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package me.tomassetti.turin.compiler;

import me.tomassetti.jvm.JvmType;
import me.tomassetti.turin.parser.ast.Node;
import me.tomassetti.turin.parser.ast.expressions.ActualParam;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * A call is ambiguous: we are not able to differentiate between various overloaded methods to invoke.
 */
public class AmbiguousCallException extends RuntimeException {

    private Node context;
    private String name;
    private List<JvmType> actualParamTypes;
    private List<ActualParam> actualParams;

    public AmbiguousCallException(Node context, List<ActualParam> actualParams, String name) {
        this.context = context;
        this.actualParams = actualParams;
        this.name = name;
    }

    public AmbiguousCallException(Node context, String name, List<JvmType> actualParamTypes) {
        this.context = context;
        this.name = name;
        this.actualParamTypes = actualParamTypes;
    }

    public Node getContext() {
        return context;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public List<JvmType> getActualParamTypes() {
        return actualParamTypes;
    }

    public List<ActualParam> getActualParams() {
        return actualParams;
    }

}

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Does one need an International Driver's Permit plus one's driver's license from one's home country to drive in Qatar?
BTW, I have an Australian driver's license. I'll be arriving on a multi-entry business visa and will apply for a resident's permit once I finally arrive in Doha.
By Murshid ahmed• 1 year 1 month ago.
By sphinx97• 1 year 10 months ago.
If you have your International Drivers License be sure to bring your Australian Drivers License when you arrived and drive in Qatar, you can use IDL until you have your Resident Permit in qatar. You can take your Qatar license only if you have issued Resident Permit in Qatar. And if you want to drive and rent a car better to use your IDL and copy of your passport when you arrived in Qatar.
By jajsr• 2 years 10 months ago.
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By Rochester• 12 years 2 months ago.
By Loki• 13 years 2 weeks ago.
Moomin, I am late to this but I would recommend you get an international drivers licence in Aus - you can drive on that for 6 months, and immediately, without the hassle of getting a temporary licence (you just need to carry your passport as well as the int'l licence when you are driving).
You can drive on your Aus licence as well, but only for 7 days.
By Helloqatar• 13 years 2 weeks ago.
Land line phone is 2 weeks till whenever they decide. Just depends on area, staffing, how loud you complain, etc. Internet (DSL) is another 2 weeks to 6 weeks after the landline.
Hala mobile is walk up and pay your money and you got it.
By Safwany• 13 years 2 weeks ago.
It take no time to get a cellphone line but it might take a week or more to get a telephone line.
By harish• 13 years 2 weeks ago.
Could anyone pls tell me how much time it may take to get Telephone or Cellphone connection. Hopefully look for responses.
By moomin• 13 years 2 weeks ago.
Temp Lic cost money that is not applied against the real Lic, International Lic will do same thing and work other places for less money.
By dweller• 13 years 2 weeks ago.
If you drive on your home licence, you may need to carry your passport with you.
I believe that temporary licences are available from traffic department and (I think) are valid for 3 months.
I think you can drive a rental car for 30 days on the lic from your home country. I would recommend an International Permit also, as it sounds like the new RP requirements will take longer than a month to complete. You can't get a Qatar Driver Lic until you have an RP. You can drive on the Interneational for 6 months or more.


Blue-jays seem to be the dominant birds in my neighborhood. Their presence are always known by the loud noises they made, and if I forgot to put out the seeds, they would let me know that too.
Robins and mourning doves are the other birds around here. They are my backyard companions and keep me quite entertain while I do some cleaning up in the yard.
I have the same backyard birds. They keep me company as well, and provide many hours of pleasure as I watch them from inside.
How very lovely. We can hear the birds but it is still very cold!
An excellent idea to display the birds. Love your photos!
Really like the way you have displayed those great photos.


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Q: git remote rejected - local repositories If I have directory1 which contains a selection of files and which is under git control, and I run ..
git clone -l $HOME/directory1 directory2

I now have a copy of directory1 in my cwd.
If I then edit a file in directory2, add it to staging and commit it, I cannot push it to directory1 as I get the error..
remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master

I don't understand this, as the remote branch (directory1) is up-to-date and I did not alter it between cloning it to directory2 and trying to push it back to directory1.
EDIT: if I run git status inside  directory2, it says 'your branch is ahead of origin/master by 1 commit'.
I still don't get it.

A: The error you're seeing is because the repository in directory1 contains a working copy where master is the currently checked out branch.
At this point, you have two choices:

*

*Turn the repo in directory1 into a bare repository (i.e. a repository without a working copy)

*Tell Git to update the working copy in directory1 when you push from directory2 by setting the receive.denyCurrentBranch option to updateInstead:
cd directory1
git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead

You can read more about this option in the documentation:

If set to true or refuse, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD out of sync with the index and working tree.

refuse is the default value, hence the error when you push. Regarding the updateInstead value:

Another option is updateInstead which will update the working tree if pushing into the current branch.

If your goal is to keep directory1 and directory2 in sync, I'd say this is the preferable alternative. However, keep in mind that:

By default, updateInstead will refuse the push if the working tree or the index have any difference from the HEAD.

Which means that if you have uncommitted changes in directory1, a push from directory2 will fail since it would overwrite whatever is in the index and the working copy.

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Swedish Industrial Design agency People People has produced a concept bike which is a sleeker version of a Swedish classic.
'Spiran' is an update on the Kronan – which in turn was "designed like the traditional Swedish military bikes". The Spiran puts a city-spin on the design which is sleeker, takes inspiration from old Swedish delivery bikes and includes an integrated bike lock.
Damning carrying bike locks on bars or over the shoulder as 'clumsy', the design agency instead has the integrated bike lock fold out from the front basket, locking the bike in the front wheel or around a lamp post, fence or similar.
There are no plans to put the bike into production as yet. There are plenty more details at People People's site.


