Lest you think the child is bright, let me assure you that she has her blonde moments.
An egg is a kind of vegetable, right, Daddy?
Mommy, I had a dream while I was napping!!
That my shoe was on my bed!
Scene: The school playground. Miss M. is on the slide, holding a bucket in her right hand. Buckets are not allowed on the slide - they are considered to be too dangerous.
Her teacher says: Hey, what's in your hand?
Miss M. transfers the bucket from her right hand to her left, and holds up her right hand. Nothing.
That last one is priceless! LOL!
Well, chickens are about as smart as vegetables so she's not far off. Love it!
I think #3 shows heaps of ingenuity.
Agree with Janet. #3 is tres smart.
Those are awesome! Childhood observations are the greatest.
That last one is very clever!
Yep, number three proves she's a genius! Very clever!
2) Those super-realistic dreams are freaky because sometimes you wake up and you can't remember if your missing shoe really is on your bed or if you dreamt it.
I love that egg comment--really, it's classic.
I'm partial to the shoe dream.
Wow, she has a future in sales!
What? It's not a kind of vegetable?
bwahhhahaha! about #3 -- you're gonna have to keep your eyes open with this one!
So if I tell you she sounds like a lawyer-to-be, would that upset you? Some of them are lovable, at least sometimes. Even if not often in their first year of law school while they hone their new-found skills of arguing on any side of any argument.
Are you kidding. That last one shows your kid is a genius!


It's finally here! All of my Snapchat videos that I took in Miami are all combined into one.
I had so much fun in Miami and I think you can tell from my videos as well. I'll be posting in my blog (and I promise I will after I finish my summer semester) more on my trip to Miami. Including the places I went, how I felt about the place and yeah. See yaa!
The weather was perfect today at Santa Cruz! The sun was warm while the cool breeze gently glides onto your body so our body temperature wasn't too hot. When we got to Santa Cruz, the first thing we did was find a restroom, and then find a place to eat.
We ate at this bowling alley where they had a bar in the next room, and first look at the food that people were eating, I didn't expect it to taste so well, but once I took a bite of the fries and my Veggie sandwich, the food just melted into my mouth. The fries was delicious. They were a typical chunky thick fry that you would see at any store, but they added some kind of flavoring to it to make the fries taste sooooo good. Just the thought of these fries makes my mouth water.
After early our early dinner, we all decided to take a walk to Boardwalk. At first we wanted to ride a few rides, but we didn't want to really spend $4-6 bucks on one ride, so we changed our minds and wanted to take a stroll to the beach, where the waves washes up to the sand and pulls itself out towards the sea.
I wasn't really wearing the right shoes to the beach because I thought we would just walk around on the ground and not the sand, but Jarren and Eddie were both wearing flip flops so they were all good--but I was wearing my black Toms--so I couldn't really get my feet wet... Later, I just told myself, forget it, I'll just wash my feet later at the rinsing place because I couldn't resist not being able to dip my feet in the waters and having my feet sink into the sand while the waves wash up to shore and pulling me back in. The weather was so perfect so I just rolled up my jeans from All Saints and carried my Toms and my denim jacket in my hands and ran around like a kid with Jarren and Eddie.
Walking back, I saw a sign saying Ice Cream, and I felt like having ice cream that time so we all went in and got ice cream at Loard's Ice Cream. I got the same (my favorite) chocolate ice cream. It's pretty sweet, but I really love the taste of it.
I really didn't want to go home, but knowing I had work tomorrow, I had to go home and sleep early tonight. But I'm not regretting this random road trip we had today, even though driving to Santa Cruz at the rush hour was seriously a terrible idea because we got there an hour and 30 minutes later, but everything was perfect!
Oh, and the last two pictures with the Americans were random people, I was trying to take a picture of Jarren and Eddie because the background was so nice, and they were walking by and the man just decided to step in and say, "Go ahead, take the picture." So I laughed and said, "Alright..." Later after that, his wife and daughter stepped in and decided to be in the picture as well so we were all laughing and I just snapped the picture.


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Aviation Economics & Finance
Experts: Ryanair's debt to triple to €1.2 billion, recovery in 2022
byGabriele Petrauskaite
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair would face three times higher debt by the end of the financial year of 2020, S&P Global forecasts.
Following the financial report of Ryanair's financial performance, the airline expected to face a debt reaching €403 million at the end of the fiscal year 2020. However, the experts of
S&P Global, the U.S-based global rating agency, forecasted that the debt of the Irish low-cost carrier might triple and run into €1,2 billion by March 2021.
The forecast follows Ryanair's decision to lower its traffic assumptions. The low-cost airline is now expecting to fly not more than 38 million passengers until the end of the financial year in March 2020."We now expect the recovery of air traffic to be slower than we previously foresaw," is written in the S&P Global statement,
The analysts presumed that while the COVID-19 vaccination process in the United Kingdom has begun, the high uncertainty regarding the pandemic and economic recession still would impact the restoring of air traffic demand and the improvement of Ryanair's financial position. In addition, S&P Global outlined that the new COVID-19 cases outbreaks, which were followed by new lockdowns and air travel restrictions imposed by the governments worldwide, would continue to affect passenger confidence and demand.
"Ryanair demonstrates its proactive treasury management, uninterrupted access to capital markets, and ability to safeguard liquidity, underpinned by its most recent equity raising an unsecured bond issuance of €850 million, both completed in September 2020. We also acknowledge Ryanair's determination and flexibility to defer investments in new planes and to suspend share buybacks, with a focus on preserving cash and restoring its credit measures", added S&P Global.
The agency assumed that the acceptance of the vaccine by the middle of 2021 could help to restore air traffic and this could lend a hand for Ryanair to turn its operating cash flow to positive in a fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.
BREAKING: Ryanair orders additional Boeing 737 MAX aircraft
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Biografia

Alcide Ticò nasce a Trento l'11 dicembre 1911, bambino si trasferisce con la famiglia a Merano.

Nel 1926, incoraggiato da Gino Pancheri, si iscrive alla scuola del marmo dell'Accademia di belle arti di Brera, sotto la guida di Adolfo Wildt. A Milano frequenta il gruppo dell'Avanguardia Artistica formato dai giovani Birolli, Manzù, Tomea, Sassu e lo stesso Pancheri. Conosce Edoardo Persico e Carlo Belli, assidui della Galleria del Milione diretta da Gino Ghiringhelli.

