Rather than laughing and saying what a clever boy I was, the teacher looked at me sternly and said "That's where you're wrong" and launched into a talk about the relevance of history to the current day and to the future.
Of course, he was right. Humourless, but right.
Ironically, when I went to Aberystwyth University I studied History (as well as doing an Art Foundation course). One of the more memorable courses was The History of Italian Art. I remember a funny little lecturer, based in one of the old University building towers, showing us endless slides of Italian art. It was like watching someone's holiday snaps. For a year.
Art History is much more interesting and engaging nowadays. There are libraries full of great books with high quality reproductions; there are museums and galleries; there's Google Images and Wikipedia; there's TED and Charlie Rose (and many more) for talks and interviews with contemporary artists. Plus, of course, more websites and blogs than you can shake a stick at.
I remember someone saying to me that they wouldn't study history because they "could never remember all those dates".
I rarely know what day I did last week let alone when Henry VIII reigned.
But I don't think that's the point.
More to the point, in my opinion, is 'what the hell was going on' and why does it matter.
When I study Art History, as part of my professional development, I'm looking for subjects, periods or issues that have contemporary relevance. It's exciting when I discover topics that strike a chord with me and make me curious to know more and to understand better. The challenge then is to find ways to apply that understanding in terms of my own work and ideas.
So it seems my Primary School teacher was right.
I suppose my use of time could, euphemistically, be called flexible. Random, even. My time is pretty much my own and I have very few obligations or responsibilities. That means I can make up each day and each week as I go along.
That's not as good as it sounds.
If I'm not careful it can lead to aimlessness, indecision and idleness.
I have a number of routines and disciplines that I try to stick with to give some external structure to my days. The folders I posted about previously are a part of an on-going effort to get and stay organised. Things like this are like the scaffolding, or temporary structures, that support what I do. That's why I'm not embarrassed to be changing them frequently.
But there is also an underlying structure to what I do that has been working well for me for a number of years. I think of it as my 'skeleton' because it supports and enables what I do by providing shape and structure.
The skeleton is set up to support my work as an artist (sort of) and to facilitate my 'professional development'. I know that might sound a bit grand, but this art thing is what I do now – it's my latest career choice and I want to get good at it.
I'll post in more detail about each of these over the next few weeks (though not necessarily in that order).
From time to time I've tried developing a working weekly schedule that would work across each of these areas in a consistent and well-balanced way. At one time, my daughter even designed the equivalent of a school timetable for me – complete with double periods, breaks and nightly homework sessions.
I'm sure you can guess how that worked out.
Yep. Not even a week.
I realise that by telling you this I might be destroying the mystique of me being a complete shambles. But in the midst of all the madness, there is a method.
I'll let you in on a secret … I know what I'm doing.
A Day at elBulli: An Insight into the Ideas, Methods and Creativity of Ferran Adria"
As I posted before, I've struggled with keeping track of all the bits and pieces I pick up along the way.
Every day I collect things that attract my attention. I take photos that I upload into Google and print; I make sketches and drawings that I scan; I cut out pictures from magazines; I photocopy articles; I write down quotes, phrases and extracts; I pick up leaflets, brochures, flyers and anything that's free. All these things seem to be random – the unifying factor is that they register something somewhere within my creative imagination.
For a long time all this 'stuff' was scattered on the floor, piled up on windowsills, stuffed into carrier bags, thrown in the boot of my car. Or mysteriously lost.
Inspired by the book about elBulli I read recently, and particularly by the quotes above, I've changed the way I do things do things so that I can access all the information and ideas I collect.
Now, please bear in mind that for many years I was a Project Manager in a large financial institution, managing the development and implementation of computer projects and marketing strategies.
I also taught Time Management principles and practices.
I love Filofax and similar personal management systems (I still do).
So you'd think I'd come up with something pretty damn sophisticated.
I went to Staples and bought a pack of 50 dull-coloured wallets.
Each week, I gather together everything I've collected and shove it into one of these folders. Then I write a list on the front of what's in there. The following week I start again. No continuity; no cross-referencing.
And it's working. Hell, I could find these elBulli quotes from months back, couldn't I? And a list of books about the Renaissance that I'd written on a scrap of paper? Found that too.
One thing I've noticed though, is that I don't date things – mainly because I don't care much about when I picked up the idea – only that I did.
But I think I might invent a device for simply dating each piece of paper. I'll call it a "Date Stamp".
So tell me … what works for you?


Gestamp has opened a new 50,000m² manufacturing facility in Four Ashes near Wolverhampton, West Midlands. The multi-national company specialises in the design, development and manufacture of highly engineered metal components for the automotive industry.
The new plant will feature state-of-the-art stamping equipment and encompass the production capability of the existing Gestamp Cannock plant when capacity is transferred, safeguarding 800 jobs.
An investment close to £50 million to date will upgrade the company's industrial capabilities in the region and an additional amount could be invested depending on future projects. Gestamp has opened five facilities worldwide in 2018 including in the West Midlands.
The new plant will offer one of the biggest hot stamping lines in the world, serving a wide customer that includes household names such as JLR, Nissan-Renault, Volvo, Ford, BMW, Toyota and Honda.
The facility will also manufacture aluminium parts via a transfer servo press – including battery boxes for electrical vehicles. The equipment will comprise laser cells for cutting and welding.
Gestamp executive chairman, Francisco Riberas, said: "This new plant is more efficient and competitive; it is a customer focused factory with opportunity for further growth with both existing and new clients.
"We will continue to help our customers and provide them with the latest technologies such as hot and aluminium stamping. We are already supporting them with the challenges that they face with electrical vehicles by providing lighter and safer solutions," he added.
Currently, Gestamp UK comprises seven production plants, three in the North East, two in the Midlands and one each in Llanelli and Fareham with a total workforce of nearly 3,000 employees. Since 2012, Gestamp has invested more than £200 million in its UK plants.


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Q: iterating over infinite page scrolls im scraping data from this website  https://www.heiminfo.ch/institutionen, my code below
import pandas  as  pd
import requests
import time
import csv
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from time import sleep
from random import randint
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver as wb
driver=wb.Chrome('chromedriver.exe')
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get(' https://www.heiminfo.ch/institutionen')
ton=driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/main/div/section/form/div[1]/div[3]/div/button[3]').click();

my scraper runs fine but it keeps scraping data it has already scraped. the site  has an Icon button but it also seems like it has infinite scroll as it loads 5 more items over the previous ones every time you click the icon button.
time.sleep(2)
h=[]
while True:
totals=int('1589')
soup=BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'html.parser')
item=soup.find_all(class_="institutions")
for a in item:
    lsh=a.find_all(class_="name-and-addition")
for e in lsh:
    h.append(e.text.strip('\n'))
    data=pd.DataFrame(zip(h), columns=['Adult Homes'])
    print(data)
try:
    driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/main/div/div/section/div[3]/div[2]/button/span[2]").click();
except:
    if(len(data)==totals):
        break

