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'Non-Tariff Trade Barrier': Looming Chinese Import Regulations Could Spell Trouble for Whiskey Makers
Barrels of bourbon are seen April 11, 2019, at the Bardstown Bourbon Company in Bardstown, Kentucky. Impending import regulations in China could cause whiskey makers problems getting products to the Chinese market. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
In April, China announced new food safety rules mandating that all manufacturing, processing and storage facilities located outside of China would need to be registered by the end of 2021 in order for their goods to be allowed access to the Chinese market in 2022 and on. Many producers, including those who make whiskey, are struggling to make the deadline, according to Reuters.
Since the registration codes were only issued in October and a website for companies to self-register went online in November, many companies fear that they won't be able to register in time.
"We're heading for major disruptions after Jan. 1," said a Beijing-based diplomat from a European country who is assisting food producers with the new measures, according to Reuters.
Some U.S. spirits companies have registered but are still unclear on labeling requirements.
"There is not a lot of time to understand what the requirements are and I think that is the main concern from our membership," Robert Maron, VP international trade at the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, told Reuters.
No Irish whiskey makers assisted by Chemical Inspection and Regulation Services Ireland have been able to register at all, said Li Xiang, business development manager at Chemical Inspection and Regulation Services Ltd Europe, according to Reuters.
According to The Drinks Business, it is believed that Irish whiskey and bourbon could be among the most affected products.
"We have never had anything this draconian out of China," said Andy Anderson, executive director of the Western United States Agricultural Trade Association, according to Reuters. Anderson called the rules a "non-tariff trade barrier."
Looming Chinese Policy Change Likely To Cause Turbulence For Whiskey Industry
Former Chairman of World's Largest Spirits Group Sentenced to Life in Prison
'We Stood Up at the Right Time': Taiwan Buys 20,000 Bottles of Rum Rejected by China Amid Dispute With Lithuania
Diageo's new Venture in China: Simple R&D Center or bid to Avoid Rumored Taxation?
Pernod Ricard Subjected to $25K Fine by Chinese Government For Advertising Violations
China Blasts Taiwan Following Rum Spat: 'It is a Matter of Time Before Taiwan's Diplomatic Allies Will Be Zero'


We produce 20AWG electro-plated tinned copper wire and then proceed by heating with an electric oven at 135 degrees C for 6~12 hrs. Recently our inspection showed that the wire elongation has changed when compared with year 2007 (2007/12= 4.75%, 2009/12= 24.5%). Will the property of the wire drastically change when we heat at 135 degrees C for 6~12 hrs? Can anyone give me the data of elongation vs temperature vs (time)?
We really do not what to tell you because the information you have given is so very minimal.
When you talk about heating in an electric oven at 135 C (275 F) for 6 to 12 hours we have no understanding at all.
1) Is the copper ETP?
2) Was the wire previously annealed, say after rod breakdown? If not at rod breakdown, what was the % reduction in area before the first annealing process or is 20 gauge the first and only anneal?
3) Are you talking about "X" number of annealing spools filled with tinned coated wire and then properly stacked in the electric oven?
4) What is the atmosphere in the oven and is the atmosphere moved by fans to ensure that all corners of the annealer receive the same degree of heat?
4) What guidance were you given by the annealer manufacturer?
5) Have you done any experimentation at your annealer?
It seems to us that there are two issues here.
1) The capability and competency of the annealer itself.
2) The way the conductor is placed in the annealer. (Weight, number of reels and positioning.) Consider load repeatability a very important factor.
Then get back to the way you were doing things in 2007 and confirm the elongation, assuming of course you are looking for 4.75% elongation.
What is the purpose of heating it in an oven. I'm no metallurgist but I think that you could heat it for a long time at 135C and not have any major change in the characteristics of the conductor.
My guess would be that the copper you are processing today is different than the copper you were processing 3 years ago.
In 2007 were you drawing from rod to 20 AWG and now having an intermediate anneal at about 8 AWG and then drawing soft wire to 20 AWG?
Like Peter says there is not enough info to give a reasonable answer.


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Kelberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is home to its seat. Kelberg is a state-recognized climatic spa.

Geography

Location
The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.

Kelberg lies roughly 12 km northeast of Daun.

Constituent communities
Kelberg's Ortsteile are described in the following sections.

Kelberg
The municipality's main centre is also named Kelberg.

Köttelbach
This centre is named after the like-named brook that snakes its way through the village. Even in antiquity, the area was settled: near what is now Köttelbach once stood a Roman villa rustica.

Hünerbach
The name Hünerbach means that this place was the only village in the Amt of Daun in the Electorate of Trier that lay behind (hinter in German, or dialectally hönner, whence Hüner—) the border brook (—bach) between the Electorate of Trier and the Electorate of Cologne, the Trierbach. In 1688, the village acquired its first chapel, which was replaced with a new building in 1925–1926.

Zermüllen
This village's name goes back to the description Zur Mühle, German for "At the Mill", and indeed, near the village once stood two mills.

Rothenbach mit Meisenthal
The name Rothenbach may well come from a mineral spring near the village whose water is reddish owing to its high iron content. Rothenbach had its first documentary mention in 1563 in the taxation rolls for the Electoral-Trier Amtshaus of Daun; Meisenthal was mentioned as early as 1459.

History
In 1195, Kelberg had its first documentary mention when Archbishop of Trier Johann I acquired Count Theoderich von Hoyenstaeden's allodium at Kelberg. The area around Kelberg, though, had already once been settled by Romans, as witnessed by finds on the Hochkelberg, one of the Eifel's highest mountains.

On 25 June 1215, Eberhard von Aremberg and his wife Adelheid von Freusburg donated their holdings at Kelberg to Abbot Heinrich von Heisterbach for the founding of Marienstatt Abbey. Even a Kelberg knightly family seems to have existed for a short time. In a document from Count Gerhard von Are, the knightly family "von Kelberg" is mentioned. Elsewhere, a Theodericus von Kelberg was mentioned in 1216 and a Gerhard von Kelberg in 1301.

During the Second World War, even Kelberg was not spared air raids. On 16 January 1945, Kelberg was bombed by 36 Allied fighter-bombers, which destroyed two thirds of the village centre. Today, in memory of this sacrifice a war cemetery can now be found on the Schwarzenberg near Kelberg.

On 1 January 1970, the four until then self-administering municipalities of Hünerbach (82 inhabitants), Köttelbach (146), Rothenbach (127) and Zermüllen (182) were amalgamated with Kelberg.

Politics

Municipal council
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

Mayor
Kelberg's mayor is Wilhelm Jonas (independent), and his deputies are Karl-Heinz Sicken (CDU) and Rudolf Schüssler (independent).

Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: In Silber eine von einem blau-silbernen verwechselten Wellenbalken überdeckte rote Spitze, darin oben fächerförmig fünf goldene Ähren und unten eine goldene Waage.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Argent a pile transposed gules and a fess wavy abased azure, changing to the field where it surmounts the pile, above the fess five ears of wheat fanned and banded Or and below a pair of balances of the same.

The five ears of wheat are symbolic of the municipality of Kelberg, which is made up of the five constituent communities of Kelberg, Hünerbach, Köttelbach, Rothenbach-Meisental and Zermüllen. This charge also illustrates that agriculture was for centuries the main livelihood. The Trierbach (brook), symbolized by the wavy fess, touches the areas of all five constituent communities. The pile transposed (that is, the wedgelike charge, here pointing up – "transposed" – instead of down, as is more usual for a pile in heraldry) was included in the arms to stand for the Hochkelberg, which forms a prominent backdrop to the municipality. The balances have two meanings. Kelberg was an important market community in the Middle Ages, and as a main centre in the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun had its own court. The balances symbolize both these things.

Culture and sightseeing

Natural monuments
Foremost among these is the 675 m-high Hochkelberg, the municipality's highest mountain, and indeed one of the Eifel's highest peaks. Kelberg also has the Rothenbacher Mineralquellen – mineral springs

Buildings

Main centre
 Saint Vincent's and Saint Nicholas's Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Vinzentius und Nikolaus), Kirchweg, Romanesque west tower remodelled in Baroque, Gothic Revival hall 1912–1913, two basalt shaft crosses from 1660, one of which is the so-called Christustempelchen ("Little Christ Temple") with baldachin construction from 1708.
 Bergstraße – wayside cross, basalt beam cross from 1781.
 Bergstraße 3 – timber-frame house, partly solid, commercial building in the back, 18th century, more recent wing.
 Bergstraße 5 – house from a corner estate, timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century.
 Bonner Straße 12/14 – timber-frame house, partly solid, partly decorative timber framing, 17th/18th century.
 Near Johannespesch 18 – Heiligenhäuschen (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints), base in brick and quarrystone, red sandstone Baroque niche housing.
 Mayener Straße 2 – villa, about 1920.
 Pilgrimage chapel to Our Lady of Sorrows, east of the village on the Schwarzenberg, small aisleless church, originally Late Gothic, expanded in 1719, 14 Gothic Revival Stations of the Cross, sandstone reliefs from 1869.
 Wayside cross, south of the village in the woods, basalt beam cross from 17th century.
 Wayside cross, near the outlying farm southwest of the village, basalt shaft cross from 17th/18th century.
 Wayside cross, near the pilgrimage chapel to Our Lady of Sorrows, basalt shaft cross from 1758 (copy?).

