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The Bundesstraße 300 or B 300 is one of the German federal highways crossing southern Bavaria from Memmingen in direction to Regensburg via Krumbach (Swabia), Augsburg und Aichach. In Augsburg the B 300 and the B2 respectively the B17 run short distances on the same roads. In Augsburg, Neusäß, Stadtbergen and near the Bundesautobahn 8 the B 300 has two lanes of traffic in each direction (dual carriageway). In the valley of the river Paar most parts of the road has in all three lanes of traffic (2+1 road). The part of the B 300 between Dasing and Aichach was part of the planned but not constructed Bundesautobahn 90. It is planned that this section of the B 300 will be constructed like a Bundesautobahn with two lanes of traffic in each direction from the year 2010 on. Route / Junctions 300 Roads in Bavaria Transport in Günzburg (district)

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Q: Asynchronous volley calls in android SyncAdapter I implemented SyncAdapter using volley library. It is working, but then I realized that Iam calling asynchronous (volley request) code from onPerformSync method. * *Q1: coudl be onPerformSync executed multiple times in parallel? (for one user / one authority). Do I need to write inner code concurency safe? use lock? synchronization? Isn't SyncAdapter synchronized by itself, so any inner synchronization would be useless? *Q2: is onPerformSync thread safe, which thread? It seems to me that all onPerformSync calls was done by the same thread reference. Does it mean that SyncAdapter is actually reused by system multiple times? *Q3: is it safe to end onPerformSync before sync code is finished? (volley calls could take much longer than just create volley request, run it, and finish) @Override public void onPerformSync(Account account, Bundle extras, String authority, ContentProviderClient contentProviderClient, SyncResult syncResult) { JsonObjectRequest jsObjRequest = new JsonObjectRequest (Request.Method.GET, url, null, new Response.Listener() { @Override public void onResponse(JSONObject response) { // time consuming code } }, new Response.ErrorListener() { @Override public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } }); // Access the RequestQueue through your singleton class. MySingleton.getInstance(this).addToRequestQueue(jsObjRequest); // onPerformSync end reached before volley request processing ends } A: You can use CountDownLatch but i've read that's not a good way to implement in sync adapter how ever it works for me private CountDownLatch doneSignal = new CountDownLatch(1); @Override public void onPerformSync(Account account, Bundle extras, String authority, ContentProviderClient contentProviderClient, SyncResult syncResult) { JsonObjectRequest jsObjRequest = new JsonObjectRequest (Request.Method.GET, url, null, new Response.Listener() { @Override public void onResponse(JSONObject response) { // time consuming code //put this line as the last line when everything is done doneSignal.countDown(); } }, new Response.ErrorListener() { @Override public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } }); // Access the RequestQueue through your singleton class. MySingleton.getInstance(this).addToRequestQueue(jsObjRequest); try { doneSignal.await(); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } // onPerformSync end reached before volley request processing ends }

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Denmark was represented by the band Brixx, with the song '"Video, Video", at the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 24 April in Harrogate, England. "Video, Video" was chosen as the Danish entry at the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix on 13 March. The previous year's Danish entrant Tommy Seebach failed in his bid to represent Denmark for a third time. The DMGP was held at the DR TV studios in Copenhagen, hosted by Jørgen Mylius. 12 songs took part with the winner being decided by voting from five regional juries. On the night of the final Brixx performed 13th in the running order, following Spain and preceding Yugoslavia. Denmark was one of very few countries to provide a contemporary-sounding entry in a contest dominated by 1970s-style Eurovision songs, but this proved not to be what the juries were looking for in that year. At the close of voting "Video, Video" had received only 5 points (3 from Portugal and 1 each from Ireland and Sweden), placing Denmark 17th of the 18 entries, ahead only of the nul-points entry from Finland. The Danish jury awarded its 12 points to contest winners Germany. "Si tu aimes ma musique" DR, officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, is the Danish government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as an organization, it is Denmarks oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. DR is a member of the European Broadcasting Union. DR is funded by a licence which is charged to all Danish households with television sets, smartphones. Today, DR operates six television channels, all of which are distributed free-to-air via a nationwide DVB-T network, DR operates eight radio channels, of which all are available nationally on DAB radio and online. On FM radio only the original 4 stations are available, DR was founded on April 1,1925 under the name of Radioordningen, changed to Statsradiofonien in 1926, and Danmarks Radio in 1959. Which was changed to DR in 1996, statsradiofoniens second FM radio station, Program 2, was added in 1951, followed by P3 in 1963. Experimental television broadcasts started in 1949, with regular programming beginning on October 2,1951 with the launch of Denmarks first television channel, colour television test broadcasts were started in March 1967, with the first large-scale colour broadcasting occurring for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. Danmarks Radio officially ended test transmissions of television on April 1,1970. On exactly 16 May 1983 at 14,00 CEST, DR launched its first teletext information service, Danmarks Radios monopoly on national television lasted until 1988, when TV2 started broadcasting. 8 years DR launched their second channel, DR2 on August 30,1996. It was sometimes called den hemmelige kanal in its early years because it could not be seen nationwide at its launch, the first trials of DAB were carried out in 1995, with eight channels officially launching in October 2002. On June 7,2007, DR launched a news channel DR Update. It was added as a traditional channel, at the Danish changeover to over-the-air digital signals on November 1,2009, DR added three new channels to their lineup DR K - an intercultural and odd-film channel. DR HD – Denmarks first free-to-air high-definition channel intended to air shows from the other DR channels in true HD only. In 2013 the line-up of television channels was changed once again, a new channel targeting young people, DR3 replaced DR HD. Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. The Serbian royal House of Karađorđević became the Yugoslav royal dynasty, Yugoslavia gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. The country was named after the South Slavic peoples and constituted their first union, following centuries in which the territories had been part of the Ottoman Empire, renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929, it was invaded by the Axis powers on 6 April 1941. In 1943, a Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was proclaimed by the Partisan resistance, in 1944, the king recognised it as the legitimate government, but in November 1945 the monarchy was abolished. Yugoslavia was renamed the Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946 and it acquired the territories of Istria and Zadar from Italy. Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito ruled the country as president until his death in 1980, in 1963, the country was renamed again as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The constituent six socialist republics that made up the country were the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia, and SR Slovenia. Serbia contained two Socialist Autonomous Provinces and Kosovo, which after 1974 were largely equal to the members of the federation. After an economic and political crisis in the 1980s and the rise of nationalism, Yugoslavia broke up along its republics borders, at first into five countries, eventually and Montenegro accepted the opinion of the Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession. Serbia and Montenegro themselves broke up in 2006 and became independent states, the concept of Yugoslavia, as a single state for all South Slavic peoples, emerged in the late 17th century and gained prominence through the Illyrian Movement of the 19th century. The name was created by the combination of the Slavic words jug, Yugoslavia was the result of the Corfu Declaration, as a project of the Serbian Parliament in exile and the Serbian royal Karađorđević dynasty, who became the Yugoslav royal dynasty. The country was formed in 1918 immediately after World War I as the Kingdom of Serbs and Slovenes by union of the State of Slovenes and Serbs and it was commonly referred to at the time as the Versailles state. Later, the government renamed the country leading to the first official use of Yugoslavia in 1929, on 6 January 1929 King Alexander I suspended the constitution, banned national political parties, assumed executive power and renamed the country Yugoslavia. He hoped to curb separatist tendencies and mitigate nationalist passions and he imposed a new constitution and relinquished his dictatorship in 1931. None of these three regimes favored the policy pursued by Alexander I, Alexander attempted to create a centralised Yugoslavia. He decided to abolish Yugoslavias historic regions, and new internal boundaries were drawn for provinces or banovinas, the banovinas were named after rivers. Many politicians were jailed or kept under police surveillance, the effect of Alexanders dictatorship was to further alienate the non-Serbs from the idea of unity. Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate - host venue of the 1982 contest. Peter Belli, Vanløse, February 2011.

So, I realize it's only Monday, but I'm already thinking of the weekend — and I'm sure I'm not the only one. The warmer weather makes me want to frolic outside ALL THE TIME. Considering how many DC events are scheduled outside for Saturday, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. 1. The Lot at Union Kitchen :: Mainly, I'm intrigued by the food & The Walking Sticks (I'm a recently converted groupie.). 2. The Georgetown French Market :: Take me to Paris; I'm the stereotypical girl who is enamored by romantic Paris. 3. 5th Annual Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival :: Ever since I went to Bonnaroo, I've been obsessed with outdoor music festivals, even if they're only a day long.

Case Study: Indriya With Seascape for Notes, Indriya's client—a large global chemical company—reduces its IBM Notes footprint and licensing costs by archiving databases to a web platform. Indriya builds and operates remote monitoring systems for the enterprise. Its additional areas of expertise include SAP ERP system management and software development for business and industrial applications. Indriya's client—a large global chemical company—needed to reduce its IBM Notes footprint and licensing costs by archiving databases to a web platform. About 100 databases were identified as candidates for archiving, and Indriya set out to find the best and most cost-effective solution for its client. Initially, Indriya looked at several Notes migration options. They found early on that the licensing and implementation costs of these alternative solutions were very high. Also, while the systems offered a multitude of migration options, they were found to be unnecessarily complex and probably overkill for the specific scope Indriya had in mind. "We needed to move quickly through the 100 databases," said Niraj Agarwal, Partner at Indriya. "We tried the demo version of SWING Seascape for Notes and found it to be efficient and robust. We received good technical support and transparent pricing on the solution." Indriya also thought about engaging an external provider to handle the archiving process. But after working with Seascape for a while, they found that no special expertise was needed in order to run the product, so it was decided that they would perform the export entirely on their own. On top of performing the application export with Seascape, Indriya also built a custom .NET web application for their client, which now serves as a wrapper around the Seascape archives. Within this wrapper, Indriya has introduced advanced search options and user management capabilities while leaving the door open to future custom enhancements. The Seascape archive looked great when opened in a web browser and mimicked the original Notes application layouts perfectly, resulting in exceptionally high user acceptance of this solution. Currently, about 400 people at the client's organization are using the Seascape archives to access legacy Notes data. The archives themselves consist of about 120 GB worth of data and 1.8 million documents, which were created without any known issues. In addition to the PDFs produced, all the attachments were nicely preserved. Another important feature of Seascape's exports is that they save Notes metadata in multiple JSON files, which provides an easy way to move the data to a NoSQL cloud database in case such a requirement arises in the future. Partner: Indriya Product: SWING Seascape for Notes Solution: IBM Notes/Domino application data archiving We needed to move quickly through the 100 databases. We tried the demo version of SWING Seascape and found it to be efficient and robust. Niraj Agarwal

A claw toe is a lesser toe with dorsiflexion of the proximal phalanx on the lesser metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint and concurrent flexion of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) and distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints (see the images below). Plastic model of claw toe. The term claw toe is most likely derived from the affected toe's similarity in appearance to the claw of an animal or talon of a bird (see the image below). The talon typically curves upward before it makes a descending C-shaped curve. Claw toe is named for its similarity to animal claw or talon. Claw toe is distinguished from hammer toe by the combination of dorsiflexion of the MTP joint and plantarflexion of the DIP joint in the former condition (see the image below). In contrast, a hammer toe may have some hyperextension at the MTP joint or some flexion at the DIP joint, but it does not have both concurrently. Typically, the DIP joint is extended in a hammer toe. Plastic model of hammer toe. Mallet toes 3 and 4. Table 1 contains descriptions of lesser toe deformities. The extensor tendon crosses and is held over the MTP joint by an aponeurotic band of fibrous tissue. Although it does not insert into the proximal phalanx, it is able to dorsiflex the proximal phalanx of the MTP joint through this aponeurotic band, which goes around the MTP joint and is inserted onto the plantar plate (see the image below). Claw toe. Extensor tendon connecting with extensor hood. Claw toe. Extensor tendon splits into 3 parts distally. The intrinsics are made of the lumbricals, which are strong extenders of the PIP and DIP joints by virtue of their attachment onto the extensor sling and the interossei. Interossei are weak extensors of the interphalangeal (IP) joints because so few fibers reach the extensor sling. Furthermore, when the MTP joint is hyperextended, the lumbrical power in extending the PIP and DIP joints is reduced because of a mechanical disadvantage. The flexor digitorum longus (FDL) tendon inserts into the plantar aspect of the distal phalanx, and the flexor digitorum brevis (FDB) inserts onto the middle phalanx. Thus, no major antagonist to dorsiflexion of the proximal phalanx is present. Hence, when the proximal phalanx dorsiflexes, static tightening of the flexors occurs, which subsequently flexes the PIP and DIP joints. Stabilization of the lesser MTP joint comes from the static restraint of the plantar plate and the collateral ligaments. The collateral ligaments have been reported as the primary stabilizers of the lesser MTP joint. The two sets of collateral ligaments both emanate from the lateral metatarsal head. The phalangeal collateral ligament inserts into the proximal phalanx, and the accessory collateral ligament inserts onto the plantar plate. The plantar plate is attached from the base of the proximal phalanx to an origin on the metatarsal head, just proximal to the plantar articular cartilage. When the collateral ligaments and plantar plate lose resiliency or are stretched through repetitive dorsal directing forces on the proximal phalanx from ground reactive forces, the proximal phalanx dorsiflexes. Without a strong plantar flexor attached to the proximal phalanx, the proximal phalanx remains in dorsiflexion, and the PIP and DIP joints subsequently flex (see the image below). Claw toe. Plantar plate stretches out, and proximal phalanx is dorsiflexed. When the flexed position of the PIP and DIP joints remains constant, the collateral ligaments fibrose along the sides of the PIP and DIP joints, and the position of their joints becomes fixed. When this occurs, the claw toe deformity becomes rigid, whereas previously it was considered flexible. This separation of flexible and rigid most often occurs at the PIP joint. Most people have no underlying disease responsible for the claw toe deformity, but it can occur in association with neuromuscular diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, Friedreich ataxia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, cerebral palsy, mild dysplasia, stroke, and lumbar nerve root impingement. Metabolic diseases such as diabetes and inflammatory arthropathies such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis can also be accompanied by claw toe deformity. The experiences of other authors indicate that complete correction of the toe is necessary to achieve the best result. Of course, this presumes careful attention to detail and a toe with normal vascularity. Taylor and Pyper, via transfer of both the long and short flexor to the extensor hood without bony resection, achieved only 72% and 51% good results, respectively. Pyper also noted that with soft-tissue procedures alone, the deformity recurred and results were somewhat unpredictable. Therefore, Frank et al and McCluskey et al recommended PIP resection along with soft-tissue procedures to realign the toe. Barbari et al reviewed 31 patients who had surgery on multiple toes. These authors concluded that the best cosmetic results were achieved in younger patients, and they noted that active or passive motion in the IP joints was present in 60% of these cases. Of course, restriction in range of motion is an intended outcome of the procedure. Patients must be aware that in most instances, they will sacrifice prehensile action of the toe for less pain, will have better shoe-wearing capabilities, and, ideally, will have an improved cosmetic result. Specific disease entities seem to fare similarly; Cyphers et al reported 60% good results in patients with myelomeningocele. A prospective multicenter observational study of 117 patients requiring PIP joint realignment who underwent placement of angled intramedullary implants found that implantation resulted in a high rate of fusion and a good outcome. None of the patients with incomplete joint fusion who had a stable joint with no pain required reoperation. Metatarsalgia and plantar plate pathology. Chapman MW, James MA, eds. Chapman's Comprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery. 4th ed. London: JP Medical; 2019. Chap 176. Coughlin MJ. Lesser toe deformities. Orthopedics. 1987 Jan. 10 (1):63-75. [Medline]. Coughlin MJ. Lesser toe deformities. Coughlin MJ, Saltzman CL, Anderson RB, eds. Mann's Surgery of the Foot and Ankle. 9th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders; 2014. Vol 1: 322-424. Malhotra K, Davda K, Singh D. The pathology and management of lesser toe deformities. EFORT Open Rev. 2016 Nov. 1 (11):409-419. [Medline]. [Full Text]. Sarrafian SK. Correction of fixed hammertoe deformity with resection of the head of the proximal phalanx and extensor tendon tenodesis. Foot Ankle Int. 1995 Jul. 16 (7):449-51. [Medline]. Scheck M. Etiology of acquired hammertoe deformity. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1977 Mar-Apr. (123):63-9. [Medline]. Arnold H. [Lesser toe deformities. Definition, pathogenesis, and options for surgical correction]. Orthopade. 2005 Aug. 34 (8):758-66. [Medline]. BARNICOT NA, HARDY RH. The position of the hallux in West Africans. J Anat. 1955 Jul. 89 (3):355-61. [Medline]. Engle ET, Morton DJ. Notes on foot disorders among natives of the Belgian Congo. J Bone Joint Surg. 1931. 13:311-9. James CS. Footprints and feet of natives of the Solomon Islands. Lancet. 1939. 2:1390-3. Wells LH. The foot of the South African native. Am J Physiol Anthropol. 1931. 15:185-289. TAYLOR RG. The treatment of claw toes by multiple transfers of flexor into extensor tendons. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1951 Nov. 33-B (4):539-42. [Medline]. PYPER JB. The flexor-extensor transplant operation for claw toes. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1958 Aug. 40-B (3):528-33. [Medline]. Frank GR, Johnson WM. The extensor shift procedure in the correction of clawtoe deformities in children. South Med J. 1966 Aug. 59 (8):889-96. [Medline]. McCluskey WP, Lovell WW, Cummings RJ. The cavovarus foot deformity. Etiology and management. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1989 Oct. (247):27-37. [Medline]. Cyphers SM, Feiwell E. Review of the Girdlestone-Taylor procedure for clawtoes in myelodysplasia. Foot Ankle. 1988 Apr. 8 (5):229-33. [Medline]. Coillard JY, Petri GJ, van Damme G, Deprez P, Laffenêtre O. Stabilization of proximal interphalangeal joint in lesser toe deformities with an angulated intramedullary implant. Foot Ankle Int. 2014 Apr. 35 (4):401-7. [Medline]. Claisse PJ, Binning J, Potter J. Effect of orthotic therapy on claw toe loading: results of significance testing at pressure sensor units. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. 2004 May-Jun. 94 (3):246-54. [Medline]. Frey-Ollivier S, Catena F, Hélix-Giordanino M, Piclet-Legré B. Treatment of Flexible Lesser Toe Deformities. Foot Ankle Clin. 2018 Mar. 23 (1):69-90. [Medline]. Federer AE, Tainter DM, Adams SB, Schweitzer KM Jr. Conservative Management of Metatarsalgia and Lesser Toe Deformities. Foot Ankle Clin. 2018 Mar. 23 (1):9-20. [Medline]. Vaseenon T, Phisitkul P. A novel tendinous interconnection release technique for claw-toe deformity. Iowa Orthop J. 2010. 30:157-60. [Medline]. [Full Text]. Steensma MR, Jabara M, Anderson JG, Bohay DR. Flexor hallucis longus tendon transfer for hallux claw toe deformity and vertical instability of the metatarsophalangeal joint. Foot Ankle Int. 2006 Sep. 27 (9):689-92. [Medline]. Lui TH. Arthroscopic-assisted correction of claw toe or overriding toe deformity: plantar plate tenodesis. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2007 Nov. 127 (9):823-6. [Medline]. Bayod J, Losa-Iglesias M, Becerro de Bengoa-Vallejo R, Prados-Frutos JC, Jules KT, Doblaré M. Advantages and drawbacks of proximal interphalangeal joint fusion versus flexor tendon transfer in the correction of hammer and claw toe deformity. A finite-element study. J Biomech Eng. 2010 May. 132 (5):051002. [Medline]. Gonçalves H, Kajetanek C, Graff W, Thiongo M, Laporte C. Flexor digitorum brevis tendon transfer to the flexor digitorum longus tendon according to Valtin in posttraumatic flexible claw toe deformity due to extrinsic toe flexor shortening. Orthop Traumatol Surg Res. 2015 Apr. 101 (2):257-60. [Medline]. [Full Text]. DiPaolo ZJ, Ross MS, Laughlin RT, Gould G, Flower K, Kiger L, et al. Proximal phalanx and flexor digitorum longus tendon biomechanics in flexor to extensor tendon transfer. Foot Ankle Int. 2015 May. 36 (5):585-90. [Medline]. Callus at tip of second claw toe. Pad beneath multiple claw toes to reduce pressure at tips. Claw toe. Silicone cap on second toe and sleeve on third toe, with sleeve reversed to show silicone inside. Claw toe. Extensor tendon exposure. Claw toe. Z lengthening of extensor tendon. Claw toe. Collateral ligament release. Claw toe. Repaired extensor tendon. Claw toe. Make longitudinal incision across the plantar metatarsophalangeal joint. Claw toe. Split tendon sheath to expose flexor tendons. Claw toe. Isolate flexor digitorum longus tendon from flexor digitorum brevis, and place it under tension. Claw toe. Cut flexor digitorum longus tendon just proximal to its attachment. Claw toe. Pull flexor digitorum longus tendon loose from its attachment. Claw toe. Separate 2 raphes of the flexor digitorum longus tendon. Claw toe. Grasp each side (raphe) of flexor digitorum longus tendon with small hemostat. Claw toe. Make dorsal incision to grasp flexor digitorum longus tendon. Claw toe. Through dorsal incision, curve hemostat around proximal phalanx, avoiding neurovascular bundle, and grasp tip of same-side flexor digitorum longus tendon. Claw toe. Repair each end of raphe to other raphe and split extensor tendon. Final repair of claw toe. Multiple repaired claw toes; Kirschner wires added for stability. Claw toe. Elliptical outline of skin incision. Claw toe. Redundant skin being excised. Claw toe. Isolate distal portion of proximal phalanx. Claw toe. Remove distal portion of proximal phalanx. Claw toe. Feather edges of proximal phalanx to ensure no prominent edges. Claw toe. Remove articular cartilage of middle phalanx. Claw toe. Drill pin retrograde from middle phalanx out of tip of toe. Claw toe. After pin has been drilled back into proximal phalanx and metatarsal head, repair skin and extensor tendon over proximal interphalangeal joint. Claw toe. Bent pin at end of toe; proximal incision has been used for Z-lengthening of extensor tendon. Claw toe. Dorsal approach to proximal interphalangeal joint and extensor tendon. Claw toe. Z-lengthened extensor tendon with end of proximal phalanx exposed. Claw toe. Grasp end of proximal phalanx for removal. Claw toe. Bone ends of proximal interphalangeal joint. Claw toe. Place wire in middle of proximal phalanx. Claw toe. Drill wire out of tip of toe, then back through proximal phalanx and metatarsal head. Claw toe. Toe in straightened position, with dorsal incision used to expose dorsal metatarsophalangeal capsule for release. Claw toe. Algorithm to determine appropriate surgical procedure and postoperative treatment. Claw toe. Video shows flexor-to-extensor tendon transfer with extensor Z-lengthening tenotomy and dorsal capsular release in 54-year-old man with multiple claw toes following brain injury. Toe is pinned with 0.54-mm Kirschner wire just prior to transferring tendon dorsally (not shown in video). Remaining lesser toes, 2 and 4, underwent identical procedure after this video was made. In addition, fifth toe had flexor digitorum longus release with extensor tendon lengthening, and great toe underwent interphalangeal fusion with extensor hallucis longus Z-lengthening.

The fracas could upend a must-pass highway bill lawmakers are scrambling to pass. Just three weeks ago, lawmakers quietly let the little-known Export-Import Bank expire, handing Republican conservatives one of their biggest victories since they took control of Congress. But now an effort to resurrect the bank, led by Democrats and business-backed Republicans, could trigger open warfare within the GOP. And the battle over Ex-Im could upend a must-pass highway bill that lawmakers are scrambling to pass before the end of the month. Conservatives aren't going to go quietly, and GOP leaders would likely risk the wrath of the right if they chose to let an Ex-Im renewal advance. Bank supporters, including nearly all Democrats and many moderate Republicans, will get their chance to challenge the conservative wing as early as this week, when the Senate is expected to take up the highway bill. Because it's a must-pass measure, Export-Import backers have targeted it as a quick way to send a bank reauthorization to President Barack Obama's desk. A clear majority of both the House and Senate support the Export-Import Bank, whose charter expired last month and rendered the agency unable to underwrite any new loans. Sixty House Republicans have publicly supported the bank, and 180 House Democrats are on record backing the agency. Meanwhile, 65 senators, including 22 Republicans, voted in favor of the bank in a key test vote in June. But a majority of Senate Republicans, including its top four leaders, voted against the bank in that key vote, and conservative forces both on and off Capitol Hill believe a majority of the House GOP oppose it as well. At least 95 House Republicans have indicated publicly that they won't support the bank. Conservative lawmakers are already crowing about Ex-Im's demise, pointing to it as one of the first and biggest successes of the new GOP-controlled Congress. House conservatives are pledging to keep up opposition to the bank even as the Senate works toward reauthorization. The majority of these hard-line members are opposed to any highway deal that would reauthorize the bank's charter and have indicated to GOP leadership not to count on their votes — which could force Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who has praised the bank as essential to job growth, to turn to House Democrats for votes on a final highway package. Boehner has tried to strike a delicate balance with his conservative members. He's told Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling that if the Senate sends over a highway bill with Ex-Im measures attached, the Texas Republican will be allowed to offer amendments to the bill. That would put pressure on Hensarling to whip enough Republicans against the bank to ensure its charter is not renewed. In the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is open to amendments on the highway bill and expects Ex-Im backers to offer one. He's likely to face pressure from conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — who's threatened to use any procedural weapon in his arsenal on the highway bill to ensure the bank stays dead — to shut down any prospects of a bank reauthorization. But with at least 65 votes already on record in favor of the bank, it would be politically impossible for McConnell — who has made a more open and freewheeling chamber a key tenet of his tenure so far as majority leader — to block a vote. Even on its own, the politics of the underlying highway bill are complicated. House and Senate Republicans are colliding over how to get a bill to Obama that keeps money flowing for rundown roads and bridges in need of repair by the end of the month, when the Highway Trust Fund is expected to run dry. House Republicans, backed by more than 130 Democrats, easily cleared a bill that fuels the trust fund with enough cash to keep it running until December. But Senate Republicans want a highway bill that runs at least through the November 2016 elections. And the main problem for Senate Republicans: They haven't even released a bill. A key test vote on a highway measure is set for Tuesday afternoon in the Senate, but Democrats haven't said whether they'll help advance it since the bill isn't finished. Senators are still tussling over how to pay for the highway measure, and offsets that are too far to the right could turn off Democrats — who'll likely be needed to get the bill across the finish line. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and an opponent of Ex-Im, said if a reauthorization were attached, the highway bill could lose some votes once it heads over to the House. And that dynamic is just what Ex-Im backers fear. The Ex-Im language that supporters will try to get included in the highway bill hews closely to a bill written by Heitkamp and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), two of the Senate's most vocal proponents of the export agency. It would reauthorize the bank's charter for four years. And adding to the jumbled politics of the highway bill, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last week threw another curveball: The 2016 hopeful is threatening to use procedural tactics to force a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood. The highway bill, work on which is likely going to run into next week, is a ripe target for Paul. House Republicans want no part of the Senate highway mess, and some of the House's influential members are pushing senators to swallow their short-term highway fix and veer clear of attaching any Ex-Im reauthorizations. Still, if Boehner were to move to put a Senate compromise bill to the floor, it would face stiff opposition from the House Freedom Caucus and even some more moderate members, including Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). And while Boehner has turned to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi before for "yes" votes, he has faced harsh criticism each time.

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Q: Reask: If $\tau=(1\ 2)(3\ 4)(5\ 6)(7\ 8)(9\ 10)$ determine whether there is $\sigma$ s.t $\sigma^k = \tau$ If $\tau=(1\ 2)(3\ 4)(5\ 6)(7\ 8)(9\ 10)$ determine whether there is a $n$-cycle $\sigma$ $(n\ge 10)$ with $\tau=\sigma^k$ for some integer $k$. This question is an exercise from Dummit and Foote, and it has been asked before here. The answer suggests that $\sigma^k$ should be a product of $\frac{n}{\text{gcd}(n,k)}$-cycles, where the number of such cycles is $\text{gcd}(n,k)$. Since the length of each component of $\tau$ is $2$, the number of such cycles is $5$, we see that $\text{gcd}(n,k) = 5$ and $n = 10$. It follows that $k = 5$. Question: I think this should be a necessary condition, i.e., if such $n$-cycle $\sigma$ exists, we must have $n = 10$ and $k = 5$. But we haven't found a particular $\tau$ yet. Could anyone give me a hint on how to continue? A: Expanding on awllower's comment: You want $\sigma^5$ to map $1$ to $2$, so $\sigma$ looks like $$ \sigma = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & ? & ? & ? & ? & 2 & ? & ? & ? & ? \end{pmatrix}$$ You want $\sigma^5$ to map $3$ to $4$, so $\sigma$ looks like $$ \sigma = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 3 & ? & ? & ? & 2 & 4 & ? & ? & ? \end{pmatrix}$$ and so on. Once you finish this process, it should be straightforward to check that $\sigma^5$ is actually equal to $\tau$.

Teresa Klaman (ur. 1948 w Gdańsku) – polska rzeźbiarka, ceramiczka, profesor Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku. Życiorys W latach 1967–1972 studiowała w ówczesnej gdańskiej Państwowej Wyższej Szkole Sztuk Plastycznych (ob. Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku). Dyplom uzyskała w pracowni prof. Alfreda Wiśniewskiego w 1972 r. Profesor, kierownik Katedry Specjalności i Specjalizacji, prowadzi Pracownię Ceramiki Artystycznej. Dwukrotna stypendystka polskiego Ministerstwa Kultury i Sztuki. W roku 1988 – stypendystka rządu fińskiego, a w 1996 – stypendystka Fundacji Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej. Prace artystki znajdują się w zbiorach: Muzeum Narodowego w Gdańsku, Centralnego Muzeum Pomorskiego w Szczecinie, Muzeum Morskiego w Gdańsku, Galerii Małych Form Rzeźbiarskich w Poznaniu, Galerii Rzeźby Współczesnej w Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku. W latach 1996–1999 była prodziekanem Wydziału Rzeźby. Wybrane nagrody: 2012 – Laureat Nagrody Prezydenta Miasta Gdańska w Dziedzinie Kultury Przypisy Linki zewnętrzne Absolwenci Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku Polscy rzeźbiarze współcześni Polscy ceramicy Rzeźbiarze związani z Gdańskiem Polscy pedagodzy Wykładowcy Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku Ludzie urodzeni w Gdańsku Urodzeni w 1948

Are you a marketing agency? It's time to super charge your business blog. Many businesses can benefit from a blog. We're obviously biased here at GBW, but we've seen different companies grow with the help of a blog. One type of company that can do really well with a blog is the marketing agency. At GBW, we work with a number of agencies. They're often small to medium sized agencies working hard to provide marketing services to clients. Because they're so busy and growing they often don't have time to blog as often as they would like. So to supplement their blogging they'll have our team provide posts and often they'll have us help them to provide blog content for their clients as well. If you're a marketing agency looking at blogging as a way to grow them you're in luck. Here is a blog strategy to follow to bring in new visitors to your website and new clients to your roster. With our new clients we always ask about the ideal reader. We try to get as detailed as possible with this aspect because it's so important. It's important for the blog and for the business in general. Some will say that their ideal reader is "everyone, really". Well that's not the case. Even the biggest companies in the world like Apple and Google don't focus on everyone. Hone in on the person you want to attract to your blog. This might not even be your current customer. Maybe you have one type of client that is better than another. Focus on your ideal reader and "ideal" is in the sense of being good for your business. Identify and define this person and you'll have a much easier time creating posts and your blog will be much more successful than if you go into it without an ideal reader in mind. Different marketing agencies will focus on different aspects of marketing. Focus on the topics that are most concerning for your ideal readers. Focus on the common questions those people have and you'll come up with your topics. 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HP Inc. HPQ is set to demonstrate latest innovations and upgrades to its key technologies at Labelexpo Americas 2018 to be held during Sep 25-27. Demonstrations will include advancements in HP Indigo Digital Press portfolio, a division of its Graphic Arts business. The new solutions aim to drive profitable growth and aid digital transformation process, especially in the packaging converter and labelling industries. HP Indigo GEM, which was launched at the Labelexpo Americas 2017, officially entered the first stage of beta customer testing, with Innovative Labeling Solutions being the first U.S. beta customer. HP will also officially unveil the HP SmartStream Collage, an automated variable design feature for HP Indigo printing, aimed to benefit converters. Apart from this, HP will also announce new enhancements to the HP PrintOS, HP Indigo 20000 and HP Indigo 6900, all of which will directly benefit labelling and converter companies. With growing digital transformation taking place across all industries, the need for converters to enhance supply chain efficiency and increase speed to market has become vital. Along with this, the necessity to educate brands on the importance of labels and packaging innovations in customer engagement strategies, using the apt technology, crops up. HP strives to provide solutions to address these requirements, allowing converters to produce many types of labels and packaging digitally. HP has been focusing on its profit-generating Printing Business for some time now. The segment's revenues constituted 35.6% of total revenues of its last reported quarter, up 11% year over year. Per management, HP's A3 business held a market share of 9.1% in the previous quarter. Although the growth rate is not expected to be the same every quarter, management believes that it is on track to achieve 12% market share by 2020. Additionally, HP expects its upcoming acquisition of Europe's largest independent provider of print and document services, Apogee Corporation, to drive growth in contractual office print market. It also recently launched the new DesignJet Z large format photo printers, which is expected to be adopted widely and, in turn, boost revenues. HP currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). A few better-ranked stocks in the broader Computer and Technology sector are Fortinet, Inc. FTNT, Apple Inc. AAPL and Radware Ltd. RDWR, each sporting a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here. Long-term earnings growth for Fortinet, Apple and Radware is pegged at 16.8%, 9.7% and 19%, respectively.