Come gli altri scultori attivi in Trentino negli anni Trenta, Zuech, Fozzer, Zaniboni, in Ticò e presente lo spirito novecentista, caratterizzato tuttavia da un puntiglio interpretativo lontano dalla pompa celebrativa del fascismo. Fugace l'interesse legato alla non-figurazione, testimoniato comunque dalla scultura Ritmiastratti. Nel 1932 fa ritorno a Rovereto, e realizza i busti di Damiano Chiesa e Fabio Filzi. Del 1933 sono i due ritratti di Giovanni Comisso e Riccardo Zandonai.

Le partecipazioni alle esposizioni sindacali d'arte trentine e trivenete, costellate da numerosi premi e riconoscimenti, diventano un appuntamento costante. È impegnato come insegnante prima a Ortisei, direttore della scuola di scultura in legno, e in seguito a Padova, maestro di figura modellata. Nel 1935 e membro del direttorio del "Sindacato interprovinciale belle arti Trento" e quello seguente di Bolzano. Nel 1938 apre uno studio in via Margutta a Roma.

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale si arruola come volontario e piu volte decorato. È presente alla Biennale di Venezia (1940, 1942) e alla Quadriennale di Roma (1939, 1943, 1948). Nel dopoguerra si trasferisce a Capri dove apre la galleria "L'Oblò".

Nel 1953 interpreta lo scultore nel film Vacanze romane firmando un contratto con la Paramount Pictures Corporation. In questo periodo realizza i ritratti di Gregory Peck, protagonista del film, e di altri attori noti come Totò e Anna Magnani.

Negli anni Sessanta raccoglie molte commissioni religiose, realizza bassorilievi e statue di soggetto sacro, in particolare per il Vaticano.

Negli anni Settanta e Ottanta, titolare della cattedra di scultura all'Accademia di belle arti di Carrara, sperimenta forme sempre piu scarne e rigorose, nelle composizioni dedicate ai Satelliti e ai Totem preferendo materiali come marmo e porfido. Nel 1984 torna definitivamente a Ortisei, dove muore il 7 aprile 1991.

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Bibliografia
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 Belli C., Ticò, in "Brescia", Brescia, a. IV, n.12 dicembre 1932;
 Notiziario, in "Studi Trentini", n. 4, 1934, p. 397;
 Piovan C., Ticò, in "Trentino", Trento, aprile 1935, pp. 137-142;
 Belzoni M., La V sindacale d'arte a Bolzano, in "Trentino", Trento, a XII, n. 10, ottobre, pp. 291-298;
 Piovan C., Arte e scuola del legno a Ortisei, in "La provincia di Bolzano", Bolzano, 2 gennaio 1937;
 Nebbia U., Le mostre delle forze armate e dei concorsi, in "La Biennale di Venezia", Venezia, giugno 1942, p.105;
 Zampetti G., Visita allo studio romano dello scultore Alcide Ticò, in "Alto Adige", Bolzano, 20 settembre 1954;
 Vacchini F, La cappella lituana nelle grotte vaticane, in "L'Osservatore romano", Roma, agosto 1970;
 Belli G., Eccher D. (a cura di), Alcide Ticò. L'opera, (cat. della mostra, Trento, Palazzo Trentini) 1995;
 Arte e stato. Le esposizioni sindacali nelle Tre Venezie (1927-1944), (cat. della mostra Trieste, Museo Revoltella, poi Trento, Palazzo delle Albere) Milano, 1997;
 Scudiero M. (a cura di), Arte trentina del '900, 1900-1950, Trento, 2000;
 Chini E., Mich E., Pizzamano P. (a cura di), L'arte riscoperta. Opere delle collezioni civiche di Rovereto e dell'Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati dal Rinascimento al Novecento, Rovereto, 2000, pp. 141-143.

