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Surviving and Thriving: Conversations About Community Violence and COVID-19
Community violence is an ongoing crisis in society as many youth and families feel the destructive repercussions of peer conflicts, gun and other weapon attacks, gang fights, and public violence incidents. The COVID-19 pandemic and increased police misconduct in populations affected by community violence must be addressed for organizations to provide effective services. In this series, experts provide their perspective on helping youth and families navigate these traumatic stressors for their own health and wellness by examining the links between community violence, COVID-19 and community unrest/protest.
White Supremacy Resurgences and Cultural Healing Responses for Asian, Native, and Black American Youth
Addresses how "White supremacy" culture has systematically served as the formation, foundation, and expression of institutional racism throughout U.S. history by employing institutional policies and cultural conflicts of "divide and conquer" between different communities. The current and concerning rise in attacks against Asian-Americans reflects an underlying societal problem that requires urgent and radical healing approaches to pull out the roots of racism, dismantle White supremacist structures, and shift toward more pluralistic, mutually supportive, and trauma-informed relationships in society. This webinar also includes subsequent recommendations for forward progress.
Community Violence and Civil Unrest: Youth Responses to Complex Harm and Collective Healing
Features a conversation about creating awareness regarding youth responses to community violence, civil unrest, and societal history of marginalization and racial trauma. This webinar shares creative strategies and develops practices to help youth challenge these perpetual traumas through trusting relationships, radical healing, and supported action.
Traumatic Impacts of Community Violence, COVID-19, and Civil Unrest on Immigrant Families
The COVID-19 pandemic, along with severe immigration enforcement policies in recent years, and historical and present structural inequities have all had a disproportionate impact on BIPOC communities, including marginalized immigrant populations in the US. This has resulted in increased risk factors, including decreased access to financial, technological, social, educational and healthcare resources resulting in an increasing risk of infection, family separation and loss, trauma exposure and victimization. In this webinar, speakers will focus on current challenges and recommendations for addressing the needs of young immigrant children, youth and families; highlighting the importance of community partnership, early childhood protections; addressing substance use and its effects, as well as faith based supportive approaches.
Institutional Responses to the Current Crisis
In this webinar, speakers focus on institutional responses to the current combined crises of community violence during this time of pandemic and unrest. Panelists will represent a range of institutions including law enforcement, juvenile justice, national disaster, public school, and mental health systems.

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Q: Delete last comma from xml file using shell xmlstarlet I've got comp.xml file which contains
<project name="installer" >
<property name="workflow.list" >
 BTCH.WF_BatchRequest_Process.BatchRating,
 BTCH.WF_BatchRequest_Process.Invoice,
</property>
<property name="wfGroup.list" >
BTCH.WFG_BatchResPrep,
BTCH.WFG_BatchRes,
</property>
<target name="shutdown">
<echo>shutdown</echo>
</target>
</project>

I need to delete last ',' comma in each <property> tag using shell if that comma exists
So it should be:
<project name="installer" >
<property name="workflow.list" >
BTCH.WF_BatchRequest_Process.BatchRating,
BTCH.WF_BatchRequest_Process.Invoice
</property>
<property name="wfGroup.list" >
BTCH.WFG_BatchResPrep,
BTCH.WFG_BatchRes
</property>
<target name="shutdown">
<echo>shutdown</echo>
</target>
</project>

A: If you know that the property value will always end in <comma><newline> then the following xslt works for me (on your sample data at least).
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="property">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:value-of select="substring(text(), 1, string-length(text()) - 2)"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Most of the above is simply the identity transformation. The rest is just a match on the property elements and a small amount of text manipulation.

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From Ralph Hancock
"Insectoid" won't really do as the standard adjective for insects, because it
means "having the form of an insect" and could equally apply to a six-legged
walking machine, for example.
If I had to make up a word, I would go for "insectal", which isn't in the
dictionary either.
But there's no difficulty in continuing to use the word as its own adjective.
There is no adjective for "plant" either, and no one complains about having to
use this as an adjective ("plant life").
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Nerf's first gel blaster is coming this November with 10,000 rounds
This is a Nerf blaster unlike any you've seen before. It doesn't shoot reusable foam darts or foam balls, but rather pellets of squishy, water-infused gel. Pellets so small you can fit 800 of them into this blaster, and so cheap it'll come with 10,000 of them right out of the box. It'll shoot them fully automatic with an included rechargeable, swappable 7.4V battery you can top up with a USB-C cable — just like a phone.
It's called the Nerf Pro Gelfire Mythic, it'll cost $79.99 this November, and it's wild to see it exists — partly because it's such a departure from kid-friendly darts, and partly because it feels like Hasbro is finally conceding that it doesn't need to reinvent the wheel to attract an older audience.
After spending the better part of a decade searching for a way to make Nerf competitive with harder-hitting hobbies like airsoft and paintball, it's not attempting to create a brand-new kind of blaster with a proprietary new dart or ball.
Instead, it's simply built its own entrant into the burgeoning category of gel blasters, a category of toy gun that's proved particularly popular in China and Australia (though Australia has seriously cracked down in recent years and the Chinese government has voiced disapproval) and, I hear, is spreading across the United States as well. They typically fire pellets that you have to soak in water for a few hours, which explode like a tiny water balloon when they hit your target and whose shells disintegrate into powder.
It's not remotely clear yet whether Nerf's blaster is designed to be competitive with other gel-shooters in the US and abroad, as the company hasn't offered any range or velocity claims yet — just that it can shoot up to 10 rounds per second and that it apparently fires hard enough to justify including a set of eye protection in the box. (Nerf's rubber-ball-firing Hyper also included safety glasses, but it's still a relatively new thing for Nerf to bundle.)
But it doesn't look like a terribly hard sell compared to Hasbro's other attempts to make Nerf more competitive. It's not practical to attend a Nerf war with a Hyper or Ultra blaster, since you'd be one of the only ones using that type of ammo, and you'd either have to spend serious money on a huge stockpile or spend the entire game picking up the projectiles you shot in order to reload you blaster. Here, you can carry a huge tank of theoretically dirt-cheap pellets that are typically biodegradable (though Hasbro makes no explicit mention of that in the announcement) and just keep on shooting for an entire game or two.
The Mythic also just looks neat, with a retractable stock and removable barrel for a variety of play styles, and a design that very much does not look like a real gun. (Many gel blasters unfortunately do.) I'm looking forward to trying one out this fall.
If you're looking to be the first, though, it's going up for pre-order today at 10AM PT / 1PM ET at Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Hasbro Pulse ahead of a tentative November 1st launch.
On the off-chance Hasbro is looking for other proven ways to attract older players to the hobby… might I suggest simply shortening your existing darts? It's what modders have been doing for decades, and it really, really works.
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AMD realased a new update for the crosfire users to update the ATI Catalyst 10.9a profile this will update and improve for nine game titles.
DirectX10/11 application updates: Stone Giant CrossFire update. Multiplayer Medal of Honor CrossFire update. Civ V tweak CrossFire update. Hawx2 CrossFire update. F1 CrossFire update. World of Warcraft DX11 version CrossFire update.


