Come and join us for some French gypsy jazz, swing, French chanson and gypsy classics!
And we're back at the wonderful Wellington International Jazz Festival!
The intrepid La Luna & the Gadjos are bringing their flamboyant blend of French song and gypsy swing to The Meteor Theatre, Hamlton on the last night of their Bite-sized Tour.
Marvellous gypsy swing, vintage Piaf and traditional Manouche from the steamy hot clubs of Paris. Roger Manins on tenor sax adds a belly full of New Orleans soul, with gypsy violinist Zhames "le Prof" and the amazingly talented Phillipe Beatson on gypsy guitar.
Flounder: Our sole aim is to have a bit of fun and a laugh, to be happy and make you happy. We don't take it too seriously- life is too short (especially for a flounder) and when you've got a sideways mouth and 'your eyes on the right side of the face' things look a bit different. So,expect some fishy interpretations of some good old swinging standards (and a few originals) played by the band who even when down they are always looking up.
The intrepid La Luna & the Gadjos are bringing their flamboyant blend of French song and gypsy swing to somewhere near YOU!
Chanteuse "La Luna" sings vintage Piaf with nerve and verve, together with songs and traditional Manouche from the steamy hot clubs of Paris. Roger Manins on tenor sax adds a belly full of New Orleans soul, with gypsy violinist Zhames "le Prof" and the amazingly talented Phillipe Beatson on gypsy guitar.
From the the steamy hot clubs of Paris to the drama of Piaf, La Luna & the Gadjos perform their irreverent mix of French gypsy mayhem or 'Manouche' with the raucous sounds of New Orleans jazz.
Wildly romantic, energetically sad, zestful and tuneful music. Jonathan Besser's Gimel music features 'methods of counterpoint' that Besser learned at the 'Mannes College of Music' in 1970's New York City. Now these old ideas mix it up with improvisation.
Finn Scholes - Vibes and Trumpet.
From January, I resumed my Doctoral studies and will be travelling to Melbourne mid-month to learn from and play with vihuelist (Prof) John Griffiths, a leading Australian medievalist (lutenist). It's the first time I've engaged with medieval performance style in a medieval context and I'm very excited, and a little nervous, to be working with John on some 13th and 15th century Spanish pieces.
I also think I've had a major breakthrough in overcoming some vocal health issues that have been hanging around for some years, and I still can't quite believe I can put some load on my voice without it getting sick. Amazing! Fingers are still crossed!
I'll be making some posts on FB if you're interested in following my progress.
Wildly romantic, energetically sad, zestful and tuneful music from Jonathan Besser & The Zestniks. Featuring Carolna Moon on vocals.
Jazz vocalist, Caro Manins will be singing her favourite Jazz classics @ Downbeat on Saturday 16th Dec - songs made popular by singers such as Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie, Sinatra and more. Taking the chair is Alan Brown on keys and Mostyn Cole on double bass.
Caro combines a great swing style, with a wonderful range of expression. She has 5 diverse albums under her belt, and performs widely throughout the country with a range of projects including Carolina Moon, La Luna & the Gadjos, Jonathan Besser & the Zestniks. She has performed around the world with some exemplary names in jazz.
A fantastic night of fun, French song, dancing and dining with NZ's premier French gypsy band, La Luna & the Gadjos.
Chanteuse La Luna (Caro Manins) sings vintage Piaf and an irreverent mix of French gypsy Manouche from the steamy hot clubs of Paris. Sax-man Roger Manins adds a touch of New Orleans soul.
We can accommodate large or small groups and have flexible seating arrangements. For Online Sales, please make group bookings under a single name for seating purposes.
ONLINE TICKETS FROM EVENTFINDA: www.
ADDRESS: Howick Lounge, 186 Wellington St, Howick.
Parking available at Vincent Street Auto Centre, 111 Vincent Street, and B Select, 115 Vincent Street. Please no parking directly in front of the shops.
As Far As the Ear Can Hear features Chinmaya Dunster - sarod, guitars, and the Grateful Dads performing 'The Mystic Poets Cycle'. They are joined by special guests Basant Madhur - tabla, vocalist Carolina Moon, and Nigel Gavin and the Gitbox Rebellion in this very special concert.
Presales $28 available through Titirangi Steiner School Office 09 817 4386 or on the door if available.
La Luna and her gypsy Gadjos are swingin on down at the Caroline Club, Saturday June 10 from 5-6pm with music from the steamy hot clubs of Paris, Chansons de Piaf, and New Orleans jazz in authentic Manouche style.
Chanteuse La Luna & her Gadjos are joined by Raconteur extraordinaire "Pierre la Bouche!" for a fabulous night of French Chanson and gypsy swing.
Taking you back to the steamy 'ot clubs of Paris, there will be a little mystery from le Raconteur, and plenty of zestful joie de vivre!
Come and join us for this special occasion @ The Vic!
Featuring La Luna (Caro Manins) – chanteuse, Pierre la Bouche – Raconteur & double bass, James 'Le Prof' Sneyd of the burning violin, Phillip Beatson and Sam Swindells – lead guitar and pompe.
Evocative songs from the Mediterranean lands radiate with the pulse of contemporary jazz and exotic grooves. Carolina's vocals weave East and West, Early Music and Jazz into a program of exquisite ancient melodies which include traditional song from Corsica, some beautiful medieval pieces from Spain, and a French song from the courts of Champagne. Featuring the talents of multi-instrumentalists Nigel Gavin and Roger Manins.
Head down to the Downtown Carnival between 2 and 6pm for a roaring set of gypsy Manouche and New Orleans flavoured swing.
KIck back your heels with the fabulous La Luna & the Gadjos at the Esplanade Hotel Sat 11 Feb for a program of French gypsy swing, Piaf to New Orleans jazz.
Caro Manins is La Luna (vocals), with Phillip Beatson and Travis Hill (guitars) and Djordje Nikolic double bass.
La Luna & the Gadjos will be shaking it down on Takapuna Beach for the Summer Days Festival, with their unique brand of upbeat, vocal French Gypsy Jazz and Swing.


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Refrain - A Vampire Blood Courtesan Romance, Neriza
It's not supposed to be about love ... until it is. One fateful night changed my life forever and brought secrets to light I never could have imagined, leaving me parentless, penniless, and caring for an ailing sister. My father was not the man I thought I knew, and his greed and sickness have left me with virtually nothing to use to care for my sister and get her the treatments she needs to maybe one day walk again. And now, we might lose our house, as well.
Detour Man
Twenty-six-year-old bodybuilder Gunter Hoffman sports enormous muscles to keep at bay nightmares of his childhood nemesis, a menacing homeless guy with PTSD known as Detour Man. But even with a body that's six feet in all directions, Gunter's afraid of people—and lonely.
Under the Coolabah Tree: A Collection of Australian Poetry By Wendy Laing
Fun, amusing, sometimes rowdy and always delightfully full of Australian colour, this collection of Australian Bush poems is best read out loud--if you dare to try an Aussie accent!
Five Key Skills By Alan Strickland
Are you someone who has trouble stringing together a few words in nearly every conversation and your idea of an absolute nightmare is standing in the front of a room and addressing a large gathering? Do you suffer from occasional or frequent bouts of indecision, lack of motivation, the inability to set priorities and a tendency to start new tasks before completing others?
Commonwealth Universe, Age 3: Volume 10: Gemar By Michelle Levigne
Vidan was again reaching out to the stars: sadder and wiser...and cautious, unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the ancestors. The Commonwealth was born, reaching out to lost colonies and establishing new ones, rediscovering lost technology and how to navigate the star-ways. Many of the lost colonies not only survived but thrived--and they remembered their abandonment and the harsh centuries of the Downfall...
Worlds of the Timestream: The Interregnum Series, Book 5: The Nexus By Richard J. Sutcliffe
The Timestream is at least six known versions of Planet Earth arranged in hexagonal fashion. Each has different histories and societies, some different geologies, but all share the same physical laws and chronology. At critical historical points on one of the planets, crucial decisions result in two Earths with the same prior history but differing subsequent ones. Major events on neighbouring planets in the Timestream affect each other strongly...
Sir Henry, the Knight in Space By Wendy Laing
Twin boys accidentally beam the ghost of 14th century Sir Henry de Bohun into their father's spaceship in 3000 AD. Let the fun begin as they take a virtual trip back in time to visit Sir Henry's English castle!
Commonwealth Universe, Age 3: Volume 9: Aramar By Michelle Levigne
The Boy in the Mirror By Aleksandra Zajackowski
Tomek is thirteen-years-old, street-smart, lonely and rejected. Orphaned by his immigrant parents, he's been in one foster home after the other, tossed about like an unwanted toy. After learning his twin brother was abducted but that the search for him was abandoned because the trail was cold, Tomek takes it upon himself to look for his long-lost sibling. Led by a conviction that the missing boy might be still alive, Tomek shows around his own photo to track down his twin. Little does he expect...
Commonwealth Universe, Age 3: Volume 8: Leap Ships by Michelle Levigne

