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16 September 2015 — City desk
Isn't There a Better Place for Buses to Park than Merrion Square?
by Willy Simon
Photo by Caroline Brady
Have you ever felt claustrophobic walking between a towering coach or Dublin Bus bus [sic] and the hedged gates of Merrion Square?
Well, the number of tourists arriving on cruise liners in Dublin Port and riding into the city centre in coaches is likely to rise, and that's going to make the problem worse – unless something is done.
Dublin city councillor Mary Freehill, of Labour, is working on it. She tabled the following motion at Monday's southeast area meeting:
"Buses using Merrion Square as a parking lot should be moved from there. This is a heritage square and it is not appropriate that it be used as a parking lot for buses. Please see DIT report on parking of tour buses in Dublin."
The Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) report that Freehill was referring to is based on research undertaken by students in the BSc Spatial Planning course, in partnership with the Irish Georgian Society. More on that later.
The Dublin City Council executive responded to Freehilll's motion in typically bureaucratic fashion: "The above request has been added to the list of Engineer's queries for the South East Area. A report and recommendation will issue to the Councillor following examination of the matter."
Why is this an important issue? And how do the DIT students propose we address it?
Protecting Dublin's Heritage
"The South Georgian core is the best surviving part of Dublin's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Georgian City and Merrion Square is very much a focal point in that," says Donough Cahill, executive director at the Irish Georgian Society.
For some time now, the Irish Georgian Society has been pushing the issue of bus parking along Merrion Square. Cahill feels that addressing the issue is more important than ever as "Historic Dublin" is on the tentative list of world heritage sites.
"The Georgian city forms an integral part of that proposal," says Cahill.
As the Irish Georgian Society sees it, Merrion Square is an architecturally sensitive area, and Dublin Buses and private coaches restrict views into and out of the park, severing the square from the terraces. The buses don't just get in the way of views. They are loud, smelly, and uncomfortable to walk beside.
Ian Lumley, Built Environment and Heritage Officer at An Taisce, agrees with Cahill, and describes certain stretches of Merrion Square as a "linear coach park. The whole experience of visiting and walking around the square is diminished because of that, as well as for the people in the buildings," he says.
"We have this coach tour demand, and the cruise liners are now adding to that, and the consideration as to how that should be handled hasn't taken place," says Lumley.
When cruise liners arrive at Dublin Port, many of their passengers pile into coaches for one-day sojourns to Dublin or surrounding attractions like Glendalough. Lumley's concerns about this are timely; it's a growing industry and could mean more coaches parking around Dublin.
But We Need the Money!
"The revenues from coach tourism in 2013 were in excess of €300 million," says Kevin Traynor, national director of the Coach Tourism and Transport Council of Ireland.
Traynor points out that Dublin is in sore need of a coach-parking facility.
"Coaches can only drive four and a half hours without a break," says Traynor. "When they're coming into Dublin, they need a setdown area to take their break."
A recent application by the National Transport Authority for a temporary coach park near Dublin's Convention Centre off Wapping Street has been withdrawn because the site spills outside of the Docklands Special Development Zone.
Without a coach-parking facility in the city centre, Traynor says that existing coach-parking allowances along Nassau Street and Merrion Square are critical.
Tourism on the Rise
This year is set to see a record-setting number of tourists arrive by cruise liner in Dublin. By the end of 2015, nearly 100 ships will have landed in Dublin Port, bringing an expected 200,000 visitors with them, an increase of 70,000 visitors compared to 2011's figures.
The number of tourists arriving by cruise liner looks likely to continue to grow.
This summer, Dublin Port Company received permission from An Bord Pleanála for the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment Project. A key component of which is to construct wider births, making it easier to receive large cruise liners.
"There has to be a solution," says Lumley, "because the pressure is going to increase."
Enter the Students
A group of DIT students thinks they may have solved the problem.
They partnered with the Irish Georgian Society to investigate "the potential for an alternative, viable and sustainable bus layover strategy for Dublin City Centre".
The study, supervised by Transport and Mobility Lecturer Dave O'Connor, considered a few different solutions. One involved relocating coach and Dublin Bus parking to less architecturally sensitive streets in the city centre; another considered making all routes cross-city, so that Dublin Bus buses don't terminate at Merrion Square.
But the preferred option, according to the students, would be for the buses currently laying over along Merrion Square to change their route so that they terminate at Dublin Bus's Ringsend depot.
Instead of passing through College Green and Nassau Street, buses would travel from Westmoreland Street to Townsend Street, through the Docklands, and terminate at the Ringsend garage.
This new routing would help relieve congestion through College Green and better serve the Docklands, otherwise known as "the area of greatest employment concentration in the city centre".
But What About the Private Coaches?
Dublin Bus could, the students argue, allow private coaches to lay over in their Ringsend depot and charge for them parking fees. In this way, Dublin Bus could make a bit of money and private coach drivers could access high-quality rest and maintenance facilities in the city.
The council's Roads and Traffic Department will likely need to bring stakeholders together to see if DIT's solution, highlighted by Councillor Freehill, is feasible.
Although increasing tourism should be welcomed, it has to be managed in a way that does not harm Dublin's built heritage, for our sake as well as theirs. After all, it is this heritage the tourists are coming to experience.
Or as the Irish Georgian Society's Cahill put it, "the last thing we want to do is destroy what it is that makes the city so very desirable for the tourists. It would be a shame if all they can see are the coaches in which they've arrived to the city in."
Willy Simon: Willy Simon is Dublin Inquirer's planning and transport reporter.
steve white
at 16 September 2015 at 22:00
didn't DCC say they were going to make more of them park in the North Docks? [https://www.nationaltransport.ie/…
daved
You have to wonder if Dublin City Council is deliberately trying to destroy Dublin at this stage. No toilets, no bins, nowhere to sit down, terrible footpaths. Everything is a quick fix solution to tide them over until the next person fills the job – no planning, no sense of ownership, no pride.
Willy Simon
Hello Steve, there was a planning app for coach parking off of Sheriff Street, but it was withdrawn in August. I heard a revised application may be in the works, but haven't seen one yet.
The planning app – [http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/…
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Mass arrest of Palestinian children on their way to school in Hebron – at least 5 under the age of criminal responsibility
Detainees & Prisoners
Update: On the day of the incident B'Tselem wrote to the Legal Advisor in Judea and Samaria, the Legal Advisor of the Israel Police and to the spokesperson for the Judea and Samaria Division regarding this issue. The officials confirmed that, further to a stone-throwing incident earlier that morning, the military apprehended 27 minors, including at least 14 under the age of 12. Later, the military released 20 of the minors to the custody of the Palestinian Authority. The other seven minors were questioned by the police. B'Tselem stressed the following: minors should not be questioned without their parents' knowledge and the presence of an adult representative on their behalf; the police is duty-bound to inform parents immediately upon the detention of their children; it is unlawful to detain or transport minors under the age of 12.
B'Tselem this morning urgently contacted the Army's Legal Advisor for Judea and Samaria, Col. Doron Ben Barak, demanding his emergency intervention regarding the detention of numerous children, including some as young as 8 to 10 years old, by the Israeli military this morning in Hebron.
Video documentation of the mass arrest filmed by an international activist
Preliminary information received this morning by B'Tselem indicates that the army today conducted mass arrests near the area known as route 160 in Hebron/ Soldiers detained or arrested over twenty minors on their way to school. About ten of them were released. As is known to B'Tselem at this point, among the children detained by the military are at least five children 8 to 10 years old, with possibly others below the age of criminal responsibility who cannot legally be arrested. Conversations with the Hebron police indicate that some of the children have been taken for interrogation by a youth interrogator.
Bab a-Zawiya Checkpoint, Hebron: Soldiers releasing children detained earlier near Checkpoint 160. Filmed by international activist.
In a conversation between B'Tselem and the spokesman for the military's Judea and Samaria Division, we were told that the children and youths taken away by the military may have been involved in throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. If there are specific suspicions against youths over the age of criminal responsibility, the police have the authority to detain them and interrogate them, but this cannot justify the mass detention of youths for unspecified suspicions, let alone the arrest or detention of children under twelve.
The Israeli Youth Law requires that a parent or adult be present during the interrogation of child suspects. The law does not formally apply to Palestinians in the occupied territories, who are subject to Israeli military law, but the military court has recommended that the relevant provisions be taken into account in all dealings with Palestinian children.
Background on minors in detention in the occupied territories, see:
Statistics on Palestinian minors in the custody of the Israeli security forces
Daily life under occupation: Israeli soldiers, Border Police and settlers harass a Palestinian family in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeidah, Hebron
Not even a phone call: Israel cutting some 230 Gazan security prisoners off from their families
Soldiers arrest two Palestinian children (11) for about 15 hours and hold them handcuffed and blindfolded at military base during most of the detention