MLB's Elevators We've all taken elevators….maybe every day…..the sudden jolt upward…downward..with occasional stops along the way (for departing/oncoming) passengers moves us up or down. Always though….. we're in control of the up/down movements….not so in the Sports World Elevators. They move players/teams up or down unaccountably. Frequently… it puzzles us. Here we go on the elevator…. GOING UP…..who would have known that on April 28, the leading batter in the AL would be Tim Anderson @.402. Anderson hit .240 in 2018 and a whopping .253 in 2017. On the same elevator is Elvis Andrus. Andrus an 11 year vet @ 30 years old "slugged" a robust .256 last year. Tonight he's #2 in the AL in hitting at .364. No telling when someone will hit the "down" button on these two guys but… heck…they're enjoying the ride up. GOING DOWN…and in a hurry…..is Manny Machado. The ink isn't dry yet on the 10 year deal for $300m with the Padres. At that moment….it WAS the largest contract in American sports history…of course Bryce Harper broke it soon after…anyway… Manny was rated #23 in the entire MLB by Yahoo baseball in the pre-season. Currently Machado holds a .245 average a whopping 4 home runs and 11 RBI's and is ranked by Yahoo baseball @ # 404 in the league…ouch! At least we CAN say that he's started all 26 games for the Padres in 2019….but…his elevator hasn't stopped yet….it's still going downward(he went 5 of 24 this week). GOING UP….one team that has pushed hard on the UP button is the Minnesota Twins. Finishing 2018 in 2nd place in the AL Central @ 78-84….what does that say about the division?…2nd place team is 6 games below .500….however, with this UPWARD jolt, the Twinkies are in 1st place @ 16-9. Expect them to have a power shortage in their elevator sometime in June….and plummet dramatically downwards at that time. GOING DOWN….at least in the draft was Drew Lock. His 2nd round selection by Denver is still something that he'll brag about as an ol' guy…but right now it's viewed by some as a downgrade…. why don't those people read a little closer….I wrote on Oct 14 in this blog, "Personally, I don't think that this guy is a 1st round pick…and I'd question if he's a 1st day pick due to his throwing while moving deficiencies." Actually….other than having a truck load of money to sign…..he'll only get a trunk full….it may be better for him. #1 QB picks are expected to play like Payton Manning, Drew Brees, Tom Brady (take ur pick) RIGHT NOW and the pressure sometimes grinds these young QB into the ground. GOING UP & DOWN…..the thrilling NHL playoffs keep the emotions jumping up and down. First we're up by 2 games…then tied after losing both at home….yada-yada-yada. The Dallas Stars…to my eyes.. seem to be a faster skating team than the Winnipeg Jets…and faster than the Blues. It's hard to compensate for speed. They've had many more good offensive attacks that the Blues. The Blues dumping in and racing hard to forecheck behind the net has been stymied by keeper Ben Bishop. Bishop turns the puck around quickly for Dallas so the Blues are finding it difficult to keep the puck deep in the zone. Jordan Bennington's "hot hand" has kept the Blues in these games.. Jaden Schwartz got "hot" at the right time but we need more scoring than just Schwartz & Tarasenko to win. To score, you must shoot it on net! GOING UP…..the excitement about the new NASL team in the Lou continues to elevate. The rendering of the new stadium..looking modern & sleek along with an ownership that has the ability to hire and maintain a top level management team makes many in the Lou excited. STAYING DOWN IN THE BASEMENT…unable to find the UP button, Miami remains the weakest MLB team. On Sunday, Miami had two batters in the starting lineup hitting under .200….their top batter was an over-the – hill guy….Martin Prado….hitting a mediocre .286. Their current pathetic record is 8-20 with little or NO hope of improvement. GOING UP….maybe skyrocketing would be a better term….Dodger's Cody Bellinger shot UPWARD all week. He was 10 of 20 from the plate…come on…all of us can figure that average …4 HR, 10 RBIs, 5 runs, 2 stolen bases, .556 on-base % and an amazing 1.756 OPS for the week! GOING DOWN….unlike wine, aging is not usually appealing in baseball…Evan Longoria …now a SF Giant…has been pushing the DOWN button for a long while…in the pre-season Yahoo had him rated at 238…not exactly a world beater…but that number glitters now as he's rated 911 in the league with a .206 batting mark, 3 HR, 9 runs (he must score each time he gets on base )…a shockingly low .942 fielding average, OBP of .245 and a OPS of .616. PUSHING the UP button all spring…the St. Pius Lancers baseball team hold a 14-0 record as their record keeps moving upward. Their pitching staff has only permitted more than 3 runs in a game ONCE this season! The Lancers are in 1st place of the Jeff County Small Div with a conference record of 4-0. The leading batter for St. Pius currently managed by Mr. Jerry Woods is Sr Eli Dale, who leads the entire area in Slugging with a 1.087 mark. He's also 2nd in the StL area with a .565 batting mark. Sr Tyler Hedtkamp is tied of 3rd in the area with 6 home runs. On the mound, Sr Jeremy Isenman holds a perfect 6-0 record. Sr Kaleb Schweigert is also unbeaten on the mound at 3-0. GOING DOWN QUICKLY….the Indiana Pacers were swept in 4 games by the Boston Celtics in a first round series of the post-season 4-0. The highly successful Celtics franchise has won a league high 17 titles but this was their first sweep of any series since 1986-87. St Louis…of course…has a bit more of an interest in the Celtics since local Jayson Tatum wears the Green Celtic uniform. GOING UP…..somehow the Cards couldn't find a place for him but Luke Voit (Lafayette HS) has found a home in NY for the Yankees. He's batting .283, 8 Home Runs, 25 rbi's. He may not keep up that torrid pace but we've played a month of baseball now so he's already helped the Yankees to a 17-11 start to the season. GOING DOWN….the evaluation of the Cards management team while looking to obtain a true closer. We've seen Brett Cecil (I can't recall 3 straight good performances at any part of his Card career), Greg Holland (rushed back too soon),Luke Gregerson (35 now…too old), Zach Duke (still going as a short LHP in pen for a different team)…now…it seems….add Andrew Miller to that list….just to name a few…..you can't continue to look for the aging, former good closers to come in and get the job done. Instead, when a young, star closer like Edwin Diaz is available….like he was last year….open up the chest and unload a few of these 'golden" prospects. Diaz was obtained in a trade by the Mets.. couldn't' we have offered a bit more and solved our closing issues. Diaz is only 25 years old, last year he piled up 57 saves for Seattle (was that every one of their wins?). He'll likely be a star closer (he's 6 of 6 this year) for at the minimum 2 or 3 more years. GOING UP….despite my own trepidation, Jose Martinez's play has merited his continued starting role in the OF. He's really not improved out there but somehow he hasn't been exposed to so many tough plays.. which he can't make….at key spots of the game. And….one must say…he can hit. Martinez is constantly moving, twitching, leaning, talking, stretching, shaking his head…just watch him…..I NEVER see him completely still. GOING DOWN….Alex Reyes continues to trend downward due to injury, performance or both. His latest episode…breaking a finger…is yet another bump in this hilly…in some cases ….mountainous road to the MLB GOING UP…..the Union Wildcats Girls soccer team under the guidance of Head Coach Matt Fennessey is really off and running. They hold a 19-1 record as they enter this week. Jr Hannah Olive has been the keeper in all 17 shutouts for the Wildcats. Scoring isn't an issue since the Wildcats have the leading scorer in the area. Soph Emily Graebe has an unbelievable 39 goals coupled with 13 assists for a total of 91 points—WOW! Jr Haley Cloud has found the back of the net 16 times and also has 13 helpers. Their lone loss to a much larger, Marquette Mustang team. Union has won by 10+ goals in a game SIX different times! Keep your eye on this team….they only have 3 Seniors on the roster! GOING DOWN….maybe it could be said…further DOWN the bench…is Jeff Gyorko. The Cardinals seem set in the infield this year….Carp, DeJong, Wong, Goldie. Mgr Mike Shildt doesn't play musical chairs with the lineup like his predecessor so these four seemed "locked in" for the most part. Gyorko is a fast ball hitter….but fast ball hitters need AB's to keep their timing. Gyorko is 2 of 17 for the year with his $8m contract, he'll be tough to unload. MO better get ready to "eat" some of this contract to provide a player for the Cards who will actually have an opportunity to contribute to the team. STAYING DOWN….well….we've hit the rock bottom of this elevator….thx for staying for all the ups/downs. By bobryansportsblog April 29, 2019 June 30, 2020 1,645 WordsLeave a comment

Home Sports 19.73 Seconds: Bolt Unleashes a World-Leading Time Over 200 Metres. 19.73 Seconds: Bolt Unleashes a World-Leading Time Over 200 Metres. Omaku Cephas Bolt Put Paid to Tyson Gay's Season-Long Record at the IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Paris. Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt, on Saturday night took back his rightful position, bearing his formidable status in the sprint. The six-time Olympic gold medalist ran the 200m in a world-leading 19.73secs- the fastest this year- down the track of the Stade de France at the 9th leg of the IAAF Diamond League meeting in the French capital. Having arrived in a Citroen 2 CV convertible, Bolt was the man the most of the capacity crowd of more than 52,000 athletics fans had come to see and he lived up to his billing despite his usual slow response to the blast of the gun which saw him start the sprint as the second-slowest man in the field out of his blocks. "I love Paris, I always feel wonderful here. As you see, I'm getting there," said Bolt. As expected, Bolt's compatriot Warren Weir was close enough to compete for the top spot coming off the turn, but he bounced on his pedals and pulled away from the London 2012 Olympic Games bronze medalist down to the finish line. Weir eventually finished second place in a remarkable 19.92secs, the third-fastest time of his career, while France's Christophe Lemaitre finished third in a season's best of 20.07. "I still need to work hard on a few mistakes, my coach will determine what exactly it will be. It's all building up towards a great World Championships," added Bolt who was heavily criticised before and after losing the 100m to Justin Gatlin in the Rome Gala meeting. Christophe Lemaitre Justin Gatlin Rome Gala Warren Weir Previous articleMba Has Finally Scored on Saturday; He Thinks People could be Funny. Next articleBolt's Dream's come true: Ferdinand Wants Sprinter to Play in His Testimonial. What are the best Nigerian sports markets to bet on? Three best Arsenal victories over Tottenham Hotspur Best Manchester City victories over Manchester United Akanimoh Friday July 8, 2013 At 1:22 pm Wonderful, wonderful. You're just natural. Break a leg!

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WHO: China's vaccine plays an important role globally Bruce Aylward, senior adviser to the Director-General of the World Health Organization. on the 6th: Through the "New Coronary Pneumonia Vaccine Implementation Plan" led by the organization and its partners, more than 180 million doses of Sinopharm and Chinese medicine have been delivered to 49 countries and regions. Kexing's new crown vaccine. Chinese vaccines have played an important role in boosting immunity and saving lives around the world. Aylward also pointed out at the WHO press conference on the same day that the delivery of the two Chinese vaccines accounted for nearly 20% of the total vaccine delivered through the program. The COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation Plan is co-led by WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. It aims to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all participating countries and economies. Official figures show the program has so far delivered 959 million doses of the vaccine to 144 countries and territories. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference on the same day: At the current rate of vaccine promotion, there are still 109 countries and regions that will not be able to fully vaccinate 70% of their populations by July 2022. And this is The WHO has previously called for all countries to achieve the goal. Tedros attributed this to the overall global inequality in COVID-19 vaccines and health. Again, he called on countries to effectively share COVID-19 vaccines. "The repeated promotion of booster shots in a few countries will not end a pandemic because billions of people are still completely unprotected," he said. In addition, Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, said on the 6th when talking about the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics: The risk of the spread of the new coronavirus will not increase under the current situation, because the preventive measures taken by China have been "very strict. ,powerful". He does not see any particular additional risk in terms of hosting or operating the Winter Olympics. WHO: Omicron strain is spreading worldwide 5 ways to store fruits and vegetables Cartier's parent company's third-quarter revenue rose 35% Regular-priced merchandise sales rise as Burberry raises guidance NIGO launches its first collection in Kenzo Iraqi Baghdad International Airport hit by rockets Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts Life tips (18) popularization of science (8)

Home » World News » Council tax: Britons in certain accommodations will not receive the £150 rebate Council tax: Britons in certain accommodations will not receive the £150 rebate GB News: Eamonn Holmes rages at council tax rises The rebate was announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in February as a helping hand for struggling Britons during the cost of living crisis. However, people in council tax bands E to H, those without a current account or staying in different accommodations may not receive it. Council tax bands are allocated by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) depending on the property value in 1991 for England and 2003 for Wales. The amount of tax payable for each band increases as the property value does the same, with A banded homes paying the lowest rate. This is why the rebate was made available to those in bands A to D as the Government claimed it would reach roughly 80 percent of the population. Due to this criteria, around 20 percent of the population, or 4.3 million homes, will automatically not qualify for the rebate as they are in bands E to H. These are homes valued at £88,001 and upwards in 1991 in England or £123,001 and upwards in 2003 in Wales. Whilst it is the general assumption that Britons living in these bands are financially better off than their counterparts in lower bands, Age UK has warned it could disproportionately impact older generations. They estimate that 2.1 million of the homes in bands E to H house at least one person aged 60 or over. Older people may be living in higher valued homes that are often more expensive to heat and could be going through financial hardships just like those in bands A to D. There is already great concern for older Britons as lacking finances mean some have to choose between daily necessities and heating their homes, and choosing either over the other can result in health complications. Additionally, members of the armed forces and their spouses living in subsidised accommodation will also not qualify for the rebate. These accommodations are usually exempt from council tax but the Ministry of Defence will reportedly contact them about support for cost of living. Britons who own a home that are in bands A to D but are currently staying in a care home or hospital will also not receive the rebate. This is because they are also usually exempt from council tax in these circumstances as their home is unoccupied. However it has been noted that people in these circumstances may be able to apply for the discretionary fund support provided to their local council. Britons who stay in houses of multiple occupation, such as house shares, will not directly receive the rebate but their landlord will instead. In houses of multiple occupation, the landlord is usually responsible for the council tax bill but tenants in these accommodations that pay their energy bills directly may be able to access the discretionary fund as well. The rebate will be automatically provided to eligible residents who pay by direct debit. Those using other payment methods expected to be contacted by their councils with further information on how to claim the rebate. However, there has been some concern over Britons who do not have a current account, an estimated 400,000 people currently. The Levelling Up Committee has asked councils to investigate whether the rebate could be paid in cash for these residents. Republicans implore Biden to reinstate national emergency at the border, as migrant numbers spike Supreme Court won't fast track GOP challenge to Pennsylvania ballot deadline Seize lasting powers NOW – how families can protect their finances from dementia and Covid Hannity: Biden's 'unity' pledge 'rings more hollow than ever' with economy-crushing orders New NYC mayor should 'let police do their jobs,' GOP lawmaker advises Previous Post:Student loan borrowers in default will receive 'fresh start' when forbearance ends: Education Department Next Post:Elon Musk touts Cybertruck, Optimus, the future of self-driving cars at Giga Texas grand opening

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Dallas Voice Houston bidding to host WorldPride 2023 No Comments on Houston bidding to host WorldPride 2023 Houston television station KTRK Channel 13 (Eye Witness News) is reporting that Houston is bidding to host the international LGBTQ WorldPride celebration in 2023. The announcement was made by Pride House President and CEO Lorin Roberts. First held in Rome in 2000, the international celebration was held this year in New York City to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and will be held in Copenhagen in 2021. Representatives of Houston will travel to Athens in October to present the city's bid to the WorldPride delegation. Other cities vying to host the event are Sydney, Australia and Montreal, Canada. But Roberts told KTRK she believes Houston, "where everything is bigger and better," has a good chance of winning the big. She that "even though we're a small town in the south of the U.S., you can see the world when you come to Houston." She added, "Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States. We are the largest night parade in the southern region. So, why not have it in Houston?" For more information about the bid placed for World Pride 2023, visit Pridehouston.org. ← CRIME ALERT: Don't take weed from a stranger → Maison announced as Kuchling Award winner Workshops begin at Creating Change Creating Change State of the Movement address to be live-streamed on FB today Acting on mass incarceration The songs of Bernadette Phyllis Guest made a difference © 2020 Dallas Voice

Tag Archives: pirates-smugglers-wreckers Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky bookshelves: currently-reading, little-green-men, summer-2014, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, sci-fi, translation, slavic, published-1972, newtome-author, fraudio, philosophy, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, noir, tbr-busting-2014, gulp, doo-lally, classic, censorship rosado mp3 on the road. Description: Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits compelled to venture illegally into the Zone and collect the strange artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered there. His whole life, even the nature of his daughter, is determined by the Zone. Picnicers from SPAAAAAAACE! Our poor human ego takes rather a pounding with the idea here. So insignificant are we that an alien ship stops off on planet for a minimal amount of time and fails to announce arrival. Same sort of discourtesy that anyone of us shows the ants etc. when we take out the ACME red-checkered picnic cloth over their pitch and squash the grass, drop our crumbs and wrappers, take a dump behind a bush. There is a film loosely based on this book: Stalker (1979) Three gold spheres as rating: Tagged censorship, classic, currently-reading, doo-lally, fraudio, gulp, little-green-men, newtome-author, noir, philosophy, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, published-1972, sci-fi, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, slavic, summer-2014, tbr-busting-2014, translation | Leave a comment | Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1) by Robert McCammon bookshelves: summer-2014, published-2002, north-americas, historical-fiction, mystery-thriller, witches-and-wizards, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts, tbr-busting-2014, sleazy, series, superstitions, recreational-drugs, poison, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, ouch, legal-courtcase, lifestyles-deathstyles, gulp, gangsters, games-people-play, fraudio, eye-scorcher, cults-societies-brotherhoods, betrayal, bullies, casual-violence, epic-proportions, execution, filthy-lucre, conflagration, medical-eew, period-piece, protestant, christian, racism, religion, revenge, treasure, horse-shagging-moment, slaves, recreational-homicide, testost-tosh Read from July 14 to 27, 2014 Description: The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexplicable tragedies – and they demand that beautiful widow Rachel Howarth be tried and executed for witchcraft. Presiding over the trial is traveling magistrate Issac Woodward, aided by his astute young clerk, Matthew Corbett. Believing in Rachel's innocence, Matthew will soon confront the true evil at work in Fount Royal…. Evil Unveiled After hearing damning testimony, magistrate Woodward sentences the accused witch to death by burning. Desperate to exonerate the woman he has come to love, Matthew begins his own investigation among the townspeople. Piecing together the truth, he has no choice but to vanquish a force more malevolent than witchcraft in order to save his beloved Rachel – and free Fount Royal from the menace claiming innocent lives. 4* Gone South CR Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1) Somewhere down below there is a comment that this was written by a mid-life crisis guy who wasn't having his bedroom needs resolved. Probably nearer the truth than said author would care to acknowledge. You can't get away from the fact that this is written purely from a male POV, and some of it right from the playground and it would fail the Bechdel test in fine style. This was an eye-scorcher of epic proportions that at times felt rather long-winded and at other points I was breathless with anticipation. Quite the nail-biting period-piece murder-mystery. Supernatural? No. Horror? Hell no. Just a riveting story that could have been a five star if McCammon shown more style, and have dropped a couple of scenes that were graphic and pointless. Four Spanish coins from the belly of a turtle. Tagged betrayal, bullies, casual-violence, christian, conflagration, cults-societies-brotherhoods, epic-proportions, execution, eye-scorcher, filthy-lucre, fraudio, games-people-play, gangsters, gulp, historical-fiction, horse-shagging-moment, legal-courtcase, lifestyles-deathstyles, medical-eew, mystery-thriller, north-americas, ouch, period-piece, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, poison, protestant, published-2002, racism, recreational-drugs, recreational-homicide, religion, revenge, series, slaves, sleazy, summer-2014, superstitions, tbr-busting-2014, testost-tosh, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts, treasure, witches-and-wizards | Leave a comment | Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century May 1, 2014 by Bettie's Books bookshelves: african-continent, nonfiction, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, autumn-2012, published-2010, turkish-and-or-ottoman-root, afr-morocco, afr-tunisia, afr-algeria, war Read from September 09 to October 23, 2012 Read by Clive Chafer Overview – The true story that's "bloody good entertainment" (New York Times) about the colorful and legendary pirates of the 17th century. If not for today's news stories about piracy on the high seas, it'd be easy to think of pirating as a romantic way of life long gone. But nothing is further from the truth. Pirates have existed since the invention of commerce itself, and they reached the zenith of their power during the 1600s, when the Mediterranean was the crossroads of the world and pirates were the scourge of Europe. Historian and author Adrian Tinniswood brings this exciting and surprising chapter in history alive, revealing that the history of piracy is also the history that has shaped our modern world. Starts off with the modern day Somali Pirates and there is nothing pretty to report. The Rainbow (left) unsuccessfully engaging John Ward's flagship Issouf Reis of Tunis, fervent in his devotion to Islam, was so wealthy that that by 1615 he had built himself a 'faire Palace, beautified with rich Marble and Alabaster stones'. His household was so big that when he had guests for dinner, it was served not by a demure maidservant but by 15 male waiters. Very short, white-haired but nearly bald, he had a swarthy complexion. A typical North African, you might think. Only he wasn't. He had been born and bred in Faversham, and his real name was John Ward. The exact date of his birth isn't yet known, but it was around 1553. Maybe he was the John Ward who is recorded as living on the west side of Preston Street on 31 December 1573 and 31 May 1574 and by 22 December 1574 had moved to Court Street – and then disappears from view. Source: http://www.faversham.org/history/peop… Europeans enslaved by North African captors – two mosques in the background. John Ward (aka Yusuf Reis): Arch Pirate Of Tunis; in 1608, feeling insecure in Tunis, Ward offered James I of England £40,000 for a royal pardon, but this was refused, so he returned to Tunis, where Uthman Dey kept his word and he remained for the rest his days. Sir Francis Verney (1584 – 6 September 1615) was an English adventurer, soldier of fortune, and pirate. A nobleman by birth, he left England after the House of Commons sided with his stepmother in a legal dispute over his inheritance, and became a mercenary in Morocco and later a Barbary corsair. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_… Peter Easton (c. 1570 – 1620 or after) was a pirate in the early 17th century who operated along the Newfoundland coastline between Harbour Grace and Ferryland from 1611 to 1614. Perhaps one of the most successful of all pirates he controlled such seapower that no sovereign or state could afford to ignore him and he was never overtaken or captured by any fleet commissioned to hunt him down. However, he is not as well known as some of the pirates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Tagged afr-algeria, afr-morocco, afr-tunisia, african-continent, autumn-2012, nonfiction, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, published-2010, turkish-and-or-ottoman-root, war | Leave a comment | Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier Jessica Brown Findlay as Mary Yellan Sean Harris as Joss Merlyn Shirley Henderson as Hannah Davey Joanne Whalley as Patience Merlyn Matthew McNulty as Jem Merlyn Ben Daniels as Francis Davey Andrew Scarborough as Magistrate Bassat Danny Miller as William Scarlett Archer as Beth Production details: Filming began in September 2013 in Cornwall, Yorkshire and Cumbria. It was originally decided that the series would be filmed in Northern Ireland. The BBC was criticised for filming in Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria, as opposed to a location in Cornwall. An investment from Screen Yorkshire was provided for the series. The three-part series was commissioned by Ben Stephenson and Danny Cohen, both from the BBC. Episode 1: (the mumbling one) Orphaned Mary Yellan travels to the remote Jamaica Inn to live with her Aunt Patience and brutal Uncle Joss. Isolated and alone, Mary must learn to navigate the perils of the smugglers' world and her dangerous desire for Jem Merlyn. BBC receives over 100 complaints for episode one The story itself remains a 3.75* read, however this TV miniseries is atrocious and I could not possibly recommend it. Tagged adventure, author-love, betrayal, boo-scary, britain-england, bullies, casual-violence, classic, cornwall, families, gangsters, gothic, lifestyles-deathstyles, lit-richer, ouch, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, published-1936, re-read, re-visit-2014, recreational-homicide, revenge, spring-2014, swashbuckler | Leave a comment | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists bookshelves: pirates-smugglers-wreckers, philosophy, zoology, seven-seas, winter-20112012 Read from January 02 to 03, 2012 Dedication – To Sophie, who has a quarter of a million pounds Opening – 'The best bit about being a pirate,' said the pirate with gout, 'is the looting.' There be footnotes and a map – what more do you need to add to a humourous script about Darwin and pirates and Mr Bobo Funniest moment – page 82. Luckily they were not having their climactic fight in the Prague Natural History Museum which is full of trilobites and not much else *nods* 4* for me – others (not needing a humorous palate cleanser) will have to be guided by a 3* Tagged philosophy, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, seven-seas, winter-20112012, zoology | Leave a comment | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab bookshelves: adventure, doo-lally, flufferoonies, winter-20112012, seven-seas, series, published-2006, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, ouch, period-piece, paper-read, amusing, young-adult ** spoiler alert ** dedication: To Sophie, who still has a quarter of a million pounds of which I have not seen a penny, even though this is the second entire book that I have dedicated to her Opening: 'That one looks almost exactly like a whale!' Again – lovely-jubbly maps and interesting factual footnotes such as #7 – The cement exuded by barnacles is an extremely tough protein polymer. It is twice as strong as the epoxy glue used on the space shuttle. Also, the barnacle penis is ten times as long as the rest of its body. On page six the cap'n is making a list of when it is acceptable for a pirate to cry: 1 – when holding a seagull covered in oil 2 – when singing a shanty that reminds him of orphans 3 – when confronted by the unremitting loneliness of the human condition 4 – chops If you like Pterry-like humour, and like the idea of a send-up of ol' Ahab this will suit you just fine. The lads here are arguing over who will read this next. 4* – The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2004) 4* – Pirates! In an Adventure with Whaling (2005) Tagged adventure, amusing, doo-lally, flufferoonies, ouch, paper-read, period-piece, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, published-2006, series, seven-seas, winter-20112012, young-adult | Leave a comment | Forbush and the Penguins bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, antarctica, published-1965, zoology, under-20, sciences, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, debut Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Charles Description: 'Forbush and the Penguins' is the story of a young man on a solitary mission in Antarctica who finds the challenge of being "the only man in the world" as enriching as it is terrifying. The main man is hunting down the film whilst I hunt for book bargains. Thanks Charles, this definitely looks right up my alley/down my street. HUZZAH – found a 'v. good condition' one-penny-wonder Dedication: FOR LYNDSEY Opening: When the helicopter had gone and its sound was no more than a minute concussion of the air on the eardrums Forbush stood in the centre of the ring of stones to look up at the smoking mountain, Erebus, and ask for a safe conduct through the summer. In return he pledged truthfulness, the will to try. The pages are sepia coloured but clean and barely opened, so my guess is that this has stood on a shelf since 1965. Shackleton's motor car Mount Erebus The Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast, which is their only residence. Hayley Mills with John Hurt, set before the antarctic journey "Mr Forbush and the Penguins" The Morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae), also called the Tasmanian spotted owl, is a small brown owl found throughout New Zealand, Tasmania, across most of mainland Australia and in Timor, southern New Guinea and nearby islands. This bird is the smallest owl in Australia and is the continent's most widely distributed and common owl. The bird has almost 20 alternative common names, most of which – including mopoke, morepork, ruru and boobook itself – are onomatopoeic, as they emulate the bird's distinctive two-pitched call. MacCormick's Skua sea leopard Tagged betrayal, epic-proportions, france, napoleonic, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, published-1844, re-read, re-visit-2014, revenge, seven-seas, spring-2014, treasure | Leave a comment | bookshelves: re-visit-2014, re-read, revenge, epic-proportions, betrayal, published-1844, france, seven-seas, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, treasure, napoleonic, spring-2014 Read from January 01, 1986 to April 23, 2014, read count: 2 I promised myself a re-acquaintance with this epic back when I was reading The Black Count, so this re-visit comes via the 2002 film, with Jim Caviezel in the lead rôle. Look at the stats for the book: 4.13* · 409,590 ratings · 10,981 reviews Chateau d'If The Count of Monte Cristo – Finding The Treasure The Count of Monte Cristo – The Ball Magnificant film with a distorted ending. All I want to do now is re-read the book from top to toe. Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims February 20, 2014 by Bettie's Books bookshelves: currently-reading, first-in-series, newtome-author, net-galley, published-2014, winter-20132014, wars-of-the-roses, medieval5c-16c, historical-fiction, war, series, e-book, adventure, religion, plague-disease, seven-seas, superstitions, britain-england, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, france, betrayal, medical-eew, revenge, spies, travel Read from February 12 to 20, 2014 ARC received with thanks from Net Galley and Random House UK, Cornerstone in exchange for an honest review. Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick One of the Yorkist leaders in the Wars of the Roses, he was instrumental in the deposition of two kings, a fact which later earned him his epithet of "Kingmaker" to later generations. (wiki sourced) Description: February, 1460: in the bitter dawn of a winter's morning a young nun is caught outside her priory walls by a corrupt knight and his vicious retinue. In the fight that follows, she is rescued by a young monk and the knight is defeated. But the consequences are far-reaching, and Thomas and Katherine are expelled from their religious Orders and forced to flee across a land caught in the throes of one of the most savage and bloody civil wars in history: the Wars of the Roses. Their flight will take them across the Narrow Sea to Calais where Thomas picks up his warbow, and trains alongside the Yorkist forces. Katherine, now dressed as a man, hones her talents for observation and healing both on and off the fields of battle. And all around them, friends and enemies fight and die as the future Yorkist monarch, Edward, Earl of March, and his adviser the Earl of Warwick, later to become known as the Kingmaker, prepare to do bloody battle. Encompassing the battles of Northampton, Mortimer's Cross and finally the great slaughter of Towton, this is war as experienced not by the highborn nobles of the land but by ordinary men and women who do their best just to stay alive. Filled with strong, sympathetic characters, this is a must-read series for all who like their fiction action-packed, heroic and utterly believable. Dedication: To Karen, with all my love Opening is February 1460: The Dean comes for him during the Second Repose, when the night is at its darkest. He brings with him a rush light and a quarterstaff and wakes him with a heavy prod. 'Up now, Brother Thomas,' he says. 'The Prior's asking for you.' Epic adventuring that had me hooked by page 52. In the time-honoured way of honest reviewing I shall point out the things that stopped this excellent story from being the 5* this read really deserves: -The present tense prose: didn't bother me at all once I was into the story but it will not appeal to some of my reading pals. -That carrot ending: this really is a turn-off to many a reader and could be the kiss of death for a series. We don't want to have it taken for granted by the author that we will buy into the next installment. -Some secondary characters were barely fleshed out: I'm especially looking at a giant of a man who comes across as cartoon thug. I loved this story, non-stop action featuring a lovely pair of modest but surprising heroes and that is all I can say for the moment as this is not due to be published until April. To I recommend it? Oh yes, the best adventure novel I have read in quite a while. A word on Scrofula, sourced by The Science Museum: In the Middle Ages it was believed in England and France that a touch from royalty could heal skin disease known as scrofula or the 'king's evil'. Scrofula was usually a swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck caused by tuberculosis. The practice began with King Edward the Confessor in England (1003/4-1066) and Philip I (1052-1108) in France. Subsequent English and French kings were thought to have inherited this 'royal touch', which was supposed to show that their right to rule was God-given. In grand ceremonies, kings touched hundreds of people afflicted by scrofula. They received special gold coins called 'touchpieces' which they often treated as amulets. By the late 1400s it was believed that you could also be cured by touching a type of coin called an angel, which had been touched by the monarch. After angels ceased to be minted in the 1620s the same effect was said to be achieved by touching a gold medallion embossed much like the old coin. Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (26 January 1436 – 15 May 1464) was an important Lancastrian military commander during the English Wars of the Roses. He is sometimes numbered the 2nd Duke of Somerset, since the title was re-created for his father after his uncle died. He also held the subsidiary titles of 5th Earl of Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and 2nd Earl of Dorset.Source Kidwelly Castle EXTRAS: You too can watch Dating in the Middle Ages Crossposted: LeafMark Tagged adventure, betrayal, britain-england, e-book, first-in-series, france, historical-fiction, medical-eew, medieval5c-16c, net-galley, newtome-author, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, plague-disease, published-2014, religion, revenge, series, seven-seas, spies, superstitions, travel, war, wars-of-the-roses, winter-20132014 | Leave a comment | For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink bookshelves: nonfiction, autumn-2012, history, published-2009, biography, colonial-overlords, victorian, recreational-drugs, war, fraudio, china, india, gardening, pirates-smugglers-wreckers Read on November 05, 2012 Read by the author herself. Blurb – A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China. In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China's territory forbidden to foreigners,to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. For All the Tea in China is the remarkable account of Fortune's journeys into China; a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure. Disguised in Mandarin robes, Fortune ventured deep into the country, confronting pirates, hostile climate, and his own untrustworthy men as he made his way to the epicenter of tea production, the remote Wu Yi Shan hills. One of the most daring acts of corporate espionage in history, Fortune's pursuit of China's ancient secret makes for a classic nineteenth-century adventure tale, one in which the fate of empires hinges on the feats of one extraordinary man. Camellia sinensis: Robert Fortune, the tea thief. From wiki: Robert Fortune (16 September 1812 – 13 April 1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller, best known for introducing tea plants from China to India. Robert Fortune was born in Britain on 16 September 1812, at Kelloe, Berwickshire. This does have the tang of 'must publish my dissertation or bust', feeling; the author delivers this in rather a dramatic and staccato'd fashion. Can't fault the historical research and it is enjoyable enough for a solid 3* Tagged autumn-2012, biography, china, colonial-overlords, fraudio, gardening, history, india, nonfiction, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, published-2009, recreational-drugs, victorian, war | Leave a comment |

