Beverly dental always has kind and friendly dental workers. They do a very efficient and thorough job in a wonderfully comfortable environment.
We love Beverly Dentistry. I took my daughter(6yrs old) and my son (3yrs old) there a few weeks ago and I was worried about how the kids will do. The kids came out happy. My daughter had to do some fillings in between her teeth and I was really worried she would not cooperate since she's terrified of shots let alone inside her mouth. Dr. Gonzales was very gentle and very patient with her. My daughter was happy that she didn't feel any pain. I also like how Dr. Gonzales allows you to be present in the room if the kids need extra support. The office is nice and clean. The staff are very helpful and welcoming.
I've been going to Beverly Dental for over 10 years she is always took care to make sure I'm comfortable while she performing the my dental needs. I have never had any problems with the work that she performed she's the only dentist my family and I will ever go to.
Always treated here good.Been our dental clinic for years. Sometimes parking is tough but it's just because of the neighboring business.
We love Dr. Beverly. She is kind, honest and knowledgeable. We're definitely in good hands in her practice.
The service and atmosphere was good. All the staff were friendly and helpful. Great place to go for a dentist.
I Love the team! Everyone is kind and considerate and I feel that I am in control of the whole process of my care. The dentist is patient and kind and moves at a pace that is comfortable for me and includes breaks if I want/need time to move on throughout my treatment. I have never felt rushed. I am a big chicken and she is just the best!! She is my dentist for life!!
Nice people who are professional, courteous, and competent. I especially appreciate that they have Saturday hours, for those of us who work M-F.
They are the best Ive been going with this dentist since I was a kid. I highly recommend Beverly Dentistry 100%. Great quality of work and always willing to assit patients.
I am very impressed with Beverly Dentistry. I needed an appointment immediately and they took me in right away. The receptionist is very friendly and warm. They really make you feel welcome. Dr. Gonzalez takes her time with you and is very friendly also. Great place!
As always, outstanding service was provided.
The staff are very friendly and I had almost no pain while getting two fillings. They respected what I said and my teeth haven't bothered me so it seems they did the fillings perfectly.
Everyone was friendly. The office was nice and clean. Dr. Gonzales took her time to explain things to me and they were gentle with my teeth !
I appreciated how quickly I was seen and the cleaning was excellent.
All the personel are kind and accommodating office is clean and well-appointed.
Beverly Dentistry continues to provide outstanding service; and I am so happy with the service I have received. It is a wonderful feeling having a dental office that genuinely cares about its patients. I am completely satisfied with Beverly Dentistry dental service and have highly recommended this office to my relatives and friends.
They are always so nice. They do such a Great Job. Always are amazing with my dental work.
the staff along with the doctor were excellent, extremely friendly and thorough!
LOVE DR GONZALES AND STAFF.
Beverly P. Gonzales really cares about all that walk in to get teeth fixed or looked at.
It was such a wonderful experience. I'm very happy with the service and most of all I'm happy I can finally say I found a great dentist.
My overall experience with Dr. Gonzales and her staff was very positive. From the moment I entered this dental office, and the time I completed my visit, I received exceptional service from Dr. Gonzales and her dental staff. The big plus for me is that Dr. Gonzales is not only outstanding at what she does but she is gentle, and that speaks volumes for scary cats like me. A BIG THANKS to Dr. Gonzales and staff.


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-In PartQuest site, I Cannot change "download directory" from PartQuest as I do not have the "pq.ini" file anywhere, and I would like to change the DL folder to the following directory: C:\MentorGraphics\PADSVX.1.2\SDD_HOME\Libraries\PartQuest, for now it goes to C:\Downloads, so I found and edited Partquest.ini and now I get a new error message talking about re-opening .pqz file because it did not decrypt.
-Going into XDxDesigner I select "Symbols LIbraries" and point to C:\Pads Projects\PartQuest, but no symbols show up.
I really do not know how to make this work...Help!
PartQuest does the following, it downloads the data in a pqz file (PartQuest zip file). This should be your normal user download location.
Doubleclicking the pqz file runs the extractor, which unzips the download package into a package Import PartQuest can use for your designated tool. I usually select a directory like C:\PQ_unzip for this, but this location can also be in "My documents" or a folder on your "desktop". The data placed here is temporary, until imported into your library.
The PartQuest.ini DropboxFolder key and the pq.ini TargetDirectory key must have the same root directory. DropBoxFolder will also specify the flow.
I'm new to this board, where it the attachment pq.ini file?


