Summer unofficially starts right about now for most of us. Traditionally, Memorial Day weekend is the time when most of us begin making plans for the warmer weather months.
With many kids already done with school for the summer, many people are taking the chance to extend the three-day weekend into more by going on a family vacation. Recent travel surveys show that most Americans are hitting the road rather than getting on an airplane, which means they are mostly staying within the country.
But summer is more than just a time for vacation. It's also a time to take part in fun, everyday activities that can only happen during warmer weather months. With this in mind, we've compiled a summer bucket list of sorts that you can pull out one of those days when you're lounging by the pool and trying to decide what to do the next day.
Go to the beach. By all means, make a day out of it. Enjoy the cool breeze. As you know, there are a plethora of beach options in Southern California.
Go to an outdoor concert. The Hollywood Bowl has an amazing line-up of performers to suit most any taste.
Go to a waterpark. If water is your thing, the Cove in Riverside is not too far. Or if you want a more sophisticated water park, you should try the ones at the amusement parks.
Go camping, even just for a night. You should take advantage of the fact that California has the most national state parks in the country. Drive short or drive far, your choice.
Go hiking. See No. 4 above for note about national state parks. There are also trails throughout the Inland Empire, most notably in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Have a backyard BBQ. Entertaining at its simplest. Just fire up the grill, gather a few friends and, voila, instant party. Feel free to linger long into the night since it doesn't get dark early.
Fishing. Summer is a perfect time to go fishing. The Colorado River is a beautiful spot to go fishing but there are also plenty of places to fish in Southern California.
County fair. Live entertainment, fast rides, interesting vendor booths, fair food. An outing to the county fair is definitely a decadent activity.
Relax with a good book outside your home, in your backyard of patio. If anything, summer is a time for relaxing. Sometimes, just watching the clouds float by is more invigorating than a day outing.


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Gino Pozzo, (born 9 April 1959) is an Italian businessman, and majority owner of the English Premier League club Watford.
Ahead of the 2017-18 season, Pozzo became chairman and joint majority shareholder (50%) of Watford Football Club. Pozzo is also a shareholder in Udinese Calcio, Granada CF and holds a 27% stake in Ascoli Picchio. Pozzo's family business, Granada Group, was founded by his father Gianpaolo Pozzo in 1954. In addition to football Gino Pozzo also have a controlling stake in Leeds-based holiday park operator Ellerman. Gino Pozzo was born in Genoa on 9 April 1959, son of Gianpaolo and Aria Pozzo (née Mortellaro). He has an older brother Davide and sister Angela.
His family's wealth came from the Pozzo business, which started in the 1950s with a coffee bar. Gianpaolo Pozzo decided however to diversify the business and to "pursue investments for profits". An initial foray into insurance conducted by the family in Genoa soon proved lucrative. The family then expanded into property development, starting with their first hotel, a Holiday Inn in 1984. This was followed by further investments in real estate, such as housing estates and hotels.
Over the years, Gino Pozzo moved away from running the business, focusing instead on his passion for football. He was influenced by his father and Casa Del Calcio (Italian Football House) and was inspired to invest in football when he saw a chance to own a side that would play in Serie B. In January 1997 Watford were heading for bankruptcy despite winning promotion from Division Two and he bought a controlling stake in the club at a bargain price of £2m from former owner Derek Taylor. The club was £40m in debt, £18m of which being inherited debt. The High Court ordered the club to be put into administration and it was then that Gianpaolo Pozzo stepped in to save the club. But it was only after a takeover that Pozzo used his business acumen to turn Watford around.
By June 1998 he had stabilized the club's finances and obtained promotion from Division Two, followed by a second successive promotion in 1999-00. See this page for related information.
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'Corporate Kashmir is for Peace, Prosperity; Doesn't want Anything which Spoils Atmosphere'
Muhammad Raafi
8:51 pm May 17, 2016
Muhammad Yaseen Khan
Stating that unending conspiracies were being hatched to allot the land of Jammu and Kashmir to outsiders, the Kashmir Economic Alliance (Y) Chairperson Mohammed Yasin Khan on Tuesday evening cautioned the government that such developments were "dragging the state towards another Amarnath land like agitation".
In a statement, Khan, who also heads the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation, said, "the connected series of event suggest that some forces within the government were hell bent to create an atmosphere of unrest while the timings of such conspiracies seem to be a part of a sinister design."
"On one hand, the state government spokesman has been telling lies after lies to keep his RSS masters happy, whereas the reality is that each and every statement of his with reference to allotment of land to outsiders is proving absolute lie," Khan said.
He said, "each and every unusual development, which is taking place in the PDP-BJP alliance since last year suggests that the basic motive of every government order is to systematically erode Article 370 and to allot the land to outsiders."
"Right from the plan for the construction of township for migrant Pandits to development of Sainik Colony, and the Industrial policy to allotment of land to non-locals, is conspiracy to convert Kashmir into Gaza where the Muslims will finally have to live in ghettos to be ruled by RSS Bhakts," Khan said.
He said, "as if this all was not enough, the latest has been that the government has started construction of shelters for non-state subjects in the state. In the garb of shelter for downtrodden from outside state, the government wants to permanently settle non state subjects and this is something which we will never tolerate and each and every Kashmiri will fight it tooth and nail."
"Another thing peculiar was that this all was happening close to June which has witnessed several agitations, the first of which started in 2008 over allotment of 800 kanals forestland to Amarnath Shrine board. That time it was Amarnath land alone whereas now multiple attempts are being made to grab our land," Khan said. "This all was enough to convey that the state in general and Kashmir in particular was being dragged towards uncertainty where chaos will rule the streets."
"If the state government is serious towards creation of peaceful atmosphere, it must instantly revoke all such sinister design orders and make its position clear before the people," Khan said.
He equally asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to understand that "such plans", which look to be "brainchild" of RSS headquarters at Nagpur, "being implemented through PDP", would only create chaos and unrest, which is against the interests of the sub-continent.
"At a time when the sub-continent, particularly this conflict zone, struggles for peace and prosperity, the designs to deprive Kashmiris of their land will only fester crises," Khan said adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti "must look at the pros and cons of such deals in the broader perspective where peace is being taken hostage".
Given the "snowballing of controversy" of land allotment to outsiders, Khan said, "it was the duty of the separatist leadership to avoid any chaotic situation where unrest is feared to fuel the state. The separatist mush act through peaceful, one-voice of unified strategy, which prevents the situation from going out of hands, where things end up in loss of previous human lives."
"The corporate Kashmir is for peace, prosperity and communal brotherhood in all the three regions of the state. We don't want anything which spoils the atmosphere and drags the state towards another Amarnath like agitation," Khan said.
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Rhachomyces philonthinus Thaxt. – rodzaj grzybów z rzędu owadorostowców (Laboulbeniaceae). Grzyby mikroskopijne, pasożyty stawonogów, głównie owadów (grzyby entomopatogeniczne).

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Pozycja w klasyfikacji według Index Fungorum: Rhachomyces, Laboulbeniaceae, Laboulbeniales, Laboulbeniomycetidae, Laboulbeniomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

Gatunek ten opisał Roland Thaxter w 1900 r. na owadach z rodzaju Philonthus na Wyspie św. Heleny i w Anglii.

