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Vick On Brother's Tweets: 'You'll Never See That Again'
By Tim McManus·	 11/7/2012, 1:25 p.m.
Moments after enduring a pounding at the hands of the Saints, Michael Vick was informed of his brother's Twitter tirade by the media. He was taken off-guard, he did not look happy and he assured everyone that it would be handled.
"We definitely had a serious heart-to-heart conversation," said Vick Wednesday. "You'll never see that again. Trust me."
Marcus Vick (perhaps at the urging of his older brother) has since apologized for his actions.
I love my brother and it's hard as hell to watch him taking all those shots, but I'm sorry if I offended anyone and definitely didn't mean to put Mike in a tough spot. I'm not only watching as a fan, I'm watching as his blood.
Marcus went off during Monday night's game as he watched his brother absorb seven sacks and 12 quarterback hits. The statement that caught the most attention was, "Please trade my brother. We requesting out of Philly!"
Vick made it known Wednesday that his brother does not speak for him.
"That's not me. If it don't come from me then that's it," said Vick. "I'm in the middle of a full-fledged football game and I'm out there battling. I don't know what's being said, I don't know what's going on. But I definitely know I got that corrected."


Ever dreamed of living on your own private tropical island? Rishi Sowa clearly had, as he took the rather novel approach of building his own floating paradise – Spiral Island.
A keen environmentalist, Sowa wanted to make a statement about low-impact construction and recycling, so he built a floating platform from a quarter of a million old plastic bottles (and other waste materials). The first iteration was built in a lagoon on Mexico's Mayan Riviera, and was named for the pattern in which the bottles were connected. Unfortunately it was badly damaged during a 2005 hurricane, and washed ashore.
Spiral Island II was constructed a couple of years later in a lagoon on Isla Mujeres near Cancun. Street View gives us a glimpse from a nearby road.
The 20m-wide platform was created from about 100,000 bottles enclosed in netting. A variety of reclaimed materials – such as scrap wood – were used to build the small house that Sowa lives in. Mangrove plants provide shade and help with the structure's stability.
While the island may look a little ramshackle, it has a number of home comforts such as an outdoor dining area, a composting toilet, a couple of ponds, and solar panels to provide power. The surface of the platform is covered with sand which – coupled with the palm trees – provides that authentic tropical island feel.
Ecoble.com has an article giving more details about the construction process, while this blog post and a YouTube video give an idea of what life is like on Spiral Island – the "Island floating on plastic bottles".


72 days. A 1994 AAS winner, this old-fashioned 'beefsteak' type tomato produces an outstanding crop of extra large, full-flavoured fruits that average 285-340g (10-12oz) each, but have been known to weigh up to one pound! The vigorous plants are large and indeterminate, yet very manageable when staked or caged. Big Beef yields its sizable tomatoes high up on the vine for clean fruit and easy harvest. Bred for quality, quantity and disease resistance.


Sterling slumped 1% against the USD last night to 1.2840 area - the lowest level ever seen in over three decades. The UK Prime Minister's announcement to trigger Article 50 in March next year has started the fast-approaching count down for officially starting the Brexit negotiations. The pledge by the PM Theresa May means the UK will leave the EU by spring 2019.With a clearer time table, she has brought on more certainties and plans for the two-year negotiation process to leave the EU. However, market is carefully assessing the impact of that, especially with regards to the country's currency. The immediate support level for GBP/USD is at around 1.2800 area.
GBP/EUR has also reached a three-year low at 1.146, breaking down key support level of 1.1500, despite UK surpassing their manufacturing PMI readings when it came out last night.
Today, the market is waiting for interest rate decisions from Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI). RBA's new governor Philip Lowe is expected to hold interest rates unchanged at 1.50% this time. AUD/USD is traded at 0.7685 area this morning.
USD/JPY has soared to above 102.0 level this morning. The weakening in sterling and yen led to a stronger US dollar, which will then send pressure towards commodities, gold and silver prices. Gold and silver has been consolidating over the last week and with this new pressure, we look to see if this trend will continue. The immediate support levels for gold and silver are at $1,300 and $18.50 area.
As the market distills the good news on the OPEC output freeze, crude oil prices may face some pressure in the coming days and US dollar continues to strengthen. For WTI Nov contract, the immediate resistance level is at $48.62 and $49.25 respectively. Traders will also closely watch the weekly DoE crude inventory data on Wednesday to access the supply-demand mechanism.


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Crystal R. Axelrod
Crystal R. Axelrod concentrates her practice in complex commercial litigation, including disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, business competition, consumer protection, securities violations, patent infringement, and medical sales practices. Crystal also advises in bankruptcy litigation. Crystal has experience representing clients in actions brought by State Attorneys General, and in internal investigations for compliance with anticorruption, bribery, and securities laws. She represents clients in medical device, pharmaceutical, financial services, energy, and retail industries in federal and state court as well as in alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
Crystal handles all phases of litigation, from inception through complex discovery, trial, and the appeals process. As part of her active pro bono practice, Crystal represented a limited liability company and its owner as first chair in a state court trial involving breach of contract and veil piercing allegations, which culminated in dismissal of claims in her clients' favor.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Crystal was a law clerk to Judge Craig A. Gargotta of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas. She also was a summer law clerk to Judge Jay A. Garcia-Gregory of the US District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
Crystal interned while in law school at the US Attorney's Office in Boston, the SEC in Miami, and the legal department of a Fortune 100 insurance company. Prior to law school, Crystal worked as a licensed banking and investment specialist for a global financial institution.
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Defending a multinational pharmaceutical company against an action brought by the State Attorney General alleging off-label promotion and illegal kickbacks in violation of the False Claims Act.
Conducting an internal investigation for a US medical device manufacturer to ensure compliance with anticorruption and bribery laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA").
Designing policies for a Fortune 50 retail provider to ensure compliance with the FCPA, anti-money laundering, anticorruption, and privacy laws.
Defending a multinational banking and consumer lending institution against fraudulent conveyance and preference claims asserted by the Chapter 11 Trustee in an adversary proceeding in federal bankruptcy court, resulting in a favorable settlement for the client.
Representing a leading national technology provider against allegations of breach of contract, fraud, and negligence in federal district court, resulting in dismissal of claims at summary judgment.
Representing one of the world's largest banks in response to a federal regulatory investigation regarding alleged violations of consumer financial protection laws.
Boston University School of Law, 2011, J.D.
Drexel University, 2006, B.A., Magna Cum Laude
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas
Clerkship to Judge Craig Gargotta of the US Bankruptcy Court (2012)
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Member, Law Firm of the Year, Securities Regulation, US News/Best Lawyers – Best Law Firms (2019)
Co-chair, Young Lawyers Subcommittee, ABA Litigation Mass Torts Committee
Member. American Bar Association
Member, Texas Young Lawyers Association
Member, Houston Young Lawyers Association
Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
Member, Houston Young Bankruptcy Lawyers Association
Summer 2012 - Practice Tips from the Judge's Law Clerk, ABA Mass Torts Litigation
Spring 2012 - Using Technology to Your Advantage in the Courtroom, ABA Mass Torts Litigation
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The Nature of the Fibril
K. Bailey
1950 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
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70 A. V. Hill and others changes, that there exists a real protein metabolism which must have its reper cussion on many physical properties of the muscle, not only on its elastic and optical properties, but also on impedance changes, pH changes, heat production, double refraction, etc. Before we can correlate physical and chemical events with success, we should know not only the properties of the muscle proteins in solution, the investigation of which has given so many interesting facts by the more » ... sting facts by the hands of Weber, Edsall, Needham, Bailey, Szent-Gyorgyi and others, but chiefly the changes of the linkages of the proteins in the muscle machine itself during its activity, and there is very hard work to do in this field. One of the chief problems in muscle biochemistry at the present time is to elucidate the way in which the component proteins of the muscle fibril are assembled to give a contractile element. The myosin-actin-ATP system is so unusual th at it is generally thought to contain the essential components for contraction, but it is true to say that in vitro studies of this system are merely suggestiv generally led to speculations on the mechanism of contraction which are either dubious or not amenable to experimental proof. The first difficulty is th at in the molecular sense the nature of the interaction of myosin and actin is not clear. Under the conditions of salt concentration at which actin and myosin separately are dispersed in solution, the effect of ATP on actomyosin is to produce a large decrease in viscosity. This has been interpreted as a dissolution of the links which bind actin and myosin together, liberating the component molecules from an anastomosed network of fibres. More specifically, it seems due to the competition of ATP for certain groupings which not only fink up with actin, but are responsible for the adenosine-triphosphatase activity of myosin. In salt-poor medium, where myosin by itself is no longer soluble, the effect of ATP is to produce an intense synaeresis, which superficially is suggestive of 'contraction'. There is no reason to suppose that the action of ATP in this case is at all different from th at in a salt-rich medium; the breaking of the actin-myosin links is followed, however, by a further interaction which is reminiscent of the synaeresis of a fibrin clot. Jordan & Oster (1948) have concluded from light-scattering studies that, even at high ionic strength, ATP causes not a dissociation of actin and myosin, but an increased coiling of the actomyosin particle. There is no doubt, however, th at the mechanical properties of actomyosin fibres in the presence of ATP are more in keeping with the original explanation th at linkages responsible for anastomosis are broken down. W hat bearing the synaeresis phenomenon has upon the mechanism of contraction is not very clear, since the changes involved are inter-and not intramolecular. I t is possible th at the interaction reflects the means by which these water-holding proteins are tightly packed in the fibril. These comments serve to show th at we are not yet in a position to reconstruct the muscle fibril. Other difficulties arise in considering changes which occur in the
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K. Bailey. "The Nature of the Fibril." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences 137.886 (1950) 70-71


