After the secretariat shift, now the focus is back on the Assembly and Council Hall Construction in Velagpudi. The works are being done at a brisk pace and the construction is going to be completed before December 15th. Assembly Speaker Dr Kodella Sivaprasada Rao has visited the construction site yesterday and told that the coming winter Session will be conducted at the Velagapudi temporary secretariat premises.
The Speaker along with Deputy Speaker Mandali Buddhaprasad, council chairman A. Chakrapani, vice-chairman Sateesh Reddy, finance minister Yanamalla Ramakrishnudu and Tadikonda MLA Tenali Sravan Kumar - visited the construction site for the proposed Assembly and Council hall buildings in the 6th block of the temporary secretariat premises.
The Speaker said the chambers of the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, floor leader, Opposition leader, chief Whip and whips, ministers' chambers, Canteen and library will be located in 6th block.


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If this is the case, you should choose the Exchange option on the authorization screen.
It generally works automatically because our system uses a process called AutoDiscovery and also remembers the details when someone successfully connects.
However if it doesn't you may need to ask your IT team for some information.
What to ask your IT team.
In order for Cronofy to connect to your Exchange server we need access to Exchange Web Services. This is enabled by default for Exchange 2007 SP1 and higher (this includes all versions of 2010, 2013, and 2016).
If you are still unable to connect to your Exchange server from your email address and password alone, you may need to specify the optional username field.
The value for this usually looks like DOMAIN\username and you probably see it when logging in to your work computer.
Lastly, you should confirm with your IT Team that your account is setup for Exchange Web Services access.
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Business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim today obtained the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, nomination form to vie for the governorship seat of Ondo State. He was the first aspirant to pick the form from the factional National Chairman of the party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff.
Speaking at the occasion, Jimoh promised to pay the salary of workers in the state within his first 100 days in office. He described governors who owe workers salary as people without initiative, adding that Ondo State has over 10 solid minerals which he would tap to develop the state.


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Biometric authentication is different from the traditional username-password authentication since it involves verifying a user's identity using some of the characteristics that are unique to them. When users attempt to log in or have access to applications or systems, the system will compare their biometric signatures with the ones stored in the database to make sure that they are the ones with access to the applications or systems.
However, if the good old username-password authentication has been the dominant method of authentication, why would we need biometric authentication?
In this blog post, you will learn more about:
What is biometric authentication?
Why should my applications or websites offer biometric authentication?
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Very often, biometrics protect other authentication information, such as a digital certificate or private key, and the protected information is what's actually used to verify the user. Biometric authentication, in a nutshell, is the process where a system will compare the biometric data stored in the database with users' submitted physiological or behavioral characteristics to verify their identity and grant access to the applications or systems.
The uniqueness of some physiological or behavioral characteristics allow researchers to come up with several biometric technologies that have become part of our everyday life. Industries have deployed these biometric technologies to make sure only the right personnels or users will have access to private or confidential data.
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Compared to the good old username-password authentication, biometric authentication is certainly faster for the users. Instead of entering their usernames and passwords, which sometimes can be easily forgotten, users simply have to press on the fingerprint scanner or look into the cameras on their mobile phones to unlock them.
To learn more about consumers' authentication preferences, VISA conducted a survey among 1,000 Americans and found that:
86% of them are interested in using biometric authentication.
70% of them think that biometric authentication is easier but only 46% of them think that it's more secure than passwords.
Even though less than half of the respondents think that biometric authentication is the more secure method, the majority still thinks that it's the easier way to get authenticated. Gradually, as consumers have more faith in biometric authentication, developers will inevitably need to offer biometric authentication to improve the user experience on their applications or websites.
Although it is still far from being impenetrable, biometric authentication is still more secure than the username-password authentication in several ways.
Users will never forget about their passwords since they are the passwords.
Users' unique biometric data is harder for hackers to replicate.
According to Gartner, what makes biometric authentication more secure is not only the uniqueness of users' characteristics but also the "difficulty to impersonate the living person presenting the trait to a sensor."
Although it only took 48 hours for hackers to hack Touch ID when it was introduced with iPhone 5S in 2013, biometric authentication has become much more secure now compared to passwords or PINs, which are most likely saved in sticky notes or some documents that are quite vulnerable to hackers.
There are still some areas of improvement, such as accuracy, costs, and software vulnerability, for biometric authentication, but it is evident that biometric authentication has become more popular than the traditional methods.
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Everyone's fingerprints are unique. Not even identical twins share the same fingerprints, making them the perfect biometric identifier for authentication. Fingerprint recognition uses a person's fingerprint to verify the identity and is certainly one the most widespread biometric authentication technologies due to the ubiquity of mobile devices.
Face recognition was spotted in a lot of films and is now widely deployed in several industries, such as law enforcement, financial services, and more. It mainly analyzes the geometry of the face or facial anatomy to identify users. Based on your data, the system will create an encrypted digital model that will be used as a reference when the user tries to get authenticated.
Eye Recognition
Ever seen one of those films where the protagonists have to access a secret facility by looking into a tiny piece of equipment that scans their eyeballs? That's a perfect example of eye recognition.
There are actually two types of eye recognition, namely iris and retina recognition. An iris scanner uses infrared light to analyze the colored rings found in the iris while a retina scan checks for the unique pattern of blood vessels in the eye.
Although it has been popularized in all sorts of media, it is quite expensive to implement and therefore is not as popular as face or fingerprint recognition.
Voice recognition analyzes the different parts, such as tone, pitch, and frequency, of a user's voice to check their identity. Nowadays, assistants on mobile devices are programmed to only respond to users whose voices have been matched in the settings.
There are still other physiological and behavioral characteristics, such as vein patterns and gait, that can be used to authenticate users; however, they are not as common as the aforementioned methods.
Developing an authentication system to provide all kinds of authentication methods in your applications or websites can be a lot of work. Outsourcing your auth system can actually speed up your development process, reduce risks of data breach, and allow your developers to focus on their core tasks.
Authgear provides all features needed for your applications such as passwordless & biometrics, SSO & social login, password policy management, two-factor authentication, etc. In order to enable biometric authentication for your app, you simply have to enable it in your portal and also follow the steps in our documentation to enable biometric login in mobile SDK.
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Q: Calling a column name based on a different columns values? I want to very simply call a column in a df based on a different columns value.
Below is what I would use, but how can I add another method on top of this that says give me all the values in a column called minutes or df['minutes'] if another called column_name is a specific value?
df.loc[df['column_name'] == some_value]

Sample Data:
column_name | Minutes
   1-5           19
   6-10          22
   11-15          8
   1-5           11
   6-10          33

I want to filter for column_name = any value in that column and return all values under the minutes column.
so if column_name is 1-5 return all values in Minutes column

A: A DataFrame usually contains multiple rows (and columns).
So if you ask whether particular column (say xx) has some value:
df.xx == 20

you will get a boolean Series with:

*

*indices copied from df,

*value stating whether xx column in this row == 20.