my data output:
                             Adult Homes
0  Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
                             Adult Homes
0  Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1       Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
                             Adult Homes
0  Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1       Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                         La Fontanelle
                             Adult Homes
0  Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1       Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                         La Fontanelle
3         Alters- und Pflegeheim Inseli
                             Adult Homes
0  Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1       Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                         La Fontanelle
3         Alters- und Pflegeheim Inseli
4      SGIPA Atelier protégé Saint-Jean
                             Adult Homes
0  Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1       Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                         La Fontanelle
3         Alters- und Pflegeheim Inseli
4      SGIPA Atelier protégé Saint-Jean
5          Tertianum Residenza Al Parco
                                         Adult Homes
0              Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1                   Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                                     La Fontanelle
3                     Alters- und Pflegeheim Inseli
4                  SGIPA Atelier protégé Saint-Jean
5                      Tertianum Residenza Al Parco
6  SUHRENTAL Alterszentrum \nRegionales Alterszen...
                                         Adult Homes
0              Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1                   Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                                     La Fontanelle
3                     Alters- und Pflegeheim Inseli
4                  SGIPA Atelier protégé Saint-Jean
5                      Tertianum Residenza Al Parco
6  SUHRENTAL Alterszentrum \nRegionales Alterszen...
7                       Alters- und Pflegeheim Fahr
                                         Adult Homes
0              Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1                   Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                                     La Fontanelle
3                     Alters- und Pflegeheim Inseli
4                  SGIPA Atelier protégé Saint-Jean
5                      Tertianum Residenza Al Parco
6  SUHRENTAL Alterszentrum \nRegionales Alterszen...
7                       Alters- und Pflegeheim Fahr
8  Stiftung Alters- und Pflegeheim Nidwalden \nNÄ...
                                         Adult Homes
0              Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1                   Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                                     La Fontanelle
3                     Alters- und Pflegeheim Inseli
4                  SGIPA Atelier protégé Saint-Jean
5                      Tertianum Residenza Al Parco
6  SUHRENTAL Alterszentrum \nRegionales Alterszen...
7                       Alters- und Pflegeheim Fahr
8  Stiftung Alters- und Pflegeheim Nidwalden \nNÄ...
9  Stiftung Mühlehalde mobile Begleitetes Wohnen ...
                                          Adult Homes
0               Stiftung Emera \nAteliers bois de feu
1                    Falkenstein \nBSB Pflegezentrum
2                                      La Fontanelle
3                      Alters- und Pflegeheim Inseli
4                   SGIPA Atelier protégé Saint-Jean
5                       Tertianum Residenza Al Parco
6   SUHRENTAL Alterszentrum \nRegionales Alterszen...
7                        Alters- und Pflegeheim Fahr
8   Stiftung Alters- und Pflegeheim Nidwalden \nNÄ...
9   Stiftung Mühlehalde mobile Begleitetes Wohnen ...
10                                    Wohnheim Bachs
                                          Adult Homes

how can I scrape it without returning ones I've already scraped?

A: You could do the following to get the first 100 or so elements.
driver.get("https://www.heiminfo.ch/institutionen")
wait=WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
total=100
h=[]
while True:
    try:
        item=driver.find_element_by_class_name('institutions')
        lsh=item.find_elements_by_class_name("name-and-addition")
        if(len(lsh)>=total):
            for e in lsh[:total]:
                h.append(e.text.strip('\n'))
                data=pd.DataFrame(zip(h), columns=['Adult Homes'])
            print(data)
            break
        wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".next.btn"))).click()
        time.sleep(5)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        break

Outputs
                                   Adult Homes
0                     Birsfelden Alterszentrum
1   Alters- und Pflegeheim Bethania im Stedtli
2                       Pflegezentrum Ennetsee
3                          Wohnheim Zürichberg
4      Casa Güpf AG\nBetreutes Wohnen im Alter
..                                         ...
95             Psychiatrisches Zentrum Herisau
96             VESO Wohnen für Mutter und Kind
97                        Zur Rose Reichenburg
98                     Résidence Les Trémières
99                       Alterssiedlung Bodmer

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ORANGE, NJ – The Orange High School varsity football team held off Barringer HS, 10-6, Saturday afternoon at Bell Stadium for its second win in a row to improve to a 4-2 record.
The win boosted the Tornadoes' hopes for a state playoff berth next month.
Orange was riding a clutch 19-18 overtime win over Bloomfield HS. The Barringer Blue Bears were coming off a dominant 43-7 win over Ferris Bulldogs at Newark's Schools Stadium.
Conservative play-calling was the theme of the day in which both sides were looking to keep the ball on the ground, considering they both were depleted with the loss of key players. Barringer was without star QB Zamar Wise, who is sidelined with a shoulder injury, while Orange was without QB George Crespo, along with most of their starters for various injuries.
The game became a struggle from the opening kickoff. Orange tried to open its bag of tricks early when QB Jamear Reed attempted a double pass, but was caught behind the line of scrimmage in which the Blue Bears pounced on the early fumble inside the Orange 20-yard line.
Three plays later, Barringer QB Mark Johnson found the end zone on an 11-yard run 11:45 into the game.
With penalties plaguing both squads, it was difficult to sustain a plausible drive. Orange was penalized for a total of 120 yards on both offense and defense, while Barringer had three big offensive plays called back and were also penalized an extra 30 yards on defense. Barringer held off three Tornadoes' scoring threats in the second quarter, which included an interception to hold onto a 6-0 lead going into the half.
The third quarter saw a role reversal and momentum shift. "We are showing how tough we are," said Orange head coach Randy Daniel about his squad's ability to pull out the games that were needed the most. "I am extremely proud of our guys. We surely wanted to have all our big players back, but we know we are ready to roll for the next game." He is was referring to late in the third quarter when DB Raymir Phillips led the charge for a big sack on the Barringer 16-yard line, forcing a turnover on downs.
With the ball squarely in the Tornadoes' possession, Reed fed the ball to RB Montez Boswell (24 carries, 93 yards and 1 TD) who proceeded to barrel through the Blue Bears defense in three plays and scored on a 4-yard touchdown to put Orange on top by a point after the point-after kick by Louie Julien with just 3:15 left in the third quarter.
Orange struck again after recovering an onside kick on the next play. But the Blue Bears were able to hold the Tornadoes to two first downs in the waning seconds of the third quarter. The Tornadoes set up for the kick inside the Barringer 20-yard line. Julien nailed a 32-yard field goal to put the Tornadoes up 10-7 with just :14 left in the third quarter.
Barringer tried one more time to put its rally caps on. But in the fourth quarter the Tornadoes defense, led by LB AZ Parks (8 tackles), Brantly Constant (5 tackles 1 fumble recovery) and Nigil Thomas (8 tackles) was able to play the clock and kept Barringer to turn the ball over on downs while keeping RB Davon Scott out of the end zone for the final 10-7 score.


