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SAN ANGELO – The 2019 edition of the Dallas Cowboys football team, with the most talented roster in the NFL, was unequivocally the worst of all the teams in its storied, franchise history, period!
Everyone, from sports fans to professional sports reporters, including former NFL Cowboy quarterback and Hall of Famer, Troy Aikman, etc. weighed in with their personal or professional opinion on what went wrong with the Cowboys' season. Let me set up my Op-ed piece with two quotes that places the blame at the feet of those involved: its owner/ GM, Jerry Jones, the "star" players, includes special teams and kicker. And the head coach, Jason Garrett. All three had a direct hand in the demise and disaster of a season that had Super Bowl LIV aspirations but instead went south-of-the-border.
"The buck stops here," Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953). "You are what your record says you are," Bill Parcells, former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys (2003-2006), former coach of the New York Giants and a two-time Super Bowl winner. "How about them [8-8] Cowboys!" Jimmy Johnson, former head coach of the 'Boys (1989-1993) who won two Super Bowls and is now an analyst for FOX NFL Sunday on FOX network. As for that last quote, I was being facetious in taking it out of context. Johnson did not say 8-8. I exaggerated it to make the point on just how "gorilla ugly" it got in Jerry's World.
So, let's address the blame with the first culprit--the team. The Cowboys, particularly its' skilled players on both sides of the ball, i.e. quarterback, Dak Prescott, back, Ezekiel Elliott, the offensive line, defensively it was Demarcus "Tank" Lawrence, defensive end, Michael Bennett, DE, defensive secondary and special teams' coverage which also included field goal kicker, Brett Maher.
With regards to Prescott, although he threw for 4,902 passing yards, when the lights shined brightest, he couldn't deliver against five winning teams—Packers, Vikings, Patriots, Bills and Bears. As for Elliott, who got a massive contract extension, six-year, $90 million dollars, the Pokes' "bell cow" really didn't deliver when it counted. And, Lawrence, the newly minted $105 million-dollar man, he dropped off the map when it came time to produce sacks, 5, compared to 2018 when he got 10.5. These "star studded" players and the team failed to win when games were left hanging in the balance.
After a 3-0 unbeaten record, Dallas went on a three-game losing streak that started with the New Orleans game on the road. There was no reason for the 'Boys to lose, 10-12. With Drew Brees out, Dallas faced a backup quarterback in Teddy Bridgewater. A week later in the Dallas vs Green Bay game, the losing skid continued as the team got behind to Aaron Rogers' Green Packers 31-10 into the third quarter. The third consecutive game was another loss, 24-22 to the lowly New York Jets, really? The Jets entered the game at 0-4; there is no way Dallas should have lost!
Two other games the 'Boys should have won were both at home, AT & T Stadium. The first one was against the Minnesota Vikings, 28-24. The second one was the Thanksgiving game loss to the Buffalo Bills, 26-15. Add up those three games [Jets, Vikings, Bills] in the win column and the Cowboys record should have been 11-5, good enough to win the NFC east division and host a playoff game.
As for kicker, Brett Maher, let's just look at two of his game results. If Maher had connected on a field goal in the Jets game Dallas would have won, 25-24. In a home game at AT&T Stadium against Minnesota, Maher missed a 57-yarder with 12:04 left in the first quarter. After Brett missed a 42-yarder against the Chicago Bears, which by the way was his 10th missed field goal of the season, he was shortly thereafter cut, though it was too late. [sidebar note before moving on to owner involved in Cowboys' imploding season] Interestingly the week before, Garrett decided to have kicker tryouts, but owner/GM Jones nixed that idea. Jones undermined Garrett's authority.
There are those who would argue that first year, offensive coordinator, Kellen Moore calling the plays, made the Cowboys offense the NO. 1 ranked explosive unit in the NFL, averaging over 431.5 yards a game. Add in the individual fantasy scoring stats for offensive "stars." Elliott gained 1,357 yards; receivers Michael Gallup and Amari Cooper, both went over the 1,000 yards in receiving--1,189 for Gallup, 1,107 by Cooper. And all that is true and Moore should be given a lot of the credit for that. However, my counterpoint is the team still lost eight games. The bottom line is when the Cowboys offense didn't outscore its opponent, yards/ stats didn't translate to wins. Last time I checked it was whichever team had the most points on the scoreboard was the winner.
As for the second party involved in the Cowboys' 8-8 record, it was Garrett. When Jason began his start as HC of the Pokes, the first three seasons he produced 500 ball [three 8-8 seasons] with a chance to win the last game of the 2011 season against the New York Giants to win the NFC east division. It was Giants 31, Cowboys 14. In 2012, Garrett's team has a chance to win the division, again the last game of the season. This time Dallas loses to the Washington Redskins, 28-18 to finish 8-8. For the third consecutive season, Dallas loses the final game to the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-22 to finish 8-8. Basically Jones hired Garrett [got OTJ, on-the-job-experience] in coaching a professional football team further put the organization and a team at a disadvantage; meaning no prior NFL experience as a head coach. BTW, Garrett finished last season like his first three, 8-8.
That leads me to my third and final actor in this drama in Dallas--the owner, Jones. The Cowboys didn't succeed in getting past the first round of the NFL playoffs, not just because of Garrett who couldn't get the most out of a talented roster which had six pro bowl players. But it also goes back to Jones who enabled his coach to skate by for so long with only three NFC East titles, three postseason appearances and two playoff wins in 10 seasons to show for it. How did that work out for you Mr. Jones? That's not what a proud and rich Cowboys franchise is measured by. The ultimate summit to reach is a Super Bowl win with a trophy.
The blame should entirely be shouldered by Jones. Former, Cowboy quarterback, and Hall of Famer, Troy Aikman, strongly came out and criticized Jerry, saying the Cowboys' problems are because of Jones. "Everything starts at the top," said Aikman, FOX' s NFL lead analyst.
… just because he's been real stubborn and steadfast in that he's the one in charge. I think in a lot of ways, until that changes, this team's going to have some problems."
Here's the real kicker and closing comments on this Op-ed. Jones had an opportunity to hire the greatest coach ever, Bill "Do your job!" Belichek. After Jones and Johnson parted ways, Jerry once stated any one of 500 coaches could have won those three Super Bowls with the Cowboys that Jimmy had coached. Well let's just count the ways, uh coaches who succeeded after Jimmy hoisted the Lombardi trophy, twice. There was Barry Switzer, former Oklahoma Sooner coach, who succeeded in winning a third SB title [with Jimmy's team.] Then there was Chan Gailey (18-14), Dave Campo (15-33), Bill Parcells (34-30), Wade Phillips (34-22) and Garrett's 10 seasons record (85-67, 2-3 in postseason.) A coaching carousel of five coaches went through Dallas and all there was to show for that was only two playoff wins. So, Jerry, was sadly and badly mistaken. And you know why? Because his greatest strength lies in business dealings, marketing, etc. not being GM. Jones ego which is "bigger-than-Texas" always managed to get in the way. Jerry says he will do whatever it takes to win another SB championship, but what the owner/GM needs to do is get out of the kitchen [meaning out of coaching the team from the sidelines, the press box or in the media.]
You can fire the coaches and cut players. But in the end the common denominator for the past 24 years of a once "storied, franchise" empire and the blame lies at the feet of is Jerry's "World" Jones. "The buck [really] stops here" with him.

