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Q: cant import beautiful soup 4 in virtual env I have been trying to install use beautiful soup in a virtual environment.  I have successfully installed the module using both pip and easy_install but I cannot seem to import it into the interpreter.  Here is what I did to try and launch it..  Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
(WebScraper)test@ubuntu:~/code/WebScraper$ easy_install beautifulsoup4
Searching for beautifulsoup4
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/beautifulsoup4/
Reading http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/
Reading http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/download/
Best match: beautifulsoup4 4.2.0
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/beautifulsoup4/beautifulsoup4-    4.2.0.tar.gz#md5=48a3a7ee42d9b5bd046b3b5c86bb2d35
Processing beautifulsoup4-4.2.0.tar.gz
Writing /tmp/easy_install-R6wbsM/beautifulsoup4-4.2.0/setup.cfg
Running beautifulsoup4-4.2.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-    R6wbsM/beautifulsoup4-4.2.0/egg-dist-tmp-xIc3Vf
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
Adding beautifulsoup4 4.2.0 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /home/test/code/WebScraper/lib/python2.7/site-packages/beautifulsoup4-4.2.0-  py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for beautifulsoup4
Finished processing dependencies for beautifulsoup4
(WebScraper)test@ubuntu:~/code/WebScraper$ python

Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 19 2013, 18:28:01)
[GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bs4
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "bs4.py", line 1, in <module>
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
ImportError: cannot import name BeautifulSoup
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A: This works for me:
dirk@discordia:~/Dokumente/devel/python$ virtualenv blabla --no-site-packages
New python executable in blabla/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...done.
dirk@discordia:~/Dokumente/devel/python$ source blabla/bin/activate
(blabla)dirk@discordia:~/Dokumente/devel/python$ cd blabla/
(blabla)dirk@discordia:~/Dokumente/devel/python/blabla$ pip install yolk
Downloading/unpacking yolk
  Downloading yolk-0.4.3.tar.gz (86kB): 86kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/home/dirk/Dokumente/devel/python/blabla/build/yolk/setup.py) egg_info for package yolk

...snip...

Successfully installed yolk
Cleaning up...

(blabla)dirk@discordia:~/Dokumente/devel/python/blabla$ yolk -l
Python          - 2.7.5+       - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload)
argparse        - 1.2.1        - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7)
pip 1.5.4 has no metadata
setuptools 2.2 has no metadata
wsgiref         - 0.1.2        - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7)
yolk            - 0.4.3        - active
(blabla)dirk@discordia:~/Dokumente/devel/python/blabla$ pip install beautifulsoup4
Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4
  Downloading beautifulsoup4-4.3.2.tar.gz (143kB): 143kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/home/dirk/Dokumente/devel/python/blabla/build/beautifulsoup4/setup.py) egg_info for package beautifulsoup4

Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
  Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4

Successfully installed beautifulsoup4
Cleaning up...
(blabla)dirk@discordia:~/Dokumente/devel/python/blabla$ python
Python 2.7.5+ (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:37:08)
[GCC 4.8.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bs4 ; from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>>

So maybe you want to try a new virtenv and install bs4 with pip install.

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Fekvése
A település a Fucino folyó völgyében fekszik, a megye központi részén. Határai: Aielli, Avezzano, Castelvecchio Subequo, Cerchio, Collarmele, Gagliano Aterno, Luco dei Marsi, Ovindoli, Pescina, San Benedetto dei Marsi, Secinaro és Trasacco.

Története
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Népessége
A népesség számának alakulása:

Főbb látnivalói
Castello
Santa Maria in Valleverde-templom
Santa Maria delle Grazie-templom
San Giovanni Battista-templom
San Michele Arcangelo-templom

Testvértelepülései
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Jegyzetek

Források

Comuni-Italiani
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Temenos' universal, cloud-native cloud-agnostic payments platform to offer UK banks a comprehensive, end-to-end service and rapid access to cloud-based payments services
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Apparently week 3 is supposed to be the turning point, when it stops being a struggle and you get better. Whatever ailment you're looking to treat is supposed to start clearing up, cravings are supposed to die, and you sleep well.
Your taste buds should also be waking up right about now, allowing you to truly appreciate the flavors found in the fresh foods you're eating.
They also warn against two pitfalls: food boredom and "shiny toy" syndrome. The first is obvious, but the later is the warning that, just because you feel better, two weeks isn't "probably enough". You've (I've) committed to 30 days, so 30 days it shall be.
Ketosis is a normal metabolic process the occurs often in the presence of changing nutrition. When there's a big shift in your diet your metabolism has to re-calibrate to process fat as it's primary fuel source instead of glucose (easy-access carbs. Though saying it like that makes carbs sound like the whores of nutrition). One of the heralds of ketosis is a metallic taste in your mouth; and mine has been happening for DAYS! It's part of why I was so annoyed/sad/frustrated/grumpy last week.
…and I feel a lot better without it. Because I work at a really fancy gym in NYC there's a juice bar in the lobby. They make these "healthy" acai blended bowls – they're faux-healthy sugar bombs that I've been having on the regular for months. I'm rid of them, at least for now, and have realized how sick I felt on them.
More than once this week I did not want to cook (ironic after last week's post when I admitted that I liked it). I was grumpy and miserable; but by making myself cook I kept moving, perked myself up, and chopping & cooking became meditative. It actually helped a lot. Previously I would've given myself permission to get take-out; but without that outlet I had to lift myself up and keep working.
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The second Amazon I ran into yesterday at the farmer's market getting some grass-fed beef. Denny, you know who you are & I'm supper excited for you! Enjoy week 1, you can do it!


