Perfect for adults, this quiet hotel is located on the upper part of the resort, with privileged views over Costa Calma. There are countless shops, restaurants, bars and pubs in the hotel vicinity, and the centre of Costa Calma is 800 m away. Public transportation departs from stops directly in front of the hotel. This is an ideal place for a relaxing holiday under the warm Canary sun.
Good hotel for solo travelers. Located near shopping areas and the beach.
Excellent staff. Warm welcome. Hotel manager lovely.
Fried eggs sweet. Good breakfast. Good breakfast-.
Cheap bakery. Aqua Gym for free. Free jacuzzi.
Wi-Fi free. Wifi worked very well. Free WiFi.
No mini bar. No kettle. Heater wasnt working.
Luxurious spa area. Aqua Gym for free. Giant jacuzzi.
Cheap bakery. No attractions. Handy bus shuttle.
The nearest beach. Best beach. The best beach.
Beans varied. Restaurant wasn't working. Poor lunch.


Home / Blog / FAQs / Camino FAQ: What is a Parador?
'Parador' is the name given in Spain to luxury hotels managed by a state-run company and usually located in buildings of historic importance such as fortresses, monasteries and castles; but also new buildings set in nature reserves and areas of outstanding beauty.
Paradores de Turismo de España, the public company managing these luxury hotels, was founded by King Alfonso XIII to promote tourism in Spain. The first parador, Parador de Gredos in Ávila, was opened in 1928 by the King. Today there are 94 paradores from 3 to 5 stars all across Spain, many along the Camino de Santiago.
The most famous parador on the Camino de Santiago is the 5-star Hostal dos Reis Católicos in the Praza do Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela, just across from the cathedral. The building has been welcoming pilgrims for over 500 years and you will feel like you are stepping back in time as soon as you walk through the door. Whether you are staying or eating at the restaurant, it is a must-see if you are in Santiago.
16th century Parador de León, the monastery-hospital Hostal de San Marcos, featured in the movie 'The Way' when the main character, played by Martin Sheen, and some of his fellow pilgrims decide to treat themselves to a pampering night before continuing on their journey to Santiago.
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, on the French Way, has two beautiful parador: 3-star Santo Domingo Bernardo de Fresneda by the Convent of Saint Francis and the 4-star Parador de Santo Domingo de la Calzada, located in the building of a 12th century pilgrims hospital.
The parador in Baiona is a picturesque medieval fortress with a spectacular location in the Monterreal peninsula, looking out to the bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
This 4-star is located in a 10th century fortress overlooking the Bidasoa estuary, in the Basque Country. The original medieval building was founded by King Sancho of Navarra.
The 4-star parador in Tui is a beautiful example of the Galician 'pazo' or grand house.
This is a new building and 4-star hotel in one of the most stunning towns on the Camino Frances.
This is a 3-star in a coastal Galician mansion, combining traditional styles and materials such as granite stone and traditional white 'galerías' windows.
The parador in Ribadeo, on the Camino del Norte, offers pilgrims spectacular panoramic views of Ribadeo Bay.
At the 4-star parador in Vilalba you will feel like a medieval pilgrim as the building incorporates a 15th century fortress.
The 4-star is a 16th century Renaissance palace, former home of the Counts of Maceda, located in the historic centre of the city.
Zafra is a stopping point on section 2 of the Vía de la Plata. Its 4-star parador is located in an imposing castle built in the 15th century for the 'Duques de Feria', a Spanish noble family.
Hi Al, A Parador is a lovely treat while you on the way. These are unique hotels to see and stay in. Kindest regards, Lisa.
Walked the Camino frances twice but did not stop in a Parador. Doing the Camino Portuguese and Camino Norte this year and might stop in one.
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Thanks for Blogtoberfest Jeri! My bank account hates you but Amazon & B&N LOVE you!
Can't wait to read all the new stuff you're writing.
PS I love Snow Patrol - for some reason you're not supposed to admit to that - they are apparently "uncool" but I love them!
Blogtoberfest was so great - such wonderful introductions. Thank you Jeri.
And I'm heading over to Fangs Fur and Fey. Like you way, would be criminal not to.
Thanks for having a great month of contests!
Congrats to all the winners so far and for those to come as well..
very special thanks to you jeri for being an awesome host and introducing me to so many new/wonderful authors to check out... now I have to find more time... help!!!
i too want to thank you for the FFF post... i went over and got my name in there as well.. Thanks for always sharing a wealth of information!! YOU ROCK!!


What's the difference between a software upgrade and a software update?
You've been using a software product for a while. You're used to the occasional prompt asking you to 'update', or noticing that something works a little better than it did yesterday. In fact, you never give software update notifications much thought. Then, one day you get a request, asking you to complete a 'software upgrade'. Why did the provider change the word use? Isn't that the same as all the other times before?
In short, no. While they sound (and read) similar, and they both involve changing your product, they detail distinct aspects of software maintenance. The difference between a software update and a software upgrade is like the difference between servicing your old bike and buying a new one.
So, what exactly are the differences between a software update and a software upgrade, and why are they important?
Software updates are a way for software developers to fine-tune a product to make it the best it can be. They offer small, frequent improvements rather than major changes. Unlike a software upgrade, updates need the existing software program you're using to work.
Updates sometimes run automatically in the background. Other times, software updates (commonly referred to as 'patches') come in the form of a free download. They're usually necessary for your product to continue running successfully.
That's because software updates address any new-found security issues, fix recently discovered bugs, and add support for drivers and new hardware. They tweak and improve the way the program operates, but they don't fundamentally alter it.
Simply put, software updates modify, fix and alter your current software program on a regular basis. They're the software equivalent of keeping your bicycle oiled. It's still the same bike, it just runs smoother.
A software upgrade is a bit different. Instead of building on your existing program, a software upgrade is a new version of the software product entirely. It's a bit like buying a new bike the same make as your old one, but with flashy new enhancements already added. And it comes with a host of new functionality that makes it a superior bike to your old one.
A software upgrade, then, supersedes the old product. Upgrades are used for significant changes and major improvements to your current version of the program. It might have an overhauled user interface, or an exciting set of new features, or key structural changes.
While updates are often small and free, and rarely demand much attention, a software upgrade is a much bigger process. Unlike updates, software upgrades aren't always compulsory or necessary for a program to keep running. Completing a product upgrade may involve a new purchase or pricing system. Because of this, companies will often offer existing customers incentives to upgrade their software. For example, they might reduce the upgrade cost or stop supporting their legacy program.
Because of the scope involved, a software upgrade is less common than an update. It's not something that will quietly slip under the radar like a quick bug fix. It's a software show-stopper that involves the work of marketing teams, customer service teams, and sales teams – not just the developers busy perfecting the product in the background.
Having outdated software with no updates increases the risk of a security breach. New-found weaknesses and malware mean that without software updates, your product could be more vulnerable to security threats. Updates are a way to implement fixes and safeguarding to help reduce these risks.
The software you're using will have gone through rigorous testing before you bought and downloaded it. But unfortunately, some bugs, glitches and other problems can still make it through the net. Software updates fix these issues and keep your program running smoothly.
A software upgrade is often better than its previous version. It'll have more features, incorporate new technology and advancements, and run smoother and faster. They can come with improved ease of use, or even incorporate a way to save energy and improve power consumption.
After a while, software companies will stop supporting older software versions. This means that old or legacy software will eventually stop being compatible with the hardware and operating systems you're using. It also means that older software will be less secure against hackers and malware than the upgrade.
A software upgrade is more than just a big update: it completely replaces the old program. Upgrades mean you are getting something better, updates mean fixing what you already have. Most importantly, software updates and a software upgrade both affect product performance, and are integral to security, hardware compatibility, and a smooth experience.


