P. G. Wodehouse es un gigante del humor británico, imaginativo en su construcción de divertidas, perspicaces situaciones e irónico, ácido, en su miramiento al conjunto de la sociedad inglesa, en especial a la clase aristocrática.
Aunque sus dos personajes más conocidos son Bertie Wooster y su sirviente Jeeves, "Mal Tiempo", novela llamada en original "Heavy Weather" que pertenece a la denominada saga de Blandings, es una de sus obras más hilarantes. En ella se cuenta el sentimiento de temor que invade a distintos miembros de la alta esfera sociopolítica cuando el honorable y juerguista Galahad Threepwood decide publicar sus memorias, unos textos que implicarían en sus escándalos a multitud de conocidos nombres de la sociedad británica.
Cooled by the shade of the cedar, refreshed by the contents of the amber glass in which ice tinkled so musically when he lifted it to his lips, the Honorable Galahad, at the moment of Lord Emsworth's arrival, had achieved a Nirvana-like repose.
Storms might be raging elsewhere in the grounds of Blandings Castle, but here on the lawn there was peace,–the perfect, unruffled peace which in this world seems to come only to those who have done nothing whatever to deserve it.
The Honorable Galahad Threepwood, in his fifty-seventh year, was a dapper little gentleman on whose grey but still thickly covered head the weight of a consistently misspent life rested lightly. His flannel suit sat jauntily upon his wiry frame, a black-rimmed monocle gleamed jauntily in his eye.
Everything about this Musketeer of the 'nineties was jaunty. It was a standing mystery to all who knew him that one who had such an extraordinary good time all his life should, in the evening of that life, be so superbly robust.
¿En qué editorial se ha editado Fastidiando Al Alimón de Joan Butler?
¿Qué novelas en castellano forman parte de la serie Blandings de P. G. Wodehouse?
¿Qué libros son recomendados de P. G. Wodehouse?


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WESLEY B. BONNETT, age 88, of Amboy, died Saturday, July 11, 2015 at Oaklawn Care Center in Mankato. Funeral services will be held 10:00 am on Thursday, July 16, 2015 at the First Presbyterian Church in Amboy, with Rev. Elaine Boyd officiating. Burial will be in Sterling Cemetery, Mapleton. Visitation time will be from 4:00-6:00 pm Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at the First Presbyterian Church, 240 North Street East, Amboy, and 1 hour before the service at the church. Web tributes may be left at www.spencerowen.com Wesley was born to Charles and Dorothy (Lemkee) Bonnett on January 14, 1927 on a farm east of Amboy in Sterling Township. He had five brothers and two sisters, being next to the youngest. His father died when he was 8 years old. Wesley attended Amboy School for all 12 years, graduating in 1945. That same year he enlisted in the Army Air Force and served until 1946. Wesley attended Mankato Commercial College until April 13, 1947 when he married his high school sweetheart, Harriet May Grover, daughter of Hope (Hazel) and Corliss Grover of Sterling. They farmed Celia Cornell's farm in Sterling for 12 years and then moved to Dr. Carey's farm on Lura Lake for 25 years until their son, Dan, took over in 1985. They then moved to their home in Amboy. Wes helped Dan with the farming for 23 more years. In the fall of 2014, Wes & Harriet moved to Keystone Senior Living Center in Mankato. Wesley was a member of the Amboy American Legion for 69 years, charter member of the Amboy Lion's Club where he was president when Amboy Lion's started the Adopt a Highway project in the State of Minnesota. He was a member and elder of Amboy Presbyterian Church; member of Blue Earth County Farm Bureau, Lura Lake Sportsmen Club, Sterling Cemetery Association, Amboy Odd Fellows; and a former Mapleton School Board member. Wesley's family and his farm were his pride and joy and he loved hearing Harriet play his favorite songs on the piano. He also enjoyed playing softball, baseball, golf, cards; fishing and camping; and wintering in Mesa, AZ. His lifelong dream of a cruise to Alaska was fulfilled with Harriet and their two older daughters. Wesley is survived by his wife of 68 years Harriet of Mankato; children, Leah (Larry) Frank of Mapleton, Bonnie Hansen of Columbia, MO, Dan (Edith) Bonnett of Amboy, and Mary Jo (Dean) Leiding of Baudette, MN; older brother, Ernest Bonnett of Vancouver, WA and two sisters-in-law, Anita Bonnett of Amboy and Janet Grover of Mankato; 18 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren, as well as many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers Howard, Charlie, George and Edwin; and two sisters Dorothy Griffith and Veda Karst.
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One Million Patients Could Lose Primary Care If Funding for THC is Eliminated
by Bidita Debnath on March 3, 2015 at 10:00 PM
The shortage of primary care doctors could increase if funding for Teaching Health Centers (THC), a program to train medical residents in underserved areas, is eliminated.
Loss of funding - which has already been drastically reduced - could disrupt the training of 550 current medical residents and cut off the pipeline of future primary care residents, says a new report conducted by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University (GW).
Majority Primary Care Physicians Believe That Medical Imaging Improves Patient Care
Majority primary care physicians believe that advanced medical imaging provides considerable value to patient care.
"An estimated 50 million Americans have trouble accessing timely medical care--even if they have health insurance--because they live in rural, urban or suburban parts of the country without enough primary care doctors," says Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, lead author of the report and a professor of health policy at Milken Institute SPH. "Without continued support, the Teaching Health Centers program will not be able to train the doctors needed to deliver primary care to millions of needy Americans."
The Teaching Health Center program was started in 2011 to increase the number of primary care residents and dentists trained in community-based settings, and to fill gaps left by the current system of graduate medical education (GME). The traditional GME system has rewarded hospital-based residency programs, which often produce specialists who are not trained to provide primary care in neighborhood clinics. In contrast, the THC program, based in clinical training sites that include community health centers and other community-based sites, trains medical residents to practice in underserved communities serving people who are geographically isolated, and economically or medically vulnerable.
Reimbursement for Primary Care Providers by Medicaid Increases Appointments
A key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the increase in Medicaid reimbursement for primary care providers. This has increased new patient appointment availability.
Congress has not yet appropriated new funding for the THC program for Fiscal Year 2015. The lack of new funding has already disrupted the 60 THC programs operating in 27 states and the District of Columbia--in communities where people have to travel long distances or wait for long periods of time to get the care they need to avert serious medical problems. If medical residents in these programs can complete their training, they are expected to provide much-needed primary care to an estimated one million patients per year.
According to the report, almost 91 percent of THC graduates remain in primary care practice compared to less than 25 percent of residents who graduate from traditional residency programs. In addition, about 76 percent of THC residents practice in underserved regions of the country as compared to 8 percent of residents trained in traditional GME programs.
"The current GME system does not promote community-based primary care training opportunities, despite the enduring national need for physicians in these settings," says Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, a co-author of the report and the Murdock Head Professor of Health Policy and Medicine at Milken Institute SPH and Professor of Pediatrics at the GW School of Medicine & Health Sciences. "The THC programs do just that and it would be a huge loss to stop funding them now--just as they start to graduate physicians ready to practice primary care in shortage areas."
If Congress steps in and extends funding, the current crop of THC residents can continue to train and provide care to half a million patients in 27 states and the District of Columbia. Once this group of residents graduate they are expected to remain in underserved regions and continue providing care to about one million people every year--a projection that would go a long way to providing a solution to the primary care shortfall.
"The THC program helps provide primary care in areas that need it most, and creates a pipeline for sustainable capacity in underserved communities," says Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation. "Without continued support, the Teaching Health Center program will be derailed and that could reduce primary care services in struggling neighborhoods for years to come."
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The solid foundation of the Seminole County Indian Nation
It's great to be a Seminole County Indian! I may have graduated from the red and black worlds of Cairo High School and the University of Georgia, but after five and a half years of living in the land of the green, the blood flowing in my veins is that same color – the bright shade of Seminole County Indian green. I proudly wear my Seminole County Indian hats and shirts in support of everything that is good about the Seminole County school and recreation systems.
I have proudly covered the football games, the amazing performances of the Green Machine Band, the baseball and softball games, tennis matches and cross country meets, recreation events, one act plays, honors nights, literary events, 4-H and FFA and more. I have watched the faces of Seminole County students light up in pride of their achievements and my pride for them has grown with each and every event. I have learned their names and the names of their family members and I feel like, even if it is in a very small way, that I have become a part of their lives.
When I first arrived, almost six years ago, I felt a little unconformable attending events surrounded by crowds of strangers. Everywhere I went I felt a little disconnected – but always welcome. At that time I was a stranger. Students and adults referred to me as – hopefully affectionately – Mr. Photographer Man. After a few years, my face became more familiar, and I became known and addressed regularly as Mr. Donalsonville News Man. (That's one reference I really did like.) Today, living in this community and proudly calling it home, I feel so very, very different. Because of the strong and sturdy foundation of the Seminole County Indian Nation – provided in part by each and every one of you – everywhere I go I feel right at home.
This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to take the annual photographs of the Green Machine Band for the football program. I also paid a little visit to the practice field and took a few shots of the gridiron Indians preparing for the 2017 campaign. I tried not to show it, but inside, my heart was smiling wider than a Cheshire Cat. At each photo session, the students, the players, the coaches and the parents welcomed me, spoke kindly to me and referred to me not as Mr. Photograph Man, not even as Mr. Donalsonville News Man – but as Mr. David. That warmed my heart, validated my green card and truly made me proud to be a legitimate part of that strong Indian Nation foundation. I had arrived!
Webster's defines the word foundation as something, such as a person, an idea, a principle, or a fact that provides support for something. I am honored to be a part of that support system here in Seminole County.
Throughout this community students are continuously recognized for achievement in academics, athletics, music, and citizenship. This community strongly supports its youth and those efforts are second to none. Parents are actively engaged in supporting each activity by regularly volunteering in classrooms, at school and extracurricular events and filling the stands to capacity on each and every occasion.
A rich tradition of quality family values thrives within the Seminole County community, and this tradition, combined with all that it means to bleed green, provides a most impressive and substantial positive foundation for the very proud Indian nation.
As another chapter begins with the opening of the 2017-18 school year, I am proud and honored to be in a position to tell that story on the pages of your newspaper. I am proud to be a legitimate part of the strong foundation that bleeds green in support of the mighty Seminole County Indian Nation. Go Big Green!


