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Lorna Jackson interviewed in the TYEE
Another article/interview in BC's TYEE came out this morn. Haven't seen it yet, but from what I hear we made the cover of this one. And if this interview doesn't sell you on Cold-cocked, then nothing will.
What I need desperately is to get Lorna on Hockey Night in Canada, maybe an After 40 Minutes segment. Face to Face with Don Cherry, watch him change more colours than one of his godawful ties. Or suits. More than anyone else, that man needs a day with Russell Smith, esq., someone who will finally, finally teach him how to dress. At 500.00/day, perhaps it might be worth all of us Thirsty readers chipping in a few bucks to purchase the man some fashion sense. Though it would do nothing, alas, for crap that comes out of his mouth.
'Cold-Cocked': The Hit of Hockey
Lorna Jackson on why we really watch the puck drop.
View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/Books/2007/10/05/Cold-Cocked/
By Geoff D'Auria
TheTyee.ca
According to Lorna Jackson in her new book Cold-Cocked: On Hockey, we must read hockey like a good short story. We have to see the games as scenes, and the players as characters, actions as words -- a booming slapshot, an impossible deke, a body sacrificed against a blocked shot, a meaty fist upside an unsuspecting head.
And we have to put them all together and build our own meaning and come up with our own reasons about why this story is important (or not). This is our communal story, so we have to resist the version of the story imposed by a frenzied media or a corporatized NHL.
"Players don't make meaning," Jackson explains, "spectators do."
And this book is about that: about how to read the game and reclaim it from those who narrowly interpret it as a man's game, as a game of "warriors," as a single-minded quest for Lord Stanley's Cup (said with the tremulous, disembodied voice of Hockey Night in Canada).
"The NHL machine ignores people like me," Jackson writes, "women who abhor the easy cliché, the hypermasculine rhetoric. Okay, they build arenas that resemble shopping malls for us. Oh, and kudos, boys, for the ridiculous girlie replica jerseys with the figure-flattering cut and raglan sleeves so we can pretend to have boobs like Shania Twain. I don't want to be Markus Naslund and I don't want to shop."
Clearly, this is no textbook read on the sociology of sports and gender (although Jackson admits that exploring how women experience the game differently was a starting point).
It's as much about her relationship with her daughter (a huge Ed Jovanovski fan) and her father (Béliveau) and her husband (tellingly, no preference reported), as it is about the game. And this is the point. It's a meditation on how Jackson finds her own meaning in the game, giving us all permission to do the same.
The Tyee spoke with Jackson recently to explore these ideas (and her mysterious relationship with Markus Naslund). We offer you this as your pre-game warm up for the first game of the season, tonight. Watch your groins.
On the allure of Olympic gold medal kisses and the 'new NHL man'
"What drew me in was watching those guys on the ice with their kids and kissing their wives and hugging their mothers, and just seeing them as a different sort of character than they had been in the '70s when I was [first] watching -- I mean, there were characters like Derek Sanderson that appealed to me as a teenager -- but I think I wanted a more complex character if I was going to watch that story and be involved in it now. And I got them."
On Italian bastard meets Nordic god
"I think they've got the right idea [in promoting this new NHL man]. I was drawn back in and I am more compelled by the characters, but then if they're going to keep me, they better pay up and give me a bit more [in terms of stories and complex characters].
"But also, it's so easy in Vancouver -- the narrative kind of took off on its own. Naslund and Bertuzzi, as characters, are interesting guys and with a really neat friendship -- the surly Italian bastard and the golden-haired Nordic god. So, it is really easy to be compelled."
On Bertuzzi and Naslund as Lenny and George from 'Of Mice and Men'
"I was reading Of Mice and Men again because I love the book, and the moment where Lenny squishes the mouse -- like, he's got this mouse in his hand and it's a caring, gentle moment and then... [deadpan voice] it's dead [chuckles]. And he doesn't get it; he doesn't know his own strength, and yet, George looks after him. It's a caretaking relationship. And it's also just a beautiful relationship between men based on aggression and loyalty and love. And one where ultimately a really hard decision has to be made about that relationship."
On Bertuzzi blame
"We're all changed by having to face what we got out of that situation, what we called for in that situation. Media, fans, all of us who've watched it on the screen a million times and got some sort of thrill out of it -- we were complicit. And if we looked at that and thought of it, you'd come back to the game a little bit differently. Not necessarily negatively, either.
"I didn't come back to the game horrified by outrageous violence. But I am less willing to accept a high hit to the head; I cannot stand to see that anymore. And I do distinguish between violence in hockey or fighting in hockey and what Bertuzzi did."
On how men think like women
"It's risky generalizing about anything, sports included, and especially men and women in sports. And I think when I started writing the book I thought that there was going to be a really clean division between [the supposedly male obsession with statistics and winning and "player as warrior" myth] and how women read the game. And then I did a fair bit of research reading around on fan response to sports in general, you know, lots of sociology of sport literature and stuff.
"Most of that indicated men don't really see sports as an obsession with statistics, and so on. They actually see it with imagination, as well. And they see it aesthetically, using phrases like 'pretty play' and 'beautiful goal.'
"But I still believe that the dominant sport journalism, broadcast or print journalism is obsessed with stats. And I think men are more likely, maybe, to be satisfied with that. And I don't think it's as interesting for women but I also don't think for a lot of men it's that interesting, either.
"I think women are looking for other things: they're looking identification with players, they want to have a Trevor Linden lead the team because they want to be like Trevor Linden and they want to marry Trevor Linden, you know? And maybe men are doing that [identifying with players] too, but they're less aware of it.
"I think you choose a player to emulate or one that is going to represent you because they represent some aspect of your values, or you want to get a hit off of their values.
On firing the Don Cherry narrator
"There's something in the gaps in a good short story. There's mystery. There's magic. You can [put it together for yourself]. And you'd better. You don't check your brain when you go through the turnstile. And you don't let Don Cherry do your thinking for you. There's no reason to."
On the athlete as warrior
"You can't get away from it in all sports, and hockey in particular. [Puts on hushed and earnest voice] 'Yea, that is right. Players are just like warriors. Whoa. Am I ever excited about this. And, oh, there's Don Cherry with his dead soldiers in Afghanistan on Coaches Corner. Yea, there is a connection! And I am being patriotic!'
"Well, I think it's a dangerous thing, a dangerous narrative to accept, especially on a Saturday night watching entertainment with our kids. And I don't think it's accurate. And it's a cliché. And all clichés and narratives need a good shake and I think that one does, as well.
"So part of me is offended by that 'warrior as hockey player' and vice-versa. And in part, that's [what let me] go back into looking [in her book] at my Dad and thinking about him 'cause he was a nice guy, you know? A nice, gentle man who was actually a soldier and a warrior and he was never the same afterward [World War II].
"I don't like hockey players to be idealized and I don't like warriors or war to be idealized. And when you put those two together, I think it's a thin reading of the game and of the players."
On whether she's in a hockey pool this year
On whether she recommends picking Naslund
On whether her answer to that was based on her telepathic and imaginary relationship to Naslund (as described in 'Cold-Cocked')
"[Laughs] I'll just check in with him.
"No, it's based on watching him skate a little bit in camp, and I watched last year very carefully and I have concerns about his body. I love him. I love his play. I think he's fabulous but I haven't chosen Naslund in my pool, [adds quickly] but I'm willing to trade for him if things improve.
On what story the Canucks are telling this year
"I don't think they've gotten started yet on that story. I mean, the story right now is 'How are we going to be more fit so that our groins don't hurt.' [Laughs] I read that they're starting to do yoga, which is probably a good step in that direction. What a hoot! Can you imagine Phil Esposito in Lululemon pants doing yoga? Or Derek Sanderson? I mean, good lord. But, I mean, they better figure it out, with all these groin injuries. [More laughter].
"They're so young. There's a rebuilding going on and there's a different identity being formed. So, I don't know if the story is started yet. I don't feel part of a story, let's put it that way. I mean, it's too easy to think that Bobby Lou [Roberto Luongo] is the main character here. I don't want him to be, for some reason. I don't want the goalie to be the main character who is the hero and the saviour because that's not an interesting story. If it's as simple as, 'if he stops it, we win,' it's not a [complex enough] story."
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After seeing this great buck in February 2008 and then finding one of his sheds, I couldn't wait for bow season to open in late September. And I certainly wasn't disappointed with the outcome!
I reached the tree, screwed in seven steps and hung my Gorilla stand without making much noise. Fortunately, there were no branches to prune. My stand was about 18 feet up in an ash. I wanted to go higher, but a fork in the tree prevented this. I pulled my bow up and got settled in and let the breeze dry the sweat I'd generated while hanging the stand.
Finally I was ready for action.
My first reaction was that the arrow had gone a little forward on the shoulder, as I saw part of the arrow shaft sticking out when he made his first leap. The arrow broke off and flipped up in the air as he bolted across the dry creek bed and into the standing bean field.
I watched him run 200 yards into the beans, and my heart began to sink, thinking my shot was too far forward in the shoulder.
I climbed down and ran along a fencerow and into the bean field to the area where I thought I had last seen the buck. I searched for a couple of minutes and didn't find any sign. Then, all at once, I saw white tines sticking up in the beans. He was graveyard dead.
My shot had been perfect: right behind the shoulder and halfway up on his body!
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Q: How do Expression trees allow consumers to evaluate variables? This question is trying to understand how LINQ works, to implement something similar in another language.
Consider the following LINQ query, to be converted into an expression tree:
var my_variable = "abc";
var qry = from x in source.Foo
          where x.SomeProp == my_variable
          select x.Bar;

