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The New iPhones Look Fine. But My Old One Is Better Than Ever.
Apple's new offerings are so good that I'm not buying a new iPhone.
I expect to save hundreds of dollars this year and enjoy what I've already got, because, thanks to Apple, my old iPhone 6 is performing better than ever.
This is the result of two unusual moves by the trillion-dollar corporation. One was Apple's release this month of a new operating system that not only makes its new iPhones run well, but can also radically improve the performance of millions of old ones.
The other action was Apple's decision last winter to let iPhone owners replace deteriorating batteries at a sharp discount under a program that continues through the end of the year. In combination, the two measures have thoroughly rejuvenated my old phone, and have the potential to do so for many others.
I don't attribute this to pure altruism on Apple management's part. Making old products run well for a long time is truly "the right thing to do for our customers," Tim Cook, the company's chief executive, said about battery replacement program. But it is also a smart business practice that can help Apple investors prosper over the long term, even if its actions deter some consumers from buying new iPhones now.
Unless articles like this one spur millions of people to defer purchases, Apple may have found a business strategy that allows the company to have it both ways: Charge ever more money for fancy new phones, while enhancing its reputation by providing value-oriented consumers with reliable products that can last for years.
What's the magic that has rejuvenated my iPhone and given it powers it didn't possess when I first bought it, nearly four years ago?
The answer is mundane. My old iPhone started getting younger in February, when I took advantage of the Apple discount to replace the phone's aging battery for $29, down from the usual $79 out-of-warranty fee.
Until last winter, I had never even thought of replacing an iPhone battery. I accepted that it would wear out every couple of years, and assumed that because of the way Apple had engineered the iPhone, the smart move was to replace the entire device with a new, improved model. My phone appeared to be on its last legs. It ran out of power in a few hours, and sometimes shut down inexplicably.
But then came Apple's "batterygate." A furor arose as multiple iPhone owners reported that their devices were malfunctioning. It turned out that Apple had issued a new operating system that deliberately throttled speed when decaying batteries couldn't cope with the normal tasks involved in running the phones.
Could this have been a case of planned obsolescence of a nefarious sort, the deliberate ruination of a perfectly good product to spur sales of a new one? I am not convinced that it was, although suspicions have been rampant for years that this kind of behavior might be standard for big tech companies. Facing widespread criticism, as well as lawsuits that are pending in California, Apple apologized late last year.
In a statement at the time, the company said it had meant well and had merely been trying to keep phones working longer. Critically, Apple said it would offer expedited services at lower prices for owners of old phones who wanted to replace their batteries. In March, the company also issued a minor operating system upgrade that made it easier for iPhone users to understand what was happening to their batteries.
While my new battery made my phone serviceable again, I still assumed I would have to replace it when Apple introduced the new models, and a new operating system, in September, as it does just about every year. New operating systems typically make old phones slow to a crawl.
Apple now reports that in test conditions, older phones are indeed running much faster after iOS 12 has been installed. For example, the company says, the camera app opens 70 percent faster, the keyboard starts 50 percent faster, and under a heavy workload, multiple apps work up to two times as fast. In a full review, Ars Technica, the Condé Nast website, found similarly impressive results.
I downloaded the new software, and my phone works spectacularly now. Some people who installed iOS 12 have reported minor glitches, but that hasn't been my experience. My phone can't do everything the new iPhone Xs can do, but it seems fast enough to me.
Plus, it's doing things it never did before. When I connect it with my car, for example, and start up CarPlay, I can now choose to see Google Maps on the dashboard, not Apple's proprietary and, in my view, inferior mapping system. Allowing me to make that choice is the mark of a confident company.
A lot of other things are possible with my iPhone now. Searching for photos of family members is now staggeringly easy. Most important, the phone's internal capacity seems to have been enlarged: I can read a book, switch to a magazine, start an audiobook app, return to The New York Times website, check my heartbeat and see how many miles I jogged this morning, all without crashing the phone.
Moderating this kind of addictive overuse is easier, too, thanks to functions that make it simpler to turn off annoying messages for extended periods. It's like having a new, speedy phone, without having to buy one.
What's the upside for Apple? By supporting my aging iPhone years after what might have been its sell-by date, the company has increased the odds that — when I do actually need a new phone — I will remain in the Apple universe, expensive as it may be to live there. My old phone, which cost $649 new, seems like a much better deal now, considering all the use I'm getting out of it.
But for Apple, the saving grace is a surge in the average sales price from $671 for all of 2015 to well over $700 for the first three quarters of this year. In a mature smartphone market, pushing the average price higher — and it's rising at double-digit levels, the company says — is crucial to corporate growth.
As the most valuable company in the world, Apple can surely afford to treat its customers well. By doing so, it may be able to keep millions of people paying for increasingly expensive products. And if some of us wait a year or two because we're happy with what we've got, it won't be the end of Apple's prosperous world.


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Q: Extract values with ampersands from query string I want to extract the baz value from the following query string:
foo=bar&baz=qux&norf&corge=grault

The problem is that the value of baz contains a &. I've had some success using a lookhead like this:
/baz=(.*)(?=[^=]*&)/

However, it can't handle end of line or when there are more than one key-value after it.
Is there a regexp that can handle this?

A: baz=([^=]*)(?=&|$)

This should do it for you.See demo.
https://regex101.com/r/oC5rY5/1

A: Use following regex:
baz=(\w+&\w+)

Explanation

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*baz=: matches the characters baz= literally (case sensitive)

*(\w+&\w+): Capturing Group
\w+ match any word character [a-zA-Z0-9_]

*&: matches the characters & literally

RegEx101 Demo

var queryString = 'foo=bar&baz=qux&norf&corge=grault';

var value = queryString.match(/baz=(\w+&\w+)/)[1];

document.write(value);

A: You can use
\bbaz=([^=&]+(?:&[^=&\n]+)?)

