Now for the ordinary, explaining Sauce is difficult. Why? Because of the cultural impact it is currently having on society. The perception of Sauce, to the outside looking in, may seem to be just a phase or trend, but the feelings of the believers in The Sauce Factory, are contrary. To them, Sauce is deeper than a trend; it's a culture, and their music is deeper than rap; it's reality.
In fact, it's more than a reality, it's a belief. The members of The Sauce Factory religiously have faith in the Sauce, thus they all tatted "TSF" on their faces and titled their latest project. In Sauce We Trust. ISWT includes a plethora of hits; featuring a few heavy hitters of the city: "2 Legitied to Quited", "Money Fever" ft. Slim Thug; "Drip" ft. MC Beezy, and "Flava in Ya Ear" ft. Kirko Bangz. TSF has worked with nearly every credible Houston artist, the hottest hometown rappers, and some of the biggest rappers in the industry right now. They have a huge following ranging from grown-ups, to teenagers and kids. Even Clutch, the Rockets' mascot, is riding the Sauce wave.
"The whole city is behind the Sauce wave from the tall to the small," said Sauce Walka.
Through all of the attention and popularity garnered, Sauce Walka is still not flattered by its success. Rather than being surprised, he expressed more conspicuous feelings.
In a recent interview with the Houston Press, Walka states, "We [The Sauce Twinz] don't rap, we preach." Hence, I bring you the New Testament of the Sauce Religion.
The New Testament: Chapter 1 The Sauce Christians- The Sauce Twins and the other prophets of the Sauce Religion.
The pimping, drank sipping, money getting conversationalists better known as TSF, are fore fronted by two individuals, The Twinz. Sauce Walka, the dark-skinned twin and Sancho Saucy, the light-skinned twin, are the two catalysts chosen to preach and teach The Sauce Religion. They were born "crack babies" as they would call themselves and just like anybody who grew up in troubled areas, they faced much adversity during their problematic adolescence. Yeah one is light skinned and the other one dark skinned. They aren't identical or fraternal, but they're twins.
Is it making any sense yet?
They don't have the same mother, but they're brothers.
They act totally different, but they have so much in common.
Sigh…… If you don't understand, please excuse me for putting you in this saucy situation.
The Sauce Twinz are the chosen ones to preach and teach the Sauce Religion, but they aren't the only ones. They receive much help from their solid camp, TSF. The Twinz spread the gospel of flavor over the Southeast side, which is considered to be the heart of Houston. And on the Southwest side, you have Doughboy Sosamann. Because of the areas of town they're from, Sosamann and Sauce Walka weren't always allies. Walka calls the Southeast side his home, but real followers of his music know that he once resided in Missouri City and made music with a group called Mash Mode under the name A. Walk. And although Sosamann reps Breaswood where the big B's are from, he also ran in Alief, the Southwest, with a group called G-Mob. Mash mode and G-Mob were arch rivals, but for the sake of blessing the world with the flavor, they ended their disputes.
Since uniting, Sosamann's "Did a Whole Lot" song, which sums up their lifestyle outside of music, has reached number one on both of Houston's hip hop radio stations 97.9 The Box and 93.7 The Beat. The music video shot by Houston director, Michael Artis, appeared on MTV Jamz numerous of times. And with the help of Moe Gang group member, Lil 5th Ward J.P., Walka was able to spread the sauce flavor to the Northside, helping cultivate the Sauce Religion even more. Prior to joining TSF, Lil J.P. was on the up rise, in his own right, when his song "Lil J.P From Dat 5th Ward" went viral.
The sauce influence on Lil J.P., led him to recruit fellow Moe Gang member, Rizzoo. He and Rizzoo both admitted to believing in "Sauce" before they arrived at TSF, they just did it inadvertently.
"We were saying sauce in our group, but didn't know they [Sauce Walka and Sancho] were living it; why not live it! Now we're living it. It was in us, they just brought it out of us," tells Rizzoo.
Not only did Walka and Sancho bring the style of sauce out of Lil J.P and Rizzo, but everybody. And they couldn't do it without the person who keeps the factory producing sauce, manager Sauce Diddy.
Previously, Sauce Diddy was known around Houston as a rapper named Kisobama. When he heard Sauceamania mixtape about nine months ago, he knew this thing could take off. He stopped everything he was doing, reached out to Sauce Walka and TSF has been dripping ever since. His role in the Sauce movement is crucial and since becoming TSF's manager, he eats, drinks, sleeps and breathes sauce.
The New Testament: Chapter 2 the definition of Sauce.
Sauce is defined as better form of life style. The entire Sauce Family would define it as "freedom." Could the explanation of Houston's biggest movement since the grey tapes really be that simple? Sancho Saucy thinks so. The self-proclaimed "Sauce Master," who is the relatively quiet Twin, defines Sauce in the most simplistic manner.
According to Sauce Diddy, the movement started nine months ago after the release of the Sauceamania, mixtape. But if you ask Sauce Walka, just like a religion, Sauce has been around. To him it's ancient. He says Houstonians and others, who've resided in the Southern regions of the map, always had Sauce, but couldn't identify it.
"[It was] the beginning of time. That's when the whole world started. Everything before then didn't matter. We are living the way people have been living, but haven't been able to find a way to put a title on it. We noticed what the industry has been taking from us and claiming it like it's theirs. I feel like we touched apart of people's hearts in Houston, on a hometown side. Houston has been waiting for the right people to come in, stand up and speak on that belief system," says Walka.
Just being elegant and living in Houston gives you Sauce. Why? Because that's where real playas get choose. But the Sauce doesn't just stop in Houston; it's the whole Southern region according to Walka. For example, from 2005-2009, Dallas had a huge movement and it too hit Houston. For a while you saw high top juice cuts in guy's hair. The hottest dance was the Dallas boogie, and all of the clubs played Fat Pimp, a hot Dallas artist. When the Dallas wave hit Houston, initially, it seemed to be a culture change, but Walka explains that, "it too was Sauce; Houstonians were just ignorant to it." Sauce Walka too had to get educated on a culture that was bigger than Houston.
So when Sauce Walka says Sauce started in the beginning of time, again he is making perfect sense. The evidence is written in the music. Let's take it back.
The Old Testaments- Genesis: The creating of a culture. The Transition from The Grey tapes to The Sauce.
In the '90s and early '2000s, Houston had a vast movement within the city ignited by the late Robert Earl Davis, Jr. better known as D.J Screw. D.J. Screw created a unique style of producing music. He would take a beat and let local artists record on it. He would then slow the record down and double a few of the lines (chop). The finished production of the song was called slowed and doubled. The term slowed and doubled, eventually became known as chopped and screwed, becoming a culture in itself and creating a pivotal change within the dimensions of rap music. That's when the Old Testaments of the Sauce Religion were written.
D.J. Screw would sell the tapes from his own home and these tapes would garner a huge following. They started to grow popular in their neighborhoods because of the screw tapes and created the first sauce wave. People weren't really listening to the radio; they were jamming screw tapes.
Exodus: The great Sauce Wave. Drowned Screwston and turned it into Splash Town.
D.J. Screw was Noah, his studio was the Arch and the music he played was the flood. That is when Houston was flooded with Splash. Thus creating Splash Town. D.J. Screw created a team called S.U.C, Soldiers United for Cash. Everybody who recorded in D.J. Screw's studio weren't rappers. All of them didn't make music, but the ones who did, brought in a new title to the crew. Keeping the same acronyms S.U.C, they called themselves Screwed Up Click.
That's when S.U.C and its entirety were riding the Sauce wave, while the city of Houston was getting flooded with splash. It wouldn't be too much longer until the radio station got on board. Back when Houston only had one major radio station, 97.9 The Box. Once they got a taste of the flavor of splash, they drowned in it. Old heads such as the late Fat Pat, Big Hawk, Big Moe, and Pimp C all became stars because of the Sauce. Houston's house hold legends like Lil KeKe, Lil Flip, Big Pokey, Youngsta and Scarface all became hood super stars because of it. What the Sauce Twins are doing is what all of the falling legends wanted. It's what they dreamed of.
Everybody always talks about Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream. Well our falling soldiers had dreams too; ghetto dreams and Fat Pat put that on full display. On March 11, 1998 Fat Pat released his debut album titled Ghetto Dreams. On the album, he talks about everything The Sauce Factory is preaching on their latest project, In Sauce We Trust. To sum it all up, our falling soldiers rapped about the finer things in life, the diamond rings, money h–s and clothes and all those fancy things.
Leviticus: The Birth of the Barre Babies.
Supposedly, the most popular version of purple promethazine and codeine, Activist, has been banned from pharmacies nationwide. Why? Because the world has caught on to the Sauce and they went crazy. If you look at all the rappers from the Chicago and New York areas, there is a visible bottle of the illegal substance in almost every video. You can say they ruined the "drank" game; them and professional athletes. America had to put stop to it, but Houstonians have been doing the same thing discreetly.
Back in all of the old school Houston videos, what do you think they're drinking when you saw them drinking a beverage out of two styrofoamed cups? Yes, you guessed it! They weren't drinking soda. So the question is, where do they get it from? Again, the answer is in the music. On the late Big Moe's 2000 "City of Syrup" album, the very first song is a skit tiled, "Mama M.O.E.". Big Moe's mother gave birth to Kenneth Doniell Moore, aka Big Moe, born on August 20, 1974. At the end of the birth, the doctor revealed that her blood was contaminated with an "excessive amount of liquid form of heroin codeine." Consequently, the doctor blatantly told her that her son would be a "barre baby"?
His mother asked, what is a "barre baby"?
Revelations: The Sauce Religion on a larger scale.
Houston has always had its imprint on the hip-hop industry, but now that the world knows who the Sauce Twins are. Houston has a face tattoo on the hip-hop game and it's stamped "TSF". Uncertainty looms about when the Sauce wave actually occurred, but ever since Houston's rapper Slim Thug endorsed them, by letting them drip on his remix to Yo Gotti's "Errbody", the world has gravitated towards the Sauce Religion.
The Sauce Religion, not the Sauce Twins, explains why everybody in Chicago is broadcasting that they sip Promethazine and Codeine in all of their music videos now. It is why Asap Rocky wears gold teeth and incorporates chopped and screwed style music in his craft. It is why in 2001, one the G.O.A.Ts of hip-hop, Jay-Z's biggest hit was "Big Pimpin" that featured UGK. And we all know where Lil Wayne gets sipping beverages out of double Styrofoam cups from. One of his biggest artist, Drizzy Drake has followed the Sauce Religion. It's no secret Drake, a known Houston ambassador with his own day in the city, would ride the wave. It just took a little help from V-Live's celebrity disc jockey, D.J. Eric, to endorse them.
"Shout out to D.J. Eric man. Eric had called him because he wanted to know about it [Sauce]. So Eric called him and told him about it," recalls Sancho.
The entire Sauce Factory has worked with Slim Thug, Trae Tha Truth, Propain, Scarface, Kirko Bangz, Kevin Gates, Drake, and Lil Boosie. Most recently, The Twinz, received a paid feature to work with Think Its A Game Entertainment and record in PatchWerk Recording Studios, where Gucci Mane records.
"They know we are worthy to be in that position. So now when artists come through the city they have to do music with us; if they got love for the city like they say they do," tells Walka.
Out of all the big names they've worked with, Sauce Twinz feel their best collaboration, besides working with anybody in The Sauce Factory, has been Southern hip hop icon, Lil Boosie on their song "Why Did I Do This".
As far as TSF goes, they will continue to spill all over the world. Members are currently working on new projects right now. New ideas are flowing, and this new genre of life is still spreading. Lil 5th Ward J.P is expecting to release a mixtape soon. His fellow Moe Gang member is working on Mike Saucy Tyson. He also said he's going to be a fashion icon and going to make sure Houston gets credit for the things they introduced to the fashion world. Sosamann is working on Trap Out 2. And we can't forget about those Twinz. The Sauce Twinz have huge aspirations of keeping Houston flavored with Sauce.


