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Daily Media Links 11/4
November 4, 2019 • By Alex Baiocco • Daily Media Links
City Journal: Free Speech Means Free Speech
By Bradley A. Smith
Days after Mark Zuckerberg planted his flag in favor of free speech by announcing that Facebook wouldn't censor political advertising, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, apparently bowing to pressure from his platform's largely liberal user base, announced a contrary policy: Twitter will no longer accept any political ads…
"This isn't about free expression. This is about paying for reach," explained Dorsey. But of course it's about free expression. Speech-particularly speech about elections-is worth little without an audience. In modern society, it takes money to "reach" most audiences. That's why businesses advertise, governments spend millions on public education programs, and people spend money to travel to mass rallies, buy bumper stickers, and engage in other forms of political communication. It's an elementary principle of First Amendment law that you can't limit spending in order to limit the reach of speech. You can't prevent Planned Parenthood, for example, from speaking about abortion rights, and you can't end-run the First Amendment by prohibiting them from spending money to advocate for that same cause…
Twitter will ban not just candidate ads, but "issue ads," because they "present a way to circumvent." Does this mean that an ad promoting a documentary warning about (or dismissive of) climate change should be banned? How about an ad promoting a magazine profile of a candidate? Does a Gillette commercial lecturing men on the dangers of "toxic masculinity" qualify as an issue ad?
Twitter's new policy, and Dorsey's explanation for it, demonstrate a muddled understanding of the purpose of speech. Dorsey worries that Twitter advertising might influence voters-but influencing people is the essence of speech in a free society, and persuading others is presumably why Dorsey sent out a tweet stream explaining himself. Removing a major source of low-cost political advertising from Twitter harms those who don't yet have a large audience but are looking for an inexpensive way to reach voters and identify new supporters.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Federal appeals court says Missouri lobbying rules don't apply to activist
By Erin Heffernan
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that requiring Ron Calzone to sign up as a lobbyist unjustly limits his First Amendment rights because he isn't paid to press his views with members of the state Legislature and offers them nothing of value.
The 6-5 ruling overturned a decision last November by a three-judge panel of the same court. That panel had declared that the Missouri Ethics Commission could require Calzone to register in the name of transparency and preventing corruption…
Calzone's legal battle began in 2014 when he was the subject of a complaint to the ethics commission for failing to file the $10 registration form and follow other reporting requirements for lobbyists.
The commission decided the next year that Calzone should have been registering and would need to in the future. The commission also ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine.
Calzone sued to overturn the decision and the case eventually landed in the federal appeals court. After the three-judge panel's ruling against Calzone last year, the full court made the unusual move this summer to review the panel's ruling…
Lawyers from the Institute for Free Speech and the Freedom Center of Missouri represented him in the case.
Calzone attorney Allen Dickerson argued that requiring him to register as a lobbyist would set a dangerous precedent.
"The government would have treated every civically-engaged Boy Scout troop and Audubon Society chapter like a group of paid lobbyists, merely for speaking with their elected representatives," he said in a statement.
Election Law Blog: Divided En Banc 8th Circuit Strikes Down Application of Lobbying Law to Lobbyist Who Was Uncompensated and Engaged in No Spending; But Decision Ominous for Constitutionality of Lobbying Disclosure Laws Generally
By Rick Hasen
If I had more time, I'd write this up, but for now I will leave you with just the link to Calzone v. Summers.
Cato: The SHIELD Act and Free Political Speech (Podcast)
Featuring Scott Blackburn and Caleb O. Brown
New legislation aimed at curbing foreign influence in U.S. elections also appears to be aimed at curbing Americans' influence in U.S. elections. Scott Blackburn of the Institute for Free Speech comments.
Politico: Eyes turn to Google as political ads divide Silicon Valley
By Steven Overly
"Google has been very adroit at ducking a lot of attention, whether it's the result of purposeful action or not," Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told POLITICO on Thursday. "But it bears equal scrutiny."
Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) told POLITICO they also want to see Google explain itself or rethink its policies.
The search giant has never spelled out whether it allows political candidates to put false messages into paid ads, but in practice, its approach appears similar to Facebook's permissive policy…
Political ads represent a fairly minuscule portion of the billions in advertising revenue pouring into tech giants like Facebook and Google, but the debate over how to handle them could have enormous implications for the messages that voters see during the 2020 campaign, including from President Donald Trump's big-spending reelection campaign. And that has provoked a sharp partisan divide on the policies the big platforms should pursue, with Democrats urging a hard line against fakery while many Republicans warn against censoring online speech…
Schatz suggested the company should be able to put a hard ban on misleading ads without pulling out of political advertising altogether. "I just think every platform of consequence has to determine their way forward in terms of whether or not they're going to allow explicit lies on their platform," he said. "It's just not that hard to have a policy that says, we will not allow you to lie explicitly and take money for it."
Others, though, are less convinced that's a tenable position.
"It doesn't hurt for people to wait and see how some of these things play out," said Brad Smith, founder of the Institute for Free Speech and a former GOP chairman of the FEC, who sharply criticized Twitter's political ads ban. "But I think the choice really comes down to allow it all or ban it all. Policing it is something you can never do satisfactorily."
Bloomberg Government: Adelson, Thiel Among Givers to GOP Group Forced to Reveal Donors
By Kenneth P. Doyle
Their donations to the nonprofit, Americans for Job Security, were revealed after a long court battle and a settlement with the Federal Election Commission…
"These people tried to get around the law and keep their massive political money secret. It took a long time, but transparency and the rule of law prevailed," said Noah Bookbinder executive director of the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which spearheaded the legal battle to reveal the group's donors…
Donors can still give to campaign spending groups that promise secrecy, but "the likelihood of remaining anonymous forever is significantly diminished" due to recent rulings favoring disclosure, said election law attorney Brett Kappel in a phone interview.
Groups wanting to maintain confidentiality must be more careful about not spending too much of their money on campaign messages, said Kappel, who is a partner at Akerman law firm…
Opponents of disclosure warn that forcing greater transparency for groups speaking out on controversial policy issues could suppress free speech across the board. Alex Baiocco of the nonprofit Institute for Free Speech, a critic of campaign finance regulation, noted that some liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union have lobbied against increased donor disclosure.
"Although it's often lost in the discussion, nonprofit donor disclosure laws affect groups across the ideological spectrum," Baiocco said in a recent blog post. Disclosure requirements undermine democratic debate by threatening free speech and privacy in association, he said.
AJS had promised its donors they would never be revealed. The group's president, Stephen DeMaura, told the FEC in a deposition that avoiding donor disclosure was a major factor in how and where the nonprofit decided to conduct its activities, according to a report from the FEC general counsel's office.
New from the Institute for Free Speech
Volunteers Are Not Lobbyists, Rules Eighth Circuit
Nearly five years ago, the Missouri Ethics Commission ("MEC") ordered Ron Calzone, an unpaid grassroots activist, to pay a $1,000 fine and prohibited him from discussing policy with lawmakers until he registered and filed reports as though he was a professional "lobbyist." Because the First Amendment guarantees the freedom to share one's policy ideas with public officials, Calzone challenged the MEC's order. [Friday], the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc confirmed that the Constitution does not allow states to treat unpaid citizen activists like professional lobbyists…
"It has been a long time coming, but I'm pleased that the Court of Appeals got this right," Mr. Calzone said. "Unpaid citizen activists like myself keep our elected officials informed and accountable by sharing our views about public policy. A government cannot force unpaid activists to jump through regulatory hoops in order to exercise their First Amendment rights."
Lawyers from the Institute for Free Speech and the Freedom Center of Missouri represented Mr. Calzone.
"The State of Missouri's dogged pursuit of Mr. Calzone completely ignored the cost its policy imposed on civil society," said Allen Dickerson, Legal Director of the Institute for Free Speech. "The Government would have treated every civically-engaged Boy Scout troop and Audubon Society chapter like a group of paid lobbyists, merely for speaking with their elected representatives. Thankfully, the Court held that the First Amendment stands against the professionalization of our right to petition the government."