This afternoon, the Minister of Finance, Hon. Vic Fedeli, delivered the 2019�Ontario Budget. Crowe Soberman's infographic presents some of the key measures in this budget.
The full 2019 Ontario Budget infographic can be downloaded here (PDF).


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The Apathetic Husband
Never mind "Is there life after death?" That is too abstract. What I really want to Know is: "Is there sex after marriage?"
—Jadah Vaughn
One of George Bernard Shaw's often quoted sayings observes that marriage remains popular because it combines "the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity." Usually, Shaw's epigrams are quite pithy; but in this instance, he is mistaken. A honeymoon might well combine temptation with opportunity, but cohabitation does not, especially if the marriage is of long duration. Familiarity need not breed contempt, but it very often does breed sexual apathy.
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What was passion in a marriage can become so vitiated, so watered-down, and so dissipated that it is hardly worthy of the name. In some marriages, perhaps in many, the act of love becomes an act of sex and an infrequent one at that. When you have reached the stage where you make love on Saturday nights, and Saturday nights only; when you have reached the stage where you have sex rather than making love, only late on Saturday nights in the dark; and when you have reached the stage when you have sex on Saturday nights only, late at night in the dark and quickly, without words, then you have reached the stage where you owe it to yourself to take a lover. You owe it to yourself, not only for the desolation you experience now, but also for the desolation you will feel when you are old and look back on thirty years of such encounters—one thousand and forty consecutive Saturday nights of minimal fulfillment.
You owe it to the old lady you will become to give her something better than those passionless encounters to reminisce about and then either exaggerate or deny, depending on your perspective.
I don't want sex with my husband. What should I do? (ask.metafilter.com)
Why You Shouldn't Compromise on Sex (bigthink.com)
Rethinking Bedroom Play. (elephantjournal.com)
Boredom in Marriage: An Excuse or Reason? (anatomyofaffairs.wordpress.com)
Girls Will be Girls: Sampling the Wild Rhubarb (pickingalover.wordpress.com)
Sexual Affairs: The Extramarital Connection (pickingalover.wordpress.com)
Head Sex and the Emotional Affair (psychcentral.com)
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Texas has spent tens of millions of dollars on the now-recommended-for-death parallel to Interstate 35 that once was envisioned as part of the Trans-Texas Corridor.
More money – perhaps millions more – will be spent as the state closes out its environmental review process and gets public comments on its decision to recommend no action on the TTC-35 proposal to the federal government, state transportation officials said today.
The Texas Transportation Commission reported to the Legislature at the end of fiscal year 2008 that it had spent $59.4 million on the TTC-35 segment, including $14.8 million on engineering studies for fiscal year 2008 alone.
The expenditure was part of $131 million spent up to that point on the Trans-Texas Corridor overall.
Officials also said the state will have spent about $4 million on planning for TTC-35 Spain-based Cintra and Zachry Construction Corp. of San Antonio, plus $11.8 million on the TTC-35 environmental review process.
UPDATE: Just heard from TxDOT that the $59.4 million includes all the expenditures mentioned.
Officials who were asked about the planning and review expenditures this morning said the money isn't wasted. They said officials can use the information they gathered in future planning.
Texas Transportation Commissioner Ted Houghton of El Paso added that in weighing such costs, one should consider a separate concession agreement with Cintra-Zachry.
Their consortium paid the state $25 million payment for the privilege of building State Highway 130 and collecting tolls on it, Houghton said. He said that the infrastructure of that highway is worth $1.2 billion. It is expected to be fully open from Seguin to Austin by 2012.
State officials said they are committed to expanding Interstate 35 to three lanes each way from Austin to the "Y" in Hillsboro (It's currently that wide from Austin to San Antonio).
They've identified some money they can use to do that, including stimulus money, but still are lacking $1.5 billion.
Any further effort to create congestion-relieving loops around cities or a parallel to I-35 will be looked at regionally by committees focusing on their area's segment, Houghton said.


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"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact!!" _ Elon Musk
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Another puzzle (very old)
Three guys are travelling together and arrive at a hotel. To reduce costs the three of them elect to share a room and are told at the reception desk the total cost is $30 per night. They each pay $10 to the cashier.
A short time later the manager advises the cashier the discounted rate of $25 per night hasn't been taken into account and that a $5 credit is due.
The porter is summoned to deliver the $5 refund and is given five $1 coins. On the way to the room the porter thinks how can I equally split the $5 among the three people. In order to simplify this he puts $2 in his pocket and then gives the remaining $3 to the occupants, each receiving $1.
Now let's look at who has paid what. Each of the three paid $10 and have received $1 back so they have paid $9 each. 3 x $9 = $27 and the porter has $2 so that's $29. What happened to the other dollar?
Yes very old puzzle Alan. The $1 has gone no where as it is the way the question is phrased.
Each paid $9 x 3 = $27
porter pockets $2
27-2= $25. ( each receive $1 x 3= 3 + 2= $5). 25 + 5= $30.
The year is 2222 and Mike and Maureen, land on Mars after accumulating enough Frequent Flier Miles.
They meet a Martian couple and are talking about all sorts of things.
Mike asks if Mars has a Stock-Market, if they have Laptop Computers, how they make money, etc..???
Finally, Maureen brings up the subject of Sex. "Just how do you guys do it"..??? asks Maureen."
Pretty much the way you do," responds the Martian.
Discussion ensues and finally the couples decide to Swap Partners for the Night and experience one another.
Maureen and the male Martian go off to a bedroom, where the Martian strips.
He's got only a Teeny, Weeny Member. About half an inch long and just a quarter inch thick.
I don't think this is going to work," says Maureen.
"Why"..??? he asks, "What's the matter"..???
"Well," she replies, "It's just not long enough to reach me"..
"No Problem," he says, and proceeds to Slap his Forehead with his Palm.
With each Slap of his Forehead, his Member grows until it's quite impressively long.
"Well," she says, "That's quite impressive, but it's still pretty Narrow"..
"No problem," he says, and starts Pulling his Ears.
With each pull, his member grows wider and wider until the entire measurement is extremely exciting to the woman.
"Wow!" she exclaims, as they fell into bed and made mad, passionate love.
The next day the couples rejoin their normal partners and go their separate ways.
As they walk along, Mike asks "Well, was it any good?"
"I hate to say it," says Maureen, "but it was pretty wonderful. How about you?"
"It was horrible," he replies. "All I got was a Headache.
All she kept doing the whole time was Slapping my Forehead and Pulling my Ears."
"Just because you are a Character, Doesn't mean you have Character."


