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DCP Abba Kyari Begs Court Not To Send Him To Prison
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DCP Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, has pleaded with a federal high court in Abuja not to imprison him.
Kyari and other members of the police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) were arraigned on Monday.
They were charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and dealing of cocaine worth 17.55 kilograms in the FHC/ABJ/57/2022 accusation.
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DCP Abba Kyari and four other suspects pleaded not guilty at their arraignment on Monday, but the sixth and seventh defendants pleaded guilty and urged the court to "have mercy."
Kyari's lawyer, Kanu Agabi, argued in court that his client should be allowed to remain in the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency's (NDLEA) custody pending the hearing and approval of his new bail application.
He further stated that the application had been submitted and served on all parties involved, as well as the fact that the charges against his clients (Kyari and Ubua) were bailable.
"We request that they be held in NDLEA custody until the bail hearing," he said. If they do that, they lose nothing."
Meanwhile, the NDLEA's lawyer did not object to the defendants' continued detention in the agency's custody.
However, because not all processes were before the court, the bail application was not heard.
In his remarks to the court, prosecution attorney Joseph Sunday insisted that revisiting the facts of the case would not prejudice DCP Abba Kyari and the other defendants.
"My lord, this type of application by the defense (counsel) undermines this court's capacity," he said.
"This case will be decided based on the evidence presented to the court." I don't understand how the first through fifth defendants will be biased because they will see evidence against them.
"The most reasonable course of action is to dismiss the charges against the sixth and seventh defendants.
"It will be unreasonable and unfair to hold the two defendants in detention until the outcome of the other defendants' trials."
Kyari, along with four other police officers, ACP Sunday J. Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Insp. Simon Agirigba, and Insp. John Nuhu, were brought before Justice Emeka Nwike.
Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne, two suspected drug traffickers apprehended at Enugu's Akanu Ibiam International Airport, were also arraigned alongside Kyari.
The defendants will remain in NDLEA custody until the bail application is heard next Monday, March 14th, according to the judge.
Source: Daily Trust.
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For the next few months I will be breaking down each of the 4 areas shown above and relating which GFAC services and events fit within them.
Keep an eye out for the November issue of Where's Art where the GFAC story will continue.


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Michael Werner Gift to Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris Now on View
Brian Boucher, in conversation with Michael Werner
"The Michael Werner Collection," on display through Mar. 3, 2013, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, comprises over 800 pieces by 37 artists that contextualize German art dealer Michael Werner's recent donation of 130 works, some of which are included in the show. The museum's director, Fabrice Hergott, who selected the Werner gift, describes the donation as the most significant to the museum—which was established in 1937 and opened to the public in 1961—since a 1951 bequest from Maurice Girardin.
Many of the gifted works are by artists who were featured in Werner's gallery, which has venues in New York and London and two in Germany. Werner, who opened his first gallery in Berlin in 1963, helped to bring postwar German artists such as Georg Baselitz and Sigmar Polke to international notice. His collection devotes particular attention to painter-sculptors such as Baselitz, André Derain, Jean Fautrier and Markus Lüpertz. Art in America spoke to Werner about the donation.
BRIAN BOUCHER It's unusual for dealers to make gifts like this to museums. How did this come about?
MICHAEL WERNER Fabrice Hergott was very clever at getting me to donate. No one had ever asked me. It stuck in my head. He wanted to enlarge the collection, because it's a young museum.
BOUCHER How large is your collection overall?
WERNER My personal collection? I have no idea. I've never counted.
BOUCHER Are there works that might surprise viewers?
WERNER There is a group of heads and masks by André Derain, an artist who sort of disappeared. His late work, for me, contains signals for the future. For decades Jannis Kounellis worked in steel and iron, but I think of myself principally as a collector of drawings. Some of my Kounellis watercolors and drawings seem at first to have nothing to do with his work, but they contain his soul and presence in a different way.
BOUCHER How did you come to collect? Dealers aren't always collectors.
WERNER I became a collector because I worked as a dealer for 15 years with almost no success. Since I had to take care of my artists, I bought a lot of work for almost no money.
BOUCHER Your gallery eventually became profitable. What made you successful?
WERNER I always tried to be an old-fashioned art dealer: you buy art if you like it. You don't work entirely on consignment, as galleries do now. If you have work on consignment you don't have to believe in it. I was probably more naïve.
BOUCHER You describe yourself as a "conservative anarchist." Is that spirit shared by the artists you collect?
WERNER In the beginning, the artists and I certainly shared interests. We hated our circumstances viciously. We wanted out of Germany, which was very provincial in the '50s and '60s. The dream was always to be at the center. For Germany it came out quite well over the past 50 years.
BOUCHER What has it been like to watch that?
WERNER For me, there's a certain satisfaction. My ideas partly became real. But then, it's nothing to admire. It was just my life.

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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – Scott Air Force Base is one step closer to its new joint operations and mission planning center following a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of construction Sept.30. Leaders from Scott's 375th Air Mobility Wing, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, the U.S.
Air Force announces art contest winners
The Air Force Services Center recently announced the winners of the annual Air Force Art Contest. The contest ran March 1-31. A team of judges evaluated each entrant's artwork for impact, creativity, and technical criteria in adult and youth categories.
Online emission inspection system saves money and air quality
More than 60 Air Force installations are reaping savings and the benefits of improved air quality, thanks to the continued use of an online vehicle air emission inspection and compliance system that is estimated to be saving the Air Force over $11.8 million annually. The Air Force Civil Engineer