So I assume that you question about particular value in a given column
should actually be expressed as: Does any element in this column
have particular value?.
You can check it with any() function:
(df.xx == 22).any()

This time the result will be a single boolean.
In your case you can write:
if (df.column_name == '1-5').any():
    result = df.Minutes

Of course it is open to question what if not?
Do you want another column in result variable?
Another approach is to set the column name in some variable,
say src_col, based on some your logic.
Then, having this variable set, you can refer to the required column as:
result = df[src_col]

Note that this time:

*

*the column name is between brackets,

*but it is not surrounded with apostrophes,

so the target column name is expressed by the value of this variable.
And a remark about the comment by Chris90:
If you write df.loc[df['column_name'] == '1-5','Minutes']
you will get a single value from:

*

*row containing 1-5 (string) in column_name,

*Minutes column.

But you wrote that you wanted all values from this column.

A: Do you want the returned value to be something simpler than dataframe or series like:
[19,11]

this?
Then use tolist() method like this:
df.loc[df['column_name'] == "1-5"]["Minutes"].tolist()

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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), the organiser of the 20th Water, Energy, Technology and Environment Exhibition (WETEX) 2018, has announced that it will one the largest specialised exhibitions in the world.
WETEX is held under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, and under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance, and President of DEWA.
WETEX 2018 will be held from 23rd-25th October 2018 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibition will coincide with the third Dubai Solar Show, under the umbrella of the fifth Green Week.
WETEX has developed rapidly since its launch in 1999 as an exhibition of water management technologies. The energy sector was added in 2001. In 2004, DEWA expanded the sector to include environmental and waste management, green buildings, and carbon dioxide reduction solutions in 2008. In 2012, oil, gas and coal were added to the exhibition's fossil fuels sector. This was followed by the addition of the Dubai Solar Show, in 2016, as the biggest solar exhibition in the region.
"The exhibition translates the vision of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to achieve a balance between development and the environment, and to consolidate economic, social and environmental sustainability. WETEX is a leading global platform that highlights the interrelationship between sustainability and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the impact of disruptive technologies, digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Research & Development (R&D) for the production of clean energy and water. This supports Dubai's transformation into a global hub for clean energy and green economy," said Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, and Founder and Chairman of WETEX.
"WETEX promotes constructive partnerships and builds strong public-private investment relationships to develop and diversify clean energy production sectors as well as water and energy conservation, environmental protection, waste management, green building, and cutting-edge solutions to reduce carbon emissions," added Al Tayer.
The exhibition offers a unique opportunity for investors and sponsors to establish and develop commercial relations and promote business opportunities by holding one-on-one meetings with representatives of major corporations and decision makers from all around the world in one location.
WETEX focuses on reviewing advanced technologies related to the water, energy and environment. It brings together the best experts, specialists, solution providers, investors, government decision makers, potential business partners and consumers from the public and private sectors.


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There isn't even time travel involved with this fantastic news.
12 Monkeys has been renewed for a third season, as first reported by EW.
Hailing from executive producers Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, 12 Monkeys Season 2 is in the middle of one of the most creatively viable and incredibly emotional arcs its ever had.
With only two episodes remaining this season, it's wonderful of Syfy to give fans the freedom to really sit back and enjoy what lies ahead.
"Syfy and UCP have been incredible creative partners, and I'm thrilled that we are going to tell the next — even more twisty and emotional — chapter of this time travel adventure," Matalas told EW.
This season, a lot of the action has taken place in the future, a future in which protaganists and would-be love interests James Cole (Aaron Standford) and Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull) have been distant and at odds.
Coming from a place where they worked together and as great partners, it's been somewhat unbearable for fans to witness.
Speaking of The Witness, the search for the unknown entity has been on like never before.
Cassie has formed a partnership with her one-time nemesis, Ramse (Kirk Acevedo) as the two have felt they are on the same page in tracking down and stopping The Witness, who is intent on destroying time itself.
Each week, the series has taken viewers to new heights with action, emotion and timey wimey goodness, culminating in the loss of two beloved characters on 12 Monkeys Season 2 Episode 11.
Emily Hampshire digs her teeth into the crazy, beloved Jennifer Goines with an intensity that belongs in film.
They're joined by former bad guy turned empathetic, Deacon (Todd Stashwick) and the Doctor behind it all, Jones (Barbara Sukowa).
"This season of 12 Monkeys has proven to be a breakthrough," says Jeff Wachtel, chief content officer of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and president of Universal Cable Productions.
"In two short seasons, 12 Monkeys has become a cult favorite series," adds Chris McCumber, president, entertainment networks.
"Terry and the cast and crew have brought to life a rich world not confined by boundaries of time, with multi-dimensional characters whose motivations for saving the world are deeply personal and intensely relatable."
We couldn't agree more. Now, how excited are you about this news? Have you been holding back on watching for fear of cancelation?
How much viewing will you be doing over the holiday weekend? You can watch 12 Monkeys online right here to get all caught up!


