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A 62-year-old retired schoolteacher from Powai, who claimed that she had been raped by a courier firm staffer, has admitted to having "consensual sex" with him. The development assumes significance as immediately after the incident was reported, there was uproar over the security of the senior citizen in the city.
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American Philatelic Research Library officially open
BELLEFONTE — Stamp enthusiasts now have access to more than 85,000 library volumes in one place: at the American Philatelic Society headquarters here.
On Saturday, Oct. 29, the American Philatelic Society, located inside Bellefonte's historic Match Factory, held a grand opening for its more than 19,000 square-foot American Philatelic Research Library. After the ribbon was cut at 10 a.m., visitors were able to tour the center until 4 p.m.
"It finally brings together in one space one of the most comprehensive collections of philatelic literature in the world, which includes many rare and unique items," said Tara Murray, librarian and director of information services for the American Philatelic Research Library.
Construction on the $4 million two-floor research library began in 2011, and final work was completed in early October, according to Ken Martin, executive director of the American Philatelic Society. The final phase of the construction cost $2.6 million alone.
The library's 85,000 volumes include books, journals, government documents that include postal maps and regulations, auction catalogs, philatelic exhibits, stamp albums, price lists, new issue information, and archives. The journals include more than 5,000 titles, Martin added.
"For the first time all materials are together in a secure environment," he said. "The new space is ADA accessible and much more efficient for the staff to serve customers here and from a distance, through scans, mailing of materials, etc."
In addition, the space provides the latest technology for both visitors and staff, which includes wifi, charging stations and scanning equipment, Murray said.
During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, several guest speakers addressed a large crowd of not only local visitors but also stamp enthusiasts from around the country, about the importance of the new library to both the philatelic society and Bellefonte.
One of those speakers was Mick Zais, current president of the American Philatelic Society. Zais said he was impressed by the large gathering that came to celebrate the library's opening, with some visitors who traveled from as far away as Portland.
"I think the presence of so many people from so far away who have made the effort to be here for this special occasion is testimony not only to the passion that we have for our hobby, but for the bonds that draw us together in a community that's united by a common interest and united by friendship and association," he said.
U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Howard Township, a Bellefonte native, mentioned plans to start a bipartisan philatelic caucus in the upcoming 115th United States Congress. He said the caucus will focus on issues connected to stamp collecting. He also praised the center for being a great resource for stamp collectors.
"This center is home to thousands if not tens of thousands of items, including the Inverted Jenny, which is probably talked about more than any other item in recent history," Thompson said. "[It is] a rare stamp recovered after decades of mystery, involvement by the FBI and black market deals."
The man who is responsible for bringing the American Philatelic Society to Bellefonte, Robert Lamb, former executive director, reminisced on the early days of working to make the center a reality here.
Lamb previously told The Express that he had moved to State College to work at the American Philatelic Society there after he retired from the United States Foreign Service in 1994. When the need for a larger location arose, the society looked toward Bellefonte Borough for help and thus discovered the abandoned Match Factory, which the American Philatelic Society purchased in 2002. Lamb stepped down as the society's executive director in 2006.
"A lot of people picked up that baton, a lot of people have done a lot of work, given a lot of time, and given a lot of imagination to making this into a wonderful facility," he said. "I think that we have seen a lot, we've seen it grow, but the future is still very broad and we can do a lot for the hobby here."
The American Philatelic Research Library will be open to the public Mondays through Fridays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and additional hours will be provided occasionally for special events.
The American Philatelic Society encompasses about 55,000 square feet inside the Match Factory, and the remaining 45,000 square feet of the complex is leased to a dozen additional tenants.


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Frozen Shoulder is one of the many conditions afflicting the shoulder joint, resulting in pain and limited movement. Here are few important things to know about this condition.
- What happens when someone gets a frozen shoulder?
Frozen shoulder, also known as Adhesive Capsulitis is a condition characterized by varying degrees of pain and stiffness in the shoulder joint. The tissues in your shoulder get thicker and tighter leading to scar tissue. As a result your shoulder joint doesn't have enough space to rotate freely.
- What are the symptoms one should look out for and when should one see a doctor?
A person with frozen shoulder will have a persistently painful and stiff shoulder joint.
This may seriously interfere with his ability to do everyday tasks such as dress and bathe, or even work. Even when the pain starts to improve, the stiffness can be quite disabling. This condition might impede you from reaching overhead, to the side, across your chest, or from rotating your arm all the way around from front to back. This could make it impossible for you to scratch your back or put on your vests/bra.
- What are the causes of frozen shoulder?
The shoulder is the only joint that commonly freezes like this.
The bones, ligaments and tendons that make up the shoulder joint are encased in a capsule of connective tissue. Frozen shoulder occurs when this capsule thickens and tightens around the shoulder joint restricting its movement. This biological puzzle is yet to be unraveled, meaning the exact cause of the freezing remains a mystery till date.
- Who is more at risk of developing it?
- It commonly affects middle aged people between the ages of 40-60 especially women.b. People who wear a shoulder sling for prolonged periods following trivial trauma or surgery.
- Diabetics are at an higher risk with nearly 20% of them getting afflicted by it.
- Certain other medical conditions such as underactive Thyroid, Stroke and Parkinson disease have known to cause frozen shoulder.
- What are the treatment options?
- Physiotherapy- This is the most common mode of treatment. The goal is to stretch your shoulder joint and recover motion. This can take anywhere from few weeks to few months.
- Medications – Your treating doctor can prescribe medications to decrease pain and reduce inflammation in the joint. A corticosteroid injection into your shoulder joint has shown to offer good pain relief and assist in the physiotherapy.
