In previous posts, we looked at how praying is "scary" and "easy." Prayer is easy because any child can do it, and praying can be scary because it forces us to be vulnerable before God and others. When you put the simplicity of prayer together with the fear it often induces, you end up experiencing the great challenge of prayer: it is something that should be easy, but isn't. Since it is so easy, it shouldn't be scary, but it is. These tensions and conflicts lie within prayer itself. We are sinful creatures, weak creatures, crying out to a Holy God, an all-powerful God. We need to draw near to God, it is our joy to draw near. And yet, we all, like Adam and Eve, hide from him, and we all, like the prodigal son, run from him as well. Sometimes, trying to draw near to God in prayer feels like trying to push together the ends of two magnets with the same polarity.
I have a friend whose will-power is legendary. He seems to be able to make himself do literally anything. As a result, he is able to work long hours and manage many complex areas of responsibility outside of work as well. (I often envy this ability!) But there are two things that he cannot consistently make himself do by his own will: pray daily and get his family to church on time. He actually does both of these things rather well, in my opinion, but for him, these are the two most difficult tasks in his life.
Why is this? Have you ever felt this way: that praying, though so simple, seems like the most difficult thing in the world to do? I know I have. Why is it a battle to pray?
We can't see God. The most obvious reason that prayer is difficult is because we are having a conversation with Someone whom we can't see, and who does not talk back to us very often (at least not in an audible voice). This makes prayer a kind of talking unlike any other. And just as it takes doctors years to adapt to talking in medical terms, and just as it takes children years to understand how to talk on the phone, so talking in this manner (to One unseen) takes time and practice. If we never talk to God, we'll never learn how.
Relational focus is more difficult than other kinds. Regardless of who we are talking to, the relational focus required for conversation takes energy. This is doubly true of a conversation with God, one that is outside the normal way we talk with people. But, just like other areas of life, this capacity in us can be strengthened with use, by God's grace. Martin Luther, for example, would pray for hours a day, even with his busy schedule (he managed 11 monasteries, pastored a church, wrote copious amounts of material, and taught university classes). Monks and many other modern day mystics (some of whom are just normal people like you and me) can spend hours in prayer as well.
Unseen spiritual forces work against us. I can't prove it, but it seems like something unseens is working against me when I pray. I can wake up at 5am to go to an appointment, I can wake up at 5am to read… even to read the Bible. But when it comes to waking up to pray: the snooze button seems glued to my fingers, and the bed more comfortable than ever. Often, even when I get to my place of prayer, I find it a battle to focus. While I have a few "tricks up my sleeve" to help me focus (ask me if you'd like to know), I believe there are unseen spiritual forces at work trying to keep me from prayer. Many many other Christians I know have felt this same thing.
We sin. Because we have a sinful nature in us, we sin. These sins are often "things left undone," including prayer. It is a sin to live a life of prayerlessness.
Given these things: how can we win the battle? How can we become people "of prayer"? Here's a few short principles that help me.
Be confident in God's powerful help. One of my life-verses goes like this: "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose." (Philippians 2:12–13) The ONLY hope we have to obey Him is His POWER working in us. ""I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5–6) (See also Galatians 5:16ff; Col 1:28-29; Ps 32:8-9; 2 Pe 1:3). And Jesus is the ONLY hope we have an against any unseens spiritual forces that work against us in times of prayer. "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." (1 John 4:4) See also Ephesians 6:10ff for a great study on this!
Giving to the poor and those in need is probably the most overlooked historic Lenten discipline. This, despite the fact that the appointed Scriptures for Ash Wednesday clearly tell us otherwise: "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?" (Isaiah 58:6–7) Here we see, yet again, that much of what God calls us to in Lent is really just the normal Christian life. These are things we should be about year round: prayer, the Word, fasting and caring for the poor and oppressed. (Let me recommend you read the book of Amos in the Old Testament to drive this point home, or perhaps Luke 6:20-49).
I have been praying for some time that the Lord would give me opportunity to help those in need, and I think God gave me one avenue to help this Lent.... and I want to share it with you.
You may know that for the past several years our family has been in partnership with a Pastor in Pakistan, Asif Raza. Over this time we have supported his ministry in a mostly Muslim region and have seen a tremendous amount of fruit.
• A vocational training center for widows. Each woman enrolled can learn to become a seamstress and receive a quality sewing machine upon graduation. The Gospel is preached daily during the opening of class and many widows have professed faith and been baptized.
• A Christian school. Children attending the True Vine English Medium School receive a quality education, including foundational Biblical studies. Pastor Raza has also opened the doors to over 50 orphans from the area. These children can receive education and frequently receive lunch – sometimes their only meal of the day – through the school. Widows in the vocational school training center make uniforms for the school children as part of their project work.
• A small dairy farm. This is one of many ways Pastor Raza has been diligent over the past few years in seeking ways to raise his own support. Soon he will also have chickens on the farm. He is never idle!
Until now, our family and a few others have supported this ministry with our own tithes and offerings. As God has blessed this ministry, it is continuing to grow and experience new needs that are beyond our financial capacity.
This is why I'm writing today. Pastor Raza asked if we would stand with him in prayer, believing for the finances to purchase some machinery and materials that will enable widows from the training center to begin selling their own items. I wanted to go a step beyond praying for this request and cast the nets out to you, our believing friends and family. Would you consider partnering with us in this, both prayerfully and financially?
US Dollars go a long way in Pakistan. For about $600, we can supply most of the machines and materials these widows need to begin generating their own support through a small local business. What the $600 doesn't cover has been donated by several of the widows in the training center, who have agreed to forego the award of a sewing machine – which is normally given to every woman who completes the training curriculum! Their willingness to sacrifice when they have so little to begin with has touched our family deeply. As such, Amy and I have agreed to match donations to this project up to the $600 goal.
Our family has created a 501(c)3 educational charity to support this cause, so donations are tax-deductible. 100% of donations go directly to support Pastor Raza and his ministry.
Following are some pictures of the widows at the Sewing Center, the children at the True Vine School, and of Pastor Raza and Daud (an associate pastor who is in Bible School) working together.
Looking forward to working with you for Kingdom growth!
But the definition of prayer I gave above has some merit to it. Though prayer is a serious endeavor whose gravity we can never quite appreciate, it is also meant to be a normal, every day activity… and even an every moment activity. The Scriptures tell us to "pray chronically." (1 Thessalonians 5:17) And many Christians throughout history have talked about "praying as you go" and "practicing the presence of God," ways of praying throughout the whole day, moment by moment.
So, if prayer is meant to be done throughout the day and if we are meant to pray often, then we must not expect every prayer to be an experience of the glory of God on par with the Transfiguration. Prayer, in this sense, can be very ordinary and easy. The ineffable God is also the gracious God who loves his creatures and hears their prayers. Yes, prayer is a profound mystery, but because God is gracious, even a child can pray. And if it is that easy, then even I can do it… and so can you.
How then shall we pray? In light of the ordinariness of prayer, I want to offer in this article just a few suggestions for very easy and practical ways to pray. This isn't an exhaustive list, but these are some of the easiest ways I've discovered. And I think you'll find that even though these simple ways to pray are straight-forward, it will take some tenacity to live them out daily. Any of these can be done alone, or with your spouse, roommates, or family. I recommend picking one, then doing it for two weeks before moving onto another.
Pray the Lord's Prayer - Don't you ever wish you could ask God Himself how we're supposed to pray? Well, that's exactly what Jesus's disciples did! The disciples asked Jesus in Luke 11:1 - "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." Jesus answered their question by giving us the prayer known as "The Lord's Prayer." You can pray the Lord's Prayer in two ways: 1) You can pray it word for word. This is the most common way Christians pray the Lord's Prayer. If you do this, you can add your own personal requests before or after you pray the Lord's Prayer. 2) You can also use the Lord's Prayer as a template for prayer. So, for the first line, you would say the prayer: "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name…" and then you would add your own personal prayers to this line, prayers consistent with the theme of that line, prayers of worship (e.g., "God, I praise You because You made this world beautiful and because You are the source of all beauty!") When you get to the line that says "Give us this day our daily bread," you can then pray for every and any need you may have. After you go through each line of the prayer, adding your own prayers between each line, you're done.
Pray the "Jesus Prayer" - The Jesus Prayer is a short prayer that can be said at any time throughout the day to call out for God's help, to confess sins or to remind us of God's caring and holy presence throughout the day. The prayer goes like this: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner." This prayer comes from Luke 18:10-14, the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. You can write this pray on a note card, and pull out the card throughout your day and pray this prayer. Once you've got this short prayer memorized, you can say it throughout the day whenever you need to call on God's help, be reminded of his presence, find yourself battling with sin, etc. Saying the Jesus Prayer is a great way to start your prayer times throughout the day: you can pray the Jesus Prayer, and then add your own personal prayers after it.
Pray the Scripture - This, I think, is something every Christian should learn to do. To pray the Scripture, we read part of it out loud, then we respond to God's Word by praying "back" to God, what his Scripture just said. So, for example, you could read Psalm 13:1 "How long O Lord, will you forget me forever?" And then pray to God: "Lord, there are times I feel like you don't hear. Please stay near. Please help me." Then you would read the next line of the psalm and continue on. You could also pray Ephesians 2:1 "For you were dead in your transgression and sins…" And then pray: "God, thank you, that even though I was dead in sin, you've made me alive. Father, I am amazed that you can make dead things live, that you can make life out of nothing!" Praying the Scripture is another way that God teaches us how to pray, and in addition to that, when we pray the Scripture we are learning God's Word as well!
Pray the Hours - The Book of Psalms describes prayer and praise to God happening at fixed times throughout the day. Morning, noon, evening, sundown, and even at midnight. It appears that throughout OT history and throughout the history of the Church, God's People would set aside set times during their day to stop and pray. This is called "praying the hours." In the Anglican Church, it is common to do this four times a day: morning, noon, evening, and before going to sleep. If you've never prayed the hours, a great place to start is the prayers for individuals and families on pp. 136-140 of the Book of Common Prayer (1979).
Pray A.C.T.S - A.C.T.S. is an acrostic: each letter stands for something. A is for adoration: a prayer that praises God for who He is (e.g., "God, you are holy and powerful and loving.") C is for confession, a prayer where we confess our sins to God. (e.g., "God, please forgive me for ____.") T is for thanksgiving: a prayer where we thank God for what he has done. (e.g., "God, thank you for saving me, for giving me life, for my job, etc.") S is for supplication, which is a fancy word for 'asking.' In these prayers, we ask God for whatever we need. Praying through the ACTS acrostic is a helpful way to keep our prayer life from being one-dimensional, merely a list of things we want.
The Book of Common Prayer (1979) - Particularly the prayers for family devotions (pp. 136-140), and the daily office prayers (pp. 75-135). You can access online for free.
The Prayer of Jesus by Hank Hanegraaf - Hanegraaf is a bit snarky, but this book on the Lord's Prayer offers some great correctives to our culture's obsession with prayer as a means to get what I want.
Prayer by Richard Foster - While I can't endorse this book whole-heartedly (Foster's hyper-individualistic framework makes his view of spiritual disciplines a bit off), he is an expert on many many ways of praying. His book is helpful.
The Valley of Vision - This is collection of Puritan prayers that model the depths that prayers can have.