CBC's production stars David Rommereim and Neiba Kukorlo, along with Robert Chisholm, Nick Higgins, Zach Johansen, Miriam Kersner, Ricardo Orta, Nicole Pietz, Ashley Purvis, Jake Rader and Seth Ramsay.
Ginny Quinley is directing, with scenic and lighting design by Ronn Campbell and costumes designed by Verna Schwilke.
This show is rated "R" for language and adult situations.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students.
They're available at columbiabasin.tix.com, by calling 509-542-5531 and at the door.


Two of the most basic "forms of control" exercised by any government are that of demanding enrollment in its armed forces, and in collecting taxes based on one's income and/or accumulated wealth. Perhaps conscription is the State's most direct control over your life, but its ability to tax ultimately destroys the principle of private ownership. Everything you think you "own" is really held subject to its pleasure. It is as though you are a slave and your master allows you to retain certain perks.
In my article, "The Chickens Come Home to Roost – The Master Plan for 'Tightening the Noose'" (Issue 48, February 1991), I referred to the late Fred Rowe, who wrote an article for his House of Onyx publication entitled "The IRS Electronic Monster." Rowe set forth his predictions about the future state of economic freedoms in these United States. He described what he called an IRS "master plan" under which the United States government would push toward the creation of a cashless society. Electronic money would take the place of banknotes, and all financial transactions would be recorded via computers, which in turn would be connected to those of the IRS. The tax bureaucracy would then take this information and render every citizen and resident of the United States a tax return. Withholding on all income from your labor, and on all major financial transactions, such as the sale of real estate and investments, would enable the government to collect taxes on a mostly "pay-as-you-go" basis. Such computer transparency would also make it very difficult for tax resisters to escape the government's clutching hand.
…requirements to report to the U.S. Treasury and/or U.S. Customs movements of more than $ 10,000 cash and certain other negotiable instruments to and from the U.S.
The government is also tightening the regulations surrounding the ownership of foreign bank accounts and the reporting of assets held abroad. For all practical purposes there has never been any financial or banking privacy in the United States. Currently the governments of the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom have joined together in cooperation to intensify their efforts to combat international tax evasion. On March 10, 2010, the United States enacted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). This legislation introduced reporting requirements for foreign financial institutions (FFIs). Many banks headquartered abroad are required to identify U.S. account holders, report certain information to the IRS about their accounts, and assess a 30% withholding tax on certain payments of U.S. source income to recalcitrant account holders or non-participating FFIs that are unwilling to provide the necessary information. In short, great pressure is being brought to bear on banks that are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction to subjugate them to IRS regulations. Some foreign banks, particularly those in Switzerland, have decided to terminate their account relationships with U.S. citizens so as to avoid these entanglements with U.S. law.
As reported in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL on April 6, 2012 [p. A9], "hiding money in [tax] havens isn't as easy as it used to be." The U.S. Congress has "passed laws imposing draconian penalties on people hiding foreign financial assets." How do the following U.S. government regulations compare to those of Nazi Germany?
Why exactly are such assets of concern to the federal government, and why is the "failure to report" foreign assets a crime if it is not illegal to own them? The answer is to be found in the invasive nature of government. Governments demand obedience to their rules and regulations, whatever they may be. Governments also have an insatiable appetite for tax revenues. And furthermore, many governments have a record of confiscating the known assets of their citizens. Although the United States government has never required surrender of assets held abroad, it did confiscate all gold coins and gold bullion in 1933, and outlawed the ownership of gold by American citizens regardless of where it was located. But why would a citizen break the laws of the United States? An American might have several reasons. A person might be a conscientious objector against taxation. A citizen might think that foreign assets would be safe from seizure by the American government because they are outside its domestic jurisdiction. The citizen might also think that having assets abroad would provide a nest egg in case of the need to live abroad. Having foreign assets might provide a means to escape from government agents. During the Nazi era, how many German dissidents or German Jews would have been grateful to have had money outside of Germany, and how much easier would it have then been to leave Germany and escape the Gestapo?
…subverting the rule of law by ignoring constitutional provisions and due process.
No one can foretell how far these trends will affect the future, but they seem to reflect Carroll Quigley's 1966 prediction: Man's "freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits." [p. 866] That is the tragic part of the prediction in his book's title, TRAGEDY AND HOPE.
The hopeful part is reflected in what we can observe from history. No government lasts forever. The Nazi 1000 Year Reich was gone in less than two decades. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics lasted less than 100 years. In western Europe, after the Roman empire disappeared, Quigley observes that by 900 A.D. there was clearly a period "when there was no empire, no state, and no public authority … . The state disappeared, yet society continued. … It was discovered that man can live without a state; … . It was discovered that economic life, religious life, law, and private property can all exist and function effectively without a state." [p. 83] Every generation faces natural and political challenges. Despite the tightening of the political noose, our own times are not unique. Some problems are more daunting than others, but life goes on. As Robert LeFevre used to say, the free man will find a way to be free.


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Q: How do I view the occurence of my search on Google? Often times when you type something into google, your phrase will come up in the little search preview but when you click the link itself lo and behold you cannot find your phrase anywhere. I remember (on Google Chrome, atleast) google used to have a little button which you can press which previews the whole page and highlights where your phrase is located on that page but I don't get it anymore although to be truthful that could just be an addon.
So does anyone know a way for google to allow me to view the occurrence of my phrase on the preview or is this functionality provided by an addon? I ask because many times google likes to feed me pages where my phrase is nowhere to be found.

A: You are looking for the Cache. If the page doesn't forbid it, you can access the cached version by clicking at the little green triangle next to the URL:

Note that this link requires activated JavaScript and enabled cookies. If you have disabled JavaScript, you'll probably still see the direct link:

You can open a cached page directly by using the cache: prefix (followed by the URL) in the search. Example:
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A: That used to be available when you loaded the cached version of the search result. However Google has removed that feature and expect you to use the find feature in the browser. Ctrl + f opens the find box.

A: It might not be there at all -- ISTR that Google sometimes indexes pages by words that appear in other pages that link to them.  Also, even if a word is in the HTML file, it might not be displayed by your browser -- do "View Source", and then search through that.

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Q: Sampling distribution of the slope estimator of a stationary non-linear AR(1) Consider a stationary non-linear AR(1) model
$$x_t = |\theta x_{t-1}|+w_t,$$
where $w_t$ is i.i.d. standard normal.
Given a sample $\{x_0, \cdots, x_n\}$, I want to find an estimate of $\theta$ and using CLT to derive its confidence interval.
Now I think there are two methods to derive the estimator.

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*We can use moments to realize that $E(x_t^2) = \theta^2 E(x_{t-1}^2) + 1$ and thus we have the moments estimator $\hat{\theta}^2 = 1 - \frac{1}{\hat{\mu}}$, where $\hat{\mu} = \frac{1}{n}\sum_i x_i^2$ is the sample mean of the square.

*Alternatively, one can name $z_i = |x_{i-1}|$ and $y_i = x_i$. We then have the model that $y_t = |\theta| z_t + w_t$. Thus using MLE, we note that $$
L(x_n, \cdots, x_0 |\theta) = f(x_0)f(x_1|x_0)\cdots f(x_n|x_{n-1}) = f(x_0)\prod_{i=1}^n f_{N(|\theta|z_t, 1)}(y_t).$$
Ignore the part $f(x_0$), this is exactly the MLE of OLS. Thus the MLE should be $\hat{\theta} = \frac{\bar{y}}{\bar{z}}$.

