Guadalupe García De Rayos moved to the United States when she was fourteen and lived here for two decades. She is the mother of two kids who were born and grew up in the United States. After being convicted of using a false social security number, she appeared for her annual check-in with immigration officers in February and was deported to Mexico.
Nawar al-Awlaki was eight years old when she was killed by an American drone in Yemen in early February. She was one of ten women and children who were killed in the attack. Years earlier, her older brother was killed in one of Obama's drone strikes while he was eating dinner in an outdoor restaurant. He was sixteen years old.
These stories reflect the suffering of millions of women in the United States and around the world. As has become patently clear, the Trump administration has launched a massive attack on immigrants, the environment, and women's rights. Numerous protests have made these attacks visible and serve to build the resistance against them. Although there were fewer demonstrations under the Obama administration and those of the Democrats before him, it is important to understand that the Democratic Party has been pursuing the same policies of misery and death for decades.
The call for a Feminism of the 99% (F99%) correctly differentiates itself from the neoliberal feminism that has been hegemonic in the past decades. Its strongest points are linking the fight for women's rights to a critique of the capitalist system by highlighting the oppression of the working class and poor — especially Black, Latina, trans and disabled women — and departing from a feminism that supports the Democratic Party. The call for an International Women's Strike mobilized large numbers of women across New York City on March 8, an impressive demonstration that stands in stark contrast to small leftist gatherings that have marked the date in the U.S. over the past several years. This protest was one among many in the 50 countries, which echoed the call for a strike.
At the same time, F99% did not clearly articulate strategies that the women's movement might embrace to strike at the heart of a system that exploits and oppresses the vast majority of people. This discussion is particularly urgent in the face of increasingly brutal attacks on the working class and the oppressed under the Trump Administration, which has strengthened a radical right wing. Yet, Trump is only the tip of the iceberg; the attacks against us have been going on for decades. Feminism of the 99% and the call for a strike on March 8 opened a fundamental debate about the direction the women's movement must take in this moment of increased politicization and right-wing attacks.
Women, other oppressed groups, and the working class have been losing the battle for years. It has been four decades since the world has seen a revolution. The fall of the Soviet Union opened up new markets for capitalism, inaugurating a period of capitalist hegemony around the world, both as an economic system and as an ideology. While some rights were won as a result of the radical movements of the sixties, these past three decades have cemented the victory of capitalism as not just the most preferable system but as the only system possible. Unionization rates have plummeted, while labor unions implemented a "business unionism" model that was completely divorced from the rank and file and put their weight and money behind the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, both capitalist parties took away workers' rights, including, in many states, the right to strike, effectively stripping workers of their most powerful weapon.
With the onset of the AIDS epidemic, the radicalism of Stonewall and the LGBT movement gave way to various alliances between LGBT leaders and the Democratic Party, which until very recently did not even support marriage equality. The imprisonment, repression, and murder of political activists in the Black Power movement allowed Democratic Party proxies to defend the racist power structure, while paying lip service to issues affecting black people's lives. Figures like Jesse Jackson emerged in the wake of the political vacuum created by the racist and repressive attacks on black revolutionary movements. Similarly, while radical feminists of the 60s and 70s was able to address the entanglements between the patriarchal system, capitalism, state violence, and imperialism, we have since seen the rise of a new kind of feminism — a liberal feminism — one that sought first and foremost to increase the number of women in positions of power, as explained in March 8: When the Earth Shook. The primary goal of this "lean-in feminism" has been to attain legal recognition and rights so that a few women are able to achieve success within the capitalist system.
In other words, despite the major differences between them, these three movements underwent a similar co-optation that transformed them from radical movements that fought for systemic change to reformist movements that upheld the status quo. They were ultimately siphoned back into the confines of the capitalist system, advocating for greater participation in the existing power structures and class system, while placing their faith in the Democratic Party.
The past two decades have also been characterized by the eradication of what little remained of the safety net for poor people in the United States. Reagan used the myth of the "welfare queen" to justify significant cuts to social programs for the poor and the expansion of a racist ideology against black women that further divided the working class. Labor unions and social movements co-opted and tamed by the Democratic Party did not put up an effective fight against these measures. Instead, non-profits stepped in to administer band-aids that attempted to fill in for the services that the government no longer provided. Several of these non-profits address racial justice and gender equity while receiving money from corporations and the government which exploit and imprison women and people of color. The proliferation of these "social justice" organizations only perpetuates the perception that revolution is unnecessary and ties those who fight for social justice to the interests of the government and corporations.
Identity politics mirrors some of the contradictions of the non-profit industrial complex because it reduces oppression to a series of individual problems that are confronted on an individual basis. The prevailing expressions of identity politics — discourses, policy agendas, institutions, activist-leaderships — do not address the link between individual bigotry and/or sexist behavior and the capitalist system that maintains structural oppression.
Identity politics has been an important response to dominant political spheres that erased the importance of oppressed groups. It helped develop an understanding of the different ways in which people are oppressed, particularly examining the diverse experiences within the working class (which includes queer, disabled, immigrant, and black people). However, the ideology of identity politics does not acknowledge that this oppression is a mechanism that helps guarantee capitalist profits. These politics are ideal for the non-profit industrial complex which targets and divides parts of the population to fight for crumbs in the neoliberal world order. Rather than fighting capitalism, many strands of identity politics end up seeking representation within capitalism.
The dominant narrative in the neoliberal era is that equality for women will be achieved by the passage of laws and policies, ignoring the fact that capitalism actively prevents full equality. While it's true that we must fight for progressive laws, we should not see such achievements as simply steps on a ladder to liberation. Full liberation requires a different strategy, one that is not limited to racking up democratic victories but aims at tearing down capitalism.
While some may attribute women's subordination to the sexism of individual people, misogyny does not merely exist in the minds of individuals; it is first and foremost a system of material inequality. Capitalism benefits from the wage gap and the continuous downward drive of wages. Capitalism also benefits when domestic labor is viewed as natural, intrinsically female, and thus remains unpaid.
Although sexism existed before capitalism, and the end of capitalism is not the same as the end of sexism, this system garners massive profits from sexism, racism, homophobia and transphobia. For every woman CEO, there is a woman who is paid miserable wages to clean her bathroom. Within this system, there can be no equality, and even steps forward are deeply contradictory.
Although Sanders certainly does not propose to destroy capitalism, the thirteen million who voted for him demonstrated openness to more radical ideas. Unfortunately, this radicalization also took place on the Right, as expressed by Trump, who championed a politics of racism and misogyny while promising to solve the economic problems of those devastated by years of neoliberalism. His victory marked a turning point for thousands of progressive people who are disillusioned with both political parties and are beginning to take the fight for their rights into their own hands.
Implicitly, F99% rejects the individualization and fragmentation of the politics of identity, and fights for a feminist movement that stands in solidarity with everyone oppressed by neoliberalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. This incipient left wing of the women's movement also rejects the fragmentation created by national borders which only serve to divide the oppressed and the working class. As a political trend born out of the call for the International Women's Strike organized in over 50 countries, there is a strong basis for internationalism. Our struggles must be united, even as they negotiate and recognize difference, and they must be decisively anti-imperialist. We must make alliances across national borders to fight imperialism, not ally ourselves with either of the two political parties that carry out imperialist policies.
Unfortunately, "Feminism of the 99%" does not see society as divided into bosses and workers, but rather into an ultra-rich elite and everyone else. The concept of "the 99%" does not point to our role in production, rooted as it is in a critique of the excesses of capitalism as opposed to a critique of the entire capitalist system. Furthermore, if anti-capitalism is a real, achievable goal as opposed to a decorative slogan, we must think about how to end capitalism. This brings us to the central role of the working class.
The basis for the critique of the "99%" slogan is not a fetishization of the working class, but rather a concern with the urgent task of winning. We see the working class as the heart of capitalist society; it is the sector that turns the gears on the entire capitalist state. Without the working class, there are neither profits nor products. The ruling class knows this and has historically gone to great lengths to tactically divide the working class through racism, sexism, and LGBTQ-phobia. If the heart of capitalism is the exploitation of working class labor, then it is the working class that can bring an end to capitalism and begin the work of creating real equality by taking up and fighting for the demands of all oppressed sections of society.
The International Women's Strike and growing anti-Trump sentiment have foregrounded the necessity of organizing strikes. While the International Women's Strike called for a strike for women's rights and against Trump, the reality is that no sector of U.S. labor actually went on strike on March 8. This is in stark contrast to Argentina, where socialist-feminist organizations rooted in the working class successfully carried out important work stoppages.
Strikes differ from rallies and protests because they shut down capitalist production and demonstrate to the boss, the government, and the worker that the working class is in fact the most powerful enemy of the capitalists. Some of the organizers of the Women's Strike argued that labor strikes were unrealistic because the American working class is weak. There is certainly evidence to support the claim; the labor movement has been demolished and the union bureaucracy has sold out. Yet it is essential to challenge and transform the weakness of the labor movement in the United States, not adapt to it.
A key question for F99%, then, is: how do working-class women who make up the movement organize a strike in their workplaces?
We have seen some important clues that point to a way forward. Although Randi Weingarten from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) takes a hard stance against Trump and spoke at the Women's March on Washington, the AFT did not call meetings to discuss work stoppages on March 8. Yet, so many teachers planned to call out on International Women's Day that three school districts were forced to close. These teachers demonstrate that there is a will to resist, but that the union bureaucracy refuses to organize a collective struggle.
A new, anti-capitalist feminism should help create, support, and organize these rank-and-file demands and denounce the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of unions that do not fight for their members or for the working class as a whole. In many states, the right to strike has been stolen from the working class. Rather than adapting ourselves to this harsh reality, the Left, the workers, women, and all oppressed people must fight to get this right back. It will not be easy, but we can take inspiration from the example of the women who organized the 1908 strikes—the strikes that inspired International Women's Day—under terribly harsh conditions. We do not, however, have to go back as far as 1908 for further examples. As internationalists, we should look at the struggles of other countries. In Argentina, women from the socialist women's group Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses) pushed for assemblies at all workplaces in universities, and in some sectors of teaching staff and Pepsico, a food distributor, workers were able to organize a strike on March 8.
Organizing a strategy that is likely to win is no easy task. After all, the enemies of the working class are more powerful today than ever before; they have control over the military, the media, the courts, the politicians, and even the unions. The fight against the patriarchal capitalist system, therefore, must be strategic to be effective.
The utmost example of this is the Russian Revolution, when the working class took power, led by the Bolsheviks. Despite the poverty of war-torn USSR, they were able to provide women more rights than most capitalist democracies today. The resistance to Trump cannot stay within the narrow scope of defending women's rights. It is necessary that the most radical sector of the women's movement embed itself in the working class and galvanize the broader working class into embracing the fight for women's emancipation. And the women who are willing to fight for their emancipation should embrace the struggle of the working class and its historical role, the socialist revolution.
We must get to work because it is our duty to fight with all that we have—because it is our duty to win.