Hünerbach
 Mary Magdalene's Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche Maria Magdalena), An der Kapelle 2, triaxial aisleless church from 1926.
 Shell niche, southwest of the village on the road to Kelberg, with a Pietà relief, possibly from 18th century.
 Schildwacht – studio house, architect Hans Schwippert, 1930.

Köttelbach
 Saint Matthew's Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche St. Matthias), Hochkelberg 22, triaxial aisleless church from 1751, whole complex with churchyard and fencing.
 Zum Hochkelberg 33 – two-side estate, timber-frame building, partly solid, 19th century (apparently 1833), commercial building.

Meisenthal
 Saint Anthony's Catholic Chapel (Kapelle St. Antonius), Auf dem Franzen, small aisleless church, 1708.
 Auf dem Franzen 8 – former rectory, timber-frame building, partly slated, earlier half of 19th century.
 Auf dem Franzen/corner of Berggasse – Wayside cross, shaft cross from 1738.
 Mühlenweg 1 – one-and-a-half-floor timber-frame house, 18th/19th century.

Rothenbach
 Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary (Kirche St. Mariä Himmelfahrt), Kapellenweg 1, triaxial quarrystone aisleless church from 1946.
 Alte Poststraße 10 – timber-frame house, partly slated, 19th century.
 Talstraße 4 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 17th/18th century (?).
 Talstraße 8 – one-and-a-half-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially possibly 18th century, altered and made taller in late 19th century.

Zermüllen
 Across the street from Hauptstraße 23 – Baroque Heiligenhäuschen, 18th century.

References

External links

 Municipality's official webpage
 Kelberg in the collective municipality's Web pages
 Internet page by and about Kelbergers

Vulkaneifel

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We now conclude this series and try to bring these threads full circle to address what might be a vocabulary for an ABox instance record design. We'd very much like to thank Dr. Jim Pitman of the Bibliographic Knowledge Network project for having stimulated much of the thinking about the benefits and design of simple, human-authored and -readable instance records.
We have wanted to keep data records separate from logic and structure all along. Some clients have their own specific data records but may still want to interact with Web stuff or apply similar logic. Moreover, some client data is proprietary, some public. By organizing the data into "named entity dictionaries" we could modularize the architecture to allow swapping in and out of data appropriate to the customer or circumstance at hand.
However, earlier work with another client showed us that our initial named entity structure was not sufficiently general or robust. That company's records have complex relationships, such as affiliations for entities embedded in the same data record.
In order to improve the design, we went back to the drawing board to see if we could find guidance from the literature and other researchers as to how to "best" architect instance data in relation to the logic in the TBox (though we were not yet thinking and framing our questions viz description logics, or DL).
As anyone who reads my blog knows, I frequently rail against poor semantics or other aspects of the linked data space that I feel are counterproductive. At the same time, I'd like to think that I am also a vocal advocate and proponent for linked data. I am indeed a fan.
To me, the fundamental precepts of RDF as a data model able to capture virtually any data structure or relationship, and the use of Web URIs as linkable identifiers for a global 'Web of Data', are simply foundational and game changing. Stuff like this quickens my pulse.
As I noted in an earlier posting, there are many different data structures ('structs') for describing and conveying (transmitting) data records. Most of these are easy to understand and easy to read. We know that microformats have tried to capture a part of this space, but so has in other ways data serializations such as JSON or others. What can we learn from such formats?
As this series and its predecessor posts have argued, description logics (DL) is an excellent guiding framework for how to make architectural and design decisions about linked data. DL and the ABox – TBox have meshed beautifully with our earlier intuition to split ontologies and a structural and organizational view of the world (TBox) from the instance records (ABox, or what we had been calling internally our 'named entity dictionaries').
As this four-part series and its predecessor pieces indicate, not only can we gain better conceptual understanding and realization of some of this semantic Web stuff by using DL, but also, perhaps, many of today's silly or inefficient design practices may be remedied by better grounding our architectures in these logics.
One area, for example, that has helped us much is to get away from the confusing terminology of 'individuals' v 'instances'. Once we come to see an instance record as just that (so, that is why collections can play on an equal footing with individual things, for example), we now only need worry about asserting the attributes of the instance. We can defer all of the logic and reasoning about individuals and members and sets and collections and classes, etc., to the TBox and just get on with capturing and conveying our instance record, as an ABox.
For this reason alone (but there are others), Structured Dynamics has now abandoned the terminology of a 'named entity dictionary' in favor or 'instance dictionaries' or ABox (either term of which is understood to contain one or more instance records).
An instance record is simply a means to either represent or convey the information ("attributes") of a given instance. An instance is the thing at hand, and need not represent an individual; it could, for example, represent the entire holdings or collection of books in a given library.
Now, of course, in conventional linked data many of these entries need to be expressed as URIs in order to "define" the item. Our design allows for that, of course, but also allows the user to simply provide literals (that is, not identifiers, but text strings or numeric or actual values) for each item. Thus, the declaration of a "new" attribute only need occur by its expression, with its value also as simply declared.
Separate, specialized services (see below) may be (and often will need to be!) employed to look up and de-reference URIs, do datatype or data instance validation checks, evaluate identity relationships, disambiguate terms and so forth. The data supplier may choose to publish more-or-less complete "records" on their own, or they may not.
In its most naïve form, this key-value pair format allows for fast and easy instance record creation with the ability to create instances and new attributes on the fly. Sure, these assertions need to be checked, but so does most data when it is asked to participate in any meaningful work.
At the level of the TBox and the "specialized work" areas, there are other fragments of OWL, now called profiles in the soon to be released OWL 2 , that similarly can be applied to areas such as instance checking and validation, identity relation testing, etc., that I mentioned above. In other words, we can logically fragment RDF and OWL to do the individual parts of a complete system in order to simplify things and aid performance and computational efficiency.
. . . repeat as needed . . .
Instance records with literal specifications would need to be validated and checked before actually used for standard linked data or meaningful data purposes. However, this approach is already well-proved through, for example, OpenLink's Virtuoso Sponger cartridges and design. Sure some work would need to be done at time of ingest, but there are no technical challenges.
The language used to write a literal can be specified for any kind of attribute (metadata or not). The language is specified using the "@lang-tag" at the end of the literal. This method is similar to the N3 serialization of RDF, which is also equivalent to the XML serialization of RDF using the "xml:lang" attribute.
The hasVetting property, for which multiples are allowed, would identify the specific checks and services applied to the instance data. Depending on service, such checks might include URI lookup or de-referencing, identity relations and testing, record completeness and sufficiency checks, data type checking and validation, general instance checking, disambiguation, and so forth (see "Specialized Work" below).
Though, strictly speaking, such specialty work could be seen to occur at the TBox level, it is actually different and separate logic from "standard" inferencing or reasoning. Specialized work can therefore often occur as separate tests or in batch mode with fragments of OWL or other dedicated indexes and algorithms. Some of this specialized work may take advantage of the conceptual relationships in the TBox, but may not necessarily need to do so. In these manners, the inferencing work of the TBox can be kept clean and efficient.
Though still needing further thought and refinement, this broad outline of roles and architecture and structure for the ABox completes the last missing piece to Structured Dynamics' overall approach to linked data and RDF. Much time, thought and research have gone into it. Again, we'd very much like to thank Jim Pitman for his ideas that have helped catalyze this design .
 Heiko Stoermer, 2008. Okkam: Enabling Entity-centric Information Integration in the Semantic Web, Ph.D. thesis presented to the DIT – University of Trento, January 2008, 185 pp. See http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/archive/00001394/01/dissertation_camera_ready.pdf.
 Boris Motik et al., eds., 2008. "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: Profiles," a W3C Working Draft, December 2, 2008. See http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-profiles/.
 Aidan Hogan, Andreas Harth and Axel Polleres, 2008. "Scalable Authoritative OWL Reasoning on a Billion Triples," in Proceedings of Billion Triple Semantic Web Challenge 2008, at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008. See http://sw.deri.org/~aidanh/docs/saor_billiontc08.pdf.


