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Abdulaziz Beshir
Since coming to London in 2006 from Eritrea as a teenager, Abdulaziz developed a passion for information technology. This led him to study at North West London College where he obtained a BTEC in Computing and NVQ qualifications for IT Professionals. Abdulaziz graduated from the University of West London in 2012 with a BSc in Computer Network Management.
Abdulaziz joined FIE in January 2013 as an IT Technician to assist the IT Director in providing support for FIE's frontline IT needs. This includes carrying out operational duties, administrative and maintenance tasks to software and hardware systems, as well as providing support for technical queries. As of March 2017, Aziz's title is IT Engineer.
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Residents unhappy with lingering snow-covered sidewalksPosted: Updated:
Sidewalks left covered with snow since the December blizzard have some residents living near Pugsley Creek Park feeling a little neglected and unsafe.
The snowy sidewalk conditions have forced many residents to walk in the busy road that runs along the park. Another problem is that there is a school nearby, so even buses must swerve around pedestrians because of the snow-covered sidewalks.
Residents say they are doing their part to clear the sidewalks every time it snows, otherwise they know they could face fines. That's why they don't understand how the same rules don't apply to the sidewalks along the park.
The parks department says it will be investigating the situation and clearing the sidewalks.
Residents who spot uncleared sidewalks can call the city's hotline at 311 to file a complaint.

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The Woodland Tigers boxing team, the George Goodman Summer Basketball League along with the Potomac Valley Association of USA Boxing are presenting a card at the Barry Farms Outdoor Courts located at 1230 Sumner Road in DC. Admission is free and the bouts start at 7 PM.
Boxers are slated to come from Baltimore, Virginia, Philadelphia, PA and New Jersey to battle against the DC talent. The special guest ring announcer will be the voice of the Goodman League, Miles "Mr. Snapper Jones" Rawls.


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As Alphabet City copes with its second stabbing in a week, many are still talking about a chaotic incident last weekend that is said to have increased tension between residents and the police.
A fight involving a father, his son, and a police officer last Saturday grew into a melee that took over Avenue D and spilled into a police station house, said residents of the neighborhood. Videos obtained by The Local offer a glimpse into the clamorous street scene.
The Local spoke with several people living in the Jacob Riis Houses or nearby who said they had heard that a 14-year-old boy and his father were stuck in the head by a police officer. Ashley Serrano, another 14-year-old who was involved in the tussle, said that the father's face was bruised and cut. "They made his whole face bleed," she said.
"It was a hot night out there," said Lieutenant Steve Nusser, one of the officers of Police Service Area 4 who responded to the incident. "There was a fight between a couple people, a crowd of people came over, and the cops I'm sure did something to halt that action, and it escalated from there," he said. "When the crowd surged, some people came to the PSA [station house] and we had to control the crowd. Some were out of order."
A witness said that a police officer had stopped the boy at Ninth Street and Avenue D, near his home in the Riis Houses, and was fighting with him when the boy's father, known to others in the neighborhood as Baldy, confronted the officer. (The Local could not ascertain Baldy's full name or reach him for comment.) The witness, who did not want to be named because he lives and works in the neighborhood and was wary of scrutiny, said that hundreds of onlookers gathered on Avenue D.
"I was across the street, and I saw cops beating up a lot of people and macing them," he said. "People were running out of the precinct, grabbing them and arresting them – even a 14-year-old girl, young kids getting arrested."
Ms. Serrano said that she was pepper-sprayed by a police officer who had also confronted her the previous day.
"The same thing happened on Friday. They arrested all of us and then they let us go. On Saturday they did the same thing, and they beat a 14-year-old boy and his father up."
Lt. Nusser said the situation on Avenue D was under control by the time he arrived at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday. He estimated that 200 people were on the street at that point, and said that three people were arrested at the scene.
Two more people were arrested for their conduct inside or near the station house at Eighth Street and Avenue C, the lieutenant said. He didn't know exactly what sparked the initial fight and couldn't confirm that a father and son were involved. During a follow-up call, he declined to indicate whether officers used pepper spray to control the crowd, referring inquiries to the police department's press office.
Deputy Inspector John Cappelmann, the commanding officer of the Ninth Precinct, also confirmed the incident, but did not go into detail, since it was under PSA 4's jurisdiction. "There weren't any serious injuries to police officers or civilians, or any serious crimes that came out of the incident," he said.
Jeffry Solomon, a psychologist who recently served as a counselor at a basketball program in Campos Plaza meant to reduce youth crime, heard about the showdown from teens in the area. "There's a tremendous amount of animosity between police and the neighborhood, as well as a lack of compassion, understanding and empathy on both sides," he said. "It just came to a head. It's like a very dry tinderbox and all you need is a spark."
Lt. Nusser said that he had spent time since the incident talking to neighborhood residents. "There is a lot of misinformation in the community," he said, admitting that he had received negative feedback. "But there's no community unrest."
The incidents have caused Aida Salgado, who lives on Ninth Street between Avenues B and C, to believe the atmosphere around Jacob Riis and Campos Plaza has only gotten worse since her son Keith was shot and killed near Campos Plaza last October. Ms. Salgado started a group called Mothers in Arms to attempt to stop violence in the area.
"You can feel the tension in the street, you can feel the animosity in the street. There is a lot of anger, and people are still talking about it," she said.
An Eighth Street resident, who didn't want his name used because he knew people involved in the fights, said, "Cops are all over the avenue now. The past three days, after it happened, they've been stopping everyone."
Jose Quiles, who teaches art to at-risk youth in the neighborhood, said the police were working with community members to curb violence such as the stabbing that occurred in East River Park last Saturday. The knife fight came up during church service that weekend, he said. "They talked about the stabbings and the pastor mentioned that the police don't know what to do with all the violence that's taking place and they're looking for help," he said. "They talked about training people to send out in the streets, especially on Avenue D."
Earlier today, another stabbing occurred on East Fifth Street between Avenues C and D. Corey Capers, a 31-year-old resident of the Baruch Houses, died from a knife wound to the chest.
David Sosa, a longtime resident of Lillian Wald Houses south of Sixth Street, said he was grateful to see a heightened police presence. He hadn't heard about the Saturday fight, but said he could tell that conflicts with police had been increasing in the area. "It has been a little bit out of control," he said. "Lately, it has been kind of chaotic here."
Ms. Salgado said, "This is just a feeling of what the summer's going to be like here, and I don't know what's going to happen."
Additional reporting by Melvin Felix.


