The wine was served slightly chilled and appeared fresh purple red in colour with voluptuous cold red fruit aromas enhanced with subtle spicy oak and somewhat earthy. On the Palate a nuance of Mouth coating cherry spice mingled with ripe plum, fetching raspberry and integrated oak. The Pinot Noir was balanced and fresh with fine tannins, finishing delicate with a hint of strawberry. Best served with Pasta, Grilled poultry and seafood. The wine should cellar for between 5-9 years and should get even better. Allow to open in the Glass.
The Ibericos appears cherry red with aromas of spiced red fruit and somewhat smoky on the nose. The palate if allowed to open is intense with oaked rich plum and dark spiced cherry fruit, grippy tannins and full, finishing powerful with lasting red spicy fruit and smoky. Please allow to open and possibly decant (1hour). Would be perfect with tapas, oily fish and strong cheeses. The Crianza with get even better with age 2-7 Years.
The wine appears dark cherry in colour with expressive red fruit aromas, accompanied with truffle and bay leaf. The palate is soft and full, with ripe red cherry, sticky sweet raspberry jam and savoury vanilla spice. Persistent to the end finishing rich and long. Cellar for 3-5 years and would be good with Veal, Pork and Duck or on its own.
The Celeste is deep black in colour with layers of black and red fruit, intensity combined with seductive black pepper and succulent liquorice on the nose. The palate is diverse and persistent with expressive blackberry and ripe cherry, integrated with savoury spice, velvety soft tannins, finishing full and long with notes of wild berries. Decant if possible several hours before consumption. The wine will cellar and get even better over a 5-7 year period. Best served with roast or grilled meat.
The Rose appears deep raspberry in colour with delicate ripe red fruit and spice, hints of floral on the nose. On the palate succulent wild strawberry, sweet raspberry, spice and hints of violet, finishing fresh and clean with great intensity, medium bodied with notes of banana and apple. Perfect for a summers day, lightly chill and would be best served with cured meats and salads. Consume young within 1-3 years.
The Upper Penedes Pinot Noir appears deep cherry with lashings of tart red fruits, mocha and hints of smoked vanilla oak on the nose. The palate is velvety soft with dark cheery and raspberry, mingled with coffee and toasted oak, finishing elegant and supple with lasting dried fruits and finesse. Extremely good but should be allowed to breathe. Best served with cooked hams, creamy cheeses and roast meats.
The wine appears a brilliant limpid pale yellow with aromatic intensity of green, stone and tropical fruit, with peach and green apple most notable, hints of white flower, spice accompanied with lemon peel and hay on the nose. The palate is sweet with green apple, white peach and refreshingly clean. Undertones of nectarine, followed by spice and somewhat leafy, finishing elegant and long with a touch of minerality, coupled with zingy citrus and dry. Would be best served as an aperitif, goat's cheese and fresh prawns. Allow to breathe and do not over chill.
The wine appears black, almost opaque with minerality, some oak and dominant aromatic black fruits, textured with warm spice on the bouquet. The palate is fresh with hints of spice and some earthiness, followed by generous blackberry and blackcurrant, silky smooth tannins finishing full with toasted oak that doesn't overwhelm, lively and bold with a hint of dark chocolate. I would definitely decant - 1-2 hours. Best served with game and red meats and would cellar for 8-10 years.
The Tempranillo appears deep ruby red with lashings of spicy black fruit on the nose. The palate opens with seductive black cherry, hints of clove and spice, finishing velvety soft with lingering fragrant black cherry spiced fruit. The wine is a great entry level red that should be consumed young 1-2 years and would be best served with light red meat and creamy cheeses.
The wine appears bright pale yellow with green hues in colour with intense tropical fruit character accompanied with citrus, hints of perfumed green fruit and a touch of fennel on the nose. The palate displays refreshing zippy dried apricot, pear and ripe peach, finishing zesty and dry with clean floral notes. A youthful spice box that would be great as an aperitif and with fresh fish but do not over chill and allow to open up in the glass. Consume 1-3 years.
The wine is clear with medium intensity and almost golden in colour with a concentration of tropical and green fruits, enhanced by notes of orange blossom and cinnamon on the nose. The palate is an exuberance of Passion fruit, pear, banana and lychee with sweet spice, predominately from the Gewurztraminer, Finishing sweet with balanced acidity and nuances of vanilla spice. The Esmeralda should be consumed young and would be best served as an aperitif or with avocado and shellfish. Allow to open in the glass and if you want! Chill well.


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Hedwig von Ostfriesland oder Hedwig Cirksena (* 29. Juni 1535; † 4. November 1616) war eine ostfriesische Prinzessin. Ab 1562 war sie die zweite Ehefrau von Herzog Otto II., dem Inhaber der Herrschaft Harburg.

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Hedwig war das viertälteste Kind des Grafen Enno II. (Ostfriesland) (1505–1540) und Anna von Oldenburg (1501–1575) Tochter des Grafen Johann V. von Oldenburg und Anne von Anhalt-Zerbst. Den Großteil ihrer Jugend verbrachte sie wohl gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester Anna am Heidelberger Hof des Kurfürsten Friedrich II. von der  Pfalz. Ihre Schwester blieb in Heidelberg und starb dort 1552 unverheiratet.

