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Q: Python3: matplotlib.pyplot.plot_date() date labels overrunning I am plotting the following data:
myDates = ['2017-05-17', '2017-05-24', '2017-05-25', '2017-05-26', '2017-05-27', '2017-05-29', '2017-05-31', '2017-06-01', '2017-06-03', '2017-06-04', '2017-06-05', '2017-06-06', '2017-06-07', '2017-06-08', '2017-06-10', '2017-06-11', '2017-06-12', '2017-06-13', '2017-06-15', '2017-06-16', '2017-06-17', '2017-06-18', '2017-06-19', '2017-06-20', '2017-06-21', '2017-06-22', '2017-06-23', '2017-06-24', '2017-06-25', '2017-06-26', '2017-06-27', '2017-06-28', '2017-06-29', '2017-06-30', '2017-07-01', '2017-07-02', '2017-07-04', '2017-07-05', '2017-07-07', '2017-07-08', '2017-07-10', '2017-07-13', '2017-07-15', '2017-07-16', '2017-07-17', '2017-07-18', '2017-07-19', '2017-07-20', '2017-07-23', '2017-07-24', '2017-07-25', '2017-07-27', '2017-07-28', '2017-07-29', '2017-07-31', '2017-08-01', '2017-08-02', '2017-08-03', '2017-08-04', '2017-08-06', '2017-08-07', '2017-08-08', '2017-08-09', '2017-08-10', '2017-08-11', '2017-08-12', '2017-08-14', '2017-08-15', '2017-08-16', '2017-08-17', '2017-08-18', '2017-08-19', '2017-08-20', '2017-08-21', '2017-08-22', '2017-08-23', '2017-08-24', '2017-08-25', '2017-08-26', '2017-08-27', '2017-08-28', '2017-08-29', '2017-08-30', '2017-08-31', '2017-09-01', '2017-09-02', '2017-09-03', '2017-09-04', '2017-09-05', '2017-09-06', '2017-09-07', '2017-09-08', '2017-09-10', '2017-09-11', '2017-09-12', '2017-09-13', '2017-09-14', '2017-09-15', '2017-09-16', '2017-09-17', '2017-09-18', '2017-09-19', '2017-09-20', '2017-09-21', '2017-09-22', '2017-09-23', '2017-09-24', '2017-09-25', '2017-09-26', '2017-09-27', '2017-09-28', '2017-09-29', '2017-09-30', '2017-10-01', '2017-10-02', '2017-10-03', '2017-10-04', '2017-10-05', '2017-10-06', '2017-10-07', '2017-10-08', '2017-10-09', '2017-10-10', '2017-10-12', '2017-10-13', '2017-10-14', '2017-10-15', '2017-10-16', '2017-10-18', '2017-10-19', '2017-10-20', '2017-10-21', '2017-10-22', '2017-10-23', '2017-10-25', '2017-10-26', '2017-10-27', '2017-10-28', '2017-10-30', '2017-10-31', '2017-11-01', '2017-11-03', '2017-11-04', '2017-11-05', '2017-11-08', '2017-11-09', '2017-11-10', '2017-11-11', '2017-11-12', '2017-11-13', '2017-11-14', '2017-11-15', '2017-11-18', '2017-11-19', '2017-11-20', '2017-11-21', '2017-11-22', '2017-11-23', '2017-11-24', '2017-11-25', '2017-11-26', '2017-11-27', '2017-11-28', '2017-11-29', '2017-11-30', '2017-12-01', '2017-12-02', '2017-12-03', '2017-12-04', '2017-12-05', '2017-12-06', '2017-12-07', '2017-12-08', '2017-12-09', '2017-12-10', '2017-12-11', '2017-12-12', '2017-12-13', '2017-12-14', '2017-12-15', '2017-12-16', '2017-12-17', '2017-12-18', '2017-12-19', '2017-12-20', '2017-12-21', '2017-12-22', '2017-12-23', '2017-12-24', '2017-12-25', '2017-12-26', '2017-12-27', '2017-12-28', '2017-12-29', '2017-12-30', '2017-12-31', '2018-01-01', '2018-01-02', '2018-01-03', '2018-01-04', '2018-01-05', '2018-01-06', '2018-01-07', '2018-01-08', '2018-01-09', '2018-01-10', '2018-01-11', '2018-01-12', '2018-01-13', '2018-01-14', '2018-01-15', '2018-01-16', '2018-01-17', '2018-01-18', '2018-01-19', '2018-01-20', '2018-01-21', '2018-01-22', '2018-01-23', '2018-01-24', '2018-01-25', '2018-01-26', '2018-01-27', '2018-01-28', '2018-01-29', '2018-01-30', '2018-01-31', '2018-02-01', '2018-02-02', '2018-02-03', '2018-02-04', '2018-02-05', '2018-02-06', '2018-02-07', '2018-02-08', '2018-02-09', '2018-02-10', '2018-02-11', '2018-02-12', '2018-02-13', '2018-02-14', '2018-02-15', '2018-02-17', '2018-02-18', '2018-02-19', '2018-02-20', '2018-02-21', '2018-02-22', '2018-02-23', '2018-02-24', '2018-02-25', '2018-02-26', '2018-02-27', '2018-02-28', '2018-03-01', '2018-03-02', '2018-03-03', '2018-03-04', '2018-03-05', '2018-03-06', '2018-03-07', '2018-03-08', '2018-03-09', '2018-03-11', '2018-03-13', '2018-03-14', '2018-03-15', '2018-03-16', '2018-03-17', '2018-03-18', '2018-03-19', '2018-03-20', '2018-03-21']

myValues = [100, 101, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 165, 189, 193, 195, 196, 203, 210, 211, 214, 223, 224, 225, 226, 230, 231, 240, 249, 257, 266, 270, 273, 274, 282, 285, 291, 298, 300, 301, 303, 304, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 314, 315, 320, 322, 325, 328, 330, 342, 343, 346, 348, 349, 373, 380, 387, 391, 392, 395, 397, 401, 403, 408, 414, 420, 421, 422, 475, 477, 481, 484, 487, 490, 492, 500, 503, 504, 510, 511, 512, 515, 520, 521, 524, 526, 529, 530, 531, 534, 538, 541, 548, 553, 561, 565, 569, 574, 581, 585, 588, 592, 593, 597, 599, 602, 605, 608, 612, 615, 617, 624, 626, 631, 635, 638, 640, 644, 649, 652, 654, 656, 663, 665, 667, 676, 682, 684, 685, 686, 688, 691, 692, 708, 711, 712, 713, 714, 716, 717, 718, 719, 749, 755, 757, 758, 761, 762, 763, 764, 771, 772, 774, 778, 781, 788, 821, 835, 840, 848, 855, 861, 869, 884, 894, 913, 919, 928, 933, 940, 946, 949, 957, 965, 974, 984, 989, 996, 1001, 1055, 1057, 1059, 1067, 1079, 1083, 1092, 1101, 1109, 1112, 1116, 1121, 1138, 1159, 1174, 1192, 1204, 1222, 1230, 1253, 1264, 1270, 1277, 1287, 1293, 1298, 1301, 1313, 1326, 1330, 1336, 1354, 1361, 1367, 1376, 1404, 1405, 1437, 1465, 1479, 1533, 1553, 1571, 1584, 1600, 1624, 1631, 1643, 1663, 1672, 1679, 1690, 1696, 1707, 1712, 1716, 1725, 1728, 1733, 1739, 1740, 1741, 1750, 1755, 1762, 1764, 1788, 1792, 1800, 1811, 1815, 1822, 1829, 1836, 1842, 1843, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1855, 1858, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1867, 1869, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1882, 1885]

myDates is a list of dates (formatted using datetime). myValues is a list of integers. And I am making the following plot:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot_date(x = myDates, y = myValues)
plt.xlabel('Dates')
plt.ylabel('Cumulative values')
plt.show()

However, the labels in the x axes are not clearly visible. How can I make ticks only for year-month values? Concretely, I would like ticks for: 2017-05, 2017-06, 2017-07, ..., 2018-02, 2018-03. If possible, I'd like the text at an angle so it doesn't run on top of the next tick label.

A: You should be able to get what you need with:
f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8,8))

ax.plot_date(x = myDates, y = myValues)
ax.set_xticklabels(myDates, rotation=45, size=20)
ax.set_ylabel('Cumulative # of wallet addresses')
plt.show()

Just change the size and rotation set in line: ax.set_xticklabels()
EDIT:
f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(20,10))
ax.plot_date(x=myDates, y=myValues)

ax.set_ylabel('Cumulative # of wallet addresses')
ax.yaxis.set_tick_params(labelsize=14) # Sets size of the y ticklabels

ax.set_xticks(myDates) # Sets the positions of the ticks
ax.set_xticklabels(myDates, rotation=45, size=20, ha="right") # Sets a label on each tick
ax.xaxis.set_tick_params(length=12) # Sets length of the ticks

# Hides ticks and labels according to their position (here 1 in 7 is shown)
x = 0
for label, tick in zip(ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels(), ax.xaxis.majorTicks):
    if x % 7 != 0 :
        label.set_visible(False)
        tick.set_visible(False)
    x += 1

plt.show()

Changing the modulo value in if x % 7 != 0 modifies the number of ticks you will show on the plot. Bigger value for fewer ticks and labels. It is important to set ha="right" otherwise the rotation makes it uncomfortable to see which label goes with which tick.