Brad Downey (born 1980 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American artist. He uses film, sculpture, painting and drawing to reflect on concepts about the Establishment versus the audience. Downey currently lives in Berlin.


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Savage Arms Expands Left-Handed Rifle Offerings
Shooting Illustrated Staff
Left-handed shooters are often snubbed when it comes to new firearm introductions, the majority of which are designed for the right-handed consumers who make up the bulk of the market. However, Savage Arms is expanding its left-handed rifle offerings for 2018, ensuring that southpaws have expanded options.
"Research reports approximately 10 percent of Americans are left-handed," said Jessica Treglia, Savage Arms senior brand manager. "Then there are those who are right-handed, but left-eye dominant. These hunters and shooters greatly benefit from a left-handed firearm, and Savage is proud to supply them with dependable and accurate left-handed choices."
The company unveiled several left-handed models across all Savage rifle platforms. Notably, two precision chassis guns are part of the new southpaw selection: the Model 10/110 BA Stealth and the Stealth Evolution. Each rifle is equipped with a machined-aluminum chassis paired with a heavy barrel designed for ideal performance at extended distances.
The two precision rifles are loaded with the same feature-rich design as the company's right-handed models, including a custom-adjustable AccuTrigger, 5R button rifling and the company's thread-in headspacing. The Model 10/110 BA Stealth and Stealth Evolution rifles can be had in .223 Rem., 6 mm Creedmoor, 6.5 Creedmoor, .308 Win., .300 Win. Mag. and .338 Lapua Mag.
Savage Arms also expanded its line of rimfire offerings to include left-handed options, rolling out new models in the company's B Series, in particular. The Savage B17 and B22 provide consumers with left-hand specific models chambered in .17 HMR, .22 LR and .22 WMR. Like the company's precision rifles, these rimfire guns are feature-rich designs, leaving nothing out. Each rifle is equipped with a sporter barrel, synthetic ergonomic stock and an easy-to-use top-tang safety. Other features include a 10-round detachable rotary magazine, thread-in headspace system and the company's trusted, adjustable AccuTrigger.
Other left-handed rifle offerings available from the company for 2018 include the Model 110 Storm and the model 110 Tactical.
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The Legitimist Party (, PL) was a conservative Nicaraguan political party, the first in its country. The power base of the Legitimist Party was in Granada. The Legitimists were opposed to the Democrats. After several years of civil war between the Legitimists and the Democrats, a provisional government was established in June 1857 which had as its joint leaders the legitimist Tomás Martínez and the democrat Máximo Jerez.

The Nicaraguan Conservative Party defines itself as a continuation of the Legitimist Party and traces its history back to PLs foundation in 1823.

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Nadia Ilardi, founder and owner of Nadia School of musiс, was born and raised in Russia and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 2006. She comes from a family of musicians and began playing the piano at the age of 5. She attended eight years of music school before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree as a Music Teacher (a specific degree in Russia) from the Stavropol Music College, where she was trained in the Russian system of piano education. She began teaching in a Russian music school in 1998, and in 2001 emigrated to the United States. She started the Nadia School of Music in 2003.
Nadia, a piano concertmeister herself (i.e., professionally trained to accompany orchestras, choirs, singers, and other performers), personally trains her instructors to follow the "Russian system of methodics." Her qualifications include:
16 years of teaching experience in Russia and Virginia
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Marina Hayes was born and raised in Russia, where she received her 13-year music education, cello, and piano training. She started to take twice-a-week cello/piano lessons along with other musical disciplines at a school of music in her hometown, Perm (Russia), when she was 7 years old. After graduating from the music school, she attended the Naberezhnye Chelny College of Music (Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia), where she continued and completed her B.A. degree in cello/piano training. Marina began teaching and performing in 1993. In 2002 she moved to USA and became a citizen in 2006. Marina Hayes has been teaching with Nadia School of Music since January of 2010.
"...In my teaching and instructing, I consider it very important to cultivate in my students a love and enthusiasm for music while teaching technique and theory of music. My methodics are based on fusion of ear training and music theory with repertoire. My goal is to provide my students all tools to achieve the level of mastery they desire..." Marina Hayes.
Natalia Ilyushko immigrated to the USA from Russia in 2007 to reunite with her family.
All her education took place in Russia. In 1969 she was graduated from Stavropol Music College with a BA degree in teaching piano and concertmaster. 1983 she received her Master's degree in pedagogy from Stavropol University. During the next 10 years she worked at Stavropol Music College. As a concertmaster, she accompanied students of voice, violin, cello and all wind instruments.
For more than 40 years she taught piano in the Government Music School in Stavropol, Russia. For 25 of those years, she was a supervisor of 30 piano teachers at the same school. Every week, she taught approximately 50 students and many of them continued their education in music colleges throughout Russia graduating from Moscow, Saint-Petersburg or the Saratov Conservatory.
She was also administrator of all the concerts and recitals of piano students at the school.
Ms. Natalia began teaching with Nadia School of Music in 2009. Her philosophy is to provide a high quality education and to teach the love of music to her students.
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Todd Holcomb
Todd Holcomb's performances have been described as virtuoso and a force of nature. As a soloist and chamber musician he has been awarded top prizes in competitions including the East Carolina University International Guitar Competition, Mississippi International Guitar Competition, and J.C. Arriaga Chamber Music Competition. He holds Bachelor's Degree in Music Performance from Shenandoah Conservatory, a Master's Degree in Music Performance and Pedagogy from Peabody Conservatory, and an Artist Diploma from Columbus State University. Currently, he is completing doctoral work at Shenandoah Conservatory under the instruction of world renown guitarist and master teacher Julian Gray.
As an educator, Todd has taught on the faculty at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and The University of Southern Mississippi as a full-time teaching assistant. He performs throughout the mid-east coast region as a soloist or with various ensembles including the Tidewater Guitar Quartet and Tidewater Guitar Orchestra. He resides in Williamsburg, VA where he teaches a private guitar studio.
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Alexandra has over seven years of teaching experience on both the harp and piano and has been particularly active as a master class teacher at local harp chapters across the country. Currently, she is an Itinerant Musician for Colonial Williamsburg, where she performs a variety of folk and early music appropriate to the 18th century and also performs locally at events and with orchestras.
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Ira Brevard Sullivan, jr. (Washington D.C., 1 mei 1931 - Miami, 21 september 2020) was een Amerikaanse jazzmuzikant in het hardbop-genre. Hij speelde trompet, bugel, saxofoon en fluit. Ook was hij is componist. De multi-instrumentalist speelde onder meer met Lester Young en Charlie Parker.