Am 8. Oktober 1562 heiratete sie Herzog Otto II. (Braunschweig-Harburg) und wurde dessen zweite Ehefrau. Das Paar hatte folgende Kinder:
 Wilhelm August (1564–1642), Herzog von Braunschweig-Harburg
 Enno (* 1. Dezember 1565; † 1600), starb an Pocken
 Anna Margarete (1567–1643), Pröpstin im Stift Quedlinburg
 Heinrich (1568–1569)
 Hedwig (* 20. August 1569; † 6. März 1620)
 Christoph (1570–1606), Herzog von Braunschweig-Harburg ⚭ 1604 Prinzessin Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1567–1618)
 Otto III. (1572–1641), Herzog von Braunschweig-Harburg ⚭ 1621 Prinzessin Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1580–1657)
 Johann (* 19. Juni 1573; † 13. August 1625)
 Elisabeth (1574–1575)
 Katharina Sophia (* 6. Mai 1577; † 16. September 1665) ⚭ Graf Hermann von Holstein-Schaumburg (1575–1634), Sohn von Jobst II. (Schaumburg)
 Friedrich (* 6. September 1578; † 16. Februar 1605), gefallen in der Schlacht bei Kirchholm
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Familienmitglied des Adelsgeschlechts Cirksena
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Part 2: The Trail
In the border areas of Assam, there's a comprehensive network of Sangh outfits which concentrate on welfare activities
Neha Dixit	08 August 2016
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Child Lost
Ropi, whose daughter Divi is one of the 31 missing kids
Neha Dixit	July 29, 2016 00:00 IST Part 2: The Trail
Korobi Basumatary, a Bodo activist of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, began to expand her network days after becoming a pracharika, or full-timer, in 2008. I'd first met her on a December afternoon in 2012 at a Rashtra Sevika Samiti camp in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, to which she had travelled all the way from Kokrajhar. Picked up at an impressionable 20 years of age from a relief camp in 2004, after her house was destroyed and her family scattered in Bodo-Muslim violence, she had committed herself to the Hindutva ideology. It was Sunita, a seasoned pracharika from Maharashtra who had been working in the Northeast for over two decades since the Nellie massacare, who spotted her and took her to a kishori varg, or training camp for young women. Of the passage from trainee to full-timer, or pracharika, Korobi had then told me: "It was like control of destiny—in my hands."
"Korobi (a Sangh parivar activist) now says my daughter Divi will come back home only after three-four years. She's even stopped answering phone calls."
Ropi Basumatary
A pracharika holds a prestigious position in the Hindutva scheme of things. They are well trained in the ideology, as also in paramilitary skills. Like the pracharaks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, they practise celibacy. The renunciation of the materialistic and sexual aspects of life grants them a special status, the chastity being associated with purity and spirituality. Pracharikas commit themselves for life to work in remote areas, spreading the Sangh parivar's Hindutva ideology.
"As a Sevika Samiti pracharika, I've learnt how to fight for my rights and take what is mine," I remember her telling me at the camp, her face flushed with blood, the fixation on "revenge" seeming absolute.
Four years on, Korobi, now 32, has been identified by the ASCPCR as one of the main executers—along with Sandhyaben Tikde—who organised the trafficking of the 31 children. Her successful implementation of the Hindutva agenda on the ground is proof of how the Sangh parivar is making a determined play for young girls in the conflict zones of the Northeast, tailoring its siren calls to their vulnerabilities, frustrations and ambitions, and filling the void the State has so far failed to address. Besides, the frequent spurts of inter-ethnic violence in the region have helped their efforts.
As we wait outside Divi Basumatary's locked house in Malgaon village in Kokrajhar, an irritated voice is heard. "Now who are you? What do you want?" It's Ropi, thirty-something, slim and athletic, walking up with two buckets of water in her hands and her year-old daughter Arunika sling-tied to her back. I tell her we have come to ask about Divi, her five-year-old daughter—one of the 31 missing children.
"First you took her away, and then all her pictures," she retorts. "When will she come back?"
"Who took away her pictures?"
"Someone like you," she says. "I'd called Korobi to ask about Divi; she sent someone who took both pictures I had of her."
None of the parents of the 31 kids have a single document to prove they were taken away.
It's a story the parents of Sarmila, Surgi, Sukurmani and other children among the 31 missing have told me before: after visits from the CWC and the ASCPCR, inquiring about the missing girls, Korobi had sent people to take away all the pictures of the girls from the parents.
"Don't you have another copy?"
"This village is 40 km from the nearest town," says Ropi, visibly upset. "We don't have so many pictures like you people."
Putting the buckets in a corner, she opens the locked hut. She picks up a stool next to the handloom inside, on which an orange dokhana—a traditional Bodo wraparound for women—is in the process of being woven. Ropi earns from making dokhanas and selling them in the city, while her husband Bakul Basumatary works in a cable factory in Guwahati and visits her every six months.
Bakul is upset with Ropi for having sent Divi away in his absence. "He says we have lost her because of me," she tells me. Korobi had told her Divi would study in a school and visit her every year. "But it's been a year since we even spoke to her. Korobi now says Divi will come after three or four years. She has even stopped answering my phone," says Ropi, breaking down.
Like Ropi, none of the 31 parents have a single official document to prove they handed over their daughters to the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, Vidya Bharati or any communication with the 'schools' the children are supposed to be in. With the pictures taken away and no further communication with their handlers, it is difficult for them to launch a search.
"But what made you send your daughter away?" I ask.
"Sewa Bharati," she replies.
In the border areas of Assam, there's a comprehensive network of Sangh outfits such as Sewa Bharati, which concentrate on welfare activities—medical camps, activity camps and so on. Vidya Bharati and Ekal Vidyalaya concentrate on providing Hindu nationalistic education to children. The Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and Friends of Tribal Society look into the 'welfare' of tribals. The pracharikas make use of these outfits to reach remote areas to spread the Sangh parivar's Hindutva idealogy.
Sewa Bharati was set up in 1978 by Balasaheb Deoras, the third RSS sarsanghchalak, to focus on marginalised sections of society. The Akhil Bharatiya sahaseva pramukh, or all-India ancillary services chief of the RSS, guides the organisation and it is represented in the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the highest decision-making body of the RSS. That way, Sewa Bharati has an influential place in the array of Sangh parivar outfits. According to the Sewa Bharati website, they run over 1.5 lakh welfare projects in India. They also run hostels for young tribal girls and boys and informal education centres in India.
"We had all fallen ill two years back—Divi, my two other children, and me," says Ropi. "Kanchai, of Sewa Bharati, had organised a medical camp. That's when we got in touch."
After the camp wound up, Kanchai started a matrimandli, or committee of mothers, that would meet every week. "We'd sing songs, and Kanchai discussed things like hygiene with us—how to use the toilet, how to make pads at home for use during periods. She was a Bodo, and so it was good to have someone who knew our language and culture telling us all this."
Simultaneously, Kanchai organised a bal shivir, a three-day camp to teach children 'sanskaar' and the importance of becoming good citizens. "That's when Kanchai asked me to meet Korobi and send Divi to school in Gujarat."
This is the usual strategy for penetration used by the Sangh. First, the welfare organisations step in. They increase the mass base, identify potential trainees. Small steps like visiting the remotest village, distributing lockets, pamphlets and Hindu literature pave the way for complete penetration. Then, the local Rashtra Sevika Samiti and RSS full-timers follow. The services of Sewa Bharati come especially handy in areas where the State has failed to provide basic amenities to its people. Sewa Bharati acts as a safe front for these activities. Most villagers and parents think that the children have been taken away for education by the NGO Sewa Bharati. The Sangh connection and Hindutva indoctrination is less apparent to a rural person.
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Brahma helped the Sangh parivar zero in on needy families
Living and growing up in the conflict areas of Assam rife with incessant Bodo-Muslim or Bodo-adivasi ethnic violence makes people feel strongly about their identity and stick by their own. The possibility of differentiating between right and wrong becomes minuscule. Paranoia takes over, paving the way for Hindutva propaganda.
Kanchai Brahma is a 34-year-old activist of Sewa Bharati in Gossaigaon, a small town in Kokrajhar district. Her story has many parallels with that of both Korobi and the 31 girls in question. At age 15, she participated in a kishori varg camp organised by Sewa Bharati in her village Kumursami. "These camps primarily focus on teaching sanskaar to young girls," she tells me as she clicks my picture in her office.
"What kind of sanskaar?" I ask.
"Girls are told how they have forgotten their culture, where a 'hello' has replaced 'namaskar' and long pants have taken the place of our traditional dress. All this is because of the influence of Christian lifestyle. They should get back to their culture and become good women of the nation," she says with a smile.
With such training, the young women grow up with an unquestioning belief in the Hindutva idea of the intended role of women in the Hindu rashtra, as the Outlook article (Jan 28, 2013) on the Aurangabad camp showed. They focus on celebration of folklore, language and history, teaching an anti-Muslim, anti-Christian interpretation of these. Among the Bodos, there's no scepticism about the Sewa Bharati's activities because of the stellar reputation women like Kanchai and Korobi, who are from the same community, command and the image of empowerment they project. This girl-power tactic has proved adept at appealing to the parents of small girls who have ambition for their children but no means. It works like a girl-to-girl recruitment strategy.
Kanchai was spotted by a Rashtra Sevika Samiti pracharika at a camp in 2003. In 2004, she was sent off to a hostel in Uttar Pradesh for training, along with three other girls from her district. After a year's training, she came back in 2005. "In the next two years, we canvassed in three districts—Goalpara, Kokrajhar and Chirang—and told them about the excellent time we had and managed to send 500 girls to that hostel," says Kanchai. "Over the years, some of them returned and got married. They now work as grahini sevikas, or part-timers."
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Kanchai, of Sewa Bharati
Parents who are not part of Sewa Bharati's cult activities are treated differently, and the others inform Sangh workers if they were not acting in line. Her conviction evident, Kanchai says, "Bodo people are being fooled by Christians, killed by Muslims. I was trained to save their identity and remind them of their Hindu origins. Since I am a Bodo myself, I joined Sewa Bharati and started working towards the development of Bharat Mata."
As Kanchai scouts for recruits, a recent addition to her efforts comes from the Sangh parivar's Ekal Vidyalaya project and the Van Bandhu Parishad. Ekal Vidyalayas are one-teacher schools, essentially non-formal education centres where one teacher takes up to 40 students for three-hour sessions. "They are taught national songs, poems, games. Instead of 'Ba ba black sheep, have you any wool?' we teach them 'Bharat desh, mera desh, meri mata aur pranesh, meri jaan, mere praan, Bharat mata ko qurbaan," she says.