A: You can go the lazy way and use pandas.to_datetime to convert your x-axis values to date times (rather than strings) and let matplotlib worry about getting a better spacing/rotation using  fig.autofmt_xdate`
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

myDates = ['2017-05-17', '2017-05-24', '2017-05-25', '2017-05-26', '2017-05-27', '2017-05-29', '2017-05-31', '2017-06-01', '2017-06-03', '2017-06-04', '2017-06-05', '2017-06-06', '2017-06-07', '2017-06-08', '2017-06-10', '2017-06-11', '2017-06-12', '2017-06-13', '2017-06-15', '2017-06-16', '2017-06-17', '2017-06-18', '2017-06-19', '2017-06-20', '2017-06-21', '2017-06-22', '2017-06-23', '2017-06-24', '2017-06-25', '2017-06-26', '2017-06-27', '2017-06-28', '2017-06-29', '2017-06-30', '2017-07-01', '2017-07-02', '2017-07-04', '2017-07-05', '2017-07-07', '2017-07-08', '2017-07-10', '2017-07-13', '2017-07-15', '2017-07-16', '2017-07-17', '2017-07-18', '2017-07-19', '2017-07-20', '2017-07-23', '2017-07-24', '2017-07-25', '2017-07-27', '2017-07-28', '2017-07-29', '2017-07-31', '2017-08-01', '2017-08-02', '2017-08-03', '2017-08-04', '2017-08-06', '2017-08-07', '2017-08-08', '2017-08-09', '2017-08-10', '2017-08-11', '2017-08-12', '2017-08-14', '2017-08-15', '2017-08-16', '2017-08-17', '2017-08-18', '2017-08-19', '2017-08-20', '2017-08-21', '2017-08-22', '2017-08-23', '2017-08-24', '2017-08-25', '2017-08-26', '2017-08-27', '2017-08-28', '2017-08-29', '2017-08-30', '2017-08-31', '2017-09-01', '2017-09-02', '2017-09-03', '2017-09-04', '2017-09-05', '2017-09-06', '2017-09-07', '2017-09-08', '2017-09-10', '2017-09-11', '2017-09-12', '2017-09-13', '2017-09-14', '2017-09-15', '2017-09-16', '2017-09-17', '2017-09-18', '2017-09-19', '2017-09-20', '2017-09-21', '2017-09-22', '2017-09-23', '2017-09-24', '2017-09-25', '2017-09-26', '2017-09-27', '2017-09-28', '2017-09-29', '2017-09-30', '2017-10-01', '2017-10-02', '2017-10-03', '2017-10-04', '2017-10-05', '2017-10-06', '2017-10-07', '2017-10-08', '2017-10-09', '2017-10-10', '2017-10-12', '2017-10-13', '2017-10-14', '2017-10-15', '2017-10-16', '2017-10-18', '2017-10-19', '2017-10-20', '2017-10-21', '2017-10-22', '2017-10-23', '2017-10-25', '2017-10-26', '2017-10-27', '2017-10-28', '2017-10-30', '2017-10-31', '2017-11-01', '2017-11-03', '2017-11-04', '2017-11-05', '2017-11-08', '2017-11-09', '2017-11-10', '2017-11-11', '2017-11-12', '2017-11-13', '2017-11-14', '2017-11-15', '2017-11-18', '2017-11-19', '2017-11-20', '2017-11-21', '2017-11-22', '2017-11-23', '2017-11-24', '2017-11-25', '2017-11-26', '2017-11-27', '2017-11-28', '2017-11-29', '2017-11-30', '2017-12-01', '2017-12-02', '2017-12-03', '2017-12-04', '2017-12-05', '2017-12-06', '2017-12-07', '2017-12-08', '2017-12-09', '2017-12-10', '2017-12-11', '2017-12-12', '2017-12-13', '2017-12-14', '2017-12-15', '2017-12-16', '2017-12-17', '2017-12-18', '2017-12-19', '2017-12-20', '2017-12-21', '2017-12-22', '2017-12-23', '2017-12-24', '2017-12-25', '2017-12-26', '2017-12-27', '2017-12-28', '2017-12-29', '2017-12-30', '2017-12-31', '2018-01-01', '2018-01-02', '2018-01-03', '2018-01-04', '2018-01-05', '2018-01-06', '2018-01-07', '2018-01-08', '2018-01-09', '2018-01-10', '2018-01-11', '2018-01-12', '2018-01-13', '2018-01-14', '2018-01-15', '2018-01-16', '2018-01-17', '2018-01-18', '2018-01-19', '2018-01-20', '2018-01-21', '2018-01-22', '2018-01-23', '2018-01-24', '2018-01-25', '2018-01-26', '2018-01-27', '2018-01-28', '2018-01-29', '2018-01-30', '2018-01-31', '2018-02-01', '2018-02-02', '2018-02-03', '2018-02-04', '2018-02-05', '2018-02-06', '2018-02-07', '2018-02-08', '2018-02-09', '2018-02-10', '2018-02-11', '2018-02-12', '2018-02-13', '2018-02-14', '2018-02-15', '2018-02-17', '2018-02-18', '2018-02-19', '2018-02-20', '2018-02-21', '2018-02-22', '2018-02-23', '2018-02-24', '2018-02-25', '2018-02-26', '2018-02-27', '2018-02-28', '2018-03-01', '2018-03-02', '2018-03-03', '2018-03-04', '2018-03-05', '2018-03-06', '2018-03-07', '2018-03-08', '2018-03-09', '2018-03-11', '2018-03-13', '2018-03-14', '2018-03-15', '2018-03-16', '2018-03-17', '2018-03-18', '2018-03-19', '2018-03-20', '2018-03-21']

myValues = [100, 101, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 165, 189, 193, 195, 196, 203, 210, 211, 214, 223, 224, 225, 226, 230, 231, 240, 249, 257, 266, 270, 273, 274, 282, 285, 291, 298, 300, 301, 303, 304, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 314, 315, 320, 322, 325, 328, 330, 342, 343, 346, 348, 349, 373, 380, 387, 391, 392, 395, 397, 401, 403, 408, 414, 420, 421, 422, 475, 477, 481, 484, 487, 490, 492, 500, 503, 504, 510, 511, 512, 515, 520, 521, 524, 526, 529, 530, 531, 534, 538, 541, 548, 553, 561, 565, 569, 574, 581, 585, 588, 592, 593, 597, 599, 602, 605, 608, 612, 615, 617, 624, 626, 631, 635, 638, 640, 644, 649, 652, 654, 656, 663, 665, 667, 676, 682, 684, 685, 686, 688, 691, 692, 708, 711, 712, 713, 714, 716, 717, 718, 719, 749, 755, 757, 758, 761, 762, 763, 764, 771, 772, 774, 778, 781, 788, 821, 835, 840, 848, 855, 861, 869, 884, 894, 913, 919, 928, 933, 940, 946, 949, 957, 965, 974, 984, 989, 996, 1001, 1055, 1057, 1059, 1067, 1079, 1083, 1092, 1101, 1109, 1112, 1116, 1121, 1138, 1159, 1174, 1192, 1204, 1222, 1230, 1253, 1264, 1270, 1277, 1287, 1293, 1298, 1301, 1313, 1326, 1330, 1336, 1354, 1361, 1367, 1376, 1404, 1405, 1437, 1465, 1479, 1533, 1553, 1571, 1584, 1600, 1624, 1631, 1643, 1663, 1672, 1679, 1690, 1696, 1707, 1712, 1716, 1725, 1728, 1733, 1739, 1740, 1741, 1750, 1755, 1762, 1764, 1788, 1792, 1800, 1811, 1815, 1822, 1829, 1836, 1842, 1843, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1855, 1858, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1867, 1869, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1882, 1885]

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
plt.xlabel('Dates')
plt.ylabel('Cumulative values')
ax.plot_date(x = pd.to_datetime(myDates), y = myValues)
fig.autofmt_xdate()
plt.show()

If you want to have full control over how many, where, and the precise rotation of your xticks and xticklabels you need to use ax.set_xticklabels as suggested by other answers.

A: As @ImportanceOfBeingErnest pointed out, myDates were strings. Once I formatted them properly as dates using the following code:
myDates = [datetime.datetime.strptime(d, '%Y-%m-%d') for d in myDates]

it all worked out, i.e. the plot automatically set ticks for the month-year only.


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Q: Shoreline assesment via buffer I've been looking around but haven't found an answer to match.
I have a number of endpoint rates (EPR, I'm working on shorelines), and I want to know if it's possible to create a buffer based on the EPR numbers. So say a point has moved 2 meters, but another point has moved -0.5, is there a way to calculate a buffer based on each unique EPR number?
Hope it makes sense, and that I have clarified my question.
Edit (17.04.2019):
I'm using ArcMap, working with the DSAS software-extension. My plan is to try and create a disaster-assessment map, and I want to show how the shoreline could potentially move, based on past movement.
So I have a set of EPR numbers, representing whether the coast has eroded or accreted, and I want to, based on the EPR numbers, visualise where those points could be located within a number of years if that makes sense.