It's no secret: Insurance risk is evolving. Here's what that means for third-party administrators (TPAs).
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ReFashion launches its platform for networking between players in textile recycling
The eco-organization of the French textile industry Refashion (formerly Eco-TLC) announces the deployment of the "Recycle" platform, which is intended to be an information and networking tool between all French players in textile recycling. The portal will go online on July 28 for a test phase, before an official launch at the end of September.
The portal will be launched in test phase at the end of July – ReFashion
The system would already identify some 160 textile recycling players, 65% of which are French structures and 35% European players. Structures among which are announced some 40% of suppliers of textiles and footwear and 60% of processors offering semi-finished or finished products for the textile, plastics, transport, construction or sport sectors.
Teams of thirty European experts, in particular Dutch, German, Italian, Belgian and Spanish, took part in the development of a precise search tool intended to find in a few clicks data whose precision goes up to the length of the data. recycled fibers. Each company and referenced structure is thus the subject of a dedicated page, constituting in the process a map of the textile recycling market.
"The recovery of waste from the Textile Sector on an industrial scale is only possible by expanding outlets to industries other than textiles", explains Alain Claudot, Managing Director of Refashion, an organization funded by marketers. themselves (brands, retailers, importers, etc.). "This inter-industry vocation is essential to achieve our ambition of a 100% circular sector".
At least 160 textile recycling players will be identified by the site in the first weeks – ReFashion
The platform will be free and a dedicated team will be in charge of supporting users. The technical system was developed with the company Inex Circular, a specialist in inter-company networking, which works in particular for Veolia, Engie and Total.
Of the 648,000 tonnes of TLC (textiles, linen and footwear) placed on the market in France each year, only 38.1% have so far been collected (+ 3.3% between 2018 and 2019). Some 65% are sorted in France via 63 approved centers. On the whole, 57.8% of the parts are reused, while 33.5% are transformed into rags, or frayed to be transformed into threads.
In March 2020, eleven professional trade and fashion federations and ReFashion presented a document deciphering the implications of the law of February 10, 2020 on the fight against waste and the circular economy. A reference document while the destruction of unsold items is prohibited.
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Rowdiness that escalates to violence is now a "no no" now at sporting events across Costa Rica, as the new law to curb violence and racism went into effect on Friday.
The "Ley para Prevención y Sanción de la Violencia en Eventos Deportivos" (Law on Prevention and Punishment of Violence at Sporting Events) was passed in the Legislative Assembly in June, but it did not come into effect until its publication in La Gaceta Friday (August 23, 2012).
The objective of the law is to establish strong regulations of those causing violence at sporting events.
Legislator Damaris Quintana, of the Movimiento Libertatio (ML), said on the approval of the law, "the aim is to enable families to return to mass events and without the fear of violence".
The new law also sanctions with a ban of up to a year spectators carrying weapons and/or drugs into sporting events, entering the playing field or the locker rooms without authorization and hurling objects from the stands.
Sanctioned will also be those who damage vehicles and/or private property within five kilometres of a stadium and anyone blocking the "normal flow" of traffic from three hours before and three hours after a sporting event.
The most severe of sanctions is a four-year ban from attending events, reserved for fans involved in fighting, inciting violence and committing acts of racism.
Enforcing the law is the responsibility of the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública through the system called Seguridad en Eventos Deportivos (SISED) that will collect information and coordinate and support the work of prevention and punishment.
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The ongoing fight against child sexual abuse
Picture taken from NSPCC websiteA report published this week by the NSPCC shows that the number of recorded sexual offences against children in England and Wales has risen by a third compared to last year.With more than two children a day in Sussex reporting that they are victims of sexual abuse, there is an even greater need to improve support services for those brave enough to come forward.
New Portslade community café improves feeling of safety for park users
The Easthill Park Community Café, which opened in March 2015 with supportive funding from the PCC, is proving to be a real hit with local residents according to project worker and local man, John Shepherd.Apart from offering Park users much needed refreshments and encouraging more people to enjoy the area, the non profit making café is providing on-the-job training and advice for young unemployed residents.
Students with disabilities speak to the Youth Commission about hate crime
Sussex Youth Commission (SYC) members Lakeisha Kayoka, 21, and Mageed Gharib, 22, were joined by Peter Allan, Hate Crime Sergeant for Sussex Police at Sussex Coast College Hastings, for an interactive workshop on hate crime.The event was part of the Police & Crime Commissioner's Youth Commission's Sussex-wide consultation called the 'Big Conversation'. Around 20 students and several members of staff got involved and were forthcoming about their own distressing experiences of hate crime.
PCC backs police work with volunteers and residents to try to block burglars in Sussex
Officers across the county are stepping up their activities to encourage crime prevention, track down wanted offenders and cut the number of break-ins in Sussex during the warmer months. Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne has welcomed the police campaign.She said: "We all have a part to play to help keep Sussex safe and I urge residents to follow police advice and keep their property secure so that they are not a target for burglars. I'd also like to recognise the ongoing work of volunteers and partners who continue to support the local neighbourhood police teams by working with residents to highlight the risks and provide guidance around how to keep our homes and personal property secure. Together we can beat burglary in Sussex."
Youth Commission speak to young people facing homelessness
The Police &Crime Commissioner's Youth Commission members were recently invited to the Chichester Foyer, a supported living service provider for 16-25 year olds at risk of homelessness, to talk about how to improve their relationships with the police.
Volunteers' Week 2015: Have you got what it takes to be an ICV?
Volunteers' Week (1-7 June 2015) is an annual celebration of the contribution millions of volunteers make across the UKResidents in Sussex are being encouraged to join a scheme that involves volunteers checking on the welfare of those detained in police custody to ensure their human rights are being upheld.
Youth Commission gets busy at local arts festival
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NASA has just compressed an (almost) complete cycle of solar activity into an hour-long video. Enough to have a global vision of our star. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched on February 11, 2010, positioned itself two months later in its geostationary orbit, more than 35,000 km from Earth. Since then, its instruments have been scanning and analyzing the Sun 24 hours a day. The mission, which has just celebrated its 10th anniversary, aims to teach us more about the magnetic field of our star.
As a reminder, the Sun evolves in cycles of 11.2 years, during which its activity varies between a maximum and a minimum. The three-ton-heavy satellite arrived at the start of Cycle 24, which ended in April 2020. During this period, researchers were able to collect more than 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data. Most of these photos were taken in the ultraviolet (wavelength of 17.1 nanometers), allowing us to reveal the solar corona, the outermost atmospheric envelope of our star.
A team of astronomers recently compiled all the images taken by the satellite between June 2, 2010 and June 1, 2020 to create a time lapse reflecting solar activity during this period. Each second of the video here represents a day in the life of the Sun. If you look, you may notice the brief transit of the planet Venus on June 6, 2012. The music, entitled "Solar Observer", was specially composed for this video. It is signed by musician Lars Leonhard.
You may have noticed an increase in the activity of the Sun as early as 2014 (maximum solar), betrayed by the presence of many spots on the surface and an increase in solar flares. These dramatic phenomena occur when magnetic fields accelerate particles to considerable energy levels. This period is also favorable for coronal mass ejections when particles are projected at very high speed into space from the solar corona. It is these ejections which, when they reach Earth, can cause disturbances in our communications systems.
Once this solar maximum has been wiped off, the magnetic poles of the Sun suddenly reverse. The solar magnetic activity then begins to decline. Therefore, from 2016, the surface of the Sun seems strangely calm to us. Note that the Observatory's mission is still underway, promising us in the coming years to better understand space weather. As a reminder, NASA also has another probe, Solar Parker, focused on the Sun.
A few weeks ago, the spacecraft came to "tickle" our star, positioning itself 18 million kilometers from its surface. It will soon join Venus to gain speed, before returning to our star. In 2025, it is expected that the probe will approach less than 6 million km from the surface of the Sun, spinning at a crazy speed of 430.000 miles/ h. Never seen.
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There's nothing like the lull of floating on a river to help you drift off to deep, uninterrupted sleep — or at least we can imagine. We're not an A-list celebrities, so we always figured that kind of a vacation was something we'd be stuck experiencing through the Travel Channel. But these are making our (very well-rested) dreams come true.
They're part of 's boutique vacation property portfolio, go for approximately $209 per night, and float on the famous River Kwai in the historic Kanchanaburi countryside (read: the views are really, really pretty — even though the area's wasn't). Plus, cabins are eco-friendly. The lightweight building materials make them slim, but strong. And we're totally digging the industrial chic decor, especially the floor-to-ceiling windows that let the river views take center stage.
Inside you'll find the bedroom with a door to the balcony directly attached — so you can keep 'em open if you want fresh air or closed for a view without the bugs. The bathroom is exceptionally dreamy, featuring a luxury wash basin (basically a fancy way of saying a supremely rela tub) and a separate shower (just in case you're not a bath person).
But if we were staying in one of these abodes, we'd spend the majority of our time on the Moon Deck, which is above the living area and allows guests to get some sun with a breeze during the day or take in the sunset and stars at night. The bottom line: You should consider these cabins just another reason you need to add Thailand to your travel bucket list.