- Surgery – If physical therapy doesn't improve your condition, surgery is an option. Surgical options are to manipulate the shoulder and put it through a full range of motion under a general anesthetic to help break up any adhesions. A newer and more advanced technique is arthroscopic surgery. This type of surgery involves making a small cut in your shoulder and using a camera called an "arthroscope" to remove scar tissue or release it. This allows the shoulder to recover its lost motion.
- Can this condition be prevented?
If you don't put shoulder complex through a wide range of motion on a regular basis through everyday activities and exercise, the ligaments and tendons in this area won't receive an optimal supply of blood for nourishment and removal of waste products. Over time, lack of optimal blood circulation to these ligaments and tendons can cause them to tighten up. Regular stretching of the shoulder joint and strengthening of the muscles around your shoulder can greatly reduce the chances of developing a frozen shoulder in later life.
- Are there activities that people with a frozen shoulder should avoid?
Frozen shoulder is not a repetitive strain /overuse injury, in fact as previously stated it is frequently brought on by a period of immobilization.
Your treating doctor will routinely ask for X rays and Ultrasound / MRI scans to rule out other concomitant conditions such as Shoulder Arthritis, Rotator cuff tears in the shoulder. Provided your scans are negative, there is no restriction of activities for a person with frozen shoulder.
- What happens when a frozen shoulder is left untreated?
If untreated, the tissues in the shoulder can further tighten leading to varying degrees of permanent stiffness and residual disability in the shoulder joint.
- Are there any home remedies that help?
Placing an ice pack on your shoulder for 15 minutes at a time several times per day can help to decrease pain. If you're working with a physical therapist, the exercises can be done at home. Your physical therapist will provide instructions on the types of exercises you must do, how often to do them, and when to push yourself harder.
- Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Once thought to be a self limiting condition, frozen shoulder is becoming a chronic and difficult condition to overcome with the current stress induced urban lifestyle. The key to unlocking this mystery is early diagnosis and timely intervention by your doctor preferably a shoulder specialist.
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This is the part 2 of 4 of the "Lessons learnt from building Data Science systems at Barclays" series.
Coding practices
Code should be developed in a proper IDE and make use of advanced tools for re-factoring, auto-completion, syntax highlighting and auto-formatters; at least.
Notebooks should use routine libraries from the main codebase. As soon as some code is developed in a notebook and is reusable, it should be moved into a codebase. Rule of thumb might be each notebook cell should not exceed the 10 lines, after that either needs refactoring or it should be pulled away. Only exception is long code used only and specifically for the one off investigation that does not make sense outside that particular context.
Do not introduce unnecessary dependencies in the codebase (e.g. plotting libraries). Keep the code repository lean and add dependencies to your particular use case rather than the project repository.
During development is recommended to do frequent git commits. When the ticket is ready to go, the developer should first run a git diff develop and review its own code before to create the pull request (PR).
The pull request should only contain the minimum amount of code specified in the corresponding ticket requirements. You don't anticipate functions that you know will need in the future even though this future is a couple of hours later. Avoid abstractions or general-purpose methods. First a working code for your specific use case then you will refactor it.
Agile manifesto says:
"Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount
of work not done–is essential."
Make your code structure flat:
- data containers
- static classes containing functions/methods/utils
- entry point classes defining the end-to-end job and putting all of the pieces together
Copy and paste the same code if needed, duplication is not always bad if it makes the design simpler. Only extract methods and abstract classes if you have at least 3 use cases.
Comments in the code is very likely to cause out-of-sync documentation. Clean code, good design and self-explaining namings will make your code self-documenting. The only exception to comments are TODO, FIXME and annotations explaining why an hack was needed and in which conditions the current implementation might fail. Obviously avoiding hacks in the first place is the best solution but sometime we need to cope with them. Abuse of TODOs but do not leave non-working code without annotations.
Extreme attention should be paid to the code style and conventions. Having bad formatted code or inconsistent patterns make the code very hard to read and maintain.
After the PR is sent for review, chase your reviewer to review your code asap. Resist from starting a new task until the review is not finished and the PR merged into the develop branch. Do one thing per time and move to the next only when the previous is 100% done.
Reviewers should not accept justification regarding bad practices. Code reviews is the only way to guarantee a convergence of the team towards the excellence. It definitely pays off in the long term. The process of code reviewing should go forth and back until both the two parties are satisfied.
You should always come up with smart ways of testing your code. Laziness or "I know it works" approaches should not be accepted. Only code that may not require tests are one-off analysis since that are humanly supervised and are not going into production.
A code without tests is risky, cannot be refactored and cannot be maintained since that unit tests serve as documentation. If someone changes your code than you can still be blamed and be responsible of the failure even though your code used to work. Tests are the only way of protecting validity of your solutions. Time spent in testing is the greatest long-term investment you can do for your project.
If you spot a bug that was not found in your tests, that is an indicator that this test case should be added. Don't just fix it, make sure you first have the failing test for it. Debug your code by adding unit tests and breaking down end-to-end methods into smaller composable functions. Debugging by adding unit tests will give you a much safer and repeatable way to make your code robust.
Read-eval-print-loop (REPL) debugging is just another type of exploratory analysis, if you want to follow that way then remember to turn your manual techniques into automated tests.
Obviously all of the above problems would not exist in case of TDD.
When your fantasy of creating manual test cases is about to finish or you are too tired of keeping adding tests that always succeed, consider also adding a few property-based tests with random generators.
Unit tests are necessary but is the whole end-to-end that matters. Make sure you have at least a few integration tests in place. The best is if those integration tests actually maps to real use cases.