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Legendary drummer Tony Allen dies, aged 79
The Nigerian musician was best known for his work with Fela Kuti and The Good, the Bad & the Queen
by Chris Bound: May 1, 2020
The legendary drummer, best known for his work with Fela Kuti and The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Tony Allen has died, aged 79.
His manager Eric Trosset confirmed the news that Allen had passed away in Paris earlier today (1st May), and is alleged to have been from an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Tony Allen was regularly praised for his work bringing afrobeat to a western audience, and was named by his The Good, the Bad & the Queen bandmate Damon Albarn as the greatest drummer in the world, with the father of modern afrobeat Fela Kuti stating, "Without Tony Allen, there would be no afrobeat".
Listen again to his work on the Fela Kuti track 'Water No Get Enemy' in the player below.
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I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend. This weekend was especially exciting, my fiancé and I had our engagement party. Believe it or not this was the first weekend we both had free since the engagement! The party was in Sams Bar on Dawson St. I would highly recommend this venue to anyone planning an engagement or birthday party. The staff and management were superb and they do a mean cocktail too! I wore the dress featured above on the night. I was immediately attracted to the high-low skirt and blue leafy design. So with the engagement celebrations officially over all that is left is to finish off the wedding arrangements!
This dress might have to make it's way to my closet! It looks stunning on you and the print is so pretty.
Perfect engagement party dress! You look so pretty!
How fun! Sounds like a great weekend. You looked very pretty for the party. Love the dress.


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Lost elections and missing legislation
Illena Armstrong September 7, 2006
Forget that Lieberman has been a notorious moderate who has rankled too much his core supporters. And forget his early promises to run as an independent in mid-term elections if he failed at this primary. His surprise loss stemmed from all those anti-war blogs and dastardly left-wing hackers who must have taken down a site that somehow could have tipped the scales in his favor on election day.
Whatever your political leanings, the hack of Senator Lieberman's site is interesting because it shows that federal politicians — many of whom have been getting a lot of slack in the press lately due to their limited knowledge of technology — can't divorce themselves from the negative side of the Internet Age for much longer. Tons of candidates have taken advantage of the internet to garner support, launch grassroots campaigns, trumpet causes, reach out to the masses, etc.
But bad stuff happens too. Stories about one party's interns hacking into opposition systems in Congress popped up a couple years ago. And other attacks, reported or not, have no doubt occurred. Hackers, whether driven by politics or still other malicious reasons, have taken notice.
But, our federal leaders are behind the curve. Who could have missed the IT blogs and mainstream television snippets about Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, describing the internet as "a series of tubes?"
With this 109th Congressional session's end looming, legislation covering a range of IT-related issues may get pushed to the backburner again. That will mean yet another year of debate about much-needed privacy legislation on the federal level, along with a further delay to re-visit such issues as network neutrality, anti-piracy and domestic spying. Such a prospect is depressing, but I guess not as disappointing and as important as an alleged hacked campaign website that ended in a lost election.
Illena Armstrong is editor-in-chief.
Illena Armstrong


Headliners certainly takes on a new feel when it's a seated show. Only a handful of folks were in the audience for this one, but everyone was enjoying the almost private performance by two great singer/songwriters. We got there toward the end of Louisville native Justin Paul Lewis' set. While we normally struggle to make it to the opening act, JPL was one we didn't want to miss. His soulful Americana sound draws you in and holds on tight, not letting you think about anything else while he serenades you. Matt the Electrician has a similar effect, his quirky fidgeting only adding to his appeal. You can tell that everything he sings about is incredibly heartfelt and real, making him even more likable. It's musicians like these two that raise the bar for other singer/songwriters, and we hope they continue doing what they're doing.
Shout out to Laura Shine & WFPK for these tickets. We're always very appreciative!


December 5, 2017 – Connection!
At the close of the prayer, someone would bring in food and the children would receive everything needful for the day.
–Adapted from Power Praying (Hearing Jesus' Spirit by Praying Jesus' Prayer) by David Chotka. This book is available at prayershop.org. Use the code CONPSP3 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount on the book.
Christmas Gift Idea: We want to offer you a free PDF of the Advent Prayer Guide, Preparing Our Hearts for the Coming of the Christ Child. Simply download and pray through the Christmas season!


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Q: How can I turn the number 0-8 into the 0-8th binary position in C++? I am trying to use the integers 1-8 to represent the binary positions D0-D7.
I'm at a loss at how to transform this.  I tried taking the most significant bit, but that doesn't really work for this situation..
Any thoughts or pointers to resources on this topic?  It's for addressing in an OLED screen.

I'm trying to think of a clever solution in C++.  I could just make a switch table, but I thought there must be a cooler way to do it with bit manipulation!

For example
int x = 7
y = convert(x)

if (y == 0b01000000)
print("Success!!")

Thank you for any and all help!!

A: What you're looking for is bit shift - move all the bits in you variable either to left or right.
C++, among other languages uses << operator to shift bits to the left. You might find other bitwise operators useful for Your application.
Using this you can replace convert(x) with simply 1 << (x-1). That changes integers 1 to 8 (inclusive) to 0th to 7th bit position (inclusive).

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Q: What is the difference between Django syntax hello guys what the difference between this two syntax
'blog' and 'blog.apps.BlogConfig'
in project this is located in installed app.
I think both are same but there should be difference between this 2 commands because they looks like different
first one is this
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'blog',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

seccond one is :
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'blog.apps.BlogConfig',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

]

A: I assume that you have a custom configuration(BlogConfig) for your app.
You have at least two options to register the app with custom config in project settings(INSTALLED_APPS).

*

*(if)You have a variable default_app_config = 'blog.apps.BlogConfig' in blog/__init__.py file, then inserting blog into INSTALLED_APPS will be the same as blog.apps.BlogConfig. If you don't have it in __init__.py, BlogConfig won't be applied in the example below.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'blog',
     ...,
]

*(if)You have an empty __init__.py in your app. Then to apply the custom config you must include the path to config.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'blog.apps.BlogConfig',
     ...,
]

putting only blog in the second example will work without the custom config.


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Water Resources of Illinois: n-values Project
N-VALUES SITE CONTENT:
Site Descriptions
Search for n-values
Calculate n-values
USGS Data Series Report
Barnes Book:
Barnes Site Descriptions
USGS Illinois Science Center Home Page
Similar USGS Studies
Estimating Manning's Roughness Coefficients for Natural and Man-Made Streams in Illinois
U.S. Geological Survey: David T. Soong, Crystal D. Prater, Teresa M. Halfar
Illinois Department of Natural Resources: Loren A. Wobig
:: Introduction :: Contact Information :: Acknowledgements :: Notes from the Authors ::
The Manning's roughness coefficients (n-values) presented in these Web pages are averaged reach-wise n-values. These n-values are computed using flow, water surface slope, and channel geometry data collected from selected streams in Illinois. Only in-bank flows are considered at the present time. In order to provide information for estimating n-values under other hydraulic and/or geometric conditions, the site- and event-specific data are organized into data pages using a format similar to the Barnes report (1967), which is known as the visual approach for estimating n-values. The stream reaches that are presented here are those representing natural or man-made cross sections with natural or artificial surface roughness found in rural or urban settings. Efforts are made to include a range of n-values computed using hydraulic data collected at different stages at each site. Attempts are also made to enhance the presentation of the topographic features of a study reach and to describe the geometric and hydraulic factors pertaining to the computed n-values in the site descriptions.
The U.S. Geological Survey-Illinois Water Science Center (USGS-ILWSC) and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources-Office of Water Resources (IDNR-OWR) conducted this study. Using links provided at the left-hand-side of the Web page, readers can view or download selected site pages, compute n-values using various methods that can be found in literature, and search for sites that have n-values within a specified range. Readers can also find links to reports of similar studies conducted by other USGS Water Science Centers and agencies. Other search or computational functions will be provided when feasible.
These Web pages are being continuously revised in order to provide information to users in the most clear and useful form. Please forward any comments to David T. Soong, Crystal D. Prater, or Teresa M. Halfar (USGS), or Loren Wobig (IDNR-OWR).
USGS:
David T. Soong: dsoong@usgs.gov, phone: 217 328 9717, fax: 217 328 9770
Crystal D. Prater: cprater@usgs.gov, phone: 217 328 9730, fax: 217 328 9770
Teresa M. Halfar: thalfar@usgs.gov, phone: 217 328 9714, fax: 217 328 9770
IDNR - OWR:
Loren A. Wobig: loren.wobig@illinois.gov, phone: 217 782 9130, fax: 217 785 5014
This project has been conducted by the USGS-ILWSC in cooperation with the IDNR-OWR. We want to give our thanks to the many private landowners who gave us permission to conduct field measurements on their properties. Data collection and surveying of channel cross sections has been conducted by USGS-ILWSC staff. Channel cross-sectional geometry and datum has also been obtained from IDNR-OWR, Illinois Department of Transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago, Rock Island, and St. Louis Districts, and from municipalities and private consultant firms. Former USGS-ILWSC student employees Megan A. Jupin and King Shan Kwok made tremendous contributions to the data analysis and maintenance of these Web pages.
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS:
These Web pages are still under construction. Many Web functions will be developed in the future. Provisional data are for review/comment only. Your comments and suggestions are invaluable to us for providing better, more accurate information/results.
USGS data on this page have not received Director's approval and as such are provisional and subject to revision. The data are released on the condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from their use.
Data from other agencies are displayed for informational purposes only. The USGS is not involved with the collection, checking, and analysis of other agency data. Questions and/or comments concerning other agency data should be directed to the respective agency.
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Page Contact Information: David Soong
Page Last Modified: December 19, 2012