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McGraw Hill Connect BUS 530 Finance Week 2, full homework, 25 problems with fully worked solutions, work shown. Text: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Brealy, 7th edition
You have set up your tax preparation firm as an incorporated business. You took $77,500 from the firm as your salary. The firm's taxable income for the year (net of your salary) was $15,000. Assume you pay personal taxes as an unmarried taxpayer. Use the tax rates presented in Table 3-5 and Table 3-7.
a. How much taxes must be paid to the federal government, including both your personal taxes and the firm's taxes?
By how much will you reduce the total tax bill by reducing your salary to $57,500, thereby leaving the firm with taxable income of $35,000?
The year-end 2010 balance sheet of Brandex Inc. listed common stock and other paid-in capital at $2,600,000 and retained earnings at $4,900,000. The next year, retained earnings were listed at $5,200,000. The firm's net income in 2011 was $1,050,000. There were no stock repurchases during the year. What were the dividends paid by the firm in 2011?
Construct a balance sheet for Sophie's Sofas given the following data. (Be sure to list the assets and liabilities in order of their liquidity.)
Cash balances = $ 5,000
Inventory of sofas = $ 150,000
Store and property = $ 50,000
Accounts receivable = $ 17,000
Accounts payable = $ 12,000
Long-term debt = $ 120,000
The founder of Alchemy Products, Inc., discovered a way to turn lead into gold and patented this new technology. He then formed a corporation and invested $100,000 in setting up a production plant. He believes that he could sell his patent for $24 million.
a. What are the book value and market value of the firm? (Enter your answers in dollars not in millions.)
b. If there are 1 million shares of stock in the new corporation, what would be the price per share and the book value per share? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Sheryl's Shipping had sales last year of $13,500. The cost of goods sold was $7,200, general and administrative expenses were $1,700, interest expenses were $1,200, and depreciation was $1,700. The firm's tax rate is 30%.
a.What are earnings before interest and taxes?b. what is net income? c. What is cash flows from operations?
Ponzi Products produced 118 chain letter kits this quarter, resulting in a total cash outlay of $10 per unit. It will sell 59 of the kits next quarter at a price of $11, and the other 59 kits in two quarters at a price of $12. It takes a full quarter for it to collect its bills from its customers. (Ignore possible sales in earlier or later quarters and assume all positive cash flow is distributed as expenses or earnings to shareholders.)
a. Prepare an income statement for Ponzi for today and for each of the next three quarters. Ignore taxes. (Leave no cells blank – be certain to enter "0" wherever required.)
What are the cash flows for the company today and in each of the next three quarters?
What is Ponzi's net working capital in each quarter?
During the last year of operations, accounts receivable increased by $10,900, accounts payable increased by $5,900, and inventories decreased by $2,900. What is the total impact of these changes on the difference between profits and cash flow?
b. What would happen to net income and cash flow if depreciation were increased by $2.30 million? (Input all amounts as positive values. Enter your answers in millions rounded to 2 decimal places.)
Butterfly Tractors had $20.50 million in sales last year. Cost of goods sold was $9.30 million, depreciation expense was $3.30 million, interest payment on outstanding debt was $2.30 million, and the firm's tax rate was 30%.
a. What was the firm's net income and net cash flow? (Enter your answers in millions rounded to 2 decimal places.)
d. What would be the impact on net income and cash flow if the firm's interest expense were $2.30 million higher. (Input all amounts as positive values. Enter your answers in millions rounded to 2 decimal places.)
Candy Canes, Inc., spends $235,000 to buy sugar and peppermint in April. It produces its candy and sells it to distributors in May for $300,000, but it does not receive payment until June. For each month, find the firm's sales, net income, and net cash flow
The table below contains data on Fincorp, Inc., the balance sheet items correspond to values at year-end of 2010 and 2011, while the income statement items correspond to revenues or expenses during the year ending in either 2010 or 2011. All values are in thousands of dollars.
Revenue $4,700 $4,800
Cost of goods sold 1,950 2,050
Depreciation 570 590
Inventories 335 420
Administrative expenses 570 620
Interest expense 220 220
Federal and state taxes* 470 490
Accounts payable 335 420
Accounts receivable 442 520
Net fixed assets† 5,700 6,570
Long-term debt 2,700 3,100
Notes payable 1,035 670
Dividends paid 550 550
Cash and marketable securities 870 370
* Taxes are paid in their entirety in the year that the tax obligation is incurred.
† Net fixed assets are fixed assets net of accumulated depreciation since the asset was installed.
Suppose that Fincorp has 500,000 shares outstanding. What were earnings per share? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
What was the firm's average tax bracket for each year? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Here are simplified financial statements of Phone Corporation from a recent year:
(Figures in millions of dollars)
Net sales 13,300
Cost of goods sold 4,160
Other expenses 4,087
Depreciation 2,578
Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) 2,475
Interest expense 695
Income before tax 1,780
Taxes (at 30%) 534
Net income 1,246
Dividends 876
End of Year Start of Year
Cash and marketable securities 91 160
Receivables 2,482 2,530
Other current assets 877 942
Total current assets 3,647 3,880
Net property, plant, and equipment 19,993 19,935
Other long-term assets 4,236 3,790
Total assets 27,876 27,605
Payables 2,584 3,060
Short-term debt 1,429 1,583
Other current liabilities 821 797
Total current liabilities 4,834 5,440
Long-term debt and leases 6,520 6,475
Other long-term liabilities 6,198 6,169
Shareholders' equity 10,324 9,521
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity 27,876 27,605
Calculate the following financial ratios: (Use 365 days in a year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
a. Long-term debt ratio [removed]
b. Total debt ratio [removed]
c. Times interest earned [removed]
d. Cash coverage ratio [removed]
e. Current ratio [removed]
f. Quick ratio [removed]
g. Operating profit margin [removed] %
h. Inventory turnover [removed]
i. Days in inventory [removed] days
j. Average collection period [removed] days
k. Return on equity [removed] %*
l. Return on assets [removed] %
m. Return on capital [removed] %**
n. Payout ratio [removed]
* – use average equity
** – use average capital
Shareholders' equity 8,524 8,321
Phone Corp.'s stock price was $80 at the end of the year. There were 201 million shares outstanding.
a. What was the company's market capitalization and market value added? (Enter your answers in billions rounded to 2 decimal places.)
b. What was its market-to-book ratio? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Phone Corp.'s cost of capital was 7.4%.
What was Phone Corp.'s economic value added? (Enter your answer in millions rounded to 2 decimal places.)
Consider the following information:
Chili's Bagwell Company
Return on equity (ROE) 14.40% 9.30%
Plowback ratio 0.37 0.72
Sustainable growth 5.90% 7.10%
a. What would the sustainable growth rate be if Davis Chili's plowback ratio rose to the same value as Bagwell Company? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
b. What would the sustainable growth rate be if Davis Chili's return on equity were only 13.4%? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Chik's Chickens has average accounts receivable of $6,983. Sales for the year were $10,500. What is its average collection period? (Use 365 days in a year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Salad Daze maintains an inventory of produce worth $590. Its total bill for produce over the course of the year was $83,000. How old on average is the lettuce it serves its customers? (Use 365 days in a year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Assume a firm's inventory level of $13,000 represents 36 days' sales. What is the inventory turnover ratio? (Use 365 days in a year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Lever Age pays a(n) 9% rate of interest on $10.1 million of outstanding debt with face value $10.1 million. The firm's EBIT was $1.1 million.
a. What is times interest earned? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
b. If depreciation is $210,000, what is cash coverage? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
c. If the firm must retire $310,000 of debt for the sinking fund each year, what is its "fixed-payment cash-coverage ratio" (the ratio of cash flow to interest plus other fixed debt payments)? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Keller Cosmetics maintains an operating profit margin of 5.8% and asset turnover ratio of 3.8.
a. What is its ROA? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
b. If its debt-equity ratio is 1, its interest payments and taxes are each $8,800, and EBIT is $20,800, what is its ROE? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Torrid Romance Publishers has total receivables of $3,120, which represents 20 days' sales. Total assets are $94,900. The firm's operating profit margin is 5.5%. Find the firm's asset turnover ratio and ROA. (Use 365 days in a year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
A firm has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.63 and a market-to-book ratio of 3.0. What is the ratio of the book value of debt to the market value of equity? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
In the past year, TVG had revenues of $2.90 million, cost of goods sold of $2.40 million, and depreciation expense of $110,000. The firm has a single issue of debt outstanding with book value of $1.20 million on which it pays an interest rate of 10%. What is the firm's times interest earned ratio? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
A firm has a long-term debt-equity ratio of 0.5. Shareholders' equity is $1.07 million. Current assets are $256,500, and the current ratio is 1.9. The only current liabilities are notes payable. What is the total debt ratio? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
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Xin chào! [hello!]. I am Sarah Kuhlemann, founder of HUB HOI AN Coworking Space. I started traveling the world as a digital nomad, I was exposed to the beauty and power of collaborative coworking spaces. I decided to create a space where beautiful minds get together and share their uniqueness.
The energy within these communities is what kept this dream going until I could turn it into a reality in April 2017. Come and join our growing community here in Hoi An. We welcome you and we are sure you will meet like-minded people and make new friends. See you!
Hub Hoi An is the first tropical coworking space in Vietnam offering a professional work environment for remote workers, digital nomads, local entrepreneurs and vagabonding freelancers. We are a community of inspiring, creative and brave self-employed travellers enjoying the beauty of Vietnam's central coast, the local Vietnamese community and its rich cultural heritage. Hub Hoi An hosts events, workshops, open talks, networking dinners, excursions, daily community lunches and social meetups.
The space offers a newly built airconditioned glass house with 360° garden view, an airconditioned quiet room and an airconditioned meeting room with white board and projector. In our lush tropical garden is enough space to find your own little nook either at a your own single desk, at one of our shared desks, at the standing table or in our chilled hammock. Members have access to laptop stands, keyboards, mice, extension cables and office supplies. We also rent out 2 monitors for those who like to work with dual screens.
Our vintage Barista machine offers freshly brewed Italian style Latte, Cappuccino, Americano and Espresso. Hot or on ice. Fresh and healthy snack options are available during the day. We host daily community lunches at 1pm, serving local fresh and seasonal dishes. Our Vietnamese and French chefs will surprise you with their local and fusion cuisine that changes every day between a Vietnamese and a French dish. Every morning we show our creativity in our daily sugar-free smoothies and prepare something sweet for your afternoon.
After a day of working, chatting and networking, there is always time to enjoy an evening in one of An Bang's beach bars, listening to live music or indulging yourself in one of Hoi An's great restaurants. Hoi An offers a great variety of accommodation, check out our Coliving corner with our partnering homestays near the Hub or near the beach.
Hub Hoi An is your spot in Vietnam to meet like-minded individuals, exchanging skills, supporting each other and enjoying the location independent lifestyle in our lush green beach paradise.
Xin chào! [hello!]. I am Sarah Kuhlemann, founder of HUB HOI AN Coworking Space.
I started traveling the world as a digital nomad, I was exposed to the beauty and power of collaborative coworking spaces.
I decided to create a space where beautiful minds get together and share their uniqueness.
The energy within these communities is what kept this dream going until I could turn it into a reality in April 2017.
Come and join our growing community here in Hoi An. We welcome you and we are sure you will meet like-minded people and make new friends. See you!
Hub Hoi An is the first tropical coworking space in Vietnam offering a professional work environment for remote workers, digital nomads, local entrepreneurs and vagabonding freelancers.
We are a community of inspiring, creative and brave self-employed travellers enjoying the beauty of Vietnam's central coast, the local Vietnamese community and its rich cultural heritage.
Hub Hoi An hosts events, workshops, open talks, networking dinners, excursions, daily community lunches and social meetups.
The space offers a newly built airconditioned glass house with 360° garden view, an airconditioned quiet room and an airconditioned meeting room with white board and projector.
In our lush tropical garden is enough space to find your own little nook either at a your own single desk, at one of our shared desks, at the standing table or in our chilled hammock.
Members have access to laptop stands, keyboards, mice, extension cables and office supplies.
We also rent out 2 monitors for those who like to work with dual screens.
Our vintage Barista machine offers freshly brewed Italian style Latte, Cappuccino, Americano and Espresso. Hot or on ice. Fresh and healthy snack options are available during the day.
We host daily community lunches at 1pm, serving local fresh and seasonal dishes. Our Vietnamese and French chefs will surprise you with their local and fusion cuisine that changes every day between a Vietnamese and a French dish.
Every morning we show our creativity in our daily sugar-free smoothies and prepare something sweet for your afternoon.
After a day of working, chatting and networking, there is always time to enjoy an evening in one of An Bang's beach bars, listening to live music or indulging yourself in one of Hoi An's great restaurants.
Hoi An offers a great variety of accommodation, check out our Coliving corner with our partnering homestays near the Hub or near the beach.
We create the most supportive, inspiring and productive coworking & community in Vietnam.
We are a Startup looking for an office to rent – is the Hub suitable for us?
No, not really. We don't have private office space for rent and our space is too small for hosting a team bigger than 5 people. We welcome groups but it would be provided in the shared work space which is also used by all other members. If you need a space for your team, check out the newly built SURF Space in Da Nang.
I am an Online teacher, tutor, coach – is the Hub suitable for me?
Mmh…not really. Sorry. Our space is an open, collaborative and shared workspace. We provide only one meeting room, which can be used from our members due to availability and a maximum of 2 hours / day. Our space is too small for online coaching, tutoring or teaching purposes. We don't provide private offices for rent. We also don't focus on daily drop-ins but rather on 1-Week or 1-Month memberships as the main pillar of our concept is building a community.
We are happy you ask this question. Powercuts are mostly scheduled in Vietnam but do not affect the Hub's area so much. We might have an average of 10 power cuts per year, most of them last for less than one hour and are planned on the weekend.
Our team is checking the power cut schedule every week. In the event of an unscheduled power cut, we equipped the Hub's wifi with a backup battery that lasts for about 20 minutes. Give us this time to install our external wifi hotspots and all you need to do is to switch to another wifi.
Give us some minutes to figure out the circumstances and we will set up a generator that provides the electricity for the basic needs including plugs, wifi, and our main fridges.
Vietnam is a fast developing country and power cuts are rare. Especially in the Hub area. Power cuts were no big deal in the last years. Finger's crossed.
We offer payment in cash (Vietnamese Dong). We don't accept US Dollar or Euros. No Traveller Cheques as well 🙂 If you decide to stay at the Ricefield Homestay, you can pay the total package price with your credit card (+3% fee of the total price) at the Ricefield.
You can pay your membership on the day you come here and decide what membership you want to buy.
We do our best to provide reliable, constant and fast internet at Hub Hoi An. Our internet connection is a fiber optic line, with a shared 60mbps up and down. We've chosen to use Viettel as it is known as the best internet provider in Central Vietnam.
We have an average wifi speed of 65mbps download and 62mbps upload.
To provide the best internet for you, we equipped the Hub with imported UniFi hardware. We have two access points in total, one inside the house and one inside the glasshouse in the garden.
What technical equipment do you provide?
We rent out 2 monitors. You can view the prices here.
How many seats do you provide?
Hub Hoi An provides in total 25-30 work places. Depending on the season.
Maximum of 20 seats in airconditioned rooms plus 2-4 seats meeting room.
Maximum of 10 seats in our garden area.


