Faye Christine Maki-Witcher, 49, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County jail on suspicion of driving vehicle while license was under restraint, not having compulsory insurance and being a habitual traffic offender.
Matthew Trent Robinson, 29, of Rifle, was booked into Moffat County Jail on a court order.
Sonny Gene Cox, 25, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on a courtesy hold.
Edward William Nicklin, 51, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on a warrant for failing to comply.
Bernard John Malburg III, 52, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on suspicion of first-degree criminal trespass and violating a restraining order.
La Deana Lain Cook, 49, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on suspicion of harassment and domestic violence.
3:20 p.m. Officers responded to the 500 block of West First Street for a report of found property. A bicycle was booked into evidence as found property.
4:44 p.m. Officers responded to the 600 block of Legion Street for an arrest. A female party was arrested for traffic violations.
9:18 p.m. Officers responded to the 000 block of West Victory Way for a report of domestic violence. A female party was arrested for domestic violence.
11:57 p.m. Officers responded to the 400 block of Ranney Street for an arrest on a warrant. One person was taken into custody and booked into Moffat County jail.
2:33 p.m. Officers responded to the 800 block of West First Street for a report of theft.
2:41 p.m. Officers responded to the intersection of West Sixth Street and Taylor streets for a report of property damage. There had been a two-car noninjury crash.
3:41 p.m. Officers responded to the 1100 block of West Sixth Street for a report of fraud. There was a report of fraud over the phone.
4:13 p.m. Officers responded to the 1000 block of West Victory Way for a report of theft. Two parties were issued citations.
12:01 a.m. Deputies responded to the 400 block of Ranney Street for an agency assist.