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PERSIAN GULF in the Lenox Globe (1500-1510) , from 17th Vol . of "Encyclopedia Britannica" , New York , 1911.
From"The Edinburg World Atlas" , John Bartholomew & Son Ltd . , Edinburgh, 1962.
PERSIAN GULF in the World Map of Oronce Fine "Nova et Integra Universi Orbis Descriptio" , Latin text, 1531 A.D. , from "Geographical Magazine " , London , 1944 Original : British Museum .
PERSIAN GULF in the Oriental Hemisphere of the World made by Cl .Girau Don.
PERSIAN GULF in "The World That Elizabeth Knew" , 1603 A.D. ,from :"National Geographic Magazine" , No . 5 , Vol .134 , Dec .1967 , Washington D.C.
PERSIAN GULF in the World map of Gerard and Leonard Valk in "Atlas de la Navigation et du Commerce" , printed in Amsterdam . From "Artigionato"Italian Magazine , March 1966 ,Firene , Italy.


The inspiration for today's tablescape is the French Countryside. I love all the beautiful colors that are associated with French Country- blues, yellows, greens,and reds. These colors seem perfect for a Summertime Dinner. Although we love to eat outdoors during the Summer, today's Dinner will be inside due to the high winds we have been having.
I chose a French Country tablecloth for the underpinning of my table. The tablecloth is from France and showcases all the beautiful colors of the French Countryside.
Yellow straw placemats anchor the placesetting. The plates I chose are from the Temp-tations line. The pattern is called "Old World." For the glassware, I chose Mikasa Golden Tiara crystal. The flatware is Michelangelo by Oneida. The napkins are from France and are blue and white in a traditional French Country Pattern. I purchased the bright red floral napkin rings at Hobby Lobby. They tie back to the red color of the centerpiece.
I chose a simple centerpiece of red geraniums flanked by antique brass candlesticks with cream colored candles. The antique brass candlesticks actually belonged to the late Mr. Charles Faudree. If you read my previous blog from Monday, my thoughtful husband surprised me with a French Pastry Table and a lamp that was in the home of Charles Faudree, He took me back to the estate sale on Saturday, and I found these lovely candlesticks. I can't believe that no one had bought them.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend. I am going to be working on several projects that I will soon be sharing with you.
Pam, thank you for the very sweet comments. I admired Mr. Faudree's work from afar, and you are so fortunate to have been able to meet him. Every time I walk by my pastry table, I am still in disbelief. I can't believe it. I'm so glad that I was able to share my story with you.
Gorgeous colors on the French tablescape. I love the pop of red that sets off the beautiful yellow and blue!
Thank you so much Jacqueline for the very kind comments. I'm so glad that you stopped by, and I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!!!
You've captured the French country feel beautifully Shannon, I love those napkins!
Jenna, thank you so much for the sweet comments. I'm so glad that you stopped by, and I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!!!
Love your French tablecloth and napkins and how special to have candlesticks from Charles Faudree. Lovely table.
Thank you so much Bonnie! I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!
Another beautiful table! The colors are so beautiful and French! It is a happy table. My heart breaks for the people of France right now….and all of us really.
Thank you so much PInky! My heart breaks too for the people of France and all of us. May God bless us all.
Thank you so much Rebecca! I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!
Beautiful tablescape Shannon. I am so happy you scored those C.F. candlesticks, they're amazing!
Thank you so much Christine! I'm so thankful for the items that I was able to get from the estate sale. I am still in disbelief every time I look at the French Pastry Table and Lamp. I adored Charles Faudree's work from afar. He was truly a talented designer. Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!!!
Beautiful tablescape Shannon!….oh blue and yellow…one of my very favorite color combinations!
Thank you so much Shirley! I'm such a color person. I love color! I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!


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Q: SQL Join after datetime but before next rows start datetime Given two tables Event and Activity, I want to join all of the activities that happened at or after an Event started but before the next Event started. The difficult part is that Events do not have end datetimes only starting.
CREATE TABLE Event (
  id INT PRIMARY KEY
  ,start_datetime DATETIME
);

CREATE TABLE Activity (
  id INT PRIMARY KEY
  ,log_datetime DATETIME
);

INSERT INTO Event (id,start_datetime)
VALUES (1,'2020-01-01')
      ,(2,'2020-01-01 04:55:15')
      ,(3,'2021-05-01 16:23:45');

INSERT INTO Activity (id,log_datetime)
VALUES (1,'2020-01-01 00:00:00')
      ,(2,'2020-01-01 01:20:15')
      ,(3,'2020-01-01 16:23:45')
      ,(4,'2020-02-01 00:00:00')
      ,(5,'2021-05-10 13:00:00')
      ,(6,'2022-02-01 18:30:00');

SELECT
  Event.id AS EventID
  ,Event.start_datetime
  ,Activity.id AS ActivityID
  ,Activity.log_datetime
FROM
  Event
  LEFT JOIN Activity
    ON Activity.log_datetime >= Event.start_datetime
ORDER BY
  Event.start_datetime
  ,Activity.log_datetime;

EventID
start_datetime
ActivityID
log_datetime

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
2
2020-01-01 01:20:15.000

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
3
2020-01-01 16:23:45.000

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
4
2020-02-01 00:00:00.000

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
5
2021-05-10 13:00:00.000

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
6
2022-02-01 18:30:00.000

2
2020-01-01 04:55:15.000
3
2020-01-01 16:23:45.000

2
2020-01-01 04:55:15.000
4
2020-02-01 00:00:00.000

2
2020-01-01 04:55:15.000
5
2021-05-10 13:00:00.000

2
2020-01-01 04:55:15.000
6
2022-02-01 18:30:00.000

3
2021-05-01 16:23:45.000
5
2021-05-10 13:00:00.000

3
2021-05-01 16:23:45.000
6
2022-02-01 18:30:00.000

The results I am trying to get would be:

EventID
start_datetime
ActivityID
log_datetime

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
2
2020-01-01 01:20:15.000

2
2020-01-01 04:55:15.000
3
2020-01-01 16:23:45.000

2
2020-01-01 04:55:15.000
4
2020-02-01 00:00:00.000

3
2021-05-01 16:23:45.000
5
2021-05-10 13:00:00.000

3
2021-05-01 16:23:45.000
6
2022-02-01 18:30:00.000

I know I could do this with an additional condition on my join, if Events had an end time.
What I am needing to do I think is first get a query to generate Events with the end_datetime equal to the following Event start_datetime:

EventID
start_datetime
end_datetime

1
2020-01-01 00:00:00.000
2020-01-01 04:55:15.000

2
2020-01-01 04:55:15.000
2021-05-01 16:23:45.000

3
2021-05-01 16:23:45.000
NULL

Which I am able to achieve with:
SELECT
  e.id
  ,e.start_datetime
  ,MIN(e2.start_datetime) AS end_datetime
FROM
  Event e
  LEFT JOIN Event e2
    ON e2.start_datetime>e.start_datetime
GROUP BY e.id, e.start_datetime