Yet for both methods I have trouble deriving the distribution of the estimator and failed to give an CI. Any hints will be appreciated.


The bye week almost came and went without any off-field news before former Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis publicly criticized Todd Bowles. Listen in as our host Glenn Naughton discusses what Revis had to say.
The Jets take on the New England Patriots on Sunday. They have had two weeks to prepare, will it matter? We also give a Sam Darnold injury update.


Hair cells also can detect movement of fluid or objects within organisms, and therefore play an important role in the ability of fishes to maintain their equilibrium and orientation within the water column.
Hair cells also can detect movement of fluid or objects within organisms, and therefore play an important role in the ability of fishes to maintain their equilibrium and orientation within the water column (Schell art& Wubbels1998). Postural equilibrium and balance are maintained by the pars superior, a portion of a fish's inner ear that, in jawed fishes, consists of three semicircular canals and an additional chamber known as the utricle (Fig. 6.3).Lampreys (Petromyzontidae) have only two semicircular canals, and hagfishes (Myxinidae) have one. The semicircular canals are filled with a fluid (endolymph) and have sensory hair cells in their terminal ampullae. Changes in acceleration or orientation set the endolymph in motion and cause displacement of a gelatinous cupula that encloses the cilia of the hair cells. Lateral displacement of the cilia results in changes in the fi ring rate of the sensory neurons innervating the hair cells, thereby signaling the fish's brain about changes in acceleration or orientation. The utricle contains a solid deposit, or otolith ("ear stone"), the lapillus, which rests on a bed of sensory hair cells. The downward pull of gravity on the lapillus triggers impulses from the sensory cells and provides the fish with information regarding its vertical orientation in the water. The utricle works in coordination with the detection of light from above the fish by the retina of the eyes and together they help keep the fish upright in the water (the dorsal lightreflex). Goldfish with the utricle and semicircular canals removed on one side initially lost their ability to orient vertically, although this was often regained after several days (Ott & Platt 1988).


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Notes on Gwyl Fai
by gillian - April 4th, 2012.
Filed under: Wheel of the Year.
Notes Based on Glennie Kindred's Ideas
Beltain is a celebration of the fertility and rampant potency of the life-force. All of nature is growing and manifesting now in a wild whirl of creative energy. This is the time to celebrate unions of all kinds, fertility and manifestation on many different levels, love, sexuality, and fruitfulness. It is a time to be in touch with the instinctive wild forces within and without, to be aware of the potency of the life-force and it's power on the physical, spiritual, and mystical levels.
In the Celtic Pagan past, this was the night of the 'greenwood marriage' where the union between the Horned God and the fertile Goddess was re-enacted by the men and the women to ensure the fertility of the land. It was a night to spend in the woods, to make love under the trees, stay up all night and watch the sunrise, and bathe in the early morning dew. On this night, people walked the mazes and labyrinths and sat all night by sacred wells and healing springs who's waters were said to be especially potent at this time. This was the 'merry month' when people dressed in green in honour of the earth's new spring colours and the fairy folk, elemental and nature spirits, who are easier to meet at this time.
The Horned god, Herne the Hunter, untameable instinctive, wild man of the forest, becomes a white stag and chases the fertile goddess who becomes a white deer. The legend tells us he becomes the prey he hunts, and is magically transformed by his union with the Goddess. Since prehistoric times there have been many images of horned Gods; Actaeon the Stag, Pan the goat, Dionysus or Zeus the bull, Amen the Ram, Cernunos the horned god of the Celts. There is a connection between horns and male vitality through an ancient tantric belief that by the transformation of ejaculation, a mystic energy mounts up the spine, made visible by horns, and brings mystical power and wisdom. A composite of all these horned gods of the pagan religions became the Christian version of the Devil. His lustful nature gives rise to the modern slang word 'horny', but the word lust in old German meant 'religious joy' and holds a clue to the transformation which takes place in the horned God as he releases his seed and brings fertility to the land.
The Goddess is Grain, and Creiddylad, who rides her horse across the sky as Rhiannon, Epona, and Macha. A free and powerful Spirit of womanhood, she knows the power of love and the power of her own sexuality. She too is transformed by their union, becoming the Grain-Mother, carrying the fruit of their union. Together the God and Goddess represent the great circle of life and death through the seasons. Through their union at Beltain, their knowledge and power is shared. Through the blending of these opposite forces, they become the fertile force of manifest energy. Through their love and sacred union, they become transformed both physically and beyond the physical. Beltain is the celebration of this mystical and spiritual transformation inherent in sexual union.
May Day celebrations include dancing around the may pole, symbolising the interweaving and joining of the male and female energies. This creates a web of energy in a living matrix of power. It was common practice to bring a new pole into the village every year. Representing the year's incarnation of the vegetation or nature spirit. Incorporated into the maypole dance is the Green Man who dances around the edge and represents the spirit of vegetation. All this is linked to a much older ceremony of fetching a living tree into the village every year. This living tree would still have its resident Dryad within the tree who would be central to the ceremony and danced around. It would have been asked for it's help to ensure fertility of the land and a good harvest. The popular song 'Here we go gathering nuts in may' probably refers to the 'Knots' of May that were gathered for Beltain celebrations. It is entirely the wrong month for nuts! These 'knots of may' were used for decoration, but were and must never be taken inside the house.
Beltain is one of the four great Cross Quarter Fire Festivals. Beltân means Fire of the God Bel… A goodly fire! A special fire was kindled after all the other fires in the community had been put out. This was the need fire. People junped the fire to purify, cleanse, and to bring fertility. Couples jumped the fire together to pledge themselves to each other. Cattle and other animals were driven through the smoke as a protection from disease and to bring fertility. At the end of the evening, the villagers would take some of the need fire to start their fires at home anew.
The church changed the focus of Beltain eve from a night of revelry and sexual potency, to the May Day celebration who's May Queen was a symbol of virginity, purity, and chastity, transforming the image of the wild sexually potent fertile Goddess into her opposite. Of all the things that the Church repressed, sexual expression and the sexuality of women was one of the greatest. Sexual pleasure and overt sexuality were serious offences while killing and Holy wars continued. With generations of deep disapproval influencing us, Beltain is one of the hardest ceremonies to connect to without causing embarrassment and offence.
At Beltain we can also direct our focus to the fertility of the Earth, especially now when there are large areas of land all over the land all over the world suffering and dying from man's mismanagement, pollution, and intensive farming methods. Beltain energy is one of reverence for all of life, celebrating and honouring the fertility which grows from the union of opposites. It is about the sacredness and spirituality of love and sexual pleasure and deep connections of the heart. These life changing forces are not just the focus of sexual union, but unions of all kinds. Integrity of spirit and power brings the physical and spiritual into balance. This creates a strong life force energy which becomes the light and eternal love of spiritual ecstasy.
This is the beginning of the final and most actively potent of the waxing phase of the Sun's cycle. All of life is bursting with fertility and the power of it's own potential. Everything is in the process of becoming. This is the peak of the Spring Season and the beginning of Summer, the onset of the growing season when the Earth is clothed in green, the vibration of love and the heart chakra. Flowers are everywhere, birds and animals are having their young, the sounds of birdsong fill the air. It is a time of sunshine and rain, swelling and bursting, rising sap and fresh new growth. The Earth's energies are at their most active.
Beltain, like it's opposite in the wheel of the year, Samhain, marks a particularly potent transition in the yearly cycle. At dawn and dusk especially the boundaries between the worlds are thin, and we may find ourselves 'spellbound' by the power of the moment, touch the fairy realms or experience the paranormal. This will bring insights and understanding which will greatly expand our consciousness.
From here to the Summer Solstice is the peak of the sunlight and the conscious outward expression of ourselves. During this high energy time, we need to be aware of where we are and what we want and need. Create the most fertile and positive environment in which to grow the seeds of yourself. Reach out for what it is that you want and let the energy of growth whisk you along. It is a time to honour sex in it's raw state, to see this as part of the cycle, to allow the extreme to exist which is part of nature and the expansive energy. Beltain brings the union of opposites; the rational and the intuitive, the active and the receptive, fire and water. Fertility comes from the blending of these two energies regardless of gender. Fertility is inherent in everything, everything is possible. Manifestation is reaching the height of it's power.
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Q: Concatenate large numpy arrays in RAM I have some 3D image data and want to build a stack of RGB images out of single channel stacks, i.e. I try to concatenate three arrays of shape (358, 1379, 1042) into one array of shape (358, 1379, 1042, 3). Inspired by skimage.color.gray2rgb I tried
np.concatenate((
    stack1[..., np.newaxis],
    stack2[..., np.newaxis],
    stack3[..., np.newaxis]), axis=-1)

