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Enticing Up Market Safari Destination
Botswana is a country of seemingly endless open spaces. Though it occupies an area the size of France, the human population is only 1.6 million. This is one country where wildlife does not face stiff competition for land resources from man. As a result the animals have multiplied with a flourish. Botswana can justifiably claim to host some of the finest game sanctuaries in Africa. The worlds' largest exporter of diamonds by value, the country is not under pressure to get in more tourists. And the government has adopted a deliberate policy of keeping visitor numbers low. The hidden hand of the market has responded by adjusting the price to reflect this reality. Botswana has therefore emerged as an exclusive up market safari destination. Bill Clinton, together with his wife went on safari in Botswana in 1998.
The power couple was greatly fascinated by the wildlife, and the serious games of life and death they play. Affirming his position on top of the food chain, the president ate for dinner some of the animal species he had watched earlier. His evening buffet included zebra, crocodile, impala in monkey sauce, and giraffe. "I tried it all", he declared with satisfaction. But the former American president is only one in a long line of heavy hitters to enjoy the wildlife havens of Botswana. Hollywood legends, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor chose to remarry here, for example. Botswana is dominated by the Kalahari Desert. It occupies 84% of the land area, mostly in the west, central and north of the country. But the Kalahari is not a desert in the Sahara sense. You find the occasional sand dune, but also substantial vegetation in the form of short thorn and scrub bush, trees and grasslands.
Very little water though, and hence the desert tag. To the northwest, you find Okavango, the world's largest inland delta. The northeast is a land of gently rolling tablelands interrupted by granite hills and rock formations. The east and southeast, where 80% of the people live has more varied relief. And the rain clouds linger more and unburden themselves more freely, relative to the rest of the country. Today Botswana is a peaceful, well-managed and relatively prosperous country. The country wealth per man indicator places among middle-income nations alongside Mexico and Russia and ahead of Brazil. But it has not always been so and the country has come along way. The San people (otherwise known bushmen) are believed to be the original inhabitants of Botswana.
Their descendants survive to this day, some living as their forefathers did for most of the 30,000 years historians guess they have been around. Later -much later, Bantu groups, prominent of which were the Tswana, became the masters of these realms. The modern Botswana nation has been shaped by the alliances made in response to historical currents swirling in southern Africa in the eighteenth century.
The rulers at the time aligned their interests with those of the British against the Boers who were approaching from the south and the Germans from the west. For the British, the value of the alliance was strategic and not much was expected in terms of economic advantage. And that is how the relationship resulted in the Bechuanaland Protectorate - the precursor of modern Botswana. The British remained in charge until independence in 1966. The visitor to Botswana is drawn by the credible intelligence that abounds about the quality of its pristine wildlife sanctuaries. Chobe National Park, one of the finest game parks in Africa is located to the north east of the country.
Botswana Okavango Delta
The park has the greatest variety of game anywhere in the country. That is why the busy Bill Clinton found himself at Chobe for his short safari. Wildlife thrives among the swamps and grasslands that stretch along the flood plains of the Chobe River. Occupying 10,560 square kilometers, it is particularly renowned for the great concentration and sheer abundance of its elephants, estimated to number 80,000. The Chobe elephants are migratory and move along the Chobe River, their reliable redoubt in the dry season. African elephants are the largest among elephant species -and those at Chobe are the largest of them all. The population has gradually built up since the 1930's when wildlife in the area began to enjoy some sort of protection.
The infamous trade in ivory, particularly in the 1970's and 80's encouraged the decimation of elephant populations in other parts of Africa. But the elephants of Chobe - thank God - were spared contact with the dirty hands of poachers. Other animals to see here include some of the usual suspects on an African safari - lion, cheetah, hippo buffalo, giraffe, antelope, jackal, warthog, hyena, crocodile, zebra. The birdlife is also diverse. Cruising or driving along the Chobe River, you get the best view of the animals. The Savuti Marshes of Chobe are reputed to have the largest predator population density in southern Africa. The marshes have the textbook features that draw predators.
In a flat and hostile environment, they provide a place where wildebeest, buffalo, zebra and many species of antelope congregate for a drink. The predators - cheetahs, leopards, lions, wild dogs, hyenas, wild dogs, and jackals - naturally follow. Some predators such as lion tend to be rather lazy and the setting here is a gift. The usual entry point for Chobe is Kasane, which is located about 800km north of Gaborone. You get here by flying from Gaborone, Maun or Victoria Falls in neighboring Zimbabwe. Camps and lodges can be found throughout the park. The Okavango Delta, in the north west of Botswana is the largest inland delta in the world. Spreading over 15,000 square kilometers, it is formed as the flow of the Okavango River slows down and soaks into the sands.
That is why it is referred to as 'the river which never finds the sea'. The network of channels, ox bow lakes, lagoons, swamps and islands that arise is very pleasing to the eye. But that is not all of Okavangos' bounty. The delta is filled with wildlife - wildebeest, giraffe, hippo, elephant, zebra and buffalo have all found a home here. The birds too are plenty, more than 550 types, some of which live on the trees and others on the water. The best place to see wildlife in Okavango is within the spectacular Moremi Wildlife Reserve. The reserve lies in the center of the delta and occupies 3,000 square kilometres.
In Moremi you view game aboard a vehicle or by gliding on a makoro (dugout canoe) or other type of canoe. Accommodation is available in camps and lodges within the delta area. In Moremi itself, you can stay in tented campsites but no permanent camps or lodges are allowed. If you are interested culture, take a break at Chief's Island, the largest in the delta, and see ancient rock paintings. The painting were presumably executed by the artistically inclined fore bearers on the San people. The Okavango Delta should be avoided in summer, especially December to March, when most of the camps are closed down. At that time, it is very hot and humid- temperatures rise above 38°C, and thunderstorms unleash daily.
You enter Okavango through Maun - the deltas' principal town, by flying or taking a bus from Gaborone, 600 km away. Visitors to either Chobe or Okavango may wish to add on a visit to Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls is actually in Zimbabwe but is easily accessible from the northern part of Botswana. Victoria Falls is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world and one of Africa's prime attractions. Situated on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia, the falls occur where the steadily flowing Zambezi River, without warning, casually approaches and then suddenly plunges down a series of basalt gorges in a breathtaking display of several waterfalls.
Mist and thunder emanating from the falls can be witnessed from far off. The spray from the falls sustains the rain forest on the opposite wall of basalt and creates an almost constant rainbow visible even by the light of the moon. The falls are best seen from the air, thus activities such as helicopter flights, balloon rides and micro-lighting over the falls are a must do. Other exciting activities available are bungee jumping off the bridge - which also gives a spectacular view down the gorge, canoeing, white water rafting, river safaris, elephant back safaris and many more. Adventure seekers, who travel not merely to convenient places, may wish to check out the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans.
The shallow saltpans cover about 6,500 square kilometres and rank among the largest in the world. The atmosphere here is admittedly surreal, with shimmering mirages in a vast open terrain broken only by a few baobab trees. Bird watchers in particular will be intrigued at the unusual environment as they watch numerous flamingos and pelicans. The pans occupy the area between Francistown (410 km north east of Gaborone) and the Okavango Delta. There is plenty of wildlife, in the Makgadikgadi National Park, but not as much as Chobe- so this will not be your only reason for coming here. Botswana is the site of a unique wildlife conservation initiative in Southern Africa- the concept of cross border parks. The initiative is anchored on the common sense observation that wildlife does not recognise international borders.
Successful conservation efforts in an area bordering another country can be reduced to naught if the neighbouring countries do not collaborate. The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is a combination of two parks -the former Gemsbok National Park in Botswana and Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa. Covering over 36,000 sq km, Kgalagadi is one of the biggest wildlife conservation areas anywhere in the world. Botswana contributes about 75% of the park in the southern Kalahari Desert. The park is a unique conservation area for it allows the large-scale wildlife migratory movements that were once common in the savanna grasslands of Africa, but are sadly not possible any more.
The appeal of the harsh beauty of the Kalahari aside, scientists are extremely curious to find out the secret story of the flora and fauna that has adapted to what appears to be a very difficult environment. For ordinary folks, the park is host to the famous black-maned Kalahari lions. You will also see gemsbok, springbok, eland, blue wildebeest, cheetahs, wild dogs, jackals, bat-eared foxes and leopards. Birding is also excellent and of 297 species recorded, 96 are resident. It is difficult to get to Kgalagadi. From Gaborone, you drive for 860 km, of which 550 km is tarred and the rest gravel. Being a cross border park, you can also access it through South Africa.
The park has no permanent tented campsites and on safari you must bring in everything you need. The dry season, especially between April and October, is the best time to visit Botswana on safari. It is then easy to spot wildlife gathered near water sources. The rains come over the southern summer months of November to March. The roads are then difficult to use and with the abundance of water and pasture, the animals tend to scatter. Early morning and night temperatures in winter (May to August) can drop below freezing, especially in the southwest.
But the days are then cool to warm. The summer experiences high daytime temperatures of up to 38°C. The cloud cover, though, and the rains tend to cool things a little bit. Beware that August is very dry and dust and sand storms tends to rise from the west.
Remember to pack a pair of binoculars- they bring the animals closer without the usual risks. A pair of decent sunglasses is a good idea, especially if you travel to the Kalahari, where the glare can be somewhat unsettling. Also pack photographic and video equipment to record your safari for the sake of those of your unlucky friends who may not have been to Botswana. On safari, you are advised not to wear white or bright clothing to avoid exciting the animals. Light cottons and linens are adequate for summer. To survive winter mornings and evenings, you need warmer wraps and sweaters. Women should avoid wearing scanty beachwear in rural areas away from hotels and campsites to avoid offending locals.
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Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige & Kendrick Lamar To Perform At Super Bowl LVI
Sujeet Patel
While last year's Super Bowl Halftime Show with The Weeknd left a lot to be desired (and was the source of endless memes), this years show is shaping up to be pretty epic, with five musical icons uniting to perform for the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show!
The 2022 Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show will have Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar taking the world's biggest stage at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022.
This marks the first time these five multi-award-winning artists will perform together on stage, exciting music fans worldwide and holding a special significance for the greater LA community, as they host the Super Bowl for the first time in nearly 30 years. Collectively, these artists have been awarded 43 Grammys and have created 22 #1 Billboard albums.
Dr. Dre is widely credited with being one of the most influential figures in hip hop culture and a driving force behind its mass popularity. While all 5 artists have deeply influenced this genre of music, each brings a unique style to the world's biggest stage for what's sure to be 12 minutes of unforgettable greatness.
Marking the third year of this collaboration, Pepsi, the NFL and Roc Nation are excited to bring these genre defining artists together for a larger-than-life performance of hits from their deep collective catalog.
"The opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime show, and to do it in my own backyard, will be one of the biggest thrills of my career," said Dr. Dre. "I'm grateful to JAY-Z, Roc Nation, the NFL, and Pepsi as well as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar for joining me in what will be an unforgettable cultural moment."
"On February 13, 2022, at the Super Bowl LVI in Inglewood, CA, in the new SoFi Stadium, Dr. Dre, a musical visionary from Compton, Snoop Dogg, an icon from Long Beach and Kendrick Lamar, a young musical pioneer in his own right, also from Compton, will take center field for a performance of a lifetime, said Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter. "They will be joined by the lyrical genius, Eminem and the timeless Queen, Mary J. Blige. This is the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. This is history in the making."
"This year we are blowing the roof off the concept of collaboration," said Adam Harter, Senior Vice President of Media, Sports and Entertainment at PepsiCo. "Along with the NFL and Roc Nation, we continue to try and push the limits on what fans can expect during the most exciting 12 minutes in music; this year's superstar line-up is sure to deliver a mind-blowing performance."
"Artists like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were at the forefront of the West Coast hip hop revolution, so to be able to bring them back to LA, where it all began alongside Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will prove to be an epic, unforgettable celebration of the impact hip hop has today," said Todd Kaplan, VP of Marketing, Pepsi. "The Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show has become a landmark cultural moment, bringing about some of the most iconic performances over the years – from JLo and Shakira to Lady Gaga to The Weeknd – and we are thrilled to bring together such an incredible array of talented, record-breaking musicians to put on a performance for the ages."
Needless to say, this is one Super Bowl Halftime Show that you're not going to want to miss!
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Wolverine and Captain America stop playing nice.
Avengers vs. X-Men has proven to be a disappointment so far because it lacks substance or purpose. Characterization isn't a focus of the story. It's fallen on books like Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine and the X-Men to provide the in-depth characterization that drives the conflict. Meanwhile, the main series has chosen to gloss over most of the big battles so far, leaving that material to various tie-in books as well. So what exactly is left? Not much, and the main event continues to play out like a hollow shell of what could be a good story in issue #3.
Brian Michael Bendis and Jason Aaron have been the sole voices on the main series to date, and issue #3 marks Ed Brubaker's first time at bat. There's a continual consistency of voice and tone, but that actually winds up being a bad thing. Just as with Aaron's material in issue #2, there's really nothing about the script that screams "Brubaker!" Brubaker's voice feels crushed and diminished in order to fit the mold of a dull, empty blockbuster event. At least the pointless narrative captions from issue #2 are gone, but still the script lacks excitement and energy.
Issue #3 makes a surprisingly jarring transition from the last, as the X-Men have suddenly and quietly surrendered to the Avengers off panel. A quick allusion is made to Cyclops' letter seen in the most recent issue of Uncanny X-Men. So once again, if you want a complete and cohesive story out of this event, you won't be getting it from Avengers vs. X-Men alone.
One area issue #3 does succeed in is striving for a more intimate focus. Rather than bouncing between a dozen different fight scenes, Brubaker hinges his script mainly on the growing tension between Wolverine and Captain America. Placing Wolverine at the center of the conflict just as Civil War did for Spider-Man is a logical choice. Unfortunately, the quality of characterization just isn't up to snuff for most other players on the field. Both Cap and Cyclops are so extreme in their behavior and responses to threats that neither is sympathetic. For both, the most logical response to a dissenting voice seems to be a sucker punch. Maybe if the writing were better able to convey the desperation of the situation, these extreme personality shifts would be believable, but it doesn't. Considering how much Brubaker has driven the direction of Captain America over the last seven years, it's disappointing that he can't do more with the character here.
On a purely visceral level, this issue does manage to offer a fight scene that satisfies more than the brief, fractured snippets seen in issue #2. Wolverine and Captain America do finally come to blows, and the resulting pages are every bit as brutal and bloody as one would expect from a super-soldier and a furry scrapper. John Romita Jr.'s artwork makes a notable improvement form the last issue. Perhaps the smaller focus and relative lack of characters for most of the issue allowed him to focus more on finer details this time. And luckily, Romita still has Scott Hanna and Laura Martin backing him on inks and colors, respectively. Together, the trio ensure that at least issue #3 is a pleasure to look at, if not necessarily to read.
There's no question that Avengers vs. X-Men could be a good, solid event comic. The operative word being "could." It's continuously frustrating to see writers doing such great work in the tie-in books and delivering so little of that quality and content on the main series. Maybe somewhere in the multiverse there exists a bizarre Frankenstein's monster of an event that actually crams the nuanced character work, epic blockbuster action, and tight plotting we're seeing in these disparate books into one, cohesive whole.
Jesse has been a writer for IGN Comics since House of M was the big craze in the comic community. Follow Jesse on Twitter, or find him on IGN.