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This book, a milestone in American music scholarship, is the first to take a close look at an important and little-studied component of African American music, one that has roots in Europe, but was adapted by African American congregations and went on to have a profound influence on music of all kinds—from gospel to soul to jazz. "Lining out," also called Dr. Watts hymn singing, refers to hymns sung to a limited selection of familiar tunes, intoned a line at a time by a leader and taken up in turn by the congregation. From its origins in seventeenth-century England to the current practice of lining out among some Baptist congregations in the American South today, William Dargan's study illuminates a unique American music genre in a richly textured narrative that stretches from Isaac Watts to Aretha Franklin and Ornette Coleman.
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ML Model Degradation, and why work only just starts when you reach production
The assumption that a Machine Learning (ML) project is done when a trained model is put into production is quite faulty. Neverthless, according to Alexandre Gonfalonieri — artificial intelligence (AI) strategist at Philips — this assumption is among the most common mistakes of companies taking their AI products to market.
Actually, in the real world, we see pretty much the opposite of this assumption. People like Alexandre therefore strongly recommend companies keep their best data scientists and engineers on a ML project, especially after it reaches production!
If you've ever productionized a model and really started using it, you know that, over time, your model will start performing worse.
In order to maintain the original accuracy of a ML model which is interacting with real world customers or processes, you will need to continuously monitor and/or tweak it!
In the best case, algorithms are retrained with each new data delivery. This offers a maintenance burden that is not fully automatable. According to Alexandre, tending to machine learning models demands the close scrutiny, critical thinking, and manual effort that only highly trained data scientists can provide.
This means that there's a higher marginal cost to operating ML products compared to traditional software. Whereas the whole reason we are implementing these products is often to decrease (the) costs (of human labor)!
Your models' accuracy will often be at its best when it just leaves the training grounds.
Building a model on relevant and available data and coming up with accurate predictions is a great start. However, for how long do you expect those data — that age by the day — continue to provide accurate predictions?
Chances are that each day, the model's latent performance will go down.
This phenomenon is called concept drift, and is heavily studied in academia but less often considered in business settings. Concept drift means that the statistical properties of the target variable, which the model is trying to predict, change over time in unforeseen ways.
In simpler terms, your model is no longer modelling the outcome that it used to model. This causes problems because the predictions become less accurate as time passes.
Particularly, models of human behavior seem to suffer from this pitfall.
The key is that, unlike a simple calculator, your ML model interacts with the real world. And the data it generates and that reaches it is going to change over time. A key part of any ML project should be predicting how your data is going to change over time.
Read more about concept drift here.
How do we know when our models fail?
You need to create a monitoring strategy before reaching production!
According to Alexandre, as soon as you feel confident with your project after the proof-of-concept stage, you should start planning a strategy for keeping your models up to date.
How often will you check in?
On the whole model, or just some features?
What features?
In general, sensible model surveillance combined with a well thought out schedule of model checks is crucial to keeping a production model accurate. Prioritizing checks on the key variables and setting up warnings for when a change has taken place will ensure that you are never caught by a surprise by a change to the environment that robs your model of its efficacy.
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Your strategy will strongly differ based on your model and your business context.
Moreover, there are many different types of concept drift that can affect your models, so it should be a key element to think of the right strategy for you specific case!
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Let's solve it!
Once you observe degraded model performance, you will need to redesign your model (pipeline).
One solution is referred to as manual learning. Here, we provide the newly gathered data to our model and re-train and re-deploy it just like the first time we build the model. If you think this sounds time-consuming, you are right. Moreover, the tricky part is not refreshing and retraining a model, but rather thinking of new features that might deal with the concept drift.
A second solution could be to weight your data. Some algorithms allow for this very easily. For others you will need to custom build it in yourself. One recommended weighting schema is to use the inversely proportional age of the data. This way, more attention will be paid to the most recent data (higher weight) and less attention to the oldest of data (smaller weight) in your training set. In this sense, if there is drift, your model will pick it up and correct accordingly.
According to Alexandre and many others, the third and best solution is to build your productionized system in such a way that you continuously evaluate and retrain your models. The benefit of such a continuous learning system is that it can be automated to a large extent, thus reducing (the human labor) maintance costs.
Although Alexandre doesn't expand on how to do these, he does formulate the three steps below:
Via the original blog
In my personal experience, if you have your model retrained (automatically) every now and then, using a smart weighting schema, and keep monitoring the changes in the parameters and for several "unit-test" cases, you will come a long way.
If you're feeling more adventureous, you could improve on matters by having your model perform some exploration (at random or rule-wise) of potential new relationships in your data (see for instance multi-armed bandits). This will definitely take you a long way!
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#100DaysOfCode: Machine Learning & Data Visualization
2018 seemed to be the year of challenges going viral on the web. Most of them were plain stupid and/or dangerous. However, one viral challenge I did like: #100DaysOfCode
1. Code minimum an hour every day for the next 100 days.
2. Tweet your progress every day with the #100DaysOfCode hashtag.
3. Each day, reach out to at least two people on Twitter who are also doing the challenge
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Many (aspiring) programming professionals competed in this challenge, sharing their learning journeys in domains from web development, machine learning, or data visualization.
With this blog, I wanted to share two of those learning journeys that stood out for me.
First, there's Avik Jain's 100 days of Machine Learning code repository on Github. Avik's repository contains all learning activities he followed during the 53 days of programming he completed. Some of Avik's entries really stood out, and I particularly liked his educational infographics:
Just look at the wonderful design and visual aids on this decision tree for dummies infographic, pseudocode and all:
Day 23: Decision trees for dummies. This just looks fabulous right?!
Apart from the infographics, Avik also links to many very well produced tutorials that helped him improve his machine learning skills. Such as the free Python for Data Science Handbook Avik worked through, or this Youtube tutorial on deep learning in Python with Tensorflow and Keras:
Although Avik didn't seem to have completed the full 100 days, many others did.
I have blogged about Hannah Yan Han's 100 days of code project before, but she definately deserves another mention here. Her 100 days revolved around data science, data visualization, and storytelling using both R and Python. You can find her #100DaysOfCode Medium page here, and her associated Github repository here.
For example, one day Hannah explored where instant noodles come from, how they are served, and whether people like them or not.
A different day she would examine which sports are the thoughest:
Or how scientific researchers migrate across the globe:
Hannah used many different plot types in those 100 days. Also some lesser known ones, like these upset plots on TED talk data:
Heck, she even made her own R package to generate Mondriaan-like paintings on one of the days:
What I found so great about Hannah's project is that she picked a novel dataset every couple of days. Moreover, she used a extremely large variety of different visualization formats. All visuals were equally beautiful, but Hannah made sure to pick the right one for the purpose she was trying to serve. If you are interested in data visualization, you seriously should check out Hannah's 100DaysOfCode Medium page.
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Chatterplots
I've mentioned before that I dislike wordclouds (for instance here, or here) and apparently others share that sentiment. In his recent Medium blog, Daniel McNichol goes as far as to refer to the wordcloud as the pie chart of text data! Among others, Daniel calls wordclouds disorienting, one-dimensional, arbitrary and opaque and he mentions their lack of order, information, and scale.
Wordcloud of the negative characteristics of wordclouds, via Medium
Instead of using wordclouds, Daniel suggests we revert to alternative approaches. For instance, in their Tidy Text Mining with R book, Julia Silge and David Robinson suggest using bar charts or network graphs, providing the necessary R code. Another alternative is provided in Daniel's blog: the chatterplot!
While Daniel didn't invent this unorthodox wordcloud-like plot, he might have been the first to name it a chatterplot. Daniel's chatterplot uses a full x/y cartesian plane, turning the usually only arbitrary though exploratory wordcloud into a more quantitatively sound, information-rich visualization.
R package ggplot's geom_text() function — or alternatively ggrepel's geom_text_repel() for better legibility — is perfectly suited for making a chatterplot. And interesting features/variables for the axis — apart from the regular word frequencies — can be easily computed using the R tidytext package.
Here's an example generated by Daniel, plotting words simulatenously by their frequency of occurance in comments to Hacker News articles (y-axis) as well as by the respective popularity of the comments the word was used in (log of the ranking, on the x-axis).
[CHATTERPLOTs are] like a wordcloud, except there's actual quantitative logic to the order, placement & aesthetic aspects of the elements, along with an explicit scale reference for each. This allows us to represent more, multidimensional information in the plot, & provides the viewer with a coherent visual logic& direction by which to explore the data.
Daniel McNichol via Medium
I highly recommend the use of these chatterplots over their less-informative wordcloud counterpart, and strongly suggest you read Daniel's original blog, in which you can also find the R code for the above visualizations.
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Sentiment Analysis of Stranger Things Seasons 1 and 2
Jordan Dworkin, a Biostatistics PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the few million fans of Stranger Things, a 80s-themed Netflix series combining drama, fantasy, mystery, and horror. Awaiting the third season, Jordan was curious as to the emotional voyage viewers went through during the series, and he decided to examine this using a statistical approach. Like I did for the seven Harry Plotter books, Jordan downloaded the scripts of all the Stranger Things episodes and conducted a sentiment analysis in R, of course using the tidyverse and tidytext. Jordan measured the positive or negative sentiment of the words in them using the AFINN dictionary and a first exploration led Jordan to visualize these average sentiment scores per episode:
The average positive/negative sentiment during the 17 episodes of the first two seasons of Stranger Things (from Medium.com)
Jordan jokingly explains that you might expect such overly negative sentiment in show about missing children and inter-dimensional monsters. The less-than-well-received episode 15 stands out, Jordan feels this may be due to a combination of its dark plot and the lack of any comedic relief from the main characters.
Reflecting on the visual above, Jordan felt that a lot of the granularity of the actual sentiment was missing. For a next analysis, he thus calculated a rolling average sentiment during the course of the separate episodes, which he animated using the animation package:
GIF displaying the rolling average (40 words) sentiment per Stranger Things episode (from Medium.com)
Jordan has two new takeaways: (1) only 3 of the 17 episodes have a positive ending – the Season 1 finale, the Season 2 premiere, and the Season 2 finale – (2) the episodes do not follow a clear emotional pattern. Based on this second finding, Jordan subsequently compared the average emotional trajectories of the two seasons, but the difference was not significant:
Smoothed (loess, I guess) trajectories of the sentiment during the episodes in seasons one and two of Stranger Things (from Medium.com)
Potentially, it's better to classify the episodes based on their emotional trajectory than on the season they below too, Jordan thought next. Hence, he constructed a network based on the similarity (temporal correlation) between episodes' temporal sentiment scores. In this network, the episodes are the nodes whereas the edges are weighted for the similarity of their emotional trajectories. In that sense, more distant episodes are less similar in terms of their emotional trajectory. The network below, made using igraph (see also here), demonstrates that consecutive episodes (1 → 2, 2 → 3, 3 → 4) are not that much alike:
The network of Stranger Things episodes, where the relations between the episodes are weighted for the similarity of their emotional trajectories (from Medium.com).
A community detection algorithm Jordan ran in MATLAB identified three main trajectories among the episodes:
Three different emotional trajectories were identified among the 17 Stranger Things episodes in Season 1 and 2 (from Medium.com).
Looking at the average patterns, we can see that group 1 contains episodes that begin and end with neutral emotion and have slow fluctuations in the middle, group 2 contains episodes that begin with negative emotion and gradually climb towards a positive ending, and group 3 contains episodes that begin on a positive note and oscillate downwards towards a darker ending.
– Jordan on Medium.com
Jordan final suggestion is that producers and scriptwriters may consciously introduce these variations in emotional trajectories among consecutive episodes in order to get viewers hooked. If you want to redo the analysis or reuse some of the code used to create the visuals above, you can access Jordan's R scripts here. I, for one, look forward to his analysis of Season 3!
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Facial Recognition Challenge: Chad Smith & Will Ferrell
The below summarizes Part 4 of a medium.com series by Adam Geitgey.
Check out the original articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8!
Adam Geitgey likes to write about computers and machine learning. He explains machine learning as "generic algorithms that can tell you something interesting about a set of data without you having to write any custom code specific to the problem. Instead of writing code, you feed data to the generic algorithm and it builds its own logic based on the data." (Part 1)
Adam's visual explanation of two machine learning applications (original from Part 1)
In the fourth part of his series on machine learning Adam touches on Facial Recognition. Facebook is one of the companies using such algorithms in real-time, allowing them to recognize your friends' faces after you've tagged them only a few times. Facebook reports they recognize faces with 97% accuracy, which is comparable to our own, human facial recognition abilities!
Facebook's algorithms recognizing and automatically tagging Adam's family. Helpful or creepy? (original from Part 4)
Adam decided to put up a challenge: would a facial recognition algorithm be able to distinguish Will Ferrell (famous actor) from Chad Smith (famous rock musician)? Indeed, these two celebrities look very much alike:
Chad Smith (left) and Will Ferell (right) on www.rollingstone.com
If you want to train such an algorithm, Adam explain, you need to overcome a series of related problems:
First, look at a picture and find all the faces in it
Second, focus on each face and be able to understand that even if a face is turned in a weird direction or in bad lighting, it is still the same person.
Third, be able to pick out unique features of the face that you can use to tell it apart from other people— like how big the eyes are, how long the face is, etc.
Finally, compare the unique features of that face to all the people you already know to determine the person's name.
(Adam Geitgey, Part 4)
How the facial recognition algorithm steps might work (original from Part 4)
To detect the faces, Adam used Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG). All input pictures were converted to black and white (because color is not needed) and then every single pixel in our image is examined, one at a time. Moreover, for every pixel, the algorithm examined the pixels directly surrounding it:
Illustration of the algorithm as it would take in a black and white photo of Will Ferrel (original from Part 4)
The algorithm then checks, for every pixel, in which direction the picture is getting darker and draws an arrow (a gradient) in that direction.
Illustration of how algorithm would reduce a black and white photo of Will Ferrel to gradients (original from Part 4)
However, to do this for every single pixel would require too much processing power, so Adam broke up pictures in 16 by 16 pixel squares. The result is a very simple representation that does capture the basic structure of the original face, based on which we can now spot faces in pictures. Moreover, because we used gradients, the result will be similar regardless of the lighting of the picture.
The original image turned into a HOG representation (original from Part 4)
Now that the computer can spot faces, we need to make sure that it knows that two perspectives of the same face represent the same person. Adam uses landmarks for this: 68 specific points that exist on every face. An algorithm can then be trained to find these points on any face:
The 68 points on the image of Will Ferrell (original from Part 4)
Now the computer knows where the chin, the mouth and the eyes are, the image can be scaled and rotated to center it as best as possible:
The image of Will Ferrell transformed (original from Part 4)
Adam trained a Deep Convolutional Neural Network to generate 128 measurements for each face that best distinguish it from faces of other people. This network needs to train for several hours, going through thousands and thousands of face pictures. If you want to try this step yourself, Adam explains how to run OpenFace's lua script. This study at Google provides more details, but it basically looks like this:
The training process visualized (original from Part 4)
After hours of training, the neural net will output 128 numbers accurately representing the specific face put in. Now, all you need to do is check which face in your database is most closely resembled by those 128 numbers, and you have your match! Many algorithms can do this final check, and Adam trained a simple linear SVM classifier on twenty pictures of Chad Smith, Will Ferrel, and Jimmy Falon (the host of a talkshow they both visited).
In the end, Adam's machine had learned to distinguish these three people – two of whom are nearly indistinguishable with the human eye – in real-time:
Adam Geitgey's facial recognition algorithm in action: providing real time classifications of the faces of lookalikes Chad Smith and Will Ferrel at Jimmy Falon's talk show (original from Part 4)
You can find Adam on LinkedIn, or on Twitter at @ageitgey, and I strongly recommend you examine his series on machine learning on Medium.com (Part 1). Moreover, Adam released a Python library called face_recognition, arguably easier to install and use than OpenFace, as well as a pre-configured virtual machine with face_recognition, OpenCV, TensorFlow and lots of other deep learning tools pre-installed.
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Ceremonial unveiling of Michelangelo's The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. The bozzetto is then put on display in an antechamber of the Sistine Chapel and can be viewed by the public. Behind closed doors pilgrims say that the bozzetto "has magic healing powers".