However, even though each of these stacks is only about 1GiB this fills my empty ~12GiB RAM immediately ... So I tried to pre-allocate an array of the final shape and then fill it with the stacks, like
rgb_stack = np.zeros(stack1.shape + (3,))
rgb_stack[:,:,:,0] = stack1

which also exhausted my RAM once I execute the second line. Finally I tried to explicitly copy the data from stack1 into rgb_stack by
rgb_stack = np.zeros(stack1.shape + (3,))
rgb_stack[:,:,:,0] = stack1.copy()

with the same result. What am I doing wrong?

A: To wrap up what can be learnt from the comments to the question; np.zeros creates an array of float64 which is almost 12GiB big. This by itself does not fill the RAM as Linux over commits and only sets the corresponding RAM aside once the array gets filled, which is in this case once it gets filled with the image data.
Thus creating zeros as another dtype solves the problem, e.g.
rgb_stack = np.zeros(stack1.shape + (3,), dtype=np.uint16)
rgb_stack[:,:,:,0] = stack1.copy()

works fine with uint16 stacks.


Where's Wolli replicates the idea of the well-known hidden character Wolly. In our case, 'Wolli' is our hidden gem in Wolli Creek. South and only 10 kilometres from Sydney's CBD, Wolli Creek is a rapidly growing suburb. New developments welcome new opportunity and thankfully, good coffee. Where's Wolli proudly serves Di'Anthony speciality coffee to support its mouth watering menu. Our experienced barista's and chefs work hard enthusiastically to provide you with the most relaxing and comforting experience. Our staff work hard and efficient to ensure that your needs and wants are met with every visit to Where's Wolli.
Where's Wolli replicates the idea of the well-known hidden character Wolly.


Guest post from Eli Rodes, our plumbing supplier extraordinaire.
Customers often ask me how I learned my trade. Sometimes they ask (very) odd questions about why I sell toilets for a living.
I'm not a designer, I couldn't tell you what color to paint your living room to save my soul. All I know is plumbing. Pssst… electricity scares me, keep it to yourself. Don't give me a hammer and a nail (give it to Amy).
I am a first generation American on my father's side. His family was displaced (to put it gently) in the 1930s as Hitler came to power. He was a History Professor at a small liberal arts college for 43 years.
My mother was the first person in her family to get a college degree (and post-doc at Radcliffe, couldn't resist bragging). She was a private girls' high school teacher complete with sweater sets, pearls, Manhattans and Kent cigarettes.
She blossomed in the late 60s: she separated from my father, abandoning the sweater sets, and enrolled at UCLA in a PhD program. Suddenly she wore jeans, rode a bicycle and made her own yogurt (man, that was embarrassing). She was my role model, although she nor I ever fully realized it.
I went off to college (no college tour or help with moving into dorms back then) with "I'll come visit soon, Bye" from my mother. Of course, I would get my BA, an advanced degree. Be a lawyer, a teacher.
Then a butterfly somewhere in the Amazon flapped it's wings.
I saw a UCB job board. A company specializing in salvaged Victoriana. I was hired. We started selling reproduction fixtures and faucets through a catalog distributed nationally (no Amazon, guys). I got to help design plumbing, fix things, polish brass with rosin on a wheel. I was hooked.
After I got my BA on the 'seven year' plan, I sought a job in the plumbing industry. I ended up running a small wholesale plumbing supply company when I was 26 — to say I was an anomaly doesn't begin… The crap I got from plumbers was comparable to the sewage backing up after a King tide in San Francisco.
Again, my mother, "Eli, what is wrong with you? Toilets? How will you meet doctors and lawyers?" All of a sudden my mother had turned back into the woman who wore sweater sets in the early 60's. My father was equally baffled.
But she came around as quickly as she had abandoned those pearls years ago. She asked me to come to 'Career Day' at —— School (oh, okay, I'll say, Westlake School for Girls) when I was in my early 30s. I stood up in front of a class of 17 yr. old girls, some whose parents were movie producers and Pulitzers prize winners, most who were already accepted to Ivy League Colleges. I extorted the values and wonders and just plain awesomeness of selling toilets for a living! I actually got questions. I'm surprised she wasn't fired.
Eli Rodes has been doing plumbing therapy and supply since 1979. Her mother passed away from the complications of Alzheimer's in Nov. 2015.


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Lost & Found – Indonesian Handwoven Textile Tradition
Cocktail Reception and Registration 6:30pm
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For thousands of years, textiles have been an inseparable part of Indonesia's rich culture and traditions, from the ceremonial role textiles play during important rites of passage to the precious heirlooms that are passed on to generations. Every village in Indonesia has its own unique textile tradition. It was once considered that women's weaving skills were important to a family's self-worth. Presidents of Indonesia often present textiles to the heads of foreign nations as a symbol of friendship and respect, indicating the symbolic significance of textiles to the nation's cultural diplomacy. However, modernization of society and changes to the way we live have diminished the traditional forms of textile production. In some parts of Indonesia, weaving traditions have been lost for serveral generations.
Join Didi Budiardjo to hear stories from his inspiring journeys, including reviving the old weaving traditions which have revitalized village economies. His curiosity has driven his efforts to search for and resurrect extinct traditional textiles from around Indonesia such as North Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Bali, Nusa Tenggara and more, to carve out a unique identity that sets him apart from others in Indonesia's fashion world today.
In the course of designing lavish evening gowns, Didi Budiardjo has crossed many rivers and hiked through deep jungles in Indonesia's remote places to find not only lost sacred motifs, but also lost techniques and terminology that have been buried and almost forgotten for decades.
A genius in Indonesian fashion design, for 30 years Didi has successfully brought Indonesian fashion to the next level with his signature classical design emphasizing good quality fabrics with embroidery, lace and beading from all over the world, creating masterpieces. An exhibition at the Jakarta Textile Museum was held in 2015 to celebrate Didi Budiardjo's important contribution to Indonesia's fashion industry.
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A cyclist passes a billboard on Dashila Street, on December 19, 2006 in Beijing. Dashila Street is more than 600 years old and one of the oldest pedestrian shopping districts in Beijing with century-old shops and restaurants. The ancient street was under reconstruction as a cultural tourist attraction in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympic Games.
The Soul of Beijing
A Sinica Podcast
by Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, David Moser, Zha Jianying
The Sinica Podcast is a weekly discussion of current affairs in China hosted by long-time Beijing residents Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn. Launched in April 2010, the podcast is recorded in various locations in China, the USA, and around the world.
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Kaiser Kuo is host of the Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. He recently repatriated to the United States after 20 years in Beijing, where he worked as Director of...
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Jeremy Goldkorn is co-host and co-founder of the Sinica podcast and contributor to its partner SupChina. After moving to China in 1995, Goldkorn lived in a workers dormitory, started and managed...
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David Moser holds a Master's and a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan, with a major in Chinese Linguistics and Philosophy. He was a visiting scholar at Peking University in 1987...
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Today, we're pleased to share a special live edition of Sinica recorded last Saturday at Capital M in Beijing. Held to a standing-room only crowd, we talked all about our ongoing love-hate relationship with Beijing, and asked what on earth is happening to the city that so many of us have known since the 1980s and even earlier. As housing prices and rents soar, hutong get ripped down, and "crazy bad" air becomes the new normal, will Beijing maintain its heart as a cultural capital, or is the city losing itself and our affections?
Filled with stories of pig excrement, SARS babies, and enough Chinese cursing to satiate even the Beijing Profanity Alliance, this show was a pleasure to put on and we were really glad to see everyone who came out. Joining Kaiser Kuo on stage were two Sinica stalwarts: Chinese media expert Jeremy Goldkorn and David Moser, jazz pianist and head of the CET Beijing program. We were also thrilled to be joined by Zha Jianying, author of China Pop and Tide Players, and a now-expat Beijinger from New York who admits to being torn between her two homes.
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How I thought you deserved to feel.
The way you always said you wanted to.
And every word we say to be true.
Still after all I gave it's not enough for you.
Cause nothing's ever good enough.
The less I fill your cup.
That you can be who you wanted to be.
And fill the lonely void inside of you.
Did what you always wanted to do.
Still after all I've done I can't get through.


