I ended up running my Fall Marathon in Chicago and finished with a time of 2:50:28. It wasn't exactly what I was hoping for but Chicago was amazing as I had the opportunity to see a lot of friends and family and got to see Wrigley Field for the first time in my life for the Cubs playoff game as they embarked on their World Series Run. Also, I had the chance to run a few miles with my Miami Distance Project teammate, Scott Byers, who ran a 2:51 even after being sidelined by hamstring issues for much of our training cycle. He and my other teammates are ready for a big Boston Marathon this April, especially after our teammate Dino LaCapra just popped a 12-minute PR in D.C. Very impressive group of runners that keep me motivated for my upcoming London Marathon this April.
Speaking of the London Marathon, I've been able to keep a few steady weeks of 70-80 miles, including a few 20-mile runs in there. It should be a great trip to Europe. I'm also making sure to enjoy my final semester of grad school in Miami before the Bar Exam.
Recently, and thanks to a college friend, I had the opportunity to speak to a large group of Jewish teen leaders at a BBYO Conference in Dallas. I was able to speak about TIF's success and the importance of getting involved in philanthropic missions at a young age, and how being young is not a disadvantage, and can in fact be used to your advantage. Our Vice President and 2016 Man of the Year, DJ Howe, has been very impressive in his community at Coyle & Cassidy High School, and will continue to do great things as he continues to stay involved.
On the fundraising front, we have some huge news: Team Intestinal Fortitude has officially eclipsed the $1million mark of funds raised since our inception in December 2010! This is exciting and humbling news, and I'm thrilled to make this announcement, especially as we approach our Annual Event. The donation that put us over the top was made by our good friends Mr. and Mrs. Henry, who are highly involved in the community, especially through the DJ Dream Fund. Thank you the Henry's and everyone for your support as we eclipse this impressive milestone. We started off as a group of about 5-6 misfits with what we thought was a big goal of $12,500, and we quickly beat that goal and have raised the most monies for Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. We could not have done it with out your help and everybody played a role in accomplishing this feat.
While we will be celebrating tomorrow night at our Seventh Annual TIF Event at the Thorny Lea Country Club on Thursday, March 16th, 2017, we still maintain our goal of not stopping until we find a cure. Our initial involvment was inspired by the Wright Family, mother Kouri and son Timmy who has had Crohn's since age 3. Fittingly, we will be celebrating their aid in helping TIF by honoring them as TIF's Woman and Man of the Year. They have done a lot of impressive things in the Crohn's and Colitis community, especially with helping teens and pre-teens and their families affected by Crohn's and Colitis, and are rightfully being honored tomorrow night and our PR afficianado, Liz Brabants, has helped the Wright family get plenty of media exposure on the cusp of the big night. We hope to see everyone there.
If you cannot be there, thank you for your support as we reached a goal we have been pushing towards since we realized it was actually possible and we could not have done it without your help. We will continue to fight towards the cure. Thank you.


