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An unflappable man - nothing is ever a 'problem' - only 'situations' that can be resolved with the least amount of fuss.
Oh yes... A great sense of humour too!
Spencer has a new Movie released mid November!
He plays the nasty Sergeant of a Private Militia Force in 1819 !!
Panto this year at the Castleford Civic Theatre (SLEEPING BEAUTY) With the lovely Vikki Michelle!


Crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids – up 4% in Sept quarter due to growth in Onshore US liquids.
Seasonal reduction in Bass Strait production.
Decline in production at Pyrenees Offshore Oil Field in Exmouth WA sub-basin.
Record Onshore US Liquids production of 48 thousand barrels per day in 4Q 2012..
Alumina – The 85% owned Worsley mine and refinery in SW Western Australia contributed to record alumina production.
Aluminium – 10% increase in production at Hillside, South Africa.
Nickel – 6% decline in 4Q 2012 due to maintenance at the West Kalgoorlie smelter and Kwinana refinery.
26% reduction at Olympic Dam due to a planned smelter outage.
Lower production at Cannington near Mt Isa in Queensland. It is a low cost producer.
Zinc – production in line with comparable periods.
West Australian Iron Ore (WAIO) delivered its 12th 2H production and sales record.
The installation of a fifth car dumper on Finucane Island has increased the Port Headland capacity from 188 to 220 million tonnes per annum.
The expansion of the Jimblebar Mine which is one of seven mines in the Pilbara region, starts production in 1Q 2014. Mine production should then match the port capacity.
BHP anticipates that with a 5% increase in production in 2013 the present guidance of 183 million tonnes will be met.
This summary of BHP's 2H 2012 production report highlights the complexities and breadth of BHP-BILLITON's operations.
The report is positive for 2012/13 profitability with iron ore and copper the best performing activities.
The Petroleum division has the potential for significant growth from US shale oil and gas.


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Council of Europe implementing project to promote gender equality in Azerbaijan
The Council of Europe project "Reinforcing gender equality and other ethical standards in Azerbaijani media" aims to promote gender equality and other ethical standards in and through media in Azerbaijan, Trend reports citing the organization's website.
The specific objectives of the project are:
– Review the national legal framework on media from a gender equality perspective and provide recommendations to bring these in line with the Council of Europe standards
– Survey data collection on gender in Azerbaijani media including detailed statistics on women's employment in the media sector and research on women in Azerbaijani media
– Strengthen capacity of Azerbaijan Press Council on gender equality and other ethical issues in media and promote the Council of Europe standards on gender equality and media freedom among journalists and media professionals in Baku and regions
– Improve the quality of journalism education by developing textbooks on "Journalism ethics" and "Gender equality and media freedom"
– Raising awareness of legal professionals (judges, lawyers, advocates, prosecutors as well as law students) and traine them on the CoE standards on gender equality, media freedom and freedom of expression
– All project activities are implemented in consultation and cooperation with the relevant public authorities, national and international consultants, academia and civil society.
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I want to write this in the simplest way possible. I have depression and anxiety. I was officially diagnosed in 2009 but after understanding my symptoms I can confidently say that I struggled with my mental illnesses since I was a child. As I age and life becomes more complicated so does my illness.
February is usually my worst month but I struggle year-round. Last year was my worst year, specifically September onward. In early September I became suicidal. I began having suicidal thoughts but I played them off, not believing I was actually serious. I think I didn't want to be serious.
In October it got even worse. One Friday evening I found myself curled up on my bed, sobbing uncontrollably. I honestly didn't know why it started but I just felt so sad. That night I practiced holding a cord around my neck. On Saturday I distracted myself with a volunteering assignment. On Sunday I almost killed myself.
I spent the morning crying, feeling alone, like I didn't matter, like life would be better off for everyone without me in it. Eventually I found myself standing on a chair in my laundry room. I had one end of my cord tied around my neck, the other I had looped around a beam in the ceiling. I kept bending my knees, putting pressure on my neck. I liked the pressure. I liked it so much I started crying, again, and I climbed down. I messaged my boyfriend. Despite claiming I was OK, he came over and laid beside me.
Two days later I had a doctor appointment, unrelated to my depression. My boyfriend made me promise to tell my doctor. I lied through my teeth. Yet, when I found myself on her examination table I began to cry again and everything came spilling out. I got dressed and we sat and talked. She asked me if I had thought about harming myself and if I had collected the tools to do so. Once again, I lied. I'm certain she saw through me as she sent me home with a number for a crisis helpline and another appointment for the following week.
When I went back to her we discussed my options. She put me on sample packs of an SNRI because I don't have a benefit plan. She booked me another appointment to follow up. I did face a slew of side effects in the beginning but after a couple of weeks I got used to the medication. They're not perfect and I still feel depressed, but they help.
I also go to therapy bi-weekly. We're working on different things from my relationships to coping mechanisms, to understanding and recognizing my signs of depression. I love my therapist and am constantly recommending her to anyone that asks. She's also helped me work on being more open while I'm struggling instead of only being open when I'm feeling better.
My boyfriend and I try to have dinner together once a week. He's a night-shift worker so it can be hard on our relationship, but I think the most important part of our dinners is that we can check-in with each other, as both of us struggle with mental illness, and we can support each other.
Everyday I'm learning. You would think that after dealing with depression for so long I'd have the hang of it, and I do seem to when I'm helping out others. Unfortunately, when it's about myself I seem to get lost. But I'm trying to move more slowly and thoughtfully, taking stock of every action and feeling to truly understand myself. Since October I've gone through a lot of growth and as hesitant as my depression makes me, I am cautiously optimistic to see what happens next.
Last Thursday I stumbled across a post in a Facebook group I'm part of that has an interest in reading. The poster was talking about this challenge called 24in48 and asking who was going to take part in it. A quick Google search led me to their website where I learned that 24in48 is a Readathon where you aim to read for 24 hours in a 48 hour period. As someone who has a goal to read 52 books in 2019 I loved this idea.
I'll skip right to the part where I admit that while I did take part I was just under six hours short of 24 hours. For jumping into a challenge at the last minute and not being overly prepared I was pretty happy with my results. Obviously I would have liked to have reached the 24 hour goal but I'm already looking ahead to their next Readathon (July 20-21!) and I plan to KILL it.
Stopwatch. I used the stopwatch on my phone to keep track of my time. I saw some suggestions to screenshot your time any time you stop just in case something happens and you reset your timer.
Selection. I already like to have three books on the go (a physical book, an audiobook, and an e-book) so if I got bored of one I could switch to something else. I also had a stack of books I had recently purchased that I was eager to get through.
Prior commitments. I had committed to a friend's party on Saturday night and had a massage therapy appointment booked on Sunday afternoon. Between these two events I lost 4-5 hours just in time being away from reading. I would argue that because I was out on Saturday night I also slept in longer than I would have liked to on Sunday morning and lost time there as well. I feel like here was the six hours I needed.
Poor planning. 24in48 suggests having snacks and whatnot ready to go. I really didn't have time to get groceries and whatnot ahead of time. I think next time I'll make sure that not only I go ahead of time, but I might pre-cook a couple of meals so I can cut down on time there as well.
Lord of the Flies – William Golding. I had already started this book so I finished it up on Saturday.
Let Your Mind Run – Deena Kastor. I had also previously started this audiobook so I finished it up on my run.
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris. I started this audiobook next, finishing it up while completing tasks like doing laundry, grocery shopping, and meal-prepping.
The Woman in the Window – AJ Finn. I read this entire thing on Saturday. I was so enthralled by it and couldn't put it down. I highly recommend.
My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite. Another one I loved. It was a pretty quick but really interesting read. The premise was really creative and having a sister myself I found I could relate to the relationship (despite my sister not being a serial killer).
Becoming – Michelle Obama. This is a seriously beautiful memoir.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris. I really like listening to him in audiobook format and this one had been suggested to me by someone on Instagram that has read all of his books.
Will I do it again? Absolutely! I woke up on Monday feeling refreshed and mentally alert. I was able to get through lots of books and am ending January with 9/52 books read, putting me ahead of my goal for the year. I'm also doing the PopSugar book challenge this year so I was able to fulfill some of the challenge prompts. I also have another bookworm for a friend that was interested in the challenge so we've already started making plans for the next one – a cottage weekend where we can chill on her dock or visit a winery with our books in hand!
Have you participated in any challenges or readathons?
Are there any books you suggest?
Last week felt both easy and hard, and yet trying to recall what I did last week I can't remember much of it. Thank goodness I have the Nike Run Club and FitBit apps where I log everything meticulously so I can look back and see what I did each day.
What I do vividly remember is my long run on Saturday. Boy, that was a doozy. I had a 18K scheduled so I woke up Saturday morning, ate a banana muffin and croissant and read for about an hour while I let it digest, and then made sure to dress incredibly warm. Unfortunately it didn't help much.
With the windchill I believe it was nearing -20 degrees Celsius. Instead of a hat I had chosen to wear my Buff wrapped around my head. It kept my head and ears warm but I found that sweat collected at the top of my head and froze, giving me the appearance of grey hair, and the braids I had decided to wear had also frozen solid. I need to remember to wear my fleece-lined leggings next time because the wind made my thighs feel like they alternated between numbness and burning. However, the worst part of all was beyond my control. A lot of residences and businesses failed to properly salt their sidewalks and I spent a lot of the time having to slow my run down to a walk, or catching myself before I fell onto my face. I finished 15 of my 18 kilometers outside before returning home and jumping on the treadmill for the last three.
Ultimately I'm glad I made it outside because Around the Bay is notorious for being an extremely cold race, and I know if I tweak my running gear slightly I'll be able to survive the cold for another 15 kilometers.
Tuesday – Legs. 1K warm up, 2K tempo, 1K cool down. 10 minutes light cycling.
Wednesday – Unscheduled rest day. I was exhausted.
Friday – (AM) Upper body. Easy 6K. (PM) Yoga.
Saturday – 18K long run. Lots of stretching.
Sunday – Rest. I was going to make up for my missed Wednesday workout but I after my long run I needed this day off. I also went to a massage therapy session and I'm so glad I had the forethought earlier in the week to pre-book this. I needed it.
I thought my goal of running Around the Bay/30K at the end of March was overreaching but I'm pleasantly surprised at how quickly my fitness is coming back to me. In fact, I feel stronger as a runner now than I have in a long time – probably since I ran my marathon in October 2017.
I'm currently aiming to schedule five runs each week – two easy (one longer, one shorter), two speed training sessions, and one long-run. So far this feels like the right fit for me. I'm balancing my mileage with strength training and yoga, and this week I'll be adding in different cross-training methods to see how my body feels. My nutrition hasn't been great so I know that this is also something I'm going to need to place more of a focus on.
In Toronto we've been facing extreme cold warnings so I actually ran 16K on the treadmill on Saturday. I get bored easily so I had e-books, audiobooks, podcasts, playlists, and Netflix ready to go. I didn't use everything I had but I was surprised it didn't feel as tedious as I thought it would.
Monday – Arms + core. 1K warm-up, 8x400m with 2 minute rests, 1K cool-down.
Tuesday – Slept in instead of running an easy 10K. Went to yoga in the evening.
Wednesday – Legs. 1K warm-up, 2K tempo, 1K cool-down. In the evening I made up for the 10K I had skipped on Tuesday.
Thursday – My birthday! I also ended up skipping my workout and took a rest day. I slept in and ate a ton of Indian food that night.
Friday – Legs. Easy 3K. Yoga.
Saturday – 16K long run.
Sunday – Legs. Easy 3K. Yoga at home.
At the end of 2018 I made the somewhat hasty decision to sign up for Around the Bay in Hamilton. It's a 30K road race so I knew that if I trained I could do it. The question was, would I train?
I'm still working through my depression but I feel like I'm out of the extreme darkness that I was in throughout the fall. I cautiously made my way back to the gym and so far, so good. It was difficult to get back into a routine and I could tell I had lost a lot of fitness, but I did find myself adapting fairly quickly. I'm back up to lifting the amount of weight I could before and my running is feeling easier each day.
Last week I logged a total of 40K, increasing from 12K the week before, and I consider it my first week of my training plan. I'm using a combination of strength training, yoga, long runs, easy runs, and speed training to structure my training.
I'm technically training for 17 weeks. The first 12 weeks will take me to the date of Around the Bay, and my final 5 will hopefully lead up to a spring marathon. I'm writing out my own plan (I've used and like the Nike Run Club app in the past) and I'm only planning ahead four weeks at a time.
I don't have any time-goals for these races – I just want to make it through this training cycle feeling strong and like I accomplished something.
I'm very interested to see what these next few months will bring.


