The Tri-City Red and North St. Paul American Legion baseball teams shared the regular-season Fourth District title and were ranked in the top 10 in this week's state poll. So it shouldn't be that much of a surprise that they are the last two teams without a loss in the district playoffs.
The longtime rivals square off Thursday at 8 p.m. at North St. Paul with a spot in the district final on the line. The winner gets Friday off and plays for the district championship on Saturday while the loser must win on Friday to get to Saturday.
Tri-City Red advanced to Thursday's game by beating Tri-City Maroon 9-2 on Wednesday night at Midway Stadium. Red took control with eight runs in the first two innings.
North St. Paul also won on Wednesday night, 2-0 over Maplewood Green.
In the loser's bracket games on Wednesday, Hamline Purple whipped White Bear Orange 14-4 in seven innings and Rosetown, even though it lost, advanced because of a forfeit. Rosetown and Roseville East agreed to play the game but regardless of the outcome, Rosetown was going to advance. Roseville East was caught using an ineligible player in its game against North St. Paul on Tuesday and was eliminated from the tournament.
On Thursday, Hamline Purple and Maplewood Green play at 5 p.m. at North St. Paul and Rosetown and Tri-City Maroon play at 5 p.m. at Midway Stadium. The winners play each other on Friday.
Fourth round, Thursday Game 11 - Hamline Purple vs. Maplewood Green at North St. Paul, 5 p.m. Game 12 - Rosetown vs. Tri-City Maroon at Midway Stadium, 5 p.m. Game 13 - Tri-City Red at North St. Paul, 8 p.m.


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The Christmas speech of Elizabeth II became the most rated program on a festive night. In total, the Queen's address to the nation was watched by 8.1 million people, with a large proportion going to BBC One. There, 6.3 million people watched the broadcast. This is one hundred thousand less than last year.
In general, the British have become much less likely to use TV over the year. According to analytical data, on December 25, 46 million people watched programs on TV, but in 2019 there were 12 million more.
This year, many were unhappy with the Queen's speech. The fact is that she put on the table only a snapshot of her husband, Prince Philip, although portraits of close members of the royal family usually appear there. Also, Her Majesty did not mention important events that affected their family: Megsit, Princess Beatrice's wedding, and Princess Eugenie's pregnancy.
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Have you heard him on "The Young and the Restless"?Aside from being a talented singer and songwriter, Kilpatrick is a genuinely nice guy—warm, friendly and modest. Here's hoping Hollywood keeps calling and sending him checks.
Who doesn't like free money? Not seeing any hands raised, we'll move forward.
Unless they're Bono or Mick Jagger, musicians tend to earn every penny they make, and Maine's Pete Kilpatrick would fall into that category, so it's nice to hear that he's made a few bucks by having TV shows use his songs. "The Office," "Parks and Recreation," "Community," and even that old soap opera warhorse "The Young and the Restless" have all woven Kilpatrick's music into their episodes. When a song that was written and recorded months or years before gets picked up for a series, it's pretty much free money for the musician.
Aside from being a talented singer and songwriter, Kilpatrick is a genuinely nice guy—warm, friendly and modest. Here's hoping Hollywood keeps calling and sending him checks.


Kata Blue Sea Resort is a modern three-story hotel with air conditioned rooms. The facilities are of high standard and include swimming pool, parking, airport transfer, tour reservation and Wi-Fi internet access in the rooms as well as in the lobby. Each guest room has a sliding glass door to the spacious balcony which offers either sea view or pool view. The rooms also come with en-suite showers and separated sinks with vanity mirror.
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Så trevligt familjehotell med fantastisk service! Hit återvänder vi om vi åker till Kata Beach igen! Really nice familyhotel with fantastic service! We will come back!
Litet familjehotell med suverän service. Pool som delades med ett annat hotell. Bra frukost. Liten kostnad för internetuppkoppling. Ca: 10 minuter att gå ner till stranden. Lugnt område. Ingen restaurang på hotellet men en restaurang med supergod mat på hörnet av byggnaden. Hotellet bjöd på en spontan grillfest en av kvällarna. Enda minuset var att det va hårda sängar.
The Kata Blue Sea Resort is a modern, clean and friendly boutique hotel in Kata, Phuket, offering ideal accommodation for single travellers, couples and families on short- or long-term stays in Phuket.
Conveniently located in a quiet, well-kept residential area in the heart of Kata Town, Kata Blue Sea Resort guests enjoy peaceful accommodation just a few minutes walk to Kata Beach, nearby shops and entertainment venues.
Our stylishly decorated, air conditioned rooms are available as Twin or Double rooms, each with an en-suite bathroom, plus balcony offering either a sea view, pool view or as a private shaded area.
Guests at the Kata Blue Sea Resort enjoy daily all-you-can-eat complimentary European-style breakfast, use of the swimming pool, plus the added convenience of free broadband wireless internet access (wi-fi) in the rooms and in the lobby.
Kata Blue Sea Resort is a modern low density three-story hotel in Kata with just 20 modern rooms. We offer Stylish twin- and double-bed air conditioned rooms with sea view, pool view and private balcony options, depending on availability.
Each room has an en-suite shower and separate sink with vanity mirror. Towels are provided and toiletries are replenished daily. Each guest room has sliding glass doors opening onto a spacious balcony.
Other in-room features include: CC TV, Cable TV with 100 local and international channels, Wireless broadband internet access (wi-fi).
Enjoy an all-you-can-eat complimentary European-style buffet breakfast in the hotel lobby daily from 7 a.m. until 10 a.m. Dine in air-conditioned comfort or catch some early morning rays on the front terrace.
Order your omelet's just the way you like them from our resident chef and choose from a selection of cereals and milk; bread and toast with preserves; plus an endless supply of tea, coffee and orange juice. Thai dishes can also be ordered.
At Kata Blue Sea Resort, we pride ourselves on providing the high standard of facilities our guests expect at any reputable hotel.
Kata Blue Resort is located in the centre of Kata Town, on the south-west coast of Phuket, just a few minutes' walk from the white sands and clear water of Kata Beach.
Kata Blue Sea Resort is located on New Kata Road, within 7 minutes' walk of Kata Beach, the local market, and Kata Night Plaza.


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Vamizi Island has upgraded its famous Mozambique villa accommodation to focus on 6 deluxe chalets – larger than the average villa, more sumptuous than the average hotel room, more remote than a deserted island hut. In fact, the Vamizi Island private collection is an elite cluster of luxury villas made for those who can afford such decadence, who really want to revel in nature, surrounded by exclusivity.
This recently acquired &Beyond island destination has ensured that this unique accommodation was carefully designed by top South African architects in a manner that blends into the natural environment. They have followed sustainable development ethics and tuned in to responsible tourism principles. The villas reflect Mozambique, its many cultures and lifestyle influences.
Why should anyone book a vacation to Mozambique's remote Vamizi Island? Because it is time to unwind and see great places in the world. This Mozambique Quirimbas retreat is probably one of the most beautiful, the most remote, the most serene and the most luxurious island paradises found in east Africa. If you have discovered Vamizi, then you have discovered heaven on earth.
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Next generation Xbox revealed
Fans have waited with anticipation for more information about the next generation of gaming consoles. The Xbox Series X was revealed during the Game Awards on December 12, 2019, and the Playstation 5 was just revealed on June 11, 2020. For a long time after the reveals, many speculated that the two companies, Sony and Microsoft, were trying to undercut each other with their release and price information. Regardless of why they have waited so long to reveal release information, Microsoft has finally spoken up, but only because their hand was forced.
On Sept. 7, an image of the Xbox Series S console leaked online along with the price tag of $299. The day was ripe with speculation and many people trusted the leak's validity along with another rumor that the Xbox Series X would be $499. The following day, Sept. 8, Xbox posted a tweet on their official Twitter page that read "Let's Make it official! Xbox Series S Next-gen performance in the smallest Xbox ever. $299 (ERP) Looking forward to sharing more! Soon. Promise."
With the confirmation of the Xbox Series S, the rumors of the Xbox Series X price tag being $499 seemed more credible. On Sept. 9, Microsoft officially announced the price of the Xbox Series X console to be $499, confirming the rumors, and the release date for both consoles was set to be Nov. 10. The pre-orders open on Sept. 22. The Series S has a package for $24.99 per month that grants you a console and Xbox Game Pass and, likewise, the Series X has a package for $34.99 that also comes with Xbox Game Pass.
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Now that Xbox has officially announced the information for their next generation of consoles, it is expected Sony will follow and attempt to compete with their release information.
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import os.path as op
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from click.testing import CliRunner
import pytest

import cooler
from cooltools.cli import cli
import cooltools.api.saddle as saddle

