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Q: How to uncompress a parquet file? I am having a test.parquet file whose size is around 60MB. Using the below script, I found that the column compression is GZIP for the parquet file.
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
parquet_file = pq.ParquetFile("C://Users/path/test.parquet")
print(parquet_file.metadata.row_group(0).column(0))

OUTPUT
<pyarrow._parquet.ColumnChunkMetaData object at 0x0000017E6AC9FBD8>
  file_offset: 4
  file_path:
  physical_type: BYTE_ARRAY
  num_values: 173664
  path_in_schema: event-id
  is_stats_set: True
  statistics:
    <pyarrow._parquet.Statistics object at 0x0000017E6AC9FE08>
      has_min_max: True
      min: 00004759-abeb-40fc-a9c6-1c79ab7c6726
      max: ffffe406-0a2f-42d9-a882-784e3527102d
      null_count: 0
      distinct_count: 0
      num_values: 173664
      physical_type: BYTE_ARRAY
      logical_type: String
      converted_type (legacy): UTF8
  compression: GZIP
  encodings: ('PLAIN', 'BIT_PACKED')
  has_dictionary_page: False
  dictionary_page_offset: None
  data_page_offset: 4
  total_compressed_size: 3796510
  total_uncompressed_size: 6947287

I want to uncompress this parquet file before processing. Using python how can I uncompress this parquet file which has GZIP compression?

A: Compression can vary by column in parquet, so you can't be sure it's all compressed as gzip, just this column. In general, the pyarrow parquet reader will handle decompression for you transparently; you can just do
pq.read_table('example.parquet')

or (for a pandas dataframe)
pq.read_table('example.parquet').to_pandas()

The lower-level pq.ParquetFile file interface is useful if you want to stream data in to avoid reading it all into memory, but in that case you wouldn't be decompressing the whole file before proceeding.

A: You can use pyspark to achieve this.
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("ParquetReaderTesting").getOrCreate()

df = spark.read.parquet("data/")  # Reads all parquet files in that directory and Spark takes care of uncompress
# the data
# df = spark.read.parquet("data/<Specific parquet file>")
df.show()
df.printSchema()

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"How We Do" is a song by American rapper and West Coast hip hop artist the Game, featuring rapper 50 Cent from his debut album, The Documentary. Produced by Dr. Dre, Mike Elizondo, it was released as the album's second official single in late 2004.

"How We Do" achieved commercial success worldwide. The track peaked within the top 10 in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand. The single was commercially successful in the United States, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remaining on the chart for 28 consecutive weeks. "How We Do" marked Game's first top-ten single on the chart as a lead artist and also marked 50 Cent's fifth overall top-ten single.

Commercial success
The song was a hit at Urban and Rhythmic radio stations in America, and was a success on American mainstream pop music radio stations. In the U.S., the song debuted at number 65 and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 2005, making it the Game's first top-five hit. The song was also certified Gold by the RIAA.

The song fell down the charts relatively quickly for a top-ten hit. This was likely due to an overabundance of Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit-related singles all competing for airtime during this time period, as Eminem and G-Unit members 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, and Game all had songs on the chart during the months of late 2004 and early 2005. However, despite its fast fall out of the top twenty, the song managed to hang on in the lower rungs of the top 40 for months, in spite of, or possibly because of, the Game's follow up, "Hate It or Love It" becoming even bigger on pop radio only a few weeks after "How We Do" had peaked. Dr. Dre had produced "How We Do" during his time in G-Unit.

Music video
The music video was directed by Hype Williams; it features cameos by Dr. Dre, Olivia, Michael K. Williams as well as DJ Quik. It showcases night shots of Los Angeles; as well as a Dodge Magnum, driven by the Game, and a Cadillac Escalade, driven by 50 Cent; as it finally cuts to a nightclub.  DJ Quik can be briefly seen towards the end, raising a glass of champagne.

Single track listing

A-side
"How We Do (edited)" (4:03)

B-side
"How We Do (edited)" (4:03)
"How We Do (explicit)" (4:20)
"How We Do (instrumental)" (4:04)
"How We Do (a cappella)" (3:01)

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

2004 singles
The Game (rapper) songs
50 Cent songs
Song recordings produced by Dr. Dre
Songs written by 50 Cent
Music videos directed by Hype Williams
Songs written by Dr. Dre
Aftermath Entertainment singles
Gangsta rap songs
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HomeThe MarketFive George Barris customs on Barrett-Jackson block
Five George Barris customs on Barrett-Jackson block
By Bob Golfen
The 1966 Dodge SuperVan is outfitted as a mini discotheque | Barrett-Jackson photos
George Barris, the legendary King of Kustomizers, left us late last year at the age of 89, but the many unique custom cars that he and his crew created over the decades remain as testimony to his innovative and often quirky imagination.
Five cars with the George Barris touch will be up for sale at Barrett-Jackson's Scottsdale auction January 23-31, including a fanciful custom Dodge van and a mink-lined 1970 Corvette built for actress Farrah Fawcett.
The 1964 Turbosonic drag car is jet-propelled
Barris was no stranger to Barrett-Jackson, making a triumphant return to the public eye in 2013 when the original Batmobile he created for the '60s TV show crossed the Scottsdale block to thunderous applause and an astounding $4.6 million sale price.
Farrah Fawcett's Corvette is festooned with mink
Barrett-Jackson has sold several other Barris creations, including a pair of candy-colored his-and-her 1966 Ford Mustang convertibles designed for singers Sonny and Cher Bono, and the distressed-looking antique pickup truck built for " show.
The Barris customs to be auctioned during the Scottsdale sale are:
The 1951 Lincoln Lido with pinstriping by Von Dutch
1966 Dodge Tradesman "SuperVan" (Lot 1306) – The stylized custom van originally designed by Barris as "The Love Machine" was reborn to appear in the movie SuperVan with its interior transformed into a mini-disco. The unique van appeared in several other films and TV shows, including an appearance as a futuristic transit bus in Back to the Future II.
Wide whites add flare to the custom Lincoln 'Bugazzi'
1964 Turbosonic Custom Dragster (Lot 1307) – Looking more like a jet plane than an automobile, Barris's three-wheeled fiberglass race car, built in conjunction with Dick Dean, is powered by a Turbonique Drag Axle mini-turbine "rocket" engine.
1970 Chevrolet Corvette (Lot 493) – Barris built this 'Vette for the beautiful Farrah Fawcett during the height of her TV fame, opting to trim the interior with actual mink fur. This Barris custom is something of a "barn find," coming to auction in as-found condition after decades in storage near Fawcett's home town in south Texas. According to the Barrett-Jackson catalog, the car has been brought back to running condition.
1951 Lincoln Lido (Lot 978.1)– The luxury coupe was mildly customized by Barris' shop back in the day with pinstriping applied by the famous Von Dutch. In various shades of green outside and inside, the coupe's dashboard bears a George Barris signature.
1973 Lincoln ContinentaL Mark IV "Bugazzi" (Lot 978.1)– Barris put his unusual custom touches throughout this Continental, one of five that he specially designed. The entire front end was custom built and, most notably, real marble was used as interior trim on the door panels, dashboard and steering wheel.
For more information about the Barrett-Jackson sale, see the auction website.
Bob Golfen
Bob Golfen is a longtime automotive writer and editor, focusing on new vehicles, collector cars, car culture and the automotive lifestyle. He is the former automotive writer and editor for The Arizona Republic and SPEED.com, the website for the SPEED motorsports channel. He has written free-lance articles for a number of publications, including Autoweek, The New York Times and Barrett-Jackson auction catalogs. A collector car enthusiast with a wide range of knowledge about the old cars that we all love and desire, Bob enjoys tinkering with archaic machinery. His current obsession is a 1962 Porsche 356 Super coupe.
Kevin January 22, 2016 At 6:57 PM
Not a fan of the fur, or most of his styling cues, very dated.
Clayton January 22, 2016 At 10:54 PM
OK I like the 1951 Lincoln. Reminds me of a 1951 Ford I had when I was around 15 years old..
Buster January 23, 2016 At 11:11 AM
Think of all the disco granny's you could pick up with the supervan.
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Each week, we bring you a Q&A with a Ravens player to help you learn a little more about the team. Today's guest is kick returner David Reed, the rookie who recorded the longest kick return in team history with his 103-yard return against the Houston Texans on Dec. 13 but suffered a concussion in Sunday's win against the New Orleans Saints. Reed, who declined to comment about the pending investigation of "possible narcotics," at his home, discussed the injury, the record-setting return and his developing role in the offense.
Question: It was announced at halftime of Sunday's game that you had suffered a concussion and would not return. How did it occur?
Answer: It happened on a kickoff [in the first quarter]. They came down and the wedge came up on me, and I caught my head up with the dude.
Q: What symptoms are you dealing with and will they prevent you from playing Sunday against the Cleveland Browns?
A: I've got a headache, I've got nausea, all that. I've got dizziness, no balance. … [But] I'm going to go out. I've got to play.
Q: How would you describe your transition to the Ravens?
A: I'd say it was about what I expected. I knew it was going to be tough, I knew things were going to be magnified like routes and details to everything, but it was a little tougher than I thought. I thought I'd come around a little sooner than I did. Maybe it's because I've got the vets in front of me and stuff like that.
Q: What was the most difficult part and the easiest part about the transition?
A: The easiest part was learning how to be a pro and just taking care of your body. It's easy because I've got guys like [wide receivers] Anquan [Boldin] and Mase [ Derrick Mason] and just watching them every day, that made it real easy for me. But the hardest part was the details and learning the offense and the protections.
Q: Was it difficult to go from being a starter at the University of Utah to being a reserve in the NFL?
A: I kind of like it. I would like to just jump right into it and just play, but I feel like I get a chance to learn and really grow a little bit before I get to go out on the field on offense. So I kind of like it, but at the same time, I would like to just jump into it and learn quick and fast and learn as I go.
Q: Have you been surprised at the team's decision to slowly incorporate into the offensive game plan?
A: I definitely would love to develop faster and be a part of the offense. But with my role on special teams, I like my role. On offense, we've got amazing receivers. So I've just got to wait my turn.
Q: You were a fifth-round draft pick in April. Did you think that assured you a spot on the roster in the preseason?
A: I didn't know because we had Demetrius Williams, and I thought he was an awesome receiver. Even back to the OTAs, there were some great receivers on this squad, and I just knew that I had a real battle. I thought those guys were just as good as me. So I just stuck with it, and I'm here.
Q: What are your thoughts on registering the longest kick return in franchise history?
A: That's amazing. That's a blessing right there. I can only thank the man upstairs for that and of course my teammates and my buddy right here. [Turns and slaps cornerback Cary Williams on the right knee.] We've got some great guys and they blocked for me. I couldn't have done it without them.
Q: What do you remember seeing when you caught the kick and began running upfield?
A: It was a bounce return. So I caught it, and I saw a little lane and I hit it. Guys came out of nowhere and they kind of got on top of each other and got off of me. I got a little push from him [Williams] and then I hit it.
Q: How surprised were you that three Texans players couldn't tackle you?
A: You don't think about surprises. It just happened. I always think that I can break tackles if a guy is trying to tackle me up top because I've got a strong core and everything. So it wasn't really surprising. It was just about breaking tackles.
Q: Did you plan to dive into the end zone before the kick?
A: It just came up. Spur of the moment. I'm not a big dancer. I'm not going to go into the end zone and do a dance like [running back] Ray Rice. I just did a little dive and then celebrated with my team.
Q: If you had a chance to do it over again, would you do something other than the dive? Something like Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson's falling-backwards-into-the-end-zone move against the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 12?
A: That was tight. He was gangster [cool] for that. I like that, but that's him. That's not me.