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The label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community What I have always been hoping to accomplish is the creation of community.Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-First-Person-Stories-Twenty-First-ebook/dp/B082ZQBL98/ https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-Adapted-Young-Adults-ebook/dp/B08VFT4R9T/.... It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself in the face of ableists. It means I can be myself and so much more. #WhenICallMyselfDisabled
TheDisabilityEnthusiast on Twitter
"Disability" and "disabled" are indicators of culture and identity. Thus, "disabled person" is an acceptedAcceptance means training mental health service providers to look at autism and other disabilities as a part of a person's identity, rather than a problem that needs to be fixed. Acceptance... term.
Person-First Language Doesn't Always Put the Person First
"Disability's no longer just a diagnosis; it's a community."
Disabled person: "As a disabled person, I think…"
Abled person: "I'm a special ed teacher who's interrupting this conversation to tell you that, unless you call yourself a person with a disability, you're dehumanizing yourself. You're a PERSON!!!"#HowToPissOffDisabledPeople
— Callalily (@Callalily57) March 21, 2018
Though person-first languageIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,... is designed to promote respect, the concept is based on the idea that disability is something negative, something that you shouldn't want to see. After all, no one tells me that I should call myself a person with femaleness or a person with Jewishness. I'm a Jewish woman. No one questions that. Yet when I dare to call myself a disabled person, it seems the whole world turns upside down. That's because genderDue both to their ability to denaturalize social norms and to their neurological differences, autistic individuals can offer novel insights into gender as a social process. Examining gender from an... and religion are seen as neutral, if not positive, characteristics. The idea of separating the disability from the person stems from the idea that disability is something you should want to have separated from you, like a rotten tooth that needs to be pulled out.
Disability is only negative because society makes it so. For sure, there are negative aspects of my disability. (For the sake of simplicity, I'm focusing solely on my physical disability, which is both the most visible and the most integrated into my being.) ChronicChronic illness is a pretty big umbrella, and it would be impossible to list them all. Some of them are triggered by an injury like a car accident, or something... pain and fatigue are no picnic. But for the most part, my disability is just another thread in the tapestry of my life. Pull it and the whole thing might unravel. Pull it and you might get an ugly hole where something beautiful once was.
Identity-first languageIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,... is founded upon the idea of the social model of disabilityIn the broadest sense, the social model of disability is about nothing more complicated than a clear focus on the economic, environmental and cultural barriers encountered by people who are.... In a nutshell, the social modelIn the broadest sense, the social model of disability is about nothing more complicated than a clear focus on the economic, environmental and cultural barriers encountered by people who are... says that though our impairments (our diagnostic, medical conditions) may limit us in some ways, it is the inaccessibility of society that actually disables us and renders us unable to function. The most basic example is wheelchair accessibility. If I am using my wheelchair and I can't go to a restaurant because it doesn't have a ramp, am I disabled by my cerebral palsy or am I disabled by the inaccessibility of the restaurant?
If that restaurant has a ramp, I am able to function perfectly within that situation. I am able to go in, sit at a table, order my food, eat it, and pay, just like everyone else. My wheelchair is not the problem. The inaccessibility of the restaurant is. Saying that I am disabled more accurately highlights the complex biosocial reality of disability. I am not merely a person existing with a label; I am constantly disabled and enabled by the interplay of my body and the environment.
Source: I am Disabled: On Identity-First Versus People-First Language
In the case of "People First" language for those with disabilities , what we have is not belief in linguistic emancipation, but a desire to "change something" in order to make educators feel responsive. Special educationThe word "special" is used to sugar-coat segregation and societal exclusion – and its continued use in our language, education systems, media etc serves to maintain those increasingly antiquated "special"... services haven't changed much at all in the past 40 or 50 years – we use the same deficit modelBriefly, deficit ideology is a worldview that explains and justifies outcome inequalities— standardized test scores or levels of educational attainment, for example—by pointing to supposed deficiencies within disenfranchised individuals and..., we use the same types of assessment, we still flail around with school-generated solutions which foster dependence – but we can see we have "evolved," no retards, no cripples, no morons, hey "we've changed since the bad old days."
But disability remains a social identity. To work from Tom Shakespeare, it is the intersection of ability and the social structure. There is no such thing as a legitimate way to define "normalNormal was created, not discovered, by flawed, eccentric, self-interested, racist, ableist, homophobic, sexist humans. Normal is a statistical fiction, nothing less. Knowing this is the first step toward reclaiming your...." After all, if there were, the bizarre global minority of humans without black hair and brown eyes would be considered freaks. So, society defines certain people as outside of normal, and they do that with words.
For some groups, the hyphenation strategy is reached, be it "Scotch-Irish" or "African-American" or even "Student-Athlete," but for others, where a real belief in pathology remains, we keep the "person with" structure. A student with the swine flu. A student with cancer. A student with a learning disability." We don't hyphenate any of those because we do not accept them as cultural identities, rather, we view them as illnesses.
So call me "dyslexicDyslexia is a genetic, brain-based characteristic that results in difficulty connecting the sounds of spoken language to written words. It can result in errors in reading or spelling as well...," and call me "multi-attentioned" (or something), but stop pathologizing me. I don't "have" these things, I "am" these things, because your society has made it that way.
I believe that we have to challenge accepted strategies and ideas. And whether you call it "Normalism" or "Disablism" we need to understand how narrativeWhen we successfully reframe public discourse, we change the way the public sees the world. We change what counts as common sense. Because language activates frames, new language is required... impacts cultural belief. If we convert horrid prejudices into pleasant sounding phrases, we diffuse those prejudices as an issue. So, since you treat me as if I am "retarded," please don't hide behind your nonsensical, "Student with Learning Disabilities." That language might make you feel better, but it does nothing for me.
As long as you consider one way of doing things "normal," you will demean me and treat me as less than fully human. What I was trying to say in this post –in a way which would provoke conversation – was that the very concept of "accommodationAccommodation is fundamentally about not changing the person but changing the environment around the person.Normal Sucks: Author Jonathan Mooney on How Schools Fail Kids with Learning Differences Yet on a programmatic..." is so very wrong, because it is based in disablism – the belief that I and others are not, and will never get to be, "normal," unless "you" cure me by making me like you.
"People-first" language is meant to divide, it is meant to demean, it is meant to dehumanize, it is meant to pathologize, and yet, it is meant, as I said before, to make its users feel good. In that way it is ultimately destructive because it covers up the crimes.
Only when people get to choose their own labels will we get anywhere toward building an equitable culture.
Source: Using "Correct Language" And "People First" by Ira David Socol — Bowllan's Blog
When you use person-firstIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,... language, you are literally separating me from my identity, deliberately distancing me from an integral aspect to who I am. It feels like someone is dissecting me.
There's this idea that we're given more respect if we separate our disability or disabilities from our personhood, that the more distance we place between ourselves and our disability, the more respect we're given. This very idea is rooted in ableism able·ism /ˈābəˌlizəm/ nounA system of assigning value to people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness. These constructed ideas are deeply....
Also important to note is that whether I'm called a Disabled person or a person with a disability, I am treated with the same level of disrespect.
When people continue to separate our disabilities from our personhood, they aren't thinking about how our disabilities impact our personhood and how its viewed by others.
My friend Eb on Twitter worded it best, people shouldn't need to use person-first language in order to be reminded that we're human beings deserving of respect and rights and that we also have other identities.
I think that when people insist on saying "but you're a person firstIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,...!" and that people don't acknowledge my disability first, that can lead to accommodationsAccommodation is fundamentally about not changing the person but changing the environment around the person.Normal Sucks: Author Jonathan Mooney on How Schools Fail Kids with Learning Differences Yet on a programmatic... being an afterthought. When folks continue to separate my disabilities from my personhood, they aren't thinking about what accommodations I need because they're too busy trying to NOT think about my disabilities.
Source: 8 Reasons I Prefer Identity-First Language | Journey of IsaJennie
Person-first language is a form of hypocrisy. Its strongest advocates are non-disabled parents and professionals, very well-meaning people who love their friends and family members and students deeply and who want to do right by them by treating them as human beings. But if a fairly large number of us to whom this type of language refers find it objectionable, why are we told "Well I respect your opinion, but I think person-first language is more respectful."
Why is it culturally appropriate and typical to accept race, religion, and nationality as markers of identity that ought to be designated with proper adjectives that (in English) precede the noun "individual" or "person" and not those that fall under the category that we call "ability?" Is it a reflection of a secret fear of the non-disabled of people who are not like them, or is it a reflection of the inhibiting fear of offending one of us? As most of us prefer to identify with proper-adjective language (disabled or Autistic Autistic ways of being are human neurological variants that can not be understood without the social model of disability.If you are wondering whether you are Autistic, spend time amongst Autistic people, online and offline. If...), using this language is highly unlike to offend. Asking me, "So you have autism Autistic ways of being are human neurological variants that can not be understood without the social model of disability.If you are wondering whether you are Autistic, spend time amongst Autistic people, online and offline. If...?" will almost always produce a wince and a cringe. An identity is not something that I have. It is who I am.
Source: Autistic Hoya: Identity and Hypocrisy: A Second Argument Against Person-First Language
After more than 20 years, when I was in my mid-40s, I left Independent Living Center work, partly because I wanted to explore disability culture and activism in other ways, especially online. One of the first things I found was that in the 2010s, the most interesting disabled people out there said that they were "disabled people," or just "disabled," and called it "identity firstIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,..." language. This was in direct opposition to "person first."
I was relieved. "Disabled" is much smoother to write and say than "person with a disability."
