We know how much you value your commercial premises. After all, it's the lifeline of your business; the place where your employees work, the place where you strike important deals and store valuable files, documents and other assets. Security breaches can have a grim aftermath. Your trade secrets might fall into the hands of your competitors, your reputation might take a hit and eventually you'll start to lose out. This is why; you always need to acommercial locksmith near you , who can address business lock & key concerns swiftly, as and when they arise.
Why do I need a commercial locksmith near me?
Assume that you've lost the keys to a cabinet and all your contracts are locked in it. With an hour to go for the client meet up and all attempts at finding the key proving futile, what do you do? Can you wait for a locksmith on the other end of the town to reach you? The transit itself might take an hour and you might also have to pay up a huge convenience fee to the technician. Availing services from someone in close proximity to your location will save you a lot of time, money and in this case, a business deal.
How to choose the right men for the job?
Entrusting your most essential security components – locks & keys – to someone you barely know may have serious repercussions. It's better to hire someone from a reputed firm.
You might need assistance at any time, and if you factor in the urgency of the situation, then availability gains prominence. A 24*7 locksmith is a good choice.
You might be located, just about anywhere in Boston, MA. You need someone that's based locally, has a network of workshops in the region and can get to you super quick.
We tick all above mentioned pointers and are the commercial locksmiths near you. We can arrive onsite super quick, within 15-20 minutes, in most cases. Thanks to a novel approach to lending locksmith service, we believe in always being mobile i.e. our vans are always on-the-go and as soon as you make that call, the nearest van will be directed towards your location.
Whatever your need, you've only got to name it; our technicians can handle it for you! So, no more wishing for a 'commercial locksmith near me ', when you've got Action Locksmith Store!


text:
A New Technology Enables Manipulation of Neurons in Peripheral Organs and Reveals a Mechanism of Appetite Suppression
Sung Il Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
A new technology called optoelectronics enabled researchers to activate and deactivate neurons in peripheral organs via tiny wireless devices. Implanted in the stomachs of laboratory mice, the devices enabled the team to discover an unexpected mechanism for suppressing appetite.
Using a new technology called optoelectronics researchers can activate and deactivate neurons in peripheral organs via tiny implanted wireless devices. Early application has revealed a new mechanism of appetite suppression. tweet this
A research team led by a 2018 BBRF Young Investigator, Sung Il Park, Ph.D., reports that it has developed and tested a new technology enabling unprecedented exploration of nerve-cell function inside organs of the body outside of the brain.
The new technology, called optoelectronics, uses tiny wireless implantable devices to manipulate the activity of individual nerve cells in the organs of awake, freely moving animals. This makes possible experiments with the power to reveal the specific (and often multiple) functions of different kinds of nerve cells in the body's periphery. Such knowledge, which is still spotty, is a vital predicate of future experiments to test new therapeutic concepts.
As reported in Nature Communications, the novel wireless devices created by Dr. Park and colleagues at Texas A&M University were successfully implanted in the stomachs of laboratory mice, and enabled the team to discover an unexpected mechanism for suppressing appetite. This is a hint of the technology's potential utility in identifying new treatment targets—in this application, for obesity and eating disorders.
In the early 2000s, Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., with help from two BBRF Young Investigator grants, pioneered a revolutionary technology called optogenetics, whose reach the newly reported technology significantly extends.
With optogenetics, Dr. Deisseroth, now a member of BBRF's Scientific Council and winner of the 2013 BBRF Goldman-Rakic Prize, discovered a way to switch individual neurons in the brain "on" and "off," by genetically adapting various neuronal types to activation by specific wavelengths of light. The technology, soon adopted by neuroscientists worldwide, is now a staple of brain research, and has revealed much about how the brain functions—and malfunctions—in illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
Like optogenetics, the wireless "optoelectronic" technology invented by Dr. Park and colleagues can provide deep insights into what goes awry in illness by obtaining new knowledge about how cells and circuits function. In contrast with existing optogenetics approaches, which are used to explore neural and circuit function in the brain, Dr. Park's wireless technology is designed to work in the body's peripheral organs and to probe the complex highways of nerves that connect those organs with the brain.
Optogenetics is limited to the brain due to constraints associated with delivering light via fiberoptic technology to the body's periphery. "Body tissues typically lack a stable interface for securing fiberoptics," Dr. Park's team notes. Moreover, they explain, optogenetic probes, being relatively inflexible, will cause "shearing of tissues and nerves during an animal's natural movements."
The new technology has no such constraints. At its heart are extremely small "microscale light-emitting diodes" with soft, highly flexible tethers, which are implanted into the peripheral organ of interest. These devices enable the technology to operate where optogenetics cannot, Dr. Park says. The devices are externally controlled via wireless platforms on a single transmitter that can direct experiments in as many as eight animals (living in adjacent cages) at a time. Testing showed that the devices were effective for a month in freely behaving animals.
In their paper the team explained that one "key priority for research is to attain cell-type and organ-specific manipulations of the vagus nerve, in animals that are awake." The vagus nerve is the body's most important nerve pathway connecting the heart, lungs, and digestive tract with the brain. Its function accounts for the body's remarkable ability to unconsciously regulate breathing, the pumping of the heart, and the breaking down of food into nutrients and waste products.
The focus of Dr. Park's team in their test of wireless optoelectronics were the endings of the vagus nerve within the stomach—known to be important in the regulation of appetite. The specific targeting made possible by optoelectronics enabled the team to concentrate on a type of neuron found in the stomach that is characterized by its expression of a gene called Calca+. They used their wireless device to selectively activate Calca+ neurons which connected with nerve-endings from the vagus nerve in a part of the stomach called the corpus.
Compared with mice in which optoelectronics was not used to stimulate stomach neurons of this type, mice that did receive stimulation via wireless commands showed "robust suppression of food intake during feeding," the team reported. In other words, by activating specific vagus nerve endings in a specific area of the stomach, appetite was suppressed—to the point of almost complete suppression when the stimulation was increased in intensity.
It is widely believed that when the stomach is full and has stretched, information about its stretch is conveyed to the brain by receptors on the vagus nerve. "Our findings suggest that stimulating non-stretch receptors, those that respond to chemicals in the food, could also give the feeling of satiety [fullness] even when the stomach is not stretched," Dr. Park explains.
The team also discovered that activation of Calca+ vagal nerve endings seems to trigger an aversive reaction which alters an animal's taste preferences. Thus, these early optoelectronics experiments resulted in identification of a role of vagus nerve endings in the stomach in appetite suppression, and a mechanism involving taste-aversiveness which causes the loss of appetite.
The team described the implications: "Identification of pathways that can either suppress or stimulate appetite will have direct clinical importance for potentially developing novel therapeutics for treating appetite disorders."
Posted: Thursday, January 13, 2022
Stress Hormone Levels May Predict Risk of Binge Eating Following Weight Restoration in Anorexia Nervosa
Posted: Thursday, August 12, 2021
Obesity Is a Risk Factor for Brain-Structure Changes in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, 2 Studies Show
Posted: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Researchers Identify Sensory Neurons in the Gut That Signal the Brain to Stop Eating
Large Genome Study Suggests Anorexia Nervosa is a Metabolic Disorder as Well as a Psychiatric One

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


+common, since they are more compact.
+ * 6 Use in other fields.
+practice, all facets are simple triangles.
+'outer' and 'loop' are required.
+Because ASCII STL files can become very large, a binary version of STL exists.
+unsigned integer indicating the number of triangular facets in the file.
+this should be zero because most software does not understand anything else.
+ if the "COLOR=" string is absent from the header.
+machinery, this is not important.
+though it is seemingly redundant to do so.
+ignored for applications where the closedness doesn't matter.
+predictable, but it is often sufficient to get the job done.
+perfect since it can be processed in one pass regardless of file size.
+ Use in other fields.
+require triangulated models as the basis of their calculation.
+triangulated geometry into the CAM system.
+this accidental file format, because it's impossible to go wrong.
+other than triangles into it, and thus produce something ambiguous or unusable.
+ solid objects as output.
+ is in use in some stereolithography applications.
+ it into an image in your browser.
+ meshes, and reads and writes the STL file format.
+ * This page was last modified 22:47, 15 February 2008.
+ U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.