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Episode 91: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Matt Gaventa & Adam Hearlson
Paul Newman & Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Sunday Morning Matinee · 91- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
On this week's Sunday Morning Matinee, Matt and Adam revisit a classic, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Hoping to find gold in the old movie, the two were left with more questions than answers. What happens when something so influential is consumed by its inspirations? And how in the world do you make theological sense of this movie? If you'd like to listen to two people try to spin gold from straw, then this one is for you. Of course, the conversation then turns to Pentecost and the way in which the Spirit presses the church always into the coming future-- even if it doesn't want to go. Finally, Adam talks about the Sons of Korah, and Matt gets wound up about the Oscars.
What all Christians can learn from queer courage
As our country asks how to protect itself from the terror of more mass shootings, elected leaders who call themselves Christian might look to the LGBTQ community for inspiration. Queer people have a weapon in our arsenal that no gun will ever defeat.
by Elizabeth M. Edman
reviewed by John Petrakis January 26, 2009
Obamacare's unimpressive first two weeks
Week before last, I wrote this: I've always supported the health-care reform law, and I remain mostly optimistic about it (despite this week's tech glitches). But the point I take from [Obamacare convert Butch] Matthews isn't that people will agree with me about stuff once they have the facts. It's that if Obamacare's coverage expansions don't work out as well as we supporters expect them to, we should acknowledge this—rather than going down the endless path of confirmation bias and doubling down on existing loyalties. In that spirit: I was wrong when I dismissed the problems with the Obamacare exchange rollout as mere "glitches" confined to a parenthetical aside.
by Steve Thorngate
Film argues that Bible does not condemn homosexuality: For the Bible Tells Me So
Faith gets star treatment at Sundance
by Piet Levy


This three-part social competition series is back to mark the end of 2018. It's focused on flashing problems. Fun nights guaranteed. All climbers are welcome to participate.
Please note that regular gym admission applies.
The climber that flashes all the problems of the week wins cash. If not, THE PRIZE JACKPOTS!
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Boy Gives Up Game Console To Help Those In Need For Holidays
Boy who gave up Xbox to help homeless gets Christmas wish directly from Microsoft
Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
BEACHWOOD, OHIO —
One boy's selfless act has been rewarded by tech giant Microsoft.
Mikah Frye decided that the money that would have been spent to get him an Xbox for Christmas would go to better use this year.
He used the money to buy more than 60 blankets for the homeless in his area.
After his story went viral, company officials at Microsoft, the creators of the Xbox, had a surprise for Mikah at Beachwood Place, the area mall, WJW reported.
Employees at the Microsoft store escorted the 9-year-old boy to the back of the store. He was greeted by the big man himself, not Bill Gates, but rather Santa, who was waiting with two bags full of presents, including the coveted Xbox.
Once he got through the piles of gifts, Mikah and his family began to cry, remembering how they've been blessed after having encountered financial roadblocks in recent years.
"He knew what it was like not to have a blanket at night and have to give it back," Terry Brant, Mikah's grandmother, told WJW. Mikah's mother told the television station that Mikah's family had been homeless and lived in an a emergency shelter for weeks a few years ago.
FILE PHOTO: Game footage of 'Minecraft' on the XBox One X is displayed during the Microsoft xBox E3 briefing at the Galen Center on June 11, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. The E3 Game Conference begins on Tuesday June 13. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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VIDEO: Cycling Tour Series 'roaring success'
by Stuart Monteith
May 26, 2017, 1:27 pm Updated: May 26, 2017, 2:21 pm
Thousands of people turned out for a major cycling event hailed as a "massive success" for Aberdeen.
The Tour Series Cycling race was the highlight of a day's worth of cycling activity in the city centre.
Races were held for people of all ages and ability throughout the day, culminating in some of the country's top cyclists taking on the course.
The event was hailed by Lord Provost Barney Crockett as a "roaring success".
Sandra Fawcett, who cycled to watch the event with friend Gill Lamberton, said: "It is fabulous it has been brought to Aberdeen to showcase the city on a lovely sunny day. It's inspirational to see in our city."
Andy Pearson, 25, said: "Britain is going through a good time in cycling, so it's good to see Championship Series racing here."
A cycling village was set up on Union Terrace Gardens where businesses and cycling groups offered events for the crowds.
The Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative, Grampian Transport, and Transition Extreme were among groups with stalls.
Rachel Gretton of the Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative said: "It's brilliant for the city, it's really good getting everyone out and about enjoying bikes."
The Clan Cycle Stunt Team performed for the gathered crowds. Iain Withers, the team's show manager said: "We have had an awesome day. We have had some local stunt riders turn up and do some performances."
Mr Crockett said: "The organisers have told me they are confident it's the biggest crowd they've ever had at any of their events which is absolutely fabulous.
"I think there have been 100 races and they're saying this is definitely the biggest crowd and best response they had, and they're just overwhelmed by how well they have been received in Aberdeen.
"It's been an enormous success for the city."
Mr Crockett said the event was an excellent way of showcasing the city, and hopefully attracting other major events.
"They will be back next year and it will be a Friday night so there will be an even bigger crowd.
"Having built on it we'll get other major events, just based on the people and the atmosphere. Everyone in Aberdeen will work together to make that possible."
He added the race showed how Union Street could be used, with other activities such as the inaugural Great Aberdeen Run coming soon.
"Seeing the city centre being used for a variety of things and seeing people coming in is great.
"The fact so many people came out for this when it's not necessarily a sport they know much about is great. They got into it and the team said that they got a buzz from that and the atmosphere with all the enthusiasm."
Councillor Douglas Lumsden, who represents the Airyhall, Broomhill and Garthdee ward, added that it was a "unique event".
He said: "It was a fantastic night, the weather was perfect and the crowd was really good.
"Hopefully it's a sign of things to come in Aberdeen as it got a lot of people into the city centre.
Dale Goonan, 23, who watched the stunt show said the event would "give people a new perspective on cycling".
He added: "All the kids here, it might give them some ambitions to get a different sort of bike."
The team race started at 7.30pm and was held over one hour with five laps of racing.
The individual race was won by Scotland's Jack Pullar, and his team Bike Channel Canyon came out on top in the team rankings on the night.