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The victims allege, among other things, that Formosa failed to provide workers with appropriate safety equipment, failed to implement and enforce an adequate safety program, violated OSHA standards and allowed vehicles to travel through the plant with no specific routes, restrictions or regard to protruding piping filled with volatile gases.
"The lack of safety was a constant weight on the minds of Formosa employees and their families," asserted Wes Christian, who is the lead attorney for the victims. The suit was filed in the County Court of Law in Calhoun County, Texas.
The accident occurred on Oct. 6, 2005, in the Formosa plant's Olefins II unit, which, according to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), converts either natural gas liquids or naphtha into products such as propylene and ethylene.
According CSB, the accident began when a vehicle – a forklift towing a trailer loaded with cylinders of breathing air used in maintenance – snagged a valve, pulling it out of the system. According to the agency, this caused the release of a large volume of propylene – the lawsuit refers to it as a "rapidly expanding, flammable vapor cloud" – which then ignited, creating a large fire.
The initial explosion knocked several operators to the ground and burned two men, one seriously, CSB said. According to the agency, 14 workers sustained minor injuries evacuating the complex.
Within minutes of the initial explosion, local officials ordered a shelter-in-place for the Point Comfort community and closed Highway 35, which runs adjacent to the Formosa complex and through Point Comfort. The fire burned for 5 days.
Attorney: 1,000 Plaintiffs Expected
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include injured workers and bystanders as well as spouses and family members of those workers and bystanders. Some of the family members are included in the lawsuit seeking damages for their mental pain and suffering or loss of consortium, Christian said, while a few of the workers' family members were injured while waiting near the plant for their loved ones at the time of the blast.
According to Christian, more injured workers likely will be added to the lawsuit or included in a separate lawsuit.
Also, Christian said, approximately 950 residents of Point Comfort, Texas, and Port Lavaca, Texas, likely will be filing a lawsuit against Formosa Plastics in the next month or two. According to Christian, for several weeks after the initial accident, flares at the Formosa plant burned off toxic waste that resulted from the explosion and fire. That dispersed "fumes and residue" that hung over the two communities, forcing some residents to leave their homes. The fumes and residue also killed plants, sullied cars and caused some residents to experience respiratory problems and a few to become seriously ill.
In addition to Formosa Plastics Corp. Texas, the lawsuit names two other defendants: HP Services LP, which, Christian noted, is a subcontractor that employed the "vast majority" of the workers who were injured; and Fernando Rivero, who allegedly was driving the forklift that triggered the accident.
The lawsuit contends that Rivero's acts of negligence included "entering an area of the plant when such entry could not be made with safety, failure to keep a proper lookout [and] failure to maintain an assured clear distance between the trailer and the valve in question."
Formosa Blast Prompted CSB Recommendations, Video
CSB's investigation of the accident concluded that Formosa's Olefins II unit was not equipped with automated shutdown valves that could have stopped the propylene flow and limited the size of the fire. According to CSB, Formosa operators were unable to reach manual valves to stop the release due to the presence of the growing vapor cloud.
The CSB investigation noted that the valve hit by the trailer was unguarded and vulnerable to being hit by vehicles.
The investigation also noted that some steel supports were not fireproofed and, consequently, collapsed. According to CSB, this caused the failure of pipes designed to carry flammable hydrocarbons to the unit's flare system, where they could be safely burned in the atmosphere. Without this safety system in place, CSB said, pressurized flammable gases continued to feed the fire, which burned for 5 days.
The lawsuit contends that Formosa "knew or should have known … that there was inadequate protection of the process piping within the unit and further that an impact of such unprotected piping would have catastrophic results."
"Protection form impact by concrete or metal columns – a simple and inexpensive prophylactic used in the protection of other equipment within the plant – was discarded" by Formosa, the lawsuit alleges.
CSB's investigation also determined that flame-resistant clothing was not required for all employee activities within the Olefins II unit, where there were large quantities of flammable liquids and gases.
As a result of its investigation, CSB issued several formal safety recommendations. Among them, the agency urged Formosa's Point Comfort plant to revise its policies and procedures for analyzing hazards to include vehicle impact dangers, fireproofing of structural steel and mechanisms for controlling chemical releases such as remotely controlled isolation valves. CSB also recommended that Formosa provide fire-resistant clothing to workers exposed to the dangers of flash fires.
A video depicting the events leading to the accident is available, free of charge, on the agency's Web site.
OSHA Fined Formosa $148,000 for Accident
As a result of the accident at Formosa's Point Comfort plant, OSHA earlier this year issued one willful and 13 serious citations for Formosa's alleged failure to protect its employees. The agency proposed $148,000 in fines.
According to the agency, the willful citation was issued for Formosa's failure to provide workers with flame-resistant clothing for protection against flash fire hazards.
"OSHA has inspected Formosa Plastics numerous times for many of the same violations," said John Giefer, OSHA's area director in Corpus Christi, Texas. "If the company had followed OSHA standards, it is possible that the injuries sustained by these workers could have been avoided."
A call seeking comment from Livingston, N.J.-based Formosa Plastics Corp. USA – the parent company of Formosa Plastics Corp. Texas – was not returned.


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Darjeeling and Sikkim Trips
Below are the highlights for some of our trips we have designed for you :
Below are the highlights for some of our trips we have designed for you :
India's forgotten Northeast - Come on a cultural journey to discover a region which has remained silent for almost a century. A region which has somewhat remained secluded from the rest of India. A region where people have developed their own brand of culture, religion and way of life.
The Singalila (Sandakphu-Phalut) trek is the most popular trek in the Darjeeling region and is also the most rewarding. The trek offers the most enthralling views along with a rich collection of flora and fauna that goes on to be an occasion for celebration to every trekker.
The most popular trekking route in Sikkim famed for superb views, floral spectacles, birds and pristine forests. The panoramic views of Mt. Kanchenjunga with other lesser known Himalayan peaks is simply spectacular !
Pick tea from the finest gardens in the World....celebrate the excitement of trekking in the Himalayas, test the rapids of the Teesta and stay in orange counties and organic farms. On the spiritual side, visit old monasteries and learn more about your past life....there is more that we add....you have to live to believe it….!!!
This trip takes you from the heartland of India to the high mountains and tea gardens of Darjeeling. It combines Sikkim which is a tiny piece of Paradise blessed with the bounties of nature and leads you further to the 'Land of the Thunder Dragon' perhaps, the Last Shangrila in the World !