George C. Taft patent May 4, 1869, with 1884 illus. for L. Coes wrench using the "support tube."
The patent describes two features. The first is a "quill" or metal sleeve, which transfers pressure from the load-bearing ferule to the end nut of a wood-handles "Coes" wrench. The second is the axle of the adjusting rosette extending through the ferule shoulder and being fitted with a threaded end and second threaded nut to be used as an adjustment lock.
Herb Page's 2005 book, "The Brothers Coes and Their Legacy of Wrenches," notes the support sleeve feature in this patent was used on some L. Coes & Co. wrenches in the early 1880s. It is described in early 1880's hardware trade journals and an L. Coes & Co. listing in the 1884 WORCESTER DIRECTORY.
Aspects of this patent were incorporated into a broader 1870 English patent (GB-187000904) which also has features from other Taft wrench patents.


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Why the Senate Needs to Get it Done on CTE
Bipartisan education bills rooted in common sense don't come along every day. When they do, they should be celebrated.
On June 26, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) passed an update to the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education (CTE) Act. This long overdue modernization of a bill, last updated in 2006, will help usher the U.S. education system into the 21st century and ensure it is preparing students to succeed in a rapidly evolving economy.
At a time when jobs outnumber the jobless, our education system must prepare students to fill open positions. An increasing number of industries, such as computer programming and commercial construction, have thousands of vacancies, pay well, and don't even require a college degree. Yet these positions can't be filled because HR departments from coast to coast can't find qualified applicants with the appropriate skills. The CTE Act will help construct a workforce armed with the skills to fill these jobs, thus fueling the American economy.
Read the full story co-authored by Mary Gifford and Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent of Schools for the Julesburg School District, in The Hill.
Mary Gifford is the Senior Vice President of Education, and Policy & External Affairs at K12 Inc. Ms. Gifford leads the Office of Academic Policy which conducts research on K12 programs and partner schools, provides support for the efficacy of K12 educational programs, develops new school models, and educates legislators and regulators about virtual learning. Ms. Gifford previously served as the senior vice president of the central region and supported more than a dozen schools in eight states. During her tenure with K12, Ms. Gifford has integrated iQ and Insight programs and has been involved in opening many new schools. She has led innovations such as proliferation of unique hybrid models like the YMCA and military drop-in sites and the development of an at-risk model. Ms. Gifford served on the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools for 11 years as an appointee of both the governor and the state superintendent of public instruction. The State Board for Charter School authorizes more than 500 charter schools. Prior to K12, Ms. Gifford was with the accounting firm of Sarvas, King and Coleman as the director of the firm's charter school practice and served as the leadership development director at Mackinac Center for Public Policy. She also worked as the education policy director at the Goldwater institute. She serves on the board of directors for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and as the board president of EdKey, a nonprofit charter management organization that oversees 23 schools throughout Arizona. Ms. Gifford earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics from Arizona State University, a master's degree in education leadership from Northern Arizona University, and has completed coursework in public administration at Arizona State University.

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Q: Rename field QgsField is not valid In pyQGIS i tried this code (contains also debug prints):
def joinLayers(inputlayer, layer, index_field, name = "JOINED", dataProvider = "ESRI Shapefile"):
 a = []
 b = []
 outpath = getPath(inputlayer.source(), name)
 inputfields = inputlayer.pendingFields()
 nameoflayer = layer.name()
 toappend = layer.pendingFields()
 for fild in toappend:
    a.append(fild.name() + "j")
    fname = fild.name()
    newfield = QgsField(unicode(fname+ "j"), fild.type(), fild.typeName(), fild.length(), fild.precision(), fild.comment())
    b.append(newfield.name())
    inputfields.append(newfield, QgsFields.OriginJoin)
 print a
 print b
 output = QgsVectorFileWriter(outpath, dataProvider, inputfields, inputlayer.crs(), layer.wkbType(), inputlayer.dataProvider().encoding())
 del output

Main problem is renaming fields in for loop over QgsFields.
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*[u'UWIj', u'Wellj', u'UBHIj', u'Boreholej', u'Statej', u'Jurisdictij', u'Offshorej', u'Basinj', u'Sub-basinj', u'Latitudej', u'Longitudej', u'Legislatioj', u'Titlej', u'Operatorj', u'Classj', u'Structurej', u'Seismic loj', u'Drilled byj', u'Rigsj', u'Spud/Kickj', u'TD Datej', u'Rig releasj', u'Start deptj', u"Driller'sj", u'Oil showj', u'Gas showj', u'Condensatej', u'Oil fieldj', u'Discoveryj', u'Statusj', u'Well headj', u'Basic relej', u'WCRj']

b

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*[u'UWIj', u'Wellj', u'UBHIj', u'Boreholej', u'Statej', u'Jurisdictij', u'Offshorej', u'Basinj', u'Sub-basinj', u'Latitudej', u'Longitudej', u'Legislatioj', u'Titlej', u'Operatorj', u'Classj', u'Structurej', u'Seismic loj', u'Drilled byj', u'Rigsj', u'Spud/Kickj', u'TD Datej', u'Rig releasj', u'Start deptj', u"Driller'sj", u'Oil showj', u'Gas showj', u'Condensatej', u'Oil fieldj', u'Discoveryj', u'Statusj', u'Well headj', u'Basic relej', u'WCRj']

After write this fields into QgsVectorFileWriter, some fields doesn´t have "j" suffix.
For example attribute Condensate, see attribute table in qgis:

A: The attribute field names only allow a maximum of 10 characters due to a limitation in the .dbf storage file (thanks to @MatthiasKuhn for highlighting this).
Your code adds the letter "j" to the end of each name, some of which contain exactly 10 or more characters (such as "Condensate" as you mentioned). Hence why you are not seeing it in the attribute table. You would need to change the for loop to add the "j" letter after the 9th character.
Try adding [:9] to fname when creating a new field:
newfield = QgsField(unicode(fname[:9] + "j"), fild.type(), fild.typeName(), fild.length(), fild.precision(), fild.comment())

The letter "j" will still be added to the end of field names which have less characters (e.g. "Well" will still become "Wellj").

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From the largest mall in the United States to outlet stores that are sure to make the thriftiest bargain shopper smile, you can find it all in the Twin Cities! Besides the great variety of indoor and outdoor malls, boutiques, and trendy street front shops, there is no sales-tax on clothing in Minnesota – so go ahead, treat yourself!