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From the 30 – to the 40 Primary Political-Economic Regions of the World and Global Europe Concepts & Conceptions
Yuriy O. CHERNETSKIY (Kharkiv and Zhytomyr),
Doctor of Sciences in Sociology, Ph.D. in Economics & Management, Master of Arts in Political Economy, author of 12 books and more than 400 articles – specially for the NEWSSKY.COM.UA Journal
Dear Readers! As you may remember, my research in the field of international political economy continues, develops and extends substantially the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) work.
In one of my 2016 articles devoted to the international political economy, comparative government and economics matters I have proposed the set of global rankings for 160 countries of the world with the 2014 and 2015 population of 0.7 million or more. Powerful correlation between the GDP (PPP) per capita and the Democracy Index has shown that very strong connection exists between democracy and economy development. The second article of my series has been devoted to the new conception and methods of societal governance provision and evaluation. In this context two new international political economy indicators have been introduced (please see below) and global rankings by them for 160 countries of the world are presented. Finally, in the third article these indicators have been used for the 30 "primary political-economic regions" and 8 "secondary (enlarged) regions of the world" achievements evaluation.
The so called Democracy Index (DI) calculated by specialists of the EIU is the basic indicator for my research. The methodology of DI calculation is characterized in the publication "Democracy in an age of anxiety" which can be found on the EIU site in PDF format. This index, on a 0 to 10 scale, is based on the ratings for 60 indicators, grouped into five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. Each category has a rating on a 0 to 10 scale, and the overall Index is their simple average.
Map of the "Old World" (the Ptolemy world map in a 15th-century copy).
I believe that it is useful to calculate the analogue of politics Democracy Index measuring social institution of the economy results, namely: the Economic Performance Index (EPI). I have proposed to count up this index – like the Democracy Index – on a 0 to 10 scale as the simple division result, a country's GNI (PPP) per capita being the numerator. As for the denominator, the country's GNI (PPP) per capita of 100,000 international dollars current theoretical maximum seems adequate. For example, the 2015 GNI (PPP) per capita of Qatar – 138,480 international dollars – and of Macao SAR, China – 102,480 international dollars – are the outcome of absolutely extraordinary circumstances, so their 2015 Economic Performance Index score is 10 exactly.
Finally, I prove that it is useful to introduce the indicator which provides us with combined reflection of all political and economic activities in a society outcome. I have proposed to name it in such a way: the Index of Political Economy Achievements (IPEA). It reflects the international or comparative political economy viewpoint. The index is calculated, also on a 0 to 10 scale, as the simple average of two indicators characterized earlier: the Democracy Index and the Economic Performance Index.
Because of "global economic lag" (please see the third article mentioned) the 160 countries' results reflected by the IPEA – combined in its very nature – are lower than those in the realm of "pure" politics. Under this ranking I have picked up four groups of states with the scores of 5.50–10, 4–5.49, 3–3.99 and below 3 correspondingly. As one can see, per cent shares of all the groups are less than in the Democracy Index case (but not the Economic Performance Index one!):
Societies with the highest level of political economy achievements – 26 (16.3%)
Societies with high level of political economy achievements – 31 (19.4%)
Societies with satisfactory level of political economy achievements – 34 (21.3%)
Societies with low level of political economy achievements – 69 (43.1%)
The distribution between two categories of countries by their IPEA values is such:
Societies with relatively high level of political economy achievements (the scores of 4–10) – 57 (6%)
Societies with relatively low level of political economy achievements (the scores below 4) – 103 (4%)
Columbus Monument, Barcelona. Author of the photo – Tetyana Chernetska (UKRAINE).
To finalize the previous part of my analysis, I have proposed such a vision. The Democracy Index and GDP or GNI (PPP) per capita are generalizing – from the mankind/humanity viewpoint – indicators of the society's development, government's effectiveness & efficiency and individuals' social comfort in the political and economic spheres of life correspondingly. Also in several cases (China, the Muslim World and so on) we see somewhat different attitude to both the indicators, mentioned in previous sentence, or at least to one of them because of the basic values' ideological deviance at the societal level.
Then, I would propose the distribution of 160 countries embraced with my ratings among the eight, to say, enlarged or secondary regions of the world (the regions of Europe and Russia & Post-Soviet Asia have been extracted by me from the World Bank etc. classifications' region of "Europe & Central Asia" for better representation of their specific features):
Europe (including Belarus, Cyprus and Georgia) – 36
North America – 2
Latin America & the Caribbean – 23
Sub-Saharan Africa – 43
North Africa & Middle East (including Iran and Turkey) – 21
South Asia (including Afghanistan) – 7
East Asia & Pacific – 20
Russia & Post-Soviet Asia (including Armenia and Azerbaijan) – 8
REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF 160 COUNTRIES BY THE 2015 IPEA GROUPS
While analyzing regional distribution of 160 countries by the 2015 IPEA groups reflected in Table 1 (please see above), let us emphasize only quite poor state of the Russia & Post-Soviet Asia countries region: they all belong to the group of societies with low level of political economy achievements.
Even the "secondary" or "enlarged" regions I treat as real communities of societies, with strong enough mutual influence of constituting countries, their governments and Peoples in political, economic and spiritual spheres.
History of the New World "Historia antipodum oder newe Welt". Matthäus Merian, 1631.
Because each region of the world is formed as common social space integrated to some degree, I count up regional Democracy and Economic Performance Indexes as weighted arithmetic averages. Their numerator is the sum of products of numbers: each country index value is multiplied by its population and the results are added up. Their denominator is the population of this region.
But in the case of "enlarged" regions their inner stratification differences are very (or even too) substantial. For this reason I use the analyses of situation with the primary political-economic regions of the world as the basic mode of my international political economy research. These primary regions are absolutely self-sufficient global actors of crucial importance. At the same time they function as the structural elements of enlarged regions.
PRIMARY REGIONS OF THE WORLD 2015 RANKING BY THE IPEA
(The ratings embrace 167 countries with the 2015 population of 0.3 million and more for which the Democracy Index was counted up; after the political-economic regions' names their countries are listed in alphabetical order, after the population data, Democracy and Economic Performance Indexes values – places of a region in the population, DI and EPI 2015 global ratings are shown in brackets)
2015 Population (thousands) 2015 Democracy Global Regional Index 2015 Economic Performance Index 2015 Index of Political Economy Achievements
1. Scandinavia (Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Norway; Sweden) 26,484 (34) 9.39 (01) 4.96 (02) 7.18
2. United States (country-region) 321,419 (06) 8.05 (08) 5.75 (01) 6.90
3. Central Europe – western part (Austria; Germany; Switzerland) 98,311 (17) 8.67 (04) 4.96 (02) 6.82
4. Canada (country-region) 35,852 (31) 9.08 (02) 4.40 (04) 6.74
5. Developed Oceania (Australia; New Zealand) 28,377 (32) 9.05 (03) 4.31 (05) 6.68
6. British Isles (Ireland; United Kingdom) 69,779 (24) 8.35 (05) 4.14 (07) 6.25
7. Mainland Western Europe (Belgium; France; Luxembourg; Netherlands) 95,601 (18) 8.10 (06) 4.23 (06) 6.17
8. Developed East Asia (Japan; Republic of Korea; Taiwan, the Province of China) 201,065 (11) 7.96 (09) 3.89 (09) 5.93
9. Southwestern Europe (Italy; Malta; Portugal; Spain) 118,000 (16) 8.09 (07) 3.47 (10) 5.78
10. Developed Eastern Mediterranean states (Cyprus – area controlled by the government of Cyprus; Greece; Israel) 20,052 (35) 7.59 (10) 3.05 (11) 5.32
11. Baltic states (Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania) 6,200 (40) 7.55 (11) 2.59 (13) 5.07
12. Central Europe – eastern part (Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia) 63,819 (26) 7.21 (15) 2.64 (12) 4.93
13. The FYRs – EU member states (Croatia; Slovenia) 6,288 (39) 7.14 (16) 2.46 (14) 4.80
14. South America – southern part (Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay) 71,436 (23) 7.22 (14) 1.94 (17) 4.58
15. Southeastern Europe – EU member states (Bulgaria; Romania) 27,010 (33) 6.80 (19) 2.00 (16) 4.40
16. Southern Africa (Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland) 63,100 (27) 7.40 (13) 1.25 (25) 4.33
17. Brazil (country-region) 207,848 (10) 6.96 (17) 1.51 (22) 4.24
18. Mexico (country-region) 127,017 (15) 6.55 (20) 1.71 (19) 4.13
19. Maritime Southeast Asia (Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore; Timor-Leste) 395,374 (03) 6.92 (18) 1.24 (26) 4.08
20. South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation countries (Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka) 1,522,302 (01) 7.45 (12) 0.58 (35) 4.02
21. South America – northern part (Bolivia; Columbia; Ecuador; Guyana; Peru; Suriname; Venezuela) 138,893 (14) 6.09 (22) 1.31 (24) 3.70
22. Balkan non—EU countries (Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Macedonia, the FYR; Montenegro; Serbia) 16,497 (36) 6.02 (23) 1.23 (27) 3.63
23. Central America (Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama) 45,364 (29) 6.24 (21) 0.87 (33) 3.56
24. Turkey (country-region) 78,666 (21) 5.12 (26) 1.94 (17) 3.53
25. Arabian Peninsula (Bahrain; Kuwait; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Yemen) 79,614 (19) 2.34 (39) 4.06 (08) 3.20
26. Eastern Europe – non-EU countries (Belarus; Georgia, excl. Abkhazia and S. Ossetia; Moldova – Republic of, excl. Transnistria; Ukraine) 61,944 (28) 5.43 (25) 0.92 (32) 3.18
27. Developing Oceania (Fiji; Papua New Guinea) 8,511 (38) 5.99 (24) 0.34 (38) 3.17
28. West Indies (Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Trinidad and Tobago) 36,715 (30) 4.97 (27) 1.20 (28) 3.09
29. Russian Federation (country-region) 144,097 (13) 3.31 (34) 2.38 (15) 2.85
30. Western Africa (Benin; Burkina Faso; Cabo Verde; Côte D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo) 353,222 (05) 4.72 (28) 0.41 (37) 2.57
31. Mainland Southeast Asia (Cambodia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Myanmar; Thailand; Viet Nam) 235,940 (07) 4.13 (31) 0.82 (34) 2.48
32. Eastern Africa (Burundi; Comoros; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Kenya; Madagascar; Malawi; Mauritius; Mozambique; Rwanda; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe) 372,682 (04) 4.59 (29) 0.20 (40) 2.40
33. Developing East Asia (China; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; Hong Kong (China); Mongolia) 1,346,640 (02) 3.27 (35) 1.50 (23) 2.39
34. South Asia – western part (Afghanistan; Pakistan) 221,452 (09) 4.16 (30) 0.48 (36) 2.32
35. Developing Levant (Iraq; Jordan; Lebanon; Palestine; Syrian Arab Republic) 72,793 (22) 3.48 (33) 1.13 (29) 2.31
36. Eastern Transcaucasia (Armenia; Azerbaijan) 12,669 (37) 3.02 (36) 1.52 (21) 2.27
36. Northern Africa (Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Sudan; Tunisia) 223,174 (08) 3.55 (32) 0.98 (31) 2.27
38. Iran (country-region) 79,109 (20) 2.16 (40) 1.70 (20) 1.93
39. Post-Soviet Central Asia (Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan) 68,657 (25) 2.52 (38) 1.08 (30) 1.80
40. Central Africa (Angola; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon) 151,760 (12) 2.90 (37) 0.27 (39) 1.59
Sources of the data for the EPI and IPEA count: publications of the Economist Intelligence Unit (Democracy Index) and World Bank (population & GNI – or GDP – (PPP) per capita).
In the previous article of my series in English I have singled out 30 primary political-economic regions of the world embracing 160 countries. But this division does not provide researchers with statistical results precise enough in many cases of regional groupings of societies, first of all – ones with relatively high level of political economy achievements, and is somewhat "discriminatory" mainly in research attitude to the groups of countries with the highest level of political economy achievements. That is why I begin to use the division onto 40 primary political-economic regions of the world embracing 167 countries (please see Table 2).
Let me remind you: in 2015 the DI has been counted up not only for 160 countries of my basic rankings but also for six democratic "micro-states" with population from 0.3 to 0.6 million – Cabo Verde, Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Suriname – and Chinese statehood has been represented by Hong Kong (not only by China and Taiwan). Under new framework these seven societies become substantially important for their primary regions' aggregate political and economic results, and for this reason they are included directly to my research scheme. Finally, there have been done such changes from the viewpoint of primary global political-economic regions' list and composition:
to the region of Scandinavia (now 5 countries) – Iceland has been added;
the region of "Western Europe" has been divided onto Central Europe – western part (3 countries), British Isles (2 countries) and Mainland Western Europe (4 countries; Luxembourg is added) regions;
the region of "Oceania" has been divided onto Developed Oceania (2 countries) and Developing Oceania (2 countries) regions;
the region of "Southern Europe" has been divided onto Southwestern Europe (4 countries; Malta is added) and Developed Eastern Mediterranean states (3 countries; Israel from the former primary region of Levant and secondary region of North Africa & Middle East is added) regions;
the region of "Eastern Europe – EU member states" has been divided onto Baltic states (3 countries), Central Europe – eastern part (4 countries), The FYRs – EU member states (2 countries) and Southeastern Europe – EU member states (2 countries) regions;
the region of "South America" has been divided onto South America – southern part (4 countries), Brazil (a country-region) and South America – northern part (7 countries; Suriname is added) regions;
the former region of "Central America" has been divided onto Mexico (a country-region) and Central America (6 countries) regions;
to the region of Balcan non-EU countries (now 5 countries) – Montenegro has been added;
the former region of "Levant", including Iraq, has been transformed into Developing Levant (5 countries; Israel is excluded – please see above) region;
to the region of Western Africa (now 16 countries) – Cabo Verde has been added;
and to the region of Developing East Asia (now 4 countries) – Hong Kong has been added.
The renewed set of primary political-economic regions' global ratings will be analyzed in details in my next article of this series. And right now I would introduce the concept of Global Europe, or the European World. It embraces 43 sovereign states, in territorial sense wholly belonging to "physical-geographic" Europe, and also 7 countries of other continents, namely: Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Cyprus and Georgia. In four mentioned countries of the "New World" societies and statehood have developed in a successively or consistently European way for ages. Three states of physical-geographic Asia obviously orient themselves onto resulting European social values of liberty, democracy and humanism. These values remain of crucial importance for societal discourse in all the countries of physical-geographic Europe and define outstanding progressive role of the European World in global social development.
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Политика, Экономика
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Q: tf.decode_raw and tf.reshape using different image size I'am using the following code to generate tfrecords file.
  def generate_tfrecords(data_path, labels, name):
      """Converts a dataset to tfrecords."""
      filename = os.path.join(args.tfrecords_path, name + '.tfrecords')
      writer = tf.python_io.TFRecordWriter(filename)
for index, data in enumerate(data_path):
      with tf.gfile.GFile(data, 'rb') as fid:
        encoded_jpg = fid.read()
        print(len(encoded_jpg))   # 17904
      encoded_jpg_io = io.BytesIO(encoded_jpg)
      image = pil.open(encoded_jpg_io)
      image = np.asarray(image)
      print(image.shape)    # 112*112*3
      example = tf.train.Example(features=tf.train.Features(feature={
        'height': _int64_feature(int(image.shape[0])),
        'width': _int64_feature(int(image.shape[1])),
        'depth': _int64_feature(int(3)),
        'label': _int64_feature(int(labels[index])),
        'image_raw': _bytes_feature(encoded_jpg)}))
      writer.write(example.SerializeToString())
    writer.close()

On the above code, the encoded_jpg have length 17904, and the image have shape 112*112*3 which is not consistent.
When I'am parsing the tfrecords using the following code:
def _parse_function(example_proto):
     features = {'height':  tf.FixedLenFeature((), tf.int64, default_value=0),
           'width': tf.FixedLenFeature((), tf.int64, default_value=0),
           'depth': tf.FixedLenFeature((), tf.int64, default_value=0),
           'label': tf.FixedLenFeature((), tf.int64, default_value=0),
           'image_raw': tf.FixedLenFeature((), tf.string, default_value="")}
     parsed_features = tf.parse_single_example(example_proto, features)
     height = tf.cast(parsed_features["height"], tf.int32)  # 112
     width = tf.cast(parsed_features["width"], tf.int32)    # 112
     depth = tf.cast(parsed_features["depth"], tf.int32)   #3
     label = parsed_features['label']
     img = tf.decode_raw(parsed_features['image_raw'], tf.uint8, little_endian=True)
     img = tf.reshape(img, [height, width, depth])
     return img, label

When I using the above code, I got the following errors:
tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.InvalidArgumentError: Input to reshape is a tensor with 17904 values, but the requested shape has 37632
 [[Node: Reshape = Reshape[T=DT_UINT8, Tshape=DT_INT32](DecodeRaw, Reshape/shape)]]
 [[Node: IteratorGetNext = IteratorGetNext[output_shapes=[[?,?,?,?], [?]], output_types=[DT_UINT8, DT_INT64], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0"](Iterator)]]

How could I solve this problems. The image type is png, and 37632=112*112*3. Thanks!