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One of the cuts we're asked for a lot is the iconic look of Cillian Murphy's haircut as Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. It's understandably a popular look – but not for everyone!
Tommy Shelby haircut
Ever feel like you missed your calling as the fearsome leader of an organised crime gang? Have you recently found yourself staring longingly at herringbone waistcoats and penny collar shirts? Loitering with intent on canal boats and forming strange alliances with local communists? Job openings for 1920's criminal overlords may be thin on LinkedIn these days, but you can still look like an extra on the set of Peaky Blinders – from the neck up, anyway.
How to get the Tommy Shelby haircut
It's not too difficult to get Cillian Murphy's haircut from Peaky Blinders. Ask your barber for a #1 back and sides, but keep the length at the front. You'll need a good couple of inches to work with and some sea salt spray to get the right texture at home. As with fixing horse races and smuggling guns, this style demands regular attention if you want it done properly, so make sure you can come back every three weeks for a tidy up. And don't forget the newsboy cap – just leave out the razorblades.
A great tip from Russell at our King's Cross barbershop: 'If you have a light hair tone, a short cut like Tommy Shelby's on the back and sides is going to look transparent and as if there is "no hair" – we can make the grade higher and keep the hair a little longer to achieve the same effect on blonde guys or redheads'.
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Facebook Dynamic Product Ads – The Ultimate Guide Part 4 – Optimization & Advanced Strategies
- February 7, 2018
- Chris Root
- Facebook Ads
Finally! You've launched your dynamic retargeting campaign after completing Part 3 of our Dynamic Product Ads Guide and your shiny new campaign is live 🙂
Now you just have to sit back and watch the sales come in right?
If you've read our blogs before you know that the fun is just about to begin.
Setting the proper foundation for a campaign like this is absolutely crucial to its success, but the ongoing optimization is where you can really set yourself apart from the competition.
In this final post of the series we'll break down the 5 strategies for getting the most out of your dynamic retargeting ads:
- Ad Creative Testing
- Image Templates
- Audience Testing
- Budget & Bid Optimization
- Up-sells and Cross-sells
Ready? Let's dive in.
Dynamic Ad Creative Testing
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking dynamic ads are good enough as they are and running just one template.
Don't do it!
There are thousands of combinations to test with just a single product feed. Here are just some of the variables we test with all of our clients:
- Ad Format
- Link Post
- Carousel
- Offers
- Free Shipping
- $ amount off
- % off
- Ad Copy
- Emojis vs no emojis
- Scarcity vs no scarcity
- Product name in message vs title text
- Call To Action Button
- Shop Now
- Buy Now
- Learn More
- No Button
- Price in the ad
- No price
- Price in the ad copy
- Price in the image template
We test these on an ongoing basis and find different results for different accounts. So it's important to test everything on each individual account rather than thinking because something worked in one situation it will definitely work in another. Often we'll even find conflicting results within an account. For example, we often find that the "Buy Now" call to action button works better than the "Shop Now" button on the Add-to-Cart audiences, but the reverse is true on the Product-View audiences. (Note: For more on what we mean by "Add-to-Cart audience" and "Product View audience" check out the "Dynamic Ad Audience Testing" section below.)
How do we test all of this at once?
We don't…
How much you can test is generally limited by your budget and on these campaigns your budget is limited oftentimes by your traffic levels since you can only serve ads to people who end up in your retargeting lists.
We typically start with the highest impact variables first: ad format and offer. From there, we take what works in each ad set and apply new tests to the best performing ads from the first test. We continue testing and honing in on the best performers until we exhaust all options and then we start again 🙂
Dynamic Ad Image Templates
Take a look at the product pages on your website. If you're like most, your product images are clean and simple with a white background. This works great on your site because you control the experience and viewers are focused on your products.
What if there were 10 other products on the page competing for attention?
This is what you have to think about when running dynamic retargeting ads. Users are scrolling fast, what can you do to get them to stop and give their attention to your ad?
Dynamic image templates take the product images from your feed and jazz them up with additional content. You can add banners, pricing info, backgrounds, and more to make your images stand out. We create dynamic image templates for our clients using 3rd party Facebook Ads management software but you can also do some basic customization like adding price or banners to your images directly in Facebook Ads Manager.
For more context on what this looks like, here are a few examples:
Dynamic Ad Audience Testing
If you read the last post, you saw our recommended audience segments for a dynamic retargeting campaign:
- Cart Abandoners: 0-3 days
- Cart Abandoners: 3-14 days
- Product / Category Page Views: 0-3 days
- Product / Category Page Views: 3-14 days
This is where we start with most accounts, but it isn't necessarily where we end up. For example, a high-priced product with a longer sales cycle may benefit from pushing the 14 day limit to 30 days. Alternatively an impulse buy may do better with an initial 24hr audience.
Use your best judgement on what to start with, then start testing varying audience segments after 30 days or so of data collection.
Dynamic Ad Budget and Bid Optimization
How much budget should I give each audience? Should I select an automatic or manual bid?
These are some of the most common questions we get in regards to dynamic retargeting campaigns.
Like most things, the answer is 'It depends." Fortunately, we've got some guidelines for you.
Typically these ads have a very high ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) so we don't want to limit spend – if there are people to retarget, we want to have the budget to serve them ads. For this reason we usually start high on the budgets and then use bidding options to reign in the spend if ROAS isn't where we'd like it to be.
Note that Facebook only starts adding users to the dynamic audiences when you set the campaign live. This means your 3-14 day audiences will take two weeks to ramp up and you may see low spend on those audiences initially.
While we often start prospecting campaigns using automatic (now called Lowest Cost) bids, we recommend launching your dynamic retargeting campaigns using manual (now called Target Cost) bids. Because the audience sizes on these ads sets tends to be so small, Facebook can sometimes have delivery issues when using Lowest Cost bids and you'll see that your ads are not getting served. Switch them to Target Cost bids and set the bids high enough and voila, you'll start getting delivery.
What do we recommend bidding?
In general, we bid toward purchases and set our bids at 2-3x our actual target cost per purchase. This helps ensure the bids are high enough for Facebook to deliver the ads and generally the actual cost per purchase comes in far below the bid.
If your cost per purchase is too high after 1-2 weeks of steady delivery, you can start decreasing your bids closer to your actual target cost per purchase and you'll likely see ROAS improve. We recommend making small changes and doing them gradually, ideally lowering your budget no more than 10-15% each week until you start seeing performance in line with your goals. Larger budget changes can reset Facebook's internal optimization algorithm and reek havoc on your ad performance.
Up-Sells and Cross-Sells in Dynamic Retargeting Ads
Our final optimization strategy takes retargeting one step further by introducing related products. This is no different from regular dynamic retargeting ads other than the fact that you're serving products that are different from what the person viewed or purchased on your site. Here are a few examples:
- Customer viewed a pair of shoes but didn't buy -> serve them an ad for shoes in your sale section
- Customer bought a bike lock on your site last week -> serve them an ad for a set of lights for their bike this week
- Customer viewed a camera on your site today but didn't buy -> serve them an ad for a discounted bundle with a tripod and memory card included
These ads can not only increase the ROAS of your existing retargeting audiences, but can also increase LTV by introducing new products to existing customers. Your existing customers have already displayed trust and they are often your most profitable traffic source if you know how to serve them relevant, timely ads.
Whew! That was a Doozy. We're Spent.
We hope you've enjoyed this 4-part series on Facebook Dynamic Ads. As you can see there is so much you can do with Dynamic Ads and given that it's most likely going to be your best performing ad type, it's definitely worth putting the extra time and effort into maximizing sales and revenue in your Dynamic Ads campaigns.
If you missed the first three parts of the series, you can go back and check them out here:
Facebook Dynamic Product Ads – The Ultimate Guide: Part 1
Facebook Dynamic Product Ads – The Ultimate Guide Part 2 – Pixel and Product Feed Setup
Facebook Dynamic Product Ads – The Ultimate Guide Part 3 – Campaign Setup
We would love to hear about your experience with Dynamic Ads and answer any other questions you may have. So please comment below and let's continue the conversation!
Chris Root is a co-owner of eBoost Consulting and works out of our Boulder, CO location. He writes primarily about social advertising and gets overly excited when Facebook releases new targeting capabilities.
Hey, what 3rd party tool you are using to create dynamic image templates? thanks
- Evan LaGasse
- July 25, 2019
Hi Eric – We use Smartly. It's a great platform and we highly recommend it!
- Samuel Wiseman
- August 27, 2018
Hey! Brilliant guide- really loved it.
Say I'm selling 2 products – PA and PB. They view PA and my nurture campaign retargets to say "retarget to ppl who viewed this product PA, but not ppl who have purchased PA "
then I'm creating a nurture campaign for product PB.
My targeting would want to be "target ppl who have viewed PB but not purchased PB"
As it is, all I can do is "target ppl who have viewed PB but not purchased from your site in the last 7 days" or something similar. The only thing I can think of is having a lottttt of clickfunnels… buts thats annoying?
The issue is that the pixel seems to only track purchases as a whole… how do you make them track purchases for a particular product so I can remarket several different products?
- Chris Root
- August 27, 2018
Hi Samuel – thanks for reaching out, glad you found the guide helpful!
Good question regarding those product-level retargeting audiences, here's how I would set it up:
Create individual audiences for each product based on their content ID's. You set up a website custom audience, select the Purchase event, and then refine by content_id and select the appropriate product ID. This way you can specifically exclude people who purchase a certain product. Note that you'll need to make sure you're passing content_id through your purchase pixel event.
You could potentially do a dynamic retargeting campaign with this setup by creating multiple product sets, but if you're specifically looking to only target and only exclude single products it may be better to just use a traditional static retargeting campaign.
Hope this helps! Feel free to reach out via our contact form or live chat to discuss further.
- Samuel Wiseman
- September 2, 2018
Thanks for the reply– I finally figured out the conten_id thing after a few days lol. Apparently, the content_id in the pixel helper on that specific page is the one that tracks. I tried a million other things that said "content id" on them (from shopify) to no avail.
To anyone else reading… Its the content id in the helper that may or may not have [brackets]. For some reason, It works when I use both.
- Samuel Wiseman
- September 2, 2018
Thanks for the reply– I finally figured out the conten_id thing after a few days lol. Apparently, the content_id in the pixel helper on that specific page is the one that tracks. I tried a million other things that said "content id" on them (from shopify) to no avail.
To anyone else reading… Its the content id in the helper that may or may not have [brackets]. For some reason, It works when I use both.


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In January 2013 Carmarthenshire County Council invited landowners, developers, and any other interested parties to suggest sites for Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation with a view to consider their suitability for inclusion within the County Council's Local Development Plan. The evidence indicated that the need for a new site related only to the Llanelli area. As a result of that consultation exercise, three sites have been submitted for consideration.
The Council is now publishing these three sites for consultation purposes in order to provide the public and other interested parties with the opportunity to comment on the suitability of these sites for Gypsy and Traveller accommodation. The sites which have been submitted for consideration do not represent the Council's proposed sites for development, and they should not be interpreted as a commitment by the Council that the sites will necessarily be taken forward into the LDP.
A consultation period will now run for six weeks on the three considered sites. Members of the public or any other interested parties will be able to comment on the suitability of the sites for Gypsy and traveller accommodation, until 4.30pm on August 9.
Representations can be made using the form below.
The representation forms should be sent either:
• In writing to The Forward Planning and Conservation Manager, Carmarthenshire County Council, 8 Spilman Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1JY
• or via email to email@example.com
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I notice that Fanny Price has been accused of hypocrisy for distrusting and rejecting Henry Crawford due to inconstancy and then later accepting Edmund Bertram's proposal after he ceases to love Mary Crawford.
The fact that Fanny is not as
popular as, say, Elizabeth Bennet, is to me quite understandable, but the view
above shows that the people who think so neither understand the 2 men in
"Mansfield park" nor know the meaning of inconstancy. Fanny, albeit
attracted to Henry in some ways, stays firm in her rejection not because he
once expresses admiration for someone else and now wants to marry her, but
because she's observant enough to see how Henry flirts with Maria and Julia
Bertram, plays with their feelings, without serious feelings for either of
them. "I cannot think well of a man
who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more
suffered than a stander-by can judge of." Fanny can also see that he
likes fun, easily grows bored, has no principle and has hardly any regard for
how others feel, and she's insightful and wise enough not to have the illusion
that he may change after marriage.
Edmund is different. He
doesn't play games with women. One cannot accuse him of inconstancy in the end
simply because he leaves Mary for Fanny. For most of the novel he cares about
both, in different ways, and sees clearly in his mind that the one he loves is
Mary, who is fun and charming, who is not as mean as, and more likable than,
Lucy Steele and Isabella Thorpe (Fanny is thus friendzoned, or cousinzoned).
The reason he changes at the end of the book is the realisation that, because
of his love, or infatuation, he has been blind to her faults and has never
truly understood her character. It happens in real life, very often we are
mistaken about somebody, especially when in love with them, until 1 incident
exposes who they actually are. And, as Mary and he are not for each other,
Edmund realises, at the same time, that there's 1 person for him, who has
always cared about him and understood him, and vice versa.
2 things that appear similar
are not necessarily the same.
Update on 30/12:
Going around a bit more, I notice that there are even people who wish Fanny to end up with Henry and Edmund with Mary. They obviously don't get the book.
Besides, to add to what's been written above, I think many people are mistaken in calling Fanny priggish (and prudish) for her strict moral principle and for saying no to Henry, I don't look at it that way- it's not because of some abstract morality that she rejects him, it is made clear that she"cannot think well of a man
who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more
suffered than a stander-by can judge of."
Amusing. Perhaps that's why "Mansfield park" is not very popular among Jane Austen's fans. It's my favourite among her novels so far though.


