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Blog > Taming the Flood: Filtering the News with Artificial Intelligence
Taming the Flood: Filtering the News with Artificial Intelligence
After the Nile, Amazon and Yangtze, the Mississippi ranks as both one of the longest and most evocative rivers in the world. At the heart of the American continent both in location and in stature, the 2320 miles of the Mississippi collects water from a colossal catchment area of over a million square miles, collecting most, if not all the water from 31 US states or 40% of the entire USA, before discharging half a million cubic feet of water every second, into the Gulf of Mexico. It's story is just as vast as its dimensions, the steamboat-era of the 1930s best captured perhaps by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has cemented the river's place in popular culture and imagination.
But it is the river's economic value that has continually driven its significance. Even the sedentary pace of the 19th century paddle steamers was enough to develop the river as a key route for goods and passengers alike. Today the river transports more than 60% of the US agricultural output and is a critical shipping route for oil and coal throughout the country. The economic value is now estimated at over $400BN, as well as supporting millions of jobs both directly on the river and indirectly in the businesses that have come to rely on it.
It was not always like this. The meandering flow created by nature – the "Father of Waters" as the native Anishinabe people called it – did not lend itself well to its use as a shipping route. The 19th and early 20th century saw substantial attempts to shape, chisel and file off inconvenient curves, bends and other features less conducive to commerce; canals were dug to bypass impassable rapids, dams and levees were built to control flooding, and dredging meant the river could accommodate bigger and heavier ships.
These early attempts would prove disastrous in the long run. Throughout 1926 the rain had been unusually heavy, saturating the basin that fed the river for months. The rain however, did not stop. The spring of 1927 brought catastrophe. The river broke out of its banks in 145 places, and inundated 27,000 square miles to depths of more than 30 feet (9m). The flood left an estimated 750,000 people without food or shelter and created a humanitarian disaster the effects of which can still be seen today.
Those interventions – the attempts to tame the river – had not only had failed, but spectacularly backfired. Straight waterways channel water more efficiently. Deeper water flows more quickly and in greater volume. Levees and dams restrict the natural flow and increase the elevation of the water line. All combined to worsen the resultant flooding.
After the floods, the US Army Corp of Engineers were tasked to build the largest system of flood defences in the world. Taking over from the previous local and piecemeal approaches to flood defence, the Corps took a holistic approach looking at the entire region. Starting in 1928, in one of the largest public civil engineering projects ever devised, dozens of canals, locks and levees would be built to ensure the river could stay navigable for commerce, while allowing nature to take its course whenever the rains came. While new flooding has continued to refine the system, nothing like on the scale of 1927 has ever happened again.
The New Flood
While the Army Engineers were ushering in a revolution in how the great river Mississippi was managed, the 1920s also saw a different revolution in America. As a wave of prosperity surged through middle classes after WW1, new forms of entertainment in the form of tabloids, magazines, radio and motion pictures all captured the public appetite for modernity. These new forms of media ushered in profound cultural changes as new ideas could now freely proliferate, changing the very fabric of society. Time Magazine, Readers Digest, Amos and Andy, Charlie Chaplain; the 1920s set out the template for what would become billion-dollar media empires, movie studios and the liberal flow of knowledge and ideas.
For over 70 years these forms of media grew in popularity and influence, until a new flood occurred. This wasn't a flood of water, but of information. The internet created an entire new way that media could be created and consumed. In 1996 the internet passed 100,000 websites and by 2000 there were more than 20 million websites; today there are well over a billion. Social media, which empowers anyone to become a publisher of information has created data orders of magnitude larger, with hundreds of millions of posts per day being broadcast on the top platforms.
Reducing the Noise
This blog has already talked about the value of intelligence gathering from open-source media (see Deciphering Risk from Adverse Media Reports) and the ways in which small pieces of information can even reveal information valuable to national security and countering financial crime. Technology has optimised the flow of information to create the most value for people sharing the latest news, but – just like the waters of the Mississippi – it has also created the pre-conditions for a flood.
When on-boarding clients within a financial services context, the flood becomes particularly tricky to navigate.
Using traditional search engines, an analyst may be looking for news articles, something in their history that betrays a risk, criminal activity or other potential regulatory issue. Typing in that client's name into a search engine could result in a huge number of search results which can easily total many hundreds if not thousands of pages. Perhaps an interesting article detailing their involvement in bribery scandal appears on Page 27 of these search results. How many pages are you able and willing to scroll through to spot the risk? Perhaps, the client shares the same name as a famous sports or pop star and it is difficult to ascertain if the client is among the results at all. Perhaps the results return an article that indeed mentions the prospective clients name, but in the context of a family matter or unrelated business announcement.
This deluge of poor quality and irrelevant data often means that analysts neither have the time nor patience to wade through and find any potential risks. This has typically meant so-called adverse media or negative news searches are time consuming and rarely result in actionable intelligence as part of the on-boarding process.
Rudimentary approaches to solving this problem are widespread in the financial services industry. For instance, by adding the word "bribery" after their clients name "Acme Inc." may help hone the results somewhat. Adding other words like "corruption", "crime", or "human trafficking" might expand the potential for discovering risk, but it is extremely limited as a crude attempt to shape and file off the rough corners of the mountain of data returned.
Simply, these keyword-based searches could never hope to match the range of nuance and variety in the language of news articles, webpages and other open-source data that might inform the intelligence picture around a client's behaviour. Furthermore, limiting such keyword searches to a single language such as English reduces the likelihood of finding articles in any one of the global languages that make up the media landscape all over the world.
NLP: A Next Generation Approach to reducing Data Floods
Just like the new generations of levees and dams that were built on the Mississippi throughout the 20th century ushered in an entirely new, holistic approach to managing America's greatest waterway, new technology is now doing the same for managing the flood of information that is inundating compliance analysts conducing adverse media checks.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an application of machine intelligence which can automatically read and understand unstructured text such news articles, documents, or any written material. Like many other techniques within the field of AI, this works by training an algorithm to recognise what a news article is about at a conceptual level, allowing to the machine to understand what 'bribery and corruption' looks like, in multiple languages and from multiple news sources. In fact, in order to train up a classifier for adverse news, we typically look for 10,000 examples to train the system to spot future, similar articles about that topic. Once trained, these algorithms can spot, instantaneously, the features of an article about bribery and corruption in dozens of languages over millions of articles of news.
Applying this within the context of adverse media searching means NLP has the following benefits:
News Articles are automatically grouped into topics of interest – Over 3 million news articles are published every day from news outlets all over the world. Properly trained NLP can group all of these into different categories before a human has even arrived at their desk. Articles about predicate crimes such as human trafficking, embezzlement, or narcotics can all be pre-selected by the system for searches and alerting without the need for elaborate sets of keywords and query terms.
Irrelevant or Useless articles are automatically removed from review – the overwhelming majority of news articles published every day are not relevant to making informed decisions about client risk. Specifically, we estimate that of the millions of articles published every day, less than 0.8% have any value for on-boarding or periodic review. NLP removes over 99% of the noise from adverse media searches meaning that results returned are more relevant and likely to be of value.
Duplication is reduced and similar news is grouped into stories – similar articles are published every day by multiple outlets. Some are even syndicated, word-for-word copies flood news desks on multiple publications. NLP cuts through this noise, automatically discounting identical articles, and grouping similar articles about the same story into an easy to review collection. This further reduces the analyst burden.
News articles can be grouped not just by keywords, but by phrases and complex combinations of linguistic patterns – going beyond simple keyword monitoring, NLP looks more deeply at the structure and patterns within news articles. This means groupings of topics are more accurate, resulting in better quality searches and data.
Articles in other languages are automatically searched for, identified, and translated – NLP topic classification can be done in any language, provided there is sufficient source of ground truth from which to base its decisions on. Training these topic classifiers in over 15 global languages means that risk is identified no matter where the media article has been published.
The Ripjar difference
It is impressive to imagine the engineers who designed the monumental programme of flood defences after the great flood in 1927, who did it all without any advanced modelling and simulation software, let alone a pocket calculator. All they had was their ingenuity and a slide-rule. However, their engineering was able to tame 'Big Muddy', and make it safe for those living and working on it, while respecting the natural processes which put it there in the first place.
We have combined state of the art NLP with Entity Resolution (see What is Entity Resolution?) to give intelligence analysts within financial institutions a world-leading adverse news capability. The colossal river of information that flows digitally around the world is measured not in gallons, but in terabytes. This torrent of information can be harnessed for many different purposes, including the effective screening of clients in financial services for risk and NLP is a critical tool in reducing the volume of this torrent to make it more efficient and effective to help institutions fight financial crime.
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I have a customer that needs to assing Roles to different users. We tried it with an import job, where we wanted to update the users with their ITAM-roles. The update run through without error and all attributes were updated, but not the Role.
Is this a bug or does this work as designed? If it is as designed I wonder why you can select the role in the Import-mapping.
I would recommend contacting support to investigate this further. We would need to see how you are assigning the contacts to the role and if these contacts are 'authorized' to the APM application.