See demo
In case you have multiple &-containing values, you can use
\bbaz=([^=&]+(?:&[^=&\n]+)*)

See another demo

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2015, Holy Name & Mantras
Mantra, Nama and Need for Diksha- part one
The sastras repeatedly stress the incredible power of chanting Krishna's holy names. Harinama, even without diksa, or any preliminary rites of purification immediately produces results as soon as it contacts the tongue, "The Hare Krishna maha-mantra is so amazingly powerful that it gives fruit as soon as it touches the tongue. This mantra removes great sins that cannot be destroyed byyajna, tapa, dana, or other means. It is freely available and can be chanted by anyone, anywhere, at any time. Unlike other mantras, the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra does not depend upon diksa, proper behavior, or rituals of purification." (Padyavali 29)
Despite the astonishing potency of harinama, according to Sri Jiva Gosvami, one must still follow mahajanas like Narada Muni who first took diksa and then worshiped their beloved Deities. Without accepting mantra diksa from a spiritual master one cannot awaken his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a servant, friend and so on. Only Sri Guru can establish one's eternal relationship with Krishna.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, His followers, and all of the Gaudiya Vaisnavas down to the present day have honored this tradition. Besides chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. Lord Caitanya, Lord Nityananda and Sri Advaita Acarya all took mantra diksa from a bona fide spiritual master. To remain on the path of vaidhi-sadhana one needs only the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.
In order to progress on the platform of raga-marga and eventually serve Krishna's eternal vraja-lilas one must receive diksa mantras such as the Kama-bija, Gopala-mantra and Kama-gayatri. The Hari-bhakti-vilasa explains that these mantras are absolutely necessary for internal worship through meditation and for external worship of the arca-vigraha of Radha-Krishna.
The Hare Krishna maha-mantra is the nama atmika, the very life of Gopala-mantra and Kama-gayatri. The holy name of Krishna is the original mantra vibrating in the spiritual world of Goloka Vrndavana. These mantras (Gopala-mantra, Kama-gayatri) and other Vedic mantras have life because different names of Krishna are within them. Sripada Madhvacarya explained that the Vedic mantras used in demigod worship have potency because they contain secondary names of Krishna (gauna-nama).
In reality, mantras like om namo sivaya and others which are used to petition various demigods are indirectly glorifying Krishna. The word sivaya for example means "all-auspicious." Indeed, everything about the Supreme Lord Krishna is completely auspicious. Besides that, it is Sri Krishna alone who invests the demigods with their marvelous powers.
Of all mantras, Krishna's holy name is the most important. Sri Jiva Gosvami says Gayatri-mantra i.e. Kama Gayatri has value because it contains Krishna's names within it. Being full and complete (nitya mukto, purna suddho), the holy name can give everything required. The Gayatri mantra, however, is accepted to improve one's worship of the holy name.
The material world is a perverted reflection of the pure spiritual realm. In the spiritual world the Hare Krishna maha-mantra is at the top, but it becomes reflected in the material world as the mantra Om. The mantra Om is seen throughout the Vedas, and the other Gayatri mantras are found in the Smrtis. Then later in subsequent Vedic literatures the Hare Krishna maha-mantra becomes manifest. Because of the maha-mantra's seeming obscurity, the smarta brahmanas do not consider chanting Hare Krishna as important as chanting the Vedas and the Gayatri mantras. In reality, however, chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra is the very essence of all the Vedas.
Excerpt from by Gayatri Mahima Madhuri
Jai Gopala! Jai Sri Krishna!
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What is the future of nuclear fusion?
Image: Experimental nuclear fusion reactor is seen at a laboratory in the Southwest Institute of Physics in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. REUTERS/David Stanway.
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Nuclear fusion, says Stephen Hawking, could "provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming". The technology's promises are many, but how would the arrival of commercial fusion affect the design of our energy system?
The first thing to note is that while the fuel (hydrogen) will be free, the plant itself will not. Whichever technology ends up on the market first—centralised like the ITER project or decentralised like the ones Lockheed Martin or General Fusion are pursuing—commercial fusion will be a capital-intensive, low-operational-cost business. In that sense, it resembles a typical renewable energy plant of today.
The fusion plant will be limited in its ability to modulate power output, however. This is because of the physics of fusion, which requires the plasma to be kept hot and confined under stable conditions for the fusion to be net energy positive.
Fusion, therefore, would produce power constantly, making it a direct competitor to coal, nuclear and, to a lesser extent, gas—the last may still be needed for load-balancing in areas where utility-scale energy storage is not yet largely deployed.
Current trends of increased distributed generation and cost reductions in renewables also suggest that the grid in which the first commercial fusion plant will plug in will be very different from the one we have today. This, in turn, could affect the ability of a particular fusion technology to capture market share. A 500 MW plant of the ITER type, for example, could easily replace a coal or nuclear plant but may find it difficult to expand further in systems that have favoured a distributed model for their power grid. Similarly, decentralised units in the 100 MW range may not necessarily be able to capture all electricity markets at first, in part because operating a fusion plant requires access to a highly skilled labour force.
One segment small fusion units might be able to enter more easily is the production of heat for industrial applications. "There are some interesting possibilities there, especially early on in the adoption cycle, as utilities around the world tend to be highly regulated and risk-averse that they may not even be the first adopters" says Michael Delage, vice-president technology and corporate strategy at General Fusion.
As for renewables, fusion might over time become an alternative to large-scale onshore wind or solar plants as it requires less land surface and can be sited anywhere.
Of course, no one really knows when fusion will become commercial: the most optimistic hope for a first commercial prototype ten years from now; most expect it will take much longer, some doubt it will ever happen.
But there is no conceptual barrier to achieving it: The process is a standard one in our universe, and one that we've been able to re-create on Earth—if only briefly and with more energy in than out.
The quest, therefore, is a technological one and strategists are already thinking about which markets they could capture first.
What do you think the birth of the fusion industry will look like?
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Norman E. Seeger, age 74, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday afternoon, December 1, 2018, at Ascension All Saints Medical Center. Norman was born in Racine on May 4, 1944, son of the late Norman R. and Doris Mae (nee: Deshais) Seeger.
On August 26, 1967, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Norm married his best friend and the love of his life, Carol A. Butgereit. Norm graduated from St. Catherine's High School "Class of 1962." Furthering his education, he graduated from Dominican College in 1966, and obtained a master's degree in Nuclear Chemistry from Purdue in 1968. Norm spent the next twenty-one years educating and molding the young minds of students at St. Catherine's High School, where he made countless friendships and valued relationships through the years before retiring there in 1989. He taught Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Studies, and Drivers Ed. He helped with Math Club, Ski Club, coached the junior varsity baseball team, and led many students and friends on wilderness trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. He was owner and President of The Seeger Map Company, Inc., which he and his father started in 1969 and based in downtown Racine, where Norm restored the 401 and 403 Main Street buildings for his company and to encourage the re-vitalization of the area he loved. He and Seeger Map became respected members in local, regional, and national cartographic production.
Norm was active in his family's pursuits, volunteering as a "Do-Dad" with his daughters' Girl Scout troops, and as Chief in the YMCA Indian Princesses program. Norm refurbished his personal school bus, "ColumBus," which he drove to transport SCHS teams, ski groups, and Interim Program participants, Girl Scout groups, and others. He was active in St. Joseph's parish ministries and at St. Joseph's School, serving as President with the Home & School Association, and helping to introduce computers into the school curriculum. He was a member and treasurer of Preservation Racine.
He traveled to facilitate business for Seeger Map and for pleasure. He loved the outdoors, particularly drawn to Door County, camping and relaxing in what he called "one of God's most beautiful places" before becoming a part-time resident there in his beloved home, "Door Prize." He created a woodworking shop where he crafted furniture and accessories and turned unique bowls, plates, goblets, and pens on his lathe. Norm also enjoyed golfing with friends. He dearly loved caring for his family, helping with home projects, learning and growing with them. His best-loved role was that of "Poppa" to his beloved grandchildren, offering them his life and time, imagining and experiencing new adventures with them, teaching new skills, listening to them, answering their questions, and being amazed at their talents and who they are and who they are becoming.
Norm will be dearly missed by his loving wife of fifty-one years, Carol; daughters, Christine Mast of Huntersville, NC, Becky (Mark) Jenn of Madison; grandchildren, Luke and Scott Jenn, Liam and Emma Mast (and their dad Mike Mast); brother-in-law, Tom (Barb) Butgereit of Oak Creek, and sisters-in-law Lynn (Paul) Larsen of Rochester, MN, and Susan Seeger of Naples, FL; nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and dear friends. In addition to his parents, Norman was also preceded in death by his brother, William "Bill" Seeger.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 1533 Erie St., Tuesday, December 11, 2018, at 11:00 a.m., with Rev. Steve Varghese officiating. Entombment will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery, Hwy 32. Relatives and friends may meet with the family at the funeral home on Monday from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. and at the church Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. until time of Mass at 11:00 a.m. Memorials in Norm's name may be directed to St. Joseph's Catholic Church, St. Catherine's High School, and Habitat for Humanity.
The family wishes to thank the First Responders at South Shore Station 8 and the doctors and medical team and chaplain at Ascension All Saints for their heroic efforts and kindnesses.


