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The California Primary Care Association (CPCA) and Western Clinicians Network (WCN) have partnered to host the Region IX Clinical Excellence Conference. This three-day conference brings together healthcare leadership from across the region to focus on health center clinical and management teams--partnerships that spur innovation--with the goal of improving overall efficiency and effectiveness in care delivery.
Leadership is at its best when it works together, and CEOs and CMOs are the essential leadership team when it comes to patient quality, safety, and costs. The role of the CMO increasingly revolves around influencing physicians and administrators to create working relationships that benefit both. That requires a good grounding in both clinical and administration skills. To be able to work together and collaborate CMOs need to understand business aspects, just as CEOs need understanding of clinical processes and quality.
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Region IX members (Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawai'i, and the Pacific Islands) will be in attendance, but this clinical conference welcomes attendees from across the country!
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This past summer, members of the Senate Finance Committee brought the issue of tax reform to the national agenda. While significant legislation is unlikely to be implemented in the near future, the resultant discussions raised important questions about what role tax policy should play in revenue creation, the use of tax policy to generate desired social behaviors, and the relationship between US corporate tax rates and their foreign counterparts, among many others. While each of these topics raises hearty debate from those of all political orientations, I will delve into the specific role that tax reform should play in revenue creation, thereby forming a foundation for future discussion on tax reform. Specifically, I will draw on the outcomes from the 1986 Tax Reform Act, examine the political arguments for and against the use of tax reform to raise revenue, analyze President Obama's position on the issue and ultimately provide a recommendation for the appropriate policy.
The 1986 Tax Reform Act was the most recent significant reform to the United States tax code. Broadly, the act lowered individual and corporate rates and simultaneously broadened the tax base through the elimination of a variety of exemptions, deductions and credits. Via a redistributive effect, whereby changes to the corporate tax system increased revenues and reform of the individual system decreased revenues, the act was largely declared to be revenue neutral. However, upon closer inspection, the reform created politically motivated inconsistencies in which individuals, namely voters, received benefits such as individual rate reductions, increases in the standard rate deduction and the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. Simultaneously, the elimination of the top two tax rates, and the repeal of the investment tax credit increased corporate tax revenues. Thus, while it can be said that the 1986 Tax Reform Act was revenue neutral, a shifting of the base redistributed tax burdens across the economy so that some received a more positive impact than others. Lessons from 1986 teach today's policymakers that the goal of tax reform should be to make the code fair and efficient by enforcing the lowest possible rate among the largest possible base.
An analysis of each political party's core beliefs reveals that Democrats tend to support revenue-generating taxation whereas Republicans prefer revenue neutral policy. However, recent debate has sparked a potential compromise between the two parties whereby tax reform would be revenue neutral in the long term. Building on this concept, the Obama administration recently released a tax reform proposal that generates revenue creation in the short-term but guarantees tax neutrality in the long run. The proposal recommends that the corporate tax rate be lowered from its current 35% down to 28% and that proceeds from a one-time tax repatriation holiday be used to fund a national infrastructure bank. The proposed bank would finance infrastructure projects, thereby creating jobs and stimulating the economy. While there is much to be praised about this proposal, it is possible that the focus on corporate taxation may take away the potential for comprehensive reform of the tax code.
Overall, supporters of positive revenue tax policy advocate the potential for tax policy to promote fairness across income levels via resulting redistributive policy. On a technical note, they suggest that the failure to secure sources of revenue increases before lowering tax rates will likely result in a loss of revenue. This means that a broadening of the tax base will not always occur after lowering rates, and revenue neutral policy may not actually achieve its intended goals. Nevertheless, supporters of revenue neutral tax policy advocate the increased role of the free market in the economy, and therefore less government intervention. Historical accounts of tax policy and current discussion reveal the need for comprehensive reform. Policymakers should craft revenue-generating policy in the short term to boost our slowly growing economy. However, in the long-term, policy should raise some revenue for reallocation but largely allow the invisible hand to guide marketplace transactions.


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Q: Splitting text column into ragged multiple new columns in a data table in R I have a data table containing 20000+ rows and one column. The string in each column has different number of words. I want to split the words and put each of them in a new column. I know how I can do it word by word:
Data [ , Word1 := as.character(lapply(strsplit(as.character(Data$complaint), split=" "), "[", 1))]

(Data is my data table and complaint is the name of the column)
Obviously, this is not efficient because each cell in each row has different number of words.
Could you please tell me about a more efficient way to do this?

A: Here is a solution based on rbind.fill.matrix(...) in the plyr package. On a dataset with 20,000 rows it runs in about 3.6 sec.
# create an sample dataset - you have this already
library(data.table)
words <- LETTERS[1:10]     # "words" are just letters in this example
set.seed(1)                # for reproducible example
w  <- sapply(1:2e4,function(i)paste(words[sample(1:10,sample(1:10,1))],collapse=" "))
dt <- data.table(words=w)
head(dt)
#          complaint
# 1:           D F H
# 2:           I J F
# 3:   A B I E C D H
# 4: J D G H B I A E
# 5:         A D G C
# 6:       F E B J I

# you start here...
library(plyr)
result <- rbind.fill.matrix(lapply(strsplit(dt$words, split=" "),matrix,nr=1))
result <- as.data.table(result)
head(result)
#    1 2 3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
# 1: D F H NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
# 2: I J F NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
# 3: A B I  E  C  D  H NA NA NA
# 4: J D G  H  B  I  A  E NA NA
# 5: A D G  C NA NA NA NA NA NA
# 6: F E B  J  I NA NA NA NA NA

EDIT: Added some benchmarking based on @Ananda's comment below.
f.rfm    <- function() as.data.table(rbind.fill.matrix(lapply(strsplit(dt$complaint, split=" "),matrix,nr=1)))
library(splitstackshape)
f.csplit <- function() cSplit(dt, "complaint", " ",type.convert=FALSE)
library(stringi)
f.sl2m   <- function() as.data.table(stri_list2matrix(strsplit(dt$complaint, split=" "), byrow = TRUE))
f.ssf    <- function() as.data.table(stri_split_fixed(dt$complaint, " ", simplify = TRUE))

all.equal(f.rfm(),f.csplit(),check.names=FALSE)
# [1] TRUE
all.equal(f.rfm(),f.sl2m(),check.names=FALSE)
# [1] TRUE
all.equal(f.rfm(),f.ssf(),check.names=FALSE)
# [1] TRUE
library(microbenchmark)
microbenchmark(f.rfm(),f.csplit(),f.sl2m(),f.ssf(),times=10)
# Unit: milliseconds
#        expr        min         lq     median        uq        max neval
#     f.rfm() 3566.17724 3589.31203 3606.93303 3665.4087 3719.32299    10
#  f.csplit()   98.05709  102.46456  104.51046  107.9588  117.26945    10
#    f.sl2m()   55.45527   55.58852   56.75406   58.9347   67.44523    10
#     f.ssf()   17.77499   17.98879   18.30831   18.4537   21.62161    10

So it looks like stri_split_fixed(...) is the winner.

A: An example data would be nice, but if I understand what you want, it is not possible to do properly in a data frame. Given there are different numbers of words in each row you, will need a list. Even though, it is very simple to split the words in the whole object.
If you run strsplit(as.character(Data[,1]), " ") you will get a list with each element corresponding to a row in your dataframe. From that, there are several different alternatives to rearrange this object, but the best approach will depend on your objective

A: OK for both data.table and data.frame
# toy data
df <- structure(list(x = structure(c(2L, 1L), .Label = c("This actually is not",
"This is interesting"), class = "factor")), .Names = "x", row.names = c(NA,
-2L), class = "data.frame")

#                      x
# 1  This is interesting
# 2 This actually is not

# the code
split_result <- strsplit(as.character(df$x), " ")
length_n <- sapply(split_result, length)
length_max <- seq_len(max(length_n))
as.data.frame(t(sapply(split_result, "[", i = length_max))) # Or as.data.table(...)