Tonight, I had a pre- bedtime talk with my oldest sons. And one was pouring out a frustrated heart. He was feeling the pressure of our days and busyness. Busyness can eat away at the beautiful and the good. There is a hecticness at odds with strong, soul-full purposed days. We are feeling some of that and I have been hard pressed to find ways to keep our center and priorities straight at times. In fact, I would say, we haven't been doing too well with that. And it is here that I drink from the cup of grace like a desperate man (woman). And I throw myself wholeheartedly upon the Lord in trust as I have seen Him make a way again and again when I cannot see the way (and O! that is hard for me but O! His amazing faithfulness!!).
But I digress (a bit)… for some of the pent up frustration was coming from a lack of time to write for this particular child. A lack of time to sit and ponder… he told me he had taken to writing in composition books that he could carry with him wherever he was as it can be so challenging to find the time to sit at a computer…but even that routine was being pushed out with a sense of pressure and busyness… not to mention that he was just feeling that he didn't have much time with the full credit load he is carrying plus activities. He is right. He is at his busiest right now and there isn't much time. He is feeling it. He can't hear the writing voice inside of him. There is too much noise.
I looked at that child. And I said(something along these lines)- in the face of his frustration- and yes, fear. Fear for where was that inner place so much a part of him- so muffled now in noise? I said- "To write you need time, and space, and quiet. Time to stretch out and think and listen. And it is natural and normal that you do not have that right now. Wait until after this season and the words will come again. Just because you are busy and cannot hear the stories, doesn't mean that the gift is not in you. The gift is in you." And as the words left my mouth, I startled. And inside I felt a deep inner witness, for I knew in my heart, I was also speaking to myself. I was speaking to myself. And the grace I offered my child, is the grace offered to me.
And of course, my mind went a hundred directions on how could we possibly better organize time to give a routine that would enable him to write. But I didn't offer any of that this night. I didn't offer a solution to the problem or figure out a way to make it work. I just affirmed. The gift is still within him and that hasn't changed because the circumstances of his life are pressing in a different way and we are just figuring out how to get through and stay afloat. No. The gift is his forever because it is a part of who he is.
So, I now take a little time to capture that moment to my own heart. Try to feel the full weight of its impact. And listen. To write…is to truly live. For me. So I do.
When Micah was in first or second grade, we used a lovely curriculum called Living Books Curriculum. Included in this program was a devotional resource called: The Wonder Devotional Book. It was published by Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). This resource is written right at the first and second grade reading level.
Sadly, this book is not in print.
When Abigaile, who was the fourth child to go through this devotional, got to the end of this book she discovered an invitation to participate in CEF's Truth Chasers club. She asked if she could join. She then faithfully proceeded to diligently complete lessons- often saving them for Sundays as a special treat just for that day. She completed the first level and received a lovely certificate.
Fall semester we were surprised, proud, and thrilled to realize that she completed the second level. She received a beautiful ESV Bible monogrammed with her name spelled perfectly correct and a sweet little devotional book that she set aside for special Sunday reading. What a treasure this precious Bible is!
As she has worked through the lessons, she has been encouraged by little notes from the graders and encouraging words. It has been great fun for her to receive this special mail. The lessons carefully and slowly advance in difficulty.
This is a wonderful, free resource that has been an incredible blessing. And, I am so proud of my girl. She is quiet and reserved but very determined. This year she has earned two important awards (more on the second one later). And she did them both with quiet determination and courage and all on her own initiative.
I hope , in sharing this, someone else might be encouraged to take advantage of these special lessons. I feel that this is a hidden treasure.
I edited and updated this Christmas post just a bit…for those who might be curious. I added a few pertinent facts and clarified my writing a bit.
Happy New Year! I disappeared completely through Christmas as our family all went down en masse with illness. Truthfully, we are still getting back on our feet with some residual coughs and sniffles, with Christmas STILL up at our house, and with much organizing and paperwork needed to be done.
Here is a new recipe just created by me. It is dairy free but I am sure you could certainly sub dairy items in place of my alternatives. You can also use almond milk, soy milk, or another milk alternative in place of the canned coconut milk. I made this recipe half-size the one I am posting. I doubled the ingredients as I plan to make this for my whole family.
Place diced onion and carrots in bottom of soup pot and drizzle with olive oil. Turn on high and begin to cook. Add garlic or garlic powder. Add Bags of Frozen Cauliflower and cook just a bit til starting to steam and almost brown. Fill soup pot with water and bring to a boil. Cook and simmer until cauliflower is soft and tender (about 20 minutes). Season with salt and pepper. Keep pot simmering and remove 1/2 – 3/4 of cauliflower and cream in blender. Pour back into pot. Add daiya, coconut milk, and chopped meat. Swirl in spinach. Season again with salt and pepper to taste.
Serve as is or with crusty home-made bread. Yum!