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Tatarstan is an autonomous republic within Russia, where the largest ethnic group are the Tatars. Their traditional music is a mixture of Turkic, Mongolic and Finnic elements, reportedly bridging Mongolian and Hungarian music. Nonetheless, the most distinguishing feature of Tatar music is the pentatonic scale, which aligns it with the Chinese and Vietnamese musical traditions. Instrumental dance music, secular song and sacred music are all a part of Tatar folk music.  Instrumentation includes the kubyz (jaw harp), surnay, quray (flute) and garmon-talianka.

In the mid-20th century, a number of Tatar composers became renowned, including Cäwdät Fäyzi, Salix Säydäş, Mansur Mozaffarov and Näcip Cihanov. Many of the works of the Russian-Tatar composer Sofia Gubaidulina have been inspired by Tatar music.

The largest center of Tatar national music is the Jalil Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Musa Cälil. The first Tatar opera, Saniä, was staged in 1925. It was composed by Soltan Gabashi in collaboration with Vasili Vinogradov. Farit Yarullin was the creator of the first Tatar ballet, Şüräle. Modern Tatar music includes practically all existing basic musical genres. Almaz Monasypov is one of the first Soviet Tatar composers re-embodied in modern music the ancient layers of the national tradition like baits (), munajats () and book singing ().

Modern, non-traditional music includes pop, rock, hip-hop music (for example, İttifaQ), etc. One of the most remarkable artists, who obtained her own niche in Tatar music is the renowned world music singer and composer Zulya Kamalova, who currently resides in Australia. One of the most outstanding examples of contemporary Tatar music is the rock opera The Wanderer in Bulgar – an amalgamation of Tatar Folk Music, the Tatar Opera tradition and western rock music arrangements with Russian rock prints. Tatar pop singers Alsou (who sings in English, Russian and Tatar) and Zemfira (who sings mostly in Russian) are currently among the most popular musical performers in Russia. The National Tatarstan Orchestra is the major symphony orchestra in Tatarstan.

References

External links
Online tatar radio (tatar music only)

Culture of Tatarstan
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the last proud remnant of the ussr
Minsk – Brest – Stalin Line – Belovezhskaya
This tour is offered on a regular monthly basis. Let us know your desired departure month by clicking on the learn-more button below: we will match your preferences with the next relevant scheduled group departure. If you are still unsure about your desired departure date, then simply tell us a period or a season of the year and we will provide you a range of scheduled group departures: just pick up yours!
Our scheduled group departures don't suit your plans? If you are travelling with more than 4 friends, you can set your own departure date: we will arrange a bespoke tour just for you for the same price per person advertised below. If you are travelling solo or with less than four companions, we will then organise a slightly more expensive tailored tour according to your time schedule and specific geographical preferences.
The following itinerary refers to our most popular route in Belarus. This secretive and fascinating land, the very last bastion of the Soviet Union, greets its rare guests with a cornucopia of natural, historical and cultural wonders. In case you are interested in a particularly remote area, secretive ethnicity, unusual activity and/or off-the-beaten-path attraction within Belarus or if you are just looking for an hit-and-run visit to Minsk and its surroundings, we can easily meet your needs with a unique tour individually designed according to your preferences. Thanks to our deep knowledge of the territory and longstanding collaboration with independent local guides, we are able to offer you a wide range of tailored routes and bespoke itineraries across and beyond the wide steppes and dark woods of melancholic Belarus. We also regularly cater for biologists, conservationists, ethnologists, historians and documentarists alike interested in conducting field research in the region. Get in touch for more info on our private tours to Belarus!
DAY 1 - Soviet Minsk
Our tour guide will meet you in the arrival hall of Minsk International Airport (exact meeting time will be communicated well in advance per email in accordance to your flight schedule).
Introductory briefing about the region, the route and the set of rules to observe while travelling in Belarus.
Minsk Soviet tour: Lenin Statue, Victory Square, National Library, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk Gates, Island of Tears and plenty of Soviet mosaics, communist monuments and Stalinist architectural gems.
In the afternoon we'll take a ride on the Minsk Metro, a masterpiece of Soviet art and engineering, and pay a mandatory visit to the impressive Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
Dinner and overnight in Minsk.
DAY 2 - Stalin Line and Mound of Glory
We'll spend the day out of town to visit two of the most important WWII Memorials in the entire former USSR.
First we'll head to the Mound of Glory, a memorial complex honouring the Soviet heroes who perished in the fight against Nazi Germany: the imposing arch-cum-obelisk monument sits on a hilltop from which we'll be able to admire stunning views over the surrounding areas.
We'll then tour traditional Belarusian villages north of Minsk and enjoy a proper country lunch in a typical Soviet-style canteen.
In the afternoon we'll drive west to the historical and cultural complex celebrating the so called Stalin Line, a long series of fortifications built along the Western border of the Soviet Union.
DAY 3 - Mir and Grodno
In the morning we'll leave Minsk once for all and head west to Grodno, a lovely Belarusian border town and one of the most significant places in the country, both culturally and historically.
Besides the routine pauses for food, toilet and random landscape pictures, we'll break the 4-hour journey to Grodno to visit the small town of Mir, an important centre of Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe.
After lunch, if time permits, we'll also pay a visit to Lida, yet another pleasant Belarusian town with plenty of Yiddish and Soviet history to tell.
In the afternoon we'll finally reach Grodno, where we'll enjoy a short Soviet-focussed walking tour around the city centre.
Dinner and overnight in Grodno.
DAY 4 - Belovezhskaya National Park
We'll start our day early and head south crossing the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, a vast national park adjacent to the border with Poland: this is the the last primeval forest fragment of the Europe's woodlands, that once stretched from Spain to Russia, and it is home to the largest population of the European bison.
We'll enjoy a guided tour with the park rangers and get the chance to spot rare wildlife in a pristine environment.
In the late afternoon we'll then head towards Brest, a glorious Soviet city and one of the main battle theatre of WWII.
Dinner and overnight in Brest.
DAY 5 - Soviet Brest
We'll spend the whole morning touring Brest and its many Soviet-era sights.
After lunch we'll made our pilgrimage to the Hero Fortress, a large WWII Memorial Complex with a vast array of Soviet monumentalism on display.
Lunch, dinner and overnight in Brest.
DAY 6 - Flight back home or transfer to further destinations
After enjoying a last Belarusian-style breakfast together we'll take care of your transfer to the airport/train station of choice.
For those flying out: transfer to any of the following transportation hubs: Minsk International Airport (Belarus), Warsaw International Airport (Poland), Lviv International Airport (Ukraine).
For those wishing to take the train/bus to reach further destinations: transfer to the local train/bus station.
Do you wish to spend more time in Belarus and explore further offbeat Soviet remnants? Get in touch for more info on our private tours around Belarus!
4 to 9 participants: 970 € per person
The price includes: double/twin room accommodation (breakfast included; single supplement: 18 euro/night), private transport in the region (car or minivan), entrance fees to the attractions listed in the itinerary, guiding and translation service.
The route of this tour has been carefully designed after several research trips in the region. It is, however, always possible to slightly modify the itinerary according to the needs and the suggestions of the participants. Our motto is flexibility.
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SYMPHONY JUMPS ON MARY JANE BAND WAGON
In Breaking News, Fashion, Lifestyle
Seeing the green generated by Mary Jane, the Colorado Symphony is jumping on the bandwagon for cannabis. Like many hypocrites or converts, depending on your frame of reference, the profit to be made off the world's most useful plant has got the Colorado Symphony playing a different tune these daze. We get this report from MSNBC.
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra said yesterday it will play a series of "cannabis-friendly" fundraising concerts sponsored by the state's burgeoning pot industry.
The state's only full-time professional orchestra hopes the unusual shows dubbed "Classically Cannabis: The High Note Series" will boost its audience as it struggles with dwindling attendance and shrinking budgets.
"The cannabis industry obviously opens the door even further to a younger, more diverse audience," symphony CEO Jerome Kern told The Associated Press.
In return for sponsorship, marijuana-related companies get "the legitimacy of being associated with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra." he said.
The event, however, is strictly BYOC — bring your own cannabis, according to an events listing on the symphony website that says pot will not be sold like soda or alcohol.
Richard Yost of Ideal 420 Soil, which sells soil and other cultivation products to marijuana growers, sees sponsoring the concerts is a chance to link his company to one of the best orchestras in the nation and to make the point that pot consumers can be clean-cut and sophisticated.
"You can be intelligent and savvy and enjoy cannabis as well," said Yost, adding that he plays Mozart while he works on business plans.
Judith Inman, a member of a volunteer guild that has organized balls and other more traditional classical music fundraisers in Denver, has reservations about the marijuana mash-up.
"I know that the symphony needs new sponsors, and they are trying to go after a younger group," she said. "I just don't think this is the way to go about it."
Kern said he has heard complaints from at least one musician and from symphony supporters about the upcoming concerts.
Jane West, whose Edible Events Co. is organizing the series, said concertgoers will be able to smoke pot in a separate area at the gallery. Guests must be at least 21 and purchase $75 tickets in advance. Sponsors include Ideal 420, which is based in New Hampshire, and Colorado-based marijuana retailers.
"We try to create upscale events where people can come and enjoy some cannabis just like they would a glass of wine," West said.
For the final show at Red Rocks, which is owned by the city and county of Denver, organizers intend to follow rules dictated by police, West said.
Smoking pot at the famed venue is officially banned, though that was flouted long before recreational marijuana became legal.
(Story source — The Associated Press)
Memoirs of Mr. Pete & Mary Jane Green