"Our system of government depends on people like Ron actively sharing their policy ideas with those in power, but for years powerful legislators have been trying to silence him," said David Roland, Director of Litigation for the Freedom Center of Missouri. "Today's decision should make clear that the Constitution shields these citizen activists against these efforts to restrict their First Amendment rights."
To read the full opinion, click here. For more information about the case, click here.
Washington Post: Why America needs a hate speech law
By Richard Stengel
When I was a journalist, I loved Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s assertion that the Constitution and the First Amendment are not just about protecting "free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
But as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier. Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that? …
The modern standard of dangerous speech comes from Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) and holds that speech that directly incites "imminent lawless action" or is likely to do so can be restricted. Domestic terrorists such as Dylann Roof and Omar Mateen and the El Paso shooter were consumers of hate speech. Speech doesn't pull the trigger, but does anyone seriously doubt that such hateful speech creates a climate where such acts are more likely?
Let the debate begin. Hate speech has a less violent, but nearly as damaging, impact in another way: It diminishes tolerance. It enables discrimination. Isn't that, by definition, speech that undermines the values that the First Amendment was designed to protect: fairness, due process, equality before the law? Why shouldn't the states experiment with their own version of hate speech statutes to penalize speech that deliberately insults people based on religion, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation?
All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails.
Reason: Former Time Editor and CEO of Constitution Center (!) Wants To Cancel First Amendment, Pass Hate Speech Laws
By Nick Gillespie
If you need more proof that free expression is under serious and sustained attack, look no further than The Washington Post, that legendary and often self-congratulatory bastion of First Amendment support, which has just published an op-ed calling for hate speech laws because "on the Internet, truth is not optimized. On the Web, it's not enough to battle falsehood with truth; the truth doesn't always win."
What's even more disheartening is that the author is Richard Stengel, a former managing editor of Time, chairman of the National Constitution Center, and Obama-era State Department official whose soul-searching apparently began when challenged by diplomats from a part of the world notorious for particularly brutal forms of censorship. As a journalist, Stengel avers, he loved, loved, loved the First Amendment and its commitment to free speech. But then he got stumped by unnamed representatives of unnamed governments who asked banal questions…
Older boomers are syncing with millennials and younger Americans, who show a strong predilection to limiting "bad" speech (a 2015 Pew survey found 40 percent of millennials supported censoring "offensive statements about minorities"). These are not good developments, and neither is an op-ed in The Washington Post calling for an effective revocation of the First Amendment. Throw in bipartisan interest in regulating social media platforms as public utilities, the president's interest in "opening up" the libel laws so he can more easily sue his critics, the rise of "cancel culture," and we're one Zippo lighter short of a good, old-fashioned book burning.
Courthouse News Service: Maryland's Online Political Ad Law Debated in Fourth Circuit
By Brad Kutner
Maryland's effort to regulate online political ads was met with skepticism by a Fourth Circuit judge Wednesday, as a state attorney defending against a challenge by The Washington Post and other newspapers argued the law doesn't violate digital publishers' right to free speech…
[A]t Wednesday's hearing in the Richmond, Virginia-based appeals court, U.S. Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson zeroed in on who is actually burdened with generating information about the ad buyer and their political links under the law…
While Wilkinson admitted the burdens imposed by the current law might be innocuous, he was unsure what approving them now would open the door to later.
"Trying to stop [foreign influence] with regulation of political speech, the most treasured speech in a democracy….turns the First Amendment on its head," he said…
When Seth D. Berlin, an attorney with Ballard Spahr who argued on behalf of the publishers, began his oral arguments, Wilkinson did offer some support to Maryland's efforts.
"Dark money is concerning, disclosure is a disinfectant," he said. "Do we not want to add to the fund of information made with disclosures?"
Berlin agreed, but argued the sections of the law that aren't burdensome were duplicitous to campaign finance laws already on the books.
He argued political campaigns must report what they spend to the state board of elections, which in turn makes that information available online. Asking online platforms to also publish this information, he suggested, would harm smaller publishers without the means to financially support such an endeavor.
ACLU: The FBI is Tracking Our Faces in Secret. We're Suing.
By Kade Crockford
[W]e're asking a federal court to intervene and order the FBI and related agencies to turn over all records concerning their use of face recognition technology.
The FBI's troubling political policing practices underscore the urgent need for transparency. Under the leadership of the agency's patriarch – the disgraced J. Edgar Hoover – the FBI obsessively spied on left-wing, Indigenous rights, anti-war, and Black power activists across the country. Hoover infamously tried to blackmail Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraging the civil rights leader to kill himself to avoid the shame Hoover's leaks to journalists would bring to him and his family. The FBI was also involved in the 1969 killing of Fred Hampton, a brilliant Chicago leader in the Black Panther Party who was assassinated by Chicago Police while he lay asleep in his bed next to his pregnant girlfriend.
While Hoover's reign may be history, the FBI's campaign against domestic dissent is not.
Since at least 2010, the FBI has monitored civil society groups, including racial justice movements, Occupy Wall Street, environmentalists, Palestinian solidarity activists, Abolish ICE protesters, and Cuba and Iran normalization proponents. In recent years, the FBI has wasted considerable resources to spy on Black activists, who the agency labeled "Black Identity Extremists" to justify even more surveillance of the Black Lives Matter movement and other fights for racial justice. The agency has also investigated climate justice activists including 350.org and the Standing Rock water protectors under the banner of protecting national security.
The Hill: Mark Zuckerberg is right, Jack Dorsey is wrong
By Sen. Ted Cruz
It should come as no surprise that leftist politicians and media influencers praised Dorsey's announcement, urging Facebook and Google to follow suit and jump on board the censorship train by banning political ads as well.
Doing so would be profoundly harmful. Here's why.
First, if banning political ads – from candidates, groups, or individual citizens – becomes the norm, that only stands to benefit two groups: incumbent politicians and the mainstream media.
Incumbent politicians have tons of money and a huge megaphone to spread their message. If you ban political advertising from social media, how on earth is any upstart challenger supposed to beat an incumbent? …
Twitter's rule also bans you, the individual citizen, from speaking about politics. If you want to run an ad that says "I'm from Venezuela, and I've seen first-hand that socialism doesn't work," you can't. If you want to run an ad that says "Ted Cruz is a nincompoop," you can't either.
What Jack Dorsey is proposing is to stop you, individually, or in a group – whether it be the Sierra Club, the NRA, Planned Parenthood, AIPAC, or a totally new not-for-profit group trying to advocate for a particular idea – from being able to speak actively about public policy.
And if citizens are silenced, then the media and politicians are the only ones left…
Second, Twitter's ban only further empowers Silicon Valley billionaires, who already have a stronghold on defining what is truthful or acceptable speech, to now define what is and what is not "political." It's up to them to determine where to draw the line – and they won't stop here. Banning ads is just the beginning.
Washington Post: Don't abolish political ads on social media. Stop microtargeting.
By Ellen L. Weintraub
Here's a move that would allow political ads while deterring disinformation campaigns, restoring transparency and protecting the robust marketplace of ideas: Sell political ads, but stop the practice of microtargeting those ads…
One of the primary ailments of the current online political advertising system is the way Internet platforms sell their ads. Microtargeting by foreign and domestic actors in 2016 proved to be a potent weapon for spreading disinformation and sowing discord. There is no reason to think it will not be wielded even more effectively going forward. The microtargeting of political ads may be undermining the united character of our United States.
Such ads also undermine the main remedy that the Supreme Court has set out for lies in politics: counterspeech. Counterspeech is most possible where a broad public can hear the speech and respond…
The remaining large sellers of Internet advertising – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Verizon – would do well to consider voluntarily stepping back from microtargeted political ads. This would entail foregoing "custom audiences" programs and allowing express-advocacy ads and electioneering communications (ads that mention candidate names and run right before Election Day) to be targeted only by large and fully disclosed geographic areas…