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Canada and Mexico Genealogy Collections Get Major Updates!
by Lacey Cooke | Mar 8, 2019 | 01 What's New, Records & databases
Great news for those searching for ancestors in Canada and Mexico! FamilySearch has partnered with Library and Archives Canada (LAC) to publish the 1926 Census of Prairie Provinces, available to search for free online now. Also new this week are massive updates to Ancestry's genealogical records collections for Mexico, including vital records and Catholic church records.
Featured: New genealogy resource online for Canada
Genealogy Giant FamilySearch has recently announced the online launch of the Historical Canada 1926 Census of the Prairie Provinces. From the press release:
"FamilySearch International and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) have partnered to publish online the 1926 Canadian census of the Prairie provinces. The free database provides a searchable index of 2 million names linked to 45,000 digital pages of the historical regional Canadian census. Search the census now at FamilySearch.org.
LAC provided the digitized images, and FamilySearch created the index. People with Canadian roots can now easily find information about their ancestors who might have lived in the provinces of Manitoba (639,056), Saskatchewan, (820,738) and Alberta (607,599).
About the 1926 Census of the Prairie Provinces
Since 1871, a Canada-wide census has been held every 10 years. However, during the early part of the 20th century, the population of the Prairie provinces expanded rapidly, so there was a need for more frequent population counts in those provinces. It was decided to conduct a census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in June 1906 (between the Canada-wide censuses), and every 10 years thereafter."
My Great Great Grandfather Found in Saskatchewan!
We've long known that my great great grandfather Harry Cooke immigrated to Canada in 1912, however the trail grows cold quickly from that point. This new collection offered a new chance to track him down in North America. A quick search of this new online database delivered the goods!
Stay tuned to the Genealogy Gems Podcast to hear how to get even more out of the data included in this fabulous collection!
Updated genealogy records collections for Mexico
Ancestry.com has made massive updates to their genealogical records collections for Mexico, listed here by location:
Aguascalientes Civil Registration Births 1860-1947, Marriages 1860-1961, and Deaths 1859-1961
Baja California Sur Civil Registration Births 1860-1930, Marriages 1860-1950, and Deaths 1860-1987
Campeche Catholic Church Records, 1638-1944, plus Civil Registration Births 1859-1921, Marriages 1860-1921, and Deaths 1860-1912
Chiapas Catholic Church Records 1558-1978, plus Civil Registration Births 1861-1947, Marriages 1861-1952, and Deaths, 1861-1987
Chihuahua Catholic Church Records 1632-1958
Coahuila Civil Registration Births 1861-1930, Marriages 1861-1950, and Deaths 1861-1999
Colima Civil Registration Births 1861-1931, Marriages, 1863-1952, and Deaths 1860-1997.
Durango Civil Registration Births 1861-1930, Marriages 1861-1951, and Deaths 1861-1987
Guanajuato Civil Registration Births 1862-1929, Marriages 1866-1929, and Deaths 1862-1930
Nayarit Catholic Church Records 1596-1967
Nuevo León Catholic Church Records 1667-1981
Sinaloa Catholic Church Records 1671-1968
Sonora Catholic Church Records 1657-1994
Zacatecas Catholic Church Records 1605-1980
More on researching your Hispanic ancestors
If you have Hispanic heritage — anywhere from Mexico to Chile to Spain — you're in luck: More resources for tracing their immigration are available more readily than ever before. In this special research collection from Family Tree Magazine, get eight resources to trace your Hispanic heritage for one low price! You will learn important historical dates and timelines, Spanish naming traditions, where to find records of immigration by ship, plane and train, and much more! Get the Hispanic Heritage Research Collection for just $24.99 – a $70.96 value!
Millions of Obituaries from Around the World
by Sunny | Sep 28, 2018 | 01 What's New, Records & databases | 3 comments
Obituaries and death indexes feature prominently in recently-updated collections at Ancestry.com. These collections take us around the world: from Australia to the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, then to Germany and The Netherlands.
Featured: Obituaries and death indexes
Genealogy giant subscription website Ancestry.com has updated 17 collections, several of which relate to obituaries and other death records. Many of these collections focus on recent deaths, which may not seem as valuable at first glance. But many obituaries contain genealogical clues back one or two or more generations, helping you link ancestors and descendants to each other in your family trees.
Furthermore, clues about a person's death can lead you to all kinds of additional records: civil or church death records, tombstone inscriptions, cemetery and funeral records, wills and probate records, and even memorials in church or civic publications. So this is one must-have record type for every possible person on your tree for the past 100 years, or even more!
All the following collections come from Ancestry.com, where you can go to Search > Catalog to find the individual collections named below. (Just enter the collection title in part or full.)
Australia/New Zealand obituaries
"Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-2018," now has more than 377,000 records. This is a fairly recent collection, but we also reported last month on updates to a sister collection of Australian newspaper vital notices dating back to the 1830s.
British Isles obituaries and deaths
An offsite collection that's indexed on Ancestry, "Web: UK, Coal Mining Accidents and Deaths Index, 1878-1935," now has nearly 103,000 records. According to the collection landing page, "This data is published by The Coalmining History Resource Centre. You can often find additional information by visiting the source website, including references, publication information, comments, historical context, and even images."
The "England and Wales, Death Index, 2007-2017" at Ancestry.com now has more than 1.2 million records. The collection description says, "This collection is a compiled index that covers approximately 55% of the total deaths that occurred in this time period. This index provides death details for people in England and Wales, specifically their name, gender, date of birth or age at death, date of death, and residence place at death."
"UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-2018" now claims more than 1.6 million records of recent deaths. "The collection contains obituaries from hundreds of newspapers. We work with partners to scour the Internet regularly to find new obituaries and extract the facts into our database. Where available we include the original URL link to the source information."
The "Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2017" now includes over 525,000 records. It's "a compiled index that covers approximately 45% of the total deaths that occurred in this time period. This index provides death details for people in Scotland and Northern Ireland, specifically their name, gender, date of birth or age at death, date of death, and residence place at time of death. However, they do not include the General Register Office (GRO) reference information. The index also contains a small number of records for people in Jersey and Isle of Man."
Canada obituaries and notarial records
Ancestry's collection of "Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935" now tops 16.5 million records! According to the site, "Notarial records are private agreements (contracts), written by notaries, who are considered legal professionals. This collection consists of notarial records for Quebec from the years 1637 to 1935. Each notary set up practice and kept sets of records for documents they created."
Looking for Canadian obituaries? The "Canada, Obituary Collection, 1898-2018" now has more than 1.4 million entries. Its historical depth—more than 100 years—and its inclusion of recent deaths set it apart from some other obituary indexes reported here.
Germany vital records
The collection "Mainz, Germany, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1798-1875" now has nearly 900,000 records. The site offers excellent background for this database: "The current capital of the Rhine-Palatinate state in Germany, Mainz has a rich and storied history….Since the late 18th century, Mainz has been at times under French, Prussian, and German rule, and for a brief spell, it was a democratic free state.
"Initially, registrations of births, marriages, and deaths were kept by religious denominations, but with French occupation in the 1790s, a system of civil registration modeled on the French system was implemented in 1798. This collection includes civil registrations of births, marriages, and deaths beginning in 1798 and extending to 1875. In 1876, civil registration was implemented across unified Germany, and some of those records can be found in other Ancestry collections."
"Exercise Field Artillery Corps" album, image AKL092038, Netherlands Institute of Military History uploads at Flickr Creative Commons, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nimhimages/16026248719/.
The Netherlands: Obituaries and more
The Ancestry.com collection "Netherlands, Newspaper Announcements Index, 1795-1945" now has over 5 million records. "This collection consists of an index to announcements and advertisements from various newspapers. Approximately forty percent of the records are death (Overlijden) announcements. Just under one-quarter of the records are birth (Geboorte) announcements, and nearly as many are miscellaneous (Diversen) announcements or advertisements. The remaining records consist of marriage (Huwelijk) announcements. Details vary depending on the event….Also included is the name of the archive where the original record can be found, as well as a link to the record on the source website. In most cases, additional information about the original record will be available via that link. In some cases, images of the original records may be available via that link as well."
United States obituary and death records
Two enormous collections of U.S. obituary and other death records have been updated at Ancestry.com. "U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-2018" has passed 9 million records. The site describes the collection as one harvested from cemetery and funeral home records all over the Internet (to which individual entries link, wherever possible). A related collection, "U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-2018," now has nearly 40 million records, and is also described as a compilation of records gleaned from many resources online.
Got Oregon Trail ancestors? The "Willamette Valley, Oregon, Death Records, 1838-2006" collection now has more than 158,000 records. It "contains a collection of various death records for Willamette Valley, Oregon. Most are from Marion County. They include funeral home records, cemetery records, newspaper obituaries, and death certificates transcribed or compiled by members of the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society."
Now topping 5 million records, the "New York, Death Index, 1852-1956" collection "consists of indices of deaths from the state of New York. Details vary, but may include the following information for the deceased: name, death date, death city, age at death, gender [and] certificate number."
More to learn about obituaries
Not motivated enough yet to pursue obituaries for your relatives? Read our free article, 12 things you can learn in obituaries, and you'll probably change your mind! An obituary isn't just a record of a death: it's often a window into a lifetime.
About the Author: Sunny Morton
Sunny is a Contributing Editor at Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems; her voice is often heard on the Genealogy Gems Podcast and Premium Podcasts. She's known for her expertise on the world's biggest family history websites (she's the author of Genealogy Giants: Comparing the 4 Major Websites); writing personal and family histories (she also wrote Story of My Life: A Workbook for Preserving Your Legacy); and sharing her favorite reads for the Genealogy Gems Book Club.
New Genealogy Records on the Genealogy Giants
by Sunny | Mar 9, 2018 | 01 What's New, Genealogy Giants Websites, Records & databases
Millions of new genealogy records for Australia, the British Isles, the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Central and South America have been added to Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com, the "genealogy giants."
This week, we've sorted them by site, in case you're just using one or two of them. But we do think you should know about them all! Click here for in-depth comparisons of the genealogy giants.
New genealogy records on Ancestry.com
Australia. Subscribers may search a new collection, Victoria, Australia, Asylum Records, 1853-1940. According to the description, "This collection is comprised of Asylum Records between 1853-1940 from the Public Record Office Victoria. The following information will typically be found: name of patient, age and birth place of patient, date admitted into asylum, reason they were admitted and photographs also occasionally appear."
England. The new collection, Worcestershire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1541-1812, "is a collection of historical parish registers from Worcestershire, England…The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records. All of the data was converted as it was originally presented in various published registers and books."
Another new collection, Liverpool, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1970 "contains yearly registers listing names and residences of people in Liverpool, who were eligible to vote in elections. These year-by-year registers can help place your ancestors in a particular place and possibly also reveal a bit about property they owned."
Poland. A new index, USHMM: Poland, Jewish Holocaust Survivors Registered in Warsaw, 1945-1946, "was indexed by World Memory Project contributors from the digitized holdings of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…This database contains more than 31,000 registration cards completed by Jewish survivors in Warsaw after the war, in order to register with the Central Committee of Polish Jews (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce). While the cards themselves were compiled in Warsaw, only 15,270 individuals have Warsaw listed as their postwar residence. The original documents are held by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland."
New York. A new collection, New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967 "consists of indexes of marriages from the state of New York between the years 1881 and 1967. The collection contains only indexes to records, but the certificate number can be used to order a copy of the original certificate. Details vary, but may include names of bride or groom, marriage date, and place and certificate number.
Scotland. The new collection, Edinburgh, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1832-1966, "contains yearly registers listing names and residences of people in Edinburgh, Scotland, who were eligible to vote in elections." Another new collection, Fife, Scotland, School Admissions and Discharges, 1867-1916, "is a collection of School Admission and Discharges for schools in Fife, Scotland…These records are lists of children who were admitted to and discharged from schools. When education was required, children could be discharged from their schooling if they were needed to work to help support the family. The records vary by school and some are more detailed than others."
United Kingdom. A new Ancestry.com collection, UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939, "lists the employees, both civil and military, of the East India Company and later, the India Office. You may be able to find (where available): Name, Military Rank, Place of residence or military service, Date of death, Place of death, Date of marriage and Name of parents."
New genealogy records on FamilySearch.org
Because there's so much to find on FamilySearch.org (in so many different places), we recommend you consult an expert resource like the Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch by Dana McCullough.
Check out these collections—all of them free:
Australia. Over a half million indexed records have been added to the collection, Australia Cemetery Inscriptions, 1802-2005. The site describes the collection as "Cards of cemetery inscriptions from many cemeteries throughout Australia. The majority of the cemeteries are in Queensland, but there are some in New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Tasmania, and Western Australia. Some cards include information culled from local newspapers which sometimes include birth and marriage announcements."
Austria. Nearly 200,000 digital images and nearly 300,000 indexed names have been added to Austria, Vienna Population Cards, 1850-1896. These are described as "population cards for individual residents of the city of Vienna, Austria. The cards include: name; birth date and place; marital status; old and new places of residence; and dates of arrival and departure. Frequently the names of the spouse and children are listed. Many people from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Eastern Europe passed through Vienna and may be included on these cards."
Brazil. Nearly 100,000 indexed names have been added to Brazil, Santa Catarina, Catholic Church Records, 1714-1977. These are "baptism, marriage, and death records created by various Catholic parishes and diocese in the state of Santa Catarina. Some of these records have been indexed and are searchable as part of this collection."
Colombia. A new collection with more than 170,000 indexed names is Colombia, Diocese of Barranquilla, Catholic Church Records, 1808-1985. These are "Catholic Church records created by parishes in the Diocese of Barranquilla, Colombia. These records include: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, marriage investigation files, deaths, and indexes. Some of these records have been indexed and are searchable as part of this collection. Additional indexed records will be published as they become available."
El Salvador. Nearly 200,000 indexed names have been added to El Salvador Civil Registration, 1704-2001. According to the description, these records are "Births, marriages, deaths, indexes and other records created by civil registration offices in El Salvador."
Peru. Nearly 275,000 indexed names have been added to Peru, Lima, Civil Registration, 1874-1996. These are "births, marriages, deaths, indexes and other records created by civil registration offices in the department of Lima, Peru."
Russia. Over 180,000 record images have been published online in a new collection, Russia, Karelia Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists), 1782-1858. These are "images of family lists for the tax-paying population (about 95% of the population) conducted primarily in the years 1782, 1795, 1811, 1816, 1833-1834, 1850-1851, and 1857-1858. Some outlying years are included. Localities reflect the places that existed during the period of the Russian Empire since the records were created at that time."
New genealogy records on Findmypast.com
England: Derbyshire Parish Records. "Brand new records covering the parishes of Alvaston, Boulton, Chellaston, Holbrook, Longford, Newton Solney and Wilne have been added to our collection of Derbyshire Parish records, including: 255,626 baptisms; 126,083 marriages; and 16,902 burials.…Parish records generally begin from 1538 after the Church of England mandated the keeping of parish registers in 1537. Baptisms, marriages and burials were all recorded in a single volume until 1774, when the law changed to require a separate marriage register and another one for banns (or proclamations of an intent to marry). Standardized forms for these registers appeared in 1812."