"THE INTERPLAY OF INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS IN THE FORMATION OF" by Heiko Bergmann, Christian Hundt et al.
Recent research has demonstrated the relevance of start-ups by students and recent graduates: they greatly outnumber faculty spin-offs and are not of low quality (Astebro, Bazzazian, & Braguinsky, 2012). Also, there is growing evidence that the regional environment (Drakopoulou Dodd & Hynes, 2011; Feldman, 2001; Sternberg, 2007) and the entrepreneurial climate at universities (Bercovitz & Feldman; 2008) is relevant for shaping entrepreneurial attitudes and behavior of academics. However, research on student entrepreneurs has two main limitations: First, it usually only looks at the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions rather than activities. Second, it typically focuses on individual-level determinants and ignores contextual influences on the university or regional level. We know of only two studies that investigate student entrepreneurship from a multi-level perspective (Dohse & Walter, 2012; Walter, Parboteeah, & Walter, 2013). However, both studies focus on entrepreneurial intentions rather than activities.
Bergmann, Heiko; Hundt, Christian; and Sternberg, Rolf (2013) "THE INTERPLAY OF INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS IN THE FORMATION OF UNIVERSITY START-UPS A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF NASCENT ENTREPRENEURS (INTERACTIVE PAPER)," Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 33 : Iss. 14 , Article 14.


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Video of ferrets playing in plastic eggs goes viral
By FOX 13 News staff
TAMPA (FOX 13) - It's only 15 seconds of totally adorable, but a video of more than a dozen ferrets playing in a pool of plastic eggs is making its way across the internet and people love them.
Elyse Meyer of Tampa said she posted the video on her Instagram page and a French website picked it up and it went viral.
So far, millions of people have watched the video. Meyer says she rescues ferrets. In the video, at least a dozen ferrets are frolicking in the pool of plastic eggs, but all 17 ferrets were playing in the pool that day, Meyer said.
"I have pools of beans, rice, wiffle balls, ping pong balls, and then when I saw the eggs were on sale after Easter I decided to buy all of them and fill another kiddie pool...obviously it was a big hit," Meyer said.
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Police issue warning of thieves targeting distracted cellphone users
Disney trying to stop Baby Yoda knockoffs sold on Etsy: report
WWII veteran, 104, asks for Valentine's Day cards: 'I'll save every one'


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Episode of Martha Speaks
Martha Treads The Boards/Martha's Pack
Martha Treads the Boards - Helen's mom and dad are starring in the community theater production, and Helen's the stage manager. Even Martha gets a part... as a bull. When the big night finally comes, Mom and Dad get trapped in their dressing room. The play must go on, but now the bull is the bullfighter and the bullfighter is... her sister? What will they do for an encore? Martha's Pack - When Helen leaves Martha off her family tree, Martha decides to make her own pack. However, the call of the wild becomes the call of the can opener for her pack mates, and soon Martha is left alone at Doghead Lake, hunting for dinner. But can she really eat that poor wounded duck?


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Q: Can encode categorical data in train set but not in the test set I need to encode the categorical values on my test set, somehow it throws TypeError: argument must be a string or number. I do not know why this happens because i could do it to my train set. I mean they're train/test feature set so they're exactly the same, what differentiates them is just the number of the rows of course. I do not know how to fix this, i have tried to use different LabelEncoder for each, but it still does not fix the error. Please someone help me.
For your information the categorical data is on the column 8th in both train and test features set
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor
import scipy.stats as ss

avo_sales = pd.read_csv('avocados.csv')

avo_sales.rename(columns = {'4046':'small PLU sold',
                            '4225':'large PLU sold',
                            '4770':'xlarge PLU sold'},
                 inplace= True)

avo_sales.columns = avo_sales.columns.str.replace(' ','')

x = np.array(avo_sales.drop(['TotalBags','Unnamed:0','year','region','Date'],1))
y = np.array(avo_sales.TotalBags)

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(x, y, test_size=0.2)

impC = SimpleImputer(strategy='most_frequent')
X_train[:,8] = impC.fit_transform(X_train[:,8].reshape(-1,1)).ravel()

imp = SimpleImputer(strategy='median')
X_train[:,1:8] = imp.fit_transform(X_train[:,1:8])

le = LabelEncoder()
X_train[:,8] = le.fit_transform(X_train[:,8])
X_test[:,8] = le.fit_transform(X_test[:,8])

A: On the test set you should never use fit_transform, but only transform. And it seems that you're not applying the preprocessing you did on the training data to your test data, that is also a mistake.
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When you use fit_transform, for example SimpleImputer(strategy='most_frequent') on your training data, you're basically calculating the most frequent value, to input it in the rows containing nan. This is fine. If you do fit_transform on your test set what you're doing is cheating, because you're assuming to have lot of instances from which calculate the most frequent value (whereas instead you might be predicting only one instance). The right thing to do is to input the missing data using the most frequent value you found on the training set. This is done by using only transform. The same logic apply to every other fit_transform / transform you can find in sklearn, for example when applying PCA or a CountVectorizer.

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Helio Castroneves talks Legends Trophy on ESPN SportsCenter
Three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves talks to ESPN's SportsCenter about The Race All-Star Series powered by ROKiT Phones Legends Trophy at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
About Torque Esports
Torque is focused on accelerating new, live, immersive esports and interactive gaming experiences for consumers through its partnerships with traditional and emerging media companies and providing online interactive technology platforms and monetization services. To date, Torque's combined companies have clients comprising more than 1,200 television, print and radio brands including CNN, ESPN, Discovery / Eurosport, Fox, Vice, Newsweek and Cumulus; dozens of gaming and technology companies including EA, Activision, Blizzard, Take2Interactive, Microsoft, Google, Twitch and Ubisoft; and have connectivity into hundreds of millions of homes around the world through their content, distribution and technology.
Torque Esports brands and businesses include UMG, Stream Hatchet, Eden Games, IDEAS + CARS, The-Race.com, WTF1, and Allinsports - for more information visit: www.enginegaming.com; Frankly and its wholly-owned subsidiary Frankly Media LLC, which provides a complete suite of online content and monetization solutions - for more information visit: www.franklymedia.com; and WinView, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company, a pioneer in mobile gaming and interactive second screen viewing and the owner of a portfolio of foundational patents in the field of interactive media - for more information visit: www.winview.tv.
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Nach uns die Sintflut ist ein deutscher Fernsehfilm aus dem Jahr 1996. Der Thriller entstand unter der Regie von Sigi Rothemund.

