We are happy to host David Henderson as part of his rotation at Washington University in St. Louis during the spring semester of 2019! David is interested in understanding biogeographic patterns using herbarium records. Many records are only "vaguely" georeferenced (i.e., to a county or similar political unit). Vague records can represent 40% or more of all georeferenced records, yet are routinely discarded before analysis. David is examining the impact of this practice on estimates of range size and habitat breadth.
"Prairie Zen" is the feeling one gets when gazing out across the endless grasslands of the Great Plains. But the endlessness belies sharp gradients in genetic and phenotypic diversity within Big Bluestem, the dominant grass of the region. Now out: Matt Galliart's paper on local adaptation in this foundational species!
If 'nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,' then why model species as if they appeared through spontaneous creation? Now out: our paper on estimating niches while accounting for intra- and interspecific evolution!
Just out: a two-volume set on conservation of North American crop wild relatives! Adam had the honor of contributing to a chapter on threat assessment. "This chapter introduces the roles of conservation status and threat assessments in informing conservation priorities for crop wild relatives in North America and provides an overview of the current results for US taxa." Some key results: Residential development is the most common threat to crop wild relatives in the US, followed by fire/fire suppression, then invasive species.
Welcome to our new postdoc, Stephen Murphy!
We are very excited to host Stephen, who is interested in combining aspects of biogeography and macroecology with his ongoing work in community ecology. Stephen graduated from Ohio State University, and is now supported by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services for developing and testing methods for using vaguely georeferenced and dated herbarium and natural history museum records. Welcome, Stephen!
Collectively, biodiversity databases represent over a billion specimens and sightings of species. Unfortunately, quite often 60-90% or more of that data does not meet the standards necessary for biogeographic analysis: coordinates are missing or blatantly wrong, dates are missing, and some identifications can be questionable. Typically this data is discarded before analysis, even though it represents hundreds, perhaps thousands of years of person-work in collection and curation. More importantly, many of the discarded records are probably critical to understanding historical distributions and environmental tolerances of species because they represent the only known collections from a given location or on the edge of the range. Many of these erstwhile "unusable" records are historical and yet very valuable. Indeed, using historical records indicative of pre-anthropogenic range contractions better estimates species' environmental tolerances.
We are excited to announce Version 1.01 of bayesLopod, a Bayesian modeling framework that can use vaguely-georeferenced specimen records and estimate the probability that a record that falls outside the body of the distribution was incorrectly identified. bayesLopod is an R package that relies on Stan, a Bayesian coding language (which you do not need to know!) that approximates posteriors very fast compared to BUGS or JAGS. The input is either a points file, raster, or a shapefile, with detections and some background estimate of sampling effort. The output is in the same data format and provides an estimate of the probability of occupancy and the probability that a sample unit (e.g., raster cell) contains an incorrectly-identified record. We hope this tool can help conservation biogeographers better address pressing questions about Earth's biodiversity.
Available on CRAN and GitHub.
The bayesLopod model juxtaposes records of a species (top left) with sampling intensity (bottom left) to estimate the range (main panel). The model can utilize badly georeferenced specimens (this species has only 90 accurately-referenced records but the model uses 5300 records).
Our long-awaited paper on predicting country-scale biodiversity from small plots is out! Of 19 "upscaling" techniques, the most successful method was able to predict total plant richness in the United Kingdom with <10% error, though few techniques were able to recreate the shape of the actual species-area relationship.


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Hey y'all. This year marks Vermont Law School's 34th annual Homebrew tournament on 10/26 in beautiful, foliage-filled Queechee, Vermont. The tournament fee is $200. As always, the fee includes a day of becostumed frisbee; mid-day skits and shenanigans; and as many burgers, veggie burgers, hotdogs, chips, and beers as you see fit to consume.
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Brian Tyree Henry to star in Bullet Train
Brian Tyree Henry has joined the cast of 'Bullet Train'.
The 38-year-old actor will feature in an ensemble that also includes Brad Pitt, Joey King and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the upcoming action thriller.
The project is being directed by David Leitch and is based on the Japanese novel 'Maria Beetle' by Kotaro Isaka.
Exact plot details are yet to be revealed, but the story follows five assassins who find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka. The group discovers that their missions are all linked and it becomes a question of who can make it off the train alive.
David – whose filmography includes 'Deadpool 2' and 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw'- is producing the flick alongside his wife Kelly McCormick for their 87North production company while Zak Olkewicz has penned the screenplay.
A release date for the film is yet to be revealed, although Sony Pictures are hoping that shooting will commence soon.
A blurb for the motion picture reads: "Five killers find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Who will make it to the last station?
"Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train headed from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard.
"Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?"

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Australian breakthroughs: the cervical cancer vaccine
Wednesday 27th April 2016 10:57 am
Dr Karl looks at how scientists have combated cervical cancer since the early 20th century.
Tiny terrors: electron micrograph of human papilloma viruses, magnified 36,000 times. IMAGE CREDIT: Kwangshin Kim/Getty Images
WAY BACK IN medical school I decided that my favourite organ was the uterus. That's because it does its amazing job with a very high success rate – and only very occasional assistance from us. The cervix forms the bottom of the uterus, and bulges into the top of the vagina. Unfortunately, it's susceptible to cervical cancer. Because of its location, it's possible to see and check the cervix for cancer.
The first diagnostic test for cervical cancer was the Pap smear. Back in the early 20th century, a certain Dr George Papanicolaou performed a Pap smear on his wife practically every day – for two decades. This was so they could learn what the normal cervical cells looked like during a typical menstrual cycle, from cycle to cycle, and, finally, from year to year. (George was honoured with his portrait on postage stamps and on the 10,000 drachma Greek banknote. His wife and intellectual collaborator, Andromache, was honoured only in 1969.)
Over the years, it was discovered that cervical cancer was caused by the human papilloma virus, or HPV. In 2010 there were 12,000 cases of cervical cancer in the USA, causing some 4000 deaths. Additionally, several hundred thousand women needed treatment for pre-cancerous lesions caused by HPV. Indeed, HPV causes more than 5 per cent of all cancers worldwide.
Knowing that an infectious disease caused this cancer meant we could make a vaccine. Unfortunately, there are more than 120 different types of HPV. Most HPV types cause benign warts, but 15–20 types can cause cancer. Two members of the family (HPV-16 and HPV-18) cause some 70 per cent of cervical cancers.
A team led by Australian scientist Professor Ian Frazer invented Gardasil, the first cervical cancer vaccine. It became available in 2006. Not only does it protect against HPV-16 and -18, it also offers protection against two other types of HPV (6 and 11) that cause genital warts.
Gardasil reduces pre-cancerous cervical lesions by 99 per cent. After many millions of doses distributed globally with more than 100 human clinical trials, Gardasil seems to be safe and provide protection for at least five years. In 2006 Ian was awarded Australian of the Year for his efforts.


Could The End Come on October 6 of 2015?
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs .
. . . and blood came out of the winepress . . . by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs .
The blood is normally what gives life by its transport of oxygen and nutrients to all the cells of the body, but here the blood has been pressed out from the bodies of all the unsaved people, which brings death to them all; there is no longer any life-giving blood in their bodies, so the life-giving blood has become death. This is all symbolic of the fact that ever since May 21, 2011 , the Holy Spirit, like the blood, has been removed from all the unsaved in the world; there is no longer any life-giving Holy Spirit to save them unto life. So, spiritually speaking, there is nothing but death and blood.
Now the blood which came out of the winepress has to do with God's spiritual judgment which began on May 21, 2011 , and we are told that it came out of the winepress by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. Is this giving a hint as to how long spiritual Judgment Day will be? It could be! Remember that judgment began with the house of God (the churches) on May 21, 1988 and lasted until May 21, 2011 . This was a period of exactly 8400 days (23 years). And then on May 21, 2011 the same spiritual judgment transitioned to the entire world, which length of is being symbolized by the 1600 furlongs in Revelation 14. Now if the 1600 furlongs represents 1600 days from May 21, 2011 until the end of spiritual judgment, then the total period of spiritual judgment from May 21, 1988 to the end of spiritual judgment would be 8400 days + 1600 days which would be 10,000 days. This is encouraging because the number 10,000 is a factor of 10, which can symbolize the completeness of whatever is in view (see Bible meaning of number 10 ). And, in this case, what is in view is the spiritual judgment of God; so what this would be saying in the symbolism is that God's spiritual judgment which began on May 21, 1988 with the churches will be complete 10,000 days later on October 6 of 2015 at the end of spiritual judgment, which will be the end of the world.
2Ch 7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month [of the Jewish Calendar, which is October 6, 2015 on our calendar - see Hebrew date converter here] he [Solomon who typifies Christ] sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people .
Could this be a reference to October 6, 2015 when we finally go to heaven, and are glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people?
Now this has just been presented as a possibility, and, at this time, should not be taken as a for sure thing. If it is what God is teaching, we would expect more supporting data to be forthcoming in the days to come. See verse 20 of Revelation 14 - part 3 for more supporting data.