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Time Warner Stands Out with Daytime Emmy Noms
The nominees for the 41st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards have been announced. And The Ellen DeGeneres Show scored nine, including Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment and Outstanding New Approaches - Enhancement to a Daytime Program or Series.
That's in addition to the 23 other nominations for programming across Turner, Warner Bros., HBO and Time Inc., which brought Time Warner's total to 32 Daytime Emmy nominations.
See a complete list of nominees here.
In addition to the nominations, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation category. Christopher Voy received the award for his color work in Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
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The Station's 15W amp and slightly inferior single flat panel set up is not, understandably, of the same quality as the Centre, but that's not necessarily a major issue. Rather than acting as your main music system, this box is more likely to sit in a kitchen or bedroom and it's much better suited to this environment than the Centre is to a living room – like the Centre, it can communicate music in an unfussed and unforced way that's perfect for background listening, though again bass isn't a forté.
The weaknesses aren't restricted to sound quality, though. For instance, you can browse the music library, but you can't queue tracks up while you're listening, so they'll play automatically when the current track finishes. This is something that the Squeezebox Duet and the Sonos Digital Music system implement brilliantly. Ripping is slow too: the Centre system reads discs at a sluggish 4x speed and, as a result, CDs take anything up to 20 minutes to finish. Plus, while you're ripping you can't do anything with the system – not even listen to FM radio.
There are some annoying peculiarities, too, such as only being able to access certain settings (network settings, Internet radio registration and track information editing) using the basic, one-way infrared remote rather than the easier to use two-way one. The fact that the main playback controls on the Centre and Station aren't backlit is also a pain: you have to really look hard to figure out which one does what if the lights are dimmed. And it's mildly disappointing that there's no AM or DAB radio.
Despite the weaknesses, I still think that the WACS7500 represents decent value for money. £700 essentially buys you not one music system, but two self-contained wireless hi-fi systems, each one capable of doing a decent job of streaming and playing music back in its own right.
Sound quality isn't magnificent though – if that's important to you, you're better off basing a system around the Squeezebox Duet or buying a complete Sonos music system – but it's perfectly acceptable for an all-in-one. Crucially, the WACS7500 offers a simple, stylish and elegant way of storing and streaming music at home. And it does that job pretty well.
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Family wants action after man dies in the Fulton County Jail
ATLANTA - A metro Atlanta family is accusing jail guards of murder after their loved one died at the Fulton County Jail.
Atlanta Police arrested 32-year-old Antonio May on Sept. 11 for criminal trespassing, which is a misdemeanor. The took him first to Grady Memorial Hospital where he was medically cleared, then on to the jail.
His lawyers said there have been three different versions about what happen next. The accounts come from an eyewitness in the jail, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who was called in to investigate, and the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office.
Most agree, May was in his cell naked when he asked for water and kept beating on the door.
"He is in the cell. They approach him because he had no clothes on. They wanted to strap him down in a restraining chair, in a cell. Now, how does that sound? It was six guards to this small man, according to the medical examiner's report," explained Attorney Michael Harper.
Harper, Attorney Teddy Reese, family members, and supporter all gathered outside the jail demanding justice for May.
The attorneys said May was not bringing any harm to anyone when he was in his cell.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner's report stated May was masturbating in his cell and a guard asked him to stop, but he refused.
"Even if he was pleasuring himself with no clothes on, he is not bothering anybody," Harper exclaimed.
The ME report also stated May tested positive for having ecstasy in his system.
According to the report, six guards assembled at May's cell to put him in a transport chair. That is when he a stun gun was used on him twice as well as pepper spray, then put in the shower for decontamination.
"He was restrained at that point into that chair, locked into the chair. Put into a shower area where they had to decontaminate him to wash off the pepper spray that was in his face. He came out of that area, went unresponsive and died," the attorney said.
The preliminary autopsy was inconclusive. This family wanted the officers involved suspended and Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard to investigate.
Attorney Harper said a Taser should not have been used because of the substance that was in his body.
"The guidelines from the Taser company says if a person is on drugs or have a prior medical condition. You don't tase [sic] them," the attorney noted.
"People always say when it is black on black we never say anything. This event occurred with all African-American officers and an African-American male. It is not about race. It is about basic fairness, it is about basic justice," exclaimed Attorney Teddy Reese.
Fulton County Jail officials said they called the GBI in to investigate immediately and did not care to comment further out of respect for the family.
The final autopsy was still pending as of Tuesday afternoon and should determine the cause of death.


