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New Orphan Works Legislation: From Each According to What is Not Nailed Down, To Each According to How Little We Can Get Away With
April 25, 2008 Editor Charlie	Comments off
The House and Senate both introduced new versions of the "orphan works" legislation (the "Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act" named after the late AOL lobbyist). Why, you may ask? What is so important about "orphan works"? Do the songwriters, artists, photographers, illustrators, screenwriters, actors, directors you know come up to you in the street, strike a scream pose (a la Munch) and say "How can I live without orphan works?"
I doubt it. But you know who does. Three guesses.
As Google's attorney, digital sophisticate and Lessig acolyte Alexander MacGilivrey put it in his testimony at the Copyright Office:
"I would encourage the Copyright Office to consider not just the very, very small scale, the one user who wants to make use of the work, but also the very, very large scale and talking in the millions of works."
That statement was made on July 22, 2005—almost 4 months to the day before the Library of Congress announced a $3 million gift from Google for the Librarian's World Digital Library pet project.
This is not new ground for readers of this blog–see "Unhand That Orphan, Professor"–but here's essentially what the new law says that somebody—I'm not quite sure who, but I think their name is Google–is very interested in passing in this session of Congress (and during an election cycle at that). If some random person—or, oh, say Google–"finds" a work that they would like to use in the "remix culture" as Lessig calls it according to the editorial board of a leading financial newspaper (http://www.IBDeditorials.com/default.aspx?src=ICOMART), they can more or less do it without permission if they can't find the owner. Or as Google tells us on the record—use it millions of times.
Of course, they have to try to find the owner. Honest. Cross my heart and hope to die. They will really try hard. No one checks to see if they did, but they promise. Isn't Google's promise good enough for every creator in the history of mankind? Because this law applies to EVERYTHING.
There are some nuances to how little permission they need to get, but if we have learned one thing from Google it's that they intend to push the rules to 150% of what the law allows, just like they do with YouTube and the "notice and shakedown" provisions of the DMCA.
Realize that Lessig has referred to out of print books as being "orphans" and you get the idea. Absurd, you say? True. And Google will probably agree—when you get a final non-appealable judgment against the Leviathan of Mountain View you silly little artist.
You have to also realize that Google and Lessig have been chomping at the bit for years to get this bill through the Congress. That means that they are poised like a dog on a scent for it to pass, and then it's off to the races.
Google's "No Reply" Standard: "I tried to telephone, they said you were not home, that's a lie…"
(No Reply, written by John Winston Lennon and Paul McCartney, Administered by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC)
As Google's General Counsel has said publicly: "These works include those for which the author or assignee of a work – the work's "parent" – can no longer be determined, usually because the contact information included on the copyright registration is out of date."
Now as anyone knows who has ever done chain of title research on a book, this is a truly pathetically ignorant statement. If the "address changed" standard were applied, then many, many motion pictures would never be made. There are companies that offer reasonably priced searches to give you good chain of title and have been providing those reports for DECADES. Now granted it takes 24 hours minimum, so everyone has to hold it for a bit, but these searches are the industry standard for songs, records and movies, so I don't quite see how someone as important and all-knowing as the GC for the Big G missed it.
But wait, it gets better. "They may also include works that have been, for all intents and purposes, 'disowned,' either because any potential monetary value of the works has expired or because their authors simply are not interested in enforcing the copyrights on their works."
What does "any potential monetary value of the works has expired" mean? This in the same statement in which Google's General Counsel tells us "[o]rphan works represent an untapped wealth of information that can and should be made accessible to the public." How can these two statements both be true?
Easily—the "orphan work" may have insufficient economic value to the copyright owner to keep a book in print or a record in the catalog, but it has plenty of value to Google who wants to free ride on the efforts of the writer, publisher, artist, songwriter, record company and music publisher–EVERYONE. A title can get taken out of release in the music industry when it still has many years of useful life left in it for licensing and other purposes–such as the uses that the orphan works bill wants to make subject to Google's "good faith"–kind of like the good faith they've shown in their treatment of artists on YouTube, failure to account, snotty comments from Eric Schmidt, rude treatment of entertainment industry executives at the Googleplex, and on and on and on. But Google promises to conduct a search, kind of like they promised to have a robust filtering technology on YouTube. Cross my heart and hope to die.
And then I love this line: "…their authors simply are not interested in enforcing the copyrights on their works." How about this little rephrasing: "…their authors simply are not interested in enforcing the copyrights on their works enough to take on a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of the largest corporations in America known for delaying tactics in its business, or–and MUCH more likely–the original work has been remixed so much that it's impossible to discern in the derivative work."
Anyone who has ever cleared samples on a hip hop record understands that "remix" problem, and this is particularly true with visual images that can be manipulated beyond recognition. This is not a secret–this is exactly why Lessig encourages the "remix culture" and Google's "catch me if you can" spin on the copyright law. They KNOW it's hard or impossible to catch anyone who has done an effective job of remixing. They aren't all like Danger Mouse. And again–for visual images, it's almost impossible to catch.
So Google wants a clear shot at being able—once again—to take everything that's not nailed down and pay as little of their billions for it as humanly possible.
Who loses? Songwriters, artists, musicians, vocalists, producers, illustrators, photographers, copyright owners—everyone. Because you're going to have to be constantly on the lookout for infringing uses of your works, just like you have to be now with Google's interpretation of the "notice and shakedown" rules of the DMCA. And no artist can afford to do that in an environment where private property rights are very expensive to enforce.
The Man 2.0 strikes again. At least they used to just loathe and hassle us, now they rob us blind.
Just remember–the song doesn't go "we built this city on semiconductors". If you try hard enough, the music will eventually go away. Cross my heart and hope to die, and may the cat spit in your transformative eye.
More about this later as we have time to analyze the bills.
A Music Tax…Cut
April 20, 2008 Editor Charlie	2 comments
Poor old Electronic Frontier Foundation Advisory Board Member Jim Griffin and his solution to what he calls "Tarzan economics" got a very poor reception from the "Hate Artists First" crowd (See The Music Industry's Extortion Scheme—exceptionally hysterical as what started out as an idiotic idea from the EFF has now been transmogrified into an idiotic idea from "the music industry). This is kind of funny because his fellow EFFer Professor Lester Lawrence Lessig III got the usual insipid gushing from the amen chorus in academia and press when he floated the idea a few years ago. But Old Jim got called a lot of names and some of the equally shallow thinkers out there called it a "music tax".
It's not, of course, because if it were it would probably be an unconstitutional taking. But Griffin and Lessig were half right.
How about a music tax cut?
Meaning if you live in a high crime area like the Internet—which you do if you're part of the creative class–you get a tax deduction (or credit) because the government has failed to do its job and provide you with the fundamental attribute of a market place, namely enforceable property rights.
The government has completely abdicated its law enforcement role when it comes to copyright infringement online, and the creative community is bearing 100% of the brunt of it. Not only does the government fail to enforce the laws, but some government agencies take Google's trained sneezing pandas and gives them a platform for their apologia for piracy (witness the rather bizarre choice of the FCC to conduct the recent pro-illegal content hearings at both the Berkman Center AND Stanford for starters).
So why doesn't the government do something for us? We could start with a baseline annual $50,000 tax credit for each musician, singer, songwriter, artist, engineer, producer, mastering engineer, remixer, roadie and artist manager. If you are a copyright owner, you should get another $50,000 tax credit. And if you're a big copyright owner, you should get 50% of your antipiracy legal budget as a tax credit—in addition to any deduction you get to take. And unused tax credits carry forward FOREVER.Note: Tax CREDIT. Meaning a reduction in tax, not a reduction in income.
I want to take THEIR money. Make THEIR money decrease. See how THEY like it.
And don't just limit it to the music business, either. Actors, directors, game developers, software engineers, too. Get everybody into the act.
Here's the deal—let's face it, kids, the government is never going to help us anyway. That ship has sailed, so it's back to business as usual. We're living through The Man 2.0: Rise of the Machines. But the government shouldn't be able to make us eat the cost AND do their job for them.
The EFF's plan kind of sounds like trying to socialize the cost of illegal file bartering. That's what we have jails for, too. But if the government isn't going to use the jails, then they could at least not make us pay to do their job.
Bruce Springsteen–look out, here comes Jojo the dogfaced boy and the flagpole sitters of Generation L
More bone in the head
So I heard yet another bonehead argument about "markets" etc. from the other side that went something like this:
The reason why iTunes has been a financial success for the music industry is because they have a great product that is easy to use.
This sounds good when you first hear it, right? However, it is the usual load of bollocks from the Great Innovators.
Peer to peer is a great product that is also easy to use, correct? non-Fairplay DRM solutions may have been sold in "great" products, but aren't so easy to use in the iPod, but they do produce some income. So what's the difference? Why is iTunes a financial success for the music industry?
The difference is that iTunes respects private property rights, gets licenses and pays royalties. That's why it makes money for us. As does Amazon, Liquid.com, eMusic and the others.
Lots of things are innovative and easy to use. It takes another step on the part of the "innovator" to innovate some money by means of an innovative royalty system and playing by the innovative rules of the road.
I don't mind so much if people are offensive. I do mind when they rely on fallacious reasoning to get there. Or as a wise man once said, I don't know which is more offensive, that he said it or that he thought I would believe it.