### TODO tests for non-covered click arguments:
# clr-weight-name
# expected_path with '::' syntax to specify expected_value_col column name.
# max-dist
# min-dist

def test_eigs_cis(request, tmpdir):
    in_cool = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_mat.cool")
    out_eig_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.eigs")
    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["eigs-cis", "-o", out_eig_prefix, in_cool])
    assert result.exit_code == 0
    test_eigs = pd.read_table(out_eig_prefix + ".cis.vecs.tsv", sep="\t")
    gb = test_eigs.groupby("chrom")
    for chrom in gb.groups:
        chrom_eigs = gb.get_group(chrom)
        r = np.abs(
            np.corrcoef(
                chrom_eigs.E1.values, np.sin(chrom_eigs.start * 2 * np.pi / 500)
            )[0, 1]
        )
        assert r > 0.95

def test_eigs_cis_phased(request, tmpdir):
    in_cool = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_mat.cool")
    in_track = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_track.tsv::value")
    out_eig_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.eigs")
    n_eigs = 2
    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        [
            "eigs-cis",
            "--n-eigs",
            str(n_eigs),
            "--phasing-track",
            in_track,
            "-o",
            out_eig_prefix,
            in_cool,
        ],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    test_eigs = pd.read_table(out_eig_prefix + ".cis.vecs.tsv", sep="\t")

    # only n_eigs columns should be added to the output table
    clr = cooler.Cooler(in_cool)
    clr_bins = clr.bins()[:]
    assert len(test_eigs.columns) == (len(clr_bins.columns) + n_eigs)

    # with orientation all chromosomes should be correlated globally
    r = np.corrcoef(test_eigs.E1.values, np.sin(test_eigs.start * 2 * np.pi / 500))[
        0, 1
    ]
    assert r > 0.95

def test_eigs_trans_cli(request, tmpdir):
    # somehow - it is E3 that captures sin-like plaid
    # pattern, instead of E1 - we'll keep it like that for now:
    in_cool = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_mat.cool")
    out_eig_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.eigs")

    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        [
            "eigs-trans",
            "-o",
            out_eig_prefix,
            in_cool,
        ],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0
    test_trans_eigs = pd.read_table(out_eig_prefix + ".trans.vecs.tsv", sep="\t")

    r = np.abs(
        np.corrcoef(
            test_trans_eigs.E1.values, np.sin(test_trans_eigs.start * 2 * np.pi / 500)
        )[0, 1]
    )
    assert r > 0.95

def test_eigs_trans_phased_cli(request, tmpdir):
    in_cool = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_mat.cool")
    in_track = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_track.tsv::value")
    out_eig_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.eigs")
    n_eigs = 4

    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        [
            "eigs-trans",
            "--n-eigs",
            str(n_eigs),
            "--phasing-track",
            in_track,
            "-o",
            out_eig_prefix,
            in_cool,
        ],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0
    test_trans_eigs = pd.read_table(out_eig_prefix + ".trans.vecs.tsv", sep="\t")

    # only n_eigs columns should be added to the output table
    clr = cooler.Cooler(in_cool)
    clr_bins = clr.bins()[:]
    assert len(test_trans_eigs.columns) == (len(clr_bins.columns) + n_eigs)

    # shouldn't need the absolute value if phased
    r = np.corrcoef(
        test_trans_eigs.E1.values, np.sin(test_trans_eigs.start * 2 * np.pi / 500)
    )[0, 1]
    assert r > 0.95

def test_saddle_cli(request, tmpdir):
    in_cool = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_mat.cool")
    out_eig_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.eigs")
    out_expected = op.join(tmpdir, "test.expected")
    out_saddle_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.saddle")

    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["eigs-cis", "-o", out_eig_prefix, in_cool])
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["expected-cis", "-o", out_expected, in_cool])
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        [
            "saddle",
            "-o",
            out_saddle_prefix,
            "--vrange",
            "-0.5",
            "0.5",
            "--n-bins",
            "30",
            "--scale",
            "log",
            "--fig",
            "png",
            in_cool,
            f"{out_eig_prefix}.cis.vecs.tsv",
            out_expected,
        ],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    log2_sad = np.log2(np.load(out_saddle_prefix + ".saddledump.npz")["saddledata"])
    bins = np.load(out_saddle_prefix + ".saddledump.npz")["binedges"]
    binmids = (bins[:-1] + bins[1:]) / 2
    log2_theor_sad = np.log2(1 + binmids[None, :] * binmids[:, None])

    log2_sad_flat = log2_sad[1:-1, 1:-1].flatten()
    log2_theor_sad_flat = log2_theor_sad.flatten()

    mask = np.isfinite(log2_sad_flat) & np.isfinite(log2_theor_sad_flat)

    cc = np.abs(np.corrcoef(log2_sad_flat[mask], log2_theor_sad_flat[mask])[0][1])

    assert cc > 0.9

def test_trans_saddle_cli(request, tmpdir):
    in_cool = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_mat.cool")
    out_eig_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.eigs")
    out_expected = op.join(tmpdir, "test.trans.expected")
    out_saddle_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.trans.saddle")

    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        ["eigs-trans", "-o", out_eig_prefix, in_cool],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        ["expected-trans", "-o", out_expected, in_cool],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        [
            "saddle",
            "-o",
            out_saddle_prefix,
            "--contact-type",
            "trans",
            "--vrange",
            "-0.5",
            "0.5",
            "--n-bins",
            "30",
            "--scale",
            "log",
            in_cool,
            f"{out_eig_prefix}.trans.vecs.tsv",
            out_expected,
        ],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    log2_sad = np.log2(np.load(out_saddle_prefix + ".saddledump.npz")["saddledata"])
    bins = np.load(out_saddle_prefix + ".saddledump.npz")["binedges"]
    binmids = (bins[:-1] + bins[1:]) / 2
    log2_theor_sad = np.log2(1 + binmids[None, :] * binmids[:, None])

    log2_sad_flat = log2_sad[1:-1, 1:-1].flatten()
    log2_theor_sad_flat = log2_theor_sad.flatten()

    mask = np.isfinite(log2_sad_flat) & np.isfinite(log2_theor_sad_flat)

    cc = np.abs(np.corrcoef(log2_sad_flat[mask], log2_theor_sad_flat[mask])[0][1])

    assert cc > 0.9

def test_trans_saddle_cli_viewframe(request, tmpdir):
    in_cool = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/CN.mm9.1000kb.cool")
    in_regions = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/CN.mm9.toy_regions.bed")
    out_eig_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.eigs")
    out_expected = op.join(tmpdir, "test.trans.expected")
    out_saddle_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.trans.saddle")

    # TODO: update to include view once view is implemented for eigs_trans
    # ["eigs-trans", "-o", out_eig_prefix, "--view", in_regions, in_cool],
    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        ["eigs-trans", "-o", out_eig_prefix, in_cool],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        ["expected-trans", "-o", out_expected, "--view", in_regions, in_cool],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        [
            "saddle",
            "-o",
            out_saddle_prefix,
            "--contact-type",
            "trans",
            "--vrange",
            "-0.5",
            "0.5",
            "--n-bins",
            "30",
            "--scale",
            "log",
            "--view",
            in_regions,
            in_cool,
            f"{out_eig_prefix}.trans.vecs.tsv",
            out_expected,
        ],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

def test_digitize():
    # np.nan and pd.NA get digitized to -1, suffix should be added
    df = pd.DataFrame(
        [["chr1", 0, 10, np.nan]],
        columns=["chrom", "start", "end", "value"],
    )
    digitized = saddle.digitize(df, 10, vrange=(-1, 1), digitized_suffix=".test")[0]
    assert -1 == digitized["value.test"].values

    df = pd.DataFrame(
        [["chr1", 0, 10, pd.NA]],
        columns=["chrom", "start", "end", "value"],
    ).astype({"value": pd.Float64Dtype()})
    digitized = saddle.digitize(df, 10, vrange=(-1, 1), digitized_suffix=".test")[0]
    assert -1 == digitized["value.test"].values

    n_bins = 10
    digitized = saddle.digitize(df, n_bins, vrange=(-1, 1))[0]
    # the dtype of the returned column should be a categorical
    assert type(digitized["value.d"].dtype) is pd.core.dtypes.dtypes.CategoricalDtype