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With border wall actively under construction in Southern Arizona, it's a race against time to document the wildlife community living in unwalled stretches of the international border today. We designed a study to thoroughly document which wildlife species are migrating through and residing permanently in the border zone transecting the Patagonia and Huachuca Mountain foothills. The study is underway now to define the wildlife community. We will monitor for change over time, if and when, the border wall cuts through this landscape. Our data will evaluate the wall's environmental impact and guide the future protection and restoration of vital wildlife pathways. Our project is especially crucial today because the Trump's administration has waived environmental laws that require any study prior to construction.
Our camera array has more than 50 camera trap points arranged in a grid along 34 miles of the border. Every camera is within 3 km of the border and 2 km from the closest adjacent camera in the study. Each passive infrared camera triggers when it senses motion and heat to capture images of wildlife 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
This design creates a network of camera points optimized to detect both wide-ranging large mammals like jaguar and small animals like coati and birds. Our design is based on the global wildlife monitoring standard—TEAM Terrestrial Vertebrate Protocol (2011)—and it is used by the National Park Service, Parks Canada, and numerous wildlife biologists in ecosystems across the planet.
Because the TEAM protocol selects regularly spaced camera locations across different landscape features and habitats, it removes bias in camera placement, increases the likelihood of documenting the true breadth of the wildlife community, and allows for direct scientific comparison between camera points because they are selected the same way.
Here's an example to explain why this matters: It's compelling to place a camera on a water source like a spring or stream because many animals come to drink there—but actually some prey animals avoid springs because they are frequently used by predators and therefore it is too risky for them to approach the water source and drink. By randomly placing cameras across a landscape using the TEAM protocol, some of our cameras were placed near water sources, but many were not—increasing the likelihood of observing a wide variety of species and truly measuring the diversity of wildlife in our region.
COUNTING SPECIES OVER TIME
At every camera point and for the whole camera array collectively, we will keep track of each new species as it is detected. With these data, we will create a species accumulation curve—scientist speak for how many species are detected over time. These data will provide evidence of wildlife occupancy at the border zone and the shape of this curve will also alert us to when we have likely detected a majority of the species each study area. We detected 27 mammals and birds species in only the first week of the study, so the wildlife community here is proving to be diverse and active this spring.
If we can continue the study post-border wall construction, then we will compare the future wildlife community with the one we are measuring today to learn how the wall impacts the number of species able to thrive in the borderlands bisected by wall. It all starts with learning what species live in this special place now. Without knowing who is there, we cannot possibly begin to design the conservation strategies to protect them.
Please consider sponsoring a wildlife camera to help us give these animals a voice in Washington DC.
Reference: TEAM Network. 2011. Terrestrial Vertebrate Protocol Implementation Manual, v. 3.1. Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring Network, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA.
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HTML development needs to be targeted to the client's mobile device version. If a client is using iPad2, all HTML development needs to be conducted and verified on an iPad2 to ensure backward compatibility.
To make rounded corners on a container for older browsers, images of (usually) four corners would have to be created. The use of CSS3 in assets, allows the browser to take care of it and there is no need to load images into memory etc.
NOTE: HTML files are treated as local files file://...(Instead of http://...) and there are other rules e.g. cookies don't work, so HTML5 localStorage has to be used.
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Thus, as the organisers collateral put it dutifully, "The UK's voters have decided to leave the EU. The Citizens' Assembly on Brexit is not reopening this question. This decision has already been made." However I can't think of any big change that came about from people playing by the rules of the existing system and asking nicely. And the fact is that sortition has roots going deep into our history and culture – in fact back two and a half millennia to Athens, the birthplace of democratic politics, but also back more than 800 years to Magna Carta in our legal system in the form of juries. As public trust plummets for so many institutions, its trust in juries is alive and well and while 'vertical' trust – the trust of people in large and powerful institutions – has been falling, horizontal trust – in people's peers and People Like Them has not fallen and may have risen.
David Van Reybrouck was recently interviewed by Sonali Kolhatkar on her show "Rising Up With Sonali" which is broadcast on a couple of public radio stations on the West Coast of the US. The Segment with Van Reybrouck starts about 35 minutes into the recording.
In the course of the interview Van Reybrouck gently points out to the interviewer that her proposals for reforming the electoral system, which are part of the standard reformist list of proposals (from which Ari Berman draws his proposals as well, for example), show no promise in fundamentally fixing the system, since they have been tried over and over worldwide without success.


If you were an Animal, which one would you be? is a fun quiz. Also, at times this is a very important interview question which is least expected and most fail to answer this.
This simple question tells you a lot about you than you can think off.
When you see Danger First what do you do?
Which do you like Doing?
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Which describes you the Best.
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I absolutely love this print! Will probably use it in my Kikki K Planner for the January section! Cannot wait to get home from my holiday and print this off! Thank you so much for creating this!
Will definitely instagram this when I am back home in mid-January. Was also thinking of putting a little bit in me Plan with Me January post and tag and link to you if that's alright.
Thank you! ❤ I really like how it turned out!


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Jessi, Cheetah, and Kangnam drop "My Type" produced by Verbal Jint
On February 12th, the second track off Mnet's Unpretty Rapstar was released, showcasing the skills of competitors Jessi and Cheetah.
Taking the team mission win, the two ladies were chosen to have a joint win due to their great teamwork and witty raps. Although it is the second track to be released from the show, it will be Track 3 on the Unpretty Rapstar album and joins Yuk Ji Dam's track with Zico, "Up All Night."
In the video, fans can see the trio's hilarious interactions within the recording studio. Dressed in comfortable street clothes, the three record their parts while still having fun. As Jessi starts the song off with her husky rap, Kangnam smoothly pushes her aside to contribute his smooth melody.
When not recording their own parts, the members can be seen dancing in the background, adding to the chill vibe of the process. The ending of the video shows flashbacks of the two during their praise-winning performance from the show's latest episode.
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Q: How to modify pandas column if value doesnt match requirements? I am having trouble to format evenly my pandas df.
It is filled with dates and prices for Stocks, but the prices are not formatted equally.
From the start of 2021, the values have a comma separating the decimal (cents), but from 1998 to 2020, the prices are not seppareted with comma or dot.
How can I add a comma to the values where the comma doesnt show?
Sample of my df:
            Data Ticker          ISIN Mercado  ...    MAX    MED   LAST          QTD
0     16/03/1998  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  27600  27460  27500     98610000
1     17/03/1998  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  27800  27577  27700    148850000
2     18/03/1998  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  27900  27728  27550    146080000
3     19/03/1998  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  27700  27489  27550    108410000
4     20/03/1998  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  28000  27823  27900     96010000
...          ...    ...           ...     ...  ...    ...    ...    ...          ...
5661  03/02/2021  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  29,14  28,87  28,85   47486800.0
5662  04/02/2021  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  28,99  28,62  28,82   41444100.0
5663  05/02/2021  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  30,09  29,35  29,02  121098700.0
5664  08/02/2021  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...   29,3  28,38  28,11   98821700.0
5665  09/02/2021  PETR4  BRPETRACNPR6    CASH  ...  28,37  27,72  27,54   63662200.0

[5666 rows x 9 columns]

A: For one particukar column MAX. Same can be applied to required columns.
You can use pandas.str.replace
In this case a string xxxxxx, it adds comma before last 2 digits like xxxx,xx
df['MAX'].str.replace(r'(\d+)(\d{2}$)', lambda x: x[1]+','+x[2])

0    278,00
1    279,00
2    277,00
3    280,00
4     29,14
5     28,99
6     30,09
7      29,3
8     28,37