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Delirium, the latest in the school's series of Halloween shows designed to shepherd rowdy hordes of Isla Vistans away from the weekend's police-prowled streets, was a two-day fest of crowds and costumes that went down as one of A.S. Program Board's most successful shows yet.
Friday's show opened with synthpop songstress Allie X. Labeled on Delirium promo pieces only as special guest and announced day-of on the event's Facebook page with little pomp, the audience carried few expectations with them as they arrived on Friday night. So, technically, X lived up to those expectations. Arriving on stage suddenly and almost inconspicuously, X dove into a set of indistinct poppy tracks foregrounded by the continuing conversation of the assemblage below her. Her relative stiffness throughout topped by the tinted pair of IMAX shades she kept on made her an almost nondescript onstage apparition; the energy of her music alone, though present, was not a force strong enough to carry her act. Despite her ripeness, X seems ready to grow and make a name for herself (even if that name sounds more suited to an adult film star than a singer).
Speaking of names, Fitz and The Tantrums lived up to theirs, throwing an absolute fit on stage. Lead vocalist Michael Fitzpatrick, co-lead Noelle Scaggs and the four other Tantrums graced Delirium with enough frenetic dance moves, groovy beats and simple audience interaction to get feet and chests beating in time with the palpitations of the lit-up geometric heart that served as their onstage visual. The Tantrums riffed seamlessly through hits and lesser-known jams alike, maintaining a level of soulful rapport with the 3,500 students below them who reached a fever pitch with a cover of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." Though the L.A. sextet takes its name from frontman Fitzpatrick, perhaps Fitz, Scaggs and The Tantrums would prove a more accurate name, as Scaggs' restless step and spirited calls to the crowd elicited more of a response from the audience than the band would have been able to muster in her absence. The Tantrums left the stage before performing their two biggest hits, a tacit sign of an impending encore that the audience nonetheless called out for with gusto. After returning and rocking out to "Moneygrabber" and "The Walker" (the latter of which had the whole crowd whistling along, though it was hard to tell over the blare of the speakers), Fitz and The Tantrums graciously departed. The skeletons, tacky tourists and other various costumed folk below dispersed to move on with the night's activities.
Halloween night was always bound to be the busier of the two, trading in a contemporary pop radio act with a full-blown hip-hop legend. The lucky 5,500 Gauchos who braved lengthy lines and unresponsive webpages for their sold-out tickets got tricked out in costume, ready for a treat. Opening for Snoop Dogg was Atlanta "trapstep" trio Watch the Duck, performing a set of original songs interspersed with a liberal dose of ranting from frontman Jesse Rankins and a hodgepodge of covers including Rae Sremmurd's "No Type," Travi$ Scott's "Antitode" and Oasis' "Wonderwall." Rankins continually reminded the audience that the show was "not a concert; it's a party," but the sentiment failed to reflect as much in the crowd as it did on stage. The giant duck-headed bass player was gimmicky in a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic way, and the heavy reliance on early Skrillex-style dubstep seemed anachronistic. And the audience was waiting. No duck could satiate the hype for the D-O-double-G.
That wait would continue for quite a while; despite an ASPB member's 11:15 p.m. introduction, Snoop didn't take the stage until after 11:30. Donned in a track jacket and a festive rubber pug mask, the Dogg and his pound jammed out on stage for a few moments before removing their masks and diving into a slew of rap anthems. The set was a decades-spanning catalog of hits worthy of Snoop's grey hairs, and "exactly what I wanted from Snoop Dogg," said second-year Yarden Refaely.
"He played the first verse and chorus of every song I knew." These songs included classics like "Gin And Juice," "Ain't No Fun," "I Wanna Love You," "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" and, of course, "Drop It Like It's Hot." Snoop also paid homage to icons living and dead, performing verses off Dr. Dre's "Still D.R.E.," The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" and 2Pac's "California Love" (though unfortunately sans hologram). Bolstered by his crew, including the antics of mischievous mascot Nasty Dogg, the chosen son of the LBC was as on fire all night as the contraband students smuggled in with them. The crowd definitely synced up with Snoop's top-shelf vibes, though as second-year music studies major Peter McMaster noted, "Wall-to-wall in the Thunderdome is a lot of people," and many concertgoers retreated to the sidelines to find themselves some breathing room. Despite some crowding issues, everyone was able to come together as Snoop bade us goodnight under a canopy of cellphone flashes and lighter flames. After back-to-back nights of ASPB and the artists hitting it out of the park, it was clear that UCSB had made this Halloween weekend one for the books.
But on the way to and from the show each night, the blockades, checkpoints and packs of cops sweeping through streets of I.V. told a different story. Snoop told us that California knows how to party; have we proved him wrong? Have we disgraced the memory of Pac? Is he looking down upon us now from his Cuban cabana, hanging his head in disgrace? Are we not as young, wild and free as we so brazenly testified at the close of Snoop Dogg's set, but instead some lamer tricolon of complacency? While such high profile and irresistible concert billings are hard to pass up, they also make it easy to forget that the proverbial right to party is being stripped from us; the true cost of a five-dollar Delirium ticket is worth reflecting upon. The shows were undoubtedly a treat, but perhaps we have all fallen for a trick both arbitrary and unfair.
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Civil war threatens development prospects for millions of Sudanese. Schools, health programs, and development projects all have been shut down in the war-torn south
By Robert M. Press Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Sudan's 5 year-old civil war is likely to have long-lasting consequences far more damaging than its current devastation, according to Sudanese and foreign analysts who follow the situation closely. While the conflict has displaced 2 million civilians and contributed to the starvation of at least 250,000 others since 1983, it has the greater potential of ``laying waste the possibilities of development in the future,'' says Jon Tinker, president of the Panos Institute, a private information and policy studies group in London.
As the Sudanese government considers a cease-fire with the southern-based rebels it has been fighting since May 1983, two Western research organizations are distributing information here and abroad on the damaging effects of the conflict. They say they hope to help rally support here and abroad for an end to the war.
The new findings state that almost all schools and health programs in the rural south of Sudan are now closed. Virtually all development efforts in that area have been halted. And as men continue to flee their homes to escape recruitment by the Army or by rebels, more and more women have found themselves heads of families, struggling to raise and feed their children. Many have been sexually abused by combatants.
``Talking about the costs of the war is very helpful in addressing the issue of peace,'' Mr. Tinker says. ``For most people in Sudan, outside the south, the war has been a totally unknown war.''
``If we focus on the consequences of Sudan's war, there may be support for galvanizing peace initiatives,'' says John Prendergast, of the Coalition for Peace in the Horn of Africa, which is helping to distribute the new information.
The Panos Institute last week organized a seminar for journalists here, at which it presented Sudanese who had conducted this research. A number of government officials, including some Cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, also spoke.
``War Wounds: Sudanese People Report on Their War,'' a Panos publication, contains much of the new research on human and development costs of the war. It presents a grim portrait of the south. The findings include:
Malnutrition is widespread, especially among children under 12.
Nearly one out of every five children dies before the age of one - one of the highest infant mortality rates in Africa.
Virtually every child under age five in the rebel-surrounded town of Aweil died this summer during a measles epidemic. The fighting has halted inoculation programs in such towns.
Widowed or abandoned, and unable to make a living alone, many women have fled their villages with their children.
Of those remaining in their villages, many have been raped by passing military or rebel troops, says Rose Lisok Paulino, a Sudanese government official working in the south. Once a woman is abused in this way, most southern men would not marry her, which often forces the woman to become a prostitute in order to survive, Ms. Paulino says.
Many people, especially women and children, have been gravely injured or killed by land mines laid around the main southern cities and towns by both the military and the SPLA rebels.
Herds have been severely depleted by a lack of vaccination programs for several years. Cattle are the main source of livelihood for many southerners, and are also used as payment for brides in Sudan. Many planned marriages have been postponed due to this shortage of cattle, says Samuel Gonda, a southern veterinarian.
The Sudanese government's consideration of a cease-fire accord drafted last month continued to be set back by emergency security measures in the capital yesterday following a failed coup attempt. The government has confirmed reports that it thwarted an effort to overthrow the prime minister on Dec. 17 and arrested 25 civilians and retired soldiers.
A march planned for yesterday, which was intended to pressure the government into accepting the cease-fire was called off for security reasons. But civilians have promised further disobedience on Dec. 31 if progress is not made.
Mob in Sudan torches church frequented by South Sudanese
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Q: Path size issues related to working with node/npm on a build server I have a build server that builds and deploys to our continuous integration (CI) environment and auto-deploys to Development, Staging, Live - all via TFS Build Definitions.
On the build server I need to compile Dust templates (before the deploy step) via the utility (dustc) downloaded with Dust.  Locally when I run within Visual Studio, Dust is downloaded when Visual Studio (VS) is started into the folder node_modules, however this folder is generally not checked in (otherwise the numerous client-side libraries with versions quickly result in a management overhead)
Dust is downloaded via npm (I'm using v3.5.2).  As I understand it, the standard way to download modules that use npm to download is as follows:-