MEMPHIS (Sept. 24, 2018) – Bayer Properties and Germantown Collection have welcomed first-to-market Trader Joe's, the popular Monrovia, California-based grocer, to the mixed-use center situated in the affluent Memphis suburb of Germantown.
Trader Joe's has been eagerly awaited by the community and will serve the nearly 160,000 residents in the area.
Late last year, Bayer Properties, the Birmingham-based commercial real estate firm responsible for leasing and managing the center, made a move that would set the stage for a new wave of first-to-market retail. A redevelopment of the space has transformed it into three new storefronts, increasing gross leasable space and creating opportunity to bring new concepts to the market.
Bayer Properties also built an adjacent 7,000-square-foot outparcel that will house Chicken Salad Chick, a fast-casual chain of chicken restaurants based in Auburn, Ala. The new dining destination is expected to open in November 2018.
Birmingham, Alabama-based Bayer Properties LLC specializes in developing, leasing, managing and marketing mixed-use real estate properties nationwide. Bayer Properties currently owns and/or operates retail and office properties totaling approximately 10 million square feet, including The Summit in Birmingham, Alabama, Mount Pleasant Towne Centre in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Metropolitan in Charlotte, NC, and The Summit in Reno, Nevada. New developments include The Pizitz urban revitalization project in Birmingham, Alabama, and The Summit at Fritz Farm, a mixed-use project in Lexington, Kentucky. For more information, visit bayerproperties.com.