There's a focus on choral singing, which fosters a sense of unity, conformity and group identity. Children are taught folk songs, presenting Indian history in line with Hindutva ideology. The girls sing at many festivals and occasions organised by Sewa Bharati, such as medical camps and matri mandalis, and also for public entertainment at special events. It's a quiet, subtle indoctrination.
Medical camps, shivirs for children, group sessions for young mothers—it's the classic missionary strategy to win people over. This time it's the Sangh at work.
The Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation was registered in 2000, though the schools have been functional since 1986. As of 2013, it had a presence in close to 52,000 villages in the tribal belts of India. It is associated with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a Sangh parivar outfit. In the past, it was headed by Subhash Chandra of Zee News. BJP MP Hema Malini has served as its brand ambassador. According to Phoolendra Dutta, the RSS activist from Kokrajhar, there are over 290 Ekal Vidyalayas in Kokrajhar district alone. The Van Bandhu Parishad helps Ekal Vidyalayas devise a methodology to provide "education with sanskaar to the vanyatries (tribals)". They support and enhance the curriculum taught in schools: lessons are moulded around the Hindutva understanding of history, biology and geography. The teaching is geared to produce religion-conscious, obedient, self-sacrificing Hindutvavadis. Sewa Bharati, through its kishori and bal vargs, helps in enrolling children in these schools, quietly creating a culture of moral policing and threatening the natural diversity of faith and practices.
"Training girls is most important because they can inculcate values in the entire community in a way that will take years to be corrupted," says Kanchai. "They can raise families that will be the core of a Hindu rashtra. That is why we especially pay attention to counsel young girls not to use cellphones."
"How?" I ask, hoping for a different logic from that offered by the khaps of north India in their attempt to rein in young women's sexuality.
"There is a rule in Hindu religion that one has to marry within our religion," says Kanchai. "Young girls talk to boys on the phone and then elope to get married. We recently struggled to get a girl to leave the Muslim man she had married. Initially, she refused because she was pregnant but after repeated guidance by us, she left him. We told her how the Muslims had killed Bodo people in the neighbouring villages. She saw reason. She has now separated from her husband and works for Sewa Bharati."
Both Kanchai and Korobi have turned out to be effective recruiters of young girls for the Sangh outfits. Their insider image in the Bodo community is a strategic plus point. As women, they tend to gain the trust of the local community more easily than men might. The positive representation of their own image and experience at the training camps outside Assam is not only persuasive but also one that young women might aspire for. This inculcates an unquestioning understanding of the role of women as mothers, wives, daughters and radicalises them in the cause of a Hindu rashtra.
Four years after meeting Korobi in the Aurangabad training camp, her phone call to me in the house of one of the missing children's parents made me notice the change in tenor. That time, she had been firm and polite. Now, she was defensive and rash.
I was in Ghana Kanta Brahma's house in Daodshri village in Kokrajhar. He had also sent his daughter, Bhumika Brahma, to Gujarat. His house is massive, perhaps one of the largest in the village. As I sat in the courtyard, admiring the wall arts and murals around it, his wife Subhadra brought tambul—betel leaves and areca nut—to welcome me in traditional Assamese fashion.
I was cross-checking the details of the affidavit he had signed to hand over his daughter. Parents of three girls had told me that Brahma had worked as a BJP mobiliser in the recently concluded Assam elections. He had helped Korobi identify these three girls to be sent along with his daughter, just like Mangal Mardi had. Says Dena Tudu, Sukurmani's father, "He (Brahma) speaks to his daughter almost every day. But we don't know where he has sent our daughters. He is rich but are poor people meant to give away their children in charity?"
When I ask Brahma why he said in his affidavit that he had no source of income though he owns 20 bighas, he brazens it out with a "Just like that."
"Meaning?"
"Meaning that instead of letting the Muslims and Christians convert people of our community and take away all our land and jobs, I am saving the children with the help of Korobi and RSS and restoring other Bodos to their original identity," he says.
Committed women activists are the spearhe ad of the Sangh's gains among Bodos.
Sangh workers like Korobi have mastered the art of manipulation. In a conflict-torn area, they work to turn the slightest bit of hearsay into fact, raising suspicions and creating paranoia and anger so that people are unable to think through things clearly. All this serves their agenda. It runs parallel to the Sangh parivar's ghar wapasi programmes elsewhere. The germinal idea is the same: as the Sangh declares so facilely, all Dalits, tribals and Muslims in India are originally Hindu. When Sangh outfits announced ghar wapasi programmes, pushing through a series of reconversions of Muslims and Buddhists to Hinduism in 2014, an Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram report stated: "Out of 10 crore tribal population of the country, 1.22 crore have converted to Christianity. The Ashram has approached 53,000 villages and wants to reach out to the remaining 1.09 lakh tribal village by 2015 end."
I try to confront Brahma to seek a reaction to the dubious practice vis-a-vis children, and ask him, "But why make false documents and lie to other parents? This is illegal." In response, he animatedly says something in Bodo, which I don't understand, and takes my picture on his giant-sized smartphone. Before I can make sense of it all, he dials a number and shoves the phone in my hand.
"Hello," I say.
"Why are you people constantly coming and interrogating these parents? Where were you when the Muslims were ruthlessly killing these people?" shot a voice from the other side in Sanskritised Hindi.
"Who are you? Please introduce yourself," I request her.
"My name is Korobi. I am not scared of you guys. Go and tell whoever you want, OK?" she says.
"Why don't you meet me and talk to me about it?" I say.
"I don't want to meet anyone. You people don't care about Hindus at all. Hindus, who are the real inhabitants of this country. You are only worried about outsiders like Muslim Bangladeshis. And now you are even spreading rumours about the RSS trafficking children," she says.
Clearly, she is aware of the official proceedings and police complaints against her and others.
"I never mentioned the RSS or any other organisation. In fact, it is you who is saying it," I reply.
"When Muslims come and take their jobs, their land, rape their women, then it is the RSS that comes and helps them and not you guys from Delhi," she continues.
"I am just asking about the whereabouts of the girls. If you have to say anything, please meet me. This way you are disrupting my work," I say.
"I don't want to say anything. Just stop talking to the parents. Go to our office in Jhandewalan in Delhi and ask them all these questions."
She hangs up.
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Barry Lyndon (PG)
Appearing on virtually every "Top 10 Directors of All Time" lists in publications ranging from NEWSWEEK to FILMSITE, Stanley Kubrick follows only Spielberg, Scorsese and Hitchcock in IMDB's rankings of the greatest directors in film history, with Kubrick's four movies in AFI's "Top 100 Films" of all time giving him more than anyone else other than Spielberg (five).
The Esquire's second annual "Stanley Kubrick Film Series" launches with one of those four, his landmark science fiction epic 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the July 1969 first moon landing. Released the year before Apollo 11 and nearly a decade before STAR WARS, Kubrick's masterpiece set the standard for space operas, both with its groundbreaking special effects and its sophisticated narrative about man's place in the universe.
The following week in July is Kubrick's BARRY LYNDON from 1975, his adaptation of Thackeray's 1884 picaresque novel into what has been called one of the most visually stunning movies ever made (and winner of the "Best Cinematography" Oscar). Kubrick invented new lens processes to film many scenes in natural candlelight as part of a magnificent overall visual design that appears on screen like classical paintings.
The next film for Kubrick was THE SHINING from 1980, one of the most analyzed and discussed entries in the horror genre in film history. Adapted from Stephen King's novel, THE SHINING features a memorable performance and lines from Jack Nicholson ("Heeeerrre's Johnny") while dancing around the question of whether these ghosts are real or "all in the head."
For each of these three screenings, film historian and professor Joe Horine will introduce Kubrick's work and lead and Q&A after the screenings.
As an "extra bonus," the Esquire has multiple July screenings of Kubrick's final film, EYES WIDE SHUT, as part of the 40th anniversary of 1999 classic films. A racy and controversial cap to the master director's career, EYES WIDE SHUT stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who were married at the time, as a doctor and his wife who explore sexual fantasies that lead to potential trouble.
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6 Things We Learned In 2020 That Should Also Be A Part Of 2021
by Mansi Sharma
2020 was weird. We spent a major part of the last 12 months cribbing about the way things were turning out. First, the outbreak of a pandemic was a massive shock. Then, the lockdown that put the entire world under 'house arrest' made a lot of us cranky. The mandatory work from home was a welcome change but then we started getting sick of it too. After all, social butterflies need their social situations to flap their wings in anger! As we approached the end of the year, we started getting hopeful about the end of COVID-19. But, like an epic sci-fi cliffhanger, the virus bounced back with mutations. X-Men mutations yaad aayi kisi ko? But chalo, with 2021 just a day away, we are feeling a little nostalgic and emotional about the worst year we've ever encountered. In fact, there are some wonderful things we learned in 2020.
We learned that there were certain things about 2020 that weren't so bad after all, things that we would love to carry with us into 2021. Like…
1. Working from home
Remember the time you fell sick and asked your boss if you could work from home but that was seen as a ridiculous request because "work from home is just an excuse to slack off without taking leave"? Well, would you look at how we turned out? The entire year is over and somehow, we have all still managed to continue working…from home. And the biggest shocker is that many companies have even reported better productivity and returns due to this 'new normal'.
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Till last year, most of us millennials struggled to reach the third week of the month with even 10 per cent of our salaries left in the bank. Because kya karo yaar! Itne kharche hain! Our elders always looked at us with puzzled minds because no one could ever understand what we did with our salaries. We stayed with our parents and had no rent or groceries to pay for. But we still had these 'mysterious' expenses that drained our pockets. Well, with 2019, those expenses too drifted into the past and before we knew it, we had savings!
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Okay, let's be honest. Not everyone is into hygiene. There are many of you who think a shower isn't necessary every day, especially in the winter. But with the virus outbreak and health becoming everyone's top priority, at least people have gotten extra cautious about cleanliness and daily showers have become a thing.
And just like that, we're at the end of another decade with a few more lessons and a few more grey strands. The good thing is that the lessons we learned in 2020 could probably help us in having a decent 2021. Are you ready?
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  void observe();
  void disconnect();
  HeapVector<Member<Report>> takeRecords();

