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The Once and Still Unrequited
By L. Julius M. Turman
Recently, when I learned that my mother would shortly die, I came face to face with both reality and illusion. Knowing that you will soon lose the person you are closest to in the world, the questions of your own existence are naturally brought into focus. My mother understood this and she took the time, before the cancer claimed her life, to answer so many questions.
We spoke once at 3:30 am, and she said over the phone: "I don't want to leave anything left unsaid." Over the next 3 months my mom and I put it all on the table, including our perspectives on topics such as sexuality, poverty, policing in the U.S., politics, family history, world history, love, marriage and death. When she died on March 24, there were no secrets and no omissions between us.
We talked about bringing family to San Francisco for Pride, and she remarked that people should celebrate who they are and how me once being a Grand Marshal was an open expression of something so rarely spoken of in our family. I told her it meant the world to me that she understood. I also remarked that it showed our own progress that as Black Americans, for once, we were the unrequited. She looked me in the eyes and said, "Once, and still."
With those three simple words, my mother brought me sharply back to the reality that as Black Americans, let alone, Gay Black Americans, we still do not enjoy the benefits of full equality. My mother was the first person to tell me that no oppressed group has ever learned the lesson from others. As they were treated, so do they still treat others. She pointed out that while some view the LGBT movement as successfully opening doors for its members, Black Americans were still struggling to gain improvements and changes in their everyday lives.
"We should learn to lean on each other more. Not just Blacks and Gays, but all people," is what she told me. "The common experience and the different perspectives should make us all stronger and not competitors."
My mother had been part of a generation that saw Black and Gay as polar opposites, but she had evolved into the person who stepped even beyond tolerance and acceptance and embraced true love and understanding. I was proud of her pioneering spirit, and her ability to leave behind the teachings of her childhood.
"So mom, what do you think of tasers?" I once asked. She said, "I think the more important question is, 'What do you think, Commissioner?' I don't know much about the subject, but it puts me in mind of police dogs, fire hoses, billy clubs, and Bull Conner. Growing up in Alabama, a kind word from someone of a different race was rare and unexpected. Don't go back, son, move forward."
After hearing her words, I took seriously the notion that tasers were more often used against Black and Brown persons, and of the devastating effects on persons who were particularly vulnerable to life circumstances.
She told me that she would have liked to have been invited to a same-sex wedding, and, to my surprise, she then expressed that it would have been a particular joy for her to have been at mine. When I replied that it was never too late, she smiled and said, "That's right, you remember that it's never too late."
I applaud the SF Pride Committee's decision to choose "For Racial and Economic Justice" as their theme for the 2016 celebration. I never knew that my mother was such an activist at heart and a keen observer of the human condition. Looking back on the months that led up to her death, I see how lucky I was to have had her beloved spirit guiding me for so many years, and to have such a fine teacher and friend. This year's Pride celebration will be extra special to me.
Julius M. Turman is a partner in Reed Smith's Labor and Employment Group. He is a former U.S. Assistant Attorney who, in addition to his law practice, counsels, writes about, and conducts training for employers on the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the California Business and Professions Code, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.