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Is Abraham a psychopath?
I thought it time to resurrect this testimonial from Ninorc, who originally posted it on the (eye-wateringly long) Hampstead hoax thread on the David Icke forums. I think it offers some fascinating insights into some of the factors behind the hoax and its originator:
I've just been told about this grim business by A's estranged wife. 'I was left thinking how insane the mums boyfriend would have to be to concoct this whole thing, especially as it targeted not only the children's father but many people in the local Hampstead community.'
I must be careful of what I say in public about AC, because I am very fond of his ex and their four kids, plus others from both sides of the family, all of whom have been affected by this, so I don't want to publicly identify them. Suffice it to say, he is *quite* insane. A is a heavy cannabis user who doesn't smoke since he got TB in a Spanish jail, years ago, but ingests it orally. He was an early and passionate advocate of hemp nutrition and a raw foodie, interested in urology. A insisted that the cannabinoids in one's urine after ingesting cannabis were intensified, so if one drank one's wee… This is nonsense, but a pretext for A to whip out his big cock, piss in a pint glass and drink it warm. That was his outrageous party piece!
I'm not saying cannabis made A mad; perish the thought. Indeed, for years I thought A was brilliant; he had some profound insights and amazing ideas. However, there was another AC, a hardened criminal, expert in intimidation. "I've never been to prison and I'm not going back," was one of his catch phrases. I never saw nasty A until I went round to see him one day in 2008, after he'd watched the Guy Ritchie film, Rock'n'Rolla, which is apparently about violent, epigrammatic gangsters. Anyway, it seemed to strike a chord with A because he was confrontational and insulting (we were supposed to be celebrating our shared birthdays, since we're within days of each other). I refused to tolerate his abuse, left, and haven't spoken to him since.
A was a voracious reader and theoriser. His favourite book is, 'Dune,' which he sees as an allegory. In the video interview with Kid A, you can hear him reminding her that, "fear is the mind killer," (a quotation from that book). In fact, fear will shut down a kids thinking and terror is an essential tool in compartmentalising kid's minds. A knows that because he has read all the same stuff and has seen all the same videos as you lot have. That's why, in order to start an internet meme about Satanic Ritual Abuse, he knew just what to make the kids say.
A had some very far out ideas about 2012 and what might happen. But in dull reality, he was a hustler with a violent past that was not integrated into his personality as ******'. I think that's key to A's fractured personality and his cannabis use. At one level, he's self-medicating the trauma of his past and, on another, he inhabits a self-created world in which he is a spiritual savant. A guru, that is, who is also extremely avaricious and will readily resort to violence. Two things tilted him over the edge: first, his oldest son died of addiction; then he lost the family home in an ill-judged business venture.
A blamed his wife for his son's death, although it was none of her business, as she was not the man's mother. Clearly, growing up with an absentee father who was involved with drugs did the young man no favours, but A blamed his wife for not being sufficiently sympathetic, or whatever. AC beat the living shit out of his wife and put her in the hospital. There were remonstrations and crocodile tears, but eventually he moved out and took up with a pole dancer, to the chagrin of his ex. A believed he could make a killing as a gold trader and sold their house in North London to finance his new business, but he bought his gold at the top of the market and it lost a third of its value over the following year! A left the wife he'd assaulted and walked out on and their four children with nowhere to live!
AC is highly manipulative and he plays his children expertly, so that their mum has to be very careful not to say anything that might alienate them, or oblige them to take sides. His abuse of his own kids and wife is emotional and enforced with violence, or threats. He used to hit his wife with the back of a spoon (reduces bruising) and has evidently done the same to the girl in the videos (as she mentions). I wouldn't be surprised if he's clipped little Kid G round the ear and damaged his hearing. I don't know when he took up with the Russian woman, but clearly she is totally under his thumb and has signally failed to protect her kids from him.
In the police interviews, you'll notice that both children say that the physical abuse took place in Morocco. A owns a riyadh in Marrakech, where the laws regarding the treatment of children are a lot more lax. Maybe he thought he could get away with indoctrinating them there. Who knows what goes on in that sick fucker's head. The children have been in care since September and that's got to be better than being around Papa Hemp. His own kids are bewildered and angry and his ex-wife is distraught, but holding it together. They saw AC last week, but ignored him. Since then, he's been raided by the police, who took computers and phones, and has disappeared again, no doubt to Morocco or Spain.
His fantasy world is crashing in on AC. He has made seriously defamatory accusations and wasted much time and resources. He has evidently traumatised those two children, even if he was careful not to physically abuse them on UK soil. Nobody in their right mind wants anything to do with him, even if his associates are not ready to give him up to the law. I agree with silent revolution when he says, 'I think papa hemp needs to be found and made to answer for all this.'
06/09/2015 in Abraham Christie. Tags: Abraham Christie, cannabis, child abuse, conspiracy theories, Hampstead hoax, psychopath, threats
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35 thoughts on "Is Abraham a psychopath?"
If Nemesis Green on YT is Abraham Christie, I believe it is, then he's just ranting. A good sign of a dwindling audience perhaps. No "likes". Not really any supportive comments. Nemesis Green is threatening to release more pictures. Although obviously those pictures should be with the police if they are important evidence. And there's the big elephant in the room, as RD is according to the gruesome twosome an alleged lifelong cult member, Ella Draper seems to have missed the tattoo. There's kids to prove they had sex. Maybe it was in the dark? And they had blackout curtains. And he never wandered round top less. And he always locked the bathroom door……
Have you ever watched "Arrested Development"? Maybe he was a "never-nude", lol.
It seems to me AC has grand ambitions to become as influential and well known in the "truther" community as David Icke and Alex Jones. The lack of support and hostility towards AC and his Hampstead allegations from the "truther" community shows this possible aim of AC's has failed.
Yes, he's down to the dregs now–getting most of his support from Barmy Bronny.
Sam B says:
I've always thought they are probably in Morocco or Spain. Russia is more expensive than London.
My vote would go to Morocco as well.
He doesn't look too shy to me: http://postimg.org/image/6j7rcr783/. From http://rickydearman.com/commercial-work/. I also really like the California Raisins one.
So much for my Tobias Funke theory. Guess the only possible explanation is that Ella is blind, then. Or a congenital liar.
Oh dear, maybe I should not have posted those. I predict some inferiority complex rant reaction by AC/NG in the form of more fantasy exclusives (how stupid is that literal 'dick-head' he conjured up on paper to try and shame RD?) LOL. He is so desperate now, obviously… although I do look forward to the next mad fantasy that says even more about AC than he realises. No one on his 'own' yt page ie guidance 2222 even interacts with him, how shameful for him… Btw 'Nemesis' was already used by Hempstars in their (+), or was it )+( ( who cares?) signature, and 'green' is just Abrahams not so difficult to suss 'hemp' replacement word.
I totally agree, SV. I've been thinking that about AC for a while now.
Abraham appears not to have found this video on YT.
(video link redacted)
I've flagged this video on YouTube.
Can you delete the link to it? The pictures of P & Q come up which I wasn't expecting. TBH I haven't watched it. I've got nicer things I could be doing, like somewhere on my list is getting all my Sabine/Hemming etc bookmarks in some order and writing a reply to Tim Haines. Nice things first though. Thank you for watching (or scanning) so we don't have to.
Please delete my link.
Ella needs a boob job and a brain transplant.
Possibly in Spain 25th March 2015 according to Ninorc: http://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1062446132&postcount=11140
'Still this thread chunders on, with those who seem to want the original allegations to be true – no doubt because they supposedly prove The Biggest Secret – and others seeking to condemn the mother as, 'evil'. There is evil in this case and it emanates from Abraham Christie, whom I have known personally for twenty years but not spoken to in seven, because he became so abusive and confrontational. Is Abe, 'evil'? Well, I didn't think so when we used to hang out and nor, obviously, did the woman he married and with whom he had four children.
That woman, the estranged wife, has changed her opinion: 'I do not know what has happened to that man he has become an evil moonster' (sic – maybe a 'moonster' is some kind of demonic loony?) Well, you might say, she's a woman scorned and that's true, but she's also the mother of Abraham's children, who herself was controlled and manipulated by him for years: 'I read an article with the kids being interviewed and it brought back memories. I know exactly what he's done and so do my kids. It's terrible, but the mother is turning a blind eye to it. Her friend witnessed it and said, 'cos Ella is so in love with him, she chose to ignore it. Her friend said that.'
'Can you hear him talking to them? He also beat the girl with a spoon. Can't you see her head is still green (bruised) in some parts? They looked like he's given them something to eat as well. The sick man has gone too far this time. He battered them… that's what he did to me, spoon hitting, but told everyone he just tapped me, like he's saying with this child. He's so wrong, he is not well. I don't know what is wrong with him. What does he want, to die? He's not fit enough to be around kids. In another quote, it said how he grabbed the boy's ear and twisted it. That's him all over, but the mother didn't say anything because she's so in love with him. (Maybe) she's slightly touched, or scared of him, but I don't believe she is scared. I think they're both enjoying the limelight.'
'They said that this all came to light suddenly, after all these years, in Morocco, where he's safe from getting knicked for the kids 'cos of Moroccan law. He took them there for a month for a holiday, but it weren't, 'cos that's where it's all took place and he's messed it right up. (Now the kids have been taken into care) poor things and I bet they are questioned every day. He has really upset or ruined these kids lives, the way he's done this and the mother… they have both disappeared again. They're making themselves look guilty… and some suggest that them two are the abusers and trying to blackmail the father… It's really not looking good for him at all and his past history with the social services doesn't help.'
Those who continue to defend Abraham and accuse some 200 people of being 'evil' should consider, if evil is being done, is it statistically more likely to be the work of one sick individual, or an organised conspiracy that involves teachers, social workers, police, judiciary? If you think it's the latter, then I think you are being irrational. To say the least. Abraham comes from a big family and has many friends and associates. Why, do you imagine, do none of us support him? The ex says: 'JP called me last week as well and he doesn't believe a word. He said he went to their house in Hampstead and Abe and the mum locked the girl in a room and put a broomstick in front so she couldn't get out. That was after he told JP that they had been abused and he's said he didn't like what he saw. Why would you put them through more trauma? So he left.'
The people who are fighting Abe's battle for him while he lies low in Spain probably have their own agendas and certainly do not know him very well. I was surprised to find that I have Facebook friends in common with Araya Soma and I am afraid that one of those friendships, in particular, has been destroyed because that person, who is conveniently located to personally intervene and to tell that silly bitch to shut up and sit down, refuses to get involved. He seems to agree with Araya's insistence that the people Abe has randomly accused should submit to examinations to show they have no identifying birthmarks or tattoos. I think that makes him a sponge-brained, morally vacuous hippy twit! As it goes, Araya continues to slander innocent people, whom she has never met, and her petition has exposed those children's' identities to millions. In fact, she is complicit in their abuse. If I was Dan the locksmith, I'd have her kicked off Facebook by now, at the very least.
The way this case has been covered by the alt. media has also obliged me to revise my opinion of several self-styled 'journalists' and commentators, whom I formerly respected. Richie Allen's fawning interview with Sabine McNeill was contemptible. This woman has given herself some quasi para-legal status as a 'McKenzie's friend' without apparently understanding how the Law works. There has been no 'gagging order' but simply due process and her leaking of the childrens' police ABE interviews – which are sub judicae – is in contempt of court. That is why she is wanted by the police, not because she has done anything to compromise any evil-doer. Again, like Araya Soma, Sabine has herself abused those kids by exposing their identities. As for Belinda McKenzie, she does not even appear to understand the legal jargon and yet she presents herself as an expert!
Brian Gerrish's UK Column video, after last week's judicial ruling, was appalling. In fact, the only commentator who has been really perceptive is Thomas Sheridan. I am not his biggest fan (his overt jealousy of Russell Brand is pathetic) but Sheridan got it right in his analysis of the original video on The Velocity of Now edition from February 18th. I don't necessarily agree with his conjecture that the amping-up of the Hampstead case is intended to distract attention from the very real abuses that took place at Dolphin Square, but it may be that shills operating on behalf of the PTB have been involved. I certainly agree that the hysteria surrounding this case and the unethical behaviour of the accusers has undermined the credibility of those who are genuinely concerned with getting to the truth of child rapists and murderers within the British establishment.'
…Abe selling dope in Spain…
http://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1062442042&postcount=10325
'This is evidence that Abe's money is running out. His gold trading business in Wood Green is surely kaput and has been a disaster. Abe is pretending to be at his place in Morocco, but is really hiding out in Spain, where his associates must be aware of his profile in the mainstream media and that he's wanted by UK police, so he can't work with them. (I leave to your imagination the nature of this 'work')….
The Spanish version still up http://hampstead-actions.blogspot.com.es/
But, I discover, so is a German and UK version too e.g http://hampstead-actions.blogspot.de/2015/08/video-makers-needed-urgently.html
You ready for this…
From a very good source!!
Ella has been beat up by AC!
This wouldn't surprise me, but can you reveal any more info'?
Yes, turns out there's a good reason for that…I'll have more on it tomorrow, I hope. 🙂
Aroya Soma sounds like a charmer : Holocaust denier who thinks Jews run the world and….the Earth is flat, there is no such thing as gravity and so on !!!
Just ask him or her.
Is that where you heard it from? Are you in contact with them?
I cannot say, however, I wish I could.
Put the question to him and see what he says.
He is so off the wall mental, Ella is also accused of been in the cult by him!!!!!!!!
This is what you are dealing with!
But she has done so much bad in the past, she only had this coming to her.
Good question. Care to elaborate, Anon?
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Not forgetting his ex wives first 4 children that he beat treated like slaves and made them lie that their own father abused them a lie social services were told years ago if they did something then maybe this would not be happening
@anonymous. Thanks for the info. What kind of things did he make the 4 children do in terms of treating them like slaves? Thanks for anything you can help with that gives some more background on his personality. Any details help.
Lisa Jeanne Vunk says:
Once again I am drawn to the cartoon fractal…just don't know if it is the Good With or the Black Witches…lol…:P
Is that really Lisa Vunk?
I've no idea what you mean. Have you got a link to those cartoon fractals?
Something I suggest you might want to do. Compare the previously not mentioned diaries, particularly the girl's, with the findings in the medical reports, particularly a certain finding in respect of the girl.
I can be obtuse too!
Lisa, your words are English, but your sentence is not. Care to elaborate?
Lisa – get dressed – I'm a sensitive person. :OOOOO

