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RJ Gushes About His Audio Book Narrator
by R.J. Sullivan May 6, 2021 Leave a comment
Narrator Danielle Muething
NOTE: This blog came about upon Danielle Muething concluding the recording of my latest Audible release, my short story collection Darkness With a Chance of Whimsy. I wanted to update my live blurbs for her and instead ended up writing this couple hundred word blog. Ah, well, it's what I do.
Back in 2019, starting on my first ever audio book project, Danielle Muething blew me away with her blind audition read. All I knew I wanted at the time was someone who could read my story Haunting Obsession with a convincing "Marilyn Monroe" voice to represent the antagonist ghost of the story. Any narrator who could do that was the best logical choice "voice for hire."
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DarkWhimsy Books 2020 Revised Editions Overview
by R.J. Sullivan December 17, 2020 December 17, 2020 1 Comment
The work is done! With the release of Virtual Blue, the entirety of my paranormal thriller back titles are again available for purchase from all web-stores, ending a six-month project that was difficult but should be oh-so-worth it. Give me another month and I'll have my stock replenished with my updated titles, and I will re-open my "order signed books from me" store. (I ALSO wish my store could have been open in time for Christmas, but the timing did not cooperate).
In the meantime, if you want to grab up any of my back titles for gift-giving, you might just have time. So what's the breakdown of the titles, what's different from the previous editions, and what's coming next? Great questions.
Four of my back titles, primarily those related to my ghost story/paranormal series, were, by mutual agreement, returned to me by my former publisher, allowing me to re-release them on my indie Publishing label, DarkWhimsy Books. In this agreement, I also obtained the original edition cover art.
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Slimmer, Cheaper, Sexier Haunting Obsession
by R.J. Sullivan October 5, 2020 October 5, 2020 Leave a comment
Just in time for Halloween, the Revised Edition of Haunting Obsession by DarkWhimsy Books is now available in all formats and from all outlets (including the fabulous Audible read by Danielle Muething that never went away). The just-launched paperback features a new interior layout, bonus illustration, and lower price point! Here's the breakdown.
The Revised Edition paperback has a tighter but still easy to read page layout. It's now 106 pages over the previous 190 pages.
With the shorter page count, I dropped the everyday price from $12 to $8!
The Revised Edition paperback and ebook still feature the original cover and interior artwork by Bonnie Wasson. but now include her third interior illustration of Rebecca Burton previously only available in the limited edition hardback.
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New Videos To Support Haunting Obsession Audiobook
by R.J. Sullivan November 10, 2019 November 10, 2019 2 Comments
If you missed the Haunting Obsession Halloween Party on Facebook on October 21, you missed out on a lot of fun. We gave away a lot of FREE download codes for the new Haunting Obsession Audible Audiobook and other prizes, and premiered my new Haunting Obsession Elegant Paperdolls book, available at an event near you in 2020.
But we also premiered two new YouTube videos in support of… all of the above, but which mainly showcase the talents of my fabulous audiobook narrator and her hitherto hidden paperdoll performance talents. Danielle Muething not only created these videos and props herself, but she did so within hours of the event.
So here you go! First, enjoy Danielle performing as Paperdoll Maxine Marie singing "I Wanna Be Loved By You."
Next, Danielle took both paperdolls, built some sets, and created something new. It's… well, you'll see.
If you love this, you'll love how Danielle narrates my sexy ghost story Haunting Obsession and you should click this link to get all the details about ordering the Audible.
If you're not an Audible type person but still want to order the paperback or ebook, click here!
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Haunting Obsession Audiobook Coming This Summer (Video Teaser)
by R.J. Sullivan May 6, 2019 2 Comments
I'm super-thrilled to announce that my Amazon top-40 bestselling sexy ghost story Haunting Obsession will have an ACX (Amazon) audiobook version released later this summer. The new format release is in partnership with Seventh Star Press as one of their first titles being adapted to audiobook.
I'm super-excited about this development for a couple of reasons, the first is that I've been hoping to adapt Haunting Obsession to audiobook since the initial book release in 2012. I think the novella length and finding the right voice talent to take on the Maxine Marie / Marilyn Monroe voice will elevate the drama to new heights. It will also open the material to an audience that just plain prefers audiobooks over print (Something I am coming to understand in recent years).
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RJ's Obsession (Recreated)
by R.J. Sullivan August 23, 2018 August 24, 2018 1 Comment
Cyndi and RJ partying like it's 1999–because it was.
RJ's Obsession
(Or, seriously, what's with the constant Cyndi Lauper posts?)
This blog was originally written and posted in 2012 on the awesome Kriss Morton blog Cabin Goddess as part of my Haunting Obsession Book Tour. Through the years, sharing the link to that article would be my go-to answer to anyone who'd ask me about my "Cyndi Lauper Story." Sadly, Kriss took down Cabin Goddess and has no plans at this time to bring it back. That article is re-posted here (lacking her graphic awesomeness) with her permission. Tweaks have been made to update links and information.
Since Haunting Obsession features a thinly veiled homage to Marilyn Monroe, and is the story of someone who takes his fandom way too far, it's easy to assume I'm an over-the-top fan of Monroe. And yes, I do fixate on many things Marilyn. But she is not the person I am most obsessed about.
I also love pop music of all eras. But I am a child of the 80s. I was in the tenth grade in 1983, a couple years after M-TV debuted, so the woman who stands above everyone else in my pop music universe is Cyndi Lauper.
1997, my first backstage visit. Mrs RJ, me, Cyndi, and my local Cyndi buddy Michelle.
Yes, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, She-Bop, Money Changes Everything, and the most awesome ballad of all time Time after Time. [Edit: I considered linking each song, but come on, kids, Google them. I can't do EVERYTHING for you.] THAT Cyndi Lauper. Her rendition of Unchained Melody performed live in 2003 in a small Chicago dinner theater is the only time this six-foot four inch man ever swooned. Were I not already sitting down, it could have been embarrassing.
I see you. Yes, you. Hovering your pointer on the back-button, ready to bail out of this post. I know what you are thinking. I will say it for you. Cyndi Lauper. What a kook. RJ's hopelessly stuck in the 80s. Isn't she just for girls? See, I'm psychic that way.
I remember in 1983 the first time I heard Girls Just Want to Have Fun. My exact thoughts: "Wow, fun song, too bad it will never catch on."
Hmmm. . . so much for my psychic powers.
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NEW INTERVIEW With Carl R. Moore
by R.J. Sullivan November 3, 2017 November 3, 2017 Leave a comment
New Seventh Star Superstar Carl R. Moore wrote this spiffy new review of Haunting Obsession and asked me a few questions about it. I was pleased and honored at the kind words and the attention Maxine continues to draw after all this time. Check it out. Carl's article follows:
I'm very excited to announce my new review series, Review-Interview, a combination of a book review and short interview with the book's author. It is in part a continuation of my blog's original "Is that an Old Book?" review series. Adding a dialogue with the author brings in an exciting new element. The first featured book is Haunting Obsession, and the interview is with its author R.J. Sullivan. Without further ado, please enjoy the first installment of Review-Interview, brought to you by Carl R. Moore and Seventh Star Press:
RJ and Carl at Imaginarium last month.
A gifted young computer programmer has a passion for collecting movies and memorabilia featuring his hallowed idol—the elegant and alluring Maxine Marie. His colleague and girlfriend, Loretta, tolerates his obsession, but only to a point. When Daryl pays a high price for an old rent check signed by the famous actress, not only does he push his hobby and his girlfriend too far, he also summons an entity that is beautiful and dangerous, electric and evil, arousing and voracious—the ghost made flesh of Maxine Marie herself.
In Haunting Obsession, author R.J. Sullivan crafts a novella about a supernatural love triangle that draws its power primarily from its well-wrought characters. Flawed, somewhat geeky heroes likeable for their brains and sense of humor, protagonists Daryl and Loretta come across as a couple you might know and root for. You can see the attraction between them, Loretta's affinity for the "mind behind the Star Trek posters", as it were, and Daryl's understanding that the woman he loves has the right combination of brains and easy-going tolerant spirit to be long-term material.
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Haunting Obsession New Low Everyday Price 99 Cents!
by R.J. Sullivan September 17, 2015 Leave a comment
With Halloween approaching, Seventh Star Press is offering a scary low price on my sexy ghostly bestseller Haunting Obsession! From now until…?, new readers can download my most popular work and gateway story into my paranormal thriller series for just 99 cents!
Haunting Obsession, a top 100 ghost fiction bestseller during a previous 99 cents promotion, has been called "a page turner to the very last word." by Renee Graham, Dead Speak Paranormal Radio show host. Bitten By Books praised its world building and character development in their 4/5 star rating. Eva's Sanctuary proclaimed "The story line is well written and may actually make you believe in ghosts." One Amazon reader posted "With Halloween coming, this is a book you will not want to miss. "
If you've never yet met Loretta, Daryl, the elegantly seductive ghost and Hollywood icon Maxine Marie, or the mysterious Rebecca Burton, now's your chance. The Haunting Obsession ebook is downloadable for 99 cents on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobobooks sites. Or, if you'd prefer to get a signed paperback copy directly from the author (for more than 99 cents,but autographs are always free and worth every penny you pay) click here to go to the dedicated page with all the links.