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GALLERY: Rock golf delivers new vehicle
The foursome of Mitch Gagnon, John Pilon, Chris Brousseau and Riley Brouseau hoisted the championship trophy at the conclusion of the third-annual Timmins Rock NHL Celebrity Golf Tournament Saturday at the Hollinger Golf Club.
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It was Bruno Gendron, however, who had the biggest smile on his face following 18 holes of golf.
After all, sinking the first hole-in-one in your life and winning a 2018 KIA Soul would be enough to make anybody smile.
With former New York Islanders star goaltender Billy Smith looking on, Gendron drained his ace on No. 8.
"I have been playing golf for years, but I am not very good at it," Gendron said.
"I never get a good swing, so I had no idea the ball was going into the hole. Everybody else said, 'I can't see the ball,' it looks like it is gone."
Gendron didn't really have any aspirations of greatness when he stepped up to the tee on No. 8.
"All I wanted to do was win the Billy Smith jersey (drawn from all the golfers who were able to out-drive the retired goalie on the hole)," he said.
"I didn't expect to win the car, a nice KIA."
Like the vast majority of the golfers taking part in the tournament, Gendron had just one simple goal in mind when the day started.
"I was just looking to support the Rock," he said.
"This was a really great event. I think (former NHL star) Shayne Corson shook everybody's hand four times.
"Billy Smith is really funny. He was on the hole that I won the car. I didn't get a chance to see (two-time Stanley Cup winning former Pittsburgh Penguins star) Kevin Stevens yet, but hopefully I will see him in a while."
Gendron and his teammates — Cederic Bradette and Rock assistant coaches James Daschuk and Marc Bisson — have taken part in all three of the tournaments the Rock have organized since the franchise returned to Timmins from Iroquois Falls.
"Last year, we won the tournament," he said.
While Smith and Stevens each took turns trying to out-drive the four-person teams when they came to the par-three holes they were stationed at, Corson was unable to swing a club on Saturday.
"I am a terrible golfer and I am not going to be hitting any balls today," he said during a press conference before the start of the tournament.
"I have had four hip surgeries in the last year or so. I will be chatting with the golfers, signing some autographs and posing for some pictures."
Like Timmins' own Frank Mahovlich, Corson played for both the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens among his NHL stops — although in reverse order — and like the Big M, wore No. 27 for both Canadian NHL clubs.
"I was definitely a Frank Mahovlich fan, for sure, but I was also a Darryl Sittler fan," Corson said.
"Growing up in Barrie, 45 minutes north of Toronto, I was a big Leafs fan and I loved Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Mike Palmateer and Ian Turnbull.
"That was one of the reasons I wore No. 27. Another reason was when I got drafted by Montreal I had worn No. 9 in junior and I wasn't going to get to wear No. 9 in Montreal. There was some guy (Maurice 'Rocket' Richard) there whose number was retired."
Corson misses playing the game of hockey, but he has no problems keeping busy.
"We are very active in the community and I try to give back to charities," he said.
"We do a lot of work with the NHL Alumni, the Toronto Maple Leafs Alumni, the Montreal Canadiens Alumni.
"We make a lot of appearances at events like this to try and help organizations like the Rock raise money. We really enjoy working with charities and helping communities raise money for sports."
Between this past weekend and this coming April, Corson already has 60 events booked.
"They are just staring to roll in," he said.
"Some months I will do 15-18 events. I try to do as many as I can because I enjoy getting out and meeting people."
Corson got to play a game he loves during his NHL days and in two cities where hockey is king.
"Montreal and Toronto are two of the greatest sports towns, never mind just hockey towns," he said.
"To be able to play a game I love and get paid to do it was just incredible. I loved playing everywhere. The personal stats and all that are great, but the memories and the friendships you create playing hockey are great."
If there is one regret Corson has from his days as an NHL player, it's that he never got to hoist the Stanley Cup.
"Everybody always has to bring that up, but yes, every time I am asked about the biggest regret I have from playing hockey, I have to say it is the opportunity to actually raise the cup," he said.
"The closest I got was in 1989 when we lost to Calgary. They beat us in Game 6 in Montreal, which wasn't fun.
"This year, one of my son's buddies, Tom Wilson of the Washington Capitals, won the cup.
"So, we got invited to the Stanley Cup party. I got pretty close to it, but I didn't touch it. You have to earn the right to touch it.
"I got a picture with Tommy and the cup, but I didn't touch it.
"There isn't a day that goes by where I don't think about not winning the cup. Your ultimate goal as a hockey player is to win that cup and raise it over my head."
There are, of course, hundreds of great NHL players who did not get the chance to win a Stanley Cup, either.
Stevens, part of some great Penguins teams, earned two Stanley Cup rings during his time in Pittsburgh.
Those teams, of course, featured the great Mario Lemieux.
"We both kind of came in at the same time," Stevens said.
"Mario is just a great guy and a great player. It was nice to play with somebody who really wanted the puck. I just had to get to the net and open up some ice for him.
"We played off each other for a long time."
Stevens' path to the NHL led the Boston native through college hockey in the United States instead of major junior hockey.
"I didn't know I was going to be able to play pro hockey," he said.
"I kind of developed late. I played four years at Boston College and then went to the Olympic team. I didn't go to the pros until I was 22 or 23 years old.
"You don't have to be an all-star at 18 years old. You can develop later and still play in the NHL."
Stevens is a staunch believer in the college or university route for players like those on the Rock roster.
"I have two sons, one who is in college now at Yale and my other guy is also going to play at Yale," he said.
"For us, growing up as Americans, that is kind of the route we push our kids. There are only 1 or 2% of kids who end up playing in the NHL.
"If you are fortunate enough to make it, great, but it is also good to have an education to fall back on."
Like Corson, Stevens does a lot of charity events in the course of any given year.
"I still work with the Penguins, as well, doing some college scouting," he said.
"It is great to be part of that organization, with guys like Mario and Mark Recchi, all of those guys. All of my buddies work there, so it is nice to be back in that loop with hockey.
"It is always nice to watch hockey games and I get to watch my kid play and get paid a little bit to do it."
So, how would the college scout, who covers from New York down to Maine, assess his two sons, who both play left wing like dad?
"My older guy (Luke) was drafted by Carolina in the fourth round," Stevens said.
"He is a big, 6-5 guy who can skate. I don't know if he is going to be able to score, as much as I did. You have to be able to play with the right centre.
"My younger guy (Ryan), who is also going to go to Yale, is a pretty good player, too. His draft year was this year, but he broke his leg, so he was out like nine months with three surgeries.
"Hopefully, next year he will be able to get drafted."
Smith, who was part of the great Islanders dynasty, has four Stanley Cup rings to his name.
He had a simple piece of advice for the Rock goalies in attendance at the tournament.
"Every day you get to be out there on the ice, you have to have fun," he said.
"If you get down, or start thinking the wrong way all it's going to do is cost you more goals. If I had the experience I have now, I would forget everything."
Smith played almost his entire career in a New York Islanders uniform, with just five games as a Los Angeles King as he was breaking into the NHL.
"When I came up, I was young, just 20 years old," Smith said.
"I likely wouldn't have gotten into the NHL if not for expansion. The Kings had Rogie Vachon and Gary Edwards.
"My first year in the American Hockey League, we won the Calder Cup and my second year, before they brought me up I would have been easily on the first all-star team, but because of the way things were done back then, I might have been in the minors for another three or four years."
The art of goaltender has changed significantly since Smith was strapping on the pads with the Islanders.
"My pads were only eight inches wide and now they are 11 inches," he said.
"People say, 'well, it's only three inches,' and I say yes, per pad.
"I was a fair-sized guy at 5-10, but now I am coaching (with the OHL's Barrie Colts) a kid who is 6-3.
"So, yes, it is different. It is more blocking now. What I try to teach now is a little bit of what I did, don't just block the puck, control it. I think if they can bring that into their game, it is going to help them 100%."
Smith played against some pretty talented offensive players in his day, so it would be impossible to narrow down to just one who gave him trouble.
"You look at certain teams, like Edmonton," he said.
"They had (Jari) Kurri, (Wayne) Gretzky, (Mark) Messier and (Paul) Coffey. You look at our team, we had (Mike Bossy) and (Brian) Trottier. You can go down the list. You can pick three or four players from just about every team in the NHL.
"Today, there are even more guys who can shoot the puck and it's a faster league because of all the rule changes."
So, does working with the Colts help keep Smith young?
"I don't think anything is keeping me young at my age," he said, with a chuckle.
"You get up in the morning and the next thing you know you are going back to bed."
Rock president Ted Gooch was pleased with how everything came together so nicely for the NOJHL team's tournament.
"We had a good turnout today and after the cool weather this morning, we were happy to see the sun come out," he said.
"Golfers love this kind of weather and the elements were perfect."
The tournament attracted 102 golfers, with an additional 20 people attending the dinner and auction that followed the event.
"We added a little competitive element this year, with the championship trophy," Gooch said.
"That might help us attract some more competitive golfers in the future."
The tournament helps raise funds for the Rock each year.
"All profit is good," Gooch said.
"We seem to average about $5,000 per event and that is really good to help offset the expenses we incur over the summer when the team is not on the ice.
"It allows us to get the season off to a good start."
In addition to serving as a great fundraiser and being a fun time, the tournament was a great way for the Rock players who attended to meet many of their new teammates.
"It is a lot easier for them to do that in a casual environment like this, as opposed to walking into the dressing room for the first time with their bags over their shoulders," Gooch said.
The Rock held off-ice activities on Sunday and they will take to the ice for the first time on Monday at the McIntyre Arena, at 9 p.m., as they get ready for the first of three exhibition games on Saturday at the Jus Jordan Arena in Iroquois Falls, with the Cochrane Crunch serving as the opposition.
Ex-NHLers Rock golf course
GALLERY: DAY 1: Beer impressed with potential


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Engulfed in the Mediterranean dimmed light and swayed by the warm sea which shimmers off the beaches of the island of Mallorca , the Rajada Cove hides a little treasure: The Hotel Son Moll Sentits, a holiday resort which offers its guests a true sensual experience.
3de3arquitectes are the ones in charge of the architecture of the building, with the interior design done by Sara Espinosa, who has made use of the PORCELANOSA Group materials in order to equip this hotel that is located on the Mare Nostrum shore.
The great reception desk by Krion® shows the distinguishing nature of the hotel from the entrance hall, a feature also noticeable in the café, where one can find the backlit wall and bar, both of them continuously changing their colour scheme depending on the lighting colour that is being chosen in that moment.
We continue onto the main floor, where the bathrooms are tiled with Deco Filo Brown and Laja White ceramic tiles, both of them by Venis. As far as the Spa area is concerned, the Paradise Baia Stone mosaics have been used in the pool and the Globe Brick Bhutan mosaics in the general tiling, both of them by L'Antic Colonial.
As for the private areas, various floor tiles and wall tiles have been used in the rooms and communal areas. In amongst all of them, we can find the Par-ker Oxford White ceramic parquet by Porcelanosa as a floor tile in the rooms, complemented with an antislip version in the same ceramic parquet and available on the terraces and fitted over the exterior raised access floor system by Butech. In order to provide the suite with a distinguishing nature, the same model of the ceramic floor tile in Antracita colour has been chosen.
As far as the bathrooms are concerned, the people in charge of the project have chosen a combination of the Oxo Line White and Marmi China ceramic wall tiles, both by Porcelanosa; whereas in the suite, the Madison wall tile in a Silver and Nacar finish by Porcelanosa has been used in a general way. Nevertheless, the Glacier Moon Metallic and Moon Beige Sandstone by L'Antic Colonial have been used in the shower area, which has been waterproofed by means of the Imperband system by Butech.
In the end, it is important to highlight the fact that all the wall tiles have been fitted with installation materials by Butech, which has also supplied 3.500 linear metres of aluminium decorative profile, installed in combination with the ceramic wall tiles by Porcelanosa and Venis in order to get a very stylish finish.