Q: android studio download pdf file and save it in sharedpreferences I have problem when trying to download PDF file and save it in internal storage or Shared-preferences and read it. Is it possible to download it in internal storage? I have followed several tutorials from internet but it doesn't work. could someone guide me how to do it? Thanks a lot. package com.icul.downloadinternal; import android.content.SharedPreferences; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; import android.preference.PreferenceManager; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.util.Base64; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.ImageView; import android.widget.Toast; import java.io.IOException; import okhttp3.OkHttpClient; import okhttp3.Request; import okhttp3.Response; public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { Button download, read; ImageView pdf; String url = "https://www.cdc.gov/eval/guide/cdcevalmanual.pdf"; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); download = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button); read = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2); pdf = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image); download.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { try { downloadFileSync(url); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }); read.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { SharedPreferences shre = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getApplicationContext()); String previouslyEncodedImage = shre.getString("pdf_data", ""); if( !previouslyEncodedImage.equalsIgnoreCase("") ){ byte[] b = Base64.decode(previouslyEncodedImage, Base64.DEFAULT); Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(b, 0 , b.length); pdf.setImageBitmap(bitmap); } else { Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"No File", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } } }); } public void downloadFileSync(String downloadUrl) throws Exception { OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); Request request = new Request.Builder().url(downloadUrl).build(); Response response = client.newCall(request).execute(); if (!response.isSuccessful()) { throw new IOException("Failed to download file: " + response); } String encodedImage = Base64.encodeToString(response.body().bytes(), Base64.DEFAULT); SharedPreferences shre = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this); SharedPreferences.Editor edit = shre.edit(); edit.putString("pdf_data", encodedImage); edit.commit(); } } A: GRADLE compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.8.0' Write: public void downloadFileSync(String downloadUrl) throws Exception { OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); Request request = new Request.Builder().url(downloadUrl).build(); Response response = client.newCall(request).execute(); if (!response.isSuccessful()) { throw new IOException("Failed to download file: " + response); } String encodedImage = Base64.encodeToString( response.body().bytes(), Base64.DEFAULT); SharedPreferences shre = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this); Editor edit=shre.edit(); edit.putString("pdf_data",encodedImage); edit.commit(); } For read : SharedPreferences shre = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this); String previouslyEncodedImage = shre.getString("pdf_data", ""); if( !previouslyEncodedImage.equalsIgnoreCase("") ){ byte[] b = Base64.decode(previouslyEncodedImage, Base64.DEFAULT); // ..... } A: Please add following files/method to your project * *PdfDownloader.java *PDFDownloaderAsyncTask.java and then using following method handleViewPdf to view pdf: private void handleViewPdf() { File folder = getAppDirectory(context); String fileName = "test.pdf";// getPdfFileName(pdfUrl); File pdfFile = new File(folder, fileName); if(pdfFile.exists() && pdfFile.length() > 0) { openPDFFile(context, Uri.fromFile(pdfFile)); } else { if(pdfFile.length() == 0) { pdfFile.delete(); } try { pdfFile.createNewFile(); } catch(IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } ArrayList<String> fileNameAndURL = new ArrayList<>(); fileNameAndURL.add(pdfFile.toString()); fileNameAndURL.add(pdfUrl); fileNameAndURL.add(fileName); if(pdfDownloaderAsyncTask == null) { pdfDownloaderAsyncTask = new PDFDownloaderAsyncTask(context, pdfFile); } if(hasInternetConnection(context)) { if(!pdfDownloaderAsyncTask.isDownloadingPdf()) { pdfDownloaderAsyncTask = new PDFDownloaderAsyncTask(context, pdfFile); pdfDownloaderAsyncTask.execute(fileNameAndURL); } } else { //show error } } } PDFDownloaderAsyncTask.java import java.io.File; import java.util.ArrayList; import android.content.Context; import android.net.Uri; import android.os.AsyncTask; import android.os.Handler; import android.text.TextUtils; import android.widget.Toast; public class PDFDownloaderAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<ArrayList<String>, Void, String> { private boolean isDownloadingPdf = false; private File file; private Context context; public PDFDownloaderAsyncTask(Context context, File file) { this.file = file; this.context = context; this.isDownloadingPdf = false; } public boolean isDownloadingPdf() { return this.isDownloadingPdf; } @Override protected void onPreExecute() { super.onPreExecute(); //show loader etc } @Override protected String doInBackground(ArrayList<String>... params) { isDownloadingPdf = true; File file = new File(params[0].get(0)); String fileStatus = PdfDownloader.downloadFile(params[0].get(1), file); return fileStatus; } @Override protected void onPostExecute(String result) { super.onPostExecute(result); Loader.hideLoader(); if(!TextUtils.isEmpty(result) && result.equalsIgnoreCase(context.getString(R.string.txt_success))) { showPdf(); } else { isDownloadingPdf = false; Toast.makeText(context, context.getString(R.string.error_could_not_download_pdf), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); file.delete(); } } @Override protected void onCancelled() { isDownloadingPdf = false; super.onCancelled(); //Loader.hideLoader(); } @Override protected void onCancelled(String s) { isDownloadingPdf = false; super.onCancelled(s); //Loader.hideLoader(); } private void showPdf() { new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { isDownloadingPdf = false; openPDFFile(context, Uri.fromFile(file)); } }, 1000); } } PdfDownloader.java package com.pdf; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class PdfDownloader { private static final int MEGABYTE = 1024 * 1024; public static String downloadFile(String fileUrl, File directory) { String downloadStatus; try { URL url = new URL(fileUrl); HttpURLConnection urlConnection =(HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); urlConnection.connect(); InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream(); FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(directory); int totalSize = urlConnection.getContentLength(); Log.d("PDF", "Total size: " + totalSize); byte[] buffer = new byte[MEGABYTE]; int bufferLength = 0; while((bufferLength = inputStream.read(buffer)) > 0) { fileOutputStream.write(buffer, 0, bufferLength); } downloadStatus = "success"; fileOutputStream.close(); } catch(FileNotFoundException e) { downloadStatus = "FileNotFoundException"; e.printStackTrace(); } catch(MalformedURLException e) { downloadStatus = "MalformedURLException"; e.printStackTrace(); } catch(IOException e) { downloadStatus = "IOException"; e.printStackTrace(); } Log.d("PDF", "Download Status: " + downloadStatus); return downloadStatus; } public static void openPDFFile(Context context, Uri path) { Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); intent.setDataAndType(path, "application/pdf"); intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); try { context.startActivity(intent); } catch(ActivityNotFoundException e) { Toast.makeText(context, context.getString(R.string.txt_no_pdf_available), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } Loader.hideLoader(); } public static File getAppDirectory(Context context) { String extStorageDirectory = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString(); File folder = new File(extStorageDirectory, context.getString(R.string.app_folder_name).trim()); if(!folder.exists()) { boolean success = folder.mkdirs(); Log.d("Directory", "mkdirs():" + success); } return folder; } }

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Notizie dai progettiFirst solar powered irrigation system in BiH First solar powered irrigation system in BiH Solar panes near the greenhouse Filipovići, village near Ustikolina, east Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beautiful meadows, green scenery, bordered with woods in autumn colors. Jasmina and Nezir Šahović have built here six greenhouses, growing different kinds of vegetables, earning for living from their hard work. Water, the source of life, is essential for decent yields from their greenhouses. Further down from their piece of land, there is the village creek, from which so far they pumped the water with the pump on fossil fuel. 20 meters of difference in height between the creek and their piece of land makes the pump necessary tool for watering their greenhouses. Daily needs for their six greenhouses is around 10m3 of water in the growing season (April to October). This year family Šahović introduced innovative approach to their vegetable growing business. With the assistance from Oxfam office in BiH, the greenhouses of family Šahović and other two families nearby, will be watered with the modern irrigation system on solar power. Solar photovoltaic system for powering in irrigation uses energy of the sun for charging the battery which powers the water pump. The system contains 6 solar panels, with total power of 1 kW, battery for accumulation of energy, water pump which pumps the water from the same creek to the reservoir of 4 000 l in capacity, located above the greenhouses. From this reservoir, by free fall, water flows through the pipe system to the greenhouses and parcels cultivated in the open. Jasmina and Nezir Sahovic in their greenhouse "This is really one of the best things that could have happened to us!", Jasmina is showing towards the panels enthusiastically. "Now we can rely on constant water supply in our greenhouses. There is no yield without water, we could not grow anything." One greenhouse of 200m2 gives about one ton of peppers or other vegetables, sometimes even more, with regular watering. Family Šehović has no problem of selling all their produce at the local market. "This year we sold almost all peppers here. People were simply coming to us here, buying 50 -60 kg sacks of peppers at once. Eggplants were growing like mad, from this open parcel of 400m2 we picked over 2 tons of eggplants and there is more, but now (October) the growing is ending, while we also had the first frost this year the other night. That is why the eggplants are so down, you see," says Jasmina, looking over the parcel with sad looking plants, still full with healthy eggplants. "So far, we had high costs for fuel we used for the pump. We would spend something around 1000 KM (around 500 €) for oil and gasoline in the season. Thanks to this system, there will be no more fuel cost. We will be able to invest that money in enlarging the production. We have already planted a special kind of wild strawberry up there in one of the greenhouses, giving fruits till late autumn. We have also planted new plants of raspberry, so we expect to harvest them next year. In addition, we plan to raise one additional greenhouse for growing other vegetables," explained Jasmina. This is the first solar-powered system for irrigation in BiH. Along with this, similar system, but of half the power, was installed in Bratunac, for irrigation of raspberry fields. The three families benefitting from the system participated in the preparatory building works and materials necessary for installation of the system. Solar-powered system in Filipovići will help those families reduce the costs in watering their greenhouses and open parcels with vegetables. On the other hand, this system will contribute to reduction of CO2 emission of 1200 kg on an annual level. There are no additional costs, as it uses solar power, while with the minimum maintenance costs, the predicted lifetime of the system is 25 years. There are no harmful effects for the environment, while the surplus energy produced families can use for their own homes, for simple lighting, for example. This system is part of the project "Promotion of the renewable energy sources through support to small agricultural producers in Albania and BiH", supported by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), implemented by Oxfam in both countries.

Supervised vs unsupervised machine learning: compare & contrast Each day, the universe becomes "savvier," and to maintain up with customer desires, corporations are increasingly relying on machine learning techniques to make life simpler. Those who could be seen in use and in edge devices (for example, face acknowledgement for decrypting smartphones or tracking credit cards spam) Basically there are two approaches to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Those two approaches are supervise and unsupervised learning mode. The main distinction between these two approaches is one approach uses labelled data while the other one uses unlabeled data to make predictions. There are many other differences as well which will be discussed further. What exactly is supervised learning? Supervised machine – learning approach is differentiated by the use of labelled dataset. The datasets coach "supervise" algorithms, so that they can accurately classify data and can generate accurate outcomes. The model has the tendency to learn over time. This can be done by using labelled inputs and the generated outcomes. When we talk about data mining, in that manner supervised learning can de classified into two types of problems such as classification and regression. Existing approaches precisely categories algorithm into test data. For instance, parting of apples from oranges. If we taker real world example we can understand the phenomena in the following way. For instance, we can see that with the help of supervised learning algorithms, the mailbox detect and separate junk mails into a separate folder. Algorithm classification include linear classifiers, support vector machines, decision trees, and random forests. Regression is another type of supervised learning approach. It works over an algorithm to find out the relationship exist between dependent and independent variables. On the basis of existed data, regression model is useful for predicting the changing trends on data points. For example, projection of sales revenue for the business. Linear regression, logistic regression, and polynomial regression are some popular regression algorithms. What exactly is unsupervised learning? In case of unsupervised learning, it uses unlabeled data sets from machine learning algorithms. Unsupervised learning analyses and clusters unlabeled data sets using machine learning algorithms. Such kind of algorithms do not require any kind of human intervention and hence they are named as unsupervised learning algorithms. They are supposed to perform three major tasks such as clustering, dimensionality reduction and association. A data mining technique that categorize unlabeled data based on their similar traits or differences is known as clustering. This approach is beneficial for market segmentation and other purposes like image compression. Second type of unsupervised learning employs different rules to find out the relationship between different variables available in a data set. Such techniques are being used in market analysis and reference engines. Last type dimensionality reduction is used when there are large number of dimensions are given in an excessively large dataset. This type is used in commonly data processing. The Differences between Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Let's have a look at few important differences between Supervised and Unsupervised Learning. Supervised learning method make predictions on the available data iteratively to adjust it for correct answer. Supervised methods deal with labelled data where the system is familiar with output patterns of data, because the expected output is known ahead of time. In Unsupervised Learning, models learn and understand the unlabeled data structure at their own. The generated output is mostly based on collection of observations. Before the start of training, understanding goals of supervised Learning is important and well understood. The output of the model is already expected, we just have to predict that from new unforeseen data. The model's expected output is already known; we just need to predict it for previously unseen new data. The goal of an unsupervised learning algorithm is a bit complicated. There is no predicted value of output. The output needs to be extracted from large amounts of new data every time. There is no specific output value that we expect to be predicted, which complicates the entire training procedure. Those datasets which are labelled supervised learning models are most ideal for classifying data. The most important applications of supervised learning models are image classifications, forecasting of weather and price change predictions. Unsupervised Learning is ideal for data point clustering and association, as well as anomaly detection, customer behavior prediction, recommendation engines, noise removal from datasets, and so on. Unsupervised learning method is more complexed as compare to supervised learning method. In Supervised Learning the outcome is already known which makes the training procedure much simpler. The Future of Mobile App Development Trends & Predictions Chatgpt meaning and how it can solve Real-World problems! AI-based ChatGPT: The Most popular and Advanced Artificial Intelligence Chatbot in history Data analyst Business Intelligence 2023 trends 2023 Resolutions ideas for A Leader to try in Location Based Service Web and Mobile Apps Icon-facebook Twitter Linkedin-in Instagram Copyright © 2023 Enabling Systems (Private) Limited. 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Nov 30, 2018·21 min read The Injustices Many Black Women In DC Face: Similar To Life During Nazi Germany Public housing projects in the historical black neighborhood Barry Farms in Southeast, D.C. After reading about the suffering of Jewish people during the Holocaust I found similarities between their living conditions in the ghettos under Hitler and Nazis and the living conditions of black women in the nation's capital, and around the country. These similarities were extermination, concentration camps, chemical warfare, terrorism, propaganda, forced labor, and diseases. Interestingly enough, Hitler and the Nazi's were influenced by how America was already working towards exterminating black people. How American Racism Influenced Hitler "History teaches, but has no pupils," the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote. That line comes to mind when I… www.newyorker.com How the Nazis Were Inspired by Jim Crow In 1935, Nazi Germany passed two radically discriminatory pieces of legislation: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law… www.history.com It is worth noting that black people were exterminated in the Holocaust under Hitler as well. Some were sterilized and put in concentration camps. Their children were also sterilized. Extermination: After slavery, America had no use for black people. They were no longer the source of free labor and many white elitists believed that there were going to be many financial consequences of blacks being freed. Extermination was put in place. After the Civil War, former slaves in Natchez, Mississippi were rounded up and placed into concentration camps, in which 10,000–20,000 black people died. White elitists knew they could not possibly kill off all black people so they came up with another idea. This idea was to send black people back to Africa, under a movement called colonization. The idea eventually failed, so they decided to create eugenics, which was a movement created to exterminate blacks discretely. Eugenics targeted the body of black women through forced sterilizations and surgeries made on their body without their consent. Below are quotes from key members of the Eugenics movement. "Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics" -Frederick Osborn, Former Head of the American Eugenics Society Translation, the extermination of blacks will be under a secret name that is not called eugenics. Due to the global attention on the holocaust, the eugenics movement in America needed a more subtle name. They did not want to be accused of population control so they decided to pick a name without the word "control" in it. In 1942, the American Birth Control League was changed to Planned Parenthood. The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, said, "The eugenic and civilization of birth control is becoming apparent to the enlightened and the intelligent …the campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical in ideal with the aim of eugenics" In other words, the goal of birth control is to exterminate black people. She also once said, "I consider that the world and almost our civilization, for the next 25 years will depend upon simple, cheap, safe contraceptive to be used in poverty stricken slums, jungles, and among the most ignorant people. Even this will not be efficient, because I believe that now, immediately there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them" These next three quotes are from the eugenicist, Gunnar Myrda, in 1944. He wrote a book called An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, that discussed how America should exterminate black people. "The only way possible of decreasing negro population is by means of controlling fertility" (pg 170) "All White Americans agree that, if the Negro is to be eliminated, he must be eliminated slowly, so as not to hurt any living individual Negroes."(pg.168) "Birth control facilities could be extended relatively more to Negroes than whites, since Negroes are more concentrated in lower income and education classes since they now know less about modern techniques of birth control" (pg. 176) "They must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to survive"- Eugenicist, Julian S. Huxley 1941 I think the last quote should be emphasized. "They must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it to easy for children to survive" A eugenicist began calling for birth control to be injected into the water supply in urban neighborhoods. This plan was advocated for at a 1969 United Nations meeting. It is alarming and makes you think, considering the fact that for the last few decades, black neighborhoods have contained high rates of toxic chemicals such as lead, which is deadly for babies. Based off the quotes, it should be clear that the eugenics movement in America was created to exterminate black people. Up until the 1970's black women were sterilized against their will. I believe black women should have control over what they decide to do with their body, but at the same time, there should be awareness about racism within family planning organizations. As it will be shown through out the article, nearly every aspect from Jim Crow still exists. That being said, it is safe to say, that an organization created to exterminate blacks, (which still operates in black neighborhoods) is still exterminating black babies and targeting the body of black women in 2018. The racial component within family planning and health care is a possible factor as to why Black women have the highest rates of maternal mortality rates. Black women are 243 % more likely to die from pregnancy related births than white women. Black women in D.C. have the highest rates of maternal mortality rates in America. Maternal mortality rates affect black women all over the country. The studies show that poverty is not the main factor to blame for these high death rates, it is racial discrimination, and the stress that it brings about. College educated black women were three times more likely to lose their infant, than white women with similar educational background. A wealthy black woman with an advanced degree is more likely to die during pregnancy or lose her baby than a poor white woman without a high school diploma.The international black tennis player, Serena Williams, almost died from her pregnancy. She wrote an article about the epidemic of black women not being believed about their pain and how it is killing them. Serena Williams: 'Doctors Aren't Listening' So Black Women Are Dying Serena Williams makes her return to professional tennis on Thursday, six months after suffering terrifying complications… m.huffingtonpost.co.za Doctors Don't Always Believe You When You're a Black Woman A typical visit to the doctor for a black woman can be anything but. Stories earlier this month about Serena Williams'… tonic.vice.com As mentioned earlier, lead poisoning also causes miscarriages and still births. Black women and their babies are more likely to be exposed to lead poisoning, which means, lead poisoning is more likely to kill black babies. Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world national news, entertainment more. In-depth DC, Virginia… www.washingtonpost.com DC Has Highest Maternal Mortality Rate in US; Answers Sought Amid the highest maternal mortality rate in the country, the D.C. Council gave preliminary approval Tuesday to the… www.nbcwashington.com Why America's Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis W hen Simone Landrum felt tired and both nauseated and ravenous at the same time in the spring of 2016, she recognized… Exploring African Americans' High Maternal and Infant Death Rates — Center for American Progress Download the PDF here. Most research on health disparities in maternal and infant mortality focus on African American… www.americanprogress.org What's Killing America's Black Infants? After she lost her son, Tonda Thompson dreamed of a baby in a washing machine. She'd stuffed in dirty clothes and… www.thenation.com Concentration Camps: As soon as Africans arrived in America in 1619 , where they could go or live was controlled. From 1619–1865, black people were forced to be on concentration camps where they did slave labor. In the South, this would continue until the 1960's. Yes the 1960's. As blacks migrated up north, seeking equality and fleeing from terrorism, their locations would be controlled as well. In the early 1900's the mayor of Baltimore said that "Black people should be quarantined in isolated slums." Margaret Sanger advocated for 15–20 million people to be sterilized and put on concentration camps by force. In the 1930's the American Government would officially fund the systematic effort to isolate and concentrate blacks in slums. Congress created the Federal Housing Administration(FHA) in 1934. Between the 1930's through the 1960's, black people across the country were prevented from buying homes and moving out of these slums. This was done through bombings, lynchings, and the policy called "redlining." The Fair Housing Center of Boston, defines redlining as, "the practice of denying or limiting financial services to certain neighborhoods based on racial or ethnic composition without regard to the residents' qualifications or creditworthiness." The FHA would color the black neighborhoods on maps,red, as a way to show that loans should not be given to those neighborhoods. This was done to prevent loans and other resources from going out to the black community. A 1943 brochure from the National Association of Real Estate Board included a list of people to prevent from buying homes in certain neighborhoods. One of the groups of people included on that list was "a colored man of means who was giving his children a college education and thought they were entitled to live among whites." Historically, owning your own home has been the "American Dream." It has been one of the main ways to build wealth in America. During the same time when black families were being denied the opportunity to build wealth for themselves, the FHA handed out 120 billion dollars through social programs to mainly white families in order for them to receive loans for homes. These government handouts helped launch millions of white Americans into the middle class. To this day housing segregation still exists. A 2012 study done by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Urban Institute, reported that real estate agents showed blacks and latinos fewer homes and properties than whites. In D.C. black people are shown 20 percent fewer homes and properties than whites. The study also showed that blacks and latinos were shown homes and properties in only certain neighborhoods. A study from 2018 confirmed this as well. Despite being banned 50 years ago, redlining is still affecting blacks and other minorities. Analysis | Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It's still hurting minorities today. Racial discrimination in mortgage lending in the 1930s shaped the demographic and wealth patterns of American… "M]ost Northern cities are now engaged…in something called urban renewal, which means moving the Negroes out. It means Negro removal, that is what it means."- James Baldwin By 1950, the government sponsored process of urban renewal, tore down and destroyed many black homes and businesses. Many black families were displaced and had to live in the housing projects. D.C. was not exempt from urban renewal. Before the 1950's Southwest, D.C. was home to an affluent black community, where blacks owned their own homes and businesses. The Federal government decided that it had the right to seize property to better the community. These homes and businesses were torn down and thousands upon thousands of blacks residents were displaced. Urban Renewal: The Story of Southwest D.C. Prior to 1950s, Southwest Washington, D.C. was home to a thriving African American community. Many of the District's… whosedowntown.wordpress.com Now that we know that black women and black people are systematically isolated into areas, let's see how they are systematically poisoned in those neighborhoods. Chemical Warfare: Systematically Poisoning Black Women "If you were going to put something in a population to keep them down for generations to come, it would be lead."- Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha Through out the history of public housing it has been very profitable to neglect repairs to the housing. In 1889, WEB Dubois, one of the most influential black sociologists in history, wrote in his book, The Philadelphia Negro, "The Negro finds it extremely difficult to rear children in such an atmosphere and not have them either cringing or impudent." One hundred and twenty nine years later, this "atmosphere" is still harming black children. The less money the landlord has to spend on repairs the more profit the landlord makes. This exploitation is why residents in DC complain of water damage, lack of plumbing, leaks, mold, rats, mice, roaches, and lead poisoning. These toxins are extremely harmful to the brain and body. Lead poisoning permanently removes the gray matter from a child's brain. It also damages a person's executive functions and cognitive abilities, causes impulsivity, reduces IQ, and causes behavior problems. Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha, who was one of the doctors who helped expose the lead poisoning scandal in Flint, Michigan, said, "If you were going to put something in a population to keep them down for generations to come, it would be lead" According to a study done by Lancet Public Health, lead kills 400,000 people a year. Black people, specifically black children, are more likely to be exposed to high levels of lead than white people and white children. To put this into perspective, guns killed 33, 600 people in 2016. Black children are disproportionately being poisoned by a chemical that kills more people than guns. Study: Lead Exposure Linked to 10 Times More Deaths Than Reported Lead Exposure Kills More Than Reported People can become exposed to lead through some industrial jobs. Lead may be… www.usnews.com Scientist said the D.C. Water Crisis of the early 2000's was 20–30 times worse than Flint, Michigan. Virginia Tech Environmental engineer named Marc Edwards, said "People don't realize this — the extent of the problem in D.C. was about 20 to 30 times larger than Flint," "There was more lead poisoning, more exposure of people." Experts: DC Water Crisis worse than Flint WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- More children were harmed in D.C. by lead in their water than Flint. Forty-two thousand children… Before Flint: D.C.'s drinking water crisis was even worse | WTOP EDITOR'S NOTE: This is part 1 of a special report examining D.C.'s drinking water. WASHINGTON - Lessons learned the hard… wtop.com Lead poisoning and the water crisis in DC still exists today. Washington's worst case of lead poisoning in decades happened in a home sanctioned by housing… Another morning in the motel room, and there were more appointments to attend to. Today it wouldn't be the blood tests,… Numerous children have been poisoned by lead in homes approved by D.C. housing inspectors August 15 Chanelle Mattocks remembers everything about that night in 2014, when lead poisoned her son. She was giving… Perspective | 'You're stupid': A boy who has lead poisoning is taunted. Who is responsible? Chanelle Mattocks asked what any mother would in her situation: "Who do we hold responsible?" Before her family moved… A must watch clip of the living conditions in the public housing project called, Montana Terrace in N.E., D.C. below. Mold Reports Released at Montana Terrace! Organizing Efforts Continue After additional follow up by Justice First, as well as a Washington City Paper article, What Life is Like - Still - in… www.justicefirst.org What Life Is Like-Still-In D.C.'s Public Housing Darrow Montgomery D.C.'s public housing residents have a common refrain when they talk about the conditions of their… www.washingtoncitypaper.com Video: Poison, Infestation and Depression at Montana Terrace: Interviews with Public Housing… Video interviews with two public housing residents in Northeast Washington, D.C. (Ward 5) reveal shocking, outrageous… In this same neighborhood, and the adjacent neighborhood, Langdon Park, there is a toxic waste facility that is releasing deadly chemicals into the air. This neighborhood has been complaining for the last 30 years, but city officials have refuse to get it shut down. The Genocide Happening In Northeast D.C. If a nation forces an ethnic group of people in a set location and then releases deadly chemicals into that same… Chemical Warfare continued: The U.S. government knowingly allowed the deadly drug called Crack Cocaine to flood predominantly impoverished black neighborhoods. Crack cocaine destroyed the lives,minds, and neighborhoods of black people. It still goes on today. It was confirmed that people affiliated with the CIA were involved in bringing drugs to the black neighborhoods of America. The U.S. government was aware of this. Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward LOS ANGELES -- With the public in the U.S. and Latin America becoming increasingly skeptical of the war on drugs, key… www.huffingtonpost.com D.C. was not exempt from the Crack Epidemic Crack's Rapid Rise Brought Chaos To D.C. | WAMU For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets, the city was plagued by levels… wamu.org Vera Sharav, a Holocaust survivor, wrote about the modern day Black genocide in the following article on Robert Kennedy Jr.'s website: World Mercury Project. https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/vaccine-program-betrayal-public-trust-institutional-corruption-part-6-7/ The report above showed that black boys who received a vaccine before 36 month were at increased risk for autism, but this data was destroyed by doctors and kept hidden from the public. Terrorism : The American government's armed forces systematically terrorize Black women in low-income neighborhoods. In the 1960's the civil rights movement and black rebellions against genocide in America scared the establishment. These rebellions were similar to the uprisings that Jewish people carried out in their ghettos against the Nazi's. The FBI launched a program to terrorize black american's who chose to speak up against their mistreatment and change their communities. This program was called Cointelpro. Many Black women like Angela Davis and Assata Shakur were harassed, beaten, or shot for speaking up. For those interested in how the FBI specifically declared a war against black Americans who stood up against injustice and still do today, click the link below. FBI War against Black Americans After the 1963 March on Washington and King's most famous speech, FBI Assistant Director William Sullivan, head of the… In the 90's in D.C., an activist turned Mayor, Marion Barry, was set up on drug charges. Despite what the media has said about him, his drug use is no where nearly as bad politicians who bomb countries. The country just honored one the other day, George H.W Bush. As soon as black people in D.C. began getting political power, the Federal Government started stripping away authority from the local government in D.C. Marion Barry was removed of his authority over every important agency in D.C. He unfortunately passed away a few years ago, but he was one of the last politicians in D.C. that truly stood for black women and black people, hence the name "Mayor for Life" In 1971 the Nixon administration declared another terrorist operation against black people, called the War on Drugs. A member from the administration admitted that the War on Drugs, was simply an excuse to wage a War against the black community and to destroy the civil rights movement. Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People An eye-opening remark from a former aide to President Richard Nixon pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of… The very first SWAT team in American history, was used in L.A. against the civil rights organization, the Black Panthers. In D.C. there is a paramilitary operation called "Jump Outs". It is when police officers in plain clothes and unmarked cars go into black neighborhoods and "jump-out" with guns drawn on and harass black citizens. This is terrorism. To read more about "jump-outs" in DC read below. If You Thought Stop-And-Frisk Was Bad, You Should Know About Jump-Outs Iman Hadieh was standing outside a bar smoking with some new friends on the evening of October 6 when the police cars… 'Jump-Outs,' the 'Stop-and-Frisk' of D.C. Two years ago, Cedric Harper and his friends stopped at a convenience store in southeast Washington, D.C., after their… These armed forces systematically abuse and terrorize black women. Say Her Name: Recognizing Police Brutality Against Black Women "Put a copy of your driver's license, registration, and insurance on the dashboard." That's what I tell my guy friends… www.aclu.org Opinion | Police violence affects women of color just as much as men. Why don't we hear about it? "I am here today to acknowledge and represent the African American girls whose stories don't make the front page of… Video of the arrest of a Black Grandmother. Besides police terrorism, Black women are victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and sex trafficking at a higher rate than other races of women, except Native American women. About Sexual Assault Sexual assault is an act of forcing another person into sexual activity against his or her will. Sexual assault takes… victimsofcrime.org Black women and black girls are being snatched up off the street, never to be seen again. There are over 64,000 black women missing in America. 64,000 Missing Women in America All Have One Important Thing in Common The news: This is Phoenix Coldon. On Dec. 18, 2011, she her 1998 Chevy Blazer out of her family driveway in St. Louis… mic.com Sexual assault alters a person response to stress, causing some victims to hyper-react when faced with situations that may seem small to others. The chemical change from the trauma, makes it hard for some survivors to calm down during stressful situations, making it seem as if the person is being dramatic or overreacting. This is PTSD. Sexual assault and posttraumatic stress disorder: A review of the biological, psychological and… Sexual assault occurs with alarming frequency in Canada. The prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in… www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Long term effects of sexual assault: headaches; asthma attacks; rapid breathing leading to panic at- tacks; cardiovascular problems; muscle tension, hypertension; inflammation of the circulatory system; higher cholesterol levels; increased epinephrine and cortisol levels; adrenal fatigue; insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes; heartburn; gastrointestinal distress; irritable bowel syndrome; erectile dysfunction; irregular, painful, or absent menstruation; increased menopausal hot flashes; and reduction in sexual libido. Black Women are literally suffering in silence but carrying weight similar to some war-veterans with PTSD. Many black women are living in war-torn communities, that were created by racist policies. Like any war -torn community there will be trauma. PTSD affects a child's ability to learn and do well in school. If a child living in the inner city is not able to do well in school, they will not be able to get out of their environment. Poor academic performance also makes them at risk for crime and violence. US inner-city children suffer 'war zone' trauma While many people expect post-traumatic stress disorder to be an issue for returning soldiers, it is far more pervasive… PTSD in the Inner City Needs a Name That Respects Its Victims Editor's note: The Root has not been able to independently confirm that any researchers coined the term "hood disease."… OPINION: The PTSD epidemic in our most violent neighborhoods It has become a media cliche to compare neighborhoods plagued by gun violence to war zones. The combat metaphors range… america.aljazeera.com Not only do black women have to deal with the trauma they go through daily, but they also have to deal with family trauma they didn't even experience. Dr. Rachel Yehuda, professor of psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, did research on epigenetics and intergenerational trauma . After testing the genes of the descendants of holocaust survivors, she found out that they were at higher risk for PTSD than the general population. Her research shows that trauma can be inherited and passed down. This means that the trauma for slavery and jim crow has been passed down from generation to generation amongst black americans. Racial terrorism such as lynchings and bombings are only a little over 50 years ago. Many black women alive today grew up during that time period. Trauma From Slavery Can Actually Be Passed Down Through Your Genes Last night, as social media sites were filled with status updates and tweets regarding the Warriors' heroic game-seven… www.teenvogue.com Propaganda : Hitler used propaganda as a way to make Germany complicit with exterminating Jewish people. Propaganda has been used against black women since slavery and it still continues to this day. Stereotypes in movies, TV shows, and music helps perpetuate the dehumanization of black women. Dehumanization allows justification for the abuse of black women. Stereotypes of Black American Women Related to Sexuality and Motherhood Abstract Intersectionality theorists and researchers suggest the importance of examining unique stereotypes associated… http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-46640-004 Essence: Black women still poorly depicted in media Pop quiz: When you think of media representations of black women what comes to mind? Recognize any of these labels… Forced Labor: Black women who have have been victims of mass incarceration, are also ordered to do labor, while in prison. The 'Modern Day Slavery' Of Prison Labor Really Does Have A Link To Slavery A group of inmates in U.S. prisons has called for a strike to protest mistreatment, bad facilities and the lack of fair… Prison labour is a billion-dollar industry, with uncertain returns for inmates SILICON VALLEY mavens seldom stumble into San Quentin, a notorious Californian prison. But when Chris Redlitz, a venture… Prisons for Profit: Incarceration for Sale With budget cuts looming, several states are considering privatizing prisons as a way to cut costs. In 2011, legislators… www.americanbar.org Starvation: Up until the 1960's job discrimination was more blatant under the Wagner Act, (continued until the 1970's) and Jim Crow. Job discrimination still continues to this day. A study done by Northwestern University, Harvard University, and the Institute of Research in Norway confirmed this. The study contained 42,708 applicants with equal qualifications, credentials, and resumes. The results were that despite equal qualifications, white people were 36% more likely than blacks to receive call backs from jobs. Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn't Declined in 25 Years Executive Summary Many white Americans believe that race is no longer central to one's opportunities in life, and that… hbr.org Study: anti-black hiring discrimination is as prevalent today as it was in 1989 Americans are as racist as they were back in the late 1980s - at least in one crucial area: jobs. A new study, by… www.vox.com D.C. has one of the highest rates of black unemployment in the country. D.C.'s Black Unemployment Rate Remains Among Highest In The Country | WAMU In 14 states and D.C., the African American unemployment rate is at least twice the white employment rate. D.C. has the… Another way the government systematically kept black people in poverty was breaking up black families. The government began breaking up black families during slavery. They did this by selling black male slaves away from their wives and children.This continued for over 300 years. Fast forward the 1960's, black women were getting married at a higher rate than white women. Policies by the government then forced many black men out of their homes. Due to Jim Crow, black men were subjected to mainly low paying menial jobs, or outright job discrimination, which kept them locked in poverty. The new welfare policy gave aid out to black families only if the father was not present in the house. Faced with a decision of staying with their kids and letting them starve, or leaving and allowing them to have food on the table, many decided to leave so their children could have food to eat. This created a cycle of fatherlessness in the black community. Today over 70 percent of black children are raised in a household with out their father. As we know, it's not just welfare that helped destroy the black family. The War on Drugs/Mass Incarceration has separated millions of black families as well. Video below titled , "Elders explain how the welfare system forced black fathers out of their household" Around the time the American government was destroying the black community with the War on Drugs and mass incarceration, President Ronald Reagan, kicked off a campaign to starve off black women and kill black children. A million children lost reduced-price school lunches, 600,000 people lost Medicaid, and a million lost food stamps. More than 250 community health centers were closed. Between 1980 and 1991, 309 rural hospitals and 294 urban hospitals were closed. It is worth noting that nearly one million Native Americans lost access to Indian Health Service care. Reagan cut funding for public service jobs and job training, almost got rid of federally funded legal services for the poor, and cut the antipoverty Community Development Block Grant program. One of Reagan's biggest reduction in funding was public housing, in which the funding was cut in half his first year. This helped lead to an increase in homeless people, which by the late 1980's had grown to 600,000 on any given night — and 1.2 million throughout the course of a year. Many were Vietnam veterans, children and laid-off workers. Here's what happened when Reagan went after healthcare programs. It's not good. The latest cuts have a less-than-stellar precedent timeline.com From 1996–2010 the number of welfare recipients dropped from 12.3 million to 4.4 million. The historical and current acts of oppression by the American government, is why black people are more likely to suffer from hunger and poverty. New Data Shows African-Americans Disproportionately Affected by Hunger, Poverty Washington, D.C. - African-Americans continue to suffer disproportionately high rates of hunger and poverty compared to… www.bread.org D.C. has had some of the highest rates of child hunger in the country. School's Out -- Food's Out, Too? WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital may be a boom town, but a shocking number of children around the city still struggle… Death and Diseases "In fact, for blacks, racism is a primary factor. Even when you control for economics, blacks have poorer health. That is, middle-class blacks suffer poorer health than middle-class whites. In fact, middle-class whites live ten years longer than middle-class blacks, while poor whites live only three years longer than poor blacks. Furthermore, the stress of living in a discriminatory society accounts for the racial health disparities." Inequality in Health Care Is Killing African Americans The health disparities that exist between blacks and whites are significant. The root of these problems is racism and… www.americanbar.or In conclusion it is a fact that the U.S. government has funded the extermination and forced sterilization of black women. Between extermination, concentration camps, chemical warfare, terrorism, starvation, diseases, and forced labor, black women indeed live in similar conditions as Jewish people did in Nazi Germany. What are the solutions? Within the last year and a half Congressman Bobby Scott proposed the bill HR1242, that would give out grants to black communities in America. The bill was created to celebrate the fact that black Americans have been in America for 400 years. Donald Trump signed this bill. Clearly black women are under attack from so many directions, but its possible to make a dent in those issues. The system is killing black women Stress and trauma imposed by the system, is killing black women. What we can do now: Due to this state of emergency, black women should have free unlimited access, to any spa in D.C. Black women need and deserve access to stress free environments. Black women are dying from their disproportionate exposure to chronic stress and trauma. Spa's help alleviate stress and relax the mind and body. The bill HR 1242 could help make this happen. To ensure that black women have free unlimited access to day spas in D.C., please click on and sign the petition below. Thanks! Black Women in DC Should Have Free Unlimited Access to Day Spas www.change.org Long Term : Petition calling for the immediate end of chemical weapons being used against black women in their neighborhoods. Immediate closings of toxic waste facilities that poison black women. Immediate repairs to neglected homes.