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Which Genre of Restaurant Do You Prefer?
Many chefs think that they can open deeply memorable restaurants with profound emotional depth and remarkable flavors. You might say that these folks are the novelists of the culinary world. However, the great restaurants, like the great novels, are few and far between.
More chefs, especially within the past five years, when celebrity became associated with an essentially working class profession, are keen on using their restaurants to tell their own very personal stories. These are like memoirs. A few memoirs give us insight into hidden lives, private experiences, shameful events, and profound resiliences. The problem with most memoirs is their unbelievable indulgence, among many of their authors, and a lack of adequate observation of things outside the self.
And aren't most restaurants that serve food from other countries a lot like reading a book in translation? Rarely as good as the original.
It seems that the best books are the ones that show us events, inner and outer, in which the writer is the camera or recorder rather than the self-celebratory object. You can readily say the same for chefs and restaurants: The food should inhabit the imagination of the guest; the guest should think about the food.
It would be lovely if chefs had insight into what they do best as individual practitioners of a profession defined by working class values. Leastways that's what I learned from reading Ozzy's book about his life in northern England.
Here in the Emerald City, the palms are swaying in the gentle breezes and the banjos are playing to accompany the snare drums in the quiet villages where abundance is evident in the baskets of colorful fruits and vegetables.
However, just west of here, a mere two hours away, rumor has it that the skies are filling with thick clouds and soon snow will pound down and quiet old fears and ignite new ones. Panic in the streets! Shovels in hands! Men keeling over due to the exertion!
And strikes! The dockworkers will return to work. Whew! KIAs on their way!
Spares are seen in the bulging tires on midriffs from all the holiday fun. We're trying to avoid that here in The Haas Test Kitchen with some degree of success. A killer Icelandic leg of lamb roasted at 350 for 90 minutes did the trick last night. I adapted a simple Indian spice rub from Julie Sahni: Garlic, ginger, cumin, oil, dried and hot red pepper, ground cloves, and fresh coriander. Wrap it all up in foil. Prep = 7 minutes.
Tonight? I bought a pound of fresh chanterelle in the wholesale section of Russo's, where I have a new BFF, and will serve the babies up in a broth–maybe–and also some dried spaghetti.
Wait: I hear the melody from the window. Surely, it's not a siren, but a new love.
Fair wages and eating sensibly.
I interviewed a line cook yesterday who was recently employed at a very well known, small restaurant in Boston: $10 an hour. Do the math. That's $400 a week, $1600 a month, and $20,000 a year. He got fired because he asked for–insisted upon–a raise.
Was the beef he fried grass fed and free range? Was it from cattle raised on sustainable farms? Were the cows fed GMO corn and, if so, was it labeled?
In the Days Ahead: Dockworkers Strike!
Stymied, ironically, by the many free hours, my productivity has gone down. It seems to be limited to promoting by book, "Back of the House," through social media and shenanigans. By the latter, I mean telling everyone, from dry cleaner to taxi driver, about it.
Meanwhile the not so secret preparations for New Year's Eve do not abate.
We're talking Alba white truffles–no Tennessee black ones here, thank you very much–and quail eggs and risotto and Japanese beef. You know, a simple repast just like we used to have at Grammie's.
But it's not just about the food, is it? Is it?
It's about the presents. Right? No, Virginia, wrong holiday.
The love? Well, yeah, but do you really need me to tell you that?
Well, that's getting closer. Resolving to be better in the new year.
One big thing standing in the way of that is the strike being planned by dockworkers on the East Coast. This would be the first dockworkers strike in 35 years. It will bring things to a crawl. And with organized crime no longer as big a presence on the docks, who will turn things around?
It's that time of year when folks predict what they envision in the world of food over the year ahead.
The Sterling-Rice Group does an unusually good job at this sort of prognosticating. Their trends, to be found on their website, are evidence based, it seems, and highly specific: http://www.srg.com.
Baum + Whiteman is pretty good, too, though their list of 17 trends veers towards the dramatic and is more opinionated that SRG (noted above). Still, worth a look: http://www.baumwhiteman.com.
A terrific website, Nutrition Unplugged, lists many of the sites that are predicting trends. That's at http://www.nutritionunplugged.com.
1. With the exception of Andrew Carmellini's new French restaurant opening in 2013, you can expect to see more Italian and Italian-American places opening. For obvious reasons, including: It's what most cooks are capable of doing, no one ever went broke opening an Italian restaurant, it's just about the most delicious food on earth.
2. More restaurant workers will demand living wages and better work conditions. The end of the 12 hour cooking shift, five days a week is near.
3. More Chinese people will open "Japanese" restaurants, more Americans will open "French" restaurants. Go and look now at the menus of places that call themselves French. People will always spend more for Japanese and French food.
4. More food writers and people who are passionate about food will predict that more chefs will serve more Asian influenced dishes: Ingredients and dishes from Thailand, Vietnam, India, China, and Japan. Don't count on it, unfortunately.
5. More food writers and people who are passionate about food will predict that more chefs will serve more vegetables. Well, yeah, ten bucks for Brussels sprouts fried in duck fat?
6. More people will buy more cookbooks that they never use.
7. More people will buy more kitchen appliances. Juicers, dehydrators, beer making kits, and meat grinders. People will limit their reading to instruction manuals.
8. A chef will run for the U.S. Senate and be elected.
9. Another food scandal will occur in China.
10. My book, "Back of the House," will be on your night stand.
Dogs up late and a quick jaunt in the park before returning home to fry Father's Bourbon Soaked Bacon with Challah French toast and serve with Vermont maple syrup. Blood orange juice, using the electric juicer, and great Porto Rico coffee from Yemen.
Presents this year were really lovely: Sweaters, socks, earrings, concert tickets, etc.
The singing wreath down the street spooks the dogs, and reminds me a smidge of the fantastic XMAS homes we saw last night.
My goodness, it's so festive.
Bird in the oven with corn bread, walnut, and rice stuffing.
I get so confused this time of year. Don't you? Is it Diwali? Hanukah? Kwanza? Wait, I know! It's Christmas.
I do love this time of year. Really. Yesterday, my friend F, who almost single-handedly wrecked the banking system a few years back through reckless loans and mortgage schemes, gave me a wonderful turkey, freshly slaughtered, to roast on Christmas day. And tonight, after the Annual Somerville Christmas Tour–dancing deer, singing wreaths, rooftop sleighs that move–it'll be truffled pasta and little, baby chickens.
Meanwhile, "Back of the House" moves up the charts. Pre-sales at Amazon put us in the top 100 within its category.
Gosh, is this the best time of year? The very best? It's a push and pull between gluttony and refinement, satisfaction and yearning, hope and despair. Well, not despair, but lack of hope.
The background noise is Andrew Solomon's poignant and thoughtful op-ed in today's NYT; a fascinating and new biography of Walther Rathenau; the puzzle of how to promote my new book, "Back of the House"; and, lingering doubts about why some towns emphasize "creativity" in their restaurants while others place the best ingredients at the center.
I know it's not useful to focus on the incredibly second-rate ingredients showing up on menus of certain incredibly expensive restaurants: Lebanese olive oil rather than French, Italian, or Californian; black truffles from Tennessee rather than France; supermarket bread rather than stuff baked in-house.
But are those observations keeping with the Christmas spirit? I mean: What would Jesus do? Would Jesus complain about bad food in expensive restaurants? I think not.
So isn't it better just to focus on the delicious Challah French toast and Tracklement's bacon and wonderful Northeast Kingdom maple syrup I served this morning?
Inspired by the rodents in the trees, on the power lines, and, each spring, in my attic, I search for food this time of year to freeze and store in the pantry in the event of cataclysm. Or something.
The latest purchases were Japanese beef and dry aged prime ribeye from the remarkable DeBragga, nuts and dried fruits from the amazing Bella Viva in CA, little baby chickens and chanterelle from Russo's, bacon from Tracklement's and Father's, and, soon, lox and bagels from Russ and Daughters and Barney Greengrass, too.
All that remains are fish and vegetables from great local purveyors.
And so, we're ready here. XMAS Eve we're talking about those baby chickens and truffled pasta from Venice with the chanterelle. XMAS day, we're talking Icelandic lamb.
It's not Diwali, but it'll do.
Yes, since you asked, last night's turkey chili was a huge success. There it was, monsoon like rains, but we were ensconced in a room with a fire blazing, lights low, and bowls of little red beans and turkey and spoons and dried Thai chili.
And, yes, tonight we're talking eggplant with burrata.
But let me tell you: What's on my mind is the remarkable story in today's NYT Business section on Cerberus and its investment in companies that manufacture guns.
Renaissance Technologies held 3,395,000 shares or a 5.12% stake, the data shows. RenTech added 1,210,600 shares in the third quarter ended 9/30/2012.
Route One Investment Company held 1,242,000 shares or 1.87% stake for the quarter ended 9/30. Route One added 1,242,000 shares during the third quarter.
Steelhead Partners LLC owned 1,282,7000 shares or a 1.85% stake. Steelhead sold 450,000 shares during Q3.
Columbia Partners had 801,691 shares or a 1.21% stake in Q3. Columbia Partners revealed a new stake of 801,691 shares during the third quarter ended 9/30.
Bogle Investment Management held 656,288 shares or a 0.99% stake in the third quarter. Bogle Investment Management sold 1,027 shares in Q3, the data shows.
Millennium Management had 618,881 shares or a 0.93% stake for the quarter ended 9/30. Millennium added 470,007 shares during the third quarter.
Now here's a rundown of the six hedge funds with the largest stake in Sturm, Ruger & Co., according to 13F data compiled by Bloomberg for the third quarter ended 9/30/2012.
James Investment Research Inc. held 904,360 shares or a 4.27% stake in Q3. James Investment Research sold 2,323 in the third quarter, the data shows.
Renaissance Technologies owned 850,900 shares or a 4.44% stake in the third quarter. The hedge fund sold 181,600 shares in Q3, the data shows.
Tiger Global Management disclosed a new position of 800,000 shares, or a 4.18% stake, in the third quarter ended 9/30, the data shows.
South Point Capital Advisors had 665,963 shares or a 3.48% stake in Q3, according to 13F data. The hedge fund sold 70,100 shares in the third quarter.
Valinor Management LLC held 223,620 shares or a 1.17% stake in Q3. Valinor sold 56,040 shares in Q3, the data shows.
So go ahead and trade cookie recipes. Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya?


TNM Super League Leaders, Mighty Be Forward Wanderers and their perennial rivals, Nyasa Big Bullets are invading the Capital City this coming weekend for mouth watering league encounters.
Wanderers are up against 10th placed and much improved Civil sporting club on Saturday at Civo stadium before facing much resilient side, new comers, Master Security at Dedza stadium 24 hours later.
The Nomads last weekend conceded the first goal of the side when they beat Red Lions 2-1 in Balaka and are yet to register a defeat.
They have played seven games and are 19 points and they have two games in hand to equal most of the teams so far.
The Lali Lubani boys should not underrate the Servants as a result of their 2-1 defeat against Nyasa Big Bullets on Wednesday in Blantyre during the Carlsberg Cup round of 32.
On a good day, Civil are proving to be a team to beat at home turf as they held Blues eagles 3-3 fortnight ago and last Saturday they beat bottom of the table team, Chitipa United 4-2.
They have showed that they have a goal scoring drive this time around unlike what happened to them last season where they were failing to find the back of the net.
Wanderers have enjoyed playing fantastic football when they were hosted by Mafco when they walloped them 3-0 and enterprising Yamikani Chester announced his arrival to the team.
It will be seen whether Wanderers will continued to stretch their unbeaten run or Civil will be the first team to break the record on Saturday afternoon.
Super Sunday, is calling Area 47 out-fit, Silver Strikers as they are geared to face people's team, Nyasa Big Bullets for the fourth time this season alone, in another Lilongwe league encounter at Civo stadium.
Silver are on position number eight from seven games with 11 points and are yet to register a defeat and will the Bullets dent the record come Sunday as they seem to have re- organized their team after a poor showing in the first opening games of the season.
Bullets have lost a single game against Moyale 1-0 and laboured to unbelievable 0-0 draw against minnows, Chitipa United and Master Security.
Silver were last Sunday saved by grace when they were trailing by a single goal against Master Security and had to come back in nick of time to salvage a 1-1 draw.
The Sunday encounter promises fireworks taking into account that Bullets want to avenge the defeat they suffered against Silver in the Airtel Top 8 and Silver would want to make amends following a 2-1 to them during the friendly match played at the Independence Day on July 6, 2017.
Silver's Coach Lovemore Fazili and Acting Bullets Elijah Kananji need to have better formula in order to collect maximum points and pose a challenge to current leaders Wanderers, who are on the summit of the log.
The other fixture on Saturday involve defending champions Kamuzu Barracks against Azam Tiger at Nankhaka ground, Mzuni vs Blantyre United at Mzuzu stadium and Dwangwa United up against Bet Premier Bet Wizard at Chitowe in Nkhotakota.
Sunday fixtures involve Blues Eagles vs Azam tigers at Nankhaka ground, Moyale Barracks vs Blantyre United and Mafco vs Premier Bet Wizard.


