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TSC CBA 2021-2025 Updates: Commission Promises To Adress 2021–202 CBA Issues Within the Shortest Time As Teachers Issue Strike Notice
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Teachers have threatened to boycott their duties next week should the government, through the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), fail to address their grievances.
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education (KUPPET) submitted a list of their demands to TSC. They want the commission to negotiate and implement the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), with the current one set to expire next month.
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They also demand teachers be offered a 70 per cent pay rise in the next CBA, from the current 30 per cent. Further, they are calling for salary increase arrears for over 3500 technical and vocational education and training (TVET) teachers transferred from TSC to the Public Service Commission (PSC) as stipulated in the 2017-2021 CBA.
"Teachers expect nothing other than a salary review this year. We have gathered that TSC was advised by the Salaries Remuneration Commission (SRC), but TSC has not shared the advisory with us," said KUPPET Secretary General Akello Misori.
Teachers under the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) are yet to issue their stand.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has replied on the status of the imminent teachers Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) planned to be signed ahead of July 2021.
This follows the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) Secretary-General Akello Misori's letter to Nancy Macharia expressing concern about the delay in concluding discussions on the new CBA.
Misori noted that for the past two years since they initiated talks on the new CBA, TSC has consistently snubbed their efforts to have structured talks.
"As a union, we have diligently discharged our obligation under the Labour Relations Act, but the government has been dragging its feet for more than a year," said Akello Misori, the Kuppet secretary-general.
According to KUPPET, all that remains in the negotiations is for the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) to give its advisory report to TSC to allow it to table a counteroffer to the union.
But in reply, the teachers' employer said it has noted the union grievances and acknowledge they are valid. TSC further promised teachers that it is taking all steps to ensure the subject is addressed in the shortest time possible.
"The Commission has duly noted your sentiments on the above subject matter (CBA 2021 – 2025) with which we concur to be valid. I wish to assure that the Commission is taking all the steps to ensure that the matter is addressed in the shortest time possible," said TSC CEO Dr Nancy Macharia.
In April National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani wrote a letter to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) stating that his ministry won't release about Sh83 billion in salary increase that the State owes civil servants and teachers.
The letter dated March 18, addressed to Anne Gitau, the Commission Secretary at SRC, got a shocking reply from Yatani who attributed this to budgetary constraints to the forthcoming General Election and the adverse outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Both KUPPET and Kenya National Union of Teachers, KNUT protested the decision. Teachers and civil servants later threatened to down their tools if the government does not honour the numerous collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) it struck with them.
The implementation of the 2021 – 2025 CBA is supposed to commence on July 1, 2021. About 320,000 teachers countrywide are anxious as their current CBA is weeks to expiry. TSC has failed to make a counteroffer to the one made by the unions in the 2021-2025 CBA.
The expiring CBA signed four years ago was implemented in phases for Sh54 billion and will expire on 30th this month. CBAs are normally discussed and implemented across 4 years.
Generally, discussions for a new cycle between unions and TSC are made at least a year before the lapse of the existing one. Yatani stated that a total of Sh42 billion will be spent in the coming general elections.
"We have already factored Sh10 billion in the Financial Year 2021-22 ceilings for the preparatory activities," said Yatani, adding that the outstanding balance will be factored in the subsequent financial year.
This combined with a bit in taxes collected, forced the Exchequer to set aside just Sh6.8 billion, or 10 per cent of the Ksh68 billion intended for the 4-year salary reviews for teachers and civil servants in the upcoming budget.
The remaining cash, Yattani said, would be released in phases in the 2022-2023 to 2024-2025 financial years. But, labour union leaders castigated the treasury for using elections and Covid-19 as an excuse to deny workers their dues.
"The Government and employers should prepare for stiff resistance from unions," said Wilson Sossion, KNUT Secretary-General, adding that the economy is more than capable of providing Sh83 billion, with close to two-fifths of this allocated for teachers.
The Treasury has projected that it will accumulate Sh1.76 trillion from taxes in the financial year starting July even as it tries to turbo-charge an economy that has been ravaged by the pandemic.
"Further, due to the negative effects of Covid-19 on the economy, we expect the economy and the projected slow recovery, revenue performance over the next two years," said Yatani.
The National Treasury stated that it expects the economy to recover this year, increasing at around 7 per cent compared to slower estimated growth of 0.6 per cent in the last year.
Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli noted that global economies have been ravaged by the pandemic but noted that counties make annual budgets hence workers do not have to wait for 4 years. He added that the funds being borrowed should be used to support Kenyans.
"I said it that the billions we are borrowing should supplement our budgetary allocations and also fight of Covid-19. But not to be pocketed by a few individuals," said Atwoli. Public Finance Management Act 2012, however, does not permit the Government to spend borrowed money to for salary purposes.
KNUS SG stated that excessive borrowing in the economy can never be used to punish teachers and civil servants. "The CBAs must be funded as recommended by SRC. The Treasury and government cannot undermine what has been recommended by SRC," said the ODM nominated MP.
Kenya Universities Staff Union (KUSU) said that the State must look for funds for the workers' CBAs or risk industrial action.
"Kenyans pay taxes and workers are the Kenyans. So they will have to get what is due to them. The Government must look for money to implement CBAs," said KUSU Secretary-General Charles Mukhwaya. "Sh6 billion is a drop in the ocean and a big joke." He added.
Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) Secretary-General Akelo Misori however declined to comment on the topic. "No comment at the moment," said Misori.
KUUPPET had held a 3-day retreat in Naivasha to discuss out pending issues in the CBA and to lay the ground for the next stage of the agreement. Union insiders however said the transit would be a huge setback for classroom teachers, who were hoping to mainly benefit from the next CBA. In the current Sh53 billion CBA, classroom teachers were awarded a raw deal.
Union of Kenya Civil Servants Deputy Secretary-General Jerry ole Kina announced that they are in the last phase of their CBA and remarked that they have been in negotiation with the Government and were expecting the government on Monday.
"Before we can comment, let's hear them first. If it's a positive answer we shall welcome it. If this is for the entire public service then we need to know the fine details of what they are talking about."
Atwoli took issue with how public servants' CBAs have been structured. CBAs, he maintained, should be of 2-year cycles and not 4 years as is the existing practice.
"And they have arm-twisted the unions to accept the four-year cycle, which is illegal, unconstitutionality against the ILO (International Labour Organisation) conventions," said Atwoli. Atwoli noted that with 2 years cycle the subject of general elections would not occur.
Atwoli said for good industrial relations, the Government must call unions and employers such as the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to a meeting for presentations and justifications for their planned actions.
"Meet all the union leaders and explain to them why they want to pay less and also allow unions to ask questions like why pay less and Kenyans are paying taxes," said Atwoli.
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MEET LLOYD! – West Coast Premiere of "Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol.2" at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills, CA!
Join Lloyd and the Troma Team March 8th for the West Coast premiere of "Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol.2" in Beverly Hills, CA!
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Tromalum Trent Haaga & Tiffany Shepis Join Q&A Panel for LA Opening of Lloyd Kaufman's "Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2"
Writer/Director Trent Haaga ("68 Kill") and Scream Queen, Tiffany Shepis ("Tromeo & Juliet") will be attending the LA Opening of Troma Entertainment's latest feature film, "Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Volume 2" on March 8th at Laemmle's Ahrya Fine Arts. The two Tromalumni, Lloyd Kaufman and other guests will be panelists during a special Q&A following the screening of "Volume 2" at 7:30pm – it was announced today by Levi White, Director of Public Relations for Troma Entertainment, Inc.
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Lloyd Kaufman, Trent Haaga, Tiffany Shepis and more at the LA Opening of "Volume 2" at Laemmle's Ahrya Fine Arts, March 8th!
"Anytime we can get more than one Tromalum in a building we know it's a special occasion! Trent and Tiffany are two of the most recognized actors in the Troma canon and I can't wait for them to reveal their grievances about me during the special Q&A!" stated Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and creator of "The Toxic Avenger".
The much anticipated "Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Volume 2" will open in LA at Laemmle's Ahrya Fine Arts on March 8th at 7:30pm. The film will then screen daily at Laemmle's NoHo 7 from March 9th – 15th at 9:55PM each night.
Tickets are now available: 3/8, 3/9, 3/10, 3/11, 3/12, 3/13, 3/14, 3/15
Starring Asta Paredes and Catherine Corcoran
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Quentin Tarantino has been a fan and friend of Troma for years, and when he suggested to Lloyd Kaufman at the Sitges Film Festival that he should create an "Event Film," Kaufman took note. "Michael Herz and I decided that to mark Troma's 40th year we, too, would produce an 'Event Film' in two volumes just like Quentin did," says Kaufman, "except slightly less lavish in the budget area." Return to Nuke 'Em High: Vol. 1 & 2, directed by Lloyd Kaufman, is a hilarious, thoughtful sci-fi "Event Film" with themes ripped straight from today's headlines: the contamination and degradation of the world's food supply, rampant bullying, and LGBTQ love triumphing over prejudice and violence.
The film, a revisiting of Troma's 1986 Class of Nuke 'Em High is in the same vein as other classics such as Class of 1984, Rock 'n' Roll High School, and Carrie, but seen through the unique vision of Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team. Welcome to Tromaville High School where, unfortunately, the glee club has mutated into a vicious gang of Cretins. Chrissy and Lauren, two innocent lesbian lovers, must fight not only the Cretins, mutants and monsters but also the evil Tromorganic Foodstuffs Conglomerate. Can they and Kevin the Wonder Duck save Tromaville High School and the world?
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After 2 ½ Years on the Lam, U.S. Marshals Arrest North Carolina Fugitive
Concord, NH – The United States Marshals Service is very happy to announce the arrest of Alamance County, North Carolina fugitive, Steven Brian Caudle.
Steven Brian Caudle, 45 years-of-age, who was last known to reside in Liberty, NC, was being sought on an arrest warrant issued by the Alamance County Superior Court on August 14, 2019. This warrant was for probation violations alleging that Caudle had absconded from supervision. Mr. Caudle was on supervision due to a conviction and sentence for assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious bodily injury. This case was reported to be a stabbing involving a family member during an altercation. Caudle was aware of the outstanding arrest warrant and fled North Carolina.
This case was referred to the U.S. Marshals, Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, who was able to develop information indicating that Caudle was possibly residing in Henniker, New Hampshire. This information was forwarded to the U.S. Marshals – New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force who was able to determine that Caudle was residing in an apartment on Rush Street in Henniker, NH.
Today, members of the US Marshals, New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force with the assistance of the Henniker Police Department were able to locate and arrest Caudle hiding next to a bed inside the apartment on Rush Street. Mr. Caudle was arrested without further incident and transported to the Henniker Police Department for processing as a fugitive from justice based on the outstanding Alamance County warrant.
Caudle will be held at the Merrimack County Jail pending his initial court appearance in the coming days at Hillsborough District Court. Mr. Caudle will likely be held without bail pending his return to North Carolina to face these legal matters.
United States Marshal, Nick Willard said, "Another great example of you can run, but you can't hide." Willard continued, "Just because you fled nine states away does not make you immune from arrest; Mr. Caudle just found that out today."