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Showing, Telling, and Paddling Ducks
March 20, 2018 March 19, 2018 / davethe10r
"Show, don't tell."
That's the mantra that gets hammered into the head of every beginning writer. If you've ever taken a creative writing class or attended a writer's conference, you've probably heard something along the lines of, "Don't say 'Sally is sad.' Show us Sally being sad." This leads to painting a picture of Sally's sad expression, describing the teardrops streaking her face, and detailing Sally's posture and movements in a way that makes it clear to readers just how unhappy Sally is.
That's good advice, as far as it goes. The problem is that for most people, external emotional responses are just a tiny part of their actual reaction. Indeed, one of the most important things we learn as we grow from childhood to adulthood is to hide our emotions.
It's like that famous quote, usually attributed to actor Michael Caine: "Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath." If your characters are to come off as real people, most of their emotional reactions are going to be entirely internal. And if we only ever describe the tranquility above the surface, our readers might never guess at the frantic paddling that's going on down below.
My Own Achilles' Heel
I'm blessed to be in a writing group with three perceptive readers who are diligent at reminding me when I'm not telling enough. We submit our chapters to each other using Google Docs, and we use the platform's commenting feature extensively. When my group reviews my writing, the most common response I get from them is something along the lines of, "Where's the emotional response?"
Okay, I'll be honest. Sometimes I just forget. What happens, I think, is that I get lazy and assume that readers will take their own emotional response to the story and project it onto the POV character. This usually falls flat. Just as often, though, I'll write a character's physical response but forget to dig into the inner reaction to help carry the story along.
So I submit my chapters. The next day, I'll open up them up to see a comment from Kris: "How does she feel about what just happened?" Mike has responded to Kris with something like, "I was wondering the same thing." Inevitably, Kelli has added, "That makes three of us."
That's how I know I need to go back and revise.
In a guest post on WritersDigest.com, author Joshua Henkin calls "show, don't tell" the "Great Lie of Writing Workshops." As he explains:
"A story is not a movie is not a TV show, and I can't tell you the number of student stories I read where I see a camera panning. Movies are a perfectly good art from [sic], and they're better at doing some things than novels are—at showing the texture of things, for instance. But novels are better at other things. At moving around in time, for example, and at conveying material that takes place in general as opposed to specific time…. But most important, novels can describe internal psychological states, whereas movies can only suggest them through dialogue and gesture (and through the almost always contrived-seeming voiceover, which is itself a borrowing from fiction)."
Showing is good. We have to show. But the best writers also embrace telling as a technique that allows them to provide much better insight into what the duck is doing down there with its little webbed feet.
As author Lee Child says, "We're not story showers. We're story tellers."
Balancing Show and Tell
I'm still learning how to use both showing and telling effectively in my own writing. Honestly, it's been difficult for me. From my work with my writing group, though, I can single out four suggestions that have really helped me improve.
1. Keep your POV character(s) in mind.
If you're writing in first person, you're telling pretty much all the time. The conceit of first person is that the reader is getting a direct feed of the point-of-view character's inner monologue. This can lead to a vivid, unique voice that's difficult to achieve from other points of view.
Stories in third person unlimited aren't as common as they used to be. With this POV, the narrative voice drifts in and out of heads, reading the thoughts and emotional reactions of whatever character makes sense at the moment. In contrast, with third person limited the inner voice comes through a single character who is the focus of the book, chapter, or section.
Regardless of how you deal with points of view, it's critical to consider how your characters would react to everything happening around them. Knowing your characters—their wants and needs, strengths and weaknesses, goals and regrets—is the easy part. Translating those character traits into genuine human reactions is where things get really tough.
2. Take an "all of the above" approach.
We usually start by showing. Your characters say and do things. They act and react. Even the "stage directions" that accompany your dialogue can go a long way towards portraying realistic human responses. A sidelong glance, a cock of the eyebrow, or a sudden intake of breath all say something to the reader.
Beneath all the "camera and microphone" stuff is the internal dialogue. You can present your characters' direct thoughts ("Geez—what's her problem?"), or you can report their thoughts in third person ("Gwendolyn wondered what Julie's problem was."). The things your characters notice and internally comment on can go a long way toward rounding out your POV characters' responses.
If you do this enough, you'll often find yourself monitoring your own thoughts and feelings, gauging your own private reactions to things as they happen to you, so you can use your responses later in your writing. Inevitably, you'll find yourself wondering whether your personal reactions might be a little different if you weren't watching them like a fly on the wall of your own brain.
Yeah, Heisenberg is kind of a jerk.
3. Do an "emotional response" edit pass.
My experience with my writing group has told me that I need to spend more time crafting my characters' reactions to emotion-inducing events. As I'm getting my chapters ready for review, I set aside time to go methodically through each section, noting response-worthy moments and checking the narrative for appropriate reactions.
There are so many things to consider as you do this. Aside from your characters' actual reactions, you have to figure out the right way to couch them in the voice you've chosen. In fast-paced action sequences, your characters may not have much time to respond to things. It may take a beat or two (or the end of the action) until your characters' heads and hearts can catch up. If your story uses a "scene-sequel" structure, you may provide an immediate reflex to the emotional high points and then amplify your characters' reactions in the scenes that follow.
However you choose to do it, explicitly tying the big moments in your story to specific reactions in your characters can solidify the impact these moments have on your reader.
4. Ask readers for help.
No matter how much effort I put into fine-tuning my characters' responses, I always miss something. Usually multiple somethings. The amazing people in my writing group know me well enough that they instinctively look for off-key or absent reactions in the chapters I submit for review.
If you have similar challenges in your own writing, you can ask your readers to be specifically on the lookout for areas where characters' emotional reactions don't seem to meet their expectations. Give them a shorthand comment or a specific highlight color to use to indicate particular passages where a little telling could supplement what you're already showing. Once others have helped identify the problem passages, go back to your characters to find out what their inner (and outer) responses should be.
My own writing has benefited from this process. I hope yours does, too.
David Baker is an author, playwright, marketing professional, blogger and freelance editor. He has ghost-written several books and authored dozens of published articles on such topics as business technology, the insurance industry, marketing and data security. He writes both YA and "grown-up" fiction and is actively querying several projects. He also edits the monthly journal of a national trade organization. In his spare time, he runs marathons, shoots guns, cooks curries, paints shoes and builds things. He has an A.A. in theater, a B.A. in English and an M.A. in linguistics. Born in Arizona, raised in Hawaii, currently living in Utah, David is actively involved in theater. His stage play, Inside Al, won the Henry Fonda Young Playwright Award and premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The play is published by Samuel French and has been in near-continuous production for more than two decades, with hundreds of performances across the US and Canada. You can find his personal blog at blog.bakerdavid.com.

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FIFA finally frees Ademola Lookman to play for Nigeria
By Alex Monye
11 February 2022 | 3:58 am
Super Eagles Manager, Augustine Eguavoen, now has opportunity to use former England junior star, Ademola Lookman, when the Super Eagles meet Black Stars of Ghana in the last leg of the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying series.
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Nigeria is preparing for a two-leg Qatar 2022 qualifier next month. Lookman was unable to feature for the Eagles at the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroun because FIFA had not granted permission for the Leicester City star to switch allegiance from England to Nigeria.
But the world football governing body has now granted the clearance for the lad born in England by Nigerian parents.
Lookman was in the England team, alongside Dominic Solanke and Fikayo Tomori, who won the U20 World Cup in 2017.
Reacting to the development, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) revealed that Emilio Garcia Silveiro, who is FIFA's Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, conveyed the decision of the Single Judge of the Status Chamber of the Football Tribunal to it.
NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, lauded the record-time approval granted the fresh application by the Federation with regards to Lookman's desire to wear the green-white-green in the international sphere. "We sent in the application on Wednesday night after putting all the necessary documentation together. We are happy to receive the approval today."
Only in December 2021, FIFA also approved the NFF's application for the switch in allegiance for Ashleigh Megan Plumptre to represent Nigeria internationally. Both Lookman and Plumptre had represented England at various junior cadres.
Ademola Lookman
2023 poll: Tinubu reinforces moves to woo youthful voters to his side
As the general elections draw nearer, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has reinforced the move to woo the teeming population of voters within the age range of 35 years and below to his side.
Luka Modric: Croatia's conductor in his last World Cup
Luka Modric said before arriving in Qatar that this World Cup would likely be his last major tournament and he has again orchestrated another deep run for Croatia.
Infantino ranks Qatar 2022 group stage best ever in FIFA World Cup history
The 2022 World Cup has brought the traditional share of strong emotions and footage of supporters from different nationalities coming together to celebrate unprecedented feats at the biggest football tournament, reports africanews.com.
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ASUU cannot but be in my mind. No matter how I try to give attention to something else, the issue of Nigeria's most indefatigable, most patriotic, most absorbing Union keeps on cropping up in my cultured and frank and truthful consciousness akin to ASUU's courageous and rugged consciousness. Before anyone misjudges my ASUU consciousness, let…
Netherlands dare Messi's Argentina as quarterfinals begin
It is now the business end of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar with the eight biggest teams in the competition ready to berth in the last four of the Copa du Mundo. No other game holding anywhere in the world can be more exciting than an Argentina versus Holland clash or a Brazil…
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USA still on top, Germany closing
Download logoUSA lead the way, with Germany not far behind; Portugal and Republic of Ireland hit all-time highs; Estonia and Turkey on the rise. While the eyes of the planet have been trained on the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ for the last couple of weeks, women's football has not stood still. Some 48 women's internationals…