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Madeleine Meilleur, Attorney General and the Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs
The Honourable Madeleine Meilleur was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 2003 and has served as the Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs since that time. Appointed Attorney General in March 2014, Minister Meilleur has also served as Minister of Culture, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, and Minister of Community and Social Services. Her experiences and accomplishments in all of her cabinet roles have raised awareness about the significance of Franco-Ontarian heritage and identity to the past, present and future of the province. Minister Meilleur was instrumental in the creation and official proclamation of Franco-Ontarian Day by the Ontario legislature in 2010. It has since been celebrated each year on September 25 in recognition of the contribution of the francophone community to the cultural, historical, social, economic and political life of the province.
"Our young people are our future; they are essential to developing the identity of the Franco-Ontarian community of tomorrow."
Read the full "Interview with Madeleine Meilleur," an article from the May 2012 special edition of Heritage Matters entitled Understanding the French experience in Ontario


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SpaceX launches satellites for NASA, Iridium in "rideshare" mission
Source: Xinhua| 2018-05-23 06:51:11|Editor: Liu
LOS ANGELES, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. private space firm SpaceX launched two new Earth-observing satellites for NASA and five commercial communications satellites for Iridium on a used Falcon 9 rocket in a ride-share mission on Tuesday.
The unique rideshare mission blasted off from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, the state of California, at 12:47 p.m. PDT (1947 GMT).
This Iridium-6/GRACE-FO Mission first deployed the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites approximately 11 minutes and 30 seconds after launch.
"The twin #GRACEFO satellites have deployed from the @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. We await our first communication from #GRACEFO via our communications station at McMurdo, Antarctica," NASA tweeted after launch.
The joint project between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) GRACE-FO mission will continue GRACE's 15-year legacy of tracking the movement of Earth's mass. As its twin satellites fly over areas of higher and lower mass, the distance between them changes slightly due to gravitational forces.
The GRACE-FO mission is expected to last at least five years, but requires both satellites in healthy condition to collect useful data, according to NASA.
Tuesday's launch also carried to orbit five more satellites for Iridium Communications' second-generation Iridium-NEXT constellation, joining 50 such spacecraft already in operation.
"Successful deployment of 5 @IridiumComm NEXT satellites to low-Earth orbit confirmed," SpaceX confirmed after about one hour and 12 minutes after the liftoff.
The Iridium Next communications satellites that SpaceX is launching with GRACE-FO are the latest in a series for Iridium Communications to build up that company's satellite constellation.
A total of eight Iridium NEXT launches are planned with SpaceX, which will deliver 75 new satellites to orbit. In total, 81 satellites are being built, with 66 in the operational constellation, nine serving as on-orbit spares and six as ground spares.
Last year, Iridium and the GFZ, who are responsible for arranging GRACE's ride to orbit, agreed to share a launch on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, splitting the costs while allowing the GRACE mission to continue and Iridium to get further satellites into orbit.
"In 2016, there was a commercial launch that actually put government rideshare on it, so we are seeing more options that commercial satellites can put government rideshare on it," Carrie O'Quinn, Senior Project Engineer at the Aerospace Corporation, told Xinhua.
"I would like to see more of it, just because I'd like to see the total launch cost to go down...you know...get us to space as fast as we can," she said.
Falcon 9's first stage for the Iridium-6/GRACE-FO mission previously launched the U.S. Air Force's classified Zuma mission in January. That mission was lost, but SpaceX was not to blame for the mishap.
Although the rocket stuck a flawless landing on its last mission, the California-based company does not plan to attempt to recover Falcon 9' s first stage after launch.
However, SpaceX did attempt to recover the valuable payload fairing, or nose cone, that covered the GRACE-FO and Iridium satellites during launch.
At least one of the fairing halves was expected to glide back to Earth under a parafoil and be caught by Mr. Steven, a recovery boat equipped with a huge net suspended between giant metal arms.
"We came very close. We're going to keep working on that," John Insprucker, a principal integration engineer at SpaceX, said during a live webcast of Tuesday's mission.
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In case you missed it on NFL Network, Rod Woodson counted down his top 5 (actually 6 as there was a tie at #5) middle linebackers playing in the NFL.
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis was ranked at #1. Woodson called Willis a "younger Ray Lewis" and quoted Mike Singletary saying that willis will be better than he was when he was a star of the Chicago Bears.
"I think this guy has all the upside, he's willing to work, he's a humble young man. He is the next Ray Lewis for the next 10 years," said Woodson.