So the solution I have is to take the above and form it into a subquery and then join to it the Activity table using the start and now end datetimes:
SELECT
  Events.id AS EventID
  ,Events.start_datetime
  ,Events.end_datetime
  ,Activity.id AS ActivityID
  ,Activity.log_datetime
FROM
  (
    SELECT
      e.id
      ,e.start_datetime
      ,MIN(e2.start_datetime) AS end_datetime
    FROM
      Event e
      LEFT JOIN Event e2
        ON e2.start_datetime>e.start_datetime
    GROUP BY e.id, e.start_datetime
  ) Events
  LEFT JOIN Activity
    ON Activity.log_datetime >= Events.start_datetime
       AND (
         Activity.log_datetime < Events.end_datetime
         OR Events.end_datetime IS NULL
       )
ORDER BY
  Events.start_datetime
  ,Activity.log_datetime

Is there a better way to do this? I got the result wanted, but it doesn't feel very efficient with the subquery.
I know I can and should add indexes on the start_datetime and log_datetime columns to increase optimization. But is there any restructure of the query that would also help optimize?
Fiddle Link:
https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=sqlserver_2016&fiddle=b5639752cc9cba32faee10bf3810d950
EDIT: The IDs of the Events are not always in the same order as the start_datetime. An Event will always last until the next event is started. If there is no next event, then the current event is still in progress. The reason that the IDs are not consistent with the start_datetime order is because this data is ingested and given auto incremented ids and sometimes the ingestion of Events may come out of sequential datetime order.

A: You can simplify the query a bit. Start with this subquery to retrieve your Event table including an end_datetime. Using the LEAD windowing function.
      SELECT id, start_datetime,
             LEAD (start_datetime, 1) OVER (ORDER BY start_datetime ASC)
        FROM Event

Will this make the query faster? Probably: LEAD() is generally more efficient than MIN() ... LEFT JOIN ... GROUP BY because it has to wrangle less data.
Then use it with your (correct) logic to join the Activity table. Using a Common Table Expression, the query now looks like this.
WITH StartEnd AS (
  SELECT
    id, start_datetime,
    LEAD (start_datetime, 1) OVER (ORDER BY start_datetime ASC) end_datetime
  FROM Event a
)
SELECT StartEnd.id EventId, StartEnd.start_datetime, StartEnd.end_datetime,
       Activity.id ActivityId, Activity.log_datetime
  FROM StartEnd
  LEFT JOIN Activity
           ON Activity.log_datetime >= StartEnd.start_datetime
          AND (    Activity.log_datetime < StartEnd.end_datetime
                OR StartEnd.end_datetime IS NULL)
ORDER BY StartEnd.start_datetime, Activity.log_datetime;

Fiddle
I suspect an index on Event (start_datetime) will help. And so will an index on Activity(log_datetime). You can omit id from those indexes because id is the PK on both tables and is implicitly part of any other index.
But to be sure, when you run this query with your real data in SSMS, right-click in the query window, choose Show Actual Execution Plan, then run the query and examine the plan. Those Actual plans sometimes suggest appropriate indexes.
Common Table Expressions definitely make queries easier to read. And the way the query planner works, they don't harm performance compared to using subqueries.