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NEW REVIEW Bitten by Books gives Haunting Obsession 4/5
by R.J. Sullivan February 6, 2014 February 6, 2014 Leave a comment
After a three-day redesign, Bitten By Books returns, which means I can link this new review that went up over the weekend for Haunting Obsession.
"Daryl is obsessed with Maxine Marie (think Marilyn Monroe) and has quite a memorabilia collection. His girlfriend, Loretta, has coped with this up until the night Daryl takes her shopping for her birthday present only to insist on buying himself a framed rent check Maxine had signed before becoming a household name. Storming off in a fury, Loretta makes her own way home, ignoring the advice of the Transit King to go wait for Daryl in his apartment. Unfortunately for Daryl, the rent check has become tied to Maxine's ghost and, as she discovers the new world available to her as a powerful ghost, she doesn't want to leave."
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Marilyn Films 2/3
by R.J. Sullivan August 2, 2012 August 5, 2015 2 Comments
The Good, the Bad, and the "Meh"
(because Marilyn can never be ugly)
Click here to read part 1
Finishing "The Good."
The Prince and the Showgirl
Laurence Olivier as the titular prince and Marilyn as the titular showgirl. (I love using "titlular" in a sentence.) On paper, it seems a terrible mismatch of talent, and it is, just not the way you'd expect.
How I see it: Olivier may be the "greatest actor of his generation," but he can't seem to grasp the comedy based on the stage play he starred in for years. Marilyn, on the other hand, turns in an inspired, charming performance, and easily grabs the lion's share of the laughs. Essentially this is a fluffy comedy about a traveling prince with a night off who secures a showgirl for a late night dinner party–or so she thinks. To no one's surprise but hers, it's a party for two, and she spends the weekend spurning his awkward passes, though she never quite makes it out the door for several days. Lots of laughs, a good time.
Accolades and popular consensus: Only a mild hit at the time, this is a movie that has grown in popularity, though I suspect most viewers would put this in the "Meh" category, neither good nor bad.
The film suffers from a segment midway through in which the prince drags the showgirl off to a cathedral where we're "treated" to the "majesty" of the ceremony, which kills the momentum of the film midway through, and has to build up again. Still, it's a personal favorite. Side note: the print of the film looks terrible; it's long overdue for a proper restoration.
"Known for" Marilyn Moments: Olivier and Marilyn were constantly in the gossip columns during the making of the film. Olivier had little patience for Marilyn's tardiness and lack of focus. Last year's Academy-nominated bio-pic My Week with Marilyn is set during the making of this film, a powerful no-brainer for a double feature night.
Okay, stop the bus. Let's start with
Accolades and Consensus: Bus Stop is considered by film buffs a wonderful triumph for Marilyn, was a huge success at the time and is still much beloved to this day. Just look at how TCM gushes praise for it here.
How I see it: Understand up front I'm going against popular opinion here, but Bus Stop? "Train Wreck" is more like it. And I've tried. I've really tried. As a huge fan, I give it a spin every few years (and will again on Saturday), just to see if something clicks. Fortunately, it's as forgettable as it is bad. The story is bad–I think. Something about a bus stop and a diner next door and a showgirl and a cowboy harassing her? I don't care. The acting is bad. The songs are…you get the idea. Marilyn sings badly…on purpose…for comedy, so the raving comments say. Don't listen. This is a terrible movie.
"Known for" Marilyn Moments: Her rather terrible rendition of That Old Black Magic, I guess. (Which, oddly enough, I can't seem to find on YouTube.)
Update 2015–I've watched the film a couple more times and my view has softened toward it just a bit, but it's still pretty terrible. I can enjoy and appreciate Marilyn's brave performance, but the heart of the problem lies in the misogyny inherent in the premise. Let me be clear about the plot–this is about a brute ignorant cowboy who decides after looking at Marilyn one time that he has to marry her, and will not take no for an answer. He chases her, harasses her, and literally puts her over his shoulder more than once, and the turnaround at the end comes out of nowhere. Yes, she pities him, but I simply can't believe she falls in love with him as the movie tries to sell us. I can't imagine how modern audiences see this film. Bottom line, for me, it completely fails as a story, even if I can appreciate Marilyn in it.
Let's Make Love
Co-stars Yves Montand as a pompous ass trying to win Marilyn's affections while Tony Randall and Wilfred Hyde White wander around the movie with confused looks.
Accolades and Consensus and How I See It: Starts out promising with a sizzling musical number and then evaporates into a truly terrible 90 minutes. It was a flop when it came out because it was terrible, and nothing has changed.
"Known for" Marilyn Moments: The opening number "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is HOT. Here's a link so you won't have to bother with the rest of the movie.
THE MEH
Films that are neither good nor bad, merely films that fail to make much of an impression one way or the other.
There's No Business like Show Business
Co-starring Ethel Merman, which tells you everything you need to know about whether this movie is for you.
Accolades and Consensus: This is ranked as one of her worst films. Many harsh things have been written about Marilyn's "embarrassing" "Heat Wave" number, about which I disagree.
How I see it: Seriously, film people, y'all love Bus Stop but trash this? The problem with TNBLSB isn't that it's bad, it's just that it's not particularly good. Essentially a tribute to Irvin Berlin wrapped around the tiniest excuse of a plot, the trials of a touring family and music act in the early 20th century. Who cares? It's a two hour first class send up to a bunch of Broadway tunes. Period. It plays old school, it is old school, I have a good time with it. Not for everyone, but not painful.
"Known for" Marilyn Moments: Marilyn's eye-popping "Heat Wave" performance.
Click here for part 3: Finishing up the "Meh."
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How a Few Pages Can Make or Break Your Website
by White Iron Data | Aug 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Unlike art, content marketing and SEO aren't subjective. The quality of the words you write can be quantified, and they can generate a return for your business.
Most of your content won't do anything
In order to have this conversation, we really need to deal with this fact.
Most content created lives deep on page 7 of Google, ranking for an obscure keyword completely unrelated to your brand. A lack of scientific (objective math) process is to blame. But more on that later.
Case in point: Brafton used to employ a volume play with regard to content strategy. Volume = keyword rankings. It was spray-and-pray, and it worked.
Looking back on current performance for old articles, we find that the top 100 pages of our site (1.2% of all indexed pages) drive 68% of all organic traffic.
Further, 94.5% of all indexed pages drive five clicks or less from search every three months.
So what gives?
Here's what has changed: easy content is a thing of the past. Writing content and "using keywords" is a plan destined for a lonely death on page 7 of the search results. The process for creating content needs to be rigorous and heavily supported by data. It needs to start with keyword research.
1. Keyword research:
Select content topics from keywords that are regularly being searched. Search volume implies interest, which guarantees what you are writing about is of interest to your target audience. The keywords you choose also need to be reasonable. Using organic difficulty metrics from Moz or SEMrush will help you determine if you stand a realistic chance of ranking somewhere meaningful.
2. SEO content writing:
Your goal is to get the page you're writing to rank for the keyword you're targeting. The days of using a keyword in blog posts and linking to a product landing page are over. One page, one keyword. Therefore, if you want your page to rank for the chosen keyword, that page must be the very best piece of content on the web for that keyword. It needs to be in-depth, covering a wide swath of related topics.
How to project results
Build out your initial list of keyword targets. Filter the list down to the keywords with the optimal combination of search volume, organic difficulty, SERP crowding, and searcher intent. You can use this template as a guide — just make a copy and you're set.
Get the keyword target template
Once you've narrowed down your list to top contenders, tally up the total search volume potential — this is the total number of searches that are made on a monthly basis for all your keyword targets. You will not capture this total number of searches. A good rule of thumb is that if you rank, on average, at the bottom of page 1 and top of page 2 for all keywords, your estimated CTR will be a maximum of 2%. The mid-bottom of page 1 will be around 4%. The top-to-middle of page 1 will be 6%.
In the instance above, if we were to rank poorly, with a 2% CTR for 20 pages, we would drive an additional 42–89 targeted, commercial-intent visitors per month.
The website in question drives an average of 343 organic visitors per month, via a random assortment of keywords from 7,850 indexed pages in Google. At the very worst, 20 pages, or .3% of all pages, would drive 10.9% of all traffic. At best (if the client followed the steps above to a T), the .3% additional pages would drive 43.7% of all traffic!
That's .3% of a site's indexed pages driving an additional 77.6% of traffic every. single. month.
How a few pages can make a difference
Up until now, everything we've discussed has been hypothetical keyword potential. Fortunately, we have tested this method with 37 core landing pages on our site (.5% of all indexed pages). The result of deploying the method above was 24 of our targeted keywords ranking on page 1, driving an estimated 716 high-intent visitors per month.
That amounts to .5% of all pages driving 7.7% of all traffic. At an average CPC of $12.05 per keyword, the total cost of paying for these keywords would be $8,628 per month.
Our 37 pages (.5% of all pages), which were a one-time investment, drive 7.7% of all traffic at an estimated value of $103,533 yearly.
Can a few pages make or break your website? You bet your butt.
Source and Image: https://moz.com/blog/how-a-few-pages-can-make-or-break-your-website