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Top 10 Best Things To Do in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City is home to more fountains than any place in the world other than Rome. It's also known for its parks and wide range of outstanding cultural attractions. If you hope to make the most of your time in this city where you'll find a ton of things to see and do, be sure to put these on your must-experience list.
Harley-Davidson Tour
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Harley-Davidson Tour (Nearby Hotels)
The Harley-Davidson Vehicle and Powertrain Operations factory is located here in Kansas City, producing the world-famous Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Fans of the impressive bikes won't want to miss taking the factory tour, though even non-fans are usually fascinated by it. It includes the chance to explore the facility's operations, all the way from welding and frame bending to polishing and assembly. By taking the Steel Toe Tour, you'll be set up with safety glasses, a vest and steel toe protection before delving into the history of the company and seeing those renowned models up close.
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Nearby Hotels)
Renowned for its award-winning neoclassical architecture and impressive collection of Asian art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was designed in the classical Beaux-Arts architectural style and opened its doors more than 80 years ago. Its collections include not only Asian art, but European and American paintings, Native American art, photography, sculpture, and works by the likes of greats such as Caravaggio and Pissarro. The museum also hosts an onsite restaurant, Rozelle Court, a museum store and multiple classes, workshops and programs for adults as well as kids.
Power and Light District
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Power and Light District (Nearby Hotels)
The Power and Light District is located in the heart of downtown and serves as Kansas City's entertainment district, popular with locals and visitors alike. This vibrant, eight-block neighborhood is bursting with more than 50 restaurants, clubs, bars, theaters, a high-end market, and entertainment venues that hosts free concerts too. Its highlights include the Arvest Bank Theatre, The Mainstreet Movie Theater and the KC Live! Entertainment District.
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Kansas City Zoo (Nearby Hotels)
The Kansas City Zoo, founded back in 1909, is home to more than 1,000 animals. It sits across more than 200 acres, and is arguably most popular for its Kenya and Tiger Trail exhibits, although the new orangutan habitat is something that never fails to mesmerize, a place where you can watch the animals climb the poles, vines and trees, playing and exploring, and even showing off their paintings skills in the 3,400-square-foot outdoor habitat. The zoo recently added the always adorable koala bears to its roster, and offers a number of zoo rides too.
City Market, Kansas City
City Market (Nearby Hotels)
One of the largest and most popular farmers markets in the Midwest, City Market has been drawing locals and visitors since 1857. Open every day all year-round, it hosts dining, shopping and entertainment in an open-air setting, including all of your favorite farmers market items like locally-sourced produce and other foods, specialty groceries, flowers, herbs and even handcrafted gifts. When you're planning your visit, be sure to check the event schedule as it hosts some great events throughout the year, like the City Market Crawfish Festival and the City Market Busker Festival.
National World War I Museum
National World War I Museum (Nearby Hotels)
Certainly more somber than most of Kansas City's popular attractions, the National World War I Museum is buried below the 21-story Liberty Memorial and engages visitors while paying a somber tribute to the war's victims. You'll walk a glass bridge that links the lobby to the museum exhibits, with galleries set above a field of red poppies to represent the nine million casualties of the war.
Crossroads Arts District
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KC Crossroads Art District
Crossroads Arts District (Nearby Hotels)
The Crossroads Arts District is a 20-block area that showcases over 150 galleries and artists' studios, along with some 100 eateries and shops, primarily housed in former empty warehouses, making it a popular place to be all year round. Some of the highlights include the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the city's sleek new address for theater, music and dance. Live music is easy to find here too, with numerous outstanding local venues like Green Lady Lounge, Crossroads at Grinders and recordBar.
Arabia Steamboat Museum
Arabia Steamboat Museum (Nearby Hotels)
The Arabia Steamboat Museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Civil War artifacts, and is not surprisingly, one of the city's most popular attractions. It brings visitors on a journey to the American frontier of the mid-19th-centurym and documents the 1988 salvage of the Arabia Steamboat. It fascinates with its impressive collection of artifacts, including everything from the oldest pickles on Earth to fine china, that were recovered steamboat Arabia, a vessel that in 1856 sank in the Missouri River. By taking a guided tour, you can also watch the short film that focuses on the process endured in order to salvage the sunken steamboat.
Union Station (Nearby Hotels)
This 1914 train station has been restored and transformed into a popular spot that hosts restaurants, shops, an IMAX theater, a model railroad exhibit, the Science City interactive science museum, a planetarium, an exhibit on the history of the American railroad and more. You could easily spend a day or more here just experiencing the many attractions, though just wandering through the huge Union Station building is worthwhile, picturing the days when thousands of passengers once walked through, and gazing up at the gorgeously restored 95-foot ceiling in the Grand Hall.
Boulevard Brewing Company
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Boulevard Brewing Company (Nearby Hotels)
Kansas City is proud of its Boulevard Brewing Company, which they believe is far superior to St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch. Among its many brews, you'll find everything from the popular unfiltered wheat to pilsner and pale ale. The largest specialty brewer in the Midwest, it recently opened up a visitor center which features beer exhibits, a tasting room, and an expanded retail shop. Visitors can also take a free guided tour that includes a short video that discusses the history of the company and how Boulevard beer is made, and, of course, enjoy free samples.
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How Volcanologists Predicted Kilauea's Explosive Eruption
Adam Rogers
Scientists are now warning that the next phase of eruptions could send very large boulders as far as a mile from the crater.
Scientists are now warning that the next phase of eruptions could send very large boulders as far as a mile from the crater.Mario Tama/Getty Images
At 4:15 am on Thursday, the slow, oozy eruption of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawai'i went boom. Up until then, magma had been moving into what's called the lower East Rift Zone of the volcano, about 20 miles from the summit, opening 20 new fissures and spilling lava into forests and neighborhoods. But magma moving toward one place is moving away from somewhere else; the lava lake in the summit was sinking. It finally got below the water table in the wee hours. Molten rock plus water equals steam—quite a lot of steam, actually. Enough to blast a cloud of ash and vapor 30,000 feet into the sky over the island chain.
Volcanologists who watch Kilauea haven't seen a boom like that since 1924, but that doesn't mean they were surprised. Quite the opposite. Kilauea and its sibling volcanoes, sitting atop a "hot spot" in Earth's crust, are where volcano observation started, and they're literally a textbook case of how close observation with high-tech sensors can teach scientists to forecast disaster, and by forecasting it, avert it.
"Part of the reason we have this opportunity to make good forecasts at Kilauea is that the volcano is extremely well-monitored," says Mike Poland, a USGS geophysicist and scientist in charge at Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. (Poland also spent 10 years at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.) "It's been a testing ground for monitoring equipment, and not only are new techniques developed there, but the network of equipment has been expanding for decades."
The scientists at HVO has been very on point for this ongoing, slow-boil eruption. As the geoscientist (and former WIRED blogger) Erik Klemetti wrote in his blog at Discover, months ago the HVO scientists predicted vents opening in the East Rift zone, farther away from the summit than they usually appear, based on inflation under an area called Pu'u O'o. They predicted, accurately, that the development Leilani Estates was in danger, and Tuesday night USGS classified Kilauea as a code-red eruption risk.
A network of seismometers, Global Positioning System receivers sensitive to within millimeters in three dimensions, tiltmeters embedded in boreholes, gas sensors, and satellites made those predictions possible—not to mention the volcanologists' accumulated knowledge of history and direct observation. "The kind of activity that is occurring now is very similar to the activity that occurred during a two-week period in May of 1924, and involves we think a steam-driven explosion from the Kilauea Halemaumau crater," said Steve Brantley, deputy scientist-in-charge at the HVO, at a press briefing Thursday. That behavior, he said, distinguished what's happening now from, say, Kilauea's massive 1790 eruption, which killed dozens, perhaps hundreds.
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Those similarities to the 1924 blow-out tell HVO scientists what to watch for now. That's the advantage of a place founded in 1912 with the express purpose of getting out ahead of eruptions. Back in March, researchers saw inflation of the vents generating magma. "The eruption rate at Pu'u O'o was declining. The hose at Pu'u O'o was getting kinked," Poland says. "We then started to see inflation of the summit…. It became pretty clear something was going to happen."
It did. "Suddenly Pu'u O'o drains, the summit starts to drain, and all of this magma starts to head out to the East Rift zone," Poland says.
With all that in mind, HVO scientists are now warning that the next phase of eruptions could send very large boulders as far as a mile from the crater, and marble-to-pea-sized rocks up to four miles away. A GPS receiver in the East Rift zone moved six inches in 24 hours; that tells them to expect more vents opening there. "One thing that we would really be looking for is continued subsidence of the whole summit crater area," Brantley said. "So far the summit crater area has subsided almost a meter, and we're tracking that with tiltmeters and our GPS receivers."
All that acquired knowledge is really good news for people living in Hawaii, and for airplanes that might fly over it. (Airplanes and ash clouds do not mix.) "At Kilauea they really understand better than most volcanoes how the subsurface is organized," says Natalia Deligne, a volcano hazard and risk modeler with GNS Science in New Zealand. "The important thing is they've had many eruptions to really understand the system."
It's good news for other well-instrumented, keenly observed volcanoes, too—like Mt. Etna in Italy, or the volcanic system under Yellowstone National Park, even though it hasn't erupted in 70,000 years. "Volcanoes are like people. They have fingerprints. They have personalities," Poland says. "Some volcanoes or volcanic systems have earthquake activity, ground deformation. They're dynamic. Others will be quiet for a long time."
But some systems, like the volcanoes of the Cascades (other than Mount St. Helens) are much less instrumented and observed less closely—because they pose less risk to people and infrastructure. The weird irony in all this is that the biggest reason scientists understand Kilauea is that it keeps erupting. "You can have a volcano that's super well-monitored, but if nothing's happening you're not getting the opportunity to understand how it works," Deligne says. It's always the quiet ones, you know?
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Today is my due date. Was my due date. Today was supposed to be met with excitement, nervousness and anticipation, but instead it's met with reminders of my grief, loss and empty womb. Though I thought my world was going to stop today, the sun still came up, people are still on the roads going to work, time still moves on.
I have learned a lot of lessons in these last four months since I lost my daughter. I learned that I have an amazing protector and caretaker of my heart that is my husband. We have learned new facets of our marriage relationship when it comes to crisis. He has given me space and support when I need it.
I learned that I am truly blessed with the friends and family surrounding me. Sunday night, my small group surrounded us in prayer as we faced this day. I still receive cards in the mail from family members who are praying for us. I have friends who still check in, still want to know how I am doing and what they can do to help. I have the support of my online community who continually encourage me with every post that I write. I know not all women who go through things like this have such an amazing support system, which is why I continuously acknowledge them and show my gratitude.
But there are other lessons I have learned that have been a lot harder to swallow.
I learned to let go in my grief. One of my first reactions when I lost my daughter was to hold on to everything else around me very tightly. I was so scared of losing anything else. It's because I was faced with the fact that everything on this earth is temporary, and we aren't guaranteed any of it, even motherhood. But I realized that holding on tightly to temporal things was like trying to hold sand in my hands, eventually it will fall through my fingers. Instead of trying to hold on to everything in my life like a hoarder, I needed to be okay with letting it all go and being grateful for what is given to me in the moment.
I learned to become more grateful for the moments in my life. When I had my first miscarriage in 2013, I promised myself that if I got pregnant again, I would appreciate every moment of that pregnancy because I may wake up one day and not be pregnant anymore. Little did I know that it would come true. However, I appreciated every day that I was pregnant, every moment of morning sickness, every little kick, every feeling of uncomfortable growth. When I had to give her back to God, I still grieved my loss, but I appreciated all those moments, and so my grief is interwoven with hope and peace.
I also learned that though this pregnancy came to an end, my purpose did not. Though I desire motherhood, I desire to glorify God more. I believe my ultimate purpose on this earth is to glorify God in my high points and especially my low points. I may not understand all the whys that life will bring me, but what I do understand is that this world has been hurting long before I did, and understanding that pain on such a personal level has given me a compassion and a longing to reach out to those who don't know this peace, so that one day they may feel the comfort for themselves. I have discovered that I don't need to go across oceans or to locations of extreme poverty to carry out this purpose (although I know some are called to do so, and I support their calling as well). God has called me to speak his truth into the hearts of the people around me, in my own backyard. I believe God put me in this place, with these specific experiences, so that I may reach out with compassion, kindness, understanding and truth. Jesus lived in the moment, ever present in his relationship with God and others, and I hope to do the same in my own life.
Through all of this, God has never forsaken me. My life didn't stop on November 26th, and it doesn't stop today. It continues and grows stronger with new hope. Someday, I hope to become a mother. I long for the day I cradle my own child in my arms. But my life is not on hold until then. I still have work to do every day, a life purpose to carry out. No matter what happens in my life, that purpose will not change. One day, I will meet my sweet little girl in heaven, but until then, I am going to let go in my grief and hold on to my gratitude in the moment, sharing that truth of God's comfort and peace to those around me every day.
I'm so glad you guys are surrounded with such a wonderful community there in Dallas. That is a huge thing we have been in prayer about for you guys. That you will be surrounded by people who love and support you. We are also praying specifically for peace and hope for you guys. As always, if there is anything specific that we can be praying for or do for you guys, please don't hesitate to let us know.
Sending so much love and strength to you today, friend. Due dates, blech. They are so hard. That is great that you have learned to let go. I still sometimes freak out and think, "What next? What am I going to lose next?!" But you are right, everything is temporary and part of life is accepting that. I'm glad you have such great support to help you through today, and all the days. Xo.
Due dates are blech. 🙂 Thank you for your kind words and thoughts!
You are ALWAYS in my prayers. Thank you for sharing so much.
I'm so glad that you're surrounded by love and support, as you continue this healing journey. I can't imagine what you are going through. But I love that you are holding onto family, faith, and friends.