It would be unwise, unnecessary and counterproductive for political speech to be shut out of the Internet advertising market altogether. The overall advertising market has moved decisively toward the Internet. Political advertising on the Internet is an important part of our political discourse – perhaps the most important. I favor more political speech, not less.
The far less drastic step of forswearing the microtargeting of political ads would in essence turn back the clock about a dozen years.
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USA Today: Facebook: We shouldn't become the gatekeeper of truth on candidate ads
By Katie Harbath and Nell McCarthy
Anyone who thinks Facebook should decide which claims by politicians are acceptable might ask themselves this question: Why do you want us to have so much power?
In our view, the only thing worse than Facebook not making these calls is for Facebook to make these calls.
Our approach is consistent with companies like YouTube and Twitter. And broadcasters are required by federal law not to censor candidate ads.
In fact, the ad that touched off this debate ran nearly 1,000 times on local TV stations in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
So if people have a problem with Facebook's policy, they have a problem with the way political speech is protected in this country.
Speech from candidates and elected officials is already highly scrutinized; it's a good thing. But for that to happen, the public and the news media have to see it. In fact, if Facebook became the gatekeeper of truth, the first people to complain would be those who are complaining now – for good reason.
Our policies don't mean that politicians can say whatever they want. They can't spread misinformation about where, when or how to vote, for example, or content that risks imminent harm or incites violence…
We realize not everyone agrees with our decision, and we welcome that debate. But fundamentally we believe that, in a democracy, it's better to let voters make their own decisions, not companies like Facebook.
CNN: This man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads
By Donie O'Sullivan
Adriel Hampton, a political activist who runs his own marketing firm in San Francisco, registered at his local post office on Monday morning as a candidate for governor of California.
Hampton told CNN Business that he will use his new status as a candidate to run false ads on Facebook (FB) about President Trump, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and other Facebook executives…
His goal is to force Facebook to stop allowing politicians to run false ads…
Hampton is the treasurer of "The Really Online Lefty League" PAC, which last Thursday began running a false ad on Facebook claiming that Senator Lindsey Graham backed the Green New Deal.
The ad spliced together different audio of Graham speaking to make it sound like he said, "Simply put, we believe in the Green New Deal." Graham never said that.
The ad was eventually flagged by Facebook's fact-checkers and was removed. While Facebook allows politicians to lie in ads, it does not allow PACs or other political groups to do so.
Hampton hopes that by being a candidate he will be able to run false ads without Facebook stopping him.
"The genesis of this campaign is social media regulation and to ensure there is not an exemption in fact-checking specifically for politicians like Donald Trump who like to lie online," he told CNN Business…
Hampton said he anticipates his campaign will start accepting donations to run false ads and even suggested others could join him in his quest to call-out Facebook. "It is actually easy to file to run for office and basically 100 people could do what I just did," he said.
While his main motivation for running for governor at the moment is to run Facebook ads, Hampton suggested his campaign could become a fully fledged gubernatorial campaign. "Don't count me out," he said.
Washington Post: The Technology 202: Here's why Twitter may have trouble enforcing its own political ads ban
By Cat Zakrzewski
Twitter will likely be judged on whether it can accurately identify the ads it says will be prohibited. Major questions also remain about how Twitter plans to define third-party "issue ads."
The company says it intends to also prohibit such ads advocating for hot-button political issues such as immigration or climate change. But many journalists and technologists have noted there aren't clear lines when it comes to determining what an issue ad is.
My colleague Philip Bump outlined how difficult it could be to set such limits in a recent column:
"An ad from House candidate Joe Smith would be banned," he wrote. "An ad from Citizens for Green Space that touts Smith's record on creating Municipal Park is a bit murkier but still pretty clear. But what about an ad from the Westside Neighborhood Association inviting people to come out to an event at beautiful Municipal Park, which is a central part of Smith's campaign pitch? The line gets quite blurry, quite fast."
The ambiguous nature of issue ads is one of the key reasons that Zuckerberg says Facebook has not adopted a policy prohibiting political ads.
"And it's hard to define where to draw the line," Zuckerberg said on a recent earnings call. "Would we really block ads for important political issues like climate change or women's empowerment?"…
Larger technology companies have struggled to enforce bans on political ads. The Verge's Makena Kelly wrote that both Google and Facebook decided to ban political ads in the state of Washington because of the complicated campaign finance laws in place there. But those bans haven't stopped local politicians from trying to disseminate ads on their platforms. In Seattle's city council elections, high-profile ads covered by the media were often removed. But many smaller ads managed to pass through, Kelly writes.
"Instead, it's resulted in a tangle of uneven enforcement and confusing rules, making it a cautionary tale for what a poorly implemented ad ban might mean for the 2020 campaigns," she wrote.
Reason: Twitter's Ban on Political Ads Will Help Incumbent Politicians Maintain Power
By Scott Shackford
Nobody really likes political ads. But they do serve important purposes to advance democracy, particularly for those challenging the status quo. Incumbent politicians have a massive advantage not just in money raised but the fact that they have years of "earned media" over the work they do. Incumbents are operating with a much higher level of name recognition among their constituencies. With very few exceptions (almost always very rich citizens), anybody who seeks to challenge incumbents or our more powerful political organizations starts off at a huge disadvantage.
For Dorsey to treat the reach of these politicians as something that just happened organically is to deliberately ignore that their power and control over government strongly incentivizes voters to be aware of what decisions their elected officials are making.
The ability to spend money to improve the reach of a candidate's message is not a corrupting influence on democracy-it's a powerful balancing tool that allows a challenger to let people know he or she exists in the first place. Democracy is improved when challengers to power have avenues to reach voters that aren't under the control of the government…
Twitter representatives insist that this is all about the "principles," even though the beneficiaries of this decision are incumbent and entrenched political players who have massive amounts of reach precisely because of how much power they wield.
And, of course, we cannot ignore the political context of this decision. Politicians on the left and the right want to push around social media platforms, treat them as public utilities, and either force them to ban messages the politicians disapprove of or force them to carry messages that the politicians support. While it may be Twitter's "choice" to self-censor political advertisements, we cannot ignore the politicians who are using their power to influence this decision.
Daily Signal: Facebook Isn't Broken. Government Shouldn't 'Fix' It.
By Casey Mattox
While the concerns that motivate the two parties are different, the so-called solutions to the alleged problems posed by Facebook and other social media sites that have been proposed by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., aren't all that different: Regulate Facebook or break it up.
Their rhetoric is also virtually indistinguishable.
Warren argues that "today's big tech companies have too much power-too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy," and the solution is to regulate them like public utilities that would be "required to meet a standard of fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory dealing with users."
Who gets to determine what's "fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory"? Rest assured: It won't be you.
Hawley, who has called Facebook "an extremely creepy company," says "the line-drawing problems are not as difficult as folks make it sound."
But who gets to determine who draws the lines? Again, not you…
Once we breach the dam of government regulation of social media, there is no certainty that you'll end up with Hawleybook instead of Warrenbook…
There are also the practical consequences. Some conservatives flippantly call for ending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the provision that ensures that Facebook and Twitter-as well as the comments section of The New York Times, Amazon, and Yelp-are not liable for what their users post.
There are many responses to that, but the bottom line is that ending Section 230 would be the end of social media (and a lot of other user-created online content).
If every social media company is responsible for libel by every user, expect to see the following pop up on your next Facebook status: "Thank you for your status update. It will be posted once it has been reviewed by our legal team. The current wait time is 3 days, 12 hours, 16 min."
Alex Baiocco
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Q: Making a dictionary from pandas dataframes I have pandas data frame towns which is looking something like this:
**towns**
Paris
Berlin
London
etc..