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Rabo-de-leque-malaio (Rhipidura javanica) é uma espécie de ave da família Rhipiduridae e uma das 47 espécies do gênero Rhipidura. É localmente referido como murai gila, literalmente "tordo louco" na língua malaia. Pode ser encontrada em Brunei, Camboja, Indonésia, Laos, Malásia, Mianmar, Filipinas, Cingapura, Tailândia e Vietnã . O seu habitat natural são as florestas subtropicais ou tropicais húmidas de baixa altitude.

No Seri Lanca foi avistada uma única vez, no Parque Nacional de Yala.

Aves descritas em 1788
Rhipiduridae
Espécies pouco preocupantes
Aves do Camboja
Aves das Filipinas
Aves da Indonésia
Aves do Laos
Aves da Malásia
Aves de Mianmar
Aves da Tailândia
Aves do Vietname

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Liquefied Gas Handling Principles on Ships and in Terminals, (LGHP4) 4th Edition
This fully illustrated 500-page reference book covers every aspect of the safe handling of bulk liquid gases (LNG, LPG and chemical gases) on board ships and at the ship/shore interface at terminals. It is indispensable for personnel training for operational qualifications as well as those already engaged in liquefied gas operations.
The publication has been written primarily for serving ships' officers and terminal staff who are responsible for cargo handling operations, but also for personnel who are about to be placed in positions of responsibility for these operations. Its appeal extends also to many others, not directly involved in the operational aspects of the industry, who require a comprehensive and ready reference for technical aspects of their businesses. Liquefied Gas Handling Principles emphasises the importance of understanding the physical properties of gases in relation to the practical operation of gas-handling equipment on ships and at terminals.
In the sixteen years since this publication was last updated, the liquefied gas shipping and terminal industry has undergone considerable change. This revision reflects these changes which include, but are not limited to, vessel design, propulsion systems, size of fleet, floating regasification and reliquefaction, Arctic LNG, containment systems, efficiency increases in vessel operations, vessel capacities, technology, best practice and legislation.
Port Information Questionnaire for Liquefied Gas Terminals
NFPA 59A: Standard for the Production, Storage, and Handling of Liquefied Natural Gas
A Listing of Design Guidelines for Liquefied Gas Terminals (Referencing Ports and Jetties)
A Guide to Contingency Planning for Marine Terminals Handling Liquefied Gases in Bulk, 2nd Edition


Do you wish you could stay on top of Twitter mentions more easily or help a brand to get seen more visibly and attract more followers? Social media listening, particularly on Twitter, is a great way to stay on top of what's going on and to find new potential customers to connect with. Here's how it works.
How to set up Twitter email alerts and SMS notifications to receive all of your most important tweets, as they happen. From getting alerts each time a specific account tweets, to monitoring emergency situations, hashtags and more.
A guide on advanced Twitter search queries including searching for tweets sent to or from a user, hashtag search and how to find tweets with media files like photos and videos.
Cut through the noise and monitor your followers better with these five tips.


To conduct a more targeted search, you can restrict the product selection to specific sub-sections such as "Blues", "Jazz" or "Scores, Songbooks & Lyrics". You can also run a specific targeted search for products from particular brands with us. Use the search field or the filter at the side for this. In this way, you can restrict the product selection to AEBERSOLD, for example. You can also use the filter at the side to search for products in specific colours or within certain price segments. And if you're on the hunt for a bargain, use the "Sale Filter" to find currently reduced items. In any case, we hope that we can help you with your search for good, well-priced offers on the internet using our price comparison tool.
We also, however, tell you when you can typically pick up products from the Books/Music product range at a particularly attractive price. A good time is, for example, on mondays early in the morning. For more details, see the price analysis graphs below.
On mondays, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are largely the same as the weekly average. monday is typically neither a particularly expensive nor a particularly cheap day on which to buy these products.
On wednesdays, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are largely the same as the weekly average. wednesday is typically neither a particularly expensive nor a particularly cheap day on which to buy these products.
On thursdays, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are largely the same as the weekly average. thursday is typically neither a particularly expensive nor a particularly cheap day on which to buy these products.
It is probably not a bad idea to shop online for Music on monday between 0:00 and 6:00.
On mondays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average around 0% lower than their respective average weekly price.
On tuesdays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On tuesdays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On wednesdays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On thursdays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On thursdays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On thursdays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On fridays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On fridays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On fridays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On saturdays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On saturdays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Music product range in the "Books" product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
last verified on 2019-04-21 at 21:22; the price may have changed since.
last verified on 2019-04-21 at 23:36; the price may have changed since.


In the wallet transaction section you can view your transaction history of the specific wallet you have open indicating the transaction date, transaction amount in Bitcoin, the transaction status as well as the transaction type. You can view your Bitcoin wallet value in the bottom right corner of the window. By clicking on the refresh button on the top right corner of the window you can refresh the transaction window. Return to the Wallet dashboard screen by clicking on the wallet dashboard button.