#     V1       V2          V3   V4
# 1 This       is interesting <NA>
# 2 This actually          is  not

A: Two functions, transpose() and tstrsplit(), are available since version 1.9.6 on CRAN.
With this we can do:
require(data.table)
setDT(tstrsplit(as.character(df$x), " ", fixed=TRUE))[]
#      V1       V2          V3  V4
# 1: This       is interesting  NA
# 2: This actually          is not

tstrsplit is a wrapper for transpose(strsplit(...)).

A: Check out cSplit from my "splitstackshape" package. It works on either data.frames or data.tables (but always returns a data.table).
Assuming KFB's sample data is at least slightly representative of your actual data, you can try:
library(splitstackshape)
cSplit(df, "x", " ")
#     x_1      x_2         x_3 x_4
# 1: This       is interesting  NA
# 2: This actually          is not

Another (blazing) option is to use stri_split_fixed with simplify = TRUE (from "stringi") (which is obviously deemed to enter the "splitstackshape" code soon):
library(stringi)
stri_split_fixed(df$x, " ", simplify = TRUE)
#      [,1]   [,2]       [,3]          [,4]
# [1,] "This" "is"       "interesting" NA
# [2,] "This" "actually" "is"          "not"

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Августин Дзівіш (;  28 серпня 1918, Королівська Гута —  3 липня 1982, Катовиці) — польський футболіст, нападник та півзахисник, футбольний тренер, чемпіон Польщі з «Гурніком» (Забже) (1961), віце-чемпіон з «Гурніком» (Радлін) (1951).

Кар'єра гравця
Вихованець «Руха» (Хожув) (1929-1930), потім грав у «Халлер» (Хожув), «Поліція КС» (Сосновець), «Чарні» (Львів), «Уніон» (Гдиня), ЗК «Хайдуки», «Батори» (Хожув) і знову «Рух» (Хожув) (з липня 1939 року). Після завершення Другої світової війни грав за «Батори» (Хожув) (1946-1947).

Один із восьми братів і сестер, його брати також були футболістами: Кароль (чемпіон Польщі та гравець збірної, у футболці «Руха»), Алоїза (грав у чемпіонаті у футболці «Чарні» (Львів) і «Руха»), Еміль (чемпіон Польщі з «Рухом»), Едвард (гравець резервної команди «Руху», засновник і президент «Халлер» Хожув) і Константи (футболіст «РКС Хайдуки»). Брат Фелікс був активістом Руху, сестра Гелена не була пов'язана зі спортом.

Кар'єра тренера
Був тренером багатьох клубів, серед яких:
 «Гурнік» (Радлін) (1951-1954) — віце-чемпіо першої ліги (без титулу віце-чемпіона Польщі, який присвоювався фіналісту Кубку Польщі) 1951 року, у наступні роки в першій лізі: 1952 рік – 10 місце, 1953 рік – 8 місце, 1954 рік - 6 місце.
 «Шомберки» (Битом) (1953-1954) — двічі посів 4 місце у другій лізі (за даними джерел, очолював дві команди одночасно).
 «Гурнік» (Забже) (грудень 1954 - грудень 1956) – у 1955 році посів 2-ге місце у 2-й лізі, вихід до 1-ї ліги, у 1956 році дійшов до фіналу Кубку Польщі 1956 року, у 1-й лізі у 1956 році посів шосте місце.
 «Шомберки» (Битом) (1957) — 9-те місце в 2-й лізі.
 «Гурнік» (Забже) (липень 1960-травень 1962) – у сезоні 1960 року посів 3-тє місце, у 1961 році виграв чемпіонат Польщі, у сезоні 1962 року залишив команду за 4 тури до кінця сезону, а його клуб у підсумку став віце-чемпіоном Польщі та став фіналістом кубку Польщі.
 «Краковія» (червень 1962-грудень 1963) – очолив команду за три тури до завершення сезону і вилетів з нею до 2-ї ліги, зайняв 14-те місце, в сезоні 1962/63 років став 5-м у 2-й лізі, залишив після осінньої частини сезону 1962/63 років.
 «Рух» (Хожув) (грудень 1963-вересень 1964) – очолив команду перед стартом весняної частини сезону 1963/64 років, посів з командою 7 місце в 1-й лізі, залишив після шести турів сезону 1964/65 років.
 «Мотор» (Люблін) (1964/65) – окружні матчі та вихід до другої ліги.
 «П'яст» (Гливиці) (листопад 1965-червень 1967) – півтора сезону в окружній лізі.
 «Шомберки» (Битом) (осіння частина сезону 1967/68) – I ліга.
 ГКС (Катовиці) (1968) – очолив команду у весняній частині сезону 1967/68 років, зайняв 8 місце в першій лізі, залишив команду після 9 туру осінньої частини сезону 1968/69 років.
 «Гурнік» (Радлін) (1969-1971) – два сезони в окружній лізі (еквівалент третьої ліги).
 «Лех» (Познань) (серпень 1972-квітень 1973) – другий з трьох тренерів у сезоні 1972/73 років.
 «Медзь» (Легниця) (1974/75) – окружні матчі (еквівалент третьої ліги).

Чотири рази співпрацював з першою збірною Польщі в міжнародних матчах (29.11.1953 з Албанією, 14.09.1958 з Угорщиною, 11.04.1962 з Францією та 5.04.1962 з Марокко). Також очолював другу збірну та молодіжну збірну.

Література
 Andrzej Gowarzewski, Joachim Waloszek, Ruch Chorzów. 75 lat "Niebieskich" – księga jubileuszowa, wydawnictwo GiA, Katowice 1995 (1. część serii Kolekcja Klubów)
 Andrzej Gowarzewski, Jan Rędzioch, Lech Poznań. 80 lat i jeden rok prawdziwej historii, wydawnictwo GiA, Katowice 2003 (8. część serii Kolekcja Klubów)
 Andrzej Gowarzewski, Marian Grzegorz Nowak, Bożena Lidia Szmel Cracovia. 100 lat prawdziwej historii, wydawnictwo GiA, Katowice 2006 (10. część serii Kolekcja Klubów)
 Andrzej Gowarzewski, Joachim Waloszek, Górnik Zabrze. 60 lat prawdziwej historii (1948-2008), wydawnictwo GiA, Katowice 2009 (11. część serii Kolekcja Klubów)
 Andrzej Gowarzewski Biało-czerwoni 1921-2001, wyd. GiA, Katowice 2001
 Józef Larisch Dziewięćdziesiąt lat Klubu Sportowego Szombierki Bytom 1919-2009, wyd. UM w Bytomiu, Bytom 2009
 Tomasz Pikul Monografia sekcji piłkarskiej GKS Katowice. 1964-1984. Tom I, wyd. Katowice 2010

Уродженці Хожува
Померли в Катовицях
Польські футболісти
Футболісти «Чарні» (Львів)
Футболісти «Руха» (Хожув)
Польські футбольні тренери
Тренери ФК «Гурник» (Забже)
Тренери ФК «Краковія»
Тренери ФК «Рух» (Хожув)
Тренери ФК «Мотор» (Люблін)
Тренери ФК «П'яст» (Гливиці)
Тренери ФК ГКС (Катовіце)
Тренери ФК «Лех»
Тренери ФК «Медзь» (Легниця)