US Catholic parish records
Illinois (Archdiocese of Chicago). Search over 411,000 baptismal registers, over 153,000 parish marriage records, over 37,000 parish burial records and over 1.9 million cemetery records (burial index cards, burial registers, daily burial logs, and registers of cemetery lot owners). The parish records span from the late 1800s up to 1925 and the cemetery records from 1864-1989. In baptismal records, discover the date and location of baptisms, the names of parents and family residence. Marriage records include "the couple's marriage date, marriage location, the names of their parents and the names of any witnesses." All have both transcripts and images of original records. The Archdiocese of Chicago was first established in 1843 and serves the Catholic population of Cook and Lake Counties in northeastern Illinois.
Maryland (Archdiocese of Baltimore). Subscribers may now browse "over 54,000 individual baptism, marriage, burial, communion, and confirmation registers from the Archdiocese of Baltimore in their entirety. The registers span the years from 1782 to 1918 and can provide a variety of important biographical details about your ancestor." Click here to start browsing!
New York (Archdiocese of NY). "Search brand new indexes of Sacramental Registers, released in partnership with the Archdiocese of New York, of both baptisms and marriages "covering the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island in New York City, as well as the Counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester. The records date back to 1785, span more than 130 years of the region's history and come from more than 230 parishes across the Archdiocese.
New genealogy records on MyHeritage.com
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England & Wales: 1939 Register. This huge addition was announced during RootsTech 2018 last week. According to a press release, "Prepared on the eve of World War II, with 33 million searchable records, the 1939 Register is the most complete census-like collection for the population of England and Wales between 1911 and 1951….For each household member, the 1939 Register records name, gender, address, birth date, marital status, place of residence, and occupation….The 1939 Register collection is not exclusive, but other than MyHeritage, it is currently available on only one other website [Findmypast.com]. The initial collection on MyHeritage includes an index, without images."
Canada: Canadian Obituaries, 1997-2017 is a new collection of "2 million records, documenting obituaries and memorials from the 10 Canadian provinces, spanning mostly 1997-2017. It includes the name of the deceased, the date of death, the publication source including locality information, and the text of the obituary or memorial — in English or French depending on the source. When available, a photograph of the deceased is also included."
Who do you know with ancestors in Australia? England? Scotland? Austria? The United States? Poland? Brazil? Peru? Russia? The other countries mentioned above? Why not take a second and share this post with them? Thank you–you're a gem!
Free Genealogy Records from Around the World: Newly Online!
by Lisa Cooke | Jul 28, 2017 | 01 What's New, Australian, Canadian, FamilySearch, Irish, Italian, Records & databases
Free genealogy records, newly available online, may be able to take you around your ancestor's world! This week's record destinations include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Russia, and South Africa.
Civil registration records–key genealogical resources–from several countries are among the free new family history records online in recent days and weeks. But you'll also find probate records, church records, military personnel records, and even a digital archive meant to preserve ancient aboriginal languages. Which might mention your ancestors?
Over 100,000 indexed names have been added to FamilySearch's free collection, Argentina, Entre Ríos, Catholic Church Records, 1764-1983. According to a collection description, it includes "baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials for cities in the province of Entre Ríos."
An exciting new Australian website houses a digital archive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language materials. It includes texts, audio, video, and ebooks about Australia's First Nations languages. The hope of the site is to be a digital repository for gathering, preserving, and sharing materials that in effect preserve these languages and revitalize their use. The site managers will continue to work with partners to bring more content to the site. Click here to read more about the site's launch, and click here to access it directly.
Two free Belgian civil registration collections at FamilySearch.org have been updated:
Namur, Civil Registration, 1800-1912
Limburg, Civil Registration, 1798-1906
Both of these collections are comprised of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths from the Belgium National Archives, as well as marriage proclamations, marriage supplements, and some original indexes. Additional images will be added as they become available.
Several free Brazilian genealogy records collections have been updated at FamilySearch.org. Among them are the following:
Pernambuco, Civil Registration, 1804-2014 (more than 300,000 newly indexed records)
Piauí, Civil Registration, 1875-2013 (nearly 150,000 newly indexed records)
Brazil, São Paulo, Immigration Cards, 1902-1980 (over 20,000 newly indexed records)
Over 300,000 indexed names have been added to FamilySearch.org's enormous free collection of Bolivia Catholic Church Records, 1566-1996. The collection hosts over 1.5 million digitized images of Catholic Church records created by parishes in Bolivia. "These records include: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, pre-marriage investigations, deaths, indexes and other records. Some of these records have been indexed and are searchable as part of this collection. Additional indexed records will be published as they become available."
Library and Archives Canada continues to update its free Personnel Records of the First World War database. So far, the database includes "digitized files for many individuals of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and Newfoundland Forestry Corps (courtesy of the Rooms Provincial Archives)."
Newly digitized CEF files are added to the references every two weeks, states the collection's landing page. To date, over 461,000 of an expected 640,000 files have been added. "Library and Archives Canada is digitizing the service files systematically, from box 1 to box 10686, which roughly corresponds to alphabetical order," explains a blog post. "Please note that over the years, the content of some boxes has had to be moved and, you might find that the file you want, with a surname that is supposed to have been digitized, is now located in another box that has not yet been digitized."
FamilySearch.org has updated its free collection, Chile Civil Registration, 1885-1903. These include "births, marriages, and deaths for various localities in Chile from 1885 to 1903. For a complete list of all the provincias and comunas included in this collection, see the Provinces of Chile – Civil Registration coverage table. Only records from a few localities have been indexed. More records and images will be added as they become available." Need help reading these? FamilySearch suggests using this Spanish Genealogical Word List, which also links to other translation tools.
Over 175,00 indexed names have been added to FamilySearch's free collection, Dominican Republic Civil Registration, 1801-2010. Spanning over 200 years, the collection includes images of births, marriages, and deaths as well as some divorces and indexes. "Some of these records have been indexed and are searchable as part of this collection," states the collection description. "Additional images and indexed records will be published as they become available. These records were obtained from public access sources in the Dominican Republic."
FamilySearch has updated its collection of indexed Catholic parish record images for Coutances et d'Avranche Diocese, 1533-1894. Baptisms, marriages, and burials are all included. "Parishes within this diocese are within the boundaries of the department of Manche," states a collection description. "French commission for Informatics and Liberties (CNIL) does not allow publication of sensitive data below 150 years."
FamilySearch continues to publish more Italian civil registration records! These are some of the latest:
Asti, 1803-1814, 1911-1935. Over 50,000 indexed records have been added to this existing collection.
Bergamo, 1866-1901. Over 25,000 indexed names have been added to this database.
Chieti, 1866-1930. Over a half million browsable images comprise this new collection.
Macerata, 1808-1814. Over 90,000 browsable images are in this new collection.
Just shy of a million records have been added recently to FamilySearch's free collection, Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Miscellaneous Records. "Archives around the Netherlands have contributed indexes which cover many record sources, such as civil registration, church records, emigration lists, military registers, and land and tax records," says the collection description. "These records cover events like birth, marriage, death, burial, emigration and immigration, military enrollment and more. These indexes were originally collected, combined and published by OpenArchives."
There are now over two century's worth of records in the free FamilySearch collection, Nicaragua Civil Registration, 1809-2013. It includes "births, marriages, deaths, and other records created by civil registration offices in various departments of Nicaragua." Civil registration in Nicaragua didn't begin until 1879, and it appears that most records in this collection date from that year or later.
Nearly 125,000 browse-only images have been added to FamilySearch.org's free collection, Paraguay Miscellaneous Records, 1509-1977. According to the site, "These records include two complete collections: Sección Nueva Encuadernación (Rebinding Section) and Sección Propiedades y Testamentos (Properties and Wills Section). Copies of the original records are housed at the Archivo Nacional in Asunción, Paraguay. The "Propiedades y Testamentos" section can give a brief look at the personal wealth of clerics, economic bases of resident foreigners in Paraguay, or the fortunes of a given family over a period of time."
FamilySearch.org has updated its free collection, Russia, Samara Church Books, 1779-1923. It includes "images and partial index to records of births and baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials performed by priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in the province of Samara. These records were acquired from the state archive in that province." Another brief statement in the collection description illustrates the incremental and ongoing nature of record additions to FamilySearch: "Currently this collection is 4% complete. Additional records will be added as they are completed."
Over 40,000 indexed records have been added to the free FamilySearch.org collection, South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1958. The records are described simply as "probate records from the Master of the Supreme Court, Transvaal, South Africa. Original records are located in the Transvaal Archives Depot, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa.
Spotlight on probate records
Probate records detailed the final settling of our ancestors' financial assets. They often contain rich genealogical information and interesting insights into a person's life. They are among the many records you might find at courthouses and government archives. More U.S. probate records are coming online (click here to learn more), but even if you have to visit a courthouse yourself or hire someone to do it for you, it's often worth it. Click here to read why.
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New Digital Archives for Genealogy: Canada, Oregon, Virginia
by Lisa Cooke | Jun 30, 2017 | 01 What's New, British, Canadian, Digital Archives, Findmypast, Newspaper, Photographs, Records & databases, Scottish Genealogy
New digital archives for genealogy host Canadian photos and history magazines, Oregon historical records, and Virginia newspapers. Also this week: Google Maps additions in Canada; Norfolk, England records; England and Wales criminal records; Scottish Presbyterian church records and Glasgow newspapers; and criminal records from England/Wales.
Canada: History Magazines in Digital Archive
Canada's History Society has launched a new, mobile-responsive digital archive. Canada's History launches with the entire run of a unique magazine: The Beaver, which explored the history of the Far North from fur-trade colonial days to modern times. "In addition to The Beaver, the archive will feature issues of Canada's History magazine as well as Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids," says a news article. The project was partnered by the Hudson's Bay Company History Foundation. Its website is also worth exploring if your family history reaches into that part of the world.
Image courtesy Canada's History Society.
Canada: Photo Archive
More than 100,000 digitized photos represent the beginning of a new Canada photo archive available to subscribers of The Globe and Mail, which is celebrating its 173rd birthday this year along with the country's 150th. According to a news article, photo topics "range from a 1901 picture of the Forester's Arch being erected on Bay and Richmond streets for a royal visit to a Canadian astronomical discovery in the late 1990s. You can search the archive by date or Globe photographer, and there are special collections that cover different aspects of Canadian life."
England: Norfolk Records
Subscription website Findmypast.com has added to these collections of genealogical records on Norfolk, England (see a Findmypast special offer at the bottom of this post):
Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915. "Browse 444 volumes of marriage bonds from four ecclesiastical courts: the Archdeaconry of Norfolk Court, the Archdeaconry of Norwich Court, the Dean & Chapter of Norwich, and the Diocese of Norwich Consistory Court."
Norfolk Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1901. Browse "11 registers covering various denominations including Methodist, Quaker, and Baptist in the parishes of Attleborough, Aylsham, Kenninghall, Norwich, Tasburgh, Walsingham, and Wymondham."
Norfolk Poor Law Union Records, 1796-1900. Browse "55 volumes covering 20 unions across Norfolk to discover whether your ancestors fell on hard times. Explore 10 different types of records, ranging from baptism and report books to relief lists and court orders."
England and Wales: Criminal Records
Findmypast.com has finished adding a final installment to its Crimes, Prison and Punishment Collection. About 68,000 records were added that may help you "uncover ordinary and extraordinary stories of criminals, victims and law enforcers from Georgian highway robbers to Victorian murderers, Edwardian thieves, and a whole host of colorful characters in between!"
Scotland: Glasgow Newspapers
The British Newspaper Archive has added the following to its collection of Glasgow newspapers:
Glasgow Evening Citizen: added the years 1879-1892, so the current collection now tops 20,000 pages and covers 1866-1890.
Glasgow Evening Post: added the years 1881-1890. The total collection of over 14,000 pages and covers 1867-1890.
Scotland: Presbyterian Church Records
More than 36,000 Presbyterian church records, covering 1744 to 1855, have been added to ScotlandsPeople, a website maintained by the National Records of Scotland. "The 20,255 births and baptisms (1744–1855), 10,368 marriages and proclamations (1729–1855) and 5,422 death and burial records (1783–1855) may be especially helpful for anyone searching for a person who was born or baptized, married, or died before the introduction of statutory registration in 1855," states an article on the site.
United States: Oregon Digital Archive
The Oregon Historical Society has just launched OHS Digital Collections, a new resource for researching Oregonians on your family tree. "This new website allows online public access to a rich variety of materials from the OHS Research Library, including items from the manuscript, photograph, film and oral history collections," states a Hillsboro Tribune article. More content is planned for this new site, so check back periodically.
United States: Virginia Newspapers
The Virginia Newspaper Project is putting the Library of Virginia's collection of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) newspapers on Virginia Chronicle, a free digital newspaper archive with nearly a million pages. According to an announcement, "The camp newspapers in the LVA's collection, published from 1934 to 1941 by the young men of the CCC, were mostly distributed in camps throughout the Commonwealth, though a handful are from locales outside Virginia….[The camp newspapers] offer a vivid picture of camp life during the Depression…[and] are also packed with the names of people who were active in the CCC–you might find a mention of one of your relatives among the pages. Click here to learn more about the CCC and the newspapers they produced."
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Three films from the summer 2018 Mississippi Youth Media Project, Mississippi Public Broadcasting's partner in dropout prevention, will screen at the upcoming 19th annual Crossroads Film Festival in April 2018. The Crossroads Film Festival selected the student-led productions among a group of talented professional and striving filmmakers. YMP students created mini-documentaries with solutions-based content about relevant community issues. You can read more about the three films chosen to be screened below.
"Digging Deeper: Confronting Youth Crime's Causes and Solutions" analyzes youth crime in the city of Jackson. Students interviewed an extensive number of notable people, including those affected by crime, experts in juvenile offenses, elected officials, professionals in law enforcement, legal counsel, and educators. These students are continuing their project now, leading youth crime community dialogues across the city.
"From Woolworth's to #BlackLivesMatter: Protesting for Life, Freedom and Dignity" covers the 1963 Woolworth Sit-In, a monumental event in Civil Rights history, and its present-day implications, including national the controversial national movement.
"Supporting Black Dollars and Businesses in Jackson, Miss." interviews business owners in the Farish Street Historical District, Mississippi's largest and only primarily residential district in Jackson on the National Register of Historic Places and reflects on a time when the area was rapidly growing. The area is currently under extensive renovation.
This summer, the program worked with 29 students ages 14 to 18 from 12 schools in central Mississippi. Each weekday, the group of diverse teens met in the YMP Learning Lab in downtown Jackson from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. to tell their own stories and use rigorous multimedia journalism to report on other young people, their communities, the causes of global issues and potential equity-based solutions.
The goal of YMP is to reduce school dropout, inspire more first-generation college students, and bridge the workforce skills gap by preparing students for an evolving workplace with 21st century jobs that haven't been created yet.
You can follow more student work online, including frequent blog posts and more intensive journalism work.


