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Putting method gaining popularity, warrants a caution
Kevin Chappell (Maddie Meyer/ Getty Images)
NORTON, Mass. – Ian Poulter and Kevin Chappell played together at the Deutsche Bank Championship, and their birdie putts on the par-5 second hole during the second round were significant mainly because of how they read the greens.
Both use AimPoint Express, only Poulter had to do without on this occasion. He was just under 20 feet away. Chappell was about 12 feet away, and his marker was in the line of where Poulter ordinarily would have straddled the line of his own putt to feel the slope of the green.
"I thought it may go right-to-left, but I couldn't tell until I hit it that I picked the wrong line," Poulter said.
Poulter has been using the method since January, joining a growing list of players that includes Adam Scott, Stacy Lewis and Hunter Mahan. It has become so popular that the R&A and USGA published a joint statement at the start of the year that cautioned players of one pitfall.
One part of AimPoint Express is to pick an area halfway toward the hole where the feet can feel the slope (and from there players will hold up one or two fingers to help them figure out where to start the putt).
Rule 16-1a, however, makes it illegal for players to touch the line of their putts, which is defined as the line players want their balls to take and includes a "reasonable distance on either side of the intended line."
The European Tour went so far as to post a video explaining how the rule can be breeched if players are not careful. The variance of the line will be greater on longer putts than the shorter ones. No one is believed to have been penalized yet (two-stroke penalty or loss of hole in match play).
"You can't stand in your own line, but your own line is vague," Chappell said. "When it first became big, it came up. They were going to try to outlaw it a few years ago, and then it became like, `OK, your line from 4 feet is much smaller and precise than your line from 40 feet.' But it would be pretty hard to stand in your line from 40 feet and have them prove you have an advantage.
"I haven't been warned, but I've had discussions about it."
FINAL MAJOR: The Evian Masters this week in France is the fifth and final major on the LPGA Tour schedule, and it presents another opportunity for an unprecedented feat. Only it doesn't involve Inbee Park.
Park won the Women's British Open last month at Turnberry for her fourth different major, and now she goes after the career Grand Slam (all five majors) at Evian.
But she wouldn't be the first woman to do that.
Karrie Webb won her first major at the du Maurier Classic outside Calgary in 1999, and she wrapped up the career Grand Slam over the next two years (Kraft Nabisco, U.S. Women's Open, LPGA Championship). But when tobacco sponsorship became an issue, the du Maurier was replaced by the Women's British Open, and Webb won that (at Turnberry) in 2002. That gave her what the LPGA referred to at the time as the "Super Slam."
If the Australian can win the Evian Masters for a career Grand Slam of six majors, the LPGA may as well called it the Karrie Slam.
THE SHORT FUSE: Anyone who plays golf at any level has a story about a short temper or a thrown club.
That includes Jordan Spieth, who spoke before the Deutsche Bank Championship about working with his coach, Cameron McCormick, to turn a short fuse into a longer one. And it led to a story about what he considers his shortest fuse in any sport at any age.
It was golf, of course. He was 11.
He told of slamming his putter into his bag and when he took it out on the next hole, he noticed it was bent. What he didn't know was Rule 4-3b on using a club that has been damaged other than the normal course of play.
"I think I made three birdies in the last six holes with a bent putter, and I was so excited about it," Spieth said. "I was telling my dad after the round, `Look, I bent my putter, I finished with three birdies, I'm still in this thing.'"
He said his father called the assistant pro at the club – without Spieth's knowledge – and the next day, Spieth was invited into his office.
"And they opened the rule book and it showed disqualification," Spieth said. "I was just absolutely torn apart."
He said that remains his only disqualification. But he's still working on the fuse.
LONG YEAR: Carlos Ortiz of Mexico finished his rookie year on the PGA Tour sooner than he wanted after a season that felt much longer than he imagined. The 24-year-old from Guadalajara can't recall playing so much golf in his life. The Deutsche Bank Championship was his 30th event.
"I thought it was bad in college," Ortiz said of his schedule. "I played seven weeks in a row. It's too much. It becomes work. Hopefully, next year I can play better and have more breaks."
He fell into the same trap of so many rookies who need a week off but are concerned about their position in the FedEx Cup or money list. As long as they're at home, they are giving up a chance at points or money.
Ortiz didn't miss a cut in four starts last fall, and he tied for ninth in Mexico. But his Fedex Cup standing fell out of the top 100 in the summer and he kept playing until he began the playoffs at No. 112 and needed a good week at The Barclays to advance. He was in good shape going into the final round until he opened with a quadruple-bogey 8.
"One of the worst experiences of my life," Ortiz said. "I wanted to cry."
Instead, he bounced back to play the rest of the round in 1 under and made it to the TPC Boston. This time, he wasn't so fortunate. Ortiz made four straight birdies early in the final round to get inside the projected top 70, only to make triple bogey at No. 9 and shoot 41 on the back nine for a 76. He had the look of a tired golfer.
Next year might not be much easier. Ortiz is likely to make the Olympic team for Mexico.
DIVOTS: Now that the LPGA has gone through the inaugural Crown International, it is moving back the dates to qualify so the cutoff is closer to when the event is played. The eight countries will be determined by the world ranking after the first LPGA major of the year at the ANA Inspiration. The four players who qualify for each team will be determined after the second major in June at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. The tournament will be July 19-24 at Rich Harvest Farms southwest of Chicago. … Keegan Bradley closed with a 69 to narrowly advance to the third FedEx Cup playoff event. That wasn't the only reason to celebrate. He got engaged at the start of the week to Jillian Stacey.
STAT OF THE WEEK: The 54-hole leader has failed to win the last six years at the Deutsche Bank Championship.
FINAL WORD: "Nothing is different. I don't feel it's far off, even though my score is far off. It's just weird. It's almost like a bad dream. I just need to wake up and get the putts to go in again." – Jordan Spieth after missing back-to-back cuts for the first time in his career.
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The Mariners have to wait and see how long Felix Hernandez will need to be out of action. (AP)
BY SHANNON DRAYER
Mariners Insider, Seattle Sports
MESA, Ariz. – It was the last thing manager Scott Servais wanted to see on the field Monday as the Mariners took on the Cubs at Sloan Park. The starter they were relying on to take the ball a minimum of 25 times this year, Felix Hernandez, hit in the forearm by a wicked comebacker off the bat of Cubs catcher Victor Caratini.
Felix left the game in obvious pain to head back to Peoria to be seen by Mariners team doctors, who sent him for precautionary X-rays. The news was somewhat re-assuring: X-rays negative, with Felix to be re-evaluated on Tuesday and currently listed as day to day. Still, there are questions of how long he will be out.
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"The report I got back, it is a contusion," said Servais. "Nothing is broken, but he is going to be out a little while. We will know more in the next couple of days. Unfortunate it happened, we're lucky it's not any worse than it is. We will just wait and see how he is the next couple of days."
Before the injury, Servais liked what he saw from Hernandez, who threw a 1-2-3 first inning, including strikeouts of Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo.