Delivered by Action For Children, The South Worcestershire Parenting and Family Support Project delivers a range of services designed to help local children and families. Our aim is to help nip problems in the bud and to support local families to achieve their potential.
The British Red Cross provides a wide range of services throughout the Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire area.
Thanks to supporters like you we have saved millions of lives by discovering new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Over the past century, our researchers have made consistent progress in the fight against cancer, and survival rates have doubled over the past 40 years.
Daisychain Benevolent Fund raises money for Teenage Cancer Trust and local children's hospital wards through the sale of donated goods in the charity shops. There are 2 shops in Worcester in St. Johns'. One shop is dedicated to books and the other for clothing, bric a brac etc.
Childhood cancer charity raising awareness, supporting families and funding research.
At Macmillan Cancer Support, we know how a cancer diagnosis can affect everything. So we'll help you find your best way through. From advice about money and work, to someone who'll listen if you just want to talk, we're here when you need us most.
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is directly responsible for funding and operating three helicopters serving the largest air ambulance operating region in the UK. We receive NO Government or National Lottery funding. The £9 million needed each year is funded solely by the public and local businesses.
Museums Worcestershire comprises of three museums: the Commandery, Worcestershire County Museum at Hartlebury and Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum. Our museum venues offer volunteering opportunities throughout the year with roles in areas of events and half term activities, collections and curatorial, marketing and digital, and learning and outreach.
Revitalise is a national charity providing short breaks and holidays (respite care) for disabled people and carers. We also offer inspirational opportunities for volunteers through one of the largest, most diverse volunteer programmes in the UK.
The Roses Theatre is an arts centre located in the centre of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Its main auditorium seats 375 and accommodates 35mm film / digital projection as well as live performance.
We have ongoing volunteering opportunities available for individuals to share their skills and experiences with Shaw Trust's job seekers.
Acorns Children's Hospice is a registered charity offering a network of care for life limited and life threatened children and young people, and their families, across the heart of England.
The National Trust is an independent charity which acquires and preserves buildings and landscapes for public enjoyment and benefit. It relies upon the input of volunteers in doing this, many of whom are longstanding team members.
We are a charity based in Malvern who support children with additional needs, and disabilities, and their families.
The Worcester Arts Workshop is a longstanding arts hub in Worcester City Centre, that welcomes artists of all disciplines, ages, abilities and areas of the community.
The Community Engagement team within the City Council enable local community groups to undertake a variety of volunteer projects/events within the City's green spaces.
The Students' Union is an independent charity, devoted to the educational interests and welfare of all students studying at the University of Worcester.
Worcestershire Parent & Carers' Community (WPCC) is a registered charity supporting parents and carers who have children with a disability or additional needs within the Worcestershire county.


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Also, because I cannot afford $249 per month, I am not allowed to see what you search for. So I can't make any improvements to my site based on your searching.
Like Atomz, SwifType supports string searches, i.e. "RCA Victor" without the quotes, finds every occurance of "RCA" and "Victor" everywhere. With the quotes, it only finds the two words together in the order specified within the quotes.
Unlike Atomz, so far, I have found no way that I can, for this specific search page, search ONLY the pages within the "http://www.folklib.net/index/labels/" directory.
Strange ... during the test phase of this new search, although I did a total of just 5 tests, the search "analytics data" page had logged 14 searches!? 4-17-2015: SwifType logging "feature"? still does not work. I just did one (1) search and it logged that I did 8 searches.
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Watch Elton John & Taron Egerton's Surprise Performance of Rocket Man
by joshed 5/17/2019 09:30:00 AM 0 comments
Following Rocketman's world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Paramount Pictures has released a new video of star Taron Egerton having another surprise duet with legendary singer Elton John as they performed their rendition of John's 1972 hit song "Rocket Man" at the film's Cannes Gala Party. Check out the video in the player below!
RELATED: See Rocketman's Taron Egerton and Elton John Perform Tiny Dancer
The film will focus on Elton John's beginnings, starting when he was a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music and carrying over to when he reached global stardom through his influential and enduring musical partnership with his songwriting collaborator Bernie Taupin. It will look at the performer's life past the glitter saturated image we have grown so accustomed to associating with the performer.
Rocketman stars Taron Egerton (Kingsman: Secret Service) as the famed singer/songwriter, along with Jamie Bell (TURN: Washington's Spies), Richard Madden (Game of Thrones), and Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).
RELATED: New Rocketman Trailer Featuring Taron Egerton as Elton John!
BAFTA nominee Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill, Eddie the Eagle) will be directing Rocketman from a script by Oscar-nominated writer Lee Hall (Billy Elliot). Matthew Vaughn and his Marv Films will be producing the film alongside Elton John with his Rocket Pictures partner David Furnish.
The film will have its theatrical release on May 24.
The post Watch Elton John & Taron Egerton's Surprise Performance of Rocket Man appeared first on ComingSoon.net.
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The Great Outdoors Collection includes the category of Paddle & Row. The Paddle & Row Mat itself has beautiful photographic backgrounds with 5 x 7 photos of paddling and rowing scenes. It also includes conversation starting questions and reminiscence queues.


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Q: Scrapy: How to save yield output into json using `python `? I wrote code with several processes inside and I'm using it with python spider.py
Code:
def parse(self, response):
    title = response.css('.title::text').extract()
    info = response.css("div#info").extract()
    title = list(map(str.strip, title))
    info = list(map(str.strip, description))
    yield{
        'Title': title,
        'Main Info': info,
    }

2 same classes here

if __name__ == '__main__':
    settings = dict()
    settings['USER_AGENT'] = 'my agent'
    settings['DOWNLOAD_DELAY'] = 0.5
    settings['CONCURRENT_REQUESTS'] = 64
process = CrawlerProcess(settings=settings)
process.crawl(ScrapySpider1)
process.crawl(ScrapySpider2)
process.crawl(ScrapySpider3)
process.start()

How can I save output into file.json with the same effect as scrapy crawl -o file.json?

A: Configuring FEED_URI for CrawlerProcess should get you the same result as scrapy crawl -o file.json
settings['FEED_URI'] = 'file.json'


The Iyengar Yoga Center of Denver emphasizes precision in physical alignment to awaken and realign the whole body/mind complex.
All teachers at the Iyengar Yoga Center of Denver are certified or working toward certification through the rigorous Iyengar method and many have decades of teaching experience.
When body is supported, the mind can open and accept the benefits of the yoga.
Iyengar yoga provides relief from chronic health problems such as arthritis, back pain, hypertension, migraines, etc., and makes the practitioner healthy in all aspects of well-being, from the mind, body and spirit.
Iyengar yoga practitioners aren't looking for the next trendy aerobic workout, but focus on developing correct body alignment, strength and flexibility through a logical sequence.
The Iyengar Yoga Center of Denver maintains three clean studios, fully equipped with props used in the practice of Iyengar yoga, including custom-made wall ropes.
What is the Iyengar Method? Iyengar's method, rooted in the Ashtanga (Eight-Limbed) philosophy of Patanjali, is a form of hatha yoga (yoga of willpower), that strongly emphasizes the physical alignment of the body in the asanas, creating a sense of balance and lightness that will be reflected in the mind in the form of inner awarenss and equanimity. To read more, visit the official B.K.S. Iyengar website.


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Chance of renewal for the Catholic Church?
With Easter approaching, is Pope Benedict suggesting that it is also time for the church to renew itself in some way?
by Laurence Lee
The Vatican's own newspaper is reporting that the Pope made his decision to resign a few months ago. But he didn't do it then, he's done it now.
Today is Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras in certain parts of the world. It's a day of feasting and full of symbolism. And tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, Lent, the start of the traditional fasting period, the most important time in the Christian calendar.
Benedict's XVI's resignation on Feb 28 will be followed by the Conclave and vote for a new Pope, which will run into mid-March. And then Easter Sunday itself at the end of March will surely see a new Pope on the balcony at St Peters.
All of this matters because it mirrors the Bible story of Easter being a time of rebirth and renewal, echoing the death and resurrection of Jesus. In choosing this period to ask the Catholic hierarchy to pick a new leader, is this Pope suggesting that it's time for the church also to renew itself in some way?
Many observers would say that's most unlikely, given the highly conservative traditions and views of Benedict.
But there is now a genuinely strong argument that a new Pope should come from Latin America or Africa, where there are the biggest congregations. They would love a Pope who's one of their own. And they would say it's their turn.
Alternatively, it's another European, perhaps Italian, pontiff and a continuation of the current way of doing things.
There's also a very good argument that the church should go through a period of renewal and perhaps even reform. After all, this Easter will be exactly two years since the paedophile priest scandals which fractured the church all over the world.
At the height of the crisis, at Easter, Pope Benedict chose to speak only tangentially about this issue some churches in different countries decided they would take steps to allow the police to investigate child abuse, while others didn't. The Vatican was accused of failing in its leadership.
Just last week the Irish government published a long awaited report into a different scandal of the Magdalene Laundries - forced labour of girls and women organised by Catholic Nuns.
Again, there's been nothing from the Vatican in the way of acknowledgement or apology.
It's an entirely open question whether a new Pope from another continent would want to address some of the contradictions between civil law (that you and I answer to) and Canon, or church, law which the Vatican sees as more appropriate in dealing with offenders (an apology and no punishment).
And perhaps it's unrealistic to expect nominees for the papacy to want to take on any of these things.
But given all the problems the church has had over the last few years, and questions over its relevance, it's bound to be the case that all these things get raised again over the next few weeks.
And certainly now seems to be an ideal time to push for change among those who say Catholicism needs to adapt.
Laurence Lee
@ laurielee67


This evening, I realised that we have had our plot for 5 years! The time has flown! So in the spirit of celebration, I have dug out photos from each year to share with you.
Our first year saw us gain a shed, a large greenhouse and several chickens. We learnt how fast weeds grew and what potato plants looked like. It was a steep learning curve!
Our second year involved lots more weeding, trying to grow new plants and desperately trying to sort out the bottom plot that we took on at the end of 2014. Our chicken flock grew further and we gained four quail.
The end of 2015 saw the arrival of our daughter so 2016 started off slowly! We went down to one plot and Geoff and the guys built us a new chicken coop. We had a lot of help with the chickens and in keeping the plot clear due to family circumstances.
At least we got something growing apart from weeds!
2017 saw us being able to spendore time down the allotment but with severe budget limitations, we didn't manage to do much of the upkeep to the shed and greenhouse we needed to do. The bees arrived on site and Sundays became bee day. We managed to hatch more chicks and enjoyed watching them grow.
2018 saw us try to keep on top of the weeds and attempt to repair our ailing greenhouse by removing the glass from the roof and adding a bolt to support the frame. Our potato crop failed again, we lost some chickens and the last of the quail and we enjoyed chilling in the clubhouse.
The start of 2019 saw us make long overdue repairs and renovation to the shed, clear the fruit section of weeds, plant flowers and start my herb garden. The chickens keep us on our toes and we have done some improvements to the coop. We have worked hard to try and find a way of stopping the plot flooding by planting fruit trees and willow. We have two new benches and a section of homemade crazy paving.
Thank you! Time has flown!
Happy 5-year-versary! It's an interesting journey to follow – keep at it!