Instead of going wherever the wind was blowing, "kid friendly" dominates the forefront of my mind, guiding me to crazy awesome parks, tadpole beaches, and the toy aisle of grocery stores. The kid makes everything more fun! We don't just listen to music, we experience it. We don't just drive in the car, we hunt for trucks. And there's no such thing as blending in these days; Dylan is either forcing me into conversations that he's initiated with strangers, or he's drawing attention from all directions by acting a fool. Oh, you have kids too? Instantly we're friends.
And as I continue to develop parenting skills, I inadvertently become a participant in extremely embarrassing public displays of parenting fails. Like when I accidentally triggered my dog's killer instinct by running through a flock of geese, resulting in Dylan's stroller tipping over and nearly throwing him into the lake in front of a dozen concerned strangers. Good times.
I had no idea how uninteresting and boring I was in my childless life! So yes, I may have forfeited the luxury to sleep in on weekends, and my shot nerves will surely fast track gray hairs, but if you ask me what I did last weekend- you'll never hear me say, "Not much." Because even when we do stay home, there's a gravity testing scientist living there, ready to unlock a new level of fun, destruction, and crazy. I think I'll keep him.


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# OR
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WORKDIR /root

# Installs pandas, and google-cloud-storage.
RUN pip install pandas google-cloud-storage

# The data for this sample has been publicly hosted on a GCS bucket.
# You can modify this by changing the arguments passed into the Dockerfile
ARG TRAIN_FILES=gs://cloud-samples-data/ml-engine/chicago_taxi/training/small/taxi_trips_train.csv
ARG EVAL_FILES=gs://cloud-samples-data/ml-engine/chicago_taxi/training/small/taxi_trips_eval.csv

# Download the data from the public Google Cloud Storage bucket for this sample
RUN gsutil cp $TRAIN_FILES ./taxi_trips_train.csv
RUN gsutil cp $EVAL_FILES ./taxi_trips_eval.csv

# Copies the trainer code to the docker image.
COPY trainer/experiment.py ./trainer/experiment.py
COPY trainer/inputs.py ./trainer/inputs.py
COPY trainer/metadata.py ./trainer/metadata.py
COPY trainer/model.py ./trainer/model.py
COPY trainer/task.py ./trainer/task.py

# Set up the entry point to invoke the trainer.
ENTRYPOINT ["python", "-u", "trainer/task.py"]

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Basemark Releases VRScore, a VR & VR Headset Benchmark Suite for Windows
by Ryan Smith on January 30, 2017 9:00 AM EST
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Back in 2015 as the development of the first generation of modern VR headsets was coming to a close, benchmark developer Basemark announced that they would be applying their talents to the field of VR. The benchmark, now named VRScore, was to be developed in conjunction with Crytek and would serve as a multi-faceted VR test suite for VR headsets and computers, covering everything from rendering performance to display latency. At the time Basemark was expecting to launch the benchmark in mid-to-late 2016, and while development has taken a bit longer than expected, they are finally releasing version 1.0 of the benchmark this morning.
The final product – or rather the first iteration thereof – is designed to be a high-end AAA-quality benchmark, an unsurprising choice given the use of CryEngine V and the need for benchmarks to be forward-looking. CryEngine V of course introduces support for VR to CryEngine, but it also adds support for DirectX 12 as well. For VRScore, Basemark has played things a little more conservatively, designing the benchmark and its "Sky Harbor" scene around DX12, but including a DX11 mode as well for pre-Windows 10 OSes and headsets that don't yet work with DX12 mode (which happens to be everything except the Oculus Rift at this time). VRScore has no specific minimum recommended GPU – and Basemark isn't looking to test against Oculus/Valve's GTX 1060/RX 480 class GPU performance recommendation – but to sustain 90fps you'll generally need a GTX 1080 or faster.
Also notable here is that Basemark is looking to support as many PC VR headsets as possible. So this includes not only the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive SDKs, but also the OpenVR and OSVR SDKs. This is an important distinction not only because of the wider compatibility afforded by supporting more SDKs, but because it underscores just how important the SDK is in VR performance. The VR headset SDKs dictate the resolution used – following the best practices for each headset – along of course with controlling how synchronization and features like timewarp/spacewarp work. Consequently at this stage of development, benchmarking an active VR headset is as much an SDK benchmark as it is a GPU or CPU benchmark.
Overall, VRScore is broken down into 3 different types of tests. A 4K "baseline" test run without the headset that is meant to be a more typical system benchmark, a second headset-off test run at headset resolutions and configurations, and finally a headset-on test which runs as a proper VR workload. In the case of the latter two tests, this is particularly interesting as it allows Basemark to actually show the performance cost for VR – how much performance is lost from VR SDK features such as lens distortion, 3D audio, and various synchronization steps. As it turns out, the performance hit is not insignificant.
CPU: Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4.2GHz
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200i
Hard Disk: Samsung SSD 840 EVO (750GB)
Memory: G.Skill RipjawZ DDR3-1866 4 x 8GB (9-10-9-26)
Case: NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition
Monitor: Asus PQ321
Video Cards: AMD Radeon RX 480
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition
Video Drivers: NVIDIA Release 378.49
Gallery: VRScore Results: RX 480, GTX 1060, GTX 1080
Starting things off with AMD's Radeon RX 480 and Oculus Rift attached, the average framerate with the full test drops 14% when the Rift is enabled. Unsurprisingly, even without the headset the RX 480 was already averaging less than 90fps, but the additional load brings the average framerate down to the mid-60s. Though all-told, the RX 480 doesn't fare too poorly here; the downscaled resolution subtest, which tests a scene at 80% of the VR SDK's recommended resolution (~ 2131x1268 for a Rift, almost precisely its native resolution) has the card averaging 89fps with an HMD. This goes to show just how expensive supersampling is, as although these relatively low DPI pentile screens greatly benefit from it, the performance cost is significant
Meanwhile in the NVIDIA camp, the story with the GTX 1060 is pretty much the same, to the point that the RX 480 and GTX 1060 are within a couple of FPS of each other. The GTX 1060 ends up paying a 17% performance penalty here with the Rift enabled, and similarly quickly perks up once Basemark pulls back on the resolution some. As for the GTX 1080, its high performance means the card has little trouble averaging 89fps with the benchmark's default test, hitting the 90Hz refresh rate cap much of the time. Put another way, with a 131fps frame rate with the headset turned off, the GTX 1080 has more than enough performance to pay the price of VR overhead.
Moving on, as I mentioned before the other major test in VRScore is the VRTrek Suite, Basemark's VR headset evaluation tool. Whereas VRScore measures the headset itself, specifically the application-to-photon latency, dropped frames, and duplicated frames.
To measure this, the VRTrek Suite uses the VRTrek tool, a curious device composed of a pair of phototransistors and plugs into a microphone jack. Intended to simulate the human eye, the VRTrek device is what gives the software feedback on the VR headset's performance. Phototransistors of course aren't cameras, so they can't see/report a full image, but they are sensitive enough to see the cues Basemark puts in the rendered image for headset testing.
Measuring input latency and dropped frames goes as far back as the original proposal for VRScore, but it's interesting that Basemark has opted to follow-through with it. Competitor Futuremark developed a similar test during development of their VRMark benchmark, but they ultimately scaled it back to just industry use, saying that "measuring the latency of popular headsets does not provide meaningful insight into the actual VR experience" and instead focusing on subjective/experiential testing, especially as modern VR SDKs employ a number of tricks to reduce the perceived latency. As a result, the VRTrek is a fairly unique device since Basemark intends to make it accessible (though I suspect not cheap) outside of the usual industry circles.
I haven't had the chance to use the VRTrek on headsets from multiple vendors yet, but in testing it against the Oculus Rift, it does what it sets out to do. At the moment I'm not sure how valuable that's going to be, but as Microsoft is trying to encourage cheap(er) VR with their $300 headset initiative, this will likely prove useful in quantifying just how low the latency is of these forthcoming headsets.
Wrapping things up, while today's announcement marks the formal launch of VRScore, in practice Basemark is dividing up the launch into two parts. Launching immediately are the full-featured corporate and media versions. Launching a bit farther down the line will be the consumer versions, both free and professional. As with some of Basemark's other benchmarks, they are offering a free version of the benchmark with a single test/report (the system score) and the VR experience mode, meanwhile reporting of the scores for the sub-feature tests and custom configurations will require a paid version.
ToTTenTranz - Monday, January 30, 2017 - link
Does it support Dual-GPU?
Ryan Smith - Monday, January 30, 2017 - link
Tigran - Monday, January 30, 2017 - link
Why the total resolution is 2664x1586, shouldn't it be 2160x1200?
It's due to supersampling. The Oculus SDK requests a higher-than-native resolution to cut down on aliasing artifacts.
Alexvrb - Monday, January 30, 2017 - link
Impressive, the RX 480 matches the 1060. Hope more VR headsets are DX12/Vulkan capable soon.