Sullivan kwam uit een muzikale familie: hij leerde trompet van zijn vader en saxofoon van zijn moeder. Begin jaren vijftig was hij lid van het huisorkest van jazzclub The Beehive in Chicago en begeleidde daar gastmusici als Bennie Green, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Paul Quinichette, Sonny Stitt en Charlie Parker. Daarna werkte hij bij Bill Russo (1955) en Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1956). In 1956 maakte hij plaatopnames met J. R. Monterose en in 1957 met Red Rodney, met wie hij zes albums maakte. In 1960 speelde hij mee op het tweede album van multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk.
Begin jaren zestig vestigde hij zich in Fort Lauderdale, waar hij speelde met jonge plaatselijke muzikanten als Jaco Pastorius en Pat Metheny. In de jaren zeventig maakte hij als leider plaatopnamen, maar ook als sideman van Philly Joe Jones en Red Garland.

Discografie (selectie)

 Billy Taylor Introduces Ira Sullivan, ABC-Paramount, 1956
 Nicky's Tune, Delmark, 1958
 Blue Stroll, Delmark, 1959
 Bird Lives!, Vee-Jay Records, 1962
 Ira Sullivan 1977, Flying Fish, 1978
 The Incredible Ira Sullivan, Stash, 1980
 Ira Sullivan Does It All, Muse, 1981
 Sprint, Wounded Bird Records, 1982
 After Hours, Go Jazz, 2001 met Red Rodney
 Night and Day, Muse, 1981
 Spirit Within, Wounded Bird Records, 1981
 Sprint, Wounded Bird Records, 1982

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 Uitgebreide discografie Ira Sullivan

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Lots of people ask us which WooCommerce bulk discount plugins work with our Product Table and Quick View plugins. Today we've been testing the official WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing plugin, plus the WooCommerce Bulk Discount and Dynamic Pricing and Discounts for WooCommerce plugins. We're pleased to announce that they all work beautifully with WooCommerce Product Table and WooCommerce Quick View Pro.
Here are all the details of how you can use bulk discounts and dynamic pricing with your own product tables and quick view popups. You can also see a product table with WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing in action on our demo page.
The official WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing extension lets you create bulk discounts based on a minimum and maximum quantity for individual products, across your entire store, or for specific categories or even product variations. It's an incredibly advanced bulk pricing plugin and you can use simple or advanced logic to create sophisticated pricing rules. It also comes with user role based pricing.
If you're using the Dynamic Pricing plugin, then customers can choose a quantity from the product table and click the Add to Cart button. When they click through to the cart and checkout, the correct quantity based pricing will be applied based on the quantity ordered.
If your product table page has a sidebar, then you can add the WooCommerce Cart widget. When people add products to the cart, the correct volume discount will be shown in the Cart widget. This reassures customers that the volume discounts are working.
See it in action on our Dynamic Pricing demo page!
If there's no Cart widget on the page, then customers can see the discount when they click through to the cart and checkout.
The 'Price' column in the product table will always show the price for a single item. Please see below for some suggestions on how you can display available bulk discounts in the product table.
If you're using Dynamic Pricing with WooCommerce Quick View Pro, then the correct discounted price will appear in the quick view lightbox.
Bulk discount plugin used with WooCommerce Product Table. The information in the 'Quantity Discounts' column has been added manually as a custom field for each product.
The WooCommerce Bulk Discount plugin makes it easy to set quantity-based discounts for any or all of your WooCommerce products. You can do this globally or for individual products.
If you're using the WooCommerce Bulk Discount plugin with WooCommerce Product Table, then customers can select a quantity from the table and add products to the cart. The appropriate volume-based discount will be correctly added to the cart.
As with the official Dynamic Pricing plugin, the Price column in the product table will just show the price for quantity of 1. See below for advice on how to display the bulk discounts in the table view.
Dynamic Pricing and Discounts for WooCommerce is similar to WooCommerce Bulk Discount, with a few extra features. There's also a Pro version with even more to offer.
Dynamic discounts for individual products and entire categories.
Discount rules based on weight, quantity, price, total units and number of items in cart.
Option to show the available discounts on the single product page, or in the add to cart column of the product table.
Set minimum and maximum quantity that the discount will apply to.
Role-based pricing – ability to set different discounts based on logged in user role (e.g. 10% discount for wholesale users).
Optional start and end/expiry date for discount rules.
Choose from flat, percentage or fixed price discounts.
The Pro version has the added bonus of being able to combine discount rules, so it's a bit more flexible. But the free version is great and offers a surprising number of features.
Dynamic Pricing and Discounts for WooCommerce works with WooCommerce Product Table in a similar way to WooCommerce Bulk Discount. The products are listed in the table layout as usual. When you add a product to the cart, the correct discount is applied and this is clearly labelled in the cart.
Can I show the bulk discount prices in the product table?
If your product table includes a Price column then this will always show the price for 1 item. This applies whichever bulk discount or dynamic pricing plugin you use – the Price column never changes.
However, the Dynamic Pricing and Discounts for WooCommerce plugin has a neat feature where you can show the available discounts for each product in the add to cart column of the product table. Simply switch this on in the settings for the plugin. If you set it to appear before or after the add to cart button then it shows up in the product table.
Unfortunately this feature isn't available in WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing or WooCommerce Bulk Discount. The only way to list the available discounts in the product table is to add an extra column with this information. This subtly encourages people to buy higher quantities, convincing them that they're getting better value.
Use the free Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add a 'Volume Discount' custom field to the 'Products' post type.
This field will now appear on the Add/Edit screen for each product. Add the discount details here.
Finally, add the custom field as an extra column in your WooCommerce product table. Please see the instructions for adding a custom field column.
As you can see, the WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing, WooCommerce Bulk Discount and Dynamic Pricing and Discounts for WooCommerce plugins work beautifully with the product table layout. They also work nicely with WooCommerce Quick View Pro if you want to show the discounted prices in a quick view lightbox.
If I had to recommend a bulk pricing WooCommerce plugin then I'd suggest Dynamic Pricing. This is the official plugin from woocommerce.com so you can be sure it will be maintained and supported for the long-term.
Use either plugin with WooCommerce Product Table and WooCommerce Quick View Pro, and get the benefits of a one-page order form, coupled with the extra incentives offered by a bulk discount plugin and dynamic pricing. This creates a powerful incentive to buy, helping to increase your sales.
It would be so thankful if you can provide the table field name for WooCommerce Bulk Discount.
Unfortunately the Bulk Discount plugin doesn't include a field showing the discount that can automatically be shown in the product table. This is because the discounts are generated dynamically based on the main product price. For a suggested workaround, please see the 3rd paragraph of the 'Can I show the bulk discount prices in the product table?' section of this tutorial. Alternatively, if you switch to the Dynamic Pricing and Discounts for WooCommerce plugin, then you can automatically show the available discounts in the add to cart column.
Need discount plugin (Woocommerce): Buy X amount items in category A and get fixed price of X amount items in category B. Only same amounts of fixed prices as bought in category A. We sell eyewear and a customer need "Lenses" and a "Frame". If customer buy "Lenses" the get the "Frame" cheaper, then just buying the "Frame" without the "Lenses".?
Hi Dan, the Dynamic Pricing extension has the most complex logic that I have seen and allows you to create some pretty advanced rules. However, I'm not an expert in it and recommend that you reach out to WooCommerce.com support to ask them if it will let you do exactly what you have described.


