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package com.google.gerrit.server.schema;

import com.google.gerrit.reviewdb.server.ReviewDb;
import com.google.gerrit.server.Sequences;
import com.google.gerrit.server.config.AllUsersName;
import com.google.gerrit.server.extensions.events.GitReferenceUpdated;
import com.google.gerrit.server.git.GitRepositoryManager;
import com.google.gerrit.server.notedb.RepoSequence;
import com.google.gwtorm.server.OrmException;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.google.inject.Provider;
import java.sql.SQLException;

/** Create account sequence in NoteDb */
public class Schema_155 extends SchemaVersion {
  private final GitRepositoryManager repoManager;
  private final AllUsersName allUsersName;

  @Inject
  Schema_155(
      Provider<Schema_154> prior, GitRepositoryManager repoManager, AllUsersName allUsersName) {
    super(prior);
    this.repoManager = repoManager;
    this.allUsersName = allUsersName;
  }

  @Override
  protected void migrateData(ReviewDb db, UpdateUI ui) throws OrmException, SQLException {
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    RepoSequence.Seed accountSeed = () -> db.nextAccountId();
    RepoSequence accountSeq =
        new RepoSequence(
            repoManager,
            GitReferenceUpdated.DISABLED,
            allUsersName,
            Sequences.NAME_ACCOUNTS,
            accountSeed,
            1);

    // consume one account ID to ensure that the account sequence is initialized in NoteDb
    accountSeq.next();
  }
}


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 * If you catch this exception, you KNOW it came from our Instagram-API library.
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A new executive order and a subsequent announcement on health care subsidies will shake up the insurance market.
En español | President Trump has delivered a one-two punch to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Late Thursday he announced the elimination of the subsidy payments to insurers that help lower-income Americans afford health care. That move came just hours after he signed an executive order that he says will promote more competition in the health insurance market.
The payments to insurers help fund subsidies that assist lower-income Americans in paying for deductibles, copays and other out-of-pocket health care expenses. The president had been threatening to cut off the subsidy payments for months.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had earlier estimated that if subsidy payments were withheld, premiums for individuals who buy the most popular health plans on the ACA health insurance marketplace would soar by 20 percent next year and 25 percent by 2020.
The president's moves come just two weeks before the start of marketplace open enrollment. Insurers had threatened to abandon the marketplace if the subsidies were cut off. Some states have already signaled plans to challenge that action in court.
Congress has tried repeatedly over the past few months to repeal and replace the ACA. Thursday's announcements are part of the president's latest strategy to continue those attempts in the absence of congressional action. AARP has strongly opposed any repeal of the health care law.
The executive order directs the secretary of labor to consider expanding the ability of small businesses to form so-called association health plans. These plans may be able to avoid many state and federal insurance regulations. They could, for example, be exempt from the ACA rules that protect older Americans and people with preexisting health conditions from being charged far higher premiums as well as the ACA requirement to provide essential health benefits — such as emergency room care and mental health services.
The impact of these changes would potentially sting millions of older and sicker Americans. That's because the new insurance options would likely attract low-risk individuals — who are generally healthier — leaving older, sicker people in the current individual market. Since those plans would be so heavily weighted with sick people, policyholders would pay significantly higher premiums.
"The order aims to create loosely regulated insurance plans that could provide skimpier benefits and cheaper premiums to young and healthy people, but that would make coverage more expensive for older people and those with preexisting conditions," said Larry Levitt, senior vice president for special initiatives at the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. "However, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how this would all work and how much legal authority the administration really has."
The order also paves the way for broader use of short-term policies that are not required to include essential health benefits nor cover people with preexisting medical conditions. Such short-term plans often serve as a bridge for people between jobs. Under the previous administration, individuals could buy the plans for only three months. The order would expand their duration to nearly a year.
And the president is asking the secretaries of labor, treasury, and health and human services to allow more businesses to use health reimbursement arrangements. Under the arrangements, businesses could use pretax dollars to reimburse employees for out-of-pocket medical costs and premiums.
Insurance premiums already are in place for 2018, and most insurers had anticipated the loss of the subsidy payments and set rates considerably higher to take that into account. Those that haven't may ask state insurance commissioners to allow them to increase premiums.