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Permaculture is more than growing organic food, it is more than gardening, in fact it is much more than that. It is essentially a lifestyle choice – a way of thinking and being, of living in harmony with your surroundings………it is ecologically sustainable and importantly – a simplistic, logical and practical approach to life.
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Want to learn more about how to parse an XML project into Scala case classes? Check out this tutorial to learn how using the xtract library.
The JAXB is more specific to Java classes and the Scalaxb doesn't look mature enough to be used right now from the blogs, but the most common thing about them is that they are most suitable when you have a schema defined for your XML objects.
For my use case, the schema was not defined, so I wanted to use a play-json-like library that can convert my XML data into a Scala case class. One of the solutions I found was the xtract library. As I mentioned earlier, it is very similar to play-json and reads data. This post looks specifically at parsing XML into Scala objects only, so if you are looking for a reverse conversion (Scala to XML), you can explore the xtract library itself.
Let's start exploring this library by parsing an XML object into a Scala case class.
Here is the "build.sbt" file to define the dependency related to the xtract library. The xtract library uses few classes for functional syntax from play-json, so we have to provide the play-json dependency as well.
Just like paly-json, xtract let us write readers and writers to parse XML into Scala and vice versa. Here is an example for the reader.
Reading attributes (attribute): An [[XmlReader]] that extracts a value from the attribute of the input NodeSeq.
Reading nodes(read): Create an [[XmlReader]] that reads the node(s) located at this xpath.
Reading sequence/lists (seq): Read each node in the NodeSeq with a reader and succeed with a [[PartialParseSuccess]] if any of the elements fail.
This class works as an XML helper for parsing XML data into Scala case classes.
Here, we have a simple application that takes an XML file and parses it into a complex Scala object.
After running the application using the above command, you can find the outcome on the terminal. For further queries, you can play with code and find the required outcomes.
Hope you enjoyed the post. In our next post, we will be looking more deeply into how the "xtract library" works and converts the XML data into Scala case classes.


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Q: Start Docker on boot on Windows Server 2016 I am running Docker CE (Linux) on Windows server 2016. I want to run this on boot, not when I log in.
How can I achieve this?

A: Simplest solution: Use autologon. These machines are build servers, autologon is the simplest solution.

A: You can create a scheduled task to start "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Docker for Windows.exe" at startup.
That worked and solved the problem for me.


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"DALMATIA" to "DAN-JAAN"
-A country on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea 2Ti 4:10
DALPHON
-Son of Haman Es 9:7
DAMAGES AND COMPENSATION
-General scriptures concerning Ex 21:18, 19, 22, 28-34; De 22:13-19, Le 6:1-5; 28, 29
-A female convert of Athens Ac 17:34
-An ancient city Ge 14:15; 15:2
-Capital of Syria 1Ki 20:34; Isa 7:8; Jer 49:23-29; Eze 47:16, 17
-Laid under tribute to David 2Sa 8:5, 6
-Besieged by Rezon 1Ki 11:23, 24
-Recovered by Jeroboam 2Ki 14:28
-Taken by king of Assyria 2Ki 16:9
-Walled Jer 49:27; 2Co 11:33
-Garrisoned 2Co 11:32
-Luxury in Am 3:12
-Paul's experiences in Ac 9; 22:5-16; 26:12-20; 2Co 11:32; Ga 1:17
-Prophecies concerning Isa 8:4; 17:1, 2; Jer 49:23-29; Am 1:3, 5; Zec 9:1
-Wilderness of 1Ki 19:15
-See SYRIA
-See WICKED, PUNISHMENT OF
-1. Fifth son of Jacob and Bilhah Ge 30:6; 35:25 .Descendants of Ge 46:23; Nu 26:42, 43 .See TRIBE OF, below .Blessed of Jacob Ge 49:16, 17
-2. TRIBE OF .Census of Nu 1:39; 26:42, 43 .Inheritance of, according to the allotment of Joshua Jos 19:40-47 .Of Ezekiel Eze 48:1 .Position of, in journey and camp, during the exodus Nu 2:25, 31; 10:25 .Blessed by Moses De 33:22 .Fail to conquer the Amorites Jud 1:34, 35 .Conquests by Jos 19:47; Jud 18:27-29 .Deborah rebukes, for their cowardice Jud 5:17 .Idolatry of Jud 18 .Commerce of Jud 5:17; Eze 27:19 .See ISRAEL, TRIBES OF
-3. A city of the tribe of Dan .Also called LAISH, and LESHEM Ge 14:14; De 34:1; Jud 20:1; Jer 8:16 .Captured by the people of Dan Jos 19:47 .Idolatry established at Jud 18; 1Ki 12:28, 29; Am 8:14 .Capture by Ben-hadad 1Ki 15:20; 2Ch 16:4
-General scriptures concerning Ex 15:20; 32:19; Jud 11:34; 21:19-21; 1Sa 18:6; 21:11; 30:16; 2Sa 6:14-16; Job 21:11; Ps 30:11; 149:3; 150:4; Ec 3:4; Jer 31:4, 13; La 5:15; Mt 11:17; Lu 15:23-25
-Herodias dances in the presence of Herod (Antipas) Mt 14:6; Mr 6:22
-Idolatrous Ex 32:19, 25
-1. A Jewish captive, also called BELTESHAZZAR .Educated at king's court Da 1 .Interprets visions Da 2; 4; 5 .Promotion and executive authority of Da 2:48, 49; 5:11, 29; 6:2 .Conspiracy against, cast into the lions' den Da 6 .Prophecies of Da 4:8, 9; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; Mt 24:15 .Abstinence of Da 1:8-16 .Wisdom of Da 1:17; Eze 28:3 .Devoutness of Da 2:18; 6; 9; 10; 12; Eze 14:14 .Courage and fidelity of Da 4:27; 5:17-23; 6:10-23 .Worshiped by Nebuchadnezzar Da 2:6
-2. David's son .Also called CHILEAB 2Sa 3:3; 1Ch 3:1
-3. A descendant of Ithamar, and a companion of Ezra Ezr 8:2; Ne 10:6
DAN-JAAN
-A place near the source of the Jordan River 2Sa 24:6


