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The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is the higher-end version of the Galaxy S8. The smartphone comes with slight upgrades of course at a higher price. The flagship device is intended to provide users with the perfect smartphone experience.
The smartphone is a combination of metal and glass that reproduces a premium look and feel. The curved edges on the sides make it easy to hold.
Display and Other Features
The Galaxy S8 Plus features a 6.2-inch QHD+ curved Super AMOLED screen that is combined with excellent viewing angles which also offers good legibility even in the toughest of conditions. On top, there is Corning's Gorilla Glass 5 protection that protects the device from attracting minor scratches.
The device is equipped with a fingerprint reader which is fast and accurate. One of the striking features of the Galaxy S8 Plus is that the smartphone also sports an iris scanner at the back. Also, the device ships with IP68 certification which make the smartphone dust-proof and water resistant.
Camera and Storage
For imaging, there is a 12-megapixel camera with OIS (optical image stabilization) support that promises better and clear images even in low light. Also, to aid dim-light photography and videos, there is a dual-tone LED flash. On the front, for selfie lovers, the Galaxy S8 Plus is armed with an 8-megapixel autofocus front-facing shooter.
Onboard storage on the Galaxy S8 Plus include 64GB which can further be expanded using a microSD card up to 256GB.
Performance and Platform
You can expect flawless performance as the smartphone is powered by an octa-core Exynos 8895 chipset which also comes with a liquid cooling feature to enable smooth gameplay. To enable lag-free multitasking, there is 4GB of RAM.
The Galaxy S8 Plus runs the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system out of the box with the proprietary TouchWiz UI on top that provides users with the latest Android experience.
Battery and Connectivity
The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is backed by a Li-Ion 3,500 mAh battery that is sure to last throughout the day. The device also has support for wireless charging. There is Adaptive Fast Charge support which ensures that you are not out of power for a long period.
Connectivity options include 4G, dual-SIM support, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, NFC, and a USB Type-C v3.1 port.

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Three Black Churches Burned in One Louisiana Parish
Ibn Safir
Filed to:Domestic terrorism
Harkening back to darker days, authorities believe a common culprit may have resorted to a tried and true intimidation tactic. Federal authorities are lending a hand after a pattern of destruction has emerged.
According to the New York Times, one Louisiana parish has seen three historically black churches burned in less than two weeks.
The fires occurred on March 26 and March 31. On April 4, a small fourth fire that officials claim was intentionally set was reported at another black church three hours away.
St. Landry Parish is 56 percent white and 41 percent black. According to a local reverend whose church was all but destroyed, relations were generally good.
Reverend Gerald Toussaint, truck driver and pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Opelousas, La., was driving to work around 4:45 a.m. on Thursday when his wife called to say that their church was on fire.
She had seen the news on social media. Founded in the 19th century, it has been reduced to a brick wall and a front corridor.
"I'm trying to find out who did it, why they did it, did it have anything to do with me," said Toussaint. "I don't know none of this."
According to Toussaint, St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre and Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas had also been set ablaze.
In a statement, State Fire Marshal William H. Browning said "there is clearly something happening in this community," adding that it "is imperative that the citizens of this community be part of our effort to figure out what it is."
"We can't let this setback stop us from doing what God initially called us to do," said St. Mary's Baptist pastor Kyle Sylvester. His church was the first that was burned, according to CBS News.
Local officials are still investigating the fires, and neglected to mention any suspects or motive. Jeff Nowakowski, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' New Orleans field division, said the FBI and ATF are also involved in the search.
"There certainly is a commonality," Browning said, " and whether that leads to a person or persons or groups, we just don't know," he added at a news conference Thursday.
"We're doing everything we can, collectively, to solve this crime," he said.
Why Won't Congress Take Domestic Terrorism Seriously?
White Supremacist Coast Guard Lieutenant Accused of Plotting Terrorist Attack to 'Establish a White Homeland'
Alabama Newspaper Publisher Calls for KKK to 'Night Ride Again' and 'Clean Out' D.C.—with Nooses in Tow
Contributing Editor. When he's not pullin' up, he's usually jumpin' out. You can find him in the cut.


Astro Dynamics treat us once again with the pairing of Portland's electronic wizard Best Available Technology and Berlin resident BNJMN. Following up a solo releases for Left Blank and Delsin respectively, the pair collaborate on De/Re Constructions, an album that makes the most of their unique sounds. Best Available Technology's freewheeling sonics are loosely harnessed by the more floor-friendly BNJMN in the true spirit of collaboration, making something greater than the sum of its parts.
Opening with the crystalline structures of 'Wired' through to the impossible colours dancing on 'Ghosting', De/Re Constructions is an immense piece of work. There are more DJ friendly moments – 'Tread' for example – but the majority of the album is a cinematic experience, colourful panoramas spliced with apocalyptic greyscale textures, a tense trip crafted by formidably talented producers.


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March 18, 2017 at 1:36 pmI'm 3 days late (I know not that drastic) but I'm regular every month (28 day cycles like clockwork). I took a HPT the day before I was due, it was negative. I took another one yesterday, day after I was due and again, negative. I've been incredibly tired and have a heavy, bloated feeling but nothing else aside from those symptoms. Any thoughts? I've never been pregnant before.
March 20, 2017 at 10:33 amHave you taken another test? You could try re-testing tomorrow with FMU. Keep us posted!


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AUN-TEPL
Noppanun Sookping
The AUN-TEPL thematic network under the ASEAN University Network (AUN) was established to foster collaboration amongst the ASEAN universities to improve student success through technology-enhanced personalised learning.
The thematic network is chaired by Singapore Management University (SMU), with Mahidol University and University of Malaya as co-leads.
The key thrusts of AUN-TEPL are to:
Build capacity amongst participating universities through a series of symposiums
Create a platform for universities to exchange educational tools and content
Promote technology-enhanced personalised learning as an area for inter-university research collaboration
Through its 3 thrusts, the AUN-TEPL promotes the use of technology in establishing and enhancing personalised learning across the region via events, sharing community and other projects.
AUN-TEPL Symposium
The AUN-TEPL Symposium serves as an annual platform with the aim of bringing together like-minded educators from universities in the ASEAN region to share and discuss best practices in the use of technology to bring about personalised learning.
The symposiums also aim to seek opportunities to collaborate in inter-university projects.
The first AUN-TEPL Symposium was the Inaugural AUN-TEPL Symposium (Online), held virtually on 27th October 2020. The second symposium will be held on 12th November 2021.
AUN-TEPL Webinar Series
The AUN-TEPL Webinar Series serves as great opportunities for educators and experts to share their valuable knowledge, research and experiences on a range of topics in the TEPL domain.
Sharing Community
Partnering with MERLOT, AUN-TEPL has established a resource-sharing community as a platform for AUN-TEPL members to share, curate and exchange educational resources with the aim of improving student success through the propagation of TEPL approaches across universities.
AUN-TEPL welcomes project proposals from interested parties who are seeking collaborators on projects within the range of topics related to the thematic network's mission, and connect them to the right persons.
As an example, the lead and co-leads of AUN-TEPL are currently working on a multiple-case study on the lessons learnt from online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic at three South-East Asian Universities. This collaborative research project is foregrounded on how the use of technology and the kinds of institutional support provided during the pandemic influence personalised learning. This project commenced in October 2020 and is anticipated to complete by December 2022. The research team welcomes queries on this project from interested researchers.
Despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the AUN-TEPL has been actively maneuvering its operations around the circumstances to ensure that its mission to promote technology-enhanced personalised learning across ASEAN never stops.
For contact information, please see the list below:
Website: https://www.auntepl.com
Tel: -
Office Address: Centre for Teaching Excellence, Level 5, Li Ka Shing Library, 70 Stamford Rd, Singapore 178901
In the next article, we will complete the series by looking back to all the AUN Thematic Networks as introduced in this series, and contemplate on the importance and impacts of these thematic networks to the AUN's mission in improving ASEAN higher education.
AUN-ACTS
In this article, we will look at AUN-ACTS, who have long worked to facilitate student and academic mobility within the ASEAN region.
From October 13-15, the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, as the Secretariat of AUN-SCUD Network, held its CSID AUN-SCUD International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure and Urban Development (CAIC-SIUD) via Zoom Online Conference with the theme "Shaping Resilience and Sustainable Future Through Digitalization, Technologies and Added Value."