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The CRM programme we developed for Patek Philippe is one of the longest running and most successful CRM programmes in the high-net-worth sphere. Aside from the magazine and accompanying videos, we also partner with Patek Philippe on several other branded content projects including a 400-page book: Patek Philippe, the Authorized Biography.
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To open a dialogue with global customers and nurture existing relationships; to cross-sell new products and help facilitate long-term sales; and to establish an international customer database.
We created a registration process and built a bespoke database. Customers receive a programme of exclusive communications including a beautiful, collectable, subscription-only biannual magazine, personalised emails, and a series of films (all available in eight languages) on a locked microsite.
Contributors include some of the world's most talented authors, photographers, thought-leaders, scientists and artists. Detailed content about new and vintage watches is set within the context of non-product stories that are aligned with Patek Philippe's brand values of craftsmanship, heritage and innovation, and designed to create an emotional landscape for a community of high-net-worth individuals with a shared passion for Patek Philippe.
Since launch, more than 300,000 customers have opted into the programme, most of whom cite the magazine as their first port of call for product news. One issue alone generated £1 million of additional watch sales.
Learn how Bookmark can help you glean insights from your customers to adapt your strategy and build stronger relationships with them.
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in sales was generated by one issue alone
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Home Biafra featured BIAFRA: UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY IN IPOB's 'NO ELECTION IN ANAMBRA STATE'
BIAFRA: UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY IN IPOB's 'NO ELECTION IN ANAMBRA STATE'
at 00:46:00 Biafra, featured,
Published by The Biafra Post | Oct 21, 2017
I never believed that the democratic concept of no election stance of IPOB starting with the upcoming Anambra state election is still not understood. Some have openly questioned where Nnamdi Kanu got the power to tell the people not to vote while some said the declaration is illegal. I have rarely discussed Anambra state no-election because it has saturated internet space. Virtually; every dick and harry discuss and write on the topic; the awareness campaign is fertile that even my grandmother has declared he would not vote on that day.
Let me firstly give the commonest definition of democracy:- democracy is defined as the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Let me digress; we are poor students of complete history and we have only sought after the history that favors us. When Biafra is restored; we will enroll again in Biafran University to study history because Nigeria is and cannot be brave enough to teach history. Even though they decide to teach it today; they would distort it because studying history in Nigeria has the tendency of giving birth to revolution. Who would know that he was created by a man and living in forced geographical area and will not revolt? Neither will a Biafran learn how his 3million people died and continue to exist with murderers and genocidists. The little time in Nigerian school for history; they only rant of how Oduduwa broke coconut and planted it and Odudwa nation grew into human beings.
Quickly track back to 1980s; the system of government practiced was military system and how things transpired. Most recent and last military regime of Abacha; I vividly recalled him bringing down price of bag of rice and nobody questioned him. The reason is because that is his government; the people have nothing to offer because it is not their government. In military regime then, the government took decisions and even most times without consultation.
This is democracy and as defined above; the people are the leaders in this era, they decide what happens, who leads and if a seat will be vacant. Unfortunately; the people has chosen that they want nobody in order to press home a demand and somebody faults such move. I have continued to question the rationale behind criticizing Nnamdi Kanu. Should he give his people guns instead? Nnamdi Kanu to have urged his people to forfeit election until a demand is met and his people wholly accepted and were not forced; that is the beauty of democracy.
We should rather begin to question why there is disconnect between the people and representatives the people put on seat of power. The people have right to make a choice and as good as making a choice to vote any candidate of one's choice is as good as making a choice not to vote. Democracy has given the people all the power that leaders virtually remain powerless without the people. The concept of democracy is what is being played out in Anambra state and there is nothing illegal about that.
For more than 50 years the people of Anambra state have been voting; it is shameful that they cannot boast of stable power supply, pure water, good roads, infrastructure and social amenities. The people continue to serve political leaders who identify with them during election and quarrel with them after election. There is no conviction or reason to continue voting; this is minus one out of more than fifty years and the people are ready to chart another cause.
The reason politicians are hunting Nnamdi Kanu is simply because they know they have failed and have nothing to show for the period of years they have been in leadership. Nnamdi Kanu is only but applying the concept of democracy in Anambra state and it is left for the people of Anambra to cease the opportunity and make their lives better or continue to wallow in their stupidity.
On the reverse; if the people have been active or fully engaged in politics, defying all odds to come out every election period to vote and their lives remained the same, it is worthwhile to stay out of election this time but once to see if that would bring a change. The issue is expected to be understood that as the people boycott Anambra state election, they are just seeking for their survival.
In Anambra state; Nnamdi Kanu will be appreciated only but if we understand the concept of democracy and the desire to bring a change. It is left for the people of Anambra state to choose what happens; either to vote and continue with their situation or forfeit election and try a new approach.
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Crash briefly closed section of eastbound I-10 in Brookshire
Traffic is seen at a standstill in Brookshire, Texas, in this image taken from a traffic camera in the area on Dec. 24, 2019. (Houston Transtar)
BROOKSHIRE, Texas – A crash on Tuesday briefly closed a section of Interstate 10 in Brookshire.
The two-vehicle crash was reported at 1:36 p.m. on the eastbound side of the freeway at FM 359. By 2:30 p.m. the roads were reopened after the crash was cleared.
Video from a Houston Transtar camera in the area showed traffic at a standstill in the area. Some vehicles were exiting the freeway to get around the scene.
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Q: Android - Change Pixel color of a bitmap Namastey,
I want to change those black color pixels to transparent pixels in a bitmap.
my bitmap looks like below image.
I have tried to change those black pixels by below code. but it's not working for me.
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is it possible to do so?
if yes, how can i do that?

