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Our next 45th District meeting is this Thursday, October 26th. Join us for a great program and some special dessert! Dr. Roger Stark, Healthcare Policy Director with the Washington Policy Center, will join us to talk about healthcare policy and how to improve healthcare. We'll also have an update from the Englund campaign.
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Q: How to display images and .css file in .jsp I have a file FixHome.jsp that is trying to display a logo and formatting from style.css. However, when I run the .jsp file the image does not appear and the formatting from the stye.css file is not implemented.
The file locations are under the FixConnections project as follows:
/WebContent/FixHome.jsp
/WebContent/Resources/style.css
/WebContent/Resources/needhamlogo2.bmp
I'm using Eclipse and running Tomcat 7.0

<link rel="stylesheet" href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/Resources/style.css"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Fix Connections</title>

    FIX Connections

Please let me know if I am references the image and .css file correctly.

A: Just use relative hrefs:
href="Resources/style.css"

Alternativly, add a leading slash. contextPath returns just a String, so your href renders something like:
href="ctxt/Resources/style.css"

While you need one of:
href="/ctxt/Resources/style.css"
href="Resources/style.css"

A: try using default servlet see doc
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/default-servlet.html
in jsp( example)
    <link href="css/custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

in web.xml( example)
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

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Mrtvola je tělo zemřelého organismu. Mrtvola zvířete se označuje jako zdechlina nebo mršina. Odborně se lidská i zvířecí mrtvola označuje jako kadáver (zastarale kadaver nebo kadávr).

Pitva
Mrtvá těla je také možno pitvat (obdukce, sekce). Věda tímto se zabývající se nazývá patologie. V současnosti se pitvání, tj. vnitřní zkoumání chirurgicky otevřeného těla, používá např. v kriminalistice nebo ve zdravotnictví pro určování příčiny úmrtí, rovněž je obvyklé u nově objeveného živočišného druhu při zkoumání jeho anatomie. Pitvu lze provádět pouze na těle, které je prokazatelně mrtvé. Opačný případ se nazývá vivisekce.

Rozklad
Obvyklou vlastností mrtvoly je, že se začne časem rozkládat. Stupeň rozkladu závisí především na stáří mrtvého těla. Prakticky mu nelze zabránit, ale je možné jej velmi podstatně zpomalit, například konzervací v ledu či mumifikací. Rozklad lidského těla, dekompozici, studují forenzní antropologové a entomologové ve Spojených státech na takzvaných farmách mrtvol.

Jednotlivé hřbitovy udávají tzv. tlecí dobu, po kterou nesmí být hrob otevřen, s výjimkou dalšího pohřbu nebo exhumace.

Zombie

V africké mytologii se poprvé objevila myšlenka ovládaného a bezduchého těla, tzv. zombi. Tento pojem byl později přejat jako výraz pro "oživlou mrtvolu".

Odkazy

Reference

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Smrt
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The rv sunshade, hangs from the awning and is a great addition, especially if you are parked in the baking, hot sun. The problem is the price! They are really expensive. Save money, a LOT of money with this simple, DIY version.
If you purchase the sun sail shade, you won't have much to do, to turn this into an RV sunshade. If you buy material from the fabric store, it will need seams, sewn around the edges. The actual shade sail was so reasonably priced, it was probably cheaper than making this right from scratch. It's also way easier!
There are ropes on all four corners of the Coolaroo shade sail.
Determine which will be the top and cut these two ropes shorter. You will only need these top ropes, long enough to tie around the arms of the awning. You may want to wait to cut the ropes, until after you have attached the shade cloth to the awning, so you don't cut them too short. The length of rope required, will depend on the width of your awning.
Along the top there should be a folded over seam. This is where the grommets will be added.
Measure the length of the shade cloth and divide so you will have the grommets start about an inch in from the sides and then evenly spaced, all the way across.
To install the grommets, you will first need to make holes. This sunscreen material is fabric that melts. It's Polypropelene, but it doesn't feel like plastic.
The perfect tool for making the holes is a soldering iron. Heat it up and push it through, centered along the seamed, top edge. The melted hole, will be the exact size needed for a 1/4 inch eyelet. Bonus... There is no fraying!
Place the eyelet with the popped up end, through the hole. Lay on a hard surface. Place the other piece of the eyelet on top. Use the eyelet tool, over top. Now, give it a smack with a hammer. The two pieces of the eyelet, should squish together.
Work your way across the entire top edge, until you have all the eyelets installed.
The top edge of the awning hooks are designed to slide into the groove in the awning roller. They should also come with the metal hooks.
Slip the metal hooks through each eyelet hole in the awning hook piece and squeeze the hook closed. This will not only keep them in place, it will also save time, when installing and removing the shade cloth.
Slide the awning hooks into the groove in the awning roller.
Now, slip the hooks through the grommets on the RV sunshade.
Slide the hooks across, so the material is hanging evenly.
Tie the top ropes to the awning arms, to keep the cloth from sliding back and forth.
Attach the bottom ropes to a stake in the ground.
To remove, simply unhook the shade cloth from the hooks. Slide the awning hook pieces, out of the awning roller.
Warning: Do NOT leave the awning hooks in the awning, when you roll it up. This will damage your awning!
This easy, rv sunshade, works great to block the hot sun. The price was approximately $35.00 versus the $150.00 for an actual rv sunshade. That's quite a deal!


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AfriTech Revolution: IDIA Associate Director Carolina Ödman Nominated For AfricaCom Female Innovator Of The Year
(Published - 5 November 2019)
Astrophysicist Carolina Ödman was born in Switzerland, earned her PhD at Cambridge University, and has worked all over the world - but it's in South Africa that she's found her true home. Her work in pushing science outreach and education in the country (and beyond) has earned her a nomination for AfricaCom Female Innovator of the Year 2019.
"The nomination took me completely by surprise - but I think it's a very big deal and I'm really thrilled about it," she says. "Not only does it shine a light on some of the very innovative work being done on the continent - it also gives more visibility to women scientists, engineers and other innovators."
The AfricaCom award will recognise the outstanding achievements of women who are playing a crucial role in driving Africa towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as well as underscore the need for increased gender parity within the industry. The shortlisted leaders include software engineers, NGO founders, tech CEOs - and just one representative of a public higher education institution.
Dr Ödman> is an Associate Professor at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Associate Director: Development & Outreach for the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy in South Africa (IDIA) - an innovative collaboration to tackle the challenges of Big Data in science.
"Innovation is the ability to spot where things could be done better, to find a way to approach it, and then to go and do it," she says. "Africa has no shortage of challenges - but it also has an abundance of young, smart minds keen to tackle those challenges, if we can just channel that untapped talent."
Channeling that potential is something she's spent her career doing. Dr Ödman was the first International Project Manager of Universe Awareness (UNAWE) at Leiden University - an international programme that aims to awaken kids' natural curiosity in science, empower them with independent thinking and connect them with other children throughout the world.
At IDIA, she has also had the chance to innovate - and to collaborate with some of South Africa's top young astronomical talent.
"From creating resources featuring young people's voices and working on making science resources available in African languages, to creating spaces where science engagement and development practitioners can talk about their work. In each of these, though, I think innovation only comes from a willingness to do the hard work, and to ask uneasy questions - and consider a diverse array of perspectives."
#AfricanIdeas: Voting For African Innovation
True to form, Dr Ödman has chosen to innovate the voting process a little: for each vote she receives, she'll be sharing a #AfricanIdea on her social media accounts - highlighting such innovative efforts such as Township Bags (environmentally-friendly, high-quality tote bags produced by women-owned independent co-ops); MXit: (a homegrown network that provided nearly-free instant messaging, long before smartphones and WhatsApp); and much, much more.
"For this nomination not to just come and go, and because no innovator is ever really doing it alone, I've pledged to give exposure to an African innovation for every vote I get. Every day, I'm putting together a small image and posting it to my social media accounts."
Cast your vote? Looking to find those African ideas? Just check out Dr Ödman on Twitter or LinkedIn - and let her know if you know of any she's missed.
"The great thing about Africa: I know this place well enough to know that however many votes I get, I will not run out of innovations to publicise," she says. "And I know that there are endless amazing innovations to come."
Vote for your AfricaCom Female Innovator of the Year at https://lnkd.in/dMg_WA5. Voting will close on Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at 12pm (South Africa time).
Nicklaus Kruger