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A little caution
October 26, 2017 Uncategorizedgaels360
As the years roll by and the wins pile up, Gael Coach Randy Bennett is often a lone voice warning against over-confidence.
"Don't take success for granted," he proclaims. "It's never easy, it's never guaranteed."
Especially following the last two 29-win seasons, a return to the NCAA Tournament and a first-round win over Virginia Commonwealth in March, Bennett has been fighting the poisonous effect of expectations.
Bennett doesn't play "poor me" as other coaches sitting on loaded rosters do, but he has urged patience with fans and media. Over and over he has pointed out that the 2017-18 Gaels are without two of the three best players that helped rack up those impressive numbers — Joe Rahon and Dane Pineau, lost to graduation.
Privately, he has predicted it is going to take at least 10 games for this year's Gael team to gel.
To those watching the Gaels' uneven, often stumbling 85-76 win over Fresno State in Wednesday's exhibition game in Moraga, truer words were never spoken. The ghosts of Rahon and Pineau were all over McKeon Pavilion, as the Gaels were out-shot 51% to 49% and out-rebounded 29 to 26 by a team picked to finish fourth in the Mountain West Conference.
Outside of Emmett Naar's seven assists, no other Gael guard had more than two. The second leading assist man for a Gael team that for years has boasted a sparkling assist-to-turnover record and dominating pick-and-roll execution was center Jock Landale with five. It need not be said that the Gaels are better off with Landale receiving assists rather than handing them out.
Lineup surprise
To many Gael fans, the surest path to continued success this season involved junior Evan Fitzner assuming the tough inside enforcer role of Pineau, and sophomore Jordan Ford taking over co-floor general duties from Rahon. The 6-10 Fitzner had a sparkling freshman campaign built around his three-point shooting and ability to attack the basket off the dribble. He was relegated to a secondary role last season, however, as Bennett found he liked the one-two punch of the 6-11 Landale and the 6-9 Pineau at the center and power forward positions.
Fitzner didn't sulk as his playing time diminished, exhibiting excellent support for Pineau and the rest of his teammates. Silently he vowed to become more Pineau-like with a tough conditioning regimen that Landale had utilized to vault himself from backup to star center. He even accompanied Landale to Australia over the summer to catch some of the Aussie conditioning magic Landale utilized before his breakout season.
Imagine the fans' surprise, however, when instead of Fitzner in the starting lineup Bennett chose little-used reserve Kyle Clark on the front line alongside Landale. Clark, a 6-7 junior, had, like Fitzner, delighted fans in his freshman season as a versatile sub at either the 3 or 4 positions. Also like Fitzner, Clark saw his playing time diminish last season as Pineau dominated the 4-spot, with Fitzner getting some backup minutes, and freshman Tanner Krebs stepping in as Bennett's favored sub for Calvin Hermanson at the 3.
Clark seemed to be a man without a position as this season neared, assuming Fitzner would step in as the starting power forward and the excellent duo of Hermanson and Krebs held down the 3. Bennett obviously has not jumped on the "reborn Fitzner" bandwagon, at least in the season's early stages, so it remains to be seen how the Gael front line shakes out.
Clark had an impressive line as a first-time starter, injecting energy and scoring punch into the Gaels' offense — 13 points on 4-7 shooting in 33 minutes. He pulled down only two rebounds, however, leaving open the question of how Bennett will re-establish the Gaels' front-line dominance in the absence of Pineau.
Landale was solid but not spectacular (13 points, seven rebounds), having a hard time maneuvering around Fresno State's 6-10, 290-pound center, Terrell Carter II. It is an open question whether Carter is the second in his family to bear the name Terrell, or wears the II designation to indicate he is the size of two people. Whatever the answer, Landale is going to have to figure out opponents like Carter if he is to live up to his senior promise. Two words the Gaels' all-American candidate and Kareem Abdul Jabaar award nominee might want to consider: jump hook.
Ford and Neal
The second most surprising development of the game was the emergence of graduate transfer Cullen Neal as the Gaels' go-to scoring threat. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a win over FSU without Neal's 19 points (5-8, 4-6 on 3s) and overall energy on offense. He looked every bit the four-year veteran he is after stints at New Mexico and Mississippi, and was fearless in attacking the basket from either the three-point line or by driving the lane into the fearsome defense of Carter and other FSU bigs.
Ford, on the other hand, looked tentative both in running the offense and scoring, making only one of five FG attempts and dishing out one assist in 17 minutes. He barely got off the bench in the second half when the game was on the line and the Gaels relied on Neal for crucial buckets. Ford obviously has a long way to go before filling Rahon's shoes as a second point guard presence alongside Naar, who was excellent (18 points, seven assists).
Naar looked to be completely free of the left knee problems that hobbled him last year. If Bennett continues to experiment with Ford and Neal at the two-guard, Naar might become the 40-minute man Bennett covets. He had two such iron men last year in Naar, even though slowed by knee problems, and Rahon. Bennett would dearly love to put the ball into one guard's hands for the entire game, and neither Ford nor Neal — who is a shoot-first type — seems cut out for the role in the early going. Stay tuned to see how this story plays out.
Here are some other interesting developments from last night's game:
Unsung hero: Krebs will probably not post the stat sheet from the FSU game on his bulletin board, as it showed he had zero points on three attempts — a woeful tale for a dead-eye shooter such as he. But Bennett and Krebs' teammates will point to his four rebounds and one steal as evidence of a gritty game that played a crucial role in the Gaels' win.
The steal was a thing of beauty, as he simply took the ball out of the hands of a baffled Fresno player on a key possession. Two of the rebounds were hotly-contested wrestling matches with the Fresno front line, with Krebs emerging with the ball in his hands after ferocious scrums. Every possession was important in the nail-biting second half, and Krebs gave his team possessions when they needed them most.
Jordan Hunter: Concurrent with the speculation about filling Pineau's role was the possibility that junior center Jordan Hunter might do what Pineau did — switch from the post to the power forward position. That didn't happen last night, as Hunter was not on the floor alongside Landale (if memory serves).
Logging nine minutes solely as Landale's sub, Hunter was impressive. He sank both his field goal attempts, grabbed a rebound and registered a block and a steal. He would have had two blocks if one of his teammates were not called for a foul on a drive to the bucket. Hunter moved over and swatted the ball away after the foul had been committed. He did the same thing on the clean block he was credited with, and provides a rim protection force that Landale doesn't. As with the Gael guard position, Hunter's role bears watching.
Not ready for prime time players: Out of sight of Gael fans leaving the game after regulation, a scrimmage was conducted among FSU and SMC players who did not play much in the main event. The Gael lineup consisted of Jock Perry, who did not get off the bench in the opening 40 minutes, Elijah Thomas and Tommy Kuhse, similarly unused, and little-used regulars Ford and Fitzner.
The requirement of getting my game companion home prevented me from watching the after-scrimmage in its entirety, but two things struck me about it: it was a great idea from the SMC and FSU coaching staffs to get their subs game-like action, and it was poignant to see Fitzner competing among the scrubs. Although I don't think the jury is out on Fitzner's role with the current Gaels, it was nevertheless unsettling to see the two-year starter in such a setting.
Jock Landale, shown above rattling the rim against Arizona in March NCAA Tournament action, was not dominant against Fresno State, but led the Gaels in rebounding and scored 13 points. Photo courtesy of Tod Fierner.