As the bell rings in a new school year, the Personal Injury Attorneys of Rutter Mills are asking drivers to use extra caution on the roadways. After a summer free of school buses and walking students, drivers can develop habits that might not be safe around school year vehicular traffic, bus stop activity, walkers, and school speed zones. This year as more than 55 million children across the U.S. are headed back to school, more than 13 percent of them will walk or ride their bikes to school placing them at additional risk.
AAA reports the afternoon hours are the most dangerous, with nearly one-third of child pedestrian deaths happening between 3:00PM and 7:00 PM. C. Arthur "Brother" Rutter III, a local Personal Injury Attorney adds "Remember, children do not always understand the risks of the roadways, so the responsibility falls on us, the adult drivers, to slow down around kids and be extra cautious to avoid accidents." In addition to child pedestrians, the school buses are back as well, requiring their own unique set of driver precautions and safety laws.
– Please never try to pass a slowing bus.
– When a bus is stopped and children are getting on or off, traffic must come to a complete stop in both directions.
– Remember that the responsibility is on you the driver, as children on or near the roadways can be unpredictable.


If your favorite sport is football and you have decided to try and make a living out of writing about it, there are some things you need to know. While it may appear to be exciting, a football writer's life is not quite as glamorous as you may want it to be. It is not all rushing for flights to make championship games and then writing about them -- there is plenty of disappoint, cold, rainy weather, and missed interviews.
However, like everything else there is both good and bad news. Let's get the bad out of the way first. The chances that the average writer will make it into the big time (where they make the big dollars, have celebrities calling them directly to give quotes, and various other perks) is higher than one in a million.
Tap every media outlet source: Newspapers are not the only way to break into the industry. Go after assignments at press agencies, magazines, radio stations, local papers, national news, and websites.
Contacts mean everything: Who you know is vital, and the more people you know who are relevant to the industry, the better your chances will be of breaking into the inner circle. Build relationships with journalists and become an active member of top sports forums.
Create a strong portfolio: Approach others with ideas that you may have, whether it is online or in the "real world." Everything you write does not need to be included, but have a variety of different types of writing which showcases all of your skills and talents.
Learn what the industry has to teach: Read through every article that you can get your hands on. Analyze the different styles and choice of topics that the top writers use. Learn from the techniques they use and apply what works into your own pieces.
Be an expert: This is not a job that anyone can do well. It is essential that you fully understand and appreciate the game. Passion is one of the things that makes writing strong, and your love for the sport will come through in your work.


Foresight's 2011 Automotive Accessory Market Study is now available for members to download.
Through a special partnership with Foresight Marketing Research, SEMA Market Research is offering an exclusive report download for members only. Foresight's 2011 Automotive Accessory Market Study is now available for member download. This new report offers insights into the accessory interest and buying habits of new-vehicle owners.
Which are the most popular accessories?
On which vehicle segments do people install accessories?
How do accessories affect dealer selection and sell new vehicles?
How do buyers of new vehicles purchase accessories (at the time of the vehicle purchase or later)?
Who is best at price, installation, quality, etc. (the new-car dealer, the aftermarket store, Internet companies, etc.)?
How much money do accessory buyers spend?
If you make or sell accessories for new vehicles, you'll want to check this report to see which segments are buying and what they are looking for. Remember, this is a special partnership and available only to SEMA members.
To access this report and the other studies available through SEMA, visit the SEMA Market Research Department online. For additional information, contact Gavin Knapp at gavink@sema.org.