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Under Armour shares rise after it tops estimates
7:15 am ET November 3, 2022 (MarketWatch)
Under Armour Inc. shares rose 2% in premarket trades on Thursday after the athletic clothing maker topped analyst estimates for adjusted earnings and revenue. The Baltimore-based company said its second-quarter net income fell to $86.83 million, or 19 cents a share, from $113.44 million, or 24 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Adjusted net income totaled 20 cents a share. Second-quarter revenue rose to $1.57 billion from $1.55 billion. Wall Street analysts expected Under Armor to earn 16 cents a share on revenue of $1.55 billion, according to FactSet data. Looking ahead, the athletic clothing maker trimmed its fiscal 2023 revenue to increase at a low single-digit percentage rate, down from its earlier guidance of up 5% to 7%.
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Deftones' Ohms Debuts at #5 on the Billboard Top 200
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Ohms, the eagerly-anticipated new album from Deftones, sold 49,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release, landing it at the #5 position on the Billboard Top 200.
43,000 of those equivalent album units came from pure sales — which, incidentally, is the number of albums Around the Fur sold in its first week of release back in 1997. The remaining 6,000 units of Ohms "were the result of nearly 8 million on-demand streams on music services," Metal Injection reports.
The proto-nu-metallers' last album, 2016's Gore, sold 71,000 copies in its first week of release to land at the #2 position on the Billboard Top 200. 69,000 of those units were in pure album sales. That marked the best first week sales the band had enjoyed since Saturday Night Wrist (76,000 copies)…
…but the peak of Deftones first-week album sales remains their eponymous 2003 release, which sold 167,000 copies straight out of the gate, also debuting at the #2 position on the Billboard Top 200.
The band's highest-selling overall album continues to be White Pony (2000), which went platinum, selling 1.3 million copies to date.
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Thurston County Reports Six COVID Deaths, 519 New Cases
By Nisqually Valley News staff
New COVID-19 cases in Thurston County saw a week-over-week decrease of 50 cases as new deaths associated with the virus increased.
Thurston County Public Health and Social Services reported six new COVID-19 deaths in the county from Nov. 8 to Nov. 14.
The reported deaths included a woman in her 40s, a man in his 50s, three men in their 60s and a man in his 70s. The additional deaths brought Thurston County's total to 227 as of Nov. 15.
The department reported 519 new COVID-19 infections during the same timeframe.
The running total of infections throughout the pandemic in the county landed at 21,684 as of Nov. 15.
The percentage of those infected with COVID-19 who have died has decreased to 1.1% for the county, according to the Washington State Department of Health (DOH).
Out of the 21,684 total county cases reported by Nov. 15, patients who have recovered or are recovering increased to 20,566, according to the health department.
Since last reported, there have been 15 new hospitalizations in Thurston County, according to DOH, making the total number since the start of the pandemic land at 1,377 as of Nov. 14.
Health care workers have administered a total of 391,958 vaccine doses countywide since the beginning of the pandemic, according to DOH. That's more than 11,000 additional doses since last reported a week ago.
In neighboring Pierce County, 20 deaths were recorded since last reported and new cases have decreased to 379.3 per 100,000 population as reported during the 14-day period between Oct. 21 and Nov. 3, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. The total number of cases in the county reached 94,420 as of Nov. 15, with 890 deaths.
In Washington state, as of Nov. 7, there were 664,970 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 90,041 probable cases, a total of 41,723 people have been hospitalized because of the illness, and 8,990 people have died, according to DOH. The statewide rate of those who have died after contracting the virus stands at 1.2%. About 10.28 million vaccine doses have been administered in the state. The statewide occupancy of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units is at 20.2%.
Nationwide, as of press deadline, there were 46,993,724 total cases since the start of the pandemic. There were 760,266 confirmed deaths and about 442 million doses of vaccines have been administered since the start of the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That's about 10 million more vaccines administered in one week. New cases over the last 30 days had been on a downward trend, but have begun to rise, while new deaths over the last 30 days are on a downward trend, CDC graphs indicated.
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Summer is waning and in the northern reaches of the country bird populations are fattening up in preparation for their fall migration south.
Colorful songbirds, birds of prey, waterfowl and coastal birds follow some little-understood instinct to take to the sky in mass. Flocks depart the north at different times throughout the next few months and follow flyways that usher them to their southern wintering grounds. Some will head to South Florida many others will venture on to Mexico and Central and South America.
Pensacola just happens to be in the path of one of the flyways. Many birds find our tree-lined coast the perfect rest stop to fuel up.
If you're visiting the Pensacola area during the fall, you'll want to pack a pair of binoculars and a birding book. Don't have a birding book? No worries, print out a bird list on the Audubon's Frances M. Weston Pensacola Chapter's website.
We're a birding enthusiast's paradise. Some birders certainly check off many sought-after species in their birding books here.
We even have rare visitors. A pair of flamingos hung out in our area recently. Even rarer; the red-billed tropicbird, typically found in tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans, was spotted in Gulf Breeze in May; and a flock of Razorbills, penguin-like birds from the North Atlantic, frolicked on Pensacola Beach in 2012.
So you never know what exciting feathered visitor might stop over. That's really the thrill of birding; it's like a treasure hunt.
You're more likely to see orioles, towhees, indigo buntings, warblers in hues of greens and yellows, and ruby-throated hummingbirds, along with a host of other possible visitors. Ospreys, known as a fishing eagle, are among our local birds that will join the migration. They're high on the list for many European birders.
My husband is avid birder with an array of bird feeders on our quarter-acre backyard, greenbelt. He fills them with the perfect mix of seeds, suet and peanut butter in hopes some migrates will stop over so he can document and photograph them, and just enjoy watching them. He's learned that if you feed them they will come.
Big Lagoon State Park near Perdido Key is the gateway for the Great Florida Birding Trail, a 2,000-mile trail through protected bird habitat in the state.
You don't have to venture far to find birds. With 600-acres along the Intracoastal Waterway, the Big Lagoon parks is home to an abundance of shorebirds and wintering ducks. Its trees are likely to attract migrating songbirds.
The Seashore is definitely a local hotspot for migratory birds. The miles of undeveloped coastline with oak hammocks, dune vegetation and fresh water sources is like a buffet for migratory birds seeking the fuel and rest they need to make the hundreds of miles flight ahead of them. Magnolia warblers are among the many warblers spotted here, along with tanagers and oriels. Fall signals the end of shorebird nesting season along the seashore's sugar white sand beaches, but you still may see some snowy plovers, skimmers and least terns.
This award-winning coastal habit restoration project attracts huge numbers of coastal birds and is a favorite spot for birders. Spread out along Pensacola's Bayfront Parkway along Pensacola Bay, it offers a number of viewing sites, including Wayside Park at the foot of the Pensacola Bay Bridge. If you venture west of the bridge across the street from the Veterans Memorial Park, you'll find a boardwalk to the Hawkshaw Lagoon at Missing Children's Memorial. That area provides a great viewing spot of tidal marshes, sea grass beds and oyster reefs where brown pelicans, osprey, herons and even a rare Nelson's sharp-tailed sparrow was spotted.
More bird watching spots: For a complete list of local birding hotspots, visit the Audubon Francis M. Weston's chapter "Birding in the Pensacola Bay Area" website. And, check out the chapter's website on for migrating bird alerts and to report observations.
While you're out bird watching, keep an eye for monarch butterflies that flitter along our coast. They too fly from north and stop over to fuel up on the nectar of aster and other wildflowers before migrating along the Gulf of Mexico coast to their wintering grounds in Mexico. Check out their amazing migration story at Footprints in the Sand Eco-Trail website.
Have a favorite birding spot or trail? Leave a comment below!