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Since January 2013 I have been able to travel long-term, either abroad or on the road without having to return to the normal working world. During that time, particularly as my blog has grown more popular in recent years, I've gotten questions from readers about how they too can follow in my footsteps to create a life that involves more travel, adventure, or is simply better aligned with their values or interests. Oftentimes, these people seem to be looking for a secret or some little known trick that will allow them to do so as well… Unfortunately, there isn't actually any secret formula, sorry about that! But I do have a series of straight forward, simple steps (yes, five of them!) that you can take in order to free yourself from the 9-to-5 and do more of you what daydream of doing if you weren't stuck at work. For many people in America, debt has become a fact of life. Something that they accumulate as they go to college, start their own independent lives, or just due to the consumerist mentality and keeping up with the Joneses. Your options in life become infinitely smaller when you are stuck in debt, there is no way around that. It becomes difficult, if not impossible, to save money, leave your job, start a business, go travel, or whatever. If it gets real bad, you'll be trading many hours of your life each week at work to simply service the debt you've built (compare your true hourly wage with your interest payments). Priority #1 for everybody should be to destroy their debt. If you're struggling in this regard, I would encourage you to pick up a book dedicated to this topic, like Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey (or any one of these other great financial literacy books). If you can't afford to buy a cheap book which will change your life and your relationship with money, then I guess it is time to beg, borrow, or steal it. Well, maybe not that last one, but you get the idea… We've still got local libraries, right? That same effort you put into paying off your debt should be then redirected into building up your savings or travel fund. Don't get too caught up in how much money you make per year and whether you think it is insufficient (we all think we need more, me too)… But focus on increasing the percentage of your income that you can save each month… Can you sock away 10% of your income? 25%? How about 50%? This is a double-edged sword because not only does it make you reduce your monthly living expenses (and in turn embrace frugality and minimalism), but it also allows you to put more dollars in the bank, which translate directly into more time to travel, especially when you've become accustomed to living on a budget. Every dollar you spend now is one dollar less you can travel. Those dollars add up into weeks or months of less travel, especially if you take advantage of geoarbitrage and travel to countries where the dollar goes much, much further. My rule of thumb is to plan on having at least $1,200 per month in order to travel on a budget (more on that later). An easy trap to fall into during this save money process is the idea that you should "just save a little more" or "next year will be perfect". It's not unheard of for someone to fall forever into this line of thinking (I did too, until I lost my job) and you will find that it gets put off one year to the next until it never happens. Yes, more money is always nice, but eventually you will have to make the leap. Set yourself a hard deadline once you reach a reasonable savings goal. Tell friends, family, or even strangers online, about what you're going to do and when you're going to do. For most, this is the scariest step. Even if it's something you think you really want, it can be difficult to step into the unknown and take this risk. You'll find that the worst part is just ripping off the band-aid. Alright, now we're getting to the fun part. First of all, long-term travel is not like a vacation. As we all know, vacations are expensive. That's where you cram in everything you can within a one or two-week stretch of time to reward yourself for the other 50 weeks a year you spend working. Long-term travel is actually fairly affordable. In most cases, a life of full-time travel can be had for less money than you are spending at home and living your current lifestyle. Totally crazy, yes, but I spend way less money traveling full-time than I did while living in Washington D.C. and working full-time. If you embraced frugality and minimalism during the saving process (Step 2), you also know that you can get by with much less without really missing the things you gave up to save money… You're not suffering, in other words, and many are often happier living frugally rather than living maxed out in debt, and one bad move away from sending the house of cards crumbling. This entire effect is even more pronounced while traveling. Getting started with travel hacking can also allow you to get international flights for free or even nights at luxury hotels for free. There are plenty of other tactics that long-term travelers use in order to travel cheap, ranging from VanLife (in my case, truck camping), to house sitting, and beyond. I even wrote a book called Big Travel, Small Budget about the best tactics to save big bucks and live well (so no, none of that sleeping on the couches of strangers). At the most basic level, long-term travel will only last as long as you have savings in the bank. Therefore, using the expenses talked about above, if you have $7,200 in savings then you can expect to travel for approximately six months. Then you'd be forced to head back home and find a job. Let's say you start earning $300 per month while traveling, that means that you could travel for 8 months on the same amount of savings… A whole two extra months. If you can bump it up to $600 per month, then you've doubled the length of your trip to an entire year. I created an interactive side hustle calculator which allows you to input your own savings amount, estimated expenses, and side hustle income to provide you with a clearer picture of its power. You could always look for simple jobs upon arriving somewhere, whether it is working in a hostel, a bar, seasonal or temp work, or whatever, which is a strategy that travelers have used for generations. But in the modern, Internet-based world, it is much easier to find these side hustle jobs online, which can be done from anywhere in the world and which travel with you as you hop from destination to destination (so you don't have to search for something else every time you move). Freelance writing has been the main side hustle I employ (read more about how I get paid to travel the world), but there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different kinds of freelance jobs which can be performed online. You don't need any special degrees or qualifications online either (and no one cares about your socioeconomic background, where you went to school, your age, gender, sexual identity, or anything else), you just need to be able to deliver what the client needs and at a price that is within their budget. The long-term goal in this step is to not only reach the point where your side hustle earnings cover your expenses completely (and thus no longer needing to touch your savings to travel), but to reach the point where you're actually earning above and beyond your travel expenses and can increase your savings, invest, or plan for the future. This is a step that allows you to go forever, or simply have a security blanket for when you stop traveling, settle down, and look for a "real job". So, yeah, sorry, there is no secret formula or shortcut to do this without putting in the hard work. The steps are all very straight forward and simple, but they aren't always easy to achieve. For most people the process of going from Step 1 to Step 5 can take years. Some people may take years to get past Step 1. Steps 1, 3, and 5 tend to be the most difficult for most people. If you can do Step 1, Step 2 is basically more of the same. Step 4 also isn't really that hard in practice, most just think it's impossible until they actually get out there doing it and start traveling. That whole "you can do anything you want" idea is pretty real for most everyone reading this, it's just that we can't do everything we want. You could drive a luxury car, you could travel the world, you could own a big house, you could go out to bars and restaurants every night with friends, etc… Any one of those things is fairly easily achievable for most in America, but trying to have ALL of them is where things often go wrong, and we end up with none of them. But I'm convinced that most of us have the means to pursue a life of travel if we really want it. Don't spread yourself thin, focus with laser-like intensity on what is important to you. If you want to quit your job to travel, then make it a priority. Save everything you can, sell everything you don't need, stop wasting money on things that don't matter to you or get you closer to your goal, stop buying things and start investing in self-education so you can earn more money as a side hustle which you can continue while you travel the world. Each of the above steps are pretty simple, but it's up to you to actually make them a priority and make it happen. Did you enjoy this article about how to travel long-term? Take a second to share it on Pinterest, Facebook, or Twitter. The secret formula is that there is no secret formula. I totally agree with you. Thanks for sharing this awesome inspiring article. Destroying debt is not easy though. Like you have mentioned it became a fact not only in the US but all over the world. While it's still doable, it's not something that everyone can do. Travelling the world has been a dream for me. You have inspired me to get back and think about this part of my life.

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Regardless the size of your ice chest or cooler and whether it is stainless steel or plastic, you want to clean your cooler after each use, and especially for storing over long periods. Cleaning extends the life and removes smells so that you will not have mold and mildew growth. Killing existing mold and mildew will be discussed since it is disgusting! You will not need all of these products unless you have stuck on food and drinks and/or mold. So let's start with the easiest one first—soap and water. Always clean your cooler the very first time you use it. It has factory chemicals on it and dust. It could have bugs. Yuck! Use a kitchen liquid dish detergent that you like for hand-washing your dishes. Do not cut open a dishwasher soap pod—it is too strong. Wipe down the inside and outside with a bucket of soapy water. Rinse it or use the garden hose. Keep the lid open and dry with a fabric towel. Paper towels do not absorb and tear off inside nooks, crannies, hinges, and latches so that they will not have a snug fit. Keep the drain open while you do this and leave it open until you are ready for your next trip. After each trip, always let the water drain and leave the water drain open so mildew or mold doesn't grow from the wet environment. If your cooler has odors inside, put in pure clear vinegar and wipe with a cloth towel, rinse, towel dry, and air dry. The vinegar smell goes away shortly. If the bad odors did not go away, rub lemons cut in half on the inside. Be sure to remove the seeds; they will indeed scratch your cooler material. Rinse, towel dry, and allow it to air dry. If you have sunshine, that is the best place to let your cooler dry and air out for a short time. If you like the smell of vanilla or any other flavors used for cooking, such as cherry or walnut, don't use it because the smell will linger. If you use it, rinse off, towel dry, and leave the lid open all day and night. This part is always hated. When you clean the cooler the first time you get it home after a trip, these problems will need elbow grease and will take some time to remove. First, rinse the cooler with liquid dishwashing soap and warm water in a bucket. Use your sponge or rag to get rid of all the stuck-on food and drinks. Use the small toothbrush to remove gunk from the lid fitting and gasket. Rinse the ice chest but do not dry it. Sprinkle the entire new box of baking soda inside the wet cooler. Use fresh soda because when it sits on the shelf in the kitchen for years, it loses its strength and abilities to work when cleaning. Let the baking soda sit up for a half hour. Rinse the cooler with a rag to remove all the baking soda and rinse until the water is clear. Dry with a cloth towel. Bleach is disinfecting and the best thing for removing lingering odors and mold and mildew. Put 1/2 cup of color safe bleach into a 1-gallon bucket or pail. With a cloth towel or sponge, wipe down the inside and outside of the cooler. Rinse with water in a bucket or use the garden hose until the bleach odor is gone. Towel dry and sit out in the sun with the lid open. You can take a small tooth brush to clean out the water drain. As mentioned above, if chemical smells bother you, use the vanilla/flavoring trick soaking a towel with a few drops letting the rag or towel stay inside the cooler overnight and remove the next morning.

One vision, two looms, and an impressive journey. The company you know today as Jaipur Living, Inc. started with the vision of N.K Chaudhary (the founder) connecting people around the world with the talents of the artisans that surrounded him in India. Through the coming years two looms would turn to twenty, then two hundred and beyond due to the attention gained from the artistry and quality Jaipur has become synonymous with today. Resting on sustainability and a vertically integrated business model, Jaipur has grown to one of the world's leading rug manufacturers. Overseeing every step in the supply chain from product conception, design, production and customer delivery, the Jaipur business model offers consistencies in quality and cost.

Way of an Idea Drawing Games Online » Physics Games, Puzzle Games » Way of an Idea Rate Way of an Idea: Way of an Idea Instructions Way of an Idea is controlled by using the mouse. Click and drag to draw. Click the play button in the upper-left corner of the screen (or press spacebar) to start action. Saucer Panic Scribble Line Ball ritris Chopix Adventures Boulder Basher 2 Boulder Basher 3 Way of an Idea Walkthrough Sir Isaac Newton supposedly came up with his gravity after being hit on the head with an apple (or so the story goes). Way of an Idea is a puzzle game based upon this myth. This drawing game features simple graphics, straightforward controls, and nineteen levels. The objective of Way of an Idea is to cause the apple to fall on the scientist's head (who looks more like Albert Einstein than Sir Isaac Newton). Once the goal is completed, you will be able to advance to the next level of this drawing game. If the apple falls of of the stage, you will be forced to retry the level and you will be given a time penalty. Your progress is automatically saved after each level, so you can continue from where you left off the next time that you play. You can also try to score better times on previously beaten levels if you wish to do so. Way of an Idea is controlled by using the mouse or a drawing tablet. I personally prefer to use a tablet since it allows finer control. Click and drag to draw lines of chalk. When you are ready to start gravity and begin action, click the play button in the upper-left corner of the screen or press the spacebar. You cannot draw while the stage is playing. If you need to modify your drawing, make sure that the game is paused, then select the eraser at the bottom o the screen. To draw again, select chalk. It is important to use your chalk sparingly in this drawing game. Your chalk is limited, so using short lines instead of broad strokes will be necessary to complete some levels. Erasing lines restores your chalk. You should also keep in mind that the timer is running when you are drawing and when the stage is in action. The timer does not reset should you choose to reset the level. Way of an Idea is an addictive drawing game that will appeal to fans of physics games with simple controls. The apple falling on Newton's head may be a myth, but Way of an Idea is a very real and entertaining puzzle game! Valo is a straightforward drawing game that is great for casual gamers. Valo features simple graphics, soothing music, and gameplay... Boulder Basher 3 SURVIVAL Boulder Basher 3 SURVIVAL is a drawing game where you'll have to defend your city until the bitter end. It... Drawing games have been mostly associated with physics and puzzle solving. They are fun BUT They are NOT as action... Way of an Idea 2 Way of an Idea 2 is the sequel to the physics game, Way of an Idea. This drawing game features... Sugar - it can be called many different names. We have sucrose, lactose, dextrose, fructose, glucose, and what have you.... Paths 2 Paths 2 is the sequel to the drawing game, Paths. This puzzle game features improved graphics, a more user-friendly interface,...

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Personal trainers don't choose their career to become salespeople, but—like it or not—they must be involved in the sales process in order to foster a successful personal training program. Personal training is an essential part of most health club's non-dues revenue stream, but can be challenging for personal trainers who don't consider themselves sales personnel. Learn how to change the perception of sales through the importance of relationship building. Explore how to generate qualified leads and referrals. Review easy sales techniques and scripts to share with your trainers.

Toxic algae bloom swarms Utah Lake, seeps into… NewsAgriculture Toxic algae bloom swarms Utah Lake, seeps into farm supply SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — A huge toxic algae bloom in Utah has closed one of the largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi River, sickening more than 100 people and leaving farmers scrambling for clean water for days during the hottest part of the year. The bacteria commonly known as blue-green algae has spread rapidly to cover almost all of 150-square-mile Utah Lake, turning the water bright, anti-freeze green with a pea soup texture and leaving scummy foam along the shore. "It smells like something is rotting," said Jason Garrett, water quality director for the Utah County Health Department. "We don't have an idea of how long this event will last." Toxic algae is a problem around the country. An enormous outbreak in Florida is now fouling beaches on the Atlantic coast, and a 2014 outbreak at Lake Erie left more than 400,000 people in the Toledo area without tap water for two days. Utah Lake doesn't provide drinking water, but its closure has caused big problems for people who use the lake for swimming, fishing and other activities and for farmers with thirsty crops. Utah Poison Control says it has fielded hundreds of calls related to the bloom, including some 130 involving people who have reported vomiting, diarrhea, headache and rashes. The contamination spread to the Jordan River, which supplies irrigation water to dozens of farmers around Salt Lake City, about 45 miles north of the lake. The problem occurred amid days of triple-digit temperatures as growers prepare for farmers markets and try to nurture crops such as corn and fruit trees at key points in their development. "We've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this crop, maxed out every dollar we have," said Luke Petersen, who farms about 100 acres of tomatoes, summer squash and other produce in Riverton. "We're real worried about it." Farmers got some relief on Friday after the state lifted a week-long advisory against using the water for food production. Officials cited new test results that show lower-than-feared levels of dangerous toxins produced by the bacteria. Meanwhile, the Bonneville School of Sailing has had to cancel more than a dozen groups since the lake was closed. "This will be a real hit," said co-owner Todd Frye. He loves the mountain-rimmed lake and has worked to change the decades-old perception that it's murky and polluted. New efforts to clean out bottom-feeding carp are improving the water quality, but he worries the algae bloom will be a blow to its image. The lake is largely fed by treated wastewater as well as agricultural runoff, said Erica Gaddis, assistant director for the Utah Division of Water Quality. Longstanding drought conditions have made the water especially low and stagnant. Combine that with hot summer weather and Utah Lake became a perfect petri dish for the cyanobacteria. There are chemical and biological treatments for the problem, but using them on such a large bloom would be unprecedented and possibly harmful, Gaddis said. For now, authorities are waiting for the bloom to run its course and clear, hopefully aided by a drop in temperatures or a storm that could stir up the water and reduce stagnation. To stave off new blooms in coming years, the state is looking to reduce the levels of toxic algae-feeding phosphorous and nitrogen in wastewater that's pumped into the lake. That could be difficult, however, because cities served by those plants include some of the fastest-growing in the nation. "We've been loading the Utah Lake in one form or another for 150 years, and it's catching up with us," Gaddis said. Follow Lindsay Whitehurst on Twitter: —https://twitter.com/lwhitehurst Photos: Aftermath of tsunami in Bay Area, West Coast Clear skies expected for the week in Chico, Oroville California approves new water-wasting rules as conservation falls below Newsom's target

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Mars Bill () Although only in his early twenties, Mariano Sibilia's music is so accomplished it really belies his age. The main reason for that is music is not just a hobby, but something he has taken incredibly serious all his life. Proof of this comes from the fact that he is a graduate of electronic music from Conservatorio Statale Di Musica D. Cimarosa, a fine music academy that taught all he knows about production. His studies finished in 2015 following a study for the academy about Computer Music and the evolution of digital language from the second half of the last century to today. It means he is now well equipped to make his mark on the real world. But Mariano's journey started more than a decade ago as a big fan of hip hop, and so it was that as soon as he got decks he taught himself the art of scratching whilst soaking up the sounds and styles of Grandmaster Flash, DJ Shadow and other luminaries. Before long he started buying up bits of hardware to do just that. Increasingly obsessed with house and techno from pioneers like Derrick May, Robert Hood and Adam Beyer, Mariano assumed the Mars Bill alias and has not looked back since. His sounds, which are firmly rooted rollers with well sculpted synths and dramatic arrangements that really sweep you up, have come on esteemed modern labels like Suara, Intacto, Octopus and Loose Records, and have always turned the heads of the most important DJs in the techno field, from Carl Cox to Richie Hawtin. A hugely prolific producer who has put out tens of EPs, 2015 brought massive new releases on Intec and Break New Soil amongst others. As a remixer, too, he is in high demand by people who want to have his singular sound imposed on their own work and to date he has remixed people like Pascal Nuzzo and Hollen for labels like Unrilis and Trapez. Because of this, people have also been ever keener to hear Mars Bill in the club environment and so it is that he has laid down his compelling, groove driven sets of techno funk all around Europe. Never failing to get 'floors in a sweat and to tease and teach them in equal measure, Mariano knows his world inside out and back to front, and it is for that reason that he has managed to stand head and holders above the competition at each and every stage. He has performed in recent years alongside the likes of Chris Liebing, Tommy Four Seven, Monoloc, Len Faki, The Advent, Magda, Barem, Luigi Madonna, Dj Rush, Paul Ritch, Ilario Alicante. For the last 3 years He has also featured on the bill at Flussi media arts festival with acts including Robert Lippok, A Guy Called Gerald and Lauren Halo. If you are already in Amsterdam on Tuesday 18th of October 2016, then take your opportunity to see Mars Bill playing in Sugarfactory at the Famous "Techno Tuesday Amsterdam", winning concept of the prestigious Golden Gnome Award for "Best Club Night 2016". This night Techno Tuesday is presenting: 10 Year Anniversary of Loose Records & Unrilis. Performing artists: Roberto Capuano, Audiomatiques, Aaron Bessemer, Dexon, Mars Bill. The night will be filmed by DanceTrippin.tv Bass Collectors (NL) Buried Secrets Cap (US) Colin Benders (NL) Deetail (DE) Divine (NL) Evelien van den Broek (NL) Lawrence Le Doux (BE) Lefto (BE) Redondo (NL) Theo Kottis (GB) Yves Eaux (NL)

As Girl Scouts we know that ordinary girls can do extraordinary things and a world of good. Unfortunately girls are not usually represented this way in popular TV shows and movies that many of our girls watch. Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis – who has starred in roles that break down gender boundaries – is aiming at changing the face of girls in media by bringing awareness to the lack of female protagonists in TV and movies as well show the lack of diversity in the female roles that do exist. According to Davis, their message is getting across to the entertainment industry. In a survey of people in the entertainment business 68% revealed that the message of the GDIGM has influenced more than 2 of their projects; 41% reported that more than 4 of their projects have been effected by the message of the GDIGM. While we certainly wish these numbers were at 100%, this is still great news for the future of the portrayal of girls and women in the media. To further her mission, Geena Davis partnered up with Girl Scouts in 2011 to create the Healthy MEdia Commission. Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls will bring together media leaders and subject related experts to create a blueprint of recommendations for promoting positive media images. The Commission brings together media leaders and subject related experts to create a blueprint of recommendations for promoting positive media images. It is no surprise that Davis supported Girl Scouts in this effort because as a girl, she herself was a Girl Scout and is still extremely dedicated to our mission. Recently some of the GSCM Staff had the opportunity to hear Davis speak at the Network 2000's 20th Annual Women of Excellence Luncheon. During her speech, Davis pointed out that Girl Scouts has already "written the book" so to speak, on how to create women of courage, character and confidence. After she had left the podium one of our staff members was was able to speak with her (and her body guard, who by the way was also a Girl Scout!) and get an autograph which she gladly provided. Just when you thought she couldn't get any cooler! We would like to say thank you to Geena Davis for all that she is doing to inspire and ensure opportunity for girls now and as they become women. You rock!

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Tooth decay continues to remain the single most common chronic disease of childhood. Tooth decay is an infectious disease that can be transmitted from one person to another; it can be transmitted from mother to child. Untreated tooth decay can substantially affect the overall health and well being of children. This infection can cause severe pain, swelling and compromise a child's ability to thrive and learn. Incredibly, tooth decay is a preventable disease. Oral health is an integral part of overall health. Therefore, oral health care should be part of general medical care. The earlier a child is screened and treated for dental disease, the better the chance of preventing further disease, and the less costly the treatment. Infants and young children are routinely seen by primary care providers for health visits but are not always able to routinely visit a dentist. Last summer, a legislative study commission made up of New Hampshire legislators and concerned community stakeholders was formed to study how to prevent dental disease among New Hampshire's children. The commission heard more than 30 hours of testimony from 28 state and national experts in the area of children's health. — In New Hampshire, it is not uncommon for children between the ages of 1 and 3 who have been identified with severe dental problems to require extensive and expensive care by a specialist in an operating room. — In New Hampshire, between the years 2007-2008, there were approximately 1,000 children requiring hospitalization for dental needs, and more than $1.3 million in state general funds expended for hospital operating room charges alone for dental care. — Health care providers who have frequent contact with infants and children play a critical role in supporting the prevention of dental disease. In fact, children between the ages of 1 to 3 years have better access to medical care than to dental care. — While very few children under 3 years old see a dentist, these children visit a medical provider up to 12 times during the first three years of life. The New Hampshire Center for Public Policy's January Dental Services and work force in New Hampshire report concludes that there are approximately 757 practicing dentists, of which 24 are pediatric dentists. Partnering with the medical community will help to ensure vulnerable young children have access to primary prevention Implementation of this program would be a significant step toward reducing the severe health and financial burden caused by preventable dental disease in New Hampshire's most vulnerable young population. A very conservative cost/benefit study completed by the sponsor indicates the implementation of this program would be cost neutral in the first year and begin to save money in the second year. In any event, it is simply not acceptable to continue to allow 500 children a year to require operating room treatment to remove most or all of their teeth due to rampant decay. Not only is this a serious risk to these children, it also represents a poor use of scarce resources. Currently, 35 other states, including every New England state except New Hampshire, reimburses primary care providers for oral health prevention services for those moderate- to high-risk children enrolled in Medicaid. These efforts have shown to reduce the need for corrective dental care on children by 39 percent and have shown to save money. This legislation was passed by the N.H. House of Representatives on March 24 with broad bipartisan support and no debate. Both Republicans and Democrats recognize the serious problem of dental disease in children and that prevention is more cost effective than treatment. The bill now goes to the Senate for consideration and hopefully approval and then to the governor for his consideration. We must now take the final steps to put this important policy recommendation into action. Rich DiPentima represents Rockingham District 16 (Portsmouth and Newington) in the N.H. House of Representatives.

Singer-Songwriter; Part of the Duo Simon & Garfunkel Jewish Speakers Paul Simon Biography During his distinguished career Paul Simon has been the recipient of many honors and awards including 12 Grammy Awards, three of which ("Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Still Crazy After All These Years" and "Graceland") were albums of the year. In 2003 he was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as half of the duo Simon and Garfunkel. He is a member of The Songwriters Hall of Fame, a recipient of their Johnny Mercer Award and is in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. His song "Mrs. Robinson" from the motion picture "The Graduate" was named in the top ten of The American Film Institute's 100 Years 100 Songs. He was a recipient of The Kennedy Center Honors in 2002 and was named as one of Time Magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. In 2007, Mr. Simon was awarded the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Named in honor of the legendary George and Ira Gershwin, this newly created award recognizes the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world's culture, and is given annually to a composer or performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwin's. In 2011 Mr. Simon was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Paul Simon's philanthropic work includes the co-founding of The Children's Health Fund with Dr. Irwin Redlener. The CHF donates and staffs mobile medical vans that bring health care to poor and indigent children in urban and rural locations around the United States. Since it's inception in 1986 it has provided over 3 million doctor/patient visits. In the wake of Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina it was the primary health care source for those communities decimated by the storms. 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Prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for a grisly litany of killings, rapes and torture they say were carried out by Massaquoi and soldiers under his command between 1999 and 2003. Life sentences in Finland mean on average 14 years imprisonment, with prisoners released after a safety review. Court documents contend he held an "extremely senior and influential position" in the RUF, one of the main militias fighting alongside president Charles Taylor's NPFL forces. Finnish law can allow for the prosecution of serious crimes committed abroad. - 'Groundbreaking' trial - In the northern village of Kamatahun Hassala, witnesses say that Massaquoi ordered civilians, including children, to be locked into two buildings which were burnt to the ground. At least seven women were raped and murdered in the same village, while other locals were killed, their bodies cut up and "made into food which Massaquoi also ate," according to the court documents. The 4,000-page evidence dossier further details mass murders and rapes in Lofa county and the capital Monrovia, and accuses Massaquoi of enslavement and using child soldiers. The crimes "deliberately and systematically" violated international humanitarian law, and inflicted "irreparable emotional suffering and damage" on the families of his many victims, prosecutors wrote. News that the court will sit in Liberia has been welcomed in the country whose back-to-back civil wars between 1989 and 2003 left 250,000 people dead and millions displaced. "This is a good step taken by the international community. It is a signal that crimes committed during the civil war will not go unpunished," human rights activist Adama Dempster told AFP in Monrovia. Civitas Maxima, the rights group whose initial investigation into Massaquoi prompted the Finnish police to act, said the "groundbreaking" decision could set "a monumental precedent in the ongoing struggle for accountability for the world's worst atrocities." So far only a handful of people have been convicted for their part in the conflict. Former Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor was imprisoned in 2012 -- but for war crimes committed in neighbouring Sierra Leone, not in his own country. - 'Nothing left behind' - Meanwhile prosecutions are currently underway against alleged warlords Alieu Kosia in Switzerland and Kunti Kamara in France. "I welcome the trial and it's our prayers that the court opens in Liberia," survivor Alexander Fayiah told AFP. Now 42, Fayiah said he was 12 when RUF fighters stormed his village of Foyah in Lofa county, and his mother managed to smuggle him away to safety. "When they left, there was nothing left behind. Houses were burnt, women were raped and kids were taken hostage to become child soldiers," Fayiah said. Efforts to establish a war crimes court in the country have stalled. "The sad news is that those who committed those crimes are the ones who have the political power," Dempster said. Massaquoi insists he was involved in peace negotiations elsewhere in the region at the time of the atrocities. "He denies all of the charges... he wasn't there" Massaquoi's lawyer, Kaarle Gummerus, told AFP. The one-time teacher was allowed to relocate to Finland in return for giving evidence to the UN-led Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2003, set up to examine that country's civil war. Massaquoi received immunity from prosecution over acts committed in Sierra Leone, but not in Liberia. Judges at Pirkanmaa district court expect to return to Finland in May for a further two months of hearings, with a verdict delivered in September. 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Home » Arts and Sciences » Biology » Faculty » Gerardo Camilo, Ph.D. Gerardo Camilo, Ph.D. General Ecology, Ecological Ethics, Biometry, Advanced Biometry Ph.D. in Zoology, Texas Tech University Camilo's research focuses on understanding the role that space has on ecological processes and structures. Most of his work centers around populations and communities of bee pollinators in urban environments. Over half of all the human population already live in cities, and it is expected that by 2050 two out of every three people will live in a city. Understanding how ecosystem services, like the pollination of crops, are affected by the urban environment is of crucial importance. Cities are complex structures comprised of industrial, residential and green spaces of different sizes across a network of roads, sewers, power lines, etc. Furthermore, differences in social, economic and cultural status also affects how people use and alter ecosystem processes in cities. Camilo's work has shown that bees in St. Louis city are responding the many of these parameters. Labs and Facilities There are several research opportunities for students in Camilo's lab. Biodiversity distribution in green public spaces in relation to income inequalities, Ecology of insect-plant interactions in tropical systems and Statistical ecology of vector species. Please contact Camilo via email for more information. Camilo Lab website: https://www.camilobeelab.com/ Publications and Media Placements Bernhardt, P, G. R. Camilo, and P. H. Weston. 2019. Shaken vs. scraped: Floral presentation to pollinator guild in co-blooming Symphionema montanum and Isopogon anemofolius (Proteaceae). The Gardens Bulletin Singapore (In press) Edens-Meier, R., Ren, Z-X., M. Arduser, G. R. Camilo and P. Bernhardt. 2019. Breeding systems and pollination ecology ofUvularia grandiflora Smith (Colchicaceae). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (In Press) Kleinschmidt, L.M., M. E. Kinney, G. R. Camilo, T. Thier, M. Fischer, C. S. Hanley, and L. R. Padilla. 2018. COMPARISON OF PROPOFOL CONSTANT RATE INFUSION AND ISOFLURANE FOR MAINTENANCE OF ANESTHESIA IN SPEKE'S GAZELLE, GAZELLA SPEKEI. Journal of Zoo and Veterinary Medicine 49(3):722-731 Numbere, A.O. and Camilo, G.R. 2018. Structural characteristics, above‐ground biomass and productivity of mangrove forest situated in areas with different levels of pollution in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. African Journal of Ecology 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12519 Camilo, G. R., P. A. Muñiz, M. S. Arduser, and E. M. Spevak. 2018. A checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 90(3):175-188 Edens-Meier, R., M. Arduser, G. R. Camilo and P. Bernhardt. 2018. Comparative pollination ecology between two populations and two varieties of Cypripedium parviflorum (Orchidaceae) in Missouri: Does Size Matter? Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 186(4):544–559, https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boy001 Domic, A. I., P. Bernhardt, R. Edens-Meier, G. R. Camilo and J. A. Capriles. 2017. Pollination ecology of Polylepis tomentella, an Andean anemophilous tree presenting a potential floral fungal infection. International Journal of Plant Sciences DOI:10.1086/692504 Bernhardt, P., R. Edens-Meier, D. Jocson, J. Zweck, Z.-X. Ren, G. R. Camilo, M. Arduser. 2016. Comparative floral ecology of bicolor and concolor morphs of Viola pedata L. (Violaceae) following controlled burns. Journal of Pollination Ecology 19:57-71. Numbere, A. O. and G. R. Camilo. 2016. Mangrove leaf litter decomposition under mangrove forest stands with different levels of pollution in the Niger River Delta, Nigeria. African Journal of Ecology DOI: 10.1111/aje.12335 Numbere, A. O., and Camilo, G. R. 2016. Herbivory along a hydrocarbon pollution gradient in the mangrove (Rhizophora racemosa) of the Niger River Delta, Nigeria. African Journal of Ecology (in press) Wang, P., Numbere, A. O., and Camilo, G. R. 2016. Long-term changes in the mangrove landscape of the Niger river delta, Nigeria. American Journal of Environmental Sciences, 12 (3): 248.259 Burr, A., Shaeg, N. Muñiz, P. A., Camilo, G. R. and Hall, D. H. 2016. Wild Bees in the City: Reimagining Urban Spaces for Pollinator Health. Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development 16:106-131. Hall, D. M., Camilo, G. R. , Tonietto, R. K., et al. 2016. The city as a refuge for insect pollinators: conservation for the city. Conservation Biology DOI:10.1111/cobi.12840 Domic, A. & G. R. Camilo. 2014. Seed germination performance of an Andean wind-pollinated tree: From fruits to populations. Forest Ecology and Management doi:fem/S03781.12714.0011.69 Ren, Z-X., H. Wang, P. Bernhardt, G. R. Camilo, & D-J. Li. 2014. Which food-mimic floral trait and environmental factors influence the fecundity in a rare orchid, Calanthe yaoshanensis? Journal of the Linnean Botanical Society 176, 421-433. DOI:10.1111/boj.12213 Domic, A. I., Mamani, E., & Camilo, G. 2013. Fenología reproductiva de la kewiña (Polylepis tomentella, Rosaceae) en la puna semihúmeda de Chuquisaca (Bolivia). Ecología en Bolivia, 48:31-45. Domic, A. I, G. R. Camilo & J. M. Capriles. 2013. Small-scale farming and grazing reduce regeneration of Polylepis tomentella (Rosaceae) in the semiarid Andes of Bolivia. Biotropica. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12075 Asa, C. S., Bauman, K. L., Devery, S., Zordan, M., Camilo, G. R., Boutelle, S., & Moresco, A. 2013. Factors associated with uterine endometrial hyperplasia and pyometra in wild canids: implications for fertility. Zoo Biology. DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21069 Brokaw et al. 2012. Response to disturbance. Pp. 201-268 in Brokaw et al., eds. A Caribbean forest tapestry: the multidimensional nature of disturbance and response. Oxford University Press. McDowell et al. 2012. Geographical and ecological setting. Pp. 42-72 268 in Brokaw et al., eds. A Caribbean forest tapestry: the multidimensional nature of disturbance and response. Oxford University Press. Ghebretinsae, A. G., S. A. Graham, G. R. Camilo and J. C. Barber. 2008. Natural infraspecific variation in fatty acid composition of Cuphea (Lythraceae) seed oils. Industrial Crops and Products 27:279-287. Dumonceaux, G. A., J. E. Bauman, and G. R. Camilo. 2006. Evaluation of progesterone levels un feces of captive reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 37:255-261. Camilo, G. R. 2005. Managemen, heterogeneity, and landscape diversity of the Missouri Ozarks. Pp. 161-168 in A. C. Newstad, E. D. Lowenstein & G. Iffrig (eds) Fifty Years of Sustainable Forestry in the Ozarks: A symposium honoring Pioneer Forest. USDA Forest Service, Northcentral Experiment Forest Station General Technical Communication GN-136. Salick, J. et al. 2003, Intellectual imperatives in ethnobotany. 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In Massachusetts, "half of the primary care doctors are not accepting new patients." — John Fleming on Sunday, October 27th, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "State of the Union" GOP Rep. John Fleming says in Massachusetts, half of primary-care doctors aren't seeing new patients By Louis Jacobson on Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 at 3:41 p.m. On CNN, host Candy Crowley moderated a conversation between Obamacare supporter Ezekiel Emanuel (center) and Rep. John Fleming, R-La., who opposes the law. As the fallout from President Barack Obama's health care law takes center stage, some critics are raising concerns about how much access Americans will have to insurance and physicians in the future. On CNN's State of the Union, Rep. John Fleming, R-La., a physician and a critic of Obamacare, and Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy specialist at the University of Pennsylvania who supports the law, faced off. At one point, they debated the situation in Massachusetts, where a law similar to Obamacare was signed in 2006. As evidence that the federal law won't work, Fleming said that in Massachusetts, "half of the primary care doctors are not accepting new patients." His point was that even if you have insurance, you won't necessarily be able to see a doctor. We decided to check Fleming's statistic to see if it's correct. The statistic comes from an annual survey by the Massachusetts Medical Society, a professional association founded in 1781 that, among other things, publishes the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. The 2013 edition of the society's "Patient Access to Care" survey -- which was based on 1,137 phone interviews with Massachusetts physicians -- found that 51 percent of family medicine practitioners in the state were accepting new patients. As Fleming indicated, almost exactly half are not. We will point out a few caveats, none of which seriously undercut Fleming's claim. • While "family medicine" is certainly one type of "primary care doctor," there are others. One type, internal medicine doctors, had a lower percentage (45 percent) accepting new patients, but another, pediatricians, had a higher percentage (70 percent). • There is substantial regional variation even within Massachusetts. The largest county in the state, Middlesex, had more doctors accepting new patients, at rates five to eight percentage points higher than the state as a whole. Other counties, such as Suffolk, had rates well below the state average. • Your likelihood of being accepted as a new patient depends heavily on what kind of insurance you have. Family medicine doctors accept 90 percent of new Medicare patients and 70 percent of patients with MassHealth, the state's vehicle for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program. The 2013 survey did not look at new-patient acceptance rates for those who had private insurance or for patients with Commonwealth Care or Commonwealth Choice, the programs created under the 2006 law to insure those who previously had no insurance. However, data from the society's 2011 survey does show a danger sign for those worried that doctors will be unwilling to take patients newly insured by the national health care law. The 2011 survey found that family medicine physicians were significantly less likely to accept new patients with Commonwealth Care or Commonwealth Choice -- 56 percent and 44 percent, respectively -- than they were new Medicare and Medicaid patients. Equally striking, the survey found, the percentage of family doctors taking new patients with any type of insurance has fallen since 2007 from 70 percent to 51 percent. That said, determining whether Massachusetts is out of line on any of these benchmarks is tricky, since comparable data for other states is virtually nonexistent, and the available national data is calculated differently and is several years old. Our ruling Fleming said that in Massachusetts, "half of the primary care doctors are not accepting new patients." That number is supported by a credible annual survey of Massachusetts doctors. While this doesn't necessarily mean the same thing will happen on the national level, the statistic is solid. We rate it True. 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Q: Why do I get Invalid UpdateExpression: Syntax error when using Appsync & DynamoDB? I am new to AppSync and DynamoDB, sorry if this question is basic. I have an AppSync Resolver for this schema: type Profile { name: String! location: String! } input ProfileInput { name: String! location: String! } type Mutation { createProfile(profileInput: ProfileInput!): Profile! @aws_cognito_user_pools @aws_api_key } The resolvers are: Request { "version" : "2017-02-28", "operation" : "UpdateItem", "key" : { "name" : $util.dynamodb.toDynamoDBJson($ctx.identity.username), "attribute": $util.dynamodb.toDynamoDBJson("info") }, "update" : { "expression" : "SET #p :da", "expressionNames" : { "#p" : "data" }, "expressionValues" : { ":da" : $util.dynamodb.toDynamoDBJson($ctx.args.profileInput) } } } Response $util.toJson($ctx.result) The Request I am sending to Appsync : mutation CreateProfileMutation { createProfile(profileInput: {location: "Updated Location", name: "Updated Username"}) { location name } } But Dynamodb is throwing this error: { "data": null, "errors": [ { "path": [ "createProfile" ], "data": null, "errorType": "DynamoDB:DynamoDbException", "errorInfo": null, "locations": [ { "line": 12, "column": 3, "sourceName": null } ], "message": "Invalid UpdateExpression: Syntax error; token: \":da\", near: \"#p :da\" (Service: DynamoDb, Status Code: 400, Request ID: some id, Extended Request ID: null)" } ] } The transformed template is: { "version" : "2017-02-28", "operation" : "UpdateItem", "key" : { "name" : {"S":"user#1"}, "attribute": {"S":"info"} }, "update" : { "expression" : "SET #p :da", "expressionNames" : { "#p" : "data" }, "expressionValues" : { ":da" : {"M":{"name":{"S":"Updated Username"},"location":{"S":"Updated Location"}}} } } } It looks like a syntax error, but I couldn't figure out what the error is. Any help is appreciated. A: The SET action in your update expression is missing the = operand. It should be "expression" : "SET #p = :da" instead of "expression" : "SET #p :da".