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A family in the Mekong Delta has been cursed with a genetic condition that leaves their limbs long and their lives short
Phan Van Quan (L) and his nephew, 19- year-old Phan Tri Thuc, both suffer from Marfan syndrome – a genetic disorder that can lead to early death.
Phan Van Quan liked being big.
His hands and legs stretch down past his hips, making him an excellent laborer. The 37-year-old resident of Vinh Long Province says he used to be able to do twice the work of his peers.
But that all ended with a heart attack in June, 2008.
Quan became weak and couldn't do manual labor anymore. In fact, he could barely walk.
In a way, he expected all that to happen. His mother once told him, "Our family has lived with a strange disease and those who are taller than 1.80 meters high won't live to see 45."
Indeed, his grandfather (who stood 1.89 meters) died at 40. His 1.90-meter tall father died at 49 and his older brother died at 32. The condition has also afflicted his aunt and cousin.
They all died following a sudden pain in chest, Quan said.
As his condition worsened, Quan headed for the hospital. His doctor told him he suffered from a heart disease and needed an urgent operation or he would certainly die.
Because his family couldn't afford the costly treatment, Quan sent out numerous letters to charities asking for help. No one responded, until he got approval from the Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients.
Last December, Quan was hospitalized at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy's Hospital in HCMC, where he was diagnosed as suffering from a rare genetic disorder called Marfan syndrome.
The syndrome is characterized by unusual height, long limbs and weak hearts.
Quan went under the knife that month. Doctors say they saved him from certain death, but warned him not to perform any demanding work or ride a motorbike.
Strenuous activity could kill him at any time, they warned.
Today, Quan worries about his younger sister, Phan Thi Xuyen, 27, and his nephew Phan Tri Thuc, 19 - both of whom stand 1.8 meters high. One of his siblings, Phan Thi Bich Phuong, 34, meanwhile, is just 1.6 meters high, but her limbs are abnormally long.
Quan said that although his family members have yet to exhibit any health problems, the risks are still high. Doctors told him that there's a 50-percent chance that they inherited the congenital syndrome.
Now he's trying to solicit charitable support to get his family members medical attention.
If performed early enough, doctors say that surgeries could help them live to be more than 70 years old.
Last year, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy's Hospital treated four patients with the syndrome, which can affect the skeleton, eyes and blood vessels.
Symptoms usually don't appear until patients hit puberty, according to Dr. Nguyen Hoang Dinh, chief of the hospital's cardiovascular operation department.
The greatest risk is that the disease will enlarge the patient's aorta, causing sudden death, he said.
Reported by Thanh Dung
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Reading Lately: May 2021
Which books are worth the read and which should you skip? Find out what books I've been reading lately and whether I recommend them.
For over a year, I've shared a list of my recent reads on my blog every month. And every time, it's been incomplete.
Every month, I read several advance review copies (ARC) sent to me by publishers and authors so I can review the book ahead of its release date.
However, I've never included these ARCs in my monthly reading lists until now.
So for the first time, take a complete look at every book I've read so far in May 2021.
May Reading List
Ashley C. Ford
A coming-of-age memoir about growing up a Black girl with an incarcerated father and the path to truly understand and overcome our origins. While Ashley idolized her father she barely knew, her life was shaped by her mother and grandmother. As she ages, she eventually learns why her father is in prison and must reconcile her own identity with her family's past.
Although the book is marketed as Ford's relation with her father, it's really about her relationship with her quick-tempered and emotionally detached mother. Ford is an excellent writer and she does an excellent job convey the emotions and thoughts that influenced her decisions. However, I would have loved for her to consider why her mother and grandmother made the decisions they made.
For me, Somebody's Daughter was just shy of being phenomenal. The pacing was a bit off: Ford delves so much on her experiences as a very young child, then rushes through her college years. Similarly, Ford fails to ponder how her experiences connected to what other women and girls, especially Black girls, face. In all, Somebody's Daughter is an interesting memoir without a memorable message.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Flatiron Books through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
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The Maidens
When her niece's roommate is gruesomely murdered, Mariana, a therapist still grieving her husband's tragic death, returns to Cambridge University, her alma mater, to investigate. Quickly, she suspects Edward Fosca, the charismatic professor of Greek tragedy and leader of a secret society of female students called The Maidens. With a convoluted plot that has gaping holes and contrived characters, The Maidens strained to keep even a semblance of realisticness. If you loved The Silent Patient, you can try this one, just don't get your hopes up too high.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Celadon Books. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
The Husbands
Even though her husband Hayden helps out, successful lawyer Nora Spangler feels likes she carries an unfair share of the domestic burden. When they consider moving into an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora finds a group of high-powered women with extremely supportive husbands. While helping with a resident's wrongful death case, she learns how far these women are willing to go to get some help at home.
Chandler Baker's "Stepford Husbands" thriller just missed the mark for me. Although the premise is spectacular, the execution is lacking. The slow burn mystery developed too slowly, without much action and too much predictability. Moreover, Nora's husband Hayden was underdeveloped, which fails to give you a strong counterpoint to Nora's side of the story. Despite the poor delivery, Baker's message of gender inequality comes through strongly, making you stop and think about the dynamics of modern marriages.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Flatiron Books. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Publication Date: 3 August 2021
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Marianne Cronin
Just in time for summer comes a touching novel perfect for fans of Five Feet Apart or A Man Called Ove. When Lenni, a dying 17-year-old girl, meets Margot, an 83-year-old woman awaiting heart surgery, at the art room of a Glasgow hospital, an unlikely friendship blooms. Together, they decide to make 100 paintings to celebrate the 100 years they have lived between them. Cronin's debut novel is heartwarming and sweet, playing on your emotions as it weaves between grief and joy, loss and love, and all the things that make up a life.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Harper. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
The Last Green Valley
From the author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a World War II novel about a young couple caught between two warring armies. Emil and Adeline Martel come from a long line of Ukrainian farmers of German heritage. In March 1944, as the Soviet army marches on Ukraine, they must decide whether they want to again live under Stalin's regime or retreat with the hated Nazi army.
The Last Green Valley is based on a true story, which makes it an inspiring tale but doesn't offer the nail-biting action a truly fictional story might. The slower pace and heavy-handed focus on Emil's religious transformation made chunks of the story drag. Yet, I was fascinated reading about the harsh realities of living in Eastern Europe in the first half of the 20th century. I don't foresee The Last Green Valley ever becoming a bestseller, but it's a story worth telling and will do well with those who love World War II historical fiction.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Lake Union Publishing and through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
This Time Next Year
Sophie Cousens
When Minnie meets Quinn at a New Year's Eve party, it's clear they have nothing in common except being born at the same time in the same hospital. Quinn is a privileged party boy who has been handed everything in life while Minnie is a hard worker struggling with the realities of life. As they keep encountering each other over the next year, they realize maybe their differences make them fit together better.
Although I don't read romance often, the "random meetings over time" trope gets me every time. This Time Next Year had everything I like in a romance: it's a cute love story without any steamy scenes. The characters struggle with their prejudices and finding their identities independent of a partner. A light read that would be perfect if you are in the mood for some holiday fluff.
The Postscript Murders
At first, no one gives a second thought about the death of ninety-year-old Peggy Smith. Until her bookshelves are found filled with crime thrillers all dedicated to Peggy. When a gunman breaks into the flat to steal a book and an author is murdered, Peggy's friends team up with Detective Kaur to investigate.
Although the second book in a series, I read it as a standalone and didn't feel the least bit lost. However, The Postscript Murders is about the kind of book you'd expect from its hideous cover – a cheesy cozy mystery about armchair detectives with little to no character development and a mystery that didn't make complete sense.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Thursday is the New Friday
Joe Sanok
I am a sucker for any and all business and productivity books, so I was intrigued by Joe Sanok's promise to help you create the schedule you want. Constant hustling will just lead to burnout, and Sanok is dead on that you need to combine rest and slow down with focused sprints to be your most productive and happier.
Unfortunately, Sanok is a terrible storyteller, miserably failing to connect his personal anecdotes into larger concepts and completely lacking in transitions between anything – topics, chapters, even paragraphs. The occasional pieces of decent advice are obscured by boring scientific statements, pointless tangents, and cliché personality tests. Honestly, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from HarperCollins Leadership through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Publication Date: 5 October 2021
From the Backlist
Isabel Wilkerson
When you think of castes, India's strict caste system likely comes to mind. In Caste, Wilkerson argues that America has its own hidden caste system, a hierarchy that has influenced the United States both historically and currently. On top of race and class, Wilkerson points out that our understanding of caste systems must also change if we are to better ourselves as a nation.
I'm not at all surprised Caste has spent almost a year on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. Wilkerson does an excellent job methodically breaking down how caste systems work and why the United States perfectly fits the criteria. Comparing and contrasting the US to India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson will give you plenty to think about in her eye-opening book.
D. Eric Maikranz
Serial arsonist Evan Michaels's life changes when he stumbles into a church while evading the police. There he meets Poppy who is just like him: they are both reincarnationists. They can perfectly remember their past lives. Soon Evan is introduced into the secret society of reincarnationists and must pass a test to join their ranks.
The Reincarnationist Papers is being adapted into the sci-fi thriller Infinite on Paramount+ this summer, so I was excited to snag a copy. The Reincarnationist Papers is dreadfully boring. Almost nothing happens in the entire book. Maikranz spends his time discussing the past lives of the reincarnationists and how their ability affects their philosophy life (most opt for lots of sex and drugs). I hope the movie will take the interesting premise and change everything else from the book.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Blackstone Publishing. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
What does it take for an underdog to win? Malcolm Gladwell examines situations in which weaknesses are actually strengths and how are perceptions influence how we think of success. Gladwell is always an author that makes you think, and David and Goliath is no exception. I don't think I'll ever think about affirmative action, the Civil Rights movement, or class size the same way again. Despite its exceptional writing, the book was nearly as tightly woven as I've come to expect from Gladwell's bestsellers.
Lock Every Door
After a recent breakup, Jules Larsen accepts a house-sitting job at an exclusive Manhattan building, the Bartholomew. Her conditions: she can't have visitors, must stay at the apartment every night, and must leave the neighbors alone. When another house sitter disappears, Jules begins to wonder if the ghost stories about the Bartholomew are true and if she might be next. Although it had a good twist, Lock Every Door developed too slowly for my taste and I struggled to engage with the characters. In all, it was a middle-of-the-road thriller that doesn't stand up to his latest books.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Largely forgotten and believed to be a work of fiction, historians in the 1980s finally proved that Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was Harriett Jacobs's memoir of her life as a slave. Told in a brilliantly clear and compelling narrative, Jacob shines the light on the hypocrisy and sexual abuse inherent in master-slave relationships. Eventually, Jacobs escapes, living in hiding in an attic for seven years before moving to the North. Written as a plea to Northern women against the ills of slavery, Jacobs's memoir is fascinating and a must-read classic.
My To-Read List
What's up next for me? Before I let you go, here are a few of the titles I'm hoping to get through this upcoming month.
Be sure to come back in June to see which ones I read.
Kathy Wang
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Daré
The Stranger in the Mirror
Liv Constantine
Which Books Did You Read in May?
What books did you love this month? Which books did you hate? As always, let me know in the comments!
More Book Lists to Enjoy:
Reading Lately: April 2021
Reading Lately: June 2021
May 2021 New Releases
June 2021 New Releases
50 Incredible Five Star Books to Read
Every Book I Read in 2020
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I am running behind on the reading challange. This month I read The Count of Monte Cristo (for a book written in the 1800s}. I also read Deacon King Kong, The Disappearing Earth and The Lost Girls. All three on them had endings I didn't expect. I enjoyed them all.
Rachael says
Oh, The Count of Monte Cristo is a great one for a book written in the 1800s. I might end up rereading it for that prompt, too!
Terra W says
May for me…
– Longer than 400 Pages – "The Storyteller" by Jodi Picoult
– A Book turned into a TV series – currently reading "Orange is the New Black" by Piper Kerman.
Now I am behind – lol .. My picks for the remaining themes are:
– A Book that makes you think – "The Tipping Point-How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference " by Malcolm Gladwell
-a WWII story ' The Orphans Tale" by Pam Jenoff
Oh, I love Malcolm Gladwell's books. They definitely make you think!


