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Courage, vision of JJ and BJ: Guyana now officially an oil-producing country
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Dear Editor,According to a release from ExxonMobil and a statement from the Energy Department, Guyana, as of December 20, 2019, is now officially an oil-producing country. This is a proud moment for all Guyanese. This is a moment that can transform our country, bringing socio-economic benefits for all Guyanese. The possibilities are endless. In spite of many misgivings, oil is undoubtedly good for Guyana. In spite of serious concerns, Exxon and the big oil companies flocking to Guyana are good for our country. There is no sure thing, but oil places Guyana in a position to propel itself into a high middle-income country immediately and the talk of being a developed country is no longer utopian rhetoric. Sure, oil by itself is not going to make these possibilities real. Many other things will have to fall in place, but Guyana has its best shot of achieving its "El Dorado" destiny at this very moment. We will either grab the opportunity and seize the possibilities or we will damn ourselves.We did not reach this fork in the road by accident. We got here because two momentous decisions were made in the last two decades. The first was made by Janet Jagan (JJ). When JJ agreed to solicit and encourage big oil to explore seriously in Guyana's waters, it was a decision she made against her own lifetime distrust of big oil and big multinational corporation. But she was convinced that among Guyana's natural resources was an oil resource and she persuaded herself that only big oil could confirm that such a resource existed. Her own ideology and make-up, her own determination that Guyana must own and benefit from its resources made it difficult for a decision to provide enough incentives for big oil to be interested.I know. After dealing with her Cabinet and her party executives, she often talked to me about her concerns and misgivings. But in the end, she made a decision, difficult for her, but one she had to make in the interest of Guyana. Many commentators, some of whom today are basking in the glory of oil, denounced and blasted her decision. After oil findings were confirmed beginning in March 2015, these same commentators were ugly in denouncing the exploration agreements, condemning the concessions provided to Exxon and big oil. But without the exploration agreements in 1999 and what some considered as generous incentives, Guyana would not have been an official oil-producing country today.The second momentous decision that contributed to Guyana today being an oil-producing country is the decision made by Bharat Jagdeo (BJ) after Suriname attacked with its gunboats an oil exploration team from CGX in the deep sea in 2002. The then President BJ decided in April 2004, with total backing from his Cabinet, to approach the International Tribunal on the Laws of the Sea under the UNCLOS treaty for a decision to confirm Guyana's maritime borders in Guyana's EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone), using the formula of the Laws of the Seas. The laws and the treaty agreed to by virtually all countries, including Guyana and Suriname, under the UNCLOS, determined how rights in the seas and oceans and national EEZs are determined. Guyana was always convinced that our borders and rights to the seas and our EEZ were in accordance with the UNCLOS laws and agreements. Suriname sought to interpret those laws differently to expand its rights to maritime hydrocarbon resources.It was a difficult decision to place our destiny in the hands of an international court, but Bharat Jagdeo displayed the courage and the vision necessary to do so. He chose legal recourse over a military confrontation. This decision built on the platform JJ created by issuing exploration agreements with big oil. Guyana won that case when the International Tribunal ruled in 2007 and the opportunities to explore for hydrocarbons exploded. The decision to approach the International Tribunal was not based only on the Suriname attack on CGX, it was based on decades of Suriname refusing to honour mutual agreements on the use of the sea by the two countries. The approach to the international court was a risky one and many commentators had misgivings. In the end, Guyana won that case and removed all uncertainties for exploration in Guyana's seas.Some will argue that the 2004 approach to the international judiciary and its 2007 decision have nothing to do with the Exxon exploration and discovery because the Exxon fields are well away from the limits of Guyana's EEZ. But the UNCLOS approach demonstrated that Guyana and her leaders had the courage to defend itself and its resources and this provided confidence for the big investors to explore knowing that Guyana will not be cowered into not issuing exploration and production licenses.For those who think it is impossible for our politicians to work together, consider this. In 2004, when BJ announced Guyana was going to the International Tribunal of the UNCLOS, the then PNC gave unconditional support, even if privately some expressed doubts. When Guyana, through the APNU/AFC Government, approached the ICJ to defend the integrity of our borders with Venezuela, the Opposition PPP declared unconditional support. There is still hope that our politicians can work together for the benefit of Guyana.These two courageous and visionary decisions play a pivotal role in Guyana finally joining the ranks of oil-producing countries. Other persons played a role. President Donald Ramotar provided support and encouragement during the initial exploration drills that finally led to the April 2015 confirmation that oil was present in commercial levels in Guyana. The transformation of the exploration agreements into production agreements was eventually signed in 2016 by President Granger. Mistakes have been made, but Guyana is now an oil-producing country.On paper, Guyana is about to become one of the richest countries in the world. Our GDP is about to almost double from about US$4500 to more than US$9000 per capita and overall from about US$5 billion to almost US$10 billion annually. Transparent and accountable management of the oil resources can lead to socio-economic transformation. Those in charge of these resources now must acknowledge we begin life as an oil-producing country with some serious missteps which have to be corrected. Those who will be in charge in the future must be guided by the principle that oil resources must reach the most vulnerable in our country. While international oil companies are sure to get richer, Guyana must ensure all of our people benefit meaningfully from oil and not only a handful. It is times like these when the courage and vision of those who made this happen must be acknowledged. In this regard, the two momentous decisions by JJ and BJ have brought us to this transformative moment.Sincerely,Dr Leslie Ramsammy read more
Baby Akeela recuperating rapidly following successful surgery
Over one year after Reliance, Essequibo single mother Phyziena Etwaroo discovered that her almost two-year-old daughter, Akeela, was suffering from meningitis— causing abnormalities in her brain— the baby is now recovering, following a successful surgery performed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Monday, July 29.The emergency surgery was performed by Guyana's first neurosurgeon Dr Amarnauth Dukhi and a team.According to Etwaroo, Akeela was scheduled for another CT scan; however, when same was conducted, she was informed that an immediate emergency surgery had to be conducted."He (Dr Dukhi) said that baby need to do a surgery right away because he found a lot of fluid on the right side of the brain and that is where he admitted her and he was supposed to do the surgery the night at 8 but he did it earlier than it was supposed to be done," Etwaroo related.The young mother expressed that after hearing the news, she was overwhelmed since seeing her child in a lifeless form was difficult.Akeela celebrated her 2nd birthday on Tuesday, one day after the surgery, and would have spent that day in the hospital recovering.This also was difficult, since at that time, the child was still unresponsive. However, things began to change that following Saturday."I couldn't touch her, she had fever the Monday night, Tuesday she spent her birthday in the hospital and Wednesday morning when it was her birthday and I spoke to her, she wasn't even smiling but then the Saturday she had no more fever," Etwaroo relayed.Akeela is now in a much better condition according to her happy mother, who said that the child is falling back to normalcy."She is doing much better now, she is having her meals, her baby language is starting back fresh and new, when I talk to her now she would respond…For now, she needs all of my attention I have to give her a good life, she would need a lot of therapy because this is not something that would cure so fast, it would take time, because it's like I got myself a new born baby and I have to start everything fresh again," Etwaroo, the single mother, explained.The 24-year-old mother expressed her appreciation to Dr Dukhi and team for giving her what she deems as the best birthday gift ever."I would like to say thanks to Dr Dukhi and the team because when I went to him, he acted fast and I appreciate it. He just put her in front and everything was done so fast, he tried his best, I don't know how to thank him… I am very happy; this is the best birthday gift ever because my birthday is in this month".Etwaroo discovered that something was wrong on June 27, 2018 when Akeela developed a high fever which lasted overnight.As such, the baby was rushed the Suddie Hospital where she was treated for a throat infection and then sent home.A week after, the baby fell sick again and was again rushed to the said hospital where Etwaroo was told to continue treatment.On July 1, 2018, Akeela woke up and was reportedly in a lot pain when she was again rushed to the hospital where she was given an injection, but things took a turn for the worst, which led to the baby being admitted to the hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where she remained for a month and was later transferred to GPHC.Akeela was later diagnosed with meningitis and tests conducted at a private hospital revealed that she had chronic neurological disabilities and severe brain abnormality, which caused excessive fluids in her brain. It was recommended that a bilateral craniotomy be done. read more
Province of B.C. files another lawsuit against Alberta turn-off-the-taps law
