the bromeliads, and several plants of Cereus have taken root where clefts in the rock are wide enough.
These plants of Frailea chiquitana are growing on the edge of a laja, where the soil is only 1 inch (2.5 cm) or less deep. Look closely for the many tiny Frailea seedlings.
that originated in Pangaea2 about 400 million years ago.
This is usually all you see of your frailea flowers. Flowers of Frailea magnifica look like this while developing and also while they are fruits because they have no intervening open phase.
But the fruits are always full of seeds that germinate well, and a potted plant is usually surrounded by seedlings before long.
under some conditions flowers develop such that they can open; under other conditions they develop in such a way that they cannot possibly open.
This aspect of Frailea biology needs to be investigated.
for crosses to produce beautiful hybrids.
helps create dense vegetation of small trees and shrubs that are difficult to walk through.
begins to produce longer spines once it is old enough to flower.
Castellanosia caineana is fairly widespread; this one was photographed in western Paraguay.
and now produces dozens of flowers all summer long every year. If cross-pollinated, it produces red fruits the size of a cherry in only a few weeks.
on the stems are flower buds that are still a few weeks away from opening.
during which Pereskia survives by dropping its leaves.
Flowers of Pereskia grandifolia are large and resemble roses.
They are good ornamental plants for areas that receive only a few moderate frosts.
Although they do not seem to bloom abundantly, each flower is very nice.
Like most cactus flowers, however, each is open for only one day.
Flowers of most cacti have inferior ovaries, meaning that stem tissue grows around the base of the flower. Consequently, the flower appears to bear leaves with buds.
In pereskias and opuntias, such as the chain-fruit cholla (Opuntia fulgida), the buds can flower, and there are flowers emerging from fruits, which results in young fruits hanging from older fruits.
No plants other than cacti have this growth form.
These are ripe fruits of P. sacharosa.
The flattened pads on the sides of Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis reveal that it is an opuntioid species.
Notice the round trunk—even when young it is cylindrical, not flattened.
As it continues to grow, the trunk becomes stout and woody, and the lateral pad-shaped branches elongate by adding new pads that gradually become rounded as wood accumulates inside them.
tree in the foreground— a good indication that this region receives ample moisture.
wherever the stem touches the ground. Other species of Monvillea are more upright and treelike.
Monvillea cavendishii did not bloom for us in the greenhouse, but when we transplanted it outdoors, it began to flower reliably.
Flowers open at night and do not last long past sunrise, but the burst of white petals and the cluster of stamens are sufficient rewards to getting up early.
This plant is only two years old and is grown from seed we collected in Bolivia.
The exposed rock is visible in the foreground, but there is soil where there are cacti.
The echinopsises prefer the edge of the laja, where soil is not too deep.
These cacti are temporarily in the sun but will be shaded as shadows of surrounding trees move across them. Behind the echinopsises are terrestrial bromeliads.
Flowers of Echinopsis are always wonderful, making them some of the most popular cacti in cultivation.
dappled sun, rich soil, and lots of water in summer.
Cacti in the Forest's Shade.
The area near Santa Cruz, Bolivia, does not look like cactus habitat: too flat, too grassy, and too forested. Most of our travels through lowland Bolivia to the southeast of Santa Cruz pass through habitat such as this. Fortunately for us, the area harbors many unusual cacti.
In about May or June, it will be much drier than this.


The musical adaptation of the holiday film classic is nostalgic, visually striking, and unashamedly Christmassy.
The cast of Irving Berlin's White Christmas at the Kennedy Center. Photograph © Sharon Sipple.
carols, even realistic snow (the first we've seen in these parts this year).
role has been enhanced there—but the end results are what you'd expect.
his more manic part with kind of a workhorse enthusiasm and charisma.
the second act) and the complex chorus number, "Snow," set on the train ride to Vermont.
to the audience, while the character of a harried, melodramatic stage manager (Kilty Reidy) is over-the-top and trying.
show itself, the best things happen when there is dancing.


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Q: addrecords event doesn't work on Sencha Touch store here is my code
Ext.define('MyModel', {
    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
    config: {
        fields: ['name', {
            name: 'twitter',
            type: 'string'
        }]
    }
});

Ext.define('Fiddle.MyStore', {
    extend: 'Ext.data.Store',

    config: {
        model: 'MyModel',
        listeners: {

        }
    },
     addrecords: function(store, records, eOpts) {
                console.log('new recorded have been added.');
                console.log('new recorded number = ' + store.getCount());
            }
});

Ext.application({
    name: 'Fiddle',

    launch: function() {
        Ext.Msg.alert('Fiddle', 'Welcome to Sencha Fiddle!');
        var mystore = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
            data: [{
                name: 'Mitchell Simoens',
                twitter: 'SenchaMitch'
            }, {
                name: 'Jay Garcia',
                twitter: 'ModusJeasus'
            }, {
                name: 'Anthony De Moss',
                twitter: 'ademoss1'
            }]

        });

        mystore.add({
            name: "winston fan",
            twitter: 'WFC'
        });

        //console.log('mystore has ' + mystore.getCount());
    }
});

and here is the sencha fiddle :
https://fiddle.sencha.com/#fiddle/6d1
I know I can use mystore.on() to bind the event, but it's hard to do it in my case. So I'd like to put the addrecords into the config of the store. But no matter where I put the code
   addrecords: function(store, records, eOpts) {
                console.log('new recorded have been added.');
                console.log('new recorded number = ' + store.getCount());
            }

either in listeners under config section, or directly under the store, the addrecords event doesn't get triggered. It is only triggered when I use mystore.on('addrecords', function() {}); .
Can anyone tell me how to put the event in the config of the store?
thank you.

A: Events in config of the store are a bad idea, as they can be easily overriden, but they go inside listeners. listeners: { addrecords: function() {...} }
Really, a controller should add the listener using store.on('addrecords', function ....)
(and of course the framework is working; your code is broken ;-) )

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Dressed for a post-harvest dance, Lakotas pose at the Burlington depot in Alliance in the 1930s. NSHS RG2063-50-1 (at left).
A potato cellar in Box Butte County, 1917. Potatoes had to be picked and stored before the first hard freeze, which would spoil any unharvested potatoes. The western Nebraska potato industry developed in the early twentieth century, but had largely faded by the 1960s. NSHS RG3152-3-17 (above).
Harvesting southeast of Alliance. Digging potatoes was notoriously hard work. Many Lakota workers (not shown here) picked 100 to 150 bushels a day. An excellent picker could pick up to 200 bushels or more in a day. NSHS RG1431-8-24 (above right).