A reader just commented on the research that went into writing The Bloody Tower. I thought I'd share with you what I told her.
Researching the Tower was fun. I picked up a book about the history years ago, just in case I ever needed it. Then I found the email address of the librarian there (Royal Armouries Library--no longer at the Tower). Not only was she very helpful about answering my questions, when I went over she arranged a pass for me and had a whole box of books and papers waiting that she thought might be useful, including the Governor's Day Book for the week Daisy was there!
Daisy found the body at the foot of these steps.
This is The Queen's House (King's, in Daisy's time), where Daisy spent the night. The arch at the bottom is the entrance to the foot of the stairs.
The entrance to the tunnel under the Bloody Tower itself.


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Time to test yourself with the weekly fasab quiz.
Another twenty random questions, with the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below.
But please, NO cheating!
Good luck and enjoy.
Q. 1: Which epic Hollywood film was the most expensive movie made during the 1960s?
Q. 2: Polynesia means 'many islands'. What does Melanesia mean?
Q. 3: Which Beatles song title is mentioned in Don McLean's hit song 'American Pie'?
Q. 4: Which female tennis player won a record 62 Grand Slam titles?
a) Billie Jean King
b) Steffi Graf
c) Martina Navratilova
d) Margaret Smith Court
Q. 5: What was unusual about the Roman Senator Incitatus?
Q. 6: What two countries signed the so called 'Pact of Steel' on May 22, 1939?
Q. 7: Who travels from Spain to the Netherlands by steamboat in late November?
Q. 8: In what prison drama movie, based on a Steven King book, does Morgan Freeman play a starring role?
Q. 9: The scientific name for which animal is 'Ursus arctos horribilis'?
a) Grizzly bear
b) Great White shark
c) Grey wolf
d) Killer whale
Q. 10: What was the name of the German engineer who invented the first rotary engine?
Q. 11: Formerly called 'Tsaritsyn' and then 'Stalingrad', what is it called today?
Q. 12: Lutz, Axel and Camel are terms associated with what sport?
Q. 13: What is the name for a treat with currants squashed between two thin, oblong biscuits/cookies?
Q. 14: Name the French cartoon skunk that is madly in love with a reluctant cat?
Q. 15: What is an ice hockey puck made from?
Q. 16: On the Voyager 1 spacecraft there is a golden record with greetings in different languages and a collection of various Earth sounds. There is also a 90 minute recording of music from many cultures. Which two composers appear the most on this record?
Q. 17: The name of which popular US band from the 1970s is an aboriginal expression used to describe an extremely cold evening?
Q. 18: Which four of the following seven Grand Slam winners were leftys?
a) Rod Laver
b) Jimmy Connors
c) Bjorn Borg
d) John McEnroe
e) Martina Navratilova
f) Boris Becker
g) Pancho Gonzales
Q. 19: What is the name for a Google search query consisting of exactly two words (actual words found in a dictionary) without quotation marks, that returns exactly one hit?
Q. 20: Which catchy hit song beginning with the words "Once upon a time there was a tavern" is an English version of a melancholic Russian gypsy song?
A. 1: Cleopatra
A. 2: Black islands
A. 3: Helter Skelter ("Helter Skelter in the summer swelter")
A. 4: d) Margaret Smith Court
A. 5: Incitatus was a horse.
A. 6: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
A. 7: Sinterklaas / Santa Claus / St. Nicholas
A. 8: The Shawshank Redemption
A. 9: a) Grizzly bear
A. 10: Wankel (the Wankel Rotary engine)
Q. 11: Formerly called Tsaritsyn and then Stalingrad, what is it called today?
A. 11: Volgograd
A. 12: Figure skating
A. 13: Garibaldi
A. 14: Pepe le Pew
A. 15: Rubber
A. 16: Bach and Beethoven
A. 17: Three Dog Night.
A. 18: a) Rod Laver
A. 19: A 'Googlewhack'. Published googlewhacks are short-lived, since when published to a web site, the new number of hits will become at least two, one to the original hit found, and one to the publishing site.
A. 20: Those Were The Days
Is Obama Making A Bad Korea Move?
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It was either a title with a pun in it or just call today's post "The Sunday Sermon", but as you can see the pun got the better of me as usual.
If you hadn't guessed, this one is my take on the goings on in North Korea.
Here we go….
Before the sermon starts I should preface it by saying we are in the current mess because politicians faffed about instead of stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons when they had the opportunity. It's their mess, but unfortunately we are all in it with them.
JFK had Cuba and now BHO has North Korea, both countries run by dictators and both in their time posing a nuclear threat.
Why do the Democrats always get the best crises? Poor old Dubya and his greedy and power hungry ally in Britain, Tony Blair (often deliberately spelled Bliar for good reason), had to make up an excuse to start a war with Saddam Hussein. Remember the Weapons Of Mass Destruction that never actually existed?
Of course, when JFK was doing his statesman like thing, during his brief breaks between his girlfriends, I was far too young to know or care about nuclear threats or more world wars. I had other more important things to be getting on with like battling invaders from Mars or trying to pluck up the courage to explore that eerie wood just a short distance from the bottom of our garden.
So what I know about the Cuban crisis of the early 1960s is all gleaned from books and reports from that period which are now a matter of history. (We'll leave the debate about just how accurate and reliable that is for another time.)
The truth seems to be that the Cuban nuclear crisis had very little to do with Cuba or Castro. It was a posturing competition between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and to a lesser degree a pissing contest between Kennedy and Khrushchev.
Khrushchev-Kennedy
In both Washington and the Kremlin, although there were the warmongers, there were more people who were sensible enough to realize that devastating each other's countries would leave them both weaker and achieve very little. They were able to reach that conclusion simply because they were people who were not completely insane or delusional.
It probably seemed difficult at the time, but for JFK it was a relatively easy crisis to manage.
The 'nuclear crisis' facing Obama, if indeed it is that, is a different kettle of fish because Kim Jong-un shows all the signs of being both delusional and ever so slightly insane.
He can't be held entirely to blame for this. He is the son of a long time dictator, who himself suffered from multiple delusions. And he was brought up in a militaristic and jingoistic regime, which is what dictators like to create for themselves simply because it makes their own people easier to control. North Korean propaganda has taught the public that military goals and economic goals are intertwined and therefore that Kim Jong-un's actions are for the good of his people.
Kim Jong Un, flanked by Ri Yong Ho, Kim Yong Chun
In the latest moves to up the ante, the North Koreans have told Britain and Russia that they should consider the evacuation of their embassies in Pyongyang. They have also moved another missile to their east coast as a further threat to US Pacific bases.
This in itself is just the latest response to UN sanctions and South Korea-US military drills, both of which have done nothing to ease tensions and in fact have annoyed the North Koreans immensely.
Now the North Korean army is saying that it has received final approval for military action, possibly involving nuclear weapons, against the threat posed by US B-52 and B-2 stealth bombers taking part in the joint drills. And all this has been accompanied by a series of apocalyptic threats of nuclear war in recent weeks.
The trouble with all this posturing is that Washington, which always gets a 'F' for 'FAIL' in Foreign Policy, very seldom, if ever, gets it right at the right time.
Washington doesn't seem to understand that the macho culture in many other countries makes it extremely difficult for them to be seen by their own people as the one who blinked first. Losing face has a terrible stigma for them.
Further military 'exercises' and posturing will probably have the result of leaving the Jong-un regime with little alternative (in their eyes) but to act aggressively.
How that aggression will manifest itself is anybody's guess. Least likely would be an attack on America – it's too far away for the type of missiles North Korea currently has.
An attack of some kind on the US base at Guam is possible, as is an attack on neighboring South Korea. The latter, depending on the scale and the number of casualties, could spark of retaliatory strikes by the US-backed South Koreans and from there it is a short step into a conventional and probably very bloody war.
And we should remember that the Korean war during the 1950s was a spectacular waste of human lives. Generals sacrificed their men for years and ended back at the 38th parallel, more or less the same place they started.
military-trucks-crossing-38th-parallel
Admittedly things might be a lot different this time if China decides that the North Korean regime is too out of control to support militarily. I doubt very much if it is in China's long term interest to have a whacky dictatorship armed with nuclear weapons on their doorstep. After all it's only 1,000Km to Beijing and more than 5,000Km to Hawaii, the closest state of the US to North Korea. At the same time would China want an economically united and strong US dominated state on its borders?
The jury is still out on that one.
Another thing that Washington gets badly wrong is that it thinks that because it is the most powerful military nation on earth – and it is by a long way – that therefore other countries will be afraid to take it on.
Rather than a comparison with the Cuban Crisis that everyone is concentrating on, I see parallels between North Korea today and Imperial Japan in the 1930s. Both are/were jingoistic regimes with an 'emperor' having complete control, and both created a military style regime more as a way to suppress and control their own people, and therefore to cling to power, than to attack another nation.
But things being what they are, and people being so bloody stupid it's unbelievable at times, there comes a time when those in power in such regimes lose their sense of reality and get carried away believing their own propaganda.
Hence Pearl Harbor when Imperial Japan forgot that when something big and powerful is asleep you should never poke it with a sharp stick, coz when it wakens up it will kick the crap right out of you!
And hence, the North Koreans are not afraid of taking on America. They should be, but they aren't, which again makes some kind of attack more possible the more they are backed into a corner.
Thankfully there are some signs that Washington might be getting the message and preparing to step back from the rapidly approaching brink. American officials have reportedly decided to "pause" the recent show of US force in Korea because
– wait for it, it's a good one –
they are surprised at the intensity of the North's response.