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Nuke Fears Close Dump
by Hank Sims
Concerned about the potential of radioactive waste leeching into Humboldt Bay, county government has temporarily shut down the old Table Bluff Landfill outside of Loleta, the Journal has learned.
Table Bluff landfill was open to the public between the late 1960s and late 1970s. Since closing, the county has continued to use it as a space to dump "road spoils," or dirt that washes onto county roads during floods.
The close-down, which happened a couple of weeks ago, was taken out of an abundance of caution, said Humboldt County Environmental Services Director Hank Seeman. There is no evidence that the site is contaminated with radioactive material, Seeman said -- however, there's no way to be sure that it isn't.
Seeman said that the issue came up a couple of months ago, when the Sheriff's Office considered using the location for bomb squad training. When the proposal arose, county personnel started to do some standard-issue assessment about the risks of planting people at a dump site for extended periods of time. That's when someone noted that the dump was located in the vicinity of PG & E's old Humboldt Bay Nucleaer Power Plant and the naval training facility at Centerville Beach, both of which have housed nuclear materials.
"Given the uncertainty about waste management activities at that point [in time], it's conceivable that some radioactive material made it into Table Bluff Landfill," said Humboldt County Environmental Services Director Hank Seeman yesterday. "And we realized that we didn't have any info on residual radioactivity that might be coming out of that landfill."
The county, in consultation with the California Integrated Waste Management Board, decided to shutter the facility until such time as specialized tests can be performed. A crew from the Waste Management Board is scheduled to test the site at the end of February, Seeman said.
PG&E certainly operated in a loosey-goosey manner back in the day, and it wouldn't at all be surprising to find that nasty materials made their way out of the power plant and into the landfill. For more, see last year's cover story "The Not-So-Peaceful Atom" (Mar. 20), in which one of the plant's first employees recalls what happened when he blew the whistle on hazardous practices there.
Government Environment

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
from __future__ import absolute_import
import unittest
from pylsy import pylsytable

class PylsyTableTests(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        attributes = ["name", "age"]
        self.table = pylsytable(attributes)

    def tearDown(self):
        self.table = None

    def testCreateTable(self):
        name = ["a", "b"]
        self.table.add_data("name", name)
        age = [1, 2]
        self.table.add_data("age", age)
        correct_file = open('correct.out', 'r')
        correctPrint = correct_file.read()
        try:
            # import io
            # from contextlib import redirect_stdout
            # with io.StringIO() as buf, redirect_stdout(buf):
                # print(self.table,end='')
            output = self.table.__str__()
            self.assertEqual(output, correctPrint)
        except ImportError:
            import sys
            f_handler = open('test.out', 'w')
            sys.stdout = f_handler
            self.table.create_table()
            f_handler.close()
            f_handler = open('test.out', 'r')
            self.assertEqual(f_handler.read(), correctPrint)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – It was another great year for prep volleyball in Brevard County in 2012.
Led by perennial powerhouse Merritt Island, which advanced to the Class 6A championship game against Jensen Beach in Lakeland, eight other high schools on the Space Coast qualified for the state tournament.
This is a testament to the caliber and quality of play by prep teams in Brevard County and indicative of the level of competition and coaching at local schools.
Here's a rundown of Space CoastDaily.com's 2012 Prep Volleyball Player of the Year. Coach of the Year and 2012 Prep Volleyball All-Star Teams.
Award winners will be honored at the Space Coast Daily Spring Media Day on Feb. 10 at Mavericks Sports Grill on Merritt Island.
An outside hitter, Van Alstine is gearing up to take her game to the next level at the University of North Florida on a volleyball scholarship.
She dominated prep play as a member of Merritt Island's varsity team, winning a Class 5A state championship as a junior and led the team back to the state title game this season.
During the 2012 season, Van Alstine recorded 333 kills, 67 total blocks and 18 serving aces.
Van Alstine has won just about every award a prep player can earn.
She was selected Most Valuable Player for the North Team of the Brevard County North-South Prep Volleyball Match – and was also named the Class 5A Player of the Year by the Florida Dairy Farmers and selected to compete in a number of prestigious post-season All-Star games.
In 10 seasons as the coach of the Mustangs, all Patrick has done is guide Merritt Island to six district championships, a state title in 2011 and the state runner-up in 2012.
She has amassed a record of 218-64 during that time and continues to shape the careers of talented athletes that go on to earn scholarships to compete in college.
Her 2012 Merritt Island Mustangs went 26-6 and was the top prep team in Brevard County.


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package monix.reactive.internal.builders

import java.io.{ByteArrayInputStream, InputStream}

import minitest.SimpleTestSuite
import minitest.laws.Checkers
import monix.eval.Task
import monix.execution.Ack
import monix.execution.Ack.Continue
import monix.execution.ExecutionModel.{AlwaysAsyncExecution, BatchedExecution, SynchronousExecution}
import monix.execution.exceptions.{APIContractViolationException, DummyException}
import monix.execution.schedulers.TestScheduler
import monix.reactive.Observable
import monix.reactive.observers.Subscriber
import org.scalacheck.{Gen, Prop}

import scala.collection.mutable.ListBuffer
import scala.util.{Failure, Random, Success}

object InputStreamObservableSuite extends SimpleTestSuite with Checkers {
  test("fromInputStreamUnsafe yields a single subscriber observable") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler()
    var errorThrown: Throwable = null
    val obs = Observable.fromInputStreamUnsafe(new ByteArrayInputStream(randomByteArray()))
    obs.unsafeSubscribeFn(Subscriber.empty(s))
    s.tick()

    obs.unsafeSubscribeFn(new Subscriber[Array[Byte]] {
      implicit val scheduler = s

      def onNext(elem: Array[Byte]): Ack =
        throw new IllegalStateException("onNext")
      def onComplete(): Unit =
        throw new IllegalStateException("onComplete")
      def onError(ex: Throwable): Unit =
        errorThrown = ex
    })

    assert(errorThrown.isInstanceOf[APIContractViolationException])
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStreamUnsafe should throw if the chunkSize is zero") {
    val byteArray = randomByteArray()
    val in = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray)
    val error = intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      Observable.fromInputStreamUnsafe(in, 0)
      ()
    }
    assert(error.getMessage.contains("chunkSize"))
  }

  test("fromInputStreamUnsafe should throw if the chunkSize is negative") {
    val byteArray = randomByteArray()
    val in = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray)
    val error = intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      Observable.fromInputStreamUnsafe(in, -1)
      ()
    }
    assert(error.getMessage.contains("chunkSize"))
  }