which is mapped by the compiler into code:
var qry = source.Foo
           .Where(x => x.SomeProp == my_variable)
           .Select(x => x.Bar);

When this is converted to an expression tree, how do consumers of this expression tree get access to the value of "my_variable".

NOTE: I see now that my confusion was looking at Expression Trees as if they were ASTs. They are not. They are a blend of (passive) AST, and pointers to live program data. That way, the consumer of the Expression tree can decide either to look at the symbolic AST source information, or evaluate it into the live program value.
This answer was the most helpful in helping me understand:
How to get the value of a ConstantExpression which uses a local variable?

A: LINQ has two versions. One for IEnumerable sequences and one for IQueryable sequences.
The IEnumerable version is the easiest. That's just calling the correct extension functions with the correct parameters. The reference source code can be found here.
Since you are talking about queries, I assume you want to know how an IQueryable does this.
The difference between a Queryable object that implements IEnumerable and a sequence class that implements the same interface, is that the Queryable object  holds an expression and a provider who can calculate the expression. The extension functions for IQueryable like Where and Select know how to change the expression in order to make it an expression that will select the items specified by the LINQ statement.
Since they are extension functions of the IQueryable class, people who implement IQueryable don't have to provide functionality for Where / Select / GroupBy etc. So the implementer can be asserted that the proper Expression has been made.
The difficult part would not be to implement the IQueryable for your class, but to implement the Provider object returned by IQueryable.Provider.
But before going into details for the provider, let's create the class that implements IQueryable:
For this explanation I used the following sources

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*Implementing a Custom LINQ provider by Jaco Pretorius

*Creating a Custom LINQ provider a generic class approach by ???

Suppose I have a class Word (Just what you expect a Word to be, something like a string of characters without white spaces) and a class WordCollection that implements IQueryable<Word>. Since WordCollection implements IQueryable<Word> it also implements IQueryable, IEnumerable<Word> and IEnumerable.
class MyWordCollection : IQueryable<Word>, IQueryable,
    IEnumerable<Word>, IEnumerable
{
    public Type ElementType { get { return typeof(Word); } }
    public IQueryProvider Provider { get; private set; }
    public Expression Expression { get; private set; }

    #region enumerators
    public IEnumerator<Word> GetEnumerator()
    {
        return (Provider.Execute<IEnumerable<Word>>
            (Expression)).GetEnumerator();
    }

    IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
    {
        return this.GetEnumerator();
    }
    #endregion enumerators
}

Note the difference between the IQueryable and the Provider.

*

*The IQueryable is an object where you can query for elements. The IQueryable doesn't have to hold these elements, however it knows who can provide them.

*The Provider is the one who can provide the queried objects, provided you give him an Expression to select which objects to provide.

The provider can hold these elements itself, or it can get these elements somewhere else, for instance from a database, or form a file, download the data from the internet, or just hold a sequence of these elements inside it.
Because you have hidden where the Provider gets its data, you can exchange it by other Providers that will provide the same type of elements, but fetch them from another source.
In the class we see the three properties that implement IQueryable<Word> and IQueryable:

*

*ElementType returns the type of the query: When queried, the object will return sequences of Word

*Expression holds the expression as calculated by LINQ extension functions

*Provider holds the object that can interpret the expression and return the sequence of objects of ElementType, that MyWordCollection promises to return

The latter two functions implement IEnumerable<Word> and IEnumerable. They simply order the Provider to calculate the expression. The result is an Enumerable sequence in memory. they return the GetEnumerator() of this sequence
ElementType is implemented. So all we have to do is fill Expression and Provider. We can do this in a constructor:
public WordCollection(IQueryProvider provider, Expression expression)
{
    this.Provider = provider;
    this.Expression = expression;
}

This constructor gives the user of the WordCollection to put any Provider in it, for instance a Provider that gets its Words from a file, or a Provider that gets its words from the internet, etc.
Let's look at the Provider. The Provider has to implement IQueryProvider, which has four functions: two generic ones for IQueryable<Word> and two non-generic ones for IQueryable.
One of the functions is, given an expression return an IQueryable that can execute this expression. The other function is finally the one will interpret the expression and return the requested item
As an example I have a word provider that represents a collection of all words in the sonnets of William ShakeSpeare
internal class ShakespeareDownloader
{
    private const string sonnetsShakespeare = "http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1041/pg1041.txt";

    public string DownloadSonnets()
    {
        string bookShakespeareSonnets = null;
        using (var downloader = new WebClient())
        {
            bookShakespeareSonnets = downloader.DownloadString(sonnetsShakespeare);
        }
        return bookShakespeareSonnets;
    }
}