The concept of education through entertainment popularly known as "Edutainment" is steadily gaining popularity in Sri Lanka. This is as parents acknowledge the value of organised indoor play centres as a tool for effecting childrens' learning. Such facilities engage kids in creative and hands-on activities in a fun manner, thus developing social skills through their interaction with other children.
Edutainment remains a largely untapped market in Sri Lanka, with a potential of up to 450,000 children within Colombo alone. Nuclear families are living increasingly busy lifestyles with two working parents. This coupled with higher income levels among the middle-class remain key demand drivers for indoor play facilities.
The showcased investment opportunity is one such enterprise, offering a safe and monitored environments for children to explore, play and learn. This is and ideal indoor entertainment alternative to the increasing use of screen time (smartphones/tabs/TV/laptops).
Fun Factory currently has a total capacity of up to 250 children across its two locations at Nawala and Mount Lavinia. The locations offer a range of packages including walk-in play, birthday/event celebrations, and drop-and-shop facilities. The company is now seeking an investment of LKR 10 million (in return for a 20% stake in the business) to support its expansion plans.
The company aims to use this capital to open a new facility in either Ja-Ela or Wattala (urban areas), with a capacity of about 200 children. New activities will include pre-school and day-care facilities, a role play zone as well as a drama play center.
2) A place for families to spend time together, celebrate birthdays and special occasions.


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Q: ExternalException: A generic error occurred in GDI+ I am using Selenium WebDriver in C# and
I am trying to dynamically create a folder and save screenshots of failing tests to it.
Here I am running the group of test cases (Test Suite of 66 test cases).
After running the test suite I found few failed tests with GDI+ error and were not captured as a screenshot.
But when I run them individually most of the failed cases (GDI+ error) were passing except few.
Here is the code for creating a folder:
TestExecutionStartTime = DateTime.Now;
baseDirectory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.GetValues("failedTests")[0];
Browser = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["WebDriver"];

DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(baseDirectory);
DirectoryInfo[] subdirs = directory.GetDirectories();

if (System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(baseDirectory).Length == 0)
    {
        screenshotDirectory = baseDirectory + @"\" + (DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy_MM_dd_hh_mm") + "_" + Browser);
        Directory.CreateDirectory(screenshotDirectory);
    }

Here is the code for taking screenshot:
public void takeScreenshot(string filename)
        {
            string fname = filename + ".jpg";
            string screenshot = screenshotDirectory + @"\" + fname;
            Screenshot ss = ((ITakesScreenshot)WebDriver).GetScreenshot();
            byte[] image = ss.AsByteArray;
            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(image))
            {
                Image i = Image.FromStream(ms);
                i.Save(screenshot);
            }

I assume that the error is at this  i.Save(screenshot) call, but I was not able to resolve it.

A: I have reason to believe (from experience) that your issue comes about as a result of the stream being destroyed while it is being saved (the using statement).
Things to be aware of:

*

*Write permissions wherever you are saving the image

*Make sure the path is correct - this will throw a GDI+ exception and is very misleading, verify your path, try a temporary directory instead of creating your custom image directory to rule this one out.