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Miami's Ten Can't-Miss Concerts of the Week
Laurie Charles
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10. Carnaval on the Mile with Humming House, Raquel Sofia, Volcan, Con Brio, la Santa Cecilia, Picadillo, Anna Palmerola, Brothers of Others, Problem Kids, Sam Savage, Suenalo, Stokeswood, and others. Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Miracle Mile, Ponce de Leon Blvd. and Le Jeune Rd., Coral Gables. Admission is free. All ages. Visit carnavalmiami.com.
Conga-line your way down Coral Gables for Carnaval on the Mile. Going on its 18th year, the two-day street festival will include plenty of art and live music from Nashville folk band Humming House, Puerto Rican pop star Raquel Sofia, NOLA brass ensemble Soul Rebels, and local faves Problem Kids, Suenalo, and Stokeswood, among others. Tuneage aside, this year's fest will also include Cork & Fork 2016, a wine and food pavilion featuring food, cooking demonstrations, and plenty of wine.
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9. Destination Fashion with Pitbull. MCd by Savannah Guthrie of NBC's Today Show with a fashion show featuring Brunello Cucinelli's Spring 2016 collection. Hosted by the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the fundraising arm of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Saturday, March 5, 6 to 10 p.m. Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour; 305-866-0311; balharbourshops.com. Tickets cost $300 to $100,000 via themiamiproject.org.
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Party for a cause with Mr. Worldwide and the geniuses behind the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Buoniconti Fund at Destination Fashion. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bal Harbour Shops, there'll be live música from Pitbull, a Brunello Cucinelli Spring 2016 fashion show, a high-end silent auction, and celebrity appearances from Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Tommy Lee Jones, and Christian Slater. Will the world finally get the Pitbull/Tommy Lee Jones collaboration it's been waiting for?
8. New Found Glory's Florida Vacation Tour with Protagonist. Presented by For Your Friends Booking. Friday, March 4, 9 p.m. Churchill's Pub, 5501 NE Second Ave., Miami; 305-757-1807; churchillspub.com. Tickets cost $25 plus fees via ticketfly.com. Ages 18 and up.
It's been awhile since hometown heroes New Found Glory – who reign from the streets of Coral Springs – played Miami. But this week, they'll be giving SoFla a double dose of rock as they hit up Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday and Little Haiti's Churchill's Pub on Friday. So relive your emo days with Chad, Jordan, Cyrus, and Ian as they put on the ultimate throwback show.
7. Adult Books with the Gun Hoes, Dénudés, Johnny Mile & the Kilometers, and Period Bomb. Tuesday, March 1, 9 p.m. Kill Your Idol, 222 Española Way, Miami Beach; 305-672-1852; sub-culture.org/kill-your-idol. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up.
Adult Books' debut full-length album, Running From the Blow may be – as pointed out by New Times – a "laid-back, catchy affair," but singer and guitarist Nick Winfrey insists, "the music comes from a dark place. I'm not inspired when I'm happy. Some of the songs were written three years ago; others were written while we were recording. Most of it was looking back at past relationships." Regardless of its "dark inspiration," the album maintains its own sense of humor and is worth seeing performed live. Check the music out for yourself this week at Kill Your Idol.
6. Gator Jam Music Festival with Willie Nelson and Los Lonely Boys. Saturday, March 5, 6 p.m. Miccosukee Resort & Gaming, 500 SW 177th Ave., Miami; 305-222-4600; miccosukee.com. Tickets cost $50 plus fees via miccosukee.com.
At 82 years old, Willie Nelson is still the face of outlaw country. Witness the legend live in action as he takes over Miccosukee Resort & Gaming for Gator Jam. Joined by Los Lonely Boys, Wiseman Willie and the Boys will surely put on one hell of a show.
5. Burger Revolution 2016 with Deaf Poets, Dénudés, Long Shore Drift, Grey 8s, and more. Presented by Burger Records, Cheap Miami Records, Gramps, and Radio-Active Records. Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m. Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; 305-699-2669; gramps.com. Admission costs $5.
"Rock 'n' roll and buns." That's what the Magic City is in for this week as California's Burger Records and Cheap Miami bring the Burger Revolution to Gramps. Featuring music from Deaf Poets, Long Shore Drift, Grey 8s, and more, this year's Revolution will fall in conjunction with Dénudés and Veiny Hands' tape release party. Don't miss it!
4. Tall Juan with Juan Wauters and Ben Katzman's Degreaser. Presented by Strutter USA, Gramps, and BUFU Records. Monday, February 29, 9 p.m. Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; 305-699-2669; gramps.com. Admission costs $5.
Tall Juan may be a nickname Juan Zaballa's childhood friends gave him, but, as the Buenos Aires-born songwriter revealed to New Times, "there's definitely a Tall Juan onstage who's different from the Juan brushing my teeth every morning. Everything is retro-influenced, not just the music." Check out the "groovy, classic-tinged rock" Tall Juan takes pride in this week at Gramps.
3. Danny Daze with Ben UFO. Presented by Link Miami Rebels. Friday, March 4, 11 p.m. Trade, 1439 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-531-6666; trademia.com. Tickets cost $15 to $20 plus fees via residentadvisor.net. Ages 21 and up.
From spending endless days tirelessly working on new music to becoming an international DJ sensation, Danny Daze is a Miami success story. But this week, homeboy will be partyin' it up at Trade in celebration of the release of his latest EP, Miami – his first release under his new record label, Omnidisc.
2. Windows 98. DJ set by Arcade Fire's Win Butler. Presented by Wildlife Thursdays. Thursday, March 3, 11 p.m. Rec Room, 1690 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-0199; galehotel.com/nightlife. Tickets cost $15 plus fees via eventbrite.com. Ages 21 and up.
Edwin Farnham Butler III may come from a lineage of musical royalty – his grandfather, Alvino Rey, was a pioneering jazzman known as the father of the pedal steel guitar, while his grandmother, Luise King, was a member of the all-girl big band singing group the King Sisters – but this week, Arcade Fire's Win Butler will be letting his hair down as he DJs as Windows 98 at Rec Room.
1. Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival with Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Bassnectar, Robert Plant & the Sensational Shape Shifters, Odesza, Daryl Hall and John Oates, the Avett Brothers, Future, Miguel, Fetty Wap, Ween, Big Grams (Big Boi + Phantogram), and more. Friday to Sunday, March 4 to 6. Sunshine Grove, 12517 NE 91st Ave., Okeechobee. Tickets cost $259.50 to $599 via eventbrite.com. Visit okeechobeefest.com.
Sunshine Grove may be a mini road trip away from the Magic City, but the first-ever Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is a destination worth traveling to. Featuring performances from everyone from Mumford & Sons to Kendrick Lamar to Skrillex, the three-day rager hopes to become a utopian "nature paradise" where music and art unite.
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A great day out at Drusillas Park
We recently spent a long weekend exploring East Sussex and began at Drusillas Park in Alfriston, East Sussex. It's somewhere I'd driven past many times over the years before I had children, but now with two of them, it seemed a perfect time to visit – and it certainly didn't disappoint.
Drusillas Park was one of the earliest zoos to open in the UK. It was founded in 1925 when Douglas Ann bought an old farm and 20 acres of land and opened the cottage to sell refreshments to motorists, naming it after his wife Drusilla.