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I have this watch. A client gave it to me at the start of my law career. He was grateful for the care and concern I gave to his affairs, business and personal. I was hired to develop and negotiate contracts, defend his interests in litigation or sue people for wrongs committed against his business or person. He was my second client, the first being the one on whose behalf I sued him, the second client.
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The watch had belonged to Nat King Cole, according to Mr. M. There was a story about the meeting that I do not recall. Honestly, I don't remember whether it was Nat King Cole's or belonged to someone else in the story about Nat King Cole. It was so long ago.
Each time I wear the watch, which still keeps time near perfectly, I think about Mary. Who is she? What was her relationship with Trembly? She did not engrave "love" as in "Love Mary". Were they ever lovers? She is just Mary but he has a first and last name. Was Trembly her boss?
So much war and destruction on this date, the SS Paul Hamilton, filled with ammunition having exploded, killing all 580 aboard. A German-launched torpedo blew them up in the Mediterranean. The war would not end for another five months.
What did Mary think of the tragedy? What did she hope to impart, gain or express in giving Trembly the watch, a Rolex, no less? I imagine her giving this gift with hope in her heart during such desperate times, men off fighting in wars and she left behind to read about it in the papers. She must have worked to fill the jobs men left open, or she came from a family with means, whether earned or inherited.
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Mr. M died of esophageal cancer. Actually he died of an allergic reaction to the chemotherapy to treat the cancer some twenty odd years ago. He was a chain smoker and a drinker, a charitable man, a big man turned frail by disease. I saw him last at the court house, his brother in law prosecuting a case for him. I had since broadened my practice to 50 or 60 cases by then, and he had fallen to hard times.
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We were not close, not friends, but his unsolicited gift speaks to me, arouses mystery and memory, recalled in time-worn haze, our lives intersected in cloudy images, like the flattened engraving on the back of a Rolex watch–from Mary.
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Salaamatee is for Sharing
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"Badshaah Salaamat sighed. He had exhausted the delights his grounds had to offer him ever since his health had been restored. Completely rejuvenated, he had walked the gardens and smelled every flower that grew on shrub, tree, vine, why he had got down on his knees to inhale the fragrance of dandelions. Those common weeds scoffed at by the physicians had filled his heart with their honey sweetness, brightened his eyes with their jolly yellow hue. From delicate lilac blossoms to the nectar of spicebush flowers, wild rose and cultivated rose to the unrelated tuberose, he had breathed in perfumes both sweet and also pungent, such as the bitter mustard and spicy watercress, the slight stink of nightshade. Besides the olfactory explorations, he had enjoyed his newfound discovery that sunlight did not harm him by spending many a day walking in broad daylight, sometimes running, or flying kites from atop an open expanse of hilltop. It had all been most exhilarating and his heart sang with happiness, but this day as he did his darshan at sunrise, he sighed.
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Across from the bridge where Saloo was doing darshan, there was a tea house. This particular city was known for its numerous tea houses, where people gathered to debate and converse, exchange poetic lines of verse, share the news from their travels, all while sipping small glasses of tea with sugar cubes tucked into the sides of their mouths. This was a city of poets and storytellers, diviners and prophets, architects and builders, indeed the pleasure gardens reflected more than light from their bridges upon the waters below. They were a reflection of the city's pulse and heartbeat, its very living essence and what its inhabitants valued was shown in its creation. Walking the meandering paths and trails, it was a common sight to see dwellers out for an evening picnic, an afternoon congregation underneath the shade of a tree, where laughter filled the air or serious congress about the planetary positions over a game of chess. Sometimes there were more heated sounds, where people played games of chance with dice and cards and won and lost coin. Overall though, this was not a city that valued money but the exchange of artistry, artistic ideas, imagination; the common currency was the trading of thoughts and knowledge in all the forms that one can apply language to barter in. And frequently, it was around the hub of a picnic blanket or a tea house.
So, in a particular tea house across from the bridge, a tea shop owner watched Saloo do his darshan with growing alarm. This tea shop owner, Khairuddin, was not native to this city. He had moved here to set up shop and earn a pretty penny in coin. His was a mind made of sterner stuff, practical, organized, thoroughly empty of flights of fancy. He was a methodical man, who applied himself to methodically working matter and substance, turning it into coin. The conversations that occurred in his tea house were of little interests to him, he secretly found his customers to be a lazy lot of dreamers with little skill or use, but they paid up and made him rich, and for this he was thankful not to them, but to the Almighty whom he strictly and singularly worshipped as the source of his blessings. To Khairuddin's eyes, Saloo appeared a madman muttering to himself on the bridge and at first he dismissed him as another nut in a city of nuts. But there was something compelling about Saloo, and Khairuddin couldn't help but keep an eye on him and the longer he watched him, the more convinced he became that the young man was about to do himself harm. Many a tormented dreamer or raving lunatic had been known to fling himself off one of these bridges, and now Khairuddin wondered if he was witnessing the prelude to such an event. As he watched, he thought perhaps he should do something about it, after all, the Almighty had prohibited the taking of one's own life, it was a sure sin, and how would Khairuddin account for himself at the gates of the afterlife if he stood by idly and did nothing but watch one of the Almighty's own commit a sin? Khairuddin became convinced that he himself would be judged a sinner and this thought so alarmed him that he found his legs moving as though of their own accord to where Saloo was leaning over the bridge to see if he'd catch a glimpse of his own reflection.
Khairuddin thought the young man was about to jump off, and so he shouted, "Stop!" as he rushed over and grabbed Saloo by the arm. So surprised was Saloo, that he lost his footing and almost went flying off the bridge! Indeed he would have had Khairuddin not been grabbing his arm and pulling him back. Now Khairuddin found himself in an awkward situation, which he was unused to.
"Come, come with me to the tea house," he said, "I am Khairuddin, owner of that tea house over there and I have a proposition for you."
"Well met Khairuddin, I am Saloo," came the reply from Sultaan Badshaah Salaamatee, his eyes twinkling with merriment, as he had discovered he thoroughly enjoyed unexpected twists in his travels of just this sort!
This is how Saloo and Khairuddin found themselves opposite each other sipping tea while Khairuddin laid forth his proposition without any ado.
"Young man, I have been searching for someone to manage a new tea house for me," began Khairuddin, "And you seem to be a fellow who may be in need of work, so I offer you my tea house to manage for a year and should it succeed and prosper then I offer you my daughter, Khaatoon Waheeda, in marriage as well."
If Saloo was surprised, Khairuddin was even more surprised when the words came out of his mouth. They had not been part of any plan of his, but as soon as he heard himself speak them, he congratulated himself on killing two birds with one stone . . . he'd saved himself from sinning by saving this young man from sinning and should his tea house do well, he'd get his daughter off his hands at the same time. She had long been a heavy burden around his neck, and the obstacle in his path of remarrying; for there were many women willing to marry a wealthy widower but not one with a young daughter as austere and dour as Waheeda.
Perhaps it was the moon, that beauty full Qamar, who did it or perhaps Saloo was tired of wandering at the time, but he agreed. He imagined a man as enterprising and willing to roll with risk as Khairuddin would have a daughter as inspired and fired with initiative as himself. It wouldn't be until the year was over, during which time Saloo had managed the new tea house into a successful and prosperous lively place where he thoroughly enjoyed mingling with his patrons, that he would meet Khaatoon Waheeda at their marriage ceremony. He had been imagining this mysterious lady all year and Saloo, being a man given to much fancy, had dreamed their future together to be one of cheer and adventure and spirit. They would do darshan together and he chuckled at how she would respond when she discovered he was a Sultaan and she a Sultaanah! They would return to his realm and he would show her the gardens and Meera and and . . . then he found himself face to face with his unveiled bride and the sight of her face halted him in his tracks. For nowhere had he seen such a countenance of such severity, a visage of strictness tight and narrow. Where was the full-lipped round-cheeked glowing eyed lady he'd dreamed of? The playful adventuress who was to be his companion and mate in all things? Perhaps he would tickle it out of her? Over the year Saloo had rarely met with Khairuddin for anything other than accounting and tea house reports, and now he wondered what manner of man he was, really. But the marriage contract had been signed and if his bride was a bit stiff, Saloo shrugged and wrote it off as bridal nerves, besides here he was again blessed with work and a home and now a bride and possibly children. So Saloo was content and the years rolled by and by and by.
If Khaatoon Waheeda had a funny bone, Saloo never found it, but they had two children together; a boy and a girl, with whom Saloo played much when he was not at the tea house with his customers. He enjoyed their company over Khaatoon Waheeda's, and as the years rolled by he began to wonder whether he'd imagined he was ever a Sultaan Badshaah, for when he had related his origins to his wife, she had given him a sharp look and told him to come to his senses, she wouldn't tolerate such ravings in her home but she would pray for him, and that was that. Her father had told her how he had saved Saloo from certain death and Khaatoon Waheeda was to do her part by giving him something to live for, she being part of the Almighty's plan for Saloo's redemption. If Khairuddin was a strict adherent of the tenets of their religion, Khaatoon Waheeda was twelve times more so, and she swore she would be sure to keep her husband and their children in line with moral law as she understood it and their home free from sin of any kind. Thus it was a joyless home where secrets thrived, for the daughter was like her father, a merry soul with a penchant for talking with the moon and the river and poetry and prose. Their son was content to draw the people at the tea house, make portraits and sketches, and paint; and Saloo was privy to their interests and inclinations. Often they met in the gardens across from the bridge, away from their mother's tight leash, where they would have rousing debates and share poetry and news.
When he came of a certain age, Saloo gave his son a bag of coins and his blessings and the youth was off and away on adventures of his own. His mother disowned him and he saw her only once more while she lived, at his father's funeral. While Khairuddin passed on a happy man for having saved a man from sin, Saloo passed on a happy man for having lived a full life with all its twists and turns. Khaatoon Waheeda then married her daughter to an older man in a different city and moved in with them, making life miserable for her daughter ever after. Over the years the daughter, one Khairunissa, had put away her poems and pens and papers to raise three children with her husband, who was a strict disciplinarian with stern inclinations and so the children they raised were streamlined and straight, never veering from what was deemed proper and correct; fear of the Almighty and love of the Almighty simultaneously drilled into them by their grandmother who was always near at hand.
Now I can tell from your fidgeting, Azizeh, you're wondering why I tell you this tale:: it all begins with the realm of Sultaan Baadshaah Salaamat and that is where we return my love, for you see, the gift of Salaamatee that Saloo had been given, he forgot to share it with his people. And while he travelled and followed his heart's desires, followed the wanderings of his feet on trails known and unknown, he forgot the people of his realm whom he had left in the hands of his Vizir. His Vizir had dealt the citizens of his realm many cruel blows over the years, to suit his own purposes, and Sultaan Baadshaah had abandoned them to the vices of the Vizir. He who had been their beloved Sultaan had delivered them into the hands of an amoral and cruel man and never returned to put things to right. And so, until someone of Sultaan Baadshaah Salaamatee's blood or acquaintance clears the baggage of that debt, all his people forgotten and remembered will live lifetime after lifetime cycling through the opportunities for clearance. That is all. Now we shall eat some noon and paneer and pisteh, come joonam, it grows late and I'm a tired and hungry old lady. No? You don't believe it ended this way? Well, then sit, and I'll tell you how it really went . . . .
The truth is Saloo discovered Waheeda's funny bone. He found it when he told her he was Sultaan Baadshaah of an entire realm and she a Sultaanaah. At first she thought him mad and gave him a sharp look and told him to hush and went to pray for him. While she prayed, something happened that had never happened before. She was visited by an angel who gave her a vision. In the vision she saw Sultaan Baadshaah Salaaamat on Meera venturing out into the fairgrounds around his palace. She saw him help up the old flower seller, she saw all that transpired that evening, and when the vision was over, she sat on her prayer mat and laughed and laughed as she had never laughed in her entire life. When she rose from her prayer mat she rolled it up and put it away and went to join her husband on the bridge where he always did his darshan. After that they strolled in the gardens and talked late into the night. She learned of his travels and how her father had been mistaken, he was never intending to jump of the bridge that evening or any other evening. She developed a fascination with plants and fire and began her own conversations with Qamar, that big full cheeked moon, and over the years her pinched face fleshed out and one day Saloo looked at her, and there she was, the lady he'd imagined his bride to be had become. They had two children, a boy and a girl, and they played with them and enjoyed them, encouraging and indulging their love for poetry and paint as they grew and developed. One day, when the children had come of a certain age, Saloo gathered them and his wife together and they began packing for a journey back to his realms. For Saloo had not forgotten his people. They bid Khairuddin farewell and received his blessings; this man once austere and stern had softened through years with Saloo and where once he had been happy to have saved himself and another from sin, he now rejoiced at having been saved himself by a saint from sins he had never perceived before. Khairuddin died a happy man and the patrons of his tea house all attended his funeral, for he had come to enjoy their conversations and lunatic ravings. He never remarried but died laughing.
Thus Baadshaah Salaamat returned to his realm, where it turned out his Vizir had been replaced by another person during his long absence. The Vizir was a cruel illtempered man and once their Sultaan had been gone long enough, his people said, enough, and rose up and removed the Vizir and reorganized the realm to the benefit of everyone, including the roses and dandelions and elephants. Sultaan Baadshaah was well received by his people and he and his Sultaanaah lived out their remaining days in this joyful festive kindom where their children thrived and prospered and self-rule reigned the realm. Now Azizeh, may we eat?"
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Q: How does React memoization work under the hood? I'm curious how React memoization works under the hood.
Specifically, I want to understand the tradeoff between runtime performance gains and memory usage. I want to know what is that total memory usage, and what is the behaviour of the memoization algorithm when React.memo's dependencies are unstable? If a dependency changes, are multiple copies of the rendered component stored in memory, or just the most recent?
Thanks!