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Arkansas PBS > Engage > Pressroom > Loblolly Creamery to offer 'sneak scoop' of new 'Blueberry's Clubhouse' flavor June 24 at the Farmstand at Bell Urban Farm in Conway
Loblolly Creamery to offer 'sneak scoop' of new 'Blueberry's Clubhouse' flavor June 24 at the Farmstand at Bell Urban Farm in Conway
Posted 17 Jun 2022
Arkansas PBS, partners celebrate Season 3
of hit children's program with screening, exclusive ice cream flavor
CONWAY, Ark. (Arkansas PBS) — Arkansas PBS in partnership with Loblolly Creamery, the Farmstand at Bell Urban Farm and the Faulkner County Library will celebrate the premiere of "Blueberry's Clubhouse: Season 3" with a "sneak scoop" and preview screening Friday, June 24, from 1-5 p.m. Blueberry will be greeting guests during the event.
The Loblolly Truck will be at the Farmstand at Bell Urban Farm, 2011 Tyler St., Conway, with an all-new flavor – Blueberry's Jam Party – created in honor of Blueberry and all her friends at camp. This sweet treat features natural purple-blue ice cream with a strawberry jam swirl, dot color sprinkles and shortbread cookie crunch. The flavor will be available at Loblolly Creamery, a Little Rock-based creamery making small batch ice cream and other sweet treats, through August.
The Faulkner County Library, 1900 Tyler St., Conway, will host preview screenings of "Blueberry's Clubhouse: Season 3" with activities during the event at 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
"Blueberry's Clubhouse" – the original pre-K-2 children's program featuring Blueberry, a curious puppet guide, and her friends at Camp Onomatopoeia participating in fun, engaging and insightful summer activities across The Natural State – returns to Arkansas PBS with an all-new third season Friday, July 8, at 9:30 a.m. The series, produced in partnership with the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, will air each Friday morning at 9:30 through Aug. 12.
This year, kids will learn about art, science, history and the emotional ups and downs of growing up. As always, Blueberry will be assisted by her best friend Max, Camp Counselor Carol, little brother Miles and Chef Shawn. This season will also introduce new camper Sophie and the musical talents of The Jams.
This season's theme is "Growing Up." Both Blueberry and Max, along with Sophie, learn to grow into their new roles in the clubhouse. Max knows this is her last summer as a camper, and both she and Blueberry have to come to terms with getting older, which can sometimes be hard.
Each week, Arkansas PBS will share activities and special content through social media so families can bring the fun of Camp Onomatopoeia home.
Statewide partners for season three include:
mömandpöp, Little Rock.
Loblolly Creamery, Little Rock.
Our House, Little Rock.
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff.
Al "Papa Rap" Lopez, Springdale.
The Big Dam Horns, Little Rock.
Episodes will also livestream at myarpbs.org/watch and be available on demand at myarpbs.org/blueberry and youtube.com/myarkansaspbs, as well as in the Engage Arkansas PBS app and PBS Video app.
Support for Season 3 of "Blueberry's Clubhouse" is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, Tourism, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
About Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Founded in 1937, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts is the largest cultural institution of its kind in the state, offering a unique blend of visual and performing arts experiences. AMFA is committed to featuring diverse media and artistic perspectives among its 14,000-object permanent collection as well as through rotating temporary exhibitions. AMFA's international collection spans six centuries, with strengths in works on paper and contemporary craft, and includes notable holdings by Arkansas, African American, and Southern artists. Offering programs with a vibrant mix of ideas, cultures, people, and places, AMFA's commitment to diversity extends to its dynamic children's theatre and performing arts program, innovative studio art school, and community-focused educational programs for all ages. Located in Little Rock's oldest urban green space, MacArthur Park, AMFA's landmark building and grounds are designed by Studio Gang Architects and SCAPE, in collaboration with Polk Stanley Wilcox.
Arkansas PBS, Arkansas's only statewide public media network, empowers learners of all ages by educating, informing, entertaining and inspiring communities. Arkansas PBS serves as a daily and essential resource for Arkansans by creating, sharing, celebrating and driving conversation around Arkansas stories and classic, trusted PBS programs through multiple digital platforms, including livestreaming at myarpbs.org/watch, on-demand services and YouTube TV, and the distinct channels Arkansas PBS, Arkansas PBS Create, Arkansas PBS KIDS, Arkansas PBS WORLD and Arkansas PBS AIRS on SAP. Members with Arkansas PBS Passport have extended on-demand access to a rich library of public television programming. Arkansas PBS depends on the generosity of Arkansans and the State of Arkansas to continue offering quality programming. Additional information is available at myarkansaspbs.org. Arkansas PBS is broadcast on KETS (Little Rock), KEMV (Mountain View), KETG (Arkadelphia), KAFT (Fayetteville), KTEJ (Jonesboro), KETZ (El Dorado) and KETS (Lee Mountain).


