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Xi Jinping's huge COVID gamble
This week in The Fin podcast, North Asia correspondent Michael Smith explains China's U-turn on COVID-zero, whether it will work and what it means for both the global economy and Xi Jinping's grip on power.
Listen below or search for The Fin on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
In late November, a surprising wave of dissent swept across China. After three years of snap lockdowns, mass testing and harsh quarantines to stamp out COVID-19, young people gathered to protest against the restrictions.
At some demonstrations, they even called for China's President Xi Jinping to step down.
And then last week, an even bigger surprise. China's leaders backed down, reversing the COVID-zero policy that had brought the country to breaking point.
Australian Financial Review reporter Michael Smith, left, and ABC correspondent Bill Birtles leaving China.
"It's going to be really interesting to see how this plays out in coming months," Smith says."If things go very bad with COVID, and that there's a huge amount of deaths, and there's widespread panic, anything could happen in China."
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The Head and The Heart to Play Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (Tuesday, February 18, 2014) — Indie Folk artist The Head and The Heart will perform at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall on Thursday, May 8 at 8:00PM.
Leaving a variety of day jobs and academic pursuits, The Head and the Heart came together in the summer of 2009, during frequent visits to the open mic night at Conor Byrne in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. California-transplant Josiah Johnson and Virginia-native Jonathan Russell formed the core songwriting partnership, quickly adding keyboardist Kenny Hensley to the mix. The luminous Charity Rose Thielen, violin and vocals, had just returned from a year of studying and playing music in Paris. Drummer Tyler Williams cold left a successful band in Virginia after Jon sent him the demo of "Down in the Valley," relocating across states to be a part of this. Finally, Chris Zasche, was bartending at Conor Byrne and mentioned one day that he'd be happy to play bass for the nascent band. It all felt right: The Head and the Heart was born.
The band entered Seattle's Studio Litho in early 2010 to record these songs that had been kicking and twisting in the catalytic development of their live show. Recorded by Shawn Simmons at Studio Litho and Steven Aguilar at Bearhead Studio, the band was selling burned copies in handmade denim sleeves at local shows within a few weeks. Self-released in June 2010, the debut album helped build an impressive head-of-steam for the band through the second half of the year, gaining fans at influential Seattle station KEXP, local record shops (a consistent top 10 seller for Easy Street and the #1 album of 2010 at Sonic Boom), and venues up and down the West Coast, culminating with signing to Sub Pop Records in November. For the 2011 re-release of the album, "Sounds like Hallelujah" has been re-recorded, live favorite "Rivers and Roads" has been added, and the album has been re-mastered.
The songs resulting from those first inspired months pick at the multicolored threads of leaving home, finding home, and through that process of deconstruction, finding yourself. These are songs about crossing rivers and roads to get to the one you love, about family far away, and the desire to chase Technicolor dreams down foreign horizons. When people hear these songs, or see the band live, the first thing they have to do is tell someone else. Their shows are, simply, one hell of a lot of breathless fun. Each song explodes into a potent supernova on stage, where half the audience is zealously singing along with every lyric, and the other half is wishing they knew the words. The band has accepted nearly every show offered to them in the past year, from backyards strung with Christmas lights to coffee shops, open mics, and even high school classrooms in Middle America. From the first months of the band's life, their reputation as a phenomenal live band has preceded them wherever they play.
Tickets for this standing room only show will go on sale this Friday, February 21 at 10AM. Tickets will be available for purchase at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall and St. Augustine Amphitheatre box offices, findmytix.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets.
SHOW: The Head and The Heart
DATE: Thursday, May 8, 2014
TIME: Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm
TICKET PRICE: General Admission Standing Room Only; $30.00
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I've been doing some heavy duty eavesdropping this week, eavesdropping on what were meant to be private conversations between American diplomats.
In other words, I've been reading the Wikileaks files, hundreds and hundreds of supposedly secret missives, sent to Washington from US embassies around the world in order to inform the policy-makers back home.
And, perhaps oddly, I've been thinking of Robert Burns. You may be familiar with the lines: "O, wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as others see us!"
(They come from a poem called "To A Louse", which may be appropriate given how some US officials have been talking of the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.)
But why Burns? Well, if you're Kim Jong Il of North Korea, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, or President Sarkozy of France, or Silvio Berlusconi, or Vladimir Putin – yes, even if you're David Cameron or Gordon Brown – you can now, thanks to Wikileaks, see yourself as others see you. Or at least, as US diplomats see you.
It won't come as a great surprise to Kim Jong Il that the Chinese are not all that enamoured of him. Nor will President Ahmadinejad be deeply shocked to discover that he's not flavour of the month in Riyadh.
But to see it written down, to read in black and white what's being said about you behind your back – well, that must be a bit of a blow.
Still, I think we need to retain a sense of scepticism. Just because something is said in a document marked "Secret" doesn't always mean it's the Gospel truth. (And remember, these particular documents were so secret that they were available to something like three million US government employees.)
Take, for example, one of the more interesting disclosures – that China is apparently prepared to countenance the idea of a reunified Korea under South Korean rule.
Says who, you may ask. And it turns out that the source for this little nugget is a senior South Korean official, talking to a US ambassador, about what he believes Chinese officials "would be comfortable with." I know plenty of journalists who would think long and hard about going into print with that kind of flimsy sourcing.
So what about the description of the Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu as "exceptionally dangerous"? The quote comes, in fact, from an unnamed "high-ranking [Turkish] government adviser" – and we all know about the perils of relying on unnamed advisers as sources.
I'm not suggesting that this vast document dump is uninteresting. Far from it. It shines an unprecedented bright light into corners where normally very little light shines at all. The sensation you get reading the documents is rather like what a child feels, ear pressed to the key-hole, listening to the adults talking on the other side of the door. It's not so much what they're saying that's exciting, it's that they have no idea we're listening.
Much of what I've read so far confirms what was already pretty well known. The Gulf states are deeply distrustful of Iran; corruption and organised crime are a major problem in Russia; Gordon Brown wasn't much good at being prime minister.
Embarrassing for some of the diplomats who wrote these missives? Of course. Unwelcome to the sources quoted in them? Undoubtedly.
But deeply damaging to US interests? Here's the verdict from the US defence secretary Robert Gates, who as a former director of central intelligence presumably knows plenty of real secrets:
"Every other government in the world knows that the US government leaks like a sieve … Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for US foreign policy? I think fairly modest."