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Iran: US, Saudis Supported Attacks
6/9/2017 | 6:32 AM CDT
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian leaders on Friday accused the United States and Saudi Arabia of supporting the Islamic State-claimed dual attacks that killed 17 people in Tehran this week.
The country's Supreme Leader said the attacks will add to the hatred that Iranians harbor toward the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
In a condolence message ahead of a funeral for the victims, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the attack: "will not damage the Iranian nation's determination and the obvious result is nothing except an increase in hate for the governments of the United States and their stooges in the region like Saudi (Arabia)," state media reported.
On Thursday, Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavai said investigators were working to determine whether Saudi Arabia had a role Wednesday's attacks but said it was too soon to say if that was the case.
During the funeral, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called the U.S. the "international" version of the Islamic State group and said Washington had exchanged democracy for money, a reference to a recent huge arms deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. State TV broadcast the ceremony live.
He said anti-Iranian remarks by Saudi Arabia's foreign minister and U.S. President Donald Trump are a "matter of disgrace" for them.
Larijani also criticized a Wednesday decision by the U.S. Senate to move forward on a new set of sanctions against Iran, including its elite Revolutionary Guards, a move that came on the same day as the Tehran attacks.
Also on Friday, police said two more suspects were detained in the western part of the country bring the number to eight from six on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry in a statement put the number of wounded at 52, up from 40.
The Intelligence Ministry said its forces stormed several "safe houses" linked to the group in the country's northwest, according to state television.
Reportedly two guards, 10 government staffers and five civilians were killed in the attacks that simultaneously targeted the country's parliament and shrine of late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.