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Home Government Elections Can Bernie Break From His Hamlet Complex?
Can Bernie Break From His Hamlet Complex?
A new collapse is coming on and the coronavirus (whatever its origins) is being used to trigger that collapse.
Matthew J.L. Ehret
The fact that America needs a major change in healthcare is indisputable, and Bernie Sanders has made a career promoting the idea that socialism may not be antagonistic to the American way of life in the modern era. As the fear of a new pandemic spreads through the global psyche, serious discussion is now occurring about what role government must play in dealing with this crisis.
The deep state tied to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Michael Bloomberg School for Public Health at John Hopkins, CIA and World Economic Forum obviously would like nothing more than use this crisis to impose a world government and finally rid the world of "outdated nation-states". These four organizations co-sponsored the "Global pandemic" exercise called Event 201 on October 19, 2019, to deal with the "hypothetical" global spread of the coronavirus.
Others would prefer nation states take the reins in defense of their own citizens without a world government running the show from above. I think that Bernie Sanders would generally be placed in this category.
One thing is certain: The current American healthcare system and de-industrialized economic sector cannot handle any outbreak and desperately needs to be reformed. Universal healthcare is thus a no-brainer and the current crisis may force that "socialist" reality onto America.
Observing Bernie's behavior over the past years, I am having a very hard time believing that he has the capacity to really carry out those noble goals he has tirelessly promoted for decades for the simple fact that he suffers from a very serious Hamlet complex.
Hamlet in Brief
In Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet, the young prince has good reason to believe that his newly deceased father (the king of Denmark) has been murdered by his Uncle- who also just so happens to have married the Queen (Hamlet's mother) before his father's body was cold. Hanging above the entire play like a sword of Damocles is an invasion planned by Norway, which is preparing to take over the kingdom.
As the play unfolds, the young prince battles with himself. As a man loved by the people with a strong moral instinct and heir to the throne, he has great power and responsibility to be Denmark's leader and raise resistance to the coming onslaught. His elderly uncle will not live much longer and real political power is at his fingertips.
On the other hand, his burning passion to revenge his murdered father is all-consuming and blinds him to his higher moral duties both to himself and the people.
This schism between two opposing worlds is displayed perfectly in the famous soliloquy where the young prince asks whether he will choose "to be" or "not to be".
In the end, the young Prince is incapable of breaking from his fears of potency and actually being a historic man. The soliloquy ends with Hamlet saying:
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action."
The prince gives into his impotent fears and chooses instead "not to be", giving into his base impulses for revenge which he knows will lead to his own destruction. After this soliloquy, Hamlet's fate (and that of Denmark's) is sealed and the tragedy runs its course.
Bernie's Hamlet Complex
Unlike most figures campaigning for political office with noble intentions, Bernie has been granted several chances to wrestle with his own fears of success and take a leading role in American politics, but up until now, he has chosen "not to be" each time.
The first chance arrived famously in 2016, just as WikiLeaks exposed the sickening reality that the entire deep state apparatus controlling the DNC had conspired blatantly to crush his chances of gaining the party nomination to run in the elections. With the righteous indignation of a disenchanted democratic voter base behind him, Bernie knew that he had a peoples' army on his side, as well as irrefutable evidence of a conspiracy to destroy his candidacy in favor of Hillary.
Had Bernie chosen "to be", then he would have easily swept the elections. But that required intention and courage, two qualities the 2016 Bernie lacked and he demonstrated that by pitifully endorsing the murderous Hillary Clinton.
By some miracle, Bernie again found himself placed in front of another deep state tool four years later as the democratic primaries had narrowed the playing field down to just two individuals: Creepy Joe Biden and Bernie.
Suddenly, as if through divine intervention, Bernie was given a second chance to retake his failed moral test of 2016 and make amends with the conscience that earlier made a total coward of him.
This divine intervention took the form of the Democratic National Committee's blatant blocking of Tulsi's right to speak in the March 15 debate with a last-minute change in the rules forcing any eligible candidate to have over 20% of the delegate votes.
Here it was.
Bernie had the chance to stand for justice by defending Tulsi's right to speak and expose the evil agenda of the deep state that had unjustly conspired to destroy his own campaign in 2016. Doing this would have moralized the democratic base profoundly and given the people something to actually believe in. This would have demonstrated that Bernie had the moral capacity to withstand the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortunes of the deep state and carry out the type of reform he had spent a lifetime campaigning for.
But instead, Bernie chose the easy path of not being once again and rendered himself impotent and obsolete by stroking Biden and letting Tulsi hang in the wind.
Perhaps fate will give Bernie yet another chance to redeem himself. Perhaps this path is still available to the old socialist campaigner who might still take a lesson from Trump and go on the offensive against the Deep State. Perhaps this new potent Bernie will take the strength he gains from this crisis and turns the laws of the nation against the Wall Street/City of London shadow government and in defense of the people the way Franklin Roosevelt had done with the crisis of the great depression and rise of fascism in his day.
Or perhaps the old socialist has become too encrusted in the identity of a lifelong "campaigner against injustice" but fearful of actually winning. Perhaps years of studies of Marx's cynical theory of class struggle have broken the old socialist's belief in America's constitutional form of government in ways too grave to heal. Of course, his stated ideals assert his belief in this republican system but his cynical inner beliefs that presuppose constant revolution and resistance against the bourgeoisie forbid a faith that one man can actually use the system to win real power and defeat the evil he knows exists within America's structures of power.
One thing is certain: A new collapse is coming on and the coronavirus (whatever its origins) is being used to trigger that collapse. Within the battle that is now emerging between genuinely non-tragic leaders of nation-states like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and a growing array of others, no Hamlet can be expected to steer America through the oncoming storm and into safety.
Appendix: Hamlet
Act 3, Scene 1 Soliloquy
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review, a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of 'Untold History of Canada' book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation and can be reached at [email protected]
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ed67000 April 1, 2020 at 12:30 am
I think that Bernie let Hillary steal the primary from him for fear of 'Alabamacide"
'if you catch my drift
melville pouwels March 30, 2020 at 10:12 pm
mathew, i dont believe its the people who dont want bernie… for the same reasons you dont hear people complaining about his poor efforts..it's THE MEDIA to blame.
they decide who will lead this country, the jewish owned, new world order,world wide, one opinion on everything you need to know [not what's actually happening in iraq,iran, libya,somalia,afghanistan,yemen,ALL of south america,russia & china ]

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#ifndef QWEBVIEW_IOS_P_H
#define QWEBVIEW_IOS_P_H

//
//  W A R N I N G
//  -------------
//
// This file is not part of the Qt API.  It exists purely as an
// implementation detail.  This header file may change from version to
// version without notice, or even be removed.
//
// We mean it.
//

#include <QtCore/qobject.h>
#include <QtCore/qurl.h>
#include <QtGui/qwindow.h>

#include "qwebview_p_p.h"

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

Q_FORWARD_DECLARE_OBJC_CLASS(WebView);

class QOsxWebViewPrivate : public QWebViewPrivate
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    QOsxWebViewPrivate(QWebView *q);
    ~QOsxWebViewPrivate();

    QUrl url() const;
    void setUrl(const QUrl &url);
    bool canGoBack() const;
    bool canGoForward() const;
    QString title() const;
    int loadProgress() const;
    bool isLoading() const;
    void runJavaScriptPrivate(const QString& script, int callbackId);

    void setParentView(QObject *view) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;
    QObject *parentView() const Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;
    void setGeometry(const QRect &geometry) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;
    void setVisibility(QWindow::Visibility visibility) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;
    void setVisible(bool visible) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;

public Q_SLOTS:
    void goBack();
    void goForward();
    void reload();
    void stop();
    void loadHtml(const QString &html, const QUrl &baseUrl = QUrl()) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;

public:
    QWindow *m_window;
    WebView *webView;
    int requestFrameCount;
};

QT_END_NAMESPACE

#endif // QWEBVIEW_IOS_P_H

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You are looking great darling!!! Fabulous!! I am so proud of you!!
Launna, you look beautiful! You have really accomplished a lot. I saw your picture earlier on Instagram but this one is even better. Someday I hope you will write a guest post for me about your weight loss. I have few people lined up to do a post for me. I am going to have A Biggest Loser series. You would be great for it.
WOW! What a huge difference! Good for you, kiddo. I'm really proud of you.
I'm so happy for you. It takes such great will to take control of your life and your health, I'm very proud of you for accomplishing this. Great job!
Looking great maim!! Keep it up!
You look beautiful the way you are! You did a great job, well done!!
Wow! Amazing progress! You look shockingly!
Oh my days, you look so great and have lost so much weight. It's one thing when you say you've lost weight and another thing when you can actually see such a big difference. Well done mate. Now, you just need to make sure you don't get too thin.
Launna, your hard work and determination has really paid off. You look fantastic, and what's more important is that, I bet you feel much healthier and have more energy. Congratulations on your success. You are a true inspiration!
What a wonderful accomplishment -- you have every reason to be very proud! You look fantastic and I can't wait to see how awesome you look in a few more months!!! Keep up the great work. 2 thumbs up for you!
Congratulations, dear friend! You look great! and I´m glad David is better. Kisses from Spain!
Sorry you've had to deal with some sadness in your 15 week journey. How wonderful you look - I am proud for you and your hard work to achieve what you've always wanted.
Wow, that's truly amazing. I'm so happy for you, I hope your journey will contintue to a very good place where there is no more sadness.
btw. your cursor and blog design are so so so nice :D i love hearts !!!
Wow!!!!! Amazing!!!! You look so pretty! Congratulations!!!
You are a fighter, a wonderful inspiration and a beautiful person, inside and out ! Congratulations for hanging in there !
I follow you now on GFC, bloglovin, g+, twitter, facebook and instagram!
Here is my blog! Do you want to follow each other? Also it will be my pleasure to leave me a comment there!
This is really encouraging for others to follow...Thanks for sharing.
Oh my gosh- you look great! You go girl!


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Q: getting image from local storage using react I am trying to work on a simple image editor using cropperjs and react, I want my project to let the user upload an image crop it and then download it I am using the browser local storage to store the user's image then I am importing the image from local storage to the canvas, if the user does not upload an image I have a default image to let the user play with.
The local storage is storing the user image properly and download is also working for me but my problem is that the local storage image is not coming to canvas and it shows only the default image.
here is my upload form component code
import React from 'react';
const UploadForm = ({uploader}) => {
    const handleChange = (e) =>{
        uploader(e.target.files[0])
    }
    return <form>
        <input type="file" accept ="image/*" onChange ={handleChange}/>
    </form>;
}
export default UploadForm;

and here is my App component code
import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import Cropper from './comps/cropper.jsx';
import UploadForm from './comps/UploadForm.jsx';
const App = () => {
    const [url, setUrl] =useState('');
        const uploader = (file) =>{
        const reader = new FileReader();
        reader.addEventListener('load', ()=>{
            localStorage.setItem('recent-image',reader.result)
        })
        reader.readAsDataURL(file);
    }
    useEffect(() => {
        setUrl(localStorage.getItem('recent-image'));
    }, [])
    return (