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10 Things You Should Never Do in Front of the Queen Elizabeth II
No touching!
By Lauren Smith
Queen Elizabeth has met hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people in her lifetime. But one must remember when meeting Her Majesty, there are just certain things you shouldn't do in order to avoid looking rude or offending her.
You shouldn't touch.
Protocol says anyone meeting Queen Elizabeth for the first time should wait for her to extend her hand first. And even afterwards, contact should be kept to a minimum. That means hugs and kisses are a major no no.
You shouldn't be sitting.
As soon as the Queen enters the room, everyone must stand to greet her and should not sit down until she does. Only then is it polite to take a rest.
You shouldn't just stand there.
If you're a citizen of the United States, you can simply shake hands, but in Great Britain, men and women must bow or curtsy. When Angelina Jolie, who is a US citizen met the Queen, you see she did a little of all three, because it's better to be safe than sorry!
You shouldn't show up casual.
A.k.a. dress to impress. If there's a dress code, follow it. And never, under any circumstances, show up in flip-flops, torn jeans or a super revealing outfit.
You shouldn't show up without a gift.
Bringing a gift is a must, but it should always be appropriate for the occasion. For instance, if the Queen visits your hometown, it's common to give her something that is from there and indicative of your culture.
You shouldn't use nicknames.
Even though you might feel like you've known the Queen your whole life, remember: she doesn't know you. When you first meet her, address her as "Your Majesty." Use "Ma'am" the rest of the time, except when you say farewell, which should be "Your Majesty" once again.
You shouldn't speak unless spoken to.
When around the Queen, you should follow the same rule some people use for kids, which is "little children should be seen and not heard." This allows for the Queen to carry the conversation — or put it to a stop, if she so desires.
You shouldn't lag behind.
When walking with the Queen, keep the same pace as her. This ensures you're alongside her and can introduce her as needed when moving from room to room.
You shouldn't eat first.
It's customary that the Queen should take the first bite at the table and when she's done eating, you should be too.
You shouldn't slurp your tea.
Since tea is huge part of the British culture, you should drink it as the Queen does. Hold the tea cup, not the cup and saucer, when at the table, and never, ever slurp as you drink.
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Lauren Smith Senior Editor Lauren is a senior editor for Redbookmag.com and WomansDay.com and was previously the home editor for GoodHousekeeping.com and HouseBeautiful.com.
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Jack Wright's highly acclaimed tribute to Neil Diamond is an authentic and sophisticated evening of hit songs that have kept Neil Diamond in the hearts of his fans for more than five decades. Jack and his Heartlight Showband join the POPS! to capture the essence of Neil's timeless multi-generational appeal. With appealing and entertaining storytelling, Jack's show is pure Neil, connecting with his audience – a true Neil Diamond experience. The 24-song show includes favorites like "Cracklin' Rosie," "Hello Again," "Play Me," "Song Sung Blue," "I Am I Said," "Sweet Caroline" and "Coming to America." You won't want this evening to end!
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The Stone Soup crew is preparing a second testing-round for Camerize during the elections on September 20th.
Camerize is an Amsterdam based startup that has come to Stone Soup to develop its technology. It is a crowdsourced video production tool that allows live video streaming from multiple mobile devices.


Big corporate brands can always turn news to their advantage. Large marketing departments and access to the latest technology can ensure rapid turnaround, although sometimes a simple tweet can be enough. Some of the best examples followed the recent loss of the lights at the SuperBowl (http://www.digiday.com/brands/6-brands-that-moved-fast-during-super-bowl-blackout/).
It doesn't mean a business school can't do the same, but sometimes it takes a bit of lateral thinking. One of the best positive examples from recent years happened when David Beckham was transferred from Manchester United to Real Madrid.
The FT ran a story setting out how Real Madrid would manage to pay the large transfer fee. A professor was quoted from Cass Business School in London, which regularly manages to get coverage in the newspaper. However, alongside was the less well known business school at Coventry University, which has a Centre for the International Business of Sport.
It doesn't mean that the Coventry brand was aligned with that of David Beckham or Real Madrid, but Coventry got a lot of exposure that wouldn't have been there otherwise. Beckham joined Real Madrid in 2003, well before Twitter, Facebook , YouTube et al made it possible to reach a global audience with just a few key strokes.
Of course, since 2003 Beckham has spent time playing in Los Angeles, Milan and now in Paris, offering many business schools around the world, the opportunity to build their brand on the back of brand Beckham.
By contrast, Nottingham Business School might have made more of the Ridley Scott movie, Robin Hood, released in 2010. Reluctant to tie themselves to the Robin Hood story and wanting to be known for rather more, the School missed an opportunity.
The movie was released at about the same time as the UK General Election. A short article contrasting the tax policies of the main political parties in 2010 and wealth redistribution in the middle ages would have maintained credibility, but also allowed the School to ride on the back of the movie. No doubt Universal Pictures spent many millions of dollars promoting the film. With good use of search engines, all those people of an age potentially interested in business education, may also have found in their search results for the film, details of Nottingham Business School.
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When Exercise Stops, How Long do Benefits Last?
DURHAM, N.C. – Scientists examining the relationship between the intensity and length of a workout and the duration of its benefits have made a surprising discovery: More isn't necessarily better, and none may be worse than we ever imagined.
"On the surface, it seems to make sense that the harder we exercise, the better off we'll be, and by some measures that's true," says lead author Cris Slentz, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist at Duke University Medical Center. "But our studies show that a modest amount of moderately intense exercise is the best way to significantly lower the level of a key blood marker linked to higher risk of heart disease and diabetes. More intense exercise doesn't seem to do that."
What may be even more remarkable, he says, is that some of the benefits derived from a modest exercise regimen appear to last much longer than those gained from a more rigorous program.
The study was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health and is slated for the August issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology.
Slentz, along with senior author William, Kraus, M.D., a Duke cardiologist, studied 240 middle-aged, sedentary people randomized into one of four groups. Three of them were exercise groups: a high amount/high intensity group, a low amount/high intensity group and a low amount/moderate intensity group. Members of the fourth group were controls, meaning they didn't do any exercise at all. Workouts included time on a treadmill, an elliptical trainer and a stationary bicycle. Participants went through a two-to-three month ramp-up period, then stayed on their programs for six months. Scientists measured the participants' blood levels of proteins that carry cholesterol and fat ( HDL, LDL and triglycerides) at the beginning of their programs, and then at 24 hours, five days, and 15 days after they ended. (The trial is called STRRIDE: Studies of a Targeted Risk Reduction Intervention Through Defined Exercise.)
The researchers were especially interested in what happened after the participants stopped their workouts. "There are lots of studies that demonstrate the benefits of exercise, but we also know that in real life, people don't always adhere to their programs, so we wanted to measure how long those benefits linger," says Slentz. Such studies may help scientists understand why certain changes with exercise occur in the first place, and that may ultimately help them design more tailored programs for people who want to improve their health.
The researchers found that for the most part, no amount of exercise significantly changed LDL levels. HDL levels, however, tended to improve with the length and intensity of the workout, and that the benefit was sustained over time.
But perhaps the most interesting finding was that a modest, low-intensity workout – walking just 30 minutes per day, for example, dramatically lowered triglyceride levels. Triglycerides are the particles that carry fat around in the body, and they're also a good indicator of insulin resistance, a marker for diabetes. Lowering triglyceride levels lowers risk of heart disease and diabetes.
"A proper exercise program appears to be able to lower a person's insulin resistance in just a matter of days," says Kraus. "We were also amazed to see that the lower triglyceride levels stayed low even two weeks after the workouts ended." Longer, more intense workouts didn't have nearly the same impact, they say.
While the researchers were surprised by the amount and duration of the benefits from a modest exercise program, they say they were not surprised by the results from the control group. "And they are alarming," says Kraus. Over six months, those participants gained two pounds and about a half an inch around the waist. "That may not sound like much, but over a decade at that rate, that would mean an additional 40 pounds and ten inches," he says. "So doing a little is a whole lot better than doing nothing at all."
So is it ever "safe" to take a break from an exercise program? Well, maybe not if you want to retain benefits that are likely to evaporate over a few days. And consider this: When asked why they didn't measure benefits beyond two weeks, Kraus said the trial's review panel wouldn't allow it. "They figured that if people were doing something good for themselves, it would be unethical to ask them to stop for longer than that."
Additional scientists who contributed to the study include Johanna Johnson, Lori Bateman, Jennifer McCartney and Brian Duscha, from Duke, and Joseph Houmard, Charles Tanner, and Jennifer McCartney, from East Carolina University.
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declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Unit\Tests\Core\Domain\Common\Model\Dependent;