Also, I have one more data frame totalPopulation which is looking something like this:
ID-cell    TOWNS      NumberOfPopulation
1          Paris       444
1          Berlin      333
1          London      111
2          Paris       222
2          London      555
3          Paris       999

And I need to create dictionary with a nested list, to get something like this:
'Paris' : [1, 444],[2,222],[3,999]
'Berlin': [1,333]
'London': [1,111], [2,555]

I tried to do something like this:
dictionary = {}
for town in towns.itertuples(index = False):
  dictionary[town] = totalPopulation.loc[totalPopulation['TOWNS'] == town].sort_values(totalPopulation.columns[2], ascending=False)

When I call the print method after the loop, I get a list of numbers, I supposed indices. And I expecting values. :D
EDIT: I just restart my computer (not for this reason :D) and run my program again. Now I get this:
{Pandas(town='Paris'): Empty DataFrame
Columns: [ID-cell, TOWNS, NumberOfPopulation]
Index: [], Pandas(Province='London'): Empty DataFrame
Columns: [ID-cell, TOWNS, NumberOfPopulation]
....}

And when I try
print(dictionary['Paris'])

I get keyError

A: You can do with groupby and to_dict
df.groupby('TOWNS')['ID-cell','NumberOfPopulation'].apply(lambda x : x.values.tolist()).get(towns)
{'Berlin': [[1, 333]],
 'London': [[1, 111], [2, 555]],
 'Paris': [[1, 444], [2, 222], [3, 999]]}

A: This is one way, if you're OK with a list of tuples. Assumes your dataframe is already sorted by ID-cell and for each town this number is unique.
from functools import partial

res = df.groupby(['TOWNS'])['NumberOfPopulation']\
        .apply(partial(enumerate, start=1))\
        .apply(list)\
        .to_dict()

print(res)

{'Berlin': [(1, 333)],
 'London': [(1, 111), (2, 555)],
 'Paris': [(1, 444), (2, 222), (3, 999)]}

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namespace FOS\RestBundle\Routing\Loader;

use Symfony\Component\Config\FileLocatorInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Config\Resource\FileResource;
use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Loader\YamlFileLoader;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\RouteCollection;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Route;

use FOS\RestBundle\Routing\RestRouteCollection;
use FOS\RestBundle\Routing\Loader\RestRouteProcessor;

/**
 * RestYamlCollectionLoader YAML file collections loader.
 */
class RestYamlCollectionLoader extends YamlFileLoader
{
    protected $collectionParents = array();

    private $processor;

    /**
     * Initializes yaml loader.
     *
     * @param FileLocatorInterface $locator   locator
     * @param RestRouteProcessor   $processor route processor
     */
    public function __construct(FileLocatorInterface $locator, RestRouteProcessor $processor)
    {
        parent::__construct($locator);

        $this->processor = $processor;
    }

    /**
     * Loads a Yaml collection file.
     *
     * @param string $file A Yaml file path
     * @param string $type The resource type
     *
     * @return RouteCollection A RouteCollection instance
     *
     * @throws \InvalidArgumentException When route can't be parsed
     */
    public function load($file, $type = null)
    {
        $path = $this->locator->locate($file);

        $config = Yaml::parse($path);

        $collection = new RouteCollection();
        $collection->addResource(new FileResource($path));

        // process routes and imports
        foreach ($config as $name => $config) {
            if (isset($config['resource'])) {
                $resource   = $config['resource'];
                $prefix     = isset($config['prefix'])      ? $config['prefix']         : null;
                $namePrefix = isset($config['name_prefix']) ? $config['name_prefix']    : null;
                $parent     = isset($config['parent'])      ? $config['parent']         : null;
                $type       = isset($config['type'])        ? $config['type']           : null;
                $currentDir = dirname($path);

                $parents = array();
                if (!empty($parent)) {
                    if (!isset($this->collectionParents[$parent])) {
                        throw new \InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Cannot find parent resource with name %s', $parent));
                    }

                    $parents = $this->collectionParents[$parent];
                }

                $imported = $this->processor->importResource($this, $resource, $parents, $prefix, $namePrefix, $type, $currentDir);

                if ($imported instanceof RestRouteCollection) {
                    $parents[]  = ($prefix ? $prefix . '/' : '') . $imported->getSingularName();
                    $prefix     = null;

                    $this->collectionParents[$name] = $parents;
                }

                $imported->addPrefix($prefix);
                $collection->addCollection($imported);
            } elseif (isset($config['pattern'])) {
                $this->parseRoute($collection, $name, $config, $path);
            } else {
                throw new \InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Unable to parse the "%s" route.', $name));
            }
        }

        return $collection;
    }

    /**
     * Returns true if this class supports the given resource.
     *
     * @param mixed  $resource A resource
     * @param string $type     The resource type
     *
     * @return Boolean true if this class supports the given resource, false otherwise
     */
    public function supports($resource, $type = null)
    {
        return is_string($resource) &&
            'yml' === pathinfo($resource, PATHINFO_EXTENSION) &&
            'rest' === $type;
    }
}

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Paul William Walker IV (September 12, 1973 – November 30, 2013) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise. Walker began his career as a child actor in the 1980s, gaining recognition in the 1990s after appearing in the television soap opera The Young and the Restless; he received praise for his performances in the teen comedy She's All That and the comedy-drama Varsity Blues (both 1999), and saw international fame by starring in The Fast and the Furious (2001). Walker also starred in the commercially successful road thriller Joy Ride (2001), becoming an action star. He followed this with the box-office disappointments Into the Blue (2005) and Running Scared (2006), although he earned praise for his performance in the survival drama Eight Below, and for his portrayal of Hank Hansen in Flags of Our Fathers (both 2006). Outside of these, Walker largely appeared in low budget action films, but starred in the commercially successful heist film Takers (2010). Walker died of injuries sustained from a single-vehicle collision on November 30, 2013, while speeding. His father and daughter filed separate wrongful death lawsuits against Porsche, which resulted in settlements. At the time of his death, Walker had not completed filming Furious 7 (2015); it was released after rewrites and stand-ins, including his brothers Cody and Caleb, filled in for Walker, while the song "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth was commissioned as a tribute.
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Vote Stephen Hoffman Conservative Future Deputy Chairman (political).
tBg is backing Stephen Hoffman to become the next Conservative Future Deputy Chairman (Political).
tBg has been impressed with Stephens passion and ideals for not only a better CF, but a better world. His website is a fabulous piece of artistry. Hoffman has stated clearly that he believes CF to be far too London-centric. In his campaign video he reels off city after city that do not have such events that go on in London.
Today gossiptory spoke about how membership means nothing if it is not active. Stephen, a Leeds University student, knows that this is indeed much the case up and down the country. The highly cultural website states, "There's no doubt about it, membership is important. However candidates should come up with ideas and ways to engage these 15,000 so-called members and get them out on the street knocking on doors or at the bar at a CF social.
It's all well and good increasing paid membership (the money will do us good) but the number one issue, for me, is for an increase in active members."
Hoffman, whom went to school in Hertforshire, intends to break the mold and elitist state of play. Indeed this website has backed another candidate in Sarah-Jane Sewell, whom resides outside of London.
In a candid statement Hoffman states: "In recent days there has been a lot of talk on blogs such as London Spin criticising the central tenants of campaigns like myself and Dominic McDonough's for wanting to make some radical changes to the way CF works. Apparently our proposals will lead to CF having no future, make it more extreme and lead to embarrassment. This is interesting considering I have been getting a completely different message from those I have spoken to on the campaign trail."
"We need to start engaging in proper, candid and honest debates, and proper discussions when it comes to policy and campaigning. Outside of London I haven't seen much of this and from what I have heard on the campaign trail, this is what many CF members outside London feel too. Clearly, there's a London bubble, where debate and events all seem to be going swimmingly."
Hoffman will shake things up and bring true change to Conservative Future.
You can follow Stephen on Twitter; @thehoff600