Over the next few years animals, including a kangaroos and a chimpanzee, were added to boost trade and it now has more than 130 types of animals and it is now one of the biggest tourist attractions in Sussex.
It is also considered to be one of the most progressive zoos in the country and many of the animals are involved in breeding programmes to ensure the survival of their species.
There's clearly a great deal of care and attention to detail at Drusillas which is evident by the fact that considerable effort has clearly been put in to educating visitors about the animals they are seeing, including a lot of detail in the petting zoo relating to where meat and milk comes from.
We were all very impressed by the free colour booklets which the children were able to collect the ink stamps from beside a number of different animals as we made our way round the exhibits and various exhibits where children could test, for example, how high they could climb and how loud they could shout.
We're lucky enough to live near a zoo back home in Hampshire (Marwell) and although smaller in acreage, Drusillas Park has ample attractions to keep you occupied during the day.
Most popular for my children were the Meerkats (everyone loves meerkats!), Lemurland – in which we could see ring-tail and black lemurs up close and personal and, my favourites, the Rainbow Lorikeets – one of which landed on my hand within seconds of entering their compound.
Away from the animals, Drusillas has ample attractions to keep you occupied during the day including an extensive play area, a Thomas and Friends train ride, an Egyptian themed maze, which my son loved, and for small people, a Hello Kitty Secret Garden.
All in all, an excellent place to spend a day out, which I can't recommend highly enough.
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A Museum Road Trip
My Small Son recently went on a road trip of an educational kind – to Dorset and Somerset on the trail of two military museums we've been wanting to visit for some time.
On a Friday afternoon we headed along the coast to Dorchester in Dorset where we stayed as guests of Premier Inn in the chain's new hotel in the Brewery Square development. Last time I visited Dorchester, a few years back, the brewery site was a run-down yet majestic bit of Victorian industrial legacy. I feared it might be bulldozed, but was delighted to find that it has been kept intact and used wisely, as a site for leisure and housing. The old buildings now sit next to modern flats and restaurants and fortunately their scale means the modern buildings don't overshadow then.
We've only stayed at a Premier Inn once before and had been very pleasantly surprised. Owners Whitbread really seem to have nailed the budget hotel end of the market. Very speedy check-in (with machines that give you your room key) and clean, crisp and quiet rooms – basically all you need for a quick stopover. The in-house restaurant has a simple menu which will suit most (with plenty of options for children) and the breakfast is both reasonably priced and the quality high (even down to same organic yoghurts we have at home). The staff at the hotel couldn't have been friendlier and with a car park underneath the building, it couldn't have been more convenient. We'll definitely be back – in fact we've already booked!
After a hearty breakfast on the Saturday morning we packed up and headed off to our first museum – the Tank Museum at Bovington, which neither of us had been to before – and it didn't disappoint. The vast museum is home to more than 300 vehicles ranging from Little Willie, the first ever tank to the dreaded German Second War War Tiger tank to the powerful modern Challenger 2.
The museum has six large halls including one with a superb recreation of First World War trenches in 1916, which felt really evocative and poignant. Obviously there are a lot of tanks at Bovington but the museum does a fine job of telling the stories and sharing the experiences of the men who fought and died in these claustrophobic metal boxes. There's also a clever recreation of a tank factory and the story of tanks in warfare is brought right up to date with a large recreation of a base in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
There is lots to see so its worth allowing the best part of a day for your visit and we were at the museum until near to closing time – but before we left we went outside and went for a spin around the arena on a modern tracked vehicle which was bouncy, noisy and great fun. Afterwards we headed off on a 40 minute drive to the next stop on our Museum Road Trip – Yeovil in Somerset (and a stay at another Premier Inn).
Every time we go to the West Country via the infamous A303 I make a mental note to visit the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton – and today, finally, was that day. And wow – what a great museum. I was born in Portsmouth and still live quite close so I've been to the other National Museums of the Royal Navy (NMRN Portsmouth and Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, Royal Navy Submarine Museum and the Royal Marines Museum). The Fleet Air Arm Museum is the fourth and final – and was well worth the trip.
Like the tank museum, it's a vast site with four large exhibition halls, more than ninety aircraft and thousands of artefacts. It is Europe's largest naval aviation museum and tells the story of naval aviation from its origins at the beginning of the 20 century to the modern day. The highlight for us was a superb recreation of an aircraft carrier which enthralled my son and me. In fact. I thought was one of the best museum exhibitions I'd ever seen, and it certainty deserves its award-winning status.
To reach it you board a helicopter and are then "flown" out to the flight desk where you are able to walk amongst aircraft and then watch jets take off and land. You then go on a highly realistic tour below decks and see how the ship operates. Other particular favourite exhibits for us were going on the first British built Concorde, sitting inside a jet and watching a film about the helicopter rescues during a huge flood in Boscastle in Cornwall, where we had stayed recently.
Like the Tank Museum, the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton is well worth a visit. It's innovative, interesting and well thought out. Both museums are highly recommended.
Notes: Our stay at Premier Inn, Dorchester was courtesy of the hotel and our entrance to the Fleet Air Arm Museum was courtesy of the museum
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A World In One Day at the Eden Project
I'd been to the Eden Project in Cornwall before but it was well worth a second visit. We went on a rainy day and although it was very busy (everyone must have had a the same idea!), it's such a big site that it coped well with the numbers.
It was a visionary idea to put a centre dedicated to collecting plants from many diverse climates and environments and house them in giant biomes, the Rainforest Biome for tropical plants and one for Mediterranean temperatures.
Built inside a disused clay pit the before and after imagery is quite amazing. You can see how it was done on this time-lapse film below.
In the steamy tropical temperatures (18–35°C ) of the Rainforest Biome you can experience four of the world's rainforest environments: Tropical Islands, Southeast Asia, West Africa and Tropical South America and see a range of plants including bananas, cocoa and rubber trees.
The Mediterranean biome takes you through the landscapes of the Mediterranean, South Africa and California and you can see more than 1,000 varieties of plants growing from all over the world including tulips, olive trees and cork trees.
A visit to the Eden Project is a great way to introduce children to the impact man has on the ecology of the planet and serves as a beacon for how we can live more sustainable lives.
I'd highly recommend it a visit.
Get there early.
Take a packed lunch as the restaurants and cafes get busy.
Make sure you remember which parking zone you're in and which is your nearest bus stop (as we didn't and we spent ages trying to locate our car!)


