joshua Jones on July 31, 2021 at Bellator 263. He lost the bout via ground and pound in the second round.

Personal life
Heavily-tattooed, Cisneros received his first tattoo at age 16.

Mixed martial arts record

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| Loss
| align=center|13–8
|Joshua Jones
|TKO (punches)
|Bellator 263
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|align=center|2
|align=center|4:15
|Los Angeles, California, United States
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|Win
|align=center|13–7
|Mike Jasper
|TKO (ankle injury)
|Bellator 228
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|align=center|2
|align=center|2:48
|Inglewood, California, United States
|Catchweight (175 lb) bout.
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| Loss
| align=center|12–7
| John Mercurio
| Decision (majority)
| Bellator 219
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Temecula, California, United States
|Catchweight (175 lb) bout.
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| Win
| align=center|12-6
| Dave Terrel
| Decision (unanimous)
| Golden Boy Promotions: Liddell vs. Ortiz 3
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Inglewood, California, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center|11–6
| Marlen Magee
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| Bellator 192
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:28
| Inglewood, California, United States
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| Win
| align=center|10–6
| Alexander Moses
| TKO (punches)
| Gladiator Challenge: Summer Slam
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 2:34
| San Jacinto, California, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center|9–6
| Curtis Millender
| TKO (punches)
| Bellator 170
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 3:48
| Inglewood, California, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center|9–5
| Andy Murad
| Decision (unanimous)
| Bellator 160
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Anaheim, California, United States
|Catchweight (175 lbs) bout.
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|Win
|align=center|9–4
|Gabriel Miglioli
|Decision (unanimous)
|Bellator 141
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Temecula, California, United States
|Welterweight debut.
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|Loss
|align=center|8–4
|Ricky Rainey
|TKO (knee and punches)
|Bellator 127
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|align=center|1
|align=center|3:18
|Temecula, California, United States
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|Loss
|align=center|8–3
|Mikkel Parlo
|Decision (unanimous)
|Bellator 115
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Reno, Nevada, United States
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|Win
|align=center|8–2
|Melvin Costa
|Decision (unanimous)
|KOTC: Terrified
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Highland, California, United States
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|-
|Loss
|align=center|7–2
|Daniel Hernandez
|Submission (armbar)
|KOTC: Devastation
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:00
|Highland, California, United States
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|Loss
|align=center|7–1
|Joshua Aveles
|KO (punch)
|KOTC: Vigilante
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|align=center|1
|align=center|0:09
|Highland, California, United States
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|Win
|align=center|7–0
|Brandon Hunt
|Decision (unanimous)
|KOTC: Gun Show
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Highland, California, United States
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|Win
|align=center|6–0
|Walter Selva
|Decision (unanimous)
|KOTC: Hardcore
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Highland, California, United States
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|Win
|align=center|5–0
|Ronald LeBreton Jr.
|TKO (slam and punches)
|KOTC: Reckless Abandon
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:08
|Highland, California, United States
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|Win
|align=center|4–0
|James Cooper
|TKO (punches)
|KOTC: Magnaflow
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|align=center|1
|align=center|0:40
|San Bernardino, California, United States
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|Win
|align=center|3–0
|Paul Arras
|TKO (punches)
|KOTC: Moral Victory
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|align=center|1
|align=center|1:42
|San Bernardino, California, United States
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|Win
|align=center|2–0
|Heath Cassol
|TKO (doctor stoppage)
|Gladiator Challenge: Bad Behavior
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:59
|San Jacinto, California, United States
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|-
|Win
|align=center|1–0
|Nelson Alvarado
|TKO (punches)
|Gladiator Challenge: Vision Quest
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|align=center|2
|align=center|1:46
|San Jacinto, California, United States
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References

Living people
1980 births
American male mixed martial artists
Welterweight mixed martial artists
People from Laguna Niguel, California
Mixed martial artists from California


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"C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 7128 -s 964", creationflags 525312, HRESULT 800705AA
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A: Sorry, the problem was very simple I just forgot to uncheck randomized low resources simulation in driver verifier.


