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Rush marries, Elton sings
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netrox
Wait a minute.. Rush married a 4th woman and they hired Sir Elton John for 1 million dollars to sing for them?!?!
What's with homophobes and Elton John? Remember Eminem? And now with Rush?!
FOXNews.com - Radio Host Rush Limbaugh Heads Down the Aisle
How is he a "homophobe"?
Farting Snowflakes
Rush has a lot of rich conservative Christians as fans. He's spoken against homosexuality. But isn't Elton John the posterboy for homosexuality?
Bebonang
Jiro said:
lol x2 :roll:
Dixie said:
Spoken against homosexuality? How? And where? Links?
Fourth time down the aisle?
Eh. Good luck.
Rush Limbaugh Weds for 4th Time, and Elton John Sings
Rush Limbaugh Weds for 4th Time, and Elton John Sings - Weddings, Elton John, Rush Limbaugh : People.com
Talk about an odd couple: conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh and outspoken gay-marriage advocate Elton John.
But, according to a News Corporation (which owns Fox News) wire report, the Rocket Man, 63, serenaded the 400 guests into the wee hours Saturday night to celebrate the marriage of Limbaugh, 59, to Kathryn Rogers, 33, in the Ponce de Leon ballroom of Florida's fabled Breakers hotel in Palm Beach. Sir Elton's fee: $1 million, the report notes.
Amid dozens of giant bouquets of white roses (and very tight security), reports the Palm Beach Post, guests at the wedding included former Bush adviser Karl Rove; actor-politician Fred Thompson; former Kansas City Royals slugger George Brett; Fox News commentator Sean Hannity; former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft; former Clinton adviser James Carville and his wife, GOP analyst Mary Matalin; and golfer Tom Watson. A wedding guest also tells PEOPLE that among the others was Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
The couple met six years ago, while she was running a charity golf tournament and Limbaugh was in the process of divorcing for the third time.
Sunday morning, a source tells PEOPLE, the newlyweds hopped Limbaugh's private Gulfstream jet for a honeymoon in Mexico, Africa and a couple other spots.
Rogers is a direct descendant of President John Adams, and her father attended the U.S. Naval Academy with the future Arizona Senator (and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate) John McCain, reports NewsCore.
The wire service also quotes the new bride as saying of the couple's 26-year age gap: "I'm sometimes not able to relate to the average person my age."
Foxrac
Guess you have no proof then.
Old Deaf Ranter
It is easy to find information on Rush Limbaugh's views.
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Rush Limbaugh, the current de facto leader of the Republican Party, is known to be bigoted and homophobic.
And while he speaks to Conservatives, it's important that you know what he has to say about you. Here you go, five of Rush Limbaugh's most offensive, anti-gay, homophobic, bigoted comments:
1. Aired a song about Senator Barney Frank called "Banking Queen".
2. Democrats will "bend over, grab the ankles, and say, 'Have your way with me'" to African American and gay voters.
3. On the Mark Foley scandal: "In their hearts and minds and their crotches, they don't have any problem with what Foley did. They've defended it over the — over the years."
4. Openly gay students are "trumpeting" their sexuality, "inviting dissent".
5. "When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation"
Rush Limbaugh's Top Anti-Gay Quotes | The New Civil Rights Movement
Bottesini said:
Quotes are not the same as the full context of why and what Rush was trying to convey or say. Anyone can take a quote and twist it out of context. Did he not hire Elton John? Would Elton John hold up and applaude an entainer if he or she was known to say the word "fagg*t" so many times in a song? The Banking Queen isn't quite the same. It's a parody, sure. Everybody knows about Barney Frank's obvious lifestyle but certainly people are willing to overlook Barney's own lack of accountability for his own actions in the banking sector and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacles that he was primarily responsible for, but I digress.
I'm sure she is marrying him for his good looks, his kind and gentle manner, and all the hot viagra-induced sex. :roll:
lol who cares?
oh jeez - so hell-bent, aren't ya eh? comical. nothing to see here. nothing new here. moving on.
TheWriteAlex said:
Yup, don't feed right wing trolling and he is just pleased to troll you.
Rather I think it's trolling to call certain people "homophobes" without explaining why or have no real basis of saying that. Just because a person has a certain viewpoint or tries to make a point does not automatically make him or her "anti-something." I'd say the real anti-gays or "homophobes" are the people in Iran who hang people and prosecute for being one on a regular basis. Something I think that people tend to misplace priorities.
let people state their opinions even if it's unfounded because well - it's free speech and this thread was left in the closet because nobody cares.
but your posts below....
Clearly - you are trolling us.
Clearly - you want to cause drama for your depraved amusement.
misplaced priorities... right. comical.
and - using gay reference to insult somebody is usually the one with homophobic view. if not... a poor character
word. You're too easy to figure out, Koko. Let's go hang out in the penisarium and talk about watersports. mmkay?