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Major Marvel and Star Wars announcements on Disney Investor Day
On Dec. 10, Disney held a livestream on their website for "Disney Investor Day" in which they revealed many upcoming titles for their streaming service Disney Plus.
Although it was not the initial plan, "Wandavision" will be the opening Marvel show to hit Disney Plus. Elizabeth Olsen will reprise her role as Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany will return as Vision. The series pays homage to old style television shows similar to in the 50's. The six-episode show will start "Phase Four" of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" when it releases on Jan. 15.
"The Falcon and Winter Soldier"
"The Falcon and Winter Soldier" got a first-look trailer and a premiere release date of March 19. It will also have six episodes and will focus on continuing the story of Falcon and Winter Soldier after the events of "Avengers: Endgame."
A trailer was shown for the series "Loki" and features the return of Tom Hiddleston as the titular character. Like the others, this series will feature six episodes and focus on events that happened after "Avengers: Endgame." In particular, there is an encounter with an organization known as "TVA." This may be in reference to the Time variance Authority which may connect to the other possible hints at the multiverse in "Wandavision" and the upcoming "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness."
Announced for 2022, this series has Jeremy Renner reprise his role as Clint Barton and Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, a character who becomes the new Hawkeye in the comic series. The cast will also feature the talents of Vera Farmiga, Tony Dalton, Brian d'Arcy James and Fra Free. Bert, Bertie and Rhys Thomas are currently listed as directors in the series.
The Marvel animated series "What If…?" received a new trailer and is set to premier next summer. The show will focus on alternate scenarios within the "MCU" and will have a length of 23 episodes.
Other Upcoming Marvel Series
"Secret Invasion" is a series that will feature the return of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn as Talos.
In the series "Ironheart," a teenage girl named Riri Williams invents the most advanced suit of armor since Iron man.
"Armor Wars" has Don Cheadle returning as James Rhodes and explores
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The "Guardians of the Galaxy" spin-off show "I am Groot" will be produced by James Gunn and have the character Groot running into various new characters.
There will be a "Ms. Marvel" series featuring Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan coming in late 2021.
Tatiana Maslany will play the lead-role in the series "She-Hulk" alongside Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner.
New film announcements
There will be a third Ant-man film titled "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania." A New "Fantastic Four" film was announced for the "MCU" and will be directed by Jon Watts. "Black Panther 2" was confirmed to not recast the late Chadwick Boseman's character T'Challa.
Ewan McGregor reprises his role as Obi-Wan in an upcoming series titled "Obi-Wan Kenobi." The series takes place 10 years after the events of "Revenge of the Sith." It will also feature a controversial return of Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader.
In 2022 Diego Luna will reprise his role as Cassian Andor from "Rogue One" in a show titled "Andor." The series will have 12 episodes and there is a making-of teaser currently released that shows Diego Luna and the crew behind the scenes.
"The Mandalorian" spin-off series
Rosario Dawson will reprise her role as Ahsoka Tano in a series titled "Ahsoka." It is part of two "The Mandalorian" spin-off series the other being titled "Rangers of the New Republic."
A new animated series titled "Star Wars: The Bad Batch" will focus on a group of clones known as the Bad Batch and will also feature a character from "The Mandalorian," Fennec Shand.
Other Star Wars Series
Disney also announced a few other series with fewer details. They announced an anime style show titled "Star Wars: Visions." A Sith-focused series helmed by Leslye Headland called "The Acolyte." The character Lando is set to receive his own "brand-new event series" titled "Lando." It will be directed by Justin Simien known for his work on "Dear White People." C-3PO and R2D2 will be in a new animated project called "A Droid Story."
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Jean de Lalande, SJ (died October 19, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and one of the eight North American Martyrs. He was killed at the Mohawk village of Ossernenon after being captured by warriors.