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Most people wouldn't expect banks to have competitive exchange rates. You'll be surprised because in some cases, it is better to exchange currency through the bank. If you are looking for an unpopular currency, banks exchange rates tend to be better than money changers. Simply due to the fact that they have a larger supply of different currencies.
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NNTHR Statement
In 2018 the nordic countries' grassroots consumer movements for THR (**Tobacco Harm Reduction** – basically lifesaving seatbelts for nicotine users) came together to establish a "Neighborhood watch" organisation intended to mirror the Nordic Network on Tobacco Control, a nordic umbrella network organisation collecting mainly wholly or partly government funded NGOs working in anti-all-non-pharma-nicotine public information and lobbying. NNTC also formally established and announced the network earlier that year at the World Conference on Tobacco OR health held in Cape Town, South Africa. The anti nicotine organisations in the Nordics have had a very well functioning network for decades already, it has never been formalised into a separate recognised entity before 2018 so we chose to establish also, to have a supranational presence mirroring theirs and to be relevant as a stakeholder entity in tobacco work under "The Nordic Council". We currently count participating orgs in the network from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia.
The objective is to provide a better, more supportive and also holistic picture in response to different legislative and regulatory attempts, e g to use one country's specifics to argue for more heavy handed regulation or taxation in another country in what amounts to a race toward prohibition. Strongarming and trying to force decisions by politiicians and civil servants (and other NGOs not radical enough) that has only a "given" outcome that is an obligation for Sweden to fulfill asap as we are full signatories and party to the FCTC (Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) as all the countries are parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the FCTC. This is disingenuous and harmful to the health of the public in the Nordics.
Global Anti-smoking has had decades to morph into the current anti-all-non-pharma-nicotine iteration, long enough even to forget how a moral compass works. The way they are going is the right way to go because that's the way they are going, that's not the way to go.


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Can you tell me what's wrong with my female cat please?
Hi, I have a female cat called Roxy. She is 2 and a half years old. She's had one lot of kittens and now she has been spayed. She has not been herself these past 3 days and she is sleeping most of the daytime.
Her coat looks rough and she's hardly going out for a toilet. She has been off her food a bit since last night. Also she just looks knackered like she's got no energy. Do you know what's wrong with her? Please get back to me. Thanks.
Editor's note: Whatever she has, Kerry, she needs to be diagnosed by a veterinarian and properly treated. It could be anything from a virus to a systemic disease of some kind. There's no way to know without having her examined.
Anytime a cat goes off of food for a day, I look to the veterinarian for help. Plus, from your description, she's lethargic, sleeping too much, and she's not grooming herself well. If Roxy were my cat, I would not take any chances, and I would get her to the vet as soon as possible.


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US naval buildup in Indo-Pacific seen as warning to China
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR , Associated Press, Associated Press
200610-N-ML137-1057 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 10, 2020) In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, an F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the "Eagles" of Strike... 200610-N-ML137-1057 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 10, 2020) In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, an F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the "Eagles" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 115 practices a touch-and-go maneuver on the flight deck of the Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) on June 10, 2020, in the Philippine Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Samantha Jetzer/U.S. Navy via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in nearly three years, three American aircraft carriers are patrolling the Indo-Pacific waters, a massive show of naval force in a region roiled by spiking tensions between the U.S. and China and a sign that the Navy has bounced back from the worst days of the coronavirus outbreak.
The unusual simultaneous appearance of the three warships, accompanied by Navy cruisers, destroyers, fighter jets and other aircraft, comes as the U.S. escalates criticism of Beijing's response to the coronavirus outbreak, its moves to impose greater control over Hong Kong and its campaign to militarize human-made islands in the South China Sea.
"There have been some indications in Chinese writings that the United States was hit hard by COVID-19, that military preparedness was low, so perhaps there is an effort by the United States to signal China that it should not miscalculate," said Bonnie Glaser, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The Chinese will definitely portray this as an example of U.S. provocations, and as evidence that the U.S. is a source of instability in the region."
President Donald Trump, criticized for his own handling of the coronavirus outbreak, has condemned China for what he sees as a failure to adequately warn the world about the COVID-19 threat. The administration has also moved to ban Chinese graduate students and researchers with links to the People's Liberation Army or other security services from the United States.
The convergence of three carrier strike groups in the region is unusual because of the limited number of carriers and the fact that they are often cycling through repair schedules, port visits, training or deployments to other parts of the world. This week, however, Navy commanders said they were able to take advantage of the timing, particularly during this period of great power competition with China.
The U.S. national defense strategy cites China as a top security concern, and Pentagon leaders have been working to shift more resources and military assets to the region to battle what they see is Beijing's growing economic influence and military might.
"The ability to be present in a strong way is part of the competition. And as I always tell my guys here, you've got to be present to win when you're competing," said Rear Adm. Stephen Koehler, director of operations at Indo-Pacific Command. "Carriers and carrier strike groups writ large are phenomenal symbols of American naval power. I really am pretty fired up that we've got three of them at the moment."
Speaking to The Associated Press from his office in Hawaii, Koehler said China is slowly and methodically building up military outposts in the South China Sea, putting missile and electronic warfare systems on them. The U.S. and other allies and partners in the region have beefed up operations near the human-made islands to try to blunt China's development, but none of that has appeared to work.
Koehler said that most recently China deployed aircraft to Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands and is now operating them out of there.
On Thursday, the strike group warships were spread out across the Indo-Pacific. The USS Theodore Roosevelt and its strike group are operating in the Philippine Sea near Guam. The USS Nimitz strike group is in the Pacific off the U.S. West Coast. The USS Ronald Reagan has left port in Japan and is operating in the Philippine Sea south of there. Navy commanders were quick to point out that dozens of other Navy ships had been operating around the Pacific, but the three strike groups put a bit of an exclamation point on America's commitment to the region and its allies.
The Roosevelt has just returned to duty after spending more than two months sidelined in Guam with a massive COVID-19 outbreak among its crew. And small numbers of sailors on the Nimitz and the Reagan tested positive for the virus, triggering quarantines and extensive new health and safety procedures that had to be instituted before the ships could deploy.
As they deploy, sailors' daily lives on the ships and to some degree their operations at sea have been altered by the virus and the new precautions they must take to ensure the ships remain clear of infection and able to continue operations.
Onboard the Nimitz, Rear Adm. Jim Kirk said there have been no positive cases of the virus on the ship since it set out, and he is confident of all the changes put in place to keep it that way. On the Nimitz and the other Pacific ships, crew members are screened daily, they wear masks where needed, meal hours have been extended to allow for more social distancing, and specific routes are designated on the ship to prevent sailors from bumping into one another in the narrow passageways and stairs.
"As we head out to stand the watch, the message that I have is that this is the end of the beginning" for the crew, said Kirk, commander of Carrier Strike Group 11. "Now it's time to go about doing our job to the best of our abilities."
Koehler said the ships will continue to work with allies and partners in the region, conducting exercises at sea and patrolling contested regions. One key change, however, will be their ability to stop in foreign ports.
The port visits have been largely curtailed, except to carefully pick up supplies when necessary. Guam has been designated the only safe harbor for port stops in the Pacific so far, and sailors have only limited freedom to go to the pier and cannot travel freely in the city. Navy leaders are looking into establishing other safe havens but haven't approved them yet.
This is, said Koehler, "the new normal." And he said that while it's not likely there will be three carrier strike groups consistently in the Pacific over the long term, "it's something we can do when we want to."