...having finished the account of the wholesome traditions in the Traditions about the Buddha now we need to lay out the account of the unwholesome actions with an enquiry into his deeds.
Slander, pierced by a rock, and the suffering through a splinter.
Backache, dysentery – these occurred through unwholesome deeds in the past.
Herein, in the first enquiry, called austerities, we hear about the reason for six years of austerities.
The outcome of that deed was that for countless hundreds of lives he underwent suffering in Naraka hell. After having received the prediction from that Gracious One, The Buddha-to-be as Jotipāla had later ordained under the Buddha Kassapa, who then confirmed that he would become a Buddha himself at a later date.02 he wasted away in the transmigration of births because of that deed. But in the end he attained his existence as Vessantara, His last earthly existence before the birth as Siddhattha, for which see the final Jātaka (Jā. 547).03 and after falling away from that, he re-arose in the Tusita realm.
When the gods requested him to be reborn, after falling away from there, he arose in the Sakya family. He came to full maturity of knowledge, gave up the sovereignty over the whole of the Rose-Apple Island, cut his top-knot with a well-sharpened sword on the bank of the river Anoma, which was then taken by a Brahmā god using his psychic power until the end of the aeon, and he took the requisites placed in the lotus calyx and went forth.
Being unripe as yet for insight and knowledge and wisdom because of not knowing what is the path and what is not the path to Buddhahood, because of eating only one type of food, one lump of food, from one person only, on one path only, at one sitting only, These are all different types of austerities: taking only one type of food, like beans; or only one lump or food, like one bean; or from only one person, no matter how little they give; or from only one path, instead of going along as many as needed; or eating only at one sitting, not taking anymore for the day after rising from the seat, etc.04 for six years in the Uruvelā country his body, with its bones, skin, sinews and the rest, being without flesh and blood, became like a dead person. His striving should be understood as it is recorded in the Discourse on the Great Traditions, DN 14, which hardly touches on the subject of the striving, but with the process of Awakening; ChS, Thai: Padhānasutte , and identifies it with Suttanipāta, 3.2, but that also deals not so much with the striving as with the fight with Māra. Perhaps a better reference would have been to MN 26, Ariyapariyesanasuttaṁ, which does deal in detail with the striving.05 and so with great energy he performed his austerities.
After realising that austerity is not the Path to Complete Awakening, and partaking of fine food in the villages, towns and capital cities, However, in the tradition it is only said that he partook of the food provided by Sujāta, and there is no mention of his traveling around the country, as this implies, partaking of fine food.06 he satisfied his faculties and the thirty-two signs of the Great Man appeared, and after approaching the area near the Bodhi Tree, and defeating the five Māras, Māra as a god ( devaputtamāra ); Māra as defilements ( kilesammāra ); Māra as the constituent parts ( khandhamāra ); Māra as (wholesome and unwholesome) deeds ( kammamāra ); and Māra as death ( maccumāra ).07 he became the Buddha.
For six years at Uruvelā, and then attained to Awakening.
I sought along the wrong path being obstructed by a past deed.
Griefless, without despair, I will be released, without pollutants.


The papers and correspondence of Mr. Livingston cover his earlier years as vice-president of the UAW until he was named director of organization for the AFL-CIO in 1955. The UAW Aircraft and Agricultural Implement departments, CIO organization drives, wage contract data in the aircraft industry, and the IAM and its relations with the UAW-CIO are discussed. Correspondents include Ben Blackwood, A.B. Connole, Roy L. Reuther, Walter Reuther, and Stuart Symington.


I just picked up a usb to ide adapter the other day, hooked up an old hard drive I had sitting around, and my computer wouldn`t recognize it, I checked the jumper settings on the hd, and it was set at cable select, I changed it to master, hooked it back up to computer, bingo recognized. So, you never know, but I definitely like how 123Runner says it, "It`s the miracle of electronics". Nothing is etched in stone.
You know, I was going to suggest the jumper thing, and then I decided to just ask the questions that I had asked and find that answer first.
Glad you got it fixed Stubbies!


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Amid opioid overdoses, Santa Clarita officials team up to arrest dealers and offer rehab
Sheriff's officials announced that more than 1,200 doses of an anti-opioid nasal spray will be issued to deputies, including those patrolling Santa Clarita.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
By Maya Lau
June 28, 2017 3 PM PT
The dealers were smuggling in bundles of cocaine and heroin, some of it hidden in secret compartments inside their cars. They carried thousands of dollars in cash and at least one firearm, all believed to be linked to their drug peddling in Santa Clarita.
Over the last month and a half, a special team of Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives based out of the Santa Clarita Valley station arrested 39 people on suspicion of narcotics possession and sales, officials announced Wednesday. The team also seized two pounds of heroin, $13,000 in cash and a stolen firearm in the operation.
In April, a surge in local opioid overdose emergencies within a 72-hour period "was a signal" that the team needed to be created, said Capt. Robert Lewis of the Santa Clarita Valley station.
Some of the drugs and money recovered recovered by sheriff's detectives during recent operations to combat opioid-related overdose emergencies.
But the effort isn't only about arresting people, said the city's mayor, Cameron Smyth. He said officials were taking a "holistic" approach to fight the opioid epidemic through family counseling, rehabilitation and the deployment of an anti-opioid medication to be used by deputies who are often first on the scene of an overdose.
Earlier this month, Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced that more than 1,200 doses of naloxone — an anti-opioid nasal spray known by its brand name Narcan — are being issued to deputies patrolling Santa Clarita, East Los Angeles, Crescenta Valley as well as parks and colleges.
Soon, all 240 sworn members of the department's Santa Clarita Valley station, including supervisors, will be issued doses and trained on how to administer the life-saving drug, Lewis said.
As part of the effort, deputies formed a unit called the Juvenile Intervention Team to speak to youngsters at schools about avoiding drugs. The city is also partnering with local drug treatment centers to provide rehabilitation and education about addiction.
On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Mark Ridley-Thomas introduced a motion to establish U-C.A.N. (Conquer Addiction Now), a working group that would study ways to continue to fund the deployment of Narcan to first responders and support substance abuse service providers.
Addiction "doesn't have any knowledge of socioeconomic status," Barger said at a press conference on Wednesday. "It happens in every community, and up here is no different."
maya.lau@latimes.com
Twitter: @mayalau
Maya Lau
Maya Lau is a former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she focused on rapid-response investigations into the chaos inside the USPS, problems with signature verification on ballots and challenges of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. In her prior beat covering the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, she led a team that produced a series revealing how the misconduct of hundreds of deputies had been hidden from judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys for decades, raising questions about whether some defendants received fair trials. She came from the Advocate, based in Baton Rouge, La., where she was the lead writer on a team that won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award for stories revealing the financial dealings of the long-serving warden of the notorious Angola Prison. She graduated from Vassar College.


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Shane Doan scores twice in return as Coyotes defeat Kings 6-4
The Coyotes captain, out for three games with a back injury, scored the first and fourth goals of Phoenix's fourth victory in 14 games this season.
The scoring barrage led to the benching of both starting goalies, Phoenix's Curtis Joseph early in the first period and the Kings' Mathieu Garon early in the second.
Joseph's replacement, David LeNeveu, had 38 saves as the Kings outshot Phoenix 43-24.
The Coyotes, who entered averaging just over two goals per game, scored five straight goals to erase a 3-1 deficit and go up 6-3 in the second period.
Ed Jovanovski had a goal, assist and one spirited fight for the Coyotes.
Phoenix coach Wayne Gretzky pulled Joseph after the Kings scored twice in the first seven minutes, the first on a power-play goal by Anze Kopitar and second by Tom Kostopoulos that put the Kings up 2-1.
Derek Armstrong scored on Leneveu to make it 3-1. But the Coyotes came back with two goals in a 28-second span late in the first period.
Enver Lisin scored his first career goal, in his 10th NHL game, on a deflection of Zbynek Michalek's shot at 13:59, then Georges Laraque took a superb pass from Patrick Fischer and sent it past goalie Mathieu Garon at 14:27 of the first period to make it a 3-3 tie entering the second.
Phoenix scored twice early in the second, prompting Kings coach Marc Crawford to replace Garon with Dan Cloutier after Jovanovski's power-play goal made it 5-3 at 5:33 of the second.
The Coyotes, beaten by the Kings 4-0 in their first meeting of the season, promptly scored on Cloutier, too. Dennis Seidenberg's first goal of the season capped a run of five goals in a row to put Phoenix ahead 6-3 at 6:38 of the second period.
Los Angeles cut the lead to 6-4 at 17:34 of the second when Leneveu tried to cover the puck with his hands. But it popped free, and Alexander Frolov knocked it into the net.
Notes: Doan doubled his goal total for the season. ... Joseph was pulled after two periods of Phoenix's 6-2 loss at Anaheim on Friday. ... Kings defenceman Rob Blake appeared in his 1,000th NHL game. ... Coyotes C Mike Comrie injured a foot in the third period against Anaheim and didn't play.