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Boom, Boom, BANG!
Something fishy in the air…
If you're in the housing business, there's good news all round.
First inflation is heading for 4% which means that all our house prices will go up. Those of you lucky enough to have your own chez moi you may now pop the champagne corks. Tough luck on the moaning millennials, go back to your flat you share with 15 other millennials and be grateful you sleep head-to-toe, it saves on the gas that got so expensive lately.
That makes us all feel good. I can hear the chat down the pub: "Don't know why I work mate; my house earns more than me every week."
But let's look back a few years… Remember good old Gordon Brown, the Iron Chancellor (not the Iron Lady – a different kettle of fish), who said he'd keep inflation at 2 per cent. And he'd hand over control to the Bank of England to make sure he was a good boy?
And they would then do a regular report to make sure that they were doing the job. Bye, bye to all that!
The problem with inflation is that when you let that little monster out of its box, it's a devil to get it back it in…
Four per cent today, six per cent tomorrow, 10 per cent and then 27 per cent (I remember that) and the economy is shot.
Call in the IMF, fire brigade, ghost busters, just call someone!
The Labour Party called it austerity and, for sure there was pain. But there is only so much money to go round. Rishi is saying the economy is booming and that will solve all the problems. I've been around to hear it all before.
Taxes will have to go up and we'll all bear the pain. The middle classes (like me) will moan and groan, but we cannot have bad housing, bad education and a bad health service. We all to have to pay.
House prices will rise in price but not in value, which make us feel better for a while.
Meantime, there's pain on the way, no matter what Boris' "all jolly good conference" speech said.
Batten down the hatches.
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Contract activities in petrochemicals segment in North America down 33% in Q4 2021
The petrochemicals segment contracts in North America registered a decrease of 33% with six contracts in Q4 2021, when compared with the previous quarter's total of nine contracts, according to GlobalData's oil and gas contracts database.
A total of six contracts were registered in the petrochemicals segment of North America during the quarter, when compared with the last four-quarter moving average of eight contracts.
Contract award activity in North America's petrochemicals segment during Q4 2021
Looking at the total oil and gas contracts by country in the petrochemicals segment of North America, the US led the activity in Q4 2021 with four contracts and a 67% share. It saw a decrease of 50% over the previous quarter's total of eight contracts and a decrease of 43% when compared with the last four-quarter-average of seven contracts in the US.
In second place was Canada with one contract and a 17% share.
Based on five-quarter moving average of the contracts in the petrochemicals segment of North America, the US took the top spot with six contracts, followed by Canada with one contract.
Contracts by scope of work in North America's petrochemicals segment during Q4 2021
During the quarter, the majority of petrochemicals segment contracts awarded in the North America were in the design & engineering with five contracts, followed by procurement and construction with three and two contracts, respectively.
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Contract activities in petrochemicals segment in Asia-Pacific up 140% in December 2021


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Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
by Adam Kay
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas Synopsis
A surgical-stocking-filler from the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller This Is Going To Hurt
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime.
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.
Publisher: Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
ISBN: B07R7RC9K2
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication date: 17th October 2019
Author: Adam Kay
Genres: Audiobooks of the Month, Biography / Autobiography, Humour,
About Adam Kay
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film, including Mitchell & Webb and Very British Problems. He previously worked as a junior doctor, detailing his funny and sad experiences in his first book, This is Going to Hurt. He lives in west London.
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The aim of education has to be to achieve success in life, considering success in its broadest sense. But we live in times where the future is uncertain, where past trends are interwoven with new trends influenced by cutting-edge technology. This means living constantly in a whirlwind (Leadbeater talks of a washing machine) from where new "things" emerge with which people have to keep creating. Children and young people need to be ready to tackle this situation and get the best out of it, facing the future with infinite possibilities.
In many cases, we continue to offer an education that trains people for an industrial society, with standardized knowledge for mechanical jobs. This type of education does not provide the skills that help with adapting to the changing situations created by cutting-edge technology, which could replace people in many cases with robots and algorithms.
We are teaching people to be bad robots when what we really should be doing is training people to be more human, to do the things that robots cannot do: be more empathetic, collaborative, creative, able to create metaphors and to take the initiative.
The crux of the matter changes from following instructions to solving problems.
And how do we learn to solve complex problems?
Knowledge. Yes, knowledge is needed, but it has to be useful and capable of extrapolation. It is not just a case of providing knowledge for it to be internalized. It has to be taught to be taken on board and applied.
Agents. At school, students seek to be agents who are involved. They do not want to be passive. They have to do things, test things out through practice, and learn from actions, mistakes, critique and feedback.
Personal. Education has to work for personal growth. Everyone needs their own personal objective.
Social. Education needs to be collaborative, with classmates, teachers and people outside school. Most complex problems cannot be solved individually, experiences have to be shared.
What is necessary in order to implement this type of education?
Dynamic teachers, who are creative, who propose new experiences to students.
Dynamic curricula and new forms of assessment, where the process is more important than the results. Standardized exams kill creativity.
This type of teaching has to be the main focus, with agreement from parents and universities. We have to move away from the dichotomy between old ways of teaching and innovative teaching.


This elegant, modern fixture is a great addition to your cabin ceiling or wall. When you first touch the switch you get either a red or blue night light. Touch again and you get a full 350 lumens of soft but bright white light. Hold the switch & it will dim down.
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Q: Accessing data in a Compose PostgreSQL database from Spark as a Service Python notebook on Bluemix I have data in a postgres database that I am trying to access through Spark as a Service on IBM Bluemix (using a python notebook).  Here is my code:
from pyspark.sql import SQLContext
sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)

df = sqlContext.load(source="jdbc",\
                 url="jdbc:postgresql://[publichost]:[port]/compose",\
                 dbtable="[tablename]")
df.take(2)

The error I'm getting (during the df = line) is:
Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o42.load.
: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:postgresql://host:port/compose
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:700)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:219)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.jdbc.JDBCRDD$$anonfun$getConnector$1.apply(JDBCRDD.scala:188)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.jdbc.JDBCRDD$$anonfun$getConnector$1.apply(JDBCRDD.scala:181)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.jdbc.JDBCRDD$.resolveTable(JDBCRDD.scala:121)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.jdbc.JDBCRelation.<init>(JDBCRelation.scala:91)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.jdbc.DefaultSource.createRelation(DefaultSource.scala:60)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.ResolvedDataSource$.apply(ResolvedDataSource.scala:158)
at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.load(DataFrameReader.scala:119)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:95)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:231)
at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:381)
at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:259)
at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:133)
at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:209)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:785)

Can I update this driver?  Any advice or a working example would be much appreciated!

A: This happens because the postgresql driver is not installed by default in your spark service instance.
You would need to add it first to use it.
Change the kernel to Scala from the menu to execute below statement, you only need to execute this once per spark instance and then subsequent use postgres driver irrespective of kernel type(Python,Scala,R), you can simply import it
In [1]:
%Addjar -f https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.4.1207.jre7.jar
Starting download from https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.4.1207.jre7.jar
Finished download of postgresql-9.4.1207.jre7.jar
In [5]:
#Now change the kernel back to Python
In [1]:
from pyspark.sql import SQLContext
sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
In [3]:
#Ignore the Connection Error which is because of the invalid connection details
#Just simply change the publichost to your hostname and port number and databasename and
#tablename
In [4]:
df = sqlContext.load(source="jdbc",\
                 url="jdbc:postgresql://[publichost]:[port]/databasename",\
                 dbtable="[tablename]")

Complete Importable Notebook See below
https://github.com/charles2588/bluemixsparknotebooks/raw/master/Python/python_postgres.ipynb
Thanks,
Charles.

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NPR The Two-Way: Stephen Hawking, Who Awed Both Scientists And The Public, Dies.
"There aren't very many scientists who achieved rock-star status. Stephen Hawking, who has died at the age of 76, family members told British media early Wednesday, was definitely a contender.
Many more links and stories about Hawking in this MetaFilter thread: A brief history of a man.
I read his most famous book "A Brief History of Time" (Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit) years ago, but think I'll re-read it now.
This entry was posted in Astronomy, Books and Reading, Physics, Science, Space on March 14, 2018 by Andrea.


Big corporations may make headlines, but small businesses make the economy hum. Of the nearly 23 million new jobs created between 1993 and 2013, 63 percent came from small businesses, and more than half of those companies are planning to hire additional workers this year.
View our infographic to discover the many other ways that small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy.
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Moeller: Enunwa and Perriman Need To Crystallize Receiving Corps
Written By: Jeff Moeller
It's Sept. 10, and the Jets can line up Jamison Crowder, Breshad Perriman, and Quincy Enunwa.
How realistic are the chances of it happening?
It will depend on Enunwa's status.
Perriman's status also is in question. Can he take the next step?
Suddenly, the Jets have a dilemma. There is one reliable receiver, two quandries, and a need to draft or sign some.
Perriman is projected as the replacement for Robbie Anderson with the potential to be better.
He recently stated during a press conference call that the final five games of last season with Tampa was a "tiny glimpse" of what is capable of accomplishing.
Crowder became a productive player for the Jets last season as an effective possession receiver last year, leading the team in receptions (78) and forming a strong chemistry with quarterback Sam Darnold.
So, what about Enunwa.
The Jets believed the sixth-round pick in the 2014 draft was their answer to a big-play and size receiver –a chiseled 6-foot-2, 225-pound frame — who could also play tight end, when he had a breakout season in 2016 with 58 catches.
That gained him a four-year, $36 million contract that came to an abrupt halt when his recurring necknproblems resurfaced one week into last season and placed him on the shelf for the rest of the year.
There was plenty of chatter that the Jets would cut Enunwa due to his uncertainty of ever playing again, thus saving some cap space in the process.
But Enunwa is still a Jet, and GM Joe Douglas stated at the press briefing that Enunwa is "still going through the process" about his medical situation.
Douglas added that "we should have some more information on that hopefully soon. Obviously, that's a big question mark for us moving forward"
It certainly is.
Yet, Enunwa's presence has been downplayed with the singing of Perriman and the anticipated development of Crowder.
If he is healthy, Enunwa is the Jets' Ace in the pocket, a powerful receiver who fits nicely in certain situations and schemes.
The Jets added former Redskin first-round 2016 pick Josh Doctson, who flamed out in Washington, as depth.
Ironically, Perriman was another first-round pick, one as a Raven in 2015. He never worked out in Baltimore and apparently later in Tampa, but his stock rose when he caught 25 passes and scored five touchdowns in his last five games last year.
The Jets do have security in Crowder, but then can be safe with the development of Perriman and Enunwa.
With their status, there is further talk about the selection of a wide receiver with the 11th pick or definitely in the second round.
At the time of the draft in the next few weeks, the Jets might have an answer.
Still, they will need a couple more.
Jeff Moeller