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Applied Picoeconomics - LessWrong 2.0 (come on! It has pictures of naked people! Well, one naked person. Suspended from a graph of a hyperbolic curve) Ainslie argues that "intertemporal bargaining" is one way to overcome preference reversal. For example, an alcoholic has two conflicting preferences: right now, he would rather drink than not drink, but next year he would rather be the sort of person who never drinks than remain an alcoholic. But because his brain uses hyperbolic discounting, a process that pays more attention to his current utility than his future utility, he's going to hit the whiskey.
This sticks him in a sorites paradox. Honestly, it's not going to make much of a difference if he has one more drink, so why not hit the whiskey? Ainslie's answer is that he should set a hard-and-fast rule: "I will never drink alcohol". Following this rule will cure his alcoholism and help him achieve his dreams. He now has a very high preference for following the rule; a preference hopefully stronger than his current preference for whiskey.
Ainslie's other point is that this rule needs to really be hard-and-fast. If his rule is "I will drink less whiskey", then that leaves it open for him to say "Well, I'll drink some whiskey now, and none later; that counts as 'less'", and then the whole problem comes back just as bad as before. Likewise, if he says "It's my birthday, I'll let myself break the rule just this once," then soon he's likely to be saying "It's the Sunday before Cinco de Mayo, this calls for a celebration!" Ainslie has some much more formal and convincing ways of framing this, which is why you should read the article instead of just trusting this summary.
The stuff by Ainslie I read (I didn't spring for any of his dead-tree books) didn't offer any specific pointers for increasing your willpower2, but it's pretty easy to read between the lines and figure out what applied picoeconomics ought to look like. In the interest of testing a scientific theory, not to mention the ongoing effort to take control of my own life, I've been testing picoeconomic techniques for the last two months.
The essence of picoeconomics is formally binding yourself to a rule with as few loopholes as possible. So the technique I decided to test3 was to write out an oath detailing exactly what I wanted to do, list in nauseating detail all of the conditions under which I could or could not be released from this oath, and then bind myself to it, with the knowledge that if I succeeded I would have a great method of self-improvement and if I failed I would be dooming myself to a life of laziness forever (Ainslie's theories suggest that exaggeration is good in this case).
I chose a few areas of my life that I wanted to improve, of which the only one I want to mention in public is my poor study habits. I decided that I wanted to increase my current study load from practically never looking at a book after school got out, up to two hours a day.
I wrote down - yes, literally wrote down - an oath in which I swore to study for two hours a day. I detailed exactly the conditions that would count as "studying" - no watching TV with an open book placed in my lap, for example.
I also included several release valves. The theory behind this was that if I simply broke the oath outright, the oath would no longer be credible and would lose its power (again, see Ainslie's article), and there would be some point where I would be absolutely compelled to break the oath (for example, if a member of my family is in the emergency room, I refuse to read a book for an hour and a half before going to check up on them). I gave myself a whole bunch of cases in which I would be allowed to not study, guilt-free, and allowed myself five days a month when I could just take off studying for no reason (too tired, maybe). I also limited the original oath to a month, so that if it didn't work I could adjust it without completely destroying the effectiveness of the oath forever. Finally, I swore the oath in a ceremonial fashion, calling upon various fictional deities for whom I have great respect.
One month later, I find that I kept to the terms of the oath exactly, which is no small achievement for me since my previous resolutions to study more have ended in apathy and failure. On an introspection level, the need to study each day felt exactly like the need to complete a project with a deadline, or to show up for work when the boss was expecting you. My brain clearly has different procedures for dealing with vague responsibilities it can weasel out of, and serious responsibilities it can't, and the oath served to stick studying on the "serious" side of the line.
I am suitably cautious about other-optimizing and the typical mind fallacy, so I don't promise the same method will work for you. But I'd be interested to see if it did4. I'd be especially interested if everyone who tried it would post, right now, what they're trying so that in a month or so we can come back and see how many people kept their oath without having too much response bias.
1: I'm split on the value of picoeconomic theory. A lot of it seems either common-sense if taken as a vague model or metaphor, or obviously false if taken literally. But sometimes it's very good to have a formal model for common sense, and I'm optimistic about someone developing a more literal version of it that explains what's actually going on inside someone's head.
2: Ciphergoth, as far as you know does Ainslie ever start making practical suggestions based on his theory anywhere, or does he leave it entirely as an exercise for the reader?
3: I don't read a lot of stuff on productivity, so I might be reinventing the wheel here.
Do NOT make the oath open-ended. Set a time limit, and if you're happy at the end of that time limit, set another time limit.
Don't overdo it; this only works if you really do want the goal you're after more than you want momentary pleasure, people are notoriously bad at knowing what they want, and if you break an oath once you've set a precedent and it'll be harder to keep a better-crafted oath next time. If I'd sworn six hours of studying a day, no way I'd have been able to keep it.
Do something extremely measurable in which success or failure is a very yes-or-no affair, like how much time you do something for. Saying "study more" or "eat better" will be completely useless.
Read the article so you know the theory behind it and especially why it's important to always keep the rules.
Don't just think up the oath and figure it's in effect. Write it down and swear it aloud, more or less ceremonially, depending on your taste for drama and ritual.
Seriously, don't overdo it. Ego depletion and all that.


