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Bird Walks
Garden Volunteering Information
A full History of Canons Park
Chandos and Corruption
Situated very close to Canons Park underground station on the Jubilee Line, the park is well served by public transport.
Enter from Whitchurch Lane (buses 79, 186 and 340 drop you right by the entrance), or walk from the underground station along Donnefield Avenue to the park entrance at the end. Alternatively, there are entrances at the top end of Canons Drive, and on Howberry Road.
Please note that some roads near the park have restricted parking hours. There is a station car park in Donnefield Avenue and a number of spaces at the top of Canons Drive, including two for disabled drivers.
A fully accessible park
The park has a disabled toilet and is FULLY ACCESSIBLE, via a fully connected pathway that runs right around the park, enabling wheelchair
users, walkers, joggers, and families with pushchairs to explore and enjoy this wonderful, historic landscape.
Dogs are welcome in all areas but the council asks that dog owners put their pets on a lead in the Memorial Garden, so that those who come there for a little peace and quiet - or are afraid of dogs - can enjoy the surroundings.
Please also remember that the pond at the centre of the garden is home to a variety of wildlife, including frogs and newts, so allowing your dog to swim in the pond is both anti-social and harmful to these little creatures. We understand that Flea treatments for dogs are especially harmful to the water and would point out that anti-social behaviour results in glass and litter being thrown into the pond, which could result in a painful injury to your dog. We try to clean out the pond whenever possible but cannot guarantee that it is safe for dogs or children to enter.
Good Friends Cafe
The Good Friends Cafe
is now open for the season (weather permitting).
Our popular café has become the social hub of the park, where friends (and their dogs!) can meet up for snacks, teatime goodies and ice creams during the spring and summer months.
See Facebook for the newly expanded menu, which now includes even more vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options!

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Websites and Organic Ranking
Too much home page text?
Thread starter Rich Owings
Rich Owings
Local Search Expert
I'm usually battling too little home page text, but I've got a prospect who may have the opposite problem. They are a managed IT services provider.
The word count is 2277. The home page starts off with a slider (of course!), then a section on six services with a short paragraph about each, then a similar section about six types of industries they serve. Not too bad so far.
But then we get seven lengthy bios with pictures of each manager, another slider focusing on their history, a section of blog excerpts, a current open positions section, an awards section, and a contact form no one has ever seen because no one is going to scroll that far!
It looks to me like it *may* have been a single page site, and then they started added internal pages. Amazingly enough the load time isn't that bad.
They rank well enough for some terms, but not IT security, even though it is one of the six services mentioned.
Is it possible Google is devaluing some text because of the sheer volume of text on the page? Has anyone ever come across a similar situation?
djbaxter
Rich Owings said:
First, there is a limit to how much text (including html, etc.) googlebot will crawl before it stops crawling a single page. I think today that limit is quite generous compared to say 10 years ago but it isn't infinite.
Second, you are diluting potential search terms on the page with other content containing it's own (different) search terms. This is going to make it more difficult for Google to decide what the page is about - and it may be something different than the owners would like.
Recommendation: Split the quoted portion above into 4-6 new pages: Bios on a separate page, contact page on it's own separate page, blog page separate, history and awards separate (could be 2 pages), and current open positions separate..
This will also help visitors to the site, especially on mobile. Keep the information to easily digestible bites. Don't heap the plate like it's Thanksgiving.
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Phil Rozek
@Rich Owings, no. Hell no. There's no such thing as too long; only too boring.
Also, in my experience, the homepage has the greatest shot at ranking for a wide variety of search terms, often in the most cities/towns. (I can only speculate as to why.) Subpages: not so much. Having plenty of in-depth info on services, on "success stories," USP / "why choose us"-type info, and maybe even FAQs is the way to go. It's served my most-successful clients well, at least.
It sounds like the problem here is less the text on the homepage and more what's between the text. Nobody clicks on sliders, and they slow down load-time, so I'd get rid of those. Likewise for many of the other bells and whistles you mentioned (e.g. the blog post previews).
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JoshuaMackens
That wouldn't be my first concern. I don't think there's such a thing as too much homepage text as long as it's relevant. And all of that sounds relevant.
Just make sure the keywords are where they should be and I think you're fine.
I'd remove any text you find unnecessary to a user that lands on the homepage but beyond that I think you're good.
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I'm suprised no one else seems to be concerned about these two points:
djbaxter said:
you are diluting potential search terms on the page with other content containing it's own (different) search terms. This is going to make it more difficult for Google to decide what the page is about - and it may be something different than the owners would like.
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@djbaxter, for what it's worth, I agree that it's good to avoid creating content so long it becomes a sand traps for mobile users. In general, though, I'd keep the bites small by breaking them up with other scenery (e.g. photos), rather than by keeping the whole page brief.
As long as a clear call-to-action is at the very top of the heap, at least the quick-action people (often on mobile) don't have to read everything. The in-depth content is for the undecided people and the read-every-word engineer kind.
Guess it all depends on the specific page, though.
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I'm not hung up on keyword density anymore. I'm not sure how much of a factor that really is. I think it's likely Google has a better way now to determine the relevance of a page to a keyword search.
True on mobile. I'd probably shorten it to what is necessary and remove what detracts and then rely on backlinks and other offpage signals to make up the difference in ranking loss due to content length (if that is a thing).
I'm not talking about keyword density per se. I've never paid much attention to that, not even back in the 90s - it's always been a bogus metric.
I'm talking about a very long page that tries to cover several different topics:
The home page starts off with a slider (of course!), then a section on six services with a short paragraph about each, then a similar section about six types of industries they serve. Not too bad so far.
For me, that leads to the question what is the main topic of that page? There isn't one. There are a few. So how is Google going to categorize that and decide what the page is mainly about? It may not be the same as you intended it to be or hoped it would be.
And the issue of the visitor / potential client, especially on mobile. That's a lot of information to download in a browser and try to absorb or find the specific information you're seeking. In the world of smart phones you only have a few seconds to capture and keep a visitor. Why make it difficult to do that?
Thanks everyone, for all the input. I'll likely recommend moving the bios and history section to interior pages, which hopefully will improve home page UX and conversions. If they are reluctant, I may put Crazy Egg or something along those lines on it for awhile, to show them what is happening.
Hey Rich, if it's a YMYL website I wouldn't move the bios or history. Maybe shorten them and link to the full content on another page. Unless I've misunderstood something from Marie Haynes, it's important to have that information on the homepage in some capacity.
I would move the content and link to it from the home page.
Again, it's not just about SEO. It's also about user experience.
@JoshuaMackens It is an IT services firm, but what you said is interesting. I've got a few clients with YMYL sites, and while they've got some EAT signals on their homepage, maybe they could use more. I've focused a lot of attention on author authority for significant landing pages, but you've given me some ideas about home page improvements too. Thanks!
AndySimpson
Have a look at your GSC data to see what queries your home page is ranking for. Remove content carefully/over time, test, repeat...
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ashtonleehudson
Before touching the content I would delve into Google Search Console. After all, you may find that you're gaining valuable traffic through keywords that you (nor the client) were aware of.
You will then likely have a list of keywords which you don't want to loose rankings for (dependent upon search volume, relevancy etc.) Begin tracking these as well as the new keyword(s) you want to target.
I would then begin making small changes to the text. As others have highlighted the density of your target keyword(s) is not as important as it once was, but is still a factor. Also consider which associated keywords you are using, as Google seemingly groups keywords together.
As you make these changes you can analyse the impact on each keyword. Although, don't have too many keywords otherwise you'll make little progress. I would typically recommend having no more than 3 keywords per page, but it is always great to have fewer.
Mike Vannington
No one said anything about bounce rate. When I see a WoT, I bounce.
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The previous comment about the page load slowdown from the web slider and the fact that no one ever clicks it was accurate. This sounds like what the client thinks their website should look like, vs what their internet marketer thinks it should look like. Bios on the the Home Page? Ridiculous. Show the various personalities featured in the Bio section the number of per month searches and CPC for their names.
If they want to mention 6 different services, fine. Someone who's actually looking for one (or more) of those services will click a button. Put all that stuff on a secondary page. You can optimize that page independently from the home page, and that juice will feed to and support the home page, assuming we're talking about organic page rank. In short (and in general) a secondary page can be an "internal backlink" to the home page. So under this theory, Rich Owings opinion on "dilution" is correct, IMO. If it doesn't have a business reason (meaning marketing to customers), it doesn't belong on the Home Page. I'll just disclaim myself here. I did a lot of research years ago and learned and knew about LSEO, but my knowledge is dated and my experience is limited. But the basics are always the basics. Plus, if you deconstruct the Home Page, Google Analytics (if it's still around) will show you where people go on the site, i.e. from what page do they start (usually Home, but not always) and from there do they A) Bounce B) go to another internal page. It's amazing sometimes when you compare what either you, or the client, think of as "important" to what the traffic is actually doing.
Srinath
Late to the party. I know a couple of experienced folks had mentioned that Keyword density does not matter on the home page. My experience has been to the contrary. Two sites which were doing well tanked when we over-optimized the page. One went to page 2 on SERP and recovered as soon as we reverted back and the other went a long way back and we are in the process of recovering that as well.
Martinus33
Interesting thread which recalls my own favor for long homepages, but - if I may contribute my 2 cents - 2277 words is IMHO really too much, by far:
- task of a homepage is to provide an overview and work as a "teaser"
- therefore you can mention a lot of important aspects of your site, but only short and then more comprehensive on all the pages, which are linked on the homepage
- a homepage should rank for its own proper KWs, usually the more generic ones, valid for the whole site, plus some longtail variations
- user experience is key, not because of bounce rate as SEO signal, which btw has been denied several times by Google (Gary I. and John M.), but because of the pure fact, that any bouncing user is a lost client
From a UX perspective, reviewing a lot of Hotjar videos, user interest wanes or peters out as he/she nears the lower portions of the page and scrolling on mobile. Getting the best material in the top segments is what I aim to achieve.
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Q: getting debit cedit and balance issue I am using the below query to the following information from table statement
SELECT [Statement_ID] as SID, t.[InvoiceID], t.S_Type as Type,
       t.Description, t.Date, t.Debit, t.Credit, b.Balance
FROM Statement as t CROSS apply
     (SELECT Balance = SUM(Debit) - SUM(Credit)
      FROM Statement as x
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             x.date = t.date and x.[Statement_ID] <= t.[Statement_ID]
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WHERE t.CustID ='48' and date between '2015-01-01' and '2016-01-01'
ORDER BY t.date