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Q: Polymer routing: inner routes not reflecting I am very new to Polymer and have been reading up and trying out a few things to get some hands-on experience.
I decided to have Polymer as the views platform to a NodeJS (with ExpressJS as middleware) driven app that will serve out some media like videos, music and pictures. Incidentally, i am also new to NodeJS and Express but i have it working well enough to serve up to my Polymer views.
I am having some issues with having inner routes reflect. The address bar reflects the URL but my view does not change accordingly. I seem to be missing something basic.
I have the following flow:

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*App is served from a "nodepolymer" directory in my webserver (i.e. it is not a root app)
Example URL: mywebroot/nodepolymer

*The homepage will have some selected pictures/text of available media. Links to Videos/Music and Pictures will take the user to individual landing pages that will serve up a list of all available media of the selected type/category.
Example URL: mywebroot/nodepolymer/view-videos or mywebroot/nodepolymer/view-music etc etc

*Clicking on a particular media file will open into its own individual page
Example URL: mywebroot/nodepolymer/view-music/view-media (no media identifier in the URL but the 'view-media' will be common across categories)

*Might go even one further level further (i understand the nesting is deep already but i may have the need) and have a page/view that serves as a function-only view. Example URL: mywebroot/view-pictures/view-media/create-meme or mywebroot/view-videos/view-media/extract-audio etc etc.

The root route and the first-level works fine i.e the urls like mywebroot/view-videos/ or mywebroot/view-music/. The inner levels like mywebroot/view-videos/view-media does reflect in the address bar but the view does not switch. It shows the mywebroot/view-videos/ view.
The relevant files/code for getting the basic routing working are listed below. I am using the latest versions of Polymer and the route is handled by app-route (app-route#^0.9.2). Thanks in for any pointers.
My index.html file:
<!doctype html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, minimum-scale=1, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes">
<title>My App</title>
<meta name="description" content="My App description">
<link rel="icon" href="/nodepolymer/images/favicon.ico">
<link rel="manifest" href="/nodepolymer/manifest.json">

<link rel="import" href="/nodepolymer/src/my-app.html">

<my-app></my-app>

The "my-app" element:
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/polymer/polymer.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/app-layout/app-drawer/app-drawer.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/app-layout/app-drawer-layout/app-drawer-layout.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/app-layout/app-header/app-header.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/app-layout/app-header-layout/app-header-layout.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/app-layout/app-scroll-effects/app-scroll-effects.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/app-layout/app-toolbar/app-toolbar.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/app-route/app-location.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/app-route/app-route.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/iron-pages/iron-pages.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/iron-selector/iron-selector.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/paper-icon-button/paper-icon-button.html">
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/paper-tabs/paper-tabs.html">
<link rel="import" href="view-videos.html">
<link rel="import" href="view-music.html">
<link rel="import" href="view-home.html">
<link rel="import" href="my-icons.html">
<dom-module id="my-app">
  <template id="app">
    <app-location route="{{route}}"></app-location>
    <app-route route="{{route}}" pattern="/nodepolymer/:page" data="{{routeData}}" tail="{{tail}}"></app-route>
    <iron-pages selected="[[routeData.page]]" attr-for-selected="data-route" fallback-selection="404">

            Home {{routeData.page}}, [[routeData.page]]

            View Videos. | View Music.
            <view-home data-route="view-home" route=""></view-home>

        <view-videos data-route="view-videos" route="{{tail}}"></view-videos>
        <view-music data-route="view-music" route="{{tail}}"></view-music>

            Oops you hit a 404.
            Head back home.

    </iron-pages>
</template>

</dom-module>

The "view-video" element:
<link rel="import" href="view-media.html">
<dom-module id="view-videos">
  <template id="app">
    <app-location route="{{route}}"></app-location>
    <app-route route="{{route}}" pattern="/:vid" data="{{videoData}}" tail="{{subRoute}}"></app-route>
    <app-route route="{{subRoute}}" pattern="/:category" data="{{category}}" tail="{{subRoutes}}"></app-route>
    <app-route route="{{subRoutes}}" pattern="/:cat" data="{{cat}}" tail="{{subRout}}"></app-route>
    <iron-pages selected="[[videoData.vid]]" attr-for-selected="data-route" fallback-selection="404">

            View Videos {{videoData.vid}}, [[videoData.vid]] ; {{category.category}}, [[category.category]] ; {{cat.cat}}, [[cat.cat]]

            Home. | View Info for Media.

        <view-media data-route="view-media" route="{{subRoute}}"></view-media>

            404
            Head back home.

    </iron-pages>
</template>

</dom-module>

The "view-media" element:
<dom-module id="view-media">
<template id="appbb">
    <app-location route="{{rout}}"></app-location>
    <app-route route="{{rout}}" pattern="/:pg" data="{{rouData}}" tail="{{tal}}"></app-route>
    <iron-pages selected="[[rouData.pg]]" attr-for-selected="data-route" fallback-selection="404">

            View Media {{rouData.page}}, [[rouData.pg]]
            View Videos.

            View Music.

            Oops you hit a 404.
            Head back home.

    </iron-pages>
</template>

</dom-module>

A: I did manage to find a solution. I went through the documentation and the videos on routes all over again and found that i would need to restructure my app a bit. I did that and I am now able to get several nested levels going.  One immediate issue was that i seemed to have <app-location> defined all over. I am now defining it just once. But a clearer structure was the main requirement.
Some useful links(besides the official documentation and videos) for people beginning out on routes in Polymer:

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*This SO question (and answer, which has links to a video tutorial).

*This in-depth write-up with practical use-cases

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The Joint Mission - Double Star
As its name suggests, Double Star will involve two satellites - each designed, developed, launched and operated by the CNSA - flying in complementary orbits around the Earth.
Each cylindrical satellite has a mass of 280 kg and generates electrical power from solar cells which are exposed to sunlight as the spacecraft spins on its axis. Both will be launched by upgraded, three-stage Long March 2C rockets, but different launch sites will be used.
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Double Star Spacecraft (launch configuration) Characteristics
Mass: 280 kg
Design: Cylindrical, diameter 2.1 m, height 1.2 m
Alignment: Spin axis perpendicular to ecliptic
Power: 6.33 m2 solar array generating 280W (BOL)
Lifetime: Equatorial (TC-1) minimum 18 months
polar (TC-2) minimum 12 months.
First to go was the "equatorial" spacecraft (TC-1), which was launched from the southern launch centre at Xichang on 29 December. This spacecraft will investigate the Earth's huge magnetic tail (magnetotail), the region where electrically charged particles (mainly ions and electrons) are accelerated towards the planet's magnetic poles by a process known as reconnection. Its nominal lifetime is 18 months.
The "polar" satellite (TC-2), which will be launched from Taiyuan, south west of Beijing, will concentrate on physical processes taking place over the magnetic poles and the development of aurorae (Northern and Southern Lights). It will follow a 700 x 39,000 km polar orbit with a period of 12 hours. TC-2 is expected to operate for at least one year.
The positions and orbits of the Double Star and Cluster spacecraft have been carefully orchestrated so that they perform a synchronised dance around the planet. While the Cluster quartet follow elongated orbits that carry them about one third of the distance to the Moon, Double Star will fly much closer to Earth, following very different paths.
By studying the Earth's magnetosphere from different perspectives, the six spacecraft will enable scientists to obtain simultaneous data on the changing magnetic field and populations of electrified particles in different regions of near-Earth space.


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Isabella I or Isabella the Catholic, 1451–1504, Spanish queen of Castile and León (1474–1504), daughter of John II of Castile. In 1469 she married Ferdinand of Aragón (later King Ferdinand II of Aragón and Ferdinand V of Castile). At the death (1474) of her half-brother Henry IV of Castile, the succession to Castile was contested between Isabella and Juana la Beltraneja , who was supported by Alfonso V of Portugal. The civil war ended with Isabella's victory in 1479, the year in which Ferdinand became king of Aragón. Isabella and Ferdinand, known as the Catholic kings, ruled Castile and Aragón jointly. Although the union of their crowns was personal rather than institutional, their reign in effect marked the beginning of the unified Spanish kingdom. Isabella's principal aim was to assert royal authority over the lawless Castilian nobility. To this end she revived the medieval hermandad and confiscated the lands of many magnates. She also took over the administration of the holdings of the powerful religious military orders (by making Ferdinand their grand master) and established the Inquisition under royal control. She was a prime mover in the expulsion (1492) of the Jews from Spain, the conquest (1492) of Granada, and the forced conversion of the Moors. She showed foresight in her patronage of Christopher Columbus . The Catholic kings furthered learning and the arts and promoted great building activity. The style of the period is called isabelino after the queen; it combines Gothic, Mudejar, and Renaissance features. Isabella bequeathed Castile to her daughter Joanna , with Ferdinand as regent.
See biographies by I. L. Plunket (1915), W. T. Walsh (1987), and K. Downey (2014); W. H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (3 vol., 1838; abr. ed. 1962); J. H. Mariéjol, The Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella (1892, tr. 1961); R. B. Merriman, The Rise of the Spanish Empire, Vol. II (1918, repr. 1962); J. H. Elliott, Imperial Spain: 1469–1716 (1963).