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The Baillies (Part II)
Although most of the Baillies emigrated between 1814 and 1832, there was one exception in the late 1700's. A John Baillie of Sutherland, likely a soldier in the American Wars, settled on the Pictou – Antigonish border in a place known to this day as Baillie's Brook. Patterson in his history of Pictou County mentions that he was from Sutherlandshire but little else is known about him.
Much has been written about the Highland Clearances and, in recent years, more has been learned about the Sutherland clearances. This was a social-economic experiment in converting from a cattle based economy to a sheep and wool industry. The principal landowner of the day, the Countess of Sutherland, was counselled to clear out her small tenantry and create vast sheep farms. There were many practical aspects to such a policy. There would only be a handful of tenants to administer, the labour would be a fraction of what was required for cattle and the returns would be many times greater.
The disposition of the people was the main problem. However the Estate made plans to relocate the small tenants and lotters to the coast where they would be employed in either the fishery, the local coal mine, the salt pans or, later, a distillery. This did not go over well with the tenants. They had been cattlemen for generations and had no love of either sea or coal pits. Those with money made plans to emigrate to Nova Scotia. Those without means rebelled.
The politics and atrocities are beyond the scope of this post. In summary, a few leaders managed to extend their leases for a brief period, some were forcibly evicted, the minister sided with the landlord, the military was brought in to finish the evictions, etc.. The end result was that a vast swath of the Parish of Clyne, including Kilbraur, was cleared of all its people and their homes were destroyed.
The next known Baillies to arrive in Pictou was an early player in this mass eviction. Robert Baillie and his wife Marion (Margaret) were living near Kilbraur on lands that were part of the Carroll Estate. The Gordon family had owned the Estate for several generations however the last resident owner, John Gordon, died in 1807 leaving his family with massive debts. To clear the debt, his son and executor, Joseph Gordon sold the estate to the Countess on the condition that the tenants would not be evicted. That promise was empty and the Sutherland estate began clearing Carroll in 1813. (Joseph Gordon, greatly vexed by the broken promise, would become instrumental in relocating the evictees to Nova Scotia).
Robert Baillie, in a family of seven, arrived in Pictou in 1814 along with five other families from the same neighbourhood. Their land petition, unique in its narrative, explains that the memorialists emigrated from the county of Sutherland in North Britain this month and had done so in consequence of their having been turned out of their possessions to make way for sheep dealers and were thus looking for asylum in Nova Scotia. They had certificates of character from their parish minister, "and have nothing to recommend them further but to assure your Excellency that they were faithful subjects at home to his Majesty and will now so continue.'
The group were awarded a generous 1400 acre swath of forest extending from Saltsprings to Lovat in Pictou County. This began the allure of a new life in a distant colony where one could own one's farm and, for a pittance of taxes, be free of landlord whims forever.
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THE BAILLIES
Baillie does not immediately come to mind when thinking of Highlanders who settled the forests of Northern Nova Scotia, yet they are a family at the root of many genealogies of the people of Earltown and West Branch. Although the name appears among the clans of Scotland, family would be a more apt description in Nova Scotia as they all seem to share a common ancestor not too many generations before emigration and most came from a very defined locale in the Parish of Clyne, Eastern Sutherland.
There is a consensus among scholars that the family evolved from the Baliol bloodline, a noble family that entered the British Isles in the time of William the Conqueror. From there, they migrated north into the Lowlands. Among their ilk was King John Baliol, a successful competitor to the Scottish throne with the backing of King Edward I of England. King John abdicated the throne after losing to the English in 1296. His extended family, wisely, fell into line behind the successors to Robert the Bruce. It was during this era that the family changed the name to Baillie to distance themselves from the unpopular King John.
The new name and new alliances quickly brought titles, lands and recognition to the clan. The main line became associated with Lamington, a parish in Lanarkshire. Sir William Baillie 2nd of Lamington married Isabel Seton, a lady with ancestry in many of the powerful families of Scotland as well as being a great granddaughter of the Sinclair Earl of Orkney and thus carrying the royal blood of Norway. Of this union came Lady Margaret Baillie, wife of the 7th Earl of Sutherland.
There is no hard evidence of the birth of Lady Margaret but it is known that she died in late 1509 or early 1510 aged approximately 95 years. Her husband, John, was bestowed the Earldom in 1442. All subsequent Earls or Countesses descended from this union. She was noted as being a woman of considerable beauty.
It has long been told that the Baillies became a fixture of the Sutherland landscape with the marriage of Lady Margaret to the heir apparent of the Sutherland title. In those dangerous times, when marriage was often a means of a strategic political alliance, one might assume that Sir William Baillie sent an entourage of dependable cousins to ensure the safety and proper treatment of his young daughter.
Lives of the Baillies by James William Baillie of Culter-Allers has one sentence about the settlement of Baillies in Sutherland: Certain persons from Lamington of the name of Baillie went to Sutherlandshire with Margaret Baillie,Countess of Sutherland, who have ever since been officers of the Sutherland family.. (1)
Another reference to the family dates to 1589 when Angus Baillie of Uppat effected the rescue of the Earl's forces from a battle of vengeance with the Caithness men.
The family was planted in the Parish of Clyne, an area that was held directly by the House of Sutherland and not by intermediary gentry. The designated area appears to be have been at the upper end of Loch Brora in the vicinity of Kilbraur and extending down the south bank of the Loch. A brook or burn that enters the Brora near Kilbraur was commonly known as Baillie's Burn although it is on the ordinance survey maps as Scottarie Burn.
The area to right of the right of River Brora, where it enters the Loch, is the homeland of many Baillie families as well as others who settled around Earltown, Nova Scotia.
It is in this township that we find most of the Baillie families that migrated to Pictou during the Sutherland clearances. While there were a couple of families with homes a few miles upstream, most were small tenants in Kilbraur or on the nearby hill of Scottarie.
Few stories of their life in Strathbrora survive in Nova Scotia, the narrative being lost along with the Gaelic language. We do know that they were small farmers. Some held their holding direct from the Sutherland Estate. Others were subtenants. The tenants seemed to have some modest means with a cash income from selling cattle to the south. The subtenants were of very limited means. The structure of their farming was much different from Nova Scotia. They had strips of arable land in the river valleys and then shared common pasturage in the hills. Instead of isolated farmsteads, the homes were clustered in townships with the fields scattered nearby.
Education was limited. A few were able to attend a nearby parish school when it operated. Some learned to read while working for periods in the south. Many never learned to write. Many of the original land papers in Nova Scotia are executed with their "x" in lieu of a signature.
What they lacked in reading and writing skills was compensated by a profound ability to remember and reason through anything they had heard. This was particularly true with respect to scripture and religious dialogue. Scripture could be quoted at length and sermons heard in distant parishes were recited back to those unable to travel. In many instances these men were far more familiar with the Bible than the local minister and, in the case of Clyne, more inclined to follow its teachings. There were two Baillies who were remembered for generations in Clyne due to their grasp of religious doctrine, Angus Baillie and George Baillie. (2)
(1) Baillie, James William Lives of the Baillies, Edmunston and Douglas, Edinburgh, 1872
(2) Munro, Rev. Donald, "Records of Grace in Sutherland", Free Church of Scotland 1953 (A biographical collection compiled by Rev. Munro of Rogart in the mid 1800's)
Earltown Heritage Sunday Update
Thanks to all who braved the heat and humidity to attend our function in the Church Cemetery this afternoon. In addition to the locals, we had people from New Brunswick, (and formerly Quebec), Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and New England.
We raised approximately $400 to go towards the maintenance of the cemetery.
Gunn Cemetery Update
A group of volunteers met in Earltown on June 24th to put in motion the Gunn Cemetery Association. The cemetery has been kept in excellent shape by a number of interested individuals over the past few decades. However there has never been a board, bank account or resources to maintain stones and secure the site.
Last year's tour raised over $600 towards starting a fund. We will soon have a formal account and be in the position to accept donations. Donations will be used to repair the oldest stone, improve signage and install an information box where there will be a guest book and information on the cemetery. We are also obtaining a deed to the land so that it will properly registered. The day may come were we should be paying for the upkeep of the grounds and repairs to the access.
Donations for the upkeep of the cemetery are gratefully accepted but we do not have charitable status so CRA tax receiptscannot be issued.
Cheques can be made out to the Gunn Cemetery and mailed to:
Gunn Cemetery
c/o Joyce Ferguson
7787 Hwy 311, The Falls
RR #5 Tatamagouche, NS
B0K 1V0
For security reasons please do not leave cash or cheques in the mailbox
For information on the history of the cemetery contact: Glen Matheson 902-957-0532 gmmatheson@gmail.com
Earltown Heritage Sunday: In the Shadow of the Church
Earltown was a remarkable community in the 1800's. Its hills and valleys were thickly populated with over 1,000 highlanders and it also served as a trading center for nearby communities in Pictou and North Colchester thus extending its influence over 2,000 souls.
And souls were of great import to these emigrants who arrived with little more than an axe and a bible. They belonged exclusively to the Church of Scotland, (later evolving into the Free Church of Scotland), and worshipped in their native Gaelic tongue. The clergy, elders and catechists commanded great respect and exerted considerable influence over all aspects of life in the area, whether it be religion, education, justice or social welfare.
In due course a church was erected in the geographic centre of the district. Like in their home parishes of Eastern Sutherland, a cemetery was established in near proximity. A second church was erected in the late 1860's to accommodate the growing congregation. Like in many rural communities, the congregation dwindled and the building had to be removed in recent years.
This is the 8th in a series of annual presentations by Glen Matheson, local historian, on the social history of Earltown. In addition to an overview of the history the Knox Presbyterian Church, there will be the customary tour of the adjacent cemetery with stories of the early settlers who chose to be buried in the shadow of the church.
The presentation will be Sunday July 29th at 3PM at the Earltown Church Cemetery, Highway 326, two kilometers north of Earltown Village. Scots will be pleased that there is no admission however donations towards the upkeep of the cemetery would be appreciated.
Colchester Heritage Award
Margaret Mulrooney, curator at the Colchester Historeum, presents an award to Glen Matheson, in appreciation for his work in researching, preserving the history of the Earltown area. He maintains an Earltown heritage blog. – Lynn Curwin
It was an honor to have been selected for this award. When I started out on this journey in the 1970's, G.R. Sutherland's "Rise and Decline of the Community of Earltown" (1) had yet to be written. "The Historical and Genealogical Record of Colchester County" (2), aka The Miller Book was silent on the area. The "History of Tatamagouche" (3) provided a footnote. Isreal Longworth, in 1866, did provide a brief narrative in his "History of Colchester County" (4). I was convinced that there must have been a richer history awaiting discovery.
I had the good fortune of being raised on a multi-generational farm and met many of my grandparents' generation who would visit our home at Balfron. The topic of conversation would often venture into family history and stories of people in the surrounding communities. Three of my grandparents were descendants of the people who settled at Earltown and the sister communities of West Branch and Scotsburn. The remaining grandparent was the descendant of the Montbeliard and Lowland settlers of Tatamagouche and New Annan.
My early research took me into the homes of the elderly of Earltown, The Falls, Balfron and Tatamagouche Mountain. These people either remembered the child settlers or the first generation to be born in those hills. Some thought genealogy was a waste of time as everyone in those parts were related. That turned out to be nearly true so the question became not to whom were we related but how were we related. A couple of trips to Sutherlandshire brought a new dimension to the story and things evolved from there.
Two mentors come to mind. Gladys Sutherland MacDonald had a treasure of information gathered over her lifetime which she shared without hesitation. Margie MacKenzie Wilson offered great encouragement and freely gave me most of her intellectual property. I also have to mention my great aunt, Reta Murray MacRae. She had scrapbooks of old newspaper obituaries which I would pour over in the dim light of her kerosene lamp.
A book has always been a goal but finding time to work on one has been a challenge. Consequently this blog was formed to share some of these stories and findings in case the book never happens. Unfortunately the frequency of posts has not been to my satisfaction. We do what we can.
In addition to connecting with some fine people of the Earltown diaspora throughout the continent, the blog has opened a few doors with historians in Scotland who are studying emigration from Sutherlandshire as well as matters of faith and gender. This led to frequent correspondence with Professor James Hunter while he was writing "Set Adrift Upon the World – The Sutherland Clearances", during which we were able to connect the dramatic events in the clearance of Clyne with the settlement of The Falls and West Earltown. Prof. Elizabeth Ritchie of the University of the Highlands and Islands in Dornoch has been a tremendous help in understanding the lifestyle and faith of our people at the time they emigrated. I also have to mention Dr. Malcolm Bangor-Jones of Lochinver, long time correspondent, who saves me from myself when writing about things that I don't fully understand.
It is my understanding that some regular followers of this blog submitted nominations. Thank you !
The accompanying article has a couple of facts slightly off, (my fault), but otherwise correct. Here is the link to the Truro Daily News article.
(1) Sutherland, G.R., The Rise and Decline of the Community of Earltown, Colchester Historical Society, Truro, NS 1980
(2) Miller, Thomas, The Historical and Genealogical Record of Colchester County, A.W. McKinley, Halifax, NS 1873
(3) Patterson, Frank, History of Tatamagouche, Royal Print and Litho Co., Halifax, NS 1917
(4) Longworth, I., History of Colchester County, circa 1886
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Earltown Farm Forum
Murray Baillie, formerly of Tatamagouche Mountain, has generously agreed to share his memories of the Earltown Farm Forum. His article perfectly captures a time when rural communities made a concerted effort to expand their knowledge in a social setting – long before Facebook.
I was the teacher in Earltown School in the village of Earltown, Nova Scotia from September, 1961 to June, 1962. I was all of 20 years old when I began teaching Grades Primary to 6 at the beginning of the academic year.
At the beginning of the year, I was invited to attend the weekly meetings of the Farm Forum held on Monday nights. Before going to Earltown, I had never heard of the National Farm Radio Forum. National Farm Radio Forum was sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Co-operation, the Canadian Federation Agriculture and the Canadian Association for Adult Education and founded in 1941. The program was a one-half hour radio broadcast followed by discussion.
Other things, sometimes gossip, were discussed besides the topic of the evening. I remember that the subject of seat belts came up before the days when the law made them mandatory for use in cars and trucks when driving. Allister Murray had doubts about their usefulness.
There was a discussion on encouraging young people to farm. This was probably on February 5, 1962 when the topic was "Technical and Vocational Training for Young People". Lawrence Sutherland said that there should be a compulsory agriculture course in high school. Of all the students in the North Colchester High School in Tatamagouche, very few, if any, became farmers. When I was a student there, we did not see that as a productive future.
Mary Murray, a high school teacher, said once that we can't educate the masses. I disagreed because I thought we should consider the intellectually disabled, then called retarded. I heard later that Mary enjoyed our arguments and told a relative of mine, Jennie Mingo, that she would like to adopt me.
On one evening, James M. Minifie, was quoted on the radio. Mary said, "That sounds like Mr. Minifie". I said, "It is." I was used to hearing his commentaries on the CBC radio program, "Capital Report". I was at ease with this group and did not mind expressing my opinion.
Howard Murray, a land surveyor, complained about government regulations making life difficult. Everyone agreed. And this was in the early sixties when life was much less regulated than it is today.
The meetings rotated among different homes. Every meeting had a published National Farm Radio Guide covering the topic for that week. There was information on the topic of the evening with discussion questions at the end. I was elected secretary so I submitted (i.e., mailed) a report for each session and discussion to Betty Campbell, the Farm Forum Provincial Secretary for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in Truro. I don't remember how this was done other than but I must have summarized the discussion on the questions asked on the back page of each Guide. I talked to Mrs. Campbell by phone on May 26, 2017 and asked her about this. She said that it was a long time ago and she did not remember how the reports were submitted nor whether they were preserved.
It is interesting that there were Farm Forum groups all over the province (79) and eight in New Brunswick. In the 1961-1962 Annual Report on Farm Forums, Earltown is listed along with my name and address as secretary.
What is interesting to me is that there were Farm Forums in Balfron, Tatamagouche Mountain and Four Mile in North Colchester. Although Tatamagouche Mountain was my home, I never heard about these Farm Forum meetings as I was growing up.
Some people in the Department of Agriculture really promoted Farm Forum. Robert Murray, an Agricultural Representative (Ag Rep) attended many of the meetings in Cumberland County.
I still own two Guides from that period:
Marketing by Teletype. Volume 19, No. 8, February 12, 1962. 8 pp.
The questions for discussion were:
What do you think about the use of the teletype system for marketing hogs?
Do you feel that the price of your commodity could be improved if all buyers had to bid competitively on all supplies of the commodity available for sale? Do they bid on all supplies now? Do you think the teletype marketing system could be applied to your commodity?
Do you feel that a national marketing system should be organized using teletype? Give reasons.
Transportation and the Farmer. Volume 19, No. 9, February 19, 1962. 12 pp. Basically, this was a discussion on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Transportation (MacPherson Report) which reported in 1961.
The questions for discussion on this topic were:
Have you used your railway recently?
–for livestock?
–for passenger service?
–for the movement of grain?
What problems do you have with freight rates?
How will the recommendations affect you and your community if they are approved by the government?
As I remember, those who attended the Earltown Farm Forum in addition to myself were Rod and Barbara Murray, Allister Murray, Howard and Mary Murray, Lawrence and Helen Sutherland, John R.E. and Marion MacKay. As of 2017, I am the only member still living.
Only Rod, Barbara and Allister Murray were farmers. Every meeting closed with a delicious lunch. Lunches were a rural custom that I enjoyed even though they did not help my weight problem.
Howard Murray commented that the Forum was a good way to keep social contact with neighbours at a time when community visiting was declining.
The National Farm Radio Forum broadcasts came to an end in 1965. For myself, I am happy that I had this social and educational experience since many hours were spent in the school and at home working on my teaching duties. I grew up on a farm so that may have helped me contribute. I am grateful to the people of Earltown for their contribution to my life; this was one of those ways.
Topics List – 1961 – 1962
The subjects for each broadcast were listed by date.
Annual Report : Farm Radio Forum
Nova Scotia; New Brunswick
The cover has the signature of Betty Campbell, Secretary.
Telephone Interviews with Betty Campbell (May 7, 2017), Dale Ells (May 7, 2014, May 26, 2017 and June 1, 2017) and Robert Murray (May 26, 2017).
Ells' book: Shaped Through Service; An Illustrated History of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Truro, Agrarian Development Services Ltd., 1999. Pages 103-104.
Agricola collection (i.e. Archives) of the MacRae Library, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Bible Hill, N. S.
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The Twenty Two Baillies (continued)
The Catechist Baillies
West Earltown Baillies (Part VII)
Crosuchan Baillies (Part VI)
The 22 Baillies (Part V)