Handlung
Günther Rittberg verbringt wie jedes Jahr die Sommerferien mit seiner Familie an der Nordsee. Doch diesmal ist die Stimmung in der Familie sehr angespannt, denn die älteste Tochter Annette hätte ihren Urlaub lieber mit ihrem Freund verbracht. Zwischen Vater und Tochter kommt es zu einem heftigen Streit, der damit endet, dass Annette von zu Hause ausreißt.

Zur gleichen Zeit macht eine Gruppe von Umweltschützern eine beunruhigende Entdeckung: durch den ungewöhnlich warmen Sommer droht in der Arktis ein riesiger Gletscher abzubrechen, was eine gigantische Flutwelle zur Folge hätte. Diese würde dann u. a. auch die deutsche Küste treffen. Weil die meisten Experten aber der Meinung sind, dass ein solches Szenario erst in einigen Jahrzehnten eintreten könnte, nimmt die deutsche Regierung die Warnungen der Umweltschützer nicht weiter ernst. Auch Familie Rittberg glaubt nicht an eine Gefahr. Erst, als der Gletscher tatsächlich abbricht und eine riesige Flutwelle Richtung Nordsee rollt, reagiert die Regierung und leitet die sofortige Evakuierung der gesamten Küstenregion ein. Doch die Evakuierung kommt zu spät: die Flutwelle trifft die Nordseeküste, verwüstet die Hafenstädte und fordert zahllose Opfer. Von Familie Rittberg, die durch das bei der Evakuierung entstandene Chaos voneinander getrennt wurde, überleben nur Vater Günther und der jüngste Sohn Benjamin.

Hintergrund
Der Film wurde von Arte, der Filmpool Film- und Fernsehproduktion und dem WDR produziert und größtenteils an der Küste bei St. Peter-Ording und auf Sylt gedreht. Szenen der großen Flutwelle entstanden am Computer. Die Erstausstrahlung im Deutschen Fernsehen erfolgte am 30. Oktober 1996.

Kritiken
Die Kritiker der Fernsehzeitschrift TV Spielfilm vergaben die bestmögliche Wertung (Daumen nach oben) und meinten: "Simple Tricks mindern nicht die Beklemmung. Mit Jungstar Robert Stadlober." Fazit: "Wenn die Nordsee zur Mordsee wird."

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Jennifer Lopez wasn't in a rush when it came to getting engaged to fiance Alex Rodriguez. She's dishing on how long it took her to realize that he was 'the one' she wanted to marry.
Jennifer Lopez has found her perfect match with fiance Alex Rodriguez, but she took her time in deciding if he was marriage material.. After all, she's been down the aisle three times in the past and wasn't looking for husband number four. The 49-year-old superstar hit up SiriusXM studios on April 3 and when asked how she knew wanted to marry him, JLo revealed right off the bat "Get married again? I'm very weary after everything that I've been through," with a sigh "Probably like a year in, cause I was just sussing it out until then. I don't know, 'maybe yes maybe no. I love him, I like him.' Everything just seemed too perfect too soon," she explained.
"So it made me a little like 'hey wait, what's happening here? Let me just wait a second' and so when it happened (A-Rod's proposal) I think it was the right time. We both knew," Jennifer continued. Alex, 43, finally popped the question on March 9 on a beach at sunset in Baker's Bay in the Bahamas. He got down on one knee and presented her with a massive 15 carat $5 million diamond engagement ring. At that point the couple had been together almost exactly two years and their love had just grown stronger by the day.
Jennifer gushed about why Alex is so perfect for her, as they're both so driven professionally and are supportive of each other's hard work. "It's great to have a best friend and a partner that you can really build with, and I just feel like with Alex and I that's what it's like." the Hustlers star explained. "We're both very similar. Having someone who understands you from the inside as far as 'I really want to work hard, I really love what I do and I want to work hard at it and understand that. It doesn't mean I don't love you.' We love each other and we're doing this together…together we make each other better." She even opened the interview saying she 'Couldn't be happier" with her life these days.
Alex just proved how much he cares about JLo's career, as the day before she started her latest film, he took to Instagram on March 24 with a photo showing her wrapped in his arms and wrote "This beautiful woman starts shooting her movie tomorrow, Hustlers. I won't play spoiler. but I can't wait until you all see how she transforms herself into a completely different character!! She's been working so hard lately. I'm glad we were able to enjoy a quick little break before she dives into this new project." Now that's a supportive partner!


Welcome to the third piece in the Conflict Management series. We've addressed the methods and benefits of Prevention and Resolution, and this month we're talking about managing conflict using Redirection.
Typically, when someone comes at you in a conflict situation, your brain immediately goes into fight, flight or freeze mode: You may attack back, blame somebody else to deflect the conflict, or completely avoid the person and the situation. While these are all very natural and understandable reactions, none of them are helpful unless there is a life-threatening issue.
Some conflicts simply need to be distracted from, and often finding common ground with the other party is the way to do it. This is where I teach the "Yes, and …" tactic to my clients. It's actually very simple. When a conflict arises, look for where you can agree with the person, and start from this common place to move toward a resolution. You will get a lot further when you start with a "yes" than when you start with a "no." And the other person is much more likely to follow you in a positive direction than in a negative one.
I was once giving a presentation at the Federal Aviation Administration on this exact topic. As I was talking about the brain psychology behind conflict, a disgruntled man in the audience spoke. He started by declaring that he was a doctor, and that I was wrong. And unfortunately, his point had nothing to do with what I was talking about. I had to do some slow, deep breathing to prevent myself from going into fight mode. He continued to rant angrily, going farther and farther off topic. I saw several audience members rolling their eyes, and I knew I had to get things back on track.
It was the power of "Yes, and …"!
You've probably found yourself in a similar situation. It's usually a gut reaction to tell people what not to do, or what is wrong with their thinking. If you don't take it personally, you can usually redirect and find common ground using a "yes, and …" response.
Once you realize that you don't have to resolve every little difference, you'll find that many times simply agreeing to something and redirecting can help. Once you've mastered this tool, you'll find it useful in most situations, not just at work. You can use it during a challenge with a store clerk, your children, your spouse, even your in-laws. (It should come in handy during the holiday season!) As you master this skill you can smoothly step out of a vast majority of the conflicts to which you're invited.
If you have an example to share, or just want some advice on creating a "Yes, and …" response to a conflict you're experiencing, either share it here, on Facebook, or email me directly. I'd love to help.


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Q: while connecting to SAP Quality System, throw an Connection Exception exception While connecting with SAP Quality System its Gives an Exception is ConnectionException was caught. details below:

Details: ErrorCode=RFC_OK. ErrorGroup=RFC_ERROR_COMMUNICATION. SapErrorMessage=SAP_CMINIT3 : rc=20 > Connect to SAP gateway failed
Connect_PM  GWHOST=IPAddress, GWSERV=sapgw02, SYSNR=02
LOCATION    CPIC (TCP/IP) on local host with Unicode
ERROR       partner 'IP-Address' not reached

And the connection string in App.Config is :
value="sap://CLIENT=643;SYSTEM ID=QSG;LANG=;@A/**IPAddress**/01"
value="sap://CLIENT=643;SYSTEM ID=QSG;LANG=;@A/**IPAddress**/02"

key="userid" value="UserName"
key="password" value="Password"

Program Code
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binding.ReceiveTimeout = TimeSpan.MaxValue;
binding.SendTimeout = TimeSpan.MaxValue;
binding.EnableBusinessObjects = true;
binding.EnableSafeTyping = true;

EndpointAddress address = new EndpointAddress(SAPConnectionString);
ChannelFactory<IRequestChannel> factory = new ChannelFactory<IRequestChannel>(binding, address);

// add credentials
factory.Credentials.UserName.UserName = SAPUserName;
factory.Credentials.UserName.Password = SAPPassword;

// Open client
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Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (Praag, 6 december 1947) is een Tsjechische jazzbassist.

Biografie
Op zijn zesde begon Vitouš met vioolspelen, op zijn tiende jaar met piano en bas op zijn veertiende. In zijn jonge jaren was Vitous een fanatiek zwemmer. In een van zijn eerste bands speelde hij samen met de toetsenist Jan Hammer. Hij studeerde muziek aan het Praagse conservatorium bij F. Posta en won een internationaal concours in Wenen, hetgeen hem een studiebeurs opleverde voor het Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1966 verhuisde hij naar de Verenigde Staten.

Op Infinite Search, zijn eerste productie als bandleider, later in iets andere vorm opnieuw uitgebracht als Mountain in the Clouds, speelde ook een aantal andere belangrijke muzikanten van de nieuwe muziekstroming jazzfusion mee: John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette en Joe Henderson.

