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The First Cut – Pt 1
Last week I had further foot surgery and am currently laid up, with limited mobility. This got me thinking about the history of surgery, and reminded me of a joke I read in one of Isaac Asimov's books:
A doctor, an engineer, and a lawyer were in their favorite watering-hole discussing who among them had the oldest profession.
The doctor said, "According to the bible, on the sixth day God took a rib from Adam and used it to create Eve making him the first surgeon. Therefore, medicine is the oldest profession."
The engineer replied, "Yes, but before that, God created the heavens and earth out of Chaos, surely a feat of engineering. So, mine is the oldest profession."
The lawyer smiled, then spoke up. "True. But who do you think created the chaos?"
That always made me laugh (and it's a perfect excuse to have a cheap dig at lawyers!)–but what about the real history of surgery?
We tend to think of surgery as a relatively modern invention, dating back only a century or two, but the truth is far different. The first signs of attempted surgeries show up in the fossil record and cave paintings as early as 7,000 years ago (5,000 B.C.) when trepanations (drilling or grinding holes in the skull) were carried out to treat a variety of maladies by relieving pressure inside the skull. Despite the complete lack of scientific knowledge of disease, anesthesia or sterile techniques, these interventions had a survival rate of perhaps as much as fifty percent–possibly a testament to the hardiness of the human species.
Egyptian medicine made use of quite modern-looking techniques to deal with a number of medical problems. In 2,600 B.C. remains of a jaw from a tomb showed evidence of an operation to drain a tooth abscess.Then there's the Edwin Smith Papyrus, which dates back 3,500 years (1,600 B.C.) and documents forty-eight different treatments for dealing with injuries, fractures, wounds, dislocations and tumors. The papers also describe using surgical sutures, use of natural antiseptics, treatment of spinal and cranial injuries, and also anatomical descriptions including the first references to breast cancer.
Around 2,600 years ago (600 B.C.) Sushruta, an amazing Indian physician, wrote a treatise that documented over 1120 illnesses, 700 medicinal plants as well as surgical techniques of making incisions, probing, extraction of foreign bodies, cauterization, dentistry, prostate gland removal, hernia surgery, caesarean section, hemorrhoids, perforated intestines, fracture management, and the use of prosthetics. If that wasn't enough, it also describes a number of dislocations and fractures, classification of eye diseases including cataract surgery, along with their treatment!
Then there was Hippocrates, known as the "Founder of Western Medicine." Around 2,400 years ago (400 B.C.) he taught that wounds should be washed in boiled, filtered water, that a doctor's hands should be kept clean and he was the first to recognize the difference between benign and malignant breast cancers. He also taught that medicine should be approached using scientific methods and proposed that diseases had natural causes. He formulated the basic rules of medical treatment that are still the basis of medical ethics to this day.
Around 200 years later (208 B.C. ) Hua Tuo, a Chinese physician, was the first person documented to make use of an anesthetic during surgery. His anesthetic was made by combining wine and cannabis, something his clients no doubt enjoyed!
The Fall of Rome and rise of the Christian Dark Ages ended much of the advance in scientific surgical development and knowledge in Europe (along with other scientific knowledge). This lasted until the advent of the Black Death and subsequent Renaissance (around 1350), during which European scholars actively sought out medical and scientific knowledge from Byzantine and Muslim sources.
It's quite incredible how many of the medical principles and procedures we now take for granted were already formulated by this point in history. In fact, most of the poor outcomes at this time were attributable to three things, the lack of sterile conditions, limited understanding of germ theory and patient trauma from limited anesthetics.
Next week I'll look at the "new age" of medicine, from the 1400s through to the 20th century and beyond.


