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Castle Hill - Connie Keith
Interviewee: Connie Keith, born 1946
Interviewer: Frank Heimans,
for The Hills Shire Council
Date of Interview: 29 Nov, 2011
Transcription: Glenys Murray, Dec 2011
This interview represents the recollections, views and opinions of the interviewee
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Tell me where and when you were born?
I was born in Lentini Sicily it was the 30th April 1946, I believe I can't remember.
What about your parents tell me something about them?
My father's name was Francesco, Frank in English. Porto was the family name. My mother her name was Addolorata which is more easily translated to Dolores.
So how did Australia come onto the horizon for your family?
As far as I know it was because there were distant relatives that had already made the move here. How or why they got here I have absolutely no idea. My mother had a couple of distant cousins, third cousins or something that lived here with their father. They had already emigrated sometime before my parents came. I suppose that they discussed the opportunities that were available here and it was these cousins that paid for my father to come out. My parents didn't have any money at all. I believe that when they got married they didn't even have enough money for a wedding ring. These cousins paid for my father to come out here and live with them. So his life in Australia started in that way.
Frank Porto (right) on the Messina farm Victoria Avenue Castle Hill 1950s
What was their family name those people?
Their surname was LaFerla it's a bit of a name to get your tongue around. The two brothers were Frank and Sam LaFerla they had a father here but I'm not aware of what his name was. They were living on a farm in Victoria Ave, in a cottage on that farm. When my father arrived I believe he went there to live with them. From my understanding what they did as a livelihood, they got jobs in factories. One particular factory which manufactured fibro was one place that they all worked at. It's a wonder that we haven't had problems in relation to that. Weekends and possibly after work they would work on the farm helping the person who owned the farm. It was Mr. Messina the particular farm that they were living on a big 20 acre property in Victoria Road in Castle Hill.
What were they farming the Messina's that lived on the property?
The farms tended to grow lettuce a lot obviously that's a summer crop. In the winter it would probably be crops like cabbage, cauliflower. Also crops such as carrots and beetroot would have been crops that they grew. Again because I was fairly young at the time I don't have a complete recollection of everything that they grew. They were fairly typical of the type of things that they would grow. There is a photograph of my father with the three LaFerla's the two sons and the father where the father is holding a lettuce in his hand. So that's pretty good evidence, that that was one of the crops.
Were they also growing tomatoes?
I'm not aware of the Messina's growing tomatoes very much because of the type of work that is involved. They had a fairly big property, 20 acres used for vegetables is a fairly big area. It is very labour intensive work and so it could be that simply because of the amount of labour that would have been needed they didn't grow them.
Now your father was the first one to come out. He must have liked it because you and your mother came out? Tell me when that was and what happened?
Yes my father arrived in 1951 and I know this because it must have been February 1951 because he landed in Sydney on the day that one of my brothers was born. There were three of us who were born in Italy. I'm the eldest and I have a brother who's about three years younger than me and then this third one who was about sixteen months younger than him. So when my father left my mother obviously had to care for two very young children plus she was quite heavily pregnant. He arrived in February in 1951. It was probably about eighteen months to two years later when he had probably put enough money together in order for the rest of us to come out. We arrived in October 1952 so there was nearly two years between the two arrivals.
You were about six when you came?
I was six. We didn't go to live at Castle Hill. The Messina family owned quite a bit of property and one of the things they owned was a five acre property in Northmead. On that property there was very small weatherboard cottage. Now my father had leased this property from them and so that's where we went to live. My father and mother started farming that as a market garden. I'm not sure whether my father had already started to do that before we arrived. But certainly that's where we went to live and lived for the next few years.
Sam LaFuncle Mat Vaccaro Uncle Sam with Sam Joe and Connie c1954
What sort of vegetables were you growing there?
Quite a lot again I don't think that was the area where we grew tomatoes. I don't recall us growing tomatoes. But certainly the lettuce and potatoes and peas and beans, carrots, beetroot, spinach they would have all been crops that were grown.
You also grew some rather exotic vegetables that Australian's hadn't had much experience with?
Yes certainly they would have been grown. Capsicum, eggplants, broccoli which sounds strange to call them exotic vegetables but they were part of the Italian diet. My recollections are probably much better of the period when we moved to Castle Hill to Victoria Avenue than in those days when we were at Northmead. We left Northmead when I was in fourth class which would have made me about ten. So again those memories of those days are not quite as clear as the latter period in Victoria Avenue.
So let's talk a bit about your education. What sort of schools did you attend and how did you go?
As soon as we arrived here we were enrolled in the local school which was Baulkham Hills Public School. It was only up the road, quite close, close enough for us to walk. I spent the first couple of months until school ended in kindergarten. I didn't have a word of English; none of us could speak English when we arrived. So we joined the school and somehow or other had to understand what was being said. I continued there up until fourth class. I was fortunate that I found education… how can I express it without sounding a bit… I did quite well at school; I always did very well at school.
Messina farm Victoria Avenue Castle Hill 1950s
Where did you do your high school education?
I went to Northmead High School I was in the inaugural year of Northmead High School. Prior to Northmead High School being built the only other local schools were Macarthur Girls High and Parramatta High. When they built Northmead High School even though it is quite local to North Rocks at the time we were living up in Victoria Avenue so we had to get a bus to go into school but we weren't the only ones. Northmead High School in those days took students from as far away as Dural and Glenorie as well as all the local schools.
Your family grew with the addition of more children. Tell me about that?
My parents after a long break eventually had two more children, another girl and another boy. My sister was born in 1958 so she's twelve years younger than me. Then my youngest brother was born in 1960 so he was fourteen years younger than me. A lot of their care fell on my shoulders. By that stage I was at an age I was able to do a lot more. I had a lot of duties in the house, with washing and cooking and so on for everyone also looking after my younger brother and sister.
In 1956 you and your family purchased a property at 29 Victoria Avenue Castle Hill. Can you describe that property and the house?
The main address for the property was on Windsor Road because the property stretched between Windsor Road and Victoria Avenue. I've been wracking my brain because of the numbers… I didn't think I'd ever forget it but I think it was RMB 29 something like that. The address was on Windsor Road but the property stretched between Windsor Road and Victoria Avenue. We had frontages on both and both were used frequently depending on which part of the property was being worked on at the time. The seven acres were the second property along from the corner of the Windsor Road and Victoria Avenue intersection. There was a property of two or two and a half acres that was right on the corner it was owned by an Anglo family Mr. and Mrs. Davis whom we became quite good friends with. Then there was the property that my parents bought.
What sort of house was it?
The house was a weatherboard house considerably bigger than the one that we lived in Northmead. From the look of it, it was a house that had been added on in stages. It probably started off as a four room house with a kitchen and a laundry at the back. It seemed as if there had been a big verandah added on around two sides of the house. Given that there were now five of us in the family. There weren't five at the beginning but there were shortly afterwards because we were living in that property when my younger brother and sister were born. The two bedrooms at the front my parents had one and I had the other and eventually my sister moved in with me. Behind that there were two rooms that would have been a dining room and a lounge room. One of those rooms my father closed off so it became a bedroom for my brothers, so all three brothers were in there. Behind those two rooms originally there was the kitchen, laundry and bathroom, but because my uncle came to live with us at one period of time, my mother's younger brother. He came to live with us and was helping us on the farm and we needed room for the family to be able to sit at a dining room table or to sit at a table to eat.
Porto house Windsor Road Castle Hill with artichokes planted c1960
My father did quite a few alterations and one of the alterations was that the bathroom was removed and there was a family room built in its place. Next to the bathroom there had been another small room so the bathroom and this small room were opened up and together they formed a big family room were we would sit. Eventually when we were able to purchase a TV that was where the family would sit and watch TV. It was adjacent to the kitchen area where we ate. Having moved the bathroom out from the house it went into a small corrugated shed which was next to the outdoor toilet. Although mind you the outdoor toilet was pretty plush because it was actually a septic toilet that flushed rather than the one that we'd had in Northmead which was one of the ones that the night soil man used to come and collect each week. This bathroom at Victoria Avenue was pretty primitive. It was just corrugated iron with a bath and a shower and you froze in winter and boiled in summer. It was very primitive. Interestingly behind the house there was a well. We never used the well it was always covered over for safety but obviously at some time previously the owners must have put this well in for some reason or other.
What was used for irrigation of the crops? What water?
On our farm we used town water. We didn't really have a sight for a dam and dams were very, very costly to put in. Many of the other farmers in the area had dams. The Messina's property that I mentioned before for instance, their twenty acre property they had two big dams on it, so all of their irrigation of their crops was from these dams. We used town water. The system of watering the crops was pretty consistent with all the farms. They used a system called Skinners which I wasn't sure if this was a word that's been made up. There were quite a few words I can identify that are a mixture of Italian and English or Italianised English if I can put it that way. Apparently these Skinners are named after some American chap who invented them or produced them. Basically they were a system of pipes that were sat on poles and they had little nipples along the length of the pipe through which water came out. At the end of the rows they were attached to the mains water and could be turned on and off from there. While they sat on the poles they had some sort of handle attached where you could move them so that they would water on both sides. They could virtually water over an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees say. So they were set up, depending on the length of the spout of water that you got from them. They would be set up at various distances and that was what was used for watering. In some instances they could be moved. When the land had to be ploughed generally they were. They were just moved aside so the land could be ploughed and then set up again.
Porto and LaFerla families with sprinkler system in background 1950s
Was it a profitable business for your family to grow vegetables there?
I don't think it was profitable not from the way we lived. While they had a mortgage we were still quite poor. We had to really watch every penny that was spent. I can remember going through high school wearing one summer uniform, summer and winter and having a pair of shoes that lasted me for several years. I mustn't have been growing by then fortunately. No life was very hard. There certainly wasn't any spare money. We grew a lot of the vegetables and fruit that we used ourselves. We had a small orchard on one part of the farm and grew a lot of our own fruit. A lot of our own vegetables when I say our own vegetables these were the vegetables that were still not available in the markets because they weren't recognised such as I mentioned before the broccoli and the eggplant and capsicum. Also a lot of herbaceous type vegetables akin to the Asian vegetables that we now use. Not identical to them but along those lines. There were a lot of these other herbs which were a regular part of the diet that were grown on the farm. To provide some meat I know that we always kept chickens.
The farm that we went to live on had originally been a chicken farm. It had on it quite a few sheds where the chickens were kept. Although my parents didn't keep all of them because they had to make way for the vegetables some of them were kept. In one we kept a pig and the pig was fattened each year and generally in July the pig was slaughtered. There were sausages made and salamis made. There were festivities around that time because a lot of the friends would come to help in preparing the meat. It couldn't be refrigerated so it had to be prepared over a short period of time so that the meat wouldn't go off. We also kept chickens. I can remember at various times having ducks, rabbits those were used for meat. I think probably not just for us, either given to friends or perhaps even sold I'm not sure. The pig was a constant every year and the chickens. The other things varied.
Sheds on Victoria Avenue farm Castle Hill 1950s
There were some former poultry sheds on the property, what happened to them?
Some were kept and housed a lot of the farm equipment. One of them was converted into a great big shed my father added some height to it my making the walls higher and putting a roof at a much higher position so that the truck could be driven straight into it. Some of the farm activities such as sorting tomatoes you needed to do under shelter so that was generally where that was done. But apart from that there was one great big shed which I believe was probably formerly used for feed for the poultry because it had a cement floor. So it was built in a much sturdier fashion than some of the other sheds. That particular shed my father converted into a residence with a couple of bedrooms and a kitchen and small living area. In that residence a lot of friends that came out from Italy lived in that residence. Before the residence was built some of them lived with us in the house. So various cousins who emigrated would live with us for a while and then when they got a job and got on their feet and were able to find accommodation of their own they'd move on. Eventually this residence was built and that was rented out to various families that came to Australia and needed accommodation. Same sort of scenario they'd live there for a while until they managed to get themselves established and would then move on.
Now what memories do you have of working on the farm as a child?
Very harsh ones, vegetables are grown summer and winter. So summer and winter the work continued it didn't matter what the weather was like. The general day would start almost at dawn not much after. You would go out and do some work, maybe couple of hours work come inside and have breakfast and be out again. Obviously it depended on which time of year and what crops there were as to exactly what was done. That was generally the pattern and it would go throughout the whole day until dusk very long hours. We did grow a lot of tomatoes and we grew lettuce along with all those other crops. Probably the summer crops lettuce and tomatoes were the main crops that would have been grown. Lettuce when it matures, when it forms a heart it tends to do so all in one go. Within a matter of a few days the whole crop is ready. At that time especially in summer in Sydney where we have these very hot humid summers. If those crops at that time get wet, if it rains on them, then you get a day of harsh sun on them they just all rot. When the lettuce is ready you have to get it in. Generally what would happen most Thursdays in summer in particular, I'm not sure if it was as much in winter but certainly in summer, virtually every Thursday my brothers and I didn't go to school.