VANCOUVER, B.C. – The British Columbia government has filed a second lawsuit against Alberta over its turn-off-the-taps legislation.A statement of claim filed in Federal Court on June 14 is similar to a document filed last month in Alberta's Court of Queen's Bench that alleges Alberta introduced the bill to inflict economic pain on B.C. by limiting the supply of petroleum products to the province.The claim says Alberta's attorney general brought an application to have the action dismissed in the Court of Queen's Bench on the grounds that B.C. has no standing to challenge laws created in the Alberta legislature and that the legal action is premature.- Advertisement -The B.C. government says it believes the case can be heard in Alberta but if it is found not to have standing there, it wants the Federal Court to declare Alberta's Preserving Canada's Economic Prosperity Act unconstitutional.Alberta's former NDP government passed the bill but it wasn't proclaimed into law until after the United Conservative Party was elected earlier this year.[videopress xMiGyrnQ]Advertisement read more
Gift ideas to keep your wheels happy
Your wheels are your second-biggest investment, next to your home or apartment, and the major mode of transportation for most of us. So with just nine shopping days left till Christmas, don't forget your car – or your car lover – when shopping for gifts. Here are a number of suggestions – from the practical to the indulgent, the sensible to the sumptuous – as well as places to find them. Get schooled in driving No matter how stylish your ride, you can't go anywhere without the keys. The Loc8tor is designed to help you track any item you don't want to lose – keys, cell phones, pets and even kids. You apply a small sensor to any item, and the Loc8tor tracks it within a 100-yard radius. The original Loc8tor is about $100 and includes the handheld device and two homing tags. The Loc8tor Plus is $170 and includes the device, three homing tags and one panic tag. loc8tor.com; sharperimage.com; amazon.com Gear up in fashion World Class Motoring sells auto-related apparel and collectibles and everything else in between. If that special someone on your shopping list is a fan of the USC Trojans, UCLA Bruins or the Cal Bears, there's a Sunlite Car Cover adorned with the school logo for about $300. The retailer also sells licensed Team Shelby Jackets, an upgraded version of those worn by the Shelby racing team, priced from $200. Matching Shelby driving shoes are $100. You can also splurge on Zeyner briefcases starting at about $350 or a leather Zeyner Backfire Motorcycle backpack for $460. World Class Motoring, 5076 Chesebro Road, Agoura; worldclassmotoring.com Buying on a budget For those on a budget, here's a trio of practical offerings from www.cleantools. The Absorber ($8 to $13 at retailers) is a lightweight, durable drying towel that's safe for even the most precious paint surface. The cloth is machine washable, and it won't leave lint on the car or abrade its wax layer. The Glosser is a pack with five disposable microfiber towels that are filled with car-washing and polishing formulas and also sell for $6.95 at retailers nationwide. Think of the movie "The Karate Kid" when using this product and just wipe on, wipe off. Your car should have a nice shine, and you probably won't break a sweat. These are small enough to stow under the seat or in the glove box. The Dash Gear cleaning towel is designed for instrument panels and electronics. It's made of an ultra-fine microfiber that lifts dust, dirt and grime without scratching surfaces or requiring liquid cleaners. It retails for $6 to $13. cleantools.net For the Porsche fanatic If you know a Porsche fanantic – and there are plenty of them out there – Clewett Engineering in Manhattan Beach makes shopping a little easier. The online store specializes in hard-to-find parts that can add more spunk to older models of these already-spunky cars. Pure Power oil filters, which retail for about $200, are cleanable and reusable, and the UEGO 2000 Wide Band Oxygen Sensor, at $500, is popular among racing enthusiasts. A little less pricey are spark-plug wire sets, which start at slightly less than $150. clewett.com Site helps if still looking If you are really stumped, gifts.com has a slew of gift ideas in every price range for the auto enthusiast. They range from silly, a Darth Vader dashboard hula toy for $10, to the practical, a Garage Shop Pro Vac for $175 that makes cleaning up a little easier. And you can always buy the motorhead on your list his or her own personalized garage sign. That will set you back just $70. gifts.com greg.wilcox@dailynews.com 818-713-3743160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You're all set! That certain someone on your gift list has a really hot car, and you want to make sure the driver knows how to handle all that horsepower – especially if you go on frequent ride-alongs. A gift certificate for a driving course at Danny McKeever's FastLane driving school at Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles, might be just the ticket. It could prevent one, too. McKeever's Defensive Driving Academy costs $395, and you get to drive your own hot rod. If you want to shift into a higher price range, sign up for the popular High Performance Driving Course. Participants get to drive a Toyota Celica GT coupe, so they need to be able to work a manual transmission. Classes range from one to three days and from $775 to $2,300. raceschool.com Never lose keys again read more
HARPS SUFFER FIRST LEAGUE DEFEAT OF NEW SEASON
Finn Harps have suffered their first defeat of the season after going down 1-0 to Athlone Town at Athlone Town Stadium this evening.Both sides had few chances and the game could have gone either way.Both Kevin McHugh and Paul McVeigh had chances to break the deadlock for Harps minutes into the restart. McVeigh's chance went agonizingly close but came back off the inside of the post.Roddy Collins' side pushed on and were rewarded after a fine move in the 70th minute.Garbhan Coughlan found the net form close range after Philip Gorman headed down a fine cross from Barry Clancy.Harps pushed until the final whistle but just couldn't break down a stubborn home defence. HARPS SUFFER FIRST LEAGUE DEFEAT OF NEW SEASON was last modified: April 12th, 2013 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:Athlone Townfinn harps read more
DONEGAL WOMAN WINS $10,000 ON LATE LATE SHOW
A Donegal woman has scooped $10,000 and a trip to the US on tonight's Late Late Show.Grace Kelly from Lifford didn't think she had much of a chance when she texted her entry into the live competition on the popular RTE Show.But she got the shock of her life when she was telephoned by Ryan Tubridy's team to say she had won. The chatshow host wasted no time in remarking on Grace's famous name saying "I have always wanted to say this live on air – good evening Grace Kelly."Grace revealed she was at home on the sofa with her mum Kitty as she received the good news in front of the nation.A delighted Grace said she would love the prize when asked by the RTE star if she really wanted it.She's now off to Los Angeles and Hollywood – with 10k spending money. DONEGAL WOMAN WINS $10,000 ON LATE LATE SHOW was last modified: February 11th, 2012 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:GRace KellyLate Late ShowLifford read more
GARDAI 'FOLLOWING DEFINITE LINE OF INQUIRY' IN WATERBUS INVESTIGATION
GARDAI are following a definite line of inquiry in their investigation into vandalism on the Donegal Bay Waterbus, Donegal Daily has learned.Officers have now positively identified two men caught on CCTV as they tampered with the boat's expensive electrical system around 6am on Monday.Sean Quinn, the chief executive of the tourism venture, published pictures and the footage yesterday after giving the suspects two days to hand themselves over to Gardai and apologise. We have learned that both suspects are from Donegal and have been identified by Gardai."The footage from the CCTV cameras was excellent," said one Garda source."We are now following a definite line of inquiry in this case."It's understood arrests in the case could come in the next few days. The men have come forward to the boat's owners who have demanded compensation for the damage which was done. Earlier Mr Quinn had defended his decision to publish the pictures and criticised trolls who posted comments attacking the move."Would you find it amusing if all of a sudden the steering failed as your parents, brothers sisters etc drove down the road… think about that. We are sure you wouldn't be tweeting or messaging in the same light hearted 'comical' way," he said."We would ask those who suggested that this was a publicity stunt to please 'Unlike' our page straight away. The Crew here do not appreciate your presence," he added. GARDAI 'FOLLOWING DEFINITE LINE OF INQUIRY' IN WATERBUS INVESTIGATION was last modified: August 9th, 2013 by John2Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:CCTVdonegal bay waterbusdonegal daily newsvandals read more
Local government poll overall successful
Source: BuaNews and MediaClubSouthAfrica.com reporter The voting process in Diepkloof Extension, Soweto, went smoothly with residents taking no longer than 15 minutes to cast their vote. Representatives of the Democratic Alliance canvassed for votes and new members outside the polling station. (Images: Ray Maota) MEDIA CONTACTS • Independent Electoral Commission +27 12 622 5700 RELATED ARTICLES • Municipal elections: fact file • SA kicks off 2011 election drive • Social media to help Nigerian poll • New political party as poll nearsSouth Africa's local government elections went well in most parts of the country, despite a few operational glitches, and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is confident of reaching its 40% voter turnout target.The fourth poll of its kind took place throughout South Africa on 18 May 2011, with nearly 23-million citizens expected to have voted.Chief Electoral Officer Advocate Pansy Tlakula of the IEC said: "The voting went well throughout the country and was still going well in those areas where voting stations were still open."Tlakula was speaking at the IEC's Results Operation Centre in Pretoria, Gauteng, on election night."Some of the operational glitches experienced at the polling stations included insufficient ballot papers, technical problems with scanners and off-the-grid power outages. About seven IEC officials, six in Limpopo and one in the Free State, were dismissed for displaying political party stickers or banners," added Tlakula.She said although there were challenges, not one was insurmountable.The IEC is bound by law to produce the results of voting within seven days to allow political parties to object to the results if