I mean who could have seen that coming? Well the answer is just about everyone except for the cretins in Washington!
What is surprising, however, is that the most sense talked about the whole affair recently has been from the world's number one cigar salesman, Fidel Castro. In fact, make that doubly surprising, in that he has said some things that I am in agreement with and that he is still around to say it!
Fidel Castro and cigar
He said "If a war breaks out there, there would be a terrible slaughter of people" in both North and South Korea "with no benefit for either of them." And also that the "duty" to avoid the conflict is in the hands of Washington "and of the people of the United States."
Castro hasn't quite figured out that once elected US Presidents do whatever THEY want, not whatever the PEOPLE want.
But what he must have figured out is that politicians like to be liked because he also warns President Obama that his second term, "would be buried in a deluge of images that would portray him as the most sinister personality in the history of the United States."
Equally, he cautions the North Koreans that now they have, demonstrated their "technical and scientific advances, we remind them of their duties with those countries that have been their great friends." And he urged them to remember that "such a war would affect … more than 70 per cent of the planet's population," and decried "the gravity of such an incredible and absurd event" in such a densely populated region.
Do you think he is hankering after one of those Nobel Peace Prizes, like the one Obama got for not being George W Bush?
And who knows what is going to happen in the Koreas?
Certainly not the mob in Washington I think!
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A bit of a change from numbers this Friday.
I found this piece which purports to explain and enlighten us about US politics.
It is in the form of a conversation between a father and his child and as children do, some very telling questions are asked to which the answers are to say the least confusing.
Some of it is a little bit dated, but the basic principles hold good today. It highlights yet again the deeply flawed thinking that is still behind the decisions that affect us all.
Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction honey.
Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
A: That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
Q: And that's why we invaded Iraq?
A: Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
Q: But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A: That's because the weapons are so well hidden. Don't worry, we'll find something eventually.
Q: Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A: To use them in a war, silly.
Q: I'm confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn't they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A: Well, obviously they didn't want anyone to know they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.
Q: That doesn't make sense Daddy. Why would they choose to die if they had all those big weapons to fight us back with?
A: It's a different culture. It's not supposed to make sense.
Q: I don't know about you, but I don't think they had any of those weapons our government said they did.
A: Well, you know, it doesn't matter whether or not they had those weapons. We had another good reason to invade them anyway.
Q: And what was that?
A: Even if Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator, which is another good reason to invade another country.
Q: Why? What does a cruel dictator do that makes it OK to invade his country?
A: Well, for one thing, he tortured his own people.
Q: Kind of like what they do in China?
A: Don't go comparing China to Iraq. China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people work for slave wages in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer.
Q: So if a country lets its people be exploited for American corporate gain, it's a good country, even if that country tortures people?
Q: Why were people in Iraq being tortured?
A: For political crimes, mostly, like criticizing the government. People who criticized the government in Iraq were sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Isn't that exactly what happens in China?
A: I told you, China is different.
Q: What's the difference between China and Iraq?
A: Well, for one thing, Iraq was ruled by the Ba'ath party, while China is Communist.
Q: Didn't you once tell me Communists were bad?
A: No, just Cuban Communists are bad.
Q: How are the Cuban Communists bad?
A: Well, for one thing, people who criticize the government in Cuba are sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Like in Iraq?
Q: And like in China, too?
A: I told you, China's a good economic competitor. Cuba, on the other hand, is not.
Q: How come Cuba isn't a good economic competitor?
A: Well, you see, back in the early 1960s, our government passed some laws that made it illegal for Americans to trade or do any business with Cuba until they stopped being Communists and started being capitalists like us.
Q: But if we got rid of those laws, opened up trade with Cuba, and started doing business with them, wouldn't that help the Cubans become capitalists?
A: Don't be a smart-ass.
Q: I didn't think I was being one.
A: Well, anyway, they also don't have freedom of religion in Cuba.
Q: Kind of like China and the Falun Gong movement?
A: I told you, stop saying bad things about China. Anyway, Saddam Hussein came to power through a military coup, so he's not really a legitimate leader anyway.
Q: What's a military coup?
A: That's when a military general takes over the government of a country by force, instead of holding free elections like we do in the United States.
Q: Didn't the ruler of Pakistan come to power by a military coup?
A: You mean General Pervez Musharraf? Uh, yeah, he did, but Pakistan is our friend.
Q: Why is Pakistan our friend if their leader is illegitimate?
A: I never said Pervez Musharraf was illegitimate.
Q: Didn't you just say a military general who comes to power by forcibly overthrowing the legitimate government of a nation is an illegitimate leader?
A: Only Saddam Hussein. Pervez Musharraf is our friend, because he helped us invade Afghanistan.
Q: Why did we invade Afghanistan?
A: Because of what they did to us on September 11th.
Q: What did Afghanistan do to us on September 11th?
A: Well, on September 11th, nineteen men, fifteen of them Saudi Arabians, hijacked four airplanes and flew three of them into buildings, killing over 3,000 Americans.
Q: So how did Afghanistan figure into all that?
A: Afghanistan was where those bad men trained, under the oppressive rule of the Taliban.
Q: Aren't the Taliban those bad radical Islamics who chopped off people's heads and hands?
A: Yes, that's exactly who they were. Not only did they chop off people's heads and hands, but they oppressed women, too.
Q: Didn't the Bush administration give the Taliban $43 million dollars back in May of 2001?
A: Yes, but that money was a reward because they did such a good job fighting drugs.
Q: Fighting drugs?
A: Yes, the Taliban were very helpful in stopping people from growing opium poppies.
Q: How did they do such a good job?
A: Simple. If people were caught growing opium poppies, the Taliban would have their hands and heads cut off.
Q: So, when the Taliban cut off people's heads and hands for growing flowers, that was OK, but not if they cut people's heads and hands off for other reasons?
A: Yes. It's OK with us if radical Islamic fundamentalists cut off people's hands for growing flowers, but it's cruel if they cut off people's hands for stealing bread.
Q: Don't they also cut off people's hands and heads in Saudi Arabia?
A: That's different. Afghanistan was ruled by a tyrannical patriarchy that oppressed women and forced them to wear burqas whenever they were in public, with death by stoning as the penalty for women who did not comply.
Q: Don't Saudi women have to wear burqas in public, too?
A: No, Saudi women merely wear a traditional Islamic body covering.
Q: What's the difference?
A: The traditional Islamic covering worn by Saudi women is a modest yet fashionable garment that covers all of a woman's body except for her eyes and fingers. The burqa, on the other hand, is an evil tool of patriarchal oppression that covers all of a woman's body except for her eyes and fingers.
Q: It sounds like the same thing with a different name.
A: Now, don't go comparing Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are our friends.
Q: But I thought you said 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia.
A: Yes, but they trained in Afghanistan.
Q: Who trained them?
A: A very bad man named Osama bin Laden.
Q: Was he from Afghanistan?
A: Uh, no, he was from Saudi Arabia too. But he was a bad man, a very bad man.
Q: I seem to recall he was our friend once.
A: Only when we helped him and the mujahadeen repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in the 1980s.
Q: Who are the Soviets? Was that the Evil Communist Empire Ronald Reagan talked about?
A: There are no more Soviets. The Soviet Union broke up in 1990 or thereabouts, and now they have elections and capitalism like us. We call them Russians now.
Q: So the Soviets – I mean, the Russians – are now our friends?
A: Well, not really. You see, they were our friends for many years after they stopped being Soviets, but then they decided not to support our invasion of Iraq, so we're mad at them now. We're also mad at the French and the Germans because they didn't help us invade Iraq either.
Q: So the French and Germans are evil, too?
A: Not exactly evil, but just bad enough that we had to rename French fries and French toast to Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast.
Q: Do we always rename foods whenever another country doesn't do what we want them to do?
A: No, we just do that to our friends. Our enemies, we invade.
Q: But wasn't Iraq one of our friends back in the 1980s?
A: Well, yeah. For a while.
Q: Was Saddam Hussein ruler of Iraq back then?
A: Yes, but at the time he was fighting against Iran, which made him our friend, temporarily.
Q: Why did that make him our friend?
A: Because at that time, Iran was our enemy.
Q: Isn't that when he gassed the Kurds?
A: Yeah, but since he was fighting against Iran at the time, we looked the other way, to show him we were his friend.
Q: So anyone who fights against one of our enemies automatically becomes our friend?
A: Most of the time, yes.
Q: And anyone who fights against one of our friends is automatically an enemy?
A: Sometimes that's true, too. However, if American corporations can profit by selling weapons to both sides at the same time, all the better.
Q: Why?
A: Because war is good for the economy, which means war is good for America. Also, since God is on America's side, anyone who opposes war is a godless un-American Communist. Do you understand now why we attacked Iraq?
Q: I think so. We attacked them because God wanted us to, right?
Q: But how did we know God wanted us to attack Iraq?
A: Well, you see, God personally speaks to George W. Bush and tells him what to do.
Q: So basically, what you're saying is that we attacked Iraq because George W. Bush hears voices in his head?
A: Yes! You finally understand how the world works. Now close your eyes, make yourself comfortable, and go to sleep. Good night.
Q: Good night, Daddy.