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Sunday In The Parlor
Sacred Songs for the Home, Page 2
This is a continuation of Our April, 2003 Issue of songs about sacred songs, if you missed page one, check the link at the end of this page or use this link.
Music by: Herbert Johnson
Lyrics by: Johnson
Cover artist: unsigned
Once again, Herbert Johnson created a beautiful hymn when he created this 1898 gem. Perhaps not as acclaimed as his Ave Maria (see page 1 of this feature) but none the less, this hymn has also found a permanent place in many church hymnals. Musically, I've found this work to be a little cumbersome, but it still comes across nicely and has a rich harmony and a clear hymnal feel to it. We've had this song posted for years on our site as an unfeatured gallery work from 1998. With this edition, we've spruced it up, present it in the Scorch format and have improved the MIDI file significantly from that early rather feeble attempt.
I am amazed that so little has been published about Johnson and his wonderful music. As well, it seems his publisher Waldo Music (where's Waldo?, Boston of course) has suffered the same fate. Again, if a knowledgeable reader from Boston has any information about Waldo Music and anyone else with information about Johnson, please let us know.
Listen to and see this Johnson hymn Printable score! (scorch format)
The Homeland
Music by: E.W. Hanscom
Lyrics by: H.R. Haweis
From the pen of yet another obscure and almost lost composer and songwriter we have this excellent sacred song about going "home" (to heaven) and the ultimate reunion. The opening has a rather "gospel" feel to it and moves directly into a simple melody that is pleasant yet not particularly memorable. The lyrics to this melody were also used in the Hymn, The Homeland! O The Homeland! with music by Arthur S. Sullivan. Yes, the same Sullivan from Gilbert & Sullivan. The hymn has appeared in a number of hymnals including the College Hymnal (1897) and the Presbyterian New Psalms and Hymns (1901). Personally, I prefer this version to Sullivan's and am a little perplexed that this version did not prevail. Perhaps it is because of Sullivan's reputation. Musically, though simple, I believe Hanscom's to be superior. If you are familiar with the Sullivan version, you can judge for yourself.
E.W. Hanscom was born in Maine in 1848 and died sometime after 1910. He was educated initially in Maine and later traveled to London, Berlin and Vienna to study composition. His compositions were mostly religious with a few other works including a song cycle and two Christmas carols with violin obbligatto. Besides the Homeland, he wrote several songs that enjoyed a fair level of popularity in the late 19th century among the more popular ones were, Go; Rose; In Her Golden Hair and A Lullaby. (American History and Encyclopedia of Music p. 351)
Hugh R. Haweis (1838 - 1901) attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1861 and was curate at Bethnal Green, Westminster and Stepney. In 1866, he was appointed curate at St. James, Marylebone. An accomplished man, he
was a musician, music scholar and ordained minister. As an author, he wrote several books across a wide spectrum of subjects from a treatise on cremation titled Ashes to Ashes, a book on Violins, Old Violins published by John Grant, Edinburgh 1905, Old Songs with drawings by Edwin A Abbey and Alfred Parsons to Music and Morals with David Bogue, in 1882. Though he seems to have left behind a number of works, little else can be found about him.
Hear and see this sacred song Printable sheet music! (Scorch format only)
God That Madest Earth and Heaven
Music by: Wilfrid Sanderson
Lyrics by: Reginald Heber, Richard Whately
As with The Homeland, here we have a hymn that has appeared in a number of musical guises. Perhaps the most common setting is to the traditional song All Through The Night. Again, we have, in my humble opinion a much superior musical setting than the more common version. I have found this song to be inspirational and uplifting. It has a wonderful melody and musically has a tremendous progression that takes it through the text in an expressive way and ends with a triumphant crescendo. The music clearly expresses the words in ways that few songs can do. Sanderson has taken a wonderful lyric and written a beautiful musical setting for it. I suppose one reason that this version has not predominated in hymnals as it is more difficult for the masses to sing. The All Through The Night melody is simpler and less taxing for a congregation to sing. In any event, this one is a winner and one of my favorites this month.
Wilfrid Sanderson (1878-1935) an organist and choirmaster, is known to have written the melodies to other hymns, including Great Master, Touch Us. As well, Sanderson also wrote a secular songs and arranged other works by various masters for organ including an arrangement Meyerbeer's Coronation March ('Le Prophète')
Known as a writer of fine ballads, among his other works are Until, (1910), Friend O' Mine, Neglectful Blues and Charm me Asleep (recorded 1932 by John McCormack). Some of his songs have been recently recorded on collections of ballads and anthems and his music continues to live on through his hymns as well.
Reginald Heber (1783-1826) Heber attended Brasenose College, Oxford, cradle of a number of the most prominent hymn writers in England. He also attended All Souls College, and later became rector in Shropshire, England. In 1823, he was appointed Bishop of Calcutta. He wrote over 60 hymns, most of which were not recognized and published till long after he was gone. He wrote some of Christendom's greatest hymns including Holy, Holy, Holy. Heber's co-author in this venture was Richard Whately (1787-1863) an Anglican priest and author. Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, he ultimately rose to become Bishop of Dublin in 1831. He wrote a number of hymns as well as books on non religious topics including Elements of Logic, in 1826.
Listen to this inspiring sacred song Printable sheet music! (Scorch format)
The Maiden's Prayer
Music by: Thécla Badarzewska
Lyrics by: None, piano solo
I first heard this beautiful meditation years ago on a recording of salon music from the Musical Heritage Society (MHS 1139). The pianist, Hans Kann, played this work with so much feeling and tenderness it nearly brought tears to my eyes and the melody has stayed with me for years. When I happened to acquire the sheet music, I was ecstatic. The work is a set of variations based upon a very simple, yet elegant melody. The variations are not very complex, yet require a steady hand and sure touch to perform effectively. Using a number of ornaments such as trills and turns and tuplets of unusual dimensions, all the while accompanied by a fairly repetitive bass line, the composer managed to create a true masterpiece for the salon (parlor, if you please.) Originally written in 1856, Badarzewska later wrote a companion piece, The Prayer Is Answered that met with some success but nowhere near the acclaim of this work. The New Grove (volume 2, p. 6) is particularly uncharitable in calling the Maiden's Prayer of no artistic merit yet the work won worldwide acclaim, sold millions of copies around the world and was issued in over 80 counties. Perhaps Badarzewska's success with this piece is her greatest revenge for those who criticize its "merit." I believe the simplicity and beauty of the melody transcends any critical view of her composition. It is attractive, pleasant and somehow comforting to listen to this beautiful piece. I always did find that my own taste runs counter to that of critics.
Thécla Badarzewska-Baranowska (1834-1861) Born in Warsaw Poland. Badarzewska was a self trained amateur pianist who received no formal musical education. She is known mainly for the Maiden's Prayer which was published in 80 countries and it was published in versions for four hands, eight hands, other instruments and voice. A composer of salon pieces, Badarzewska published a number of follow on pieces to this work including Second prayer of a Maiden and The Prayer's Answer. Her other published works include; Sweet Dreams, Memories of a Hut and Memories of a Friendship. She died at the tender age of 27 in her native Warsaw.
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Lyrics (Sorry, no lyrics, piano solo)


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IFC recruitment concludes with boisterous bid day
A member of Lambda Chi Alpha celebrates as new members and initiated brothers collide in front of the fraternity house in Greek Village on Sept. 16, 2022.
By Mary Helene Hall
September 16, 2022 | 9:55pm EDT
Brothers of Sigma Nu celebrate with their new members at the base of Greek Village on Sept. 22, 2022.
To those within a mile of Mercer's campus who heard a concerning amount of male screams Friday afternoon: fear not. Boy's bid day has arrived.
If Panhellenic women's bid day is glitter and glam, with costumes and opportunities for pristine Instagram photos, Interfraternity Council men's bid day stands in stark contrast with bodily collisions bordering on violence, dinner jackets with khaki pants (or shorts) and a promise of partying.
Each group of new fraternity members made the trek from Connell Student Center to Greek Village in about 10-minute increments, breaking into a sprint once their new brothers were in view.
Seven of Mercer's eight IFC fraternities welcomed new members on bid day: Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Alpha Order, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Kappa Sigma is currently suspended and unable to take a pledge class.
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New fraternity members run up Cruz Plaza.
Avery Goss '23, a member of Sigma Nu, says he looks forward to bid day as an opportunity to unwind.
"Bid day is kind of the day of relief where all the stresses are gone," he said. "Being so stressed with planning events, getting stuff together, it's just a nice day to finally relax."
Each fraternity extended several bids, primarily to first-year students, after their recruitment period this semester, which began Sept. 8 and ended Sept. 16.
One of those new fraternity men, Justin Diamond '26, is "super stoked" to join the ranks of Phi Delta Theta. He said he has "never experienced something like this" in his life.
"What just happened? Craziness just happened," he said. "I ran as fast as I could. Someone owes me $2 because I beat him (running up the hill). I got hit in the face pretty hard by someone, but it keeps a smile on my face. I don't mind at all. Met all the frat guys, my new family for the next four years. It's gonna be a great time."
Women at IFC bid day reach for Phi Delta Theta t-shirts being handed out by a member.
However, bid day is not just an event for fraternity men — scores of women in dresses and other curious onlookers watched as the new fraternity brothers ran to their houses in Greek Village.
"It's a Mercer national holiday! Simple as that," a member of Chi Omega, Anna Peters '23, said. "Everyone gets together for boy's bid day."
Even Mercer's very own Dean of Students Doug Pearson quietly spectated the festivities from the University Center patio overlooking Cruz Plaza.
"I think it's one of the most exciting times during the fall," he said. "I come every once in a while just because I like the energy on campus."
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Voznuevo es una localidad española perteneciente al municipio de Boñar, en la provincia de León, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León.