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Są obligatoryjnymi pasożytami zewnętrznymi owadów, to znaczy, że nie mogą przetrwać poza nimi i pasożytują na ich zewnętrznej powierzchni ciała. Tworzą mikroskopijną, kilkukomórkową plechę, która tylko stopą wrasta do chitynowego oskórka owadów, cała plecha zaś wystaje ponad oskórkiem. Nie powodują śmierci owadów i zazwyczaj wyrządzają im niewielką szkodę. W Polsce Tomasz Majewski w 1994 i 2000 r. podał występowanie tego gatunku na chrząszczach (Coleoptera) z rodziny kusakowatych (Staphylinidae), należących do gatunków: Paragrabius rubripennis, Philonthus confinis, Philonthus corvinus, Philonthus cruentatus, Philonthus fimetarius, Philonthus fumarius,  Philonthus marginatus,  Philonthus sordidus, Philonthus varians, Spatulonthus longicornis, Spatulonthus parvicornis.

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Beatrice, Leonato's niece, asks the messenger about Benedick, Don Pedro's companion, and makes sarcastic remarks about his ineptitude as a soldier. Leonato explains that "There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her.
Claudio's feelings for Hero, Leonato's only daughter, are rekindled upon seeing her, and Claudio soon announces to Benedick his intention to court her. Benedick, who openly despises marriage, tries to dissuade his friend but Don Pedro encourages the marriage.
Benedick swears that he will never get married. Don Pedro laughs at him and tells him that when he has found the right person he shall get married. A masquerade ball is planned in celebration of the end of the war, giving a disguised Don Pedro the opportunity to woo Hero on Claudio's behalf.
Don John uses this situation to get revenge on his brother Don Pedro by telling young Claudio that Don Pedro is wooing Hero for himself. A furious Claudio confronts Don Pedro, but the misunderstanding is quickly resolved and Claudio wins Hero's hand in marriage. Meanwhile, Benedick disguises himself and dances with Beatrice.
Beatrice proceeds to tell this "mystery man" that Benedick is "the prince's jester, a very dull fool. Don Pedro and his men, bored at the prospect of waiting a week for the wedding, harbour a plan to match-make between Benedick and Beatrice. They arrange for Benedick to overhear a conversation in which they declare that Beatrice is madly in love with him but afraid to tell him; that their pride is the main impediment to their courtship.
Meanwhile, Hero and her maid Ursula ensure Beatrice overhears them discuss Benedick's undying love for her. The tricks have the desired effect: Meanwhile, Don Pedro's brother Don John, the "bastard prince", plots to stop the wedding, embarrass his brother and wreak misery on Leonato and Claudio.
He informs Don Pedro and Claudio that Hero is unfaithful, and arranges for them to see John's associate Borachio enter her bedchamber where he has an amorous liaison actually with Margaret, Hero's chambermaid. Claudio and Don Pedro are taken in, and Claudio vows to humiliate Hero publicly.
Her humiliated father Leonato expresses the wish that she would die. The presiding friar intervenes, believing Hero to be innocent.
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He suggests the family must fake Hero's death in order to extract the truth and Claudio's remorse. Prompted by the day's harrowing events, Benedick and Beatrice confess their love for each other.
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Leonato and his brother Antonio blame Claudio for Hero's apparent death and challenge him to a duel. Benedick then does the same. Benedick is following the commands of Beatrice and is one of the few who believe Hero.
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Luckily, on the night of Don John's treachery, the local Watch apprehended Borachio and his ally Conrade. Despite the comic ineptness of the Watch headed by constable Dogberrya master of malapropismsthey have overheard the duo discussing their evil plans.
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(a) and (b): The details of category-wise regular (Managerial / Executives, Supervisory, non-executives) and contractual employees of Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSEs) are given in Statement No. 22 (from Page No. S-145 to S-152) in Volume-I of Public Enterprises Survey 2015-16 that was laid in the Parliament on 21.03.2017. The information of salary & wages of the contractual employees is not maintained separately in Department of Public Enterprises. However, the total quantum of expenditure on salary & wages of all employees of CPSEs during the year 2015-16 was Rs. 1,28,263 crore. As per information available from Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), the instructions regarding equal pay admissible to casual workers already exists in terms of DoPT O.M.. No. 49014/2/86 Estt. (c) dated 07.06.1988. Further, CPSEs are under the administrative control of their respective Ministries / Departments and CPSEs are required to follow the various statutory Provisions / Court orders / Government instructions including instructions on wage related issues of various categories of employees, wherever applicable. However, the responsibility to monitor the implementation of above said statutory Provisions / Court orders / Government instructions vests with the Board of CPSEs and the concerned administrative Ministry / Department.


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De Straat Denemarken (IJslands: Grænlandssund, Deens: Danmarksstrædet) is een zeestraat tussen IJsland en Groenland. Beide gebieden waren ooit een kolonie van Denemarken, vandaar de naam. Op IJsland wordt hij de Straat van Groenland genoemd (Grænlandssund). In de zomer worden hier veel klapmutsen gezien die er komen ruien.
De zeestraat verbindt de noordelijke Atlantische Oceaan (Irmingerzee) en de Noordelijke IJszee (Groenlandzee) met elkaar. Hij is ongeveer 480 kilometer lang en is op het smalste punt 290 kilometer breed. Ten noordoosten van de zeestraat ligt het eiland Jan Mayen.

Onder water bevindt zich een drempel waar overheen per seconde 5 miljoen kubieke meter koud en zoutrijk water van de Oost-Groenlandstroom 3400 meter omlaag valt, van 600 meter naar 4000 meter. Dit is de grootste onderzeese waterval ter wereld.

Slag in Straat Denemarken
Op 2 mei 1940 werd de Duitse SS Wolfsburg in Straat Denemarken onderschept door de Britse kruiser HMS Berwick. De Wolfsburg werd hierop door de eigen bemanning tot zinken gebracht.

In 1941 probeerde een Duits eskader via Straat Denemarken de Atlantische Oceaan te bereiken, om de duikbootoorlog tegen de konvooien naar Groot-Brittannië te ondersteunen (Unternehmen Rheinübung). Op 24 mei 1941 vond in Straat Denemarken een slag plaats tussen de Britse slagkruiser HMS Hood en het slagschip HMS Prince of Wales  enerzijds en de Duitse zware kruiser Prinz Eugen en het slagschip Bismarck anderzijds. De Prinz Eugen was de vorige dag waargenomen door de Britse kruisers HMS Suffolk en [[HMS Norfolk|Norfolk]]. De Hood werd door de Bismarck in het achterste munitieruim getroffen, waarna het schip explodeerde, in twee stukken brak en binnen drie minuten zonk. Door de explosie raakte de Prince of Wales zwaar beschadigd. Ook de Bismarck'' raakte tijdens het duel beschadigd.

Deze zeeslag staat bekend als de Slag in Straat Denemarken.

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Q: Element(button) could not be scrolled into view So i am trying to open up a website and then navigating to a certain page that contains the page from which i have to scrape the data . i am able to give the input but before reaching the final submit button i get the error "selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: Element  could not be scrolled into view". any ideas ?
i have tried to introduce the wait method but still it doesn't give useful results rather slows the site . down below is the code .
from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Firefox()

ok=driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#dropdownlistContentdrpState > input').send_keys('Chandigarh')
#time.sleep(5)
ok2=driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#dropdownlistContentdrpSchoolManagement > input').send_keys('Pvt. Unaided')
#driver.refresh()
time.sleep(10)
ok3=driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#btnSearch')
ok3.click()
time.sleep(4)

A: The error "selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: Element could not be scrolled into view" implies that the element which your program was trying to interact with could not be scrolled into view.
To overcome that you can introduce WebDriverWait and click or use element.location_once_scrolled_into_view first and then click on the element.
Or you can use Javascript's executor to click on the element.
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
WebDriverWait(driver,30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"#btnSearch"))).click()

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ok3=driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#btnSearch')
ok3.location_once_scrolled_into_view
ok3.click()

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ok3=driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#btnSearch')
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();",ok3)