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What are the biggest changes with you and NewCanaanite.com since the last time we spoke?
I'm increasingly familiar with the people and storylines of the town. And also, because I have an office and the site has become well-known enough in New Canaan, news tips are coming to me far more frequently than when I launched. In the bigger picture, I find myself deeply involved with the town through the site. For example, I'm on the Board of Directors of the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce, I'm on the steering committee for an internship program out of New Canaan High School, I'm a member of the local Kiwanis Club and my summer internship program has gained a lot of traction, to where I have six high school and college kids this summer.
How has your editorial model evolved? Are you still not aggregating any news whatsoever?
I am introducing types of content that involve lots of leg work at the front end and then become permanent and permanently relevant to the community. One example of this is the Street Name Database. There's an old annual of the local historical society, from 1960, where one article lists the history of how each street in town got its name, a few sentences on each one. It's fascinating history, and I approached the historical society about creating a searchable database out of it that could be embedded on both of our websites. It's been up and running for almost a year now and every day we have dozens of readers using it. I try to link to it on the first reference of any street name in our stories. Finally, still no aggregation.
You're using a lot of charts and other visual material with text stories. What's your goal here?
If it helps with storytelling, I do it. A recent example is a dramatic plan to rebuild an apartment complex downtown with far greater density. Together with the site plan and permit application, the architects of that project are putting in for an entirely new zone in the local Zoning Regulations. I created a table (it's at the end of this story) which details just how the proposed new zone would compare in a number of categories to the existing Apartment Zone it's designed to sort of supplement.
Are town government and planning still the top coverage choices?
Land use is definitely a major coverage area for us. Government – yes, in the sense that I try to cover quality-of-life matters for local people. I am not interested in getting deep down in the weeds of local government.
There's a new category of news emerging that really speaks to local people. I'm not sure what to call it except it revolves around the community's identity and sense of civility. Our biggest story so far this year — involving a woman who yelled at the workers in a local ice cream shop and then threw her sundae behind the counter — is one example. A more recent story about the need for parking enforcement officers to wear body cameras after a number of unpleasant run-ins with ticketed motorists is another.
How are you doing in advertising?
I have 97 advertisers, with 23 of them on six- of 12-month campaign contracts.
Your revenue range, according to Michele's List, is $51,000-$100,000. Are you happy with those numbers? When do you expect to rise to the next bracket?
Since last fall, I've been running trial ad campaigns in the leaderboard ad slot of the site. You'll see the local car dealership, Karl Chevrolet, in there now. My plan is to continue gathering data about ad performance through Q3 or even Q4, and then to sell that zone. It could take us into that threshold, depending how it goes.
What about your competition, especially Patch?
Patch is not a competitor on the news side or the ad side, and I think that's by design. The company doesn't seem to target the local businesses whose advertising forms the core of my recurring revenue. New Canaan also is covered by two weeklies — one very local to the town, the other owned by a larger company. We are the go-to local news source online, from what I can make out.
How many unique visitors do you have?
We're safely over 30,000 uniques now. I'm pleased with that number, and it continues to grow. This chart shows our growth since 2014.
You hit profitability in your first year. Still profitable?
In June 2014, you said you made your entrepreneurial move into community news publishing at the right time. In today's digital community news climate, would you say it's still a good time for startups to do what you did back then?
I think it's only getting better for digital community news online, and especially for this one-person model. With tools like Blargo and Broadstreet, and a single person to pay, like in NewCanaanite.com, it's a great profession and just a joy. I honestly pinch myself. This is a reporter's dream.
I can't neglect to ask about Wilbur and Russell, your two golden retrievers who had severe arthritis when you made your big transition from Patch to starting NewCanaanite.com two years ago. They doing okay?
Yes, both the boys are on Deramaxx still and going strong. A few months back, we added our fifth dog, Dexter. So our lineup is Wilbur, Russell, Louis, Marvin and Dexter, and are everything to me and my wife, Marie.


"In terms of the subject matter of the imagery," said Fields, "I still think that the abstract, constructivist nature is as important for me as the more obvious figurative centers. The only message ever intended is that experience is essentially visual, not verbal. There are, however, always verbal associations that can be made and icons inhabit our imagination."
Since the 1960s, fields' work has been so diverse that it seems that the central figures, often gleefully awash in reds, blues, greens, and grays mixed with brown and orange, provide the focus.
This colorful language has made the work flamboyantly eloquent, as it entered the sphere of Pop Art, with subjects like Michael Jackson and Lady Diana Spencer. While the subjects seem most obvious to the eyes, his canvases are layered with countless influences.
"Somewhere in the conceptual, hard-edged images that followed, I started reluctantly, seeing figurative allusions," said Fields. "Realising they were there regardless, I began following them more deliberately, with a crossover canvas that started as minimalist constructivist abstract, into which I eventually placed a small figure of Donald Duck, transforming it completely, while being shouted at [during] the process by my head of the studio. From that, I realised I was onto something."
Fields' persistence in making crossovers led him to explore techniques beyond the palette. In the 1990s, he started experimenting with computers and, in a medium that has developed its own aesthetics, he found an expected resemblance to the fine art techniques he had used for decades.
"When I first discovered a direction on the computer, I realised that it was almost the same technique I was already using. . . just with another tool," said Fields. "It was my eye, my hand, and a mouse that replaced either a pencil or paintbrush. For decades my work had evolved in such a way that I constructed it starting on a canvas. I produced exact studies, first on tracing paper over graph paper, using a ruler and set square. I traced and retraced until I reached a final study before starting a coloured version that eventually transferred it to the canvas. On screen, I discovered the same process of layers over a grid and tools enabling me to draw straight lines."
Field has crossed mediums with the same technique. By drawing over a grid, initially on graph paper with tracing paper on top using architects' tools, he arrives at some of the core elements of his style.
"My work has this built-in recognition of its own essential flatness," said Fields. "The flatness of the images gets constantly related in the drawing stage to the flatness of the canvas picture-plane. Now, in layers on a computer screen, I use straight edges on the figures and make lots of small parallel lines and lines at right angles. I echo the framework of the picture whilst delineating the form of 'whatever.' I frequently make small distortions to keep the parallels so that although there is an illusion of form, it is always underneath the strutter and subtly echoes the picture-plane it is sitting on."
This "flatness" may have come from the comic-inspired imagery that initially influenced Fields. At the heart of it is an aesthetic that culturally resonates with the hard-edged elegance of Pop Art, one that lends itself to reproduction through industrial processes.
This reproduction has taken on a life of its own. Fields recall how a friend spotted artwork in a restaurant in Japan that was evidently a copy of his work; some of the pieces emulated his style on subjects he had not done. Fields humorously turned this around by doing a copy of one based on an image of Marilyn Monroe in the Seven Year Itch, thus doing "the original after the copy." In the 1980s, he was invited by the Shiseido Corporation in Japan to exhibit his paintings and work on advertising campaigns.
"The Univeral appeal of Pop seems to lie in the simplicity of the reproduction of the imagery," said Fields. "Childhood cartoons likewise seem also universal in appeal. Asian art, in particular, has a history of flatness, itself an essence of pop. Possibly, my work seems to resonate particularity in Japan through the conceptual and constructivist nature of line I use. It has echoes in eastern calligraphy and techniques of drawing form that also relate to cartoons rather than to the more western tradition of painterliness."
While there have been attempts to categorise Fields" work throughout his secedes-long career, he stresses labels that include "Pop Art" and "Post-Pop Art" have rarely stuck, as definitions seem to disappear into an explosive mix that blurs the line between the familiar and the groundbreaking.
In one tongue-in-cheek manifesto, Fields described his work as "maximalist," but his montage-like figures are most at home in their undefined settings.
"My work has most remained an evolution outside the mainstream art scene, partly just through the nature of cultural timing," said Fields. "As a result of not being perceived as part of [the] group, from one perspective, I've had a certain freedom; from another, [there is] no choice but to go my own way, regardless. But something in the work seems to root it in the present. I try not to analyse this too much, so as not to become limited by my own applied concepts, which are always there, regardless."