Celebra sus fiestas el día 12 de febrero en honor a Santa Eulalia y los días 29 y 30 de agosto en honor de san Juan Degollado.

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Ubicación

Historia
Se nombra por primera vez a Voznuevo en la primera mitad del  debido a una donación de una veta de hierro que hace el rey Alfonso IX de León en favor del monasterio de Valdediós. Desde un principio perteneció a dicha abadía de Valdediós pasando finalmente a pertenecer al concejo de Boñar del cual dista dos kilómetros. Existe una versión sobre el origen del nombre de la localidad, reflejada por el padre Don Pedro Alba Fontaos en su obra, Historia de la montaña de Boñar, escrita en 1863, en ella cita que proviene del latín busto-novo (hoguera-nueva).

Cerca del lugar existió un poblado, llamado Sanacorrales, del que hoy quedan algunos vestigios y que puede dar origen al actual asentamiento de la localidad.

Así queda recogido Voznuevo en la mitad del  en el Diccionario que elaboró el por entonces ministro de hacienda Pascual Madoz:

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Evolución de la población
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  Ayuntamiento de Boñar

Localidades de Boñar
Localidades del Valle de Boñar


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Deliveroo's Virtual Restaurant Model Will Eat The Food Service Industry, As Amazon Piles In To Fund U.S. Expansion
Douglas BellContributor
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Alarm bells should be ringing for casual dining restaurants, large and small, because an unstoppable wave of disruption is coming. They will soon find themselves in a price war with U.K. tech startup Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and (separately) Uber Founder Travis Kalanick, competing for market share against thousands of new "virtual restaurants" (aka "dark kitchens" or "cloud kitchens" or "ghost kitchens"), that can be set up and serving customers in almost any location—for a fraction of the normal cost.
Amazon has switched sides, from competing against, to investing hundreds of millions in U.K. scale-up Deliveroo, to help it achieve its radical goals. Deliveroo's "leaked investor slides" reportedly reveal plans to cut food costs by 50% for consumers by launching their own food offerings, and to double their profitability. The company believes it can do this with a powerful combination of new technology, and business model innovation. It is a Blue Ocean innovation strategy, industrialising the food service process with their own mini food factories, while eliminating inefficiency (jobs) through automation—including riders. Among the aims are to normalize high quality take-out food... To make your home kitchen redundant.
SAINT-OUEN, FRANCE: A state-of-the-art virtual restaurant. It is the first French cooking site of ... [+] the British ready meals delivery company Deliveroo, which has already opened 74 Editions on different continents. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard/IP3/Getty Images)
Incumbent restaurants don't need to be reminded of their high fixed costs, particularly the rent, creditors, and headcount. It was for this reason that so many initially welcomed in Deliveroo to help augment their sales and maximise kitchen productivity. For the restaurant, it can cost 20-30% of the order value, however; which reveals just how motivated the supply chain is.
The original offer was to promote restaurant's products on the mobile app as an aggregator, and offer independent delivery as a service. If a third party app is willing to invest in the technology, win the customers, and organise the labor, why not let them? It may have seemed like a "no-brainer" at the time. Deliveroo was welcomed in as a gift.
But Deliveroo is not a "delivery" business, despite how it presents itself. It is a marketplace, like Amazon for hot food. The company outsources delivery to a network of freelancers (who are not subject to minimum wage). Restaurant "partners" could well become servants to their new marketplace friends, if Deliveroo expand production independently, and find aggressive new ways to cut prices through vertical integration. These appear to be the company's aims.
Business Model 1.0: Enablement of Restaurants
The original business model innovation was to treat thousands of restaurants as a de facto wholesale network. They took take-away up market, as a middle man mobile tech innovator, and reached an untapped market of consumers; an affluent and time-poor demographic.
Operationally, running a hybrid model (eat-in and take-away) is hard for many restaurants, so a delivery partnership makes sense. Sophisticated British brands Itsu and Pizza Express have tried to deliver themselves, but failed. Economies of scale aren't easily achievable for single restaurants, or even for chains. Deliveroo solved this problem, by farming out delivery to a network of freelancers, paid on commission. Freelancers can cover many restaurants simultaneously, and can flex their hours around anticipated demand, at their own risk.
Deliveroo recruit, Billy Shannon, a self-employed food-delivery courier. The 18-year-old jumps on ... [+] his bike as an order comes in, mindful that he is paid not by the hour, but by the number of deliveries he makes. / AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ALICE TIDEY (Photo credit should read DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images)
This controversial gig economy model costs Deliveroo and Uber much less than hiring staff. It rewards productive people, reduces risk and capital costs for Deliveroo, and the "virtual fleet" can service restaurants relatively cost-effectively. Economies of scale are achievable, albeit, both UberEats and Deliveroo appear to subsidize the process for consumers. The scalability of this business model is infinitely greater than launching their own (conventional) restaurants, and indeed, hiring their own drivers.
Deliveroo contribute no labour towards order fulfilment. They have low relative costs per meal, while capturing up to 30% of the sale value. They don't produce any food, they don't have to buy or rent any restaurant properties, they don't have to manage staff or stock, and they don't even have to do the delivery. They do, however, own the customer relationship, the data, and handle the cash. It is a major dilemma for restaurant "partners" to work with them, but many now can't afford to back out.
Between the restaurants and the app, who is master, and who is servant in this situation? Deliveroo have built a direct channel of communication with millions of customers, borrowing the restaurants' reputations for good food, to build up their own loyal customer base. They can analyze billions of data points from across the market, but don't share this with the restaurants, of course. Deliveroo have higher profit margins than many of their suppliers do, without carrying equivalent risks. Most importantly of all, Deliveroo own the pipeline. They can now service entire cities.
Exponential Growth
All VC-backed companies are searching for high growth. Deliveroo has shown us what exponential growth really looks like; 107,117% growth over four years. It is by far the fastest growing company in the U.K., and is now heading for the U.S., where UberEats have progressed fast as arch-rival copy-cats.
Deliveroo went viral. After just 6 years, they now sell food from 80,000 restaurants to over 6 million customers, reaching an estimated Enterprise Value of $4 billion. Expect this valuation to keep going up.
Impressively, they have deflected a potential take-over from arch-rivals UberEats, and beaten Amazon into submission. Deliveroo's new war chest of $575 million is largely sponsored by Amazon. They will use it to fund aggressive growth, while changing the nature of the business, to find more customers and encourage daily purchases. Together they will pursue a second generation business model that may remind readers of Amazon for its industrial efficiency. This is where the disruption starts.
Deliveroo 2.0: Radical Goals
Visionary Founder Will Shu apparently hopes to "replace your kitchen." Enter industrial "cloud kitchens"—the virtual restaurant model coming to a neighbourhood near you.
Customers appear happy with the concept of a virtual restaurant, especially if it gives them more choice and convenience. Trials of these kitchens in London, France and Dubai have been branded as "Deliveroo Editions." Restaurateurs in London were invited in to occupy 30 or so of these kitchens, selling food on the app under their own brand, for an undisclosed commission, which has helped the company to maintain an image as an enabling "partner." It has also allowed Deliveroo to prove out the value hypothesis of these virtual restaurants, in preparation for scaling up. The hypothesis was that customers would buy into it, so long as the food and delivery are good.
Deliveroo now plan to increase the supply of these virtual restaurants internationally, using ultra-low-cost prefabricated "Roo Boxes," and by converting low-cost spaces into delivery hubs. According to one authoritative source, speaking off the record, a portable kitchen can be created for as little as $12,000. By comparison on costs, productivity, and scalability, these lean kitchen units are 10x more efficient, or more. A single operation can ship over 2,000 dishes per day; an exponential increase in throughput compared to a hybrid restaurant supplier. And this is just the start of it.
Huge savings on real estate and staffing can be passed on to consumers through this new micro-industrial kitchen model. Real estate costs alone can be reduced by 90% or more in London. Next generation automation technologies promise to extend their cost advantages even further—well beyond the reach of incumbents. Amazon have already done this with warehousing. Robots and drones will eventually deliver for both companies. With this trajectory, Amazon have chosen to join them now, before it is too late.
Virtual restaurants will help Deliveroo to achieve their 4 radical goals:
Hyper-personalized food—produced by Deliveroo
Lower price of food (by 50%)
Create a daily use case for consumers
Greater margin due to supply chain savings and automation
With capital in hand, they see the opportunity to service tens of millions of customers on a daily basis, and move the goalposts on an entire industry. This is the kind of macro thinking that attracts Venture Investors to back you through Series G funding, while your business is haemorrhaging cash. None of them want to miss out.
We can anticipate thousands of branded "cloud kitchens" to launch in major cities over the next 24 months, selling the same class of food as restaurants, at a lower cost. Sooner or later, Deliveroo will run their own kitchens, having already worked out how much cheaper it can be. More tech companies will pile in too; they have already started. Uber have been public about their high expectations in this space. We are witnessing a paradigm shift in the market; a Blue Ocean business model innovation going mainstream.
Many conventional restaurants remain blissfully unaware of what happens next. A price war is coming. Ruthless competitive practice and scorched-earth should be expected, as Big Money has arrived. The rules of the game have changed. There will be many casualties.
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The water pools as the tide falls away.
that the February sun will warm nothing.
of a spring far further way than the calendar pretends.
how our compass saves us, if only we have the courage to trust.
This was supposed to be a long poem, but the dang things have a mind of their own.
About sailing, if you like. About life. About God. About lessons in life. About our core values. A lot of geography for a shortish poem. I hope I did the muse justice. This morning, it's all I got.
PS – the picture was taken in Rye, New Hampshire.