"He had all of his pitches working, he threw the ball very well," Servais said. "It's unfortunate bad luck but lucky for us it's happened early in the spring and he's got some time to hopefully recoup, and like I said, I don't know. We will wait and see how it is in the next couple of days."
Servais noted the not-so-good déjà vu of the situation – James Paxton was hit on the elbow by a ball off the bat of the Angels' Andrelton Simmons in August 2106. He was placed on the 15-day DL with an elbow contusion and missed 17 days. Felix appeared to get hit in a different spot than Paxton, at least.
The severity and type of bruise – soft tissue or bone – will determine how long he misses. Similar cases have kept players out as little as a few days or as much as six weeks if there is no muscle or tendon tear.
For Servais it is tough to see Felix sidelined for any amount of time.
"He's been working his tail off to put him in a good spot. We wanted to get him out there early in the spring to build up his innings.
"Like I said we will have to play it by ear here the next couple of days."
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The City of Satellite Beach has been an instrumental partner in continuing the public education and engagement in our Restore Our Shores program. Through their donations we have been able to provide regular oyster mat making workshops at the David R. Schechter Community Center.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection helps with Oyster Mats project events and provided valuable input into the development of ROS's shell recycling initiative.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission provides volunteer assistance and advisement for both the Oyster Mats and Oyster Gardening programs.
A current finanial supporter, IRLNEP provides staff and resource support while coninuing to use social media to promote our initiative and overall a healthy Lagoon.
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Barack Obama, Ron Paul
Protecting Banking Corruption By Turning The Justice & Military System Against The People: That Way They Will Not Be Accountable For Their Crimes! ~ Movie 1hr 49 min.
by Volubrjotr • 17 Sep 2012
Ron Paul vs. The Global Military-Industrial-Financial Complex
Ron Paul is not simply the anti-war candidate. He is the National Security Candidate.
The wars in the Middle East have been sold to the American people as "national security" wars, but this is a big lie. The wars have nothing to do with America's national security interests. So, the anti-war position is the same as the pro-national security position.
Libyan End Game: Hopes Of The Rothschild's Federal Reserve: Backstabbing Of The Middle East Arabs –> IN ORDER TO GET OUT OF THE KISSINGER T-BILL DEBT
Where Are The Rothschilds? The Felonious Teutonic Zionists!
Washington's Blog shined a light on the real reasons for America's endless wars in the article, "Are The Middle East Wars Really About Forcing the World Into Dollars and Private Central Banking?"
Ron Paul is the world's biggest opponent of private central banking, the fiat dollar system, and the endless war on terror. His resistance has a moral dimension for sure, but his main argument is that America has not benefited from the wars either economically, militarily, or politically.
Throughout his presidential campaign Dr. Paul has repeated the point that America's national security and economic health are being ruined by Washington's multiple unsustainable and costly wars.
But Dr. Paul's rejection of the war on terror mythos is not the only reason why he should be considered as the national security candidate. He puts the national security of America ahead of politics and party every single time, no matter the issue. Whether the issue is a war against Iran or indefinite detention in America, Dr. Paul is consistently for the defense of America's national security.
It is clear that Dr. Paul is the only serious national security candidate in the 2012 presidential race. Below I've listed five issues which showcase Dr. Paul's national security credentials.
1. Dr. Paul agrees with senior members of the U.S. Military that a war against Iran is a bad idea, and with the U.S. intelligence community that Iran does not have a nuclear bomb. His political foes in his party are confusing America's national security interests with Israel's national security interests. And in doing so, they are severely undermining the economic health and security of the United States.
Middle East Presidential Advisor To Four Presidents Bruce Riedel: Iran Is Not an Existential Threat to Israel or the United States!
Cost Of Military Paid By The U.S. Taxpayer: Used For Establishing Rothschild Central Banks In Iraq, Libya, Next Syria & Last Holdout Iran.
2. Dr. Paul's opposition to the indefinite detention provisions in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) are grounded in the belief that unconstitutional laws threaten America's national security. Earlier this week, he introduced legislation to repeal the section of the NDAA that allows the military to snatch up American citizens in the night and keep them hostage in secret prisons without trial. This government power will be abused and the social fabric of America will be destroyed. As Washington's Blog stated in an article headline, "Indefinite Detention Hurts Our National Security and Increases the Risk of Terrorism."
Ron Paul Poised for an Upset – More SC Senators Come Forward to Endorse Ron Paul for President: Ron Paul Introduces Repeal Of NDAA!!
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3. In August 2010, Admiral Mike Mullen, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said U.S. national debt poses the biggest threat to America's national security.
Dr. Paul has done the most among political leaders in raising public awareness about the rapidly growing U.S. national debt and the risks of U.S. bankruptcy. He is the only true anti-debt candidate, which proves that he truly cares about the economic security and social well-being of America, unlike every other Republican candidate and President Obama.
On January 18, 2012, Senator Jim DeMint endorsed Ron Paul's views on foreign policy and national debt, saying:
"If we spread ourselves too thin around the world were not gonna be able to defend the homeland, particularly with the level of debt that we have right now. It's foolish for us to think that we can have military bases all over the world, spend billions of dollars when we're going broke back home. It just isn't gonna happen."
True Cost Of Debt Ceiling Alone By 'Too Big To Fail Bailout' ~ From $700 Billion To $12.8 Trillion.
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4. Ron Paul's defense of America's national security begins at the borders. He says as President he will protect America's borders and restore the legal paths to citizenship in the United States. His pro-legal immigration/pro-border security platform is in line with the true values and national security interests of America.
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Mexican Drug Cartel Along With 663 Followers Of Islam ~ Pushes Criminal Immigrants & Illegal Drugs Into America. You didn't really think all those headless bodies turning up lately were the work of Mexicans, did you?
5. The foundations of America's national security are the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, especially the first amendment and the second amendment. They are currently under attack by the hijacked government, which is an attack on America's national security. Dr. Paul will restore the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, which would significantly improve the security of the United States.
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America would not be America without a free press and an armed citizenry. If both were destroyed, which is a very real possibility if internet censorship and police state legislation are not resisted, then the fire of liberty that is America will be extinguished forever.
Rothschild Bankers Must Destroy Your Family First: To Resurrect The Ancient Feudal System Called New World Order!
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US citizens' due process rights saved from the NDAA's indefinite detention | Tangerine Bolen (guardian.co.uk)
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Where Is the Ark of the Covenant?
by Pini Dunner
A Torah scroll. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Last month, if you were visiting Adis Ababa in Ethiopia, you would have witnessed an astonishing sight.
Every January, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church celebrates a festival called Timkat, during which their senior priests parade through the streets of Ethiopia's capital. They carry a replica of the Ark of the Covenant, as onlookers drop to their knees in reverence.
This obscure branch of Christianity has approximately 50 million adherents, most of whom live in Ethiopia. Aside for this sect's curious affinity to the Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish practices — evident in their observance of kosher laws, separation of the sexes in their churches, and the treatment of Saturday as Sabbath rather than Sunday — they also make the extraordinary claim that the Ark of the Covenant, Judaism's most revered object, is in their possession — and has been for almost 3,000 years.