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Q: Question regarding Optimal Designs of experiments I'm a bit unclear on the concept of optimal design of a data matrix $X$. I propose a small example to work through:

Suppose $\epsilon_i \sim N(0, \sigma^2)$ are i.i.d., and I have some experiment where we have
$$y_i = x_{1i}\beta_1 + x_{2i}\beta_2 + \epsilon_i,$$
and levels $x_{ij} \in \{-1, 0, 1\}$.

Now, if I represent the above in matrix notation $(Y = X\beta)$, clearly the ols estimator is
$$\hat{\beta} = (X'X)^{-1}X'Y \quad\quad\text{and}\quad\quad \text{Var}(\hat{\beta}) = \sigma^2(X'X)^{-1}.$$
Question: In my toy example then we could use "D-optimality" where we would maximize, $\det\left(\frac{1}{\sigma^2}(X'X)\right)$, with respect to $x_{ij}$. So,
$$
\begin{align}
\max_{x_{ij} \in \{-1, 0, 1\}} \det\left(\frac{1}{\sigma^2}(X'X)\right) &= \max_{x_{ij} \in \{-1, 0, 1\}}\frac{1}{\sigma^{4}}\det\left(X'X\right) \\
&= \frac{1}{\sigma^{4}}\max_{x_{ij} \in \{-1, 0, 1\}}\det\left(X'X\right) \\
&= \frac{1}{\sigma^{4}}\max_{x_{ij}\in \{-1, 0, 1\}} (x_{11}x_{22} - x_{12}x_{21}).
\end{align}
$$
So, the D-optimal $X$ is any such matrix where the determinant of the above is 2, which gives
$$X = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & -1 \\ 1 & 1\end{pmatrix} \quad\quad\text{or}\quad\quad X = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 \\ -1 & 1\end{pmatrix}.$$
Is this correct? The intuitive idea of this at that we gain the most "info" with a design this way or?

A: Your answer is essentially correct, although is perhaps too small to get any real intuition here.
The two solutions you have correspond to

*

*keeping $x_2$ fixed and varying $x_1$ as much as possible to get the best possible estimate of $\beta_1$

*keeping $x_1$ fixed and varying $x_2$ as much as possible to get the best possible estimate of $\beta_2$
There are some other solutions which would give a determinant of 2 (-1 multiplied by either of your solutions for example).
Thus we change one factor at a time, and it allows us to get some estimate of one of the unknown parameters, but no estimate of the other.
As we only have two design points (two rows in your matrix), if you were to vary both points at the same time e.g. with a design $\begin{pmatrix}1&1\\-1&-1\end{pmatrix}$, you could not tell if any variation in the response was due to varying $x_1$ or varying $x_2$, and could not estimate $\beta_1$ or $\beta_2$ independently of the other. Thus we would not get any information about the unknown parameters from the experiment, according to the D-optimality criterion.
I would suggest repeating your example, but for $n>2$.