  void Trace(Visitor*) const override;

 private:
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  Member<V8ReportingObserverCallback> callback_;
  Member<ReportingObserverOptions> options_;
  HeapVector<Member<Report>> report_queue_;
  bool registered_;
};

}  // namespace blink

#endif  // THIRD_PARTY_BLINK_RENDERER_CORE_FRAME_REPORTING_OBSERVER_H_


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* Jan Prachař (jan@prachar.eu)

Requirements
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 - [JsTestDriver (JSTD)][jstd]
 - [Mocha][mocha] (browser version – [mocha.js][mocha.js])
 - Any assertion library (e.g. [Chai][chai]: browser version – [chai.js][chai.js])

Usage
-----

Update your `jsTestDriver.conf` file (see [wiki page][jstd-conf] for more info)  by prepending the Mocha and assertion library and the adapter's source files.

For example:

	load:
    - "lib/mocha.js"
	- "lib/chai.js"
    - "lib/MochaAdapter.js"
    - "your_source_files.js"

	test:
    - "your_test_files.js"

Then you must setup Mocha and assertion library like for use in the browser, i.e. tell Mocha which interface you wish to use. A typical setup might look like the following.

	mocha.setup('bdd');
	expect = chai.expect;

Directory Layout
----------------

 - src: The adapter source code. Intent is to match interface with interface.
 - src-test: The test files that verifies that the adapter works as intended.

Changes
-------
 * 1.0.0 – 2013-03-25 – Initial release

[jstd]: http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver
[jstd-conf]: http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/wiki/ConfigurationFile
[mocha]: https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha
[mocha.js]: https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha/blob/master/mocha.js
[chai]: https://github.com/chaijs/chai
[chai.js]: https://github.com/chaijs/chai/blob/master/chai.js


