Looking for ELD Devices For Sale ?
The federal mandate became a final ruling in 2017. Hard Enforcement began in 2018. Truck drivers are now looking for ELD Devices for sale.
ELD devices are come in various shapes , sizes and formats. The devices have different features and capabilities. The device manufactures range from small firms to industry giants.
Lets try to make sense of the enormous amount of information.
Originally, many high tech companies promoted ELD devices under the term E-LOGS. Those were On-Board Electronic Recorders(AOBRDS) that uses outdated technology. According to the FMCSA, AOBRDS and ELDS have different technical specifications.
The primary issue with the outdated electronic loggers is the lack of connection with the engine's computer. Further, those units depend on the driver to manually enter duty modes, and locations. In addition, those units cannot send the information via current technology such as wireless networks and Bluetooth.
Those devices will be phased out by December 2019. The market is flooded with ELD Devices for sale. However, only certain devices meet the Federal Motor Carrier's strict guidelines.
There are few elements that are vital. The first and most important element is the ability of the ELD device to connect to the vehicle's computer.
Second, the device must be able to send the stored data via new technology(wireless/Bluetooth). Finally, the device must display the data in graphic format. In order to determine which ELD devices are currently compliant, a checklist must be used.
The larger ELD manufacturers are Garmin, Keep Truckin' , JJ Keller, Linxup, Omnitracts. There many new comers entering the ELD market every day. A complete list of approved ELD Manufactures can be found on the Federal Motor Carrier Agency's website.
There are many great things about the Keep Truckin ELD. However, the most attractive quality, though, is its price. In addition to that, the device is super user friendly.
The Keep Truckin ELD device offers monthly pricing like most ELD units. Therefore, you might be waiting for us to tell you about the upfront cost of the product. The great news is there is none!
Keep Truckin ELD can be considered the Easiest ELD in the world: provides a very easy, modern and simple app. The app allows editing of drivers logs. Furthermore, the driver may change the duty status easily.
Some of my drivers are still using their old keep truckin app. I been told by some drivers that using the old app without an ELD device connected to the truck will allow drivers to cheat on their electronic log. In other words, the driver will be able to change the past duty status even for driving.
Nowadays, this app would be label as eld device cheating. When drivers tell me about the possible keep trucking eld cheat, i laugh. It is very funny because Keep Truckin published a ELD cheat sheet on how to avoid ELD violations.
The DOT inspection mode in the app is very easy to use out of all of the eld devices. The driver is able to show the log history information to dot enforcement officers in a matter of seconds.
If a driver were to get in an accident, they would need to take pictures.
Keeping this need in mind, KeepTruckin has assured that drivers can use ELD Devices to take pictures. Those pictures would be of accident sites or other situation where a picture would help the driver with insurance claim.
They can even send the pictures to dispatch through the app.
In addition to the the standard features provided by every company, KeepTruckin has added some advanced features to the ELD devices menu. For example, geofencing, fuel monitoring, tampering alerts and engine diagnostics.
Already satisfies ELD mandate: while most companies claim that they will satisfy the mandate before the due date, it is important to note that KeepTruckin has already satisfied it.
A company well known for its focus in GPS tracking, navigation, data recording, and data sharing technology.
Furthermore, Garmin is at the lead of the pack when it comes to creating integrated, high quality ELD devices.
The Garmin eLog™ will fit any standard 6 or 9 pin data port. Installation is simple, and it begins working as soon as you plug it in. Besides the eLog™ being compatible with a range of other Garmin devices, the proprietary software also allows you to connect your eLog™ system to a GPS enabled tablet or smartphone.
The device is designed to last. The 2.5 oz. cylindrical device is comes in a sleek black outer shell. The device data is accessible both from USB and through Bluetooth for quick sharing.
As per FMSCA mandate, the Garmin stores information regularly at different intervals.
The times-sheets and data sets meet the formats specified by the FMSCA. These time-sheets are available to safety officials and administrators via USB and Bluetooth.
However, presenting the data via time-sheet on the smartphone app is sufficient for satisfying safety officer's viewing requirements.
Since most of the information is recorded automatically (engine start time, driving timesheets, resting periods, and engine/vehicle data), that's less work for the driver, and overall less time spent with safety officials and more time getting things done.
While this ELD meets every FMSCA mandate, it does not go much further than that. Of course, the device supplies a variety of manuals and tools to help you learn to use it, but it does not have much training material.
Also, since this is a relatively new product, some software features are still forthcoming, such as Driver Vehicle Inspection Reporting and International Fuel (DVIR) Tax Agreement (IFTA) reports.
On the bright side, when these features become available, they will be extremely useful, but they are not quite there yet.
Another supposed disadvantage is the customer service hours. Garmin offers customer product support hours weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., rather than 24 hour paid customer support that other ELD providers offer.
Another thing the Garmin glaringly lacks is compatibility with Fleet Management System (FMS) software, or its own proprietary fleet management software.
Now, that is okay if you are an individual contractor or if you company does not use FMS; it still meets every FMSCA requirements.
However, this could be an issue if your company requires closer tracking, auto-syncing over Wi-Fi/4G with company systems, constant GPS reports.
A final issue with the eLog™ is that Garmin seems a little unclear about some of the technical specifications. For example, memory and data storage.
Further, nowhere under the specifications under the product description on their website does Garmin specify how much storage space the eLog™ has. In addition,it does not mention how long each report and timesheet is stored on the eLog™ device for.
Rather ,it is assumed that timesheets and data are available online and through the app for long enough duration for the driver to supply timesheets to employers within the required 13 day period, as specified in the mandate.
For this reason as well other reasons, the hGarmin eLog ELD meets and exceeds all standards set by the FMSCA.
The Stoneridge EZ ELD has all the bells and whistles. Capable of storing up to six months of data (and immediately accessible to law enforcement for up to eight days of data), it's clear that the EZ is focused on quality and technical capabilities.
The device itself comes with nearly everything that the eLog™ does. While the eLog™ focused on driver satisfaction, usability, and cross-platform functions, the EZ ELD goes a step further. Unlike other ELD devices, it provides full integration with Stoneridge FMS software.
This means that so long as you have a data or internet connection, all data can be continually sent, stored, and analyzed in a "back office" computer.
Besides that, the device itself looks more or less the same—a small black encasement with a red ring around the edge, rather than a blue.
However, the EZ comes with more connecting capability, offering in package a selection of all the adapters you can need.
While Garmin is a huge company that focuses on a wide variety of services, Stoneridge is a little more focused when it comes to CMV equipment and fleet management.
This means that Stoneridge is aware of the needs of not only the driver, but the company as a whole.
This is why Stoneridge makes it easier for management to access, copy, store, and modify data as need. It also means that back office teams are to send working logs directly to each device, assuming that the devices are connected to the internet via the Android/Apple app.
As for the app, it is also fully functional and capable of storing, distributing, and viewing files for up to six months, and viewing timesheet calendars for up to 30 days at a time.
Stoneridge's online resources are also a bit more extensive, with more training materials, manuals, and FAQ's than was available on the Garmin site.
Stoneridge also claims to offer free training, which is worth taking advantage of, although they also claim that their products are extremely easy to use and require very little training.
Besides that, Stoneridge is also further ahead where reporting is concerned; they offer free Driver Vehicle Inspection (DVI) and International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) reporting as part of the package, and it's already available.
As a whole, Stoneridge offers tons more features than the Garmin—the EZ ELD is a product streamlined to service an entire company. Perhaps best of all is that the ELD device itself only costs $169 dollars—but that's not the only cost.
While Stoneridge claims there are "No hidden costs," they do make it loud and clear what other costs exist. The ability to use the proprietary software requires a monthly subscription of 15 dollars (discount offered for yearly subscription).
While the software still will likely save your company costs in man-hours it would normally take to fill forms, submit documents, and exchange information, the is still high compared to the Garmin.
With the Garmin, you only need to make a one-time purchase, which includes all the software and data needed to comply with new mandates.
Over a three-year period, you will pay up to $370 more per driver for the Stoneridge than the Garmin. However, when accounting for the costs saved in man hours and reporting, it's up to each fleet to determine if the cost will reap benefits.
The most suitable ELD out there for smaller fleet. The bit eld is one of only few eld devices that come with no monthly costs / ongoing subscription.
Unlike the other no monthly cost providers, the bit eld has many advanced features. Furthermore, this simple product is definitely one to try out if you're looking for value.
It gets the job done and just because it doesn't come with as many advanced features as all the others above, doesn't make it any less capable.
For the low upfront price is $295, However since it comes with no monthly cost --it can't get any better.
There are many pros of the ELD are listed below.