Friday was market day so Thursdays we would spend working on the farm getting the crops in, putting them on the truck so they could be taken to market the next day. I can even remember instances of lettuce crops being ready and my father having to go to market more than once a week. Generally the pattern would be that the market day was Friday but there would be instances when he'd have to go two or three times a week. At that time there were a few instances where we would be up cutting and packing lettuces by the light of the moon. We'd have gotten up at two thirty, three o'clock in the morning and cut the lettuce, pack it and put in on the truck so that he could get away by about five o'clock. In those days the market was down in Haymarket. The current Paddy's Market down there now was where the vegetable market was.
Frank Porto on truck with Frank LaFerla loading lettuces for market on Windsor Road Castle Hill farm 1960s
What degree of mechanisation was there on the farm?
In the days at Northmead it was a horse and plough. I can remember the big horse. I suspect that it was possibly a Clydesdale I'm not sure. I can remember the big horse pulling the plough and my father having to hold the plough by hand behind him and that's the way the land was tilled. I believe that perhaps before we even left Northmead probably toward the end of that period my father bought his first tractor. The only reason that I remember that, well I don't actually remember it as such, but in speaking to one of my brothers he reminded me that it was at that period of time that he was ploughing some land for some neighbours and got attacked by a swarm of bees and ended up in hospital. So I would say it was probably close to about 1956. I don't imagine that it would have been earlier than that. It would have been just before we moved that he would have got that first tractor. Mostly all the work was done by hand. We had chipping hoes that you would use to go along and dig out weeds. A lot of back breaking work, picking of beans or peas or potatoes or carrots or whatever. You were bending over and having to do those sorts of things.
How were the crops sown?
The crops that had seeds that were very small were generally sown with a seeding machine, I called it a seeding machine, I'm not sure if that's its correct name. This was basically a machine that had a large wheel at the front and a smaller one at the back and in between a hopper with a little plough underneath. As you pushed the machine along it had handles at the back and you pushed it along via the two handles. The seeds went into the hopper and as you pushed it along the little plough would make a furrow and the seeds would drop into it. So you'd just move along these fields which we also used to called Skinners come to think of it. The Skinners were the pipes but because the pipes watered these large beds we used to call the beds Skinners as well. That was probably a made up word for the beds where the crops were sown. So anything with very small seeds that would fit through the hole in the hopper we would use the seeding machine. They would usually be planted in rows along these beds which I'm not sure how long each of these beds, these Skinners I suspect that could be anything up to twenty, thirty, forty metres long. I can't visualize it. That made the seeding of those things a little bit easier. However when you seed them like that in each furrow you get quite a lot of seeds dropped.
Once all of them germinate the plants are just too close together to allow them to be able to grow properly. So there would be the back breaking work of getting down on hands and knees with a little tool that had a metal end on it shaped in the form of a little triangle. You would then have to go between all of these plants and thin them out so as to leave one plant every so often to give them room to grow. That didn't matter if it was lettuce or even carrots because if it the carrots are too close together they tend to wind around each other under the soil. So you wouldn't get a nice straight carrot you'd get a spiral one. They had to be separated as well into singles. Whatever was seeded with that machine that work followed to thin them out.
What did you use as fertiliser?
Before any seeds were planted in the soil generally the fertiliser that was used was chook poo. There was lots of poultry farms still around in the area where we lived and one of them in particular which was located on Windsor Road near Victoria Avenue and currently that whole area has a Kennard's Hire place on it. That used to be a great big poultry farm owned by the Leach family who I believe had poultry farms and even to this day one of their sons who I went to school with is either involved in poultry farming or the egg industry in some way or other. Generally the men would do it although I know once I was made to do it and absolutely loathed and detested it and wouldn't forgive my father for making me do it. You would go along to the chicken sheds with bags and shovels. They would fill up these hessian bags full of the chook manure. It would be brought back to the farm where it would be just dumped in heaps and then distributed by hand with shovels, then probably ploughed in with the tractor. That was generally done for most areas before the crops were planted. Then sometimes depending on the crop there might be commercial fertilisers used. They would be taken along and distributed by hand at the base of various plants. My memory tells me that used to happen a lot with things like cauliflowers and cabbage. I'm not sure if they needed some extra fertiliser during their growth period.
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This Is Anfield • Liverpool FC Opinion •
Liverpool or Atletico Madrid: Who is this season's real fairy tale princess?
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Liverpool supporters Peter Aldridge (L) and Vince Bryant (R) before the UEFA Europa League Semi-Final 1st Leg match against Club Atletico de Madrid at the Vicente Calderon. (Mandatory Credit: David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
Recently we looked at Liverpool's exciting title run in context of a pantheon of great football upsets. Amazingly though, if Liverpool did go on to win its 19th title this season the feat might not even be the biggest story of the year.
In Spain another equally fascinating title run is developing, with preseason long shot Atletico Madrid now sitting on top of the La Liga table with only six games to play.
With two great fairy tales in the make it was only a matter of time before some fool compared the two, and pondered the question: if both teams did go on to win their respective titles, which team would be the season's real belle of the ball?
(Note: It's true that neither team has yet to win anything, but hell isn't it fun to speculate).
The Odds
We've already discussed Liverpool's bookmaker odds in previous articles but for those who haven't read them a more comprehensive list is provided in the table below.
Note: All current odds taken from oddchecker.com. Odds are still listed for an Arsenal title win ranging from 325/1 (Paddy Power) up to 1000/1 (Betfair). No Skybet odds listed for either Arsenal or Manchester United. Historical odds taken from an article on Give Me Sport.
Note: All odds taken from Betinfo.
From the above, we can observe that from a purely betting perspective Atletico Madrid was considered to be more of a preseason dark horse than Liverpool.
Before the first ball had been kicked both teams were considered long shots at their respective titles, however an Atletico Madrid title was considered more unlikely despite being the third favourite to win La Liga.
Liverpool on the other hand were at shorter odds but were only fifth favourite for the Premier League title, with Tottenham just behind them in the betting market with odds of 35/1.
Transfer Spend / Squad Value
According to transfermarkt, Liverpool's net spend this season was £21.5 million, although the club did spend £50 million adding to the squad.
In this respect it's hard to argue that the club's impressive performances this season are the result of a rash of exorbitant transfer market activity, although at a total squad value of £250 million (unadjusted for loans) the squad is not exactly light weight.
The same is true for Atletico. In total the club spent around £31.5 million pre and mid-season but with substantial action the other way.
Total transfer revenue was £70 million with a sizeable chunk of that coming from the sale of Falcao to Monaco for £52.8 million. With this kind of expenditure it's easy to see why they weren't on the preseason bookmaker radar.
However, like the Liverpool squad, the Atletico team is not exactly on the cheap side, and is valued at a comparable £250 million (unadjusted for loans). In this respect neither side can claim moral high ground on the subject of team expenditure.
Competition Strength
Measuring squad value, and monitoring transfer activity, may throw up some interesting information but the true value of numbers is in their relativity to other numbers. In this case, how the expenditure stacks up with the respective club's competition.
Note: All figures courtesy of transfermarkt.
From the above it's clear that Liverpool is over performing this season. What is equally clear is that the Premier League is a league where everyone invests quite heavily in players.
Consider the above in context of La Liga:
What should be very clear from the two tables is that the EPL is a lot more competitive than La Liga.
Liverpool has to face four squads more valuable than its own, all four of which are in the top ten most valuable squads in European or world football. Atletico only has to face two of the top ten squads. Of course, it does have to contend with the two most valuable squads.
If ever there was a league battle the equivalent of David and Goliath than La Liga is very much it, except that in this case Goliath has a twin sister named Goldie.
On almost any other measure however the Premier LEague comes out as a more difficult league.
Based on the above you could argue that to win La Liga, Atletico has to overcome two massive mountains, a few minor hills, and then it is relatively easy sailing. Liverpool on the other hand has to combat a never ending series of climbs worthy of all the hardest mountain stages of the Tour de France.
The People's Choice
When selecting a candidate for football's fairy tale princess it's not all about the numbers. A large part of any fairy tale is the magic of the story.
Liverpool are a former league heavy weight who is enduring a twenty three year title drought. The club finished seventh the previous season, and have spent the last four seasons out of the top five.
An added element of spice is the decline of reigning champion and 'most successful club' usurper Manchester United. Is the team that knocked Liverpool "off its perch" about to receive the same treatment the moment 'the man' retires?
Atletico Madrid, on the other hand, are a nine-time league champion that hasn't won La Liga since 1995-96 (although it did win the Spanish Segunda Division in 2000-01).
However, the club has shown steady progress over a number of years, since finishing ninth in the 2009/10 season. Since then they have finished seventh, fifth and third with a number one title would be the natural progression in this perfect mathematical sequence.
However, no one seriously thinks that a title victory would be anything other than a one off. There is no perch knocking going on here.
The question is, are neutral Spanish fans rooting for an Atletico victory? It's no secret that Liverpool are winning the support of the neutral English fans.
A combination of exciting football, combined with its underdog status and universal antipathy towards the bigger "money" clubs is seeing Liverpool adopt the moniker of "people's favourite".
In Spain where the two big clubs dominate the media landscape, and where most fans famously have two clubs, their own and one of the big two, it's hard to see a swell of support for Atletico outside the media. Perhaps it's simply that no one yet believes they have a chance.
If you asked the leagues self-appointed 'chosen one' Liverpool's great performance so far this season is easy to explain. It all comes down to the fact that the club is not in the Champions League.
According to "Moaninho" Liverpool has more time to prepare for each match, and free of the unwanted distraction of European football delivers results accordingly.
While this argument might be a little disingenuous it does contain some truth.
Equally true is the fact that Atletico have had the distraction of Champion's League football and have managed to combine its league success with solid performances in Europe.
Interestingly, when you consider Mourinho's comments, Atletico appear to have battled on both fronts without a major impact to their player rotations. Both Liverpool and Atletico have eight players in their squads who have played over 2000 minutes in their title charge.
Liverpool have another eight players who have played over 1000 minutes, another two with over 500 minutes and three others who have played over 100 minutes.
Atletico Madrid have five players who have played over 1000 minutes, another two with over 500 minutes but another seven who have played over 100.
In broad terms this means Liverpool have relied on a core group of sixteen players who have played the equivalent of eleven full games, while Atletico only thirteen.
To put that in perspective, only five Barcelona players have played more than 2000 minutes, another eleven have played over 1000, two over 500 minutes and another three over 200 minutes.
This is a similar spread of players to Liverpool (who have played the equivalent of eleven games) but with a more even spread of game time across their key players.
For the sake of comparison Chelsea have six players with over 2000 minutes, nine over 1000 minutes, three over 500 minutes and four over 100 minutes. This does appear to confirm that Mourinho has rested many of his core players throughout the season. It's equally true that he has a more even squad to choose from.
After all this fairy tale talk who gets the glass slipper? The short answer is: no one. Not yet. Atletico still have a greatly anticipated trip to the Camp Nou in the last game of the season.
There is still time for the club's respective bandwagons to turn back into pumpkins and the fairy tales to turn into something out of the mind of Wes Craven.
Still, if both clubs did achieve the miraculous which story would be the most magical?
According to the bookmakers that honour goes to Atletico. You can imagine that Jose Mourinho would agree. Atletico have had a more difficult schedule, with a combination of league, cup and Champions League matches to think about.
Liverpool on the other hand plays in a more competitive league and have come from further back in their league's pecking order. They have captured the imagination of the English public with an attractive style of football and intriguing story in the context of the retirement of old whisky nose.
To make our decision though we are going to ignore the above, throw away our collection of fairy tales from the brothers Grimm. Instead we will take guidance out of a book written by a more adult purveyor of fantasy: Hugh Hefner.
Put simply: why pigeon hole yourself into picking one fairy tale princess, when you can pick two?
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Had an excellent ride in Steamboat, Colorado this week. I left my camera running during lunch…the best riding BY FAR was after lunch. Typical crap with technology. It was unreal snow and terrain, but of course, wasn't able to capture it on the Go Pro. You'll have to settle for this. Enjoy watching a regular dude ride his sled!
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Arlington Heights police working on another vehicle burglary in the neighborhood of North Chicago Avenue, discovered a vehicle burglary in the 800 block of North Harvard Avenue about 9:01 a.m. Monday. Police were also investigating a stolen auto from the neighborhood in the 800 block of North Chicago Avenue.
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I'll be spending 6 weeks in Asia this fall using a Cathay Pacific airpass. Will be joining a two week tour in China in Shanghai - my airpass will get me to Hong Kong. I want to go to Shanghai by train - has anyone done this? I read somewhere that it is a 29 hour trip - read elsewhere that there is new express service - I don't know if the 29 hours is the express train or regular. Any info will be appreciated!
Why would you want to take the train ?
I had a good experience with the train in China. We took the train from Shanghai to Beijing. It is a 14 hour trip and we took "soft sleeper" which is the railrodas version of first class. I highly reccomend that. The classes below that are usually crowded and stuffy. There is also a speaker system that announces where you are arriving that you can turn off in soft sleeper. In the other areas of the train you just have to put up with it. We shared the comparrtment with a taiwanese couple. They spoke english very well. We really enjoyed visiting with them. Also, soft sleeper has large windows so you get a chance to see the country outside of the cities.
Depending on what type of person you're, train travel in China meant a lot. Of course, they are uncomfortable as compared to the standards in the west. However, most backpackers seem to find the hard seats very interesting. I myself could not handle the hard seats. The hard sleepers are okay last time I took it 5 years ago. The soft sleepers are usually air-con and is very comfortable. They are better than some of the 2nd class sleepers in some European trains. The toilets might be a problem.
Yes, the cleanliness of the toilets, dining car, and kitchen leaves much to be desired.
My husband and I took an overnight train after our tour to Huangshan and on the way to Suzhou. We shared the compartment with 2 guys who snored. I did not sleep much. In the morning, we had some time to converse with the 2 gentlemen who spoke some English; it was an enjoyable conversation and great contact with the locals. We were also given some lessons in Mandarin.