out put
SID InvoiceID   Type            Date    Debit   Credit  Balance
176     51  Service Invoice 2015-08-29  500.00  0.00    500.00
462     51  Receipt Voucher 2015-09-07  0.00    500.00  0.00
107     76  Service Invoice 2015-09-28  1000.00 0.00    1000.00
165     208 Service Invoice 2015-09-28  500.00  0.00    1500.00
217     119 Service Invoice 2015-10-31  500.00  0.00    2000.00
459     76  Receipt Voucher 2015-11-21  0.00    500.00  1500.00
460     208 Receipt Voucher 2015-11-21  0.00    500.00  1000.00
461     119 Receipt Voucher 2015-11-21  0.00    500.00  500.00
163     165 Service Invoice 2015-12-01  500.00  0.00    1000.00
458     165 Receipt Voucher 2015-12-22  0.00    500.00  500.00
44      224 Service Invoice 2015-12-31  500.00  0.00    1000.00

First how can i get each Receipt Voucher under it invoice
second when i have Receipt Voucher with same date of invoice how i can be sure it gets under Invoice using Statement_ID since Receipt Voucher is always entered after the invoice
the expected out put
order invoices by date and get it Receipt Voucher
S_ID    InvoiceID   Type    Date        Debit   Credit  Balance
176     51  Service Invoice 2015-08-29  500.00  0.00    500.00
462     51  Receipt Voucher 2015-09-07  0.00    500.00  0.00
107     76  Service Invoice 2015-09-28  1000.00 0.00    1000.00
459     76  Receipt Voucher 2015-11-21  0.00    500.00  500.00
165     208 Service Invoice 2015-09-28  500.00  0.00    1000.00
460     208 Receipt Voucher 2015-11-21  0.00    500.00  500.00
217     119 Service Invoice 2015-10-31  500.00  0.00    1000.00
461     119 Receipt Voucher 2015-11-21  0.00    500.00  500.00
163     165 Service Invoice 2015-12-01  500.00  0.00    1000.00
458     165 Receipt Voucher 2015-12-22  0.00    500.00  500.00
44      224 Service Invoice 2015-12-31  500.00  0.00    1000.00

A: This this...
With    CTE1 AS
(
        SELECT [Statement_ID] as SID, t.[InvoiceID], t.S_Type as Type,
               t.Description, t.Date, t.Debit, t.Credit, b.Balance
        FROM Statement as t CROSS apply
             (SELECT Balance = SUM(Debit) - SUM(Credit)
              FROM Statement as x
              WHERE (x.date < t.date or
                     x.date = t.date and x.[Statement_ID] <= t.[Statement_ID]
                    ) AND
                    x.CustID = t.CustID
             ) b
        WHERE t.CustID ='48' and date between '2015-01-01' and '2016-01-01'
),      CTE2 AS
(
        SELECT  Row_Number() Over (Order By [Date]) As priorityID,
                [InvoiceID]
        FROM    CTE1
        WHERE   [Type] = 'Service Invoice'
)
Select  c1.*
From    CTE1 c1
JOIN    CTE2 c2
        ON c1.[InvoiceID] = c2.[InvoiceID]
ORDER BY c2.priorityID, c1.[Date]

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Q: how to execute test cases in better way for windows application using winappdriver and C# I am working on an existing test automation framework that uses the following for UI tests on a windows application:-

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*C# for creating UI cases

*winAppDriver to interact with UI objects

*nUnit for validation

*specflow for BDD

I don't have much idea about microsoft projects. Here is a simple structure of the project:-

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*Application

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*Source

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*Modules

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*features

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*Tests

Each test folder has a "app.config" file in it that supplies the config for the test to work like DB username, pwd, services urls etc.
We execute our test case from "Test Explorer" pane in VS Enterprise which is not the best way if the test cases need to be run remotely in jenkins. As I said I don't have much frame of reference when it comes to Microsoft apps. So, here are some questions to which I have been looking for answers; there seems to be no definite consensus online. Just curious to know how others are maintaining their projects. Here goes:-

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*is there a jenkins friendly way of running these test cases? using a cmd line or a runner file perhaps?

*if I find a way to accomplish #1 how do I inject app.config properties at runtime?

*how does one execute these cases on remote machine? Mine is a desktop windows app. What would a high-level strategy look like? I assume I will have to get a remote machine and install the app on that machine?

any pointers, resources to read about would be helpful. Just looking for a nudge in the right direction.