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The One Planet Summit in Paris. The World Bank announcement delighted campaigners opposed to fossil fuels. Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images
World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas extraction
Bank announces in Paris it 'will no longer finance upstream oil and gas' after 2019 in response to threat posed by climate change
Larry Elliott Economics editor
Tue 12 Dec 2017 17.19 EST
The World Bank will end its financial support for oil and gas extraction within the next two years in response to the growing threat posed by climate change.
In a statement that delighted campaigners opposed to fossil fuels, the Bank used a conference in Paris to announce that it "will no longer finance upstream oil and gas" after 2019.
The Bank ceased lending for coal-fired power stations in 2010 but has been under pressure from lobby groups also to halt the $1bn (£750m) a year it has been lending for oil and gas in developing countries.
The Bank said it saw the need to change the way it was operating in a "rapidly changing world", adding that it was on course to have 28% of its lending going to climate action by 2020. At present, 1-2% of the Bank's $280bn portfolio is accounted for by oil and gas projects.
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In exceptional circumstances, the Bank said it would consider lending for oil and gas projects in the very poorest countries but only where it helped the poor get access to energy and the project did not conflict with commitments to reduce greenhouse gases made in the 2015 Paris climate change accord.
The announcement was made at the One Planet Summit, convened by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, the World Bank president, Yim Yong Kim, and the UN secretary general, António Guterres, to mark the two-year anniversary of the agreement.
The Greenpeace International climate campaigner Gyorgy Dallos said: "The end is clearly coming for the oil and gas industry as the pace of change accelerates."
Dallos said the Bank had sent a damning vote of no confidence in the future of the fossil fuel industry. "The world's financial institutions now need to take note and decide whether their financing is going to be part of the problem or the solution," he said.
Stephen Kretzmann, an executive director of the Washington-based advocacy group Oil Change International, said: "It is hard to overstate the significance of this historic announcement by the World Bank.
"Environmental, human rights, and development campaigners have been amplifying the voices of frontline communities for decades in calling for an end to World Bank financing of upstream oil and gas projects. [Now] the World Bank has raised the bar for climate leadership by recognising the simple yet inconvenient truth that achieving the Paris agreement's climate goals requires an end to the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. It is time for all of the institutions, countries, investors and individuals who are still in the Paris agreement to stop funding fossils – once and for all."
The World Bank announcement came as the Bank of England's governor revealed that there was growing global support for a new initiative designed to help pave the way for a low-carbon economy by persuading companies to come clean about their exposure to climate change risks.
From left: Michael Bloomberg, Mark Carney and Axa chief executive Thomas Buberl at the One Planet Summit. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
Speaking at the Paris summit, Carney said 237 companies with a combined market capitalisation of $6.3tn (£4.7tn) were now backing the scheme.
Britain's six leading banks – Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Standard Chartered – have all supported the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, set up by Carney in his role as chairman of the Financial Stability Board, an international body charged with preventing a repeat of the 2008 banking crisis.
Under the plan, companies pledge to use their financial reports to disclose their direct and indirect exposure to global warming under a range of different scenarios. Banks are obliged to say how much they have lent to companies with climate-related risks.
Carney said 20 of the 30 globally systemically important banks and eight out of 10 of the largest asset managers and leading insurance companies were committed to informing investors. Leading construction, consumer goods, transport, mining and energy companies have also signed up.
Banks should disclose lending to companies with carbon-related risks, says report
"Markets need the right information to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks that are being created by the transition to a low-carbon economy," Carney said. "This solution, of the market and for the market, is truly entering the mainstream."
UK sources said that London was becoming a hub for climate change-related finance, with green bonds issued in more than 40 different currencies, including the Indian rupee and the Chinese yuan.
Michael Bloomberg, the chair of the taskforce, said: "Climate change poses both economic risks and opportunities. But right now, companies don't have the data they need to accurately measure the risks and evaluate the opportunities."
•The article was amended on Thursday 14 December to better reflect the World's Bank's decision to end financial support for both exploration and extraction.
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Captain Charles Burke would say that some men are made for the sea. An important part of colonial life, whale hunting provided for many of the necessities of the colonial age. Fortunes could be made and lives could be lost at sea. In this book, Burke and his men struggle against the elements to return to porttheir hunt a success.
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Catholic churches move to name molesting priests, but victims say it's too little, too late
The cross atop the Tower of Hope is reflected in the former Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
By Laura Newberry
Over the last two decades, Roman Catholic dioceses across California have paid out massive settlements to parishioners who say they were molested by priests; acknowledged institutional breakdowns that facilitated abuse; and wrestled with followers who said they had lost faith in church leaders.
Now, after a Pennsylvania grand jury detailed rampant sexual abuse committed by Catholic clergy there, some dioceses have moved toward even greater transparency by releasing the names — in some cases for the first time — of priests accused of such crimes.
San Diego's diocese updated its public list in mid-September. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Diocese of Orange are reviewing their lists of credibly accused priests — which were last updated in 2008 and 2016, respectively — to see whether any names should be added. And bishops of the San Bernardino and San Jose dioceses say they plan to publish names in the coming weeks.
The decision to disclose has been made across the U.S. — by bishops in places like Youngstown, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Little Rock, Ark. — following the Pennsylvania report that revealed a decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse involving more than 1,000 victims and hundreds of priests.
Attorneys general in at least eight states also have launched investigations into alleged clerical sexual misconduct, requesting or subpoenaing diocese records. California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra's office declined to say whether it had an examination underway.
Increasing pressure on the church, a civil suit was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of Tom Emens, who says he was abused decades ago by a Southern California priest. The suit does not seek monetary damages, but calls on 11 California dioceses — all but Stockton's — to release the names of every clergy member accused of sexual misconduct, as well as private records documenting abuse.
The law firm handling the suit also released a lengthy report that lists 307 clerics associated with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles who have been accused of abuse. Attorneys say at least 36 of the priests are not included in the archdiocese's official list.
The California Catholic Conference responded to the lawsuit by noting that many of the allegations had been previously revealed and that churches had taken aggressive steps to improve reporting and prevent abuse.
Victims of clergy molestation say that while further disclosures of priest misconduct are a positive step, they are largely symbolic. More needs to be done to address the church's systemic, decades-long cloaking of abuse, they say.
"It's like a serial murderer giving the name of five of his 35 victims," said Joelle Casteix, an expert on clergy sex abuse who said she was assaulted by a choir teacher at the Catholic school Mater Dei High in Santa Ana in the 1980s. The details of her claim were contained in documents released in 2005 by the Diocese of Orange.
Publishing the names of accused priests "doesn't help survivors. It doesn't get predators off the streets," Casteix said. "It doesn't invoke fear in the hearts of clerics who may still be molesting kids right now."
Abuse survivors note that many of the named clergy members are dead or no longer live in California. In the San Diego Diocese, five of the eight priests recently added to its public list are deceased.
"Is it going to make the community or parish safer by putting out these names?" said Thomas Plante, a psychology professor at Santa Clara University who treats church victims and abusers. "I don't know if it does, frankly."
But in the absence of a statewide investigation, say some who identify as clerical abuse survivors, the disclosures are a start.
Jaime Romo is one of them.
Now a minister who provides trauma services at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Carlsbad, Romo says he was molested by an L.A. pastor when he was 14.
Victims often feel a double betrayal, he said — first by their abuser, and then by the church when it hides the abuse. So releasing priests' names can alleviate some pain wrought by decades of clerical negligence, Romo said.
Likewise, the disclosures may provide solace to those who may have never told anyone about their abuse, said Carlos Perez-Carrillo, a former altar boy who says he was molested by a priest at St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey.
"There will be people out there that will see a perpetrator's name and say, 'Now I feel fine coming forward because I can say what happened to me happened to other people,'" Perez-Carrillo said. "It's validating."
Because of the church's once-pervasive practice of reassigning accused clerics rather than removing them from ministry completely, it is difficult — if not impossible — to know the full extent of the national web of abuse, said Massimo Faggioli, a professor of historical theology at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Even the 900-page Pennsylvania grand jury report paints a partial picture, Faggioli said, because some of those priests were sent to the West Coast, "and we don't know what these dioceses in the West have on these priests."
Given the church's power structure — local bishops have almost total control in their districts — it is unlikely that national leadership will order a release of names across the U.S., Faggioli said. But it's a good sign that the latest disclosures are happening at a faster clip than in 2002, when the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandals were first exposed by the Boston Globe, he said.
Even so, dioceses' self-reporting has previously proved to be incomplete.
In 2006, a Times analysis found that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles partially or completely omitted 11 known cases of clerical abuse from its "Report to the People of God." This was after then-Archbishop Roger Mahony said the report provided the "fullest possible disclosure" of how the church responded to sex abuse allegations.
And San Diego's list of accused priests from decades past may grow; administrators are still reviewing files, diocesan spokesman Kevin Eckery said.
"I would love to say that the process is a well-oiled machine," Eckery said. "But one of the things we found in putting the list together is how complicated it is to review these records."
Issues of partial transparency and disorganized investigations show why churches should turn over every known record of alleged abuse to the attorney general for independent review, victims' advocates in California say.
"Every bishop … needs to open their files and say, 'Here you go. Here's the evidence,'" Casteix said.
In a statement to The Times, the L.A. Archdiocese said it stopped adding names to its People of God report after 2008 because parishes and schools were announcing instances of abuse as they were discovered. The report, church leaders said, is now being updated and the names of priests who have abused minors in the years since will be published when that process is complete.
To Casteix, that is a halfhearted response to decades of trauma inflicted on the church's most vulnerable parishioners.
"We're seeing this slow drip of names, more and more promises of transparency," she said. "But the policies and patterns that enabled this abuse are still in place."
laura.newberry@latimes.com | Twitter: @LauraMNewberry
Sheriff's chief says she quit over 'highly unethical' demand to rehire deputy fired for abuse