From the Publisher. The first book-length, critical account of the nation-branding industry. National governments around the world are turning to branding consultants, public relations advisers and strategic communications experts to help them "brand" their jurisdiction. Using the tools, techniques and expertise of commercial branding is believed to help nations articulate more coherent and cohesive identities, attract foreign capital, and maintain citizen loyalty. In short, the goal of nation branding is to make the nation matter in a world where borders and boundaries appear increasingly obsolete.
This book is about how nation branding became a worldwide phenomenon and a professional transnational practice. It is also about how nation branding has become a solution to perceived contemporary problems affecting the space of the nation state: problems of economic development, democratic communication, and especially national visibility and legitimacy amid the multiple global flows of late modernity. In this book, Melissa Aronczyk charts the political, cultural and economic rationales by which the nation has been made to matter in a twenty-first-century context of global integration.


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Q: Find the upper bound of the definite integral $\int_{0}^{b} \pi\ - \arccos (x-1) dx$ so that it equals $\frac {\pi}{2}$.
Find the upper bound of the definite integral $\int_{0}^{b} \pi\ - \arccos (x-1) dx$ so that it equals $\frac {\pi}{2}$.

We have that
$$\int_0^b \pi - \arccos(x-1) dx=
\left[{\pi}x-\left(x-1\right) \arccos\left(x-1\right)+\sqrt{1-\left(x-1\right)^2}\right]_0^b$$
When plugging in $0$, we get
$$\pi(0) - [(-1) \arccos(-1)]  + \sqrt{1 - 1}=0 + \pi + 0=\pi$$
Thus,
$$\int_0^b \pi - \arccos(x-1) dx={\pi}b-\left(b-1\right) \arccos\left(b-1\right)+\sqrt{1-\left(b-1\right)^2} - \pi$$
Now if $\int_{0}^{b} \pi\ - \arccos (x-1) dx$ $=$ $\frac {\pi}{2}$, then
$${\pi}b-\left(b-1\right) \arccos\left(b-1\right)+\sqrt{1-\left(b-1\right)^2} - \pi = \frac{\pi}{2}$$
that is
$${\pi}b-\left(b-1\right) \arccos\left(b-1\right)+\sqrt{1-\left(b-1\right)^2} = \frac{3\pi}{2}.$$
And here is where I am stuck: how do I find $b$?

Update: So I just used the equation solver on my calculator and it gave me $b = 1.3286741629086$. However, I need an exact answer, so the answer must have involved $\pi$ or square roots somehow.

A: $$\mathcal{I}\left(\text{b}\right)=\int_0^\text{b}\left(\pi-\arccos\left(x-1\right)\right)\space\text{d}x=\pi\int_0^\text{b}1\space\text{d}\text{b}-\int_0^\text{b}\arccos\left(x-1\right)\space\text{d}x$$
Now:

*

*$$\pi\int_0^\text{b}1\space\text{d}x=\pi\left[x\right]_0^\text{b}=\pi\left(\text{b}-0\right)=\text{b}\pi$$

*Substitute $u=x-1$ and $\text{d}u=\text{d}x$
$$\int_0^\text{b}\arccos\left(x-1\right)\space\text{d}x=\int_{-1}^{\text{b}-1}\arccos\left(u\right)\space\text{d}u$$

*Using integration by parts:
$$\int_{-1}^{\text{b}-1}\arccos\left(u\right)\space\text{d}u=\left[u\arccos\left(u\right)\right]_{-1}^{\text{b}-1}+\int_{-1}^{\text{b}-1}\frac{u}{\sqrt{1-u^2}}\space\text{d}u=$$
$$\pi+\left(\text{b}-1\right)\arccos\left(\text{b}-1\right)+\int_{-1}^{\text{b}-1}\frac{u}{\sqrt{1-u^2}}\space\text{d}u$$

*Subsitute $s=1-u^2$ and $\text{d}s=-2u\space\text{d}u$:
$$\int_{-1}^{\text{b}-1}\frac{u}{\sqrt{1-u^2}}\space\text{d}u=-\frac{1}{2}\int_0^{1-\left(\text{b}-1\right)^2}\frac{1}{\sqrt{s}}\space\text{d}s=-\left[\sqrt{s}\right]_0^{1-\left(\text{b}-1\right)^2}=-\sqrt{-\text{b}\left(\text{b}-2\right)}$$

So, we get:
$$\mathcal{I}\left(\text{b}\right)=\text{b}\pi-\left(\pi+\left(\text{b}-1\right)\arccos\left(\text{b}-1\right)-\sqrt{-\text{b}\left(\text{b}-2\right)}\right)=\frac{\pi}{2}$$
Finding an exact answer is really hard, an I think that you'll not find one.


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Q: How to create a DataFrame series as a sub-string of a DataFrame Index? I have a Pandas DataFrame which has a 5-digit string as its index (the index is a 5 digit zip code). I'd need to create another series in the DataFrame which is the first three characters of the index (i.e. the 3-Digit zip code).
As an example, if the index for a row is "32779", I'd like the new series' value to be "327".
I thought a Lambda function may work e.g.
fte5['Zip3'] = fte5.index.astype(str).apply(lambda x: x[:3])

But this gives an error

A: The bracket operator on strings is exposed through str.slice function:
fte5.index.astype(str).str.slice(0,3)

A: This worked:
fte5['Zip3'] = fte5.index.get_level_values(0)
fte5['Zip3'] = fte5['Zip3'].astype(str).apply(lambda x: x[:3])

A: consider the pd.DataFrame fte5
fte5 = pd.DataFrame(np.ones((3, 2)), ['01234', '34567', '56789'], ['X', 'Y'])
fte5

If you already have 5 digit zipcodes that start with 0 then they must be str already.  The simplest way to get at the first 3 characters in a vectorized way is to use the .str string accessor rather than use apply.
fte5.index.str[:3]

Index(['012', '345', '567'], dtype='object')

We can assign it to fte5['Zip3'] with insert
fte5.insert(2, 'Zip3', fte5.index[:3])


Government fraud has a tremendous cost. When individuals or companies take advantage of the government, taxpayers are forced to foot the bill. One way to stop this abuse is to take legal action against those who are committing fraud.
The False Claims Act was enacted by Congress to encourage private citizens to file cases in the name of the United States to recover damages when false and fraudulent claims are submitted to the government.
This type of action is called a "whistleblower" or qui tam (pronounced key tam) lawsuit. In these cases, private citizens who report the fraud may be able to share in the recovery of money damages and penalties.
If you think you might have such a case, don't hesitate to contact the law frm of Sweet and Associates. Let our firm stand with you against corporations and individuals taking advantage of taxpayers. Our attorneys have the experience to ensure that your whistleblower case is properly handled resulting in protection against retaliation and significant reward for bringing wrongdoing to light.


Male and female flowers exist on separate plants. No petals. Male flowers have 4 greenish-white sepals and yellow stamens. Females are greenish and without sepals.
The flower turns into a green capsule and then into a solid brown woody seed case.
Evergreen shrub. Small, short stalks, dark green, oval, shiny and leathery.
The foliage and flowers are scented.
Abassian Boxwood, European Box, European Boxwood.