As Christians, we are called to minister to each other in times of need. Our intention is to convey Christian love and concern to those members or friends of our congregation who are facing life's difficulties. Our mission is to keep those suffering from illness, facing surgery, aging, grieving, hospitalized, or recovering from any crisis event encircled within our congregational love and care. The Care Team comes alongside an individual or family for a brief period of time, as appropriate, as they adjust to their circumstances or situation.
Have a care need? We'd love to pray for you. Please contact Nancy Chumley.
Beyond the Broken Heart is an eight-week support ministry for those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. Participants will find support and encouragement as they seek life in renewed hope and joy beyond the broken heart of grief.
This ministry uses topical references from the Bible, videos, and group discussions to illuminate the unfamiliar emotions and questions of grief over the course of eight sessions. As group members open their hearts and share their stories in a confidential setting, being certain they are heard by others in the group, they will soon realize they are not alone and what they are experiencing is normal to the grief journey. Every story is unique and every grief journey is unique! We grieve because we love.
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Colossobolus semicyclus est une espèce de mille-pattes de la famille des Pachybolidae endémique de Madagascar.

Répartition et habitat
Cette espèce est présente dans les forêts d'Antsahabe et de Binara dans le nord de Madagascar. Elle vit dans les forêts tropicales sèches et dans les forêts subhumides.

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Transfer news: Joe Willock likely to push for move on one condition
Joe Willock will likely push for a move from Arsenal if he is consigned to a bit-part role ahead of the upcoming season, according to The Athletic.
What's the latest Newcastle transfer news?
Recent reports from The Daily Telegraph have suggested that Steve Bruce is confident of wrapping up another loan move for the 21-year-old midfielder, with a potential view to a permanent deal.
While Newcastle have reportedly always been confident that the England U21 international would like to return to St James' Park after a wonderfully successful loan spell, it is important to remember that Willock is an Arsenal academy graduate so the notion of playing his way into the team there must be tempting.
Still, should he continue to sit on the sidelines, it seems as if he will push to leave .
How many games has Willock played for Arsenal?
Since making his Premier League debut for Arsenal, ironically enough against Newcastle in 2018, Willock has only ever actually played 37 more times in the English top flight for his boyhood club. Indeed, it's not as if Mikel Arteta doesn't have a track record of bringing through youngsters either, given the likes of Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe have both excelled under his watch.
Coming off one of the most successful runs of his career, sitting on the bench while Arsenal conduct a fresh recruitment drive surely doesn't look that appealing for him.
What has Arteta said about Willock?
Speaking after this side's 2-1 pre-season loss away to Hibs, Arteta moved to stress that he remained an Arsenal player, although he wasn't quite as emphatic about the future.
"Well he (Willock) wasn't involved today because he had a little groin issue," he said (via The Athletic).
"He trained yesterday really well but we didn't want to risk him. Joe is part of our plans, he's our player and in the time that he is here we will try to make the most out of him. He had a great experience on loan. He was, I think one of the most important players for their survival."


Over the weekend, disaster struck in Fortnite as a rocket created a crack in reality. If you didn't see it, you've missed it, but we have captured it for posterity. Since the initial attack on the sky, and presumably existence itself, the fracture has expanded. Other tears have appeared on the map, too, and yes, they're also getting bigger. Oh dear.
On Saturday, a rocket blasted off from the Fortnite island, slowly shooting up until it came back down again, blinked in and out of our universe, and finally cracked the very sky itself. Science has a lot to answer for, that's for sure. Players have noticed that the crack has expanded quite a bit since the initial explosion, and you can see part of it creeping across the sky in screenshots posted on Reddit.
The second crack is located next to Lonely Lodge. It started off as just a shimmering smudge—more optical illusion than apocalyptic portent—but has since started to look a lot like the big one in the sky. Worse, it seems to be hungry. It's swallowing stuff up, and the lodge isn't looking very safe right now.
A third anomaly has appeared at the motel, and there's bad news for fans of motel signage: the crack is swallowing it up.
Will anything be left by the end of this, or will we all be playing season five in a huge, empty universe?


Also called turtle beans or black turtle beans, black beans are a staple throughout Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. They have a black skin and a creamy, pale interior. They have a slightly sweet flavor and hold their shape well during cooking, making them ideal as a side dish on their own, or as an ingredient in any number of dishes, such as black bean burgers, black bean soup, tacos, burritos, or quesadillas.
Black beans are widely available canned or dried in the supermarket. When dried, older beans are dry and brittle, and take longer to cook. Because it's hard to tell when beans are old, shop for them at a place with quick turnover.
Keep dried beans in an airtight container in a cool place for up to a year.
Beans can come with bits of dirt or even little pebbles, so spread them out on a plate or baking sheet, pick out anything suspicious, and rinse the beans.
There are two ways to soak beans: overnight and by the quick-soak method.
To soak beans overnight, rinse the dried beans and pick out any stones. Place the beans in a large bowl or saucepan and cover with water. Leave overnight. Drain and rinse the beans before cooking.
The quick-soak method is terrific when you don't have time to let the beans soak overnight. Put the beans in a large pot and add enough cold water to cover by three inches. Do not cover. Bring the water to a simmer over medium-high heat. Continue simmering for two minutes. Remove from heat. Cover and let stand for one hour. Drain.
A pressure cooker is great for cooking beans because it reduces the cooking time to around 30 minutes and doesn't require a pre-soak.
Beans prepared on the stove or in the oven can take one to three hours, plus soaking time: First boil them hard for 10 minutes and then lower the heat to medium-low. Cover the pot with the lid slightly ajar and simmer, stirring occasionally, until they're done. A cooked bean should be creamy on the inside with skin that is intact, not broken. The best way to tell if a bean is cooked is to taste it.
Do not add salt until the beans have become tender, at least an hour into cooking. Salt will slow the softening process.
Acidic foods, like tomatoes, wine, and vinegar, should not be added until the beans become tender because they, too, slow down softening. However, in dishes that require long, slow cooking, such as baked beans, these types of ingredients are added early since they prevent the beans from disintegrating.
Make sure the bean are always covered with liquid.
If you are substituting canned beans for dried, 1 cup of dried beans produces about 3 cups of cooked beans. One 15-ounce can contains about 1 1/2 cups of drained beans.


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Q: why many CMSs use index.php for all articles even modules articles? I wonder why many CMSs (cmsms, wordpress,joomla and ...) use index.php for all articles in all modules? how it can help them? why they don't use separate php files for each module or plugin? I wanna design a small CMS and wanna know this technik. thanks

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why they don't use separate php files for each module or plugin?

They can't afford to do so. The CMS's machanism allows third party plugins as well for which they can't create separate pages beforehand and that will be an overhead anyway.
What CMSs typically do is transter requests through URL and implement design patterns such as:

*

*Front Controller

*Model View Controller
This helps them keep simple and be able to figure out which classes to load and functions to call. Same goes easy in case there is a plugin in-house or third party.
You should study those patterns to figure out the things for yourself.
Here is quote from Front Controller:

The front controller may be implemented as a Java object, or as a
  script in a script language like PHP, ASP, CFML or JSP that is called
  on every request of a web session. This script, for example an
  index.php, would handle all tasks that are common to the application
  or the framework, such as session handling, caching, and input
  filtering. Based on the specific request it would then instantiate
  further objects and call methods to handle the particular task(s)
  required.
The alternative to a front controller would be individual scripts like
  login.php and order.php that would each then satisfy the type of
  request. Each script would have to duplicate code or objects that are
  common to all tasks. But each script might also have more flexibility
  to implement the particular task required.