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*locally (within VS) download npm via NuGet which results in a folder in the root of the project (".bin") which contains npm.cmd which is included in the project and checked-in

*then, on the build server after the solution/project artifacts have downloaded, the NuGet packages are then downloaded (which includes npm)

*finally, submit the following commands (in this case I have it in a VS post-build task but as long as it is after NuGet packages are downloaded all should be OK)
cd "$(ProjectDir)"
call "$(ProjectDir)\.bin\npm.cmd" install dustjs-linkedin --save-dev

The end result 'should' be Dust is downloaded into the project structure (within the node_modules folder) and I can then issue the command to compile the Dust templates
However the problem is when npm is downloaded via NuGet, the npm folder structure is massively nested and hence blows out the Windows path 260 character limit (https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/issues/6960) - consequently the build fails even before the job has had a chance to run npm to download Dust (note: I have reduced the length of the TFS folders however npm leaves very little room for any division of build names, projects, etc - eg. .../packages/Npm.3.5.2/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-install-checks/node_modules/npmlog/node_modules/are-we-there-yet/node_modules/readable-stream/node_modules/core-util-is/lib is around 170 characters)
I've read Node npm windows file paths are too long to install packages which suggests using verion 3.x, or using of npm-flatten/dedupe - but I'm still having issues - mostly because it is the NuGet step that fails - before it gets to being able to do anything with npm
A resolution could be to pick only files that are needed (i.e. from npm or probably easier [but less flexible] would be just the Dust files [dustc, etc]) and include in source control and not include npm in NuGet.  But this is messy - if the files I checkin are updated (as they often are) I have to make sure all is still intact and runs
Is there a cleaner way ?

A: Even though the path length limitation is really annoying, the most effective and  easy way still is spending some time tweaking your file/folder structure to make this work.
For example: instead of \xx\Build\Drop\ProjectName, just use \xx\Build\Drop (or \xx\Builds) since the project name is also in the build name.
For the long path issue in TFS, there had been a related uservoice and now completed.

Fix 260 character file name length limitation
We've removed the limitation from the BCL for the basic file
  manipulation functionality (CRUD). You can find more details here:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/02/announcing-net-framework-4-6-2/
Immo Landwerth Program Manager .NET

A: Refer to these steps and check the result:

*

*Install Node.js to your build server

*Add npm configuration file to your project (package.json) and check in

*Open your build definition

*Add npm step

*Queue build


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Home » » The first clip from Dc Universe: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
The first clip from Dc Universe: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
By The Atari Nation
Warner Home Video is proud to release the first official clip from BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, PART 1.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1, the next entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies, is produced by Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. The all-new, PG-13 rated film arrives September 25, 2012 from Warner Home Video as a Blu-ray™ Combo Pack and DVD, On Demand and for Download. The Blu-ray™ Combo Pack will include UltraViolet™.


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Q: Image Upload Not Retrieving "Orientation" exif data I'm trying to fix an issue where when a portrait image is uploaded from a mobile, it doesn't save as the right orientation when it's opened on a desktop/browser.
I am using the code below to get the exif data to change it to the correct orientation but I am having issues:
$exif = exif_read_data($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], 0, true);

Error: Unexpected token a in JSON at position 0; array(4) {
      ["FILE"]=>
      array(6) {
        ["FileName"]=>
        string(11) "php18A7.tmp"
        ["FileDateTime"]=>
        int(1490020599)
        ["FileSize"]=>
        int(382988)
        ["FileType"]=>
        int(2)
        ["MimeType"]=>
        string(10) "image/jpeg"
        ["SectionsFound"]=>
        string(19) "ANY_TAG, IFD0, EXIF"
      }
      ["COMPUTED"]=>
      array(5) {
        ["html"]=>
        string(26) "width="2041" height="3628""
        ["Height"]=>
        int(3628)
        ["Width"]=>
        int(2041)
        ["IsColor"]=>
        int(1)
        ["ByteOrderMotorola"]=>
        int(1)
      }
      ["IFD0"]=>
      array(6) {
        ["ACDComment"]=>
        string(37) "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384"
        ["Orientation"]=>
        int(8)
        ["Software"]=>
        string(37) "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384"
        ["DateTime"]=>
        string(19) "2017:03:20 14:32:13"
        ["Exif_IFD_Pointer"]=>
        int(2242)
        ["UndefinedTag:0xEA1C"]=>
        string(2060) "�
        }
    }

The error shown above is a var_dump($exif) when an upload is done on a desktop browser. So as shown, it retrieves the "Orientation" data but when I do it on a mobile, it only retrieves the "FILE" array and the "COMPUTED" array and neither contains the "ORIENTATION" data.

A: Solution
I realised that every time it got to the point where it tried to read the exif data using exif_read_data() the data was already gone.
I resulted to retrieving the exif data within the JavaScript instead using a library called exif.js. Further explanation found here.


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Local breweries give back to California wildfire victims
Sophie Kaplan
The Evening Sun
After the wildfires tore through California killing 85 people and leaving 11 still missing, five local brewers decided to help.
Something Wicked, Aldus and Miscreation brewing companies, as well as Warehouse Gourmet and Brewpub and Center Square Brewing, are all brewing and selling the Resilience Butte County Proud IPA.
More:Thirsty Farmer Brew Works combines family's passion for farming with love of beer
All of the sales from the IPA will go toward the Camp Fire Relief Fund started by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, located in Chico, California.
The wildfires happened right in Sierra Nevada's backyard, and the owners wanted to do their part when it came to helping their community recover from the devastation. Sierra Nevada shared the recipe of The Resilience Butte County Proud IPA to thousands of brewers across the country to raise funds for recovery efforts.
Having only decided to brew the beer as a group two days prior, on Nov. 5 the five brewers came together at Aldus Brewing Company to brew the IPA, each donating their time, raw ingredients and labor equally.
More:Inside the walls at The Circle
"Craft brewing is a very competitive market but it shows how when the leader in the industry steps up, how thousands of breweries stepped up, too," said Ryan Magee, vice president of operations at Aldus.
The breweries are working with the vendors to secure donated raw materials.
The estimated date of sale of the Resilience IPA is Dec. 19.
After the fire started on Nov. 8, it scorched through 153,336 acres and burned nearly 14,000 residences.
Sophie Kaplan is a reporter at The Evening Sun. Follow her on Twitter @yofisofi.