Pair working
We found pair working to be much more productive than working as isolated individuals. A data science team generally is cross-functional with people ranging from a more engineering background to more theoretical analytical/statistics background. Good rule is to pair opposite individuals together and swap their competencies so that who is good at coding will do the modelling and vice versa. Code review process still applies as usual even though the code was written together, it might be worth to involve someone else with no priori knowledge of the project to review the code and methodology.
Functional Programming
Function programming offers a few advantages over the other paradigms and we found it to suit very well with Data Munging and Machine Learning algorithms. Just to name few:
- Implementing any complex logic as combination of simple first-order functions instead of long and non reusable methods.
- No state, no side-effect, the same code will return the same output at every single cal. No debugging is needed.
- Close match with math. You can implement any algorithm same way you read them from academic papers.
- No need to think of how make your code to execute efficiently. Focus on functionalities only.
- High abstract level, keep your brain trained on lateral thinking instead of following mechanical procedures.
- Conciseness, you will be surprised of how many algorithms (single node or distributed) can be implemented in a single line.
- Higher readability, you only needs to understand what the functions aim to do and not what the values of each variable represent at each step.
- Concurrency for free at no extra cost. Full parallelism.
- Same code for local implementations magically scales up in a distributed environment. That means you can prototype locally without have to re-engineer your solution for the big data system.
- Type system, you know what functions can be used and what the form of intermediate transformations are. No need of read-eval-print loops or hacky print calls. Easy to implement, reasoning and refactoring complex algorithms without introducing bugs.
- No explicit loops, you know how your algorithm is converging via recursion.
- Flat and minimal structure, no need to create tons of classes or verbose notations. You can use anonymous functions, pattern matching and wildcard notations.
Popular languages in Data Science are not always natively functional but most of them offer their functional extension or some external library does. See for example this project of introducing the functional APIs of Scala to Python collections: http://pedrorodriguez.io/blog/2015/03/14/functional-programming-collections-python/.
If you work in Data Science or Big Data and have never done functional programming before, you should really look into it. You might find it a bit steeply at the beginning but after you master it you will be superbly productive.


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We hope you'll stop by the Welcome Center in the lobby, introduce yourself, and find out more about Cornerstone (but if you prefer to keep a low profile and just soak it all in, we're good with that too.) We're a friendly group and want you to feel comfortable, so take things at your own pace.
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A project to turn a disused building at Newtongrange railway station into a community hub is to benefit from a £360,000 cash injection.
Track 2 Train is among 29 community projects across Scotland to secure a Scottish Government Regeneration Capital Grant.
A spokesman for Midlothian Council, which secured the cash, said: "The funding announcement is a major investment in this exciting partnership project.
"We're working with Track 2 Train, a charity established by and closely associated with Apex Scotland, to redevelop the building, which is currently owned by Network Rail.
"The hub will be a great community space and, through Apex Scotland, which works with people in the criminal justice system, it will also offer excellent training opportunities for ex-offenders.
The cafe bistro will create four full time posts and five part time posts initially. Ten traineeship places will also be available with a focus on hospitality, customer service and the food industry.
The bistro will be on the ground floor of the building. Upstairs there will be office space, a learning centre, IT suite and a flexible meeting space for community groups.
The total cost of work to transform the derelict building is £785,000.
A further £260,000 will come from Borders Railway Blueprint partnership fund. A total of £80,000 has also come from the Railway Heritage Trust.
Other funding sources are being pursued.
Lindley Kirkpatrick, ScotRail's Borders Railway programme executive, said: "ScotRail are pleased that this important funding milestone for the project has been reached, and look forward to working with Track2Train and Midlothian Council to see this exciting project come to life. It represents yet another way that the Borders Railway is improving communities in Midlothian."
Apex Scotland chief executive Alan Staff said: "Apex Scotland is delighted that a significant milestone in the development of this exciting new venture has been reached. Track 2 Train, our latest social enterprise, represents an innovative partnership between the Scottish Government, ScotRail Alliance, Midlothian Council and Apex which will bring real benefit to the local community and the economy."


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Saturday night, around eleven or so, my friend –and very occasional guest poster— Josh sent me a photo of a heavily modified Honda Prelude.
The car was clearly above and beyond what it was when it left the factory, but I had no idea how much so until I was linked to a few threads via some members of the .
The car is part of Australia's 'Super Sedan' racing series appears to have been in competition since at least 2002.
The version(s) below seem to be the most recent prior it its latest rebuild.
There isn't a whole lot of Prelude left (the rear tail lights, roof skin, a, b pillars, and doors skins) but it's still really cool to see someone run around in a vehicle that at least resembles the mostly neglected third generation Prelude.
Under the skin the car has a tube chassis, and at one point an F20 backed by a Nissan transmission made up the drive train.
As of the pictures above it seems like a Chevy V8 has found it's way into the mix, and the body panels have changed a bit.
Information about the car seems a bit scattered but there's some here on the driver , (seriously), and on .
Note: If the internet has lead me astray and these are actually two different Aussie, Super Sedan, third generation Preludes please don't hesitate to provide more info.


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I'm super excited to restart my blog after so many years. It's been a while I've wanted to do this but after my first blog got hacked (had it for over 13 years) I hesitated.
So let's see. I'm a 61-year young mommy of five, and new grandmother. Yeah! A little boy…so excited. And now come March 2019, another little grandson will be arriving.
Hubby and I have been married for 41 years this past August. He was my high school sweetie and still is my sweetie after all these years.
We're dog lovers, the entire family. I'm a grandmom to many fur-babies. Love them dearly. Cry like a baby when they leave us. No one understands the hurt when they pass away unless you love animals the way we do.
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As a new writer when I began way back in the dinosaur ages, I, too, made a ton of mistakes while building my brand.