  test("fromInputStreamUnsafe works for BatchedExecution") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler(BatchedExecution(1024))
    val array = randomByteArray()
    val in = new ByteArrayInputStream(array)

    val result = Observable
      .fromInputStreamUnsafe(in, 40)
      .foldLeft(Array.empty[Byte])(_ ++ _)
      .runAsyncGetFirst
      .map(_.map(_.toList))

    s.tick()
    assertEquals(result.value, Some(Success(Some(array.toList))))
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStreamUnsafe works for AlwaysAsyncExecution") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler(AlwaysAsyncExecution)
    val array = randomByteArray()
    val in = new ByteArrayInputStream(array)

    val result = Observable
      .fromInputStreamUnsafe(in, 40)
      .foldLeft(Array.empty[Byte])(_ ++ _)
      .runAsyncGetFirst
      .map(_.map(_.toList))

    s.tick()
    assertEquals(result.value, Some(Success(Some(array.toList))))
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStreamUnsafe works for SynchronousExecution") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler(SynchronousExecution)

    var wasCompleted = 0
    val received = ListBuffer.empty[Byte]
    val array = randomByteArray()
    val in = new ByteArrayInputStream(array)

    val obs: Observable[Array[Byte]] = Observable
      .fromInputStreamUnsafe(in)
      .foldLeft(Array.empty[Byte])(_ ++ _)

    obs.unsafeSubscribeFn(new Subscriber[Array[Byte]] {
      implicit val scheduler = s

      def onError(ex: Throwable): Unit =
        throw new IllegalStateException("onError")
      def onComplete(): Unit =
        wasCompleted += 1

      def onNext(elem: Array[Byte]): Ack = {
        received.appendAll(elem)
        Continue
      }
    })
    s.tick()

    assertEquals(received.toList, array.toList)
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStream does not block on initial execution") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler()
    var didRead = false
    val is = new InputStream {
      def read(): Int = {
        didRead = true
        -1
      }
    }
    // Should not fail without s.tick()
    Observable.fromInputStreamUnsafe(is).foreach(_ => ())
    assert(!didRead)
  }

  test("fromInputStream closes the file handle onComplete") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler()

    var wasClosed = false
    val in = randomInputWithOnFinish(() => wasClosed = true)
    val f = Observable.fromInputStreamF(Task(in)).completedL.runToFuture

    s.tick()
    assertEquals(f.value, Some(Success(())))
    assert(wasClosed, "InputStream should have been closed")
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStream closes the file handle onError on first call") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler()

    var wasClosed = false
    val ex = DummyException("dummy")
    val in = inputWithError(ex, 1, () => wasClosed = true)
    val f = Observable.fromInputStreamF(Task(in)).completedL.runToFuture

    s.tick()
    assertEquals(f.value, Some(Failure(ex)))
    assert(wasClosed, "InputStream should have been closed")
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStream closes the file handle onError on second call") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler()

    var wasClosed = false
    val ex = DummyException("dummy")
    val in = inputWithError(ex, 2, () => wasClosed = true)
    val f = Observable.fromInputStreamF(Task(in)).completedL.runToFuture

    s.tick()
    assertEquals(f.value, Some(Failure(ex)))
    assert(wasClosed, "InputStream should have been closed")
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStream closes the file handle on cancel") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler(AlwaysAsyncExecution)

    var wasClosed = false
    val in = randomInputWithOnFinish(() => wasClosed = true)
    val f = Observable.fromInputStreamF(Task(in)).completedL.runToFuture

    s.tickOne()
    f.cancel()
    s.tick()

    assert(wasClosed, "InputStream should have been closed")
    assertEquals(s.state.lastReportedError, null)
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStream should signal an error if the chunkSize is zero or negative") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler()

    val byteArray = randomByteArray()
    val in = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray)
    val f = Observable.fromInputStream(Task(in), 0).completedL.runToFuture

    s.tick()

    intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
      f.value.get.get
      ()
    }
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStream completes normally for files with size == 0") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler()

    val byteArray = new Array[Byte](0)
    val in = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray)
    val f = Observable
      .fromInputStream(Task(in))
      .map(_.length)
      .sumL
      .runToFuture

    s.tick()

    assertEquals(f.value.get.get, 0)
    assert(s.state.tasks.isEmpty, "should be left with no pending tasks")
  }

  test("fromInputStream fills the buffer up to 'chunkSize' if possible") {
    implicit val s = TestScheduler()

    val gen = for {
      byteSize <- Gen.choose(1, 4096)
      chunkSize <- Gen.choose(Math.floorDiv(byteSize, 2).max(1), byteSize * 2)
    } yield {
      (byteSize, chunkSize)
    }

    check {
      Prop.forAllNoShrink(gen) { // do not shrink to avoid a zero for the chunkSize
        case (byteSize, chunkSize) =>
          val byteArray = randomByteArray(byteSize, 10)
          val forcedReadSize = Math.floorDiv(byteSize, 10).max(1) // avoid zero-byte reads
          val in = inputWithStaggeredBytes(forcedReadSize, new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray))
          val f = Observable
            .fromInputStreamF(Task(in), chunkSize)
            .foldLeftL(Vector.empty[Int]) {
              case (acc, byteArray) => acc :+ byteArray.length
            }
            .runToFuture

          s.tick()

          val resultChunkSizes = f.value.get.get
          if (byteArray.length > chunkSize) // all values except the last should be equal to the chunkSize
            resultChunkSizes.init.forall(_ == chunkSize) && resultChunkSizes.last <= chunkSize
          else
            resultChunkSizes.head <= chunkSize
      }
    }
  }

  def inputWithStaggeredBytes(forcedReadSize: Int, underlying: ByteArrayInputStream): InputStream = {
    new InputStream {
      override def read(): Int = underlying.read()
      override def read(b: Array[Byte]): Int =
        read(b, 0, forcedReadSize)
      override def read(b: Array[Byte], off: Int, len: Int): Int =
        underlying.read(b, off, forcedReadSize.min(len))
    }
  }

  def inputWithError(ex: Throwable, whenToThrow: Int, onFinish: () => Unit): InputStream =
    new InputStream {
      private[this] var callIdx = 0

      def read(): Int = {
        callIdx += 1
        if (callIdx == whenToThrow) throw ex
        else 1
      }

      override def close(): Unit =
        onFinish()
    }

  def randomInputWithOnFinish(onFinish: () => Unit): InputStream = {
    val array = randomByteArray()
    val underlying = new ByteArrayInputStream(array)
    new InputStream {
      def read(): Int = underlying.read()

      override def read(b: Array[Byte]): Int =
        underlying.read(b)
      override def read(b: Array[Byte], off: Int, len: Int): Int =
        underlying.read(b, off, len)
      override def close(): Unit = {
        underlying.close()
        onFinish()
      }
    }
  }

  def randomByteArray(size: Int = 2048, nMinSize: Int = 0): Array[Byte] = {
    val length = Random.nextInt(size).max(nMinSize)
    val bytes = new Array[Byte](length)
    Random.nextBytes(bytes)
    bytes
  }
}


I'm not really sure, nor do I care. But I think it had something to do with Dennis Lyxzén.
I remember being a baby of the barely walking variety. Something about camping and my mother bathing me in a green plastic washbasin on a campground table.