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lstNews.Add(CollectNews) [x 3 times] <-- Using Linq

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A: As I understand you want to end up with a list of three News objects. You can do something like
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You could use any value in place of 1 in that example.
While this approach works, it's sort of abusing the idea of LINQ. In particular, you should not assume any order of executing CollectNews() calls. While the standard Select implementation will execute in sequence this may not always be true.

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Jonathan Zabusky, W'95, president and member of the board, GrubHub Inc.
by Matthew Brodsky
Entrepreneurship Leadership Management Innovation/Technology PE/VC
It's not all the time that Jonathan Zabusky, W'95, gets a call from a Fortune 500 company asking him to become an executive officer at one of its subsidiaries. But when it happens, it works out. In 2007, he was living in San Francisco finishing up a stint at Barclays Global Investors. He was looking to move back East when he received a call from Aramark. Essentially, the Philadelphia-based professional services giant wanted him to become vice president of strategic development and help integrate its new acquisition, Seamless, a corporate food delivery service. By December 2009, Aramark promoted him to head the whole subsidiary.
He's helped engineer two major undertakings since then, which have placed him in the forefront of the food tech world.
First, he helped turn Seamless from a B2B company to a B2C company, and to do so, he needed to spin the business out of Aramark, which happened in June 2011, making him CEO of the newly independent company. An acquisition soon followed—of MenuPages in October 2011—and before long, Seamless was positioning itself ahead of industry trends. The biggie being mobile.
"We thankfully made a big bet in mobile several years ago," he said, adding that about half of all online consumer food orders are now done with a mobile device. "All of the things we do are rolled out mobile first."
The other significant move was the merger of Seamless with GrubHub in 2013, thereby bringing together two leaders in the mobile food delivery and pickup market. As Zabusky told the story (delivering a keynote speech in November at the 2014 BizTech Conference organized by Wharton MBA students), GrubHub wanted access to the New York City metropolitan area, London and exclusive corporate accounts from thousands of corporate clients, which Seamless has, and Seamless got access to everywhere else where GrubHub has a stronghold. Now president and member of the board of directors of the newly merged company doing business as GrubHub Inc., with both Seamless and GrubHub as operating brands, Zabusky was optimistic about the partnership, though he noted that bringing two successful firms together can be challenging, like a marriage. GrubHub went public in April 2014 and, as of this writing, had a market cap north of $2.8 billion. It appears to be an extended honeymoon.
Opportunities ahead appear even more supersized. In a recent Forbes article, GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney estimated that American consumers spend $70 billion annually on takeout and delivery food. About one-tenth of that is done online, according to Zabusky's numbers. One would assume that that ratio is only going to slant more toward mobile as more consumers and restaurants adopt mobile devices. Mobile ordering, Zabusky said, doesn't necessarily cannibalize desktop ordering; it helps to drive more consumers from analog to online.
"It's started to accelerate the pace of growth," he told the audience about mobile.
"Growth" is a good word to describe the overall food tech scene. From Zabusky's vantage, he sees an aggressive funding environment with capital going to many different ideas. A couple "uber trends," he said, are becoming apparent around health and wellness promotion, and around saving consumers time and money.
In the wider universe of mobile, the big trend is payments, and the new GrubHub is positioned to be agnostic on payment platforms as a payment processor—making this payments trend neither a big threat nor opportunity, just another way for the business to grow.
Perhaps the only threat to online food ordering would be if a mass diet breaks out. There again, though, lies another opportunity for Zabusky, if and when another massive corporation calls for its next leader.
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Q: Layout fixed width, full height with fixed footer, full width I could use some help on a layout. This is what I'm trying to achieve:

Here are the specs:

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*header has fixed height

*footer is always at the bottom and has full width (100%)

*content has fixed width

*content basically has full height minus the footer, but overlaps the footer by exactly 20px

This of course must work when the content is both shorter and longer than the viewport.
I've been playing around with this for a few hours and I just can't get it to fulfill all the features.
I created a fiddle for it here: http://jsfiddle.net/Sq4Pk/6/
The problems with this solution are currently:

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*the shorter the viewport gets, the more the content overlaps the footer (must be exactly 20px)

*the content part does not fill the viewport

Is this even possible? Can somebody help me out with this?
I've tried these solutions and variations thereof but both are slightly different from my usecase:

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*http://peterned.home.xs4all.nl/examples/csslayout1.html

*http://www.cssstickyfooter.com
Thanks a lot for any help!
Chris

A: I created a fiddle with a possible workaround, inserting two extra divs in the footer to fake the overlay.
One annoying downside: in Chrome the highest div (to mask the dropshadow) seems to shift 1px upon resize. FF + IE are fine.
http://jsfiddle.net/Sq4Pk/3/
EDIT: found a fix for the pixel shift in Chrome: http://jsfiddle.net/Sq4Pk/4/
EDIT2: or if it's an option to use jQuery, the result is even slightly better: http://jsfiddle.net/Sq4Pk/5/


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Summary: A fuel oil supplier mistakenly delivered heating oil to an abandoned tank system at this day care center. Fuel oil spilled onto the basement floor and onto the soil outside the house, beneath the fill and vent pipes.


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Haruki Murakami to make radio debut with one-off music and running-themed show
by Chisato Tanaka
Exciting news for "Harukists": Internationally acclaimed novelist Haruki Murakami will serve as a DJ for a one-off radio program on Aug. 5, Tokyo FM announced Tuesday.
This is the first time the famed writer will feature on a radio show, according to the station.
The theme of the 55-minute show, called "Murakami Radio," is "Run & Songs."
Murakami, who boasts a legion of fans at home and abroad but typically shies away from the public spotlight, has been running for years to build up his physical condition so that he can continue writing novels.
Murakami will play some of the music he listens to while jogging during the radio show. He will also explore his collection of CDs and records and discuss the meaning of running, music and literature, Tokyo FM said.
"I will select and play tunes that listeners rarely (or never) encounter in a radio program but will find very relaxing," Murakami wrote in a message quoted by the broadcaster.
"And I would like to talk a bit between (those songs). Please enjoy," Murakami added.
Murakami has been a marathon runner for more than 35 years and is a jazz enthusiast.
A Tokyo FM spokesman declined to tell The Japan Times whether the special radio program was initially proposed by Murakami or the station.
In the message, however, Murakami explained his intention behind the radio program to prospective listeners.
"It has been my hobby to collect records and CDs since my childhood, and thanks to that, my house is inundated with such things. However, I have often felt a sense of guilt toward the world while listening to such amazing music and having a good time alone," Murakami said in the message.
"I thought it may be good to share such good times with other people while chatting over a glass of wine or a cup of coffee," he said.
A special website for "Murakami Radio" was launched Tuesday. Questions for Murakami about music can be posted there until June 10 and selected questions will be read and answered by the writer during the show.
"Murakami Radio" will be broadcast on 38 stations belonging to Japan FM Network, including Tokyo FM, from 7 p.m. to 7:55 p.m. Elsewhere, the program will start at 8 p.m. in Hiroshima Prefecture and 9 p.m. in Okinawa Prefecture. The program will also be aired on Radiko, an internet-based radio broadcasting service.
Murakami, a Kansai-born Waseda University graduate, has written more than 30 pieces of fiction and nonfiction in Japanese and has also translated more than 30 titles from English into Japanese.
Murakami's work has been translated into more than 40 languages. The author has won numerous literary prizes over the years, including the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006 and the Jerusalem Prize in 2009.
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AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Berkley International Fianzas Mexico S.A.
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A+ (Superior), the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "aa-" and the Mexico National Scale Rating of "aaa.MX" of Berkley International Fianzas Mexico S.A. (BFM) (Mexico City, Mexico). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.
BFM is a member of W. R. Berkley Group (Berkley group), which on a consolidated basis, has a balance sheet strength that AM Best categorizes as strongest, as well as its strong operating performance, favorable business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management (ERM).
The ratings reflect BFM's affiliation with its parent company, W. R. Berkley Corporation (W. R. Berkley), in terms of underwriting, reinsurance protection, ERM and capital commitments. Limiting the ratings is the inherent risk of a startup company implementing its business plan and the potential volatility of Mexico's economy during 2019.
BFM was formed in November 2016, and is the Mexico surety subsidiary of W. R. Berkley. The company received regulatory approval for operations in June 2017 and issued its first policy that same month. The company plans to develop a regional presence in northwest Mexico, through a predominant mix of administrative surety, and a lesser portion of credit and judicial products strongly backed up by a comprehensive reinsurance contract with its parent company.
BFM's solid risk-adjusted capitalization is derived from its strong capital position in support of its premium growth during its first years of operation, which is strengthened further by the comprehensive reinsurance contract with its parent company. Furthermore, AM Best recognizes W. R. Berkley's commitment to its subsidiaries providing additional capital fungibility to the Mexico operation.
As a company of new formation, BFM will have to produce sufficient volume to compensate for its fixed costs, while posting adequate underwriting performance on its retained premium. While the BFM management and underwriting team have a successful track record of their own, the business plan implementation has to evolve for AM Best to adequately evaluate the company's operating performance.
Although the company has an experienced team of underwriters, to reach an adequate premium volume might prove more challenging than expected, as the expectation of a more dynamic surety market is subject to uncertainty with regard to the new government's spending infrastructure, which could impact the growth of the surety sector during the following years and potentially limit the company's growth prospects.
If there are positive rating actions taken on the main operating subsidiaries of the Berkley group as a result of a substantial and sustained improvement in its operating performance metrics relative to its peers, BFM's ratings likely would move in tandem. Likewise, if there are negative rating actions taken on the Berkley group as a result of a sustained deterioration in the group's underwriting or operating results, driven by either current accident-year results or adverse development of prior years' loss reserves, or as a result of a change in the financial position of the group's holding company that results in the withdrawal of capital from the group or which causes an increase in financial leverage and/or decline in interest coverage at the holding company that is not supportive of the current ratings, BFM's ratings would mirror those same actions.


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Il se marie avec une fille de Flavius Sabinianus. Leur fils est Flavius Anastasius Paulus Probus Sabinianus Pompeius.

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This paper describes a reagentless electrochemical DNA biosensor applied to the detection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sequences based on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The novel DNA biosensor has been elaborated by means of an opposite-charged adsorption Au-Ag nanocomposite to a conductive polymer polypyrrole (PPy) modified platinum electrode (Pt) and self-assembly the mercapto oligonucleotide probes onto the surface of modified electrode via the nanocomposite.


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Q: how to pass external file to ASTParser or any compatible AST library? Referring to this previous question, I'm not able to get an IFile or ICompilationUnit outside eclipse.
I need org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom library to parse and extract tree structure.
I saw the method
ASTParser parser = ....;
parser.setSource(char[] source);
how can I pass the path of a external project-file or directory?
I need bindings so this method must be set to true
parser.setResolveBindings(true);
If it wont be possible, do you know any compatible libraries to build an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree)?
Thanks

A: Do you want to use it as an Eclipse plugin or as a standalone Java application?
If it's as a Java application, I don't think you have any references to those IFile or ICompilationUnit, unless you use ASTParser.setEnvironment in order to create a new workspace (which I don't know how). If it's as a Java standalone application, check this examples:
http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/tools/org.eclipse.objectteams/trunk/testplugins/org.eclipse.jdt.core.tests.compiler/src/org/eclipse/jdt/core/tests/dom/StandAloneASTParserTest.java
With that code you can convert any .java content into an AST and parse it (I never tried to insert new AST nodes and then write e new class with that, but I believe it's possible).
Here's my first try with that implementation: http://pasteit.com/19436

A: You can read any file normally and convert it to char array; i don't see why would this be a problem. And from the jdt 3.6. version you can use setEnvironment so the setResolveBindings can actually work. More info: link.
People have used it, but to be honest, I am still not able to get bindings with this approach.


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IJnet is advertising an opportunity for Egyptian students to pursue a Masters in Journalism at the American University of Cairo.
From 25-26 October, the Centre for Law and Democracy and MADA co-organised a consultative meeting in Amman, Jordan, on opportunities for civil society organisations to engage with the League of Arab States.