There's the governor's plan for cutting $1.2 billion in spending from California's prison budget and there are the state Senate and Assembly plans, mostly formulated by Democratic legislative leaders. But there is as yet no publicly palatable plan. Maybe that's because politicians seeking ways to make that cut and still avoid releasing inmates who might endanger public safety have not yet listened to ordinary citizens, including some people who work within the prison system.
Knowledgeable suggestions are out there, for sure. Plenty poured in from around the state during the summer after this column invited ideas from readers.
Those ideas, taken together with fast action on many millions of dollars worth of waste previously acknowledged by court-appointed prison health czar Clark Kelso, could make it far easier for legislators to meet their budget-cutting goal.
The waste Kelso admitted included his statement that "We're paying at least $100 million more – maybe much more than that – than we should be" to outside hospitals where prisoners are treated when they have problems beyond what prison doctors can handle. The waste comes because most outside hospitals have so far not negotiated the kinds of contracts that commonly allow health maintenance organizations and insurance companies to pay far less than hospital "rack rates." Huge savings could result from mandating fast-tracked price negotiations.
Then there are correctional system rules requiring that two guards accompany convicts around the clock when they're off prison grounds – regardless of whether they are completely disabled. Prison officials say this is necessary both because of flight risks and to protect their charges from harm if enemies on the outside learn they are in a low-security hospital. Some prison officials estimate those rules lead to as much as $20 million in yearly wasted pay for guards who essentially do nothing while sitting around hospital wards.
But those are only two areas of unnecessary prison spending.
Readers pointed out many more ranging from excessive power usage in prison cells to the cost of caring for inmates who get nursing home care within the prison system.
"Some inmates who get medical, dental, mental health or nursing home care can cost the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as much as $500,000 per year apiece," wrote one reader who serves as a chaplain at both Folsom prison and the California Institution for Women at Chino. That figure, which some officials have said applies to hundreds of prisoners, is more than 10 times the cost of maintaining a single ordinary inmate. The implication: sending high-maintenance prisoners to outside nursing homes when they're too physically disabled to pose any threat to the public or those caring for them could save further tens of millions of dollars.
One problem: There would be a huge public outcry the first time such a prisoner escaped because he or she turned out to be faking disability, and then committed a serious crime. That makes this a mildly risky cut for legislators whose first concern is always their own reelection.
A potential cut that poses no such risk was offered by a Davis reader who is a former prison department employee. "Civil service rules allow a state supervisor or manager to be paid for an entire day even if he or she leaves work early to go to a medical or dental appointment or just to go home early," she wrote. "Prior to a rule change 15 years ago, whenever (these persons) left work early, they used vacation time or sick leave, just like rank and file employees.
A legislative hearing could easily determine how much this wastes and spur changes in the rules.
As for power usage, a guard at Mule Creek prison in Ione noted that "In every cell, inmates run their TVs 24/7. I see the TVs on all night when I do my counts and the prisoners are sleeping, or the inmates stay up all night watching TV and then sleep all day. In order to rehabilitate a person, don't you think it would be smart to get them used to being awake during business hours?" Not to mention cutting down the prison system's power bills.
Other readers pointed out wasteful purchasing practices for things like prison coveralls and cafeteria trays, which can be bought from outside providers for far less than it costs to get them from prison industry facilities.
Chances are the readers who offered these ideas have only scratched the surface of wasteful prison spending. But neither Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger nor state legislators have even heard these ideas because in all their debates and whining and name-calling in the prison cut debate, they have yet to hold public hearings soliciting public input.
If they'd make some of the reader-suggested cuts and try to find still more waste, perhaps they would have a far easier time making the budget cuts that are now so urgently needed.
I AM A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER AT A PRISON IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, WE HAVE ABOUT 7300 INMATES.EVERY MORNING WE MAKE COFFEE FOR THEM AND AT LUNCH THEY RECIEVE A TYPE OF KOOL-AID PAC AND ALSO TWO COOKIES. AT DINNER WE HAVE EITHER TEA OR SOME TYPE OF FRUIT PUNCH DRINK FOR THEM. IT MUST BE NICE TO GO THE EXTRA MILE FOR CONVICTED FELONS.


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Q: Cmake : Dependency to run if there's any change I'm new to Cmake and I have a main output named TARGET. I'm trying to add custom target named _COPY_ASSETS_TARGET as a dependency to main TARGET. I want TARGET to rebuild _COPY_ASSETS_TARGET automatically if there's any change in _COPY_ASSETS_TARGET. _COPY_ASSETS_TARGET should depend on change in folders.
Here's the code I tried to implement:
 if (NOT TARGET ${_COPY_ASSETS_TARGET})
            add_custom_target(${_COPY_ASSETS_TARGET})
            add_dependencies(${_ARGS_PROJECT_TARGET} ${_COPY_ASSETS_TARGET})
            set_property(TARGET ${_COPY_ASSETS_TARGET} PROPERTY FOLDER "Targets")
        endif()

        add_custom_command(TARGET ${_COPY_ASSETS_TARGET}
            ${_COMMANDS}
            VERBATIM
        )

I'm trying visual studio to debug and if I rebuild _COPY_ASSETS_TARGET then only I can see the updated output. I would like to know how I can link my folders to _COPY_ASSETS_TARGET so that TARGET automatically builds new code

A: add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${OUTPUT_DIRECTORY} ${_COMMANDS}
            DEPENDS ${DEPENDENT_DIRECTORY}
            VERBATIM
        )

        add_custom_target(${_COPY_ASSETS_TARGET} ALL
            DEPENDS ${OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}
        )

        add_dependencies(${_ARGS_PROJECT_TARGET} ${_COPY_ASSETS_TARGET})
        set_property(TARGET ${_COPY_ASSETS_TARGET} PROPERTY FOLDER "Targets")

I found this to be working for my project

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You can heat your greenhouse at night without using electricity. Lining one wall with blackened, water-filled jugs or barrels will keep your greenhouse nice and cozy during those long, cold winter nights. During the day, the water in the blackened jugs or barrels will absorb heat from the sun and trap it inside. After the sun goes down, the heat held in the water in the blackened jugs will be released into the greenhouse, protecting your plants from the harsh winter air. Plastic jugs tend to degrade over time; glass containers last longer but, of course, are breakable.
Greenhouses can keep plants growing in an ideal environment even in the winter months.
Determine which wall of your greenhouse receives the most sun, and collect enough plastic jugs or water barrels to completely cover the entire wall. Use smaller containers—such as glass bottles and milk jugs—if your location is typically cloudy. The smaller containers have a higher ratio of surface area to volume, which allows them to absorb heat rapidly when the sun does not shine. If your greenhouse is located in a warm climate—such as that found in the southern United States—you will need 2 or more gallons of water per square foot of glass. For colder climates, you must have at least 5 gallons of water per square foot.
Clean the jugs or barrels thoroughly with hot, soapy water and rinse well with clean water.
Arrange the greenhouse shelving along the greenhouse wall so that it can accommodate the jugs or barrels. If the jugs or barrels are too big or numerous to fit on the shelving, remove it so that you can place the containers directly on the floor.
If the jugs or barrels are clear, paint them with black spray paint. Alternatively, you can add a few drops of black fabric dye to the water instead. If you are lucky enough to find black containers, so much the better.
Stack the jugs or barrels along the wall of the greenhouse, using shelving where possible and covering the entire wall. You will essentially be building a wall of the blackened, water-filled jugs or barrels.
Fill the jugs or barrels with water. This can be accomplished with a water hose.
Secure the lids or caps onto the jugs.
Check the water levels of the jugs or barrels. Over time the water will begin to evaporate, and you will need to refill the barrels.