Life
Jean de Lalande was a native of Dieppe, Normandy. He arrived in New France at the age of nineteen to serve with the Jesuits in New France as a donné, a lay brother. In late September 1646, Lalande was a member of a party led by Jesuit Isaac Jogues as an envoy to the Mohawk lands to protect the precarious peace of the time. However, Mohawk attitudes towards this peace had soured during the men's journey, and a Mohawk party attacked them en route.

They were taken to the Mohawk village of Ossernenon (9 miles/14 km west of the current site of Auriesville, New York). The moderate Turtle and Wolf clans ruled they should be set free but, angered by this, members of the Bear clan killed Jogues on October 18. The next day, they killed Lalande when he attempted to recover the body of Father Jogues from the path of the village.

Jean de Lalande was beatified by Pope Pius XI on June 21, 1925, and canonized on June 29, 1930. His feast day is October 19 in the US and September 26th in Canada.

Legacy
At Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx, New York, a freshman dormitory—Martyrs' Court—has three sections, which are named for the three U.S. martyr-saints: John LaLande, René Goupil, and Isaac Jogues.

Jean de Lalande is the patron saint of the Saint John LaLande Catholic Parish in Blue Springs, Missouri. A seven-foot-tall limestone statue of St. John LaLande, carved by Fritz Carpenter of the Stefan Mittler Monument Company in Madison, Wisconsin, stands outside the church. A second wooden statue depicting Jean LaLande dressed in buckskin was commissioned from Studio Demetz in Ortisei, Italy, and dedicated on May 18, 2013, in honor of the parish's seventy-fifth anniversary.

Jean de Lalande also has special meaning to the Catholic youth camp Camp Ondessonk, which honors the North American martyrs and their Native American friends.

See also
Catholic Church in the USA#American Catholic Servants of God, Venerables, Beatified, and Saints

References

External links
St. John Lalande Library St. Jean de Lalande Archives
Camp Ondessonk,
"Statue of St. John LaLande, Blue Springs, Missouri

Jesuit saints
French Roman Catholic missionaries
French Roman Catholic saints
17th-century French Jesuits
Jesuit martyrs
17th-century Christian saints
17th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Year of birth unknown
1646 deaths
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REDD+ Implementation Requires Legal Reform & Forest Community Rights
A recent paper from the Global Canopy Programme, "Land tenure and fast-tracking REDD+: time to reframe the debate?" rightly points out that legally defensible and enforceable land rights are an essential condition for effective, equitable implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus augmentation of carbon stocks). The authors assert that clear land tenure and usage rights determine who should be compensated for reducing deforestation or held accountable for continuing it. This will require reform of laws and policies surrounding land tenure "to ensure that REDD+ projects will both reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation, and positively impact the livelihoods of forest communities by maximising the flow of REDD+ benefits to these groups."
However, the authors note that legal reform is a lengthy process with uncertain outcomes. Over the time that such reforms unfold, forests remain under pressure, subject to widespread clearance and unsustainable use. Even where forest and land governance laws are reformed and harmonized, the authors contend that poor implementation, weak enforcement, and unsustainable practices can thwart achievement of desired REDD+ objectives.
Citing examples from published literature and brief case studies from Nepal and Papua New Guinea, the authors argue that legal reform of land and forest tenure will not successfully advance REDD+ objectives if the de facto power of communities remains weak, enforcement is poor, and the influence of powerful political and economic stakeholders who benefit from unsustainable forest practices remains unchecked.
The authors propose immediate interim measures that can help foster successful REDD+ efforts; their description of these measures implies that the proposed steps differ from and fall outside the typical reform of legal land tenure systems. They propose: mapping laws and policies across sectors to ensure policy consistency and to identify perverse incentives, legal loopholes, and conflicting priorities; the use of moratoria and the revision of concessions; and the engagement of community forestry user group networks with governments to expand recognition and protection of de facto community land rights.
While these are all important steps, they are an integral part of the longer-term process of reforming tenure governance to develop clear, enforceable land and forest rights for communities. The international Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security adopted in 2012, outlines these and other principles and practices.