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Q: how to unzip .7z file on google colaboratory? I am trying to solve grocery dataset from kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/c/favorita-grocery-sales-forecasting/data I am unable to unzip the train.csv.7z file on google colab.
I have tried
!p7zip -d train.csv.7z
but its giving error
/usr/bin/p7zip: cannot read train.csv.7z

A: In order to access data, you must first upload the csv.7z file on a drive and give Colab permission to access it. This can be done by,
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/gdrive')

After that, you can access the data in drive.
Example :
If the train.csv.7z is inside a folder called 'train' in Drive, you can access it by running the following
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/gdrive')

After giving access, run the command,
!p7zip -d './gdrive/My Drive/train/train.csv.7z'

Let me know if this works.

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const Webpack = require('webpack');

module.exports = function(config, env) {
  if (env === 'production') {
    config.entry = {
      index: './src/index.js',
      common: ['react', 'react-dom']
    };

    // config.plugins.push(new Webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/));
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from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Dict, List
from pandas import DataFrame, concat
from lib.concurrent import thread_map
from lib.data_source import DataSource

def _normalize_column_name(column: str) -> str:
    column = column.lower()
    column = column.replace("symptom:", "")
    column = column.replace("–", "_")
    column = column.replace(" ", "_")
    column = column.replace("-", "_")
    column = column.replace("–", "_")
    column = column.replace("'", "")
    return column

def _rename_columns(data: DataFrame) -> DataFrame:
    column_adapter = {
        "date": "date",
        "country_region_code": "country_code",
        "sub_region_1": "subregion1_name",
        "sub_region_2": "subregion2_name",
        "sub_region_1_code": "subregion1_code",
        "sub_region_2_code": "subregion2_code",
    }
    data = data.rename(columns=column_adapter)
    data.columns = [
        col if col in column_adapter.values() else "search_trends_" + _normalize_column_name(col)
        for col in data.columns
    ]

    return data

def _parse_subregion_code(code: str) -> str:
    return code.split("-")[-1]

def _process_chunk(data: DataFrame) -> DataFrame:
    data = _rename_columns(data)

    # Keep only regions which are not metro areas
    if "metro_area" in data.columns:
        data = data[data["metro_area"].isna()]

    # We can derive the keys directly for all data
    data["key"] = None
    subregion1_isna_mask = data.subregion1_code.isna()
    subregion2_isna_mask = data.subregion2_code.isna()

    # Country level has null subregions 1 and 2
    country_level_mask = subregion1_isna_mask & subregion2_isna_mask
    data.loc[country_level_mask, "key"] = data.loc[country_level_mask, "country_code"]

    state_level_mask = ~subregion1_isna_mask & subregion2_isna_mask
    data.loc[state_level_mask, "key"] = (
        data.loc[state_level_mask, "country_code"]
        + "_"
        + data.loc[state_level_mask, "subregion1_code"].apply(_parse_subregion_code)
    )

    county_level_mask = ~subregion1_isna_mask & ~subregion2_isna_mask
    data.loc[county_level_mask, "key"] = (
        data.loc[county_level_mask, "country_code"]
        + "_"
        + data.loc[county_level_mask, "subregion1_code"].apply(_parse_subregion_code)
        + "_"
        + data.loc[county_level_mask, "subregion2_code"].apply(_parse_subregion_code)
    )

    return data

class GoogleSearchTrendsDataSource(DataSource):
    def fetch(
        self,
        output_folder: Path,
        cache: Dict[str, str],
        fetch_opts: List[Dict[str, Any]],
        skip_existing: bool = False,
    ) -> Dict[str, str]:
        base_opts = dict(fetch_opts[0])
        url_tpl: str = base_opts.pop("url")

        # Get the files to process from the `parse` config options
        country_codes: List[str] = self.config["parse"]["country_codes"]
        subregion_names: List[str] = self.config["parse"].get("subregion_names")

        # Generate the URLs for the files to download from the template
        url_list = {}
        for year in ("2020", "2021", "2022"):
            for country_code in country_codes:
                if not subregion_names:
                    key = country_code
                    url_list[f"{key}_{year}"] = url_tpl.format(
                        level="country", region_code=key, year=year
                    )
                else:
                    for subregion_name in subregion_names:
                        key = f"{country_code}_{subregion_name.replace(' ', '_')}"
                        url_list[f"{key}_{year}"] = url_tpl.format(
                            level="sub_region_1", region_code=key, year=year
                        )

        # Replace the fetch options with our own processed options
        fetch_opts = [{"name": key, "url": url, **base_opts} for key, url in url_list.items()]
        return super().fetch(output_folder, cache, fetch_opts, skip_existing=skip_existing)

    def parse_dataframes(
        self, dataframes: Dict[str, DataFrame], aux: Dict[str, DataFrame], **parse_opts
    ) -> DataFrame:
        google_keys = aux["google_key_map"].set_index("google_location_key")["key"].to_dict()
        data = concat(thread_map(_process_chunk, dataframes.values(), total=len(dataframes)))
        data["key"] = data["key"].apply(lambda x: google_keys.get(x, x))
        return data.dropna(subset=["key"])