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News He's coming to get you
He's coming to get you
Andrea D'Cruz
In the cult novel American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis describes, necessitating frequent book closing and book reopening for the faint of heart, the axe wielding, body dismembering, pre-mortem sex, post-mortem sex entailing serial sexual murders of its sociopathic protagonist, Patrick Bateman, with no lurid detail spared.
Enjoyment of satire and social comment aside, our disturbingly morbid compulsion for reading such books and watching (through the parted fingers of hands clamped fearfully over eyes) films of this genre arises partly from our fascination with the seemingly impossible and unfathomable. Sex and violence, even in this most gruesome of combinations, sells. Such acts, whether fictional, in literature and on the silver screen; or transposed, horrifically, into reality, on the front pages of the paper or the breaking news on TV, seem to exist in a malevolent fantasy world. They may be well within the realm of physical possibility, but the norm and value set up of society place them far from the boundaries of moral possibility.
As a result the prospect of developing and accepting a coherent theory of how a person can be driven to such a cold-blooded way of life is often an excessively daunting undertaking. Even accepting the idea that a human being could commit these crimes in the first place is too overwhelming for many. Faced with the task of comprehending the apparently incomprehensible, it is far easier to ignore the plethora of thorny questions they summon and simply dehumanise the criminals in question. Hence we read tabloid headlines screaming, 'PURE EVIL' or 'MONSTER,' when reporting such cases. Yet, however inhumane the acts they have perpetrated, ultimately we cannot deny the common humanity of these 'pure evil monsters'. We eventually must ask and answer the question: how did this instance of humanity go so wrong?
The most convenient explanation for the phenomenon of the serial sexual killer is insanity. Again, the incomprehensibility factor and the fact that they unsettle the comforting notion of the world as a stable and predictable place inclines us to assuming the rule that perpetrators must necessarily be insane. It's true that many cases of serial sexual murder do appear to lend themselves well to psychiatric analysis. This kind of criminal behaviour is often seen as a symptom of Psychopathic Personality Disorder.
Psychopaths dabble in only the most shallow of emotions. Empathy, guilt, and remorse are all lacking from their repertoire; they are easily bored; they are pathological liars; but they can also be disarmingly charming and very persuasive. The combination makes for a dangerous and, for Hollywood, rather seductive cocktail. But does the disorder go beyond illumimating the personality traits of the serial killer to answering the question of why these people do what they do?
The term 'psychopath' is flung about as an easily applied label for those individuals who we fail to understand. The term 'psychopathic behaviour' has become synonymous with 'motiveless behaviour'. But while the motives of the serial sexual murderer may not be apparent to the casual observer – rarely are such crimes committed for externally evident grounds, such as jealousy, revenge or money – there is usually an underlying internal motive.
A common motivating factor is sexual gratification; many serial killers are paraphiliacs, indulging in necrophilia, compulsive masturbation, sadism, voyeurism, piquerism (sexual arousal resulting from stabbing), and coprophilia (use of faeces during sex). These paraphilias are often such a driving force in the mind of the serial sexual killer that murder becomes merely incidental to their criminal acts. The serial killer Peter Kurten indulged in piquerism, but only to the extent necessary to reach orgasm. Should sexual fulfilment be achieved after a non-fatal number of stabs the victim usually survived.
In some cases sexual dysfunction is to blame. The notorious American serial murderer Henry Lee Lucas engaged in necrophiliac acts because he was incapable of achieving erection with a living person. Murder became a necessary prerequisite for sexual gratification.
Psychopathy can then kick into the explanation of serial sexual murder as the mechanism which serves the murderer in justifying his crime, or even in voiding the need to justify his crime. Psychopathy explains the serial nature of the crimes – should the paraphiliac be engulfed by guilt following his first murder, he is unlikely to repeat the act.
We are now tempted into a regression of reasoning: how does one become a psychopath or develop warped sexual fantasies in the first place? Biology may have its part to play but so do developmental factors: a combination of nature and (a very unnurturing) nurture.
This is Jung's conception of the tortured becoming torturers. To begin to empathise we must allow our imagination to transform criminal into victim, child or woman abuser into child abused. Physical and sexual abuse can act to increase the proneness to violent and sexually deviant behaviour. A disproportionately large number of serial sexual killers experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse during childhood. Lucas' mother beat him, curled his hair into ringlets and dressed him like a girl to go to school, and forced him to watch her have sex with strangers. Obviously, these kind of upbringings are not conducive to the adoption of social norms against violent behaviour and disregard for the feelings and welfare of others.
Additionally sexual abuse often provokes victims to attempt to remove themselves from their miserable reality and retreat into a fantasy life. In an endeavour for emotional wellbeing, victims imagine the abuse is happening to somebody else. The fantasies often entail elements of power and dominance, elements severely deficient in the abused child's life. The creation of this parallel fantasy world sets the stage for the gruesome fantasies the child may later act out.
In the preface to American Psycho, Ellis quotes from Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground: "Both the author of these Notes and the Notes themselves are, of course, fictional. Nevertheless, such persons as the composer of these Notes not only exist in our society, but indeed must exist, given the circumstances under which our society has generally been formed." The reference could just as well fit the history of the modern Western world as the superficial, self-centred, hyper-consumerist, greed fuelled eighties which Patrick Bateman inhabits.
All too often socio-cultural theories of serial sexual killers are dismissed for the sake of preserving peace of mind, submerging the idea that the same society in which we are active partakers could have itself created something so terrible. But it seems that explaining the occurrence of serial sexual murder necessitates the employment, at least in part, of these society based models, for there are no records of serial sexual killers prior to 1888. This is a uniquely modern, Western male phenomenon.
Sexual violence was initially a way to exert control over women, to restrict them to an inferior place in society, and to vent frustrations encountered in the social sphere. More recently sexual violence has been eroticised. In the West violence has become a means of sexual gratification. A few examples of sexual murder have been recorded recently in other areas of the world, such as India and Japan – there this has been blamed upon Westernisation, here psychological deviance is held accountable.
Why should serial murder be peculiar to Western society? One school of thought links it to the Enlightenment and the predicament it threw up: man is simultaneously an object of science as well as being master of the universe, man is considered "free" at the same time as being the product of social forces and conditioning. Murder, the ultimate taboo, is therefore the very definition of acting freely.
Part of the story may lie in the culturally constructed idea of masculinity, which is closely tied to physical prowess. Violence is the epitome of this. The feminist political agenda analysis has reframed the problem of violence against women as one of misuse of power by men who have been socialised into believing that they have a right to control the women in their lives. Clearly, serial murder itself is not itself socialised behaviour. However, one might argue that relevant precursors, for example propensity for violence and male sense of entitlement to sexual relations are. So serial murder may not be alien to mainstream culture but, worryingly, may actually be expressive of it.
Alternatively, rather than the existence of immoral norms, amorality may be the issue. Durkheim related crime and deviance to the disintegration of social consensus on values. It's possible that the phenomenon of serial killing was borne out of the anomie, or lack of norms in modern societies.
In all likelihood explaining what makes serial killers tick will entail weaving the stands of biology, psychology, upbringing and society into a macabre tapestry. So if we are willing to delve deep in attempting to understand their impetus we are liable to discover as many alarming truths about ourselves and the society we live in as we are the serial killers who inhabit it.ARCHIVE: 0th week MT 2005