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That was just a suggestion about a paper; the topic might be little different from this.
I am still a novice in writing papers, but I am very interested in Theoretical Physics and I have good ideas for the paper content. Are there any people that can support me? Or are there other possibilities to contact with other researchers?
Usually one asks one's supervisor.
If you are self-taught, the first thing you need to do is to make sure that your contribution is at the level of typical research papers in the area. In your case, look at recent publications on loop quantum gravity and see which level they have and what they discuss. At the same time you'll find out this way the people who might be interested in your results. if you think your level is adequate ask a few of these for advice - not more than 3, else you'll soon be regarded as a crackpot.
If you get a useful response heed the advice. But if none responds satisfactorily you can be quite confident that your contribution isn't interesting for the community, and hence not publishable. See also the entry ''How to get your work published'' in Chapter C4 of my theoretical physics FAQ.


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Giani Gurdit Singh
Information on the late Giani Gurdit Singh, the famous Punjabi author. journalist and religious scholar
What Critics Say
The Ragmala issue
Is Ragmala Gurbani? Some feel it is not and point out that the Ragmala does not have reference to all the Ragas of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, in fact, nine Ragas, i.e.
Manjh, Bihagra, Vad-hans, Jaitsri, Ramkali, Malli Gaura, Tukhari, Prabhati, and
Jaijawnti do not find any mention in the Ragmala. The relationship between the Ragas and Raganis, as explained in the Ragmala, does not correlate to Gurbani, since all the compositions in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib are in Ragas, and none in any Raganis.
On the other hand, others feel it is, since it is a part of most hand-written manuscripts and every copy of Sri Guru Granth Sahib that is now printed. But then, there is the historic meet of 1937, in which there was a discussion of a consultative committee of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. Scholars and religious leaders participated in it and among them was a young Giani Gurdit Singh.
The meet, where he spoke and after which he was offered a position in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which he declined, further intensified the passion with which Giani Gurdit Singh researched on various aspects of Gurbani. His quest lasted a lifetime, and the result was literally thousands of articles, and many books, including Ithias Sri Guru Granth Sahib: Bhagat Bani Bhag, and later, another book, Mundavani, which proved controversial.
Visitors might find the following link, which has comments on and reviews of the book interesting. On this page, we have in English, the comments of the noted writer, Khushwant Singh; a review by Dr I J Singh of New York, which was published in the Sikh Review, and article by Mohinder Singh in India Journal, CA. In Punjabi, we have an article from the Ajit and five articles, published in the Atam Rang magazine.
Please click here to read more:
http://www.gianigurditsingh.com/whatcriticssay_mundavani.htm
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DAY 5 - I am starting to become weak. My outfits have gotten progressively more boring as time as passed. Dust is filling my lungs causing an inconvenient cough every few minutes. My eye balls are about as dry as the desert we are currently in and my eye drops are running low. Not sure how much longer I'm gonna last but at least we've had fun, am I right sisters?


Cask strength Bowmore, this was distilled in 1991, and aged solely in port pipes. A release of 18,000 bottles.
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Our founder Mr. Akif Gündogdu, has started production in 1961 with the motto "Quality First" .
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As we age, our skin begins to lose collagen and elasticity. Paired with loss of fat in the face, this is what gives us an aged appearance. The muscles that you've been using all your life to express emotions are responsible for the wrinkles that you know have. Since specific motions are known to create particular lines, actively not using those expressions may help slow down the onset of those wrinkles.
As seen on The Doctors, the muscles that contribute to the creation of wrinkles later in life may be slowed down or even prevented by not using them. Similar to muscles in the body, when you exercise, you are defining those muscles and making them more visible. According to DiscoveryHealth.com, there are 43 muscles in the face and whenever you make an expression, those muscles are getting a workout. Dr. Drew Ordon explains that while you shouldn't stop expressing emotions, there are certain ones that you should definitely avoid. Pursing your lips to smoke, frowning and squinting are all expressions to avoid to try to prevent wrinkles from forming.
Refraining from these actions or emotions that cause wrinkles are also important for other health reasons. Obviously, smoking is hazardous to your health, as well as your skin. Over-analyzing and stressing over too many things isn't healthy for overall health so frowning does no good there either. And if you're squinting, chances are you need glasses so it's probably best to see an optometrist anyway.
However, if you're further along and have existing wrinkles or cannot help frowning or squinting, there are options to addressing those pesky lines. To date, the most popular and well-known is BOTOX, which is injected directly into the muscles that are used when frowning. According to Houston facial plastic surgeon Dr. Haresh Yalamanchili, "BOTOX stops active expression lines, such as in the forehead, between the brows or Crows Feet."
For nasolabial lines and Marionette lines that can come from years of smoking, Dr. Yalamanchili recommends facial fillers, such as Radiesse. "The way I treat patients depends on what area that we're trying to focus on. For example, if we're really focusing on the lines around the mouth, I like to use something that penetrates a little bit deeper such as Radiesse," says Dr. Yalamanchili.
For overall facial rejuvenation, to address volume loss, wrinkles and skin laxity, the dermal filler Sculptra works by stimulating natural collagen growth. "Sculptra is really a holistic approach to volumize in the face and something we're beginning to see trend in the last several years," says Dr. Yalamanchili, "It's not just about making things tighter or plumping up lines but rejuvenating the face overall."
Along with prevention, modern aesthetic medicine can make wrinkles a thing of the past and no one will ever be able to properly guess your age!