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To undo is to restore the file to its state before the previous edit function. This is useful if you want to try an edit or just make a mistake. To undo your last action press Ctrl+Z.
Reverses the most recent undo. By using undo and redo, you can do a "before and after" comparison. To undo your last action press Ctrl+Y.
Copies the selected region into the clipboard. The contents of the clipboard can then be pasted (mixed, inserted, or overwritten) into another audio stream.
Removes the selected region from the audio stream and copies it to the clipboard. The contents of the clipboard can then be pasted or mixed into another audio stream. Note that if only the left or right channel is selected in a stereo stream, then both channels of the stream will be removed.
Use Delete instead to remove the selection without copying it to the clipboard.
Select the part of the sound to cut.
Choose Cut from the Edit menu or click on the Cut button.
Paste Mix command pastes the content of the clipboard with the audio stream that we apply the action. Mixing is an addition of source and target samples of the two streams.
In picture above you can see how we have paste mixed a part of the first audio stream to the second.
Regarding sampling rate the source and target audio streams have to have the same sampling rate. If this is not the case the source audio stream sampling rate will be adjusted to the target sampling rate causing an undesirable effect.
Paste Insert command inserts the audio stream stored in clipboard to the point of the cursor. The part of the audio stream is inserted moves the rest of the stream ahead of a size equal to the part of the inserted stream.
Paste Overwrite command overwrites the audio stream stored in clipboard to the point of the cursor of the target stream.
Paste To New command creates a new audio stream from the clipboard content.
The new audio stream inherits the elements of the original stream (sampling rate, number of channels). The new stream can be processed as any other stream on the workspace.
The same result could be achieved with drag and drop operations. Right mouse click on the selected area, the mouse pointer changes to drop operation. Once you drag it on the free workspace the mouse pointer changes to "Paste to New" style showing that you can do the action.
Delete command deletes the part of the stream that has been selected.
Select all command selects the entire audio stream for processing.
Select to start command selects the part of the stream from its fist sample to the point of the cursor.
Trim command can be enabled only if a part of the stream has been selected.
When you execute this command the parts of the stream lay left and right of the selected region will be deleted.
Select the part of the sound to keep.
Choose Trim from the Edit menu or click on the Trim button.
Trim to start deletes the part of the file from the beginning to the cursor position.
To apply this operation place the cursor to the point you wish and click the menu item.
Trim to end deletes the part of the file from the current cursor position to the end of the file.
Insert silence inserts a part of silence to the audio stream's current cursor position.
Move the cursor to the place where you want to insert the silence.
Choose Insert Silence from the Edit menu or click the responding button.
Enter 1:00 for the duration.
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Caligula – Emperor of Rome – Ancient Rome
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The Roman emperor Caligula
Why was his nickname Caligula?
Caligula's real name was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (after his ancestors Julius Caesar and Augustus). But everyone called him Caligula because when he was a little boy he lived in military camps where his father was the general. In the camps, he wore little soldier boots. So the soldiers called him "Little Boots", which is Caligula in Latin.
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A Roman soldier's sandal, or "caliga"
Caligula's family background
Caligula's father, Germanicus, was Augustus' adopted grandson, and Caligula's mother, Agrippina the Elder, was Augustus' granddaughter. Caligula was born on August 31st, 12 AD. He had four brothers and three sisters. Two of Caligula's brothers died before they grew up.
More about Agrippina the Younger
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Caligula's father also died when Caligula was only seven. It's possible that the emperor Tiberius poisoned Caligula's father to get him out of the way. After his father died, Caligula's mother Agrippina got into a long fight with Tiberius about whether he had really poisoned him.
Caligula goes to live with Livia
Because of this fight, Tiberius seems to have wanted to get Caligula more under his control. In 27 AD, when Caligula was fifteen years old, he and his three sisters went to live with their great-grandmother Livia, who was Tiberius' mother. Imagine how you would feel living with the mother of the man who poisoned your father! The kids stayed there for two years, until Caligula was seventeen.
What happened to Caligula's brothers?
Drusilla, sister of Caligula? Marble. Munich, Glyptotek.
Then Tiberius ended his argument with Agrippina by arresting her and keeping her prisoner on an island, where the guards beat her and abused her. Tiberius also killed Caligula's two older brothers. Caligula's brother Nero either was murdered or killed himself. Caligula's other brother, Drusus, was locked in a dungeon and starved to death – at the end, he tried to eat the stuffing of his mattress because he was so hungry.
Caligula lives with his grandma
After all this, Caligula and his sisters went to live with their mother's mother Antonia. During this whole time, the teenagers were pretty much prisoners, and had only each other for friends. Suetonius and other Roman historians say that Caligula and his sister Drusilla were more like boyfriend and girlfriend, but we don't know that for sure.
Caligula and his great-uncle Tiberius
After two more years, in 31 AD, Tiberius made Caligula come live with him on the island of Capri. At this time Caligula was nineteen years old. Suetonius writes about this time as if all the two guys ever did was party, drink, and hang out with pretty girls and good-looking boys, but he might be wrong about this. Caligula seems to have been very good at keeping on Tiberius' good side, unlike his other relatives. By 33 AD, Caligula's mother Agrippina starved herself to death (or maybe was starved to death).
Caligula becomes emperor
Tiberius died in 37 AD, when Caligula was 25 years old. In his will, Tiberius left control of the Roman Empire jointly to Caligula and to Tiberius' grandson, Tiberius Gemellus, but Caligula seized all the power for himself anyway. In the beginning everybody loved Caligula. Priests sacrificed hundreds of cows and sheep and pigs in his honor.
More about animal sacrifice
History of cattle
And of pigs
Caligula acts peculiar
But by 39 AD it was clear that Caligula suffered from a mental illness, which may have been a rare illness called Wilson's Disease, and this made him act weirder and weirder. He seems to have begun to think of himself as a god. Caligula's mental illness took over his life more and more as he got older. Suetonius says Caligula made his horse a priest, ordered the sun to rise in the middle of the night, and forced senators to run alongside his chariot. (But was he really mentally ill? Or was he making a point about how much power he had?)
The end of Caligula's story
By the time he was 29 years old, Caligula was so disabled that the people near him thought it was just impossible for him to rule anymore. But there wasn't any way to stop being Emperor except to die, because the Senate had voted Caligula's powers to him for life. So in 41 AD some of Caligula's guards stabbed him to death, and made his uncle Claudius emperor instead.
More about Claudius
More about Agrippina
Bibliography and further reading about the Julio-Claudian emperors:
Classical Rome, by John Clare (1993). For kids, the whole political history from beginning to end.
Oxford First Ancient History, by Roy Burrell (reissued 1997). Easy reading. It skips around a lot, not trying to tell everything, just highlights.
The Romans: From Village to Empire, by Mary Boatwright, Daniel Gargola, and Richard Talbert (2004). Okay, it's a little dry, but it is up to date and has all the facts you could want.
The Roman Revolution, by Ronald Syme (1960). Still a classic.
From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68
by H. H. Scullard (1959, 5th edition 1990). Another classic.
More about the Julio-Claudians
Year of the Four Emperors
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At the age of ten, Fanny Price is sent to live with wealthy relatives in Northampton Shire, leaving her impoverished family behind in Portsmouth. She has always known her debt of gratitude towards her aunt, Lady Bertram, and uncle, Sir Thomas. Her Aunt Norris, however, has always treated her as a servant and the preening Bertram daughters have always reminded her of her status. The youngest son Edmund has been Fanny's constant companion since her arrival at Mansfield Park. The arrival of the sophisticated brother and sister duo from London, Henry and Mary Crawford, sends the Park into a passionate upheaval as the daughters pursue Henry and Edmund is caught up in the rebellious spirit. Only Fanny refuses to fall under their spell. The fate of everyone at Mansfield Park is decided by an unspeakable scandal, and Fanny's patience is rewarded.
Rozema's handling of the entangled amours and social gamesmanship at Mansfield Park is delightful...It's impure Austen, but potent moviemaking.
While this version plays somewhat fast and loose with the original story, and even more so with the heroine's character, it is still much more Jane Austen than not.
Spins the most interesting modern re-interpretation of the Austen canon.
This Mansfield Park becomes a kind of romanticized gloss -- an imaginative grad-student thesis that melds author and character.
Though it's never dull, this Mansfield Park has too much of its own agenda and too little of Austen's to completely succeed.
Despite its brazen politics, Mansfield Park never goes giddily amok as promised.
It's hard to imagine a more delightful time spent at the movies this holiday season than with this adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park.
Wonderful book adaptation with strong female character.
Mansfield Park works because it not only comes from the novel...but also from Austen's letters and journals.
While Mansfield Park doesn't boast the high calibre Hollywood star wattage and gloss of Sense and Sensibility, it offers a more thought-provoking viewpoint.
...busy nothings add up to motion picture somethings in one of the year's most charming films.
Despite such occasional flaws...Mansfield Park is a welcome treat for Austen addicts.
Someone who knows Jane Austen's life and has also an experience of her books or the movies based on them ,can realise one thing for sure , that her novels are also based on her own life ,somehow . But this movie has more realistic elements of her season .Also has more action than other scripts and that makes it believable and attractive. Of course the most attractive is Edmund ( Jonny Lee Miller)lol.
Maybe the best Jane Austen's adaptation ever made!
Great Jane Austen screen adaptation.
This was a really great adaptation..and had a great cast. It was good to see Johnny Lee Miller again. I would recommend watching Sense & Sensability though..it is a bit better.
kind of boring but watchable.
Sir Thomas Bertram: What do you distrust?
Fanny Price: His nature, sir. Like many charming people, he conceals an almost absolute dependence on the appreciation of others.
Sir Thomas Bertram: And what is the terrible ill in that?
Fanny Price: His sole interest is in being loved, sir, not in loving.