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Lawyers Foley ('04) and Williams ('02) journey from storied cloisters to Fulbright Tower
Maggie Ballard, Staff Writer|January 30, 2017
Alumni Lea Williams ('02) and Tiye Foley ('04) hadn't seen each other since William's high school graduation; over ten years later, they had an unexpected reunion on an elevator at Fulbright Tower. The two discovered that the different law firms they worked at shared the same building.
"We've gotten to know each other all over again and talk about common themes in our professional and personal lives," Foley said.
Despite the slight age difference between Williams and Foley, the two knew each other at St. John's because they were on the JV and varsity cheer teams together.
"I got to know her just by being a minority student," Foley said. "You want to look around and get to know someone who is going through a similar experience."
Foley became an associate attorney at Baker Donelson in June 2015. Williams has been working at Norton Rose Fulbright in Houston since August 2015.
As a compliance attorney, Williams works to resolve potential conflicts of interest between her firm and others.
"I help monitor compliance, contracts, and ethics of all the lawyers in this international firm," Williams said. "I help to ensure our firm is protected and makes ethical decisions."
Foley is a civil attorney specializing in intellectual property, a field that involves the protection of people's ideas, copyrightable works and patented inventions. She saw intellectual property as a way to merge her academic and legal interests.
Being one of three or four African Americans in my grade, I was nervous because St. John's was a new environment. "
"I still had this really strong love for math and science, and I thought it would be really interesting to apply that to my legal career. That is what the intellectual property field is," Foley said. "People like to say it's nerdy, but it's fun, dynamic and constantly changing."
In high school, Williams wrote for the Review, led the Student Affairs Council as vice president, and founded the school's diversity council. Her peers considered her "Most Likely to Become a Supreme Court Justice."
"My parents are not affluent. They made a lot of sacrifices to send me to one of the top college preparatory schools in the country. I am very grateful to my parents for providing me with this amazing educational journey," Williams said. "Attending St. John's gave me early exposure to an incredible learning environment. I learned many life lessons that helped prepare me for my work today."
Foley also enjoyed her years in high school, but initially felt nervous.
"I came from a typical middle class family, a big difference from the lifestyle a lot of students lived at St. John's," Foley said. "Being one of three or four African Americans in my grade, I was nervous because St. John's was a new environment. I quickly learned the students were so sweet, accepting and curious about me and my background."
Williams attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later went to law school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
"I was the first in my family to attend law school, so I did not have the career guidance from a trusted family member who could help me navigate the process," Williams said.
Foley attended Rice University for five years, where she made connections with people in the legal field. In 2010, she went to law school at the University of Texas in Austin. Like Williams' parents, Foley's parents are not lawyers, but her St. John's experience was part of what focused her career towards law.
"Being exposed to another level of professionalism and a variety of careers empowered me and gave me the support I needed to move forward," Foley said.
The trailer for Sisters-in-Law.
Williams recalls that her typical law school workload involved reading up to a thousand pages of material and briefing more than 12 cases a night.
"Emotionally, law school was a labor of love. It was rigorous and required a lot of personal and financial sacrifice, but I am eternally grateful for the experience," Williams said.
Foley was brought into an experience different than that of most lawyers. She stars in the reality TV show "Sisters-in-Law," which chronicles the legal and personal lives of six African American attorneys in Houston. The show's first season premiered in March 2015 with eight one-hour episodes.
Foley is also drawn to fashion and currently manages her blog, "Fashion de Jure." The blog not only showcases her personal style but also covers Tiye's thoughts on ethics and legal issues within the fashion industry.
"I'm not able to dedicate as much time as I'd like to Fashion de Jure, but we make time for the things we love," Foley said. "I enjoy exploring my creative side, so I always find at least some time each week to manage Fashion de Jure."
Although Williams always knew she wanted to be a lawyer, she advises high school students not to tie themselves to a career too soon.
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Q: pyspark map type contains duplicate keys Could someone help me understand why the map type in pyspark could contain duplicate keys?
An example would be:
# generate a sample dataframe
# the `field` column is an array of struct with value a and value b
# the goal is to create a map from a -> b