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Q: how to transfer xml created in angular to a file in node.js i wanna use it every time from  my bpmn project in angular post xml created in a Separate file inside my backend .For this I created a directory in backend.The following codes is in node.js
var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var fs = require('fs');
var http = require('http');
cors = require('cors');
var app = express();
app.use(cors());
const router = express.Router();
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));

app.post('/', function(req, res) {
    let body = '';
    let dir = './example-dir';
    req.on('data', function(data) {
      body += data;
    });
    if (!fs.existsSync(dir)) {
      fs.mkdirSync(dir);
    }
    req.on('end', function() {
      fs.writeFile(dir + '/result.xml', body, function(err) {
        if (err) {
          return console.log(err);
        }
        res.send('You just created new xml file!')
      });
    });
  })

  const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;

  app.set('port', port);
  var server = http.createServer(app)

   server = app.listen(port, () => {
    console.log('Connected to port ' + port )
  })

i created a restapi.service.ts :
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient, HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';
import { Observable, throwError } from 'rxjs';
import { retry, catchError } from 'rxjs/operators';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class RestapiService {
  apiURL = 'http://localhost:3000';
  constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }

  httpOptions = {
    headers: new HttpHeaders({
      'Content-Type': 'application/xml'
    })
  }

  savexml(item):Observable<{}>{
    return this.http.post(this.apiURL,item, this.httpOptions)
    .pipe(
      retry(1)

    )

  }

The following codes is in app.component.ts :
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  title = 'MyAngularBPMNTest';

  modeler;
  form: any[];
  constructor(private http: RestapiService , private Http :HttpClient ) {
  }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.modeler = new Modeler({
      container: '#canvas',
      width: '100%',
      height: '600px',
      additionalModules: [
        PropertiesPanelModule,

        // Re-use original bpmn-properties-module, see CustomPropsProvider
        {[InjectionNames.bpmnPropertiesProvider]: ['type', OriginalPropertiesProvider.propertiesProvider[1]]},
        {[InjectionNames.propertiesProvider]: ['type', CustomPropsProvider]},

        // Re-use original palette, see CustomPaletteProvider
        {[InjectionNames.originalPaletteProvider]: ['type', OriginalPaletteProvider]},
        {[InjectionNames.paletteProvider]: ['type', CustomPaletteProvider]},
      ],
      propertiesPanel: {
        parent: '#properties'
      }
      ,
      moddleExtension: {
        custom: customModdle
      }
    });

    this.load();
  }

  handleError(err: any) {
    if (err) {
      console.warn('Ups, error: ', err);
    }
  }

  load(): void {
    const url = '/assets/bpmn/initial.bpmn';
    this.Http.get(url, {
      headers: {observe: 'response'}, responseType: 'text'
    }).subscribe(
      (x: any) => {
        console.log('Fetched XML, now importing: ', x);
        this.modeler.importXML(x, this.handleError);
      },
      this.handleError
    );
  }

  save(): void {
    this.modeler.saveXML((err: any, xml: any) =>
     this.form =xml);
    // console.log('Result of saving XML: ', err, xml));
    this.http.savexml(this.form).subscribe((data) => {
console.log(data);
    }
    )}
}

i tried post xml created in node but nothing happened!! in fact gave me this error
" Error Code: 200
Message: Http failure during parsing for http://localhost:3000/"

please help me!!

A: It seems you want to just upload a file on your server. The nodejs logic you implemented shouldn't work because of its async nature and it seems you're trying to put all your data into the body in a non standard way that can include headers and some other unwanted data.
Since you're already using an HTTP request on Express and your goal in the end is just to upload a file, you may want to use multer.
In this case you're going to pass the xml file on Angular with 'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data' and by giving a name to the file that Express will recognize:
For instance (taken originally from the official library's github linked above and adapted):
<form action="/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <input type="file" name="xml-name-up-to-you" />
</form>

Once you've implemented this part on Angular, you can write something like this on your Express application:
var express = require('express')
var multer  = require('multer')
var upload = multer({ dest: 'uploads/' }) // folder in which the upload will be saved

var app = express()

app.post('/', upload.single('xml-name-up-to-you'), function (req, res, next) {
  // req.file is the `xml-name-up-to-you` file
  // req.body will hold the text fields, if there were any
})


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Michigan reaches College Football Playoffs
(photo courtesy of CBS Sports)
(GRAPEVINE, TX) - Two SEC teams and the first Group of 5 team in the history of the College Football Playoff will play for the national title, as the CFP selection committee revealed No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Cincinnati as its top four teams Sunday on Selection Day. Alabama will face Cincinnati in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, and Michigan will face Georgia in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Dec. 31. The winners will play Jan. 10 in the national championship game in Indianapolis. It was a relatively drama-free weekend, as the committee's top four remained the same, just reshuffled, following the conference title games Saturday. Alabama's dominant performance in its 41-24 over Georgia in the SEC championship game catapulted the one-loss Crimson Tide to the top spot. CFP Selection Committee Chair Gary Barta says the way Alabama beat Georgia, controlling the game, is what moved the Crimson Tide into the top spot. Michigan's 42-3 dismantling of Iowa in the Big Ten championship game solidified the Wolverines at No. 2. Barta said the committee gave no consideration to avoiding a rematch between the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs in the first round when seeding the teams. Undefeated Cincinnati, which won a school-record 13 games, punctuated its résumé with a convincing 35-20 win against No. 21 Houston in the American Athletic Conference championship game. It was the Bearcats' second straight American title, and this will mark their second straight New Year's Six bowl appearance as the highest-ranked Group of 5 conference champion. Notre Dame and Ohio State finished fifth and sixth in the CFP rankings and head to the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl and the Rose Bowl, respectively.