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POR EL QUE SE AUTORIZA A LA CONSEJERA PRESIDENTA, A LA JUNTA GENERAL EJECUTIVA, Y DEMÁS ÁREAS DEL INSTITUTO ESTATAL ELECTORAL Y DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA, PARA DAR CUMPLIMIENTO A LO ORDENADO MEDIANTE ACUERDO DE TRÁMITE DE FECHA TRECE DE MARZO DEL PRESENTE AÑO EMITIDO POR LA H. JUNTA LOCAL DE CONCILIACIÓN Y ARBITRAJE DEL ESTADO DE SONORA, DENTRO DEL EXPEDIENTE NÚMERO 4157/2014.
POR EL QUE SE EMITE LA DECLARATORIA DE PÉRDIDA DE ACREDITACIÓN DEL PARTIDO POLÍTICO NACIONAL DENOMINADO ENCUENTRO SOCIAL ANTE EL INSTITUTO ESTATAL ELECTORAL Y DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA DE SONORA, ASÍ COMO LA DE SUS DERECHOS Y PRERROGATIVAS QUE TIENE EN EL ESTADO DE SONORA.
POR EL QUE SE TIENE AL PARTIDO POLÍTICO LOCAL NUEVA ALIANZA SONORA DANDO CUMPLIMIENTO A LO ORDENADO MEDIANTE EL PUNTO RESOLUTIVO TERCERO DEL ACUERDO CG228/2018 DE FECHA DIECIOCHO DE DICIEMBRE DE DOS MIL DIECIOCHO.
POR EL QUE SE MODIFICA LA PARTE CONSIDERATIVA DEL ACUERDO CG10/2019 "POR EL QUE SE APRUEBAN LOS AJUSTES AL PRESUPUESTO DE EGRESOS DE ESTE INSTITUTO ESTATAL ELECTORAL Y DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA, PARA EL EJERCICIO FISCAL 2019, DERIVADO DE LAS MODIFICACIONES APROBADAS POR EL H. CONGRESO DEL ESTADO DE SONORA?.
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In D.C., a Late Train May Mean a Free Ride
Rachel Dovey January 8, 2018
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Metro ridership in Washington, D.C., has plummeted over the last decade, and a large portion of defecting riders cite reliably as their primary concern. Now, the embattled agency wants to try something new: refunds. Going forward, a program called the "Rush-Hour Promise" could provide refund credits to peak-period Metrobus and rail riders forced to endure delays of 15 minutes or more.
NYC Mobility Report Shows Rise in Ride-Hail, Decline in Subway Ridership
Munich Releases Ambitious Transit Plan
Those customers are the most likely to reduce their ridership or shift modes entirely, the Washington Post reports. The program (which would run for all of 2018 pending approval of the Metro board) will likely cost between $2 million and $3.5 million, but Metro sees it as a worthy investment.
"These are very big, complex systems and things do happen every day, but from a customer perspective what we're saying is in effect that we will get you to where you should be within 15 minutes of the schedule," Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld said, according to the paper. "We're trying to show you that we can be that predictable in our service."
As Next City reported in 2016, the Federal Transit Authority in May of that year demanded that Metro make immediate safety upgrades following a track fire, a derailment and a number of other mishaps. That directive spurred a period of accelerated maintenance (dubbed "SafeTrack), during which the agency consolidated three years of repairs into 10 months. Delays during that work, however, drove ridership to a particular low.
According to the Post, reliability had improved by last fall, after Metro retired its oldest cars and cut operating hours, among other tweaks. But in board documents released this week, the agency expressed concern that riders have been slow to return following SafeTrack. And highly publicized delays last summer probably didn't help (one particular mishap was even satirized by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a biting New York Times op-ed).
The refund, then, is meant to be a carrot for those weary riders — but it doesn't benefit all delayed passengers equally, according to the Post. Customers must be using registered SmarTrip cards to receive the credit — a provision that cuts the number of eligible customers in half and could easily leave more vulnerable riders (including seniors and low-income riders) behind. And while refund-eligible events will include medical emergencies, police investigations, arcing incidents, smoke and fire (along with "unplanned" disruptions like emergency track work), major capital projects won't be eligible. Regional emergencies like earthquakes and other weather-related disruptions won't qualify either — and neither will traffic congestion, a common cause of bus delays.
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Help can come from anywhere, including an online platform of car sales like BestCarSeller.co.uk. There is nothing more daunting than having to replace your old car or buying one for the first time. When you replace your old car, you know the drill but it still seems like a lot of work. When you buy a car for the first time, it may sound like an adventure, having no experience with such endeavors. But it could also turn risky. There are lots of factors to consider when going to an online platform for car sales.
They are cheaper and get cheaper every 3 years or so.
Then there's the fact that they depreciate.
With the money you'd spend to buy a new mediocre car, you'd be buying a very nice and large used car.
You don't have to worry about warranty certification anymore, as most car manufacturers offer a CPO program.
For the budget you've allocated for a second hand car, you'll have a wide range of models to choose from.
The insurance of your new used car will also cost less, since its value is the main thing insurance companies care about.
There are quite a lot of benefits to buying a used car and all of them can be obtained in special online places like a really good car seller in your area.
Where to begin your search though, right? That is simple enough. Open your browser and type in something like www.bestcarseller.co.uk. Then access the page and start looking for new sales ads. You can use filters to make the search easier and faster. Should you encounter any trouble the site's administrators will help you find a solution that works well for you.
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It is also necessary to see the car and take it to a mechanic for a full inspection. That will ensure you're making a good deal and getting your money's worth. Not to mention how well you'd be able to sleep knowing you've picked the right car and seller.
Finding a good used car online is not hard at all. It just takes time and enough attention so as to not miss anything important. Don't forget to check out the reviews of the seller and/or the car you're interested in. A thorough research will always pay off. Spending a bit of extra time now can spare you from unnecessary complications in the near future.