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Apple debuts 2020 iPhone SE with 4.7-inch screen and A13 chip for $399
Jeremy Horwitz@horwitz	 April 15, 2020 8:02 AM
Though Apple generally releases flagship-class iPhones each September and discounts older models to meet demand for more affordable devices, it occasionally creates a semi-new device to fill an upcoming size gap in its lineup. That's the reason for today's announcement of the 2020 iPhone SE, which like its 2016 predecessor is designed to meet demand for a less expensive, smaller-screened Apple phone.
Similar to the original iPhone SE, which largely reused the chassis of the iPhone 5S but with internal components from the iPhone 6S, the new device borrows its form from the iPhone 8 while using parts from the iPhone 11 — a strategy described in year-old rumors of the device as "old bottle, new wine." While flagship iPhones no longer have Touch ID fingerprint scanners or Home buttons, the 2020 iPhone SE includes both, along with a 4.7-inch "Retina HD" LCD screen and A13 Bionic processor.
Apple has dominated the premium smartphone category in many parts of the world, but needs lower-cost options as well, particularly in developing countries where every rupee or yuan matters to customers. The iPhone SE gives Apple a renewed opportunity to compete with value-focused Chinese and Korean vendors, although it remains a 4G phone at a time when many rivals are switching even sub-$500 devices over to the latest 5G cellular technology.
The iPhone SE's screen size is already small by iPhone standards, falling below the 5.8-inch iPhone 11 Pro and 6.1-inch iPhone 11 displays, and there will likely be a similar gap after iPhone 12 models are released later this year — persistent rumors point to a 5.4-inch iPhone 12, 6.0-inch iPhone 12 Pro, and 6.6-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max. That said, the SE's display supports Dolby Vision and HDR10 video playback with a wide color gamut, and the A13 Bionic chip remains a superb application processor by mobile phone standards, with class-leading 3D rendering performance and low power consumption.
Like the iPhone 8, the new iPhone SE includes other features that aren't immediately obvious, such as integrated Qi-capable wireless charging and IP67 water resistance, safe for 30-minute submersion at depths of up to one meter. In addition to new Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) support, Apple also says the front 7-megapixel camera and rear 12-megapixel camera offer a "new camera experience," though the changes appear to be largely based on using computational photography for digital portrait blurring and lighting effects, as well as improved HDR imagery.
The new iPhone may also improve on the iPhone 8's battery life. Apple claimed an "up to 12 hours" run time for both the iPhone 7 and 8, but independent tests showed that they typically fell short of 10 hours for internet and calling purposes. Apple's more efficient A13 processor could help the new model outperform its predecessors in real-world testing, though Apple promises "up to 13 hours" of video playback and "about the same as iPhone 8" overall performance.
Black, white, and red colors are available, as are three storage capacities: 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB. For now, rumors of a larger version with a 5.5-inch screen, potentially called the iPhone SE Plus, don't appear to have borne fruit; Apple is replacing both the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus with the new iPhone SE.
Apple's naming decision is likely to cause at least a little confusion. Form-fitting accessories developed for the original iPhone SE won't work with the new model, as its screen size and body are decidedly larger than the compact, 4-inch 2016 original. The company is now referring to the new model as the "iPhone SE (2nd generation)" to differentiate it from its predecessor. In any case, accessories created for the iPhone 7 and 8 will work without issues.
The new iPhone SE will be available for preorder on April 17 and start shipping on April 24. Stepping up from 64GB to 128GB will be a $50 premium ($449 total), while the 256GB model will cost an additional $100 ($549 total).


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Q: Factory work schedule chain I am new to data science. I want to create python visualisation with car factory work schedules data. This is the requirement:
1: example chain A - workA1-->workA2-->workA3-->workA4-->workA5-->workAN (A1 to AN total works)
example chain B - workB1-->workB2-->workB3-->workB4-->workB5-->workBN

(B1 to BN total works)
    example chain A/B - workA1-->workB2, workB4-->workA6, etc, etc (take into account for any/all such combinations whether there is combination or no)
2: There are A,B,C,D,E type works. All A,B,C,D,E works must complete to finish manufacture of a car
3: All works must complete in sequence in the chain. Works on right side of arrow cannot start before complete the works on left side of arrow. For examples in the above chain, workB2 cannot start before complete workB1, workA3 cannot start before complete workA2, workA6 cannot start before complete workB4, etc etc..
4: The main data contain only 2 columns. First column is preceding_work. Second column is succeeding_work.
Can you please help me teach how to write python code to create interactive visualisations? I can also want to zoom out & zoom in and also click on work to see more details for that work (total hours to complete work, total people to complete work, total number of succeeding_works, total number of preceding_works, etc etc). I am self learning Python by myself. Data table format is below here. Thank you.
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| preceding_work        succeeding_work |
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| A1                    A2              |
| B1                    A2              |
| B1                    B2              |
| A2                    A3              |
| C1                    C2              |
| C2                    B3              |
| B2                    B3              |
| ..                    ..              |
| ..                    ..              |
| ..                    ..              |
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A: What you are talking about is a directed network graph.  You can use NetworkX to build the graph (how a thing moves through the network).  However the moving of things and the state they are in currently, you are going to have to build on your own.

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Carlo Armiento is optimistic Adelaide United Youth can carry the momentum from their win over West Adelaide into their clash with Para Hills Knights at The Paddocks on Saturday.
The Young Reds returned to form after a 4-2 victory over West at the weekend.
Paul Pezos' side had a healthy three-goal lead just after the interval before conceding twice in quick succession. However, Pacifique Niyongabire provided an angled finish to seal what was a rather dominant display.
Armiento, who set up United's third goal with a beautifully driven cross into the box, said the win came at the perfect time.
"We thought we played pretty well against Adelaide City but we were just disappointed with the result," Armiento said, as they lost 2-0 to City back in Round 3.
Para Hills are still searching for their first win of the campaign, having suffered two defeats and collected two draws.
The 19-year-old expected nothing less than a difficult encounter.
"I think Para Hills is always a team that's always going to fight even if they're losing," he said.
It's 2nd v 3rd at Polonia Reserve on Saturday afternoon in what hopes to be an excellent battle of two in-form teams.
An unbeaten Croydon Kings are coming off a 1-1 draw to top of the table Adelaide Olympic but can be encouraged by their performance after a positive start to the season. They are currently 3rd on the ladder with 8 points.
The home side will be extremely comfortable with their underdog's title after surprising the NPL faithful with a really positive start to the 2019 campaign.
MetroStars are coming off a brilliant 4-1 win over Adelaide Comets last Saturday night (highlights here) and will be hopeful of a positive result to put pressure on the top of the table.
Comets started the better of the two sides and opened the scoring on 4 minutes through their Afghan-international Omid Popalzay. Comets continued to press but poor finishing prevented them from going 2 or 3 up. Metro then got themselves back into the game on 27 minutes when Scott Nagel followed through on Rocky Callisto in the box. Christian Esposito converted the resulting penalty and we went into the break at 1-1.
The second half belonged to MetroStars who won the individual battles all the over the park. We took the lead on 59 minutes as Lachlan Barr finished off a Hamish Gow corner. Half time substitute Fabian Barbiero rolled back with the years with a fabulous effort reminiscent of his A-League days on 71 minutes to give Metro a 3-1 lead. Rocky Callisto continued his brilliant run of form and notched up Metro's 4th goal on 81 minutes. It was a delightful cross from Stefan Cali at the far post and Callisto headed home with precision.
MetroStars Coach Robbie Saraceno will be expecting more of the same from his players this Saturday night. Antony Solagna is doubtful as he recovers from the knee injury that forced him out of our win over Comets. Tim Henderson is still on the long term injury list.
Panthers will be desperate to take advantage of the coaching shakeup at Adelaide Comets this week as the two sides face off down at O'Sullivans Beach.
The southern-based side will be looking to shake up their defensive structure after a 5-1 drubbing at NPL champions Campbelltown City last Saturday. The Panthers have leaked in fifteen goals in just four games with only four goals hitting the back of the net at the other end.
Adelaide Comets were victims of the first coaching casualty of the season after their SA FFA Cup-winning coach Theo Tsiounis resigned following his sides 4-1 home loss to MetroStars.
Tony Galanopoulos will lead the team for tomorrow's match.
A struggling West Adelaide is still looking for its first win of the 2019 NPL Season as they welcome a newly promoted Raiders side who has their tails wagging.
Steve Di Giovanniello's side has lost three out of their last four matches and find themselves being sucked into an early relegation dog fight.
West Adelaide can take something from last week's 4-2 loss with Adelaide United, with signs of Carrusca creeping into the form we are all expecting. The former Adelaide United FC star produced the assist of the season with a sumptuous flick for Ryutu Hamanatsu to slide home.
The Raiders come into the game on the back of a thrilling 2-2 draw with Adelaide City last Friday night. Terrence Carter produced a best on ground performance and hammered home the Goal of the Round with a delicious volley.
In a repeat of last years NPL Grand Final, Adelaide City and Campbelltown City lock horns at Oakden under the lights on Saturday evening.
City, who are just one win from their opening four games, will be hungry after they felt two points dropped.
City midfielder Nic Bucco is looking forward to the challenge on Saturday night after Saturday's draw.
The Red Devils though are slowly starting to show signs of the form they showed last season, coming in from a resounding 5-1 demolition over a winless Panthers at Steve Woodcock Sports Centre last week.
Alex Mullen and Joes Allwright both bagged double braces, while Lui DiTroia returned to the scoresheet with a wonderful curled finish from outside the box, his first goal since returning from a horrific arm injury sustained at the end of last season.
Two of the three undefeated teams will do battle at VALO Football Centre on Saturday night as Olympic welcomes newly promoted Blue Eagles.
The two sides are in a rich vein of form with Olympic opening up a two-point gap at the top of the tree after a hard-fought 1-1 draw at Croydon Kings last week.
Ricardo Da Silva stroke home to give Olympic a point at Polonia.
Hamish McCabe, currently top of the ladder in the Triple M Player of the Year votes, will be looking carry on his form.
Italian import Testardi got off the mark for on Monday night, slipping home a delightful finish from outside the box in a 4-1 drubbing against Para Hills. Testardi linking excellently with the Blue Eagles forward line showing signs of his Serie-A experience.
However, with Christos Pounendis and Ricardo Da Silva in goalscoring form, the game promises to be an open and attacking spectacle.