Happy Friday, everyone. It's time for Friday link-ups, including Six Word Summary, Book Beginnings hosted by Rose City Reader, and The Friday 56, hosted by Freda's Voice.
This week I'm reading Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde for book club (tomorrow).
Faustian portrait records man's evil debauchery.
Here's how Oscar Wilde begins his only novel.
The views of marriage in the Victorian era are interesting to me. The Importance of Being Earnest is one of my favorite plays (probably because it was the one I taught during my student teaching so many years ago), and it solidly demonstrates how ridiculous trying to find an ideal match that meets societal expectations is.
This line reminds me of Wilde's commentary from Earnest where Algernon suggests that proposing marriage sounds like business, not pleasure. And for Victorian women, it may have been. Victorian women were groomed to do housework and take interest in their husbands' interests. If a woman didn't conform to societal ideals, they would end up spouseless (read: useless). With that information, it makes sense that the Victorian woman would be "wonderfully practical" about marriage (and remind the men while they're at it).
Have you read The Picture of Dorian Gray? What did you think? What's your 56?
Thanks. I like continuity. In my brain, it makes the most sense and provides a little context for the 56.
I'm not sure why I haven't read this classic! I'm interested in the social mores of the past.
I would totally read this. LOVE Dorian Gray. Happy weekend!
It was fabulous. Very Victorian gothic, which is always fun.