            <UploadForm uploader = {uploader}/>
            <Cropper src ={url}/>

     );
}

export default App;

and here is my cropper component code
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import Cropper from 'cropperjs';
import 'cropperjs/dist/cropper.min.css';
import './cropper.css'
import image from '../image.png';
export class cropper extends Component {
    state= {
        imageDestination:""
    }
    imageElement = React.createRef();
    componentDidMount(){
        const cropper = new Cropper(this.imageElement.current, {
            // zoomable:true,
            scalable:true,
            aspectRatio:1,
            crop:()=>{
                const canvas = cropper.getCroppedCanvas();
                this.setState({
                    imageDestination:canvas.toDataURL('image/png')
                })
            }

        });

    }
    render() {

        return (

                  {this.state.imageDestination&&Download
}

        )
    }
}

export default cropper

A: in cropper.jsx, you export the class cropper and also export default cropper in the end of the file too.
export class cropper extends Component
export default cropper
Maybe that's what is causing the issue


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He fought a good fight, but the coalition against him was unyielding. It happened before, in same Ogun State, when an incumbent governor also had to create a new party and anoint a candidate to succeed him.
At that other time, Gbenga Daniel did not exhibit the kind of sheer gusto and bravado, with which Governor Ibikunle Amosun pursued the election of a successor.
His courage was unshaken and he believed in himself. He wanted to prove that two wrongs could make a right, after what the leadership of his All Progressives Congress (APC) served him.
If Amosun had succeeded to win the governorship election for his choice candidate and their Allied Peoples Movement (APM), he would have made undeniable political history.
Political observers saw this coming. They saw it when the APC steered itself into crisis with the primaries. Though Amosun outsmarted the contrarians from Abuja, the battle was to shift to another plane. The rejection of the primary that favoured Amosun and his team by Abuja signaled dreary outcomes and the manifestations were not wholesome.
The disrupted APC presidential campaign rally in which the President was not well handled further compounded the situation for Amosun. Yet, his spirit was not subdued.
In the Presidential and National Assembly elections, the people of Ogun not only delivered the votes to help President Muhammadu Buhari realise his second term target, but they also rewarded the Amosun with a Senatorial ticket.
It is significant that people of Ogun Central Senatorial Zone kept faith with the outgoing governor by voting him to represent them at the Upper Legislative Chamber. Ogun deserves to have an experienced hand to lead from the front in a polity where all politics is local.
What Amosun fought to achieve most was a situation in which Ogun will not be a satellite for other players in the Southwest to trade with. Going to the Senate, he will still be able to have an eye on the state and all that concern her.
In terms of physical development, irrespective of political leaning, citizens and visitors tend to agree that Amosun and his team have, in the last eight years, delivered an expansive transformation agenda that has seen the state capital and several other cities and major towns in the three Senatorial zones greatly remodeled.
The Mission To Rebuild Ogun State (MITROS) gave the administration an anchor upon which the five point-cardinal programme is situated – affordable and qualitative education; efficient health care delivery; agricultural production and industrialization; affordable housing and urban renewal; and rural and infrastructural development/employment generation.
Based on the programmes, the state has witnessed the design and development of a blueprint to re-engineer her economic, infrastructural and industrial sectors.
The state's Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) profile has improved massively from the pittance figures of about N730 million monthly in 2011 to over N7b .
The urban renewal has opened up the state and its capital to investors.
As at the last count, over 357.11km standard roads, 15 flyovers have been completed and a total of 3,125 roads had also been maintained and repaired in all the three senatorial districts of the state.
During the fourth Investor's Forum in Abeokuta, the governor said additional 13 bridges were constructed over various rivers in the three senatorial districts, while 10 more are on-going in the state.
"In addition to these, several road construction projects have been earmarked… They include construction of an additional 100km of Ogun standard roads, construction of 25 Ogun standard semi-urban roads spanning a total distance of 293.34km throughout the state and construction of another 171 Ogun standard rural feeder roads spanning 1,282.50km in all the 20 local government areas and 37 local council development areas in the state," all these he promised to deliver before the expiration of his tenure in May.
Though the expansion of the 32km Sango-Ijoko-Agbado-Ojodu Abiodun is still under construction, it is doubtful the governor could complete it, but when completed, the project is capable of opening up the area for commercial activities and rapid development.
In the area of education, Ogun under Amosun has initiated 26 standard model colleges, though not all have been completed, across the senatorial zones, to complement the existing secondary schools within the state.
Another area this administration has received thumbs-up is that of the Homeowners' Charter programme, initiated in 2013. It is a lofty idea to bridge the gap of homeowner's requisite documentation of their properties. Not less than 100,000 property owners have acquired their Certificate of Occupancy (CsoO), at a cheaper rate and faster.
It also assisted property owners to regularise the legal status and documentation of their residential property, built without approval on private land or built illegally on government owned lands. The programme has been providing discounts of up to 78 per cent on the usual cost.
The scheme was also aimed at providing data for the medium-term planning for provision of roads, schools, hospitals and other essential services. According to government, it will also address issues of unrecorded properties, while thousands of houses in the state without building plan approval, CsoO and other title documents, will be properly documented within a short period.
The state has also excelled in the area of agriculture. Just two years ago, the state joined the league of Rice producing states, when it launched the state branded MITROS Rice. It also launched a rice-processing factory, the first of its kind in the state, to create jobs for farmers to aid smooth processing of the produce within the state.
The governor noted that the MITROS Rice, could not have come at a more auspicious time, than when government is talking about ensuring food sufficiency, and, diversification of the economy from its over-dependence on crude-oil earnings.
On security, an expert told The Guardian that the fact that the state has become peaceful today owes largely to an effective governance style that promotes selfless and unbiased commitment to all segments of the state, fairness in deployment of state resources and a clear infrastructure re-modeling mission blueprint.
A party chieftain who spoke with The Guardian on the condition of anonymity warned that if the rate at which misguided attacks are targeted at the outgoing governor, especially from members of the APC, it will not allow the state to get out of its present political challenges fast and early enough for a healing process.
The chieftain fears that if the APC in Ogun becomes like the PDP in the state, which has not come out of crisis for 10 years, then the political future of the state will at best be chaotic. He wants politicians to close ranks and desist for casting aspersions. After all, the elections have come and gone.
And for Amosun, he would go to the Senate without his desire to continue to oversee Ogun State and the works he has put in place for eight years. Yet, he will remain a senior ranking member of the NASS and in the APC, with the capacity and experience to join others in the political development of the state.


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Local Section of Canada
Hicham Fenniri, Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at University of Alberta is the Chair of the Local Section of Canada.
Harry Ruda, Stan Meek Chair Professor in Nanotechnology at University of Toronto served as the Chair.
Local Section of Russia
Andrey Rempel, Professor and Corresponding-member at Russian Academy of Sciences is the Chair of the Local Section of Russia.
Anatoliy Dvurechenskii, Professor at Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science served as the Local Chair.
Local Section of Spain
Rafael Luque, Professor at Universidad de Cordoba is the Chair of the Local Section of Spain.
Gerardo Goya, Associate Professor at University of Zaragoza served as the Local Chair.
Local Section of China
Ya-Dong Li, Professor at Tsinghua University is the Chair of the Local Section of China.
Dongyuan Zhao, Professor at Fudan University served as the Local Chair.
Local Section of Italy
Giovanni Neri, Professor at University of Messina is the Chair of the ANS Local Section of Italy.
Alberto Vomiero, Researcher at CNR, National Council for Research is the Local Chair.
Local Section of Taiwan
Shoou-Jinn Chang, Professor at National Cheng Kung University is the Chair of the ANS Local Section of Taiwan.
Pi-Tai Chou, Professor at National Taiwan University served as the Local Chair.
Local Section of India
Sundara Ramaprabhu, Head of Alternative Energy and Nanotechnology Laboratory at IITM is the Chair of the Local Section of India.
Ramgopal Rao, Institute Chair Professor at IIT Bombay served as the Local Chair.
Local Section of the UK
Alexander Seifalian, Professor at University College London is the Chair of the ANS Local Section of the United Kingdom.
Peter Dobson, Director at Begbroke Science Park, Oxford University served as the Local Chair.
Local Section of Turkey
Arzum Erdem, Associate Professor at Ege University is the Chair of the ANS Local Section of Turkey.
Mustafa Culha, Professor at Yeditepe University served as the Local Chair.