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Hey there all you amazing people! ;) Hope you're all having an amazing day and for those of you reading who are in the U.S., HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Are any of you heading out to great Black Friday Sales tomorrow? Here in Canada, Black Friday is growing in popularity, I think almost every store participates now, so I may have to get out there early to find some great deals myself!
So, as I mentioned in my previous blog post, I've decided to start doing some extra posts that will showcase my art. I'm really excited about it because I feel it'll get me back to doing more art, which I have been trying to get back into for a while. I'm always creating but haven't been doing art nearly as much as I should.
I'm going to try and have something to show you guys every week. I'll continue to do my usual blog posts once a week, like I have been doing (with videos every second week), but this will be in addition to those Thursday posts. Sometimes it'll be new art, sometimes it'll be art I've done in the past, sometimes it may just be quick sketches and then sometimes, if I'm working on a longer/larger project, I'll show you how I'm progressing. This will all be on a trial basis for now; I'll see how well I can manage my time and how much interest is shown in these additional art posts. I certainly hope you like them!
Haaayyyyy!!! Are you as excited for the upcoming Holidays as I am? Oh, WOW, I can't wait! I love Christmas so, so, soooo much! In the Spirit of Christmas, I've started doing my Christmas video tutorials and in this very first one I show you how to make these awesome Christmas tree ball ornaments!
Aren't they lovely? And the best part is they are customized to show whatever photo you want on them, which makes them a very special homemade Christmas gift idea that your loved ones will be so touched to receive! I've made them for several people in the past and everyone displays them with fondness on their trees each Christmas. A great idea, which I did for my boyfriend's parents, is to make a set of 6 showing a different special moment on each. In the case of his parents, I did one of their first dance together at their wedding, and then one of each of their 5 children. For my own Mom I did a set of 4; one of each of us 4 kids. And then I've done variations of those ideas for others. But, obviously, you can do anything; funny moments with a sibling or best friend(s)/partner, photos of Christmases past, your favourite quotes, etc… The sky's the limit really!
Today, my mission is to help you all remember how beautiful you truly are! Sometimes we struggle to feel that way and we need a reminder. Even the person you feel is the most physically beautiful person has days when they struggle to feel beautiful. But, you know what? You're all wrong because you are truly ALL beautiful! And, yep, even though I am writing this telling you that we're all beautiful, I too have difficult days when it comes to seeing my own beauty. Knowing how crippling that feeling can sometimes be, I feel that it is important for you to know that I do see the beauty in you all!
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Chapter 7 bankruptcy is not the way to go if you want to continue operating your business, especially if your business is an LLC or a corporation. However, if you are a sole proprietor, you can choose to file for a personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy to discharge your personal and business debts, while seeking available exemptions for certain assets. This will essentially let you continue operations after filing for bankruptcy. To know the best option for you, get a free evaluation from our team of experienced Chapter 7 business bankruptcy lawyers.
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Businesses who cannot generate enough profit to pay for their debts are the ones who usually file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The process liquidates the assets of the company to be distributed to its creditors.
Will I have to stop my company operations if my business files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy?
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What if I want to continue my business?
Unless you are a sole proprietor, filing for Chapter 7 will lead to the closure of your business. . It is also for your protection as filing for Chapter 7 as a business only liquidates assets of the business and not your personal possessions. If you want to continue your business, you may have to seek other options like Chapter 11.


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A May prayer service at Notre Dame D'Haiti Catholic Church in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami touched on the fate of Haitians under temporary protected status. On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security decided to let the protection expire. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
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U.S. Cancels Program For Recent Haitian Immigrants; They Must Leave By 2019
November 20, 2017 • The Department of Homeland Security announced that Haitians living in the United States since a catastrophic 2010 earthquake will have to return to their home.
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November 6, 2017 • Nicaraguans who have been covered under the same temporary status have been told they have just over a year to leave the country.
Citing improved conditions in Haiti, the Trump administration signaled in May that it no longer would extend Temporary Protected Status visas. It warned Haitians to prepare to go home in January when the program expires. Nick Fountain/NPR hide caption
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August 30, 2017 • Critics have long complained that the charity's finances are not transparent. A spokesman interviewed by NPR couldn't answer questions about whether that has changed.
People who illegally crossed the Canada-U.S. border near Hemmingford, Quebec, are processed in a tent after being arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Saturday. The flow of asylum-seekers has increased dramatically in recent weeks, and the wait to be processed can be several days, the CBC reports. The Canadian military is setting up a tent camp for new arrivals. Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Canada's Army Builds Tent Camp For Haitian Asylum-Seekers Arriving From U.S.
August 10, 2017 • Crossings into Quebec have spiked, as Haitians who fled after the 2010 quake face an uncertain legal future in America. Soldiers are building a shelter to house up to 500 people awaiting processing.
After the 2010 earthquake, NGOs dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage at the end of the Port-au-Prince city landfill, which borders the sea and is not lined with an impermeable material. Marie Arago for NPR hide caption
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You Probably Don't Want To Know About Haiti's Sewage Problems
July 29, 2017 • What went wrong with Haiti's sanitation plan? The story involves the queen of Spain, the "sanitation champion" and the man with the worst job in the world.
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, pictured in April, is extending the Temporary Protected Status designation for Haitians in the U.S. until January 2018. But he says conditions are improving in Haiti, seven years after an earthquake killed more than 200,000 people there. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
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Homeland Security Extends Protections For Thousands Of Haitians In U.S.
May 22, 2017 • Some 58,000 Haitians are in the U.S. under a program known as Temporary Protected Status, which Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has extended for six months.
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Sabina Catharina of East Frisia (11 August 1582 – 31 May 1618) was a Countess of Rietberg in what is now Germany.

Life
Sabina Catharina was the eldest child of Count Enno III of East Frisia and his first wife, Countess Walburgis of Rietberg. In the Treaty of Berum of 28 January, the lands her father had inherited from her mother were divided between Sabina Catherine and her sister Agnes, because their father wanted to marry again. Sabina Catherine was awarded the County of Rietberg.

On 3 March 1601, Sabina married her uncle, John III, in a ceremony officiated by Abbot Leonard Ruben of Abdinghof Abbey. The necessary papal dispensation was issued on 13 April 1600. Before the wedding the couple converted to the Catholic faith. In 1618, the couple laid the foundation for the Franciscan monastery in Rietberg. The founding document of the monastery was issued in 1629.

Sabina Catharina died on 31 May 1618 during the birth of her eleventh child. The coffin was buried in the chapel.

Marriage and issue
Sabina Catharina and John III had eleven children:
 Edzard (born 2 February 1602 – died 28 March 1603)
 Anna Walburgis (born: 27 October 1603 – died: 29 November 1604)
 Maria Catherine (born: 28 October 1604), married to the Marquis de Warenbon
 Ernest Christopher, (born: 1 April 1606 – died: 31 December 1640), Count of Rietberg 1625–1640, Vice Marshal, married Margravine Albertine Maria of St. Martin
 Philip Enno (born: 23 March 1608 – died: 14 May 1636), a canon of Cologne, Strasbourg and Paderborn
 Leopold (born: 23 November 1609 – died: 14 November 1635), a canon of Cologne, Strasbourg and Paderborn
 Walburgis Maria (born: 8 May 1612 – died: 13 June 1613)
 Francis Ferdinand (born: 4 October 1613 – died: 27 June 1648), a canon of Cologne, Magdeburg, Strasbourg and Halberstadt
 Clara Sophia (born: 7 March 7, 1615)
 Anna Clara (born: 30 May 1616, †?)
 John IV (born: 31 May 1618 – died: 7 August 1660), 1640–1660, Count of Rietberg 1640–1660, married to Countess Anna Catherine of Salm-Reifferscheidt. They had issue.

1582 births
1618 deaths
16th-century German people
17th-century German people
Countesses of Rietberg
Countesses of East Frisia
House of Cirksena
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism
Place of death unknown