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*Since you are using nUnit, it has a default approach of running tests from console see here

*It looks like you need to pass parameters from the test runner into the runtime. You can use this approach

*Execute on remote machine strategy depends on your current infrastructure. E. g. if you are using Gitlab, you should set up the GitLab CI runner into your machine and set up the GitLab pipeline.

looking for a nudge in the right direction

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*See CI\CD test run best practices


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Q: How can I import data via ajax into a form in Symfony 4? list.html.twig:

load User 1

load User 2

load User 3

              {{ form_start(form) }}

                {{ form_label(form.username) }}
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PagesController.php:
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      $item= $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository(User::class)->find($id);
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      ->add('is_active', HiddenType::class)
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      ->add('save', SubmitType::class, array(
        'label' => 'Update',
        'attr' => array('class' => 'btn btn-primary mt-3')
      ))
      ->getForm();
      $form->handleRequest($request);

      $response = new JsonResponse(
        array(
          'message' => 'Error',
          'form' => $this->renderView('list.html.twig',
          array(
            'entity' => $item,
            'form' => $form->createView(),
          ))), 400);

          return $response;

          if($form->isSubmitted() && $form->isValid()) {
            $entityManager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
            $entityManager->flush();
            return $this->redirectToRoute('pages', array(
              'slug' => $slug,
            ));
          }
          return $this->render('list.html.twig', [ 'form' => $form->createView()]);

        }

By click on a load button I want to load the data from the database into the form. But it is not working, no data is loaded and the error is Ajax request 400

A: change
 $response = new JsonResponse(
    array(
      'message' => 'Error',
      'form' => $this->renderView('list.html.twig',
      array(
        'entity' => $item,
        'form' => $form->createView(),
      ))), 400);

      return $response;

into
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    array(
      'message' => 'Success',
      'output' => $this->renderView('list.html.twig',
      array(
        'entity' => $item,
        'form' => $form->createView(),
      ))), 200);

      return $response;

and list.html.twig should ONLY include the form


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Coexist graffiti artist badly beaten by Muslim 'youths'
Every time I see a "Coexist" bumper sticker (and I see a lot of them in Berkeley), I think of soft-headed liberals who don't understand the first thing about jihad. One of those Coexist fans just got mugged by reality (in Irving Kristol's famous words), not in Berkeley, but in Paris.
Jihad Watch reports:
"Street Artist Combo Brutally Attacked for Pacifist Tag Post Charlie Hebdo," by Coline Milliard, artnet news, February 5, 2015 (thanks to BD):
It seems like something one would be hard pressed to disagree with: the word "coexist," written on a wall using a Muslim crescent as the letter "C," a Star of David as the letter "X," and a Christian cross as a "T."
But in Paris, this particular iteration of the popular inscription—here, created by the street artist Combo, who also pasted a life-size photo of himself next to it—didn't go down well with everybody. Le Monde reports that four young people asked the artist to remove it last weekend, and beat him up severely when he refused to do so.
Combo ended up with a dislocated shoulder and many bruises.
The attack is characteristic of the inter-religious tensions that plague France and have been exacerbated by the Charlie Hebdo tragedy (see 12 Killed at Magazine Previously Attacked for Satirical Cartoons). Combo declined to discuss the identity of his assailants. "It would only add fuel to the fire," he told the French newspaper.
A former adman, the artist has taken his politically-charged street art to Los Angeles and Hong Kong, where he pasted printouts of web pages forbidden by the Chinese government. "My pieces function in a disruptive manner, they surprise, and appear up where they shouldn't be," he said.
During a residency in Bayreuth, he grew his beard and started wearing the traditional Muslim dress—not because he was increasingly attracted to a more fundamentalist version of Islam, but, again, to disrupt established codes. To his friends asking him whether he was "going to jihad" in Lebanon, he answered, "I'm going to ji-art."
Jihandists have no interest at all in coexistence. They want domination. That's pretty simple, but beyond the understanding of people who pride themselves in their sophistication. Cobo is lucky to be alive. Let's hope he wises up.


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import partitionEventHandlers from '../src/partition-event-handlers';
import { expect } from 'chai';

function noop() {}

describe('partitionEventHandlers', () => {
	const props = {
		onFoo: noop,
		onBar: noop,
		title: 'Foo',
		value: 'Bar'
	};

	it('should return only properties beginning with `on` if `withOrWithout` is true', () => {
		const withEventHandlers = partitionEventHandlers(props, true);
		expect(Object.keys(withEventHandlers)).to.eql([ 'onFoo', 'onBar' ]);
	});

	it('should return only properties not beginning with `on` if `withOrWithout` is false', () => {
		const withoutEventHandlers = partitionEventHandlers(props, false);
		expect(Object.keys(withoutEventHandlers)).to.eql([ 'title', 'value' ]);
	});
});

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Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels
Hong Kong, HKCEC Grand Hall 25 November 2014
Sale total including buyer's premium: HKD 733,411,000
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Total: HK$733,411,000 / US$95,050,066 / £60,873,113 / €76,861,473
Coloured stones and coloured diamonds were keenly sought after by private collectors and members of the international trade at Christie's Hong Kong. One of the finest red diamonds ever offered for sale achieved a world record price of well over US$2 million per carat. It is also the most expensive red diamond ever sold at auction, said Vickie Sek, Deputy Chairman of Christie's Asia and Director of Christie's Jewellery and Jadeite Department.


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Creating Culture Change at City Hall
by Jeremy Loudenback
At the Bedrosian Center's Lunch with a Leader program last week, Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Doane Liu recalled with pride how he first got a taste for public service.
As a San Pedro resident, he helped broker a deal in the mid-1990s that turned surplus land in San Pedro leftover from the closing of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard into a homeless facility, a high school, and part of the Port of Los Angeles complex.
"I worked with the congresswoman [Jane Harman] to come up with a three-way deal," Liu said. "It was a win-win-win situation. The Port of L.A. got a key parcel of land, the school got a new site, and a local homeless shelter got $1.3 million. After that, I got the bug for politics."
"We are starting to develop a culture where there's no wrong door, no 'It's not my job.' We are all responsible for how the city looks and performs."
Impressed with his efforts to work out solutions for many disparate groups, including contentious community groups, Harman persuaded Liu to step away from his lucrative position as a banker for a job as a district manager with her office. After his time with Harman, Liu went on to work with Jim Hahn in the city attorney's office and then as a deputy mayor during Hahn's term as Los Angeles mayor from 2001 to 2005. Afterward, Liu continued to work in city politics by serving as chief of staff to both Councilmember Janice Hahn (Jim's sister) and current Councilmember Joe Buscaino before being tapped to serve as Deputy Mayor of City Services for current Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in July 2013.
As Deputy Mayor of City Services, Liu oversees 15 city departments and bureaus, including the Department of Water and Power, transportation, public works, Recreation and Parks, and the library system, among others. During a program that gathered together faculty, students, and practitioners, Liu shared some of his lessons as an administrator managing change, his role in implementing Mayor Garcetti's back to basics agenda, and how the City of Los Angeles hopes to change how we think about measuring the delivery of city services.
According to Liu, keeping the city running on a balanced budget is a challenge, especially when two of the city's 36 departments receive the lion's share of the budget.
"For every dollar that the city receives, 70 cents goes to the police department and fire department," Liu said. "That's where our money goes and it's important. But with the rest of the thirty cents, we have to do everything else: pick up the trash, clean your water, operate your streetlights, take care of your streets, provide traffic officers, parks—the city operates 420 parks—and stuff like libraries."
Repairing the city's deteriorating streets is an area of critical need for Los Angeles. More than a third of city streets are rated as in the worst condition possible, but with limited funds, the city is focusing its efforts on repairing streets that represent quicker fixes. In an era of still-constrained budgets, Liu says that asking voters for more money is a tough sell unless city departments can show that they will spend that money well.
"We're looking at other ways to raise revenue for streets," Liu said. "I've been focused on finding efficiencies in our bureaus of street services. Last year, we resurfaced 2200 miles. This year's budget has the same amount of money, and our goal is to do 2400 miles, just through efficiencies. The mayor's point is that before we ask taxpayers to help us with this for the problem, we better prove to them that we can do it efficiently."
Liu has been closely involved with the mayor's efforts to increase efficiency and accountability throughout the city bureaucracy, a campaign that has tried to establish an ethic of performance through data-driven statistics. In recent years, many police departments have used the CompStat system to track crime statistics in real-time and to consider the speedy allocation of resources to address crime trends. Garcetti has instituted a similar system for all city departments.
"We are striving for a culture of data-driven performance," Liu said. "We're asking all of our departments to provide statistics in real-time, which they haven't had to do before. How much water are we using? What's our power mix? What percentage of power mix is renewable? How many streetlights were out yesterday? How many missed pickups did sanitation have? We're not quite there yet in terms of providing all the information as open data, but we're really close."
Liu and other deputy mayors have received some pushback from bureaucrats about their Moneyball-inspired approach, but Liu senses the culture at City Hall is changing.
"The perception for some is that 'We've been here for five mayors; we can wait you out,'" Liu said. "It's a challenge. But having a 43-year old mayor who is tech-savvy and who talks about tech a lot helps. Firing 10 general managers has also helped a lot, too. Having monthly CompStat meetings has also been really great. "
The city has recently instituted an innovation fund to encourage employee ideas about how the city can save money and run more smoothly. But Liu also points to efforts from the mayor's office to encourage a new attitude among its public servants.
"Cultural change does not happen overnight, just because of civil servant protection," he said. "But we are starting to develop a culture where there's no wrong door, no 'It's not my job.' We are all responsible for how the city looks and performs."
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Can Apple rival Huawei conquer the US market?
Roccat just launched the Horde AIMO featuring "membranical" keys that give players the best of membrane planks and mechanical keyboards. Roccat also equipped the keyboard with additional new features.
Roccat is one to innovate and push products that gamers never knew they wanted, and now it has outdone itself with the Horde AIMO keyboard.
The new gaming keyboard features what Roccat calls "membranical" keys. Supposedly, it's a hybrid between a membrane and mechanical keyboard.
Horde AIMO combines the silence and softness of a membrane plank with the precision and speed of a mechanical keyboard. Roccat claims that it's the perfect compromise between the two types. At the root of its identity, though, the keyboard is simply a membrane plank that's faster than normal.
According to Roccat, the Horde AIMO has a 44 percent faster response rate than the traditional keyboard. While standard membrane keyboards have an actuation speed of 9.0 ms, the "membranical" keys boast 7.8 ms. The macro keys are even faster at 5.0 ms.
Setting the "membranical" feature aside, the Horde AIMO has a new island layout that resists dirt better. They keys have enhanced distinction, and the five quick-fire macros have a lower height to set them apart from the main keys.
The tuning wheel allows users to adjust volume, brightness, dpi, multimedia, and more. It is configurable and comes with a Windows 10 Dial functionality, which makes the new Roccat keyboard the first of its kind to include this feature.
The Horde AIMO also comes with an improved anti-ghosting technology. Roccat claims that every keystroke, no matter how many presses per minute, will be registered without fail.
"An advanced algorithm developed by ROCCAT® engineers features the latest in key-mapping technology to provide an anti-ghosting solution like none before it," the company claims.
Other features of the Horde AIMO include a detachable palm rest and the RGB illumination. The AIMO lighting ecosystem allows players to connect other AIMO-enabled devices to showcase intelligent cross-device illumination. Of course, gamers can customize lighting scenarios for a more enjoyable gaming experience.
The feature-packed Horde AIMO is available for $90 and it comes in black, gray, and white variants. A non-RGB Horde keyboard is also set to be released soon with a $70 price tag.