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International fight for equal pay is advancing, with or without the U.S.
"Equal pay for equal work;" a slogan that has resounded for more than a century, but only now realized in one country.
On March 8, 2017, Iceland passed a bill mandating companies to offer equal pay for equal work. The full implementation of this bill is expected in 2020. Iceland already had the smallest gender pay gap internationally, with women earning 86 to 88 percent of a man's wage. It may seem slim, but to put this in perspective, this wage disparity means in a typical 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift, female employees work unpaid after 2:38 p.m. In October, women in Iceland protested the gap by triumphantly leaving work at this time.
Last week in the U.S., female teachers across the country went on strike on "A Day Without Women," leading at least three school districts across the country to cancel classes. Protests in the Bay Area caused uproar in the affected neighborhoods — parents argued the protest was "infuriating and uncalled for," because they had to scramble for child care in the last minute or have one parent stay home for the day.
These two countries show drastically different attitudes toward the feminist movement. It is a shame women have been fighting for equality for more than 100 years, and still we have not seen substantial changes in our country.
The Enlightenment Era of the 18th century marks the early stages of the feminist movement. In the 19th century, notable feminists activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony started a wave of feminism across the U.S. by successfully attaining suffrage rights for women. It is truly inspiring to see how women and their allies fought for everything they desired, and demanded nothing is taken for granted.
Historically, the particular issue of equal pay began in 1923 as part of the Equal Rights Amendment written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. Despite support in Wisconsin, the amendment was never ratified federally. There was a split among feminists — while middle-class women fought for full equality, working-class women did not want to lose certain privileges, such as not working late-night shifts or lifting heavy loads.
This sounds awfully similar to the situation we have today. Some argue the "Day Without Women" protest is elitist and only serve those who enjoy certain privileges. Indeed, women have sacrificed their domesticity by campaigning for their rights and equality in the public. Part of the reason why we still have not accomplished anything substantial is because we cannot unite under this one ideal.
One woman can work at her job without worrying about day care when another woman is earning minimum wage to look after her child. This may be the unfair privilege we really need to address. School teachers in public school systems are among the most underprivileged groups. It is important to take a stand so the public realizes the indispensable role they play in the society.
Complete gender equality is a dream deferred for more than a century, and it should remain an ideal that unites all people who care for the cohesion of our society.
Grace Li ([email protected]) is a freshman majoring in biomedical engineering.