If there is one thing that surely makes this battle between the flesh and the spirit a very difficult one, it is this: you are fighting an enemy you love.
God in His mercy, leads us through His spirit, to wage war against our flesh.
Cherry, is the God given gift to Cris, that was the very tool He used to preserve his life on that stormy Friday night. The very blessings He gives can be the very ones through which He reveals Himself to us.
ALPHA - Beginning of beginnings. Happy 2019!!
God is before all beginnings; the Beginning of beginnings. Our beginnings find meaning in Him.


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Home News Castleward Primary School in Derby gets go-ahead
Castleward Primary School in Derby gets go-ahead
Castleward Primary School in Derby has been granted planning permission for an £8m new school as part of the extensive Castleward regeneration scheme in Derby.
BSP Consulting has been involved in the £100 million housing-led Castleward development near the city centre from concept.
Now the company has been appointed as civil and structural engineer for a new primary school at the site, which will provide 315 pupil places and a 39-place nursery.
Procured through Scape Group's Regional Construction framework and delivered by Morgan Sindall Construction, Castleward Primary School in Derby is due to get under way on site in the summer of 2020, with completion expected by August 2021.
The new school, which is being built on a brownfield site, has been designed by Lungfish Architects and is a mix of one and two-storey blocks, incorporating innovative play spaces on the rooftop areas and terraces.
It will feature 12 classrooms, a shared hall and studio library spaces, along with ancillary facilities.
https://www.eastmidlandsbusinesslink.co.uk/mag/property/plans-submitted-for-next-phase-of-derbys-castleward-residential-development/
BSP Consulting are providing a master planning consultancy role of the whole Castleward site, we are providing civil, structural and geotechnical engineering services.
To find out more about the £100 million housing-led Castleward development that take a look here: Castleward, Urban Regeneration, Derby
This major regeneration project will breathe new life into a key area of Derby and will help to create hundreds of homes, thousands of square foot of commercial retail space, community areas and now a new school. The work will take place in five phases spanning up to 20 years.
In 2014 Castleward became the country's second development project to recieve a BREEAM accreditation for its overall environmental sustainability 'BREEAM' Communities'.
https://www.breeam.com/case-studies/communities/castleward-derby-uk/#:~:text=About%20the%20Development,Station%20and%20the%20city%20centre.
Castleward won the 'Regeneration Award' at the 2014 East Midlands fbe Awards.
BSP delighted at award win for Castleward scheme
BSP Consulting Summer Newsletter 2020


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Q: Pandas - DataFrame - finding rows with the two latest date I have a pandas dataframe like this:
|  No   |   Date     |   hours  |    Flag   |
|:------|:-----------|:---------|:----------|
|  101  | 13.01.2021 |   2:45   |     0     |
|  101  | 13.01.2021 |   1:20   |     0     |
|  101  | 15.02.2021 |   3:15   |     0     |
|  101  | 16.02.2021 |   0:30   |     0     |
|  101  | 02.03.2021 |   1:20   |     0     |
|  101  | 02.03.2021 |   2:40   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   2:05   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   1:45   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   1:25   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   0:45   |     0     |

Then I want to extract all rows with the two latest dates. Alternativ with the latest date, the three latest dates etc.
A dataframe (with the two latest dates) like this should be the target:
|  No   |   Date     |   hours  |    Flag   |
|:------|:-----------|:---------|:----------|
|  101  | 02.03.2021 |   1:20   |     0     |
|  101  | 02.03.2021 |   2:40   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   2:05   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   1:45   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   1:25   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   0:45   |     0     |

I tried:
df.nlargest(2, 'Date', keep='all')

this produces sth. like this:
|  No   |   Date     |   hours  |    Flag   |
|:------|:-----------|:---------|:----------|
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   2:05   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   1:45   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   1:25   |     0     |
|  101  | 19.06.2021 |   0:45   |     0     |

How can I resolve this?

A: Filter 2 largest Datetimes  by Series.nlargest and then filter all Dates which match by Series.isin and boolean indexing:
df['Date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date'], dayfirst=True)

df = df[df['Date'].isin(df['Date'].nlargest(2))]

print (df)
    No       Date hours  Flag
6  101 2021-06-19  2:05     0
7  101 2021-06-19  1:45     0
8  101 2021-06-19  1:25     0
9  101 2021-06-19  0:45     0

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I get emails. Occasionally they reveal that things that I might have thought were obvious need to be explained. This past week it was an inquiry from an engaged advocate reporting that a local jurisdiction did not think that the advice from one of my papers on avoiding adverse effects on the environment by using lower color temperature lights applied to their situation in an inland forested area but was instead limited to coastal areas. Looking at the paper in question, "Rapid assessment of lamp spectrum to quantify ecological effects of light at night" (Longcore et al. 2018), I can sort of see where they were coming from. So let me clarify — the results apply across the board, not just to coastal areas.
In the paper we looked at responses of insects, sea turtles, shearwaters, and juvenile salmon. I can see how someone looking at the paper would think that with three groups associated with oceans for at least part of their lives the conclusions might only apply along coasts. But that conclusion would ignore that we also looked at insects, which was calculated from studies describing the relationship between spectrum and attraction for moths, bees, and all insects combined. To provide some extra background on this point, I pulled out and graphed these separate response calculations relative to CCT so the relationship between correlated color temperature and insect attraction is clear.
Calculated attractiveness of lights to bees (Menzel and Greggers 1985) , moths (Cleve 1964), all insects (Donners et al. 2018), and an average of these three groups as a function of correlated color temperature (CCT). Methodology and data in Longcore et al. (2018).
Insects are critically important in forests and avoiding impacts on them should be the goal of all natural resources managers. A significant role of light pollution in insect declines has been described (moths for example, Wilson et al. 2018) and the global decline of invertebrates should motivate any park manager who might be on the fence.
A second factor to consider is that the impacts on sky glow, which has behavioral impacts on species in all biomes, are reduced by lower color temperature lighting.
Through all the considerations for different taxa, a few general lessons emerge to guide use of spectrum: 1) the choice of color significantly affects the degree of biological disruption; 2) narrow- spectrum lights are preferable to broad-spectrum sources (i.e., white light); 3) ultraviolet light should be avoided; 4) blue and shorter wavelengths increase biological responses and generally should be avoided; and 5) concerns about individual species in an area may influence the choice of least disruptive color for lights.
These recommendations are not just for coastlines, but apply across biomes and especially in forests. One of the things to recognize from forests is that species that naturally live under the forest canopy are adapted to nighttime lighting conditions that are sometimes and order or two of magnitude dimmer than conditions in open habitats. Protection of the natural conditions for those species requires every tool in the lighting designers toolbox: good decisions when to light and not to light, appropriate shielding, limited intensity, reduced duration where possible, and well-chosen spectrum, for which the lowest CCT possible is a good rule of thumb.
Cleve, K. (1964). Der Anflug der Schmetterlinge an künstliche Lichtquellen. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 23:66-76.
Donners, M., van Grunsven, R. H. A., Groenendijk, D., van Langevelde, F., Bikker, J. W., Longcore, T., & Veenendaal, E. M. (2018). Colors of attraction: modeling insect flight to light behavior. Journal of Experimental Zoology A 329:434-440.
Longcore, T., and C. Rich. 2017. Artificial Night Lighting and Protected Lands: Ecological Effects and Management Approaches (Revised August 2017). Natural Resource Report NPS/NRSS/NSNS/NRR—2017/1493. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Longcore, T., A. Rodríguez, B. Witherington, J. F. Penniman, L. Herf, and M. Herf. 2018. Rapid assessment of lamp spectrum to quantify ecological effects of light at night. Journal of Experimental Zoology A 329:511-521.
Menzel, R., & Greggers, U. (1985). Natural phototaxis and its relationship to colour vision in honeybees. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 157:311–321.
Wilson, J.F., Baker, D., Cheney, J., Cook, M., Ellis, M., Freestone, R., Gardner, D., Geen, G., Hemming, R., Hodgers, D. and Howarth, S., 2018. A role for artificial night-time lighting in long-term changes in populations of 100 widespread macro-moths in UK and Ireland: a citizen-science study. Journal of Insect Conservation 22(2):189-196.
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Dubai Tourism office in India now has a separate team for Dubai Business Events, which would specifically work towards boosting MICE business from India.
Carl Vaz, Director, Dubai Tourism – India, agreed and shared that the MICE market from India to Dubai is quite big and still has a lot of potential, which they are looking to tap. "Dubai is the largest outbound market in terms of numbers. In 2015 we had over 1.6 million Indians visiting Dubai, from leisure, business, MICE, as well as the VFR segment. Dubai Business Events as a team will now be much more active and aggressive in India, in terms of reaching out not only to the MICE industy, but also to the weddings segment, which is also part of events," he informed.
She goes on to explain a two-fold strategy they will execute in the future. "We understand that we need to directly speak to corporate clients in different sectors, but at the same time, we also value the fact that those corporate clients also work with intermediaries and agents. Thus, our approach is always to work with the two," Lance added.