Hassan Whiteside says Marc Gasol and the other centers he is facing present unique challenges.
Hassan Whiteside finding it difficult to get anchored in the paint.
It is a dilemma Hassan Whiteside has dealt with since emerging as one of the NBA's elite shot-blockers: How do you protect the paint when you're not able to take up residence there?
The Memphis Grizzlies became the latest team to take the Miami Heat center out of his comfort zone, with center Marc Gasol moving his game to the perimeter in the Memphis Grizzlies' 110-107 victory Saturday night at AmericanAirlines Arena. The counter with Gasol converting a pair of 3-pointers was to switch Whiteside onto power forward JaMychal Green, who converted three 3-pointers, including a decisive one in the fourth quarter.
"I know he's going to be standing outside and shooting jumpers and try to keep me away from the rim," Whiteside said of Gasol. "That's why in the second half we kind of switched it, just so I could be down there protecting the interior and rebounding a little bit more instead of just guarding him 20 feet away from the basket and then he's just shooting the jumper."
It is an approach that figures to continue Monday night when the Boston Celtics visit AmericanAirlines Arena, with center Al Horford a capable outside shooter.
"Those guys, they like to play out there and shoot jumpers," Whiteside said. "There's different kinds of centers.
"I'm fine with it. But if we're losing the rebounding battle or if we're losing the interior, I just go help. Whatever way helps the team, so that where I'm going to go to."
As it is, Whiteside's streak of 45 consecutive games with at least one blocked shot is the longest current streak in the NBA and the longest in the NBA since the Denver Nuggets' Marcus Camby had a 51-game streak from Nov. 10, 2007 to March 5, 2008.
With his game-high 12 rebounds Saturday, Whiteside has led the Heat in rebounds in each of their 16 games, tying the franchise-record streak he established last season from Jan, 25 to March 4. His 16-game team-leading streak is the longest current streak in the NBA.
The emptiness of a season off to a 5-11 start has never been more painful than at closing time for the Miami Heat.
Saturday, the feeling was back again, the 110-107 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies dropping the Heat to 1-7 in games decided by seven or fewer points, compared to a 4-4 in the other eight.
Saturday's game ended the two-game season series between Heat coach Erik Spoelstra and Grizzlies coach David Fizdale, who spent the previous eight seasons as a Spoelstra assistant.
"From a personal standpoint I'm glad this is behind us now," Spoelstra said, with the Heat winning Friday night in Memphis.
Fizdale was among the final members of the Grizzlies' traveling party to depart AmericanAirlines Arena.
"Coach Spoelstra and I have had many sleepless nights together preparing for games," Fizdale said. "It is hard to compete against your brothers like that. I'm glad it's over. It worked out how it was supposed to. There is a lot of love between us."
It's gotten to the point where even Spoelstra seemingly has lost count with his injured players, with Justise Winslow, Goran Dragic, Willie Reed and Wayne Ellington sidelined.
Winslow has missed the past seven games with a sore left wrist.
"Everything is day to day," Spoelstra said. "He hasn't done a practice yet, so I mean that's too early to tell. We'll see. Justise, Goran, Wayne and we'll see. Has it already been seven games?"
Reed, who has missed the past four games with a hyper-extended right knee, said he believes he is one practice session from returning.
Dragic has missed the past two games with a strained left elbow, with Ellington out since the end of the preseason with a bruised right thigh.
Ellington on Sunday was upgraded to questionable for the first time this season, with Dragic and Reed also listed as questionable. In addition, Dion Waiters (groin) was added to the Heat injury report as questionable.
Winslow again was listed as out for Monday's game.
Guard Josh Richardson said it is important for Winslow to come back only when confident again with his shooting hand.
"I'm not rushing him back," he said, "but I let him know we miss him all the time. He's a big part of our team, to what we want to do, and so is Goran."


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Action Comics (1938-2011)
Rocketed to Earth from the doomed planet Krypton, the baby Kal-El was found by a kindly couple and raised as Clark Kent. Developing extraordinary powers thanks to Earth's yellow sun, Clark fights for truth, justice and the American way as Superman, the Man of Steel!
Adventures of Superman (1986-2006)
Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Prepare for the ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN! Sole survivor of a doomed planet, Superman fights for truth and justice as the protector of not only his home of Metropolis but the very world itself!
Join comics' finest talents as they celebrate the Man of Steel himself--Superman! This digital-first anthology features the Last Son of Krypton in timeless tales of truth and justice. Up, up, and away!
Age of Apocalypse (2012-2013)
Spinning directly out of UNCANNY X-FORCE! The Amazing X-Men have lost and the evil Weapon X is more powerful than ever! But who are these heroes, these lowly mortal men and women, who step out from the shadows? Who are the X-Terminated?
In the proud tradition of drunken writers everywhere . . . comes the tale of Jonathan A., a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic-and of course, entirely fictional-novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-life author Jonathan Ames, critically acclaimed author of Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man, and What's Not to Love as well as HBO's Bored to Death and Starz's
All-New X-Factor (2014-2015)
Serval Industries, one of the world's most trusted names in electronics and leader in cutting-edge internet and weapons technology, has just unveiled their newest contribution to society...the All-New X-Factor. Led by mutant mistress of magnetism, Polaris, the team uses its corporate backing for the betterment of society.
All-Star Batman (2016-)
Superstar writer Scott Snyder explodes into an all-new Batman series alongside legendary artist John Romita Jr., reimagining some of the Dark Knight's greatest villains. First up: Two-Face! Batman must take Two-Face to a destination out of Gotham City, but the duplicitous villain has a two of spades up his sleeve.
Harvey Pekar faces many obstacles in his pursuit of a fulfilling and meaningful existence. Important battles, like treacherous front doorsteps, taxes, auto repairs and stubborn sofas are the conundrums pondered as he continues his collaboration with many of comics' greatest artists.
Arkham Asylum: Living Hell
Explore the halls of Arkham Asylum and its bevy of insane inmates through the eyes of its doctors, guards and newest resident, Warren White. Sent to the infamous asylum after a false plea, White learns the meaning of insanity while sharing a home with the Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy and more!
Astonishing X-Men takes the style of the X-Men movies, mixes it with the wit of Buffy and holds it together with the classic flavor that made the X-Men famous. This is the perfect comic for new readers, old readers, returning readers and learning readers. It's just that good.
A nerve-racking thriller from crime writer Christa Faust and blockbuster artist Mike Deodato Jr. (The Resistance, Infinity Wars). April Walters is a hit-and-run victim of life – a middle-aged soccer mom whose inner fire has been snuffed out by her dreary suburban existence. When her teenaged daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances, April embarks on a harrowing mission to find her; a
Born into affluence, Bruce Wayne was fundamentally changed the night his parents were murdered before his eyes. From that day on, Bruce trained his mind and body beyond peak human perfection to become Batman--a symbol of terror, striking at the hearts of criminals and villains across the globe.
A new era for The Dark Knight and Gotham City begins here from writer Scott Snyder (AMERICAN VAMPIRE, BATMAN: GATES OF GOTHAM) and artist Greg Capullo. Batman and the Bat-Family continue their quest to protect the people of Gotham--and now Bruce Wayne himself enters the game!
Batman & Robin Adventures (1995-1997)
The adventures of the Dark Knight and the Boy Wonder as Gotham's dynamic superhero duo! Continues from the end of the BATMAN ADVENTURES comic book series, based on the critically acclaimed "Batman: The Animated Series."
Batman Adventures (2003-2004)
Continuing the adventures of the Dark Knight based on the popular and award-winning cartoon BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES! Join the Caped Crusader as he prowls the streets and rooftops of Gotham City and protects the innocent from his villainous Rogues Gallery!
The Batman Chronicles (1995-2001)
A Batman title offering an expanded view of the Dark Knight's world and its menagerie of strange inhabitants--featuring multiple storylines and rotating creative teams all exploring Gotham City and the Bat-family!
Batman Plus
After the villain Cheshire goes missing, Roy Harper travels to Bludhaven seeking out his old friend Nightwing--in order to get help from the Dark Knight Detective. Arsenal and Batman team up to take on the KGBeast!
Batman: Arkham City: End Game
Batman's greatest foe is dead, but his reign of anarchy continues. Past and present conflicts are explored in this six-chapter weekly series, which follows events from the conclusion of the Arkham City video game and leads into the much-anticipated Harley Quinn DLC (downloadable content).
Batman: Gotham Adventures
Join Batman, Robin, Batgirl, and more as they patrol and defend the streets and rooftops of Gotham City from the dangerous inmates of Arkham! Read this Bat-family title based on the critically acclaimed "Batman: the Animated Series," in the vein of BATMAN ADVENTURES and BATMAN & ROBIN ADVENTURES.
Batman: Harley and Ivy
A snafu by Harley sends Poison Ivy back to Arkham, and Ivy swears off working with Harley forever. But Harley won't take no for an answer, so when Ivy breaks out and heads to South America, Harley's right behind her. Oily politicians, cutthroat mercenaries, and shower scenes abound.
A rotating roster of the world's top comic book creators deliver unique tales starring Batman in this acclaimed anthology series! Spanning the career of the Dark Knight, these stories celebrate all aspects of the World's Greatest Detective.
Batman: Son of the Demon (2006)
Batman must team-up with his arch nemesis Ra's Al Ghul to stop a madman from destroying the world. A romance between the Dark Knight and Ra's daughter, Talia, ignites and will change Batman's life forever!
Batman: White Knight (2017-)
He's been called a maniac, a killer and the "Clown Prince of Crime" but "white knight"? Never. Until now... Set in a world where the Joker is cured of his insanity and homicidal tendencies, The Joker, now known as "Jack," sets about trying to right his wrongs. First he plans to reconcile with Harley Quinn, and then he'll try to save the city from the one person who he thinks is truly Gotham Cit
Black Canary (2015-2016)
Dinah Lance hits the road! After years as a soldier and vigilante, the LAST place Dinah saw herself is on stage...but she's quickly learning she'd die to protect the gang of misfits she's fallen into. And she just might have to-for some reason, the newly rechristened band, "Black Canary," seems to be a magnet for trouble...and Dinah's not gonna believe it when she finds out the reason why! Martial
Black Panther (2005-2008)
The Black Panther's origin is retold in a cinematic scope with social satire and all-out action that's sure to excite true believers and the hip hop faithful.
Bodies (2014-2015)
Four detectives, four time periods, and four dead bodies—all set in London and all the focus of this limited series from Vertigo! Artists Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick, and Tula Lotay join writer Si Spencer for a murder mystery spanning the past, present, and future!
Briggs Land
Briggs Land, nearly a hundred square miles of rural wilderness, contains the largest antigovernment secessionist movement in the United States. When matriarch Grace Briggs wrests control of the operation from her incarcerated husband, she sparks a war within the community...and her immediate family...that threatens to bring the full power of the federal government down on their heads. Perfect for
Briggs Land: Lone Wolves
Grace Briggs is now the leader of the largest antigovernment secessionist group in the United States, having outmaneuvered both Federal law enforcement and an attempted takeover by white power stormtroopers. But troubles at home remain, and when a chance encounter with innocent civilians blows up into an ugly hostage situation, the privacy and integrity of Briggs Land is compromised. Meanwhile, Ji
The reimagining of Joss Whedon's groundbreaking series continues as Drusilla, the self-proclaimed Mistress and her pet, Spike, make their debut with their sights set on Buffy! Meanwhile, Giles is determined to teach Buffy about her destiny, responsibility, blah blah...can someone tell him to chill? How bad can it get?
Catwoman (2002-2008)
A serial killer is racking up bodies in Selina Kyle's old haunts, taking her back to a life she thought she'd left behind permanently. Witness her triumphant return as Catwoman, brought to you by Ed Brubaker (BATMAN) and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke (BATMAN: EGO) & Mike Allred (X-Force).