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For someone unfamiliar with the film, it's no great leap to suspect that Jason Sudeikis's Keating is less riotous than Robin Williams was on screen, but he is equally passionate about poetry, particularly the 19th-century Romantics. Sudeikis, best known for Saturday Night Live, is an easily likable presence on stage (he has no other theater credits in the playbill), and he acquits himself very well indeed. Despite the star billing, though, he is only part of a solid, talented ensemble.
Jason Sudeikis plays Thomas Keating in Thomas Schulman's Dead Poets Society. Top, from left: Bubba Weiler, Thomas Mann, William Hochman and Cody Kostro with Sudeikis. Photos by Joan Marcus.
The redoubtable David Garrison is Paul Nolan, the iron-willed headmaster willing to give "six of the best" to transgressing students. And the six students are clearly individualized as one comes to care about them, even though none of the actors looks remotely 16 years old: Zane Pais's stammering Todd Anderson; Bubba Weiler's bewildered Steven Meeks; Thomas Mann's would-be actor Neil Perry, suffering under the thumb of his father (Stephen Barker Turner); William Hochman's Knox Overstreet, who is overcome by hormones and yearns for a young woman named Chris (Francesca Carpanini); Cody Kostro as Charlie Dalton, who invents answers on the spot that sound knowledgeable, usually to no avail, and adopts the identity of a Native American called Nuwanda; and Yaron Lotan's weaselly Richard Cameron.
As teenagers often do, all struggle with their identities. Todd is aware of his presence as a poorer student amid the rich preppies—his stammer may or may not be a symptom of his discomfort—and Pais unshowily makes him the focus of the group, the one who draws the most sympathy because he doesn't fit in.
Yet Todd is the witness, really, to the more crucial story of Perry, whose autocratic father has planned his life—he will be a doctor and go to medical school, he will abandon frivolities like acting and yearbook. In Mann's lovely performance, one can feel the struggle between his soul's yearning and the guilt that the senior Perry plays on to get his way when an iron fist isn't working.
Doyle has directed simply but cleverly. His set designer, Scott Pask, forgoes furniture but provides an impressive bookcase extending across the upstage wall, along with a library ladder to reach up high and give characters who use it some visual and spatial variation. The students also assemble stacks of books that serve as seating places, and occasionally stand on them.
There's pleasure to be had, and a tinge of nostalgia, in the love of books that Keating represents. An early moment when he instructs his charges to rip pages out of their textbooks is over the top, but he happily imparts information of all sorts, not just an appreciation of Walt Whitman and Wordsworth.
"Be warned that when you say 'the hoi polloi,'" he advises Cameron, "you are actually saying 'the the herd.' Indicating that you too, Mr. Cameron, are hoi polloi!" Before long, the inspired preppies have re-created the Dead Poets Society, defunct since Keating was a student, that meets secretly to read and write poetry and share secrets. But their blossoming into adults can't last—at least, not for all of them.
Although the climactic moment echoes the 1960 film Spartacus, the play itself is from an even older mold. As it advocates the importance of the individual amid the pressures of social conformity, it calls to mind Holiday or Harvey or Mr. Roberts or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Even so, the message of Dead Poets Society, both bittersweet and satisfying, is as relevant now as ever.
Thomas Schulman's Dead Poets Society plays through Dec. 18 at Classic Stage Company (136 E. 13th St.). Performance times vary; for tickets and more information call OvationTix at (866) 811-4111 or visit classicstage.org.


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I've been busy with my camera these days. Here is the latest.
One of the young owls has begun developing his feathers.
And here little brother joins him on nest watch.
A baby has hatched. Perhaps the baby was there last week but just not checking out the world. This owlet is young enough so there is still bare skin on its face and you can see its ear opening.
A close-up of this sleepy kid.
Daddy Owl watchers closely from the nearby ironwood tree.
The babies are also big enough to that Mom is spending some time during the day away from the nest.
Meanwhile, two owlets were on the nest.
The larger one is beginning to develop his feathers too.
Later, Mom returned to the nest but she looks like she is exhausted by the work it takes to raise little ones. Either that or she is photo-bombing the picture.
Next up, an update of the Western Screech Owls in the nest box.
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Hebron's 160,000 Palestinian inhabitants are today virtually held hostage by a community of 600 hard-line Jewish settlers and a contingent of 2,000 Israeli soldiers who have gradually taken over most of the city centre. This composition, a deadly cocktail of religious antagonism, territorial conflict and military occupation, has transformed Hebron into a city of hate, fear and pure insanity. The city is perhaps the most fitting example for what journalist and author, Jonathan Cook, describes as "Israel's experiments in human despair" and, given the fact that Hebron is the only locality in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) where Jewish settlers are living within a major Palestinian city, Hebron is without doubt one of the most volatile flashpoints of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While hard to conceptualize from afar, a new feature-length documentary film by Giulia Amati and Stephen Natanson goes a long way toward shedding light on the dark realities of everyday life in Hebron. The film sidesteps the technicalities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and brings viewers into the heart of a city where segregation is institutionalized and lawlessness is the norm.
"When I first arrived in Hebron I was confronted with a reality that transcended my wildest expectations", explains Amati, who was originally invited to the city to teach a three month film course at the EU-funded Hebron Media Centre.
"It is a situation which is hard to imagine. There is nothing natural in Hebron, it is a kind of experiment in human patience, almost as if a crazy scientist decided to push people to the limits in order to study their reactions".
Faced with the dramatic reality of blanket military curfews and daily encounters with aggressive stone-throwing youths, Amati was amazed by the lack of international awareness of events occurring in the city and felt compelled to "tell Hebron's story" through the personal experiences of people directly affected by its folly.
Featuring eye-opening interviews with prominent Israelis and Palestinians, settler spokesmen and Arab inhabitants, This Is My Land ... Hebron provides shocking insight into what Israeli journalist Gideon Levy describes as the occupation's "laboratory of evil".
In Hebron, more than anywhere in the OPT, the silent expulsion of the Palestinian population is visible in its most anguishing forms. According to a 2006 report commissioned by Israel's leading human rights organization B'tselem, 42 per cent of homes in Hebron's city centre have been vacated by their Palestinian inhabitants. Seventy per cent of Palestinian commercial establishments (1,829 shops) have also been shut, making Hebron's city centre resemble an eerie ghost town.
The city is today divided into two sections, with the first, known as H1, controlled by the Palestinian Authority and the second, H2, subject to Israeli military rule (Jewish settlers however answer to Israeli civilian law). Within H1, where about 130,000 Palestinians reside, Palestinians enjoy a semblance of normality. Within H2 however, which is Hebron's historic city centre, a community of 600 extremist Jewish settlers now occupy a series of four strategically located complexes in the vicinity of Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs.
The Israeli government has dispatched 2,000 soldiers to protect the activities of the settler community, whose stated goal is freeing the city of its Arab population. Eighteen military checkpoints dissect the city centre making it close to impossible for Palestinians residing in the H1 area to even visit the old city where entire streets have been "sterilized" by the army, making it illegal for Arabs to even walk on them.
In the documentary, Uri Avneri, ex-member of the Israeli parliament, describes the settlers' goal as "ethnic cleansing pure and simple".
David Wilder, official spokesman for the Hebron settlers, frames the settlers' objective with a similar albeit more guarded statement: "I have no doubt that if today another 200,000 Jews moved into Judea and Samaria [i.e. West Bank] a lot of the Arabs who are here would pick up and leave. We do not have to throw them out ... a lot of them will just leave".
This is My Land … Hebron incorporates footage shot by Palestinian inhabitants who record settler abuses with small camera recorders supplied to them under B'tselem's "Shooting Back" project. Launched in 2007, the project aims to raise awareness of settler abuses in the OPT. The images of young Jewish settlers stoning and abusing Palestinian children as they make their way home after school have indeed caused a storm of indignation among Israel's more secular communities.
This, however, has not contributed to any change on the ground in Hebron, and Palestinian residents have been forced to seek refuge behind metal cages erected to protect their homes, markets and schools from the rain of stones, bottles and excrement.
The film won the prize for best Italian documentary at the Festival Dei Popoli. It has also been selected for review by two of Italy's most prestigious film festivals, the Nastri D'argento and the Davide di Donatello. Yet there are still no plans for a screening in Israel, though both directors would welcome the opportunity.
"We have had a lot of support from segments of the Jewish community, both in Rome and in London", noted Natanson, underlining his and Amati's view that if only more Israelis would be aware of what the settlers are doing, they surely would not sit idly by and ignore the Jewish state's support for these extremist groups.