deemed necessary.Many polling stations in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Mpumalanga stayed open long after the proposed closing time of 7pm.Tlakula said at the time: "The IEC will allow those voters who arrive in their station perimeters before 7pm to vote and no one will be denied their right to vote."African National Congress (ANC) leader and South African President Jacob Zuma cast his vote in his hometown of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal.Zuma said: "I am very optimistic because we have made serious advances and we will surprise many."The Department of Home Affairs put measures in place on election day to issue temporary identity documents, making staff available on what was deemed a public holiday.There were 2 919 identity documents collected, 436 temporary identity documents issued, 16 temporary identity documents extended and 294 applications received nationwide.The South African government has expressed its gratitude for the smooth running of the elections.Government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi said: "The government expresses great satisfaction with the collective efforts of departments in ensuring the success registered thus far in rolling out the fourth democratic local government elections under the auspices and leadership of the Independent Electoral Commission."The government also congratulated all auxiliary agencies for making sure the elections went well."Of particular note is the prompt response by security officials in isolated places where individuals or small groups sought to be disruptive," said Manyi. "Eskom is also congratulated for making sure no power outages occurred during the voting."Incidents at stationsIn the Western Cape, two voters died while waiting to cast their ballots.Tlakula said: "We are sad to announce that two people died in the Western Cape, one while he was waiting to cast his vote in Tafelsig in Mitchells Plain. The other one, a lady, died outside the perimeters of the voting station in Kannaland in Ladysmith also in the Western Cape. We wish their families a speedy recovery from their loss."The Department of Health also reported four minor incidents at polling stations.Voting at Diepkloof ExtensionVoter turnout at the Fons Luminis High School polling station was no different to past elections.Residents of Diepkloof Extension started trickling in at the polling station at 9am. The queue remained brief throughout the day, taking residents between 10 and 15 minutes to complete the entire voting process.Philani Mngomezulu, a resident, said: "I always look forward to coming and voting at our polling station as there are never long queues. I will vote for our councillor to stay on again as he has made our neighbourhood a very desirable place to live in."IEC workers at the polling station made sure the elderly were helped first and generally ensured that things ran smoothly. Outside the station Democratic Alliance and ANC representatives canvassed for votes.Mphathisi Moloi, a resident who encouraged others to join the ANC, said: "I won't say I went through the struggle, but I identify with the ANC because it advocates youth development and has made sure after the first democratic elections that everyone was treated the same, with no prejudice."Police presence at the station was at a minimum with three officers manning the gates, but police patrol cars passed the station almost every 30 minutes. read more
SA cyclist wins 'influential woman' award
Her home team in South Africa is the Momentum Toyota team, which is a success story on its own, having produced all three South African Olympians in London last year, just three years after its inception. Finding a bigger purpose"It's nice to think of my cycling as having a bigger purpose. Personal success is important, but while it's currently my main focus, it's not my main purpose. I constantly try to act as an agent of positive change, sharing my stories and lessons with juniors, whenever I can," she explained. South Africa's Ashleigh Moolman Pasio is currently ranked 14th in the world, the highest position ever achieved by an African road cyclist. "I'm truly honoured to be recognised like this," she said in a statement on Sunday. "Some athletes just grab opportunities and make the most of them. Ashleigh is one of those athletes. It's fantastic to see her reaping the rewards of hard work and commitment. I'm sure she still has a great deal more to achieve and offer." "The process involved answering questions that related to my sport as well as the key areas such as role model responsibilities, creating awareness of my sport, social responsibility elements and obviously the importance of pursuing world class performance. "Recognition like this also confirms I'm doing some things right. This motivates me even more to continue to do what I'm doing. The more you achieve, the greater your influence. Moolman Pasio sees the greater significance of recognition such as this, not only for women's cycling, but for women's sport. SAinfo reporter 'Fighting for local, global recognition'"Women's road cycling fights a constant battle for recognition both locally and globally. For a cyclist to be given this award is one amazing pat on the back, for me personally and for women's cycling in general." The awards are aimed at celebrating the excellence of women in the business world and government institutions. Other semi-finalists in the sports' category included Olympic sprint canoeist Bridgitte Hartley, hockey player Bernadette Coston and triathlete Kate Roberts. "We are extremely proud of Ashleigh, both in her racing success and the recognition she is gaining outside of cycling," said co-founder of the Momentum Toyota women's racing team, Andrew McLean. "I was then informed that I was a semi-finalist and did a video interview. Thereafter I was named as one of two finalists. The other was Bridgitte Hartley, Olympic bronze medallist in canoeing. Moolman Pasio races internationally for the Lotto Belisol professional team, which is based in Belgium. 6 August 2013 For Moolman Pasio, the award is both an honour and a responsibility. "My mantra is: attitude, values, vision, which really translates to the importance of a positive attitude, while staying true to your values and keeping an eye on your goal and the bigger picture, and, of course, being able to adjust your vision when things don't quite go to plan," she said. For Moolman Pasio, the award adds some impetus to an empowerment project she has been developing, which is aimed at helping make the journey to international sporting success a more defined one for talented young sportswomen. "I would love to actively take part in this but currently, I have to focus on my own objectives. Once I'm a top-10 cyclist in the world, my influence will be much greater than being South Africa's top cyclist," she said. "It was a very comprehensive process, which gives the award a high level of credibility. It's great to see this kind of recognition specifically aimed at women in Africa," said the 27-year-old. "I'm not sure who nominated me for the award, but I do appreciate it," she said. Her excellence was recently recognised when she was named "Africa's Most Influential Woman in Sport" by the annual publication SA's Most Influential Women in Business and Government. read more
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Sometimes the availability of one host depends on another. A server that is behind some router will become unreachable if the router goes down. With triggers configured for both, you might get notifications about two hosts down - while only the router was the guilty party.
This is where some dependency between hosts might be useful. With dependency set notifications of the dependants could be withheld and only the notification for the root problem sent.
While Zabbix does not support dependencies between hosts directly, they may be defined with another, more flexible method - trigger dependencies. A trigger may have one or more triggers it depends on.
So in our simple example we open the server trigger configuration form and set that it depends on the respective trigger of the router. With such dependency the server trigger will not change state as long as the trigger it depends on is in 'PROBLEM' state - and thus no dependant actions will be taken and no notifications sent.
If both the server and the router are down and dependency is there, Zabbix will not execute actions for the dependent trigger.
Note that "secondary" (dependent) trigger in the above-mentioned cases will not be immediately updated.
Trigger dependency may be added from any host trigger to any other host trigger, as long as it wouldn't result in a circular dependency.
Trigger dependency may be added from a template to a template. If a trigger from template A depends on a trigger from template B, template A may only be linked to a host (or another template) together with template B, but template B may be linked to a host (or another template) alone.
Trigger dependency may be added from template trigger to a host trigger. In this case, linking such a template to a host will create a host trigger that depends on the same trigger template trigger was depending on. This allows to, for example, have a template where some triggers depend on router (host) triggers. All hosts linked to this template will depend on that specific router.
Trigger dependency from a host trigger to a template trigger may not be added.
Trigger dependency may be added from a trigger prototype to another trigger prototype (within the same low-level discovery rule) or a real trigger. A trigger prototype may not depend on a trigger prototype from a different LLD rule or on a trigger created from trigger prototype. Host trigger prototype cannot depend on a trigger from a template.
To define a dependency, open the Dependencies tab in a trigger configuration form. Click on Add in the 'Dependencies' block and select one or more triggers that our trigger will depend on.
Click Update. Now the trigger has an indication of its dependency in the list.
For example, a Host is behind a Router2 and the Router2 is behind a Router1.
If Router1 is down, then obviously Host and Router2 are also unreachable yet we don't want to receive three notifications about Host, Router1 and Router2 all being down.
Before changing the status of the 'Host is down' trigger, Zabbix will check for corresponding trigger dependencies. If found, and one of those triggers is in 'Problem' state, then the trigger status will not be changed and thus actions will not be executed and notifications will not be sent.
Zabbix performs this check recursively. If Router1 or Router2 is unreachable, the Host trigger won't be updated.