A: Use decode_jpeg instead of decode_raw

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Mary Magdalene's Angelic Message
Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"—and that he had said these things to her. John 20:18
When an angel speaks to people they had better sit up and take notice. The Greek word for angel basically means messenger, and when God's angel speaks, that angel is giving God's unique, direct message for that moment. With such angelic messages God is telling the listener, This is extremely important; do not doubt it.
When the angel Gabriel spoke to Zechariah telling him of the certainty of the birth of his son John, unfortunately Zechariah did not believe this official message from God. Because he did not believe this angelic message Zechariah was struck with muteness until John's birth.
The Blessed Virgin, however, did not doubt Gabriel's official message that she would miraculously conceive and bear the world's savior, God's Son, the long awaited Messiah. The Holy Spirit comes through every message from God. Luther stated that Jesus was conceived through Mary's ears via this message spoken by Gabriel. Indeed through this Word of God Christ was "conceived by the Holy Spirit".
Saint John's resurrection account presents Mary Magdalene alone at Jesus' tomb, no longer in the assembly of the other women. The angels ask Mary Magdalene, Why are you weeping (v 13)? This divine question, repeated by the Lord Jesus, is lovingly spoken to Mary to prompt her to remember and believe that Jesus had thus predicted His resurrection; there is no reason to weep, for He is risen!
John's account then dramatically relates how Mary became the first human to hear, see and apparently touch the risen Christ! Jesus even calls her by name! (John 20:15-17). Verse 18 continues the account: Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"—and that he had said these things to her. The Greek word translated announced is a word used only here in the New Testament. It is a form of the verb ἀγγέλλω ("angelo"). From this word we can literally translate that Mary "angelled" to the disciples. Clearly the Apostle John employed this "angelic" word to draw stark attention to Mary Magdalene's announcement to the Apostles. John is in effect explaining that Mary Magdalene, the first eyewitness of Jesus' resurrection, speaks an "angel message" to the Apostles, a message from God, a message to be absolutely trusted. Mary Magdalene as a woman could not give testimony in a courtroom, additionally she was of questionable background and reputation. Yet she must be believed, for she has in this moment become God's official messenger, God's angel! She has become the first human to officially share the message, He is risen! Sit up and take notice; believe it, for it is God's authorized angelic message, given to be spoken by the first eyewitness, Mary Magdalene. Isn't it fitting that He who was born in a stable, who came into this world as a lowly man so He could save sinners should have His resurrection message first shared by this humble woman?
After Mary Magdalene "gave the angelic message" to Jesus' disciples, sadly they did not initially believe it: Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it (Mark 16:9-11). By the dynamic angelic message of Jesus' resurrection may we be empowered to believe and to find eternal comfort and hope in this astounding and wondrous Word. He is risen!