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Ubisoft teams with China's TQ Digital; online version of Might and Magic franchise due for Chinese gamers in 2005.
SHANGHAI, China--In America, 2004 has seen the cancellation of many high-profile massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Ultima X: Odyssey, Mythica, Warhammer Online, have all fallen under the axe.
However, across the Pacific, a classic role-playing game with more than a dozen sequels is about to be reincarnated as an MMORPG space. At a press conference this week in Shanghai, Ubisoft China and game developer TQ Digital Entertainment said they had inked a deal that will see an MMORPG based on the Might and Magic franchise reaching Chinese gamers in 2005. A worldwide launch is also being considered.
In the case of the upcoming venture, Alain Corre, Ubisoft managing director for Europe, Middle East, and Asia, said, "The approach on this product is to blend Asian gameplay elements and a Western franchise with high recognition in the Asian territories. To that end, we will work closely with TQ Digital, who already has wide experience in this area and who we know will be able to develop a great game that will please Chinese MMO fans." He added, "The online gaming market in Asia is booming, but, to date, Western products have failed to penetrate in any depth."
TQ Digital's parent company, NetDragon, made headlines last year when it sold its gaming portal, 17173.com, to one of China's online giants, SOHU, which is the operator of a Web portal that delivers news, search, games, e-mail, and instant messaging to its customers in China. The $20 million dollar deal was one of the few significant transactions completed in the competitive Chinese games marketplace in the last 12 months. TQ Digital is considered one of the major game operators in China, distinct from others because its online games are all locally developed.


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El Balneari d'Alcarràs és un edifici d'estil eclèctic del municipi d'Alcarràs (Segrià) inclòs en l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Descripció
És un edifici emplaçat al sud i fora de la població, a 50 m de la línia d'edificació, en una parcel·la enjardinada que fa 56,50 x 44,50 m (supera els 2.514 m²). Al centre d'aquesta parcel·la es va construir el balneari, edifici de planta baixa i pis. Presenta una composició estètica força sòbria que només es perd amb alguns detalls de les balconades i la balustrada que tanca la terrassa, components que li donen una prestància neoclàssica. La distribució tant de les obertures com dels diferents elements arquitectònics és de tendència racionalista.

Història
L'antic balneari fou emplaçat sobre una font d'aigües termals coneguda des d'època romana. El 1829 va ser declarada d'utilitat pública. El 15 de març del 1887, per Reial Ordre, s'acceptà l'emplaçament proposat per a instal·lar-hi un balneari i es concedia l'expropiació i autorització sol·licitada per Martin Castells. El balneari es va explotar de 1828 a 1920, tot i que hi ha notícia del seu funcionament fins al 1922.

El balneari donava servei a 20 banyistes amb dues banyeres i un aparell giratori de dutxes, a més de 5 habitacions al pis superior. Constava, a més, d'habitacions per omplir ampolles, dipòsits d'aigües minerals, sala d'espera, sala de reunions, restaurant, cuina i sala de la font per beure l'aigua. La part dels banys és actualment ocupada per la Guàrdia Civil. Al jardí s'hi ha trobat la part superior d'una creu de terme d'estil gòtic.

Referències

Alcarràs
Edificis d'Alcarràs
Patrimoni monumental d'Alcarràs
Edificis eclèctics del Segrià

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Hero wait list for GA!
We need a 2nd hand for other modes!
For all that is holy, stop running away in HvV!
Will you play Battlefront 2 as much this fall?
If you hate this game so much, why do you come here?
Top 4 most wanted Heroes after Season 3?
Rank the gamemodes! Which is your favorite!
Finally got past the Defender glitch Star fighter assault!
First Day of Summer is June 20th! DLC will be here sooner than we think.
Anyone think The Emperor is too weak? How would you rank the Heroes?


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Q: The fastest way to find the greatest possible area of triangle Let's imagine that we have a set of points in the plane, each described by pair of integer coordinates. Is there a way to find the triangle with vertices on this points with the greatest possible area faster than by O(n^3) algorithm?

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*Find the convex hull.

*For each pair of points (A, B) lying on the convex hull, find the third point C giving the maximal area to the triangle ABC. This can be done using binary search in O(log n).

To do the binary search, arrange points on the convex hull going in some order (e.g. counterclockwise). There are two sequences of points between A and B, one is going from A to B and the other from B to A. Consider each one separately.
The binary search step is as follows. Take three consecutive points C, C', C'' in the middle of the interval of points. Compute three areas CAB, C'AB, C''AB. If C' is the largest of the three, it's the global maximum and the search is over. If C is the largest, the maximum is in the left half of the interval. If C'' is the largest, the maximum is in the right half. (Edit: note, the new interval should contain C' at one of the ends).
There, an algorithm that works in O(n^2 log n).
Edit 2: the answer to this question shows how to do it significantly faster. You can combine both approaches to do better yet (in O(log n) after the convex hull is built, though with the construction of the hull it's still O(n log n)).

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As we are moving fast forward towards the heart of June, what better place to be than right by the river? The festivities have already started there since June 1st, but the weather this week is just perfect to take your loved one or family to Summer by the River festival. For the next three months, you will have the chance to join the largest free outdoor festival in London and watch the beautiful London Bridge City area (from London Bridge Pier to The Scoop) transform into a gorgeous country garden.
Besides stunning views of the Thames River and the surroundings of Tower Bridge, Summer by the River will also include family days, a variety of street food vendors, lots of music, live comedy, and big screen sporting events (and films, of course).
Speaking of films, how would you feel about enjoying both new and some old-time classics under the stars? In case you are all in, head to Nomad Cinema that roams back to the capital. In various locations across London, the travelling outdoor cinema will give a romantic, almost nostalgic, note to your evenings. This weekend, watch Four Weddings and a Funeral at Paddington Street Gardens.
Play Bingo….the Lady Gaga Style!
Playing bingo is a favourite pastime among the Brits. But, what if we told you that this bingo is like nothing you have ever experienced before? Starting this Friday and for the next 11 Fridays, the Lady Gaga Bottomless Bingo will be hosted at Rascals restaurant in Shoreditch – you know, the arty area next to hip Hoxton neighbourhood, with the fashionable bars and clubs and the eclectic dining scene.
Expect a game show extravaganza, booze (even bottomless Prosecco or margaritas depending on the type of ticket you buy), plenty of Californian food (see guacamole and cheeseburger spring rolls) and lots of fun. Just be there before 8:30 pm!
Watch the World Cup… the Zlatan Way!
The Russia World Cup 2018 is the talk of the town this month, especially now that the Zlatans pop-up is showing all the big games on a massive screen with cinematic sound. So, go to Infernos nightclub (Clapham) this Sunday the 17th of June and catch the nail-biting match between giants Brazil and Switzerland. The electric, stadium-like atmosphere, football-themed décor, trumpets, terrace, and guaranteed seating will provide the rocking vibe deserving the world-famous former Manchester United forward, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Grab your ticket the soonest possible (ticket-only event) and throw yourself to some good old football sing-a-longs!
Starting tomorrow (12th June) and in various other dates, the all-new-and-shiny Murder Express will be ready to take you back to the early 1900s. The first historic journey will be epic and offer you a luxury ride worth trying. Reach the recently opened Pedley Street Station and relish a voyage that will also include dishes prepared by Billy and Jack (BBC MasterChef 2016 finalists) and drinks from the Seven Sins platform bar! Superb activity for families too (just like The Big London Bake festival that starts June 13 and promises unforgettable baking fun!).
Enjoy your week! And, if you need a ride, we are always here! Send us a message and we will make sure you get everywhere you want fast, with due comfort, luxury, and safety!