The more I thought about it, "identity first" language started to again change how I thought about my disabilities. I stopped worrying about whether or not my disabilities "define" me, and started to embrace the fact that like it or not, I am part of a community, a shared identity. I'm disabled. And I do like it.
There are strong links between language about disability and thinking about disability, both in my own life and in the broader disability community. As tiresome as it can be to keep up with all the ways of thinking about disability language, it helps describe and shape who we are. Today, I find myself more comfortable with my disability identity than I have been since childhood, and much more empowered and proud.
Source: My Journey with Disability Language and Identity
If you are not Disabled and you are demanding the use of Person First LanguageIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,... (PFLIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,...), you are being ableist able·ism /ˈābəˌlizəm/ nounA system of assigning value to people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness. These constructed ideas are deeply....
If you are Disabled and you are demanding that other Disabled people use Person First Language, you are being ableist.
If you are Disabled and want to use Person First Language when referring to yourself, I will respect that. I will also respect your right to demand that other people use Person First Language when referring to you.
But the Person First Language concept is ableist, and I can tell you why.
I do know the history of PFL. I also know that it was co-opted by non-disabled people who believe they are the authorities in what we should say and how we should identify ourselves. And that is the definition of ableism.
"If you "see the person not the disability" you're only getting half the picture. Broaden your perspective. You might be surprised by everything you've missed. DISABLED. #SayTheWord"
I want to debunk the notion that by using PFL society treats us better. If anything, it helps with the stigmatization of Disabled people. Instead of "seeing" us, society ignores us, we become "voiceless" and "invisible". There: debunked. But there is more.
Do you, PFL proponent, really see me (only me) and not my disability?
If your answer is yes, you are being ableist because you ignore an important part of me. If you ignore my disability, how are you being an ally – as you claim – and how are you going to support me (and all Disabled people) when we demand to be heard?
If you insist that you will support us, and continue to use PFL, you are being ableist because I (and many others) already said that respecting us means listening to our preferences, instead of demanding that everyone uses a language that we reject. You make it all about you, your preferences, your choices. How is this respecting me (and all Disabled people)?
Acceptable to whom? This is the greatest example of PFL as ableist language. It is silencing. It says non-disabled people are the ones who know what is "better" for Disabled people. It says that we, Disabled people, are non-persons who cannot define ourselves. It makes the choices of non-disabled people for disabled people, "official". PFL is not acceptable to me, and it is not acceptable to a lot of Disabled people. If you claim to be an ally, if you claim to use PFL because you respect us as people, you are NOT respecting us.
If you insist in using PFL because you don't want to create "controversy" and defy the ableist society, if you use PFL because it is more comfortable to you, you shouldn't claim to be an ally or advocate.
Source: "Person First Language and Ableism"
Identity-firstIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,... language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are, or that they wouldn't be the same person without their disability. For some people, identity-first language is about a shared community, culture, and identity. Identity-first language is also about thinking about disability as a type of diversity instead of something to be ashamed of.
Some communities What I have always been hoping to accomplish is the creation of community.Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-First-Person-Stories-Twenty-First-ebook/dp/B082ZQBL98/ https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-Adapted-Young-Adults-ebook/dp/B08VFT4R9T/... that use identity-first language are the Autistic, Deaf, and Blind communities. Other people might use "disabled person" instead of "person with disabilities." Specific people might refer to themselves differentlyOur friends and allies at Randimals have a saying, What makes us different, makes all the difference in the world.Randimals We agree. Randimals are made up of two different animals... than most members of their communities, so it is a good idea to ask a person how they identify if you are writing about them or introducing them.
Source: Identity-First Language | Autism Acceptance Month
Identity first: as in disabled person (as opposed to person with a disability) was originally conceived to challenge the medical view of disability and replace it with a socio-cultural view. It wasn't people's diagnoses that were the problem, it was society. Society was the main cause of disablement. Saying you were a disabled person was originally not about identity at all it was an acknowledgement that society was the predominant cause of barriers for people with impairments (see my post here for a more in depth breakdown of the social model of disability). It was a way of calling attention to society's physical and social barriers by tying oppression to the term disablement.
I sincerely doubt that most people who use identity first languageIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,... are doing so to constantly be saying "hey you are oppressing me" or "hey I'm oppressed" (even though those two statements are likely true). They do it for the same reasons I do. It is a way to reject the idea that disability is a dirty word and to say that disability can be a part of a person's identity without sacrificing their humanity. It's a pushback against the stigma associated with disability (for more see this piece by Emily Ladau).
I however, choose to use IFLIdentity-first language places the disability-related word first in a phrase. People who prefer identity-first language for themselves often argue that their disability is an important part of who they are,... to directly challenge the bigotry inherent in assuming that I must be separated from my body to be considered human. I most definitely don't do it to pigeon hole my identity into one label. I am far to complicated for that, just like everyone else.
I continue to believe that people should have the right to self-label and I endeavor to respect people's personal preferences because we have been labeled by others far to often and it is time for us to take over the conversation about our own lives. I will not however accept the idea that my choice in sentence structure means that I am limiting my identity.
Source: Just Because I Use Identity First Language Doesn't Mean I Let Disability Define Me | crippledscholar
Undoubtedly, scholarly writers' use of person-first language is well intended. Perhaps, scholarly writers'differential application of person-first language to children with disabilities (and most frequent application to children with the most stigmatized disabilities) is also well intended (e.g. to effect positive social change, beginning with the individuals who are most stigmatized, or to protect specifically individuals who are the most stigmatized). However, the core principle of person-first language mandates that persons with disabilities be treated, linguistically, the same way as persons without disabilities. Therefore, rather than avoiding linguistic 'bias against persons or groups' on the basis of disability, as the American Medical Association directs scholarly authors to do (2007, p. 412), scholarly authors may actually be imparting such bias. As numerous disability scholars have argued, person-first language 'may have overcorrected to the point of further stigmatizing disability' (Andrews et al., 2013, p.237). By 'call[ing] attention to a person as having some type of "marred identity"' (Vaughan, 2009), person-first language may do 'the exact opposite of what it purports to do' by signaling 'shameShame, she points out, is not the same as guilt. Guilt happens in response to an action or inaction. It is linked to an event, not a person. It can... instead of true equality' (Jernigan, 2009); it may 'reinforce the notion that it is "bad" to have a disability' (La Forge,1991, p. 51)
What can authors, editors, professional organizations, and scholarly journals do to truly reduce linguistic bias? First, all parties can become better educated about the core principle motivating person-first language: Everyone is a person first, not just children with disabilities (and definitely not just children with developmental disabilities). As the American Speech Hearing-Language Association suggests, 'do the same thing for both positive and negative attributes.' Refer to all persons, both those with and without disabilities, with person-firstlanguage. Conversely, authors, editors, professional organizations, and scholarly journals could begin to embrace identity-first language, both for persons with and without disabilities. Some disability scholars encourage the use of identity-first language from a disability rights, equality EquityA commitment to action: the process of redistributing access and opportunity to be fair and just.A way of being: the state of being free of bias, discrimination, and identity-predictable outcomes..., and diversity framework. In fact, identifying with a disability is empirically demonstrated to be associated with improved well-being, self-esteem, and quality of life for persons with a wide range of disabilities, which is why identify-first language for persons with disabilities is often preferred. At the least, scholarly writing should endeavor to not use linguistic constructions that accentuate rather than attenuate the stigma associated with disabilities.
Source: The use of person-first language in scholarly writing may accentuate stigma
Further reading There are three types of reading: eye reading, ear reading, and finger reading.The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan: A Blueprint for Renewing Your Child's Confidence and Love of Learning Most schools and...,
💬 Identity First Language: Thinking differently requires speaking differently.
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Swedish newspaper says that regulators have halted trading in Global Gaming and that an investigation into insider trading has been launched.
A much more detailed update be found here.
Update 9:00 a.m. PDT: Clarified the reason why regulators stopped trading.
The authorities that govern one of Sweden's stock markets has halted trading in Global Gaming Factory X, the software company that is due in less than a week to complete an acquisition of The Pirate Bay.
Swedish authorities said Friday that they stopped the trading because of questions about Global Gaming's financing and its ability to complete the acquisition.
"Global Gaming Factory has not provided information showing that the full amount is secured," Aktietorget, the market where Global Gaming's stock trades, said in a statement. "Aktietorget found that the conditions for an effective trading is not present and decided to suspend trading in (Global Gaming) shares until the requested information was provided."
SVD, one of Sweden's largest newspapers, reported that regulators had begun an investigation into possible insider trading involving Global Gaming's stock back in June, when the company first announced the potential acquisition. Aktietorget said in its statement that Friday's halt of trading in the company had nothing to do with insider trading.
"It is our duty to examine trade in the context of large price-sensitive news," Peter Gönczi, vice president of Aktietorget, the stock market where Global Gaming's shares are traded, told SVD. "We saw that there was a risk that information had leaked."
News of the investigation comes a day after one of the main players in the proposed new Pirate Bay expressed doubts about Global Gaming's ability to carry on with a new Pirate Bay site.
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Q: How do I get a login form to reject entries with wrong capitalization? I have the following code so far for a login form taking data from a database:
Dim myconnection As New SqlConnection("server=classified;database=classified")
myconnection.Open()
Dim theQuery As String = " SELECT  Username, Password FROM   Accounts WHERE   (Username = '" & TextBox1.Text & "' ) AND (Password = '" & TextBox2.Text & "')"
Dim repeatChecker As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand(theQuery, myconnection)
'mycommand.ExecuteNonQuery()