text:
Tag: Samantha
by Nancy Kay - May 12, 2022 May 11, 2022
THURSDAY: Cries at Midnight
BY SAMANTHA BROOKE
ANNA SPAT out her mouthful of toothpaste, rinsed her mouth and dropped the toothbrush into the ceramic holder before studying her reflection in the mirror. She looked pale and unwell, dark circles beneath puffy eyes. She had barely slept since they arrived at the cottage a week earlier. James had rented it, insisting that the break would do them good. How being stuck in the middle of nowhere — with nothing to occupy her troubled mind — could possibly do Anna any good, she really wasn't sure.
A knock came at the bathroom door. He was out there, waiting for her.
"Anna, are you finished? You've been in there a while."
"I'll be out in a minute!" She snatched up a hair tie and pulled her long brown hair into a loose plait. Then, she opened the door. Not looking at her husband, she hurried over to the bed and climbed into it. The window was open, a faint breeze stirring behind the curtains. She glanced over at it. Soon, the voices would come drifting in through that very window. Children's voices. Calling out to her. One of them, her own child's.
James strode across the room and pulled the window closed almost violently. She blinked and looked up at him.
"There's nobody out there, Anna," he said sharply. "Not Melinda, not anybody. I know it's hard, but that's the truth of it. You need to pull yourself together."
She lay down and closed her eyes. Footsteps crossed the room and the bathroom door closed with a snap. When he returned, she pretended to be asleep. But all the time, she was waiting. Waiting for those cries to summon her. Because tonight was the night. Tonight, she would go to them.
As usual, the cries began around midnight. Muffled though they were by the closed window, she could still hear them clearly. Especially the little girl's voice. Her little girl's.
She slipped out of bed as silently as she could, padding barefoot across the room. She paused only to grab a shawl, wrapping it tightly about her body. Down the stairs, through the kitchen and out the back door. A chill wind whipped at her face.
She broke out into a run, heading towards the lake – to where the voices were coming from, mingling with the whisper of the water. As she neared, she could see figures emerging from the darkness that surrounded them. Small figures. Children, all of them. Just as she had thought. Her heart began to pound as she drew ever nearer. Their hands were reaching out to her, as though to drag her closer. Her eyes scanned over them, searching. Searching desperately for a glimpse of her daughter's face. Her twinkling brown eyes. Her smile . . .
"Melinda!" she called out. "Melinda, where are you? It's me, it's Mummy. I'm here . . ."
The figures around her seemed to melt away, back into the blackness of night. She stared around frantically, trying to find them again. She stopped and listened, wanting to hear them. But now, the only cries which hovered upon the wind were her own.
"Melinda . . ." She had to be here, she had to. Anna had heard her.
A figure seemed to materialize then — right out of the centre of the mist which drifted silently over the lake.
"Melinda!"
Anna laughed, gazing longingly at her daughter. Water lapped around Melinda's small body as she gazed back at her mother, eyes glittering through the darkness.
"Mummy —" The child held out her pale arms, reaching for Anna, who didn't hesitate. She began wading through the water, dropping the shawl from around her shoulders so that it floated across the surface of the water like a giant flower petal. Her nightdress instantly became saturated, weighing her down, but she didn't care.
Tears coursed down her face as she finally drew near enough to reach out for her daughter. But in an instant, Melinda had vanished again. A stifled gasp fell from Anna's lips, her throat constricting. A slight splashing sound behind her had her wheeling around.
Melinda stood before her once again, the many other children alongside her. Sinister smiles touched their faces. Up close, Anna could see that the child in front of her was not really Melinda at all. The face was blurring before her very eyes — until it, like all of the other children's, was merely a white smudge in the darkness.
The chill from the water seemed to be seeping into Anna's blood as the children closed in around her. She felt dozens of little hands pushing her down, beneath the water. She was powerless to resist.
James stood by the window, gazing out at the dull morning. His eyes were sore, his throat raw from crying. In the distance, he could see the glimmer of the lake where his wife had drowned herself. In his hands, he clutched the shawl that the police had fished out of the water when they'd been searching for her. Silent tears streamed down his face.
He leant forward, pressing his forehead against the cold glass of the window. He wished that he hadn't been so short with her. Perhaps if he had tried harder, she wouldn't have done this. And now she was gone. Gone forever, just like Melinda was.
Although, for the past couple of nights — as he had lain sleepless in bed — he was almost certain that he'd heard their voices, crying out to him from somewhere outside. It was not real, of course. Grief and lack of sleep had his mind playing tricks.
But maybe tonight, he would go out and take a look around. Just in case.


text:
Q: 12.10 Firefox 19 is memory hog Today I upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10 and memory usage of Firefox increased from around 150 MB in 12.04 to 350 MB in 12.10.
Is there a way to fix this?

A: Fiefox has a small memory leakage problem
To fix it [Try This]

*

*Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.

*Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.

*In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.

*Now select True and then press Enter.

*Restart Firefox.
Hope this will help

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


On October 31, 2009, several Theta Upsilon brothers assisted Mu Phi Epsilon's Gamma Zeta Chapter with their Buddy Walk fundraiser, raising money for the National Down Syndrome Society. October was chosen as the month for the walks because of it's place as National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Brothers helped serve by helping to prepare and serve food, operate audio equipment for the live performances, help with any miscellaneous tasks that were needed of them, and also took the opportunity to play with, get to know, and walk with the kids in attendance. Besides a hamburger and hot dog lunch the Walk involved a large inflatable jousting ring, a pumpkin pull, live music, and face painting. The event was originally planned to take place on the Quad at Delta State but inclement weather prompted a move to the Cleveland Park Commission's Willard Samuels Gymnasium. Through the help of local sponsors and a lot of hard work on the part of Mu Phi Epsilon and other volunteers they were able to raise a substantial amount of money for the NDSS. All in attendance seemed to have a great time, particularly those working.


CASA DE 450 M2 PARA 8 PERSONAS. PISCINA.
The cleaning is not included in the rental price. The house must be left in the same state of cleanliness that is delivered, but the option of hiring cleaning service for the amount specified in the cleaning fee is given. The only appliance that can not use the coffee machine is due to its complexity of maintenance.


text:
Benti took the honor of unlocking the door to their future business the first time. Benti leaned in the doorway, seeing if anything changes while Skylar was stacking supplies on a pallet. It wasn't a pretty sight; cracked counters, overturned tables and chairs, broken tiles, busted appliances and dust covered everything, just like when Benti signed the lease. But the structure was sound, way better than a few of the other buildings this close to the center of town.
Really they didn't need to use the door, as the big picture window had been smashed in a long time ago and no one had bothered to clean up. Taking inspiration from the Stampfer both Benti and Skylar had formed four feet with extremely thick skin, and still strong but slightly less thick skin covering the rest of their body.
"Oh my Eye." Skylar said as they looked through the broken glass. "You said this was the building in the best condition."
"It is." Benti insisted as they pushed open the door wide enough for Skylar to stand at their side. "It still has some furniture and all the interior walls and doors. Not to mention the indoor plumbing is still intact."
"Well, the indoor plumbing is a great asset." Skylar said. "But..." They kicked one of the wooden chairs laying on its side near the door and both of them watched it crumble. "I think we have more junk than usable furniture."
"Fine. But we still have the indoor plumbing." Benti crossed two arms and pointed with a third to the bathrooms off to the left.
"Okay okay." Skylar rotated their eye. "You don't have to defend the plumbing anymore." They waved their arms to encompass the rotting furniture, shattered glass, and broken appliances. "Let's get to work clearing this place out."
Benti nodded and reached for the brooms Skylar had stacked on the pallet. "I'll take left."
"Okie dokie artichoke."
Benti giggled. "The sayings you brought back from Earth are hilarious." The two got to work, punctuated by laughter as Skylar shared some of the strange says and stories they learned on Earth.


text:
Q: Flexbox filling div with blank space when text split over two lines I have a flex container div with 2 elements - a title, and a "like" svg image that is vertically centered and is displayed just to the right of the title.
When the title is too long to be displayed on one line, it seems to fill the title div with extra space on the right, so the image will not display immediately to the right of the split text.
Here is what the HTML looks like:

.like-container {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}

.like-div {
 font-size: 10px;
 margin-left: 20px;
 order: 1;
}

.title {
 font-size: 40px;
}

        <svg xmlns:x="http://ns.adobe.com/Extensibility/1.0/" xmlns:i="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeIllustrator/10.0/" xmlns:graph="http://ns.adobe.com/Graphs/1.0/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.1" x="0px" y="0px"
    viewBox="0 0 283.46 283.46" enable-background="new 0 0 283.46 283.46" xml:space="preserve">
      <metadata>
       <sfw xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/SaveForWeb/1.0/">
        <slices/>
        <sliceSourceBounds x="12.691" y="27.241" width="269.84" height="254.219" bottomLeftOrigin="true"/>
       </sfw>
      </metadata>
      <path d="M12.691,251.967c0,2.349,1.904,4.252,4.252,4.252h38.293c2.348,0,4.252-1.903,4.252-4.252V131.653  c0-2.348-1.904-4.252-4.252-4.252H16.943c-2.348,0-4.252,1.904-4.252,4.252V251.967z"/>
      <path d="M278.918,147.336c-8.606-14.737,11.983-21.831-5.778-35.607c-22.375-17.355-20.925-14.647-69.32-15.194  c-7.65-0.086-17.099,0.772-14.633-15.114c9.885-63.703-6.41-75.53-17.217-78.504c-22.753-6.26,4.787,19.854-23.702,68.758  c-2.513,4.313-10.086,9.271-15.194,17.567c-10.544,17.125-20.681,44.156-29.436,44.156c-6.252,0-22.42,0-36.091,0v108.504  c20.458-1.617,49.586-3.924,56.862-4.523c11.514-0.949,21.01,6.97,38.104,6.97c15.194,0,24.823,9.421,76.594,1.481  c7.314-1.121,20.896-15.174,18.194-26.576c-2.084-8.804,22.768-15.721,17.405-31.809  C268.403,168.538,290.992,168.011,278.918,147.336z"/>
     </svg>
        Like

        This is the very longish Title!

I have created a plnkr so that you can see what I mean: http://plnkr.co/edit/cPMp4sjIUTbX3ohMW4aI
Any ideas?