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pandas_market_calendars
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Market calendars to use with pandas for trading applications.

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Documentation
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http://pandas_market_calendars.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Overview
--------
The Pandas package is widely used in finance and specifically for time series analysis. It includes excellent
functionality for generating sequences of dates and capabilities for custom holiday calendars, but as an explicit
design choice it does not include the actual holiday calendars for specific exchanges or OTC markets.

The pandas_market_calendars package looks to fill that role with the holiday, late open and early close calendars
for specific exchanges and OTC conventions. pandas_market_calendars also adds several functions to manipulate the
market calendars and includes a date_range function to create a pandas DatetimeIndex including only the datetimes
when the markets are open. Additionally the package contains product specific calendars for future exchanges which
have different market open, closes, breaks and holidays based on product type.

This package provides access to over 50+ unique exchange calendars for global equity and futures markets.

This package is a fork of the Zipline package from Quantopian and extracts just the relevant parts. All credit for
their excellent work to Quantopian.

Major Releases
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As of v1.0 this package only works with Python3. This is consistent with Pandas dropping support for Python2.

As of v1.4 this package now has the concept of a break during the trading day. For example this can accommodate Asian
markets that have a lunch break, or futures markets that are open 24 hours with a break in the day for trade processing.

As of v2.0 this package provides a mirror of all the calendars from the `exchange_calendars <https://github.com/gerrymanoim/exchange_calendars>`_
package, which itself is the now maintained fork of the original trading_calendars package. This adds over 50 calendars.

As of v3.0, the function date_range() is more complete and consistent, for more discussion on the topic refer to PR #142 and Issue #138.

As of v4.0, this package provides the framework to add interruptions to calendars. These can also be added to a schedule and viewed using
the new interruptions_df property. A full list of changes can be found in PR #210.

Source location
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/rsheftel/pandas_market_calendars

Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~
``pip install pandas_market_calendars``

Arch Linux package available here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pandas_market_calendars/

Calendars
---------
The list of `available calendars <https://pandas-market-calendars.readthedocs.io/en/latest/calendars.html>`_

Quick Start
-----------
.. code:: python

    import pandas_market_calendars as mcal

    # Create a calendar
    nyse = mcal.get_calendar('NYSE')

    # Show available calendars
    print(mcal.get_calendar_names())

.. code:: python

    early = nyse.schedule(start_date='2012-07-01', end_date='2012-07-10')
    early

.. parsed-literal::

                      market_open             market_close
    =========== ========================= =========================
     2012-07-02 2012-07-02 13:30:00+00:00 2012-07-02 20:00:00+00:00
     2012-07-03 2012-07-03 13:30:00+00:00 2012-07-03 17:00:00+00:00
     2012-07-05 2012-07-05 13:30:00+00:00 2012-07-05 20:00:00+00:00
     2012-07-06 2012-07-06 13:30:00+00:00 2012-07-06 20:00:00+00:00
     2012-07-09 2012-07-09 13:30:00+00:00 2012-07-09 20:00:00+00:00
     2012-07-10 2012-07-10 13:30:00+00:00 2012-07-10 20:00:00+00:00

.. code:: python

    mcal.date_range(early, frequency='1D')

.. parsed-literal::

    DatetimeIndex(['2012-07-02 20:00:00+00:00', '2012-07-03 17:00:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-05 20:00:00+00:00', '2012-07-06 20:00:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-09 20:00:00+00:00', '2012-07-10 20:00:00+00:00'],
                  dtype='datetime64[ns, UTC]', freq=None)

.. code:: python

    mcal.date_range(early, frequency='1H')

.. parsed-literal::

    DatetimeIndex(['2012-07-02 14:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-02 15:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-02 16:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-02 17:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-02 18:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-02 19:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-02 20:00:00+00:00', '2012-07-03 14:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-03 15:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-03 16:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-03 17:00:00+00:00', '2012-07-05 14:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-05 15:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-05 16:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-05 17:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-05 18:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-05 19:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-05 20:00:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-06 14:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-06 15:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-06 16:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-06 17:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-06 18:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-06 19:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-06 20:00:00+00:00', '2012-07-09 14:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-09 15:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-09 16:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-09 17:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-09 18:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-09 19:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-09 20:00:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-10 14:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-10 15:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-10 16:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-10 17:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-10 18:30:00+00:00', '2012-07-10 19:30:00+00:00',
                   '2012-07-10 20:00:00+00:00'],
                  dtype='datetime64[ns, UTC]', freq=None)

Contributing
------------
All improvements and additional (and corrections) in the form of pull requests are welcome. This package will grow in
value and correctness the more eyes are on it.

To add new functionality please include tests which are in standard pytest format.

Use pytest to run the test suite.

For complete information on contributing see CONTRIBUTING.md_

.. _CONTRIBUTING.md: https://github.com/rsheftel/pandas_market_calendars/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Future
------
This package is open sourced under the MIT license. Everyone is welcome to add more exchanges or OTC markets, confirm
or correct the existing calendars, and generally do whatever they desire with this code.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Omdia: Global smartphone market loses steam in 3Q21 as shipments decline 11.1% compared to last year in wake of supply chain woes
17.7 million units in 3Q 2021, compared to the 357.4 million units shipped in 3Q 2020, according to the latest global smartphone shipment preliminary results report from research group Omdia.....
The global smartphone market contracted 11.1 percent year-over-year (YoY), to 317.7 million units in 3Q 2021, compared to the 357.4 million units shipped in 3Q 2020, according to the latest global smartphone shipment preliminary results report from research group Omdia.
On-going supply chain issues are halting the momentum of the smartphone market, which had been growing YoY since 3Q20. COVID-19 continues to impact smartphone makers and consumers around the world, also affecting the market.
"The shortage of semiconductor-related components supply since the beginning of the year is affecting set shipments in the second half of the year rather than in the first half. In particular, shipments from third-tier OEMs, which have less economies of scale than first-tier companies, are significantly decreasing," said Jusy Hong, senior research manager for wireless devices at Omdia.
Top 10 Manufacturers (shipment figures represent millions of units)
Rank OEM 3Q21 2Q21 3Q20 QoQ YoY
Shipment M/S Shipment M/S Shipment M/S
1 Samsung 69.2 22% 57.2 19% 81.2 23% 20.9% -14.8%
2 Apple 50.9 16% 43.3 14% 41.5 12% 17.6% 22.7%
3 Xiaomi 45.6 14% 49.9 17% 44.5 12% -8.6% 2.5%
4 Oppo 33.2 10% 32.5 11% 28.0 8% 2.2% 18.6%
5 vivo 32.6 10% 31.6 11% 30.2 8% 3.2% 8.0%
6 Honor 14.5 5% 6.7 2% 13.5 4% 116.4% 7.2%
7 Motorola 12.3 4% 10.6 4% 10.5 3% 16.0% 16.7%
8 Realme 12.1 4% 11.4 4% 14.5 4% 6.1% -16.8%
9 Tecno 6.4 2% 7.1 2% 6.7 2% -9.9% -5.1%
10 Huawei 5.8 2% 9.8 3% 38.4 11% -40.8% -84.9%
Others 15.5 5% 12.5 4% 48.3 14% 24.0% -67.9%
Total 317.7 100% 300.3 100% 357.4 100% 5.8% -11.1%
Source: OMDIA
Samsung took the top spot, shipping 69.2 million units, down 14.8 percent YoY, compared to the 81.2 million units shipped in 3Q20. However, the company saw shipments rise 20.9 percent quarter-on-quarter. Samsung experienced setbacks in smartphone production in the second quarter due to the spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant in India and Vietnam, where major production bases are located.
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Motorola increased shipments by 16.7 percent YoY, from 10.5 million units in 3Q20 to 12.3 million units this year. Motorola's shipments also grew QoQ, by 16.0 percent.
Realme saw shipments decline by 16.8 percent to 12.1 million units in 3Q21, from 14.5 million units in 2Q20, as the company slipped to 8th position globally.
Transsion holdings brand Tecno saw shipments decline by 5.1 percent YoY, from 6.7 million units in 3Q20 to 6.4 million units this past quarter.
Rounding out the top ten, Huawei shipped 5.8 million units, or 84.9 percent less than in 3Q20. QoQ, Huawei's shipments declined 40.8 percent, from 9.8 million units in 2Q21. Even though shipments are declining and are now focused mostly on the Chinese market, Huawei has not given up on international markets yet, announcing the upcoming availability of new devices in markets beyond China.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2023 11:55 AM
Ruling coalition Task Force preparing to submit final report to top leaders today
Published On: September 8, 2022 08:47 AM NPT By: Republica | @RepublicaNepal
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Ruling parties inch closer to the seat-sharing deal for Nov 20 election
KATHMANDU, Sept 9: The ruling five political parties have neared the seat sharing for the November 20 election to the...
Final decision on seats allocation soon: Ruling alliance
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Agreement on the number of seats in the Provincial Assembly to be followed by HoR seat allocation
KATHMANDU, August 29: The five ruling parties could not reach an agreement on the number of seats in the Task...