This is a guest post by Melody Cleo.
Many businesses have discovered the power of Twitter due to its low cost, immediacy and viral nature. However, it's not easy to develop a following. The idea is not the number of people that follow you but how many are relevant. Having over 20,000 followers who do not respond to your Tweets is like playing a guitar to a herd of goats. Here are some things you need to do or avoid to create an engaging audience.
The picture has to be big enough and in high resolutions because many people will check your profile before they follow you. After your house is in order, find and follow relevant people. Search for these people from the many Twitter directories out there. Ensure that you find people who are in your area of interest or have followers you intend to target. You can leverage other people's twitter lists.
This is easier said than done. To get interesting content try the Google Alerts by signing up for updates about concepts that interest audiences in your field. Share media by posting photos and videos so that you page gets click through and comments. Read what your audience is writing about and comment often.
Interesting subject within a perfectly composed tweet will grab attention and maximize exposure.
Even if a follower did not comment back on your Tweet does not mean you cannot engage them again. Get involved with chats by using hash-tags. By joining appropriate chat forums is a quick way to build a following. You may schedule your chats so that you can reach a wider audience across the world. Note when people respond to your tweets when scheduling your chats and use a time saving tools when scheduling. Follow people that follow your comments or Tweets.
Put a Twitter follow button or Twitter updates widget in your website or blogs, and include your Twitter handle in emails. You can also promote in social media outposts. To keep people engaged, try and multitask by Tweeting when in the bus, during commercials when watching your favourite program or when watching a match.
Don't include too many hash-tags because people don't like that kind of self-promotion. Overcrowded tweet looks spammy and may deter readers.
Don't be too specific because many follows will not see your Tweets according to the search engine. Instead used more general terms like blogging or social media for the engine to place your Tweet on higher priority (hash-tag the terms).
A bad habit is in filling in your article with hash-tags. This makes your Tweets unreadable and followers will get bored reading your stuff. The content of your article must be relevant to your niche and catchy enough to arouse a response.
While you build and grow your followers, Twitter notices you and recommends other accounts to you. Guest blogging is another popular link building strategy that can increase followers. This is a process where your articles get published in high ranking sites and makes your presence known by potential Tweet followers.
Melody Cleo is a passionate blogger from Manchester, UK. In her free time, she writes articles on various topics such as technology, gadgets, travel etc. As of now she is focusing on Sky Contact, which provides information regarding broadband services, radio services and television services.
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You are right, you should have right followers, those will eager for your tweet, like we does for any celebraty tweet.
I didn't understand your paragraph about hashtags and chats. Maybe I just don't know how to use hashtags correctly but I also didn't know there were chat forums on Twitter. Maybe a future post could address this?
This is interesting too! No matter how interesting stuffs you tweet, it wouldn't have any value unless you have a right followers. It wouldn't get retweet and go viral.
I do use hashtags sometimes but never been in a Twitter tweet chat.
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, Dielle. Describes beautifully the re-honoring that is slowly taking place in me.
This brings this to mind in my life….
In our early days, before the BIG talk, I was really vacillating about being with him. My mother and sister were dominant voices in my head. They both have failed marriages and got burned really badly. Neither have ever had a deep love relationship. So I had that imprint very strong. And they were subtly pushing me away from Gary whenever they could. I really had to sort out all those voices to get clear on what I really wanted and not what they were afraid of. I wanted them to love him like I did, but it took a while for them to get there. My Mom took a long time, but eventually she grew to care for him. My sister has always been in competition with him of sorts – two Virgos wanting the Capricorn's energy 🙂 I had to really pull away from both of them at that time to get clear of their thoughts. Luckily I had the ability to know that at that time.
I appreciate your comment, Joann. Fear sure is an insidious little virus that can be so easily transferred from one to another. Not to insult anyone well-meaning, but there really does come a time when it's best to keep our own counsel and walk our own path. Who the heck else could possibly understand it?
awesome post, dielle… it's interesting because the various voices you're talking about is basically the same work as IFS (internal family systems) that I had mentioned to you in a previous email… interesting stuff all of this internal dialogue and how to care for ourselves and listen to that True voice so thanks again for sharing from the heart… it's wonderful!