df = spark.createDataFrame([{
    'field': [Row(a=1, b=2), Row(a=1, b=3)],
}])

# above code would generate a dataframe like this
+----------------+
|           field|
+----------------+
|[[1, 2], [1, 3]]|
+----------------+

# with schema
root
 |-- field: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
 |    |    |-- a: long (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- b: long (nullable = true)

Then I applied map_from_entries on this dataframe, trying to collect unique a->b pairs. I was expecting the map to contain unique keys, that is {1 -> 3} in this case. However, I'm getting {1 -> 2, 1 -> 3} before collecting. This contradict the common idea of a map type.
import pyspark.sql.functions as F
df.select(F.map_from_entries("field"))

# the result is
+-----------------------+
|map_from_entries(field)|
+-----------------------+
|       [1 -> 2, 1 -> 3]|
+-----------------------+

I also tried to apply F.map_keys() on this field and got [1, 1] as the result. However, when I collect this dataframe, I was able to get the result without duplicate keys:
df.select(F.map_from_entries("field")).collect()

# result
[Row(map_from_entries(field)={1: 3})]

This is causing some unexpected behavior in my spark job, and I would really appreciate if someone could help me understand why pyspark is behaving in this way. Is this a bug or by design?

A: It goes back to the implementation of maps in Scala:
https://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.12.2/scala/collection/immutable/List.html#toMap[T,U]:scala.collection.Map[T,U]

Duplicate keys will be overwritten by later keys: if this is an unordered collection, which key is in the resulting map is undefined

Therefore the map 1->3 overwrites 1->2. This is the designed behaviour and not a bug.