So now we have a source for all the words, I can create a word provider:
class WordProvider : IQueryyProvider
{
    private IQueryable<Word> allSonnetWords = null;

    private IQueryable<Word> GetAllSonnetWords()
    {
        if (allSonnetWords == null)
        {
            string sonnets = shakespeareDownLoader.DownloadSonnets();
            // split on whitespace:
            string[] sonnetWords = sonnets.Split((char[])null,
                StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

            this.allSonnetWords = sonnetWords
                .Select(word => new Word() { Text = word })
                .AsQueryable<Word>();
        }
    }

Ok, now we have something that can provide us with words. We can write something like:
IQueryable<Word> allWords = new WordCollection();

As seen above, this will construct a WordProvider with an expression to get all Words. As soon as the query is executed CreateQuery of the WordProvider is called. All it has to do is create a new WordCollection for this WordProvider and the given expression:
public IQueryable<TElement> CreateQuery<TElement>(Expression expression)
{
    return new WordCollection(this, expression) as IQueryable<TElement>;
}

After a while the collection is enumerator, and WordCollection.GetEnumerator() is called. As shown above this will ask the provider to enumerate using the expression, causing WordProvider.Execute<TResult>(Expression) to be called
After all this ping-ponging between the WordCollection and the WordProvider the provider can finally can start executing the expression.
public TResult Execute<TResult>(Expression expression)
{
}

Although My provider can only provide sequences of words, this function is a generic function. The result of the execution is either a sequence of Words, or a single Word (for instance when using First(), or Max()). If it asks for something else I cannot provide it, and an exception is allowed.
The function is declared generic in case I would have been a provider that could also provide other things than Words, like sentences.
So the Execute function should interpret the Expression and return a TResult, which is expected to be either a sequence of Words or one Word.
First things we have to do is get the complete collection of sonnetWords and determine whether a sequence is requested or a single Word:
public TResult Execute<TResult>(Expression expression)
{
    IQueryable<Word> allSonnetWords = this.GetAllSonnetWords();
    var sequenceRequested = typeof(TResult).Name == "IEnumerable`1";

Until now all code was fairly straightforward. But now the difficult part is to interpret the Expression to find out what to return.
Luckily in this example the collection of allSonnetWords is also IQueryable. We have to change the expression slightly so it can work on an IQueryable instead of work on the WordProvider.
This can be done by a derived class of ExpressionVisitor:
class WordExpressionModifier : System.Linq.Expression.ExpressionVisitor
{
    public ExpressionTreeModifier(IQueryable<Word> allWords)
    {
        this.allWords = allWords;
    }

    private readonly IQueryable<Word> allWords;

    protected override Expression VisitConstant(ConstantExpression c)
    {
        // if the type of the constant expression is a WordCollection
        // return the same expression for allWords
        if (c.Type == typeof(WordCollection))
            return Expression.Constant(allWords);
        else
            return c;
    }

So now we can finish the Execute function
public TResult Execute<TResult>(Expression expression)
{
    IQueryable<Word> allSonnetWords = this.GetAllSonnetWords();
    var sequenceRequested = typeof(TResult).Name == "IEnumerable`1";

    // replace the expression for a WordCollection to an expression for IQueryable<Word>
    var expressionModifier = new ExpressionTreeModifier(allSonnetWords);
    Expression modifiedExpression = expressionModifier.Visit(expression);

    TResult result;
    if (isEnumerable)
        // A sequence is requested. Return a query on allSonnetWords provider
        result = (TResult)allSonnetWords.Provider.CreateQuery(modifiedExpression);
    else
        // a single element is requested. Execute the query on the allSonnetWords.provider
            result = (TResult)allSonnetWords.Provider.Execute(modifiedExpression);
    return result;
}

Now all work is done, we can try it:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    IQueryable<Word> allWords = new WordCollection();
    IQueryable<Word> Bwords = allWords
        .Where(word => word.Text.FirstOrDefault() == 'b')
        .Take(40);

    foreach (var word in Bwords)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(word.Text);
    }
}