During the past year, Euphonix has been working closely withSteinberg to allow System 5 consoles to act as control surfaces for theNuendo DAW. The Euphonix EuCon open protocol, initially designed toallow System 5 surface modules to control Euphonix's own DSP, isused for this high speed connectivity. The new PCI MADI card from RMEallows simple and inexpensive digital connectivity between PC audioworkstations and Euphonix's 768x768 StudioHub digital router,which can act as a facility digital audio patch system. StudioHub isnow available with a stand-alone PC application to patch hundreds ofconnections together.
This architecture will allow several multiple DAWs to be controlledfrom a System 5 for film-dubbing applications. The operator will beable to bring each individual track from any of the DAWs up on theSystem 5 control surface, as well as handle all audio patching betweensystems. Audio from the DAWs feeds into System 5's DSP Core viaRME MADI cards and the StudioHub router.
In development is the new Euphonix "MC" editorialcontroller, which gives users high-speed control of not only EuConaware applications such as Nuendo, but also any PC application viakeystroke commands programmed into the MC's LCD SmartSwitches.The MC's programmable buttons switch functions with eachdifferent application running on the host PC for excellent speed ofoperation. MC includes a 5.1 monitor section, twin trackballs, standardfull-size keyboard, eight programmable knobs, four full-throwtouch-sensitive moving faders and 56 programmable LCD SmartSwitches,together with a small touch screen for fast access to the unit'sprogrammable features. The MC will go into production in 2004.
For more, visit www.euphonix.com. For more product announcements,visit mixonline.com/products_new_products/index.htm.