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'I'm not the Resistance, I'm a reporter': An Interview with April Ryan
Claudia Dreifus
April Ryan: When I asked it, I knew I had done something. I realized that it's a sad day when you have to ask a US president if you're a racist. It hurt me.
Alex Brandon/AP Photo
April Ryan raising her hand to put a question to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Washington, D.C., October 31, 2017
At the top of Donald Trump's journalistic enemies list is April Ryan, the fifty-one-year-old American Urban Radio Networks correspondent. Ryan—who has covered the presidency for more than two decades—is also an on-air political analyst for CNN and the author of three books, including the recently released Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House. Around Washington, D.C., Ryan holds the title "Dean of the White House Press Corps."
"I watched her get up," the president fumed last week before departing for Paris. "I mean, you talk about somebody that's a loser. She doesn't know what the hell she's doing… She's very nasty, and she shouldn't be… You've got to treat the White House and the Office of the Presidency with respect."
What Trump may find disrespectful is that Ryan has a penchant for asking tough questions on topics he'd doesn't want to hear about: voter suppression, civil rights, Russia. Ryan is also black, female, middle-aged, and resolute. In January 2018, she asked, "Mr. President, are you a racist?"
This boldness has made Ryan the target of Trump's more ardent followers. She receives frequent death threats. On a reporter's salary, she's had to hire a full-time bodyguard. There are reports that Cesar Sayoc Jr., who is accused of sending pipe bombs to Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Barack Obama, and others, also had Ryan on his mailing list.
We spoke for two hours in New York City in the early fall, and then again, twice after the November 6 election, by telephone. An edited and condensed version of the conversations follows.
Claudia Dreifus: Like the late Helen Thomas of the UPI, you're known as the "Dean of the White House Press Corps." It's an honorific earned by covering four presidents. When did you realize that reporting on the Donald Trump presidency would be very different?
April Ryan: I saw it during the 2016 campaign. I knew in my gut he was going to win. You could see it, if you were honest with yourself and listened to what he was saying. He'd say to a 90 percent white crowd, "We built this nation!"
He used code words and they solidified the crowd. With Donald Trump, there wasn't political decorum. It was shock and awe. This was a street game and he was playing "the Dozens." His opponents, in both the primaries and the general election, were too polished to understand what was happening. I used to go on MSNBC and tell Chris Matthews, "This man could be our president."
Chris would say, "No, it will never happen!"
When it did happen, how did life change for journalists covering the White House?
There used to be an atmosphere of mutual respect there. You had journalists like Bill Plante of CBS and Ann Compton of ABC. They were tough questioners, but they always were respected.
I didn't have any problem with any president until now. George W. Bush, I really have a fondness for him because we were able to talk about race. Bill Clinton, I asked him hard questions about Monica Lewinsky. I dogged Obama about unemployment in the black community. They may not have agreed with the questions I threw out, but they respected me.
This president changed the dynamic. The press room now, every day, it's something different. Now looking at this new crop, you've got conservative journalists over here, you've got liberal journalists, and you got those few who are in the middle. We didn't have that back then. If a reporter had politics, you didn't know about it. It wasn't out like it is now.
Where do you sit on the spectrum?
I sit in the middle. I sit with the tradition of Walter Cronkite. You didn't know his politics until he left journalism. And you don't know if I'm a Republican or a Democrat. I don't talk about my politics. No one knows my politics.
Whatever they are, you're a journalist with a bodyguard. Why?
There have been threats. It's gone beyond emails, beyond the phone calls, beyond threatening messages to the company website. The security: it's not just for myself, it's for protecting me and mine. I have kids. I'm trying to keep my life and the lives of those I love safe.
The other thing is that people have tried to intimidate me. Right now, I can't cover a Trump rally in a red state, even if I wanted to. I mentioned that to Steve Bannon when I talked to him. He said, "No. I wouldn't advise it."
The questions you ask the president appear to be the source of the hostility. This began in February of 2017 at Donald Trump's first solo presidential press conference when you asked what would, under ordinary circumstances, have been a rather mundane question.
Yes. I asked him a question about urban America and it wound up being crazy. I asked if, in his plans for an inner cities agenda, he was going to talk with the Congressional Black Caucus. The president went, "Well, I would… I'll tell you what, do you want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours?"
All I could say was something like, "I'm just a reporter. I know some of them." But the president went on, "Let's go… let's set up a meeting. I would love to meet with the Black Caucus."
When he started speaking those words, I was at a loss. Blood rushed to my ears because that's my way when things get tough. I was shaking my head, not realizing what I was doing. "No, I can't do that, sir." I was in shock. In my mind, I thought, but didn't say, "That's not my job."
This exchange was the worst thing ever for me. That moment is forever etched into history because that video went viral. For better or worse, I'm a meme from that.
Who do you actually work for?
American Urban Radio Networks. We send newsfeeds to black-owned radio stations or stations with a black focus. Our focus is on minority America, though we ask questions about all of America—health disparities, lead poisoning, police shootings, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner.
How do you develop your questions for the president? Dan Rather, who once covered the White House, told me that he spent months crafting a single question for Richard Nixon.
Months? It doesn't take me that long. We're in a different day now. You're responding to the moment. The 24/7 news machine and social media have changed the dynamic of how we ask questions. I do a lot of research. I have sources who tell me things. My questions are often driven by the events of the day.
When I asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders if the president had ever thought of resigning, that was driven by the news that a federal prosecutor had just raided Michael Cohen's office. I had sources telling me that things were going on, like wiretaps and things of that nature.
This past January, at a public ceremony celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, you bluntly asked the president if he was a racist. What was your process in developing that question?
As a journalist, as you know, you have your ear to the ground. You have a Rolodex of people you talk to quite frequently to find out what they're thinking. You hear grumbling.
I'd heard that federal lawmakers came out of a meeting where the president allegedly said "shithole nations," versus people from Norway who'd be welcome here. Not only that: before that was Charlottesville.
So I was hearing this groundswell from black leaders and white leaders. And then I called the NAACP and asked, "What is the definition of a racist?" And it was simple: the intersection or the meeting of prejudice and power.
I was torn about asking it. Even in the room, I was back and forth. I'll never forget the president kept looking at me from there like he doesn't like me. When I asked it, I knew I had done something. I realized that it's a sad day when you have to ask a US president if you're a racist. It hurt me.
Does the president ever call on you at events?
Not anymore. I'll yell out a question sometimes. He'll give me a squint and close his mouth and skip to the next questioner. He doesn't like me. That's okay.
At his recent post-Election Day press conference, the one where the president grew furious with CNN's Jim Acosta, he also rounded on you. "Sit down," he told you. "I didn't call on you." What were your feelings as he said that?
I was shocked, though I wasn't as surprised as some people. He's done this before to me. Whatever he thinks about me, I'll be doing what I'm doing. In this instance, I was asking him about voter suppression and he was avoiding talking about the issue.
I don't know why people are shocked. He's gone after women before. We've seen how he is when he talks to Kaitlan Collins or Cecilia Vega.
He has said to ABC's Cecilia Vega, "You're not thinking, you never do."
I love Cecilia. She's amazing. And a thinker. And she asks really good questions. It's wrong to denigrate a woman, a journalist. It shows where women, where journalists, stand with him. In a time when women are walking away from him and his message is against women, that's a dangerous game to play. Independent women are leaving him and going toward the Democrats.
Just last week, the president revoked Jim Acosta's White House press credentials. In the wake of that, some journalists are suggesting that the entire White House press corps should boycott some of the president's events. Is that feasible?
If they do boycott, I would have to be part of it. But there are ways that we can be just as effective without a boycott. We have to be all together and we'll have to work together to find those areas. We have to figure out what to report and what not to report. We can be more strategic in our reporting.
You've had some run-ins with Sanders. During Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, you threw a remarkable question at her. You asked why the president had so readily believed in Kavanaugh's innocence, when in 1989 Trump had rushed to judgment in the case of five black teenagers accused of raping a white jogger in New York's Central Park. Many years later, the real rapist was arrested. Now, the 1980s is a long time ago; why ask that question now?
I didn't initiate the question. Ayesha Rascoe of NPR did. The minute Ayesha asked it, I saw Sarah getting riled, as if to say, "Leave that question." And I was like, "You are not going to step over this." I went right in.
What it does show is that he's selective in who he believes and who he doesn't. The reason I asked is because people know what happened there. There's a record. And he has yet to say, "I'm sorry."
About your bodyguard, how do you afford him? I know what radio reporters earn.
I'm creative. I put a lot of jobs together. I'm on CNN. I write books, I lecture. The security: it costs a lot, but I can't leave this job. I'm not a quitter. If people threaten me because I'm asking questions, that's not right. They view me as the Resistance; I'm not the Resistance, I'm a reporter.
How do your colleagues in the White House press corps react to your being targeted?
Some of them don't care. They're of the mindset, "Oh, she gets so much attention." Then there are others, they feel bad for me. I had a co-worker walk with me when she saw a couple of in-my-face attempts at intimidation.
A lot of the conservative newbies who think I'm not friendly to the president or who want to write stories that are for the president, they want to challenge me. I'm like, "You just got here, who are you?"
You've suggested that Sarah Huckabee Sanders ought to be paying for your security detail. Why?
It's because every time Sarah comes out and says something against me, I get these emails that go, "Oh, I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that to you." Every time, there's an elevated level of hate. They are generating this hate. I am "the enemy." Or one of the enemies.
A hypothetical question: If your predecessor as the dean of the White House press corps, the late Helen Thomas, were, in some mythical way, to come down from journalism heaven, what do you think she'd tell you?
"Keep doing what you're doing." She'd be the first person banging on the door for answers. She had the doors closed quite a bit on her, though it never stopped her. But people in power were afraid of her. She wielded real power.
Like her, I'm not looking for approval. I'm looking to do my job.
Paul J. Richards/AFP Photo/Getty Images
April Ryan assisting Helen Thomas, then known as the dean of the White House press corps, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2008
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But I don't have the Czech for such a conversation.
He leaves me at a pair of high wood-and-wire gates that remind me of a fort in a TV Western. I walk through the gate, through the double fence of barbed wire, past the wooden guard tower, past a large gray chunk of uranium. I pass the miniature train tracks and carts that transported the uranium aboveground. Though the prison was intended for punishment, it was also an extremely important source of labor, in particular, extraction of the uranium that lay in the underground mines. Uranium was needed to make atomic bombs for the coming world war with the West.
It's a lovely, peaceful location, set among wooded hillsides, today covered with a skiff of snow. The name Vojna, in fact, comes from the name of a nearby hill. I'm a little ashamed at how pleasant it is to be here, how nice to be out in the crisp country air after a couple of weeks in the beautiful but crowded streets of Prague. Here, there are no crowds; in fact, I am all alone. There are no other visitors. There is a man at a desk who gives me a brochure showing a rough map of the camp. He says something that might be "self-guided tour." Then he disappears.
All the buildings are open, so I self-guide myself into one of the squat cell blocks. I walk down a corridor, looking through the bars and into the cells. All is tidy and clean: ten double bunks, one stove, one bucket. I stop at one of the cells where a small square window faces the afternoon sun. If I had to be imprisoned here, I would pray for this cell with its glimpse of light.
Then I try to remember the reality of the place. Probably I would not have the chance to gaze at the setting sun. Probably before the sun rose and after it set, I would be underground. And suddenly I remember a scene from a banned Czech movie I once saw: a young man, newly in love and filled with the rapture of life, greets a fatherly party official who arrives to inspect his worksite. The young man, sensing a kindred spirit in the smiling official who speaks of music and flowers, chimes in, speaking of love and mutual respect. The official seems to nod approval. But when he has gone, trench-coated men whisk the youngster into a