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Editor's Note: Part of the information in this article is based on the observations of the writer, who visited Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey between Jan. 3 and Jan. 16, 2016.
As of fall 2016, Turkish students form the fourth-largest international student group in the Tufts community, with 55 students across all Tufts schools, according to Director of the International Center Jane Etish-Andrews.
Some of these students said that due to a string of recent terrorist attacks, including one at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Eve that left 39 people dead and nearly 70 wounded, the mood in the country as a whole has taken a dark turn.
"People are dying so fast in Turkey," Tahsin Can Şarlak, a first-year from Turkey, said.
On the night of Jan. 3, Sabiha Gökçen International Airport was bustling but far from crowded. The airport, Istanbul's second busiest international airport, is about a 40 minute drive from central Istanbul.
Turkey has experienced a sharp decline in tourism, accompanied by a broader economic downturn, following the recent terrorist attacks. Though still teeming with people, Istanbul in January was also filled with closed shops and police vehicles.
At Taksim Square, historically one of the most crowded places in Istanbul, there were always at least three or four heavily-armed police vehicles present. Entrances to all major public venues — including malls, train stations, movie theaters, markets and tourist attractions — were guarded by well-armed police officers and security personnel.
Other tourist sites were far from crowded. Many double-decker tour buses in Istanbul barely carried two or three passengers at a time. Visitors hardly had to wait in line for anything, even for a table at the city's once-packed restaurants.
With a plummeting economy and terrorist attacks targeted at civilians on the rise, Turkish people have experienced their share of difficulties throughout the past year, according to Nesi Altaras, a sophomore from Turkey.
He said that recent terrorist attacks in major Turkish cities have made terrorism a more immediate reality for the Turkish public.
Altaras said the risk is inevitable for people who live in large cities like Istanbul.
Esra Gurcay, a first-year from Turkey, agreed with Altaras that Turkey's experience with terrorism has changed.
"When I was a kid, I never saw Turkey as a country that could be subject to so much terror and chaos," she said.
Gurcay added that many people in Istanbul are living in fear and that the local economy has been hit hard due to the attacks.
Ralfi, a first-year from Turkey who requested his last name not be used due to safety concerns, lives only a couple blocks from Reina nightclub where the New Year's Eve attack occurred. He also stressed that the streets of Istanbul are relatively empty and quiet.
"General sound in the street is nothing … [before] you would hear so much sound in the streets that salespeople in the shop would just scream [at] you to [bring] you to their store, but now it's enough for them to even whisper," he said.
Ralfi added that the Turkish government has increased the number of police officers on the street, but the government still lacks an effective intelligence force.
According to Altaras, some Turkish students expressed disappointment at the university's lack of communication after the attack in Istanbul on New Year's Eve. In a group electronic message between several Turkish students at Tufts, some students were surprised that the university had not reached out to them to see if they were safe, he said.
Etish-Andrews explained the International Center usually reaches out to international students when potentially dangerous events occur in their home country.
Ralfi, who expected the university to reach out, said he felt that Tufts neglected the Turkish community in the aftermath of the attack.
Gurcay, agreeing with Ralfi, said the university could pay more attention to its international student community as a whole.
"I think it's incredibly important that Tufts cares about and sympathizes with not only its American students, but also its international students," she said.
Patrick Collins, executive director of Public Relations, said that the university has always sought to ensure the safety of its students.
"Like most universities, Tufts does not track students' personal travel during breaks and over the summer. However, when students' home countries experience significant events that pose potential dangers, such as natural disasters, the university strives to contact students to confirm their safety and provide support," Collins told the Daily in an email.
He cited an example in July 2016, when the university contacted Turkish students following an attempted coup d'etat by the Peace at Home Council, a sector of the Turkish Armed Forces.
"That outreach did not occur in this instance, and we are taking steps to ensure that this does not happen again," Collins wrote.
Meanwhile, according to Director of Tufts Programs Abroad Sheila Bayne, 20 students over the last 14 years have studied abroad through non-Tufts-affiliated programs in Turkey, not including students who took summer courses there. She said that the university works hard to ensure the safety of students abroad and reviews travel applications for non-Tufts study abroad programs carefully.
However, Chelsea Ferrell, Global Operations program manager, said that the university's international travel insurance policy does not apply to students returning home over break, only to students studying abroad or engaged in Tufts-affiliated activities abroad.
"Tufts' international emergency insurance does not cover students who are on personal non-Tufts-affiliated trips," Ferrell told the Daily in an email.
Nevertheless, Etish-Andrews stressed the historically positive relationship between Tufts and its Turkish community.
"Tufts has always had a very strong relationship with Turkish students and their parents and alumni," she said.


Seeing his mother, the boy suddenly perked up.
Have some tea and you'll feel better.
Refreshed by a cup of coffee, I began to study very hard.
He set off toward town with a bounce [spring] in his step.
Walk with more pep./Walk more vigorously [briskly].
I was too downhearted even to get up.
What's the matter? You look dispirited [((口)) blue].
I am in the best of health.
I am very happy to find you so well.
Good luck (to you) !/Take care of yourself.
My mother is getting along very well.


The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history by discovering images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost.
Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into lives, experiences and perspectives of black families that is absent from the traditional historical canon. These images show a much more complex and nuanced view of American culture and society and its founding ideals.
Inspired by Deborah Willis's book Reflections in Black and featuring the works of Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas, Coco Fusco, Clarissa Sligh and many others, Through a Lens Darkly introduces the viewer to a diverse yet focused community of storytellers who transform singular experiences into a communal journey of discovery - and a call to action.


It is good to hear that some of Old Kallang Airport Estate, Dakota Crescent as it is now commonly referred to, is being retained. The estate is the last of those built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in the 1950s in which the first attempts were made to introduce high-rise public housing. The preservation of a section of six blocks, four of which are arranged around a courtyard that with its playground, is also being retained, follows on calls made for the estate's preservation in part or in whole by Save Dakota Crescent group and members of the public to which the Member of Parliament for the area Mr Lim Biow Chuan has lent his voice.
Built at the end of the 1950s, a chunk of the original estate has already been lost to redevelopment. What remains features four block typologies arranged mainly around two spacious courtyards with a Khor Ean Ghee designed playground that was introduced in the 1970s. The blocks were designed to contain a mix of units intended for residential, commercial and artisanal use – a feature of the SIT estates of the era.
Window from the past out to one that is more recent – Singapore's last dove (playground).
It would have been nice to see a more complete estate being kept as an example of the pre-HDB efforts at public housing. Developmental pressures have however meant that only the central cluster, in which all four block typologies are represented, could be kept with the remaining site given to public housing. The blocks being retained will be repurposed for uses such as student housing or for suitable social and community uses and will be integrated with the future public housing development.
Some of the units feature built-in storage.
The kitchen of an upper floor unit.
The upper floor verandah of the two-storey block.
A final dance with the Dove.
The provision shop, before it became a hipster cafe.
It is good to see that the long overdue Singapore Sports Hub has finally been completed. However, having been built over a part of Singapore that does hold many of my most memorable childhood experiences, seeing the new world complete with the seemingly indispensable shopping mall come up in place of a once familiar gentler world that existed, bring with it a tinge of sadness.
The new National Stadium seen from its south end, looking as if it is about to roar.
Reflections on Kallang Basin at dawn – the area where the once iconic Oasis was has since been transformed.
I liked that old Kallang, or properly Kallang Park, part of the area where the Sports Hub now stands. That was the Kallang that was shaped by the developments of the late 1960s and early 1970s that were not just to provide Singapore with the highs and lows that the old National Stadium in playing host to Malaysia Cup matches brought, but also a different set of highs-and-lows that the lion-headed roller coaster of the old-fashioned Wonderland Amusement Park did give to many of the younger folks of the era.
The odl National Stadium, which provided the setting for a football match in 1974 that left a lasting impression on me.
Beyond the stadium and the place that brought much joy to the children of the 1970s, it was a place where one could take a leisurely stroll by the waters of the Kallang Basin and perhaps watch the setting sun painted a scene made interesting by the silhouettes of boat against reflections off waters that might have been less than welcoming to the recreational boaters we see a multitude of in the Kallang Basin of today.
The new stadium with the silhouettes of a dragon boat team at practice in the Kallang Basin seen at sunrise.
There was of course the places to dine at – the Oasis Restaurant complex, with its immediately recognisable octogonal shaped pods over the waters of the basin, having once being a popular dining and entertainment destination. Besides the Oasis, the fast-food craze of the 1970s brought with the arrival of fast-food outlets to Kallang Park, with A&W setting up a drive-in restaurant in September 1978. The opening of restaurant would best be remembered for a famous personality who was well-known from his appearances at the nearby stadium, footballer Quah Kim Song, making an appearance.
The pods of the once familiar Oasis over the Kallang Basin.
Over the years, we have seen McDonald's and KFC being set up in the area with a UK based Fish and Chips chain, Harry Ramsden's opening an outlet in the early 1990s. Over the years – the fast-food outlets have become a popular place for those heading to or from the stadium for a quick and convenient meal.
Another look at the area by the waterfront around where the Oasis once was.
The interactions I had with the area also include an episode in my life connected to a well forgotten industrial past, when shipyards lined the banks of the foul-smelling Geylang River on the area's south-eastern fringe. That was in the 1980s, when I did see the last of Wonderland before it disappeared as many things do – having to make way in 1988 for a huge open-air car park meant to serve Kallang Indoor Stadium.
Kallang will of course never now be the same again. Apart from few industrial buildings from the era that have been put to alternative use and a couple of fast-food outlets, there is little left to remind me of a time that now seems so distant. While the much needed new stadium and the associated sporting facilities is much welcomed – I have made use of the competition pool at the OCBC Aquatic Centre and it is fabulous, it will never be the same again, especially without the Kallang Roar, when the old stadium became a cauldron of the collection of noise made by the crowd cheering, clapping and even stamping that had its structure literally shaking.
An iPhone taken pano of the competition pool at the OCBC Aquatic Centre (click to enlarge).
The roar had been what our Malaysia Cup opponents had feared most in playing at the old stadium. That, having long fallen silent with the days of the Malaysia Cup, as we knew it, well behind us, would probably never return.