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Charles Laffiteau's Bigger Picture (June 2019)
Last time I touted the significance of Beto O'Rourke's decision to hire Obama campaign veteran Jen O'Malley Dillon, the first woman ever recruited to run an American presidential campaign. But Beto didn't stop there. In addition to hiring seven staffers who had also worked on Beto's Texas Senate campaign, Beto and Jen also took on board seasoned veterans of the Obama presidential campaign such as Lise Clavel (as states director), and Lauren Brainerd (as national organising director).
Clavel was the Virginia state director for Obama's reelection campaign in 2012, while Brainerd was the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's field director in 2018. Prior to their hiring, Beto and Jen had succeeded in recruiting President Obama's widely praised delegate selection director, Jeff Berman, as senior advisor for delegate strategy. They also hired the creative director of the progressive Democratic super-PAC Priorities USA, Rob Flaherty, as their campaign's all-important digital director.
As for the other members of the 'Gang of Six', Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren all appeared to have a good month in terms of improved polling, better fundraising and more media attention. Biden has solidified his front-runner status by more than doubling his lead over Bernie Sanders from seven percentage points at the end of April to a more robust 17-point gap in the latest national polls. For her part, Warren also improved her standing in the national polls by a half, from 6.5% on 28 April to 9.8% at the end of May.
Buttigieg's polling was surprisingly strong at six to seven per cent of Democratic voters, thanks to the yeoman work of his chief communications advisor, Lis Smith. Smith previously worked on President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign as his director of rapid response. As Buttigieg's chief publicist, Lis garnered favourable coverage of her client by setting up lots of one-on-one meetings with the 'Gang of 500' political reporters and pundits who shape America's political news in the weeks before he announced his candidacy.
However, Buttigieg is also savvy enough to know that it's extremely difficult to maintain that favourable political buzz, because those same political reporters will also want to see proof that the candidate of the moment is also viable. They want to see evidence that the candidate can pull together a national organisation and raise hefty sums of money. So, Buttigieg's focus between now and the end of June is to attend as many fundraisers with wealthy donors as time will allow.
But since President Donald Trump is about to make his first and likely only visit to Ireland during his presidency, it's time for me to turn my attention to him and his upcoming jaunt to Europe. While Trump would probably beg to differ, May was not a very good month for him, and I don't see any evidence that the upcoming summer months will be any better. A federal judge just stopped work on Trump's wall using Pentagon funds and a New York Times analysis of Trump's taxes showed he lost over a billion dollars from 1985 to 1994.
Given the president's inability to get his wall built, and lower court rulings against him in his ongoing legal battles over the release of his tax returns to Democrats in Congress, it's not a surprise that Trump would prefer to be out of the country for a while. The trip will draw media attention away from his legal woes thanks to the pomp and circumstance that surrounds a visit with British royalty, for one. Trump hopes a visit to France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day will also garner some good publicity.
But make no mistake: the sole purpose of Trump's visit to Ireland is to promote his hotel and golf resort in Doonberg, Co Clare. In fact, the meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Shannon Airport is a compromise designed to spare them both the embarrassment of not meeting in a proper capacity when Trump visits Ireland.
Although the Trump Organization has trimmed its losses in the last two years, the Doonberg hotel and golf resort has still lost more than €7m in the five years since Trump purchased the property. These are losses that the Trump Organization can ill afford given the downturn in demand it's experiencing at its resort properties. Both Nascar and the PGA have moved events from Trump's Doral golf resort to other venues, while over a dozen charities have also canceled their events at his Mar-a-Lago club.
The values of Trump's real estate holdings in New York City are also falling thanks to the bad publicity surrounding his presidency. Over that past two years since Trump took office, CityRealty data shows that prices per square foot in Trump's office buildings and condo towers in New York City have fallen an average of nine per cent a year to their lowest levels in five years. During that same period, the value of other Manhattan condos has risen 29 per cent.
It appears Trump is attempting to recoup some of his losses by spending taxpayer's dollars to stay at his own Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago resorts for five of the last 30 months. We can now add Trump's Doonberg resort to that list.
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A photo of Rwanda's endangered primate – mountain gorilla went viral in April 2020 as the community was still wondering what befell their country after a couple of weeks in COVID-19 lockdown.
The photo featured a mountain gorilla silverback that had crossed his habitat to reach the neighboring community which also came to welcome him.
It was shared by a public figure from the Northern Province who accompanied it with a comment that goes like "the mountain gorillas are missing visitors. They have come to check on them."
Criticism followed the photo with some saying that it was fake news. Either way, the photo and the comment in it was carrying the reality of the moment. Weeks earlier, visits to national parks were suspended to safeguard life of the already endangered mountain gorillas, the big five and the rest of Rwanda's wildlife wonders.
To say it better, humanity had already missed the wildlife, and the wildlife had missed humanity, but the issue was going beyond this particular point. The gorillas' neighboring communities were already foreseeing a loss from the revenue sharing scheme.
Kabatwa sector health post valued at Rwf48 million built under the tourism revenue sharing policy
The latter consists of 10% tourism revenue that goes to communities around national parks in form of public infrastructures and utilities; water, electricity, health centers, schools, model villages, to mention but a few. The Volcano National Park alone earns the country some $120 million annually.
The lockdown had obliged every person to stay under the roof of their house to prevent more spread of COVID-19, tourism and any movement whatsoever was prohibited.
Back in Kigali, the capital city may tell a better story of that time; beauty of roads which were initially busy whole day could be appreciated because they were free of cars and the pollution behind them. The greenest and cleanest city of Africa was rejuvenating.
Big meeting venues like Kigali Convention Centre, the recently launched Kigali Arena and the rest had not received any delegation coming for a summit and of course, there was no mention of hospitality features like five star hotels, country resort or game lodge.
The postponement of meetings cost huge to the hospitality industry and the Meeting, Incentives, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) tourism at large. Postponed around this time was Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
While CHOGM was highly anticipated in Rwanda in June 2020, several other meetings of huge caliber that were already confirmed were either postponed or they took place via video conference earning nothing material to the country. Everything was on standstill.
No need to mention the case of airports, tickets, bookings and other vocabularies related to air transport, because the sentence was simple, that "flights were halted." Unprecedented photos of airplanes at the airports would tell the rest.
Elsewhere, some comments had started suggesting that the water of Rwanda's lakes was "breathing fresh air" after a couple of weeks without swimming, kayaking and other marine activities.
Relaxing measures
The more the country was acquiring capacity to contain more spread of COVID-19, the more a number of measures were adjusted. Thus in June, the country was already repatriating its people who were stranded in several countries of the world that were under lockdown.
Similarly, some visitors that were in Rwanda could be facilitated to go back home.
In the same month (June) Rwanda allowed resumption of domestic and international tourism under several conditions. International visitors would be allowed if they come via charter fights. Moreover, any visitor of a park needed to test for COVID-19.
The Rwanda Development Board (RDB) which has tourism in its attribution put the parks' tariffs on discount.
For example, from June to December 2020, the gorilla permits were reduced to $ 200 for Rwandans and citizen of the East African Community, while foreign residents saw permits reduced to $500. Foreign visitors will continue to pay $ 1500.
Obviously, allowing flights meant allowing the hospitality industry to operate. Some hotels that met criteria were opened, to serve the visitors, and to host conferences with several instructions.
The meeting room was supposed to host a maximum of 30% of the total capacity but the situation is improving with venues receiving up to 50% of sitting capacity.
Virtual Gorilla Naming Ceremony – Kwita Izina
The annual Gorilla naming ceremony-Kwita Izina, is an event that convenes celebrities to name the newly born baby gorillas and who says celebrities says money.
The 16th edition however, was sabotaged by COVID-19 because until September when it takes place, bringing people together was still a risk the country could not afford to take. The event went online meaning impossibility for the country to raise thousands of dollars from the visitors.
The event still, was colorful with 24 baby gorillas that were named including 15 baby boys and 9 baby girls.'
Namers included rangers, porters, guides, trackers and a retired veterinarian who has a great history with the gorillas.
Those are people who have a great history with the primates which are available only in the volcano massif that stretches between Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
However, there were three special guests at the virtual Kwita Izina. Arsenal stars Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Hector Bellerin and Bernd Leno were the guests.
Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang named a 14-month-old baby gorilla Igitego, meaning 'Goal'.
Leno also chose a football name as he named a 12-month-old gorilla Myugariro, meaning 'Defender' while while Bellerin named an 11-month-old Iriza, meaning 'First Born'.
"Three great Arsenal players are leaving their mark on a new generation of baby gorillas today: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Bernd Leno and Hector Bellerin," President Paul Kagame said at the virtual Kwita Izina event.
"Arsenal is a good partner in our effort to show the importance of conservation, and why visiting Rwanda is such a special experience."
In 2018, the Rwanda Development Board signed a Visit Rwanda partnership deal with Arsenal becoming the club's official tourism partner and first ever sleeve sponsor.
The New Normal: A recovery fund
The tourism industry could not go without loss after a couple of weeks in country's total lockdown and travel restrictions in Rwanda and across the world among other measures meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
In June, the country set up an Economic Recovery Fund(ERF) with Rwf 100 billion initial capital but looking forward to increasing to Rwf 200 billion.
Hotels are among eligible businesses who could borrow from the fund in a-two year period since they experienced exceptional business setback. It is estimated that the sector lost over 90% of revenues from cancellations of events and bookings due to global lockdown and travel restrictions.
Meanwhile, activities resumed in full gear across national parks and country museums. Last month, Akagera national park management published a photo of vets fitting Global Positioning System (GPS) collars on a lion. In fact, the exercise was done on five giant elephants and five lions. They also put Very high frequency (VHF) transmitters inside horns of nine rhinoceros.
Rwanda pursues ambitions to strengthen management of parks where in October, the country signed with African Parks organization, a-20 year agreement where the later will manage Nyungwe National Park becoming the second under their management after Akagera National Park since the last 10 years.
"The new agreement is a testimony of good partnership since the last 10 years," said Clare Akamanzi, RDB CEO.
In the meantime, first ever Israeli airline landed in Rwanda on November 26. AIR ISRAIR became the first airline to land at Kigali International Airport from Israel. Since April, Rwanda signed bilateral air service agreement with Israel, and Rwandair later on started direct flights to Tel Aviv.
Rwanda is signing more bilateral agreements with countries from across the world to ensure transport and tourism barriers are removed to allow trade with the world.
Despite tourism suffering, Rwanda expects to be on track and to have recovered from all the economic scars within the next three years.
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Discussion in 'Birds' started by wild life, Aug 14, 2009.
All photos with D300, 300mm f/2.8, TC20 (2x), tripod and remote shutter release.
Nice series. Includes species I have not seen before (some of them don't venture this far east). Looks like the TC20 works well with that lens.
Wow! Some very good shots of some very cool birds! I could sit and work any bird you have here all day and be a very happy camper.
VEry nice series, some wonderful shots here.
Thank you Robert and Louie. The southward migration has started now and can't wait to see what shows up here in the next few weeks.
Great shots. I love the Quail and Calliope Hummer.
I like the owl group the best. I have never seen that many together at one time.
Thanks, Alex, Oren and Allan.
The burrowing owl family is incredible, what a rare capture. I am partial to those Gamble chicks drinking too.
Thanks....the Burrowing Owl family started off with 7 young and both parents. I visit their burrow only once a week just to monitor their progress and so as not to disturb the birds. This past Sunday evening I only saw 5 young and the adult female....no adult male. All of the young are flying now.
WOW! Absolutely gorgeous! Lovely lighting on all!
Thanks, Dianne. Appreciate your kind comments.