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7 March 2016 In Poaching, Wildlife
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The South African government through its Minister of Environment has finally given the statistics that everyone was waiting on rhino poaching in the country. The authorities were pleased to have reversed the slaughter curve thanks to the many radical measures implemented.
"We are very pleased to announce that, for the first time in ten years, the poaching situation has been stabilized" said the minister during a press conference.
The result now: while the number of rhinos poached in South Africa had quickly increased from 13 in 2007 to 1,004 in 2013 and reached the record number of 1,215 in 2014, the number was only 1,175 in 2015 (see chart below).
In the chart: « High increase of rhino poaching"
Before you decide to send an honest message of congratulations to the South African government, it is necessary to think for a while. In my opinion, two important criteria should be taken into account when measuring the effect of announcement of these statistics.
A number (several hundred) of rhinos from Kruger Park were relocated to other safer reserves within the country. It's in this national park near the borders of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, in particular, that the majority of rhinos are poached. So we just moved part of the populations and drastic decisions were not necessarily taken on the affected areas.
The number of rhinos poached rose sharply in Namibia and Zimbabwe. Therefore, there has been a shift, expected and announced for years, operated by poachers towards easier areas for them. Namibia will have to be even better prepared to face this shift in the coming year.
Even if we have to recognize that the carnage in South Africa stopped, unfortunately there is an increase over the whole southern Africa. Another indicator that is very worrying is the doubling of disappearances over births, which is a sign of a coming disaster for the whole race.
It's important not to give up and accept this dramatic result. For years some NGOs have warned African governments to increase the number of Rangers, better train them and better equip them. In the same way as Chad and Kenya, the South African government has even decided, since 2014, to call on the army to secure the Kruger Park and other national parks. I don't think the results are very convincing, especially for South Africa. They lack a true body of rangers, used to the bush and animals, well organized, supported by suitable means, etc. to summarize, it's necessary to professionalize this job.
All the African countries, involved in the poaching of elephants, rhinos, and more generally of all endangered species, must strongly go into action. Again we do not question the governments' sovereignty but it is essential that governments work with NGOs willing to make things happen.
Mathematically speaking, 1,175 in South Africa + 80 in Namibia + 50 announced in Zimbabwe (for NGOs the count is wrong but nothing can be checked with the Mugabe authorities) = more than 1,300 rhinos slaughtered in these three countries during the year. We are still on an average of 4 rhinos killed every day!
Early 2015 statistics were mentioning just less than 15,000 rhinos in Africa. A quick calculation shows us that the situation is more than critical, although according to the South African ministry, we can be proud of having reduced the number of animals poached in 2015.
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Posted on January 3, 2019 by Jnpickens
In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, that's difficult.
1939 film: …One Third of a Nation… (1939)
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Leif Erickson, Sidney Lumet, Myron McCormick, Hiram Sherman, Muriel Hutchison, Percy Waram, Charles Dingle, Otto Hulett, Iris Adrian, Baruch Lumet
Director: Dudley Murphy
The tenement building where Mary Rogers (Sidney) and her family lives catches on fire. Her brother Joey (Lumet) falls from a fire escape and is injured and has to walk with crutches and a brace on his leg. The owner of the tenement building, Peter (Erickson) passes the fire as its happening and helps the Rogers. Peter is inspired to improve the buildings his family has owned for years, but he meets opposition from his sister and lawyer.
1939 Notes:
• Future director Sidney Lumet's first acting role. He was in three films.
• Sylvia Sidney's only film released in 1939. She was billed as Sylvia Sydney
• Leif Erickson's only film of 1939. He was billed as Leif Erikson with no "c" in his last name.
Sidney Lumet in "…One Third of a Nation…"
Other trivia:
• The film is adapted from a play written by Arthur Arent that was produced by the New York Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration. These plays were called "Living Newspapers" and were based on research and real events.
• "…One-Third of a Nation…" was the first W.P.A. play to be sold to the film industry.
• In the original play by Arthur Arent, there was no romance between the rich landlord and the girl who lives in the slums. This was added in for the film.
• The title of the film came from a President F. D. Roosevelt speech that said "…I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished…"
• The film was originally supposed to be released in December 1938 but was held because Paramount thought the censors would hold up the release.
• The film was shot in New York in Queens and Manhattan
My review: Searching for the "1939 feature":
"…One Third of a Nation…" isn't the best film, but it certainly is interesting for several reasons.
This is a good example of a Great Depression film due to its topic, but also because it was a Works Progress Administration (W.P.A) play. Interestingly enough, this was the first W.P.A. funded play that was made int a film.
But the cast is one of my favorite parts of the film. Sylvia Sidney said that Paramount "paid her by the tear" and in her roles, "they always had me ironing somebody's shirt." Sidney's role in "…One Third of a Nation" fits this bill. She plays her usual rundown, poor woman living in the slums. This was also Sidney's only film of 1939.
But the most interesting actor in the film was 15-year-old Sidney Lumet in one of his few film roles. Lumet is best known as a director for films like "12 Angry Men" (1957), "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975) and "Network" (1976). I was truly shocked when I looked up to see who the child is.
Leif Erickson plays a likable role, but his performance, in general, isn't memorable. His romance with Sylvia Sidney is also not believable.
Overall, "…One Third of a Nation…" is interesting, but perhaps not memorable, except for Lumet's role.
Leif Erickson and Sylvia Sidney in "…One Third of a Nation…"
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thestoryenthusiast on January 3, 2019 at 9:57 AM said:
I watched this film recently because I love Sylvia Sydney. I agree with you that it isn't particularly memorable, but it is interesting. If Lumet had never become a director, I think he could have made it as an actor.