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The One Real Thing by Samantha young
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The story sets out by introducing us to Jessica Huntington. A general surgeon who, having lost her way in her career, now finds herself working within a women's correctional and rehabilitation facility. Jessica thinks that she enjoys her job and she does until she comes across the seaside city of Hartwell. After finding hidden letters within a book from the prison library, Jessica decides to find the recipient of the unposted letters which are now forty years old.
With leave due, and Jessica's plans unexpectedly cancelled, she decides to hand deliver the letters in the hope that they can bring some peace to those involved in the emotive story held within them.
Arriving in Hartwell, Jessica immediately finds peace within the boardwalk. Staying in Bailey Hartwell's Inn, Jessica soon finds a loyal friend in Bailey and the pair quickly become firm friends. But it's Cooper Lawson who really captures Jessica's attention. After running into him, and seeking an escape from the rain in his bar, Jessica and Cooper experience an immediate mutual attraction. Cooper knows for certain that he's not prepared to let Jessica slip through his fingers and decides to do everything he can to make her his. Jessica though has a casual relationship back home and despite only using Andrew, another surgeon, purely for sex, they had agreed to be exclusive.
With a close-knit community comes drama though and Jessica realises that there is no such thing as a secret in Hart's Boardwalk and that's where we meet the key players in this book. From the quiet and secretive Emery, to Iris and Ira, we experience a real feeling of belonging, that is also felt by Jessica, who soon starts to realise that that she can't turn her back on this town and especially Cooper.
With uncertainty comes romance as Cooper decides he is done waiting for Jessica to come to him. From the moment they connect, Jessica knows her life will never be the same as her heart starts to flutter to Cooper's beat but unbeknownst to Cooper, Jessica has a secret and a painful past that she is reluctant to reveal, that is until the unscrupulous Ian Devlin finds out. The Devlin's are the town's painful reminder of its vulnerability as the family try to make the Boardwalk theirs, by whatever methods they choose and that includes blackmail. What they don't foresee is the strength in unity courtesy of the rest of the Boardwalk community.
With the fight against Ian Devlin comes the realisation that for Jessica to stay in Hartwell and with Cooper she must reveal her secret to him and boy is it s big secret.
I really felt for Jessica throughout this book and when her secret was finally revealed I cried for her pain. Fortunately though her HEA is within her reach but only if she can trust Cooper to accept her for who she is.
Throughout this book, the scene for the next instalment is set and I can't wait to read it. Set to be a romance between bitter hotel rivals: Bailey Hartwell and Vaughn Tremaine. Now that's going to be one teasingly sexy story to read!
Review: Savage Things
Tuesday, 9 August 2016 No comments
Savage Things by Callie Hart
Will we ever get enough of Zeth Mayfair?!!!
For me, absolutely not. Zeth is the epitome of a diamond in the rough as he taunts and teasers readers with his dark and brooding personality.
Right from the very beginning of this book, our heart strings are pulled as we witness yet more pain and suffering for poor Mason Reeves. From a fleeting memory, to the present day battle he faces with his sister's deteriorating health, Mason struggles to find the money to maintain Millie's healthcare. With her medical condition seemingly getting worse, Mason, and Millie, find themselves in the care of Sloane. Not knowing of her connection to Zeth, Mason struggles to know what to do for the best to ensure he has enough health cover to fight the even bigger battles he knows Millie will face. Sloane is Sloane though, and not averse to breaking a few hospital rules, offers Mason a lifeline in order to maintain Millie's treatment a little longer.
As if Mason doesn't have enough to worry about with Millie, he also has Agent Lowell breathing down his throat as she determinedly tries to find evidence against Zeth to link him to the body found in the mountains. Mason is torn between his loyalties but Lowell knows just how to inflict the maximum amount of threat in order to make Mason dance to her tune. When Sloane finds out that Mason is working with Lowell, she immediately tells Zeth and Mason's problems escalate.
Despite the story focussing mainly around Mason and Millie, we still spend a lot of time with Zeth as he starts to feel pressure himself, from the Barbieri family in New York. After sending an envoy to convince Zeth to join them, Zeth's now relatively quiet life looks to be one again under threat as war is declared.
To compliment the sharp edges to this story, we also experience sadness and hope as Mason's pain continues and Sloane finds herself facing a difficult decision herself. Michael, as ever, is always at hand to support both Zeth and Sloane though and with his life as mysterious as always, readers are left wondering just what he is hiding in his love life.
The book ends with some delicious storylines ahead. With Zeth ready to retaliate against the Barbieri family, Sloane and Zeth, looking to the future together, and Agent Lowell's never ending obsession with Zeth, I for one can't wait for more.
I fear that Callie Hart will never get to escape Zeth Mayfair as his attraction doesn't seem to diminish. Despite this series being a spin-off from the hugely successful Blood & Roses series, it still feels like part of that original series but with different adversaries providing the danger. Mason adds a fresh feel to the story though as we're treated to a bad-boy in training. With his life now shattered, he is likely to come out fighting in an attempt to avenge the darkness he now finds himself in.
This is clearly another hit from Callie Hart. Her writing continues to mesmerize and her storytelling is magical. I can't recommend her books, and amazing characters, strongly enough!
Tags: 5 Stars, Dark Romance
5 Star Review: The One Real Thing (Hart's Boardwalk, #1) by Samantha Young
Monday, 8 August 2016 No comments
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Of course Hebden Bridge has a bridge. The town is in a valley, with many streams and rivers running together. It has many bridges. But "the" bridge of Hebden Bridge is this one, the "old" bridge. It's just over 500 years old. There probably was a time this was the only bridge across this waterway. It's hard to imagine, with the town built up all around.
Since I read about bridges non-stop to my son when he was a 2-year-old, I recognized the type of bridge as a stone arch with pointed abutments, which not only help reduce the wear and tear of the water on the bridge supports but provided places for pedestrians to pull out of traffic when a cart went by.
There is no cart traffic across the bridge these days, only pedestrians. I was struck with how steep it is. You literally have to climb up, over and down this bridge.
Now it's a gathering place for the ducks, and a nice place to pause and take in the view as you walk about the town.
The town is quite fond of their old bridge, and I can see why. With time and use this bridge has earned it's place as the icon of Hebden Bridge.
Have you ever visited someplace new and felt like it was coming home? That's how I feel here in Hebden Bridge! I don't know if it's because I'm back in Europe for the first time since moving from Italy, or if it's because I visited with several friends today, but I feel at home here. It's a lovely little town! I love the stone buildings and the colorful doors.
My journey was fairly uneventful and luckily enough the rains stopped before I arrived. There were many places in the Yorkshire area that were flooded and travel was interrupted for many people on Tuesday, but there were no interruptions to my travel on Wednesday. Thankfully, this time Hebden Bridge did not suffer any flooding. They've already been flooded twice this year, and you can see the evidence in the storefronts that are being cleaned out and the sandbags at the doorsteps, ready to be put in place.
Well, I'm off to bed… It's 11pm here. Jet lag hasn't been a problem for me yet. I wonder when it will catch up with me? Oh, and I tried Wensleydale cheese for the first time today. Yum. Fabulous!
Today's the day! I'm travelling to the UK. I'm off to find out what's behind the red door of adventure. I'm eager to get back across the Atlantic. This is my first international travel since returning from Italy over a year ago, and I wonder what new things I will discover?
I'll be blogging from the road, so you'll get updates here and there about my experiences.
I am excited to be the "Flickr Photo of the Month" for masteringphoto.com with my photograph "Scwinn Approved." You can see it here.
Visit Grow Soul Beautiful, a lovely new site dedicated to the mind+body connection of yoga and photography, for a chance to win a space in the upcoming October/November Find Your Eye course series. Also Sherry Galey, one of my participants in the summer course series, wrote a lovely (and unsolicited) post on her experience with the Find Your Eye e-course. I hope you will follow Sherry's advice and join us for this next journey!
This month's Photo-Heart Connection will be from England. I wonder how that will affect my connection? Join me October 1 through 7 with your Photo-Heart Connection too.
I think that's it! You'll next hear from me on the other side. Yay!
This morning, I continue to ponder the difference between intention and expectation, and the relationship between the two. I continue to seek a way to maintain the space created by letting go of expectations. With all of the random thinking I've been doing around this topic, I might have found a way.
Let go of the expectations. No easy task, here. But it's the starting point. Identifying the expectations that are driving you in a direction, examining them and letting them go if they do not serve you. I started with this, in Lessons from Abroad: Letting go of Expectations, but I didn't know where to go next.
In the space created, explore how you want to feel. Maybe it's a feeling of peace. Maybe it's acceptance of what is, or love for the world around you. For me, there is always this desire for balance. I have so many different sides to me, always pulling me different directions. I somewhere gained the expectation I should choose among them, but I have come to realize I am not complete without any of them. I've become clear: A feeling of peaceful, joyful balance is what I desire.
Fill the space left by letting go of expectations with the intention to feel as you desire. Intention becomes the mirror for evaluating actions. As I set out on a path, I reflect the path against my intention (non-physical feelings) instead of comparing it against some expectations (physical outcomes). If the action fits with the intention I continue; If it doesn't fit, I change course. The path is guided by the intention, in the moment. I lose the rigidness of a predetermined plan.
I'm liking this sequence. Instead of holding the space left by letting go expectations empty, I've filled it with something. But that "something" allows me the space, flexibility and non-attachment to outcomes I am seeking. With my intention filling the space and becoming the guiding factor, maybe I can avoid getting myself into the same situation again. That darn situation of letting expectations for outcomes drive me. Or maybe I can avoid getting myself into the same situation as quickly – I seem to keep coming back to this place so I can only hope that someday I will truly learn and move on.