Getting a tattoo art is a matter of personal decision that could last you lifetime. During the previous years, body art such as tattoos were often perceived as taboo; although in the more recent years, they become more popular and acceptable way of self-expression among people of all interests, ages and genders. Deciding to have a tattoo art can often result to anxiety or doubt; however, there are numerous benefits to getting one. Such benefits can result to a whole-new experience that you will never forget.
Body art provides people with the chance for self-expression by allowing the whole world to know how they feel inside or who they are through words, symbols, phrases, and images. Expressing oneself through body art may let an individual to rebel or vent out without taking their feelings and emotions to a physical level. For some people, getting a tattoo enhances their physical attributes or provides them a sense of sexiness and beauty in their own skin, which can ultimately lead to improved self confidence. Tattoo art also provide an excellent way for expressive people to display their beliefs or faith or bare their personality.
One of the advantages of getting inked is that your body can serve as a permanent showcase for art work. Whether the design of your inked marking is inspired elsewhere or dreamed up by the tattoo artists or by the recipient, just about anything can be displayed anywhere in the body. Extraordinary and vibrant tattoo art, when visible to other people can real be attention grabbers.
Family members, best friends and other relatives get symbolic or matching tattoo to depict a message that has a meaning to the bearers. For example, the popular inclination of married couples having marriage bonds tattooed in their fingers signifies the aspiration to have an eternal or long-lasting relationship with one another. Fraternity or sorority members, who are tightly-knit colleagues and friends, now tend to have their Greek symbols tattooed on their bodies to symbolize their loyalty to the group. Getting inked with loved ones or special persons can serve as an unforgettable experience that depicts commitment to a lasting relationship.
There is always some sort of health risk associated with permanent body modifications. Go to an artist that does not have the proper competency and training and you might end up suffering from a skin problem or an infection. As long as you do your assignment and take time to research on your possible artist you can stay away from common problems.Also, make sure to learn more about the possible health risks that come with getting inked.
Poorly applied ink design is almost always an issue. Even if you have your own design and it is precisely what you want, an incompetent artist can entirely ruin the end product. This is can be prevented by conducting thorough research on possible artists, and only opting for those who have proper training and extensive experience. No matter if your look came from your own hands or a design gallery, make sure that you are engaging a responsible and reliable artist.
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Drapers Gardens - Considerate Constructions
12 Throgmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2DL
290,000 sq ft
Description of Drapers Gardens
Drapers Gardens is an office building in the Bank Conservation Area in the City of London.
The 37,500 sq.m scheme replaced an obsolete 1960's office tower to provide new office and retail accommodation.
Roof gardens articulate the proposed building's stepped profile which is in response to local and long distance views.
Exemplar developed the 290,000sqft office building in joint venture with Morgan Stanley and Canary Wharf which was subsequently let to Blackrock.
2016 November - Drapers Gardens is sold to Evans Randall for £242.5m.
Source: Foggo Associates
Main Contractor:
Mace Interiors
Exemplar Properties
Evans Randall
Boston Properties Inc., one of the largest office landlords in US, is in negotiations to buy Drapers Gardens for £285 million ($450 million), reports Wall Street Journal.
If Drapers Gardens sells, it would be the second time in two years that the building changes hands. It was sold to Evans Randall, a private equity firm, in 2010 for £242.5 million ($385 million) by Canary Wharf Group, a unit of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund, and Exemplar Properties, a London developer.
Link to the article in WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120306-708795.html
New in Buildington - a commercial redevelopment in the Bank Conservation Area in the City of London.
The 37,500 sq.m scheme replaces an obsolete 1960's office tower and provides new office and retail accommodation to meet current and future City requirements. Source: Foggo Associates


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Banger's Expands With New Building
The kitchen is also being overhauled.
by Nadia Chaudhury Jul 30, 2015, 1:00pm CDT
Source Banger's Sausage House & Beer Garden to continue expansion, celebrate anniversary [Community Impact] and Rainey Street Banger's Undergoing Renovations but Will Stay Open [EATX]
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Banger's, the sausage and beer hall, is getting bigger with a new building next to the current one on Rainey Street, as originally reported by Community Impact. It won't be a standalone project, owner Ben Siegel told Eater, but rather an expansion of Banger's. It will include "some pretty exciting features," he said, "that the property will have to enhance and build on what we have already created at Banger's." Construction will either start in December or April, depending on whether he will rent the lot out for SXSW. The building would open six months after that.
As part of Banger's revamp, the kitchen will be expanded so the restaurant can serve more people from 200 to 600. During the renovation, the staff will work out of a kitchen trailer that will take over the dog park. Other recent changes include new awning for the porch and a storage shed.
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Sergio, who was not intended for a musical career, is however a world-music fan.
For now 15 years, he plays percussion instruments and specially congas, "because these sounds are spellbinding and known in the whole world".
Native from Brazza (Popular Republic of Congo), he began to play music with his friends in the nineties, just after the high school.
He took part in the birth of the band.
His role in the band is to add a perfume of exoticism in the "rumba variety": The slower rhythms he added with congas made their appearance and replaced the ROCK'N'ROLL variety.
"Tabasco", which is the first and only band Sergio is playing with, was born during the Choisy-le-Roi Music festival.
This band, which grows in wisdom, is on the way to become a real institution in the French rumba style.
Sergio has been living at Paray-Vieille-Poste (a town near the "Orly Airport") for now seven years and has made this place the HQ of the band.
As the band grows and become more end more popular in the area of this town, it has changed his name into "Bossa-Jade" and now includes musicians and chorus-singers who give a new breath to its career.


The Missouri Southern Staff Senate held its monthly meeting on Nov. 12.
Staff Senator Chris Owens informed Senators that the final three Southern Service Champs have been chosen for the year. They are Reed Kneeland, Criminal Justice custodian; Brenda McDaniel, Academic Affairs; and Stephanie Workman, Registrar's Office. Congratulations to these three outstanding employees!
Patty Holder, Staff Senate secretary, announced that the Angel Gift Wish tree is set up on the second floor of Hearnes Hall near the President's Office. A campus-wide message will go out concerning this holiday effort. Employees may make a difference in a child's life this holiday season by visiting the tree.
Student Senate liaison Tyler Hodges reported that a Shirt Swap is underway from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 12-13 in the Lion's Den. Students and employees may bring one shirt in and swap it for a specially-printed MSSU shirt (until the shirts run out). The shirts brought in will be donated to the Soul's Harbor Mission in Joplin.
Senate members also discussed volunteer opportunities on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday, January 19) and the importance of giving back to the community with volunteer activities following the morning MLK, Jr. breakfast. Senators agreed that volunteering in groups would be a positive experience for employees and for the University.
Senators also discussed MSSU's present policy concerning tuition discounts for employees and family members and whether the discounts could be extended to a broader range of family members. Staff Senators decided to scrutinize the current policy prior to making recommendations or revisiting the issue.
Senators also read a memo submitted by an employee regarding the secretarial position name and salaries. An ad hoc compensation committee is being established to research the issue.