An old Norwegian recipe recipe that I have adapted to include ground flax, molasses, and whole wheat flour.
We were a pancake family growing up, and for years the only waffles I was familiar with were Eggos. Not that I ever tasted them mind you (my mom would never buy them) but I can still recite part of the TV commercial.
Real waffles always seemed exotic, which is funny considering I grew up in a house that actually had an ebelskivers pan.
One year my Mom bought my siblings and I each a stovetop waffle iron for Christmas. They were a big hit and for years I put away the family pancake recipe and experimented with waffles.
and the texture is lovely and soft.
To the original recipe I have added ground flax, molasses (reduced the granulated sugar), and I use a mixture of stoneground whole white flour and spelt or whole wheat flour for some added flavour and nutrition. And I have replace the old stovetop waffle iron with a handy electric number.
In a large bowl whisk together eggs and sugar.
Whisk in melted butter then milk.
In a separate bowl stir together flour, flax, salt and baking powder.
Carefully whisk dry ingredients into wet, taking care not to get any lumps. (If it does get lumpy just keep whisking until the batter is smooth).
Hi Salma – Your comment made me laugh. Yes, I'm a bit of a messy baker. Glad I'm not the only one!
That is superb i love this .Redberry looking awesome with this recipe i must try by myself .


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import com.bugielmarek.crudone.models.ReceivedCaseFile;
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 * Provides the base model interface for ReceivedCaseFile service. Allows
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Published: Jan. 25, 2019 at 03:57 p.m.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2019 at 12:28 p.m.
The Conference round of the 2018 NFL postseason included one of the most controversial no-calls, well, maybe ever. With the Saints driving deep into Rams territory, Drew Brees threw a pass to wideout Tommylee Lewis who had gotten open against DB Nickell Robey-Coleman down the sidelines. In what looked like an obvious foul, Robey-Coleman nailed Lewis for what could have been called pass interference, helmet-to-helmet contact or unnecessary roughness. Unfortunately for the Saints, the refs ate their whistles. That cost their offense a chance at draining the clock and attempting what would have been a short, game-winning field goal. Instead, the Rams ended up winning the game during overtime.
In the AFC, the "underdog" Patriots did what the Patriots do ... won their conference championship game to advance to the Super Bowl. This will be ninth time Tom Brady has been to the big game. That's ridiculous! New England took out Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, who had three Playoff Challenge point leaders in the contest including Mahomes (24 points), Damien Williams (27 points) and Sammy Watkins (11 points). The rest of the best included Sony Michel (23 points) and four Rams ... Brandin Cooks (10 points), Tyler Higbee (8 points), Greg Zuerlein (16 points) and the Rams defense (9 points).
Next up is the big game in Atlanta, which is a rematch of Super Bowl XXXVI when the then underdog Patriots (at that point they actual were underdogs) beat Kurt Warner and the powerful St. Louis Rams 20-17. Here's my Super Bowl rankings for both daily fantasy players and the final round of the NFL Playoff Challenge.