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UK pub near popular theme park sparks fury with kid ban
A pub in the UK located near a popular theme park, Peppa Pig World, has left local families furious by announcing a blanket ban on kids under 12.
The divisive new policy by The Compass Inn in New Forest was put in place following an incident in which one "badly behaved" and "rowdy" group caused other diners to complain.
The venue had already pivoted to an adult-only premises 10 months prior following a similar spate of incidents involving kids, with the exception of Sunday lunches.
RELATED: 'It's their parents' fault': Community outrage as UK pub bans kids under 12
(Facebook: The Compass Inn, Winsor)
The venue's landlord Lucy Draper at the time blamed misbehaving children, and controversially stated: "It's the parents' fault. They just don't discipline them".
The pub is also one of the few completely gluten-free venues in the region, making the decision even more disappointing for parents of kids with coeliac disease.
The venue is located just a six-minute drive from Paultons Park, home of Peppa Pig World — a family attraction themed after the popular UK children's program.
The new blanket children ban came into effect on June 21, announced via a post on The Compass Inn Facebook page.
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"As from today I am sorry to announce that we will not be taking any bookings on a Sunday for families with children under the age of 12," the post begins.
"Today we have yet again experienced a family with no respect for other diners as their children were so badly behaved. Unfortunately because when we take bookings we have no idea if children are going to behave in an adult environment."
The post cites complaints about "rowdy children" and staff having to endure backlash and organise to move unhappy diners.
As of June 21, 2021, the pub says they will no longer take Sunday lunch bookings for families with kids under 12. (Facebook: The Compass Inn, Winsor)
Families with existing Sunday lunch bookings will still be welcome, the venue reassures.
The post concludes: "It's a shame that I have had to make this decision but we are ultimately an adult only pub but some families disregard this fact that we expect their children to behave which unfortunately is not always the case."
The post quickly garnered more than 1500 comments, with comments ranging from "Good for you" to "Shocking post".
"Shocking post your saying all families with kids are badly behaved... Most parents have impeccably mannered and well behaved children," one critic weighed in.
"We were going to visit you especially because our 6 year old must have a gluten-free diet. So few pubs/restaurants offer gf options that we can enjoy together," another disappointed mum wrote.
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Other critics took to the comments section to celebrate the move to a fully adult-only venue.
"For every upset parent with 'perfectly behaved children' now boycotting, you'll make back the money in reservations from adults who want a quiet pub meal without kids ruining it. I'll be sure to book a table when I'm in the area," one local wrote.
"Good for you, there's nothing worse than other peoples badly behaved kids running round screaming and shouting whilst their parents ignore them [sic]," another agreed, with a third adding: "I think this is fantastic! We will definitely be coming to you for Sunday lunch at some point! Families with young children have so, so many places to eat and be loud, it's nice to see somewhere that caters for adults."
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LWC Drinks 10 May 2019
There's nothing quite like the tribal emotions of a live football match. The smell of the crowd, the songs, the camaraderie, the unfettered joy of victory and the shared grief when your team loses. The next best thing is jumping up and down in your favourite pub, screaming at the screen and spilling your pint when your team bags the winner in the last minute. It's undoubtedly a great shared British experience.
The cost of showing televised sport in licensed venues is pretty daunting for landlords. The average charge to pubs and bars showing both Sky and BT sports was around £20,000 [1] per year in 2018, and with 168 Premier League's games available to show throughout the season, the cost per game is not insignificant. If the average pint costs £4.50 then pubs need to sell over 25 pints to bring in the revenue to match the price of a match. Once overheads like VAT, duty, distribution and brewery costs are taken into consideration, landlords need to sell considerably more per match to make a profit, but how?
One avenue worth exploring is diversifying the selection behind the bar to cater for customer taste. Successful bars aren't just content on serving their sports fans with standard lagers and ales. The CGA feel that common or garden fare is being put under continuing pressure by the premium and craft beer options and, although in slight decline of late, Cask or 'Real' Ale. To the pub trade in general, Cask Ale is worth over £1.5 billion per year, with a share more than Gin and Rum combined, is not to be sniffed at as a traditional and viable sales option for pub events. The average Cask Ale drinker is older, more likely to be male, with more disposable income and drinks out more regularly. This is a customer demographic which could be seen to match that of the average 'pub footy' fan, so it seems prudent to cater for that inquisitive palette. As it's a 'live' product, Cask has a relatively short shelf life and whilst this may be off-putting for some venue managers, there could be some strength in 'featuring' selected beers for individual sporting events.
Last summer, with the hot weather and England's long run in the World Cup, there was a 4.4% growth in beer sales [2] which was refreshing news, and another long summer could yet stave off Brexit worries for people tightening their purses at the bar. However, there's no summer football this year, so when the Premier League season finishes, the Championship playoffs are over and the FA Cup and Champions League trophies have been held aloft, how will pubs and clubs maintain their custom?
Results from a 2018 survey by MatchPint [3], the pub and event location search engine, was insightful into how pubs and bars can diversify and improve their offering during the off-season and non-match nights. It was found that 50% of the participants said they mainly watch football in a pub and almost half of those respondents were also interested in rugby and boxing and a smaller share would happily watch cricket. This suggests that whilst football still commands the largest audience, it is still only half a sales opportunity.
Speaking at a Morning Advertiser event last summer, MatchPint's co-founder Dominic Collingwood said,
"Paying for Sky and BT and only showing premier league football is like buying a keg of beer and selling 35 pints, then throwing the rest in the bin"
According to Collingwood, pubs and bars need to up their game and create a point of difference in order to keep people involved in the pub community and off their sofas, phones, tablets and smart TVs. If the pub experience is worth returning to then people will.
Pubs and bars could broaden their sports range to include more marginal sports. Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and the ever-popular UFC could bring custom. Rugby League has been a summer sport for some time now and BBC offered 57 free-to-air matches [4] last season. The Superbowl has always been a big draw and NFL is growing in popularity in the UK. The onus is on venue managers to tie in themed promotions and offers with a carefully curated sports and events calendar.
Venues need to reflect their communities, improve their social network presence and encourage their customers to share their experiences. Improvements to the sporting and event experience could encompass an investment in bigger HD screens and gaming machines, provision of fan commentary and introduction of mobile-phone ordering and table service for drinks and food.
Real world sports need not only be the only attraction, there's a current trend for pubs and bars to install retro gaming machines and to even host eSports events on X-Box or PS4. Venues could have their own leagues and even play other bars on match nights.
Food, sport and beer for thought!
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/football/the-set-pieces-blog/2017/jul/13/football-watch-pub-sky-bt-cost-rise-tv-premier-league
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/beer-sales-boost-pubs-world-cup-hot-summer-england-football-bbpa-a8663821.html
[3] https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2018/12/03/Beer-sales-in-2018
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/no-helmets-required/2018/dec/11/rugby-league-power-free-to-air-tv-bbc-england-team


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Q: How to separate inner polygon and outer polygon from a list of points in C# Assume a polygon like below

I have shape like above and the list of points which are of any order
Point[] polygon = { A(x,y), B (x,y) ..... L(x,y) }

I need to separate the outer polygon and inner polygon points.
Point[] outerpoly = { A(x,y), B(x,y), C(x,y)... H(x,y) }

Point[] innerpoly = { I(x,y), J(x,y), K(x,y), L(x,y) }

For the purpose of algorithm we can assume the Point can be in System.Windows.Point or System.Drawing.Point.
Please help me find an algorithm to get the list of points of inner and outer polygon.

A: Using a coordinate system where increasing values go down and to the right, you can just sort and select the points for each polygon.
Create List<Point>s to store the results:
var outerpoly = new List<Point>();
var innerpoly = new List<Point>();

Now sort the points vertically for the initial selections:
var vertical = polygon.OrderByDescending(p => p.Y).ToList();

Then for each section, sort them horizontally and extract what you need.
First, the outer polygon:
var outerBottom = vertical.Take(2).OrderBy(p => p.X);
outerpoly.AddRange(outerBottom);

var outerRightBottomIn = vertical.Skip(2).Take(4).OrderByDescending(p => p.X).Take(2);
outerpoly.AddRange(outerRightBottomIn);

var outerRightTopOut = vertical.Skip(8).Take(2).OrderBy(p => p.X);
outerpoly.AddRange(outerRightTopOut);

var outerTop = vertical.Skip(10).OrderByDescending(p => p.X);
outerpoly.AddRange(outerTop);

Then the inner polygon:
var innerBottom = vertical.Skip(2).Take(4).OrderBy(p => p.X).Take(2);
innerpoly.AddRange(innerBottom);

var innerTop = vertical.Skip(6).Take(2).OrderByDescending(p => p.X);
innerpoly.AddRange(innerTop);


Stefan Halper — a potential FBI informant on the Trump campaign — met multiple times with multiple members of the Trump campaign, according to a new report that casts further suspicion on his potential motives.
Speculation is mounting over the identity of a purported top-secret intelligence source who was part of the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) is demanding that the Justice Department hand over an unredacted version of the document it used to launch the Trump-Russia probe in July 2016.
The House Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to approve their final report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and alleged collusion, sending it to the Intelligence Community for it to be reviewed and declassified for release to the public.
The House Intelligence Committee Democrats' memo dropped Saturday afternoon, to much elation from the #Resistance. However, the 10-page memo — which was supposed to be a total takedown of the memo committee Republicans released last month exposing alleged FBI abuse — ended up confirming it instead.