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Where all that could be I left for you.
As it begins again to shift.
& love that comes without bounds.
In the cool silk of your arms.
A world filled with lies?
Of the joy we shared.
Listening to the Boxing Gandhis.
Snowflakes melting as they touched your skin.
As hated as the earth?
They were trying to get away from.
With the least & the lowest.
I didn't have that you didn't too.
Went to the only place left to go.
A death at low tide.
When love alone best opens love's eyes.
The work of the world is peace.
& I am the massacre.
From time––often & without fail.
From the eternal circle of your heart.
You left it here, maybe you left it for me.
Thinking they've damaged the earth.
Inside the minds of murderers.
Upon the doors of the generous.
Holding our love the whole night long.
That once read is never found again.
In which you don't exist.
Nothing but quotes from Neil Young.
Contemplating in horror being dead forever.
Where the wisest can't enter.
& the roseways of loss.
A joy like no other.
But were never the same.
Around them grown to words.
Of the love you bring forth.
Among the ten thousand peaks.
The leathery skin of rosehips in winter.
Kinsmen in an ugly cease-fire.
In full sight of the peacekeepers.
This, the most brilliant of days.
The Celestial who couldn't be driven out.
Till peace grips the world.
Who is the thief? Who's been robbed?
Till your elaborate plans are all too late.
Thought of nothing but you.
The more lost you became.
As they depart the scene.
& gave my heart new delight.
What lonely death I am to die.
Nothing to do with prisons.
& petals of roses rolling into the sea.
When he soars into flight.
I'd been able to write the laughter of women.
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Atari plans to open video game-themed resorts in Denver, 7 other U.S. cities
The company said Atari Hotels will turn "the origins of gaming and the future of the booming industry into a fun and unique travel destination"
7:02 AM MST on Jan 31, 2020
LAS VEGAS — Atari, the arcade game company that ushered in the gaming revolution in the 1980s, is opening eight video game-themed hotels across the United States, including ones in Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
The company said this week it will break ground on its first hotel later this year in Phoenix as it seeks to create a unique lodging experience combining the brand with a video game-themed destination.
"Atari Hotels level up hotel entertainment with fully immersive experiences for every age and gaming ability, including the latest in VR and AR (Virtual and Augmented Reality)," the company said in a statement. "Select hotels will also feature state-of-the-art venues and studios to accommodate esports events."
Hotel development and design are being led by Shelly Murphy's GSD Group and Napoleon Smith III, producer of the wildly successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film franchise reboot. True North Studio, a Phoenix real estate developer, will develop the first Atari-branded hotel.
"We are thrilled to partner with GSD Group and True North Studio to build the first-ever Atari branded hotels across the United States. Together we'll build a space that will be much more than just a place to stay," Fred Chesnais, CEO of Atari, said in a statement.
A rendering if of one of the hotels. (Handout)
The company said Atari Hotels will turn "the origins of gaming and the future of the booming industry into a fun and unique travel destination."
In addition to Las Vegas and Phoenix, new hotels are planned in Denver, Chicago, Austin, Texas, Seattle, San Francisco, and San Jose, California, the company said. Timeline for hotels other than Phoenix were not released.
Founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, Atari became a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles and home computers. It's known for such games as Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command.
The company is now based in Paris.
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Opinion: Drug makers charge hospitals less for some medicines. Consumers aren't getting the savings
Colorado's congressional delegation needs to investigate why lower prices aren't being passed on to patients
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It has been 20 years since snowboarders were allowed on Aspen Mountain following a "big stink"
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New union-backed Denver school board renews charter schools despite some reluctance
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const options = require('config');
const carVariantResolver = require('../../../lib/resolver/vehicle/carVariantResolver');
const chai = require('chai');
const should = chai.should();
const expect = chai.expect;

describe('car variant resolver test', () => {

  it('should return valid type and kind', done => {

    const map = {
      'variant.type': 'car',
      'variant.kind': 'hatchback'
    };

    carVariantResolver.resolve(map, options);

    should.exist(map['variant.type']);
    map['variant.type'].should.equal('CAR');

    should.exist(map['variant.kind']);
    map['variant.kind'].should.equal('HATCHBACK');

    done();
  });

  it('should return null for all null values', done => {

    const map = {
      'variant.type': null,
      'variant.kind': null
    };

    carVariantResolver.resolve(map, options);

    should.exist(map['variant.type']);
    map['variant.type'].should.equal('UNKNOWN');

    should.exist(map['variant.kind']);
    map['variant.kind'].should.equal('UNKNOWN');

    done();
  });

  it('should return object with some null values', done => {

    const map = {
      'variant.type': 'car',
      'variant.kind': null
    };

    carVariantResolver.resolve(map, options);

    should.exist(map['variant.type']);
    map['variant.type'].should.equal('CAR');

    should.exist(map['variant.kind']);
    map['variant.kind'].should.equal('UNKNOWN');

    done();
  });

  it('should return default type for unknown value', done => {

    const map = {
      'variant.type': 'unknown',
      'variant.kind': null
    };

    carVariantResolver.resolve(map, options);

    should.exist(map['variant.type']);
    map['variant.type'].should.equal('UNKNOWN');

    should.exist(map['variant.kind']);
    map['variant.kind'].should.equal('UNKNOWN');

    done();
  });

  it('should return default kind for unknown value and default type for unknown value', done => {

    const map = {
      'variant.type': 'unknown',
      'variant.kind': 'unknown'
    };

    carVariantResolver.resolve(map, options);

    should.exist(map['variant.type']);
    map['variant.type'].should.equal('UNKNOWN');

    should.exist(map['variant.kind']);
    map['variant.kind'].should.equal('UNKNOWN');

    done();
  });

});

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View Full Version : Bug or "Feature"?
This is a feature that exists in Crime City that has been incorporated into Kingdom age also.
Well, in MW you get experience when attacked if you win the battle. :) So my guess is that you get exp in all Funzio's games if you beat the attacker.
It's true! It happens the same at MW. I had been attacked a lot and consequently levelled up to 7. Even though I've been doing just camping.
You only get XP when you win, not lose.