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There four main indexing approaches:

* `array[size_t]` - sub-array view, indexed along the first axis (scalar for 1-D case).
* `array.At(const std::array<size_t)&)` - scalar element, indexed along all axes.
* `array.slice<I>(args...)` - reduce or select sub-array along the I-th axis.
* `array(args...)` - multi-functional indexing, selecting elements or ranges along any axis. This approach is most inspired by numpy.

All of them do (or should) work both with const and non-const arrays and views.

**Planned:** masked arrays (using booleans or predicates)

## Creating arrays

There are several constructors:

* `multi_array<T,N>(const std::array<size_t, N>&)` - create a zero-filled array with a shape
* ...others, **TODO**: update this

To convert data, the universal `asarray` function should be used.

Other help functions can be used to create specific matrices. They are all inspired
by similar numpy functions but they are less flexible in parameters.

* `zeros`
* `ones`
* `linspace`
* `arange`
* `geomspace`
* `logspace`

## Arithmetic operations

Most arithemtic operations (+, -, *, /) are defined both element-wise for two
arrays of the same shape and for a combination of array and scalar.

**Planned:** All other operations and logical combinations.

## Mathematical functions

The standard functions defined in `<cmath>` are adapted to work with arrays element-wise,
i.e. `cos(array)` should return an array of cosines. The following functions are
(currently) available:

`abs`, `exp`, `log`, `log10`, `pow`, `sqrt`, `sin`, `cos`, `tan`, `asin`, `acos`,
`atan`, `atan2`, `sinh`, `cosh`, `tanh`