This part covers the wiring for DS18B20, the more accurate and waterproof temperature sensor. As stated before, its weakness is that it lacks the power of reading humidity. Otherwise, it is much more accurate, reliable and has no problems with the WordPress plugin, that displays the readings.
Different from DHT22, this sensor has only three wires. Start with putting the breakout kit on the breadboard and connect the wires as shown in the diagram below. Please make sure that the three wires from DS18B20 are connected to the breadboard! Be extra careful to set them in the correct order. If you mix it up, the sensor is supposed to get warmer until it reaches it's maximum temperature and starts to break.
Now you need to test if the wiring is correct. Type in the following commands, starting with modprobe w1-gpio and then modprobe w1-therm. Change directories with cd /sys/bus/w1/devices and display the folder contents with ls command. It should display one folder that starts with 28, in my case it's 28-000004a78c7f. Go to that directory by cd 28-********* (replace the * with the correct identifier of the sensor). The temperature is stored in a file, print it out with cat w1_slave. You should get something like in the picture below. The temperature is displayed in 1/000 degrees C.
Raspberry Pi has changed a few things in January 2015. The latest firmware includes Device Tree support, which breaks readings from some sensors. Solve this issue by typing in nano /boot/config.txt. Scroll down to the bottom and add the following line dtoverlay=w1-gpio-pullup,gpiopin=4. More information is available here.