VariQ was awarded a 29 month contract by the Department of Homeland Security to provide Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) Level 2 Application Services for the Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
SEVP is made up of units and sections that work in partnership to collect, maintain, analyze and provide information so only legitimate foreign students gain entry to the United States. The scope of work for this effort is to provide Level 2 Application Services for SEVIS. SEVIS currently includes over 9,800 approved educational institutions and more than 1,400 approved exchange visitor program sponsors, among which are elementary schools, secondary schools, universities, two-year colleges, vocational training schools, language schools, and exchange programs.
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The Government's announcement today that it is banning petrol and diesel cars on British roads from 2040 onwards has been trumpeted as powerful action to counter both the clean air emergency now affecting all urban and even many rural areas of the UK as well as global warming. Tories have lauded this as a evidence of their concern for the well being of the five citizens who die every single hour from pollution emissions and parts of the lick spittle media have touted it as a bold green initiative. On the BBC, a reporter fretted about how millions of motorists would be angered and inconvenienced over the coming decades.
Yet while it is welcome that the debate has moved from not if but to when we ban carbon vehicles from the roads, this move was increasingly becoming inevitable as public awareness of pollution has rocketed and faith in both car manufacturers and government regulation have plummeted following the growing scandal of cover ups on diesel toxins. It may indeed be one of the last impacts of European Union action on domestic British policy before Brexit, as the EU has played a leading role in bringing the manufacturers to account.
More than this, though, the timescale is appalling. A growing number of climatologists and environmentalists, surveying the exponential increase in the speed of climate change, are now confirming what Greens have been arguing for some years - that we are already at a tipping point and if we have any time left at all to act decisively to stop runaway climate change, it can be measured in single-digit years, not two and a half decades or more (or infinitely in the case of Trump's USA). The 23 year wait speaks much more the Government's being in thrall to the motor vehicle and oil lobbies than it does to Environment Secretary Michael Gove's risible imitation of an eco-warrior.
Norway has set a target to remove carbon vehicles by 2025 and the huge economy that is India is aiming for 2030, alongside its rapid adoption of solar power, which is now seeing many Indian coal mines close. China, plagued by dreadful city smog for much of the year, is now investing more in clean enery than the rest of the world combined and getting carbon wagons off the streets of Beijing is a high priority.
With time running out, Britain's laggardly approach is appalling, especially when the same Tory-DUP regime is slowing down development of clean energy. This leaves the possibility that electric cars could simply remove pollution from the streets and release it elsewhere from racheted-up power stations. It's not just cars that need to be carbon emission free - it's everything and there is little real sign of that happening.
Five deaths per hour equal 45,000 lives lost on the altar of carbon worship every single year, with cars accounting for as much as a fifth of that. That means over a million lives could be needlessly lost and many millions more degraded in Britain by 2040. To put that in context, that is three times the number of fatalities suffered by the UK in the entire Second World War. Surely, then, we should be treating both our filthy air and global warming at least as great a threat to our future as Hitler was and invoke a national emergency. Just as the state harnessed Britain to survive and strike back at the Nazis, so it can and must direct all its efforts now to creating a nationwide infrastructure of renewable energy production, emission-free transport and clean industry. Public ownership is a must, as it was in World War Two, to ensure that resources are directed effectively and fairly.
This crisis will define not only our time, but the times of the generations to come, if indeed our species survives that long. We will need in this much, much more than the dilettantism of Gove and the vested interests of his party funders. The threat may be invisible and its impact slow and not directly obvious on its victims, but it is the greatest our species has ever faced. There is no time for delay so that shareholders can stop to scoop up their dividends while condemning us to a collective carbon suicide.
Maybe we should appeal to the one thing they might just understand: there will be no business on a dead planet.
Copious lines have been written and video footage aired of the utterly horrendous fire at Grenfell tower in west London. The sights and sounds of people in fear and in death, and the red raw grief of the survivors, their families and the local community are beyond adequate description.
Yet these personal and collective tragedies speak too to a wider truth, one which has been buried away for years by mainstream commentators and media (though covered here), but which is now finally being aired, not least thanks to the outcome of June's General Election and the willingness of the dramatically insurgent Jeremy Corbyn to speak about the things that dared not be mentioned by his neoliberal predecessors. For, more powerfully and tragically than any blog, inspection report or political speech, the Grenfell fire has horrendously illuminated the very human impact of the Great Inequality at the faltering heart of British society and in particular the effect it has on that most vital need of everyone alive – the need for a comfortable, secure and perhaps above all, a safe place to call Home.
In Maslow's hierarchy, shelter is one of the most primal needs of home sapiens alongside food. That it is unavailable to so many in this, the fifth richest country on a materially prosperous world is beyond a scandal – rather it evidences that we live on a planet ruled by psychopathy, with an economic system founded on essentially psychopathic principles and an elite willing to sacrifice the lives of lessers to enjoy, in the case of Grenfell Tower, a better view.
For let's be in no doubt – while few people would actively harm others, millions willingly embrace a system that does untold harm to tens and hundreds of millions. Incidents like Grenfell Tower are simply the most striking, the most urgent, most public of the toll taken on those who are on the wrong side of the economic divide. Nero was probably unfairly accused of deliberately setting fire to Rome to turn squalid slum housing into his personal park, but the holocaust of decent housing and safe housing standards across Britain and most acutely in London has been a modern day fiddle of epic proportions. And the Tories and their allies are at the very heart of it.
From small beginnings, and, as with all cons, selling citizens' ruin as a virtue to their victims, the Thatcher Gang first alienated and then appropriated public housing before their grasping descendants effectively finished it off under Blair and Cameron. In this context, tearless Theresa, while an appalling, craven character in so many ways, is (perhaps unsurprisingly) unremarkable. Her pathological lack of empathy is no aberration but, if anything, the Ideal, representing the Homo Capitalissimus, the Children of Thatcher.
Consider the tack – first of all, selling off council houses to sitting tenants through the 1980s and 1990s, trumpeted in the same way as the sick joke of the "shareholder economy" when the state's energy assets were being flogged off, was marketed as giving people a security they could not get from council housing. This was in spite of the fact that tenancy of council housing was normally assured and, by law, at a fair rent. Rent controls and assured tenancies also at that time existed in the private rented sector, affording some degree of protection for renters.
Next Thatcher and Major went about dismantling all these controls and protections, supposedly for the benefit of "choice and flexibility". As tenants became homeowners unable to get a market price for their houses on council estates, many sold on to… private landlords, many of them Tory MPs or their relatives or business partners, mates or simply their elite class comrades. Around one in three homes sold to council tenants are now privately rented, without the levels of maintenance or security of tenure, nor low rents, that people once enjoyed.
Similarly, a slew of other regulations and arrangements were destroyed: for example, the state Property Services Agency with a fund of information and expertise on rent and building controls, including safety, was stripped down and privatised. Councils were barred from using the receipts from council house sales to invest in either new or even their remaining stock. And soon forced transfers to housing associations and the rip-off of "arms-length management organisations" (often the former council housing chiefs running their own "not for profit" company) meant that democratic control of housing was gone. State funding over the decades, under both Tories and Nu-Labour, then conspired to force what had been local or specialist charitable housing associations to merge and develop into ever bigger, remote beasts until now just a handful control the vast majority of "social housing", as what was once council housing is now known.
Everywhere you look over the last thirty years in social housing, all you can see is a steady stripping away of protection, contracting out of maintenance services, downgrading of tenants voices and underfunding of any redevelopments. And of course, in boroughs like Kensington & Chelsea, Tory leaders have made a virtue of running down their public services, running a surplus and paying a dividend back to their rich residents – the borough is on average the very wealthiest in the UK, but also one of the most grossly unequal. The absence of council staff from the tower area in the days after the fire was probably as much down to the fact that there are so very few of them as to bad organisation.
So here we are now – in the fifth richest society on the planet, in real terms more than twice as prosperous as it was in the 1970s, more and more people sleep in the street; millions more than ever can't afford to buy any housing; and London and elsewhere boast tens of thousands, if not more, empty properties purchased as "investments" to deliberately lie empty until their owners flog them on to the next property investor. Those who do have places to live may easily end up with insecure tenancies in properties whose landlords the current government decided last autumn to not make legally responsible for ensuring are fit for human habitation. Some may end up, as shown on the BBC by chance the evening after the Grenfell fire, crowded in rented properties three or four to a room, or living literally in a cupboard, or even in a garage with just a tarpaulin sheet for a door.
Or maybe they end up dying in a block of flats, with no fire escape, nor any sprinkler system, with flammable cladding primarily put in place to spare the eyes of the rich across the borough, offended by the site of an ugly tower block full of "little people" as one Tory MP patronisingly called the survivors. While tests show a 100% failure rate on cladding on tower blocks across the country now, it may yet be that they are compliant with fire safety standards - because they too have been compromised in the search for every more profit.
Much is being said about the need to learn from the fire. Corbyn has rightly and radically called for the requisitioning of the empty properties in the borough to house the survivors leading to shudders of outrage from many Tories and their collaborators.
Mark Bridgen MP fulminated that this was a nonsensical idea when student accommodation could be used instead (the irony of the state of a lot of that being lost amidst his blind arrogance); alleged celebrity Anne Diamond appeared on TV to dismiss the idea on the grounds that many of the owners live abroad so couldn't be contacted (email stops at Dover since Article 50 was invoked); but most breath-taking of all was the insistence of economist Andrew Lilico, Chairman of the Institute of Economic Affairs, on Radio 4 PM that it would be "immoral" to seize private property and if not doing so meant people were homeless "well, you don't always get exactly what you want." (49.30 mins in on - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tvj7f ). Even in a disaster of the magnitude of Grenfell tower, he feels that it is wrong to share property for the common need, never mind the common good.
The lines are drawn. Grenfell is not an aberration. It is not an accident. And Theresa May's Government by psychopathy should not be a surprise or a shock to us.
Because, ever since Thatcher declared there is no such thing as society, just individuals, this has been our destination. Capitalism is about exploitation – everything is in the end a commodity to be bought and sold and the smartest or fastest or best-protected racketeer gets to walk away with the prize. There is no empathy, no compassion. Self-interest and functioning without conscience or regard for others trumps all.
So, welcome to the future. To Thatcher's Children and the planet of the psychopaths. This is our world now, but only for as long as we allow it. For, like all "libertarians", what Mr Lilico sitting in the BBC studio yammering on about property rights forgets is that property rights only exist for as long as society - all of us - continue to recognise them.