Salvationist Publishing & Supplies enters the digital age of music publishing and purchasing with launch of its new website.
Salvationist Publishing & Supplies (SP&S) has announced a new website that will allow users to purchase both hard copy and digital versions of Salvation Army brass band sheet music.
Working with developers, Dale and Rowan Caffull, SA Music Index (SAMI) will be launched on Friday 1st February, and will incorporate an easy to use search function to allow access to the huge catalogue of Salvation Army brass band titles dating from 1923 to the present day.
Music Promotions Manager for SP&S, Richard Phillips told 4BR: "SP&S has kept up with the growth of digital developments to provide sheet music in accessible formats to all our customers.
Research has shown that many brass bands and players are finding it increasingly useful to be able to purchase sheet music digitally and we want to provide for this alongside traditional hard copies.
SAMI will mean we can provide a much more tailored service for our customers. Or instance, users who purchase digitally will not have to consider delivery time and costs, can buy individual parts as needed, and once purchased the music is never lost."
4BR was informed that customers will also be able to purchase sheet music from SAMI that includes all brass titles from 2007 onwards, whilst a 'request' function will allow users to seek the titles that they wish to access in digital format.
Sheet music can also be purchased in hard copy from the website and saved to the purchasers account.
Richard continued: "SAMI offers hard copy and digital flexibility, including being the perfect emergency help for those who have forgotten their sheet music on a band job or rehearsal."
Talking about the new development, Dale Caffull, from Caffull Ltd, told 4BR: "We started SAMI as a way to express our passion for Salvation Army music. It was our hobby and we wanted to provide the Salvation Army Brass Band's answer to google!
Now SAMI has become an information service and resource provider, and we feel this really reflects the mission of SP&S that we are proud to support."
The website will be updated to include its new look and functionality on 1st February.


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Q: Simulate keyboard interrupt to gracefully exit task in Windows? I have a process that doesn't behave when I do a taskkill -f, but the only option taskkill gives me is to kill it with -f.
When I have the exe running in the Command Prompt I can hit Ctrl + C twice and it exits gracefully with a keyboard interrupt message (it's a Python compiled exe).
How can I simulate this behavior from the command line?

A: That depends from what command-line tools you have.  If you have JP Software's TCC/LE, you just activate the running program's console's window with the ACTIVATE command and then use the KEYSTACK command to simulate that keystroke as input to the window with:KEYSTACK Ctrl-C
Of course, if your program does not actually have a console when run, you do not have the option of simulating pressing Ctrl+C in its console.  ☺


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Transformation into a Barnifield attic. "This fits perfectly in our 60's home" | Barnifield newspaper
Barnifield Atmosphere, plenty of green space and enough space around the house were the reasons for 36-year-old Petra van den Brand and her family moving to Hugo de Groutlaan in Barneveld earlier this year. A recently installed BASkapel complements their signature 1960s home.
Petra lives in Staatsliedenbuurt, near downtown Barneveld, with her husband, Wilfred van den Brand, 38, and their three children. "It's a lovely, lovely neighborhood," says Petra, who previously lived in the new residential area of Feller. The couple is still busy with work, but the attic is already pretty much complete. "It is divided into two rooms: our bedroom and an office."
To create additional space upstairs, Petra and Wilfred initially looked at a dormer window. "But we discovered that the dormer window would not be more than 1.60 meters high," Petra says. Through an article in Barneveldse Krant, Petra discovered BASkapel, an alternative to the traditional window. "This piece came at just the right time."
Extra space "By using the BAS Chapel, we were able to create additional space without the need for major renovations," Petra continues. Think Bas Verhoek, owner of BASkapel, along with Barnevelders. "From that moment on, everything went well."
To get a better idea of the many possibilities, Petra and Wilfred visited the company's showroom at Stationsweg in Barneveld. In the end we chose two BAS churches with wooden skylights. They were both done in less than five weeks.
Letter It only took half a day to install – and the result was great. "We are very happy with it," Petra says. These skylights are four times the size of the ancient skylight that once existed. We now have more light and a beautiful view. Another nice side effect: in most cases a permit for BASkapel is not required. This saves a lot of time and effort. Plus, this chapel is more refined than just a traditional dormer window, so the character of our house – which we signed – is preserved."
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Upgrading the Gaming PC
Back on launch-day in August 2016 I began playing No Man's Sky on the PS4. I fell so wildly in love with the game that a few weeks later I ordered parts and put together a gaming PC so that I could play No Man's Sky at 60+ FPS with higher resolution options and also have the ability to adjust the player's field of view (which one could not, on console back then). I detailed the system build in a post from way-back-when, but in a nutshell, the system consisted of:
Intel i7-6700K (4 core, 8 thread) @ 4GHz (4.2GHz boost)
Gigabyte Nvidia GTX-1080 Xtreme Gaming
16GB Corsair DDR4 RAM-3200
32-inch Samsung CF391 curved 60Hz 1920×1080 (16:9) LCD
As I'd hoped, this setup ran the game incredibly well. I started using it back in "the early days" and I played on this PC a little over six years, for what's now 3,800 hours in the game, all settings on "Ultra." In that time, I doubled the system RAM and in order to move up from 1080p to 1440p, the GPU and display were upgraded to:
EVGA FTW3 GTX-1080Ti (11GB, factory overclocked)
Samsung C32HG70 curved 32-inch 144Hz 2560×1440 (16:9) LCD
This worked out very well for quite a while but…those pesky (frequent and free) updates Hello Games keeps releasing began to take a toll on performance. (At the time of this post, HG has released 161 updates, 30 of them major.) As certain updates brought richer worlds with more details — Origins and Next Generation in particular — I noticed that framerates started to dip here and there. And, whereas a few years ago on my Freesync-linked GPU and display I had been mostly in the 80-95 fps range with very rarely a dip below 60 fps, recently when walking on worlds with particularly dense ground features, I began to see brief dips into the low 40s and occasional stuttering, even when framerates were up in the 70s and 80s. I have a little 7-inch secondary display constantly running on the PC, displaying system monitoring information from the app HWiNFO64, and I noted that the GPU was often not fully loaded, which showed me that I was CPU limited in terms of performance; the Skylake CPU was not able to keep the GPU fully fed. And so, I decided to finally upgrade the PC.
After bringing myself up to speed on the PC CPU landscape out there, and acknowledging that I don't use this Windows PC for anything but gaming (the performance / efficiency cores proposition offered by Intel therefore not being of interest to me), I decided to upgrade the CPU to a Ryzen 7 7700X, which also meant upgrading the motherboard and system RAM to the DDR5 required by the Zen 4 architecture. I would also stay with Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. (Incidentally, this is the third AMD-based system I have built. The first was a 5×86 160MHz system from 1996, which I rebuilt not all that long ago, and the second was a K6 225MHz system from 1997.)
I posted on the Ars Technica forums asking for advice on making this upgrade and was given much helpful advice and told that if there were a MicroCenter near me (there was) I could get a number of in-store discounts, including a free 32GB DDR5 RAM kit, among others. And, so, I headed to the Fairfax, VA MicroCenter and purchased the aforementioned CPU along with an ASUS B650-A motherboard, a heatsink/fan combo, and a few other odds and ends. All of that in hand (including the free 32GB of DDR5 RAM), I headed home and opened up the gaming PC, swapping in the new parts for the old, reusing the GTX-1080Ti, the Fractal Design R5 case, the EVGA PSU, the optical drive, and my SATA SSDs. I took advantage of a $60 MicroCenter discount and purchased a WD_BLACK NVMe 2TB SSD for just $20 over the price of the 1TB unit to further increase loading speeds in the game. The core component build-out of this upgraded PC presently looks like:
Ryzen 7 7700X (8 core, 16 thread) @ 4.5GHz (5.4GHz boost)
ASUS B650-A ROG Strix motherboard (with WiFi, Bluetooth)
32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 RAM
WD_BLACK SN850X 2TB NVMe SSD
Noctua NH-D15 CPU cooler
If you have a local MicroCenter — by all means use it.
Here, I will note that the GTX-1080Ti is a GPU that was "too good." Nvidia released it to the market — only shortly — based on AMD's performance claims about their upcoming Vega architecture … that ended up being exaggerated. Real-time raytracing hardware aside, the GTX-1080Ti with its 11GB of RAM is approximately equal in performance to the RTX-2070 Super and the RTX-3060 (but with more RAM), especially with older games — I would not trade it for either. The RTX-2080 is only ~10% faster in most cases. It seemed a foolish idea to consider upgrading the GPU at this time, not to mention — I didn't have the budget for it.
"No Man's Sky" Featured in Apple's January M2 Silicon Event
During Apple's WWDC 2022 keynote back in June, Apple announced that No Man's Sky would be coming to the Mac, featuring the game as an example of one of the first apps to utilize Apple's new Metal 3 graphics API along with one of the new features it brings, MetalFX upscaling. During the demo, Apple's Senior Director of GPU Software, Jeremy Sandmel, said that the game would be "coming to the Mac later this year." And in early October, Hello Games' front man Sean Murray tweeted,
2022 has already been a busy year for No Man's Sky – Sentinel, Outlaws, Leviathan, Endurance, SteamDeck, MacOS, PSVR2, Switch and several expeditions… and we aren't done yet!
But as we saw, the year drew to a close without a Mac No Man's Sky release. (Several other games slated for Mac release by year's end were also delayed, for what that's worth.) And, with 2023 underway, posts across various web forums from anxious would-be Mac Travellers have started to appear, asking about any updates on the status of the coming Mac release.
Those waiting anxiously may be pleased to hear that Apple held a press event today announcing new MacBook Pro laptops and Mac mini desktop models featuring new iterations of Apple's M2 processor, and in that event, No Man's Sky was again showcased, this time by Senior Engineering Program Manager, Mac, Erin Turullols, as can be seen in the bookmarked video clip below.
And the new Mac mini is also great for games, running demanding titles like No Man's Sky at even faster framerates. With this supercharged performance, the new mini with M2 runs laps around the competition.
The No Man's Sky section of the event showed the game running on an Apple Studio Display, with a Mac mini and a Sony PS5 DualSense wireless controller by its side. There is little reason to assume that the demo footage shown in the video was actual footage of the game running on Apple hardware. More than likely, It was a PR clip from Hello Games, generated on a PC.
Unfortunately, no release timeframe was mentioned during the event, however, a bit of fine print shown at the conclusion of the video states that "No Man's Sky will be available later this year."
So, for anyone doubting that the game was still on the way — and there's really no reason to have though that — the game is still on the way. Likely, No Man's Sky will launch not only sometime in 2023, but soon. Some speculate that Hello Games is waiting for Sony's Playstation VR2 launch for PS5 on February 22nd to release an update that takes advantage of the new headset while also using that opportunity to release the Mac version. That may be the case, or there may have simply been some setbacks in the development process that forced a delay in the Mac version's release.
Whatever the reality, No Man's Sky for the Mac will surely be here soon. (And for the iPad, too, if you believe what Apple stated in their web press release following the WWDC 2022 keynote, though as far as we've seen, Hello Games has made no mention of such a version anywhere else…)