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Self-driving cars are no longer just the work of science fiction. The last decade has shown huge advances in the pursuit of completely autonomous cars. Companies like Google, Tesla and now Uber have all tried to implement this new technology. However, these and other companies have slowed down research and production of self-driving vehicles after a self-driven Uber car struck and fatally injured a woman this past March.
Drive.ai, however, has no such plans to slow down. Andrew Ng, one of the board members at Drive.ai, feels that the right thing to do now is to push forward. "You don't succeed by staring in the rear-view mirror," Ng said, "We're focused on the path forward."
That said, Drive.ai is still taking a lot of precautions, at least for the time being. Their self-driving cars are still in the trial stage. The autonomous cars are currently only being tested in Fresno, California, an area chosen for its fair weather conditions and light pedestrian traffic. The autonomous cars are run along certain routes and make specific, scheduled stops. As of now, they are only operating during the day, and only if the weather conditions are ideal.
When the program officially begins, backup drivers will be present at each route. They will sit in the driver's seat but not operate the vehicle unless absolutely necessary. Drive.ai wants to phase out the use of these backup drivers by the end of the year.
It's a good start, but there's still far to go.
Texas car accident lawyers know that the overwhelming majority of car accidents are caused by human error. When we drive under the influence, send a quick text message, or fail to check a blind spot, we run the risk of an accident. By removing people, and therefore human error, from the driver's seat (as in the case of autonomous vehicles) we take a large step toward overall safety on our roads. However, this technology is still very flawed, as the recent incident in Phoenix had shown us.
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John Gerrard Flynn  (born 23 April 1937) is a former British Foreign Office diplomat.

He joined the Foreign Office in 1965 and was sent to Lusaka the following year.

He also served in the following positions:
 Assistant Director, Canning House (1970)
 Montevideo, Uruguay, Head of Chancery (1971)
 Luanda, Angola, Chargé d'affaires (1978)
 Brasilia, Brazil, Counsellor (political; 1979)
 Madrid, Spain, Counsellor (economic and commercial; 1982)
 Swaziland, High Commissioner (1987–90)
 Ambassador to Angola (1990–93)
 Ambassador to Venezuela (1993–97; concurrently served as non-resident ambassador to the Dominican Republic, 1993–95)
 Foreign Secretary's special representative to Sierra Leone, (1998–present)

Honours
Flynn was named Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1992.

External links
 Biodata from Debrett's

1937 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Venezuela
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Angola
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Dominican Republic
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Haiti
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Will Connecticut Legislature Avoid Aid-in-Dying Bill Another Year?
Meredith Betz
January 31, 2016; Hartford Courant
Nonprofit advocates are almost never happy with the odd and relatively unpredictable pacing of legislative change, although they grudgingly accept its inevitability. It feels great when you reach that watershed moment where bills move (after which, of course, you face the uphill battle of implementation) but the years- and sometimes decades-long campaigns to get laws changed can be grueling.
NPQ has been following many of the nonprofit-led campaigns across the country to pass death with dignity legislation, including California's effort last year. National nonprofit Compassion & Choices (C&C) has made some strides in the movement by pressuring state legislatures to pass aid-in-dying bills that would allow terminally ill patients to request the assistance of physicians in ending their lives. While C&C's national campaign has resulted in significant activity in twenty-seven states and D.C., Connecticut's campaign has been stalled in the General Assembly for three years despite heavy lobbying. According to the Hartford Courant, 2016 is unlikely to be the year legislators finally address the aid-in-dying bill.
Over the past two years, C&C has organized patients and families to offer heart-wrenching testimonials to the Connecticut state legislature, asking them to pass a bill to allow mentally competent, terminally ill adults to seek physician help in ending their lives. This year portends to follow previous years' delays. Anne Singer, spokesperson for C&C in Washington said, "We don't expect to see a bill this year." That's because the 2016 legislative session, which begins on February 3rd, is only three months long and is reserved for budgetary matters. Politicians in this election year are unlikely to want to grapple with this controversial issue.
Not only are activists in Connecticut up against a political tide opposing assisted suicide legislation, but they face an equally formidable nonprofit coalition on the other side, which includes the Catholic Church, disability rights activists, and the Connecticut State Medical Society. As the Family Institute of Connecticut, a nonprofit social welfare organization against assisted suicide, stated on its blog:
The Connecticut electorate knows they would be better served by expanded access to early palliative and hospice care, increased funding for home health care workers and mandatory training for pain management techniques for medical students. These would be ways to help hundreds and thousands of residents in ways that laws permitting assisted suicide cannot.
However, opposition and delay have not stopped the organization from building support. Singer said, "We are continuing with all the public outreach we have been doing, building up the grassroots…so that when a bill is next introduced, we are ready to roll." She goes on to say, "We're busier than ever internally, but it just may not look like it out there."
In 2013, Vermont became the first state to pass a death-with-dignity law through the legislative process. The C&C Vermont team continues working with Patient Choices Vermont, C&C's physician allies, and nurse leaders to expand implementation. C&C Vermont helped successfully defend access to death with dignity under Act 39 during the 2015 legislative session against efforts to repeal the law. However, efforts to enact such a law in New Jersey fell short late last month. To date, California, Washington, Oregon, and Vermont currently have right-to-die legislation in place.
At the center of this frustration over delays are the various patients in Connecticut who are unable to address their pain and suffering. Last April, after yet another failed attempt to pass legislation, Tim Appleton, C&C's Connecticut campaign director, said, "Each year that lawmakers fail to act prolongs the suffering for thousands of terminally ill Connecticut residents and the people who love them."
Last year, referring to the Connecticut General Assembly's dragging of its collective feet, the state's paper of record, the Courant, editorialized, "Letting substantive bills die on the committee floor without a vote happens far too often in the General Assembly. It's a cowardly way to do the public's business." Now, in 2016, it seems as though Connecticut will see another year go by without any movement, and that will be longer than some sick people will live.—G. Meredith Betz
G. Meredith Betz is an organizational consultant and nonprofit executive with leadership experience in development and organizational dynamics in healthcare, arts and culture and education nonprofits. As an executive coach and consultant to nonprofit organizations she trains nonprofit boards best practices in governance and in building a culture of philanthropy within their organizations.
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Castricum vasútállomás vasútállomás Hollandiában,  városában. Az állomást az Nederlandse Spoorwegen üzemelteti.

Vasútvonalak
Az állomást az alábbi vasútvonalak érintik:

Kapcsolódó állomások
A vasútállomáshoz az alábbi állomások vannak a legközelebb:

Kapcsolódó szócikkek
 Holland vasútállomások listája

Külső hivatkozások

Az NS hivatalos weboldala
Dutch Public Transport journey planner

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Дубовязовский хлебозавод () — предприятие пищевой промышленности в посёлке городского типа Дубовязовка Конотопского района Сумской области Украины.

История
Предприятие было построено и введено в эксплуатацию после окончания Великой Отечественной войны под наименованием Дубовязовский хлебозавод и обеспечивало хлебом и хлебобулочными изделиями не только посёлок, но и сёла района. Позднее хлебозавод был реконструирован и преобразован в Дубовязовский хлебный комбинат.

В целом, в советское время хлебокомбинат входил в число крупнейших предприятий посёлка.

После провозглашения независимости Украины комбинат перешёл в ведение государственного комитета пищевой промышленности Украины. В дальнейшем, государственное предприятие было преобразовано в коллективное предприятие.

16 октября 2003 года хозяйственный суд Сумской области признал Дубовязовский хлебокомбинат банкротом. После этого хлебокомбинат был реорганизован в частное предприятие "Дубовязовский хлебозавод" и возобновил работу.

Современное состояние
Дубовязовский хлебозавод является одним из крупнейших действующих предприятий Дубовязовки и Конотопского района, он входит в число основных производителей хлебобулочных изделий Сумской области.