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const Koa = require('koa');
const serve = require('koa-static');
const mount = require('koa-mount');
const compose = require('koa-compose');
const bodyParser = require('koa-body-parser');

const Searcher = require('./google');
const Mail = require('./email');

const app = new Koa();
app.use(bodyParser());

app.use(mount('/api/searchbook', async (ctx, next) => {
  const start = Date.now();
  const { book: { name }, email } = ctx.request.body;

  if (!email || !name) {
    ctx.body = "email and book's name is required";
    ctx.status = 400;
    return;
  }

  try {
    console.log(`search ${name}, send to ${email}`);

    const g = new Searcher(name);
    const files = await g.getFiles();

    if (files.length === 0) {
      ctx.body = "can not find " + name;
      ctx.status = 400;
      return;
    }

    console.log('sending files', files.map(f => ({ name: f.filename, size: f.content.length })));
    const f = await Mail.sendMail(email, files, name);
    const filesJson = files.map(f => ({ name: f.filename, size: f.content.length }));
    console.log(`files sent: ${JSON.stringify(filesJson)}`);

    console.log('=================================== finished====================================');
    console.log(`=== mail ${email}`);
    console.log(`=== name ${name}`);
    console.log(`=== cost ${(Date.now() - start) / 1000}s`);
    console.log('================================================================================');
    ctx.body = JSON.stringify(filesJson);
    ctx.status = 200;
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('error occurs', e);
    ctx.body = e;
    ctx.status = 500;
  }

}));

app.use(serve('dist'));

module.exports = app;


Muhamed Besic plays the position Midfield, is 26 years old and 180cm tall, weights 75kg.
In the current club Middlesbrough played 2 seasons, during this time he played 58 matches and scored 3 goals.
How many goals has Muhamed Besic scored this season?
In the current season Muhamed Besic scored 2 goals.
In the club he scored 2 goals ( Championship, FA Cup, Capital One). Muhamed Besic this seasons has also noted 5 assists, played 4557 minutes, with 28 times he played game in first line.
Muhamed Besic shots an average of 0.05 goals per game in club competitions.
In the current season for Middlesbrough Muhamed Besic gave a total of 40 shots, of which 10 were shots on goal. Passes completed Muhamed Besic is 86 percent.


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Home > Safer Neighbourhoods
Metropolitan Police's Head of Community Engagement has written to all community groups, reminding us that:
if any member of the community spots anything that they are unhappy about, then they should report this to the police by dialling 101, or the anti-terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321. If it is urgent please call 999.
at times like this, there is always a risk that the incidence of hate crime will increase. Any such incidents should be reported to the police immediately, where they will be dealt with promptly by specialist officers
Parks and Squares
Islington Council have informed us that due to cutbacks, some parks and squares in Islington are being left permanently unlocked, Percy Circus and Vernon Square amongst them. Apparently they have increased the number of their Anti-social Behaviour Wardens and Anti-social Behaviour can be reported by ringing 020 7527 7272.
POLICE SAFER NEIGHBOURHOODS TEAM (CLERKENWELL)
The following information is broadly correct but a little out of date. For up-to-date contact information please click here. For minutes of Safer Neighbourhood Panel meetings click below:-
The Police Service in the borough is organised in separate teams with different roles and targets; other parts of the police service operate on a London wide or even national basis.
The team with the most local focus is the Safer Neighbourhoods Team which in Islington is restricted to a single ward. There are also Neighbourhood Support Teams which can back up the ward based teams if they are facing exceptional problems.
The purpose of a Safer Neighbourhoods Team is to deal with low level crime and anti-social behaviour, but the team will work alongside other parts of the police service dealing with more serious crime where necessary. Their local knowledge is often very valuable.
The Clerkenwell Safer Neighbourhoods Team consists of one police sergeant, one police constable and one police community safety officer. They have an office in Goswell Road and are also based at Islington Police Station, but spend most of their time patrolling the area and talking to residents. They work closely with the Council and other community organisations and associations in the area.
Team Members are:
PC James Ryder
PCSO Joanna Rondos
112-114 Goswell Road EC1
E-mail clerkenwell.snt@met.police.uk
They are available to meet the public at this office, known as a contact point, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings between 7.00 and 8.00 pm and on Saturday afternoons between 2.00 and 3.00 pm.
101 in a non emergency, when a crime has already been committed or any other query.
999 in an emergency when a crime is about to be or in the process of being committed.
The police would like the public to report every incident because information helps to build intelligence.
ISLINGTON COUNCIL'S ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR TEAM AND MAGPI.
Islington Council employ an anti-social behaviour team who operate on a sector basis. They can be contacted 24 hours a day and are able to respond quickly to incidents. They do not have powers of arrest, but can move people on, and summon the police if necessary. They work closely with the police safer neighbourhood teams, and are able to identify offenders and build up a picture of what is going on.
Their telephone number for reporting incidents is:
MAGPI stands for Multi-Agency Geographical panels in Islington. There are four MAGPIs each with its own co-ordinator funded by the council. We come under the South area and our co-ordinator is Johnathon Gallagher. His contact details are:
E-mail: johnathon.gallagher@islington.gov.uk
The purpose of the MAGPI is to bring a wide range of agencies together which can share information, expertise and resources in order to resolve the problems of anti-social behaviour and low level crime. The MAGPI tends to deal with problematic hot spots rather than individual cases, and works by assessing and deciding on actions concerning the perpetrators, the victims and the location. Anyone can make a referral to the MAGPI, but it tends to be the agencies who are already involved with it.
CLERKENWELL SAFER NEIGHBOURHOODS PANEL
When the police safer neighbourhood teams were set up, safer neighbourhood panels were instituted to advise the police teams. The panels are made up from members of the community and are non-statutory, independent and voluntary.
The purpose of the panel is to work closely with the police team and to agree priorities for policing across the ward. The decisions are based on information brought to the panel by its members after consultation with their neighbours, and the information that the police have gained from crime statistics and their own experience of policing the area. Members of the panel are usually representatives of very small localities such as an estate or a square, and have a good knowledge of what is going on. The panel is keen to welcome new members from parts of the ward which are not represented.
The panel meets every two months, when the latest incidents of anti=social behaviour and the resulting police action are discussed and future police action decided. It is also an opportunity for the police to inform local residents of new initiatives and crime statistics.
The Chair of the Panel is:
Howard Clark who can be contacted on:
clerkenwellsnp@gmail.com
MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR POLICING AND CRIME (MOPAC)
MOPAC, under the direction of Boris Johnson, is responsible for setting a strategy for policing in London and for allocating funding. If you are interested you can read the whole London Policing and Crime Plan on http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/policing-crime/mission-priorities/police-and-crime-plan.
From January 2013 a new structure for policing in London came into being.
THE LOCAL POLICING MODEL is summarised as follows:
Safer Neighbourhoods policing. Over 4,600 police officers will be directed to neighbourhood teams (currently approximately 2000 officers work in safer neighbourhoods). Each of these neighbourhood teams will have a broader remit to cut crime, support victims and tackle offending. They will be supported by teams of officers who will both provide patrolling support and responsive back up. Inspector-led teams will work in Local Police Areas; every ward will have a named sergeant, and a dedicated base team with greater flexibility for borough commanders to deploy staff within the borough. Other police constables, police community support officers, special constables and volunteers will work across the Local Police Area according to need. Safer Schools officers will be retained for every secondary school that wants one. Each borough will maintain its own borough commander
Emergency response and patrol – Inspector-led teams will provide emergency response, patrol to prevent crime and respond to disorder.
Proactive and reactive investigation – Small squads at borough level focused on narrow crime types will be disbanded, allowing better use of resources. Community Safety Units, dealing with issues such as hate crime and domestic violence will remain.
Uniformed borough tasking teams – These provide flexible resources for reducing crime and preserving public order.
Grip and pace centers – These enable senior leaders to drive activity and ensure threats are tackled quickly and opportunities to reduce harm are taken.
Local Policing Model resources do not comprise the whole resource working at borough level by any means. For example, Territorial Support Group (TSG), Traffic, Trident, Sapphire, Specialist Operations and other units are all additional.
In 2011 Islington had 48 Safer Neighbourhood Officers. In 2015 it will have 140.