A: Use this code, will work like a charm:
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Virginia Republicans have found their "bright line," the clear difference they say sets gubernatorial candidate Robert F. McDonnell apart from his opponent, Democrat R. Creigh Deeds.
After weeks of trying to explain away socially conservative statements in Mr. McDonnell's 1989 post-graduate thesis, Republicans are back on the offensive since Mr. Deeds gave them an opening by expressing his willingness to raise taxes.
"Creigh Deeds is now the first major candidate for governor of Virginia to run on an outright platform of raising taxes, and he's running on that platform at a time of recession and a time when people are concerned about jobs and concerned about their ability to make ends meet, and we think that is a significant development in the campaign," McDonnell campaign chairman, Ed Gillespie, told reporters during a conference call Friday.
Mr. McDonnell has said he would not raise taxes and would veto any bills that contained a tax increase, while Mr. Deeds left open the possibility of raising taxes to fund transportation fixes.
Republicans have interpreted Mr. Deeds' position as a promise to raise taxes.
The issue first emerged during a debate earlier this month in which both candidates stated that they would not raise taxes. Mr. Deeds, however, quickly clarified his answer after the debate, saying he would not raise general fund taxes.
That prompted a flurry of press releases from state Republicans, who highlighted the distinction between the candidates.
Mr. Deeds attempted to clarify his position in a Sept. 23 Op-Ed in the Washington Post discussing his transportation plan.
"Let me be clear regarding taxes. I will sign a bill that is the product of bipartisan compromise that provides a comprehensive transportation solution. As a legislator, I have voted for a number of mechanisms to fund transportation, including a gas tax. And I'll sign a bipartisan bill with a dedicated funding mechanism for transportation - even if it includes new taxes," Mr. Deeds wrote.
Deeds campaign adviser Mo Elleithee said the Op-Ed has brought the candidate praise.
"That Op-Ed and the underlying message in it has been receiving very strong and favorable ratings from a lot of people. We've been getting a tremendous amount of positive response to it from voters, from political watchers, from editorial boards, who all say he's got the right approach to dealing with our transportation crisis," Mr. Elleithee said.
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Trump Just Signed an Executive Order Letting Him Purge Thousands of Federal Workers for Disloyalty
Even if he loses, the action could sabotage a Biden administration indefinitely.
Historically, when Donald Trump has signed executive orders, like to issue a travel ban against people from majority-Muslim nations or to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, he's done so with lots of fanfare, tweeting about how they've made America great again, inviting camera crews to watch him scribble his Sharpie across the page, and sending his lieutenants out to brag about them on TV. But last week, the White House was relatively, strangely quiet as the president signed the esoteric-sounding "Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In the Excepted Service." And that was probably by design; because the action not only gives Trump the power to purge thousands of federal workers—the kind whose job protections have allowed them to deal in facts and stand up to presidential intimidation—and replace them with politically appointed hacks who would spend the next four years doing Trump's bidding, but it would cripple a Biden administration for months, at a time when it will need to act fast on, among other things, COVID-19.
Of course, that's not how the administration has summarized the EO, saying, instead that it's all about getting rid of "poor performers." But competence has never been of much interest to Trump, who evaluates who is the best person for any given job based on how hard they kiss his ass and pledge to do his bidding no matter what. Unfortunately, until now the president has been bedeviled by rules saying he can't just fire civil servants for writing reports that say mask-wearing helps stop the spread of COVID-19, or coal mining is hastening climate change, or refusing to say that a hurricane was headed for Alabama when it definitely wasn't. Thus, this new plan.
Here's how the Independent describes it:
The order…would strip civil service protections from a broad swath of career civil servants if it is decided that they are in "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions"—a description previously reserved for the political appointees who come and go with each change in administration. It does that by creating a new category for such positions that do not turn over from administration to administration and reclassifying them as part of that category.
The range of workers who could be stripped of protections and placed in this new category is vast, experts say, and could include most of the non-partisan experts—scientists, doctors, lawyers, economists—whose work to advise and inform policymakers is supposed to be done in a way that is fact-driven and devoid of politics. Trump has repeatedly clashed with such career workers on a variety of settings, ranging from his desire to present the COVID-19 pandemic as largely over, to his attempts to enable his allies to escape punishment for federal crimes, to his quixotic insistence that National Weather Service scientists back up his erroneous claim that the state of Alabama was threatened by a hurricane which was not heading in its direction.
In creating the new category, called "Schedule F," Trump would basically take employees whose jobs are nonpolitical and are protected from, for instance, a president who doesn't believe science is real, and make them "at will," while at the same time, giving political appointees the very job protection he's stripping from civil servants. That would obviously be extremely bad under a scenario in which Trump is elected to a second term—as the Washington Post puts it, "think of the Federal Aviation Administration employee evaluating whether an airliner is safe to fly" or "the Food and Drug Administration employee evaluating the efficacy of a vaccine"—and there isn't a single person left in the federal government who is qualified or non-corrupt. But it would also mean, in the likely event Trump loses, he could go scorched earth and screw over Joe Biden when time is of the essence:
Creating the new category…could allow a lame-duck President Trump to cripple his successor's administration by firing any career federal employees who've been included on the list. It also could allow Trump administration officials to skirt prohibitions against "burrowing in"—the heavily restricted practice of converting political appointees (known as "Schedule C" employees) into career civil servants—by hiring them under the new category for positions which would not end with Trump's term. Another provision orders agencies to take steps to prohibit removing "Schedule F" appointees from their jobs on the grounds of "political affiliation," which could potentially prevent a future administration from firing unqualified appointees because of their association with President Trump.
"It's a two-pronged attack—a Hail Mary pass to enable them to do some burrowing in if they lose the election," Walter Shaub, who ran the U.S. Office of Government Ethics during Barack Obama's second term and in first six months of the Trump administration, told reporter Andrew Feinberg. "But if they win the election, then anything goes for the destruction of the civil service… [This could] take us back to the spoils system and all the corruption that comes with it." Or as New Jersey chief innovation officer Beth Noveck put it, "It's the twin danger of both firing [someone like Dr. Anthony] Fauci and replacing him with Eric Trump's wedding planner permanently." Or, say, a guy who thinks the government's strategy to combat the pandemic should be to let 2 million Americans get it and die.
In a sign of just how catastrophic the action could ultimately prove, on Sunday, Ronald Sanders, the Trump-appointed head of an advisory council on the civil service, quit in protest, writing in his resignation letter that the order "is nothing more than a smoke screen for what is clearly an attempt to require the political loyalty of those who advise the President, or failing that, to enable their removal with little if any due process." He added: "I simply cannot be part of an Administration that seeks…to replace apolitical expertise with political obeisance. Career Federal employees are legally and duty-bound to be nonpartisan; they take an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution and the rule of law…not to be loyal to a particular President or Administration."
Or as Richard Loeb, a senior policy counsel at the American Federation of Government Employees, put it to the New York Times: "This is a declaration of war on the career Civil Service. It is an attempt to politicize the process and to hire cronies and fire enemies. It is really a 19th-century concept."
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Surprise: a Minnesota outbreak has been linked to Trump campaign events
Who could have predicted this, other than everyone? Per CNN:
Minnesota is reporting three COVID-19 outbreaks related to Trump campaign events held in September. At least 21 cases have been traced to outbreaks occurring at rally events in Bemidji on Sept. 18, a speech held by Vice President Mike Pence on Sept. 24 in Minneapolis, and another rally held by the President on Sept. 30 in Duluth, the Minnesota Department of Health said in an email to CNN. President Trump's Bemidji rally took place in an airport hanger. According to a CNN producer who attended the event, at least 2,000 people were in attendance. Based on contact tracing by the state department of health, at least 16 cases, including two hospitalizations, were identified among attendees.
In the month proceeding the rally, the seven-day average of new cases in Beltrami County, where Bemidji is located, was 2.85 new cases a day, according to Johns Hopkins University. On the day of the rally it had climbed up slightly to three new cases a day. But four weeks after, the average rate of new cases in the county had increased more than fourfold, reaching an average of 14.57 new cases a day.
Trump's rallies, which have only increased in frequency since he himself contracted COVID-19, have been largely mask-free affairs where social distancing is nonexistent, which probably has something to do with the fact that the president has alternatively told supporters that the virus is a hoax or that it's real but we're "rounding the corner" (as cases surge).
Trump's new coronavirus spin: doctors are inflating their case numbers to make extra cash
We say this a lot, and sometimes on a daily basis, but the president of the United States is truly a malignant tumor:
Donald Trump attacked U.S. doctors in a speech Saturday night, accusing them of fabricating the coronavirus death toll for money. He gave the example of someone with a terminal illness getting COVID-19, whose death is then written off as due to the virus.
"We report them, and doctors get more money, and hospitals get more money," he said. "Some countries, they report differently. If somebody is sick with a heart problem, and they die of COVID-19, they say they die of a heart problem…. This country," he continued, "and their reporting systems are really not doing it right," by naming COVID-19 as the cause of death, and not the terminal illness. Trump added, "We're gonna start looking at things, because they have things a little bit backwards."
At the same rally, the president gleefully recounted an MSNBC reporter getting hit by "pepper spray or a canister of tear gas," saying he'd "never seen anyone go down so fast."
Jared and Ivanka are not fans of Time Square billboards broadcasting their role in mass murder
Unfortunately for Javanka, they're unlikely to come down any time soon:
The Lincoln Project "will not be intimidated by empty bluster," a lawyer for the group wrote late on Saturday, in response to a threat from an attorney for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner over two billboards put up in Times Square. "Sue if you must," Matthew Sanderson said.
The New York City billboards show the president's daughter and her husband, both senior White House advisers, displaying apparent indifference to public suffering under COVID-19. Kushner is shown next to the quote "[New Yorkers] are going to suffer and that's their problem," above a line of body bags. Trump is shown gesturing, with a smile, to statistics for how many New Yorkers and Americans as a whole have died…. On Friday, Marc Kasowitz, an attorney who has represented the president against allegations of fraud and sexual assault, wrote to the Lincoln Project, demanding the "false, malicious, and defamatory" ads be removed, or "we will sue you for what will doubtless be enormous compensatory and punitive damages."
In a legal response on Saturday night, attorney Matthew Sanderson told Kasowitz: "Please peddle your scare tactics elsewhere. The Lincoln Project will not be intimidated by such empty bluster…your clients are no longer Upper East Side socialites, able to sue at the slightest offense to their personal sensitivities."
Kasowitz claimed Kushner "never said" the words attributed to him by the ad, which were reported by journalist Katherine Eban in a Vanity Fair article last month. He also said Ivanka Trump "never made the gesture" she is shown to make. "May I suggest," Sanderson said, "that if Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump are genuinely concerned about salvaging their reputations, they would do well to stop suppressing truthful criticism and instead turn their attention to the COVID-19 crisis that is still unfolding under their inept watch. These billboards are not causing [their] standing with the public to plummet. Their incompetence is."
While Ivanka and Jared may no longer be welcome on the Upper East Side or in other Manhattan neighborhoods, Staten Island would apparently love to have them, a consolation prize we're sure has brought the couple great comfort:
"The reality is if you kill thousands and thousands and thousands of New Yorkers, you're not going to re-enter polite society and go to the Met ball," said the writer Molly Jong-Fast, a senior adviser to the Lincoln Project. The couple might be greeted warmly in some parts of the city, said Joe Borelli, a councilman from Staten Island—which voted for the president in 2016. Mr. Borelli said he has no insight into "polite society" but noted that Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner "are always welcome on Staten Island."
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Senate poised to confirm Barrett to Supreme Court, cementing its conservative majority (Washington Post)
"It's pathetic": Clinton knocks Pompeo for vowing to release more of her emails (Politico)
Many D.C.-area residents can't wait for the election to be over (Washington Post)
Former Goldman Sachs president Harvey Schwartz makes late big donation to Joe Biden (CNBC)
How COVID-Safe Is Dining in a Restaurant's Outdoor Tent? (Wall Street Journal)
Rich people are buying homes just for a place to park their yachts (NYP)
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— Progressives Are Going Rogue to Flip Pennsylvania for Biden
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— Tax Mess Aside, Can Trump Pay Off His $1 Billion in Debt?
— News Media Begins to Contemplate a Post–Trump White House
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Mel Killian Pond is located at 187 North Tranquil Path, 77380 and was established in 2005. The pond is located on the south side of North Tranquil Path and can be easy to miss because of the tree line and being setback off the road a little ways. There is no designated parking so you will have to park along side the road. The pond has the typical fountain found in most ponds and there is access to fish all side of the pond. The south side of the pond has tall grass that is rarely mowed so if you fish this area use caution. It is not known if there is any structure or cover in the pond but you will find various vegetation a long the ponds edge.
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Q: Javascript - Using variable as object key to get object value In the following code, I would like to retrieve person1 and person4 (the first person in the array) in a loop. This works when explicitly identifying the property. But when using a variable 'myField' to represent the property, it returns undefined... What would be the syntax to get the value?
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/8vr06Ltk/3/