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Can the Coronavirus Cause Diarrhea?
Researchers are looking into how common digestive symptoms are in people diagnosed with COVID-19.
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By Renee Cherry March 20, 2020
By now you probably know the common coronavirus symptoms by heart: fever, cough, shortness of breath. But some research now suggests it's also possible for the virus to cause diarrhea, vomiting, and other digestive symptoms.
A new study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology looked at the prevalence of digestive symptoms in confirmed coronavirus cases. Of 204 patients in China who had the virus, 48.5 percent had initially checked in to the hospital with a digestive issue, not a respiratory one, as their main concern, according to the research. The most common digestive symptom among the group was a loss of appetite, followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain, report the study authors. Researchers also observed that those who experienced digestive symptoms tended to have worse outcomes and a higher risk of mortality compared to people with no digestive symptoms, possibly because those with digestive issues weren't diagnosed with the COVID-19 infection as promptly, the study authors speculated in their paper.
The study authors offered a few possible reasons why COVID-19 might cause digestive symptoms: For one thing, the coronavirus is believed to bind to cell receptors called ACE2. The liver then seems to react by creating new cells, possibly increasing the number of ACE2 receptors and, as a result, liver tissue injury, according to the study authors' research. Another possibility is that the virus may throw gut bacteria out of whack, leading to digestive symptoms. Yet another potential explanation could be that the virus triggers an inflammatory response from the digestive system, according to the study. (Related: Does Ibuprofen Really Make the Coronavirus Worse?)
"Clinicians should recognize that digestive symptoms, such as diarrhea, may be a presenting feature of COVID-19," and that these digestive symptoms may present either before or in the absence of the traditional respiratory symptoms, the study authors concluded. But they also acknowledged that additional research is needed, particularly with a larger subject pool, to confirm the link they observed between COVID-19 and digestive issues.
That said, given what we know so far, it's too soon to say that people experiencing digestive issues should take the same steps they would if they were experiencing respiratory symptoms, says Andrea Culliford, M.D., a gastroenterologist with Medical Offices of Manhattan. "This is in no way to discredit the efforts of the hard-working clinicians and research teams conducting this study," says Dr. Culliford. "However, more and more data is collected every day, and from our understanding, the signs [of COVID-19] are flu-like." (But, FWIW, flu symptoms can sometimes include digestive issues like diarrhea and vomiting.)
To that end, not all research on COVID-19 suggests that digestive symptoms are significantly prevalent in people with the coronavirus. In another study of COVID-19 symptoms, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, diarrhea was "uncommon" among people who were confirmed to have the coronavirus. Of 1,099 patients from China, only 3.8 percent said they experienced the symptom and 5 percent reported nausea or vomiting.
What about people with pre-existing digestive conditions?
At this point it "remains unknown" whether people with pre-existing digestive issues are more likely to have worse outcomes should they get the coronavirus, according to a paper published in The Lancet. But the paper's authors note that immunosuppression is an important factor to consider here. Case in point: While data from the IBD Elite Union (which comprises some of the largest IBD referral centers in China, including more than 20,000 patients with IBD) suggests there are currently no known patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who've been diagnosed with COVID-19, the fact that people with IBD are often prescribed immunocompromising medication for their condition could mean they're at a higher risk of experiencing severe complications from a COVID-19 infection—not necessarily because of IBD itself, but because of the immunocompromising medicine often used to treat IBD, according to the paper in The Lancet. Again, though, this data is inherently limited since it only includes people from China who've been infected with COVID-19. (BTW, here are more important deets about the link between coronavirus and immune deficiencies.)
Bottom line: Regardless of whether you're experiencing symptoms (respiratory, digestive, or otherwise), social distancing is a must right now to help slow the spread of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the meantime though, if you're experiencing fever, cough, or shortness of breath and think you've been exposed to the novel coronavirus, the CDC recommends calling your doctor ASAP and following their instructions.
As for digestive symptoms, at this point you can follow normal protocol when it comes to seeking treatment for these types of ailments, says Dr. Culliford. (Here's a helpful breakdown on how to deal with stomach pain, gas, and other common digestive issues.)
"Unfortunately, the medical community is learning the behavior of COVID-19 day by day," explains Dr. Culliford. "We work very hard to keep patients safe from potential harm. For now, our recommendation is to follow the CDC, WHO, and your state's DOH guidelines until more information is obtained. Perhaps as we learn more, with tests becoming readily available, we can study more about COVID-19 GI symptoms."
The information in this story is accurate as of press time. As updates about coronavirus COVID-19 continue to evolve, it's possible that some information and recommendations in this story have changed since initial publication. We encourage you to check in regularly with resources such as the CDC, the WHO, and your local public health department for the most up-to-date data and recommendations.
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Sam Manekshaw & struggle for Bangladesh: How Indian army destroyed Pak in 1971
Manekshaw who was the Army chief during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal.
Manekshaw's Liberation war
India celebrates December 16 as "Vijay Diwas" commemorating Indian forces resounding victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war which led to the creation of Bangladesh.
The Pakistan army surrendered to Indian forces unconditionally when General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi with 94,000 troops surrendered to India. The war lasted just 12 days from December 4 to 16.
It is also known as the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971.
(Photograph:AFP)
'You surrender or we wipe you out'
India's Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw told the Pakistani general explicitly "You surrender or we wipe you out" on December 13 as Pakistan Army crumbled due to India's sustained ground and air assault in the western and eastern front.
On 14 December, IAF attacked a house where a meeting was taking place of the governor of east Pakistan. The Indian Army captured Bogra, Sylhet Railway Station, Pubail & Rupganj.
Brigadier Usman, commander 50 PARA Brigade launched operations for clearing the enemy from Kot and captured Chingas on the road to Rajouri as the Indian army vanquished Pakistan.
Manekshaw: India's first field marshal
Manekshaw who was the Army chief during the 1971 operation was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal.
A veteran of the Burma campaign for the British forces in World War II, India's field marshal was involved in the Kashmir affairs during the contentious months of 1947 as the Maharaja signed the Instrument of Accession.
He was appointed as the eighth chief of Army staff on 8 June, 1969. "Sam Bahadur" as he was known in the Army, especially among his troops was credited with taking full strategic control of the Bangladesh operation under PM Indira Gandhi.
The Bangladesh war which lasted for 12 days in December was a monumental failure for the Pakistan forces with India taking 94,000 Pakistani soldiers resulting in the unconditional surrender of Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh as a new nation.
45 years of 1971 Indo- Pak war
Bangladesh became an independent nation, the world's fourth most populous Muslim state. Mujibur Rahman was released from a West Pakistani prison, returning to Dhaka on January 10, 1972 and becoming the first President of Bangladesh.
In photo: A bridge blown up during the war
(Photograph:Getty)
Liberation of Bangladesh
On December 12, 1971, the Indian Army captured Hardinge bridge, Khetlal & Madhupur. Narsingdi was built as a base to capture Dhaka.
The 1971 Indo-Pak conflict started when the Pak army conducted a widespread genocide against the Bengali population of the then east Pakistan.
PM Indira Gandhi expressed full support of her government for the independence struggle of the people of east Pakistan and decided to go to war against Pakistan after India's neighbour attacked.
During the war, the main Indian objective on the eastern front was to capture Dhaka and on the western front was to prevent Pakistan from entering India.
IAF presses home India's advantage
While India's grip on east Pakistan tightened, the IAF continued to press home attacks against Pakistan. The campaign then developed into a series of daylight anti-airfield, anti-radar and close-support attacks by fighters.
Hostilities officially ended on December 17 after the fall of Dhaka on December 15. India claimed large gains of territory in west Pakistan and the independence of Pakistan's eastern wing as Bangladesh was confirmed.
(Photo courtesy: Indian Air Force: Twitter/@IAF_MCC)
(Photograph:Twitter)
India-Pakistan war
On the ground, Pakistan suffered the most with 8,000 killed and 25,000 wounded while India lost 3,000 and 12,000 were wounded. The loss of armoured vehicles was similarly imbalanced. It was a major defeat for Pakistan.
The "Instrument of Surrender" of Pakistani forces stationed in East Pakistan was signed at the Ramna Race Course in what is now Dhaka on December 16, 1971 by Lt Gen Niazi of Pakistan and Lt Gen Aurora of India.
(Photograph:Others)
Hero of Bangladesh war
For Pakistan, it was a complete and humiliating defeat, a psychological setback that came from a defeat at the hands of intense rival India.
Bangladesh became an independent nation, the world's fourth most populous Muslim state. Mujibur Rahman was released from a west Pakistani prison and he returned to Dhaka on January 10, 1972 and became the first President of Bangladesh.
The hero of the Bangladesh war passed away on 27 June, 2008 at the age of 94 at a military hospital in Wellington, Tamil Nadu and was buried in Ootacamund (Ooty).
Sam was undoubtedly India's greatest soldier and a "soldier's general".
Bangladesh Independence Golden Jubilee