Coconut oil stimulates hair growth getting deep into its follicles. It also helps to fight again insect bites, lice and dandruff. This fantastic product also prevents hair breakage and split ends, adding shine and softness.
Coconut oil is truly awesome. Not only can you use it for cooking as a healthier option to other fats. You can also put it on your whole body to soothe, smooth and moisturise. I absolutely love the stuff.
I've recently been using it as a hair treatment so wanted to spread to word on how to do this and who it'd be good for. Anyone that has coarse, thick, curly or coloured hair. Or hair that feels lifeless and dull. This will work for you. My hair is pretty blonde now, so it can get a little dry. This has really helped the condition of my hair and is making the growing process quicker.
It's always important to keep your hair trimmed along side having it coloured. I'd recommend every 6-8 weeks maximum. If your hair is spilt it needs to be cut off. Otherwise your hair will never grow in length. You'll just find that it keeps growing at the root but breaking off at the ends. The worst thing you can do if you want to grow your hair, is to leave it and not get it cut at all.
Treatments do help to keep the hair soft and conditioned. So once a week I've been using coconut oil to do this.
When your hair is due a wash have your bath as normal and dip your unwashed hair into the water.
Melt the coconut oil down (in just hot water or the microwave for a few seconds beforehand) then pour in on your hair from the mid lengths down. I'd probably use a quarter of jar each time. I buy mine from Aldi which is only around £3 a jar! Such a bargain. Do not put it on your roots as It might make your hair too greasy afterwards.
If you don't like baths and prefer showers, another way to do this treatment is to dampen your hair and apply the coconut oil before you go to bed and leave it on over night or wash it out later on in the shower.
I tend to workout in the mornings so sometimes I've put it on before my training session then washed it off in the shower afterwards. Play around with this how ever it suits your lifestyle.
Once the ends are saturated, comb it through if you can, but if it's too knotty don't bother.
Then just relax for how ever long you'd like to. I'd say a minimum of 15mins so the oil has time to work.
Then shampoo and condition your hair as usual. You'll probably have to give it 2 or 3 shampoos before you condition it, just to get rid of all the oil.
Then just dry your hair as usual. It will feel lovely and soft I promise!


I had the good fortune, in some ways, I suppose, of being regarded as rather a stupid boy at school, because I'm very bad at languages, I couldn't do Latin and Greek. I remember... I suppose one of the ultimate human futilities at Eton, you were given - somebody had gone to the trouble to translate Virgil from the Latin 'Down in the deep dark dale, sat an old cow munching a bean stalk' scansion, into English. And we were then told to translate it back into Latin. At the time it struck me as deeply futile, they'd got the Latin, why did we have to do it for them. But I remember that my method was to look up three or four alternatives of each word and then just do permutations and combinations. There had to be some way in which you could fit these words together in any old order, and as far as I could see, it didn't matter in Latin what order things were in, until you got the right scansion. But it was an incredibly futile activity, and I think I knew at the time it was futile. The one thing, as I say, they taught incredibly well, was mathematics, and I've... I have to be grateful to them for that.


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Q: Error Loading Fasttext model in GCP Dataflow from GCS Bucket I am not able to load the fasttext model in Dataflow. I have the model stored in a bucket and the path is
gs://fasttext_models/model1.bin
Below is the way I call:
model_1= fasttext.load_model('gs://fasttext_models/model1.bin')

I get the below error:
ValueError: gs://fasttext_models/model1.bin cannot be opened for loading!
PS:
I used to get the same error when I was loading fasttext locally. But adding Absolute Path fixed this issue.. I am not understanding how to fix this in GCP

A: Likely fasttext.load_model(str) can only load files from the local filesystem.  It doesn't look like it can take an arbitrary open file handle, so your best bet is to copy the data to the local filesystem and then load it from there, e.g.
from google.cloud import storage

with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tmp_file:
  local_model_file = tmp_file.name
  remote_model_file = storage.Client().bucket('fasttext_models'). blob('model1.bin')
  blob.download_to_filename(local_model_file)
  model_1 = fasttext.load_model(local_model_file)


According to the Palos Patch, Palos Heights police were dispatched on a report of a suspicious vehicle in the neighborhood. This call led to the arrest of 26-year-old Nikola Zecevic.
When law enforcement officers arrived on the scene, they observed Zecevic asleep in his vehicle. When police woke him up, he displayed signs of being intoxicated. He allegedly failed all of the field sobriety tests and he was given a breathalyzer, which showed that he had a blood alcohol level over the legal limit. He was arrested for DUI and he was given a bond of $3,000.00.
In this case, although he was not driving the vehicle at the time, a provision of the law known as care and control comes into play. If the intoxicated person is sitting in the driver's seat of the vehicle, he is control of the car. Some people are under the misconception that if the keys are not in the ignition, there can be no charges. Upon going to court, the person charged or his Illinois DUI lawyer has to prove that the person had no intention on driving the vehicle.
Another misconception is that sitting in the back seat of the vehicle to sleep it off will deem you safe from prosecution. This is also not true. At any moment, in an intoxicated state, you may change your mind and decide that you can drive home. It does not matter whom the car belongs to or where the car is.
Therefore, if you decide to park in front of your own home and you pass out before you can make it inside, you can be arrested. If you decided to leave your drunken friend in the car to let him get some sleep because you don't feel like carrying him, he can be arrested.
The safest way to go is to have a designated driver when you know you will be drinking or leave the car at home. If you are someone you know is in need of an experienced Illinois DUI attorney, contact Ramsell & Associates, LLC, by calling 1-800-DIAL-DUI.


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Meaning of Naalnish: He works (Navajo).
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Network Appliance buys Spinnaker Networks
Network Appliance is buying Spinnaker Networks for about $300m in an all-stock deal to boost its high-end storage products line...
Network Appliance is buying Spinnaker Networks for about $300m in an all-stock deal to boost its high-end storage products line and get its "storage grid" architecture to market faster.
Spinnaker develops enterprise-class network attached storage products, with a family of NAS servers and a global distributed file system, Spin FS, on the market. Network Appliance provides storage networking infrastructure wares.
The deal was described as primarily a "software technology acquisition" by Network Appliance chief executive officer Dan Warmenhoven.
Spinnaker "shares a vision" with Network Appliance, which will integrate Spinnaker's product portfolio into its own line of wares and then operate Spinnaker as an engineering and development division when the deal is final.
The acquisition is subject to a federal waiting period under US law and possibly antitrust laws in other countries, and is expected to be completed in January.
Network Appliance executives did not offer a time frame for when the storage grid architecture will be released, but pledged an update in the coming weeks.
Storage grids apply the grid computing concept to storage systems so that companies can better manage corporate data, including data located in different databases or parts of the network. Network Appliance is pitching its storage grid architecture as an entry in the information lifecycle management (ILM) market where it will face competition from the likes of Hewlett-Packard and EMC.
ILM involves, in part, integrating metadata - or data about data - to track where it resides in a computer network. It keeps tabs on data as different applications move it around. That tracking is meant to make it easier and faster to retrieve needed data or to recover data. In the event that data is destroyed, ILM, ideally, ensures that all of the copies of the data are purged from the system.
Spinnaker, which has a range of customers including those in government, biotechnology and science, has 83 employees, with 60 of those in engineering, opened in 1999 and shipped its first product in September 2002.
Warmenhoven specifically mentioned the Spinnaker engineering staff as a group Network Appliance wants to keep on board, and said that the preference is to maintain all of the jobs.
Nancy Weil writes for IDG News Service
NetApp to reshape its storage architecture – SearchStorage
NetApp acquisition to improve NAS scalability – SearchStorage
NetApp's OnTap GX finally shipping – SearchStorage