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The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of Washington
Which Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals Lived in Washington?
The Columbian Mammoth,a prehistoric animal of Washington. Wikimedia Commons
For much of its geologic history — stretching all the way back to the Cambrian period, 500 million years ago — the state of Washington was submerged under water, which accounts for its relative lack of dinosaurs or, for that matter, any large terrestrial fossils from the Paleozoic or Mesozoic eras. The good news, though, is that this state sprang to life during the latter part of the Cenozoic Era, when it was traversed by all sorts of megafauna mammals. On the following slides, you'll discover the most notable dinosaurs and prehistoric animals discovered in Washington.
An Unidentified Theropod
The dinosaur bones discovered in Washington. University of Washington
In May of 2015, field workers in Washington state's San Juan Islands discovered the partial remains of an 80-million-year-old theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur — the same family of dinosaurs that includes tyrannosaurs and raptors. It will take a while to conclusively identify this first-ever Washington dinosaur, but the discovery raises the possibility that the northwestern United Sates was teeming with dinosaur life, at least during the later Mesozoic Era.
The Columbian Mammoth
The Columbian Mammoth, a prehistoric animal of Washington. Wikimedia Commons
Everyone talks about the Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), but the Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) was even bigger, albeit lacking that long, fashionable, shaggy coat of fur. The official state fossil of Washington, the remains of the Columbian Mammoth have been discovered all over the Pacific northwest, to which it immigrated hundreds of thousands of years ago from Eurasia via the newly opened Siberian land bridge.
The Giant Ground Sloth
The Giant Ground Sloth, a prehistoric animal of Washington. Wikimedia Commons
The remains of Megalonyx — better known as the Giant Ground Sloth — have been discovered all across the United States. Washington's specimen, dating to the late Pleistocene epoch, was unearthed decades ago during the construction of Sea-Tac Airport, and is now on display at the Burke Museum of Natural History. (By the way, Megalonyx was named in the late 18th century by future president Thomas Jefferson, after a specimen discovered near the East Coast.)
Diceratherium
Menoceras, a close relative of Diceratherium. Wikimedia Commons
In 1935, a group of hikers in Washington stumbled upon the fossil of a small, rhinoceros-like beast, which became known as the Blue Lake Rhino. No one is quite sure of the identity of this 15-million-year-old creature, but a good candidate is Diceratherium, a double-horned rhinoceros ancestor named by the famous paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh. Unlike modern rhinos, Diceratherium sported only the tiniest hint of double horns, arranged side-by-side on the tip of its snout.
Chonecetus
Aetiocetus, a close relative of Chonecetus. Nobu Tamura
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Trilobites and Ammonites
A typical ammonite, of the type that have been discovered in Washington State. Wikimedia Commons
An essential part of the marine food chain during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, trilobites and ammonites were small- to medium-sized invertebrates (technically part of the arthropod family, which also includes crabs, lobsters and insects) that have been preserved especially well in ancient geologic sediments. The state of Washington boasts a wide assortment of trilobite and ammonite fossils, which are greatly prized by amateur fossil hunters.
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Did Elijah break the Torah by encountering ravens and/or failing to appear at Jerusalem?
Elijah is fed by "ravens" (1Ki 17:1-7), an unclean animal (Lev 11, Deut 14). Assuming he did not touch the ravens, but that the ravens had simply brought him the food - would that be against the law, or would it make him unclean?
Moreover, Deut 16:16 says that Jewish men must appear at Jerusalem thrice a year. Though this would certainly have been difficult in a divided kingdom, wouldn't Elijah be breaking the law (technically speaking) by failing to do so?
Related: Is Elijah fed by ravens or Arabians?
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Separate questions? – user2910 Jul 11 '14 at 19:38
I think you misunderstand what factors cause a person to become ritually impure and the dietary laws known as kashrut. The crow/raven is in a class of birds that are "unclean" meaning that they are not suitable for eating. The Torah's list of clean birds is limited to birds who are not birds of prey and those who are not scavengers, like the crow. These we cannot eat. See Lev. 11:13-19; Deut. 14:11-18. Also forbidden to Jews for eating are animals that do not have cloven hooves and do not chew their cud. A dog or cat clearly do not meet the criteria, but there is no prohibition against a Jew owning either as a pet, touching it, or feeding it.
There are many ways to become ritually impure, or tameh, including touching, or being in the same room with, a dead human body (two different kinds of tumah), contact with dead animals not slaughtered in accordance with kosher rituals, contact with certain bodily fluids such as semen or menstrual blood, or, in the case of women, following the birth of a child. See this short and not quite complete list of things that can make one ritually impure. People become ritually impure on a regular basis, and the Torah knows that. The act of being tameh merely prevents one from participating in rites of the ancient Temple and, for those otherwise eligible to do so, being tameh prevented them from eating of food brought on the altar. Most issues of ritual impurity are resolved through purification rituals within 24 hours to two weeks, depending upon the circumstance. In fact, the Torah created a second observance of the Passover festival for persons who were ritually impure when the regular festival came about. Numbers 9:7.
Touching a living bird, even a non-kosher one called "unclean" by the Torah, does not make one tameh on its own. However, the dead animal or pieces of a dead animal) in its mouth could make one tameh. Also, the food the raven would bring would be most likely not kosher, and therefore forbidden to Elijah except in extenuating circumstances (which arguably he was in).
Numerous rabbinic commentators take up your question. Rabbi Yechiel Altshuller (ca 18th century), in his book Mezudath David, takes an alegorical view to these verses, rather than a literal one. God tells Elijah that he will be fed by ravens, which are a species normally known as cruel; if a raven can show Elijah mercy, God is saying, Elijah should take a lesson and have pity on Israel. Rabbi Levi ben Gerson (1288-1344), aka the Ralbag, assumes that in this instance Elijah is not concerned that the food the ravens will bring is kosher because God is sending it to him, using the birds as His messenger. And, some, including Rabbi David Kimchi (1160-1255) interpret the word "orevim" as meaning "merchants" rather than "ravens." Still others take the path of explaining that the ravens brought food from a kosher kitchen on God's command.
As for your question about whether Elijah would be breaking the law by not appearing in Jerusalem for the three pilgrimage festivals violated a law: The law to make the pilgrimage is a positive commandment (i.e. "Thou shalt") which, if a person has the opportunity and the means to do it, he has fulfilled the commandment. Not everyone could do so, especially those who lived in far off nations, although that would not be so true in Elijah's time. But someone who was ill would certainly have an excuse not to go. The Torah and rabbinic commentaries make it clear that this was so as there was a system for Jews abroad to send money to serve as their Torah required half-shekel offering to the Temple via messengers. See, e.g. Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Shekalim, chapter 1.
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Some of the ceremonial points of the Law weren't actually kept from the time of the Judges to Hezekiah (2nd Kings 18) and Josiah (2nd Kings 22). The book of Deuteronomy was not well known in this period. So its conceivable that like all the good kings he didn't practice certain parts of the Law, like Passover or the Feast of Tabernacles (those are specifically mentioned as not having been practiced at this time). But as far as the ravens, since God himself sent them to give him food, that would not be considered a violation of the Law. There also have been some commentators who thought the term 'ravens' here should be translated as 'Bedouins'.
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Facebook has a new "Snooze" feature where you can turn off seeing your racist relatives' and illiterate friends' posts for 30-days. I highly recommend. Enjoy the holidays!
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As 2018 begins, I reflect on a grateful journey that has been full of amazing blessings, challenging times, treasured moments, unlimited opportunities, and endless life lessons that has strengthened my mental approach to living. As each of my life passages unfold, I am reminded that the importance of a strong and positive attitude is imperative to living a full life. As my 58th year on this planet begins, I realize the older I get, the quicker the years clip by. Yet, when I reflect on my life and the past year starting my own business, I marvel at the many things I have learned. Having developed deep-rooted optimism over the years, I am both faithful and confident for continued success in 2018 and beyond.
I began 2017 with an array of uncertainties, how to's, what if's and just plain anxiousness. Resigning from a position I held for 20 years and leaving a steady pay check, health insurance and retirement benefits can be frightening. But my optimistism is so strong. It had to be. No choice.
Optimistic people do not let adversity define who they are. They use optimism to move past doubts, comfort, routine, setbacks, misfortunes and hard knocks, to reach their goals, set beyond them. By moving toward a renewed goal, they transcend and circumnavigate past any wavering, hesitation, or indecision to execute their plan.
That is what I did. My optimism resulted in 33 clients, 8929 people visiting my web site, and countless relationship-building meetings in 2017. Wow! What a year. Thank you.
My little start up company did ok. I made a living, and that's all anyone should what and need in life. As 2018 unfolds, I pray that I keep developing, maturing, and growing in faithful and amazing ways.
My mission has not changed from the beginning of last year.
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GWR grant to fund accessible toilet at Crediton Station Tea Rooms
A project to install an accessible toilet and washroom at Crediton Station Tea Rooms has received a £5,000 grant from Great Western Railway.
The tea rooms are leased by The Turning Tides Project, which aims to make equal access a reality for people with a learning disability or autism labels.
As part of GWR's franchise agreement with the Department for Transport, the train operator is committed to improving accessibility at stations.
Alongside the tea rooms, which provides volunteering opportunities and supported employment, TTTP leads a wide range of arts, music and community sessions in and round the building.
TTTP Director Jane Williams said:
"This funding will help towards providing the only fully-accessible tea rooms/café in our community, providing easy-access toilet and washroom facilities on the main GWR North Devon route and on the main bus route, thus extending our ability to create equal access to everything we provide in our local community."
GWR Mobility and Inclusion Manager Neil Craig said:
"Many of the people who are part of The Turning Tides Project use wheelchairs and require hoists and personal assistance to access the toilet. This funding will help to deliver much-needed improvements for those accessing such an important project in North Devon."
To find out more about the Turning Tides Project please click here.
First Greater Western Limited, trading as "Great Western Railway" (GWR), operates trains across the Great Western franchise area, which includes South Wales, the West Country, the Cotswolds, across southern England and into London. GWR provides high speed, commuter, regional and branch line train services, and before the covid-19 pandemic helped over 100 million passengers reach their destinations every year. GWR was recently awarded an extension to its direct award franchise (called DA3), which shall run up to 31 March 2023 with an option to extend for a further year.
Crediton Station Tea Rooms