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Everything You Need to Know About Bachelorette Frontrunner Carlin Sterritt
Who Is Carlin Sterritt The Bachelorette Australia 2019?
11 November, 2019 by holley.gawne
From the moment this season of The Bachelorette started, there have been some clear frontrunners in the race for Angie Kent's heart. One of the contestants who has stood out from the get-go is Carlin Sterritt, a 30-year-old fitness trainer from New South Wales. Although his dashing good looks immediately caught Angie's eye, it's obvious there is far more than just a physical attraction between the two. So strong was their connection from night one that Angie gifted Carlin the 24-hour rose, meaning he nabbed the first single date of the season. Given what a contender Carlin clearly is, we figured we ought to do a proper deep dive into his life in order to learn a little more about the man who may just make it all the way.
So, without further ado, here is everything you need to know about Carlin.
I've Correctly Predicted Every Bachelorette Winner And This Is Who I Think Wins Angie's Heart
He Is a F45 Trainer
Although Carlin is a man of many talents, as we discovered, it appears his main occupation is as a 545 trainer in Sydney. More than just a day job, it's clear Carlin is passionate about health and fitness, as a quick glance at his Instagram page reveals. Having posted a number of pre and post workout selfies that feature 545 decor and merchandise, it's safe to say Carlin is a bonafide gym junkie.
He Is Also an Actor and Model
On top of his work as a fitness trainer, Carlin has also made a splash in both the acting and modelling worlds. According to his IMDB page, he is set to play a lead role in the upcoming film Out of The Woods, and has also played smaller parts in several TV shows, short films and TV movies. As well as that, he has appeared in commercials for companies such as McDonald's, Bundaberg and Huawei. Just when we thought he couldn't get any more talented, it turns out he was runner-up in the Mr World Australia pageant back in 2014. Since then, he has continued modelling, and frequently posts snaps from photoshoots to the 'gram.
He Dabbled In Influencing Prior to the Show
While many Bachelor and Bachelorette alumni go on to gain a significant Instagram following that leads them to pursue influencing post-show, it's clear that Carlin already dabbled in social media work. Not only did he already boast close to 30,000 followers prior to trying his hand at reality TV, but he has endorsed such products as ready made meals and protein powder. Given that his Instagram following has already almost doubled since the show premiered, we are willing to bet this is one side hustle he won't be giving up any time soon.
Yes, He Has Been Married Before
As he revealed on his first single date with Angie, Carlin has indeed been married before. He explained on the show that he tied the knot in 2016, and separated from his wife around 18 months later due to growing apart. While (at the time of filming at least) he is still technically married due to the divorce not yet being finalised, it is evident that he has well and truly moved on. "Married at 27, divorced at 30. . . I'm not "successful" but I am living a full life knowing I don't have to please anyone and I know who I am and what I want" he said in a " target="_blank">Instagram post back in March.
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Coppola Pens New Story for Virginia Dare
Winery shares name with historical figure and longstanding wine company
The name behind the new Virginia Dare winery in Geyserville has a long history in wine and beyond.
Geyserville, Calif.—When Francis Ford Coppola, who bought the former Geyser Peak Winery in Geyserville, disclosed the new name of the facility on Sept. 24, a venerable name returned to the business: Virginia Dare.
Coppola has been teasing the market for a year as it introduced wines called The White Doe, Manteo, Two Arrowheads and The Lost Colony under the auspices of the American Pioneer Wine Growers.
"The myth of Virginia Dare always intrigued me," said the legendary screenwriter and director, who also owns the nearby Francis Ford Coppola Winery (formerly Chateau Souverain.)
His Virginia Dare Winery plans to release its flagship wines—Virginia Dare Chardonnay and Virginia Dare Pinot Noir, both from the Russian River Valley—in November.
Corey Beck, president, director of winemaking and general manager of Francis Ford Coppola Winery says the company also will use the facility to make some wines under the Francis Ford Coppola label.
"The goal of the winery is to dedicate it to Sonoma County wines."
He added that the property has a visitor center and has already broken ground for a restaurant. The winery's tasting room is open daily from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Geyser Peak's history
Geyser Peak Winery was founded in 1880 by Augustus Quitzow, a pioneer in Alexander Valley winemaking and an immigrant from Germany, who put up a small wooden winery in 1880. By 1884 he had lost it to a local bank.
Large-scale operations began when New York liquor importer Edward Walden bought the property and built a bulk winery and distillery in 1887.
By the 1890s Walden & Co. was one of the largest brandy producers in the world. But in 1904, the family lost control of the Sonoma business, and for a few years it was run as a growers' cooperative by W. S. Kelley and Oscar Le Baron.
In 1911 A.G. Dondero formed the Ciocca-Lombardi Wine Co., tore down the old winery and built a new one, calling it Geyser Peak. He operated there into the 1970s.
When Prohibition came, the company produced vinegar.
Dondero started up bulk commercial winemaking in 1933, but the Bagnani family bought the place after his death in 1936 and concentrated on Four Monks vinegar
In 1972, George Vare convinced the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. to buy the plant and turn it into a winery, creating Geyser Peak. He was president of the winery from 1972 to 1979, when it grew into one of California's larger wineries, producing 700,000 cases per year.
Schlitz built a modern winery in 1976. Sales reached 1 million cases of value-priced wine by 198o.
Then Schlitz was acquired by another beer company, Stroh Brewing Co. of Detroit in 1982, and Stroh quickly sold the winery to Victor and Mark Trione of Sonoma County.
In 1998, the Trione family sold Geyser Peak Winery for $100 million to Fortune Brands, which later sold it to Constellation for $885 million in 2007.
Ascentia bought Geyser Peak and seven other wineries from Constellation Brands in 2012.
Accolade bought the winery property from VinREIT, a subsidiary of Entertainment Properties Trust, now EPR Properties, after it assumed the lease from defunct Ascentia Wine Estates. It was one of the last remnants of Entertainment Properties' ill-fated entry into the wine business.
Accolade had been Constellation's arm for Australian and European wines until the investment group CHAMP purchased an 80% stake in the businesses in 2011.
Coppola bought the winery from Accolade Wines in 2013. Accolade kept the brand name and produced wines under contract there.
Virginia Dare's colorful past
Virginia Dare, originally known as Garrett & Co., was started in 1835 as a winery in North Carolina.
The name came from Virginia Dare, who was born Aug. 18, 1587, on Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. She was the first white, English-speaking, Christian child born in what is now the United States. (Of course, the Spanish had settled Florida and the Southwest long before, and children likely were born there.)
The baby was named after the Virginia Colony, which then included the area.
A Scuppernong mother vine still grows on Roanoke Island.
What became of Dare and the other colonists remains a mystery. John White, Dare's grandfather and the governor of the colony, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies, but when he returned three years later, the colonists were gone.
What is known is that wild Scuppernong vines grew at the colony, and the colonists ate the grapes and surely made wine. A 400-year-old "mother vine" still grows on Roanoke Island.
Virginia Dare red and white wines were some of the most popular wines sold during the early 1900s and before Prohibition. Although Virginia Dare wine was a grape blend, each variety contained Scuppernong—a Muscadine grape. The wine was noted for its sweet taste and commonly was used as a dessert wine.
Garrett & Co. produced a line of Virginia Dare wine in the early part of the 20th century.
Mission Vineyard winery in Cucamonga, Calif., operated under the name of Virginia Dare Winery in the early part of the 20th century, after Garrett bought it.
The product's popularity rested in great part because winemaker Paul Garrett led an innovative and aggressive advertising campaign.
After Paul Garrett's Special Champagne won the coveted sparkling wine prize at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, he used the new fame to create a winemaking empire.
He published The Art of Serving Wine to introduce wine etiquette to a potential market using Scuppernong wines as examples and promoting Scuppernong's history among the earliest English settlers.
To that end, he also used Sally Cotton's fanciful The White Doe: The Fate of Virginia Dare to promote his wines.
The first radio advertisement for wine, according to historian Clarence Gohdes, was a Virginia Dare wine jingle. Across the nation people heard the words, "Say it again—Virginia Dare."
Around 1920 Garrett & Co. moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., just as the country went dry and Prohibition forced Virginia Dare to reconsider its business model. Garrett & Co. continued to make wine, but they took out the alcohol and tried to retain the wine's flavor.
The extracted alcohol was used to make pure fruit and vegetable flavors ranging from vanilla to onion.
The plant continued to turn out more than 15 million quart bottles of Virginia Dare non-alcoholic "wine" per year as well as 20 million bottles of flavoring extract.
So rapidly did the flavoring business grow that Brooklyn became a leader in the field, and the company opened a new plant in St. Louis, Mo.
The company also sold concentrated grapes with instructions for making wine at home. (Home winemaking was legal—and still is—up to 200 gallons per year.)
When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the company resumed selling wine. By 1941 the company was producing sparkling wines (then called Champagnes) as well as its regular wines and employing about 200 people.
Grapes from New Jersey were made into wine at the plant, and wine imported from California and North Carolina was bottled there.
The sparkling wines were made from New York state vineyards at Penn Yan, N.Y. By 1945 the company owned 10,000 acres of vineyards in New York, North Carolina and California. That year, it bought the plant of the Italian Vineyard Co. in Guasti, Calif.
In 1965, Canandaigua Vineyards (now Constellation Brands) bought the company's wine business.
The flavoring extract side of the business, however, continues to operate out of Brooklyn and supply the wine world.
"The Virginia Dare Flavor Co. is completely separate, and the Virginia Dare Wine label was sold to Constellation some years ago," Beck told Wines & Vines. "We bought the label/name from Constellation."
Virginia Dare's wine flavor portfolio consists of TTB-approvable stock flavors for commercial-scale wineries such as sangria, mulled spice, peach, strawberry and chocolate. A complete line of fruit flavors is available for adding taste accent notes to wines. Virginia Dare has an enologist on staff and technical and regulatory staff familiar with TTB requirements.
Paul Garrett made Virginia Dare wines popular with his clever marketing; it looks like Francis Coppola, who has also turned his wines into a success story, seems a worthy successor. But though southern-born proprietor Paul Dean of Spiriterra Vineyards of St. Helena, Calif., in Napa Valley grows Muscadine grapes and makes wine, it's unlikely the new Virginia Dare Winery will follow suit.
If they did, they'd probably find it a hard sell among most wine drinkers. Though Scuppernong and other Muscadine wines contain a high level of polyphenolic antioxidants, they are definitely an acquired taste. Nevertheless, Duplin Winery of North Carolina makes 400,000 cases of the wines each year.
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Q: trouble reading file in same script after print export via sys.stdout to the same file I am utilizing an audio analysis script that outputs a bunch of print commands. After the print commands are all executed and exported to an external text file via sys.stdout in the script, I want to read the text file in the same script. However, the text file comes out empty within the script. I have tried running f.flush() and f.seek() which doesn't help. When I open the text file after the script has completed, the contents of all the print commands display as expected. It looks like the script has to complete in order for sys.stdout() to write the contents to the external file. Can I ensure that this step happens prior to the f.read() at the end of my script?
import sys
sys.path.append(".")
#print(sys.path)

import time

import warnings
warnings.simplefilter(action='ignore', category=FutureWarning)

start_time = time.time()

import numba
import numpy as np
import librosa

def print_color(msg, color=32):
    if sys.stdout.isatty():
        print("\033[{color}m {msg} \033[0m".format(msg=msg, color=color))
    else:
        print(" *** {msg} ***".format(msg=msg))