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Q: convert website table to pandas df (beautifulsoup doesn't recognize table) I want to convert a website table to pandas df, but BeautifulSoup doesn't recognize the table (snipped image below). Below is the code I tried with no luck.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import pandas as pd

url = 'https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ship_obs.php'
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
tables = soup.find_all('table', rules = 'all')
#tables =soup.find_all("table",{"style":"color:#333399;"}) #instead of above line to specify table with no luck!
df = pd.read_html(table, skiprows=2, flavor='bs4')
df.head()

I also tried the code below with no luck
df = pd.read_html('https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ship_obs.php')
print(df)

A: Your table is not in the <table> tag but in multiple <span> tags.
You can parse these to a dataframe like so:
import pandas as pd
import requests
import bs4

url = f"https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ship_obs.php"
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text, 'html.parser').find('pre').find_all("span")
print(pd.DataFrame([r.getText().split() for r in soup]))

Output:
      0     1     2      3     4     5   ...    40    41    42    43    44    45
0    SHIP  HOUR   LAT    LON  WDIR  WSPD  ...    °T    ft   sec    °T   Acc   Ice
1    SHIP    19  46.5  -72.3   260   5.1  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None
2    SHIP    19  46.8  -71.2   110   2.9  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None
3    SHIP    19  47.4  -61.8    40  18.1  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None
4    SHIP    19  47.7  -53.2    40   8.0  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None
..    ...   ...   ...    ...   ...   ...  ...   ...   ...   ...   ...   ...   ...
170  SHIP    19  17.6  -62.4   100  20.0  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None
171  SHIP    19  25.8  -78.0    40  24.1  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None
172  SHIP    19   1.5  104.8    20  22.0  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None
173  SHIP    19  57.9    1.2   180     -  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None
174  SHIP    19  35.1  -10.0   310  24.1  ...  None  None  None  None  None  None

[175 rows x 46 columns]

A: Slightly different approach, and look at column counts too. I skipped lines at the top, so you'll have to build the column headers and clean up that last row.
import io
url = 'https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ship_obs.php'
page = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, "html.parser")
tablecontent = soup.find('pre')
data = BeautifulSoup(tablecontent.text, "html.parser")
s = io.StringIO(data.text)
df = pd.read_csv(s, sep='\s+', engine='python', skiprows=3, header=None)

Output (sorry, copying out of jupyter is not aligning well)
    0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   ... 14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23
0   SHIP    19  47.4    -61.8   40  18.1    -   -   -   29.82   ... -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   ----    -----
1   SHIP    19  47.7    -53.2   40  8.0 -   -   -   29.76   ... -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   ----    -----
2   SHIP    19  47.8    -54.1   50  13.0    -   -   -   29.75   ... -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   ----    -----
3   SHIP    19  48.2    -53.4   50  13.0    -   -   -   29.78   ... -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   ----    -----
4   SHIP    19  46.8    -71.2   110 2.9 -   -   -   30.03   ... -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   ----    -----
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
178 SHIP    19  25.8    -78.0   40  24.1    -   4.9 4.0 30.08   ... 11  5   -   -   -   -   -   -   ----    -----
179 SHIP    19  1.5 104.8   20  22.0    -   -   -   29.87   ... 11  5   -   -   -   -   -   -   ----    -----
180 SHIP    19  57.9    1.2 180 -   -   -   -   29.35   ... 5   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   ----    -----
181 SHIP    19  35.1    -10.0   310 24.1    -   6.6 6.0 29.68   ... 5   8   14.8    10.0    310 -   -   -   ----    -----
182 182 ship    observations    reported    for 1900    GMT None    None    None    ... None    None    None    None    None    None    None    None    None    None