Are there any known astrological predictors for periods of higher fertility in humans?
Re: Predictors for Periods of Relative Fertility?
Lance, just take a few charts and see where Jupiter was moving at the time of conception. Many astrologers will tell you to look at when Jupiter is moving through the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th (5th from 5th), 10th and 11th houses/whole signs. Why would Jupiter moving through those houses bring about fertility? Because when in 1st it is expanding yourself, 4th expanding the home&family, 5th expanding the children, 7th expanding the relatioinship/marriage, 9th is 5th from 5th so from the 9th house Jupiter casts a Jupiter aspect (trine) onto the 1st and 5th for expansion, 11th is opposite the 5th so it is also casting an aspect onto the 5th house for expansion. Probably best to also compare the couples' charts to see if his houses of fertility fall into her houses of fertility and then most likely for fruits. F.ex. her 5th is his 1st or 7th, then more likely. Her 1st/7th is his 5th, more likely ...etc.
I have many examples of conceptions happening when Jupiter moves through people's 5th & 7th signs (counting from either the ASC or from the East Point). I do also take care to consider the Vx axis as well, although it is often around the EP, occasionally it falls into another sign.
I've also seen signs of fertility (expansion) with Jupiter moving through the opposite sign of those two mentioned above and therefore is highly influencing those opposite signs, in the 11th & 1st sign of the chart.
For example in my own case my first child was conceived when Jupiter was around my EP, the second child is not really mine but it comes from my cell and therefore I count it. My fertility was "expanded" with medication to help another couple conceive and this was when Jupiter was in 5th sign from EP. The third child was conceived when Jupiter was around MC and in 7th sign from ASC, 10th from EP (this is his father's 5th sign) and was born when Jup had moved into 11th from the EP. The fourth child was conceived when Jupiter was in 12th from EP .. but it is also the 9th sign from ASC ... AND it is actually her father's 7th sign.
I can add another incident of fertility into my own story (my early days), but it didn't come to fruition as a baby born though. But conception happened when Jupiter was moving through my 7th from EP. Another conception happened when Jup was moving through my 9th from EP. Jupiter is now again moving through the 9th from EP and now I am seriously considering expanding the family again by helping children who don't have home by temporary fostering them.
Let's take a look at Angelina Jolie who has six children, three adopted and three are her biological children.
She first adopted on March 10th 2002 when Jupiter is in her first sign.
The second adoption was on July 6th 2005 when Jupiter was in her 4th sign.
The third adoption was on March 15th 2007 when Jupiter was moving through her Vx sign & Brad's 1st.
Her first born is born in May 2006 when Jupiter was in her 5th sign (conceived when Jup was in 4th, Brad's 11th).
The second birth was when her twins born on July 12th 2008 when Jupiter was in her 7th sign (conceived when Jup was in her Vx sign).
For the fertility, Brad Pitt's 1st sign is Angelina's Vx sign and his 11th sign is her 4th sign. He has his Jupiter in his 5th sign indicating many children.
Angelina has her Jupiter in 10th, conjunct her Moon which is the ruler of her 1st sign.
Kate Middleton is another celeb who has recently had 3 children, which is above average in the western world. She has her Jup in 4th sign from ASC, conjunct her IC.
1st child born July 22nd 2013, conceived when Jup was in her 11th and Prince William's 7th from ASC.
Second child born May 2nd 2015, conceived when Jup was in her 1st and Prince William's 9th (sq. his MC).
Third child born April 23rd 2018, born when Jup was in her 4th, conceived when Jup was in her 3rd (possibly when in 4th from EP) and Prince William's 11th.
Mia Farrow has 14 children. Her Jupiter is in the 5th sign from her ASC&EP.
Another celebrity with lots of children is Eddie Murphy who has 10 children! His Jupiter is partile conjunct his WP and is in the 7th sign from ASC as well. In his case Jup is also the ruler of his 5th sign.
Steven Spielberg has 6 children and his Jupiter is in the 5th sign from his ASC.
Clint Eastwood has 7 children and his Jup is in 7th from his EP.
Marlon Brando has 15 children and his Jup in his 1st house conj. EP. His Sun is conj. Moon in his 5th.
Tropical zodiac used for all charts.
I'd like to add Kris Kardashian / Jenner into this thread. Why? Because she has many children and I would like to see where Jupiter was at likely time of conception.
Kim Kardashian-West (born October 21, 1980) - Jupiter in Virgo for birth and conception.
Kylie Jenner (born August 10, 1997) - Jupiter in Aquarius for birth, Capricorn for conception.
She conceives when Jupiter is in 11th, 1st, 5th, 7th, 4th, 5th.
Lance, just take a few charts and see where Jupiter was moving at the time of conception. Many astrologers will tell you to look at when Jupiter is moving through the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th (5th from 5th), 10th and 11th houses/whole signs.
Arena, this is a Sidereal astrology forum. This doesn't look like Sidereal astrology. Is it some kind of Hindu-Vedic thing or maybe a reconstructed Greek-"tropical" thing? Or?
Mila Kunis recently had two children. She is born on August 14th 1983 at 5 pm.
Let's see where Jupiter was when she conceived.
Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher (born on October 1, 2014) - Jupiter in Leo at birth, Cancer at conception. Cancer is 7th from Mila's EP.
Dimitri Portwood Kutcher (born on November 30, 2016) - Jupiter in Libra at birth, Virgo at conception. Virgo is 9th from Mila's EP.
Many S/sidereal astrologers as well as tropical astrologers use the whole sign house system. Even though you and Jim and some others choose to use the Campanus house system, that doesn't make it right nor does it make it the only way to look at things.
FWIW, I don't know a single Sidereal astrologer who uses Whole House system AND employs house meanings.
I don't care how it's visually divided, but I do have to remind that we remain skeptical about houses having significance at all, since there has been no large-scale confirmation. Transits through the houses are even more suspect. The fact that you have named seven equal-sized houses means that you have stated conditions that more than 50% of the time a conception would hit by pure chance, in the absence of any astrological influence at all.
Julia Roberts has three children. Julia is born on October 28th 1967 at 12.16 am in Atlanta GA, USA.
Where was Jupiter when she conceived?
Henry Daniel Moder (born June 18, 2007) - Jupiter in Scorpio at conception.
Julia has her ASC and EP in tropical Cancer and Virgo is the 3rd (and contains her n. Jupiter) and Scorpio is her 5th sign.
Even though you do not employ house meanings, it does not mean that it has not been explored extensively by others. The only house system that I have seen consistently work is the whole house system. I have now mentioned 19 examples of fertility being enhanced or expanded when Jupiter moves through those whole sign houses. I can name many many more. I could go up to 100 cases, but it is a lot of work. But I mght do it in order to show people in this forum that those whole sign houses are most likely to bring about enhanced fertility/expansion of the family.
Any proof of astrological operations would be exciting, so please go for it!
Therefore, if 71 of the 100 cases has Jupiter in one of the 7 specified houses, we have cause to suspect a real phenomenon.
Let's explore what I can find about Mia Farrow's children - when she expanded her family. Mia has her ASC and EP in tropical Taurus.
twins Matthew and Sascha (born February 26, 1970) - Jup in Virgo at conception, 5th from Mia's 1st.
Fletcher (born March 14, 1974) - Jup in Aquarius at conception, 10th sign.
On December 19, 1987, Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow, later known as Ronan Farrow - Jup in Aries (possible EP for Mia).
Farrow and Previn adopted Vietnamese infants Lark Song Previn and Summer "Daisy" Song Previn, in 1973 and 1976, respectively, followed by the adoption of Soon-Yi from Korea around 1978.
Jup was in Capricorn and Aquarius in 1973, Aries and Taurus in 1976, Cancer and Leo in 1978.
In 1980 adopted Moses Farrow - Jupiter in Virgo for the most part.
In 1985, Farrow adopted Dylan Farrow (born July 1985, adopted at two weeks old). - Jup in Aquarius.
Between 1992 and 1995, Farrow adopted five more children: Tam Farrow; Kaeli-Shea Farrow, later known as Quincy Maureen Farrow; Frankie-Minh; Isaiah Justus; Gabriel Wilk Farrow, later known as Thaddeus Wilk Farrow and named after Elliott Wilk, the judge who oversaw Farrow's 1993 legal battle with Allen."
During this time Jupiter travelled from Virgo to Sagi. But I do not have the timings for these.