We've found that self-play allows simulated AIs to discover physical skills like tackling, ducking, faking, kicking, catching, and diving for the ball, without explicitly designing an environment with these skills in mind. Self-play ensures that the environment is always the right difficulty for an AI to improve. Taken alongside our Dota 2 self-play results, we have increasing confidence that self-play will be a core part of powerful AI systems in the future.
We set up competitions between multiple simulated 3D robots on a range of basic games, trained each agent with simple goals (push the opponent out of the sumo ring, reach the other side of the ring while preventing the other agent from doing the same, kick the ball into the net or prevent the other agent from doing so, and so on), then analyzed the different strategies that emerged.
Agents initially receive dense rewards for behaviours that aid exploration like standing and moving forward, which are eventually annealed to zero in favor of being rewarded for just winning and losing. Despite the simple rewards, the agents learn subtle behaviors like tackling, ducking, faking, kicking and catching, and diving for the ball. Each agent's neural network policy is independently trained with Proximal Policy Optimization.
To understand how complex behaviors can emerge through a combination of simple goals and competitive pressure, let's analyze the sumo wrestling task. Here we took the dense reward defined in previous work for training a humanoid to walk, removed the term for velocity, added the negative L2 distance from the center of the ring and took this as a dense exploration reward for our sumo agents. The agents were allowed to use this reward for exploration in the ring initially, then we slowly annealed it to zero so the agents would learn to optimize for the competition reward — pushing the other player out of the ring — for the remaining training iterations.
Though it is possible to design tasks and environments that require each of these skills, this requires effort and ingenuity on the part of human designers, and the agents' behaviors will be bounded in complexity by the problems that the human designer can pose for them. By developing agents through thousands of iterations of matches against successively better versions of themselves, we can create AI systems that successively bootstrap their own performance; we saw a similar phenomenon in our Dota 2 project, where self-play let us create an RL agent that could beat top human players at a solo version of the e-sport.
Agent trained on sumo wrestling, and then subjected to a variable unknown "wind".
These agents also exhibit transfer learning, applying skills learned in one setting to succeed in another never-before-seen one. In one case, we took the agent trained on the self-play sumo wrestling task and faced it with the task of standing while being perturbed by "wind" forces. The agent managed to stay upright despite never seeing the windy environment or observing wind forces, while agents trained to walk using classical reinforcement learning would fall over immediately.
Agent trained to walk using classical reinforcement learning, and then subjected to a variable unknown "wind".
Our agents were overfitting by co-learning policies that were precisely tailored to counter specific opponents, but would fail when facing new ones with different characteristics. We dealt with this by pitting each agent against several different opponents rather than just one. These possible opponents come from an ensemble of policies that were trained in parallel as well as policies from earlier in the training process. Given this diversity of opponents, agents needed to learn general strategies and not just ones targeted to a specific opponent.
Additionally, we're releasing the MuJoCo environments and trained policies used in this work so that others can experiment with these systems. If you'd like to work on self-play systems, we're hiring!