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John Parton Newburyport
James Parton was Born February 9 1822 in England. Died October 17, 1891 in Newburyport, MA
Parton was one of the most popular biographers in America. Some of his books Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Voltaire. He authored a number of other historical works as well. Read his Revolutionary Heroes, And Other Historical Papers
His first wife, Sara Payson Willis Parton, sister of N. P. Willis, and widow of Charles H. Eldredge (who died in 1846), writer under the pen-name Fanny Fern. They were married in 1856. In 1876 Parton controversially married Ethel Eldredge, his first wife's daughter by her first husband. Parton, James, 1822-1891. James Parton correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891: Guide.
His adopted daughter, Ethel, the daughter of Grace Eldrege (daughter of Fanny Fern' and writer Mortimer Thomson AKA Philander Doesticks), was adopted by Parton in 1872. Ethel Parton became a famous writer of children's books about 19th century life in Newburyport, MA, published in the 1930s and 1940s. James had two children, Hugo and Mabel. Hugo had a child James Parton (1912-2001) was founder and publisher of American Heritage.Thank you Cheryl Follanbee for furnishing more info
Parton Home on High Street Newburyport MA
Personal Monday, August 2, 1869 Register (Salem, MA)
Sarah Payson Willis (1811-1872) d. of Nathaniel Willis and Hannah Parker
Collection Smith College Fanny Fern and Ethel Parton Papers
Shipping News October 23 1891
Sarah Payson Willis was born in Portland, Maine, to newspaper-owner Nathaniel Willis and Hannah Parker; she was the fifth of eight siblings, including journalist Nathaniel Parker Willis. Another brother, Richard Storrs Willis, became a musician and music journalist known for writing the melody for "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear". Her other siblings were Lucy Douglas (born 1804), Louisa Harris (1807), Julia Dean (1809), Mary Perry (1813), Edward Payson (1816), and Ellen Holmes (1821).
Her father had recently become very religious after being inspired by Reverend Edward Payson of Portland's Second Congregational Church and intended to name his fifth child after him. When his fifth child turned out to be a girl, he instead decided to name her after Payson's mother, Grata Payson, though the Reverend urged the Willis to reconsider, noting that his mother never liked the name. Her name was to change often in her life throughout three marriages and with the adoption of her chosen pen name "Fanny Fern". She decided on the name because it reminded her of childhood memories of her mother picking fern leaves. She felt that this name was a better fit for her, and used it even in her personal life; eventually, most of her friends and family called her "Fanny."
Fern attended Catharine Beecher's boarding school in Hartford, Connecticut; here, although Beecher later described her as one of her "worst-behaved girls" (adding that she also "loved her the best"), she got her first taste of literary success when her compositions were published in the local newspaper.[6] She was also sent to the Saugus Female Seminary. She then returned to her parents' home, where she wrote and edited articles for her father's Christian newspapers, The Puritan Recorder and The Youth's Companion.
Fern married Charles Harrington Eldredge, a banker, in 1837, and they had three daughters: Mary Stace (1838), Grace Harrington (1841), and Ellen Willis (1844). After seven happy years, tragedy struck: Fern's mother and younger sister Ellen died early in 1844; then, in 1845, her eldest daughter Mary died of brain fever; soon afterward, her husband Charles succumbed to typhoid fever. Fern was left nearly destitute. With little help from either her father or her in-laws – and none at all from her brother Nathaniel – she and her two remaining daughters struggled to make ends meet. Her father persuaded her to remarry and she soon followed his suggestion.
Fern married Samuel P. Farrington, a merchant, in 1849. The marriage was a mistake; unable to cope with her new husband's intense jealousy, she scandalized her family by leaving him in 1851 and they were divorced two years later.Fern first published a few short satirical works in the Boston newspapers Olive Branch and True Flag. In 1852, again on her own with two daughters to support, Fern began her writing career in earnest. She sent some samples of her work using her real name to her brother, Nathaniel Willis, who rudely refused them and said that her writing was not marketable outside Boston. Her brother was proved wrong, as newspapers and periodicals in New York and elsewhere began printing the "witty and irreverent columns". She began writing a regular column in the New York newspaper Musical World and Times that year, becoming the first woman to write her own regular column; the next year, 1853, she published both Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, a selection of her more sentimental columns, and Little Ferns for Fanny's Little Friends, a children's book. The former sold 70,000 copies in its first year.
James Parton a biographer and historian, who was editing the magazine Home Journal, owned by Fern's brother Nathaniel Parker Willis, was impressed by Fern's work. He not only printed her columns but invited the author to come to New York City. When Nathaniel Willis discovered this he forbade Parton from printing any more of her work. Parton refused to obey the request and promptly resigned as editor of the magazine.
Fern's first book, Fern Leaves (1853), was a best seller. It sold 46,000 copies in the first four months, and over 70,000 copies the first year. She received ten cents a copy in royalties, enough for her to buy a house in Brooklyn, New York, and live comfortably. Just three years into her career, in 1855, she was earning $100 a week for her column in the New York Ledger, making her the highest paid columnist in the United States. Her first regular column appeared on January 5, 1856, and would run weekly, without exception, until October 12, 1872, when her last edition was printed two days after her death. Fern also wrote two novels. Her first, Ruth Hall (1854) describes her few years of happiness with Eldredge, the poverty and humiliation she endured after he died, and her struggle to achieve financial independence as a journalist. Most of the characters are thinly-veiled versions of people Fern knew, and several – those individuals who treated her uncharitably when she most needed their help, including her father, her in-laws, her brother Nathaniel, and two newspaper editors – are put in a most unflattering light. When Fern's identity was exposed shortly after the novel's publication, some critics were scandalized at this lampooning of her own relatives, and decried her lack of filial piety and her want of "womanly gentleness" in seeking revenge in this manner. The criticism wounded Fern deeply, and her second novel, Rose Clark, is less autobiographical in nature and features a conventionally sweet, gentle heroine; a secondary character, however, reenacts the debacle of Fern's marriage of convenience to Farrington.
In Fanny's Ledger column from May 10, 1856, she defended Walt Whitman when she wrote a favorable review of his controversial Leaves of Grass. In particular, she noted his fearless individualism and self-reliance, as well as his honest and "undraped" portrayal of sex and the human body. She was criticized for her admiration, but her outspoken support marked her as a champion of literature that was ahead of its time. It has been suggested that Whitman imitated her Fern Leaves in his choice of cover art for the first edition.
Sara Willis and James Parton were married in 1856. She and her husband lived in New York City with one of her two surviving children , they also raised a granddaughter, Ethel, the orphaned child of Willis's daughter Grace, who passed away in 1862.In 1859, Fern moved to a brownstone in Manhattan at what is now 303 East Eighteenth Street near Second Avenue; she would live in this house for the next 13 years until her death. Fern continued as a regular columnist for the Ledgerfor the remainder of her life. She was a suffrage supporter and in 1868 she co-founded Sorosis, New York City's pioneer woman's club. Fern battled cancer for six years and died October 10, 1872. She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts next to her first husband. Her gravestone was inscribed simply "Fanny Fern." After her death her husband, James Parton, published Fanny Fern: A Memorial Volume
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Labels: Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Butler in New Orleans, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, historian, Home Journal editor, Horace Greeley, James Parton, John C Calhoun, Newburyport Ma, writer
Location: Newburyport, MA, USA
Traditional genealogy verifies genetic genealogy find - It is perhaps one of the great ironies of traditional genealogy that we often learn more about a man's life in the records created upon his death. This is ...