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101 Strings Orchestra
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About 101 Strings Orchestra
One of the most prolific and reliable names in instrumental easy listening music, the 101 Strings Orchestra has literally recorded hundreds of albums since its inception in 1957. Their trademark sound is built on a reverence for melody, pristine production, and a pleasant, relaxing ambience; while occasional albums have concentrated on brass, piano, guitars, and even mild rock & roll rhythms, the string section — true to the group's name — nearly always remains front and center, because of its lush, soothing sound qualities. Most of their albums were built around some unifying theme, whether the work of a well-known artist or songwriter, a specific topic (patriotism, holidays, et al.), TV/ movie themes, songs from a particular country, revampings of familiar tunes from other genres, and so on. The group was founded by producer/engineer Dick L. Miller, who was searching for a way to mimic the sound and style of orchestras led by "name" conductors like Mantovani, without the expense involved in securing their services. He hit upon the idea of recruiting unknown European groups at a much lower cost, and made the 101 Strings Orchestra into something of a brand name (since the personality of the group rested with the arrangements, the individual musicians were somewhat interchangeable, so long as they could play in the preset style). The orchestra's first home was Miller's own Somerset label and their first arranger was Robert Lowden; he was followed by Joseph Kuhn and Monte Kelly in turn, all of whom wrote occasional original numbers as well. In 1964, Miller sold the whole 101 Strings package to the Alshire label, which continued to turn out product with assembly line regularity over the next few decades. During their first decade, the 101 Strings would occasionally offer a more experimental album as a change of pace, but that all stopped after their fan base's reaction to 1968's futuristic and at times unsettling Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000 (which became a sought-after item among latter-day space age pop fans). In 1995, Madacy Entertainment purchased the Alshire label and began reissuing a great deal of the 101 Strings back catalog on CD, not to mention new material.
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Duffy pitches 6 sharp innings to lead Royals past Blue Jays
By : James Taylor
Tag: Jason Hammel
The Chicago Cubs said they do not expect starter Jason Hammel to miss a turn in the rotation because of the hamstring tightness that caused him to leave Wednesday's game against St. Louis. 500 for the first time since June 9. They have won six games in a row for the first time since opening the season 7-0.
The third baseman has been on the team's bereavement/family medical emergency list. Tonight, he put forth arguably his best performance of the season, stifling the AL's best offense over six shutout innings.
Danny Duffy's fastball was too much for the Toronto Blue Jays' power hitters.
Blue Jays: LHP Mark Buerhle, 4-1 in his past eight starts, will start Saturday.
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The next inning, however, Estrada wasn't as fortunate. Salvador Perez, Alex Rios and Alcides Escobar each had two hits and an RBI. In the eighth, Perez crushed his team-leading 15th home run of the season into the Kansas City bullpen, right into the glove of an idle Franklin Morales. He is hitting. 301 with seven homers and 31 RBIs.
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My ancestors - O'Mara - Contents
Fr. Paddy O'Mara
Fr.Paddy O'Mara, Apr 1906.
See full size and original.
Fr. Paddy O'Mara, S.J.,
Jesuit priest,
born 13 Mar 1875.
He was educ Crescent College, Limerick, 1882-1888.
Obituary thought he was educ Christian Brothers, Limerick, but think this is not true.
He was educ Clongowes, Co.Kildare. School register says he was there 1888-92.
He went up to Clongowes with his older brother James in 1888. Letter of 28 Aug 1888 talks of bringing "the boys" to Clongowes.
He was in The O'Rahilly's class [Bourke, 1967].
Paddy joins the Jesuits, 1892:
His father Stephen in letter of 18 May 1892 talks of Paddy considering going for the priesthood. To his wife he says: "We will both try to lead better lives that God may not think us entirely unworthy of having a son a priest." In letter of 19 May 1892 Stephen says to his wife: "I have read Paddy's letter most carefully and I am glad to think I do not share your doubts about his ultimate decision."
Paddy joined the Jesuits in 1892. Entered St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Aug 1892. [1967 short biography] thought it was 16 Aug 1892. Though another source thought it was 14 Aug 1892.
He studied philosophy at Ignatius College, at Valkenburg, Holland, 1895 to 1898. The college opened in 1894. Most students were German Jesuits who were banished from Germany.
In 1898 he went to Xavier College, Melbourne, Australia, to teach mathematics.
He wrote a mathematics textbook used in schools in Australia, Reasoned Methods in Arithmetic and Algebra for Matriculation Candidates (1903). The success of his book is mentioned in letter of 1904. See J/552/59.
Letters show Fr. Paddy is still in Australia in 1904.
[Lavelle, 1961] describes him as "a Jesuit scholastic in Australia".
Obituary says he was at Xavier College until 1905.
He returned to Ireland. He studied for the priesthood at Milltown Park, Dublin.
He was ordained 26 July 1908 at Milltown Park, Dublin by Archbishop William Joseph Walsh, according to [1958 article] and [1967 biography]. NOT Aug 1907.
He taught mathematics and physics at Mungret College, Limerick, for 3 years.
Professed on 2 February 1911.
He worked on missions round Ireland before WWI.
He wrote a booklet called Careers for Girls, which sold very well.
Rathfarnham Castle was bought in 1913 by the Jesuits. Paddy was part of the founding community.
He is listed with address with Jesuits at Rathfarnham Castle in [Thom's, 1914] and [Thom's, 1917].
British Army chaplain in WWI:
In WWI he served as a British Army chaplain 1917-19.
Joined Jan 1917. He was asked to go by his superior, the Irish Jesuit Provincial Fr. Thomas V. Nolan.
He served 1917-18 in France in the 58th Casualty Clearing Service (C.C.S.) in the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.).