A: What you are seeking is often referred to as shrink-to-fit or shrink-wrapping, where a container neatly wraps its content without leaving extra space.
CSS3 does offer a new keyword for width and height called min-content, which makes the box wrap closely to the content, but browser support is still very weak.
Here's one alternative you may want to consider: Use the ::after pseudo-element.
Remove the "like" image from the HTML (at least for this demo) and add this to your CSS:
.title::after {
    display: inline-block;
    content: "";
    height: 40px;
    width: 40px;
    background: url('http://i.imgur.com/99oDJSA.png') no-repeat;
    vertical-align: baseline;
}

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/hjkh3dy1/


text:
Tracing the long, convoluted history of the AIDS epidemic
Elahe Izadi	February 25, 2015Updated: July 23, 2020, 1:19 pm
HIV passed from a chimp to a human early in the last century, author David Quammen said. Photo: Lynn Donaldson
The common narrative holds that the spread of HIV and AIDS among humans can be traced back to one flight attendant in the 1980s. But while that individual certainly did spread the virus, he was far from the first to do it.
In fact, humans had been infected with HIV as far back as at least the early 1900s, writes renowned science journalist David Quammen, who traced the genetic origins of the AIDS epidemic by reviewing scientific literature, consulting researchers and traveling to the geographic source of the deadly disease.
The story Quammen puts forward in his newly published work, "The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged From an African Forest," is an edited and reshaped version of a chapter from "Spillover," his much larger 2012 book about zoonotic diseases.
"The AIDS pandemic results from a single spillover of what was a chimpanzee virus, from one chimpanzee to one human, in the southeastern corner of Cameroon back around 1908, give or take a margin of error," Quammen told The Post.
But unless you've been paying close attention to developments in scientific literature, Quammen said, "that's shockingly different than what we knew."
For "Spillover," Quammen spent 12 years tracing the animal origins of a number of diseases, with travels taking him to the far corners of the globe. The title won multiple science and biology book awards and earned raves: New York Times critic Dwight Garner called Quammen "not just among our best science writers but among our best writers, period." ("That he hasn't won a nonfiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment," Garner added.)
Last year, drawing on "Spillover," Quammen released a similar standalone book on the history of the Ebola virus. Whereas Ebola's worldwide death toll is in the thousands since the first outbreak in 1976, more than 39 million people have died from HIV/AIDS over the years, according to the World Health Organization, which says an additional 35 million have been infected.
"Knowing the origins of a disease like [AIDS] is crucially important for preventing instances of the same sort of thing," Quammen said.
With Ebola, for instance, learning about the animal origins of the virus could help stop the next outbreak before it happens. "That's true of AIDS also, but it's different with AIDS because it's already killed [millions of] people and it's in the human population for good. People are not worried about the next spillover because this one is already so horrible."
Quammen looked to scientists who have done much work to help answer the where, when and how of HIV's animals-to-humans transition. For the question of "when," he sought out the University of Arizona's Michael Worobey, who published a paper in the journal Nature in 2008 that detailed the genetic analysis of biological samples from taken from two HIV-infected humans decades before.
One of these samples dates back to 1959, and the other to 1960. Worobey and his team "looked at the genetic sequences of these two specimens, and he combined that with a molecular clock with how fast HIV generally changes, mutates and evolves," Quammen said. "He saw these were two branches of a tree, and the point where they diverged from a larger limb, was essentially 51 years earlier."
That means that HIV jumped from a chimpanzee to a human, at the latest, around 1908, give or take some years. (The calculation is an estimated time frame.) The jump could have happened prior to that, Quammen said, but the research shows it couldn't have first happened later.
Quammen then looked at the work of Beatrice Hahn, then of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to learn more about where this spillover may have happened. Researchers knew that HIV came from a precursor chimpanzee virus, called SIV. Using a new method to detect traces of viruses by examining fecal matter and urine, Hahn and her team decided to find out which chimpanzees had the SIV from which HIV came; they screened samples from all over Africa, looking for what is "essentially a chimpanzee version of HIV," Quammen said.
Of particular interest, he noted, is HIV-1 group M, which is the strain responsible for the global AIDS pandemic. In 2006, Hahn and her team discovered that the virus' genetic diversity was reflected in chimp SIV from one particular part of central Africa.
"She could tell from that the ancestor of all the viruses in human-causing pandemic AIDS around the world came from a chimp in southeastern Cameroon," Quammen said.
So how did that first chimp infect a human? "That is unknowable. People want to immediately say a human had sex with a chimpanzee," Quammen said. But that scenario is not the most plausible, and therefore not the likely way it happened, he noted.
The more sound theory, Quammen said, is the "Cut Hunter" hypothesis: A hunter who butchered an SIV-infected chimpanzee somehow made contact with its blood, perhaps through an open wound.
Quammen eventually visited the very place likely to be the location of the spillover: The infected humans likely carried the virus through a series of rivers to the current city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he said.
Learning about the origins of a virus is more than just an interesting, historical exercise; it can provide insight as researchers work on therapies and potential cures, Quammen said.
"It's bound to be helpful to understand how this virus works, how did it evolve and how it continues to evolve," he said. "People have to understand that one of the things that makes AIDS a really difficult disease is the HIV virus is constantly evolving, constantly changing. . . . So understanding its evolutionary history is part of understanding why it's such a problematic virus."
Elahe Izadi
Author Tiphanie Yanique brings her 'Monster' back to Houston
'Disgusted' Britney Spears accuses sister Jamie Lynn of selling a book 'at my expense'
By Nardine Saad
Xochitl Gonzalez debuts with smart romantic comedy 'Olga Dies Dreaming'
By Ron Charles
Kal Penn among the authors at Houston book events this week
By Ana Khan
'The Dickens Boy,' by Thomas Keneally could cancel Charles Dickens
By Pamela Miller
Sunday, 4:00PM
Inprint Cool Brains! Gordon Korman
Monday, 7:00PM
Inprint Honorée Fanonne Jeffers & Tiphanie Yanique Reading
Wednesday, 3:00PM
Inprint Olga Tokarczuk Reading


text:
Tag: Energy efficiency
Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection Recognized as Leader in Fleet Sustainability
On March 25, 2015 By KYDEPIn Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection
The Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been recognized by the Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition's (KCFC) Green Fleets of the Bluegrass Program. DEP received the leadership award at KCFC's annual meeting on March 23, 2015 in Louisville.
In 2014, the Department added two hybrid vehicles to the fleet, bringing the hybrid fleet total to 27. In 2011, the average fuel economy for DEP was 17 MPG. DEP's average fleet fuel economy now stands at 20 MPG with the goal of 25.5 MPG by the year 2025. Continue reading "Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection Recognized as Leader in Fleet Sustainability" →
Kentucky's first "green" housing community: Phase 1 funded by the Division of Water is complete
On June 25, 2014 By KYDEPIn Division of Water
Western Kentucky University's (WKU) Center for Environmental Education and Sustainability was the recipient of a Clean Water Act Section 319(h) grant for $655,000 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Kentucky Division of Water to create Durbin Estates, a green housing community, in the city of Bowling Green. WKU partnered with Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit agency that builds and repairs homes to provide affordable housing to those in need, and enlisted several state and local groups to integrate green infrastructure in the development to reduce nonpoint source pollution. WKU students from a variety of educational programs have participated in the design and development of the community. Continue reading "Kentucky's first "green" housing community: Phase 1 funded by the Division of Water is complete" →
Who has the greenest state fleet in Kentucky? The Department for Environmental Protection, that's who!
On December 20, 2013 By KYDEPIn Commissioner's Office, Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection
On Dec. 17, 2013, DEP received the Greenest State Fleet Award from the Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition (KCFC). The award was presented at historic Boone Tavern in Berea where DEP staff arrived in green fleet style driving a Chevrolet Volt.
Continue reading "Who has the greenest state fleet in Kentucky? The Department for Environmental Protection, that's who!" →
Keeping Up with the Volts
On August 8, 2013 By KYDEPIn Division for Air Quality
First Lady Jane Beshear preparing to give one of the Volts a test drive.
The DEP Chevrolet Volts have received quite a bit of attention as Department for Environmental Protection (DEP) employees drive them across the state. The department has been operating four Volts and two charging stations since early 2013 and has learned a lot about the plug-in electric vehicle in that short time span.
"No matter where we go, people are curious about how the car drives, fuel economy, money savings, and safety," said Division for Air Quality Director John Lyons. "Part of why we purchased these vehicles is to be a technology leader and educate the public on alternative transportation technology, in addition to reducing emissions." Continue reading "Keeping Up with the Volts" →
State Recycling Center Improves Efficiency with Equipment Upgrades
On June 5, 2013 June 5, 2013 By KYDEPIn Division of Waste Management, News & Events
A panorama view of the new equipment at KGRS (left to right) the tipper, conveyor, grinder and bailer. Photo by Melinda Meredith.
The Kentucky Government Recycling Section (KGRS) recently invested $326,000 to upgrade equipment at its paper-processing facility located in Frankfort. The facility handles mixed office paper, white paper, newsprint and corrugated cardboard from state agencies and state universities across the Commonwealth. The service not only provides cost savings for shredding confidential documents, it also ensures benefits such as energy savings inherent to recycling.
"KGRS is a revenue-generating program and part of the proceeds from the sale of recycled materials allowed us to purchase the new equipment," said Brian Bentley, KGRS Supervisor. "Our equipment was outdated and we spent countless hours repairing various components. The new equipment, which includes a conveyor-grinder-baler system, will go a long way in improving the efficiency of our operation."
In 1978, Kentucky State Government was mandated to recycle office paper and as a result, the State Government Recycling Program was created in the early 1980s. The program is administered by the Department for Environmental Protection's Division of Waste Management and despite challenges with Continue reading "State Recycling Center Improves Efficiency with Equipment Upgrades" →
Greener Lawn Care for Cleaner Air
On May 22, 2013 By KYDEPIn Division for Air Quality, News & Events
Every year, Americans burn more than 800 million gallons of gasoline mowing their lawns. Our love affair with the perfect lawn comes at a hefty price for public health and the environment. Gas mowers emit hydrocarbons, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. The smaller engines in lawn mowers and other lawn care equipment also burn fuel less efficiently and emit far more of these pollutants than the family car.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Continue reading "Greener Lawn Care for Cleaner Air" →
First Lady Jane Beshear Welcomes First Electric Vehicles to State Fleet
On April 24, 2013 April 24, 2013 By KYDEPIn Division for Air Quality
First Lady Jane Beshear makes remarks at DEP's green fleet event on Earth Day.
First Lady Jane Beshear welcomed the first electric vehicles into the state vehicle fleet yesterday in a ceremony that kicked off a day of Earth Day activities. Energy and Environment Cabinet Secretary Len Peters, Finance and Administration Cabinet Lori H. Flanery, and Division for Air Quality director John Lyons joined the First Lady in the ribbon-cutting.
The First Lady led the ceremony surrounded by four new Chevy Volts and two charging stations that were recently installed outside the headquarters for the Department for Environmental Protection. The vehicles and charging stations will be used by state workers conducting official business on behalf of the Commonwealth.
"Plug-in hybrids bring us one step closer to Continue reading "First Lady Jane Beshear Welcomes First Electric Vehicles to State Fleet" →