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OUTLOOK: Overpaying for Patrick Marleau might be overshadowed by another top-five offensive season. In a favorable division for a return to the playoffs, they're locked and loaded with additional experience for a serious push.
TORONTO - The Boston Bruins dominated the first two games of their first-round playoff series, outscoring the Toronto Maple Leafs 12-4.
"You work all season to build that confidence," Maple Leafs center Tyler Bozak said Sunday. "Obviously, the first two games didn't go as planned. You know you want to go in there, get a split for sure and come home with a win, but now we're just going to have to go to work at home and get both of these games."
The Bruins' top line of Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand has dominated the Maple Leafs.
The six points tied Phil Esposito and Rick Middleton for the Bruins' franchise playoff record.
Pastrnak has nine points through the Bruins' first two games, which tied Esposito's NHL and Bruins records for the most points in the opening two games of a playoff series.
"He's got that confidence," said Bergeron, the center on the line. "He wants to be the guy. He wants to make those plays. If we don't have the puck, he hunts it back. ... That's what amazes me with him.
"There's a lot of skill players that are skilled when they have the puck and when they don't have it, they don't necessarily want it as much as this guy right here. So I think he's taken a tremendous step this year by the way that he plays away from the puck."
"Terrific and terrific," Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said of the way Boston's top line played at even strength and on the power play.
"I don't think I can say any more. I mean, you saw it, right? They're on (Saturday night). Hard to . Really hard to , and they play a 200-foot game. You can talk about Bergy and Marchy on the PK too while you're at it."
Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock had a brief answer when asked Sunday what needed to be done against the Bruins' top line.
"We're going to play hard against them," he said. "We've got last change."
"Any way you look at it, we're down 0-2 and we haven't been as good as we're capable of being," Babcock said. "When you go right through it from -- the way I look at it is, there are so many things we can do better.
"They scored a goal that was offside, we didn't have the stuff, we didn't do that. Our penalty kill hasn't been as good, we've left our goalies alone. We've had two too-many-men-on-the-ice penalties where a guy is substituting for another guy.
"All those things, when you look at it, it hasn't gone very good. That's real disappointing. In saying all that, this is our first game at home in front of our crowd. We're going to be great."
Babcock removed starting goaltender Frederik Andersen after Boston's fourth goal in the first period and replaced him with Curtis McElhinney.
"Oh yeah, for sure, 100 percent," Babcock said. "He's our guy. The puck was going in and it wasn't going our way, so we got him out. .. we haven't done a very good job in front of him.
"You've got to give your goalie a chance to be good. We haven't done that. Freddie is our guy and he'll be back tomorrow."
"What I'm planning on doing is going without him and then if he shows up, then he shows up," Babcock said.
The Maple Leafs will be without center Nazem Kadri, who is serving the second game of a three-game suspension for his hit on Boston's Tommy Wingels during the Bruins' 5-1 victory in Game 1 on Thursday.