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19 February 2014 by Aisling
My cousin Mike is a year younger than me. He has a 1st class degree in History, a Masters in Journalism and a PHD in something to do with Al Jazeera…(I'm not being flippant, I literally can't remember it's title despite him telling me seventeen times. It's long.)
Me, suddenly covered in Stella-vom: Gah, Mike, chuck me that muzzy would you? (Muzzy – muslin. It's cutesy and annoying but it's stuck and so that's what we call them.)
Mike: *blank face*
Me: (Shrieking a bit) MIKE! The muzzy!
Mike: *blank face, looks a bit panicked*
Me: MUZZY! MUSLIN CLOTH! THE CLOTH ON THE ARM OF THE SOFA WITH BLUE SPOTS ON!
Mike: Ohhhhhhhh. You mean the noo-noo?!
Me: *blank face*
And then we cracked up laughing and couldn't stop for 20 minutes. Turns out, Mike's paternal grandmother calls muslin cloths 'noo-noos' and despite not having seen, heard of or used a noo-noo for 25 years, in that instant his brain just remembered. I am under strict instructions to tell absolutely no one that the word 'noo-noo' passed his lips, so here I am. Also, I really like typing 'noo-noo'. Strangely addictive.
My point though, I think, is that it's amazing what our brains store, isn't it? After the muzzy (can't legitimiately say 'noo-noo' anymore. Oh wait.) episode I got to thinking that I'd love a proper old AOW chinwag about the funny memories that pop up from nowhere now and then. And then as if the universe had decided that yes, we absolutely should be having this random chat on a Wednesday morning, something incredibly sad and so very beautiful happened.
Two weeks ago I was in a minor car accident. Humans – fine. Car – less so. Off it went to Car Hospital to get some stitches and a plaster. Today (Tuesday) it was declared all better and I sat at home at 4pm, patiently waiting for it to arrive home. It did, at 4.15pm. I was getting a little antsy, I'd been at work since 6.30am and Stella was with my mum and the hire car people were coming to collect it and and and WHERE IS MY CAR? The truck pulled up and out I went, ready to be polite and a little aloof, they were 15 minutes late after all. The driver opened the door, said 'I'm so sorry I'm late' and promptly burst into tears. A 50-something man in overalls with decades of engine oil engrained into his proud, calloused hands began to cry in my driveway.
'My best friend's son just phoned me to tell me his dad is dead.'
Oh, my heart.
Suddenly I wasn't tired. My car didn't matter, Stella was safe with my mum and everyone would survive if I was a bit later than planned. I invited John – Big John to his grandchildren, his 2 year old grandson is called John too, 'Little John' – in to have a sit down and a cup of tea whilst he gathered his thoughts. Big John stayed for an hour, though honestly it felt like minutes. He told me all about his best friend and their life together, a friendship spanning four decades and more adventures than I could keep track of. What kept breaking my heart, over and over, was the surprise in John's voice when he recalled Steve's favourite episode of Only Fools and Horses, or how he stuttered over the name of the resort in Spain where they'd taken their first holiday together and was then as proud as punch when he remembered. It was the seemingly insignificant memories that bought the colour back to his cheeks as he spoke, it was the tiny moments they shared that calmed his nerves and steadied his hands. I was thoroughly humbled and honoured to share those moments and memories and when Big John left, after giving me a big hug, I was so very sad for Steve's loved ones and yet so incredibly uplifted – I feel like I know this clearly wonderful man, just a little, simply through the handful of stories that were shared in my sitting room.
So apparently this week, Matthew, I am going to be nostalgic. Join me, won't you? What are your buried treasure memories? Dig deep, think back. I've been googling like a mad woman this afternoon after remembering a special collection of dolls my grandma used to let me play with whilst my brothers were napping, just the two of us with no smelly boys to get in the way. What looked like a normal-ish flamenco doll, when you turned her upside down and pulled her skirt up over her head – stay with me – became a completely different doll altogether. Like magic! Does ANYONE know what I'm talking about, or what they're called?! Answers in a comment box…
Oh god, actual tears, that poor man. I'm sure hr will remember your kindness for a long time to come
Back latrr when I'm a bit more conposed
That man will remember your kindness always. Songs keep bringing memories back recently- have the radio on loads as it helps Phoebe sleep in the day and every now and then a song comes on, brings back a rush of memories and I end up wiping away a few tears. Today's was stranger on the shore! Random!
I will be back later to comment properly but just wanted to say I HAD ONE OF THOSE DOLLS!
Ok. Slightly more composed now.
A lot of my treasured memories involve my Nana. I loved the story of the Princess and the Pea as a child, and my Nana used to layer up duvets and blankets, pop a 'pea' in there then play along when I woke up all sore, proving I was indeed a real princess.
She had a gold Mini Picadilly and we loved going on trips in it, sat on newspapers to stop car sickness. And going for walks across the fields with kittens in our pockets, mummy cat following closely behind l, stopping for the odd belly rub. So many happy, happy times.
Oh, and does anyone else remember wee willie winkies?!
Aisling you are literally the nicest person ever. How sweet are you?!
My best childhood memory is my mum taking me to see the Mr Men show when I was about 3-4; it was the first time we'd been to an actual theatre, I was TRANSFIXED. Loved the characters and even now can still remember some of the songs. However what my parents remember best is that a boy in the row behind us was making a noise and I turned round and said 'Shush!' very loudly…. (Some things never die. I still go to the theatre frequently and I still hate people being noisy there…)
Aisling you are a wonderful person. Also, we call them muzzies too. Got it from six year old niece who later claimed she'd never used the word before. Weird.
Rach M
Oh how sad. You are so good and kind Aisling. Big John will never forget your kindness. How lucky that it was you he was coming to, he'll never forget you.
Re: nostalgia, I could go for hours on this but one strange thing that sticks in my mind was my Grandparents had a 'backstratcher' – a plastic hand on the end of a wooden stick to, well…scratch your back. It was creepy but us kids loved it and chased each other around the house with it. My brother bought me one the other Xmas just as a joke as it was such a 'thing' for us. Xx
I always wanted a Mr Frostie but was never allowed one because of the artificial flavourings (although strangely enough a soda stream was fine). We were having a conversation about soda streams last week and young juniors had never even heard of soda streams..not even the retro kind. LOSERS. The ones back in the day had a lever that you used to pull at a side.
My other favourite thing was licking and sticking in the co-op stamps in those books to get £1 or whatnot off. That used to take me HOURS. My Nana used to save them for me to do because I was such a good licker and sticker. I should probably add licker and sticker to my CV.
I've got nostalgia that feels more like vertigo right now as a constant companion. I keep finding myself living in sudden and unexpected memories of the past, not all pleasant, but some utterly wonderful.
A weird thing I have is that there seems to be a big line in the sand between different versions of me. Like they weren't really me or happened to someone else? They seem to be alien to me now anyway, like I'm seeing them on a film but at the same time I'm in the film living it?
One that keeps coming back is sunny days playing in the woods around the school field. Totally vivid running through the trees, running into a tree, playing grass, cutting my hands on the grass, chasing boys, finding weird green glass from the cemetary next door and the bluebells and how stunning the blue bells were. Totally like I am back there and making believe they are somewhere else but so glad they were what they were at the same time in a way I could not (at 6/7 years old) explain. Sorry, this is a ramble. I have no idea why I'm living in memories right now but this post struck a chord with me. I think I need to stop living in my memories and make some more. I'm only 30 (nearly 31) and hopefully have a lot more life to live.
But yes – I get how you get drawn into a memory like Marcel Proust and his madeleine dipped in tea and right now I'm doing it all the bloody time. xx
This keeps happening to me to- like a waking dream. Sometimes the memories are so strong I can touch/taste/smell them. Really odd things I thought I'd forgotten. Brains are crazy. I think it's connected to sleep deprivation!
A you are just the most compassionate person I know. Guardian angel.
*too (ugh)
Oh Aisling! You are truly so kind. Big John will always remember you. Brought tears to my eyes. Nostalgia… I remember my dad used to take my brother & I to a big park in the next town every Saturday & we would always buy a bag of nuts for the squirrels & a cake from the bakers to have as we walked round. He used to buy us the "Farthingwood Friends" magazines as well – anyone remember them?! Becca we had a soda stream but no Mr Frosty too. I remember wee willie winkies too Vivienne! A random food from my childhood is crispy pancakes?!
I loved getting my Farthing Wood sticker magazine! My Dad picked us up from school on Fridays and we'd walk home together, sometimes he'd bring my bike, and we'd stop by the corner shop – I'd get Farthing Wood and my brother would get Beano and we'd both get a Kinder Egg and make the toy when we got home. It was always sunny. (I guess we got the car and didn't stop at the shop when it rained or maybe it only happened a handful of times?)
Poor Big John – I'm so glad you were there to comfort him.
I am possibly the worlds most nostalgic person (I get nostalgic while I am still doing things – doofus) but many of my beloved childhood memories are of my beloved Nana and Grandad. My Grandad I remember smashing up humbugs with a hammer so I could eat them and always cheering on the baddie in films (Jaws was watched to shouts of 'Come on Sharky'). My favourite memory of my Nana is her parting advice when I went traveling 'Don't let any men buy you drinks as that is how you lose your wits and end up signing something'. I wish I knew the story behind her learning that lesson!
Bah, A, you are just the LOVELIEST.
Nostalgia is funny. The weirdest example for me is me and my brother both have the exact same memory associated with the Queen song 'Invisible Man', and the strange thing is that it's a really silly random memory of sitting in a car park in Cornwall waiting for my Dad to bring back fish and chips. We must have done that a hundred times, and we must have heard that song a hundred times, so it's really odd that this one occasion stuck in both our memories so fixedly.
Now I'm pregnant I find myself remembering more and more little details about my childhood, like the songs we used to sing when we were out walking, like the silly made-up games my Dad came up with, one of which was like Grandma's Footsteps except with a million cushions and a lot of jumping on my Dad and running away. It was called Is the pudding ready yet?
In terms of weird names for things, in my house dummies were also dooies (because … my sister was weird).
As someone who has been the 'Big John' in a similar situation, I can promise you, that man will never forget your kindness. The world sometimes joins us in fleeting moments and in the time that follows, the memories of a strangers kindness can bring much comfort.
Only this weekend I was pulling a tomato off the vine and the smell took me straight back to my Grandpa's greenhouse. I wanted to ring my Dad to tell him but for some reason I didn't.
Thanks for this beautiful, evocative post Aisling. Helped me to think and reflect today. As others have said: big john will remember you.