The current location of the Ark, first described in the Torah portion of Terumah (Ex. 25:11-23), has long been a subject of fascination for religious believers and archeological adventurers, most famously portrayed in the 1981 movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Jewish tradition on this topic is uncertain. Tosefta, a Talmudic work compiled in the second century C.E., offers two accounts of the Ark's fate. In the first, King Josiah of Judah secreted the Ark away, along with several other sacred relics, in order to prevent their theft by Babylonian invaders, who would doubtlessly have taken them back to Babylon after destroying Jerusalem's First Temple.
The second account suggests that this is exactly what happened — the Ark was removed to Babylon, never to return. Meanwhile, the second Book of Maccabees contains another version of the story; in this account, the prophet Jeremiah concealed the Ark on Mount Nebo, vowing that the location would remain a secret "until God finally gathers his people together and shows them mercy." (2 Macc. 2:7)
It is certainly the case that the Ark was missing from the Second Temple, and there is no record of anyone being aware of its location in contemporary documents or traditions. Of course, none of this has prevented countless dubious claims of its discovery over the years.
One of the most recent ones took place in 1982. It was launched by Ron Wyatt (1933-1999), an eccentric amateur archaeologist and Seventh Day Adventist, who proudly proclaimed to have found the Ark buried in a cave under the remains of the old city of Jerusalem. Intriguingly, he was the only one to see it, and he claimed to have revisited it several times.
But the assertions of the Ethiopian Church far outstrip Wyatt's tantalizing story. These faithful Christians believe that the Ark of the Covenant was taken from Jerusalem 3,000 years ago, to a place called Aksum, in northern Ethiopia, where it has remained ever since — housed in a small unassuming church, and zealously guarded by the monks of Saint Mary of Zion.
The story has its origins in an ancient text called Kebra Negast, which begins with the story of the Queen of Sheba, who traveled from Ethiopia to Jerusalem to benefit from King Solomon's wisdom — and gave birth to his son on the way home. This son, named Menelik, later visited his father, and returned with a group of Israelite princes who had stolen the ark without his knowledge, and taken it with them to Ethiopia. When Menelik discovered the theft, he decided to keep the Ark rather than return it — hence its presence in Aksum.
No one besides a designated guardian is ever allowed to see this "Ark." In 2007, Paul Raffaele of the Smithsonian spent considerable time in Ethiopia in an attempt to gain access to the vault where the purported Ark is kept. But after countless adventures, he was thwarted at the eleventh hour by the impassive guardian, and found himself unable to "judge whether the Ark of the Covenant truly rested inside this nondescript chapel." Determined not to be disappointed, he decided "that simply being in the presence of this eternal mystery was a fitting ending to my quest."
One must presume that keeping the "Ark" from prying eyes has less to do with religious dogma, and far more to do with this relic's dubious provenance, with the fear that scientific testing will show that whatever it is, it certainly cannot be the Ark of the Covenant.
Jewish tradition has never obsessed about religious relics, and has no particular interest in the Ark's location — only in its symbolism. Various commentaries find it significant that the Ark's measurements include half cubits, unlike all the other Temple vessels, whose measurements were rounded off to whole numbers. Rabbi Jacob ben Asher (1269-1343) proposes that this anomaly is a reference to the Ark's contents — the sacred Tablets of Sinai and a Torah scroll, symbolic of a Torah scholar — and conveys the idea that a Torah scholar must always remain humble and see himself as only halfway there on the journey to full potential.
Another lesson is learned from the poles used to transport the Ark. The Torah instructs for these poles never to be removed from the rings that held them in place (Ex. 25:15). Even though the other Temple vessels had rings and poles to transport them, this prohibition against pole removal only applied to the Ark.
The commentaries explain that the poles for the other vessels were there purely for transportation purposes, while the poles of the Ark represent those who value and support Torah. It is imperative for Torah scholars supported by others to remember that they must never discard those who support them. These supporters are and will always remain a critical component of Torah preservation for the Jewish nation. Not only must they never be removed from the Ark, but they remain alongside it in the most sacred space of the Temple — the Holy of Holies — a fitting tribute to their commitment towards our sacred tradition.


I'd never heard of this novel until I noticed it up for sale online. The premise sounded reasonably interesting and it had a couple of positive bits of blurb attached to to the advert for it. So I thought I'd give it a try. Perhaps it is a now unfairly forgotten minor masterpiece?
Starting this, I really had no idea what to expect from Gertrude Friedberg's 1966 novel, her first full length science fiction novel.
The premise is quite straightforward. The revolving boy of the title, Derv Nagy, is blessed with an unfailing sense of direction. At any given time, he knows exactly where he is and this ability gives him a perfect sense of direction. This ability is compared to a classmate's absolute pitch. Though through the novel his parents had been aware that he was always able to successfully guide them to anywhere that they needed to go, it was his need to realign himself to compensate for his (and the planets) movements in space that really alerts them to his being unusual.
This simple premise is used to tell quite a touching little story. His ability, though in of itself useful, is seen by his parents and teachers as being an affliction, rather than a gift. In the case of the teachers, it is simply because it makes his behaviour a little odd and unexpected, while for his parents it is because if anyone were to delve too deeply into the reasons for Derv's odd movements and unexpectedly accurate sense of direction the truth about their lives would be revealed.
This aspect of the novel is handled quite well. The idea itself is a nice one and the conclusion of the novel is a satisfying pay off for the build up. As the truth of Derv's existence is revealed, it starts to become clear that his unusual ability isn't an affliction to fight against (though it does offer a few barriers along the way), more he may hold the keys to a greater understanding of the universe and humanity's place within it. For me, though, this is pretty much where the positive aspects of the novel end.
Friedberg's novel is not what one would call a stylish novel. This isn't inherently a bad thing. Straightforward prose, so long as it isn't tedious, can work. However, the fact that I had other issues with the novel meant that this lack of ambition in the writing highlights the faults of the novel and makes them all the more irritating.
Firstly it has an annoying tendency to use pointless neologisms where a known word would have been equally as good; in fact in most cases it would have been infinitely preferable. For example, the narrative refers to a 'wallochron', 'teleson' and most-annoyingly the 'air-warm'. Not to suggest that neologisms don't have a place at all in genre fiction. Of course they do, used sparingly and with a sure hand. This novel wasn't particularly crying out for them though.
The novel is set just a few years from the publication of the novel (and therefore, in the past for us). Unfortunately, as Friedberg has decided to imagine a world which is in some ways more technologically advanced than these seventies and eighties proved to be while being oddly conservative. On the first page it's noted that the fashions sported by the people of the beaches are a reaction to the excesses of the sixties. Neither of these things is necessarily a bad thing.
There is pleasure to be had in reading novels which extrapolate and explore the consequences of future scientific discoveries and technological developments, I don't think that this is the novel to attempt this. It certainly doesn't even attempt to provide any analysis of technology or of social developments.. As the scientific and technological developments seem to be there more to prove that this is a SF novel than being integral to the narrative, I just didn't feel that they added anything. More than getting things wrong the clunky technobabble, used too often to explain a piece of technology, just has the effect of bouncing the reader out of the narrative. This really detracts from what could have been an interesting, unusual, touching and deeply human story.