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Day 36: 9/7/09
12:10 pm: Todd Pletcher has seven starters today to Linda Rice's four as the 2009 Saratoga trainers' race, where Rice has a 20-19 lead entering closing day, could go down to the wire.
Pletcher's seven include Aikenite and One Note Samba in as wide-open a renewal of the Hopeful Stakes as you'll ever see. Fast 2-year-old males have been slow to surface this year -- the filly Hot Dixie Chick has run three of the four fastest Beyers in all 2-year-old races across the country -- but perhaps someone will step up today in the division's first Grade 1 race of the year.
Pletcher has one heavy favorite, Good to be Seen in the 5th. He was second by half a length last time out to Hopeful entrant Aspire, and it was seven lengths back to the third horse. Good to be Seen could be the key to both the trainers' race and to how much you like Aspire later on.
The Hopeful, and the back-to-back maiden grass races in the 6th and 7th, make the closing-day, mandatory pick-6 sequence a tough one. It's still a tempting proposition, and I'm trying to work out a manageable play. Here's the title scoreboard. The jockeys' race is effectively if not technically over, as Ramon Dominquez begins the day with a 44-37 edge on Alan Garcia:
2:40 pm: You can put up the Official sign on Ramon Dominguez's first Saratoga riding title. He and Alan Garcia each rode an early winner, but when Garcia was off the board in the 4th race, that left him seven behind Dominguez with just six mounts left on his dance card.
Dominguez, who is 32 years old and was born in Venezuela, has been the leading rider at all three NYRA tracks this season, and his Saratoga title should silence any remaining question about his ascent to leadership of the New York colony.
3:10 pm: Good to be Seen, 2-to-5 to win the 5th and knot the trainers' race, showed absolutely nothing and finished a dull fifth. That leaves Pletcher with three tepid chances to catch up: First-timer Eskendereya in the upcoming 6th, and longshots Aikenite and One Note Samba in the Hopeful.
3:30 pm: Let's gather 'round the campfire and sing the pick-6 song one more time for Saratoga 2009:
(All A's and B's= $432; backups=$288, $192, $192; Total= $1104)
I know, it's a weird play, lacking a single single yet going only two-deep on the main in the wide-open Hopeful. If I can survive the first two legs, I'll cast a wider Hopeful net in the pick-4.
4:00 pm: Pletcher firster Eskendereya ran well to be second but couldn't catch Kimmel-trained front-runner Billions Boy ($8.80). It was Pletcher's 28th second-place finish of the meet, compared to just four for Rice:
Linda Rice: 74: 20-4-8
Todd Pletcher: 133: 19-28-19
5:00 pm: Argggh. Desormeaux took the inside route with Corey's Coming (#7) while Garcia came late and wide on Kiss the Cruiser (#8) and it made a few inches of difference at the wire:
5:20 pm: Commenter jim asked earlier about the dirt/turf breaksown on Rice's and Pletcher's winners at the meeting. By my count, Rice has won 18 grass races and two dirt races, with both of the dirt wins being races scheduled for the turf and moved to the main track. Pletcher's 19 winners were in 14 dirt races and five grass races. Of Rice's 20 victories so far, 11 were at 5 1/2 furlongs -- nine turf sprints and two such races rained onto the main track. She also has won five one-mile grass races and four 1 1/16-mile grass races. In races carded for the dirt, she's 0 for 12.
Pletcher has won three graded stakes at the meet -- the G2 Amsterdam with Quality Road, the G2 Honorable Miss with Game Face and the G3 With Anticipation with Interactif. Rice won six ungraded stakes -- four turf sprints with Ahvee's Destiny (Finney), Awakino Cat (Quick Call, Troy) and Canadian Ballet (Lena Spencer), and two statebred turf races with Mother Russia (NY Stallion Stakes, Peerless Springs.) So it only seems fitting that Pletcher's last bullet comes in 15 minutes in the Grade 1 Hopeful, while Rice's comes one race later in...a New York-bred turf sprint.
6:10 pm: Dublin ($8.20), a D. Wayne Lukas trainee from the first crop sired by Afleet Alex, won a slow-looking Grade 1 Hopeful from 8-1 Aspire, with Aikenite third at 20-1 and previously unbeaten Backtalk fourth. The winner's time under H. J. Theriot was 1:23.52, right between two starter races for claiming fillies earlier on the card that went in 1:23.64 and 1:23.31. The winners of those two races, Spina and D'Wild Ride, routinely run Beyer Speed Figures in the high 80's. The pace of the Hopeful was much stronger than those earlier races, however -- 44.97 to the hal, as opposed to 45.95 and 46.24. The defeats of Aikenite and One Note Samba made it official: Linda Rice has won the trainer's title, becoming the first woman to do so.
Congrats to her and, before I forget, to DRF colleague Dave Litfin, whose daily published "bankroll plays" came out in the black for the meet after D'Wild Ride's victory, and whose pick-6 play for an OTB promotion garnered a $15k payoff for participating customers last Saturday. Finally, thanks to all of you for keeping the conversations going during an interesting and entertaining six weeks of racing. One race to go: The favorites look pretty imposing in the nightcap, but I'll try to get out for the meet with a (currently) 38-1 shot named Raging Meese. It only takes one race.
6:40 pm: Raging Meese provided 44 seconds of cheap thrills at 45-1, contesting the lead until the top of the stretch. Benzel firster Cash'n in Dixie, a $200k statebred, exploded through the final furlong to win the last race of the meeting at 11-1, completing a $32,686 pick-6, a $3,282 pick-4 and topping a $24k superfecta.
Only 90 hours and 20 minutes till first post at Belmont on Friday.


In a climate with four incredibly distinct seasons, spring is the time to wake up from our winter slumber and turn our outdoor spaces into livable extensions of our homes. We have to enjoy the warm weather while it lasts!
In order to beautify our deck and backyard, we painted, spray painted, planted flowers, spray painted some more, planted herbs and so on. There were so many "before" pictures to show you that I decided to create a couple of collages. Otherwise this post would go on forever. Above, items we had to spray paint, clockwise from top: brackets for the plant boxes that we hang on the deck; the (very faded) plant boxes themselves; two vintage-look round chairs with matching table; one black iron chair (representing four chairs and a table that needed painting); and finally, green and blue aluminum Muskoka chairs (note the rusted areas on the arms).
We decided to spray paint the two green chairs and the two blue chairs in colours that are similar to their original, pre-faded colours. I really like this glossy key lime colour from Rustoleum (Ultra Cover 2x). We used Rustoleum's lovely satin aqua for the blue chairs.
There were so many projects to work on, we didn't know where to begin. I washed all the furniture first and left it in the sun to dry. My husband worked on some repairs while I started spray painting.
One of the window boxes had fallen off the shed at some point during the winter. It lay in the snow and pretty much started to rot. (Just try to get a picture of that shed without dog butts in it! Impossible. There are rabbits under the shed and those dogs are going mental.) I was determined to get another season or two out of those boxes by banging them back together and painting them.
And there were annual flowers to plant of course. We have this large barrel that we always fill, above and a smaller barrel that once housed Christmas greenery.
One of my favourite backyard projects was the shed window box overhaul. My husband repaired the planters as best he could. Then I washed them, sanded them and applied two coats of zero-VOC Fusion Tones for Tots paint in Little Star. It's such a beautiful, sunny yellow and I was really excited to jazz up the shed with it. I felt all happy inside just painting with this colour.
That pretty much summarizes our outdoor space and the furniture and design elements we had to fill it with. Then came the fun part - arranging our newly revitalized pieces back on the deck and in the yard! Let's look at the yard first.
When I saw my blogger friend Dannyelle's yarn tassel garland on Life is a Party recently, I knew I just had to make one to hang from the shed! The tassels add a touch of whimsy and a feeling of celebration to the yard. And they are really easy to make. I combined a few techniques that I found by googling. Maybe I'll share a tutorial one day. So far the yarn tassels have survived one heavy rainfall beautifully too.
And how about my sunny yellow window boxes? The flowers ain't much to look at yet, but they'll get there. In the meantime, I feel that happy glow again every time I cast my eyes on those boxes. It's the simple pleasures, right?
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It'a funny how we don't notice the forest for the trees sometimes and can ignore how faded some things are with time. A good refresher is definitely a way to stay busy and empty some paint cans anx get to work!
I love the pop of yellow on the shed! It makes such a difference. And the doggie butts make the picture even better.. just as dogs do!!
I love the touches that you have - the tassel garland, the afghan tossed onto the chairs - it's such a lovely space! And the yellow Tones for Tots colour is gorgeous. I might have to get some of that!
So pretty, and I love your tassel garland. Your garden is so bright and fun, thanks for giving us a peek.
Oh I know eh? Can't take a food photo without a nose popping in there! Our garden is not even an option in winter so I understand. We envisioned the shed being a playhouse in summer but it hasn't happened often.
I love all of the colour you've added and those yellow flower boxes are the perfect contrast against your garden shed! I hope you get to chill out and read your book without rabbits or puppies interrupting the tranquil setting you've created! And... those tassels are to die for, I need to make some!
Thanks Laurie! It's amazing what a difference the yellow boxes make in picking the whole thing up a bit. :) I plan to enjoy that setting really soon. ;) Definitely, make some tassels! So much fun!
This is super cute. Love those bright colours and the tassels!