Akhisar Belediy have conceded an average of 1.66 goals per game since the beginning of the season. The team's average number of goals conceded per game in the last 8 matches is 1.38, which is 16.9% lower than their current season's average.
0-2 B. Yilmaz (44) pen.
1-3 Y. Seleznyov (78) pen.
1-1 G. Vural (38) pen.
2-0 A. Koné (61) pen.
2-1 J. Sosa (78) pen.
2-1 J. Bokila (62) pen.
Of the above 5 remaining matches in Turkey - Super Lig, Akhisar Belediy will be playing more matches away (3) than at home (2).
Considering the opponents' Points Per Game (PPG) values above, Akhisar Belediy's remaining away matches feature a higher combined opposition PPG average than their remaining home matches.
Akhisar Belediy's opponents to be played in home games currently have a combined average of 0.97 Points Per Game in their away matches played so far this season in the league.
As for the hosts that Akhisar Belediy will be visiting, so far this season they have a combined average of 1.45 Points Per Game at home in the league.
Matches played at home have accounted for 71% of Akhisar Belediy's total points and 63% of the goals they have scored so far this season in Turkey - Super Lig.
Akhisar Belediy have scored an average of 1.03 goals per match so far this season, which is lower than the average number of 1.32 goals scored by each team per match this season in the league, all teams combined in Turkey - Super Lig.
Akhisar Belediy have obtained as many 1-goal margin wins as wins with a margin of 2 goals or more (3 wins for each).
A majority of Akhisar Belediy's defeats had a 1-goal margin (10 defeats), while 7 of their defeats had a margin of 2 goals or more.
In this example, Akhisar Belediy have been in the lead for an average duration of 13.1 minutes per match (based on a 90-minute match duration), which is lower than the average duration of 29.4 minutes per match during which their opponents were in the lead in those matches.
Akhisar Belediy have taken the lead 12 times and have conceded an equalizer on 6 occasions, corresponding to a lead-defending rate of 50% (for an opponents' equalizing rate of 50%).
Of the 24 times that Akhisar Belediy's opponents have taken the lead, Akhisar Belediy have managed to score an equalizer on 7 occasions, corresponding to an equalizing rate of 29%.
Avg. min. leading 18.9 min.
In this example, Akhisar Belediy have been in the lead for an average duration of 18.9 minutes per match played at home (based on a 90-minute match duration), which is lower than the average duration of 25.9 minutes per match during which their opponents were in the lead in those matches.
In home matches, Akhisar Belediy have taken the lead 6 times and have conceded an equalizer on 2 occasions, corresponding to a home lead-defending rate of 67% (for an opponents' equalizing rate of 33%).
Of the 11 times that Akhisar Belediy's opponents have taken the lead when Akhisar Belediy were playing at home, Akhisar Belediy have managed to score an equalizer on 5 occasions, corresponding to a home equalizing rate of 45%.
Avg. min. leading 6.9 min.
Avg. min. trailing 33.2 min.
In this example, Akhisar Belediy have been in the lead for an average duration of 6.9 minutes per match played away (based on a 90-minute match duration), which is lower than the average duration of 33.2 minutes per match during which their opponents were in the lead in those matches.
In away matches, Akhisar Belediy have taken the lead 6 times and have conceded an equalizer on 4 occasions, corresponding to an away lead-defending rate of 33% (for an opponents' equalizing rate of 67%).
Of the 13 times that Akhisar Belediy's opponents have taken the lead when Akhisar Belediy were playing away, Akhisar Belediy have managed to score an equalizer on 2 occasions, corresponding to an away equalizing rate of 15%.
Akhisar Belediy conceded at least 1 goal in 93% of their away matches. Akhisar Belediy have scored in 71% of their away matches. 71% of Akhisar Belediy's points have been earned at home. 73% of Akhisar Belediy's goals have been scored in the second half. Akhisar Belediy have lost 79% of their away matches. Akhisar Belediy have scored 43% of their goals after the 75th minute.