Numbers drawn were 10, 15, 19, 29. 1 match 3 winner - Eileen Deegan, Leabeg Ballycumber Seller Eileen Deggan. Next weeks jackpot will be €10,600 and the draw will be held in Gavins Pub on Saturday night 16/02/2013.
Congratulations to Aoife Halligan and Trevor Phelan who got engaged and best wishes for the future. Congratulations to Paschal Guinan Ballycumber on winning the Offaly Lotto.
Training continues for the Senior & Junior footballers on Tuesday night at 8pm & Saturday night at 7pm. The Division 1 & 3 leagues are resuming soon.
"The Ballycumber Area Defibrillator Scheme AGM took place Wednesday night (6th February) where a new committee was elected.
There was no winner of the weekly club Lotto jackpot. The numbers drawn were 5, 15, 19, 26. There were six match 3 winners, Darren Cunningham, Imelda Sheridan, Michael Mullen, John Joe Claffey, Ann Marie Moran and Lauren Pilkington who all win 25 euro each. Next week's draw takes place in The Mill at 10pm on Saturday night and the Jackpot is €2900. Thanks to all who support our lotto and thanks to all our ticket sellers. Our lotto can be subscribed to for an annual payment of 75 euro which enters you into all 52 draws, this is available from any committee member.
We ask our members abroad to renew their membership and this can be done by contacting any committee member.
Girls U-14 training every Monday in the Clara GAA Centre from 6.30 to 7.30. New members are welcome.
Heartiest congratulations to neighbours Kilcormac/Killoughey on their excellent win in the All Ireland Senior Hurling semi-final against Thurles Sarsfields on Saturday in Portlaoise. It was an incredible win and the way they played was a great credit to their club and the county. All roads now lead to Croke Park on St Patrick's Day.
Team 4 (Peader Nugent's team) is on Lotto duty this week. Thanks to all who give of their time on Saturday evening to check the Lotto.
An U14 Valentines Disco will be held on Sat 15th feb in Edenderry GAA from 7.30 to 9.45pm. Entry is €5.
Sat 9th Feb was a great night in Byrnes when Eamon Horan of RTE Sport was on hand to announce the details of the Easter Rising in front of a packed audience in Byrnes Lounge.
Eamon acted as MC for the launch and he introduced each boxer to the stage and interviewed a number of them about their thoughts ahead of the event on March 30th.
Willie Forde spoke on behalf of Edenderry GAA and encouraged everyone in both clubs to get behind the event. He mentioned the sacrifices that all the boxers will be making in the coming weeks as they begin training. Boxers are currently looking for sponsorship for their fight and tickets for the event will be on sale in the coming week priced at €15 each.
Jackpot rolls over again and will be €13,000 for next Sunday's draw.
Sun 10th Feb Numbers drawn were 13,21,24,25 Bonus 10.
There was no Jackpot winner and No Match 2 winners so 5 tickets were selected by Lucky Dip and won €60 each.
The Bingo Jackpot will be €2,700 in 45 calls or less next Sunday night. Bingo starts at 8pm every Sunday night and there is a total prize fund of €18,000 on offer every Sunday night.
Our annual Club Awards were presented on Saturday night as part of the launch night for the Easter Rising. The citations for each winner were read by Eamon Horan of RTE Sport. Congratulations to all award winners. For the full citations please see our website www.edenderrygaa.com.
All players, coaches and committee members are reminded that they must have their membership paid by 31st March 2013. This date is also important for everyone as it is the cut off date for members to be registered to vote at next years AGM and to nominate or be nominated for elected positions within the club. You can also pay online at www.edenderrygaa.com. Membership rates for the year are as follows: Family €80, Adult Player €75, Student (U23) Player €35, Youth Player (U18) €30, Cúl Redz (U8) €20, Non Playing Adult €20, Senior Citizen €5. The club have purchased a number of mouth guards which will be given to youth members paying their membership. Stocks are limited so pay your membership now and receive your free mouth guard.
St Mary's Secondary School Senior Football team play Athlone CC in the quarter final on Thurs Feb 14th in Kiltoom at 2pm.
Lotto results from last week were 4,7,19,24. Six match 3 winners - Noel Walters c/o seerys, Mick Kelly c/o Mick Kelly & David Kelly, Joan Diamond c/o Cathal Smyth, Marie Spence c/o the Grove, Helen Daly c/o Alan Daly, Grainne Sullivan c/o Molly Sullivan . Jackpot next week €9,600.
There was no winner of last weeks jackpot, the jackpot now moves up to €11,200.
The numbers drawn were 4,9,14,19. There were 11 Match 3, each receiving €0.
The season moves up a gear from this week. Hurling training is Monday night , 7 p.m. in Killeigh and Friday night 7 p.m. in Rahan. The footballers commence on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Killeigh under former Rhode and Offaly footballer Jack Kilmurray. The club would like to welcome Jack, and wish both himself and Ollie the best of luck for the year ahead.
All young players moving up from under-age and players new to the area are invited to the training sessions. Please contact the club secretary Paul O'Rourke (087) 9685847 to be included on messaging lists for training and match notification.
Follow all the news and views from the club on facebook and twitter.
Congratulations to Kilcormac/Killoughey on their fantastic win in the All-Ireland Club semi-final on Saturday and best wishes to them in the final on St. Patricks Day.
Na Fianna U21 Footballers get the club's playing campaign for this year under way on Sunday week (23rd Feb) @ 3:30pm as they take on Edenderry side St Patricks in Geashill in the 1st Round of the U21 Championship . Best of Luck to players and management. All support would be appreciated.
The draw was made at the February Offaly Camogie County Board meeting for the 2013 Senior Championship. The nine teams in the Championship are split into two groups with Group 1 having five teams and Group 2 having four. Defending champions Shinrone have been drawn in Group 1 along with Birr, Kilcormac/Killoughey, Naomh Brid and Kinnitty. Last year's runners up Drumcullen are in Group 2 along with St Rynagh's, Tullamore and St Sinchill's/Lusmagh.
The top team in each group will go straight into the semi-finals with second and third placed team in each group going into the quarter-finals. The first two rounds are due to be played in early May.
Offaly Camogie will be holding a Golf Classic on April 1 (Easter Monday) in Birr Golf Club. Entry fee for a team of four is €120. Tee Box Sponsorship €50. To book your tee off time or team box contact Carmel Carroll at 0868289321. All support for the Golf Classic would be greatly appreciated.
Offaly U-16s are due to play their first round game in the Leinster Championship against Kilkenny this Saturday away to Kilkenny. Best of luck to the girls and to the management team of JP Egan. Noreen & Padraig Feeney, Denis Hoctor and Declan Fitzgerald.
The numbers drawn in the Lotto draw which took place on Monday 04th February were 04 09 14 19. There was no Jackpot winner of ?11,000 and 11 Match 3 Winners [Breege Lynam C/O Fergie Byrne; JJ Malone C/O JJ Malone; Kathleen Brazil C/O Killeigh P/O; Mick O'Rourke C/O Mick O'Rourke; Billy Murphy C/O JFP; Matthew Murphy C/O J Murphy; JJ & Kate C/O Doyle's; Padraig Fitzsimons C/O Liz Gorman; Nicholas Shaughnessy C/O Ray Garry; Martin Boland C/O Martin Boland; Pauric Pierce C/O Pauric Pierce] [?20 Each]. Next week's draw will take place in Doyle's, Killeigh on Monday 18th February.
Raheen Intermediate Footballers get the club's playing campaign underway for 2013 this Saturday afternoon (16 Feb) at 4:00pm as they take on Ballyfore in Ballyforel in Round 1 of the Div 2 Football League. Best of Luck to players and management. All support would be appreciated.
A 5K Fun Run in Memory of Barry Lee will be held in Geashill Village on Sunday 3rd March 2013 @ 12 Noon. Competitors may Run, Walk or Cycle the route. Entry Fee is ?10 for Adults, ?5 for Students and ?15 for a Family with the proceeds going towards the Geashill Playground Fundraising Committee. Registration will take place from 11am in the Raheen GAA Clubhouse. Refreshments will be served in the Clubhouse afterwards. All Support would be much appreciated.
Raheen GAA would like to congratulate Kilcormac / Killoughey on their success in winning their All Ireland Club Semi Final last Saturday and qualifying for the the All Ireland Final on St Patricks Day.
Members are asked to renew their membership as soon as possible but all membership must be paid before this year's playing campaign commences. This year again there are 2 membership options. Option 1 includes entry in our weekly club lotto draw and Subscriptions are Playing Members ?120, Students/ OAP's & Non Playing Members ?110. Option 2 is the same as previous years and Subscriptions are Playing Members ?30, Students/ OAP's ?15 & Non Playing Members ?20. Payments can be given to Paddy Bracken. New members are very welcome.
The numbers drawn were: 5, 12, 22 and 23. There were 6 match three winners who receive €35 each. Tommy Cantwell (Pat Kearney), Mossie Clavin (Golf Club), Erica Lynch (Fingerboard), Ger Mooney (Martin Manley), James Rock (Kelly's Roadhouse)and Alan McLoughlin (Ita Kearney).
Many thanks to all who continue to support our weekly fundraiser.
The club are running a table quiz on Friday February 22nd in Killina Secondary School Hall. The funds raised on the night will be distributed between the club and the Sports department at the secondary school.
All players must be paid in full by the end of <arch in line with our "no pay, no play" policy. The fees are as follows: Adult Player €50, Students €25 and Non Playing Adult €20.
Well done to all involved with Kilcormac Killoughey senior hurling team who defied the odds by reaching the All Ireland final on St Patricks Day. Best of luck to the squad and management in preparations for the final.
Hurling and Football training has resumed for the 2013 championships and all players are asked to attend training on appointed nights.
The leagues will commence this weekend.
There was no winner of last week's jackpot. The numbers drawn were 12, 15, 18 and 26 and there were no match three winners. An extra €200 is added, making this week's jackpot €3,800.
Bingo continues every Thursday at 8.30pm in the Social Centre.
2013 marks a very special year in our clubs history and to get the party started we celebrated on Saturday night last in the Tullamore Court Hotel. This was a very successful club night and on behalf of the committee there are a number of people who have to be thanked. Thanks to Paddy Rowland for working on the door, Emer Keegan, Mary Flanagan, Paula McCabe and Mary Spollen for selling raffle tickets on the night, thanks to those who sponsored spot prizes and to PJ Grennans for sponsoring the 125 cake. It was great to have Billy Dowling and Gerry Conway presenting the medals and we thank both of them for that. Thanks to Shaun Martin for decorating the room and to the Court Hotel for all their help and advice in making it a wonderful night. We must mention our MC for the night, Noel Cooney who ensured we were entertained and of course his party piece at the end. Thanks to Aideen Marron who helped with all the impressive video clips shown on the night. Thanks to all those who attended on the night, there was a great buzz in the room and it was great to see so many familiar faces. Finally a special mention to Paul Conlon who put so much effort into ensuring the night was extra special for all and to mentors John Keane and Mick Lowery who assisted with the preparations. Congratulations to our deserving award winners Johnny Kavanagh and John Keane and to all who received medals on the night.
The Ladies Football Club are holding a table quiz on Friday night in The Wolftrap at 8.30pm. Please support.
Banagher Drama Group in association with Dóchas present "Out of Order" on Friday and Saturday 22nd and 23rd February in the Social Centre.
We would like to congratulate Kilcormac Killoughey after their impressive victory in the All Ireland Semi Final over Thurles and have now reached the All Ireland Final in what has been a magnificent journey for the club. Congratulations also to Tullamore Rugby Club on winning the All Ireland Junior Club Final on Saturday last.
Indoor hurling training for 10-12 year old's resumes on Monday 18th February in Tullamore College.