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Coworking empowers a lifestyle of diversity
November 24, 2020 /in Community, coworking, Interviews, News, Office Space, Personal, Remote Work, Residents, Workspace /by Dimitris Manoukas
Diversity is the product of community and collaboration blended together with openness. This is, after all, one of the key reasons people want to be part of a coworking environment. This allows them to diversify their vision and experience by collaborating with people from different backgrounds, interests, experiences, and thinking. By creating a community of experiences we try to bring together various perspectives and opinions of people who share a feeling of mutualism.
Jelia has always been looking for diverse experiences and new links. She has chosen Athens to be her new home and she recently joined our coworking community. Since it is one of our core values, we discussed why she is constantly seeking diversity both in her work but also in her lifestyle.
"We carry so many places within us and it's through these places that we see everything new."
This is what it feels for Jelia when she travels to a new community and gets to meet new people. Coming from a diverse background herself, Jelia is originally from Senegal but she was born and raised in London. She is a lawyer at Doughty Street Chambers working remotely from Greece and she specializes in refugee law, human rights, and international criminal law. Working on a diverse range of issues in these areas, she provides legal assistance to unaccompanied child refugees seeking family reunification in Europe, and to victims of mass crimes seeking to access justice. Jelia joined Stone Soup in October and we had the chance to speak with her about her coworking experience in the diversity of Athens and the importance of inclusion in a community.
Travelling for diversity: Jelia's background
Jelia studied Law and Spanish language at the University of Sheffield in the UK. She also studied in Barcelona for a year before pursuing a Master's degree at UCL. After finishing her studies she worked abroad in different parts of the world from Argentina and Colombia to Cambodia. As a result, these travels truly enriched her vision of a world where diversity plays a core part. She first came to Greece in 2016, to work as a volunteer in the camp on Samos island. In 2018, she was able to come back to Greece for another volunteering stint, this time with Safe Passage. And that's where her story with Athens begins.
Living in Athens: diversity seems familiar
Jelia has been living in Athens for two and a half years since then. For her, Athens is spatially diverse and is "becoming" culturally complex too. So, she loves the ecosystem of the center of the city because it is imperfect and not homogenous. Moreover, she enjoys the diversity of the urban small streets, the micro-neighborhoods, and the variety of independent coffee shops and small businesses. She also likes to cycle and walk in the area of "petroukaki", which is the name she gave to the Petralona and Koukaki areas! In general, she highlighted the feelings of familiarity this imperfect environment creates in her. It reminds her of all the different cities she has lived in, like Buenos Aires. Driving in Greece is terrible like in Senegal too, she adds! Jelia notes that living in Athens has deepened her work because she is more directly exposed to migration. As a result, she can better understand the needs of the community she is trying to help.
Coworking in Athens: diversity in the workspace community
The choice of coworking in the diversity of Athens has offered her more work-life balance than London, she admits. The city doesn't stress her out and meets her needs while she is trying to integrate. She decided to join a coworking space because she felt isolated and stressed working from home during the lockdown. She picked Stone Soup because the privacy she can have makes her feel settled. Now she laughs when she gets home and only has to say "Hi, flat!". As a self-employed professional she needs both privacy and proximity to an everyday community. Her work and traveling experience add to her words about the elements she looks for in a workplace: "People always bring diversity and complexity and that enriches a community". So, for Jelia, the coworking community should be a respectful place where people can express themselves without fear in these crazy times. She also works as a human rights consultant for the United Nations and NGOs. Her part-time work for the NGO All Survivors Project, which focuses on male survivors of sexual violence in war zones (gay, trans, non-binary), highlights the need for a safe space for everyone who challenges the norms.
Coworking for diversity in Stone Soup
The Stone Soup philosophy and Jelia's work experience are based on the pursuit for inclusion and the expression of diversity. Here, Jelia adds, you can choose your friends because there are no office politics among the coworkers. Here, she gets to learn about tech and algorithms from Paulin and meet people who can be friends and not colleagues. She misses many things from pre-pandemic Athens though. But there is one thing she can't wait to have once again: live concerts and drinks on the roof!
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Meet the Cybersecurity experts among us!
November 28, 2019 /in Community, Interviews, Trends /by Olga Paraskevopoulou
The new generation of Stone Soupers contributing to brain gain and cybersecurity! They have studied and worked abroad, and they are now back to their homeland contributing directly or indirectly to the Greek ecosystem.
Meet Orestis and Nikos, the Greek members of CyberLens, a company focused on cybersecurity and privacy technologies, based in London, UK, and Eindhoven, Netherlands. "Our job is to use data retrieved from research and apply them in everyday situations" they tell us. CyberLens acts and responds to the European Commission's open calls for various topics that require a solution. They collaborate with several partners and stakeholders to bring competitive advancements to the European market. The fact that they now operate in Athens brings the opportunity for more collaborations with Greek partners and organisations on such projects.
Nikos has lived his life moving from Athens to Utrecht and then Brighton due to his studies and now he is back to Athens using all his knowledge and experience. Nikos speaks Greek, English and Italian and may help you if you need any clarification on the concepts of cybersecurity and privacy issues while browsing on the web. His passion is to scan research projects and deduct useful outcomes that can be utilised in the proposals they are working on. He thinks the most accurate approach of cybersecurity in filmography is Citizenfour, a national security documentation with Edward Snowden regarding one of the biggest news stories of our time.
Orestis has studied and worked in England for 4 years and returned back to the Greek capital a year ago. Orestis speaks Greek, English and German. He is a master of disaster regarding all cybersecurity and privacy topics and when he is not busy saving the world, he is dancing latin dances! Orestis considers the way hacking is depicted on screen as misinformation. He agrees with Nikos' view of Citizenfour, and he adds Zero Days documentary to the list.
Tips from Cybersecurity experts
Being involved professionally with the web often makes you the ambassador of its proper and safe use among your company. Here are some tricks Nikos and Orestis shared with us on how you can protect yourselves when using the web.
Security incidents usually happen when you try to avoid paying for an online product (e.g. illegally downloading a game, streaming a movie/tv-series from non-official provider). But, hey! You know what they say; "if you don't pay for a product, usually you are the product". So, you better thoroughly consider the risks before you act.
When you create a password it is better not to use information such as date of birth, because they are very easily traceable. Instead, you could use password managers or use medium length sentences; such as "switch off the led lights tonight".
And last but not least, try not to use the same password for all your accounts. But everybody knows that..right?..right! hmm..! Well, yes, it is wise to have that in mind as it makes us extremely vulnerable if one of our accounts is part of breach (such as the ones we hear on the news..).
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#4 Tips for a junior software developer
October 15, 2019 /in Community, Interviews, News, Office Space, Residents, Trends /by Olga Paraskevopoulou
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Coworking life is bringing people together
July 23, 2019 /in Community, coworking, Interviews, Trends /by Olga Paraskevopoulou
Operating from a coworking space brings many changes to your professional and everyday life. Poulcheria Tzova, an architect who resides at Stone Soup for almost 3 years now, shares her perspective.
According to Poulcheria, the thing she enjoys the most is that she gets motivated to keep on working even the days she feels the least like it. The way she describes this impact on her productivity resembles the effect of the population of a school of fish.
In nature it is common to encounter groups of fishes who are staying together for social reasons and swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner. In a similar way, a dynamic coworking environment motivates one to be committed and keep on fighting their own battles so that they won't stay behind but they will follow the destination of the larger group that is forward.
On days where I feel tired or disappointed, I enter this space full of people and see them overcome difficulties no matter what they face. Along with them, I find the strength and courage to continue too.
Giving and taking
Poulcheria's favourite part of the day is when the magical little exchanges among the members of the coworking community happen. They occur either consciously or unconsciously but that is irrelevant because they are very impactful either way.
I love it when I am asked for advice. I feel useful offering to others and at the same time I feel as I am returning the favor because I am also receiving so many things from them, even if they don't realise it.
Tips for the new generation
As an experienced professional Poulcheria gives value to the workspace itself. When we asked her what would be her piece of advice for the new generation of architects, she responded;
"It is said that in order to become an architect you have to own the three O's;
1. Observation 2. Observation and 3. Observation !
This is one of the most essential qualities you need to own in order to succeed in every task you undertake. No matter what the workspace of your choice is, try to build a pleasant working base, but never forget how important is for our profession to be responsible, serious and detail-driven."
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theater review Dec. 17, 2017
Two Critics Review One Show: Farinelli and the King
By Sara Holdren and Justin Davidson
Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King, at the Belasco. Photo: Joan Marcus
Claire van Kampen's new play Farinelli and the King — just transferred from London to the Belasco — is a duet for two virtuosos. It tells the mostly true story of the French-born King Philippe V of Spain, who suffered from debilitating bouts of depression and what we now know as bipolar disorder, and who found solace and, at times, even sanity in the singing of the world-famous castrato known as Farinelli. The singer — who was born Carlo Broschi in 1705 in Italy and whose family had him castrated at the age of 10 to preserve his angelic voice — served in the Spanish court for nine years, abandoning superstardom to sing privately for one troubled monarch, then retiring to Bologna, never to perform in public again.
The king and the castrato; one man wounded in mind and one in body, brought together by music. No wonder such a premise fascinated van Kampen, primarily a composer and music scholar who makes her playwriting debut with Farinelli and the King. (She arranged the arias used in the production as well.) It also doesn't hurt that van Kampen happens to be married to the man who's generally considered the best actor of his generation, and that he's treading the boards in Farinelli as the "king" half of the title. The 57-year-old Mark Rylance has collected just about every major acting award it's possible to win, in roles from Jerusalem's Johnny "Rooster" Byron to Wolf Hall's Thomas Cromwell to Shakespeare's Richard III and Countess Olivia in Twelfth Night (his last Broadway appearance in 2013 was in that double-bill, also an import from Shakespeare's Globe, where he served as artistic director from 1995–2005). Joining Mark Rylance's King Philippe is another undisputed master of his craft, the 38-year-old countertenor Iestyn Davies, who supplies Farinelli's singing voice while the actor Sam Crane fills out the character dramatically.
An onstage duet seemed to call for an offstage one, so I attended Farinelli and the King with New York's classical-music critic, Justin Davidson. Then we sat down to talk opera and theater, acting versus singing, 18th-century patronage and politics, kings, castrati, the music of the spheres, and more.
JUSTIN DAVIDSON: So I'm interested in a couple of things. First, what does performing mean to Farinelli? Why does he find singing for one screwy sovereign so much more satisfying than for an adoring audience in London? What does he get out of it? Then, on a related note, what does music mean to the king? Music therapy has its place, but it doesn't generally require a world-class virtuoso to be permanently on call.
SARA HOLDREN: Right, what's the specific link between these two men, outside of a kind of generic music-therapy relationship? So, I think when Philippe's queen, Isabella (played by Melody Grove), discovers Farinelli singing in England and basically just buys him from the theater manager John Rich (Colin Hurley), she's responding to the transcendent beauty of his voice. She has some conviction that the king needs to hear this "unimaginable" sound that has her transfixed and weeping — but her response is instinctive, not articulate. I don't think even she can anticipate the depth of connection that will occur between the king and the singer — and not simply in a beautiful, healing way.
J.D.: There's that very strong scene when the two men first meet.
S.H.: Right. They approach each other cautiously, like animals sniffing each other out — a caged lion and a caged bird. What they share is their brokenness. Neither sees himself as human anymore — one is an earthly god and the other is an earthly angel. They've both lost parts of themselves — or had them taken away — to achieve that so-called transcendence. I'm so much more interested in the fact that both men are damaged and stay damaged than I am in the "music heals" hypothesis, which feels like where van Kampen is putting most of her energy.
J.D.: What the play has to say about music boils down to some pretty sappy and anachronistic slogans about its universality and healing powers.
S.H.: And the "cure" doesn't actually work — Farinelli doesn't heal the king!
J.D.: So why does he stay for so long — nine years — unless his relationship with Philippe is more than simply therapeutic? Van Kampen doesn't really run with that idea, and even the idea that it's therapy for the therapist runs into a dead end.
S.H.: It actually feels like there's a much more interesting play hiding inside this one, where the ugly side — rather than the transcendent side — of what draws king and singer together is more fully explored. Instead, we get a lot of Iestyn Davies singing beautifully while Mark Rylance listens like an enraptured child — and we also get a hackneyed subplot where Farinelli falls for the queen, which feels like a really thin explanation for why he'd stick around the court or why he'd eventually want to leave.
J.D.: Do you buy the premise that Farinelli would walk away from his life like that? I mean, I know it happened historically, but in the context of the play, does it seem earned? I feel like we don't get to see enough of his London life to understand what it is that he's fleeing.
S.H.: He's underdeveloped as a character. We actually don't get to see him in London at all — just Isabella paying John Rich so that she can spirit him away. When we meet him in Spain, he's just a diffident young man who seems worlds away from his megastar reputation. And clearly van Kampen is trying to lean into that contradictory double nature — the singer and the man, Farinelli versus Carlo.
J.D.: One has a larynx, the other has a heart.
S.H.: But it doesn't quite work. Partly because it's deeply unsettling to watch poor Sam Crane just … stand there while Davies is singing. Farinelli's arias aren't a Singing in the Rain–style lip-syncing situation for the actor; they feature both men on stage together, in identical period costumes, one singing with utter confidence and flawless tone, and the other sort of nervously half-mimicking his partner's movements and attempting to do some subtle-but-moving face acting … While getting completely shown up by the song. I felt so bad for Crane — watching him during the arias, I felt like I was looking at a performer who's painfully aware that he doesn't actually have access to his character's soul. His soul is outside of him, over there on the other side of the stage, singing.
J.D.: I can't imagine a more awkward assignment than standing there while the guy who's supposed to be you makes exquisite sounds and you have literally nothing to do.
S.H.: Yes! Crane is being asked to play Carlo, not Farinelli, and Carlo is a thankless role.
J.D.: It also doesn't quite work because you never get the sense that Davies is burnt out, which the character is.
S.H.: Right, Davies sounds glorious and exudes total calm and charisma throughout the show. Whereas we're supposed to believe that Carlo/Farinelli is dying inside — he's like a Russian ballerina or a thoroughbred, used up before his time.
J.D.: It's a paradoxical job for a performer: Make the audience believe that you're the world's greatest singer, delivering music tailored specifically for you — and at the same time that your heart's not really in it, until suddenly (when you go to work for a troubled king) it is. What I actually heard was a fine singer delivering tasteful performances of some rather famous Handel arias.
S.H.: Yeah, that's a really hard acting challenge and they've tried to split it over two bodies, with the result being that we don't really see the arc. Davies isn't being asked to do anything but sound gorgeous, and Crane is uniformly fretful throughout. Rylance doesn't really get much of an arc either. Yes, Farinelli's singing brings him moments of joy and peace and clarity, but he remains the unstable presence of the play's beginning (the man we meet while he's talking to a goldfish) throughout the show. He's mercurial and childlike — all violent mood swings, manic highs, and desolate, nasty lows — but he's predictable in that unpredictability. It feels like we're being asked to witness how these two men changed each other, but did they really? The characters feel largely static — beautifully sung by Davies and powerfully acted by Rylance, but, in van Kampen's writing, not very dynamic.
J.D.: Agreed. The play consists of a premise without a plot. Like some operas, it's full of loosely connected material that depends heavily on the virtuoso to carry it off.
S.H.: And when Rylance isn't onstage or Davies isn't singing, it's serious looking-at-your-watch o'clock. The scenes with the two royal counselors (Edward Peel as the huffy minister De La Cuadra and Huss Garbiya as the conflicted, semi-sympathetic Doctor Cervi) are downright wooden, and even Isabella has to deliver a whole lot of expository clunkers. There's so much explaining in this play — an epidemic of characters telling you what they're going to do before they do it. Which isn't really that surprising, considering that it's van Kampen's first play. Honestly, even Rylance doesn't save all his scenes. There were certain points when he was onstage and I couldn't help thinking, "God, I wish I were watching him do Shakespeare right now." It probably didn't help that van Kampen kept cheekily stealing and inserting Shakespeare lines here and there.
J.D.: The play opens with a clever set piece in which Philippe is fishing for a goldfish in a bowl and having a conversation with the creature at the same time. I enjoyed that, but over time, I got bored with the whole wacko-monarch thing. Real redemption isn't possible and his inner life remains impenetrable.
S.H.: Which leads him to deliver lines like, "I am a king. We are not allowed to think or truly feel." It's tough territory, because we don't actually know what's going on in that head — both because it's royal and because it's ill — and van Kampen isn't quite skillful enough to get us in there.
J.D.: What did you make of the puzzling scene in which we, the audience, are cast as a crowd of Spanish peasants in the forest and Farinelli sings for us?
S.H.: Oh gosh, I cringed. "Oh, hello audience! There you are!" There was something forced and weirdly twee and even a little tone-deaf about it — casting this group of Broadway playgoers as romantically poor people, like something out of a Bouguereau painting.
J.D.: The implication seemed to be that Farinelli's London audiences were cheap and exploitative and commercial and that "we" — representing the peasants and poachers — are somehow "pure."
S.H.: Yes, up till now Farinelli's been terrified of performing for a crowd (he talks about his London performances like they're out-of-body experiences — the voice coming out of him isn't really him), but then he discovers his real publique by singing for us Mediterranean yokels — so inherently innocent and attentive.
J.D.: And late-18th-century London was relatively democratic, compared to the rest of Europe — and certainly Spain! — where the court controlled the opera scene. That makes the politics of this play weirdly retrograde. You have a provincial kid from feudal Southern Italy who strikes it rich as an entertainer, then rediscovers the kind of patriarchal patronage system he was born into. The music he sings for the potentate is by Handel, who was an immigrant impresario in London — everything that the play represents as distastefully modern.
S.H.: Meanwhile, we're all indulging in a Marie Antoinette shepherd fantasy.
J.D.: I keep coming back to this idea of purity: The king is mentally ill, but also unsullied by politics. Farinelli is too seraphic for the crassness of show-biz. And together the two of them go out into the forest to try to hear the stars sing —
S.H.: — to listen for the famous, mystical "music of the spheres." Right.
J.D.: Literally celestial music. And in the play, the arias, which were originally sung monologues in music dramas, are turned into "pure music", which is really a romantic 19th-century concept. The king doesn't understand the words and doesn't care. And yet we hear those arias reinserted into a dramatic setting — van Kampen's play — now serving a different plot. They're not just music; they're music about music.
S.H.: What did you think of the music itself?
J.D.: Davies is one of the best countertenors out there, a performer of immense sensitivity. I would have liked to hear some of the fiery, top-note show-off arias that Farinelli was famous for, so the slower, more expressive pieces that he sings to the King make sense in context. But the truth is that Davies doesn't really sound anything like Farinelli — or even the way he's described in the play. I last heard Davies in October, in Thomas Adès's opera The Exterminating Angel at the Met, and as much as I loved encountering him again in the Belasco, which is much more intimate, I didn't really understand the integration between Handel's music and van Kampen's play.
S.H.: We in the audience are being asked to have the same experience as the king: Just listen and let it wash over you as a sensory experience. Be transported, touch a piece of heaven.
J.D.: And don't ask too many questions.
Farinelli and the King is at the Belasco Theatre.
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Racine man arrested following attempted robbery at America's Best Value Inn and Suites
Posted 7:55 am, September 28, 2018, by FOX6 News
MOUNT PLEASANT — A 39-year-old Racine man was taken into custody early Friday morning, Sept. 29 following an attempted robbery at America's Best Value Inn and Suites in the Village of Mount Pleasant.
Police were called to the scene around 12:20 a.m.
Upon arrival, the suspect was being held down by a Good Samaritan who had stepped in to help the clerk. Officers quickly took the suspect into custody.
Through the course of the Investigation, police learned that the suspect had jumped over the counter and confronted the clerk, stating that he had a gun. A gun was not displayed.
The suspect then demanded the clerk to open the cash register and give him all the money. The clerk was defiant and stated that he was on camera — that's when the suspect started opening cabinets looking for money
The clerk yelled out for help and a Good Samaritan came to her assistance and subdued the suspect until Mount Pleasant Police arrived minutes later.
The clerk was not injured during the confrontation.
The incident remains under investigation by the Mount Pleasant Police Department.
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Halving snakebite deaths and disabilities by 2030 – How can we reach WHO's goal?
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By Benjamin Waldmann
In 2019, estimates suggest that at least 138,000 people will have died and a further 400,000 will be left with permanent disabilities from snakebite. Under-reporting in rural areas could put the true figures up by more than 70%. The number of deaths, the ones recorded at least, are comparable to the entire populations of Pasadena, CA or Cambridge, UK. But over the last few years, civil society has fought tirelessly to successfully put what the late Kofi Annan called 'the biggest public health crisis you've never heard of' on the political map.
This past spring in Geneva, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its global strategy on snakebite—a clear and comprehensive plan of action aimed at ending unnecessary suffering faced by many of the world's poorest communities. The launch event coincided with the 72nd World Health Assembly (WHA72), only one year after the WHO was given a policy mandate by its 193 Member States with the adoption of a resolution that put snakebite in its rightful place as a global health priority.
Snakebite victims across the Global South are hardest hit, facing many challenges such as poor access to lifesaving treatments and social discrimination as a consequence of disability and disfigurement. But with WHO's comprehensive strategy, bold global action finally looks within our reach. It aims to halve the number of snakebite deaths and disabilities by 2030. However, the strategy is not an end in itself, the work has really only just begun and the following steps are of urgent importance if we are going to start saving lives and limbs:
Members of the HAI team at the 72nd World Health Assembly.
1. Civil society are integral to focus policy makers on the needs of the communities they aim to serve
Civil society organisations have a unique role in conveying the voice of the marginalised, who are often not heard. They represent communities at all levels, helping to mobilise decision-makers to tackle neglected diseases like snakebite. Through the lens of addressing health inequities, they implement programmes, promote community behaviour change, collect real-time data, convene stakeholders and deploy problem-solving innovations.
They have the dynamism to measure what programmes are working or need to be changed, unravel the evidence base to strengthen policies and, crucially, empower grassroots communities to take action.
Their input is invaluable to ensure disease programmes like snakebite progress towards global health targets (e.g., halving the number of snakebite deaths and disability by 2030) and align with the WHO's overarching mission of serving the world's most vulnerable
2. Donors must recognise investment opportunities and help fund prevention and control efforts
We recently witnessed a change of stance from the donor community in beginning to recognise the urgent need for resources to support policy advancements made by the WHO. The Wellcome Trust became the first global funding agency to announce considerable investment in this space, with a pledge of GBP80 million. However, we still have a way to go to secure the necessary resources to adequately implement and operationalise the strategic objectives set out in the WHO's strategy, especially on activities involving community mobilisation and empowerment, which have been notoriously overlooked in the field of snakebite so far.
Analysis on the investment made in NTD control programmes demonstrates that prevention and control is an extremely cost-effective intervention, and one from which countries can unravel cross-cutting benefits across disease programmes when searching to integrate efforts alongside snakebite. Strengthening surveillance and research, community-level education programmes and health systems all have converging relevance and make valuable strides towards universal health coverage (UHC) when done collectively.
A recent trip to Uganda by the HAI Snakebite Team to review the draft national snakebite strategy.
3. National decision makers must turn recommendations into practice
Member States requested WHO to take action in 2018th resolution, but those same countries now have to take ownership in securing the funds, both domestically and with partners, to spearhead efforts in prevention and control. Meaningful and sustained high-level leadership is essential and some governments are already beginning to play their part. For example, the Ministry of Health in Uganda recently appointed a snakebite focal point to stimulate multi-stakeholder dialogue and coordinate activities among partners aimed towards effective snakebite management. Civil society organisations such as Health Action International and HEPS-Uganda are contributing to community and health system research that aims to support the government's ambitious national plan of action, which can be a model for other countries. Meanwhile, in Costa Rica, decades of focus has resulted in a publically funded, country-wide model of prevention and treatment, ready for others to follow, contextualise and replicate.
But for countries at the beginning of their journey in tackling snakebite, partnering with civil society can help deliver cost effective results that will positively impact the communities they aim to serve before pursuing more resource-intensive interventions further along the road when the groundwork has been done.
It's only if we flank WHO's ambitious strategy with collective action that we can beat snakebite—it will take leadership, resources and accountability to halve the incidence of deaths and disabilities by snakebite, halve the suffering, and halve the burden that this devastating issue has on the world's poorest communities. But if we double our efforts, we can reach this goal.
HAI and Snakebite Programme Partner, James Ashe Antivenom Trust, Applaud Government Action on Antivenom at Bio-Ken Snakebite Symposium
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Millions of digital images linger on computer hard drives. Online photo processing companies offer convenient ways to get the best images onto paper and into the open. FotoInsight offers a choice of photo calendar layouts which can start any month from now to the end of year 2008. This is a personal photo gift idea not just for Christmas but for the whole year.
Cambridge, Germany. 26 October 2006. – In time for the holiday gift shopping season, FotoInsight of Cambridge launches an innovative way to tailor a photo calendar from the growing number of personal digital photographs. Presenting someone with a personalized, beautifully laid out calendar with own photographs is arguably one of the greatest gift ideas.
Digital camera users can edit their own photo calendar online at http://fotoinsight.co.uk/photo-calendars.html where it will get professionally printed. Available as a wall or desktop calendar, most models cost just £9.99 and don't require any software to be downloaded. Each calendar runs for twelve months with space for an additional picture on the cover sheet. Customers making wall or desktop calendars can define which month they wish the calendar to start, great for example as a gift for a birthday in November or a wedding anniversary in May.
With the FotoInsight photo calendar print service it only takes minutes to create a complete, personalized, high quality photo calendar using the summer holiday pics or to create a review of the past year. Interested users might want to create an art calendar edited with their own digital pictures. Images can be uploaded through a Windows or Mac internet browser one at a time or all thirteen images as a ZIP or RAR compressed folder in one go. The layout tool allows zooming and adjusting images before getting the calendar printed.
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The photo album is dead, long live the photo book. Free photo book software offered by online photographic services makes it easy and economical to create photo books in different formats, sizes and types of binding. Online services offer a range of options for individual lay-outs with own photographs. Professional print on hi-gloss paper provides coffee table style photo books. The latest offering comes from printing-1 and promises an even greater choice of photo book styles.
London, GB. 30. October 2006. – During the past year personal photo books have become one of the most popular photographic products and are about to replace the traditional photo album. Rarely has a product evolved as quickly as the photo book. The different suppliers compete with ever more flexible software for the top spot with the consumer. With the launch of its new Windows and MacOS photo book software printing-1 is claiming to take the concept a step further. According to printing-1 a durable, quality binding process is becoming more important, as increasingly big photo books are being ordered, containing often hundreds of images. The binding process used by printing-1 takes an extra day to prepare, but allows for large photo books with up to 144 pages and space for hundreds of images.
The new online photo service Printing-1 offers a range of photo books and scrapbooks, including small photo booklet, square photo books and A4 size books in different shapes and colours. Printing-1 photo books are offered in a range of three bindings methods (staple, spiral and book binding) with soft and hardcover. The smallest hardcover book bound is 36 pages, the largest contains up to 144 pages in hard or soft cover. Staple or spiral binding is available with 12 pages or more. Printing-1 photo book covers provide a range of colours and can be edited.
According to Printing-1, during the software development special emphasis was put on ease of use and creative freedom. Images are not only fully scalable and can be positioned freely on any page, each frame can be defined individually. Also the page number feature can be switched on or off for individual pages in order not to spoil a beautiful full page image. Instead of limiting creativity through an automatic assistant the program provides templates to help positioning images after which they can still be adjust or moved. In general, the new photo book application entices creative experiments with the lay-out tools. Printing-1 is going down new paths: The program not only offers a choice of matt and glossy covers, it also allows to switch between binding types and book formats at any time.
Individual photo books can be saved as separate projects. The photo books have to be uploaded to Printing-1's website first, before placing an order where they will be stored free of charge for up to two month. This allows users to invite friends to view their Printing-1 photo books online. So after for example a large party or wedding, friends and family can view and comment on the scrapbook project and ever order and pay for their own printed Memorbook, Printing-1 also provides savings when a photo book is ordered as a present and send directly to friends or family abroad (including the USA), using a separate delivery address.
Beyond the use of layout templates, each page can be edited freely. The editing tools include free scaling, rotating and positioning of photographs. A line around an image helps to set it against coloured backgrounds. Frames can be defined individually around each picture and images can also be printed frameless across a full page or even double page, providing the right format for landscapes and other photographs requiring a larger space. The printing-1 software also provides a tool to post-edit images individually. This allows giving images a degree of semi-transparency, an interesting effect on some overlapping images.
With digital photo books the many digital memories vanishing on ageing computer hard discs can finally see the light of day. The digital photo service Printing-1 delivers in the UK and most European countries and the USA within two weeks of ordering online. Ordering professionally printed photo books from own images is rapidly replacing the "stick-in" photo album.
Printing-1 offers a Windows and Mac OS compatible, online photo service for digital camera images, specialising in digital photo books and photo canvass printing. The hi-tech process used reduces the costs, allowing Printing-1 to offer photo booklets from £7.95.- (plus postage & packaging £4.90 (orders over £100 ship free). Different volume discounts are offered when ordering five or more of the same photo book.
Printing-1 Limited started in October 2006 in Cambridge as a British-German joint-venture. Der Internet-Service is specialising in high quality, modern photo print products like photo books and photo canvas printing.
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Photo book: The future of Scrapbook Creation is here!
Greenstreet break with tradition by introducing a revolution in scrapbook creation – a mess free, time saving fade-proof record of precious memories for print, for the web and which can even be viewed on your TV!
Cambridge. 1 November 2006. - In the age of the digital camera and camera phones we all snap away happily taking lots of pictures to remember events by. However generally these languish on computer hard drives and the personal memory fades as to who, why, where and what the pictures were about. Which is why in recent years scrapbooking has seen a revival. Greenstreet have combined the digital age with the rapidly growing interest in scrapbooking and taken this to the next step by creating Greenstreet's Digital Scrapbook – bringing all kinds of new possibilities to the art - providing limitless supplies and making it easier and cheaper to capture moments in time and to share with friends and family.
"We are delighted with this sensational piece of software, it has been carefully crafted by our own in-house developers to provide users with a digital scrapbook which provides unlimited possibilities! With the explosion of the digital camera and mobile camera ownership, it's only logical that the demand for digital scrapbooking will continue to grow." commented Jeff Fenton, CEO, Greenstreet Software Ltd.
Digital Scrapbook is released 1st November with a SRP of £29.99.
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Although Scrapbooking has seen a resurgence in recent years it is a tradition which goes back centuries - as far back as the 17th Century when scrap books were known as common-place books or friendship albums. Even the famous Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) kept newspaper cuttings of his presidency in leather bound books of plain paper.
When the Kodak camera became available in the 1880's people also started to include photographs into their scrapbooks and it became so popular that magazines were produced on how to scrapbook and what to include.
In modern times with the strong interest in family history, the distance between friends & family and modern technology - there has been a rise in the popularity of Scrapbooking. It's not just about organising photos – that would just be a photo album – its about preserving memories by journaling, collecting and saving interesting items to go with the photos such as tickets, newspaper articles, cards, letters, postcards and so much more.
Scrapbooking is preserving your special memories for years to come.