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Kelso Cochrane
"Tribute to Notting Hill race hate victim"
posted by: Tippa Naphtali
published: 9th April 2006
Any news or updates listed at the foot of this item
Stanley Cochrane is 75 years old. He came to Britain for the first time last year, not as a tourist, but to discover who murdered his brother almost 50 years ago. On 17th May 1959, Kelso Cochrane, a 32-year-old carpenter from Antigua, was killed by a group of white youths in Notting Hill Gate. No one was ever convicted.
"In March 2003 I awoke from a disturbing dream about my brother," says Stanley. "From that moment I couldn't shake his face from my mind. "He kept coming back in my dreams. I decided I had to do something."
Stanley wrote to the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens, asking for his brother's murder to be re-investigated. They replied there was no new forensic evidence to re-open the case.
Three years on, and not satisfied with the police response, he decided to see what he could find out for himself.
Above all, he wanted to know why his brother Kelso was killed. Was it robbery or racially motivated? Was it both?
In 2011 a new book by BBC documentary maker, Mark Olden,claimed the identity of the killer had been an 'open secret' since Kelso Cochrane's death. The unsolved murder of Kelso Cochrane has finally been laid to rest after 50 years after the man accused of killing him was named as Patrick Digby.
Digby was arrested along with another men after police focused their inquiries on a group of white men at a house party in the street where the murder took place.
The death of Kelso Cochrane
(Operation Black Vote – 14 September 2011)
Kelso Cochrane is an iconic figure in British race relations. Over fifty years ago the young Antiguan was killed by a gang of white youths in Notting Hill, west London. No-one was ever convicted. He was the Stephen Lawrence of his day; a symbol of racial injustice.
Man who stabbed Antiguan carpenter through the heart in Notting Hill 'race killing' finally named after 50 years
(Mail Online – 8 September 2011)
The unsolved murder of Kelso Cochrane has finally been laid to rest after 50 years after the man accused of killing him was named as Patrick Digby. Mr Cochrane, a black immigrant from Antigua, was stabbed to death by a white youth in Notting Hill, west London in 1959. Digby was arrested along with another men after police focused their inquiries on a group of white men at a house party in the street where the murder took place.
Remembering Kelso Cochrane
(IRR News – 7 May 2009)
Kelso Cochrane, an immigrant from Antigua, was murdered in Notting Hill by a gang of White men as he walked home from a local hospital after receiving treatment for an injury he had sustained in his work as a carpenter. Kelso was stabbed and later died in hospital.
Kelso Cochrane Honoured With A Blue Plaque
(ItzCaribbean.com – date unknown)
50 years to the day, after the violent murder of North Kensington resident Kelso Cochrane, the Nubian Jak Community Trust is to install a Blue Plaque at the Grove Inn Restaurant & Bar, on the corner of Golborne Road and Southam Street, W10.
Kelso Cochrane murder: 50th anniversary
(Golborne Life – date unknown)
The fiftieth anniversary of the tragic murder of Kelso Cochrane on Southam Street, just off Golborne Road, is to be marked by the unveiling of a commemorative Blue Plaque on Sunday May 17th.
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package org.diirt.support.ca;