Hij is een van de medeoprichters van de band Weather Report en speelde in die tijd samen met Jan Hammer, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul en Jan Garbarek. Zijn vertrek bij Weather Report was niet geheel pijnloos; hij had een moeizaam contact met Joe Zawinul (de toetsenist en samen met Wayne Shorter oprichter van de band) en werd vervangen door Alphonso Johnson (die later zelf vervangen zou worden door de legendarische Jaco Pastorius).

Vitouš leidde drie jaar lang de jazzafdeling van het New England Conservatory in Boston. Hij ging weer spelen met Chick Corea en Roy Haynes in het Trio Music. Dit trio was meer dan twee jaar succesvol. Er kwam zelfs een wereldtournee en ze brachten twee albums uit voor ECM. Hierna speelde Vitouš een tijd in een eveneens succesvolle duo-bezetting met bassist Stanley Clarke.

In 1988 verhuisde Vitouš terug naar Europa en richtte zich op componeren. Wel is hij her en der nog steeds live te bewonderen op muziekfestivals.

Stijl
Vitouš' virtuoze basspel zorgt ervoor dat hij in één adem wordt genoemd met bassisten als Scott LaFaro, Dave Holland, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen en Christian McBride. Een mooi voorbeeld van de wijze waarop hij de contrabas beheerst is het album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968), met Chick Corea op de piano en Roy Haynes op drums. Zijn sterke timing, innovatieve baslijnen en de intensiteit en vrijheid van zijn improvisaties worden duidelijk op dit album.

Trivia
 Vitouš had bijna deelgenomen aan de Olympische Spelen als zwemmer: hij was geselecteerd voor de Olympische Zomerspelen 1968 in München.

Discografie (samenvatting)
Infinite Search
Purple
Magical Shepherd
Majesty Music
Miroslav (Freedom)
Guardian Angels
First Meeting (ECM)
miroslav vitous group (ECM)
Journey's end (ECM)
Emergence (ECM)
Star (ECM)
Atmos (ECM)
Universal Syncopations (ECM)
Universal Syncopations II (ECM)
Remembering Weather Report (ECM)

Amerikaans bassist
Jazzbassist
Jazzrock


A two bedroom suite at the Four Seasons Country Club in Quinta do Lago offers excellent, well-appointed accommodation set in beautifully landscaped gardens. The Club, with its unique, friendly and relaxing atmosphere, appeals to all ages, whether one is looking for a sporting, family, leisure or relaxation holiday. The magnificent clubhouse and the extensive range of facilities available make this the ideal choice for whatever type of holiday you choose.
There is a choice of one or two bedroom suites, or two bedroom split level suites all with furnished terraces and patios designed to give maximum privacy. All two bedroom suites are located on the ground floor and access to some of the suites can be via a few steps. The spacious interiors are tastefully furnished and fitted to optimum stardards. Two bedroom suites sleep a maximum of 6 guests.
Two bedroom suites sleep six with the use of the sofa beds in the living area. The bed in the main bedroom is a double bed that can be split into twins upon request, and this room has an en suite bathroom. Bedroom two is a twin/ double bedroom that uses the adjacent bathroom with shower. The bedrooms are beautifully furnished with ample cupboard space, trouser press and complemented by a luxury bathroom decorated with traditional Portuguese tiles and marble fittings.
All the refurbished apartments have inbuilt sound systems and satellite television with DVD and CD player, WI-FI internet, docking station, safe suitable for a laptop, trouser press, direct telephone (outgoing and incoming calls), alarm system, reverse cycle air conditioning for cooling and heating and pellet stoves for added comfort in the winter months.
The en-suite bathroom has a separate Shower and a free standing bath.


NEVER LET ME GO: Directed by Mark Romanek. Written by Alex Garland, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Cinematography, Adam Kimmel. Music, Rachel Portman. Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins and Charlotte Rampling. Fox Searchlight, 2010. R. 103 minutes.
What makes us human? Is it reading Shakespeare? Or is it the enactment of our personal drama, the ways we hurt ourselves and others? The question of our humanity is at the heart of Never Let Me Go, the new film adapted from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day). At once science fiction and a dystopian view of the past, Never Let Me Go is about three boarding school friends whose fates have been decided in advance. Not in the way of overbearing British parents, say, from last year's An Education — which, like Never Let Me Go, stars the resplendent Carey Mulligan — but in that way that these friends and their classmates seem to have been created from thin air. Confined to an academy called Hailsham — a name gentle and violent, like an oncoming storm — the children are constantly told they're "special," but they have no parents, last names or real belongings. When a Hailsham visitor reacts to the children with genuine fear, however, any Dickensian images of poor, orphaned students are quickly staunched, putting us more in the tradition of Gattaca than Great Expectations.
Never Let Me Go, published in 2005, was a return to form for Ishiguro, in part because he revisits the emotional restraint so central to Remains of the Day. Like the butler Stevens, the duty-bound servant in Remains, the narrator Kathy (Mulligan) in Never Let Me Go is a fanatically devoted "carer," but circumstances have caused her to reflect upon the costs of her devotion. A victim both of science and her unexamined life, she's been trained to subvert her better instincts until, late in the game, she decides to take a look back. The challenge to the filmmakers of Never Let Me Go is to capture this repression while creating the urgency of the young, of life struggling against an unseen fate. And what's happened is that director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) has so closely adapted the restraint of the novel that the struggle, when it comes, feels too little and too late.
In the first act, Kathy and her friends Ruth and Tommy are at Hailsham as their much younger selves, and while the child actors are perfectly cast, their roles feel preordained from the start. There are attempts to create the levity of youth running amok, the little cruelties as well as the kindnesses, but in general their lives are rote rather than riotous, these extraordinary orphans who someday will be required to "donate." It's a word that comes up periodically, as do others like "guardians" and "originals," but nobody seems willing to educate the children until the arrival of Miss Lucy (an underused Sally Hawkins). After grappling with their misfortune for what seems like an instant, Miss Lucy reveals their fate as if explaining the truth about Santa Claus. Nobody reacts; nor do we. They have always been "told but not told," as Ishiguro puts it in the novel, a fact that works on the page but on screen feels like an opportunity missed.
In the second act, a teenage Kathy, Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) are relocated to a sullen compound called The Cottages, where they await the start of their donations. A refugee among refugees, Kathy endures her fate alone, forming a weak third corner in a love triangle with Ruth and Tommy, the boy she's always loved. Even as they make a final attempt to avoid their destiny, we never see the trio in their fullness, because according to Never Let Me Go, they never possessed it to begin with. Like The Road, another adaptation that was cumulative rather than consistent in its power, this is a story perhaps best told as a novel, where difficult truths can be carefully built and subtly assembled, particularly in regard to the interior lives of those complicit in the suppression of truth.
In a final, touching scene, Tommy and Kathy are called "You poor creatures," a gesture of pity meant in both senses of the term. They may be creatures, but were they not human from the start?