use Core\Domain\Common\Model\Dependent\Taxes;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class TaxesTest extends TestCase
{
    final public function testInstantiateTaxesFromFloat(): void
    {
        // Arrange & Act
        $taxes = Taxes::fromFloat(0.055);

        // Assert
        self::assertEquals(new Taxes(0.055), $taxes);
        self::assertEquals(0.055, $taxes->rate());
        self::assertEquals('5,50 %', $taxes->name());
    }

    final public function testInstantiateTaxesFromPercent(): void
    {
        // Arrange & Act
        $taxes = Taxes::fromPercent('5,50 %');

        // Assert
        self::assertEquals(new Taxes(0.055), $taxes);
        self::assertEquals(0.055, $taxes->rate());
        self::assertEquals('5,50 %', $taxes->name());
    }
}

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Men shouted in Arabic about 'Palestinians', told Jews that the 'army of Muhammed is returning'.
A vigil held by pro-Israel activists in London for Jews murdered in Arab countries was dispersed violently by men shouting about killing Jews in Arabic.
The event Wednesday by the Israel Advocacy Movement was held on Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park, which is known for its culture of free speech and passionate street preachers championing various causes.
A few dozen people holding Israeli flags and candles gathered there ahead of Kristallnacht, the name of Nazi pogrom perpetrated in 1938, to highlight the suffering and slaying around the same time of many hundreds of Jews who were killed and wounded in pogroms across the Arab world.
"As if on cue, before we'd even begun an extremist began screaming a death chant of Jews," Cohen said. "The vigil went from bad to worse, they shouted us down, they would not allow us to remember our dead until we had to call off the vigil," he added. The occurrence "goes to the heart of the matter we'd gathered to commemorate in the first place," he also said.