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ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys
Kai Engert
Monday, 18 August 2014 Mon, 18 Aug '14
Hello, this is a heads-up for an update to the ca-certificates package that I've just submitted for updates-testing for Fedora 19 and 20. The upstream Mozilla CA list maintainers have decided to start removing CA certificates that use a weak 1024-bit key. Although those certificates are still valid, Mozilla has worked with the CAs, and they did agree that it's OK to remove them. However, there are end-entity and intermediate-CA certificates which have been issued by the removed CAs, which are still valid, and they might still be used by some - despite the CAs having attempted to reach out to all their customers and getting them to reconfigure their systems. This means, when installing the updated ca-certificates package version 2014.2.1, some SSL/TLS connections might suddenly fail, because the related CA certificate is no longer trusted. If you experience such situations, the right approach is to contact the owner of the certificate (or the server), and ask them to get a replacement certificate, or to install a replacement certificate on their SSL/TLS server. Additional details can be found in the update description, which I'll paste at the end of this message. (I have disabled karma-automation for this update, in case there's a need for a longer testing period. Note that this updated set of CA certificates is currently planned to be part of Firefox 32, which will get released around SEP 02.) Regards Kai Update description: =================== This is an update to the latest released set of CA certificates according to the Mozilla CA Policy. It's the same set that has been released in NSS versions 3.16.4 and 3.17. It's noteworthy that several CA certificates with a weak key size of 1024-bits have been removed, prior to their expiration. (It is expected that additional CA certificates with weak 1024-bit keys will be removed in future releases.) The removed CA certificates have been used to issue end-entity and intermediate-CA certificates which are still valid. Those certificates are likely to be rejected when using this upated ca-certificates package. The owners of affected certificates should contact their CA and ask for replacement certificates. In some scenarios it might be sufficient to install an alternative intermediate CA certificate (e.g. on a TLS server), allowing an alternative trust chain to another root CA certificate to be found. More information about the affected CA certificates and other recent modifications can be found in the NSS release notes for version 3.16.3 at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.16.3_... with amendments to the changes as explained in the NSS release notes for version 3.16.4 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.16.4_...
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package org.apache.geode.internal.cache.partitioned;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;

import org.apache.geode.cache.Cache;
import org.apache.geode.cache.Operation;
import org.apache.geode.cache.Region.Entry;
import org.apache.geode.cache.RegionShortcut;
import org.apache.geode.distributed.DistributedMember;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.DistributedPutAllOperation;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.EntryEventImpl;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.EntrySnapshot;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.EventID;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.PartitionedRegion;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.RegionEntry;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.tier.sockets.VersionedObjectList;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.versions.ConcurrentCacheModificationException;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.versions.VersionTag;
import org.apache.geode.test.dunit.Assert;
import org.apache.geode.test.dunit.Host;
import org.apache.geode.test.dunit.SerializableRunnable;
import org.apache.geode.test.dunit.VM;
import org.apache.geode.test.dunit.cache.internal.JUnit4CacheTestCase;
import org.apache.geode.test.junit.categories.RegionsTest;

@Category({RegionsTest.class})
public class ElidedPutAllDUnitTest extends JUnit4CacheTestCase {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = -184003583877999750L;

  public ElidedPutAllDUnitTest() {
    super();
  }

  /**
   * bug #47425 - elided putAll event causes PutAllPartialResultException
   */
  @Test
  public void testElidedPutAllOnPR() throws Exception {
    final String regionName = getUniqueName() + "Region";
    final String key = "key-1";

    Cache cache = getCache();
    PartitionedRegion region =
        (PartitionedRegion) cache.createRegionFactory(RegionShortcut.PARTITION).create(regionName);
    region.put(key, "value-1");
    region.put(key, "value-2");
    Entry<?, ?> entry = region.getEntry(key);
    assertTrue("expected entry to be in this vm", entry != null);

    VM vm1 = Host.getHost(0).getVM(1);
    vm1.invoke(new SerializableRunnable("perform conflicting update") {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        Cache cache = getCache();
        PartitionedRegion region = (PartitionedRegion) cache
            .createRegionFactory(RegionShortcut.PARTITION).create(regionName);
        try {
          Entry<?, ?> entry = region.getEntry(key);
          assertTrue(entry instanceof EntrySnapshot);
          RegionEntry regionEntry = ((EntrySnapshot) entry).getRegionEntry();

          final VersionTag<?> tag = regionEntry.getVersionStamp().asVersionTag();

          tag.setEntryVersion(tag.getEntryVersion() - 1);
          tag.setRegionVersion(1);

          Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
          map.put(key, "value-3");
          DistributedPutAllOperation dpao = region.newPutAllOperation(map, null);
          EntryEventImpl event = EntryEventImpl.create(region, Operation.PUTALL_CREATE, null, null,
              null, true, (DistributedMember) tag.getMemberID());
          event.setOldValue("value-1");
          event.setVersionTag(tag);
          event.setEventId(new EventID(cache.getDistributedSystem()));
          event.setKeyInfo(((PartitionedRegion) region).getKeyInfo(key));
          dpao.addEntry(event, event.getKeyInfo().getBucketId());
          // getLogWriter().info("dpao data = " + dpao.getPutAllEntryData()[0]);
          VersionedObjectList successfulPuts = new VersionedObjectList(1, true, true);
          successfulPuts.addKeyAndVersion(key, tag);
          try {
            region.postPutAllSend(dpao, successfulPuts);
          } catch (ConcurrentCacheModificationException e) {
            Assert.fail("Should not have received an exception for an elided operation", e);
          } finally {
            event.release();
            dpao.getBaseEvent().release();
            dpao.freeOffHeapResources();
          }
        } catch (Exception e) {
          Assert.fail("caught unexpected exception", e);
        }
      }
    });

    entry = region.getEntry(key);
    assertTrue("expected value-2: " + entry.getValue(), entry.getValue().equals("value-2"));

    RegionEntry regionEntry = ((EntrySnapshot) entry).getRegionEntry();
    final VersionTag<?> tag = regionEntry.getVersionStamp().asVersionTag();
    assertTrue(tag.getEntryVersion() == 2);
  }

}

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Perhaps money is tight and FFP is actually starting to work.
been telling you lot... the Spanish giants are feeling the FFP pinch.
City is the interesting one... They're refusing to respond to EUFA over its FFP investigation as it's based on hacked emails.
Yes, you have been saying that it's starting to pinch. Lets hope they clamp down on sponsorship loopholes and Youth player abuses as well.


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El Black Mountain College va ser una universitat fundada el 1933 prop a d'Asheville (Carolina del Nord). El College utilitzava un nou sistema als Estats Units en el qual, l'estudi de l'art era el nucli de l'educació. Així mateix, els principis de John Dewey també van tenir un paper important en el sistema de la universitat. Malgrat la fama que va assolir durant la seva existència, la universitat va ser tancada després de 24 anys, el 1957.

Història
El BMC va ser fundat el 1933 per John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier i d'altres membres de la facultat del Rollins College. Black Mountain va ser creada com una universitat experimental que oferia una educació interdisciplinària, el que va atreure diversos artistes, poetes i dissenyadors que es van convertir en professors del College.

Operant en una àrea rural relativament aïllada i amb un baix pressupost, el BMC inculcava un esperit col·laboratiu i informal i durant la seva existència va atreure molts professors distingits. Per exemple, Richard Buckminster Fuller, al costat de l'estudiant Kenneth Snelson, va desenvolupar la primera cúpula geodèsica al pati posterior del campus. Així mateix, Merce Cunningham va fundar la seva companyia de dansa a la universitat.

Durant els seus primers vuit anys d'existència, la universitat utilitzava els edificis del YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly al sud de Black Mountain (Carolina del Nord). El 1941, la universitat es va traslladar a les seves pròpies instal·lacions construïdes al costat del llac Eden i va romandre allà fins a la seva clausura el 1956. Posteriorment, la propietat va ser venuda i convertida en un campament d'estiu per a nens cristians (Camp Rockmont). Així mateix, els terrenys van albergar el Black Mountain Festival i el Lake Eden Arts Festival. Alguns dels edificis encara continuen fent-se servir com residencies i instal·lacions administratives.

Professors
Alguns dels professors famosos que van ensenyar al BMC van ser:
 Josef Albers
 John Cage
 Harry Callahan
 Robert Creeley
 Merce Cunningham
 Max Dehn
 Willem de Kooning
 Richard Buckminster Fuller
 Walter Gropius
 Lou Harrison
 Franz Kline
 Jacob Lawrence
 Richard Lippold
 Charles Olson
 Aaron Siskind
 Theodoros Stamos
 Jack Tworkov
 Robert Motherwell

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Web del Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (en anglès)
 Web del Black Mountain College Project (en anglès)
 Black Mountain College Collection  als North Carolina State Archives (en anglès)

Escoles d'art
Universitats dels Estats Units
Entitats de Carolina del Nord

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Kluki (prononciation ) est un village de la gmina de Kluki, du powiat de Bełchatów, dans la voïvodie de Łódź, situé dans le centre de la Pologne.

Il est le siège administratif (chef-lieu) de la gmina appelée gmina de Kluki.

Kluki se situe à environ  à l'ouest de Bełchatów (siège du powiat) et  au sud de Łódź (capitale de la voïvodie).

Sa population s'élevait approximativement à 800 habitants en 2009.

Histoire

Administration
De 1975 à 1998, le village était attaché administrativement à l'ancienne voïvodie de Piotrków.
Depuis 1999, il fait partie de la nouvelle voïvodie de Łódź.

Références

Village dans la voïvodie de Łódź
Powiat de Bełchatów


Normaly i dont post much in forums(To lazy:)and limited english)but after playing ur game 1 week,I just whant to say THX to the Hegemony PoM team!
Now i playing only a few games like M&B or the TW series(STW MTW VI,RTW,MTW,ETW..)there i like the battles, played some campaigns but never was satisfaight with the turn based campaign, tried to love it but it dont works.
So one more time thx for this game good to see there are still guys with talent ideas and innovation who manage to make games like HPoM with v low budget.
Sry for my limited english..
We are very pleased to hear that you are enjoying Hegemony!
Speaking for myself, I do think we will be exploring other time eras. Medievil/Victorian times are my favourite.
Thanks for your support, Peter!
Clarissa & the LDA team.
Yes,thers so much potencial in this game.
Another thing i like is the communication of the HPoM team with the community(something like that is very rare in todays gameworld:)),its a garanty for a good future of HPoM and his eventualy sequels....:) so i have no worrys about patches and future developmend of this game..
There are some gameplay issues,like passiv units when attaced, formation pathfinding/coordination (nothing gamebreaking so far)a little patch here and there and it will be for sure a winner.
"I do think we will be exploring other time eras. Medievil/Victorian times are my favourite."
NOOO! PLEASE! Keep your games to the Ancient Times setting: it is much more interesting and less exploited. Many other developers focus on Medieval and Modern times.
So much more of Alexander, Caesar, Roman Empire, Fall of Roman Empire, etc.!
Hegemony is such a good game: UI and history as well. Many thanks: please continue!
"NOOO! PLEASE! Keep your games to the Ancient Times setting: it is much more interesting and less exploited. Many other developers focus on Medieval and Modern times.
Hopefully MORE Ancient Time based games to come! I think that's definately our focus for now.
I was just personally speaking something I had in mind, maybe in the wayyyy distant future or side project. Steampunk/Victorian? Just a thought bubble really.
If you're into Victorian times, you have Paradox's Victoria II and Ageod's Vainglory of Nations to look forward to! And if you like Paradox's franchise, maybe even Crusader Kings II in due course (they're checking the interest for a sequel on facebook, I've heard).
Many thanks for Hegemony and potential expansions and sequels!