When you sit down to think about the various decorating options for your home, you will have many to choose from depending on various prices and recommendations. Plantation shutters are a very good option if you do not want curtains to be installed for the windows. The good thing about these shutters is that they are pretty strong and long-lasting. They add style and grace because they are unique and do not easily get covered with dust.
If you succeed in choosing the right material, color, style and functioning of these plantation shutters, they will add elegance to the look of the window as well as the home. You need to very objective while choosing these shutters. Know what you exactly want and then search for them in the stores. Apart from providing an excellent look, the shutters provide extra privacy and keep your house cool by being a barrier for extreme sunrays entering the house.
Nothing can beat the fun of making one's own art on the wall. The concept of creatively decorating your own walls with wall art gives you an extra sense of satisfaction as you walk in to your apartment knowing that everything even the wall arts belong to you. You tend to get attached more to your room. You can search for cool arts on the wall and design them accordingly in case you are not allowed to paint on your walls.
You can also decorate your walls with textured wall arts. Wall painting is one of the better ways to decorate a room. It allows you to come up with various ideas as your creativity oozes out on the wall. But there are certain guidelines that you need to follow which includes the kind of paint you should use because any and every paint might not be suitable and after a point of time it may fade out.


It's funny how, when you are used to working twelve hours (without a break), a run of eight hour shifts feels like a holiday.
Eight hours, that's like a 9-5 work day, even if you do start at 6:30am.
I do like going home at 14:30.
Agreed, eight shouldn't feel like half of twelve, but it sure is in practice.
After just coming off a 2 week deployment for Hurricane Ike of 12+ hour days (including one 40 hour stretch), I can't agree more!
However, on that thinking, why does a day off only feel like 6hours??
well, u do a thankless job, get all hours shifts not a slid 9-5, crap pay for what u do, and get blamed for everything, look at this:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7629268.stmthey need to explain u don't wear blue and red lycra and have an S on your chests, you only appear to do!
I always thought that's why management is so in favour of internal rotation to night duty – after a run of 7 nights 12-hour shifts (without breaks) on ITU, I always used to regard day duty as a nice rest…..
Hi, I normally agree with your comments, but having come to this job 5 years ago, from a farm manager's 6 day a week, & on call just about all the time, for substantially less money, & even more substantially less holiday, I don't know what the fuss is about. 12 hour days, I love 'em, a little over 3 days a week on average & I've done my 37 1/2 hours. Never had so much free time in my life, & I've now GOT A LIFE after 30 years of struggling to do so.Apart from that, keep up the good work.


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I admit to being in two minds about this whole blogging thing. On the one hand, I am lazy and have a natural distrust of technology. On the other, I enjoy blathering on about my life as much as the next woman, and out in livejournal land my words will be read, my actions and thoughts immortalised (sort of). And I'll be doing what I love, i.e. writing. Except this isn't 'real' writing, the sort I can get paid for.
So, I'm in two minds. Or perhaps three. But now, thanks to the help of a highly trained geek (hullo Martin) who sets up websites for fun (a hobby I support, even if I don't understand it), I have a website with its own blog.
Time will tell how much I use it.