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The end of vacation is always so hard. You want to savor the last few pampered, stress-free moments but you feel the pressures of the daily grind creeping back. What if going home didn't mean the end of the hotel stay? What if the building you lived in had all the amenities of a hotel and so the transition between vacation and home life was hard to discern? Well, that is a viable option in many high-end residential buildings in New York City. Luxury developers are building spas, pools, treatment rooms and designing other services into their buildings to make your home a five star luxury resort. Don't put away your "Life is Good" t-shirt after vacation, move to one of these buildings and keep living the dream.
30 Park Place is New York's only Four Seasons' private residences. The entire luxury tower, the tallest condominium tower to grace the downtown skyline at 926 feet with panoramic views, is managed by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Located in Tribeca at the corner of Church Street and Park Place, 30 Park Place is designed by celebrated architect, Robert A.M. Stern, developed by Silverstein Properties, and offers 157 residences in a mix of one- to six-bedrooms. The Four Seasons Hotel sits below the private residences. The hotel is home to CUT by Wolfgang Puck, the celebrity chef and restaurateur's first and only New York restaurant.
At 30 Park Place, residents have actual hotel services available 24/7. Featuring nearly 40,000 square feet of amenities, as well as a full suite of hotel services, residents will also enjoy exclusive access to the Four Seasons Director of Residences and dedicated residential concierge, as well as a 24-hour doorman, bellman and service staff focused on providing the bespoke services in keeping with the brand. Best of all, the building offers tailored à la carte services to residents including in-residence dining and catering, housekeeping, grocery and flower provisions, car service and personal, child and pet care, and more.
Another building designed by the architects of luxury, Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), 20 East End is situated in the posh, old-world East End enclave of the Upper East Side. The RAMSA-designed building, both inside and out, has 41 two- to six-bedroom homes, including three triplex townhomes and two full-floor penthouses, along with a multitude of hotel-inspired amenities, such as a private massage treatment room.
Located adjacent to the gorgeous fitness center, the private massage room is completed with a dedicated shower, changing room and Scandinavian-inspired sauna room. With the ease of a building app, residents can book a massage anytime they want. Additionally, 20 East End residents are given a welcome basket when they move in that includes a free massage, a bottle of vintage Dom Perignon, a cashmere blanket from Duxiana Beds, among other goodies. With just an app and an elevator, residents are on their way to total relaxation.
At Madison Square Park Tower, the tallest building between Midtown and Lower Manhattan, the 54th floor has been transformed into a luxurious lounge where all residents can entertain and enjoy sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline. In a building where full-floor residences sell for upwards of $20 million, this shared amenity allows all residents to experience the perks of penthouse living without the price tag. With interiors by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, known for its work on high-profile hotels and private clubs, including the SoHo Beach House in Miami Beach, the lounge known as FIFTY FOUR includes beautifully appointed seating and dining areas, a demonstration kitchen with the capacity for full cooking, a separate catering kitchen and a cocktail bar. Residents can also reserve the space for private events via the building's Tower Attaché concierge service, which can also arrange things ranging from dining reservations and theater tickets to fresh flowers for nightly turndown service and scheduling David Kirsch for private training sessions – and much more.
Jardim, the Portuguese word for garden, is a fitting name for the first New York building by Isay Weinfeld, the world-renowned Brazilian architect and interior designer. With a canopy of native evergreens and flowering trees, an ultra-private urban park envelops the two 11-story towers that comprise this West Chelsea development. Weinfeld has designed spas and pools for some of the most elegant contemporary resorts in the world, including the Fasano Las Piedras in Punta del Este, Uruguay. He brings that same attention to sensory experience to the amenities at Jardim, where a serene pool surrounded by cool terrazzo floors and warm reclaimed old-growth pine walls opens up to the courtyard gardens with staggered skylights, suffusing the space with sunlight. Additional amenities include a fitness center, massage rooms and a block-long tunnel that acts as a private driveway.
Superstar hospitality designer, Alexandra Champalimaud (Beverly Hills Hotel, Raffles Singapore, The Palace Hotel, Four Seasons Jakarta) is at the helm for the interiors of The Kent, a 30-story art deco development located in Manhattan's Upper East Side. In addition to a wide variety of cool amenities, including a pool and sauna, teen room, and sound lounge, The Kent offers a Garden Salon, akin to a hotel's executive club level lounge, and the Drawing Room, where residents can entertain guests. These spaces were crafted for residents to imbibe, relax and play all while overlooking a beautifully landscaped zen-like courtyard garden by West 8 landscape architects.
The Kent also offers stroller valet service. Residents can have their stored stroller wheeled out prior to their departure and subsequently can leave their strollers with concierge upon their return for both convenience as well as not take up any residential storage space.
Extell's One Manhattan Square's amenity spaces were designed by Meyer Davis, the globally recognized design boutique best known for their hospitality projects including the Four Seasons Papagayo, 1 Hotel South Beach, and W Hotel Lakeshore. Known for creating unique and inspirational spaces using bold design and striking details, Bill and Grey Meyer created a vertical village at One Manhattan Square, with an unmatched package of amenities spaces that spans 100,000 square feet.
Resort-like recreation can be found in the two-lane bowling alley, squash court, and state of the art fitness center featuring a weight room, cardio room, as well as yoga and pilates studios.
For relaxation, residents can unwind in a spa that rivals that of the world's top 5-star hotels. Features include a sunken tranquility garden, Hamam with cold plunge pool, private treatment rooms and a hot tub and sauna.
Further entertainment can be found at the building's cellar bar, lounge, wine room, cigar room, billiard room and theater and Performance Space. For foodie residents, a full-service culinary lounge and demonstration kitchen provide the space for both intimate events and larger celebrations.
Leading Brooklyn-based property developer Two Trees Management have embraced the hospitality philosophy wholeheartedly. In many of their residential properties, they offer the following services: Handwritten personalized cards at time of move-in along with welcome amenity bags (even personalized with the greeting in the native language of the resident if moving from overseas), pet treats, Welcome to Brooklyn Coloring books for children, stocking of apartment with basic items at time of move-in to create a more enhanced sense of welcome (drinks stocked in fridge, basic cleaning products, toilet paper etc..), birthday gifts and hand-written cards for residents, often personalized based on the residents' interest (drinks at local hotel, a gift certificate at favorite restaurant, a gift card at their favorite coffee shop, a bottle of wine etc.), welcome baskets with Mrs. Meyers product, a monthly wine club membership (Brooklyn Heights only) and even laundry bags.
These luxury buildings harness the ultimate staycation, a vacation for everyday life.


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Ray Black Jr. Earns 13th Place Finish in Las Vegas Motor Speedway Debut
LAS VEGAS, N.V. (October 5, 2015) - It may have been his debut start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) rookie driver Ray Black Jr. earned his fourth straight Top-15 finish Saturday night when he finished 13th at the 1.5-mile track. This finish marks the driver of the No. 07 ScubaLife.com Chevrolet's fourth straight and 11th overall Top-15 finish of the season.
After starting the Rhino Linings 350 from the back of the field, Black quietly made his way up by consistently gaining positions during the long green flag runs. Strategy also allowed him to lead a lap under a cycle of green flag pit stops, gaining a bonus point towards the championship standings.
"Vegas was great! The track has its own character to it with unique bumps and grooves. You can gamble on the track a little bit which is always fun and fits in with being in Vegas," said Black. "We had to get a handle on the truck during practice, but once the race started we were solid. I was really impressed with what we were able to do in the middle of the race and our passing capabilities tonight."
As the laps began winding down, fuel strategy came into play for the leaders but was not a threat to the end of Black's race. He was able to run without any worry of running out and finish 13th.
"We were good on fuel at the end there. I know other teams had to worry, but we were in the clear," Black explained. "It was really nice to just go hard to the finish and grab every spot we could without worrying."
Black also continues to chip away at 10th place in the championship standings, as he now sits 28 points outside of it in 11th with five races remaining in the 2015 season.
The next race for Black and his ScubaLife team will be the Fred's 250 at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday, October 24. Fans can keep up with him during the two off-weeks by following him and his sponsor, ScubaLife, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @TeamScubaRacing and @RayBlackJr. Learn more about Ray Black Jr. and Team Scuba by visiting www.rayblackjr.com and www.teamscuba.com.
Ray Black, Jr. grew up in Florida after relocating from Montgomery, Alabama at age 9. It was here that Black fell in love with deep sea diving after a couple of scuba trips with his father. His passion for motorsports came later at age 14 after playing some racing video games. He began competing in the Florida Mini Cup Racing Association (FMCRA), where finished in the Top-5 in every race and secured the FMCRA Junior All Star Championship. In 2013 Black moved up to racing pro late models and then into the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2014. During that year, he got his first taste of true NASCAR racing when he competed in seven races for SS Green Light Racing. The 2015 season marks Black's first full year in one of NASCAR's national touring series.
ScubaLife is a social network focused on building an online community for divers of all levels of experience and passion. Its goal is to attract new divers and keep current divers active by creating a space for them to connect and share their experiences online. ScubaLife looks to promote the diving lifestyle as something fun and exciting for people of all ages. Users can connect with other divers, instructors and retailers within the community. Having grown up deep sea diving, Black and ScubaLife have an easy, natural partnership. ScubaLife will appear on Black's No. 07 Chevy Silverado for the entire 2015 season.