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A post-dawn shower was a very brief blip in otherwise clear, sunny skies that were again busy with visible passage: a 50 minute sample count of 450 Meadow Pipits, 380 Goldfinches, 160 Linnets and 90 Swallows through at the Bill was representative of a strong movement that continued for several hours there. Grounded arrivals were still very much the poor relation, with 30 Wheatears and 15 Chiffchaffs making up the bulk of what little there was by way of numbers at the Bill; the ever-present Wryneck, together with singles of Merlin, Turtle Dove and Firecrest provided the only quality there. Portland Harbour came up with an unlikely seawatch highlight in the form of a Sabine's Gull heading though rapidly during the morning; a lone Pomarine Skua was the best on offer at the Bill.
Immigrant moth interest dropped right away on a windy night, with 13 Rush Veneers and a single Silver Y the only captures at the Obs.
Although conditions were far from ideal, with a murky night giving way to drizzly rain for a while after dawn, there were still remarkably few migrants about. Visible passage did get going to an extent, with Swallows, Meadow Pipits and a variety of finches - together with an attendant Merlin - departing in some quantity even in the rain, but numbers on the ground were pitiful for late September; both the Wryneck and Rosy Starling lingered on, as did a Firecrest at the Obs, but Wheatear was the only summer migrant that managed a double figure total at the Bill. At Ferrybridge the Dark-bellied Brent Goose total topped three figures for the first time this autumn but there was little change in wader numbers.
The strength of the wind spoilt overnight mothing, with immigrant numbers at the Obs dropping back to 18 Rush Veneer, 10 Rusty-dot Pearl and singles of Hummingbird Hawk-moth, Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Dark Sword Grass, Pearly Underwing, Delicate, Clancy's Rustic and Silver Y.
A huge improvement in the weather saw mainly sunny skies filled with Meadow Pipits and Swallows on the move but it remained disappointingly quiet on the ground. Both Meadow Pipit and Swallow topped four figure totals per hour at the Bill for a while during the morning, with the likes of Pied Wagtails, Linnets and Goldfinches also beginning to register decent totals overhead where singles of Merlin and Golden Plover added further variety. By contrast, the situation on the ground hardly changed: the Obs Quarry Wryneck and Haylands Rosy Starling attracted plenty of attention but new arrivals were startlingly few and far between and included nothing in any way untoward.
In promisingly warm albeit still breezy conditions overnight mothing was quite rewarding, particularly at the Obs, where 2 Radford's Flame Shoulders were a very unexpected highlight; 56 Rush Veneers, 6 Rusty-dot Pearl, 5 Convolvulus Hawk-moths, 2 Silver Y and singles of Hummingbird Hawk-moth, Pearly Underwing and Delicate made up the rest of the immigrant tally there.
On the mothing front there was a real surprise in the form of the overnight capture of two Radford's Flame Shoulders at the Obs. These were a very welcome sight after our crass mistake in attempting to string one out of a late Flame Shoulder last autumn - we should of course have done much better in that case since, although there are still only 35 or so British records of Radford's, we'd been fortunate enough to catch three in the past! The oddest thing about last night's occurrence is how early they are: the previous Portland records - also all at the Obs - were on 12th November (twice) and 1st December.
Heavily overcast skies and a spell of light rain around dawn looked to have halted passage instead of dropped new arrivals and it was again very quiet everywhere today. The Obs Quarry Wryneck continued to draw in a steady stream of watchers and the Haylands Rosy Starling was reported from time to time but, save for an arrival of several new Dunnocks at the Bill and an increase in Dark-bellied Brent Geese at Ferrybridge, one of yesterday's Firecrests lingering on at the Obs was about as good as it got for other migrants.
Despite the temperature creeping up it was too windy overnight to have expected much reward from the moth-traps and the immigrant totals at the Obs consisted of just 22 Rush Veneer, 10 Rusty-dot Pearl, 2 Silver Y and singles of Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Dark Sword Grass and Pearly Underwing.
Not a very memorable day, with rain spoiling the best part of the morning and seemingly not much in the way of new arrivals in evidence during what dry spells there were. The Wryneck was still about at the Obs Quarry and 2 Firecrests were certainly new arrivals at the Obs, but there was no more than the thinnest scatter of routine migrants anywhere. Lingering waders included the Knot at the Bill and 22 Bar-tailed Godwits and a Grey Plover at Ferrybridge.
The immigrant moth tally wasn't too bad considering the strength of the wind, with 47 Rush Veneer, 9 Rusty-dot Pearl, 5 Diamond-back Moth, 2 Dark Sword Grass and singles of Waste Grass-veneer Pediasia contaminella, Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Delicate, White-speck and Silver Y trapped overnight at the Obs.
Pretty blustery again today with a short-lived spell of heavy rain overnight introducing slightly fresher Atlantic conditions in place of the recent warm southerlies. Both the Wryneck at the Obs Quarry and the Rosy Starling at Haylands continued to entertain, whilst a Melodious (or Icterine - see below) Warbler was a nice find at Sheat Quarry at Southwell. Routine migrants certainly weren't conspicuous in the wind but sheltered spots did hold a scatter of Blackcaps, whilst singles of Merlin and Purple Sandpiper were of note over the Bill. Sea passage was almost non-existent, with 2 Balearic Shearwaters the only birds of note off the Bill.
Although it was far too windy overnight to have expected much in the way of moths there was evidence of a small arrival of new immigrants: totals from the Obs traps included 103 Rush Veneer, 10 Rusty-dot Pearl, 5 Diamond-back Moth and singles of Vagrant Piercer Cydia amplana, Dark Sword Grass and Silver Y; elsewhere, singles of Olive-tree Pearl at Weston and Clancy's Rustic at the Grove were of note.
Since the bird was presumably reasonably well seen by quite a few observers we hesitate to query the ID on the basis of these record shots alone - a lot of the contrasts could easily be camera or light effects - but we seem to be picking up a lot of pro-Icterine Warbler features here.
A something of nothing day, with the fresh southerly a bit too strong for easy birding on the land but with it remaining too clear and sunny for the seawatchers. The Obs Quarry Wryneck remained in situ but the Rosy Starling was more troublesome, with just an early report from Weston some way away from its usual haunts. The pick of the rest of the sightings concerned 4 Balearic Shearwaters, 3 Arctic Skuas and a Great Skua passing through off the Bill. Grounded and visible migrants were none too plentiful, with little more than a thin spread of expected species everywhere.
A pretty perfect calm, sunny day to be out birding and although it was too fine for there to have been decent fall of migrants there was still a decent spread to get amongst. The day's quality again came in the form of the Obs Quarry Wryneck and the Haylands Rosy Starling, both of which remained about. Meadow Pipits filled the sky for a while after dawn, whilst on the ground the likes of 50 Chiffchaffs and 40 Blackcaps made up the bulk of numbers at the Bill where typical mid-autumn fare like Stonechats, Robins and Dunnocks have now become a lot more conspicuous. Waders at Ferrybridge included 21 Bar-tailed Godwits, a Grey Plover and a Sanderling.
A reminder that there's an In Focus field event at the Obs between 10am and 4pm this Saturday, 24th September.
Today was certainly not the sort of day that had been hoped after some seemingly well-timed rain either side of dawn had promised a drop a flurry of grounded migrants; in the event it was the quietest day of the week so far, with even the blue skies that followed the rain being all but devoid of diurnal migrants. All of this said, there were morsels of interest to keep the visitors entertained: Wrynecks remained at the Obs Quarry and Barleycrates Lane, and the Rosy Starling lingered on around the Haylands housing estate; another Yellow-browed Warbler dropped in - this time at Culverwell - and there was yet another report of a brief Ortolan Bunting at the Bill. Commoner migrants were very poorly represented, with 40 Blackcaps and 25 Chiffchaffs making up the bulk of numbers on the ground at the Bill; a late Cuckoo at Southwell was easily the best of the less regulars.
Mothing was as uneventful as the birding, with the immigrant tally at the Obs consisting of just 16 individuals, amongst which a lone Vestal was the only minor oddity.
Although the ringers were reeling in the likes of Meadow Pipits in decent numbers and there were some good pulses of passing hirundines, today was something of a non-event for grounded migrants with fairly limited numbers and variety everywhere. Wrynecks were still on view at the Obs Quarry and Barleycrates Lane, and the Rosy Starling surfaced again on the Haylands housing estate, but their presence perhaps deflected attention form the general dearth of commoner fare, with little else of particular note at the Bill; Chiffchaff and Blackcap were the most conspicuous of the grounded commoner migrants there but even their totals didn't get beyond 40 and 30 apiece.
The immigrant moth situation hasn't been changing much this week, with last night's totals from the Obs traps consisting of 41 Rush Veneer, 25 Rusty-dot Pearl, 10 Silver Y, 5 Diamond-back Moth, 2 Dark Sword Grass and singles of Vestal, Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Pearly Underwing and Scarce Bordered Straw.
Mainly overcast again today but feeling increasingly muggy on the few occasions the sun broke through. The season's first Yellow-browed Warbler had been on the cards for a day or two and duly pitched up in a mist-net at the Obs, whilst the 3 Wrynecks (2 in the Obs Quarry/beach huts area and the other at Barelycrates Lane) lingered on. Migrant-wise, things didn't really get beyond the ticking over level: another 50 Chiffchaffs made up the bulk of the numbers on the ground at the Bill, where less regular fare included singles of Knot, Snipe, Grasshopper Warbler and the first Siskin of the autumn, whilst elsewhere 40 Bar-tailed Godwits and a Curlew Sandpiper were the best on offer at Ferrybridge. Overhead, there were a few pulses of mainly Meadow Pipits and Swallows but it remained too overcast for passage to get going in earnest.
Immigrant moth activity was fairly subdued, with the tally from the Obs traps consisting of 24 Silver Y, 23 Rusty-dot Pearl, 21 Rush Veneer, 4 Pearly Underwing and a single Scarce Bordered Straw.
The heavily overcast and eventually drizzly conditions that were the order of the day looked as though they'd be productive but were perhaps ultimately a little disappointing: many of the weekend's scarcer migrants remained in situ and yet another very brief Ortolan Bunting dropped in near the Higher Light, but visible passage was very subdued under the heavy cloud cover and although variety was again a feature on the ground numbers were nothing special. Wrynecks remained popular attractions, with 1 still at Barleycrates Lane and 2 roaming between the Obs Quarry and the Obs; the Rosy Starling was also still about in the Haylands housing estate. On the ground there was a fair spread of Chiffchaffs, including 60 at the Bill, but little in the way of significant numbers of other migrants save for an increase in Stonechats, including 16 at the Bill; 27 Bar-tailed Godwits and 2 Grey Plovers were the best of the waders at Ferrybridge. The only other news was of a solitary Balearic Shearwater through off the Bill.
Although immigrant moth numbers dropped off a second Boxworm Moth arrived at Weston hot on the heels of the first island record there just last week; singles of Convolvulus Hawk-moth and Scarce Bordered Straw were the best of the overnight catch at the Obs.
Plenty of action overhead today but on the ground it was a day of variety as opposed to numbers. The spread of scarcities included a Quail flushed at Reap Lane during combine harvesting and an Ortolan Bunting heading north over Blacknor, along with the Rosy Starling and at least 3 Wrynecks that remained on station. Swallows and Meadow Pipits were making the most of the clear skies and both got up to around a four figure total at the Bill where most of the other mid-autumn usual suspects were well represented overhead. On the deck Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps put in fair showings, with 60 and 30 respectively at the Bill, but there were few other noteworthy totals amongst the varied selection of also-rans; the autumn's first Merlin (at Ferrybridge) was of note along with the first few Dark-bellied Brent Geese (13 at Ferrybridge and a single off the Bill). The conditions remained less than suitable for seawatching but a cursory look from the Bill did come up with 3 Balearic Shearwaters.
A drop in the strength of the wind saw immigrant moth totals creep back up, with 97 Silver Y, 34 Rush Veneer, 21 Rusty-dot Pearl, 4 Dark Sword Grass, 2 Vestals and singles of Convolvulus Hawk-moth and Scarce Bordered Straw caught overnight in the Obs traps. By day, Clouded Yellows were a little more conspicuous than they have been for a while, with at least 5 at the Bill.
Although the wind had eased away a little it remained largely clear and sunny which allowed plenty of opportunity for passage to continue. A Rosy Starling roaming the Windmills/Haylands area was the best of the new arrivals, whilst the Wryneck tally increased to 2 with a new bird at the Obs Quarry an addition to the lingering individual at Barelycrates Lane; odds and ends of further interest included an unidentified ringtail harrier heading high north over the Bill at midday. Routine migrants were a little less plentiful than yesterday but the selection was certainly varied and included the first Reed Bunting of the autumn over the Bill; among the numbers there were 75 Wheatears, 50 Chiffchaffs and 20 Blackcaps grounded at the Bill, where 16 Grey Wagtails and 15 Tree Pipits passed overhead.
It was far too clear and breezy overnight for yesterday's immigrant moth arrival to be sustained, with totals at the Obs dropping to 54 Silver Y, 8 Rush Veneer, 2 Rusty-dot Pearl and singles of Diamond-back Moth, Olive-tree Pearl, Vestal and Dark Sword Grass.
The profound change in the weather that had been forecast duly arrived overnight, with the quiet, muggy conditions of recent days replaced by a much cooler blast of north-westeries; such changes are rarely a bad thing and the shake-up certainly prompted a flurry of migrant activity even if the strength of the wind made for difficult birding. Wheatears featured strongly everywhere, with well in excess of 150 at the Bill and a minimum of 100 at Barleycrates Lane, whilst Chiffchaffs put in their best showing so far this autumn, including 100 or so logged at the Bill where they outnumbered Willow Warblers by more than 5:1; although there were few other particularly significant totals on the ground most of the expected migrants were represented, including, for example, 15 Whinchats, 10 Spotted Flycatchers and 8 White Wagtails at the Bill and a Turtle Dove at Barleycrates Lane. Rarities weren't a feature but yet another Ortolan Bunting dropped in briefly at the Obs (...has there ever been a year when so many have been recorded and yet, at least thus far, not a single one could be described as pinned down and showing?) and the Hen Harrier and Wryneck lingered on at the Bill and Barleycrates Lane respectively. Visible passage was conspicuous but, mediocre totals of Yellow Wagtails and Grey Wagtails aside, was completely unquantified. Although conditions were not at all suitable for concerted seawatching there were random sightings of singles of Balearic Shearwater and Arctic Skua through off the Bill.
The initial hours of darkness had looked to be very promising for moth-trapping and there was a decent arrival of common immigrants, amongst which Silver Ys were especially numerous including site totals of 263 at the Obs, 135 at the Grove and 55 at Sweethill; back-up totals included 62 Rush Veneer, 44 Rusty-dot Pearl, 11 Diamond-back Moth, 5 Dark Sword Grass, 5 Pearly Underwing, 2 Vestal and a Gem at the Obs.
An extraordinarily hot and humid day for mid-September, with a drop of rain either side of dawn and a waft of a north-easterly proving to be just the recipe for dropping a succession of new arrivals. Early doors, routine fare featured most prominently, with 150 Wheatears, 100 mixed phylloscs (Chiffchaffs now very much to the fore) and the first Goldcrest of the season heading quickly through at the Bill where the usual hirundines, pipits and wagtails were plentiful overhead; amongst the selection of less regulars there 10 Grey Plovers, 5 Grey Herons, 4 White Wagtails, a Green Sandpiper and a Turtle Dove were noteworthy. Typically, the best of the oddities there - a Red-breasted Flycatcher trapped and ringed at the Obs - arrived just as passage was fizzling out. Given the scorching conditions it was no surprise that a selection of raptors featured, with a 'new' Common Buzzard, a Hen Harrier and a Marsh Harrier at the Bill and an Osprey over Weston. As the Bill quietened off the middle of the island got considerably busier: at least 3 Wrynecks showed up/resurfaced between Coombefield Quarry and Barleycrates Lane, whilst migrant totals in the area included at least 30 Spotted Flycatchers and 6 Redstarts. There was too much happening elsewhere for the sea to get much attention but 4 Wigeon and a Pintail were of interest off the Bill.
The overnight moth catch was somewhat depleted in the semi-daylight of a nearly full moon; the immigrant tally at the Obs consisted of 28 Rusty-dot Pearl, 19 Rush Veneer, 9 Silver Y, 3 Vestal, 2 Diamond-back Moth and singles of White-speck and Scarce Bordered Straw.