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Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on 19 May 2004 0 Comments
How can we keep the Church without having to keep all the doctrines, dogmas and creeds of the religious past? How can we encourage that minority of people who remain inside the Church's fundamentalist majority to stay there? How can we encourage the "Church Alumni Association" members to return, if what they have to come back to is the very thing that made them want to leave?
You sound discouraged so let me try to give you hope. In the great centers of Christian scholarship, the things that I am talking about are commonplace. This does not mean that all academically qualified people will spend their careers challenging fundamentalist thinking; many of them will simply ignore it. It does mean, however, that some of them will and ultimately this will trickle down and will begin to show up in the training of local clergy. Please remember that for many people religion is not a search for truth but a search for security.
I am always amazed at how fundamentalists and evangelicals try to put an academic face on their rather poor evangelical education. They trot out their teachers and show off their Ph.D.s, even their Ph.D. from places like Oxford or Cambridge. What the gullible public does not know is that Oxford and Cambridge have evangelical theological colleges as part of the university complex and an Oxford or Cambridge Ph.D. from one of these theological colleges is not a sign that the holder has a Cambridge or Oxford Ph.D. so much as a degree from an evangelical college at Cambridge or Oxford. England also gives a lesser degree called a D.Phil that Americans do not quite know how to evaluate. It may be the equivalent of a Masters degree in the United States.
Beyond these suspect practices, there are degrees from evangelical schools like Bob Jones, Oral Roberts and Liberty Baptist that are worth something only to those who value the kind of education one receives in such a place. I remember seeing a teacher's contract at Liberty Baptist College that told the teacher what he or she could not teach, like evolution, for example. Denominational theological colleges or seminaries are also frequently under the purging control of headquarters so that scholarship is seriously diminished. Roman Catholic theologians are removed if they do not affirm the church's teaching. I remind you of what happened to Hans Kung or Charles Curran, These schools and the Church leaders who put pressure on them are infected with the idea that they both know the truth and possess it. This means you do not admit into your world anything that challenges your version of truth, which is the process through which a teacher becomes a propagandist rather than an educator.
But behind this facade of education, there is still a great deal of competent academic training that is available. Evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics attack this as "liberal" scholarship and, by implication, suggest that they possess "conservative" scholarship. Once again that is self-serving propaganda. There is no such thing as conservative or liberal scholarship. There is only competent and incompetent scholarship. Competent scholarship may be interpreted in a liberal or conservative direction but the scholarship itself must be competent.
Once you recognize that you are not alone and that you are not crazy, you have other options. You can make noise in the local congregation. Ask for more than you are getting. Seek to start a study group that will look at books that are outside the box. There are many popular authors from whom to choose. When you speak up in your church you accomplish two things: you give your minister courage and you raise a flag that other people will salute. The crucial role in a congregation comes when a new minister is chosen. That is a vital assignment that you should seek, since that decision will shape your church for the next five to ten years. Look at where and under whom your prospective minister studied above all else.
If you cannot change your whole congregation, then work to change one part of it to make it more appealing to those who ask questions and seek new understanding. Start a Sunday class, a weekday study group, a Wednesday evening class, something that will announce to the alumni that this church is able to listen to new possibilities. People who have left the Church will hardly be attracted to come back to the same old thing that repelled them in the first place. They will come, however, if they hear new sounds coming out of that congregation.
The Church will either adapt to new knowledge or it will die. So don't be discouraged, be proactive. Lots of people hope you will.
-- John Shelby Spong