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SOLUTIONS – INSIGHTS REVISION TEST for Preliminary Exam 2018: Test – 39(Geography)
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INSIGHTS REVISION TEST for Preliminary Exam 2018: Test – 39(Geography)
A man observes that a flag-pole outside his home casts no shadow on 21st March at 12 o'clock noon. His home is at
a) North Pole
b) Equator
c) Tropic of cancer
d) Arctic circle
Justification:
Sun rays fall vertically on Equator on 21st March (Spring Equinox). Hence the pole on equator on 21st March does not cast the shadow.
2.Consider the following statements regarding the distribution and pattern of isotherms:
In the northern hemisphere, isotherms bend sharply equator-ward over the continents during winter.
Temperature gradients are greater in summer than in winter in the northern hemisphere.
Which of the following statements is/are correct
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) None of the above
On the continents of northern hemisphere, during winters isotherms bend sharply towards the equator. Whereas they bend towards the pole over the oceans in winter.
Temperature gradient is more pronounced during winter than during summer.
3 . A temperature inversion is most likely to occur under which of the following conditions.
a) Mountain top in late evening
b) Windy but cloudy night
c) Calm, cloudy and humid night
d) Calm, clear and cool winter night
A long winter night with clear skies and still air is ideal situation for inversion. The heat of the day is radiated off during the night, and by early morning hours, the earth is cooler than the air above. Over polar areas, temperature inversion is normal throughout the year.
4 . In the northern hemisphere, tropical cyclones and temperate cyclones are similar in that both
a) Originate over warm ocean
b) are formed only during the summers
c) have winds that blow counter-clockwise around their centers
d) generally move from from east to west
Tropical cyclones as well as Temperate cyclones have anti-clockwise rotation of winds in the Northern Hemisphere, whereas clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
5 . Identify the correct sequence of the given processes regarding rainfall:
a) unsaturated air, condensation, dew point, precipitation
b) dew point, condensation, unsaturated air, precipitation
c) unsaturated air, dew point, condensation, precipitation
d) dew point, condensation, precipitation, unsaturated air
The unsaturated air, as rises, gets adiabatically cooled and its relative humidity increases. The temperature at which saturation takes place is called dew point. When humidity exceeds 100% condensation takes place leading to precipitation.
6 . The hot dust-laden wind blowing from Sahara desert to Mediterranean region is called the
a) chinook
b) foehn
c) mistral
d) sirocco
Warm and dry local winds blowing on the leeward sides of the mountains are called chinook in the USA and foehn in Switzerland. Sirocco is a warm, dry and dusty (full of sands) local wind which blows in northerly direction from Sahara Desert and after crossing over the Mediterranean Sea reaches Italy, Spain etc. Mistral is a cold local wind which blows in Spain and France from north-west to south-east direction. These winds are more common and effective during winter season because of development of high pressure over Europe and low pressure over Mediterranean Sea. They become extremely cold when they blow through central plateau and descend into Rhone valley on the southern coast of France.
7 . Kuoshio is a warm ocean current which runs from
a) Philippines to Japan
b) Indonesia to Philippines
c) Japan to Indonesia
d) Sri Lanka Indonesia
The north equatorial current turns northwards due to the obstruction of Philippines and thus forms the Kuroshio current which flows from Philippines to islands of Japan.
8 . Which one of the following is NOT a factor modifying ocean currents
a) Direction and shape of the coast-line
b) Revolution of the earth
c) Seasonal variation in winds
d) Bottom topography
Rotation of earth influences ocean currents and but not the revolution of earth. Seasonal variation of monsoon winds influences ocean currents of Indian Ocean. Sea floor topography influences ocean circulation in two basic ways. First, it steers ocean flows. Second, it provides barriers that prevent deep waters from mixing, except within deep passageways that connect ocean basins.
9 . Consider the following statements regarding Madden Julian oscillation
is eastward moving 'pulse' of clouds, rainfall, winds and pressure near the equator.
is confined to Indian ocean only
Which of the following is/are correct
MJO is an oceanic-atmospheric phenomenon which affects global weather activities. The MJO can be defined as an eastward moving 'pulse' of clouds, rainfall, winds and pressure near the equator. MJO is different from El Nino and IOD. It is a transient feature and that typically recurs every 30 to 60 days.
As its periodicity extends up to 60 days at times, it is also known as ISO or Intra Seasonal Oscillation.
This traversing planetary scale phenomenon travels across the equatorial region of the Globe carrying a pulse of clouds and rains. It amplitude or powers is invariably large over warmer waters of the Indian Ocean and relatively less over the cooler waters of the Pacific Ocean.
Bowl shaped depression created as a result of glacial erosion high on a mountainside is called
(a) Glacial trough
(b) Bergschrund
(c) Hanging valley
(d) Cirque
Features associated with glacier erosion in alpine regions are cirques, horns, and arêtes. Cirques are the bowl shaped depressions found at the head of glacial valleys. For most alpine glaciers, cirques are the areas in the alpine valleys where snow first accumulated and was modified into glacial ice.
Glacial troughs are also known as U shaped valleys. U-shaped valleys have steep sides and a wide, flat floor. They are usually straight and deep. They are formed in river valleys which, during the ice age, have been filled by a large glacier. These glaciers have deepened, straightened and widened the valley by plucking and abrasion.
A hanging valley is a smaller side valley left 'hanging' above the main U-shaped valley formed by a tributary glacier.
Grassland biomes around the Earth vary in several ways, but the chief factor causing the variation is
(a) Amount of rainfall
(b) Soil type
(c) Fauna
(d) Prevailing winds
Variation in grassland biome across the world is essentially because of the variation of climatic conditions. Vegetation of region is influenced by topography and climatic conditions.
In which biome would a person most likely to observe the midnight sun
(a) Temperate rain forest
(b) Desert
(c) Tundra
(d) Tropical rain forest
The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle. The biome in this region is Tundra type. The temperate rainforest biome is mainly located on the northern Pacific coast of North America (from Oregon to Alaska for about 1,200 miles). Though there are also temperate rainforests in Chile in South America, Japan and some of southeastern Russia and northwestern and southern China, and in New Zealand and Australia. So in general temperate rainforest are found mid-latitude
Which of the following statement in general explains most favorable condition for Indian monsoons
(a) During El-nino years
(b) Sub-tropical Westerly Jet-Streams(STWJS) located to the south of Himalayas during summer
(c) Weak Somali jet-stream
(d) Normal Walker cell circulation coupled with high Sea Surface Temperature (SST) on Western Indian Ocean
During normal Walker cell circulation South East trade are stronger. High SST on western Indian Ocean (positive IOD) helps in greater moisture content of monsoon winds. Hence it is highly favorable for monsoons.
During El-nino years monsoons usually are weaker because of weak south east trade and development of low pressure over Northern Africa
Strong Somali jet pushes the south west winds towards Indian subcontinent
For the onset of monsoons, STWJS should shift to the north of Himalayas. STWJS location over north Indian plains creates high pressure which is not favorable for monsoon over northern part.
Currents in the deep oceans are driven by
(a) wind
(b) coriolis effect
(c) density difference
(d) seafloor earthquakes
Winds drive ocean currents in the upper 100 meters of the ocean's surface. However, ocean currents also flow thousands of meters below the surface. These deep-ocean currents are driven by differences in the water's density, which is controlled by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline). This process is known as thermohaline circulation.
Amongst the given options, which one of the following is the highest mountain peak
(a) Mount Elbrus
(b) Mount Aconcagua
(c) Mount Kilimanjaro
(d) Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Elbrus (5642 m)- Highest peak of Europe