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Mayo Clinic again receives top honors for high-quality patient care
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Thirteen hospitals across Mayo Clinic received star ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for Overall Hospital Quality.
Six of the 13 hospitals earned five stars — the best score possible. The national average is 3 of 5 stars.
The star rating provides patients with information about multiple dimensions of quality in a single score. Star ratings are assigned based on a hospital's composite score of 51 quality metrics from Inpatient and Outpatient Quality Reporting programs.
"Congratulations to all Mayo Clinic hospitals that received excellent CMS star ratings," says Henry Ting, M.D., Mayo Clinic's chief value officer. "This award reflects the very best of Mayo Clinic's total commitment to patient care, the extraordinary depth and breadth of Mayo's medical practice, and the remarkable impact that each and every Mayo Clinic employee makes every day."
"We're so proud of the commitment our staff have to providing the best care to our patients across all of our communities, and the CMS Overall Hospital Quality ratings offer one recognition of the hard work of so many every day," says Bobbie Gostout, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Health System. "All ten of our health system hospitals that meet ratings criteria ranked above the national average and received four and five stars, with our hospitals in Eau Claire, La Crosse and Menomonie, Wisconsin, receiving the top rank of five stars."
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To build a fleet of giant airliners requires a building just as big. Boeing's Everett Factory, built to construct the famous 747, is the biggest enclosed structure in the world.
When you're building some of the world's biggest airliners, you need an equally outsized building.
When Boeing decided to build the 747 – a plane so big it would become known around the world as the jumbo jet – they had to build a factory large enough to build several of them at the same time.
If you've ever seen a 747 from close quarters you'll know just how giant Boeing's jumbo is. So it's no surprise the factory which ended up building has to be very big indeed.
How big? Try the biggest enclosed building in the world.
Boeing started work on the Everett factory in 1967, just as the Boeing 747 project was starting to gather pace. Bill Allen, Boeing's charismatic chief, had realised the company would need a huge amount of space if they were going to build an airliner big enough to carry 400 passengers. They chose an area of woodland some 22 miles (35km) north of Seattle, near an airport that had served as a fighter base during World War Two.
An article in the Daily Herald, Everett's local paper, recalls just how out of the way the airport was. According to Joe Sutter, the engineer who masterminded the 747 project, the site had only minor road access to the nearest highway and no railway connection. In the forest roamed wild bears.
At the same time Boeing was building the prototype of the world's biggest airliner, it was also having to construct the factory to make them in.
Today, the Everett factory easily dwarfs any other building in the world by volume, with the Guinness Book of Records reporting that it occupies 72 million cubic feet (13.3 million cubic metres).
"We've overlaid the building over some of the most famous landmarks around the world," says David Reese, who helps runs the factory tours at Everett. "We have various famous places like Versailles, the Vatican and Disneyland, and you see them when you start the factory tour.
The Everett plant still produces a dwindling number of 747 freighters, but today it mostly concentrates on the smaller 767, 777 and 787 models. To build that fleet of planes requires lots of room. Everett's main building covers 97.8 acres (39 hectares), more than 30 times as big as London's Trafalgar Square.
Each shift has as many as 10,000 workers, and there are three shifts each day. Over the course of 24 hours, the factory has a population only a little less than the Australian city of Alice Springs.
The Everett factory is so big that there's a fleet of some 1,300 bicycles on hand to help cut travel time. It has its own fire station and medical services on station, and an array of cafes and restaurants to feed the thousands of workers. Overhead are a multitude of cranes used to move some of the heavier aircraft parts as the planes start to take shape. The operators, Reese says, are some of the most highly skilled and best-paid workers at the factory.
There is a longstanding urban myth that the building is so large and high that clouds form at the top of it. Not quite so, says Reese. "The building was still being constructed as the first plane was being built, and one wall was not yet enclosed. We think that fog or mist from the outside and accumulated in the building, and it looked like a kind of hazy atmosphere.
Reese says the factory's days have an ebb and flow, the factory changing tasks as the day progresses. "The second shift, that's when there's more crane activity when there isn't quite as many people.
Not just the world's biggest building, but full of surprises too.
That's pretty cool. Forty years ago I worked on the tallest office building in Europe (NatWest Tower, London). But that's pretty lame these days.
Originally that Biggie hanger was for the Grand-Zeppelin.
Most of the Zeppelin hangars were pretty impressive, size-wise - particularly when you consider they were all built in the 1920's. This one in Rio de Janeiro is still in good shape.
When you can make a P-3 Orion look like a Cessna inside your hangar, you've got hangar with bragging rights.
Outstanding work, The "Spiders did to make that "KIT-HANGER".
It would be nice to see Big Birds of that magnitude in the skies again, like "Bondies Blimps".
My Mother watched the R100 fly overhead, & always praised it as spectacular.