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Jeffery Injures Hamstring in Bears' Loss to Bills
Published Sep 7, 2014 at 4:09 PM
The Chicago Bears were already down two offensive linemen with Matt Slauson and Roberto Garza leaving the game with leg injuries, but things went from bad to worse as wide receiver Alshon Jeffery left the game as well:
Alshon Jeffery has been taken to the #Bears locker room.
— dan durkin (@djdurkin) September 7, 2014
Jeffery, who had four catches for 62 yards in the game, was looked at on the training table during the early stages of the third quarter. He tried to come back in and play, but he quickly signaled for a back-up to come in. Ultimately, Jeffery left the game in favor of Micheal Spurlock, and he was escorted back to the locker room.
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The Crow's Director Opens Up About Leaving The Movie
By Nick Evans published 2 June 18
There are some things you just have to accept you'll probably never see in your lifetime: world peace, light speed, and a reboot of The Crow. A remake of the 1994 film from director Alex Proyas, based on the comic book series by James O'Barr, has been in development hell so long it basically owns the joint. The latest iteration of The Crow was all set to start shooting soon for an October 2019 release date when, a few days ago, star Jason Momoa and director Corin Hardy left the project. The director has now opened up about his love for the property and the difficult decision to leave the film saying:
I knew from the off, that the idea of making a new version of The Crow was never going to be for everyone, because it is a beloved film. And I say that as someone in love with it myself. But I poured everything I had into the last 3.5 years of work, to try & create something which honoured what the Crow stood for; from James O'Barr's affecting graphic novel, to Alex Proyas's original movie, with great respect to Brandon Lee and with the desire to make something bold and new, that myself, as an obsessive fan, could be proud of. And with @prideofgypsies Jason Momoa, and my amazing team of artists & film-makers, we came SO close. But sometimes, when you love something so much, you have to make hard decisions. And yesterday, deciding it was time to let go of this dark & emotional dream project, was the hardest decision of all. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
As sad as it is for fans of The Crow that this franchise's resurrection will once again be postponed, it is made even sadder reading Corin Hardy's words. While remakes are always a tricky proposition and not all fans are interested in a remake of The Crow, you can see that Corin Hardy was coming at this from the right place, wanting to do justice to the beloved iterations of the character that have come before, while also delivering something new. As he notes in his Instagram post, this movie was so close to happening, with shooting set to begin in just five weeks and a big name actor attached to star as Eric Draven. If ever it was going to happen this seemed like the time, so to have it fall apart at the last minute after putting in years of work must be truly devastating.
Corin Hardy doesn't go into it but it seems that Davis Films, that owns the rights and was financing The Crow, could not come to terms with Sony Pictures for distribution and that writing on the wall seems to be what lead to the exits of Jason Momoa and Corin Hardy. Hardy's earnest words about what he wanted to do with The Crow and the concept art Jason Momoa shared certainly makes the sting of this abrupt collapse all the worse as we now have some idea of the exciting vision they had for this movie.
Making the decision to leave a dream project is quite sad,and it makes you wonder if this didn't get done this time, will it ever? While I think a lot of people are curious and would like to see a new take on The Crow, perhaps it is best to let it go. For now, it seems we will have to wait and see if this is salvaged in some way. If not, we can look forward to the next rumblings of a remake followed by a succession of directors and actors only for it all to amount to nothing. Then again, if Terry Gilliam can finally get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote made, there is always hope and you can never say never.
For all the latest on losing battles and lost causes, stay tuned to CinemaBlend. And to see movies that actually are happening and coming to theaters this year (fingers crossed), check out our 2018 release schedule.
Nick Evans
Nick grew up in Maryland has degrees in Film Studies and Communications. His life goal is to walk the earth, meet people and get into adventures. He's also still looking for The Adventures of Pete and Pete season 3 on DVD if anyone has a lead.
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When people in Tennessee get a divorce, they often seek either sole or joint custody of their children. In sole custody situations, one parent is responsible for taking care of his or her children and making major decisions about them. Comparatively, in joint custody arrangements, both parents take part in caring for their children and making decisions about them. Parents who are seeking sole or joint custody as part of the divorce process should avoid making a few common mistakes that could harm their chances of winning custody.
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package com.github.polapi.formatter.street;

import com.github.polapi.formatter.streets.StreetMatchingResult;
import com.github.polapi.formatter.streets.StreetNameMatcherService;
import com.github.polapi.formatter.streets.StreetUtils;
import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
import com.google.common.io.Files;
import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

public class StreetNameBigTest {

	StreetNameMatcherService sud = new StreetNameMatcherService();

	@Test
	@Ignore
	public void run() throws IOException {

		List<String> lines = Files.readLines(new File("f:\\ulice.txt"), Charsets.UTF_8);

		for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++){
			String l = StreetUtils.extractStreetName(lines.get(i));

			if (l.length() < 5) {
				continue;
			}

			StreetMatchingResult result = sud.findClosestMatch(l);

			String match = result.matchedStreets.get(0).name1;

			if (!match.equals(l) && result.distance < 2) {
				System.out.println(l + " -> " + match);
			}

//			System.out.println(l + ":" );
//
//			for (Street cm : closestMatch) {
//				System.out.println("\t" + cm);
//			}
//			System.out.println("");
		}
	}
}