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The Coral Castle: Masonic Mystery in the Sunshine State
Just a little way outside of Homestead, Florida, there stands an enigma. The Coral Castle is a decorative park built from over 1,000 tons of megalithic coral rock; dense blocks which from 1923 until 1951 were quarried, carved and stacked to form towers, beds and tables, rocking chairs, sundials and bizarre astrological figures.
As a folly, it is singularly unique – but what makes it stranger still is the fact that the Coral Castle was built by one man alone, using no more than hand tools as he fashioned a palace over the course of 28 years of solitary labour.
Numerous explanations have been offered for this seemingly impossible task – from pulleys and magnetism, to witchcraft and extraterrestrial intervention – but behind it all lies a profound science of geometry, a technique of mass manipulation which the architect himself claimed to have inherited from the builders of King Solomon's Temple and the pyramids of Egypt before that.
The Great Architect & His Sweet Sixteen
The castle and its surrounding gardens were built by Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), a stonemason from Riga, Latvia. At the age of 26 Leedskalnin was jilted by his fiancée, one sixteen-year-old Agnes Skuvst, who broke off their engagement just the day before the wedding.
Leedskalnin was heartbroken and he set out on a quest to build a monument worthy of celebrating his lost love – or so people inferred, from conversations with this notoriously vague eccentric. When asked what he was doing, Leedskalnin would claim that he was building a tribute to his 'Sweet Sixteen.'
The girl was real, according to a Latvian account – though actually named Hermīne Lūsis – but Leedskalnin's own writings would later suggest at other motives behind the project. In his pamphlet A Book in Every Home, he later hinted that Sweet Sixteen was more a reference to an ideal, than a reality.
Edward Leedskalnin left Latvia soon after… with one investigator suggesting that he was fleeing the Tsar's secret police, following his own involvement in the armed uprising of 1905. Whatever the reason, Leedskalnin ended up in North America where he worked for a time on lumber mills across Canada, in California and in Texas.
When he was later diagnosed with tuberculosis, Leedskalnin decided that the Florida climate might improve his condition. Some accounts claimed that he was spontaneously healed, and Leedskalnin himself credited the cure to magnetism – a subject with which he was becoming increasingly fascinated.
Leedskalnin settled in Florida City in 1918, and began work on what he called his 'Rock Gate Park' sometime around 1923. Using only hand tools, he quarried huge blocks of coral rock before cutting them to shape and arranging them into position. Later, in 1936, Leedskalnin moved to Homestead where he purchased a plot of 10 acres and spent the next three years relocating, a distance of some 10 miles, using a friend's tractor to transport each of his coral structures.
Leedskalnin was known to be a very private person, and his methods were a closely guarded secret. In 28 years he refused to allow anyone to watch him work – carving the stones by night, while a series of lookout posts along the castle walls provided an extra defence against prying eyes. Measuring only five feet in height, and weighing just 100 pounds, he slowly built his fortress from the inside out using blocks that weighed an average of 14 tons a piece.
By the 1940s Leedskalnin, who lived in a room inside the single castle tower, had opened the park up to paying visitors. He installed a bell, and carved a sign into rock by the entrance that read, 'Adm. 10c Drop Below'. He took a great pride in showing off his creation, but when asked about his methods Leedskalnin would always dismiss the question with something like, "It's not difficult if you know how."
Edward Leedskalnin died in the winter of 1951, aged 64. He closed the castle with a sign that read, 'Going to the Hospital,' then took a bus into Miami. He wouldn't return – first suffering a stroke, before later dying in the hospital from a kidney infection.
Leedskalnin's Rock Gate Park was left to his closest living relative, a nephew in Michigan. The nephew only kept hold of the folly for a short while though, before selling it to a family from Illinois. It was during the handover that a set of instructions were discovered pointing the way to Leedskalnin's life savings: $3,500 in hundred dollar bills, accrued from tour fees plus the sale of books and land.
In time the Rock Park Gate would be renamed 'Coral Castle', and its last change of hands saw it sold to the Coral Castle, Inc. in 1981 for a sum of $175,000. Three years later the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it has been managed as a tourist attraction ever since.
A Tour of Rock Gate Park
Pulling up into a parking space beside the Coral Castle, it wasn't hard to see how Edward Leedskalnin managed to maintain an air of mystery about his work. The place was a fortress – high walls of pinkish-grey coral rearing up on all sides, while the square shape of a tower, complete with battlements, peered out over the top.
By the time we'd passed the turnstile however, through the wall and into the ornate gardens beyond, it was clear that the place had been dressed up somewhat since Leedskalnin's day. There was a gift shop built into one of the outer structures, while a patio inside the castle walls had been decked with a cluster of chairs and tables arranged beneath a large awning to form a café. Beside that, a life-size black and white print of the architect stood cable-tied to a post, inviting us to join a tour of his domain.
We found our guide – or rather, he found us – floating about what ought to have been the 'nine-ton gate'; except on this occasion the gateway was bare, the gate itself having been removed, the guide explained, for repairs.
"An eight-foot chunk of rock, weighing nine short tons," the guide was saying. "Fitted in place so perfectly that you can barely see the cracks around it… but this gate was so well designed, that a child could turn it with just a push of their finger. Imagine that!"
And of course, imagining it was all we could do for now. The gate stopped working in 1986, and it took six men and a 45-ton crane to remove the block and reveal the trick itself: Leedskalnin had drilled a hole down the centre of the slab, inserting a metal shaft which sat in the bearings of an old truck. The parts were replaced, and for a time it worked again… until seizing up again in 2005. Now, in 2014, it had once again stopped working.
By the time a small group had gathered, the guide began his tour around the park.
Walking us through the wonders of the Rock Gate Park, he led us first to the 'telescope': smooth holes drilled through two nearby blocks and set with crosshairs to focus on the North Star. We saw a barbecue built from old truck parts, a heart-shaped 'lovers' table', a bathtub, two beds and an obelisk – all hand carved out of coral.
Leedskalnin had built a total of twenty-five rocking chairs too, each one formed from a single piece of coral and set with smooth, curving tracks beneath to allow for a gentle rocking motion. One of these – apparently, his favourite – was positioned up high, offering a panoramic view over the park.
We were shown a sundial next, with markings that could be used to deduce the time of day, the season of the year. Another table nearby, meanwhile, had been carved into the shape of Florida state.
Many of the features, our guide informed us, had been designed as an imaginary home for the family that Edward Leedskalnin never had. His twin chairs, twin beds, and heart-shaped table were intended for himself and his Sweet Sixteen; other features included a water well dug into the centre of the park, as well as a sound-cancelling 'punishment room' for use in disciplining mischievous children.
The building blocks of the Coral Castle were mostly sourced close to the site, harvested from a sedimentary layer of oolitic limestone which can be found just beneath the topsoil throughout large areas of southern Florida. The blocks were then shaped, and stacked together without the aid of mortar – their weight alone serving to hold the structures in place.
Seeing these blocks up close, touching them, really brought home the incredible feat of engineering that had been involved in the 28 years of construction.
The walls alone, 8 foot high by 4 foot thick, were said to weigh 58 tons per section. Each block around the park weighed an average of 15 short tons, and as much as 30 tons for the larger items – while some of the taller monoliths measured anything up to 25 foot in height.
"Do we have any freemasons in this group?" our guide asked in his Southern drawl, as he rounded the corner of an ornate pool set with a six-pointed coral star.
Up until this point I had sensed a certain symbology about the park; a proliferation of pentagrams and the six-pointed Seal of Solomon, combined with prolific astrological themes. From the Polaris telescope on the north wall, to the throne, placed symbolically in the east – and surrounded by carved-coral figures of the planetary bodies – up until now the Coral Castle had felt very much like the blueprint of an otherworldly temple. When our guide revealed that Edward Leedskalnin had indeed been a committed freemason, pointing out details such as the stars, the throne, the set square carved atop an obelisk, the hidden workings of the park suddenly began to fall into place.
It was perfect, of course, that this architect and stone mason was himself a student of freemasonry; a system which purports to teach ancient mysticism through the allegorical study of the tools and techniques of stone masons. There are those who claim that freemasonry's secrets date back to the architects of King Solomon's Temple – secrets which had originated in Egypt and supposedly been instrumental in the construction of the great pyramids themselves.
The official website of the Coral Castle states, "if anyone ever questioned Ed about how he moved the blocks of coral, Ed would only reply that he understood the laws of weight and leverage well." Meanwhile, another source quotes him as saying he had "discovered the secrets of the pyramids".
My imagination went into overload as I started to join the dots.
Our tour rounded up with a look at Leedskalnin's own living quarters: inside the two-storey castle tower that stands in the corner of his park. Here a flight of stone steps led up and into the architect's chamber, a simple wood-floored room that looked out over his creation from on high. Our guide showed us the hanging chair in which Leedskalnin had slept, as well as a selection of tools – saws, scythes and chisels – used in fashioning the features of the Rock Gate Park.
Perhaps most interesting of all these relics, however, was the crude device lurking in one corner of the mason's quarters which was identified as a 'magnetic flywheel' – a mechanism which, as I'd later discover, some contemporary theorists believe Leedskalnin used to bend the laws of physical reality as we know them.