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Evgeni Malkin, streaking Penguins return home to face Flames
In a rematch from last month, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Calgary Flames will conclude their season series Wednesday night in Pittsburgh.
The Flames beat the Penguins 4-1 on Oct. 25, the second game of a disastrous Western trip for Pittsburgh.
The Penguins lost all four games in that stretch,which also included games at Edmonton, Vancouver and Seattle. They trudged home with questions surrounding them -- questions that only increased as their losing streak continued until it reached seven (0-6-1).
Things got a little better over the ensuing week for Pittsburgh, a 2-1-1 showing over seven days. Then they really turned around. Pittsburgh went on another road trip and this time is coming home with a three-game winning streak after games at Minnesota, Winnipeg and Chicago.
"I think it's huge," said Penguins winger Evgeni Malkin, who will be feted before Wednesday's game for playing in his 1,000th game Sunday in a 5-3 win at Chicago. "We (won) all three games. I hope our confidence is back.
"It was not a perfect game (Sunday), but two points is two points. ... Just play right, and we'll have a chance to win every game."
Malkin had a goal in that win at Chicago, but Pittsburgh blew a three-goal lead before getting late goals from Sidney Crosby and an empty-netter from Jeff Carter.
"It's something to build off of," Crosby said of the trip. "We were more happy with our first couple games on the trip ... but we found a way. And you've got to do that sometimes."
Crosby had 10 points during the three-game trip and was named the NHL's No. 1 star of the week, the second time this season he has won that honor.
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan and his staff came home with something a little extra, too -- as per a promise if the team won all three games, they will grow mustaches for at least the next several weeks.
The Penguins have played just six of their 19 games at home, but starting Wednesday they'll play eight of their next 10 at home.
Calgary, meanwhile, is 2-1 on a season-long six-game trip through the Eastern Conference following a 5-2 win Monday at Philadelphia that the Flames put away with two empty-netters.
"It gives us confidence to win a tight game like that," said forward Dillon Dube, who had a goal. "It was a hard-checking game, so to lock it down there was important for us."
Forward Blake Coleman had a goal and two assists Saturday playing in his 400th game. It was his first three-point game of the season and gave him four points (two goals, two assists) in two games following a stretch with five points, just one of them a goal, in his first 16 games.
"Sometimes you've just got to break that seal," Coleman said. "I've been like that my whole career, where they seem to come in bunches for whatever reason."
Calgary could be without right winger Brett Richie, who did not play against Philadelphia because of what coach Darryl Sutter said was two minor injuries, and defenseman Michael Stone, who has missed the past eight games because of a lower-body injury but joined the team in Philadelphia.


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Q: Creating more than one hidden layer Neural Network I'm creating a neural network from scratch (without being able to use any existing frameworks) and I was wondering how it would be able to make the constructor hold a variable amount of Hidden Layers? I've created one so far but I'm a bit stuck on how to extend it to multiple hidden layers. (Being done on Python)
Edit:
class NeuralNetwork:
    # Constructor
    def __init__(self, input_len, hidden_units, output_len,
                 act_func = None, loss_func=None,
                 init_weights=np.zeros, output_func=None,
                 random_seed=None):

        if random_seed:
            np.random_seed(random_seed)

        self.loss_func = loss_func
        self.output_func = output_func
        self.L = len(hidden_units) + 2  # change this later
        self.layers = []

        input_layer = Layer(np.identity(input_len),
                            np.zeros(input_len), id_f)
        self.layers.append(input_layer)

        for neurons, func in zip(hidden_units, act_func):
            prev_neurons = self.layers[-1].num_neurons
            weight_mat = init_weights((neurons,prev_neurons))
            biases = init_weights((neurons, ))
            current_layer = Layer(weight_mat, biases, func)
            self.layers.append(current_layer)