Have you ever made an attempt at contouring your nose and ended up throwing away your makeup brush out of sheer frustration? If you've then you must know that the shape of your nose could be what's getting in your way of sculpting the faultless schnook. Knowing the shape of your nose is the most vital part of determining the finest way of contouring it.
This is just as the determination of the shape of your face can be of help to you in choosing a flattering hairdo.
In the section below are a number of tips on the finest contouring and highlighting practices for diverse nose shapes.
All of you having flat noses would have nose bridges that appear flat/ undefined. For adding definition and creating the delusion of more fashioned bone structure, you must contour in a couple of straight lines on both faces of the bridges.
Triangular noses are a great deal broader at the nostrils compared to their breadths at the apex of nose. Try creating equilibrium by contouring nothing other than the nose tip and applying a highlighter below the inner bends of the eyebrows.
Instead of pursuing a straight line starting from the eyebrows right through to the lips, crooked noses have an appearance of being uneven or somewhat slanted. For making the shape correct, try contouring a line that is straight on each of the faces of the bridge before applying highlighter at the center.
If you have a bulbous nose, experts advice contouring the extreme top and extreme base of the nose before applying a highlighter at the bridge's center.
Irregular noses are frequently characterized by a miniature indentation on a surface of the central point of their bridge. For rectification of an indented are apply a highlighter to it for combating any telltale gloominess.
Heavy noses feature an intense brow that generates a shade above the nose's bridge. Experts recommend the application of highlighter of triangle form amid your eyebrows for visually "lifting up" this part.