Structures of proline-binding domains interacting with proline-containing peptides. The structures were prepared from Protein Data Bank (PDB) files by Cameron Slayden with the scientific oversight of A. Zarrinpar, R. P. Bhattacharyya, W. A. Lim at the University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Structure 1. Structural representation of a polyproline type II (PPII) helix. The helix has twofold pseudosymmetry: A rotation of 180° about a vertical axis leaves the proline rings and the carbonyl oxygens at approximately the same position. The PDB accession code for the poly-(l)-proline structure shown is 1CF0. This animation corresponds to Fig. 1B in the review by Zarrinpar et al.
Structure 2. The structure of the Sem5 SH3 domain in complex with a proline-rich ligand. The core recognition surface has two xP binding grooves formed by aromatic amino acids, shown in yellow, and the adjacent, less conserved specificity pockets are designated in green. The PDB accession code for this structure is 1SEM. This animation corresponds to Fig. 3 in the review by Zarrinpar et al.
Structure 3. The structure of the dystrophin WW domain in complex with a proline-rich ligand. The core recognition surface has one xP binding groove formed by aromatic amino acids (yellow) and adjacent, less conserved specificity pockets (green). The PDB accession code for this structure is 1EG4. This animation corresponds to Fig. 4 in the review by Zarrinpar et al.
Structure 4. A representative structure of the Mena EVH1 domain in complex with a peptide ligand. The apex of the PPII helix fits into an aromatic-rich wedge at the binding surface. Although a conserved set of aromatic residues (yellow) also contacts the PPII ligand, the manner in which the PPII helix docks against the domain surface differs from that observed in most other proline-binding domains discussed here. The PDB accession code for this structure is 1EVH. This animation corresponds to Fig. 5 in the review by Zarrinpar et al.
Structure 5. The structure of the CD2BP2 GYF domain in complex with a proline-rich ligand. The core recognition surface has one xP binding groove formed by aromatic amino acids (yellow) and adjacent, less conserved specificity pockets (green). The PDB accession code for this structure is 1L2Z . This animation corresponds to Fig. 6 in the review by Zarrinpar et al.
Citation: A. Zarrinpar, R. P. Bhattacharyya, W. A. Lim, The structure and function of proline recognition domains. Sci. STKE 2003, re8 (2003).
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Where is Mike Williams' Wife Denise Williams Now?
Viswa Vanapalli
A seemingly innocuous duck-hunting trip turned out to be fatal for 31-year-old Mike Williams back in December 2000. An extensive search that lasted months didn't lead the authorities to Mike or his remains. But that changed more than 17 years later when a perfect storm of events led to a stunning confession from one of Mike's best friends, Brian Winchester. That confession was instrumental in convicting Mike's wife at the time, Denise Williams, of being involved with Mike's death. A&E's 'Cold Case Files: The Voice in the Lake' dives into this high-profile case that spanned decades. So, let's find out more about what happened to Denise and where she might be, shall we?
Who is Denise Williams?
Denise and Mike Williams were high school sweethearts who married in 1994 and settled in Tallahassee, Florida. They were quite close with another couple that married out of high school, Brian and Kathy Winchester. Their lives mirrored each other, marrying and having a child at around the same time. On December 16, 2000, Mike went out on a duck-hunting trip at a lake in Jackson County, Florida. But he never came home. His boat and car were found abandoned. His jacket and hunting license was found in the lake, and for the longest time, the authorities assumed that alligators ate him.
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Denise, the grieving widow, eventually cashed in on a hefty life insurance policy in Mike's name. By 2005, she married Brian, who by then had divorced Kathy. But in 2016, Denise filing for divorce set off a chain of events that led to Brian telling the police a rather mind-boggling story of what happened to Mike. In 2017, Brian was convicted of kidnapping Denise and holding her at gunpoint. He was sentenced to 20 years for that. But he also told the police that he was the one who murdered Mike in 2000 and that Denise planned it with him. In exchange for immunity, he agreed to testify against her.
At Denise's trial in 2018, Brian was the star witness. He testified that his affair with Denise started in 1997. But after a few years, they had conversations about their partners' deaths. That escalated to them hatching a plot to kill Mike. According to Brian, Denise did not want to get a divorce because of how it would look to the outside world and also didn't want to share custody of their child. So, they hatched a plan where Brian would kill Mike. On December 16, he took Mike on the boat into the lake and pushed him overboard, hoping that he would drown. When that didn't happen, Brian took a shotgun and shot Mike in the face.
Then, Brian stated that he bought a tarp, a shovel, and some weights at a local Walmart and buried him in a remote area. He later led the police to the body. The prosecution painted Denise as the cold-blooded co-conspirator, stating that she didn't even flinch when Brian detailed how he killed her then-husband. "She sat here stone-faced. Didn't bat an eye. Didn't shed a tear," the prosecutor said. There was further evidence presented of Denise filing for an insurance claim 19 days after Mike disappeared, even though the search for him carried on for months.
Denise's lawyer contended that Brian fabricated the whole story. He questioned the credibility of his statements by saying Brian only confessed after being provided full immunity. Furthermore, there was no physical evidence that tied Denise to the murder. The high-profile nature also affected the case, according to Denise's lawyer, who said, "I firmly believe (Denise Williams) was tried in the court of public opinion and that spilled over in everything involved with the defense from the beginning."
Where is Denise Williams Now?
In December 2018, a jury found 48-year-old Denise guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and accessory after the fact. She was sentenced to life in prison. In November 2020, the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee overturned Denise's murder conviction, citing that the prosecution didn't provide enough evidence to justify the murder charge. But, the conspiracy conviction was upheld, meaning that Denise still had to serve a 30-year sentence.
In June 2021, the Florida Supreme Court declined to review the overturned conviction. Mike's mother, Cheryl, said earlier, "I'll be happy with 30 years for conspiracy if she can't get out … I do not want her out. God has a plan, but I still don't know what that plan is." As per prison records, Denise remains incarcerated at the Florida Women's Reception Center in Ocala, Marion County.
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Exclusive Interview: "Age Of Ash" Author Daniel Abraham
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While sci-fi fans know him as one half of James S.A. Corey, the name on the cover of The Expanse novels, Daniel Abraham is best known to fans of fantasy for the four books in The Long Price Quintet, the five in The Dagger And The Coin series, and, soon, for The Kithamar Trilogy, which he's launching with the new novel, Age Of Ash (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview about this epic fantasy series and this first step, Abraham discusses its inspirations and influences, and why he wrote this both on his own and under his own name.
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To begin, what is Age Of Ash about, and what kind of a world does it take place in?
All the Kithamar books take place in a fantasy city-state that's been independent for centuries. It has a lot of history in it that shapes the city and the architecture and the customs and the people. There's magic, and most of it is the sidewalk fortuneteller kind of thing. But some of it's deeper and more dangerous. The city's at a critical point, and things have been shaping it for generations are shifting — maybe for good, maybe not. And that's the background. The foreground is the stories I'm telling there.
Where did you get the idea for Age Of Ash?
Hal Duncan said I should always answer the "where do ideas come from" questions by saying "semiotic autopoiesis." I don't know. I don't know where ideas come from. There was a point when it looked like I was going to have some free time because another project I was doing was coming to an end, and I was thinking about things that would be fun. That's always the trick, isn't it? Finding projects that seem fun. I'd been away from epic fantasy for a while, and honestly I wasn't sure what else I had to say in that space, but something hit me — a way to combine a couple of things I liked and turn them into something new. I got excited about it.
As you alluded to, Age Of Ash is an epic fantasy story. But are there any other genres at work in this story?
It is an epic fantasy novel, but the thing we lose of track, I think with all genre novels, it that it's a novel, too. Age Of Ash is about death and magic and gods walking in the shadows and magic blades. All the kinds of things we come to fantasy adventure for. It's also a book about losing someone. Grief. Ghosts. Not getting to have the life you thought you were going to have. Hopefully the adventure and derring-do give it some joy and the other part give it some depth.
So, are there any writers, or maybe stories, that had a particularly big influence on Age Of Ash but not on anything else you've written?