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Basketball: Spain Goes Undefeated to Win Men's FIBA World Cup
Spain won their second ever title by going undefeated at the 2019 FIBA Men's World Cup. The World Cup also doubled as the continental qualifier where the top two highest ranked European and Pan American nations and the highest ranked Africa, Asian and Oceania nation qualified to the Olympics. In total, 32 teams competed across eight groups where the top two teams advance to the second stage while the bottom two teams played in the classification stage. Afterwards teams advanced to the quarterfinals where a single elimination bracket was held. The FIBA Men's World Cup was held across eight cities in China from August 31st to September 15th 2019.
The preliminary group stage showcased the strength of Europe and Pan American nations as they occupied 15/16 top positions. Australia was the only nation not from those continents to advance to the second round as they won Group H. By being the only Oceania nation to advance they qualified to the Olympics. The other group winners were Poland, Argentina, Spain, Serbia, the United States, Brazil and France.
The bottom 16 teams played in four classification groups. Their previous round performances were also carried over. This is where the African and Asian quotas were decided. The African quotas came down to Nigeria and Tunisia while the Asian quotas came down to China and Iran with the Nigeria vs. China match ultimately deciding which nations will qualify. Nigeria won that match 86-73 thanks to a consistent performance against China. This allowed them to win the African quota while Iran was able to win the Asian quota due to having a better goal differential than China.
The second group stage also had the previous round's performances carried over as 16 teams competed across four groups with the top two nations advancing to the next round. The four group winners were Argentina, Spain, the United States and Australia while Poland, Serbia, the Czech Republic and France advanced as the second placed teams. As only two Pan American nations reached the quarter-finals Argentina and the United States qualified to the Olympics.
Arguably the largest upset occurred in the quarterfinals where the United States, the current two-time champions lost to France 89-79 despite holding a seven-point lead during the fourth quarter. France along with Spain who defeated Poland 90-78 qualified to the Olympics by being the only European teams to reach the semi-finals. The other semi-finalists were Argentina and Australia who defeated Serbia and the Czech Republic 97-87 and 82-70 respectively.
One of the highlight matches came in the semi-finals where Australia and Spain had to go to double overtime to decide which team would advance to the final. Spain broke down Australia to win the second overtime 15-8 and won the overall match 95-88. The other semi-final was won by Argentina who defeated France 80-66. Spain would go on to win the title over Argentina thanks to a strong first and third quarter 95-75. The bronze medal was won by France who defeated Australia 67-59.
This is Spain's second title as they won previously in 2006. As for future Olympic qualification, the final four spots will be decided over four six team tournaments. The top 16 nations at the World Cup which failed to qualify to the Olympics along with the top two highest ranked teams from each continent will compete in one of these tournaments to be held in 2020.
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Avatar 2: 2022 Avatar The Way of Water Full Movie Free Online Watch & Official Trailers! One of this generation's most famous movies, Avatar, came out a decade ago. Ever since everyone has been waiting impatiently for another instance of something so magnificent to appear on their screens now that the second installment of Avatar is headed to theaters, demands have finally been granted. However, as the saying goes, good things do occur to individuals who wait. Avatar: The Way of Water seemed significantly anticipated.
The 2022 American epic science fiction film Avatar: The Way of Water is James Cameron's follow-up to the 2009 original Avatar. The movie, the second in the Avatar movie series, is released by 20th Century Studios. Together with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, Cameron co-wrote the script for the movie, which was directed by Jon Landau and is based on a narrative they also co-wrote with Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno.
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The film's theatrical release has been subject to repeated delays, with the latest occurring on July 23, 2020. Avatar: The Way of Water premiered in London on December 6, 2022, and will be theatrically released in the United States on December 16, 2022.
His name is Javier "Spider" Socorro. Played by Jack Champion, Spider was actually born on Hell's Gate (the human base on Pandora in the first film), but was rescued and adopted by Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). That said, there was apparently a bit of friction in that decision.
"Jake took him in but Neytiri always saw him as one of the people who destroyed her home and killed her father," producer Jon Landau told Empire back in December. "So you have all these dynamics playing out." Spider has three siblings, all of them being Na'vi: Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo'ak (Britain Dalton), and Tuktirey (Trinity Bliss). Jake comes from the human world, Neytiri from the Na'vi world. So, they're like a modern mixed-race couple, raising kids who perhaps feel they don't belong to one world or another," Landau continued.
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, the sequel is set to tell the story of the Sully family, the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure. "I know one thing: wherever we go, this family is our fortress," Sully says at the end of the trailer.
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In addition to Sigourney Weaver returning in a different character, the cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaa, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, and Matt Gerald reprise their roles from the first movie. Along with Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, and Brendan Cowell, the cast has expanded.
The 16th of December 2022 has been set as the release date for Avatar 2 in the UK. We anticipate that the release date will be the same over the world as it is in North America.
Avatar: The Way of Water is the title of Avatar 2 Online.
The official rating for Avatar 2 hasn't been released yet. Nevertheless, Avatar received a classification of 12 in the UK and PG-13 in North America; as a result, it is anticipated that the sequel will receive a similar grade in the year.
James Cameron claims that the movie will last for an astounding three hours and ten minutes—30 minutes further than the first.
The brand-new trailer debuted exclusively in theaters the next week to be shown before Doctor Strange in the vast universe of Crazy and has since been broadcast on television.
James Cameron reportedly required the appropriate technology to film performance capture underwater, which is why the movie has seen several failures and delays. Cameron has assured us that the 13-year wait will have been worth while and that there will be three more films, due out in 2024, 2026, and 2028.
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1. Bay to Breakers
#1 Sports Event
Officially, Bay to Breakers is the oldest consecutively run footrace in the world: a 12K that lures more than 40,000 serious runners from the Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Unofficially, it's a costume parade that draws revelers from all walks of life for an end-to-end tour of the city, with the requisite house parties and dance stops along the way. The Alaska Airlines-sponsored event has hosted more than two-million registered runners over the last century. Between the naked, costumed runners and tethered teams, it's one of the most unique sporting events in the world. Next: May 19, 2019
Photo: David Goehring, (CC BY 2.0)
2. Escape From Alcatraz
During its tenure as the most secure federal prison in America, only 36 inmates tried to break out from Alcatraz. Today, as a tourist attraction, 2,000 athletes attempt the journey from The Rock each year as part of the Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon. Barring dangerous conditions on the water, the race includes a 1.5-mile swim from Alcatraz Island to the San Francisco shoreline, followed by an 18-mile bike ride to Golden Gate Park and an 8-mile run to Baker Beach. Next: June 2019
Photo: Rocky Arroyo
3. Cal vs. Stanford Football Game
Cal and Stanford are slated to meet in Berkeley once again for the 121st occurrence of the "Big Game" since 1892. The in-state rivalry runs deep, but the Cardinals have been routing the Bears regularly for the last eight years and lead the series overall, 63-46-11. Players may reflect on the game in terms of victory or defeat, but it's a clear win for student spectators at both schools, who enjoy a week of school spirit events on their respective campuses before the game. Next: November 17, 2018
Photo: Douglas Stringer/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
4. Silicon Valley Classic
It's the longest-running, women-only professional tennis tournament in the world, the first stop on the U.S. Open Series, and in 2018, it received yet another new name. What was once known as the British Motor Cars Invitation and the Bank of the West Classic is now the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic. The biggest names in women's tennis—like Serena and Venus Williams—turned out to compete in 2018. Latisha Chan and Kveta Peschke took the doubles competition, while Mihaela Buzarnescu won the singles title. The event includes a 28-player singles draw and a 16-team doubles draw with total prize money of $799,280. Next: July 29-August 4, 2019
Photo: Sam Henderson
5. San Francisco Marathon
It takes the average tourist a full day to wander between San Francisco landmarks like Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, and the Golden Gate Bridge, but the 27,500 runners in the San Francisco Marathon dash past those points in less than six hours. The Mission? Check. Haight-Ashbury? Done. Huffing and puffing up an iconic hill while 80,000 spectators cheer? You bet. The race is the ultimate San Francisco bucket list and a workout, all in one. Biofreeze is the title sponsor. Next: July 28, 2019
Photo: Courtesy of San Francisco Marathon
6. KNBR FanFest
Supporting the Giants when they're enjoying their even-year-World-Series winning streak is easy, but 30,000 true fans queue up to meet the boys in black and orange each winter, win or lose. At KNBR's Fan Fest, players and fans rub elbows, sign autographs, and pose for selfies at AT&T Park before the team heads to Arizona for spring training. Those hoping to get face time with the likes of Hunter Pence, Pablo Sandoval, and Buster Posey show up early; autograph lines at FanFest can be almost as scary as Brian Wilson's beard. Next: February 9, 2019
Photo: Beck Diefenbach
7. Bay Area Dance Week
Dance Week is turning 21 and ready to party. In 2018, the 10-day celebration included more than 600 free dance events and a 700-dancer flash mob at City Hall. Organizers host performances, open rehearsals, lecture demonstrations, and more for seasoned pros and So You Think You Can Dance fans alike. Whether it's ballet or samba, watching or learning, the free event satisfies the spectrum of dance curiosities. Next: April 26-May 5, 2019
Photo: Lydia Daniller
8. Waves to Wine
A two-day ride from San Francisco to Sonoma County becomes infinitely more enjoyable when there are scenic stops, snacks, and drinks every 12 to 15 miles on the way to your destination. Not that two days in the saddle is a requirement for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Waves to Wine race: Riders can choose between one or two-day routes, with multiple mileage options on each day. Last year, more than 1,500 cyclists participated, raising more than $1.6 million for the organization in the process. Next: September 22-23, 2018
Photo: Mike Samson
9. AIDS Walk San Francisco
#10 Sports Event (new to the list)
Since 1987, AIDS Walk San Francisco has raised more than $90 million for H.I.V. programs and services in the Bay Area, emerging as the largest and most visible AIDS fund-raising event in the area. One of the perks of the event is it doesn't require long-term training; AIDS Walk is accessible for participants at most fitness levels. In 2018, 10,000 people showed up to Golden Gate Park for the 10K, raising more than $1.8 million for Bay Area H.I.V./AIDS service organizations. Next: July 2019
Photo: Wilmer Gonzalez
10. We Dare to Bare
An outdoor fitness festival set on smashing body insecurities, We Dare to Bare participants sign up for satellite sessions of San Francisco's best fitness offerings—like SoulCycle, Barry's Bootcamp, TRX, and Confidance—and work out in their sports bras during this one-day event. In addition to sweating in the sunshine, attendees get snacks, pampering, and photo booth memories. Registrants are also encouraged to meet a fund-raising goal for Movemeant Foundation programs; in 2018, more than 800 women raised over $185,000 at the event. Next: May 2019
Photo: Courtesy of We Dare to Bare
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Q: NumberFormatException PrimeFaces TreeTable I am currently working with Primefaces and treetables. My treetable works well except one case. Let me set a little example to explain the problem:
The treetable is like this:

*

*Item1.1

*

*Item2.1

*Item1.2

*Item1.3

At the beginning, the tree is collapsed.
The treetable is defined like this:
<p:treeTable id="treetable" value="#{bean.root}" var="node" selectionMode="single" selection="#{bean.selectedNode}">

And I have those ajax calls in it:
<p:ajax event="select" listener="#{bean.onSelect}" />

Everything is running well in general. The node selected is updated whatever the level of the node. The problem is with this case:
(All is collapsed)

*

*extend Item1.1

*select Item2.1

*collapse Item1.1

*select Item1.2

And here I got the exception:
INFO: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "0,1"
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "0,1"
    at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
    at org.primefaces.component.api.UITree.findTreeNode(UITree.java:120)
    at org.primefaces.component.api.UITree.findTreeNode(UITree.java:129)
    at org.primefaces.component.api.UITree.setRowKey(UITree.java:80)
    at org.primefaces.component.treetable.TreeTableRenderer.decodeSelection(TreeTableRenderer.java:57)
    at org.primefaces.component.treetable.TreeTableRenderer.decode(TreeTableRenderer.java:40)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.decode(UIComponentBase.java:787)
    at org.primefaces.component.api.UITree.processDecodes(UITree.java:180)
    at org.primefaces.component.treetable.TreeTable.processDecodes(TreeTable.java:325)
    at com.sun.faces.context.PartialViewContextImpl$PhaseAwareVisitCallback.visit(PartialViewContextImpl.java:506)
    at com.sun.faces.component.visit.PartialVisitContext.invokeVisitCallback(PartialVisitContext.java:183)
    at org.primefaces.component.api.UITree.visitTree(UITree.java:402)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.visitTree(UIComponent.java:1623)
    at javax.faces.component.UIForm.visitTree(UIForm.java:371)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.visitTree(UIComponent.java:1623)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.visitTree(UIComponent.java:1623)
    at com.sun.faces.context.PartialViewContextImpl.processComponents(PartialViewContextImpl.java:376)
    at com.sun.faces.context.PartialViewContextImpl.processPartial(PartialViewContextImpl.java:252)
    at javax.faces.context.PartialViewContextWrapper.processPartial(PartialViewContextWrapper.java:183)
    at javax.faces.context.PartialViewContextWrapper.processPartial(PartialViewContextWrapper.java:183)
    at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processDecodes(UIViewRoot.java:931)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.ApplyRequestValuesPhase.execute(ApplyRequestValuesPhase.java:78)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118)
    at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:593)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:987)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:579)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:309)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

A: This is PrimeFaces bug in treetable.js, there is issue.
The problem is because unselectAllNodes() function in treetable.js does not clear selection array variable but it should be empty after exit from this function:
unselectAllNodes: function() {
    var selectedNodes = this.tbody.children('tr.ui-state-highlight');

    for(var i = 0; i < selectedNodes.length; i++) {
        this.unselectNode(selectedNodes.eq(i), true);
    }
}

When parent row with previous selected row is expanded this bug not occur, because all visible selected rows (search by ui-state-highlight attribute) unselects with removing from  selection array variable. But when parent row is collapsed, tbody.children*('tr.ui-state-highlight')* return empty list, and selection array variable have previous value plus new selectable value separated by comma.
Good news that from PrimeFaces 4.0 release this bug was fixed. because this commit have been inluded to release. One small difference: selection array variable have been renamed to selections by other commits.
unselectAllNodes: function() {
    var selectedNodes = this.tbody.children('tr.ui-state-highlight');
    for(var i = 0; i < selectedNodes.length; i++) {
        this.unselectNode(selectedNodes.eq(i), true);
    }

    this.selections = [];
    this.writeSelections();
}


We are a family of 6 and sold farm to get out of debt and now can't get mortgage due to a file of personal bankruptcy at the same time. and now desperate for a home to safely raise kids in. I want to know why can't a person be able to apply for a mortgage (within tight means),while bankrupt? A person always needs shelter and security. I feel a mortgage is considerably diiferent than a loan, am I wrong? or maybe there's something I don't understand!
You are correct that a mortgage is different than a loan, because it is secured by real estate. However, because you filed for bankruptcy, lenders now consider you to be a higher risk. You will need to demonstrate to them that you are an acceptable risk. You can start the credit repair process by saving money. Once you have built up a suitable down payment you will qualify for a mortgage. Another strategy may be to find a friend or family member to co-sign for you, which will increase your chances of getting a mortgage.


Heart Rate Variability (HRV) testing evaluates what is a balancing act between your sympathetic nervous system – the internal fight and flight response – and the parasympathetic nervous system – rest and digest.
An imbalance in HRV is a prime factor for sudden death by heart attack. The simple hand electro-sensor test at the Body and Mind Clinic gives you a report on the balance between your heart and your nervous system in just a few minutes.
The interest in HRV has grown year on year, particularly as the technology involved to register such can now be incorporated in a smartphone – but self-analysis is not really recommended and the test is best carried out with an expert who can analyse any existing problems revealed in the results. He can then advise on a health care regime to improve your life.
HRV reflects the variation in time between each heartbeat and HRV-guided training is recommended for effective aerobic performance than any pre-planned training. Perhaps more importantly, HRV testing is recognised as a predictor of illness in those who seek moderate exercising and athletes alike. In clinic conditions, HRV can be accurately measured during ultra-short durations (one minute) and are carried out either in a supine (lying down), seated, or standing position.
Do read our informative article on Heart rate Variability coming soon. Booking an appointment couldn't be easier via a phone call or this website.


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A Nick Jr. Brasil é um canal de televisão paga com 24 horas dedicado às crianças em fase pré-escolar que promove o desenvolvimento infantil ao usar a filosofia "brincar aprendendo". Sua programação revolucionou a televisão infantil nos Estados Unidos, Ásia e Europa e agora chega à América Latina. Os desenhos encorajam as crianças a pensarem, resolverem problemas, desenvolverem habilidades cognitivas, como também a auto-estima.

Nick Jr. HD
Em 2016, a Viacom disponibilizou para a América Latina um sinal em High Definition do Nick Jr. com faixas de áudio para o Brasil (em português) e o outro, para o América Latina (em espanhol). No Brasil, apesar de a Viacom anunciar que o canal seria disponibilizado pela Sky logo em seu lançamento, o mesmo só veio a ser oficialmente distribuído por ela em 30 de junho de 2017. O canal está disponível operadoras Sky, Algar TV, TVN, Cabo Telecom e Oi TV. Sua programação não é Simulcast, ou seja, não exibe a mesma programação do canal de definição padrão (SD).

No mesmo ano, o Nick Jr. HD passa a ser Simulcast no Brasil transmitindo a mesma programação em SD e HD. A Sky Brasil é a primeira TV por assinatura que passou a transmitir o sinal Simulcast ao invés do sinal normal.