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This double issue commemorates Douglas L. Cole, a noted British Columbian cultural historian, best known for his groundbreaking 1985 book Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts and for his documentation of the lives of collectors of ethnological artifacts, and will appeal to anthropologists, historians, art historians, museum scholars and First Nations people alike.
Judith Berman is a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. Her dissertation, "The Seals' Sleeping Cave: The Interpretation of Boas' Kwak'wala Texts," as well as a number of her publications examine aspects of the Kwak'wala language, the Kwakwaka'wakw research of Franz Boas and George Hunt, and the interpretation of the Boas-Hunt texts.
Regna Darnell is professor of anthropology and director of the Centre for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages at the University of Western Ontario. She is currently Bicentennial Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. Among her recent publications are the following: Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist (University of California Press 1990); And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology (John Benjamins 1998); Theorizing the Americanist Tradition (ed. with Lisa Valentine) (University of Toronto Press 1999); and Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (University of Nebraska Press, in press). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Gloria Jean Frank (Ahousat First Nations, Nuu-chah-nulth) is in the MA Programme in history at the University of Victoria where she is pursuing an interest in the oral history of her community. In May 1997, she participated with Douglas Cole in a special plenary session, "Reading Ethnographic Texts," at the BC Studies Conference hosted by Malaspina College, Nanaimo. Her paper for this session was entitled, "'Ego vero,' inquit 'pudenda ejus olfacio': Censoring the 'Lewd' and 'Crude' in First Nations Legends." In addition to her graduate studies, she is currently teaching in the ABE Programme, North Island College at Ahousat.
Heather Gleboff is a student in the MA Programme in history at the University of Victoria. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships, including a University of Victoria fellowship, the Hendrickson Prize in BC History and the University of Victoria Alumni Association Graduate Award.
Ira Jacknis has served since 1991 as Associate Research Anthropologist at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. In early 2001, the Smithsonian Institution Press will publish The Storage Box of Tradition: Museums, Anthropologists, and Kwakiutl Art, 1881-1981, a revision of his doctoral dissertation (Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1989). His specialties include the art and culture of the Native peoples of Western North America, and the history of anthropological film, photography, and museums.
the Victoria Telecommunity Network in 1992, Canada's first free Internet service provider, and continues to help maintain its Web site. He co-sponsors the annual British Columbia History Web Site Prize with the BC Historical Federation. His personal Web site is at http://members.home.net/dmattison.
Nusqimata (Jacinda Mack) is completing a BA in anthropology at the University of Victoria. A member of the Nuxalk and Secwepemc First Nations, she is the recipient of the 2000 BC Rail Aboriginal Scholarship and numerous bursaries. She is also a former high school exchange student who studied in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1992-1993. The mother of three-year-old Kamalsoncw Sacomlic (Orden Mack), she plans to do graduate work on First Nations environmental issues.
Wendy Wickwire is an associate professor in the Department of History and School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. Among her publications are Write It On Your Heart: In the Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller (Theytus, 1989), Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller (with Harry Robinson) (Douglas & McIntyre, 1992), and Stein: The Way of the River (with Michael M'Gonigle) (Talonbooks, 1988). Her research interests include the oral traditions of the First Nations peoples of south central British Columbia and the history of anthropology in British Columbia, especially the work of James A. Teit.


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\section{\label{sec_intro} Introduction}

Hard X-ray (HXR) and gamma-ray emissions play a primary role in the diagnostics of electron and ion acceleration in solar flares.
They provide information about the spectrum, energetics and abundances of accelerated particles along with acceleration timescales \citep{Fletcher2011}.
Therefore hard X-ray/gamma-ray data with high temporal and energy resolutions are of particular interest.
The main mechanism responsible for HXR emission of solar flares is the bremsstrahlung emission of accelerated electrons \citep[see, e.g.,][and references therein]{Holman2011}.
Protons and heavier ions accelerated during a flare produce gamma-ray lines and a continuum due to numerous nuclear reactions \citep[see, e.g.,][and references therein]{Vilmer2011}.

Spectral, temporal, and spatial characteristics of HXR and gamma-ray emission in solar flares are very diverse.
The range of flare energies emitted in HXR and gamma-ray ranges extends over many orders of magnitude, from $\sim$10$^{26}$\,erg \citep{Crosby1993} to $\sim$10$^{32}$\,erg for large eruptive flares \citep{Emslie2012}.
Energy spectra of the so-called microflares \citep[see, e.g.,][]{Hannah2008} barely reach ten keV, the majority of solar flares demonstrate emission up to several tens of keV, and in some flares the spectra extend to GeV energies \citep[see, e.g.,][]{Vestrand1999, Share2018}.
The flare durations range from a fraction of a second for short impulsive bursts to hours for gradual flares \citep{Dennis1985, Crosby1993}.

Despite several decades of research, many questions in solar flare physics are still under discussion and require further development of instrumentation and theory \citep{Fletcher2011}.
Among these questions are the particular mechanism (mechanisms) responsible for particle acceleration during reconnection; the cause of energy partitioning between different flare components including cases of 100\,\% efficiency of the electron acceleration \citep{Fleishman2022}; whether the same acceleration mechanism is involved in both short and long-duration HXR bursts, etc.

Due to the opacity of the Earth's atmosphere to X-rays and gamma-rays, the solar observations in these ranges became possible only with the beginning of the exoatmospheric astronomy.
Important results were obtained by low Earth orbit space observatories, among them are \textit{OSO-5} (1969--1983), \textit{OSO-7} (1971-1974), \textit{Hinotori} (1981-1991), \textit{Solar Maximum Mission} (\textit{SMM}, 1980-1989), \textit{Yokhoh} \citep[1991-2001]{Ogawara1991, Acton1992}, Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager \citep[\textit{RHESSI},][2002-2018]{Lin2002}.
Since 1975 space telescopes on board the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) spacecraft series continuously monitor solar soft X-ray emission in two broad energy channels providing the commonly accepted X-ray classification of solar flares (classes A, B, C, M, and X) according to their power.
In 2020 February Solar Orbiter \citep[\textit{SolO},][]{Muller2020} was launched into a heliocentric orbit with the purpose of investigating solar and heliospheric physics using a payload of instruments designed for both remote and in situ sensing.
Among them is the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays \citep[\textit{STIX},][]{Krucker2020} which allows solar imaging in a 4--150\,keV range from an off-ecliptical positions.
Although now there are no solar-dedicated HXR and gamma-ray instruments operating in the near-Earth space, several high-energy detectors provide solar spectra and light curves in these ranges; e.~g.,  \textit{Fermi}-GBM \citep{Meegan2009} and \textit{Fermi}-LAT \citep{Atwood2009, Ajello2021} at low Earth orbit, which have operated since 2008, and {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ \citep{Aptekar1995}, which was launched in 1994 and operates in interplanetary space.
Solar data from these instruments are freely accessible via the SolarSoft package\footnote{\url{https://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/}}, Virtual Solar Observatory\footnote{ \url{https://sdac.virtualsolar.org/cgi/search}}, Interactive Multi-Instrument Database of Solar Flares and Helioportal\footnote{\url{https://sun.njit.edu/About/IMIDSFH.html}}, and other resources.

Here we present {\textit{KW-Sun}} , a database of {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ solar flare observations that cover more than two full solar cycles, from 1994 to nowadays.
The main objectives of {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ are the studies of high-energy transient emission from distant astrophysical sources, such as cosmological gamma-ray bursts and soft gamma-repeater (magnetar) flares.
Although the systematic use of the {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ data for solar physics applications began only recently, it has already yielded important results \citep[see a review by][]{Lysenko2020}.
The {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ database has been developing since 2016, and many improvements in data analysis and presentation have been made over the past few years.

{Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ has a number of advantages for solar flare studies compared to other instruments.
Among them are: high temporal resolution in the triggered mode, which allows one to reconstruct accelerated electron properties and obtain constraints on the acceleration mechanism \citep{Altyntsev2019, Glesener2018};  wide energy range that covers emission from accelerated electrons and a
good fraction of emission from nuclear reactions of accelerated ions \citep[eg.,][and references therein]{Lysenko2019}; and last but not least the instrument location in the interplanetary space that allows observations of the Sun  in stable background conditions during $\gtrsim$90\,\% of the time.