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Zelandia Zachodnia (duń. Vestsjællands Amt) to jeden z duńskich okręgów istniejących w latach 1970–2006. Okręg ten został utworzony 1 kwietnia 1970 na mocy reformy podziału administracyjnego Danii, zaś zlikwidowany przy okazji kolejnej reformy z 2007. Jego obszar wszedł wówczas w granice nowego regionu administracyjnego Zelandia.

Stolicą okręgu było Sorø. Sorø nie było największym miastem okręgu, zostało jednak wybrane ze względu na swoje historyczne znaczenie.

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Follow the Arms: The Top 5 Hidden Stories Revealed by the SIPRI Report
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released its regular report highlighting the major trends in the international arms trade over the past five years.
The SIPRI report has already been much discussed by the media and various analysts since its debut last week, with many addressing the headline-grabbing trends published in the document.
While developments like India's rise as the world's largest arms consumer and China's surge in weapons shipments are certainly worthy of examination, it shouldn't be at the expense of other trends that are just as important, albeit slightly more hidden to the untrained eye. The following are the top five major stories surrounding the SIPRI report that the mainstream media is neglecting to discuss.
The Israeli-Indian Alliance
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India Envisages Arms Exports to 38 Countries - Defense Minister
Israel has increased its arms shipments by nearly 30% in the past five years, with sales to India constituting a whopping 46% of all exports. Driven by Indian demand, Israel is the number ten arms exporter in the world. India receives 7% of all its weapons from Israel, which makes Tel Aviv its third-largest arms partner. It's important to note that SIPRI acknowledges Israel as one of the world's leaders in drone exports, meaning that it's very likely that the country is proliferating this technology to the Indian market.
The deepening ties between Israel and India are significant because they demonstrate that the two states have a confluence of perceived interests that can be capitalized upon to deepen their partnership in all sectors. Netanyahu even remarked during a visit to India last September that "the sky is the limit" for bilateral relations, and judging by the burgeoning arms trade between the two over the past half-decade, this certainly seems to be the case.
The African Cold War That Never Ended
To its credit, the SIPRI report does address the fact that rivals Algeria and Morocco are building up their arms supply, but it doesn't provide any direct context into why this is the case. Both North African states have been intense rivals since independence and a brief border conflict in the 1960s, which has contributed to the stalemate in Western Sahara, a de-facto Algerian-Morocco proxy war that has stretched on for decades.
While the SIPRI document does make mention of the statistics behind both countries' arms buildup, it doesn't explicitly connect the dots and call it out for what it is – a hangover of the French-Russian proxy rivalry in the region.
Morocco's arms imports have experienced an elevenfold increase, giving it a 26% share in all of Africa's weapons purchases, the second-largest on the continent behind Algeria. France's number one arms customer is Morocco, which is responsible for 18% of Paris' weapons exports. Looking at Algeria, the country commands 30% of all African arms imports and 8% of Russia's weapons exports go there, making it Moscow's third most important client.
It's clear that the Cold War never ended in Northwest Africa, and the Algeria-Morocco arms race, as well as Russia and France's sponsorship of it, is clear evidence of this. The ultimate irony, however, is that both states have more to fear nowadays from asymmetrical threats like terrorism and Color Revolutions than from one another, yet their military buildup continues unabated.
Beijing on Delhi's Doorstep
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China Overtakes France in Arms Export After Paris Failed With Mistral Deal
China has become the world's third-largest arms exporter, and over 2/3 of its shipments go to three countries that border India; Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. This isn't incidental, as it provides evidence that China is tangibly working to hedge its security interests against India. Everybody already knows that India and Pakistan are fierce rivals and that Beijing has accordingly courted Islamabad as a counter to New Delhi, but what's new is the statistical proof that confirms this.
Pakistan is far ahead of the pack as China's number one arms customer, accounting for 41% of all exports, followed by Bangladesh (16%) and Myanmar (12%). Chinese sales to all three countries have exploded in the past five years, since Beijing's overall arms exports have jumped 143% during this period.
While Bangladesh is indebted to India for its independence from Pakistan (it used to be the former "East Pakistan" prior to that), it hasn't always been on good terms with its gargantuan neighbor. A dispute over illegal immigration and fears of Islamic terrorist infiltration dominate bilateral relations, and India has been weary of Bangladesh's strong turn towards China.
Myanmar is a bit different, since it's been a more traditional Chinese ally over the past few decades, but it's wracked with internal strife and ethnic secessionism.
The Chinese weapons are intended to quell the rebellions and restore stability to the country, after which it's likely that the military would then transition into a more conventional force that could potentially project influence in India's vulnerable and ethnically divided northeast provinces. When all of this is viewed from the Indian perspective, it makes New Delhi feel as though it's being surrounded by a ring of pro-Chinese militaries, whether or not this is objectively the case, which further heightens its threat assessment of Beijing in general.
The New 'Pact Of Steel'
One of the most startling trends hidden in plain sight within the SIPRI report is the formation of a new 'Pact of Steel', namely, a group of ideological allies that dominate the global weapons trade and circulate munitions amongst one another. Here's a list of the top exporters:
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The 10 largest exporters of major weapons and their main clients, 2010-14
Now take a look at the largest importers:
The 10 largest importers of major weapons and their main suppliers, 2010-14
If the list of exporters is broken down into a list of Western countries, then 7 out of 10 would fulfill this criterion, with the exceptions being Russia, China, and Ukraine. The same thing can be done for the list of importers, with another 7 out of 10 being either Western or Western-aligned countries, whereby India, China, and Pakistan would be the anomalies. While the Western exporters indiscriminately make money on all countries in the world, when it comes to importing, they're a lot more selective.
One can clearly see that the lion's share of their imports come from allied states such as the US, France, Germany, or Sweden. This network diplomacy demonstrates that the new 'Pact of Steel' conducts a lot of military-industrial trade within its own sphere, preferring to buy from one another than from actors outside their bloc. While the same can also be theoretically said of Russia and China, for example, neither of these two can count boast such 'impressive' statistics as the Western Bloc, which together account for 53% of all arms exports and 25% of imports.
The Ukrainian Vacuum
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US Arms Industry Generates Massive Weapons Sales Globally
The elephant in the room that nobody wants to address is the question of what happens to Ukraine's market share in the armaments industry now that its economy has collapsed. The data included in the report covers 2010-2014, with only the tail end registering Ukraine's dramatic all-around failure. Even with such chaos ongoing at the time of the study, Ukraine still managed to be ranked as the number nine arms exporter in the world, selling 22%, 10%, and 9% of its wares to China, Russia, and Thailand, respectively. Not only that, but it also accounts for 13% of all Chinese military imports, making it Beijing's third most valuable partner.
What is not stated in the study is that a considerable amount of Ukraine's armaments industry was composed of Russian-affiliated companies that are no longer active in the country, hence why Kiev has been forced to beg the NATO and Gulf countries for weapons. Since it's clearly turning into a net arms importer, it's likely that it won't be included anywhere near the top ten exporter list when the next study is completed in the coming five years.
That being said, while Russia is expected to increase its domestic production and replace Kiev in China, there's still an obvious demand for Ukrainian armament supplies in the score of other countries that received them, which the remaining top ten members will likely fight amongst themselves to fill.
SIPRI Analyst: France Getting Cold Feet on Mistral Deal Due to NATO Members Pressure
China Replaces UK as Fifth Global Arms Exporter - SIPRI
India World's Top Arms Importer – SIPRI
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Q: is there a way to scrape a JavaScript page without selenium in python is there a way to scrape JS-rendered web page with python beautifulsoup or lxml without selenium?
thanx