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My Top 9 Favorite Python Deep Learning Libraries
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This article was posted by Adrian Rosebrock on Pyimagesearch. Adrian is an entrepreneur and Ph.D who has launched two successful image search engines, ID My Pill and Chic Engine.
Inside this blog post, he details 9 of his favorite Python deep learning libraries. This list is by no means exhaustive, it's simply a list of libraries that he has used in his computer vision career and found particular useful at one time or another. The goal of this blog post is to introduce you to these libraries. He encourages you to read up on each them individually to determine which one will work best for you in your particular situation.
My Top 9 Favorite Python Deep Learning Libraries:
Again, he wants to reiterate that this list is by no means exhaustive. Furthermore, since he is a computer vision researcher and actively work in the field, many of these libraries have a strong focus on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
He has organized this list of deep learning libraries into three parts.
The first part details popular libraries that you may already be familiar with. For each of these libraries, he provides a very general, high-level overview. He then details some of his likes and dislikes about each library, along with a few appropriate use cases.
The second part dives into my personal favorite deep learning libraries that he uses heavily on a regular basis (HINT: Keras, mxnet, and sklearn-theano).
Finally, he provides a "bonus" section for libraries that he has (1) not used in a long time, but still think you may find useful or (2) libraries that he hasn't tried yet, but look interesting.
Let's go ahead and dive in!
For starters:
1. Caffe
It's pretty much impossible to mention "deep learning libraries" without bringing up Caffe. In fact, since you're on this page right now reading up on deep learning libraries, he is willing to bet that you've already heard of Caffe.
So, what is Caffe exactly?
Caffe is a deep learning framework developed by the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center(BVLC). It's modular. Extremely fast. And it's used by academics and industry in start-of-the-art applications.
In fact, if you were to go through the most recent deep learning publications (that also provide source code), you'll more than likely find Caffe models on their associated GitHub repositories.
While Caffe itself isn't a Python library, it does provide bindings into the Python programming language. We typically use these bindings when actually deploying our network in the wild.
The reason he has included Caffe in this list is because it's used nearly everywhere. You define your model architecture and solver methods in a plaintext, JSON-like file called .prototxt configuration files. The Caffe binaries take these .prototxt files and train your network. After Caffe is done training, you can take your network and classify new images via Caffe binaries, or better yet, through the Python or MATLAB APIs.
While he loves Caffe for its performance (it can process 60 million images per day on a K40 GPU), he doesn't like it as much as Keras or mxnet.
The main reason is that constructing an architecture inside the .prototxt files can become quite tedious and tiresome. And more to the point, tuning hyperparameters with Caffe can not be (easily) done programmatically! Because of these two reasons, he tends to lean towards libraries that allow me to implement the end-to-end network (including cross-validation and hyperparameter tuning) in a Python-based API.
2. Theano
Let him start by saying that Theano is beautiful. Without Theano, we wouldn't have anywhere near the amount of deep learning libraries (specifically in Python) that we do today. In the same way that without NumPy, we couldn't have SciPy, scikit-learn, and scikit-image, the same can be said about Theano and higher-level abstractions of deep learning.
At the very core, Theano is a Python library used to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays. Theano accomplishes this via tight integration with NumPy and transparent use of the GPU.
While you can build deep learning networks in Theano, he tends to think of Theano as the building blocks for neural networks, in the same way that NumPy serves as the building blocks for scientific computing. In fact, most of the libraries he mentions in this blog post wrap around Theano to make it more convenient and accessible.
Don't get him wrong, he loves Theano — He just doesn't like writing code in Theano.
While not a perfect comparison, building a Convolutional Neural Network in Theano is like writing a custom Support Vector Machine (SVM) in native Python with only a sprinkle of NumPy.
Can you do it?
Sure, absolutely.
Is it worth your time and effort?
Eh, maybe. It depends on how low-level you want to go/your application requires.
He would rather uses a library like Keras that wraps Theano into a more user-friendly API, in the same way that scikit-learn makes it easier to work with machine learning algorithms.
3. TensorFlow
Similar to Theano, TensorFlow is an open source library for numerical computation using data flow graphs (which is all that a Neural Network really is). Originally developed by the researchers on the Google Brain Team within Google's Machine Intelligence research organization, the library has since been open sourced and made available to the general public.
A primary benefit of TensorFlow (as compared to Theano) is distributed computing, particularly among multiple-GPUs (although this is something Theano is working on).
Other than swapping out the Keras backend to use TensorFlow (rather than Theano), he doesn't have much experience with the TensorFlow library. Over the next few months, he expects this to change, however.
4. Lasagne
Lasagne is a lightweight library used to construct and train networks in Theano. The key term here is lightweight — it is not meant to be a heavy wrapper around Theano like Keras is. While this leads to your code being more verbose, it does free you from any restraints, while still giving you modular building blocks based on Theano.
Simply put: Lasagne functions as a happy medium between the low-level programming of Theano and the higher-level abstractions of Keras.
To read the original article and see the 5 other python deep learning libraries and the bonus section, click here.
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I realize that I declare almost every meetup I go to as a "favorite", but Full Stack Talks truly is at the top of my list mainly because I ALWAYS leave it learning SO much. Yay for free education! It's hosted by Planning Center Online, which is a Rails shop in Carlsbad. Great energy consisting of games, beer, snacks, and an impressive stage setup. Sadly, I hardly make the 1hr trek north to attend, at least not as often as I had originally planned for. But I was extra motivated as I had invited a friend from my cohort to attend. He recently moved to San Diego and will be the first person to actually finish our program! Smart guy, great developer, and now a new local friend :) (PS. If you're reading this, you are just as lovely in person and I'm so glad to know you!) What's also fun about attending this meetup is that the more involved I become with this community, the more often I run into familiar faces and even people I know which makes me feel like I'm no longer on the outside staring in; I'm apart of it. Whether that be from Rubyconf, Railscamp, volunteer events, or other local meetups, it's always fun to reconnect. But my new goal is to speak ... one day. Maybe not anytime soon. Thinking of standing in front of all those people already makes me sweat, which means I should do it let's be honest. It's definitely on my bucket list.
It's not even 7AM. I haven't had any coffee at all, but I'm just so excited to share with you today. I had to get up and write a recap! Quick reminder though, if you ever miss an event and want to watch it live stream, you can subscribe to their youtube channel. Or you can just read my blog and I'll try my best to summarize them!
1) "Phoenix From The Ashes: Transitioning Rails to Phoenix" by Michael Chan. I really like Michael, even before his personality shined from the podium. Michael helped me during the ReactJS training I attended a few months ago, which ironically was also during the time I got laid off which I'm only mentioning because his help was even more appreciated on that particular day of personal emotional turmoil, unbeknownst to him. He's got a warm and welcoming personality that I'm grateful for (Thank you). I enjoyed his presentation style and slide designs too. But biases aside, he gave a talk about Pheonix after tinkering around with it for only 2 days, and humorously compared it to his experience using Rails. This was my first introduction to Phoenix so I learned a lot and will just briefly highlight a few points.
Phoenix is to Elixir as Rails is to Ruby. Phoenix is a framework for a language called Elixir, which I've been told is friendly like Ruby but is more function based. Everything is a function.
Phoenix is easy to set up with its thorough documentation, that is also visually pleasing to the eye.
"Mix" is a helpful command vs the Rails/Rake confusion.
Semantic gemfile, routing, and single controller names.
It comes with a default pages controller, unlike the magical Rails landing page.
" |>" is called a pipe and it feeds the output of one expression into another. Pretty cool.
Some cons include Ecto, which can be comparable to Active Record but it's much more limited in power.
If you are interested in learning more about Phoenix, which seems like it has potential to shake up the Rails world, he recommended "Programming Elixir" by Dave Thomas.
2) "Chrome Dev Tools: JS Profiling" by Tanner Mares. I'm pretty sure Tanner and I have crossed paths before too, circa Rails Camp West 2015? Again, this was another great talk with lots to learn. I've gotten quite cozy with Chrome's developer tools during my programming journey, but never did I find any purpose for its "Timeline" and "Profile" features. Which also made me realize that there are probably more helpful features it offers that I have no idea about. Why haven't I taken the time to look?! Tanner to the rescue!
I appreciated the live demonstration of these tools, which included refactoring his code to improve performance with an obvious before/after detailed in the dev tools. One thing to note is that the Timeline results will refresh with every page refresh while the Profile tool will persist.
These tools are so specific that you can record and zoom into an event, either by color coded line/bar graphs or list view, that will detail the exact line(s) in your code causing the lag. I prefer the "heavy" view because it ranks events. Easy. There should be no more time wasted on guessing what's wrong. We can see exactly what's happening.
FPS = Frames Per Second and the higher the number, the better. Though you'll want a low CPU.
If you haven't been to this meetup, I highly recommend it. Learning is fun and this one never disappoints.