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Home Features Companies Benson Elliot buys three German retail centres from Brack for €175m
Benson Elliot buys three German retail centres from Brack for €175m
Dr. Joachim Arenth
JenAcon, headed by founder Dr. Joachim Arenth, has now completed more than 70 deals, with a total transaction volume of about €2.7bn.
UK-based private equity real estate firm Benson Elliot has paid Brack Capital Properties (BCP) €175m for a portfolio of three German convenience retail assets. BCP is retaining a minority stake in the 100,600 sqm portfolio.
The centres, which are currently 99% let on long and seasoned leases, serve markets outside the cities of Dortmund, Hanover and Rostock, and are anchored by German grocery and home improvement stores. The Hamburg investor and asset manager Modulus Real Estate will manage the three assets, which also comprise more than 3,500 parking spaces.
Benson Elliot said the asset management strategy for the properties will focus on optimising lease terms and space usage, as well as an enhancement of the tenant mix.
Joseph De Leo, a senior partner at Benson Elliot, said the deal reflects the firm's continued confidence in market dominant, needs-based retail formats.
"While there is much debate around the challenges facing the retail sector, these properties are established anchor points for daily shopping needs, resilient to e-commerce growth and of a scale that would make them difficult to replicate today."
"Moreover, traditional retail sales in Germany are on a positive trajectory, underpinned by favourable economic conditions, including strong real wage growth. As a consequence, assets of this nature, with their robust cash flow generating capacity, continue to be prized by institutional and other investors seeking secure cash flow streams in a low interest rate environment.'
The locations of the properties are:
• Brentwisch, comprising the largest retail park in the northern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Castrop Rauxel, adjacent to the city's main shopping street
• Celle, home to a high concentration of companies in the oil and gas industry, including General Electric, Baker Hughes and Halliburton
The previous owner, Brack Capital, is a Dutch company, of which 70% of its shares were bought by German listed Adler Real Estate in April 2018, with Brack retaining a minority stake of 10.1%. Adler remains primarily a pure play German residential investor, pruning off its retail real estate holdings. The sale of these 3 assets represent about 37% of its retail holdings, says Adler, with this deal representing the first of its retail disposals.
The price being paid by Benson Elliot in the share deal reflects a 7.6% premium to the book equity value in Adler's books. The proceeds are designated to paying down about €107m of debt to help Adler strengthen its balance sheet, the company said.
Carl-Christoph Pieper, managing director at Modulus, which will manage the assets, said the portfolio was extremely strong in location quality and local dominance leading to sustainable tenant demand. 'Although the properties are almost fully let, we will put a strong focus on optimising the tenant set-up in close collaboration with the existing and prospective tenants,' he said.
Meanwhile, in another significant retail property deal, the listed Augsburg-based Patrizia AG bought a portfolio of 19 food-anchored retail assets in northern Germany on behalf of one of its pan-European funds.
Patrizia said it had been working for nearly two years on the deal, and bought the assets – the so-called Dune Portfolio - from the Irish seller for an undisclosed sum. The seller, Custom House Capital, filed for insolvency in 2011 and its management was accused of misappropriating funds.
The fully-let portfolio comprises 54,100 sqm of retail space including some 2,300 car parking spaces. The assets are anchored by Rewe Group and Edeka Group, with a WALT of 5.5 years, and are thought to generate annual rent of €6.9m. At that rate, using the current prevailing market multiples for supermarkets, the price is likely to have been around about €100m.
Patrizia is allocating the assets to its Spezialfonds Patrizia Gewerbe-Invest Deutschland III. Daniel Herrmann, head of retail fund management at Patrizia, said: "The strong covenants offered by the portfolio's occupiers underpin an attractive income return which we aim to improve through actively managing these assets.
"We are confident in the continued strength of the food retail market in Germany, especially assets such as these which are dominant for their locations with high footfall and are defensive against E-commerce retail."
Separately, JenAcon, the Jena-based advisory group which has a long history of successfully concluding bidding processes for its clients, has gained its fourth mandate in 2019, this time from a leading insurance company for the sale of a food retail property portfolio. The portfolio consists of 16 stores, with the regional focus on western Germany. Nearly all the assets are leased to a major German discount grocer.
The annual rent generated is €2.5m, with a weighted average lease term of 4.4 years including the tenant's special termination rights, and respectively 14 years without them.
JenAcon, headed by founder Dr. Joachim Arenth, has now completed more than 70 deals, with a total transaction volume of about €2.7bn. Over the company's 13-year existence, several deals have involved big retailers such as Karstadt, Woolworth, Aldi Süd, and grocery chain Edeka, as well as chemical group Bayer AG. The company also advises on M&A, project management and strategy.
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Hillary Clinton Will Win Arizona Primary Unless Young People Rally Behind Sanders, New Poll Shows
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Democratic presidential candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at Wynn Las Vegas at the CNN debate.
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Miriam Wasser | March 1, 2016 | 5:00am
Ever since the presidential election season kicked off last summer, pollsters in Arizona have tracked voter preference among the state's Republican voters, but they have paid little attention to the Democrats.
Not anymore. Two political consulting firms, MBQF and Marson Media, conducted a phone survey of likely Democratic voters recently and found that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is dominating.
According to the results, 56.2 percent of voters say they plan to vote for her in Arizona's March 22 presidential primary, while only 21.5 percent of voters say they will cast a ballot for Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
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(Nationally, Clinton has 49.6 percent of the vote, while Sanders has 40 percent.)
Despite the flood of Bernie lawn signs, stickers, and Facebook posts, it appears Arizona Dems just aren't Feelin' the Bern. Well, the older population, at least.
The pollsters in this survey used automated phone calls to landlines, which tend to reach a much older demographic because most young people use cell phones.
Mike Noble of MBQF says this fact doesn't tend to skew poll data because young people almost always have low voter turnout.
Unless "young people come out in droves," Clinton can expect a clear victory thanks to the 50-plus crowd, he says.
Unless "young people come out in droves," Clinton can expect a clear victory, thanks to the 50-plus crowd, pollster Mike Noble says.
When compared to Clinton, Sanders tends to capture much of the youth vote, which Noble says doesn't mean anything unless Sanders and his ground team mobilize people to come to the polls.
According to a recent report by KJZZ, more than 11,000 18- to 22-year-olds registered to vote since the beginning of the year: 34 percent registered as a Democratic, 22 percent as a Republican, and 43 percent as an Independent.
What does this mean for Bernie and Hillary fans?
It's hard to say, but with Arizona's presidential primary just around the corner, it appears much could hinge on whether college students vote.
**Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story stated that Arizona's Democratic presidential primary is winner-take all. That is incorrect. The Republican primary delegates are winner-take all, the Democratic delegates are assigned proportionately with the votes.
Miriam is a staff writer at Phoenix New Times.
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Chicago fails to live up to its motto — City in a Garden — with every tree lost
The longer the city waits to restore its magnificent tree canopy, the harder the job gets. New trees need many years to grow to maturity.
By CST Editorial Board
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A century ago, Chicago was a leader in shading its neighborhoods with an urban forest. But as Chicago continues to lose trees, other cities have caught up and surpassed us.
For a host of environmental and quality-of-life reasons, It's time Chicago worked to regain its status as exceptional when it comes to tree-lined streets.
Since 2010, due to disease and other factors, Chicago has lost an average of 10,000 more trees than it has planted every year. That's 200 fewer trees in each of the city's 50 wards on average each year.
The city now has a tree canopy that covers just 19% of its land. The metropolitan area has a canopy of 15.5%. By comparison, New York has 21% coverage and Los Angeles has 25%.
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Restoring Chicago's urban forest will be a big job, but the longer we wait, the more difficult the job becomes. New trees need many years to grow to maturity.
Trees benefit cities and human health in many ways. They cool areas that otherwise would be heat islands. They filter the air, helping people with respiratory problems, and absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. They soak up stormwater that otherwise results in flooding. They create habitat for wildlife, including birds that fly through on semiannual migrations.
Tree-lined streets make daily life in the big city more pleasant.
But Chicago not only is failing to replace trees, it also is cutting down perfectly good ones. The city has a bad habit of removing healthy parkway trees just because some resident puts in a request. Developers are allowed to cut down mature trees for no justifiable reason.
"It keeps getting worse instead of better," Openlands Vice President for Community Conservation Daniella Pereira told us.
Chicago's Bureau of Forestry is creating an inventory of the city's tree canopy, but the city has no overarching strategy for reversing the loss. Nonprofits and neighborhood groups are planting new trees, but they can't do enough.
Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd), Ald. George Cardenas (12th) and Ald. Samantha Nugent (39th) want the city to create an advisory committee to coordinate efforts among government agencies and nonprofit groups to protect heritage trees, increase the number of tree plantings, and eventually — as the money becomes available — train new arborists to work in underserved communities.
The committee also would work with the private sector to minimize the loss of trees during construction projects and when utility work is done.
Chicago's official motto is "urbs in horto" — City in a Garden. Let's live up to it.
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CSSI Analysis: Red Wings 2 - Predators 3
By J.J. from Kansas@JJfromKansas Dec 9, 2010, 6:00am CST
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Not a great effort in this game, as the Red Wings have now lost three games in a row and fans everywhere prepare their guts for ritual seppuku. I thought Nashville played a pretty good game on the night, capitalizing on opportunities when they got them. The Predators certainly carried play early and were able to hold off the Wings' onslaught late as Detroit held a shot advantage of 29-10 through the last two periods.