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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

using Mediation.Interfaces;
using Mediation.PlanTools;

namespace Mediation.Tests
{
    [TestClass]
    public class OperatorTest
    {
        public Operator testOperator;

        public OperatorTest()
        {
            testOperator = new Operator (
                                            "take",
                                            new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") },
                                            new Hashtable(),
                                            new List<IPredicate>
                                            {
                                                new Predicate ("has", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, false)
                                            },
                                            new List<IPredicate>
                                            {
                                                new Predicate ("has", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, true)
                                            }
                                        );
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorNameTest()
        {
            Assert.AreEqual("take", testOperator.Name);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorTermAtNoBindingTest()
        {
            Assert.AreEqual("?taker", testOperator.TermAt(0));
        }

        /*[TestMethod]
        public void OperatorTermAtBindingTest()
        {
            Operator boundTestOperator = (Operator)testOperator.Clone();
            boundTestOperator.Bindings.Add("?taker", "sam");
            Assert.AreEqual("sam", boundTestOperator.TermAt(0));
        }*/

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorEqualityTest()
        {
            Operator secondOperator = new Operator
                (
                    new Predicate("take", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, true),
                    new List<IPredicate>
                    {
                        new Predicate ("has", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, false)
                    },
                    new List<IPredicate>
                    {
                        new Predicate ("has", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, true)
                    }
                );

            Assert.AreEqual(testOperator, secondOperator);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorEqualityPreconditionFalseTest()
        {
            Operator secondOperator = new Operator
                (
                    new Predicate("take", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, true),
                    new List<IPredicate>
                    {
                        new Predicate ("has", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, true)
                    },
                    new List<IPredicate>
                    {
                        new Predicate ("has", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, true)
                    }
                );

            Assert.AreNotEqual(testOperator, secondOperator);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorActorTest()
        {
            Assert.AreEqual("?taker", testOperator.Actor);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorIDTest()
        {
            Operator secondOperator = new Operator
                (
                    new Predicate("take", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, true),
                    new List<IPredicate>
                    {
                        new Predicate ("has", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, false)
                    },
                    new List<IPredicate>
                    {
                        new Predicate ("has", new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker"), new Term("?thing") }, true)
                    }
                );
            Operator clone = testOperator.Clone() as Operator;

            Assert.AreNotEqual(testOperator.ID, secondOperator.ID);
            Assert.AreEqual(testOperator.ID, clone.ID);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorUpdateTermsTest()
        {
            Hashtable binds = new Hashtable();
            binds.Add("?taker", "frodo");
            binds.Add("?thing", "ring");
            testOperator.Bindings = binds;
            Assert.AreEqual("frodo", testOperator.TermAt(0));
            Assert.AreEqual("ring", testOperator.TermAt(1));
            Assert.AreEqual(new Term("?taker", "frodo"), testOperator.Terms[0]);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorUpdateBindingsTest()
        {
            List<ITerm> newTerms = new List<ITerm> { new Term("?taker", "frodo"), new Term("?thing", "ring") };
            testOperator.Terms = newTerms;
            Assert.AreEqual("frodo", testOperator.TermAt(0));
            Assert.AreEqual("ring", testOperator.TermAt(1));
            Assert.AreEqual(testOperator.Bindings["?taker"], "frodo");
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorAddBindingTest()
        {
            testOperator.AddBinding("?taker", "frodo");
            testOperator.AddBinding("?thing", "ring");
            Assert.AreEqual("frodo", testOperator.TermAt(0));
            Assert.AreEqual("ring", testOperator.TermAt(1));
            Assert.AreEqual(testOperator.Bindings["?taker"], "frodo");
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void OperatorConsentingAgentsTest()
        {
            testOperator.AddBinding("?taker", "frodo");
            testOperator.AddBinding("?thing", "ring");
            List<ITerm> consenting = new List<ITerm>();
            consenting.Add(new Term("?taker"));
            testOperator.ConsentingAgents = consenting;
            Assert.AreEqual("?taker", testOperator.ConsentingAgents[0].Variable);
            Assert.AreEqual("frodo", testOperator.ConsentingAgents[0].Constant);
        }
    }
}

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Almine Rech Gallery presents Sequences from a Volatile Now, Matthias Bitzer's first solo exhibition in London. The exhibition consists of a series of new sculptural and wall works, which Bitzer conceives of as a cohesive installation of disparate pieces.
Employing a characteristic simultaneity of figurative elements and abstract forms, Bitzer continues his exploration of history and identity in muted paint on canvas, monochrome paint on wood and metal sculpture. Bitzer constantly engages a range of material that challenges his thinking and drives his practice. The large-scale paintings in Sequences from a Volatile Now dissolve, however, explicit reference to historical figures. Distinct from the investigation of specific literary characters like Brecht or Pessoa who appeared in previous bodies of work, the visages in Sequences from a Volatile Now are unimpeded by fixed identity, time or space. Splicing and refracting these alluring faces with shapes and lines, Bitzer begins to direct his attention to the present.
Describing a volatile present in the exhibition title, Bitzer nods to contemporary politics, but also frees the phrase from any constraining connotation. In The Time Traveller, for instance, an auratic face gazes into the distance, while the shapes that emerge from the canvas offer a portal that is at once a window, a shadow or a reflection. the dilemma of relativity, his first mobile, and the third investigator, offer a troublingly precise precariousness. Bitzer envelopes the ideas of past thinkers in the exhibition, particularly attentive to ruminations on what it means to be a meaningful contributor to society at different periods in time. Weaving concepts from Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience', Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and Elias Canetti's 'Mass and Power' throughout his installation, Bitzer grapples with the potential for meaning-making in the present day.
Bitzer's work is anchored by the vast intellectual touchpoints that inform his practice. Sources as diverse as Schrödinger's cat (a quantum physics thought experiment) and Perec's rumination on writing in 'Species of Spaces', for instance, seep into the works. The body of work bears an intimate kinship with poetry, as the likes of Walt Whitman and Goethe were also influential as Bitzer made these works. Whitman's stature as a channeller poet who aims to express, but not contain his contemporaries in 'Song of Myself', for instance, is also similar to the way in which the figures in this exhibition act as vessels. Bitzer's shapes and figures offer the viewer a window into what it could mean to contain an ever-changing present.
Matthias Bitzer (b. 1975, Stuttgart) has exhibited in numerous exhibitions regionally and internationally. Notable solo institutional exhibitions include 'KNOCK / KNOCK / NEPOMUK', Kunstverien Hechingen, Hechingen, Germany (2016); 'Disintegration of the properties', K21 Standëhaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (July 2014-July 2015); 'King Rat', Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland (2010); and 'Palimpsest', Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (2010). Group exhibitions include 'Luce 01', Palazzo Mongiò dell'Elefante della Torre, Galatina, Italy (2015); 'Zeichen. Sprache. Bilder – Shrift in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren', Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (2013-2014); 'Galerie Utopia / The Forgotten Bar project: The Garden of Eden', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2012); and 'What You(ngs) See Is What You Get', Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France (2011). His work is represented, among others, in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, and Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris. Matthias Bitzer lives and works in Berlin.
Matthias Bitzer, Time Traveller (sequence from a volatile now), 2018, acrylic and ink on canvas, wood, metal, glass and paint, 210 x 540 x 50 cm; 82 x 212 x 19 inches / Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul.