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Q: Why can't kubectl connect to my IBMcloud kubernetes-cluster? I have, via the IBMcloud portal, created a free-tier kubernetes cluster (version 1.17.6).
After this, I follow the 3 steps found under the 'connect via CLI'-section.
However, when trying to use any kubectl (below I try 'kubectl get nodes') command to interact with the cluster, I get the error shown below, when using both kubectl version 1.18 and 1.17.
Has anyone experienced this?
PS C:\Windows\system32> ibmcloud login -a cloud.ibm.com -r us-south -g Default
API endpoint: https://cloud.ibm.com

Email> ***

Password>
Authenticating...
OK

Targeted account *** Account (2168eb22840948ffad70b6c2394e524d) <-> 2091846

Targeted resource group Default

Targeted region us-south

API endpoint:      https://cloud.ibm.com
Region:            us-south
User:              ***.org
Account:           *** Account (2168eb22840948ffad70b6c2394e524d) <-> 2091846
Resource group:    Default
CF API endpoint:
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PS C:\Windows\system32> ibmcloud ks cluster config --cluster brbq5nrd0njtl05gt4ng
OK
The configuration for brbq5nrd0njtl05gt4ng was downloaded successfully.

Added context for brbq5nrd0njtl05gt4ng to the current kubeconfig file.
You can now execute 'kubectl' commands against your cluster. For example, run 'kubectl get nodes'.

PS C:\Windows\system32> kubectl config current-context
mycluster/brbq5nrd0njtl05gt4ng

PS C:\Windows\system32> kubectl get nodes
Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp 184.173.44.62:21185: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

PS C:\Windows\system32> kubectl17 get nodes
Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp 184.173.44.62:21185: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

PS C:\Windows\system32>


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New faces of change land in D.C.
Amid a lame-duck session, new arrivals get their bearings
WASHINGTON — Old and new Washington collided on Capitol Hill on Monday, and new won.
Within moments of flicking on the Senate lights, Sen. Mitch McConnell announced that when it came to pork barrel politics he had changed his mind. The Senate's staunchest fan of so-called earmarks reversed course and supported a ban on those special spending requests, a bow to the tea partiers and others in the populist, antiestablishment wave that gave the GOP control of the House and six more seats in the Senate.
"Old habits aren't easy to break, but sometimes they must be," McConnell said on the Senate floor.
His announcement put an exclamation mark on the return of lawmakers to Capitol Hill on Monday for a "lame-duck" session before the newcomers take their places officially in January. There's still major business for the current Congress, from tax cuts that will or won't be preserved to possible special Social Security checks to spending bills to keep the government going.
Monday was an extraordinary day that blended Congresses past, present and future as the fading Democratic majority began to yield.
There were plenty of other lessons, pedestrian as well as profound for the new folks: not only how to be an employer, a first for some of them, and how to avoid Washington's ethical traps, but also where to eat, how to vote, how to get to the subway beneath the Capitol and even which elevators to use.
As for politics — in case any politicians had missed the message of the Nov. 2 elections — triumphant conservative activists, many of them tea partiers, rallied on the Capitol lawn with signs urging Congress to heed their call for smaller government and greater accountability.
"Phase One, Nov. 2010. Complete," read one sign. "Phase Two. Nov. 2012. We are watching you."
Acutely aware of that, longtime lawmakers began to let change flow through the corridors of power, already heavy with the cold-weather scent of fireplaces ablaze in the Capitol's grand parlors.
Change was evident at the lunch table, too. In the Senate, 16 newly elected senators — 13 of them Republicans — were invited to dine with veterans, including some not returning next year. Two rookies, Democratic Sens. Chris Coons of Delaware and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, were sworn in to fill empty seats in their states.
And change took hold of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's world, which was suspended between the old Congress and new.
She's still speaker, second in line to the presidency but not yet the Democratic leader in the new Congress. Those elections are to be held on Wednesday.
She still has chores, including spending time with the very Republicans who won big gains in Congress in part by vilifying her.
In the House, the old guard reconvened for the first votes since the Democrats' shellacking. Democrats Susan Kosmas and Ron Klein, both of Florida and both defeated, shared a warm embrace as Kosmas wiped a tear.


Four cobalt(III) complexes of the general formula [Co(Schiff base)(L)2]+, where L is ammonia (NH3) or 3-fluorobenzylamine (3F-BnNH2), were synthesized. The complexes were characterized by NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and X-ray crystallography. Their electrochemical properties, ligand substitution mechanisms, and ligand exchange rates in aqueous buffer were investigated. These physical properties were correlated to the cellular uptake and anticancer activities of the complexes. The complexes undergo sequential, dissociative ligand substitution, with the exchange rates depending heavily on the axial ligands. Eyring analyses revealed that the relative ligand exchange rates were largely impacted by differences in the entropy, rather than enthalpy, of activation for the complexes. Performing the substitution reactions in the presence of ascorbate led to a change in the reaction profile and kinetics, but no change in the final product. The cytotoxic activity of the complexes correlates with both the ligand exchange rate and reduction potential, with the more easily reduced and rapidly substituted complexes showing higher toxicity. These relationships may be valuable for the rational design of Co(III) complexes as anticancer or antiviral prodrugs.