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Concentration is a music album by artists Machines of Loving Grace which was released in 1993. The song "Butterfly Wings" achieved moderate success and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Punisher: War Zone, as well as the TV Series Due South.

Track listing
All tracks by Machines of Loving Grace

 "Perfect Tan (Bikini Atoll)"  – 3:21
 "Butterfly Wings"  – 3:38
 "Lilith/Eve"  – 3:59
 "Albert Speer"  – 4:38
 "Limiter"  – 4:43
 "If I Should Explode"  – 5:08
 "Shake"  – 4:03
 "Cheap"  – 3:38
 "Acceleration"  – 3:22
 "Ancestor Cult"  – 3:46
 "Content?"  – 4:04
 "Trigger for Happiness" (over the 3/4 minutes of the song's duration, silence and sporadic samples follow for the rest of the track's total length)  – 30:12

Trivia

 After roughly three to four minutes, the song trigger for happiness is followed largely by silence with the exception of a "don't fool yourself" sample being played every several minutes. The tracks remaining run time was intended to "fool" the listener into thinking a hidden track would play at some point, but this never occurs.

Personnel
Betty Anderson – Vocals (background)
Steve Balcom – Executive Producer
Scott Benzel – Vocals
Jenny Bernhardt – Strings
Jim Brady – Assistant Engineer
Pat Dillon – Model
Jay Faires – Executive Producer
Mike Fisher – Arranger, Cello, Keyboards, String Arrangements, *Assistant Engineer
Ilona Vukovic Gay – Strings
Jim Goodwin – Mixing, Mixing Assistant, Assistant Mastering Engineer
Karen Goulding – Strings
Michael Hooker – Assistant Engineer
Dean Karr – Artwork, Photography, Sculpture
Brad Kemp – Drums
Stuart Kupers – Bass, Guitar
Barbara Mitchell – Model
Roli Mosimann – Producer, Mixing
Dino Paredes – Artwork, Art Direction, Sculpture
Jim Roche – Spoken Word
Mike Russell – Strings
Alan Smith – Strings
Andrew Stewart – Bass
Howie Weinberg – Mastering

References

Machines of Loving Grace albums
1993 albums
Albums produced by Roli Mosimann


Using fresh PEACHES and BERRIES, This is the simplest of cakes. A new twist to an old idea, this is not your grandmother's winter fruit cake. We were looking for the perfect summer recipe to use all the fresh fruits available on the farm and here it is! Top with Polynesian Sauce for that extra Wow!
A new recipe introduced to the employees of Huber's this summer; it has become a farm favorite!
Preheat oven to 350° F. Butter and flour a 10 inch spring form pan with a removable bottom. Shake out any excess flour. Make Polynesian sauce by combining the two ingredients and mixing well. Refrigerate until ready to serve the cake. With an electric mixer, cream the ½ cup butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 10 minutes on medium speed. Add the vanilla and beat for 1 minute. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating to fully incorporate each one. Add the 1 ½ cups flour and the baking soda and very gently mix. Gently fold the sliced peaches and 3 cups of the mixed berries into the batter. Pout into the prepared pan (the batter will be thick). Place pan on a cookie sheet and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick set in the center comes out clean. Let cool in pan until room temperature, and then remove the sides of the pan. If the cake sticks, simply rim a knife around the edges to loosen the cake. Garnish cake with remainder of mixed berries when cooled or before serving.
To serve cake, place a slice on serving plate, garnish with berries, and drizzle Polynesian sauce over top.


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The National Fruit Fly Council welcomes this week's announcement of further investment to strengthen the fruit fly management system.
"We cannot be complacent. The changing impact of fruit flies in production regions and last year's outbreaks highlight that we need to always be on our guard," Mr Durham said.
"This is an excellent result as our export markets are demanding better control over pests and diseases, and a program like this is sorely needed," he said.


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Interviewing The Legends
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Interviewing The Legends is devoted to promoting authors and musicians worldwide. Ray spotlights exclusive interviews with both legendary and up and coming artists. Ray also features the movers and shakers of the music and publishing industries and suggests important methods for getting the most out of your public relations and marketing methods.
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Broadcasting Date
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 03:00
Guest, Deborah Bonham and Pete Bullick
Deborah Bonham and Pete Bullick
Guest Website
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Guest Category
Guest Occupation
English rock and blues vocalist and the sister of John Bonham, the late drummer for the band Led Zeppelin with guitar player Peter Bullick
Guest Biography
Deborah Bonham
Sister of the late John Bonham of Led Zeppelin
One of the finest blues, rock and soul singers the UK has produced.
Peter Bullick
The Belfast born guitarist lauded by the press for his passionate and exceptional playing
Get ready for a brilliant new album by BONHAM BULLICK
early 2021 on Quarto Valley Records.
Over the course of an impressive career, Deborah Bonham has established herself as one of the finest blues, rock and soul singers the UK has produced. A string of critically acclaimed original album releases, captivating standing ovation concert performances at the Royal Albert Hall, London Palladium and on the 2018 USA Stars Align Tour with Paul Rodgers and Jeff Beck have continually followed her while also garnering rave reviews. "Strong voiced, personable and quite the rock & roll singer. This woman, Deborah Bonham (the sister of the late Led Zeppelin drummer) earned a standing ovation at the end of her set, clearly a welcome addition to the tour." (Stars Align Tour, Paul Rodgers, Jeff Beck, Ann Wilson, Deborah Bonham, Holmdel, New Jersey) – Elmore Magazine
Belfast born guitarist Peter Bullick, lauded by the press for his passionate and exceptional playing, paid his dues playing clubs and theatres across the UK and Europe for many years. The constant touring allowed Peter to develop his own style while holding dear guitarist Rory Gallagher and others who were a big influence on his playing. Of all the guitarists that influenced Peter it was Paul Kossoff with whom he connected with the most. Years later Pete's playing would not go unnoticed by none other than Paul Rodgers who selected Pete and the rest of Deborah's band to back him on his Free Spirit tour of the UK in 2017 and the above mentioned 2018 USA Stars Align Tour. "Guitarist Peter Bullick constantly showed why Paul Rodgers touted him as a replacement for Kossoff should Free ever reform. His bluesy but always economic fills and solos lit up the stage." – Tight But Loose
Deborah and Peter along with their band and special guests have recorded a new blues/rock inspired album named BONHAM BULLICK. The Bonham Bullick album is a departure for Deborah and Peter as the album is a song book of interpretations of some great and obscure songs spanning 7 decades. The Bonham Bullick album takes you on a journey with songs from O.V. Wright, Johnnie Taylor, Ann Peebles, Bernard Fowler, Mark Lanegan and others. Deborah and Peter throughout the recording process of the album have shown a deep respect for the original songs while reaching deep into their hearts and souls to make each song an exciting new adventure for the listener. The Bonham Bullick album is scheduled to be released in early 2021 on the California based label Quarto Valley Records.
Deborah, Peter and the band hope to be out on the road soon promoting the new Bonham Bullick album. If you have seen Deborah and Peter perform, you know what all the talk is about. If you have not, be on the lookout for BONHAM BULLICK in 2021, you'll be blown away. "Deborah Bonham -The best female vocalist and tightest band we should have been hearing for the last 20 years —An arena- worthy show in a (New York) club!" Carol Miller Q104.3 – Get the Led Out.
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Well as if there isn't always enough going on for the Heffleys on a regular day-to-day basis their holiday plans go completely awry and full on pandemonium ensues!
The Heffley parentals have decided that they are going to completely avoid the stress of the approaching festive season along with the miserable weather and book a special family trip. Their choice is the same resort at which they spent their honeymoon and of which they have such fond memories. But as we know things never run smoothly for this family and from lost luggage to invasive giant spiders to sunburn this was never going to be the stuff of which dreams are made.
And as usual from Greg's point of view, he is the most put upon out of the entire family. While his folks can escape and big brother Rodrick dodges any form of restriction, Greg is left holding the baby so to speak and spends more time chasing little Manny than enjoying any kind of resort action.
The format of this series never grows tired and this one has already been snapped up by one of my eager readers. Those who want a light read and lots of laughs will get much enjoyment from it.