I didn't have any particular expectations of this novel, but I was hopeful that it may turn out to have been a neglected and under-read classic from the SF field. Unfortunately, this really wasn't the case. An intriguing premise (and, in fairness, resolution) are let down by too little style marred by an unfortunate attempt to bolt on a lot of new technology to the story. Disappointing: look elsewhere for hidden gems.
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Hmm, the work was clearly not a success considering she never wrote another sci-fi novel… But then again, wikipedia tells me she's primarily a playwright.
The Ace cover is great!
And the Del Rey cover — HAHAHAHA — utter crud.
Oh, good god. I wish I had the Del Ray now. At least that would be a candidate for Good Show Sir!
Yeah, I have to admit that the fact that this was her only SF novel did worry me a bit. But then I considered the fact that plenty of good female written SF disappears unfairly… Sadly that wasn't the reason with this one. Bums.
Yup, your review certainly displayed the averageness of the work… I wasn't tempted in the least — hahaha!
I really liked this book when I read it… in 1969… the summer after 8th grade.
I took this novel differently. I feel that, while a simple narrative, it had something to offer in terms of unrequited love (resolved nicely); curiosity for the reader (resolved satisfactorily); and completeness of story (no sequel required). Yes the language was a little stilted, but I found it easy to go beyond that and bask in the concepts and joie de vivre of the characters. This was one of my favourite stories growing up.
I am almost 59 years old, and, I read this book as a child. I loved !!!!!!!!!! It. I empathized with the boy, and at the end , I enjoyed the explanation. It was an enjoyable read, a good memory, and, a wonderful story . Good for the imagination. I never noticed anything wrong with the language, and I was 10 years old.


When I select Office Supplies or Technology in the category active filter window, only the sheet is filtered, nothing else happened.
But when I select Furniture in the Category filter, I want that the Region active filter window also showed. Is it possible?
I mean the Region active window will be shown or not shown based on the Category filter value.
You can pop out the Region filter if Furniture is selected.
Please see the attachment for the workbook.
In the attached I made space for the filter to pop out by shoving a blank after the Category filter. That's where Region will show up when it should.
I made a sheet that displays or hides based on whether or not "Furniture" was selected. See "Pop out Region Filter". In that sheet I have a filter. It displays the sheet if [Category] = "Furniture". Play with the filter when you are editing the sheet and you'll see what I mean. I made a bogus calc, [A], just so that I have something on Rows or Columns. It can be anything. This sheet can actually display anything. It will never be seen by the user. The point is to have a sheet that displays only under certain conditions. (In this case, when "Furniture" is selected.) Note too that I mace the Category filter apply to both your original sheet and this pop-out sheet. That way the pop-out knows what was selected for the data sheet.
Next on Dashboard2(2) I displayed the Region filter for Sheet 3. And I made a floating vertical container into which I dragged the pop-out sheet and the Region filter below it.
On dashboard2(2), play with the Category filter. You will see the Region filter move up and down as the pop-out sheet displays or hides. That's called Popping.
Now go to Dashboard2(3). Last step: I placed the starting y-coordinate for the container to a negative number. As long as the pop-out sheet is bigger than the object it is pushing (in this case the filter), it will push the filter into view on the dashboard. I settled on -250 just by playing with the number until the whole Region filter came into view when the pop-out was expanded.
What I did here is covered in video #2.
One last thing. The [Furniture?] calc I have in here is simplistic and assumes a single select Category filter. It would not work properly if you have a multi-select filter and want to display the Region filter if Furniture is among any of the selections. But we can make that happen if you need it. Likewise, it will not work in its current state if the user selects ALL in the filter. Or, at least, it will not find "Furniture" as one of the full set of Categories. Again, we can make it find "Furniture" from among ALL if needed.
But for now I have demonstrated how to display the Region filter conditionally. From here it's a matter of deciding what your application will really need and how you want the dashboard to function.
Amazing! Though I need some time to totally understand what you mentioned here, I find that the attached workbook really works. I will watch the video about the popping carefully, and hope to fully master this skill and use in my current project.
Thanks for your time to write the details step by step. I am very grateful for your help!


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Saudi Arabia beheads woman for 'sorcery'
Human rights group describes execution as "truly appalling" and notes steep rise in country's use of capital punishment.
13 Dec 2011 01:44 GMT
A Saudi woman has been beheaded after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is banned in the conservative Gulf kingdom, the country's interior ministry said.
Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was executed on Monday in the northern province of Jawf for "practising witchcraft and sorcery", the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA, Saudi Arabia's state news agency.
The ministry gave no further details of the charges for which the woman was convicted.
London-based newspaper al-Hayat quoted a member of the Saudi religious police as saying Nasser was in her 60s. The official claimed she had tricked people into giving her money, claiming that she could cure their illnesses.
According to the report, she apparently charged up to $800 a session.
Amnesty International said the beheading brought the number of executions in the kingdom to 73 this year. Another woman was beheaded in October for killing her husband by setting his house on fire.
There are no available statistics on how many women have been executed in Saudi Arabia.
'Truly appalling'
Amnesty condemned Monday's execution as "truly appalling", and called on Saudi Arabia to urgently halt the practice.
"The charges of 'witchcraft and sorcery' are not defined as crimes in Saudi Arabia", Philip Luther, Amnesty's interim director of the Middle East and North Africa, said.
"To use them to subject someone to the cruel and extreme penalty of execution is truly appalling," he added in a statement, which stressed the "urgent need" to stop executions.
"The charge of sorcery has often been used in Saudi Arabia to punish people, generally after unfair trials, for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion"
- Philip Luther,
Amnesty's interim director of the Middle East and North Africa
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy with no written criminal code. Its law is based on a form of Islamic sharia law, as interpreted by the country's judges.
Amnesty has reported that Saudi Arabia executed 27 convicts in 2010, compared to 67 executions announced the year before. Luther described the increasing number of executions in Saudi Arabia as "deeply disturbing" .
Many of those executed have had no defence lawyer and are not informed about the legal proceedings against them, according to Amnesty.
"While we don't know the details of the acts which the authorities accused Amina of committing, the charge of sorcery has often been used in Saudi Arabia to punish people, generally after unfair trials, for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion," Luther said.
Earlier this month, Amnesty accused the oil-rich kingdom of conducting a campaign of repression against protesters and reformists since the Arab Spring erupted 12 months ago.
The rights group said Saudi Arabia was one of a minority of states which voted against a UN General Assembly resolution last December calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions.


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From the Window Seat
An uneasy relationship
f all the airline people I've met over the years, none has been more clear-headed and honest about the relationship between airlines and agents than Elizabeth Milward.
Liz spent 44 years working for airlines, beginning with now-defunct Guest Airways (a small, Swedish-owned airline serving Mexico), where she "did everything -- passenger services, cargo, manifest, weight and balance" in the carrier's Bermuda office.