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Austin Moms
October 15, 2019 Austin / Lifestyle / Texas Lifestyle Magazine
Five Minutes With Jordan Jones, Packed Party Founder & CEO
Posted by The Balanced Byline
When Jordan Jones made the move from a Silicon Valley tech company to her own lifestyle gifting brand, she had no way of knowing it would capture the attention
of celebrities and national retailers.
In 2013, Jones, a graduate of Oklahoma State University, was living the twenty-something life in San Francisco. She would often call her mother, complaining that she didn't have the same large circle of friends in the City by the Bay. Her mom immediately told her she was having a "pity party."
One night, the then 23-year-old Jones dreamt she sent herself a physical pity party package. The rest is party history. Packed Party was born.
"I love the quote that conveys that some people may not remember what you say, but they will remember how you made them feel. That's how I want our products to be remembered—they should all spark feelings and make life a party," says original Party Girl Jordan Jones. Photo courtesy Packed Party
Packed Party products recently launched in Whole Foods Market featuring a mix of modern and colorful disposable dining set designs and playful party accessories.
How did you start Packed Party?
I started out in my tiny apartment in San Francisco selling "party of one" packages. Eventually, Packed Party evolved into over 80+ vibrant, whimsical products making life feel like a real party. The inspiration for Packed Party's designs comes from my affinity for the glitz and mirror ball glamour of the 1970s and with the idea that any gathering is an excuse to celebrate.
Packed Party has evolved into designing and manufacturing more than 80+ products that all make life a party.
Photo courtesy Packed Party
Why did you start your podcast?
By 2017, the brand had so much exposure through partnerships and support from Reese Witherspoon, Rebecca Minkoff and The Today Show. The podcast served as an outlet to share everything that was happening for our brand and allowed me to connect with other women and customers during busy times.
What's the Packed Party Pop-Up Trailer?
The Packed Party Trailer is a massive pop-up trailer you can shop in and experience our brand in-person. It's a party on wheels! It's currently traveling on an eight-stop tour around the country for college game days. We've had the trailer for about a year now and use it to engage with our active community of Party Girls. The trailer has been a fun way to bring our brand to life, meet so many of our customers and allow them to shop in person.
Have you always been creative?
I've always loved creating special and fun gifts for friends and family members, so when I launched Packed Party in 2013, it was not a surprise to anyone who knew me. My mom always sent me over-the-top care packages in college and went all out with me on school projects. I used to make and sell headbands, and even lamp shades in high school and college. Because I am right-brained, designing and branding have always come naturally to me…math not so much!
Jordan Jones pitched the idea of reinventing Whole Foods Market's party aisles. Jones worked with Whole Food Market for over a year to bring the collection into its stores nationwide and creating a new way to party. Photo courtesy Packed Party
Do you design the products yourself?
I do! We design four collections a year for each season. Along with our lead designer, I have a heavy hand in everything from conceptualizing the designs to choosing color schemes to naming the collections. We have a ton of fun designing our products here, so every collection always feels really special when we release it online or inside a major retailer like Whole Foods Market.
What's your favorite product?
This is tough, they're all so special to me! We have such a wide range of products from drinkware to travel accessories – and each of them tells a different story. I really love our current Oh My Stars Fall Collection because it's inspired by going after your dreams. I feel like I am living-proof that dreams can become a reality if you work hard.
Cover: Jordan Jones, courtesy photo
Lisa Davis lives in Austin and is the Editorial Assistant for Texas Lifestyle Magazine and an honors graduate of Concordia University Texas with a Bachelor's Degree in Communication and Public Relations.
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OK, this one factor might be a little obvious, but how do you know somebody is skilled? One way to tell is to see whether or not they are a Certified Tile Installer. In our industry, this is a great measure to understand if the worker is informed on the best practices and requirements in tile installation.
As the CTEF states, "All tile installations, both residential and commercial, will move with temperature and humidity variations.
The materials you use are just as important as the methods you use to install them. Quality materials last longer and provide more durability in your installations. Always read the manufacturer recommendations for installation and ensure the materials you use are meant for each other.
D&B Tile delivers only high-quality materials from tile to thinset and more. Each of our vendors are put through a rigorous selection process to vet their quality. And all of our tile experts can help make sure you're using the right materials for the job.
Prior to installation, you should check the flatness of the subfloor. If the surface is not flat enough, you'll need to address that before starting your installation. Otherwise, the quality of the installation will be compromised.
According to CTEF, "Ceramic tile installations require a stiff or rigid surface. In some cases, installations, including natural stone, may require additional subflooring, wall studs or bracing. Realize that the substrate for natural stone tile installations must be twice as rigid as that for a ceramic or porcelain tile installation.
Remember, this means on both the surface area and the back of the tile.
Follow these recommendations from CTEF, "Jobsite conditions can have a serious impact on the success or failure of a tile installation.
Many products used in tile installations require that the temperature be maintained within a specific range and duration. Be certain to follow the manufacturer's guidelines to ensure a long-lasting installation.
As mentioned earlier, the quality of product is extremely important but it is also extremely important to ensure you are using the right methods and materials for the job. Each is unique after all.
Visit with your D&B Tile rep to discuss the project specifics and we'll be happy to walk you through the appropriate methods and materials for a successful installation.
Crack isolation membranes are a necessary addition to any subfloor that is exposing cracks in the surface. This will prevent the cracks from growing further and ultimately protect your installation from cracking. We offer many crack isolation membranes as well as noise suppression membranes from Protecto-Wrap that will ensure your installation is not only safe, but also quiet.


The teller of this particular tale is a 36-year-old former convict, explaining when he hit bottom.
You'd call Jerome Anderson soft-spoken. The cadences of his speech are urban and smooth, his Southern accent a product of West Palm Beach, Fla., not of the hills and hollers of Galax, off in the distance. The outline of two dark blue teardrops rests under his left eye.
The air in the back room of the thrift store, where Anderson sits at a table, is warm and close, just a degree shy of uncomfortable. The light is dim. Unsorted merchandise, half-finished projects and art supplies await attention here and there.
An infant, not quite 11 months old, sleeps in a stroller, looking as cherubic and sweet as any baby you've ever seen. The man who was shot at is his father.
Anderson turns, showing his scalp. There, on the back, are a couple of very slender pink scars, two or three inches long, that stand out sharply against his otherwise unblemished skin.
Jill Burcham, the blonde woman sitting at the same table as Anderson — looking like somebody's neatly-dressed suburban mom who would never lay eyes on a convict outside of a crime drama — nods silently, moved but unruffled.
Anderson says he'd gotten in a fight with a family member earlier that day, and swore he wished he was dead. Later he realized that words have power, he says, because he nearly got what he'd asked for.
Burcham, the pastor and founder of Galax's nondenominational P.U.S.H. (Praying Until Something Happens) Ministries, met him after he came through the Life Center's rehab program, also in Galax.
Burcham was introduced to Anderson's art and encouraged him to keep doing it. "I asked him what he liked, and he came out and showed us all this beautiful artwork that he had done while he was in prison. And I said, 'Oh, my goodness,'" Burcham says.
Anderson says his grandmother had always encouraged him to pursue music, art and dance, though in his neighborhood, gang activity and drug use was the norm, and he was bullied for his interests. Even though he gave up and got involved in gangs, he still kept on with his artwork, in the form of graffiti, which made him popular with his peers on the street.
The artwork he sports on his face – prison-style teardrops that can have multiple unpleasant meanings – served a dual purpose in his earlier life, and to a degree still do.
"Mine actually stood for my mother and father, the pain from losing them," says Anderson. The son of a single mom, his father was not a strong presence; later on, his mother, with whom he was close, passed away.
Anderson hasn't been in touch with his family for some time, he says.
"It's been a few years. I contacted an aunt of mine, in Florida, but I can't really go around my family, you know? 'Cause they just remember me how I used to be," he says.
The one thing that hasn't changed about Anderson is his art.
"I love art. I've been doing it most of my life," Anderson says. "I just mix it up. I consider myself to be a street artist. I just draw what I feel at the moment, and I love flowers." He laughs at this and continues.
"I draw what I feel, you know? Some days, now, I have dark feelings, and I know that this isn't the place for that right now, but I just paint what I feel and I go with it, man. I like messing around with the furniture and the wood, it's all new to me. I love pen and paper though, and colored pencils," he says.
Burcham believes, with ardent faith, in Anderson's program and how necessary it is in a world that dismisses people who've made mistakes and been branded for it.
"We live in a community where you can't get a job if you're a felon, can't get food stamps and can't get housing," she says. "And we believe that if you have the spirit to want to do the right thing, God will open doors for you.
"Jerome wanted to give people the same opportunity that he had. And since we've talked, he has a job, he has housing, and he has food on the table. And he did it because he had a want to. He's literally a walking testimony of what the right mindset can do. We don't accept what the world says," she finishes.
Through the program, artists can sell their works in the store and then use the profits to pay bills and perhaps put a little back into the ministry, which in turn uses the money for more art supplies. Like P.U.S.H. in general, Convicted Hearts relies on the community's generosity to keep going.
Almost illustratively, in the midst of her talk, someone pops in with bags of squash and cucumbers. "Oh, wow! Thank you so, so much! God bless you!" Burcham calls out, before diving back into the topic.
"We have families where the husband or the wife is in jail and it's a single parent taking care of the family, and they're really struggling for food. We can't help them pay the light bill, we can't help them pay the rent, but we can sure do our very best to try to help them get all the other things they need," she says.
What sets Convicted Hearts and P.U.S.H. Ministries in general apart is its 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a week availability. While Burcham is grateful that government agencies exist to help people in need, she says that they're already strained to the max. Anderson points out that anyone coming to him for help doesn't have to wait to talk to someone.
Some people find Convicted Hearts that way; others come through the Life Center or other local organizations; some just wander in on their own. All are welcome.
Anderson and Burcham believe that anyone can turn a sad, empty, ruined life around and become whole, happy and fulfilled.
The setting certainly helps, Anderson says.
Anderson's main concern now isn't dodging bullets or knives; it's intercepting people who need help and guiding them to his ministry's services.
Anderson, with the zeal of a crusader, says he'd like to expand Convicted Hearts' scope. "It's not even just for people coming out of jail. It's for people who just sit at home and don't got nothin' to do, and want something' to do. They could come down here and just paint. They could bring a kid down here and I could show 'em how to do a card. I've been trying to tell people that. They can do clothing, T-shirts, drawing, poetry, music. I love all of that stuff.
P.U.S.H. Ministries offers a number of programs for the community, including Convicted Hearts, Women of Purpose, Chain Breakers, Restoring Hands, Follow Me, Encouraging Moments, Surrogate Daughter, Feed the 5000 and others. To find out more, seek their help, volunteer or make a donation, visit them at 117 N. Main St. in Galax, call (276) 235-1059 or go to www.pushministries.org.