A: you can use requests_html module as alternative, it is pretty simple
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

resp = requests.get("https://stackexchange.com/sites")

html = resp.content
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

option_tags = soup.find_all("option")

in case you want to get deeper into it, just google the module


When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone in 2007 he wowed the crowd demoing scrolling. A simple gesture that felt magical back then. There is actually lots of physics and code behind scrolling and not so much magic. Today we take scrolling and swiping effects for granted. Like swiping left or right between screens to view more information.
"The PageComponent is based on the ScrollComponent, but designed for displaying paginated instead of continuous content. It supports content layers of different sizes, and can snap to layers based on location and scroll velocity".
Think of your iPhone home screen. You swipe left to jump to a new screen on the right. You swipe right to go back to the first screen.
There are 3 things to know about the PageComponent.
The PageComponent initiates the process in Framer JS. It defines the touch area for swipes .
The content area is the area where the content exists. Every screen belongs here. Only a part of the content area is visible at a given time. One screen every swipe.
The content is the layers within the content area. This can be anything. A simple Framer JS layer, images, videos, HTML you name it.
Here's how it looks when you put everything together.
There are two ways to create a PageComponent in Framer JS. Defining each layer separately or using a For loop. Let's start with the For loop.
First we create and define the page component properties. It covers the whole screen. The scrollVertical disables swipes up or down.
Adding a background layer to make things more interesting.
This is where the real magic happens. A For loop creates the content. 8 layers with the same properties. This content belongs and "lives" inside the Page component. This is defined by the superLayer variable. Each of the 8 layers gets a random color with opacity 0.2.
The i is a variable. You can name it whatever you want. The number of the layers counts 0 as the first layer. 1 is the second layer and so on. The width and height of each layer equals the iPhone's width and height. Which equals the width and height of the Page Component. This means that swipes work on full screen, not on a specific area.
Each layer x coordinate changes with the loop. First layer's x equals 0. Second layer's x equals 750 ( 750 * 1). Third layer's x equals 1500 ( 750 * 2 ) etc.
In a nutshell here's what happened.
You can see the Snapchat like prototype with color filters and for loop here.
Adding each layer manually provides more control and freedom. The downside is a bit more code and complexity. I will use the same Snapchat like app example. This time three filters will be created. 2 color filters and 1 color and time filter.
Again the first steps are the same. A Page Component is created and defined. A new background image is added to make things beautiful.
Now it's time to create the three layers and connect them with the Page Component.
The first layer is named Filter1. Its width and height is the iPhone's screen width and height. Background color and opacity are defined. Then the layer is assigned where to "live" using the superLayer variable. That is inside the Page Component.
The same goes for the second layer named Filter2. Same properties except for the backgroundColor.
The third layer is a little different. This is an image layer created in Sketch. It's a .PNG file with opacity 0.2. That's it.
Now it's time to tell Framer JS where to place the content and in which order. That is inside the Page Component and on the right of the first layer.
The Filter2 layer will be placed on the right of the Filter1 layer. The Filter3 layer will be placed on the right of the Filter2 layer.
Three layers were created. Two simple Framer JS layers and one image layer. Each layer belongs inside the Page Component and placed on the right of the first layer.
Notice that when adding a new layer that way you can only use right or bottom for the placement of the layers. No left.
You can see the Snapchat like prototype with 2 color filters and time filter here.