## Output

* `ostream << array` - write all elements to a stream

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Uber drivers protest coronavirus safety program at CEO's SF home
Danielle Echeverria June 24, 2020 Updated: June 24, 2020 7:13 p.m.
Uber drivers protest coronavirus safety program at...
1of7Rosa Mendoza, who drives for Uber and Lyft, cleans her car with disinfectant before the car caravan protesting Uber's "refusal to obey basic labor protections for drivers" on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif. The bottle of disinfectant she was using was provided by Uber but Mendoza, in the car, keeps masks, towels, gloves and other disinfectants in her car that she acquired herself.Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle
2of7A sign is seen in Rosa Mendoza's car asking passengers to wear a mask on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
3of7Minister Cherri Murphy (left), and Lauren Casey (second from left), both Gig Workers Rising organizers, post "grievance notes" on a post at the front of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's home during a driver caravan protest on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
4of7Catherine London, Lyft driver, holds a sign as she stands with others while listening to speakers during a driver caravan protest at the front of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's home on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
6of7Neil Patrick-McClintick, Gig Workers Rising organizer, posts "grievance notes" at the front of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's home during a driver caravan protest on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
7of7Alan Franklin, Lyft driver, speaks during a driver caravan protest at the front of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's home on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
Uber and Lyft drivers organized a caravan in San Francisco on Wednesday to protest the companies' opposition to classifying drivers as employees and what drivers called inadequate safety measures during coronavirus.
Protesters in around 50 cars drove from the Marina to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's $16.5 million Pacific Heights house, holding signs that included the words, "A Thief Lives Here."
The drivers called for Uber, Lyft and meal delivery company DoorDash to drop their planned ballot measure that would exempt the three companies from AB5, which would allow them to continue to classify drivers as independent contractors. California officials plan to seek a court injunction that would force Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees under the law within weeks.
Alan Franklin, an activist with We Drive Progress, has been driving for Uber for three years. Franklin, 70, said that by neglecting to provide benefits through AB5, the company is taking advantage of workers."
"It's unacceptable," he said. "Enough is enough."
The protest took place as demand for ride-hailing services rebounds as the city slowly reopens. Many drivers feel that they have to keep working, despite the risk of the virus, in order to pay for expenses.
"I don't have any money to pay my rent, and look at this," said Rosa Mendoza, an Uber driver, gesturing to Khosrowshahi's home.
Protesters shouted "Where's Dara?" and "You're a coward," as activists from Gig Workers Rising and We Drive Progress spoke to the crowd.
San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar told protesters that "the Board of Supervisors stands with Uber drivers and other app-based workers here in our city."
"This is not just an issue of fairness and economic security for drivers and their families," he said, "but it's an important issue for all of us here in California."
Uber and Lyft both require drivers and passengers to wear masks during rides, but drivers said the safety measures aren't enough. Franklin supports more equipment such as plastic or plexiglass barriers to protect drivers and riders, who can't maintain 6-foot separations in a car.
Uber has allowed drivers to receive supplies through direct mail since April 1, and opened the Greenlight Hub in Oakland for in-person pickups on April 10, the company said. It has distributed more than 130,000 pieces of equipment in San Francisco.
Lyft spokeswoman Ashley Adams said the company has provided free face masks and cleaning supplies to drivers since the COVID-19 crisis began.
"In addition to the over 120,000 sanitizing products and masks we have already distributed, we are currently shipping a safety kit — consisting of a reusable cloth face mask, sanitizer and disinfectant — to active drivers at no cost to them," she said.
Lyft is also opening Lyft Store, where active drivers can purchase additional equipment including sanitizer, disinfectant, and reusable and disposable masks with no price markups.
Mendoza, one of the drivers at the protest, wears both a mask and a scarf over it for extra protection. Between rides, she deep-cleans her car with disinfectants and hot towels that she pays for herself. The extra work, she says, is exhausting.
"When I'm driving, I get tired, and then I have to clean and clean and clean the car all the time," she said. "Then I get even more tired."
Enforcement of the mask policy for passengers falls on the drivers, said Harry Campbell, host of the podcast on the ride-hailing industry "The Rideshare Guy." Campbell recommends that drivers keep extra masks in their cars for passengers.
Uber allows drivers to cancel a ride without penalty if a rider is not wearing a mask, and drivers can report riders without a mask through the app.
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Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, an epidemiologist at UCSF, said ride-hailing raises the risk of virus transmission, and drivers are particularly vulnerable because they are exposed to many different people.
"Getting into a car with someone you don't know and being in that enclosed space for a period of time is by definition a higher-risk activity," she said.
Saori Okawa used to drive for Uber, but decided to switch to grocery and food delivery when the pandemic hit because she wasn't comfortable driving passengers, especially when Uber did not yet have a mask requirement. She began working through Instacart, Postmates and DoorDash.
Okawa requested protective equipment through Postmates and Instacart and says she received a small mask that "she couldn't really use" with a small hand sanitizer container from Postmates and one mask from Instacart. She thinks companies should send equipment to every driver without requiring any requests.
"We're essential workers," she said. "We're like bridges in between clients and the shop, and they don't think about that."
Like Mendoza, she also disinfects her car between trips, even though she doesn't have passengers. Both are frustrated that none of this extra work counts as paid time, and that there has been no addition to their pay.
"You have to depend on tips," Okawa said.
"The $110 million spent to fight AB5 should be used to buy more personal protective equipment for drivers," she added.
Postmates said it has made funds available directly to couriers to cover the cost of equipment and has sent hand sanitizer and face masks directly to active Bay Area couriers, along with compensating them for cleaning time.
As the protesters began to disperse on Wednesday, some went back to work, picking up passengers in Pacific Heights on their way out.
Danielle Echeverria is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: danielle.echeverria@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @DanielleEchev
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Jessica Wright had to log her pre-marathon miles almost exclusively indoors to help give Afghan girls better access to sports.
When Jessica Wright moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, and started working at Rosenstock Legal Services in 2015, she knew one thing: she'd need access to a treadmill.
She began running in New York City five years ago to break up long law school study sessions at St. John's University, and soon it became a regular part of her routine. The treadmill was her one big request upon accepting her new job, and because she was going to be training for her first marathon—New York City—she thought it would be good to train at a high elevation and give herself a fitness goal while working abroad.
While it was great to have a treadmill on hand in a country where women can't really run outside, 16 weeks of running exclusively on it made for quite a unique training experience.
Logging tons of miles inside on the treadmill is how Wright, a 32-year-old lawyer from the Midwest, trained for the event. Originally reported on Deadspin, she ran the marathon for a nonprofit called Free to Run, which empowers and educates women and girls living in conflict zones through sports. She felt it was important to run for the organization after meeting Afghan women who were eager for athletic opportunities when she moved to Kabul.
Wright squeezed a treadmill into a small back room at her colleague's house where four other expats live so it would be safe and convenient. She ran six days a week for 16 weeks, and although she did some interval training while on the treadmill, she wanted to focus mostly on mileage, averaging 33 miles per week. Wright was able to get through her runs by listening to music, audiobooks, and Dari lessons on tape, saying the alone time gave her time to think.
She did get one outside run in when she went with a friend and his coworker to the top of a hill in Kabul and did laps around the top for about three miles. And while she typically trained in her normal running gear since no one could see her indoors, for that one run she wore baggy sweatpants, a long tunic, and a headscarf.
Her original goal was to finish the marathon somewhere around the four-hour mark, but Wright said the course was challenging since she didn't get much hill training or strength training in for NYC.
The Queensboro Bridge was a bit of a challenge, and by the time she hit mile 21, her legs were tired, her toes had gone numb, and a previous knee injury was starting to flare up. But knowing she had friends and family following her and Free to Run supporters, Wright didn't want to give into the pain.
"I felt pretty strong mentally. My inner monologue was something like: on a scale of one to 10, your pain is nowhere near a 10 and it would be really weak to stop and walk," she said.
Wright crossed the finish in 4:36:00 with a smile on her face.
In addition to Wright, four other people ran the NYC Marathon on behalf of Free to Run, and together they raised $16,990 to provide girls in Afghanistan with athletic programs and equipment. Wright exceeded her personal goal of $3,200 to raise $3,385.


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Q: How to decode Javascript/jQuery [object Object] I have this HTML:
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Program #1