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of a common drug used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. The medication is said to include an active ingredient that could potentially cause cancer.
After laboratory tests, according to the FDA, the impurity N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) was found in the products, specifically in valsartan, supplied by a third-party. Valsartan is off-patent and commonly used as a component of other generic medicines, but not all drug products containing the ingredient are involved.
NDMA is commonly known as a carcinogen, formerly used to make liquid rocket fuel and antioxidants, but is currently used for research purposes. Symptoms of exposure of NDMA at high levels can include, fever, headaches, nausea, vomiting, jaundice, and can reduce function of the lungs, liver and kidneys.
Patients who are taking the recalled Valsartan should continue taking their medicine until they have a replacement products.
According to the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the recall came a week after 22 other countries had recalled the medication. Experts stated the reason why NDMA was in the medication was "thought to be related to changes in the way the active substance was manufactured." To determine whether a product has been recalled, patient should look at the dug name and company name on the label of their prediction bottle. If the information is not on the bottle, patient should take immediate action and contact their pharmacy that dispenses their medicine to avoid potential cancer risk.
RECALL ALERT: If you take medicine for high blood pressure or a heart condition, you'll want to carefully check your prescriptions. The FDA is recalling several heart and blood pressure medications due to a cancer-causing substance. Click the link in our bio for more information.
Patients should also contact their health care professional to discuss their treatment if one does use valsartan, so medical professionals can prescribe another valsartan product not affected by the recall. One should also follow all instructions provided by the specific company.
According to CNN, around 2,300 batches were involved in the early recall, including Finland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Ireland, Bulgaria, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, France, Poland, And, Lithuania, Greece Herzegovina, Bosnia, Malta, and Bahrain.
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Death Cab For Cutie Live in Singapore, July 2019
20 March 2019 SJ
Death Cab For Cutie is set to return to Singapore this July. The band from Washington released their ninth studio album, Thank You for Today, in August 2018. Details as follows:
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HYUKOH Live in Singapore, February 2019
20 December 2018 SJ
South Korean indie band HYUKOH will return to Singapore in February 2019. The group released their third EP, 24, in May 2018. Details as follows:
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Fleet Foxes Live in Singapore & Malaysia, January 2018
27 September 2017 SJ
Fleet Foxes will be performing in Singapore and Malaysia for the first time this January. The indie folk band from Seattle released their third studio album, Crack-Up, in June 2017. Details as follows:
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English indie rock band alt-J is due to return to Singapore this November. The group released their third studio album, Relaxer, in June 2017. Details as follows:
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Air Live in Singapore, May 2017
French electronic duo Air will be performing their debut concert in Singapore this May. The group released their seventh studio album, Music for Museum, in June 2014. Details as follows:
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PJ Harvey Live in Singapore, January 2017
23 November 2016 SJ
English musician PJ Harvey will be performing in Singapore in January 2017. The artist released her ninth studio album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, in April 2016. Details as follows:
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Rufus Wainwright will perform a headlining show in Singapore in March 2015, following his last gig at Rock & Roots in 2013. The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer-songwriter released his seventh studio album, Out of the Game, in April 2012. Details… Continue Reading →
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Mosaic Music Festival, Singapore, March 2014
7 December 2013 SJ
A staple, Singapore's annual Mosaic Music Festival will return in March 2014. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, this next edition will also be its last after a decade long run since debuting in 2005. The line up for next year's festival… Continue Reading →
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Lenka Live in Singapore, November 2013
25 July 2013 SJ
Singer-songwriter Lenka will be performing in Singapore this November, having recently performed in Indonesia back in May for a one-off concert. The Australian artist released her third studio album, Shadows, in June 2013. Concert details as follows:
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Kraftwerk Live in Singapore, April 2013
4 March 2013 SJ
German electronic outfit Kraftwerk will be performing in Singapore this April. The quartet's last record was their 10th studio album, Tour de France Soundtracks in August 2003. Following their tour of Asia, the band is headed off to Australia before… Continue Reading →
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Stormzy Live in Malaysia & Singapore, March 2020
Fever 333 Live in Malaysia, February 2020
One Love Asia Festival, Singapore, May 2020
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    float footerWidth = 150.0f;
    float padding = 10.0f;
    UIView *footerView = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, footerWidth, 50.0)];
    footerView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;