Hemingway Wall Lantern (Large) solid brass shown in (ANT & N Finish). The Hemingway is a simple mid Victorian Outside Light. The Hemingway exterior lights and hall lanterns come in two sizes and are hand finished to order.


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COVID-19 spreading like 'fire' at Montreal geriatric hospital, doctor says
A Montreal geriatric centre has been hit with dozens of new coronavirus cases in the past few weeks and can no longer admit new patients.
Christopher Curtis • Montreal Gazette
Apr 09, 2020 • Last Updated April 9, 2020 • 4 minute read
Doctors and nurses (in long-term care centres) are watching patients — people they've known for years — die one after the other," says Dr. David Lussier. SunMedia
"It feels like the building is on fire."
This is how Dr. David Lussier describes the situation inside Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM), a geriatric centre where dozens of new COVID-19 cases have emerged in the past two weeks. The outbreak has spread to the point where no new patients are being admitted to the IUGM.
Lussier works in the last pavilion without any confirmed cases of coronavirus, but that will probably change in the coming days.
More and more of the patients he helps recover from hip or joint injuries are displaying symptoms of the virus: high fever, coughing and shortness of breath. Adding to that stress, some of them share rooms with patients who have COVID-19.
"Everyone is doing their best, to offer palliative care, to ease their suffering, but the ones who do die will die of suffocation," Lussier said. "There's no way around it. It's not a nice thing to witness. Doctors and nurses (in long-term care centres) are watching patients — people they've known for years — die one after the other.
"And because of how contagious the virus is, they're dying alone, without their family in the room. It's incredibly sad."
The centre has been divided into "cold zones" where patients don't have the virus and "hot zones" where they're infected, but those lines are starting to blur. About a dozen of Lussier's cold zone patients are awaiting results for their COVID-19 tests and he has been working with them for weeks.
"Right now, I have to assume that everyone I work with has coronavirus," said Lussier, who added that government-run geriatric centres have been the "blind spot" of Quebec's response to COVID-19.
Lussier only started wearing a mask last week and now he's in a situation where he's regularly sporting a face shield, gown and gloves while treating patients.
"There's confusion about whether the lunch trays are contaminated and have to be thrown out. The lines between people's jobs are disappearing," Lussier said. "You'll have physiotherapists helping the elderly to the bathroom. I drove to pick up a new admission the other day. Everyone — from orderlies to handymen — is working as hard as they can to contain this."
One woman whose mother is a patient at the IUGM said she was told there are at least 34 confirmed cases just on her mother's ward. She added that the infected share rooms with those awaiting test results, a detail Lussier confirmed.
The doctor yawned several times during his interview with the Montreal Gazette and says he's starting to lose track of time as the days bleed into weeks. People like Lussier and the staff are working flat out every day.
Now that he may have been exposed to the virus, Lussier says he has had to have a difficult conversation with his wife — who is also a doctor.
"I live in a house with my wife and four children. If it came down to it, I might have to isolate myself from them completely," said Lussier, whose kids range in age from 7 to 14. "Unless I sleep in the garage, I pretty much have to live in a separate home than my family. It's all or nothing."
Family time has been a saving grace since the beginning of the outbreak. Lussier, his wife and the kids watch District 31 on TV every night and things unfold with a comfortable familiarity: the seven-year-old twins fall asleep and everyone huddles together in the living room as the virus continues to devastate the world outside.
The couple is doing everything they can to let go of that chaos once they walk into their home: most of their work gear stays in the garage, they immediately wash their scrubs and take a shower once they get in. There are days where the children struggle with confinement, but Lussier says he's impressed at how resilient they are.
"The 14-year-old can basically run the household when we're not around," Lussier said. "But we want to be there for them. I see a lot of people post things about how, during the pandemic, they've gotten to know their kids better. We haven't had time for that, unfortunately, but we're lucky to still have our jobs.
"This reminds me a bit of Sept. 11, 2001. I was in New York when the towers fell and I think we knew right away the world would never be the same. I don't know if things will ever be as they were before the virus.
"Will we rediscover life as it once was? I don't know. And that's scary."
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The Net Zero project began as an idea in 2010 and grew out of conversations from TCA's participation in the local U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) chapter
The Tennessee Concrete Association (TCA) is located in Nashville, TN and serves the concrete industry statewide. TCA represents 70% of the ready mix concrete production in the state and also represents concrete contractors, suppliers and other companies who work in the world of concrete construction.
In 2008 TCA purchased property near downtown Nashville and established a campus for TCA. An existing building on the site was renovated to provide of ce space for the association and a portion of the nearly 2 acre site was leased to another business. TCA took the remainder of the site and began to turn a plain industrial site into a unique concrete showplace.
Most of this extensive transformation took place during the "Great Recession" but in the true spirit of the Volunteer State, TCA's members stepped up to donate nearly $250,000 worth of materials and services over a four-year period to fuel the remarkable transformation from industrial to amazing.
Much of the transformation involved concrete atwork. Pavement on the site includes conventional concrete, roller compacted concrete and previous concrete. Hardscaping for the exterior courtyard, outdoor kitchen and the pervious pavilion includes some outstanding decorative concrete work representing stamped, textured, and exposed finishes, along with several different ways to produce color in and on concrete surfaces. The site also includes concrete fencing, custom concrete benches, a concrete countertop, cast-in-place concrete cocktail tables and numerous concrete bin blocks.
Our transformation also included concrete walls and buildings. Two small buildings were constructed early on to showcase concrete safe rooms (using insulating concrete forms) and a panelized concrete wall system. But our most ambitious project utilizes cast-in- place concrete walls and has come to be known as The Net Zero Building.
The Net Zero project began as an idea in 2010 and grew out of conversations from TCA's participation in the local U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) chapter in Nashville. Those conversations grew into an actual project team with volunteers representing architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, academia and contractors. The team evolved over time, but the consistent team members were architect Mr. Paul Boulifard (BOULIFARD), mechanical engineer Mr. Kim Shinn (TLC Engineering for Architecture), Dr. Heather Brown (CIM-MTSU) and Alan Spark- man (Executive Director, TCA).
The team set out to design a structure that could be constructed quickly in response to natural disasters to provide immediate shelter but one that could be expanded later to become a more
permanent residence. In many ways we wanted to create a shelter that would be the antithesis of much-maligned mobile homes that were sent in to deal with the aftermath of Katrina. To that end, the structures needed to be resilient (resilient construction was not yet a hot topic in 2010) to protect against potential severe weather events during the recovery period and beyond, they needed to be built with common construction methods and materials, they needed to be energy efficient and they needed be simple as well as versatile.
TCA agreed to provide the site and construction materials, and to manage the construction process to build the structure once designed. The rest of the team agreed to contribute their time and expertise to the design process, and to provide any needed assistance during the permitting and construction process. The entire team was commit- ted to using the design and construction process to elevate the construction industry's knowledge and acceptance of sustainable design and construction processes and techniques utilizing concrete as the primary material.