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1 Dresden 1 44:06
2 Dresden 3 10:28
3 Dresden 5 18:23
1 Dresden 2 47:09
2 Dresden 4 22:01Virgin CDVED 903 (CD 142:14) ***½
(Hypnotic, minimalist orchestral New Berlin School)
"The Dresden Performance" is the fruit of a concert given in Dresden, Poland, by a chilly evening of August in 1990, be more than 5 months after the making of Miditerranean Pads. It's good to say it because "The Dresden Performance" inhales in full musicality the atmospheres and the rhythms of this album with also some winks of eye at albums such as Angst and Dreams. It's a double album divided between the portions of the concert (Dresden 1 and 2) and studio tracks (Dresden 3, 4 and 5) which were planned for this concert that the rain has shortened after the first 2 long acts. It's also the first one of four live albums to be released at the turning of the 90's, an era where Klaus Schulze develops a so disproportionate passion that his talent for orchestral samplings and opera voices as well as the use of Musical Digital Instrument Interfaces; so called the MIDI years. Above all, if you loved Miditerranean Pads, "The Dresden Performance" should easily seduce you, especially with the very long and how much magnetizing Dresden 1 and Dresden 2.
Singing "tsitt-tsitt" cymbals, sneaky percussions and a line of funky bass are hopping in the dazed envelopes of the fanciful violins. And thus "Dresden 1" is landing between our ears with this delicious mi-funky/mi-groovy approach which decorated the sensual rhythms of Miditerranean Pads. Moreover, everything of Miditerranean Pads is on "Dresden 1" and "Dresden 2". The rhythms, sometimes soft and sometimes wild, are coated by this synth weaver of deep Mellotron waves which are melting to the choruses and of their latent submission. The pace follows the lines of a slow crescendo with orchestrations which hide the arrival of the thousand knocks of percussions which labour a philharmonic structure roaming between its staccatos and its morphic lunar hold. "Dresden 1", just like "Dresden 2" is a very long music piece which exploits a brilliant play of sampled percussions. It's a creative play, a bit like in Percussion Planante, which divides a structure without splitting its main beat; so much the synths are wrapping it with their lascivious waltzes. Again this is some great Schulze who has fun in his maze of sound samples on a heavy rhythmic coloured of all sonic forms. With its 47 minutes at the meter, "Dresden 2" offers a fascinating interpretation of Decent Changes. There are lengths but it remains rather attractive.
First track in studio, "Dresden 3" is made of a soft sweetness with its angelic choruses which are frosted by xylophone arpeggios à la Freeze on Angst. A soft nostalgic piano adds a dimension of loneliness to this soft piece that Schulze floods in a universe of vocal samplings which are wrapped by penetrating and waltzing synth lines. A superb melody with childlike vocalizes emerges out of the intro, stuffed by a huge variegated samplings, of "Dresden 5". On this track the rhythm livens up lasciviously on a soft line of bass which is pinched sharply, like a harp, and Tabla percussions which are drummed in the waddings of a violin from which the ethereal strings wrap of mist an ambient pace which follows a linear tangent with fine snags which get us out of our auditive torpor. Except for the melody part, I found this a bit too long as a bit too slow. "Dresden 4" is totally apart with its THX intro of which the sonic wings are cut quite quickly by the harmonies of a soft piano of which the minimalists spheroidal notes are surrounded by the vocalizes of morphic mermaids. Soon the track borrows a dramatic tangent with knocks of bows coming from an illusionary string ensemble who lie down some jerked layers that Schulze controls by his samplings. The mood becomes dark and claustrophobic. I feel being catapulted in the somber ambiences of Dreams on a suspense structure with chords sometimes classic and sometimes crystal clear, like the brightness of a xylophone in a universe of intense terror. I quite enjoyed this mood of fright. All in all, this is a great and heavy music piece of which the diversified samplings are creating an incredible sonic wealth which would support marvellously a horror or suspense movie obscured even more by Machiavellian moods, in particular at around the 11th minute point. Completely delicious in the genre fright and terror. This track, as several others moreover, shows the immense creativity of Schulze; an artist who knows how to innovate and exploit different musical genres with a dexterity and an artistic vision which is the privilege of the big composers, as much classic as contemporary.
I would say that "The Dresden Performance" is a good complement to Miditerranean Pads, in particular with the too good "Dresden 1". It's a good live album, although we don't even hear a fly snoring, which demonstrates the surprising diversity of an artist who is capable of rolling minutes on the same theme while adding a little something here and there which makes, unmistakably, hook the interest of his fans.
Sylvain Lupari (February 19th, 2014)
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We did a brief introduction on Bow Ties in the last post. In this post, let's learn more about the different shapes of this versatile accessory.
Five Bow Tie Shapes You NEED to Know
The Butterfly
The first shape is the Modern Butterfly also known as the thistle shape. This is the standard style that most people are familiar with. On average, it is around 2.3 inches in height and fits most face shapes. This particular style is very versatile and works for virtually every occasion. It is a great starting point for those who are just venturing into the world of bow ties and should be a staple in every man's wardrobe.
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The Big Butterfly
Next, we have the big butterfly, which has a larger and more relaxed silhouette. It is sometimes worn for very formal events with a tuxedo. These are typically three inches or greater in height and usually portrays a slightly cheeky style.
The Batwing
The batwing shape, also known as a straight or slim bow tie, is the smallest in height. When untied, this style looks like a long rectangle strip with flat ends. These are typically less than two inches in height and provide a clean and modern look. It is slightly less formal than the butterfly, but is still acceptable for black tie events.
The Diamond Point
A shape gaining popularity is the diamond tip bow tie. Instead of having a flat end, the edges are pointed to give it diamond shape. When tied, this style has an asymmetric look and adds even more personality to the self-tie bow tie. Although very stylish, these are not often seen.
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The Rounded Club
The most rare of the bunch is the rounded club bow tie. Like the name suggests, the ends are rounded instead of flat. This style is not for the shy as it is very unique.
So Which Bow Tie Should You Choose?
Choosing a bow tie style is more about personal taste than steadfast rules. While some styles may work better with your proportions or face shape, we recommend that you try a few and just pick the style that makes you feel the best.
When is a Bow Tie the Right Tie?
Now that you've chosen your perfect bow tie, what's next? We'll go into when and how bow ties are perfect for which occasion.
Formal Attire
One of the most common places you'll see a bow tie worn is at a formal event. The most well-known formal dress code is Black Tie. When attending an affair with this dress code, the standard black tuxedo must be worn with a black bow tie, preferably in satin, silk or grosgrain material. A self-tie is especially important with this outfit as a pre-tied bow tie will immediately cheapen the look of your ensemble.
Another place you'll see a bow tie is at a White Tie event. Also known as "full dress," white tie is the most formal of all dress codes. As the name suggests, a white bow tie (always self tie) is absolutely necessary. This is not the time to experiment with colors, or else you'll stick out like a sore thumb. Although not very common, it's good to know what a white tie event entails for your outfit.
Semi-Formal Attire
When attending a semi-formal affair, try experimenting with different patterns and textures in your bow tie. Play with polka dots or striped patterns in various colors. Bow ties made with velvet or tweed material add a fun, modern feel to your ensemble. Keep in mind the dress code though, as some hosts may not approve of patterns that are too crazy. You could pair your neckwear with a classic dress shirt under a nice suit with a coordinating pocket square. Prepare to be the center of attention because you'll steal the spotlight with your awesome bow tie.
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Casual Attire
For casual events, we believe in wearing whatever your heart desires, even if it means breaking the "fashion rules". Want to wear a plaid bow tie with a bright dress shirt and cardigan? Go for it! Show off your own personal style with funky patterns or bow ties made with light materials such as seersucker or linen. Choosing your ensemble is only half the battle. The best thing you can wear with your bow tie is confidence. Too often, bow ties will wear the man, instead of the other way around.
Now that you're educated, put your new-found knowledge to the test and wear a bow tie the next chance you get.
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Suman Ramesh-Babu | Constor Solutions Limited | IP Expo
Suman Ramesh-Babu from Constor Solutions Limited joined us at IP Expo to talk about cloud migration, and how Constor Solutions Limiteds focus on their customers makes their company stand out. Hosted by Bill Mew and Savannah O'Hare.
Bill: We've got a guest from Constor Solutions Limited, please introduce yourself.
Suman: Hello, I'm Suman I am the technical director at Constor Solutions Limited
Bill: And what do you guys do? Introduce yourself.
Suman: So, we are basically a technology partner to our customers. So, whatever we do, we are a technical organisation. We lead with our technical capabilities whenever we go in and sit down with customers, obviously we talk about technical stuff rather than the commercial side of things.
Bill: And is this migration? Is this to development? What are the sort of services that you guys offer?
Suman: We are pretty much on the infrastructure side of things. We do the infrastructure solutions. We work with the best of breed in infrastructure solutions companies like Dell EMC, VM and all these guys. So, we are an infrastructure solutions company.
Bill: Do you have a particular focus on a niche in a sector or an industry or you very broad?
Suman: We are very broad. We are too small to pick our industry basically. So, we predominantly play on the mid-market side of things and there are some enterprise customers as well. So yeah, so we work with some of the niche products in the industry.
Bill: We've had a whole host of different guests here and the things that have come out are all about hybrid cloud and moving certain workloads. One of the trends we're seeing is in much of the easy stuff. The easy stuff to move to the cloud that's probably been done by now, some of the more challenging workloads are next on the horizon and some of these are not only challenging they're some of the ones that are really expensive to maintain. If you can get it right you can make some real saving and for people with real skills such as yourself, this is where you really provide value. And what are the challenges you're seeing from your client's perspective? How are you approaching this?
Suman: So, as I said we work with Dell EMT really really closely and obviously, we're starting to work with some other vendors who are all cloud-integrated. So, as you will know most of the products which are coming out today are cloud-integrated by default. So, what we do is most of the complexity which people used to talk about like a couple of years back, it's all been simplified now in the sense that the products which when they ship out has got that capability built-in rather than you having to retrofit it like getting another appliance or something like that to retrofit it. If you buy a product it's all got in built cloud capabilities.
Bill: Most products are cloud-ready but what if you've still got a lot of Legacy kit that wasn't built with all this stuff.
Suman: We have a lot of legacy customers. So, what we tend to do with that is, basically this is the first thing which we do since we understand technology. We know what to do. We know where the cable goes, and we know what compatibility is all about. So normally our approach basically is to get everything to be cloud-ready first. What that means is that you have to get your applications up to speed. It starts with the operating system layer, storage and network. Everything will have to be up to scratch before even you can think of migrating to the cloud basically. So, we get them to a stage where it is at the point where you can easily migrate, move out and move into the cloud. That is our approach. Basically, the first thing is not to talk about cloud, the first thing is to get their infrastructure ready for them to be able to go to the cloud seamlessly rather than doing it the other way around because as you know, It'll become really complex and challenging once we move more customers to the cloud without doing all these things.
Bill: Obviously, it's a very crowded space in terms of there a lot of service providers. There are a lot of people offering consulting and integration services. What are the things where you guys really stand out? What are the sort of specialist skills and the abilities that you bring to bear in terms of your capability?
Suman: Well, it's the infrastructure side of things. So it's the storage networking operating system, we don't go on to the application level, so we don't touch the likes of PeopleSoft or Workday or the app or whatever it is. It's just we know our limitations, we are an infrastructure company. We ensure that we play in that space rather than expanding our self into an unknown territory, which we are not comfortable with. So basically yes, there is a lot of crowd in our space but how we differentiate ourselves is basically we don't, as I said earlier, we don't talk commercials first to the customer. We lead with our technical capabilities to make them comfortable so that they understand that we know what we are talking about and then they're comfortable with us to deal with their environment. That is our approach that is why we win a lot of customers because we come from a different side of things basically. Plus, we've always been a services company. Working with hardware is something which we had to do, we have been forced to do but we are a services company. So, we take our services approach to any customers whom we meet and that is the way which we differentiate ourselves.
Bill: A lot of people will see storage and networking infrastructure is dealt up but you've got to get the fundamentals right otherwise you're in a whole heap of trouble.
Suman: We give a personal touch to the customer. Once we finished the deployment we don't leave the customers in the lurch basically. So, if they have a problem they come to us and talk to us before they do anything. So, we keep the lines open anytime. This customer has a problem and requires someone immediately just right there when there is a problem. Not just when there is a sales opportunity or anything like that. That is what we ensure. Plus most of our customers have direct lines into our consultants as well. Even though Windows support the systems which we sell to customers. But still, we keep our lines open so that if they need any real urgent problem to be fixed they can call us directly.
Bill: In terms of the show here today. Are you for speaking? Do you have a stand here? Are you announcing anything at the show?
Suman: No, we just came here to meet our vendors and to see all the other new products which we can take on.
Bill: And have you come across something interesting at the show? What sparked your particular interest?
Suman: I like the idea of a couple of backup vendors who are here.
Bill: Well we all need some sort of backup, and it's good to have so many different people under one roof where you can go around, and you can actually go and talk to some fairly insightful people. They've hopefully got the right guys on the stand that you can have the right discussions with.
Suman: That's correct. Yeah, so we had a couple of discussions, in-depth discussions. Because as I said, mostly we directly go into the product details from what it does. So, if you find it interesting, we'll just see how we can adopt it. So, we are here in discussion with a couple of vendors whom we would like to include in our portfolio. Yeah, it's been good.