Using reader As SqlDataReader = repeatChecker.ExecuteReader()
    If reader.HasRows Then
        ' User already exists
        While reader.Read()
            If reader("Password") = TextBox2.Text.ToString And reader("Username").ToString = TextBox1.Text Then
                MessageBox.Show("Logged in successfully as " & TextBox1.Text, "", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information)
                Firs.Show()
                Me.Close()
                'Clear all fields
            End If
        End While
    Else
        MessageBox.Show("Invalid username or password.", MsgBoxStyle.Critical)
    End If
End Using
myconnection.Close()

If I put in the correct login info but with wrong capitalization, I don't get an acceptance or a rejection, the program just sits there and does nothing. How can I get a denial of a login when the capitalization is wrong?

A: As written, you really can't discern just a case-mismatch from a query as you've illustrated in this code. If a database is set up for case-sensitivity, a query will fail if two strings don't match even for the difference of a single mismatched character, but it doesn't retain that as a reason for the mismatch anymore than it would for, say "Apple" not matching "Banana."

A: Please note that, as the commentators of your question stated:

*

*You're vulnerable to SQL-Injection attacks.

*You should never store passwords in clear text in your DataBase. Once the DB gets cracked, all credentials are compromised. Not to mention evil DB-admins that might get tempted to misuse those credentials...

*Case-Sensitivity in a password is a good thing.

With those things mentioned, if you want to provide your users with the comfort of a not case-sensitive username, just cast the TextBox1.Text as well as the query result for the Username to upper case by changing (Username = '" & TextBox1.Text & "' ) to (UPPER(Username) = '" & TextBox1.Text.ToUpper() & "')

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Q: mysql query behaving strangely? I have a my sql query
INSERT INTO question (instruction_id, test_id, question,option1,option2,option3,option4,option5,option6,answer) VALUES ('0','1',' निम्न में से कौन सा मीडिया प्रकार सबसे अधिक जानकारी धारित कर सकता है? ','  ब्लू-रे    ',' सीडी    ',' डीवीडी ',' फ्लॉपी डिस्केट   ',' इनमें से कोई नहीं','','2')

I am running it from my application and from phpmyadmin. From my application options are not added everything before option1 and everything after option6 is getting added. But when i am running the query from phpmyadmin its working perfectly. What can be the possible reason for this issue

A: I believe this is because you are not setting the unicode references correctly in your php page, however phpmyadmin has it set correctly so it handles your characters. Use:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

or set it in php using:
header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );

You might also want to check on how to SET NAMES in mysql: query("SET NAMES utf8");
The basic thing to note is that when you are are working with unicode strings, you have to make sure that every aspect through which that data flows is unicode compliant so that it does not get lost anywhere in the pipeline.


A tiny village on the big island of Hawaii, Puna has one small black sand beach, where the community gathers daily to bask in the sun, swim in the sea, and dance to the beat of the bongo drums. We walked there from her house, a room with mosquito netting for walls. Her street is lined with strawberry guavas and plumerias.
She lies naked on the beach, her dark smooth skin bronzed from life in Hawaii. She's curvaceous and plump, my lovely aunt Jeni Reiko, and she's always taught me to be proud of my full figure.
Growing up, Jeni had a tricky time finding her niche, but it finally seemed like she had found a place that suited her. In Hawaii she was working on farms and substitute teaching. Children opened up to her immediately, trusting her without question; they would cling to her back, and she would carry them into the warm ocean to swim with dolphins.
Last I saw her, she was glowing with life and good energy - but I could see beneath the surface that something still wasn't quite right. The questions shone in her eyes: what am I doing here? What is my purpose? Even with her beautiful outdoor life in the small garden community, she felt incomplete, and was running out of money.
Five years later, I'd graduated from university, and had been traveling for over a year. I'd just finished an intense nine-day trek around the remote Stewart Island in New Zealand, where there was no cell phone reception.
When I finished the hike I called my sister, who told me immediately to call my dad. I was annoyed – why couldn't she just tell me whatever it was, what was the big deal?
"Someone in our family has died," he said, a tremor in his normally reassuring voice.
I immediately thought to my grandparents, who all are over the age of 80.
"It's Jeni. She had a stroke."
I had never heard my dad cry before.
I was stunned. How could this have happened? She was only 34 years old. I collapsed on the couch of the youth hostel, and had a good cry.
Then I forced the information to the back of my head and didn't think about it again for a long time.
A few months later, I was reminded of her at a massage school in Thailand which coincided with the date for her memorial. I spent a large part of the 12-day course in tears.
Jeni was like a sister to me. She taught me many things – how to make sweet potatoes and kale, how to crack open a coconut with a machete, and, most importantly, how to love myself.
On her Facebook page, my uncles have scanned hundreds of family photos of her.
There's one of her holding me in Grandma's swimming pool, supporting my neck and back, floating me so I lie perfectly relaxed in the water.
Now she's gone, and I feel like I'm sinking.
Amber - I just found this tonight (May 1, 2013). This has always been one of my favorite pictures - I am awash with tears.You are an excellent writer And I know what you mean about sinking. Don't stop writing!
Nice piece, Amber. She certainly touched all our lives in varied and unique waves.
nice amber, brought tears to my eyes. you are a really good writer, keep it up.
What treasured memories of someone so dear to you - and one good thing about facebook is how we store so many photographs there. Thankyou for sharing your Aunt with us.


For other people named Patrick Browne, see Patrick Browne (disambiguation).
Patrick Browne (1720–1790) was an Irish physician and botanist.
Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying in 1743. He worked as a physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, visited Barbados, Montserrat, Antigua and St. Kitts in the West Indies and settled as physician in Jamaica in 1746.
He corresponded with the botanist Carl Linnaeus, among whose papers were found fragments of articles on venereal diseases and yaws by Browne.
His major work, The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica (1756), illustrated by the botanic artist Georg Dionysius Ehret contains new names for 104 genera.
He retired to Rushbrook, near Claremorris, Co. Mayo in 1771.
The standard author abbreviation P.Browne is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Nelson, E. C. Huntia 11 (1): 5-16. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University.
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Q: Write a program that will print a table containing the integers from one to forty along with their squares, square roots, and reciprocals public class Q6 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Question 6");
        int square, number1, reciprocal;
        double squareRoot;
        System.out.println("Number\tSquare\tSquareRoot\tReciprocal");
        for (number1 = 1; number1 < 41; number1++)
        {
            square = (number1 * number1);
            squareRoot = Math.sqrt(number1);
            reciprocal = (1 / number1) + number1;
            System.out.println(number1+"\t"+square+"\t"+squareRoot+"\t"+reciprocal);

        }

    }

}

The question: Write a program that will print a table containing the integers from one to forty along with their squares, square roots, and reciprocals.
The problem: Calculating the reciprocal doesn't work like it is supposed to. I have looked at other sites and they all say to divide the number by 1 and add the original number. However, my code won't work correctly. The program prints out the original number in the reciprocal column instead of the reciprocal, with an exception of the number 1, where it prints 2 in the reciprocal column.