    UIButton *addEdu = [[UIButton alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(padding, 0, footerWidth - 2.0f * padding, 44.0f)];
    addEdu.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin;
    addEdu.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;

    [addEdu setTitle:@"Add Education" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [addEdu addTarget:self action:@selector(addEducation:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    [addEdu setTitleColor:[UIColor whiteColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    addEdu.frame=CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 30);
    [footerView addSubview:addEdu];
    return footerView;
}
return nil;
}

After that i am getting like this,

How can i fix that?

A: why you dont make something like this?
-(void)setTableFooter
{
   float footerWidth = 150.0f;
   float padding = 10.0f;
   UIView *footerView = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, footerWidth, 50.0)];
   footerView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;

   UIButton *addEdu = [[UIButton alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(padding, 0, footerWidth - 2.0f * padding, 44.0f)];
   addEdu.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin;
   addEdu.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;

   [addEdu setTitle:@"Add Education" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
   [addEdu addTarget:self action:@selector(addEducation:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
   [addEdu setTitleColor:[UIColor whiteColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
addEdu.frame=CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 30);
   [footerView addSubview:addEdu];

   tableView.tableFooterView = footerView;

}

and call this after you init the table

A: -(void)CreateCustomFooter
{
   float footerWidth = 150.0f;
   float padding = 10.0f;
   UIView *footerView = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, footerWidth, 50.0)];
   footerView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;

   UIButton *addEdu = [[UIButton alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(padding, 0, footerWidth - 2.0f * padding, 44.0f)];
   addEdu.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin;
   addEdu.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;

   [addEdu setTitle:@"Add Education" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
   [addEdu addTarget:self action:@selector(addEducation:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
   [addEdu setTitleColor:[UIColor whiteColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
addEdu.frame=CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 30);
   [footerView addSubview:addEdu];

   tableView.tableFooterView = footerView;

}

Put above method in viewDidLoad() Method and after initializing tableview

A: If you want section footer/header scroll with tableview, you need to use a grouped style table view.
[[UITableView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectZero style:UITableViewStyleGrouped]
And a grouped style table view will have a default backgroundColor and section header/footer height. You need set these value explicitly.
If you have only one section, it is better to use tableFooterView instead of section footer view

A: While Scrolling that button visible means ,UITableview cell are reusable so that button is available ,what you have to do means .
1.Take number of row in UITableView ,
Then inside cell for row at indexpath :
Total number of row ==indexpath.row
{
   //inside this button.hidden=no;
}
else
{
   //button.hidden=yes;
}

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Tribute to Malawi's freedom fighter Fr O'Malley and poem from BJ Mpinganjira
March 30, 2017 Nyasa Times Reporter Be the first to comment
Fr. Patrick O'Malley, a Catholic priest who played a significant role in the development of multiparty democracy in Malawi died 19 March 2017 in Ireland and he was mourned by the Malawian community led by the Malawi High Commissioner to UK, Kenna Mphonda who had just been to see him two weeks earlier before he was taken to the hospital where he passed on.
The final resting place for Fr O'malley
Malawians in Dublin at the funeral of Fr O'malley
First president of Malawi's multi-party democracy Bakili Muluzi who has been talking to Father O'Malley throughout his sickness and was planning to visit him in April when he is coming to a wedding in Scotland, contributed funds to hire a 54 seater bus which transported Malawians to the funeral ceremony and a wreath which was laid on his behalf by lawyer Happiness 'Happy Chi' Mwase for association of Malawians in Ireland.
Prof Jack Mapanje a great Malawian poet also attended the funeral ceremony.
O'Malley, an Irish Catholic humanitarian priest, who served in Malawi during his active priesthood for a long time was very instrumental in the fight against one party dictatorship and was appointed Malawi's honorary consular of Malawi in Ireland in the early 2000 by Muluzi.
In 1992, when Malawians demonstrated against the Malawi Congress Party under the iron rule of late Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda's regime for the ill-treatment of the Catholic Bishops and for the arrest of the militant freedom fighter the late Chakufwa Chihana after they had released a scathing but truthful 'Pastoral Letter' condemning the government's poor human rights record, Father O'Malley who was among activists fueling the wind of change in Malawi was ordered to leave the country within 24 hours by authorities because of what he said to students in one of his sermons.
According to Mwale, at the funeral, a poem written by politican James Brown Mpinganjira in paying tribute for the priest was read.
Here is the poem in full:
An ode to a Great Priest and Friend
Death only has meaning if we accept it as transition to the Promised Land.
And that land was promised only to those who have run their race according to the will of our Creator.
And I am persuaded that Pat ran his race well. As a soldier of Heaven – a Gospel Warrior – Pat was always willing and ready to travel to distant lands, moving from place to place, to teach and stand up for Christ Jesus, to stand up for Christian values.
He believed in total freedom for every human being. And that is what brought Pat and I together with Jack Mapanje.
Our relationship was guided by zeal for the freedoms of other people. That is why he found himself in the trenches fighting against the one party dictatorship in Malawi.
I wish I was there personally to praise him for the selfless role he played in changing Malawi.
I wish I was there to talk about the many long hours we spent drafting, changing, writing anonymous letters which were labelled subversive by the government
I wish I was there to talk about how we went around distributing these subversive letters together with David Kerr.
I wish I was there to talk about how we almost lost each other one night as we literally ran into different directions at the sight of members of the infamous Malawi young pioneers.
I wish I was there to talk about the night he advised me to hide in a tree while he walked on "majestically" in his priestly robes.
I wish I was there to celebrate Pat for the critical role he played, quietly, in changing the politics of Malawi.
There are many things we did together, often times with David Kerr, where he expressly charged me to ensure that his role remained secret for fear expressly charge me to ensure that his role remained secret. He took special precautions and was always at pains to ensure that his activities did not risk the lives and freedoms of other Catholic priests.
To cut a very long story very short, democracy in Malawi has lost a seasoned civilised guerrilla fighter willing to risk his life and all for the freedom of a people who were not his own biologically.
Personal freedoms in Malawi have lost a street fighter who was willing to move from street to street, risking his own life, fighting for the freedoms of all, even those who knew not what freedom was.
The youth in Malawi have lost a role model, who was willing to move from one college campus to another, risking his life, to mobilise the youth to fight for a better Malawi.
I have lost a friend and a confidante. He trusted me with life. I trusted him with mine. How I wish I was here in person, then I would expound on this with numerous examples, for the world to appreciate this man.
The Irish have lost an Ambassador Extraordinaire who continued with the Irish dream away from Ireland.
Fare thee well Pat, until we meet again, where there are no seditious letters to author and distribute and where there are no Malawi youth leaguers to duck and dodge.
Adios Amigo!
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Q: Latency in Iterator or foreach i have one ArrayList that has a 1000 Insert SQL statement. but rather in execution time the latency of Iterator or (enhanced for loop) for this ArrayList take 1 minute . and my JFrame is not responding in this period. what can i do?  Thanks
 Iterator itr = stms.iterator();
        while (itr.hasNext()) {

            DB_STM.executeUpdate((String) itr.next());
        }

A: foreach internally uses iterator only, in order to handle bulk updates and inserts from JDBC, you can use batch updates using addBatch() and executeBatch() of PreparedStatement as shown here

This issue just related to internal latency of loops. Are you agree
with me ?