She moved to (the original) Pan Am in 1961, and worked her way up from passenger services representative to a position as director of travel agency sales. When she left Pan Am, the airline renamed a Boeing 747 "Clipper Elizabeth Milward" for a day in her honor.
She ended her career at International Airlines Travel Agent Network, from which she retired earlier this year after serving as its vice president, sales and marketing, since 1986.
Liz loved working for the airlines -- she said she would happily "do it all over again" -- but she knows what it's like to be up against them as well.
In 1964, she was working for Pan Am at the ticket counter in London and saw that the next step in career progression was to become an account manager. At least, that's what she had observed in the careers of her male peers.
When an account manager position opened up, she applied. She was told she certainly met the qualifications but that this position wouldn't be good for her because, being a woman, she couldn't "belly up to the bar" with her clients. But, they said, they'd keep her in mind should an account open up for one of the fashion houses or embassies.
Furious, she applied for a job with British Airways-predecessor BOAC, which she got. But before she ever reported to work, a Pan Am vice president who heard about the situation intervened and gave her an even better job -- one that involved a transfer to New York from London.
"There was no such thing as equal opportunity in those days. You had to make your own opportunity," she said.
And that, in a nutshell, is her advice to agents who find themselves frustrated with the airlines.
"I had a great career. But my pay was lousy and, as a woman, I had to claw my way anywhere I wanted to go, and even then I found myself underpaid," she said.
There are parallels in the situation she found herself in and the one some agents now face, she believes.
"The airline/agent relationship has always been a very uneasy one," she said. "With the airlines, it's always a question of money and cash flow. It has never been any different."
Milward has "a great deal of admiration for travel agents" and believes that if they don't care for the way airlines treat them, they have plenty of other options -- they can, in other words, "make their own opportunities."
"I've seen agents who are both tenacious and quite ingenious about how they approach their business, and are doing quite well," she said. "Agents offer a service that no large institution is going to be able to duplicate. They're economical, and provide value-for-money to both the industry and consumers. Even the airlines know they can't do without agents."
What is needed, she believes, is more clarity on the situation on the part of both agents and airlines. "The relationship is difficult, and always has been. That hasn't changed. Both sides need to understand that and then move forward."
Liz Milward understood her options when she was initially denied her promotion at Pan Am. She could have accepted what she considered to be unfair treatment and grumbled about it until the day she retired. Instead, as a single mother at the time, she was prepared to find a way to provide for her family and retain her dignity.
"It's about willingness to change," she said. "Those who can, I sense, will do well even if they don't care for the way airlines treat them. But if they're unable to change, that's a problem."
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Parallelism isn't just for scientists anymore. High-volume Web servers and many enterprise data servers employ cluster server architecture. That means that the Web site you are connected to as you read this is probably a team of networked workstations: often a cluster of high-end PCs. Custom software allows each of the huge numbers of incoming packets to be serviced by a next-available processor.
Another reason to use a cluster is for its fault-tolerance properties: its high availability. If a dozen PCs can handle your Web server's peak hit rate, building a 15-PC cluster gives you a 25% margin for error, minus some process management overhead. If one of your dozen machines fails during a peak load condition, your user community will start to get slow response times, and that one failure may propagate to others, cascading into a very bad day. If one of the 15-node cluster PCs fails, a detection process can redirect the load and the responsibilities to one of the 3 spares and send email to a technician about the failure. Your users probably won't even notice.
Fault detection can be of a simple nature. One implementation uses an "I'm okay!" message from the live PC to its backup. This can be once per second, and even over the serial port, to minimize any impact to performance, but half of your PCs are backups in this scheme. Fault detection can be made more efficient by dedicating one PC as a monitor and having each live system send it signed status messages. If status from a live PC isn't seen after some configurable amount of time, the monitor can start an investigation, reboot, or even replace the dead machine. There is a cost to the level of management overhead that must be weighed against the potential risk of failure. More information is available online at http://linux-ha.org.
The cost benefit of cluster computing is legendary. It is so well known that serious scientists are starting to do very creative capital equipment acquisition. One major university has resorted to borrowing our PCs (with our permission, of course) while we're doing other things.
SETI is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—looking for little green men who are smart enough to let us know of their existence. Walter Sullivan's book We Are Not Alone: The Search for Intelligent Life on Other Worlds (self-published, 1964) popularized the Drake equation that posed the important factors for the development of intelligent life and estimated their coefficients, predicting the probability that intelligent life might exist beyond Earth. A recent TV program interviewed a dozen prominent astronomers who each gave their personal estimates of these coefficients. Though they varied widely in their estimates, the final set of probabilities was sufficiently large to warrant further interest. As Ellie Arroway (portrayed by Jodie Foster) says in the movie Contact (Warner Bros., 1997), "If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space."
The University of California at Berkeley (no relationship to Edmund C. Berkeley) started a major SETI project that was badly underfunded. Its response was perhaps one of the more clever instantiations of a cluster computer to date. Millions of home computers are used for only a small fraction of the day, leaving a whole lot of computer power untapped. Most of these computers have an operating system that allows the use of a "screen saver" program that gets control of the computer's resources after some amount of idle time. The UC team developed a screen saver that analyzed a small portion of the data, sending back results and requesting more data when the opportunity presented itself. See http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ for references to the latest research and publications.
To quote an astute observer, "Something's happening here, and what it is ain't exactly clear." If you have a network of PCs, and each PC's operating system is aware of the network and its residents, you can run specialized software on each of them that turns them into a cluster server, a parallel processor (a supercomputer), or something of your own concoction, with or without allowance for faults or failures. This specialized software, called middleware, looks like it implements a software-defined computing architecture. That's an interesting concept, in my opinion, and deserves some further research. Have a look at http://www.clustercomputing.org for further details.


Then, we revealed the premiere date of our next original live-action series — Swamp Thing. The James Wan-produced adaptation of DC's greatest horror hero will arrive on May 31st. Which gives you enough time to experience the comic book that inspired it — writer Alan Moore's run on Saga of the Swamp Thing!
We've also got a fistful of new premiere dates that should excite most every DC fan out there… Season 1 of TV's Krypton will arrive on DC Universe on April 5th — next week! So you can watch it before season 2 debuts on Syfy this summer… Plus, the animated film Justice League vs. The Fatal Five will premiere on DC Universe on April 16th, the exact day and date on which the film will hit 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD.
This much-anticipated movie will see the fan-favorite actors Kevin Conroy, Susan Eisenberg, and George Newbern reprise their roles as Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman from Justice League Unlimited. And the second half of DC Universe's original Young Justice: Outsidersanimated series (comprised of 13 new episodes) will premiere on July 2, 2019. Last but not least, fans can expect season 2 of DC Universe's Titans to arrive in the fall of 2019, with our animated original Harley Quinn series following it in late fall.
Which of DC Universe's latest announcements are you most excited about? Let us know in our Community!
Tags: DC Comics, DC Universe, Stargirl, Swamp Thing, Warner Bros.