Примечания

Предприятия Сумской области
Предприятия хлебобулочной промышленности СССР
Производители хлебобулочных изделий Украины


When former Oregon Ducks cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu suffered a collegiate career-ending ACL injury just weeks before the postseason, Ducks fans, coaches, and teammates were heartbroken. But there was little doubt that All-American defenseman would let an injury ruin his chances to play in the NFL.
Down but not out, Ekpre-Olomu continues to display the same resolve and determination that made him an unforgettable star throughout his storied career at Oregon. For weeks, Ekpre-Olomu has quietly and tirelessly worked on his post-surgery recovery at the Proactive Sports Performance in Orange County, California.
Ekpre-Olomu's intensive rehabilitation program has reignited his motivation to return as a viable NFL prospect. While closer to his family in California, Ekpre-Olomu prefers seclusion as he focuses on his recovery and maximizing benefits from his daily training regimen at Proactive.
It was never clear where Oregon's speedy and aggressive defender would end up in the 2015 NFL Draft, but some have him dropping to the third or fourth round due to his injury. This may not be as bad as it sounds, as Chip Kelly may pick up Ekpre-Olomu on the sly, satisfying the Eagles' need for an improved defensive secondary.
For NFL scouts, Ekpre-Olomu's size and injury is a definite issue, but his versatility and football acumen will undoubtedly help prospective NFL teams overlook these flaws.
I'm a versatile player. I was able to play nickel (back) throughout my career at Oregon. It really is going to help me in the long run because now the league really runs through the slot receiver. If you can have a guy that can cover the slot receiver, and try to shut him down, it just helps the team.
Ekpre-Olomu knows he will have to put in more work than other players to achieve his NFL dreams. The road to recovery requires putting one foot in front of the other. Step by step, the talented young cornerback appears to be moving in the right direction.


The purpose of the Healthcare Professionals Act (Wet BIG) is to promote and monitor quality in health care. The Act also protects patients from careless or incompetent treatment by a healthcare professional. The BIG register is one of the tools for implementing the Healthcare Professionals Act.
The BIG Act (in Dutch: 'Wet op de beroepen in de individuele gezondheidszorg'; Individual Healthcare Professions Act) is generally known by its Dutch acronym 'BIG'. It classifies healthcare professions in 3 groups, that refer to the sections 3, 34 and 36a of the Act. Only the section 3 professions are listed in the BIG register and fall under disciplinary rule.
are subject to disciplinary rules.
are not subject to disciplinary rules.
See also the page Other professions.
specialist nurse; does have a statutory register and is subject to disciplinary rules.
These are the legally recognized specialisms, such as specialist nurse and clinical psychologist.


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Dorian Gray is very, very good
I recently finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and I surprisingly enjoyed it. Why did I decide to read this book? Well, it was on sale for five bucks, and I've been wanting to read more classics, so I thought I might as well. I've also always been interested in the aesthetic of the Victorian era, so when I picked it up, I thought I might as well give it a chance.
The book was written by Oscar Wilde, a popular Irish author, poet, and playwright from the late 1800s. He wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray during the 1890s when the aestheticism movement was all the rage in London. He came from a prolific family of authors and was an educated, witty man. Although he mostly wrote plays and occasionally poetry, his most famous work is The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only novel he ever published.
The book starts out with the artist Basil Hallward painting a portrait of Dorian Gray, a young, handsome gentleman who has become Basil's muse. While he's being painted, Dorian is observed by Lord Henry Wotton who's enraptured by Dorian's youthful beauty. While sitting for his painting, Dorian listens to Lord Henry hedonistic philosophy on how the only meaningful things in life are beauty and pleasure, which fills Dorian with the fear of growing old and ugly. He makes a wish that his portrait should age rather than himself. Then, fearless of consequences, he launches into a life of debauchery. Every sin that he commits is then reflected in the portrait which is banished to the attic where it becomes a source of loathing in Dorian's life.
The rest of this contains major spoilers for this book so be warned.
I actually really, really liked this book, but it's also incredibly trippy. All the characters are dramatic to the extreme and talk in metaphors all the time; it felt more like I was reading poetry than dialogue. The characters are always casually spouting some philosophy about the interpretation of art or the inadequacies of marriage or some dramatic topic like that.
Wilde seemed to have an opinion about every aspect of life in Victorian England. Wilde throws a lot of shade at everyone: He critics the rich as being lazy and concerned with trivial things, the poor as vulgar, women as inferior, and basically calls all of English society a bunch of stupid hypocrites. I often found myself trying to tell whether what someone was saying was the opinion of that character or the opinion of the author. What I liked most about the philosophical talk was his ideas about art and youth; however, I found his philosophy on society interesting but much too cynical for my liking.
Wilde wrote this book to challenge the popular belief at the time that art has to say something meaningful to be considered good. He was a major proponent of the aestheticism movement which sought to emphasize the aesthetic value of art over any social or political value. Aestheticists disliked the morality of the middle class, as embodied by Lord Henry who often challenged people's ethical convictions.
I found it fascinating that despite how frequent Dorian's sinful lifestyle is brought up, we never see the immoral things that he does besides the scene where we see him kill Basil. Wilde alludes to the idea that he's promiscuous, and he introduces his friends to his vices, but other than that the specifics of what leads to the degradation of his soul isn't really mentioned.
The book also never explains how or why the painting represents what it does. He notices the painting changing after he breaks his lover's heart and just accepts it without really caring about how it's even possible that the portrait is transformed by every decision he makes. Despite all that, I liked how those aspects were left unanswered because it added a layer of mystery that made the story more interesting and made Dorian's character more fascinating.
Although I loved this book overall, there were a few sections where I found myself zoning out. He literally went on for six and a half pages on types of instruments Dorian collected and different fabrics and gems he's studied. It's all to make some point about his obsession with luxury and how time destroys all beautiful things or whatever, but it was an incredibly boring section to read.
It was also not a very easy book to read as some of it is contradictory at times. There was also a section entirely in French where I had no idea what he was saying and felt no desire to even try to look it up. Wilde uses several allusions to mythology and classic literature, some of which I understood and some of which went straight over my head. I found it difficult both to read and hard to understand contentwise.
Despite how challenging it felt at times, I liked the themes in this book, and the story was pretty interesting. It was ironic and almost funny at times, while being serious and thought-provoking at others. It is also worth noting that Wilde is an incredible writer; some sentences left me with chills from how beautiful they were. You could tell that Wilde was used to mostly writing poetry and plays because of how flowery and over the top the language felt. I felt that his unique flavor of writing elevated my enjoyment of the story.
If you aren't used to reading old-timey books or have no interest in reading them, then I wouldn't suggest that you read this book. It's not that long and it has a really good story, but if you have trouble with reading old classics then this may not be the book for you. But, if you want a challenge and you have the patience to get through long, convoluted talks about the state of the bourgeois, then you might like it. I realize that some of what I'm saying makes it sound like I don't like the book, but I truly did have a good time reading it and I'd like if other people read it too.
by Keeli Johnson, staff writer
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It's unusual for people to get the exact same amount of hearing loss in both ears simultaneously. Because one ear commonly has worse loss of hearing than the other, it sparks the question: Can I simply get one hearing aid for the ear that's worse.
One hearing aid, in many situations, will not be better than two. But there are certain instances, significantly less common instances, however, that a single hearing aid might be the right choice.
Whether you're aware of it or not, your ears efficiently work as a pair. Which means that there are certain advantages to wearing two hearing aids.
Being Able to Localize Properly: Your brain is always doing work, not just to interpret sounds but also to place them in order to determine where they're coming from. This is a lot easier when your brain is able to triangulate, and to do that, it needs solid inputs from both ears. When you're only able to hear well from one ear, it's a lot harder to figure out where a sound is coming from (Which may be useful, for instance, if you live near a busy street).
Modern Hearing Aids Work Together: Modern hearing aid technology is designed to work as a pair in the same way as your ears are. The artificial intelligence and advanced features work well because the two hearing aids communicate with one another and, similar to your brain, determine which sounds to focus on and amplify.
Improved Ear Health: An unused sense will atrophy just like an unused muscle will. Your hearing can start to go downhill if your ears don't receive regular sound input. Get the organs of your ears the input they need to maintain your hearing by wearing two hearing aids. Using two hearing aids can also help decrease tinnitus (if you have it) and improve your ability to discern sounds.
Focusing on Conversations: The whole point of using a hearing aid is to help your hearing. Other people talking is something you will definitely want to hear. Because your brain has more sound input when wearing hearing aids, it is better capable of filtering out background noise letting it decide what sounds to concentrate on because they are closer.
In most cases, using a pair of hearing aids is a more effective option. But that brings up the question: If someone is using a hearing aid in only one ear, why?
You still Hear Perfectly out of one ear: If just one of your ears needs a hearing aid, then you could be best served by using a hearing aid in just one ear but it's definitely something you should talk to your hearing professional about (having one better ear is not the same thing as having one perfect ear).
Financial concerns: Some people feel that they can spend less money if they can use just one hearing aid. If you really can't afford to buy two, one is better than not getting one at all. However, you should understand that over time untreated hearing loss has been verified to increase your overall healthcare costs. Your healthcare expenses have been demonstrated to rise by 26 percent after only two years of neglected hearing loss. So so that you can discover if using one hearing aid is the right choice for you, contact a hearing care specialist. We can also help you figure ways to make hearing aids more budget friendly.
Two hearing aids, however, are going to be better than one for your ears and hearing in most circumstances. The benefits of having strong hearing in both of your ears are simply too plentiful to dismiss. In the majority of situations, just like having two ears is better than having one, having two hearing aids is definitely better than having only one. Schedule an appointment with a hearing care professional to have your hearing tested.