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The effectiveness of mindfulness-based intervention for people with schizophrenia: a systematic review
Author(s): Angie Ho Yan Lam, Wai Tong Chien
Background: With its known benefits in other mental illnesses, there have been increasing interest to understand the effects of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) in schizophrenia. The systematic review aimed to summarize and synthesize the evidence regarding the effectiveness of MBI for people with schizophrenia.
Methods: The review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. Relevant studies systematically searched from seven main electronic databases. The studies included were assessed for their methodological qualities using the standard Cochrane's risk of bias assessment tool. Estimated effect sizes of the main study outcomes were calculated to assess/estimate the magnitude of the treatment effects of MBI in schizophrenia.
Results: Six experimental studies were selected for inclusion in the analysis. The study results were not appropriate to be combined for meta-analysis due to marked variations in the study designs, interventions and reported outcome measures. The findings show that there are potential effects of MBI for patients with schizophrenia on emotional regulation, global functioning and prevention of relapse. However, there was insufficient evidence to indicate these promising effects.
Conclusion: While mindfulness-based intervention may result in several benefits in schizophrenia, there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate its promising effects and evidence-based recommendations. More research is warranted to identify the therapeutic components and treatment effects of MBI in diverse samples with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.


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Supply Chain Asia (SCA) hit the headlines again as the not-for-profit organisation hosts its 10th annual Awards and gala dinner on 17 November 2016 at Orchard Hotel.
A total of 26 recipients received the annual SCA Awards 2016 on behalf of the logistics sector – which accounted for more than 7 per cent of Singapore's GDP and employs more than 200,000 people.
Dubbed the Oscars of the logistics industry, the awards are given out to outstanding performers in the industry. They include YCH Group, DHL Supply Chain, Kerry Logistics, as well as Holahspace who topped the Supply Chain Hackathon 2016. Over 400 guests decked out in tuxedo suits and formal wear attended the night of celebration.
DHL comes up tops
The global conglomerate scored two top prizes when DHL Supply Chain won Global 3PL of the Year and DHL Express swept Last Mile Partner of the Year awards, while DHL Global Forwarding missed out on Sea Freight Partner of the Year and Air Freight Partner of the Year awards to DB Schenker and CEVA Logistics respectively.
When it came to the highest honour of individual awards, Mr Ken Lee, Chief Executive Officer of DHL Express Asia Pacific, was awarded the prestigious Hall of Fame. Mr Lee also graced the Awards ceremony with the closing speech. This was the second time a DHL Express top level executive has received the Hall of Fame award, previously won by Mr Jerry Hsu in 2013.
Other major winners include YCH Group for its second Overall Supply Chain Partner of the Year award and Kerry Logistics for Asian 3PL of the Year. PSA Singapore continues its record run of its 10th Sea Port Operator of the Year trophy while SATS beat out HACTL for the first time for Air Cargo Operator of the Year award.
New awards, new faces
In a bid to extend recognition to other sectors of the supply chain industry, SCA has also created new awards categories, such as Consulting Partner of the Year, won by Accenture; SC Enterprise Partner of the Year (Hardware), awarded to SSI Schaefer; and Warehouse Management Software Partner of the Year, scooped by Manhattan Associates.
Overall Supply Chain Professional of the Year award returned in 2016, awarded to Mr Jamal Chamariq, Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain, Asia Pacific, Estee Lauder, while Ms Joy Rice, Supply Chain Director at Diageo, won Woman Professional of the Year award and Ms Elaine Low, Executive Vice President, Southeast Asia at CEVA Logistics brought home Supply Chain CEO of the Year award.
The future of SCA Awards
SCA Awards has then been recently rebranded to Supply Chain Asia Industry Night as an event to invite all senior supply chain professionals to come together to network and strengthen our relationships with one another in the industry. The Awards ceremony will remain the core component for the Industry Night, as we continue to provide a credible platform where achievements and success in the sector are celebrated, and top industry players and service providers are recognised for their outstanding performances. Keep up to date as we plan our upcoming Supply Chain Asia Industry Night on 16 November 2017!
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Happy Father's Day to These 17 Great Celebrity Dads
by Rachel Weeks
This Father's Day, we'll all be celebrating with—or remembering—our own fathers, but lots of celebrity dads will celebrating as well. Here are 17 of our favorite celebrity fathers and their adorable families.
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka
Father's Day is a big day at the Burtka-Harris household. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are fathers to two adorable twins. You probably already know Gideon and Harper from NPH's famous family Halloween costumes. We never got over their perfect Star Wars ensembles.
We know Chris Hemsworth best for his role as the hammer-wielding demigod Thor, but he's also an incredible family man. Hemsworth can always be found alongside wife Elsa Pataky and his three children. He even baked his daughter India a birthday cake when the bakery couldn't come through last minute.
While Seal is not with ex-wife Heidi Klum anymore, he is still very much involved in his children's lives. He is the biological father of Henry, Johan, and Lou Samuel, as well as the adopted father of Klum's daughter Leni, from a previous marriage. The family can still be seen spending quality time together, long after the couple's split.
Dedicated husband and father David Beckham cares for his family so deeply that he got Brooklyn, Romeo, Harper, and Cruz's names tattooed on back. When asked about his kids starting to date, Beckham told ET, "We're strong parents, and strict parents, but we're like most parents. We love our kids and we want the best for them."
Watching Ben Affleck with his daughters Violet and Seraphina and son Samuel, you would assume that he's just another dad, and not an award-winning actor and director. Affleck can often be seen at baseball games and in the park with his kids. And, despite their recent split, he even reunited with Jennifer Garner to take the kids to church on Easter.
Brad and Angelina are famously busy parents with a whopping six Jolie-Pitt children in tow. Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh, Pax, Knox, and Vivienne are all growing up to have careers of their own now. Zahara, Pax, and Vivienne even acted with their very talented mom in Malificent.
After struggling to conceive with wife Deborra-Lee Furness, Jackman and Furness adoped Oscar and Ava, although he doesn't think of them as adopted. "Deb and I are believers in I suppose you could call it destiny," Jackman told Australia's Herald Sun. "We feel things happened the way they are meant to. Obviously, biologically wasn't the way we were meant to have children."
It seems like Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are running a talent agency right out of their home. The couple, of course, are the parents of Jaden and Willow Smith who are building careers of their own. And Will is father to an older son Trey, who is the subject of Smith's smash hit "Just the Two of Us."
Matt Damon has a lot of women in his life. After marrying Miami Beach bartender Luciana Barosso—and filling in the role as step-father to Barosso's daughter Alexia—Damon fathered three more daughters of his own: Isabella, Gia, and Stella. But Alexia is very much Damon's own daughter. He even taught her to drive.
Despite being the President of the United States and all, Barack Obama still makes plenty of time to be a father to teenage daughters Malia and Sasha. He said in a speech on Father's Day last year, "[Dads] are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it."
Father to three children, Hania, Vincent, and Pauline, Vin Diesel clearly treasures being a father. And when his youngest daughter was born, Diesel thought of his dear friend, the late Paul Walker. "I can remember just like yesterday he (Walker) said that to me, 'A lot of tough guys will tell you to wait in the hallway, don't go in the delivery room.'" Diesel explained on The Jonathan Ross show. "But Vin, go into that delivery room, be present and cut that umbilical cord and it will be the best day of your life."'
"And so I did that and it was the best day of my life."
Supernatural actor Jared Padalecki and his wife Genevieve Cortese are the proud parents of two young boys, Shepherd and Thomas. Padalecki's Instagram is full of pictures of the happy family sliding and cuddling and swinging together.
Jay Z's relationship with long-time partner Beyoncé has been called into question more than a few times, but his feelings for daughter Blue Ivy have never wavered. His song "Glory" sums it all up quite nicely, "The most amazing feeling I feel / Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real / Maybe I paint the sky blue / My greatest creation was you."
Kevin Hart has been busy with a lot of things lately, but he's a true family man at heart. While he's not married to their mother anymore, the comedian's relationship with his children Hendrix and Heaven is as strong as ever. His son Hendrix is even going to be the best man at Hart's wedding in August.
It's not hard to guess that the silly and lovable Jack Black would make a good father, but, of course, he is. He shares two sons, Thomas and Samuel, with his wife of nine years Tanya Haden. "Sometimes I'm afraid my little one is going to murder me," Black joked with Us Weekly. "Sometimes there's some genuine rage in his eyes. And he told me he's going to kill me. But I think it's just a phase." Haha. Oh no! Let's hope so!
Perfect couple Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum already have one little girl on their plate, daughter Everly, but they are reportedly expecting another child in the near future. Tatum says he loves being a father, but also knows that it's scary. "You made this thing and have to bring it into the world together," Tatum told Vanity Fair. "You think people are going to be there, but ultimately you just have each other. Knock on wood, everything goes well, now you have a baby. They're like, 'Okay, here you go.' They hand it to you, and you're like, 'Uh, wait a minute. Aren't you guys going to come home with us and make sure we're not screwing this thing up?'"
Chris Pratt is one of our favorite celebrity fathers. He and his wife Anna Faris are parents to an adorable, blond son Jack. We're always jealous of their perfect little family unit, but never more so than when Pratt taught Jack to fish.