*Make sure the height of the image is not bigger than (65534px)

*

*You can verify this by looking at the size:
    var bitmapTemp = new Bitmap(stream);
    Console.WriteLine(bitmapTemp.Height);

Here's some code that destroys the stream only after the image is saved:
    public static Screenshot GetScreenshot(ChromeDriver driver)
    {
        Screenshot ss = ((ITakesScreenshot)driver).GetScreenshot();
        return ss;
    }
    public static void SaveScreenshot(byte[] byteArray, string location)
    {
        var stream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
        var img = Image.FromStream(stream);
        img.Save(location);
        stream.Dispose();
    }

And use the functions like so:
    var path = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
    var ss = GetScreenshot(driver);
    SaveScreenshot(ss.AsByteArray, path + "imagename.jpg");

A: Thanks for your inputs AntonB.
I have considered your points and tried differently and got the solution.
i have used [SetUpFixture], [OneTimeSetUp] and [OneTimeTearDown] to create folder only once and it solved the problem.
Here is the code:
[SetUpFixture]
public class Config
{
    public Config()
    {

    }
    public string baseDirectory;
    public static string screenshotDirectory;

    [OneTimeSetUp]
    public void SetUp()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Creating a folder to capture failed scenarios");
        baseDirectory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.GetValues("failedTests")[0];
        string Browser = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["WebDriver"];

        screenshotDirectory = baseDirectory + @"\" + (DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy_MM_dd_hh_mm") + "_" + Browser);
        Directory.CreateDirectory(screenshotDirectory);
    }
    [OneTimeTearDown]
    public void TearDown()
    {

    }
}

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US Attorney – Man Convicted of Bribing Bank Manager
May 7, 2009, 2:46 am 1.3k Views
A Mexican national who ran an investment scheme that targeted the Hispanic community in East Los Angeles was found guilty this afternoon of bribing a bank manager to falsify bank records and release holds on millions of dollars in checks that he deposited at the bank.
Juan Rangel, 45, was convicted of bribing a bank official, conspiring to falsify bank records and two counts of falsifying bank reports.
The evidence presented during a week-long trial in United States District Court in Los Angeles showed that Rangel secretly paid a branch manager at Bank of America to falsify bank documents – documents that he later used to induce lending companies to approve mortgages for "straw borrowers" who were not actually buying the properties. As a result, lending companies approved more than $1 million in loans. Rangel also paid the branch manager for other special services at the bank, including releasing holds that the bank was putting on checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars that he regularly deposited. Rangel also asked the bank manager not to file Currency Transaction Reports with the government, which are required by law for all cash transactions over $10,000.
Rangel owned and operated Financial Plus Investments, which was based in Commerce, California. According to court documents, Financial Plus advertised heavily in Spanish-language media, such as the Rangel-backed magazine "Si," on radio and television, and Spanish-language flyers. One of the flyers advertised Financial Plus Investment's programs, promising investors a 100 percent annual return on their investments. The advertisements assured potential investors that investments were protected and explained that their money would be backed by "titles of property." Former Financial Plus employees, as well as investor victims, estimate that there were between 600 to 800 investors in Financial Plus. The company closed its doors on July 25, 2008.
As a result of today's guilty verdict, Rangel faces a statutory maximum sentence of 95 years in federal prison. Rangel is scheduled to be sentenced by United States District Judge George H. King on August 3.
The case against Rangel is part of an ongoing criminal investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Postal Inspection Service and IRS-Criminal lnvestigation.
CONTACT: Assistant United States Attorney James A. Bowman
Major Frauds Section
Assistant United States Attorney Stephen I. Goorvitch
Release No. 09-058
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American Health Assistance Foundation
The American Health Assistance Foundation is a non-profit organization that funds research seeking cures for Alzheimer's disease, age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma, and provides the public with information about risk factors, preventative lifestyles, available treatment and coping strategies.
The Foundation issues important information to the general public, especially those in the elderly population, through their website, print publications, public service announcements, television and radio broadcasts. The aim and focus of the American Health Assistance Foundation is to educate people about risk factors, the latest research, treatment options, risk reduction through healthy lifestyles and ways to deal with degenerative diseases.
The American Health Assistance Foundation is one of America's leading supporters of scientific investigations to gather information in order to understand and find cures for Alzheimer's disease, age-related macular degenerative diseases and glaucoma.
The Foundation has rewarded over $110 million of grants to professionals and prominent scientists for research at universities, hospitals and medical centers around the world. Currently, it supports 125 grants: 62 for Alzheimer's research, 34 for macular degenerative diseases and 29 for glaucoma research.
Founded in 1973, the American Health Assistance Foundation operates under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code while being a non-profit organization for its members. Individuals, groups and other parties can make donations to the foundation to help them conduct their research and award grants to established health care professionals.
The American Health Assistance Foundation has six branches that are focused on specific research material and medical programs. The AHAF also has partner foundations and organizations in other countries to further the scope of its research. The Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors, lead by the Executive Director.
There are three Scientific Review Committees consisting of researchers who influence and guide the Board on making decisions on which grants to allow. The funding that allows the American Health Assistance Foundation to give out grants for research are private donations from the general public. Cash contributions, memorials, wills and bequests, charitable trusts, annuities, and corporate and foundation grants are all ways in which to donate to AHAF.
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Moms () is a 2012 Russian anthology film. It consists of eight short films which are set on 8 March, the International Women's Day.

Plot
Every year, on March 8,  telephone networks of Russia transmit millions of calls and SMS messages. Hardworking analysts have calculated that the absolute majority of telephone calls are addressed to the most important women in the life of every man — mothers.

Cast
 Elena Korikova —  segment  My Beloved
 Olga Volkova —  segment  My Beloved
 Yuliya Grishina —  segment  My Beloved
 Tatyana Kosmacheva —  segment  My Beloved
 Sergey Bezrukov —  segment  My Beloved
 Yekaterina Vasilyeva – segment  I am not Kolya
 Alexandra Nazarova – segment  I am not Kolya
 Mikhail Porechenkov – segment  I am not Kolya
 Mikhail Gorevoy – segment  I am not Kolya
 Marina Golub – segment Parachute
 Ekaterina Artemenko – segment Parachute
 Fyodor Dobronravov – segment Parachute
 Ivan Dobronravov – segment Parachute
 Liya Akhedzhakova – segment  Partner
 Olga Makeeva –   segment  Partner
 Dmitri Dyuzhev –  segment  Partner
 Pyotr Fyodorov – segment  Partner
 Ravshana Kurkova – segment  Father and son
 Egor Beroev – segment Father and son

References

External links

2012 comedy films
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Russian comedy-drama films