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I was very sad when I heard the news that Verne Troyer aka Mini Me died over the weekend. I had a small (pun intended) encounter with Verne back in 1999. The station I was at back then did a retro night at the Padres game. We all had to dress in 70s attire and we brought out Verne to throw out the first pitch because of Austin Powers. Well after the first pitch it was my job to be Verne's handler. I was supposed to drive him back to his hotel but Verne wanted to go out. So I took him over to Seau's for a drink. I picked him up and put him on the bar. He was so small he would use a shot glass as a regular glass to drink out of. The guy owned the place. He had a massive crowd around him and I was his bodyguard. He got smashed and then wanted to go home with some girl. I wasn't gonna argue with him, so I said peace out and good luck to Verne and never saw him again. That was our time together and it was special. RIP Verne! Hope you are having fun in heaven like we had that one night at Seau's! Here is what I wore that night. I wish I had a picture with Verne from that night. I'm sure there is one floating around. The other two guys pictured are B-Dub and Greg Simms.


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Amazon HQ2 plans spark renewed push to reopen LIC firehouse
"It's never a good idea to close a firehouse," said City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.
Officials and members of the FDNY rallied in Long Island City for the reopening of Engine 261 ahead of Amazon's HQ2 move. (Credit: Anthony DelMundo)
By Lisa L. Colangelo lisa.colangelo@amny.com @lisalcolangelo Updated December 19, 2018 7:14 PM
Amazon's HQ2 plans for Long Island City are providing new fuel in the battle to reopen a shuttered FDNY engine company.
Lawmakers, fire union brass and civic leaders stood outside the former home of Engine 261 in the Dutch Kills neighborhood on Wednesday to say the growing section of western Queens needs increased fire services.
"With thousands of new jobs and traffic coming to the area what does that mean for firefighters?" asked Gerard Fitzgerald, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York. "The greater distance trucks have to travel in heavy traffic has already meant an increase in response time, putting lives at stake. Every second is critical."
Engine 261 was closed down in 2003 as part of a larger citywide consolidation plan by the administration of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Firefighters and trucks were sent to other engine companies. A ladder company remained in the building on 29th Street.
Long Island City has boomed since that time. Subsequent rezoning allowed residential towers to grow in an area once dominated by manufacturing and industrial facilities. Several speakers also recalled last week's raging fire in nearby Sunnyside that destroyed several businesses and left both civilians and firefighters with injuries.
"It is never a good idea to close a firehouse," said City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer. "Closing this engine company in 2003 was shortsighted. We have been fighting this fight a long time."
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who organized the news conference, said she spoke with Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday, who pledged to look into the issue. She said part of the aggressive campaign to get the firehouse reopened includes a petition drive and legislative hearings.
"Keeping New Yorkers safe is the Mayor's top priority," said Jaclyn Rothenberg, a spokeswoman for de Blasio. "We're always evaluating resources, demands, and response times, and with an eye toward the future we will continue to do that in Long Island City."
City Councilman Joseph Borelli, chair of the Committee on Fire and Emergency Management, said he plans to hold a hearing in January focused on Engine 261. He noted that city budget negotiations are set to start in the new year.
"I'm sure we can find a few million dollars to make sure the people of Long Island City, the people who are going to have to deal with Amazon and whatever comes with development … are adequately protected by the fire department," he said.
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Transparency of HQ2 bid at center of Council hearingsThe name of the meeting: "Exposing the Closed-Door Process." A breakdown of the LIC Amazon HQ2 dealNYers are divided over their support of tax breaks Amazon received, a new poll found. LIC community gets chance to advise Amazon HQ2Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled Tuesday a committee comprised of Queens ... NYers split on generous tax breaks for Amazon HQ2: PollNearly half the NYers polled opposed the $2.8B in incentives Amazon received.


20:1 Planetary Gearset Servo Drive InMoov Hip Joint by mayaway is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.
I re-designed the Carrier (now InputGearPlate) to keep the gears of the two stages from binding on each other and make what used to be the SunGear a part of that plate.
The gearbox is very quiet and runs smooth if you grease everything up.
I'm using HS-5805MG Servo for the drive. The pot is removed & used for external feedback. The servo is altered for continuous rotation. I've also ported wires to the motor contacts so I can drive a slave in the robot ankles, creating the effect of parallelogram legs. The gearbox is 20:1 so torque increases dramatically.
I've enlarged the sun gears for less play. Scale if needed based on your print results.
There are brackets for mounting the assembly to my current InMoov & legs setup. The output shaft is held firm so the gearbox itself produces the output motion. The big pin inserts into the rest of the part of the hip joint which allows for flexion and extension at the hip. I've built a set of legs for my InMoov which I will publish once I have her walking. My plan is to use this in my InMoov's hip & ankle joints for lateral weight shifting, an absolute must if the InMoov is to walk. I am a retired PT and know quite a bit about the human gait sequence.
Let me know if the images and video provide enough info for assembly.
2/6/18 Considering design changes to make the assembly more compact and the drive and output shafts heavier. Will upload as needed & post notes of changes.
2/18/18 New shorter and adjustable version of HipPlanetPotArm & HipPlanetPotBar - print both with support.
2/20/18 Revised covers to lessen input/output shaft play. Am testing inner bearing surface for input sun gear... we'll see.
Yep - the inner bearing surface on the input gear is a good addition so InputGearPlate and SunGear are both new.
To tighten up the backlash even more I've scaled the Planet gears 4% larger.


You are going to wish check in right here on Friday, for the reason that it's when I'm sharing the best option to top this pound cake. Sorry to tease you want that, nonetheless it was truly scrumptious (not to be mistaken for the type in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).
But we been able to only consume 50 % of this pound cake thus I put the sleep inside freezer for the next time. And that had myself considering alternative methods to top this functional dessert.
I'll add the meal for pound-cake from a Mix at the conclusion of the post. First, let's get to some delicious toppings.
2. Whipped Cream – the homemade type!
3. Pudding – any taste is good. Try it warm and slightly thinner than usual (chocolate is my favorite).
10. Your turn! Tell me in a comment how you love to top basic pound cake!
Combine all ingredients and an electric mixer until well blended.
Pour into well greased bundt pan. I love to spray my own with Baker's Joy preparing spray that can has actually flour inside it.
Bake at 350 levels for 45 moments or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Cool in the countertop still within the cooking pan for ten full minutes.
Eliminate from cooking pan and cool completely.