The installation takes no time since it is a simple plug-and-play basically. All you have to do is plug the dongle straight into the vehicle's diagnostic port, and that's it.
After that, you connect your phone to the device via Bluetooth.
While there are many companies that haven't yet satisfied the ELD mandate but claim that they will do so before the due date, BIT ELD offers the full and simple ELD mandate compliance without any extra features.
While the current BIT ELD is simple and only has the base features, updates are planned to improve it in the future. These include IFTA mileage tracking and a more detailed every-minute GPStracking and history.
Since the BIT ELD offer base functions, it is ideal for smaller fleets. Those don't require as many advanced functions. Those are more than happy to spend so little and receive everything they need in return.
The Rand McNally ELD 50 has a seemingly unlimited number of features. However, you will never know how much these features cost, because Rand McNally is very vague about pricing for subscriptions or software beyond the price of the ELD itself.
The benefits of this ELD device include the ease of installation, and the software. This device costs only $149.99, making it a little bit cheaper than Stoneridge's device. In addition, it requires a monthly subscription.
Beyond the standard mandated capabilities, the ELD 50 is also capable of generation advanced DVIR reports and stores immense amounts information on the metrics and functions of the vehicle.
Some of the data it measures and stores can be useful and cost effective, such as fuel efficiency readings and fluids.
The sales webpage describes all of the available features for this device. In fine print, it mentions that all of these features are only available once you purchase the subscription to DriverConnect web portal.
You can only access the web portal only after you have purchased, installed, and registered the ELD 50 with an android device.
Only once all that is set up can you purchase the web service, making the cost of the subscription a mystery until then.
However, fleets and business are able to contact Rand McNally for quotes and product demonstrations for the proprietary fleet management software and service, but it makes it a little worrisome that Rand is less up-front about the cost of the services they provide.
This service seems more fleet-centered than driver-centered. The ELD device itself is relatively easy to install.
However, it can only hold up to one day's worth of data at a time, compared to EZ ELD's six-month data storage capability.
This means that Rand McNally's ELD 50® relies completely on the software subscription to function.
Also, if android phone does not connect within that one-day window, then the data does not back up and earlier data is deleted. This can present difficult situations if the driver were ever to lose his phone or android device.
On the bright side, if a subscription is purchased, the online portal supplies storage for all data, timesheets, and metrics, making up to 6 months' worth readily available from any android device.
If you're interested in having a full package of GPS system and tracking, integrated data plan, certified ELD device with automated IFTA reporting, and backend fleet management resources, then maybe LINXUP ELD is the best option for you.
LINXUP differs from other carriers in several important ways. For one, they are not BYOD—bring your own device.
This means that rather than relying on the drivers to supply their own Android or Apple devices to sync and share information with the ELD, it is necessary to also purchase the LINXUP proprietary tablet.
LINXUP claims that by requiring the device to include a tablet can lower compliance risks and increase profits.
With BYOD systems, normally your driver brings his/her own cellphone or tablet to record ELD information and access timesheets and RODS.
In this situation, what happens if your driver forgets to pay a cellphone bill? This could mean late data, lost GPS information, and more hassle. The integrated package brings the responsibility back to the administrator's hands, allowing them certainty that you will always be able to receive your needed data.
The ELD device costs about $149.99, competing easily with the Rand McNally ELD. The GPS tablet costs $149.99 as well, bringing the total equipment cost to about $300—quite a bit more than any of the other providers so far. After you've purchased the equipment, you must then purchase a monthly plan. LINXUP has three options.
The first $29.99/month plan, which handles all of the basic mandates, allowing drivers to share information, timesheets, vehicle data and metrics, etc.
The second plan, at $39.99, offers GPS services and tracking services, but also gives the user or fleet the ability to harness backend software for additional fleet management services. The third option, costing $49.99 per vehicle, is premium, offering all the previous features plus IFTA automated reporting services.
Compared to Konexial, Rand, Stoneridge, and Garmin, LINXUP has the most expensive plan. The most basic plan costs more than twice the price of Stoneridge's premium plan; Stoneridge offers IFTA and DVIR reporting for half the price, as well as full back office fleet management services.
Konexial also has premium services, but again, their premium service coasts $20 less per month than LINXUP. Minus the cost of equipment, LINXUP will cost about $600 per year per vehicle for their premium service.
However, while you are paying more through LINXUP, you are still paying significantly less per year than some of the most expensive services. And while you are paying more, LINXUP still has something more to offer; you are paying for one of the best and most experienced companies in the GPS tracking business.
LINXUP focuses on creating products that offer a high level of security for their clients. With the integrated ELD and GPS system, you can be certain that you will always know exactly where your resources and shipments are.
Their integrated system increases efficiency by reducing the possibility for driver-related data transmission error, while placing less burdens of responsibility on the driver. This allows the driver to focus more on what's most important.
So, if you own a fleet or business that requires great tracking, GPS, and security need, or if you ship high-risk or expensive materials, then perhaps LINXUP is your best option.
Magellan has taken a unique approach to their ELD's by partnering with another company, Samsung, to create integrated systems similar to LINXUP systems.
Magellan's systems use a Samsung Tablet, connected securely to the ELD, in basically the same way that LINXUP does with their tablet/GPS and ELD.
However, Magellan also offers BYOD capabilities—something that LINXUP does not do—so long as the device you're using is Samsung.
In their product description for the eLog, Magellan is not clear where or how you can download the application used with the ELD, nor do keep a list of devices that are compatible with the device.
Magellan does make it clear that you can order a Samsung galaxy device (either tablets or smartphone) with all of the software pre-installed, which could be convenient depending on your needs.
Additionally, Magellan's ELD is accessible by Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, phone, and USB, making certain that your ELD is accessible in any situation.
Magellan, like so many other ELD providers, claim to have the lowest costing ELD device and software. According to their website, the ELD currently sells at a discounted rate of approximately $120 (or $150, which includes DVIR and IFTA reporting), which is a lot cheaper than any of the other devices here, save for the My20 by Konexial.
However, what makes Magellan cheaper than Konexial in this case is that there is no subscription fee for the first whole year of service.
After that, the service fee is only $10 per month—cheaper even than Stoneridge's $15 per month. This $10 per month service also includes both back office fleet management software as well all mandated driver software and necessities.
In addition, unlike Stoneridge, LINXUP, and so many other providers, Magellan also offers a range of other fleet management solutions, from separate fleet navigation systems to proprietary GPS displays, each capable of working with back-office software as well.
If you think that ELD device is super expensive, then don't worry about it. All ELDs aren't as expensive as you think they are, that's just a huge misconception.
The older already existing ELD devices were expensive. However, due to new technology the new devices are much more affordable.
Instead, many ELD manufacturers have now started to offer their product at economical packages. They do that to make them more affordable and easier to buy for their customers.
one of ELD devices can help lower your crash rates. It helps save all the time you would otherwise have spent organizing logs. Once you think about all these benefits and more, you'll realize that an ELD device is definitely worth the price!
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new rule, all truckers need to make use of ELD devices.
Further, the driver cannot use any ELD device as he/she pleases.
The FMCSA has a list of all registered ELD devices, and the driver must choose an ELD from this list.
The easy way to ensure compliance is to review the mandate's specifications. Those specs are publicly available.
Another very important thing to find out is : whether or not the ELD device is synchronizing with the engine data. It is paramount to check with the manufacturer about the ELD and what you can expect from it.
Most of the famous ELD devices already satisfy the mandate. All those that don't satisfy it claim that they will release software updates before the mandate's compliance date, i.e., Dec. 18, 2017, and these updates will satisfy the mandate without requiring any new-hardware purchases.
If you're not willing to buy an ELD device, then there's a simple solution. One can turn your phone into a compliant ELD. But don't get too excited just as yet. Many people believe that a smartphone can be and ELD Device.
A smartphone all on its own isn't enough to replace an ELD device. Yes, it's true that a smartphone may serve as an ELD device. However, a connection with the truck engine is paramount.
A ELD device is important addition. Finally, a smartphone by itself is not a substitute for any of the ELD devices.
According to the ELD mandate, an ELD must directly connect to the truck's diagnostic port. Unfortunately, smart phones are not directly connecting to the port. Therefore, smartphones are not passing for functional ELDs by themselves.
If you really do want to use your phone, you'll have to spend some serious money. The expensive hardware will attach the Smartphone directly with the truck's diagnostic port. Buying anyone of the ELD devices is less expensive. Simply think of it as an investment because it will surely help you a lot in the longer run.