Mount Aconcagua(6962 m) – Highest peak of South America
Mount Kilimanjaro(5895 m) -Highest peak of Africa
Mount Kosciuszko(2228 m) -Highest peak of Australia
Takla Makan desert is located between
(a) Kunlun Shan and Tian shan
(b) Hindu Kush and Karakoram range
(c) Tian Shan and Altai mountains
(d) Kunlun Shan and Kailash range
The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in southwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwest China. It is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains and Tian Shan(ancient Mount Imeon) to the west and north, and the Gobi Desert to the east.
Caucasus mountains extends between
(a) Caspian sea and Mediterranean sea
(b) Black sea and Aegean sea
(c) Black sea and Caspian sea
(d) Caspian sea and Aral sea
Amongst the following, identify the hot semi-desert of Europe
(a) Mojave desert
(b) Tabernas desert
(c) Sonaran desert
(d) Nagev desert
Tabernas is arid region in Spain's Almeria province considered as the true desert of Europe. Mojave and Sonaran are in North America whereas Negev is in Israel.
Golan height a rocky-plateau in West Asia is disputed between
(a) Jordan and Syria
(b) Syria and Lebanon
(c) Iraq and Iran
(d) Israel and Syria
Which one of the following country is NOT party to Territorial claims in the Arctic and North pole
(a) Finland
(b) United Kingdom
(c) United States
(d) Russia
All land, internal waters, territorial seas and EEZs in the Arctic are under the jurisdiction of one of the eight Arctic coastal states: Canada, Norway, Russia, Denmark (via Greenland), Iceland, Sweden, Finland and the United States.
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Leslie J. Mann
Actress Leslie Mann was born in San Francisco, California. She was raised by her mother, Janet, a realtor, and was educated at Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California. At the age of 17 she launched her career, appearing in various TV commercials.
Her screen break came when she was cast as Nurse Mary in the short-lived Birdland (1994). Further TV and film roles followed, including The Cable Guy (1996), where she met her husband, Judd Apatow, who was a producer on the film. The story goes that after Mann left her audition for the role, Apatow turned to his colleagues and said "there goes the future Mrs. Apatow".
Further successes followed for Mann in such projects as George of the Jungle (1997) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). She also appeared alongside her daughters - Maude Apatow and Iris Apatow - in Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009) and This Is 40 (2012).
Leslie is of Finnish (from her maternal grandmother), Scottish, English, Irish, and German descent.
Actor ( 81 credits )
The Croods 2 (2018)
The Comedian (2016) Harmony
Bad Moms (2016)
How to Be Single (2016)
The Other Woman (2014) Kate King
Rio 2 (2014) Linda (voice)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) Patty Peterson (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
Programa da Sabrina (2014) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
The Bling Ring (2013) Laurie
Weekend Ticket (2013) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
This Is 40 (2012) Debbie
ParaNorman (2012) Sandra Babcock (voice)
Vivir de cine (2012) Herself (2 episodes, 2012-2013)
Unscripted (2012) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
The Change-Up (2011) Jamie Lockwood
Rio (2011) Linda (voice)
Little Birds (2011) Margaret Hobart
Allen Gregory (2011) Gina Winthrop (7 episodes, 2011)
The Screen Junkies Show (2011) Herself (1 episode, 2012)
The Project (2011) Herself - Guest (1 episode, 2014)
Janela Indiscreta (2010) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
StuTV (2010) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
Shorts (2009) Mom Thompson
Funny People (2009) Laura
17 Again (2009) Scarlet
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) Debbie
Modern Family (2009) Katie (1 episode, 2011)
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009) Herself / ... (2 episodes, 2009-2012)
Watch What Happens: Live (2009) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
It's On with Alexa Chung (2009) Herself (1 episode, 2009)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) Bimini (uncredited)
Drillbit Taylor (2008) Lisa
CQC - Custe o Que Custar (2008) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
Knocked Up (2007) Debbie
Chelsea Lately (2007) Kate King in 'The Other Woman' (1 episode, 2014)
The Graham Norton Show (2007) Herself (2 episodes, 2013)
Xposé (2007) Herself (1 episode, 2009)
Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2007) Herself (2 episodes, 2009-2014)
Rencontres de cinéma (2007) Herself (1 episode, 2013)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) Nicky
Made in Hollywood (2005) Herself (4 episodes, 2011-2014)
The Hour (2005) Herself (1 episode, 2012)
Le grand journal de Canal+ (2004) Herself (1 episode, 2009)
Omg! Insider (2004) Herself (2 episodes, 2014)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) Herself / ... (3 episodes, 2007-2012)
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) Herself (2 episodes, 2008-2009)
Stealing Harvard (2002) Elaine Warner
Orange County (2002) Krista
Perfume (2001) Camille
Timecode (2000) Cherine
Breakfast (2000) Herself - Guest (1 episode, 2009)
Big Daddy (1999) Corinne Maloney
Freaks and Geeks (1999) Miss Foote (1 episode, 2000)
Hercules (1998) Amphitrite (1 episode, 1998)
George of the Jungle (1997) Ursula Stanhope
Last Man Standing (1996) Wanda
She's the One (1996) Connie
The Cable Guy (1996) Robin Harris
Bottle Rocket (1996) Sorority Girl (uncredited)
Cosas que nunca te dije (1996) Laurie
Comedy Central Canned Ham (1996) Herself (1 episode)
The Wright Verdicts (1995) Erica Mercer (1 episode, 1995)
E! Live from the Red Carpet (1995) Herself (1 episode, 2015)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994) Herself - Guest Audience (1 episode, 2009)
Extra (1994) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
Birdland (1994) Nurse Mary (1 episode, 1994)
Late Show with David Letterman (1993) Herself (2 episodes, 1997-2009)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) Herself (1 episode, 2007)
HBO First Look (1992) Herself (3 episodes, 1996-2012)
Virgin High (1991) 'Squiggle' Girl
Charlie Rose (1991) Herself - Guest (1 episode, 2012)
The Simpsons (1989) Herself (1 episode, 2014)
Live with Kelly and Michael (1988) Herself (2 episodes, 2009-2014)
Sidewalks Entertainment (1988) Herself - Guest (1 episode, 2012)
Entertainment Tonight (1981) Herself (6 episodes, 2000-2014)
Good Morning America (1975) Herself - Guest (1 episode, 2014)
60 Minutes (1968) Herself - Judd's Wife (segment "Judd Apatow") (1 episo
Vacation (0) Audrey Griswold
The Olive Sisters (0) Adrienne Bennett
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How the Manchester United dressing room reacted to draw vs Arsenal
Man Utd were held to a goalless draw by Arsenal in the Premier League in a result that saw them lose ground on Manchester City.
Tyrone MarshallSenior Football Writer
David de Gea felt United deserved all three points at Arsenal (Image: MUTV)
Manchester United players were disappointed at not claiming all three points against Arsenal after spurning several good chances at the Emirates.
David de Gea revealed the dressing room was dejected after a goalless draw that saw United lose ground in the title race for the second time this week.
Marcus Rashford and Edinson Cavani both saw big chances come and go against the Gunners, who hit the bar themselves through Alexandre Lacazette.
De Gea felt his side had done enough to get back to winning ways after the defeat to Sheffield United in midweek.
"In the dressing room we feel disappointed, we missed a chance, I think we did enough and created enough to win, we controlled the game. We have to score the chances if we want to win," De Gea told MUTV.
Marcus Rashford and Edinson Cavani fail to respond to United manager's advice
United player ratings vs Arsenal
"First half was good for us, we created enough to be at least 1-0, but if you miss the chances [this happens]. We defended really well, we controlled the game, there's big games coming again so we need to be 100 per cent ready.
"They had some minutes in the second half when they had good chances, but they're a good team. We played well, we have to recover as soon as possible and be ready for Southampton."
The goalless draw extended United's unbeaten away run in the Premier League to 18 games, an achievement De Gea feels deserves plenty of credit.
"It's not easy to be 18 games away from home unbeaten in the Premier League, we've done some good things, to play like we are away from home. Maybe now we need to improve a bit at Old Trafford. The team are feeling good and we're confident," he said.