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6) Once all rows have finished, create new feature class from feature layer "Input_FL".
Upon checking the results, the majority of counts are correct, but some are off by one or two. My "checking" consists of performing the selection manually in ArcMap and viewing the selected items counted in the attribute table (along with visual inspection).
Has anyone else experienced this problem? And does anyone know why arcpy vs. manual selection would produce different counts, and/or why my arcpy results were correct most of the time, but incorrect some of the time?
Are your datasets in different coordinate systems (projections)? This may account for the difference. I think some tools perform best when the data is NOT in decimal degrees.
Thanks for your reply - both datasets are in the same projection (Albers Equal Area Conic), which is in meters. Any other thoughts? Thanks again!
Since you are looping through your features, are you sure that some of the subsequent loops aren't in effect overwritting some of the previous selections/counts?
WhereClause = '[Concat_DatasetPrimkey]' + " = '" + UnqKey + "'"
And does anyone know why arcpy vs. manual selection would produce different counts, and/or why my arcpy results were correct most of the time, but incorrect some of the time?
The tool SelectLayerByLocation and spatial joins are different algorithms. There are differences in what the tolerances used are and the algorithms. To get consistent results, you should use the same tool with the same options and tolerances.
In your selection code arcpy.SelectLayerByLocation_management("AFOLyr",SelDist,"Wells2Lyr",10000,SelAddTo) you are doing a selection and adding it the existing selection. Was that your intention? Are you not trying to do a new selection for each iteration of the cursor? If so replace SelAddTo with SelNew.
CURTIS: I use SelectLayerByLocation in my code and then use SelectByLocation manually in ArcMap for the check.
DUNCAN: Regarding the selection type, I use "Add to" because I have also selected one row in the table. So, for each row in the table, I select the row (i.e. a single feature), add to this selection by selecting ancillary data within 10,000m of this feature, then count the selected ancillary data and write this value to the appropriate field in the row. Below I have included only one ancillary data layer, because as stated above, this produces the same count discrepancies. When selecting features within 10,000m from multiple ancillary data layers, my "GetCount" tool is specific to each ancillary data layer - therefore it returns the count for each layer and not the count of everything selected. Hope this helps clear up my reasoning for using "Add to" - if not just let me know!
I appreciate your continued help with this!
Don't know if this will help but if you add a selectbylocation tool to model builder fill it in and export it to Python one sees how the tool parameters should be completed.
Still don't get your logic to why you are adding to a selection, for this line you are adding to the selection of "AFOLyr"
Re. comment 1: The ArcGIS10 Resource Center gives an example without units (http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001700000072000000 - see bottom of page), and I read somewhere (maybe on that page??) that if no unit is given it uses the linear unit of the input coordinate system (meters in my case). All data I'm using is in the same projection, so everything is in meters.
Re. comment 2: For example, lets says you are in ArcMap and you select records from "Schools" where "MascotColor" = red. If you would then like to find "Streets" within 10km of the selected "red" features, you would have to use "add to current selection." Even though the streets data is in a different dataset, Arc sees all selections - i.e., from all datasets - and therefore you have to add to your current selection (which is within "Schools") even though you are making a selection from "Streets." If you use "new selection" it will clear all selections in all datasets to make the new selection, and it will no longer be based on "red" records only (i.e., it will be based on all mascot colors). Therefore, to keep my selection of the single row/feature, I have to "add to" when selecting ancillary data. Does this make any sense?
The odd bit is that my code works part of the time, and therefore is incorrect only part of the time. It just seems strange to me that it would work sometimes and not others. I feel like if it were something in the way I use a tool, none of my results would be right. Thoughts?
Ok I just thought may be the missing units could be a potential issue, but it does not sound like it.
I understand your explanation but I disagree. Whilst Arcmap reports the total number of features selected in the statusbar your code is working at the layer level. Your code selects a single well based upon the DataSetPrimkey and this selection is used to do a within distance selection on the layer "AFOLyr". So for argument sakes it selects 100 features in the AFOLyr layer. Yes Arcmap will display a selection of 101 in the statusbar but you have 1 well selected and 100 AFOLyr features. Your get count code is counting the number of selected features in the AFOLyr layer so get count will return a value of 100. Your code then clears the selection on each layer.
The NEW_Selection clears the selection on the AFOLyr layer as that is what you are selecting on, this does not clear the single selected well point.
So why I keep banging on about the selection type is that your discrepancies (which is something to be concerned about) may be due to existing selections on your dataset which you are unintentionally adding to.
Humour me, make it a NEW selection and see what your results are, the worse case is that they still have discrepancies which indicates something else is at fault?
I tried running the code on a small data subset using "new selection," and I received the same results :-/ I've noticed, however, that running "Select Layer By Location" in the ArcMap Python window and running "Select By Location" manually from the Selection drop-down menu create the count differences I'm seeing. So, I think there is some underlying difference between these two tools regarding how they draw circles. For a single feature I tested, "Select Layer By Location" highlighted two features up to 80 meters outside of my specified distance, and "Select By Location" did not highlight these features. I plan to inquire about it at the ESRI UC this summer... maybe someone there will have an answer?! Thanks for your persistence with trying to help me figure this one out!
I just spoofed up some point data with a single point selected and carried out a selectbylocation with a within distance of 100m on a line layer. For me the selectbylocation tool from the menu selects exactly the same polylines as the selectbylocation geo-processing tool when called from the Python window. So I cannot replicate your problem.
What are their storage format, do they differ? Are you trying to select data in a shapefile using a geodatabase dataset?
If you are using geodatabases, is it an old 9.1 database I know they have lower precision? If in arcsde, export to shapefiles and try those.
You could also try uploading a zipped copy of your data for us to see if we can replicate the problem?
Looks like you are not the only person having this problem, look here.
Huh, strange you received the same counts with both methods. Did you use the two "different" tools (i.e., SelectByLocation and SelectLayerByLocation)? How large was your spoof dataset? About 2/3 of my data is in agreement between the two tools, and when disagreement occurs it's seemingly random. Could there be a chance your dataset was too small??
The storage format is the same for all the data I'm using: a personal geodatabase created in ArcCatalog 10.0 - so everything's a feature class. Regarding spatial index and geometries, I've actually "re-created" my well points dataset a couple of times when my clients have made changes, including one time recently, and the count problem still occurred. The ancillary data was downloaded from a state website.
I would love to upload the data for your testing, but unfortunately it's private and can't be shared. I do appreciate you being willing to look at it though!
The link you provided (re: people w/ a similar problem) didn't connect to the appropriate page; it took me to a Developer Summit login page for voting on something. It's definitely relieving to know others have experienced similar issues though! Maybe try sending the link again?
And on a random, new-forum-user note... is there a way to get email notification when someone replies to your thread? I'm "subscribed" to this thread but never receive alerts on when posts occur.
Interesting that link has stopped working, I always double check those sort of things, as there is nothing more annoying than a broken link! It looks like ESRI are removing ideas off the website, may be when they are a bit unpalatable for them?
You might need to go into your forum profile settings and tick some box on to get the emails, can't remember or its your spam filter blocking them?
I did test the behaviour of SelectByLocation and SelectLayerByLocation on a small dataset (if you consider 38,000 polylines small) and experienced no difference in selection count.
It looks like there is something fundamentally different between the two tools as alluded to by curtvprice. You should bring this up with their support and they will probably want some of the data to try and replicate it.
One last idea (which won't fix the problem but may indicate which one you have more faith in) is to create a buffer layer from your points and use those instead of doing a within distance selection. You'll have a defined geometry which you can see rather than some black box processing done by the tool... Good luck!
I have tried creating buffers for a subset of the data and had the same problem. The frustrating thing is, it's not really an issue of choosing the 'better' tool; I need to automate this process, and Python only supports the SelectLayerByLocation tool. When I run each of the two tools by hand in ArcMap, I get the same problem that's reflected when I run SelectLayerByLocation in code, so I think it may be true that these two tools just work differently. SelectByLocation seems to produce the 'true' results, however I cannot implement SelectByLocation by hand for thousands of records and manually imput the count from each selection into a table - it really has to be automated, which leaves me no choice but to go with SelectLayerByLocation :-/ I wonder why the two tools work so differently... and I wonder why the tool worked for you. Maybe I'll test out a polyline dataset since that's what you used.
Anyhow, many thanks, and happy Friday!!
It very well may be that these two different 'SelectByLocation' tools (when specifying the 'WITHIN_A_DISTANCE' option) are using two different buffering methods: A geodesic distance vs. a euclidean distance. I suspect that the toolbox tool is using the geodesic distance method while the (older) menu-based tool may still be using the euclidean method.
Which result tool gives the "correct" answer?
Is your dataset in a Geographic coordinate system or is it projected?
Both methods are correct - just depends on how you look at it.