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Fruta (Vol. II) es el álbum debut del cantante y compositor mexicano Caloncho, fue escrito en su mayoría por el mismo, aunque también cuenta con la participación del productor Siddhartha. Se compone por diez canciones, del cual se extrajeron sencillos como «El derroche» y «Palmar» publicados el 2 y 16 de junio de 2015, respectivamente. Contiene temas de su anterior producción discográfica Fruta y fue distribuido por Universal Music México. Salió a la venta el 16 de junio de 2015 en formato físico y digital en México, mientras que en España fue publicado el 10 de junio de 2016. El sonido del álbum toma como referencia estilos de música de la playa, el calor, los bikinis, las mujeres, la fiesta y el hedonismo. También incluye canciones en inglés con «Mango taco» y en portugués con la versión en ese idioma de «Palmar» además de la versión a dueto con Mon Laferte.

Fruta (Vol. II) fue certificado con disco de platino por la Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Acerca del álbum Caloncho dijo: «La clave de esta producción está en la simpleza, porque eso buscamos en la mar. La melodía hace flotar, mientras las letras emborrachan la memoria.» en una entrevista para Indie Rocks.

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Alan Queipo de la revista Mondo Sonoro le dio una puntuación de 8.0 sobre 10, diciendo «No hablamos de ningún Frankenstein para combatir la xenofobia de Trump por la vía de la mezcla de razas, sino de Caloncho, uno de los últimos hypes latinoamericanos todavía en expansión» También lo comparó con otros artistas y señaló: «No es raro encontrar a Caloncho como un curioso, sensual y melódico híbrido entre Devendra Banhart, Ezra Furman, Natalia Lafourcade, Macaco o Mark Everett, pero pasado por filtros como los de Johnny Nash, William Onyeabor, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole o el compositor de canciones infantiles Cri-Crí».

Lista de canciones

Certificaciones

Historial de lanzamiento

Véase también
 Discografía de Caloncho

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Fruta (Vol. II)  en Deezer.
Fruta (Vol. II) en Apple Music.

Álbumes de 2015
Álbumes en español
Álbumes de Caloncho
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Growing up near Toronto, Ernest Earon was always taking things apart and putting them together again. Drawn to engineering, he became enthralled by the notion that if he couldn't see light enter a black hole or watch stars form, intelligent machines could, a theme he explored in his University of Toronto doctoral thesis. In 2010, Earon co-founded PrecisionHawk of Raleigh, North Carolina, a firm notable for winning the first FAA approval (August 2016) to fly drones beyond an operator's sight. Now, PrecisionHawk, CNN and BNSF Railway are testing commercial drone operations in rural areas for the FAA. PrecisionHawk sells the fixed-wing 15-meter-wingspan Lancaster 5 drone as well as quadcopters and six-rotor models for construction, farming, surveying and remote sensing.
It was a combination of things. I have always been extremely curious, always taking things apart and putting them together again (though not nearly at the same success rate) even from a young age. I was very comfortable with math, science and physics and so I knew that engineering was a good option for me. I was touring university with some friends when I got introduced to aerospace and things just clicked from there. I mean, every kid loves planes and rockets, right? Between that and the fact there are so many ways that we are still learning in the aerospace field, it was a pretty good fit. I went to do a Ph.D. in planetary robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence at the University of Toronto. Then, I started moving into the terrestrial space. I've been trying to keep up with technology ever since. I managed research and development of networks of intelligent unmanned aircraft for Quanser Consulting. After that, I managed a project at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies that demonstrated the use of multiple unmanned robotic aircraft for agricultural applications. I founded PrecisionHawk in 2010.
I think that while the basics of the [drone] technology will be similar to what we've come to expect now, their use and ubiquity will be world-changing. Drones and autonomous flying machines will be used everywhere from applications like bridge inspection and delivery that we are aware of now, through to applications that we haven't even begun to contemplate yet. The technology will move people as well as goods around. With better and cheaper electronics, computers, batteries, materials and manufacturing, we'll be seeing personal aircraft everywhere alongside flying delivery, repair, inspection, herding and monitoring drones. All of this will turn the airspace, and the regulatory environment around it, on its head. Conveniently, people are starting to think about that now. So while I think there will be huge changes and disruption for the better across multiple industries as well as aerospace, it will be as chaotic as it often is with these kinds of innovations.


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Тайский оркестр слонов —  ансамбль из слонов, базирующийся в провинции Лампанг в северном Таиланде. Для игры животные используют специально изготовленные для них музыкальные инструменты. Оркестр принадлежит Национальному институту слонов (NEI) и играет для посетителей этого заведения.

История

В 1992 году возле Тхунг Квиан, в районе Ханг Чат, примерно в 28 километрах от города Лампанг, был открыт государственный Центр по сохранению тайских слонов (TECC; ныне Национальный институт слонов). В этом учреждении слонов содержат, лечат и обучают. Факультет ветеринарной медицины Чиангмайского университета является партнёром туристического центра института. Одной из задач института является обеспечение существования бывших рабочих слонов Таиланда и их потомства, которые вследствие развития механизации работ по вырубке лесов и введения правовых ограничений на вырубку лесов и использование слонов оказались не востребованы.

В конце 1990-х годов соучредитель и директор TECC Ричард Лейр и Дэвид Зульцер, нейробиолог из Колумбийского университета, решили создать оркестр, состоящий из слонов. Зульцер ранее уже работал неполный рабочий день в качестве музыканта и композитора под сценическим псевдонимом Дейв Солджер, в том числе с такими артистами, как Джон Кейл, Бо Диддли и Дэвид Бирн. В данном проекте, помимо собственно музыкального интереса, Зульцер видел возможность изучить когнитивные и музыкальные навыки слонов. Лейр, бывший зоологом, ранее уже занимался обучением некоторых слонов Центра рисованию. Для него оркестр слонов, играющих на музыкальных инструментах, был потенциальным источником дохода для института.