A: You are dividing by an Integer (number1).
Declare reciprocal variable as Double
double reciprocal;

And then cast the number1 as double
reciprocal = (1 / (double)number1) + number1;


I wonder if this part of the state is ever green.
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Busk - to perform as a street musician or entertainer.
This man was happily performing in a London subway station.
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This towel and sign were in a bathroom on a Washington State Ferry.
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Tomas Zeron's departure had been a rallying cry for the parents of the youths who haven't been seen since being taken away by police in the town of Iguala in southern Guerrero state.
By: AP | Mexico City |
September 15, 2016 7:48:33 am
The Attorney General's Office has announced the resignation of Tomas Zeron, whose dismissal had been demanded by the families of 43 college students who disappeared two years ago. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
The head of the criminal investigation agency for the Attorney General's Office, whose dismissal had been demanded by the families of 43 college students who disappeared two years ago, resigned Wednesday.
Tomas Zeron's departure had been a rallying cry for the parents of the youths who haven't been seen since being taken away by police in the town of Iguala in southern Guerrero state. Zeron was at the center of the investigation that has failed to determine the whereabouts of the students, who were allegedly handed over to a drug gang and slain.
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Zeron oversaw not only the agency's investigators, but also its forensic work.
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In April, the students' families called for Zeron's firing over missteps in the investigation. They called for Zeron himself to be investigated for "crimes related to obstruction of justice."
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Zeron acknowledged that some bone fragments had been registered as found a day before they actually were. One fragment was later tied by DNA testing to a missing student. The experts said Zeron visited the river on Oct. 28, 2014, with one of the suspects who complained of torture. The government said the bone fragments were found there the next day.
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When you think of your struggling loved one, do you see a human being with a challenge or a bad person doing everything they can to ruin your life?
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In 1993 he set out from Montreal and travelled approximately 8500 kilometres across water and land to Bella Coola, British Columbia.
In June 1997, he set out from Fort Chipeweyan and in three months successfully completed the second phase of his Alexander Mackenzie "odyssey".
Dr Donaldson has donated his 16 foot, 84-pound, canoe to the Avoch Heritage Association and his paddle to the government of the North West Territories.
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Q: Embeddings vs text cleaning (NLP) I am a graduate student focusing on ML and NLP. I have a lot of data (8 million lines) and the text is usually badly written and contains so many spelling mistakes.
So i must go through some text cleaning  and vectorizing. To do so, i considered two approaches:
First one:
cleaning text by replacing bad words using hunspell package which is a spell checker and morphological analyzer
+
tokenization
+
convert sentences to vectors using tf-idf
The problem here is that sometimes, Hunspell fails  to provide the correct word and changes the misspelled word with another word that don't have the same meaning. Furthermore, hunspell does not reconize acronyms or abbreviation (which are very important in my case) and tends to replace them.
Second approache:
tokenization
+
using some embeddings methode (like word2vec) to convert words into vectors without cleaning text
I need to know if there is some (theoretical or empirical) way to compare this two approaches :)
Please do not hesitate to respond If you have any ideas to share, I'd love to discuss them with you.
Thank you in advance

A: I post this here just to summarise the comments in a longer form and give you a bit more commentary. No sure it will answer your question. If anything, it should show you why you should reconsider it.
Points about your question
Before I talk about your question, let me point a few things about your approaches. Word embeddings are essentially mathematical representations of meaning based on word distribution. They are the epitome of the phrase "You shall know a word by the company it keeps". In this sense, you will need very regular misspellings in order to get something useful out of a vector space approach. Something that could work out, for example, is US vs. UK spelling or shorthands like w8 vs. full forms like wait.
Another point I want to make clear (or perhaps you should do that) is that you are not looking to build a machine learning model here. You could consider the word embeddings that you could generate, a sort of a machine learning model but it's not. It's just a way of representing words with numbers.
You already have the answer to your question
You yourself have pointed out that using hunspell introduces new mistakes. It will be no doubt also the case with your other approach. If this is just a preprocessing step, I suggest you leave it at that. It is not something you need to prove. If for some reason you do want to dig into the problem, you could evaluate the effects of your methods through an external task as @lenz suggested.
How does external evaluation work?
When a task is too difficult to evaluate directly we use another task which is dependent on its output to draw conclusions about its success. In your case, it seems that you should pick a task that depends on individual words like document classification. Let's say that you have some sort of labels associated with your documents, say topics or types of news. Predicting these labels could be a legitimate way of evaluating the efficiency of your approaches. It is also a chance for you to see if they do more harm than good by comparing to the baseline of "dirty" data. Remember that it's about relative differences and the actual performance of the task is of no importance.


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Q: C linking programs and using methods from other programs on main function (sudoku NOTE: skip to bottom for real question
Hey guys, right now I am in a rut where I know the basics how to solve my sudoku program, but if I did it the way i know how it would be ugly, long and a lot of unnecessary code.
Right I have sudoku.cc, sudokuboard.cc, sudokuboard.h, stack.cc, and stack.h,
So as of right now it doesn't matter what my stack.cc and my stack.h are because they are rather generic and anyone can find the programs to them and frankly I don't underdstand why I even need to include the stack.cc/h due.
My sudoku.cc as of right now is:
#include <iostream>
#include <cassert>
#include <fstream>
#include "sudokuboard.h"
#include "stack.h"

using namespace std;
    int main (void)
    {
        FILE *fp = fopen("test.txt","r");
        char sudoku_grid[9][9];
        char ch;

        if(fp != NULL)
        {
            for(int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
            {
                for(int j = 0; j < 9; j++)
                {
                    ch = fgetc(fp);
                    sudoku_grid[i][j] = ch;
                }
                ch = fgetc(fp);
            }
            for(int i = 0; i< 9;i++)
            {
                for(int j= 0; j<9;j++)
                    cout<<sudoku_grid[i][j];
                cout<<endl;
            }
        }
     return 0;
    }

Which so far does nothing but print out the file I gave it and have it stored in a 2D array.
My sudokuboard.h is
#include <iostream>

#define SDIM 9

class SudokuBoard {
 public:
  //------------------------------------------------------------------------
  SudokuBoard();
  // Construct a blank sudoku board
  //------------------------------------------------------------------------

  //------------------------------------------------------------------------
  void print(std::ostream & ostr) const;
  // display it.  duh.
  //------------------------------------------------------------------------

  //------------------------------------------------------------------------
  void place(size_t r, size_t c, char digit);
  // PRE: safe(r,c,digit)
  //------------------------------------------------------------------------

  //------------------------------------------------------------------------
  void remove(size_t r, size_t c, char digit);
  // PRE: get(r,c) == digit
  //------------------------------------------------------------------------

  //------------------------------------------------------------------------
  char get(size_t r, size_t c) const;
  // Return the digit at (r,c) on the board.  or ' ' if blank.
  //------------------------------------------------------------------------

  //------------------------------------------------------------------------
  bool safe(size_t r, size_t c, char digit) const;
  //
  //------------------------------------------------------------------------

  //------------------------------------------------------------------------
  bool done() const;
  // Return true iff every cell has a number
  //------------------------------------------------------------------------
 private:
  std::string rows[SDIM];
};

and my sudokuboard.cc:
#include <iostream>
#include <cassert>
#include "sudokuboard.h"

#define ASSERTBOUNDS assert(0 <= r and r < SDIM and 0 <= c and c < SDIM)