All we really need BTW is a final tally (count) of transiting Jupiter in the signs.
BTW, since you're using whole-sign houses using fictitious sign boundaries (Tropical signs), it's a flawed study. (I just realized you were doing that.) I'm going to go back and delete all the individual posts that list examples based upon the proven-not-to-exist boundaries of Tropical signs. However, I encourage you to present your final summaries (12 house counts for transiting Jupiter) in both Tropical and Sidereal schemes for comparison. The numbers will, of course, be different.
You can, of course, give your own opinions even in the face of 70 years of evidence to the contrary, but I won't let you get away with using a fictitious zodiac here as if there is some reason to grant it equal footing.
Let's try this famous man with 8 children, Mick Jagger. Jagger's EP is in Taurus and ASC is in Gemini.
"Jagger has eight children with five women. He also has five grandchildren, and became a great-grandfather on 19 May 2014, when Jade's daughter Assisi gave birth to a daughter.
Jagger has four children with model and actress Jerry Hall, the first is Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Scarlett Jagger born on 2 March 1984. The couple's second child was born 28 August 1985, named James Leroy Augustin Jagger. Hall gave birth to their third child, Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger, on 12 January 1992. The fourth — and last — child Jagger would have with Hall was Gabriel Luke Beauregard Jagger born on 9 December 1997. The couple's relationship ended after it was discovered that he had had an affair with Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez Morad, resulting in Jagger's seventh child, Lucas Maurice Morad Jagger, who was born on 18 May 1999. After the death of longtime girlfriend L'Wren Scott, Jagger started a relationship with ballerina Melanie Hamrick. Their son, Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger, was born on 8 December 2016."
All consistent with those whole sign houses from ASC or EP - more so with the EP.
It is very easy to look up charts online for tropical and quicker to use them. Very likely this will look the same/very similar with the sidereal charts casted.
Likely nobody is going to follow up on it, it will just get ignored. The real value will be in final side-by-side totals. These will likely vary quite a lot just as (say) natal sign tallies for two zodiac schemes vary considerably in the numbers.
Please don't post individual examples that rely on the Tropical zodiac existing for anybody to duplicate the results.
If data used consistently is from the tropical zodiac it is not a flawed study, it is simply based on the tropical zodiac.
Even though you have compiled a lot of data on sidereal signs, it does not mean that tropical borders are "proven-not-to-exist boundaries", especially not when the data has not been compared in the compilation. Comparing just a few charts, but not all of them means that proper research comparison has not been done.
I am in the flow state now and I am gathering the data into an excel sheet compiling it simply into which sidereal whole sign house Jup is found around conception. This is getting so very interesting because it is consistently in the houses I mentioned... which doesn't surprise me at all because I keep seeing it all the time.
In all the largest studies, andin most of the medium studies, it was ompared side by side.
When you're on a Sidereal forum, it's polite to use astro.com and convert the charts to Sidereal.
I like you Arena, and so does Jim, but this is the only Sidereal community online. There are hundreds of places you can post tropical and house system roulette stuff. There's no need to drag it here to pollute Jim's forum and make him pay storage fees for it.
This site is for the Sidereal zodiac only. BTW we only use Campanus because it's the closest generally available in software house system we've found to the mundoscope positions.
At midnight I've managed to get the following results out of 54 sorting data by sidereal zodiac.
Houses with Jupiter moving through 7th, 5th and 10th at the time of conception are the winners so far.
Thanks. Let's go with what you have. In fact, with your target of 100 cases, this is a decent comparison: We can assess at the halfway mark and see if the second half matches or diverges.
Your original premise was that Jupiter would indicate conception when in the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th houses.
However, that Chi-square is boosted by strong negative results. The 6th, 8th, and 12th houses (three of the four classic misfortune houses) are significantly low. This is not a bad start, and I'd encourage you to increase the sample size.
This is what we have taking them individually.
For the seven houses specified, you get 47 (as you mentioned). Working the numbers for a sample size of 54, we get a mean expectancy of 31.5, and any value over 38.6 surpasses the 1-in-20 threshold.
Fertility is not just releasing ovum and sperm.
We has thoughts and feelings and beliefs and if those things have a receptive nurturing "bed" in which to implant then growth can occur.
I gather though you specifically want info on a womans womb being able to nurture carry and deliver a healthy baby. Imo....that is totally individualistic and would have more to do with progressed or lunar returns for the specific person. Ie where they currently are in thier life path. I am a very fertile person by nature as in my chart my midpoints and aspects lend me to be receptive and nurturing but those concepts/tendencies have manifested in different ways then just catching sperm over the course of my life.
My mother had 8 full term pregnancies. My sister 6. My aunt had 6. They are normal people not celebrities. While I respect Arenas research I think the population being drawn from is skewed to material (jupiter) sucessfully people and not a fair representation of the general population.
If you are looking for ways to enhance the likelyhood of conception then I would suggest the mundane methods: thinking loving thoughts and being in a receptive mindset, taking supreme care of all health issues, fresh clean raw foods, plenty of fresh air excersize and clean water, cleaning out psychological garbage/subconscious programing and generally being true and living according to ones inner truth.
I do believe the planet Pluto to be a supreme force in conception of all kinds.
According to the hermetic rule or rule of Hermes, "The zodiacal location of the Moon at the moment of conception is in line with the Ascendant-Descendant axis at the moment of birth." For example, someone born with the Ascendant in 23° 5' sidereal Gemini would have been conceived when the Moon was either in 23° 5' Gemini or Sagittarius. This was brought to my attention by siderealist Robert Powell in The Astrological Revolution, p. 36.
I'm skeptical of this but even if it's true, it probably works only when the birth is natural. Statistician Michel Gauquelin noticed that the Mars effect, so dramatic among athletes born in the first half of the 20th century, disappeared among athletes born after 1950 and attributed this to the decline of natural birth.* Same thing with the conception rule. If a child is born at the convenience of the doctor instead of the time appointed by the stars, the conception rule (assuming it's true) no longer applies.
*There will always be natural birth but it's been in decline for decades and that's one explanation for the disappearance of the Mars effect. However, and this is a bit off the subject, it's possible that Michel, without realizing it, was the first to discover the influence of performance enhancing drugs on athletes.
Natural birth is coming back in the US, mostly because of the lack of care available to women in poor and rural areas. It's rising hand in hand with the maternal and neo-natal death rates.
This so-called Prenatal Epoch used to be a popular esoteric theory that was all the rage for rectification a century ago. It's easily disproven, though - on the physical plane - and its supporters mostly fell back to asserting that the chart produced is not of conception but of some other spiritually significant moment.
The full version is that the Moon and Ascendant trade places between the nativity and the conception chart, so getting an approximate hit when Ascendant was where your natal Moon was would give a "conception Moon" that should be the natal Ascendant. In my case, with a recorded birth time of 4:13 AM that has behaved well for decades (it surely isn't more than a quarter minute off), the variations of the Prenatal Epoch suggest birth times of either 4:31 or 4:00 AM.
Of course, this suggests December 26 as a conception date. My parents were married January 10 and were a bit old fashioned, but, even if they were covering up their humanity with a fib, I was born October 10 and have seen the medical records saying I was early.