Первоначально оркестр состоял из шести слонов в возрасте от семи до восемнадцати лет ; позже его численность увеличилась до восемнадцати животных. Музыкальные произведения, исполненные оркестром, были выпущены на трёх компакт-дисках лейблом «Mulatta Records».

Оркестр NEI считается первым и единственным оркестром слонов в мире. В материале агентства «Reuters» он обозначен как единственный в мире музыкальный ансамбль, состоящий не из людей. В 2001 году газета «Los Angeles Times» отмечала значимость оркестра: согласно опубликованной статье, он вызвал интерес к проблеме сокращения популяции слонов в Таиланде у очень широкой аудитории по всему миру. Оркестр выступал в том числе для королевы Таиланда Сирикит; сделанная для BBC запись транслировалась на ежедневном шоу Джона Стюарта. Различные произведения, исполненные оркестром, транслировались британской радиостанцией NTS.

Музыка и инструменты

В Канзасском университете Зульцер провёл получившие определённую известность исследования, показавшие, что слоны способны различать разные мелодии. Тем не менее он изначально считал сомнительным вероятность создания слонами музыки. К его удивлению, однако, животные начали успешно использовать инструменты через достаточно короткое время после начала обучения.

Животные играют на простых, эргономичных инструментах, выдерживающих большие нагрузки: духовых инструментах, гармонике, струнных инструментах, барабанах, гонгах и ксилофонах. Слоны в основном импровизируют, а единственное участие Зульцера — подача команд о начале и окончании исполнения; вместе с тем некоторые произведения представляют собой композиции и требуют предварительного обучения слонов махаутами, при этом каждый слон играет конкретные ноты на конкретных же настроенных инструментах. Инструменты, используемые в оркестре, народные тайские, а создаваемые им мелодии должны иметь сходство с национальной музыкой страны. По словам Лейра, слоны играют на музыкальных инструментах «с удовольствием».

Критика
Нейробиолог Штефан Кёльш отрицает, что слоны могут создавать музыку. По его мнению, в этом оркестре музыку создают люди, тогда как животные обучены лишь выполнять определённые действия с инструментами своими хоботами.

Дискография
 The Thai Elephant Orchestra (2000), Rigglius Music/Mulatta Records
 Elephonic Rhapsodies (2005), Rigglius Music/Mulatta Records
 Water Music (2011), Mulatta Records

Примечания

Библиография
 Dave Soldier, The Thai Elephant Orchestra, in: Kinship with Animals, ISBN 978-1-57178-189-5, Council Oaks Books, P. 176–185

Ссылки
 Andreas Müller-Crepon, Elefantenorchester: Elefanten sind talentierte Musiker – aber nur, wenn sie müssen, 10 апреля 2018, SRF.
 Michael Möbius, DuMont BILDATLAS, Thailand: Land des Lächelns, ISBN 978-3-61645-1-763, DuMont Reiseverlag, 2018, S. 61.
 Thai Elephant Orchestra на Discogs.
 Сайт Mulatta Records.
 Thailand's elefant orchestra play, семиминутное видео наYou Tube, Kids Age.

Музыка Таиланда


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Home Office civil servant 'tried to give mistress abortion drug'
A senior civil servant spiked his pregnant mistress's drink to try to cause a miscarriage, a court has heard.
Darren Burke, who works in the Home Office, is accused of handing Laura Slade orange juice containing a drug which is used to induce abortions.
Ms Slade refused the drink but suffered an unconnected miscarriage weeks later.
Mr Burke, 43, from Windsor, denies both intentionally obtaining the drug with intent and attempting to administer it to procure a miscarriage.
Isleworth Crown Court, in west London, was told how in 2020 Mr Burke encouraged mother-of-two Ms Slade to terminate her pregnancy, sending her links to an abortion clinic as well as an abortion pill.
'Gut feeling'
Ms Slade, who gave evidence from behind a screen, said she had not wanted an abortion, telling the court: "I told him when the due date was and that I was keeping my child."
She said she later had "an instant gut feeling something was not right" when on 3 December 2020, Mr Burke offered to get her Starbucks the following morning - something Ms Slade claimed he had not done before.
Describing what happened when he arrived at her Chiswick flat on 4 December, she said: "He was very flustered, walking between the front room and the kitchen and was offering me a drink again."
She also claimed he said that he did not want to be on the baby's birth certificate, and she had then had asked him to leave.
The court was told Mr Burke then brought in two glasses with water in one and what looked like orange juice in the other, and asked if she was going to drink it.
Ms Slade told the court she swore at him and said no.
"He then picked it up and took it into the kitchen with his cup, then came back," she said.
"I waited for the door to close, ran to the door, locked the door, then ran to the sink."
Ms Slade said she had found a white powder on the empty glass and called police the following day.
Mr Burke is accused of lacing the drink with mifepristone.
David Spens QC, defending, suggested Burke was not "insisting" that Ms Slade drink the orange juice but had simply asked her twice because he was being "caring".
Tags: UK, women's news, UK


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Q: Recursive Type Families I am experimenting with an mtl-style class that allows me to lift Pipe composition over an outer monad.  To do so, I must define which two variables of the type are the domain and codomain of Pipe composition.
I tried using an associated type family approach, but to no avail:
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}

import Control.Monad.Trans.Free
import Control.Monad.Trans.State
import Control.Pipe hiding (Pipe)

data Pipe a b m r = Pipe { unPipe :: FreeT (PipeF a b) m r }

class MonadPipe m where
    type C a b (m :: * -> *) :: * -> *
    idT :: C a a m r
    (<-<) :: C b c m r -> C a b m r -> C a c m r

instance (Monad m) => MonadPipe (Pipe i o m) where
    type C a b (Pipe i o m) = Pipe a b m
    idT = Pipe idP
    (Pipe p1) <-< (Pipe p2) = Pipe (p1 <+< p2)

instance (MonadPipe m) => MonadPipe (StateT s m) where
    type C a b (StateT s m) = StateT s (C a b m)
    idT = StateT $ \s -> idT
    (StateT f1) <-< (StateT f2) = StateT $ \s -> f1 s <-< f2 s

However, the above code does not type-check.  GHC gives the following errors:
family.hs:23:15:
    Could not deduce (C a a m ~ C a0 a0 m0)
    from the context (MonadPipe m)
      bound by the instance declaration at family.hs:21:14-52
    NB: `C' is a type function, and may not be injective
    Expected type: C a a (StateT s m) r
      Actual type: StateT s (C a0 a0 m0) r
    In the expression: StateT $ \ s -> idT
    In an equation for `idT': idT = StateT $ \ s -> idT
    In the instance declaration for `MonadPipe (StateT s m)'

family.hs:24:10:
    Could not deduce (C b c m ~ C b0 c0 m1)
    from the context (MonadPipe m)
      bound by the instance declaration at family.hs:21:14-52
    NB: `C' is a type function, and may not be injective
    Expected type: C b c (StateT s m) r
      Actual type: StateT s (C b0 c0 m1) r
    In the pattern: StateT f1
    In an equation for `<-<':
        (StateT f1) <-< (StateT f2) = StateT $ \ s -> f1 s <-< f2 s
    In the instance declaration for `MonadPipe (StateT s m)'

<<Two other errors for 'C a b m' and 'C a c m'>>

It's hard for me to understand why the types won't unify, especially for the idT definition, since I'd expect the inner idT to be universally quantified over a so it would match the outer one.
So my question is whether this is implementable with type families, and if not possible with type families, how could it be implemented?

A: EDITED Three times: see bottom for data family version. And changed GADT version to drop m.
Let me guess: leftovers?
Let me walk myself through the type error first, the a SOLUTION.
The class defines :
type C a0 b0 m  where a0 and b0 are fresh.
idT :: C a a m r, where a and r are fresh.

The idT in the (Pipe i o m0) instance is okay by what I think is the logic:
LHS is idT :: C a0 a0 (Pipe i o m0) r0 which becomes Pipe a0 a0 m0 r0
RHS is Pipe idP :: Pipe a1 a1 m1 r1 starts fresh
And then these unify
because Pipe is a data constructor.