SudokuBoard::SudokuBoard()
{
  for (size_t i = 0;i<SDIM;i++) {
    rows[i] = "";
    for (size_t j=0;j<SDIM;j++)
      rows[i] += ' ';
  }
}

void SudokuBoard::place(size_t r, size_t c, char digit)
{
  ASSERTBOUNDS;
  assert(safe(r,c,digit));
}

void SudokuBoard::remove(size_t r, size_t c, char digit)
{
  ASSERTBOUNDS;
  assert(get(r,c)==digit);
  rows[r][c] = ' ';
}

char SudokuBoard::get(size_t r, size_t c) const
{
  ASSERTBOUNDS;
  return rows[r][c];
}

void SudokuBoard::print(std::ostream & ostr) const
{
  for (size_t i=0;i<SDIM;i++)
    ostr << rows[i] << std::endl;
}
bool SudokuBoard::safe(size_t r, size_t c, char digit) const
{
 for(size_t r=0; r<SDIM; r++)
    for(size_t c=0; c<SDIM; c++)
       if (get(r,c) == digit)
           return false;

 for(size_t c=0; c<SDIM; c++)
    for(size_t r=0; r<SDIM; r++)
       if (get(r,c) == digit)
           return false;
  return true;
}
bool SudokuBoard::done() const
{
  for (size_t r=0;r<SDIM;r++)
    for (size_t c=0;c<SDIM;c++)
      if (rows[r][c]==' ')
    return false;
  return true;
}

So as of right now I want to use sudokuboard.cc methods and use the SudokuBoard() in my sudoku.cc because I know if I do that I will be able to use the useful methods provided by Sudokuboard.cc thus making my code seem a lot cleaner because it isn't all cluttered up on one program.
So as of right now I think the gateway to linking these two programs together in order to maximize my space I would have to set my current 2D array which is sudoku_grid to be part of Sudokuboard() some how.
The problem is that I literally have no blinkin idea how to hook this puppies up. I know I cannot do sudoku_grid = Sudokuboard() because even if it did work, it would probably set all the arrays to being just spaces.
Anyone have a solution of where to start off?

A: At the top of the main file put #include "sudokuboard.h" so that the compiler knows it's there.  Next, at the top of your int main() you need to create an instance of the SudokuBoard class, with SudokuBoard mainBoard;, then you can access it's methods via mainBoard.doSomething(); somewhere else in the main. I'd recommend creating a new method in the SudokuBoard class that reads data from a file and places it directly into SB's private std::string rows[SDIM]; array from within (basically move most of the code from main into the class).  With the code as-is, this should work assuming I didn't mangle any of the names:
#include "sudokuboard.h"

int main (void) {
  SudokuBoard mainBoard;
  FILE *fp = fopen("test.txt","r");
  char sudoku_grid[9][9];
  char ch;

  if(fp != NULL) {
    for(int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
      for(int j = 0; j < 9; j++ ) {
        ch = fgetc(fp);
        //sudoku_grid[i][j] = ch;
        //set mainBoard's internal state, etc here
        mainBoard.place(i,j,ch);
      }
      ch = fgetc(fp);
    }
    for(int i = 0; i< 9;i++) {
      for(int j= 0; j<9;j++) cout<<sudoku_grid[i][j];
      cout<<endl;
    }
  }
  return 0;
}


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The Saint Louis Blues Defeat Boston Bruins To Win
On Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 game 7 of the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Finals was played in the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The winner of this game takes the series and becomes Stanley Cup champions. It was a crazy game that can be defined by a contradicting first period, goaltending, and defense.
The first period was dominated by the Boston Bruins. They spent the majority of the first period in the Blues' zone on an offensive attack. Boston peppered Blues' goalie, Jordan Binnington, with shots on goal. The Bruin's power play was one of their biggest strengths this season, and they got a power play opportunity in the first period on a minor delay of game penalty. Despite all the great scoring chances on that power play they were denied a goal due to superior net minding from Binnington as well as good penalty kill defense from the Blues.
The Missouri team had only one shot on goal over ten minutes into the opening period of this intense game 7. The first goal of the game occurred when Ryan O'Reilly redirected a shot from Jay Bouwmeester past goalie Tuukka Rask into the net. This put the Blues up 1-0 with only a few minutes left in the first period. Then a poor line change by Bruin's forward, Brad Marchand, allowed the Blues captain, Alex Pietrangelo, to charge the net, and he converted on an open point blank shot. That second goal put Saint Louis up 2-0 with around 7 seconds left in the first period.
Boston was absolutely discouraged heading into the first intermission down 0-2 after heavily outshooting and overall out playing the Blues early on in the game. The second period was quite uneventful as there were no goals scored over those 20 minutes. St. Louis did a good job checking, playing great defense especially in transition, and Binnington stopped every shot that the Bruins threw his way. This is how sports go sometimes.
The third period began the same as the previous, with the Blues stonewalling Boston and their stifling defense kept the Bruins off the scoreboard. Brayden Schenn puts in the third goal for Saint Louis with only 8 minutes and 35 seconds remaining in the last NHL of the season. Zach Sanford of the Blues followed that up with a 4th goal putting the game out of reach for Boston. Saint Louis won the decisive game 7 of the 2019 NHL Finals with a final score of 4-1 to win their first Stanley Cup championship in franchise history.
Player and Coach Reactions
"To bring a Cup to a city for a first time is crazy. Tough to put into words," says Jaden Schwartz. "These fans have been waiting a long time. It's exciting. We're going to have a lot of fun with it."
"Once we pulled it together, we were tough to beat," head coach, Craig Berube, said.
"It's pretty crazy how things come full circle like that," says Zach Sanford. "You know, this team deserves it more than anyone, I think. This is the best group of guys ever. We put in the work, and we earned it."
"He bounced back. We knew he would," says Alex Pietrangelo. "Unbelievable first period. His confidence, his swagger, his belief in himself -- unbelievable."
"I'm sure there's a bright, bright future for this team," says Zdeno Chara. "I'm sure everyone pictured it differently, and we believed that it was there for us. That's sports. You've got to kind of take those and move on."
"The guy was a beast all playoffs," Brayden Schenn explained. "He deserves it. He's a hell of a player. Binnington's a beast. What a team to be a part of."
"They've been a historical team. They've won so many Cups," Vince Dunn said. "We came into the season with a lot of hopes, and we let each other down a bit for the start of the season. But there was no doubt in our minds that we couldn't come back and come out on top."
"It was awesome," Jay Bouwmeester added. "I've been waiting a long time, and I'm pretty honored that he gave it to me."
"March Madness: Blues win 1st Stanley Cup, beating Bruins 4-1", espn.com, June 13, 2019.
"Stanley Cup Final 2019: Blues stifle Bruins 4-1 in Game 7 to win first NHL title in team history", Cody Benjamin, cbssports.com, June 13, 2019.
BralasLT Jun 17, 2019
Good for the Blues. They earned it.
tringlomane Jun 17, 2019
Way to go Blues!
Not nearly as nice as the guy who won $100k on them, but I'll take it!
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Q: How to display hours worked with hours and minutes Below is my query and my c# code the problem is i need to display the Sum in hours and min but i am getting this error Invalid usage of aggregate function Sum() and Type: String. How can i solve it ?
Below is my query i have tried so far
SELECT ID, name,FromDate,ToDate,CAST(DATEDIFF(Minute,FromDate, ToDate) / 60 AS VARCHAR(5))
+ ' Hrs' + ':' + RIGHT('0' + CAST(DATEDIFF(Minute, FromDate, ToDate) % 60 AS VARCHAR(2)), 2)
+ ' Min' AS 'Hr' FROM records WHERE convert(date,FromDate,101)
between convert(date,'" + FromDate + "',101) and
convert(date,'" + ToDate + "',101) and Name = '" + Name + "'

and here is the code
                DataTable Dt = adm.GetTeamActivityByNameDates(FromDate.ToString(), ToDate.ToString(), ddlUser.SelectedValue);
                if (Dt.Rows.Count > 0)
                {

                    int sum = Convert.ToInt32(Dt.Compute("SUM(Hr)", string.Empty));

                    string Noofact = Dt.Rows.Count.ToString();

                    DataTable dtFinal = new DataTable();
                    dtFinal.Columns.Add("Number");
                    dtFinal.Columns.Add("Sum");

                    DataRow dr = dtFinal.NewRow();
                    dr["Number"] = Noofact;
                    dr["Sum"] = sum;
                    dtFinal.Rows.Add(dr);
                    dtFinal.AcceptChanges();
                    if (Dt.Rows.Count > 0)
                    {
                        grdACT.DataSource = dtFinal;
                        grdACT.DataBind();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                    }

I tried
var result = Dt.AsEnumerable().Sum(x => Convert.ToInt32(x["Hr"]));

also i tried
dt.Columns.Add("temp", typeof(int), "Convert(Hr, 'System.Int32')");
var str = dt.Compute("Sum(temp)", "Name='a' and Value is not null");

but nothing is working

A: An alternative solution similar to what you're trying with LINQ would be simply:
float sum = 0;
float outVal = 0;
foreach (DataRow dr in dt.Rows)
{
    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(dr["Hr"].ToString()))
    {
        if (float.TryParse(dr["Hr"].ToString(), out outVal))
        {
            sum += outVal;
        }
    }
}

Then just do whatever you need with the sum.