No, I don't agree. Basically, there are few design issues with your code.
(1) You should handle bulk & costly (in terms of time) operations in the background (like using SwingWorker as others suggested).
(2) Use JDBC addBatch() and executeBatch() to reduce the database hits & improves the performance.

A: You should not run long operations in Swing AWT Event Thread. Use SwingWorker for this.  https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/worker.html


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Urban holds a BS in mechanical engineering and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin as well as a PhD in marketing from Northwestern University.
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The Judd GV 5.0 and 5.5 L V10 were the dominant petrol engines in the LMP1 class from 2004-2012.
Engine details (5.5L V10)
Rebuild Interval
The 5.0 litre version was introduced for the 2004 season and raced in the US Grand Am series, scoring multiple victories for the Doran racing team, and in the European Le Mans series, scoring a 4th place with the Pescarolo team at the Le Mans 24 hours.
In 2005, the engine powered the Pescarolo team to pole position and a 2nd place finish at the LeMans 24 hours, beating many factory entries in the process. The team won the 2005 ELMS title. In 2006 the engine again powered the Pescarolo team to a 2nd place Le Mans 24 hours finish. The team dominated the ELMS season, winning all 5 races.
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The engine capacity was increased to 5.5 litres for the 2007 season resulting in better fuel consumption and increased torque. Pescarolo scored a 3rd place finish at Le Mans closely followed by the Rollcentre racing Dallara which finished 4th, an outstanding result for a small privateer team.
Although the engine remains eligible for Le Mans, the domination of the factory teams has made it unavaible for all but the most wealthy private teams to race in the LMP1 category. The engine is now a popular choice for use in Historic Sportscar racing and is currently campaigned in the US Historic racing series by Robinson Racing and David Porter.
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package com.ibm.bi.dml.runtime.functionobjects;

/**
 * Integer modulus, where we adhere to the defined R semantics:
 *
 * ("%% indicates x mod y and %/% indicates integer division.
 * It is guaranteed that x == (x %% y) + y * ( x %/% y ) (up to rounding error)
 * unless y == 0")
 *
 */
public class Modulus extends ValueFunction
{

	private static final long serialVersionUID = -1409182981172200840L;

	private static Modulus singleObj = null;
	private IntegerDivide _intdiv = null;

	private Modulus() {
		_intdiv = IntegerDivide.getIntegerDivideFnObject();
	}

	public static Modulus getModulusFnObject() {
		if ( singleObj == null )
			singleObj = new Modulus();
		return singleObj;
	}

	public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
		// cloning is not supported for singleton classes
		throw new CloneNotSupportedException();
	}

	@Override
	public double execute(double in1, double in2) {
		if( in2==0.0 || in2==-0.0 )
			return Double.NaN;
		return in1 - _intdiv.execute(in1, in2)*in2;
	}

	@Override
	public double execute(double in1, long in2) {
		if( in2==0 )
			return Double.NaN;
		return in1 - _intdiv.execute(in1, in2)*in2;
	}

	@Override
	public double execute(long in1, double in2) {
		if( in2==0.0 || in2==-0.0 )
			return Double.NaN;
		return in1 - _intdiv.execute(in1, in2)*in2;
	}

	@Override
	public double execute(long in1, long in2) {
		if( in2==0 )
			return Double.NaN;
		return in1 - _intdiv.execute(in1, in2)*in2;
	}