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Q: Python convert timestamp to unix I know these questions have been asked before but I'm struggling to convert a timestamp string to a unix time and figuring out whether the datetime objects are naive or aware
For example, to convert the time "2021-05-19 12:51:47" to unix:
>>> from datetime import datetime as dt
>>> dt_obj = dt.strptime("2021-05-19 12:51:47", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
>>> dt_obj
datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 19, 12, 51, 47)

is dt_obj naive or aware and how would you determine this? The methods on dt_obj such as timetz, tzinfo, and tzname don't seem to indicate anything - does that mean that dt_obj is naive?
Then to get unix:
>>> dt_obj.timestamp()
1621421507.0

However when I check 1621421507.0 on say https://www.unixtimestamp.com then it tells me that gmt for the above is Wed May 19 2021 10:51:47 GMT+0000, ie 2 hours behind the original timestamp?

A: since Python's datetime treats naive datetime as local time by default, you need to set the time zone (tzinfo attribute):
from datetime import datetime, timezone

# assuming "2021-05-19 12:51:47" represents UTC:
dt_obj = datetime.fromisoformat("2021-05-19 12:51:47").replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)

Or, as @Wolf suggested, instead of setting the tzinfo attribute explicitly, you can also modify the input string by adding "+00:00" which is parsed to UTC;
dt_obj = datetime.fromisoformat("2021-05-19 12:51:47" + "+00:00")

In any case, the result
dt_obj.timestamp()
# 1621428707.0

now converts as expected on https://www.unixtimestamp.com/:

A: As long as you don't specify the timezone when calling strptime, you will produce naive datetime objects. You may pass time zone information via %z format specifier and +00:00 added to the textual date-time representation to get a timezone aware datetime object:
from datetime import datetime

dt_str = "2021-05-19 12:51:47"
print(dt_str)
dt_obj = datetime.strptime(dt_str+"+00:00", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z")
print(dt_obj)
print(dt_obj.timestamp())

The of above script is this:
2021-05-19 12:51:47
2021-05-19 12:51:47+00:00
1621428707.0

A: datetime.timestamp()

Naive datetime instances are assumed to represent local time and this method relies on the platform C mktime() function to perform the conversion.

So using this does automatically apply yours machine current timezone, following recipe is given to calculate timestamp from naive datetime without influence of timezone:
timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1)


Discussion in 'General Community Discussions' started by King Jared The III, Dec 8, 2018.
Disclaimer: Any ideas here DOES NOT guarantee it getting implemented.
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Next will be Egypt and after that it does not matter what you wish to see.
So you finally found out?
I don't want any cultural setllement in my city.
I am afraid I have to see Vikings and Egypts at least.
Anything but please can there be settlements where you have militaries instead of goods buildings and you must plunder cultural goods from a campaign map.
1) What is after Egypt? If you are SO great, tell us.
2) That was to solely entertain SOME people.
Does it matter? I don't need to know. Inno knows and nothing you will say or do will change the path they have chosen.
I see the place to add Emissaries has appeared in the Town Hall. Might not be to long before the Settlements appear on live also.
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We get them when they say we will get them, somewhere around half january next year. As usual they are probably testing it on a small amount of players.
Can't wait for this to finally see full Live release!
While it's hugely unlikely you'll get tons of the Lv5 Greater Runestones without just throwing truckloads of diamonds at the game, it *should* be readily doable to get 1 of them while grinding through for the fully leveled Yggdrasil Tree.
ideally give defending army atk+def%, fp's, goods & coin boost.
ideally giving 1-2fp's, +def%, coin & supply boost.


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Release Day + Review: RUIN by Samantha Towle
by Taylor 7:00 AM
Title: Ruin
Author: Samantha Towle
Release Date: March 6th, 2018
From Samantha Towle, the New York Times bestselling author of Wardrobe Malfunction and Breaking Hollywood, comes a dramatically powerful and passionate new contemporary romance.
And the new heavyweight champion of the world is...
Those are the words that Zeus Kincaid has been waiting to hear since he first put on a pair of boxing gloves. He just didn't think they would come with a tragedy that would change how he viewed the sport forever.
Cameron Reed was in her second year at Juilliard when her childhood sweetheart, Zeus Kincaid, walked away from her. A few months later, Cam realized that she would never fulfill her dream of dancing for the New York City Ballet.
Now working as a dancer in an upscale club in Manhattan, Cam is brought face-to-face with the man she once loved. And it's her turn to walk away from him.
After five years of missing Cam, Zeus isn't prepared to let her go again. But when he finds himself standing on her doorstep the next morning, things don't go quite as he expected…
"Because it's what I do when I fight. Lose myself. I forget everything and everyone. Forget my regrets, my mistakes. I forget her."
Towle is one of my favorite authors ever. She never fails when it comes to an amazing romance and a sexy male lead. And it's no surprise to anyone that fighting books are my favorite. I absolutely die for them. And when I saw that she was writing one I may have done a little dance, some squealing, and jumped at the chance to review.
"And, as time went on, Zeus said I was his peace in the chaos that was his life. I was his little dove. And I believed him. Until he decided he no longer needed his dove, and he stripped me of my wings and left me to die."
And let me tell you...this book is everything. I read this book in one sitting.
Ruin follows the story of Cameron and Zeus. These two were childhood sweethearts, leaning on each other for everything, and she followed him every step of the way toward his fighting goals. But when he calls to leave her...her world is rocked and she's left alone. Without the love of her life. Heartbroken.
"And his eyes...they were the first things I noticed about him. If I had to give them a color, I'd say azure. The bluest of blue. Eyes with the depths of the ocean. You stare into them, and they give away nothing but make you feel everything."
Zeus finally has everything he wants. He's the best of the best. Everyone wants to be him and everyone wants him. But he's never forgotten about his dove, his Cameron. And now he wants her back. Driven more than ever he finds her, where he least expects her and he isn't planning on letting her go.
"Because when you love someone - really love them - you fight for them. You fight hard and dirty, no matter the cost to yourself."
Cameron and Zeus are in for the fight of their lives but can they make it through all the rounds or will they throw in the towel and give up?
This two will leave you in a pool of feels on the floor begging for more.
SAMANTHA TOWLE is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She began her first novel in 2008 while on maternity leave. She completed the manuscript five months later and hasn't stopped writing since.
She is the author of contemporary romances, The Storm Series and The Revved Series, and stand-alones, Trouble, When I Was Yours, The Ending I Want, Unsuitable, Wardrobe Malfunction, Under Her, Breaking Hollywood and Sacking the Quarterback, which was written with James Patterson. She has also written paranormal romances, The Bringer and The Alexandra Jones Series. All of her books are penned to the tunes of The Killers, Kings of Leon, Adele, The Doors, Oasis, Fleetwood Mac, Lana Del Rey, and more of her favorite musicians.
A native of Hull and a graduate of Salford University, she lives with her husband, Craig, in East Yorkshire with their son and daughter.
Release Day + Review: RUIN by Samantha Towle Reviewed by Taylor on 7:00 AM Rating: 5