The idT in the MonadPipe m0 => (StateT s0 m0) instance:
LHS is idT :: C a0 a0 (StateT s0 m0) which becomes StateT s0 (C a0 a0 m0)
RHS is StateT (\s -> idT) :: StateT s1 m1 r1
Some unification seems to happen...
RHS is StateT (\s -> idT) :: StateT s1 (C a0 a0 m0) r1
  where expression idT :: MonadPipe m1 => (C a2 a2 m2) r2 starts fresh
        context of idT :: (C a0 a0 m0) (a1, s1)
And then (C a0 a0 m0) does not unify with (C a1 a2 m2)
because C is a type constructor.

Your previous newtype way to make the Category instances probably works here if the type family becomes a data family.
EDIT: You alter the order of parameters and newtype StateT to solve it:
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies, MultiParamTypeClasses #-}

import Control.Monad.Trans.Free
import Control.Monad.Trans.State
import Control.Pipe hiding (Pipe)

data Pipe m a b r = Pipe { unPipe :: FreeT (PipeF a b) m r }

newtype StatePipe s mp a b r = SP (StateT s (mp a b) r)

class MonadPipe mp where
    idT :: mp a a r
    (<-<) :: mp b c r -> mp a b r -> mp a c r

instance (Monad m) => MonadPipe (Pipe m) where
    idT = Pipe idP
    (Pipe p1) <-< (Pipe p2) = Pipe (p1 <+< p2)

instance (MonadPipe mp) => MonadPipe (StatePipe s mp) where
     idT = SP . StateT $ \s -> idT
     (SP (StateT f1)) <-< (SP (StateT f2)) = SP . StateT $ \s -> f1 s <-< f2 s

Though MonadTrans might now be sad.  Another approach keeps the argument order by using a GADT to, perhaps, more cleanly express what you are trying to build:
{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses, GADTs, FlexibleInstances #-}
import Control.Monad.Trans.Free
import Control.Monad.Trans.State
import Control.Pipe hiding (Pipe)

data Pipe s a b m r where
  FPipe :: { unPipe :: FreeT (PipeF a b) m r } -> Pipe () a b m r
  LPipe :: StateT s1 (Pipe s2 a b m) r -> Pipe (s1,s2) a b m r

class MonadPipe s where
    idT :: Monad m => Pipe s a a m r
    (<-<) :: Monad m => Pipe s b c m r -> Pipe s a b m r -> Pipe s a c m r

instance MonadPipe () where
    idT  = FPipe idP
    (FPipe p1) <-< (FPipe p2) = FPipe (p1 <+< p2)

instance MonadPipe s2 => MonadPipe (s1,s2) where
    idT  = LPipe (StateT $ \s -> idT)
    (LPipe (StateT f1)) <-< (LPipe (StateT f2)) =
       LPipe (StateT $ \s1 -> (f1 s1 <-< f2 s1))

And I can translate this into a perhaps even nicer data family?
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
import Control.Monad.Trans.Free
import Control.Monad.Trans.State
import Control.Pipe hiding (Pipe)

data family GPipe s :: * -> * -> (* -> *) -> * -> *
newtype instance GPipe () a b m r = Pipe { unPipe :: FreeT (PipeF a b) m r }
newtype instance GPipe (s1,s2) a b m r = LPipe ( StateT s1 (GPipe s2 a b m) r )

class MonadPipe s where
  idT :: Monad m => GPipe s a a m r
  (<-<) :: Monad m => GPipe s b c m r -> GPipe s a b m r -> GPipe s a c m r

instance MonadPipe () where
  idT = Pipe idP
  (Pipe p1) <-< (Pipe p2) = Pipe (p1 <+< p2)

instance MonadPipe s2 => MonadPipe (s1,s2) where
  idT = LPipe (StateT (\s -> idT))
  (LPipe (StateT f1)) <-< (LPipe (StateT f2)) = LPipe (StateT (\s -> f1 s <-< f2 s))

A: Type inference is, by default, a guessing game. Haskell's surface syntax makes it rather awkward to be explicit about which types should instantiate a forall, even if you know what you want. This is a legacy from the good old days of Damas-Milner completeness, when ideas interesting enough to require explicit typing were simply forbidden.
Let's imagine we're allowed to make type application explicit in patterns and expressions using an Agda-style f {a = x} notation, selectively accessing the type parameter corresponding to a in the type signature of f. Your
idT = StateT $ \ s -> idT

is supposed to mean
idT {a = a}{m = m} = StateT $ \ s -> idT {a = a}{m = m}

so that the left has type C a a (StateT s m) r and the right has type StateT s (C a a m) r, which are equal by definition of the type family and joy radiates over the world. But that's not the meaning of what you wrote. The "variable-rule" for invoking polymorphic things requires that each forall is instantiated with a fresh existential type variable which is then solved by unification. So what your code means is
idT {a = a}{m = m} = StateT $ \ s -> idT {a = a'}{m = m'}
  -- for a suitably chosen a', m'

The available constraint, after computing the type family, is
C a a m ~ C a' a' m'

but that doesn't simplify, nor should it, because there is no reason to assume C is injective. And the maddening thing is that the machine cares more than you about the possibility of finding a most general solution. You have a suitable solution in mind already, but the problem is to achieve communication when the default assumption is guesswork.
There are a number of strategies which might help you out of this jam. One is to use data families instead. Pro: injectivity no problem. Con: structor. (Warning, untested speculation below.)
class MonadPipe m where
  data C a b (m :: * -> *) r
  idT :: C a a m r
  (<-<) :: C b c m r -> C a b m r -> C a c m r

instance (MonadPipe m) => MonadPipe (StateT s m) where
  data C a b (StateT s m) r = StateTPipe (StateT s (C a b m) r)
  idT = StateTPipe . StateT $ \ s -> idT
  StateTPipe (StateT f) <-< StateTPipe (StateT g) =
    StateTPipe . StateT $ \ s - f s <-< g s

Another con is that the resulting data family is not automatically monadic, nor is it so very easy to unwrap it or make it monadic in a uniform way.
I'm thinking of trying out a pattern for these things where you keep your type family, but define a newtype wrapper for it
newtype WrapC a b m r = WrapC {unwrapC :: C a b m r}

then use WrapC in the types of the operations to keep the typechecker on the right track. I don't know if that's a good strategy, but I plan to find out, one of these days.
A more direct strategy is to use proxies, phantom types, and scoped type variables (although this example shouldn't need them). (Again, speculation warning.)
data Proxy (a :: *) = Poxy
data ProxyF (a :: * -> *) = PoxyF

class MonadPipe m where
  data C a b (m :: * -> *) r
  idT :: (Proxy a, ProxyF m) -> C a a m r
  ...

instance (MonadPipe m) => MonadPipe (StateT s m) where
  data C a b (StateT s m) r = StateTPipe (StateT s (C a b m) r)
  idT pp = StateTPipe . StateT $ \ s -> idT pp

That's just a crummy way of making the type applications explicit. Note that some people use a itself instead of Proxy a and pass undefined as the argument, thus failing to mark the proxy as such in the type and relying on not accidentally evaluating it. Recent progress with PolyKinds may at least mean we can have just one kind-polymorphic phantom proxy type. Crucially, the Proxy type constructors are injective, so my code really is saying "same parameters here as there".
But there are times when I wish that I could drop to the System FC level in source code, or otherwise express a clear manual override for type inference. Such things are quite standard in the dependently typed community, where nobody imagines that the machine can figure everything out without a nudge here and there, or that hidden arguments carry no information worth inspecting. It's quite common that hidden arguments to a function can be suppressed at usage sites but need to be made explicit within the definition. The present situation in Haskell is based on a cultural assumption that "type inference is enough" which has been off the rails for a generation but still somehow persists.


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"""Functions to handle package versions."""

def CompareVersions(first_version_list, second_version_list):
  """Compares two lists containing version parts.

  Note that the version parts can contain alpha numeric characters.

  Args:
    first_version_list (list[str]): first version parts.
    second_version_list (list[str]): second version parts.

  Returns:
    int: 1 if the first is larger than the second, -1 if the first is smaller
        than the second, or 0 if the first and second are equal.
  """
  first_version_list_length = len(first_version_list)
  second_version_list_length = len(second_version_list)

  for index in range(0, first_version_list_length):
    if index >= second_version_list_length:
      return 1

    try:
      first_version_part = int(first_version_list[index], 10)
      second_version_part = int(second_version_list[index], 10)
    except ValueError:
      first_version_part = first_version_list[index]
      second_version_part = second_version_list[index]

    if first_version_part > second_version_part:
      return 1
    if first_version_part < second_version_part:
      return -1

  if first_version_list_length < second_version_list_length:
    return -1

  return 0