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Visual Literacy
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Nigeria: Govt to Shut Borders to Stop Rice Smuggling
TOPICS:Audu Innocent OgbehnigeriaRice Smuggling
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh.
The Federal Government says it will shut down the land border between Nigeria and a neighboring country in a few days time to avoid smuggling of foreign rice into the country.
Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, made the disclosure in Abuja on Monday while speaking with youth in a leadership clinic under the auspices of Guardians of the Nation International (GOTNI).
Mr. Ogbeh who did not mention the particular country and border said shutting the borders had become necessary to encourage local production and sustain the economy of the country.
Nigeria shares borders with Niger, Chad, Benin, and Cameroon.
The minister said that a neighboring country was bent on destroying the economy of the country and discouraging local production of rice, hence the need to shut down the border.
"Our other problem is smuggling. As we speak, a neighbor of ours is importing more rice than China is importing.
"They do not eat parboiled rice, they eat white rice, they use their ports to try and damage our economy.
"I am telling you now because, in a few days, you will hear the border has been shut, we are going to shut it to protect you, us and protect our economy.
"You will start seeing all sorts of negative things on the internet.
"Let me tell you why we need to shut the border, I grow rice, I was the first Nigerian to mill rice free of stones if you plant rice in certain parcels of land, some poisonous materials get into the rice.
"There are three kinds of water in their natural state; there is fresh water from the river, salt water from the sea, brackish water.
"If you go to the Delta in many countries, in South East Asia where they grow the rice, if you plant rice in the same place like four to six years continuously, the quantum of arsenic begins to increase and arsenic causes cancer and that is what they are dumping for us.
"Some people say they prefer Thai rice because they are very sophisticated, welcome to poison," Mr. Ogbeh said.
He said that the Federal Government in two years reduced rice importation by 95 percent and increased the number of rice farmers from five million to 30 million.
The minister said that states like Anambra, Ebonyi, Kebbi, Kano, Jigawa were doing well in rice production.
"We just have to handwork you to prosperity otherwise, this country will not grow. My wish for you is to have a better time that we had," Mr. Ogbeh said.
The president of GOTNI, Linus Okorie, commended the minister for sharing prosperity experiences with the youth.
Mr. Okorie noted that the leadership clinic was organized by GOTNI to expose young people to practical leadership principle for life success.
According to him, GOTNI is committed to changing the narratives of poor leadership in Nigeria by consciously developing the capacities of generational leaders.
"A lot of young people are asking questions, seeking answers to their questions, wish that they have an experienced person who will hold them by the hands and show them the way to achieve success.
"There are a few people that are readily available to do this; a lot of them are making decisions every day on the basis of their limited exposure.
"If Nigeria must make progress, if we must consciously build the next generation of leaders then, we must expose these young people to experienced leaders that have gone ahead for a conscious transfer of knowledge and experiences," he said.
Some of the youth who spoke at the meeting called for continuous mentorship from leaders, access to finance and low-interest rates to assist them in businesses.
GOTNI is a non-profit youth leadership capital development organization with a passion to nurture various categories of young people under 40 years of age, into transformational leaders.
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The meanings of words ordinarily depend upon our tendencies to weld together qualities and our aptitudes to see resemblances, or, to use the received phrase, upon associations by similarity; while experience is bound together, and only recognisable, by forces acting upon us, or, to use an even worse chosen technical term, by means of associations by contiguity.
As experience clusters certain ideas into sets, so does the mind too, by its occult nature, cluster certain ideas into sets. These sets have various forms of connection. The simplest are sets of things all on one footing and agreeing in each belonging to the set. Such a set is a class. The clustering of ideas into classes is the simplest form which the association of ideas by the occult nature of ideas, or of the mind, can take. Now, just as in association by contiguity an idea calls up the idea of the set in which experience has placed it, and thence one of the other ideas of that set, so in association by resemblance an idea calls up the idea of the set in which the mind's occult virtue places it, and that conception perhaps gives, owing to some other circumstance, another of the particular ideas of the same set.
Psychologists recognize that the suggestion of one idea by another may take place according to either one of two different principles; for an idea may suggest another like it, or it may suggest another which has been connected with it in experience. Thus, the thought of Niagara may suggest a hero or anything else that is grand, and so similar to the cataract, or it may suggest a crowd of importunate hackdrivers, which is connected with the place in every visitor's experience.
Association of the latter kind, association by contiguity as it is called, is the more typical. In it the characteristics of mental association are more strongly marked. Association by similarity is related to association by contiguity somewhat as our inward consciousness is related to outward experience; the one association is due to a connection in outward experience, the other to a connection in our feelings.
Associations of our thoughts based on the habits of acts of reaction are called associations by contiguity, an expression with which I will not quarrel, since nothing can be contiguous but acts of reaction. For to be contiguous means to be near in space at one time; and nothing can crowd a place for itself but an act of reaction.
…the association, instead of being a natural disposition of mind, may be an acquired habit of mind. That supposes that similar ideas have been conjoined in experience until they have become associated. That is termed association by contiguity.
Consciousness is rather like a bottomless lake in which ideas are suspended, at different depths. Percepts alone are uncovered by the medium. The meaning of this metaphor is that those which [are] deeper are discernible only by a greater effort, and controlled only by much greater effort. These ideas suspended in the medium of consciousness, or rather themselves parts of the fluid, are attracted to one another by associational habits and dispositions, – the former in association by contiguity, the latter in association by resemblance.
'Association by Contiguity'. Term in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/association-by-contiguity, 17.04.2019.


One of my favorite women doing a hilarious impression of one of my favorite women. Kate is just as much of a goddess as Gal. Also, that activity Gal apparently did during dinner with the SNL cast? I do that when I meet new people on my team. And oh man I wish I'd seen Gal when I was in the Maldives. And Kate, Kate, Kate, too.
Man alive, I'm ranting. I love these two ladies!