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As a child I had vivid memories of Manila streets turned into huge sea, but many decades later, politicos still playing blame game re floods, when it was the Palace that cancelled Laguna Lake dredging project. AES Watch members sue Smartmatic and Comelec before Ombudsman. Piñol asks disenfranchised voters to forward complaints on PCOS
It seems that the 152nd birth anniversary today of our National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, was hardly noticed due to one big factor---the floods.
Everyone's talking about last Monday's deluge and how myriad folks were caught up in the horrible four-hour traffic on EDSA that night. What was particularly striking in some friends' stories was how motorists sought to avoid driving into deep pools of floodwaters on EDSA, deliberately stopping at their edge and waiting for traffic to ease up first before moving forward---doubtless to avoid drowning their engines. Ganoon kalalim ang baha.
Such motorists' tactics, however, contributed to the hideously snarled traffic.
I have vivid memories as a young child watching the flooded street in front of our home along Sta. Mesa Blvd., Manila with my many siblings, our legs dangling from our second-floor ventanillas, as people sailed up in bancas in the converted sea. Over the years since Mayor Antonio Villegas' time I remember hearing politicians quarrelling over flood control projects, denouncing corruption therein and blaming one another for inefficiency, etc.
Many decades later they're still playing the blame game.
Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras sounded truly pissed off in an interview this morning as he sought to deflect the blame from the Cabinet and his boss the President. Almendras blamed the informal settlers who throw garbage all around, clogging the water docks, the politicos coddling them, etc., etc.
There's also news that the President ordered sanctions imposed on local executives who would allow informal settlers to once again squat along the esteros and other waterways. But some wise guy on FB argued that P-Noy is to blame, for he raised the hand of those very same local execs in front of their constituents, the informal settlers, in the recent elections.
Secretary Almendras is not really succeeding in deflecting blame---for a major reason.
As Manila Times' Rigoberto Tiglao pointed out in his column last Sunday, the Aquino administration threw out the flood control project in Laguna de Bay that could have significantly mitigated this perennial problem. The P18.7 billion Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project contracted by the Arroyo administration with the 150-year old Belgian dredging firm Baagerwerken Decloedt En Zoon (BDZ) involved the dredging of some 4.6 million cubic meters of silt and waste of Laguna de Bay, to enable it to take in floodwaters from Metro Manila, with help from the deepening of the 7-km. Napindan Channel in Taytay.
What's more, the project featured a concessional loan, with Brussels providing an outright P7billion grant which, as Bobi pointed out, would have been the biggest development aid that country would ever have given us.
But five months into his term, President Aquino threw out this contract with little explanation beyond stressing that it was studded with corruption, having been contracted by the Arroyo administration, to the consternation of the Belgian company. Unfortunately the Palace offered no alternative solution to the flooding problem.
In a previous column I wrote about how the Belgian King was so disturbed by the cancellation and the Belgian Prime Minister tried to seek reconsideration, mainly because it was good for us Filipinos, assuring that everything was above board with this contract.
On the other hand, Tiglao noted that the Bangko Sentral and P-Noy's Justice Secretary Leila de Lima checked out this project and found it ok, while his officials "have been unable to produce any single evidence of graft involving the project."
He also pointed out that the unilateral cancellation of the Belgian project could result in P6 billion of taxpayers' money lost, as the government has to pay very soon the P420 million penalty for cancellation of the BNP Paribas Fortis bank loan---amid a suit against the government filed by the Belgian company at the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
This unilateral cancellation in mid-stream is admitted by the foreign chambers of commerce here to be among the reasons (along with the Fraport dispute over NAIA 3 dating from the Erap administration and the cancellation by the Aquino administration as well of the Arroyo contract for steel ports with the French Matiere Co. ) why foreign direct investments have failed to come into our country---unlike the way they're pouring into Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia and the rest of Asean.
With this dispute that the government is involved with in an international court and the gargantuan fees it will pay foreign law firms, it might have been better if it had just gone ahead with the Laguna Lake dredging.
Individual members of AES Watch, the umbrella organization of IT experts and other professionals that monitored the two recent elections, have urged the Ombudsman to investigate two Comelec administrations under Sec. 40 of the law creating that office. One is the Comelec under former Chair Jose Melo during the 2010 presidential elections and the other under Chair Sixto Brillantes in the recent 2013 elections.
The AES Watch member-complainants, led by former VP Teofisto Guingona, accuse the two Comelec Chiefs and their fellow commissioners of graft and corruption for alleged conspiracy in the approval and use of the "inefficient and highly suspicious" PCOS machines---thereby placing in grave peril the sanctity of the ballot in both elections. As Fr. Joe Dizon, co-convenor of AES Watch, put it, millions of voters were disenfranchised last May mainly because of the 18,000 PCOS machines that malfunctioned.
Former North Cotabato GovEmmanuel "Manny" Piñol
Significantly Smartmatic's officials, led by its Asia-Pacific President Cesar Flores, were also implicated in the court suit, and rightly so, for it sold lousy equipment to the gullible Comelec officials. Former North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel "Manny" Piñol's testimony against the PCOS machines is only one of legions of complaints against those damned machines; and the way suits promise to rain on Smartmatic, it would need more than just the ACCRA Law Office to defend it.
Manny Piñol---who earlier in this election conceded defeat to reelectionist Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, but had second thoughts after complaints from his followers began flooding his campaign HQ, and PCOS cheating became a raging national issue---asserts that "the very essence of the right to vote as protected by the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Philippine Constitution is violated whenever a PCOS machine rejects a ballot filled up by a qualified Filipino voter."
In the last elections, he said he almost suffered the fate of thousands of qualified voters whose ballots were rejected outright by the PCOS machines. Pinol said he persisted in feeding his ballot into it and it was only on the third try that the machine accepted it.
Piñol related that in New Antique, Mlang, North Cotabato one of his supporters whose ballot was rejected three times insisted that the feeding into the machine be continued, until on the 15th try it finally accepted his vote. "But what about those who did not persist in doing so?"
Manny Piñol asserted: "There is no law which says that those whose ballots were not accepted by the PCOS machine after three attempts shall be disqualified from voting; that ballots which were shaded beyond the circle opposite the candidate's names shall not be counted; that voters whose dirty hands smudged their ballots shall be disqualified from voting."
Yet all of these happened in the 2010 and 2013 automated elections, Piñol stressed---so that it's now time for citizens whose ballots were rejected and whose votes were not counted to come forward and file their complaints. He said these will all be consolidated into a suit which he intends to refer to legal experts who will take the matter up with the Supreme Court---"so that in the next elections the monster called the PCOS Machine will no longer be used." He asks all complainants to forward their names and addresses to Atty. Rene Alexis Villarente at renealexisvillarente@yahoo.com.
Time for action indeed.
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Wood is the only renewable choice of building material for flooring. Plastics are derived from fossil fuels, concrete and other forms of flooring can damage our environment through the energy it takes for their production.
Wood is a renewable, natural resource that naturally grows in abundance. England was once covered by lush green forests.