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Allergic Contact Dermatitis to Synthetic Rubber Gloves
Lauren Y. Cao, James S. Taylor, Apra Sood, Debora Murray, Paul D. Siegel
2010 Archives of Dermatology
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Rubber gloves are one of the most frequent causes of occupational allergic contact dermatitis, especially in health care workers. Observations: We describe 23 patients with allergic contact dermatitis due to rubber accelerators in rubber gloves, some with disseminated dermatitis, treated during a 2-year period. Three had IgE-mediated latex allergies. Sixteen were health care workers from a single institution whose dermatitis was temporally related to the switch to latexsafe gloves. Each had more » ... tive patch test reactions to 1 or more rubber accelerators, including carbamates, thiurams, 2-mercaptobenzothiazole, and 1,3-diphenylguanidine. Chemical analysis of 6 glove samples identified 2-mercaptobenzothiazole in 4 and zinc diethyldithiocarbamate in 1. There were discordances between patch test results for glove chemicals and glove swatches and between available information on chemicals used during glove production and chemicals detected during glove analysis. Although these factors may complicate the search for culprit and alternative gloves, dermatitis cleared in each of 9 patients with follow-up data and for whom alternative gloves were provided based on published information of glove composition. Conclusions: Allergic contact dermatitis due to synthetic rubber gloves occurs even with the use of latex-safe products. More knowledge about chemicals present in these gloves, to which the skin is exposed during use, is necessary to prevent and treat allergic contact dermatitis.
doi:10.1001/archdermatol.2010.219 pmid:20855699 fatcat:nrork37r6ngvndebobe6tf5mqm
Lauren Y. Cao, James S. Taylor, Apra Sood, Debora Murray, Paul D. Siegel. "Allergic Contact Dermatitis to Synthetic Rubber Gloves." Archives of Dermatology 146.9 (2010)