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Hanson retiree plays piano to lift spirits on Facebook Live
Corlyn Voorhees The Enterprise corlyn_ent
May 1, 2020 at 11:15 AM May 1, 2020 at 4:41 PM
With an iPhone, a tripod and a 1920s baby grand piano in the basement of his Hanson home, Mark Davis puts on a show via Facebook Live for thousands every Saturday night, where he also takes requests.
HANSON — With an iPhone, a tripod and a 1920s baby grand piano in the basement of his Hanson home, Mark Davis puts on a show for thousands every Saturday night.
It was the same piano he first learned to play on as a kid, he said. Now, over half a decade later, he's hoping to bring a bit of joy to people stuck at home due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic with music selections that vary from Billy Joel to show tunes to classic Disney songs.
"They can't hear me live (in-person), but they can hear me from my basement there live and just take their minds off of stuff that's going on and break up the monotony of what's going on and staying home all this time," he said. "It's nice to be able to do that for people and it doesn't cost them anything to listen to me."
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Davis has been a lifelong pianist, starting on that baby grand piano owned by his grandparents and continuing to play gigs throughout the years outside of his full-time job at Harvard Business School Publishing. But after he retired last June, he was able to pick up gigs more regularly, such as playing every Saturday night at The Olde Hitching Post restaurant in Hanson, as well as a part-time job helping out at the Hanson Food Pantry.
The outbreak of COVID-19, sparking the cancellation of weddings and events as well as restaurant closures, has knocked down any potential gigs for the time being, he said. With everyone else mostly relegated to their homes as well, Davis decided to continue a weekly gig virtually via Facebook Live.
With the help of his son, Scott, and Scott's girlfriend, Tatiana Alvarez, Davis was able to set up a Facebook Live stream on his Facebook page, Mark Davis Piano Music, every Saturday starting at 7:30 p.m., and started playing on March 28.
Since then, viewership has "ballooned," he said, with several of his videos accumulating around 6,000 views. While he can't track individual viewers, Davis said he is able to see where viewers in general are from, which has included places as far away as Australia.
"I love doing it!" he said. "It's not the same as playing in front of people, but I am playing for people because they're all listening. A lot of people, they send comments like, 'We wish you were still at the Hitching Post, but since you're not there, it's nice to hear you right here.'"
With the setup, viewers can watch Davis play live at home, but if they miss it, they're able to watch the recording posted on his Facebook page afterwards. Davis said he's also posting the recordings to YouTube, though he's still trying to figure out how to potentially stream live on YouTube at the same time.
While he's able to read some music, Davis relies on his keen sense of hearing — picking out the notes by ear — due to ongoing vision problems.
With that, he's gone off from the sheet music to put his own little spin on the songs he plays.
"I do some reading, but it's a lot by ear, so I add into it," he said. "People will say, 'That's not what's written there, but I like what you're playing.'"
And with those vision problems, he isn't able to see viewer requests for songs while playing, he said, but he does take note to make sure to include them the following week.
"I've just been trying to do it for everybody just to make people happier about the situation than they are, because it's so boring for everybody to stay home all the time so it's something for them to look forward to," Davis said.
The extra time at home has also given Davis more time to practice on the piano, which was recently restored and set up in his basement about a year ago, he said. He said he enjoys the challenge of taking requests from viewers and is learning new songs — including "working on Ed Sheeran," he said.
"It is an outlet for me," he said. "I'm hoping for future work from all this, that people will remember me once everything goes somewhat back to normal. I was getting quite a few jobs before the virus hit and I was playing all different places I hadn't played before, so it was kind of nice."
Staff writer Corlyn Voorhees can be reached at cvoorhees@enterprisenews.com. You can follow her on Twitter at @corlyn_ENT.


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Erica Stancliff winemaker at Trombetta Family Wines
Posted on June 24, 2020 July 8, 2020 by cwcadmin
Erica Stancliff is back on California Wine Country with Steve Jaxon and Dan Berger. Erica Stancliff is the winemaker for Trombetta Family Wines, which she founded with her mother. Dan Berger is also back in the studio, after Coronavirus quarantine. During the time, he opened a lot of bottles from his extensive cellar. About half of them were no good but the other half were good.
Erica Stancliff was on California Wine Country twice last year, in February 2019, together with her mother Rickey Trombetta, and again, with Tom Gendall, Assistant Winemaker at Cline Family Cellars, in a July 2019 show about Petaluma Gap wines. Trombetta is her mother's maiden name. They started the winery in 2010 after Erica graduated from Fresno St. with a degree in enology.
Paul Hobbs was Erica Stancliff's mentor and consulting winemaker for the first few years. After extensive experience internationally and in California for various producers, she took over as winemaker for Trombetta Family Wines in 2014. Paul Hobbs has a great reputation, having worked with David Ramey at Simi Winery and elsewhere. Dan Berger says Paul Hobbs is very respected. He is the guy who lifted the Argentine wine industry up from its bootstraps. Dan says he can do everything, with every varietal. Erica says he was a great person to learn from.
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Speaking of Argentina, Dan says that Argentina makes very good wines that are produced at a much lower cost than here, so they are very inexpensive to us. Erica remembers that they did not have all the technological advances and other choices available there that we have in California.
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Erica got a degree in Viticulture and Enology from California State University, Fresno aka Fresno State. She chose the school because at the time, it was the only college campus that had a bonded winery. They had over 200 acres of farmland and their classes and exams were all very practical, from vineyard through winery all the way to sales.
UC Davis and Fresno St. are the two most famous university wine programs. Others are Purdue, Mississippi St. and Cornell, with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo the newest one coming on. UC Davis is the oldest program, it was founded after the second world war.
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They taste a 2018 Dutton Goldfield Riesling, from the Petaluma Gap. Dan Berger says that the emergence of the Petaluma Gap AVA is a very important development. Petaluma Gap is hot by day with cool evenings, sea breezes and foggy mornings. The AVA is driven by its natural topography, which creates a wind tunnel. Dan Berger says that good acidity will always be a characteristic of Petaluma Gap wines. "This wine wouldn't grow anywhere else to deliver this character. This character comes from the Gap. This area is going to become world famous," says Dan Berger.
Erica Stancliff says, "As the president of the Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Alliance, I'm loving every word I'm hearing."
"This is world class stuff. This is not just good or great, this is world class. This is right up there with the very best wine made anywhere." –Dan Berger on Petaluma Gap wines
Erica tells that Petaluma Gap sells fruit to winemakers in Napa and Sonoma counties that love using their Pinot and Chardonnay. They have a longer growing season than anywhere else around here. They pick about two weeks later than Russian River. Dave Ramey makes a killer Syrah there too.
Dan Berger reminds us about what Jeff Gaffner from Black Kite said recently on this show about his Petaluma Gap Pinot.
All the great Pinot Noir specialists use fruit from Petaluma Gap, Erica names Gary Farrell, Kosta Browne, Three Sticks, Black Kite and others.There are also a few great wineries located there, Blue Wing and Keller Estate she mentions.
Erica describes the Petaluma Gap area. Some parts are at higher and lower elevation, some a little more in the fog line. They harvest at least two weeks later, because they have a longer growing season without losing the acid. Dan says that's the acid that makes the wine.
They have a 2018 Petaluma Gap Chardonnay from Trombetta Family Wines. Dan says it is world class, up there with the best white Burgundies. For comparison, Erica also brought two other Chardonnays from Petaluma Gap, which come from different elevations. The Pfendler is a bit higher, about 1200 ft. elevation, and it's above the fog line. And she has a Gap's Crown Chardonnay, around 500-600 ft. elevation, in the fog line. "That difference in elevation and tilt of vineyard orientation changes these two wines, but at the same time they have beautiful acid, beautiful fruit and there's texture to them. And that is Petaluma Gap in a nutshell to me: Acid, Flavor and Texture."
The next tasting is the Pinot Noir. This Gap's Crown Pinot Noir was the first wine that Trombetta Family Wines produced and Erica remembers it fondly. She talks about the brunt force of the wind in the evenings. Erica is also winemaker for Pfendler and makes wine from their three vineyards that are at three different elevations on Sonoma Mountain. The place is magic, says Erica. Dan says Pinot Noir is rich, without being clumsy. The secret to that is the acidity. The raspberry flavors are more intense in these wines than in the ones from Russian River Valley AVA.
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Tampa Electric telephone scam.. claim that I owed payment for the last 8 months of service to avoid disconnected service, I am completely current and only use about $30 per month.
When you look up that number on the internet, it is registered to a location in the Middle East.
I ran them around for almost 30 minutes, acting like I was going to Walgreens to get the "FastPac" they were requesting for payment.. then when I said "quit scamming people" they quickly hung up.


Possible to completely revert to v1?
Seems everything I do in v2 is broken. Integration of Workflows is incomplete and has poor documentation and bugs when trying to execute via API.
My v1 config was working just fine. Any way I can revert all this work I've put into an unclear migration path and go back to what was working just fine?
Sadly no. 1.0 is EOL and no more builds will run after March 15th.
With that being said, we are happy to help you get things working in 2.0. If you share some of your challenges here on this forum we'd be happy to take a look.
Honestly there were a lot of them and I can't remember half of it now.
I did open and then close this issue where API was giving inconsistent results depending on where it was called from. I imagine it may have been related to how strings are handed in the commands, but by then had experienced so many issues with workflows that it was much easier to remove them and go back to a more reliable if more verbose setup.
When executed locally this will trigger a build on the foo branch.
The API for triggering builds was one of the more frustrating parts. The documented method does not function. One annoyance there is "Project API keys" are not accepted as authentication only "Personal API keys" and this is not documented, so first exposure is a "Permission denied" error which isn't obvious in it's cause.
Over here I see people using another endpoint to trigger builds, which for me resulted in error messages calling for settings which had already been enabled. Also note how we're told to call API v1.1 to access features for 2.1. So inconsistent and without explanation.
Then there is this with incomplete capabilities on 2.1. Why release an minor API version if it is not consistent with the major version?
Issue: 2.1 with the API? Trigger jobs?
API version 2.1? What is this whole incomplete patch all about?
Issue: Are there effects of having "version: 2.1" and "workflow.version: 2" in the same `.circleci/config.yml`?
Then there was something about contexts not working yet for workflows.
Seems it is all half complete and without a clear plan for endpoints. Shutting off v1 while v2 is in this state seems less than robust for a CI platform which has to be relied on for production systems.
These decisions greatly lessen my confidence in the system.
I recommend you take a positive frame of mind when working with hosted CI of any kind. From time to time I see disgruntled users here who post in the hope that things don't work, so they can be proved right in their assertion that the platform is not up to scratch. And, yet, there are thousands of happy customers on the platform, who have all taken a proactive approach to making it work, even if there was some workaround they needed to do.
I can't promise Circle is right for your use case, but I am quite persuaded that the demeanour of the implementer make an substantial difference to the outcome.
With something as mission critical as CI. I expect semver to be rational and most recent version to not be a beta test.
In regards to SemVer, it was not followed at the start, so while we are trying to get it buck on track for our API it is currently a little out of spec.
As an update though, we have a dedicated team working to fill the feature gaps and while I don't have an update we are hoping to be done soon. I understand the frustration and impact this is causing.