    # the number of categories should be equal to the number of bins +3
    assert (n_bins + 3) == digitized["value.d"].dtype.categories.shape[0]

    df = pd.DataFrame(
        [
            ["chr1", 0, 10, -0.5],
            ["chr1", 10, 20, 0.5],
        ],
        columns=["chrom", "start", "end", "value"],
    )

    # values out of the range should be in the 0 and n+1 bins
    digitized = saddle.digitize(df, n_bins, vrange=(-0.1, 0.1))[0]
    assert 0 == digitized["value.d"].values[0]
    assert (n_bins + 1) == digitized["value.d"].values[1]

    # for an input dataframe of ten elements between -1 and 1,
    # and 5 bins, each bin should have 2 digitized values
    # this test will need an update after input checking
    df_linspace = pd.DataFrame(
        (np.linspace(-1, 1, 10) * np.ones((4,))[:, None]).T,
        columns=["chrom", "start", "end", "value"],
    )
    p = (np.arange(0, 100, 10) * np.ones((2,))[:, None]).T  # .shape
    p[:, 1] += 10
    df_linspace.iloc[:, 1:3] = p
    df_linspace["chrom"] = "chrX"
    df_linspace = df_linspace.astype({"chrom": "str", "start": int, "end": int})

    x = saddle.digitize(df_linspace, 5, vrange=(-1, 1.001),)[
        0
    ]["value.d"]
    assert (2 == np.histogram(x, np.arange(1, 7))[0]).all()

    # if the bottom and top quantiles are 25 and 75 with 3 bins, then
    # the low outlier and high outlier bins should each have 3 values
    x = saddle.digitize(df_linspace, 1, qrange=(0.25, 0.75),)[
        0
    ]["value.d"]
    assert 3 == np.sum(x == 0)
    assert 3 == np.sum(x == 2)

    # bins[-1] max value should remain in bin N,
    # not get pushed to outlier bin.

    # raises error if not provided with a track
    # (i.e. bedframe with a numeric fourth column)
    df_not_track = pd.DataFrame(
        [["chr1", 20, 40, "non-numeric"]],
        columns=["chrom", "start", "end", "value"],
    )
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        saddle.digitize(df_not_track, n_bins, vrange=(0, 2))

    df_not_track = pd.DataFrame(
        [[0, 20, 40, 0]],
        columns=["chrom", "start", "end", "value"],
    )
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        saddle.digitize(df_not_track, n_bins, vrange=(0, 2))

    # raises error if both or none of vrange, qrange provided
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        saddle.digitize(df, n_bins, vrange=(0, 2), qrange=(0.1, 0.9))
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        saddle.digitize(df, n_bins, vrange=None, qrange=None)

    # raises error if vrange lo>hi, qrange lo >hi, or qrange out of (0,1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        saddle.digitize(df, n_bins, vrange=(2, 1))
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        saddle.digitize(df, n_bins, qrange=(0, 2.1))
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        saddle.digitize(df, n_bins, qrange=(0.5, 0.25))

def test_saddle(request, tmpdir):

    in_cool = op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_mat.cool")
    out_eig_prefix = op.join(tmpdir, "test.eigs")
    out_expected = op.join(tmpdir, "test.cis.expected")

    runner = CliRunner()
    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        ["eigs-cis", "-o", out_eig_prefix, in_cool],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    result = runner.invoke(
        cli,
        ["expected-cis", "-o", out_expected, in_cool],
    )
    assert result.exit_code == 0

    track = pd.read_csv(f"{out_eig_prefix}.cis.vecs.tsv", sep="\t")[
        ["chrom", "start", "end", "E1"]
    ]
    expected = pd.read_csv(out_expected, sep="\t")

    import cooler

    clr = cooler.Cooler(op.join(request.fspath.dirname, "data/sin_eigs_mat.cool"))

    # contact_type that is not cis or trans should raise an error
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        saddle.saddle(clr, expected, track, None, "unknown")

    # TODO: tests after adding input agreement, e.g.
    # asserting saddle.saddle(clr, cis-type-expected, track, "trans")
    # throws an error

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Saint Somewhere: Liquid Florida
April 29, 2012 by Cathy Salustri
Are you sure we're going to a brewery and not some guy's backyard?"
My friends aren't joking, and they aren't asking an unreasonable question. I promised them a brewery tour and then proceeded to lead them pretty much to the dead center of nowhere. We drove away from the quaint sponge docks and into what one could best call a rural/industrial area of Tarpon Springs. I have directions but no clear idea of where I'm taking them.
I expected something not unlike the old Busch Gardens brewery tours.
This is not that tour.
WHAT: Saint Somewhere brews craft beer. They advertise a tour on their website, but think of it as more of an open house. An open house that takes place in an industrial park, under a tent. It doesn't matter; it's still a don't-miss Florida brewery. You walk into a small office, pay your tour fee, and get your glass. The staff (which consists of the brewer and couple volunteers) will fill your glass once from each of the three taps. What's on tap depends on what's brewing.
Saint Somehwere gets its name from the Buffett anthem Boat Drinks (not, as my friends suggest, the remote location of the brewery), but this beer tastes nothing like brews sponsored by the artist who penned that song. These are beers created by a man loves beer. The three we tasted – the Caitlin, the Saison Athene and the Lectio Divina – all had strong flavors. A brewery event here is one part tasting and one part beer school, because you'll learn how Saint Somewhere brews its beer and why it tastes the way it does.
WHO: Bob Sylvester started out as a home brewer, but his operation quickly outgrew his garage and he started brewing professionally. He uses a trial and taste method of brewing, which means he tries different things and tastes the result, deciding what to keep, what to change, and what to throw away. It may not be a precise science, but he creates brews like Pays du Soleil, which smells like suntan oil but tastes sharp and sweet all at once.
WHY: If you're a craft beer fan, you're probably already making plans to head to the next tour. Everyone else may wonder why on earth they should drive to an industrial park in one of Tarpon's lesser-known areas to try Saint Somewhere.
Bob can tell you how his brewery's proximity to the Gulf of Mexico changes the taste of his beer, but it's more than just salt air that makes Saint Somewhere a Florida experience. Whether its three guys smoking mullet caught on the bayou or a family selling fresh -picked Ruskin tomatoes at a roadside stand, it's the Sunshine State's stamp that makes this special. It's a liquid Florida experience, brewed in small batches close to the sea.
WHEN: You can tour the brewery on Thursday and Friday nights. Tastings start at 6 p.m. and last two hours.
WHERE: 1441 Savannah Avenue, Suite E, Tarpon Springs.
BEST part: Well, you know, it's beer, lovingly made in small batches. At our tasting we tasted Saint Somewhere's Saison Athene, which I called "chicken beer" because the rosemary and black pepper called to mind roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, and asparagus. That's not to say the beer tasted like any of those things, but it tasted divine. Another beer that makes this a great brewery is the Pays du Soleil, which smells like suntan lotion but has quite a different taste.
WORST part: You get three glasses of beer. While it's awesome, don't go expecting to drink the night away – you can't buy a second ticket. Which, come to think of it, is actually pretty responsible of these guys.
MAGIC Question: $10 buys you a glass, which the Saint Somewhere guys will fill for you three times.
Contact Cathy Salustri at CathySalustri@TheGabber.com.
by Cathy Salustri
/salustricathy
/cathysalustri
Filed Under: Arts