REBECCA Menzies is an inspirational trainer who, for the last four years, has been out training on her own at her dual purpose yard at Howe Hills Stables in Morden, in Co Durham.
And from day one, Rebecca has been feeding her horses with Bluegrass Horse Feeds and is very proud of her association with the company.
With 45 horses at her yard, Rebecca wants the best out of her horses to ensure the best performance.
Speaking to Bluegrass, Rebecca said: "From day one I have been using Bluegrass Horse Feeds. I use Hi Performance Mix and Racehorse Cubes but there are some horses on RE-Solve. When we get horses coming in from other yards we put them on Bluegrass Horse Feeds and literally within a couple of days the difference is remarkable. It's quite amazing.
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KiwiCo inc. is a company that provides enriching, creative, and convenient STEM projects for kids.
What that means, in a nutshell, is that when you subscribe to a KiwiCo activity box, you'll be getting a box with KiwiCo STEM activities for your child each month that includes everything they need to build a fantastic, age appropriate project.
Let's talk about what's in the box.
If you Google "KiwiCo Youtube", you're going to find a lot of people willing to show you their own KiwiCo videos. If they're like me, they're going to show you everything that comes in the KiwiCo kits. Suffice to say, it's EVERYTHING your kids need to make their project, but if there's anything extra you need, (like scissors), it'll be listed.
As you can see, my KiwiCo science box came with everything except scissors. I literally handed it to my boys on a Friday during normal school work hours and said, "We're doing this instead of regular school work today, have at it."
Other than that, I didn't help at all.
Depending on the age and ability of your kids, you might need to help. Since KiwiCo makes boxes for ages 0-16+, you could be aiding in the project for a few years.
For my kids, I like that they have to work for it, slow down, read the instructions, and rely on themselves to get the job done. It helps them realize they are capable, and it gives me some time to enjoy their ability to learn and accomplish without my actual participation.
Together, they were able to put together the spin art machine in under two hours. They never reached a point where they looked frustrated, and, even though I was standing right there, they never got stumped enough to ask for help.
If you don't know which crate you need to subscribe to in order to get projects like the KiwiCo spin art machine; our KiwiCo monthly box is the KiwiCo Tinker Crate. It's geared for kids ages 9-16, and focuses on science rather than art.
There is a KiwiCo Doodle Crate geared for the same age range, but while the Tinker Crate is science, the Doodle Crate is art. So if you've got a child who loves to draw, paint, etc, the KiwiCo Doodle Crate might be a perfect fit.
As I said, my kids put it together themselves in a couple of hours. There were roughly 8-12 parts in the box, and the instructions come in a nice, double sided, small poster sized paper.
Everything they need to do is not only written out, but also illustrated, in case your children are more visual learners.
To give you an idea of age, my oldest is 11 and my youngest is 8, both will have birthdays in the next two months-ish.
KiwiCo DIY is awesome! They were so proud of themselves! I've already had to purchase refills of paint and card stock for the spin art machine.
Pro Tip - Alex Spin Art Refills work great for this machine. It comes with paint and 20 cards, plus some holders, for around $6. The cards are a little small, about 1/4" short on each side, but if you'll get a pack of Loctite Blue Tack, you can stick it down gently before spinning, and it'll work perfectly!
The KiwiCo box actually creates the container for the spin art machine, so you don't have paint flying everywhere when they make their pictures. It's all nicely covered and they even give you stickers to place over the gaps in the box where paint might leak during the spinning process.
Probably the worst part is figuring out where to store the boxes once the kids are done. So far, I'm just letting them play with them until they start ignoring it, then I toss it out.
The upside to this is that keeping these boxes for a long time is an option, because they're not junk. They're really good crafts, high quality, the kind that can withstand a lot of play time!
Here's how to use the Alex Spinner refills with a tiny bit of Loctite poster putty, it's so easy and will keep this toy in play (no pun intended) for a long time!
How much is Kiwi Crate? This is honestly my favorite part of getting a KiwiCo Tinker Crate! I looked at quite a few places before deciding on KiwiCo, like KiwiCo VS MEL Science, KiwiCo VS Amazon STEM, and KiwiCo VS Little Passports.
We went with KiwiCo because we loved that everything came in the box, it was a very hands on build type of box, and the price was right.
Some of these boxes are incredibly expensive! But not KiwiCo! We pay just $16.45 a month! Be sure you go through Ebates when you order because that will also get you cash back. When I placed my order, I got 7.5% back, which was something like $14.00, not bad! It's like having your own extra KiwiCo coupon.
Depending on whether you do the monthly, three month, six month, or yearly subscription, your price will vary, but it will never be more than $19.95 a month.
And, since KiwiCo does have such a big age range, my kids won't age out of it as quickly as they would with something like Little Passports, which maxes out at age 12.
You can also use a KiwiCo discount code SHARE30 to get 30% off your first month's box! That's definitely a KiwiCo promo code you'll want to apply at checkout.
KiwiCo deals do pop up frequently, so be sure and check the site when you place your order. You can also use your very own KiwiCo referral code once you do place your order. Share it with your friends! If they use your code, they get $10 off their order, and you get $10 toward your order.
Side note - There is also a KiwiCo specially curated book which we do not subscribe to, mainly because it adds $10 a box.
Once you pick your KiwiCo box subscription (I'll post the different boxes below), you will be prompted to create a password so you can login to KiwiCo whenever you want.
This gives you access to things like your KiwiCo order number and your KiwiCo order status. Of course, whether you order or not, you'll always have access to KiwiCo customer service, the KiwiCo blog, a KiwiCo phone number, and all the KiwiCo reviews and KiwiCo STEM reviews you could ever want. You'll also get KiwiCo free shipping on your subscription boxes, which is great!
I'll post the different KiwiCo crates below, but remember that there's no commitment. If at any time you decide your child wants to try a different line, you can make the switch, it's easy!
From the KiwiCo Tadpole Crate and the KiwiCo Koala Crate, to the KiwiCo Eureka Crate, they have got your little one covered. It's a monthly box full of fun they're sure to enjoy, no matter how big they get.
Also, these crates make great gifts! You can either send a box subscription, or you can get a KiwiCo gift card that the recipient can use however they want.
I hope you love our KiwiCo box review, and I hope you're still playing with that crate when you're 104, just like it says on the box.
As always, feel free to ask questions, I'm more than happy to help!


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PHISH, SUNDAY 05/21/1989
320 SPEAR STREET320 SPEAR STREET
SET 1: Harry Hood, Foam, Contact, Mike's Song[1] > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Split Open and Melt, Dazed and Confused[2], The Sloth, You Enjoy Myself > Ya Mar, AC/DC Bag > Divided Sky
SET 2: Alumni Blues, Possum
[1] Alternate lyrics.
[2] First known Phish performance.
Before Contact, the band announced that the police were towing cars out on Spear Street. This version of Mike's Song, known also as "Molly's Song," included alternate lyrics. This show marked the only known Phish performance of Dazed and Confused. YEM included a Godzilla vocal jam. SOAM was introduced as being "about a pig." The setlist for set II is unknown except for Chris Kuroda's guest sit-in on vocals for either Alumni Blues or Possum. It is also possible that Kuroda sat in on both songs. There are no recordings of set II in circulation. Some recordings that circulate are mislabeled as The Front. The set II information comes from phish.com.
Overall: 2.8/5 (10 ratings)
Godzilla vocal jam in You Enjoy Myself
Stash 2
May 21, 2009: Trey Anastasio & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - Baltimore, MD
May 21, 2002: Trey Anastasio Band - Seattle, WA
May 21, 2002: Trey Anastasio - Seattle, WA
May 21, 2000: Phish - New York, NY
May 21, 1997: New York! - Burlington, VT
May 21, 1994: Phish - Seattle, WA
May 21, 1988: Phish - Burlington, VT
Review by TheEmu
One word to describe this show: FUN. Kind of like the 8/21/87 Ian's Farm show, it has that sound check kind of looseness born from not being a show with a genuine crowd. Granted, there are some parts here and there that slide from loose to sloppy, for example in Weekapaug and YEM, but the jams are pretty much smokin' from front to back. The Hood builds to a fantastic climax, the 'Paug cooks, the Melt is solid, and the YEM is tremendously hot (especially at the end, that ginger kid can really play). The jams alone push this up close to four stars, but then the fun pushes it well over the top. The YEM vocal jam which morphs from Ufitzi to Zenzile to Godzilla, the aborted Dazed and Confused (complete with mockery from Fish for not being able to get through the whole thing), the alternate lyrics and goofing around in the Mike's Groove, and, of course, the hilarious version of Contact that all fans of Contact should check out, and more. That's right!
Just one of those real good-time gigs that's a blast to listen to and imagine being at. 4 stars for this, easily.
Jump on it, son!
Review by conradjohansen
Incredibly strong Hood to open, Trey just goes off crazy trilling near the peak. Funny banter about Foam and Contact about Mike and cars being towed, I'm sure someone was bummed. Molly's Song comes next and a wailing Molly taboot. Nice strong 'Paug jam. Early Melt and the debut of Dazed and Confused with Trey trying to play guitar with a bow. Top notch YEM as well. Beautiful Divided to close.
Solid fun show from '89, 4.... out of 5.
2012-11-14 12:23 pm , attached to 1989-05-21
Review by DollarBill
This is a really fun, but very sloppy show. Lots of stage banter and general conversations with their friends while they are playing. Half of the set is about Molly and cars being towed. Trey breaks his B string at the end of Melt which is why the rest of the set is off the cuff and sloppy. It seems he borrowed a guitar from Alex? Anyways, its a fun show to hear, but not all that great in terms of tight playing.
Review by DemandOpener
This show is "interesting" in the sense that it's literally the sloppiest guitar-solo wank/shredfest that I've ever heard this band play. There are some fun moments, including a Godzilla vocal jam (my other favorite band is Blue Oyster Cult), but there's nothing to see here that isn't better during literally any other part of 1989.