Silver Star is the 3rd largest ski resort in British Columbia on the north end of the Okanagan region of interior BC. We really enjoyed this place and would favor it over nearby Big White.
This was the 6th resort we skied on our 2017 Big Trip from Oregon to interior BC. We would rank this as our 3rd favorite in the area after Sun Peaks and Apex.
Starting at the mid-mountain parking lots, we headed right to the top and over to Putnam Creek and the Powder Gulch chair. We were shocked at how good it was over there and ended up spending the entire morning skiing that one lift. It's a large amount of vertical at 1841′ per ride, so the runs take a while and some of the groomed blacks are shockingly steep. Since the snow was firm after a rain/freeze cycle it was a bit icy and we watched one victim slide about 300 vertical feet all the way to the bottom, picking up a scary amount of speed in the process. It had a happy ending and showed us that there is some serious challenge here. The fact that this terrain faces due north is a departure from the norm in interior BC and would normally provide a better snow surface when conditions are more typically cold than they were when we were there.
The backside at Silver Star is actually 5 or 6 different ski pods served by one lift which is unusual so you can spend all day there and not get bored. They do a massive amount of grooming at this resort which was vital for the conditions we hit, which would have been really icy if not for the grooming. There were enough groomed runs there to keep us busy all morning and it resulted in us having a late lunch. Note that getting back to the frontside from Putnam Creek involves taking a T-bar on some really flat terrain and then skiing back on a very long cat track.
We went back to the very colorful mid-mountain village for a great lunch in one of the many restaurants there. We love it when there are lots of non-resort operated options and once again the food was above average and not that expensive.
The front side at Silver Star is less impressive with shorter chairs and a confusing layout. We did enjoy it but wasted some time trying to ski all the chairs. By the time we got over to the main lift at the resort the Comet Express, they were roping off the runs half way down and forcing everyone back to the village. We forgot that ski areas in interior BC typically close at 3:30 instead of 4, and they rope stuff off starting at 3PM.
Although we did find some skiable bumps here and there on the front side due to the exposure to sun, we much preferred the more challenging terrain on the back and the excellent, copious amount of steep groomed terrain there. Still, the resort has a great variety of terrain of all types and it would appeal to every level of skier.
We would definitely like to ski Silver Star again some day. The friendly people, great terrain, and lack of crowds is a winning formula.