We are, all of us, as one in our desire to serve and also in our need to be heard. What I mean by this is that as a fraternity or brotherhood of like thinking men, sons, brothers, and fathers, looking to serve others, we sometimes lose sight of our own needs.
In these very tough times we need to not only think of others and each other, but also of ourselves. Sometimes in our desire to help others, we might forget that we, and our brothers, might be in need of help.
Remember that when we get on an airplane, at the end of preflight instructions we are reminded that in case of an emergency an oxygen mask may drop in front of us and we are reminded by the attendant to place the oxygen mask on ourselves before attempting to help others. The reason for this is that without oxygen we will loose consciousness and then will be of no help to those around us. The oxygen mask, my brethren, that we need to put on is that of the attentive ear. By this I'm suggesting that we may be reaching out without realizing it. And likewise it may be necessary to force yourself to ask for help or maybe just have someone simply to listen to us.
My greatest reason for presenting this message is knowing that a great percentage of our membership is either self employed, possibly recently laid off, or on a fixed income who might have recently been affected by the downward trend in the stock market. Also among that number are a group of men who were taught to be self-sufficient and not complain, which may prevent them from even discussing such problems. This is where we as brothers should lend a hand when necessary and be ever respectful to all.
See you all in lodge!


The submissions have been reviewed and the shortlist has been announced. The shortlist includes a regionally diverse selection of exceptionally talented writers based across London, Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester. The writers selected are also of varying degrees of writing experience and commendations.
The theme of this year's Dinesh Prize was 'Scent', which is the title of Dinesh's posthumous collected works (published by Comma Press). Comma Press and UCLan set up the prize as an opportunity to showcase exciting new literary talent from across the UK, imposing no restrictions on entry such as a fee or a first publication. They hope to further the careers of all the shortlisted authors, regardless of their experience in writing. Already, the winner of the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction 2018 has been confirmed as a contributing author to Comma Press's forthcoming anthology, Resist: Stories of Uprising.
The shortlist of ten stories was narrowed down from almost 200 entries by a group of UCLan students and has now been passed on to the esteemed judging panel which includes Robin Purves (senior lecturer in Creative Writing at UCLan), Zoe Gilbert (award-winning short story writer and author of Folk (Bloomsbury, 2018), Irenosen Okojie (short story writer, curator and arts project manager), and our very own film editor, Andy Murray.
This team will choose their winner and two runners-up from the shortlist of ten. The stories will remain anonymous to the judges until the winner's announcement and prize-giving ceremony on May 8. After the ceremony, the ten shortlisted stories will all be published online as an eBook by Comma Press, and Northern Soul will publish the winning story.
Comma Press and UCLan have also announced that the prize will return for 2019-20, with a new panel of judges and a new theme. The winner will once again receive a prize of £500.


Dr. Tagle is certified by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners. He continues to broaden his knowledge to include all the latest state of the art chiropractic techniques and physical therapies to restore the body's natural functioning system. This knowledge has helped his patients to reduce stress, decrease pain, and to allow them to enjoy a happy and healthier pain free life. Growing up as an athlete Dr. Tagle understands the nutritional needs as well as chiropractic needs for athletes of all ages. He has a strong background in nutrition and exercise physiology, which helps his patients reduce weight, giving them a more positive and fulfilling life.