[O'Connell, 2014] quotes a letter in June 1917. Fr. Paddy is annoyed at a CoE chaplain who was favourable to Catholicism and had started to minister to Catholic soldiers. Paddy writes that he told him to stop: "I had to tell him once and for all that Catholics do not communicate with heretics".
Decorated for bravery: During the final German offensive in France (Mar-July 1918) he was asked to bury many dead. The troops withdrew. Firing became heavy. His ambulance staff withdrew. He stayed alone to bury the many bodies, including several Portuguese. The Germans took the area soon after he left. The date is uncertain. [O'Connell, 2014] suggests this may have been around April 1918.
See letter of 17 Oct 1918 from him, from the 30th C.C.S. He is still in the middle of the war.
He was mentioned in a despatch of 8 Nov 1918 for gallant and distinguished services in the field.
War ended 11 Nov 1918. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1919.
He served in 1919 in 33rd Casualty Clearing Service, B.E.F., France.
For gallantry under German fire in burying the Portuguese dead in 1918, he was decorated by Portuguese government on 3 Apr 1920 with the rank of Officer of the Military Order of Christ.
In 1919 he returned to Rathfarnham. He worked on missions round Ireland for years.
He is listed with Jesuits at Rathfarnham Castle in [Thom's, 1926].
Gardiner St church: He was a priest at St.Francis Xavier's church, Upper Gardiner St, Dublin, from 1928 [obituary] until death 1969 (with a break in Limerick in the 1930s).
1967 article says he has been organising retreats in Gardiner St for 40 years (i.e. since 1927).
Letter of 12 Dec 1928 shows him in St.Francis Xavier's, Gardiner St.
He is listed at St.Francis Xavier's, Gardiner St, in [Thom's] 1929 on.
He was known at St.Francis Xavier's as Fr. "Pom" O'Mara (after his initials P.O.M.).
He married his niece Eithne to Dick Humphreys 1929.
He left Dublin for a few years to become Rector of Crescent College, Limerick, 1931-1934.
In 1934 he returned to St.Francis Xavier's.
He conducted the popular "Public Holy Hour" at St.Francis Xavier's for many years.
Author of four booklets on the Holy Hour, which sold in vast numbers. In particular his pamphlet An Hour With Jesus and the companion book Another Hour with Jesus. See photo and photo of booklets in P133/2/17A.
He was in charge of Children of Mary Sodality at Sion Hill convent (and school), Blackrock, and Children of Mary Sodality at St.Francis Xavier's.
He was at Nell's funeral 1939.
[Muffie de Courcy] told a story about him. At the end of mass he would always ask the people to "say a prayer for my mother" (his mother died 1910). Years later, attending a dying man, gave him last rites, asked him to "say a prayer for my mother". After he left, the dying man turned to his wife and said: "Gosh, I thought Fr. O'Mara was going to ask me to bring a parcel to his mother".
See 1958 article on his "Sacerdotal Golden Jubilee" (50th anniversary of ordination).
He sold an enormous number of copies of his booklets. Letter of 18 Mar 1965 says he has sold 2 million copies of his booklets.
Obituary says: "Until he was into his nineties, his appearance never changed. His abundant black hair was only slightly touched with grey, and he could have been taken for a well-preserved man in the late sixties."
In Aug 1967 he celebrated 75 years in the Jesuit order. See 1967 short biography. See 1967 article. This says his pamphlets have sold over 1 million copies.
Death, 1969:
Letter of 30 Dec 1968 says he is now in a Hospice.
He was the oldest Jesuit in Ireland at his death.
He died Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross, Dublin, 23 Mar 1969, age 94 yrs [GROI].
He was bur in the Jesuit plot of Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Some of his papers survive with the Jesuits. See Fr. Paddy O'Mara papers.
An Hour With Jesus is still reprinted today.
Fr. Paddy with school class, Xavier College, Melbourne.
See larger and full size.
From J/552/41.
See modern 3D view of same location.
Fr.Paddy O'Mara, 1955, The Grove, Killiney.
In Aug 1918, with the Germans in retreat, Fr. Paddy and other Catholic chaplains and soldiers were given leave to go on a pilgrimage to Lourdes on the other side of France. See [O'Connell, 2014].
This photo shows the group at the Rosary Basilica in Lourdes on 6 Sept 1918. 3 chaplains in 2nd row. Fr. Paddy is one on RHS.
See larger and full size. From Irish Jesuits.
See other copy. This is J/552/47.
See modern 360 view of this spot.
Close-up of 3 chaplains in 2nd row.
Fr. Paddy is one on RHS.
See back giving the names.
Fr. Paddy's medal of the Military Order of Christ.
See full size. See certificate.
Fr. Paddy's "standard" war medals.
For sale at emedals.com in 2015.
These are the British War Medal (given to all men for service) and Victory Medal (given to most men for service).
See full size front and back and side.
Jesuit plot, Glasnevin
Jesuit plot of Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
The Jesuit plot is in St.Brigid's South. See map.
Directions: Go in gate, sharp left, close to the road. See street view.
Grave of Fr. Paddy O'Mara, Jesuit plot of Glasnevin Cemetery.
See larger.
Still from 16:06 in video: "A real Jesuit plot".
He is in a list of "Sacerdotes" (priests).
Pictures of Fr. Paddy O'Mara
Fr. Paddy O'Mara papers
Damien Burke
Irish Jesuit chaplains in the First World War (book), ed. Damien Burke, 2014. Chapter on "Fr. Patrick O'Mara S.J." by Fr. Liam O'Connell S.J.
"Irish Jesuit chaplains in the First World War" (article), Damien Burke, Studies, Vol. 104, No. 414 (Summer 2015), pp.167-175.
Patrick O'Mara in The Australian Dictionary of Jesuit Biography 1848-2015, by Fr. David Strong, 2017.
Article on Fr. Paddy O'Mara (and other priests celebrating 50th anniversary of ordination). Irish Independent, July 15, 1958.
An Irishman's Diary, Irish Times, 16 Aug 1967. Or via here. See also photo and caption in Irish Times, 17 Aug 1967.
Obituary. Irish Province News, 44th Year, No 3, 1969. Text is here.
"Republican Dissent among Irish Jesuits during the Civil War, 1922-23", Olivia Frehill, Studies, Vol. 107, No. 425 (Spring 2018), pp. 57-75.
Sources yet to be consulted
Fr.Paddy's British Army record in WWI.
Medal card of Rev. Patrick O'Mara, Chaplain to the Forces, Royal Army Chaplain's Department. 1914-1920. WO 372/15/33228 in [NA.UK]. Pay to view online.
As at 2019, Belvedere College had a display of Irish Jesuit chaplains in WWI.
See panel for Fr. Paddy O'Mara.
It is implied that he taught at Belvedere at one point. Not sure if this is correct.