It's three and a half weeks since my powerchair broke down.
And I've done relatively well since then. I'm proud of how well I've done in fact. I've done more wheeling in my manual chair than I probably have in years. Admittedly I was in a lot of pain for two days after with a very sore neck and achy shoulders but doing so felt good. And the tears have only fallen once (although they came close to coming again this morning.). A big part of that is probably my antidepressant – but that's why I take it and a big proof that it's working.
I've had enough of not getting out for days.
I've had enough of going to the supermarket or wherever when someone can go with me not when I want to.
I've had enough of having to tell my friend my PIN so she can go to the cashpoint for me.
I've had enough of someone going to the bank, post office or library for me.
I've just, basically, had enough.
I want my powerchair back.
But most of all I want my independence and my life back.
I am feeling a lot better about all of this than I was earlier today. But sitting here writing this it occurs to me that I am lucky. If the planned cuts to services and benefits here in the UK go ahead there'll be a lot more people in the position I've been in for the last few weeks. The difference is, however, when I get my powerchair back a lot of that should be allievated for me – and it shouldn't be more than another week (I hope!). For many of those people, that possibility wouldn't exist. It might never exist again.


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Air New Zealand plans trans-Tasman Boeing 787-9 flights
By David Flynn, January 6 2014
Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane will see a brand new Boeing 787-9 appearing on flights from Auckland later this year as Air New Zealand beds down its first Dreamliner.
The Kiwi carrier will take delivery of the first of ten 787-9s in July, with that plane to begin flying a daily Auckland-Perth route from October 15th.
However, Air New Zealand has confirmed that the Dreamliner will be temporarily rostered onto trans-Tasman flights to Australia's three east coast cities before the Perth service commences.
The 787-9 flights to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane will start "sometime in July or August, definitely in September" says Captain David Morgan, Air New Zealand's chief flight operations officer.
"We will put the aircraft into service across the Tasman for crew training and also to ensure that the aeroplane is integrated seamlessly into our network" Morgan tells Australian Business Traveller.
"We're certainly not going to have it sitting around on the ground after the delivery in July!"
The Dreamliner will certainly stand out at Aussie airports, as it will be painted in Air New Zealand's iconic 'all black' livery.
However, unlike Jetstar's Melbourne-Gold Coast and Melbourne-Cairns runs for its first Dreamliner, Morgan says Air New Zealand's trans-Tasman 787-9 services won't be firmly scheduled.
Passengers won't be able to book a particular flight across the pond with certainty that it will be the Boeing 787, "it will just depend on the day" Morgan says.
That 'surprise and delight' aspect will prove a treat for lucky trans-Tasman travellers.
We're hoping that top-tier members of Air New Zealand's Airpoints frequent flyer scheme, and the Velocity program of its partner Virgin Australia, will benefit from upgrades to the lie-flat business class beds or even the new premium economy seats.
Flights from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to Auckland are only around three hours long, but that's no reason not to enjoy every bit of extra comfort you can soak up.
See: Photos, video: Air New Zealand's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner seats
Australian Business Traveller visited Auckland as a guest of Boeing.
Air New Zealand Boeing 787 Dreamliner Trans-Tasman
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Just depends on the day? Pretty casual response for those who are wanting to sample the aircraft out of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
Monday, 06 Jan 2014, 09:29:01 am
Broderick: I think you will find AirNZ is doing this less for trans-Tas travellers who want to 'sample' the aircraft than for their own benefit (in terms of getting 'up to speed' with the 787). I'd love to see a locked-down schedule like Jetstar did, with certain flights decreed as Boeing 787 flights, but this can come with the risk that people book THAT particular flight and the 787 is a no-show... I'm sure AirNZ figure it's better not to promise and then have the 787 turn up, than let people down.
That said, I would not be surprised if many very savy frequent flyers nut out the likely 787 flights closer to the start of these 'trials' or once they begin.
Hi David, wasnt having a go at the reporting. Just thought it was a casual response from AirNZ as I would love to book a day flight from SYD to AKL but dont want to risk a no-show. Thanks for the clarification however.
Monday, 06 Jan 2014, 03:02:01 pm
Hey Broderick: no worries mate, I didn't read your comment as anything to do the reporting, I was just looking at from the issue from AirNZ's side... and there's a whole interesting issue over how airlines should manage 'special' flights like 787 runs. I recall UA's first domestic 787 services were packed with aviation enthusiasts and others who'd booked that flight just for the 787, of course when something else trundled up to the gate they were NOT happy... but UA had not shared any info in advance that the plane was swapped.
We have an article which talks about this whole 'plane swap' issue at https://www.executivetraveller.com/when-an-airline-swaps-planes-before-your-flight-where-do-you-stand
Ironic you mention the UA issue. I was scheduled to fly out of Denver last year on a 787, however a 777 showed up. So dissapointing.
Hi Guest, join in the discussion on Air New Zealand plans trans-Tasman Boeing 787-9 flights
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Built in 1996, Equilibrium can accommodate up to eight guests and runs with a crew of four when on charter. She's had several upgrades including a refit in 2011.
Featuring a spacious swim platform and twin 2285 MTU engines, she's now down in price from €2.1 million to €850,000.


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CPRE Warwickshire: Saving lives in Shipston on Stour
Trudie Lobban in Shipston on Stour
Nicholas Butler reports on a rural campaign to bring aid to heart attack victims in our villages and small towns.
The machine outside the Fox and Goose in Armscote
Automated External Defibrillator is a complicated collection of tongue-twisting polysyllables which could save your life.
Every day 250 people in the United Kingdom die from sudden cardiac arrest. This is a condition in which the heart stops beating suddenly and unexpectedly due to a malfunction its electrical system. This malfunction is a life-threatening abnormal rhythm, an arrhythmia. Sudden cardiac arrest is caused by an abnormal heart rhythm, usually a ventricular fibrillation. There is rarely a warning and the patient always loses consciousness. Sudden cardiac arrest kills more people than lung cancer, breast cancer and AIDS combined.
What would you do if someone collapsed in front of you? You would ring 999, would you not? And while the ambulance was on its way the emergency services operator would talk you through cardiopulmonary resuscitation and there would be a slim chance, about one in twenty, that the victim would recover.
However, if you could lay your hands on an Automated External Defibrillator the chances would improve. CPR plus early defibrillation can increase the survival rate from five to 50 per cent. So where are they? Some hospitals and medical centres have them, but increasingly they are housed in bright green metal cabinets situated in public places. So, if you knew where to find an AED what would happen? The Emergency Services Operator would give you a code to unlock the cabinet and tell you how to use the AED, which is no harder than using a telephone.
Did you know that there is an AED outside the George Hotel at Shipston-on-Stour? Nor did I until I was told about it. The eye passes incuriously over unfamiliar items of street furniture. And on the other side of the square, as it happens, above the toy shop, are the offices of Arrhythmia Alliance, the Heart Rhythm Charity that promotes the installation and use of AEDs throughout the United Kingdom.
Arrhythmia Alliance was founded in May 2004 by Trudie Lobban. She launched Restart the Heart, which facilitates and supports groups across the country that want to put AEDs in their localities.
The first AED in Warwickshire was installed outside Prontaprint in Stratford-upon-Avon; the second in Newbold-on-Stour, where Mrs. Lobban lives. Just recently there has been a drive put AEDs all over the Shipston area, and beside four in Shipston, at the George, the Shipston Medical Centre, the Ellen Badger Hospital and the Sports Centre, you can see them at Armscote, Blackwell, Tredington, Brailes and Alderminster..
Have you noticed the green cabinets? Perhaps not. Did you know that you yourself could, simply and easily, save a life? Well, you know now, but it is of vital importance that we all know, that everyone is shown how to use this equipment and knows where to find it.
To contact the Campaign to Protect Rural England, phone 01926 494597 or visit www.cprewarwickshire.org.uk


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The listing of alumni from Duncan, AZ includes graduates from 1 school. To filter results, select a Duncan, AZ high school using the links to the right. The Duncan alumni list on this page come from a variety of sources. Clicking one of your friends will give you locations that you can get back in touch with the fellow graduate. To view alumni that graduated in Duncan around your class year, enter your graduation year in the search box at the top of the page. You may also be able to find friends close to your home town. We also have listings for graduates from Clifton, AZ, Morenci, AZ, or San Simon, AZ.
Approximately 100 of residents in Duncan (9%) are the normal age for attending high school (15-19). Also, around 0 Duncan residents (2%) are the average age for high school seniors (18-19). Population stats are from the United States Census Bureau.