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You can't keep a good team down, even one with "Doom" in the title.
In September, writer Gerard Way and artist Nick Derington will revive "Doom Patrol" as part of DC Comics' Young Animal initiative. "The first step is honoring everything that came before it -- and then completely fucking it all up," Way, who's overseeing the imprint, told Comic Book Resources. "That's the idea! When you're writing 'Doom Patrol,' I think it's your job to go in and do your take, and completely throw it in a blender and fuck it up in the best possible way. That book is weirdness and chaos, and all that stuff."
Way is certainly right about that: Since their 1963 debut, the Doom Patrol has gone through several incarnations, some successful, some not -- and some even redefining what comics can be.
In honor of "everything that came before it," here's a look back at the different eras of the World's Strangest Heroes.
The Birth and Death of the Doom Patrol
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4 The Morrison Revival
3 Rachel Pollack and Vertigo
2 Back to the DCU -- and a Reboot
1 "Infinite Crisis" and Restoring the Past
The "reboot" proved to be temporary. In the pages of "Infinite Crisis," the Doom Patrol joined other superheroes in a big battle against the crazed Superboy Prime. During that fight Robotman and the other members of the team regained their memories of their previous adventures, going all the way back to the 1963 debut, effectively rendering all past Doom Patrol stories part of continuity. They'd appear again in the pages of "Teen Titans," along with new member Vox and Bumblebee, and a returning Mento and Beast Boy.
2009 brought the most recent attempt at a Doom Patrol series, this time by writer Keith Giffen and artist Matthew Clark, both of whom said they had always wanted to work on the book. Their take focused on the original core members -- Robotman, Elasti-Girl (now Elasti-Woman), Negative Man and the Chief. But their run would also include appearances and references to other runs of the book, with appearances by Nudge and Grunt from Byrne's series, as well as Crazy Jane and Danny the Street from Morrison's issues. Based on Oolong Island, the team would face both new and familiar faces (including a new take on the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man). One of Giffen's signature creations, Ambush Bug, even joined the team. Like the Arcudi/Huat run, this one lasted 22 issues.
The New 52 gave DC the option to pick and choose from previous continuity, and when the Doom Patrol first appeared in the new reality, they resembled Kupperberg's team from the 1970s and 80s. They all apparently die during the "Forever Evil" event, causing Caulder to form a "new" Doom Patrol consisting of Robotman (who had appeared in an anthology series previously, written by Matt Kindt), Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Element Woman. Caulder sends his team to recruit Jessica Cruz, the new Power Ring, but the Justice League beat them to her.
And in September, the Doom Patrol returns once again, with a lineup that includes such familiar faces as Robotman, Niles Caulder, Negative Man, Flex Mentallo and Crazy Jane, and introduces new characters as well.
Way has said he was heavily influenced by Morrison's take on the book (you can also see those influences in his Dark Horse series "The Umbrella Academy"), so no doubt this new approach will be closer to that era than others. "It gets weirder from here," he promises.
"Doom Patrol" #1 goes on sale Sept. 14.


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There are two other truisms, related to this post, that are well known to anyone with a reasonable amount of experience solving mathematical programs via user-written code (including APIs to solver libraries). The first is that solvers run on double-precision floating point arithmetic, and $\infty$ is not a d-p number. So it is reasonable to treat any d-p number larger than some specified limit $M$ as a surrogate for $\infty$. In the CPLEX APIs, $M=1e+20$. (In the Java version of the Concert API, the static constants Double.MAX_VALUE and Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY work well for $\infty$, while -Double.MAX_VALUE and Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY work for $-\infty$; but you can just as easily use $\pm 1e20$.) The second truism is that mixing very large coefficients with not-so-large coefficients in constraints is an invitation to numerical instability.
This brings me to something I tripped over accidentally a day or so ago. Consider the following trivial linear programming problem: $$\begin{array}{lc}\mathrm{maximize} & x \\ \mathrm{s.t.} & x\le M\end{array}$$ where $M>0$ is a large (but finite) number. The problem has an obvious (and trivial) optimal solution ($x=M$) ... unless you are using a solver, and $M$ is large enough to look like $\infty$. Indeed, for $M\ge 1e+20$, CPLEX (using any of the APIs) will (and should) declare the problem unbounded.
The following table shows the results of a little experiment I did (with CPLEX 22.214.171.124, but the results are not version-dependent):
|No Presolve
|$M\lt 1e+10$
|Optimal ($x=M$)
|Optimal ($x=M$)
|$M= 1e+10$
|Optimal ($x=M$)
Note the result in the lower left corner: the CPLEX presolver asserts that the problem is unbounded. An e-mail exchange with Dr. Ed Klotz of IBM sorted this out for me, and the rationale does in fact make sense. Suppose that the presolver encounters a variable $x$ that it can fix at a large bound $M$. As it eliminates the variable from the model, any instance of $x$ in the model (say, $a_i x$ in the $i^{\mathrm{th}}$ constraint) is replaced by a potentially large number ($a_i M$), which may introduce numerical instability (see second truism above). So CPLEX is somewhat conservative during presolve about how large is too large. In effect, $\infty=1e+20$ in the solver but $\infty=1e+10$ in the presolver.
I discovered this purely by accident, because I'm a firm believer that no model should have coefficients (including bounds) that require me to type two digit exponent fields in scientific notation. If there are values that large, it's time to rescale. It just caught me by surprise that the surrogate for $\infty$ in the presolver was not the same one used in the APIs.