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Pelosi requests Trump impeachment articles move forward — what now?
by: Anna Wiernicki, Nexstar
Posted: Dec 5, 2019 / 03:32 PM CST / Updated: Dec 5, 2019 / 03:32 PM CST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nexstar) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the green light to the House Judiciary Committee to start drafting the Articles of Impeachment.
Pelosi says President Trump abused his power by pressuring the Ukrainian President for political favors.
"The president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit," says Pelosi.
Texas Republican Congressman Will Hurd sits on the intelligence committee that investigated the President. He says the President's actions were wrong, but not impeachable.
"Was there evidence of bribery or extortion?" asks Hurd. "I haven't seen that in the over hundred hours of depositions and hearings that I have participated in."
If the President is impeached, the Senate will hold a trial to decide if he should be removed from office.
That's where the white house says it's ready to fight.
Pam Bondi, Special Advisor to the President, says the White House is gearing up for a fair trial in the Senate.
"The President has done nothing wrong," Bondi says.
When a Senate trial could happen is still up in the air, however. The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold another hearing on Monday.
by Russell Falcon, Nexstar, Anna Wiernicki / Jan 28, 2020
Trump administration demands change to California abortion policy
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEXSTAR) - On Friday with the March for Life as a backdrop, the Trump administration demanded California drop its requirement that all private health insurers in the state cover abortions.
"You do not force people to violate their conscience when it comes to the taking of a human life," Department of Health and Human Services Roger Severino said.
U.S. mayors say their cities need money, infrastructure at meeting with Pres. Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nexstar) — President Donald Trump told mayors from across the country that Washington is ready to help.
The President invited nearly 200 mayors to the White House on Friday to meet with administration officials like Jim Carroll.
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"He speaks, and his people sit up at attention," said Donald Trump of North Korean despot Kim Jong Un in an interview with Fox News, "I want my people to do the same." These are musings of a dictator and Donald is surely showing signs and symptoms of despotism.
"Donald is America's first African president", a statement coined by The Daily Show's presenter, Trevor Noah. Noah likened Trump to African dictators, Idi Amin and Robert Mugabe. I pondered the assertion made by Trevor and it dawned on me that he was right. Using different metrics to compare Donald Trump's leadership style to most African leaders, Noah and I have come to the same conclusion.
The world is changing at an unprecedented rate, mainly fueled by technological advancements thus it is important for leaders to keep abreast of these developments. The acceleration of technological advancement and its subsequent diffusion has brought about many complexities and disruptions to society's way of life in an unimaginable manner.
This has led to a global proliferation of transactional leaders who are inclined to take protectionist views that are based on retrogressive industrial-era philosophies. In other words, we have seen a rise in African leaders across the world and Donald J. Trump is the poster-boy of this revolution. He has managed in his short stint as the US president to sell the African brand of political leadership to the world with exceptional vigour.
My declaration in this essay is: "African leaders are transactional leaders".
I know you are already questioning my integrity accusing me of treating Africa as a monolithic territory. As a mathematically trained individual, I concur that a blanket statement about African leaders is different from the truth and I deserve to stand accused of the fallacy of hasty generalization. Even my mathematics professor would not be proud of me for forgetting that if a counter-example or contradiction exists then the statement is not a theorem, it is definitely not gospel.
For clarity and consistency, I will argue my point using the law of averages. An arithmetic average is resultant from dividing the sum total by the number of entities. In this context, the quotient takes in all entities in the leadership spectrum from the most transactional leader to the most transformational one. So let me rephrase my declaration for your appeasement. "On average, African leaders are transactional". For brevity, I will focus on political leaders and not business leaders but these principles apply across the board.
For the purpose of my argument, Donald Trump is the SI unit for transactional leadership. Every other leader will be measured in "trumps". The "Trump Scale" spans from zero to one. If a leader has zero trumps then that leader is purely transformational and a score of one trump implies pure transactional leadership, for example, one could say Paul Kagame is 0.8 trumps and Nelson Mandela is 0.01 trumps.
Leadership style is not necessarily a function of the country of origin, ethnicity, gender or any other attributes pervasively used to classify human beings, but is dependent on the philosophical underpinnings of one's education. Education is the knowledge that one has acquired and is not restricted to formal education.
What is a transactional leader? According to Wikipedia, transactional leadership is a style of leadership that focuses on supervision, organization, and performance. Leaders promote compliance by followers through both rewards and punishments.
The transactional leader's view of the leader-follower relationship is one of quid pro quo. If the follower does something good, they will be rewarded. If the follower does something wrong, they will be punished. This style of leadership is dominant in both the private and public sectors. Examples of transactional leadership include cronyism in the form of deployment of allies into key positions. The main argument for transactional leadership has always been given as meritocracy, but no universal standard unit of measuring meritocracy exists, it is highly subjective thus prone to manipulation.
So why would I say that Donald Trump is a transactional leader? Trump's business and political careers serve as standards for reward-punishment leadership style. From the way he attacks opponents and unconditionally praises those who agree with him, his leadership style is distinctly transactional. If an official disagrees with Trump, then that official has failed and will be punished accordingly. As an example, Rex Tillerson was fired for holding a different view on the Iran deal.
Transactional leaders tend to be managerial in nature focusing on the "how", as opposed to the big picture philosophy and vision that drives an entity within a complex ecosystem. These leaders are mostly tacticians who use their intellect and abilities for process refinement and short-term goals. Most of the reforms undertaken by Trump have been process-related and do not inspire further discourse about the past, present and future. Some would argue that his transactional nature is inspiring people to really think about how we got here and what the future holds. I can bet my last dollar that he is not intentionally using reverse psychology as some would like to believe.
Take, for instance, Donald Trump in his obsession with US trade imbalances with the rest of world is forgetting that globalization is fact, technological advancements have led to a more fluid exchange of value regardless of geographical location. He is concerned about how to get short-term wins and look good on the ratings at the expense of the bigger picture. His trade deal interventions are underhand and bully-inspired tactics that lack a holistic view of the global village.
The denialism of climate change as a hoax is an attempt by Trump and like-minded people to optimize on dirty fuel profits in the interim whilst totally disregarding scientific evidence of global warming. All in the name of expediency, self-aggrandizement and short-term successes.
Taking into consideration that most African political leaders were child soldiers who were conscripted into liberation struggles across the continent, it is clear that the transactional leadership style is what they know best and have gone to lengths to protect the status quo.
The hierarchical nature of armed forces coupled with patriarchy and other cultural burdens has led to the emergence of "big men" in African politics and business. This phenomenon has infiltrated every facet of society and stifling the continent's growth and prosperity.
In the army, the leaders monitor subordinates carefully to enforce rules, reward success, and punish failure. They do not, however, act as catalysts for growth and change within the organization. Instead, they are focused on maintaining things as they are and enforcing current rules and expectations.
No one would argue that there is nothing wrong with this type of leadership, in fact, the efficiency of the army as exemplified by fluid drills and discipline is needed to overcome challenges faced by African countries. The question is, who has changed the course of history? Was it the drill sergeant or the non-conformist thinkers and tinkerers who dared to be creative within and without their trades?
If African leaders are transactional then the performance of inherited economies from the colonial past should be high. Why is it that implementation is Africa's biggest nemesis? I would like to point out that the narrative that implementation is poor in Africa is false.
On average African leaders who emerged from the liberation struggle are driven by the quest to consolidate power. Accumulation of state power is the sole objective, and these leaders do it well. In tandem with their objective, their performance is very high at the expense of holistic progress. This is akin to Donald Trump taking his personal hate for Barack Obama too far, at the expense of the American public who were benefiting from Obamacare. Trump's sole objective is to crash whatever Obama came up with.
In Nigeria, for example, the politics revolves around a "godfather" who sits at the top of the pyramid and feeds off a patronage network that cuts across the entire fabric of society. The consolidation of power in Africa has led to a spoils-oriented form of reward system which manifests, mostly in the form of cronyism and nepotism. The beneficiaries of the self-centered system know fully well that they have to play their part in the mobilization of the masses to keep the incumbents in power thereby ensuring that they continue to benefit. Some eminent thinkers have called this, "the politics of the stomach".
So it can be seen that African leaders are ruthlessly efficient in executing their objective unfortunately at the expense of the ordinary citizens. To achieve success, African leaders can channel that efficiency into worthwhile projects that grow their economies. They should do away with bubblegum populist policies to appease their supporter base. Donald Trump is doing his best to make the white supremacists and billionaire friends happy given that they got him in power. This is at the expense of the environment, scientific research and global cohesion.
As mentioned before, one of the biggest hurdles that Africa has to jump is the highly patriarchal culture. This practice is a worldwide problem but rife in the mother continent. Research has shown that productivity increases where diversity exists and gender diversity is a low hanging fruit for success. A study conducted by Northwestern University with respect to transactional, transformational, and laissez-fair leadership styles revealed that women are more likely to use transformational methods than male leaders. This means most women were more interested in working with people holistically, not just making deals.
The study also found that when female leaders used the transactional style, they were more likely to focus on the rewards component. On the other hand, when men utilized the transactional style, they were more likely to focus on the punishment aspects.
If you take a closer look at the current politics of Africa, you will see that there is a rise in transactional leaders in the form of dealmakers. They do not necessarily inspire growth in the people but are good at signing deals with foreign powers like China, Russia and the US.
The emergence of the likes of Cyril Ramaphosa and Emerson Mnangagwa is an example of leaders who are not Mandela-like but businessmen who focus on operational efficiency, deal-making and bean-counting. Trump still remains the S.I. unit though.
Some analysts have likened the deals being struck by African leaders with China as the re-colonization of the continent. China realized the transactional nature of African leaders and is exploiting it. Their model is different from the aid-based one used the West. China is choking Africans with debt to build infrastructure, of which Chinese companies come to the continent with their own labour at the expense of local employment creation. Once the project is complete, China keeps the intellectual property and little to no technology and skills transfer takes place. African countries will now suffer from high unemployment, debt to China and continual maintenance and support fees for the infrastructure.
Meanwhile, African leaders would have scored their ephemeral goals which are typical of transactional leaders. Research also shows that publicity makes transactional leaders "tick." Most of them appear in the press all the time announcing big deals and making it all about them. They are constantly meeting new people, making deals (completing transactions), and moving on. No one can beat Donald Trump on this one.
In conclusion, there is no-one who is purely transformational or transactional but the leadership style is dictated upon by the situation. Transactional leadership was necessary soon after independence whereby African political activists suddenly found themselves in power and had to make things work. Before the perverse technological penetration, the level of complexity was low thus predominantly transactional leadership was acceptable, things were simple, countries were divided by national borders and governing them was almost straightforward.
Now fast forward to 2018 and then you realize that complexity has increased exponentially, the internet has blurred national boundaries, crime is now virtual and the same rules cannot be enforced, thus transactional style of leadership is found wanting. The populace now has to unlimited amounts of information and cannot simply accept things as they are, this calls for ethical and transformational leaders who will rally the citizens to be the best they can be in their individual and collective capacities.
Like Jack Ma said, Africa, has nothing to lose, literally. Africa is raw and not subject to legacy infrastructure constraints that are hampering progress in the developed world. Africa can leapfrog the previous revolutions and set the standards for creativity, innovation and problem solving for the rest of the world to follow. The problems in Africa require visionary leaders who will not simply sign deals for expediency but ponder on the consequences and make sustainable decisions that will unite the continent and the world at large. The SDGs provide a near-perfect and well thought out framework to achieve success.