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Obituary: Norman Carr
Lynn Ten Kate
Norman Carr shot his 50th elephant on his 20th birthday when he was a government elephant control officer in Northern Rhodesia. It was a dangerous but necessary job, for the local tribes depended on what they grew and, if marauding elephants destroyed the crops, the villagers faced hunger and real hardship. Carr was one of four such officers in the country. Of the other three, one died of drink, one after being mauled by a lion and the tombstone of the third reads "Killed by his 350th elephant".
Like the children of many British parents working in the colonies, Carr was sent to England to be educated when he was just six years old. He didn't see his beloved Africa or his parents again until he was 17, when he worked briefly in his father's tobacco business in Blantyre, Nyasaland, before taking the first opportunity offered to get out into the bush. He was appointed to the Game and Tsetse Department of Northern Rhodesia in 1935, as an elephant control officer.
A formidable hunter, Carr was slight of stature, but he was tough and intrepid. "You don't really know a country until you've walked it," he declared as he set out to cover Rhodesia on foot, walking alone for months with just a few tea-bags and some quinine in his knapsack. He lived off the land as he went, gathering the knowledge which would later enable him to set up National Parks for the Rhodesian government and personally train the rangers and wardens.
After serving as an officer with the King's African Rifles in North Africa during the Second World War, Carr returned to Rhodesia with a new idea - perhaps it would be possible for villagers to make money out of protecting, rather than killing, elephants and other animals. He realised that, to make such a scheme work, the people on the land would have to benefit directly. He spoke to Paramount Chief Nsefu in the Northern Province, who was mystified as to why people would want to pay to watch animals but was willing to try the experiment. In 1950, having built six simple rondevaals (mud huts) for overnight shelter, Carr brought the first visitors from Chipeta, a town 100 miles away. They shot with cameras instead of rifles and during the first year paid the chief and his council the then substantial sum of pounds 100 for the privilege. Eco-tourism in Africa was born.
The first National Park Carr established was Kafue, where he became warden. Matching the example being set by Joy and George Adamson, he rehabilitated back into the wild lion cubs whose mother had been shot. Although the cubs learnt to kill and live off their hunting, the experiment was perhaps not altogether successful, as one birdwatcher reported. He had driven into a remote area of the park and sat looking through his binoculars when a great lion appeared and pinned him down by sitting on his lap.
When Northern Rhodesia became the independent Republic of Zambia in 1964, Carr had no difficulty in deciding to stay on: he remembered with distress his early banishment to a country with very little sunshine or space. Not that Zambia was without its frustration. "Bureaucracy thrives and there is no word for maintenance in any of the local languages. But if I get fed up," he said, "I just remember Regent Street with all its noise and pollution. That calms me down."
Carr wrote several books, all illustrating his love and knowledge of Zambia. The first three, Return to the Wild (1962), The White Impala (1969) and Valley of the Elephants (1972) were published in the UK and the last, Kakuli was published last year in Zimbabwe. Kakuli is the affectionate name by which the locals called him - it means "Old Buffalo".
His success in setting up the National Parks was in part due to the good relationship Carr developed with the Rhodesian and later the Zambian government. He had befriended Kenneth Kaunda and introduced him to the richness of the country's wildlife before he became president in 1964. Kaunda had a small lodge in the Luangwa Valley and continued to visit Carr regularly. Prince Andrew, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands were also visitors.
The Luangwa Valley National Park, which Carr established and worked in from 1960, is rich in game and it was there, after he retired from the Game Department, that he chose to live and set up Kapani, his own tourist camp just outside the park gates, situated by an oxbow lagoon. During the day the birdlife on the water is a never-ending fascination. At night, elephants, lions and giraffes often visit the camp and the dawn chorus is always aided by the raucous honking of hippos. He also had a small camp deep in the bush for serious walkers. There the huts were so flimsy that when you lay in bed you could hear the lions breathing as they padded around exploring the human smells.
At the camp one Christmas morning, Carr took out a family on foot while the cook prepared dinner. They stumbled on a lioness with cubs and had to beat a hasty retreat up a tree while she paced angrily below. They were trapped for hours until a rescue party found them. He received a card every year thereafter from the family "in remembrance of the most exciting Christmas we have ever spent".
Going out on safari with Norman Carr was always an exciting adventure. His vast knowledge and experience meant he could sense in advance what was going on so he might take you in the evening to where 50 elephant were fording the river to seek better feeding ground; the babies completely submerged held their trunks aloft like snorkels. But the Luangwa Valley is still a wild land with ever-present dangers and Carr never underestimated them nor was he too proud to beat a retreat.
Alarm at the devastation caused in Africa by poachers prompted Carr to set up the Rhino Trust in 1970 which later passed into the care of the Worldwide Fund for Nature. After he was appointed MBE for his life's work, Carr suggested the conservation award should really have gone to the tsetse fly. In areas from which the fly had been banished, cattle are brought in to graze and people take over. Where the tsetse fly continues to flourish so does wildlife.
Carr was determined that tourism should not corrupt the local villagers and although he gladly took visitors right into the poorest areas, he would never allow tipping. However he encouraged donations for the local school which he sponsored, paying for uniforms, books and sports equipment. Twice a month he took parties of school children into the park to show them their heritage and teach them the names of the animals so they no longer callled them all "inama" which means "meat". It is to this Kapani School Fund that donations in memory of Norman Carr are being directed.
Norman Joseph Carr, conservationist: born Chinde, Portuguese East Africa 19 July 1912; married 1940 Barbara Lennon (one son, two daughters); died Johannesburg 1 April 1997.
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Minimal rains fell on Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, India this season. The dry conditions have forced migratory birds to seek other areas to spend the winter. The lack of birds in the park has hit the Bharatpur economy hard.
The usual species of migratory birds, including spoonbills, egrets, cormorants, cranes and ibises, arrived at the park at the start of the monsoon season. But with little rains during the following weeks, most of the birds left to breed elsewhere, closer to a water supply.
Bharatpur's rickshaw drivers have reported a dip in earnings as few tourists are visiting the park. Birders, aware of the situation, are staying away in droves. The few visitors that have been coming to the park are unaware of the poor conditions and leave in disappointment. One hotel manager reported a 50% drop in customers from last year.
Read more about the situation in Bharatpur.


Juba, South Sudan – In response to the latest Integrated Phase Classification (IPC), or food security analysis for South Sudan, Oxfam South Sudan Country Director, Zlatko Gegic said: "Almost four million people in South Sudan are severely hungry – nearly twice as many compared to this time last year, a clear testament to the devastation caused by 22 months of war. Action is needed now to save lives.
This report sounds the alarm: "Of extreme concern is the estimated 30,000 people in Unity State who are experiencing Catastrophe (IPC Classification Phase 5) and are likely to deteriorate into famine in the absence of urgent and immediate humanitarian access" (See IPC report here).
Mr. Gegic said: "Humanitarians do not have enough funding to respond to this crisis, with the UN appeal for 2015 only 55% funded. Donors must urgently release funding for emergency food aid to save lives and help avert a devastating crisis. "After almost two years of fighting, the long term affects of this war have ravaged communities across the country. For the first time in the history of IPC reporting in South Sudan, we are seeing a serious deterioration in food security in the less conflict-affected states of Greater Equatoria. Donors should fund programmes that help people rebuild their lives such as agricultural and fishing support, rehabilitating markets and developing other livelihoods.
"This unbearable suffering will only end if the peace agreement holds, fighting stops immediately and the long process of reconciliation begins. "Oxfam appeals to the warring parties to respect the ceasefire and enable people to reach the help they desperately need. The international community must continue to apply all diplomatic measures that will support the delivery of real, lasting peace," Mr. Gegic said.
According to the latest IPC food security report summary: Approximately 3.9 million people, including 30,000 classified in Catastrophe, or 34% of the population are severely food and nutrition insecure and are unable to meet their food needs in September. This is an 80% increase compared to the same period last year.
By December 2015, at least 2.4 million people (a 60% increase from the same period last year) will continue to face severe food insecurity, the majority of whom are in conflict-ridden Greater Upper Nile. Another 2.6 million people will remain severely food and nutrition insecure in the period just before the start of the lean season (January to March).
Sales of livestock and livestock products among pastoralists have increased both in Jonglei and Upper Nile states, a sign of major food insecurity as livestock are traditionally a sign of wealth and not a source of income. For the first time in the IPC history of South Sudan, a large deterioration can be seen in the food security situation in the Greater Equatoria region due to a combination of factors: market disruption, economic downturn, insecurity and localized crop failures.
High food prices (up to 150% compared to average) have significantly affected the purchasing power of households across the country, particularly in the Greater Bahr el-Ghazal states as well as in the urban-poor population (30% of whom are in IPC Phase 3 – crisis – and 4 – emergency).
The October – December harvest season is expected to greatly improve the food situation as people will have better access to their own production as well as income from their produce sales. However, these gains will be much lower than in 2014, particularly for people in the conflict-affected states.
Humanitarian assistance has helped avert major food insecurity in at least five counties; but there's an urgent need for more and safe access for aid actors to reach people in the worst conflict affected areas.