text:
Forrest Williams > Services > Inquests
Our team are specialist inquest solicitors. If you need a confidential discussion with our inquest solicitors, call us now on 01623 397200.
What is an inquest?
An inquest is a legal fact-finding inquiry into the cause and circumstances of a death.
It is a public hearing which can be held with or without a jury.
A Coroner considers oral and written evidence as part of the inquest process.
What is a Coroner?
A Coroner is an independent judicial officer who is appointed by the local authority.
A Coroner could be either a doctor, or a lawyer, who is given responsibility for investigating the cause of deaths.
Are all deaths reported to a Coroner?
No. In most cases, deaths are reported to the deceased's GP who issues a medical certificate stating the cause of death.
The issuing of a certificate in this way very often follows a period of illness which led to the death.
What happens when a death is reported to a Coroner?
The Coroner will request that a pathologist carry out a postmortem, to establish the cause of death.
If the cause of death cannot be found, or the death may have been violent or unnatural, then an inquest will be held.
An inquest is also held whenever a person dies in custody.
What legislation covers inquests?
A Coroner's duty to hold an inquest is covered by Section 6 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
What time limits are there relating to inquests?
Rule 8 of the Coroners (Inquest) Rules 2013 states that Coroners should complete an inquest within 6 months of the date on which the Coroner is made aware of the death – or, alternatively, as soon as is reasonably practicable.
Why is an inquest opened?
An inquest will open for the following reasons:-
To record a death;
To ensure the deceased is identified; and
For the body to be released for burial or cremation.
What is a pre-inquest hearing?
For more complex cases, the Coroner could hold a pre-inquest hearing.
At this hearing, the following will be considered:-
Scope of the inquest;
Possible timeframes; and
Directions which need to be set.
Pre-inquest hearings are normally held in public. Exceptions to this are when it is in the interests of justice or national security to close them to the public – Rule 11(5) of the Coroners (Inquests) Rules 2013.
'Properly interested parties' and/or legal representatives are invited to such hearings by the Coroner so they can make representations, where appropriate.
What happens if there is a possibility of criminal proceedings taking place?
In these circumstances, an inquest would generally remain adjourned.
A Coroner could restrict evidence heard in an inquest (where there is no suspicion of a criminal offence having resulted in the cause of death) if they believe it could influence any future criminal proceedings.
Following a criminal trial, a Coroner has the authority to resume an inquest. However, where an inquest does resume, its outcome regarding the cause of death must not be at odds with the outcome of the criminal proceedings.
Is a Coroner obliged to hold an inquest 'in the public interest'?
No. A Coroner does not have to hold an inquest for this reason alone.
An inquest is held if the circumstances of the death are in line with the offences listed in paragraph 1(6) of Schedule 1 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, as follows:-
murder, manslaughter, corporate manslaughter or infanticide;
an offence under any of the following provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c.52) –-
section 1 (causing death by dangerous driving);
section 2B (causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving);
section 3ZB (causing death by driving: unlicensed, disqualified or uninsured drivers);
section 3A (causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs);
an offence under section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961 (c.60) (encouraging or assisting suicide);
an offence under section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c.28) (causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult);
(The above are referred to as 'homicide offences' in the Act.)
What conclusions could result from an inquest?
A Coroner could draw many different conclusions, including the following. This is not an exhaustive list but it covers the most commonly used:-
natural causes (including fatal medical conditions);
accident or misadventure;
industrial disease;
dependence on drugs/non-dependent abuse of drugs;
attempted/self-induced abortion;
disasters subject to public inquiry;
lawful killing (such as deaths caused during acts of war, or self-defence);
unlawful killing;
suicide;
open verdict (where there is insufficient evidence for any other verdict).
If you have an enquiry relating to an inquest, call our inquest solicitors today on 01623 397200 for free initial advice.


jSpan Corporation internet asp business plan executive summary. jSpan is a start-up Application Service Provider (ASP) providing services to independent professionals as well as small- to medium-sized businesses.
jSpan Corporation (jSpan) is an Application Service Provider (ASP) of Internet based remote access services to independent professionals and small to medium businesses. The jSpan user interface - the Webtop - serves to aggregate legacy systems, online applications, and value-added services into one work environment. The Webtop interface and infrastructure established at partner ISPs enable jSpan to serve as a distribution network for other application service providers. jSpan takes advantage of the rapid growth in demand for remote access and the industry trend towards outsourcing IT applications.
jSpan Corporation has raised $500,000 from private investors. The funds are being used to launch an initial test market deployment, complete the management team and license key technologies. The company is currently seeking an additional $3.2 million through the issuance of Series A Preferred equity. These funds will be used to support a full-scale product launch within six months from the closure of funding.
jSpan provides remote access services through partnerships with Internet Service Providers (ISP), broadband wholesalers, and other network service providers. Remote access is managed through an Internet based Webtop that aggregates applications from remote office networks and other Internet locations. The primary means of generating revenue is through a per user monthly subscription fee. Premium subscriptions and value added services eventually expand the revenue stream to include transaction and syndication fees.
Customer acquisition is driven by co-marketing and revenue sharing agreements with strategic network service providers. Direct end user marketing (advertising and promotions) will be used to build customer awareness and further solidify the jSpan brand. Content syndication through partnerships with Internet content providers, service providers, and product manufactures will build a broader customer base.
A flexible work environment and an increasingly mobile workforce are driving the demand for remote access to critical business information. Forecasts estimate the mobile workforce in the United States alone will exceed 47 million employees four years from now. To stay competitive, independent professionals and small to medium businesses are rapidly adopting mobile computing devices but lack the technical and economic resources to implement a comprehensive remote access solution.
Professionals are adopting a work style that requires access to office applications from multiple locations. As of last year, approximately 23% of home Internet users brought office work home on nights and weekends while another 17% used the Internet to run a home-based business. The number of telecommuters has shown rapid growth, exceeding 9.7 million this year.
According to Access Media International, small businesses invested $138 billion on information technology and telecommunications products last year. Businesses are seeking technology solutions that leverage a smaller number of employees over a larger market. Increasingly, these companies are outsourcing technology services.
jSpan provides remote access through a universally accessible Webtop using Virtual Private Networking (VPN) technology to establish a secure connection to the remote target system. The combination of these two technologies eliminates the expense and expertise needed to custom configure a typical remote access solution. Access can be provided over xDSL, T1, or cable modems, resulting in a secure Internet hosted Webtop that offers functionality similar to an office-based workstation. Taking advantage of core technology that is available in the market will allow jSpan to minimize development time and rapidly enter the market. Over time, premium subscriptions and value added services improve the customer value proposition.
Gross revenue is based on per user revenue of $21.25 per month and forecast to exceed $422 million by the end of year five of operations. The target market size is based on the projected mobile workforce as determined by International Data Corporation. Additional opportunities in the enterprise or consumer market segments, or international expansion, could substantially increase the potential market.
By consolidating the highly fragmented market for independent professionals and businesses, jSpan is a potential acquisition target for corporations that offer goods and services to this market segment. Based on a $450 per user acquisition cost, management conservatively estimates an acquisition value of $105 million at the end of year three, increasing to over $1 billion by the end of year five.
jSpan has assembled a team of experienced managers and technical specialists. The founders, John Millar and Kim Niquette, have management experience in high growth technology companies and international entrepreneurial organizations. Members of jSpan's technical team have software development and operations experience with Sun Microsystems, Raytheon Corporation, and a number of start-up ventures. Additional senior managers have been identified and plan to join the team subsequent to a major funding event. jSpan has also assembled a strong advisory board that includes experienced entrepreneurs and leading professional services organizations.
John G. Millar, Co-Founder and CEO.
Kim Niquette, Co-Founder and CFO.
Joseph Addison, Co-Founder and CFO of StartABusiness.com.
James Smith, Vice President of Business Development for Exodus Networks.
Michael M. Rodgers, Partner at Watson, Sonoma, Goodson & Rodgers.
Peter J. Wilson, Director of Business Development at Advanced Network Communications.
Additional biographical information on the Management Team and Board of Advisors may be found in topics 7.1 and 7.2 respectively.
1 "Where's the Office? U.S. Remote and Mobile Worker Market Review and Forecast," International Data Corporation, July 1999, p. 2.
2 "Online Nation: 1998 U.S. Internet User Survey", International Data Corporation, 1998.
3 "Where's the Office? U.S. Remote and Mobile Worker Market Review and Forecast," International Data Corporation, July 1999, p. 2.