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May 11, 2018 | Posted in: artist news
Tony Russell exudes the well-balanced confidence of a seasoned music professional. Dreams of a career in music took hold around the age of twelve, now he's supporting Kendrick Lamar on bass and serving as Musical Director for The Championship Tour.
The son of Chicago Gospel singer Angela Spivey, Tony was immersed in music at a young age. "When I first started, all I wanted to be able to do was play at church," he recalls. "I wasn't thinking about money. It was just about love. All the money stuff, that stuff happens as time goes on. If I could just play on Sundays, I was good."
Every aspiring musician needs an opportunity. For Tony, that opportunity came from Donald Wood, the church's organ player.
"He took me under his wing. That was an act of kindness. He looked out for me and my brother on and off the instrument. If it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't be doing what I am doing today."
With opportunity comes sacrifice and Tony's story is no different. By 14, he was playing pro gigs.
"I played no music in high school. I was already gigging and working. I kind of missed a lot of the kid stuff."
The sacrifice seems to have paid off. Before working with Kendrick Lamar, Tony supported Jay-Z, Diddy, and Dave Hollister.
"This is what you work for. There is a lot of mind-blowing stuff, even at this level. Some things are still a shock. [It's] a blessing [that] we get to see the world and do what we love to do."
Now, Tony serves as the mentor for the younger generation of musicians on the tour. He continues to model the behavior that helped him reach this point in his career.
"Take it a day at a time. Day by day, show by show. The road is what you make it. [In] the beginning, you have this big expectation that it is a party every night. Until you actually get out here, and you realize you're at work every day."
Tony only recently began to include the U-Bass into his repertoire. While he had heard of the U•Bass, it wasn't until he saw Kala artist Tarron Crayton post a video on Instagram that he really took interest in playing one.
"I heard it on a record [before] and it was a big sound. But I had never seen it. Then I saw Tarron play it and I thought 'Man, this is that bass!' From there, he connected me with you guys."
Tony has a couple of the Ebony U•Basses for the tour, one for on-stage use and one for the bus rides between cities. He appreciates its short scale, making it easy to experiment with while on the road.
The Championship Tour is officially scheduled through June and ticket information can be found on the Championship Tour website.
May 11, 2018 by Nick Fletcher
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The Royals' rebuild won't be a lengthy endeavor if general manager Dayton Moore has his way. The veteran front office exec addressed the media today and covered a number of offseason-related topics (links via Sam McDowell of the Kansas City Star and Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com), making clear that the Royals don't plan to tank in an effort to improve their farm system.
That said, Moore also emphasized that restoring his minor league system to its once-elite levels is the team's top priority. Several years of picking at the back end of the first round and trades for some veteran players (e.g. Ben Zobrist, Johnny Cueto) have contributed to a depleted Kansas City farm system. The balance of striving for continually increased levels of competition while also seeking to bolster the farm won't be easy to strike, though, especially not with so many teams throughout the league aggressively gunning for one extreme end of the spectrum or the other.
The Royals are reportedly looking to cut payroll by as much as $30-35MM from their recent record levels of spending, leaving little in the way of budget room for free agents. Much of that payroll paring will be organic, it should be noted. The Royals already saved money by during the 2018 season by shipping out impending free agents like Kelvin Herrera, Mike Moustakas, Jon Jay, Lucas Duda and Drew Butera. In 2018, Kansas City was also on the hook for all of Travis Wood's salary despite having traded him to the Padres in 2017, plus part of their prior obligations to the also-traded Joakim Soria and Brandon Moss.
At present, Jason Martinez of Roster Resource and MLBTR projects the Royals at $90.325MM on the books for the 2018 season, including arbitration projections from MLBTR's Matt Swartz and also including pre-arb players. The Royals seem likely to non-tender Brandon Maurer ($3.1MM projection) and could conceivably cut loose any of Nate Karns ($1.375MM projection), Cheslor Cuthbert ($1.1MM projection), Brian Flynn ($1MM projection) or Jesse Hahn ($1.7MM projection). Jettisoning that whole group would result in an estimated $8.275MM worth of salary off the books, which could create some flexibility to add roster help while still remaining in their reported target range of $85-90MM.
If there's an area the Royals will add, be it via free agency or via trade, it seems likely to be the bullpen — an area in which Moore bluntly said his team "need[s] better options." Kansas City relievers posted a disastrous 5.04 ERA on the season as a whole, adding in the lowest K/9 mark of any big league bullpen (7.31), the sixth-highest BB/9 (4.15) and the sixth-highest HR/9 (1.28).
As for the lineup, Moore said he doesn't expect much turnover, as the team is "prepared to go forward" with in-house options for the most part. To some extent, that's understandable. Catcher Salvador Perez, upstart shortstop Adalberto Mondesi and second baseman Whit Merrifield are all quality options at their positions. Ryan O'Hearn obliterated right-handed pitching in his late-season promotion and could be paired with Hunter Dozier in a first-base platoon. Alex Gordon rebounded to some degree and is locked into left field with a $20MM salary. The Royals will want to get looks at Brett Phillips, Brian Goodwin and Jorge Bonifacio in the outfield, and Jorge Soler hit well when healthy in 2018.
On the whole, that doesn't paint an especially promising outlook, though Moore expressed confidence in the manner in which his team finished. Of course, much of the team's 20-14 record in its final 34 games looks attributable to multiple series against lackluster Twins and Tigers clubs, plus a series against the Orioles and another against the White Sox. It'll be up to a large group of unproven players to deliver on Moore's show of faith. If the Royals are to somehow achieve the goal of simultaneously improving on the field and in the farm system, they'll need numerous players to step forward in the same manner that Mondesi did in 2018, as Moore's comments don't indicate that there's much hope for outside help on the horizon.
I'm excited for the future, especially the starting pitching that came around!
Don't know them as well as I'd like. Who stands out to you?
I know this is late to the party, but Keller had a very good rookie season. Fillmeyer and Lopez are both young and each had several good starts but were inconsistent. Junis had a bit of a rough year but ended up with a 4.2 era after several strong starts down the stretch. If Duffy and/or Kennedy bounce back and the young guys keep progressing the rotation should be markedly better than 2018.
The fact that we need bullpen help next year is why I'm surprised we didn't get a look at Lovelady or Staumont in the final month of the season.
I can almost guarantee you that is why. It makes sense. Now their careers don't start until at least 2019.
Proper use of fan terms in "they" and "their vs the ridiculous "we". God it sounds so needy when people say..we,our,or us. Go ahead and whine saying how fans have the right to say we…no not part of the team.
Name a GM, Manger, or Player who has publicly stated their disdain for fans saying "we" and you may have a case. Teams repeatedly strive to make fans feel they are part of the game. Get over it.
I don't know any "GM, Manager, or Player" personally and more than likely neither do you. Fans buy tickets, merchandise, and watch games from home that doesn't mean they're part of the team. Perhaps a reality check is needed.
A reality check certainly is considering fans have been saying "we" for decades. It's also been decades since teams have used "We are the Champions" when winning a title encouraging fans to join in. Shortly after that the Pirates used "We are Family" encouraging fans to feel a part of it….that is reality.
Fans can feel a part of cheering for said team all they want, but to think they have anything to do with the inner workings of the organization, is ridiculous. Fans have no say, unless you're a stock holder in the Packers of course.
" but to think they have anything to do with the inner workings of the organization, is ridiculous." Please show where I said anything of the sort.
I said what is well known….teams rely on their fans and encourage them to feel part of the experience….part of the team. Never did I say they had anything to do with "the inner workings".
There are marketing companies that specialize in helping teams make the fans feel part of it and I have never seen any team employee shout at the crowd to stop singing "We are the Champions", have you?
BTW, neither you, or I, have the right to tell someone how the can and can not root or refer to their favorite team.
Then people should say, they need this or their best chances are…vs we need or our best chances when discussing a teams workings. This is the internet where rights don't matter.
@Slevin Sorry to have offended you so severely.
Why don't people refer to a team as their favorite, instead of in third person form? What can't we all just get along?
Slevin, he made a great point. HIS team needed bullpen arms, & it shocked him, didn't go after two promising bullpen arms, whom theoretically could be had, due to situations.
"God it sounds so needy…" "Go ahead and whine…" The irony is killing me.
Your rebuttal didn't add to the intelligent discourse Lol. And he APOLOGIZED to you; Watching this exchange gave me nothing but respect for you, Mr. mizzourah87.
Glass houses bro. Funny how you post about birthdays of someone the article isn't about, as just one example. I'll take his word being it was with him, and not you.
You don't have the slightest idea what your talking about!
So let me get this straight… a 104 loss season was when they're NOT tanking?
What part of discussing 2019 did you not comprehend?
Phillips had the best OF arm I saw in MLB this year. A sensational CF and RF. Extremely athletic – another base stealer to go along with Mondasi, Merrifield and others. Coaches have to square away his hitting.
Look forward to seeing Kelvin Gutierrez that they got from the Nationals @ 3B .
Royals are again being built on defense, speed and athleticism. The coaches are working on this group becoming smart, fundamentally strong players. The farm system is hardly dead. Players will be matriculating up to the ML roster over the next 3 years.
Saw the last Royals team that fooled the pundits. It's happening again. I loved watching Royals games for most of 2018's second half. The Tampa Bay Rays are the AL's coming team in 2019. The Royals will follow them a year or two later.
And just today DM said on the record that the Royals were seriously looking at Luke Heimlich as an asset. There's a step in the right direction, huh?
A good maneuver, for sure.
He's saying all the right things, but just not buying it.
Man, $20 million for Gordon. That hurts for a small-market team.
I don't understand why a team like the Royals or Tigers or Twins don't just go crazy with signings and trades this year to try to contend. That division is so vulnerable right now. Indians are the best team there by default. It's pretty obvious now. If they don't do anything then maybe the Sox start now and sign Machado and 2 starters and a top of the line closer. Maybe Kimbrel of Boston let's him go. I'm actually looking forward to seeing what the Sox do this offseason, are they ready yet or content waiting?
Yes why not? You never know in the playoffs, and it's not wasting resources it's called trying to contend. Do you think they want to lose every year? I didn't say empty the farm just try and compete.
The risk/reward calculation for committing a few hundred million dollars in payroll for what's likely an early playoff exit is just not that appealing.
It wouldn't take much to contend in the AL Central. I agree with you. Plus KC would have money off the books after 2019 with Gordon. I'd be looking to deal Kennedy also.
That division may be the most vulnerable for shock in 2019.
No doubt! There needs to be continued progress from Keller, Junis, Fillmyer, & it would be nice to start the clock on Oakes who needs a crack! That said, I would really be down with a young 3rd sacker that's more accomplished than Doz or Cuth who in my opinion, are just platoon options at best with a left handed hitting 3B getting the majority of at bats. Daniel Descalso would be an interesting candidate in FA (along with Gonzalez from Hou) but that said, I'd really like them to pursue a player like Anderson from Miami or Camargo from ATL to man third for the foreseeable future.