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Ramadan Reminders 2019 – #26 Complete your profile
Channel: Omer El-Hamdoon
Series: Omer El-Hamdoon – Ramadan Reminders 2019
One of the things that is important for every person to try and identify is what are their life goals? What do they want to achieve? And obviously, this follows on from having intention, having a plan, understanding what you want and trying to optimize your potential. So you have to ask yourself, what do I want to achieve? What do I want to get in life, for the Muslim there is a bigger picture, no doubt to try and attain that agenda. But what you want to achieve in this life, you want to become a scientist, you want to become somebody who learns knowledge and teaches others you want to become somebody who invents something, somebody who achieves a new scientific invention or
whatever, it's very important to try and think about those things could also be financially motivated to try and achieve a large finance and to help others and, and so on, develop charities, establish a school, there's so many things to do. But it's important for us to put those life goals in writing and to think about how we can achieve them, and then to work towards achieving them. And while we're in Ramadan, especially in the last 10 days, it's very important to make focus on those things and to make them have an opportunity for us while we're more aware of our surroundings, to achieve what we can


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Russia: How Dare the U.S. Question Our Untested COVID Vaccine
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Updated Aug. 12, 2020 6:58AM ET / Published Aug. 12, 2020 6:28AM ET
ALEXEY NIKOLSKY
Russia has said that the U.S. is waging "information warfare" about its purported COVID-19 vaccine and has rejected international criticism of its speedy rollout of the inoculation, saying that it's safe and that it works. Russia announced Tuesday that its vaccine, which Vladimir Putin said had been given to his daughter, had been approved by its health regulators. The news attracted widespread criticism as it has only undergone rapid Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials on a small number of people and no data from these has yet been published. However Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive of Russia's sovereign-wealth fund RDIF, which is backing the vaccine dubbed "Sputnik V" in a nod to the world's first satellite that was launched by Russia in 1957 during the Cold War space race, told CNBC: "It [the announcement] really divided the world into those countries that think it's great news... and some of the U.S. media and some U.S. people who actually wage major information warfare on the Russian vaccine." He added: "We were not expecting anything else, we are not trying to convince the U.S. Our point to the world is that we have this technology, it can be available in your country in November/December if that works with your regulator... (while) people who are very skeptical will not have this vaccine and we wish them good luck in developing theirs." He conceded that Russia needed to share the data behind the vaccine, saying it was "valid criticism" that it had not yet done so and that it would "all be published in August." Russia has the fourth highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world, with over 900,000 cases as of Wednesday. Its official death toll stands at 15,260.
Read it at CNBC


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Q: Import only functions from a python file I have many Python files (submission1.py, submission2.py, ... , submissionN.py) in the following format,
#submission1.py
def fun():
   print('some fancy function')

fun()

I want to write a tester to test these submissions. (They are actually homeworks that I am grading.). I have a tester for the fun() which is able to test the function itself. However, my problem is, when I import submission.py, it runs the fun() since it calls it at the end of file.
I know that, using if __name__ == "__main__": is the correct way of handling this issue, however, our submissions does not have it since we did not teach it.
So, my question is, is there any way that I can import only fun() from the submission.py files without running the rest of the python file?

A: For simple scripts with just functions the following will work:
submission1.py:
def fun(x):
   print(x)

fun("foo")

def fun2(x):
   print(x)

fun2("bar")

print("debug print")

You can remove all bar the FunctionDef nodes then recompile:
import ast
import types

with open("submission1.py") as f:
   p = ast.parse(f.read())

for node in p.body[:]:
    if not isinstance(node, ast.FunctionDef):
        p.body.remove(node)

module = types.ModuleType("mod")
code = compile(p, "mod.py", 'exec')
sys.modules["mod"] = module
exec(code,  module.__dict__)

import mod

mod.fun("calling fun")
mod.fun2("calling fun2")

Output:
calling fun
calling fun2

The module body contains two Expr and one Print node which we remove in the loop keeping just the FunctionDef's.
[<_ast.FunctionDef object at 0x7fa33357f610>, <_ast.Expr object at 0x7fa330298a90>,
<_ast.FunctionDef object at 0x7fa330298b90>, <_ast.Expr object at 0x7fa330298cd0>,
 <_ast.Print object at 0x7fa330298dd0>]

So after the loop out body only contains the functions:
[<_ast.FunctionDef object at 0x7f49a786a610>, <_ast.FunctionDef object at 0x7f49a4583b90>]

This will also catch where the functions are called with print which if the student was calling the function from an IDE where the functions have return statements is pretty likely, also to keep any imports of there are any you can keep ast.Import's and ast.ImportFrom's:
submission.py:
from math import *
import datetime

def fun(x):
    print(x)

fun("foo")

def fun2(x):
    return x

def get_date():
    print(pi)
    return datetime.datetime.now()
fun2("bar")

print("debug print")

print(fun2("hello world"))

print(get_date())

Compile then import:
for node in p.body[:]:
    if not isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef,ast.Import, ast.ImportFrom)):
        p.body.remove(node)
.....

import mod

mod.fun("calling fun")
print(mod.fun2("calling fun2"))
print(mod.get_date())

Output:
calling fun
calling fun2
3.14159265359
2015-05-09 12:29:02.472329

Lastly if you have some variables declared that you need to use you can keep them using ast.Assign:
submission.py:
from math import *
import datetime

AREA = 25
WIDTH = 35

def fun(x):
    print(x)

fun("foo")

def fun2(x):
    return x

def get_date():
    print(pi)
    return datetime.datetime.now()
fun2("bar")

print("debug print")

print(fun2("hello world"))

print(get_date()

Add ast.Assign:
for node in p.body[:]:
    if not isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef,
        ast.Import, ast.ImportFrom,ast.Assign)):
        p.body.remove(node)
....

Output:
calling fun
calling fun2
3.14159265359
2015-05-09 12:34:18.015799
25
35

So it really all depends on how your modules are structured and what they should contain as to what you remove. If there are literally only functions then the first example will do what you want. If there are other  parts that need to be kept it is just a matter of adding them to the isinstance check.
The listing of all the abstract grammar definitions is in the cpython source under Parser/Python.asdl.