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By Jamie Notter | July 19, 2016 | Engage People |
For very many association members, "engagement" includes experiences at the local level (frequently through a chapter/component), and at the national level, through the national association. There are obviously a lot of issues wrapped up in the national/component relationship, and I'm not attempting to address them all here. But I want to pull out an important point because it relates to culture.
When it comes to how associations manage the local/national split on engagement, we tend to divide and conquer. National does its thing, and the chapters do their thing. In most cases, the chapters are separate legal entities anyway, so this makes some sense. And historically, you tended to go to your local chapter for networking and local study groups for certification, but relied on national to provide the big annual meeting and the certification standards. Fine. But this divide and conquer approach led to the development of distinctly different cultures at national and the chapters over time.
And perhaps that's not the end of the world (there are always variations among subgroups within a culture), but in today's environment, much of engagement involves an online or virtual component, which means the lines between local and national can blur. The member wants to go online to find out about volunteering opportunities through the association's new "volunteer bank," and they don't particularly care if national created it or if the chapter did, but they're expecting to see volunteer opportunities that are both local and national. But our divide and conquer separate culture pattern doesn't like these blurred lines. Someone has to "own" that volunteer bank, and the thought of negotiating with 50+ chapters on how to manage it is really depressing. Let's create a national volunteer bank, and then hope the chapters can figure out a way to use it locally. That's the best we can do.
So, here's the deal: Maybe the new operating environment is asking us to shift our culture. Maybe the very separate cultures we have nurtured over the years at the national and local levels are creating a negative experience for our stakeholders. Maybe in order to succeed today, we need to do things differently. Maybe we will have to change the way we share information with the chapters, make decisions about programming or even share resources.
If that sounds impossible to you, then maybe you should look for a new line of work. Sorry to be harsh, but maybe you need to go find an industry that is not in flux, that has a super-stable customer base whose experiences and expectations aren't changing rapidly. Go find that job, so you can show up every day and implement according to the plan and the way it's always been done.
Because we need to make room for a different kind of association executive. One who recognizes the work of associations — the work of engaging members and stakeholders in ways that produce extraordinary value for both the stakeholders and the organization — requires innovation, new practices and a much stronger focus on the role of culture.
Culture makes it clear what is valued, and our traditional local/national split is all about valuing efficiency and control in a centralized hierarchy. It puts the association at the center of the universe, and that's not what today's stakeholders expect. We need cultures that are open to integrating local and national engagement experiences. The longer you wait to make those changes, the easier it will be for newer entities to swoop in and start stealing away members.
Jamie Notter
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Jamie is an author and culture consultant at Human Workplaces who uses culture analytics and customized consulting to drive growth, innovation, and engagement for organizations around the world. He brings 25 years of experience in conflict resolution, generational differences and culture change to his work with leaders leveraging the power of culture. The author of two books — "When Millennials Take Over" and "Humanize" — Jamie has a Master's in conflict resolution from George Mason and a certificate in OD from Georgetown, where he serves as adjunct faculty.
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Gay Men To That!!: Why Do Right Wingers Hate Obama? Bill Maher Asks.
Why Do Right Wingers Hate Obama? Bill Maher Asks.
He's got a point. President Obama has governed like a moderate Republican and yet the far right can't hate him enough. Gee, I wonder why?
[Obama] didn't go on a spending spree. He didn't break up the too-big-to-fail banks. They've only gotten bigger. And fail-ier. That's not what liberals wanted. That's what conservatives wanted.
At the 2008 convention, Sarah Palin chanted "drill baby drill!" Under Obama, there's more drilling than ever. That's not what environmentalists wanted. That's what conservatives wanted.
Obama spent most of last year conceding the Republican premise that government needed cutting. That's not what progressives wanted. That's what the Tea Party wanted.
The Dow was at 7949 when he took office. Now it's 12000 and over, and corporate profits are at their highest ever. If he's a socialist, he's a lousy one. He could not be less threatening if he was walking home with ice tea and Skittles.
So the question remains. How could you guys be so unhappy with Obama while I'm so unhappy with Obama? You think you got coal in your stocking? I wanted single payer health care, a carbon emissions bill, gun control and legalized pot. If you get to carry around all this outrage over me getting that sh*t, shouldn't I have gotten it?
So just admit it. This isn't about what Obama is. it's about what you need him to be. Because hating him is what gets you up in the morning.