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Q: Fisher for dummies? Short version: is there an introduction to Ronald Fisher's writings (papers and books) on statistics that is aimed at those with little or no background in statistics?  I'm thinking of something like an "annotated Fisher reader" aimed at non-statisticians.
I spell out the motivation for this question below, but be warned that it's long-winded (I don't know how to explain it more succinctly), and moreover it's almost certainly controversial, possibly annoying, maybe even infuriating.  So please, skip the remainder of this post unless you really think that the question (as given above) is too terse to be answered without further clarification.

I've taught myself the basics of many areas that a lot of people would consider difficult (e.g. linear algebra, abstract algebra, real and complex analysis, general topology, measure theory, etc.)  But all my efforts at teaching myself statistics have failed.
The reason for this is not that I find statistics technically difficult (or any more so than other areas I've managed to find my way through), but rather that I find statistics persistently alien, if not downright weird, far more so than any other area I've taught myself.
Slowly I began to suspect that the roots of this weirdness are mostly historical, and that, as someone who is learning this field from books, and not from a community of practitioners (as would have been the case if I had been formally trained in statistics), I would never get past this sense of alienation until I learned more about the history of statistics.
So I've read several books on the history of statistics, and doing this has, in fact, gone a looong way in explaining what I perceive as the field's weirdness.  But I have some ways to go in this direction still.
One of the things that I have learned from my readings in the history of statistics is that the source of much of what I perceive as bizarre in statistics is one man, Ronald Fisher.
In fact, the following quote1 (which I found only recently) is very consonant both with my realization that only by delving into some history was I going to begin to make sense of this field, as well as my zeroing in on Fisher as my point of reference:

Most statistical concepts and theories can be described separately from their historical origins.  This is not feasible, without unnecessary mystification, for the case of "fiducial probability".

Indeed, I think that my hunch here, albeit subjective (of course), is not entirely unfounded.  Fisher not only contributed some of the most seminal ideas in statistics, he was notorious for his disregard of previous work, and for his reliance on intuition (either providing proofs that hardly anyone else could fathom, or omitting them altogether).  Furthermore, he had lifelong feuds with many of the other important statisticians of the first half of the 20th century, feuds that seem to have sown much confusion and misunderstanding in the field.
My conclusion from all this is that, yes, Fisher's contributions to modern statistics were indeed far-reaching, although not all of them were positive.
I've also concluded that to really get at the bottom of my sense of alienation with statistics I will have to read at least some of Fisher's works, in their original form.
But I've found that Fisher's writing lives up to its reputation for impenetrability.  I've tried to find guides to this literature, but, unfortunately, everything I've found is intended for people trained in statistics, so it is as difficult for me to understand as what it purports to elucidate.
Hence the question at the beginning of this post.

1 Stone, Mervyn (1983), "Fiducial probability", Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences 3 81-86.  Wiley, New York.

A: An annotated Fisher would be an excellent resource!
I don't think that you will be able to understand Fisher without at the same time attempting to understand other major parts of the development of statistics and Fisher's interactions with the other important contributors. I found Statistics in Psychology: An Historical Perspective by Michael Cowles to be very helpful. (Don't let the psych bit of the title put you off: the book is quite general and seems to be a very even-handed account.)
On the topic of annotated Fisher, I quite recently annotated one of his paragraphs when I was asked to justify an assertion that Fisher proposed P-values to be indices of evidence against the null hypothesis. This is how I responded:

I have looked around a bit without finding an exact specification
  because, as usual, Fisher's writing is awkward and requires some
  effortful interpretation on the reader's part. He says on p. 46 of
  Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference (I have the last
  edition):
"Though recognizable as a psychological condition of reluctance, or
  resistance to the acceptance of a proposition, the feeling induced by
  a test of significance has an objective basis in that the probability
  statement on which it is based is a fact communicable to, and
  verifiable by, other rational minds. The level of significance in such
  cases fulfils the conditions of a measure of the rational grounds for
  the disbelief it engenders. It is more primitive, or elemental than,
  and does not justify, any exact probability statement about the
  proposition."
Here it is again, with my editiorial and interpretive statements:
"Though recognizable as a psychological condition of reluctance, or
  resistance to the acceptance of a proposition, the feeling induced by
  a test of significance has an objective basis [Significance tests are
  less well-defined mathematically than Neyman's hypothesis tests, but
  they are nonetheless objective. Neyman may have criticised Fisher for
  subjectivism bordering on Bayesianism (Gigerenzer et al. 1989, quoted
  by Louca ISSN No 0874-4548), and Fisher wouldn't have liked it.] in
  that the probability statement on which it is based [i.e. the
  probability of having observed data as extreme or more extreme under
  the null hypothesis] is a fact communicable to, and verifiable by,
  other rational minds [i.e. to everyone except Neyman, whose
  misunderstanding or misapplication of significance test principles is
  criticised by Fisher in his preceding paragraph.]. The level of
  significance in such cases [the P-value] fulfils the conditions of a
  measure of the rational grounds for the disbelief it engenders [which
  is to say, evidence]. It is more primitive, or elemental than, and
  does not justify, any exact probability statement about the
  proposition [and hence can be an index, but not a measure of
  probability.]."

A: Excellent web page at
http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/rafreader.htm
with very full bibliography.