A: You could use sys.settrace() to catch function definitions.
Whenever your fun() is defined, you save it somewhere, and you place a stub into the module you are importing, so that it won't get executed.
Assuming that fun() gets defined only once, this code should do the trick:
import sys

fun = None

def stub(*args, **kwargs):
    pass

def wait_for_fun(frame, event, arg):
    global fun

    if frame.f_code.co_filename == '/path/to/module.py':
        if 'fun' in frame.f_globals:
            # The function has just been defined. Save it.
            fun = frame.f_globals['fun']
            # And replace it with our stub.
            frame.f_globals['fun'] = stub

            # Stop tracing the module execution.
            return None

    return wait_for_fun

sys.settrace(wait_for_fun)
import my_module

# Now fun() is available and we can test it.
fun(1, 2, 3)
# We can also put it again inside the module.
# This is important if other functions in the module need it.
my_module.fun = fun

This code can be improved in many ways, but it does its job.

A: maybe if you just want to import the fun () function from submission.py try

from submission import fun

To perform the function of fun, you must include the fun module

submission.fun()

or if you want to make it easier when calling the fun () function, give it a try
from submission import fun as FUN
FUN ()


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Q: How I edit files in Program Files folder? I am the sole user of my system, also my user account has Admin powers, and for most power I can do anything I want...
Except,  edit files in Program Files or Program Files(x86) folders, and I have LOTS of apps and games that require manual editing of configuration files, also I like to program, and to mod games, and also can't edit files there.
My "solution" so far is just not install anything on those folders, also workaround by editing files elsewhere and pasting them on the target later.
These both have problems: one, lots of stuff are already on those folders, the second problem is that is lots of work to copy and paste files all over the place every time I need a tiny little change.
So how I change Program Files folders (both of them) to just let me do whatever I want?
Bonus: How I do that in a way that applications also have full access? Many games break when installed on Program Files, Steam and GOG forums are full of "solutions" that involve just not installing games there, because when you do, they break, because of silly permissions.

A: Rather than opening up permissions to let you do whatever you want, what you need to do is open an administrator-level explorer window and programs:
To open an administrator-level Windows Explorer window:

*

*Search for cmd.exe, right-click on it, and select Run as Administrator.

*Type cd "C:\Program Files"

*Type start .
To edit a plaintext file (i.e. a file that can be edited with notepad) do this:

*

*Search for cmd.exe, right-click on it, and select Run as Administrator.

*Type cd "C:\Program Files\[directory of file to be edited]"

*Type notepad [filename]
Alternatively, follow these instructions (credit to WikiHow - with some changes):

*

*Open notepad.

*Copy and paste this code into notepad:

[version]
  signature="$CHICAGO$"

  [NotepadAsAdminInstall]
  CopyFiles = NotepadAsAdmin.Files.Inf
  AddReg    = NotepadAsAdmin.AddReg

  [DefaultInstall]
  CopyFiles = NotepadAsAdmin.Files.Inf
  AddReg    = NotepadAsAdmin.AddReg

  [DefaultUnInstall]
  DelFiles  = NotepadAsAdmin.Files.Inf
  DelReg    = NotepadAsAdmin.DelReg

  [SourceDisksNames]
  55="Notepad as Admin","",1

  [SourceDisksFiles]
  NotepadAsAdmin.INF=55

  [DestinationDirs]
  NotepadAsAdmin.Files.Inf = 17

  [NotepadAsAdmin.Files.Inf]
  NotepadAsAdmin.INF

  [NotepadAsAdmin.AddReg]
  HKLM,%UDHERE%,DisplayName,,"%NotepadAsAdminName%"
  HKLM,%UDHERE%,UninstallString,,"rundll32.exe syssetup.dll,SetupInfObjectInstallAction DefaultUninstall 132 %17%\NotepadAsAdmin.inf"
  HKCR,\Shell\runas,,,"%NotepadAsAdminAccel%"
  HKCR,\Shell\runas\command,,,"%11%\notepad.exe ""%1"""

  [NotepadAsAdmin.DelReg]
  HKLM,%UDHERE%
  HKCR,Directory\Shell\runas
  HKCR,Drive\Shell\runas

  [Strings]
  NotepadAsAdminName="Notepad as Admin PowerToy (Uninstall)"
  NotepadAsAdminAccel="Open with Notepad as Administrator"
  UDHERE="Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NotepadAsAdmin"

*In notepad, go to File -> Save As... and select All files.  Save to the desktop as NotepadAsAdmin.inf.

*Close notepad.

*Right-click on NotepadAsAdmin.inf on the desktop, and select Install from the context menu.

*You should now be able to select any file anywhere, right-click it, and select `Open with Notepad as Administrator from the context menu.

This method was said to work with Windows Vista and 7, but I don't know if it will work with 8, 8.1, but I have tested it on Windows 10, so I assume it will work with 8 and 8.1.  Alternatively, you can download a pre-made installer for this (provided through my DropBox) here.  You do not need DropBox to download this file.


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Dr. Mamatha Bollineni completed medical school at Guntur Medical College in Guntur, India in 1998. In 2003, she moved to Texas and entered the School of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. She earned her Masters degree in public health in 2005. In 2008, she completed her residency in internal medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois.
Dr. Bollineni is board certified in internal medicine. She has worked as a primary care physician from 2008 to the present. She also has a special interest in epidemiology and in 2004 she completed an internship with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, evaluating environmental pollutants.
She is dedicated to providing preventive health care as well as the treatment of complex chronic diseases such as kidney disease, heart disease and diabetes. Her philosophy is to have a partnership with her patients through providing education and supporting them in making healthy decisions. She is committed to providing compassionate, respectful care.
Outside of her medical practice, she enjoys time with her family. Her favorite hobbies are cooking, traveling and reading.
Dr. Mamatha Bollineni completed medical school at Guntur Medical College in Guntur, India in 1998. In 2003, she moved to Texas and entered the School of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. She earned her Masters degree in public health in 2005. In 2008, she completed her residency in internal medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Bollineni is board certified in internal medicine. She has worked as a primary care physician from 2008 to the present. She also has a special interest in epidemiology and in 2004 she completed an internship with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, evaluating environmental pollutants. She is dedicated to providing preventive health care as well as the treatment of complex chronic diseases such as kidney disease, heart disease and diabetes. Her philosophy is to have a partnership with her patients through providing education and supporting them in making healthy decisions. She is committed to providing compassionate, respectful care. Outside of her medical practice, she enjoys time with her family. Her favorite hobbies are cooking, traveling and reading.


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Special vote for early parliamentary elections begins in Iraq
International Friday 08th October 2021 04:05 PM REPORT
We show you our most important and recent visitors news details Special vote for early parliamentary elections begins in Iraq in the following article
Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - BAGHDAD — Polling stations in Iraq opened their gates Friday to allow security personnel, the displaced and prisoners to cast their special votes, while general elections are scheduled to be held coming Sunday.
The media department of the Interior Ministry mentioned in statement that security personnel were arriving in droves to participate in the elections amidst what it described as highly professional organization.
According to official statistics by election commission, 1.075 million security and armed forces personnel, amongst whom are 13,000 women, were eligible to cast votes in 595 different voting centers scattered across the country.
Friday's special vote also includes 120,000 registered displaced individuals, 61,000 of whom are women, as well as 671 prisoners' casting votes in six voting centers.
The voting process began at 7:00 a.m. local time and scheduled to be closed at 6:00 p.m. with no chance of extending the voting period according to the elections' commission.
The commission announced previously that voters' cards would be revoked after the special vote to prevent their use a second time as special votes count will be announced along with general vote count.
General vote for early elections is scheduled to be held this coming Sunday, amidst extensive security measures and under UN and EU supervision. It is also considered Iraq's most expansive parliamentary elections.
The vote is being held six months before schedule, in line with a promise made by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi when he assumed office in 2020. He is seeking to appease anti-government protesters who rose up in October 2019 in Baghdad and Iraq's south.
Friday's so-called "special voting" two days ahead of the election is meant to free police and soldiers so they can provide security on Election Day.
There are 3,449 candidates vying for 329 seats in parliament in Sunday's vote, which will be the fifth held since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Groups drawn from the Shi'ite Muslim majority are expected to remain in the driving seat, as has been the case since Hussein's Sunni-led government was ousted in 2003.
The government also introduced a new voting law that it says will bring more independent voices into parliament and can help reform. It has been trying to encourage a greater turnout. — Agencies
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St. Vincent's 100 Year Statues // February 2016
On 2/17/16, St. Vincent's Healthcare had a dedication ceremony unveiling the bronze statues celebrating 100 years of service from the Daughters of Charity, who came from Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1917. They were invited by the city fathers in 1917 to turn around the failing DeSoto Sanatorium in the Springfield area of town. Meeting this challenge with success, the sisters were moved to the Riverside area of town and renamed it St. Vincent's Hospital.
This sculpture was created by Captain Robert L. Rasmussen, USN who served in the Korean War and Vietnam. He was also a member of the Blue Angel Squadron from 1956 to 1960. The sculpture depicts a young Daughter of Charity handing a crucifix to a physician, symbolic of "passing on the mission" of service to the sick and the poor. The child holding onto the sister's skirt represents all of us in the community that hold dear the vision and mission of the Daughters of Charity. A basket of oranges and a palm tree are nearby, representing the actual gifts given to the Daughters of Charity by the Bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine.
The statues were installed by MJW's St. Vincent's team. To avoid conflicts with pedestrian and vehicular traffic, the foundation and the setting of the statues were performed at night. The demolition, site work, sign relocation, electrical, hardscape and landscaping were performed during the day. The statues will remain at the entrance to St. Vincent's Hospital as a reminder of the service the Daughters of Charity provided for the next 100 years or more.