}

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Games Like StarCraft and Minecraft are Training AI for the Real World - Blog - Artificial Intelligence - element14 Community
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Games Like StarCraft and Minecraft are Training AI for the Real World
coward.cameron
When most people talk about artificial intelligence in video games, they're referring to computer-controlled enemies and teammates. In a first-person shooter (FPS), it would be incredibly boring if every enemy just ran in a straight line right towards you. To make the game challenging, programmers setup rules to follow that make the non-player characters (NPCs) in games act more like a human would. But, in virtually all games, that isn't anything resembling actual artificial intelligence. Those games can, however, be used to train machine learning systems on how to perform in the real world.
Artificial intelligence is a very broad term that's difficult to apply an objective definition to. From a science fiction point of view, an artificial intelligence would be any entity that could think in the same way a human does, but which didn't evolve naturally. That would be what is generally referred to as a "strong artificial intelligence." Nothing like that exists now, and nobody can say for sure if it ever will. Even from a non-technical standpoint, there is a lot of philosophical debate about whether such a thing is even possible given our understanding—and lack of understanding—about the nature of consciousness and sentience.
What we do have today is "weak artificial intelligence." These neural network-based machine learning models learn to understand a specific task through human-selected training sets. Image recognition, for example, relies on training sets full of thousands of images. If you want a weak AI to learn how to identify a dog, show it tens of thousands of images of dogs—and then tens of thousands of images of things that aren't dogs. Weak AI is hardly what most people picture when they hear the term "artificial intelligence," but they are capable of impressive feats within their specific area of training.
When you play a game like StarCraft II against the built-in computer-controlled opponent, you're not actually competing against an artificial intelligence. You're only battling a series of if-then statements that the game's programmers have devised to sustain that illusion. In most video games today, those computer-controlled opponents aren't even bound by the same rules that you are. For instance, if you hide in an FPS game, the "AI" opponent might find you immediately—even if a human player would have no way to know where you are.
That's because artificial intelligence isn't actually involved, and the computer-controlled opponent knows where you are because it's a part of the game too. That enemy is no more a distinct entity than the desk you're crouching behind, the wall behind you, or the bullets you shoot. If the developers wanted to, they could make it so enemies always know exactly where you are and get a perfect headshot every time. But that's not fun, so most of the work of programming a computer-controlled opponent goes into making them less good so that they'll act more human-like.
However, that doesn't mean an artificial intelligence can't play a game as a distinct entity like a human would. It requires that they be separate from the game, so they don't have any unfair advantage, but it has been done multiple times. The most famous example occurred in 1997, when IBM's Deep Blue AI beat chess grandmaster and world champion Garry Kasparov in a game of chess. Then, in 2016, DeepMind's AlphaGo AI bested Go champion Lee Sedol.
One particularly impressive example happened in December of last year, when DeepMind's AlphaStar AI defeated professional gamer Dario Wünsch in a StarCraft II competition with a score of 5-0. That stands out because, unlike chess and Go, StarCraft II is a complex real-time strategy game where you can't always see what your opponent is doing. The AlphaStar AI had to rely on its training, and new information gained during the game, to overcome Wünsch's defenses.
This isn't just yet another example of how artificial intelligence is better than humans at specific tasks. Playing games can actually make AI better at dealing with the real world. When a baby plays with toys, they're not just being entertained. They're learning how their own motor functions work, and how they can use those to interact with the world. In the same way, an artificial intelligence can learn about the world through gaming.
For example, as self-driving cars start to become practical, they'll need a way to navigate our cities. Not just which streets to take, but also how to maneuver around obstacles and deal with unforeseen circumstances. A stalled car on a single-lane, one-way street could cripple a self-driving car. But open world driving video games could help an artificial intelligence learn how to navigate through complex, changing environments. Games like Minecraft could teach an AI about motivation, prioritizing tasks, and setting goals.
Researchers spend a great deal of time developing training sets for their machine learning systems, and simulations for them to test in. But we already have hundreds of simulation sandboxes in the form of video games. Researchers can take advantage of those to help train and test artificial intelligence. If they're able to play with humans, that becomes even more effective. The next time you accuse an online opponent of being a bot, it may actually be true.
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guarentee that we pick a lighter or bolder font-weight, but we don't always.
See: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/fonts/weight/002.xml for an example.
Tested using Netscape Commercial Trunk build 2001080110 on Windows 2000.
Note that Opera pass that test (or rather, an HTML equivalent) perfectly.
Moving to mozilla1.1. Engineers are overloaded!
Assigning pierre's remaining Style System-related bugs to myself.
Reconfirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002070913. Setting All/All.
I still see this bug in a FF3 nightly on linux and a xulrunner build.
I still see this bug with the very latest FF3 tree on Linux [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050719 Minefield/3.0pre].
This proved to be pretty simple to fix, with some caveats.  The attached patch passes Hixie's test linked from here, + its own reftests, and doesn't break any reftests.
Caveat #1: Thebes does not implement nsIFontMetrics::GetFontHandle, which is the obvious way to tell whether a change to the .weight field of an nsFont has actually resulted in the selection of a different font.  The code in this patch is instead relying on the assumption that changing font weight is likely to change the font's max-advance metric.  In local testing this works great for proportional fonts, but not for monospace fonts (naturally enough) -- this is still an improvement on the present state, but I would be grateful for better ideas.
Caveat #2: The reftests included in this patch are weaker than Hixie's original.    I see no way to make them stronger without relying on a particular font being installed on the testing system, but they did miss a bug in my first attempt at a fix, that Hixie's test caught.
Caveat #3: contra the previous code, I make no use whatsoever of weight values that are not multiples of 100.  This is consistent with my reading of CSS2.1 but not consistent with the discussion in bug 77882.  I put more detailed notes there - see especially my (bug 77882 comment 7) and Hixie's (bug 77882 comment 2).  I'm inclined to say that this caveat, unlike possibly the other two, should not block this bug; rather, if non-multiple-of-100 weights are sometimes appropriate, we can leave bug 77882 open after this lands and fix it there.
I think caveat #1 is a problem, and you need to expose something from Thebes rather than relying on the max-advance trick.
In other words, is the lighter / bolder supposed to be applied element-by-element or character-by-character?
I would further note that I was under the impression that this bug was already fixed on at least some platforms, in the font selection code.
Your character-by-character/element-by-element example gets at a deeper problem - every value coming from a Thebes nsIFontMetrics is only true for the first font in the underlying font group.
This being so, I suppose I can just expose mFontGroup->GetFontAt(0) as nsThebesFontMetrics' version of GetFontHandle().  It wouldn't be any more wrong than what we're already doing.
In the past what we passed down to the font selection code was a number like 402 which could be decomposed into 400 + bolder + bolder, or 699, which means 700 + lighter.
I messed around with a GetFontHandle() approach but it doesn't work, for no apparent reason.
Several, but not all, of the system-specific font selection routines have code to decompose numbers like 402 into 400+bolder+bolder and then do something with that, but the somethings are not consistent with each other and most of them are not consistent with CSS2.1 either, as far as I can tell.  One notable quirk is that some of them, if they can't find a different weight in the specified direction from the base weight, try the opposite direction, which as far as I can tell is just plain wrong.  Also, the font-selection routines that do this decomposition all attempt to do synthetic boldface under some conditions, especially when the font family has no boldface at all.
It seems silly to implement weight selection at the system-specific level, if only because it means the behavior gets coded N times and they aren't necessarily consistent with each other.
Making Thebes' GetFontHandle() return meaningful values is more of a memory management headache than I want to get into.  The low level code (at least on some platforms) seems to deal in names and treat system font handles as transient objects.
Possible way forward: add a nsI(Thebes)FontMetrics interface that returns a nine-element array of numbers, exposing the low-level code's choice of which CSS numeric weights are visually distinct in that font family -- the numbers in the array are just cookies, but visually distinct weights have distinct numbers. StyleUtils uses that to pick a numeric weight when lighter/bolder are used, and we scrap the base/offset weight encoding.  Whether or not synthetic bold is used remains up to the low-level code.
It seems perfectly reasonable if the base weight isn't available either.
> the base weight isn't available either.
Yah, but I'm pretty sure it's not limited to that.
For clarity, the thing that seems "just plain wrong" to me is the possibility that "bolder" might under some circumstances produce a lighter weight than unstyled, or "lighter" a bolder weight.
It's probably worth asking Stuart and Vlad what they think of the two possible approachs (gfx code, character-by-character; style code, element-by-element).
Ok, I've added them to the cc: list.
Stuart, Vlad - could you please look at this bug, especially comments 12, 14, 17, and 21, and let me and dbaron know what you think?
discussion on IRC converged on doing it character-by-character in gfx but changing the way style communicates the lighter/bolder chain so that gfx can get it right.  also of note is that most font backends do implement lighter/bolder (with bugs) but pango (Linux) doesn't, and that gfx needs to communicate its eventual choice back up, for getComputedStyle()'s sake [it is sufficient to communicate the choice for the first font in the element].
And see also bug 3512 comment 43.
1. Handle a "chain" of bolder/lighter changes instead of a single base weight plus delta value.
2. Resolved weight is calculated using array of available weights for a given font family.
a. resolve initial base weight to available weights using CSS rules (bold weights map to bolder faces, lighter weights map to lighter faces).
3. Rendering occurs based on <resolved weight, flag>, since the specifics of synthetic bolding is platform-specific, in some cases we need to do it manually.
So, it actually occurred to me today while writing http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0151.html that maybe the spec *meant* for this to be a count rather than a sequence, and we don't need to do the chain thing.  See that message and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0147.html .
Taking this off wanted1.9.1+ list as we are still waiting for a decision from the CSS WG.
> So...? They've decided yet?
Not yet.  The place for asking this question is the www-style mailing list, not here.  The proposed solution was discussed at the last meeting in June, you can read the discussion in the mailing list archives.
I no longer work for Mozilla, I am deassigning myself from bugs I have no intention of working on as a volunteer.
The CSS working group did accept the new behavior.  I have a patch for it in my patch queue, since writing the patch was the easiest way to verify that a test was correct.
There might be some additional code in gfx/ that could be removed.
Here's the code; still need to import the reftests, though.
Given the CSS 2.1 status (and the fact that this simplification might have to be undone from the spec if we don't get this in soon), I think we should try and get this in to Firefox 4.
(1) I'm concerned that if we don't get the change in soon, CSS 2.1 will be forced to revert the change for exiting CR, and the Web might end up permanently stuck with the more complicated rules.
(2) It's fairly low-risk today, but as more people start using high-quality downloadable fonts, it potentially becomes more risky, since it would be more likely to change behavior on Web pages.
Attachment #488444 - Flags: approval2.0?
This is the patch for the test I didn't get around to adjusting earlier.
Even with the correct adjustments, weightmapping-458 still fails on Windows due to what looks to be a line-height difference.  I think the problem is that the current structure of the tests is inconsistent between test and reference about whether the final font is set on an inline or a block; making span a block fixes that and means the outer font settings don't influence the line layout.
Looks right.  With the elimination of the delta weights (e.g. 698, 402), this test is less interesting.
I noticed this based on code coverage data from our test suite.
This code should have been removed in the earlier patches on this bug.


Mortgage rates for Massachusetts on Lender411 for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages are at 4.16%. That dropped from 4.22% to 4.16%. The 15-year fixed rates are now at 3.67%. The 5/1 ARM mortgage for Massachusetts is now at 4.17%.
15 year fixed mortgage is a loan program where the monthly payment (principal and interest) of the loan does not change during the 15 year life of the loan. Like the 30 year, and the loan is "amortized" so that it will be completely paid off by the end of 15 years. Above you will find 15-year fixed refinance rates for national and local lenders in Massachusetts.


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