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New Maps of Hell. A Survey of Science Fiction.
Castle of Wizardry. Book Four of the Belgariad.
Queen of Sorcery. Book Two of the Belgariad.
The Ruby Knight. Book Two of the Elenium.
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Q: Silverlight memory issue We have a Silverlight 5 application that runs in the browser. The application can have many layouts that the user can create. These layouts can contain grids, charts and Map controls.
Once user opens a layout, out application keeps the data for that layout even if the user goes of the layout and open another one. This was intended to make it faster to come back to an already opened layout.
The issue we are facing now that over time, the browser (IE10, IE11) reaches 1GB in size which results in out of memory exception and consequently our application starts to fall over and gets exceptions on service calls.
Now the question is:
What is the best way to manage memory in a silverlight application given that the user can open a number of layouts concurrently which can take a substantial amount of memory.
I hope I have explained my scenario well. please any suggestion would be appreciated.
Regards,
Nasir

A: As suggested, you are going to need to use a memory profiler to determine exactly what is going on.  It is highly unlikely that a few layout pages are eating up 1 gb of memory.  If I were debugging this, I would start by NOT saving the layout pages, and see if the memory usage changes.
But there is no way to know where the memory is going without doing some profiling.


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September 17, 2015: Cypress Cay was once again recognized by the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) with the 2015 Marine Industry's CSI Award. The CSI (Customer Satisfaction Index) Award recognizes marine manufacturers whose pursuit of continuous improvement earns them tremendous customer support.
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While the penalties for a first time DUI in Virginia are severe, for a second time DUI offense within five years of the first, the penalties are much worse. A second DUI in five years can come with more severe consequences, but it will also have minimum penalties. Driving under the influence is treated very seriously in the court of law, and the penalties are as follows.
Upon being convicted of a DUI, a minimum fine of $500 will be issued. While this is the minimum, the fine could be any amount up to $2,500. The fines will also substantially increase if there is a minor in the vehicle or a high blood alcohol content at the time the DUI is issued.
The driver's license will be automatically suspended for 60 days starting at the time that they are arrested for the DUI. This is called an administrative suspension. They will be arrested if their BAC is more than .08 or .02 if the driver is under the age of 21, or if they refuse to take a breathalyzer test. When a person is convicted of a DUI in Richmond, their license will be revoked for three years if they have received their second DUI in five years. They will not be able to apply for a restricted license for at least one year.
The driver convicted of their second DUI in five years will be required to have an ignition interlock in any vehicle that they intend to drive on a restricted license. The driver must keep the ignition interlock installed in their vehicle for at least six months after their license revocation period has ended to be eligible to have their license privileges restored. The driver will receive six points on their license, and their DUI will remain on their license for 11 years. The second time DUI will remain on their criminal record for life. The driver will also be required to enroll in the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program. This program has classes every week and performs random drug and alcohol tests.
Those charged with a second DUI in five years can benefit by hiring a criminal offense attorney. A DUI attorney in Richmond Virginia can help lessen your penalties or even get your charges dropped altogether.


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Cummins, a global manufacturing company based out of Columbus, Indiana, announced Thursday it is adding 10 jobs and expanding its Clovis operations.
Cummins will invest $25 million to add a new remanufacturing disassembly, cleaning and inspection line and new equipment as well as expanding its warehouse by 22,000 square feet. Construction began last month and the warehouse is expected to be fully operational by June. The company has operated in Clovis for more than 40 years.
Cummins will also receive up to $150,000 in Local Economic Development Act funding, as well as $290,000 from the city of Clovis through an Economic Incentive Board grant, said the New Mexico Economic Development Department. Cummins will create 10 new jobs in the first two years and maintain those jobs for the duration of their 10-year lease, said spokeswoman Jessica Mraz. A company spokesperson was unavailable for immediate comment.
LEDA funding is money granted to local governments to aid expanding or relocating businesses. The City of Clovis will act as the fiscal agent for the LEDA award.
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AfricaTop News
Between Kabila and Onnonghen: Africa's judiciary needs help!
By Editorial January 15, 2019 498 views
With courts increasingly calling polls, is a new electoral order being cemented?
By Richard Mammah
The judiciary is the last hope of the common man is a trite expression you will hear now and again in Nigeria. But that institution is increasingly now also becoming the first point of interest for affluent power-mongers. And this is even to the troubling extent that, in some cases, courts are seemingly increasingly becoming more important than voters in the shifting electoral dynamics within the African continent today.
.In Nigeria at the moment, a move to try Supreme Court Chief Justice Walter Onnonghen on alleged assets declaration violations is being very loudly interpreted as an attempt to take him out and pave the way for a more pliant successor that will help the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in the event of widely anticipated post-election contentions that will get to the Supreme Court.
While the government and the ruling party are swearing that the trial is only a regular part of its 'anti-Corruption agenda,' the fact of its taking place within a month of the polls, the circumventing of what critics say is a statutory provision that such matters be first determined by the nation's National Judicial Council, NJC and the relative speed with which it is being handled belie the fact that there may indeed be more politics than law involved in the move.
It is a near-similar mode in which the current political stalemate in the Democratic Republic of Congo is held. In that instance, the stuffing of the nation's 9-member Constitutional Court in April/May last year with pro-Kabila loyalists was first interpreted as a ploy to get critical support at that apex level for the outgoing President's tenure elongation gambit. When the Catholic Church, the AU and the rest of the international community kicked, Kabila announced election dates and began plans to install a crony.
When the elections were finally held in December and the verdict from the streets showed a thorough rejection of his crony, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, Kabila now swung into a seeming last-ditch 'punish my foes' mood. He adopted one of the opposition candidates, Felix Tsikeshedi as a lesser of two evils and the pliant president of the Congolese Electoral Commission, Corneille Nganga formally declared him as winner. Expectedly, the results have been rejected by the more probable winner, Martin Fayulu, who has presently challenged it at the Constitutional Court.
Now ahead of the expected ruling of the court, post-election tension in the country and region is yet to abate. And understandably so. Can any good thing come out of Kabila's courts? This is why regional groups like the Southern African Development Commission, SADC and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Area are asking for a less controversial recourse to the option of a manual recount of the ballots at the moment.
Indeed, the intervention of apex courts in determining the winners of contentious elections in the continent is something that should be very closely examined. In the 1979 polls in Nigeria, the courts were invited to adjudicate between Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Chief Obafemi Awolowo. In Nigeria's current democratic dispensation, former governors like Adams Oshiomhole and Rauf Aregbesola had benefited from court interventions.
Presidential elections in many other nations in the continent have also witnessed spirited contests at the apex courts level. From Zimbabwe's Emmerson Mnangagwa through Zambia's Edgar Lungu to Gabon's Ali Bongo, court verdicts are increasingly being used to call winners of electoral contests.
While in some cases, the public sees these interventions as that of the proverbial 'Daniel coming to judgement,' in many others, these are essentially viewed as Pyrrhic affirmations to save the political careers of misbegotten dictators that had been openly rejected and disgraced by their own people.
In these instances then, the questions being raised go on to include what such interventions portend for the nation, the faith of the people in the democratic project and even the legal profession in itself.
Clearly Africa's judiciary needs all the help it can get at the moment and one safe place to begin would be to take up the elementary challenge of answering the foundational question about why the legal profession came into being in the first place and then insisting on returning to uphold the time-tested values of a progressive bar and bench at all times.
Nigeria's Chief Justice, Walter Onnonghen
Kabila
Onnonghen
Durotoye promises state of emergency on housing
Nigerian banks grapple with doing business in election season