Sinal em Widescreen
No dia 30 de março de 2017, o sinal da versão SD do canal passou a ser transmitido em Widescreen, uma versão semelhante a em alta definição para uma melhor qualidade de som e imagem. A estreia do sinal Widescreen foi às 06:00.

No mesmo ano, a versão HD, passou a ter a programação simulcast ao SD (padrão).

Desenhos Atuais

 Patrulha Canina
 Blaze and the Monster Machines
 Bubble Guppies
 Top Wing
 Pistas de Blue e Você
 Abby Hatcher
 Butterbean's Café
 Rainbow Rangers
 Garden Academy
 Zumbar
 Rusty Rivets
 Baby Shark's Big Show!
 Corn & Peg
 Santiago dos Mares
 Dora, a Aventureira
 Paddington's Adventures
 Os Chocolix
 A Fazenda do Zenon

Referências

Ligações externas

Paramount International Networks
Paramount Networks Americas
Nick Jr.
Canais de televisão infantis
Canais de televisão por assinatura do Brasil
Canais de televisão fundados em 2008
Canais de televisão de língua portuguesa

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Praxis Group helps business professionals go beyond inclusion
by Liz Baudler
This article shared 1380 times since Wed Jun 13, 2018
An emerging Chicago consulting firm composed primarily of activists within the LGBTQ community has the goal of getting workplaces to think "beyond inclusion." It's a phrase that those who have encountered Praxis Group have wondered about, and the founders are very open to explaining the unique work they do.
"Our goal is to provide employers and organizations with the tools to move beyond the checkboxes of "diversity and inclusion" and into ongoing institutional practices that support justice and allyship," said Director of Training and Curriculum Kate Harrington-Rosen.
"For us, 'beyond inclusion' means a lot of things," said Director of Operations and Outreach Jes Scheinpflug. "I think that these buzzwords of 'diversity' and 'inclusion' are used so often that they sort of stopped having meaning. Those are values and goals, but what's underneath all that? We're doing innovative work around creating spaces that bring authentic people to the table."
Praxis Group's focus is on the LGBQTIA community, with a particular emphasis on trans and gender-nonconforming individuals, said Scheinpflug, who has found that workshops focused on trans identity are among the most needed in workplaces and businesses. An important question for Scheinpflug in anti-oppression frameworks is the idea of "who's not in the room."
"A lot of groups are guilty of being, like, 'Oh, look at how diverse it was'— racially and gender-wise and sometimes socioeconomic status-wise," Scheinpflug said. "But very rarely do I find people who are asking, 'Who wasn't there?'"
Another guiding principle for Praxis is the idea of cultural humility instead of cultural competency. "As a nonbinary queer person, I'm learning things every day," Scheinpflug explained. "I make mistakes in the language I use sometimes, and cultural humility is recognizing that and committing to constantly being open to learning more and doing better. Whereas cultural competency is, checking that box, done. The work is never done."
"I know that I've felt unsafe or unwelcome with providers or in businesses who think they are "competent" but don't do the vulnerable work of approaching me from a place of seeking to learn or understand me more deeply," said Harrington-Rosen, a queer woman who describes herself as "straight-passing", and who says servers and medical workers often assume the gender of her nonbinary partner.
"What humility would look like in those moments is people taking the time to recognize and acknowledge that they've made an assumption ( or 5 or 10 ) about me, and instead of acting on that assumption, to either wait until they learn more about me in the course of the interaction, or to ask me respectfully about how I identify," Harrington-Rosen said over email.
The members of Praxis have done work along these lines for more than 25 combined years. Scheinpflug, who has a social work background, and Harrington-Rosen were colleagues in the same non-profit and always had a strong working relationship. Praxis also includes K. Rodriguez and JT Turner, who come with their own skillsets.
"In starting to think about what it would look like to try to build a business that was actually rooted in ( social ) justice, we knew we needed to have leadership, input, and representation from folks with different identities and backgrounds from ours, in particular folks who aren't white," Harrington-Rosen said. "We are also both lucky enough to have worked and played alongside such an incredible number of brilliant queers that I think as soon as we started to conceptualize working together more formally, we were already thinking about and excited about bringing other folks in."
Praxis had run workshops prior to their official launch, and most previous business came through word of mouth. "People have reached out being, like, 'We have the knowledge, we understand the theory, we get the vocab, but we're struggling to implement it. What do we do?,' Scheinpflug said. "In going public and being an official business, our audience hasn't really changed, it's been whoever's dedicated to doing this work. Our ideal people are folks who recognize that it's an ongoing process. People want to see results right away, and cultural humility doesn't work that way, it's not like, 'Here's our start date and here's our end date and we're done.' We're really looking to work with people who recognize that and who will commit to the long haul."
"I think a fair number of folks are aware that there is a lack of cultural humility, or justice, or allyship, on their team, but not really sure what that means or how to name it," said Harrington-Rosen. "So folks will call and say, 'I'm not really sure what we need, but here's the problem,' and the problem is: our manager called a trans person by their dead name at a staff meeting, and everybody froze. Or, I heard my colleague say something racist and I didn't know what to do about it. Or, our clients have told us that our space doesn't feel welcoming to them, but we don't understand why.' And those are exactly the calls that we want to be getting, because what we hear in those moments are people being willing to be vulnerable and ask for help about something they don't know how to handle, and that vulnerability is key to being able to build the awareness and skill needed to address the issue."
Workshops are done with co-facilitators of differing identities who set group agreements upfront and can cover a variety of content. Even with request for more targeted guidance, the group likes to go over what Scheinpflug called "the 101 stuff" to make sure everyone's on the same page.
"I think people and institutions really enjoy working with us because we have a balance of information-sharing, collaboration, and accountability," Scheinpflug said. "In all of our trainings, we model how people can call out misgendering, or call out comments that are offensive, and how to bring that person into that moment, acknowledge what happened, and move past it. We have those teachable moments and we do the uncomfortable and difficult work in front of people, and they're like, oh, it can be done, it's not this elusive thing that I just read about on Facebook. "
In the spirit of being both teachers and learners, facilitators also find it helpful to share personal experiences. "When you have these personal stories and these human beings in front of you, that's different from reading about it or learning about it in higher education," Scheinpflug said. "I talk a lot about how I get called ma'am and, as a person who navigates the world with a lot of confidence and [who] knows how to advocate for myself, [there are] times where I end up in positions where I am extremely uncomfortable, sometimes unsafe, not feeling valued. It's things that are so simple, like this idea of microaggressions. Something that seems so insignificant can really shift an entire culture."
Praxis' workshops operate on sliding-scale fees, and a portion of all profits go toward people of color/trans life organizations. "Any social-justice work that doesn't explicitly recognize how oppressive capitalism is is missing the mark in a big way," said Harrington-Rosen. "We are seeking to find the balance of being paid fairly for our labor ( the labor of educating people about how to engage with us respectfully, which so often goes unpaid and unvalued ) with making our services accessible for groups who want to commit to this work. We know that small nonprofits or locally owned businesses may not have the same budget as, say, a corporate client, but it's no less crucial for them to engage in this work."
"Often, the places that don't have the budget for it are the places that need it the most," Scheinpflug added. Praxis hopes to make trainings and consultation more accessible by having larger clients sponsor services and partner with a nonprofit or small business of their choosing. More future plans for the Group include fellowships for young trans and gnc people of color to become facilitators, and collaborations with groups that share values.
The cost of ignoring or marginalizing issues of identity can be sobering. "When we talk about almost half of trans folks attempt suicide, versus one to six percent of cis folks, we look at other stats like homelessness and unemployment and lack of access or no access to healthcare and medical resources," Scheinpflug said. "People can get that, but that suicide statistic, [it's] the culmination of it."
But for a business or organization, furthering one's understanding and commitment to being "beyond inclusive" can pay dividends. "When people have these skills and create these inclusive and beyond inclusive places that are actually celebrating folks, productivity goes up for everybody, they make more money, employees stay longer, they get promoted, win win win," said Scheinpflug. "It's the right thing to do, and it's going to help you. "
Scheinpflug will co-facilitate an interactive master class from the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce, "Inclusive Hiring and Building Safe Spaces," on Thursday, June 21, 9-10 a.m, at 5153 N. Clark St. The event is free, but pre-registration is required. More information—and the ability to donate to further the Group's future goals—is at PraxisChi.com .
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