Halloween is never an easy time when you're trying to avoid empty calories from candy and sugary snacks. That goes double when you're pregnant! But just because it's Halloween time doesn't mean you have to succumb to your sweet tooth. These healthy alternatives are safe for expectant mothers and can help you beat those cravings for chocolate and other sweets.
Sure, it's hard to resist a bite-sized Snickers when you're aching for something sugary. But if you're trying to eat healthily, there are lots of alternative snacks that will deliver the sweetness you're looking for. The great thing is that these snacks are also giving you and your baby the nutrition you both need to thrive, without a bunch of excess calories.
These recipes will make trail mix packed with vitamin D, magnesium and calcium, all nutrients crucial for a healthy pregnancy. And while this trail mix certainly isn't calorie-free, it's light years healthier than store-bought candy.
A sweet treat that's bursting with sugary goodness but healthy for both a mom and her baby is a mix of Greek yogurt and fresh fruit. Greek yogurt is filled with calcium, which helps your baby's bone structure develop correctly. Pair the yogurt with strawberries, peaches, blueberries or whatever other fruits you most enjoy for a healthy and delicious snack.
While you're passing out candy, if you want to avoid the temptation to dip into the bucket of candy, make a snack of sweet and filling peanut butter and banana. This pairing offers a perfect complimentary mix of flavors, both sweetness and nutty peanut butter goodness. And peanut butter offers a good dose of protein, which you'll need for your baby's development.
Rather than eating a candy bar or pack of Skittles, go for delicious sorbet topped with fresh fruit. Sorbet is similar to ice cream, but without all those extra empty calories, and the fresh fruit topping will give you a good source of fruit nutrition, making sorbet and fruit a snack that will be satisfying and healthy.
You'll be better able to resist cravings for candy if you're satisfying your sweet tooth another way. One clever blend of fruits is mixing watermelon with lime. Chop up some watermelon and put it in the blender with lime or lemon juice, then after blending, strain the mixture through a fine sieve for a refreshing beverage.
The mild sweetness of the watermelon is accented nicely by the tartness of lemon or lime, and every cup of watermelon has over 150 mg of potassium, a nutrient vital for a healthy pregnancy.
Sensing a theme here? Fresh fruit is the closest thing you can get to candy in terms of sweet deliciousness while providing you and your baby with beneficial vitamins and minerals.
Cottage cheese is a wonderful source of both calcium and protein and is also pasteurized and so safe for your baby. Pair a fruit like blueberries or raspberries for a touch of sweetness to go along with it.
A variation on the theme of cottage cheese and fruit is the pairing of a hard cheese like cheddar or Swiss with some apple slices. Apples are full of fiber and low in calories. With cheese and apples, you're getting a great source of both calcium and fiber in a sweet package.
These next few snacks aren't anywhere near as sweet as Halloween candy, but that doesn't mean they can't be a wonderful substitute for an unhealthy candy snack. A full stomach can go a long way in fighting cravings for sweets, and these options are healthy and delicious.
Guacamole is rich, delicious and contains a good amount of potassium. Make sure to buy or make low sodium guacamole, as sodium can contribute to swelling during your pregnancy. If you're looking to go low calorie, dip carrots, cucumber or celery into the guacamole. But if you can't resist tortilla chips, try to find low sodium versions of those as well.
Sweet potato chips are a far healthier version of regular potato chips, and they're even better when you're pregnant. Sweet potato chips are packed with potassium and magnesium, which helps control your blood pressure. Controlling blood pressure is important in avoiding a number of potential complications in your pregnancy, so snack on sweet potato chips rather than on sugary snacks.
Sometimes, to avoid eating something unhealthy and high in calories, it helps simply to have something low-calorie to snack on. Popcorn is extremely low calorie unless you load it up with butter. Make your popcorn at home and go light on the butter and salt for a low-cal treat that will give you the willpower to lay off the candy.


Description : 5m high brushed aluminium sculpture.
Location : The Toi Tu Whenua sculpture can be found at a rest area near the Tarukenga entryway into Rotorua , New Zealand. Please be careful if you decide to take a photograph as it is on a main road.
Artist Statement : Lewis Gardiner said his work was inspired by the whakatauki (proverb) "whatungarongaro te tangata toi tu te whenua," - "as man disappears from sight, the land remains".


Crater Criminal Justice Training Academy (CCJTA) issues certificates for classes that are "certification" classes.
For other courses, CCJTA will issue a Course Completion Notice (Green Sheet); these sheets are generated at the end of a course and given to a student.
These notices are then followed by the official class closing where the class credits are recorded on either a Form 41 or an ISTC.
Where a certificate has been lost or damaged the Academy will replace a certificate only if the certificate has been issued within the last two years from the time of request.
After this amount of time has lapsed the requester may apply for a Course Certifying Statement letter. This letter will list all pertinent information from the class.
In cases where a duplicate certificate can not be provided a Course Certifying Statement letter will be provided.
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BTS V, 'Saving Handsome Luxury Mural' with graffiti art
Entertainment (EN)
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Artist's Muse BTS V has been reborn as the main character in graffiti murals.
Graffiti Artist Widget (WEZT) on the 9th.
ONE) released V's graffiti studio on its official YouTube channel.
The graffiti, which was spray-finished on the walls of the abandoned factory for five hours, carried the face of the handsome sculpture V, completing a colorful visual mural.
Graffiti, which started with street culture in the 1970s and grew into an "art of the street," has become a "hot" art genre heating up the auction market.
Wizet participated in Samsung Notebook and Tivoli car commercials as the winner of the 2019 Asian graffiti competition, and BTS has worked with the fan community platform "Weverse" as the background screen for the poster of "BTS Cinema.
"He said, "I was worried that the painting would become strange and create an anti-fear," showing his sincerity in every single feature of V.
In front of the finished painting, he expressed satisfaction and regret over the work, saying, "I want to take it off and take it away," and "It's a waste because the wall will disappear someday.
"V has been considered an inspirational muse for many artists for his colorful visuals and natural model talent.
Artist Kildron, who is leading the K-pop portrait craze on Instagram, frequently appears in V's portraits with the value of "balance between popularity and workmanship.
" In Kildron's work, which calls his paintings "Visual Music," V has received the most "likes" of his account every year, receiving explosive love from Instagram users around the world.
Not long ago, V's portrait, which was completed with layers of Korean consonants and vowels, was displayed with John Lennon of the Beatles and Freddie Mercury of Queen at the artist Shin Sang-chul's "Memory Layer" exhibition, making headlines.
In addition, V has been loved as a "global muse" by artists in various fields, including painters Alejandro Vizilante, Lee.
k (leekilust), puppeteer Kim Tae-ki, photographer Hong Jang-hyun, and Sam Damasek, as well as composers and film directors, and "V is a real discovery by overseas media.
" Who doesn't want to include such beauty in his work?"
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Q: Changing Number of y-axis Ticks in Altair I've generated this image comparing Bitcoin to REIT yields over the ten-year period from 2010-2020 using a symmetric log y-axis:

The plot was generated from this DataFrame:
    btc_yields  Year    reit_yields
0   3619143193  2010    38791
1   45790476    2011    31261
2   37433124    2012    30274
3   2739779     2013    4051
4   808407      2014    282
5   1711472     2015    650
6   685726      2016    863
7   75958       2017    1324
8   49428       2018    976
9   34330       2019    -285
10  27005       2020    631

Using this code:
alt.Chart(merged_btc_reit_low_inf).transform_fold(
    ['btc_yields', 'reit_yields'],
).mark_line(strokeWidth = 5).encode(
    x=alt.X('Year:N', title = 'Year Investment Made'),
    y=alt.Y('value:Q', title = 'Returns in USD',
            scale=alt.Scale(type='symlog'),
            axis=alt.Axis(tickCount=merged_btc_reit_low_inf.shape[0])),
    color='key:N',
    tooltip = 'value:Q'
).properties(
    width = 600,
    height = 400,
    title = 'Return on $10,000 Seed Investment in Bitcoin'
).configure_axis(
    labelFontSize=14,
    titleFontSize=16,
    labelAngle = 0
).configure_title(
    fontSize = 21
).configure_legend(
    labelFontSize = 14
)

I am not sure why, even with axis=alt.Axis(tickCount=merged_btc_reit_low_inf.shape[0]) there are only 3 y-axis ticks. I would like a hand increasing the number of y-axis ticks to enough that the plot is more informative, especially considering the log-transformed axis.

A: You could set the axis values explicitly instead of trying to adjust the number of ticks:
from itertools import product

...

axis=alt.Axis(values=[0] + [10**x * y for (x, y) in product(range(2, 9, 2), (1, -1))]))
# There might be a nicer way of composing this list...