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If I execute a Living Will, does that mean I will not receive pain medication or food and water?
Do I need both a Living Will and a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care?
Do I have to write an Advance Directive under Nevada law?
Can I change my mind after I write a Living Will or a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care?
What if I fill out an Advance Directive in Nevada and am hospitalized in a different state?
I cannot download the Advance Care Planning Document, what can I do?
How do I register my living will with the Nevada Secretary of State?
An advance directive is generally a written statement, which you complete in advance of serious illness, about how you want medical decisions made. The two most common forms of Advance Directives are: A "Living Will" and a "Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare."
An advance directive allows you to state your choices for health care or to name someone to make those choices for you, if you become unable to make decisions about your medical treatment. In short, an advance directive can enable you to make decisions about your future medical treatment. You can say "yes" to treatment you want, or say "no" to treatment you do not want.
You are not able to communicate your desires, such as being in a coma.
No. Nevada law specifically provides that the execution of a Living Will does not affect the responsibility of your doctor to provide treatment for your comfort or alleviation of pain.
With respect to food and water, you may state in your Living Will that you do not want food and water withdrawn or withhold.
In Nevada, a "Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care" is a signed, dated, and witnessed paper naming another person, such as a husband, wife, daughter, son, or close friend, as your "agent" or "proxy" to make medical decisions for you if you should become unable to make them for yourself. You can include instructions about any treatment you want or wish to avoid, such as surgery or artificial feeding. The Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care will be in effect whenever you are unable to make decisions. The medical problem does not have to be terminal or incurable.
You can execute one or the other, or both of them. A Living Will is your personal statement regarding life-sustaining treatment. A Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care is much broader in scope than the Living Will in that it covers any medical decisions not just a decision concerning life-sustaining treatment.
Yes. Both the Living Will and the Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare can be revoked either orally or in writing. It is better to revoke it in writing, if you are able to do so.
The law on honoring an Advance Directive from another state is unclear. Because an Advance Directive tells your wishes regarding medical care, it may be honored wherever you are, if it is made known. But if you spend a great deal of time in more than one state, you may wish to consider having your Advance Directive meet the laws of both states, as much as possible.
If you have a Durable Power of Attorney, give a copy or the original to your "agent" or "proxy;"
Keep a small card in your purse or wallet, which states that you have an Advance Directive, where it is located, and who your "agent" or "proxy" is, if you have named one.
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Directed by: Abhishek Kapoor
Produced by: Abhishek Kapoor and Siddharth Roy Kapur
Written by: Abhishek Kapoor and Supratik Sen
Based on: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Starring: Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif and Tabu
Music by: Amit Trivedi
Background score: Hitesh Sonik
Cinematography: Anay Goswamy
Edited by: Deepa Bhatia
Production company: UTV Motion Pictures
Distributed by: PVR Cinemas
Release dates: 12 February 2016
Story line:
This story follows a young Kashmiri boy, Noor, his muse Firdaus, and a mercurial Begum, through love lost and realized over the course of two generations. Thirteen-year-old Noor, an impressionable boy, is lured into the world of the Begum – the wealthiest woman in town. Young Noor falls in love with the Begum's daughter, Firdaus. Suffering from a broken heart herself, the Begum finds her mark in Noor. Noor obsesses over Firdaus, someone who belongs to a world completely different from his. Seasons change and Noor leaves his hometown to move to Delhi to build his career. He strives to be accepted into the sophisticated social circles that Firdaus is a part of, while the Begum plots retribution on their young and innocent love.
Know more about the captain of the Ship, the director:
Abhishek Kapoor (born 6 August 1971) is an Indian film actor, writer and director.
He started his career as an actor in Uff! Yeh Mohabbat in 1996, opposite Twinkle Khanna, directed by Vipin Handa, and after two more films, he made his directorial début with Aryan in 2006.
In 2008, he directed Rock On!! starring Arjun Rampal, the screenplay was written by Pubali Choudary. The film also marked the acting debut of Farhan Akhtar and went on to become a success, bringing not just accolades but also a Filmfare Award in 2009
My Gut Feel and comments:
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." This quote justified the team effort of Abhishek Kapoor the director, Supratik Sen the writer and Anay Goswamy the Cinematographer who teamed up earlier as well and made excellent movie "Kai Po Che" andconcluded "Fitoor" this time collectively.
Abhishek Kapoor proved his mettle as director through Rock On!!! And Kai Po che, he is quite good at projecting realistic human emotions through his characters that are relatable yet fits well in larger than life canvas of cinema.
In case of Fitoor its clear that Kashmir has been captured well, performances from Tabu and Aditya Roy Kapur would be exceptional however film pace would be slow. Film is based on an English novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and it's indeed a daunting task to adapt it and aligning it to Indian audience's sensibility.
Overall I am expecting a decent movie which would surely go well critically however commercial success would be difficult.
Going by my gut feeling I am giving Fitoor 3 stars out of 5, one night before the release.
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CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORPORATION WELCOMES SHERI RICHARD AS VICE PRESIDENT OF RATES AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS
Dover, Delaware — Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) (Chesapeake Utilities) announced today that Sheri Richard has joined the Company as Vice President of Rates and Regulatory Affairs. In this role, she will manage Chesapeake's rates and regulatory affairs and communicate the Company's position on business and regulatory matters to various governmental authorities. Ms. Richard will be directly responsible for handling government relations with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Delaware and Maryland Public Service Commissions.
Ms. Richard brings over 16 years of broad based regulatory experience in the energy industry to Chesapeake Utilities including case management, testimonials, strategy, budget and financial reporting. She has extensive experience managing rates cases for approval, testifying before regulatory commissions and developing and recommending strategies for cost recovery requests.
"Sheri's extensive experience with utilities coupled with her broad regulatory expertise makes her a great addition to our team," said James F. Moriarty, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Chesapeake Utilities. "Our Company is experiencing tremendous growth, and we are delighted that Sheri has joined our team. We are excited about the opportunity to expand our regulatory team and further position the Company for expected future growth."
Ms. Richard comes to Chesapeake Utilities from OGE Energy Corporation. Based in Oklahoma City, OGE Energy is the parent company of Oklahoma Gas and Electric, a regulated utility serving approximately 825,000 electric customers in Oklahoma and Arkansas. While at OGE Energy, Ms. Richard actively participated in over 25 proceedings in several jurisdictions. Ms. Richard has held various positions with OGE including Director of Revenue Requirements since 2008, Manager of Costing and Pricing, Manager of AP & Special Projects and Business Support Supervisor.
Ms. Richard earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Northwestern Oklahoma State University, and her Masters of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. Ms. Richard is a Certified Public Accountant.
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified energy company engaged in natural gas distribution, transmission, gathering and processing, and marketing; electricity distribution; propane gas distribution and wholesale marketing; and other businesses. Information about Chesapeake Utilities Corporation and the Chesapeake family of businesses is available at www.chpk.com.
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Locals lift SUNY Broome to national soccer title
Rob Centorani
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
It's about the depth of talent in Section 4 as much as anything.
Ten players came from the Southern Tier Athletic Conference, three from the Interscholastic Athletic Conference, one from the Midstate Athletic Conference and one from the Tri-Valley League.
In all, nine Section 4 schools were represented and perhaps that's how the NJCAA Division III women's soccer title secured a month ago by SUNY Broome should be remembered.
As is his wont, 20-year coach Bill Rich recruits locally, always has. Oh sure, Brooklyn's Margaret Edwards, Kings Park's Lauren Sicardi and Centereach's Alexa Rudilosso dot the roster. But as Rich said, those players came to him, not the other way around.
When the Hornets departed Ocean County Stadium in Toms River, New Jersey, on Nov. 13, a 3-0 national-championship victory over Erie Community College in their rearview mirror, it marked the end of a journey that started a year earlier. Eight players from the 2015 team returned for their sophomore seasons, a number Rich said is unusually high in the unpredictable world of junior college sports.
"You can't really quit," sophomore forward Kaelyn Michitti said of her reason for returning. "We love each other too much."
There's that and there's 2015, a 17-2-2 season sidetracked by a 3-0 national semifinal loss to Brookdale CC from Middletown, N.J. Rich said when they broke huddles all season they shouted "Nationals!" The coach added they talked about winning nationals "every single day."