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Elon Musk & Jack Dorsey Talk Bitcoin Environmental Issues and Its Future
By Matthew De Saro
21 July 2021, 21:09 GMT+0000
Updated by Ryan James
The B Word Conference, a Bitcoin focused event, featured a star-studded panel including Elon Musk, Cathie Wood and Jack Dorsey.
The trio spoke on a number of issues including the finite number of bitcoin available, bitcoin becoming the currency of the internet and environmental concerns of mining.
The group agreed that bitcoin must continue to explore solutions that are more environmentally and socially friendly.
The trio of cryptocurrency superstars were interviewed by Square Crypto Lead Steve Lee on a number of topics relating to Bitcoin, including its impact on the environment.
Wednesday's B Word Conference, hosted by the Crypto Council for Innovation, featured a panel that, while small, had several powerful voices in attendance. CEO and CIO of Ark Invest Cathie Wood, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk, and CEO of Square and Twitter, Jack Dorsey, each sat down to share their views on a number of topics pertaining to Bitcoin. Topics ranged from what inspired each member's interest in bitcoin, the possibility that bitcoin could become P2P cash, environmental, social and corporate governance (ESGs), and even the idea of a personal space heater that could mine bitcoin while keeping you warm.
One topic that kept coming up was the issues mining and use of bitcoin have on the environment. The group spoke about what their opinions were on the cause, and how the industry could move forward into a greener future.
Elon Musk weighs in on Tesla's relationship with bitcoin
Bitcoin and energy came up during the panel, with Lee asking Musk directly about his decision to cease accepting bitcoin as payment for Tesla until renewable energy in bitcoin made it to 50% globally. Musk responded by saying that Tesla itself may have had a negative influence on the rise in power usage due to the price going up when his initial announcement about BTC payments occurred. "From when Tesla announced that it had acquired bitcoin and was doing bitcoin transactions, there was a massive run up of bitcoin price and also a massive increase in the amount of energy used to mine bitcoin." He also stated that he noticed the energy usage going down when prices fell after Tesla halted bitcoin payments.
Musk added that he is "plugged in" and understands renewable energy quite a bit, and is his belief that there is "no way that you could double or triple the amount of energy in such a short period of time with renewables." He goes on to say that "the expectation is not that energy production has to be clean as the driven snow, but it can't be using the world's dirtiest coal. Which it was, for a moment there." So, until technology catches up with the growth of bitcoin mining, Tesla will continue to wait on payments using crypto. It is "most likely Tesla will resume BTC payments," Musk concluded. Tesla's CEO added that neither Tesla, SpaceX, nor himself were selling any bitcoin and that "I might pump, but I don't dump."
Cathie Wood on ESG and bitcoin
Lee then shifted the focus to Wood and asked her about what Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is and how bitcoin can support it. In referencing the environmental aspect of ESG, Wood says "There is a massive movement afoot, in the institutional world especially, to embrace ESG and make sure that their asset managers are doing the same." Wood also shares her belief that bitcoin will become much more environmentally friendly, "certainly, than traditional gold mining or the traditional financial services sector. In many ways, it already is. And it is just going to get better that way."
Wood thinks that the social part of ESG extends way past what many in the ESG community views it as. She sees bitcoin as having a hand in helping citizens empower themselves economically. Whether it be sending money internationally with less hassle or egregious fees to helping people under authoritarian regimes or experiencing hyperinflation in their country. "Saving them from the destruction of their purchasing power certainly is a noble social goal," she stated. On the government end, she touts the transparency of the ecosystem in contrast to the "opaqueness of financial systems and the toll-takers in the traditional financial world."
Jack Dorsey focusing on social areas of ESG
Dorsey did not speak as directly on issues related to the environment as his co-panelists, but took a different approach to how bitcoin can make the world a better place. The Twitter CEO even went as far as to say that "my hope is that it creates world peace or helps create world peace." Dorsey added that "the amount of cost and distraction that comes from our monetary system today is real, and it takes attention away from the bigger problems."
One of the major issues related to this is something that Wood also touched upon. The hassle and expense of transferring money between two countries. Wood used the example of families who live separately sending money to loved ones in need and having to pay unreasonable fees. With bitcoin, Dorsey says, that situation would be different. "I think having sound money that is separate from the state is the idea," Dorsey claimed. "Having it completely verifiable by everyone, including the state, including corporations, including individuals, including developers, who want to build on top of it is quite powerful."
Square recently launched a "Bitcoin Clean Energy Investment Initiative," to help the industry move toward a less destructive future. In the press release for the initiative, Dorsey stated that "We believe that cryptocurrency will eventually be powered completely by clean power, eliminating its carbon footprint and driving adoption of renewables globally."
Bitcoin Mining Energy
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When it comes to productivity hacks, are you an Arnie or an Elon?
Returning from the summer with a head full of good intentions, I have become aware of a philosophical schism in the world of productivity hacks. In one corner, Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the other, Elon Musk and the "timeboxers". (I swear, I am not making this up.) The philosophical divide is over a simple question: how much should you schedule blocks of time in your calendar?
Mr Schwarzenegger reportedly kept his diary clear as a film star, and even tried to do so when he was governor of California. "Appointments are always a no-no. Planning ahead is a no-no," he once said. Visitors had to treat the Governator like a walk-in restaurant — show up and hope for the best.
The opposite approach is timeboxing: timeboxers advocate transferring the entire "To Do" list to a calendar. Need to do some laundry? Set aside time on the calendar. Have a column to write? Block out the necessary hours. Want to chill out on Instagram? Put it in the calendar. Not getting enough sleep? You guessed it: calendar.
Since any productivity hack needs a celebrity endorsement, timeboxers claim (on thin evidence, it seems to me) that the technology entrepreneur Elon Musk uses the technique. Most of us have to compromise a little more with the rest of the human race than do either Mr Musk or Mr Schwarzenegger. Yet the divide is real: schedule as much as possible, or as little as you can get away with? We must all decide if every minute of productivity or rest should be planned in advance, or whether it's better to be more flexible.
Timeboxing originated as a collaborative technique for software developers, and in that context it may work well. Yet, as a personal productivity tool, it seems infantilising. Calendars work for time-specific commitments, such as flights or nights at the opera; everything else should go on a to-do list, a much more flexible way of keeping track of commitments.
I do not want to dismiss those who claim timeboxing works for them. I'm just not persuaded. Some say timeboxing helps them avoid being overwhelmed by a long list of tasks; I say prioritise. Timeboxers note Parkinson's law: work expands to fill the time allocated. I say, set deadlines.
More recently, I've seen timeboxing praised as a strategy for avoiding distractions. Nir Eyal, the author of Indistractable, says that timeboxing helps him confine Facebook and YouTube to narrow slivers of the day. If that works for you, fine; I suspect it's more productive to have a more fundamental rethink of your relationship to social media.
David Allen, author of the cult book Getting Things Done, reckons that timeboxing is a psychological crutch. We all need to feel on top of the commitments we've made to others and to ourselves, and it's not easy. For those of us who feel we're losing our grip, he tells me, "structuring time for social media, walking the dog, prepping for dinner, might make you feel more comfortable. If you're like me, though, you plan as little as you can get by with".
Todd Brown of Next Action Associates, a management training firm, agrees. People like blocking out time because it feels like they can "grab control of the situation", he says. At the end of the week, however, what if everything has changed?
I agree with both of them. Commitments do not become easier to manage simply because you decide in advance when it is all going to happen. Life has a habit of producing surprises: the boss has an urgent task; the car won't start; an old friend texts to tell you she is on a flying visit from Australia. The most inevitable surprise of all is that everything always takes longer than you think it will.
Still, that is just my opinion. If a serious study of the rival techniques exists, I have yet to find it. One relevant experiment was conducted nearly 40 years ago by the psychologists Daniel Kirschenbaum, Laura Humphrey, and Sheldon Malett. They recruited undergraduates and gave them some basic productivity tips. One group was counselled to plan their goals and activities in broad monthly blocks. Another group was instead advised to plan their activities and set their goals on a daily basis.
Neither approach is precisely analogous to timeboxing, but the daily schedule is similar because students would draw up detailed plans. These plans backfired disastrously: day after day, the daily planners would fall short of their intentions and soon became demotivated, spending less time on studying and falling behind over the course of the academic year. The more amorphous monthly planners proved far more successful, presumably because they had more flexibility to adapt to events, as well as wasting less time fiddling around with their calendars. A plan that is too specific soon lies in tatters.
It is clear that some people have made timeboxing work for them. Everyone is different, and every job is different. For me, however, my To Do list is long, and my diary is as clear as I can keep it. And if Arnie is on my side, so much the better.
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Q: Issue in Widgets in landscape mode I have this irritating issue with widgets that it trims the content of my view in the landscape mode. I have put the content size statically but it doesn't work. Does Apple restrict the widget to have a specific height in landscape?
Apple's interface guidelines says it's not recommended but is it doable?
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A: There is a height limit for today widgets on iOS. The max height is (screen size) - (notification center UI height). Whatever's left after the notification center draws its UI is left for widgets. That's going to be different in landscape than in portrait.
Unfortunately this limit is not documented, nor is there any way to look it up at run time. If you request a larger size, you'll get something less than you requested, but there's no way to ask what the limit is. [And if anyone from Apple reads this, please see rdar://18408718, "Today extensions have undocumented, hard to discover size limits"]
In some cases the notification center seems to impose a lower height limit. This looks like a bug to me but there's no way around it for now.