Even though we've cut most of it down, our forefathers had the sense to replant large forests. Despite this, we don't get a lot of our flooring from our own resources in the UK.
Most of our country's Oak flooring now comes from Europe, including the extensive forests of Russia, Siberia and North America.
All of these countries have a programme of replanting and maintaining sustainable forests. This is done in conjunction with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or other stewardship councils, ensuring that we plant more trees than we cut down.
The production of wood flooring uses less energy in its processing methods than any other construction material.
For example, it takes 5 times more energy to produce 1 tonne of cement, 24 times more energy for 1 tonne of steel, and 126 times for 1 tonne of aluminium.
Young trees also absorb more carbon dioxide than mature ones, so it makes sense to harvest older trees and plant two new ones for every one tree felled.
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Louis Malle in Connecticut
On Film / In Theaters — Mar 9, 2017
Next Wednesday afternoon, as part of its Stage on Screen series, the Avon Theatre Film Center, in Stamford, Connecticut, presents one of cinema's most intimate explorations of theatrical craft, Louis Malle's 1994 swan song Vanya on 42nd Street. A return to the collaborative relationship that Malle first forged with legendary stage director André Gregory in My Dinner with André, the film documents a private performance of Uncle Vanya held in the abandoned shell of New York's Victory Theater. The result of a series of Chekhov-focused workshops that Gregory began in 1989 with a group of actors including Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore, this bare-bones production breathes new life into a classic tale of thwarted desire and bourgeois boredom, its visual sparseness highlighting the blend of lyricism and rough-hewn American vernacular found in David Mamet's adaptation of the play.
Vanya on 42nd Street
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Agnès Varda Looks Back on Life and Art in Her Newly Released Swan Song
Critics are praising the French New Wave icon's joyous and reflective final film, which hits theaters in New York this week.
On Film / In Theaters — Nov 22, 2019
Three Weeks of Kiarostami
The late Iranian master takes the spotlight in a magisterial retrospective—the most comprehensive survey of his career ever mounted—opening today at New York's IFC Center.
On Film / In Theaters — Jul 26, 2019
Two Stark Visions of the American Underbelly Hit the Big Screen
A new restoration of the groundbreaking vérité documentary Streetwise joins its companion piece, Tiny: the Life of Eric Blackwell, at New York's Metrograph theater this weekend.
A Newly Restored Paris Struts Back into Theaters
Starting this weekend, Janus Films is putting Jennie Livingston's extraordinary snapshot of Harlem's drag balls of the 1980s back on the big screen.
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The Stories in Archives
by Institute of Islamic Studies - MiCA
Tue, 15 December 2020
Part 2 of the series: "Muslims in Canada Archives: The Power of Your Stories, Through Your Stuff"
In the second part of our series "Muslims in Canada Archives: The Power of Your Stories, Through Your Stuff," Moska Rokay (Project Lead, Muslims in Canada Archives) and Hassam Munir (MA student in History, University of Toronto) , will discuss examples of how archival material helps us better understand the rich history of Muslims in Canada and future possibilities and uses of the Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA) for the public
The panel will share and discuss:
Eye-opening stories from the rich histories of Muslims in Canada
How archival materials help historians weave narratives
What MiCA offers Muslims communities as a way to collect, preserve, and share their rich histories
Future opportunities and value of MiCA
Please join us in exploring the rich worlds of archives and stories.
This session will be recorded.
Hassam Munir is currently pursuing an MA in History at the University of Toronto. He has a broad range of research interests, including reconstructing the history of Muslim communities in Canada, and making that knowledge publicly accessible through digital history projects. He is the Public Relations Manager and a research fellow at the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. He previously worked with the Ontario Historical Society. In 2017, he completed a 120-hour archival research project at the Archives of Ontario, the results of which he presented at the "Active Archives: Bringing Ontario's Historian Online" symposium. He was recognized by Heritage Toronto as an Emerging Historian in 2017. He also has experience in the fields of journalism and non-profit public relations.
About the Muslim in Canada Archives (MiCA):
The Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA), a collaborative and participatory initiative at the Institute for Islamic Studies (IIS), provides a platform for the missing Muslim voices in Canada.
MiCA acquires, organizes, preserves, and makes accessible records of and about Canadian Muslim individuals and organizations that possess enduring value for the preservation of the history and documentary heritage of Muslims in Canada.
About the Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS):
The Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto (IIS) incubates advanced research projects in the study of Islam and Muslims. A collaborative research space, the IIS brings together researchers from across disciplines, regional interests, and historical periods. Engaging research leaders, artists, public policy institutes, and community organizations, the IIS is an intellectual crossroad where people and ideas meet, develop, and transform.
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Thu, 21 Jan 12:30 pm
Reading Muslims: Re-examining the place of textuality in Islamic Studies
White Supremacy and Racism in North America and the UK
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The Valentine's Day Storm of 1940 crossed Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts within just a few days in February 1940. Locals said it was the biggest storm to hit the region since the New England Hurricane of 1938, some 15 months before. The first flurries started on the morning of Valentine's Day, before progressing into a steady snow with strong winds as the afternoon wore on. The storm didn't stop until the morning of the next day when 14 inches of fresh snow lay across the area. The drifts reached six to eight feet in some places. Some reports described the drifts as approaching ten feet high.
The storm stalled train travel for hours on all of New England's railroad systems, and stranded many in Boston on Valentine's Day. Many Lowell residents attending the ice carnival at the Boston Garden were trapped in Boston after all train service was cancelled after the 8:45 PM train left the station. Many of the stranded spent idle hours over the next day or two at hotel bars, still clothed in their dinner jackets and evening gowns that they had been wearing on the night of the storm. Those lucky enough to score hotel rooms paid steep premiums. When the rooms ran out, hotel owners were required to provide cots in their lobbies and ballrooms to accommodate those made 'temporarily homeless' by the storm.
The storm also stalled trolley car and bus transportation, and all plane service was cancelled for three or four days. In the city, all of Boston's major department stores closed on the 15th, something that hadn't happened in 14 years, not even in the New England Hurricane of 1938. The roads became so bad that Boston city police enforced a ban on all automobiles entering the downtown area. And, snow removal efforts became further hampered by the large amounts of automobiles that had stalled and subsequently abandoned on the streets.
In Lowell, hundreds of public and private employees fought in the days following the storm to free the city from the vast amounts of snow covering city streets. Snow removal moved slowly in Lowell. In the aftermath of the storm, the city dispatched 30 plows, two bulldozers, and a 10-ton tractor to clear the snow. Similar to the situation in Boston, they found many of the city's main streets – Merrimack, Central, Bridge, and Rogers – all blocked with cars that had stalled in the storm. By the 16th, even in the downtown section, huge drifts of snow remained piled high on the edges of the streets. The Lowell Street Department estimated that some 200 streets remained blocked with snow, even on the 16th, two days after the storm had hit. Like Boston, by the end of the second day after the storm, many of the stalled cars on Lowell's city streets had been cleared out, allowing plows to finally complete their rounds.