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Serving the Church as a 21st Century Missionary
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The 21st century missionary is a skilled and trained individual who comes from all walks of life, often lives in a city and helps LCMS partner churches do what missionaries have always done: share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Everlasting Mercy
by Pamela J. Nielsen It could have been anywhere — Japan; the Jersey Shore; Moore, Okla.; or Boulder, Colo. — anywhere where people were tucked soundly in bed early on a Saturday morning. It could have been a tornado, a…
Disaster conference equips Latin Americans for mercy work
Paula Schlueter Ross
Lutherans from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Venezuela, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay gather to learn about how the church can and does bear mercy in times of disaster.
Crossing Borders in Life Together
LCMS Church Relations efforts are aimed at building and nurturing the relationship between the LCMS and her partner churches around the world.
Fostering a Culture of Mercy in Latin America
It's a huge responsibility to have the only Lutheran Spanish-speaking confessional seminary in the world," said the Rev. Carlos Nagel, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina (IELA). "We are a partner church of the LCMS; we continue walking hand in hand and deeply appreciate all of the investments of time, support and people that the LCMS has given us."
La Victoria Mercy House Grand Opening
We're delighted to share this video from Sunday's grand opening of the Mercy House in La Victoria, Lima, Peru. The Rev. Mark Eisold, an LCMS career missionary in Peru, said he is thankful for "people like you in the United…
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Special "sending service" for 38 new Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) missionaries being sent to the four corners of the globe.
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The video, "From Horror to Hope: Haiti 2013," chronicles the relief and recovery efforts of the LCMS with partners in Haiti.
New video spotlights 'From Horror to Hope' in Haiti
A new video, "From Horror to Hope: Haiti 2013," highlights how the Synod's body-and-soul response to the 2010 earthquake there continues to make a difference to Haitians.
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Regional leaders can end South Sudan war, says president
Wednesday 7th May 2014
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the crisis in South Sudan is solvable and can be handled by the regional leaders.
During a meeting he held with the British Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening at the sidelines of the UK – Uganda Business Forum currently taking place at Lancaster House in London, the President said Uganda was worse than the current situation in South Sudan or Somalia.
"We managed to restored order in Uganda, we can also do the same to South Sudan," he said.
He regretted that Southern Sudan leaders have succumbed to sectarian ideology instead of fronting a united country, adding that he was talking to both leaders to ensure that peace prevails.
He explained that sectarianism is based on the failure by the leaders to understand that their tribal groups are inter-dependant on one another.
"We overcame sectarianism in Uganda because Ugandans rejected the sectarian ideology," he said, noting however that this takes times.
He attributed the crisis in South Sudan to sectarian ideology and killing of civilians because of impunity.
Museveni said that he told the people of Uganda that sticking to their tribal groupings was ideological bankruptcy.
"In my village, my neighbours do not buy my milk because we all produce the same. The people who buy milk are not my tribesmen. This is what the Southern Sudan leaders must understand in order to transcend their tribal interests. I have been telling these leaders that they are the cause of the problem of their country and I have always urged them to work for the unity of their people," he said.
The President gave the example of UPDF that draws membership from all the tribes of Uganda saying, this is why they have managed difficult places like Somalia.
"It is because they know that they are protecting both Uganda and Pan African interests," he said.
He defended the deployment of UPDF in Southern Sudan saying, that this was intended to eliminate a massacre.
The President who is on a three day working visit to London had earlier given a key note address at the business forum organised jointly by Uganda Investment Authority and the Commonwealth Business Council.
He advised the British government to direct its financial assistance to direct investments and leave the Ugandan government to handle the infrastructure.
He said that there was need to address the hardware problems such as the infrastructure as well soft ware issues such as good governance and democracy.
"Once you give priority to the hardware challenges the rest can be handled by the state," he said.
On corruption, President Museveni defended the government saying that there is need to recruit committed and loyal cadres into the civil service.
"We have liberated the Uganda Revenue Authority and KCCA from enemy territories, but this has taken time. We shall do the same to other institutions," he said, adding that the people who have trained a strong and well disciplined army will do the same to other institutions.
On the civil service reforms, President Museveni suggested that a civil service institute be established specifically for the training of civil servants about their role to the society.
On power generation, the President said that power and roads as well as railway construction should not be done on borrowed money because it generates interest and make those utilities expensive for the consumers and make production costs to be high which has an adverse impact on the products produced.
"These funds, for energy, roads and railway construction should be generated by either government or through grants," he said.
The Minister Justine Greening hailed Uganda's development initiatives and pledged more British aid to the country.


I am an oil painter who works in series. Common subjects in my work are seascapes, forests, fires, tornados, the night, and figurative subjects who typically evade the viewer's gaze. I am interested in the potential for psychological and symbolic associations in each of these subjects. Natural elements become narrative devices I use to contend with larger themes such as beauty, power/powerlessness, the unconscious, fear, death and rebirth.
My choice of subject matter is directly influenced by my cultural identity and experience growing up on the south side of Chicago, daughter to working class Mexican immigrants. The threat of gang violence kept me indoors for most of my childhood and adolescence. Then, violence inside our home made me ultimately retreat into myself. My aesthetic was largely born out of two things: first, an early awareness of my powerlessness and isolation and secondly, being offered an alternative narrative through encountering poetry. I believe it is this tension that is at the heart of much of my imagery.