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Home » NOT TO FORGET - 23 years since the beginning of NATO aggression on Serbia (the FRY)
NOT TO FORGET - 23 years since the beginning of NATO aggression on Serbia (the FRY)
In keeping with the tradition maintained over all previous years, the Belgrade Forum for the
World of Equals is marking March 24, remembering this day back in 1999 when the NATO
Alliance's illegal and criminal aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the FRY)
began, thus paying tribute to the fallen defenders of the motherland and the killed civilians.
This aggression was the first war on European soil waged since the end of World War II. As the
bombs and cruise missiles thrown by the most powerful military machinery in the history of
civilization were busy destroying a small European country, they also destroyed the European
and global security system based on the UN Charter, the OSCE Final Act and the Paris Charter.
To this day, Europe and the world still suffer the severe consequences of that destruction. In the
process, NATO allied with the so-called KLA, a separatist-terrorist formation, as its infantry
wing, thus boosting separatism and terrorism.
On March 23, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., representatives of the Belgrade Forum, together with its
partner Club of Generals and Admirals of Serbia and other patriotic-oriented organisations, will
lay a wreath at the Monument to Serbian children killed during the aggression in the Tašmajdan
Park. During the ceremony, Dragutin Brčin, Director of the Belgrade Forum, will address the
audience on behalf of the Forum. Next, around the noon, representatives of the Belgrade Forum
and the Club of Generals and Admirals of Serbia, together with other patriotic organizations, will
pay tribute to all victims of NATO aggression at the monument "Eternal Fire", in Novi Beograd.
On the occasion, General Luka Kastratović, ret., President of the Executive Board of the Club of
Generals and Admirals of Serbia, will address the audience.
The Belgrade Forum invites all patriotic organisations and individuals that cherish the memory
of the fallen members of the Serbian military and security forces and all those killed in the
aggression, to join these events and thus pay their respect for the fallen defenders and civilians.
At present, we are witnessing calls for observance of international law and blaming other
countries for violating it, cynically made by the USA, the UK, Germany and NATO as a whole,
that is, the exactly same countries and bodies that had themselves illegally attacked the FRY
without a UN Security Council decision, the same ones who intentionally used missiles filled
with depleted uranium and other banned weapons to deliberately and indiscriminately bomb our
country's infrastructure and the civilian targets, killed children, women, hospital patients and
civilians, and who openly conducted smear campaigns against the Serbian people in global
The marking of the beginning of the 1999 NATO aggression against our country is another
opportunity to recall all their crimes and atrocities and to remind our public, especially the youth,
of the horrors and damage the aggression caused, as well as of the consequences of which many
are yet to be remedied. The precedent of aggression executed without the UN Security Council
approval was reused in the subsequent aggressions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. NATO's
aggression against the FRY in 1999 was a stepping stone in bringing to life the strategy of
military expansion to the East, closer to the Russian borders, which is the root cause of the
Ukrainian crisis.
During 79 days of unrelenting attacks on the FRY, from March 24 to June 10, 1999, the massscale
assaults of NATO aviation sending missile systems and other weapons from air, waterways
and land, with collaboration comprising the terrorists Albanian KLA, the regular army of the
Republic of Albania, the mercenaries recruited and financed by Western states, and the
instructors and special operation units of the leading Western states, has indiscriminately killed
members of the Yugoslav Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies of the Republic of
Serbia, as well as civilians including children, and destroyed cultural monuments, churches and
monasteries, devastated military, economic, strategic and traffic infrastructure, business
facilities, civilian facilities and institutions, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and even the public
broadcaster – the Radio Television of Serbia, killing 16 of the RTS employees.
Over the course of this aggression, NATO carried out 2,300 airstrikes on 995 facilities
throughout the coutnry, and its 1,150 fighter planes launched some 420,000 projectiles with the
total mass of 22,000 tons, including depleted uranium weapons.
About 4,000 casualties were estimated, of whom some 3,000 civilians and 1,031 members of the
army and the police. 89 children were killed. In total, more than 12,000 people were wounded, of
whom about 6,000 civilians including 2,700 children, and 5,173 soldiers and police officers. 25
persons are still listed as missing.
Since the precise list of civilian casualties has not been established yet, the Belgrade Forum
reiterates its appeal to the state authorities to finally see to this sad task being completed.
In their attacks on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NATO forces employed approximately a
thousand aircrafts (fighters, fighter-bombers, bombers, spy planes, etc.); the largest share in the
air attacks had the forces of the USA, UK and Germany, albeit with significant roles in the
aggression also played by other members.
The air assaults destroyed and damaged 25,000 residential buildings, disabled 470 km of roads
and 595 km of railways. They also inflicted damage to 14 airports, 19 hospitals, 20 health
centers, 18 kindergartens, 69 schools, 176 cultural monuments, and 44 bridges, while leaving
additional 38 totally destroyed. Among the latter, of special significance are the destruction of
two oil refineries (in Pančevo and Novi Sad), the demolition of the Avala Broadcasting Tower,
the building of the Serbian Radio and Television, the Petrochemistry Complex in Pančevo, the
bombing of bridges in Novi Sad, the Zastava automobile factory in Kragujevac, the Embassy of
the People's Republic of China, and many other civilian targets.
Estimates are that some 38% of targeted facilities were of a civilian purpose..
The war damage was estimated to about USD 100 billion.
During the bombing of the territory of the Republic of Serbia, ammunition banned under the
Geneva Convention was routinely used, with in total 15 tons of uranium dumped on Serbia. As a
direct consequence of missiles filled with depleted uranium, in 2015 Serbia was announced to be
the top-ranking country in Europe in terms of mortality from malignant tumors. In addition,
about 1,000 cluster bombs were dropped on 219 locations on an area of 23,000 km2, killing a
large number of civilians. As a result of that, from the end of the aggression until 2006, 6 people
perished from detonated cluster bombs throughout the territory of Serbia and Montenegro, while
additional 12 were wounded.
In all likelihood, all those who fell victims to the delayed effects of missiles with depleted
uranium, unexploded cluster bombs and other lethal means, will hardly ever be exactly
accounted for. The Belgrade Forum invites the competent state authorities to ensure the
continuation of the work of special bodies tasked with determining the consequences of the use
of depleted uranium weapons and other means and methods employed during the NATO
aggression.
The aggression ended on June 10, 1999, upon the signing of the Military-Technical Agreement
in Kumanovo and the subsequent adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which
established the truce and temporarily transferred the administering of Kosovo and Metohija to
the United Nations. Pursuant to this Agreement, the FRY Army, the Police and the
administration of the FRY and the Republic of Serbia, withdrew on an interim basis to the
territory of Central Serbia. Along the withdrawal of the army and police, about 250,000 Serbs
and other non-Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija fled to central parts of Serbia. This made
Serbia the country hosting the largest number of refugees and internally displaced persons in
Europe, after this and other wars that marked the violent and forcible breakup of Yugoslavia.
It is cynical to the extreme to take to accusing other countries of crimes that the leading NATO
states have continuously committed themselves. It would serve them well if, at least as late as
today, as they stand accusing others, they halt for a moment and remember their own misdeeds,
repent and remedy all the injustices they have done to our country as well as to others, most
notably, to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and others.
Never forget. See you on March 24, 2022
Belgrade Forum for the World of Equals


I wrote a thing, summarizing the institutional failures around gynecology and sexual trauma. Among other failings.
Also, in the pensive cover photo you can't see that I am standing next to a litter box while my cat is licking my ankles. I'm a pro.
Gynecologists should have nursing or social work staff doing follow-up with patients over the phone, including screenings for depression and anxiety. Multiple follow-ups, not just five days after surgery and at the follow-up appointment 60 days later. Gynecologists should ask about sexual trauma histories and incorporate best practices into what is an invasive and potentially triggering procedure.


PUNCH Consulting Engineers were the civil/structural engineers and PSDP on a multi-disciplinary team tasked with redeveloping Fitzgerald's Park in Cork City. Given the proximity of the park to the north channel of the River Lee, flooding and flood risk was a concern. This park had flooded during the November 2009 floods and CFRAMS mapping placed the park in a flood zone that was at risk from a 1:100 year event.
While the land use was compatible with the Flood Risk Management Guidelines, it was necessary to consider issues such as flood compensation, loss of flood storage and the risk to the public should the park be open during a flood event. It was vital to ensure the design of the new park didn't increase the flood risk elsewhere by reducing flood storage in the park or by altering flow paths across the flood plain. A number of options were looked at however, adjustment of the ground levels was deemed most cost effective.


Fascinating and marvelous work done, Fugit. Just not enough trophies as this one deserves on too.
Funny Year Of The Pig With A Gavel.
Can't believe she doesn't want Americans SAFE, Open Borders and Let the Enemies in.Come in the Right Way.
Knew it wouldn't win,but had to do it to her, she makes me see RED.
Funny Schumer, `Man Of The Year` LOL!!!!!
Funny Russians elected the same criminal again for next 6 years.
Santa needs to be a tad more careful with his beard.
Great job with spot on message. Hammer & sickle nice touch.
The Year 2019 is the Year of the Pig. According to Chinese astrology, the animal of Chinese New Year 2019 is the Earth Pig and this will be a lucky year for those who, in their manners or behavior, resemble that animal. To welcome the upcoming Year of the Pig, photoshop pigs any way you wish. Some examples are - merge pigs with people and other animals, put pigs into world events, movies and paintings, etc. PLEASE NOTE: LIMIT 3 ENTRIES PER PLAYER.
Funny New Year FREAK SHOW!
Every weekend we have a Freaking News of the Week (Week in Pictures) contest. But now it's time for the grand yearly contest where we ask you to create images of anything that happened in the news during the year 2016. You can pick the notable events, or any other interesting news which others may or may not have heard. Here's to good news in 2017 - let it bring health, prosperity, and lots of blessings to you and your families! Year in Pictures contest has double jackpots: 1st place: $10, 2nd place: $6, 3rd place: $4, 4th place: $2. In the Creator's Comments, it is mandatory to link to a news story. You should use this format to make a link: [URL="http://www.SomeNewsLink.com"]news title[/URL] Keep the BLACK as is, replace GREEN with the link, and replace the RED with the news story title. Many thanks to lucianomorelli for the themepost. NOTE: the submissions for this contest are open till January 1.
Time magazine will announce its "Person of the Year" this Wednesday, and will feature him/her in its December issue. You can see the official shortlist on the magazine's website. While we wait to know for sure, choose your own (worthy or unworthy) person and Photoshop him/her on the TIME magazine cover as 2016 Person of the Year. Real or fictional celebrities (from movies, cartoons, paintings) are all welcome.