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I used to be able to find the webmail link at the top of the University main page, now I can't find it.
In the old site webmail was two clicks away. In the new site webmail is two clicks away. We didn't make webmail harder to get to, we made the landing page around it much better.
Here's how to find it: On the top of every page, point your mouse at "Links for ..." and click on either "Students" or "Faculty & Staff." A link to webmail is under the headline.
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We all want to eat cake, but we need our broccoli. (For the record, I like broccoli).
"[The redesign is a] dumbing down of previous site ... [and] contains much less info, few (if any) details, [and] oversized pictures."
Before I get to what this has to do with cake and broccoli, let's look at what we did and didn't do.
"The new version provides far fewer links and displays merely one news story picture that takes up almost the whole screen! One has to scroll way down to reach everything else."
How Many People Does it Take to Build a Website?
Why so many? One of our goals for the new princeton.edu was a site that works for the people who use it. In practice that meant a collaborative and transparent process that's open to ideas.
Read more about How Many People Does it Take to Build a Website?
Read more about What Happened to A-Z?
We are really happy to share the beta of the redesigned princeton.edu today.
We've cut back the number of pages on the new core site to about 65 from 200. The pic above is our progress board.
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The situation nowadays is that almost everyone has a bathtub in their bathroom in addition to the shower and it is also used for bathing. After installation and use of these bathtubs for a long period, they start changing their original color whereas some start getting some cracks. To make sure that you are always satisfied by your bathtub condition, you are therefore required to carry out repair and maintenance on it on a regular basis.
Refinishing of your bathtub is that process that you carry out to make sure that you give your bathtub a new good look by repairing the worn out and damaged bathtub surface. Cracks that may have formed on the surface of your bathtub are refilled during this process of refinishing using a polyester putty and also some bleaching agents are used to bleach your bathtub to its original color.
The importance of resurfacing your bathtub rather than replacing it are many and one of the banes fits is that this process is less costly and it saves a person a lot of cash than when you carry out a total replacement. Another proof-carrying out a bathtub refinishing rather than replacing it is that you are able to keep your old bathtub that has got unique features that you do not want to lose such as its unique design.
The third importance of bathtub refinishing as compared to the total bathtub replacement is that it takes a much less time to refinish as you can even use your bathtub within twenty-four hours but for the replacement you have to wait for a longer time dues to the added plumbing works and aesthetics. You are also able to customize your bathtub color to a color of your desire.
When you are deciding on the resurfacing firm to hire, you should take into account some factors and one of it is the reputation and the experience of the firm for if you want a job that will satisfy you, then you should hire a company that has been in this business for a couple of years. It is also advisable to ask for videos and pictures of your desired companies past work to ensure that your needs are satisfied by what you see.
You should also try and seek for some referrals from your family members and close friends who had a bathtub refinishing service before. Another consideration is making sure that the firm uses high-quality materials and proper refinishing techniques that will give you a satisfying job. You should hire a company that is completely transparent with you about their costs, their warranty policy and also their estimated completion time.
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Huddle rooms come in many shapes and sizes, but they are most definitely not all created equally. These small spaces, designed to accommodate 4-6 people, are typically equipped with much of the technology of the standard conferencing room, including video technology. Make sure that each of them is designed to foster productivity, creative thinking and fun. Yes, we said fun.
Your employees will be spending large chunks of their day in these rooms. So, make sure they enhance collaboration and provide an enjoyable workspace. Wainhouse Research estimates that there are 30 – 50 million huddle rooms in existence today. And trends point to this number increasing over time as organizations include huddle rooms in new building plans and re-work existing offices in favor of smaller, more flexible meeting spaces.
Read on for our best tips to make sure your huddle rooms combine creativity with efficiency.
Huddle rooms are meant to support quick and easy presentation and collaboration between users both inside and outside the organization. Make sure each huddle room includes reliable Wi-Fi coverage, ample power sources, and a reasonably sized table with chairs. Depending on the types of devices your employees use, you may also choose to include a range of connectors.
Take the room aesthetics into consideration—it is part of the overall package. While working with people outside of IT to create the space, there should be input on elements like design. The key here is to ensure you provide an environment that will inspire employees to collaborate well together. You can do this by adding a logo or motto to the walls, painting the room a different color, or naming each room something fun and incorporating a theme into the room itself.
Pro Tip: Name your rooms something that correlates with your brand. Here at BlueJeans, each of our huddle rooms is named after our favorite types of… blue jeans. When you meet with us, we may be joining the meeting in Baggy, Slim Fit, or Bell Bottom.
To make your huddle room as useful as possible, it's important to enable it with video conferencing software. This will allow remote employees to collaborate with the team and ensures that employees can easily meet with partners and clients over video. The hardware needed is much more affordable and less complex than it used to be. Huddle rooms can be video-enabled with off-the-shelf items like a large, high-definition display for video and content sharing, an HD camera, a Mini PC, a speaker and microphone, and a tablet.
Note that you can use the Dolby Conference Phone in place of the tablet, speaker, and microphone to allow for better sound-quality while also reducing the number of parts needed in each room.
Your huddle rooms should be ready to accommodate all types of meetings—from impromptu strategy sessions to formal presentations to customers. Make sure you select a technology that has a familiar UI so it both easy to join and easy to use. Doing so will boost ROI as employees continuously use the room and will eliminate the need to ask IT for help with every meeting. Key things to consider when choosing a rooms technology include the number of participants, touch-to-join capabilities, availability of wireless screen sharing, calendar integrations, and central management.
Outstanding video, audio, display, and system technology are hallmarks of any quality huddle room that is built for collaboration. But the space should also have an array of non-tech tools and surfaces to support creativity offline. Some things you should consider including in your huddle spaces are whiteboards, butcher paper rolls, clipboard walls, and small cabinets filled with pens, sticky notes, highlighters, and other necessities.
That's it! You've officially created huddle awesome spaces for your employees so they can be more productive. Sit back, relax, and bask in the glory of your newfound celebrity status.
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Louise "Lou" Riley agrees to tag along with her friends on a Valentine's Day cruise around Seattle's Lake Union. Donning their best 1920s attire, they board the old-fashioned paddle wheeler steamboat for an evening that's expected to be the bee's knees. Lou plans to shed her third wheel status onboard when she joins Nate, who she's been sweet on for months. But when a mishap sends the dashing (and single!) Landon Harper to her aid, Lou discovers that cupid may have other plans for her love life, and she and Landon share an unforgettable few hours together. Then, a surprise announcement sends everyone into a frenzy. Will Lou and Landon live happily ever after? Or maybe Lou and Nate are meant to be? Find out where the cherub's arrow lands in Cupid on Deck, a roaring good time aboard a love boat reminiscent of the jazz age.


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U.S. Stocks Turn Mixed After Seeing Initial Strength
By RTTNews Staff Writer ✉ | Published: 7/11/2019 10:48 AM ET
After an initial move to the upside, stocks have turned mixed over the course of morning trading on Thursday. While the Dow is holding on to a moderate gain, the Nasdaq has pulled back into negative territory and the S&P 500 is nearly flat.
Currently, the major averages remain on opposite sides of the unchanged. The Nasdaq is down 7.88 points or 0.1 percent at 8,194.65, but the Dow is up 106.91 points or 0.4 percent at 26,967.11 and the S&P 500 is up 0.48 points or less than a tenth of a percent at 2,993.55.
The Dow is benefiting from a significant advance by shares of UnitedHealth (UNH), which is jumping along with other health insurers on news President Donald Trump is abandoning a plan to eliminate rebates from government drug plans.
The proposal was the centerpiece of Trump's blueprint to lower drug costs but faced stiff resistance from pharmacy-benefit managers.
On the other hand, biotechnology and pharmaceutical stocks have moved sharply lower on the news, with the NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index and the NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical Index tumbling by 2 percent and 1.9 percent.
Housing stocks have also come under pressure over the course of the morning, dragging the Philadelphia Housing Sector Index down by 1.1 percent.
Most of the other major sectors are showing only modest moves, contributing to the lackluster performance by the broader markets.
In U.S. economic news, the Labor Department released a report before the start of trading showing an unexpected uptick in U.S. consumer prices in the month of June.
The Labor Department said its consumer price index inched up by 0.1 percent in June, matching the slight increase seen in May. Economists had expected consumer prices to come in unchanged.
Excluding food and energy prices, core consumer prices rose by 0.3 percent in June after inching up by 0.1 percent for four consecutive months. Core prices had been expected to edge up by 0.2 percent.
Andrew Hunter, Senior U.S. Economist at Capital Economics, does not expect the stronger than expected core consumer price growth to prevent the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates later this month and expressed doubt the strength will be sustained.
"Higher tariffs could yet put some further upward pressure on core goods prices over the coming months but, with growth in unit labor costs slowing, we still think core CPI inflation will remain muted," Hunter said.
He added, "With the latest surveys pointing to a sharp slowdown in activity growth, we expect the Fed to follow a 25bp rate cut this month with further cuts in December and March next year."
A separate Labor Department report showed first-time claims for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell in the week ended July 6th.
The report said initial jobless claims dropped to 209,000, a decrease of 13,000 from the previous week's revised level of 222,000. Economists had expected jobless claims to inch up to 223,000.
In overseas trading, stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region moved mostly higher during trading on Thursday. Japan's Nikkei 225 Index climbed by 0.5 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index advanced by 0.8 percent.
Meanwhile, the major European markets have moved lower over the course of the session. While the French CAC 40 Index has edged down by 0.1 percent, the German DAX Index is down by 0.2 percent and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 Index is down by 0.3 percent.
In the bond market, treasuries have moved to the downside after ending the previous session roughly flat. Subsequently, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, is up by 2.5 basis points at 2.086 percent.