The Secrets of the Pyramids
The most remarkable thing about the Coral Castle is that to this day nobody knows exactly how Ed Leedskalnin did it. In 1986 it took six men and a crane to repair the nine-ton gate; and yet this single man, and a small man at that, had been able to stack 14-ton slabs unaided. While many of the theories floating around may sound somewhat far-fetched, the castle nevertheless stands today as evidence to Leedskalnin's ingenious design.
Some of the more outlandish theories – supernatural powers, alien technology – are further fuelled by an account from several local teenagers who claimed to have spied on Ed working, and witnessed coral blocks floating into the air "like hydrogen balloons."
It is known that Leedskalnin used little more than hand tools in his work, although he did sometimes make reference to a device he referred to as his "perpetual motion holder." In his 1945 pamphlet on Magnetic Current (available for free download here), Leedskalnin hypothesised that gravity was an illusion masking the true nature of magnetic attraction between all objects. In his own words;
[Because] the magnet can be shifted and concentrated… you can see that the metal is not the real magnet. The real magnet is the substance that is circulating in the metal. Each particle in the substance is an individual magnet by itself, and [contains] both North and South Pole individual magnets. They are so small they can pass through anything. In fact they can pass through metal easier than through the air. They are in constant motion… running one kind of magnets {sic} against the other kind, and if guided in the right channels they possess perpetual power.
Developing this idea, the documentary series Extreme Mysteries offered one possible solution to the puzzle. It suggested that Leedskalnin had found a way to reverse the magnetic pole within individual objects – causing them to be repelled, rather than attracted, by the earth itself.
This process, they explained, might have been achieved using a system of flywheels, radio transmitters, relay boxes and charged electrical coils wrapped around the blocks. I won't explain the full workings of the theory here, but if you're interested I suggest you watch the video for yourself.
The theory would answer the supposed eye-witness reports of levitating blocks, while the reports of neighbours, who had allegedly heard Leedskalnin 'singing' to his coral, might be explained then as the sound of high frequency radio transmissions. One theorist interviewed in the program suggested that Ed's 'punishment chamber' with its sound-cancelling walls had been designed to test such noise emitting devices.
Others have speculated that an answer to the riddle might be found in Ed Leedskalnin's own writings. During his life he produced and sold five pamphlets: three on the subject of magnetism; one, titled Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Life, detailing his thoughts on biological processes; and the third pamphlet, A Book in Every Home. This final volume was broken down to cover the topics of his Sweet Sixteen, plus commentary on Leedskalnin's Domestic and Political views.
In these pamphlets, pages were often left blank with an invitation for the reader to make their own notes. Some have seen this as indicative of a code or cipher in the text itself; an idea that finds support in the cryptic nature of Leedskalnin's writing, which features suggestive lines such as: "This writing is lined up so when you read it you look East."
Even Leedskalnin's stated inspiration – his Sweet Sixteen – has been brought to question by those investigating his work. One Jon De'Pew has speculated that the title is not a reference to any lost love, but rather its significance can be found in sacred geometry; after all, in his own writing Leedskalnin had described the words as more of a theme, an 'ideal', than a physical, human reality.
I rather liked this idea, so I did some research of my own into the sacred and esoteric connotations of the number 16.
I found that in many numerological studies of Biblical scripture, the number 16 has been associated with themes of 'love'. There are 16 names given for God in the Old Testament, for example, which expressly signify His love for the children of Israel. Meanwhile, when Paul writes his first letter to the Corinthian church he lists 16 distinct qualities to God's love.
Entertaining the notion of some more occult significance, perhaps a connection could be drawn to the tarot – where the sixteenth card in the Major Arcana appears as 'The Tower'. Physical similarities between standard depictions of the tarot tower, and Leedskalnin's own tower – his home, his workshop and oratory – are interesting to note; though it's hard to see why someone so fixated on construction and function would be drawn towards a symbol with connotations of chaos and downfall.
Using the system of magic squares, meanwhile, a square formed with the first 16 numbers is associated with the planet Jupiter – which itself features as one of the carved bodies around Leedskalnin's throne. Meanwhile, until very recently (and certainly in Leedskalnin's time) it was believed that the planet Jupiter had 16 satellites.
Such associations feel increasingly desperate however, and as fun as it is to speculate numerological correlations for the great architect's Sweet Sixteen, ultimately, we're never likely to know what exactly the man himself had in mind.
But then, of course, there are the rationalists… such as the arch spoilsport John Martin. In 2012 Martin released a book titled, Coral Castle Construction: How One Man Created a Megalithic Wonder, which sets out to debunk all of the myths surrounding the Coral Castle and explain how Edward Leedskalnin was able to move all 1,100 tons of coral into place using only fundamental engineering principles.
Whatever the truth of the matter, whatever technique was employed and regardless of the significance of Leedskalnin's own pseudo-scientific and esoteric ramblings, one thing is for certain; the motto he carved into stone above the entrance to the Coral Castle all those 60 years ago, is as true today as it was back then.
"You will be seeing unusual accomplishment," it reads.
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Lee Falco 4:18 am | 14 December 2020
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Ben 7:49 am | 4 February 2015
If your in Melbourne again, check out La rondel mental asylum
Thanks Ben, and yes – I know Larundel well! Here's my post on it… Larundel Hospital: An Abandoned Mental Asylum in Melbourne
Darmon Richter 10:28 am | 5 February 2015
Its great to see you come to the US as well!! I really enjoy reading your blogs. There are some amazing places out there.
Jenn Nelson 4:23 pm | 7 January 2015
There certainly are! I've got a few more US posts to come, too – including an abandoned missile site down in the Florida Keys. Thanks for commenting, I'm glad to hear that you've been enjoying the blog.
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by Junni Chen / May 2019
Russian Revolution. A Contested Legacy
by Masha Chlenova / November 2017
by Samuel Goff / June 2016
Haunted Realism
by Anastasiya Osipova / June 2015
Dislocating Narrative
by Taylor Fayle / April 2014
Refracting Reflections
by Claudia Schmuckli / March 2014
The Mirror and the Sea
by Melanie Mariño / March 2014
Aral: The Soviet Atlantis
by Olesya Turkina / March 2014
by Jeffrey Kastner / October 2011
The Shape of Time
by Matthew Drutt / October 2011
by Anton Ginzburg / October 2011
No Echo, No Shadow
by Brian Droitcour / October 2009
For Texte zur Kunst on Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art
at the James Gallery and e-flux gallery, New York, curated by Boris Groys
https://www.textezurkunst.de/98/
The exhibition "Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art" that opened this past February, simultaneously in two New York locations – the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center and e-flux – will certainly have an impact on the popular reception of Russian art in the United States. Curated by Boris Groys and presenting works by a very commendable list of artists (Arseny Zhilyaev, Keti Chukhrov, the Chto Delat? collective, Anton Ginzburg, Anton Vidokle, Alina and Jeff Bliumis, and ubiquitous as of late, but served under a different sauce – Pussy Riot), it offered a compelling take on the tendencies of post-Soviet art. Given Groys's sway of influence over the hearts and minds of the American audience, and the persuasive nature of his rhetoric (often acquired at the cost of historic specificity), we should be prepared to contend with his version of events for a while.
The title of the show openly broadcasts its Derridean premise and is a direct reference to Derrida's 1993 book The Specters of Marx. (Note that Groys's refusal to veil his curatorial conceit was not just a deliberate gesture but to some extent an apotropaic one. For him, proclaiming one's intentions, and rendering the limitations of one's curatorial artifice maximally explicit, is an act of simultaneous self-assertion and self-irony that firmly posits the claims of the said fiction while inoculating it from external criticism.) Here, Groys reformulated and expanded Derrida's inquiry into the legacy of Marxism and the collapse of the Soviet Union, interrogating how the collective imagination of communism continues to haunt Russia as well as the West. In this, key Derridean themes were preserved: lingering spectral presences of collective memories, traces of past passions and desires, repaying the debt to one's ancestors, coming to terms with the complicated legacy that tears "time out of joint," and doing justice to the past.
Of course, communism is an impossibly broad notion, much broader than Marxism. The framework for this encounter was thus commensurately wide. And the communal specters haunting contemporary Russian art are legion: from Russian Religious Philosophy with its vision of sobornost (the unity of the spiritually-transfigured material world) to Marxist philosophy; and from the revolutionary avant-garde to Moscow Conceptualism, which developed methods of flaying all of the above. An intuition that all participants of the show are bonded, however loosely, by friendship, suggests that yet another broader intellectual, affective, and professional commons is at work. (We saw, for example, Arseny Zhilyaev acting in Keti Chukhrov's film alongside poet Dina Gatina whose intense face is readily recognizable for those following the Russian literary scene. And Chto Delat?'s videos featured several recognizable left-leaning Russian poets and artists who move within the orbit of this collective.) Perhaps one should add to this spectral assembly Boris Groys himself, whose shadow has for some two or three decades, loomed large over the Western reception, dreams, and desires of Eastern European art.