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For-Profit Colleges As Benefit Corporations: Where's The School Spirit?
Words by Brad Edmondson
For-profit colleges are a $25 billion industry that gets no respect. They claim just 5 percent of the $500 billion Americans spend every year on higher education. Their critics call them "dropout factories" that burden students with debt and get billions in federal and state support while returning little value.
In the last few years, six for-profit colleges have re-chartered themselves to become benefit corporations, with a dual mission to pursue a public benefit while also making a profit. Are they greenwashing? B Labs, the independent social auditing firm that awards B Corp Certification and also promotes the movement for chartered benefit corporations, doesn't think so. But changing that image might take a while.
Critics of for-profit education cite a 2012 report by former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, which analyzed 30 for-profit colleges and found that their associate's degrees cost four times as much as did similar degrees from public schools. Harkin also found that 63 percent of students enrolled in associate programs at for-profits in 2008-09 had dropped out a year later. The expenses and yields for other degrees were also poor in comparison to public and not-for-profit schools.
Two years ago, B Labs convened a diverse group of educators to develop specific social auditing standards for higher education. The group released the standards last September. A few weeks later, Laureate Education and Alliant University passed the audit to become the first for-profit colleges that are both benefit corporations and Certified B Corps.
"People say that for-profit colleges cannot keep students at the center of their operations, but the benefit corporation structure requires that they do," says Dan Osusky, a standards manager at B Labs. "The key to making this succeed is getting colleges to publish measures of accountability and performance."
Other for-profit colleges are talking the talk. "We're a 115-year-old company, and being a public benefit corporation is in our DNA," says Trenda Boyum-Breen, president of Rasmussen College, a regionally accredited institution serving 14,000 students online and at 24 campuses. It grants degrees in business, nursing and other job-oriented disciplines.
About 75 percent of Rasmussen students are women and over the age of 25. More than a fifth are African American. "For-profit colleges have a powerful opportunity to encourage upward social mobility," Osusky of B Labs says.
Rasmussen registered as a public-benefit corporation (PBC) in Delaware two years ago. "We saw it as a way to distinguish ourselves," says Dr. Boyum-Breen, president of Rasmussen, who is also a first-generation college graduate. "A PBC is the sweet-spot that allows us to deliver education for the public good while also having the efficiency and flexibility of a for-profit business."
That all sounds good. But Rasmussen is privately owned, so it doesn't release information on its revenues, its expenses or the names of major shareholders. Boyum-Breen says the college is consulting with B Lab, but it hasn't yet been certified. And Delaware law only requires that PBCs give their shareholders a statement regarding the progress of their social goals once every two years. The statement does not have to be done by an independent third party, and it doesn't have to be public.
"This is a controversial industry, and some for-profit colleges have questionable reputations," says Osusky, who adds that the best way forward is for the industry to adopt specific performance standards, greater legal accountability and public transparency. "Controversial industries are where the need is greatest to distinguish between good and bad actors," he continues.
Boyum-Breen, who became Rasmussen's president 10 months ago, says the college's directors will see its first internally-produced social statement at their meeting in March. She says that parts of the statement will also be released to the public and that the college will continue to work with B Labs.
She is also pushing changes that promise to lower the cost of a degree. More than three quarters of her students have already attended college somewhere else without graduating. Rasmussen's Flex Choice, which combines classwork with online study to allow students to pass course units based on their prior experiences, was expanded to all degree programs in January.
"There's a great opportunity here for a business to generate public good," she says. "An organization's tax status doesn't determine whether it is good or not."
Maybe so. But you can't assess a company's performance until you measure it, and you can't trust those measurements unless someone or something holds the company accountable.
Image credit: Flickr/CollegeDegrees360
Brad Edmondson
Brad Edmondson is an award-winning writer and presenter who explains social change and how it happens. www.bradedmondson.com.
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NASCAR: How to Fix the Nationwide Series
Austin SchoenContributor IAugust 31, 2011
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Over the last few years, the NASCAR Nationwide Series has turned into what many observers call "Cup Lite." Every year, a few Sprint Cup drivers have also run most, if not all, of the Nationwide Series races as well. This, and the resulting influx of Sprint Cup owners, has taken the Nationwide identity away. Ever since the short fields of the mid-2000s, more and more Sprint Cup drivers have been cast in the lower series, and the success of these drivers have caused more and more owners to put these drivers in their cars instead of any promising driver or crafty veteran. The influx of new drivers has dried up, leading to Sprint Cup having Kevin Conway and Andy Lally as leading rookies. Sponsors want a brand name, which is why the Nationwide-only teams have dried up, leaving Cup owners to put multiple Cup drivers in a car and run it full-time. The Top 30 locked-in rule has helped some, as has the new 1 series points rule, but more needs to be done.
The "Buschwhackers" need to be limited in how many races they drive in the Nationwide Series. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, there weren't Cup drivers who drove the whole schedule. From 1997-2003, no driver except Kevin Harvick drove a full schedule and Harvick was committed to the Busch schedule before he got his Cup ride. The only Cup drivers who drove more than 20 Busch races in any season were Harvick, Todd Bodine, Michael Waltrip, Kenny Wallace, Jeff Green, Jimmy Spencer, Matt Kenseth and Dick Trickle. These years were arguably the most popular in the series, with a great mix of veterans and rising stars, so it shows that this series can be good without the Cup guys every week.
Having stand-alone races would also give the series its own identity. Back over the last decade, many tracks have gone away in favor of creating super weekends at all Cup tracks. These other short tracks, road courses and intermediate tracks helped shaped the image of the series when it was at its best. While the super weekend is good for the race fans and profits, it makes it all too easy for drivers to jump from one series to the next.
Maybe other solutions need to be tried, such as using cars of different makes, models and specifications than Cup. Or maybe the schedule needs to be shortened to 30 races. How about making Cup drivers own their own Nationwide cars, or having Cup drivers drive for a different owner than their Cup owner?
Regardless, NASCAR needs to do more to fix the Nationwide Series and put it back to its glory days when it had its own drivers, tracks and identity in order to bring back the owners, drivers and fans that it has deserted over the last few years.
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From Fish Scales to Sea Jewellery
To produce an identity-based meaningful design considering sustainable products has been a widely explored theme nowadays. The project to be presented aims to fill a gap in a Portuguese fishing town's industry, through the usage and processing of discarded fish scales. It foresees the design of a set of jewels inspired by a coastal city, therefore reflecting its identity, and having into account social and environmental spheres. After collecting the material, it was transformed according to an exploratory process. Material Driven Design Method (MDD) has helped considering material properties, its experiential qualities and materials experience vision, finally leading to conceptualization and production of artefacts. "The Fish Fest", by Erik de Laurens (UK), was also of great support for the project's development, having proved that it is possible to conceive products through a fish scales composed material without any external binder. The referred jewellery pieces are divided in two different lines, Escama and Maré, which reveal two surprisingly unusual techniques regarding fish scales' thermal pressing and the inclusion of fish scales in molten glass, respectively. Both lines were produced for We Won't Waste You project, a social design project developed in Design Studio of Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto. Escama presents a set of earrings using pressed fish scales clusters with no added components, subsequently attached to brass. These reveal the strong fishing tradition that characterizes this fishing town, through naturally appealing pieces that combine the simplicity and delicacy of overlapping fish scales' patterns - organic matter stands out for its bright hue and pearly glow. Physical protection, as this material's primary function, is now transformed into some kind of symbolic protection, much like an amulet. Maré shows a technique in which the fish scales are included between two glass plates, fused together along with brass strands. Maré jewels combine earrings and pendants made out of discarded glass pieces exhibiting these fish scales as exquisite silvery elements. Each one of these pieces proposes a new life for this surplus material, enhancing its aesthetic qualities through the glass' transparency and blue hues. They finally bring us the Portuguese's seawaters through the sophistication of a jewel. Both lines present a new perspective using an underestimated material whose life span is now extended, moving towards a sustainable economy: reaching a greater poetic dimension.
Ângela Oliveira
Master in Product and Industrial Design, University of Porto
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Review of: The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked and Found, by Martin W. Sandler
19 Sunday Nov 2017
I don't typically read or review "Young Adult" books, but The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked and Found, by Martin W. Sandler, came my way via an Early Reviewer's program and—full disclosure—I did not realize it was YA when I requested it! Of course, the "Young Adult" genre has come a long way since my own youth, when it tended to only run to the lowest common denominator of the youngest readers. In contrast, just about any adult non-specialist could peruse The Whydah and perhaps not even realize it was written for a YA audience.
Pirates are the stuff of both myth and history, an enduring legend that dominates the imagination in pulp fiction, swashbuckling films, and even Halloween costume parties and amusement park rides. The reality, of course, was starkly different from the romanticism, as revealed through both historical scholarship and—especially in recent decades—its partnership with the increasingly sophisticated technology of underwater archaeology. Sandler, a prolific author of books for adults and children (his Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad was previously reviewed on the Regarp Book Blog.*), artfully brings this marriage of history and archaeology to bear in this well-written work that focuses on noted pirate captain Black Sam Bellamy, his flagship vessell Whydah, and the culture of early eighteenth century piracy—as well as the recovery of the wreck and interpretation of the artifacts.
Born in England, like many young men of his era Sam Bellamy went to sea in the British navy. A veteran of naval combat in the War of Spanish Succession, at twenty-four Bellamy found himself out of a job when that conflict ended in 1714, and tens of thousands were released from service. His next stop was Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod, where he partnered up with a fellow-adventurer and returned to sea, this time on his own terms. When a promising salvage venture went sour, Bellamy instead turned to piracy, where he proved himself a highly successful raider along the east coast of America. One of his greatest prizes was the Whydah, a slaver that had recently traded its human cargo for vast riches that became the bountiful plunder of Sam Bellamy and his crew, and was transformed into Bellamy's flagship. In what amounted to but a single year, Black Sam distinguished himself as one of the most successful pirates of all times—before he fell victim to equal parts greed and the treacherous seas off of Cape Cod that sank the Whydah in 1717, and drowned Bellamy and most of his mates. The wreck—and a bounty of artifacts—were not recovered until 1984.
Sandler's thin volume is rich with detail, not only for his subjects but the milieu of piracy these inhabited. Pirates, it turns out, could indeed live up to the lore that has portrayed them as brutal and ruthless, but they also lived by a code of honor that was rigorously upheld. Most extraordinary in this code was its stark element of democracy. In a time when all the world was organized by hierarchy and class, all pirates, regardless of their specialized roles aboard ship, were essentially equals; the captain was little more than a first among equals, although he received two shares of plunder rather than the one due to an ordinary seaman. Nearly every aspect of their communal existence was governed by consensus, and determined by an equal vote from each member of the crew. When they raided other ships, their treatment of those who manned the prize was determined largely by the level of resistance. If the ship under attack surrendered without a fight, pirates typically showed great lenience, sparing the lives of officers and crew alike, who would be released to the sea with provisions on small boats if the ship was taken. Those who gave battle, on the other hand, often saw no quarter, ending their lives in a sometimes-horrific fashion marked by outsize cruelty. Thus, it was little wonder that the majority of ships beset by pirates often promptly surrendered. More surprising, perhaps, was that the surrendered crew was frequently offered a chance to join up with the very pirates that had overrun them—and that many availed themselves of this opportunity!
The last third of the book is devoted to finding and excavating the Whydah—which has continued for decades—as well as exploring the art and technology of diving and underwater archaeology. Here too the author presents the material in a competent, engaging fashion that holds the interest of the reader of all ages. Sandler aptly demonstrates how the artifacts recovered from the Whydah have contributed to a renaissance in the interpretation of what life must have been like on a pirate vessel three centuries ago.
Yet, this otherwise laudable work is unfortunately marred when it credulously repeats the fanciful notion that has Alexander the Great as an early pioneer in underwater exploration, here depicted in a medieval painting being lowered beneath the sea in a primitive glass diving bell, in the fourth century BCE! [p125] This ahistorical myth belongs to the literature of the so-called "Romance of Alexander" that was imagined many centuries after his death, and that to my knowledge has no scholarly support. (Endnotes include a reference to a defunct URL, but further research on the reference itself lends it little credence.) There was also a glaring error of historical interpretation in Sandler's Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation, this one regarding slavery and the Civil War, which makes me wonder about his reliability as a historian.* Sandler has many books and projects and awards to his credit, much of them focused on history, as well as a background as an educator, so these uncharacteristic flaws seem especially incongruous. Of course, both author and publisher should be taken to account for such carelessness.
Despite this imperfection, The Whydah has much to recommend it overall to a popular audience of both the young adult and their parents. This is fascinating material, and Sandler's skill as a writer who can weave multiple themes into a coherent account shines throughout the narrative. All of this is further enhanced in the presentation, which includes a number of sidebars, illustrations and maps. The Whydah demonstrates that the real story of pirates can be as enthralling as their swashbuckling legends.
[*See my review of Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad, by Martin W. Sandler, at: https://regarp.com/2015/11/29/review-of-iron-rails-iron-men-and-the-race-to-link-the-nation-the-story-of-the-transcontinental-railroad-by-martin-w-sandler/]