The EU is preparing to name and shame global tax havens in December, amid new "political momentum" that could lead to sanctions.
EU finance ministers discussed the tax haven blacklist in Brussels on Tuesday (7 November) in the wake of fresh revelations, the so-called 'Paradise Papers', which showed how US tech giant Apple, for one, used the British crown dependency of Jersey to avoid paying billions in taxes on its European profits.
Going into Tuesday's meeting, French finance chief Bruno Le Maire said: "We need to take concrete steps to improve the situation".
He said EU-designated tax havens should be banned from getting World Bank or International Monetary Fund aid.
"We need sanctions and we have to implement the sanctions. We cannot accept tax evasion any longer", the minister noted.
He added that the EU needed more "transparency" on the middlemen who created aggressive tax schemes and that EU members needed to "share information" on their tax regimes.
His Belgian counterpart, Johan Van Overtveldt, also said it was "necessary to sanction [blacklisted] countries".
Valdis Dombrovskis, the commissioner for the euro, backed the idea.
"We hope the Paradise leaks will help us see a new political momentum," he said.
"Having an agreement on the blacklist is possible by the end of the year. We think it's also possible to have an agreement on counter-measures against jurisdictions that end up on the blacklist," he said.
Toomas Toniste, the Estonian finance chief, who chaired Tuesday's event as part of Estonia's EU presidency, said adoption of the register was "very important for most member states."
But those EU countries which host offshore banking centres, such as Austria, Cyprus, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, and the UK, were either silent on Tuesday or voiced scepticism on the EU plan.
"A blacklist is always a difficult exercise", Luxembourg finance chief Pierre Gramegna said.
Austria's Hans Joerg Schelling noted that "if one tax oasis closes, another one opens."
The EU already sent letters of enquiry on tax measures to 92 jurisdictions in February in preparation for the blacklist project.
The process has put 53 entities in the crosshairs, including 12 British dependencies such as Bermuda, the Isle of Man, and the Cayman Islands, according to the Financial Times, a British newspaper.
An informal list published by the Commission two years ago and updated last December also gave an idea of which countries and territories might end up on the common EU list in December.
It included multiple tiny locations in the Caribbean and in Oceania, such as the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Panama, Fiji, Nauru, and Palau.
It also covered a handful of places in Asia and the Middle East, such as Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jordan, and the UAE.
And it included several locations closer to home - Andorra, Bosnia, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, and Switzerland.
But Global Witness, a British NGO, said on Tuesday that EU states were themselves helping financial wrongdoing by protecting the secrecy of shell firms and trusts on their territories.
"Talk of tax haven blacklists by Europe's finance ministers may grab the headlines, but the EU hasn't got its own house in order," Rachel Owens, from the NGO's Brussels office, said.
"Before the EU points the finger at others, it needs to clean up its own act," she said, calling for EU states to make public the real owners of such legal structures in talks, due next week, on new anti-money laundering laws.
Tuesday's meeting marked the EU debut of German acting finance minister Peter Altmaier, who recently took over from Wolfgang Schaeuble amid reshuffles in Berlin.
He said Frankfurt "would be a great choice" to host the European Banking Authority, an EU agency, when it moves out of London after Brexit.
He said Brexit was "regrettable" and that "when you look at the debate in London, you realise how difficult it is to separate ties build up over 40 years in two years".
He also said the next chief of the eurozone ministers' forum, the eurogroup, should be chosen on "merit" instead of a political or geographical basis.
An informal shortlist of people who might take over the post from outgoing Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem includes Slovakia's Peter Kazimir, Latvia's Dana Reizniece-Ozola, Luxembourg's Gramegna, and Portugal's Mario Centeno.
Spanish finance minister Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday he would "naturally support" the Portuguese politician because they shared the same vision for Europe.
"I am not a candidate," Centeno said, however, downplaying Spain's remarks as a form of "Iberian affinity."
The EU's finance commissioner Pierre Moscovici told reporters that he wants a credible EU blacklist of tax havens following the latest media tax avoidance revelations of the wealthy elite in the Paradise Papers.
EU states are blocking efforts to make their tax regimes more transparent, amid new revelations how politicians and world leaders avoid paying tax.
Commission to probe whether UK tax perks for multinationals worth billions of euros amounted to illegal state aid.
After the Paradise Papers brought new revelations about tax dodging across the globe, including in the EU, the European Parliament wonders how to step up the fight.