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Start-up focuses on finish line
Miro co-founders Taylor Host (left) and Jamie Wilde
After completing a high-endurance sporting event like a marathon, most participants would want a photo of themselves in action. Multiply that by sheer numbers – 250 million bodies cross the finish line in running, cycling and triathlon events globally every year – and you can understand the scale of business that Hong Kong tech start-up Miro's founders, Jamie Wilde and Taylor Host, saw for their Artificial Intelligence-enabled computer vision solution that can identify runners by their bib number, no matter how big the field, and send them a photo almost instantly.
The speed of this technology is paramount to the partners' business case. "A runner is three to five times more likely to buy a photo if it is available to them on race day," Mr Wilde explained.
But personal mementoes are only the beginning of the value Miro can add to the sporting industry. Brands will pay for information about who is wearing their shoes or apparel, and which particular style. Professional athletes have a need for technology that analyses their gait, which coaches can interpret to improve performance.
Leveraging their background delivering computer vision solutions for major corporates like McDonald's, the partners built the first version of Runner Tag – their tool for visual data mining – after-hours and launched it, together with Miro, the company, in April 2017.
Since its launch, Miro has built one of the largest structured body datasets in the world. To date, its solution has analysed 11.9 million runners competing in events in Asia, the United States and Europe, with a data pipeline delivering more than 25,000 new bodies every week. "We use this data to train AI that can identify individuals, detect brand preferences and analyse motion," explained Mr Wilde, Miro's Chief Technology Officer.
Their system does not take the photos but utilises the existing images taken by official event photographers. While the race participants receive their own photos instantly, Mr Wilde said that for privacy reasons, no personally identifiable information is shared with third parties.
Shoe and apparel companies are keen to see how their products perform during real-world use – they don't need to know who is wearing them, he explained.
"Our analysis of the photography and videos from races allows us to derive anonymous aggregated data on how brands are represented."
Shoes and gear
Miro's computer vision technology provides valuable insights for athletes and brands
Relevant companies can buy access to the mined data under two of Miro's products, Shoe ID and Gear ID. The third product, Runner ID, is available only to race organisers and participants.
"The technology is equally applicable to team sports such as football and rugby," Mr Wilde said.
He said Miro's solution was developed for body analysis application, not facial recognition. However, organisers of major events may also derive insights to help manage crowd numbers at stadiums.
Mr Wilde, originally from the United Kingdom, and Mr Host, Miro's CEO, originally from the US, were both working in Hong Kong when they met and eventually teamed up to formulate their entrepreneurial vision.
Both were runners, and IT professionals – so they saw a market need, and had the know-how to craft a solution.
Mr Wilde said the past two years have seen an explosion in the application of AI tech moving from the research lab into the real world.
"From crowd management in stadiums to real-time feedback on form, we are seeing a revolution in the amount of data produced in sport and how that data can be used effectively," he said. "Computer vision techniques have long been used in sports to provide insights for top athletes – now the ubiquity of cloud computing allows companies to offer these benefits to every participant."
From a core team of four originally, Miro has grown to a staff of 10, and in January 2019 opened a US office Chicago, Illinois.
Their venture to date has been self-funded but after winning several start-up pitching competitions including Techsauce, Bangkok (July 2018), Mass Participation Asia, Singapore (December 2018), and SXSW Austin TX, US (March 2019), as well as being selected for the Business Angel Programme run by the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Miro's founders are currently engaged in fundraising discussions with a group of investors led by San Francisco-based venture capital and investment firm SOSV (Sean O'Sullivan Ventures).
"We're looking for investment of US$2 million," Mr Wilde said. "This would allow is to grow our team and further extend our technology lead to meet our revenue and market share growth goals over the next two years."
Venture city
The partners said they were "in the right place" to kick-start their venture.
"Hong Kong is a great place to do business internationally," Mr Wilde said. "The city has very low entry barriers; an extremely friendly and easy to navigate taxation system; and special trade status with the United States. Hong Kong also has a great tech and start-up community."
He's seen the start-up ecosystem develop "tremendously" since relocating to Hong Kong in 2008, and now believes it to be Asia's best. "Hong Kong is becoming the place where start-ups can grow," Mr Wilde said.
For their particular business, it also helps that Hong Kong is such a sporting city, with a rolling programme of high-profile athletic events. The press is generous with their coverage, which helps give exposure to a fledgling brand, he added.
Miro is a sports tech company but the founders believe its capabilities are potentially applicable across a vast range of sectors.
"Everyone we speak to has a problem that can be solved with computer vision," Mr Wilde said. "Our dedicated team are passionate to work with event organisers and sponsors in bringing the power of machine learning and AI to participants across the globe, helping them to stay healthier and perform better."
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I think the reason I welcome the Autumn months is because I'm a homebody and an introvert at heart. Aside from the word LOVE, COZY would have to be my next favourite word, and the weather at this time is perfect for just this.
There's something about certain places and scents that bring about a sense of comfort and safety. Your breathing slows. There is nothing to do but just be.
Just as nature returns to slumber in the earth to be reborn at spring, Autumn is a the time to slow down, reap the harvest of seeds planted earlier in the year and think about setting goals for the new year.
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I love the feeling of cozy too…a cup of tea, blanket and a book/magazine.


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GV Health recognises its duty of care to the environment. We proactively seek ways to ensure the processes used during manufacturing and delivery to customers are as environment friendly and sustainable as possible, given the nature of the products and services we supply. As a manufacturer and supplier for healthcare providers such as hospitals, clinics, care and nursing homes, GV Health has a duty of care to its customers to ensure the products we supply help them to fulfil their primary duty of care to patients. In addition we have primary duties of care in the manufacturing, distribution processes and supporting activites we undertake to the environment and sustainability .
As a manufacturer of polythene and plastic based products we are working extremely hard to introduce more environmentally kind items while continuing to meet the stringent patient safety requirements of healthcare providers. We are developing new manufacturing techniques and material blends, using recycled material in our products where possible, and have a goal of moving toward closed-loop supply chain. In addition, we are introducing biodegradable material to a wider number of our product ranges.
Healthcare requirements, available raw materials and manufacturing technologies currently mean that the use of plastics in healthcare waste is not going away completely in the foreseeable future.
In addition to implementing changes to our manufacturing, production and distribution processes, we use our specialist knowledge to help customers use techniques such as waste streaming and sortation to minimise waste placed in non-biodegradable containers and to reduce overall volumes of waste requiring specialist processing and handling. We train staff to understand the importance of waste streams and provide systems to make it easy to always select the most appropriate waste container.
All GV Health premises have sortation for waste recycling. Our buildings have sensor systems that ensure heating and lighting is used efficiently to reduce energy waste.
GV Health supports charities including GreenSeas.org and the Woodland Trust.
We are working with all our suppliers to ensure they adopt more mindful environmental strategies.


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Q: How to see defined comments on database objects? The main motivation to use COMMENT ON IS, is to generate smart documentation reports,  manipulating it by SQL.
The Guide postgresql.org/docs/functions-info not explains (is ugly). I try intuitive SELECT obj_description('schemaName.tableName'::regclass) and luckily worked... But I need

*

*To do the same with function names, but name::regclass not works with functions.

*To see what is catalog_name?  For functions, tables and views.

*How to easilly (in nowadays 2018) list all the functions or all the tables of a schema?