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Q: Order database rows by location i'm building a website that contains a database of places, and in the MySQL database i have stored the latitude and longitude of a certain place. When loaded, I then calculate the distance between the user (user's location is aquired via HTML5 Geolocation) and the stored location using either the haversine formula or google maps api's DistanceMatrix.
What I want is to order the output from the closest to the farthest location. Is that possible using a mysql query, or i can only do it with javascript?

A: In the SQL query, you can create a new column that uses your formula to calculate the distance between the user and specific location. Then you want to use the ORDER BY keyword and choose the distance column to sort by ASC (already default). I hope this helps!


On every last Tuesday of the month (last one this year October 25th), we hold a special open evening for all those brides out there!
We offer FREE!, yes free wedding hair trials and there's no need to book either! First come first served on these busy nights! The only exception is that you must state that you are coming on our Facebook event and like our page, ladies who do this will get priority and there will be a small fee for those who do not like and add themselves! Even if you are considering add your self as "interested" and change nearer the time.
This is the perfect chance for you to try on veils, tiara's and jewellery with your hair done! This will help you decide on tiara hair vine or comb and whether to have a veil!
We offer such a huge range of bridal accessories you will be spoilt for choice!
We are attached to Hadleigh Hats….. Lets not forget mum's! Mums are not always sure about a hat as its not something we wear often and most will say " I'm not a hat person " The reason behind this is confidence and the only way they can gain confidence is to try and keep trying until something is found that they are comfortable in. So bring why not bring the mums!
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The Death-Stare Stylings of Groupon's Andrew Mason: The Full D9 Interview (Video)
It is indeed true that when he did not want to answer any question I posed, Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason stared at me in hopes that laser beams would come out of his eyeballs. They didn't, but that does not mean it's not worth watching his attempt. June 28, 2011 at 7:02 am PT
Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Groupon, which has been called "America's Best Website" by one of their own television commercials. Andrew has been using his fingers since an early age, most recently to type this biography. A Northwestern University graduate in music, Mason's achievements date back to his 8th grade wrestling Rookie of the Year trophy at Mt. Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh. Andrew considers himself an online enthusiast and man.
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Tech and media bigs on the red-hot seat.
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Confidential S1s? But what could be wrong with releasing 100s of pages of new financial and strategic co. info to the Internet while gagged?
— Andrew Mason on Twitter's IPO filing
Groupon Has More "Speed … Care … Focus" Under Lefkofsky, Ted Leonsis Says
Jason Del Rey in Commerce on August 7, 2013 at 2:15 pm PT
The CEO search never left the building.
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Hands down, Andrew Mason's record is one of the best business-focused rock albums out right now.
— Box CEO Aaron Levie, tweeting about former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's latest project
I came to realize that there was a real need to present business wisdom in a format that is more accessible to the younger generation. It was with this in mind that I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin', a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce.
— Andrew Mason, in a personal blog post about what he's been up to
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On the other hand, I could use a nice cup of hot growth.
Groupon CFO: No Changes to Business Model
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Groupon Inc. Chief Financial Officer Jason Child said Tuesday the embattled daily-deals company won't be shifting its business model as it seeks out a new CEO, and argued the firm is on the right track.
What Could Apple Buy With Its $137 Billion? About 18 Homes Each for Every Yahoo to Not Work At, and More!
Kara Swisher in News on March 3, 2013 at 7:34 pm PT
I vote to get rid of the sequester.
Don't Weep for Groupon Ex-CEO Andrew Mason
Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on March 3, 2013 at 3:00 pm PT
Andrew Mason isn't leaving Groupon empty handed.
This Week in Video for ATD: National Media Discovers Work From Home, While Mason Burns and Pebble Smart Watch Debuts
Kara Swisher in Media on March 2, 2013 at 8:25 pm PT
Watch and learn, people!
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Groupon CEO: "I Was Fired Today."
Groupon CEO: All Is Well! Nothing to See Here! Carry On!
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When Does Groupon — Still at More Than 80 Percent Off — Become a Deal for Someone?
Tricia Duryee in Commerce, December 11, 2012 at 2:15 pm PT
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The Nothing Option Selected at Groupon Board Meeting
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Groupon's Andrew Mason: Of Course My Board Is Discussing Replacing Me. But I Want to Stay.
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Exclusive: Is Andrew Mason on the Bubble as CEO of Groupon?
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals and slugging outfielder Jorge Soler agreed to a $7.3 million contract for next season, allowing the sides to avoid salary arbitration Friday and keep things amicable between them as they explore a long-term deal. The contract includes a $50,000 bonus for making the...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Royals third baseman Maikel Franco would boost his salary to a $4 million if he has 625 plate appearances. Franco and Kansas City agreed Dec. 27 to a $2.95 million, one-year contract with $1.05 million in performance bonuses. He would get $75,000 each for 300, 325, 350, 375, 400 and...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins have signed pitchers Homer Bailey and Rich Hill to one-year contracts. Bailey, a 33-year-old right-hander, made 31 starts between the Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics last season. He was a combined 13-9 with a 4.57 ERA. He started 18 games for Kansas City...
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Q: procedurally animating a little ascii man's speech using text input I'm taking a course called "Documenting and Developing Technology," and in this course, we're supposed to independently create wacky stuff with computers and then document using a video presentation on youtube. I've developed a gimmick that involves a small ASCII man that narrates the project instead of a human. He looks like this:
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I'd like him to move his mouth for the narration, but doing this by hand is extremely taxing and imprecise. I've seen plenty of videos of people turning different data formats into ASCII animations, but none of them go in-depth enough to explain how to do something like this, or how to get started. So I'm asking friendly strangers on the internet if they can point me in the right direction.
How should I go about making Maurice talk?