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English, S. G., Hadj-Moussa, H. and Storey, K. B. (2018). MicroRNAs regulate survival in oxygen-deprived environments. J. Exp. Biol. 221, jeb190579.MicroRNAs regulate survival in oxygen-deprived environments.
Zhang, Y., English, S. G. and Storey, K. B. (2018). Regulation of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) and downstream myogenic proteins during dehydration in the African clawed frog. Mol. Biol. Rep. 45, 751–761.
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Press ReleasesDecember 5, 2013by Kevin Mitchell
Kevin Dundon Joins Alianza to Lead Business Development
LINDON, Utah, December 5, 2013 – Alianza, Inc., the leader in cloud voice platforms, announced today that Kevin Dundon has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Business Development. In his new role Dundon is responsible for overall revenue growth at Alianza, including partner development and strategic customer relationship management.
Experienced telecommunications executive brings proven track record and cross functional expertise to spearhead company growth
"Throughout his career, Kevin has successfully built, managed and scaled organizations to drive company growth," commented Brian Beutler, CEO and co-founder of Alianza. "We are thrilled that Kevin has joined our team. His vision and experience will serve Alianza well as we cultivate new partnerships and help service providers leverage the power of our Cloud Voice Platform."
Dundon brings over 25 years of telecommunications and IT management experience to Alianza. He spent 16 years at Level 3 Communications where he was a key member of the leadership team that founded the company. Kevin led various functional areas of the company including business development, marketing, product, network and operations. Prior to Level 3, Dundon held numerous leadership roles at MFS Communications and Centel Communications.
"Alianza delivers the only purpose-built cloud platform designed specifically to meet the full range of voice requirements for service providers," stated Kevin Dundon, Alianza's Executive Vice President of Business Development. "The financial model and simplified architecture are so compelling, I am confident that we will enable service providers to finally fulfill the promise of transforming voice into a profitable application on broadband networks."
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'Spring Journal'
On the evening of Thursday 19th March 2020 I was lying on the sofa, phone in hand, when I had the idea of tweeting about the coronavirus epidemic in short poetic bursts, inspired by Louis MacNeice's wonderful long poem 'Autumn Journal'. I have used Autumn Journal in teaching poetry to undergraduate students, offering it as an example of how to write outwards from the self, how to mix politics and the personal to give a sense of how you see the world. I could do that, I thought. I could do it on Twitter.
I created a new account, @SpringJournal, and wrote two tweets that evening, and six more the following day. Each tweet contained four lines of poetry in MacNeice's "elastic kind of quatrain", with rhymes coming on alternate lines, but the line lengths immensely variable, while still keeping to a sort of rhythm. As well as his easy, down-to-earth way of tackling his themes, one of the other things I love about MacNeice is his rhyming. He allows for awkwardness in his syntax, he can be occasionally leaden, but he uses rhyme to pay things off, like a bell till chiming to mark the end of a transaction.
I've written more about the poem – and am posting Cantos as they are completed and edited – on a page on this blog, here.
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'Knives Out': character is plot, puke is truth. [Contains spoilers]
Last night I saw Knives Out, Rian Johnson's wonderfully ripe murder mystery, that boasts a fine array of performances ranging from the judiciously over-the-top (Jamie Lee Curtis and Toni Colette) to the genuinely affecting (Ana de Armas, brilliant), as well as those that waver between the two. Here I'm thinking of Daniel Craig, whose atrocious southern accent disguises masterful detectorial insight, and Christopher Plummer as Harlan Thrombey, the bestselling crime writer whose apparent suicide on the night of his 85th birthday set the film in motion.
The cast is great, and the cinematography and direction workmanlike, but what struck me most of all was Johnson's brilliantly contrived screenplay, which is a masterclass not just in mystery plotting – intricate enough to keep you guessing, and simple enough to make sense as flashback after flashback sends you zipping backwards and forwards in time – but in the logical construction of the central character's emotional arc. What follows is an analysis of one aspect of this, and contains spoilers. It is intended only for people who have seen the film.
The key character point of Marta Cabrera, Harlan's immigrant nurse, is that she is physiologically unable to tell a lie: if she lies, she throws up. There are four (in fact five) moments in the film when this fact is utilised. Two of them are essential to the plot, but all of them are central to our understanding of the nature of her character.
Character is plot, we are taught in creative writing books and classes, and this is a perfect instance of that. (In passing: I teach on an MA in novel-writing, and it's a constant annoyance that so many examples that come up in discussion, from me as well as from the students, are from films, rather than novels. Why is this? I hope it's simply because i) films are more memorable, as combining visual and verbal elements and ii) they are simpler, goddamit! All the same: I'm writing this post because I think the film can teach us a useful lesson in plotting.)
The first time we learn that Marta cannot lie without vomiting is the first time she is interviewed by Daniel Craig's private investigator, Benoit Blanc. He probes her on her actions on the night of the party, and she dissembles, trying to hide something (we don't know what at this point), and is then sick in a flower pot. Note that we don't see the vomit.
There's another minor repetition of this moment later in the film when Marta and her temporary partner-in-crime Ransom Thrombey (Harlan's grandson, played by Chris Evans) are caught after a car chase with Craig's Blanc and the other cops. Blanc, seemingly still believing her to be innocent, asks if Ransom forced her to drive. She says yes, though that's not true, and surreptitiously spits up in a takeaway coffee cup. Again, we don't see the vomit, and note that it's a small bit of puke, for a small lie.
[The spoilers proper kick in here. Don't read on if you haven't seen the film. It's worth it, I promise!] Continue reading →
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'The Large Door': where do you get your ideas?
My second novel, The Large Door, is published by Boiler House Press in April 2019. You can read more about it and sign up for updates here.
I remember exactly where I was when I had the idea for this book – or rather where the two ideas collided that made it possible. I was walking down the Mile End Road in Norwich after sitting in the library researching a conference paper on Brigid Brophy, a C20th British writer I had become a little obsessed by.
In the three years from 1962 to 1964 Brophy published three utterly brilliant short novels that I thought had rather slipped off the literary map: Flesh, The Finishing Touch and The Snow Ball. It was The Snow Ball that I was particularly enamoured of – a dark, sparkling and death-obsessed sex comedy set between midnight and dawn at a masked New Year's Ball as close in spirit to C18th Vienna as Swinging London. It is unashamedly intelligent, psychologically acute and serious as hell about love and sex, all while whipping along the line of its narrative like a dancer in a drunken gavotte. Why didn't anyone write books like that anymore, I thought, which naturally slipped far too quickly into the dangerous thought: hell, I will write a book like that!
And then, walking through the Norwich night, I realised I had the material to do it: a short story set over 24 hours at an academic conference, with an arch and unbiddable female protagonist very much in the vein of The Snow Ball's Anna. 'Festschrift' had been published by Susan Tomeselli in her excellent journal Gorse, and then picked by Nick Royle for one of his Salt Best British Short Stories anthologies, but expanding that 8,000-odd-word story to the length of a short novel shouldn't be too much trouble, should it? The title, that had been lying around for about 20 years, and I also remember the moment when the decision to use it became absolutely fixed, when a particular sentence set itself down on the page.
During the time I've worked on the text, ripping it apart and building it back up, I've also been trying to read as much as possible of – and, in a way, to triangulate – three British writers who to my mind bestride the second half of the last century: Brophy, and the far better-known Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark. I've read most of Brophy, and about half of Spark's novels, and a third of Murdoch, and I find that, together, they map a set of approaches to writing fiction that I find irresistible. How to dive headfirst into your characters' moral quandaries, like Murdoch, and wallow in them? Or how to hold them at arm's length, like the divinely ambivalent Spark. In a sense, Brophy splits their difference: as involved in her characters as Murdoch, but able to dismiss them with a Sparkish turn of the wrist when need be.
The Large Door, in a sense, is the result of that reading, and thinking. Of course there are plenty of other concerns in the book, thoughts that occurred to me on the journey and got Hoovered up: how to make use of text message communication in prose fiction; how to make the mechanics of an academic conference (keynote speech, panel, workshop) remotely interesting; the desire to find a way to punch through the page of the novel – break the fourth wall, in theatrical terms – without resorting to the usual tired postmodern gestures.
But in essence the book is a serious attempt to do what Brophy did, time and time again, and Murdoch and Spark, in their different ways: put serious characters at the heart of a comedy. They all three of them write tragic-comedies, I suppose – comedies in their structure, in the artifice of their narrative devices, but tragedies in their temperament, in the way that you feel an abyss would open up under the characters if only they once looked down. I fell in love with Brophy's Anna, as much as I've ever fallen for a fictional character, and that's the challenge I set myself: to write a character that, for all their foibles and – say it! – unlikeableness, other people might fall in love with in turn.
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New Twitter fiction: Death of a Cat
I spend too much time on Twitter. Sometimes I try to justify this by talking up, to myself if no one else, the creative possibilities of the website. In 2013 I wrote a story on it, one tweet per day on a dedicated account, over the course of the whole year. That story was called 'J', and was an experiment in ambient storytelling. I felt that I had identified the inherent obstacles the format threw up: that my one-a-day tweet would be drowned out in most people's timelines by the wealth of competing information; that it would be difficult to sustain a narrative with 24 hours between each entry; that people wouldn't necessarily see every tweet, and so would lost track of the storyline. My response to these was to give my story a simple overarching narrative that would allow individual tweets or runs of tweets to work within it, on a micro level, while the macro story would take care of itself. This was that 'J' would tell the story of one woman's life, from cradle to grave, in that she was born on 1 January, and would die, aged 80-something, on 31 December. Some runs of tweets followed critical moments in her life in detail. Some jumped hopscotch through her experience. Sometimes things moved fast, sometimes things moved slow. On average J aged a year every four or five days.
You can read more about the idea behind the story here, and read the story in toto here.
Since then I have dabbled in a few other short-lived attempts at using Twitter creatively, but recently I had a new idea that uses Twitter threads to construct a single narrative story with different temporal and thematic strands. (Since then Twitter has changed the way it uses threads. I'm not entirely sure that this won't spoil what I had planned, but the only to find out is to go ahead and see.) Since 'J', obviously, Twitter has also doubled its character count. The 140 character limit was integral to the style of that story, resulting in a story of 9,000 words. I'm not sure yet how I will deal with the new 280 limit.
Again, I've created a dedicated Twitter account to host the story, @deathofacat. That's the title of the story: 'Death of a Cat'. (Spoiler: a cat dies in it.) I will start it on 1 January 2018. Like 'J', it will be largely improvised, day by day. It won't necessarily last a whole year. I'd love it if you followed the account.
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Today's sermon: Blue, blue, blue, blue
I somehow seem to have acquired a number of books about the colour blue. When Vintage added to these with their reissue of Maggie Nelson's Bluets, I decided I just had to write something about them. So, a piece about books about blue, by someone with, actually, no interest in the colour blue at all.