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Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness.
There's only one problem: she's not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel's convinced she's found her solution: a teen boy with the username FrozenRobot (aka Roman) who's haunted by a family tragedy is looking for a partner.
Even though Aysel and Roman have nothing in common, they slowly start to fill in each other's broken lives. But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel begins to question whether she really wants to go through with it. Ultimately, she must choose between wanting to die or trying to convince Roman to live so they can discover the potential of their energy together. Except that Roman may not be so easy to convince.
Description taken from Goodreads.
There are so many beautiful quotes in this story that really made me think about life, death and the nature of suicide itself except… it takes forever to get to the meaty stuff.
I think what made this book ruined this book for me at many aspects of it was the pacing. So many times, I wished that Aysel would just continue with the story instead of staying on the same point or delving off onto this huge tangent about something almost completely irrelevant. There were a lot of things I loved about Aysel. I thought that she was a great character. She was real to me throughout most of the book. Through the times that she wasn't, I was focusing on Roman.
Roman really was the highlight of MY HEART AND OTHER BLACK HOLES for me. I didn't always love the romance between Aysel and Roman, but the way that she comes to love him and they choose to live because of the healing they find in one another really stood out to me.
I also really enjoyed the premise of this story. I felt like it was very unique from other suicide stories not only because of the premise but also because of the more-positive-than-bittersweet ending. I got everything I wanted from this book plot wise and feel wise. I got to fall in love with the characters besides Aysel and Roman, and I got to laugh and cry at every beautiful, heart-wrenching moment of the story.
Overall, I would say that I wanted more. I wasn't exactly on the same wavelength as Aysel sometimes and I felt completely off with the pacing and set of MY HEART AND OTHER BLACK HOLES. I would recommend this to people who are experienced with contemporary or are skilled skimmers, as well as fans of books like Jay Asher's THIRTEEN REASONS WHY or Jennifer Niven's ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES. I would also recommend those books to fans of this book. Regardless, I still loved this story and will definitely be rereading it. 3.5 stars.
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In a previous article, I wrote about the outcomes of the European Banking Union (EBU), this "federalist leap" welcomed by some and feared by others. Regarding the technicity of the text, I'd like to clarify the subject by giving my opinion on this EBU or more likely on its operational elements. (...)
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Thirtysomething goth rockers are an underexploited demographic.
Let's get real: the Jersey Guido bubble has already burst and Rednecks are the wasted-on-television teenage simulacrums du jour. And how long can that last?
Pseudo-reality television producers need to wake up and smell the blogging (which, in case you were wondering, smells like burnt plastic and The Fear): the future of stereotype-centric documentary television lies with members of Generation X that still dress up like Peter Murphy from Bauhaus.
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-Bauhaus' Peter Murphy Arrested for DUI and Meth Possession
-Peter Murphy Talks Meth Arrest and 35 Years of Bauhaus: "I Was Never a Punk"
-Peter Murphy: "Bauhaus Was the Seminal Moment in That Time, Joy Division Was Not"
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Jill Leovy's powerful new book, "Ghettoside," also relates the story of a murder, this time of a young black man in South Los Angeles. It's possible to admire "Serial" while praising Ms. Leovy as the anti-Koenig. The depth of the reporting and analysis in "Ghettoside" makes "Serial," by comparison, resemble a book of poetry.
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Ms. Leovy is excellent on the street-level detective work that went into fingering Bryant Tennelle's killers. Listened to on audio, "Ghettoside" would, I suspect, come over like a "Law & Order" episode of the highest caliber. She is just as excellent on the resulting court proceedings.
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She is pointed about the ways progressives (and many researchers) don't like to dwell on black-on-black crime, for fear of being considered racist. The subject is "like incest," one activist says. She explores why black murder rates are higher than those of Hispanics.
Her answers are complex and persuasive. "The Monster's source was not general perversity of mind in the population that suffered," she writes. "It was a weak legal apparatus that had long failed to place black injuries and the loss of black lives at the heart of its response when mobilizing the law, first in the South and later in segregated cities."
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As part of the Cultures Project, I must create a project which will bring awareness about different, global problems to the general public. To make my project unique, I plan to utilize my special technical skills in internet application development. Thus, I am planning to create a online question and answer website called "Conflicter". The project will be open to the entire internet online at http://conflicter.org. The project will be based on Tecker (http://tecker.net) code I have been developing in the past few months. The goal of the project is to end global ignorance through the spread of information.
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3 October 2016 Edition
I nDíl Chuimhne
Life springs from death and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations – Pádraig Pearse
1 October 1977: Seán Ó
CONAILL, Sinn Féin (Parkhurst Prison)
1 October 1996: Pat McGEOWN, Sinn Féin
2 October 1971: Volunteer Terence McDERMOTT, Belfast Brigade, 1st Battalion
2 October 1978: Volunteer Pat HARKIN, Derry Brigade
6 October 1972: Volunteer Daniel McAREAVEY, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion
9 October 1976: Noel JENKINSON, Sinn Féin (Leicester Prison)
9 October 1990: Volunteer Dessie GREW, Martin McCAUGHEY, Tyrone Brigade
10 October 1972: Volunteer John DONAGHY, Volunteer Patrick MAGUIRE, Volunteer Joseph McKINNEY, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion
16 October 1972: Volunteer Hugh HERON, Volunteer John Patrick MULLAN, Tyrone Brigade
16 October 1976: Volunteer Paul MARLOWE, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion; Volunteer Frank FITZSIMMONS, Volunteer Joseph SURGENOR, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion
16 October 1992: Sheena CAMPBELL, Sinn Féin
18 October 1974: Volunteer Michael HUGHES, Newry Brigade
23 October 1971: Volunteer Dorothy MAGUIRE, Volunteer Maura MEEHAN, Cumann na mBan, Belfast
23 October 1979: Volunteer Martin McKENNA, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion
23 October 1993: Volunteer Thomas BEGLEY, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion
24 October 1971: Volunteer Martin FORSYTHE, Belfast Brigade, 1st Battalion
25 October 1982: Peter CORRIGAN, Sinn Féin
26 October 1990: Tommy CASEY, Sinn Féin
27 October 1970: Volunteer Peter BLAKE, Volunteer Tom McGOLDRICK, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion
28 October 1976: Máire DRUMM, Sinn Féin
28 October 1987: Volunteer Paddy DEERY, Volunteer Eddie McSHEFFREY, Derry Brigade
30 October 1974: Volunteer Michael MEENAN, Derry Brigade
31 October 1975: Volunteer Seamus McCUSKER, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion.
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From the Book of Common Man
A chapter in the book Wisdom Series
Seasons of Our Lives
by Douglas Paul
Blank Verse Poetry Contest contest entry
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May 21, 2018 — PORTLAND, Maine — America's only significant state fishery for baby eels has blown past records for value as high demand from overseas aquaculture companies is driving prices to new heights.
Fishermen in Maine search for the eels, called elvers, in rivers and streams every spring so they can be sold to Asian aquaculture companies as seed stock. Fishermen have sold more than $20 million worth of the eels so far this season, according to the Maine Department of Marine Resources.
That is the highest total since interstate managers instituted a quota system for the eels in 2014. The previous record was $13.4 million, and fishermen still have until June 7 to catch more of the eels this year.
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FOSS4G , the main international OSGeo event, takes place once per year and gather all folks involved in opensource geospatial technologies at large. This year, the conference took place in Portland, Oregon, and gathered around 1000 people, on very various topics ranging from deeply technical Mapserver pro tips, to burnout management, through opendata policies and map designs.
This year's edition was really good, as always for this conference. A lot of social events allowed direct talks to passionate people from all over the world, and the presentations were diverse and of high quality.
Oslandia at FOSS4G
Oslandia is a full player in the OpenSource GIS field, and we participated this year with various interventions. First of all, we gave a workshop on our 3D stack, with new features and a now vertical stack of software, from storage to visualization. This workshop features the use of this stack for managing 3D GIS data. Given an opendata dataset from the city of Lyon, France, we integrate the data into PostGIS, and use PostGIS 3D features to analyze and enrich this data. Then, Horao, a 3D destktop viewer coupled with QGIS, is used to do some 3D visualization.
In a second part of the workshop, we use the very recently released Cuardo web client ( http://www.cuardo.org ) to display the data in a standard browser, using WebGL.
The workshop is self-contained and you can follow it completely to discover these new exciting features in OpenSource 3D GIS. find it online : https://github.com/Oslandia/workshop-3d
Gimme some YeSQL !
Vincent Picavet also did a presentation « Gimme some YeSQL – and a GIS -« , which focused on latest and upcoming PostgreSQL features. From updateable views to the new JSONB data type, this is a practical and technical presentation of the big improvements coming in PostgreSQL 9.4. The talk illustrates the use of these features in a GIS context.
Slides are online
OpenSource software for surveying
Another presentation by Vincent was an insight on a project we achieved for GIS Apavil in Romania, and concerns a full GIS for water distribution network and wastewater networks. The presentation especially shows how we setup some specific opensource surveying tools, and the way we deal with offline, versioning and synchronization of data.
Slides are on GitHub and the video should be up soon.
Olivier Courtin showed a summary of the current state of the 3D stack we develop and its foreseen future. Slides and video are online, and there should be more information coming soon.
Get in touch!
Oslandia will continue to make research and development on all of these topics. If you are interested in any of these subjects, do not hesitate to get in touch at firstname.lastname@example.com
A post to follow will give you some background information on what we heard at FOSS4G and where to hear more !


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Ancient warrior
Dressed up to perform in a reenactment of an ancient battle. At the Ayutthaya floating market.
at the Ayutthaya floating market, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Famous Buddha head
This limestone Buddha head has been encased by this tree for hundreds of years at Wat Mahathat, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wat Mahathat ranger
Ayutthaya souvenir bells
Aspiring monk.
He is training to be a lawyer while he's a monk at Wat Panan Choeng, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Bell detail
Wat Panan Choeng, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Monk who bestows water blessings
Luang Pho Tho (Giant Buddha)
This statue is over 19 meters high and was made in the 14th century. Wat Panan Choeng, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Scene at Wat Yai Chaya Mongkol
Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wat Yai Chaya Mongkol stairs
Buddha head collection
Wat Chaya Mongkol, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Maintaining the incense
Wat Yai Chaya Mongol, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Candy maker
This character has a stall at the Ayutthaya floating market where he sells little tasty jelly candies.
Wat Mahathat


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by 'Kunle Adebajo
My edge of the social media was abuzz with conversation yesterday following Sahara Reporters' upload of a clip which shows Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo state addressing a crowd of students from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH). Ordinarily, he has been infamous for his unparliamentary – or in this case "ungubernatorial" – language. Yesterday, however, was an all-time record. His utterances to the students of LAUTECH demonstrating close to the state secretariat do not only beggar belief, they beg for great concern.