# TODO: configure this via cmdline
SAMPLE_RATE = 44100 # Hz
ELF_THRESHOLD_DB = -22 #dB
#OLDBUCKET N_FFT = 16384
N_FFT = 13000
FIRST_BASS_BUCKET = 0
LAST_BASS_BUCKET = 11
LAST_ANALYSIS_BUCKET = 64
DEBUG_ENABLED = False

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print("ElfTag: Extremely Low Frequency Audio Tagger")
    print("Usage: %(cmd)s </path/to/directory>" % {"cmd": sys.argv[0]})
    sys.exit(0)

#filename = sys.argv[1]
directory = sys.argv[1]
print(directory)
#filename = librosa.util.example_audio_file()
#filename = "/Volumes/SDXC128GB/ElfTag/sp/02. Luma.mp3"

def debug(msg):
    if DEBUG_ENABLED:
        print(msg)

files = librosa.util.find_files(directory)
print("Total Tracks: ",len(files))
queue = (len(files))

class Tee:
    def write(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.out1.write(*args, **kwargs)
        self.out2.write(*args, **kwargs)
    def __init__(self, out1, out2):
        self.out1 = out1
        self.out2 = out2
    def flush(self):
        pass

import sys
logfile = input ("Enter Filename for Log File: ")
sys.stdout = Tee(open(logfile, "w"), sys.stdout)

for filename in files:
    try:
        queue = queue - 1
        print(queue, "Songs Remaining")
        print("Loading %(filename)s" % {"filename": filename})
        y, sr = librosa.load(filename, sr=None)
        duration = librosa.core.get_duration(y=y, sr=sr)
        print("Detected sample rate: %(sr)d Hz, duration: %(duration)f seconds." % {"sr": sr, "duration": duration})

        bin_size_hz = float(sr) / N_FFT
        num_bins = N_FFT / 2 + 1
        print("Using transform length of %(n_fft)d for FFT, which gives us %(num_bins)d bins at %(bin_size_hz)f Hz per bin." % {"n_fft": N_FFT, "num_bins": num_bins, "bin_size_hz": bin_size_hz})

        start_hz = bin_size_hz * FIRST_BASS_BUCKET
        end_hz = bin_size_hz * (LAST_BASS_BUCKET + 1)
        anal_hz = bin_size_hz * (LAST_ANALYSIS_BUCKET + 1)
        print("Detecting deep bass as peaks between %(start)f Hz and %(end)f Hz above %(db)d dB chosen from frequency range below %(anal)f Hz." % { "start" : start_hz, "end" : end_hz, "db" : ELF_THRESHOLD_DB, "anal" : anal_hz })

        #y = librosa.core.to_mono(y)
        D = librosa.stft(y, n_fft = N_FFT)

        tempo, beats = librosa.beat.beat_track(y=y, sr=sr, units='frames', hop_length=512)
        numBeats = beats.shape[0]
        print("Estimated tempo: %(tempo)f." % {"tempo" : tempo})
        print("Number of beats detected: %(beats)d." % {"beats" : numBeats})

        # Split into Harmonic and Percussive layers to aid with beat detection
        #H, P = librosa.decompose.hpss(D)
        P = D
        P = librosa.amplitude_to_db(P, ref=np.max)

        totalFrames = P.shape[1]
        print("Total frames: %(frames)d, about %(secPerFrame)f seconds per frame" % {"frames": totalFrames, "secPerFrame": (duration / totalFrames)})

        # Select significant bass frame rows
        Pbass = P[FIRST_BASS_BUCKET:(LAST_ANALYSIS_BUCKET + 1)]

        firstFrame = np.argmax(Pbass.max(axis=0) > -80)
        debug("firstFrame")
        debug(firstFrame)

        Pbass = Pbass[:, firstFrame:]
        debug("Pbass")
        debug(Pbass)

        localmaxBass = librosa.util.localmax(Pbass)
        debug("localmaxBass")
        debug(localmaxBass)

        maskBass = localmaxBass[FIRST_BASS_BUCKET:(LAST_BASS_BUCKET + 1)]
        debug("maskBass")
        debug(maskBass)

        ourBass = Pbass[FIRST_BASS_BUCKET:(LAST_BASS_BUCKET + 1)]
        debug("ourBass")
        debug(ourBass)

        filteredBass = (ourBass > ELF_THRESHOLD_DB)
        debug("filteredBass")
        debug(filteredBass)

        peakFilteredBass = np.multiply(filteredBass, maskBass)
        debug("peakFilteredBass")
        debug(peakFilteredBass)

        vertBassFrames = np.sum(filteredBass, axis=0)
        debug("vertBassFrames")
        debug(vertBassFrames)

        horizBassFrames = (vertBassFrames > 0)
        debug("horizBassFrames")
        debug(horizBassFrames)

        deepBassFrames = np.nonzero(horizBassFrames)[0]
        debug("deepBassFrames")
        debug(deepBassFrames.shape)
        debug(deepBassFrames)

        # Adjacent Deep Bass detector

        shiftedHorizBassFrames = np.append(horizBassFrames[1:], [False])
        andedShiftedHorizBassFrames = np.logical_and(horizBassFrames, shiftedHorizBassFrames)
        adjacentHorizBassFrames = np.logical_and(andedShiftedHorizBassFrames, np.append(andedShiftedHorizBassFrames[1:], [False]))

        debug("adjacentHorizBassFrames")
        debug(adjacentHorizBassFrames)

        # /End Adjacent Deep Bass detector

        debug("beats")
        debug(beats.shape)
        debug(beats)

        deepBassBeats = np.intersect1d(deepBassFrames, beats, assume_unique=True)
        debug("deepBassBeats")
        debug(deepBassBeats.shape)
        debug(deepBassBeats)

        numDeepBeats = deepBassBeats.shape[0]
        print("Number of deep beats: %(numDeepBeats)d" % {"numDeepBeats": numDeepBeats})
        deepBeatsPercentage = float(numDeepBeats) / numBeats
        print("Percentage of deep beats: %(deepBeatsPercentage)f" % {"deepBeatsPercentage": deepBeatsPercentage})
        numBassFrames = horizBassFrames.sum()
        print("Number of frames with deep bass: %(frames)d." % {"frames": numBassFrames})
        numAdjacentBassFrames = adjacentHorizBassFrames.sum()
        print("Number of adjacent frames with deep bass: %(frames)d." % {"frames": numAdjacentBassFrames})
        bassFramesPerBeat = float(numBassFrames) / numBeats
        print("Number of deep bass frames per beat: %(bassFramesPerBeat)f" % {"bassFramesPerBeat": bassFramesPerBeat})
        bassFramesPercentage = float(numBassFrames) / totalFrames
        print("Percentage of deep bass frames: %(bassFramesPercentage)f" % {"bassFramesPercentage": bassFramesPercentage})
        adjacentBassFramesPercentage = float(numAdjacentBassFrames) / totalFrames
        print("Percentage of adjacent deep bass frames: %(bassFramesPercentage)f" % {"bassFramesPercentage": adjacentBassFramesPercentage})
        #if %(bassFramesPercentage)f" % {"bassFramesPercentage": adjacentBassFramesPercentage} >= "0.30":
        #    print("DEEP BASS TRACK NEEDS TAGGING")
        print(("--- %s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start_time)))
        #sys.exit(0)

    except:
        continue

f= open(logfile, 'r+')
f.flush()
f.seek(0)
fh = f.read()
print(fh.rstrip())

A: You're not flushing the output file that you're writing to. Implement the flush method in your Tee class:
def flush(self):
    self.out1.flush()
    self.out2.flush()

Then use sys.stdout.flush() at the end of your loop.