Inside the genre, I think this project probably owes a lot to Robert Asprin's Thieves' World books. I read them just a lot when I was growing up, and that sense of a city as its own rich, complex, living thing almost certainly has roots there. There were so many amazing voices in those books. Joe Haldeman. Vonda MacIntyre. C.J. Cherryh. John Brunner. And they were messy and complicated, and a character from one story could show up in the background of another one. It was complicated. And then there are some other things — movies and books — that also sort of added ideas about structure and character. Bits and pieces. It's always like that.
How about such non-literary influences as movies, TV shows, or games? Did any of those things have a big influence on Age Of Ash?
The movies that I was thinking about the most when I was looking at the Kithamar books as a project were Kieslowski's Three Colors films: Blue, White, and Red. And especially there's a moment at the end of Red where a character is watching a news story, and we see the protagonist of the movie, but we also see the protagonists of Blue and White. These people you spent time with just happened to be at the same place at the same time, not because their stories are the same, but because they all live in the same world. Their lives intersected in this absolutely normal, everyday, trivial way, but because we're the audience and we know all these people deeply, there's this frission for us that none of them feel. It's a grace note by Kieslowski, but it's a really interesting moment for me.
You've already announced that Age Of Ash is the first book of The Kithamar Trilogy. But as I understand it, this isn't one epic story broken up into three parts, each book is telling the same story from the perspective of three different characters.
That's not exactly right. The Kithamar Trilogy is three different stories that all happen while the others are going on that hopefully come together to give you something more as a result. Age Of Ash is the first book in a trilogy, but it's also a complete story. It has a start and a finish. Closure. The characters you follow here, you'll glimpse again in the later books, and maybe you'll remember what they were up to and where their story was carrying them. But telling all three stories at the same time wouldn't do what I want it to do. It would just be another big tapestry. You wouldn't have your attention drawn to the threads. I want to appreciate the threads.
So did you write all three books at the same time? Or at least a first draft of all three before you locked anything in, just in case, while writing one book, you realized you needed to change something in one of the others?
Writing for me is always a process of balancing the thinking it through with the discovery on the day. I wrote Age Of Ash first, but with the understanding of what the other books were going to be, and I outlined the other stories as I went so that that pieces would all fit. In a perfect world, I might have held off publishing them until they were all complete, but honestly, that way has a little madness to it, too. This is the kind of thing it's better to get through and not have it to polish and fiddle with forever. You get too deep into the clockwork of it, and you lose the beauty of the stories. It becomes an intellectual exercise. I'm not writing it as an intellectual exercise. I'm trying to make a point.
So, do you know what the other books will be called and when they'll be out?
I don't know anything about titles. My publisher always hates my titles. I very rarely get to use the ones I bring. Age Of Ash wasn't the title of the first book when I was writing it. It was A Champion Of Ashes. It wasn't The Kithamar Trilogy, either. When I pitched the idea, it was The Aspects Of Kithamar. But publishers have a different view of all this than writers do. They don't like my titles, and I'm not an expert on what's going to sell or not sell. My editor told me that A Champion Of Ashes was going to be too much like some other books that were coming out and people would get confused. Maybe that's true. I don't know. But no. I can tell you that I'm writing The Blade Of Dreams and Judge Of The Fallen World, but what the titles will be when they actually come out? The publisher's going to have to tell me. I don't know these things. We're looking to have them out one each year until the project's done, though. That's the plan.
Upon learning that Age Of Ash is the first book of a trilogy, some people will decide to wait until they're all out so they can read them back-to-back. But is there a reason why you think people shouldn't wait?
I don't think there's a wrong way to do it. If people want to wait and grab them all at once, I won't object. I'll say, though, that there's a lot less reason to do that with these books than with a more traditionally structured trilogy. The story that I'm telling in Age Of Ash, you don't have to remember the details of for the next book. It's not like one of those fantasy epics where you need a notebook to keep track of where each other characters is and how they're connected to each other. It's not that kind of epic. It's a different kind. A lot of epic fantasy trilogies are one big book that gets cut into pieces that are short enough to publish. I did one of those. The Dagger And The Coin. I also did one where it wasn't that. The Long Price Quartet was an epic that got epic by being spread out over a lifetime. The Kithamar Trilogy gets its epic quality by being a palimpsest. Of everything I've ever written, this is the one that it's least important to remember what happened in the last book.
Speaking of books in a series, along with your own novels, you've also written The Expanse series with your friend Ty Franck under the name S.A. Corey. How did you come to write Age Of Ash on your own?
Ty has never had any particular interest in epic fantasy, and we built the James S.A. Corey pseudonym to fit its own project. James S.A. Corey writes space opera. Even when we do other work under that name, you're going to know what kind of book you're picking up just from the name of the author. Daniel Abraham writes epic fantasy. When I was MLN Hanover, I was writing urban fantasy. The name of the author is important. Not to me, but to the reader. It tells you something you need to know so that you know how you're supposed to read the book. The story isn't the same if you've got the wrong author. If you pick up a Stephen King book, you want a Stephen King book. John Irving did some great work, but if you try selling The World According To Garp by Stephen King, you're just going to get a bunch of confused, disappointed readers.
You and Ty recently published the ninth and final novel in The Expanse series, Leviathan Falls. For people unfamiliar with this, what, real briefly is The Expanse all about?
The Expanse is a vast space opera. Nine novels and a collection of short stories that we built to go from a kind of late Apollo 13 story space to more early Buck Rogers. Space opera spends a lot of time in vast, galactic empires, but you usually skip over the part about how you got to that. We wanted to tell a story in that part of the history.
Along with Leviathan Falls, you also have a collection of Expanse novellas and short stories coming out March 15th called Memory's Legion. Will this be the end of the Expanse series, or are you and Ty thinking you might one day return to that fictional universe for a prequel series, a sequel, or maybe something only tangentially related?
No, we're not going back. I don't believe in telling stories once they've been told. I'm never going to write another Long Price Quartet story, or another Dagger And Coin story. And we're never going to write another Expanse story either. We did what we came to do, and now we're done. Nothing kills the magic of a story like saying that the ending doesn't matter. Endings are what give things meaning. There's that old phrase: Call no man happy until he's dead. The Expanse wouldn't be a happy story or a sad one or the story we wrote if we kept writing it. It would turn into just another subgenre of its own bumbling along until it got boring and everyone lost interest.
One of the defining characteristics of The Expanse series is that the novels have been effortlessly readable. I've torn through all of them like I tear through a bag of Oreos. Does Age Of Ash share this quality?
I hope it's the same kind of read, but I don't know. I don't get to say that. There are techniques that I've learned for writing stories that are accessible and engaging. And I think that's what you're describing, something that's accessible and engaging. But stories also have their own needs. There's a book by Russell Hoban that I love called Riddley Walker. It's incredibly hard to read, but if he'd made it any easier, the story wouldn't have worked. I don't have any patience with people who write obscure, difficult stories just to be obscure and difficult. They're bad writers. The trick is to make your story as accessible to the reader as it can possibly be, but not more than it can possibly be. And the project dictates that, not the writer. Another thing Russell Hoban wrote were new reader books about Frances The Badger for four-year-olds. The man understood how to be understood. And he understood when the story needed you to work for it. He was an artist.
Aside from possibly being effortlessly readable, are there any other reasons why you think fans of The Expanse will enjoy Age Of Ash and The Kithamar Trilogy, and vice versa?
Well, they're both the kind of thing I like. I'd recommend the Age Of Ash to Expanse readers the same way I'd recommend other books I like to Expanse readers. I really enjoyed the Expanse books, and if you did too, here's something else that lit my head up. Maybe it'll light your head up, too.
Earlier I asked if Age Of Ash had been influenced by any movies, TV shows, or games. But I'd like to flip things around and ask if you think Ash and The Kithamar Trilogy could work as a series of movies, a show, or a game?