Maggie Nelson's Bluets, originally published in the US in 2009 and only now appearing in the UK, thanks to Jonathan Cape, joins a small collection of books I seem to have acquired, without really trying, on the subject of the colour blue. Nelson's book might best be described as an essay in the form of prose-poetic fragments; its tone is set from the first line, which runs: "Suppose I was to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color". What follows are ruminations on Nelson's relationship with the colour blue; more critical explorations of why this colour might have a power over us that red, for instance, or green don't have; and brief back-slips into memoir that exhibit the same jagged candour as The Argonauts (2015).
The other books in my micro-collection are William Gass's On Being Blue, Derek Jarman's Blue, and Blue Mythologies by Carol Mavor. It may be chance that these particular books have come into my possession (I have no particular interest in the colour, myself) but it is surely not chance that all these books were written about blue, rather than any other colour. Nelson is well aware of the anomaly. "It does not really bother me that half the adults in the Western world also love blue", she writes, "or that every dozen years or so someone feels compelled to write a book about it."
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Haunting the margins: an essay in Gorse
I'm very pleased to see a new essay of mine in the latest edition of Gorse journal. For those who don't know it, this is a new Irish literary journal edited by Susan Tomaselli that comes out three times a year and is now up to issue 7. I had a story in Issue 2 (Festschrift, later anthologised in Salt's Best British Short Stories 2015) and and am made up to be back between their covers – quite exquisitely designed, as ever, by Niall McCormack.
Other writers featured in #7 include Scott Esposito, CD Rose and the White Review Short Story prize-winning Owen Booth. Other writers you might have heard of in previous issues include Darren Anderson, Louise Bennett, Kevin Breathnach, Claire-Brian Dillon, Rob Doyle, Lauren Elkin, Andrew Gallix, Niven Govinden, David Hayden, David Rose, Joanna Walsh and David Winters, and there are interviews with Geoff Dyer, Deborah Levy, Alan Moore, Lee Rourke.
My essay, 'Marginalia' grew out of a response to Ben Lerner's essay 'The Hatred of Poetry' and explores traditional and contemporary uses of book margins and footers by writers such as Lerner, Maggie Nelson, Alasdair Gray, David Foster Wallace, Rebecca Solnit and Douglas Coupland.
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A song lyric: End the Beguine
It's been a long, hard Winter
And a short, sharp Spring
And you stand at the window (winder)
Like a character out of Pinter
And you don't say a thing.
Oh, darling…
What's the point in trying?
And where's the use in sin?
The way that things are tending
Are we here to begin the ending
Or are we only ending the Beguine?
End the Beguine, end the Beguine
We go out where we came in
We've been through thick
And now by god you're looking thin
You're looking at the wrong end of the Beguine
Well I'm sick and tired of fighting
And frightened that I always win
The positions you're defending
And the messages you've been sending
Are telling me we're ending the Beguine
It's just a trip upon
A ship that is sinking
And the band plays on till the end of the Beguine…
This lyric has been hanging around in my head for years. I could sing it to you, but try as I might, when I sit at the piano, I can't find notes that fit it. Suffice it to say, it's in a Noël Coward kind of vein.
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Best (And Biggest) Of 2017: Country Tours
NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 08: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw perform onstage at the 51st annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 8, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
Teddy McDonald	December 18th, 2017
Touring is where artists make their money these days and just about all of 'em hit the road in a big way this year. There are a handful of country tours that straight up blew us away, however, and we've got a year-end Top Five.
Luke Bryan's Huntin' Fishin' Lovin' Everyday Tour: Clearly the biggest star in country music at the moment, Luke delivered often sold-out shows from the tour's May opejing through its close in October. Billboard says he played for more than 650,000 fans during during that time, which grossed somewhere north of $35 million. Not bad for six months!
Dierks Bentley's What The Hell World Tour: Billboard says Dierks' trek brought in $26 million with ticket sales of more than 660,000. Twenty-two of the 51 shows were sellouts. "We're out here, life's short; I want to be around good people, good energy, good vibes," he told People when things kicked off in January. Mission accomplished.
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Eric Church's 2017 Holdin' My Own Tour: The Chief played to 930,000 people across 62 shows from January through May with ticket sales of more than $53 million, according to Billboard. That puts Eric among the top-grossing touring artists of the year. Asked by Billboard what was next, he wasn't sure. "I'm trying to figure out the answer to that question … I currently have nothing. I'm still just trying to process everything." Like those greenbacks?
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Soul2Soul: The World Tour: It's a big one and there's still more to come. The tour kicked off in New Orleans in April and doesn't wrap until July 2018, by which time they'll have played more than 100 shows. The run had grossed more than $71 million by October, Billboard reports, and 838,000 tickets had been sold. Soul2ManySouls!
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SHOWTIME presents a look into the Grammy® Award-winning superstar couple, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, and their 2017 World Tour in Tim & Faith: Soul2Soul. Subscribe to the SHOWTIME channel for more clips: http://goo.gl/esCMib Don't have SHOWTIME?
The Garth Brooks World Tour With Trisha Yearwood: Garthzilla is still the king, y'all. The North American run (rumors say Europe is next) has been going strong since late 2014 and is wrapping up this month in Nashville. More than six million tickets have been sold to date, making it the most successful by that measure in North America ever, according to Billboard. Garth held the last North American record, too, selling just more than five million tickets in a late '90s run. Garth doesn't release box office sales, but we're guessing he did alright.
Teddy McDonald is a fun-lovin' country music fan man living in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Edward J. Quirk focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent, trademark and copyright matters.
Ted has provided leadership as past President of the Nevada Intellectual Property Law Society. He serves on the Boards of many community organizations, including serving as President of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas, and Founder and Chair of its Foundation. He has also served as Chair of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committees of the UNLV Foundation, and was a Founder of the UNLV Research Foundation, which he still chairs.
Ted has served on the boards of the Lied Discovery Children's Museum, Desert Research Foundation, and is Honorary Commander of the Security Forces, Nellis Air Force Base. He has co-authored, with Mark Tratos, the Nevada chapter of the U.S. Trademark Association's State Trademark Law Handbook.
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From Brick-and-Mortar to Mobile Click-and-Order: Which Retailers are Carving Out Space in the M-Commerce Market?
RESTON, VA, September 19, 2012 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on U.S. smartphone shopping behavior based on data from its Comscore Mobile Metrix 2.0 service. The study found that 4 in every 5 smartphone users – 85.9 million in total – accessed retail content on their device in July. Amazon Sites led as the top retailer with an audience of 49.6 million visitors, while multi-channel retailers including Apple (17.7 million visitors), Wal-Mart (16.3 million visitors), Target (10 million visitors) and Best Buy (7.2 million visitors) also attracted significant mobile audiences.
In July 2012, 85.9 million people age 18 and older visited a retail destination via a mobile browser or app on their smartphone, representing 4 in every 5 smartphone owners (accessing from a device running the iOS, Android or RIM operating systems). Analysis of selected retailers found that Amazon Sites led as the top destination with an audience of 49.6 million unique visitors, representing 46.6 percent of smartphone owners, followed by eBay with 32.6 million visitors and Apple with 17.7 million visitors. Wal-Mart had the largest reach among traditional brick-and-mortar retailers with 16.3 million visitors, followed by Target with 10 million visitors and Best Buy with 7.2 million smartphone visitors.
Ticketmaster attracted 5.7 million visitors as summer concerts and performances saw fans turn to their smartphones for tickets and information, while seasonal home improvements fueled visitation to the Home Depot (4.4 million visitors) and competitor Lowes (3.2 million visitors).
As mobile becomes an increasingly important channel for retailers to reach current and potential customers, other companies are recognizing the opportunity smartphones present throughout the shopping process. Shopkick, a shopping rewards app that provides points for consumers who visit retail partners' physical stores such as Target, Macy's, Best Buy, etc., saw its mobile audience reach more than 4 million visitors in July, demonstrating one way consumers are turning to their mobile devices as part of their in-store shopping experience.
Mobile Metrix 2.0 provides the ability to view audience activity across smartphone operating systems for more granular insights on platform performance. Among both iPhone and Android users, Amazon ranked as the top retailer attaining a reach of 43 percent among iPhone users and 55 percent among Android users, with visitation to the Amazon Appstore largely accounting for the higher reach among Android users. In contrast, Apple commanded a much stronger and expected 33.5 percent reach among iPhone owners compared to 7.3 percent among Android users. Among the majority of the selected retailers, iPhone had a higher penetration compared to Android, while in most cases Android devices delivered a larger audience due to the platform's higher overall market penetration.
Analysis of smartphone shoppers versus those visiting on desktop or laptop computers revealed new insights into audience demographics. Across both smartphones and desktop computers, males and females represented nearly equal proportions of retail category visitors. However, females accounted for a higher share of time spent on retail destinations at 53.4 percent of minutes on desktop computers and an even greater share of retail minutes on smartphones at 56.1 percent.
Smartphone retail audiences were more likely to reside in higher income households compared to desktop computer users, likely as a result of smartphone ownership skewing towards higher income segments compared to an average consumer. Among smartphone audiences accessing retail destinations, nearly 1 in every 3 had a household income of $100k or greater, with this income segment driving a comparable 31.2 percent of minutes spent on retail sites and apps.
Mobile Metrix 2.0 utilizes Comscore's Unified Digital Measurement™ for smartphone devices, combining passive on-device measurement with census-level data to provide one of the most accurate and detailed views into actual U.S. mobile media usage across apps and mobile browsing. Comscore's tagging for mobile web and app assets is simple to implement and is available today at no cost to publishers worldwide. For more information, please contact your Comscore representative. Not a client? Visit direct.comscore.com and sign up for free to start tagging today.
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Makeshift tents and easy snacks not only satisfy Bailey's adventurous spirit, but can also give parents ideas to create their own indoor campsite. Caution: your child may never stop asking to camp in.
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Here are some ideas to try on your next campout. On a clear night, there's really nothing better than sleeping in the open. Best of all is a camping spot where Scouts can drift off beneath a starry.
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Food when camping can be a big part of your camping experience. Your whole day may revolve around what the next meal will be. We discussed how you prepare for for camping meals – what you need to take, and how to pack it – at great length in our story "Camping Food for Beginners". If.
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The classic camping meal in a foil pouch gets a serious upgrade in this fresh version. For a head start, make the meatballs at home. At camp, you'll need heavy-duty foil, long tongs, grilling gloves, and a firepit with a cooking grate.
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Tired of the same old camping food ideas? No offense hot dogs and burgers, but sometimes change is good. Pick some of your favorites from these 27 camping meal ideas. From main dishes to desserts, you're bound to find something you'll love.