Seton Catholic Central grads Michitti and Emily Gibson, Oneonta grads Mikaela Mazerolle and Nicole Harmer, Johnson City's Brittany Campbell, Edmeston's Amanda Tersigni, Edwards and Rudilosso all played the previous season. Three other sophomores – Owego sisters Katlyn and Kendra Henry – and Seton Catholic Central graduate Lindsey Aingworth, who played for Broome in 2013, also suited up.
"Like last year when we went to nationals, I didn't even think that was an option," said Gibson, named the outstanding defender of the NJCAA tournament. "This year, we knew we'd get there and then we won. I think everyone coming back just had bad blood. We were just working to get back so we could prove we did deserve to win."
And so they did, their 21-1 season's lone hiccup coming in a 5-2 mid-September loss to ASA College, a Division I junior college in New York City. Even in that game, the second of Michitti's two goals gave the Hornets a brief 2-1 second-half lead.
"That was the first game we all started playing like a team," said Michitti, who led the nation in goals (44) and points (100).
As for those numbers compiled by Michitti? They're the kind sometimes seen at the high school level but very rarely in college. Listening to Michitti describe her offensive production is to be certain she fluked her way into each goal.
"It really wasn't me," said Michitti, named national tournament MVP, Region III and Mid-State Athletic Conference Player of the Year, "(teammates) just played me good balls. How can I not finish a good ball? It's really not me."
Those thinking the computer systems at all of Broome's opponents malfunctioned during the season and no one was aware of Michitti's scoring prowess, Rich confirmed those facing the Hornets knew full well, using double- and sometimes triple-teams to try and slow her.
"She's an elusive player," he said. "She can have two players around her and get around them. She had a lot of help, but she's also a very creative scorer."
Michitti scored all three goals in the national final, all assisted by Rudilosso, she assisted Emiley Myers' goal in a 1-0 national semifinal win over Brookhaven (Farmers Branch, Texas) – a game Michitti, Gibson and Mazerolle agreed was the Hornets' toughest of the season -- and Michitti had four goals in a 6-0 win over Anoka-Ramsey CC (Coon Rapids, Minn.) in the quarterfinal.
Clearly, Michitti could have played at a higher level.
So, why Broome?
"I never really wanted to leave Binghamton and I still don't," said Michitti, who scored on 46 percent of her shots. "I like Broome because it's close to home."
With all the local talent Rich recruits, some of his players were rivals in high school. Michitti, her sister Marissa, Gibson and Aingworth played in high school at SCC. Mazerolle and Harmer went to Oneonta. The Saints and Yellowjackets opposed each other in Section 4 Class B title games four straight years.
"I actually have a picture from the game they beat us," Mazerolle said of the Saints' 3-1 overtime victory over Oneonta in the 2014 sectional final, one that included a second-half goal in which Kaelyn Michitti assisted sister Genna (a Binghamton University recruit). "(Kaelyn) was in it and Emily was in it. I always think it's funny when I look at it. I ended up playing with them. At first thought, I thought it was going to be weird playing with my rivals."
Added Kaelyn Michitti: "It's funny because you don't like each other and then you play together and go, 'Ah, you're all right.' Now we're all best friends, so it's cool."
Though Michitti said she'd like to continue playing at the NCAA Division III level, Gibson and Mazerolle likely played for the final time in college.
"I don't think there's a better way we could leave the season," said Gibson, who'll spend another year at Broome before transferring into BU's pharmacy program. "We won nationals, you can't do any better than that."
"I think it was a perfect ending, playing with these people for two years," Mazerolle said. "We've come together so much in a short period of time. We had all this talent and we finally achieved it."
Seven players are expected back in 20017 – Sidney graduate and goalie Jolene Krom, the Marathon duo of Allison O'Shea and Ashley Bush, Marissa Michitti, Sicardi, Maine-Endwell grad Megan Canzier and Waverly grad Myers.
Rich, winner of 299 games and three NJCAA titles, had a meeting with a potential recruit Tuesday afternoon, looking to restock for next year.
"There are 65 schools in Section 4, there's a lot of talent," he said. "All of the games we've won over 20 years have been with local kids. This team was special because of the kids who came in with the focus and the commitment."
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The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library at Church 7/13/12 video recap with He's My Brother, She's My Sister, The Doctors Fox, and the Philip Cohen Band.
A huge thanks to Mark Kaye (HearNowLive) and Lionel Brown (HearNowLive and Onslaught Promo) for putting together this really excellent night and making it a huge success!!! We had the pleasure of rocking for the last time with Tanya Palit to a full room, opening for a great up-and-coming band.
…and we got to perform the world's first (and best) rendition of "Happy Birthday" on the cowbell by Tanya Palit, international cowbell superstar to celebrate our friend Andy's birthday!
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Super Typhoon Noru barrels towards Philippines; provincial disaster offices on high alert
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People arrive at an evacuation centre in Baseco, Manila as Typhoon Noru approaches the Philippines on Sunday, September 25, 2022. - AFP
MANILA, Sept 25, 2022 (AFP): A super typhoon charged towards the Philippines Sunday and was on track to slam into the heavily populated main island of Luzon, forcing the evacuations of vulnerable communities on the coast and in Manila, authorities said.
Super Typhoon Noru was packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres (121 miles) an hour after an unprecedented "explosive intensification", the state weather forecaster said.
The storm, the strongest to hit the Philippines this year, is expected to continue strengthening as it makes landfall around 80 kilometres northeast of the sprawling capital Manila in the afternoon or evening.
"We ask residents living in danger zones to adhere to calls for evacuation whenever necessary," Philippine National Police chief General Rodolfo Azurin said.
The Philippines is regularly ravaged by storms, with scientists warning they are becoming more powerful as the world gets warmer because of climate change.
"The winds were fierce this morning," said Ernesto Portillo, 30, who works as a cook in the coastal municipality of Infanta in Quezon province where the typhoon could make landfall.
"We're a bit worried... We secured our belongings and bought a few groceries so we have food just in case."
Weather forecaster Robb Gile said Noru's rapid intensification as it neared land was "unprecedented". The meteorology agency said its wind speeds had increased by 90 kilometres per hour in 24 hours.
"Typhoons are like engines -- you need a fuel and an exhaust to function," said Gile.
"In the case of Karding, it has a good fuel because it has plenty of warm waters along its track and then there is a good exhaust in the upper level of the atmosphere -- so it's a good recipe for explosive intensification," he said, using the local name for the storm.
In Manila, emergency personnel braced for the possibility of strong winds and heavy rain battering the city of more than 13 million people.
Forced evacuations have started in some "high risk" areas of the metropolis, officials said.
"NCR is prepared. We are just waiting and hoping it will not hit us," said Romulo Cabantac, regional director for the civil defence office, referring to the National Capital Region.
People secure their boats in Baseco, Manila as Typhoon Noru approaches the Philippines on Sunday, September 25, 2022. - AFP
- Calm before the storm -
Noru comes nine months after another super typhoon devastated swathes of the country, killing more than 400 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.
Ahead of the latest storm, residents in several municipalities in Quezon province were evacuated from their homes, according to the provincial disaster office.
In the neighbouring province of Aurora, residents of Dingalan municipality were forced to seek shelter.
"People living near the coast have been told to evacuate. We live away from the coast so we're staying put so far. We're more worried about the water from the mountains," said Rhea Tan, 54, a restaurant manager in Dingalan.
Tan said residents were securing the roofs of their houses and boats were being taken to higher ground while the weather was still calm.
"We're even more anxious if the weather is very calm, because that's the usual indicator of a strong typhoon before it hits land," Tan added.
Noru could have wind speeds of up to 205 kilometres per hour when it makes landfall, the weather bureau said.
It is expected to weaken to a typhoon as it sweeps across central Luzon, before entering the South China Sea on Monday and heading towards Vietnam.
The weather bureau has warned of dangerous storm surges more than three metres high along the coast of Aurora and Quezon, including the Polillo islands, along with widespread flooding and landslides as the storm dumps heavy rain.
It could topple coconut and mango trees, and cause "severe losses" to rice and corn crops in the heavily agricultural region, while inundating villages.
The coast guard reported more than 2,500 people had been left stranded by ferry cancellations as vessels took shelter ahead of the storm. Dozens of flights in and out of Manila were also cancelled.
School classes and non-essential government services have been suspended for Monday.
The Philippines -- ranked among the most vulnerable nations to the impacts of climate change -- is hit by an average of 20 storms every year. - AFP
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If you are planning a major renovation for your home, the most important decision you can make is selecting the right home renovation contractor for the job. Getting the right contractor means more than just accepting advice from friends and family, although that is an important consideration. Here are the five most important steps in selecting the right contractor for your needs.
First and foremost, the home contractor you hire needs to be licensed by the state and local authorities. Proper licensing means that they meet all the legal requirements and follow the rules and regulations set out by the government. If the contractor has no license or is not licensed for the area where you live, then you should never consider them to remodel your home.