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Warralong is a small Aboriginal community, located 120 kilometres (75 mi) south east of Port Hedland and 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Marble Bar in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia, within the Shire of East Pilbara. The community lies between the Shaw and De Grey Rivers.
Indigenous Australians have lived in the area for thousands of years. The first European to arrive in the area was Francis Thomas Gregory who traveled through as part of his expedition in 1861. Pastoralists soon followed and established both sheep and cattle stations throughout the area displacing the Indigenous inhabitants but employing them as cheap labour leading to the 1946 Pilbara strike. The community was established as an offshoot of the Strelley Station, a pastoral lease that operated as a cattle station. Indigenous groups purchased the station in 1972 but abandoned it in 1984.
An alcohol ban was formally imposed on the community in 2013 following a spate of alcohol-induced violent incidents.
The community is located within the Registered Warrarn 1(WAD82/98) Native Title claim area.
The community is managed through its incorporated body, Warralong Aboriginal Corporation, incorporated under the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976 on 24 September 1993.
Warralong Layout Plan No.1 has been prepared in accordance with State Planning Policy 3.2 Aboriginal Settlements. Layout Plan No.1 was endorsed by the community on 1 March 2006 and the WAPC on 31 October 2006. The Layout Plan map-set and background report can be viewed at Planning Western Australia official site.
^ a b c "Warralong Community Layout Plan" (PDF). Taylor Burrell Barnett. 1 January 2006. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Warralong". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
^ "Project Locations". Eon Foundation Inc. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
^ "Booze ban issued for Warralong community in the Pilbara". Perth Now. 28 August 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
^ "Strelley Community School". Aboriginal Independent Community Schools. 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
^ "Reflections from my Immersion into an Indigenous Australian Community". Eve Cogan. 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
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Post Mortems
Timeless Boss Talks [Spoiler]'s Return and the 'Intense, Emotional' Fallout
By Vlada Gelman / March 25 2018, 7:58 PM PDT
Courtesy of NBC
Warning: The following contains spoilers from Sunday's Timeless.
After multiple interrupted kisses, Timeless' Lucy and Wyatt finally locked lips and slept together while visiting 1940s Hollywood during Sunday's episode. But back in the present, the pair's happy moment in the silo was cut short by a text message from… Wyatt's previously dead wife Jessica!
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TVLine chatted with co-creator Eric Kripke about the surprise twist and what it means for the future of "Lyatt."
TVLINE | Wyatt's attempt last season at preventing Jessica's death was unsuccessful, so how in the world is she back now?
That is a mystery that will continue to be unraveled as the season progresses. That's the best I can say about that.
TVLINE | Can you talk about how it impacts Wyatt, emotionally? He's finally moving on in his life when this happens.
We knew as we were beginning the season that one of our biggest storylines was going to be Jessica's return, and what that was going to do to Wyatt and the Wyatt/Lucy relationship, which now becomes a triangle. And look, it's just really good drama. As a very young writer just starting out, Sam Raimi told me — and it was advice I always remembered — he said, "The vast majority of writing is just coming up with people you love, and then torturing the hell out of them." [Laughs] … As much as I'm sure this is going to drive the fans crazy, it's going to lead to a lot of intense emotional moments and a lot of problems, and good drama is about your heroes tackling problems and dealing with a lot of heart-wrenching emotion. Lucy, Wyatt and Jessica have a twisty and fascinating road ahead.
TVLINE | The night that Jessica died, she and Wyatt had a fight, but he always talks about her reverently. Has he idealized their marriage? Is that a relationship that can be saved?
Yes, absolutely. One of the things that we were really interested in in terms of the Wyatt/Jessica relationship was creating a fleshed-out, real woman that Wyatt could interact with. When he talks about Jessica, it's as if he's talking about an angel. In his mind, she's so perfect and idealized, and this sort of beautiful, pure thing he had that saved him and broke him when he lost her. Our feeling was we're doing that particular character a disservice by making her this magical, ethereal woman when she's a real woman. Dealing with Wyatt is not easy, and she's a real human being who is not perfect and is complicated and messy, just like all of us are. So we got really interested in the idea that their marriage was not perfect at all. They had terrible fights, and he was really jealous. He would be surly, and then he would disappear for five months at a time because he would be on assignment. That's not a treat. We thought it was really interesting that they did not have this perfect marriage. He just made it perfect in his memory after she was killed. I think there's real humanity to play there.
Look, we know that the audience, especially all the people that are rooting for Lucy and Wyatt to get together, it automatically puts Jessica at a disadvantage. So we're really working hard to create a likable, human, complicated person, [and] to not just have her be a romantic rival, because that's never going to be a satisfying character. We just really made a commitment to start looking at Jessica as her own person, with her own problems, [who is] thrown into this insane situation of realizing who her husband is and what he does.
TVLINE | Her return is coming right on the heels of Lucy and Wyatt finally giving into their feelings. How does Lucy feel about Jessica?
Lucy has really complicated feelings about Jessica. She, obviously, has finally, after a lot of reflection, fallen for Wyatt. She and Wyatt have both decided to let go of the past, in a way, and their pain, and focus on a future together, and now all of a sudden comes this woman out of Wyatt's past to really complicate things. There's no way she can't be hurt and confused. But by the same respect, she knows that this is the love of Wyatt's life. And then she gets to know her, and really irritatingly realizes that she likes her and finds herself in an impossible position, because she doesn't want to come between them. She genuinely likes Jessica and wants Wyatt to be happy. But she fell for the guy. So it really puts her in a difficult situation that I think she handles with a lot of maturity. But it's not easy for her, either.
Timeless fans, what did you think of Lucy/Wyatt's big moment and Jessica's return?
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Alcyone Ephemeris 4.3 is an accurate and fast astronomical ephemeris calculator covering the period 3000 BC to AD 3000. It calculates heliocentric, geocentric, and topocentric positions of the Sun (Earth), planets, 18 natural satellites, and small bodies (minor planets and comets) in ecliptical, equatorial, and horizontal coordinates, with optional corrections for parallax and refraction; rectangular coordinates, velocity, apparent diameter, magnitude, phase, lunar libration, orbital elements, differences for all of these, and more.
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The ephemeris calculation is based upon Steve Moshier's analytical ephemeris using trigonometric expansions for the earth and planets and the lunar ephemeris ELP2000-85 of Chapront-Touzé and Chapront for the moon, both adjusted to Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE404 (see www.moshier.net). There are further adjustments in Alcyone Ephemeris, some optional, to JPL's more recent DE406, the most accurate long-term ephemeris.
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Q: Proof that $\exists A > 0$ such that $a_n+A > 0, ∀ n ∈ \mathbb{N}+$ for a bounded sequence $(a_n)_{n∈\mathbb{N}+}$ I'm trying to prove that $\exists A > 0$ such that $a_n+A > 0, ∀ n ∈ \mathbb{N}+$ for a bounded sequence $(a_n)_{n∈\mathbb{N}+}$. My proof so far is as follows:
If $(a_n)_{n∈\mathbb{N}+}$ is bounded $\Rightarrow$ $\exists U∈\mathbb{R}$ such that $a_n\ge U, \forall n∈\mathbb{N}+$.
We set the minimum element in the set to equal $U$: min{$a_n$}=$U$.
We want to show $U+A\gt0 \Rightarrow a_n+A \gt 0, \forall n∈\mathbb{N}+$.
Because $U+A\gt0$ holds, then $A>-U$. Because $-U∈\mathbb{R}$, $\exists A$ which satisfies $A>-U$
Therefore, $\exists A > 0$ such that $a_n+A > 0, ∀ n ∈ \mathbb{N}+$.
Is this proof correct? Any help would be appreciated.