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Q: How can I scrape data from all pages of a website and write it to a file? I'm programing a script to search for the name and the OVR of all the players from a website. When I try to do this with multiple pages and write the results to a file the output is only from the last page.
Here is the code:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

i = 0
for i in range(0, 12):
    i = i + 1
    request_result=requests.get("https://www.futwiz.com/en/fifa21/players?page=" + str(i) + "&release=icons")
    src = request_result.content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(src, features="html.parser")

    results = soup.find("table", class_="table results playersearchresults")

    # Gets all the names and stores them in a file
    names = results.select('a b')
    with open("names.txt", "w+") as f:

        for name in names:
            data = name.get_text()
            f.write("\n")
            f.write(data)

    # Gets all the OVR values and stores them in a file
    OVR_values = results.select('div .otherversion21-txt')
    with open("OVR.txt", "w+") as f:
        for OVR_value in OVR_values:
            data = OVR_value.get_text()
            f.write("\n")
            f.write(data)

Thanks in advance!

A: Try a+ instead of w+ in your code. If you're using w+, the existing content will be overwritten by the new content. If you use a+, the new data will be appended to the existing content in the file.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

i = 0
for i in range(0, 12):
    i = i + 1
    request_result=requests.get("https://www.futwiz.com/en/fifa21/players?page=" + str(i) + "&release=icons")
    src = request_result.content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(src, features="html.parser")

    results = soup.find("table", class_="table results playersearchresults")

    # Gets all the names and stores them in a file
    names = results.select('a b')
    with open("names.txt", "a+") as f:

        for name in names:
            data = name.get_text()
            f.write("\n")
            f.write(data)

    # Gets all the OVR values and stores them in a file
    OVR_values = results.select('div .otherversion21-txt')
    with open("OVR.txt", "a+") as f:
        for OVR_value in OVR_values:
            data = OVR_value.get_text()
            f.write("\n")
            f.write(data)