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Wausau Pilot chosen for Renewing Democracy initiative
by Shereen Siewert December 19, 2019 January 31, 2020
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By Shereen Siewert, Wausau Pilot and Review Publisher
For the second time in less than three years, Wausau Pilot and Review is one of a select handful of newsrooms nationwide to receive a Solutions Journalism grant, this time to examine efforts to boost student voter turnout in Wisconsin.
The Solutions Journalism Network's mission is to help journalists rebalance the news with in-depth reporting about what's going right, which strengthens and complements coverage of what's going wrong. The initiative provides grant funding for solutions-focused coverage that avoids hyperpartisanship and sensationalism.
In short, we'll be exploring what works.
In the Renewing Democracy projects, "newsrooms are unearthing and examining innovations aimed at fixing problems like citizen apathy, voter suppression and gerrymandering — innovations that cut to the heart of democracy and citizenship," according to the SJN.
Here's a look at some of the other projects that received funding in 2019 from the Solutions Journalism Network:
In New York City, City Limits will analyze the impact of a 30-year-old effort to reduce the role of private money in elections and look for models in other states that might work even better.
In Texas, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times will highlight what's worked in removing barriers that keep eligible voters from registering and casting ballots.
"How Do We Fix It" — a weekly podcast hosted by two journalists — will highlight ways that technology is helping strengthen communities and elections rather than eroding them.
In the Midwest, Ohio Valley Resource has noticed an upsurge in grassroots organizing around issues such as health care and economic justice, especially in coal-dependent communities. It will explore how much impact these efforts have had, and whether they'll last.
The Ronan Valley Journal in Montana will compare two efforts aimed at restoring civility and encouraging more people to participate in public life — one local, and one in another state.
The Texas Tribune, as part of a series of stories on voter rights, will look at possible ways to fix the challenges Texans face while trying to vote.
Unidad Media Group in Philadelphia will examine what worked for black women who were elected locally as first-time candidates.
WABE in Atlanta will look at what's working to boost election integrity, voting access and public trust in Georgia, with a focus on the state's new voting machines.
The Washington Monthly will explore the growing evidence that voting by mail is an easy and inexpensive way to boost voter participation.
In Oregon, Underscore will look to efforts that are successfully preventing young men from joining violent extremist groups.
In this round of grants, the organization sought to support "high-quality reporting that examines innovations with the potential to yield better campaigns and elections that can advance more effective democracy."
We couldn't be more excited to have been chosen for this effort after a highly competitive process. Our first Solutions Journalism grant resulted in reporting on potential solutions to environmental challenges on Wausau's west side — coverage that was the basis for a national investigative report of the year award in 2019.
A reminder: Wausau Pilot and Review is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. If you read our work, we ask you to consider supporting it. All individual donations now through Dec. 31 are matched, dollar for dollar, up to $1000, through our participation in NewsMatch, and all monthly donations are matched 12x! Every dollar counts, helping sustain and grow our coverage in 2020.
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Investor focus sharpens further as ABN AMRO opens AIF 2020 event registration
By James Williams | 06/11/2019 - 10:45am
Next year marks the ninth edition of ABN AMRO Clearing's Amsterdam Investor Forum, which promises to be as engaging as ever. As with prior events, the AIF 2020 will take place at ABN AMRO's headquarters in Amsterdam but the date has been brought forward to 5 February.
Speaking with Hedgeweek, Delphine Amzallag (pictured), Global Head of Prime Services at ABN AMRO Clearing, says the focus this year has been to further broaden the scope of attending institutional investors and alternative asset managers, both in terms of type and geography.
"As with each year, we are hoping to diversify the perspectives available on a range of highly relevant topics. To that end, we are aiming to have an investor participate on each one of the panels alongside both established and emerging hedge fund managers. In addition, we are inviting US and Asia-based investors and managers to compliment those based in Europe explains Amzallag, adding:
"We also want managers and investors to have a real opportunity to meet during the various breakout sessions – including lunch – and make good use of their time. In that sense, we are taking a bit more of a direct approach."
One can expect animated discussion both within the auditorium and in the networking areas. Up to 300 investors and fund managers are expected and while the event is always a highly focused one, with an informal feel, the depth and breadth of panel discussions will be far reaching as the AIF 2020 seeks to address the key drivers of change affecting the hedge fund industry.
The overarching theme for ABN AMRO's AIF event is to get a steer on how global hedge funds are navigating choppy waters and seeking out new returns and alpha-generating opportunities.
For AIF 2020, there will be a disruption element to proceedings; market disruption, technology disruption, investor disruption (in terms of return expectations and the value of the hedge fund asset class).
"Will market disruption offer new investment opportunities or will it simply be a risk hedge and if so, how is that being managed? How are hedge funds making a mark in a negative interest rate environment?"
"We think early 2020 will be a prime time to discuss how hedge funds are thinking about market dynamics. Which strategies are likely to be the winners, and which will struggle in a tough macroeconomic regime?" remarks Amzallag.
To kick off proceedings an assessment of the macro picture will be the first order of discussion and set the tone for the day's agenda.
"We are focusing the AIF 2020 around the role of hedge funds in a fast-changing world," states Amzallag. "We will explore the global macro climate and debate issues such as negative interest rates, the looming threat of a recession, US Federal Reserve policy, Brexit. More and more, people are struggling with negative interest rate policies. How are hedge fund managers grappling with it and managing their strategies?"
As well as macro considerations, an examination of specific asset classes, including commodities and global equities, will be explored, and ideas debated and challenged.
The equity-focused panel will feature a quantamental fund, an AI-focused fund, a discretionary equity long/short fund and a systematic equity long/short fund on the panel to bring four unique viewpoints to the table.
"Will equity l/s strategies still be optimal in the future? How have equity-focused hedge funds performed relative to benchmarks and what do they need to do to find alpha?
"If there is a recession, will managers be suitably agile to continue to deliver performance? And will those with theme-specific, sector-specific or country-specific strategies be well placed to capitalise on market dislocations in a slowing global economy and maintain a genuine edge?" asks Amzallag.
The panel discussion on digital assets will debate crypto strategies as a new way to participate in the financial system; are they set to challenge the established order of money management and the power of the state to print and distribute fiat currencies?
"We will delve into the commodities market," adds Amzallag. "To what extent is gold becoming a defensive trade against market turbulence? How are CTAs entering more esoteric areas and what are the risks and returns on offer?
"The dedicated investor panel will look at the continuing case for hedge funds and consider the changing chemistry between hedge funds and investors. To what extent are investors requiring customized solutions? Do larger managers predominantly offer these solutions? And if so, what can smaller, emerging managers do to compete?"
The final panel of the day will debate the historic performance of hedge fund strategies and explore the value of hedge funds today. What are the risk/return characteristics they provide to investors relative to conventional assets?
As if that wasn't enough to whet the appetite, the AIF 2020 will once again feature the popular AIF Factor, during which a short list of five hedge funds have three minutes each to pitch their strategy to the audience.
This year's AIF Factor was won by Greenland Investment Management; a systematic strategy focusing on global commodity arbitrage opportunities.
"We have already received a large number of managers signing up to it. For managers wishing to sign up, they should go to https://aiffactor.amsterdaminvestorforum.com/page/643096,"confirms Amzallag.
Asked what she thinks has been the secret of the AIF event's success over the last eight years, Amzallag concludes:
"There's no fuss. The people who attend the AIF event are very approachable, the topics and speakers are always engaging and high quality, and given that it is in its ninth year, I believe it has become the 'go to' hedge event in Europe."
Registration for the AIF 2020 event is now open. For more details please visit: https://www.amsterdaminvestorforum.com/.
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Q: Probability of getting two subsets with the same sum Let $A=\{1,...,n\}$. Two subsets of $A$, not necessarily distinct, chosen uniformly at random. What is the probability that both subsets have the same sum? Alternatively, is there a known upper bound?

A: Assuming the two subsets are selected independently, the probability in question is
$$p_n=a_n/2^{2n},$$
where $a_n$ the sum of the squares of the coefficients in the polynomial
$$\prod_{k=1}^n (1+x^k).$$
The sequence $(a_n)$ is the sequence A047653, and its asymptotics, given on that page, is
$$a_n\sim\frac{\sqrt{3/\pi}\,4^n}{n^{3/2}} \tag{1}$$
(as $n\to\infty$). So,
$$p_n\sim\frac{\sqrt{3/\pi}}{n^{3/2}}.\tag{2}$$

For (1), A047653 refers to Vaclav Kotesovec, where I have been unable to find a link/reference to (1). However, the equivalent relation (2) was actually proved by van Lint. (I found a link to van Lint on the related OEIS page A000980.)

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Is there a way to input component video into my computer. I have a HD TV box and want to be able to record HD shows on my computer. Is there a a device (adaptor) that will allow me to input this. I have a x850pro VIVO, but as far as I can tell it can only output HD signals not input them. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm pretty sure you need a dedicated card to capture HD signals.