From his introductory essay, we learn that the displayed artworks were meant to be representative of what he has termed "Post-Conceptual Realism" – thus taking up the banner dropped by the Moscow Romantic Conceptualism (announced in 1979, also by Groys) – a movement that reached formal completion with the fall of the Soviet Union. From the Moscow Conceptualists, "Post-Conceptual Realism" borrows an interest in totalities and historical forms, along with its particular lyricism, irony, and a penchant for ruins (in which the sublime and domestic squalor often overlap). The preface "post" signifies not so much a triumph over an exhausted predecessor, but the logic of accommodating its inheritance. New is the drive to participate in politics and in life, to influence life outside of the gallery: "The new realism," Groys writes, "does not passively represent the image of external reality but rather intervenes in the reality – and documents the results that offer an insight into its inner structure." While conceptual art of the 1970s had used the medium of installation to reflect on the contexts and conditions of art, Groys continues, "contemporary art uses the same technique outside of art spaces to turn reality itself into a kind of artistic installation." The "Realism," therefore, refers not so much to any artistic practice of representation, but can be understood rather broadly as having "a stake in objective reality" – just as cheap and rough Mexican cigarettes in Bolaño's The Savage Detective are described as a product "for those with a stake in objective reality."
This interpretive framework allowed Groys to "kidnap" even Pussy Riot from actionism, situating the group instead within the context of a conceptualism defined by an installation-drive. Their infamous performance in Moscow's Church of Christ the Savior, now visible s a floor-to-ceiling projection on the three walls of the e-flux gallery, appeared as a reclamation of sacred space in the service of new religion, the religion of art, much in line with the "totalitarian ambition" of the avant-garde as discussed Groys's 1988 book Total Art of Stalinism.
Anton Ginzburg's film "Walking the Sea" (2013), regarded through Groysean optics, became a tale of how the Soviet ambition to rationally subjugate nature, produced not only an environmental disaster, but also a gigantic "sculpture park" for art-historical ghosts and references. In his piece, Ginzburg takes a stroll in the basin of the Aral Sea, now almost entirely dry thanks to an aggressive Soviet irrigation program. What's left is a landscape of death, devastation, and primal lunar beauty: dry plants encrusted with the toxic residue of agriculture pesticides and military tests, bones of dead fish, the carcasses of rotten boats and abandoned mass apartment complexes. Accompanying him in this terrain evacuated by life are any number of art-historical trace associations: Land Art, Malevich, the excursions into empty wilderness by the Moscow Conceptualist "Collective Action" group, Thoreau's essay on walking, and Andrey Platonov's novella Dzhan.
The narrative of Conceptual Realism, built around a convenient formula of conjoining two essentially irreconcilable notions, does not necessarily presuppose a sequence from conceptualism to realism and can be turned around if necessary. In the cases of Groys's presentation of Pussy Riot and Anton Ginzburg's piece, the movement is not from the concept to its realization, but from a real event (act of offence – against the corrupt Patriarch and Putin in one case, and against nature in another), towards ghostly de-politicized conceptualization and aestheticization.
This totalizing approach to art inherent in Groys's "Conceptual Realism" can, in the Russian context, be traced back to the writings of Nikolai Fedorov (1828–1903) – an idiosyncratic ascetic figure known for uniting religious metaphysics with naturalistic realism. Considered the father of Russian cosmism, Fedorov believed in colonizing space; that universal justice requires the resurrection of all dead ancestors; and that the universe could be transformed into a museum of "transfigured" nature, where the entirety of life would be united by principles of harmony, responsibility, and beauty. Famously, Fedorov juxtaposed the mimetic art of false realism (which he called the "Art of Resemblances") and the true sacred "conceptual" realism of transformative practices (the "Art of The Real").
However, while Fedorov was interested in technological and military advances that could have made his aesthetic and philosophical ideas come true, his name as it appeared in this show risked reading as mere shorthand for a specifically Russian, domestic, kooky brand of thinking in totalities, for which the sky is a limit. Perhaps no works in this exhibition better supported Groys's narrative of "Conceptual Realism" and his conceit of "total installation" than Anton Vidokle's film "This Is Cosmos" (2014) and the installations of Arseny Zhilyaev – both of which take Fedorov as a leitmotif and which, like Groys's strategy for this show, also seem to substitute the political with a kind of conceptual environmentalism, where the weight of the cosmos tramples history and transforms it into one large celestial artwork. Communism in this interpretation is very distant from any political movement and for the most part refers to biological and cultural totalities. (Perhaps relevant here: Vidokle is a founder of e-flux, which has served as a main mouthpiece for Groys for many years; so the synchrony of their approaches is not surprising.)
Zhilyaev's installation at the James Gallery, "RCC YHV Resurrecting Museum at Home" (2014), stood as a fictional version of a provincial museum dedicated to Fedorov and his theories of cosmic resurrection, combining references to Fedorov's ideas and activity in Voronezh (where the philosopher was involved in the operations of a local museum) with memorabilia from the time when this town was a center of Soviet UFO-research, and ironic advertisements of a firm selling immortality. Beside icons depicting the second coming of Christ, Zhilyaev displayed various items "borrowed" from this non-existent museum, like the drawings of alien-sightings in which visitors from outer space suspiciously resemble hunch-backed, felt-boot wearing workers taking a stroll through a snowfield in low-visibility conditions. Zhilyaev's work is witty, however it was not at all clear what its "realist" transformative drive could possibly be. Aside from perhaps some wistful nostalgia for Voronezh (also Zhilyaev's hometown), the installation offered an otherwise self-sufficient, and to a large extent self-mythologizing narrative. Matters stood similarly with Zhilyaev's piece at the e-flux gallery downtown, where he provided photographs of Putin's multiple media stunts (kissing animals, diving for ancient amphorae, flying with cranes, etc.) with commentary interpreting them as conceptual art actions. All of this is smart, entertaining, and well executed, but "domesticating" Putin by including him as part of the conceptualist's privileged inner circle is a far cry from confronting politics. This is rather puzzling, as Zhilyaev's rhetoric otherwise is full of political pathos: Identifying as a socialist, he actively calls for an art of the masses that would stand in opposition to "post-modern" self-aestheticization and posturing – a formulation that, from Voina to Eduard Limonov, has so far proved the most effective strategy in Russian protest art and politics.
The pathos returns with Chto Delat?. Their 2014 video "The Excluded. In a Moment of Danger," featured the students of the collective's (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation funded) School of Engaged Art, tells the story of the Bildung of young political subjects. Among the techniques set forth in this rather didactic but compelling film, is the mapping of personal experience in history, and the identification with personal political heroes, while simultaneously criticizing the temptation to side with famous martyrs and losers. "Collective," here, is both a medium and an object of study – an exploration of a group for which the affective and the political are indissolubly intertwined, and for which participation in political life can be a shared emotional event of multivalent significance.
Also featured in this exhibition, Keti Chukhrov, a remarkable poet, critic, theorist, and performer, whose work pointed to other aspects of the political potential of this, "theatre of co-producers." Unlike Chto Delat?, however, Chukrov's work does not rely as much on a Brechtian mode of political entertainment, and rather than representing the collective transformative potential of theatre, it aims to enact it. Offering another form of communist activity, Chukhrov's work, deftly wields a most cruel and sober critique of contemporary life and class relations tempered by emotional depth and compassion. In her 2013 video "Love-Machines," for example, she probes the contradictions of life in contemporary Moscow through a work that has ingrained notions of the communal on several levels: practically, as a collaboration between Chukhrov, the videographer and the actors; and thematically as the play is about relations of inter-species seduction, exploitation, and, love, involving the relations among people, a pair of robots, and a talking cow). In many ways a Dostoyevskian work, "Love-Machines" casts all of its characters – robots and cow included – as political subjects in a collective vision of responsibility that far extends the anthropocentric vision of history.
The "Post-Conceptual Realists" of Boris Groys's show appeared as Hamlets. Compelled to set things right in their rotting kingdom, they were urged to victory or perfidy by a chorus of ghosts made up of the early revolutionary avant-garde, Moscow Conceptualists, contemporary Marxist discourse, nineteenth-century Russian Cosmism, and the imagined totality of life on Earth. Derrida and Fedeorov, meanwhile, joined voices talking into these artists' ear. Groys's narrative of conceptual realism of transforming life by turning it into a large-scale work of art, lent itself better to those pieces, that, despite their brilliance, stood the risk of appearing too formal and too negligent of history and the specificities of its lived experience. From the point of view of political realism, by contrast, I found the projects oriented towards theatre much more compelling. Both Chto Delat?'s and Keti Chukhrov's pieces grappled with the topic of the emergence of political subjectivity, not in an anthropocentric way, but without bypassing the human altogether.
As Chukhrov writes in her manifesto on "Mobile Communist Theatre," theatre requires "[learning] to speak in place of many others. This has to be done to understand […] what is happening among us, in our country, in our state, in the world, to understand how to be in it." And, she asks, "Wasn't it with this goal that Hamlet launched his 'theatre'?"