import gov.aps.jca.dbr.DBR_CTRL_Double;
import gov.aps.jca.dbr.DBR_TIME_Double;
import java.util.List;
import org.diirt.vtype.VDoubleArray;
import org.diirt.vtype.VTypeToString;
import org.diirt.util.array.ArrayDouble;
import org.diirt.util.array.ArrayInt;
import org.diirt.util.array.ListDouble;
import org.diirt.util.array.ListInt;
import org.diirt.vtype.ArrayDimensionDisplay;
import org.diirt.vtype.ValueUtil;

/**
 *
 * @author carcassi
 */
class VDoubleArrayFromDbr extends VNumberMetadata<DBR_TIME_Double, DBR_CTRL_Double> implements VDoubleArray {

    public VDoubleArrayFromDbr(DBR_TIME_Double dbrValue, DBR_CTRL_Double metadata, JCAConnectionPayload connPayload) {
        super(dbrValue, metadata, connPayload);
    }

    @Override
    public ListDouble getData() {
        return new ArrayDouble(dbrValue.getDoubleValue());
    }

    @Override
    public ListInt getSizes() {
        return new ArrayInt(dbrValue.getDoubleValue().length);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return VTypeToString.toString(this);
    }

    @Override
    public List<ArrayDimensionDisplay> getDimensionDisplay() {
        return ValueUtil.defaultArrayDisplay(this);
    }