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VinEco to expand retailing network three times this year VinEco, the agriculture arm of VinGroup, expects to expand its distribution network three times to more than 3,500 supermarkets and convenient stores in 2018, said Nguyen Thi Nguyet from VinEco. VinEco Agricultural Investment, Development and Productions LLC., an emerging producer of clean farming produces in Vietnam, has been selling its products across 80 outlets of retail chain VinMart and more than 800 VinMart+ convenient stores all over the country. Its products are also available at online retailer adayroi.com. Since early 2015, the company has been at the frontline of Vietnam's hi-tech, large-scale, certified agricultural production, with focus on clean, standardised crops using technology from Israel, Japan and other developed countries. It has developed large-scale farms, covering a total area of more than 3,000 hectares, in Ha Nam, Vinh Phuc, HCM City and more, and established partnership with about 1,000 agricultural cooperatives and agribusinesses in 23 cities and provinces. The company is advancing towards exporting to foreign markets like Japan, Singapore and the EU.

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules. // Copyright (C) 2001-2015 the original author or authors. // // This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or // modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public // License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either // version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. // // This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU // Lesser General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public // License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software // Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.filters; import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse; import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue; import org.junit.Before; import org.junit.Test; import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.FilterSet; import nl.jqno.equalsverifier.EqualsVerifier; /** Tests SuppressElementFilter */ public class FilterSetTest { private CSVFilter filter; @Before public void setUp() { filter = new CSVFilter(""); } @Test public void testEmptyChain() { assertFalse("0", filter.accept(Integer.valueOf(0))); } @Test public void testOneFilter() { filter.addFilter(new IntMatchFilter(0)); assertTrue("0", filter.accept(Integer.valueOf(0))); assertFalse("1", filter.accept(Integer.valueOf(1))); } @Test public void testMultipleFilter() { filter.addFilter(new IntMatchFilter(0)); filter.addFilter(new IntRangeFilter(0, 2)); assertTrue("0", filter.accept(Integer.valueOf(0))); assertTrue("1", filter.accept(Integer.valueOf(1))); filter.addFilter(new IntRangeFilter(3, 4)); assertTrue("0 is in [3,4]", filter.accept(Integer.valueOf(0))); } @Test public void testEqualsAndHashCode() { EqualsVerifier.forClass(FilterSet.class).usingGetClass().verify(); } @Test public void testGetFilters() { filter.addFilter(new IntMatchFilter(0)); assertTrue("size is the same", filter.getFilters().size() == 1); } @Test public void testToString() { filter.addFilter(new IntMatchFilter(0)); assertTrue("toString works", filter.toString() != null); } @Test public void testGetFilters2() { FilterSet filterSet = new FilterSet(); filterSet.addFilter(new SeverityMatchFilter()); assertTrue("size is the same", filterSet.getFilters().size() == 1); } @Test public void testToString2() { FilterSet filterSet = new FilterSet(); filterSet.addFilter(new SeverityMatchFilter()); assertTrue("size is the same", filterSet.toString() != null); } }

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Other Sooners All Sooners Lincoln Log: Entire Oklahoma Offense Must Play Clean, Not Just the O-Line Lincoln Riley stressed the need for everyone to play better, but he's relishing winning the close battles in the meantime. Ryan Chapman NORMAN — The No. 6-ranked Oklahoma Sooners hit the road this week looking for revenge. Lincoln Riley has been bested two years in a row by Chris Klieman's Kansas State Wildcats, and the Sooners will need to break that trend to escape Manhattan 5-0. But to emerge victorious, the Sooners will have to fix their offensive woes, as their scoring has steadily declined against FBS competition this season. During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Riley reiterated that the offensive problems are widespread, but that OU is close to putting things together on the field. Riley Saw Improvement Along Offensive Line in Second Half Oklahoma's offensive line has taken a large chunk of the blame for the underwhelming start to the season, especially after their performance against the West Virginia Mountaineers. OU only averaged 2.0 yards per rush against West Virginia, and surrendered four sacks, but Riley said the offensive line improved in the second half after Wanya Morris entered the game at left tackle. "Other than two penalties down in the red zone, other than that, we played a lot better on the offensive line in the second half," Riley said. "They gave us some opportunities in the run game. "I think, kind of like the whole offense, they were much better in the second half. We gotta play a little bit cleaner, especially when we get down in the red zone, because now we only have four drives, and so you got to take advantage of those opportunities." While the Sooners have to play better up front to get the offense moving consistently, Riley also credited the Mountaineer defense line for causing so many of their problems on Saturday. "I thought we played very well up front against Nebraska," Riley said. "We weren't quite as clean the other night. Some of it's things schematically we can do better. Some of it's we're playing against the No. 4 defense in the country that's a pretty damn good on the front. "So we were just slightly off there in the first half, but much improved in the second half. And I feel very confident that we'll build on that." OU Not Merely Surviving Close Battles In their three contests against legitimate competition, the Oklahoma Sooners have eked out three one-possession victories. But while many may say the Sooners are holding on for dear life, Riley likes to take a different approach. Oklahoma Early Enrollees: Why 'Old Soul' DL Derrick LeBlanc 'Can See Past Tomorrow' Big 12 Conference Teases 2023 Schedule Release WATCH: Oklahoma Basketball Star Taylor Robertson Meets Golden State's Stephen Curry "Surviving vs. go take them and win them and I feel like we've gone and taken them and won them," Riley said. "It's great to be in all these different situations. You can't simulate those. I think some of the guts and toughness that our football team has showed early in the season is, I think, a cause for a lot of our excitement as a staff and the team's excitement that if we can continue to improve and get to the level of play that we feel like we're capable of, you combine that with the toughness and resiliency of being in the tough moments, typically that makes for a good football team." While there is plenty of frustration about the Sooners being unable to separate, Oklahoma is still 4-0, a far cry from their 1-2 start to the 2020 season. The competitor in Riley is loving the close games so far this season, however. "Those are fun," he said. "Yeah, I want to play better and score more points and hold them to less points and separate from people, those are fun too, but as a competitor, if you don't love those moments when you're driving and you've got to stop them, you get the ball at your own 8-yard line, and you've got to go the length of the field, you've got to hit a game-winning field (goal), that is — The heck with what's happened the rest of the game, that's what you do it for. "I love every minute of it. They've been fun. I'm excited and it's been fun because out team has responded in such a positive way and I think embraced those moments and I think we'll need to continue to do that." Kennedy Brooks' Time Will Come Eyebrows were raised when running back Kennedy Brooks only got five touches agains the Mountaineers, but Riley said his lack of touches was merely a side effect of another game with fewer possessions. "(Eric Gray) got going a little bit and we ended up riding Eric a little bit more," Riley said. "When you have two backs, that's kind of the way it goes. We've had games through the years, again, where we've had two backs where one guy gets hot here, one guy kind of gets hot there, you end up staying with one. "His opportunities will come. He's a big part of our offense. He knows that." Brooks' patient running style is something that Riley said can help the offense continue to churn forward while the offensive line continues to work on playing cleaner, but here have also been plenty of other guys who have gotten less touches merely due to the limited number of possessions against both Nebraska and West Virginia. "We want to get the ball in all these guys' hands," Riley said. "He's certainly one of them, and a guy that can absolutely steady us." Want to join the discussion? Click here to become a member of the AllSooners message board community today! Sign up for your premium membership to AllSooners.com today, and get access to the entire Fan Nation premium network! Follow AllSooners on Twitter to stay up to date on all the latest OU news. Deputy Editor, AllSooners Follow _RyanChapman By John E. Hoover Jan 31, 2023 7:00 AM EST By John E. Hoover Jan 30, 2023 9:23 PM EST By Ryan Chapman Jan 30, 2023 8:40 PM EST OU Softball: Oklahoma Leads Softball America Preseason All-America Teams With 10 Selections By Ryan Chapman Jan 30, 2023 12:30 PM EST Oklahoma Early Enrollees: Why RB Kalib Hicks Gives OU a 'Tremendous Amount of Ability' Sooners in the NFL: Championship Sunday By Josh Callaway Jan 29, 2023 10:27 PM EST Oklahoma Early Enrollees: Why Ashton Sanders Expects to Make More Strides This Spring Iowa State Outlasts Oklahoma in Taylor Robertson's Record-Breaking Day By Ross Lovelace Jan 28, 2023 6:27 PM EST

Q: Muticast - does total order imply causal order? I''m learning about multicast in class but I'm struggling to see the difference between causal and total order. Assuming that there are no failures, does total order also mean that causal ordering is satisified? Ive tried to come up with counterexamples but haven't been able to think of any. A: The key to understanding ordering is to use definitions of Total and Causal orders. Total order means that we take any two events/message, then we can aways say which one came before the other. In total order, if A comes before B, it does not imply that B depends on A in any way. But if there are two events X&Y and Y depends on X (X happened before Y); then in (correct) total order X will come before Y. Here is an example; let's say we own a bank. We have a banking system which transfers money from one account to another. Also, our system is single threaded and writes all events to a text file. And we have just two events: add (put) money to account and take money from an account. To keep things simple, a money transfer is just two events: take and put. And we always will start with "take" to be on a safe side. So if Alice has 100$ and wants to transfer 10$ to Bob; then we will have two events: * *take 10$ from Alice's account *put 10$ to Bob's account Also, we will assume, both operations are manual, executed by humans. So two transfer may happen at the same time: Alice gives 10$ to Bob and Alex gives 15$ to Sam. e,g, two different tellers work with Alice and Alex in different branches of our bank. With each transfer being two events, and humans executing those events, and having our system single threaded, we may end up with this log of events: * *take 10$ from Alice *take 15$ from Alex *put 15$ to Sam *put 10$ to Bob This is our total order. If we take any two events, we can see in the total order which one comes before the other. At the same time, just because one event is before the other, it does not mean that those events are casually related; while one operator did took 10$ from Alice before another operator took 15$ from Alex - this does not mean that these events are related. We could have them in other sequence and that would be ok. At the same time, take/put pairs are causally related; so every take myst came before corresponding put in the total order for the correctness. Back to your question: "Assuming that there are no failures, does total order also mean that causal ordering is satisfied?" - yes, as I said in the beginning, if Y depends on X, then X will come in the total order before the Y. All other events can come in any order.

Suit seeks class-action status for Thai workers in Hawaii YAKIMA, Wash. » A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court here by three migrant farmworkers from Thailand against two local growers and a Los Angeles-based labor contractor, alleging that the workers were underpaid and housed in substandard conditions. In the suit filed on Monday, some of the workers said they were forced to go into personal debt to get a job in the United States. They said they were promised work that didn't materialize. Several alleged violations of state and federal law were outlined in the suit. It seeks class action status for all Thai workers brought to the Yakima Valley in 2004 and Hawaii in 2004-2005 to harvest fruit under the federal H-2A guest-worker program. The suit was filed by lawyers for Ratthapon Yapunya, Somkhit Nasee and Wisit Kampilo. The trio was hired to work at Valley Fruit Orchards of Wapato and Green Acre Farms of Harrah in 2004 and 2005. Both growers used the services of Global Horizons Manpower of Los Angeles. The company and its president, Mordechai Orian, were also named. There were about 170 Thai workers in the Yakima Valley in 2004 and about 90 in 2005. Calls by the Yakima Herald-Republic to Orian, John Verbrugge of Valley Fruit and Kevin Boyle of Green Acre Farms were not returned. All three companies are facing a different suit filed last summer by local Hispanic workers, who allege they were illegally and intentionally displaced with workers from Thailand. In 2005, the state revoked Global Horizons' farm-labor contractor license for failing to comply with a settlement agreement reached after various violations of state wage, insurance and safe-housing laws. The company has said it would appeal that decision. In May, the U.S. Department of Labor ordered Global Horizons to pay nearly $300,000 in fines and back wages for allegedly deceiving and underpaying 88 Thai workers hired to harvest onions and pineapples in Hawaii. Monday's suit states that Global Horizons authorized one of its agents in Thailand, a company called AACO International Recruiting Ltd., to find workers for the H-2A jobs. H-2A is the name of the temporary visa given to workers after employers have shown they cannot find U.S. workers for the job. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 131 foreign workers for Green Acre Farms and 62 for Valley Fruit. At the time of their recruitment and actual hire, the Thai workers said they were misled about wages and work periods. According to the suit, the workers incurred costs ranging from $10,000 to $17,000 in various fees and travel expenses to obtain the jobs. They went into debt if they didn't have the money, the suit said. E-mail Business Dept.

Skwaylker definitely is one of the big boys of Spring Creek Basin. Still looking for a love! Alkali sacaton and grama grass. What more could a wild pony want during the gloriously golden days of Colorado autumn? Happy birthday to my mom, Nancy! It's a pretty amazing one – the big 7-0! I'm so grateful for my mom (and dad, too!), for all she (they) has/have done and do for me and my brother, and the people in their community. Most of all, of course, I'm glad for the gift of horses! Sweet Mariah glows at the setting of the sun on another perfectly glorious fall day in Spring Creek Basin. Do we need another reason to fight for them? This is a good place to note that the Onaqui herd in Utah needs our help. This herd, like Spring Creek Basin, Sand Wash Basin and Little Book Cliffs in Colorado, is beloved of many, many people. BLM is proposing a roundup there to remove as many as 235 horses from this herd to the low end of AML (appropriate management level) of just 121 horses. That would be devastating to the herd, which is made up of at least four distinct groups. It also would undermine the success of the PZP program ongoing with volunteers and local BLM employees. Fertility control projects need to be given the chance to be successful – as it is in the Onaqui herd – as it is in Colorado where used. Wild Horses of America Foundation – http://wildhorses.org/ – has information on its website to help you craft a comment letter to BLM. Please personalize your comments and be respectful. Remember that BLM *IS* currently working with volunteers for this herd, and their work needs to continue in an atmosphere of respect and collaboration. Does Gaia ever look anything other than completely glamorous?

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Hardy's MMA trainer let slip that Hardy will embody and turn into an "8'5 Beast." Well that speculation has now seemed to be backed by artist Michael Frandsen. Who has released some Venom concept art to his social media, which depicts a sculpted Venom in all gray with his trademark razor sharp teeth and long tongue. Frandsen also credits Marvel Studios. The interesting tidbit to this, is Michael Frandsen's webpage has him working on a secret project, due out in 2018… This doesn't necessarily mean these are concept images for 'Venom.' But the images look pretty comic book accurate and would be cool to see a finished product. Take a look below: Also a video from the set of 'Venom,' shows what appears to be a "Possessed" Eddie Brock. Something seems to be taking control of Brock in the video. He slams a card door and seems to be getting pulled around by something controlling him. 'Venom' is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. Set to hit theaters: October 5, 2018 Related Topics:Actioncomic book moviesFantasysci-fiSet PhotosSonyTom HardyVenom 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Rockets Past $500 Million Worldwide 'Mortal Engines' Teaser Trailer (2017) Brandon started Coastal House Media, formerly, BCactionMR.com in 2012, with the intent of publishing news he found exciting about upcoming and current events in the world of comic book, action and sci-fi movies. A year later, "BC" became a Verified Creator (Paid Writer) for Movie Pilot, a large fan site, dedicated to all things pop culture. [2013-2018] After Movie Pilot closed its doors, Brandon decided he wanted to give others the opportunity to continue writing and sharing their passion and excitement for entertainment news. We now have evolved into an ever-growing community of bloggers, writers and gamers who love to share our opinions with the world. We cover everything from pop culture, indie, horror, movies, gaming and streaming, to the most recent film trailers to hit the internet. Coastal House Media is dedicated to J.S.W. Thank you for planting the seed all those years ago. RIP Brother Prey For Survival | Paramount + Debuts Official Trailer For Upcoming Original Series ' Wolf Pack' 'The Last of Us' Review | An Intense, Emotional Journey With Such An Immersive Narrative Mickey 17 | Teaser | Warner Bros. Pictures James Gunn's DCU lineup has been revealed. Gunn says his new direction for the DCU will be an eight to ten year process of films and animation, that will all tie in together. Even using the same voice actors for animation in the live-action versions of the characters. "One of our strategies is that we take our diamond characters — Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman– and we use that to help prop up other characters that people don't know. Like what happened with the Guardians (of the Galaxy) in some way. Like taking teams like The Authority, which is I know is just as spectacular idea for a film that is completely different take on superheroes. Because it's really connected to Superman. It's about to use those well-known properties to help lead into lesser known properties." "We're going to promise that everything from our first project forward is going to be unified. But we've gotten very lucky for the next four projects. I will say here that Flash is probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made." Creature Commandos — will be an animated tv series: "Animation will lead into live action and back into animation. It's a way to tell stories that are gigantic and huge without spending $50M an episode." Says Gunn. Waller — Will be an HBO Max Live-Action Series Suicide Squad, Viola Davis [Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures] Superman Legacy — Will be the official start of James Gunn's DCU. "It's not an origins story, it focuses on Superman's balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. He's the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way, he's kindness in a world that thinks of kindness as old fashioned." July 11, 2025. Lanterns — HBO Max live action series. "Our vision for this is True Detective. It's terrestrial-based, it's got two of our favorite Green Lanterns –Hal Jordan and John Stewart…it plays a really big role in the main story that we're telling across our film and Television. This is a very important show for us." The Authority — "There's great wildstorm characters that were popular for a long-time and we're incorporating them into the DCU," Paradise Lost — HBO Max live action series. "It's going to be a Games of Thrones-ish story about Themyscira, the home of the Amazons and the birthplace of Wonder Woman. This drama is really about the political intrigue behind the society of all women. How did that come about? What's the beautiful truths and the ugly truths behind all of that and what's the scheming like between all the power players in that society?" The series will take place before the birth of Diana The Brave and the Bold — This story will be Gunn's Batman outside of Matt Reeves story. "who is a little son of a bitch assassin, murderer who Batman takes on, who is Batman's actual son that he doesn't know exists for the first 8-10 years of his life….it's a strange father and son story about the two of them and based on Grant Morrison's run of the Batman." Booster Gold — HBO Max TV series is about a loser from the future, who uses future technology to come back to today, and pretend to be a superhero. "Imposter syndrome as a superhero," Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow "In our series we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant, versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off Krypton, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life, and then came to Earth when she was a young girl. She's much more hardcore, she's not exactly the Supergirl we're use to seeing." Swamp Thing: — Will be a dark horror take on the character, that will tie in to the rest of the DCU https://coastalhousemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DVZU4MbrM7sQ4yQu.mp4 Richard Schertzer The 2010s proved to be the age of the comic-book movies and I'm not just talking about the Avengers movies, although they certainly changed the game for superhero movies, today I will be discussing are two of the most divided comic-book films of the 2010s and they are Captain Marvel and Joker or better yet, why 'Joker' proves to be a much better film than 'Captain Marvel'. I will start with what makes the 'Joker' movie better than Captain Marvel. For those that have not seen the 'Joker' movie, major spoilers ahead. Although, if you haven't seen it by now, shame on you. It made over a billion dollars at the box office and became Joaquin Phoenix's most successful film. Joker 2019 [Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures] But anyway, the joker is about a struggling stand up comedian named Arthur Fleck who is constantly bullied and disregarded by society. Fleck lives with his mother Penny working as a party clown until he is fired from his job for bringing a gun into a children's hospital. Afterwards, Fleck is beaten by three businessmen on a train. Fleck draws his gun and kills all three men, beginning his dark descent as one of the greatest comic book villains of all time. Now, let's talk about Captain Marvel. Yeah I know, but it's still part of the essay. Captain Marvel is about a young US Fighter Pilot named Carol Danvers who is the victim of a terrible crash that gives her immeasurable powers after a Kree causes her plane engine to explode. And I'm only saying this not because I remember exactly what happened but because I'm reading that from Wikipedia. Now, before I break down anymore differences, let me break down how both of these movies are similar. Both movies address a character that is looking for more purpose in life. I understand that that seems like a very broad explanation but that is the case in these films. Both characters have something or a series of traumatic events occur in their lives, both characters go up against a powerful group. In the Joker, Arthur Fleck goes up against the Waynes and in Captain Marvel Carol Danvers goes up against the Kree, both characters find out who they truly are: It's revealed in Joker that Fleck was adopted and abused as a child and in Captain Marvel Danvers figures out that she was captured by the Kree after she gained her powers and lost her memory and after discovering their true selves, they decide to use their newfound persona for either evil or for good. Now the reason audiences loved the Joker movie could be surrounded in the fact that the filmmakers brought light to a comic book villain that was never shown in a film until now, while Captain Marvel was divided amongst fans because in my opinion it seemed more like a filler in between avengers infinity war and endgame. And that brings me to my first point. Unlike Captain Marvel, Joker was designed to be a standalone film and not be part of a cinematic universe, despite the fact that a sequel is possible. But anyway, one of the reasons that makes the Joker movie so much better than Captain Marvel is the fact that it was meant to be a standalone film, which makes it unique. Captain Marvel on the other side of the Marvel spectrum is a movie within a collection of movies, which means that if it wants to really stand out among the comic book film genre, it needs to do something new that hasn't been seen before and I don't want to use these guys as a source, but rotten tomatoes consensus sounds like Captain Marvel just recycles old material. Captain Marvel [Credit: Marvel Studios] The consensus reads: "Packed with action, humor, and visual thrills, Captain Marvel introduces the MCU's latest hero with an origin story that makes effective use of the franchise's signature formula". Did you guys hear that last part? It makes effective use of the franchise's signature formula. It never said that Captain Marvel adds anything new in the Marvel Pantheon, it just makes effective use of an already done-before formula. Joker's consensus reads: "Joker gives its infamous central character a chillingly plausible origin story that serves as a brilliant showcase for its star — and a dark evolution for comics-inspired cinema". The consensus says that it is an evolution for the comic book film genre….and it is. It changed the game for comic book films and it did it with simplicity. It didn't need to use extended CGI battles and epic fight scenes and that's what made it so special. It was a departure from other superhero or villain films that rely on special effects to draw a crowd and that is what brings me to my second point as to what makes Joker better than Captain Marvel. Joker is grounded in reality. Joker doesn't reference any other superheroes with the exception of young Bruce Wayne, because it's a film that attempts to tell a story about a mentally ill man that has been ignored, abused and disregarded by society and critics have been taken aback by the results. Many liberal critics are triggered by the fact that director Todd Phillips is shedding a light on a white male character that becomes a supervillain and ends up killing many people in the future. In fact, it's so stirring for moviegoers that people have claimed it would incite violence or more mass shootings…and it didn't. With that logic you could say the same thing about Tom Hardy's Venom or Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool, but I won't get into that. Anyway, when you compare the plausibility–and that's what Joker's consensus says. Plausibility.–when you compare it to that of Captain Marvel, you realize that Captain Marvel by comparison is a fairy tale compared to the Joker because in reality you don't get powers from a plane crash, you don't have women fall out of the sky get chased by aliens and later on in the film blast an entire spaceship armada effortlessly. It….does….not….happen. The Joker however is more plausible. It addresses the fact that there are people with mental illness, which is a real thing. It addresses neighborhood poverty, which is a real thing. It addresses the poor protesting the rich, which is a real thing and it addresses people inciting violence which is a real thing. Had Todd Phillips taken a different direction to the origin story, like the Joker falling in a vat of acid, we would be having a very différent conversation because it would be a lot less plausible. In Detective Comics #168 in 1951, and revised in Tim Burton's Batman in 1989, where the Joker, before he became the joker, fell into a vat of acid after a scuffle with Batman, giving him a white complexion, red scarred lips, green hair and a frightening cackle and that explanation is so lazy. It doesn't cut deep within the motivations of why this character is the way he is. Captain Marvel's origin is just as implausible, except with aliens, spaceships and devices that allow you to look inside a person's mind. 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« Why Do Banks Feel Discount Window Stigma? | Main | Historical Echoes: Maiden Lane, Where Now Such Waves of Commerce Flow » Just Released: Introducing the Business Leaders Survey Jason Bram and Richard Deitz Today, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York begins releasing its monthly survey of regional business activity, called the Business Leaders Survey. This survey is a close cousin of our Empire State Manufacturing Survey, with some differences. The Business Leaders Survey covers the service sector rather than the manufacturing sector, and its respondents come from New York, northern New Jersey, and southwestern Connecticut, instead of just New York State. This new monthly release will provide another timely regional indicator to help gauge both local and national business cycles, and it will be available well before hard economic data on the region from other sources become available. In this post, we show that data from the survey, which have been collected monthly since 2004, provided some early signals about the most recent recession and recovery, at both the national and regional levels. The January 2014 survey points to continued modest growth in service-sector activity in the region, coupled with increasingly widespread optimism about future conditions. How Does This Survey Compare with the Empire State Manufacturing Survey? The Business Leaders Survey is quite similar to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey. Our panelists include about 100 businesses, with the proportion of respondents in each nonmanufacturing sector reflecting that industry's share of economic activity. Because the Business Leaders Survey is geared toward service-sector firms, the survey questions differ somewhat from those in the Empire State Manufacturing Survey: instead of asking about things such as inventories and unfilled orders, which pertain primarily to companies that produce goods, we ask about wages and the general business climate. However, the gist of the survey is the same: respondents report on how various business indicators have changed recently and how these indicators are expected to change in the next six months. Based on responses to these questions, we compute diffusion indexes—the proportion of respondents reporting that an indicator has increased minus the share of respondents saying it has decreased—that serve as a summary measure of the indicator in question (we treat the business climate index somewhat differently, as explained below). The "headline" index in the Business Leaders Survey is the general business activity index, since this indicator broadly captures whether activity has increased or decreased for firms in the region. The Business Activity Index Tracks the Business Cycle Although we are only now starting to release our results publicly, we have been conducting the survey since 2004. So we have nearly a decade of history to gauge how well some of the survey's indicators have performed. As for tracking regional economic activity, the general business activity index appears to have signaled both the onset of the last downturn and the ensuing recovery, as shown in the chart below. The index began to drop precipitously in late 2007, and by December, it had slipped well below zero—a level generally viewed as the threshold between economic growth and contraction. If the survey had been released during that time, it would have provided some early and valuable intelligence about the region's downturn—which began in January 2008 in New Jersey and two months later in New York State, according to our Indexes of Coincident Economic Indicators. By March 2009, the index had fallen to a grim level of -47. But in April and May of that year, the index rebounded sharply, and by August, it had vaulted into positive territory. This was just three months before New York's economic recovery began (although New Jersey's economy did not recover for another year). Moreover, the drop and subsequent rebound in this headline index also closely coincided with the official start and end of the national recession—indicated by the gray shaded areas in the chart below. Still, we should note that this index does not always accurately predict business cycles. For example, in the second half of 2011, during the debt ceiling crisis, this measure fell below zero for an extended period of time. Again, in November 2012, right after Superstorm Sandy, the index plunged to its lowest level since the recession. The Business Climate Index While most business surveys compute diffusion indexes based on how an indicator has changed, the Business Leaders Survey poses a question which asks respondents to assess the general business climate as being better or worse than usual. This measure provides a read on a different dimension of economic activity: how busy firms are—which yields information about the overall level of activity, rather than how fast activity is growing or contracting. As can be seen in the chart below, this indicator has been trending up, more or less, since the end of the recession. Yet only recently has it indicated that activity is approaching a "normal" level, consistent with an index reading of around zero. By way of comparison, the last time the climate index was above zero was late 2007, just before the recession. This indicator also appears to do well at tracking regional business cycles. When we plot indexes of economic activity for New York and New Jersey against the Business Climate Index, we can see that the level of regional economic activity tends to follow the index. Further, the downturn in the index in late 2007 presaged the downturn in economic activity for these two states, and the business climate index began to turn up shortly before economic activity improved for the region. Supplemental Report on Topical Economic Issues Like the Empire State Manufacturing Survey, the Business Leaders Survey asks supplemental questions on various topics that change each month. These questions will be the same as those asked in the Empire Survey. Beginning this month, we will release a combined report assessing the answers to these questions from respondents to both surveys. The January 2014 survey topic is firms' workforces. The results indicate that more than twice as many survey respondents in both the manufacturing and service sectors plan to expand rather than reduce staffing levels. These balances are considerably more positive than in last January's surveys, though not quite as positive as in the January 2012 surveys. The most widely cited factors behind planned job expansions were high expected sales growth and the need for people with particular skills. January 2014 Report Points to Continued Growth Overall, the January 2014 report points to continued modest growth in service-sector activity for the region, coupled with increasingly strong optimism about future conditions. Looking ahead, this new set of data will give us timely information on whether conditions continue to improve. Jason Bram is a research officer in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Research and Statistics Group. Richard Deitz is an assistant vice president in the Research and Statistics Group.

New York City opened its first new subway station in more than 25 years, 34th Street - Hudson Yards, which is served by the number 7 line. The station, the only line south of 59th Street to provide service west of Ninth Avenue, provides access to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, the High Line elevated park and Hudson River Park. The new station is expected to serve more than 32,000 passengers on weekdays and is designed to handle up to 25,000 people during a peak hour. "With the addition of this brand-new station, New York City's more than 6 million meeting and convention delegates have direct access from the Javits Center to Times Square and beyond, allowing them to experience more of the city during their stays," said Jerry Cito, senior vice president of convention development for NYC & Company, the city's convention bureau.