\section{\label{sec_kw}{Konus-\textit{Wind}}}

\begin{figure*}
  \begin{minipage}[b]{0.38\textwidth}
    \center{\includegraphics[scale=0.85]{konus-wind-v2.pdf} \\ (a)}
  \end{minipage}
  \hfill
  \begin{minipage}[b]{0.62\textwidth}
    \center{\includegraphics[scale=1.1]{kw-detector.pdf} \\ (b)}
  \end{minipage}
\caption{\label{fig_konus} {Konus-\textit{Wind}} : (a) the location of Konus detectors S1 and S2 on the spacecraft, ``N'' and ``S'' are the directions to the ecliptic poles and the circular arrow indicates the spin direction of the spacecraft; (b) a scheme of the Konus detector. The green arrow indicates the direction of solar emission.}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{calib_lo.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{calib_hi.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig_calib} Temporal evolutions of {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ low-energy boundaries (left) and high-energy boundaries (right) for detectors S1 and S2.}
\end{figure*}

The {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ spectrometer was launched on board the NASA Wind spacecraft in 1994, November and operates till the present time \citep{Wilson2021}.
\textit{Wind} is a spin stabilized spacecraft with spin axis aligned with ecliptic south and a spin period of $\sim$3 s.\footnote{The deviation of the spacecraft spin axis from the ecliptic north-south axis does not exceed 1$^{\circ}$ and the spin period varies gradually in the interval 3.0-3.2\,s.}
Since 2004, July, the spacecraft has been in orbit around Lagrange point L1 at $\sim$5 light seconds from the Earth.
Operating in the interplanetary space the instrument sees the Sun 24\,hours a day and being far from the Earth radiation belts it has an exceptionally stable background.
The total fraction of time when the {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ data are unavailable or contaminated by a high solar particle background does not exceed 10\,\%.\footnote{Detailed information on the availability of {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ data for a particular time can be obtained from the authors on request.}

{Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ consists of two cylindrical NaI(Tl) detectors S1 and S2 mounted on the opposite sides of the rotationally stabilized spacecraft so that they point to the southern and the northern ecliptical poles, respectively.
Consequently, the solar emission enters the detectors from the lateral side, at an incident angle of $(90 \pm1)^{\circ}$ to the axis, and is registered in both S1 and S2 (Figure~\ref{fig_konus}). Due to \textit{Wind} rotation, {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ suffers from occultations from other instruments and the spacecraft structures that is important for studies of flare time histories on millisecond timescales (see details in Section~\ref{ssec_lc}).

The instrument operates in two modes: waiting and triggered.
In the waiting mode, the count rates in three wide energy bands G1 ($\sim$20--80\,keV), G2 ($\sim$80--300\,keV), G3 ($\sim$300--1200\,keV) are available with time resolution of 2.944\,s
along with the count rate at energies $\gtrsim$10\,MeV (the Z channel).
As the gamma-ray flux at the higher energies is low as compared to the charged particle background, the Z-channel data can be used to monitor flux variations of high-energy electrons and ions.

When the count rate in G2 exceeds a $\sim$9$\sigma$ threshold above the background on one of two fixed timescales, 1\,s or 140\,ms, the instrument switches into the triggered mode.
Thus, rather spiky and spectrally hard (with a significant emission above $\sim$80\,keV) flares are recorded in the triggered mode, while more gradual and soft events are typically registered in the waiting mode only.

In the triggered mode, the count rate curves in G1, G2, and G3 are recorded with high time resolution during an interval of 229\,s.
The time resolution constitutes 2\,ms for the time period from 0.512\,s before the trigger to 0.512\,s after the trigger time, 16\,ms from 0.512 to 33.280\,s after the trigger, 64\,ms from 33.280 to 98.816\,s after the trigger and 256\,ms for the remaining triggered time history.
In the {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ database we merge adjacent 2\,ms bins into 16\,ms bins.
Along with the high resolution triggered mode light curves, the waiting mode record continues until $\sim$250\,s after the trigger time.

Starting from the trigger time, 64 energy spectra are accumulated, over pseudologarithmic energy scales, in two partially overlapping energy ranges PHA1 (63 channels, $\sim$20--1200\,keV) and PHA2 (60 channels, $\sim$0.35--15\,MeV).
For the first four spectra the accumulation time is fixed at 64\,ms and for the last eight spectra at 8.192\,s.
For spectra from 5 to 56, the accumulation time varies between 256\,ms and 8.192\,s according to the count rate in G2: with the intensity increase the accumulation time decreases.
Thus, the spectra may cover a time interval with the total duration varying from 79.104 s for very bright flares to 492 s for less intense events.
After the end of the trigger record, the measurements are stopped for $\sim$1\,hour due to the data readout, and only count rate in G2 is available with the time resolution of 3.68\,s.

As the triggered mode record is limited in time ($\sim$250\,s for the time profiles and $\leq$492\,s for multichannel spectra) the record can stop before the actual end of the flare for long-duration events.

For each flare, the instrument energy scale is calibrated using the 1460\,keV line of $^{40}$K.
Temporal evolution of energy boundaries for S1 and S2 is shown in Figure~\ref{fig_calib}.

The energy resolution (FWHM/E=$\Delta$E/E) of {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ depends on energy and constitute $\sim$20\,\% at 20\,keV and $\sim$5\,\% at 2\,MeV.
The spectral resolution of the detectors did not change significantly during the mission, and the corresponding resolution loss is less than a factor of 1.5 as compared to the ground-based calibrations \citep{Svinkin2016}.

For most flares, a standard {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ dead-time (DT) correction procedure (i.e., a simple non-paralyzable dead-time correction in each of the measurement bands, with a DT of a few microseconds for light curves and $\sim$42\,$\mu$s for multichannel spectra) provides a robust flux estimate. Details of DT corrections for very intense flares are given in Section~\ref{sssec_pileup}.

\section{{\textit{KW-Sun}}\ Database}

\begin{figure*}\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{stat.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig_stat} Annual rate of solar flares registered by {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ in the triggered mode categorized by the \textit{GOES} classes.}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\textwidth]{kwsun-screenshot.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig_screenshot} {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ web interface to the data for a specific flare, which displays the flare light curves in G1, G2, G3 and provides links to the data.
Horizontal dashed lines represent background levels, and vertical dotted lines in the plot indicate time intervals of multichannel spectrum accumulation.}
\end{figure*}

By the time of writing, 2022 June, {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ registered $\sim$13,000 solar flares in the waiting mode, 1065 flares in the triggered mode, and, among them, 93 flares with emission at high, >1\,MeV, energies.
Annual statistics of the triggered solar flares categorized according to their \textit{GOES} classes is presented in Figure~\ref{fig_stat}.

To identify a detected event as a solar flare we check if (i) the net count rates in both Konus detectors are close to each other, and, (ii) there is a corresponding flare in the \textit{GOES} event list\footnote{GOES event list is available via \url{https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/}} or a simultaneous flux increase in the \textit{GOES} soft X-ray sensor data in the 1--8\,\AA\ and 0.5--4.0\,\AA\ bands.
In controversial cases, we analyze spatial information from other telescopes.