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Pets: Dogs permitted subject to a maximum of 3 depending on sizes. Only well behaved and trained dogs are permitted. Dogs are not allowed in the bedrooms or on the furniture. Dogs must not be left in the caravan alone for long periods of time and must be in a cage if left alone in the caravan. Please note Haven do not permit certain breeds on site.
Please note this is a NO SMOKING caravan. Any evidence of smoking within the caravan will result in the loss of your security deposit.
Accepted Payment Methods: Easy Bank Transfer or Cheque. Keys: Full information for access to the caravan will be provided once balance has been paid. PLEASE NOTE ONLY THE GUESTS WHICH ARE NAMED ON THE BOOKING FORM ARE PERMITTED TO STAY THIS IS NON TRANSFERABLE MAX OCCUPANCY IS 6 GUESTS. A full inventory is provided for your use please take care of all items which are provided for your convenience and enjoyment. Guests agree to take care of the caravan and will leave the caravan in a clean and tidy condition at the end of their holiday. Any damage must be reported to the owner immediately. No dishes to be left on the draining board, grill pan to be cleaned after use etc. If the caravan is left in a dirty condition an additional charge of £30 will be billed to the party leader to cover additional cleaning costs. If any damage has occurred that the costs are more than the security bond and it is not covered by my insurance as accidental damage then the lead party guest will be responsible to pay the costs of the repairs and will be taken to court if they fail to pay. I also reserve the right to warn other owners. No furnishings, cushions or stools etc. are to be taken outside the caravan.
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We the owners will not be liable for any injury or death, loss of property or damage suffered by the hirer or any member of your party. We the owners reserve the right to cancel your confirmed booking at anytime, due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control and refund all monies paid. In no event shall any monies refunded exceed the rental for the caravan.
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Q: Application Insights TraceListener is not collecting traces? I have the following configuration in place, but no traces are going into Application Insights (otherwise Application Insights is working fine for other logging and the Azure diagnostics listener is also working and capturing the traces). Am I doing something wrong?
<system.diagnostics>
    <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="0">
      <listeners>
        <add type="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics.DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics, Version=2.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" name="AzureDiagnostics">
        </add>
        <add name="myAppInsightsListener" type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.TraceListener.ApplicationInsightsTraceListener, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.TraceListener" />
      </listeners>
    </trace>
  </system.diagnostics>