A: so=# create function t.fn() returns int as
$$
begin return 1; end; $$ language plpgsql;
CREATE FUNCTION
so=# comment on function t.fn() is 'some comment';
COMMENT
so=# select * from obj_description('t.fn'::regproc);
 obj_description
-----------------
 some comment
(1 row)

regclass is for relations, for function use regproc
update
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-COMMENT-TABLE

The two-parameter form of obj_description returns the comment for a
  database object specified by its OID and the name of the containing
  system catalog. For example, obj_description(123456,'pg_class') would
  retrieve the comment for the table with OID 123456. The one-parameter
  form of obj_description requires only the object OID. It is deprecated
  since there is no guarantee that OIDs are unique across different
  system catalogs; therefore, the wrong comment might be returned.

functions oids are stored in pg_proc, tables and views in pg_class (relkind r and v respectively), thus:

*

*select * from obj_description('t.fn'::regproc)

*pg_class for tables and views, pg_proc for functions

*below are queries:

for all functions (I add order and limit to show UDF small list):
so=# select oid::regproc,obj_description(oid,tableoid::regclass::text)
from pg_proc
order by oid desc
limit 2;
 oid  | obj_description
------+-----------------
 t.fn | some comment
 a    | blah
(2 rows)

for all tables:
so=# select oid::regclass,obj_description(oid,tableoid::regclass::text) from pg_class where relkind = 'r' order by oid desc limit 1;
      oid      |   obj_description
---------------+---------------------
 t."WeirdMix$" | table with bad name
(1 row)

respectively for views:
so=# select oid::regclass,obj_description(oid,tableoid::regclass::text) from pg_class where relkind = 'v' order by oid desc limit 1;
 oid | obj_description
-----+-----------------
 v   | view this is
(1 row)


Fifteen-year-old David was born with a rare genetic disorder, which causes his arms to be short, with no radius bones, and his hands to be very small and lacking in strength. This disability makes it challenging for David to do many of the things his peers are doing, like making a simple lunch, learning to drive, even dressing and caring for himself.
Myoelectric prostheses, externally powered artificial limbs controlled with the electrical signals generated naturally by one's own muscles, seemed to be the perfect way for David to gain his independence. He and his family visited three different providers about developing prostheses; however, each was apprehensive about the amount of customization—and paperwork—required.
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Will Fotheringham and Chris Sidwells Cycling Q and A
Beryl Burton and Tom Simpson - Cycling Authors Q&A with William Fotheringham, Chris Sidwells and Laura Winter
Two of British cycling's most experienced and respected cycling journalists join forces with Eurosport's Laura Winter for a discussion about the two biggest legends and trailblazers of British Cycling.
This evening will provide an unparalleled insight into the lives, careers and legacies of two titans of British cycling, whose exploits and examples paved the way for all the champions who have followed.
The event marks the launch of William Fotheringham's latest book, The Greatest: The Life and Times of Beryl Burton - which sets out to tell her story in detail for the first time and to focus on the people and places behind the legend.
A prolific world and national champion on road and track, whose career lasted more than 25 years, Burton dominated women's racing in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s, taking almost 100 national titles. She not only spoke out for equality in cycle racing but also challenged stereotypes by the way she rode: she competed on equal terms with men, and managed an unheard-of feat in setting an absolute British record for distance covered over 12 hours in 1967. Burton died in 1996 but remains a household name in British cycling and in her native Yorkshire, and is the subject of an acclaimed play by actor Maxine Peake.
He will be in discussion with Chris Sidwells, who as not only a cycling writer, but also the nephew of Tom Simpson, is uniquely placed to give an insight into the life and career of Britain's first wearer of the yellow jersey and first world road race champion. His most recent book, Cycling Legends 01 Tom Simpson, is an illustrated book about Tom's life with 167 mono and colour photos, including 50 of Tom that have never been published before.
The event will be hosted by Laura Winter. Ticketholders will get a discount on book purchases and a book signing will conclude the evening.
Chris Sidwells is a freelance cycling journalist and author who has published 19 books, including Call of The Road, a history of road cycling and Mister Tom, a personal biography of his uncle Tom Simpson. He contributes to Cycling Weekly, Cycle Sport, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and the BBC and also commentators on cycling for BBC local radio stations.
William Fotheringham, The Guardian's lead cycling writer, covered 27 Tours de France and four Olympic Games for the paper between 1990 and 2017 and remains a widely respected commentator on the sport. William has written best-selling biographies of Eddy Merckx, Fausto Coppi and Bernard Hinault, before turning his attention this year to Yorkshire's own seven-times world champion and 96-times national champion Beryl Burton, a Harrogate resident until her untimely death in 1996.
Laura Winter is a sports presenter, event host and commentator, specialising in cycling, amongst a variety of other sports. As well as presenting British Cycling's road and cyclocross coverage on Eurosport, BBC and ITV4, she is Voxwomen's dedicated presenter for the monthly Voxwomen Cycling Show which is broadcast on multiple channels worldwide. She is also the NBC reporter and commentator for the Tour of California women's race.
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Procrastination. We'll Get to that Later!
To be human is to procrastinate. But why? Why do we all put off doing something that we've already decided is in our best interest, such as implementing a new software system?
It doesn't matter how much warning you have to prepare. All of us at Spitfire are mourning the death of Jon Taffler with great sorrow. Even though Jon sometimes granted me the title of "official company philosopher," I am not sufficiently gifted with words to coax them to convey the magnitude of emptiness that results from losing a friend far too soon. Our hearts ache in sympathy for his family and children at this terrible loss.
One of my favorite things happened this week. Clients who have been live on the Spitfire Project Management System for over three years contacted us because their company's business needs are changing and they want to utilize more of the features and functionality in our system. In their particular case, they had been operating mostly as Construction Management (CM) and this year have begun taking some jobs that put them into the role of General Contractor (GC).


The Meadowlands YMCA Summer Camp is back and better than ever! They're energized and excited to give campers an incredible experience full of new friends, new adventures, and positive role models. With day camps for kids of all ages, they provide plenty of new activities for preschoolers, children, and teens to awaken their imaginations.
The addition of the brand new Aquatics Center will make swimming an even more integral part of the unique Summer Camp experience. Their team has also been busy connecting with campers and families to further develop programming. New additions have been made that are sure to make Summer Camp at the Meadowlands Y even better than last year's. They look forward to providing every child with the opportunity to make this the best summer ever!
Summer is the time of year when children make new memories, build lifelong skills and everlasting friendships. At the Meadowlands YMCA Summer Day Camps, your child will engage in a variety of age appropriate activities to develop confidence, keep them active and healthy, promote social and interpersonal skills and challenge them to try new things - all in a safe environment led by positive adult role models.
The Meadowlands YMCA understands that each family has their own summer camp needs so they offer flexible schedules and extended hours, including daily and weekly options that don't require summer-long commitments. The summer camps in Bergen County, NJ run from June 17th through August 31st.
The Summer Camp for preschoolers is designed to the build confidence, self-reliance, social skills, teamwork, and friendships to help prepare them for kindergarten and beyond! Campers will enjoy free swim time in the new Y pool, outdoor play, educational games, interactive science projects, literacy activities, theme-based crafts, and special event days with guests.
What do you get when you combine imagination with recreation? Camp Discovery! Campers will exercise their minds and bodies, all while building friendships with each other. They'll enjoy swimming, a variety of different sports, ping-pong, fusbol, arts and crafts, science projects, STEM activities, cooking lessons, and plenty of time swimming and playing in the pool.
Adventures Awaits! The YMCA's Travel Camps take to the road with a combination of exciting field trips and activities in our camp facilities. Campers will enjoy new experiences by going on excursions every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Mondays and Fridays, they'll participate in swimming at the YMCA pools and other activities in their home base camps. Trained camp counselors help to ensure every day is safe and supervised, so parents can rest easy knowing their young ones are in a secure environment.
Summer Camp at the Meadowlands YMCA offers teens a positive atmosphere to enjoy their summer vacation while also building character, new friendships, and leadership skills. The Y empowers teens to reach new levels and gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how to work well in a group of their peers. It's a safe and active way to spend the summer months!
What kid doesn't dream about playing on an NBA basketball court? Since the Meadowlands YMCA's Gatorade Gymnasium is the former Nets practice facility and still has the original floor and backboards, you can actually practice like a pro. Campers will hone their skills while learning the value of teamwork and sportsmanship. Children will be grouped according to age and grow in confidence through skills development and team building activities.
From singing to acting to dancing, They'll help bring out the best in your little star! No previous experience is needed, just a willingness to perform and have FUN! Every camper receives a solo and speaking roll if desired, but it's not required. They believe that all roles in the musical are equally important and valuable and want all campers to feel comfortable in this educational environment.