⇒See a list of verses on MAHATH in the Bible.
(1) One of the Kohathites having charge of the "service of song" in David's time, son of Amasai (1Ch 6:35). Possibly the same as Ahimoth (1Ch 6:25). He seems also to be the same as the person named in 2Ch 29:12 during Hezekiah's time, though it is probable there is some confusion in the narrative. He is there represented as taking part in the new covenant of Hezekiah and the cleansing of the Lord's house.
(2) One of the overseers of the temple under Conaniah and Shimei (2Ch 31:13); three passages of Scripture give the name, but it is difficult to individuate these because the genealogy identifies the two first named (1Ch 6:35; 2Ch 29:12), while the chronology seems to divide them--one in David's day, the other in Hezekiah's. It is not, however, impossible to identify the man of 2Ch 29:12 with him of 2Ch 31:13. Possibly the genealogy has been mistakenly repeated in 2Ch 29:12.


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We will feature great Cajun cuisine from Broussard's Bayou Grill and other vendors and have a VIP Deck and hospitality areas for sponsors.
This is a Greater Navarre Area Chamber of Commerce event in cooperation with the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Office, Santa Rosa County Economic Development Office, Broussard's Bayou Grill on Navarre Beach and many great local and regional businesses.
Our headlining act for 2018 will be Confederate Railroad. From rowdy country to raw emotion, Confederate Railroad covers a wide range of feelings. Young people will be there rocking to "Trashy Women", while their parents and even grandparents will likely be singing along to "Jesus and Mama". They have sold over 5 million albums and charted 18 hits while entertaining millions since the early 90's.
Our second headliner is Ryan Daniel. Ryan has received numerous awards from The Indie Music Channel to include "Best Country Contemporary Video" for "Feel Good Feelin'" (2017), "Best Country Artist" (2016), "Album of the Year" for "Love, Life and Memories" (2014) and "Country Song of the Year for "Love Lives On" (2014) written by Billy Currington. Ryan also won 2018 Veteran In Blue Award and was nominated for the 2017 Radio Music Award for "Feel Good Feelin".
Louisiana LeRoux is another great band for our festival, with 50 years of performing their unique style around the world. They use blues, R&B, funk, jazz, rock, and Cajun as their base to bring a laid-back feel of the "Big Easy" to every venue they play evoking images of Bourbon Street and the bayou.
In addition to the great headliners, we will feature Na Na Sha, a great regional group that features music from the " Doo Wop" 50s and "Rythem & Blues) from the 60s and 70s plus The Tommy Morse Band, a high energy "Rock and Dance Variety Band" that plays all of your favorite tunes, from Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk", Pharrell Williams' "Happy", Stevie Ray's "Pride and Joy", The Temptation's "My Girl", Darius Rucker's "Wagon Wheel", to Prince's "Purple Rain!!!", and everything in between! Rounding out our line up for the day The Martini Shakers, playing their own brand of rock-a-billy.
Rounding out our musical line up will the Strange Theories from Lafayette, LA with lead singer Gabe Broussard, a recent contestant on the Voice and Zena Carpenter, a local singer songwriter.


Rabbit trails, awkward sentence construction, grammatical errors, and breaks in thought flow reduce a writer's effectiveness. That's why even seasoned authors benefit from an editor's fresh perspective and critical eye. Please do not publish your book without first seeking an editor's guidance. You will sell yourself—and your readers—short.
How Do I Know If I'm Ready For An Editor?
Contact an editor when your project is at least 95 percent complete. To get the most out of your editorial experience, you will need to address revisions within a few days of receiving them. At times this will require minor rewrites or expansions on an idea. Each project is completed within a set time frame.
What Should I Expect In The Editing Process?
Book synopsis: Bethany will summarize your book in a paragraph or two, highlighting main ideas and themes. This step will help you determine whether your manuscript effectively conveys what you intend.
Strengths and concerns: Whereas some companies are quick to assure aspiring writers that their books need only a minor copyedit prior to release, Bethany strives to give each project the level of attention it truly needs—even if that means encouraging you to begin again with a fresh idea. She will highlight your strengths as a writer and will identify the best part(s) of your book while also pointing out major issues that might hinder its overall impact.
Observations and revision guides: Bethany will address your book's specific developmental needs, offering general insight into how to correct overall issues in flow, content completion, and character development. This is not an edit, but it will prepare you for the process. A critique is a guide to make sure you are headed in the right direction.
Simple changes: Bethany will offer a list of easy adjustments you can make to prepare your manuscript for market.
Trade helps: Bethany will provide software shortcuts to help build your confidence for the revision process and will identify which editing service(s) might best meet your project's needs.
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Fees are based on the word count of your manuscript.
Times may vary depending on Bethany's workload. But usually you can plan on two weeks for up to 80,000 words and three weeks for longer manuscripts.
Critiques never obligate you to proceed with further editing; in fact, they are designed to limit your costs. After thoroughly reviewing your work, Bethany will help you understand the time and financial investment your project needs prior to submission or publication. Should you and she choose to move forward with an edit, a sample edit and estimate will be provided prior to contract.
Typically, documents are edited in MS Word using the Track Changes feature. It allows you to easily follow the comments and suggested revisions. Bethany first performs a detailed content edit of your work, passes the revised piece to you, and then copy edits (fine tunes) the final manuscript. Please note: Only manuscripts that have undergone a professional content edit are eligible for fine tuning.
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Colossians 3:23 teaches that we should perform our work wholeheartedly as to the Lord. Every published work should be as strong and polished as possible—especially when it pertains to the gospel message or to growth in Christ. Your maturity as a writer and the success of your work are important. Bethany will offer not just constructive criticism but sincere encouragement.
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Content editing is both science and art. Great editors do their best to bring out your best. In instances where opinions differ, Faith-Based Editorial Services will bow to you. If at any point you decide you don't like Bethany's approach, you may resign from the contract and pay only for hours worked. She wants you to love the way your project takes shape.


Generico offers two types of Edison Cables, 5-15 (M&F) and 5-20 cable (M-5-15, F-5-20). The most popular type is our molded 12/3 cable available in both black and white. The lengths shown below are all sizes we endeavor to keep in stock, although at times we have buyers click and buy massive quantities in "one shot" and clear us out. The cable is UL/CSA. We also stock molded black Edison cable in 16/3 in a variety of lengths. The other type is hand assembled with 12/3 SJOW cable cut to length with Generico UL/CSA Edison connectors. We use both 5-15 females and 5-20 females depending upon the request. Molded adapters are also stocked, all made with 12/3 cables and are shown below.


Acclaimed author Elizabeth Eulberg continues her hilarious middle-grade twist on Sherlock Holmes as detective duo Shelby and Watson tackle their trickiest case yet—going undercover as figure skaters!
After Watson's online journal chronicling his and Shelby's case-closing abilities attracts the attention of a newspaper reporter, the pair becomes a small "media sensation" in their Harlem neighborhood. So it's no surprise (at least, to Shelby!) when the article lands them a new client—a figure skating coach whose star athlete, Jordan Nelson, is receiving strange, threatening messages, written entirely in code.
Elizabeth Eulberg is not a detective (or so she claims). She is, however, the award-winning author of middle-grade novels The Great Shelby Holmes The Great Shelby Holmes Meets Her Match, The Great Shelby Holmes and the Coldest Case, and The Great Shelby Holmes and the Haunted Hound—as well as the internationally bestselling author of the YA novels Past Perfect Life, The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom & Prejudice, Take a Bow, Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, Better Off Friends, We Can Work it Out, and Just Another Girl. Elizabeth lives outside Manhattan, where she spends her free time stalking English bulldogs in her neighborhood and filling her brain attic with random pop-culture facts.
The Great Shelby Holmes and the Coldest Case 4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 1 reviews.


Between 2001 and 2011, Britain's population of people over 85 grew by nearly a quarter. And with more people living longer, the demand on adult social care has reached unprecedented heights.
Much of that demand comes from people who aren't sure if they're even eligible for support. Councils can receive hundreds of adult social care calls per week -- but of those calls, often only 15% are from local residents who meet the requirements for assistance.
Lantern is an easy-to-use web tool that allows people to identify their own social care eligibility, reducing staff time spent on calls and costs spent on assessment processes. The tool guides people through a short questionnaire about their daily life, capturing their needs and presenting them with a personalised list of recommended support providers in the local area. Those with higher needs can have their answers submitted directly to local social services teams for further assessment.
By enabling users to explore their social care needs as simply as possible, Lantern saves resources for social care teams – up to £100,000 a year or more. It also removes additional strain from services in high demand, shifting the workload towards a user-owned, user-managed, and user-controlled system.
Even with borderline cases that appear to have low needs, the tool still produced the right result.