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using PizzaStoreLogic.Logic;
using PizzaStoreLogic.Logic.Models;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace PizzaStoreLogic.WebClient.Models
{
    public class NewPizzaModel
    {
        private DataService _Data = new DataService();
        private List<SizeDTO> _Sizes = new DataService().GetSizes();
        private List<CrustDTO> _Crusts = new DataService().GetCrusts();
        private List<SauceDTO> _Sauces = new DataService().GetSauces();
        private List<CheeseDTO> _Cheeses = new DataService().GetCheeses();
        private List<MeatDTO> _Meats = new DataService().GetMeats();
        private List<VegetableDTO> _Vegetables = new DataService().GetVegetables();

        public List<SizeDTO> Sizes { get { return _Sizes; } set { _Sizes = _Data.GetSizes(); } }
        public List<CrustDTO> Crusts { get { return _Crusts; } set { _Crusts = _Data.GetCrusts(); } }
        public List<SauceDTO> Sauces { get { return _Sauces; } set { _Sauces = _Data.GetSauces();} }
        public List<CheeseDTO> Cheeses { get { return _Cheeses; } set { _Cheeses = _Data.GetCheeses(); } }
        public List<MeatDTO> Meats { get { return _Meats; } set { _Meats = _Data.GetMeats(); } }
        public List<VegetableDTO> Vegetables { get { return _Vegetables; } set { _Vegetables = _Data.GetVegetables(); } }
        public int Quantity { get; set; }
    }
}

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Are we exercising extra awareness or self-centeredness?
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The pandemic that has rattled the whole world has escalated public fear and raised health awareness. Social distancing is now a buzzword and all mechanisms and steps are geared to implement it. But it has also resulted in distancing corona patients or those showing symptoms, along with their families, from the rest of the people
Residents in a Rajuk apartment project blocked the authorities' move to set up a temporary quarantine centre for corona-affected in an empty building in the premises at Diabari in the city's Uttara
A medical doctor was asked to leave her flat or her job. Flat owners of a building at Bakshibazar in old Dhaka knocked on the door to tell her about their worries as the doctor may carry coronavirus from the hospital she works in.
One of her colleagues narrated the doctor's story in a social media post. The authorities assured her of assistance and requested people not to keep doctors away at a time when medical professionals are needed the most.
Residents in a Rajuk apartment project blocked the authorities' move to set up a temporary quarantine centre for corona-affected or suspected people in an empty building in the premises at Diabari in the city's Uttara.
They held demonstrations throughout the night and surrounded officials for hours until the move was abandoned. A university professor, a known face in the television talk-shows giving views on dos and don'ts on issues ranging from politics to diplomacy, appeared in a video footage expressing his and neighbours' health concerns if corona-patients or suspects are kept in a nearby building.
A private hospital in Uttara area was locked by locals, who did not allow an ambulance carrying a would-be mother inside for emergency healthcare. The hospital was formally attached with a government institution as one of the facilities for corona patients. That scared the locals, who suspected the ambulance was carrying someone with the deadly virus.
People with fever, cold and cough are rushing from one hospital to another and being refused. Viral flu is common during this season of the year. Since the symptoms are like those of the new coronavirus, nobody is going to risk attending them.
Some of these reports appeared in the mainstream media, some individuals shared their shocking experiences in social media. One such video shows a woman, isolated and advised by health ministry's helpline to stay at home for 14 days, describing her symptoms and deteriorating condition. She went to a city hospital to find out that the corona test was not done there. Helpline doctors advised her to continue taking the medicines and wait for them to come to her rescue if necessary. With tears in her eyes, the woman said her throat is swollen and temperature fluctuates. She does not know if the helpline doctors will come in her rescue before things turn worse.
Hospitals reported much fewer outpatients with flu-like symptoms than usual as people chose to hide flu symptoms and move around as usual. Doctors, nurses and support staff members do not have protective dress and they are distancing themselves from patients with cough, fever and breathing problems.
A doctor in Dhaka tested Covid-19 positive as he attended a coronavirus patient (the patient died last week), prompting physicians at private hospitals in Chattogram to stop seeing flu patients.
A coronavirus death has brought eerie silence in Tolarbagh of the capital city's Mirpur area. The locality with about 5,000 residents is 'locked down,' with the main gate remaining shut.
The pandemic that has rattled the whole world has escalated public fear and raised health awareness. Advice for handwashing, using hand sanitiser and wearing masks and gloves is followed almost religiously. Social distancing is now a buzzword and all mechanisms and steps are geared to implement it. But it has also resulted in distancing corona patients or those showing symptoms, along with their families, from the rest of the people.
For more than three months since the new virus started spreading in China, we are hearing that we have enough of everything--- screening and testing kits, beds, ICUs and the know-how. When real time came, we have been caught off-guard with scanners at airport out of order, hospitals without testing kits and doctors without protective dress.
We could test a little over 600 cases in the lone government facility and detect 39 affected by coronavirus. We lost four of them as of March 24 in less than a week since the first death on March 18. We cannot test people with similar symptoms. We do not know for sure how many are affected. We cannot tell them where to go to test for coronavirus and where to seek treatment if tested positive.
We cannot tell doctors, nurses and healthcare providers: 'Here are protective dresses and equipment for you. Stay safe and work fearlessly.' We cannot tell people with cough, cold, fever and breathing difficulty: 'Go there and get tested.' We cannot assure corona patients, suspects and their families: 'Come, we are here to see you.'
What we could do so far is try to distance 'ourselves' from 'them.' We have not tested ourselves, but we believe we are virus-free and we need to keep safe distance from those who are affected or suspected, putting them at home and locking down the area they live or roam in.
Now all arrangements made so far point to a complete lockdown, restricting transports of all sorts and suspending almost all jobs. We may remember 'Juta Abiskar' (Invention of shoe), a satirical poem of Rabindranath Tagore in which he shows how state bureaucracy and machinery were trying to cover the whole earth with leather to protect the king's feet from dust. Then a tanner came up with an instant simple solution: Let's cover the king's feet with leather instead.
We are locking down the whole country in fact, because we could not make some space and facilities for quarantining people with coronavirus symptoms and caring for those affected.
corona virus / Rajuk plots / Quarantine centre
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Q: How can i find 'inteval' in sql? For example:
If i have in table records like:
id    timestamp    flag
a1    1000         false
a1    2000         false
a1    3500         true
a1    4000         true
a2    1000         false
a2    6000         true
a3    1000         false
a4    2000         true

I want find 'last interval' when flag is true. if no interval, max.
I want result like this.
id    interval
a1    1500
a1    500
a2    5000
a4    9999999

I will run this query in hive with sql.
Is it possible? or not?
I can't find how to do it.
sql can find 'most near' row?