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Q: Normalize String Data from Text file I Have data in below format in textfile, need data in normalize form one below another ie.
Current data is in below form,
1,354,1116,4296,49888
2,2029
3,7092,12834,26651,52362
Need data in below form :
1,354
1,1116
1,4296
1,49888
2,2029
3,7092
.
.
.
3,52362

A: Here's the simplest way:
a = '1,354,1116,4296,49888 2,2029 3,7092,12834,26651,52362'

b = ''
for i in a.split():
    for n, j in enumerate(i.split(',')):
        if n:
            print('{},{}'.format(i[0], j)) # or file.write()

Output:
1,354
1,1116
1,4296
1,49888
2,2029
3,7092
3,12834
3,26651
3,52362

Updated:
file = open('test.txt', 'w+')
file.write('1,354,1116,4296,49888 2,2029 3,7092,12834,26651,52362\n')

# file.txt:
#
# 1,354,1116,4296,49888 2,2029 3,7092,12834,26651,52362
#

with open('test.txt', 'a+') as file:
    for line in file.read().split():
        for n, j in enumerate(line.split(',')):
            if n:
                file.write('{},{}\n'.format(line[0], j))

# file.txt:
#
# 1,354,1116,4296,49888 2,2029 3,7092,12834,26651,52362
# 1,354
# 1,1116
# 1,4296
# 1,49888
# 2,2029
# 3,7092
# 3,12834
# 3,26651
# 3,52362
#


As of 2010-2014, median price of a house in Unity is $40,000, which is much lower than the state average of $234,100 and is much lower than the national average of $175,700. The Unity median house value has grown by 23.08% since 2000. The growth rate for the price of a house in Unity is lower than the state average rate of 53.91% and is lower than the national average rate of 46.91%. The median year that a house in Unity was built is 1979, which is newer than the median year for a house built in the state which is 1977 and is newer than the median year for a house built in the USA which is 1976.
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So much craziness this week. Sadness. Heroes. Loss. Bravery. Crazy.
We are rolling out iPads next year. Three to a classroom. I wish ... well. I want it to work well. But so far the amount of time put on the calendar for useful PD? Not gonna cut it. You can't expect teachers to figure out everything on their own.
I hope everyone has this available at their school!


Bonjour Makeupnuts! My May Topbox finally arrived! After seeing some pretty nice previews of other's May Topbox, I was getting impatient! It seemed like it took forever to get here!
I opted for the regular May Topbox. I was waffling between getting Benefit Brow Tint prive box or the regular Topbox. I am happy with my choice for this month though. I can grab the Brow Tint at Shoppers next month maybe.
In celebration of Earth Month, we received our products in a purple organza bag instead of the regular tube. Topbox will be donating the savings to the World Wildlife Fund. I love animals so I think this is pretty great.
I kind of prefer this option. I have too many Topbox tubes kicking around. I think I will find a use for them but so far I have only repurposed about four of them. I did give some to my nephew for his Legos and other toy stuffs. Otherwise I have about 5-6 tubes kicking around in my office/spare room at any given time. Time to find some DIYs for them!
So what was in the cute little purple bag?
I was totally stoked to see this in amongst the samples. It is one of Benefit's new releases. The packaging on these Hydrating Lip balms is gorgeous. Too bad there wasn't more balm inside. Sad face. Posiebalm is a very very sheer peachy pink. It didn't really show up on my lips at all. But it was pretty hydrating. My lips kind of felt 'slippery' for quite awhile after applying this.
In addition, we received a 2000 Optimum points offer for Shoppers Drug Mart if we purchase a full sized Hydrating Lip Balm by June 14, 2014. While I absolutely love the packaging, I don't think I would be spending $22 on such a sheer sheer lip balm.
Kinetics Nail Colors in Splatter It!
Last year I was all crazy for black and white glitter polishes. Where were you Splatter It? I love layering them over cream polishes. I have several similar polishes to Spatter It! but I am eager to see how much glitter it puts out.
I like the packaging on this sample, the little pump on it is fantastic. The product itself it very thin but it sinks into the skin pretty fast and my skin felt pretty smooth afterwards. It has a slight lotion-y smell to it but it isn't overwhelming.
Lancôme Hypnôse Lashes in 01 So Black!
I have always wanted to try a Lancôme Hypnôse mascara! Yay! The brush looks pretty cool. It is a large conical brush. I don't think I ever used a conical shaped brush like this before. It is supposed to increase lash volume up to 6 times.
We also received an empty Lancôme sample container with an accompanying card. We can take the jar to Hudson's Bay store and Lancome will give us a 10 day supply of a Lancome foundation.
Some mascara, a little Benefit and polish; not a bad box bag this month Topbox. Not bad at all.


Watch full Pink Panther and Pals Episode 2 online full HD online. Cartoon video Pink Panther and Pals Episode 2 online for free in HD. Zeus Juice. Aardvark is out of shape and finds himself too worn out to chase Ant. He returns to his cave where he develops various energy drinks to give him the necessary boost to chase Ant in the jungle. However, increased speed, laser vision, powerful nostril suction, and even boosted intelligence aren't enough to get the better of the crafty Ant. Aardvark finally catches him the old fashion way. However, Ant takes an energy drink of his own to get increased strength to set himself free and show off his new pecs to Aardvark, which he then decides to order pizza next time he's hungry.