Schools that report low achievement for English-language learners also report low test scores for white and African-American students, and share characteristics associated with poor performance on standardized tests, according to a study released today by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Those characteristics include high pupil-teacher ratios, large enrollments, and high levels of students who are eligible for free and reduced-priced lunches, a reflection of families' socioeconomic backgrounds.
But the study by Richard Fry, a senior research associate at the Washington-based center, also found that when English-learners are not isolated in low-achieving schools, the gap between their test scores and those of other students narrows significantly.
That finding indicates that the gap between English-learners and other students "isn't so much because of the characteristics of the student and family, but also because of the school they are attending," Mr. Fry said in an interview.
The study, "The Role of Schools in the English Language Learner Achievement Gap," analyzes students' test scores in mathematics drawn from three U.S. Department of Education databases. It focuses on the five states with the most English-language learners: Arizona, California, Florida, New York, and Texas.
"The Pew results make clear that linguistic isolation goes hand in glove with economic, ethnic, and racial isolation, which are in turn tied to worse school outcomes," Michael Fix, the vice president and director of studies at the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute, said in an e-mail message.
"For me, the results also reinforce the fact that one critical test of the success of the No Child Left Behind Act will be whether we see any improvement in student outcomes in these low-income, high-ELL schools," he said.
Mr. Fix also said the Pew results are consistent with findings by the Urban Institute that elementary schools with large ELL populations are more urban, have larger classes, and an enrollment that is more heavily minority than that of other schools.
"The teachers in these high-ELL elementary schools ... had less experience, less academic preparation, and were less likely to be certified than their counterparts in other schools," he said.
The study illustrates—but does not attempt to explain—several patterns that emerge from the test-score data based on the mix of students. For example, the researchers found that English-learners who attend schools with even a small number of white students have higher math-test scores than do ELLs who are almost entirely isolated from such white students.
And black students and white students who attend schools with even a small number of English-learners do worse on standardized math tests than black and white students who are almost entirely isolated from ELL students.
The study's results are based on test scores of ELLs of all different racial and ethnic backgrounds—not just Hispanic—compared with the test scores of non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black students. Mr. Fry said that U.S. Census Bureau data shows that the overlap between ELLs and non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks is minimal.
In comparing the performance of each group of students, Mr. Fry used the minimum thresholds set by the states for reporting those test scores for student groups under the federal No Child Left Behind law. For example, in Arizona and Florida, schools report scores for ELLs, white students, or other student groups if they have 10 test-takers per grade in that group. California sets the threshold at 11 test-takers. New York and Texas set it at five test-takers.
"Using this very low threshold, you still get pretty strong differences," Mr. Fry said.
For example, the study found that 30 percent of ELLs in 8th grade in Florida score at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a middle school that has a minimum threshold number of white students. But at Florida middle schools that don't meet the minimum threshold for white students, only about 10 percent of ELL 8th graders score at or above the proficient level in math.
Mr. Fry said he found it interesting to learn from his analysis that white and black students attending schools with a minimum threshold of English-learners have lower math scores on average than do those groups of students who attend schools with too few English-learners to meet their states' thresholds.


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Apple's ARKit has developers drooling
There was plenty of excitement when Apple announced its plans to build augmented reality support into the next version of iOS. And the enthusiasm has only grown as developers have started to play with ARKit and ponder what they can do."I don't think most people are realizing how much of a barrier Apple just ripped down," said Mapbox CEO Eric Gundersen. There are more than 100 million iPhones and iPads already capable of running iOS 11 and ARKit with nearly 200 million likely to be in use by the end of year. "They literally just made everybody's phone into AR experience."Gunderson sees Android phones likely to follow quickly: "You know Samsung and Google are not far behind on that."While iOS 11 remains in beta, consumers have started to get some early peeks at what developers are cooking up, thanks in part to a Twitter account dedicated to showcasing such efforts. Highlighted projects range from AR Tic-Tac-Toe to virtual measuring tapes to the ability to see items from a restaurant menu.Mapbox, meanwhile has been working on a couple demos of its own, including this Bay Area map on a table and this topographical map.ARKit may well be a prelude to a dedicated device like glasses, but just the possibilities on the iPhone seem pretty exciting.