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Q: javascript image slider start I'm trying to understand javascript before going to jQuery and I made a simple image slider.
I ended up with the following code working well when I manually start it on browser console, and I can't figure out how to start it and if using Promise would do, and how.
Reduced code:
/*some variable declarations and value assignations*/
function cut(p1){
    for (var i = 0; i < cuts; i++){
        /*canvas working with path pattern and fill*/
        slice[p1][i] = new Image();
        slice[p1][i].src = canvas.toDataURL();
    }
}
function slider(){
    /*time based image selection and canvas clear*/
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++){
        y = /*timebased calc*/;
        if(y<0){y=0;}
        ctx.drawImage(slice[im][i], 0, y);
    }
    window.requestAnimationFrame(slider);
}
img[0].onload = function() {cut(0);};
img[1].onload = function() {cut(1);};

Full code:
var height = 500, width = 707, cuts = 10, cW = Math.ceil(width/cuts);
var img = [new Image(), new Image()];
var slice = [];
for (var i = 0; i < img.length; i++){
    slice[i] = [];
}
var x = [];
for (var i=0; i<cuts; i++){
    x[i]=Math.ceil(((i+1)*width)/cuts);
}
function cut(p1){
    for (var i = 0; i < cuts; i++){
        var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
        canvas.width = width;
        canvas.height = height;
        var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
        var pat = context.createPattern( img[p1], 'no-repeat' );
        context.fillStyle = pat;
        context.beginPath();
        context.moveTo(x[i], 0);
        context.lineTo(x[i], height);
        context.lineTo(x[i]-cW, height);
        context.lineTo(x[i]-cW, 0);
        context.closePath();
        context.fill();
        slice[p1][i] = new Image();
        slice[p1][i].src = canvas.toDataURL();
    }
}
var canv = document.createElement('canvas');
document.body.appendChild(canv);
canv.width = width;
canv.height = height;
var ctx = canv.getContext('2d');
var sTime= 0;
function slider(){
    var t = (performance.now() - sTime) % 10000;
    if(t%5000 === 2000){
        ctx.clear();
    }
    var im = 0;
    if(t >= 5000){
        im = 1;
    } else {
        im = 0;
    }
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++){
        t = t%5000;
        y = 2000-((t)+(i*100));
        if(y<0){y=0;}
        ctx.drawImage(slice[im][i], 0, y);
    }
    window.requestAnimationFrame(slider);
}
CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.clear = function () {this.clearRect(0, 0, this.canvas.width, this.canvas.height);}
img[0].onload = function() {cut(0);};
img[1].onload = function() {cut(1);};
img[0].src = 'mountain.jpg';
img[1].src = 'beach.jpg';

A: Haven't tested this but it might come close:
function  imageLoader(imagePaths, onLoad, onFinished) {
  var images = [];
  var arrayLength = imagePaths.length;

  function callback() {
    if(--arrayLength === 0) onFinished();
  }

  imagePaths.forEach(function(imagePath, index) {
    var image = new Image();
    image.onload(onLoad(index, callback));
    image.src = imagePath;
    images[index] = image;
  });
  return images;
}

modify cut() to:
function cut(p1, cb){
  //.
  //.
  //.
  cb();
}

replace
img[0].onload = function() {cut(0);};
img[1].onload = function() {cut(1);};
img[0].src = 'mountain.jpg';
img[1].src = 'beach.jpg';

with:
img = imageLoader(['mountain.jpg', 'beach.jpg'], cut, slider);


David, Ruben and Abdin stir me up to do some scratch. So i'm starting a new project - KV-220 as it looked in autumn of 1941 in Leningrad area. It had serial KV-1 turret instead of its original turret with 85 mm gun.
Some photos of real tank and scale drawnings.
Last edited by Gopher; 07-01-2007 at 10:19 AM.
I will be looking forward to updates on this one.
Great choice, I'm eager to see it finished!!
Oh Andrey, I can't believe that you listened to those guys and fell under their Island Voodoo Magic Spells!
KV1 with a 75 KwK 40L/43, PzIV Cupola....it belonged to the 204 reg. 22nd Panzer Divison...operating Belgorod area 1943.
Trumpeter already made "German Pz.Kpfm KV-1 756(r) Tank".
Oh Boy Rick... you have no idea how hard we are working on this one.
Nice shots of the tank Andrey, this will be in interesting project.
...good one Dave...that took me some time to recover!
Sorry Andrey, the Voodoo Boyz made me do it!
Ah hahaha Rick, you are out of control!!
But this way is more proper.


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Speaking at the Global Health 50/50 report launched on Thursday, Vera Songwe (PhD), executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)said that the gender inequality and gaps globally have caused an economic loss of USD 160 trillion.
Launched in connection to the International Women's Day (March 8), the Global Health- GH 50/50 Report for 2019 found out that women face huge gender gaps in the social, political and economic frontiers.
The framework which was officially availed at UNECA compound on February 4, 2019 was said to be a main instrument to put in place Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the continent.
Fearing foreclosure on properties they bought as far back as 14 year ago, dozens of people, clients of O–LOGO PLC, a real-estate company owned by an Ethiopian-Italian, are in desperate mode and are asking for government intervention as the company that sold them their properties lost a court battle at the Civil Bench of the Federal High Court, Lideta Division on Thursday, where he tried to transfer some of its debts to a new sister company, O-LOGO Construction.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have agreed to start the renovation and preservation of the iconic Africa Hall, located inside United Nations compound in Addis Ababa, built in the 1960s.
The African Union is yet to draw a common stance on the derogatory statement recently made by president of the United States, Donald Trump.


Michael Kors Holdings Limited announced yesterday the acquisition of the iconic Italian fashion brand Versace, adding details to a deal structure that was anticipated by press rumors onMonday (see here a previous post by BeBeez) and announcing that when the acquisition is finalized the NYSE-listed group will change its name into Capri Holding (see here the press release).
Versace has been valued 2.12 billion dollars (or 1.83 billion euros), which is more than the already high valuation of 2 billion dollars anticipated by press rumors. The valuation corresponds to 41x Versace's 2017 ebitda which was 44.6 million euros, while in yesterday's analysts presentation by Michael Kors it is stated that Versace valuation corresponds to 22x ebitda, implying that the group's ebitda for year 2018 will be around 83 million euros which is just a little lower than 2015's 84.3 million euros ebitda (while year 2016's ebitda was just a little higher than 2017's, with 48.6 millions, see here an analysis by Leanus, after free registration and login).
Michael Kors' s chairman and ceo, John D. Idol, yesterday said that "with the full resources of our group, we believe that Versace will grow to over US$2.0 billion in revenues". The goal will be reached increasing Versace's global retail footprint from approximately 200 to 300 stores, accelerating e-commerce and omni-channel development and expanding men's and women's accessories and footwear from 35% to 60% of revenues.
Today Gianni Versace spa is 80% controlled by Givi holding, which in turn is owned by stylist Donatella Versace (20%), her brother Santo Versace and her daugther Allegra Versace Beck (50%), while US Blackstone private equity giant owns the remaining 20% stake since year 2014, when it subscribed a dedicated capitalincrease for 150 million euros and boughtother Versace share for 60 million euros from Givi Holding.
Blackstone will entirely exit Versace's capital while Donatella, Santo e Allegra Versace will reinvest in Capri Holdings Limited and Versace's management team will still be led by actual Versace ceo Jonathan Akeroyd.
Michael Kors will finance the cash portion of the purchase price using a combination of cash on hand, drawings under the company's existing revolving credit facility, and committed underwritten bank term loans from its advisors JPMorgan and Barclays. The Versace family will also receive 150 million euros of the purchase price in shares of Capri Holdings Limited. The transaction is expected to close in the company's fourth fiscal quarter, subject to specified closing conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals.
Versace's advisors for the deal were JPMorgan, Barclays and Orsingher Ortu law firm. Micheal Kors was supported by Chiomenti, Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli and Cleary Gottlieb law firm. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Lazard advised Blackstone.