A: Yes, it is correct, though you could simply say:

*

*Let's $U<a_i,$ $\forall i\in \mathcal{N}$.

*Take $A = 1-U$. Then,
$$a_n + A >U+1-U=1>0$$


PATIENTS may have to pay to see a GP under plans to be debated by MPs.
Charges could also be extended to other NHS services, including those provided by hospitals.
The fees are suggested in a private member's bill put forward by Tory MP Christopher Chope to "make provision for co-funding and for the extension of co-payment for NHS services in England".
Last night Joyce Robins, from Patient Concern, said: "This is an appalling idea.
Patients who cannot afford to pay medical fees would be put off getting an appointment and their condition could get worse.
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A survey by GP magazine Pulse found over half of family doctors in favour of charging a "small fee" for routine appointments.
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Private members' bills rarely become law and Mr Chope has long campaigned against their use.
He came under fire in June for being the only MP to block a widely-supported bill to outlaw "upskirting".


Stavanger – September 25, 2017 – At the start of the Annual Convening of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM), Mayor Leoluca Orlando (Palermo) received the Dr. Benjamin Barber Global Cities Award. Mayor Orlando is rewarded for his tireless endeavour to defend migrant rights and create a safer city by fighting organized crime.
He advocates on behalf of the most vulnerable citizens, including economic migrants, and welcomes incoming migrants every time a ship arrives at the port of Palermo personally. He works with the EU to promote freedom of movement for migrants, offering his city as a blueprint.
By his outspoken policy, Mayor Orlando contributes substantially to the further development of global urban governance and citizens rights and is an inspiration to mayors all over the world.
"It is an honour to reward Mayor Orlando with the first 'Dr. Benjamin Barber Global Cities Award' for his outstanding actions to advance citizens rights. Dr. Barber envisioned a world where there are no refugees or others, but only neighbours and global citizens of a peaceful, just and sustainable planet. Mayor Orlando is making that world a reality, one day at a time", says Mayor Patricia de Lille (Cape Town), Interim Chair of the GPM Committee.
The Global Parliament of Mayors created the 'Dr. Benjamin Barber Global Cities Award' to commemorate outstanding action or research on urban governance, contribution to advancing the values and principles set out by the Global Parliament of Mayors. By that, the GPM honors its founder, Dr. Benjamin Barber, author of the book 'If Mayors ruled the World' (2014), who passed away in April 2017.


It was a packed house at 103 West for the first Awards luncheon of the 2017 Touchdown Club of Atlanta. With over 100 people in attendance, including Buck & Kincaide and Rusty Mansell, we honored some great coaches and athletes. Our Back of the Week was Chaucney Williams from Meadowcreek, along side lineman Brenton Cox of Stockbridge and Collin Foster from Lanier High School. We also presented awards for Coach of the Week to Damien Wimes from Southwest Dekalb and Daniel Brunner from Walton. We were are very happy to have Greg Sankey, SEC Commissioner, speak to all in attendance.


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Entry from January 13, 2022
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are"
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are" is a saying that has been printed on many images. It is usually credited to Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), but Franklin never said it.
The saying was first cited in the 1990s. "'Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.' ----> Benjamin Franklin" was posted on the newsgroup rec.models.scale on May 10, 1997. "'Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.' Benjamin Franklin" was posted on the newsgroup alt.metaphysics.a-a-bailey on September 5, 1998.
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Benjamin Franklin (17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as
outraged as those who are."
----> Benjamin Franklin
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"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected
are as outraged as those who are." Benjamin Franklin
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"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as
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RT @wbaustin: Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are - Benjamin Franklin #sayings #tcot
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RT @Mike_Wesely #QUOTE: "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." ~~Benjamin Franklin
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The Daily Caller found no evidence of this quote in any of Franklin's writings. A similar expression appears in the works of the Greek biographer Plutarch.
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'Justice Will Not Be Served' Ben Franklin Quote
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Ben Franklin said "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
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Elmer es un pueblo ubicado en el condado de Jackson en el estado estadounidense de Oklahoma. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 96 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 87,27 personas por km².

Geografía
Elmer se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas  (34.479963, -99.352749).

Demografía
Según la Oficina del Censo en 2000 los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $35,208 y los ingresos medios por familia eran $35,208. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $18,750 frente a los $14,167 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $15,165. Alrededor del 9.3% de la población estaban por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

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Pueblos de Oklahoma
Localidades del condado de Jackson (Oklahoma)


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What Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave does is give a human face--actually many--to this time and place, forcing us all to freshly confront slavery's horrors and recognize how these people of the past really aren't all that different from us. Evil is a choice man can make every day, even today, in one form or another.
Even a school kid studying the Civil War for the first time knows slavery is evil. And yet with a hundred years between then and now, this atrocious stain on U.S. history feels somewhat sanitized, dubbed as a kind of ancient evil from a time far away when people didn't know any better. What Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave does is give a human face--actually many--to this time and place, forcing us all to freshly confront slavery's horrors and recognize how these people of the past really aren't all that different from us. Evil is a choice man can make every day, even today, in one form or another.
Based on a disturbing true story, 12 Years A Slave unfolds the hair-raising events that befell Solomon Northup, a free man living with a wife and family in Saratoga, New York in 1841. This was a perilous time for African Americans--even in the North--because runaway slaves were required by law to be returned down South to their masters. Some especially vile entrepreneurs took advantage of this edict to kidnap free men and sell them into slavery by claiming them to be runaways. This was the sickening fate that befell Solomon, who was transported down South, sold, and subjected to a barrage of abuse and dehumanizing treatment over the titular 12 years.
The poignant drama is stuffed from start to finish with notable stars and impeccable performances. Chiwetel Ejiofor shoulders this heavy narrative as Solomon, at turns brave, petrified, furious and cautiously hopeful. This range—deftly executed by Ejiofor—is the very definition of an Academy Award-worthy performance. Similarly powerful performances come from supporting players like Paul Giamatti as a despicable slave seller, Benedict Cumberbatch as a "kindly" slave owner, Adepero Oduye as the previously mentioned grieving mother Eliza, Sarah Paulson as a cruel mistress of the house, Alfre Woodard as an unlikely Southern belle, Brad Pitt as a liberal carpenter, Garret Dillahunt as a disgraced overseer, and Paul Dano as a vile one. Many will marvel at the shameless racism and self-righteous fury Michael Fassbender brings to his role of a slave owner with a reputation for breaking backs and spirits. And he is deserving of all praise given, creating a villain at once realistic and among the most terrible cinema has ever seen. But for me, the most compelling performance from this astonishing ensemble comes from Lupita Nyong'o, who unbelievably makes her film debut here.
12 Years A Slave is an ambitious endeavor that not only shows Solomon's tale but also gives glimpses into the lives of his contemporaries. To me, the most riveting and terrible of these stories is that of Nyong'o 's Patsey. She's a great worker, outpicking all the men in the field by hundreds of pounds of cotton every single day. Unfortunately her master (Fassbender) chooses to show his favor with nightly rape, which spurs his jealous wife (Paulson) to repeated assaults to poor, pretty Patsey. Playing a character this racked with desperation and despair is an intimidating task but Nyong'o handles it with a delicate touch, portraying Patsey as a tender bird, strong but caged, and growing weaker for it. While Solomon dreams that his family will find and fee him, Patsey was born into slavery and has no such hopes.
She has "no comfort in this life" and her attempt to grab some results in the movie's most electrifying scene, a long take where Patsey is viciously whipped. McQueen's preference for long takes felt a disadvantage in Shame, where an awkward angle in its claustrophobic sets would be sat on for minutes on end. But here his predilection has found its place. The camera circles Patsey and her attackers fluidly, revealing the 360-degree world of the antebellum South that McQueen has recreated, as well as relishing in the snarling ferocity of his performers. Combine this with the sound design that lands the gravity if this violence--the snap of the lash, the tearing of flesh, and Patsey's anguished screams--even when the camera isn't on it. All this creates a dramatic weight and tension so thick you'll want to look away, but the movie demands you stay focused, with Solomon. It builds to a moment where Solomon lost in thought looks about his world, then breaks the fourth wall, looking right into the camera and out to us. I looked back, and felt shamed and deeply regretful for the wretched past we all share.
McQueen presents us with two forms of evil. The most obvious is the brand laid out by Fassbender's raping slave owner. He knowingly inflicts harm, and feels it is his right to do so, seeing himself as superior to these black men and women. Then there's a subtler but no less sinister evil presented by Cumberbatch's slave owner. He feeds his slaves well, doesn't rape or beat them. However, as Eliza points out to Solomon, he is nonetheless a slave owner. He comforts himself on the knowledge he is not as bad as Fassbender's character, but looks the other way when his overseer is cruel and violent, and ignores Solomon's pleas to set him free. Others in the film make similar choices, turning a blind eye to evil rather than opposing it. McQueen suggests this too is evil. How this message relates to the modern day is for each of us to decide for ourselves. But for me, it brought into sharp focus that while slavery is long behind us, evil is not sanitized, or far away. It just doesn't take the form of literal slavery anymore. It's far more insidious.
10 / 10 stars
Reviewed By: Kristy Puchko