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Bahrain dismisses Qatar's UN claims as 'baseless'
Escalations between Manama and Doha have continued to drag on for weeks, raising questions regarding upcoming GCC talks aimed at resolving the three-year-long crisis.
Bahrain rejected Qatar's claims to the United Nations [UN] regarding the reported December 9 violation of Doha's airspace by its fighter jets, claiming that the allegations are "baseless", Anadolu Agency reported.
Manama's response comes after Doha sent a letter to the UN Security Council about the alleged violation of its airspace by four Bahraini fighter jets.
In a statement by its Foreign Ministry, the country described Qatari authorities' claims as "irresponsible" alleging that on the date of the incident, two of its F-16's along with two others from the US were on a military drill in the "designated military exercise area" in Saudi Arabia's airspace, insisting that they had not trespassed into Qatari territory.
The statement added that following the exercise, the fighter jets were reportedly heading back to Bahrain and had to cross the Saudi airspace on its way in order to land at Isa Air Base.
The statement read: "The ministry affirms that this is the usual exit route from the military drill area towards the airspace of the Kingdom of Bahrain and that on their way back, the aircraft did not use the Qatari airspace as the Royal Bahraini Air Force fighters always perform their sorties in a professional manner, making sure not to penetrate the borders of other countries."
On Thursday, Doha's Permanent Representative to the UN, ambassador Sheikha Alya bint Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani presented the official complaint on behalf of her government, confirming Bahraini military aircrafts violated their airspace.
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The letter submitted before the UN and its representatives expressed Doha's strong condemnation of the violations, describing them as an infringement of its sovereignty, territorial integrity and security.
Qatar added that the violations are also inconsistent with international law, noting that such escalations raise tensions in the region, which have already been exacerbated by the unjust blockade on Qatar, which Manama is involved in, the Qatari News Agency [QNA] said.
"[The letter] called on Bahrain to refrain from these provocative and irresponsible acts, and to abide by the United Nations Charter, international law, international agreements and the provisions of the International Court of Justice," QNA reported.
Bahrain's role in promoting regional stability is still in question following several violations of Qatar's water and air territories.
That being said, reports released last week suggested that Manama has been pushing for negotiations with Doha to reach a maritime agreement.
According to Kuwaiti media, the potential agreement would entail sharing territorial waters that would allow fishermen from both countries to access their territorial waters "in a way that would benefit the citizens of the two countries and enhance joint Gulf cooperation".
On Wednesday, Bahrain also called for an end to the GCC crisis after weeks of silence despite current reconciliation talks.
Some analysts believe that Bahrain is being used by the UAE as a tool to sabotage the current negotiations taking place to resolve the Gulf crisis.
Speaking to Doha News, Dr. Majed Al-Ansari, Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at Qatar University, said: "It was very clear that the Bahrainis and Emiratis are not keen to end the crisis. We have seen the delay in their announcements of supporting the Kuwaiti efforts and we've seen no deescalation in the media from their side. However, it is also known that Manama's foreign policy is a proxy for the Saudi foreign policy and, more recently, for the Emirati foreign policy."
All GCC members will be meeting on December 27 for a virtual preparatory session ahead of the 41st GCC Summit, scheduled on January 5th in Riyadh.
Commenting on the December meeting, Bahraini Minister for Foreign Affairs Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani said that his country looks forward to a successful session "that leads to strengthening the Gulf dialogue in order to achieve the desired future goals".
In 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt announced the illegal blockade on Qatar, severing all diplomatic relations with the Gulf country.
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This Breitling Unitime wristwatch gives us a glimpse of the world back in the day when demand for international travel was on the rise. This model was Breitling's answer to providing a practical solution for globetrotters in a neatly designed wristwatch.
With the rise of commercial airlines, the 1950s saw an increase in international travel. In response to this shift from simpler domestic travel to international travel often crossing multiple time zones, many watch manufacturers responded to this trend with their versions of a travel watch. The most well-recognized models are the Rolex GMT-Master, which was introduced in 1954, and the Patek Philippe reference 1415 with 40 cities designed by Louis Cottier, which was introduced in 1939. This example from Breitling was based on a similar concept to the Patek Philippe, with a rotating 24-hour inner bezel and 24 cities displayed on the outer area of the dial. The Unitime is powered by a self-winding movement, the caliber 260, with a red date. This watch was designed to keep convenience in the forefront, while also being elegant enough to wear under a suit jacket.
Overall, the example is in very good vintage condition. The case is in very good condition with light surface scratches. The caseback engraving is fully legible. There are some noticeable scratches and light nicks on the backside of the lugs. The case may have been lightly polished at some point. The outer bezel turns without any issues, and the ridges on the bezel are well preserved as well. The crown is unsigned. The dial has aged beautifully, with varying degrees of satin silver to light champagne hues present, which give some additional depth. The names of the cities on the outer track are still very clear, and the rotating inner bezel with 24-hour indication is rotating without any issues. There are some signs of aging with spots and scratches in the center of the dial, which is often seen with this model. The handset appears to be original. The watch is in running condition, and the date is advancing correctly at this time.