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10 Finnish bands to look out for in 2021
2020 was a very dramatic chapter in the book of life. As dark as its pages may have been, we are looking forward to what 2021 brings to the table. This year teased us with some bands who are working towards a 2021 release or bands that have just gotten started in 2021. Here is an overview of bands from Finland to look out for in 2021.
Progressive metal act WHEEL has turned the Finnish metal scene upside down with their debut record, "Moving Backwards." Praised for their refreshing take on progressive music, with influences ranging from TOOL to KARNIVOOL, WHEEL spent autumn 2019 touring with SOEN. Even though they had a lot of shows planned in 2020 – and as a consequence of COVID-19 saw them all canceled or postponed – the band has kept themselves busy writing and recording new music. The four-piece just presented their new single, "Movement" and will release their sophomore full-length in March 2021.
Frosttide
Only having heard from FROSTTIDE because of their in 2018 released EP, "Decedents – Enshrined," we have been waiting eagerly for a follow-up to these intricate melodic death metal tracks. The band released a brand new single, "We Will Be Gone" some weeks ago and it has made us very much excited for the next chapter. Given that the band has had a recent lineup change, with two members joining the lineup, Paul Thureau (guitars) and Taneli Jämsä (bass), we're curious to see how the death metal act will develop their sound with their upcoming release, coming in 2021.
Blame Me!
Alternative rock act BLAME ME! has recently released a brand new single. The song had everything a motivational rock anthem should have: it's modern, poppy, blends in progressive elements, and has a surprisingly uplifting feeling. The better news is that the band promised that there is more where that came from and are planning to release some new songs next year.
Psychework
PSYCHEWORK surprised us in 2018 with their album, "Karelian Hills." For 2 years, it has been a bit quiet around the band, up until they released their single "Enemy Inside the Wire" towards the end of 2020. Instead of a full-length album, the band is releasing an EP in April 2021, which we are definitely looking forward to!
With two perfect albums released so far, Finnish symphonic power metal act ARION have been working on their third record in 2020. Near the end of the year, we got a first taste with the single, "Bloodline" featuring Noora Louhimo of BATTLE BEAST, which seems to be a fine illustration of what the album might sound like and a logical step forward after the critically acclaimed "Life is Not Beautiful."
True Cult Club
TRUE CULT CLUB was a mystery, up until the band revealed their identities and their music with the release of their first single, "Empty Alley." While the band wouldn't necessarily identify themselves as a supergroup (the band consists out of some well-established musicians in the Finnish scene), their tracks do sound super. The five-piece so far have released a handful of singles, diverse in nature and we can't wait to hear more.
Once upon a time, SIMULACRUM was one of the prog sensations of Finland. It's been a bit quiet around the band during the last couple of years, however, towards the end of 2020 the band hinted at a 2021 release and released their first single, "Nothing Remains."
Shereign
Many know vocalist Sara Strömmer from acts like END OF AEON and FEAR OF DOMINATION, but did she know she is singing in a brand new hard rock/heavy metal band? SHEREIGN released their first single, "Losing Sight," in autumn and we couldn't have been more thrilled by the result. Long may SHEREIGN!
Mercury Circle
MERCURY CIRCLE was originally founded by SWALLOW THE SUN's Jaani Peuhu and now houses musicians from CHILDREN OF BODOM and SLEEP OF MONSTERS. The band released their debut EP in 2020, but are working towards an album release in 2021. After the magical listening experience that is "The Dawn of Vitriol," we can't wait for new material to entrance us!
Fireproven
Progressive metal act FIREPROVEN surprised us with their new singer, Sanna Sola joining their ranks. They recently released a new single, "The Addict" and promised us they are releasing more material in 2021. We're looking forward to see what the band has in store for us.
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1 : 31680 This hill sketch features an engraved outline reading 'Ordnance map of the environs of Bristol'. Military barracks and batteries protecting the Bristol Cannel are recorded at the mouth of the River Severn, at the top of the map. Grave mounds ('Tumuli'), hillforts, ancient camps and antiquities are noted in gothic script at Bitton and to the right of Dundry Hill. Otherwise, quarries, mills and pits dominate this industrial region of the county of Avon. Corrections in red ink and other additions were made at a later date. Dawson, Robert
This drawing covers the coastal area of the Bristol Channel. Pencil lines extending from a point adjacent to Honey Comb indicate the angular measurements taken to plot the coastline. Haven Military Battery is clearly marked at the mouth of the River Avon. Detail such as this is testimony to the military impetus behind the survey. A dotted red line running along the river Avon represents the old boundary between the counties of Somerset and Avon.
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1 : 31680 This drawings depicts the winding course of the River Usk as it flows by the Roman town of Caerleon into the Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel. Not far from the river mouth lies Newport. The Usk is not navigable except at this point, but the Monmouthshire and Brecon and Abergavenny canals, in part following the valley, carry a small trade up to Brecon. Cardiff, depicted at bottom left, was a town of only 6,000 inhabitants when this plan was produced. Budgen, Charles
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This is a map of Monmothshire by Christopher Saxton dating from 1577. It forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State. Burghley used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. This map is actually a proof copy of one which forms part of Christopher Saxton's Atlas of England and Wales. This atlas was first published as a whole in 1579. It consists of 35 coloured maps depicting the counties of England and Wales. The atlas is of great significance to British cartography as it set a standard of cartographic representation in Britain and the maps remained the basis for English county mapping, with few exceptions, until after 1750. During the reign of Elizabeth I, map use became more common, with many government matters referring to increasingly accurate maps, with consistent scales and symbols, made possible by advances in surveying techniques. Illustrating the increasing use of maps in government matters, Lord Burghley, who had been determined to have England and Wales mapped in detail from the 1550s, selected the cartographer Christopher Saxton to produce a detailed and consistent survey of the country. The financier of the project was Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests at the Court of Elizabeth I, whose arms appear, along with the royal crest, on each map. Burghley has annotated this map, adding several place names. The name of the engraver of this map is not included but it would have been one of a team of seven English and Flemish engravers employed to produce the copper plates for the atlas. Saxton, Christopher William Cecil, Lord Burghley
MONUMENTHENSIS Comitatus
This map of Monmouthshire is from the 1583 edition of the Saxton atlas of England and Wales.This atlas was first published as a whole in 1579. It consists of 35 coloured maps depicting the counties of England and Wales. The atlas is of great significance to British cartography as it set a standard of cartographic representation in Britain and the maps remained the basis for English county mapping, with few exceptions, until after 1750. During the reign of Elizabeth I map use became more common, with many government matters referring to increasingly accurate maps with consistent scales and symbols, made possible by advances in surveying techniques. Illustrating the increasing used of maps in government matters, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State, who had been determined to have England and Wales mapped in detail from the 1550s, selected the cartographer Christopher Saxton to produce a detailed and consistent survey of the country. The financier of the project was Thomas Seckford Master of Requests at the Court of Elizabeth I, whose arms appear, along with the royal crest, on each map. Saxton, Christopher Ryther, Augustine
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An outline planning application to build up to 22 new affordable houses at Shirebrook has been refused.
Bolsover District Council planners have turned down the application to build the dwellings on land behind Nicholsons Row 43 to 69 Main Street The Churches on Church Drive off Long Lane Shirebrook.
The applicants Lindrick Park Development Ltd and Waterloo Housing Group, said the development would mean the provision of new affordable housing to Shirebrook, which will contribute to the shortfall in current housing supply for Bolsover District Council.
It adds it would be a the development of a quality residential environment, well related to the existing residential area and within walking distance of existing shops, services, parks, schools and employment areas.
The site is currently undeveloped, unmaintained and features long grass, brambles and self set trees.
Due to it not being maintained, it is of an untidy appearance and has previously been subject to fly tipping and anti-social behaviour.
The site therefore has no restrictions in this sense.
"Submitted layouts fail to demonstrate this amount of dwellings could be accommodated in accordance with the emerging policies in the publication Version of the Bolsover District Local Plan.
"The potentially unsightly rows of frontage parking occupying whole frontages dominating the street scene, potentially unattractive fencing prominent at the entrance to the site and the absence of space for amenity planting would not produce a high quality development.


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First Tv Show To Be Released On High-def Dvd
By Lew Irwin on 27 September 2006
Discovery Communications, which operates the Discovery Channel, said Tuesday that it will be the first television outlet to release programs on high-definition DVDs. Its Discovery Atlas: China Revealed, set to air on Oct. 1, will be available on the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats later in the month at Discovery's retail stores, the company said in a statement. The DVD package will be supplemented with a number of online extras, including video shorts about Chinese culture, the company said.