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Time to move on?
Perhaps the biggest quandary of all in headship – should you stay on in the job when you feel a change of career might be needed?
Headteacher David Braithwaite had been at St James' Primary School for ten years. In that time, he had seen a whole range of changes. Education was very different in many respects, although the children stayed the same and so did most of the parents.
David had had two Ofsteds during his time as headteacher. Both had been largely successful, certainly from his point of view. The school was in a challenging area and attainment was difficult to hold above the national average. He knew it was always going to be a struggle to keep it in that 'satisfactory' category but so far, with some good paper shuffling, dedicated teachers and, by and large, a plan that worked, he had managed.
Now, coming into a new academic year, he felt an enormous sense of lethargy as he began to put together the annual timetable. No doubt this year would hold new challenges and he looked forward to these, but he also had a sense of struggling for new ideas and a great sense of déjà vu. What he was drafting out looked suspiciously like what he had drafted the year before and the year before that. David started to sense that perhaps he had lost some of his enthusiasm for the job.
Maybe it was time to go.
Could he really leave?
What were David's options? Some of his colleagues had gone on to be consultants or school improvement partners - some now worked for the local authority in different capacities. A few had gone on to take up headship of other schools. He knew of someone who went on to be a freelance writer and someone else who was teaching drama in different schools. With a little imagination, he was sure that there was something out there for him. After all, being a headteacher was a very good preparation for many lines of work.
But was it the right time for the school? He knew that the governing bodies of some of the local schools were interested in academy status. Although it wasn't really on the cards for St James', the changing climate was already making everyone restless and concerned for the future of education locally. What effect would several of their neighbours turning independent have upon them?
He decided to confide in his chair of governors:
David: Helen, I need to talk to you about something.
Helen: That sounds ominous. You're not thinking of resigning are you? I don't know what we'd do without you.
David: Well, as it happens, it had crossed my mind.
Helen: I was only joking! You can't seriously be thinking of going? We had our best SATs results ever last year.
David: I know.
Helen: Is there something wrong? Aren't the governing body supporting you enough?
David: It's nothing like that. I couldn't ask for a more supportive governing body. It's just I'm not sure I've that much more to offer the school and I'm starting to feel that I need a different type of challenge.
Helen: I think with all the changes over the next few years, there's going to be plenty to keep you on your toes. We said we'd look at our curriculum this year – I know how passionate you are about that.
David: I know, but perhaps I'm not the right person to do it. It might be better for someone new, who's not so closely involved with the school and its history to take the lead.
Helen: Have you talked to anyone else about this?
David: Not yet. I just wanted to mention it to you first. It's just something that crossed my mind and…
Helen: Well can you uncross it because you're getting me worried here. Greenpark's head went only six months ago and look at all the trouble they had finding another one. We always struggle recruiting – I can't imagine finding a new head would be easy. Anyway, we're very happy with you.
David went away from the discussion feeling confused. Helen had been more than complimentary about his contributions to the school and to hear her was reassuring. It would be easy to continue. But he still didn't feel reassured that it was necessarily the right thing to do. Perhaps he should talk to his school improvement partner?
He knew that Brian had resigned from his headship a couple of years before and, although closer to retirement than David, he seemed to be enjoying his new role of advising schools rather than being in the middle of the maelstrom.
David: Brian, I've been wondering about resigning and trying something different.
Brian: What's brought this on?
David: I just don't feel I've very much more to offer St James' and I'm starting to feel that perhaps I'm not giving the school the best that I could.
Brian: I don't think many people would agree with you there. You're a mainstay of the school and the community.
David: So what made you decide to resign?
Brian: I'm older than you for a start. What with grandchildren and a few health problems and I'd enjoyed my secondment to the LA, it was just the right thing to do when the opportunity came up. I had a good deputy who could take over in the meantime if they didn't appoint straight away.
David: And that's the other thing. It's the strongest senior leadership team we've had for a while. They would benefit from the opportunity for a re-shuffle. Dawn might even apply herself. Do you have any regrets?
Brian: Not at all. I miss my office and the contact with children and staff. I still keep in contact with some of my staff. But overall I don't miss the paperwork and I don't miss the continuous cycle of new legislation. I still have to read through it but I'm not responsible any more for implementing it. The accountability is different and I do go home and think about other things rather than target-setting and inspections.
David: And that's part of the problem. It's taken over my life and no matter how much I try to delegate it doesn't seem to get any better.
Brian: What would you do instead?
David: Well, I did wonder about perhaps being a SIP myself, perhaps combining it with being a consultant.
Brian: There are certainly opportunities out there but it's not the most settled time to be thinking about it. No-one is too sure what will happen to independent consultants over the next few uears. And there's quite a few out there already. What about being an interim headteacher? I was reading an article on the NAHT website about it. If you want to talk some more, give me a call. Just don't rush into anything. Once you're really into the swing of the new term you might feel very differently.
Serious considerations
David went away and decided to map out some of the pros and cons. Perhaps this way he would see more clearly what the right plan of action would be. He wrote down some of the many questions he had and the arguments for and against his going. He then thought about how the 'against' might be tackled.
1. Can I afford it financially?
For the move: Children are grown up and self-supporting (by and large). Mortgage is paid off.
Against the move: I have got used to a comfortable lifestyle. It's not cheap. There are still commitments – car, holidays, running costs for a large house. A regular monthly salary is a luxury in these times that perhaps I underestimate the value of.
Addressing the 'against': Perhaps it's time we looked at downsizing the house. It's too big for us anyway and that would reduce running costs as well as giving us a little bit of security if it takes me a while to establish myself. I have a good reputation as a headteacher and if it doesn't work out I should be able to find a new position with the current shortage of heads.
2. Will the school manage without me?
For the move: There is a strong senior leadership team; there are no major issues for the school. The last Ofsted was positive, if not glowing. It's a good basis for a new head with new ideas to move in.
Against the move: The environment is changing and there is uncertainty at the moment in relation to independent schools in the area. There are difficulties recruiting new heads and St James' doesn't find recruiting new staff easy.
Addressing the 'against': There will always be uncertainty. There is never a perfect time to go. With a good deputy in place, even if they did struggle to recruit (presuming she's not interested), Dawn could definitely be a very good acting headteacher in the meantime. The changes in environment will go ahead with or without me, and someone else is just as likely to be able to tackle any issues it raises. It's a strong governing body who will give any new head the support they need.
3. Will I manage without the school?
For the move: There are many aspects of the job that I'm not happy with now. Targets are one of them and the practice it leads us into as a school. I don't agree with channelling resources into groups of learners for reasons more linked to school improvement than their individual needs.
Against the move: I would miss the children and the staff. We've gone through so many good and bad times together and I couldn't ask for a more supportive environment to work in. I've been lucky and I know many heads have got it far harder than me. Perhaps I'm just being selfish and it is a 'blip'.
Addressing the 'against': I'm not indispensable in the end. This is a job and, just as I replaced someone, so someone will replace me and bring a fresh perspective. In the end, the staff and children will move on themselves.
4. What could I do?
For the move: Lots of headteachers move on to do secondments or work as consultants and SIPs. There's also this idea of being an interim headteacher. That would certainly be interesting and financially I'd be okay.
Against the move: Is there enough work out there? What if I didn't like it and couldn't get back in or found myself in a school that I really wasn't happy with? I've heard of several heads that've moved on to second headships and wished they hadn't.
Addressing the 'against': If I don't try it, I'll never find out. Not doing anything is a decision in itself, an easy one perhaps but not necessarily the right one.
Ask the family
David knew this wasn't a decision he could make on his own. In the end, it was his family who mattered most and, although dedicated to his job and very fond of his school, he'd spent enough time consulting them and needed to spend time consulting those at home.
Talking to his wife and children, it became clear that they felt he was too wrapped up in his work. The Saturdays and Sundays that he spent churning over priorities and targets were having more of an effect on those around him than he'd thought. No one had wanted to mention it to him for hurting his feelings or making the work he was doing more difficult. Their reactions said it all. They all understood the financial vulnerability but felt that in these days of heightened accountability for heads, there was an element of insecurity anyway.
David decided to go.
This series of articles on the NAHT website give some insights into the alternative career options available to heads.