text:
package com.spotify.scio.repl

import scala.tools.nsc.{GenericRunnerCommand, MainGenericRunner}

trait ScioGenericRunner extends MainGenericRunner {

  /**
   * The main entry point for executing the REPL.
   *
   * This method is lifted from [[scala.tools.nsc.MainGenericRunner]] and modified to allow
   * for custom functionality, including determining at runtime if the REPL is running,
   * and making custom REPL colon-commands available to the user.
   *
   * @param args passed from the command line
   * @return `true` if execution was successful, `false` otherwise
   */
  override def process(args: Array[String]): Boolean = {
    val command = new GenericRunnerCommand(args.toList, _ => ())

    val fromSbt = Thread.currentThread.getStackTrace.exists { elem =>
      elem.getClassName.startsWith("sbt.Run")
    }
    command.settings.usejavacp.value = !fromSbt

    ScioReplClassLoader
      .classLoaderURLs(Thread.currentThread.getContextClassLoader)
      .map(_.getPath)
      .foreach(command.settings.classpath.append)

    val scioClassLoader = ScioReplClassLoader(command.settings.classpathURLs.toArray)
    val repl = new ScioILoop(command, args.toList)

    command.settings.Yreploutdir.value = ""
    command.settings.YmacroAnnotations.value = true

    // Set classloader chain - expose top level abstract class loader down
    // the chain to allow for readObject and latestUserDefinedLoader
    // See https://gist.github.com/harrah/404272
    command.settings.embeddedDefaults(scioClassLoader)

    repl.run(command.settings)
  }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Jewish Actress Natasha Leggero: Great Thing About Judaism is "Abortions are Cool"
Opinion | Katie Yoder | Jun 2, 2016 | 9:24AM | Washington, DC
Even jokes have their limits.
During his show May 26, Conan O'Brien invited actress and recent Judiaism convert Natasha Leggero onto his show. Leggero praised her new religion for treating abortion as "cool" enough to have on "every Jewish holiday." After all, she reasoned, it's good to have a back-up to fall on, just like AAA for cars.
Besides performing as a stand-up comedian, the 42-year-old created and stars in Comedy Central's Another Period and has acted in films including Let's Be Cops, Neighbors and He's Just Not That Into You.
After discussing her recent marriage, Leggero informed Conan that she had recently converted to Judaism by taking 19 four-hour courses.
Raised Catholic, Leggero slammed her former Catholic school run by "mean" nuns.
"[M]aybe they hate women, because nuns were so mean to me," she said before slyly inserting, "and of course, the priests are like so nice to the boys."
She found Judaism, on the other hand, a "beautiful religion."
"You get to have a weekly Shabbat," she gushed, "which is just like a party every Friday."
In the middle of her appearance, Leggero revealed just why she was such a fan of Judaism: abortion.
"You're part of this beautiful religion seeped in culture," she gushed about her new religion, before adding, "Abortions are cool."
As the audience laughed, Conan disagreed.
"I don't think they go around saying 'abortions are cool,'" he said. "Not like the Fonz" (a famously "cool" character from Happy Days).
His sidekick, Andy Richter, prompted even more laughter by commenting, "That's on the PSA, 'Judaism: Abortion is cool.'"
Trying to regain control of the abortion conversation, Conan again started to say no one called abortion "cool," when Leggero interrupted, "No, they do!"
"I mean, you could get an abortion on every Jewish holiday and it would be okay," she hyped.
But when Leggero likened abortion to a contract with a towing company, the audience changed its tune towards her.
"I'm not saying I am going to get an abortion but, you know, it's just nice to – it's like AAA. Like, you're not going to use all those tows, but – no, it's just nice to know –" she stumbled as some in the audience booed. Video below.
The cheers and applause returned when Conan said, "I just was given a signal; the Jews don't want you anymore."
"Don't clap that," she retorted. "My rabbi would be very upset by that. No, I love Judaism."
She switched back to her bashing of Catholicism, the religion where "they believe that even if you are raped, you should not get an abortion."
"Right?" she checked. "This is my comedy act."
Changing topics (somewhat), Leggero told Conan that she confessed to a priest in Rome that she was converting. He was "cool" about it, she said, and asked her to still attend to church once a year.
Conan concluded, "I don't know what religion you're going to be in a year, but it will not be either Jewish or Catholic."
Leggero has long made abortion a topic of her career. In 2013, she asked in a Facebook post, "What are the most popular abortion names?" while in 2014 she tweeted that she would "no longer perform in states where abortion isn't legal."
During Comedy Central's 2015 Roast of Justin Bieber Leggero laughed about Bieber's (non-existent) close call with abortion as he sat next to her.
"Justin was born to a teenage single mom. No wonder he's got moves. He was in the womb dodging a coat hanger," she said.
LifeNews Note: Katie Yoder writes for Newsbusters, where this column originally appeared.


text:
The Forget me Not (Two Versions)
Version Number One
Such a simple little flower but packed with so much meaning. Let me share this story with you:
The Story Behind This Beloved Emblem Of The Craft in Germany
In Early 1934, soon after Hitler's rise to power, it became evident that Freemasonry was in danger. In that same year, the "Grand Lodge of the Sun" (one of the pre-war German Grand Lodges, located in Bayreuth) realizing the grave dangers involved, adopted the little blue Forget-Me-Not flower as a substitute for the traditional square and compasses.
It was felt the flower would provide brethren with an outward means of identification while lessening the risk of possible recognition in public by the Nazis, who were engaged in wholesale confiscation of all Masonic Lodge properties.
Freemasonry went undercover, and this delicate flower assumed its role as a symbol of Masonry surviving throughout the reign of darkness. During the ensuing decade of Nazi power a little blue Forget-Me-Not flower worn in a Brother's lapel served as one method whereby brethren could identify each other in public, and in cities and concentration camps throughout Europe. The Forget-Me-Not distinguished the lapels of countless brethren who staunchly refused to allow the symbolic Light of Masonry to be completely extinguished.
When the "Grand Lodge of the Sun" was reopened in Bayreuth in 1947, by Past Grand Master Beyer, a little pin in the shape of a Forget-Me-Not was officially adopted as the emblem of that first annual convention of the brethren who had survived the bitter years of semi-darkness to rekindle the Masonic Light.
At the first Annual Convention of the new United Grand Lodge of Germany AF&AM (VGLvD), in 1948, the pin was adopted as an official Masonic emblem in honour of the thousands of valiant Brethren who carried on their Masonic work under adverse conditions.
The following year, each delegate to the Conference of Grand Masters in Washington, D.C., received one from Dr. Theodor Vogel, Grand Master of the VGLvD.
Thus did a simple flower blossom forth into a symbol of the fraternity, and become perhaps the most widely worn emblem among Freemasons in Germany; a pin presented ceremoniously to newly-made Masons in most of the Lodges of the American-Canadian Grand Lodge, AF&AM within the United Grand Lodges of Germany.
In the years since adoption, its significance world-wide has been attested to by the tens of thousands of brethren who now display it with meaningful pride.
This information has been taken from a presentation card issued by the American Canadian Grand Lodge, AF&AM within the United Grand Lodges of Germany
Submitted By Wade A. Huffman (Light of the Three Stars Lodge #936 AF&AM, Ansbach, Germany and Lancaster Lodge #57 F&AM, Lancaster, Ohio)
Having become aware of this piece of history, and having grown up during this time period, I decided to adopt this little emblem as my "personal pin" for presentation to visiting Brethren during my year as Master of my Lodge. (1998) and again during my year as Grand First Principal of the Royal Arch Grand Chapter of BC & Yukon (Can) (2012)
Since that time I have made a practice of carrying a few with me wherever I go and sharing the message of the "Universality of Man" by presenting one to new found Friends and Brothers whom I meet on my travels.
It is my intention to continue this practice, in my belief that, by our efforts in advocating & promoting the "Universality of Humankind", we will make this world a better place to live in.
Version Number Two
The "Forget-Me-Not"
Of Newfoundland and Labrador and Freemasonry world wide
This was prepared with the help of VW Barry Thom in Newfoundland, Florence Thom who supplied the Forget-me not, the website of Bro. Paul Bessell and numerous papers from the publications of the German Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Research
In a German legend, God named all the plants.
When a tiny unnamed one cried out, "Forget-me-not, O Lord!" God replied, "That shall be your name."
During exile in 1398, Henry IV adopted this flower as his symbol and retained it upon his return to England the following year.
In 15th-century Germany, it was supposed that the wearers of the flower would not be forgotten by their lovers.
Another Legend is that in medieval times, a knight and his lady were walking along the side of a river. The knight picked a bunch of flowers, but because of the weight of his armour he fell into the river.
As he was drowning he threw the flowers to his loved one and shouted "Forget-me-not."
Ladies often wore it as a sign of faithfulness and enduring love. One wonders what sort of person would take his lady love for a walk beside the river in a suit of amour but that is what legions are made of.
During World War One, on July 1st, 1916 at the battle of Beaumont Hamel, in France 733 of 801 men in the 1st Newfoundland Regiment died or were injured in battle that only lasted one hour.
It was a devastating blow to their families back home.
Prior to that day, on July 1st, 1867 the Dominion of Canada was formed but it wasn't until 1949 that Newfoundland and Labrador entered Confederation.
Therefore July 1st, is a day of mixed emotions in Newfoundland and Labrador as it is Canada Day and is still held as a Memorial Day, not only for those lives lost in the First World War but all wars and conflicts, as well as those Canadians lost in Peace keeping missions.
After WW I the "Forget-me-not" flower was used as the symbol of Remembrance, in Newfoundland and Labrador but the Poppy slowly displaced it on July 1st as well as November 11th.
Then this year in Newfoundland and Labrador the Provincial Command of the Royal Canadian Legion met and it was agreed that there would be a return to the Forget-me-not on Memorial Day.
A member of Bay Robert's Legion Branch # 32 was approached and asked to design a pin using silk Forget-Me-Not flowers. This was achieved and approved by Provincial Command. Legions from as far west as Goose Bay, Labrador and as far east as St. John's all placed orders for the pin.
In a time when many things are mass produced in developing countries it is comforting to know that this pin was designed and hand crafted in Port de Grave, NL by Florence Morgan-Thom.
Florence is the wife of V.W. Barry Thom who developed our Correspondence Course and she was born in NL when this country was still under the British flag. Today she makes thousands of the pins.
In the years between World War I and World War II the blue Forget Me Not flower was a standard symbol used by most of the charitable organizations in Germany, with a very clear meaning:
"Do not forget the poor and the destitute".
It was first introduced into German Masonry in 1926 at a meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Sun that was one of the pre-war German Grand Lodges.
By early 1934, it became evident that Freemasonry in Germany was in danger. In that same year, the Grand Lodge of the Sun realizing the grave dangers that were involved and adopted the Forget Me Not flower as a substitute for the traditional Square and Compasses.
In 1936, the Nazis started the Winterhilfswerk, which consisted of children collecting money on the streets during certain weeks in winter. All youngsters were requested to participate, and they each received about one hundred pins for them to sell. Something like the Girl Guide Cookies except the money was used for rearmament. Each winter a different pin was chosen and the pins were allowed to be worn but only during the time of the collection drive, to identify those who had already contributed.
By an extraordinary coincidence, the pin chosen by the Nazis for the collection made in 1938 happened to be the very forget-me-not pin chosen by the Freemasons in 1926 and it was made by the same factory in Selb. There is no doubt that the Freemasons who attended the meeting of 1926 were glad to wear it again twelve years later.
However it is out of question that such a pin could have been worn after the 1938 collection because the wearing of any badge which did not originate from the Nazi Party was a criminal offence under the Nazi regime. So in truth the Freemasons would never have worn a pin on the streets and never in a concentration camp.
It is estimated that Hitler killed over one hundred thousand Free Masons and Freemasonry went underground but still this delicate flower assumed its role as a symbol of Masonry surviving throughout the reign of terror.
Then in 1947, the Grand Lodge of the Sun was reopened once more in Bayreuth and a little blue pin, the shape of a "forget me not", was proposed and adopted as the official emblem of the first Annual Convention of those who had survived the bitter years of semi-darkness, bringing the Light of Masonry once again into the Temples.
A year later, at the first Annual Convention of the United Grand Lodges of Germany the pin was adopted as an official Masonic emblem that was to honour those valiant brethren who carried their work under very adverse conditions. Thus did this simple little flower blossom forth into a meaningful emblem of the Fraternity, becoming perhaps the most widely worn pin among Freemasons in Germany today.
Today, in Germany, the Forget-Me-Not is an interchangeable Masonic symbol with the Square and Compasses and is used it to remember those Masons who were victimized by the Nazi regime.
It was more likely the result of an unconscious effort to inhibit the past and to imagine Freemasons acting according to their ideals of fighting for freedom and defending it.
And so a new legend was born.
So let us keep it and let us wear the "Forget-Me-Not", to remember with pride all those who have died because of their membership of our Masonic Brotherhood and also those who today live in countries that persecute our brothers.
Since the inception of "The Educator" I have used two "Forget Me Nots" on the Home Page symbolizing (in my mind) Friendship. One for a Brother and One for a Friend.
Also, on my Home Page I have included a Header providing access to an explanation & history of the "Forget me Not" as I knew it then.
With this new and additional information being made available, I have added the second explanation to that already in place.
It is my opinion that each of the Explanations are most worthy of our attention & a compliment to all who could have been involved in the history surrounding this most beautiful flower.
May I offer a HUGE Thank You to those who have shared this moment in history with us.
Have a wonderful Day & God Bless
"Our Mission" From Example and Through…