Even the best contractors are human beings which means that they may cause an accident in your home that results in damage to the property. If they are insured, then the damage is covered by their insurance company. Otherwise, you might be left holding the bill. While accidents are relatively few and far between, you do not want to be vulnerable in case something does happen on your property. So, be sure that the home contractor is insured just in case an accident does occur.
The reputation of a home renovation contractor is established in two ways, the responses by their customers and by independent organizations that oversee customer issues, such as the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Obviously, contractors who are recommended to you by friends, family, and co-workers means they had good experiences with them. Still, you should check out independent review sites and organizations like the BBB to get an idea of how they work. While even the best contractors will have a few negative reviews, a pattern of poor service means that you should avoid them.
It's not so much the number of years that a contractor has been in service, but rather the type of remodeling efforts that they have done both before and after they established their business. You'll want a contractor with plenty of experience in renovating the area of the home that you want to be remodeled. So, go over the information that the contractor has in terms of the specific area that you want addressed. If the information they provide is vague, you may want to call their offices and ask about their experience and get recommendations.
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BMR names Chase Elliott to No. 35 at Daytona
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Chase Elliott will return to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, racing for Bill McAnally Racing in the Feb. 17 season opener at Daytona.
Elliott will race BMR's No. 35 Chevrolet with sponsorship from NAPA and Gates Hydraulics. It'll be his 18th Truck start but his first one on a superspeedway.
"This will be the first time I've driven a truck at Daytona, let alone a superspeedway," Elliott said in a team release issued Wednesday. "There's no better team owner than Bill McAnally to do it with, as he's been involved in racing and been associated with NAPA for a long time."
Elliott has three Truck wins, most recently at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May 2020.
Courtesy: Bill McAnally Racing
Full-time driver Jake Garcia will return to the No. 35 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on his 18th birthday, March 3. That will also be the first day where he is eligible to compete in a NASCAR vehicle on bigger tracks.
Elliott and Garcia will get to work with Mark Hillman, who was Colby Howard's crew chief in 2022.
Garcia's teammate Christian Eckes will get crew chief Charles Denike for his first season in the BMR No. 19 Chevrolet.
Denike joined the No. 19 team with nine races to go and led then-driver Derek Kraus to three top-10 finishes and a pole in that time.
Overseeing BMR is Chad Norris, who is the organization's new general manager. Norris was with GMS Racing before making the move to BMR.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series opens its season, Feb. 17 at Daytona International Speedway. The green flag is set to fly at 7:30 p.m. ET (TV: FS1; Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90)
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Larry Pine in a scene from "A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney," Lucas Hnath's play at Soho Rep.
A Public Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney
Off Broadway, Drama, Play
Closing Date: May 26, 2013
Soho Rep, 46 Walker St.
By Charles Isherwood
There's certainly a twinkle in Uncle Walt's blue eyes, but it's not the glimmer of benevolence you'd expect from the man who brought joy to countless children as the creator of Mickey Mouse and the Magic Kingdom.
No sirree. As portrayed with soft-spoken, silky menace by the mesmerizing actor Larry Pine, the man we meet in Lucas Hnath's new play, "A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney," exudes the casual cruelty of a kid who likes to pull the wings off flies on the playground, just for kicks.
The play, which opened at Soho Rep on Thursday night in a superb production directed by Sarah Benson, presents a blackly comic inversion of the public Disney persona, in the form of a stylized screenplay being read in an anonymous-looking corporate conference room. (As is often the case with this first-class downtown company, the expert set design by Mimi Lien incorporates the audience; we sit on chairs upholstered in bland, synthetic white fabric and are made to feel like attendees at a shareholder meeting being presided over by a particularly ruthless chief executive.)
Mr. Pine begins the proceedings by announcing: "I'm Walt Disney. This is a screenplay I wrote. It's about me."
But the real Walt, who devoted his life to airbrushing away the world's imperfections, would hardly be likely to write this warts-and-feet-of-clay-only self-portrait. On the contrary, Walt would be doing cartoonish gyrations in his grave if he were to see how thoroughly Mr. Hnath (pronounced nayth) has subverted the popular image of Disney as America's jovial paterfamilias, spreading sunshine with each new enterprise. (In Mr. Hnath's version of the Disney legend, Walt's head ends up being cryogenically preserved for posterity, so perhaps one day the reconstituted man can offer his own critique.)
Departing liberally from the historical record — that cryogenics rumor has been firmly debunked, for example — Mr. Hnath is less interested in illuminating the life of the man than he is in excavating new meanings from the arc of his celebrated career. "A Public Reading" is a meditation on the human desire to aspire to the status of a god, and the corrupting influence of this wish on the spirit and the flesh.
Written largely in long streams of staccato dialogue, which, as in Mr. Hnath's "Isaac's Eye," another highly fictionalized drama about a historical figure, suggest a hypercaffeinated David Mamet, the play concentrates on the relationship between Disney and his brother Roy, played with glum subservience by the terrific Frank Wood.
Larry Pine in "A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney," by Lucas Hnath.CreditJulieta Cervantes
Roy is Walt's sounding board and primary henchman, expected to execute Walt's increasingly ambitious dreams with nary a murmur. Walt's not satisfied making all those "fairy tales and fairy things" and has decided to expand into the "real world," first by making nature documentaries. ("No one really wants to climb a mountain," he grumbles, "cuz who has the time?") And yet when the lemmings in their picture don't behave as lemmings are supposed to — you know, throwing themselves off cliffs in those picturesque mass suicides — Walt urges Roy to fake it.
Later Roy must take the fall when labor disputes threaten to erupt among the animators, fouling the air in Walt's perfect world. No moral blot can be allowed to blacken the reputation of a visionary. "People actually name their children after me," he adds, after taunting Roy with his comparative worthlessness.
But Walt's own relations with his daughter, played with simmering resentment by Amanda Quaid, are even more poisonous than those with his brother. With all those little Walts peopling the world, she and her husband, the ex-football player Ron Miller (Brian Sgambati), had nonetheless declined to honor Dad by naming any of their sons after him (at least until Walt decided to install Ron in the company during a power battle with Roy).
"Because when I say your name," she calmly explains, "I think all sorts of things I don't want to think. When I say your name, I think of you, and when I think of you I get all angry, and when I think of you and the way you act, and the way you yell, and the way you threw a tantrum at my wedding and threw cake at people ..."
Mr. Hnath's dialogue sometimes falls into this repetitive, almost incantatory style, as if it were on a repeat loop. More often the effect is of a record player skipping, as characters interrupt one another's utterances, so that their lines of dialogue seem to be proceeding on different sound tracks. Although this highly artificial style can be wearying, the actors do a remarkably good job of giving rhythm and drive to this disjointed talk, so that the play has the smoothly propulsive movement of, well, the Monorail at Disneyland.
Mr. Pine, exuding entitlement from every pore, speaks in the quietly commanding voice of a man who doesn't need to raise the volume to have his wishes made manifest. Popping pills, smoking incessantly and pouring liberal lashings of vodka into a water glass, Walt is occasionally irritated when reminded that the world is not bending itself to his will quickly enough. The Disney board and rascally Florida politics are hindering his grand dream of building his own city, an idealized urban environment where he will have "solved the problem of problems," as he memorably puts it.
His real ambition, Mr. Hnath's play suggests, is to solve the problem that most glaringly symbolizes life's imperfection, namely the hard fact of death. It's a bugbear that you can feel itching at Walt whenever he is not barking out commands or, in another of the play's stylistic gimmicks, speaking the "slug lines" and other nondialogue elements of the screenplay ("Exterior. Day. Parking lot. ..." "Cut to," etc.). Ignoring the copious amounts of blood he keeps coughing into handkerchiefs, Walt believes himself to be the living embodiment of the can-do spirit of American optimism that he promotes in his works, and cannot quite grasp that he won't be able to cheat death too.
But he's more glaringly an example of the pathology of egoism: the fear of dying stems from a terrified sense that, for all his big dreams and big accomplishments, Walt is not "one of the most important people who ever lived," as he grandiosely aspires to be, but just a mortal like anyone else. While apparently devoting his public life to bringing pleasure to millions, Mr. Hnath's Walt Disney had a horror of being considered one of them.
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Q: Can I catch pin to start event? I build a tile image dynamically when the user presses the tile button in my application. But if the user clicks on pin to start from outside, how can I catch it and create a dynamic tile image? Is it possible or do I have to use a background agent?