Finding the right kind of investments for your hard earned money can be tough at times. Whether it's stocks and shares, currency or even a start-up business endeavour, developing a plan that can guarantee returns is by no means easy.
However, many first-time investors and seasoned wealth managers are turning to the property market in an effort to make their money work for them. It's relatively easy to see why when the trends in the real estate market across Australia are considered.
In fact, CoreLogic figures explored by National Australia Bank explained that the average price of property in Australia's capital cities increased by 7.9 per cent in the year to the end of April 2015. So, with returns like that available in just a dozen months or so, it's little wonder as to why more people are seeking out real estate as an investment.
The average price of property in Australia's capital cities increased by 7.9 per cent in the year to the end of April 2015.
Many people miss the best opportunities the real estate market has to offer as they pigeonhole their investment efforts. This can be in terms of a number of criteria, for example, only looking in a specific geographic area or singling out one type of property.
Research collated by ANZ suggested that it's far more productive to spread your net wide and assess newspapers, website listings, real estate publications and agents' lists from right across Australia.
There are two ways to profit from a real estate investment. First, there's capital growth, which is the amount of value the property accrues of its own accord over a set time period. Secondly, there's the income that can be generated from rent.
Investing in property can be a no-brainer once you've ironed out the financial nuances with an accountant.
If you're unsure of what direction to take, discuss everything with your accounting firm and establish a baseline for the returns you'd like to see.
In some instances, a years worth of rent may add up to more than 12 months of capital gains, but the amount you can charge and/or the location of the property have to be taken into account.The Commonwealth Bank of Australia explained that picking between the two is tough, but it all comes down to the figures.
Ultimately, investing in property can certainly be worthwhile, but there are a number of nuances to the process that can be hard to overcome on your own. Consequently, talking things through with an accountant is a must if you're looking to build your portfolio, and profit in the long term.


We have a ritual we call Fun Family Friday. Every Friday, we make dinner, have a special dessert, and we eat off our lap as we watch a movie. One Friday, I decided to google quick healthy chocolate fudge. Searching I found this recipe for Sugar Free Chocolate Fudge by Chocolate Covered Katie. I left it too late to make and didn't have time to freeze it, so we ate it as a soft serve dessert. It was delicious – like the sort of delicious you just want to bury your face in. I wondered what I could do to make this something that was suitable as a lunchbox snack. These Chocolate Banana Rice Bubble Wheels are adapted from Chocolate Covered Katie's recipe and are the outcome of trialling and testing.
What I love about this mixture is that you can eat it whilst it's soft (before you put it in the freezer) and it's the bomb. They are awesome straight out of the freezer and they are a bit squishier and more fudge like when they've been in the lunchbox. Make the mix, and test all three ways. Let me know what's your favourite way.
Store in a single layer in an air-tight container.
Hi Bel, love your work! Is there a substitute for Cacao butter please?
Hi Nicole, apologies for the delay. Mmm, not really if you want them to hold shape in the lunchbox. If you didn't want to put them in the lunchbox, you could replace it with coconut oil or boost up the amount of coconut butter. However, just a reminder that because coconut oil becomes liquid in heat, you can expect these to become very squashy if using coconut oil.