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Houston teen playing with mother's gun shoots himself in the ankle, police say
By Jay R. Jordan
Published 10:28 am CDT, Thursday, July 4, 2019
Houston police officers investigate after a teenager reportedly shot himself in the ankle while playing with his mother's gun inside a southwest Houston apartment complex Thursday, July 4, 2019.
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A teenager playing with his mother's gun accidentally shot himself in the ankle Thursday morning in southwest Houston.
Paramedics rushed to the Summerfield Apartments in the 7500 block of South Gessner around 10 a.m. where they found the wounded 17-year-old, a Houston police officer on scene said. The teen was rushed to a Houston hospital in stable condition.
The officer said he was playing with the firearm when it discharged. It was not immediately clear how the teenager got the gun.
He is expected to survive.
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Characteristics of Victorian Poetry or Tennyson Age Poetry aka Later 19th Century Poetry
January 12, 2023 April 20, 2021 by Amar
Verses typical of Queen Victoria reign make up the Victorian Poetry. Accordingly, the characteristics of Victorian Poetry borrow socio-economic changes under the reign of Queen Victoria and also the preceding Romantic Age poetry. The literature of this age voices the strong opinions of Mathew Arnold, Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson and likes of notable poets. Victorian Poetry era (1830-1901) succeeded the Romantic era.
The Victorian Poetry showcases the new awareness among the intellectuals and expresses the need of its age. Some characteristics of Victorian Poetry are an extension of Romantic Poetry. However, the contemporary intellectual developments, economic changes and religious revolts made up for a large part of Victorian poetry.
The Main Characteristics of Victorian Poetry
From 'Idealism to Realism' is the prominent differentiator of Victorian Poetry while, other characteristics include: mass concerns, morality, challenging authority, questioning God etc. In all, these features had bearing of industrialization and advancement of science & Tech.
The Realism
The Victorian Poets were quite realistic and had less idealized view of nature in contrast to Romanic Poets who were idealists and believed in Art for the Art Sake. The 'nature' in Victorian poetry lost its idealize position accorded in the Romantic Age. Factually, in the Tennyson age, Nature dwindled to a source of leisure and inspiration for the poets. And, that nature was not paramount as subject for poets. Tennyson himself was less a romantic poet and more a Victorian- a bridge to Romanticism & Victorian.
Conflict Between Religion & Science
The most remarkable characteristics of Victorian poetry is its conflict between religion and science. It was a byproduct of the intellectual developments of this age. The leading poets of this age reacted to this religious skepticism through their works. Robert Browning attempted to criticize religion in his poems like 'Fra Lippo Lippi'. He also questioned the demands of the church that go against human nature.
Similarly, When Tennyson wrote 'In Memoriam' (1850), he raised many questions on life and death. The scientific approach to nature and human became a central theme in Victorian Poetry. Arnold's poem 'Dover Beach' (1867), also addresses the eroding religious faith of the time.
Showing the Responsibility
You would see Victorian poetry as the object of displaying the rural and rustic life. Poets raised voice for indiscrimination against the commoner masses that was done due to industrialization. Victorian poets took a stand of social reform.
Use of Sensory Elements
In the preceding era poets, they used the imagery vividly. However, Victorian poets also used imagery and senses to convey the chaos or struggle between Religion and Science, and ideas about Nature and Romance.
Lord Alfred Tennyson prominently used the sensory and Imagery elements in his poems. One notable example in Tennyson's poem "Mariana", he writes- The doors upon their hinges creaked; / The blue fly sung in the Pane; the mouse / Behind the moldering wainscot shrieked.
These images of the creaking door, the blue fly singing in the window, and the mouse with the moldy wood paneling, all work together show a very definite image of an active, yet lonely farmhouse.
Pessimism- Integral to Victorian Poetry
Victorian poets understood the misery that industrial Revolution had brought about in the society. Thus, Victorian poetry became object and real; in terms of displaying the urban life. The poets wrote on isolation, despair, doubt and general pessimism that surrounded the era.
On the surface, Victorians seemed to enjoy the wealth and prosperity but the feelings of uncertainty, Cynicism and self-doubt very much reflects in the poems of this age. The issue of psychological isolation is common in almost all the great poems of the Victorian Era.
Tennyson's poem, 'Locksley Hall' (1842) is about the restless "young England". Mathew Arnold explored the "strange disease of modern life" and the loneliness of modern-age men in his poem 'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853). In 'The City of Dreadful Night', Arthur Hugh Clough deals with the note of Insomnia and Pessimism.
Interest in Medieval Fables and Legends
You can mark Victorian Poetry with medieval legends and fables. Just as the Pre-Raphaelites attempted to restore the essence of medieval art in their poems, poets like Tennyson, William Morris and Swinburne wrote poetry on Arthurian legends of the Medieval Age.
Tennyson's 'Idylls of King Arthur' (1859-1889) was a series of four books that were centered on King Arthur and the Round Table. In his other works such as 'Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere', 'Sir Galahad', and 'Morte d' Arthur', Tennyson explored the vision of Medieval quests and tales.
Swinburne idealized Medievalism in his works as the golden Age of tragic love and Tragic Heroism. It is noteworthy that Victorian poets went back to Medievalism not as escapists but in order to redirect it to the contemporary developments in politics, literature and art.
Sentimentality
Another one of the most important characteristics of Victorian poetry is sentimentality. The Victorians wrote about artistic creations thus giving way to deeper imaginations. Poets like Alfred Tennyson, Emily Bronte prominently used the element of sentimentality in their poems.
Development of Dramatic Monologue
Though the Victorians used medieval settings, forms and themes, many other forms of poetry also held prominence during the Victorian Era. The dramatic monologue became one of the most popular gifts of Victorian Poetry to English Literature.
Through works such as Alfred Tennyson's "Ulysses' (1842), 'St Simeon Stylites' (1842) and Mathew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' & 'Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse' the monologue seems having gained.
Robert Browning popularized dramatic monologue in most of his works such as 'My Last Duchess', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister', 'Men and Women' and such others. These poems were published in Browning's 'Dramatic Lyrics' in 1842.
Apart from the famous dramatic monologue, the Victorian poets also explored Sonnets, Epics, Elegies and Ballads. In this way, the Victorian poetry is the direct outcome of the Prevailing socio-economic, political and literary activities of the time.
Victorian Poetry in Conclusion
Victorian Poetry is marked by its own distinct features. This poetry evolved during the reign of Queen Victoria and although it assimilated some of the attributes of Romantic Poetry and era but has clear distinctions.. Instead, being idealistic, the Victorian Poets were highly realistic in their poetic approach.
While, the Romantic poets revered the nature in an idealistic and romantic light in their works, the Victorians had influence of scientific and technological discoveries. Essentially, Romantic era (1800- 1837) ) was movement of being intellectual and artistic and hence their literature had emotional and aesthetic value in high proportions.
Era of Victorian poetry is believed to span over 1830- 1901 during which Industrial revolution took place. Hence, the authors & poets of this era took to realistic portrayal of life. Nature was also one of the pillars of Victorian poetry but portrayal of it was realistic and social issues abounded their works.
A Radical Stream Within Victorian Poetry
When we talk about Victorian Poetry, it is about the broader stream of poetry in Victorian era. However, you somewhere ignore mentioning a group of poets in the very same era who were radical in their poetic approach. They advocated art and mysticism of pre-Raphael era (1428- 1848) or pre-renaissance era. And, narrowed their subject down to beauty, nature and art.
The radical Victorian poetry aimed unifying medieval art and poetry and sought promoting pre-Raphael era glory. Verses of this special stream is called as the pre-Raphaelite Poetry. Experts also label this stream of Poetry as Version 2 of the Romantic Poetry as they immensely harped on nature, beauty, emotions albeit with objectivity.
The Victorian Poets wrote on multiple themes and subjects which is why drawing the line between general Victorian Poets from the Pre-Raphaelites Victorians is a must. Precisely, the pre-Raphaelites poets are a subgroup within broader Victorian Age Poets. And, they focused on beauty, art, loveliness and mysticism alone.
Tennyson, Browning and Arnold led the Victorian Poetry whereas, Rossetti (s), Morris and Swinburne led the Pre-Raphaelite poetry as pioneers. Accordingly, the prominent characteristics of the Victorian Poetry are as below.
FAQs on Victorian Poetry Characteristics
Q. What defines Victorian poetry?
Ans- Victorian poetry is self-defining. The poetry written during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) is known as Victorian poetry.
Q. What are three characteristics of Victorian poetry?
Ans- (a) Conflict between Religion and Science, (b) Use of Sensory Elements and (c) Pessimism- are the three characteristics of Victorian Poetry.
Q. Who was the most famous Victorian poet?
Ans- Alfred Tennyson was the most famous Victorian poet.
Q. What are the themes of Victorian poetry?
Ans- (a) Realism (b) Focus on Masses (c) Pessimism (d) Science and Technology (e) Questioning to God (f) Sense of Responsibility (g) Morality (h) Interest in Medieval Myths & Folklore are themes of Victorian poetry.
Q. Who are Victorian poets?
Ans- Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti, A.C. Swinburne etc. are the famous Victorian poets.
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What do you want for christmas rise? hate? suffering? the unhappiness of millions of children?
Anyways, Christmas is going to be great, hopefully BIONICLE will be out then (so I can get the toys) but I really want to spend time with family and friends.
Also, I have decided to be politically incorrect and say "Merry Christmas" to everybody.
Either way, have a quality Kwanzaa!!
Hey, I have nothing against people celebrating Kwanzaa or Hanukkah - I'm just saying I'm not afraid to greet people with "Merry Christmas". If someone came up to me and said "Happy Kwanzaa", I'd be like, "And to you a Merry Christmas!"
I really hope they come early. If not, i'll rely on my Birthday (which is in February) and/or Christmas money.
I've updated my icon for Christmas... But it is not changing!
It's not doing it for me... Oh well. What a bummer.
UPDATE: I see it now!
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I'm also aiming for Tahu: MOF, if he's out by then, as well as a book or two. Maybe a Transformer, if I can find the one I want.
EDIT: Dang, I just realized how geeky that sounded. Ah, well.
I do that too in the summer!
HE DOES WORK AT WALMART.
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Dennis Scott Brumbach