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Victory Fund Endorses Ritchie Torres for US Congress; Faces Anti-LGBTQ Opponent in Effort to Become First LGBTQ Afro-Latinx Member of Congress
Washington, DC – Today LGBTQ Victory Fund, the only national organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ leaders to public office, endorsed New York City Councilmember Ritchie Torres in his 2020 race for New York's 15th Congressional district. In the primary, Torres will face one of the most anti-LGBTQ Democrats in the entire nation – fellow Councilmember Ruben Diaz, Sr. – and the primary winner will almost certainly win the general election in this heavily Democratic district. Torres will become the first openly LGBTQ Afro-Latinx person ever elected to Congress if he is victorious in November 2020.
In the second quarter, Torres raised $522,000 compared to Diaz's $80,766, making Torres the clear frontrunner in the race.
"This is among the most important Democratic Congressional primaries of 2020, with voters choosing between one of the most homophobic Democrats in the nation and an openly gay man who champions equality," said Mayor Annise Parker, President & CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund. "Ritchie will become the first openly LGBTQ Afro-Latinx person ever elected to Congress when he wins in 2020 – adding a crucial voice to a Congress where people of color and LGBTQ people are severely underrepresented. The South Bronx deserves a leader who uses their position to champion the urban poor and other underserved communities, not a man who uses his platform to denigrate his own constituents because they are women or LGBTQ."
"This primary presents a stark choice: between a progressive new guard and a reactionary old guard; between an LGBTQ trailblazer and a vicious homophobe; between a new generation of leadership and more of the same," said Torres. "This endorsement makes clear that this race is of utmost importance to the LGBTQ community and will have a profound impact on the types of policies that are pushed in Washington DC to impact LGBTQ people. I'm proud to have the endorsement of Victory Fund."
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Re: Grey Knight 1500 Pt.
i can see that the dread will be in the stormraven.
You need more threats on the boards, stuff for you opponent to spread the love on.
Paladins?... get an Apothecary for them or else go for 2 normal termie squads for about the same price.
Apoth with Warding Staff equals nearly impossible to kill CC machines. 2++ equals and 2 wounds equals opponent saying "FAQ off".
Try to also simplify some of your squads which means more points for you to spend. I would be sad if only 1 model died because of how many points it costed.


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Sonic Generations Review
November 15, 2011 December 7, 2020 Phil Varley No comments
7.5 Overall Score
Gameplay:8/10
Style:8/10
Value:6/10
Fantastic controls | Great Gameplay | Nostalgic Soundtrack
No special zones | Bosses are poor | Too Short
There is nary a blue furry werehog in sight as Sonic is returning to his roots… But the question on everyone's mind is whether or not the hedgehog can still cut it?
For years now Sonic has had release after release of sub-par games of questionable quality, leaving fans such as myself waiting for the day that Sega just get it right again. As the game attached to the 20th anniversary of the Hedgehog himself, Sega promised this game to be a playable tribute to all of Sonics past.
Well I can put your minds at ease as Sega have listened to the fans for a change and left the gimmicks out and concentrated on pure speedy action, yet there are still some things missing and the game just doesn't quite reach the lofty heights of old.
The game opens up in a very clever way, no cut-scenes or anything, just straight into the Green Hill zone as old-school Sonic. The opening few steps are perfectly replicated in 3-D graphics, as well as the music having a new remixed form, yet still oddly retro in its style, to anyone who has been playing since the days of the Genesis such as myself, this was a purely amazing and nostalgic thing to walk into. You play through the whole act, which while it varies and adds new elements to the formula, it keeps the original side scrolling feel and the only abilities available to Sonic are the ones that he had in the genesis days, once you clear this though the storyline steps in and this is where the cracks begin to show…..
The opening cinematic re-introduces us to the modern day Sonic and has large variety of friends, which appear to have gathered for Sonics birthday and are throwing him a surprise party. Now I know that the Storyline is not what people are going to play this game for but do the characters really have to be so incessantly annoying? While watching any of the cutscenes throughout the game I would literally cringe at line after line and the story is very throw away, I honestly think that the game would be better off without it and simply got down to the game itself. Anyway basically a big purple cloud thing steals Sonics' friends and scatters them throughout time, in which both Sonics decide to journey through their past to rescue them.
But enough about that, let's talk about the gameplay itself. The game has been split into two major styles, classic Sonic and modern Sonic. Classic Sonic is representative of the genesis era of Sonic game, and therefore both looks and plays in that way, it seems that to make this happen they took the engine from last year's Sonic 4 and changed up some things as it seems to work a lot better.
Modern Sonic is represented by adopting the style from the normal Sonic sections of Sonic Unleashed (you know, the parts that were actually good), and there is not much change from it, boost system remains intact along with homing attacks, drifting and sliding. It's fair to say that modern Sonics levels give the game a massive sense of speed and in many ways play much like a racing game which works to its advantage, as you get into a good rhythm of performing certain actions and stringing together successful homing attacks that it makes the game feel really tight, it's safe to say that this is the best that 3-D Sonic has ever controlled.
You enter the levels via a hub world which is completely white and by moving from left to right you will come across the zones one by one, with a boss gate situated after every three zones. The game limits you by splitting the hub world into sections which have been dubbed 'Eras', while you can enter the zones of each era in any order you must complete each of these zones and defeat the era boss to advance onto the next.
There are three sections in total which are the Genesis era, the Dreamcast era and the Modern era. Each contains three zones (from three different games of that era) and every zone has two acts, one for Classic Sonic and one for Modern Sonic. Through the whole game none of these zones are bad and all have their own aspects to them, saying that though some of the later stages start to become less fun and more annoying, specifically the stage from Sonic Colours, to me it goes on for far too long and the sound for one of the power ups is really irritating, and you're forced to use it a lot throughout the level. Another complaint I have was that the zones needed some more variation, there were three city themed stages and no sign of the series' iconic casino level, I mean c'mon guys.
Another major omission to do with stage structure that I cannot let go is that the game contains no special stages! These are an integral part of the classic Sonic series and I cannot believe that Sega overlooked the chance to bring them back, especially considering this is meant to be a tribute to the past. Instead you acquire the Chaos Emeralds as you defeat bosses and rivals, I was very disappointed by this.
This brings me nicely to my next point which is the Boss stages, which I think is an aspect of the game that has been treated very poorly. None of the bosses that you have to fight are that fun to fight at all and end up bordering on being an annoyance, I can see that they tried to introduce some cool mechanics, specifically from the first boss fight but they are still far too easy. I believe that if the bosses provided some more challenge then I would have enjoyed them much more, but alas they ended up being the worst part of the game, the biggest offender being the final boss who put a real downer on the game. Alongside these bosses though were three Rival fights, in contrast to the boss battle these were actually handled very well with them having some cool mechanics to use and were actually fun to participate in, they were still a little on the easy side though.
Graphically the game performs well; it's nothing exceptional but suits the games style and provides a good visual aspect to the game. In my experience the frame rate held very well (which considering the speed you moved at times is very impressive) and there are no graphical glitches to report. The sound also fairs very well, the Genesis era has amazing soundtrack and has been remixed wonderfully, the songs from later eras while not as good are still satisfactory. The game also contains all of the classic sounds so any Sonic veterans out there will feel right at home.
The game also contains a customisation aspect to the game, you are able to use the points you gain from completing levels (why not just use rings like before?) to buy upgrades to Sonic to help make the game easier. These upgrades include things such as faster speed & acceleration, bigger boost meter and longer breath amount for underwater sections. There are also 5 red medals per act to be collected and a myriad of challenges (often involving Sonics friends) for every act as well, which help to extend the lifespan of an otherwise very short game that will only take you a day or two to get through. While some of these challenges are fun, such as the racing and the Tails based ones where you use him to fly about (reminiscent of the old school co-op), the majority of them are just frustrating and end up being an annoyance.
So while this is easily the best and most concise Sonic game that we have had in years, it is still not without its faults, while it does everything that you want it to do there are some annoying things that are just holding it back from greatness. The game starts off amazingly and I was loving every second of it but the further in I got it just became less fun to complete, which is a real shame since by the end I was left a bit disappointed by the whole experience. Despite this though Sega are still on the right track with their Sonic releases, so it's a worthwhile tribute to the series and a good sign for the future to Sonic!
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Bonnie Gold (née en 1948) est une mathématicienne américaine, logicienne mathématique, philosophe des mathématiques et professeure de mathématiques. Elle est professeure émérite de mathématiques à l'université Monmouth.