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MI5 outed Chinese spy over fears she was 'grooming' rising MPs
Barry Gardiner
Robert Mendick
14 January 2022, 2:13 pm ·6-min read
British politician (born 1957)
Christine Lee and Barry Gardiner - British Chinese Project/Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
MI5 shut down the operations of a Chinese spy because they believed she was targeting a new generation of future British leaders after concluding her main Westminster contact was "yesterday's man".
Christine Ching Kui Lee, outed by MI5 as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party, was feared to be "grooming" prospective parliamentary candidates in order to give Beijing leverage in British politics.
Her law firm, Christine Lee & Co, had given more than £425,000 to the private office of Barry Gardiner, the Labour MP and a member of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet.
However, MI5's "K" branch, in charge of hostile states' counter-intelligence, became concerned that Ms Lee, 59, had started seeking out a new generation of would-be MPs.
At one prominent Conservative Party fundraising event, organised by a parliamentary candidate, Ms Lee attended along with Boris Johnson, who at the time was foreign secretary.
A Whitehall source said: "Barry Gardiner was yesterday's man. The great worry was she was grooming future MPs. It looks like she was seeding people to bring them under her control."
Ms Lee's main campaign vehicle, the British Chinese Project (BCP), which she founded in 2006, featured a number of parliamentary candidates on its website ahead of the 2019 general election, including Alex Yip, a Conservative councillor in Birmingham and a magistrate who was also vice-chairman of the BCP.
Alex Yip, a Conservative councillor in Birmingham
Mr Yip stood in the last general election in Birmingham Edgbaston but lost to Labour's Preet Kaur Gill. In 2015, he was identified as an organiser of Chinese crowds cheering on Xi Jinping, China's president, during a state visit that had attracted counter-demonstrations.
In 2018, Mr Yip organised a Conservative Party fundraising event in Birmingham, attended by Ms Lee at which Mr Johnson and Andy Street, the mayor of the West Midlands, were also present. The event raised £45,000 for upcoming local elections in Birmingham.
Another candidate featured by BCP was Sarah Mei Li Owen, who was elected Labour MP for Luton North, becoming the first female MP of Chinese descent in the process.
There is no suggestion that any of the candidates were aware of MI5's concerns over Ms Lee's conduct nor that they had done anything wrong.
On Friday night, Downing Street said it was "deeply concerning that an individual who is knowingly engaged in the interference activities of the Chinese Communist Party targeted parliamentarians". The Prime Minister's spokesman said that the Government will bring forward stronger anti-espionage legislation.
Greg Hands, the former Tory trade minister, on Twitter raised specific concerns about the information passed to Mr Gardiner when he was Labour's shadow trade secretary:
This is extremely concerning.
I was Trade Minister. Barry Gardiner was our Labour Shadow, and we used to brief him confidentially on complex and sensitive international trade negotiations which certainly would have been of interest to the Chinese Govt. https://t.co/OIdP90zyo2
— Greg Hands (@GregHands) January 14, 2022
Damian Hinds, the Security Minister, indicated that the Government would be conducting a review, but officials later slapped down that suggestion. He told LBC Radio that the security services had been aware of Ms Lee's activities, including channelling funds to British politicians in an attempt to secure influence, for "some time".
The Telegraph understands that MI5, along with counter-terrorism police, would have preferred to arrest and bring charges against Ms Lee, but were prevented from doing so by an outdated Official Secrets Act.
Instead, MI5 circulated a Security Service Interference Alert sent to MPs and peers, in which she was alleged to have "acted covertly" in co-ordination with the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
Ms Lee, a naturalised British citizen, has so far declined to comment. Nobody answered the door at the £1 million family home in the West Midlands.
Mr Gardiner, 64, the Labour MP for Brent North, said he had been "liaising with our security services for a number of years" over the donations given by Ms Lee. He denied any wrongdoing and said he had received assurances from MI5 that the funding from Ms Lee had come from legitimate sources.
Mr Gardiner said he had not discussed policy with Ms Lee "in great detail" and insisted on Friday that he was "confident" he "did not put my colleagues at risk" with his behaviour.
Mr Gardiner also told LBC Radio that Ms Lee had been seeking his guidance on who were the rising stars in Westminster. "She would ask me things like who was up and who was down in politics… but we never discussed any policy in detail," said Mr Gardiner.
"What she may have sought is to be in a position of friendship with somebody who might at some stage have influence."
Mr Gardiner had been a Labour minister in Sir Tony Blair's government. He was later promoted to Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet and stood to take up a position of prominence in power should Mr Corbyn have won either of two elections that he lost.
In a statement, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in London denied MI5's claims, inisting China always adhered to the principle of non-interference in other country's internal affairs.
"We have no need and never seek to 'buy influence' in any foreign parliament. We firmly oppose the trick of smearing and intimidation against the Chinese community in the UK," it said.
Barry Gardiner 'introduced Tory MP to spy'
A former Conservative MP employed as a consultant by Ms Lee's law firm said on Friday that he was introduced to her by Mr Gardiner.
Neil Carmichael, who represented Stroud between 2010 and 2017, lists himself as the chief education consultant at Christine Lee & Co on his website. He is also the chief executive of UK-China Culture and Education Co-operation Promotion Centre Ltd, which is registered at the address of Ms Lee's law firm, and classes Ms Lee as vice chairman.
Mr Carmichael said that his direct work with the law firm was limited, adding: "In the House of Commons, I initially met her [Ms Lee] via Barry Gardiner, who introduced me to give a talk to some Chinese students. The allegations have come as a complete surprise, my work has been around education and marketing, not politics."
Sam Armstrong, the director of communications at the Henry Jackson Society, said: "While there is little evidence that it was successful, Christine Lee's activities look a lot like a bad version of The Manchurian Candidate. The political parties involved must now probe whether these individuals -- very well unwittingly -- have been exploited by a communist state."
Beijing reports its first locally transmitted Omicron variant case
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Just over a year ago, millions of energized young people, women, voters of color and independents joined forces to send Joe Biden to the White House
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On Tuesday's Conan, Conan O'Brien showed a clip of Donald Trump calling Barack Obama to discuss his recent refugee ban. The audio from the fake conversation reveals Trump asking the former president's advice on a number of issues.
He first asks Obama why people are upset with his chief strategist, Steve Bannon. Obama points out that Trump keeps giving Bannon "all these shady jobs" in his administration. "Hey, I pledged to create jobs — I just forgot to mention they'd all be for one guy," suggests Trump.
Trump then mentions his travel ban and asks Obama if he had any trouble returning from the Virgin Islands. He also gets excited about all of his executive orders, but not because he agrees with any of them, or even reads them. "Bannon said that for every 10 papers I sign, I get to watch another cartoon." Watch the clip for more of the exchange.
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Q: Python 3 with Flask runtime error: "AttributeError: module 'hmac' has no attribute 'digest'" on Linux but not Windows Error message "AttributeError: module 'hmac' has no attribute 'digest'" is being thrown on my python3 flask+connexion server, when used on my Ubuntu VPS, but not my Windows 10 PC. Both are using Python3, and I've reimaged the VPS from CentOS, in case I'd made some config error.
I'm trying to use the digest method of Python3's inbuilt hmac module (note that Python2 hmac doesn't have digest), and have upgraded python and pip.
I'm starting to wonder if flask is overriding hmac with it's own implementation, but I'm not sure how this would be affected by OS. Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

A: Moving my comment as answer, so that the question is properly answered. As it become clear OP uses different python3 versions.

module-level hmac.digest() is new in 3.7. So it's not available
  in 3.5. In 3.5 you can the digest method of HMAC object. I would
  guess on Windows you have the latest 3.7 installed.


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Tussey v. ABB, Inc., No. 12-2056 (8th Cir. Mar. 19, 2014)
When a retirement plan manages employees' money, it also has a responsibility to keep an eye on the expenses that can quietly erode away earnings. The Eighth Circuit affirms an ERISA breach of fiduciary duty judgment against two retirement plans for allowing its recordkeeper to overcharge the fund for services, and orders the return of $13.4 million. The court nonetheless vacates for further proceedings a claim for inappropriate investment options, and reverses (over a dissent) a judgment that the plan recordkeeper converted short-term funds (a "float") to non-plan purposes.
Tussey v. ABB, Inc., No. 12-2056 (8th Cir. Mar. 19, 2014): The employer and plan sponsor ABB set up a 401(k) plan which eventually drew over 14,000 participants and held $1.4 billion in assets. In 1995, the plan hired Fidelity as recordkeeper.
In 2005, ABB and Fidelity "negotiated a comprehensive agreement covering both Fidelity's services to the Plan and the other corporate services Fidelity provided to ABB." ABB entered the deal against the advice of an outside consulting agency that ABB was "overpaying for Plan recordkeeping services … caution[ing] that the revenue sharing Fidelity received under the Plan might have been subsidizing the other corporate services Fidelity provided to ABB."
In this lawsuit, a class of ABB 401(k) participants made three claims of breach of fiduciary duty. The first, against ABB's plan fiduciaries and Employee Benefits Committee (EBC), was "agreeing to pay to Fidelity an amount that exceeded market costs for Plan services in order to subsidize the corporate services provided to ABB by Fidelity," such as managing its health and welfare plans. Related to this claim was the fiduciaries' failure to leverage the size of the assets to negotiate reduced fees. The second, against the ABB fiduciaries, was for selecting allegedly overpriced share classes and removing a balanced fund option (the Vanguard Wellington Fund) that it then "mapped" (or, using as a default fund for participants in Wellington) to the poorer-performing Fidelity Freedom Funds . Third, the participants claimed that Fidelity used money that sat overnight on deposit before it was distributed (the "float") to earn interest, which it then used to cover fees instead of paying directly into the plan.
After a 16-day bench trial, the district court granted judgment against the defendants on these three claims, awarding to the plan $13.4 million for failing to control recordkeeping costs and $21.8 million for losses allegedly suffered as a result of mapping from the Wellington Fund to the Freedom Funds. The district court also awarded $1.7 million against Fidelity for the lost float income. The defendants were held jointly and severally liable for more than $13.4 million in attorney fees and costs.
The Eighth Circuit affirms on the recordkeeping expenses, vacates and remands the mapping claim, and outright dismisses the "float" claim.
On the recordkeeping claim, the fiduciaries' main contention was that the decisions about fund expenses was discretionary, and that the district court erred by failing to credit any discretion to the Plan administrator. Here, the panel recognizes that the district court may have erred in its analysis: the circuit holds (in an issue of first impression) that even fiduciary acts outside of the benefit context could only be reviewed for abuse of discretion. The district court did not rigorously apply the more indulgent standard of abuse-of-discretion in reviewing the ABB fiduciaries' decisions. Yet the panel finds this error harmless, and affirms the judgment, on the ground that "by failing diligently to investigate Fidelity and monitor Plan recordkeeping costs," it fell so far below any standard of fiduciary management that the participants would have prevailed in any case.
"The district court found, as a matter of fact, that the ABB fiduciaries failed to (1) calculate the amount the Plan was paying Fidelity for recordkeeping through revenue sharing, (2) determine whether Fidelity's pricing was competitive, (3) adequately leverage the Plan's size to reduce fees, and (4) 'make a good faith effort to prevent the subsidization of administration costs of ABB corporate services' with Plan assets, even after ABB's own outside consultant notified ABB the Plan was overpaying for recordkeeping and might be subsidizing ABB's other corporate services."
The panel also affirms the $13.4 million award against the fiduciaries, over a challenge to the reliability and admissibility of the participants' expert witness.
Yet the panel strips away the participants' other wins on appeal. On the investment-strategy "mapping" claim, the panel holds that the district court paid too little deference to the fiduciaries' judgment. "The Plan administrator deserves discretion to the extent its ex ante investment choices were reasonable given what it knew at the time." The panel remands with direction to reexamine the record under the proper standard of judicial review; it also holds that the $21.8 million award was, in any event, speculative in its assumptions about what plan participants would have done if the Wellington Fund had not been removed from the plan's investment platform. On the "float" claim, the panel majority orders entry of judgment to the fiduciaries outright, holding (over a dissent) that the float was not a plan asset: "the Plan investment options held the property rights in the depository float and were entitled to the float income. Fidelity did not breach any fiduciary duties with respect to the depository account." Finally, the panel vacates and remands for reconsideration an attorney fee award of $12,947,747.68.