Love this concept. My favorite astrology app. But I think the app attracted more traffic and attention when we could expect multiple updates a day. Now it's gone down from one to MAYBE one a day.. some days there are no new updates. When you check this app as many times a day as I do, it was a lot more addicting when I could almost always go read something new after a few hours. Please change it back to new updates.
But I really want to know what astrological aspects are incoming the descriptions. Would give greater legitimacy to the info.
It's a great app, I love it. It kind of reminds me of the wherefortune app that gave fortunes based on your chart and daily location, in real time but this is more Focused on daily patterns. I do wish there's more details involved that make me feel like it's completely personalized to me including a birth chart pattern section. But I enjoy it and I do recommend it.
After less than a week it logged me out, wouldn't let me log back in using the Facebook login, asked for my phone number and then said I didn't have an account. All this after sending me an alert with a message for the day. Nothing but error messages. Oh, and half the time I had to save a post as a picture in order to read the entire thing because the app wouldn't scroll.
Whoa, this app just read my mind and told me what my problems were and how to fix them. So insightful and guiding! I will spend the next few hours of the night wondering how they did that..
Poignant, thoughtful, and spookily accurate. Please add transit details!
I love how accurate this app is. I was reading it and everything was so true for me it was overwhelming. I love that you can go back and look at certain dates and the cycles. I like that you can add other people yourself and check their profile out without making them get the app. I really wish they would do more than just a partnership tab though. I'd love to see siblings, parent-child, friend relationship tabs. Also i agree with everyone that they should put the transits and aspects because otherwise it just seems like a general horoscope app.
There's no where in settings to delete account when you're no longer interested.
It can be really accurate sometimes but.. Who made this? Why is it so vague? Just some random benevolent Astro-tech start up? Lol sure. Why won't it tell you about the actual aspects being used or how it weighs them or what house system is being used? Some patterns look really incorrect because they seem to be weighing weaker aspects heavily. And it's really repetitive. If you have heavy Saturn and pluto aspects it's pretty misleadingly negative as well. You can only tell someone they'll be alone forever and their only purpose is to make other people's lives easier so many times.
While I love this app and the information it gives, I do wish it would be easier to add your friends or make an account without using your phone number.
Can not see the top and bottom rows of some of the "go deeper" slides. Wish I could.
Great content! My only complaint is that I keep getting logged out of the app.
Great app...but most people want to understand the underlying aspect, transit, or progression that is being referenced. Do that, and I'll change it to 5 💥!
This app is absolutely incredible and has given me so much insight on the past, present, and future. Best astrology app out there!
So far I love it. It's so detailed and I'm a person that loves to read and loves small details especially with astrology. Can't really think of anything that needs to be improved or added but I'm sure something cute.
It's always accurate and thorough!
This is great app however like most things it could stand to be improved a little. It would be nice to add profiles and compare them from a friendship perspective not just a romantic perspective. Also it would be nice to view other people's profiles you have made on their own instead of just to compare it against someone else.
I don't know how this app gets it so right but it does. It feels like divine intervention! So accurate for who I am and where I am in my life. I love the updates and being able to connect with people in my life - from family to friends to new relationships - it's eye opening and delightful. I'm really into the pattern.
The app is very accurate and detailed. I love how it doesn't reference the universe or astrology it seems to be based off of true habits and patterns! Very interesting and amazing job with this app. One thing I wish it was on android already!!!!
The app is great to me I feel like it knows everything about me 🤔 I just wonder how haha I also have been sharing about and telling all my friends !!!!
I love the app. Literally, most accurate astrology app I've used. However, I want to see the planet and house that's causing the cycle their showing. When that arrives, I'll update to 5.
The first day I downloaded this app and it was scarily accurate. The second day of using it and it's even more on point. I don't know how they do it but wow! If you want some greater insight into yourself, your desires, your fears, etc. I'd highly recommend this app. Each day you're given a pattern that pertains to you and you can "go deeper" into the pattern and get a more in depth explanation of your it in which you can favorite a pattern and take your own notes. It's also got a great aesthetic! I have other astrology kind of apps like co-star which is also beautiful and insightful but not to the degree of The Pattern.
Hi there - I want to thank y'all for making such a beautiful, helpful app. The Pattern is really special. I have a question regarding the lack of transit information, though... Why would y'all choose to show the length of the transit, and detailed information about its effects, but leave out the actual planets and relationships involved? Maybe it makes the app seem more mystical? It's aggravating for those trying to actually understand transits and get more information about how to move through them gracefully. Please consider adding this necessary information in the next update! Thank you so much.
I love this app. That said I am old and married and not looking for romantic liaisons right now but curious about friends. Colleagues and cousins...comparisons other than romantic would be welcomed.
Gon head and give Fran her things. This is a great app and a lot of people had to adjust their wigs today cause she sent us here.
Fran mentioned it on her IG and I am testing it out. I will update once I try it!
Thanks to HeyFranHey for recommending this app. I'm deft feeling some ways reading through this. I wish transitioning through topic was a little faster and it too me a while to get what was happening but I dig this. Thanks!
They made an app, they made it well. I rely on the pattern to remind myself of my own personal blueprint, and to be more aware of others' - it has brought clarity to many relationships or dynamics. The interface is user friendly, many of my friends enjoy it now and we interact often. I'm thankful for this app.
This is the most amazing app! The information is so accurate- it's shocking. And it has a beautiful design as well. I never leave reviews but the product is so good and made me so happy that I felt like I had to let everyone know about it and thank people who did such an amazing job!
I love the insights and writing in this app but I hate that it doesn't cite the planetary aspects that are being referenced! I think it would greatly enhance the app to do so, and help its users actually learn and understand the astrology behind it.
The patterns themselves are so detailed and mostly accurate, and I appreciate the personal patterns and the timing and daily updates. The synastry option is also really cool. But as someone who is interested in astrology and how my natal chart informs my personality, i really wish that the patterns said which aspects or placements or combinations etc. informed each pattern. Also, the newest update made the posts in my feed disappear, and some of the ones i had bookmarked were gone too. I liked it better when I could look through past posts, especially if i hadnt checked the app in a few days so i could see the past posts. Maybe there should be an option in the settings if you want your daily updates to stay or not.
This app ruined my relationship lol. The accuracy is uncanny. It gave me the push to make some painful choices and start on my path to healing and reaching my potential.
Seems like a cool app, but connecting age name place of birth and phone number are too much for the value it provides. Maybe next time!
But new update is awful! Patterns aren't new enough often enough now, only see two patterns, the newsfeed/notification screen is terrible.
New to this app but so far I love it! Having some issues with saving bookmarks or notes - The app completely shuts down. Besides that, very creative app, that connects with its user on a personal level! You will want to wake up and check it daily!!
I've studied astrology for over 15 years and didn't think a free app would be accurate yet this is So On Point!
At one point I was logged out. I tried signing back in and it said my phone number was never registered. I then created a profile again and now I can't find any of my friends.
Cheers to the developers! I've been looking for some insight in tarot, numerology, astrology, necromancy...ok, not necromancy, but you see where I'm going. This app has really helped me in so many ways, more than goal setting or positive affirmations has (not saying those are bad, they're just not for me). I've come to understand a lot more than I used to, including who I am and who I'm meant to be. Even my intimate relationship is stronger with less tension and fewer misunderstandings. Thank you Pattern developers. You're the best!!