This large public university with 17,000 faculty and staff needed to eliminate the mass of paperwork and manual effort associated with premium billing for their retirees. Too much valuable time and effort was being spent on this activity with too little return on investment. In some cases, payments were more than two years past due and there was no process in place for collecting money that was owed.
Lifetime Benefit Solutions assumed management of the process using its premium billing system, which is a complete, web-based solution designed to assist employers in the billing and collection of health, life, dental, vision and other premiums. Lifetime Benefit Solutions issued a payment notification letter to all enrolled members with outstanding balances. Customer service calls were redirected to Lifetime Benefit Solutions to assist members with billing questions, discuss options for payment or terminate participation, if necessary. As part of this process, Lifetime Benefit Solutions reconciled all retiree billing as well.
Lifetime Benefit Solutions also assumed management of open enrollment responses and updates and assisted with the university's switch to a new carrier plan.


Short-recurrence Krylov subspace methods, such as conjugate gradient squared-type methods, often exhibit large oscillations in the residual norms, leading to a large residual gap and a loss of attainable accuracy for the approximate solutions. Residual smoothing is useful for obtaining smooth convergence for the residual norms, but it has been shown that this does not improve the maximum attainable accuracy in most cases. In the present study, we reformulate the smoothing scheme from a novel perspective. The smoothed sequences do not usually affect the primary sequences in conventional smoothing schemes. In contrast, we design a variant of residual smoothing in which the primary and smoothed sequences influence each other. This approach enables us to avoid the propagation of large rounding errors, and results in a smaller residual gap, and thus a higher attainable accuracy. We present a rounding error analysis and numerical experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed smoothing scheme.
The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their constructive comments and helpful suggestions. The first author is most grateful to Dr. Kuniyoshi Abe (Gifu Shotoku University) and Dr. Gerard L.G. Sleijpen (Utrecht University) for their guidance and invaluable discussions when the author was a Ph.D. student. The present study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K18064.


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package ro.antiprotv.radioclock;

import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

public class TipsDialog extends AlertDialog {
    public TipsDialog(Context context) {
        super(context);
        AtomicInteger tipPosition = new AtomicInteger(0);

        final String[] tips = context.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.tips);
        View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.dialog_main_help, null);
        setView(view);
        setTitle("Tips & Tricks");
        Button previous = view.findViewById(R.id.button_tips_previousTip);
        Button next = view.findViewById(R.id.button_tips_nextTip);
        Button ok = view.findViewById(R.id.button_tips_ok);
        TextView tip = view.findViewById(R.id.tipTxt);

        previous.setOnClickListener(v -> {
            int counter = tipPosition.getAndDecrement();
            if (counter == 0) {
                counter = tips.length-1;
                tipPosition.set(tips.length-1);
            } else {
                counter--;
            }

            tip.setText(tips[counter]);
        });

        next.setOnClickListener(v -> {
            int counter = tipPosition.getAndIncrement();
            if (counter == tips.length-1) {
                counter = 0;
                tipPosition.set(0);
            } else {
                counter++;
            }

            tip.setText(tips[counter]);
        });
        ok.setOnClickListener(v -> cancel());
    }

}

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How many years had the woman with the issue of blood been suffering with her problem, before Jesus healed her?
How many years has the woman with the issue of blood suffered for before she was healed by Jesus?
What did the woman with the issue of blood touch to be made well?
A brass serpent
The Ark of the Covenant
Jesus' garment
Water in Siloam
How long had the man at the pool of Bethesda been ill for, before Jesus healed him?
Now ____, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
This book of the Bible describes the story of a Moabite woman who married into a Jewish family. After her husband dies she returns to Bethlehem with her mother-in-law and takes care of her. Whilst gleaning in the fields she meets her second husband, and has a son whose name is Obed.
Aeneas was confined to bed for eight years suffering from the palsy, but which town did he dwell in?
Lydda
Who had been told by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ?
What was the name of the man who was paralysed and had been bedridden for eight years?
Achaicus
Aeneas was bedridden for ____ years before Peter came and healed him.
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Gov. Laura Kelly hailed adoption of law enforcement reform bills
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Gov. Laura Kelly celebrated signing of legislation Wednesday improving flow of information to victims of domestic violence about release from jail of the offenders and to restrain power of judges to reduce sentences of adults convicted of sex crimes against youth.
She also welcomed supporters of a new law instituting the first-in-the-nation task force to guide application of DNA evidence in criminal cases. In addition, she was joined by Kansans eager for implementation of stiffer penalties for involuntary manslaughter and abuse of a child when the victim was under six years of age.
Kelly said the domestic violence law resulted from the Oct. 6, 2018, slaying of Kristin Leigh Floria, a Wichita mother of six who was shot and killed by her estranged husband. The gunman, Randy Gile, had been charged with seven crimes, but was released from jail without notice to Floria. Gile ran Floria's vehicle off the road and shot and killed her before turning the gun on himself.
The new Kansas law mandates law enforcement officers notify domestic violence victims in advance of a perpetrator's release.
"This is a good step forward for victims," Kelly said. "The death of a child is, as a parent, what we fear most. It is especially tragic when their young lives are cut short due to violence."
Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said he was enthusiastic about the Legislature's support and Kelly's signature on a measure preventing state judges from lowering prison sentences for adult sex offenders because a victim younger than 14 years was classified by the court as an "aggressor" who in some manner contributed to the crime.
"It's good for the community to show we want to protect our kids," Thompson said at the Capitol.
The same statute, endorsed by Attorney General Derek Schmidt, made the departure factor unavailable to judges when human trafficking victims were involved regardless of their age.
A judge in Leavenworth County created a controversy by reducing the sentence imposed on a 67-year-old man who was convicted of committing a sex crime against a 13-year-old girl.
Sen. David Haley, D-Kansas City, said he was pleased the governor signed a bill creating the state's closed case task force. The legislation introduced by Haley would improve DNA usage to accurately identify criminals or exonerate the innocent.
"Under current law, DNA results are not matched with closed cases," Haley said. "This will allow for those who are innocent and incarcerated to be freed and those who actually committed the crime to be caught."