Thank you for buying our new VC10 Professional add-on for P3D and FSX.
We're writing to let you know that new v1.1 software is now available, providing a number of fixes and updates.
If you log in to your Just Flight account and click on 'Your Orders', you will be able to re-download the installer to get the latest v1.1 version of the software.


People usually say one of two things when they see me work out. "Man, you are so strong and good looking!" or "What the heck are those things on your feet?" Admittedly, people usually say the latter.
Those "Things" on my feet are called Vibram Fivefingers shoes. They are designed to protect the soles of your feet from the elements while giving you no foot or ankle support. "No foot or ankle support, that's crazy Mike! What about arch support? What about protection from spraining my ankle? Don't your feet hurt in those things? Those things do look really funny!!!" Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard it all. Lets delve into why I wear these funny looking things and lets see if they might be an option for you.
1. "5 Reasons to Wear Vibram Fivefingers"
"Strengthens Muscles in the Feet and Lower Legs", "Improves Range of Motion in Ankles, Feet and Toes", "Stimulates Neural Function Important to Balance and Agility", "Eliminate Heel Lift to Align the Spine and Improve Posture", and "Allow the Foot and Body to Move Naturally".
I am sold! I have been wearing these shoes for roughly 4 years and have experienced every one of these positive attributes. You're not sold yet? I wasn't either until I did more research on barefoot training. Please click HERE, HERE, HERE, and watch the following for more information.
According to the Vibram Fivefingers web site, numerous studies and the video above, sounds like training barefoot is pretty good for you. BUT, there are some caveats.
It takes a while for your feet to adapt to barefoot training. When I first started wearing them my feet and calves were VERY sore. But after a month or two of training, with proper programing and rest, my legs became stronger and I now have no soreness from training barefoot.
If you are not careful, you can injure yourself by suddenly converting to barefoot training. Think about it this way; if you have been wearing regular running shoes with an arch support all your life your arches have become weak over time because your plantar fascia has not had to support your body over the years. Your sneakers have been doing all the supportive work. If you suddenly place a large load on that tissue, like barefoot running, bad things can happen, like developing Plantar Fasciitis.
I believe barefoot training is NOT for everyone! I cannot stress this enough. There are many people with pre-existing injuries and conditions that require support from footwear.
I believe there are many positives to training barefoot. I have been training barefoot for about 4 years and love it. I do believe the majority of the population would benefit from wearing minimal footwear. If you decide to experiment with barefoot training, it is very important to start slowly and use a proper training program with enough rest so the tissues in your feet can recover, especially if you have been wearing protective shoes your entire life. Barefoot training is not for everyone! If you are injury free and feel good about your training shoes, keep wearing them. If it's not broke, don't fix it! But if you want to add a different element to your training, why not give them a try?
love barefoot training. I have been doing distance running in Vibrams for 2 years now (including a marathon). But be careful, very easy to get hurt if not introduced properly (from personal experience). Highly recommended!


text:
Les Folles Aventures de Picasso () est un film suédois réalisé par Tage Danielsson, sorti en 1978.

Il s'agit d'une comédie farfelue, bien différente des faits historiques et de la biographie du peintre. Les faits majeurs de la vie de Picasso, ainsi que les principaux personnages qui l'ont entouré, sont utilisés pour construire une intrigue burlesque qui repose sur des rebondissements, sous forme de chapitres.

Synopsis

Fiche technique
 Titre : Les Folles aventures de Picasso
 Titre original :
 Réalisation : Tage Danielsson
 Scénario : Hans Alfredson et Tage Danielsson avec la collaboration de Gösta Ekman
 Musique : Gunnar Svensson
 Photographie : Tony Forsberg et Roland Sterner
 Montage : Jan Persson
 Société de production : Svenska Ord et Svensk Filmindustri
 Pays :
 Genre : Comédie
 Durée : 115 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
 :
 :

Distribution
 Gösta Ekman : Picasso
 Hans Alfredson : le père de Picasso
 Margaretha Krook : la mère de Picasso
 Birgitta Andersson : Madame Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim
 Bernard Cribbins : Gertrude Stein
 Wilfrid Brambell : Alice B. Toklas
 Lennart Nyman : Henri Rousseau
 Per Oscarsson : Guillaume Apollinaire
 Elisabeth Söderström : Mimi
 Lena Olin : Dolores
 Sune Mangs : Winston Churchill
 Magnus Härenstam : Adolf Hitler

Commentaires
 Le film utilise une dizaine de langues différentes, dont, entre autres, le suédois, l'anglais, l'allemand, le français, et le russe.

Liens externes

Film suédois sorti en 1978
Comédie suédoise
Film réalisé par Tage Danielsson
Film tourné en Suède
Film sur la peinture

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Megan Lanoux is a New York-based makeup artist and groomer. Known for her ability to create effortless, natural and refined looks, she loves to enhance the inherent beauty of natural skin with selective pops of color.
Lanoux has worked with celebrity clientele such as Angela Sarafyan, Bailee Madison, Luke Evans, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ethan Hawke. Her work has appeared in L'Uomo Vogue, Marie Claire, InStyle, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and Complex.