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Q: Updating an attribute in DynamoDB that contains hyphen or dash (-) in javascript
in dynamoDB I have a table that has attributes that are hyphenated. (e.g. first-name)
Now I want to update them using javascript.
This is my code so far:
//create UpdateExpression and ExpressionAttributeValues
    let updateExpression = "set ";
    let expressionAttributeValues ={};
    if (e.firstName !== null){
        updateExpression = updateExpression + " "+ 'first-name'+" = :f,";
        expressionAttributeValues[":f"] = e.firstName;
    }

    let table = "tableName";
    let bpNumber = e.bpNumber;
    let params = {
        TableName: table,
        Key: {
            "bpNumber": bpNumber
        },
        UpdateExpression: updateExpression,
          ExpressionAttributeValues: expressionAttributeValues,
          ReturnValues:"UPDATED_NEW"

    };

    console.log("Updating the item...");
      docClient.update(params, function(err, data) {
          if (err) {
              console.error("Unable to update item. Error JSON:", JSON.stringify(err, null, 2));
          } else {
              console.log("UpdateItem succeeded:", JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
          }
      });

However this throws me this error:
Unable to update item. Error JSON: {
  "message": "Invalid UpdateExpression: Syntax error; token: \"-\", near: \"first-name\""

Is there any way around this?
Thank you for your help :)

A: When you use attributes that contain reserved words, spaces or special characters you have to use placeholders. Take a look at documentation.
In the updateExpression instead of first-name you can use, for example, #fn placeholder and then define ExpressionAttributeNames:
ExpressionAttributeNames: {
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Secretariat was a horse that won the 1973 triple crown but along the way he captured the hearts of millions on sports fans all over the world. On the last leg of the triple crown he broke the track record at Belmont that still stands today almost 40 years later. Although many people don't consider horses athletes this horse changed many minds. It seemed like anything "Big Red" wanted to do he did and he won.
Secretariat was sired by Bold Ruler and SomethingRoyal. Although SomethingRoyal wasn't a champion at all, in fact she only raced once and didn't run well her mate Bold Ruler was a champion that won the Preakness stakes. The breeding of Bold Ruler is legendary as he was a great horse in stud.
Although this movie should have been made years ago it didn't happen until the success of the movie Seabiscut and that is a shame. I was about 5 years old and I remember my father who liked to play the ponies had me sit in front of the television to watch the race. Since Secretariat broke the track record in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness (under dispute) my dad knew we would see history made that day.
I can't wait for the movie to come out, in a way it will be great to see this great horse on the big screen. A few weeks ago a buddy of mine started a website about New York sports and I listed Secretariat as one of the best moments in New York sports history. The funny thing is I don't know which moment to pick. The horse also won 3 stakes races as a two year old at Saratoga and Belmont and then won his first race as a three year old at Aqueduct in the Bay Shore stakes.
You can read more of the details on Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy the movie when it comes out in October.