Campbell Crew: My Dad. Best Friend and Confidant. My Dad. Best Friend and Confidant. One of my best friends and confidant. You are! I enjoy spending time with you. Making Friday night pizza runs or just "going for a ride" in the truck while you ran a bunch of errands are a couple of my memories. Now, you go for a ride with me! I am always able to talk to you about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. I remember how I felt very different when I heard my girlfriends talking about their dads. It was as if they were strangers to them. I knew I was different and I was GLAD I was different. You were not a stranger to me. I talked to you about everything – even what could be classified as "girl stuff". You never acted uncomfortable or awkward – if you had I would not have had the freedom to talk to you about what was most important to me. I knew you cared for me and loved me – and still do. I also knew you would always be honest with me and tell me like it is. Nothing was "sugar-coated". You also would make time for me. When no one else would, you would play a game with me. Yahtzee and Tile Rummy were our favorites. Thank you. Those little things that may have seemed so insignificant at the time – it meant EVERYTHING. Thank you Daddy.

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Every aspect of life is a matter of priorities. We make decisions about what to and what not to do based on what is important to us. Whether it is making time to see friends, go to the gym or deciding what to eat, everything is a decision and the most important thing wins. Many times we may not even be conscious that this is happening but everything in our lives is a compromise and a shuffling of priorities. We can talk about "being busy" or things being "too hard" but what we are really saying is "I have something else that is more important right now". For me this is most evident when it comes to diet and nutrition. For as long as I can remember I have been improving my diet and nutrition. For the past 10 years my diet has been pretty good - it would be considered very healthy by a regular person. For the past 2 years I have been following a more performance focused eating plan and also adding in some cuts here and there to reduce bodyfat. I am considered lean by everyday standards (I am 41 years of age and my bodyfat sits around 17-18%) but I believe I need to be a little leaner in order to improve my fitness performance (gymnastics especially). The challenge for me is it is freaking hard work to get leaner and stay there! I have made a couple of serious cut attempts in the past couple of years but never quite got to where I wanted to be. In the end my conclusion is that I just don't want it enough. I don't want it enough to dig in when it gets hard. I don't want it enough to say no to cheat meals when I am eating out with my family or on vacation. I have decided to "have a life" and eat freely from time to time. Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with this and many people would say this is great, this is how you should be and I agree. But the trade-off to that is I can't be <15% body fat lean. The two things don't work together, it is one or the other. Right now, being "normal" and having a life is more important to me. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it? There is no right answer - just be honest with yourself! Recognize where your real priorities lie and work with that. If we are not honest we set ourselves up for failure - we have unrealistic expectations and then we are unhappy when we fail to meet them. Having realistic expectations that we can and will achieve is a much happier place to live! You can have it all - just not all at once!

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In the wake of America's post - 9/11 "anti-terrorist" policies the old scenario of regime-change in Iran entered a new phase. The media coverage of the 2009 presidential election and especially the election aftermath in Iran, believed by many to be unprecedented in the history of Western media coverage of any presidential election, was clearly in line with color revolution strategies. Predictably, the BBC and VOA played a key role. Soon afterward, the August and September 2011anti-capitalism protests in London and New York provided a good chance once again to test the Western governments' claim of respecting their people's "right-to-protest." 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5 YouTube Ad Tactics to Scale Any Business Brett Curry - OMG Commerce In early February before all live events were cancelled I presented at Social Media Marketing World 2020 in San Diego. My talk covered the latest tactics and strategies we're using right now to scale on YouTube. This is the recording of my presentation at this paid event. Here's a quick look at what I cover in this talk: Could YouTube be your next big thing? 2 Proven Ad formulas for cold traffic Ad formulas for warm traffic What is progressive audience testing and how to use it How to leverage YouTube and Google Display Network together Plus more! Speaker 1: Five YouTube ad tactics to scale any business, so it's all about YouTube and advertising. A bit about Brett and then we'll get this show on the road. Brett is the CEO of OMG Commerce, an e-commerce marketing agency and Google Premier Partner. He started his first marketing agency way back then in 2003 and launched his first search engine marketing campaign in 2004. He's the author of several books including, The Ultimate Guide to Google Shopping. He's also host of the eCommerce Evolution Podcast, highlighting in fact what's new and what's next in e-commerce. Ladies and gentlemen, y'all know what to do. Can you put your hands together and join me for welcoming... Don't do that yet. I want you to hold that fire. Hold it, hold it, hold it. Keep holding it like a spring with tension. Hey, Brett Curry here. Before we dive into today's topic, I want to talk quickly about YouTube ads. People ask me all the time, what makes for a great YouTube ad, and it's true. The ad is the hardest part for getting YouTube to work. Now, I love the campaign structure. I love audience targeting. And I love tinkering with bids and using the smart bid algorithm. And I even liked budget management. I like all that behind the scenes stuff, but I've seen it time and time again where the exact same campaign structure just limps along with a mediocre video. But you get the right video with the right message that resonates with people, and that same campaign structure just takes off, it scales. And so over the last couple years, my team and I, we've been collecting good YouTube ads. We've been watching, we've been paying attention and looking at our own clients, looking at the numbers, finding what are ads that resonate and work on YouTube? And so we started building this little guide, this little guide that we use internally and we started categorizing ads and giving them fun names like the Manifesto and the UGC Mashup and the Have-it-all. And so we started kind of breaking down what elements in these videos make them work. And so I was speaking at a recent event and I just happened to mention that this resource existed and people sort of clamored for it. Everyone was like, "Hey, I want to see the guide, I want to see the resource, I want to see all these successful ads." And so that's what we've done. So we put together this resource kind of first time ever going to share it with a broader audience. It's free. So check it out and get our list of winning YouTube ad formulas with lots of examples. Let this be your inspiration for your next killer YouTube ad. So this is a free resource. We'll link to it in the show notes to this show, but you can also go to omgcommerce.com, click on resources and then guides and it's the YouTube ad templates and guide. Check it out, and I hope it inspires your next killer YouTube ad campaign. And now back to the show. Now, ladies and gentlemen, y'all know what to do. Join me in welcoming the amazing, the admirable Brett Curry. That was awesome. I love the energy and so I want to keep this as high energy, as high impact as possible and also super practical, super useful. So we're going to get practical, we're going to get strategic, we're going to get tactical a little bit and hopefully you'll walk away with the tools, the tips you need to excel with YouTube advertising. So, I want you to put hands because I couldn't really see over here, how many of you are currently not advertising on YouTube? That is a lot of you. Most of you. Okay, how many of you are advertising on YouTube or you're really just getting started? Just dipping your toe in the water, just getting going. Okay... All alright, dude stood up. I like that. How many of you, you're advertising on YouTube, you're doing well and you just want to take it to the next level? Anybody there? Okay. Several of you raised your hands I feel like three times. I don't get that. But you're just excited like, "I'm just going to raise my hands. I'm really excited to be here raise the roof." So, to kind of set the stage, I want to look at how people are interacting with YouTube, how they're using YouTube, and how we use it to influence the shopping journey. So let's dive in just a little bit. So what you're probably asking yourselves is, could YouTube ads be the next big thing for our organization, for our company? And I still talk to so many people. I do a lot of work in the e-commerce space and there's so many e-commerce companies that are advanced with their Facebook advertising and they either haven't done YouTube at all or they've just dabbled in it, which sounds like you guys, right? But YouTube is massive. So why are we not using it? Why is it not the thing now? But I think I've got some theories that we'll talk about. Yeah, cash, absolute budget, but I think also is comfort level and know how for some key areas. I want to hopefully help solve that today so that you can ramp up your YouTube efforts and make it the next big thing for you guys. Now what's interesting, this is my third social media marketing world event in a row. And talking about YouTube ads the whole time, the first year. So I guess maybe I'm not being very successful if more of you aren't advertising. It's the third time I've tried to talk you into advertising on YouTube and the numbers are still low. But what's interesting is that three years ago I was just talking about YouTube remarketing and now we've kind of scaled to all encompassing full funnel YouTube. But this number was 1 billion. So it's global users, but that number, three years ago was 1 billion. It's doubled. The rate of growth on YouTube right now is still astonishing, but what's more important for that coveted demo, 18 to 34, how many of you would say 18 to 34 is a key demo for your product, right? So more people in that demo consume YouTube on mobile alone than on any TV station. Broadcast, cable does not matter. More people in that age group on mobile alone, not counting desktop consumption of YouTube, they're more engaged there than on any TV station. And you've probably seen this stat before, but this is such a key indicator of how people use YouTube, right? It is the number two search engine right behind Google. And so people go to YouTube for those learn, do and buy moments, right? "I want to learn how to fix the lawnmower," right? I have a son, he's about to graduate high school. A couple of years ago I saw he was searching how to ask out girls, right? And the good news is he's got a girlfriend and so YouTube worked. I was a little bit honestly offended that he didn't ask me. I was like, "Hey, do you not think your dad has game?" And apparently he doesn't think that I do and he's actually probably right. But we find what we want to find on YouTube, right? It is the number two search engine. And not only that, it's the number two most trafficked website on the planet, right? Again, second to only Google. So you want to scale your organization, you want to scale your reach, YouTube has scale more than any other platform but it also has these really specific focused niches, right? So I'm not into model trains but this is interesting. So this is a model train channel, almost 25,000 subscribers. Some of their videos have 700,000 views, right? So you want to go really deep on something interesting and something specific, that's available on YouTube as well. So just a couple of quick things about our company to kind of set the stage for what I want to talk about, we do this on a day in and day out basis. So we craft YouTube campaigns, we manage those campaigns for large e-commerce clients. Team of about 38 now and growing. And for agencies our size, we're one of the top spenders on YouTube. So everything I share today is going to based on real campaigns, real data. Stuff we're doing and testing, we've done a lot of things that did not work and we found a lot of things that have worked. And that's we're going to talk about today. Also, and this is more of like for another day, but I want to mention it, we did make the Inc. 5,000 list this last year, but I'm even more excited we made the Inc Best Workplaces. And I'm a huge believer that if you have the right culture internally and you treat your people right and you create and foster this environment of helping each other level up and honest communication and transparency and all these things we believe in, that translates into better business performance as well. So if you want to geek out about team building and things like that, I would love to talk about it. Couple shots of our team, that's us at the Google Chicago offices. In the lower left, that's at our Christmas party. I was wearing Christmas jammies. I don't know why I selected that picture, but it's a fun one and it kind of encompasses who we are as a team. So quick question. Oh man, the clicker didn't work and I had to click it multiple times and that just ruined the greatest reveal in this whole presentation. Okay. Anyway, pretending you didn't see what you just saw, what is the first thing you think of when you think of YouTube? Cat videos, right? Now I just researched this. I Google it because I wanted to know how many people are dog people versus cat people. So dog people, yeah, let's just see if this is true. Cat people? Yeah. But cats rule the internet. So it's like 60% identify as dog people, 11% identify as cat people and the rest of us, I don't know what we identify ourselves as. I like them both just from a distance. So I just want to share a couple of things that are interesting. So 2 million cat videos on YouTube right now and 25 billion views for cat videos. So if you learn nothing else from social media marketing world, you can come back with some real science behind cat videos. And not only that, I won't stop there. This is the first cat video largely believes... I guess I'm going to stand here, largely believed to be the first cat video ever produced. Now the dude behind the cats looks a little bit eccentric to me and that's Professor Welton and he was making these cats box. I can't confirm that no cats were harmed in this video, but I can confirm this was the first cat video. So there you go. You're walking away with some serious knowledge. More importantly though, for our discussion and looking at how does YouTube influence buying decisions, whether that's for a physical product or a service, 80%, this is a study Google did, 80% of people now say they switch between search and video when they're trying to find a product to buy. So I either find the product on search and then I go to YouTube to watch demonstrations and reviews or I discover it through YouTube and then I go to search to learn more, but 80% bounce back and forth in the process of their buying decision. A third of all shoppers now say they've purchased something that they discovered on YouTube first. And this is really interesting because I think this will shape how we use YouTube to influence buying decisions. Those that experienced YouTube in their shopping journey, 80% said it was at the beginning of that shopping process. So this kind of awareness audience or the cold audiences which is what we'll talk about in a minute, they're abundant on YouTube, we'll talk about how to reach them. For teenagers, this is and I referenced my son looking at how-to-pick-up-girls videos on YouTube. If you look at teens, the three most popular platforms now are YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat in that order, and YouTube does lead the day. So bright things ahead for YouTube. And now over the last couple of years, which-product-to-buy videos have doubled in watch time, right? So people are going to YouTube looking for things to buy, okay? But really ultimately, this what counts, right? So this is what we do on a day in and day out basis, helping companies scale to $1000 a day in ad spend, $25,000 to $100,000 a day in YouTube ad spend and while hitting cost per acquisition or cost per conversion targets or return on ad spend targets. So anybody likes the sound of that, getting that kind of scale while hitting your numbers on YouTube. Does that sound good? Okay, lots heads now. You wore out yourself with all the hand raising before and I was just like, we're just gonna nod. So this is what I want to talk about. And at its simplest form, this comes down to right message, right person, right time, right? How do we do that on YouTube? That's we're going to dive into and talk about. And so really as we look at kind this progression of how someone makes the decision to buy something, they go from not aware to then considering, to then buying to then hopefully becoming a loyal customer, YouTube can influence really every stage of that journey. But we're going to kind of focus on a couple of key areas today. And so let's talk about key number one. So we have got five keys. I'm going spend more time on this one than on the others because this is the hardest one to master. I believe, after talking to a lot of people about YouTube ads, one of the main reasons people don't invest in YouTube ads is because the creative aspect is perceived to be difficult, and it can be. And often the videos that work on Facebook are not the videos that work on YouTube. So it is a different animal. So what I want to do is I'm going to share with you some of our favorite ad approaches, we call them ad templates, although there's lots of room for creativity. But some of our favorite ad approaches for YouTube, we'll break those down, I'll show you why they work, we'll look at some examples, it'll a lot of fun. And this is also the creatives we're talking about. So these are the pre-roll YouTube videos, right? Those skippable ads that show up before you watch your cat video, these are the ads we're talking about. So proven formulas for cold traffic. Let's start with that. That awareness level traffic or that cold traffic first. So people that don't know you exist, maybe they don't even know a solution like yours exists. How do we reach them on YouTube? What kind of video ad do we need? So I'm going to talk about two, I'm going to share some examples and break it down. So the hero story or the hero journey and then the explainer. So let's dive right in. So this is one of our clients, this is EF Ultimate Break. They're group travel for 18 to 29-year-olds. They have an amazing video. I'm going play it in its entirety because I think you'll learn a lot from it. And so here we go. This is you, or at least it could be you. You've been Island hopping through Greece with a group of people you just met who at this very moment are cheering you on as you jump off a boat, which to be honest, is a little scary. But YOLO, FOMO, right? Right. We are EF Ultimate Break, the best way to see the world for anyone 18 to 29. We handle everything- (singing) ... you just travel. We've got people that do this, people that do that, and people all over the world who literally plan every detail of your trip to make sure it's absolutely perfect. We love travel. Scratch that, we're obsessed with travel, which is why we make it as easy as one, two, three. Find your trip, pay over time, travel. We believe experiences are better than things, but what we really believe is that experiences are meant to be shared like french fries. Seriously, if you're not sharing endless plates of delicious food with new friends and new places at all times, you're doing it wrong. And when I say endless, I mean endless. Yeah, that should do it. Oh, hey, that's your tour director, the true MVP at the EF Ultimate Break trip, besides you of course. They're with you the whole time to make sure you get to where you need to go, eat what you need to eat and do as a local do. They're one part travel guru, one part logistical Ninja and three billion parts, awesome. All right. All right. You get it. Now let's get back to the good stuff. Travel is all about expanding your horizons, trying new things and learning a little bit about yourself along the way. But it's also about having baguette fights in front of the Eiffel Tower. So what are you waiting for? Jump. Sweet. Alright, so who's in? Who wants to go? Go on that kind of trip. Yes. So good. Now this is a slightly higher production value than what you have to use on YouTube, right? But this is a great example. So let's break this down. Why is this such an effective ad? How could you take this and apply it to your business? So really the idea here is that the prospect is the hero, right? You are not the hero. You are here to help. You help to guide this hero journey or help create this hero story for your prospect. Now this video literally opens with, "This could be you," right? "You're standing on the edge of a boat, you're about to jump in. This could be you." Now, you don't have to start with exactly those words, but that's what you want to paint, where you can say, "Hey, this is what your life could look like. You could experience this, you could be this, you could be in this moment, you could be doing this very things." So you want to give your prospect the ability to see themselves in the video doing the thing that you're showing? So this could be you. Give them a glimpse of the good life. "What would life be like if I was enjoying your product or your service? So what would that look like?" And then also we're talking about how we eliminate the scary or the challenging stuff, right? Because remember, you're here to guide on this hero journey or to guide to help create this hero story. And so for 18 to 29 year olds traveling internationally, it's overwhelming, it's a little bit scary because of the safety risks, "I don't know the language, I don't know where anything is," right? So they say, "We take care of all of it. Everything. We got croissant gurus and travel gurus and accommodation gurus, and all you do is travel. We handle the scary stuff or the challenging stuff. We take care of all of that." You really want to bring to life the top two to three benefits and show rather than tell, right? So, you talk about visiting the Eiffel tower and talk about the structure or whatever, but isn't it more fun, isn't it more like Zesteral to say, have a baguette fight in front of the Eiffel tower, right? And then to show that, show the joy and the experience and all that cool stuff, right? So, show, don't tell. And then if you can weave in some unexpected benefits. Now their primary market is female. They do attract more female travelers than male travelers. And so they decided to throw in Sander, right? So they're talking about, "Hey, your tour guide or the MVP beside you, they're going to help show you the food and the language and all that stuff, and could be a hunk," right? So this tour guide could be a hunk, a little added benefit, throwing some humor there, which is always nice. Overcome objections, right? What are the reasons someone would say no? In this case it's expensive, right? "So do I have to save for like three years before I travel?" Nudge, "Pay over time, go do it down. Travel now, pay over time." And then strong call to action they said, "Hey, jump in. What are you waiting for? Jump in." And then the call to actions actually that are visual are more on the learn more type of call to action, right? So, "Check it out. Get all the details here." So that's the hero story. Very powerful ad type. Now let's talk about something that's little more straightforward, a little simpler, a little easier to execute. Again, this is a slightly higher end version, but it does a beautiful job of displaying what an explainer could be. And you could do one that's much simpler. So this is very straight forward. This is going to be from Grammarly. So let's give this a shot. If you write anything on your computer, you need to get Grammarly. I write pretty much all day every day and Grammarly makes my writing better. As a student, I like that it's free. It actually is correcting everything as I'm writing it. Grammar errors, spelling errors. It even helps me find the right words to use so I can say what I want to say. It catches all those embarrassing little mistakes before I hit send. I downloaded Grammarly around my freshman year because I was just horrible at typing. Grammarly is like my secret weapon for writing papers. It's the perfect tool for your resume. You don't want any errors when it's your first impression. I use Grammarly for important emails, social media posts, which there are a lot of. I've used every tool out there and Grammarly is by far the best for improving your writing. Grammarly is making me a better writer and it's free. I would recommend Grammarly if you were a student. My peers, my colleagues. It's like having your own personal proofreader for free. Download Grammarly for free at grammarly.com. Anybody here use Grammarly? I'm just curious. Whoa, holy cow, almost all of you. They're one of the top video ads spenders so you may have seen that before or others like it. And so this approach works and it works very, very well. So let's talk about it. It's a clear problem solution premise, right? "Here's the problem, here's our solution." Nothing fancy. Not a lot of creative lead-in, just problem, solution, right? And so really what this is doing is it's sharing why the problem matters and how the solution works. Now in this case, we've all made grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes on our social media posts or job applications or memos or whatever emails. And so they don't need to really emphasize the pain a whole lot because we all feel that, we all know that. So depending on your service, you may need to really dig into the problem a little bit more. They focus more on the solution because the problem is so instantly identifiable, right? So here's how this solution works. It corrects as you go, right? I'm writing and it corrects as I go. What this also does is it identifies who it's for, what it does and how it works, right? So, the who it's for, think about what all they did there. They have, young professional, they have a student, they have somebody that just likes to post on social media, they have someone applying for a job. So showing the who it's for, specifically who it's for and how it works, it corrects as you go. It's easy, right? You just install it and it works it's magic, right? So the explainer, very powerful ad template. And you can use it for your business. It could be simpler than this. You could have a actual customers doing the talking if you wanted to, but this approach just works. So let's talk really quickly about getting the right assets for warm traffic. So those two work fantastically well the awareness level traffic, you can use them in other places as well, but what about when someone already knows about you? Maybe they've been to your site, maybe they watched the video, but they still haven't said yes, right? So they consumed the video, checked out your lander, but they have not said yes yet, What ad types do we want to run for them? And talk about three and talk about the UGC or influencer mashup. UGC for those that don't know, user-generated content. So, user-generated content mashup or influencer mashup. We'll look at the longer explainer and then the expert interview. We'll go through these really quickly. So the UGC or influencer mashup, looks something like this where you're taking actual customer testimonials or actual influencer endorsements and you're mashing them together. So real clips, real testimonials, really using these to kind of highlight your top two to three benefits. So what are the top two to three reasons why someone says yes to your product or service? Find testimonials or influencers who talk about those two to three things, mash them together and now you get the beginnings of a great video. And then also you want to demonstrate the pride in the process, right? So not only show the person on camera but show them enjoying your product or enjoying the travel, enjoying the experience or whatever. Allow for some demonstrations to be part of this video as well. So UGC mashup, we've also used this to cold audiences it works there too, but it's fantastic for warm audiences. The longer explainer, this is really simple, but basically you're just taking your explainer and you're going deeper. So often, this is that explainer premise, which you're going deeper, three to five minutes. You're showing more science, more research, more interviews, more whatever, to really tip someone over the edge. Because what someone has said to you if they've engaged with your video or engaged with your site and have not bought is, "I'm not sold yet." Right? "I don't have enough information. You haven't given me enough yet to say yes." So the longer explainer is hopefully going to tip them over the edge. There's also one we've used, we use this with supplement companies, medical devices, even footwear. And so the expert interview, a couple ways you can do this. You can do like talk show style or in this case, this was an interview of a podiatrist and another doctor, some other variety as well, but he was talking about minimalist running shoes. And how typical running shoes actually weaken your feet over time, but this type of shoes strengthens your foot, it strengthens your arch. And so again, it's one of those things where, "Hey, maybe I'm thinking about buying that shoe because it's cool and because my outdoor running buddies have minimalist shoes, but I've seen a few things, haven't bought yet, now the expert interview is going to push me hopefully over the edge to say yes." Okay, so that was just a few templates. There's actually a lot more. So for the last couple of years, my team and I, we've been collecting good YouTube ads and so we've been seeing kind of what works, why it works. And so I've put together this free guide. You can get it without any strings attached of all of our top YouTube ad templates. And I provide links to videos, right? So we explain why it works and then links to some of these videos you can check out. It's at omgcommerce.com under resources. Click on guides, and then it's the YouTube ad templates. So check it out, walk through all of the templates right there. Okay, so key number two. So now we're talking right audience, right? So getting the right audience and sort of at the right time as well. We like to talk about progressive audience testing. So do we create this brilliant YouTube ad and then just turn it on and run it to the universe of YouTube when it's everybody is on YouTube? Of course not. That would be wasteful and not a good idea. And so looking at some of the audience options, we'll break down a few of these. So if you look kind of from top to bottom there, it starts with demographic targeting. So age, gender, you could throw in income potentially there too, but demo all the way down to the bottom, it's remarketing, right? So at the top, that's a really cold audience, at the bottom, it's a very hot audience. At the top, it's a broad audience, at the bottom's very focused. Top, it's a big audience and at the bottom it's more of a small audience. And so where do we start? Where do we begin? And kind of in the middle, you have things like life events, someone that just graduated college or just got married, some life there or some in-market audience as we'll talk about in just a minute. And so the cool thing is understanding these audiences will allow you to harness all the information Google has about users so you can reach the right person right when you want to. So recently we did a study showing the same video to an audience based on intent signals. And we'll talk about what that means in a minute, but based on intent signals. And here's the thing guys, Google knows everything about you, right? Google knows what you're up to online. They know where you've been online and what videos you've watched and what searches you conducted on Google and things like that. And so when they leverage some of those intent signals, consideration lift goes up 30% and purchase intent goes up 40%. So 30% to 40% more effective when you reach a very targeted intent-based audience versus just broadcasting your ad to the YouTube universe, right? So we want to harness those intent signals in our intent-based audiences. So we're going after intent-based audiences initially. Let's talk about a couple of my favorite. First one is custom intent. So how many of you would say the way you search on Google is different than the way you search on YouTube? So you search on Google differently, you search on... Yeah, YouTube, hey, sometimes you want to watch a music video, right? You just want to chill out and have some music on YouTube, whatever. But Google, you're searching for everything. Literally everything. Like how old is this movie star and who is in this? And all kinds of crazy stuff we're searching for on Google. So what a custom intent audience allows you to do is you can build an audience of people based on what they searched for on Google and then reach them the next time they're on YouTube, right? So again, we're looking at a travel company or something. We can look for all the people that have searched on Google recently for group travel or price to travel to Greece or guided tours of Rome or things like that, where we can compile this list of keywords that people search for on Google. Now we can reach those people on YouTube with our app. Does that make sense? See how powerful that is? You know what these people want because they're searching for it on a Google. Now the other thing you can do is keyword targeting in YouTube, right? So this is the other intent-based audience that we really like to focus on initially. So I started typing in YouTube, typed in best in OI and then just let the suggest fill that in, right? So this is what people are typing in on YouTube. "Best noise canceling headphones, 2019. Best noise canceling headphones, 2020," right? So people going to YouTube looking for product demos and unboxing videos and things like that related to the product they want to buy. And so you can also target these people, right? So they're in YouTube, actively consuming content related to these keywords, and you can run your ad right there. Okay? So someone's looking for best noise canceling headphones in 2020, they're watching noise canceling headphones videos, we now show our ad for our new brand of noise canceling headphones. Very, very powerful. So the idea here is we want to get conversions, right? So whether you're trying to get a lead or an opt-in or an actual purchase, a lot of our clients, they're running YouTube directly to an e-commerce sale. So watch a video by some skin cream, right? Watch a YouTube video, buy a silicone wedding ring, right? Watch a YouTube video by whatever. Or it could be that you want to direct them to just opt into something, get a deal, whatever. So you want to get conversions and then go broad. Then broaden out your horizon. So in-market audiences, this is where Google is saying, "Hey, based on someone's recent behavior, based on their two-week behavior, we think they're in the market for an automobile or financial services or lingerie or whatever." So it's based on searches they've made videos, they've watched even places they've visited, right? Because if you have location tracking on, on your phone, Google knows if you've been to a car dealership, right? And so in the market for auto or whatever the case may be, so these in-market audiences, these are larger, usually 25 million plus. So you can start targeting them as well. And then you can start looking even broader than that. So affinity, that's more interest-based, topic-based. So I'm into fitness or fitness apparel or yoga or I'm a foodie, something like that or just straight demographic targeting. So start with intent-based and then broaden your scope, broaden your reach to these larger audiences based on either customer-intent or based on in-market or affinity and demo, okay? All right. Key number three, power your ad with data. This is why, and I'm a marketing guy, old school, started in 2002, did TV, radio, did direct mail. I was a Jay Abraham student and Dan Kennedy and really like this direct response type advertising. And I loved it because I love the science of why does one ad work and another doesn't, right? Why does one TV commercial get someone to say, "Yes, I will buy that sweatshirt then the other causes people to shrug." Right? And so looking at what causes people to buy. In the old days though, it was all just a bunch of like theories and ideas and who was the loudest in the room and who could convince everybody else that their creative strategy was the one to adopt, right? But now we have data, we have science, we can see what's actually working and what's not. So here's how to... So start with one of these templates we talked about, but then let the data speak, let the data show you what's working and what's not. So here's how to do that. And then this is what's interesting, sometimes your assumptions are wrong, right? Sometimes my assumptions are wrong. I know YouTube pretty well. I'm in YouTube every day. We're spending millions and millions of dollars on YouTube ads, I still get it wrong. Sometimes ugly wins and sometimes uncreative, Just really simple, straightforward, direct, sometimes that is what produces on YouTube. So here's some of the things to measure. So this is BOOM by Cindy Joseph. This is Ezra Firestone's company. And actually, there's a BOOM shirt right there, Laura, checking out the session. So watch these videos, they're fantastic. This is skincare for older women, boomer women primarily. So these top two videos, the top one is four minutes and 39 seconds, the top one is two minutes and 40 seconds. Those are our top two ads. These are primarily looking at cold audiences. So this is more of a cold awareness type traffic. So those are the top ads both on the size of the reach, the number of conversions we were able to get from those videos, And more importantly, we hit the CPA target, the cost per acquisition target with those videos. Now we could have sat around and said, "Yeah, but that's four minutes and 39 seconds It needs to be like 15." Because I know if I'm watching a skincare commercial I won't watch past 20 seconds. Right? And all of that is a who cares? None of that matters. Your opinion, my opinion does not matter. Mismatch. So it's the data. And we've tested a lot of 15-second ads, We've tested the new six-second bumper ads at our Google reps requests. We have awesome Google reps, but they usually do not work on YouTube if you're trying to get conversions. If you're just try to get views, they work great, but if you're trying to drive a conversion, those short form videos do not work nearly as well. Another thing we do, we like to pull audience-specific data for each video. So I can actually give you the spreadsheet if you want to see, there's nothing magical about it. But basically you download this data from YouTube or from your Google ads campaigns or your YouTube campaigns, and then break down each video by audience. So here's a cold audience, here's a warm audience, how did this ad perform to these different audiences? And you'll see that for some videos it's very different, right? It's very different how they perform. Some of those five, six-minute videos perform really well for warm audiences, not as much the cold audiences. So you need this data so you can make better decisions. And then, this is I think one of the most untapped resources in a Google ads account and is very, very powerful. So this is audience insights. So if you go to the tools section in Google ads, click on audience manager, and then audience insights, what Google is going to do, this is really only valuable after you've been running for a while, after you get some data, after you have some clicks and some conversions, then that's when this data becomes powerful. Google is going to tell you, "Hey, based on what we know about your users, your visitors, your converters, they are more likely to be in these audiences." So they're more likely... In this case, they're 3.6 times more likely, this is a more of a men-focused brand. They're 3.6 times more likely to be a truck or SUV enthusiast than the average population." So now, based on what Google is giving you is, "Here's a list of audience ideas." So now you've got these audiences, your initial tests set of audiences. Once you start getting conversions, Google is going to say, "Hey, test these next." Sometimes we find really counterintuitive ones like supplements that we're selling, an avid news readers is the suggestion from audience insights or financial services when again is our supplement and usually it works. Usually Google is seeing something here and so you should test these audiences. Alright, this is a quick one but also a powerful one, so leverage the YouTube and Google Display Network or GDN synergy. Okay, so how can we leverage that synergy? So here's a shot back to BOOM, shot of some of their display ads. So these are showing on the Google Display Network, so showing on news sites, blog sites, things like that. There are 2 million sites, part of the Google display network. You can reach 90% of the web through the Google Display Network. But that ad on the left, that is actually just their YouTube ad that we placed into a display campaign, right? So what this looks like, this is kind of the responsive display ad builder or what one of the views in there looks like. You can add images, logo, add some text. So this is just showing over time, this was primarily to a remarketing audience, but over time the top performing Google Display Network asset was our YouTube video. So that YouTube video then was appearing on news sites, blogs sites, things like that, but this is something that a lot of people overlook, if I'm running display ads, it needs to be an image. It needs to be an image only. Not so fast, use your YouTube ad in your Google Display Network campaigns and you may be surprised, it may be the best performing ad. And so what Google then sees is, "Hey, people are engaging with that ad, it's working, we're going to keep showing this YouTube video on the Google display network." How many of you guys are running Gmail ads? Whoa, not very many people, like five or something. So Gmail campaigns, this is another amazing way to leverage both images and YouTube videos. But Gmail ads, they appear like emails in your Gmail app. Okay. So it kind of can look like this on mobile. That's an ad for BOOM by Cindy Joseph on the left and Live Bearded there on the right. It does say ad there, but it shows up in the inbox on the Gmail app and looks like an email, right? What we're seeing as we run this, and we're primarily running this for remarketing, right? So somebody gets to our lander, they don't convert, they add to cart, they don't convert. We're running Gmail ads to those people. And so what we're finding is CPA, so cost per acquisition or cost per conversion, often 30% to 60% lower for Gmail ads than for standard display. A lot of times we're using these same images, the same videos, but because of this delivery mechanism and people are engaging often 30% to 60% of lower CPAs, which is pretty powerful. And so this is kind of what the builder looks like, with the ad there on the right, that's what that could look like. This was again for BOOM. You get a series of images, text, videos, but this is an extremely powerful type of campaign. And so if you have remarketing list... How many of you guys have remarketing lists? Okay, go build a Google Gmail campaign, right? If you have a remarketing list and you have images and you have some videos, if you don't have videos, you can still run it, but Gmail campaign is simple to set up, do it for remarketing and do it sooner rather than later. So let's talk about a couple of things and then potentially a Q&A if we have time. So key number five, make better decisions with smarter measurements. We talked about data a minute ago, right? Using data to power your ad, but how are we analyzing that data and what are we looking at? Because it's so easy. I love Google Analytics, but it's so easy to get in there and get lost and then to maybe focus on a metric that's meaningless, right? All the while, the real data, the good data is right there staring at you saying, "Hey, do this, do this," but we're not seeing it. Right? So smarter measurement to get better results. Let's talk this through a little bit. Anybody here getting good ideas on airplanes? How many get good ideas in the shower? That's because .. For me, I don't know man. I'm just thinking about like soap and I don't know. I'm like brain dead in the shower. I don't know why, but put me in an airplane, shut the door, go into airplane mode and all these ideas come to me. So about a year ago thinking about how do we communicate this better, how do we set up a structure for our clients a little bit better. And so I came with idea of AMP or accelerated marketing portfolios. And so thinking about your campaigns, not as silos, your campaigns, not as individual warriors, but thinking about your campaigns as a portfolio working together synergistically, making things happen on your behalf. So what does this look like? Well, this was another realization that kind of fed into this. This is the screenshot of a branded search campaign for a large advertiser. They were spending boatloads of money on Facebook ads even before we started working with them. So this is going to look at the performance of their branded search campaigns. That arrow is when we started running YouTube ads and their branded search campaign took off, right? Which going back to the data we saw, hey, 80% of people that view YouTube video in their shopping journey, they do it at the beginning, right? So they saw stuff on YouTube and they actually bought by clicking on search ad, right? So looking at, hey, if we just looked at the YouTube ad campaign all by itself and we didn't look at this, we might shut YouTube off prematurely thinking, "YouTube is not doing anything," right? So we shut it off, but then that goes back down immediately. We've seen this happen with large advertisers, you shut off YouTube and the branded search goes down, right? So thinking about all of this together, so here's what we looked at, and again, we're primarily e-commerce, so we're primarily measuring return on ad spend, but let's just look at some hypotheticals. So we're running a YouTube campaign to an awareness audience. We might see something like a 50% to 200% return on ad spend. So I spend a dollar and from that campaign I get 50 cents as return. How many of you guys like that deal? Spend a dollar to get... No, no, no. I didn't explain that well. You spend a dollar and you get 50 cents, not $1.50 but you're getting 50 cents, right? You're losing money is what that looks like on the outset, right? So YouTube, looking at the campaign itself, you're getting a 50% return to maybe a 200% return at that awareness level. Okay? But then let's move a little bit further down. So consideration, that's more like Google Search, Google Shopping, that type of thing. Hey, maybe we're getting like a 300% to 400%. So now I'm spending a dollar and I'm getting three to four dollars in return. Okay? Then I look at branded search and remarketing, maybe at that point that I'm getting like a 4X to 8X return on ad spend. But here's the deal. Even if those YouTube campaigns are at a 0.5, right? A 50% return on ad spend, they could make all of the rest of it bigger and more valuable. They could feed those remarketing campaigns that are at 800% return on ad spend. And so we're saying is a lot of our clients at the portfolio level want to be at a 2X to 3X. We can show you and we built a spreadsheet and this is something I can show you. It's a one on one on one, it's kind of confusing if you don't have a little bit of explanation, we can map out, if we were to spend X on YouTube and get even a 0.5 return, it's going to feed the rest of it and overall you're going to hit your global numbers and the overall pie is going to be much bigger. Does that make sense? So smarter approach, smarter measurement, don't just see campaigns as individuals. I know a lot of you have to show this to your boss and your teams and you have to convince them of this stuff. It's not super easy but we've got some tools I'm happy to share to make this a little bit easier. And so just a couple of very quick examples I'll just take about 20 seconds. BOOM, and this a quote from Ezra, we took YouTube from nonexistent to one of their top channels in a pretty short period of time. Grew their Google ads revenue by about 200%. Overall sales grew about 30%. Live Bearded, I mainly show these guys because they looks so cool and I secretly want to be like them, but grew their conversion 65% largely using YouTube. So with that, my man, do we have time for questions? Okay. We have one or two questions. One or two questions. What do you got? Anything YouTube related? Yes sir. loud so- Speak into the mic. ... speak into the mike anyway. Stevenson: Okay. So Stevenson, strategist at 72andSunny and we have a wide range of clients. So some of them are dropping millions on YouTube, others are not as convinced. You talked a little about keyword targeting. How do you know when to lead into those broad searches? So someone types in, let's say leading and writes the active vision as an example. Someone is looking at when is the newest call of duty coming out versus getting a lot more niche for those brands that aren't willing to spend that much more money. How do you figure out that balance? Yes. Great question. So if you're talking about keyword targeting and are you talking about a keyword campaign in YouTube or are you talking about like custom intent audience. On YouTube. So keyword campaign on YouTube. So what we've found is that usually keyword campaigns don't explode in volume. So to give you an idea, sometimes we'll run these affinity audiences or really large audiences and whatever budget you give that campaign, it will spend all of that and then some, right? Because these audiences are massive. Keyword campaigns don't tend to do the same thing. Occasionally, but usually not. So we've actually found more success with slightly broader keywords per keyword campaigns. So if you were talking about like a video game type deal or whatever. So people looking at video game reviews, we've even target just the name of that particular video game. So what we found and also keyword targeting on YouTube, this will get a little bit technical, it's not actually based on the keywords someone's typing in. It's based on the content. So where custom intent, that's actually based on the keyword someone types in on Google. A keyword campaign on YouTube is actually contextual. So that's where we found like broader keywords do better. But just watch it. And then also, one thing I didn't mention, but we always like to bid with target CPA. So, set up a conversion action with us, an opt-in or a purchase, and then give Google a target to hit, those campaigns always work better. Whatever goal you give YouTube, if the goal is views, they'll find views. If the goal is conversions, they'll find conversion. So give them that right goal to key in on. We have one more question, maybe? What I can do and ask ladies and gentlemen first of all, if you loved this session, can you give a round of applause to Brett Curry.