Formation et carrière
Gold a terminé son doctorat en 1976 à l'université Cornell, sous la direction de Michael D. Morley.

Elle a été directrice du département de mathématiques du  avant de déménager à Monmouth, où elle est également devenue directrice du département.

Contributions
La recherche de la thèse de Gold, intitulée Compact and  -compact formulas in , a ensuite été publiée dans la revue Archiv für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung et concernait la logique infinitaire.

Avec Sandra Z. Keith et William A. Marion, elle a co-édité Assessment Practices in Undergraduate Mathematics, publié par la Mathematical Association of America (MAA) en 1999. Avec Roger A. Simons, Gold est également l'éditeur d'un autre livre, Proof and Other Dilemmas: Mathematics and Philosophy (MAA, 2008).

Son essai "How your philosophy of mathematics impacts your teaching" a été sélectionné pour être inclus dans The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012. Elle y soutient que la philosophie des mathématiques affecte l'enseignement des mathématiques même lorsque les principes philosophiques de l'enseignant sont implicites et non examinés.

Reconnaissance
En 2012, Gold est devenue la lauréate du 22e prix Louise-Hay de l'Association for Women in Mathematics pour sa contribution à l'enseignement des mathématiques. La citation du prix soulignait son travail dans l'évaluation de l'éducation pour les études de premier cycle en mathématiques.

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Liens externes

 Page personnelle à Monmouth

Étudiant de l'université Cornell
Professeur de mathématiques
Philosophe des mathématiques
Mathématicienne du XXe siècle
Mathématicienne américaine
Naissance en 1948
Lauréate du prix Louise-Hay

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The Jack Fords
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Doors: 7 PM / Show: 8 PM
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The Blasters perform at the Beachland Ballroom with the Jack Fords.
The Blasters exemplify the best traditions of American Music, performing with passion and honesty that for over three decades has won the hearts and souls of fans worldwide. Composed of founding members vocalist-guitarist Phil Alvin, drummer Bill Bateman and bassist John Bazz with Keith Wyatt on guitar, they carry on a hard-won legacy as one of the most recognizable and credible bands in American Music. Their influences range from the likes of George Jones and Carl Perkins to Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, James Brown and Big Joe Turner, all blending into a sound that ignores the lines between Rock & Roll, Country, Blues and Rockabilly. "Fun On Saturday Night" (Rip Cat Records) is the Blasters' sixth and latest studio album, featuring twelve tracks that extend the band's legacy of classic recordings. Fronted by Phil Alvin's powerful vocals, the band follows through with spontaneity, power and grit that make their live performances into experiences not to be missed.
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Q: How to restructure data using a loop (without crashing computer!) and write to csv in python Using read_csv in Pandas,
I have imported a huge data set with >500K rows, each row contains a taxonomic code with location and abundance values from a specific date and station.  These values repeat for different stations over time.  I cannot create a unique time stamp because time was not recorded, thus I only have the date.
My columns are : Cruise Name, Station number, Latitude, Longitude, Date(YY/MM/DD), Taxonomic Code, Abundance
I need to rearrange the data such that my columns will be the individual taxonomic codes (n>400) as the column name with abundance as values for those columns, and the rows will be occurrence with unique index consisting of location and date information.  To further complicate this, I need to include zeros where there were no observations for the taxonomic codes for those particular samples

edit: I created a new data frame with a unique identifier including all pertinent location information in a single column, the abundance, and taxonomic ID using:
df['ID'] = df[['timestamp','cruise','station','lat','long','depth']].apply(lambda x: ','.join(map(str, x)), axis=1)
df3 = pd.DataFrame([df.ID,df.TaxonomicCode,df.Abundance]
    ID  oldtxc  zoodns100
0   1977-02-13 00:00:00,MM7701,2,41.1833,-70.6667,...   101 114.95
1   1977-02-13 00:00:00,MM7701,2,41.1833,-70.6667,...   102 40118.18

define variables and count using numpy unique:
species = df3['TaxonomicCode']
cruise=df3['ID']
taxa=np.unique(species) #419
locats = np.unique(cruise) #27530
I then created another data frame filled with zeros using:
aa=pd.DataFrame(index=locats, columns=taxa) #create empty matrix
aa=aa.fillna(0) #fill NaN with 0
2   100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 ... 4500    4504    4601    4604    4700    5000    5100    5101    5150    9114
1977-02-13 00:00:00,MM7701,2,41.1833,-70.6667,33.0  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   ... 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

Now I want to loop through the raw data to fill in the values of 'aa'?
for d in range(len(df3)):
    loc1 = df3.ID[d]
    tax1 = df3.oldtxc[d]
    locIndex = np.where(locats == loc1)[0][0]
    taxIndex = np.where(taxa == tax1)[0][0]
    aa[locIndex, taxIndex] = df3.zoodns100[d]
This works initially and gives the expected output, but crashes my computer after only ~ 1000 iterations (with 509K iterations left to go... gulp.)  I am using iPython notebook and/or spyder and the result is the same.  Could this be a memory issue?
Ultimately I need to print the resulting dataframe 'aa' to a CSV file, is there a way to do this during the iteration to clear memory?

edit 2
Now I see that my loop is causing a vertical concatenation of columns onto my dataframe 'aa', which could explain the crashing.  What I am attempting to do is to fill in the values of 'aa' (which is and should ultimately be 419 rows x 27530 columns) from a single column in dataframe ('df3') which is 510K rows long and contains the abundance values for each observed species at each location.  I need to match all of the abundance data from each location into my respective columns of 'aa' for each row of 'aa.'  Each row of 'aa' is a unique location index, created using 'np.unique' on the location values in 'df3' 510K -> 27K unique stations.
I am trying to iterate over the length 'df3' and attempting to find the matching location indices (rows) in 'df3' and pair the abundance data associated with those indices to the corresponging single row in 'aa'
(clear as mud, right? this is hard to explain...)
I am sure it is my syntax, but I want to assign values to dataframe 'aa'
aa[row, column] = value
this appears to be causing a concatenation, rather than assigning values.  What am I missing here?