}


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David Matthews Joins the Peace Appeal's Board of Directors
The Peace Appeal is pleased to announce that Dave Matthews has joined the organization's Board of Directors. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dave became a naturalized citizen in 1980. His family moved frequently during his childhood, spending time in the U.S. and England, in addition to South Africa. Dave and his family moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1986 where he formed the Dave Matthews Band in 1991.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dave became a naturalized American citizen in 1980. His family moved frequently during his childhood, spending time in the U.S. and England, in addition to South Africa. Dave and his family moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1986 where he formed Dave Matthews Band in 1991. Now celebrating their 25th year, Dave Matthews Band is one of the most influential bands in rock history. Dave Matthews Band's infectious and distinctive sound garnered lots of early attention and a die-hard loyal fan base, catapulting the band into one of the most successful touring acts of the past two decades. Their latest studio release, Away From The World, bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making Dave Matthews Band the first group in chart history to have six consecutive studio albums debut atop the chart. Matthews' solo debut, 2003's Some Devil, was certified Platinum and its lead single, "Gravedigger," won a GRAMMY® award for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance."
In 2000, Matthews co-founded ATO Records, an independent label now home to Alabama Shakes, Brandi Carlile and more. Matthews owns Blenheim Vineyards, a winery in Charlottesville, VA designed to have minimal impact on the environment. He is also a partner in The Dreaming Tree Wines, which has raised over $1M for environmental groups since its inception in 2011. A member of Farm Aid's Board of Directors since 2001 (along with Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp), and The Wilderness Society's Governing Council since 2010, Matthews is dedicated to conservation and environmental protection. In 2014, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation honored him with its Chairman's Award commending his environmental dedication. Matthews serves as an ambassador for Turnaround Arts, a program of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Additionally, Matthews is a Presidential Ambassador for Citizenship and Naturalization. Matthews has played numerous benefit concerts and the band's Bama Works Fund, along with his own Horton Foundation, have raised more than $45 million dollars for a wide variety of humanitarian and environmental initiatives.
Violence, Freedom of Expression, and Justice: A Public Forum on Recent World Events
Harvard Divinity School, January 29, 2015
Remarks offered by Jeff Seul, Chair of the Peace Appeal Foundation
If we focus narrowly on the perspectives and actions of the Charlie Hebdo attackers and their victims on the magazine's staff, there are few contemporary situations that seem more polarized and intractable.
Restricting our field of vision in this way, one may well be inclined to characterize our current situation as a hopeless clash of civilizations. As Nicholas Kristof of the NYT pointed out in a recent editorial, some in the West now see "Islam as inherently extremist," and some Muslims he has interviewed around the world see the U.S. (and, no doubt, France and other Western, or Western influenced, countries) as "an oppressive state controlled by Zionists and determined to crush Islam."
Polarized perspectives like these share certain characteristics. They are partial narratives with foregone conclusions. They are partial in two senses of that word: they exclude information and perspectives that won't fit neatly into the narrative, and they sift and interpret the remaining information and perspectives in biased ways. These neat little stories lead to seemingly inevitable conclusions, often justifying extreme, coercive, even violent, action.
Civilizations, cultures, identity groups – whatever we may call them, and whatever their contestable contours may be – are never monolithic and static. They are internally diverse and dynamic, and the polarized narratives tend to lose their coherence and sense of inevitability as we both widen our field of vision and sharpen our focus within it.
As we open up to the true messiness of our current situation, resisting overly neat little narratives, I believe we will begin to see practical possibilities for shifting the dynamic over time; ways to begin making a seemingly intractable situation tractable.
As I've listened to and read many diverse voices over the past couple of weeks – religious and secular, Muslim and non-Muslim, French and non-French, liberal and moderate and conservative – I've realized the messiness of my own perspectives on the situation. I've found myself wanting to affirm many perspectives, even when they seem to diverge, when the voices sound a bit cacophonous together.
I say "no" to the violence – to the killing – of course. There is too much killing, and not only in Paris, and not only in the name of militant forms of Islam.
But I say "yes" to free speech, and "yes" to exercising that right responsibly, and even "yes" to possible curtailment of the free-speech norm in some cases. And "yes" to possible reappraisal of contemporary Islamic norms regarding blasphemy, as some Muslims intellectuals have urged.
"Yes" to not holding the vast number of moderate Muslims responsible for the actions of the relatively very small (but substantial and demonstrably potent and apparently growing) percentage of Muslims who are violently militant, and "yes" to encouraging even more reflective speech and action from moderate Muslims in response to militant forms of Islam.
"Yes" to police and military protection, and "yes" to concerns about living in a police state and exacerbating tensions and perpetuating violence through dominant Western states' excessive show of force to extend and safeguard their interests.
One way to open up to the true messiness of our situation and to begin to learn and discover practical options for shifting the current dynamic is dialogue within and between communities. There have been many calls for dialogue following from the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has acknowledged that he intended to spark a vigorous debate this week by saying that a "territorial, social and ethnic apartheid" exists within France.
Federica Mogherini, the EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, said this week that "[w]e need . . . a dialogue" to face the issue of terrorism, which she does not see as an issue between the West writ large and Islam writ large.
When asked what he thought of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting the Prophet, Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, mused that the world would be a nicer place if everyone respected everyone else's opinion. He added, "Unless we learn to respect one another, it will be very difficult in a world of different views and different cultures and civilizations. We won't be able to engage in a serious dialogue . . .".
But calls to dialogue generally are just that. Little is offered in terms of the who and what and how and why of these proposed dialogues. And fledgling efforts at dialogue too often are ill conceived, and so fizzle or fall short. When they do occur, they often occur exclusively through highly formalized and constrained legal, political and diplomatic mechanisms.
The organization of which I'm a part, the Peace Appeal Foundation, helps stakeholders in conflicts create and sustain their own broadly inclusive peace and national dialogue processes. We think a lot about how authentic, constructive, and ultimately action-oriented conversations can begin and be sustained in highly complex, charged, usually violent situations.
I'd like to offer a thought or two about some of the qualities dialogues about our current situation must have in order to produce change over the long-run. I'll focus on three qualities of genuine dialogue that seem especially germane to the events and controversies we're considering tonight.
The first quality I'll emphasize is need for honest, analytical attention to the dialogue context, including history.
Prime Minister Valls has drawn attention to part of the context and history in France that must help frame any genuine dialogue about free speech in that country and the violence against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. The history extends back over 100 years to include the brutal French imperial regime in Algeria, from which a hugely disproportionate number of French Muslims come. The context includes the poor social and economic status of North Africans, Muslim and non-Muslim, in France. It includes the fact that, by some estimates, more than 50% of French prison inmates come from the roughly 7% of the population that is Muslim.
The context includes the history of the cartoon controversy in Denmark, and increasing xehophobia in Europe generally. Some respected analysts reasonably consider the 12 cartoons portraying the Prophet that were published in a 2005 issue of Jyllands-Posten – which is no Charlie Hebdo, by the way, but Denmark's most widely circulated and respected newspaper – not to have been a statement about free speech, but, instead, to have been part of a "provacative local anti-Muslim campaign sweeping Denmark," as anthropologist Peter Hervik put it. This is the lens through which many orthodox Muslims, most of whom are not engaging in or inciting acts of violence, view the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
As Steven Fish, a Berkeley political scientist, wrote Tuesday in the Washington Post's blog, the context also includes the fact that "in the contemporary world, Christians won big. And the frustration and humiliation that Muslims now feel as a result can help explain terrorism." Fish continues, "Christians drew the boundaries of the states in which most Muslims live. Currently, people in Christian countries make up one-third of the world's population, while holding two-thirds of its wealth and nine-tenths of its military might." Fish is bringing the empirical tools of social science to this discussion with real discipline and respectful, unbiased curiosity. I highly recommend his 2013 book, Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence. In it he presents evidence that refutes many negative Western stereotypes of Muslims. He shows, for instance, that Muslims generally are not violent people. Non-Muslim countries average 7.5 murders per 100,000 per year, over three times the number in Muslim countries, whether or not those Muslim countries have authoritarian regimes. "More Muslims, less homicide," as he puts it. Fish also shows that Muslims are not particularly inclined toward mass political violence, even though Muslims were responsible for about 60% of the approximately 200 terrorist bombings that occurred between 1994 and 2008. Comparatively speaking, they do not particularly favor combining religious and political authority. Yet Fish's research also reveals other things that some may feel are less comfortable topics of conversation: among Muslims generally, gender inequality is pronounced, homosexuality is less tolerated, and democratic governance is uncommon. Research like this, alongside insights from more qualitative forms of inquiry, also helps describe the dialogue context.
The second quality is the spirit in which people must meet.
All must be willing to meet others on their own terms, as they are. Gerard Biard, Charlie Hebdo's chief editor, told journalist Scott Sayare in 2005 that, "You're not supposed to use religion for your sense of identity." "In principle, Arabs in France are not Muslims," he said, asking, "How is it going to help these people to make them believe they're Muslims?" Well, I'm sorry: this religious sense of identity is genuine, and there can be no real dialogue unless that's acknowledged. Biard's perspective strikes me as a sort of extreme, ideological perversion of Western liberal values; the mirror image of the forms of narrow mindedness and intolerance and hegemonic aspiration within some small pockets of the Islamic community that he seems to see everywhere within the Islamic community.
Real dialogue is hard for everyone. It will be hard for those Muslims who feel, as CBS correspondent Holly Williams said recently, "that what they hold sacred is more important than free speech." It requires genuine curiosity, about others, but also about what I take for granted, what I may or may not realize I've ceased to be genuinely curious about it.
Finally, on the substance – on the principles and policies and practices at stake in any genuine dialogue – I'd emphasize the need for openness to compromise, even some compromise of principles we hold most dear when that's required to serve other principles we hold dear, or principles others hold dear.
Trade-offs are unavoidable in life, even when we pretend they're not. Even when they're taboo, because our identities are bound tightly to certain traditions or values, including values like free speech.
As much as I consider myself a proponent of free speech, I do find myself deeply questioning the wisdom of extending absolute legal protection, backed by police force, to a specific type of speech to which so few members of the culture with which I identify care to pay attention and so many members of relatively poor, minority populations in those countries find so deeply offensive.
And, yes, taking up residence in another country that's very different from the place one was born, or even just engaging in commerce and other types of exchange with foreigners, inevitably necessitates the development and practice of tolerance for others' customs and values.
None of us has all the answers. Constructive responses to the problems we all face only will emerge, over time, from dialogue within and among communities, as so many people are now acknowledging. If they occur – and I hope they will – these dialogues must be structured and sustained very purposefully and skillfully.
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Q: How to deal with unbalanced data and large dataset on low budget? If we have a dataset with 5:1 Ratio and 500.000 observations we can randomly sample the majority class getting in this case 100.0000 minority class and 100.000 majority class?
I'm wondering this because I wanna test non-linear kernels SVM and Neural Network, but don't work well with large-scale datasets because of complexity. (I want to select the best model)