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Marc Bridge
Perry Desmond-Davies
Bridge & Davies
Perry Desmond-Davies photo credit: Shannon Powers
Perry Desmond-Davies' original songs relate to experiences in life, relationships, work, and even serious illness. Her distinctive voice ties the words and music together: always tender, lyric and melodic, at times soaring, seductive or smoky. Says a fan: "her voice and songs are pure and powerful; they touch unguarded parts of the listener, filling us with joy, nostalgia and longing. Once you hear Perry Desmond-Davies, you will never confuse her with anyone else. "
Sweet Ride, her current release, is a full length studio album that has been described as: "an inspired, addictive mix of folk, blues, bluegrass and a capella, all driven by an exceptionally beautiful voice." The 12 original songs (and three live bonus tracks) continue to receive high praise and constant airplay across the US, UK and Canada.
Perry began performing on the New England coffeehouse scene as a teenager, then stashed away the music to focus on career and family. She returned to her musical roots a few years later, and has been sharing her voice and songs with happy listeners ever since.
A finalist in Portsmouth, NH's Prescott Park Arts and Acoustic Festival Emerging Singer-Songwriter competition, and chosen as one of ten finalists selected nation-wide for the 2011 Susquehanna Music Fest in Havre de Grace, MD, Perry has performed at the Wachusett Valley Folk Festival's Showcase stage, as we;; has also hosted several successful coffeehouses and open mikes, including The Gathering Place(Nashua, NH), The Pleasant Café Open Mike(Maynard, MA), and a Boston-area based "Unplugged" monthly music series.
Perry's first recording, "This One's for You", is from a live performance at Simple Gifts Coffeehouse in Nashua, NH. In addition to her heartfelt original compositions, Perry's unique tributes to John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery", Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl", and a scorching rendition of the classic "House of the Rising Sun" had the audience of 100 joining in with their own harmonies and percussion as well. Her a capella encore will bring tears to your eyes...
Sweet Ride, her newest release, is a full length studio album that has been described as: "an inspired, addictive mix of folk, blues, bluegrass and a capella, all driven by an exceptionally beautiful voice."
The 12 original songs (and three live bonus tracks) continue to receive wide acclaim and constant airplay across the US, UK and Canada. The title track was recently featured on NPR Car Talk's Christmas show!!
Sweet Ride and This One's for You are both available for purchase and digital download (per track or whole album) right here on her website, and also at CDBaby, ITunes, Amazon MP3, CDFreedom, Rhapsody, and many other online distributors.
A sampling of reviews:
"The songwriting of Perry Desmond-Davies never stands on ceremony. She writes from the heart and mind about the ups and downs of everyday life that carry the weight of honest experience. Desmond-Davies' voice is unadulterated and pure, cut from the same working class cloth as artists such as Pete Seeger, Tom Waits and even a bit of early Janis Joplin. She plays working class hero on Sweet Ride, sticking to the basics of everyday life and the human condition; drawing the joy and pain of small victories and subtle defeats out into the open in song. She is a story-teller who writes songs, or a songwriter who tells-stories. It's hard to say which comes first, as the two talents blend thoroughly throughout Sweet Ride. A Sweet Ride it is."
- Wildy Haskell, Wildy's World
Perry Desmond-Davies' CD "Sweet Ride" is a beautifully written, performed and recorded paean to the joys and miseries of everyday life. Favorite moments were the good time feel of "Sweet Ride", the gorgous, heartfelt, vocal performance of "Beautiful Child", the spooky lyric of "Eyes Wide Open" and the uplifting sentiment of "New Beginnings". Other favorites were the intimate, live piano version of "Nobody Cares" and the honky-tonk joy of the live "One Hot Mama". Perry's plaintive vocalizations on her bluesy and darker lyrics are chilling and real and sometimes remind the listener of early Janis Joplin and Billie Holiday. Seth Connelly's production and arrangement work is stunningly passionate and musically articulate and perfectly supports and compliments each tune and lyric. All in all, "Sweet Ride" is an aptly titled and thoroughly enjoyable listening experience.
Jeff Root, Performer/Producer
" Over the course of a single song, Perry's soaring, emotive voice will weave in and out of different styles (Country, R&B, Folk), which lend the song the dynamics that are so difficult for solo acoustic performers to achieve."
Hewitt Huntwork - Boston Acoustic Underground Award Winner, Host:Acton Jazz Café
Nobody Cares 5:10
Sweet Ride 4:11
Beautiful Child 3:53
Lost Time 2:56
Never Forget 5:52
Longer Than You Know 4:20
Eyes Wide Open 3:58
Irresponsible 5:05
New Beginnings 4:52
All I Want 3:48
The Elephant in the Room(Bridge) 4:21
When Love's Arrow Strikes(Bridge) 3:51
Same Sex Marriage (Bridge) 3:47
All I Want (Davies) 4:00
Potter's Clay (Bridge) 4:12
New Beginnings (Davies) 4:15
World I've Been Waiting For (Bridge) 4:17
Sweet Ride (Davies) 4:23
One Safe Place(Marc Cohn) 4:01
THE Happy Folk Song (Davies) 3:55