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Q: How to Run this code for the active Sheet Instead of Single Sheet I am trying to make this code run for active Sheet but the problem is when i changed the activeSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('Sheet1') to activeSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet() it is not working.
So what i did i created 4 codes for each sheet separatly. I hope someone can help me to make it Run for the active sheet.
you rhelp will be much appreciated.
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function numberColors() {

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        "#00b0f0", // Light Blue 1
        "#ffff00", // yellow 4
        "#93c47d", // Green 7
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        "#9900ff", // Purple 6
        "#ff0000", // Red 3
        "#5f5f5f", // Grey 2
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  var numbers = [],
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      dataNumRows = activeSheet.getMaxRows()-(firstDataRow-1),
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  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('Sheet1');
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A: Well, your issue here is that after your modification, with SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet() you are retreiving a Spreadsheet and not a single Sheet, which is what was getting retrieved via SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('Sheet1'). Then, the program is trying to read the maxRows of the Spreadsheet, which is a property that only Sheets have.
To get the active Sheet of the active Spreadsheet, use the following:
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();

You can read more about getActiveSheet() here.

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BRITAIN'S knife epidemic amongst teenagers has claimed too many victims in recent months for this disturbing phenomenon to be ignored. No wonder the media covers it incessantly.
Guns too are becoming prevalent in gang-related killings and despite campaigns and initiatives to eradicate the problem over the past decade it is getting worse.
A significant portion of the protagonists are from the Caribbean community although African and white kids are increasingly involved too.
The most disturbing of recent murders came in early April when Paul Erhahon became the sixth boy under 16 to be murdered on London's streets in eight weeks. The 'gentle giant' tried to run home after being knifed in the chest by a rival gang, but collapsed near his front door.
Like the family of Damilola Taylor, Erhahon' parents – both Nigerian – moved to Britain for a better life. Damilola, ten, was stabbed to death in Peckham, South-East London, in 2000 which caused a huge public outcry. His killers, two notorious brothers, Danny and Ricky Preddie, whose father is Jamaican, were only sentenced last year. It took that long to find enough evidence to convict them because so many witnesses were too frightened to testify against the Preddies who were only 12 and 13 at the time.
Erhahon was at the same school as Adam Regis, 15, nephew of Olympic sprinter John Regis, who died in March after being stabbed on his way home from the cinema. The Regis family are St Lucian.
Since February 3, four other boys have died after being shot or stabbed in London. The Erhahon killing was part of a turf war, with gangs in his Thatched House area of postcode E15 clashing with youths from the Cathall area of E11. This is not untypical of gang rivalry in Britain's inner-cities. Too many subscribe to 50 Cent's philosophy of Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
The maximum sentence for someone caught in possession of a knife has just been doubled from two years to four years but that evidently does not deter thugs. Yet many even see a prison sentence as a badge of honour, an inevitable consequence of their street life. Some prisons in Britain are so luxurious and well resourced, they are considered more like hotels, unlike the jails in the Caribbean.
It is now also an offence to use someone to mind a weapon on your behalf. Teachers have recently been given the power to search pupils who are feared to be carrying weapons. From October the age of a person allowed legally to buy a knife will increase from 16 to 18. Last year 90,000 knives were taken out of circulation during a national knife amnesty, but it still has had little effect. The new measures come after the introduction of the Violent Crime Reduction Act six months ago. It all seems like far too little too late.
Sellers of stab-proof vests, costing £120, are getting clients as young as 10 who fear they're going to be knifed at school or on the street.
Every week in London around 50 teenagers are victims of knife crime, according to the Metropolitan Police. A child is stabbed to death in Britain every two weeks and knife killings outnumber gun homicides three to one, said Norman Brennan, a police officer and director of the Victims of Crime Trust.
'Knife crime is out of control and kids carry them like fashion accessories,' Brennan said. The youngest child to be suspended from school for brandishing a blade was just five. Some 42 per cent of boys aged between 11 and 16 in state-funded schools admit to having carried a knife. Students have brought machetes, combat knives, swords and sharpened screwdrivers to school, police say. Girls have been caught with blades hidden in lipstick and mascara tubes.
Prime Minister Tony Blair opened a community centre named after Damilola Taylor in 2001. Yet in February 2004, a 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of stabbing another teenager at the facility. No wonder a trend is growing in Britain's Caribbean community of sending wayward boys to the Caribbean to attend schools where discipline is stricter, violence less prevalent and teachers are generally more respected.
Spencer Fearon is a successful boxing promoter and property investor. His disruptive nature as a child meant that at the age of nine he was sent from home in Kennington, South London, to live with family in rural Jamaica. 'I went to Brandon Hill School in Clarendon for two years and it had a massive effect on me,' he said. 'There was no running water and we had to go and fetch it from a pipe. Everything was basic. That experience helped fix me up. It can work for some but there were other kids from England who hated it because they didn't have the creature comforts like computer games and TV. I loved it because it was part of the Jamaican culture I didn't know. I was with family who loved me and cared about my development.
'I believe that the best role models are parents, not footballers, entertainers or entrepreneurs. Values come from the home and that's where black kids are being failed, by their parents. Black people who kill have a total disregard for each other.' Evidently, Operation Trident, the Metropolitan Police unit that specializes in monitoring black-on-black crime is not tackling the job as well as expected.
Lee Jasper is Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities for the Mayor of Greater London. He hopes to one day succeed Ken Livingstone as mayor. Jasper grew up in Chase, a rough part of Manchester and was a disruptive teenager himself. He has nine children, including five boys. 'I think all black boys in Britain should be sent to the Caribbean or Africa for a gap year to show them what poverty is really about,' he said. 'When they get to around 13 or 14 they seem to adopt this semi-gangster attitude and sending them to places like that helps them to get a better perspective on life.
Former BBC radio presenter Henry Bonsu is now a director of Colourful Radio, an internet radio station. He said: 'Violence has been casualised from images youngsters get on TV, in films and rap music and that has manifested itself in these gang killings. A lot of it has to do with self-loathing too. African kids generally have a stronger family unit than Caribbean families. After all, they retain their languages, names and customs and are generally obsessed with education and still think of going home to Africa.
Derek Amory is a social worker in Birmingham who specializes in working with juveniles. His family hails from St Kitts and Nevis. Amory does not believe that sending wayward youngsters to the Caribbean will help. He feels education is the key. 'Using shock tactics by sending kids to the Caribbean won't work. They'll just treat it as a holiday.
'The world has become Americanised. Street culture is universal. Crime needs to be taught as part of the school curriculum just as much as maths and English.' Mothers whose sons were victims of gang culture are becoming more vocal, partly because of the inefficiency of the authorities in tackling these issues. One of them is Lucy Cope, whose son, Damian, was gunned down five years ago simply for 'disrespecting' a notorious gangster. Cope, a Scottish mother of eight whose offspring all came from two Jamaican fathers, formed the organisation Mothers Against Guns and is planning a huge rally – Silence The Violence – in Hyde Park, Central London in July to highlight the problem.
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Q: Convert Java String to HashMap Object I have created an application for converting the HashMap object to String, its working fine, The problem which i am facing is that i want to convert the HashMap string again back to HasMap object, when i tried that by using the following code , I am getting exception as shown below
Unexpected character ('u' (code 117)): was expecting double-quote to start field name