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Calverton Park is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,293 at the 2010 census.

Geography
Calverton Park is located at  (38.765827, -90.315416).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.

Calverton Park is surrounded by three other St. Louis County municipalities: Ferguson, Florissant and Hazelwood.

Demographics

2010 census
At the 2010 census there were 1,293 people, 496 households, and 347 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 540 housing units at an average density of . The racial makup of the village was 53.4% White, 42.2% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.9% Asian, 1.1% from other races, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.9%.

Of the 496 households 35.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.9% were married couples living together, 24.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.0% were non-families. 24.4% of households were one person and 9% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.08.

The median age in the village was 36.4 years. 25.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.4% were from 25 to 44; 26.2% were from 45 to 64; and 12.1% were 65 or older. The gender makeup of the village was 47.2% male and 52.8% female.

2000 census
At the 2000 census there were 1,322 people, 494 households, and 345 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 521 housing units at an average density of .  The racial makup of the village was 74.96% White, 22.24% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 0.30% from other races, and 1.97% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.83%.

Of the 494 households 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.6% were married couples living together, 19.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.0% were non-families. 24.3% of households were one person and 9.5% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.22.

The age distribution was 28.8% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% 65 or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.8 males.

The median household income was $44,632 and the median income for a family was $49,375. Males had a median income of $34,500 versus $26,875 for females. The per capita income for the village was $25,723. About 8.1% of families and 9.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.4% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

Education
Walnut Grove Elementary School of the Ferguson-Florissant School District is located in Calverton Park.

Police
Calverton Park is served by the Calverton Park Police Department. The CPPD is dispatched by the neighboring city of Ferguson.

Calverton Park draws 66 percent of its revenue from fines and fees on the local population, which represents the highest percentage of any municipality in St. Louis County.

CPPD is a small police force that has a command staff of a Chief, Captain, Sergeant, and Corporal. They have several officers and reserve officers working around 30 hours a month.

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Home Technology Cartona gets $4.5M pre-Series A to Connect Retailers with Suppliers in Egypt
Cartona gets $4.5M pre-Series A to Connect Retailers with Suppliers in Egypt
Subject: Technology
Cartona announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in a pre-Series A round of funding to link merchants and manufacturers through an app.
It wants a big piece of the burgeoning e-commerce and retail pie, where several Egyptian entrepreneurs are competing, including Capiter, a year-old business we covered last week. Global Ventures, a Dubai-based venture capital firm, led the round, with Kepple Africa, T5 Capital, and angel investors also participating, according to the company.
Cartona, situated in Cairo, was created in August 2020 with the goal of assisting buyers in accessing items from sellers on a single platform, hence addressing the supply-chain and operational issues faced by companies in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) business.
Retailers are the buyers in this situation, whereas FMCG businesses, distributors, and wholesalers are the vendors. The fundamental issue that merchants in Egypt and the rest of Africa's face is a lack of access to suppliers. There are also concerns about market price transparency, which is reliant on existing logistical capacities.
Unoptimized warehouses are a result of suppliers' lack of data and inability to make data-driven decisions to boost profitability and promote growth.
In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Mahmoud Talaat said, "The trade market is completely inefficient and it's not good for the supplier or the manufacturers, and it's definitely not good for retailers." "As a result, we devised Cartona, which is essentially a fully light-asset model that connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers."
Together with Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Talaat created the corporation. Talaat was the chief commercial officer of agriculture company Lamar Egypt before founding Speakol, a MENA-focused adtech platform with 60 million monthly users.
Cartona is a marketplace that is asset-light. Grocery stores can place orders through the platform from a carefully vetted network of sellers. The company claims that by doing so, it can provide real-time price comparisons and clarity on delivery schedules.
Additionally, using data and analytics, FMCGs and suppliers may improve their go-to-market operations. Cartona completes the picture by offering embedded finance and credit to merchants and suppliers.
All of these processes generate revenue for Cartona. It costs suppliers for running advertisements to merchants (because they compete for the latter's attention), and it offers market information on buyer behavior, pricing competitiveness, and market share.
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How Simacan manages transport efficiently using TomTom data
Kenneth Clay
Thu Dec 03 2020
Senior Marketing Manager Enterprise
Thu Dec 03 2020 • 6 min read
Digitalization plays a huge role in how logistics operations are implemented today. But how do you make sure all processes are handled smoothly and aren't unnecessarily complex?
Enter Simacan, an end-to-end supply chain platform that provides full visibility and control over transport and logistics processes. Together with TomTom, Simacan helps all players in the transport delivery chain to work better together, making transport more manageable, efficient and sustainable.
Founded in 2012 by two TomTom employees, Simacan launched with the mission to put everything on the map and make it visible to those who need it. Having access to real-time predictive information can make all the difference between delivering goods on time and falling behind schedule. To help businesses manage shipments efficiently, Simacan provides one platform for streamlining transport management and providing clear visibility of delivery journeys.
The difficulties of managing transport
As technologies continue advancing, businesses must adapt their methods of communication and deliveries to provide the best service possible to customers. For a business to thrive, there's no question that it would have to continue adapting and adopting the most efficient methods, especially regarding logistics.
One increasingly important but challenging aspect of logistics is visibility. Customers always appreciate full transparency - and knowing the location of one's package not only eases their minds, but also the drivers'.
The task of planning and executing transportation operations isn't easy, especially if a business works with multiple carriers. All types of information must be accounted for and communicated to the right people as quickly as possible. For instance, what happens if a truck is running late due to a traffic jam but has assets to deliver on a tight deadline? Challenges such as this can be overcome by ensuring everyone gets access to the same platform – and therefore the same information. With efficient communication tools, a nearby delivery driver could potentially meet the truck that's running late, transfer assets from one vehicle to another and get the goods delivered on time after all.
Want to find out more about last mile delivery tracking?
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Control tower, Simacan
Providing the right communication tools to facilitate transport delivery
Simacan's supply chain platform offers a unique cooperation model: openness. By consistently providing visibility into what's happening, drivers and operators can adjust as needed in real time. Simacan takes the complexity out of transport execution by orchestrating digital collaboration between all players in the sector, using real-time data exchange.
The following features of Simacan's platform facilitate the various processes involved in logistics:
Control Tower allows you to manage your transport fleet from end-to-end from one desktop interface.
Arrival monitor provides information such as transport delivery time on a display at a shop, hub or distribution center.
Driver notifications combine information from transportation or fleet management systems to provide drivers with real-time route guidance.
Customer notifications inform consumers about their delivery times.
Harmonizing all this information doesn't just enable customers to receive unambiguous, real time information about their shipment. It also allows operators and shippers to have continuous, shared insight in exceptions for future planned deliveries, taking into account traffic, last-mile information and safety warnings – leading to a more accurate and reliable estimated time of arrival (ETA) and the ability to intervene where necessary. Simacan thus caters to all parties involved in the transport delivery journey.
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Collaborating for better planning and execution in transport delivery
Taking into account current traffic conditions is vital to getting accurate and reliable ETAs. For that, having access to the most up-to-date maps is necessary. Traffic conditions and locations are dynamic, so map updates need to be continuous. That's why Simacan partnered with TomTom – a location technology specialist that's no foreigner to the mapmaking industry.
Using TomTom map and traffic data, Simacan gets access to a database covering the complete road network in Europe, along with information such as incident data, flow feed and traffic speeds. Importantly, Simacan can integrate TomTom's data and services with their own routing and ETA algorithms and adapt the TomTom technology to their unique preferences and needs. Using a crowd-based solution and including community input from TomTom, Simacan can easily manage high volumes of assets and run operations efficiently. Aiming to expand their footprint in Europe, Simacan will continue improving ETA in various geographies, such as mountain regions, and plans to bring TomTom along with them on the journey.
The future of fleet and logistics
With efficient and sustainable transport delivery managed from one platform, it's easier to include additional features as demands evolve. Simacan is excited to move forward with new innovations, including pre-process information. This gives customers pre-calculated content, such as time-distance calculations, allowing them to perform transport planning operations.
In the future, we can expect even more openness between shippers and carriers – which means better safety, reduced accidents and less damage liability. The partnership between TomTom and Simacan will play an important role in supporting businesses, as well as the wider fleet and logistics industry, with better supply chain insights and communication.
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The research, published in Planetary and Space Science, uses computer models to simulate the movement of debris from Stickney crater, a huge gash on one end of Phobos' oblong body. The models show that boulders rolling across the surface in the aftermath of the Stickney impact could have created the puzzling patterns of grooves seen on Phobos today.
"These grooves are a distinctive feature of Phobos, and how they formed has been debated by planetary scientists for 40 years," said Ken Ramsley, a planetary science researcher at Brown University who led the work. "We think this study is another step toward zeroing in on an explanation."
Still other researchers have made the case that there's a connection between the grooves and the Stickney impact. In the late 1970s, planetary scientists Lionel Wilson and Jim Head proposed the idea that ejecta -- bouncing, sliding and rolling boulders -- from Stickney may have carved the grooves. Head, a professor in Brown's department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, was also a coauthor of this new paper.
"The model is really just an experiment we run on a laptop," Ramsley said. "We put all the basic ingredients in, then we press the button and we see what happens."
The simulations show that because of Phobos' small size and relatively weak gravity, Stickney stones just keep on rolling, rather than stopping after a kilometer or so like they might on a larger body. In fact, some boulders would have rolled and bounded their way all the way around the tiny moon. That circumnavigation could explain why some grooves aren't radially aligned to the crater. Boulders that start out rolling across the eastern hemisphere of Phobos produce grooves that appear to be misaligned from the crater when they reach the western hemisphere.
That round-the-globe rolling also explains how some grooves are superposed on top of others. The models show that grooves laid down right after the impact were crossed minutes to hours later by boulders completing their global journeys. In some cases, those globetrotting boulders rolled all the back to where they started -- Stickney crater. That explains why Stickney itself has grooves.
"It's like a ski jump," Ramsley said. "The boulders keep going but suddenly there's no ground under them. They end up doing this suborbital flight over this zone."
All told, Ramsley says, the models answer some key questions about how ejecta from Stickney could have been responsible for Phobos' complicated groove patterns.
Reference: "Origin of Phobos Grooves: Testing the Stickney Crater Ejecta Model," Kenneth R. Ramsley & James W. Head, 2018 Nov. 16, Planetary and Space Science [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2018.11.004].