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Japanese wins 5th Bhutan International Marathon
You are here: Home » Blog » News » Japanese wins 5th Bhutan International Marathon
About 369 participants completed the fifth Bhutan International Marathon that was held in Punakha on March 3.
In the full marathon (42kms) for male, a 22-year-old Japanese, Yoshiyuki Hara, secured the first position by completing the race in 2hours 27mins and 18 seconds. He also secured the first position for male's half marathon last year.
Two soldiers, Duptho Wangchuk of the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) and Kinley Gyeltshen of the Royal Body Guards (RBG), came second and third by completing the race in 2:47:07 and 2:54:14 respectively.
In the female's full marathon category, Sarah Easton, 30, stood first by completing the race in 3:42:17. She is a professional athlete who runs for charity to raise funds for refugees of Myanmar. The race was her first at such altitude. The race started at 6,700ft.
Ursula Schulz and Pema Zam bagged the second and third position by completing the race in 4:11:50 and 4:43:23 respectively.
The race started from Tashithang in Gasa and ended at the Punakha Dzong parking, detouring from Changyul towards the cremation ground and following the trail that leads to the 300ft suspension bridge and the Samdingkha road towards Kuruthang.
In the half marathon, three RBA soldiers, Phurpa, Nima Dorji and Kinley Tenzin, were the winners. Phurpa completed the race in 1:18:46, where as Nima and Kinley took 1:18:54 and 1:19:11 respectivelty.
In the female half category, Jocelyn Bradley, who took 1:40:14, won the race followed by a teacher of Thimphu Primary School, Juliana Mamola. She took 1:44:14 seconds to complete the race.
Tika Monger came third by completing it in 1:57:04.
The half marathon started from the Sirigang in Kabisa.
The winners were awarded cash prizes ranging from Nu 3000 to Nu 20,000.
Of the 419 people participated in the race but some did not complete by the scheduled time, which was from 8am to 3pm.
There were 277 international and 142 national participants, of which 73 were above 50 years.
Tashi Dema
Source: Kuensel


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Q: Find Array Elements in Array using JPA Query in Spring Boot I am trying to find to array elements in array, but getting error
@Query(
   "SELECT i FROM User i WHERE (i.personalDetail.gender = :gender) and " +
       "(:country is null or i.contactDetail.country = :country) and " +
       "(COALESCE(:state, NULL) is null or i.contactDetail.state IN (:state)) and " +
       "(COALESCE(:motherLanguage, NULL) is null or i.personalDetail.motherLanguage IN (:motherLanguage))"
    )
    Page<User> findAllUser(
            @Param("gender") Optional<String> gender,
            @Param("country") Optional<String> country,
            @Param("state") Optional<List<String>> state,
            @Param("motherLanguage") Optional<List<String>> motherLanguage,
            Pageable pageable
    );

 @RequestParam("country") Optional<String> country,
 @RequestParam("state") Optional<String[]> state,
 @RequestParam("motherLanguage") Optional<String[]> motherLanguage,

Page<User> pageObj = userRepository.findAllUser(
                gender,
                country,
                Optional.of(Arrays.asList(state.orElse(new String[] { }))),                Optional.of(Arrays.asList(motherLanguage.orElse(new String[] { }))),
                pageable
        );

Model

    @Column(name = "state")
    private String state;

    @Type(type = "string-array")
    @Column(
            name = "mother_language",
            columnDefinition = "text[]"
    )
    private String[] motherLanguage;

I found that the error is due to this line in Query
"(COALESCE(:motherLanguage, NULL) is null or i.personalDetail.motherLanguage IN (:motherLanguage))"

My query properly properly works for state parameter because state is just a string, but  motherLanguageis an array.
Basically i want to know how i can query in array using array. If found something on internet SELECT ARRAY[1,2] && ARRAY[1,3,4,7]; but when i tried to put && in JPA Query it is giving error
"(COALESCE(:motherLanguage, NULL) is null or i.personalDetail.motherLanguage && (:motherLanguage))"

This is the ERROR For Bellow Query
"(:motherLanguage is null or i.personalDetail.motherLanguage IN :motherLanguage) and " +

There was an unexpected error (type=Internal Server Error, status=500).
Parameter value element [Hindi] did not match expected type [[Ljava.lang.String; (n/a)]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter value element [Hindi] did not match expected type [[Ljava.lang.String; (n/a)]
org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: Parameter value element [Hindi] did not match expected type [[Ljava.lang.String; (n/a)]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter value element [Hindi] did not match expected type [[Ljava.lang.String; (n/a)]

A: You should rewrite the JPQL query as this:
@Query(
    "SELECT i FROM User OR WHERE (i.personalDetail.gender = :gender) AND " +
    "(:country IS NULL OR i.contactDetail.country = :country) AND " +
    "(:state IS NULL OR i.contactDetail.state IN :state) AND " +
    "(:motherLanguage IS NULL OR i.personalDetail.motherLanguage IN :motherLanguage)"
)

JPA should be smart enough to compare a bound collection directly against null.  There is no need to use COALESCE() as you were using it.