Can anyone please tell me some solution for this
My code is given below
Map<String,Object> map = new HashMap<String,Object>();
map.put("userVisible", true);
map.put("userId", "1256");

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
try {
    map =  mapper.readValue(map.toString(), new TypeReference<HashMap<String,Object>>(){});
    System.out.println(map.get("userId"));
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Update 1
As suggested by @chrylis I have used Feature.ALLOW_UNQUOTED_FIELD_NAMES like as shown below, but now i am getting the following exception
Unexpected character ('=' (code 61)): was expecting a colon to separate field name and value

Updated Code
Map<String,Object> map = new HashMap<String,Object>();
map.put("userVisible", true);
map.put("userId", "1256");
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.configure(Feature.ALLOW_UNQUOTED_FIELD_NAMES, true);
try {
    map =  mapper.readValue(map.toString(), new TypeReference<HashMap<String,Object>>(){});
    System.out.println(map.get("userId"));
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

A: You're getting this error because JSON specifies that you have to put field names in quotation marks, unlike in a regular JavaScript object. You can tell Jackson to permit unquoted field names by configuring the ObjectMapper so:
mapper.configure(JsonParser.Feature.ALLOW_UNQUOTED_FIELD_NAMES, true);

Update
It appears that a more fundamental problem is that you're trying to use Java toString() to convert the map to a String, and a Jackson JSON mapper to convert it back. The two are completely different formats, and if you need to be able to convert the string back into an object, you should probably use the Jackson mapper to turn the map into JSON in the first place.


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The Importance of Thoughtful Editing (Or: Why I Tear Apart Manuscripts Like a Rabid Dog)
I don't actually do this.
Throughout June, I edited the first draft of a novel for a friend of a friend. He was a first-time writer and I was the first person to read his 600+ page novel. Though I'd never edited a novel before, my creative writing classes and current position here at The Missouri Review convinced him I was up for the task. When we first met, the author asked me if I was a tough editor, and I told him yes.
"That's good," he said. "I don't want you to go easy on me. I want you to be honest."
"Okay," I told him. "I'll tear it apart."
"Tearing apart" is the nickname I have for my editing style. To define tearing apart: when the constructive criticism for a piece of writing purposefully outweighs the praise. If I'm tearing apart a manuscript, I won't return the document to the writer until I've filled all the margins with notes. Although I always make sure to highlight great moments in whatever I'm reading, I relentlessly search for weak moments. I nit-pick over word choice, circle unimpressive images, cross out irrelevant sentences, and engage the writer in my notes by asking questions about the story as I go. In general, I won't stop editing until the manuscript is covered in colored ink.
Often, when I return a document and the writer sees my edits, they look like a truck just backed over their foot. Their gut instinct, always, is that my edits are solely negative and that I hated their writing. Once the writer reads my actual comments and realizes that I didn't write "YOU SUCK" in the margins, they don't seem quite so pained. In the case of the author whose novel I edited, when I met with him a week ago I gave him a three page outline addressing the main issues he needs to fix in his final draft, then discussed these issues at length for two hours. By the end, he said, "Honestly, I thought you were going to be meaner." The fact that he felt this way, even after I suggested he cut entire chapters from the novel, illustrates the benefits of tearing apart a manuscript. Even though I recommended major cuts, I offered so many suggestions for revision that the author didn't feel stunted. Most importantly, the amount of detail and attention I gave to each page proved that I cared about his writing. He trusted my opinion because he knew I cared.
Undoubtedly, there are professional editors, professors, and even fellow students, who edit the same way I do. This "tear it apart" idea is not unique to me, and probably carries many other snazzy names. However, during the three undergraduate writing workshops I've had, no one has ever torn one of my short stories apart. Yes, I received plenty of positive and negative feedback for each story. But no one ever handed me back a story covered in elaborate edits and said, "This is all right, but it's not great yet. Let's work on making it great." This isn't because I'm a talented writer. Rather, it's because no one will look me in the eye and bluntly tell me what's holding my story back from reaching its full potential.
While I've encountered many helpful fellow students in my past workshops, every workshop inevitably contains at least one person from the following two groups: the Cheerleaders and the Naysayers. The Cheerleaders focus on the positive aspects of a story either because a) they aren't experienced enough to recognize the weak points in a story, or b) they don't want to hurt the writer's feelings with negative comments. The Naysayers, however, are writers who either a) can't intelligently articulate their negative thoughts apart from saying, "I don't know, this just fell flat," or b) won't offer thoughtful criticism because they think the story is simply a hopeless case. Whether it's through overly positive or overly negative feedback, Cheerleaders and Naysayers produce the same result: vague, useless editing.
With my own work, historically, the Cheerleaders compliment the details or the overall tone of the piece. The Naysayers sometimes argue that the description is overwhelming. I'm quick to tune out the fluff and the snide remarks, and once the workshop ends I gather everyone's notes in a pile and put them away with the draft. It's not until months later, when I pull out the same story for a final edit and read with a more detached gaze, that I always notice the mistakes no one brought up during workshop: shaky plot points, wandering thematic elements, and too-neat dialogue. These are the kinds of mistakes that become more apparent during a second read-through or, arguably, a slow tear-it-apart first read. In these moments, I wonder if the Cheerleaders and Naysayers (as well as my uncategorized peers) actually felt my writing was great – or if they all suspected my story was a hopeless case, and were just too polite or lazy to tell me so.
This kind of bad attitude, this need to privately dismiss our peers' imperfect first drafts, is what leads to poor editing in workshops, which eventually manifests itself into unexceptional writing. It's true that only a handful of the writers in my past workshops will ever see their work published in a prestigious journal. It's true that many of us will never finish writing a novel, much less see it in print. It's true that most of us received an A for effort, regardless of whether our writing was flawed or flawless. But to dismiss any individual work as a hopeless case is nothing short of unfair. No piece of writing is a hopeless case. If an editor reads closely and analyzes the details, tears it apart page by page, he or she can always help lead the writer to a more fulfilling final draft. It's not just about finding mistakes. It's about investing the time and energy to show the writer that you believe in their work. Even if it means using a lot of ink.
Against Humiliation
The time it takes to edit and design and get writing into print might shock you. I'm at the end of that cycle right now with the summer issue (the theme is "Reinvention"; the issue includes first fiction by Bart Skarzynski—whose first essay we also published—an essay review on wrongful-conviction literature by Steve Weinberg, more fiction by Rose Whitmore, Daniel A. Hoyt and Leslie Parry, nonfiction by Jim Dameron, May-lee Chai and Aaron Gwyn, poetry by Dan O'Brien, Andrea O'Rourke and Kimberly Johnson and a Found-Text feature on jazz pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton. I think that's about everything).
The first stage, the editing part, is gratifying. This last stage is not so fun, but it's a necessity. With our spring issue, a glitch in In-Design left me struggling to collate various versions of page proofs that all had the same page number (179). This might not sound too bad, but it was. You'd think the different text on each page would be a sufficient marker—but, not so. I'd get everything in order, ready to check marked-up copy against corrected copy. Immediately, I was lost. I became grateful for page numbers other than 179. I didn't know I liked page numbers so much, but I've realized I do. They are as valuable a printing convention as paragraphs, capitals and end punctuation. Readers don't think about things like that unless they're not there, but if they are missing, some readers become incensed. Browse book reviews on Amazon if you need proof. (Also, if you teach creative writing, reviews of any product on Amazon are a great writing prompt.)
The recent embarrassment for Barnes and Noble over its Nook e-book version of War and Peace—in which every appearance of the word "kindle" had inadvertently been replaced with the word Nook—reminds me that this not-so-creative stage is important, if only to keep people from laughing or getting mad at some humiliating oversight that undermines all the other work we've done on the issue.
In off-duty hours, to take away the edge I acquire checking proofs, I've been reading in a shamelessly unsystematic way. Last night I read two thirds of the book of Malachi and the accompanying scholarly commentary and then got sidetracked reading selections by W.H. Auden from the Norton Anthology that is currently on my nightstand with some other very eclectic things: Tranströmer and a history of the English language. These books are all impeccably edited. I have not found any errors in them. I notice errors, though I wouldn't trash a book for poor copy editing unless it was unbearably poor. For other reasons, maybe.
Then I settled into The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It seemed a good fit, since my right brain has lately mandated that I work on a story about dissociative identity disorder, gender and the scary Old-Testament apocalypse, the book of Daniel.
Interpreting the "Not Quites"
Over the years we've occasionally had writers who took offense at being rejected by TMR. Some never submitted again. What more often happens is that after three or four tries here, a writer stops submitting on the grounds that we must not like their work. Others hang in there and keep sending, up to twenty, thirty or more times. This year, both Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize winners in prose have, in the past, come right up to the brink of being published in TMR and then been let down. For at least six years I've been reading work by Anna Solomon, our fiction winner, inviting her to send revisions in a couple of instances—and yet we've finally said no, until now. John Hales, the nonfiction winner, has been faithfully sending us near misses for probably fifteen years, perhaps more. Patience and a degree of forgiveness of our past rejections has paid off this year for both of them.
"Blog about some manuscripts that came close recently that you almost accepted but didn't," someone suggested. People want to know why their manuscripts were rejected."
I know they do. So do I.
Experience tells me, though, that the reasons a capable manuscript is rejected may be difficult to articulate. "Not quite" is a euphemism for a lot of serious problems. But it can also mean precisely "not quite."
Here are some of the problems with pieces that crossed my desk in the past week. These were pieces that had been looked at and passed along by more than just one or two readers:
I saw—we often see—a couple of pieces with great verbal dexterity—marvelous lines but not much emotional impact. High concept that fails to engage readers' sympathy is a related problem, and we saw that.
In one concept-driven story we read, the conceit was outright silly, though the writing was nice, and the writer had obviously worked hard. Also, characters who don't feel or behave in plausible ways are everywhere. Readers respond to characters based on their own individual experience, so this is partly a matter of familiarity and opinion; but if more than a couple of us have the same reaction, then the problem is really there. Unfortunately, it's common.
Finally, several pieces were imitating current or recent trends or writers: one in collective voice, one with footnotes that made up quite a bit of the story.
Writing is hard, and none of the "misses" I've mentioned were terrible. They just weren't working, not for the TMR editors, right now. If there were a magic formula for immunity to literary rejection, I'd be selling it online. Read, write, revise, submit, try again. There it is.
Evelyn Somers is the assistant editor of The Missouri Review.
Jane Austen gets the Raymond Carver treatment?
Interesting news from the Telegraph: "Jane Austen's famous prose may not be hers after all."
Prof Kathryn Sutherland said analysis of Austen's handwritten letters and manuscripts reveal that her finished novels owed as much to the intervention of her editor as to the genius of the author.
"The reputation of no other English novelist rests so firmly on the issue of style, on the poise and emphasis of sentence and phrase, captured in precisely weighed punctuation. But in reading the manuscripts it quickly becomes clear that this delicate precision is missing.
"This suggests somebody else was heavily involved in the editing process between manuscript and printed book," Prof Sutherland said.
Prof. Sutherland proposes that one William Gifford was this very editor, Austen's own Gordon Lish.
At The Missouri Review, we take literary editing very seriously, and our senior staff have many personal anecdotes of the very forms of magic they've seen editors work that transform good stories into great stories. But our conception of authorship still looks askance at the editor. I had a writing professor who was became nearly to apoplectic when describing how he felt Gordon Lish had exerted his editorial tyranny over Raymond Carver — and it is hard not to feel a stab of pain when one reads of Carver's plea to Lish to stop cutting his drafts by as much as 70%. As yet, it doesn't appear that Austen's relationship with Gifford was anything near as fraught, but I expect idea of Gifford's possible role in shaping the "voice" of Austen is deeply troubling to many Austen fans.
So what do you think about authors and editors? Is an author diminished by being the recipient of an editor's polishing blue pencil? Are editors the writer's friend or foe?
The Tip of the Iceberg and What Lies Beneath
About rewriting and editing the American playwright Tennessee Williams said, "You have to murder all your little darlin's." It's been known for several decades that the editor Gordon Lish did more than slay a few precious lines in Raymond Carver's 1981 story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. In fact, it is clearly illustrated in Lish's papers at the Lily Library at Indiana University that the editor cut apart, rearranged, and re-titled much of the collection. Lish claimed to have rewritten the endings of ten of the thirteen stories, even bragging that he changed the stories so much that they were "more his than Carver's." Lish was what Charles McGrath called in a recent New York Times article "a macro editor, ruthless and aggressive."
Despite the collection's critical success (it was a break-out book for Carver), the Carver/Lish "collaboration" lead to some hard feelings. Embarrassed, resentful and fearing for his reputation, Carver eventually severed professional ties with Lish. Before his death in 1988 at 50, he restored and republished in magazines such classics as "So Much Water So Close to Home" and "A Small, Good Thing."
Now almost twenty years later, Carver's widow Tess Gallagher hopes to pick up where her husband left off. She wants to reinstate what was sacrificed in the name of minimalism by publishing the 1981 collection in its original, un-Lished version.
It is understandable that Gallagher might want to unhitch her husband's legacy from Lish's wagon. Looking back, much of the work Lish edited in the 80s for the now defunct literary magazine Quarterly was suffused with the same sense of modern malaise and straight-jacketed by minimalist technique. In the late 80s and early 90s, creative writing students were swept up in the trend. Too many writing workshop stories adopted the formula: loaded dialogue, an obsessive concern for surface detail, a tendency to blur distinctions between characters, abrupt beginnings and endings, and a deterministic, and at time nihilistic world view. As Carver's life got better and he shook off feelings of loneliness and alienation, his fiction became more optimistic with moments of redemption. And it seems natural that fuller, more generously written stories should better allow these changes in the author.
Gallagher's project is not without its critics. Carver's last editor at Knopf, Gary Fisketjon, made his disfavor clear in the New York Times: "I would rather dig Ray Carver out of the ground." He sees Gallagher's project as an attempt to rewrite history. For now she seems in for a fight with Knopf who declined to publish it and would consider it illegal if another publisher picked it up.
In fiction writing classes, I have taught both Lish's minimalist and Carver's restored maximalist version of "So Much Water." The story's rich and perplexing central conflict easily warrants two different stylistic approaches—the tip of the iceberg and what lies beneath. Looked at together, the differences are instructive. I'd guess that the same is true of the stories Gallagher wants to make available.