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Q: moving between view controllers without using a segue I know should be so simple but how do you move between view controllers on an iPad without using a segue? I have a main menu view controller with a button on it which calls the newViewButton action. I want to open the view controller called MonitorMenu.
- (IBAction)newViewButton:(id)sender {

    [self.navigationController pushViewController:MonitorMenu  animated:NO];

}

It says that MonitorMenu is an unknown interface.
What am I doing wrong?

A: If you are using a storyboard, you can do the following:
1) select your View Controller you want to push (MonitorMenu) on the storyboard by clicking on the little yellow ball in the bar below the actual view.

2) Then set a set a "Storyboard ID" for it in the "Identity Inspector" tab. (in your case, I'd use "monitorMenuView" or something similar)

3) In the .h file of the view controller you want to 'push' it from, import the .h of the class you want to push:
#import "MonitorMenu.h"

4) Then, in your IBAction:
- (IBAction)newViewButton:(id)sender {

    MonitorMenu *monitorMenuViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"monitorMenuView"];
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:monitorMenuViewController animated:NO];

}

A: Here is what I was referring to about declaring your MonitorMenu object:
In your .h file of your current ViewController:
           MonitorMenu *_menu;

In your .m file of your current ViewController:
           //declaring your Monitor Menu object for use
           //then pushing that view onto the stack.
           _menu = [[MonitorMenu alloc] initWithNibName:@"MonitorMenu" bundle:nil];
          [self.navigationController pushViewController:_menu NO];


As the journey to create a family takes read individuals and couples outside their own country in search of less-expensive surrogacy arrangements, it's easy to find websites offering, for a fee, to broker such arrangements – and difficult to find information not tied to commercial interests.
Want to know what's even harder? Finding informative analysis that's completely transparent about the process and the risks facing all parties: intended parents, paid egg providers, surrogates (or gestational mothers), and children.
In an effort to fill this information gap, Myhags teamed up with the Center for Genetics and Society to develop , an educational website that provides factual information for people considering parenthood through international commercial surrogacy.
The site launched today. We hope you'll and send us your .
Why Surrogacy360 – and why now? From women in Central America and South Asia – often marginalized socially, politically, and financially in their community – to educated young women in the United States recruited for genes/eggs perceived as superior, increasing numbers of women are becoming involved in contractual third-party reproduction. The market for their services is global, largely unregulated, and growing. This is leaving a dangerous vacuum, in which women on all sides are persuaded by financial and other incentives in the absence of safety data and redress.
At the other end of these arrangements, there are accounts of intended parents (those that hire gestational mothers) being duped by fertility clinics and recruiting agents. Surrogacy360 scrutinizes the health, legal, and ethical issues affecting everyone involved in the – and does so with every effort to respect the decisions of intended parents and include them in the conversation.
The site answers basic , defines , and explains the . There's a with the latest academic articles, reports, and news stories from around the world. It will be updated regularly, and you can sign up on the resource page to get the latest updates delivered to your in-box.
Surrogacy360 has no commercial interests or conflicts. Content is peer-authored and reviewed by known experts in the field, including individuals working on health care law, human biotechnology, and reproductive justice.
The need for this information has never been greater, said Sally Whelan, program director of the Myhags Global Initiative. Many assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and the social arrangements they encourage are developing largely under the public radar.
"At the same time, for others – especially the women who provide their services in contractual third-party reproduction – it can pose unparalleled risks and create new global inequities within a largely unregulated, multi-billion dollar business," she added.
Ayesha Chatterjee, program manager of the Myhags Global Initiative, said is the only site addressing this dichotomy head-on.
The time to raise awareness is now – first, among consumers of ARTs and those who serve in contractual reproductive arrangements, followed by those in the sectors of public health, medicine, policy, education, human rights, and reproductive justice. Otherwise, around the world and across social and economic spectrums, women of reproductive age will be denied the information they must have for truly informed consent; intended parents will remain beholden to industry practices that are unsound; and children born of these arrangements will continue to face health and legal risks.
For read information, including press materials, see the Surrogacy360 press release.
Hi: The following is what I sent my feminist email list about your new surrogacy blog.
Myhags is starting a new website on surrogacy, a very controversial topic (see below). Jennifer Lahl, for example, one of the people I'm copying on this, is totally opposed to surrogacy and has made several films on the subject.
I have from time-to-time discussed this in my speeches. In a speech I gave at Mills College in Oakland, CA on Sept. 17, 2014, I said the following about surrogacy.
SURROGACY, ALSO KNOWN AS THIRD-PARTY REPRODUCTION. WE'VE ALL READ ARTICLES IN NEWSPAPERS ABOUT SURROGACY BUT FEW OF US REALLY KNOW WHAT IT ENTAILS OR REALIZE WHAT COMPLICATED ETHICAL, MEDICAL, LEGAL, FINANCIAL, AND EMOTIONAL ISSUES SURROGACY RAISES FOR WOMEN, THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, AND THE CHILDREN BORN THROUGH SUCH PROCEDURES IN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD.
THERE ARE TWO MAIN TYPES OF SURROGACY, TRADITIONAL AND GESTATIONAL. IN TRADITIONAL SURROGACY, THE WOMAN IS INSEMINATED NATURALLY OR BY ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONCEIVING FOR AN INTENDED RECIPIENT. IN THIS PROCEDURE, THE SURROGATE IS GENETICALLY RELATED TO THE CHILD, AND THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER AND HIS PARTNER CAN BE REQUIRED TO ADOPT THE CHILD FOLLOWING BIRTH.
IN GESTATIONAL SURROGACY, A WOMAN IS IMPLANTED WITH THE FERTILIZED EGG (OR EMBRYO), CREATED BY IN VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF) OF THE EGG AND SPERM OF OTHERS. THIS TYPE OF SURROGATE IS NOT GENETICALLY RELATED TO THE CHILD AND THE PROCEDURE INVOLVES THE USE OF EGGS SOLD OR DONATED BY ANOTHER WOMAN. GESTATIONAL SURROGACY IS THE MORE COMMON APPROACH IN THE U.S.
IF THE SURROGATE RECEIVES COMPENSATION BEYOND REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEDICAL AND OTHER REASONABLE EXPENSES, THE ARRANGEMENT IS CONSIDERED COMMERCIAL SURROGACY; OTHERWISE, IT IS REFERRED TO AS COMPASSIONATE OR ALTRUISTIC.
JUSTINE GRIFFIN, A REPORTER FOR THE SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE AND AN EGG DONOR HERSELF, DESCRIBED THE FERTILITY INDUSTRY AS THE WILD WEST OF AMERICAN MEDICINE. IT IS UNREGULATED BY FEDERAL LAW AND THE LAWS IN THE STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GO EVERY WHICH WAY: UNDER NEW YORK LAW, GESTATIONAL CONTRACTS ARE VOID AND UNENFORCEABLE; IN ILLINOIS, GESTATIONAL SURROGACY IS PERMITTED BY STATUTE; THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BANS SURROGACY CONTRACTS; AND IN CALIFORNIA, A STATUTE PERMITS GESTATIONAL SURROGACY. BECAUSE IT IS LEGAL IN MANY STATES AND THE PROHIBITIONS AGAINST IT ARE NOT ENFORCED IN SOME OTHERS, THE U.S. HAS BECOME SECOND WORLDWIDE–WITH INDIA BEING FIRST–IN THE SUPPLY OF SURROGATES.
OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES, ONLY A FEW COUNTRIES–AMONG THEM INDIA, THAILAND, UKRAINE AND MEXICO–ALLOW PAID SURROGACY. SURROGACY IS ILLEGAL IN CHINA BUT THERE IS A BOOMING UNDERGROUND MARKET IN SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD.
THE GROWTH OF THE SURROGACY INDUSTRY HAS BEEN EXPLOSIVE. THE BATTLE AS TO WHETHER IT SHOULD BE BANNED OR REGULATED, AND, IF REGULATED, HOW IS CURRENTLY RAGING IN THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD.


Uglyworld #1754 - Callings In Air Supporters - (Project TW - Image 331-366), a photo by www.bazpics.com on Flickr.
"This is Whiskey Alfa Golf Echo, do you copy, over."
I hopes someone answers me soons, I is trappereds in a cornerer on Calls Of Duty Black Ops II and I needs air supporters quicks smarters!
"This is Whisky Alfa Golf Echo, is there anyone else lefts, over."
Oh noes, I thinks I might be the only ones lefters, and I can't even asks Baz or Mireille to helpers me out as Baz is snoozerings and Mireille is studyerings!
"This is Whisky Alfa Golf Echo, this is a matters of life and deaths, I needs air supporters right now on my markereds positions, over."
Hopefullies I will hears the sounds of jets screamerings over my heads soon!!!
Does any of you outs there in internets land has an xbox 360 too?


Today, I am free writing.
The last couple entries have been actual chapters in what I thought might be a book someday. I think I just needed to get my creative juices flowing in and remember that I love to do this. Ending the chapter about Pedro holding me when I was scared and shaking, after finishing the period at the end of the last sentence, I burst into tears of gratitude. How could someone love me so much that they rejoice when I succeed and hold me when I fail, and especially fail HIM? Now, that's grace. Repaying my unkind words and snide attitude with sweetness.
I missed him more than the air I breathe, after 45 days without him. And soon I will return. He makes me want to speak poetry in romance to no one at all. I will soon be embarking on a 6 day foodie and vintage shopping trip across the country.....I have my reasons.
...I have my reasons. I want to make records. I want to take another 50 mile packpacking trip. I want to eat and drink things I've only heard of.