I think the reason tickCount is not working for you is this section from the docs:

The resulting number may be different so that values are "nice" (multiples of 2, 5, 10) and lie within the underlying scale's range.

I am not sure why they are not symmetrical, this parameter might not work well with symlog so you might want to open a feature request for that at the VegaLite repo.

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Louisiana's public defenders have long been underfunded. As NPQ noted in 2015, the average time spent by a New Orleans public defender on an individual's case is seven minutes. Exstrum points out that according to a 2016 report released by the board, public defender caseloads average twice the recommended state limit. (We're not sure if 14 minutes per client would be sufficient, but no matter). In 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of inmates against the Public Defender Board and the Orleans Parish office, claiming the refusal of the office to accept new cases violated inmates' constitutional right to counsel.
The situation of public defenders in Louisiana has seen other absurdities, including charges that public defenders were subverting the death penalty in Louisiana by successfully defending their clients—i.e., doing their job. The lack of funds has been so severe that two years ago, the city of New Orleans ran a $50,000 crowdfunding campaign in an admittedly largely symbolic effort to reduce the funding shortfall.
Louisiana has the nation's highest rate of incarceration. It also has the nation's second-highest exoneration rate. Cutting funding to Innocence Project New Orleans might reasonably be expected to slow down exonerations and leave even more innocent people behind bars.
These nonprofits, Exstrum notes, also "help public defenders shoulder the burden of massive caseloads by taking on cases that are too costly or complex for them to handle." Exstrum adds that, "Legal groups worry that the proposal, which they say is likely to pass, would simply move money from legal aid groups to the public defenders instead of actually increasing resources for public defense." State Public Defender Jay Dixon, a member of the Public Defender Board, concurs that the bill would almost certainly cut support for nonprofit legal aid groups.
Emily Maw, director of the Innocence Project New Orleans, notes that her organization receives $360,000 annually from the Public Defender Board, a little over a third of its total budget.
The situation of public defenders and nonprofits being set against each other over crumbs in Louisiana is dismaying, albeit predictable. Meanwhile, elsewhere public money flows. For example, the nonprofit Good Jobs First points out that Louisiana awards "nearly $1 billion a year in industrial property tax exemptions for existing facilities and is willing to spend big to attract new ones." In 2015, a local television station ran a nine-part series on such practices titled Easy Money.
In New Orleans' Times-Picayune, bill author Sherman Mack (R-Albany) says that he has proposed the bill to address the backlog in public defender offices. But Dixon says the bill, by cutting nonprofit support, would "cripple" the already limited resources public defenders have.
A Massachusetts judge has overturned the first conviction on grounds that evidence relying on hair analysis is not reputable and would not be admissible in court, potentially affecting thousands of other similar cases.


but then you feel the fire.
but then your need turns dire.
and you thought you wouldn't dare.
and you don't know if you care.
where do you think this will lead?
do you feel the commotion?
why do you feel so much need?
all I would need is certainty.
why do you keep me from certainty?
how could you take it away from me?
my world now turns to ashes.
my heart falters in flashes.
but I know my trust is broken.
but I know my hope is token.
why don't you care anymore?
why to make me feel so sore?
the water reaches above my head.
a cold body remains in my stead.


New Zealand's economy grew 0.6% in the final three months of 2017, the same pace as the previous quarter.
Per Capita GDP grew 0.7% over the year, the weakest result since 2011.
Strength in services production was offset by weakness in primary industries.
New Zealand economic growth fell short of expectations in the final three months of 2017.
According to Statistics New Zealand (StatsNZ), GDP grew 0.6% in the December quarter in seasonally adjusted production-based terms, missing forecasts for a larger increase of 0.7%.
Offsetting that strength, StatsNZ said growth was tempered by a 2.4% decline in the nation's primary sector.
The result saw the year-on-year rate accelerate to 2.9%, below the 3.1% expansion expected by economists. Compared to 2016, the economy grew by 2.9%, down from 4% in 2016.
Reflecting strong population growth, StatsNZ said GDP per capita rose by a far smaller 0.1% over the quarter following a 0.2% increase in Q3.
That left GDP per capita growth over the year at 0.7%, the weakest level since 2011.
On an expenditure basis, GDP grew by 0.4% during the quarter, well below the 0.7% level expected. Growth in the September quarter, previously reported at 0.9%, was revised up to show an increase of 1%.
StatsNZ said household expenditure — the largest part of the New Zealand economy at around 60% — grew by 1.2% over the quarter.
"Households ate out more and spent more on groceries and alcohol. This fuelled increased retail trade activity, with food and beverage services and supermarkets experiencing growth," it said.
Investment in fixed assets also contributed to growth, rising by 2.1%.
However, those results were partially offset by flat growth in exports and a 3.9% lift in imports.
While economic growth was impacted during the quarter by temporary weakness in dairy production, Kate Hickie, Economist at Capital Economics, says the risks to growth looking ahead are slanted to the downside.
"With net migration passed its peak and business confidence having remaining low, the recent strength of consumption and business investment won't be sustained," she says.
Hickie says this may see the Reserve Bank of New Zealand leave interest rates unchanged for far longer than markets currently expect.
"Today's release support our view that the financial markets are wrong to price in an interest rate hike for late this year," she says.
The New Zealand dollar has fallen following the release of the report, trading at .7308 against the US dollar, a decline of 0.3%.