A: With Swift 3 & IOS10 : Add this method to your widget controller and you will get the maxsize
@available(iOSApplicationExtension 10.0, *)
    func widgetActiveDisplayModeDidChange(_ activeDisplayMode: NCWidgetDisplayMode, withMaximumSize maxSize: CGSize){
        if (activeDisplayMode == NCWidgetDisplayMode.compact) {
            self.preferredContentSize = maxSize;
            // hide or show what you want
            messageLabel.isHidden = false
            textLabel.isHidden = true
        }
        else {

            self.preferredContentSize = CGSize(width: 0, height: (maxSize.height - 100) // personnaly I remove 100 to make it easier fo the user to see all the widget

            messageLabel.isHidden = true
            textLabel.isHidden = false
        }
}


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Q: Where to find GitHub project boards I have been added to as collaborator? I have created a project board on Github and added another user as a collaborator to this private project. He can't find the project under his own project list but only if I give him the direct link.

A: Double-check the permission granted for that user for the project, using the GitHub API
But I suspect that, unless your project is an organization project (where you can add a collaborator), a collaborator would not see a private project in their own project list unless given a direct link.


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JAY SEARCH is a talent show put together to immortalize Jaiye Aboderin by his family members. Its first edition was held last year, December 3rd, 2009, exactly 5yrs after Jay's passing. The winner of the show emerged after two rigorous and demanding auditions. Six finalists emerged from the auditions and BigMa emerged overall winner.
The sensational singer BigMa whose name has began to gain grounds in the Nigerian entertainment industry, as the winner of Jay Search 2009 went home with a cash prize of N150, 000, a record deal with Kopykats Entertainment which include; an opportunity to release one audio single, a music video, do a photo shoot and be properly packaged in readiness for the industry all courtesy of Jay Search. BigMa , signed on to KopyKats record label has reaped the dividends of JAY SEARCH as she has gone ahead to record her song and shoot a video.
Jaiye by doing one of the things he did best in his lifetime - supporting the young up and coming talents and helping them to realize their dream of stardom'.
Jay Search which has no sponsor till date is been financed by Jaiye Aboderin's siblings and KopyKats Entertainment.
Jay Search slotted to take place bi-annually, has already rolled out plans for 2011 edition. It is hoped that with adequate sponsorship many more youths will be able to realize their dream, expose their talent and attain stardom via the Jay Search platform.


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Strategic marketing, advertising, and university-level communications
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To schedule and/or request a project, please email your request to marketing@augie.edu. Please allow 24-48 hours for a response.
Please also review the services offered and the lead times associated for completion of your work.
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Contact Nikki for help with: Brand and marketing campaigns, crisis communications, executive communications, licensing, paid advertising, and strategic communications planning.
Nikki Troxclair serves as the vice president of strategic communications and marketing, overseeing all public relations, editorial, marketing, web communications, and creative and central services for AU. With an award-winning career spanning more than 20 years, her background has primarily been in the fields of higher education, health care and engineering. Her previous higher education experience includes serving as the associate vice president for marketing and communications at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), and in various communications and marketing roles at the University of South Carolina, Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota, Baptist Healthcare and the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. Nikki's public relations efforts have garnered press in top media outlets including but not limited to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Associated Press, CNN, HBO Real Sports, and the Los Angeles Times. She earned her B.A. at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a M.A. at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and completed MBA coursework at the University of South Carolina. She is only one of four individuals in the state of South Dakota to be accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America and is a LEED AP from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Contact Brady for help with: Admissions related marketing content for both undergraduate admissions and graduate and continuing education.
Brady develops and implements admissions marketing communications plans to help support the various enrollment goals and initiatives at the university. He most recently served as a marketing communications coordinator with Avera Health and previously worked for the Minnesota Department of Management and Budget as a communications coordinator. Brady earned his bachelor of arts in communications and journalism from the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
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Greta has a bachelor of science in journalism from South Dakota State University. Having been in Sioux Falls for 20 years, she has worked in television at the local ABC affiliate, KSFY-TV, spent several years in public relations at SDSU and most recently served as lead copywriter for Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center and video coordinator at Avera Health.
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Bruce sorts and processes all of the university mail and delivers it across campus. He also assists with print and bindery work when needed. He joined the Creative Services department in 2016 after working in Campus Safety for 10 years.
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Contact Kami for help with: Branding assistance (logo and visual elements), graphic design requests, mailing services and printing.
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Contact Ryan for help with: postage needs, variable data mailings and envelope printing.
Ryan is responsible for processing all incoming and outgoing mail for the Augustana community, and to ensure mailing standards and procedures are met in a timely matter. He started working at Augustana in 2001 and became a part time employee in 2007 when he joined the Sioux Falls Fire Department. Ryan has been working in the printing industry since 1998.
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Jill is the primary public relations contact on behalf of the university – building relationships with local, regional, and specialty/trade/academic news media. In addition to proactive pitching and outreach, she advises campus constituents on issues management and media relations best practices and contributes news, features, social media and related content. A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jill has more than 12 years of communications and journalism experience having served as a television reporter in Sioux Falls and Lincoln, NE, and working with local organizations in the areas of social media and public relations.
Areas of responsibility: Earned media, internal communications and newsletters, media relations training, press release development, and expertise and story pitching.
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Contact Peggy for help with: Email development and scheduling, website updates, new web pages and sites.
As the director of online communications, Peggy works with the campus community to gather, generate, and update website and e-communication content, while ensuring established editorial, graphic and navigation standards are followed. A South Dakota State University journalism graduate, Peggy came to Augustana in 2008 from Wells Fargo, where she was an e-business consultant.