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Data Science Central - Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Trends in 2019
Posted by Divya Singh
Artificial intelligence uses data science and algorithms to automate, optimize and find value hidden from the human eye. By one estimate, artificial intelligence will drive nearly $2 trillion worth of business value worldwide in 2019 alone. Hence, that's an excellent incentive to grab a slice of the AI bounty. Also, fortune favors those who get an early start. Therefore, the laggards might not be so fortunate.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the rage now, but like all things tech, it is in a continuous state of evolution. Here is how Artificial Intelligence is expected to play out in 2019.
1. Automation of DevOps to achieve AIOps
There's been a lot of attention in recent years about how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Furthermore, DevOps is all about automation of tasks. Its focus is on automating and monitoring steps in the software delivery process, ensuring that work gets done quickly. AI and ML are perfect fits for a DevOps culture. Also, they can process vast amounts of information and help perform menial tasks. They can learn patterns, anticipate problems and suggest solutions. If DevOps' goal is to unify development and operations, AI and ML can smooth out some of the tensions that separate the two disciplines in the past.
Moreover, one of the key tenets of DevOps is the use of continuous feedback loops at every stage of the process. This includes using monitoring tools to provide feedback on the operational performance of running applications. Additionally, this is one area today where ML is impacting DevOps already. Also, using automation technology, chatbots, and other AI systems, these communications channels can become more streamlined and proactive. Also, in the future, we can see AI/ML's application in other stages of the software development life cycle. This will provide enhancements to a DevOps methodology or approach.
Furthermore, one area where this may happen could be in the area of software testing. Unit tests, regression tests, and other tests all produce large amounts of data in the form of test results. Applying AI to these test results could identify patterns of poor codes resulting in errors caught by the tests.
2. The Emergence of More Machine Learning Platforms
People are yet not done figuring out machine learning, and now there is a rise of a new advanced term on the market for machine learning, and, i.e. "Automated Machine Learning." Automated machine learning is a more straightforward concept, and it makes things easier for developers and professionals. Furthermore, AutoML is a shift from traditional rule-based programming to an automation form where machines can learn the rules. Also, in automated machine learning, we offer a relevant and diverse set of reliable data to, in the beginning, to help automate the process of decision making. The engineers will no longer have to spend time on repetitive tasks, thanks to AutoML. The growth in the demand for machine learning professionals will get a massive boost with the rise of AutoML.
We're in a golden era where all platform mega-vendors providing mobile infrastructure are rolling out mobile-accessible tools for mobile developers. For example:
Apple CoreML
Amazon Machine Learning for Android & iOS
Google ML Kit for Firebase
Microsoft Custom Vision export to CoreML
IBM Watson Services for CoreML
All of these are excellent offerings.
3. Augmented Reality
Imagine a world where you can sit next to your customers and have a one on one conversation about their expectations from your brand with every interaction, and deliver on their expectations every single time. As we move forward in the digital era, this might be the reality for the brands, where businesses get the opportunity to win their customers' heart with every single interaction. Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality are two such technologies, which will show the most potential in connecting with consumers in 2019 and will rule the technology landscape. The key reason behind this trend is that, compared to virtual reality, which needs a hardware device like Oculus Rift, it is fairly simple to implement augmented reality. It only needs a smartphone and an app.
Since the entry barrier is low, today's tech-savvy consumers do not shy away from experimenting with the technology, and for enterprises, it only requires a thought-through AR-based app. Further, with tech giants like Apple, Google, Facebook making it easier for developers to build AR-based apps for their platforms, it has become easier even for smaller businesses to invest in augmented reality. Also, industries like retail, healthcare, travel etc. have already created a lot of exciting use cases with AR. With technology giants Apple, Google, Facebook etc. offering tools to make the development of AR-based apps easier, 2019 will see an upsurge in the number of AR apps being released.
4. Agent-Based Simulations
Agent-based modelling is a powerful simulation modelling technique that has seen a number of applications in the last few years, including applications to real-world business problems. Furthermore, in agent-based modelling (ABM), a system is modelled as a collection of autonomous decision-making entities called agents. Each agent individually assesses its situation and makes decisions on the basis of a set of rules. Agents may execute various behaviours appropriate for the system they represent — for example, producing, consuming, or selling.
The benefits of ABM over other modelling techniques can be captured in three statements: (i) ABM captures emergent phenomena; (ii) ABM provides a natural description of a system; and (iii) ABM is flexible. It is clear, however, that the ability of ABM to deal with emergent phenomena is what drives the other benefits.
Also, ABM uses a "bottom-up" approach, creating emergent behaviours of an intelligent system through "actors" rather than "factors". However, macro-level factors have a direct impact on macro behaviours of the system. Macy and Willer (2002) suggest that bringing those macro-level factors back will make agent-based modelling more effective, especially in intelligent systems such as social organizations.
5. IoT
The Internet of Things is reshaping life as we know it from the home to the office and beyond. IoT products grant us extended control over appliances, lights, and door locks. They also help streamline business processes; and more thoroughly connect us to the people, systems, and environments that shape our lives. IoT and data remain intrinsically linked together. Data consumed and produced keeps growing at an ever expanding rate. This influx of data is fueling widespread IoT adoption as there will be nearly 30.73 billion IoT connected devices by 2020.
Data Analytics has a significant role to play in the growth and success of IoT applications and investments. Analytics tools will allow the business units to make effective use of their datasets as explained in the points listed below.