A: Try with two parameters :
(:motherLanguageB IS NULL OR i.personalDetail.motherLanguage IN :motherLanguage)

Force to null if list is empty :
if(motherLanguages != null && motherLanguages.isEmpty()) motherLanguages = null;

And set the parameters (don't know how to this with Spring Data):
 setParameter("motherLanguageB", motherLanguages == null ? null : 1)
.setParameter("motherLanguage", motherLanguages);

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Broadband projects on the way for M.D.
As the provincial government continues to pump funds into rural broadband, the Municipal District of Taber is also looking at ways to improve Internet speeds across the municipality.
One project being worked on at the moment is in partnership with Tango Networks and would see a fibre connection in the M.D.
"We're talking about a fibre connection between Chin and Grassy Lake. We're looking at developing a business case, leveraging recent wins, I'd say, in adjacent municipalities," explained Matt Sproule of Tango Networks. "The process we followed there was successful because the municipality wasn't a 'look to build something and then see if it works,' it was a collaborative exercise, which invested heavily into upfront assessment with both the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the businesses."
In speaking to several different parties, the group has found reception to applying for broadband grants is favourable.
"We found the feedback we received was very good. It was also very breaking and very applicable in regards to the overall grant and how those processes apply. It also revealed significant pent-up demand in the businesses. The catchphrase 'you can't believe everything you hear in the media,' it definitely became true. When you talk to a business that is willing to invest hard-earned dollars, especially in this kind of a season, into fibre, you realize right away there are some deep business needs that they need to support," continued Sproule. "The proposal that is here leverages the process that was followed. The first step in the proposal is to assess and develop a business case, which could also be turned very quickly into a grant application, should it happen just like it did last November. We are going to look at fibre from the Town of Taber's high-speed data DEMARCs and there's quite a few in the town of Taber. (We're) looking to bring them directly west into the area around Johnson's Addition."
Sproule also touched on the other key steps for the next part of the process.
"The second part of business would be to head down to Chin and then east to Grassy Lake. Connecting those endpoints and the key communities and business opportunities between those endpoints together. This is in keeping with our strategy on Phases 4, 5, 6, and 7. We're really just going to execute what that shows. We're going to have to be more detailed with our business stakeholder involvement to find out exactly where we need to bring a fibre place point," he said.
The timeline also needs to start soon, according to Sproule.
"To get this thing through from start to finish, we would need to start in August to finish a business case in November, which we look to have council's approval on. This is also important because that may be when the government of Alberta recently announced the funding at $150 million, which may be available to us to apply for. So, we have something we could actually turn very quickly into a grant application should it be similar to last year's process the federal government followed," he added. "The steps along the way are the definition of the project in August with administration, contacting the businesses — not quite door to door, but definitely looking for the M.D. to nominate the stakeholders they have already seen requests from and ones they feel are likely to want to participate."
The group has also been busy reaching out to a variety of ISPs.
"At the same time, we've been engaging all of the ISPs. In previous business case development after engaging ISPs, we had four wanting to participate. Now, we anticipate that or more because the town of Taber is very well connected when it comes to high-speed data DMARCs from the major Internet Service Providers," continued Sproule. "This project is intended to start in August and end in December with very tangible grant focused applications."
With fibre needing to be put in the ground, council inquired if it could be placed in Alberta Transportation right of way or just on M.D. land.
"It should very much go in Alberta Transportation right of way and we will be careful to look at the future twinning, which we believe will be more south. So, when we place the fibre, we would look to the right of way north of Highway 3," answered Sproule.
Another question was around the grant funding.
Council asked if they could still apply for grants if council approved their own funding for the project.
"If funding has already been allocated by council, last year's grant conditions made that project ineligible," replied Sproule. "The approach we are looking at doing to mitigate that is have a council approval later in November just so we can see if we have that competing business case that says we want to proceed with a six-kilometre fibre layout to Johnson's Addition. Then we would get council's approval, but we would still have the project behind it which lays the other 53 kilometres to Chin and Grassy. We could use that as leverage for a larger grant application."
While Chin to Grassy Lake have been looked at, a question from council was why Highway 36 north wasn't looked at.
"I have no bias either way. There are data points up into Vauxhall and over to Enchant and Hays. It was just a matter of what seemed really available today," responded Sproule. "I did bias Johnson's Addition because, in my opinion, we have a Public Works office which is unserved, except by wireless point to point. So there's immediate value to the M.D. There's also the business park, which just from preliminary talks with some of the developers and businesses in the area, there are some very poor data connections, and Johnson's has none. I was looking at that as a very key part of what would form a key pillar to a very good business case. Highway 3 then was the rest of the way and was just a matter of extending off of that initial take."
"To go north on 36, we would actually be extending data points out of the town of Taber still. So, it would show the same kind of value that we would show extending east or west down Highway 3."
M.D. administration further explained economic development potential also played a factor as to where the project could be located.
"I think one of the considerations when it comes to prioritizing certain areas here is the economic development potential. I'm not saying Highway 36 doesn't have significant economic development potential, but with the Highway 3 corridor there, it definitely has some need potential here from an economic development perspective," stated CAO Arlos Crofts. "A lot is really trying to get to a point of being design ready and in the bigger picture, being infrastructure ready."
"What we did is we just took the feedback we got through the process from some of the ISPs that had a certain amount of interest in that Highway 3 corridor as well," added Bryce Surina, director of GIS and IT. "(We) just felt that this would give us an opportunity to get a business case and something that we could get behind us and then show the successes of going forward with working with industry. And not only just industry, but the businesses as well, so putting that whole package together. It was an area we could really focus on to get some solutions out there."
Council asked what kind of financial commitment would be needed and where the money would come from.
Administration's report explained that an operating approval would be required for the amendment of $53,965.99 to the 2021 budget.
"It would be coming out of our reserve," explained Crofts. "I do believe a portion of these costs, if successful in obtaining grant funding can also be recovered."
"That is correct. The second phase and the third phase could possibly be included in the grant application. That is the only unknown and what we are trying to respond to," added Surina.
A motion to support the continuation of our Broadband Strategy through the development of a business case specific to the Highway 3 Agri-Food Corridor in preparation for grant funding opportunities, and approve an amendment to the 2021 operating budget of $53,965.99 to facilitate the business case development, including components of a grant funding application specific to the three stages outlined in the Tango Networks application proposal, was carried unanimously by council.
Coun. Leavitt Howg was absent.