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Posted on October 25, 2007 April 10, 2017
Early reaction to Mayor Wynn's rail proposal
NON-TRANSPORTATION!
Ellen DeGeneres is in hot water for a dog-adoption fiasco. Relatively few people are paying attention to the fact that this dog-rescue group will not place any dogs in families with kids younger than 14. Yes, illness FOURTEEN.
In our case, public health we badly wanted to get a pound dog, salve but it had to be small, and a good temperament. Our mighty beast was obtained from a breeder. Why? Because small-dog "animal rescue" groups have a stranglehold over the Austin pound (basically picking up small dogs as soon as they were dropped off, at least back then), and they will not allow adoption by a family with reasonably-aged children. Just like the ridiculous power-hungry idiots who think that a family with girls aged 11 and 12 aren't a good place for a puppy.
GMAFB. Most dogs are far better off with kids than with the typical single female that these dog rescue groups would place with, where the dog will be alone all day. Dogs like to play. Kids have the energy and the time to play with them. More attention on these ridiculous nitwits, please, and less on the fact that DeGeneres technically violated the contract. It was a bad contract to begin with.
From two comments I just made on this posting at Burnt Orange Report:
1. The people who really need (and want) help are getting it, men's health perhaps less than we would like, but not at street corners. The guys at street corners are what we used to call 'bums' – if you actually offer to give them work or food, they will inevitably decline; and if you give them money, you can win on 10-1 odds that their next stop is the liquor store.
2. If you want an economically healthy city, you absolutely cannot tolerate normal citizens being harassed by panhandlers. And a healthy city helps the people who really need the help a lot more than the donut-hole-wasteland that results from an unhealthy city. Try convincing a fence-sitting business' CEO to move downtown when his employees and clients have to dodge panhandlers.
This marriage of self-identified progressives and bums has got to stop. It tempts guys like me to vote Republican.
By healthy city, I mean that if businesses move to Round Rock because Austin is the panhandler-ridden cesspool that some of you seem to prefer, the city of Austin has fewer tax funds to spend on helping the people who really want and need the help. And I guarantee you Round Rock isn't going to pick up the slack.
This kind of wooly-headed thinking by self-identified progressives has bothered me ever since I saw the first (but not the last, by far) local TV expose of what panhandlers really do with your donations of money (or in some cases food) and what they do when you offer them work. Folks, the people who need your help are in shelters and soup kitchens. The guys on the corner are hustlers who can simply make a better living by fleecing unsuspecting drivers than by honestly working.
It's as if these people can't possibly conceive that guys holding up signs at street corners could possibly be dishonest. GMAFB – if Congress can get lied to in order to drag us into an ill-advised war of choice, as I'm sure all of these folks believe (as I do!), then you really think a bum on the corner won't lie to you too, to get some beer without having to work?
There are lots of reasons to vote against Jennifer Kim. But this one is just stupid – Kim is, whether for purposes of getting elected or actually being responsible, doing the right thing this time.
Since the delivery of the new rail cars have spurred a few "god dammit it's NOT LIGHT RAIL" responses from me, approved and since I typed something like the following up for Ben Wear's blog and am not sure it went through, here's a quick refresher on three major problems with this commuter rail line:
1. It does not primarily serve Austin residents. Leander residents deserve some service, because they pay some Capital Metro taxes, but the second best-served population for this line is actually Cedar Park, who pays absolutely nothing (it's considerably more feasible for the average Cedar Park resident to just drive down the road a bit to the NW Austin Park-and-ride and ride the train than it is for 90% of Austin residents to ride this train at all). Most of the Austin stations don't have parking, but are also not located in areas where a non-trivial number of people could walk to the stations (unlike the 2000 light rail line, which ran within walking distance of a few of the densest neighborhoods in the city).
2. It relies on shuttle buses for passenger distribution. No, you won't be walking to work, not even if you work downtown, unless you're even more of a stubborn cuss than M1EK is. The rule of thumb for transit agencies is 1/4 mile, that being, if their office is within a quarter-mile of the train station, most people would be willing to walk. The Convention Center station is a bit more than a quarter-mile from the closest major office building and more like 1/2 to 3/4 mile away from most downtown offices. And UT and the Capitol are much farther away than that from their purported station. Why is this a problem? Since anybody who wants to ride this thing is going to have to take shuttle buses, we're relying on the theory that people who aren't willing to ride the excellent express buses straight to their offices at UT, the Capitol, or downtown will somehow become major fans of buses when they are forced to transfer to one at the train station.
3. Yes, you have to builld one line in order to build a system – but in this case, the line we're building prevents us from ever building a good system. lt precludes the only realistically feasible light rail line from being built, and even if it didn't, the political blowback from "let's ride and then decide" would knock us dead once it becomes clear that Ben Wear and I were telling the truth when we said Capital Metro is only planning for something like 1500 riders per day. And no, Virginia, streetcar won't help one bit – it's still a daily transfer from a good mode – reserved-guideway fast rail transit – to a bad mode – stuck-in-traffic slow rail transit which is no better than stuck-in-traffic slow shuttlebus.
Think this is just a broken-record? When the initial impulse of writers who generally have clues is still to call this light rail and when people get unreasonably optimistic without thinking about where the stations actually are, my work continues to be necessary. Sorry, folks.
Having gotten to eat many of her desserts thanks to the brother-in-law privilege, drugs I can vouch for her delicious recipes and now she's on the front of the Life section of the Statesman in a big article on gluten-free cooking and eating in Austin. Congrats, Karen.
For those who are asking: after this morning's Chronicle mention, pregnancy I wrote Mayor Wynn and Councilmember McCracken asking a question or two, and I want to give their aides a chance to clarify before I jump on something which I might be mischaracterizing. I'll give it until mid-afternoon or so.
Doing this really fast since I'm working outside and almost out of power, illness but wanted to get this out today.
5:45 Update: I got suckered, folks. I wanted to believe this was different, but after re-reading the Chronicle and Statesman coverage, it's clear that this is nothing more than Capital Metro's circulator route with the spur to the Triangle built in the first phase – meaning it doesn't go down Guadalupe where all the people are and where they all work, it doesn't go by West Campus, where all of the future non-downtown density is apparently headed, and it doesn't go by Hyde Park or North University, where all the people who wanted rail in the first place actually are. Instead, it runs through the part of east Austin already 'served' by commuter rail and which is violently opposed to more density – and to Mueller, whose modest density is already assured, with or without streetcar, and "to the Triangle", although anybody who would take this from the Triangle to downtown is a certifiable moron, since it would be several miles out of their way through Mueller and East Austin rather than straight down Guadalupe. Fuck. See, shilli? Even M1EK can be naively optimistic.
4:45 Update: God, I hope I'm wrong, but after reading some additional laughably wrong coverage ("commuter rail election" from fox7, for instance), I'm getting the feeling that the route "to the Triangle" might actually just be completing the upper part of the question-mark from the circulator study's route, meaning it would run out to Mueller, then up to 51st, then back across I-35 to the Triangle that way, meaning we miss the best part of UT, West Campus, Hyde Park, etc. If that's the case, ignore everything good I wrote below and go back to the "oh, my god, this will suck goat ass" position.
Now, back to the original 4:15 reaction:
First, thank god he's finally doing SOMETHING. It would have helped more if he had done it in 2004, of course.
Second, there's more questions than answers here, and very little I can say definitively. Neither Wynn nor McCracken or their aides e-mailed me back (in McCracken's case, I didn't expect anything since he was reportedly pissed at my past interference with one of his attempts at pandering, and Wynn's might just be too busy or might likewise hate me, but it's hard to wait any longer).
Third, the emphasis on "doing it ourselves, since Capital Metro wants to let Mike Krusee screw us" SURE SOUNDS FAMILIAR, IF ONLY FOUR YEARS TOO LATE. Still, better late than never.
I will try to follow up on some new terms and questions in this post tomorrow, such as "Rapid Streetcar" and exploring the 2000 LRT route to the airport.
Coverage round-up:
Austinist (mostly good)
Austin Chronicle (not much here due to their publishing schedule)
Statesman – the most stuff, but come on, guys, I don't want to hear from Daugherty. Also, guys, it's not going to be DMUs from the commuter rail line, they can't turn corners tightly enough to be used in-town.
News 8 Austin – as I exclaimed to DSK, I don't know whether to applaud or boo the language involving light rail and resurrection. But they did mention that this is completely separate from commuter rail – far more accurate than I expect from these guys. Dammit, if I had any confidence in their description of this as basically "let's do 2000 now", I'd be tapdancing all over the backyard right now (from where I'm composing this). Look at the 2000 picture they dug out of the archives, which would be running by now if Mike Krusee hadn't kicked Austin in the balls, although probably down the middle of Guadalupe rather than on the edge as this early mockup showed.
What do we know so far? Very little. Some kind of rail being proposed for generally the part of town that needs it (nobody wants to be on Airport Boulevard). Connecting to, but not running on, commuter rail. Some indications that McCracken and Wynn are thinking about some reserved guideway rather than just going along with the magical streetcar fairydust approach that thinks running in shared traffic doesn't suck.
Vehicle/Technology: Streetcar or light rail. Sigh. Much confusion and conflation here, from News 8 probably not being able to tell the difference to Gerald Daugherty wanting to tar light rail with the same brush as streetcar to the councilmembers just not being able to commit. Statesman mentions DMU, but there's no way. These things are way too porky – the only way one even ran through the city in New Jersey on the other commuter line Lyndon Henry and his band of serial confusimicators like to call light rail was to cut corners through city blocks (workable in New Jersey since their downtowns, uh, don't have anything going on, to be charitable.
Route: They're talking about Triangle to UT to Capitol to downtown to the airport. This probably means the 2000 LRT route, which probably means no reserved guideway since it was a tough sell even with long and frequently running LRT vehicles. We're not going to be able to afford to give up 2 of 4 lanes on Guadalupe for vehicles the size of streetcars. Could be on Congress in the downtown stretch, in which you could bet against reserved guideway, or on one of the parallel streets, in which reserved guideway (or maybe just shared with buses) might be feasible. On Riverside, some talk of running off the side of the road so as to not take up lanes. As weird as this sounds, this is the best piece of news out of the plan, because it means that McCracken and Wynn at least understand that running streetcar purely in shared traffic lanes is a complete waste of money. Unfortunately, the one street they talk about doing this on is the one street where it's not really needed. Baby steps. My desperate hope is that this talk means they're comparing Riverside to other streets where they'd have to give up car lanes, not that they mean that they'd run in a shared lane on the other streets. Going to the airport is a new touch (was in eventual expansion plans in 2000).
Funding: Talking about using city money. Interesting wrinkle is using airport money for part of this. Federal funding mentioned, but I find it unlikely in the near term (give the Democrats a few years to reverse the past 8 years of disaster at the FTA, first). This line hits all the urban parts of town but doesn't grab the suburban park-and-rides. The Feds loved the 2000 plan because it hit both. They would have hated the 2004 commuter plan for skipping one, and they'd probably hate the 2008 plan for skipping the other one, unless this is substantially cheaper than I expect it to be. ("Rapid Streetcar" possible way around this?)
Operations: Getting Capital Metro out of the way for construction and funding: a good idea. Getting them involved in operations? A bad idea. We can't afford to subsidize suburbanites any more with this thing – if anything we should be treating this as an opportunity to build and operate our own rail system and grab back 1 of the 3 quarter-cents we give to Capital Metro in the process. 1/2 a cent is enough for bus needs, and Leander ought to be funding commuter rail themselves (maybe Cedar Park and Mike Krusee can kick in for the free-riders).
Conclusions: None, really. If they just try to build stuck-in-traffic streetcar, well, it'll be better than what Capital Metro wanted to build, since it'll run on the end of UT actually worth going to, and will run up past Hyde Park and the Triangle, and a few travellers to the airport will find it nominally more attractive than the #100. So, worst-case build scenario, we're better off than Cap Metro's awful circulator. Best-case? Probably some variant of light rail or "Rapid Streetcar". I can't see any possibility for reserved guideway where it would be needed the most – on Guadalupe between MLK and 29th – but if there's reserved guideway downtown, it'd be a lot better than what we could otherwise expect. Still, compared to 2000's light rail, this won't be worth much, but it's better than nothing. Stay tuned.
My take on the rail announcement is coming later
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I've given up thinking of an iPad as a replacement for my MacBook. I agree with Gruber, it's like typing with mittens on. (Even while typing a message here, I clicked out to look up Gruber's name, come back and now my text cursors is gone!) To me the iPad is for reading, writing, email, and brainstorming. It's a waste of time to try to create a shortcut for what can be done easily on the Mac. I'm sure the story would be different if my line of work was in the media arts. I still love it, but I do carry both.
I think a lot of people, including me, have a lot of hope - false hope, perhaps - that iOS 13 will professionalize the iPad. On the iPad iOS desperately needs to improve text selection (dev John Sundell already coded a proof of concept that utilizes the Pencil), revamp the screen-wasting home screens, support external drives and external pointing devices (trackpad!), be able to link the same app with more than one other in side-by-side mode (or otherwise modify that often-confusing behavior), give better desktop-quality Safari/WebKit, etc etc. It's a long list.
As someone who calibrates his DSLR, monitor, printer and paper, for me to consider using the iPad for photography I'd need to do more than try adapt to the lesser photography apps currently available (there's really nothing that matches the editing/printing power of Lightroom/Photoshop for $10/month) - Apple needs for iOS to offer dual-monitor support and significantly improve the printing too.
I'm really not holding my breath on both of those happening any time soon, so I don't see myself giving up my macOS desktop for a few years, unless macOS comes to ARM chips and the apps I love and use most can be easily ported over. That's something that might not be difficult for Mac App Store apps, given that they are all required to be coded at a high enough level such that Apple might be able to make the switchover relatively trivial. But apps outside the MAS, like Photoshop and Lightroom and the audio apps I use (eg Ableton Live) would probably much longer to port. I remember well that Apple introduced the Carbon/Cocoa programming frameworks in 1999 but Adobe finally transitioned Photoshop to Cocoa only in 2010.
Jason did a follow-up on that. To put it simply, Textastic does Grep and, as I recall, his particular issue with Numbers was his preference for a font which can be installed using an app such as AnyFont.
There's a recent thread for people to list their iPad delights/disappointments. I did a list of both there. I'm sure that when iOS 13 comes we'll get some of what we want. And of course there will be some we don't get. And then there will be new things that come up that people want.
I'd guess that there will always be people with workflows/needs for which the iPad does not work or work perfectly. Sometimes this is due to actual limitations to the OS or available apps or both. But as is the case with Jason's article he was just lacking knowledge about available apps. Sometimes it's just a question of not knowing or making the effort to know a solution. I think for some, especially older, long-time Mac users, it just comes down to the second case of not wanting to be bothered and there's nothing wrong with that so long as they don't make grand proclamations based on their own ignorance of what is possible.
In any case, it's great that there are so many excellent tools for people to choose from.
Even while typing a message here, I clicked out to look up Gruber's name, come back and now my text cursors is gone!
This particular issue drives me nuts. It and the keyboard missing the first few letters I start typing when I pull up Spotlight are at the top of my requested fixes.
What are you using for this at present? I had everything set up perfectly in Aperture & have accumulated a couple years of photos and photo books to print while waiting for the dust to settle.
What are you using for this at present?
The best affordable options are the X-Rite Colormunki or X-Rite1Display Pro ($160/$270). If you want to calibrate your DSLR too both lines have 'Photographer Kits' that include enhanced software and a ColorChecker Passport card ($250/$300). But if you want to calibrate a number of devices as well as any papers from any manufacturers (Canson, Ilford, Moab, Red River, Hahnemühle) to your printer, the best consumer solution is probably the X-Rite i1Studio ($470, review here and here).
I love paper sample packs - but often you only get one page of each type, and you need 1+ to properly first calibrate, meaning I have to buy multiple packs!
Thanks - I've had good results with Canon paper & printer (not with me at the moment so I can't say which ones exactly…) & Canon-provided ICC, and I've downloaded ICC profiles for Adorama before & used them with Aperture. At the moment I've not been doing much photo editing or printing, but I've been using the file system & Lyn as a stopgap measure while I figure out a longer term replacement for Aperture. Lyn does allow selection of proofing profiles. I'll need to revisit it all in six months or so when I'm back with my printer.
Sounds good. Printing at home is a time and money sink. I found that when I first printed, years ago on a lower-end dye printer, that my resulting images were too dark, which is pretty common. When I calibrated I (surprise, surprise) ended up with a monitor that had lower brightness, which helped a lot. And my colors got more accurate when I painted over the dark blue wall my monitor was in front of with a medium gray; the wall color subtly affected my ability to accurately see some color/gradations.
Working without too much light can be helpful, and it's the reason hoods are often standard in higher-end monitors. A fashion retoucher I know told me that for several years his Photoshop work was done on an older iMac (which didn't calibrate well) in a darkened room, and that if you turned all the lights on the images would look substantially different.
Of course, if you don't need accuracy it's not worth calibrating. A friend does a gorgeous macro flower photography with a 30-yr-old reversed manual focus lens on an old Canon 40D, and she doesn't sweat it if the yellows shift in a print as long as the photo looks good.
FYI photographic educator Tim Grey has an 'Ask Tim Grey' newsletter and in today's issue, which I just got in my inbox, he recommends a lower-end $99 X-Rite monitor calibration tool called the Smile that I wasn't aware of.