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Domestic violence impacts millions of people each year, but it can be prevented. It requires the collective voice and power of individuals, families, institutions, and systems – each of whose "one thing" adds a valuable and powerful component to...
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Now a national celebration full of rainbow colors and vibrant expressions of humanity, the history of Pride Month is rooted in the weight of the Stonewall riots of June 28, 1969. The following year, on the anniversary of the riots, marked the first Gay...
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The University of New Mexico hosts a grand opening celebration of its new LGBTQ Resource Center on Wednesday, Oct. 11, from 4 to 6 p.m. at 1919 Las Lomas Blvd (across from the new McKinnon Center for Management building). The event will coincide with...
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The Udzungwas are part of the Eastern Arc of mountains that run from Mozambique to Kenya, but the majority of them are in Tanzania. We have previously been to the Eastern Usambara Mountains where we went on a 'different safari', and also did a hike in the Uluguru Mountains, so we were keen to explore these famous Udzungwa Mountains.
We read about a three-day hike and decided to head over. Esther was keen as well and on Friday morning she arrived at the Circus, packed and ready to go. Due to the increase in villages along the highway it would take us most of a day's drive to get to Hondo Hondo, so we set off early, leaving Helen & James, who were in Dar visiting us from Nairobi, behind at our place.
Again the diplomatic plates meant we cruised through and early afternoon we arrived at a little paradise on the edge of the forest. Yellow baboons were foraging everywhere, and nearly ran off with our handbags at one point, and after dropping off our bags we even spotted the Udzungwa red colobus monkey high up in the near canopy. We happily spent the rest of the afternoon in the bar with a fantastic view of the green carpet covering the hills right in front of us.
Preparations for the hike were easy, we had a cook and four porters to carry all the tents and food up to our campsite for us. We also had a (pretty useless) guide called Ally, an enthusiastic trainee guide (Omary), as well as a ranger called Rebadi who was an excellent spotter. This made a total of ten people (including the three of us), heading up to the GMP campsite, our launch spot for the hike to the top, about 12km from the road.
After the usual slow process of registering at the Tanapa headquarters of the park, we set off late morning on our walk. We were to use the Songo waterfall trail to start our hike. We quickly passed both stages of the falls and were getting deeper and deeper into the forest. The trail was very well made and we thoroughly enjoyed our hike as we ambled along.
When we asked around 3pm how far the campground was and were told we weren't even half way yet, we realised we needed to put our skates on as they clearly had no idea of time-management. Jude went up in front to set a higher pace and not long after was rewarded with a honey badger who crossed the trail right in front of her, not even 5m away.
Several river crossings later, and several 100 meters higher, we arrived in camp. Esther had managed to get a wet boot along the way, but other than that we had survived without incidents. Our porters had just arrived and were busy setting up tents and preparing dinner, but it wasn't until 8pm that we sat down to a 3-course, delicious dinner. Somehow Sawi, our chef, had managed to prepare the best pepper steak for the carnivores and potato croquettes for the vegetarian, all the way up the mountain in a very basic kitchen. We certainly didn't regret at that point that we had paid for a cook!
On the hike to the Mwahani Peak and back the next day, we picked up porcupine quills, saw leopard print, elephant poo (lots), buffalo beds (flat areas in the tall grass), hyena poo, and a very fresh, still steaming, leopard poo a few hundred meters from camp on our way back. We also, finally, spotted a few birds, as it isn't easy to see them in the forest lower on the slopes. We reached the peak around lunchtime and enjoyed our food watching the clouds flit in and out of our stunning view.
The Udzungwa Mountains are not only known for the hiking though. They are home to 13 species of primates, including two endemics, of which one is their flagship-marketing monkey. The monkey is called the Sanje Mangabey, and we were hoping to see it on our hike. It was only discovered in 1980.
We heard the call, saw the leaves move, but never manage to get a glimpse of the actual animal. We did see yellow baboons, sykes monkeys, Angolan black & white colobus, as well as several sightings of the red Udzungwa colobus, the other endemic species. And we even watched some Zanj sun squirrels on the way down. The amount of wildlife we saw was quite amazing for being on foot.
On the way down we had a refreshing swim at the Songo waterfall before a well-deserved, slightly warmer, shower back at Hondo Hondo. It was followed by more monkeys all around us, and a whole family of banded mongoose. It was definitely close to our idea of what paradise looks like.
Having driven around 8 hours to get to the Udzungwa Mountains, we felt we wanted to have another shot at seeing these Sanje Mangabeys. And as one of the two social groups near the park head quarters have been habituated to humans, for research and tourism purposes, we went out for another hike the next day, before driving all the way back to Dar. Which meant we were under a bit of time pressure to find them.
Ally, the same guide with no concept of time, was to take us up the mountain again. What we didn't realise, is that we were going up to the same height as our campsite on the hill, but in a much shorter timeframe. Jude spotted two mangabeys on the way up. They were from the group that wasn't used to people, but the two males seemed more occupied with chasing each other, then worrying about a single human on a trail watching them.
Around our turnaround time it was very unclear how far the mangabeys still were. The trackers had found them, and we were with one of them, but the time mentioned ranged between 5 minutes and 45 minutes, and not in a logical order… As we were just about to head down without seeing them, the tracker said he could hear them and they really only were less than 5 minutes away….
This time he was right and soon we were looking at a new species of primate for us. They were very cute looking and busy with finding fruit, spending time both on the ground and in the small trees, and we had a good look at them. Not for very long though, after just short of half an hour with the mangabeys we had to leave them and head back to Hondo Hondo.
Thank you Jon and Jude.
glad you enjoyed! when can we start enjoying your stories and pictures again? Oh and we'll be in Brissy again early Dec! Hopefully you guys are around for a catch up in person again?!
Een mooi verhaal en schitterende beelden!!
Oh wow, dat klinkt super lekker en grappig dat de prijs in gulden is – hahahahaha! Hoope dat je er nog wat hebt liggen 🙂 45 jaar, ongelofelijk! Ik hoop wel dat jullie ter ere van ons wat van de balletjes eten!!