Dre on Why You Can't Be a Black Republican At the office, Dre (Anthony Anderson) seeks advice on Junior who's joined the Young Republicans. Dre explains that black people can live in the suburbs, be fans of the Dave Matthews Band or marry a white person and still be down, but they can never be a republican. Charlie (Deon Cole) doesn't want Junior to be an "Uncle Tom," which confuses Mr. Stevens (Peter MacKenzie), who really loves his Uncle Tom. From Season 1, Episode 23 of black-ish, "Elephant in the Room." ABC WEDNESDAYS 9:30|8:30c.

Thirty-three small and medium-sized companies will be showing off their newest products and techniques in a special section – InnovationWorx. Spearheaded and coordinated by Network Rail's Signalling Innovation Group, this dedicated area will include the newest and latest thinking in the fields of electrification and telecommunications as well as signalling. RailWorx, taking place at the East of England Showground, will be co-located with PlantWorx, the Construction Equipment Association's biennial show that attracts over 15,000 visitors on its own. With £53 billion to be spent on Great Britain's railways over the next five years, much of it on construction and updated systems, this is an ideal time for the industry to show off what it can do. Engineers, procurement teams, designers and planners can register to attend Railworx 2019 by visiting www.railworx.co.uk. Demand is sure to be high!

Digital Antenna to pick up local channels - Anyone got one? Thread: Digital Antenna to pick up local channels - Anyone got one? I got the email that my Direct TV bill is going up AGAIN the other day and I'm freaking sick of it. I've been with Direct TV for 12 years, i've got literally the cheapest of the cheap packages, no premium channels, hardly any channels at all it seems and i'm paying $50 a month. As of next month it will go up to $63 a month. I've got charter cable for my internet, i've got netflix streaming thru the wii for movies and probably 600 DVD's. But i'd like to pick up the local stuff for some Football and some sitcom shows that I like to watch. I've had great success with a regular antenna. The digital stations come in very clear on my HDTV's. I got all the local Reno channels, from Fallon, last time I looked. Perfect!! This is what I was hoping for. If you can pick them up from Fallon i'm sure Gardnerville will be pretty much the same. I also found this site that will map your location and list all the channels and the method you would need to get them. Regular Ant, Attic Ant, Roof Mounted Ant....etc. holy crap, im sure ill get mine in the mail saying mine will be going up as well. let me know if you get something to work for you because most likly ill do it to! I'm so pissed off at direct tv. $60 a month for that package that I have is nuts. I grabbed a $16 digital tv antenna from wal mart last summer. Its passive so it does not need a power supply. With it just sitting behind the TV I can get 5 or 6 local channels. I'd assume an outdoor one would work a lot better. 1997 SAS 4runner with a few mods. I'm still amazed at the picture quality of broadcast digital TV. I spent about $60 on my antenna. There are a couple of channels that I would like to improve on so I was thinking of trying an amplifier. With the $15 per month Netflix and broatcast TV, I'm set pretty good. The only thing I really miss is ESPN but I just go to Sneakers if there's something I really want to see. And the watchman told... and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously. I don't worry about my ego, so long as my camera is bigger than my head. Did you try Dish? or just done with it all? I have Terrestrial Digital DB2, works great and picks up all local channels. I looked at Dish, They have a few deals right now that seem pretty interesting. I need to find someone locally that has it and go check it out before I buy into it. I figured if I bought a $50 ant, and decided that between the Antenna, Netflix, Hulu and the Computer if I needed more I could always return the Antenna and go with Dish later. Ancient thread revival...but I don't want to make a new thread. Anyone using a digital antenna for tv? I'm looking to get local Fox/CBS/ABC/NBC channels if possible. It seems like I could spend as much on a TV antenna as I could on a month of TV. I haven't seen the "old school" style metal antennas in a long time so I'm not sure if they work anymore, or if a digital version exists. I have 1 TV in the entire house so if a simple antenna inside works and someone has suggestions of which one works I'm all ears. We have good signal around here. Even the cheapo ones usually work well. I use a digital external antenna with an amplifier. I am in Spanish Springs and have it pointed at Mt Rose. ABC is a little weak sometimes. The rest of the channels come in great. My model is no longer available on Amazon but it is a long range digital with a booster. So did you just run the coaxial cable inside the house or did you connect it to the main TV Cable feed on the outside of the house? I saw a few $70+ external ones but if they're going to work the same as a $20 one I'd rather save the cash for the install fee. My house had a satellite coax by the eve so I hooked it there and tapped into the rest of the coax in the house. If I turn the amp/booster off I get a few less channels. I have "heard" the interior antennas actually work just as well here. That was a friend in stead. Thanks for the input. I have a satellite coax also so my plan was to hook it up there. I know they only wired it to one outlet though because I was the one who ran the wire through the attic. Apparently the one I bought mounts on the same pole. I find it interesting you get LESS channels with the booster. I'd think it would be more. As for interior working just as well I think it's due to proximity to the signal. If you're 10 meters vs 100 meters away you might need a better antenna. Ordered this one. Mostly because I wanted to have that 1980s look on my new house. Also, almost every single review said it was a really good unit mounted inside, or outside, with or without the booster. That's the same one I ended up putting on my house. Very apply with it. I installed it were the Dish used to be and wired it in that way. I get CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and all the secondary channels oh each one as well. Picture quality is great and never have a problem with snow or weather. Have been without satellite or cable for almost 5 years now. Do not waste $ on a Digital antenna. Best for over the air digital signals is still a Yagi old fashioned antenna. Just use rg6 from it not the old ribbon cable. You may need to re-align it of if it has a rotatory your set.

The Premier League has today concluded the sale of its UK audiovisual highlights package, with BBC Sport acquiring the rights to broadcast highlights of all 380 Premier League in each of the three seasons from 2019/20 to 2021/22. Under the agreement BBC Sport will continue to broadcast its iconic Match of the Day show on Saturday nights, and the range of additional BBC programming that brings the Premier League closer to fans, including Match of the Day 2, Match of the Day Extra, MOTD Kickabout, Football Focus, Final Score and the Premier League Show. Following an open and competitive process, the BBC has retained the rights with a bid of £211.5million. The Premier League's partnership with BBC Sport has this season extended to include the launch of Super Movers, a joint initiative that aims to help primary school teachers inspire children to become more active and engaged with sport. Super Movers was launched earlier this month with several Premier League club players attending schools to encourage youngsters to take part. "We are extremely pleased that our partnership with BBC Sport will continue through to 2022," Premier League Executive Chairman, Richard Scudamore, said. "They do an excellent job of making the Premier League available to millions of fans across the UK with a range of high quality programming and content. "People engage with the Premier League in so many different ways yet Match of the Day continues to go from strength to strength, remaining extremely popular with more than seven million tuning in every weekend. "We look forward to continuing our work with BBC Sport on all their Premier League programming and content, and to use the popularity and reach of our two organisations for good through the recently launched Super Movers initiative."

Hundreds Rally to Oppose Religious Persecution, Organ Harvesting in China Samantha Harris - July 15, 2016 12:11 PM More than a thousand Falun Gong practitioners and supporters gathered on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol for a demonstration Thursday to condemn religious persecution in China. Speakers included members of Congress such as Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.), as well as leaders of human rights and religious freedom organizations such as Freedom House and Jubilee Campaign. Supporters held photographs of family members who suffered persecution and torture. "A majority of people here are personally and deeply affected by the overall situation of China and are concerned about their brothers and sisters," Freedom House president Mark Lagon said. Falun Gong is a traditional spiritual practice belonging to the Buddhist family of religious practices. Despite its peaceful nature, former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin viewed the practice's popularity and encouragement of independent thought as a threat to his power. The Chinese Communist Party in July 1999 banned Falun Gong, which millions had practiced freely for years. "I lived in China and was a teacher in 1999," said Albert Roman, a journalist. "I saw people practicing in every park, it was hugely popular. I saw with my own eyes that these are good people. I had a student who practiced and I still don't know what happened to him, if he's even alive." Demonstrators accused the Chinese Communist regime of pillaging organs from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience. "In a hurry, China has tried to create an organ donation system. There is no waiting time, no system—it's deeply problematic. At least 90 percent of the organs are not accredited for," Roman said. Last month saw the unanimous passage in the House of Representatives of a bill condemning organ-harvesting practices in China. The bill amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and requires more diplomatic action to stop organ trafficking. It also requires reporting on the issue by the State Department. The bill is now in the Senate. "What will it take for United States Senate to act? To pass this important bill to stop organ trafficking as their colleagues in the House did?" Faith J. H. McDonnell, director of Religious Liberty Programs, said. "Chinese citizens are being sacrificed for their organs—citizens who oppose the Chinese Communist regime. What will it take for the world to stop this evil practice?" This entry was posted in Issues and tagged China. Bookmark the permalink. Samantha Harris is a Free Beacon summer intern.

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The first four members of the myeloid differentiation marker 88 (MyD88) family of cytosolic adaptor proteins are well known for their roles in mediating Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling in the immune system. Kim et al. set out to characterize the more enigmatic fifth member of this family, MyD88-5. Northern and Western blotting demonstrated a higher abundance of MyD88-5 mRNA and protein in the brains of mice and humans than in any other organ. In human blood, real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays showed that MyD88-5 mRNA was preferentially found in lymphocytes and not in myeloid cells. The authors developed a transgenic mouse that expressed a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged MyD88-5 protein. Confocal microscopic analysis of brain sections showed that GFP fluorescence was strongest in the hippocampus and cerebellum and found only in neurons, within which MyD88-5-GFP was cytoplasmic and had a punctate distribution. When expressed in COS-1 cells, MyD88-5-GFP strongly colocalized with mitochondria. In cotransfected COS-1 cells, the authors demonstrated the colocalization of MyD88-5-GFP with c-Jun N-terminal kinase 3 (JNK3) at mitochondria, an association that was also shown in coimmunoprecipitation studies in COS-1 cells and in hippocampal lysates. JNK3 promotes apoptosis in hippocampal cells after cerebral ischemia (oxygen and nutrient deprivation), and the authors found that cell death was reduced in ischemic hippocampal slices from MyD88-5-deficient mice compared with those from wild-type mice. This study reveals the role of MyD88-5 in mediating neuronal cell death after injury and raises the interesting question of what role MyD88-5 might play in lymphocytes. The adaptor protein MyD88-5 mediates stress-induced death of neurons.

Q: Finding a Basis of a Matrix Consider the matrix $$A=\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 \\ 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}.$$ I am trying to find a basis for $A$. From what I understand, a basis must consist of linearly independent columns that span the entire space. Is the following set a basis: $$\left\{\begin{pmatrix} 1 \\ 0 \\ 0\end{pmatrix},\begin{pmatrix} 0 \\ 0 \\ 1\end{pmatrix}\right\}?$$ Original question Let $C$ be the binary linear code with parity check matrix $$H=\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 \\ 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}.$$ and let $B$ be a basis for $C$. How many codewords does $B$ contain? Answer is $2$.

From The New York Times best-selling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructure. ©2019 William R. Forstchen (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. I enjoyed this book and production. Have the bad reviewers ever written a book and have it published! This was the worst book by him that I have ever read. Pinchot really did not deliver at all. Listening to Pichot repeatedly say "Mag-net-o-spere as opposed to "mag-ˈnē-tə-ˌsfir" was like listening to fingernails scraped along a chalkboard. Not to mention his frequent reference to the calibers 7.62 and 5.56 as "seven-sixty-two" or five hundred fifty-six was also annoying. These things broke the immersion. The whiney voice he attributed to Dr. Carrington was also irritating. While these seem like trifles, they took away from my enjoyment of an already labored read. I found it hard to be empathetic to the ill-conceived plan of the protagonist. I loved the authors EMP books, by the way. This book, however, was painful to get through. Oh Bill...really? So, so disappointed. I am a fan of this genre and have read and enjoyed several of William R. Forstchen's books, to include the One Second After series. With that said, I had much higher expectations for this book. I regret to say that I could not even make it through the final portion. The book is very slow, exceedingly repetitive, childishly clichéd, and poorly researched (at least from the standpoint of all things that are not the science of solar astronomy). The characters are largely unsympathetic stereotypes of how the author perceives people in certain professions. The two main characters, a husband and wife, are so improbably devised and professionally connected that the story lacks believability straight out of the gate. She is an expert weapons customizer for special operations forces with mad commando-like shooting skills, a high level security clearance, and sat phone that connects her to the highest levels of the special operations command structure...even though she is retired. He is a former enlisted infantryman with tours in "the Stan" which qualified him to return to the States and immediately assume the position of police chief. Together with their gun-toting preacher they seize control of an underground facility secured by the Missouri National Guard...see what I mean? Compounding this, they are both (and in her case screechingly so) morally self-righteous, overbearing, and unforgivably dim-witted. I decided it was time to put the book down when I found myself rooting for the bad guys. In contrast to his prior works, Forstchen really mailed this one in from a research standpoint. While his characters explain, re-explain, and re-re-explain CMEs, CPEs, and ELEs ad nauseum, Forstchen stumbles epically over the much more mundane facts related to the military, police, weapons, governmental institutions, and political machinery - which are equally vital to his story. There are countless examples of distracting factual inaccuracies, but I will just put this one out there as emblematic of what I am saying. The main protagonist shares a room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with a Marine sergeant SEAL. Just let that sink in. Later in the book he refers to a Navy SEAL as "colonel" (for those who may not be aware, SEALs are Navy, Marines are not SEALS, and Navy does not use the rank "colonel." I know that some reading this will dismiss my complaints on this point as insider military baseball. However, as I previously indicated, these are just two examples of the relentless mistakes that plague this book and detract from its readability. C'mon Bill, two minutes on Mr. Google would have cured much that ills your book. What Mr. Google cannot do is make the storyline more compelling, the characters less obnoxious, the central mission less ridiculously improbable, and the characters' backstories something more than laughable. Save yourself the credit. There are so many great books in this genre, don't waste a minute of your irretrievable time on this one. W. Forstchen does an excellent job capturing the inner struggle of man, both civilized and savage. Although while listening to it I kept thinking, if this story would come to pass. How We humans would only be thinking about ourselves and not the millions of other beautiful creatures God created. Would we really want to go on if 90% of all life was destroyed? I think that would be such a bleak world. After listening to the entire "John Matherson" series and greatly enjoying it, I was looking forward to listening to "48 Hours". Having just finished it, I can definitely state that the summary description on Amazon and Audible is extremely misleading. There is nothing in the book about turning the entire grid off in preparation for a CME; instead, as others have mentioned, one CME has already hit, and something bigger is on the way next. But in no way do the characters prepare for the event in the manner mentioned in the summary. It's almost like someone wrote the summary based on the first draft of a book that was scrapped and then rewritten from a different perspective. The story itself was good, but definitely repetitive. The multiple descriptions of what CMEs are and how they can affect the planet were completely unnecessary. Sure, many readers need the first description of them, but then to have the main scientist pretty much repeat what was just said a couple of chapters earlier was ridiculous. The performance by the narrator was, for the most part, good. I did find his portrayal of Dr. Carrington to be overly whiny, especially in the second half of the book. This got to be annoying to the point that I could not wait for the scenes with Carrington to end. It's great when a narrator actually puts some emotions into the dialog, and he did a good job of bringing the scenes alive, but just overdid it a little in some places. Overall, it was good, but not nearly on the level of the "Matherson" series. The book is a different offering the the Matherson series. Once I got my head around that I really got into the story. Well written although I will agree with other reviewers that the book was overly redundant with the explanation of CME. On the narration. Bronson Pinchot is very talented and I like his narration of characters as long as said character is not stressed. When characters get angry or stressed they are turn into whiny screaming banshees that all sound the same. This is true across several books that Pinchot has narrated and it drive me at insane. Even characters that I think authors intent to be like able turn into whiny children when narrated. If Pinchot could changed this aspect of his narration he would be once of my favorites. Instead many books have nearly been ruined for me including this one. This will be the last audio book I buy narrated by Pinchot unless I see reviews that he has improved this part of his narrations. Don't waste your credit. Even at 2.5X this book is very sloooow. I wanted to like it. I liked the story. Very repetitive though. I just want to say something about the narrator. If you have listened to books 2 and 3 of the John Masterton series you may get what im trying to say. Every time he says something with a raised voice in a fake souther accent it takes you right back to the One Second After series. I could pick out the characters in the other series so easily. I hear a loud HELL and i think of Forest or I hear a DAMN andi think of Ernie. I wanted to know the ending. Its the only reason i finished it. His normal voice is very good. I feel so strongly about the narrator's southern accent that i want to read the book on my kindle in a few months. The narrator does an excellent job once again. However, the story is very slow to develop and the characters are flat and undeveloped. This is a far cry from the author's prior works. I'm about halfway through but I don't have the time to spare to even finish it. the novel's characters were either good or bad. Almost immediately after meeting a character you know which category the person falls into. So wordy, repetitive and rambling there were times I wanted to scream at the narrator to just shut up. Overall it was not a good book and a bit preachy. Really enjoyed this listen thought provoking and enlightening must listen. A true reflection of how things are currently with half the population lost in populist rhetoric and self indulging politics set to destroy our civil society.

Nathan Burton blends illusion, showgirls and comedy into a family-friendly show at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. Join an all-ages crowd at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, and let Burton work his on-stage magic by reading minds, disappearing ladies and keeping the Sin City spirit alive with fun and flair. It's a great way to begin your evening in Vegas!