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Suitable for all ages •Outdoor, Indoor 38.2 miles from Barton Bendish
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Besides the immense health benefits outlined above, our greatest rewards really lie in following the Sunnah. Allah said to His Messenger (saw): 'Say (to mankind), if you love Allah, follow me – Allah will love you and forgive your sins' (Qur'an 3:31).
He said that it was a broth made from barley flour together with the husks, and it is similar to barley water but the difference is that barley water is cooked with whole barley but talbina is cooked with ground barley. Therefore it is more beneficial because it can be digested easier and the nutrients are penetrated into the system quicker.
He also said that "it has relaxation for the heart of the sick person", it is nutritious and filling, and it warms and soothes the stomach, helping to lessens sorrows and to regain health. It can also be effective in maintaining bowel regularity.
Aishah (RA) said that whenever one of her relatives died, the women assembled and then dispersed (returned to their houses) except her relatives and close friends. She (may Allaah be pleased with her) would order that a pot of talbina be cooked. Then Tharid (a dish prepared from meat and bread) would be prepared and the talbina would be poured over it. Aisha (may Allaah be pleased with her) would say (to the women), "Eat of it, for I heard the Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) saying, 'The talbina soothes the heart of the patient and relieves him from some of his sadness.' " [Saheeh al-Bukhaaree (5058)].
The Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) also said: "The talbina gives rest to the heart of the patient and makes it active and relieves some of his sorrow and grief." [Saheeh al-Bukhaaree (5325)].
"It (talbina) soothes the grieving heart and cleanses the ailing heart just as one of you cleans dirt off his face with water." [Saheeh Sunan ibn Maajah (3445)].
"You should eat the beneficial thing that is unpleasant to eat (talbina), meaning broth. If any member of the Messenger of Allaah's family was sick, the cooking pot would remain on the fire until one of two things happened, either the person recovered or died." [Saheeh Sunan ibn Maajah (3446)].
The key ingredient in talbina is barley. Barley is a member of the grass family called Poaceae.
Barley is a good source of insoluble and soluble fiber. The soluble fiber portion contains the richest source of beta-glucans compared to any other grain; these can aid immune function. Barley also contains B vitamins, iron, magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, copper, and is one of the richest sources of chromium, which is important in maintaining blood glucose levels. Barley is also rich in antioxidants and contains a high concentration of tocols and tocotrienols, oils that help reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.
Numerous studies have been conducted in modern research that demonstrates the effectiveness of barley in treating health problems like heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer and constipation.
Talbina is made by adding 1-2 tablespoons of barley flour (must be 100% wholegrain barley flour) to one and a half cups of water or milk. Cook on a low heat for 10-15 minutes. It can be sweetened with honey. This broth can be used as a stock for soups or stews or as a thickener.