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Although I have written recently more about the Eurocrisis and economic policy, I still follow the Finnish/European paper industry with interest. In this short analysis I would like to present some thoughts about the Finnish pulp market, its actors and its possible development. In a way, this analysis is an exhibition of how economic sociology, and how it understands markets, may be valuable for firms as well.
First, about price formation – I wrote about that topic before, in 2012, with regard to the price increases in softwood pulp.
The news from Finland (Helsingin Sanomat 30.10.2014) right now is that Finnish forest-owners' lobbying organisation MTK demands price hikes to the price of pulpwood, arguing that the price of pulpwood has declined by some 40% since 2000, while the pulp industry has performed well.
Although the price of pulp is set in markets, the price of pulpwood is like a brainwave during coma.
In other words: he, as the representative of the lobbying organisation, is not happy. And it is true that the pulp markets have been quite good, recently at least the pulp divisions of major Finnish forest industry firms have performed well (whether that will last with a slow-down of China is another question).
It is telling that the article mentions that there are about 300.000 forest owners but there are only four pulpwood buyers: Metsä Group, StoraEnso, UPM and Harvestia. For logs there are many buyers, since there are quite many saw mills still in Finland.
The manager of wood acquisition who is speaking here then goes on to list many factors which influence the final price effect of the storm. Of course, one can dress this up as a question of supply and demand, but in a situation with only a few buyers this is rather more like a negotiation situation – as I emphasised in the older article 'It should not be particularly difficult to get the market to accept the price increase, they said.' – but in this case it would be what kind of lower offer would be agreed upon.
For simplicity I only present the price development (euro/cubic metre) for pine. I now also disregard all kinds of quality requirements regarding what is suitable for sawmills and for pulp mills. Although 2010 and 2011 saw damaging storms in Finland, prices did not change very much. The decline in prices between 2007 and 2009 more likely had to do with the emerging economic crisis in Europe.
Although there is probably a way to argue the same thing through econometrics, I have the feeling that part of the relative success (and in the early euro era, until about 2005, the substantial profits) of the Finnish pulp and paper industries is also due to the quite constant price of pulpwood (at least for pine). And regarding market organization – I did not find statistics on the import of pulp wood to Finland but Finland does import significant amounts of pulp.
The Finnish Statistical Yearbook of Forestry also mentions the cost structure of the pulp and paper industry in comparison with the wood-products industry, and the fraction of wood raw material for the latter is indeed nearly twice that of the pulp and paper industry, which should not come as a surprise in the light of the picture above. In addition, total profit as a percentage of the total turnover is much smaller in the wood-products industry.
So, in conclusion, it can be understoon why the lobbying organisation is demanding hikes in pulpwood prices. The problem nonetheless is, seen from how the market is organized: why should the Finnish pulp and paper industry firms care about this demand? After all, they are more or less in a position to negotiate the prices that suit them, or even replace domestic pulp by foreing pulp. The organization of the market can then be seen as a key factor in the price developments of pulp wood. The fact that the article in Helsingin Sanomat mentions that the organization of membership in the lobbying organization changes (not anymore mandatory) may even have the effect of downward pressure on prices, as the buyers may even have more scope to play off different sellers against each other.
Both in my dissertation articles and on this blog I have discussed the merits of product- versus process innovation. Finland is in such a location, that its industry can't be just as good as Germany's or Japan's, no, it actually has to be better, because between Finland and most of its markets there is a barrier which increases price: the Baltic Sea. Now, Finnish export industries, including their trade unions, have complained a lot about the Sulphur Directive, as it would add an unfair extra cost on Finnish exports (from 2015). As I'd like to say: yes, that is true, but the time used to complain about this issue also could have been used to gear up for changes. And beyond that, the Finnish state also has instated a compensation program. On top of that, Wärtsilä is doing great business with retrofitting sulphur-washers to older ships. And, let's not forget that Finland has the great potential of developing sulphur-free biofuels based on processes in the pulp- and paper industry. Admittedly, this is still in baby shoes, but right now, with nearly free money from banks due to zero interest rates (nearly) the industry should throw a lot of money on this issue, as this is a sure source of demand in the years to come, in contrast to paperboard markets, which may at some point in the near future (especially regarding China's slowdown) reach a saturation point and then the whole overcapacity drama will play out all over again.
The biofuel issue is one of product innovation, and Finland can and should be a leader in that field – all Finnish forest industries have pilot plants and bigger refinery plans in various stages of completion. Product innovation in the sense of intelligent paper etc. is probably going on as well, but I do not know how scaleable these products would be and how popular they would be. Things like packaging that announces when food goes bad sound great, but for the end-seller (i.e. shops) they might be a cost which is too high relative to benefits. But we have to see about that.
The issue of process innovation has been very important in the Finnish paper industry. Due to process innovation, labour productivity has greatly increased over the years.
As a besides, which is a well-known phenomena, labour productivity growth has both benefits and drawbacks, both for employees and employers. It is obvious that greater labour productivity enables the final product to be cheaper, but depending on market demand, rising labour productivity might endanger jobs at the site (after all, less personnel would be needed to produce the same amount of product). Furthermore, especially in the Finnish context with its high local unionization rate, labour productivity increases have also led to wage increases. These have been justified for many years, as long as markets grew. Currently, however, high labour productivity and low demand make for a problematic combination. In the Finnish legal (and labour market relations) context, the only way to combine these facts is to shed labour – it is near impossible to be flexible on wages. This kind of rationalization has its own risks – firms are very vulnerable to sickness absence and chronic understaffing also increases the risk of sickness absence. Thus, in terms of labour, labour productivity increases are not quite always positive, especially because at the moment employers would not increase wages along with productivity, because the market situation is so weak.
Enter university-led innovation. A recent report on Tekniikka ja talous discusses an innovation by the research team of Tapani Vuorinen of the Aalto University. Short and simple, the innovation is a much faster way to bleach pulp. The article mentions that the process would be 100.000 times faster than the traditional process. This means that also labour productivity would greatly increase, and thus the labour costs of making paper could drop. The article mentions that this new method would be commercially available in about three years and it would need only small investments. Again, with the availability and price of credit as it is, a no-brainer I'd think. Professor Vuorinen also states that this method would have positive impact on the environment, because it would not be necessary to cook pulp as long as currently needed.
Once more it goes to show that industries and research related to the paper and pulp industry can foster important innovations, and with environmentally sound results even.
Tekniikka&talous rapportoi tästä myös, mikäli ei halua lukea englanninkielistä tekstiä. Olen aika innostunut tästä – tässä on taas esimerkki, miten metsäteollisuus voi tuottaa innovatiivisia tulevaisuuden tuotteet!
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Haplogroup_G_(Y-DNA)
Haplogroup G (Y-DNA)
In human genetics, Haplogroup G (M201) is a Y-chromosome haplogroup. It is a branch of Haplogroup F (M89), and is theorized to have originated, according to the latest thinking, in the Near East or Southern Asia, likely in the region that is now northern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.[citation needed] The haplogroup began to spread with the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, perhaps with the appearance of the early horse nomads of the Eurasian steppe.
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2 Origins
3 Subgroups
4 Phylogeny
5 Famous members
Haplogroup G has an overall low frequency in most populations but is widely distributed within the Old World in Europe, Western Asia, northeastern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia (including parts of China and the Malay Archipelago). It is most frequent in the Caucasus (found at over 60% in ethnic North Ossetian males and ~30% in Georgian males). In Europe, haplogroup G is found at ~5% in central and southern sections of the continent. It has relatively high concentrations in northern Sardinia (over 25%) and the Tyrol region of Austria (about 15%). In the British Isles, Scandinavia, and the Baltic countries it is uncommon; Britain and Norway for example at 1–2%.
In Southern Asia, haplogroup G is found at a rate of 10% to 20% among Iranians, Pashtuns (ethnic Afghans), and Kalash, and at a lesser percentage among some other populations in Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka, including the Tamils. In Central Asia, G is found in small percentages in a belt extending from the Caucasus through the Central Asian steppes out to the Uyghurs of Xinjiang Province in western China.
Around 10% of Ashkenazi Jewish males have haplogroup G, and the Jewish diaspora to Europe from the Middle East and the Arab Moor occupation of Spain are two other probable routes into Europe for certain types of G.
The initial distribution of haplogroup G in Europe may reflect a migration of agriculture-bringing Anatolian people into the Mediterranean Basin. The haplogroup may also have been brought by invading Sarmatians, Alans and Jasz (all descendant groups of the 'Iranian' Scythians), which is a good fit with the historically attested spread of these peoples across the Central Asian steppe, from Xinjiang in the east to Iberia and Tunisia in the west, with a branch (the Sakas) entering the northwest of the Indian subcontinent at the start of the first millennium.
Main article: Haplogroup G2c (Y-DNA)
Three commonly occurring subgroups of Haplogroup G have been identified so far: G1 (M285), G2a (P15) and G2c (M377). G3 (P287) exists but is rarely found in the G population. The highest reported concentration of G1 is in Iran, with next most frequent concentrations in neighboring countries. G2 represents the majority of haplogroup G Y-chromosomes in all countries, and a recently discovered subcategory (likely to be called G2a3) accounts for a high percentage of G in all sampled countries.
A clade of closely related Ashkenazi Jews represent virtually all G2c persons, with just three other G2c haplotypes having been reported so far: one Turk from Kars in northeast Turkey near Armenia, one Pashtun, and one Burusho in Pakistan. The extreme rarity of G2c in northeast Pakistan could indicate that G2c in this area originates outside the region and was brought there in the historic period, perhaps from further west (this area was part of both the Achaemenid Persian Empire, conquered by Alexander the Great, and then formed a part of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom). These two reported Pakistani G2c haplotypes are quite divergent from the Ashkenazi Jewish clade, and therefore do not at all indicate a recent common origin. The Turkish G2c is somewhat closer, but not identical. It remains to be seen if testing will reveal G2c haplotypes in other populations — this is some indication that G2c occurs at low levels in the Near East. Early reports that Ashkenazi G men were all G1 are now proven incorrect. There are also Jewish genetic clades within G2 and G1 whose members are not closely related to the G2c men. All G2c men tested so far have a rare null value for the DYS425 marker, (a missing "T" allele of the DYS371 palindromic STR), the result of a RecLOH event, a finding not yet seen among most other G haplotypes. Among Jews worldwide, haplogroup G comprises between 10–20% of the population. Though forming some recognizable clades, Jews today comprise a small percentage of the total number of G men worldwide.
This is a synthesis of the data about the internal phylogeny of haplogroup G from the latest upcoming studies:
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Famous members
See also: List of genetic results derived from historical figures
Joseph Stalin, from a genetic test on his grandson (his son Vasily's son; Alexander Burdonsky) shows his Y-DNA haplogroup to be G2a1 [1]
DYS 393 390 19 391 385A 385B 426 388 439 389I 392 389II 458 459A 459B 455 454 447 437 448 449 464A 464B 464C 464D
Alleles 14 23 15 9 15 16 11 12 11 11 10 28 17 9 9 11 11 25 16 21 28 13 13 14 14
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Haplogroup G SNP project
Some Information and Theories on Haplogroup G
Cinnioglu, Cengiz, et al., "Excavating Y-Chromosome Haplotype Strata in Anatolia," Human Genetics,2004, vol. 114, pp. 127–48.
DiGiacomo, F. et al. "Clinal Patterns of Human Y Chromosomal Diversity in Continental Italy and Greece 2003, vol 23, pp. 387–95. [Lists in table 1 G2 percentages in small samples in various towns]
Firasat, Sadaf et al., "Y-chromosomal evidence for a limited Greek contribution to the Pathan population of Pakistan," European Journal of Human Genetics (2007) Vol. 15, p. 121–126. http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v15/n1/full/5201726a.html
Nasidze, Ivan et al., "Testing Hypotheses of Language Replacement in the Caucasus: Evidence from the Y Chromosome," Human Genetics, 2003, vol. 112, pp. 255–61.
Nasidze, Ivan et al., "Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran," Current Biology, 2006, vol. 16, pp. 668–73.
Nasidze, Ivan et al., "Genetic Evidence concerning the Origins of South and North Ossetians," Annals of Human Genetics, 2004, vol. 68, pp. 588–99.
Nasidze, Ivan et al., "Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromsome Variation in the Caucasus," Annals of Human Genetics, 2004, vol. 68, pp 204–21.
Nasidze, Ivan et al., "MtDNA and Y-Chromosome Variation in Kurdish Groups," Annals of Human Genetics, 2005, vol. 69, pp. 401–12.
Qamar, Raheel, "Y Chromosomal DNA Variation in Pakistan," American Journal of Human Genetics, 2002, vol. 70(5), pp. 1107–24.
Regueiro, M., et al., "Iran: Tricontinental Nexus for Y-Chromosome Driven Migration," Human Heredity,2006, vol. 61, pp. 132–43.
Sahoo, Sanghamitra, "A Prehistory of Indian Y Chromosomes: Evaluating Demic Diffusion Scenarios," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 2006, vol. 103(4), pp. 843–48.
Sengupta, Sanghamitra, "Polarity and Temporality of High-Resolution Y-Chromosome Distributions in India Identify Both Indigenous and Exogenous Expansions and Reveal Minor Genetic Influence of Central Asian Pastoralists," American Journal of Human Genetics, 2006, vol. 78(2), pp. 202–21.
Zei, Gianna, et al., "From Surnames to the History of Y Chromosomes: the Sardinian Population as a Paradigm," European Journal of Human Genetics, 2003, vol. 11, pp. 802-07.
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Q: How to find the number of an element in a column of a dataframe For example, I have a dataframe A likes below :
   a b c
x  0 2 1
y  1 3 2
z  0 2 4