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Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, billionaires that are willing to spend in our elections have gained unquestionable power over the political world. The court stated that the First Amendment gives corporations the right to spend unlimited amounts of money trying to influence elections.
In Colorado alone, more than $54 million in outside spending was used to influence the 2014 Senate race between Cory Gardner and Mark Udall. Who do you think donated all of that money? It certainly wasn't the millions of individuals living under the poverty line. Citizens United has allowed the super rich to hijack our election process.
The foundation of democracy is 1 person equals 1 vote. But now, everyday people have been taken out of the equation. The United States, which prides itself on the grand principles of equality and liberty, has evolved into an inherently unequal state. When the wealthy set the political agenda by auditioning candidates and engaging in legal bribery, it's going to be tilted toward their interests.
Rising income inequality has put the U.S. into the unfortunate position of being labelled the most unequal 1st world country on the planet. Democracy doesn't exist unless every person, wealthy or poor, has an equal voice. When the wealthy control who can run viable campaigns and what positions candidates will take, then we are left with plutocracy, a government by, for and of the ultra-wealthy and corporations.
To stop this sickening devolution into inequality, we must reverse the court. Passing a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United is the best way to ensure that our rights and democratic principles are protected. The overwhelming majority of Americans support getting money out of politics. Eighty percent of Americans oppose the court's decision in Citizens United. Eighty percent!
In a truly representative democracy, if 80 percent of citizens wanted Congress to act on something, then it would happen. Elected officials should be accountable to voters, not to corporations. Lawmakers should not be overwhelmed by the amount of time they spend talking to donors; they should be using that time to talk to constituents.
Although the long-term fix for this problem is a constitutional amendment, the president can act right now to lessen the effect of money in politics. President Barack Obama could issue an executive order that requires federal contractors to disclose their election spending. If federal contractors must disclose election spending, the public and shareholders can hold them accountable for the candidates these companies endorse. And although an executive order wouldn't fix anything permanently, it would make things much better for the time being.
Overturning Citizens United is one of the few issues in today's polarized world that truly is non-partisan. Passing a constitutional amendment will not make it easier for anyone, Democrat or Republican, to control the political agenda. Overturning Citizens United will simply level the playing field and allow all citizens to engage in politics and try to change the way things are done.
I will continue to fight for the principle of equality on which our democracy is based. If you're also fed up with the "money is speech" and "corporations are people" way of politics, go to democracyisforpeople.org and find out what you can do to help.
Kilian Korth is a Fort Collins resident.


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The Redmond-based company still struggles to push Vista off the shelves. Therefore, users need to be constantly reminded that Microsoft's new OS is the better choice. In a recent statement, the company outlines that "Windows XP SP3 does not bring significant portions of Windows Vista functionality to Windows XP."
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The official release of the XP Service Pack 3 has been scheduled for the first half of 2008, nearly four years after the release of the previous Service Pack.


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"ERNEST KING was born in London in 1868 and educated at Saint Mark's College, Chelsea, and the London City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury. He served his apprenticeship in the works of Messrs. H. Young and Company, Ltd., London, from 1886 to 1889, after which he continued for three years with this company as a draughtsman. He gained a Whitworth Exhibition in 1890 and in 1892 he joined Messrs. James Gray and Company, heating engineers, London. In 1901 he was appointed works manager for Messrs. Mellowes and Company, Sheffield, and on its conversion into a limited liability company in 1903 he also became secretary to the firm. In 1907 he was appointed to the board of directors, and when he died on 25th September 1939, he had held the position of chairman for many years. He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1901 and he was transferred to Membership in 1914. He was a vice-president of the Junior Institution of Engineers and he had been twice chairman of this body."
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"The FBI has the utmost respect for this Court, and deeply regrets the errors and omissions identified by the OIG," Wray wrote in a letter to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
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The club will meet this year at Duntelchaig, by courtesy of Fiona Berry, to hold its annual charity fund raising day. We hope to have our new tent on site to shelter from the winter sun, and to congregate in to sip tea and eat buns.
Meet up time is 10am, and the activities will be confined to the site. There is something for everyone here, and a good turn out would be nice.
Bring a picnic, warm clothes, and a donation for the charity.
We'll post some photos for you ! Meantime, have a Merry Xmas.
Might be a silly question,BUT!
are we allowed to take our trialers or is it for road legal trucks only?
Looking on the H4WD site it looks like the 27th.
I assume that non H4WD members can come with it being posted here?
I would like to go as well if it is open to non members. I think it would be a good day out for everyone.
There is a park for trailers, so non RTVs can come along. There will be no going out onto the roads - unless you take off down the hill, but don't worry, the loch will stop you after you cross the road !
Hughie can you confirm for the other members is this a club only event ?
we will hopfully be along to this but only to say hello as it will be in the wifes terious (as long as i get wheel bearing done), need to renew membership as well to club.
We would like to be along and join you all ?
Could anybody provide an Ordnance Survey grid reference for the entrance to the site ???
Steve wrote: Hughie can you confirm for the other members is this a club only event ?
Did you get an answer to this? as really keen to go.
Since there is so many of us hoping to go down would it be worth getting a convoy together?
Sounds like a plan, where is a good place for everyone to meet?, big tesco`s inverness? not sure how long to get down to it so need to sort time.
ok had a look at map its about 15 min from A9 turn off so will be up a tescos at the back of 9.00am if anyone is about.
If we meet at the Inshes Tesco then we can just head down the distributor road, and turn off at the essich Roundabout. Should take approx 30-45 mins roughly (depending on roads and such) to get there. But I am not exactly sure where there is.
So asides from me and johnmcghee who else is up for a convoy?
and does anybody know where there is?
Or we could go that way, probably easier.
somebody choose so we can set a time and get organised.
I will be at the recycling point as you enter the 24 hour tesco carpark (on the A96) at the back of 9, Blue series 3 with white hardtop.
will be there in wifes terious white, back of 9 see all there.