In the end, the Valentine's Day storm of 1940 claimed 31 lives in New England. In the days following the storm, the number was feared to be much higher while searchers scoured the seas for the ten-man crew of the lost 49-foot dragger "Palmers Island", which had sailed from New Bedford before the storm. Three days after the storm, the Coast Guard took the "Palmers Island" in tow, some 120 miles south of Block Island, RI. The dragger, with crew aboard, returned to New Bedford on Sunday, February 18.
I was only 9 at the time and living next door to Daniel Gage Ice Company but heard my family speak of the storm many times. The 1938 Hurricane I remember better because the river overflowed up to Pawtucket Street. But most of all I remember the flood of 1936. We were living in a different house on Pawtucket Street, across from what is now U of Mass, and on the Merrimack River bank edge. The water rose so high that our family had to be evacuated from an upstairs window into rowboats. While we waited for rescue we watched houses and livestock floating down towards the dam and prayed that we would not be next.
I read this story to my Mom. She remembers this storm! She was living in Beverly at the time. Also, congrats on a nice writeup at the NEHGS "Weekly Genealogist", too. I just finished reading it in my in-box!
Hi Heather – great to hear from you! Thanks for stopping by, and for the comment.
Thanks, Ryan– I have heard of the Hurricane of 1938, and the Blizzard of '77, but honestly had never heard of the Valentine's Day storm until now.
Thanks, Ryan– I had heard of the Hurricane of 1938, and the blizzard of '77, but never knew of the Valentine's Day storm of 1940 until now.
Hi Karen – thanks for stopping by! There's the flood of '36 too. I've had that on my list of potential posts for a while now.


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Our business and government degrees can prepare you for exciting careers in a wide range of industries and professions. Depending on your degree, you may find opportunities in all levels of government departments or agencies, private enterprise, consultancy, politics, tourism, marketing, management, finance or not-for-profit organisations.
Check out some of our recent graduate stories to see where your degree could take you.
Nathan Brierley is kicking career goals, having recently been promoted to Senior Economist at the world-renowned Deloitte Access Economics. It's a position he credits to hard work, dedication and the extracurricular opportunities he had access to while studying with Griffith.
As an economist at the industry leading firm Deloitte Access Economics, Emily Hayward credits her time at Griffith Business School as a major driving force behind her love for environmental economics.
'Griffith opened my eyes up to how economics can be used to create meaningful change in a number of different ways' Emily explains.
Bachelor of Government and International Relations
Government and International Relations graduate Zahar Martin has always had a passion for cars, so when the opportunity arose for him to apply for a graduate role in the automotive industry, he jumped on it, especially since the role would focus on HR.
Zahar says that his time at Griffith played a crucial role in him landing such a prized position.
Bachelor of International Tourism and Hotel Management
The knowledge gained while studying international tourism, hotel management and business management at Griffith is now playing its part for Gala Gordon-Burns.
'I am constantly finding I'm applying areas learnt within my degree to everyday situations and challenges.'
Bachelor of Asian Studies
Studying a degree in Asian Studies has reinforced Estelle McCabe's interest and appreciation of Asian business, culture and history and is positioning her strongly to pursue a career in Japan. Her ambition to work as a communications specialist fostering Japanese—Australian relations in the resources sector was also boosted by a New Colombo Plan Scholarship.
'I'm confident that living, learning and working in Japan will improve and develop not only my Japanese language but also my negotiation skills by improving fluency and understanding of the spoken word.'
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Hook, line and sinker: Is your fishing trip injuring coastal raptors?
Fishing equipment is the deadliest threat faced by coastal birds of prey a new study published in the Journal of Raptor Research has found.
Music student up for Young Australian of the Year
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Q: Run KMeans with fixed seed I want to run the KMeans algorithm of MLLIB (Apache Spark), but with reproducible results.
Is it possible to run KMeans of MLLIB (Apache Spark) with fixed seed? How?
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A: As of Spark 1.2, it appears that this is not possible. It generates a seed internally.

A: Set seed for KMeans is availble in Spark MLLib since version 1.4.0
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Dr. Edward Bach, a homeopath, immunologist and bacteriologist, developed 38 flower essences in the 1930's. He believed a healthy mind, is the key to recovery from ill health. Bach flower essences are effective at invoking a subtle change or balance of attitudes and emotions. The flower essences help us to cope and react to situations in a manner less detrimental to our health. For example, Rescue Remedy is a well-known Bach flower formula that is used for traumatic situations or experiences.
Emotions play a large and important role in our mental and physical health. The majority of patients symptoms may be a direct result from emotions or negative thoughts that they are experiencing such as; anger, resentment, fear, lack of confidence, low self image etc. Research has identified the mind/body connection, which the medical profession has termed psychoneuroimmunology. Lynne McTaggart and Dr Bernie Siegel are two of many health practitioners who give a fascinating insight on how it works. Time may shed more light, but the fact remains, what you think and how you feel have tangible effects.
I recall when I first realised how effective these remedies are. Dorothy Hall who was my teacher and mentor regaled a story about a patient who was not getting relief from her migraines despite being on the appropriate remedies. It was not until Dorothy added a particular Bach Flower for this lady that her migraines disappeared. It also reinforces treating the individual rather than giving a list of remedies for a particular ailment.
Like herbs and nutritional supplements, flower essences are chosen according to what each person needs and to what mental/emotional/physical or lifestyle factors are affecting their health. For example, skin conditions may be caused from an unhealthy diet, lack of certain nutrients, inefficient bowels, congested lymph, an infection or hormones. However, many skin conditions have an emotional or mental cause (attitude) and this is where the Bach flower essences can be of enormous help.
Bach flower essences work well in combination with other remedies such as herbs and nutritional supplements. They are a safe, simple and very effective form of treatment to restore mental, physical and emotional balance.


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【Ivana/intern】 I would like to recommend XROSS HOUSE to all young people such as students for interns like me. It is a very good place. We have really good roommates from all over the world which allow us to communicate in every possible language. It is very clean because of the cleaning staff and everybody taking care. It is very well equipped.


I've done plenty of browsing blogs, news articles, Twitter, and LinkedIn discussions. There's so much noise out there and people wanting to be heard that I wonder if we really hear anything. Instead of adding more noise today, I thought I'd share some travel pictures with you that I've collected through the years. Maybe you'll see a place you'd like to visit. Enjoy!
This will be my last post for a few weeks. Our first U.S. guests will arrive on Sunday, and we'll be busy sightseeing with them. Tschüß.
You've visited some nice places Denise. Hope you find some more over the next few weeks.
I have been blessed, Ray. Thanks much.
There is a lot of noise out there and people trying to find their way above the crowd. It can be hard but I do hope the best people can gradually work their way to the top 🙂 You have certainly been around a lot of places and I really like the photos!
I hope the same, Olivia. Fighting the noise is tiring, so I guess those who persevere will make it.
Wonderful travel pics as always. The one of the people out on the rock overhang at the Grand Canyon makes me dizzy though. Hope you have a great time with your visitors.Tschüß.
Those are some fantastic pictures. Makes me want to get out and travel. So enjoy that time with your guests!