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Why 'Too Big to Jail' Is Still a Matter of Debate
by John Heltman
WASHINGTON — The failure to prosecute bankers as a result of the financial crisis has sparked an ongoing debate about whether enforcement officials lacked the will to move forward with any cases—or didn't have enough proof that any crimes had been committed. Far from fading into the background, the issue remains in the forefront as policymakers debate how to address "too big to jail." A lack of will could be addressed by more forceful leadership, but a lack of proof might call for changes to the way financial crimes are prosecuted. On the one side are Wall Street critics who argue that if the Justice Department acted more vigorously and dedicated more resources to investigating the banks and uncovering violations, the agency could have brought charges and won convictions. Karen Shaw Petrou, managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics, said that there were attempts early on to go after bad actors related to the financial crisis. In 2008, DOJ tried former Bear Stearns executives Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin on charges of fraud and insider trading, but a federal jury found both men not guilty in November 2009, largely because the email evidence that the prosecution relied on was too flimsy to demonstrate guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That loss may have warned off other prosecutors who were looking to build a case, Petrou said. "I think that chastened prosecution," Petrou said. "There are significant obstacles to the kind of prosecutions that … people would like to see. The U.S. bank regulators have much less flexibility to do that — but Congress could." Congress did amend the evidentiary standard in one important respect after the crisis. Dodd-Frank amended the Commodities Exchange Act — the authorizing statute for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — to substantially ease the standard of evidence for the CFTC to charge firms and individuals with market manipulation.
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On Wednesday 23rd January, we held a Leadership Leads Network event, which was attended by leadership representatives from across the region. The day kicked off with a CPD session on 'Successful Collaboration in a Competitive Environment' delivered by Byron Lee. This focused on the differences between competitive and collaborative (compassionate) mindsets, the vital role of human connection in working with complexity, and how 'co-opetition' enables us to collaborate as a system and succeed individually.
In the afternoon we gave a Leadership Academy update, discussed the Leadership and OD priorities for the coming year and worked together to co-create a space in which members can share learning and successes, work collaboratively and develop their own leadership capability.


Good Music You Haven't Heard: Mitch Hedberg- Do You Believe in Gosh?
Comedic Genius and One of my personal Heroes- Mitch Hedberg!! Mitch left us way too soon, but at least we still have his jokes! This record came out last year and it is absofuckinglutely hilarious!!


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Q: Pandas displaying first 5 and last 5 results I am currently trying to have my .csv imported in Python via Pandas. Some of the data properly shows up, but it's only the first 5 rows and then the last 5 rows.
I have about 3,000 rows that I want to show up, but cannot find a viable solution.
I am linking a screenshot and there is a copy of my code too. Thanks for the help! Output of running code
import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv("ChicagoCrime2001.csv")
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns= ['Block', 'Primary Type'])
print(df)

A: You can use df.to_string() to display all results.

pandas.DataFrame.to_string

Render a DataFrame to a console-friendly tabular output.

A: try to use set_options
import pandas as pd
pd.set_option("display.max_rows", None, "display.max_columns", None)
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns= ['Block', 'Primary Type'])
print(df)

A: This is the default behavior when printing pandas.DataFrame.
with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', None, 'display.max_columns', None):  # more options can be specified also
    print(df)

see Pretty-print an entire Pandas Series / DataFrame for additional details.


Is there such a thing as too much cheesecake?
Today we introduce a new one-day feature to emandam. LIVE BLOGGING!
Today – the last day of Amanda's trip – was necessarily set aside for cooking. It's possible that Amanda and I prepared a less balanced meal than we normally would. It's been forever since we had a Smitten Kitchen day. We're both just too damn busy. Trying to cull our lists of wants and needs a couple nights ago was in parts comical and disastrous. I was cautious to even open my list of bookmarked recipes. I'm at the same time proud of my organizational skills and ashamed that I have a need for 3 layers of recipe folders. Yes, 3 layers. It would be preposterous to put the quick breads links with the yeasty breads' after all. We all agree on that, right?
But before we can talk about bread (oh and there will be much talk of it), we need to snack. We normally don't have a true lunch on these days, instead opting for an incredibly healthy fill-in like a lemon cheesecake cheese ball with crackers and apples (see! healthy!). This is the only finished part of the menu as of yet. With the lemon-y overtones it manages to taste light, in spite of the cohort of creamy friends lemon mingles with in this spreadable goodness. It's a perfect party treat, whether or not your party involves a dozen hours of cooking.
Some of the other prep has already happened or is currently happening. I just divided the dough for some light brioche burger buns. Since most of the leftovers will be staying in Connecticut with me, I felt less guilty asking Amanda to indulge my quest to make my own frozen burgers to keep on hand. If our trial run of black bean patties goes well, expect my fridge to be permanently stocked with these hereafter.
Amanda sliced some bananas for our five-minute chunky monkey ice cream. The lime curd I made for lime curd cheesecake bars is hanging out in the fridge, just chilling. I bought all the ingredients to make these a week ago, hoping for them to serve as a nice accompaniment to (or distraction from?) a scientific presentation, but in the end decided to actually finish preparing the presentation instead.
Amanda also sliced some strawberries and threw together the insides for strawberry cheesecake truffles that she's currently working into balls. Are you starting to see what I mean about a lack of balance? It's hard to let reason get in the way when you've been talking about making truffles together for 2 months. We can't just not make them because there are two other cheesecake items on the menu. It'd be like lying to ourselves for weeks and weeks, and Amanda and I both value our honesty and integrity more than that.
To finish off our menu of 'let's take summer and turn it into a dessert' we'll throw together some cherry-vanilla scones. We'll leave some cherries unadulterated atop slices of bread with accompanying cheese and jicama for a fresh cherry crostini. And the corn we picked up at the farmers' market will end up in corn, buttermilk and chive popovers.
As a last foray, we'll jump back to spring for a pea pesto linguini, which could go perfect by itself or with some easy little bread. That is, if we were a normal couple of friends making a normal dinner. I hope we never are though.
Okay, back to cooking! Tune back in later for our reports on how everything tastes, but in the meantime enjoy the cheese ball recipe and links to everything else.
Stir together cream cheese and sugar in a medium bowl until well mixed. Add lemon zest and juice and stir until smooth. Shape into a flattened ball, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm. The original recipe suggests refrigerating for at least 3 hours, but we were impatient and only waited about half that, including some time in the freezer.
Crush the graham crackers coarsely and transfer to a bowl. Roll the ball in the crumbs until evenly coated. Serve immediately, or refrigerate until the temptation gets the best of you.
So, how'd the chunky monkey ice-cream turn out? Matter of fact, how did all those recipes end up tasting? Good nutritional balance or not, they all sound divine.
It was delicious. We'll be blogging about the actual recipe post-wedding-festivities 🙂 Life's too crazy now!