In addition to the fuel tax referendums in California and Missouri that earned a place on each state's early-November mid-term election ballots, Colorado and Washington also had energy-related ballot initiatives that voters entertained. The core price drivers of supply & demand, geopolitics, and global economics continue to earn the lion's share of the Breakthrough Applied Knowledge team's attention when analyzing fuel market trends, however the energy-focused proposals in Washington and Colorado were a perfect example of hidden price drivers historically unaccounted for by shippers not leveraging the Breakthrough Advantage. Regulatory intervention often plays a silent role in upstream and downstream energy dynamics that later impacts the cost of fuel, reinforcing the value of transparency that Breakthrough provides to our clients' transportation fuel spend.
Check out our blog to read more about Colorado's anti-fracking measure.
In the wake of November's midterm elections where powers in the house and the senate were turned, and of the Trump Administration's recent dismantling of federal climate policies, climate responsibility has been diverted to the state level. States now have an opportunity to promote clean-energy initiatives of their own and to better align the US with other countries who are actively developing climate conscious policies.
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El municipio de Arthur (en inglés: Arthur Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Clare en el estado estadounidense de Míchigan. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 647 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 6,9 personas por km².

Geografía
El municipio de Arthur se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 93.78 km², de la cual 93,3 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0,51 %) 0,48 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 647 personas residiendo en el municipio de Arthur. La densidad de población era de 6,9 hab./km². De los 647 habitantes, el municipio de Arthur estaba compuesto por el 99,07 % blancos, el 0,46 % eran afroamericanos, el 0,31 % eran de otras razas y el 0,15 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 0,31 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Municipios de Míchigan
Localidades del condado de Clare (Míchigan)

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Q: Create a Tensor from std::vector values I'm doing a DQN training with dynamic batch size. I have two pass:
First pass:
Several subsequent forward propagations of the DNN with different samples until some specific event occurs. During this step I save all inputs (which are one-dimensional Tensors) for replay in the second pass. Because with C++ I cannot create a Tensor with a dynamic shape, I store them as a std::vector of the one-dimensional tensors.
Second pass:
Compute the expected output and use the same DNN to perform forward propagation plus back propagation. This time I use two-dimensional tensor as input, to compute all samples in one run.
The question is how do I most efficiently create this two-dimensional input Tensor from the vector of one-dimensional Tensors? Or am I doing it all wrong?

A: You can define a tensor from a vector of vectors! define a vector and each element of that vector is also a vector.
for example:
 vector<int> tensor(i,vector<int> (j)); //the size is i*j where i and j are integers

for accessing the element of ij you can access it in this way:
tensor[i][j]

The size of this tensor is dynamic since the size of a vector is dynamic

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Stinson's Movie Corner: 21 Jump Street
by SC Student Media March 29, 2012 December 4, 2018
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Tyler Stinson
In an era of comedy movies dominated by flashy, outrageous parties, wild nights and over-the-top stunts, it is refreshing to have a film that goes back to traditional comedy roots and succeed. 21 Jump Street, set up like a stereotypical buddy, cop routine, features Jonah Hill (Schmidt) and Channing Tatum (Jenko) playing screwed-up police officers who are sent back to high school undercover in order to save their jobs.
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Tyler Stinson may be reached at tstinson@springfieldcollege.edu
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Faneuil Hall Market, east view.
Wagstoff, Charles E. Edward, engraver.
Title Faneuil Hall Market, east view.
Publishing details Boston : Published by C.C. Little & J. Brown.
Physical Description 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image 11.8 x 18.1 cm., sheet 20.4 x 24.2 cm.
Summary Quincy Market in the foreground with Faneuil Hall behind it and a good view of Market Square. Detached from Municipal History of Boston by Josiah Quincy, Boston, 1852, frontispiece.