A: First of all you should not store dates and times as DATETIME - for calculations like that. You should store this value in UTC format (number of seconds since 1950). And then calculate only seconds, so you could get something like 28383. Which is 7 hours(25200 seconds) 53 minutes(3180 secs.) and 3 seconds.
If you need to display human readable datetime IN DATABASE, you should use a view for that which converts number of seconds to human readable format.
Storing date and time as DATETIME has other drawbacks like poor optimization (calculations on integers are far more faster than on DATETIMEs), problems with date format on client computer and so on.
So in application like yours - store all date and time data in seconds. Calculations are simpler and faster. This is not only from my own experience, but I've read a lot about SQL optimization some time ago.


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Q: VBA Do Until string found, then exit step I have a file that has date values as column headers, and the last column will always be labeled "Grand Total". I want a way to look through the column headers, (which are in cells D4:I4) and input formulas to be filled down later.
For example, if we check D4, and it does not contain "Grand Totals", then I need the below formulas input in Cells L4 and L5:
Range("L4").Select
Application.CutCopyMode = False
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _
    "=""Weekending ""&TEXT(RC[-8],""mm/dd/yyy"")&"" Compliant?"""
Range("L5").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _
"=IF((IF(RC17=""Duplicate"",SUMIF(C2,RC2,C[-8]),RC[-8]))<27,""Compliant"",
  IF((IF(RC17=""Duplicate"",SUMIF(C1,RC1,C[-8]),RC[-8]))<30,""Approaching Limit"",
  ""Over""))"

Then it would go to cell E4, and if it does not contain "Grand Totals", then the formulas need to be input in cells M4 and M5... Once "Grand Totals" are found [at the top of the loop], I need to exit the loop (but not the sub).
I tried to piece together bits from code I found:
Dim GrTot As String
Dim rng1 As Range
Set rng1 = Range("D4:I4")
GrTot = "Grand Total"

Range("D4").Select
Do While ActiveCell.Value <> GrTot

But I didnt know where to go. Any help is appreciated.
EDIT:
I have since tried another method based on an example found here. This is what I have currently:
Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
With Worksheets("Pivot")
x = 4
Do Until .Cells(4, x).Value = "Grand Total"
    For y = 12 To 16
        .Cells(4, y).Formula = "=""Weekending ""&TEXT(RC[-8],""mm/dd/yyy"")&""
          Compliant?"""
        .Cells(5, y).Formula = "=IF((IF(RC17=""Duplicate"",SUMIF(C2,RC2,C[-8]),
          RC[-8]))<27,""Compliant"",IF((IF(RC17=""Duplicate"",
          SUMIF(C1,RC1,C[-8]),RC[-8]))
          <30,""Approaching Limit"",""Over""))"
    Next y
    x = x + 1
Loop
End With
End Sub

But this one doesn't exit correctly. It will loop through fine, writing the formulas as I requested, but it doesn't exit the loop when it reaches the "Grand Total" column. What am I doing wrong here?

A: Loop through each cell in the range; if the cell does not have a value you can write whatever to the cell and then something to the offset. As soon as a grand total is found in your range the loop can exit and move to the next range.
For Each item In Range

    If item.Value = GrTot Then
    Exit For
    'Perform action on cell
    item.Value = formula
    item.offset(0,1).Value = formula
    item.offset(0,2).Value = formula

End If


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Since 2011 at the airport "Domodedovo" the annual modernization of the automated system for baggage handling is conducted.
In 2013 the automated sorting center (ASC) "Major Express" was built in Moscow.
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Home > Business > Gangnam becomes hotspot for Korean startups
Gangnam becomes hotspot for Korean startups
In this Nov. 25. 2014, FuturePlay CEO Ryu Jung-hee, center right, and marketing director Steven Baek, center left, take part in a meeting with employees at their office in Maru180 at the Gangnam district in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The uber-trendy Seoul neighborhood made famous by the "Gangnam Style" K-pop hit is known for status-conscious people, plastic surgery clinics and Ivy League prep schools. Now it's making a name as a bustling center for tech startups.
Many young South Koreans, some educated overseas, are going to Gangnam to start mobile or Internet businesses. Venture capitalists from Silicon Valley and Japan are opening offices in the area to find promising Korean services or apps to bet their money on. Hardly a day passes in Gangnam without a meeting or event related to startup businesses.
As one of the most wired places on earth, Seoul has been a crucible for several startup scenes. The government is even aiming to make a town south of Seoul a Korean Silicon Valley. But it is in the 40 square kilometers of land south of the Han river where the growth of Internet and mobile startups has been most evident and the related culture most vivid.
Despite its reputation as a beacon for the shallow and status-obsessed, Gangnam has a special significance in South Korea as the place where a globalized youth culture emerged from a generation that had opportunities to travel and study abroad. The present day Gangnam is still seen as the place that brings foreign culture and ideas to the rest of the country.
"Gangnam has the best of the New York city and Silicon Valley," said Steven Baek, a marketing director at FuturePlay, an incubator for startups.
Silicon Valley is "tech-centric, with a lot of nerdy and geeky people but it doesn't have much diversity," he said. "Gangnam's benefit is diversity. New York has lots of fun clubs and rich consumer-based culture like Gangnam but it doesn't have many engineers."
Another common reason for startups going to Gangnam is that everyone else is there, which makes networking effortless.
Near Gangnam's Teheran-ro boulevard, many Gangnam startups, venture capitalists and startup incubators have opened offices in the past year, with more arriving in coming months. All three major media companies dedicated to covering startup stories are there too.
Around 2000, South Korea's first wave of Internet companies dotted this 4-kilometer-long street. After the dot.com bubble burst, most of the big Internet portals and online game firms that survived moved to the south of Seoul, but left a legacy. Engineers and developers live near or in Gangnam and older entrepreneurs from the dot.com era became angel investors and startup mentors such as FuturePlay's CEO Ryu Jung-hee.
Recent openings of two spaces for startups accelerated the startup boom and revived the Internet scene on Teheran-ro.
D.Camp opened in 2013 and Maru180 earlier this year a few blocks from Teheran-ro to rent cheap spaces to startup companies and investors. These Silicon Valley-style communal work spaces regularly host meet-ups. Maru even has showers and bunk beds. The spaces are designed to enable serendipitous, accidental meetings in communal areas.
Next year, Google is opening its first campus in Asia in Gangnam, giving mentorship and offering spaces for entrepreneurs to hang out. South Korean Internet giant Naver is also opening a startup accelerator center in Gangnam early 2015.
For 35-year-old Johnny Oh, who grew up in a fishing town, Gangnam was a foreign world that filled him with envy and insecurity.
Encouraged by rich cousins from Gangnam, he moved to the area a decade ago and ran businesses dealing with Gangnam's well-heeled residents, hung out in Gangnam clubs and made Gangnam friends.
When he quit a big telecom firm this summer to start a Cloud-based video editing app to challenge YouTube and Vine, setting up an office in Gangnam was a no brainer.
"They are consumers with far-reaching influence," he said.
Many mobile apps and services that are developed in Gangnam are not just looking within South Korea.
Simon Lee, a 32-year-old entrepreneur, said his company's namesake translation app Flitto, which uses volunteers to do translations within minutes, is taking on Google Translate. His two-year-old startup is planning expansion in China next year.
He said being located in Gangnam helps hiring for little-known startups. Public transportation is among the most convenient in Seoul and there are many hangout places like restaurants and clubs for after work hours.
Gangnam's startup boom reflects a shifting perception on risk taking in South Korea, where the economy is dominated by big family-owned business groups.
Even just a few years ago, the word "startup" was unknown outside the tech circles. That has changed as a growing number of South Korean startup entrepreneurs generate success stories of going public, selling their companies or winning big investments. Last month, a Goldman Sachs-led consortium announced a $36 million investment in Woowa Brothers Corp., operator of a food-delivery app located in broader Gangnam.
South Korea's government is putting more taxpayer money behind young and risky entrepreneurs, not limited to Gangnam startups. The government plans to use a $181 million budget next year to make angel investments in early stage startups.
Still missing in South Korea's startup boom are big companies like Google, Facebook and Yahoo that snap up local startups.
Samsung, LG, SK and other South Korean conglomerates tend to overlook local startups and believe paying big money to buy a startup is an admission of failure, said Flitto's Lee.
"Big companies do almost no M&As. They don't want to admit they are inferior to startups," he said.
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U.S., Kenya formally launch trade deal talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kenya and the United States formally launched negotiations on Wednesday for a bilateral trade pact that the two economies hope could serve as a model for additional agreements across the African continent.
In a joint statement, trade ministers for the two countries, Betty Maina and Robert Lighthizer, said they were holding an initial round of talks virtually over the next two weeks due to the coronavirus.
Kenya wants to do a deal with Washington before the expiry of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which allows sub-Saharan African states to export thousands of products to the United States without tariffs or quotas until 2025.
"We believe this agreement with Kenya will complement Africa's regional integration efforts, including in the East African Community and the landmark African Continental Free Trade Area..." Maina and Lighthizer said.
Two-way goods trade between the United States and Kenya totaled $1.1 billion in 2019, up 4.9% from 2018.
Reporting by David Lawder; Additional reporting by George Obulutsa in Nairobi; editing by Omar Mohammed and Jonathan Oatis