Int J Basic Sci Med. 2018;3(4):178-187.
Introduction: Moringa peregrina (Forssk.) Fiori as a desert tree has economic, nutritional, and medicinal properties, and is constantly encountered with drought stress. In addition, the role of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) in regulating the drought stress which induces biochemical processes is uncertain in this plant. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the biochemical alternations, namely, enzymatic and osmoprotectant which are induced by ZnO-NPs in ten populations of M. peregrina under drought stress. Materials and Methods: Moringa peregrina seeds were collected from southeast of Iran in 2014. The young plants were exposed to drought stress by withholding irrigation (until 50% filed capacity [FC]) 40 days after germination followed by spraying 0 (as control), 0.05, and 0.1% of the ZnO-NPs. Results: The alternations of Na/K ratio, enzymes activities, and osmoprotectant content varied under drought stress depending on the M. peregrina populations. Generally, drought stress significantly enhanced peroxidase (POD) and polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activities, as well as proline content in untreated plants. Further, the Na/K ratio and carbohydrates content significantly decreased under the drought stress. Furthermore, ZnO-NP treatment significantly enhanced POD and PPO activities, as well as proline and carbohydrates content under both well-watered (100% FC) and drought stress conditions (50% FC), and at the concentration of 0.05% rather than 0.1%, ZnO-NPs was more effective. Conclusion: Overall, ZnO-NP treatment could effectively improve the drought tolerance by enhancing the enzymes activities and osmoprotectant content in different M. peregrina populations under drought stress. Therefore, foliar application of ZnO-NPs at 0.05% concentration could be a recommended treatment for growing different M. peregrina populations under drought stress conditions.


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Write at Q item 10 the total income from the forestry interests that the trust holds in a forestry managed investment scheme (FMIS). The amount you show at Q will depend on the points below.
Do not include capital gains from an FMIS; show these at A Net capital gain item 21. For more information on the CGT treatment of the company's forestry interests, see the Guide to capital gains tax 2016. If the company is a member of a collapsed agribusiness managed investment scheme, see Collapse of agribusiness managed investment schemes: participant information for information on calculating your income and deductions.
A forestry interest in a forestry managed investment scheme (FMIS) is a right to benefits produced by the FMIS, whether the right is actual, prospective or contingent, and whether it is enforceable or not.
The forestry manager of an FMIS is the entity that manages, arranges or promotes the FMIS.
A trust is an initial participant in a FMIS if:
it obtained its forestry interest in the FMIS from the forestry manager of the scheme
its payment to obtain the forestry interest in an FMIS results in the establishment of trees.
A trust is a subsequent participant in an FMIS if it acquired its interest through secondary market trading. This means it acquired its interest other than as an initial participant, usually by purchasing that interest from an initial participant in the scheme.
The amount of the trust's total forestry scheme deductions is the total of all the amounts it can deduct or has deducted for each income year it held its forestry interest. For more information on amounts the trust can deduct, see item 17 Forestry managed investment scheme deduction.
The amount of the trust's incidental forestry scheme receipts is the total of all the amounts it has received from the FMIS in each income year it held its forestry interest, other than amounts received because of a capital gains tax (CGT) event.
If the trust received thinning proceeds from its forestry interest, include the actual amount received at Q.
the trust ceased holding its forestry interest as a result of a CGT event (because it sold its interest or it received harvest proceeds), and
the trust has claimed a deduction, or can claim a deduction, or would be entitled to deduct such amounts but for a CGT event happening within four years after the end of the income year in which the it first pays an amount under the FMIS,
then include the market value of the forestry interest at the time of the CGT event at Q.
a CGT event happened and the trust still held its forestry interest (because it sold part of its interest or there was a partial harvest), and
the trust has claimed a deduction, or can claim a deduction, or would be entitled to deduct such amounts but for a CGT event happening within four years after the end of the income year in which the trust first pays an amount under the FMIS,
include at Q the amount by which the market value of the forestry interest was reduced as a result of the CGT event.
If the trust received thinning proceeds from its forestry interest then include the actual amount received at Q.
the trust has deducted, or can deduct, or could have deducted, an amount if the trust had paid the amount under the scheme in relation to the forestry interest,
then include at Q the lesser of
the market value of the forestry interest at the time of the CGT event, or
the amount (if any) by which the total forestry scheme deductions exceeded the incidental forestry scheme receipts.
a CGT event happened and the trust still held its forestry interest (because it sold part of its interest or there was a partial harvest)
the trust can deduct, or has deducted, or could have deducted, an amount if the trust had paid the amount under the FMIS in relation to the forestry interest,
the market value of the forestry interest at the time of the CGT event
the amount (if any) by which the total forestry scheme deductions exceeded the incidental forestry scheme receipts ('net deductions').
Example 6 shows how to calculate the amount to include at Q where the fund sold its forestry interest.
Use the lesser of the two amounts above in the following formula:
amount worked
out above
the decrease (if any) in the market value of the forestry interest
(as a result of the CGT event)
the market value of the forestry interest just before the CGT event
Use this formula to calculate the amount which is included in assessable income to the extent that the sale or harvest payment matches net deductions.
Include at Q the amount calculated using the formula. The remainder of the net deductions will be claimed in a future income year (a year in which the trust receives further proceeds from a harvest or the sale of its forestry interest).
Example 7 shows how to calculate the amount to include at Q where there is a harvest payment made and the fund still holds the forestry interest.
Add up all the amounts you worked out for the trust's FMIS income. Write the total at Q.
See examples 6 and 7 for how to calculate the amount you show at Q where the trust is a subsequent participant that holds the forestry interest on capital account.
For more information on the CGT treatment of a trust's forestry interest acquired as a subsequent participant, see Guide to capital gains tax 2016.
Example 6: Sale receipts: forestry interest no longer held
Cedar Trust is a subsequent participant in an FMIS. It sold its forestry interest at the market value of $20,000. The sale of the forestry interest is a CGT event. The original cost base was $14,000.
In the time that Cedar Trust held the forestry interest, it claimed $4,000 in deductions (its total forestry scheme deductions) for lease fees, annual management fees and the cost of felling that it paid to the forestry manager.
During an earlier period, it received $1,500 from thinning proceeds (its incidental forestry scheme receipts).
Cedar Trust will need to include $2,500 (that is, $4,000 – $1,500) at Q, because this amount is less than the market value of its forestry interest at the time of the CGT event.
CGT notes:
Cedar Trust will take the amount that it included at Q into account when working out the amount to include at A Net capital gain; see the Guide to capital gains tax 2016.
The capital gain would be $3,500. That is, capital proceeds of $20,000 less cost base of $16,500. The $16,500 is made up of $14,000 plus $2,500 that was included in assessable income.
Example 7: Harvest receipts: forestry interest still held
Oakey Trust is a subsequent participant in an FMIS. It received harvest proceeds over two income years. It received the first harvest payment of $5,000 in 2015–16.
The market value of its forestry interest was $20,000 just before it received its payment for the first harvest (which is a CGT event). After it received this first harvest payment, the market value of its forestry interest was reduced to $15,000. Its original cost base was $14,000.
During the time that it held its interest, Oakey Trust claimed $4,000 in deductions (its total forestry scheme deductions) for lease fees, annual management fees and the cost of felling that it has paid to the forestry manager. In an earlier period, it received $1,500 from thinning proceeds (its incidental forestry scheme receipts).
Step 1 The market value of the forestry interest (at the time of the CGT event) was $20,000.
The amount by which the total forestry scheme deductions exceed the incidental forestry scheme receipts is $2,500 (that is, $4,000 minus $1,500 for the net deductions).
The amount to use in step 2 is $2,500.
Step 2 Using the formula above:
Step 3 As the amount calculated at step 2 is less than the amount calculated at step 1, the Oakey Trust will need to include $625 at Q in its 2016 tax return.
Oakey Trust has disposed of 25% of its forestry interest. It must also calculate the amount it must include at A Net capital gain.
For 2015–16 the capital gain would be $875. That is, capital proceeds of $5,000 less apportioned original cost base of $4,125. The $4,125 is made up of $3,500 (25% of $14,000) plus $625 that is included in assessable income.