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Monday, December 28. 2015
"The government can not only evoke fear in its victims; it can also evoke a sort of superstitious reverence. It is thus both an army and a church, and with sharp weapons in both hands it is virtually irresistible. Its personnel, true enough, may be changed, and so may the external forms of the fraud it practices, but its inner nature is immutable."
H.L. Mencken, via Hayek
Related, The foolish 'theism' of government enthusiasts:
Behind a pencil stand millions of cooperating people, but no mastermind. Which is why worshipers in the church of government, the source of top-down authority, disparage a free society's genius for spontaneous order: It limits the importance of government and other supposed possessors of the expertise that supposedly is essential for imposing order from above.
George is so old-fashioned. People just want more free "services" to make life easier.
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Here's a letter from the Arkansas Ku Klux Klan to H.L. Mencken:
IN HIS "Almanac of American Letters" (1981, William Kaufmann Inc.), Randy F. Nelson includes what he calls "perhaps the greatest tribute to the effect of [H.L.] Mencken's pen" -- a unanimous resolution of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Little Rock, Ark. Adopted on Sept. 7, 1925, the resolution reads:
"WHEREAS, One H.L. Mencken is the author of a scurrilous article recently published in the Baltimore Sun, describing the Klan parade in Washington, D.C., August 3, in which he viciously slurs and insults the good women and the patriotic men who marched in that parade to the number of more than 100,000, declaring that there was not an intelligent or comely face among them, that they looked like a gang of meat cutters and curve greasers on a holiday and many other slanders and insults too vile and indecent to be repeated, therefore be it:
"RESOLVED, by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Arkansas, a State which the said Mencken has in times past slandered as a 'land of morons,' that we condemn in the strongest possible language the vile mouthings of this prince of blackguards among the writers of America, to whom virtue, patriotism and democracy are only a subject upon which to expend the venom of a poisonous pen; that we further condemn the Baltimore Sun for heaping insults upon the good men and women of America, and that we commend the course of the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce in protesting against the calumny too degrading and false to come from the heart of one who is not himself a moral pervert.
"RESOLVED FURTHER, That copies of this resolution be sent to the Baltimore Sun, National Courier, Baltimore Chamber of Commerce and H.L. Mencken."
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KCS completed a total of 65,997 SF of renovations to five buildings simultaneously following an aggressive summer construction schedule. The buildings underwent major interior renovations and additions including creating new classrooms, art spaces, art gallery, computer labs, offices, library, commercial kitchen, dining spaces, and restrooms. In addition, the existing buildings were upgraded with new HVAC systems tied to the central plant, new sprinkler systems, fire detection systems, and were made ADA compliant. KCS provided extensive sitework including the installation of new underground utilities, hardscape, and landscape, as well as in-depth constructability analysis and value engineering.


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The Goin' Coastal Tour was the a co-headlining concert tour by American country music arts Kenny Chesney and the Zac Brown Band. It was in support of Chesney's thirteenth studio album Hemingway's Whiskey (2010) and The Zac Brown Band's sophomore album You Get What You Give (2010). It was announced in November 2010, with nine stadium shows being announced first. An additional forty-one were announced two months later. Chesney co-headlined the stadium shows with Zac Brown Band. Billy Currington and Uncle Kracker served as opening acts. This was the Chesney's last tour before taking a two-year hiatus.

Background
Chesney told USA Today, "We are excited to feel the passion and the energy that the fans give us again", "There's a realsense of anticipation that our whole organization has about getting back on the road and playing some of our favorite stadiums and some new ones too, like Arrowhead and Lambeau Field where they haven't had a concert in over 20 years. We can't wait!"

Opening acts
Zac Brown Band
Billy Currington
Uncle Kracker

Setlist
"Live a Little"
"Reality"
"Live Those Songs"
"Summertime"
"Beer in Mexico"
"Coastal"
"The Woman with You"
"Big Star"
"I Go Back"
"No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem"
"Anything but Mine"
"The Life"
"There Goes My Life"
"Three Little Birds" (Bob Marley and the Wailers cover)
"Living in Fast Forward"
"Young"
"Somewhere with You"
"Don't Happen Twice"
"Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven"
"The Good Stuff"
"Never Wanted Nothing More"
"When the Sun Goes Down"
"You Never Even Call Me By My Name"
"How Forever Feels"
"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"
Encore
"The Boys of Fall"

Tour dates

Notes
 This was during the 2011 Men's Division I Final Four.
 This concert was a part of the Stagecoach Festival
 This concert was a part of the Calgary Stampede

Accolades
The tour was ranked sixth for the Top 25 Tours of 2011. It went on to gross $84,576,917, a total attendance of 1,160,132, and had 37 sold out shows.

References

2011 concert tours
Co-headlining concert tours
Kenny Chesney concert tours
Zac Brown Band concert tours

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A WordPress site with a great WordPress theme can really work wonders for your business enterprise or endeavour. Installing some useful WordPress plugins will also be a great idea. They will improve, advertise and extend the functionality of your WordPress site.
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Q: How do I remove the nested box in a highlighted menu item in my Android app? When I click on a menu item in my Android app, I get this nested box inside the highlighted item:

I have this in my styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
     parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark">
  <item name="android:textColor">@color/textColorPrimaryLight</item>
  <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/textColorPrimaryLight</item>
  <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/textColorSecondaryLight</item>
  <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

and this in colors.xml
<color name="colorPrimary">#F39300</color>
<color name="colorPrimaryDark">#FDAE09</color>
<color name="colorStatusBar">#e3f39300</color>
<color name="colorAccent">#FF4081</color>
<color name="colorError">#d50000</color>
<color name="colorEmergency">#ff8a80</color>

and I am using this for the ActionBar
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
  android:id="@+id/toolbar"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
  android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
  app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
  app:title="@string/app_name"
  tools:ignore="UnusedAttribute" />

Any ideas on how to remove this box so when I click on the menu item, it is highlighted like a button does?

A: Took a bit of time but did it myself.

What I had to change in styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"
     parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
  <item name="popupTheme">@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay</item>
</style>

<style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
     parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
  <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorPrimaryLighter</item>
  <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/colorPrimary</item>
  <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/colorPrimaryDarker</item>
</style>

The Toolbar:
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
  android:id="@+id/toolbar"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize" />

</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

The key is to use colorBackground instead of the background property and colorControlHighlight is of course the highlight color.
<item name="android:colorBackground">@color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/colorPrimaryDarker</item>


Soon the area around the historic site could have a more open plaza, free of the downtown traffic and noise from tourist attractions.
The Texas General Land Office has a new plan to transform the space around the Alamo.
The Alamo is one of Texas' most iconic sites. The 1836 siege that took place there is also one of the best-known stories in the state. But soon, the Alamo is going to change.
The old mission itself won't change, but the area around it – plagued with tourist attractions, noise and foot traffic – is getting a multi-million dollar makeover designed to turn the plaza into a world-class historic destination. The Texas General Land Office and nonprofit Alamo Endowment met with the San Antonio Express-News recently to share the master plan details.
Reporter Scott Huddleston was at the meeting. He says the plan includes undoing some of the damage from the original battles and creating a 120,000-square-foot visitor center and museum. Right now, the site faces tourist attractions like Ripley's Believe It or Not! and Louis Tussaud's Waxworks. But that could also change.
"Part of the elements of this plan – and we're just seeing them kind of crystallize – is to remove those businesses, move them elsewhere to a new entertainment district downtown and close that area to traffic so that you do get more of a reverent feel when you're there," Huddleston says.