Once the core team was assembled, the design process began with a formal chartering process to generate feed-back and ideas about such a structure.
Early in our initial work, Nashville experienced the worst flooding that anyone could remember (May of 2010) and suddenly Nashville was struggling with the aftermath of an intense natural disaster. Our firsthand experience with the many problems that remained after the flood waters receded made us think carefully about the type of structure that could not only survive a flood event in terms of structural integrity, but could also be restored quickly to be suitable for human habitation after the event.
Several concrete systems were evaluated during our design process, but the impact of the 2010
floods really led us back to the use of cast-in-place concrete for our wall system. Not only would well-constructed concrete walls survive most any flood event, the concrete walls would be easy to clean and sanitize after a flood so the structure could be quickly re-occupied without extensive removal and replacement of spoiled building materials like drywall or wood.
With that question settled, we needed to find a way to make cast-in-place walls energy efficient and that search quickly led us to the Thermomass wall system. Thermomass signed on as a part of our team and agreed to provide their materials at no cost to TCA as their contribution to the project. We settled on a 12" overall wall thickness that was composed of a 4" exterior thickness of concrete, 2" of extruded polystyrene insulation, and a 6" interior thickness of concrete as the primary structural component of our wall system. We placed the thicker concrete wall section inside the insulation envelope to increase the thermal mass and temperature dampening capability of our structure.
Actual construction started in July, 2012. TCA installed a turndown foundation slab with the help of two sum- mer interns and some layout assistance from Dr. Marcus Knight and Jon Huddleston from the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).
A TCA contractor member with experience in poured wall construction (but no experience with Thermomass) was hired to complete the concrete shell of the building. The crew quickly picked up on the installation of the Thermomass system and construction of the foundation walls proceeded quickly. Next came the installation of a cast-in- place concrete floor that received a texture-skin finish and then the walls were continued up to the roof line. Care was taken to maintain the integrity of the insulation envelope such that the walls were insulated from the below-grade footing to the roof with no interruptions.
The main level walls were placed using Self-Consolidating Concrete, and then a 6" thick reinforced concrete roof slab was placed to complete the structural portion of the building. The insulation envelope was extended to cover the 6" roof slab (3" of extruded polystyrene was used on top of the at concrete roof) so the thermal mass of the concrete in the roof was also inside the insulation envelope.
From this point, a conventionally framed single slop metal roof system was installed with the roof angle optimized for solar exposure. A small solar (1500 watt PV) system was installed to provide lights and plugs for the build- ing. The upper portion of the 'Solar Tower' was completed using conventional masonry construction that was core-filled and the same roof system was used to cap off the tower.
The south-facing side of the Solar Tower was dedicated to glazing and vents. The glazing intentionally allows the top of the Tower to heat up and makes it the hottest portion of the entire structure. The hot air is then vented to the exterior through the vents that remain open year-round. The hot air that exits must be replaced so the design takes advantage of that natural ventilation to bring fresh air into the structure without any mechanical assistance.
In addition, that fresh air supply was constructed so that the air enters the building at the bottom of the 4' high foundation level and then must ow through a 'conditioning maze" that is about 150 lineal feet. The floor of the maze is 4' below grade and the floor temperature stays around 60 degrees year round. Exterior air is tempered from the exterior ambient temperature before it enters the living space above the foundation level. The combination of this air-tempering strategy with the large amount of thermal mass inside the insulation envelope maintain the interior temperature of the building between 50 and 80 degrees in all but the coldest winter temperatures. The structure has been able to maintain a 25 degree temperature differential (from ambient) even on the coldest winter days in January and February.
The Net Zero building is a showcase for resilient, sustainable, energy-efficient construction as well as a showcase for cast-in-place concrete walls and it is a fitting crown jewel for the TCA Campus.
Alan Sparkman is the Executive Director for the Tennessee Concrete Association. He served The Aberdeen Group as Director of Industry Relations from 1995-98 before taking his position at TCA. He has been involved with the Construction Industry Management program since 2010 and maintains an active teaching and training schedule across the United States. For more information, contact him at asparkman@tnconcrete.org.
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A single myelinated afferent nerve fiber enters each Herbst corpuscle and loses its myelin sheath before it enters the inner core. At the picture above, the progress of the axon is clearly visible.
In the inner core, schwann cells are organized in twin rows around the central axon and form interdigitating lamellae. Fingerlike protrusions of the axon form contact with these lamellae, but these protrusions are not visible an light microscopic images. Often, two excentrally lying additional nuclei are present at the enlarged tip of the axon.


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Sales coaching is different to attending a course as it is more of an ongoing activity that keeps you motivated and on-top of what you need to do rather than a one-off course that leaves you to your own devices thereafter.
Once you have decided to use an MTD sales coach you will both agree on a number of sessions that you will have together. Some sales people like one per month, others prefer one per quarter – the choice is yours!
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The Company had been presented with an opportunity to bid for a multi-million £ contract, and had no experience of such process of large scale work, yet this bid, if secured, would effectively secure their business success for life.
Having worked with the MD and the small sales force within the Company previously, we understood clearly the set up, capabilities and limitations that faced the business on a day to day basis. There was little doubt in anyone's' mind that the bid would be a waste of time unless some very focused training and coaching be delivered to the Sales and Marketing Director, who would be managing this particular tender.
We believed that, due to his position within the Company, a less visible (from the employees perspective) process should be the best way ahead – given that the employees were already spending the money they were going to be earning as a result of this bid (they had of course already won in their own minds!), subtlety was of the utmost importance.
Therefore, a structured one to one coaching programme was devised, delivered across a 6 week period, and throughout the whole bid process.
Combining structured sales methodologies, standard business practices and a whole host of advanced techniques focusing on the individual himself (an individual who is acutely dyslexic and has little self confidence) such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, we worked together at both his home and office location on a very intense and challenging programme.
As all coaching programmes are designed to be focused on the individual, flexibility of the programme was paramount – given too that it was focused on a particular project, we had to adapt to the end customer at each and every step of the sales and bid process.
Our coach was retained again to assist in further development, and indeed upon contract renewal of this project, which was again successfully secured at a value of some £5m GP.
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package gui;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ItemEvent;
import java.awt.event.ItemListener;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream.GetField;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JSpinner;