Location. The JW Marriott Hotel Dubai typifies the impressive modern architecture of the area, with its gleaming glass façade leading into the marble atrium lobby. Located in downtown Dubai, the hotel is three kilometres from the waterfront. The Dubai Museum is six kilometres from the hotel and Ski Dubai, and an indoor dry ski slope is 24 kilometres away. Dubai International Airport is four kilometres from the hotel, an approximate driving time of 15 minutes.
Hotel Features.The hotel has a health club with sauna, jetted tub, and fitness equipment, whilst beauty and massage treatments are also available. The building is topped off with an outdoor rooftop swimming pool with terrace. Air-conditioned public areas have high-speed wireless Internet access and complimentary newspapers are found in the lobby area. The hotel also has a concierge desk with multilingual staff, and complimentary valet parking is available.
The hotel features 11 restaurants and bars serving a wide variety of cuisines including international, Middle Eastern and German.
Guestrooms.The 351 guestrooms spread over six floors have typical mahogany and teak furnishings blended with modern decor with Arabic touches. All come equipped with satellite television featuring premium channels, direct-dial telephones with voicemail, and high-speed Internet connections (surcharge). Other amenities include climate control and minibars. Bathrooms come with complimentary toiletries, bathrobes, slippers and bathroom telephones.
Expert Tip.For a disorientating experience in this desert country, visit Ski Dubai, the worlds third largest indoor ski slope, measuring 400 meters and using 6000 tons of snow.
Deluxe room: One king bed or two queen beds. Traditionally styled teak and mahogany furnishings and modern decor with Arabic touches. Satellite television with premium channels, direct-dial phone with voicemail, high-speed Internet connection (surcharge). Climate control and minibar. Complimentary toiletries, bathrobes, slippers, bathroom telephone.
Executive Room: One king bed. Complimentary breakfast. Complimentary airport transport. Executive lounge access, including breakfast and cocktail hour. Traditionally styled teak and mahogany furnishings and modern decor with Arabic touches. Satellite television with premium channels, direct-dial phone with voicemail, complimentary high-speed Internet connection. Climate control, complimentary bottled water and minibar. Complimentary toiletries, bathrobes, slippers, bathroom telephone.
Executive Suite: One king bed. Complimentary breakfast. Complimentary airport transport. Executive lounge access, including breakfast and cocktail hour. Traditionally styled teak and mahogany furnishings and modern decor with Arabic touches. Satellite television with premium channels, direct-dial phone with voicemail, complimentary high-speed Internet connection. Climate control, complimentary bottled water and minibar. Complimentary toiletries, bathrobes, slippers, bathroom telephone.
Townsquare Studio: Two double beds. Traditionally styled teak and mahogany furnishings and modern decor with Arabic touches. Satellite television with premium channels, direct-dial phone with voicemail, high-speed Internet connection (surcharge). Climate control and minibar. Complimentary toiletries, bathrobes, slippers, bathroom telephone.
Royal Suite: One king bed. Desk. High-speed Internet access (surcharge). TV with premium cable channels. Minibar. Hair dryer. Iron/ironing board. Complimentary newspaper.
Amiri Suite: One king bed. Desk. Complimentary Internet access. TV with premium cable channels. Minibar. Complimentary newspaper. Iron/ironing board. Hair dryer.
Diwan Suite: One king bed. Separate living area. Desk. Complimentary Internet access. TV with premium cable channels. Minibar. Complimentary newspaper. Iron/ironing board. Hair dryer.
Getting there.Taxis are available from the airport; a journey to the hotel typically costs around AED35. An airport shuttle service is also provided by the hotel (surcharge).


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Q: Does calling `ner.update()` multiple times makes any difference? I am trying to understand how to add entity classes to the Named Entity Recognizer. An example code has a structure that looks like:
ner = EntityRecognizer(nlp.vocab, entity_types=[... ENTITIES ...])
for itn in range(NUMBER_OF_ITERATIONS):
    for raw_text, entities in training_examples:
        ... some data handling ...
        ner.update(doc, gold)

, but then the next example (for BILUO tags) calls ner.update() only once (i.e., no for-loops that cause update() to see the training data multiple times).
I have read this question, whose answers seem to tell me I should call update() more than once for each training example; but then I also thought they could be just following the examples.
Because of the following sentence (from the end of the documentation page)...

The costs are then used to calculate the gradient of the loss, to train the model.

... I am guessing that the answer to my question is "yes, I should train it by iterating 'several' times through the training data"; but if that is the case, then does anyone have suggestion on how many times is "enough"? (the example code uses 5, but if I think it is too less, can I end up iterating "too many times"? I.e., does it "overfit"?)


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Clear Signs of State Cover-Up in Prison Death of Iranian-Canadian Academic in Iran
Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death
February 12, 2018—The family of the Iranian-Canadian academic, Kavous Seyed-Emami, whose death in custody in Iran was announced on February 9, is under intense pressure to immediately bury Seyed-Emami in a private funeral—without receiving any independent and medically corroborated information on the cause of his death—and to remain silent regarding the death.
Seyed-Emami died under highly suspicious circumstances while in detention in Evin Prison. The authorities are calling his death a suicide—the third death in prison that has been labelled a suicide in recent days despite near universal doubts regarding the veracity of such claims.
"Iran's judiciary must allow an independent and transparent autopsy of Kavous Seyed-Emami's body in order for the family and the public to know how he died," said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
A relative living abroad who is aware of the details of the case told CHRI that Seyed-Emami's family told the authorities that they wanted an independent autopsy. The authorities reportedly told the family that they would do an autopsy, but as of the evening of February 11, it is not clear that one has been done and no results providing any information on the cause of death have been released to the family.
"You cannot be both the accused and the investigator and expect people to believe your conclusion," said the relative.
CHRI calls upon the authorities in Iran to:
Allow an independent autopsy to be conducted, the results of which will be made public.
Carry out any request for a full and independent investigation into Seyed-Emami's death.
Allow the family to conduct funeral and memorial services as per its own wishes.
Immediately end all pressure on the family to remain silent.
Cease all other intimidation tactics which include police surveillance of the family.
"Claims that Seyed-Emami's death was a suicide have no credibility whatsoever. This is a prison system out of control and a Judiciary that is actively colluding in a massive cover-up," said Ghaemi.
"The authorities' remarks about the case from start to finish and the pressure they are putting on the family leaves no doubt that there is a concerted state cover up," he added.
Sources close to the family have said that Seyed-Emami's family is under constant surveillance, with police posted at the house and that the family is under enormous pressure not to speak to anyone about the case and to quickly bury the body without any public funeral or memorial service.
There are worries that people close to the case will be subjected to forced statements that confirm the state narrative of the events surrounding Seyed-Emami's death. Iran has a long and documented history of forcing individuals to make false statements and confessions.
In a statement earlier on February 11, Tehran's chief prosecutor said that Seyed-Emami committed suicide due to confessions made against him: "This person was one of the accused [environmental activists] and given he knew that there is a torrent of confessions against him and he confessed himself, unfortunately he committed suicide in prison."
The prosecutor's incredulous claim of knowing the reason for an individual's alleged suicide casts further doubt on what can only be described as the state's increasingly desperate attempts to cover up the events leading to the death of Seyed-Emami.
The Judiciary has told the family they will receive the body on Tuesday morning on the condition that they immediately and quietly bury him, according to the relative abroad. A funeral is planned for Tuesday morning in the village of Amameh in the mountains north of Tehran.
A steady procession of friends, family, students and colleagues visited the family home on Monday under the surveillance of police officers stationed near the house.
Jailed British Council Employee Says She Rejected "Explicit Invitation" to
Evin Prison Protesters Receive Suspended Prison Sentences
Letter: Families Cite Seven Law Violations in Cases of Detained


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