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February 21, 2014 – A lot of interesting firsts happened on this day in history. Here are a few that have had an impact on many of us:
- In 1804, the first self-propelling steam locomotive made its debut at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. One of the best vacations I ever had put me a train that traveled from Skagway, Alaska to the Canadian Rockies. It probably wouldn't have happened without the first self-propelling steam locomotive.
- Across the pond some 38 years later in 1842, the first U.S. patent is granted for the sewing machine. I've never used a sewing machine, but we had one in the house when I was a kid and the cabinet it came in provided a stylish place for a television to sit upon thanks to that patent.
- On February 21, 1878, the first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Conn. One has to wonder if this event, over 130 years ago, was the inspiration for Steve Martin's "The Jerk". The new phone book arriving was a huge part of that movie.
- In 1925, "The New Yorker" published its first issue on this day. I'm fairly certain my love for the short story can be attributed to this magazine.
- The Polaroid Camera, the world's first instant camera, made its debut on February 21, 1947. Can you remember snapping the perfect shot and waiting for it to develop right before your eyes? It was almost as awe-inspiring as watching the first made for television video game, Pong.
- Speaking of video games, "The Legend of Zelda", the first in a series, was released in Japan on this date in 1986. I'm not a video game fan, but I'm sure someone appreciates this important first.
When is the last time you experienced a first? My goal to day is to find something new to accomplish. Wish me luck.


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By vehicle, 15655 Arnold Drive is 5 minutes from Glen Ellen, about 10 minutes from Sonoma Plaza (with access to all the eateries, entertainment and shops that they have to offer), 2-3 minutes to Sonoma Highway at Madronne Rd, and in moderate traffic about a one-hour drive to the City of San Francisco.
By the time you reach the property's main entrance on Arnold Drive, much of the busier Sonoma traffic has been left-behind. Turning down the long main drive from Arnold, you enter a 77 acre property enclosed by creeks on three sides and encircled by large trees. The expanses of trees, rolling vineyards and fields quickly make Arnold Drive and neighboring properties seem to disappear.
The topography of the property is wonderful. From hill to vale there is a difference of about 50 to 60 feet of elevation defining rolling hills and sloping land. Not only does this make for beautiful views, it provides areas for prominent building sites and corridors from those sites that provide fabulous views.
There are also impressive views of the surrounding mountains from nearly every location on the property.
The main building areas of the property are located on high-ground at the end of the central main drive. There is a particular area, higher than the rest and gifted with spectacular old oak trees, that would be perfect for the site of the main residence (the former residence was located here but was removed to make way for the new.)
The property and some structures have both electricity and natural gas provided by PG&E and water is provided by the Valley of Moon Water District. Additionally there is an operating well and a 2 acre reservoir that reportedly can contained as much as 27 acre feet of water. Riparian water-rights on Sonoma Creek permit the property access to a natural source of water from the creek when the right conditions are in effect.
The property has a septic system for the residential buildings and for a 5,000 case winery. Studies show the feasibility of increasing the septic fields for a 20,000 case winery. There are also studies for the replacement of structures and additional development.
The property has a permitted Winery and Vineyards. In the current "very-unfavorable" governmental approval and permitting process for vineyards and wineries in Sonoma and Napa Counties and with so few parcels remaining, this property offers an existing winery permit with 5,000 case production, a winery permit for up to 20,000 cases, a winery building and approximately 47 acres of permitted vineyard.


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Asian stocks finished Thursday's session mostly higher after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it was keeping interest rates unchanged, and indicated that no more rate increase would be coming in 2019.
Furthermore, the president of the U.S. Donald Trump has warned that the United States may leave tariffs on Chinese goods for a substantial period to ensure that Beijing complies with any trade agreement, while later emphasizing he wanted them to reach a great trade deal.
The mainland Chinese markets were mixed at the end of today's session. The Shanghai Composite finished the session higher, adding 0.35 percent or 10.81 points to close at 3101.45 supported by the significant improvement in most of the sectors, especially Technology and Consumer Cyclicals sectors.
Hong Kong's main index Hang Seng finished today's session in the red, falling 0.85 percent or 249 points to close at 29071, the Healthcare sector was the best performing sector, while Telecommunications Services and Technology were the worst performing sectors.
Elsewhere, the South Korean main index KOSPI surged in today's session, adding 0.36 percent to close at 2184.88 supported by the improvement in Technology and Basic Materials sectors.
Japanese Stock Market:
Japanese stocks finished Thursday's session higher where the main index surged by 0.2 percent or 42 points to settle at 21608.92 supported by the improvement in Industrials, Consumer Cyclicals, and Basic Materials sectors, While the Telecommunications services and Technology was the worst performing sector.
In corporate news, Rakuten Inc and Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co Ltd were the best performers of today's trading session that rose by 4.12 percent and 4.08 percent respectively. On the other hand, Chiyoda Corp and Sony Corp were the worst performer of the session, declining by 3.7 percent and 3.38 percent respectively.
In the Forex news, the Japanese Yen fell against the Greenback to trade at 110.632 at 11:00 GMT.
Australian Stock Market:
Australia's main index S&P/ASX200 closed today's trading session in the green as it rose by 0.03 percent to settle at 6167.2 due to the improvement in multiple sectors especially Basic Materials, Energy, and Healthcare sectors, while Consumer Cyclicals sector was the worst performer of the session.
In corporate news, Nufarm Ltd and Speedcast International Ltd were the best performers in today's trading session adding 6.15 percent and 5.31 percent respectively, While Eclipx Group Ltd was the worst performer of session that tumbled by 12.05 percent.
In the Forex market, the Aussie fell against the Greenback to trade at 0.71316 at 11:00 GMT.
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What's Happening with Muncie? Saturday Ramblings.
Muncie, Indiana Bond Debt
The information concerning the City of Muncie and Muncie Sanitary District is fairly sparse. Once in a while, we receive a nugget or two like the recent hire of an attorney specializing in corruption cases by the MSD. We are never privileged to the reasons of the hiring, what employee or employees are being represented or if the payments will be subjected to reimbursement by the employees being represented. Currently, the fees are being paid for by the taxpayers.
Everyone is a taxpayer.
I'm sure this will fall under client-attorney privilege, however, if the fees are paid for through tax dollars then wouldn't the citizens of Muncie be the clients?
Taxpayers received an increased tax bill April 2017. The reason? MSD raised the stormwater fee. All questions about the rate increase were directed to Jason Donati. He would only answer if the request was in writing. Surely, an organization this size has a document on the rate increase available.
Not forthcoming or transparent on the rate increase…
"We're getting a lot of calls about the stormwater fee," the treasurer said.
Patterson said her office was told to tell taxpayers who called to contact Muncie Sanitary District stormwater educator Jason Donati, who when contacted Monday by The Star Press asked that a written request for information be submitted to sanitary district officials. District officials did not respond to The Star Press' request for an interview about the fee.
Patterson said the stormwater fee "went up substantially … and we can't get an answer from anybody why. I haven't been able to get that answer yet."
Source: Property tax rates go up across county April 11, 2017 Muncie Star Press
Four months later, still no answer.
Let's take a look at the current debt from both Muncie Sanitary District and the Muncie Redevelopment Commission as of 12-31-16.
City of Muncie debt $38,562,681.56. Amount due in 2017 $7,186,146.00
Muncie Sanitary District debt $176,401,026.41. Amount due in 2017 $8,052,765.00
Source: Indiana Government Transparency Portal
At the Muncie Sanitary District rate hearing in, 2012 Mayor Tyler was not present but did give a statement expressing concerns the increase would hurt the people. He was hoping to work with the MSD on a phase in. At the time the 2012 hearing, the board had all been appointed by the previous mayor, Sharon McShurley.
Today, the MSD board is all Mayor Tyler appointments. No expression of concern when the board voted to raise the rates in 2016. In regards to MSD purchasing a building well over the assessed evaluation, he said: "all I know is it is an expensive project." (sic) Craig Nicholas' charging the city for demolitions of vacant lots, the city scrambled to cover it claiming the addresses were wrong. All four properties?
The Muncie Sanitary District board on Thursday unanimously approved a rate hike, but not until after hearing from members of the public, who said they didn't trust the board.
"This is poor timing," local resident Kimberly Ferguson told the board after referring to articles in The Star Press about the sanitary district's practices of buying property from and paying politically well-connected people.
Source: Sanitary district unanimously approves rate hike July 7, 2016 Muncie Star Pree
We could go on, but that is for another blog.