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12 Palestinian artists to come to Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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It was one of the biggest controversies of last year's Fringe festival. When it emerged an Israeli theatre company had received funding from its government to stage its show in Scotland there was outcry from those opposed to the country's policies in the Middle-East.
Now a fund-raising campaign founded by the playwright David Greig that arose out of the storm of protest has unveiled a line up of Palestinian artists paid for by £10,000 in public donations.
Greig set up the crowd funding campaign to provide financial aid for shows and artists, notably from Palestine, who otherwise find it hard to come to the Edinburgh festivals. The initiative, called Welcome to the Fringe, has now unveiled a list of 12 artists supported by the campaign and events at two venues during this year's festival.
Greig was instrumental in setting up the initiative following the controversy that in 2014 engulfed a show called The City by Incubator Theatre. The company was partially funded by Israel's Ministry of Culture and a series of cultural figures signed a letter urging the Underbelly venue to reconsider staging the show.
Following a furore and an inability to find a new venue, eventually the show was cancelled.
In the aftermath Greig established the funding initiative "to do something positive" and to aid Palestinian – and other – artists.
The project has been developed through a collaboration between Forest Fringe, London's Gate Theatre and the Greig, with support from the AM Qattan Foundation and the British Council.
The show resulting from this campaign is Welcome To The Fringe: Palestine, an all-day program of performance at the Forest Fringe on August 23. The playwright said he and the venues involved would now like to make the Welcome to the Fringe Fund a permanent fixture for the festival.
Greig said: "Forest Fringe, Northern Stage, The Gate and I all feel that the Welcome to the Fringe model could work for artists from other countries and groups who can't share so easily in the Fringe's open access – Syria? Uganda? Ukraine? "And so we would like to build on the funding success last year by developing a permanent Welcome To The Fringe Fund."
The artists coming to the Fringe include storyteller, Fidaa Ataa; poet Alice Youssef; stand up comedian Ayman Nahas, two performance artists Farah Saleh and Yazan Eweidat, The Al Shaghaf music group and The Al Harah Theatre company. The centrepiece of the days events will be a performance of a newly devised play called Shakespeare's Sisters by Al Harah. The performers will be in Edinburgh for a week and will be "buddied" with local fringe performers and on Sunday 23rd they will all perform at Forest Fringe.
Welcome to the Fringe will also show short films, an exhibition of photography from Palestine, and panel discussions. Some of the artists will perform at Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival in Doune. The other event is an evening cabaret show: Here Is The New From Over There by Northern Stage at Summerhall.
In this show Lorne Campbell and Northern Stage will be working with a mixed company of Arab and UK musician actors to make a show based on 25 specially commissioned Twitter feeds from 25 writers from Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Israel. These twitter scripts will be merged with music, video and Traditional Arab storytelling techniques and Facebook feeds from the region to make an "alternative news tapestry, a nightly news show with a difference."
Last year Greig explained some of his thinking behind the funding campaign.
He said: "It dispirits me knowing that my Palestinian theatre making friends are unable to come here and, it dispirits me to think that Israeli theatre makers who are brave enough to reject their government's sponsorship, might be unable to come here as well. "In the light of all this, I felt the need to do something positive."
Greig added: "Palestinian voices must be heard on their own terms. Palestinian theatre makers are massively disadvantaged. "It's important that, in establishing this fund, we are careful to make sure its disbursement recognises this."
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America can be a beacon for love , America is changing, This proves it. KEEP GOING USA!!
Dear American Government
America I have written many thinks about you. America, many of you believe you are the center of Humanity. You are one of the newest people on Earth, Gun control, Racism and Abortion are just 3 of the issues you are figuring out. You are a young nation but you control the World in many ways. Around 150 Million Christian Americans dictate the World we live in today, keep Palestine enslaved. Hamas are not and have never spoke for the VAST Majority of the people in Palestine, by it's very truth is less than 5% of the population are Hamas, the rest are political victims and Religious casualties, controlled, cap in hand, land locked people, but still a population I guess. I don't get angry over this issue, so please, if you are CHRISTIAN AMERICA, you have the the love of God in your heart and will love me and all I have to say because your bible told you to do tha….Em hold on, that isn't right.
See what you guys away in SAFE America fail to understand is, over here in Europe many of us are in the exact same ethical position as the people in Palestine. I said before that when I was a kid I, along with my friends lived in fear of an Irish/London/Elite/Royal War. I understand the fear of this. I live in a Country with no English people at it's political helm yet English Government control me and my Kin (Family and friends and all Scot's.) Irish, Bosnian, Polish and many more understand control and oppression within the last 50 years. The same 50 years ago that the USA was the most racist Country on the planet. Below you will hear the truth that there are more Bl@ck men in Prison TODAY than were under slavery in 1850, but I don't have to remind you America, you know your own History right? 😉 In my Country, to call another Bl@ck is JAIL, and rightly so, how dare we label another. How do you feel when I blame "Christian America?"
Image made by an American person
You are over the pond, safe but look over to where I live with 45% of our 7 Billion Earth populous in Europe or 0000.0000000001% if you live in Scotland and I am JUST FINE to be that low number let me tell you. When Scotland free's herself form London rule and unethical non democratic people I want to stand in my City with my people and sing song's of rejoice that were born out of murder, rape torture and control. Talk to Irish people you see the same.
Look closer to Home America, my History is as a child and over 1,000 years at least. Your's is 200 years give or take a decade or 3. You are blind to War's you MUST FELL you impose o the World. A Russian draft on Iran's nuclear ENERGY process allowed Europe, China, Russia, Australia, Africa and the USA avoided the USA from bringing War to Iran. We made peace and in your loving Religious hearts you MUST see that as a sign from your God of peace. In Palestine you fail to see the truth. Again all I can show you is what your 5% American World, a VERY SMALL portion of this World, 5% of all People. Yet you are Happy to see War over here from the safe view of the safety of the USA from bombs and suicide bombers. 9/11 was one day, a VERY SAD DAY I STILL CRY OVER. Over here we have lived through this for 2 centuries. You know NOTHING nor CARE what we think. You think the US of A is the center of our World. Sadly your Dollar is being held up by the Bin Laden Family, yeah! The same Bin Laden who Seal Team 6 killed on the spot and threw into a sea of sharks. Check I have the image to prove Bin Laden Died.
As you can clearly see, the official image the USA leaked to the media on the far right is indeed a Dead Bin Laden. The image in the middle is some stranger and the 1st image is….If you can't see it you don't want to. This is the reality of the lies being covered over your eyes, you believe it because the News told you. If anyone believes the above image is Bin Laden? Please stop being human and go live in a field eating grass. This is not to you America this is to your Media, Government and Religion. Divide and Conquer was first used by the Roman Empire, then the Soviet Union. the Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire and the English Empire. All off these "Empires" fell, all were over 50% of Humanity. You are 5%, your Dollar is falling, Jade Helm and ISIS are your new 9/11 and your God has failed you and our World.
Below is a video I CAN PROVE SHOWS AMERICA IS CHANGING AND STARTING TO UNDERSTAND LOVE, EMPATHY, PEACE AND MORE. But you deny it's essence. LET ME BE CLEAR, if you agree with me you are awake, if you disagree you are asleep. Many off you just abuse me, I try to ask why then you block me. You can't debate. But you know about the Roman Empire, then the Soviet Union. the Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire and the English Empire, so you are a clever bunch, your education system is that good you are 37th in literacy. Basically Scotland, Norway, China, Russia, Iran, Palestine are more aware and cleverer than you are. These are factual figures, go check, you are so darn clever so you know how to source information. Below is something that moved me in a BIG way and I felt it in my Hearts as did the people sitting then standing in tears crying at guilt or anger or through murder, rape torture and control. Bl@ck Gospel Choirs sing in rejoice and love. White Christian people who have never been harmed EVER sit and talk about each other and sing the most boring songs you can know, while Bl@ck America ROCKS!!! Born through murder, rape, control and slavery. From slavery came love. What happened? I won't stop writing this because I come from one of the top 5 Cleverest Countries on Earth and you are stupider than say, Mexico, YES!!! Mexico are more clever than you.
I will now prove everything I said gives me and YOU in the USA hope that things can, will and are changing. Below is probably, for me at least the most powerful emotion I have seen from America in my life. White and Bl@ck people alike stood, clapped and cried at what you are about to view below, a song and 2 American men men, 1 a Muslim who managed to show Humanity (Our World and all the people who can afford to watch the Oscars that some PEOPLE in the USA are evolving. Sadly, yes, people who love God want to stop this process and all the other process's I have mentioned above. Don't be the World joke America "STAND UP".."HANDS UP" …"HEARTS OPEN" and walk into the World I know and love alone with the rest of the developed World. You ARE waking up but the asleep are sending the rest back to sleep. I love America, I love Americans, my main room here in my Scottish Castle is a shrine to the USA. Why? You can hate me or ask me. You can agree and tell me why or you can disagree and tell me why. Or you can do the EASY THING and hate me 🙂
HERE I PRESENT THE TRUTH THAT THE USA, AND MOST OF IT'S PEOPLE KNOW CHRISTIAN AMERICA HOLD THEM BACK, WHEY AWAKEN SLOWLY
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The U.S and Israel Have the Worst Income Inequality in the Developed World