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Updated April 19, 2018 7:33 pm
1:39 Edmonton councillor says city messed up on playground zones
WATCH ABOVE: Edmonton councillor Tim Cartmell thinks the city rushed its playground speed zone implementation and says more than two dozen zones could soon be removed. Kendra Slugoski reports – Apr 19, 2018
Less than two weeks after the final Edmonton school zone was turned into a playground zone, 40 have been flagged for review.
The possible changes were revealed in a report published to the city's website Wednesday, which will be debated at the next council meeting. Thanks to the vague definition of what constitutes a playground, more than three dozen spots across the city could return to the previous speed limit, the report stated.
READ MORE: Last Edmonton school zones converted to playground zones
At a previous meeting on Nov. 14, 2017, a "playground" was defined as anywhere children may be playing.
Forty playgrounds are set to be reviewed. (See the full list below)
City staff said 28 of those likely shouldn't be considered playground zones based on provincial guidelines that were set a decade ago.
"It talks about the setback, for instance, of playground equipment from the street. It talks about the amount of frontage," Councillor Tim Cartmell said. "It talks about the type of roadway that we're on. It talks about playground areas versus playground zones."
"I don't see that application to our work."
One of the recommendations is to define a playground as anywhere playground equipment is present. Twenty-five of the 28 playground zones highlighted by Cartmell could be changed if that recommendation was adopted.
The other three could be changed because they are in an industrial area.
Twelve other playground zones are being reviewed based on the roadway they border. Three are along a multi-lane road, while another nine line extra-wide roads.
READ MORE: Changes to playground zones in Edmonton confuse some drivers
That recommendation looks at existing playground zones along roadways with multiple lanes and higher traffic volumes, as well as extra-wide roadways.
Cartmell intends to introduce motions to adapt those stretches of road that go back and forth between 50 km/h and 30km/h repeatedly.
Gord Cebryk, the branch manager for the city's parks and roads services, said the playground zones put in last year fit what council asked for.
"When we installed them the direction was to install them at all zones that met the definition," he said. "Certainly we can go back and do the analytical piece that says it has certain criteria that's met so it doesn't require the zoning."
READ MORE: Edmonton students calling on drivers to slow down in school zones
In a school zone, the speed limit is 30 km/h between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., on days that students are in school. In a playground zone, the speed limit is 30 km/h from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day.
In September 2017, city council voted unanimously to turn all school zones into playground zones. The first conversion happened that November.
Earlier this year two locations – W.P. Wagner School at Wagner Road and 86 Street and L.Y. Cairns Junior High School at 106 Street and 45 Avenue – were reviewed and the city decided not to turn them into playground zones.
There are 407 playground zones in Edmonton.
– With files from Scott Johnston, 630 CHED
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