In this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we speak with two ongoing IGD contributors Peter Gelderloos and Scott Campbell about the shifting terrain of US empire globally as well as internally. Touching on everything from new global free trade agreements which seek to remove the United States from the equation, the continuing possibility of world nuclear war, as well as continued attacks at home on workers, migrants, and the poor, we look at life in the US one year under Trump.
But as we discuss the current terrain, our guests return again and again to the reality of declining US hegemony and power, as well as the question of what that means for humanity. The fact that we are living in a country that is losing both economic as well as military supremacy, both in terms of influence and control, is now not a controversial statement, but one of growing academic discussion.
[A] two-track economy with on the one hand 20 per cent of the population that is educated and enjoys good jobs and supportive social networks. Mr Temin used a model, which was created by Nobel Prize winner Arthur Lewis and designed to understand developing nations, to describe how far inequalities have progressed in the US. When applied to the US, Mr Temin said that "the Lewis model actually works".
He found that much of the low-wage sector had little influence over public policy, the high-income sector was keeping wages down to provide cheap labour, social control was used to prevent subsistence workers from challenging existing policies and social mobility was low. Mr Temin also claims that this dual-economy has a "racist" undertone. "The desire to preserve the inferior status of blacks has motivated policies against all members of the low-wage sector.
As capitalist civilization and humanity face ongoing crisis, we must ask if we can not only withstand what is to come, but also see possible opportunities for escape and liberation, as this system crashes in on itself.
More Info: Peter Gelderloo's Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation and Scott Campbell on Twitter.
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Yosemite National Park Tunnel View This is the scene made famous by the great Ansel Adams. I wanted to capture this a bit differently and one way to do that is to capture it in the winter.


The Person Behind Dear Bear And Beany…A Random Q&A!
Colette from We're Going On An Adventure recently tagged me in a random Q&A, which is a chance to you all to find some random facts about me!
At least once a week, if not more! Since becoming a mum, I cry at everything. Television programmes, an advert, when reading a book, basically all the time. The last time was earlier today at Alice's parents evening, the prick of the tears came when they were talking about Alice (in a good way!). I get really emotional when people talk about my girls, especially when they are praising them.
Gosh that's a tough one! A few years ago I would have immediately said yes to this. But I know that my post natal depression has massively affected me, who I am as a person and the type of friend I am. Just typing this has made me really reflect on what an affect PND has had on my life and the relationships I've got with people. I think this could be a whole blog post on it's own!
I wouldn't say I use it a lot. But I do use it and I like it in other people!
Their clothes probably! I have a massive tendency to over worry about what I should wear to things. I would hate to go anywhere and feel like I was under dressed or over dressed. I don't want to stand out as THAT person! So, as quick glance at what they are wearing to put myself at ease or head to toilet when I realise I've got it wrong.
Always Happy Endings! I want to feel good and be left smiling.
My girls after a bath, I love those snuggly cuddles and I give them a good sniff! I also love the smell of coffee, fresh bread and anything that reminds of something happy.
Australia! Andy and I went there on a honeymoon and it was incredible. We got married in November, but waiting until Boxing Day to fly out, as we really wanted to be in Sydney for New Years Eve. We started in Melbourne, flew to Sydney on NYE and stayed there for 5 days. Then we flew to Ayres Rock, which is stunning and had just over 24 hours there, before flying to Cairns and spending 5 days there. It was amazing and I feel really lucky that we were able to go.
The Royal Berkshire hospital, where Andy and Alice were also born. Holly was meant to be, but that is a whole other story.
Blogging! I guess some people might say that it's become more than that and hopefully one day I can call it a full time job. But it is the only hobby that I've stuck to, that I still love and it's become like a third child.
A teacher. It was what I played at being the most when I was a little girl, it didn't turn out to be my career choice. I now see Alice playing teacher just like I did and I often wonder if this will her path.
As a child I didn't go abroad until I was 14 years, unless you count the channel islands, but I think that might be cheating! My love of travel definitely came as an adult and I love to explore the world we live in. I think I've been to about 15-18 different countries and if you count repeat trips to countries, but staying in different parts. Then it would be more likely 20-25 trips abroad. My next plan is to show our girls more of the world!
I hated maths and it wasn't that I was particularly bad at it, I think it was the teacher that made me not enjoy it. Which says a lot I think. I loved English and Home Economics and then at sixth form I did sociology and LOVED it.
Diet Coke, always Diet Coke! And coffee as a hot drink and this has definitely grown more into my thing over the last 5 years as a parent. I dream of having a bean to cup coffee machine!!
When I was growing up I always wanted to call my daughter Alice and I was so worried that people would pinch it, I only ever told my nan!! Then when I got pregnant and found out I was having a girl, I just prayed that Andy loved the name just as much as me. Thankfully he did and I didn't know any little girls or babies with the name, which was a bonus. After having Alice I would have a list of names on my phone, that I would hear and loved watching television, in books etc. Then I became pregnant the second time and much to my excitement found out Alice was going to have sister, we went through my list of names and there was 2 that we both liked. I let Andy have the final choice of Holly, as I had chosen Alice. I adore both their names and they both really suit them I think.
I used to watch YouTube a lot, but have found it harder and harder to find the time. When I do have time, I watch Mummy Daddy Me and JK and Charie , plus I dip in and out of other people.
Including Andy, as obviously he started as my boyfriend, even he did quickly become my husband!! About 6 I think.
That's a tough one as I was really lucky to have a wonderful childhood. A lot of my favourite memories are from our family holidays, as I really cherished the quality time we had with no distractions. Plus Christmas's too, as I had every Christmas at home with my grandparents coming to stay.
Very Mum style! Always in jeans, with boots in the winter, trainers in the spring and flip flops in the summer.
ooh tough one. It used to be biting my nails, but I have finally grown out of that (it only took me about 33 years!).
I love reading these sorts of posts! You're Australian honeymoon sounded amazing 🙂 I too have a very 'mum' fashion sense! It's just easier isn't it! Thanks for tagging me!
Oh I do love random Q and A's . Australia sounds amazing I bet that was a fab honeymoon. Like u I hated maths at school but loved English.
I cry at everything too now, but soppy things (even about other people's children achieving something like a big swimming distance). I blame living with a whole load of girls at boarding school in 6th form, although I did used to cry at Lassie and when reading International Velvet as a child!