With inventory being limited in Utah, buyers are tired of fighting the bidding war and many have opted to build a new home instead. Sounds like a dream right?
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1. You have a tight budget: With the average cost of new construction running about $145-$165 per square foot (compared to existing at $112), building a new home will be substantially more expensive than finding an existing one. With a new home you're paying more for current costs of labor, materials, completed square footage, landscaping, sprinklers, and fencing. In addition be prepared to have the cash to pay out of pocket for some of those items as things like finishing a basement or adding a fence can't generally be financed.
2. You are a Visual Person: If you're the kind of person who needs to see and feel the finished product before making a decision, building a new home may become challenging for you. In the new construction process you will be asked to make hundreds of decisions about lighting, paint, cabinetry, layout and so much more. If you find that these decisions are hard for you to visualize an existing home might work better for you.
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The 2016 Come Home to Lakewood House and Garden Tour takes place Sunday, Sept. 11.
Don't miss the 2016 Come Home to Lakewood House and Garden Tour, Sunday, September 11, from 1 to 6 p.m., presented by the Lakewood Historical Society.
The eagerly-anticipated tour features eight residences, a stunning perennial garden, one of Lakewood's last remaining carriage houses and the Nicholson House, Lakewood's oldest frame residence. The tour is a celebration of Lakewood's diverse housing population and includes outstanding examples of Tudor, Colonial Revival, Arts and Crafts, Queen Anne Victorian, Prairie and Craftsman architectural styles. Each home has contemporary upgrades that honor the integrity of the original architectural design.
Begin your House Tour weekend at the Patron Party Saturday, September 10, at 6 p.m. The Patron Party house, not on Sunday's tour, is a grand Colonial Revival featuring three gabled dormers. Enjoy food, beverage, entertainment, a silent auction and the Instant Wine Cellar raffle. Patron Party tickets are $75 and include a ticket for Sunday's tour. They and the $25 general admission Home Tour tickets, can be purchased online at lakewoodhistorymuseumstore.com; at the Oldest Stone House, 14710 Lake Avenue by mail or during business hours. For more information, call the Oldest Stone House at 216.221.7343.


Harington, who plays Jon Snow in the HBO megahit, began work on Game of Thrones years ago, just like numerous other young actors in the ensemble: As a relative newcomer about to get worldwide exposure thanks to an acclaimed new TV series.
People shouting at him on the streets - everyone, even the president wanting to know if Jon was really dead - got to Harington, understandably so. I had felt very unsafe, and I wasn't talking to anyone. "None of it. I didn't spent much of my time thinking, 'What is gonna happen?' because I knew whatever I would think would be wrong". Kit added that he got very emotional and it felt like someone was shedding him of something. "I had to feel very grateful for what I have, but I felt incredibly concerned about whether I could even f-king act".
Kit's character Jon was stabbed to death by his comrades while guarding the Wall in the North of Westeros, and the series ended with his lifeless body lying on a slab. However, now that he looks back at the work he did on Season 8, he feels completely satisfied. No premiere date has been scheduled yet, but it will likely not premiere for at least a year after "Thrones" wraps its eight-season run this spring.
If you need some more light-hearted fare in between those Sunday night stress-fests, a handful of blockbusters are also making their way to the streaming platform.
But as all of this enormous pressure from "Thrones" comes to a close, Harington said much like his other co-stars, it was still emotional nonetheless. "That's a long time for those jokes to be going, and they never felt old or exhausted", Harington shared. The fantasy drama is coming to an end and it is going to be hard for every GoT fan. In the last season, I was like, these are getting exhausted now. Harington's costar Emilia Clark recently revealed that the costumes of this season say something about the character's journey. Sure, you can dig around for clues and hints (like we did here), but we're all essentially on equal playing field until we find out more.


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Voice To Text in Outlook 2016 – Got an idea?
Would it be possible to integrate a "voice to text" feature/option when creating emails or in all the Office products on a broader scale.
Thank you for providing feedback. Support for Dictation / Speech to Text is now available in the Office 365 subscription builds for Windows Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. To start using this functionality please see this topic, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/dictate-with-your-voice-in-office-d4fd296e-8f15-4168-afec-1f95b13a6408?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US.
Thanks for your quick implementation of Dictate feature in Outlook.
Why cant outlook have built in feature like dictating - voice to text. so that it will be useful for email composing.
Implementare la dettatura del testo come in word. Deve essere una caratteristica che deve esserci in tutti i programmi in cui si scrive.
Microsoft should consider voice to text option especially for its office product unlike mobile apps such as voice to text message etc. The voice to text option shall provide flexibility to the users to get rid of manually typing lengthy text messages.
When using voice dictation, don't automatically capitalize the first word as voice dictation may have started further along in the sentence.
When composing large emails on a daily basis, I think a great time saver would be to have an option button to convert talk to text so you can compose your emails by talking instead of typing them, maybe this function already exits if it does can someone please fill me in ta.
does this exist, I can do it on my phone.


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Q: Bringing load_and_authorize_resource from rails to mvc .net I was looking for an implementation / example of loading and authorizing a resource at a controller level. I am looking for the same functionality as load_and_authorize_resource in the cancan gem in ruby on rails.
Has anyone come across one / have an example how to implement something similar using Mvc .Net attributes?
Thanks!
The load_and_authorize_resource behaviour
With rails, controller and model names are linked up by convention. The attribute load_and_authorize_resource takes that to its advantage. When an action is hit that requires an instance of a resource, the load_and_authorize_resource verifies whether the instance of the resource can be accessed. If it can, it will load it up in an instance variable, if it cant, it will return a 404 or any error behaviour you have configured the attribute to produce.
For example, if I have a resource picture, and only user that own a certain picture can edit the picture's name.
So we would have a Edit action, which obviously would have a pictureId of the picture you want to edit.  load_and_authorize_resource would verify whether the current context/user has access to the resource.
Here is a small video introduction of the module.

A: I am not aware of the existence of such plugin for ASP.NET MVC. To mimic it's functionality you could write a custom Authorize attribute though:
public class LoadAndAuthorizeResourceAttribute : AuthorizeAttribute
{
    private class ModelDescriptor
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public Type ModelType { get; set; }
    }

    private const string ModelTypeKey = "__ModelTypeKey__";
    public override void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
    {
        var parameters = filterContext.ActionDescriptor.GetParameters();
        if (parameters.Length > 0)
        {
            // store the type of the action parameter so that we could access it later
            // in the AuthorizeCore method
            filterContext.HttpContext.Items[ModelTypeKey] = new ModelDescriptor
            {
                Name = parameters[0].ParameterName,
                ModelType = parameters[0].ParameterType,
            };
        }
        base.OnAuthorization(filterContext);
    }

    protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        var authorized = base.AuthorizeCore(httpContext);
        if (!authorized)
        {
            // the user is not authenticated or authorized => no need to continue
            return false;
        }

        // get the currently authenticated username
        string username = httpContext.User.Identity.Name;

        // get the id of the resource that he is trying to manipulate
        // the id should be sent either as part of the query string or the routes
        string id = httpContext.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["id"] as string;

        // get the action param type
        var modelDescriptor = httpContext.Items[ModelTypeKey] as ModelDescriptor;

        if (modelDescriptor == null)
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException("The controller action that was decorated with this attribute must take a model as argument");
        }

        // now load the corresponding entity from your database given the
        // username, id and type
        object model = LoadModel(id, username, modelDescriptor.ModelType);

        if (model == null)
        {
            // the model that satisfies the given criteria was not found in the database
            return false;
        }

        httpContext.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values[modelDescriptor.Name] = model;

        return true;
    }

    private object LoadModel(string id, string username, Type modelType)
    {
        // TODO: depending on how you are querying your database
        // you should load the corresponding model here or return null
        // if not found
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

and now you could have a controller action that is decorated with this attribute:
[LoadAndAuthorizeResource]
public ActionResult Edit(Picture model)
{
    ... if we get that far the user is authorized to modify this model
}