A: I can't understand your entire question, but I have a couple pointers that might help.
First, I don't think there's any reason for your statement:
aa=aa.fillna(0)

There's no benefit to preallocating all of those zeros, and it clutters your code.
I think instead it's more efficient for you to have something along the lines of:
aa=pd.DataFrame(index=locats, columns=taxa)
for d in range(len(df3))
    ...
    #build a Series (new_row) for Just one row
    ...
    aa = aa.append(new_row, ignore_index=True) #T/F depending on what you want

Also, you might want to reconsider your for loop. Pandas has an iterrows() function that you could use instead. You use it like this:
for row_index, row in df3.iterrows():

When it comes to concatenating, you may introduce new performance issues. There's a post here that discusses your options. But if you look, those are talking about millions, and yours are much less. So I think there's hope.
Along those lines, don't feel obligated to solve the entire problem in one iteration. That's another reason not to allocate everything in advance. If you have genuine performance issues, it might be possible to break it off in chunks. For example, every 1000 rows iterated, you could flush your current DataFrame to a .csv file, thereby releasing that memory.  You might end up with 500 .csv files, but then a separate function would be able to read them all in. Assuming they are the only .csv files in the directory:
def concatinate_files(files_path):
    file_list= []
    for file_ in os.listdir(files_path):
        if file_.endswith('.csv'):
            file_list.append(files_path + '/' + file_)
   combined_df = DataFrame()
   for file_name in file_list:
        df = pd.read_csv(file_name)
       combined_df = combined_df.append(df, ignore_index=False)

Hope that helps.
UPDATE 8/20 in response to your 'edit2'
Your problem in your most recent post is that if 'row' and 'column' are integers, than you are trying to use integer location indexing, but not calling the correct function (iloc). That causes columns to be appended. Try running this example code to see what I mean.
df = DataFrame(np.random.randn(4, 4))
df['1','2']=3   #not what you want
print df
df.iloc[1,2]=3  #what I think you mean
print df

Again, this goes back to my original suggestion though. I don't think it's in your best interest to allocate the 419x27530 up front. I think some of your problems are from your mindset/insistence to try to fit things that way. Besides the preallocation, you mention that your data orientation is a problem, but I'm not clear on exactly how that is. It's perfectly valid to build your results as 27530x1, 27530x2 ... 27530x419 and then call DataFrame.Transpose (df.T) to get the 419x27530 orientation you want.

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HEARTBROKEN family members have paid tribute to a woman who was murdered at a house in Cambridgeshire on Wednesday.
Sally Elizabeth Cavender, 55, from Sawston, was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge in a critical condition after emergency services were called to a property in Lamb Drove in Cambourne at 1.35am.
In a statement, her family said today: "Sally was a much-loved daughter and sister and we are all very shocked and saddened by this turn of events.
"As her family we want to remember her as a bright, bubbly girl, who loved to travel and go to concerts and was full of laughter and fun.
"Sally didn't have any children, but her mum, brother, sister and extended family are all supporting each other.
"While we understand the media interest, we please ask for privacy so that, as a family, we can grieve at this very difficult time.
"We would like to thank the paramedics and staff at the intensive care unit for all their attempts to save her life, and we have every confidence in the ongoing police investigation."
Robert Simpson-Scott, 43, of Lamb Drove, Cambourne, has been charged with Sally's murder and the attempted murder of a man in connection with the same incident.
He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Cambridge Magistrates' Court.
A post mortem examination is due to take place this morning at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.


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Yesterday was the day. As I've celebrated Mother's Day over the years, I've learned that it is a day that bears weight and expectation; not necessarily a "queen for the day" celebration for many moms out there.
My Mother's Day this year was full of sunshine and goodness among the lovely families of Baltimore County Club. After what seemed like a fortnight of rain and gray, the clouds parted and the sunshine burst through. As blustery wind dried the puddles, we were able to tromp into a verdant backdrop of springtime.
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Edison International Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter of 2003 – Part I & II
ROSEMEAD, Calif., May 7, 2003 -- Edison International (NYSE: EIX) recorded earnings per share of 17 cents in the first quarter of 2003, compared to 26 cents in the first quarter of 2002 on a reported basis. The lower earnings reflect a planned refueling outage at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), partially offset by improved performance at Edison Mission Energy (EME).
"We have made solid progress in the first quarter of 2003," said EIX Chairman John Bryson. "Southern California Edison continues its trend of good performance and Edison Mission Energy has a better than expected outcome. We remain on course toward our long-term goal of overall financial health and flexibility."
The earnings include a three-cents-per-share charge at EME for a change in accounting principle in the first quarter of 2003 and two cents per share in earnings from discontinued operations at EME in the first quarter of 2002. EIX's core earnings, which exclude the two items above, were 20 cents per share in the first quarter of 2003 compared to 24 cents per share in the same period last year. For the periods presented below, EIX's core earnings are the same as earnings from continuing operations.
FIRST QUARTER EARNINGS DETAIL
Earnings (Loss) from Continuing Operations
Southern California Edison (SCE) earned $102 million in the first quarter of 2003, compared with $146 million in the same period last year. The $44 million decrease primarily reflects a planned refueling outage at SONGS during the first quarter of 2003. The decrease also includes higher operating and maintenance expenses from higher health-care costs and storm-damage expenses, partially offset by higher performance-based ratemaking revenue.
In January 2002, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved the creation of the Procurement-Related Obligations Account (PROACT) to record the recovery of $3.6 billion of SCE's procurement-related obligations pursuant to the settlement agreement between SCE and the CPUC. In February 2003, the CPUC allowed SCE to transfer $209 million into its PROACT balance for natural gas hedging costs. As of March 31, 2003, the remaining PROACT balance was $640 million.
EME's first quarter 2003 loss from continuing operations was $8 million compared to a loss of $41 million in the same period last year. The reduced loss of $33 million is primarily due to higher U.S. energy prices in the first quarter of 2003 compared to 2002. EME's earnings are seasonal with higher earnings expected during the summer months.
Edison Capital's earnings for the first quarter of 2003 were $15 million, down $4 million from the same period last year. This decrease is primarily due to a maturing investment portfolio which produces lower income, partially offset by lower net interest expense and higher tax benefits.
EIX parent company's loss of $19 million reflects an improvement of $4 million over the prior year's period that is primarily due to the absence of 2002 losses from Edison O&M Services resulting from EIX's decision to wind down the business in 2003.
Earnings from Discontinued Operations
The 2003 first quarter financial results reflect no earnings or loss from discontinued operations while 2002 first quarter results include earnings from discontinued operations of $5 million from EME's Lakeland Project in the UK.
Change in Accounting Principle
EME's results include a three-cent, or $9 million, charge for the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle related to the new accounting standard for recording asset retirement obligations adopted by EIX in 2003. As SCE follows accounting principles for rate-regulated enterprises, implementation of this new standard did not affect its earnings.
Quarter Ended March 31,
Earnings (Loss) Per Share (Unaudited)
2003 2002 Change
Southern California Edison
$(0.14)
Edison Mission Energy
Edison Capital
Mission Energy Holding Co.
EIX parent company
EIX Core Earnings –
EIX Consol. Earnings from Continuing Operations
EME's Lakeland Project
EIX Consol. Earnings from Discontinued Ops.
EME Cumulative Effect of Accounting Change
Total EIX Consolidated Earnings
Earnings (Loss) (in millions) (Unaudited)
$(44)
Reminder: EIX to Hold Conference Call Today
Today, EIX will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2003 financial results at 8:30 a.m. PDT. Although two-way participation in the telephone call is limited to financial analysts and investors, all other interested parties are invited to participate in a "listen-only mode" through a simultaneous webcast on the company's Web site at www.edisoninvestor.com. Financial and other statistical information to be presented during the call also will be available on the Web site. The domestic call-in number is (800) 356-8584 and the Call ID# is 9200.
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Based in Rosemead, Calif., Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison, Edison Mission Energy and Edison Capital.