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SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A new technology has been developed that enables speedy manufacturing of vaccine seed viruses for foot and mouth disease, regardless of the type.
A research team led by Park Jong-hyeon at the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA) said that it had succeeded in creating a gene substitution system that makes the production of vaccine seed viruses quicker and easier for the mass-production of vaccines.
Foot and mouth diseases are categorized into seven types by their serotypes, and are further subcategorized into a variety of detailed types by their gene base sequences.
Up until now, vaccines for foot and mouth disease could not be produced unless the right type of vaccine seed virus was obtained, and vaccine seed viruses have typically been imported from abroad for domestic use. As such, it usually took Korean companies one or two years to produce a vaccine.
The research team said that it was now able to obtain every type of gene by turning the RNA (a genetic information transmitting material) of a vaccine virus (O type) into DNA with the technology of reverse genetics.
Simply put, once the genetic information of a foot and mouth disease virus is obtained, any type of vaccine seed viruses can now be made from the DNA synthesizing process.
The new technology is the first of its kind, added the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency.
When making use of the new technology, the production period of a new vaccine seed virus can be shortened to three to six months, which drastically reduces the length of time required to mass produce vaccines. Details of the new technology were published in the latest edition of Journal of Virology, a renowned scientific journal in the study of viruses.
The source technology will be transferred to the business industry so that better conditions for privately-led domestic vaccine production can be created, said an official from the APQA.


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The Dangerous Distraction of Digital Billboards
Advertisers know it's important to capture people's attention to make an impact, but when it comes to taking people's attention away from driving, the impact could come in the form of a high-speed crash.
Unlike traditional billboards, which are simply large painted boards, digital billboards can change their bright and colorful images every few seconds. This makes the digital billboard flashy and interesting to the traffic passing by, not unlike a huge big-screen television along the side of the road, but is it too eye-catching for safety?
The scientific proof is still disputed, but marketers ought to be aware of the potentially deadly consequences of digital billboards as an advertising channel. To inform marketers who may be considering digital billboards going forward, here are some studies and their findings regarding safety.
Virginia Tech study
The Transportation Institute at Virginia Tech published a fact sheet based on their 2006 study of car accidents and near-collisions. They used a number of monitoring instruments in each car, including five channels of digital video, front and rear radar sensors, accelerometers and vision-based lane trackers, to capture about a year's worth of data on 100 different cars used for general-purpose driving.
They found that nearly 80% of crashes, and 65% of near-crashes, occurred due to driver inattention such as distraction or simply looking away for three seconds. When it comes to rear-end striking crashes, inattention was a contributing factor in 93% of cases. Interestingly, the rate of crash and near-crash incidents due to inattention decreased with age, with the 18- -20-year-old age group four times higher than older age groups such as 35+ years of age.
This well-respected study shows that only a couple seconds of inattention can easily lead to auto accidents.
ODOT study
In this early study of digital billboard safety in 2008 by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), brought about when Salem, Oregon introduced four digital billboards to a major arterial thoroughfare, ODOT reviewed the existing literature and found that further research was needed.
One noteworthy point ODOT raised in this brief report is that the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson after having been led by the efforts of his wife Lady Bird Johnson, was based partially on concerns about driver distraction by billboards. "Advertising that could distract or impair the driver's vision was removed from highways under the Highway Beautification Act of 1965."
Swedish study
In 2012, Swedish researchers published their study on the effects of electronic billboards regarding driver distraction in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention. This study showed that drivers looked at digital billboards significantly longer than conventional ones. The results read, "The visual behaviour data showed that drivers had a significantly longer dwell time, a greater number of fixations and longer maximum fixation duration when driving past an electronic billboard compared to other signs on the same road stretches."
The digital signs often took the drivers' attention away from the road for more than two seconds, which compares to the duration of inattention leading to crashes in the Virginia Tech study noted above.
As a result of this study, the Swedish government outlawed the use of digital billboards and ordered the removal of all the digital billboards they had authorized since introduction in 2009.
FHWA study
In 2013, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued the results of its digital billboard safety study, concluding that they were not a danger to traffic safety.
However, a peer-reviewed critique of the FHWA study later reported a number of problems with its methodology. The researchers were not familiar with the proper operation of their test equipment, the tested digital billboards were not as bright as those studied elsewhere, they only tested a handful of billboards, and the final report contained unexplained differences from earlier drafts. All of this, they say, makes the FHWA study conclusions highly suspect.
New England study
A 2016 paper published in Accident Analysis and Prevention by the New England University Transportation Center & MIT AgeLab reported an increase in number and duration of glances at digital billboards compared to regular billboards, and those glances were correlated with the times when those billboard images switched.
Led by a psychologist, this paper explains that flashy images evoke "obligatory shifts of covert visual attention" that automatically take place in less than 100 milliseconds. The researchers analyzed video from two previous field studies and found that drivers spent significantly less time concentrating on the road as they approached digital billboards.
The researchers admit that the ramifications of driver distraction on safety remain somewhat unclear, noting, "Although these data show a clear change in the distribution of glance behavior around the billboard, it is unclear at this time what, if any, features are safety-relevant." Nonetheless, they advise that action should be taken to further assess and mitigate the safety impacts of digital billboards.
Aside from the risks to human life posed by digital billboards, which should dissuade some conscientious marketers on that basis alone, it's possible that legal ramifications could ensue.
"One lawsuit recovered $1.9 million for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle while working on the roadside," says Jason Hennessey, marketing consultant for Atlanta Car Accident Lawyer. "The stakes are extremely high for the parties found responsible for distracting drivers."
Furthermore, as public awareness grows about these safety issues, companies using digital billboards may experience damage to their reputations for partaking in the questionable practice.
Perhaps, with the advent of self-driving cars, accidents due to distracted drivers will be eliminated and all vehicle occupants will be able to fully amuse themselves safely in looking at all the digital billboards decorating the roadside.
In any case, in this age of constant and rapid technological innovation, marketers need to choose their advertising media wisely. Effectiveness and return on investment are key factors in evaluating new advertising technologies, but as these studies show, there are some audiences whose attention you should not seek to capture.
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