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Q: Pattern for GridView binded to ObjectDataSource - late save I have a GridView which I am binding to my service layer.
I want to be able to allow the user to edit the grid, but I do not want to save the grid as the user is clicking update on each row. I would like to update all of the edited/added/deleted rows when the 'save' button for my entire form is submitted.
I have my service layer configured, and the GridView calls update on a per row edit basis, however I want that to happen all at the end when clicking save.
How can I maintain my ObjectData sources references to update, insert, delete but instead of on a per row basis be able to call a save on everything all at once?
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A: If you're using an object data source, then the behavior of the object bound to the object data source is up to you; it doesn't have to save to the database right away. If you want, you can build the database commands you want to execute, then cache them somewhere until the save button is clicked.
Object data source objects should be static or stateless, so you can't cache there. However, this sounds like a reasonable use of Session cache.

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ValueError: Negative dimension size caused by subtracting 3 from 2 for '{{node conv2d_23/Conv2D}} = Conv2D[T=DT_FLOAT, data_format="NHWC", dilations=[1, 1, 1, 1], explicit_paddings=[], padding="VALID", strides=[1, 1, 1, 1], use_cudnn_on_gpu=true](batch_normalization_19/cond/Identity, conv2d_23/Conv2D/ReadVariableOp)' with input shapes: [?,2,2,12], [3,3,12,12].

I tried to change padding = 'valid' to padding = 'same', but the problem persists. Could you please elaborate on this error and how to fix it?
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from keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
from keras.models import Model
from keras.layers import Conv2D, Dense, Dropout, MaxPooling2D, Flatten, Input, Reshape, BatchNormalization
from keras.utils import to_categorical
import numpy as np
from keras.optimizers import SGD, Adam

X = Input(shape = (28, 28, 1))

for k in range(3):
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    X = BatchNormalization()(X)
    X = MaxPooling2D(pool_size = (2, 2), strides = (2, 2), padding = 'valid')(X)
    X = Dropout(0.25 + (0.1 * k))(X)

X = Flatten()(X)
Y = Dense(units = 512, activation = 'relu', kernel_initializer = 'he_uniform')(X)
X = BatchNormalization()(X)
X = Dropout(0.5)(X)
Y = Dense(units = 10, activation = 'softmax')(X)

model = Model(X, Y)
model.compile(loss = 'binary_crossentropy',
              optimizer = 'Adam',
              metrics = ['accuracy'])

(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = mnist.load_data()
# Reshape dataset to match the expected dimensions of 2D Convolution
x_train = x_train.reshape(x_train.shape[0], 28, 28, 1)
x_test = x_test.reshape(x_test.shape[0], 28, 28, 1)

y_train = to_categorical(y_train, n_classes)
y_test = to_categorical(y_test, n_classes)
x_train = x_train.astype('float32') / 255.0
x_test = x_test.astype('float32') / 255.0

history = model.fit(datagen.flow(x_train, y_train, batch_size = 32),
                    epochs = 10,
                    validation_data = (x_test, y_test))

plt.plot(history.history['loss'], 'tab:blue',
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plt.legend(['loss', 'val_loss'])
loss_path = os.path.join(OUTDIR, lossplot_filename)
plt.savefig(loss_path)
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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Twenty One – David Bowie
3rd December 2021 Philthetestmanager 20th Century, Arts, History, Music 0
If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not be the best, but there is nothing like watching a real talent live.
So, in a sort of chronological order, my twenty-first legend is: David Bowie
Curtesy of Wiki:
David Robert Jones OAL (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, Bowie is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft had a significant impact on pop music.
Bowie developed an interest in music as a child. He studied art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. "Space Oddity", released in 1969, was his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of Bowie's single "Starman" and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted towards a sound he characterised as "plastic soul", initially alienating many of his UK fans but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the album Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and released Station to Station. In 1977, he further confounded expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low, the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that came to be known as the "Berlin Trilogy". "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise.
After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had three number-one hits: the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes", its album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), and "Under Pressure" (a 1981 collaboration with Queen). He reached his peak commercial success in 1983 with Let's Dance: its title track topped both the UK and US charts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including industrial and jungle. He also continued acting: his roles included Major Jack Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos. He stopped touring after 2004 and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with The Next Day. He remained musically active until his death from liver cancer at his home in New York City. He died two days after both his 69th birthday and the release of his final album, Blackstar (2016).
During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at over 100 million records worldwide, made him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In the UK, he was awarded ten platinum, eleven gold and eight silver album certifications, and released 11 number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and nine gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Rolling Stone named him among the greatest artists in history and – after his death – the "greatest rock star ever".
A full discography is here: – David Bowie
The featured song Space Oddity was his first hit. Just so different from *normal* pop music and by no means a novelty type tune either. Released in 1969, but the featured version is from a live performance in 1980, superb.
Changes – Released in 1972, this is from a live performance from a Paris concert in 2002.
Starman – Awesome live performance recorded in 1972
John, I'm Only Dancing (Official Video) from 1972
The Jean Genie – Top of the Pops performance from 1973.
Drive-In Saturday (Live at the Elysée Montmartre, Paris on 14th October, 1999)
Life on Mars (Glastonbury 2000) – Truly an amazing performance.
Rebel Rebel (Live Berlin 2002)
Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (Live, 1973 from the Hammersmith Odeon)
Young Americans – From the Dick Cavett show in 1974.
Suffragette City – Live in Tokyo – 1978 – one of my favourites.
Sound and Vision – Live on A&E Live By Request, from Sony Music Studios, New York, 15th June 2002
Heroes – Live in Berlin, 2002
Ashes To Ashes (2000) – Live in London concert
Under Pressure – David Bowie and Annie Lennox and Queen. From the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 2013. Just how good is this!
The Little Drummer Boy (Peace On Earth) – Bing Crosby & David Bowie – Well, it is nearly Christmas and this was a wonderful pairing with the immortal Bing. Bing Crosby made 42 Christmas specials; this was his last one in 1977.
Let's Dance – Glastonbury 2000 – Smoking a cigarette as well!
China Girl – Live concert in Paris in 2002
Absolute Beginners – Live Glass Spider Tour 1987
I finish my list with an all-time favourite:
Ziggy Stardust – live 1972
His back catalogue (not a euphemism) is very extensive, but I hope I have picked out some of your favourites as well.
Singalong, enjoy and be happy!
Links to previous Legend articles:
1-Buddy Holly 2-Elvis Presley 3-Everly brothers 4-Cliff Richard 5-Joe Brown
6-Gerry and the Pacemakers 7-Roy Orbison 8-The Seekers 9-The Hollies 10-The Rolling Stones
11-Beach Boys 12-The Monkees 13-Rod Stewart 14-T-Rex 15-Slade
16-10CC 17-Pussycat 18-The Kinks 19-Blondie 20-Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music
21-David Bowie
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Jinnie's Story – Book Two, Chapter Twenty Four
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Twenty Four–Dusty Springfield
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