It has been reported that for up to twenty-two months, no droplet of subvention has touched the soil of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology. Salaries of hard-working lecturers have not been paid for several months and infrastructure lies terminally in utter abandon. One might be tempted to say it lies in an intensive care unit, but that would falsely suggest that it is receiving anything resembling treatment. Without pause, students have spent time at home enough for a fresh pubescent to give birth. And currently, many have spent three years of their lives swaying in exactly the same level, more than sufficient to start and complete a programme of study in other universities. Yet, there is no sparkle of hope from the same governments which unite to form the Pandora's Box of the disaster.
It is within this tragic context that Ladokites and supporters-in-the-cause, on 13 January 2017, marched in protest to the state of their school and the avertable peril threatening our collective future. But rather than meet a warm embrace, an understanding figure, a pair of listening ears and reassuring words, they were forcibly camped under the sun for several hours by their very good friends: the Nigeria Police. Not only that, when the governor eventually left his comfort zone to see them, his remarks betrayed his white cap and flowing Agbada which presuppose elderly wisdom.
In his words, some of which have been accurately translated from Yoruba language by Sahara TV; "you complain your school is shut since eight months. Am I the person who closed your school? Okay, if this is how you want to talk to me, then go and do your worst. If you want to be troublesome, I dare you. I'm ready for you. Let's see what happens then… You should have little respect for constituted authority, no matter what. And if somebody of my calibre meets with you … Eight months of what? This is not the first time schools have been shut, so what?"
He further said, "It's not to come here and sing 'it will be rough this time.' To be rough for who … is it for me? Is it for me? Is it for me? [to these the students chorused 'yes!']. Wòó [calling on a policeman], bring that boy here for me. [And after 15 seconds of resistance] Leave him, leave him. Let me tell you this, we must face reality. The reality on ground is that, number one, your management, the Oyo State Government and many governments; they lack fund. If they lack fund, they must find a way to help the students. But if you come here and are shouting at me, I am not going to talk to you. And if you want to start trouble, go ahead! This government will not tolerate nonsense from anybody."
That is not all, the about four-minute long video also captured him saying, "What I want now is, as you've come, you should plead, 'ah oga, they've shut our school. Governor o… [students cut in]'… Is this one a student, you there? It's a pity! [Chuckles derisively]… You know something? With your behaviour, I am not going to talk to you again, okay? So, if you want to do anything, go and do it. We will wait for you … We were at an excos meeting and I came out … Isn't this all of you? How many are you … This is the constituted authority for Oyo State. Even if I don't pay salary or I don't pay this, the fact is that I am the constituted authority. It does not remove that authority."
Though the translation and transcription have greatly mellowed the vulgarity of his language, the words above should still make a sane mind cringe in discomfort. We should all be embarrassed that someone like Abiola Ajimobi became governor under our watch. We should hide our heads in shame. Though I am not denying that he achieved some level of progress in aspects of his administration which is why he broke second-term jinx in Oyo state, a leader is supposed to give hope and not thrust sharp blades into it as he would a Christmas chicken. What is a leader, or an elder, whose words bring him on a par with brutes? What is a politician who lacks understanding of the politics of words, whose fingers are numb to the pulse of the people and whose greatest achievement is his lengthy stay in office?
There are many who have, as usual, come to the defence of the governor, most without even watching the uploaded clip. They say the students also have a case in the court of morality with respect to the recent 500,000 Naira scandal. Agreed, but certainly off point – nothing but an attempt at red herring. They argue that the clip is just a convenient, maybe sensational, collage of different parts of the address. Again true; but no matter how we look at it, no matter which verbal anaesthetic surrounds his uncouth statements, nothing can rationalise the words quoted above especially coming from an "His Excellency, the Governor." There are also they who generously agree that the governor was wrong but maintain that to speak bluntly against him is wrong too. In their reasoning, while his office affords him immunity from civil and criminal proceedings, that is not enough; his sizable age should also shield him from being told the bitter truth. To this I say: While respect for our elders is a virtue we should never compromise, it is too costly a price to pay for the suppression of truth and the oppression of the masses. A leader who does not respect his subjects, over whose backs he rode to power, deserves no respect himself.
By virtue of section 185(1) of the nation's constitution, all elected governors are bound to take and subscribe to the oath of office prescribed in the seventh schedule. This oath is so important the section provides that an elected person shall not perform gubernatorial functions without the ritual. And this oath – which I doubt ever journeys beyond the tongues of those who recite it – states, "I do solemnly swear that … in all circumstances, I will do right to all manner of people, according to law, without fear or favour." In other words, in all circumstances – whether before an election or after, to all manner of people – be they students or godfathers, and without favour – to some select students while ignoring the genuine plight of the vast majority.
Governor Ajimobi has just revealed the dark mentality lurking behind the smiles of the average politician. Skimming through his words, one can tell that his inclination is to have students plead and worship him. One can tell that he considers the students very lucky – and thinks they should too – that he left a meeting to address them. Ordinary students! Not so? Why should they not consider themselves lucky when his daughters are overseas drinking from the best there is of springs of knowledge and throwing wads of crisp currency just as a drunken sailor hurls an empty bottle of gin. Like her father, the one caught had zero shame even with cameras staring at her debauchery.
Proceeding, another thing we can tell is that he sees his "constituted authority" as being above reproach whether or not he performs. Then again, we can tell he would go to any length to protect his ego and quell dissent, including unleashing the police on unarmed, law-abiding students. This sick mentality is the reason our education sector is where it is. And until it is banished, it will be why students of LAUTECH shall still be at home tomorrow and why the nation at large shall still ache at many a joint, wondering where it went wrong.
I urge Nigerians to henceforth remove the speck from their eyes. Our greatest problem is not corruption or recession, or any of our many problems; our greatest problem is our ignorance of their causes. Any person who thinks himself too big to give us due respect is deserving only of our loathing, not our voting. And any office holder for whom power is not an energy drink stimulating him into action, but an alcoholic drink which knocks out his senses, should be checked before he pulls the state with him into the gutters.