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Elizabeth Cook is a Nashville-based Singer Songwriter from Wildwood, Florida. As a critically acclaimed live act and recording artist, the New York Times lauds her "a sharp and surprising country singer". A veteran SiriusXM Outlaw Country Radio DJ, hosting her own show, Apron Strings, nationwide for the last 10 years, she is also a favorite of David Letterman, a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry, and a frequent guest star on Adult Swim's long-running hit cartoon series "Squidbillies" on Cartoon Network. In the words of the Drivin' and Cryin's legendary Kevn Kinney, "Elizabeth is so far ahead and under the radar you better have a supercharger for that fastback if you're going to catch up! Enjoy the ride…"
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Find out all about the New League of Legends Champion, Pyke: The Bloodharbor Ripper in these videos. The Pyke Champion Trailer features gameplay footage, while the Pyke Champion Teaser Trailers tells the backstory. Keep reading below the videos to learn about Pyke's abilities: Gift of the Drowned Ones, Bone Skewer, Ghostwater Dive, Phantom Undertow, and Death from Below.
A dead man stalks these salted streets. Pray you aren't on his list.
Pyke's shipmates watched him drown. In his eyes, all of Bilgewater is guilty.
As Pyke, you can lurk at the edge of your victim's vision as you stalk them using Ghostwater Dive. Butcher multiple foes at point-blank range as you resurface with a swift Bone Skewer. Alternatively you can hold the blade a bit longer with Bone Skewer and harpoon a single foe, reeling them toward you before gutting them like a fish. Use Phantom Undertow to aggressively rush your enemies, damaging and stunning them as your crew closes in to help. Weak enemies can be finished off with Death from Below.
When Pyke is unseen by enemies, he rapidly regenerates some of the health recently lost to enemy champions.
Pyke also converts his bonus health into bonus attack damage instead.
Tap: Pyke stabs and greatly slows all enemies in front of him.
Hold: Pyke readies and then throws his harpoon, impaling the first enemy struck and pulling them a fixed distance towards him.
Pyke dives into spectral waters, entering camouflage and gaining a significant increase to his movement speed that decays over a few seconds.
Camouflage hides Pyke from view while enemies remain outside his immediate area. Attacking or casting spells immediately ends camouflage.
Pyke dashes, leaving behind a drowned phantom. After a delay, the phantom returns to Pyke, damaging and stunning enemies it passes through.
Pyke strikes in an X-shaped area, blinking to champions and executing those below a certain flat amount of health. Enemies in the X that are not executed take damage equal to this amount.
When a champion dies in the X, the last ally to assist also gains full kill gold, and Pyke can instantly use Death from Below again for a short period of time.


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Firefighters called to kitchen fire in Norwich
Published: 5:51 PM May 16, 2017 Updated: 11:02 AM October 10, 2020
A man has been left homeless after his caravan was set alight. Picture: ARCHANT LIBRARY - Credit: Archant
Firefighters have been called to a kitchen fire in Norwich.
Appliances from Sprowston and Carrow were called to reports of a fire in kitchen on Wellesley Avenue North, off Plumstead Road, at just before 4.40pm on Tuesday, May 16.
Crews used breathing apparatus and ladders.
The fire was extinguished before arrival of the brigade.
Meanwhile, earlier in the afternoon, at just before 3.30pm, appliances from Carrow, Wroxham, Earlham and Sprowston attended fire in building in Norwich which was extinguished before arrival of the brigade.
And in a separate call out, at 3.25pm, crews from Earlham and Sprowston attended a shed fire on Henderson Road.
Firefighters used hose reel jets with water from a hydrant to extinguish and a thermal image camera to check for hotspots.


It's common knowledge that for salespeople, upselling models to customers equates to a clear increase in profits.
But we can't take full credit for the above words – they were part of the opening line of an email we recently received from a PR agency.
What followed was a short lesson in "the art of the upsell" – and that's a direct quote.
Printer ink can cost more than a luxury Chanel No 5 perfume.
In a press release sent by a public relations firm representing global printer company Brother, retailers were advised to upsell consumers to more expensive machines in order to sell them more of its consumables.
In other words: to sell customers more ink cartridges – and presumably, more expensive ones (the two most expensive Brother printers in our latest printer review had the highest annual ink and toner costs compared to cheaper Brother printers).
How does buying a more expensive printer result in its owner buying more ink from Brother?
Well, spending more upfront increases the "attach rate" to the product – the customer is more likely to own it longer (and therefore buy more ink from Brother over time), than ditch the printer and possibly move to another brand.
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Awake And Sing! – October 2007
By: Clifford Odets
Directed by: Michael Attenborough
Venue: Almeida Theatre
Date: Saturday 13th October 2007
This is the second play we've seen at the Almeida this year which is set around the time of the Depression in America. Big White Fog (16 June 2007) showed us the impact on a poor black family, while this play centres on a Jewish family with a strong mother, a father who's achieved failure-hood at fifty, a daughter who's well on the way to becoming a single mother till a marriage is arranged, a son who wants a better life, and a grandfather who has a lot of spirit but no way of doing anything about it, as he's in a wheelchair. There's also a chap called Moe Axelrod, whose connection with the family I couldn't figure out but who eventually runs off with the daughter, and a brother, Uncle Morty, who's done very well for himself, apparently.
Showing us a particular period through the lives of ordinary people can work very well, but here I felt it came across as more of a domestic drama, on a small scale. I didn't get any sense of larger forces at work, although what did come across in both this play and Big White Fog was human resourcefulness triumphing in the end. Both plays left me feeling that these folks would get by.
The performances were all good, the set was fine, and Steve noticed that the Almeida is diversifying in order to make ends meet. They'd taken in a load of washing and it was hung up over the stage to dry – presumably the heat from the lights would do the job in double quick time. Or it could just have been set dressing to indicate the washing strung out between apartments. Whatever.
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\section{Introduction}
Constructive Topology and Constructive Analysis study objects that can be computed using a certain algorithm, for example a Turing Machine.
A Constructive Real Number (CRN) is an algorithmically given Cauchy sequence of rational numbers $\{x_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ equipped with another algorithm that guarantees Cauchy convergence that is given any positive rational $\epsilon>0$ the algorithm constructs a nautral number $M$ such that for all $m,n>M$ we have $|x_m-x_n|<\epsilon.$ Two CRNs are equal if the members of the two Cauchy sequences with sufficiently large indexes are as close as desired. It is not hard to show that if two CRNs can not be not equal then they are equal.
A Constructive Function (CF) is an algorithm that transforms CRNs to CRNs and of course it is required that equal CRNs are transformed to equal CRNs. All the number and functions in this paper are assumed to be constructive.

A complete separable constructive metric space can be given by specifying an algorithmically enumerable set $P$ and a constructive metric on this set. The points of the space are algorithmically given Cauchy sequences of the elements of $P$ equipped with the algorithm that regulates convergence in itself. The metric can be naturally extended to this metric space and the set $P$ in this case appears to be everywhere dense.
Constructive Mathematics was developed in the works of A. A. Markov \cite{Markov1, Markov2}, N.~A.~Shanin~\cite{Shanin} and their students and followers, see for example B.~A.~Kushner~\cite{Kushner}. A different but in many aspects similar approach to constructive mathematics was developed by E.~Bishop~\cite{Bishop} and his followers.

In Constructive Mathematics a statement is not generally equivalent to its double negation. Markov's principle says that such an equivalence exists in the special situation: if an element of an algorithmically enumerable set can not not exist then it is possible to find such an element algorithmically. In other words every nonempty enumerable set is ``inhabitable''. In our proofs we will use Markov's principle and in this respect the allowed methods of the Russian Constructivism school are broader than those of Bishop's school.