As {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ doesn't have an anticoincidence shield to filter out charged particles we use either count rate curve in the Z-channel or data from 3DP instrument \citep{Lin1995} located at \textit{Wind} spacecraft that provides information on the fluxes of  electrons in the 27--517\,keV energy band and protons in the 71--6800\,keV energy band.
The total fraction of the {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ observation time contaminated by solar energetic particles is $\lesssim$8\,\%; data obtained during these intervals are not included to the database.

\begin{deluxetable*}{lllll}
\tablecolumns{5}
\tablewidth{0pc}
\tablecaption{\label{tab_kwsun} Data types presented in KW-Sun repository.
}
\tablehead{\colhead{Data type} & \colhead{Energy range}	& \colhead{Time resolution}	& \colhead{Record} & \colhead{Format} \\
\colhead{} & \colhead{}	& \colhead{}	& \colhead{duration\tablenotemark{a}} & \colhead{}
}
\startdata
Light curves & Three channels G1,G2,G3 & 16, 64, 256\,ms\tablenotemark{b}, & $\sim$250\,s & ASCII, IDL SAV \\
&  $\sim$20--1200\,keV & 2.944\,s\tablenotemark{c} & & \\
Multichannel & First range: 63 channels, & 64\,ms--8.192\,s & $\leq$492\,s & FITS, \textsc{OGIP} standard \\
spectra & 20-1200\,keV & & & PHA Type-II -- spectral files \\
 & Second range: 60 channels, & & & PHA Type-I -- background files\\
 & 350\,keV--15\,MeV & & & RMF, ARF -- response files  \\
\enddata
\tablenotetext{a}{After trigger time.}
\tablenotetext{b}{Triggered mode.}
\tablenotetext{c}{Waiting mode.}
\end{deluxetable*}

Currently, the {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ database contains light curves in the G1, G2, and G3 channels, multichannel spectra and detector response matrices for the flares registered in the triggered mode.
The data are described in the following sections and summarized in Table~\ref{tab_kwsun}.
A detailed data description is also available at the {\textit{KW-Sun}}\  website\footnote{\url{http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/kwsun/kw-info.html}}.
An example of a web interface to the data for a specific flare is given in Figure~\ref{fig_screenshot}.

As \textit{Wind} is located at distances up to $\sim$6 light seconds from Earth, for every flare in addition to the {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ trigger time (UT) we provide the trigger time corrected for the light propagation time from \textit{Wind} to the Earth center (geocenter time) -- in order to compare {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ observations with observations made by Earth-based or Earth-orbiting instruments.
It should be noted that the geocenter times may differ from UT at near-Earth spacecraft or ground-based locations by up to $\sim$20\,ms.

\subsection{\label{ssec_lc}Light Curves}

\begin{figure*}\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{KW20050714_T37984_occ.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{KW20160723_T18600_occ.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig_occ_ex} Occultations in the {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ solar flare time profiles for S1 (left) and S2 (right) detectors.
Gray shaded regions mark time intervals when the Sun was occulted partially or fully by other instruments or the spacecraft (S/C) structures.
These intervals are removed from the {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ light curves.}
\end{figure*}

Light curves in the {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ database are available in two formats: ASCII and IDL SAV named as KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS.txt and KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS.sav respectively, where YYYYMMDD is the flare date and SSSSS is the trigger time in seconds UT.
The data description is available at the top of the ASCII file and in the ``description'' section of the SAV file.

For each flare, the description contains the {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ trigger time ($t\_kw$ variable in the IDL SAV file), the corresponding geocenter time ($t\_earth$ variable in the IDL SAV file) and the calibrated energy boundaries of the G1, G2 and G3 channels ($channels$ variable in the IDL SAV file).

The light curve data are stored in 11 columns in the ASCII file and in four variables in the IDL SAV file: the start and end times of the time bin (columns $t1$ and $t2$ in the ASCII file and $tkw$ variable in the IDL SAV), relative to the trigger time; dead-time corrected count rates in G1, G2 and G3 (columns $G1$, $G2$, $G3$ in the ASCII file and $lc$ variable in the IDL SAV file); the background-subtracted and dead-time corrected count rates (columns $G1bgsub$, $G2bgsub$, $G3bgsub$ in the ASCII file and $lc\_bgsub$ variable in the IDL SAV file); and the count rate uncertanties at 1\,$\sigma$ level (columns $eG1$, $eG2$, $eG3$ in the ASCII file and $lc\_err$ variable in the IDL SAV file).
The time history stored in the database includes several hundred seconds of waiting mode data measured before the trigger time, which, for gradually-rising flares, cover the beginning of the event (see Table~\ref{tab_kwsun}).

{Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ occultations by other instruments and the spacecraft parts appear on millisecond timescales as dips in the light curves with a period of $\sim$3\,s.
Figure~\ref{fig_occ_ex} illustrates occultation influence on flare time profiles.
The total durations of the dips per rotation period constitute $\sim$200\,ms for S2 and $\sim$600\,ms for S1.
The occultation positions are calculated based on the spacecraft spin phase data, and the appropriate time intervals are removed from the light curves to ensure data reliability.

An example plot of {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ time profile in G1, G2 and G3 is shown in Figure~\ref{fig_screenshot} for the M5.5 class flare of 2022-01-20.

\subsection{\label{ssec_spec}Multichannel Energy Spectra}

For each flare, {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ provides multichannel energy spectra in the two energy ranges as PHA Type-II (PHA-II) FITS files, which contain multiple spectrum datasets.
The corresponding background spectra (see below) are available as PHA Type-I (PHA-I) FITS files with a single dataset.
The spectra are complemented with detector response matrices (in RMF format) and an ancillary response file (in ARF format).
All these data conform \textsc{OGIP} specifications\footnote{\url{https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/ofwg/ofwg_intro.html}}.
The detailed description of spectral and response files can be found in Appendix~\ref{app_ogip}.
The response matrices are calculated using the Geant4 toolkit \citep{Agostinelli2003}, for a parallel beam entering the detector at the incident angle of 90$^{\circ}$ to its axis.
The energy channel boundaries of the matrix are adjusted to match the appropriate detector calibration.

Spectra for the first energy range ($\sim$20--1200\,keV) are measured by two redundant analyzers PHA1 and PHA3.
By default {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ contains data from PHA1 (the FITS files are named as KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_1.pha), but in the cases of data gaps in PHA1, we provide the data from PHA3 (files named as KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_3.pha).
Data for the second energy range ($\sim$0.35--15\,MeV) are stored in files named as KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_2.pha (see Table~\ref{tab_kwsun}).
Background spectrum files for the first energy range are named as KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_1\_bg.pha (or KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_3\_bg.pha if PHA3 is used, see above) and for the second energy range as KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_2\_bg.pha.
Response matrices for the first energy range are named KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_1.rmf (KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_3.rmf if PHA3 is used), for the second energy range -- KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS\_2.rmf and an ancillary response file is named as KWYYYYMMDD\_TSSSSS.arf.

An example of the multichannel spectrum in the first (PHA1) and the second (PHA2) energy ranges is plotted in Figure~\ref{fig_ex_spec} for the X9.3 class flare that occurred on 2017-09-06 and described in \cite{Lysenko2019}.

For most solar flares ($\sim$90\,\%) data from the second, hard {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ energy range do not contain useful information on the emission.
However, when data from both first (PHA1 or PHA3) and second (PHA2) ranges are used in the analysis, it is necessary to exclude the spectral channels of the first band in the overlapping range of energies (i.e. ignore channels 42-63 of PHA1 or PHA3) due to two reasons.
First, in this range PHA1 (PHA3) and PHA2 measure the signals produced by the same detected photons (yet the PHA2 low-energy discriminator is set at a 10x higher level), and, second, for a typical steeply falling spectrum a smaller dead time fraction in PHA2 leads to better signal-to-noise ratio of the counts in the overlapping energy range (see Figure~\ref{fig_ex_spec}).