A: I had the same problem.
My steps to resolve after my discussion in the comments here were:

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*Uninstall all App Insights NuGet packages

*Delete ApplicationInsights.config

*Install ApplicationInsights.Web

*Install ApplicationInsights.TraceListener

*Add InstrumentationKey for your App Insights instance to ApplicationInsights.config

Hope this helps.

A: I updated my appinsight nuget packages to latest, which updated ApplicationInsights.config and everything worked fine.
Delete may not be neccessary. Try updating your appinsight nuget packages first without uninstalling the appinsight packages and if does not work then you can do what is accepted as answer.


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Ligand substitution refers to the replacement of one ligand in a coordination complex with another ligand.
Figure LS1.1. Substitution of one ligand for another in a coordination complex.
Remember, a ligand in coordination chemistry is just a Lewis base that binds to a metal atom or ion. It does so by donating a lone pair (or other pair of electrons). Generallly, this donation is reversible. The donor can always take its electrons back. Typically, there may be some balance between the metal's need for more electrons and the donor's attraction for its own electrons; donor atoms are frequently more electronegative than the metal.
Figure LS1.2. An example of ligand substitution. THF replaces a carbon monoxide in this molybdenum complex.
Even though the reaction is pretty simple, it can occur in different ways.
That is, the elementary steps involved in the reaction can occur in different orders. The elementary reactions are the individual bond-making or bond-breaking events that lead to an overall change. Sometimes the order of steps is referred to as the mechanism or the mechanistic pathway.
The mechanism is the order of elementary reaction steps.
Elementary reaction steps are individual bond-making and breaking steps.
You may have seen reaction mechanisms before. For example, carbonyl addition chemistry can involve lengthy mechanisms, in which a number of proton transfers and other bond-making and bond-breaking steps must occur to get from one state to another. Because ligand substitution is simpler than that, it is a good place to study mechanism in a little more depth, without getting overwhelmed by the details.
The sequence of steps in the mechanism influences how different factors will impact the reaction. For example, changing concentrations of different components in a reaction mixture can affect the time it takes for a reaction to finish.
The mechanism can have a dramatic impact on the outcome of the reaction under different circumstances.
These kinds of considerations have a dramatic impact on industrial processes such as pharmaceutical production. In that setting, chemical engineers need to make decisions about how much of each reactant must be admitted to a reaction mixture and how long they should be allowed to react together. If they allow the reaction to proceed for too, long, there may be "side-reactions" that start to occur, interfering with the quality of the product, and they will waste valuable time in the production pipeline. If they don't allow it to react long enough, the reaction may not finish, and the product will be contaminated with leftover starting materials.
In this chapter, we will look at how this simple reaction can occur in different ways. We will see some different methods that are used to tell which way the reaction occurs (i.e. evidence of what is really happening). We will also look at some different factors that may influence whether the reaction is likely to occur one way or the other (i.e. reasons it is happening that way, or reasons we expect it will happen that way).
Some kind of substitution occurs in each of the following reactions: an atom or group replaces another. In each case, identify what is being replaced, and what replaces it.


Seems like celebrity cross-dressing is even more popular than anyone could have imagined now that these shots from the Lady Gaga 'You And I' video are out. The superstar singer follows in the footsteps of recent cross-dresser James Franco and veteran cross-dresser Marc Jacobs.
As though a combination of James Dean and Danny Zuko, Lady Gaga takes these pop culture male icons and turns them into miserable-looking, drug-riddled bastards. Of course, the 'You And I' single album cover actually portrays her male alter ego mechanic Jo Calderone, whom you've had the pleasure of meeting on the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan last summer. Although more rugged in the Lady Gaga 'You And I' single, Calderone is received with open arms.