Constructive versions of many classical results appear to be false. For example the constructive version of the intermediate value theorem and of the Brower fixed point theorem are wrong~\cite{Ceitin2},~\cite{Orevkov}.
On the other side many statements that are false in the traditional classical mathematics appear to be true in the constructive world. For example every constructive function defined on the set of constructive real numbers is continuous~\cite{Ceitin1}.

In this work we study various notions of a space being connected with various types of connected components -- open, pseudo open, closed and sequentially closed ones; and three types of relation between the components -- hard, soft and weak separation. Different assumptions that are classically equivalent give different results about the fundamental constructive point of view on connectedess.
In particular this shows when studying the question whether an interval of constructive real numbers is connected: this interval is connected with respect to one definition of connectedness and not connected with respect to the other.

We will use the following abbreviations: CMS - Constructive Metric Space, $B(x,n)$ - an open ball of radius $2^{-n}$ centered at $x$.

\section{Definitions and Remarks}

\begin{defin} Let $X$ and $Y$ be two CMS and $F:X\to Y$ a constructive map. The map $F$ is {\it locally constant\/} if there is an algorithm $G$ transforming the points $x\in X$ to natural numbers such that all values $F(x)$ for $x\in B(x, G(x))$ are equal. The map $F$ is {\it potentially locally constant\/} if for every $x\in X$ there can not not be a natural number $n$ such that all the values of $F$ in the points of the ball $B(x,n)$ are equal. Clearly every locally constant function is potenatially locally constant.
\end{defin}

Theorem~\ref{theorem1} that generalizes Theorem 1 of our work~\cite{Chernov} shows that not only locally constant but even potentially locally constant functions given on an interval of CRNs are in fact constant functions.

\begin{defin} Let $A$ be a set of points of CMS $X$. We say that this set $A$ is {\it open} in $X$ if one can specify an algorithm $G:A\to \mathbb N$ that transforms a point $a\in A$ to a natural number $G(a)$ such that $B(a, G(a))\subset A.$

A set $A$ is {\it pseudo open} in $X$ if for every point $a\in A$ there can not not exist a natural number $n$ such that $B(a,n)\subset A.$

A set $A$ is {\it closed} in $X$ if it is a compliment of an open set.

A set $A$ is {\it sequentially closed\/} in $X$ if every algorithmically given sequence of points of $A$ that converges constructively to some limit has this limit in $A.$
\end{defin}

\begin{remark}
In classical point set Topology the notions of open and pseudo open subsets are equivalent, similarly for metric spaces the notions of closed and sequentially closed subsets are also equivalent. In the Constructive Topology this is not so even in the case of a constructive real line. Let us not a few simple relations between these notions.
\begin{itemize}
\item A compliment to any open set is closed, the compliment to any closed set is pseudo open;
\item Every open subset is pseudo open, but the converse statement fails. The set $B$ from Theorem~\ref{theorem5} is pseudo open, but it is not open by Theorem~\ref{theorem3};
\item Every closed set is sequentially closed, but the converse statement is false. Set $A$ of Theorem~\ref{theorem5} is sequentially closed but it is not closed by Theorem~\ref{theorem4}.
\end{itemize}
\end{remark}

\begin{defin}
A subset of a CMS is {\it suitable} if it together with every point of the CMS contains all points equal to it~\cite{Chernov}.
Consider two nonempty nonintersecting suitable subsets of CMS $X.$ Let us formulate for them the three possible conditions of being complimentary subsets.

We call $X$ {\it hard separated} into these two subsets if every point of $X$ belongs to their union.

We say that $X$ is {\it weakly separated\/} into these two subsets if the statement that a point of $X$ does not belong to one of these sets implies that it belongs to the other subset.

We say that $X$ is {\it softly separated\/} into these two subsets if every point of $X$ can not not belong to their union.
\end{defin}

\begin{remark}
In classical mathematics these three types of separation are equivalent. If these two subsets are open (or closed) then in each of the three types of the space separation the total space is not connected. The Constructive version of this observation fails and the three types of separation yield different consequences.
The hard separation assumes existence of the algorithm that given a point of $X$ tells which of the two subsets the point belongs to. The soft and the weak separations do not assume the existence of such an algorithm.

\begin{itemize}
\item The property of being soft complimentary can be formulated as a double negation of both hard and soft complimentary. Namelly, if two nonempty and non intersecting subsets of a space softly separate it, then the statement that a point does not belong to one of the two subsets implies that it can not not belong to the other subset.
\item Hard separation of a space implies weak separation that in turn implies soft separation. The converse statements are generally false. Soft and weak separations do not have to hard ones. Theorem~\ref{theorem2} the constructive interval $[a,b]$ can not be hard separated into two suitable subsets. However one can weakly (and hence softly) separate it into a closed $[a,c]$ and a half open $(c,b]$.

The soft separation does not have to be a weak separation as one sees from the following example. We call a CRN {\it quasi rational} if it equals to some rational number. Let $A$ be the set of quasi rational numbers in an interval and $B$ be the complimentary set of CRNs in this interval. The interval is  softly separated into $A$ and $B$ but it is not weakly separated into these two subsets.
\item In~\cite[Theorem 3]{Chernov} of the author we formulated the statement that it is impossible to separate the constructive interval into sequentially closed subsets.
This statement appears to be wrong. In the current work we show that it is impossible to do a hard separation of the constructive interval into any subsets (Theorem~\ref{theorem2}). We consider four types of subsets: open, closed, pseudo open and sequentially closed.

In Theorems~\ref{theorem3},~\ref{theorem4} we show that a constructive interval can not be softly (or weakly) separated into two open or two closed subsets. However it is possible to do a weak and soft separation of the interval into pairs of subsets of other types. In the proof of Theorem~\ref{theorem5} the interval is weakly and softly separated into an open and a pseudo open subset (and hence into two pseudo open ones) and it is separated into a closed and a sequentially closed subset (and hence into two sequentially closed subsets).
\end{itemize}
\end{remark}

\section{Theorems and Lemmas}

We will use the following

\begin{lem}[\cite{Chernov}]\label{lemma1}
If two CRS can not be not equal then they are equal.
\end{lem}

\begin{thm}\label{theorem1}
Every constructive potentially locally constant function $f$ with constructive input and output variables given on an interval is a constant function on this interval.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}
Let us assume that the function $f$ is not constant. Then there can not not exist two points $p,q$ of the interval such that $f(p)\neq f(q).$ Without the loss of generality
$p<q$ and we put $r=(p+q)/2.$ We compute $f(r)$ with the precision high enough that would allow us to determine which one of the statements $f(r)\neq f(q)$ and $f(r)\neq f(p)$ is true. We take one of the two halves $[p,r]$ and $[r,q]$ of the interval $[p,q]$ for which the function takes different values on its ends. We continue the construction in a similar fashion to get a contracting sequences of nested intervals. The values of $f$ on the left and the right end points of the intervals are different. However the sequence of the left end points and of the right end points gives the same constructive number $d.$ Since the function $f$ is potentially locally constant there can not not exist an open neighborhood of $d$ where the values of $f$ are not all equal to $f(d).$ Thus there can not not exist a natural number $N$ such that after it all the members of the two sequences of the values of $f$ (on the left and right interval end points) are equal. Thus we get a contradiction. Function $f$ can not be non constant, its values at different points can not not be equal. By Lemma~\ref{lemma1} they are equal.
\end{proof}

\begin{thm}\label{theorem2}
An interval $I$ of $CRNs$ can not be hard separated into any suitable subsets.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof} Let us assume that the interval is hard separated into two suitable subsets $A$ and $B.$ This means that it is possible to construct an algorithm $G$ transforming the points of the interval into $\{0,1\}$ and $G(A)=0, G(B)=1.$ The algorithm $G$ is a constructive function thus it is continuous by the result of Ceitin~\cite{Ceitin1}. Thus it is locally constant. Theorem~\ref{theorem1} says that this function is in fact constant. Hence one of the subsets $A$ and $B$ is empty which contradicts to the definition of separation.
\end{proof}

\begin{lem}\label{lemma2}
Let $X$ be a complete separable CMS, $D$ be its enumerable everywhere dense subset, $A$ be a suitable enumerable subset of points $X.$ Then provided that $A\neq \emptyset$ one can construct a point of $D\cap A.$
\end{lem}

\begin{proof} Let $P$ be an algorithm that transforms natural numbers to natural numbers and that has an undecidable domain $E,$ see~\cite{Ceitin1, Kleene, Kushner}.
We consider the step by step process of applying $P$ to a number $n.$ We put $Q(n, k) = k,$  if algorithm $P$ did not yet finish working on an integer $n$ by step $k$, and otherwise we put $Q(n, k) = m,$ where $m$ is the step number on which $P$ produced the result on input $n.$