\section{Introduction} Given a number $\rho>0$, we consider the non-local mean-field equation \begin{equation}\label{eq0} (-\Delta)^\frac{1}{2} u=\rho\frac{e^{u}}{\int_{I}e^{u}dx},\quad I=(-1,1) \end{equation} subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition \begin{equation}\label{dir} u\equiv 0\quad \textrm{in } \mathbb{R}\setminus I. \end{equation} There are different ways to define the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^\frac12$ and therefore make sense of Problem \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir}. Consider the space of functions $L_{\frac12}(\mathbb{R})$ defined by \begin{equation} L_{\frac12}(\mathbb{R})=\left\{ u\in L^{1}_{\loc}(\mathbb{R}): \int_{\mathbb{R}}\frac{|u(x)|}{1+|x|^2}dx <\infty \right\}. \end{equation} For a function $u\in L_{\frac12}(\mathbb{R})$ one can define $(-\Delta)^{\frac12}u$ as a tempered distribution as follows: \begin{equation}\label{deffrlap} \langle (-\Delta)^{\frac12}u,\varphi \rangle := \int_{\mathbb{R}{}} u(-\Delta)^{\frac12}\varphi dx, \quad \varphi\in \M{S}, \end{equation} where $\M{S}$ denotes the Schwartz space of rapidly decreasing smooth functions and for $\varphi\in\M{S}$ we set $$(-\Delta)^\frac12\varphi:=\mathcal{F}^{-1}(|\cdot |\hat{\varphi}).$$ Here the Fourier transform is defined by $$ \hat \varphi(\xi)\equiv \mathcal{F} \varphi(\xi):=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{\mathbb{R}{}}e^{-ix\xi}\varphi(x)\, dx.$$ Notice that the convergence of the integral in \eqref{deffrlap} follows from the fact that for $\varphi\in \M{S}$ one has $$|(-\Delta)^\frac12\varphi(x)| \le C(1+|x|^{2})^{-1}.$$ If $u\in C^{0,\alpha}(I)$ we can also define $$(-\Delta)^\frac12 u(x):=\frac{1}{\pi}P.V. \int_{\mathbb{R}} \frac{u(x)-u(y)}{(x-y)^2}dy,\quad x\in I.$$ These definitions are equivalent for the functions that we shall consider, namely function in $C^{0,\frac12}(\mathbb{R})$ vanishing outside $I$. In fact, every solution to \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir} lies in $C^{0,\frac12}(\mathbb{R})$, see e.g. Corollary 1.6 of \cite{RS}, and it is smooth inside $I$ by a standard bootstrap argument. Therefore there is no loss of generality in working only with functions in $C^{0,\frac12}(\mathbb{R})\cap C^\infty(I)$. \medskip In this paper we shall develop some tools to treat existence and non-existence for problem \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir}. In spite of the possibility of working with the extention of $u$ to the upper half-plane, i.e. of localizing the problem as often done, we will only use \emph{purely non-local} methods, that can be best extended to treat also non-local \emph{higher-dimensional} cases. \medskip In dimension $2$ the analog of Problem \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir} is \begin{equation}\label{eq2d} -\Delta u=\rho\frac{e^{u}}{\int_{\Omega}e^{u}dx}\text{ in }\Omega,\quad u=0\text{ on }\partial\Omega,\quad \Omega\Subset\mathbb{R}^2 \end{equation} where $\Omega$ is smoothly bounded. As proven in \cite{CLMP} using variational arguments (minimization of a suitable functional) and in \cite{Kie} via probabilistic methods, Problem \eqref{eq2d} has a solution for every $\rho\in (0,8\pi)$. The threshold $8\pi$ is sharp since when $\Omega$ is star-shaped \eqref{eq2d} has no solution for every $\rho\ge 8\pi$ by the Pohozaev identity. If, on the other hand, $\Omega$ is not simply connected or it is replaced by a closed Riemann surface $(\Sigma,g)$ of genus at least $1$, in which case \eqref{eq2d} is replaced by \begin{equation}\label{eq2d'} -\Delta_g u=\rho\left(\frac{e^{u}}{\int_{\Sigma }e^{u}dv_g}-1\right)\text{ in }\Sigma, \end{equation} Ding-Jost-Li-Wang \cite{DJLW} proved that \eqref{eq2d'} admits a solution for every $\rho\in (8\pi,16\pi)$. Struwe and Tarantello \cite{ST} independently proved a similar result on the flat torus and for $\rho\in (8\pi, 4\pi^2)$. For a general closed surface (including a sphere) Malchiodi \cite{Mal} proved existence for every $\rho\not\in 8\pi \mathbb{N}$, using the barycenter technique, see also \cite{Dja}. \medskip An important tool in proving such existence results is an a priori study of the blowing-up behavior of sequences $(u_k)$ of solutions to \eqref{eq2d} or \eqref{eq2d'} with $\rho=\rho_k$. This was performed by Brezis-Merle \cite{BM} and Li-Shafrir \cite{LS} for the Liouville equation, which arises from \eqref{eq2d} by adding a constant. Theses seminal works have several extensions to even dimension $4$ and higher, see e.g. \cite{wei},\cite{RW} and \cite{MP}, using higher-dimensional compactness results, see e.g. \cite{mar2}. In order to study the $1$-dimensional case we will need the following analogue non-local blow-up result. \begin{trm}\label{trm1} Let $u_k$ be a sequence of solutions to \eqref{eq0}, \eqref{dir} with $\rho=\rho_k>0$. Then up to a subsequence one of the following is true: \begin{itemize} \item[(i)] $(u_k)$ is bounded in $C^{0,\tfrac12}(\mathbb{R})\cap C^\ell_{\loc}(I)$ for every $\ell\in\mathbb{N}$. \item[(ii)] $\lim_{k\to\infty} u_k(0)=\infty$ \begin{equation}\label{quant_1} \rho_k\uparrow2\pi\quad \text{as }k\to \infty. \end{equation} Moreover, for $0<\sigma<\frac12$ \begin{equation}\label{green_1} u_k\to 2\pi G_{0}\quad \text{in }C^{0,\sigma}_{\loc}(\mathbb{R} \backslash \{0\}), \end{equation} where $G_0$ is the Green function of $(-\Delta)^\frac12$ on $I$ with Dirichlet boundary condition. \end{itemize} \end{trm} Let us notice that if we replace the right-hand side of \eqref{eq0} with the nonlinearity $e^{u^2}$, nonlocal compactness problems have been studied in \cite{IMM} and \cite{MMS}, but the techniques used there are different, for instance because of the lack of a Pohozaev-type identity. In fact a result analog to \eqref{green_1} is still unknown in the fractional case, although in dimension $2$ it was recently proven by Druet-Thizy \cite{DT}, see also \cite{MM}. \medskip Using Theorem \ref{trm1} and Schauder's fixed-point theorem we are able to prove the following result about existence and non-existence. \begin{trm}\label{trm2} There exists a non-trivial non-negative solution $u=u_\rho$ to \eqref{eq0}\eqref{dir} if and only if $\rho\in (0,2\pi)$. Moreover, $$u_\rho(0)\to\infty\quad\text{as }\rho\uparrow 2\pi.$$ \end{trm} Although our method is topological, it is plausible that a variational argument in the spirit of \cite{CLMP} can also be employed. The non-existence for $\rho\ge 2\pi$ follows at once from a Pohozaev-type inequality (see Proposition \ref{poho}), consistently with the non-existence in dimension $2$ when the domain is star-shaper. Notice that the critical threshold $2\pi$ in Theorem \ref{trm2} corresponds to the value $8\pi$ for Problems \eqref{eq2d} and \eqref{eq2d'}. The last statement of Theorem \ref{trm2} is about the existence of blowing-up sequences of solutions, namely it shows that the situation presented in Case \emph{(ii)} of Theorem \ref{trm1} actually occurs. The proof will follow by contradiction, together with the non-existence result of $\rho=2\pi$. In dimension $2$ and higher, several such results (sometimes very subtle) are obtained by the Lyapunuv-Schmidt reduction. For instance, when $\Omega$ is simply connected, Weston \cite{Wes} proved existence of solutions to \eqref{eq2d} blowing-up on a critical point of the Robin function of $\Omega$, and \cite{DJLW} extended this result to the non-simply connected case. Multi-peak solutions have also been constructed, starting with the seminal work of Baraket-Pacard\cite{BP}, see e.g. the work \cite{Esp} and its references. We also mention that in dimension $2$, when $\Omega$ is simply connected and $\rho\in (0,8\pi)$, Suzuki \cite{Suz} proved uniqueness of solutions for Problems \eqref{eq2d}. It is reasonable to expect that the same holds in $1$ dimension for \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir}. \paragraph{Acknowledgements} We are grateful to Francesca Da Lio for reading the manuscript and for very useful remarks and to Gabriele Mancini for interesting conversations. The first, second and third author have been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation projects n. PP00P2-144669, PP00P2-170588/1 and P2BSP2-172064. The first author is also partially supported by Spanish government grants MTM2014-52402-C3-1-P and MTM2017-85757-P. The fourth author is supported by a Simons fellowship. \section{Preliminaries} We shall use the Green function defined by the formula \begin{align}\label{Green} G_x(y)&:=\tfrac{1}{\pi}\left(\log(\sqrt{(1-|x|^2)(1-|y|^2)}+1-xy)-\log|x-y|\right) \notag\\ &=:-\tfrac{1}{\pi}\log|x-y|+H(x,y), \quad x,y\in I \end{align} and $G_x(y)=0$ for $x\in I$, $y\in \mathbb{R}\setminus I$. It is well-known (see e.g. \cite{Green1}) that \begin{equation}\label{DeltaGreen} (-\Delta)^\frac12 G_x = \delta_x\quad \text{for }x\in I. \end{equation} As usual, using the Green function we can write solutions to \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir} in terms of a Green representation formula. \begin{lemma}\label{green} A function $u\in C^\frac{1}{2}(\mathbb{R})\cap C^\infty(I)$ solves \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir} if and only if $$u(x)=\rho \int_I G_x(y) \frac{e^{u(y)}}{\int_{I}e^{ u(\xi)}d\xi} dy.$$ \end{lemma} \begin{proof} This standard proof can be found for instance in the proof of \cite[Proposition 7]{MarAMT} (Identity (15) in particular). \end{proof} \begin{cor}\label{upos} If $u$ solves \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir}, then $u> 0$ in $I$. \end{cor} In the following lemma we apply a non-local version of the famous moving-plane technique. \begin{lemma}\label{MP} Let $u\in C^\frac{1}{2}(\mathbb{R})\cap C^\infty(I)$ solve \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir}. Then $u$ is even and decreasing, in the sense that $u(x)=u(-x)$ and $u(x)\ge u(y)$ for $0\le x\le y$. \end{lemma} \begin{proof} This follows at once from the moving plane technique, see Theorem \ref{MP_Ap} in the Appendix. \end{proof} \begin{prop}\label{poho} Let $\hat{u}\in C^\frac{1}{2}(\mathbb{R})\cap C^\infty(I)$ be a solution to $$\hat u(x)=\int_I G_x(y)e^{\hat u(y)}dy+c,$$ for some $c\in\mathbb{R}$. Then for $$ \rho:=\int_I e^{\hat u(y)}dy,$$ we have $\rho<2\pi$. \end{prop} \begin{proof} We fix $\psi\in C^1((0,\infty))$ such that $\psi=0$ on $[0,1)$ and $\psi=1$ on $(2,\infty)$. Set for $\varepsilon >0$ small enough, $\psi_\varepsilon(x):=\psi(\frac x\varepsilon)$. We can rewrite $\hat u$ as \begin{align}\label{hatu}\hat u(x)=\frac1\pi\int_I\log\left(\frac{1}{|x-y|}\right)\psi_\varepsilon(|x-y|)e^{\hat u(y)}dy+\int_{I}H(x,y)e^{\hat u(y)}dy+w(x)+c,\end{align} where \begin{equation}\label{w} w(x):=w_{\psi,\varepsilon}(x):=\frac1\pi\int_I\log\left(\frac{1}{|x-y|}\right)(1-\psi_\varepsilon(|x-y|))e^{\hat u(y)}dy. \end{equation} Note that by definition of $\psi_\varepsilon$ we integrate only on $[-2\varepsilon,2\varepsilon]$, so we obtain $$\|w\|_{L^\infty(I)}\leq C\varepsilon|\log\varepsilon| \|e^{\hat u}\|_{L^\infty(I)}.$$ Moreover, $w\in C^1(I)$, which follows from $\hat u \in C^1(I)$. Differentiating under the integral sign in \eqref{hatu} we get $$\hat u'(x)=\frac1\pi \int_I\frac{\partial }{\partial x}\left( \log\frac{1}{|x-y|}\psi_\varepsilon(|x-y|)\right)e^{\hat u(y)}dy+\int_I\frac{\partial }{\partial x}H(x,y)e^{\hat u(y)}dy+w'(x).$$ We define $I_1$ as the quantity that we obtain multiplying the above identity by $xe^{\hat u(x)}$ and integrating over $I$, i.e, \begin{equation*} I_1:=\int_I x\hat u'(x)e^{\hat u(x)}dx. \end{equation*} On the one hand, since $\hat{u}$ is even by Lemma \ref{MP}, integration by parts yields \begin{equation}\label{I_1_1} I_1=2e^{\hat u(1)}-\int_I e^{\hat u}dx=2e^{\hat u(1)}-\rho. \end{equation} On the other hand, by definition \begin{align*} I_1&=\frac1\pi\int_I \int_Ix\frac{\partial }{\partial x}\left( \log\frac{1}{|x-y|}\psi_\varepsilon(|x-y|)\right)e^{\hat u(y)}e^{\hat u(x)}dydx \\ &\qquad+\int_I\int_Ix\frac{\partial }{\partial x}H(x,y)e^{\hat u(y)}e^{\hat u(x)}dydx+\int_Iw'(x)xe^{\hat u(x)}dx\\ &=:I_2+I_3+I_4. \end{align*}Using that $\psi_\varepsilon=0$ on $[0,\varepsilon]$ we obtain \begin{align*} I_2&=\frac1\pi\int_I\int_I x\left(- \frac{\psi_\varepsilon(|x-y|)}{x-y}+\log\frac{1}{|x-y|}\psi_\varepsilon'(|x-y|)\frac{x-y}{|x-y|}\right)e^{\hat u(y)}e^{\hat u(x)}dydx\\ &=-\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_I\int_ I \psi_\varepsilon(|x-y|)e^{\hat u(y)}e^{\hat u(x)}dydx-\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_I\int_ I F(x,y)dydx\\&\quad +\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_I\int_ I \log\frac{1}{|x-y|}|x-y|\psi_\varepsilon'(|x-y|) e^{\hat u(y)}e^{\hat u(x)}dydx \\ &=:J_1+J_2+J_3, \end{align*} where $$F(x,y):=\frac{x+y}{x-y}\left( \psi_\varepsilon(|x-y|)-\log\frac{1}{|x-y|}\psi_\varepsilon'(|x-y|)|x-y|\right)e^{\hat u(y)}e^{\hat u(x)}.$$ By dominated convergence theorem, using the definition and regularity of $\psi$ we can assert $$J_1\xrightarrow{\varepsilon\to0} -\frac{\rho^2}{2\pi},\quad J_3\xrightarrow{\varepsilon\to0}0.$$ Moreover, since $F(x,y)=-F(y,x)$, we have $J_2=0$. Therefore, we get \begin{equation}\label{I_2} I_2\xrightarrow{\varepsilon\to0}-\frac{\rho^2}{2\pi}. \end{equation} We claim now that $I_3<0$. To prove it, we first compute \begin{align*} x\frac{\partial }{\partial x}H(x,y)&=x\frac1\pi\frac{\partial }{\partial x}\log\left( \sqrt{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)}+1-xy\right)\\ &=\frac{x}{\pi}\frac{-y-x\sqrt{\frac{1-y^2}{1-x^2}}}{\sqrt{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)}+1-xy}\\ &\leq \frac{x}{\pi}\frac{-y }{\sqrt{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)}+1-xy}, \end{align*} This inequality together with Lemma \ref{MP} (which implies $\hat u(-x)=\hat u(x)$) prove the claim as follows \begin{align*} I_3&\leq \frac{-1}{\pi}\int_I\int_I\frac{xy }{\sqrt{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)}+1-xy}e^{\hat u_k(y)}e^{\hat u_k(x)}dydx\\ &=:\frac{-2}{\pi}\int_0^1\int_0^1 K(x,y)e^{\hat u_k(y)}e^{\hat u_k(x)}dydx\\ &<0, \end{align*} where the last inequality follows from $$K(x,y):=xy\left( \frac{1 }{\sqrt{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)}+1-xy}-\frac{1 }{\sqrt{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)}+1+xy}\right)>0$$ on $ (0,1)\times(0,1)$. Finally we show that $I_4\to0$ as $\varepsilon\to 0$. Indeed, integration by parts and the bound for the function $w$ defined in \eqref{w} hold \begin{align*} I_4=-\int_I (1+\hat u')e^{\hat u}w dx+o_\varepsilon(1)=o_\varepsilon(1)+o_\varepsilon(1)\int_I |\hat u'|e^{\hat u}dx \xrightarrow{\varepsilon\to0}0, \end{align*} where we used that $\hat u'e^{\hat u}\in L^1(I)$. Indeed, by Lemma \ref{MP}, $\hat u'\leq 0$ on $(0,1)$, so we have $$\int_0^1 |\hat u'|e^{\hat u}dx=\int_0^1 -(e^{\hat u})'dx=(e^{\hat u(0)}-1)<\infty.$$ Summarising, we obtain that $$I_1=I_2+I_3+I_4<I_2+I_4\xrightarrow{\varepsilon\to0}-\frac{\rho^2}{2\pi},$$ The proposition follows immediately from \eqref{I_1_1}. \end{proof} \section{Proof of Theorem \ref{trm1}} We set \begin{align}\label{ukhat} \hat u_k:=u_k-\alpha_k,\quad \alpha_k:=\log\bigg(\frac{\int_I e^{u_k}dx}{\rho_k}\bigg). \end{align} Using Lemma \ref{green} we write \begin{equation}\label{ukhatrep} \hat u_k(x)=\int_I G_x(y)e^{ \hat u_k(y)}dy-\alpha_k,\quad \int_Ie^{\hat u_k}dx=\rho_k, \end{equation} and \begin{equation}\label{ukrep} u_k(x)=\int_I G_x(y)e^{ \hat u_k(y)}dy. \end{equation} If $\hat u_k(0)\leq C$, then by \eqref{ukrep} $u_k$ is bounded in $C^{0,\alpha}([-1,1])$ for every $\alpha\in [0,\tfrac{1}{2}]$ and in $C^\ell_{\loc}(-1,1)$ for $\ell\ge 0$, so that possibility $(i)$ in the theorem occurs. In the following we assume that $\hat u_k(0)\to\infty$ and we shall set $$r_k:=2e^{-\hat u_k(0)}\to0.$$ \begin{lemma}\label{conveta} Assume that $\hat u_k(0)\to\infty$. Then we have \begin{itemize} \item[i)] $r_k u_k(0)\to 0$. \item[ii)] $\eta_k(x):=\hat u_k(r_k x)+\log(r_k) \to\eta_0(x):=\log\frac{2}{1+x^2}\quad \text{in }C^{\infty}_{loc}(\mathbb{R}).$ \item[iii)] $\lim_{R\to\infty}\lim_{k\to\infty}\int_{-Rr_k}^{Rr_k}e^{\hat u_k}dx=2\pi.$ \item[iv)] $\alpha_k\to\infty$. \item[v)] $\hat u_k\to-\infty$ in $C^0_{loc}(\bar I\setminus\{0\})$. \end{itemize} \end{lemma} \begin{proof} \noindent\textbf{Step 1} We show that $r_k u_k(0)\to0$. Indeed from \eqref{ukrep}, for every $\delta>0$ \begin{align*}u_k(0)&= \left(\int_{|y|<\delta}+\int_{\delta<|y|<1}\right)G_0(y)e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy\\ &\leq e^{\hat u_k(0)}\int_{|y|<\delta}G_0(y)dy+e^{\hat u_k(\delta)}\int_{\delta<|y|<1}G_0(y)dy\\ &\leq C e^{\hat u_k(0)}\delta|\log\delta|+e^{\hat u_k(\delta)} .\end{align*} Note that for both inequalities we have used that, by Lemma \ref{MP}, $\hat{u}$ is decreasing on $|y|$. Since $\delta>0$ is arbitrary small, and $\hat u_k(\delta)\not \to \infty$ (otherwise Proposition \ref{poho} would be violated), multiplying both sides of the inequality by $r_k$, letting $k\to \infty$ and $\delta\to 0$ we complete the proof of $i)$. \medskip We will divide the proof of part $ii)$ in three main steps: \noindent\textbf{Step 2} For every $\varepsilon>0$ there exists $R\gg 1$ such that for $k$ large $$\int_{|x|>R}\frac{|\eta_k(x)|}{1+x^2}dx<\varepsilon.$$ On the one hand, by definition of $\eta_k$ and $r_k$ and by \eqref{ukrep} (which implies $u(x)=0$ if $|x|>1$) we obtain that $\eta_k(x)=\log r_k -\alpha_k=\log 2- u_k(0)$ for $|x|>r_k^{-1}$. Then, we can assert that $$\int_{|x|>r_k^{-1}}\frac{|\eta_k(x)|}{1+x^2}dx\leq C u_k(0)r_k\xrightarrow{k\to\infty}0.$$ On the other hand, again by definition of $\eta_k$ and $r_k$ and by \eqref{ukrep}, for $|x|<r_k^{-1}$ we have \begin{align*} \eta_k(x)-\log 2&=u_k(r_k x)-u_k(0)\\ &=\frac1\pi\int_{I}\log\frac{|y|}{|r_kx-y|}e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy+\frac1\pi\int_I(H(r_kx,y)-H(0,y))e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy \\ &=:f_k(x)+g_k(x). \end{align*} First, we bound the first integral as follows. Changing the variable $y\mapsto r_ky$ we obtain $$f_k(x)=\int_{|y|<r_k^{-1}}\log\bra{\frac{|y|}{|x-y|}}e^{\eta_k(y)}dy,$$ and with Fubini's theorem we bound \begin{align}\label{I_R} \int_{I_R}\frac{|f_k(x)|}{1+x^2}dx&\leq C\int_{|y|<r_k^{-1}}e^{\eta_k(y)}\int_{I_R}\left|\log\frac{|y|}{|x-y|}\right|\frac{dx}{1+x^2}dy,\quad I_R:=(-r_k^{-1},r_k^{-1})\setminus(-R,R). \end{align} We claim that for $R$ sufficiently large $$\int_{I_R}\frac{|f_k(x)|}{1+x^2}dx<\varepsilon.$$ By the previous bound \eqref{I_R}, this would follow immediately once we prove \begin{align}\label{fk}\int_{I_R}\left|\log\frac{|y|}{|x-y|}\right|\frac{dx}{1+x^2}<\varepsilon\quad\text{for }|y|\geq 1.\end{align} Note that the inequality is trivial if $|y|<1$. Splitting $I_R$ into $$I_R=\cup_{i=1}^3A_i,\quad A_1:=\{|x|\leq \frac{|y|}{2}\}\cap I_R,\quad A_2:=\{|x|\geq 2|y|\}\cap I_R,\quad A_3:=I_R\setminus (A_1\cup A_2)$$ we write $$\int_{I_R}\left|\log\frac{|y|}{|x-y|}\right|\frac{dx}{1+x^2}=\sum_{i=1}^3\int_{A_i}\left|\log\frac{|y|}{|x-y|}\right|\frac{dx}{1+x^2}=:(I_1)+(I_2)+(I_3).$$ Using that $|x-y|\approx |y|$ on $A_1$ one gets $$(I_1)\leq C\int_{|x|>R}\frac{dx}{1+x^2}<\frac{\varepsilon}{4}.$$ Since $|x-y|\approx |x|$ on $A_2$ $$(I_2)\leq C\int_{|x|\geq R}\frac{\log |x|}{1+x^2}dx<\frac{\varepsilon}{4}\quad\text{for }|y|\geq 1.$$ Finally, we have $|y|\approx |x|$ on $A_3$, and using the assumption $|y|\geq 1$, we get for $R$ large enough \begin{align*}(I_3)&\leq C\int_{|x|\geq R}\frac{\log |x|}{1+x^2}dx+C\min\{\frac{1}{R^2},\frac{1}{y^2} \}\int_{A_3}|\log|x-y||dx\\ &\leq \frac{\varepsilon}{8} +C\min\{\frac{1}{R^2},\frac{1}{y^2} \}|y|\log(1+|y|)\\ &<\frac{\varepsilon}{4}. \end{align*} This proves \eqref{fk}. Using that $|H(x,y)|\leq C+|\log (1-|x|)|$, one easily gets $$\int_{I_R}\frac{|g_k(x)|}{1+x^2}dx<\varepsilon\quad\text{for } R\gg1.$$ Step 2 follows. \medskip \noindent\textbf{Step 3} (Equicontinuity) For every $\varepsilon>0$ and $R>0$ there exists $\delta=\delta(\varepsilon,R)>0$ such that $$|\eta_k(x_1)-\eta_k(x_2)|<\varepsilon\quad\text{for }|x_1-x_2|<\delta\text{ with }x_1,x_2\in (-R,R).$$ We have \begin{align*} \eta_k(x_1)-\eta_k(x_2)&=\frac1\pi\int_{I}\log\frac{|r_kx_2-y|}{|r_kx_1-y|}e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy+\frac1\pi\int_I(H(r_kx_1,y)-H(r_kx_2,y))e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy \\ &=:f_k(x_1,x_2)+g_k(x_1,x_2). \end{align*} It is easy to see, using the continuity of $H$, that $|g_k(x_1,x_2)|<\varepsilon$ if $\delta>0$ is sufficiently small. For $M\gg R$ \begin{align*} |f_k(x_1,x_2)|&\leq\frac1\pi\left( \int_{|y|\leq Mr_k}+\int_{Mr_k\leq |y|\leq 1}\right)\left|\log\frac{|r_kx_2-y|}{|r_kx_1-y|}\right|e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy\\ &=\frac1\pi\int_{|y|\leq M}\left|\log\frac{|x_2-y|}{|x_1-y|}\right|e^{\eta_k(y)}dy+\frac1\pi\int_{M\leq |y|\leq r_k^{-1}}\left|\log\frac{|x_2-y|}{|x_1-y|}\right|e^{\eta_k(y)}dy\\ &=:(I)+(II). \end{align*} As $\eta_k\leq \log 2$, for every fixed $M>0$ we can choose $\delta>0$ so that $(I)<\varepsilon$. Since $$\frac{|x_2-y|}{|x_1-y|}=1+|x_1-x_2|O(\frac1M)\quad \text{for }x_1,x_2\in (-R,R)\text{ and }|y|\geq M>>R,$$ one gets $$(II)\leq \frac CM|x_1-x_2|\int_{|y|\leq r_k^{-1}}e^{\eta_k(y)}dy \leq \frac CM|x_1-x_2|\leq C\frac\delta M.$$ This proves Step 3. \medskip \noindent\textbf{Step 4} (Up to a subsequence) $\eta_k\to \eta$ in $C^0_{loc}(\mathbb{R})$ where $\eta$ satisfies ($\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$ is the Schwartz space) $$\int_\mathbb{R} \eta(-\Delta)^\frac12\varphi dx=\int_\mathbb{R} e^\eta\varphi dx\quad\text{for every }\varphi\in\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}).$$ This follows directly, by Ascoli-Arzel\'a Theorem, from Steps 2 and 3. Then, by a classification results, see e.g. \cite[Theorem 1.8]{DMR} or \cite[Theorem 1.7]{DM}, $\eta= \eta_0$, and $ii)$ is proven. Moreover, as a corollary of $ii)$ we obtain $iii)$: $$\lim_{R\to\infty}\lim_{k\to\infty}\int_{-Rr_k}^{Rr_k}e^{\hat u_k}dx=\lim_{R\to\infty}\int_{-R}^{R}\frac{2}{1+x^2}dx=2\pi.$$ \medskip \noindent\textbf{Step 5} We prove here $\alpha_k\to\infty$. Assume by contradiction that $\alpha_k\not\to\infty$. Then for every $\varepsilon>0$ and for $k$ large, from \eqref{ukhatrep}, and together with $ii)$ $$\hat u_k(x)\geq \frac{1}{\pi}\int_{I}\log\left(\frac{1}{|x-y|}\right)e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy-C\geq \frac32\log \frac{1}{|x|}-C,\quad \varepsilon\leq |x|\leq 1 .$$ This contradicts $\rho_k<2\pi$, thanks to Proposition \ref{poho}. Thus, part $iv)$ is proved. \medskip \noindent\textbf{Step 6} $\hat u_k\to-\infty$ in $C^0_{loc}(\bar I\setminus\{0\})$. Since $\hat u_k$ is monotone decreasing, it is sufficient to show that $\hat u_k(\varepsilon)\to-\infty$ for every $\varepsilon>0$. As $\hat u_k(\frac \ve2)\not\to\infty$, which follows from $\rho_k<2\pi$ and the monotonicity of $\hat u_k$, we have\begin{align*}\hat u_k(\varepsilon)+\alpha_k&\leq C(1+|\log\varepsilon|)+\frac1\pi\int_{|y-\varepsilon|<\frac\ve2} \log\left(\frac{1}{|\varepsilon-y|}\right)e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy\\ &\leq C(1+|\log\varepsilon|)+Ce^{\hat u_k(\frac\ve2)} \\ &\leq C(\varepsilon).\end{align*} This bound, together with Step 5, implies Step 6. In this way, we have proved part $v)$, and with it, the whole Lemma. \end{proof} \begin{lemma}\label{convGreen} For $\sigma\in (0,\frac12)$ we have \begin{equation}\label{limuk} u_k\to 2\pi G_0\text{ in }C^{0,\sigma}_{\loc}(\bar I\setminus \{0\}). \end{equation} \end{lemma} \begin{proof} \textbf{$C^0$ convergence:} We write \begin{align*}u_k(x)-2\pi G_0(x)&=\int_I \left(G_x(y)-G_0(x)\right)e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy+(\rho_k-2\pi)G_0(x)\\ &=:v_k(x)+(\rho_k-2\pi)G_0(x). \end{align*} It follows that $(\rho_k-2\pi)G_0\to0$ in $C^\infty(\bar I)$, thanks to Proposition \ref{poho} and part $iii)$ of Lemma \ref{conveta}. For $0<\varepsilon\leq |x|\leq 1$ we have $$|G_x(y)-G_0(x)|\ll\varepsilon\quad\text{if }|y|\ll\varepsilon $$ and $$|G_x(y)-G_0(x)|\leq C+C|\log|x-y||+C|\log (1-|y|)|\quad\text{for } |y|<1.$$ This bound together with part $v)$ of Lemma \ref{conveta} would imply $v_k\to0$ in $C^0_{loc}(\bar I\setminus\{0\})$. We claim that $$[u_k]_{C^{0,\frac12}((\varepsilon,1))}\leq C(\varepsilon)\quad\text{for every } \varepsilon>0. $$ Then the $C^{0,\sigma}_{\loc}(\bar I\setminus\{0\})$ convergence for $\sigma<\frac12$ will follow immediately from the Ascoli-Arzerl\`a Theorem. For $x\in (\varepsilon,1)$ and $h>0$ with $x+h\leq 1$ we have \begin{align*}u_k(x+h)-u_k(x)&=\frac1\pi\int_I\log\frac{|x-y|}{|x+h-y|}e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy+\int_I(H(x+h,y)-H(x,y))e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy\\ &=:I_1+I_2\end{align*} Since $$\log\frac{|x-y|}{|x+h-y|}=O_\varepsilon(h)\quad \text{for }|y|\leq\frac\ve2,\quad x\geq\varepsilon,\quad h>0,$$ and $\hat u_k\to-\infty$ in $C^0_{loc}(\bar I\setminus\{0\})$ by part $v)$ in Lemma \ref{conveta}, we obtain \begin{align*} |I_1|\leq C_\varepsilon h+C\int_{I}\left| \log\frac{|x-y|}{|x+h-y|}\right|dy\leq C_\varepsilon h|\log h|. \end{align*} In order to bound $I_2$ we use \begin{align}&H(x+h,y)-H(x,y)\notag\\&=\int_0^1\frac{\partial }{\partial t}H(x+th,y)dt \notag\\ &=\frac{h}{\pi}\int_0^1\frac{-y-(x+th)\sqrt{\frac{1-y^2}{1-(x+th)^2}}}{\sqrt{(1-(x+th)^2)(1-y^2)}+1-(x+th)y}dt \notag\\ &=O(h) \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-y^2}}\int_0^1\frac{dt}{\sqrt{1-(x+th)^2}}+O(h)\int_0^1\frac{\sqrt{1-y^2}}{1-(x+th)y}\frac{dt}{\sqrt{1-(x+th)^2}}\notag\\ &=O(h)\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-y^2}}\int_0^1\frac{dt}{\sqrt{1-(x+th)^2}} \notag\\ &=O(h)\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-y^2}}\int_0^1\frac{dt}{\sqrt{1-(x+th)}} \notag\\ &=O(1)\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-y^2}}(\sqrt{1-x}-\sqrt{1-x-h}) \notag\\ &=O(\sqrt h)\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-y^2}}, \label{est-H} \end{align} where, since $x+th\leq 1\quad \forall t\in(0,1)$, 2nd to 3rd equality follows from \begin{align*}\frac{1}{\sqrt{(1-(x+th)^2)(1-y^2)}+1-(x+th)y}& \leq \text{min}\left\{\frac{1}{\sqrt{(1-(x+th)^2)(1-y^2)}}, \frac{1}{1-(x+th)y} \right\} \end{align*} and 3rd to 4th equality follows from $$\frac{\sqrt{1-y^2}}{1-(x+th)y}\leq \frac{\sqrt{1-y^2}}{1-|y|}\leq C\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-y^2}}.$$ Therefore $$|I_2|\leq C\sqrt h\int_I\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-|y|}}e^{\hat u_k(y)}dy\leq C\sqrt h.$$ This proves our claim. \end{proof} \section{Proof of Theorem \ref{trm2}} We set $$X:= C^0([-1,1]),\quad \|u\|_X:=\max_{[-1,1]} |u(x)|.$$ We define $T_\rho:X\to X$ given by $$T_\rho(u)(x):=\rho\int_I G(x,y)\frac{e^{u(y)}}{\int_I e^{u(\xi)} d\xi}dy.$$ \begin{lemma} For every $\rho>0$ the operator $T_\rho$ is compact. \end{lemma} \begin{proof} Let $(u_k)$ be a sequence of functions in $X$ such that $\|u_k\|_X\leq M$. Then, up to a subsequence, $$\int_{I}e^{u_k}dx\to c_0,$$ for some $c_0>0$. Moreover, there exists $C=C(M,\rho)>0$ such that for every $x_1,x_2\in I$ \begin{align*}|T_\rho(u_k)(x_1)-T_\rho(u_k)(x_2)|&\leq C\int_I\left|\log\frac{|x_1-y|}{|x_2-y|}\right|dy+C\int_I|H(x_1,y)-H(x_2,y)|dy\\ &\leq C|x_1-x_2|^\frac12, \end{align*} where we have used that $$|H(x_1,y)-H(x_2,y)|\leq C\sqrt{|x_1-x_2|}(1-|y|)^\frac{-1}{2} ,$$ which follows from \eqref{est-H}. Thus, the sequence $(T_\rho(u_k))$ is bounded in $C^\frac12(I)$, and hence, it is pre-compact in $X$. \end{proof} \medskip \noindent\emph{Proof of Theorem \ref{trm2} (completed).} Non-existence of solutions to \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir} for $\rho\ge 2\pi$ follows at once from Proposition \ref{poho}. We will use the Schauder fixed-point theorem to prove that $T_\rho$ has a fixed point (say) $u_\rho$ for every $\rho\in(0,2\pi)$, which by Lemma \ref{green} will be a solution to \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir}. Fix $\rho\in (0,2\pi)$, and consider any sequence $(t_k,u_k)\in (0,1]\times X$ such that $u_k=t_kT_\rho(u_k)$. Then $u_k$ satisfies \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir} with $\rho$ replaced by $\rho t_k <2\pi$. Therefore, by Theorem \ref{trm1} there exists $C>0$ such that $\|u_k\|_X\leq C$. Hence, by Schauder's theorem, $T_\rho$ has a fixed point in $X$, which is a solution to \eqref{eq0}-\eqref{dir}. For $\rho\in (0,2\pi)$ let $u_\rho\in X$ be a fixed point of $T_\rho$. Since $T_{2\pi}$ does not have a fixed point, thanks to Proposition \ref{poho}, and, since $u_\rho(0)=\max_I u(\rho)$ by Lemma \ref{MP}, we must have $$u_\rho(0)\to\infty\quad \text{as }\rho\uparrow 2\pi.$$ \hfill$\square$ \medskip \section{Appendix}\label{Hopf} We present here a self-contained proof of the non-local moving-plane technique in the simple case of an interval. It will be based on the following non-local Hopf-type lemma, which is now a rather classical result (see e.g. \cite[Theorem 1]{CL}, \cite[Lemma 1.2]{GS} or \cite[Lemma 2.7]{IMS}). We present a proof here, since we could not find a reference fitting our assumptions, and the same result can be used in other fractional problems on an interval, see e.g. \cite{MM2}. \begin{lemma} [Hopf-type lemma]\label{HL} Let $w\in L^\infty(\mathbb{R})\cap C^0(\mathbb{R})$ be a solution to \begin{align*}\left\{ \begin{array}{ll}(-\Delta)^\frac12w(x)=c(x)w(x)&\quad\text{on }(a,0) \\ w(x)=-w(-x)&\quad\text{on }\mathbb{R}\\ w\leq 0&\quad\text{on }(-\infty,0)\end{array}\right.\end{align*} for some bounded function $c$, and $a\in [-\infty,0)$. Assume that $w$ is $C^3$ in a neighborhood of the origin. Then $w\equiv 0$ on $\mathbb{R}$ if and only if $w'(0)=0$. \end{lemma} \begin{proof} We assume by contradiction that $w\not\equiv 0$ on $\mathbb{R}$ and $w'(0)=0$. Then, as $w$ is an odd function, we have $w(0)=w'(0)=w''(0)=0$. Hence, by Taylor expansion, for some $\delta>0$ \begin{align}\label{22}\begin{array}{ll}w(y)-w(x)=(y-x)w'(x)+\frac{(y-x)^2}{2}w''(x)+O((x-y)^3)\\w(x)=O(x^3),\quad w'(x)=O(x^2),\quad w''(x)=O(x), \end{array} \end{align} for every $x,y\in(-\delta,\delta) $. For $x<0$ near the origin we write \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^\frac12w(x)&=\frac1\pi P.V.\int_{\mathbb{R}} \frac{w(x)-w(y)}{(x-y)^2}dy\\&=\frac1\pi \left(P.V.\int_{y<0}K(x,y)(w(x)-w(y))dy+2\int_{y<0}\frac{w(x)}{(x+y)^2}dy\right)\\ &=:\frac1\pi \left[P.V.(I)+(II)\right],\end{align*} where $$K(x,y):=\left(\frac{1}{(x-y)^2}-\frac{1}{(x+y)^2} \right)> 0\quad\text{on }(-\infty,0)\times(-\infty,0).$$ This implies that $w<0$ on $(a,0)$, since if $w(x)=0$ for some $x\in (a,0)$, we would have $$0=(-\Delta)^\frac{1}{2}w(x)= -P.V.\int_{y<0}K(x,y)w(y)dy<0,$$ contradiction. Consequently, $w\leq -M$ on $(a_1,a_2)$ for some $M>0$ and $a<a_1<a_2<0$. For $x<0$ very close to the origin and for $|a_2|>>\varepsilon>>|x|$ we split $(-\infty,0)$ into $(-\infty,0)=\cup_{i=1}^5A_i$ where $$ A_1:=(2x,0),\quad A_2=(-\varepsilon,2x), \quad A_3:=(a_1,a_2), \quad A_4:= (a_2,-\varepsilon),\quad A_5:=(-\infty,a_1).$$ We now write $$(I)=\sum_{i=1}^5I_i,\quad I_i:=\int_{A_i}K(x,y)(w(x)-w(y))dy.$$ Using \eqref{22} we obtain $$\int_{A_1}\frac{w(x)-w(y)}{(x+y)^2}dy=O(x^2).$$ Therefore, as $I_1$ is in the PV sense, again by \eqref{22} $$I_1=O(x^2)+PV \int_{2x}^0\frac{w'(x)+\frac12(x-y) w''(x)+O((x-y)^2)}{x-y}dy=O(x^2).$$ From $$K(x,y)|x-y|^3\leq 4|x|\quad\text{and }K(x,y)\leq \frac{1}{(x-y)^2}\quad\text{for }y\in A_2,$$ and \eqref{22} one gets $$I_2=O(\varepsilon)|x|.$$ Since $K(x,y)\approx |x|$ and $w(x)-w(y)\geq \frac M2$ for $y\in A_3$, we obtain $$I_3\geq c_1 |x|\quad\text{for some }c_1>0.$$ Now we fix $\varepsilon>0$ small enough so that $$|I_1|+|I_2|\leq \frac 14c_1|x|.$$ Then, for $\varepsilon>>-x>0$ we have $w(x)-w(y)>0$ for $y\in A_4$, which leads to $I_4>0.$ Recalling that $w\leq 0$ on $(-\infty,0)$, we have $w(x)-w(y)\geq w(x)=O(x^3)$ for $y\in A_5$, which gives $I_5\geq O(x^4)$. Thus $$(I)\geq \frac34 c_1|x|+O(x^4). $$ Note that $$(II)=O(x^2).$$ Combining these estimates we obtain $$0=(-\Delta)^\frac12w(x)+c(x)w(x)\geq \frac34 c_1|x|+O(x^2)+c(x)O(x^3)=\frac34 c_1 |x|+O(x^2)>0,$$ for $x<0$ sufficiently small, a contradiction. \end{proof} \begin{trm}\label{MP_Ap} Let $u\in C^\frac{1}{2}(\mathbb{R})\cap C^\infty(I)$ be a solution to \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^\frac12 u=f(u)&\text{in }I\\ u=0& \text{in }\mathbb{R}\setminus I\\ u>0&\text{in }I, \end{array} \right. \] where $f$ is Lipschitz continuous, non-negative and non-decreasing. Then $u$ is even and $u(x)\ge u(y)$ for $0\le x\le y$. \end{trm} \begin{proof} First, we claim that $u$ is monotone decreasing on $(1-\varepsilon,1)$ for some $\varepsilon>0$. Although this follows from Lemma 1.2 in \cite{GS}, we shall give a simple self-contained proof. We write $$u(x)=\frac{1}{\pi}v(x)+ w(x),$$ where $$v(x):= \int_I\log\bra{\frac{1}{|x-y|}}f(u(y))dy,\quad w(x):=\int_IH(x,y)f(u(y))dy,$$ where $H(x,y)$ is as in \eqref{Green}. Differentiating under the integral sign one obtains $w'\leq C$ on $(0,1)$. For $h$ small we have \begin{align*}v(x+h)-v(x)&=f(u(x))\int_I\log\bra{\frac{|x-y|}{|x+h-y|}}dy\\ &\quad +\int_I\log\bra{\frac{|x-y|}{|x+h-y|}}\left(f(u(y))-f(u(x))\right)dy\\ &=:v_1(x,h)+v_2(x,h).\end{align*} Using that $u\in C^\frac12(\mathbb{R})$ one gets $$\lim_{h\to0}\frac{v_2(x,h)}{h}=O(1)\quad\text{on }I.$$ Computing the integral explicitly we obtain $$\lim_{h\to0}\frac{v_1(x,h)}{h}=f(u(x))\left( \log(1-x)-\log(1+x)\right)\quad\text{on }I.$$ Thus, for $\varepsilon>0$ sufficiently small $$u'(x)\leq C +\frac{1}{\pi}f(u(x))(\log(1-x)-\log(1+x))<0\quad\text{on }(1-\varepsilon,1),$$ proving the claimed monotonicity. In particular, as $u=0$ on $I^c$ and $u>0$ on $I$, for $\lambda>1-\frac\ve2$ we have $$u_\lambda(x):=u(x_\lambda)-u(x)\leq0\quad\text{on }\Sigma_\lambda:=(-\infty,\lambda),\quad x_\lambda:=2\lambda-x.$$ We set $$\lambda^*:=\inf\{\bar\lambda>0:u_\lambda\leq 0\text{ on }\Sigma_\lambda \text{ for every }\lambda\geq\bar\lambda\}.$$ We claim now that $\lambda^*=0$. Otherwise there would be a sequence $\lambda_n\uparrow \lambda^*>0$ and $x_n\in \Sigma_{\lambda_n}$ such that $$\max_{\Sigma_{\lambda_n}}u_{\lambda_n}= u_{\lambda_n}(x_n)>0.$$ Moreover, since $u(x)= 0$ for $x\ge 1$ and $u>0$ in $I$, we must have $x_n\in (-1+2\lambda_n,\lambda_n)$. Then, up to a subsequence, $x_n\to x_0\in [-1+2\lambda^*,\lambda^*]$ and $u_{\lambda^*}(x_0)=0$. Now, on the one hand, using the equation we have $$(-\Delta)^\frac12 u_{\lambda^*}(x) = f(u(x_\lambda))- f(u(x)) \le 0\quad \text{for }x\in (-1+2\lambda^*,\lambda^*).$$ On the other hand, with the singular kernel definition for the fractional Laplacian, since $u_\lambda^*\leq 0\text{ on }\Sigma_{\lambda^*}$, $u_{\lambda^*}(x_0)=0$ and $u_{\lambda^*}(x)=-u_{\lambda^*}(x_{\lambda^*})$, we can compute its value at $x_0\in [-1+2\lambda^*,\lambda^*]$: \begin{equation*} \begin{split} (-\Delta)^\frac12 u_{\lambda^*}(x_0)&=\frac{1}{\pi}P.V. \int_{\mathbb{R}} \frac{u_{\lambda^*}(x_0)-u_{\lambda^*}(y)}{(x_0-y)^2}dy\\ &=\frac{1}{\pi}P.V. \int_{\Sigma_{\lambda^*}} u_{\lambda^*} (y)\left(\frac{1}{(x_0-2\lambda^*-y)^2}-\frac{1}{(x_0-y)^2}\right)dy\\ &\geq 0. \end{split} \end{equation*} Then, we conclude that $x_0=\lambda^*$. Hence, $$0=u'_{\lambda^*}(x_0)=-2u'(\lambda^*).$$ Moreover, $u_{\lambda^*}<0$ in $(-1+2\lambda^*,\lambda^*)$, and this contradicts Lemma \ref{HL}. Thus $\lambda^*=0$ and $u_{0}\leq 0$. In a similar way one can show that $u_{0}\geq 0$. \end{proof}

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In my family, International Women's Day (simply called "osmi mart" or 8th of March) has always been celebrated as a time to reach out to the women in our lives - sisters, mothers, aunts, grandmothers, friends - to show them we care about and are thinking of them. I will be making quite a few calls today! As you celebrate in your own way, also know that in the library, we have a great collection of picture books and biographies about women in history - and they are flying off the shelves! I have included below some new additions to our collection as well as a comprehensive list to browse. Below you'll also find news about our North Carolina Children's Book Award program and updates about our new library catalog. Click here for a list of these books (and more like them) in our library! This week, we concluded our reading of and voting for the nominees for the North Carolina Children's Book Award! Each class read the ten nominees to their students throughout the year, culminating with a chance for students to exercise their civic duty of voting for their favorite nominee. The award is a reader's choice award exclusive to students - no adult votes here! Watch the video below for highlights around school. Our new library catalog at cfsnc.follettdestiny.com has been live for over a month now. Students are searching much more easily in the library, but you can also search at home! The visual search highlighted below allows for searching throughout the different sections of our library. The Resource Lists under the Library Search in the left toolbar link you to the many lists of books I have been curating recently, including the Women in History list linked above. Browse freely and often to help your children find books to bring home! P.S. Families can check out, too! See Natalie for details on how YOU can check out books from our library. Students can now scan their library cards and see a list of the books they have checked out. While we work out the logistics of emailing overdue notices with our new system, feel free to contact Natalie if you would like a list of your child's overdue books.

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Is it time to consider re-hanging the 1997 Final Four banner at Williams Arena? For nearly 19 years, the symbol of the Gophers men's basketball team's greatest on-court accomplishment and biggest off-court shame has been absent from the public eye. By Michael Rand September 6, 2019 — 11:42am At 5 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2000, the banner from the men's program's lone Final Four appearance was taken down from the Williams Arena rafters as part of the extensive punishment for the school's academic fraud scandal. Why so early in the day? Per a Star Tribune story from the time: to avoid prying eyes, according to school officials. And according to a story a month later, the 1997 banner was "stashed in some closet," where it presumably has been gathering dust for the better part of two decades. 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