Governor Ajimobi has spoken and his words have been recorded by the untiring hands of history. If only he had known, with all his years in politics, that there is a reason the expression "political correctness" begins with the word "political".
Op–ed pieces and contributions are the opinions of the writers only and do not represent the opinions of Y!/YNaija
'Kunle Adebajo is student of the University of Ibadan, he is a member of the Union of Campus Journalists and may be contacted via his email address: [email protected]


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Radar reports that Apple's "I'm A Mac Guy", Justin Long is out, but "PC Guy" John Hodgman stays.
Is Apple's best ever TV ad campaign headed for history or ready to make history?
Apple makes history. "PC Guy" will switch to a Mac.
It makes perfect sense. Apple's "I'm a Mac" TV commercials are excellent, but nothing lasts forever.
Some reports say that "Mac Guy" Justin Long is out the door, and that's OK with many observers and Mac users.
Why? "Mac Guy" was just a bit too smug, too cool, and sees his future elsewhere as a movie star.
"PC Guy" John Hodgman is the lovable but hapless PC user that more people identify with and love even more.
The results of Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" TV ads are obvious.
The Mac's market share is rising rapidly.
Apple's sales, profits, and unit sales have never been better. Now is the time for change.
In true Apple style, the change will be historic. "PC Guy" will switch to a Mac.
What a perfect set up for Apple to show Windows virus weary PC users how easy and wonderful a digital life can be when you switch to a Mac than having "PC Guy" actually switch to a Mac.
Extending the legs to a successful TV commercial campaign is a major challenge for any company's ad agency, so timing of "PC Guy's" switch to a Mac is important.
Apple will want to do everything possible to torpedo Microsoft's impending launch of Windows Vista.
Could there be a better way to put a stick in Bill Gates' eye than to have the country's most memorable Windows user kiss PC's goodbye and switch to a Mac?
Don't tell me that's not a brilliant idea. Will it happen? Yes, sometime between the launch of Windows Vista and the introduction of Mac OS X Leopard.
Tens of millions of Windows PC users will hear all about Windows Vista. Tens of millions of TV viewers will see "PC Guy" John Hodgman piss on Windows and switch to a Mac.
With "Mac Guy" Long out of the picture, and "PC Guy" Hodgman the new "Mac Guy" who will play the Windows PC alter character?
It won't matter, but it means that Apple can begin, on TV commercial after TV commercial, to switch PC characters to Macs, roasting Window Vista into shame.
Radar implies that more than change is on the radar screen in the near future, including more about "soon-to-be Mac Guy" John Hodgman.


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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
3 comments:
- AnonymousFebruary 1, 2012 at 3:39 PM
Very clear and to the point information. Thank you. Today, Metro News published an article, "When Bullying Moves Online, the Damage Multiplies — Fast"ReplyDelete
This caught my attention as my teen daughter is a victim of cyberbullying (by school mates) but the article does not clearly explain any plan of action to put a stop on cyberbullying. I wish I read your information a few years ago when my daughter was also a victim of bullying in school as the principal did not take the measures suspend the bully. We suggested a Anti-bully rally as well as hanging posters on in the school. To date, none have that has been put in place.
However, with this blog post I will absolutely keep this resource handy when we address the cyberbullying issue.
Would you consider writing to Metro in response to their article today adding this resource?
Thanks for your feedback. At your request, I just posted a comment on the Metro News website:ReplyDelete
Very nice post i get the information.Keep posting like this.ReplyDelete
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A tough transition
LCOs can overcome the challenges of winter by being prepared with the right products. The transition from winter to spring can be a challenging time for lawn care operators. In many parts of the country, LCOs are at the mercy of Mother Nature when trying to determine the right time to kick off their busiest time of the year. But... read more


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My windows installer started and stopped, but the notation states that some services stop automaticallyif they have no work to do, for example the Performance and Alerts Service.
Any ideas, and parameters to set up? I am trying to reinstall my Norton 360 antivirus program, and I get a BSOD after I install it. I really need your help. Thank you.
You may need to first remove any residuals of Norton before re-installing. Go to the link below and download the removal tool. Follow instructions on that link.
There are many free AV programs that are better than Norton 360. Norton products are resource hogs. If you haven't yet renewed your subscription I suggest you try others.
I use Security essentials for Windows 7, but others here can recommend a good one for XP.


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America is rapidly morphing from a representative government to a dictatorship, and it's all thanks to Republicans in state and federal office.
Even though we're just barely over a month into 2018, there are already five recent examples of Republican members of Congress, in addition to GOP governors and President Trump, flirting with authoritarianism on levels not previously breached by even traditionally odious Republicans like Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
1. Pennsylvania Republican lawmaker attacks legitimacy of state supreme court
After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Republicans' gerrymandered Congressional district map was so overtly favorable to Republicans that it violated the state's constitution, the legislature and Governor Tom Wolf (D) were given a deadline of February 15 to submit another redistricting map. State Representative Cris Dush (R-66th) countered by issuing a memo to all of his colleagues calling for the five Democrats on the state supreme court to be impeached and for them to be permanently barred from holding office in Pennsylvania ever again.
While such a blatant attack on the judiciary may have seemed unfathomable in recent history, President Trump's repeated attacks on federal judges provide useful cover for Republicans who launch similar attacks in their home states.
2. Republican governor refuses to allow citizens to vote
After appointing state senator Frank Lasee (R-1st) and state representative Keith Ripp (R-42nd) to positions in his administration, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now simply refusing to hold special elections to fill those vacant seats, effectively denying residents of those legislative districts representation in state government.