3 "a voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.'"
4 And so John came, baptizing in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
7 And this was his message: "After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
13 and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.
15 "The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"
17 "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."
24 "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!"
25 "Be quiet!" said Jesus sternly. "Come out of him!"
26 The evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.
27 The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching--and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him."
30 Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told Jesus about her.
31 So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.
34 and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.
37 and when they found him, they exclaimed: "Everyone is looking for you!"
41 Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!"
42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.


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Prince Philip admitted to hospital for hip surgery
Thomas Lohnes

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - JUNE 25: Prince Philip, Duke of Edingburgh and Queen Elizabeth II wave to the crowd from the balcony of the city hall 'Roemer' on June 25, 2015 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Queen and Prince Philip are visiting Frankfurt St. Pauls church and the city hall 'Roemer' during their trip, which is their first to Germany since 2004. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, has been admitted to a London hospital, a royal spokesman said in a statement Tuesday.
The Duke of Edinburgh will undergo planned surgery on his hip at King Edward VII Hospital on Wednesday.
On Sunday, the Duke was absent from an Easter service attended by the Queen and other members of the royal family at St. George's Chapel in Windsor, also the venue for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding on May 19.
Last June, Prince Philip spent two nights in hospital as a "precautionary measure" for the treatment of an undisclosed infection.
In August 2017, the Duke retired from 65 years of public service, more than five years after the Palace originally said he would gradually "wind down" his workload, though he remained keen to carry out many of his duties.
Queen Elizabeth, 91, has also begun to scale back her duties due to her advancing age, handing over some of her responsibilities to her heir, Prince Charles.
The British monarch and her husband celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary last November.
The royal couple were married on November 20, 1947 when they were still Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, at Westminster Abbey.
Prince Philip is the longest-serving consort in British history.


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Q: Regex pattern to replace the last occurence of a pattern in string I want to replace only the last occurrence of the pattern {id} or {objId} or {anything else} that appears after the last occurrence of / with xyz in Java.
Input:
/test/data/{id}/moreData/{id}
/test/data/{id}/moreData/{objId}
/test/data/{id}/moreData/{anything else}

Expected output:
/test/data/{id}/moreData/xyz
/test/data/{id}/moreData/xyz
/test/data/{id}/moreData/xyz

Please suggest a regex for this.

A: As clarified in comments, you seem to be looking to replace the last placeholder that appears after a slash /. For this you can use following regex,
[^/]+$

Here, [^/] is a negated character class which captures any character except a slash / and + means one or more characters and $ means end of string which will ensure this will match any text that appears in end of string not containing /. So just match using it and replace with xyz or any string of your choice.
Demo
Java code,
List<String> list = Arrays.asList("/test/data/{id}/moreData/{id}","/test/data/{id}/moreData/{objId}","/test/data/{id}/moreData/{anything else}");
list.forEach(x -> System.out.println(x + " --> " + x.replaceAll("[^/]+$", "xyz")));

Prints,
/test/data/{id}/moreData/{id} --> /test/data/{id}/moreData/xyz
/test/data/{id}/moreData/{objId} --> /test/data/{id}/moreData/xyz
/test/data/{id}/moreData/{anything else} --> /test/data/{id}/moreData/xyz


Throughout the time she embarked on amigurumi, Angie has created a variety of crochet characters. Some are fuzzy and totally adorable, others magical and mystical. Each design has its own charm and fits nicely into the palm of your hand.
Tutu the Bat, Chibi Pikachu, Resting Suicune and Baabaa the lamb are just some of the charming soft creatures available in the online shop. Follow the Tiny Rabbit Hole on Facebook to find out about new creations or sign up for one of their workshops.


Reaction NYE, the second annual 2-day music event held on New Years Eve weekend has announced it's line-up! The event held at the indoor Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont will feature headliners Flume, Zeds Dead, Anderson Pak. and Gucci Man. Local Chicago talent is plentiful with sets from Noname, Smino, Kweku Collins, Emily Nichols (formerly Woo Park) and more. Additional acts include Dillon Francis, Danny Brown, Tchami, Mr. Carmack, Bondax and more. The event is 17+, doors open at 5:00PM both Saturday, December 30th and Sunday, December 31st.
Reaction NYE is presented and produced by React Presents; other festivals include Spring Awakening, Mamby on the Beach, Summerset Music & Camping Festival, North Coast Music Festival and Freaky Deaky.
General Admission ($99.00) and VIP ($199.00) tickets are on-sale now at ReactionNYE.com.