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by Lisa Rogak
St. Martin's Press | Biographies & Memoirs
A Biography
The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.
Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain.
In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses.
As a result, she's become the top anchor for MSNBC and a beloved representative for all that progressive America holds dear. The news that Maddow was the first publicly-out lesbian to anchor a prime-time TV news show seemed almost anticlimactic to her millions of viewers, who will be surprised and intrigued by little-known details of her life, as written by New York Times bestselling biographer Lisa Rogak.
Growing up in a conservative California town – and viewing herself as a perennial outsider – helped spark an early interest in activism. After attending Stanford and Oxford, she opted for a minimum-wage job as a radio DJ in a tiny Massachusetts market while finishing her Ph.D. She planned to pursue a career as an activist, but 9/11 changed all that, so she returned to local radio where she could help listeners by "explaining stuff." A stint at Air America raised her national profile, which led to her groundbreaking MSNBC show where she dissects the news of the day with an approach found nowhere else on TV.
In a world of banal and opinionated...
JImmy B, Reviewer
Shortly after starting on MSNBC, The Rachel Maddow Show ratings outpaced other news programs on CNN and other networks. In addition to astonishingly high audience numbers so quickly, recognition poured in from such media outlets as Politico, Washington Post, and Out magazine. In 2010, Forbes included her on the World's 100 Most Powerful Women list.
"I think helping people understand what is going on in the world and what is going on in your country is a noble thing to do," she said. "[And] I think I have found something I am good at," Rachel Maddow says.
I followed Rachel Maddow from New America radio to MSNBC and admired her latest book Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth. I'm glad this biography answers my questions about her early years, college years at Stanford and Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, daily routine in the studio and outside and much, much more.
As well as Rachel Maddow: A Biography, Lisa Rogak wrote Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart, and Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert, both of which I will read.
In Rachel Maddow: A Biography, the author overlooked Maddow's use of the transitive verb to grok. In the novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Robert A. Heinlein forged grok in a Martian language to mean to drink, to drink in all available aspects of reality, and to become one with the observed. So Rachel might observe, "While fishing, I grokked the connection of the people and payments in their plotting."
Heather B, Reviewer
Rachel Maddow is a fantastic book and a must buy for the holidays. It is well written and well researched. A must read.
Patricia F, Reviewer
Rachel Maddow is one of our favorite people. She tells it the way she sees it.
Coming from California in one of the only tiny Red sections of the state, she quickly outgrew the conservative beliefs of her hometown and has always considered herself an outsider.
This is a good look at some of her family and personal life, as well as the story of how she became the top anchor at MSNBC and the only one that our current president never calls out! Why? Because this woman researches everything. She loves shining the light on the things politicians don't want us to see or talk about.
She is respectful of all of her guests, no matter the political affiliation. I think this is one of the many things we admire her for. She isn't putting on a show or being flashy, she's showing you and explaining the facts. Just the facts. And for that, we watch her every time she is on the air.
Rachel does not just spout opinions, she walks us through the tangled web of politics today and helps us understand the FACTS.
NetGalley/ January 7th, 2020 by Thomas Dunne Books
Caroline K, Reviewer
Yes! Everything about this is a Yes! Big yes! I loved it so much. She's such an inspiration and to read her story is everything. 5/5 stars
Marian M, Reviewer
Lisa Rogak's biography of Rachel Maddow takes you from birth to present day and gives you quite a glimpse into what makes Maddow tick.  And it's a lot.
So, what makes Rachel Maddow tick?  If I had to condense it into one sentence, I'd say that Maddow wants people to have an opinion about the world they live in.  No matter their politics, people are brought together around issues, and Maddow wants to engage us, stimulate us, and make us care. It is clear that apathy has no place in Maddow's world.
A pundit who blends journalism with opinion, Maddow refuses to be a cookie-cutter liberal put into a well-defined box.  Describing herself as an "equal opportunity critic" and refusing to be typecast, Maddow's penchant for hard work, straightforwardness, and the ability to "do the most good in the most efficient way possible" is evident in Rogak's book.
And while Maddow's MSNBC show gives her that spotlight to say what she wants to say (since she considers herself first and foremost a storyteller), she's earned that spotlight – putting in countless hours each day preparing for her nightly show.
Rachel Maddow: A Biography is a quick and informative read giving us insight into a woman whose view of herself as an outsider early on challenged her to do what she's doing best.
Kate T, Reviewer
Review	I am a huge Rachel fan. Her ability to tell a story in an enlightening and factual way is incredible. I was happy to learn about her educational background as well as her passions. Great book.
Anthony P, Reviewer
I enjoyed this book and learned quite a bit about Rachel.  It's an easy read and well worth the time.  I look forward to Rogak's next work.
Jennifer T, Reviewer
Rachel Maddow's TV show is consistently engaging and informative, but this real life visit into her life was fantastic.  Its always interesting to get to know your favorite TV host a bit better and to hear what makes Rachel Maddow tick was just that.
Donna H, Reviewer
As a huge fan of Rachel for years even I took away many great new insights into her illustrious career and personal life.
I've read Rachel's recent work The Blowout and it was fab but her personal life and road to success wasn't paved with flakes of gold.
In fact when she speaks politics I was often glued to the tv because she offered insight like no one else and often it was something unique and never heard before facts that coupled with her live on air persona just worked magic to her viewers.
I honestly never knew about her life in terms of Susan and while I had no idea her sexual orientation it didn't matter to me.
I loved the fact the author notes her sense of activism and her need to be 'perfect' in terms of knowing it all before going on air. In fact so much so that others have told her to cool it.
That's the ideal definition of who she is as a person because it shows across the screen.
She's someone who takes delight in her work and wants to help others and for this empath I admire those traits especially the 'under dog' stories.
The whole notion that she's not given as much credit as she deserves for taking the top spot is something that's not as well known.
It's a rough biz these days in relations to telling the truth and not fake news and gathering facts doing the 'journalistic' work that's required and not simply rushing it out to be first in the instant gratification of news these days and I admire that immensely.
While she doesn't view herself as a journalist she is admired and loved by many and that's something that will not change.
A great new read that I highly recommend.
Jean J, Media
I watch, or listen to, The Rachel Maddow Show religiously, five nights a week, and believed she is, in real life, the cool, together persona she appears to be onscreen.  Who knew it's been so hard for her to A) find herself, and B) find the path where she can both use her intellect to gather information and distribute the stories and facts in order to do good. When Rachel was growing up--as with most of us--the term influencer was not a thing. It is now, and Rachel is one. But the Rachel we see onscreen every night is not the real woman. You'll be amazed at how much you learn from this book. A fast, mezmerizing read.
Educator 397197
I always respected Rachel Maddow as a host, commentator, and storyteller, but after reading this book- especially Maddow's overall approach to life and the demands she places upon herself with her show- I have even more respect for her as a person. The author showcased the many facets of Rachel Maddow, not only the commentator and activist, but also the funny and quirky side.
This was a very informative and interesting biography.
Paula L, Reviewer
I was interested in reading the Rachel Maddow book by Lisa Rogak because Rachel grew up about 20 minutes from where I grew up (I am 7 years older than Rachel.) It was interesting to hear about her early years and her time on Air America. I used to listen to that radio station and had no idea she was one of the radio hosts.
There were several quotes from Rachel, which showed her senses of humor. In watching her on her show, I've always felt she had a great sense of humor, and the book does prove that.  She appears to be super down to earth and approachable. She is a hard worker, has a passion for social issues, and doesn't take no for an answer. As Rachel states in the book, she has found what she loves to do and is good at doing it.
Overall, a pretty good book to get to know how Rachel got to be where she is today.
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Cynthia B, Reviewer
In the interests of transparency, I think Rachel Maddow is brilliant, and I watch her most evenings, confident that I will learn something.  Lisa Rogak tracks Maddow's life from birth to her current status as the most watched cable anchor.  I think much of Maddow's personal trials and tribulations intentionally remain in the shadows.  It must be challenging to write a biography about a current journalist who is in her prime, with years ahead to further her profession and live her life, without much time or interest in defining who and why she is for the general public.
After reading this book, I did not know much more about "Rachel, the Person" than I did before.   I did learn a lot more about the making of a television news show, the anchor's commendable ethics in choosing stories and telling them, her respect for others and her ability to interview without directing anger or ridicule towards her guest.  She is one of the few television journalists left who place greater importance on informing the public, rather than merely influencing it.
This is an important book to read if you consume any amount of cable news.  It will help you understand the how and why of what you watch.  Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read an electronic ARC in exchange for an honest review.  It was my pleasure!
Edwin H, Reviewer
In this biography, RACHEL MADDOW, by Lisa Rogak, it quickly become clear that Rachel Maddow is a driven and unique person.   From a young woman, she becomes borderline obsessively involved in what she is passionate about, be it AIDS patient care, politics and political policy, or creating the highest quality nightly show every day.  Rogak chronicles Rachel Maddow's life prior to her show, how she started in the radio part time, then to Air America radio, then to what is part of the zeitgeist of American political television, "The Rachel Maddow Show".  Rogak, using previous interviews, pieces together Maddow's personal life: how she escapes the city every week to unwind with her partner and how Rachel has learned how to deal with her depression.  Rogak paints a pictures of a woman who never stops; she always seems to be working on something, finishing something else, and thinking of the next topic or issue to tackle next and only with her designed breaks and escapes, does Rachel not work every moment of every day.
Rogak writes in detail about Maddow's look presentation on her show and how Rachel is very particular about how she looks and wants to look as professional and yet minimalist as possible so that she garners respect without \ actually making any statements or distractions visually that would lessen the impact of the information delivery on her show. Throughout the book, Rogak also created the persona of Rachel that she is the polar opposite of the typical TV personality, she is committed to delivering her message each night and circumstances lead her to television because she could connect to more people that most other mediums.  Having a unique interview for the book would have provided a connection between the writer and Maddow and lacking that, at times, left the book feeling like a aggregation of interviews and articles instead of a true biography.
RACHEL MADDOW, by Lisa Rogak, does a good job walking the reader through the life of Rachel Maddow and creates a definitive idea of what makes Rachel the one-of-a-kind person that is compelled to inform and educate our society as well as she can and as often as she can.
Michelle P, Reviewer
First book of 2020!!
This was a fairly short read (just about 200 pages), on a person I greatly admire. I watched her show for years, but now listen to it while commuting to and from work each day. I didn't really know much about her as a person so I jumped at the chance to read this to get to know her better. I was surprised many times at how much she isn't that typical liberal. In listening to her show, I feel that she is very fair in getting at the truth (no matter at whose expense it is (liberal/conservative)) and criticizing corrupt behavior and those people who work against the common interests of everyone in our country. However, she is much more down the middle than I realized and that only makes me respect her more. Her whole goal in life is to provide information to her fellow citizens about things that aren't getting the headlines so as to inform. Her preparation for everything she does is borderline obsessive and unhealthy, but that is the only way she can do it. It must come at a great personal toll on her health mentally and physically (and I now will try to stifle my feelings of annoyance when she takes the day off), but she has taught me something almost every time I listen to her and for that I am thankful.
I think the biggest takeaway I'd like to mention is that if you write her off as the lead talking head of an ultra liberal network then you are sorely mistaken. If anything, this book further illustrates to me that we all are too quick to judge each other and put people in boxes based on certain characteristics. Rachel had great relationships with people you would be surprised at (i.e. Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan) despite her steadfast disagreement with their policy positions. I even scratch my head at some of her reasonings, but that is the point, isn't it?
My one slight criticism is that I wish there would have been a chapter that was more current. It sounds like this kind of ended in mid 2018, but a lot has changed (particularly with people Rachel had close relationships with of conservative views) and I'm very curious how those relationships have evolved with those changes. Are those people unrecognizable to her? Or does she still find a way to bridge the political divide?
Thank you to Netgalley, Thomas Dunne Books and Lisa Rogak for the opportunity to read this book and provide an honest review.
Judith P, Reviewer
This book sheds light on Rachel Maddow. She's brilliant, matter of fact and is enjoys confrontation. I have always enjoyed watching her show because she is so good at what she does. She opens our minds to yet another viewpoint. Learn about her and how she became who she is today. Learn about her personal life and how truly perfect it is for her. What a lucky person she is.
This is one of my favorite books. It was such fun to read and so well written. I enjoyed every word. It made me smile, laugh, think and wonder. Learning more about Rachel was a gift. She's an incredible woman.
Lisa, thank you so much for writing this book. Rachel, you are a unique soul. A kind soul.
April A. T, Reviewer
Rachel Maddow has been my favorite on-air news reporter/personality for many years. This well-written and well-researched book further solidified my interest in Maddow's work. She not only tells it like it is but she has the less than ideal background to have true empathy for others. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to know more about Maddow's life and career.
Dennis H, Reviewer
Finished Rachel Maddow: A Biography by Lisa Rogak. Full Disclosure: I was asked to review this book by the publisher. I'm not sure I would have read this book if I wasn't offered the opportunity to review, but I'm glad I did. I knew of Rachel Maddow in passing from CNN and recently read her book
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth, but this biography gave me a much greater understanding of the person. I never questioned her intelligence, she is after all a Rhodes scholar. What I found so disarming is her inherent decency and her ability to connect with so many people regardless of their political persuasion. I was particularly taken by her enduring friendship with Pat Buchanan, a not easy to like right wing pundit.I really liked this quote from Maddow in the book: "I don't believe that people who disagree in American politics are all that different from one another as humans."  I miss the days one could politely disagree in political matters but still respect the other person. Knowing what I know now I would definitely have sought out this book on my own.
Rima A, Reviewer
it is always so amazing to be able to take a peek into the life of someone you admire. This book does that in spades. When you are so used to watching someone, it is sometimes hard to remember the humanity and that they had to start somewhere. This book does a wonderful job of clearly going over everything while still making it seem engaging and real.
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The Other Mrs.
The Night Fire
Hannah's War
The Electrifying Story of Multiple Sclerosis
The Girl from Widow Hills
Best Behavior
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One Little Lie
Mystery & Thrillers, Romance
Brave Girl, Quiet Girl
A Sinner's Prayer
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layout: model
title: BERT Sentence Embeddings trained on Wikipedia and BooksCorpus
author: John Snow Labs
name: sent_bert_wiki_books
date: 2021-08-31
tags: [en, open_source, sentence_embeddings, wikipedia_dataset, books_corpus_dataset]
task: Embeddings
language: en
edition: Spark NLP 3.2.0
spark_version: 3.0
supported: true
annotator: BertSentenceEmbeddings
article_header:
type: cover
use_language_switcher: "Python-Scala-Java"
---