While Valentine's Day generally conjures up images of happy couples and romantic proposals, for some the holiday represents something else entirely — the beginning of a predicted increased suicide rate on the Central Coast.
It's a scenario Brice has seen play out again and again during her 23 years coordinating and training the volunteers who man the suicide hotline at SPSCC.
The holiday season comes and people make an extra effort to reach out — family gatherings and festivities provide a source of inclusion and distraction to counteract the isolation Brice said is the most dangerous trigger for potentially suicidal persons. New Year's brings fresh resolutions and it appears that maybe things are about to start looking up.
In her experience, Valentine's Day marks the beginning of this cycle, which generally increases in intensity until April when suicides spike nationally.
"[It's] because there's so much emphasis put on being partnered [and] being in love, and a lot of people just aren't," Brice said.
After a year-long study of the causes callers to SPSCC's hotline give for contemplating suicide, Brice found that the number one reason was failing relationships, with financial woes a close second.
Operating out of an undisclosed location in Santa Cruz, SPSCC's five staff members and 88 volunteers are always ready to assist individuals who have hit a rough spot in their lives.
Lynn said the hotline is an excellent way to connect with someone who'll listen and help callers work through their problems. After losing a friend to suicide a few years back, she said it's a cause that's close to her heart.
While Lynn and the others at SPSCC prepare for their busy season, Brice encourages people to rethink what Valentine's Day means to them.
The SPSCC is able to offer its services to the Central Coast only due to the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. They have a spring training period coming up and strongly encourage persons of all age groups and backgrounds to apply.
Their office can be reached at 831-459-9373.The SPSCC's 24-hour toll free Suicide Hotline is (831)-538-5300.


I had always been interested in learning why some companies become a huge success, while others don't. At the age of 16, my dad gave me the book Blue Ocean Strategy. I was so intrigued that I finished it within one week.
The book provided me with something that I for long had been missing in traditional high-school education: a solid framework for creativity and innovation. Why wasn't this offered in school or at any of my extra-curricular business activities? So I gathered a few friends and pitched the idea of bringing a 'blue ocean' spirit to high-school classrooms. The 'Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship Competition' was born.
Within four months we had 30 teams from all over the county pitching their blue ocean ideas. Just two years later, we had teams register from Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC. Today, the competition is set to become the US's largest entrepreneurship competition run by and for high school students. This upcoming school year, high-school students from Maryland to Silicon Valley will be developing their entrepreneurial skills with blue ocean strategy.
For me personally, blue ocean strategy has had a tremendous impact on my life. Organizing the competition helped me get over my shy nature, to develop my leadership skills and to grow my network. With the 4th edition of the Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship Competition expanding nation-wide, blue ocean strategy continues to keep me busy. It has given such a sense of purpose to my late-teens, and I'm sure that it will have an even bigger impact on my career and that of the participants in the future.
Find out more about the Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship Competition in our blog post and on the official site.


text:
Q: Add subplots in pyqtgraph i would like to ask how to add subplots in pyqtgraph.I am able to plot a scatter plot.Now I need to plot another plot along with it.How to do that?

A: To add subplots, You need to define some layout first. You can use pg.GraphicsLayoutWidget for that.
Think of it as a table which will hold plots.
Each subplot in the table will occupy cell defined by its row and column (indexed from 0).
Here is some documentation You can read about it.
Here is a simple example using pg.GraphicsLayoutWidget with 5 subplots:
import sys

import numpy as np
import pyqtgraph as pg
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)

    # Some random data for scatter plot
    x = np.random.normal(size=1000)
    y = np.random.normal(size=1000)

    # Create layout to hold multiple subplots
    pg_layout = pg.GraphicsLayoutWidget()

    # Add subplots
    pg_layout.addPlot(x=x, y=y, pen=None, symbol='x', row=0, col=0, title="Plot @ row 1, column 1")
    pg_layout.addPlot(x=x, y=y, pen=None, symbol='x', row=0, col=1, title="Plot @ row 1, column 2")
    pg_layout.addPlot(x=x, y=y, pen=None, symbol='x', row=0, col=2, title="Plot @ row 1, column 3")
    pg_layout.addPlot(x=x, y=y, pen=None, symbol='x', row=1, col=0, title="Plot @ row 2, column 1")
    pg_layout.addPlot(x=x, y=y, pen=None, symbol='x', row=2, col=0, title="Plot @ row 3, column 1")

    # Show our layout holding multiple subplots
    pg_layout.show()

    status = app.exec_()
    sys.exit(status)


text:
Former Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov fined for speeding on Warwickshire motorway
The 36-year-old was found guilty of speeding on the M6 Toll and also of filing to provide information
Stiliyan Petrov (Image: Neville Williams/Aston Villa FC via Getty Images)
A former Premier League star who was caught speeding in Warwickshire has been ordered to pay £185.
Ex-Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov was found guilty of speeding along the M6 Toll on April 30 last year, as well as failing to provide information.
The 36-year-old was sentenced at Warwickshire Magistrates Court on Tuesday
and was fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
Three points will also be added to his licence.
Petrov was forced to retire from football in May 2013 after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia the previous year.
hillsboroughPolice chiefs apologise for all UK forces for 97 deaths in Hillsborough disasterTop cop Andy Marsh said policing had "profoundly failed" those affected by the darkest day in British football
Coventry City FCConfirmed: Coventry City announce deadline day transferCoventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Sky Blues striker Danny Cashman is loaned out for the second half of the season


text:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<class name="JNISingleton" inherits="Object" version="4.0">
	<brief_description>
		Singleton that connects the engine with Android plugins to interface with native Android code.
	</brief_description>
	<description>
		The JNISingleton is implemented only in the Android export. It's used to call methods and connect signals from an Android plugin written in Java or Kotlin. Methods and signals can be called and connected to the JNISingleton as if it is a Node. See [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface]Java Native Interface - Wikipedia[/url] for more information.
	</description>
	<tutorials>
		<link title="Creating Android plugins">https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/platform/android/android_plugin.html#doc-android-plugin</link>
	</tutorials>
</class>


"A Delightful Tour" is a family owned company that was formed to provide and assist Rockingham North Carolina and surrounding area residents' such as Fayetteville, Raleigh, Wadesboro, Charlotte, and Greensboro in their traveling celebrations. Most traditional celebrations are stationary. However, "A Delightful Tour" allows the celebration to become mobile, all while enjoying your moment with your closest family and friends. There are destination options, simple joy rides or a park & party to choose from. These options will be discussed upon booking or contacting. "A Delightful Tour" provides our customers with assorted refreshments to assist them in their joyful journey. This will be the most delightful ride of your life, in addition to celebrating a spectacular moment. Call us for a booking today! We look forward to delightfully touring with you!


text:
Unabomber: The Virtual Reality Experience Comes to Viveport
By Peter Graham	 Last updated Jan 29, 2018
Last year Immersion teamed up with The Newseum to create a virtual reality (VR) experience based on the 20-year case of the Unabomber, a US domestic terrorist who terrorised universities, airlines and computer stores with mailed bombs. Originally shown at The Newseum, Unabomber: The Virtual Reality Experience is now available on Viveport for HTC Vive.
Unabomber: The Virtual Reality Experience allows users to join the FBI Task Force in charge of investigating one of the most challenging domestic terrorist cases in US history. Starting in 1978, the Unabomber waged a 17-year campaign of terror with lethal, homemade bombs, injuring 23 people and killing three by 1995.
Spanning eight states, the FBI investigation involved around 500 agents with educational narrative featuring insight from FBI agents Terry Turchie (Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the UNABOM investigation from 1994 to 1998) and Max Noel (FBI agent during the investigation). It explores the challenges of fighting crime in the age of terrorism, journalistic ethics, and the role of the press and the public in working with the law enforcement community.
The experience will allow players to investigate and interact with the evidence that helped solve the case and explore the primitive cabin where the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski was captured. The at-home experience also includes additional interviews, videos, and evidence to review to gain a deeper understanding of the decades long case.
Vive Studios teamed up with The Newseum to bring Unabomber: The Virtual Reality Experience to Viveport, with the content marking the first in a series of similar educational experiences that the pair will bring to the platform. Future content will include Nellie Bly's trip around the world, due to be showcased to Newseum visitors in Washington and available for download on Viveport.
Unabomber: The Virtual Reality Experience is now available on Viveport for $4.99 USD/ £3.77 GBP and will be available on Steam at a later date. For any further updates from Vive Studios or The Newseum, keep reading VRFocus.
HTC ViveImmersiONNewseumUnabomber VRUnabomber: The Virtual Reality ExperienceVive StudiosViveport