Despite oil falling below $40 per barrel and the provincial economy sliding towards recession, one of Calgary's most consuming debates over the coming years will centre on a proposal to construct an $890-million sports complex for the city's professional hockey and football teams.
Calgary's Saddledome will be the oldest NHL arena in Canada when a new rink opens for the Edmonton Oilers in 2016. While the proposal by Calgary Flames president Ken King revolves around the need to replace aging sports venues, there's more than a pinch of civic rivalry in his plan to match the hockey arena under construction in Alberta's capital city.
Mr. King's proposal, dubbed CalgaryNEXT, would replace the city's two main sports venues with a new arena for the Flames, a stadium for the CFL's Stampeders and a public fieldhouse for community sports. The proposed location is along the Bow River on a heavily contaminated industrial site west of downtown. Construction could finish as soon as 2020, although Mr. King concedes that such a short time-frame would be a challenge.
Flames president Ken King announced a proposal called CalgaryNEXT, which would replace Calgary's two main sports venues.
The bruising route taken by the Edmonton Oilers to secure funding for their arena could serve as a warning to Mr. King and the Flames. Even after city leaders there were convinced in 2008 of the need to support the project, now known as Rogers Place, negotiations with city council dragged over five years. Talks ebbed and flowed, proposals were nixed and team owner Daryl Katz even suggested during a low point in negotiations that he could move the franchise.
The projected price tag in Edmonton is now $604-million for the new arena and the rebuilding of the downtown area around the rink. Mr. Katz put up nearly $24-million in cash and will cover a further $138-million in lease payments. The remainder of the cost will be covered by new taxes, a ticket tax and municipal spending.
Negotiations for Edmonton's Rogers Place dragged on for five years. The projected price tag for the city is $604-million for the arena and rebuilding the downtown area around the rink.
"It's not a great financial use of taxpayer money, but it can be a good addition to the chemistry of making a city a good place to live," said Glen Hodgson, chief economist for the Conference Board of Canada said of financing for arenas. Last year, Mr. Hodgson completed a study of arena projects in Canada and concluded that taxpayers should pay for only a modest portion of the bill.
Even before construction ends on Edmonton's new arena, local leaders have heralded the project as a success for its part in revitalizing the city's long-neglected core. More than $3-billion in private projects have been approved around the rink, including a 62-floor office building and a new high-rise hotel. "It's already exceeded all expectations," said an aide to Edmonton's mayor.
The proposed financing for Calgary's project could see the city assume $690-million in liabilities, much in the form of loans that would be repaid through new taxes. That proposal could put Mr. King on a collision course with Mayor Naheed Nenshi and a city council that has ruled out providing public money to for-profit projects.
Some on Calgary's city council have already raised red flags about the financial picture presented by the Flames. The final price tag for the project could top $1.5-billion, according to Druh Farrell, who says the cost of new utilities, transportation links and the environmental rehabilitation of the site hasn't been included.
The sports complex would be built on the site of a factory operated by the Canada Creosote Company between 1924 and 1962. The highly toxic creosote used to treat railroad ties and utility poles has contaminated the area down to the bedrock and migrated across the Bow River. The cleanup cost has been estimated at anywhere from $30-million to $800-million.
"It's kind of ironic, but if there was an enormous price tag for the cleanup that scuttled the project, you'd still be left with one of the largest toxic sites in a major city in Canada," Mr. King said.
Premier Rachel Notley has said that she's open to providing funding for the project. She added, however, that it would be unprecedented for the province to help fund the cleanup of the creosote due to the province's polluter-pay principle.
Mr. King says he's applauded Ms. Notley and Mr. Nenshi for their willingness to negotiate. Having seen the long process in Edmonton, he's pledged not to "gnash teeth" during negotiations.


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Q: Differentiating the $\exp$ map I'm trying to solve Chapter 5, exercise 2 in Do Carmo's Riemannian Geometry, but I think I'm differentiating the $\exp$ map incorrectly. He defines $f(s,t)=\exp_{\lambda (s)}tW(s)$ such that $\lambda(s)$ is a curve with $\lambda(0)=\gamma(0),\lambda ' (0)=J(0)$ and $W(s)$ is a vector field along $\lambda$ such that $W(0)=\gamma ' (0), \frac{D}{ds}W(0)=\frac{D}{dt}J(0)$. $\gamma$ is a given geodesic and $J$ is a Jacobi Field along $\gamma$ and this is supposed to be the case where $J(0)\neq 0$. He then asks to verify that $\frac{\partial f}{\partial s}(0,0)=J(0)$, but I calculate the following:
$$\frac{\partial f}{\partial s}=d(\exp_{\lambda (s)})_{tW(s)}(t\frac{D}{ds}W(s))$$
then evaluating at $(0,0)$ I get
$$\frac{\partial f}{\partial s}(0,0)=d(\exp_{\lambda(0)})_{0}(0)=0$$
so I have calculated something wrong because I should be getting $J(0)$.

A: I also had difficulties initially dealing with differentiating a function like $f(s,t)$ you mentioned, which depends on the exponential map with variable base point. However, I learned that Jacobi fields are actually there to compute such a derivative.
Now back to your problem: If you want to evaluate $\frac{\partial}{\partial s}f$ at $s=t=0$, you can keep $t$ fixed. Notice that
$$ f(s, 0) = \exp_{\lambda(s)} 0 = \lambda(s), $$
as exponential map of the zero vector is the base point. Differentiating this gives
$$ \frac{\partial}{\partial s}f(0,0)= \frac{\partial}{\partial s} \biggr\rvert_{s=0}\lambda(s) = J(0).$$