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North Carolina: "Moore County Sheriff Says Mask Mandate Won't Be Enforced"
June 26, 2020 | By JAYMIE BAXLEY | ThePilot.com
"The reasons, you may ask? There are two of them. No. 1, because the order is unconstitutional. And secondly, because the order itself is unenforceable."
Sheriff Ronnie Fields speaks during an employee recognition ceremony on Feb. 6, 2019. (Photograph by Jaymie Baxley/The Pilot)
"Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields on Friday joined a growing chorus of law enforcement leaders in announcing he will not enforce Gov. Roy Cooper's statewide order requiring face coverings in public places.
"To be direct and clear, neither I nor the members of the Moore County Sheriff's Office will be enforcing this mandate from the governor," Fields wrote in a statement shared through the community notification platform Nixle. "The reasons, you may ask? There are two of them. No. 1, because the order is unconstitutional. And secondly, because the order itself is unenforceable."
Similarly worded statements were issued by multiple sheriffs and police chiefs across the state before Cooper's order took effect at 5 p.m. on Friday. The mandate warns that non-complying businesses could be charged with a Class 2 misdemeanor.
In a phone interview, Fields said his determination on the order's constitutionality, or lack thereof, was based on guidance from the North Carolina Sheriffs' Association.
"That's what I based my information on," Fields said. "My phone kept blowing up (with calls about the order), and I said we can put out something short and simple saying this is how it's going to be."
A memo emailed Friday to members of the Sheriffs' Association does not say the executive order violates the U.S. or state constitutions.
"We are not aware of and have not found any legal authority for the Governor to direct any law enforcement officer to not enforce G.S. 14-288.20A or any other criminal law violation," the association wrote, referring to the general statute that makes it a misdemeanor to violate any restriction established in an executive order. "No such authority is contained in our criminal law and no such authority can be found in the General Statutes that authorize issuance of the Governor's Executive Orders. Under current law, whether or not to charge a person with a criminal law violation of the Governor's Order requiring the wearing of a face covering is within the discretion of law enforcement."
In an online FAQ, the state advises residents to report violations of the order by calling "local law enforcement's non-emergency line." Fields offered different advice.
"Here's my recommendation: they need to call up there to Raleigh," he said. "If people don't want to wear a mask, that should be on them."
The executive order states that authorities are "not authorized to criminally enforce the face covering requirements (…) against individual workers, customers, or patrons." It includes exemptions for people with medical or behavioral disabilities that make it difficult for them to wear masks, though individuals are expected to use the "honor system to identify if they are within one of the exceptions."
The order allows police to file trespassing charges against any employee or customer who does not wear a face covering inside a business and refuses to leave when asked by the establishment's management. But Fields said law enforcers would normally treat any individual who ignores a request to leave private property as a trespasser, face covering or not.
"Now if a business calls up here and says 'look, I've got somebody in here that doesn't want to wear a mask and I don't want them in my store,' we'll respond," he said. "And if they don't want you in the store, you've got to leave."
Fields isn't the only local law enforcement official who won't be cracking down on residents for not wearing masks. Chief Carl Colasacco of the Aberdeen Police Department said he instructed his officers on Thursday not to enforce the mandate.
"If a business calls and they want a person removed because they are not wearing a mask, we will respond," Colasacco said. "If the person refuses to leave the business, they will be charged with trespassing. The business has the right to make that decision."
Chief Earl Phipps of the Pinehurst Police Department noted that the language of the order, particularly the section prohibiting criminal enforcement against individual patrons in public places, gives law officers little latitude to actually carry out the mandate.
"We're hoping everyone will voluntarily comply, but it says clearly in the order that it's unenforceable," Phipps said. "We're hoping that our citizens will do the right thing, use all the precautions and hopefully we'll get through this thing together as a team."
"Chief Bob Temme of the Southern Pines Police Department was out of the office until July 6 and did not respond to an email from The Pilot seeking comment."
"On Saturday afternoon, Sheriff Fields released the following clarification to his earlier statement."
"Apparently there has been some confusion and misinterpretion from my statement that I made yesterday. While my stance has not changed, I would like to clarify further. I have attached the enforcement portion of Executive Order 147 below. You will see that law enforcement can not charge individuals for failing to wear a mask. You will also see that it is the responsibility of the business owners to enforce employees and patrons to wear masks, and I support them and will assist them if a patron fails to wear a mask and they refuse them service. That assistance will be in the form of us enforcing trespassing laws. Store owners always have the right to refuse service, and I feel confident they will do their best to keep their patrons safe. I encourage people to read the enforcement portion of the Executive Order in it's entirety."
F. Enforcement of Face Covering Requirements.
"1. Citations under this Section shall be written only to businesses or organizations that fail to enforce the requirement to wear Face Coverings. Operators of businesses and organizations are entitled to rely on their customers or patrons' statements about whether or not they are excepted from the Face Covering requirements, and businesses and organizations do not violate this Executive Order if they rely on such statements.
2. Law enforcement personnel are not authorized to criminally enforce the Face Covering requirements of this Executive Order against individual workers, customers, or patrons.
3. However, if a business or organization does not allow entry to a worker, customer, or patron because that person refuses to wear a Face Covering, and if that worker, customer, or patron enters the premises or refuses to leave the premises, law enforcement personnel may enforce the trespassing laws and any other laws (other than N.C. Gen. Stat.§ 14-288.20A) that the worker, customer, or patron may violate."
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I'm sorry, but unfortunately, we have to talk about something that's disgusting — ticks and Lyme disease.
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that affects multiple systems in the body. It enters the body as a bacterium found in the stomach of some ticks. Once it enters, it then quickly spreads. The infection and neurotoxins can be quite harmful, and though rare, even deadly.
In fact, as many as 30,000 cases were reported to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) last year alone! And that was only the ones reported! That's more than double a decade ago!
Therefore, learning how to protect yourself now is essential.
So How Do I Get Lyme Disease?
One of the most common ways to contract Lyme disease is from ticks. These blood-sucking pests can give quite the bite, and quickly cause infection.
Recognizing this danger is especially important when camping, hunting or fishing.
It is also critical to remove a tick as well as distinguish whether or not you have contracted Lyme disease quickly.
Also, Lyme disease can be treated with antibiotics, if detected immediately. However, if not treated quickly (within a couple of days), chronic Lyme disease can spread to the heart, joints, and nervous system.
Unfortunately, these nasty little blood-suckers are incredibly proficient at hunting you down.
They can smell you. When you breathe, your body exhales Carbon Dioxide and an alcohol, know as 1-octen-3-ol. This alcohol acts as a homing beacon for ticks, as well as mosquitos and other bugs and allows them to locate you with ease.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent this?
There is. I introduce, DEET.
DEET was created by the military over 50 years ago and has been used as an effective repellent ever since.
However, scientists did not understand how DEET worked, until recently. What they now know is that insects can still smell when they are exposed to DEET.
However, the DEET completely scrambles their "code" making it impossible for them to understand what they are smelling.
While DEET is an effective repellant, it is stinky, and you must spread it over all your skin and clothing, and it only works for 8 hours. It also will not prevent a tick from biting as it only inhibits its "homing" mechanism.
Thankfully, there is a better option.
Unlike DEET, Permethrin kills the insect upon contact.
Permethrin is available in spray bottles, for clothing (see this product from Sawyer), or in a concentrated form — which will rid your backyard of harmful ticks for weeks.
WARNING!: This liquid will kill your cat. However, it is safe for your cat once it has dried.
Wear thin long-sleeve shirts and pants. Wearing clothes that cover all areas of your skin is one of the best ways to prevent ticks from latching on.
There's clothing made for this very purpose, and while it is a bit expensive, it is worth the investment. Remember, you only need a couple of pairs. Such clothing is exceptionally breathable and will dry very quickly if you get it wet.
I like the BugsWay line from ExOfficio. Their convertible pants with zip-off legs are awesome and remain bug resistant for up to 70 washes. Simply apply Permethrin after that.
They have both men's and women's lines.
ExOficio also makes a wide-brimmed BugsAway Mesh hat which I highly recommend as well. It's available in Bay Leaf, Loden, and Pebble.
Wool socks will help prevent blisters, are anti-microbial, will retain heat when it's cold and dry fairly quickly after getting wet.
Darn Tough makes an excellent pair of socks right here at home in the good ole US of A. Vermont, to be exact. They also guarantee them for life, and they are competitively priced. Can't beat that!
4. Cut Down Their Habitat.
Ticks are most abundant in humid tropical and subtropical climates. Their desired places of rest are long grasses and other vegetation with grass-like characteristics. These areas make it easy for ticks, young and old, to catch passersby with relative ease.
Therefore, while you can't do anything about climate, you can remove plant life from your yard to reduce the possibility of a tick bite.
Since Lyme disease comes from ticks, the most obvious way to avoid it is searching for ticks. Also, you should check for ticks after any long walk in the woods, hikes in the mountains or trips to the lakes, etc.
Ticks can be seen without any specialized equipment to locate them. However, a magnifying glass may help in the process. Simply do a thorough scan of all clothing, gear, and animals to make sure none have hitched a ride waiting to snack on you later.
Then check all areas of exposed skin, and pay particular attention to regions with a lot of hair as ticks can be hard to see on the head and scalp.
Also be sure to look for affected areas where a tick might have bitten you, but then fallen off. Having a tick bite you without implanting itself is a relatively common occurrence and can be just as harmful as finding a tick implanted.
Such areas are red and inflamed, red with a white center or even just small bite marks that are painful.
2. Bathe or Shower as Soon as Possible after Exposure to a Potentially Tick-Infested Area.
To kill any ticks that may remain on your clothing, tumble dry your clothing on high heat for at leat 10 minutes. If you need to clean your clothes first, use hot water rather than cold for your wash.
With the removal of ticks, some caution is advised.
There are a couple of methods that use irritants, like grease or alcohol, to cause the tick to let go. While these methods may indeed cause the tick to let go, they can also cause that nasty little parasite to vomit or salivate more intensely.
This vomiting is dangerous because the bacterium that causes Lyme disease — Borrelia — survives in the stomach of the parasite.
Causing the tick to vomit, during removal, brings the bacterium into contact with the host and can cause dangerous neurotoxins to spread, resulting in more harm than good.
According to the CDC, there are 4 absolutes to removing a tick.
Use tweezers. specifically fine tipped. Pinch the tick as close to the skin as you can get.
Pull away from the skin. Slow and steady wins the race! Be sure not to twist as this can break off the mouth.
Wash your hands and clean the area with either iodine or alcohol.
Discard the tick properly. Seal it in tape, flush it, drown it in alcohol or seal it in a plastic bag.
This method is demonstrated by the TickEncounter Resource Center below. Make sure you have pointy tweezers like these.
WARNING! These videos below may be considered gross or disturbing by some viewers.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE OPTIONS ARE NOT RECOMMENDED BY THE CDC. Therefore, we provide them only for informational purposes.
There are also products available for the removal of ticks.
One such product is the Tick Spoon. It is recommended by Jim Dill, Pest Management Specialist from the University of Main. He demonstrates how to use it in this video.
Another option is the Tick Twister.
This video demonstrates how and why it works.
One last method, which I have successfully used with a cat, is to use a Q-Tip to rotate the tick until it releases itself from the host.
I hope this has helped you understand the dangers of ticks and Lyme disease. I also hope that I have given you the resources to protect yourself and your loved ones from this nasty illness.
If you have any questions on how to distinguish tick bites, whether or not you might have experienced Lyme disease or how to keep your family safe from these harmful parasites; please comment below.
Also, if you have any ideas on how to protect yourself from ticks, please mention that as well.
1 Comment on "The Devastating Effects of Lyme Disease and How to Avoid Ticks"
When I was in the Army, I used flea and tick collars on my boot tops below the pant line. to discourage the ticks from crawling up my leg. In all the years that I did this I only found one tick, and he was crawling away.