A: There is no way to be notified that the user has pinned you to the Start screen until your code runs, either via Background Agent or regular App launch (at which point you simply query for your pinned tiles).

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Q: Plotly js stacked area with overlapping series I have data with overlapping dates that I want to visualise in a stacked area graph. So imagine the x-axis with 7 days and three series with the following data:
[5, 3, 3, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined],
[undefined, 2, 4, 2, 2, undefined, undefined],
[undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, 3, 3, 5],

The numbers indicate the progress made on different projects, and each has a short lifetime, so generally the first number is the date the project was started on. Meaning on the first day, only the first project was active.
However, hovering over any point in the graph shows ALL the projects, both finished and not yet started, with a progress of '0'. In this small example it doesn't really matter, but if I expand the timeframe to a month or a year, it gets fairly crowded.
Further, all the 0 projects are still plotted, leaving an ugly jagged line on top of the graph. Note the line on the extreme right: it includes information that no progress was made on the project that started Jan 19.

I think what I want to do is not plot anything where the value is 0/undefined. Is that possible? Is there perhaps a better way of visualising this sort of data?
Here's an example:
JsFiddle 1
Update:
Setting hoverinfo to 'text' and hovertext to an array solves the labelling issue. If hovertext is a string, it will appear at every point, if it's an array, the first item will only appear on the first node, etc.
See here: JsFiddle 2


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Q: Python outfile not writing everything I have codes that allow me to perform a fairly complicated task (for me at least):
import csv
import os.path
#open files + readlines
with open("C:/Users/Ivan Wong/Desktop/Placement/Lists of targets/Mouse/UCSC to Ensembl.csv", "r") as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter = ',')
    #find files with the name in 1st row
    for row in reader:
        graph_filename = os.path.join("C:/Python27/Scripts/My scripts/Top targets",row[0]+"_nt_counts.txt.png")
        if os.path.exists(graph_filename):
            y = row[0]+'_nt_counts.txt'
            r = open('C:/Users/Ivan Wong/Desktop/Placement/fp_mesc_nochx/'+y, 'r')
            k = r.readlines()
            r.close
            del k[:1]
            k = map(lambda s: s.strip(), k)
            interger = map(int, k)
            import itertools
            #adding the numbers for every 3 rows
            def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
                "grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
                args = [iter(iterable)] * n
                return itertools.izip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue)
            result = map(sum, grouper(3, interger, 0))
            e = row[0]
            print e
            cDNA = open('C:/Users/Ivan Wong/Desktop/Placement/Downloaded seq/Mouse/MOUSE_mRNAs.txt', 'r')
            seq = cDNA.readlines()
            # get all lines that have a gene name
            lineNum = 0;
            lineGenes = []
            for line in seq:
                lineNum = lineNum +1
                if '>' in line:
                    lineGenes.append(str(lineNum))
                if '>'+e in line:
                    lineBegin = lineNum

            cDNA.close

            # which gene is this
            index1 = lineGenes.index(str(lineBegin))
            lineEnd = lineGenes[index1+1]
# linebegin and lineEnd now give you, where to look for your sequence, all that
# you have to do is to read the lines between lineBegin and lineEnd in the file
# and make it into a single string.
            lineEnd = lineGenes[index1+1]
            Lastline = int(lineEnd) -1

# in your code you have already made a list with all the lines (q), first delete
# \n and other symbols, then combine all lines into a big string of nucleotides (like this)
            qq = seq[lineBegin:Lastline]
            qq = map(lambda s: s.strip(), qq)
            string  = ''
            for i in range(len(qq)):
                string = string + qq[i]
# now you want to get a list of triplets, again you can use the for loop:
# first get the length of the string
            lenString = len(string);
# this is your list codons
            listCodon = []
            for i in range(0,lenString/3):
                listCodon.append(string[0+i*3:3+i*3])
            proper_result = '\n'.join('%s, %s' % (nr, codon) for nr, codon in zip(result, listCodon))
            with open(e+'.csv','wb') as outfile:
                outfile.writelines(proper_result)

These codes read a file from a .csv, identifying from a folder with files having the same name, if they exist then it goes on to process some data and write them into a .csv
with them, my outfiles now looks like this
It looks completely fine but with one problem, I know from my data (I checked it in different ways) that the 2nd columns should be longer than what I have got. I think it is because the codes are writing the files when BOTH result(the number) and listCodon(the letters) are existed, therefore I am missing something. How can I fix it?
I tried to print listCodon just before the file is written, and found out the all triplets are still there so I am guessing the problem is within here:
proper_result = '\n'.join('%s, %s' % (nr, codon) for nr, codon in zip(result, listCodon))

A: zip will stop as soon as any of its iterables stop (because otherwise it wouldn't know what to fill in the blanks with!):

The returned list is truncated in length to the length of the shortest argument sequence.

If you want to pad the shorter iterables to the length of the longest, use izip_longest (which takes an optional parameter to use as the fill value).