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Le Fosa Juniors FC est un club malgache de football, fondé en 2016, membre de la fédération malgache de football.

Le club est basé à Mahajanga, au nord-ouest de Madagascar, dans la région de Boeny. Il joue ses matchs au Stade Rabemananjara. Le club remporte son premier titre de champion en 2019 et réalise la même saison le doublé coupe-championnat.

Histoire

Le Fosa Juniors Football Club a battu le club néerlandais ADO La Haye en match amical et écrit l'histoire en étant le premier club malgache à avoir remporté un match face à un club européen.

Structures du club

Stades et structures d'entraînement

Stade Rabemananjara

Le Stade Rabemananjara est le stade principal du club depuis sa fondation en 2016.

Le stade est toujours utilisé par l'équipe nationale de football comme stade secondaire. La ville de Mahajanga décide de rénover une grande partie du stade. Dès lors, l'implantation d'une pelouse nouvelle génération a déjà eu lieu. La ville y rajoutera plus tard de loges VIP pour maximiser les revenus. Sa capacité de 8 000 places assises lui permet d'accueillir des matchs de première division malgache et ses projecteurs permettent aux équipes de jouer de nuit.

Stade municipal d'Alarobia

Les Fosa Juniors s'entraînent dans le stade municipal d'Alarobia, dans le quartier d'Ivandry.

Identité du club

Maillot

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Les équipes
 Orange Pro League (1)
 L'équipe Elite joue dans le top niveau de la compétition nationale, le Championnat de Madagascar de football

 Ligue Analamanga (6)
 L'équipe Espoir joue en 1ère DIVISION
 L'équipe U20 joue en 2ème DIVISION
 L'équipe U17 joue dans la Section Tana Ville
 L'équipe U15 joue dans la Section Tana Ville
 L'équipe U13 joue dans la Section Tana Ville
 L'équipe U11 joue dans la Section Tana Ville

Palmarès
 Championnat de Madagascar (1)
 Champion : 2019

 Coupe de Madagascar (2)
 Vainqueur : 2017, 2019

 Championnat de la ligue Boeny (4)
 Vainqueur : 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Références

Club de football à Madagascar
Club de football fondé en 2016

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The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida is recruiting for two faculty members at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level with clinical and research expertise in depressive disorder.
The positions will be a core part of the growing clinical and translational research program in the Department of Psychiatry at UF. These positions are in a major medical center in Gainesville Florida, at a Top 10 public university in a pleasant, family-friendly community with a modest cost of living and high quality of life.
The applicant will develop his/her own area of externally funded research, in collaboration with established faculty in the Department of Psychiatry, the College of Medicine, the Health Science Center and throughout UF. The adult inpatient and outpatient services provided by the Department of Psychiatry, which include electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), partial hospitalization (PHP), a specialized geriatric psychiatry inpatient unit, and an inpatient unit for medically and psychiatrically complex patients, provide an ideal setting for clinical and translational research in MDD and other mood disorders.


"At minimum we can expect an E3 blitz on EA Sports MMA as the title tries to elbow into a market dominated by the UFC and publisher THQ."
"While it seems with all the reboots it has become trendy to make past canon a bit more flexible than usual, the title tries to overwhelm weak narrative with vicious melee."
"Shayera at Excuse the Mess … that was just my head - as the title tries to suggest, it ` s about things that make my head explode. usually politics. although sometimes it ` s about other things. and i often post pictures of my nephew."


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Hezb-i- Islami Has 28 Military bases in Afghanistan: Amin
Security officials at Afghanistan Defense Ministry have stated we have no reliable information over the Hezb-i- Islami having active military bases or insurgency activities in the past year in Afghanistan.
But head of the Hezb-i- Islami delegation on peace deal negotiation saying Hezb-i- Islami has military bases in 28 provinces of Afghanistan but they were not active.
Afghanistan President had ordered the Afghanistan security departments not to target the Hezb-i- Islami military bases in Afghanistan and asking to launch efforts to pave the way for the Hezb-i- Islami fighters to collect their weapons for joining the peace process.
Ministry of Interior Affairs Spokesman Sediq Sediqee said," We are responsible and committed to implement the President decree, but we don't have exact information where the Hezb-i- Islami has military bases and how do they operate."
Meanwhile Ministry of Defense Spokesman Dawlat Waziri has confirmed that Hezb-i- Islami has had no insurgency activities against the Government of Afghanistan in the past one year.
He said," In the past they were not active, they were fighting against the International troops."
Head of the peace deal negotiation of Hezb-i- Islami Mohammad Karim Amin said," We military bases in 28 provinces of Afghanistan, We were asked not to fight against the Afghan Government for the past several years, yet to see the joining process to be started practically."
" In order to have clear joining process for Hezb-i- Islami fighters the President of Afghanistan has ordered the security forces to eliminate those who are trying to disrupt the process President Deputy Spokesman DawaKhan Menapal said."
Hezb-i- Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has signed a peace deal with Afghanistan Government a month ago, according the statement of the members of that party the leader of Hezb-i- Islami will come to Afghanistan provided that the sanctions to be removed against him.
Reported by Bais Hayat
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We are excited to announce that this year's Speech Contest will take place in less than three weeks' time. The contest will be open to all students from the Third Grade through High School and will also feature Poetry Recitation by First and Second Grade.
Due to the incredible growth WICS has been blessed with over the past year, we have decided to hold a Preliminary Round of speeches to decide which students will advance and present before our guest judges in the Speech Contest Final. We are looking forward to a lively competition this year as the students have all been working hard on their speeches.
Date: Friday, March 8th, 2019, at 1:00 p.m.
Date: Friday, March 15th, 2019, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.


By popular demand I modified a Ubuntu Mate installer as per my instructions here to install latest pre-release Android 7.1 image to your Pinebook's eMMC (NB: disregard the message that its installing Ubuntu in the installer - it will install Android).
This is not an official image so I am just tossing it up on google drive for those who want to try it. Also, I have not tested if it works - so it may not. Do let me know if it doesn't. I have done this in the past and worked just fine so I expect there won't be any issues.
edit 2: Removed the image because apparently the image did not work.
So I may use Pine64 installer in another laptop, flash pinebook ubuntu mate in my SD, connect the SD in these second laptop and access to the mounted SD, there I may find a pinebook.img, that I may delete, then rename the file you posted on gdrive to that name and copy there?
Aaaah! Ok, so directly using the pine installer but selecting the image from your hdd.
So is another problem or just not update SuperSU?
Now I may repeat all the process again.
Hehe, yes you should repeat and avoid upgrading. Stupid but that how it is.
I made again, but no updating SuperSU and all runs ok. Google Play runs ok and all tested/installed apps also. No reboots or anything strange. Performance is good (imo).
Damned, I have updated SuperSu and ....boot and boot and boot...infinite boot !!!
So, ok, I understood, I avoid upgrading SuperSu !!
Hmmm getting an error when flashing via Pine64installer!!!
(07-11-2017, 04:04 PM)epigon Wrote: [ -> ] Hmmm getting an error when flashing via Pine64installer!!!
Which version did you download (so I/someone can download the same one and hash it), and it might be worth downloading the image again anyway, in case you have a corrupt download.


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