Let $a\in A$ and $\{d_k\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ be a sequence of elements of $D$ converging to $a.$ For each natural $n$ we define a sequence
$\{x_{n_k}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ of the points of the space $X$ via the formula $x_{n_k}= d_{Q(n,k)}.$ If $n\not \in E$ then the sequence $x_{n_k}$ converges to $a.$
If $n\in E$ then the sequence $x_{n_k}$ stabilizes after a certain $k$ on the corresponding members of the sequence $\{d_k\}_{k=1}^{\infty}.$

In both cases the sequence $x_{n_k}$ converges. If $n\not \in E$ then the limit belongs to the enumerable subset $A.$ Thus there exists $n\in E$ for which the limit i.e. the element of $D$ belongs to $A$, by the so called capture principle~\cite{Ceitin1, Kushner}.

Thus given $a\in A$ we can find $d\in D\cap A.$ If $a\in A$ can not not exist then this $d$ also can not not exist.
 $C\cap A$ is enumerable so the Markov's principle allows us to find $d\in D\cap A.$
\end{proof}

\begin{thm}\label{theorem3}
An interval $I$ of CRNs can not be softly separated into two open subsets.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}
Let us assume that $A,B$ are two nonempty nonintersecting open subsets that softly separate the interval $I.$ We present each of the two open sets as the union of an enumerable collection of intervals with rational ends (this is possible to do by the Constructive version of the Lindeloef Theorem~\cite{Kushner}).

The set of all CRNs that belongs to an open interval is enumerable, thus the set of all  CRNs that belongs to an enumerable union of open intervals is also enumerable. Thus the sets $A, B$ are suitable non empty and non intersecting enumerable subsets of the interval $I.$

We consider sets of rational numbers $A_0\subset A$ and $B_0\subset B.$

Using Lemma~\ref{lemma2} we can find an element in each of these sets $A_0$ and $B_0.$ Now we take an interval with end points in $A_0$ and $B_0.$ We divide it into two equal halves and take the one of the halves for which the ends belong to the different subset $A_0$ and $B_0.$
We continue this process and we get a contracting sequences of nested intervals the end points of which belong to two different sets $A_0$ and $B_0.$ These two sequences define equal CRNs. Since the sets $A$ and $B$ are suitable, both CRNs belong to one of them. These sets are open, thus together with the CRN the open set contains a tail of each of these two sequences.

We get a contradiction and our assumption that one can softly separate the interval into two open subsets is false.
\end{proof}

\begin{cor}
An interval $I$ of CNRs can not be weakly separated into two open subsets.
\end{cor}

\begin{thm}\label{theorem4}
An interval $I$ of CRNs $I$ can not be softly separated into two closed subsets.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof} We assume that the subsets $V,W$ are closed non empty non intersecting that softly separate the constructive interval $I.$ Each of these sets is a compliment of an open set that we denote by $A$ and $B$ respectively. Let us prove that $A$ and $B$ softly separate $I$ which would contradict to the previous Theorem.

First of all $A, B$ are both non empty. Indeed if $A$ is empty then $V=I$ ad then $W$ is empty.

Second of all $A$ and $B$ do not intersect. Indeed if $x\in A\cap B$, then $x\not \in V$ and at the same time $x\not \in W$ and the sets $V,W$ would not satisfy the condition of being softly complimentary.

Third of all $A$ and $B$ softly compliment each other: if $x\not \in A$, then $x$ can not not belong to $B$; similarly if $x\not \in B$, then $x$ can not not belong to $A.$ Indeed assume that $x\not \in A,$ then $x\in V$. Since $V\cap W=\emptyset$ we get that $x\not \in W.$ Thus $x$ can not not belong to $B.$

Thus if the constructive interval is softly separated into two closed sets then it is softly separated into two open sets.
\end{proof}

\begin{cor} An interval $I$ of CRNs can not be weakly separated into two closed subsets.
\end{cor}

\begin{thm}\label{theorem5}
Let $\{s_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ be a strictly increasing algorithmical sequence of rational numbers from the interval $[a,b]$ that does not have a constructive limit
(Specker Sequence,~\cite{Specker}). Consider two sequences of intervals $\{A_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ and $\{B_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ where $A_n=[a, s_n)$ and $B_n=[s_n,b].$ Put $A=\cup_n A_n$ and $B=\cap_n B_n.$

Then the interval $[a,b]$ is weakly separated by $A$ and $B.$ The set $A$ is open, pseudo open and sequentially closed. The set $B$ is closed, pseudo open and sequentially closed.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}

\begin{itemize}
\item By our construction the sets $A,B$ are non empty and do not intersect. Let us check that they satisfy the condition of being complimentary. Let $x\not \in A$, then $x\not \in A_n$ for all $n.$ Then $x\in B_n$ for all $n$ and hence $x\in B.$

Assume that $x\not \in B$, then there can not not exist $n$ such that $x\not \in B_n,$ this $x<s_n.$ The last relation is enumerable so by the Markov principle we can find such $n.$ Then $x$ is in the corresponding $A_n$ and hence $x\in A.$

\item By our construction the set $A$ is open and hence pseudo open. Let us show that it is sequentially closed at the same time. Consider the converging sequence $\{a_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ of the points of $A$ with limit $a.$ Let us show that $a\in A.$ We observe that for every $n$ there is $m$ such that $a_n\in A_m,$ and thus $a_n<s_m.$ The members of the Specker sequence are bounded from below by the members of the sequence $a_n$. Since the sequence $s_n$ is strictly increasing we get that for every $n$ at least one of the inequalities $s_n<a$ and $a<s_{n+1}$ is true. If the first inequality holds for all $n$, then the Specker sequence $s_n$ has a limit
(the number $a$) which is not possible. Thus for some $m$ we have $a<s_m$ and hence $a\in A_m\subset A.$

\item The set $B$ is closed by our construction. Thus it also is sequentially closed. Indeed let us take a sequence of points $\{b_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ that converges to a point $b.$ Let us show that $b\in B.$ For this is suffices to verify that $b\not\in A.$ If $b\in A$ then we can find a neighbourhood of $b$ that is contained in $A.$ This neighborhood does not contain any points of our sequence $b_n$ so $b$ can not be its limit.

Let us show that $B$ is pseudo open. Take $b\in B$ and consider the sequence of concentric open balls $B(b,n)$. Let us show that it is impossible that there no open ball in this sequence that is contained in $B.$ Indeed assume that there is no such ball. Then every open ball $B(b,n)$ can not not contain a point of the set $A$, i.e. a point of the some $A_m$ for some $m$ and hence a member $s_m$ of the Specker sequence. The set of points of the ball $S(b,n)$ is enumerable, thus by the Markov's principle for each $n$ we can find such a member $s_m.$ Thus we can find a subsequence of the Specker sequence that converges to $b$. This is impossible so the ball in question can not not exist. Thus $B$ is pseudo open.

\end{itemize}

\end{proof}

\begin{remark}
The weak separation of the interval into subsets $A$ and $B$ is also it soft separation.
\end{remark}

{\bf Acknowledgement:} The author is thankful to Andrej Bauer for posing a question that initiated this research and to my son Vladimir Chernov for motivating me to write this paper and help with the translation of the text to English.

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