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Q: Understanding Jupyter RAM usage I realise, that when I am creating a large array in a Jupyter Notebook, e.g.
M = np.zeros([10000,2000,600], dtype = np.int64)

I got the message

MemoryError: Unable to allocate 89.4 GiB for an array with shape
(10000, 2000, 600) and data type int64

although my workstation has got 128 GB of RAM. Why do I get this message and are there any restriction to the RAM due to settings in Jupyter?
The other question is, when I am creating two (as well as 10!) arrays with almost half of the size of M it works:
A = np.zeros([10000,1000,600], dtype = np.int64)
B = np.zeros([10000,1000,600], dtype = np.int64)
C = np.zeros([10000,1000,600], dtype = np.int64)
D = np.zeros([10000,1000,600], dtype = np.int64)

although every single array has a size of 48 GB (using the A.nbytes method) and this is obviously more than my available RAM.
How can this be explained?


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JUST REMEMBER, IT'S PERSONAL (PODCAST)
Rabbi Dunner addresses the strange annual custom of remembering and never forgetting Amalek, a long-extinct warrior-nation who attacked the Israelites after they left Egypt. God demands their obliteration, but ironically they would have long been gone and forgotten if we were not expected to mention them each year at Parshat Zachor.
Using the fact that this directive is given in the first-person singular, very similar to the instructions for the building of the Mishkan, Rabbi Dunner recalls his extraordinary grandfather, 'Adje' Cohen of Holland, whose extraordinary exploits during the Holocaust years led to his being offered a knighthood by the Dutch Queen. He refused the honor, and Rabbi Dunner explains why, tying it in with the personal obligation of Zachor.
IT'S NOT A HOLLYWOOD ILLUSION
AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE (PODCAST)
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Q: IE10 - Using CSS style height and adding a border when focus on a SELECT element requires users to double click SELECT element I have a FORM with a SELECT element inside it.
<form name="something">
    <select>
        <option>One</option>
        <option>Two</option>
    </select>
</form>

And the CSS:
select
{
    height:20px;
}

form select:focus
{
    border: #ffdead solid 2px;
}

What I am doing is ensuring that all SELECTs are always the same height, but when a user TABS through elements on the page, I want the SELECT to have a border when focus.
This works in most browsers, but in IE10 when a user clicks on the SELECT, the select is not expanded - it is focused, and the user must click again to expand the options.
Here is a JSFIDDLE to see how it works in IE10:
http://jsfiddle.net/rtKGE/3/

A: I've found that it has more to do with setting select's border in css :focus
You can try using this in your fiddle and see it works
form select:focus
{
    color:red;
}

Anyway it's a weird one since in other than your fiddle, I can set up other border properties like border-color or border-style and it only breaks again whenever I set up border-width like in this css
select:focus
{
    border-color:#666666;
    border-style:solid;
    }

Hope it helps.
Regards,
Daniel


1 year ago, I casted on for the Shetland Stars Shawl. I would make the Square version, and at about the same time 2 testknitters made the rectangle version.
The plan was to knit the edge, then pick up loops and knit the border. Decreases every second row and the signature Star right at the start. Then immediately after, the centre. But I still had to do calculations to work out the number of repeats to make it long enough for the border to fit.
A special moment, working on the border with the Outlander episode on the TV.
I'm not at home, I'm at a B&B in Limburg. Quite memorable.
Commissioned knits came along, Roe, Sterling, Solana and I presented my first Knit-a-Long: Reach. An exhibition started about knitting in a local city nearby and in December I got a very important (in my eyes) commissioned knit. I was to knit an impression of an apron that was on display. It was very fine, mine need not be that delicate.
There was a catch, it needed to be done by April 4th and it was already January when I got the approval.
So, by the end of December, only 1664m were knitted.
And nothing would get done any sooner than April 1st. I felt guilty. I didn't work on the Rectangle version, and now my deadline passed with only 2/5 worked. The edge + border and most of the centre.
Quickly casting on for the second edge + border.
Always a great thing. Watching your work spread out a bit. I knew how it needed to look, I wanted to see if it actually was correct. I was happy and sad at the same time. Happy with how far I got, sad that I was not even close to finishing. I wasn't even half way!
Claire is wearing the fine lace shawl in episodes 9 and 12. This is 12.
SPECIAL THANKS to Belinda and Cor for making this videocap possible.
People started asking, when will it be done?? I was knitting as fast as I could, but now things started happening at home. I couldn't concentrate. The second deadline was February/March but I wasn't close. I "wasn't" a lot.
Doing calculations (edge + border was ~720m and the edge + border + centre was 1664m at first), I came to the conclusion it would take up to 4km!!!! WHAT? It's not that I didn't have the yarn... I didn't want to keep people waiting.
June 13. One set of Edge + Border to go.
Now, I'm scared (again). Grafting will be okay, but will my calculations be correct???
It isn't until July 17 that I have enought courage and time to graft everything.
There it is! Unblocked: 120cm x 110cm. You can see which borders are grafted to the sides of the centre panel. A stitch has a V shape. A shape that is longer than that it's wide.
So, when you want to put a V onto a <, you'll run short very quick. That's why you need more.
Designer: (Probably a Sutherland Sister) Shetland knitter/spinner and Kantwerk / A Passion For Lace.
Yarn: 4000m or 4374 y 1/16NM Jamieson & Smith Gossamer 1ply in natural white. (I advise to buy yarn on a cone, so you can knit the borders/centre in 1 piece. It's not in their shop, but you can ask for a cone when you order)Needle: 2mm / US0 circulars 40cm / 16" and 80/100cm or 32"/ 40" or use straight needles 40cm / 16".
Size: 180 x 180cm or 6ft x 6ft blocked, it might bounce back after blocking a bit.
Also: 8 stitch markers, T-pins, blocking kit or frame, waste yarn for Life Lines, towel, suitable detergent, tapestry needle.
All rows are knit. Please read the instructions before you start knitting.
Because the pattern is already released and everyone was SO kind, I take the opportunity here (also) to THANK YOU!
I hope you will find the same pleasure in knitting this historic piece, as I have. It might take you longer, or you could be quicker. It is TOTALLY worth it.


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Q: How to get cosine similarity of word embedding from BERT model I was interesting in how to get the similarity of word embedding in different sentences from BERT model (actually, that means words have different meanings in different scenarios).
For example:
sent1 = 'I like living in New York.'
sent2 = 'New York is a prosperous city.'