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Famous Drag Strips in the US: Part 3
Whether immortalized in movies or for being the site of big name national races, some U.S. drag strips are known throughout the drag racing world. We've made a list of some of the most well-known drag strips in the United States. This is part three of a three-part series. You can read part one and part two here.
Atco Dragway
Opening its tracks in 1960, it is New Jersey's oldest and most frequented track. Atco has a 1/4 mile drag race track, that held over 265 events last year. Don't believe us? Check out their packed event calendar for yourself.
Popular is an understatement: Atco is the busiest track in the nation.
Maryland International Raceway
This track is a little over 50 years old and still going strong. It has had a few different owners throughout the years, most notably Tod Mack, the man responsible for developing the first digital timing system, Digitime. MDIR has an elevation of 80 feet, which is a reason why records are constantly being made. They also have their own J34 jet dryer to minimize track drying time and heat up the racing surface.
Did you know? Discovery's show Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings recently filmed a live episode here for their new season.
Houston Raceway Park
This drag racing strip was built in 1988 and formally known as the Royal Purple Raceway. It since has gone through a name and color change as a result of their partnership with Pennzoil. It is Houston's only major multi-purpose motorsports venue and has a seating capacity of 30,000. The racetrack is also responsible for hosting major events like TX2K and the NHRA: Mello Yello drag racing, open for all to attend.
Recent expansion: In 2000, Houston Raceway Park opened a new high banked 3/8 mile dirt oval at the facility.
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CRM is great at helping you analyze data in a way that benefits your business. In other words, you can look at how people arrive at your site and what keywords are the most efficient. AI solutions in CRM take things a step further. They'll help you look at your results and make predictions on what future customer behaviors on your site might be. That means you can help develop new strategies that make the most of your visitors and provide them an experience they're most likely to engage with.
You can stop wasting time and money on campaigns that simply don't fit in with the way your customers are behaving. These sort of CRM tools can take your marketing efforts to the next level. They could help you provide a more engaging user experience that ultimately makes you more money.
As we've just touched on – AI technology can help analyze your results to create a more compelling sales strategy. You can draw on predictive human behavior technology as well as other raw data on how certain sorts of keywords and campaigns are going to give you the best results. You can stop wasting your efforts on campaigns that simply aren't going to work for you, and start getting the results you and your business really needs.
AI and CRM solutions can help you create an experience that makes your customers happy. You can do this by drawing on data and using predictive analysis to really work out how to serve your customers in the best way possible.
You don't simply have to assume you know what's working best for your customers and your business. AI and CRM will give you the data to prove it.
AI can help annotate your sales calls to work out what's really working for you – saving you time and money in the process. This information can all be collated and presented to you in an easy-to-analyze manner, so you can develop a better strategy. That's one way you can use Spiro to let your sales team shine.
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Microsoft ads leverage flaws in Apple's strategy
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I'm a bit of a fence-sitter when it comes to the Mac/PC "thing". At home I run Macs, while at work we use PCs. (We also use iPhones.) There are things that I like about both platforms, and aspects that I dislike as well. To be completely honest, a large part of me would love to only use Apple products, due to their beauty and simplicity.
Apple products are simply very well designed. (When you're as obsessive as I am, such attention to detail is particularly appreciated. That being said, I struggle with the notion of embracing Apple products entirely. This is in-part due to their "walled garden" approach, and also as a result of the smugness inherent in some of their advertising.
The problem with Apple's ads
First of all, I have to say that the "I'm a Mac" campaign was landmark advertising. Personifying these companies as they did crystallized almost immediately in our collective minds. Put simply, we were all left with the idea that only "dorks" would use anything other than Macs. Watching Apple, which had been clobbered by Microsoft for so many years, claw itself back from near bankruptcy and was kind of delightful. The ads were bold and refreshingly different.
After a while though, they seemed to lose some of their luster. Yeah, yeah, Vista sucks… Sure, PCs are used for business… Yes, sometimes we have to work on "pie charts", while it would be more fun to play with GarageBand… Yadda, yadda, yadda. The gag was getting old.
Apple's people toyed with the format in interesting ways and sometimes did something rather funny with the spots. Eventually it started to feel like they were trying to turn a one-liner into a feature film. A brilliant little "zag" turned into a series of seemingly endless pot-shots, which I (and perhaps some others) found a little overly tedious and adolescent in nature.
From challenger to champion
I suppose I'm restating the obvious when I note that Apple has for some time now played the role of underdog. In this particular position, they've had the liberty of focusing on pleasing a smaller, fervent user-base, eager to spread the word about the company.
We are predisposed to like this "David versus Goliath" story: our aspiring hero against the soulless ubiquitous computing giant. The tough part here is that Apple isn't really the underdog any longer; nor, is Microsoft quite the unstoppable force it once was. Apple does phenomenal business, while Microsoft seems to be stumbling about, unsure of where it's headed. Antitrust suits, the misestimation of the web's growth, losing the search battle, the migration from desktop to cloud… The obstacles for Microsoft continue to add-up.
As I reflect on this topic, I continue to reflect on Jean-Marie Dru's book Beyond Disruption and the discussion he has about the conundrum faced by challengers becoming champions. Apple has done well playing the underdog card, but it's not going to work much longer. As they become more powerful, the game changes.
Why this campaign is backfiring
One of Microsoft's core problems over the years has been its size. It turns slower than the Titanic, while Apple has been able to make bold moves rapidly. As Apple gains market share and broadens its offering, however, we see them in a similar paradox to Microsoft. The better the product the bigger they get; the bigger they get, the more they do; the more they do, the worse the product. It's also important to remind ourselves that Apple doesn't just create hardware and software; it also is a massive player in the media game.
It's starting to seem like they are biting off a bit more than they can chew. MobileMe has been a blunder even according to Jobs; the new iPhone software has been hampered by pretty substantial bugs, and talk of hardware related quality issues are becoming quite common. Recently TechCrunch's Michael Arrington posted on the topic. When people like Michael start saying things like this, it's time to take notice.
Apple is having problems "scaling" and that's understandable; however, it makes the finger-pointing tone of their ads more difficult to swallow. Everyone makes mistakes, but Apple has set the bar rather high. So, when the button on my iPhone falls off in my hand and the apps stop working (these aren't isolated incidents), I start to shake my head at those "Macs just work" statements. (Those of you who follow my Twitter feed are probably tired of hearing about this already–sorry.)
There are more nerds than hipsters out there
I'm often critical of advertising in general; nevertheless, the people at Crispin Porter + Bogusky have earned every million that Microsoft has paid-out for their recent campaign.
They first started by generating buzz with those rather puzzling Seinfeld/Gates ads. Weird as they may have been, they certainly represented a quantum leap from the thinking behind the phony "Wow" campaign and those completely asinine "Mojave project" ads.
The new ads were something surprising and unexpected. It was a little like seeing the nerd in high school show up for class in a purple cape. (Even if you didn't know what was going on you'd probably want to find out.)
On Thursday, the next phase began, with Microsoft embracing Apple's "I'm a PC" taunt and turning it into a bit of a hammer. The folks at Bogusky discovered a gaping hole in Apple's campaign. The "I'm a Mac" ads aren't just personifications of the machines; instead, these caricatures extend to the users, serving as a statement (on Apple's behalf) about the people who use them. With their ads, Apple says that people who use PCs have no personality. As a result, Apple's ads make fun of about 90% of us.
Most of us use PCs, so Apple's ads are in a way a grand indictment of all of us. Similarly, most of us are (or have been) un-cool. Although I deeply wanted to be "cool" in high-school, this no longer seems particularly important; moreover, I find the notion of any company playing the "if you use our stuff, you'll be okay" card to be a little patronizing.
The new Microsoft campaign is brilliant because it's inclusive. Their message is centered on the notion that all kinds of people use their stuff to do many different things. In part, it's a unifying and affirming statement: "Yes, I have a PC but that doesn't make me, or what I do, boring. Frankly, suggesting otherwise is a little silly."
The Microsoft ads may be a little hokey, but they are smart because they include everyone. While the Mac is personified by a "20-something" skinny white guy, the people at Crispin Porter + Bogusky recognize that this is a small and incredibly homogenized representation of the computing populace. The Microsoft ads celebrate that PC users look different from one another, act differently from one another, and likely do different things.
Apple has to focus on the basics (and loosen the chains a little)
The funny part here is that the "I'm a Mac" ads belay Apple's trump card, which is that they build great stuff. Their design is impeccable and the experience one has with their products is generally very good. While Microsoft is going to need much more than one great ad campaign to turn itself around, Apple's management doesn't have to do as much to solve the problem I've outlined.
First of all, they have to drop the name-calling. In fact, I think it would be best to sidestep the comparisons altogether. Instead, they could concentrate on showing how they make the user experience great. This is a no-brainer; their iPhone ads already do this incredibly well. It's time to stop worrying so much about what the other guys are doing.
The bigger thing (and I see this as a less likely possibility) is for Apple to treat their users less like inmates and instead open things up a little. Many developers find the Appstore's policies Draconion. If Apple doesn't like an app, they quash it, and purportedly without unbiased reasoning. This leaves a huge "out-of-the-gate" advantage to Google's Android. Although it's sometimes messy, many of us would rather be part of an open marketplace, no matter how beautiful the walled-garden may be.
Ironically, as Apple exercises its power amongst developers and customers in such restrictive ways, it increasingly looks more like Microsoft in the 90s. Most of us don't like being spoken down to; nor, do we appreciate companies limiting our choices. Apple has to learn this; doing otherwise has proven to dethrone even the mightiest.
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