To understand the reason behind this story you need to understand both Countries at Government level. Because both spend so much on War there is very little left for public sector life. The USA I see it all the time and it's getting worse. America is around 27th in the Developed World in terms of household income. Israel is worst at around 35th in the developed World. For those who don't understand what the developed World is, this will help you understand the 'Developed World' <Click) I have said for a while now the USA and Israel will end up standing alone, less that 7% of the World's populous together but probably the biggest War Machine between them. I know American people and I know people from inside Israel and they are real angry at equality in their World. I know Americans who used to be able to go out and eat, go to the cinema with their kids, take holidays and all the things we here in the real developed World take for granted. In some places in the USA it is almost 2nd World. Here is 2nd World, I wouldn't lay much at Communism, just the title of where these countries are in terms of prosperity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World I am no expert but all that is here I have written about. I look at life in 2015 at a human level only. It seems the people most hell bent of destroying this World are paying the worst or being paid the worst. Is this God speaking? If not, why is it the USA who act like World Police and Israel who commit all sorts in Palestine are slipping down the food chain? Answers on a postcard to "ShaunyNews" I will get it
America Is NUMBER ONE…In Income Inequality (This is not good)
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A new report reveals that the gap between rich and poor in the developed world is at its highest level in 30 years—and finds that the U.S. and Israel are leading the disquieting trend.
The study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) looked at the earnings of both the richest 10 percent and the poorest 10 percent of the population in each of its 34 member countries. It found that the average ratio of rich to poor in OECD countries was 9.6. In the U.S., however, the richest 10th percentile earned 16.5 times the income of the poorest. In Israel, the richest earned 15 times what the poorest earned.
Back in the 1980s, the rich earned about seven times as much as the poor.
According to the report, wealth inequality is even worse than income inequality. For instance, U.S households in the wealthiest 5 percent owned 91 times that of the average household.
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Both the U.S. and Israel have seen inequality grow faster in part because of comparatively low spending on social programs and benefits, said Mark Pearson, the author of the 330-page report. Other countries, such as France, are better at redistributing wealth using taxes and benefits, he said.
Another factor contributing to inequality in the U.S. is a wide skill gap in the workforce. That means highly skilled people can command significantly bigger salaries than low skilled workers.
For example, U.S.-based doctors can make a lot more money than they can in the U.K. and Germany. And low skilled laborers in the U.S. tend to have lower incomes than they would in other countries, said Pearson.
Israel also has problems with encouraging women to enter the workforce, which can prevent poor families from getting ahead, said Pearson.
"There's a [long] way to go in Israel to get the female employment rates higher," he said, noting that religious and cultural factors have kept many women at home.
The report shows that having strong female participation in the workforce, and smaller gender pay gaps, can help make a country more equal.
"More women in work really does seem to have an effect on inequality. It reduce[s] inequality," said Pearson.
The OECD study can be read in full here.
http://lockerdome.com/6186519614468417/7696969921462548
http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/21/news/economy/worst-inequality-countries-oecd/
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UK: ALL READY FOR TAKE-OFF - INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. - If Microsoft's billionaire founder Bill Gates has his way, we'll soon all be glued to our computer screens conducting business on the Information Superhighway. Gates was in London recently extollin
If Microsoft's billionaire founder Bill Gates has his way, we'll soon all be glued to our computer screens conducting business on the Information Superhighway. Gates was in London recently extolling the wonders of the highway, on which he is spending more than $100 million a year. Citing applications such as electronic mail and video conferencing (he's an intensive user of e-mail himself), Gates insists that the miracle technology is about to catch on among business users. 'Video-conferencing will become very commonplace during the next two or three years,' he predicts, 'just as fax took off.' UK companies are not so sure. At a seminar on multimedia, Peter Russell, human resources director of Computervision, argued that 'People don't just want eyeball contact, which a video-conferencing system can give them. Their identity and self-esteem is based on where they work.' Organisations haven't begun to wrestle with the social and psychological challenges of linking remote workers in a virtual electronic world, Russell reckons. 'We don't really know how to operate in the extended enterprise - we haven't worked out a mechanism to keep people together.' Even electronic mail can be more a hindrance than a help, according to Dan Bernard, systems and logistics director at Woolworths, who told the seminar that 'a paperless office is about as useless as a paperless bathroom'. It's easy to get enthusiastic about what the technology can do in theory, Bernard argues. Actual usage will depend on what is economically possible, and on where the technology naturally fits.
Gates's strategy is based on his confidence in a massive consumer market. 'Microsoft's investment only makes sense if the information highway is rolled out not only for business but for homes,' he says. But UK consumers look like being every bit as resistant as business users. Take the pilot on-line electronic ordering system for music tapes and CDs at Woolworths. Customers in 20 selected stores can use terminals to dial up a catalogue of 140,000 titles, browse, listen to recordings, and make their choice at the press of a button. Once orders are placed, the disks or tapes are posted to the customer's home within a few days. However, Woolworths also has a simple telephone ordering facility and a third option allows them to use a conventional catalogue and fill in a form. The telephone ordering facility is far the most popular, reports Bernard.
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Apple could have two iPhone launches a year from 2021
By James Rogerson 2019-12-03T10:17:32Z
And launch a mystery fourth phone in 2020
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Generally speaking, Apple currently only launches new iPhone models once a year, with the new handsets landing in September. But a report suggests the company could soon up the number of yearly models from three to four, and split them across two launches.
That claim comes from JPMorgan analyst Samik Chatterjee, who, according to MarketWatch, says supply-chain checks suggest Apple will launch a pair of new iPhone models in the first half of 2021, followed by another pair in the second half.
This schedule could apparently become the norm for Apple going forward, with Chatterjee claiming it would help the company better compete with rival phone launches, which happen throughout the year, as well as allowing Apple to alter designs more quickly in response to market feedback.
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That of course is still over a year away, if it happens at all, but Chatterjee also makes some claims about 2020's iPhone 12 range.
He claims that four new iPhone models will land in September 2020, one of which will have a 6.7-inch screen, two of which will have 6.1-inch displays, and one of which will have a 5.4-inch screen. He also claims that all four models will support 5G, and that the two highest-end ones will sport "world-facing" 3D sensing – presumably meaning a 3D sensor on the rear camera.
These are broadly all specs and features we've heard rumored before, but the claim of four iPhones in September is slightly at odds with other sources, which generally seem to think we'll see three in September, possibly along with an iPhone SE 2 earlier in the year.
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If it were one of the four September models rumored here then it would presumably be the one with the 5.4-inch screen (since it's expected to be a relatively compact handset), but that's a screen size which elsewhere has been attached to the iPhone 12 Pro. It's that second 6.1-inch screen that hasn't previously been accounted for, but that's surely too big for the SE 2.
So there's a lot here that doesn't tally with most rumors, and as such we'd take it all with a serious side of salt, especially as we're a long way out from the iPhone 12's launch, let alone Apple's 2021 plans.
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AMRITSAR, INDIA - MARCH 8: Women raise slogans against the new farm laws on International Womens Day, outside BJP Rajya Sabha MP Shwait Maliks residence, on March 8, 2021 in Amritsar, India. (Photo by Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares for the keynote address the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Sydney Dialogue today, Amnesty International Australia has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison – who will also address the conference – not to trade away human rights in dealings with India.
Recent research from Amnesty Tech revealed that extensive surveillance of Hyderabad in India is putting human rights at risk. As part of the ongoing Ban The Scan campaign to ban intrusive facial recognition technology Amnesty found that the Indian authorities have begun construction of an ominous 'Command and Control Centre' (CCC), intended to connect the state's vast facial recognition-capable CCTV infrastructure in real time.
"This is just one example of Narendra Modi's government crackdown on civil society groups – including Amnesty International – and Australia has an obligation to hold our trade partners to the same standards our citizens expect, including not using technology to spy on people who defend human rights," Amnesty International Australia campaigner Nikita White said.
Indian diaspora group The Humanism Project is also concerned about the chilling effect of crackdowns on the community in Australia and New Zealand.
"In addition, there has been an increase in online attacks targeted at Indian academia and civil society groups who are critical of the Modi government in the region. Such surveillance technology therefore raises security concerns for civil society groups and human right activists in Australia. PM Morrison therefore has an obligation to the Australian people to question PM Modi on the Indian state's use of technology to spy on people who defend human rights," The Humanism Project Co-Founder Dr Haroon Kasim said.
Authorities in India have a lengthy record of using facial recognition technology in contexts where human rights are at stake, with recent examples including enforcing COVID-19 lockdown measures, identifying voters in municipal elections, and policing protests. The rights of Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis, Transgender communities, and historically disadvantaged sections of society, are particularly at risk by mass surveillance.
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