I'm sure it scary having all these unknown feelings going on. I know it's impossible to actually do, but try and relax and just wait for the Dr to say everything is normal.
I have some bleeding now.. I'm so scared. The nurse said it sounds normal STILL (it's not bright red) but she's still waiting to talk to Dr. P. I'm freaking out.
Anybody would be freaking out. All kinds of weird things can be totally normal, try not to panic. Saying prayers for your little peppercorn!
Yikes.. I had some bleeding at 5 weeks but bright red fresh blood. But you must check with the doctor nevertheless.
That must have been scary!! What was it?
The doctor couldn't find the site of the bleeding and said it could be from an irritation of the cervix from the crinone.
But I was hospitalised for 3 days and kept under observation and on bed rest. The bleed subsided after a few hours though.
Wow! That must have been so terrifying. I'm glad all turned out well!
My friend who went through IVF a few times said that she had bleeding with both of her (successful) pregnancies in the early weeks (like around 6-8 weeks). I also read an article that said IVFers are just more likely to bleed! So hopefully you are just adding to that theory 🙂 Will be thinking about you!


Gaddafi is not a target of the campaign, a senior military official said yesterday, but he could not guarantee the Libyan leader's safety.
Navy Vice Adm. William E. Gortney, staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon news conference there is no evidence civilians in Libya have been harmed in the air assault, code named Odyssey Dawn. Gortney also said no allied planes have been lost and all pilots have returned safely from missions that used stealth B-2 bombers, jet fighters, more than 120 Tomahawk cruise missiles and other high-tech weapons.
"We judge these strikes to have been very effective in significantly degrading the regime's air defense capability," Gortney said. "We believe his forces are under significant stress and suffering from both isolation and a good deal of confusion."
But Gortney did not rule out the possibility of further attacks aimed at preventing Gadhafi from attacking civilians in Libya and enforcing a no-fly zone.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the US expects to turn control of the mission over to a coalition probably headed either by the French and British or by NATO "in a matter of days."
Late yesterday, however, NATO's top decision-making body failed to agree on a plan to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya, although it did approve a military plan to implement a UN arms embargo.