## Description

This model uses a BERT base architecture pretrained from scratch on Wikipedia and BooksCorpus. This is a BERT base architecture but some changes have been made to the original training and export scheme based on more recent learning that improve its accuracy over the original BERT base checkpoint.

This model is intended to be used for a variety of English NLP tasks. The pre-training data contains more formal text and the model may not generalize to more colloquial text such as social media or messages.

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## How to use

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{% include programmingLanguageSelectScalaPythonNLU.html %}
```python
sent_embeddings = BertSentenceEmbeddings.pretrained("sent_bert_wiki_books", "en") \
.setInputCols("sentence") \
.setOutputCol("bert_sentence")

nlp_pipeline = Pipeline(stages=[document_assembler, sentence_detector, sent_embeddings ])
```
```scala
val sent_embeddings = BertSentenceEmbeddings.pretrained("sent_bert_wiki_books", "en")
.setInputCols("sentence")
.setOutputCol("bert_sentence")

val pipeline = new Pipeline().setStages(Array(document_assembler, sentence_detector, sent_embeddings ))
```

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```python
import nlu

text = ["I love NLP"]
sent_embeddings_df = nlu.load('en.embed_sentence.bert.wiki_books').predict(text, output_level='sentence')
sent_embeddings_df
```
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## Model Information

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|Model Name:|sent_bert_wiki_books|
|Compatibility:|Spark NLP 3.2.0+|
|License:|Open Source|
|Edition:|Official|
|Input Labels:|[sentence]|
|Output Labels:|[bert_sentence]|
|Language:|en|
|Case sensitive:|false|

## Data Source

[1]: [Wikipedia dataset](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/)

[2]: [BooksCorpus dataset](http://yknzhu.wixsite.com/mbweb)

This Model has been imported from: https://tfhub.dev/google/experts/bert/wiki_books/2


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Slimeheads, also known as roughies and redfish, are mostly small, exceptionally long-lived, deep-sea beryciform fish constituting the family Trachichthyidae (derived from the Greek trachys – "rough" and ichthys – "fish"). Found in temperate to tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, the family comprises about 50 species in eight genera. Slimeheads are named for the network of muciferous canals riddling their heads.

The larger species – namely the orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) and Darwin's slimehead (Gephyroberyx darwinii) – are the target of extensive commercial fisheries off Australia and New Zealand. Many populations have already crashed, while others are showing signs of severe overfishing; due to slimeheads' slow rate of reproduction, the future viability of these fisheries has been put into question. Orange roughies are food fish and are marketed fresh and frozen, whereas Darwin's slimeheads are used for their oil and made into fishmeal.

Description
With a typically deep-bodied, laterally compressed form, slimeheads are conspicuous for their large, titular heads, large eyes, and (in some species) bright colours. The head is especially notable for its network of mucus-filled canals, which constitute the cranial portion of the lateral line system. Similar cranial networks are found in the beryciform fangtooths (Anoplogastridae) and the stephanoberyciform ridgeheads (Melamphaidae). The trachichthyid head is typically blunt with a large and oblique mouth; the snout may project slightly in front of the upper jaw. A short, sharp spine is present on the preoperculum and/or operculum and post-temporal bone, the latter spine directed posteriorly. Species of the genera Optivus, Paratrachichthys, and Sorosichthys differ in form from other members of the family; their bodies are more elongated.

All fins are spinous (excluding the low-slung pectoral fins) and rounded: the single dorsal fin has three to eight spines and 10–19 soft rays; the pelvic fins are thoracic with one spine and six or seven soft rays; the anal fin has two or three spines and eight to 12 soft rays; and even the forked caudal fin possesses four to seven procurrent spines on each lobe. The scales of slimeheads are ctenoid, but vary interspecifically; they range from deciduous to adherent. In most species, the ventral scales between the pelvic fin and anus have been modified into a median ridge of large, bony scutes. The lateral line is uninterrupted and fairly obvious; its pores are largely obscured by the scales' well-developed spinules or ctenii.

Slimeheads range from a bright brick red with identically shaded fins, to dusky grey or silver, to black with dusky grey to transparent fins. The reds quickly fade to orange following death. Some species (e.g., Aulotrachichthys latus) are reported to be bioluminescent, probably by symbiotic bacteria as is found in other beryciform fish. The largest species is the orange roughy at a maximum standard length (SL; a measurement excluding the caudal fin) of 75 cm and a weight of 7 kg; however, most slimeheads are well under 30 cm SL.

Life history
Most slimeheads are sluggish and demersal, spending most of their time near the bottom of continental slopes. Cold, moderate benthopelagic depths (about 100 – 1,500 m) with usually hard, rocky substrates are frequented. The most elongate species are typically the most active and frequent the shallowest depths; for example, the slender roughy (Optivus elongatus) is found in photic coastal waters and is associated with rocky reefs. This species is nocturnal and hides in crevices during the day. Trachichthys australis is of the same habitus, but is rather deep-bodied and resembles a soldierfish. Both young and adult slimeheads feed primarily upon zooplankton such as mysid shrimp, amphipods, euphausiids, prawns, and other crustaceans, as well as larval fish. Slimeheads store energy as extracellular wax esters, which aid the fish in maintaining neutral buoyancy.

Slimehead behaviour is not well studied, but some species sporadically form dense aggregations. In the case of the orange roughy, these aggregations (possibly segregated according to sex) may reach a population density of 2.5/m2;. The aggregations form in and around geologic structures, such as undersea canyons and seamounts, likely where water movement and mixing is high, ensuring dense concentrations of prey items. The aggregations do not necessarily form for the purpose of spawning; it is thought that the fish cycle through metabolic phases (feeding and resting) and seek areas with ideal hydrologic conditions to congregate during their inactive and active phases. Observations of orange roughy aggregations during submersible dives have also shown the fish lose almost all pigmentation while inactive, during which time they are very approachable. The orange roughy's metabolic phases are thought to be related to seasonal variations in the fish's prey concentrations, with the inactive phase being a means to conserve energy during lean periods.

Slimeheads are  pelagic spawners; that is, spawning aggregations are formed and the fish release eggs and sperm en masse directly into the water. Evidence of oceanodromy (seasonal migration) is seen in some species. The fertilized eggs (and later the larvae) are planktonic, floating with the currents until the larvae develop the strength to determine their own way. Only the economically important species have had their reproduction studied in any detail; the larvae and juveniles of Darwin's slimehead are pelagic and frequent rather shallow waters near the coast, whereas in orange roughy, the early life stages are apparently confined to deeper water (around 200 m). Slimeheads are very slow-growing and long-lived fish; the orange roughy ranks among the longest-lived animals known, with a maximum reported age of 149 years (however, this age is disputed). Predators of slimeheads are not well known, but include large deep-roving sharks, cutthroat eels, merluccid hakes, and snake mackerels.

References

 "Habitat, behaviour and colour patterns of orange roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus (Pisces: Trachichthyidae) in the Bay of Biscay" Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK (2002), 82:321–331. Pascal Lorance, Franz Uiblein, and Daniel Latrouite. Retrieved March 2, 2005.
 Fishes: An introduction to ichthyology. Peter  B. Moyle and Joseph J. Cech, Jr; p. 365. Printed in 2004. Prentice-Hall, Inc; Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Trachichthyidae
Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker

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