text:
ACC Magazine wasn't a magazine. It was a 'zine. It was made with scissors and glue, and it was photocopied early Sunday mornings onto 8.5x11" paper at a secret location. It was stapled by hand. It was designed on the bedroom floor, while my shins bled and my elbows ached.
Update 2008: A couple of my 'zines and some recollections were included in the Freestylin' magazine retrospective book "Generation F." I am psyched.
ACC was a black & white labor of love dedicated to everyone who cared deeply about freestyle bikes (now generally referred to as BMX), skateboarding, silly haircuts, and unpopular music.
The X Games weren't around then and we were the only people who thought we were cool. You probably called me a "little bike-riding faggot" that one time in Cleveland. My response still stands: Fuck you.
The 'zine ran from 1988 to 1993. It was started after I injured my hand in a freak hedge trimmer accident (don't ask). I couldn't ride my bike for a month or so. During summer. Seemed like forever.
While I was recuperating, our little riding group decided to go into publishing. I was the Art Director, Adam Liber was the Chief Photographer, and Bob Burbick was Music Editor (scoring us loads of awesome advance music and band interviews). While we were all editors, the 'zine quickly became my baby. Everyone still helped, but it was my passion and as the issues added up I wrote, shot, and designed nearly everything.
So ACC is the reason I'm a designer and photo editor now. It's the reason I got into design, photography, journalism. It's the reason I work for a kickass visual communications company started my own company. It's the reason I can talk about Alexy Brodovich, Mad Dog Moeller, and rolling perverted decades in the same sentence. It's the reason I ended up in St. Louis, married to a wonderful girl. And it's why I like outsider art, custom typography, found objects, and things made by hand. And unpopular music. I am mostly over the silly haircuts, but I still think 'zines are cool.
ACC reached at least 15 countries and 40 out of the 50 United States, never running over 200 copies per issue. There were 14 issues total and a few one-off 'zines: Bullwinkle, Graphic Laxative, HBI, the ACCalendars and some others that never really saw the light of day...
ACC stood for Atomic Circle of Chaos. Bob came up with that. Thank you, Bob.
I met a lot of great people through ACC — at contests, at bike shops, in the 'zine trading scene, and just riding. Riding was really what ACC was about. And back then, riding was the only thing that seemed to matter. Usually, I think, when you look through the yellowing pages of ACC, it shows. We really loved what we were doing.
Though the 'zine died a slow, withering death as other things occupied what used to be my riding time, it's one of the things I'm most proud of. It's one of the things that gave me real direction when I was younger. And I think it gave some other kids a little direction too.
Anyway, I have a new BMX bike now. The first one in a while. I don't ride as well as I did 12 years ago, when I was 19. But the feeling is really close. It's still amazingly fun and I don't suck too bad. And there seem to be a lot of riders at the local ramp park. I just wish someone around here was making a 'zine.
Because 'zines mean you really fucking love it.
i am keaggy.com


text:
Music Other Music Blues Grace Petrie Tickets
Grace Petrie
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. Wednesday, 20 Oct 2021
Wednesday, 20 Oct 2021 at 7:30 PM .
Please note the booking fee for this event includes a Venue Levy of £0.30 which is charged by the venue
This event's performance date has changed (the old date was Friday, 12 Mar 2021 at 7:30 PM). The show will now take place on Wednesday, 20 Oct 2021 at 7:30 PM.
All Grace Petrie performances
GENERAL ADMISSION £16.80 (£15.00) Quantity selection for ticket type GENERAL ADMISSION 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
* Handling and delivery fees may apply to your order
The transaction fee is £2.50 for Standard Delivery or £0.00 for E-Ticket.
The transaction fee covers the costs of processing your order, packing and delivering the tickets to you. In many cases it also covers the cost of producing your tickets. This fee can also apply to tickets arranged for collection.
The transaction fee applies per order not per ticket. If you purchase six tickets, you only pay one transaction fee.
The transaction fee will vary depending on what type of postage we are being asked to use by the event organiser and these costs are reflective of the amount that See are charged by despatch companies. First class post and Registered Post prices will vary accordingly.
See only send tickets securely for events that do not issue duplicate tickets in the event that tickets get lost in the post.
This fee may also be applied to both print at home and e-tickets to cover the cost of deploying technology and/or staff to the venue site.
Please note that these fees are per transaction and not per ticket.
More information about Grace Petrie tickets
A talented lyricist and an electrifying live performer; Grace can take the most hostile room, and by the end of the night, they will be singing along with every word.
'She's an effervescent charm-bomb of a performer, even alone with an acoustic guitar…"We're getting stand-up and music," a woman next to me said.' The New Yorker
Hailing from Leicester, UK, Grace has been writing, recording and touring relentlessly for over ten years. Her unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over audiences across the folk, alternative, LGBTQ+, political and comedy scenes and beyond.
She's toured to arenas with Frank Turner, supported comedians Robin Ince, Josie Long and Hannah Gadsby, and has done a prestigious live session on the BBC Radio 2 Jo Whiley Show. Her frequent festival appearances have included Latitude and Cambridge Folk Festival and in 2019 she played to a packed The Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival followed by sold out dates across her October '19 tour.
Her current album, 'Queer As Folk', was released in Sept '18 and was a Mojo magazine top 10 Folk Album of the Year.
In Spring 2021 she takes to the road with her band line-up; Grace Petrie & The Resistance Band.


Enjoy a quite cuppa under the large patio next to the pool and watch the wildlife have a feed.
Sit on the full length verandah at the front of the house enjoy the views.
Enjoy a stroll around the mature gardens and even room to have a game of backyard cricket.
Have friends and family over for a barbecue and pool party.
Lowset brick and tile home.
4 bedrooms all with built ins and with 5th room suitable for large bedroom/office or kids playroom.
Shed 12m x 7.5m with ample power points and storage shelves down both sides.4 car berth. For the man of the house.
Shade house for the plant enthusiast.


Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., talks to guests Jan. 27, 2012, during the Hispanic Leadership Network in Miami.
Friday, March 30, 2012 | 4:58 p.m.
On Tuesday The Hill reported Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was drafting an alternative Dream Act that he hoped to bring to Congress in the near future.
The newspaper that covers Congress said Rubio offered no specifics on how his bill would differ from previous versions of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act.
However, there has been speculation that Rubio's bill would offer a legal status to young immigrants in the country who joined the military or graduated from college, but would not provide for a path to citizenship. In a preemptive strike Friday, Dream Act proponents in Las Vegas had a news conference to discourage Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nevada, from signing on to Rubio's legislation and to decry the proposal as insufficient.
"It's exploitative," Assemblywoman Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas, said of the idea of a Dream Act with no possibility of achieving citizenship. "You can work here and pay taxes here, but you will never achieve the ability to vote or the right to participate in the democratic process."
Juan Ortega, president of the pro-Dream Act organization Dream Big Vegas, urged Heller, who he said met with Rubio this week to discuss the legislation, to not support Rubio's proposal.
"Instead of providing an earned pathway to citizenship for young men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own and who risk their lives in the U.S. military or attend college - they are offered third-class legal status," Ortega said. "This is an insult and a slap in the face to Nevada's Latino community."
Heller's campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
Speculation on the details of Rubio's forthcoming proposal stems, in part, from an interview he gave Fox's Geraldo Rivera earlier in March in which Rubio said the Dream Act has "a series of problems" as it is currently drafted.
"I do think there is another way to deal with this," Rubio said. "And I think that one of the debates that we need to begin to have is a difference between citizenship and legalization.
"You can legalize someone's status in this country with a significant amount of certainty about their future without placing them on a path toward citizenship, and I think that is something that we can find consensus on," he said.
Nevada Sen. Harry Reid has said he wishes to bring the Democrat's version of the Dream Act, which would provide a path to citizenship but previously has failed to pass, to a vote sometime this year.
Also on Friday, a group of students who are walking across the country to raise awareness and support of the Dream Act was passing through northern Nevada. The Sun interviewed one of the walkers last week after they started their journey in California.


text:
Q: Why is get_group so slow in pandas? I have a csv file with 400.000 rows and 15 columns. I have to make multiple filter operations for each row. So, I thought to use pandas and groupby to try to improve the performance. Using groupby is fast but get_group seems slow.
import pandas as pd

filepath = 'data.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(filepath, sep=',', na_values=['', '-'], parse_dates=True)
groups = df.groupby(['Year', 'Team'])
team_matches = groups.get_group(('2014', 'Barcelona'))

The groupby is very fast. But the get_group as the number of columns used for grouping increases gets really slow. For the above example it takes 0.6s to get the group.
To clarify, for every row in my csv I have to create a number of statistics based on the previous rows. My csv has football data with columns like hometeam, awayteam, full_time score, odds for each outcome.
An example would be to find the average goals scored by the home team.
goal_avg = np.average(df[(df['HOMETEAM'] == hometeam) & (df['LEAGUE'] == league)]['HOME_GOALS'])

A: Instead of using, get_group(), you should use filtering (like df[(df.Year == '2014') & (df.Team == 'Barcelona')]). This is extremely fast and performs the same operation. Here's a detailed comparison of the two.
In [1]: df = DataFrame(dict(A = np.random.randint(0,1000,size=N),B=np.random.randint(0,1000,size=N),C=np.random.randn(N)))

In [2]: %time df.groupby(['A','B'])
CPU times: user 0 ns, sys: 804 µs, total: 804 µs
Wall time: 802 µs

In [3]: g = df.groupby(['A','B'])

In [4]: %time g.get_group((100,100))
CPU times: user 1.47 s, sys: 93.8 ms, total: 1.56 s
Wall time: 1.57 s
        A   B   C
325601  100 100 1.547365
837535  100 100 -0.058478

In [5]: %time df[(df.A == 100) & (df.B == 100)]
CPU times: user 12.6 ms, sys: 317 µs, total: 12.9 ms
Wall time: 21.3 ms
        A   B   C
325601  100 100 1.547365
837535  100 100 -0.058478

This is a speed up of more than 70x. Moreover, filtering is the right way to access rows by column value and not groupby!

A: You would have to show data to prove this. get_group is quite fast. The first iteration DOES do some caching, but it is minimal (sorting of the data is irrelevant)
N = 1000000

In [4]: df = DataFrame(dict(A = np.random.randint(0,1000,size=N),B=np.random.randint(0,1000,size=N),C=np.random.randn(N)))

In [5]: %timeit df.groupby(['A','B'])
10000 loops, best of 3: 84.2 µs per loop

In [6]: g = df.groupby(['A','B'])

In [7]: %timeit -n 1 g.get_group((100,100))
1 loops, best of 3: 2.86 ms per loop

Further, you should not repeatedly using get_group, instead use the cythonized functions, apply, or iteration, see docs here