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First Words (Just Like Magic, Part Two)
Given how standard it is to ask about a baby's first word, it's ridiculously complicated to figure out. One time when she was a couple weeks old, Rebecca was sleeping in my lap when I heard a very small voice, very clearly say "Help!" I looked around the room, half expecting a fairy or gnome, when I realized that the voice had come from the baby in my lap, and that she did in fact want help. So, was "help" her first word?
She said "help" several more times as a newborn, but similar things happened later, like saying "I like this one" about a necklace. I'm pretty sure that she meant to communicate just what I heard, but she did it without knowing the full conventionalized meaning of the English syllables. I figure this can't be too uncommon. We're predisposed to hear words in a flurry of voice the same way we are to see faces in a flurry of shapes, and in those days the part of my head that picks up patterns was working overtime.
While I was making patterns out of Rebecca's noises, she was making patterns out of mine. Littlest imitated whole strings of intonation before she got around to isolating word syllables for concepts. That's how last summer Ted and I both independently overheard her saying "I love you" to the coffee table, which was her favorite thing to pull up on. She got the consonants all wrong, but I think she knew what she was saying. I have a couple regular intonations for saying "I love you," and that pattern of affectionate sounds had a clear, repeatable meaning before the individual words did. A baby figures out the meaning of individual words by abstracting them out of a series of meaningful contexts, so it doesn't surprise me that she'd repeat a recognizable phrase before repeating recognizable words. In a sense, sentences come before words as a unit of meaning. There are plenty of words that I need context to understand, even as an adult.
Okay, but what was her first actual word? It may have been "mama" or "dada," sometime late last summer, but it's hard to be sure when she started using them with deliberate prescribed meaning, versus babbling or versus whatever you call it when a two-week old says "help." Once she started using those syllables discriminately in particular situations–like mamamama! when she was indignant about something I was doing–it was still hard to tell whether she meant the word as a name. So I'd try to do things that would elicit the word, so that I could tell how she was using it, but that may have changed the meaning of what she was saying.
Which would totally screw up the romance behind her first words. The game parents play–even knowing it's a game–is that first word choice is an independent emanation of something deep within our babies, and that it can finally tell us something about who these little people are and what their worlds are like. I'm too crotchety for it, or maybe just too earnest. It weirds me out that people emphasize babies' ability to produce context-independent meaningful syllables, despite the fact that both you and the baby are speaking in a particular context and you both use that context as part of your interpretive schema.
Besides, first words don't tell you much about where the kid's language is headed. Rebecca's probable first words (mama, dada, and baba for boob) had fallen into disuse by December. Instead she said "this" and "that" a lot, in conjunction with pointing, and seemed to call me "I" when she wanted my attention. "I" is how I usually refer to myself, after all. And I could make like calling me "I" reflects some profound truth of the mother-baby relationship, but maybe she was just saying a version of "hi" without the h?
So, anybody else have better stories about first words? I'm wondering whether my experience is unusually convoluted, because usually my experience is.
I had an irresistible impulse to edit this a few hours after posting, and I know it's not the first time I've done something like that. RSS readers, have I annoyed you? Because if no one cares, I'm unlikely to stop.
David C March 26, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Your experience certainly sounds a lot like my experience of my daughter's learning to communicate. We also did the baby sign thing and that has if anything even more ambiguity around which probably-meaningful gesture counted as first. I suppose we could even say that her first word was "t!" which she would invariably say while making the sign for "open", which for a while was her all-purpose sign for "do the thing!" I'm not sure what word it was supposed to be in her head, though. But we did tend to speak and sign at the same time, to her.
My mom said that I reproduced sentence intonations the way that you describe, so I made some conscious effort to emphasize them with her. She always had a keen ear for intonation, but I don't remember if she made intonation-only sentences.
cbcabeen March 27, 2011 at 2:32 pm
We only did a little babysign, but now that people are asking how many words Rebecca says, we're running into a similar question about whether to count things that she says or signs consistently but that don't sound like grown-up words. The big examples are her cat noise, which is a kissy sound for calling cats, and her bird noise, which sounds like a crow. Rebecca talks about cats and birds A LOT. And last week she started imitating sea gulls as distinct from crows.
(also, thanks for the response and, oops! I didn't see your comment right away, so I edited my post after you wrote, and that's totally bad form. Sorry.)
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Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Jackie Tileston: Instructions for Dissolution, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper. An opening reception for the artist will be held November 17, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through Saturday, January 26, 2019.
Jackie Tileston's paintings are heterotopic spaces in which diverse strategies and nomadic thinking create complex images that investigate the contemporary sublime and states of being. Tileston (b. Manila, Philippines) spent her childhood as an itinerant "Third Culture Kid", living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. This intercultural mix and sense of belonging everywhere and nowhere has become the template for making abstract, visionary paintings. She has developed her own pictorial vocabulary and symbolism, a semiotics that incorporates references to an eclectic variety of sources: geometric yantras, fragments of Ukiyo-e prints, fractals, digital photos, Chinese landscape, quantum physics, Western Romanticism, and patterns from around the world all feed the work. Tileston creates hybrid, layered and contemplative spaces that explore ways to materialize the ephemeral through exuberant, grotesque, raucous, and baroquely differentiated forms.
Tileston most often works over a background of raw linen coated with rabbit skin glue. She masters atmospheric, misty washes that emulate J.M.W. Turner's ecclesiastic skies and sets these to drift across the picture plane, over which she superimposes bouquets of multi-colored liquid fireworks of unknown hybrid shapes that float and orbit in nebulous chromatopias.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, and group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Art in General and the Painting Center (New York), and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Art Museum of South Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, West Virginia University Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Tileston has a B.A. from Yale University (1983) and MFA from Indiana University (1988). She is the recipient of the Core Fellowship Residency at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1988-1990), the Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2004), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2005), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2011) and recent residency (2017). She lives in Philadelphia, where she is an Associate Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
Holly Johnson Gallery is located at 1845 Levee Street; Suite #100; Dallas, Texas 75207. Gallery hours are 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. For more information call 214-369-0169, or email info@hollyjohnsongallery.com, or visit www.hollyjohnsongallery.com.


I just finished reading a fascinating book. Marguerite Henry has written a story that kept me captivated until the end.
Her book Mustang: Wild Spirit Of The West brings you on the adventure of Annie Bronn and her fight to save the Mustangs. The daughter of a man who was saved by the milk of a Mustang grows up to be Wild Horse Annie, the woman for the horses!
Ms. Henry had me caught in the story and I was sad when it ended. It did leave me with the feeling that I could help, too! I suggest you get the book, read it, and see what I mean!
I love marguerite Henry's books! Expecially Misty of chintogeague!
I'd really like to read this book,do you think i should ask for it in the library?
Yes! That is were I got the book to read.
I pretty sure you will like it!
By the way, thanks for posting my blog!!
Go to the interactive view: Terri Farley.
There is a link to Velma Johnston a.k.a.
Please help me! I want to read more books by this lady but I don't know all of them!?
Glad I could help! ;) Make sure you tell me what you think of them!