This dumping factory and bakery at the back of the building supplies to hotels, restaurants and functions.
It is a very quiet street. Very close in proximity to the Marrickville: Bourke Street Bakery.
The front door almost give s the impression that the establishment is closed. It says to please press the bell. Don't be discouraged if it takes a little while for someone to come to the front. I went around the back to let someone know I had rung the bell, and a lady came to the front fairly quickly. It is clearly not build for small time shoppers like me who just wanted to sticky beak and buy a few items. Perhaps it is a little more worthwhile buying in bulk. Also I am not convinced that it is that much cheaper than buying dumplings from the Chinese shops structure for the layman person in the suburbs and shopping centers. To be fair, there is a little more choice, and you can buy more yum cha style foods.
We bought the frozen scallop and chive gow gee, vegetarian gow gee, shark fin gow gee and prawn siew mai to try.
I thought their dumplings were very good. Good quality meat and nice to pop in a wok and steam when you're too lazy to cook.
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Frequentemente sinônimo de anti-fundacionalismo, deflacionismo (também chamado de não-essencialismo) na filosofia é a falta de crença em uma essência (do latim esse) de qualquer coisa, ideia ou entidade metafísica (por exemplo, Deus). O deflacionismo também pode ser definido catafaticamente como a crença de que, para qualquer entidade, não há traços específicos ou base de ser que entidades desse tipo devam possuir para serem consideradas "aquela entidade".

O deflacionismo não se restringe à especulação filosófica geral. Também é encontrado em disciplinas acadêmicas como sociologia, antropologia, teologia, história / historiografia e ciências . A forma como o deflacionismo é usado nesses discursos varia um pouco devido aos seus diferentes conteúdos e assuntos.

Crítica
Edward Feser descreve a posição não apenas como insustentável logicamente, mas psicologicamente impossível. Em seu livro A Vingança de Aristóteles, ele argumenta que não se pode dizer que o universo essencialmente não tem uma essência sem violar a Lei da não-contradição.

Ver também

 Adiáfora
 Anatta
 Essencialismo
 Existencialismo
 Nominalismo
 Construcionismo social

Referências

Teorias metafísicas
Essencialismo
Terminologia filosófica

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Q: How to display items in nested array in separate rows in react native? I'm using react-native-contacts and I need to show all the numbers belong to each person in separate rows, no matter if contact name is the same. How should I do this?
For example, if there are 5 numbers saved for contact 'x' , I would like to have five rows under the name of 'x' but with different phone numbers.
this is my render() in App.js :
render() {
   return (
         {this.state.contacts.map(contact => {
            return (
              <ListItem
                key={contact.recordId}
                title={`${contact.givenName} ${
                  contact.familyName}`}
                description={contact.phoneNumbers.map(phone => (
                  <Text style={styles.phones}>
                    {phone.number} -
                  </Text>
                ))}
              />
            );
          })}

and here is ListItem.js:
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import {RectButton} from 'react-native-gesture-handler';
import Swipeable from 'react-native-gesture-handler/Swipeable';

class ListItem extends Component {
  static propTypes = {
    leftElement: PropTypes.element,
    title: PropTypes.string,
    description: PropTypes.string,
    rightElement: PropTypes.element,
    rightText: PropTypes.string,
    onPress: PropTypes.func,
    onDelete: PropTypes.func,
    onLongPress: PropTypes.func,
    disabled: PropTypes.bool,
  };

  renderRightAction = (iconName, color, x, progress) => {
    const trans = progress.interpolate({
      inputRange: [0, 1],
      outputRange: [x, 0],
    });

    const pressHandler = () => {
      const {onDelete} = this.props;
      if (onDelete) onDelete();
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre Set for First Live Home Turf Performance Since Pandemic
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Dallas Black Dance Theater Returns to Live Performances
The Dallas Black Dance Theatre's 'Director's Choice' series opens this weekend for a live Dallas audience.
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DBDT: Director's Choice 2021
Join NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre for the 2021 Director's Choice at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre on November 5 – 6 at 7:30 p.m. The Dallas Black Dance Theatre celebrates its 45th anniversary as a Catalyst for Change in the community. The Director's Choice series helps to shine a light on the future of dance…
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5 Talk Street: Dallas Black Dance Academy
Discussing the official school of Dallas Black Dance Theater and their upcoming Espresso Nutcracker performance on December 11 at the Majestic Theatre with Dallas Black Dance Academy's Director, Katricia Eaglin. Learn more: www.DBDT.com
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DBDT: 16th Annual Dance Africa
Join NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre to experience a celebration of rich African heritage and ancestry, during the 16th Annual DanceAfrica performances and free festival. The Dallas Black Dance Theatre's DanceAfrica performances will take place October 1-2 at 7:30 p.m. at Moody Hall in Dallas, Texas. The Saturday evening performance will be held via live stream. Dallas…
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DBDT: Encore! Dancing Beyond Borders 2021
Embark on a mysterious and majestic performance through history! Join NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance for their 45th Anniversary Season and the DBDT: Encore! Dancing Beyond Borders. The performance will take place at the W.E. Scott Theatre in Fort Worth, on September 25th at 7:30 p.m. Seating is limited to ensure social distancing protocol. To purchase your ticket,…
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre Presents: The Big Dance
NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre invites you to kick off the summer at The BIG Dance of Saturday, June 5, at 8:00 p.m.! Enjoy an evening of non-stop entertainment either in person at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center or virtually!
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre's 2021 Spring Celebration
Join NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre for the 2021 Spring Celebration and commemorate the triumphs of the human spirit over adversity. The Dallas Black Dance Theatre's Spring Celebration will be held virtually on Saturday, May 22 at 7:00 p.m. through Sunday, May 23 at 11:59 p.m. For virtual ticket prices and to reserve your spot, visit www.DBDT.com….
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Dallas Black Dance Theater Presents: Rising Excellence and Spring Celebration
Discussing Dallas Black Dance Theatre's upcoming virtual performances of Rising Excellence April 17-18 and Spring Celebration May 22-23 with Nicole Ray, Artistic Director for DBDT: Encore! For tickets, visit www.DBDT.com.
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Rising Excellence 2021
NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre would like to invite you to the virtual performance of Encore! Rising Excellence, on Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18. The performance, that showcases excellence, will be available on-demand from 7:00 p.m. on April 17 through 11:59 p.m. on April 18.
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Three is Better than One for Avant Chamber Ballet's 'Together We Dance'
Avant Chamber Ballet, Bruce Wood Dance and Dallas Black Dance Theatre will perform together March 26 – 27 at Annette Strauss Square.
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Join NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre on March 13th for Encore! Dancing Beyond Borders, a virtual performance with a majestic and mysterious atmosphere.
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre Cultural Awareness Series 2021
NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre invite you to join the virtual experience of the portrayal of the emotional struggles of social inequality. Embark on a journey through Civil Rights activism from the perspective of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, virtually, Saturday, February 20 at 7:00 p.m. Experience the art and the choreography from the late Talley Beatty,…
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NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre invite you to experience an enchanting virtual performance for all ages. Join us for the Dallas Black Dance Academy's Espresso Nutcracker on Saturday, December 12 at 7:00 p.m. The Espresso Nutcracker is sure to be a real treat, with jazz-influenced excerpts from Duke Ellington and a ballet performance from the Dallas Black…
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre bring something good tonight — a concert to honor those who have lost their lives to racial violence and injustice, NBC 5's Deborah Ferguson reports.
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre bring something good tonight. It's a concert to honor those who have lost their lives to racial violence and injustice.
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The Dallas Black Dance Theatre is looking to the future of performing arts in a pandemic. Over the weekend, it became one of the first professional dance companies to hold a virtual performance with paid admission to the online content. "It's a little overwhelming to thing that we are one of first models providing performances at a cost," DBDT...
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Hi! We're Azita, Anne and Amanda and we are first year medical students at Imperial College. We've decided to step out of our comfort zone and take part in RAG Jailbreak 2018!
We have 36 hours to get as far from Imperial College as possible, using any method of travel but not spending our own money and raising money for our 4 RAG charities of the year along the way!
We are of course super excited for the challenge itself, but we're hoping to gather as much money for this good cause as possible too! Please help us by donating and challenging us at the same time. You can donate a certain amount of money per mile, or a one time donation, e.g. "£20 if you make it 100 miles".
This challenge is run by Imperial RAG (Raising and Giving) society and the money raised will be going towards: The Children's Society, Smile Train, Mind and Cardinal Hume Centre. Any donations are welcome, thank you for helping our cause!