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2005 FIN – Number and Size of Fastener Acquisitions Increase in 2004
May 10, 2005 FIN – The worldwide fastener industry experienced a significant pick-up in deal activity during 2004, "which is a very welcome change from the previous two years when deal-making in the industry was the slowest in more than ten years,'" Richard Hagan explained in announcing his eighth annual Top Ten Fastener Acquisitions of the Year list.
"The volume of transactions completed during 2004 was more than double that of 2003 – a year when we had difficulty identifying ten fastener deals which could actually be considered significant,"' Hagan observed.
Hagan cited four very sizable deals' as representing the increase in major transactions. The largest was the purchase of Hillman Companies Inc. by Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC for $510 million. The next three are the purchase of Ivaco Inc. by Heico Companies LLC for $284 million; the acquisition of the Borstlap Group by ABN AMRO Capital Ltd. for an undisclosed amount that Hagan estimated at more than $100 million; and the purchase of Heads & Threads International LLC by Capital Partners Inc. and Heads & Threads management for $54 million.
"Based on the number of deals completed and/or underway thus far in 2005, we are quite optimistic that deal-making in the fastener industry will gain momentum this year and continue at a strong pace for the foreseeable future,"' Hagan predicted. "There are numerous reasons for the pick-up in deal activity, but we believe the primary factors driving deal-making at this time are pent-up demand by potential sellers, and excellent financial and economic conditions for potential buyers.'"
"Many fastener company owners – such as someone seeking to retire in the near future – have been hesitant to offer their businesses for sale over the past couple of years because of the general lack of interest in making strategic acquisitions by the vast majority of industry players,'" Hagan explained. "We believe that many fastener company owners have been sitting on the sidelines over the past couple of years weighing when is the right time for me to put my business on the market and many have decided or will soon decide that conditions for deal-making have significantly improved."
Historically low interest rates, a general easing of credit restrictions by lenders and improvement in the U.S. and world economies have created "excellent financial and economic conditions for buyers,"' Hagen noted.
The economy "seems to have 'bottomed' during 2002-2003 and is headed on an upward path,"' which means the "typical fastener manufacturer or distributor was forced to 'fine tune' operations and perhaps do some 'right-sizing' over the past 2-3 years and is thus well positioned to capitalize on improving trading conditions,"' Hagan pointed out.
Also price expectations of most fastener company sellers are "generally more realistic now than during the 1998-2001 period when purchase price multiples peaked,'" Hagan finds.
Top 10 Deals of the 2004
(Arranged in chronological order)
1) In February 2004, UMECO plc (London Stock Exchange: UMC) purchased 80% of the outstanding common stock of privately-owned Tailored Logistics Corp. for an initial cash purchase price of £4.5 million (US$8.2 million).
Additional consideration is payable depending on Tailored Logistics financial performance in 2004. UMECO has the right to acquire the balance of the outstanding shares from 2007 onward based on a fixed multiple of trailing operating profits.
Tailored Logistics, located in Fort Worth, IN, is an aerospace fastener and assembly hardware distributor specializing in kitting solutions for the MRO requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense and the commercial aerospace market.
Following the transaction closing, Tailored Logistics will work closely with Abscoa Inc. (acquired in June 2001), UMECOs other U.S. aerospace fastener distributor headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.
2) In February Continental Midland LLC purchased Huck Automotive Fasteners from Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) for an undisclosed price.
The four business units comprising Huck generated sales of more than $100 million in 2003 and employed 560 people.
Included in the transaction were Jacobson Manufacturing, a manufacturer of cold-formed male and female fasteners, operating from a 280,000 sq ft factory in Medina, OH; Continental/Midland, a manufacturer of cold-formed male fasteners and components, operating from a 300,000 sq ft factory in Park Forest, IL; Midwest Fastener, a manufacturer of cold-formed male fasteners, operating from a 103,000 sq ft factory in Valparaiso, IN; and MSD Stamping, a manufacturer of metal stampings and self-wrenching fasteners, operating from a 40,000 sq ft factory in Livonia, MI.
All four business units were acquired by Alcoa during 2000 and 2001.
The divestiture marks the exit of Alcoa from the business of supplying non-proprietary fasteners to the North American automotive market.
The acquisition marks the return of Robert S. Kaminski, owner of Continental Midland, to the automotive fastener business. Kaminski had been pursuing other interests since 1999, when he sold Continental/Midland for $106 million to Cordant Technologies Inc. Alcoa subsequently acquired Cordant in 2000.
3) In February Lone Star Fasteners LP purchased the fastener manufacturing operations of T-3 Energy Services Inc. (NASDAQ: TTES) for $7.7 million.
The purchase price consisted of $7.4 million cash paid at closing and two promissory notes totaling $300,000, with principal payments contingent upon the future performance of the operations sold.
Three business units were included: LSS-Lone Star-Houston Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of standard and metric fasteners for the industrial and petro-chemical markets; Walker Bolt Manufacturing Co., a small-batch manufacturer of fasteners for commercial and military applications; and Ameritech Fastener Manufacturing, a producer of specialty fasteners and components for the military and aerospace markets.
Upon the transaction closing, several members of the existing management team, including Judy Jandl, president of LSS-Lone Star-Houston, departed to pursue other business interests.
4) In March Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC purchased Hillman Companies Inc. from Allied Capital Corp. (NYSE: ALD) for a total purchase price of $510 million.
Hillman is a manufacturer and distributor of specialty hardware such as fasteners, keys, key duplication systems, identification tags, signage and picture hanging hardware supplying regional home centers (including Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Lowes), hardware stores, pet stores and mass merchants.
Hillman, headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, generated net sales of $351.6 million in 2004 and employs 1,800 people.
Allied Capital acquired Hillman in a management buy-out in 2001 and expanded the company with two bolt-on acquisitions during 2002, purchasing the Lowes specialty fastener operations of R&B Inc. and the FAS-N-IT and Anchor Wire/DIY division of Fastenal Co.
Code Hennessy & Simmons is a Chicago-based private equity firm with more than $1.5 billion of equity capital under management and a portfolio of 18 operating companies.
5) In April M&M Aerospace Hardware Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of B/E Aerospace Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAV) purchased CMP SAS for an undisclosed amount.
CMP, located in Garges-Les-Gonesse (near Paris), is one of the leading distributors of aerospace fasteners and assembly hardware in France.
CMP supplies approximately 400 active customer accounts and derives 85% of revenue from the aerospace industry and 15% from automotive and industrial customers.
CMP operates from a 5,300 sq ft facility and employs 15 people. CMP has kitting programs in place with several blue chip aerospace OEMs in France and will enhance M&M Aerospaces ability to supply Airbus, the French military and both of their numerous suppliers and subcontractors.
6) In June Anixter International Inc. (NYSE: AXE) purchased Distribution Dynamics Inc. for $32.8 million in cash.
Eden Prairie, MN-based Distribution Dynamics distributes fasteners and assembly hardware to OEMs. The company generated sales of $76 million in 2003, operates from 16 U.S. locations and employs about 240 people.
Distribution Dynamics had been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since April 2004 and was sold in an auction conducted by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Minnesota.
DDI signed an agreement to be acquired by Anixter for $25 million three days prior to its bankruptcy filing, but the auction process drew competing offers from Fastenal Co. Anixter ultimately agreed to pay the 31% higher purchase price.
Following the transaction closing, DDI was merged with the other fastener distribution operations of Anixter Pentacon (acquired in September 2002) and Walters Hexagon (acquired in September 2003) and the combined operations were renamed Anixter Fasteners.
7) In October, Simpson Manufacturing Co. Inc. (NYSE: SSD) purchased Quik Drive USA Inc. and its affiliated companies in Canada and Australia for a total purchase price of $37 million.
The deal consisted of $32 million cash paid at closing and $5 million of Simpson common stock.
Quik Drive manufacturers a proprietary line of collated screws and auto-feed screw driving attachments for power screwdrivers and screw guns. Quik Drive screws are used in a range of construction applications. Quik Drive products are marketed to contractors and the construction markets in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
8) In November ABN AMRO Capital Ltd., the private equity arm of ABN AMRO Bank N.V., purchased privately-owned Borstlap Group in a management buy-out for an undisclosed purchase price.
Borstlap, headquartered in Tilburg, the Netherlands, is an international stocking distributor of fastener products with more than 80 branches in 15 countries (Europe, Asia, North America and the Caribbean).
Borstlap, promoted as Masters in Fasteners,' trades worldwide under the Fabory brand name.
Founded in 1947, Borstlap generated net sales of 214 million (US$276 million) in 2003 and employs more than 1,600 people worldwide.
ABN AMRO Capital acquired an 85% equity stake from the founding Borstlap family, with the companys management group owning the remainder of the equity.
9) In December Heico Companies LLC purchased Ivaco Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange: IVA) for $284 million in cash.
Ivaco, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is one of North Americas largest manufacturers of steel billets, hot-rolled bars & shapes, wire & processed rod and standard & specialty fasteners.
Ivacos major business units include: Ivaco Rolling Mills, Sivaco Wire Group, Infasco, Ingersoll Fasteners, Infasco Nut and Galvano.
Ivaco, which had been operating under Canadian bankruptcy protection since September 2003, recorded net sales of $622 million and a net loss of $142 million in 2003.
Ivaco employs approximately 2,200 people at 40 operating locations in Canada and the United States.
Heico, a Chicago-based investment firm owned by Michael Heisley, specializes in buying distressed companies and turning them around.
Forbes magazine listed Heico as the 117th largest U.S. private company in 2003 with $1.4 billion in net sales and 9,000 employees.
10) On December 31, 2004, Heads & Threads International LLC, a subsidiary of Alleghany Corp. (NYSE: Y), was purchased for $53.8 million cash in a management buyout by Capital Partners Inc. of Greenwich, CT, and the Heads & Threads management team.
HTI, headquartered in Bloomingdale, IL, is a leading importer and master distributor of commercial fasteners, selling to the North American distributor market.
HTI generated sales of $158.2 million and pre-tax earnings of $917,000 in 2004, a significant improvement over 2003 when the business recorded a pre-tax loss of $4.9 million (including restructuring charges).
HTI operates five distribution centers and six warehouses strategically located across the U.S. ©2005/2014 Fastener Industry News.
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Editors Note: For addition information contact Richard Hagan, president of Pinnacle Capital Corporation, 74 Trinity Place #1205, New York, NY 10006. Tel: 212 267-8200 Fax 212 267-7811 E-mail: rphagan@pinnaclecapitalcorp.com ©
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With recent trends towards naturopathic medicine, supplements have gotten a huge popularity boost. Why take a prescription when you can get what you need from diet change and vitamins? While I'm a big fan of medical personalization and know that there are certain supplements that can support general health, most people take a boatload of supplements when they probably don't need them. Add to that the fact that cheap supplements with fillers like sawdust that you can pick up at the drugstore are most people's first line of defense and supplements can easily become more harmful than helpful.
So, how do you know if you need a supplement and where can you get the best ones for you? Let's dive in.
Patients and the general public have a notion that because supplements are over the counter and "natural," that they're healthier and safer carte blanche—but that's not the truth. Part of the reason they're not is because there are no federal standards for supplements. There is no one governmental or third-party organization that regulates non-prescription medications, so you can't be certain that the vitamin C you grab off the shelf is active and useful for your body.
There's also a difference between the professional formulas only your physician or practitioners can buy and what is on the shelves at the local drugstore chain. Many of these professional companies have created their own quality control division, and test each of their products to ensure a therapeutic benefit that is free of toxins and chemicals. The majority of them will also share their quality standards with the consumer—like how much mercury is allowed in the fish oil before they release it from the manufacturing plant.
But ultimately, those judgement calls are up to the company, making it important to find one that displays transparency and will be honest about their standards. There are a few companies who have created quality standards for over-the-counter supplements, making it easier to determine safe and accurate labeling (anything with a USP Verified Mark has been tested to ensure that what's on the label is actually what's in the supplement bottle).
Supplements often contain both active and inactive ingredients, and it's important to be aware of the full ingredient lists for both. If you just lock in the "active" ingredient (like magnesium), you might miss the fact that the inactive ingredients contain fillers like gluten, dairy, sugar or something else your body doesn't need.
When someone brings in a supplement into my office, I first scan the bottle for the form of the vitamin or nutrient. For example, in an adrenal support complex, a few different active herbs and nutrients could be used. I'm always scanning to find which herbs and if the active part of the plant is being used in that particular formula.
For example, with the ever popular ashwagandha: The root is the best part of the plant to use for its adaptogenic properties so if a formula doesn't specifically say root, then that supplement isn't working for you the way you want it to.
After I look at the active ingredient, I scan for the inactive, or other ingredients list. That's where you'll find what the capsule is made of, what fillers a company puts in to take up space, what dyes they used to make the pill a homogenous color ('cause herbs look like dirt and who wants to take a dirt-colored capsule?), and any added sugar and preservatives. These are just as important as the active ingredient, since they can be hiding unnecessary components that you don't need to be ingesting daily.
What a capsule is made of can make or break a supplement too. I prefer capsules that are vegetarian friendly, which is typically derived from cellulose. They're also generally hypoallergenic, so I can confidently recommend them to patients with autoimmune conditions, environmental sensitivities, or food allergies, and not worry about them negatively reacting to the capsule itself.
In general, vegetarian capsules are more expensive to manufacture and can break more easily. That's why many companies with lower price tags will instead use a tablet form or a cheaper, synthetic capsule. Neither of these take into account the supplement as a whole though, and can make them less usable for our bodies.
Where Should You Buy Supplements?
As someone who has done a lot of vetting of supplement companies, asked the hard questions about quality, and read the ingredient labels to see what things are inside the capsule, I have to say that you should buy them from someone you trust did the same thing, or do your own research. Almost anyone will sell you a supplement at this point, from your friend or family's network marketing company to your local grocery store and Amazon.
What's most important is that you buy from someone you can trust knows what they're talking about, and is transparent enough to answer your questions. You'll find a lot of people out there wanting to make a quick buck, but you'll also find a lot of good people and companies who want to make a difference—and that's who you should spend your money with and trust with your health.