If huskies, reindeer and the Northern Lights all sound like essential components in a winter escape – then this is the trip for you. An enchanting country, we simply cannot get enough of Finland. Encompassing a vast Arctic wilderness, storybook towns – and of course, its trump card, the Northern Lights, it is utterly spellbinding. Showcasing the best of Finland, our travel experts have devised the perfect five-night escape which will take you to the heart of the wilderness of Finnish Lapland and back out the other side to hip Helsinki. A truly magical adventure, spend your days at remote forest spas, chasing the Northern Lights on snowmobiles, whistling to your own husky team and sitting atop a sleigh pulled by reindeer. Oh, and if you're feeling in the festive mood? We can even arrange for a visit to Father Christmas at his workstore. This is a trip which will enchant, delight and exhilarate – and it's not to be missed.
You'll ramp things up again in the evening as you head out into the night on a snowmobile. But this isn't any ordinary snowmobile ride. As you ride out into the magic of the snowy forests, keep your eyes on the sky for any sign of those colorful flickering lights. A natural phenomenon, the Northern Lights can never be guaranteed – but our guides are some of the best in the business and will take you away from the city lights of Rovaniemi to find the perfect spot from which to admire the sky. Once, you're in position simply sit back, as your guide lights a fire, and enjoy a picnic of Finnish 'Makara' sausages, grilled over the flames, and a glass of warming Lappish berry juice, waiting for the Lights to appear overhead.
No trip to this remote region would be complete without an Arctic safari…or two. This morning, you'll take in mesmerising views of the snow-covered forests and hills from a husky sled. Having met your team and given them a whistle, speed across the snow to a soundtrack of dogs panting and snow flying before stopping off to visit Father Christmas in his workstore in Santa Claus Village in the afternoon. You'll then meet some of his most trusted helpers at a local reindeer farm. Chat to the herders and feed the reindeer a few of their favorite snacks, before heading out for a magical evening of Aurora Borealis hunting, in a sleigh pulled by a few of Rudolph's friends.


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This article is an extension of the former on sales article.
We formerly talked how one's inherent nature brings out the maximum potential. We are either more towards logical or the emotional. This is the first thing that our customers associate us with. And this happens to be the strength as well because on following our natural self in dealing with our customers it brings out the genuineness within us.
One's nature must not be confused with the position one needs to take to tackle a situation. One has to be logical or tackle a situation with emotional presence if it demands so.
Here we will take up the skill one must acquire to become the sales genius we want to be.
Again these skills are not rocket science and can be mastered through discipline.
The ability to be a consultant – As a sales professional, if you are good at your deliverable, you would be regarded more than the employ of that company. This kind of privilege is not simple to attain. It has to be earned and it take genuine effort. One cannot just get it by selling one own service or product. It can only be achieved but solving your customer's problem. And in lot many cases it may not involve just selling you stuffs.
It is important to understand your customer's plight first and then suggest a resolution. Your client is looking for a consultant and not another salesmen.
This does not imply that you do not sell your product. If your product can solve the problem then it is one's duty to get through the sales process as smoothly as possible. If your product can solve a part of the problem then do acknowledge that. Use your market knowledge to ensure that your customers can get the complete solution. Let your product or service be a part of it.
This clarity will surely please your customer because honesty is a scarce commodity in sales business.
The art of follow up – If you have been into sales then you know that closing the deal is not a simple task. It needs multiple follow ups to get to finally conclude the deal. Even the payment clearance would need multiple follow-ups. Simply put follow-up are the bread and butter of sales profession. One who has mastered the art of follow up surely have the edge over other sales person.
Here are some pointers that would be very helpful.
The best follow-up are the ones that reduces further follow ups.
Try giving a call after an important email or the other way round. If you had a meeting confirmation call follow it up with an email.
Any invoice emails must be followed up with a call, without an exception. Nothing delays a payment more than a mistake in invoice. Get it verified and put it over email.
A good idea is to keep a note of your customer's interests, hobbies, achievements etc. Sometime you cannot follow up for the same reason multiple time. Just sending a good article on holiday destination in case your client loves traveling. This unofficial update is good enough to remind him what you are following up with him. This can only be applied if you have develop a good rapport with your client.
Good rapport is a mark of a sales genius.
Fall in love with chaos – Your client has other commitments apart from attending you. We can never know what's happening on the client's side. This makes the life of a sales person really tough. All your efforts and follow-ups seem to be in vain just because your client is not able to give time to your proposal. This will feel very chaotic. A sales genius understands that this is a very common occurrence and learns to makes his/her peace with chaos.
For this very reason it is important to be organized. And being organized stars from being disciplined. A short note after every activity, like client meet, product – demo, internal –target-meeting etc. will be very helpful. Even the client based follow up needs tracking.
If possible ask you company to use mobile technology to introduce automation in the sales process. As you will be handling multiple clients, sales automation will surely organize a large part of the day for you.
Organising yourself will ensure that you are ready when your client is.
Driven by Ownership – This is one of the crucial attribute of a salesperson that makes him or her truly remarkable.
There would be innumerable reasons as an excuse during the sales phase. But the sales person who can take in charge of the situation as if they own them will be the sales genius.
Ownership is a contagious attribute. Sales being an initiation to a business, this attribute is reflected across team when a salesman shows ownership. The quality of ownership seeps into the team that installs, gives support and take order for customization.
This level of ownership can be developed if a person works as if he is in a war front.
Communication – No matter what there has to be a constant communication with the client and cross team. It is the responsibility of the sales person to be the bridge between his organization and the client.
Keeping the client updated – Keep the client updated about the new feature that you have introduced. Do not do a sales pitch. Your client would like to buy your product but hate being sold to.
Find out your inherent nature – Are you a logical person or an emotional driver. Build on that nature as these nature would be the one that your clients would be associating you with. Your true nature will bring the genuineness in your words and action.