I think it would be hard to film for really pedestrian reasons. The actor contracts would be a bear, and the continuity would have the potential to really drain all the fun out of it for the directors and the poor script supervisor. You could do Age Of Ash if you stopped there, and that might be pretty good. But when you start layering in the other books, it's not really suited. I think there's something very interesting you could do as a video game, though.
And if someone wanted to turn Age Of Ash and The Kithamar Trilogy into a game, what kind of game should it be?
There's some interesting things going on with video games and storytelling these days that I think the Kithamar books could touch on, especially with the three stories in the same setting and time. Imagine a game you played three times, from three different perspectives. The choices you make the first time through determine the constraints that you have to work with on the second pass, and by the third time though, you've made a set of choices that really shape what that last story will be. Like a timeloop story that's not exactly a timeloop. Done right, it could be both richly story-driven and replayable in some really interesting ways. Of course, that's easy for me to say. Concepts are always easy. It's the execution that gets you. Give me a few hundred million dollars and a staff that actually knows how to put a triple-A game together, and we'll see if it's actually as cool as I think it could be.
So, is there anything else you think people should know about Age Of Ash and The Kithamar Trilogy?
No, I think I'd like people to go in with the actual story part of the story unspoiled.
Finally, if someone enjoys Age Of Ash, which of your other fantasy novels would you suggest they read next and why that one?
It depends. If you like the fantasy setting and the tone of the thing, I'd recommend The Dagger And The Coin. If you like the way it's a little different than the usual structure, The Long Price Quintet. I mean, I like them all. I may not be the best judge.
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Welcome to Philly Children's Theatre
Touring Theatre for Young Audiences company expanding access to the arts for Philadelphia children.
Philly Children's Theatre has been created to provide free, live, family-friendly theatre for children ages 18 months-12 years. Adult performers will travel to the various Philly neighborhoods in order to increase access to the arts.
Sarah noticed while working as a theatre and dance teacher in the Philadelphia Public School system, that many of the children have never seen a theatre performance before. Philly Children's Theatre will introduce children in Philly to theatre and all that it can be.
Sarah Gordin
Erin Gaydos
Artistic Director/Founder
Assistant Artistic Director
"We must all do theatre, to find out who we are and to discover who we can become"
Sarah Gordin is a director and choreographer as well as a theatre and dance teaching artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Sarah received her BA in Theatre from Muhlenberg College. She also studied at the National Theatre Institute Advanced Directing Program at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and The Theatre Academy of London. Sarah fell in love with storytelling through reading and now focuses on telling stories in creative and imaginative ways with young people. Sarah has taught all over the world, both in person and virtually, at a North Philadelphia Elementary School with ArtistYear AmeriCorps, Friendship Circle, OutSchool, The Rose Theater in Omaha, NE, and the Creative Arts Academy in India, among others. Sarah focuses on tapping into imaginations while creating leadership opportunities for each student's voices to be heard and valued.
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Erin Gaydos is a teaching artist and director based in Philadelphia. Erin earned her BA in Theatre Studies with a minor in Psychology from Montclair State University. During her time at Montclair, she focused on artistic management, directing, and found her love for drama therapy. Erin's passion for nonjudgmental spaces for young people to share their stories and experience art began while being a teaching artist at SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young, and has been a constant in her work. Erin is dedicated to fostering environments of acceptance and support while using theatre and other creative arts for students in every community.
Philly Children's Theatre is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Philly Children's Theatre must be made payable to "Fractured Atlas" only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
To make a donation by check or from a charitable trust, please contact us.
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Death by Grammar: Your Daily VA: What's my expertise?
Your Daily VA: What's my expertise?
Admittedly, during my maiden journey with freelancing, the only idea I had was to use my skill in phone handling and was clueless about which skill set to use; when, how & where to start. When a client asks, I'd say "Yea, I can do that!" Or "Yea, I have an idea." Yes, I am able to learn." Sadly, it was the naive response that made people clueless what they can get from me, because I wasn't clear which to offer. This was because I blindly jumped in the bandwagon, without doing proper research before coming up with this brilliant idea. Then again, experience is the best teacher.
From this experience, I learned that identifying what I am really good at (language & cultural exchange and office management) and capable of doing not only gives me the confidence to sell my skills & services, it also establishes my integrity in the business. What I did was, I enrolled myself to a technical course for MS Office and picked myself up from there.
How to identify which skills to profit from? Skills are developed primarily through interest on an activity. It was not until I was given a high rating in one of my school project that I presented in type written form. Which impressed my subject teacher that I started practicing proper keystrokes to finish my work faster and better, which I eventually attained proficiency. Another example was when I started to develop my sewing skills, during which, the adults in the family would pull out our pedal powered Singer sewing machine and produce clothing, pillow cases, and alter clothing if it's one size big or smaller. Witnessing them do these things, motivated me to learn the craft of constructing things by sewing & other crafting methods.
The ability to work with facts & figures.
Information Technology I am sure that everyone have at least one of each of these skills. You just have to find out which you are very good at.
What have you achieved so far: Are you still in school? Working in an office?
What or which skills have you developed as a result: Research? Article contributor for the school paper? Phone etiquette?
What of these activities do you enjoy doing?
Listing what you enjoy the most, opposite to how you can apply them, should help determine your skill or expertise, and figure out how you can improve it for career advantage. You'll just have to be creative.
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A view of the former Buick City in Flint, seen here on May 19, 2010.
FLINT, MI -- The most recent testing at the former Buick City site shows elevated levels of PFOA or PFOS aren't only in storm sewers on the 400-acre property, but in sanitary sewers as well.
Four of five sampling locations tested in mid-December showed elevated levels of one -- or both -- of the compounds, adding to evidence of widespread contamination that will require further sampling and investigation of connections to the sanitary sewers.
"We have reported these results to the U.S. (Environmental Protection Agency) and (Michigan Department of Environmental Quality)," the RACER Trust says in a posting on its web site.
RACER manages the old Buick property, which was abandoned by General Motors during its bankruptcy proceedings a decade ago. The court-created trust is charged with cleaning up and selling off the real estate for redevelopment, but sales have been put on hold until the scope of PFAS contamination is better defined.
Tests continue to determine extent of contamination on the former General Motors manufacturing property - and a solution.
In November, RACER held community meetings to discuss its finding to date.
PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS and many other chemicals that have been manufactured and used in a variety of industries in the United States since the 1940s, according to EPA.
Although there are few regulations to stop the spread of PFAS, either from the federal or state government, Michigan's rule for water quality specifically limiting PFOS to 12-parts per trillion -- is one of them.
RACER's web posting says the most recent water samples were collected Dec. 17 from five locations in the sanitary sewer that flows east along Hamilton Avenue and then combines with the sanitary main from James P Cole Boulevard.
The state has added it to a list of sites requiring further investigation.
Concentrations of PFOA ranged from zero to 2,280 ng/L, and PFOS results ranged from zero to 27,580 ng/L -- nearly twice the level as the highest previous testing of groundwater in the area.
Both the groundwater and sanitary sewer tests showed high results near a former paint shop, north of the new Lear Corp. plant.
Testing for a range of per- and poly-fluorinated compounds started last year at the Buick complex, which GM fully closed in 2010.
The property is one of four sites in Genesee County that the state DEQ is investigating because of elevated levels of PFAS. Others are the shuttered Richfield and Coldwater Road landfills and Bishop Airport.
"Something has to be done," he said. "PFAS is a big issue, and Richfield is going to get the same attention" as other contaminated sites in the state.
RACER officials have said none of the PFAS detected on the Buick City property is making its way to the municipal water system, which has not drawn from the Flint River since October 2015.
Previous testing showed PFAS moving through the storm sewer system into the river.