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Angela Mouly
Learning To Compost
From left, Ralph and Iris Davies, and Chris Olsen. Photo Angela Mouly
The Vermilion River Naturalist Society shared what people can do with material that is considered waste, and several ways to improve soil health during a composting session on August 11.
"It's very satisfying to be self-contained," said Chris Olsen. "I think sometimes people just don't know how easy it is."
During a tour of his own yard, Olsen shared how he had developed his property with compost into an English country garden style, continuing to enrich the soil as he goes. He said it never needs weeding and very little watering. Coffee filters, rhubarb leaves, grass clippings, corn husks, egg shells, nut shells, and a monster zucchini will all soon be added to his compost, and he said cherry pits would build soil texture.
"It's about keeping the carbon on the property. There's virtually nothing that comes out of my kitchen and garden waste that doesn't compost, creating very rich soil additives," said Olsen.
Even though other people's yard waste is composted eventually, it still travels; but with his composting system, all of the carbon generated in his yard stays there and gets put back into the system.
As admirable as the town's green program is, he said there are still fees to truck the waste to Vegreville, and there is a hidden carbon cost because the truck isn't driving for nothing. He said they typically run large machinery rotating the waste allowing aeration and moisture to degrade it into soil additive. It is then bagged and people drive further still to stores to pick it up and put it back in their yard again.
"There is a $2.90 tipping fee each time it's loaded into the truck. As much as we like to take responsibility and point at large industry, if we take out all of the individual contributors, the environment and our carbon budget is so much improved," said Olsen. "Composting helps you consume wisely, it helps you see what can be up-cycled or recycled. It's an appeal - it's a way of life - it's taking charge."
Olsen is a biologist and built his first compost bin out of hockey sticks in 1980. Even as a student, he saw the value in not throwing all of the compostable items away and not having to buy soil that had to be to be trucked in. He said a person can build a single compost bin from two old pallets cut in half and placed in a square one metre by one metre, and simply move it side to side as it needs aeration. For those who have tried it and given up due to an odour, he said if that happens, it just needs air; it has to be moist so stirring it around can eliminate that.
Olsen's current three-stage compost bin is approximately 12 feet long, four feet wide and four feet high. Wire mesh along the back allows air to flow in, while removable boards along the front help reduce animals getting at it. A lid helps keep the moisture and warmth in. It's a continuous process of moving the compost from bin to bin adding grass and moisture.
With his compost, Olsen tries to create a healthy carbon/nitrogen balance. Micro-organisms need nitrogen to create protein and need carbon which provides energy, but they also need moisture and oxygen. Anything green Olsen said is nitrogen-rich, whereas dry, dead leaves in the fall are carbon-rich.
"The green bin has never been used here. I'd like to think in the future people would begin to use and live within their ecological means," said Olsen.
Cattle rancher, Ralph Davies, brought photos of straw and cattle manure from his corrals and a sample of the soil additive that had been previously composted. Having an organic yard with no use of pesticides, Ralph said they've always put the manure on the land in poor soil areas. They used to use it more when they grain farmed and he said he has to stay at it to keep it from getting covered in weeds, but he seemed happy to do so because of how useful it is.
"It has to be rototilled to compost, but it turns out very nice," said Ralph.
Iris Davis began a worm farm this year that produces Vermicompost (what's left over). She adds cardboard and egg cartons as well as weeds from garden, lets it marinate to get the heat out and is sunk right into her garden. Then she throws the worms in. Iris uses the worm castings (which hold moisture well) for her tomato planters.
"Vermicomposting was just such a natural thing. With packaged soil we had no idea how it was produced or where it came from," said Iris.
Some people start for health reasons to keep everything as organic as possible, and they said Vermicomposting can happen in the kitchen closet, some are kept in towers, and they even saw one that looks like a patio end table. Some people overwinter their worms in the garage.
"While the worm farm can be as small as an ice cream pail, it's better if it is eight inches high to allow three to four inches of material to start, adding food and bedding as you go. An optimum worm farm can have 1,000 adult worms in one square foot of surface area; it would really put out casting," said Iris.
They encouraged those looking for more information to look online as there are abundant resources available.


Pulling putts is one of the commons mistakes you see among average players.
Most of the time, players either look up to see the ball rolling or try to guide the ball toward the cup.
Even the pros sometimes make this kind of mistake. Payne Stewart said he tried to keep his head down to avoid looking up during the final round of the 1999 U.S. Open.
He putted so well on that day and won the tournament.
Lots of teachers might tell you to keep your head down. It's important to keep that in your mind. But I think it's much more important that you pay attention to the face angle through impact.
The face angle is much more important than the stroke or swing path in putting.
If you can focus on the face angle through impact, you will keep your head down as a result.
When you pull your putts, your right shoulder moves toward the ball on the downswing.
If you can stop your right shoulder from moving toward the ball, you will be able to stop pulling putts.
Here is a good drill.
Make sure that your right shoulder does not move forward. By putting with your right hand only, you can't manipulate the stroke with your hands.
To hit the putts consistently with your right hand only, you need to use the weight of the putter head and swing with a pendulum motion.
This is really good drill to help you achieve more consistent putting stroke.


Enriched by critical theory and the insights of cultural studies, and rooted in the power of historical explanation, this collection of classic and new essays contributes to the theory and practice of critical studies in communication, media, and journalism. The volume helps develop alternative ways of thinking about communication and media practices at a time when the conditions of communication, participation, and democracy are threatened by commercial and political interests. It is grounded in a critical theory of the media that addresses the potential of liberating individuals consumers as well as newsworkers by challenging their traditional roles in the hegemonic relationship of media and society. The culture of communication constitutes an arena of practices with its own knowledge that bridges traditional academic disciplines and demonstrates the power of an interdisciplinary vision. It also defines and places communication studies within a larger field of intellectual inquiry with its own dynamic as an integrating concept a goal that Interactions well accomplishes. Interactions may be viewed, in fact, as a critical intellectual history of the 20th century through the lens of media, communication, and popular culture and in relation to the role of the individual on the cusp of a new millennium."
Hanno Hardt is John F. Murray Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa and professor of communication at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.


The front Mustang suspension uses rubber bushings everywhere; control arms, steering rack, swaybar, endlinks. And just after a few years the ride will deteriorate a lot. Improve the front suspension by using solid or at least urethane bushings. Solid bushings are the best if your car is a road racer, but on the street they are very noisy, on the other hand, urethane allows some noise insulation but being harder than rubber they will also get rid of that mushy front suspension response.