For short-duration solar flares, that end before the accumulation of the multichannel spectra has finished, the background spectra are selected as measured at the end of the trigger record.
For the flares that last longer than the triggered record the background is taken from a nearby triggered event with similar background levels and close calibrations, and appropriate uncertanties are added in quadrature to the Poisson errors of the background counts (see Appendix. ~\ref{app_ogip})

A table containing time intervals covered by multichannel spectra for all flares registered in the triggered mode is available at \url{http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/kwsun/KW_spectrum_times.txt}.

The {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ spectral data are suitable for analysis with standard tools for X-ray and gamma-ray spectral fitting, e.g., \textsc{XSPEC} \citep{Arnaud1996} and \textsc{OSPEX} \citep{Schwartz2002, Tolbert2020}, the latter is the part of the \textsc{SolarSoftWare} package.
We provide a Unix utility \textsc{SumKonusSpectra}\footnote{\url{http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/kwsun/kw-info.html}} that extracts (and merges, if needed) individual {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ spectra from the PHA-II format files, which contain multiple multichannel spectra, to PHA-I format files which contain data on a single spectrum.
We recommend to use this utility when working with \textsc{XSPEC}.
The \textsc{OSPEX} package accepts input in PHA-II and allows searching for flares in the {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ database, downloading {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ spectral data automatically and analyzing them using its common routines.
Both \textsc{XSPEC} and \textsc{OSPEX} load appropriate background and response files automatically when a spectral PHA file is selected for the analysis.

\begin{figure}\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{KW20170906_T42923_counts.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig_ex_spec} Example of background-subtracted multichannel energy spectrum for the X9.3 class solar flare 2017-09-06 in the first energy range (PHA1, black) and the second energy range (PHA2, red). The gray shaded area marks the PHA1/PHA2 ovverlapping range.}
\end{figure}

\subsection{\label{ssec_high_loads}Instrumental effects at high intensities}

\subsubsection{\label{sssec_overflows}Integer overflows in low energy spectral channels}

At high incident photon fluxes, integer overflows in low-energy channels of PHA1 (PHA3) ($\leq$40\,keV) may occur that result in underestimation of the total count number, DT, and flux; and also in the spectrum distortion.
We use a special algorithm for the overflow corrections, but, for some very intense flares, incorrect values in the first channels of  PHA1 (PHA3) can appear anyway.
Thus, in the cases of bad fit residuals in the low-energy channels, it is recommended to exclude these channels from the analysis.

\subsubsection{\label{sssec_pileup}Circuit saturation and pulse pileup effects\footnote{The detailed description of pile-up corrections for {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ data is given in Appendix of \cite{Lysenko2019}.}}

For intense events, the standard {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ dead-time correction procedure (see Section~\ref{sec_kw}) results in flux underestimation due to saturations in the instrument's signal shaper and counter logic circuits.
Such saturations are not negligible in PHA1 (PHA3) at incident photon rates per detector area $n$ exceeding $\sim$2$\times$10$^4$\,photon\,s$^{-1}$, and in the G1, G2, and G3 channel counters at $n\gtrsim 2.5 \times$10$^5$\,photon\,s$^{-1}$.
At considerably higher photon rates, the shape of the spectrum can also be distorted due to the pulse pileup effect.
We studied the influence of the pileup effect using Monte-Carlo modeling and found that it becomes significant for PHA1 (PHA3) at $n\gtrsim 5 \times$10$^4$\,photon\,s$^{-1}$.

For the events of moderate intensity (2$\times$10$^{4}$\,photon\,s$^{-1}$ < $n$ < 5 $\times$10$^4$\,photon\,s$^{-1}$, $\sim$15\,\% of all triggered flares) the flux in PHA1 (PHA3) can be underestimated, but this uncertainty does not exceed $\sim$10\,\%, thus no additional corrections are needed.
For high intensity events ($n$\,>\,5$\times$10$^4$\,photon\,s$^{-1}$, $\sim$8\,\% of all triggered flares) the corrections are applied for both spectral shape and flux.
In practice, the saturation correction to PHA1 (PHA3) count rate can be estimated using dead-time corrected counts in the overlapping PHA1/PHA2 energy range (see Section~\ref{ssec_spec}).
For the cases of additional dead-time corrections applied for high intensity flares two columns with count and exposure uncertanties are added to the PHA files.
These systematic errors are taken into account automatically both in \textsc{XSPEC} and \textsc{OSPEX} (see Appendix~\ref{app_ogip}).
As the pileup correction procedure is time consuming, corrected PHA1 (PHA3) data are available only for a subset of intense flares, while for other flares spectral data for the 1st energy range are not available from the database and the appropriate note is added to the web page of the flare. In the latter case, we encourage the user to contact the {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ team by e-mail for pileup-corrected spectra of the event they are interested in.

\subsubsection{Uncertanties with energy calibration}
One more issue for high-intensity events is the calibration uncertainties resulting from the fact that the lines used in the calibration are faintly distinguishable above the continuum.
Although these uncertainties do not exceed a few per cent, they may be important in the gamma-ray emission line studies.

\section{Summary and Conclusion}
In this paper, we presented {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ -- the online catalog of solar flares registered by {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ experiment in hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray ranges during more than two full solar cycles.
The database contains light curves with high (down to 16\,ms) time resolution and multichannel spectra in the wide energy range ($\sim$20\,keV--15\,MeV) for more than a thousand solar flares detected by the instrument in the triggered mode.

The main area of application of the {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ data for Solar physics is the study of the emission from accelerated electrons and ions.
The high time resolution in the triggered mode allows to examine properties of nonthermal electrons on a subsecond timescales which is crucial for the research of the acceleration mechanisms during magnetic reconnection.
Other advantages of {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ for solar flare stuies are the absence of the Earth occultations and extremely stable background conditions due to its location in the interplanetary space.
The presented homogeneous data set can be used for both statistical and case studies of solar flares.
Now with the beginning of a new solar cycle, this may be especially in demand as there is no solar-dedicated instrument in hard X-ray range near the Earth.

{\textit{KW-Sun}}\ database is a work in progress, data on new flares are added as they become available.
The major ``to do task'' is to extend {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ with numerous solar flares registered in the waiting mode and to provide  response matrices for 3-channel time history data, which will allow spectral fitting of {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ G1, G2, and G3 data with simple spectral models at fine time scales.
Future enhancements of {\textit{KW-Sun}}\ will be available via the database web site at Ioffe\footnote{\url{http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/kwsun/}}.

\acknowledgements
We thank Prof. A. K. Tolbert for her help with incorporating {Konus-\textit{Wind}}\ data in \textsc{OSPEX} package.
G.D.F. was supported in part by NSF grant AGS-2121632 and NASA grant 80NSSC19K0068 to New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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This year, you should approach planning a little differently.
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Each year, planning annual goals comes like clockwork. Like many businesses, my team and I reflect on what went well the year prior, which goals we achieved and followed through on, which milestones we missed and why, and then look for ways to improve in the year to come.
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Austin Kahn
Austin lived an inspirational life. Even after being diagnosed with cancer, he learned to walk again with help from his dad, and made the varsity golf team his freshman year in high school. Today, he continues to inspire others to be better and do more.
Kaleigh Hawrylo
As a newborn, Kaleigh had discoloration between her retinas and was taken to doctor after doctor for answers. She was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma, and the only plan was to remove her eyes.
Sara Willis
Sara was the kind of kid who lit up a room when she walked in. She had the biggest smile and an even bigger heart. Sadly, Sara passed away due to a complication with her treatment during her fight with germinoma.
Lakelynn Markham
Lakelynn was just 3 years old when she was diagnosed with cancer. A rare, inoperable sarcoma was wrapped around the nerves that controlled her arm. Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy were not safe treatment options for Lakelynn.
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