Hi AB, thanks for the comments. Along our local river, we had a pretty normal season, with lots of young over several clutches. But in other drier areas, I think many of the birds have abandoned their local habitat and become vagrants. We would normaly be enjoying good numbers of honeyeaters for example, but no blossom, no birds.
On a positive note, the Tree and Fairy Martins seemed to have excelled themseleves this year.
From about the second shot I made, I was already in photojournalism mode, each player on the stage gave a different colour to the moment.
PS, we normally don't bait, feed or encourage, but in this case, like providing food in iced over areas an exception makes the rule.
And not a drop was wasted! Great work, both in providing the water and in the resulting photography!
Hello Eleanor, at best its only a few litres and hardly likely to change the environment, but it did give the little dudes a spot of relief. I suppose the most interesting thing was, that until it began flowing, we'd not seen any of the partipants.
No water wasted there, David. A wonderful tale of birding in the dry, The birds would have been very grateful and you got some fabulous images. Here's hoping we some of the rain that the weather guessers are promising on Friday – Saturday.
Very dry at Glen Orden this morning and not many birds around – no ducks on the eastern pondage. Even the Sparrowhawks have retreated to the woodland area near the fire station.
T'was indeed amazing to get such reaction. Not something we'd normally do, but in this case the relief was most appreciated. Hope we do get some of the weekend weather, it would be good to not have to kick up dust everywhere.
Amazing shots Dave. Birds do love water and EE's idea was a great one. Glad to hear she is on the mend.
HI Rodger, thanks for the comments. It was a great start to EE getting back in the field. Still have a few challenges, but I think the sit and wait method is going to have some good results as time goes by.
G'day David and well done you two! It's so good to see the results of EE's deduction and observation skills and to read this touching story. No water wasted!
Such an awesome birding adventure. They must love water so much. Your photographs seem to prove that they do!
Hello Derek. To say we were overwhelmed by the reaction would be an understatement.
The dry is so crippling at so many sites at the moment.


Uganda - officially the Republic of Uganda, is a country in East Africa, bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, within which it shares borders with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda takes its name from the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a portion of the south of the country including the capital Kampala.
41,652,938 population for 2017, according to United Nations Population Department.
GNI per capita was US$ 642 for 2017, according to the World Bank.
Uganda has 236,040 sq km - Population Density is 176 persons per sq km.
Uganda official statistics portal, with useful information.
The Government of Uganda portal, with useful links.
Uganda maps collection from University of Texas.
Uganda was one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to gain full Internet connectivity. Both fixed-line operators, Uganda Telecom and MTN Uganda offer a range of data services including ISDN, ADSL and local and international leased lines. Several Internet Service Providers are offering wireless broadband access. A new competition framework will liberalise VoIP Internet telephony completely, creating additional opportunities for them. The introduction of UTL's Freenet service and a special Internet tariff countrywide have helped to increase Internet usage, as has the recent strong growth of the fixed-line networks and an explosion of the number of cybercafes.
The introduction of cellular telephony has revolutionised Uganda's telecommunications industry since the first network went live in 1995, with two more following in 1998 and 2001. As early as 1999 Uganda became the first country on the continent where the number of mobile subscribers passed the number of fixed-line users, and the ratio is now more than 18:1. The market is consistently growing at around 50% p.a., while market penetration is still low at less than 9%. The recent introduction of GPRS will enable the mobile operators to play a larger role in Internet service provision, and a fourth licence for Third Generation (3G) mobile technology is being considered.
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Motorola has officially launched the flagship smartphone, the Moto Z3 in the US on the 3rd of August along with the 5G MOD, which will available in early 2019. The Moto Z3 has a design, which is similar to the Moto G6 series of smartphones with a taller 18:9 aspect ratio display offering premium glass sandwich design.
The Moto Z3 is priced at $480 (Rs 35,000) and will be available in the United States of America from 16th of August 2018. As of now, there is no information on the launch or the price of the Moto Z3 in India.
Along with the launch of the 5G Moto MOD, the company has also unveiled the much anticipated 5G Moto MOD, which comes with Snapdragon X50 modem from Qualcomm with true 5G capabilities. The company did showcase the demo of the 5G Moto MOD, which supported 5G connection with 1Gbps or greater data transfer speeds.
The 5G Moto MOD also comes with a 2000 mAh Li-ion battery and is compatible with the previous Moto Z series smartphones. As of now, there is no information on the exact pricing of the Moto 5G MOD what so ever.
Unlike the Moto Z2 Force, the Z3 does not have an unbreakable display. Instead, the smartphone has a standard 6.0-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2160 x 1080, protected by 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass. Under the hood, the smartphone is running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Octa-core chipset paired with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage.
On the optics front, the smartphone has a dual 12 MP camera setup with features like bokeh effect and 4K video recording. The dual camera setup has a combination of an RGB sensor and a monochrome sensor. On the front, the smartphone has an 8 MP front-facing camera with a selfie flash to improve the low-light selfie photography.
The Moto Z3 offers a 3000 mAh Li-ion battery with support for Turbo Charging via USB type C port and the phone. Finally, the smartphone is based on Android 8.1 Oreo with the stock interface and the device will receive Android P update in the near future.
The Moto Z3 is priced similar to the OnePlus 6. However, the smartphone comes with a year old processor and also misses out on features like IP certification and 3.5 mm headphone jack. However, considering this as the first smartphone to support 5G network, it is still a one of kind smartphone for sure.


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9.00 am - Food outlets open serving up the Shropshire Big Breakfast until 11.00 and mouth-watering food all day.
Dan Haynes and Pete Richards perform the UK's best tribute to the music of American folk duo Simon and Garfunkel.
The Show many are calling "A Must".
They're back!!! One of the most spectacular things we have ever done at the Hole in the Wall back again by request. If you missed this before don't miss it this time. The show is fast moving with musicians and dancers on stage and literally dozens of costume changes. Each performer re-creates live on stage the big stars of the eighties including………..
Duran Duran - The Human League - Kim Wilde - Culture Club - Wham - Nena - Toni Basil - Dead or Alive - Madness - Madonna - Spandau Ballet - Cyndi Lauper plus many many more!
This spectacular choreographed show with musicians and dancers on stage has been specially created for the Hole in the Wall for this year. Because it is the 40th anniversary of the phenomena that is ABBA we have gone well over the top by putting on this show based on the film and the music of 'Mama Mia'. For ABBA fans (and who isn't?) this will really get you up and dancing.
This is something very special so don't miss it.
When it comes to emulating the music of Status Quo just close your eyes and you will feel like you are listening to the real thing. They genuinely love what they do and this is infectious which gives the audience one of the best experiences of Status Quo music that you will get anywhere.