This week's guest is Betty McCluskey, a psychotherapist and licensed professional counselor specializing in Autism Spectrum Disorders. From the autistic tendencies in cats to Aspergers to full disability, the conversation covers the spectrum, as well as the Wicked Witch of the West (on a mostly separate note). Also, chocolate.
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Religious Manipulation: Controlling People Just Got Easier!
IMAGINE that you have a friend whom you admire greatly, but he does something that you cannot understand. Others criticize his action and judge his motives, saying that your friend is cruel. Would you be quick to agree with them, or would you wait to hear your friends side of the story? If he was not there to explain himself, would you be patient, giving him the benefit of the doubt? Before answering, you might want to know more. You might ask, How well do I really know this friend, and what basis do I have for admiring him? Fair enough. But consider: Can we not apply the same principles to this question of whether God is cruel? You may find it hard to understand some of what God has done, or you might be puzzled by what he has allowed to happen. There are plenty of people who will tell you that God is cruel and who will urge you to judge his motives as they have. Will you extend him the benefit of the doubt until you know more? The answer may depend on how well you know God. Ask yourself, What kind of a friend has God been to me? If your life has been difficult, you might be tempted to say that God has not been a friend at all. But think for a moment. Has God been responsible for the hardships in your lifeor for the blessings? As we have seen, Satan is the ruler of this world, not Jehovah. (John 12:31) It is thus Satan who is behind much of the misery and injustice of this world. And would you not agree that our own imperfections and unpredictable circumstances cause many of our problems?
On the other hand, what has God been responsible for? Consider what the Bible says: that God is the Maker of heaven and earth; that his works include our physical bodies, which are wonderfully made; and that Jehovah is the God in whose hand your breath is. (Psalm 124:8; 139:14; Daniel 5:23) What does all of that mean? It means that we owe our every breath, our very existence, to our Creator. (Acts 17:28) It means that the gift of life, the beauty of the world around us, the pleasures of love and friendship, the joys of taste, touch, sound, and smellall of these are gifts from God. (James 1:17) Would you not agree that those blessings make him a Friend who is worthy of our esteem and trust? Granted, you may find it hard to trust God. Perhaps you feel that you do not yet know him well enough to trust him. And that is understandable. In these brief articles, we cannot address all the reasons why some judge God as cruel. But would it not be worth the effort to get to know God better? * We are confident that as you do, you will come to know the truth about God. Is he cruel? Quite the opposite: God is love.1 John 4:8.
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Transferring Legacy Portfolios: msg establishes new company
Munich, December 2nd, 2020. The IT consulting company msg has established a new company for insurance solutions: Legacy Portfolio Partners GmbH (LPP). LPP will develop sustainable and innovative solutions for primary insurers when dealing with legacy insurance portfolios. The company will be managed by Alexander Martin-Boes and Dr. Ralph Altenburger, two experienced experts for new, digital business models in the insurance sector. msg is thus supporting the industry in its efforts to further digitize. An exclusive partnership with the reinsurer Swiss Re provides insurers with an integrated service offering. This consists of the actuarial risk partnership, cost efficiencies and state of the art operations as well as proven migration expertise. On the market, the new company acts as an insurance intermediary and underwriting agent.
LPP solves legacy portfolio challenges of primary insurers
Many insurance companies face the challenge of administering legacy portfolios with outdated IT infrastructures. LPP's new solutions relives primary insurers of the burden of managing legacy portfolios by revitalizing these so that they can be continued on a profitable basis. Unlike conventional run-off solutions, LPP targets on "active portfolios" and avoids the complexity of (legal) portfolio transfers. The customer relationship with the previous insurer is thus maintained.
LPP migrates the legacy data to msg's own msg.Insurance Suite platform. With a systematic approach, customers with old tariffs continue to be efficiently managed by LPP, without increasing costs, or can be transferred to new tariffs. The new company thus assumes all the tasks of an insurance intermediary, but with extended powers, for example in claims settlement. As LPP acts as a service provider for insurers, LPP does not behave like a competitor to the existing sales organization.
Integrated overall solution in cooperation with Swiss Re
Thanks to an exclusive partnership with Swiss Re, the companies can jointly offer an integrated overall solution for primary insurers. While LPP reduces the operational overhead of the primary insurers, Swiss Re is responsible for assuming the actuarial risk including a reduction in costs. Dr. Jürgen Zehetmaier, member of the msg executive board, says: "LPP in cooperation with Swiss Re perfectly complements msg's strategy and service offering. After all, our aim is to create a holistic offer for primary insurers that helps them get on the path to digitization and to position themselves against new competitors in the long term."
"Our customers face fundamental changes and the challenges of digitization, which are increased during this Corona pandemic. Legacy portfolios are a significant obstacle to a sustainable strategic realignment. Swiss Re's aim is to provide its customers with holistic support. LPP's integrated offering fits this perfectly," explains Dr. Peter Liebwein from Swiss Re.
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Officially, petanque is played in a bowling alley. There is however no regulatory surface.
Thus, it is possible to play on clay or gravel.If you do not have a bowling alley near you, all places are good for playing Petanque, from the village square to the parking of the campsite or passing by the beach!
What are the dimensions of the playing area?
Allow room to play. The balls roll and you must be able to move easily on the ground to assess the situation, so take your ease, especially if you are many. Officially, a plot is 4m wide, 15m long and bounded by a wooden border, usually railway ties. If you are not on official ground delimited, think nevertheless to set limits, any ball out of these limits not being counted in the game.
For each player to throw his balls from the same starting point, the team that starts the game draws on the ground a circle with a diameter of 35 to 50cm.
The jack must be thrown between 6 and 10 meters from the circle at least 1 meter from any obstacle.
If you play with your children, be careful to play far enough from the roads, the balls can sometimes go very far.
The petanque is played officially in 1 against 1 (head to head), or in team of 2 (doublet) or 3 players (triplet).
These rules should not prevent you from starting games with more players. In this case, we recommend not to exceed 6 balls per team and / or 2 balls per player, at the risk of not being there on the field.
How to count points ?
The jack started and the first ball placed, it is the turn of the second team to play.
As long as she does not place a ball closer to the jack, she continues to play. If she takes the lead again, it is again the turn of the first team. And so on until all the balls are played.
The winning team scores as many points as they have balls better placed near the jack than the best of the opposing team.