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Q: Merge data based on some specific columns, pandas Assume I'm having two data frames, t1h and t2h. I want to merge that dataframe in such a way that for a specific list of columns if those rows seem to be similar, I need to perform addition operation with contents of the rest of the columns.
t1h
      timestamp           ip       domain http_status  \
0  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         200
1  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         200
2  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         201
3  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         201
4  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         202

      test  b_count           b_sum  test_count  test_sum  data1  \
0    False       46  24742949931480          46     9.250      0
1     True       48  28151237474796          48     9.040      0
2    False       36  21702308613722          36     7.896      0
3     True       24  13112423049120          24     5.602      0
4    False       62  29948023487954          62    12.648      0

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t2h
      timestamp           ip       domain http_status  \
0  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         200
1  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         200
2  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         201
3  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         201
4  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         202

      test  b_count           b_sum  test_count  test_sum  data1  \
0    False       44  22349502626302          44     9.410      0
1     True       32  16859760597754          32     5.988      0
2    False       46  23478212117794          46     8.972      0
3     True       36  20956236750016          36     7.124      0
4    False       54  35255787384306          54     9.898      0

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based on the below column list I need to get the output:
groupby_fields = ['timestamp', 'ip', 'domain', 'http_status', 'test']

pd.merge(t1h, t2h, on=groupby_fields)

      timestamp          ip        domain http_status  \
0  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         200
1  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         200
2  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         201
3  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         201
4  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         202

      test  b_count_x         b_sum_x  test_count_x  test_sum_x  \
0    False         46  24742949931480            46       9.250
1     True         48  28151237474796            48       9.040
2    False         36  21702308613722            36       7.896
3     True         24  13112423049120            24       5.602
4    False         62  29948023487954            62      12.648

   data1_x  data2_x  b_count_y         b_sum_y  \
0        0        0         44  22349502626302
1        0        0         32  16859760597754
2        0        0         46  23478212117794
3        0        0         36  20956236750016
4        0        0         54  35255787384306

   test_count_y  test_sum_y  data1_y  data2_y
0            44       9.410        0        0
1            32       5.988        0        0
2            46       8.972        0        0
3            36       7.124        0        0
4            54       9.898        0        0

I want it in such a way that the output should look like:
Note: except the columns in groupby_fields every other column are of either type either int or float
      timestamp          ip        domain http_status  \
0  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         200
1  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         200
2  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         201
3  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         201
4  1475740500.0  192.168.1.1  example.com         202

      test  b_count           b_sum  test_count  test_sum  \
0    False       90  47092452557782          90    18.660
1     True       80  45010998072550          80    15.028
2    False       82  45180520731516          82    16.868
3     True       60  34068659799136          60    12.726
4    False      116  65203810872260         116    22.546

   data1  data2  \
0      0      0
1      0      0
2      0      0
3      0      0
4      0      0

Please let me know how can I achieve that in an optimized way.

A: Great use case for the groupby.agg() function
Assuming that t1h and t2h already exist, and have the same column names
groupby_fields = ['timestamp', 'ip', 'domain', 'http_status', 'test']

df = t2h.append(t2h, ignore_index = True)

agg_dict = {'b_count':'count',
        'b_sum':'sum',
        'test_count':'count',
        'test_sum':'sum',
        'data1':'sum',
        'data2':'sum'}

df.groupby(groupby_fields).agg(agg_dict).reset_index()

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Do you know the kind of album that you listen to once and go 'meh'? And then you listen to it again and go 'hmmm'? And then you go back to it a third time and go 'wow!'? And the fourth time it's like 'holy crap!'? Well, Choke Up released just that kind of album. It's called "Black Coffee, Bad Habits" and easily made it it to level three with occasional leaps into level four.
Choke Up is a cathartic hardcore band that plays punk songs. Or something like that. Whatever you want to call it, it's a lot of different things wrapped into one another in seriously clever fashion and then spread out over fourteen songs. One thing all of the songs have in common is its sense of urgency with frenzied riffs, angsty vocals that are often layered on top of one another before turning into gang vocals and drums so dynamic they could be mistaken for a stampede.
There is something to be said for every single song on here. Opening track "Wildflower" starts off sweet enough before turning into something a lot wilder. Songs like "Crosses" and "Woke Up Drunk" are short punk blasts, but the band will just as well go acoustic on your asses with "Polka Dot" and "Dry Out". And then there's songs like "Don't Wake Up"… it has all the exuberance of a band like Pup but – and maybe it's just me – there's a part in it that made me think of Vampire Weekend. Or the moment where they whip out gang vocals in "Thicket And Vine"? Nice!
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"Our analyses show that out of the broader pipeline, the AKT and BTK inhibitors, may be subject to the largest near-and medium-term value inflections, which could be transformational for the company and its investors," he added.
Mr. Marango said he is focusing on the configuration and dynamics of valuation, instead of a more traditional discussion of the technology and its data. His ArQule frame covers only three of its programs: the FGFR inhibitor, Derazantinib, in Phase 3 for iCCA; the AKT inhibitor, Miransertib, in Phase 1 for Proteus syndrome; and the BTK inhibitor, ARQ 531, in Phase 1 for CLL.
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Through 2018, he is guiding investors to keep an eye on the initial data from the first cohort of the Phase 1 study of ARQ 531 in refractory B-cell tumors, likely at AACR on April 14 and/or ASCO on June 1, followed by more cohort updates later in the year; publication of full data from the NIH Phase 1 study of Miransertib in Proteus and from compassionate use programs, as well as clarity on a regulatory strategy and timetable; and recruitment of enough patients required for an interim analysis in the Phase 3 study of Derazantinib in iCCA, likely by the end of 2018, allowing an interim look in first half of 2019.