A: Leo Breiman, the author of the Random Forest, discusses approaches to learning from unbalanced data sets in this paper.
The key takeaway: you need somehow balance data prior to feeding it to algo because if you do not do that the algo will lean towards making "right" decisions in the majority class at the expense of accuracy of predictions for minority class.
From practical standpoint, learning on equally balanced classes always improved overall accuracy on the original [unbalanced] data set in my ML exercises.
All in all, your intuition about downsampling the majority class is right. If you are at the model selection stage, I would even think about going further and starting with 10'000/10'000 test size (subject to # of features and available computational power).


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Никола́й Никола́евич Кы́чкин (известен также как Кычкин Николай Николаевич II; род. 1974, село Черкёх, Алексеевский район, Якутская АССР) — якутский советский шашечный тренер, шашист; Мастер спорта России. Работает в Чурапчинском государственном институте физкультуры и спорта.

Биография
Родился 13 апреля 1974 года в селе Черкёх, Алексеевского района Якутской АССР.

Окончил Чурапчинское педагогическое училище, пединститут Якутского государственного университета по специальности «преподаватель физической культуры».

Тренировался у своих родителей — Н. Н. Кычкина-I и М. Н. Бырдынныровой.

Спортивная карьера
 Первенство Сибири и Дальнего Востока, первое место (1987, 1988).
 Чемпион Якутии среди школьников (1989, 1990).
 Всесоюзный турнир с выполнением нормы мастера спорта, четвёртое место (1993).
 Чемпион и неоднократный призёр чемпионатов Республики Саха (Якутия).

Трудовая деятельность
Тренер ДЮСШ селения Ытык-Кюёль (1991—1992), тренер ЧРССШИ (1992—1997), специалист по компьютерам АО «Рейтинг-плюс», тренер по шашкам Чурапчинского государственного института физкультуры и спорта (2000). Тренер многократной чемпионки России и Европы по шашкам Матрёны Ноговицыной.

Награды и звания
 Мастер спорта России.
 Отличник образования Республики Саха (Якутия) (2008).
 Стипендиат Благотворительного фонда спортивных программ «Новое поколение».

Семья
 Отец — Кычкин Николай Николаевич, глава династии тренеров Кычкиных, заслуженный тренер России.
 Мать — Бырдыннырова Мария Никитична, заслуженный тренер России.
 Супруга — Кычкина Ая Ильинична, кандидат педагогических наук, ныне тренер.

Примечания

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Родившиеся в Якутии
Мастера спорта России по шашкам
Чурапчинская шашечная школа
Тренеры по шашкам
Шашисты Якутии
Выпускники Якутского государственного университета
Шашисты России

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