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Foscot is a hamlet in the Cotswolds in the Evenlode valley. It falls within Idbury civil parish, in the West Oxfordshire District, about  southeast of Stow-on-the-Wold in neighbouring Gloucestershire, and  from Kingham. It is in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Foscot is in the ecclesiastical parish of St Leonard, Bledington  and is socially integrated with the adjacent Bledington village.  The major landowner is Loudham Estates, based at Foxcote Farm.  Foxholes, a woodland nature reserve sloping down to the River Evenlode with year-round colour and wildlife interest, is adjacent to Foscot. It is noted for its spring bluebells and abundant bat and bird life and is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

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Q: DiscordJS v14 Slash commands option depends on option I want to make a Discord slash command where you need to select one choice and then another choice.
But depending of what choice is made in the first place (in choice 1) the options/values in the choice 2 are changing.
Is that possible?
Example:
/command choice1 choice2
If I select "A" in choice1 I get "One" and "Two" as choices in choice.
But when I select "B" in choice1, I will get "Three" and "Four" as choice2 options.
Best Regards,
Paul

A: Choices are predetermined values, that are set when the command is registered, and cannot be changed afterwords.
The way to dynamically change option choices is through "autocomplete," or depending on the situation, "subcommands" could also work.
In order to set up autocomplete to change based on other values, you'd need to access interaction.options.get(choice2) for choice1 and interaction.options.get(choice1) for choice2 (the interaction here would be an AutocompleteInteraction)
Here's an example:
client.on('interactionCreate', async interaction => {
    if (!interaction.isAutocomplete()) return;

    if (interaction.commandName === 'command') {
        const focusedOption = interaction.options.getFocused(true);
        let choices;

        if (focusedOption.name === 'option1') {
            choices = ["A", "B"];
        }

        if (focusedOption.name === 'option2') {
            let option1 = interaction.options.get('option1')?.value;
            if (option1 === "A") {
                choices = ["One", "Two"];
            }
            else if (option1 === "B") {
                choices = ["Three", "Four"];
            }
            else {
                choices = ["One", "Two", "Three", "Four"];
            }
        }

        const filtered = choices.filter(choice => choice.startsWith(focusedOption.value));
        await interaction.respond(
            filtered.map(choice => ({ name: choice, value: choice })),
        );
    }
});

As with all interactions, you must respond within 3 seconds. But you cannot defer AutocompleteInteractions, so I'd recommend .catch()ing the interaction response in case of errors.
See here for more info:
[1] https://discordjs.guide/interactions/autocomplete.html
[2] https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/main/class/AutocompleteInteraction


I went to Versailles on a Sunday. The rain was drizzling and the air was cold. Few people had ventured to the castle, much less the gardens. I was standing alone in the deserted park. The place was drenched in melancholy and it dawned on me that my surroundings had rarely reflected my state of mind so closely.
My first time at Versailles, it was just my father and me. To be honest, I wasn't impressed by the castle and don't remember much apart from the Hall of Mirrors. To my impatient 12-year-old self, it was just an endless succession of room after old room. What I do remember vividly however was how enthralled my father looked.
My father was a living history book. I was impressed by his knowledge and as we went back to Versailles together 10 years later, our visit was made so much livelier by all the anecdotes he told me and my mother. I had grown fond of the place myself –Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette and Stefan Zweig's biography of the queen probably helped. It was a beautiful day, one where we explored the whole estate and on which I've looked back on through photos many times.
As the years went by, Versailles became a regular meeting place for us between Normandy, where my parents lived, and Paris. We even made a day trip there when I worked in New York City and returned to France for the summer. It was a place where looked forward to seeing each other. We could forget about our daily lives and enjoy each other's company among the things we loved: beautiful surroundings, art, history and good food. There are memories that make me smile, like the three of us running through the whole crowded castle to make it in time for lunch at Angelina's before joining a guided tour. And then my mother and I kindly making fun of my father for looking like a kid in a candy store as our guide walked us through the kings' private rooms.
The last time I spoke of Versailles to my father, sadness took over for a minute. I thought he was regretting not being able to go there anymore and quickly changed the subject. He passed away from cancer several days later.
I returned to Versailles with my mother a week after the funeral. It was one of these summer nights with fireworks throughout the gardens. The lit-up castle looked otherworldly and the golden gate stood like an entrance to another world.
On my last visit to Versailles, I remembered how friends told me my father would always live in my mind and in my heart. As I walked through the exquisite design exhibition he would have loved, I couldn't help but think of what objects he would have preferred and what jokes we would have told each other. I realized I was lucky to have this beautiful place close to home where I could remember our time together and promised myself to return on his birthday.
Thank you. My father passing away last summer was a big shock and blogging seemed too shallow for a while.
Your trip to Versailles seems to have been a very personal trip for you; the rain seems to have mirrored your feelings. Yes?
I imagine that your father would like this tribute very much, Anne, please accept my condolences. I agree with the comments above, I have sorely missed your beautiful writing and photos.


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Q: How to use objectify locally I am running locally an application on Google App Engine Java using Objectify but it is writing the entities to the remote server Datastore.
How can I make Objectify use the local Datastore?


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P. Borsányi Balázs OFM (Szany, 1890. november 13. – Lima, 1964. szeptember 4.) ferences rendi áldozópap, házfőnök, hitszónok, lapszerkesztő, perui misszionárius, aki jelentős szerepet játszott az ottani magyar közösség egyben tartásában.

Életpályája
A Sopron megyei Szanyon született Borsányi István vármegyei tisztviselő és Pleskó Julianna gyermekeként. Felszentelését követően szolgált többek között Kaplonyban, Budapesten, Kecskeméten, Egerben, Szolnokon, Baján, Szegeden, Szigetváron és Hatvanban.

Az 1910-es években a Tolnamegyei Közlöny munkatársa volt: cikkeket, tárcákat írt a lapba. Később lelkes támogatója volt a Magyar Terciárius Szövetség megalapításának: havilapjukat, a Terciárius Közlönyt, majd a belőle később létrehozott Ferences Közlönyt több évfolyamon át szerkesztette. Ugyancsak szerkesztői feladatokat látott el a buda-országúti ferencrendi egyházközség hivatalos lapjánál, a Plébániánknál is.

Szívélyes, mély barátságot ápolt József Ferenc főherceggel, aki lelki atyjává fogadta őt.

A perui misszió
P. Borsányi 1950-ben érkezett Peruba az akkori érsek és prímás, Juan Guevara meghívására, aki Mindszenty József révén erősen szimpatizált a magyarsággal. Missziós tevékenységét nagy elszántsággal végezte: működésének csaknem tizenöt évében szinte az egész országot bejárta a magyar kolónia lelkigondozásának érdekében.

Hatásköre a magyarbarát kardinális halálát követően (1955) viszont jelentősen leszűkült: az utód, a nacionalistább érzelmű Juan Landázuri Ricketts érsek tudatosan megnehezítette a pasztorációs és szervezői munkát. Nemzeti plébániák felállításáról így nem lehetett szó, sőt még vallásos társulatok engedélyezéséről sem, ezért az önálló magyar egyházközség nem tudott kialakulni. Ezen hiányok áthidalására hozta létre a Mindszenty Mozgalmat, amely által korlátozottabb módon ugyan, de folytatni tudta a megkezdett munkát. A program égisze alatt szerkesztette a Lelkészi Értesítőt, valamint Magyarországot ismertető előadásokat, könyvterjesztést is szervezett. A Perui Magyar Kultúrkörben tiszteletbeli, a Limai Magyar Rádióbizottságban pedig rendes tagsága volt.

A feszített tempójú munka felőrölte az egészségét, 1964. szeptember 4-én elhunyt. Búcsúztatóján Limában nagy számban vettek részt, ahol beszédet mondott a perui magyar kultúrkör elnöke és az emigránsok nemzeti igazgatója is.

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Magyarok Peruban – adattár Szöllősi Antal összeállításában (Megtekintve: 2016. 02. 11.)

Magyar katolikus papok
Magyar ferences szerzetesek
Magyar kapisztrán szerzetesek
Hittérítők
Magyar újságírók
Emigráns magyarok
Peruiak
Szekszárdiak
Szigetváriak
1890-ben született személyek
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