If recent releases are any indication, the age of the small game company is dawning. One of the harbingers of this new age is Mind the Move Games. Its first release, Oltremare, designed by Emanuele Ornella, was an instant hit last year, meriting feature treatment in the Winter 2005 GA REPORT. Now another design by Ornella marks this company's second release: Il Principe.
Il Principe comes in a standard size box (much larger than the one housing the original edition of Oltremare) to hold 100 Building Cards, 15 City Cards, 10 Role Tiles, money chips, shield counters, an Il Principe marker and a mounted board showing regions of medieval Italy as well as a place for the Role Tiles and a scoring track. The rules are only two pages long and come in 4 languages, including English.
Four City Cards are placed alongside the board, available to be built. Each player chooses his unique set of shield markers and places one of these on the scoring track.
A game turn consists of three phases. In Phase 1, all players receive 5 chips ("money") and four Building Cards from the deck. Building Cards come in five colors (in decreasing value): green, white, red, blue and yellow. Each card has a value of 1. All players discard two of the cards in their hands. This brings us to Phase 2 as these discards are collected, sorted into sets of the same color, and auctioned.
City Cards contain a wealth of information including how many Building Cards – and of what colors – are needed to build that particular city as well as how much money such construction requires. These cards also show the number of Victory Points earned for a successful build as well as a number of shields. Shields represent influence a particular player has in a particular region. Upon building a city, that player may place the specified number of shields in any region bordering that city. Cities border one, two or three regions and shields may be placed entirely in one area or divided.
In an interesting design touch, OTHER players can also score on a build. Players holding Majority Control in a color used in building receives 2 VPs; the Minority holder receives 1. If the building player happens to have a majority or minority interest in a color used, he receives no additional VPs. After all, he is already getting VPs for the construction.
Built City Cards are given to the player and a new City Card is immediately drawn to fill the vacated spot. Cards used by a player in City building are placed, face up, in front of him. These cards will help determine Majority and Minority Control of the different colored cards.
With the Building Card auctions completed and any Cities built as a result, Phase 3 begins. Now ALL players, starting with the player holding the Il Principe marker, may choose to build a City OR play cards from his hand. City building follows the same procedure as when winning an auction. The card play option allows you to place down any number of the SAME COLOR cards from your hand to your array.
Once all players have built or played cards, Majority and Minority Controls are determined. The player with the most FACE UP cards in a color receives the Majority Control marker; the player with the second most FACE UP cards receives Minority Control. As mentioned, Majority and Minority Controls give you the potential to earn VPs when other players build but they also come with their own unique "bonuses". For example, Majority and Minority controllers in Green may turn over (from face down to face up) any non-green card, control of White earns you 1 VP, Red allows a free draw of a building card, blue enables you to place a shield in any region, and yellow bestows 2 money chips on the controllers. Bonuses go into effect IMMEDIATELY! But Majority Control comes with a price. The player with Majority Control must immediately turn HALF of his cards of that color (rounded up!) FACE DOWN! This generally causes Majority Control to be lost the following turn (but he still reaps VP benefits until then.) Minority Controllers are immune to this effect. Now, we return to Phase 1 as players get 5 money chips, draw 4 more Building Cards and the next turn begins.
Play continues until one of two conditions are met: either less than 4 City Cards are left (ending the game immediately) OR when drawing Building Cards, less than a certain number (from 12 to 20 depending on the number of players) remain. In the second case, players get their 5 money chips (unclear in the rules but, again, the correct way to play as confirmed by the designer) but do NOT draw any building cards. Instead, 2 x the number of players Building Cards are drawn from the remaining deck and auctioned, signaling the last turn of the game. Once this last turn is done, the final VPs are scored.
In Il Principe, VPs seemingly come from everywhere! All along, you've been scoring VPs for building Cities and having Majority/Minority Control in colors used in those builds. In the final reckoning, players also earn 2 VPs for any Majority Control, 1 VP for Minority Control, they currently have, 2 VPs for having the most Building Cards in hand, 2 VPs for the most money and 2 VPs for each SET of Building Cards (1 of EACH color) present in their array. (This VP source is mangled in the English rules, falling victim to the language barrier, but this IS the correct interpretation.) Finally, attention turns to the map. For each region in which a player has the most shields, he will score 5 VPs; second most will score 2 VPs. In cases of a tie, BOTH players score the same VP total. At this point, the player with the most VPs wins!
City building is a major source of VPs, both in the actual build as well as the ability to place shields for future scoring. Majority and Minority Control, another critical source of Victory Points, can earn you as many VPs as the City builder if you happen to have the right combinations of color control. But you can't depend on maintaining control since Majority players are compelled to turn over half of their holdings upon achieving majority status, generally leaving them vulnerable to Majority Control takeovers. The play mechanism intricacies dovetail neatly so that an early lead is not insurmountable and the winner not apparent until the final VP calculations are done.
Il Principe is fast moving but this is a two-edged sword. Since the game only lasts 60-90 minutes, the game tends to feel "busy" and can leave you wishing it lasted longer so you could more fully develop a plan to meet your goals. But long range planning is elusive and illusory as Majority and Minority Controls shift nearly every turn. You should try to build cities where you have some control so as not to distribute VPs to your opposition. However, those subtleties can be lost as players feel compelled to build ANY city to secure VPs and place those shields on the map to their best advantage before time runs out.
On a graphic note, why the incredibly small type for the rules? Ideally, rules should be clear both in expression and in sight. Eyestrain doesn't make a game more appealing. While the box is a nice size, possibly designed to command more shelf space, the reality of the matter is is that if you folded the board in half or simply left out the area reserved for the Role Tiles, the game would fit comfortably in a box half the size! Surprisingly, the shields used for player pieces are all the same color differentiated only by different symbols making them a bit hard to distinguish. We recommend (and we've substituted) those ubiquitous wooden cubes in place of the shields so you can tell at a glance who is occupying the various regions.
Inspired by Machiavelli's The Prince, Il Principe tries to take advantage of all sorts of strategy and cunning by combining auctions, set collection and area control, three basic staples of Euro style gaming. The result is an intriguing diversion that doesn't outlast its welcome. – – – – – – Herb Levy.


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Revised New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue, Wolfgang Steinicke, 2012. Доступно у овом фајлу са објашњењем на овој страници
SIMBAD база података, Стразбуршки центар астрономских података (CDS), Стразбур

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Интерактивни каталог NGC, IC и Месјеових објеката
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Symbiosis Custom Travel » Blog Archive » The Circus Travels To France!
The Battambang Circus is touring France, but before going on tour in France, the exceptional team of "Phum Style" will give a few performances in Battambang.
"Phum Style" relates the story of a city boy coming back to his home village after years in a surrounding that totally changed his life style, "Phum Style" is a amazing cocktail of humor, theater, impressive acrobatics and juggling, creative and energetic music compositions. Don't miss it!
With the "Khmer Halloween" over. The teenagers in group 4 will still be performing "Ghosts" for a month. "Khmer Halloween" or Pchum Ben is a time in Cambodia when the ancestors of the dead are remembered. This is a fantastic show so bring all your support.
After one year spent abroad on professional training, the "group 3" (13 young adults) will enter a creation period from the beginning of November onwards, with the intention of producing a brand new show which will be scheduled from December 2008.
If you are planning a visit to Cambodia the Circus would love to see you in Battambang!


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Posted on January 17, 2017 in Events
As the duo began working together in the studio, bassist JinJoo Lee, who had previously toured with acts such as CeeLo Green and Charli XCX, joined the band, followed by bassist Cole Whittle, formerly of New York rock band Semi Precious Weapons, which rose to fame as the opening act on Lady Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour. The quartet, formed two years after the Jonas Brothers' official disbandment in 2013, was started by Jonas and drummer Jack Lawless, who was not only Jonas' roommate in Los Angeles, but a former touring member of Jonas Brothers.
It really makes us happy." The now 27-year-old has had a few years to let his ears heal from the relentless screams of teary-eyed audiences, which have now been replaced by a crowd that actually sings and dances along to his new, more mature funk, pop and rock band DNCE. "My ears are feeling a lot better these days," Jonas said with a laugh during a recent phone interview. As one-third of the enormously famous and commercially successful Jonas Brothers, musician Joe Jonas is accustom to hoards of shrieking and weeping young fans. "The fans are still screaming, but it feels good that we have this fanbase now that is really falling in love with DNCE.
"We don't go in thinking that if we lose we're going to be devastated. We just look at it as an amazing opportunity to be in a room with all of these other artists that are working very hard and to be in that kind of realm and nominated with them is a special kind of experience." Though DNCE had landed some major gigs, including opening for Selena Gomez on her Revival Tour in 2016, and a spot on the all-star line-up for the heavily marketed KIIS FM Jingle Ball in 2015, the group just put out its full-length self-titled debut on Nov. The band did a CD release show that same day and although some fans were very quick to learn the material to sing along, Jonas said it will be nice to head out on tour with a fresh line-up of songs that fans have had a while to sit with, as well as a few new and surprising covers. Inspired by everyone from Sly and the Family Stone and Earth Wind & Fire to the Bee Gees, Led Zeppelin and Prince, the band has reworked a bunch of new medleys to keep the energy high during its sets. 18. "We just have a good time at those things," he said about attending award shows.
In 2015, DNCE released its debut funky pop single "Cake by the Ocean," which took a slow climb up the charts, eventually landing in the top 10 on numerous lists. It's also up for favorite breakout artist at the 2017 People's Choice Awards, which will take place Wednesday at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Win or lose at the People's Choice Awards, Jonas says, the band will be in high spirits during its gig that same night, just down the street at the Belasco Theater. Two other singles, "Toothbrush" and "Body Moves" fared much better out of the gate and the band's undoubtedly catchy material is now being recognized at major award shows. DNCE is nominated for best duo or group of the year and best cover song at the annual iHeartRadio Awards, which will be held Sunday, March 5 at the Forum in Inglewood.


This collection contains Catholic cemetery records which begin as early as 1864 and go through 1989.
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Church records in the United States began in the early 1600s. They can be found in the churches, church archives, or university archives. They normally record christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian church in the world. Traditionally Catholic records have been kept at the parish level, so a majority of records will be found at the church where the event transpired. Older Catholic records and records of defunct Catholic parishes have often been moved to archives, historical archives or university libraries.
To know who were members, Churches were required to record the date a person was baptized in the Christian religion. Many churches also recorded the date of birth along with the date of baptism. Churches were also required to record the burial and marriage dates of the members of the local congregation. Only some churches performed confirmations and were required to record the names of those that were confirmed members of the church.
Church records are considered a primary source. They are usually reliable because they are kept by the priest or a clerk appointed by the priest, who usually recorded an event at or very near the time it occurred.
More images are available in the FamilySearch Catalog at Illinois, Archdiocese of Chicago, Cemetery Records, 1864-1989. Some catalog records link to multiple references. In this case, click on a reference to find a camera icon to see images.
When you have located your ancestor's cemetery record, carefully evaluate each piece of information about them. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors.
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in the state of Illinois.
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