Quantum physics isn't like normal physics that describes human experience. Many of its assertions seem not just counter-intuitive but actually wrong – except that they exist, and therefore tell us that our view of reality is what's actually wrong. Quantum physics does not, however, tell us how they all work. Einstein struggled with some of the concepts because they violated relativity's conclusion that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Now, however, further proof of a phenomenon called Bell's Inequality further entrenches some weird, inexplicable, behaviours. It is possible to create pairs of particles that can communicate with each other over any distance instantaneously. Separate them by a galaxy and a change in one immediately makes the other change. Instant communication has been proven. We don't know how it works, but the fact that it works is proof that we have a lot to learn about reality.


Agility is fast-paced, exciting sport, where a dog and handler team must work together in order to complete a series of obstacles with no faults and within a set time. Obstacles include a variety of jumps, tunnels, hoops, weave poles, elevated platforms and ramps, which the dog must negotiate in the correct order.
At CDC we have multiple levels of training: Beginner, Intermediate and Advance are our foundation levels where you will learn obstacles and handling skills.
Novice, Excellent and Masters are our trialling levels that focus on perfecting skills needed for trialling, and enhancing the teamwork between dog and handler.
To attend classes, you will need to become a member of the club. Agility is a popular sport at CDC, so we suggest registering your interest early.
For more information on Agility at CDC you may download our brochure here.
Agility intake forms can be found here or ask at the office. Email your completed form back to the office.
In order to compete in trials, you will need to join your state canine control body (Dogs ACT or Dogs NSW), and register your dog with them. Any dog can be registered for obedience trials: your dog's parents, and whether he/she is purebred or not, doesn't matter.
Any breed of dog is able to take part in agility, the sport particularly suits energetic dogs. As agility is off lead whilst working, good handler focus and a reliable recall are essential.
To commence agility training at CDC dogs must be at least 14 months of age and pass our intake test. This consists of a basic fitness test and an off-lead control test.
It's important that your dog is physically fit and not overweight.
It can be useful to think about agility like any other team sport, where the handler and dog are the athletes, who need to train and develop teamwork to suceed.
Each year we run five sessions of night classes. These 2-month sessions are held on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday nights depending on the level of instruction being taken, and on instructor availability.
Visit the ANKC website for rules and regulations for participating in obedience trials. Trial dates and schedules can be found on our calendar or your state canine control body.


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De Vomano is een rivier in Abruzzo, Midden-Italië met een lengte van 76 kilometer.

De rivier ontspringt op de helling van de Monte San Franco in het Nationaal Park Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga nabij de Passo delle Capannelle. De rivier stroomt noordwaarts en vormt de scheiding tussen de berggroepen Gran Sasso en Monti della Laga. In het hoogste deel van het stroomgebied wordt de Vomano enkele maal gestuwd ten behoeve van stroomopwekking. Onderweg wordt de rivier gevoed door zo'n dertig zijrivieren waarvan de Arno en Mavone uit het Gran Sassogebied de belangrijkste zijn.

In het lagere stroomgebied heeft de rivier een breed dal uitgesleten. Op de hoogte van Castelnuovo slijt de rivierbodem zo snel uit dat hier in in twintig jaar tijd een heuse kloof is ontstaan. Bij de badplaats Roseto degli Abruzzi vormt de rivier een kleine delta en stroomt dan uit in de Adriatische Zee.

Belangrijkste plaatsen
 Montorio al Vomano
 Castelnuovo Vomano
 Roseto degli Abruzzi

Rivier in Abruzzen
Stroomgebied van de Adriatische Zee


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THE ODER BRIDGEHEADS 1945 — The Oder bridgeheads lay just 60 kilometres from Berlin and in late January 1945, with the Wehrmacht retreating back into Germany before the Soviet onslaught, the German high command ordered that bridgeheads be maintained on the eastern bank of the Oder river. The Germans fought tenaciously, against the Red Army forces and held out for nearly two months at one of the locations. Tomasz Zgoda tells us the full story. Operation 'Flagpole' — Jean Paul Pallud explains how on October 22, 1942 — on the eve of Operation 'Torch', the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa — a secret meeting took place in French Algeria between a party of five high-ranking American officers led by Major General Mark W. Clark, which had been covertly put ashore by submarine that night, and a party of pro-Allied officers of the French Vichy army led by Général Charles Mast. The aim of the clandestine conference was to co-ordinate French and American plans so that the landings would not be opposed by Vichy-French armed forces. Pinguin in Australian Waters — In October-November 1940, the German auxiliary cruiser and armed merchant raider Pinguin, in conjunction with the Norwegian tanker Storstad, which she had captured and converted into an auxiliary minelayer named Passat, laid a total of 230 sea mines in seven minefields off the southern and eastern coast of Australia. These mines led to several 'firsts': the first Allied vessel to be lost in Australian waters during the war; the first US merchant ship to go down; the first US merchant navy casualty; and the first ship to be lost by the Royal Australian Navy. Many of the mines were subsequently hauled in or washed ashore on Australia's beaches, one accidental explosion then leading to the war's first victims of enemy action on Australian soil. David Mitchelhill-Green tells the story.
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