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Hold Austin Zoo Accountable
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Austin Zoo, a rescue facility open to the public that has such a huge heart, with incredible potential, succumbs to constant chaos and malevolence because of its inability to address safety concerns for animals, the public and its staff, and furthermore because of its questionable leadership and a Board of Directors that chooses to ignore the team of hands-on people requesting their help.
We ask you to read this story put together by Elizabeth Findell, reach out to us, ask for the truth (not when our managers are body-guarding us) and help us make a change to hold the Board of Directors and the Executive Director of Austin Zoo accountable with proper checks and balances. At minimum, we ask you to sign this petition to support our request for the Zoo to make changes:
- Change the Austin Zoo bylaws to explicitly prohibit any person from simultaneously serving on the Board of Directors while holding any position on staff (paid or unpaid) and require a written notice to all staff should this bylaw ever be edited in the future;
- Implement and share with all Austin Zoo staff a written euthanasia policy to be reviewed and accepted by both veterinarians and 75% of the animal care department;
- Add a bylaw that prohibits immediate family or household of current staff members to serve on the Board of Directors;
- Swiftly elect 7 new Board members that have served on other non-profit Boards (which are not selected by current Directors); and
- Create an independent committee out of the 7 newly selected Board Members to investigate the conflicts of interest at Austin Zoo.
We believe, with your help to bring into fruition the above requests, Austin Zoo can fulfill its potential to be the most magical and inspiring rescue zoo it claims to be. Under more knowledgeable and transparent leadership, Austin Zoo can truly embody its mission to assist animals in need through rescue, rehabilitation and education. Please help us accomplish that by creating an independent Board of Directors.
**This is not the first time this situation has come up at Austin Zoo. In fact, Patti Clark took over as Acting Director after she helped to lead the Board of Directors in removing the prior Executive Director and Board President for the same conflict of interest situation. This was never meant to be a long term solution.
We fully understand that Patti Clark does not take a salary, but that should play no part in this decision. This fight has not been taken lightly by any of us. All of the staff that have chosen to seek the public's help are risking their current jobs and their careers in the zoological industry by seeking your help. Some have already been terminated. We chose this route because we sincerely believe Austin Zoo can do better and be better - for our animals and our community.
If further information is requested from the public, we will schedule a public meeting at a future date and time.
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At a meeting of the council's Executive on Wednesday 15th November councillors will be asked to approve a proposal that would see six two-bedroom council homes built on Chaloners Road in Dringhouses. The homes would be built on council land currently occupied by garages.
Planning approval for six apartments and two houses was granted for the site on Chaloners Road in August 2014, following earlier Cabinet approval to include the site in the wider new council housing build programme. However, in June 2016, the contractor appointed to deliver the scheme advised that they no longer wished to undertake the development. This was prior to work starting on site and has led to a re-appraisal of the development proposals.
With the building contractor withdrawing from the project, the opportunity arose to look again at local housing priorities and the site suitability for a small development of houses. There is a significant need for two-bed family housing, and the Chaloners Road site lends itself well to this.


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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Wendy Sue Wilson, 51, received a breast cancer diagnosis last summer. Fearful and anxious, her mind went into overdrive with worry, not only for herself but also for her parents with health issues who rely on her.
Butterflies are free
Arriving home in Flat Rock, she retreated to her backyard butterfly garden and koi pond. She grows perennials that provide nectar - a food source for butterflies. As Wilson thought about what her future would hold, she noticed the many pink-colored flowers surrounding her and felt uplifted by the color so closely associated with breast cancer awareness.
Then, a Monarch butterfly landed: "I felt a sense of peace, like God had sent a messenger to say that I would get through this disease and be OK."
Wilson's intuition to seek out nature mirrors what many scientific studies have shown -a significant increase in health and happiness. Connecting with nature can defeat one's urge to overthink sad subjects.
Spending time in nature is also associated with keeping inflammation in check. This is especially good for Wilson since she also has a rare autoinflammatory disorder called Schnitzler Syndrome. She may reap another benefit since spending time in her garden may stimulate the production of anti-cancer proteins.
"Strength is my treasure," Wilson explains. "I am a powerful warrior. And, my mom Sharon Wilson and Aunt Rozada Schaller, a breast cancer survivor, were my super support team."
Her resilience developed from surviving cervical cancer and years of biopharmaceutical injections to treat her Schnitzler's symptoms. Her Beaumont care team - diagnostic radiologist Caroline Henien, D.O., breast surgeon Helen Mabry, M.D., medical oncologist Shanti Thomas, M.D., and radiation oncologist Daniel Hamstra, M.D., Ph.D. - coordinated her cancer treatment with her Schnitzler's treatments.
Early detection by Beaumont's staff at the Karen Colina Wilson Smithbauer Breast Care Center in Trenton provided a rapid diagnosis and treatment plan, which were critical to Wilson's successful outcome.
"The breast center staff was courteous, understanding, caring and very knowledgeable," said Wilson. "For example, when I went in for my biopsy with Dr. Henien, they sat me down in a special comfort chair in a private room with beautiful pictures, brought me a beverage, wrapped me in a warm blanket and asked if I wanted a visit from Matilda, the therapy dog. I got to hug and pet this sweet dog and give her treats."
Wilson is thankful for Drs. Henien and Mabry and the Breast Care Center staff, for the compassion they showed and the hugs they gave. She is also grateful to therapy dog owner and Breast Care Navigator Cindy Massengill, whose Golden Retriever Matilda gave comfort and a smile to her when she felt very low. Wilson also appreciates Karen Colina Wilson whose generosity made this breast center a reality.
Altruistic people live longer
The week before the lumpectomy surgery to remove her breast cancer, Wilson attended an out-of-state conference in Indiana to assist women affected by human trafficking. As an advocate for improving the lives of women and girls in her local community and beyond, this member of Soroptimist International of the Flat Rock Area has worked to make a difference for years. Three days before her surgery, she took part in the group's successful Breast Cancer Fundraiser Road Rally. What's the personal benefit of all her volunteer work? It actually may benefit her mental and physical health.
Just before her surgery, Wilson posted on Facebook: "On Oct. 18, I had many hours of pre-operative care at the Breast Care Center and Radiology department at Beaumont Hospital, Trenton. Tomorrow, Dr. Helen Mabry will do my surgery to remove the cancer and some lymph nodes. I really like her. She made me feel at ease, explained everything in detail in words anyone could understand and was honest with me."
She received the news that she would not need chemotherapy with a mixture of elation and relief. However to destroy cancer cells that may have remained in her breast after surgery, Wilson received outpatient radiation therapy delivered in a six-week series of daily sessions, each requiring about 30 minutes at Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn.
While recovering from surgery, Wilson returned to work with restrictions. Her co-workers welcomed her and had supported her throughout with calls, cards and gifts. She continued to work throughout her radiation treatments, adjusting her schedule along the way. That is what warrior women do. They fight back, reclaim their health and live to tell about it, so other women can know they can be survivors, too.


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Michael Duncan
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Michael is an Associate in the Property Litigation team.
Michael has experience in a broad range of contentious property matters. He regularly advises on disputes relating to infrastructure projects, residential developments, conservation property, offices, manufacturing sites and retail space. As well as traditional court proceedings, Michael is frequently involved in mediations, arbitrations and other forms of dispute resolution.
Prior to studying law, Michael completed a business degree at a leading university and also spent time working in industry. As a result, he is quick to grasp the commercial context of a dispute and tailor his advice accordingly.
Michael is also regularly commended for giving clear and pragmatic legal advice. He is tenacious, determined and always does his utmost to achieve the best possible outcome for his clients.
Relevant experience
- Retail/office occupier: Advising a client that was served with a dilapidations bill for approximately £500,000 and successfully arguing that their liability was £0.
- National conservation charity: Dealing with High Court proceedings brought by a petro-chemical company that wanted to compulsorily acquire rights over a park that has approximately 1,000,000 visitors each year.
- Private individual: Resolving a boundary dispute for a private client whose property was being encroached on by a national supermarket chain. The settlement included a substantial payment being made to the client.
- Property developer: Assisting with High Court proceedings in relation to a dispute over the terms of a ten year collaboration agreement concerning land worth circa £12 million, including the successful defence of an expedited summary judgment application.
- Major infrastructure provider: Securing vacant possession of a strategic site and urgently disposing of lease renewal proceedings brought by one of the tenants.