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Off-the-radar: The foreign duo from Gipuzkoa
Sarthak Kumar writes about the duo that tore up La Liga - Darko Kovačević and Nihat Kahveci
By Sarthak Kumar@Vallecanos1924 Apr 13, 2017, 9:34pm CEST
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In light of Barcelona's upcoming fixture against Real Sociedad...
They came from thousands of miles away, banged in goals and tore La Liga apart - all from Donostia, the capital.
Darko Kovačević began his career with his birth-town club FK Radnički Kovin, but was soon spotted by Zrenjanin based Serbian top league club FK Proleter at the young age of 19. Spending two seasons with the club, Kovačević managed over a goal every other game, and was quickly snatched up by Serbian giants Red Star Belgrade. Kovačević flourished at the Belgrade club, becoming one of Europe's hottest prospects and earning a call-up to the Yugoslavia national team. Netting in an astonishing 37 goals in just 47 games, Kovačević was eventually picked up by Premier League club Sheffield Wednesday in December 1995 for £2m.
Initially, Kovačević looked good, impressive in the air, and even scored 2 goals in one game against Bolton Wanderers in a 4–2 victory that saw him likened to Les Ferdinand. But Kovačević's transfer turned out to be a disaster for Sheffield Wednesday as the striker managed only 4 goals in his lone half-season at the club.
It was the signing that everyone wanted, but half a year later it was the signing everyone wanted to write-off. And while many would have balked at the negativity in the press, Darko had other ideas.
Kovačević moved to La Liga side Real Sociedad in 1996. It was with the Spanish club that Kovačević put on some of his best performances and became one of Europe's best once again. Larger clubs soon came calling, with Italian giants Juventus acquiring the big Serbian in 1999.
At the Turin based club, Kovačević found goals in both the Serie A and competitions such as the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup, becoming their leading European goal scorer one season. Yet the Juventus management felt Kovačević was underachieving and soon both parties were looking for a move out of Italy, with clubs such as Rangers willing to offer £12m for the Serbian's services. In 2001, Kovačević spent a brief time with Lazio (as part of a swap deal with Marcelo Salas) before moving back to Spain in the middle of the season.
History had repeated itself - another failed six-month spell. And history would repeat itself again - because another move to Real Sociedad followed.
Kovačević would go on to spend 6 more seasons at the club, netting in 51 goals in his second spell with Sociedad. The 2006–07 season would be Kovačević's last season with the Spanish side, ending in the club's relegation.
In 2007 Kovačević signed with Greek champions Olympiacos. Kovačević once again reached top form for the Piraeus based club, scoring 17 goals in the Greek Superleague to lead Olympiacos to the league championship, and adding 3 goals in the Champions League as the team reached as far as the Round of 16.
In early 2009, he was diagnosed with a blocked artery; he successfully underwent heart surgery to improve the flow of blood to his heart. His doctors had advised him that he should retire from football, and Kovacevic officially retired in May 2009.
Nihat Kahveci is a product of Beşiktaş's youth system and was discovered by Hürser Mustafa Cindir when Nihat played in Beşiktaş in the 1996–97 season. He joined the first team at Beşiktaş in the 1997–98 season when he was just 17, at the time John Toshack was the coach. Since then, Nihat became a key player.
In January 2002, Nihat was transferred to Real Sociedad for €5 million by then Beşiktaş coach Toshack, joining his Turkish team-mate Tayfun Korkut in Spain. In the first half of the season, Nihat played 11 matches and scored one goal.
In 2002-03, his second season in Spain, he finished the season with 23 goals making him the league's joint-second highest scorer for the season behind Roy Makaay (29 goals) and tied with Ronaldo. That season, Real Sociedad finished second in the league that season, just two points behind Real Madrid, mostly thanks to a very fruitful strike partnership with Serbian forward Darko Kovačević.
In his third season at Real Sociedad, Nihat made 32 appearances scoring a total of 14 goals. Nihat also played in the UEFA Champions League with Real Sociedad as the club was paired with Juventus, Galatasaray and Olympiacos. La Real qualified to the knockout stage, but was eliminated by Olympique Lyonnais, losing 2–0 on aggregate. By the end of the season, Nihat won the Don Balón Award for Best Foreign Player.
In his fourth season, Nihat made 23 appearances and scored 13 goals. In the middle of the season, Nihat tore his ACL during a match against Sevilla which caused him to be out of action for six months.
In his fifth and last season at Real Sociedad, Nihat made his return from injury in a 3–0 loss in the Basque derby, against Athletic Bilbao. He went on to make 32 appearances and score seven goals. During that season, Nihat was about to sign for Russian club Spartak Moscow but had to stay for the remainder of the season due to Kovačević's injury.
In May 2006, Nihat would go on to play for Villarreal CF, where another torn ACL would derail his first season. He seemed to catch up form in his second season with 18 goals in the league and 4 goals in the UEFA Cup, helping his club to finish the season as second in La Liga where he formed a formidable offensive pair with Robert Pirès. However, in the 2008–09 season, due to injuries again, Nihat made 19 appearances equalling 764 minutes of playing time but failed to score a single goal.
In 2009, Nihat would return to Beşiktaş, but after two seasons, 34 appearances, and three goals, he left with a distaste for playing in the Turkish league, and formally retired six months later. In 2012, he became assistant manager of Villarreal's youth team.
They were individually brilliant too - Nihat, almost singlehandedly, led Turkey to a Euro 2008 semifinal berth - he scored two goals in the final three minutes to turn a 2-1 loss against Czech Republic into a 3-2 win in their final group game. And Darko led Yugoslavia to a 1998 World Cup Round of 16 berth, as well as a Euro 2000 quarterfinal berth.
But, together, they led Real Sociedad to being a 3-2 loss against Celta Vigo away from lifting a third title, to being unbeaten at home including a 4-2 win against Real Madrid and 2-1 against Barcelona. They led Real Sociedad into Europe. And they stayed even when the side was struggling, refusing to listen to bigger offers from bigger clubs.
Darko's strength and aerial ability, combined with Nihat's knack of terrorizing opposition defenses that weren't careful enough, gave La Liga its greatest foreign striker duo of the decade.
This article is reproduced from a series on the faces of Spanish football. You can read it here.
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A great part that can be integrated into an A-Set. This is due not least to the fact that 9 pitches are optimally arranged in a small space.
The operation of the basic functions is very easy. If you want to be a bit deeper into the details, it is less intuitive but still logical. With a little practice you can quickly find your way around. Sampling, looping, modifying samples with effects, pitching, trimming, normalizing everything is very easy to use. It's only a pity that you do not get a little help with the clock raster or the like when creating the loops. Here you have to rely on your hearing / flair, or use a separate software. This is a pity. I had expected more.
Also the mitgeliferte software (WaveManager) for the management of the samples is not particularly helpful. It provides only minimal functions for exporting / importing or for storing samples as kits or for assigning them to the pads. Apart from this, the software only reacts very sluggishly to my clicks. But also s.meinen old calculator lie.
Back to the positive thing: Super are the many outputs and routing possibilities. There is no wish left open. Also helpful are the "templates" when assigning sounds to pads. Here, you can choose between shot, phrase and loop whereby typical constellations of the adjustable parameters for velocity dynamics, loop (ON / OFF) or poly / mono can be selected. These can then simply be adapted or overwritten, but are generally sufficient.
The feel of the pads on the pads is of course not comparable with Meshheads but that did not expect any. The connection via USB to my WIN XP computer has worked without problems. Only the need to change the USB mode on the SPD SX, depending on whether you want to use the Wavemanager or whether you want to operate the part as an audio interface, has caused for me a little confusion.
The realtime effects are the hammer and make a good mood. Can not imagine me as I'm going to use in the live operation but fun is always.
I had an older PD9 pad lying around. I have times attached to the additional triggere inputs and it has immediately, perfectly worked.
I am very enthusiastic and can recommend the part only to every drummer. Whether as a toy for your home, as a companion for lonely practice hours or as a surprise at the live gig. However, only a few ready-made sounds or loops are included. This is probably Roland's focus on the creative hobbyists. If you do not feel like it and you are looking for a part with finished sounds, the Octapad / SPD-30 is probably much better.
From my point of view amazingly simple. I have tried all variants (USB stick, computer / MAC, direct recording and OnBoard possibilities). When one has the turn out, the playing is actually simple.
Although you have to click on the small display through many menus (partly also very redundant), but you get used very quickly, which makes it easier by the hand goes. The manual takes a good hand.
The recording from the PC or MAC is effectively child-friendly (drag & drop) with the included software, whereby you could really think of more functionality (at the price ...).
The first thing you need to know about the SPD-SX is that you need an exact frenquency of 44kHz, so you should buy a freeware conversion software (eg SUPER 2012)!
The pads are very quiet, even with harder blows. If the tripod is not on a hard surface, you can hear even less. I was surprised by the processing of the rubber pads, since this is very pleasant to play (with "responsive" rebound).
Of course, the subjectively - however, I feel the processing as ... rather ... moderate. The pads are colored after a few strokes (wood and / or nylon makes no difference), after a few weeks you can see very clearly where you like and where not.
If a blow happens unintentionally once, the plastic of the housing is stable, but I had after a few minutes unpleasant driver! In addition, the display has received a crossover, which now has an unsightly dent and distorted the picture underneath. Of course you do not hit the display intentionally - but I expect a drumming device to have a certain robustness against strikes. As I said, this assessment is subjective.
The SPD-SX is of course an eye-catcher, an ingenious tool for musicians of all kinds to fire samples and even add live effects. The onBoard options provide a quick and easy way to get more out of your sounds.
I even use it to connect more triggers for my eDrum (TD12-KX) and thereby expand my spectrum.
A good purchase, but want to be well thought. Musicians who know what you want to do will have their joy. Newcomers and those who "play" for a while I recommend the show once to let or to inform well.
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So it or not-a controversial issue. However, it is well known that cats can create a positive emotional background in the house and have a positive impact on the psycho-emotional state of a person.
In the 18th century by psychiatrists, it was observed that the presence of cats has a beneficial effect on mental health – when crazy cats allowed, patients have become much easier. Similar methods are still used in psychiatric clinics and in nursing homes in some countries. In addition, there are more pragmatic reasons for the love of cats – domesticated around three thousand years ago the animal for centuries helped people to deal with rodents.
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Home Uncategorized Rumor: Hollywood Reporter, Billboard Purchase by WME Talent Agency Would Create Chaos
Rumor: Hollywood Reporter, Billboard Purchase by WME Talent Agency Would Create Chaos
The New York Post's Keith Kelly and Claire Atkinson suggest today that Billboard, the Hollywood Reporter, and Dick Clark Productions– all owned now by Todd Boehly formerly of Guggenheim Partners– could be sold to the William Morris Endeavor Agency.
Hitsdailydouble.com, Billboard's rival, say it's not true. And anyway, the Hollywood Reporter is bleeding $20 million a year. And Billboard? Who knows? Dick Clark Productions produces the Golden Globes, American Music Awards, and a variety of awards shows.
Kelly and Atkinson usually smell smoke where there's a fire. But this idea seems half baked. It's not like THR has great journalistic standards. And they did feature the owners of WME on a recent cover. But if Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell et al actually owned THR, the already compromised publication would be a house organ for the agents and their clients. And they'd play it like a Wurlitzer.
The agents would certainly have trouble with the concept of church and state. Not only would The Reporter be featuring exclusives on WME deals and clients, but Billboard too would be used for that purpose on the music front. And imagine the awards shows. The Golden Globes are fighting to improve their image. This move wouldn't help them. Dick Clark Productions' other awards shows– like American Music Awards or their new People magazine awards–would become a WME fest. And you couldn't blame WME agents for hinting to prospective clients that they could get awards more easily by signing with the agency.
A WME takeover of the former Guggenheim properties– a bad idea. And in Hollywood, that means it could happen. Like "Ben Hur."
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Q: PremiumPress Payment Gateway issue: MD5 is not working Here in the wordpress plugin Premium Press I have integrated payson payment gateway, but there is one small problem: the MD5 field is not being able to take in any values and not working. Please help me with this.
This is the code for taking input for MD5 values in a form:
<input type="hidden" name="MD5" value=" < ?php echo get_option('gateway_payson_receiver');('SellerEmail'); ('OkUrl'); ('GuaranteeOffered'); ('ExtraCost'); ('Cost'); ?>"/>