Neither team was able to capitalize on any of the four power play opportunities given to each side. However, Detroit's first goal of the game came shorthanded off Pavel Datsyuk's stick, so at least we can safely say we won the special teams battle (party hats & streamers). Unfortunately, despite Lindback the giant goalie going down early any time a Red Wings player approached him, the Wings kind of forgot that there's space in the net more than two feet off the ice. I was not horribly impressed by Lindback's fundamentals, but when you're tall enough to smell the awesome wafting off of the banners hanging from the rafters at the Joe, fundamentals tend to matter a bit less.
CSSI Tracking Chart here
CSSI Methodology Explanation here
Goalie Ratings
Jimmy Howard had an opportunity to win this game for the Red Wings and he didn't. I'm not saying he lost it for them either, but this was not a good performance. The two last goals he gave up were bad enough from a "could have stopped them" perspective without their timing being brutal. From a scoring perspective, I'm only calling the second goal outright weak, but I also only counted one big save for Howard, leaving his rating at a 0.
Scoring and plus/minus analysis after the jump
Quick Note: I'm rolling out a change to the way I'm scoring CSSI. I'll have a full explanation post up hopefully tonight, but for now, this game is being analyzed based on a newer system by which I am not limiting a player to one point on a goal scored.
Penalty Adjustment: You know it's a bad omen when one of these comes before even the first goal. During some early pressure by the Wings fourth line in the first period, Patrick Eaves jumps in front of a guy away from the puck behind the Nashville net for an easy penalty call. No excuses for taking one 200 feet from your own net. Eaves gets a minus.
1st Period 19:27 - Nashville Goal: Colin Wilson (wrist shot) from Cal O'Reilly and Steve Sullivan
Detroit's 2nd line is trying to close out an ugly period with some good pressure, as Franzen carries up the boards and Ericsson starts to move low to cycle. Unfortunately, the puck is intercepted by Sullivan and he starts up ice with O'Reilly in tow and Franzen trying to catch up. Sullivan drops the puck to O'Reilly as the Wings' D tries to set up. The Preds' forward skates through the center of the ice with Rafalski trailing while Colin Wilson goes to the front of the net. Right as O'Reilly gets to the point where Rafalski is handing off coverage of Wilson to Ericsson to block the lane, the pass comes and the puck ends up behind Howard. Franzen will get an extra minus here for the turnover. Bertuzzi and Filppula do not receive minuses, as the goal happened before they had a chance to get back into the play. Rafalski and Ericsson keep their minuses for being back, but not stopping the play from developing. Neither will get punished extra though because of how impressed I am with the patience of O'Reilly to wait until the exact second the coverage shifts before firing a pass to Wilson.
2nd Period 00:49 - Nashvillle Goal: Martin Erat (wrist shot) from Sergei Kostitsyn and Marcel Goc
The 2nd period starts with a decent first shift by the fourth line. After Lindback freezes the puck, the Preds win a defensive zone faceoff and head up ice. Goc feeds Kostitsyn coming across the blue line for a low shot on Howard. Jimmy pushes the rebound out the other end, but it is far too close to the center of the ice directly to Marty Erat. The Nashville Pretty-Boy puts it back on Howard; he stops the initial chance, but puts that rebound straight into the air where it bounces off of Ericsson and past him. This is two bad rebounds on one play for Jimmy Howard and perhaps his weakest goal of the season. As a result of this, Rafalski, Bertuzzi, Filppula, and Ericsson will not get a minus. The deflection off E's glove is a fluke and was caused solely by the bad rebound. I am going to let Franzen keep his minus for not tying up Erat's stick on the rush.
Penalty Adjustment: With the Wings putting on the best pressure of the period so far on a line with Datsyuk, Franzen, and Holmstrom, Homer blocks a pass behind the net and fights for it with Martin Erat. At the 11:05 mark, Homer gets his stick up on the Preds forward for a double-minor. Gotta control that stick, Homer. This gets him a minus.
2nd Period 13:04 - Detroit Goal (SH): Pavel Datsyuk (tip in) from Henrik Zetterberg
On the four-minute penalty, Babcock puts Datsyuk and Zetterberg together on the penalty kill to see what he can spark. The move works beautifully as a momentary mishandle by the Preds at the Red Wings' blue line goes the other way thanks to Zetterberg forcing the play and poking it past the defender to Head the other way in a near-2-on-1. Datsyuk heads to the net while Z skates into the middle and releases a backhand that Lindback leaves laying in front. Datsyuk tries to chip it over him, but it hits the post. Fortunately, the man with the best hand-eye coordination in the league picks it up in midair and slaps it home. Both Zetterberg and Datsyuk will receive bonus pluses for their work making this play happen.
Penalty Adjustment: Later in the 2nd period, as the Wings start to control the momentum, they earn a power play opportunity when Colin Wilson goes to the box for high-sticking. 1:37 into the power play, Filppula gets the puck down low in front of Lindback, but doesn't get a shot off on the towering goaltender who's blocking the low part of the net. Instead, Flip backs off and tries to go cross-crease to Bertuzzi standing in front. Unfortunately, Bert doesn't have his stick on the ice, choosing instead to use it for the evil purpose of cross-checking a guy in the back as he falls down. Bertuzzi gets a minus for doing this. He needs to have his stick on the ice here.
Penalty Adjustment:In the third period now, the Wings are pressing to even it up. Good pressure in the Predators zone forces Jerred Smithson to hold up Holmstrom out front for a penalty. Holmstrom will earn back a plus for forcing Smithson to take this call.
Penalty Adjustment: After the first power play of the period expires, the Wings are again putting pressure on in the Nasvhille zone. Some great cycling work by Dan Cleary to get it to Hudler, who fights off a check and finds Stuart streaking into the middle forces Erat to trip Stuart up. No one player's hustle totally creates this penalty, but Stuart, Hudler, and Cleary will all get half-pluses for combining to get Erat turned around enough to force him to take a penalty.
3rd Period 14:37 - Nasvhille Goal: JP Dumont (snap shot) unassisted
The Wings are really pressing hard to even up the game by this point and activating their defensemen. Unfortunately, this can lead to trouble and does here. Zetterberg has the puck behind the Nashville net while Brad Stuart takes off toward the slot looking for a pass. Unfortunately, Z doesn't recognize that Stuart has left his point and tries banking the puck up the boards to his open spot at the point. JP Dumont picks up the loose puck and skates the other way with it with Klein jumping into the rush to force Salei off Dumont to defend. Dumon skates into the faceoff circle and rips a goal top corner on the glove side. This is the 2nd game in a row where a Zetterberg pass to nowhere leads to an odd-man rush and a goal against. This will earn Zetterberg an extra minus on the play. I'm also going to clear the minus for everybody else here: Stuart, Salei, Cleary and Hudler catch breaks and don't get minuses. They had been doing some good work previously on the shift and Stuart is supposed to be taking these chances with the Wings down late. For Salei, while I typically don't clear a minus for the guy who was back on the odd-man rush, I think circumstance works well enough in his favor here to exonerate it.
3rd Period 18:27 - Detroit Goal: Johan Franzen (wrist shot) from Pavel Datsyuk and Valtteri Filppula
Late in the third with the Wings trailing by two goals and Howard on the bench for the extra skater, they get one to pull close to a comeback. Datsyuk carries in and sets up the play by cycling back to Rafalski. Raffi dishes to LIdstrom, who finds FIlppula off the bench. Flip and Mule play catch at the side boards before Franzen passes to Holmstrom behind the goal line in at the side of the net. Holmstrom finds Filppula sneaking in for a one-timer that Lindback stops, but leaves the rebound in front. Datsyuk tries to put home the rebound himself, but Joel Ward tips it off his stick and right to Franzen, who double-clutches the puck before firing it home. Interestingly, Datsyuk got the primary assist here and I don't think he deserved it. I'm not going to clear him of an assist on the scoresheet because he did more than enough work in the zone to earn it though. Holmstrom definitely gets an assist for feeding Flip out front for the primary shot. I'm also going to give Franzen an assist here on his own goal for the pass to Holmstrom. Filppula and Lidstrom each get half-assists for their passing even further back in the play.
Bonus Ratings
+1 to Darren Helm: His penalty-killing work on the night was stellar. He may be one of the best PK forwards in the league.
+1 to Jiri Hudler: Admittedly, I was probably looking harder at him than I was a lot of forwards, considering the recent talks about his status with the Wings, but he had a good night. The 14:58 of ice time is his highest of the season and I really liked his passing and positioning as well as the two shots he took.
+1 to Justin Abdelkader: He was the most effective forechecker the Wings had in a night where they needed more forechecking. He laid a couple of good-sized hits on Predators playing and had more takeaways on the scoresheet than Datsyuk. I also continue to be impressed by his shoot-from-anywhere attitude, especially with how often I'm bemoaning some of his teammates for being too fancy at times.
Honorable Mentions: Despite looking like shit on the scoresheet thanks to Nasvhille capitalizing on their chances, I liked the jump of Bertuzzi-FIlppula-Franzen early. They just didn't put it together. Cleary was close to getting a plus, I feel, but he looked like he faded a bit late.
Time to figure it out, boys, because Montreal is not a slouch team, despite being in the East. This week could turn into quicksand very fast and Detroit needs to work through what looks like some focus issues.
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Transfers and Rumors 2015: Revolution linked to German Center Back
The Revs are being linked to German center back Alexander Madlung.
By Seth Macomber@SethMan31 Jul 28, 2015, 4:02pm EDT
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The New England Revolution are linked to German center back Alexander Madlung, according to Kicker.
Madlung began his career with Hertha BSC before spending seven years with VfL Wolfsburg. He was most recently with Eintracht Frankfurt after signing a one-and-a-half year contract on Jan. 2, 2014.
The 6'4'' defender is effective in the air, having scored multiple goals at every club he's been. He also has international experience, including two caps with the senior team.
The Revs do appear to have competition for the free agent as Championship side Bolton Wanderers have inquired about Madlung. There's also the possibility that Madlung could return to Hertha.
The Madlung rumor is certainly an intriguing one as the Revs are in need of defensive depth. The team currently employs seven full-time defenders, though Jermaine Jones can deputize there if needed.
The Revolution trialed defenders Will Packwood and Renato Silva this season but neither player signed a contract.