I want to get the cos(New York, New York)'s value from sent1 and sent2, even if the phrase 'New York' is same, but it appears in different sentence. I got some intuition from https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/generate-raw-word-embeddings-using-transformer-models-like-bert-for-downstream-process/2958/2
But I still do not know which layer's embedding I need to extract and how to caculate the cos similarity for my above example.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

A: Okay let's do this.
First you need to understand that BERT has 13 layers. The first layer is basically just the embedding layer that BERT gets passed during the initial training. You can use it but probably don't want to since that's essentially a static embedding and you're after a dynamic embedding. For simplicity I'm going to only use the last hidden layer of BERT.
Here you're using two words: "New" and "York". You could treat this as one during preprocessing and combine it into "New-York" or something if you really wanted. In this case I'm going to treat it as two separate words and average the embedding that BERT produces.
This can be described in a few steps:

*

*Tokenize the inputs

*Determine where the tokenizer has word_ids for New and York (suuuuper important)

*Pass through BERT

*Average

*Cosine similarity

First, what you need to import: from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
Now we can create our tokenizer and our model:
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('bert-base-cased')
model = model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('bert-base-cased', output_hidden_states=True).eval()

Make sure to use the model in evaluation mode unless you're trying to fine tune!
Next we need to tokenize (step 1):
tok1 = tokenizer(sent1, return_tensors='pt')
tok2 = tokenizer(sent2, return_tensors='pt')

Step 2. Need to determine where the index of the words match
# This is where the "New" and "York" can be found in sent1
sent1_idxs = [4, 5]
sent2_idxs = [0, 1]

tok1_ids = [np.where(np.array(tok1.word_ids()) == idx) for idx in sent1_idxs]
tok2_ids = [np.where(np.array(tok2.word_ids()) == idx) for idx in sent2_idxs]

The above code checks where the word_ids() produced by the tokenizer overlap the word indices from the original sentence. This is necessary because the tokenizer splits rare words. So if you have something like "aardvark", when you tokenize it and look at it you actually get this:
In [90]: tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens( tokenizer('aardvark').input_ids)
Out[90]: ['[CLS]', 'a', '##ard', '##var', '##k', '[SEP]']

In [91]: tokenizer('aardvark').word_ids()
Out[91]: [None, 0, 0, 0, 0, None]

Step 3. Pass through BERT
Now we grab the embeddings that BERT produces across the token ids that we've produced:
with torch.no_grad():
    out1 = model(**tok1)
    out2 = model(**tok2)

# Only grab the last hidden state
states1 = out1.hidden_states[-1].squeeze()
states2 = out2.hidden_states[-1].squeeze()

# Select the tokens that we're after corresponding to "New" and "York"
embs1 = states1[[tup[0][0] for tup in tok1_ids]]
embs2 = states2[[tup[0][0] for tup in tok2_ids]]

Now you will have two embeddings. Each is shape (2, 768). The first size is because you have two words we're looking at: "New" and "York. The second size is the embedding size of BERT.
Step 4. Average
Okay, so this isn't necessarily what you want to do but it's going to depend on how you treat these embeddings. What we have is two (2, 768) shaped embeddings. You can either compare New to New and York to York or you can combine New York into an average. I'll just do that but you can easily do the other one if it works better for your task.
avg1 = embs1.mean(axis=0)
avg2 = embs2.mean(axis=0)

Step 5. Cosine sim
Cosine similarity is pretty easy using torch:
torch.cosine_similarity(avg1.reshape(1,-1), avg2.reshape(1,-1))

# tensor([0.6440])

This is good! They point in the same direction. They're not exactly 1 but that can be improved in several ways.

*

*You can fine tune on a training set

*You can experiment with averaging different layers rather than just the last hidden layer like I did

*You can try to be creative in combining New and York. I took the average but maybe there's a better way for your exact needs.


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His name was Nikola Gardovic
Milan Pavlovic (pavlovic@pantheon.yale.edu)
Sun, 1 Mar 1998 14:05:08 -0500 (EST)
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March 1, 1998 marks exactly six years since the brutal killing of Nikola
Gardovic, the fist victim of the Bosnian war. This killing marked the
start of the Bosnian war, and as such is an important historical event.
Remarkably, the international media has consistently failed to report on
March 1, 1992 was a Sunday. Nikola Gardovic's son was getting married at
a Serbian Orthodox Church in central Sarajevo. The wedding procession
was not dressed in Serbian national costume, they were unarmed civilians,
and they walked from one Serbian Orthodox Church to another, which is the
custom on such an occasion. Suddenly, a car without license plates
overtook the procession, and waited for it in front of the Orthodox
church at Bascarsija, the center of Sarajevo. When the procession
arrived, Ramiz Delalic Celo and his two accomplices got out of the car,
and immediately started firing. Delalic shot Nikola Gardovic at point-blank
range. Why? Because Gardovic was carrying a Serbian flag. This, apparently,
was considered an unforgivable sin in Alija Izetbegovic's bastion of
multiethnicity, multiculturalism, and tolerance -- Sarajevo.
Nikola Gardovic died, while his son-in-law, Radenko Mirovic - an
Orthodox priest - was wounded.
The day after these events, Izetbegovic trampled on the memory of Nikola
Gardovic by alleging that the entire event was a provocation to make the
Muslim people (Ramiz Delalic is a Muslim) look bad. Nevertheless, Delalic
would be arrested and tried for the murder, Izetbegovic promised.
Delalic was not arrested, nor was he tried. He was promoted! He became
the deputy commander of the Ninth Motorized Brigade of the Muslim Army of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. His brigade carried out many massacres during the
war, including a massacre of 32 Bosnian Croat civilians in the village of
Grabovica. Delalic was finally arrested on October 26, 1993 for "military
insubordination". He was tried and sentenced to 3 and a half years on
that charge, but after spending only seven and a half months in prison,
he was amnestied by Alija Izetbegovic.
Delalic was never charged or tried for the murder of Nikola Gardovic.
Today, Delalic owns a pizzeria at Bascarsija in downtown Sarajevo, not far
from the spot where he murdered Gardovic. Delalic lives in Sarajevo.
Remarkably, he has not yet been indicted by the Hague Tribunal.
It is important to note that Gordana Knezevic, an editor of the
Sarejvo daily "Oslobodjenje", also trampled on the memory of Nikola Gardovic
by writing a column for "Oslobodjenje" a few days after his murder, in
which she blamed Gardovic -- the victim -- and stating that he was a
provocateur who should not have been waving a Serbian flag in Sarajevo!
This is like saying that a raped victim provoked her own rape, and it is
not the rapist's fault since he was provoked by her skimpy clothing.
Incredibly, Knezevic has been widely praised in the Western media over
the past few years, even though she publicly mocked an elementary civil right
that exists in every democratic society -- the right to carry one's national
flag. If people in New York had the same approach to civil liberty as
Ramiz Delalic and Gordana Knezevic do, there would be massacres here
every other weekend, whenever a national parade marches down Fifth Avenue.
The murder of Nikola Gardovic indicates what life was like for Bosnian
Serbs under the rule of Alija Izetbegovic. They were harassed, tortured,
and murdered. They did not have elementary civil rights or civil liberties,
yet the international community barely took notice, and -- oh irony of
ironies -- praised Izetbegovic for his rhetoric about the virtues of
"multiethnic, multireligious, and tolerant" Sarajevo.
May the loving memory of Nikola Gardovic live forever.
Milan Pavlovic,


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Rroma People of Ukraine
October 2018 Ukraine Team
Theatre is a collaborative form of art that uses live performers, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
Let me introduce Theater 2018 drama team. Our desire is to do drama in theatres in different parts of the world. What we would like to do is to perform in a local theater, and to charge admission for the performance. The theaters would take 80% of the proceeds and the ministry we partner with would get the other 20% to use as they see fit, for their ministry. We would not receive any compensation for our part, as this would be a short-term mission trip for us, and be an offering to the Lord. Our theatre group is "top notch", meaning that they are very accomplished actors, and they have high production values. The writer and director, James Shaver, has a gift for theatre and playwriting. This particular play he has written for the mission field is a 2-Act play called "The Prodigal."