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Matylda Most
Recreation area - campsite, autocamp, sports ground, inline track, fishing
The Matylda suburban recreational area is located in the immediate vicinity of an artificially created non-flowing reclamation lake in the north-western part of the town of Most in the city district II. Land. The suburban recreational area Matylda was created by reclamation of the landscape after mining activities. The water reservoir has an area of 38.7 ha and an average depth of 3.5 to 4 meters and is used for recreation, water sports and fishermen. The banks of the reservoir have beach and park landscaping. The beach is rocky-sandy, access to the water is possible via concrete panels and floating piers. The natural water area is intended for swimming in the wild.
The area includes cycle paths, an asphalt track for in-line and cyclists with a total length of 4 km. It includes relaxation zones, grassy areas, which are regularly maintained. You can see the outline of all cycle paths and the route of the in-line track on the map of the Matylda area.
Parking for visitors:
Parking of vehicles is possible on the access road from the street Tvrzova - FREE. This car park is guarded by a camera system of the Municipal Police. It is also possible to work in the seasonal car park (next to the Reception building) for a fee. There is a parking meter next to the parking lot.
Parking for cyclists:
The bikebox is intended for public use as a storage box for locking the bike. When using the Bikebox, the user is obliged to follow the operating rules, which are published at the Bikebox. Link to the cycling routes of Most.
Toilets and showers:
Operation is provided during the summer season from 1 May to 31 October, daily from 8 AM to 8 PM.
Campsite:
Campsite - The camp is operated during the summer season from May 1 to September 30.
The reserved area can be used by visitors with tents, motor homes and caravans.
During the summer season, paddleboard and pedal boat rentals are open, daily from 9 AM to 7 PM.
In the winter months, if the climatic conditions are favorable, cross-country trails are prepared for lovers of cross-country skiing and the water surface can also be used for skating with sufficient ice thickness.
Map of the Matylda area
In order to ensure safety, visitors to the complex are obliged to follow the operating rules,
which are published on information boards in the complex.
Adults (1 night) 3 EUR
Children 6-15 years (1 night) 2 EUR
Tent 3 EUR
Car 3 EUR
Caravan 4 EUR
Camper 6 EUR
Motorcycle 2 EUR
Electricity 6 EUR
Tourist tax (over 18 years) /person / night 0,5 EUR
Visitors must leave the complex by 12:00 the following day, otherwise they will be charged a fee for the next period.
Paddleboard - rental (1 hour) 3 EUR
Pedal boat - rental (1 hour) 4 EUR
Rentals - every other half hour started 2 EUR
Refundable deposit - rental of paddleboards and pedal boats 10 EUR
Shower (4 minutes) 0,5 EUR
Parking for visitors Matylda (1 hour) 1 EUR
Parking for visitors Matylda (1 day) 2 EUR
Nár. odboje, Souš, 435 02 Most
info@matyldamost.cz
Technické služby města Mostu a.s.
Dělnická 164
43401 Most - Velebudice
Aquadrom
Město Most
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by Jamie Redman
Tether, ICOs, Craig Wright - Attorney Divulges New Details on Billion Dollar Crypto Lawsuits
On April 3, the law firms Roche Cyrulnik Freedman and Selendy & Gay filed 11 class-action lawsuits against multiple digital currency exchanges and the issuers of certain initial coin offering (ICO) tokens. Entities like Block.one, Tron, Bancor, Status and numerous company executives are accused of selling unregistered securities. The lawsuits claim the exchanges "profited handsomely" from these token sales and the charges also allege manipulative conduct. Following the filings in the Southern District New York court on Friday, news.Bitcoin.com spoke with Roche Cyrulnik Freedman partner Kyle Roche about the class-action cases.
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Attorney Kyle Roche Talks ICOs and Unregistered Securities
The cryptocurrency community was shocked to hear that 11 class-action lawsuits were filed against various crypto trading platforms and initial coin offering (ICO) and initial exchange offering (IEO) issuers. Defendants included in the class-action cases include well known industry players like Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Arthur Hayes, Brendan Blumer, Dan Larimer, and Vinny Lingham. Companies such as Kaydex, Quantstamp, Kucoin, HDR Global Trading, Bitmex, Bprotocol, Status, Block.one, Civic and Binance are named. Tokens mentioned in the lawsuit that are considered "unregistered securities" include ICX, OMG, EOS, BNT, SNT, QSP, KNC, TRX, FUN, LEND, ELF, and CVC.
Roche Cyrulnik Freedman partner Kyle Roche.
News.Bitcoin.com had a chance to speak with Kyle Roche from the New York-based company Roche Cyrulnik Freedman about the new lawsuits. The litigation firm is involved with a number of cryptocurrency-related lawsuits, including the high-profile Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit and the class-action lawsuit against Bitfinex and Tether. The Kleiman v. Wright case is one of the most sought after court dockets in the state of Florida because it involves a man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Roche's law firm is representing the Kleiman estate and the value of the assets the Kleiman's seek far exceed $5.1 billion before punitive or treble damages. Roche explained during our conversation that the Kleiman v. Wright case was sensitive and he could not speak much on the matter at this time.
The plaintiff, Ira Kleiman, started the lawsuit against Craig Wright as the personal representative of David Kleiman's estate. Kyle Roche and Vel Freedman told the Florida court that the case "concerns the rightful ownership of hundreds of thousands of bitcoins ($5.1 billion) and the valuable intellectual property rights of various blockchain technologies." Roche and Freedman filed this case on February 14, 2018, because the Kleiman estate thinks Craig Wright "perpetrated a scheme against Dave's estate to seize Dave's bitcoins and his rights to certain intellectual property associated with the Bitcoin technology."
The lawsuit that involves Ifinex, the parent company of Bitfinex and Tether, alleges that the stablecoin and exchange violated Sherman Antitrust Act laws. The Ifinex lawsuit filed by Roche's law firm seeks a whopping $1.4 trillion before punitive or treble damages. In that class-action lawsuit, Roche and his litigation team represent David Leibowitz, Benjamin Leibowitz, Jason Leibowitz, Aaron Leibowitz, and Pinchas Goldshtein, "on behalf of all others similarly situated." The Ifinex lawsuit says the companies involved were in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act.
During our interview, Roche touched upon the recent class-action lawsuits filed last Friday and why the plaintiffs decided to take action against the slew of token sale issuers, crypto exchanges, and executives.
In the case filed against Ifinex, Roche Cyrulnik Freedman said in the court filing that the "action concerns a sophisticated scheme that coopted a disruptive innovation — cryptocurrency — and used it to defraud investors, manipulate markets, and conceal illicit proceeds. Part-fraud, part-pump-and-dump, and part-money laundering, the scheme was primarily accomplished through two enterprises."
Bitcoin.com (BC): Can you give our readers a short summary of the recent class-action lawsuits filed against 11 cryptocurrency businesses and executives?
Kyle Roche (KR): So last Friday, we filed 11 class-action lawsuits in the Southern District New York and there are two categories that these class actions fall into. On one hand, there are four class-actions against the exchanges and the other seven are against token issuers. Both the exchange and the issuer claims allege that the 11 defendants committed U.S. securities violations on a historic scale. It has become clear over time, and it wasn't clear in the beginning based on representations made by the individuals. There was a lack of regulatory guidance and the whole 'utility token' concept where people were going around saying these coins were a utility token and not a security token.
There was a lot of confusion in the space and as time has elapsed we've seen that these tokens are securities and they were created through a centralized process. Specifically with the tokens that we have gone after that were created by the ERC20 protocol. The sale of those tokens here in the United States was the sale of unregistered securities.
BC: Do you think that governments and regulators like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have clearly defined the rules concerning ICO tokens and unregistered securities?
KR: The SEC brought a civil fine against Block.one and EOS for $24 million for the sale of tokens. That really was part of the standard in the work that we're building on top of right now. I think that the SEC's decision came more than two years after Block.one's $4.1 billion initial coin offering (ICO) through EOS. What that decision shows is that those tokens were created through a centralized process and the tokens issued were securities and that Block.one is liable because they sold those securities here in the United States.
Vel Freedman (left) and Kyle Roche (right) from the New York law firm Roche Cyrulnik Freedman.
BC: Do you think that the plaintiffs will have jurisdiction issues with all these companies that are based in various locations around the world, some of which with less regulatory oversight?
KR: At the end of the day, the securities laws are meant to protect U.S. investors. These entities and groups, regardless of where they are incorporated, were availing themselves to U.S. markets and U.S. jurisdiction.
The law shows that if you are trying to benefit from the U.S. markets you have to play by the same set of rules.
BC: Your litigation firm has been dealing with cryptocurrencies in other lawsuits. Do you think your law firm has more expertise when it comes to dealing with crypto assets?
KR: I try to be humble, but I think our firm first and foremost has excellent litigators. We're a new firm but we've all come from the best shops in New York and have been litigating for a long time. The way we built our brand is by taking cases that other firms think are too risky. Those are exactly the types of cases we want to be involved in because we think those types of cases create new laws and can help set good guidelines.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed last year that the regulator settled charges against blockchain technology company Block.one for conducting an unregistered initial coin offering of digital tokens that raised the equivalent of several billion dollars over approximately one year. "The company [Block.one] agreed to settle the charges by paying a $24 million civil penalty," the U.S. regulator told the media.
Specifically, within the cryptocurrency industry, we think it's a natural fit for us. The other reason my practice focuses heavily on cryptocurrencies stems from my academic background, which is aligned with the cryptocurrency market. I have a lot of knowledge of the market and we represent a lot of companies doing great things in the cryptocurrency space. I'm a big believer in blockchain technology and its potential to disrupt in a positive force. However, people have to play by the same set of rules.
If you look at institutions like Coinbase and Gemini, they seem to be doing everything they can to comply with the regulations here in the U.S. Whereas other companies, some of them operating offshore, are trying to benefit from U.S. markets. These cases are important and I think they will be positive for the crypto industry.
BC: Has your firm been following other unregistered securities lawsuits like the class-action lawsuit against Ripple Labs and XRP tokens?
KR: There are certainly overlaps [with the Ripple case] and I think the decision that came down on that case was February 27. The case is helpful to us, but there are differences because Ripple wasn't part of the 2017-2019 ICO bubble. Ripple's been around since 2012 so there are similarities, but there are also some big differences in our cases.
BC: Are people seeking Roche Cyrulnik Freedman's assistance because of the current cryptocurrency cases the law firm has been involved with so far?
KR: People have come to us because of our reputation and because of our abilities to explain this technology in court. I also encourage people who were affected by the 2017-2019 ICO trend to reach out to us. We're interested in learning about others who have lost money from these ICOs, because it will be helpful to us during the litigation process.
With companies in the crypto industry that are actually trying to innovate, we also want to help them navigate the space and help them build disruptive financial products.
What do you think about the interview with Roche Cyrulnik Freedman partner Kyle Roche? Let us know in the comments below.
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