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Warkworth – St Marys, Oxfordshire
Aug 4, 2016 | Crosses, Oxforshire
J. W. SCOTT
Location: St. Mary's church
Town/village: Warkworth
County: Oxfordshire
Postcode: OX17 2AG
3 metal tags.
LT/COL. J. W. SCOTT. D.S.O
8/SOMERSET. L. I
23-4-17.
Text type: GRU TAGS
Cross dimensions
Shaft Height: 1460 mm
Cross beam width: 680 mm
Width of wood: 75mm
Thickness or depth: 25mm
Mounting to wall: not mounted
Detailing: None
Evidence of use in field: cracking at the bottom. You can clearly see evidence of earth insertion.
Surface insertion depth: around 470 mm
Finish: unfinished wood.
Condition: not in good condition. Half of the circle plate is missing. There is clear plastic thread binding the cross together.
Biographical information:
Lieutenant Colonel John Willoughby Scott, D.S.O, 3 times mentioned in despatches. Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars commanding 8th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry, died 23.04.1917 near Arras. He was the son of Sir John Scott, K.C.M.G, D.C.L, and Lady Scott, husband of Madeleine E Scott of Tudor Cottage, Overthorpe. He was originally buried at St. Laurent Blangy Community cemetery but was reinterred after the armistice and now lies in Cabaret Rouge cemetery, Souchez. The 8th SLI's war diaries between August 1916 and March 1917 are often written and signed by Scott. Although Scott's battlefield cross is in Warkworth church, he is on the roll of honour in the church at Hinton in the Hedges, and there is also a plaque to him in another local church at Evenley, placed there by his wife who was the daughter of the local vicar.
Survey and photographs by Suzanne Make
Date of survey: 30/07/2016
A H BLACKLOCK
4 metal GRU tags.
G R U
1-C-20
2/ LT A H BLACKLOCK
2/ ARGYLL & S HIGHS
Width of wood: 65 mm
Thickness or depth: 20 mm
Evidence of use in field: evidence of insertion into earth
Finish: unpolished wood
Condition: fair condition
Algernon Haden Blacklock was born on 4th June 1894. He was the son of J. Herbert Blacklock and Julia Blacklock of Green Hill, Banbury. Born into a wealthy family he was educated at Eton. The 1901 census shows he lived at Overthorpe House with his family and a nurse, cook, several housemaids, grooms and a footman. His father was a magistrate.
2nd Lieutenant Algernon Haden Blacklock was killed at Le Maisnil on 21st October 1914, aged 20. He is buried at Le Trou Aid Post, Fleurbaix having been reinterred there after the armistice. He was identified by a "letter on his body."
Interestingly, the hill from the village of Overthorpe to Banbury is called Blacklock's Hill. The pub at the bottom of this ( now a tesco ) used to be called the Blacklock Arms.


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Drawn by turquoise waters and sun-drenched white sand beaches, hoards of tourists annually flock to Bahia Honda State Park, a small 524-acre island in the Lower Florida Keys. Nowadays, though, many visitors have shed the snorkel gear. Armed instead with cameras or binoculars, they trek less traveled paths in hopes of getting a glimpse of the park's rarest inhabitant-the endangered Miami Blue butterfly.
A Miami Blue pauses briefly for flower nectar.
Florida Museum photo by Jeff Gage
The excitement surrounding this tiny insect with the prominent, homegrown name has attracted nature lovers from across the nation. It also has rallied politicians, governmental agencies, conservation organizations and biologists throughout Florida to unite for the common goal of saving a species, and in the process, focused new attention on the importance of invertebrate conservation.
The Miami Blue, Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri, once ranged from the South Florida mainland south through the Keys to the Dry Tortugas. A widely encountered inhabitant of tropical hardwood hammocks, beachside scrub and tropical pinelands, it flew in close proximity to its weedy, somewhat rambling larval host plants, balloon vine and nickerbean.
Over the last few decades, though, the butterfly's population numbers began to spiral downward. Reliable haunts on the South Florida mainland rapidly succumbed to expanding urbanization. In recent years, this alarming trend of decline continued in the Florida Keys. Following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, known populations were isolated and scarce. Even the historical stronghold locations of Key Largo and Big Pine Key failed to register verified sightings. Fueled by such dim prospects, fear grew that the butterfly may have sadly gone extinct. A reprieve came on Nov. 19, 1999, when a small relict population was discovered within the boundaries of Bahia Honda State Park.
Prompted by this finding, the North American Butterfly Association filed petitions with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to emergency- list the butterfly as endangered. Owing to the Miami Blue's recent decline and extremely tenuous current situation, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission soon added the butterfly to Florida's endangered species list, granting it additional protection under the law. While unable to follow suit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service funded a one-year status survey and ecological study.
I and several other researchers confirmed that the single remaining population was actually a metapopulation consisting of more than a dozen separate, but loosely connected breeding colonies, and estimated that the park supported less than seventy-five individuals at any one time. This startlingly low number catapulted the Miami Blue into an unenviable category as one of the nation's most critically imperiled invertebrates.
Miami Blue butterflies cluster on a flower.
Photo by Jaret C. Daniels
As it was clear that an aggressive conservation effort was needed, state and federal agencies jointly agreed to establish a captive propagation program for the butterfly. Starting in Feb. 2003, McGuire Center researchers collected 100 eggs from the Bahia Honda State Park metapopulation to initiate a captive colony in University of Florida breeding laboratories. Intended ultimately to generate the numbers needed for future field reintroductions, the captive colony helped address many needs, from conserving a representative sample of the remaining genetic diversity available to immediately alleviating the potential threat of species extinction resulting from a natural or manmade disaster striking Bahia Honda.
Although a considerable challenge, the breeding program has been far more successful than initially imagined. Now more than a year old and with some 13 generations complete, the captive colony has produced more than 9,000 individuals. The next step, scheduled to begin in May 2004, will involve large-scale wild reintroductions into the federally protected lands of Biscayne and Everglades National parks in hopes of establishing new breeding populations. Taken together, the collaborative program represents one of the largest conservation efforts ever undertaken for a butterfly. And, if ultimately successful, it will direct the Miami Blue down the road to recovery.
Jaret C. Daniels, Ph.D., is an insect ecologist at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Environmental Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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Q: How would I create the missing row values in pyhton for two inbetween dates? The idea is that I have a Data Frame that looks something like this:
In [1]: pd.DataFrame([['1/1/2020', '0:00', 807, 1600], ['3/1/2020', '1:00', 4000, 8000],], columns=['Date', 'Hour', 'X', 'Y'])

I have simplified the code becuase I am only interested in the things that are inbetween.