Dennis Scott Brumbach, 63, passed peacefully into the Lord's arms May 3, 2019, after fighting a courageous battle against cancer. Skeet was a graduate of Cedar Cliff High School. He was a highway foreman for the New Cumberland Highway Department in New Cumberland, PA. He enjoyed his home in the woods near Dover, PA. The most important thing to Skeet were his friends and family. He was his best self as a Dad and a Pappy. He enjoyed hunting, camping, canoeing, playing cards, being outside, road trips with his brothers and dad, and visits to local social establishments. Skeet would do anything for anyone, and was always making things, working with his hands, and hanging out in his garage. The garage was also his hiding place from all the women in his life. He also kept a vigilant eye out for speeders and dumpers in the neighborhood aboard his beloved four wheeler. Skeet had a great sense of humor, and was loved by everyone that had the good fortune of knowing him. Skeet was preceded in death by his mother, Jean (Barlet) Brumbach. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and his cherished daughters: Brianna Gill and her husband, Nolan; Kristen Lawson and her husband, Bradley; and Alyssa Feaser and her husband, Joshua. There were no more important little people to Skeet than his grandchildren: Natalie, Caleb, Layla and Jude. He is also survived by his twin brother, Dale, and Dale's fiancee, Annette; his big brother, Mike, and Mike's wife, Joan; his father, the patriarch of the Brumbach clan, Richard Brumbach; many nieces and nephews and all of their families; and all of his friends that were like family to him. A memorial celebration of our life with Skeet will be held at the West Shore Elks, Lodge #2257, 108 N. St. John's Church Road, Camp Hill, PA, on May 18 at 11:30 AM. Please dress comfortably-jeans and camo will make Skeet smile in Heaven. Stone & Murray Funeral Home, New Cumberland is handling arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 42040, Oklahoma City, OK 73123. A special heartfelt thanks is expressed to the physicians and nursing staff for their compassionate care of Dennis at West Shore Hospital, Harrisburg Hospital, and their outpatient services. www.pennlive.com/obits
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Get a glimpse of the role of a Scrum Masters in a SAFe Environment and how SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification signifies that people are prepared to perform the role of Scrum Master in a SAFe environment, increasing their value to teams and organizations that are implementing SAFe.
The objective of this session is to enhance ones career potential with additional skills.
1. When an organization needs SAFe Scrum Master?
2. How does the Scaled Agile Framework work?
3. What are all roles of SAFe Scrum Master?
4. How can one learn more about SAFe?
5. How can one get certified in SAFe Scrum Master?
6. How to implement DevOps in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
During this meetup, also get a glimpse of DevOps.
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In only a week since Nau first announced the company was launching Grant for Change, a program that will become an annual giving event designed to recognize an individual or group bringing positive change to the community, the site has received more than 58 nominations with more coming in daily.
In only a week since Nau first announced the company was launching Grant for Change, a program that will become an annual giving event designed to recognize an individual or group bringing positive change to the community, the site has received more than 58 nominations with more coming in daily -- click here to read the news release announcing the program and to find a link to the nomination form and rules.
Snow told us it took a lot of late evening discussions, meeting room roundtables, and numerous iterations to arrive at the program the company launched July 7. And while she said they were hopeful it would resonate with the Nau community since the brand has always been rooted in creating positive change, no one was really sure. Any doubt was quickly dispelled as the stories started pouring in almost immediately.
To arrive at a winner among the many nominations, Nau will rely on a combination of public votes and official judging. The winner will receive a check during an official October 2009 ceremony. The recognition goes well beyond money and a simple thank you, though. Snow told us that Nau intends to create a space on its website that the winner can use as a soapbox to promote his or her cause to the world.
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Women and Law
Futures Studies
Jackie Nagtegaal
Leading at the Edge: Designing Hybrid Workplaces
We've had a lot to grapple with, and there is no COVID-19 compendium to see us through. Economic uncertainties, operational overhauls and the flurry of survival plans that keep us up at night test us on every front. Our facile slogans of resilience and agility faced by a real crisis. How did we hold up? And where do we go from here?
Every aspect of work-life has fundamentally shifted. As we move into Spring, many offices are resuming 'normal' work, and I am watching this "great return" with curiosity. Many managers and leaders, tired of uncertainty, have opted to find their way back to life before.
During the harsher parts of the lockdown, most companies ventured bravely into remote working for the first time. Workers quickly adjusted to a "new normal" while, perhaps surprisingly, remaining engaged and productive. Remote working has long been touted as the way of the future. So why are we getting back to the office?
Adapting to the lockdown: Fast-tracking our future-forward practices.
I've never seen the "workplace" as necessarily meaning the office space, especially for lawyers. Over the years, I've worked closely with my team to try and foster a performance-orientated culture, based on openness, trust, responsibility and accountability. This discipline allowed us more flexible working hours than most. Although, when I think about our pre-lockdown notion of flexibility, it smells of bureaucracy and mould.
It hasn't been easy, even for a company that prides itself on innovation. The office-paradigm is so engrained in most of us, always wanting to revert to some form of control, stuck in an old equation where employees at desks equal good work.
The disparities of our country also challenge us. It's crucial to remain conscious that our teams come from different backgrounds of varying degrees of privilege or means. These realities include a lack of transport, data limitations, network coverage in certain areas, home-offices; critical and constraining factors when designing suitable hybrid solutions.
The tech privilege is real; not just for teams but for organisations. Those who have made technology core to their operations, measuring strategies against tech capability and agility have fared better. Just as we have had to test our portentous company values of resilience, in reality, our techy-ness was tried hard and fast. As a company, I always thought we were miles ahead. We boast custom case management software built by a talented team of developers; our legal cases are in the cloud; our HR processes are mostly automated through a user-friendly app … But even so, there were cracks, and they showed quickly. Our telephone system needed a complete overhaul, and we needed better ticketing management. POPIA hit simultaneously, and we've had to consider how all this remoteness and all this cloudness would influence compliance?
Reimagining the "office space".
Change often meets resistance, but staff soon established personal work-from-home routines. Internal surveys highlighted that many employees felt more valued and self-motivated as a result of having less traditional management structures in place. As a company, we have collectively become a lot more conscious about how our personal lives integrate with our work-life and have been exploring ways to make remote work practical and comfortable.
As workers in many industries returned to their workplaces, I have tried to steer away from seeing binary solutions; or trying to resist the uncertainty. We are not focussed on regaining the sense of "normality" that we had lost as a result of the lockdown. Instead, we are trying to find a new way of being. Pioneering new territories, while figuring out service constraints, social interaction and the death of certainty. We are engaging and challenging leadership and different departments, even the most taciturn teams, to help mine the solutions as we go.
It's not a one-size-fits-all solution: Embracing hybrid teams.
I recently participated in a panel discussion facilitated by the International Legal Technology Association, where we talked about the challenge of leading hybrid teams. The conversations got me thinking about edge cases and "average" employees, based on a book I read a while ago. Todd Rose, who previously headed up the Mind, Brain and Education programme at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, denounced the concept of applying the law of averages to people. In his book, The End of Average, Rose cites Lt. Gilbert S. Daniels, an American air force researcher in the 1950s, who was tasked with redesigning the cockpits for the US Air Force. The reason? Well, a decade earlier multiple pilots struggled to control their planes, which resulted in many crashes that were initially written off as "pilot errors". Of course, further investigation revealed that the plane's cockpit proved to be the problem and that it didn't cater to all the body types of the pilots. So, Daniels then decided that the solution would be to build a cockpit based on the average dimension of roughly 4000 pilots. Unfortunately, this was an unsuccessful endeavour, and instead of accommodating all pilots, it had fit none of them. The idea of an average being a logical solution for many was debunked. Ultimately, the air force found that designing for the extremities of the pilots (for both the biggest and smallest person) was the best solution. They were designing for the edge.
When it comes to getting the most out of teams, leaders should embrace the extremes of how employees like to work. Whether from home, in an office or both! When we apply the "new" and "next" outlook, it should also apply to workforce demographics. In the not too distant future, the global workforce will be made up of millennials, with Gen-Z following closely. Not only do both of these generations value workplace "perks", like flexible hours and remote working, they're also very accustomed to having technology integrated into their lives. If you had to map their wants on a spectrum; how do you create a solution that answers to those on edges of the range?
Leading hybrid teams after the COVID-19 pandemic
Adopting and leading hybrid teams is an exciting and rewarding challenge for leaders. Of course, when it comes implementing or refining any new process, it must come from a solid foundation and with clear guidelines. It is crucial to discourage any disconnect that will likely occur if a "them" and "us" mentality is fostered. Teams, while physically separate, need to be united with common goals. It's also necessary for managers to have the same quality standards for all team members, whether they work in-office or remotely.
Similarly, if the standards are equal, the rewards and perks must be fair, too. When you run a hybrid team, you can't subject the in-office team to lunch hours and tea-breaks, while the home-team remain in PJs. Both teams need to adult; focussing on performance, while retaining the freedom of movement and mind.
We are rethinking our office space to be an inviting space focussed more on social interaction, with activations that lure groups in to connect. Some ideas put forward include motivational mornings, community meet-ups (like book clubs) and fun moot courts. Bearing in mind how we can intermittently connect in a way that isn't just a hit-and-run meeting, how the office can become a reprieve from the home. And ultimately, how we can foster a more fluid approach to learning and mentoring.
An exercise in resilience: the positive disruption we needed.
The uncertainty and fear that came with lockdown have been difficult. The more we try to manage or fight the tension, the more challenging it feels. We need to see this as a new wave that we are learning to surf. Take the opportunity to rearrange your ideas. Are they genuinely agile this time around? And for those of us who are tasked with leading and inspiring teams, let us not waste the valuable lessons we learnt. As we build on that foundation and redesign what life looks like in flux, let's throw "averages" out of the window too and lead at the edge.
Tech we live by: (Some of the tools that make it all work for us)
Microsoft Teams in Microsoft 365 for meetings and connecting
Yammer for communities (one of various handy tools in the MS 360 bouquet)
Lawyerly, our own legal case manager
BambooHR to manage all things people
Bonusly for micro-recognition
Freshdesk to keep sane with incoming client contacts
Freshchat to talk to our clients on all platforms
Telviva to host our telephones in the cloud, allowing staff to answer wherever they are
Teachably, to train our teams formally
Microsoft Power BI to keep track of the above and to monitor it all.
What is futures studies?
Think like a Futurist
©2020 Jackie Nagtegaal | Cape Town | South Africa