This is not unlike Alabama House Republicans voting to end special elections following accused pedophile Roy Moore's narrow defeat to Democrat Doug Jones in the December special election. This is also not unlike a traditional dictatorship, where the right to vote is either suspended or rendered meaningless.
3. Congressional Republicans aid and abet Trump's attacks on federal investigators
Despite the FBI sternly discouraging President Trump from releasing a memo by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-California), Trump released the memo anyway. This is despite the memo's author — a member of Trump's transition team — acknowledging that he cherry-picked certain information and left other pertinent information out in order to make his case that there was anti-Trump bias within the FBI. In addition to attacking his current hand-picked FBI director, Trump has also fired or intimidated previous FBI officials in his firing of James Comey and his attempted firing of special counsel Robert Mueller.
Very few Republicans aside from Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and Governor John Kasich (R-Ohio) have spoken out against Trump's attacks on the FBI, which he proudly posts on Twitter (while referring to himself in the third person and forgetting the difference between "their" and "there").
"The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath….The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier….the FBI became….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018
…a tool of anti-Trump political actors. This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law….The FBI wasn't straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators." Wall Street Journal
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018
This memo totally vindicates "Trump" in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2018
The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans – something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2018
4. Trump wants a military parade in Washington (commonly seen in a dictatorship)
President Trump has reportedly asked the Pentagon to make preparations for a grandiose military parade featuring tanks and missiles down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, citing his experience watching France's Bastille Day parade. However, it's important to remember this has long since been a dream of Trump's, having first asked for a military-themed Inauguration Day parade. Veterans advocacy group VoteVets, which has over 600,000 members, released a statement attacking Trump's idea of a military parade as insulting to the men and women of the armed forces, and hinting that Trump wanted the U.S. military to resemble that of a third-world dictatorship.
"The military is not Donald Trump's to use and abuse in this way," VoteVets stated. "Our military is the very best in the world — they are not to be reduced to stagecraft to prop up Donald Trump's image. Any commander-in-chief who respects the traditions of the military would understand that."
"Unfortunately, we do not have a commander-in-chief right now, as much as we have a wannabe banana republic strongman." (emphasis theirs)
Retired Major General Paul Eaton says @realDonaldTrump's parade idea underscores his authoritarian tendencies, and that our military is not there to be "used and abused" to prop up his image.
VoteVets full statement on Trump's orders for a military parade. pic.twitter.com/Am7uSSWZfo
— VoteVets (@votevets) February 7, 2018
5. Republicans shrug at Trump's refusal to implement sanctions he signed into law
Last year, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted almost unanimously by a 419-3 margin to punish Russia with new economic sanctions in response to U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that Russian operatives interfered in the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. Senate concurred with the House in a near-unanimous 98-2 vote. Even though President Trump signed the new sanctions into law, his administration is simply refusing to implement the sanctions, saying Russian businesses have suffered enough.
There's no denying that Republicans — following Trump's actions — are flirting more and more with making America a dictatorship in repeated attacks on democratic institutions like courts and law enforcement and in allowing their president to escape the rule of law and the limits imposed by the Constitution. How bad will Americans let it get?
Carl Gibson is a politics contributor for Grit Post. His work has previously been published in The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle, Al-Jazeera America, and NPR, among others. Follow him on Twitter @crgibs or send him an email at carl at gritpost dot com.


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Who's ready for Easter? Some people like cadbury eggs and others, like myself,
like love the malted milk eggs. Of course I had to make malted milk cookies to go with my favorite Easter candy. I love the little patches of frosting grass on these cookies. So. Stinkin. Cute.
If you don't want to get fancy with your cookies, just go plain Jane. These malted milk cookies still taste incredible without all the fancy schmancy decorating. Better than incredible, actually.
The cookie is really chewy and I love the crackled tops. The flavor of malted milk is definitely pronounced through the cookies. That's a great thing since that's what I was going for. They have a slight crunch, but more chewy than anything.
My son, Lucian, who will be four in June has taken a real interest in helping mama in the kitchen. He was extremely excited to make the Easter cookies with me. He helped pipe the frosting grass on some of the cookies and add the tiny egg sprinkles. His favorite part was getting some green on his fingers. He's all boy.
Sometimes you need a cookie that's a little different than the norm. That's this cookie. I originally was a little disappointed at how thin they were since I was going for a peanut butter blossom look. I didn't expect much else since I put a load of malted milk powder into the cookies, but once I ate
one 3 or 4, I knew that this recipe couldn't be more perfect.
So I made another batch. Then another.
Here is the frosting and tip that I used for this project.
Malted Milk Cookies
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups cake flour
- 1/2 cup malted milk powder
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 30 malted milk eggs optional
- green frosting optional
- Egg sprinkles optional
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, add in the butter and shortening. Mix on medium until combined.
- Add in the brown and granulated sugars. Mix on medium until light and fluffy. This will take about 2-3 minutes.
- Add the egg and vanilla and continue to mix on medium until incorporated.
- Add in the cake flour, malted milk powder, cornstarch, and bakind soda. Mix on low until everything is incorporated.
- Using a small cookie scoop, scoop cookies onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Leave about 2 inches for the cookies to spread.
- Place in the oven to bake for about 6-7 minutes. If you make larger cookies, bake for about 10 minutes until the edges are lightly browned.
- Immediately place a malted milk egg in the center of each cookie and let cool.
- Once the cookies are completely cooled, place the green frosting in a piping bag with the grass tip. I used a premade green frosting and the tip number is 233. Pipe grass around the eggs and add some egg shaped sprinkles!
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