I want to get the number of 0 in column 'a' , which should returns 2. ( A[x][a] and A[z][a] )
Is there a simple way or is there a function I can easily do this?
I've Googled for it, but there are only articles like this.
count the frequency that a value occurs in a dataframe column
Which makes a new dataframe, and is too complicated to what I only need to do.

A: Use sum with boolean mask - Trues are processes like 1, so output is count of 0 values:
out = A.a.eq(0).sum()
print (out)
2

A: Try value_counts from pandas (here):
df.a.value_counts()["0"]

If the values are changeable, do it with df[column_name].value_counts()[searched_value]


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There are many ways to integrate data from a targeted source. Data integration tools have long been the workhorses behind data movement to and from databases, applications, and the cloud. The type of integration tool you'll need depends largely upon where the data sits at any given moment and where you'd like it to wind up. An in-between stage also takes precedent, as data manipulation — cleansing, wrangling, blending, transforming — are all processes to be done under the hood, depending on your specific use case.
We've outlined four data delivery styles in which integration software tends to perform, but it's worthwhile to dig a bit deeper and really iron out the keys that make these capabilities tick. Data replication is one of these vital integration processes. In traditional settings, extract, transform and load (ETL) solutions were utilized to bring data together in one place. Use cases are increasingly being shifted to incorporate more data and these tools aren't able to keep pace. It is much easier to replicate an entire database as it's being filled with new information than it is to run a continual stream of data from one place to another while manipulating it on the fly.
Replicating data is a pseudo-integration technique that enables all the users in an organization to gain access to the same data. This is done by software that generates copies of a database in one server and transmits it to another. What replication aims to do is effectively turn all of an organization's databases into one so that a unified view of the data can be viewed in different locations. The end result is removal of incomplete or non-quality data.
Transactional: Automates changes made between databases in near real-time from the primary server to the subscriber. This process is used in environments where frequent changes are made and need to be recorded individually.
Snapshot: Only copies data that has been changed since the database was previously replicated. Utilized largely in scenarios where data doesn't change often or when only notable changes occur in a short window.
Merge: Allows both the publisher and subscriber to make changes to the database. Merge agents sit on both servers to update changes and resolve conflicts in data.
Where does Change Data Capture fit in?
Change data capture (CDC) functionality brings replicating databases to a new level in that it updates target servers with only the data that has changed in the primary source. In this way, they quite literally capture the changes in data and nothing more. These fill a very specific need for organizations that commonly replicate large data stores and want to avoid sifting through all of their data to find out what's changed.
Users utilize CDC patterns to identify only data that has been changed so that it can be used for analysis. Instead of being forced to replicate entire databases over and over, CDC tools ensure that only changed data is updated, greatly enhancing database performance and ensuring that bottlenecks are avoided.
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There is another mode that combines values of direct issue with automated component consumption. This requires the consumption execution to be moved from ERP to MES.
MES tracks components stock levels at individual consumption points. When components are replenished or consumed, the stock is updated. Even when MES is using the backflush mode, consumed inventory can be tracked more precisely by not allowing to consume more inventory than there is physically in a particular location.
MES can recognize when the location is empty and force the operator to confirm the stock level. Similarly, the operator can be asked to validate stock levels at the beginning of an order or at the end when materials are returned. This "event triggered" ad-hoc counting helps in keeping the system and physical inventory levels aligned, without an extensive effort or production disruption.
MES can provide an efficient and semi-automated way for scrap/waste declaration. For example, using barcode readers or automated scales, user can update the stock instantly instead of post factum. This approach saves time on data re-entry and prevents the user from omitting certain data.
MES can also perform real-time manufacturing data crosschecking and highlight potential inaccuracies. Typical example would be to show significant component consumption deviations when compared with the BOM while the order is still being executed. MES can raise an alert when users forget to report some components or when reported quantities do not match.
Thanks to the use of business specific validation formulas and automated data collection, MES can off-load the shop floor staff from labor intensive reporting. Yet, it can still provide very accurate traceability and inventory information.
It is worth to remind that MES should keep ERP updated about the inventory levels. This can be done in an aggregated mode, typically once a shift or at the time of production declaration. This is much more reliable than doing manual data entry in ERP or consuming inventory by doing a backflush.
To conclude, it is worth considering MES for execution of material consumption because it is better suited to supports different production scenarios. Traceability requirements are continually changing and becoming more stringent. Keeping genealogy data like lots and serial numbers is a bare minimum. Various regulations demand traceability of particular pallets, boxes and their flows. This is one of the additional features we could discuss in another post.