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Tax Reform, Digitization Key to Financing Development
Ephraim Batambuze III March 25, 2019
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Africa must digitize its economies, broaden its tax base, prevent further deterioration of fiscal and debt positions, and aim for double-digit growth to achieve the UN 2030 global goals (SDGs), and the AU Agenda 2063 according to the 2019 Economic Report on Africa released today at the Conference of Ministers.
This year's Economic Report on Africa, a flagship publication of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) (www.UNECA.org) focuses on fiscal policy. Government revenues account for 21.4%, insufficient to meet countries' development financing needs.
"The Report identifies several quick wins in Africa's pursuit of additional fiscal space to finance its accelerated development," Vera Songwe, the ECA's Executive Secretary stated at the launch. "[It also] focuses on the instrumental role of fiscal policy in crowding-in investment and creating adequate fiscal space for social policy, including supporting women and youth-led small and medium enterprises."
But, a decade away from the SDG, she added that "African countries continue to search for policy mixes to help accelerate the achievement of the SDGs. However, for many countries, financing remains the biggest bottleneck with implementing capacity a close second."
While analyzing and highlighting both challenges and opportunities, the Report also recommends comprehensive macroeconomic reforms aimed at building financial resilience, placing emphasis on the need for Africa to accelerate growth to double digits by 2030 and to boost investment from its current 25% of GDP.
While economic growth in Africa remained moderate at 3.2% in 2018 – due to "solid global growth, a moderate increase in commodity prices and favorable domestic conditions", the Report emphasizes that Africa needs to to do more, and work towards achieving a fine balance between raising revenue and incentivizing investments, in order to boost growth.
In some of Africa's largest economies—South Africa, Angola and Nigeria – the Report reveals, growth trended upwards but remains vulnerable to shifts in commodity prices. East Africa remains the fastest growing, at 6.1% in 2017 and 6.2% in 2018, while in West Africa, the economy expanded by 3.2% in 2018, up from 2.4% in 2017. Central, North and Southern Africa's economies grew at a slower pace in 2018 compared to 2017.
On the issue of Africa's debt burden, the Report reveals that debt levels remained high as African countries increased their borrowing, to ease fiscal pressures most of which have been precipitated by the narrowing of revenue streams that has gone on since the commodity price shocks of 2014.
It argues that African countries can increase government revenue by 12–20% of GDP by adopting a policy framework that strengthen revenue mobilization, including through digitalizing African economies stating that digitization could enhance revenue mobilization by up to 6 per cent.
"Digital identification can broaden the tax base by making it easier to identify and track taxpayers and helping taxpayers meet their tax obligations. By improving tax assessments and administration, it enhances the government's capacity to mobilize additional resources. Digital ID systems yield gains in efficiency and convenience that could result in savings to taxpayers and government of up to USD$50 billion a year by 2020."
Digitization Financial Development Tax Reform
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Star Wars games used to be a big joke in the industry because they were rarely worth the cartridge or disc they were copied on. These days, however, Star Wars games have really come into their own and the Xbox has seen more than its fair share of the great ones. Here is a list of the eight best Star Wars games on the original Xbox.
Surprisingly, there were very few Star Wars games released on Xbox 360, so if you want to play Star Wars games look into an OG Xbox instead.
Choice of good or evil character.
Not only is KOTOR the best Star Wars game for Xbox, but it also one of the best games overall. KOTOR is a fantastic RPG that delivers a great story, interesting and fun gameplay, and a cast of characters that are easy to love. It is also a testament to the strength of the Star Wars universe as a whole because the game takes place long before the movies and is every bit as exciting.
Can get repetitive over time.
Sure it is cute and simple, but Lego Star Wars is undeniably fun. It is incredibly well designed and executed and the whole world really is made out of Lego blocks. Playing through the prequel movies with all of the different characters is an absolute blast and even though the gameplay is pretty simple, Lego Star Wars is addictive and fun.
Combat system can be slow at first.
Players have reported some bugs.
While not quite as good as the first KOTOR, The Sith Lords does a great job of analyzing the difference between the dark and light side. It is incredibly interesting and a must play because even the biggest Star Wars fans will learn a thing or two about the Jedi that they didn't know before. The gameplay is exactly the same as the first KOTOR, which is a letdown, but it is still very good.
Action can get repetitive over time.
Republic Commando shows you the dark and gritty side to the Star Wars universe. Behind all of the big battles and thrilling action scenes, specially trained soldiers are in the background making sure everything runs smoothly. This FPS has very solid gameplay that is nonstop action from start to finish, but is a very short experience overall. Well worth playing in spite of its brevity.
is the biggest selling Star Wars game of all time, so it should be no surprise we're getting a sequel. What is surprising, though, is just how much better Battlefront II is than the original. Every single aspect of the game has been improved and new features such as space combat and the ability to use Jedi and other hero characters just seal the deal. More planets, more vehicles, more characters, more weapons – it all adds up to be more fun.
Scenes directly from the film.
Fun Jedi battles in upper levels.
The official game of the Episode III movie, Revenge of the Sith delivers some of the best lightsaber action in a video game yet. Using the force and hacking things up with a lightsaber is flat out fun and RotS does a great job of really making you feel like a powerful Jedi.
Battles can feel clumsy at first.
Another great lightsaber game, Jedi Academy mixes in some shooter elements along with the lightsaber combat to create a very satisfying experience. As a new student at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy, you learn all about the powers and potential dangers of the force. Jedi Academy features both a great single-player campaign as well as a fun multiplayer mode.
Not as challenging as similar games.
Clone Wars is a bit of a stretch to appear on a "best games" list, but I like it. Clone Wars is an interesting third-person shooter where you get to take the controls of a number of different vehicles and wreak havoc during the Clone Wars. The game does a good job of setting things up between Episode II and III and puts you right in the center of the conflict between the Republic and the Separatists.
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