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A real signal g(t) can be represented by a complex basis set.
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One cannot get the energy information of a signal from the amplitude spectrum if the signal in the frequency domain.
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Fourier series provides amplitude and phase value for the each harmonics present in a particular signal. With respect to this information, while creating the signal from harmonics, a minor deviation in amplitude or phase of the harmonic will lead to different signal than the intended one.
In exponential Fourier series, "D0" term represent the DC or average value of the signal.
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For the example calculated in the video(signal shown below), what will be effect on the amplitude spectrum if signal amplitude is changed to 2 from1.
Positive frequency means a phasor rotating in _______ direction while negative frequency means a phasor rotating in a _______ direction.
In complex Fourier series representation, amplitude spectrum is having ____symmetry while phase spectrum has ______ symmetry.
After performing Fourier series procedure one can get ________.
A set of mutually orthogonal complex signals can never used a basis signal in the Fourier series representation.
Any signal in the time domain can be represented by addition of infinite mutually orthogonal basis signals.
Do the signals 2 cos(2*Pi*f*t) and 3*cos (8*Pi*f*t) are orthogonal?
For the orthogonality test between a two complex signal, complex conjugate of one of the signal is not required.
Find that, the vector a =[1,2] and b = [2,-1] are orthogonal or not.
Any vector in a 3 dimensional space can be represented by a set of three mutually orthogonal vectors.
What is the condition for the orthogonality of the two vectors?
Power signal has ______ energy and _____ power.
Find out the category of the following signal.
Calculate power of the signal x(t) = 8 sin(1000 t).
Find the energy of a signal shown in the figure.
In communication, signal is generally varied with respect to
Which of the following property of the pulse is used in pulse modulation?
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Which of the following will be introduced in the communication channel?
High frequency components forms _______ portion of the square wave signal.
Generally a channel has ________ effect.
Noise is generated at
Which of the following process is carried out after the transmission step as discussed in the video?
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Which of the following form of communication is being introduced in the video?
Modulation helps
A letter in an envelope received through a postal service is similar to the concept of modulation in to communication system.
To understand orthogonality condition for the real and imaginary signals.
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To understand signal, energy of the signal, classification of the signals and dot product of two vectors.
To understand coefficients of the exponential Fourier series and Parseval's theorem to find an energy of a signal.
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To understand the concept of negative frequency,
Advantage of exponential Fourier series over trigonometric Fourier series,
Dirac delta function with sampling property.
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- To understand complex exponential basis set ,
Even and Odd symmetry in magnitude and phase plot ,
Relation between coefficients of trigonometric and exponential Fourier series.
- To understand the concept of orthogonality
- To form real and complex orthogonal basis sets
- To represent a real signal with basis sets
- To derive equations of the coefficients
This discuss about impairments in a channel. It also introduces various continuous wave and pulse modulation techniques.
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Understand basic blocks of a communication system.
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