Ah, summer. Finally, the season of hacky sack and slacklining has arrived. Relish the time and get some sun on those legs.
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OPPORTUNISTIC LAWRENCE KHONG, LEADER OF WEAR WHITE CAMPAIGN SAYS "PRAY FOR ORLANDO"
Sorry but you don't get to pray for us Lawrence Khong. Your systematic hate campaign against the the LGBT Community in Singapore is well documented and disqualifies you from doing so. Apart from your persistent sermons from the pulpit, we remember how you ambushed Mr Goh Chok Tong in 2013, demanding that his government defended S377a. In 2014, you published an astroturfing guide on how to retain S377a, a leaked seven-page document teaching people how to write to Ministers to keep Section 377A. This was was followed in 2015 by your collaborating with the We Will Wear White Campaign, which you proudly made your own in 2016. How opportunistic of you to claim now that you are praying for Orlando!? If you are recanting, we need an apology. If not, your hypocrisy makes us want to vomit!!
FCBC PASTOR: CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T JUDGE LGBT PEOPLE FOR THEIR SINS, WE ARE ALL SINNERS
My heart was deeply grieved by the ruthless terrorist killing in Orlando. A chilling report portrayed the sense of finality and hopelessness in the crime scene. Bodies of over forty people were strewn all over the floor. This may deepen the wounds of rejection within the community and if any of us Christians feel that they deserve to die because of their sin, we must think again. The Bible tells us that ALL of us deserve to die because of our sins. There is no reason for further alienation. Instead, this is a time for compassion, love, and healing.
CHURCH PASTOR: WE WILL PUSH BACK AGAINST LGBT & THOSE PROMOTING HOMOSEXUALITY IN S'PORE
It is a message to our Government that we fully support its pro-Family policies. We reinforce the important role of Family in nation-building. Guó Jiā. Guó means country. Jiā means family. The Family is the basic building block of society. As the Family goes, so goes society, so goes the nation. We pledge to work with our government to build a Family of Nation-Builders and a Nation of Family-Builders.
LAWRENCE KHONG: LET'S AIM TO CONVERT ONE S'POREAN TO CHRIST EVERY HOUR
We will become Missionaries for a Day. A missionary is defined as one who crosses cultural and relational barriers to tell others about Jesus. Through this project, I would like all of you in FCBC to have a similar experience. Each team will hit the streets, parks, beaches, and even void decks for three hours to speak to as many people as possible. Our goal is for each team to see at least three persons pray to receive Christ within a span of three hours.
THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TO WEAR WHITE IN OPPOSITION TO PINK DOT
Christians will be dressed in white this weekend for their church services in support of the traditional family unit, a move that many see as a statement of opposition to the gay-rights themed annual Pink Dot, which takes place tomorrow. A group of Muslims will likewise wear white when they go to the mosques next week for Ramadan prayers.
CHURCH RETRACTS LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST MOM OVER PREGNANT STAFF'S DISMISSAL BENEFITS
A church that took the Manpower Ministry (MOM) to the High Court over the sacking of a pregnant female staff has backed down. The Faith Community Baptist Church (FCBC) said in a statement on Monday that it is dropping the High Court legal review because it now accepts the Manpower Minister's decision.
ANTI-GAY & PRO-LGBT ACTIVISTS SHOULD CO-EXIST IN SINGAPORE
But, at the same time I do not violently reject Lawrence Khong, nor do I try to block his every initiative online by trying a fit on social media, because he is free to carry out his activities within certain rules of our democratic society. If one day, IKEA was to promote a musical or a play written by a gay/lesbian, should the conservative Christians likewise attack them on social media? Let's be more mature, civil and not resort to cyber militancy.
WE DO NOT WANT CONFRONTATIONAL LGBT ACTIVISM IN SINGAPORE
Much as I disagree with Khong's beliefs, we do not want the divisive Western culture wars to start in Singapore. As a society that values social harmony, there are better ways to ensure LGBTs do not get discriminated than the confrontational approaches that have divided American society. We will find our own way. And it shall not be the destructive way that foreign lobby groups and their local stooges favour.
LGBT ACTIVISTS HOUNDING IKEA EQUALLY INTOLERANT OF DIVERSITY
In this case, IKEA incorporated Mr Khong's magic show as part of its loyalty programme of discounted rates for members. That, it seems, is enough to rile the LGBT activists who show themselves to be as intolerant of other people's views as they say other people are of theirs. Does the community intend to hound Mr Khong's magic show wherever he goes – and will corporate sponsors pull back because they don't want any heat from the vocal lobby?
IKEA RECONSIDERING SUPPORT FOR ANTI-GAY PASTOR MAGIC SHOW
IKEA Singapore said today that it is reconsidering its support for a magic show staged by senior pastor Lawrence Khong who is an outspoken critic against homosexuals. Gay rights groups had protested a move by the company to lend support to the show after an advertisement showed that the retailer's membership programme, Ikea Family, is one of the supporters of Khong's magic show in July.


How Fixed Deposits are taxed in India; Here's all you need to know!
Fixed Deposits are one of the safest forms of investing money to increase savings. Knowledge of taxes on Fixed Deposits can help you plan your decisions to invest better.
For any person thinking of a comfortable future, savings and investments are two major ways to increase wealth – they represent securities as well as hopes for a comfortable and secure tomorrow. Among the various savings options, a good option is the Fixed Deposit or the FD. A Fixed Deposit is a financial instrument, offered by banks or monetary institutions; investors who sign up for fixed deposit accounts get higher interest rates on a "fixed" amount of money, (higher than regular interest rates in an average savings account) for a defined amount of time till the given maturity date. The defining characteristic of this account is that money cannot be withdrawn from the bank at any given point of time till the maturity date. The fixed deposits interest rates on income amount can be either credited to the investor's savings bank account, or can be paid as a cheque. In a cumulative Fixed Deposit, the interest income can be reinvested in the Fixed Deposit investment. If an FD is made in a scheduled bank for a period of more than five years, investors can avail tax deductions of up to Rs.150,000.
The interest earned on an FD is however taxed. Let's discuss the nitty-gritties of fixed deposit interest rates, how to calculate fixed deposit interests, and the taxation levels levied on them.
Under provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961, banks may deduct 10% of the income generated as interest on FD amounts, if it exceeds Rs.10,000 in a year. This is known as "Income from other sources." Banks provide Form 16A to customers as a receipt for Tax Deducted at Source for every quarter.
However, the tax on interest income is applicable at the rate of the tax slab of the investor. If the individual has to pay higher rates of taxes based on the net income, then, after considering the TDS by the bank, the remaining tax on the interest income should be paid by advance tax or self-assessment tax.
If a person submits in written or digitally in Form 15G or Form 15H(for individuals above the age of 60 years), that the tax on net income during that year (for which the tax is being calculated), is zero, then the tax deducted at source would be nil even if the amount exceeds Rs. 10,000.
Under section 80 TTB of the Act, from the financial year 2018-19, senior citizens can avail tax deductions of up to Rs.50,000, with respect to fixed deposit interest income.
If the Permanent Account Number (PAN) details have not been provided to the bank, TDS will be charged at higher rates. For non-residents who have not furnished the PAN, this rate will be 30% along with surcharge and cess.
If a person has not submitted form 15G/15H, and the bank has hence charged TDS on interest income, the investor can claim for refund of the deducted taxes by filing income tax returns form.
In a nutshell, Fixed Deposits are one of the safest and most hassle free user friendly investment options for the finance inexperienced client.


if anyone wants to create an advanced recovery media using ADK be aware that the instructions in Acronis 2017 and 2018 are no longer valid.
Microsoft has decided to seperate WinPE from ADK. A reason may be that this is better for servicing, means the WinPE get changes more often than the other part of the ADK this would save install / uninstall time of future semi-annual released but that's just my guess.
This does not change the components needed, as mentioned in Acronis.
p.s. this might be worth a sticky, unless instructions are changed in ATIH.
I've seen people on the web reporting about their desperate searches for the WinPE option in the ADK :), even in businesses - for imaging purposes.
As far as I can see Acronis has already implemented this small change in the latest 2019 build. Thank you!


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Join Fitz as he counts down the Top 40 Songs in Country Music This Week. From 40 to #1 you'll hear it all on BIG Country 98.9 WOKO.
The son of a Green Beret and a Texas Pageant Queen, Fitz was truly born to Host. By the tender age of six, the Bowie, Texas native was already being heard on "Texoma" radio stations as he begged the local DJs to put him on the air, and by his senior year of high school, the Class President had turned the otherwise dry required school morning announcements into a must-hear two minutes of daily entertainment. A truly "long, tall Texan", the 6'7" Fitz could have been a star athlete or followed his highly-talented singer-actress Mama into the Performing Arts after being selected to the Texas All State, All Star Cast, for his Theater talent, but the passion for radio that continues to fuel him today had already captured him, and at 17, he hounded the program director of KNIN in Wichita Falls, Texas, to give him a weekend slot. As fate would have it, the station was sold and Fitz was let go, but the new owner found a tape of Fitz's weekend show, and immediately put him back on the air; but this guy recognized he had something more than just a kid in teenage Fitz, and offered him the morning show. Fitz's dream had come true, and The Fitz Radio Program was born.
Never one to rest on his laurels, Fitz was always striving for the next best opportunity, and his next big break in radio came when he made the jump up to 93Q in Houston as the co-host for their top-rated morning show. From there he had stints in Oklahoma City and Dallas where, by the age of 23, he was the host of his own morning show – the youngest ever to accomplish that in a top ten radio market. At 28, Fitz hosted his first syndicated country countdown show, "Fox All Access USA", followed shortly afterward by the "Powered by Country Countdown", and then he created his own national countdown show, "The Hit List with Fitz".
His long radio and television resume also includes being chosen from among thousands of radio hosts throughout the nation to fill in for Regis Philbin on "Live with Regis and Kelly" in 2011, where he not only impressed producers and ABC executives with his interview of Sir Anthony Hopkins as the only known person ever to "High-Five" Sir Anthony during an interview, but Fitz also survived nearly being poisoned by Kelly Ripa when she put lavender oil in his mouth while giving him a facial. And then there's his world-famous online encounter with Samuel L. Jackson; but that's a story for another day.
Fitz is blissfully married with seven kids and a Boston Terrier named Susie Lou. During his downtime, Fitz enjoys singing, spending time with his family and friends, coaching his little ones' sports teams, watching UFC, and catching the latest episodes of his favorite Hallmark Channel shows as well as reruns of "The Golden Girls".
Fitz has been described as someone with a huge heart who lives his life on the radio; his conversations and stories range from comical to profoundly honest to touchingly relatable. Listening to Fitz "play the hits" is not like anything else you've ever heard or experienced. It's not just a radio show…its entertainment you become a part of. After hearing Fitz once, you'll be hooked. Welcome!
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Gigantic Indoor Flea Market
Sunday, February 5 from 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM at the Champlain Valley Exposition. The Gigantic Indoor Flea Market features tag sale items, crafts, antiques, and more, and is a great opportunity for those looking to buy – and sell – bargain merchandise and related goods. Sign up for your table today!
Vermont Flower Show
March 3-5 at the Champlain Valley Expo. The 2023 Vermont Flower Show Grand Garden Display theme will be Out of Hibernation! Spring Comes to the 100-Acre Wood, an adaptation of the world and magic of Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne. Mark your calendar and make plans to join us!
Sunday, March 19 from 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM at the Champlain Valley Exposition. The Gigantic Indoor Flea Market features tag sale items, crafts, antiques, and more, and is a great opportunity for those looking to buy – and sell – bargain merchandise and related goods. Sign up for your table today!
Sunday, April 16 from 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM at Champlain Valley Exposition. The Gigantic Indoor Flea Market features tag sale items, crafts, antiques, and more, and is a great opportunity for those looking to buy – and sell – bargain merchandise and related goods. Sign up for your table today!
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