The Slovenian Armed Forces or Slovenian Army (Slovene: Slovenska vojska; SAF/SV) are the armed forces of Slovenia. Since 2003, it is organized as a fully professional standing army. The Commander-in-Chief of the SAF is the President of the Republic of Slovenia (Borut Pahor), while operational command is in the domain of the Chief of the General Staff of the Slovenian Armed Forces.
The military history of Slovenia spans less than a hundred years. Following the disintegration of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, the Duchy of Styria was divided between the newly established states of German Austria and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. Rudolf Maister, a Slovene major of the former Austro-Hungarian Army, occupied the town of Maribor in November 1918 and claimed it to the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. After a short fight with German Austrian provisional units, the current border was established, which mostly followed the ethnic-linguistic division between Slovenes and ethnic Germans in Styria.
The current Slovenian Armed Forces are descended from the Slovenian Territorial Defence (Teritorialna Obramba Republike Slovenije; or Slovene TO), formed in 1991 by fusion of Territorial Defence (formed in 1968 as a paramilitary complement to the regular army of the former Yugoslav within the territory of Slovenia) with secret alternative command structure, known as the Manoeuvre Structures of National Protection (Manevrska struktura narodne zaščite, or MSNZ), which was an existing but antiquated institution, (unique to Slovenia), intended to enable the republic to form an ad hoc defence structure, akin to a Home Guard. It was of negligible importance prior to 1990, with antiquated weapons and few members.
When Slovenia declared independence at the onset of the Yugoslav Wars in 1991, the Slovenian Territorial Defence and the Slovenian police comprised the majority of forces engaging the Yugoslav People's Army during the Ten-Day War. The Slovenian Armed Forces were formally established in 1993 as a reorganization of the Slovenia Territorial Defence.
After 1993, the Slovenian Armed Forces had relied on mandatory military service, with conscripts receiving 6–7 months of training. In 2003, the Slovenian Government abolished conscription and as of July 2004, the Slovenian Armed Forces had been almost completely reorganised into a professional army now based on volunteers. Currently there are approximately 7,300 active troops and approximately 1,500 in reserve, reduced from 55,000 personnel during conscription.
A major reorganization of the Slovenian Armed Forces is currently underway with a goal making them more effective and cheaper. More than half of all commands have been disbanded which has made commanding the subordinated units easier and faster. Soldiers are to be located nearer to their homes in order to minimize travel costs. Since the Slovenian Armed Forces do not have enough modern armored vehicles to maintain three motorized battalions fulfilled at every time, one Wheeled Combat Vehicles Company and one Tank Company have been organized within the Logistics brigade, which now lends vehicles to any of four newly formed infantry regiments, regarding to the regiments' needs. Reorganization also transformed 72nd Brigade from a support unit to a combat unit and thus equaled it with the 1st Brigade. Both brigades were added support elements, such as Air Defense, Artillery, Intelligence, etc. The operational units now consist of Special Operations Unit, Naval Division, an Aviation Regiment and three brigades, the 1st (responsible for western Slovenia), 72nd (responsible for eastern Slovenia) and Logistics Brigade.
As part of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slovenia was never a member of the Warsaw Pact. Today, the foreign policy priority of NATO membership drives Slovenia's defense reorganization. Once many countries lifted the arms embargo on Slovenia in 1996, the country embarked on a military procurement program to bolster its status as a NATO candidate and to aid its transformation into a mobile force. Active in the SFOR deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia is also a charter member of Partnership for Peace and a regular participant in PfP exercises. The United States provides bilateral military assistance to Slovenia, including through the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program, the State Partnership Program (aligned with Colorado), and the EUCOM Joint Contact Team Program.
Slovenia formally joined NATO in March 2004. The transition of its armed forces from a primarily conscript-based territorial defense organization to a professional force structure has the ultimate goal of creating NATO-interoperable combat units able to operate on an even par with units from other NATO armies. Implementation of interoperability objectives as determined by the Planning and Review Process (PARP) and the Individual Partnership Program (IPP) as part of Slovenia's PfP participation proceeds. Slovenia's elite units already train with and are integrated into international units including NATO members—for example as part of SFOR and on Cyprus. Its elite mountain troops will be assigned to the Multinational Land Force peacekeeping battalion with Italy, Hungary, and Croatia. Slovenia hosted its first PfP exercise in 1998--"Cooperative Adventure Exchange"—a multinational disaster-preparedness command post exercise involving almost 6,000 troops from 19 NATO and PfP member nations.
Slovenian soldiers are a part of international forces serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chad, and Lebanon. They have also served in Cyprus and the Golan Heights as a part of UNFICYP and UNDOF respectively.
Slovenia hosts Multinational Centre of Excellence for Mountain Warfare (MN COEMW; Slovene: Večnacionalni center odličnosti za gorsko bojevanje), one of NATO Centres of Excellence, located in Bohinjska Bela, Slovenia. It is "responsible for training individuals and units for operation in the mountains and other terrains difficult to pass".
The Slovenian army currently maintains one military airport Cerklje ob Krki near town of Brežice. The airport's official name is Cerklje ob Krki Airbase.
Ljubljana Airbase shares the airport with Ljubljana International Airport. One helicopter Bell 412 is stationed there for mountain rescue.
Slovenia is part of the United Nations, NATO and the European Union, and supports the efforts of these organisations in peace operations and humanitarian activities. The Slovenian Armed Forces have been participating in various missions since 1997, when the first unit was deployed to Albania for a humanitarian operation. Slovenia has continued its efforts in international cooperation by participating in various missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cyprus, Pakistan and other countries.
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^ "About the Slovenian Armed Forces". www.slovenskavojska.si. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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^ "Slovenian Armed Forces - International operations and missions". www.slovenskavojska.si. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
Furlan, Branimir (2013). "Civilian Control and Military Effectiveness: Slovenian Case," Armed Forces & Society 39, No. 3, pp. 434–449.
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This Thin Blue Line pin is a great way for families to show support for their family's police officers when times are difficult and dangerous. The job of a police officer is incredibly difficult and often thankless and dangerous, and letting your father, son, wife, husband, brother, sister or any other family member know that you support and love them is a great way for them to muster the strength to go out and do their job every day.
This pin is made from jeweler's-grade enamel that's been hard-fired and features an antique silver finish that won't tarnish or rust. An officer's shield is featured down in the middle in great detail with stars and stripes surrounding it along the pin's edge. Wear yours with pride today and show your family member police officer that you care.