Date is in (dd/mm/yyyy) format.
Is there some simple way to create the values that are missing that is 2/1/2020 and in X and Y add Nan so it would end up looking like this:

I have to do this with a much bigger that data frame but for simple use I used a small portion of the Data frame. The only method I have thought of is creating the rows and adding nan to the rows, but I want to believe there is a much easier way. This is the Link to the data https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NrDBkqfMO2rA631aA4FSmM2vJYDZCFbF/view?usp=sharing

A: Update using @ALollz suggestion:
df = pd.DataFrame([['1/1/2020', '0:00', 807, 1600], ['3/1/2020', '1:00', 4000, 8000],['3/1/2020', '2:00', 5000, 9000], ['3/1/2020', '5:00', 5000, 9000]], columns=['Date', 'Hour', 'X', 'Y'])
# add column with datetime from Date and Hour
df['dateHour'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date'] + ' ' + df['Hour'])
df = df.set_index('dateHour').asfreq('H')
# split date from time and convert back to string
df['Date'] = ([d.date().strftime('%m/%d/%Y') for d in df3['dateHour']])
df['Hour'] = [d.time().strftime("%H:%M") for d in df3['dateHour']]

Don't know if there is a more elegant way, but you can do it like this:
df = pd.DataFrame([['1/1/2020', '0:00', 807, 1600], ['3/1/2020', '1:00', 4000, 8000],['3/1/2020', '2:00', 5000, 9000], ['3/1/2020', '5:00', 5000, 9000]], columns=['Date', 'Hour', 'X', 'Y'])
# add datetime column
df['dateHour'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date'] + ' ' + df['Hour'])
# create new dataframe with all the possible rows
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'dateHour':pd.date_range(df.dateHour.min(), df.dateHour.max(), freq='H')})
# combine the dataframes
df3 = df2.merge(df[['dateHour', 'X', 'Y']], how='left', on='dateHour')
# split date from time and convert back to string
df3['Date'] = ([d.date().strftime('%m/%d/%Y') for d in df3['dateHour']])
df3['Hour'] = [d.time().strftime("%H:%M") for d in df3['dateHour']]
# select and sort columns
df4=df3[['Date', 'Hour', 'X', 'Y']]
df4

A: Firstly preprocess your excel file:
import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_excel('Trial.xlsx',engine='openpyxl')
df=df.drop(columns=['Unnamed: 0'])
df['Date']=pd.to_datetime(df['Date'],yearfirst=True,format='%y-%d-%m').dt.strftime('%y-%d-%m')
df['Date']=pd.to_datetime(df['Date'],format='%y-%m-%d')

Now create a date range by using date_range() method:
data=pd.date_range('2020-01-02','2020-01-03',freq='H').astype(str)

Then create a new dataframe using that date range:
datadf=data.str.split(' ',expand=True).to_frame().set_index([0,1]).reset_index().rename(columns={0:'Date',1:'Hour'})

Now make use of concat() method and concat both dataframes:
result=pd.concat((df,datadf),ignore_index=True)

Now Convert your 'Date' column in datetime by using to_datetime() method:
result['Date']=pd.to_datetime(result['Date'])

Finally sort your 'Date' column by using sort_values() method:
result=result.sort_values('Date',ignore_index=True)

Now if you print result you will get your desired output


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Auto Afterlife is an "Existential Horror Car Dating Sim" set in a world where humans turn into cars and bang (in both senses of the word).
Easily one of the weirdest games ever to grace Free Game Planet, Auto Afterlife is a surreal little adventure that follows a starving artist who lives in a world where everyone has turned into a car. After wandering around his home (which contains the memories of a naked ex-girlfriend and a coffee mug with semen stains) you decide it's time for yourself to change into a car and your bizarre adventure begins…
Taking around 20 minutes to play through, Auto Afterlife blends open-world driving, with car combat, existential ponderings and dating. The actual gameplay is fairly basic and the visuals are fairly crude, but it's a fascinating experience that's full of surreal twists and surprises. Buckle up, this game is one hell of a weird ride!
Controls: WASD – Movement, Mouse – Look, E – Interaction,
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Sundials have been used to tell time for thousands of years. People have been able to tell you what time of day it is pretty accurately with just a stick (known as a style), a shadow, and some markings on the ground.
Nowadays, not many people know how to read sundials and many prefer digital watches to tell them the exact time. So, Sebastian Morales from Instructables came up with a fun way to combine this ancient technology with a modern twist that makes it easy and fun for everyone to tell the time.
His tutorial on Instructables walks through how he got started by planning out how and where to put the sundial when it was completed. He next moved on to creating a model on Autodesk Inventor, and finished it all of by 3D printing the finished sundial.
This special sundial works by casting a unique shadow on the ground during each hour. Instead of just having a shadow lining up with a corresponding mark on the ground, this sundial has numbers cut into it that allow the light to pass through and show you what the hour is (so it would say "11" from, roughly 11am to 11:59am).
Morales even planned ahead for Daylight Savings time during the designing process and made the base and stick separate pieces so it could be moved when it needed to be.
He provided the files on his Instructable so you can print one off and try it for yourself!


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Q: q table with gym (using box observation space) I'm trying to run a q-learning algorithm with this observation space:
self.observation_space = spaces.Box(low=np.array([0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]), high=np.array([1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]), dtype=np.flo

when im trying to access the q table, like this:
q_value = q_table[state][action]

I'm getting this error:
IndexError: arrays used as indices must be of integer (or boolean) type

So my question is: how am i supposed to access the q table when my observation space is definded using space.box?
If thats needed, this is how the q_table is defined (its a code i took from the internet, trying to adjust it to my project):
num_box = tuple((env.observation_space.high + np.ones(env.observation_space.shape)).astype(int))
q_table = np.zeros(num_box + (env.action_space.n,))

A: You're not saying of what type q_table is. I will assume it's an numpy array defined as in OpenAI Gym and Python set up for Q-learning:
action_space_size = env.action_space.n
state_space_size = env.observation_space.n

q_table = np.zeros((state_space_size, action_space_size))

You're getting this error because you're not indexing the elements of the numpy array with an integer. Again, I haven't seen your code, but I believe you are trying to get a specific row of the Q table using a tuple.
Regardless, you should not use a Box observation space when using Q-learning, but rather a Discrete one. When using Q-learning, you need to know the number of states in advance, to initialize the Q-table.
Box spaces are for real values, and the number of dimensions of the space does not define the number of states. For example, if you create a Box space like this:
spaces.Box(low=0, high=1, shape=(2, 2), dtype=np.float16)

you won't have 4 states, but potentially infinite states. The parameters low=0 and high=1 indicate the minimum and maximum value of the four variables in the Box space, but there can be may several values between 0 and 1 (0.1, 0.2, etc.). For this reason, you cannot estimate the number of states beforehand.
If you use np.uint8 (or any integer type) as dtype, you could potentially count the number of states, but it would still be a stretch to use Box spaces instead of Discrete spaces. Moreover, even using integer values the following will not work:
num_box = tuple((env.observation_space.high + np.ones(env.observation_space.shape)).astype(int))
q_table = np.zeros(num_box + (env.action_space.n,))


New Caller ID on TiVo feature conveniently displays caller information on television screens of customers.
Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) June 17, 2014 – – RCN, an industry-leading provider of high-speed Internet, digital TV and phone services, is now making available to customers at no additional charge its Caller ID on TiVo service. Launching this week, this feature will be available to new and existing customers and displays the name of the caller, and the number, on the TV screen during an incoming call.
This easy-to-read on-screen display supports multiple phone lines per subscriber and is displayed when customers are watching either live TV or a pre-recorded program. The feature also enables a second call to be displayed on the TV when the customer is already on the phone. It is another way in which RCN is continuing to fulfill its mission of improving the customer experience, while doing so at no additional cost. This service is available to customers who have RCN Digital Phone, along with RCN TiVo service.
Existing customers can activate Caller ID on TiVo simply by going to TiVo Central, followed by Settings, Displays, then Caller ID. Once at the Caller ID display, customers will be prompted to check "Yes" to turn the Caller ID service on, or "No" to turn it off. The feature will automatically be set to "Yes" for new customers and begin working immediately.
RCN's Caller ID on TiVo service is available as early as tomorrow to all RCN customers. The service is only enabled during RCN live TV or pre-recorded program viewing, and it is available with specific TiVo devices. For tips and other resources on how to get the most out of RCN's TiVo Whole Home experience, customers can tune to Channel 997 on their TV or visit rcn.com/tivo to view video tutorials.
Founded in 1997, TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) developed the first commercially available digital video recorder (DVR). TiVo offers the TiVo service and TiVo DVRs directly to consumers online at http://www.TiVo.com and through third-party retailers. TiVo also distributes its technology and services through solutions tailored for cable, satellite and broadcasting companies. Since its founding, TiVo has evolved into the ultimate single solution media center by combining its patented DVR technologies and universal cable box capabilities with the ability to aggregate, search and deliver millions of pieces of broadband, cable and broadcast content directly to the television. An economical, one-stop-shop for in-home entertainment, TiVo's intuitive functionality and ease of use puts viewers in control by enabling them to effortlessly navigate the best digital entertainment content available through one box, with one remote and one user interface, delivering the most dynamic user experience on the market today. TiVo also continues to weave itself into the fabric of the media industry by providing interactive advertising solutions and audience research and measurement ratings services to the television industry. More information at:http://www.TiVo.com.