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Q: Python Pandas - MongoDB cursor returning different normalized schema each iteration Querying MongoDB in batches, normalizing it in pandas and appending to a csv to avoid memory issues.
MongoDB document is stored in such a way that find returns different schema based on the date filter.
The cursor append has issues because of the different schema returned in each iteration.
Figured identifying all the columns, normalizing it and then appending will work but having issues making it work.
import pandas as pd
import pymongo

def batched(cursor, batch_size):
     batch=[]
     for doc in cursor:
             batch.append(doc)
             if batch and not len(batch) % batch_size:
                     yield batch
                     batch=[]
     if batch:
             yield batch

client = pymongo.MongoClient('mongodb://Test:27017/')

Maxdate = 1629264250

cursor = client.test.collection.find({'stop': {'$gt': Maxdate }})

df = pd.DataFrame()
for batch in batched(cursor,25000):
    df.to_csv('C:\Test\Test.csv', index=False, mode = 'a', header=(not os.path.exists('C:\Test\Test.csv')))


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Q: Subject subscribe, wait until function execution finished I have a question to observables. My case is, I have a subscription to subject and I would like to run a function in successful observable response. Once my function (foo) is finished (this function had to finished to continue logic in successful response), I would like to pass .next() method to my another subject. My problem is, I can't figure out, how can I wait until my function foo is finished and returned value. If I invoke setTimeout to my .next() method on my another subject, everything is working correctly. I simply would like to avoid setTimeout.
Schema of my code is:
this.customService.customSubject$.subscribe((response) => {
  this.someValueNeededInFoo = response;
  this.foo(); //I need to wait for this function to be executed until I move on
  this.customService2.anotherSubject$.next(true); //That will be great if I can wait for this as well
  this.customService2.thirdSubject$.next(response); //This should invoke last
});

foo() {
 //do some logic stuff
 return value;
}

If I use my code in subscribe like this:
this.customService.customSubject$.subscribe((response) => {
      this.someValueNeededInFoo = response;
      this.foo(); //I need to wait for this function to be executed until I move on

      setTimeout(() => {
      this.customService2.anotherSubject$.next(true); //That will be great if I can wait for this as well
      this.customService2.thirdSubject$.next(response); //This should invoke last
      }, 1000);

    });

then everything is working fine. I would like to avoid setTimeout, because in my case it's not really reliable. Can anyone guide me, what can I do here, to make a chain of those function calls?
Thanks!