Bravado Gaming have gone on a fairytale run at Dreamhack Winter 2018 so-far, having beaten G2, Optic and now x6tence Galaxy to make the finals.
Their entry-fragger, Fadey was one of the driving forces behind their 2-0 victory over x6tence in the semi finals. Rivalry sat down with him after the series to talk about their preparation for the event, his own game and thoughts about the final.
X6tence is a team who came, like you, through the qualifier. As such, compared to teams like Optic and G2, you mightn't have prepared for their game. Was this series more playing to your own strengths versus countering those of x6tence?
So, first of all, we weren't expecting to play x6tence galaxy at all. Our preparation really came from last night, going over demos and really seeing how they play. We also watched the Complexity game yesterday, how they beat them. They're very... wild. If I can say that. We just sort-of had to play our own game, just keeping in-mind and being aware, ready for pushes.
What was the biggest takeaways from the bootcamp you had here before playing at Dreamhack Winter?
The main thing from the bootcamp was just being able to scrim against the European teams and just get comfortable on all the set-ups. The screens are very similar as the ones you use in the booth, just getting all our settings right, practising our game.
Was their any major changes you made to your game in this bootcamp or was it more the refinement of details?
Mainly, we just got confidence from the scrims. Just being comfortable.
Who were some of the teams you scrimmed?
We scrimmed against AVANGAR, Vega Squadron and Epsilon - they were the main names you'd know. That just gave us so much confidence coming into the tournament.
I've heard some crazy things about Vega Squadron scrims from teams in Australia who have scrimmed them. Is there anything worth commenting about there [laughs]?
[laughs] They scrim very weirdly. It's hard to play against them. They play very aggressively with their AWPer jR.
We're on a bit of a tangent, but the reason why I wanted to grab you was you had an insane series against x6tence as the entry. I believe you finished with 34 kills on Inferno. What was the force behind such a big performance?
I'm actually not sure [laughs]. I was just playing my own game, being comfortable. Just having my confidence, taking my duels against riflers. I wasn't peaking AWPers. Just taking those 1v1's, ready to trade my teammates. That sort-of game.
That's interesting, because when I was watching some of your games in the lead-up to this event, I noticed that you were getting out-duelled by NA teams online. Yet, you come here against good EU teams on LAN and it seems you're more dominant than them! What's the reason for this contrast?
So the main contrast is just how fast those NA teams play and also they just catch us off-guard. A lot. So, coming against these EU teams it's fairly easy because they play a lot slower and that suits our game style a lot more.
Heroic and ENCE are the two teams in the other semi finals, you'll face one of them. Could you break down your thoughts on the match-up between either of them? Who would you prefer to face?
To be honest, I don't mind who we play. We are just going to play our own game, hope to get the veto in our favour and then just get it from there.


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Second Appeal Court Blocks Mandate, Disaster Relief Preparation & Pastor Mistaken for Santa Claus
A second federal appeals court has blocked the Biden administration's attempt to require doctors and hospitals to perform gender-transition procedures, as well as abortions, over their objections. Larry Reedy has experienced worse storm systems than the one currently passing through the country. But like the members of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, located in the town called the "Icebox of the Nation," he knows that is no reason to not be prepared. And, It's not uncommon for Craig Waters to experience a case of mistaken identity. Children routinely walk up to the pastor and tug on his pants, committed to getting an audience with him if only for a minute.
Second appeals court blocks 'transgender mandate'
Storms lead to disaster relief preparation, response
Wyoming pastor's Santa cause is pointing to Christ
A second federal appeals court has blocked the Biden administration's attempt to require doctors and hospitals to perform gender-transition procedures, as well as abortions, over their objections.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Dec. 9 a permanent injunction that barred enforcement of a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule that has become known as the "transgender mandate." A three-judge panel of the appeals court, which is based in St. Louis, unanimously affirmed a North Dakota federal judge's decision that the Catholic entities that challenged the regulation were entitled to protection under a federal law that guarantees free exercise of religion.
In August, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans unanimously endorsed a permanent injunction against the HHS rule issued by a federal judge in Texas. The Biden administration declined to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court by the 90-day deadline in late November.
Religious liberty advocates hailed the Eighth Circuit's opinion.
Larry Reedy has experienced worse storm systems than the one currently passing through the country. But like the members of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, located in the town called the "Icebox of the Nation," he knows that is no reason to not be prepared.
Reedy lives in Ely, Minn., about 100 miles from International Falls. A retired police officer and business owner, he serves at Pleasant Hill as a volunteer interim pastor.
Ben Seamans, Disaster Relief director for the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention, also said that such weather requires preparation as well as patience.
Seamans and Reedy said it was important to also check in on shut-ins, senior adults and single parents prior to bad weather's arrival. Benevolence ministries and deacons need to be ready.
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It's not uncommon for Craig Waters to experience a case of mistaken identity.
Children routinely walk up to the pastor and tug on his pants, committed to getting an audience with him if only for a minute. To be fair, Waters' white hair and beard, considerable girth and jolly nature have a lot to do with it. It's almost like kids can sense that a Santa suit hangs in his closet.
Waters, pastor of Sunrise Baptist Church in Casper, has dressed up as Santa Claus for at least 20 years. He says he enjoys the opportunity to hear children's Christmas wish, but he treasures the opportunity to give to share with them that the most important gift of Christmas is the baby in the manger as God shares his mercy and forgiveness with humanity through Jesus Christ.
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Over the years of its incorporation, Jindal Electricals has been able to carve a niche for itself in the power equipment industry. We have been involved in the manufacture Rectifiers, Voltage Regulators, Automatic Voltage Stabilizer, Servo Voltage Stabilizers, Current Voltage Transformers ,Variable Transformers, Voltage Controller, automotive voltage regulators, Voltage Transformers, Power Transformers India, Welding Machines and Power Control Solutions etc.
We are specialized in the production of voltage transformers like Constant Voltage Transformers. These are basic instruments that have primary winding that is parallelly connected with a circuit that measures and controls the voltage.
Jindal Electricals is the leading manufacturer of Voltage transformers like Electrical Transformers, Industrial Transformers, and Low Voltage Control Transformer etc. Our team comprises of some of the most talented and qualified people who have been well trained to handle all sorts of power equipments. From team work, constant innovation and dedication to excellence, all these features form the basis of our success. We firmly believe in providing our clients consistency in quality by following the work processes that have been internationally recognized.


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Exports may grow by 10% in FY14 as US mkt improving: Com Secy
New Delhi: India's exports are likely to register a growth of at least 10 per cent in the current financial year on account of improving demand situation in major developed markets like the US.
"We are hoping for at least 10 per cent (export) growth…US has already started improving. PMEAC in its report has clearly stated that US has started growing. So, that is good news. We also believe that Europe has also stabilised," said Commerce Secretary S R Rao.
The US and Europe are the major export destinations for Indian exporters and they contribute over 30 per cent in the country's total shipments. Due to the demand slowdown in these markets, India's exports started showing negative growth for eight consecutive months during May-December 2012 period.
India's exports in 2012-13 fiscal fell for the first time in three years reporting a dip of 1.8 per cent to $300.6 billion in 2012-13, taking the country's trade deficit to a record high level of $191 billion.
WTO has stated that the world trade in 2012 has expanded only by 2 per cent, which is less than half of the past 20 years average, Rao said.
"In the current year, WTO forecast is pegged at 3.3 per cent. So, any expansion of world trade should also give us competitive advantage in boosting our exports," he added.
The Commerce secretary also said the recently announced incentive package would help in increasing shipments from the country.
Expressing concern over widening trade deficit, Rao said "we have no option but to export". The government has set an export target of $325 billion for the current financial year as against the target of $360 billion in 2012-13 due to the global economic uncertainties.
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We have a full range of accommodation options, including yurts, bunkhouse cabins, cabin apartments and deluxe rooms. The yurts offer a fun "glamping" experience with easy access to trails, while the cabin bunkhouses are closer to our lodges and might have you tempted to request a top bunk! Our deluxe rooms in Aspen Grove and Highview include a kitchen/dining area so you can make your own meals if you like.
I first stayed in the Highview cabin, nestled in the woods on the Sky Valley Ranch side of the A/U Ranches, in 1978. I remember the fun my brother and I had running through the woods on an autumn day. For me there is a distinct scent from the hot sun hitting the pine needles on the forest floor that always reminds me of the A/U Ranches.
Back in those days, the opportunity to stay on property in the off season was only given to staff. Today, through the management services offered through 100 Elk Events, lodging options across the ranch can be made available for families and groups. This year my extended family and I had the opportunity to stay in Highview cabin for a New Year family retreat. The cabin provided the perfect spot to enjoy walks, games and family time. The new renovations with large rooms, private baths and full kitchen made our fondue New Year's Eve time extra special.
We're excited to share our healing environment with a wider audience while maintaining our community standards (which includes remaining an alcohol- and substance-free facility). We've also created a partnership with the Surf Hotel in town for groups holding their conference/meeting at the A/U Ranches but dining/sleeping elsewhere.
Another exciting development is the decision to list a few of our accommodation options on Air BnB! This is geared toward smaller groups/families looking to have a weekend getaway at the A/U Ranches. Both Highview and Homestead Apartments (North and South) will be listed on this platform soon.
Some examples of groups we've had so far at 100 Elk Events includes weddings, celebrations of life, dance groups, wilderness first aid courses – plus interest from fly fishing and birding groups, family reunions, and trail running races. Let us help you host your next event!
We hope you'll think of 100 Elk Events when planning your next event or recommend it to friends and groups you think might be interested. Visit 100elk.org/events/ for more information and great photos. For questions or to make a booking, call 888.543.4849 or email [email protected].