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Inspirational performances from Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
By Mark Valencia, 16 November 2017
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields can seem like chamber music's family silver: a precious set that comes out of the display cabinet only on special occasions, while regular china or rustic earthenware are to hand for everyday use. You'll read misty-eyed nostalgia about the orchestra's 'heyday'; but on the evidence of this sparkling Wigmore Hall concert that day is now. Note to self: hear them more often. Under the inspirational direction of Joshua Bell, he of the portrait in the attic, the ASMF delivered a programme of typical brilliance: a first half of hallmark classics then a riotously entertaining novelty by the Argentinian Astor Piazzolla.
With violin and viola players on their feet à la Aurora Orchestra, they dispatched Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major in short order. It was classy, zippy and old-school (as opposed to very old school, since the instruments were as unfashionably modern as you like) with ensemble playing so precise I felt giddy. This was followed by a return to a standard string orchestra layout for a work with which the orchestra has long been identified, Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings.
It's likely that listeners of a certain age will have first encountered this work (and possibly the Academy itself) through an early Argo LP under Neville Marriner that coupled it with the Souvenir de Florence. Great though it was, that recording has nothing over this latest performance. Bell, directing from the leader's chair, threw his body and lasso-brandished his bow in order to wring the music's romance from his 20 players. In the opening Andante he elicited a tone that made this most mellow of London acoustics sound like a vaulted church. With a sheen of upper strings and basses that resounded like subwoofers, it was a wonder.
If the first movement was lushly classical in feel, the Valse that followed sounded thoroughly symphonic and a well-behaved elder brother to the Sixth Symphony's wayward equivalent. The viola section was especially lustrous here. In a striking effect, Bell stripped bare his tone after the final note of Tchaikovsky's third movement, Élégie, for his entry (on the same note) into the finale's Andante prelude. From upholstered to ascetic in a single bound… then headlong into a whirlwind Allegro con spirito. Heady stuff!
Piazzolla did not compose a Four Seasons for violin solo and string orchestra but that has not stopped Leonid Desyatnikov from putting him right. The Cuatro estaciones porteñas (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires) started life as music for the composer's quintet of bandoneon, violin, piano, electric guitar and bass, but the more classically freighted arrangement played by Bell and the ASMF was commissioned by Gidon Kremer five years after the composer's death.
Played in the order Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, the four movements quote Vivaldi liberally and other composers cheekily (Pachelbel's Canon all but shrieks out at one point), yet they are a kaleidoscope of harmonic effects with players producing sounds from every corner of their instruments, however improbable. Summer opens with the snakiest of harmonic slides to the accompaniment of percussive knocks and plucked bass snaps, then ends on a downward slide to oblivion. In Autumn the cicadas are out in force; Winter is Hollywood and fireworks, with slow scoops and fast swoops on violins underpinned by an accompaniment of thick, ripe harmonies.
If Spring is thematically the least interesting movement of the four, characterised as it is by the repetitious spiralling style of 1960s French film music, at least it holds the attention. It took a long time for Piazzolla to achieve a breakthrough in the UK, possibly because he was too catchy for the opinion-makers of his time who were notoriously suspicious of melody. This 25-minute fiesta would have had such people scurrying for the exit, but today's more rounded Wigmore Hall audience lapped it up.
These Four Seasons seem destined to be the makeweight on some new recording of Vivaldi's concerto quartet, and we may not have long to wait because Bell and the Academy have those little rarities up next (at Cadogan Hall on 12 January). Meanwhile, as a Latin-American encore the American virtuoso reprised Estrillita, the delightful miniature by Manuel Ponce that he'd played at the Proms ten years ago. Que delicioso!
"With a sheen of upper strings and basses that resounded like subwoofers, it was a wonder"
Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 15 November 2017
Bach, Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV1048
Tchaikovsky, Serenade for strings in C major, Op.48
Piazzolla, Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires)
Ponce, Estrellita
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell, Director
Joshua Bell and the ASMFs at the top of their game in Boston
Kevin Wells, 27th February
Bell didn't try to impress with speed nor call attention to his virtuosity; expression and color were paramount with notes sounding clearly.
A medley of melodies from Joshua Bell and the ASMF
Alexander Hall, 20th January
Nothing to make the horses shy in this latest instalment of the successful artistic partnership between the ASMF and its Music Director.
Two sides of Joshua Bell with the ASMF
Alexander Hall, 13th August
In this afternoon Prom, Joshua Bell disappointed as a conductor. As a soloist, however, he came up with the goods.
Cheeky, capricious, illuminating
Simon Cummings, 25th January
Stunningly fresh performances of ubiqitous classics from Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Semi-conductor creates electric atmosphere
David Larkin, 24th April
Joshua Bell brings star quality to the visit of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with a stunning performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto the stand-out item on their first Sydney programme.
Full of the joys of spring in Beethoven
Alexander Hall, 21st February
Soon to be seventy, Murray Perahia and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields give full expression to the life force that is Beethoven, in their continuing cycle of the piano concertos.
Joshua BellAcademy of St Martin in the FieldsSerenade for strings in C major, Op.48Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV1048Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires)Johann Sebastian BachAstor PiazzollaManuel María PoncePyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pavel Kolesnikov: Glenn Gould's curse and collaborating with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
Sugar-coating the sinister: ETA Hoffmann at the ballet
Why Ravel's La Valse is the most performed work in the world
The ABC of a young violinist: I is for the Inner Game
More by Mark Valencia
Opera North revives its taut, terrific Tosca
Rattle and the LSO chill the soul in Kátya Kabanová
Masterworks of the Belle Époque with Dame Sarah Connolly at Wigmore Hall
Oblivion: Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra plunge into the depths of Shostakovich 14
Mark Valencia
Mark has worked in arts journalism for more than thirty years, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera, music and musical theatre. Mark also writes for Musical America as opera correspondent for Europe and the UK.
[Anonymous], Monday 20 November 2017 16:35
The Russian/Austrian violinist Yury Revich recorded this combination of 'Eight Seasons' by Piazzolla and Vivaldi last year and won both the Supersonic Prize by Pizzicato Magazine and an Echo Klassik award for it.


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Accelerate the "data center priority" strategy! Xilinx Announces Acquisition of Communications Company Solarflare
On April 25, Xilinx, a global leader in programmable logic solutions, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Solarflare Communications, a private company based in Irvine, California.
It is understood that Solarflare is a leading global provider of high performance, low latency network solutions spanning financial technology to cloud computing. Through this acquisition, Xilinx is able to combine its industry-leading FPGA, MPSoC and ACAP solutions with Solarflare's ultra-low latency network interface card (NIC, NIC) technology and Onload application acceleration software to achieve a new Integrate SmartNIC solutions to accelerate Xilinx's "data center priority" strategy and the path to transformation for platform companies.
Xilinx became a strategic investor in Solarflare in 2017, and the two companies have been working together to develop advanced networking technologies for the past two years. Recently, the two companies demonstrated their first joint solution, a single-chip FPGA-based 100G SmartNIC that can process 100 million packets per second with less than 75 watts of power.
According to Xilinx, the US stock market announced on April 24th the fourth quarter of the 2019 fiscal year (as of March 30, 2019): revenue increased 30% (4% quarter-on-quarter) to a record 828 million Dollar.
In terms of the end market, Xilinx's fourth-quarter communications-related product revenue increased 74% (23% quarter-on-quarter), revenue share rose from 41% a year ago to 41%; industrial, aviation and defense-related Product revenue increased by 1% (2% increase in the quarter), revenue share decreased from 27% from 1 year ago to 27%; data center and TME (test, measurement and simulation) revenue decreased by 7% (quarterly decrease) 12%), revenue share decreased from 25% from 1 year ago to 18%; vehicle, broadcast and consumer revenue increased 20% (quarterly minus 6%), revenue accounted for 15 years ago % dropped to 14%.
Xilinx pointed out that in the 2019 fiscal year, communication-related product revenues will be deployed in South Korea with 5G and China's plans to deploy 5G will increase by 34% next year. Xilinx and Samsung Electronics jointly completed the world's first 5G new radio (NR) commercial deployment in fiscal year 2019.
For the acquisition, Solarflare CEO Russell Stern said, "Since Xilinx has become a strategic investor, the Solarflare team and Xilinx have been working closely together on next-generation networking technologies and business collaboration. Future data centers and cloud computing share a common vision. The integration of their respective technologies through acquisitions will make the acquisition ideal for our customers, employees, investors and even the broader data center industry. And a solid step."
Salil Raje, executive vice president and general manager of the data center at Xilinx, said, "Solarflare is a leader in many key areas such as high-speed Ethernet, application acceleration and NVMe-over-fabrics, all of which are building a new generation of enterprises and An important part of Cloud's SmartNIC technology. The acquisition of Solarflare not only brings Xilinx's market-leading technology, but also captures the engineering expertise of network hardware, software, firmware and drivers. We are at Solarflare Joining Xilinx to work with us to create all the possibilities that the world of flexibility and intelligence will bring is very exciting."
The acquisition will follow customary closing conditions and regulatory review and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of Xilinx 2020 (the third quarter of 2019).


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