import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.openstreetmap.gui.jmapviewer.JMapViewer;
import org.openstreetmap.gui.jmapviewer.Layer;
import org.openstreetmap.gui.jmapviewer.MapMarkerDot;
import org.openstreetmap.gui.jmapviewer.interfaces.MapMarker;
import org.openstreetmap.gui.jmapviewer.interfaces.TileSource;
import org.openstreetmap.gui.jmapviewer.tilesources.OsmTileSource;

import logic.Controler;

public class PhoenixRestaurantsControler {
	static FoundedRestaurants foundedRestaurants;

	public static void matchRestaurants(JComboBox cmb_Stars,
			JComboBox cmb_PriceRange, JComboBox cmb_Reservations,
			JComboBox cmb_Parking, JComboBox cmb_WiFi,
			JComboBox cmb_NoiseLevel, JComboBox cmb_Attire,
			JComboBox cmb_OutdoorSeating, JComboBox cmb_Category, JComboBox cmb_GoodFor, JComboBox cmb_Ambience, JComboBox cmb_Position) {
		List<Object> list= new ArrayList<Object>();
		int stars = assignStars(cmb_Stars.getSelectedItem().toString());
		int priceRange = assignPriceRange(cmb_PriceRange.getSelectedItem().toString());
		list.add(0, stars);
		list.add(1,priceRange);

		int noiseLevel = assignNoiseLevel(cmb_NoiseLevel.getSelectedItem().toString());
		list.add(2,noiseLevel);

		int parking = assignParking(cmb_Parking.getSelectedItem().toString());
		list.add(3, parking);

		int reservations = assignReservations(cmb_Reservations.getSelectedItem().toString());
		list.add(4, reservations);

		int wifi = assignWiFi(cmb_WiFi.getSelectedItem().toString());
		list.add(5, wifi);

		int outdoorSeating = assignOutSeating(cmb_OutdoorSeating.getSelectedItem().toString());
		list.add(6, outdoorSeating);

		double attire = assignAttire(cmb_Attire.getSelectedItem().toString());
		list.add(7, attire);

		String goodFor=cmb_GoodFor.getSelectedItem().toString();
		int[] arrayGoodFor = new int[6];
		assignGoodFor(arrayGoodFor, goodFor);
		list.add(8, arrayGoodFor);

		String ambience=cmb_Ambience.getSelectedItem().toString();
		int[] arrayAmbience = new int [9];
		assignAmbience(arrayAmbience,ambience);
		list.add(9,arrayAmbience);

		String category=cmb_Category.getSelectedItem().toString();
		list.add(10, category);

		List<JSONObject> listRespone=Controler.returnControler().returnBestMatchRestaurants(list);

		foundedRestaurants= new FoundedRestaurants();
		foundedRestaurants.setModal(true);
		try{
			showFoundedRestaurants(listRespone,cmb_Position,foundedRestaurants);
		}catch (Exception e) {
		}
		foundedRestaurants.setVisible(true);
	}

	private static int assignPriceRange(String priceRange) {
		int value=1;
		if(priceRange.equals("$")){
			value=1;
		}
		if(priceRange.equals("$$")){
			value=2;
		} else{
			value=3;
		}
		return value;
	}

	private static int assignStars(String stars) {
		int value=1;
		if(stars.equals("*")){
			value=1;
		}
		if(stars.equals("**")){
			value=2;
		}	if(stars.equals("***")){
			value=3;
		}	if(stars.equals("****")){
			value=4;
		}	if(stars.equals("*****")){
			value=5;
		}
		return value;
	}

	private static void showFoundedRestaurants(List<JSONObject> listRespone,
			JComboBox cmb_Position,FoundedRestaurants foundedRestaurants) {

		JSONObject firstRestaurant=listRespone.get(0);
		arrangeFirstPanel(firstRestaurant,foundedRestaurants,cmb_Position);

		if(listRespone.size()>1){
			JSONObject secondRestaurant=listRespone.get(1);
			arrangeSecondPanel(secondRestaurant,foundedRestaurants,cmb_Position);
		}
		else{
			foundedRestaurants.getPanelSecond().setVisible(false);
		}

		if(listRespone.size()>2){
			JSONObject thirdRestaurant=listRespone.get(2);
			arrangeThirdPanel(thirdRestaurant,foundedRestaurants,cmb_Position);
		}
		else{
			foundedRestaurants.getPanelThird().setVisible(false);
		}

		if(listRespone.size()>3){
			JSONObject fourthRestaurant=listRespone.get(3);
			arrangeFourthPanel(fourthRestaurant,foundedRestaurants,cmb_Position);
		}
		else{
			foundedRestaurants.getPanelFourth().setVisible(false);
		}

		if(listRespone.size()>4){
			JSONObject fifthRestaurant=listRespone.get(4);
			arrangeFifthPanel(fifthRestaurant,foundedRestaurants,cmb_Position);
		}
		else{
			foundedRestaurants.getPanelFifth().setVisible(false);
		}

		addMap(listRespone,foundedRestaurants,cmb_Position);

	}

	private static void addMap(List<JSONObject> listResponse,
			FoundedRestaurants foundedRestaurants,JComboBox cmb_position) {
		try{
			final JMapViewer map = new JMapViewer();
			JLabel helpLabel =
					new JLabel("move= right mouse,\n "
							+ "zoom= mouse wheel");
			helpLabel.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
			foundedRestaurants.getHelpPanel().add(helpLabel);
			List<MapMarker> mapMarkerList= new ArrayList<MapMarker>();
			map.setDisplayToFitMapMarkers();
			for (int i = 0; i < listResponse.size(); i++) {
				Color color= new Color(230, 0, 255);
				MapMarkerDot marker= new MapMarkerDot(color,Double.parseDouble(listResponse.get(i).get("latitude").toString()),Double.parseDouble(listResponse.get(i).get("longitude").toString()));
				marker.setName(listResponse.get(i).get("name").toString());
				marker.setVisible(true);
				mapMarkerList.add(marker);
			}
			double latitude=Controler.returnControler().getCoordinates().get(cmb_position.getSelectedItem().toString())[0];
			double longitude=Controler.returnControler().getCoordinates().get(cmb_position.getSelectedItem().toString())[1];
			MapMarkerDot markerPosition=new MapMarkerDot(latitude,longitude);
			markerPosition.setName("You are here");
			markerPosition.setVisible(true);
			mapMarkerList.add(markerPosition);
			map.setMapMarkerList(mapMarkerList);
			map.setMapMarkerVisible(true);
			map.setTileSource(new OsmTileSource.Mapnik());
			map.setZoomContolsVisible(true);
			map.setDisplayPositionByLatLon(latitude,longitude, 11);
			foundedRestaurants.getPanelMap().add(map);
			foundedRestaurants.getPanelMap().setVisible(true);
		}catch (Exception e) {
		}
	}

	private static void arrangeFifthPanel(JSONObject fifthRestaurant, FoundedRestaurants foundedRestaurants, JComboBox cmb_Position) {
		String position=cmb_Position.getSelectedItem().toString();
		double result=calculate(position,fifthRestaurant);