A: Your issue is not so much with observables, but the fact that this.foo() is an asynchronous method, which means it returns a promise.
You can simply place your logic in the .then() block after your call to foo(). This ensure it is executed after foo is done:
this.customService.customSubject$.subscribe(response => {
  this.someValueNeededInFoo = response;
  this.foo().then(valFromFoo => {
     this.customService2.anotherSubject$.next(true);
     this.customService2.thirdSubject$.next(response);
  })
});

You can optionally use the async/await syntax instead of using .then().  The following code is equivalent to the example above:
this.customService.customSubject$.subscribe(async response => {
  this.someValueNeededInFoo = response;
  await this.foo();
  this.customService2.anotherSubject$.next(true);
  this.customService2.thirdSubject$.next(response);
  })
});

I'd like to mention that creating a bunch of subjects to emit values from others streams usually isn't necessary. You are typically able to define your streams off of one another.
Instead of doing something like this:
docIdSubject$ = new Subject<string>();
documentSubject$ = new Subject<Document>();

this.someService.id$.subscribe(
  id => this.docIdSubject$.next(id)
);

this.docIdSubject$.subcribe(
  docId => {
    this.docService.getDocument(docId).subscribe(
      document => this.documentSubject$.next(document)
    );
  );
);

You can define your observables off of the source observable with no need for subjects at all.
docId$ = this.someService.id$;
document$ = this.docId$.pipe(
   switchMap(id => docService.getDocument(id))
);

You can use pipeable operators to transform your stream however you'd like.  Notice there are no inner subscriptions.  I've found that it's much cleaner to put all the data transformation logic declaratively in the stream definition (inside .pipe()), leaving very little work to do in the actual subscription.
Notice now, you can just do document$.subscribe().


Urine Calcium and Magnesium in Adults: Recommended Test for Nutritional Adequacy — The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc.
Calcium is one of the most tightly regulated substances in the body. In addition to the role of calcium as a structural element in bones and teeth (99% of the body's calcium is in the bones), calcium is critically needed for nerve function. When calcium in the plasma drops about 30%, the person may develop tetany, a condition that is often fatal due to overstimulation of the nerves in both the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system, leading to tetanic contraction of the skeletal muscles. The concentration of calcium in the plasma is one of the most constant laboratory values ever measured. In the great majority of normal people, calcium only varies from 9-11 mg per dL, regardless of the diet (1). The reason is a complex hormonal system that utilizes the bones as a source of calcium. This regulatory system employs the parathyroid gland that secretes parathyroid hormone or parathormone to digest the bones and release calcium when there is only a small decrease in the plasma calcium. Parathormone also increases the absorption of calcium from the gastrointestinal tract and the kidney tubules. When calcium rises in the plasma, parathormone secretion decreases, depositing more calcium in the bones while renal and gastrointestinal absorption are decreased. Calcitonin, a polypeptide hormone produced by the thyroid gland, opposes the effects of parathyroid hormone. In addition, vitamin D increases the absorption of calcium from the gastrointestinal tracts and the kidney tubules like parathyroid hormone but has little effect on digesting bones to release calcium. One of the most controversial and misunderstood topics is what is the optimum nutritional intake of calcium and vitamin D. In the center of the controversy is the role of calcium in the initiation of plaque in the arteries, leading to atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
An average adult ingests about 750 mg per day of calcium and secretes about 625 mg of calcium in the intestinal juices. If all the ingested calcium is absorbed, there would be a net absorption of 125 mg per day of calcium. Since the average person excretes about 125 mg calcium per day in the urine, the average person has a zero net calcium balance except when bone is being deposited. If bone is being deposited due to the stress of exercise or following a fracture, the regulation of the amount of urinary calcium excretion is the major factor to allow for bone growth. One of the major factors that prevents calcium absorption is the presence of high amounts of oxalates in the diet. The human body has the ability to make some oxalate endogenously, perhaps about 40 mg per day in individuals with a favorable genetic makeup. A low oxalate diet contains less than 50 mg per day of oxalates while a high oxalate diet with two cups or more of spinach, nuts, and berries in a smoothie or salad per day could easily contain 1500 mg per day of oxalates. Such high amounts of oxalates readily use up the 125 mg of available calcium, forming insoluble calcium oxalate salts which can deposit in every organ of the body. These deposits can easily initiate endothelial damage that can lead to strokes and myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) and such oxalate deposits have been detected in atherosclerotic lesions. The person on a high oxalate diet will have a much greater need for calcium and/or magnesium than the person on a low oxalate diet.
Since urine is the major controlling element for maintaining calcium balance that is under tight hormonal control, it appears to me that urine calcium is the best indicator of adequate dietary calcium. The most common reasons for low urine calcium are inadequate dietary calcium and/or a high oxalate diet. Other reasons for calcium deficiency include hypoparathyroidism, pseudohypoparathyroidism, vitamin D deficiency, nephrosis, nephritis, bone cancer, hypothyroidism, celiac disease, and malabsorption disorders.
The most common reason for high urine calcium is a diet high in calcium. Other reasons for calcium excess are vitamin D intoxication, hyperparathyroidism, osteolytic bone metastases, myeloma, excessive immobilization, Cushing's syndrome, acromegaly, distal renal tubular acidosis, thyrotoxicosis, Paget's disease, Fanconi's syndrome, schistosomiasis, breast and bladder cancers, and sarcoidosis.
Magnesium is an essential element like calcium and is also in the bones (66% of the body's magnesium is in the bones). It is a cofactor with many enzymatic reactions especially those requiring vitamin B6. Like extremely low calcium, extremely low magnesium can also cause tetany of the muscles.
The most common reason for low urine magnesium is low magnesium in the diet. Low magnesium in the diet may increase the incidence of oxalate crystal formation in the tissues and kidney stones. Less common causes of low magnesium include celiac disease, other malabsorption disorders, dysbiosis, vitamin D deficiency, pancreatic insufficiency, and hypothyroidism. Early signs of magnesium deficiency include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, migraine headaches, fatigue, and weakness. As magnesium deficiency worsens, numbness, tingling, muscle contractions and cramps, seizures, personality changes, anxiety, depression, attention deficit, abnormal heart rhythms, and coronary spasms can occur. Low urinary magnesium for long time periods is associated with increased risk of ischemic heart disease.
The most common reason for high urine magnesium is high magnesium in the diet. Less common causes of high urine magnesium include alcoholism, diuretic use, primary aldosteronism, hyperthyroidism, vitamin D excess, gentamicin toxicity, and cis-platinum toxicity. Increased urinary magnesium excretion can occur in people with insulin resistance and/or type 2 diabetes. Symptoms of marked magnesium excess can include diarrhea, hypotension, nausea, vomiting, facial flushing, retention of urine, ileus, depression, lethargy before progressing to muscle weakness, difficulty breathing, extreme hypotension, irregular heartbeat, and cardiac arrest.
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Q: Error in as(x, class(k)) : no method or default for coercing "NULL" to "data.frame" I am currently facing an error mentioned below which is related to NULL values being coerced to a data frame. The data set does contain nulls, however I have tried both is.na() and is.null() functions to replace the null values with something else. The data is stored on hdfs and is stored in a pig.hive format. I have also attached the code below. The code works fine if I remove v[,25] from the key.
Code:
AM = c("AN");
UK = c("PP");
sample.map <- function(k,v){
 key <- data.frame(acc = v[!which(is.na(v[,1],1],
                   year = substr(v[!which(is.na(v[,1]),2],1,4),
                   month = substr(v[!which(is.na(v[,1]),2],5,6))
 value <- data.frame(v[,3],count=1)
 keyval(key,value)
}

sample.reduce <- function(key,v){
  AT <- sum(v[which(v[,1] %in% AM=="TRUE"),2])
  UnknownT <- sum(v[which(v[,1] %in% UK=="TRUE"),2])
  Total <- AT + UnknownT
  d <- data.frame(AT,UnknownT,Total)
  keyval(key,d)
 }
 out <- mapreduce(input ="/user/hduser/input",
             output = "/user/hduser/output",
             input.format = make.input.format("pig.hive", sep = "\u0001")
             output.format = make.output.format("csv", sep = ","),
             map= sample.map)
             reduce = sample.reduce)

Error:
Warning in asMethod(object) : NAs introduced by coercion
Warning in split.default(1:rmr.length(y), unique(ind), drop = TRUE) :   data length is not a multiple of split variable
Warning in rmr.split(x, x, FALSE, keep.rownames = FALSE) :   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length Warning in        split.default(1:rmr.length(y), unique(ind), drop = TRUE) :
data length is not a multiple of split variable
Warning in rmr.split(v, ind, lossy = lossy, keep.rownames = TRUE) :   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
Error in as(x, class(k)) :
no method or default for coercing "NULL" to "data.frame"
Calls: <Anonymous> ... apply.reduce -> c.keyval -> reduce.keyval -> lapply -> FUN -> as No traceback available

UPDATE
I have added the sample data and edited the code above. Hope this helps!
Sample Data:
NULL,"2014-03-14","PP"
345689202,"2014-03-14","AN"
234539390,"2014-03-14","PP"
123125444,"2014-03-14","AN"
NULL,"2014-03-14","AN"
901828393,"2014-03-14","AN"

A: There are some issues with as which have been identified recently. I don't see why as can't handle this by default, but you can modify coerce which handles the conversion with an S4 method to call as.data.frame.
setMethod("coerce",c("NULL","data.frame"), function(from, to, strict=TRUE) as.data.frame(from))
[1] "coerce"
as(NULL,"data.frame")
data frame with 0 columns and 0 rows