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Abandoned Pit Bull Left Behind By Her Family Now Has The Best Life	Four Kittens Are Trapped In A Fire, Family Dog Risks His Life To Save Them
Three Senior Dogs Have Been Together Their Whole Lives But Now They Need A New Home
by pawbuzz on June 6, 2018 in Dogs 0
Giving your dog up for adoption is one of the most painful things you can do. But as the owners of these dogs were getting older, they were finding it more difficult to take care of themselves and their three senior dogs.
So they decided the best thing to do was to surrender the dogs to a shelter who could help find a new home for them.
Meet Winnie, Lucy, and Mitzy – three sweet Terrier sisters aged 11, 10 and 9 years old. They've been together their whole life. Now, in the later stages of their lives, they find themselves at the RSPCA in Martlesham, England, waiting for someone to adopt them and find them a new home.
But senior dogs don't get adopted very easily, let alone THREE senior dogs. Just ask Zoe Barrett, the deputy manager of the RSPCA'S Martlesham branch. "We know it will be difficult to find a home prepared to take on all three elderly dogs – but we don't have the heart to separate them," she told the East Anglian Times
Even in their old age the dogs love to play and goof around. Winnie is the naughtiest of the lot, while Lucy and Mitzy love following each other around. Who could deny these sweet dogs a home?
We really hope these three dogs find a forever home soon and get to live out the rest of their lives having fun together.
Check out the video below to learn more about their story!
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Lump the dachshund is content living with David in Italy. But he needs a vacation from Big Dog, who hounds him day and night. So when David announces that he's off to the south of France to photograph a famous painter, Lump positively scrambles at the chance to ride along. At the villa, Pablo Picasso greets them and is enchanted with the little dog he calls Lumpito. The feeling is mutual; from that moment on, the two become soul mates. Lump loves David. But how can he show his master, and Picasso, that he is home at last?
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Following a successful 2018 season for the club, our annual Presentation dinner was held at Antonio's Bar & Restaurant. The event saw a great turn-out, some wonderful food, and some worthy trophy winners.