Volume: There are huge clusters of data sets that IoT applications make use of. The business organizations need to manage these large volumes of data and need to analyze the same for extracting relevant patterns. These datasets along with real-time data can be analyzed easily and efficiently with data analytics software.
Structure: IoT applications involve data sets that may have a varied structure as unstructured, semi-structured and structured data sets. There may also be a significant difference in data formats and types. Data analytics will allow the business executive to analyze all of these varying sets of data using automated tools and software.
Driving Revenue: The use of data analytics in IoT investments will allow the business units to gain insight into customer preferences and choices. This would lead to the development of services and offers as per the customer demands and expectations. This, in turn, will improve the revenues and profits earned by the organizations.
6. AI Optimized Hardware
The demand for artificial intelligence will increase tremendously in the next couple of years, and it's no surprise considering the fact it's disrupting basically every major industry. Yet as these systems do more and more complex tasks, they demand more computation power from hardware. Machine learning algorithms are also present locally on a variety of edge devices to reduce latency, which is critical for drones and autonomous vehicles. Local deployment also decreases the exchange of information with the cloud which greatly lowers networking costs for IoT devices.
Current hardware, however, is big and uses a lot of energy, which limits the types of devices which can run these algorithms locally. But being the clever humans we are, we're working on many other chip architectures optimized for machine learning which are more powerful, energy efficient, and smaller.
There's a ton of companies working on AI specific hardware
Google's tensor processing units (TPU), which they offer over the cloud and costs just a quarter compared to training a similar model on AWS.
Microsoft is investing in field programmable gate arrays (FGPA) from Intel for training and inference of AI models. FGPA's are highly configurable, so they can easily be configured and optimized for new AI algorithms.
Intel has a bunch of hardware for specific AI algorithms like CNN's. They've also acquired Nervana, a startup working on AI chips, with a decent software suite for developers as well.
IBM's doing a lot of research into analogue computation and phase changing memory for AI.
Nvidia's dominated the machine learning hardware space because of their great GPU's, and now they're making them even better for AI applications, for example with their Tesla V100 GPU's.
7. Natural Language Generation
The global natural language generation market size will grow from USD 322.1 million in 2018 to USD 825.3 million by 2023. A necessity to understand customers' behaviour has led to a rise in better customer experience across different industry verticals. This factor is driving organisations to build personalised relationships based on customers' activities or interactions. Moreover, big data created an interest among organisations to derive insights from collected data for taking better and real-time decisions. Thus, NLG solutions have gained significance in extracting insights into human-like languages that are easy to understand. However, the lack of a skilled workforce to deploy NLG solutions is a major factor restraining the growth of the market.
8. Streaming Data Platforms
Streaming data platforms bring together are not only about just low-latency analysis of information. But, the important aspect lies in the ability to integrate data between different sources. Furthermore, there is a rise in the importance of data-driven organizations and the focus on low-latency decision making. Hence, the speed of analytics increased almost as rapidly as the ability to collect information. This is where the world of streaming data platforms comes into play. These modern data management platforms bring the ability to integrate information from operation systems in real-time/near real-time.
Through Streaming analytics, real-time information can be gathered and analyzed from and on the cloud. The information is captured by devices and sensors that are connected to the Internet. Some examples of these streaming platforms can be
Spark Streaming/Structured Streaming
Azure Streaming services
9. Driverless Vehicles
Car manufacturers are hoping autonomous-driving technology will spur a revolution among consumers, igniting sales and repositioning the U.S. as the leader in the automotive industry. Companies like General Motors and Ford are shifting resources away from traditional product lines and — alongside tech companies like Google's Waymo — pouring billions into the development of self-driving cars. Meanwhile, the industry is pressuring Congress to advance a regulatory framework that gives automakers the confidence to build such vehicles without worrying whether they'll meet as-yet-unspecified regulations that might bar them from the nation's highways.
Supporters say the technology holds immense promise in reducing traffic deaths and giving elderly individuals and other population groups access to safe and affordable alternatives to driving themselves. Achieving those benefits, however, will come with trade-offs.
10. Conversational BI and Analytics
We are seeing two major shifts happening in entire BI/Analytics and AI space. First, analytic capabilities are moving toward augmented analytics, which is capable of giving more business down insights and has less dependency on domain experts. Second, we are seeing is the convergence of conversational platforms with these enhanced capabilities around augmented analytics. We expect these capabilities and adoption to quickly proliferate across organizations, especially those organizations that already are having some form for BI in place.
Many technology experts postulate that the future of AI and machine learning is certain. It is where the world is headed. In 2019 and beyond these technologies are going to shore up support as more businesses come to realize the benefits. However, the concerns surrounding the reliability and cybersecurity will continue to be hotly debated. The artificial intelligence trends and machine learning trends for 2019 and beyond hold promises to amplify business growth while drastically shrinking the risks. So, are you ready to take your business to the next level with Artificial Intelligence trends?


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Q: nothing happens when I attempt to textout to a transparent image I am using Lazarus.
I have put 2 images on a form and synchronized their positions and sizes.
I can textout to both images, and after I made the ontop image transparent I can see the combined content of both images.
I can add further text to the bottom image and see it, but I can't see text I try to add to the transparent image.
I used the following code to make the top image transparent
image2.picture.Bitmap.TransparentColor:=clWhite;
image2.transparent:=true;

I guess I need to play with the image bitmap, but I can't find a solution that is not using other software.
Can someone help me with this please?