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India proposed on Monday banning flash sales on e-commerce platforms and preventing their affiliate entities from being listed as sellers as the South Asian market looks to further tighten rules that could hurt the future prospects of Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart in the world's second-largest market.
The proposal (PDF), unveiled by India's Ministry of Consumer Affairs on Monday evening, comes at a time when brick-and-mortar retailers in India have ramped up their complaints to raise concerns about what they allege as unfair practices employed by Amazon and Flipkart as they expand their operations in the country.
In its proposal, India's Ministry of Consumer Affairs said that e-commerce firms should not be allowed to hold flash sales in India. These flash sales, akin to Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales in the U.S., are very popular during festive season in the country. During flash sales e-commerce firms have traditionally observed the biggest spikes in customer orders as brands offer heavy discounts on their products.
"Certain e-commerce entities are engaging in limiting consumer choice by indulging in 'back to back' or 'flash' sales wherein one seller selling on platform does not carry any inventory or order fulfilment capability but merely places a 'flash or back to back' order with another seller controlled by platform. This prevents a level playing field and ultimately limits customer choice and increases prices," the ministry said in a statement.
As it has done with its recent IT rules, India is also proposing that e-commerce firms appoint a chief compliance officer, a nodal contact person for 24×7 coordination with law enforcement agencies, and officers to ensure compliance to their orders as well as a resident grievance officer for redressing of the grievances of the consumers on the e-commerce platform.
"This would ensure effective compliance with the provisions of the Act and Rules and also strengthen the grievance redressal mechanism on e-commerce entities," the ministry said, adding that the new proposal also asks every e-commerce entity to provide government agencies with information within 72 hours "for the purposes of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution, of offences under any law for the time being in force, or for cyber security incidents."
The new proposal may also prohibit Amazon, Flipkart and other e-commerce players from running their in-house / private labels. The new proposal asks e-commerce firms to ensure that none of their related and associated parties are listed on their platforms as sellers for selling to customers directly. "Ensure that nothing is done by related parties or associated enterprises which the e-commerce entity cannot do itself," the proposal said.
India does not allow e-commerce firms to hold inventory or sell items directly to consumers. To bypass this, firms have operated through a maze of joint ventures with local companies that operate as inventory-holding firms.
Amazon, which has invested over $6.5 billion in its India business, said it was reviewing the proposed policies while Flipkart, whose majority stake Walmart bought for $16 billion in 2018, had no immediate comment.
In a court hearing on Monday, a Flipkart lawyer said the company sees nothing wrong in offering to cut charges for sellers on its platform if they lower product prices.
The ministry said it is making the proposal, for which it plans to seek industry feedback over the next 15 days, after receiving "several complaints against widespread cheating and unfair trade practices being observed in e-commerce ecosystem."
Additionally, the new proposal asks e-commerce firms to introduce a mechanism to identify goods on their platforms based on their country of origin and suggest alternatives to "ensure fair opportunity to domestic goods."
The announcement comes at a time when Flipkart is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion and explore the public markets. Both Amazon and Flipkart are also the subject of an ongoing antitrust probe in India.
This is the second major amendment the Indian government has proposed in recent years. In 2018, too, New Delhi had proposed tougher rules for e-commerce firms that, when enforced in early 2019, left Amazon and Flipkart scrambling to delist hundreds of thousands of items from their stores and made their investments in affiliated firms way more indirect.
Today's proposal comes months after Reuters, citing company documents, reported that Amazon had given preferential treatment to a small group of sellers in India, publicly misrepresented its ties with those sellers and used them to circumvent foreign investment rules in the country.
At the time, the Confederation of All India Traders, an influential India trader group that represents tens of millions of brick-and-mortar retailers, had called on New Delhi to ban Amazon in the country. Around the same time, India's commerce ministry had said it was reviewing the matter.
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Name: [Sum of two lowest integers](https://www.codewars.com/kata/sum-of-two-lowest-integers)

Difficulty: **7 Kyu**

# Description
Create a function that calculates the sum of the two lowest numbers given an array of minimum 4 integers. No floats or empty arrays will be passed.

# Examples
```ruby
[19,5,42,2,77] #=> 7
[10,343445353,3453445,3453545353453] #=> 3453455
```

# Scenario
```ruby
def sum_two_smallest_numbers(numbers)
  #Your code here
end
```


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Winslet's Husband Fights Tabloids Over Photos
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Kate Winslet is a newlywed, and her groom is having a rocky start to the New Year after discovering that a tabloid publication wants to publish photos of him at a raucous party.
Apparently the "outrageous" party was costume-only, so one has to wonder what Ned Rocknroll wants to keep hidden from the public. For now, he's taken The Sun to court in an effort to stop the photos from getting exposure. The pics were reportedly taken way back in 2010, before he was thrust into the spotlight with his new megastar wife.
Rocknroll's lawyer, David Sherborne, says the photos include his client in various stages of undress as a "schoolboy" but says that going to the courts is not in an effort to hide anything, but rather to keep a modicum of privacy.
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Rights Court Condemns Russia Over Chechen's Death
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Jean-Paul Costa (file photo) (AFP) May 10, 2007 -- The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia is responsible for the death of a Chechen man.
The Strasbourg-based court said Russian responsibility for the death of Shamil Said-Khasanovich Akhmadov had been established "beyond all reasonable doubt," and ordered Russia to pay 62,285 euros in damages to his family.
Akhmadov was detained on March 2001 during a raid by Russian forces outside the Chechen capital, Grozny.
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Today's ruling is the latest of several by the court against Russia in cases connected to the deaths of Chechens.
The president of the court, Jean-Paul Costa, said earlier this year that the Russian government was targeted in nearly a fifth of the 90,000 complaints the court still has to process.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused it of handing down "political" rulings.
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Speaking in Moscow earlier today, Costa voiced hope that Russia would ratify a reform aimed at boosting the court's efficiency.
After talks with the head of Russia's Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, Costa said the reform was not "a weapon against Russia."
Russia is the only Council of Europe member state not to have ratified the reform, thereby preventing it from coming into force.
The reform is aimed at allowing more cases to be considered by the court, where they have become increasingly backed up.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Thunder guard Russell Westbrook left the floor late in the third quarter Monday against the New Orleans Pelicans with what the team called a left ankle sprain.
Westbrook underwent X-rays and they were negative. Thunder coach Billy Donovan said the severity of the sprain was unknown and that the team will have a better idea on Tuesday.
Westbrook was leaping for a rebound against Anthony Davis and came down awkwardly, rolling over in pain before slapping the floor. He got up and limped immediately to the locker room with help from trainers.
"Russ has a pretty high pain tolerance, so I knew it was something that was serious," Paul George said. "I was just hoping it wasn't his knee. I thought I saw him holding his knee. I think we can all say it's unfortunate, we can all say as bad as it was we're happy it wasn't the knee and that it was just an ankle sprain."
The Thunder will not practice on Tuesday before leaving to play the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday, so it's unlikely the team will update Westbrook's status until the day of the game.
With the energy sucked completely out of the building, the Pelicans quickly hit the Thunder for a 7-0 run, but OKC responded by finishing the third quarter on a 16-4 burst to take a 14-point lead headed to the fourth. Dennis Schroder scored 11 of his 22 in the fourth quarter, taking over for Westbrook as the Thunder's primary playmaker as OKC won its fifth straight 122-116.
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Westbrook finished with 17 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists in 25 minutes. George led the Thunder with 23 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 steals, while Adams added 18 points and 8 rebounds.
Westbrook missed the Thunder's first two games of the season after having arthroscopic knee surgery in September. Entering Monday's contest, he was averaging 25.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game.
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Camp Rating: Another wonderful experience at PCTR. Love this place! Dave and Treasa so such great hosts....Each day was a different Season with the weather but the riding was awesome! Food was very tasty and filling.
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