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Yuoni [PlayStation 5] | REVIEW
Posted by Rahul | Aug 23, 2021 | PlayStation 5 Reviews, PlayStation Reviews, Review
Hide-and-seek horror is commonplace in the world of video games, with high-profile titles such as Outlast, Amnesia, and Alien Isolation mixed in with the smaller indie titles that are a dime a dozen across all platforms. Yuoni falls into the latter category, with its perilous adventure sure to fly under the radar of a lot of horror-loving gamers. In many ways it's a shame, because there's a cool concept here that does add a neat twist to the formula. However, the execution of said concept doesn't always make for an entertaining gameplay experience, with Yuoni's adventure one that can feel a bit repetitive, bland, and boring.
Check out a gallery of screenshots down below:
The narrative is one of Yuoni's strong points, with it telling the tale of a young girl named Ai who plays a dangerous game thanks to the encouragement of her friends. An urban legend in the area says that if you can find a special doll and place in into a bucket of water, the titular ghost Yuoni will ask to play a game with you. The prize for winning? He will grant a wish for Ai, like some spooky genie. If she loses? She'll die.
In many ways, it's a simple concept, but it's one that's explored in-depth through Yuoni's text-based storytelling. The tale isn't told through cinematic sequences, but instead gives players walls of text to read through as well as static images to admire. Whilst this doesn't necessarily translate to an exciting experience, it does ensure that the lore of the game is fleshed out and that you'll learn more about the ghosts and Ai's experience. It won't be for everyone, but I found it effective and it added depth to what is otherwise a fairly simple gameplay experience. I was certainly invested in the urban legend but was also glad to learn more about Ai's struggles with it.
"An urban legend in the area says that if you can find a special doll and place in into a bucket of water, the titular ghost Yuoni will ask to play a game with you."
Gameplay-wise, Yuoni revolves around the concept of exploring maze-like locales, uncovering the doll that's hidden within them, and then returning to the starting point to place it in a bucket of water, all whilst avoiding the nasty ghosts that are lurking around by hiding in the environment. It's a formula that's been done time and time again over the last ten-years or so, so if you're familiar with the horror genre, you'll feel right at home here.
That's actually part of the problem with the game. There's nothing about Yuoni that really makes it feel unique in any way, with the formula of sneaking around and then hiding in a cupboard or under a bed feeling VERY familiar after the first twenty minutes or so of playing. It does try to spice things up by introducing a small QTE to hold your breath when trying to hide your presence from the wandering ghosts, but it felt more like an unnecessary distraction the more I played.
It'd be something if the environments you explore were interesting, but it just feels like a series of corridors with a few different items blocking Ai's path. There are keys to find across these locales that will open up different doorways, but with nothing else of real interest to find, this sense of exploration just grew a little tiresome. I never felt any real incentive to take in the environment, but instead found myself just seeking out the doll and then trying to rush back to the start point – something that can be made difficult thanks to the fact that there's nothing overly distinguishable about most aspects of each level.
"There's nothing about Yuoni that really makes it feel unique in any way, with the formula of sneaking around and then hiding in a cupboard or under a bed feeling VERY familiar after the first twenty minutes or so of playing."
At least the ghosts are spooky in their own little ways, with some best to simply hide from and others easier to run from as soon as they spot you. Whilst they weren't the most frightening apparitions that I've seen in a video game, their presence did regularly catch me off-guard and made for some nail-biting experiences as I tried to escape their grasp.
Overall though, I just found Yuoni to be a little bit too repetitive to really grab my attention. It took me around three hours or so to beat the game, but even with that short length I found myself feeling a bit bored by the end. There is a more challenging version of the game to play once you've beaten it that comes with an alternative ending, but one run was enough for me. It's not that anything is particularly bad, but nothing is especially good either… it's just a bit dull.
At least the visuals felt unique though, with the vibrant orange and red shades of dusk making for a unique colour palette for a horror game. They brightly light up the hallways of each of Yuoni's locales, giving them a deceiving sense of safety thanks to the fact that you're not always wandering in the dark. I actually found the bright colour tones a bit more haunting at times, with them fitting the vibe of Ai's journey perfectly.
I was invested in Yuoni's narrative and world, but some dull hide-and-seek gameplay mechanics make it a tough horror title to recommend. There was just nothing about the game that felt especially exciting, with the locales repetitive, the ghosts easy to evade, and the level design giving no reason for players to feel eager to explore. It just felt a bit dull.
There were some things I especially liked such as the dusk setting and story, whilst there's nothing about Yuoni that felt inherently bad… I just didn't really have much fun playing it. Hardcore horror fans will probably enjoy its adventure, but there are much better titles to play in the genre for everyone else.
Developer: Tricore Inc.
Publisher: Chorus Worldwide
Platform(s): PlayStation 5 (Reviewed), PlayStation 4, PC
Website: https://chorusworldwide.com/yuoni/
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Duck Donuts is a North Carolina shop that opened July 13, 2019 in Addison, Texas.
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Duck Donuts opens in Addison in July 2019.
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Vanilla-cake doughnut shop, Duck Donuts, is open in Addison
Jul. 12, 2019 8:45am Last Update: Jul. 13, 2019 9:45am
It's good that Russ DiGilio, the creator of a fast-growing doughnut shop, has a sense of humor.
He's the founder and CEO of a company with "a tremendous fanbase, all over doughnuts," he says, laughing. DiGilio spent 30 years in healthcare and planned to end his career doing just that. But that sense of humor gets serious: Duck Donuts has blossomed into 80+ shops, with 145 more stores expected to open across the country eventually.
"I still scratch my head over it sometimes," he says.
Duck Donuts starts with just one option: a vanilla-cake doughnut. Then, customers choose their own doughnut coating, topping and drizzle. (Pictured here: maple icing with bacon on top)
Duck Donuts opens its first North Texas shop in Addison on Saturday, July 13. Its remodel took longer than expected — it was initially going to open in late fall 2018 — but managers Sunny Bassi and Jesse Bassi hope it'll be worth the wait.
Customers watch their doughnuts get iced as they walk down the line at Duck Donuts.
Duck Donuts is a made-to-order shop where every step happens in front of the customer, starting with a single option: a vanilla-cake doughnut.
"You watch us mix the batter, drop it in to the fryers," the CEO says. Customers can press their noses against the Plexiglass (or, y'know, get close) and choose a coating (like cinnamon sugar, glazed, chocolate, peanut butter and more); a topping (sprinkles, chopped peanuts, shredded coconut, or bacon pieces, casual); and a drizzle (hot fudge, marshmallow, salted caramel and more).
The Addison shop is located near Belt Line Road and Marsh Lane. PR manager Kristin Kellum says patrons can possibly expect "a line, out the door, all day," if other openings are an indicator.
The blueberry icing and powdered sugar on top of a vanilla-cake doughnut makes this Duck Donuts treat taste like a blueberry pancake.
The company was created because DiGilio and his family members were vacationing in North Carolina and lamenting the lack of a great doughnut shop. "I've always been a bit of an entrepreneur," he says, and "I thought, You know what? For fun, let's try to figure this out and make something of it."
The first stores opened in 2007, and at first, they struggled, he says. The company is named for Duck, North Carolina, a small town in the Outer Banks where the DiGilios take vacations. The regulars were around only seasonally, and it took a few years for Duck to establish a name. Once it did, however, the company turned into a franchise in 2013.
When Duck Donuts' first franchise opened in Williamsburg, Virginia, DiGilio says it drew TV cameras and fanfare. "It was craziness, over a doughnut shop."
Store Manager Sunny Bassi (left) will operate Duck Donuts in Addison for owner Dr. Gary Bhatti, her brother.
The Addison shop is owned by North Carolina resident and ex-military man Dr. Gary Bhatti. He visited the North Carolina shop before it was a franchise, then signed on to open his own shop in North Texas when DiGilio began growing the business. Bhatti asked his sister Sunny Bassi and her husband Jesse Bassi to run the first North Texas shop, which was a significant change for both of them: Jesse operates gas stations in North Texas and Sunny resigned her position as a medical assistant with Baylor Scott & White.
After one day of dipping doughnuts at the Houston restaurant, Sunny says she was in.
"When I first heard about it, I didn't get the concept," she says. "I thought it was just a doughnut shop. It's so much more than that." The shop tries to differentiate itself with its made-to-order model and special vanilla-cake recipe.
The interior of Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
Doughnuts fall out of the frier at Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
A vanilla doughnut iced with chocolate and marshmallow icing and gram cracker crumbs at Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
A doughnut is iced with flavored icing at Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
The exterior of Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
Duck Donuts opens in Addison also sells doughnut sundaes: a choose-your-own doughnut dolloped with ice cream and toppings like chocolate sauce and sprinkles.
While 90 percent of the customers buy doughnuts, the company also sells coffee.
Customers can also consider two seriously stacked doughnut options: a doughnut breakfast sandwich, made with egg, bacon or sausage and cheese; or a doughnut sundae. Because who's counting calories anyhow?
Actually: Calorie counts are listed on the menu. You don't need to know.
Duck Donuts opens at 3765 Belt Line Road, Addison, on July 13, 2019.
Editor's note: This story was originally written Sept. 5, 2018. It was revised July 12, 2019, before the opening.
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"In Memory" by Caitlin Hackett
From now until December 1st, Samantha Levin Fine Art is offering 30% off Caitlin Hackett's gorgeous limited edition print of "In Memory." The image size is 24″x18″ printed on Archival Arches BFK Rives 315gsm Cotton Rag paper. This small edition of 20 is signed and numbered by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity. To purchase: Visit Samantha Levin Fine Art and use code REMEMBERNOVEMBER at checkout.
From the artist: "This piece represents the Memory of forests as they once were; it is an ode to the vast wilderness that once covered the world and the potency of nature. Deer have long been held to be mystic creatures, from Cernunnos who was a god in Celtic mythology with deer antlers atop his head, to the white hart of Arthurian legend, deer have long been spiritual guides, harbingers of transgressed taboos, the companions to saints and fairies alike. This creature of mine, Memory, is a combination of a Stag and an Ibex, combining the spiritual symbolism of the deer with the tragic endangerment of the old world ibex. In Memory is about both the power of nature and the loss of it. It is meant as a reflection on what been lost and what could be regained."
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