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Priyanka Chopra Speaks On Girl Empowerment at the UN General Assembly
by Sheree Smith
I feel that women need to have a voice. That's the basic right of the women, and that's global. When a woman says something, she shouldn't be judged or silenced because she's a woman… For centuries, women have always been told to be a certain way or behave a certain way, and it's time women decide what they want themselves individually.
Priyanka Chopra, via Cosmopolitan
One day as I was scrolling through Netflix looking for a new series to watch, I came across the ABC drama series Quantico. This show in particular caught my eye because the main character is an FBI agent played by Indian actress Priyanka Chopra. Chopra plays Alex Parrish, a resilient and determined FBI trainee who is intrinsically driven by a desire for justice. I started watching the show in part because, as a woman myself, it inspires me to see women play such a strong role. I was very pleased to find out after some research that Priyanka is just as much a spokesperson for women empowerment off screen as she is onscreen.
This Bollywood actress, singer, and Miss World pageant winner is also a major influencer in global women empowerment through her 12 years in UNICEF and as a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Chopra has been passionate for children's rights and ending sexual violence against girls. She has traveled to places such as India, Jordan, and Syria where she witnessed firsthand the effectiveness of empowering young girls through changing their mindset. She speaks for the children who grow up surrounded by war and refugee crisis so that they can have the futures they dream of.
It is inspiring to see Chopra use her public image as leverage to address these important issues in the world. It makes me think that growing up privileged in the affluent Silicon Valley, I can do something too. And it is that empowerment that can make us all a catalyst for change.
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Home Michael Politte case: How did a teen sleepover in Missouri turn into a murder investigation?
Michael Politte case: How did a teen sleepover in Missouri turn into a murder investigation?
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When Josh SanSoucie went for a sleepover at a friend's house back in 1998 at the age of 15, he had no idea he would land in the middle of a murder investigation. More than 20 years later, Josh, now 39 years old, is giving his first TV interview to "48 Hours" about that night in Hopewell, Missouri that changed his life forever and landed his friend in prison.
"48 Hours'" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports on the case in "The Case Against Michael Politte."
In the early hours of Dec. 5, 1998, Michael Politte, then 14, says he found his mother's body lying on her bedroom floor on fire.
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The story begins on Dec. 4, 1998, when Josh SanSoucie and his schoolmate, then-14-year-old Michael Politte, met up at a general store in the small town of Hopewell, Missouri, where they lived. Michael invited Josh to sleep over and the pair headed to Michael's house to play chess and video games. When they got bored around midnight, they say they headed down to the railroad tracks near Michael's house and Michael set a fire, something Michael says the kids in his rural neighborhood often did for fun. It wasn't long before the boys say they returned to Michael's house. Soon after, Michael's mom, 40-year-old Rita Politte, returned home from working at a local bar and everyone turned in for bed. Michael and Josh say that just before 6:30 a.m., they awoke to a smoke-filled house. The pair say they crawled towards the front door, while Michael yelled for his mom. He didn't get a reply.
"Michael, what are you feeling at this point?" asked Moriarty.
"Panic, fear," Michael replied.
When Michael approached his mother's room, he says he was met with a grisly sight: "I seen her laying. … I seen blood on her legs, and she was on fire from the waist up. … I didn't know what to do."
Rita Politte, 40, was bludgeoned and set on fire — all while her son and a friend said they were sleeping a couple of rooms away.
Politte family
Rita Politte had been brutally murdered — bludgeoned and set on fire — all while the two teens said they were sleeping a couple of rooms away. Both Josh and Michael were questioned by authorities repeatedly in the hours and days following the murder. They both denied any involvement, but two days after the crime, Michael was arrested for his mother's murder. Investigators said Michael Politte showed a lack of emotion in the wake of the crime. They also said an accelerant sniffing dog alerted to Michael's shoes on the morning of the murder, and that he failed a voice stress test. Voice stress tests are controversial, and the results are often inadmissible in court.
Also, prior to Michael Politte's arrest, Josh SanSoucie gave a videotaped interview to police that seemed to poke a hole in Michael's account of the evening. Josh had slept on the floor next to where Michael had been sleeping in his bed. In that videotaped interview, Josh indicated that he woke up to a noise in the middle of the night, and Michael wasn't in the room.
"I don't remember ever saying that," Josh SanSoucie told "48 Hours" in his first television interview since then. "And I feel like if I said that, then it was maybe at a weak point or something."
Josh now says that although he did wake up briefly in the night, he never saw Michael missing from the room. He told "48 Hours" that the police questioning was so relentless that he remembers telling his mom at the time, "They keep saying that I'm lying. I don't even know if I'm telling the truth anymore."
In a deposition before Michael went on trial, Josh did clarify his statement. Josh said that he never sat up from where he was sleeping on the floor and that, "It's not that I did not see him in his bed. It's I couldn't see him in his bed."
Michael Politte's fight for freedom
In January 2002, three years after the crime, Michael Politte's trial began. The prosecution presented evidence that an accelerant had been used to set Rita Politte on fire and the jury was told how an accelerant had been detected on Michael's shoes. The jury also heard about that fire Michael had set on the railroad tracks prior to the murder.
But perhaps the most damaging evidence against Michael at trial was the prosecution's claim that Michael had confessed to the crime during a suicide attempt while incarcerated. Three witnesses who worked at the juvenile detention center wrote in reports that Michael said, "I haven't cared since … I killed my mom." But Michael maintains he said, "I haven't cared since they killed my mom," alluding to whoever the real killer(s) might be. The jury did not hear from Michael, however, because when it was the defense's turn to present their case, he didn't take the stand. Instead, the defense argued there was no direct evidence tying Michael to the crime: no murder weapon had been found and, despite the violence of the attack, Michael had no injuries and no blood on his clothing.
Josh SanSoucie did not testify, and the jury never heard or saw his videotaped interview with police.
After a three-day trial, the case went to the jury. Deliberations lasted over four hours and then the jury found Michael Politte guilty of second-degree murder. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
Although the trial was over, Michael Politte's fight to clear his name wasn't. Five years after his conviction, Michael wrote to the Midwest Innocence Project, and they agreed to take on his case. The organization worked on it for years and, eventually, attorneys Tricia Bushnell, Megan Crane and Mark Emison became involved.
Michael Politte's new team of defense attorneys picked apart the case against him.
"Mike was convicted because he was a kid, pure and simple," Megan Crane told "48 Hours." "They said … he wasn't emotional enough. … Trauma doesn't look like what people think it should look like."
"48 Hours": The case against Michael Politte
Michael's new attorneys also identified what they say are problems with the scientific evidence used to convict Michael, starting with the prosecution's claim that an accelerant was used to set Rita on fire. They say there is no proof an accelerant was used in the commission of the crime.
The attorneys also say that there is no proof of an accelerant being present on Michael's shoes. Instead, attorney Mark Emison says a chemical used in the shoe manufacturing process was wrongly identified as gasoline and even the Missouri state crime lab agrees. In a 2020 letter, the crime lab says, "… it is now known that solvents found in footwear adhesives have similarities to gasoline. … But that in the late 1990s, this knowledge was not widely known."
Michael Politte claims he knows who is really responsible for his mother's murder. His attorneys believe police didn't properly investigate the crime, and they have filed court documents that name alternative suspects.
In April 2022, after serving 23 years behind bars, Michael Politte walked out of prison. Incarcerated at just 14-years-old, he was now 38.
For years, Michael's team of lawyers fought unsuccessfully to get his conviction overturned but then in 2021, there came an unexpected development. A bill passed in Missouri giving juvenile offenders convicted of serious crimes a second chance. As a result, Michael was granted parole. In April 2022, he walked out of a Missouri state prison. Incarcerated at just 14-years-old, he was now 38. But Michael tells Moriarty in this week's "48 Hours" that his freedom is not enough because he still has a felony conviction for his mother's murder on his record. He remains committed to clearing his name and is hopeful.
Josh Hedgecorth, the current prosecutor of Washington County, Missouri, where the murder took place, filed a motion on May 16, 2022, asking for Michael's conviction to be overturned. Hedgecorth agrees with Michael's defense team that the scientific evidence used to convict Michael is problematic.
"To me, it all — always comes back to the science," says Hedgecorth.
Hedgecorth has revealed to "48 Hours" that the Washington County Sheriff's Department has reopened the investigation into Rita's murder.
"We wanna do the right thing. If someone else did this, we wanna know that," Hedgecorth tells Moriarty. "Even if it's new evidence that it was Michael."
Despite Michael's optimism that his name will eventually be cleared, his case just got more complicated. Earlier this month, Hedgecorth lost his bid for reelection. And just this week, the Missouri Supreme Court temporarily halted Hedgecorth's effort to overturn Politte's conviction.
Josh SanSoucie says he feels badly for Michael and his family. Thoughts of "what if" have haunted Josh for all of these years. The night of the sleepover, Michael had asked Josh if he would rather sleep on the couch in the living room, or in Michael's bedroom on the floor.
"Is there anything you would have done differently when you look back?" Moriarty asks.
"I wish I … slept on the couch," Josh replies.
If an intruder came in through the front door, they would have had to pass by the couch to enter Rita's room. If that is what happened, Josh believes that person may have seen him and left. "You think if you had slept on that couch, Rita would still be alive?" Moriarty asks. Josh replies that he does.
Michael told "48 Hours" that he wants Josh to know that he feels that Josh didn't do anything wrong. The pair haven't seen each other since they were kids, but they hope to reunite one day. "He didn't do it," Josh told Moriarty. "I don't know who did, but I know it wasn't him."
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