		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_DistanceKilometer5().setText(result+" Km");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_RestaurantName5().setText(fifthRestaurant.get("name").toString());
		setAddress(fifthRestaurant);
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_Street5().setText(setAddress(fifthRestaurant));

		double stars=Double.parseDouble(fifthRestaurant.get("stars").toString());
		ImageIcon image=assignImage(stars);
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating5().setText("");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating5().setIcon(image);

	}

	private static void arrangeFourthPanel(JSONObject fourthRestaurant, FoundedRestaurants foundedRestaurants, JComboBox cmb_Position) {
		String position=cmb_Position.getSelectedItem().toString();
		double result=calculate(position,fourthRestaurant);

		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_DistanceKilometer4().setText(result+" Km");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_RestaurantName4().setText(fourthRestaurant.get("name").toString());
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_Street4().setText(setAddress(fourthRestaurant));

		double stars=Double.parseDouble(fourthRestaurant.get("stars").toString());
		ImageIcon image=assignImage(stars);
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating4().setIcon(image);
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating4().setText("");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating4().repaint();

	}

	private static void arrangeThirdPanel(JSONObject thirdRestaurant, FoundedRestaurants foundedRestaurants, JComboBox cmb_Position) {
		String position=cmb_Position.getSelectedItem().toString();
		double result=calculate(position,thirdRestaurant);

		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_DistanceKilometer3().setText(result+" Km");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_RestaurantName3().setText(thirdRestaurant.get("name").toString());
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_Street3().setText(setAddress(thirdRestaurant));

		double stars=Double.parseDouble(thirdRestaurant.get("stars").toString());
		ImageIcon image=assignImage(stars);
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating3().setText("");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating3().setIcon(image);

	}

	private static void arrangeSecondPanel(JSONObject secondRestaurant, FoundedRestaurants foundedRestaurants, JComboBox cmb_Position) {
		String position=cmb_Position.getSelectedItem().toString();
		double result=calculate(position,secondRestaurant);

		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_DistanceKilometer2().setText(result+" Km");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_RestaurantName2().setText(secondRestaurant.get("name").toString());
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_Street2().setText(setAddress(secondRestaurant));

		double stars=Double.parseDouble(secondRestaurant.get("stars").toString());
		ImageIcon image=assignImage(stars);
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating2().setText("");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating2().setIcon(image);

	}

	private static void arrangeFirstPanel(JSONObject firstRestaurant, FoundedRestaurants foundedRestaurants,JComboBox cmb_Position) {
		String position=cmb_Position.getSelectedItem().toString();
		double result=calculate(position,firstRestaurant);

		foundedRestaurants.getLblDistancemeter().setText(result+" Km");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_RestaurantName1().setText(firstRestaurant.get("name").toString());
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_Street1().setText(setAddress(firstRestaurant));

		double stars=Double.parseDouble(firstRestaurant.get("stars").toString());
		ImageIcon image=assignImage(stars);
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating1().setText("");
		foundedRestaurants.getLbl_StarsRating1().setIcon(image);
	}

	private static ImageIcon assignImage(double stars) {
		ImageIcon image=new ImageIcon();
		if(stars==3){
			image=new ImageIcon("images/3 star.png");
		} if(stars==3.5){
			image=new ImageIcon("images/3,5 star.png");
		}
		if(stars==4){
			image=new ImageIcon("images/4 star.png");
		}
		if(stars==4.5){
			image=new ImageIcon("images/4,5 star.png");
		}
		if(stars==5){
			image=new ImageIcon("images/5 star.png");
		}
		return image;
	}

	private static String setAddress(JSONObject restaurant) {
		String address=restaurant.get("full_address").toString();
		String newAddress=address.substring(0, address.indexOf(","));
		return newAddress;

	}

	private static double calculate(String position, JSONObject restaurant) {
		double latitudeM=Controler.returnControler().getCoordinates().get(position)[0];
		double longitudeM=Controler.returnControler().getCoordinates().get(position)[1];
		double latitudeF=Double.parseDouble(restaurant.get("latitude").toString());
		double longitudeF=Double.parseDouble(restaurant.get("longitude").toString());
		double distance=distanceCalculate(latitudeM, longitudeM, latitudeF, longitudeF);
		distance = distance*100;
		distance = (double)((int) distance);
		distance = distance /100;
		return distance;
	}

	private static void assignAmbience(int[] arrayAmbience, String ambience) {
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("hipster")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==0){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("classy")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==1){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("touristy")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==2){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("divey")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==3){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("intimate")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==4){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("casual")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==5){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("romantic")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==6){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("trendy")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==7){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(ambience.equalsIgnoreCase("upscale")){
			for (int i = 0; i < arrayAmbience.length; i++) {
				if(i==8){
					arrayAmbience[i]=1;
				} else{
					arrayAmbience[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}

	}

	private static void assignGoodFor(int[] array, String goodFor) {
		if(goodFor.equalsIgnoreCase("breakfast")){
			for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
				if(i==2){
					array[i]=1;
				} else{
					array[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(goodFor.equalsIgnoreCase("brunch")){
			for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
				if(i==4){
					array[i]=1;
				} else{
					array[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(goodFor.equalsIgnoreCase("lunch")){
			for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
				if(i==3){
					array[i]=1;
				} else{
					array[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(goodFor.equalsIgnoreCase("dessert")){
			for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
				if(i==5){
					array[i]=1;
				} else{
					array[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(goodFor.equalsIgnoreCase("dinner")){
			for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
				if(i==0){
					array[i]=1;
				} else{
					array[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}
		if(goodFor.equalsIgnoreCase("latenight")){
			for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
				if(i==1){
					array[i]=1;
				} else{
					array[i]=0;
				}
			}
		}

	}

	private static double assignAttire(String attire) {
		if(attire.equals("Casual")){
			return 0.5;
		}
		return 1.5;
	}

	private static int assignOutSeating(String outSeating) {
		if(outSeating.equals("Yes")){
			return 1;
		}
		return 0;
	}

	private static int assignWiFi(String wifi) {
		if(wifi.equals("Free")){
			return 1;
		}
		return 0;
	}

	private static int assignReservations(String reservations) {
		if(reservations.equals("Needed")){
			return 1;
		}
		return 0;
	}

	private static int assignParking(String parking) {
		if(parking.equals("Available")){
			return 1;
		}
		return 0;
	}

	private static int assignNoiseLevel(String noise){
		int noiselevel=1;
		if(noise.equals("quiet")){
			noiselevel=1;
		}
		if(noise.equals("average")){
			noiselevel=2;
		}
		if(noise.equals("loud")){
			noiselevel=3;
		}
		return noiselevel;
	}
	private static double distanceCalculate(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {
		double theta = lon1 - lon2;
		double dist = Math.sin(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.sin(deg2rad(lat2)) + Math.cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(lat2)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(theta));
		dist = Math.acos(dist);
		dist = rad2deg(dist);
		dist = dist * 60 * 1.1515;
		dist = dist * 1.609344;
		return (dist);
	}

	private static double deg2rad(double deg) {
		return (deg * Math.PI / 180.0);
	}

	private static double rad2deg(double rad) {
		return (rad * 180.0 / Math.PI);
	}
}