This is what have to be calculated in another file send.php:
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 $MD5Hash = md5($MD5string);

 ('ExtraCost'); ('Cost'); ?>"/>

I am trying to test it in: https://www.payson.se/testagent/default.aspx
But for MD5 its not calculating any values.
Please help me if possible.
Edit: I put the extra spaces after value=" and also inside < ?php because stackoverflow was not recognising the code and not displaying, that is not a problem. Inside the real code there is no space there.

A: You don't give many details, but I couldn't help noticing this:
...me="MD5" value=" < ?php echo get_option('gateway_payson_receiver');('SellerEmail'); ('OkUrl'); ('GuaranteeOffered'); ('ExtraCost'); ('Cost'); ?>

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*There is an extra space after the open quote mark value=".

*The code inside is not PHP, due to the space between < and ?, but text.

*There are no separators and in the calculation you seem to use the : separator.

According to the Payson page you supplied,

MD5 - Obligatorisk - Du saknar alla parametrar för att beräkna MD5, du skall ha med: SellerEmail,Cost,ExtraCost,OkUrl,GuaranteeOffered samt din nyckel

When you display that form, you should have already available the following variables:
$SellerEmail
$Cost
$ExtraCost
$OkUrl
$GuaranteeOffered
$Key

and output a hidden form field like
<input type="hidden" name="MD5" value="<?php echo md5("$SellerEmail:$Cost:$ExtraCost:$OkUrl:$GuaranteeOffered$Key"); ?>"/>

A: nothing work with those guyz from premiumpress!
i add diffdrent payment gateways pluggin i took on their website ( fedapay & cinetpay) none work properly and no one is able to fix the problem...i finally ask for refund


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