A: I find window function udf in hive.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/hive/languagemanual+windowingandanalytics#LanguageManualWindowingAndAnalytics-PARTITIONBYwithonepartitioningcolumn,noORDERBYorwindowspecification
'lag' work for me.
select id, `interval`
from(
    SELECT *, (`timestamp` - LAG(`timestamp`, 1, -999999) OVER (PARTITION BY id ORDER BY `timestamp`)) as `interval`
    FROM test_table)
as first
where flag == 'true'

upper code perfectly work.


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require 'io/wait'

module Keizoku

  class SubProcess

    def initialize(environment, command)
      @environment = environment
      @command = command
    end

    def execute
      open_ipc_pipes
      @child_pid = fork do
        child_process_handler
      end
      parent_process_handler
    end

    def log
      @log
    end

    def successful?
      @successful
    end

    def completed?
      @completed
    end

    private

    def open_ipc_pipes
      @log_r, @log_w = IO.pipe
      @exit_r, @exit_w = IO.pipe
    end

    def child_process_handler
      close_ipc_readers
      execute_child_process
      close_ipc_writers
    end

    def execute_child_process
      ENV.replace(process_environment)
      @log_w.write `#{@command} 2>&1`
      @exit_w.puts $?.to_i
    end

    def parent_process_handler
      close_ipc_writers
      harvest_child_process_outcome
      close_ipc_readers
    end

    def close_ipc_readers
      @log_r.close
      @exit_r.close
    end

    def close_ipc_writers
      @log_w.close
      @exit_w.close
    end

    def harvest_child_process_outcome
      @log = ''
      until Process.wait(@child_pid, Process::WNOHANG)
        read_child_success if @exit_r.ready?
        read_child_log if @log_r.ready?
        sleep 0.001
      end
      read_child_success unless @exit_r.eof?
      read_child_log unless @log_r.eof?
    end

    def read_child_success
      @successful = @exit_r.gets.chomp == '0'
    end

    def read_child_log
      @log += @log_r.read
    end

    def process_environment
      ENV.to_hash.merge(@environment)
    end

  end

end


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ATHENS, Greece – Greece's governing New Democracy party has expelled a former transport minister after his arrest for allegedly driving an uninsured luxury car with fake license plates in an apparent tax dodge.
A party statement Thursday said Michalis Liapis displayed "unethical behavior."
Liapis has retired from politics. But he belongs to one of Greece's most prominent conservative families and his late uncle Constantine Karamanlis founded New Democracy in 1974.
Liapis, 62, was arrested Tuesday after allegedly ignoring a road stop sign. Police said he had previously handed his license plates over to tax authorities to avoid road tax and other charges, and was illegally using copies of the original plates. He was fined and charged with making a false declaration to authorities and forging the plates.
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The Blinders on the Right
by Michael Sean Winters
Conservative Catholic intellectuals have spent the last few weeks harshly accusing liberal Catholics for being so eager to curry favor with the Obama administration, that they have betrayed the Church, accepting a compromise on the issue of HHS mandates that is inadequate at best. But, I would submit, that conservative Catholics are just as responsible for the failure to find a resolution to this issue and have been frankly surprised at how weak their arguments have been. Indeed, it is not going too far to say that they have been as eager to turn over the precious concern for religious liberty into the partisan hands of their Republican friends as some liberals have been eager to get back into the good graces of the Obama White House.
I am not a fan of histrionics, no matter from whom they come. But, all this talk about a "war on Catholicism" like Bill Donohue's annual rant about a "war on Christmas" is a bit much. Yes, there are some people in our culture who really hate the Catholic Church, but President Obama does not appear to be one of them, although after the brouhaha over FOCA and the vicious personal attacks over his appearance at Notre Dame and attempt to defeat the Affordable Care Act, he can be forgiven for thinking that we Catholics, or at least some bishops, have it in for him. His administration has increased funding to Catholic Charities and other church-run programs even though they made a regrettable decision, also made by HHS, regarding our human trafficking programs. At least, the verdict is not one of 100 percent hostility as you would think from some of the rantings from the right. Besides, there certainly were more people who hated the Church back in the 1950s, the days of Paul Blanshard and his ilk, to say nothing of earlier periods in our nation's history.
It is true that the HHS mandates are "unprecedented" but, then again, the Affordable Care Act is unprecedented. Now, you may think that federal involvement in health care is a bad thing, or you may not, but it is undoubtedly well within the tradition of Catholic social thought to believe that if the market has failed to achieve universal health care, the government can and should step in to guarantee this basic human right. As for the mandated coverage and how that applies to Catholic institutions, I take a back seat to no one in the firmness with which I have defended the religious liberty of our Catholic institutions. But, the arguments from the right have been so narrow and so biased, it is difficult to see how they will advance the cause of religious liberty.
Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon has a post up at America that begins: "Until recently the status of religious liberty as one of the most fundamental rights of Americans has seldom been seriously challenged." Really? Did Ms. Glendon sleep through the controversy over the building of a mosque in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero? Certainly, that raised issues of religious liberty, did it not? (Bishop Lori, in his congressional testimony, also failed to mention the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" incident.)
I invoke the Ground Zero example pointedly. Ms. Glendon is a constitutional scholar and a very fine and learned one. Surely, then, she knows that the tyranny that most worried the founders, and which the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights was designed to frustrate, is a tyranny of the majority. It seems to me that the mosque incident was much more an example of the tyranny of the majority than the HHS mandates. This country has many Catholics, and both parties regularly appeal to the Catholic vote. Surely, our rights are not as endangered, even by an HHS mandate, as are the rights of Muslims who wished only to build a house of worship for themselves.
Later in her article, she writes, "Emboldened by recent developments, militant secularists are claiming that religious freedom is an unnecessary right." Funny, in my daily activities, I do not run into too many militant secularists, do you? Ah, but I do not frequent law school campuses. I would agree that the legal culture, quite uniquely in our society, entertains ideas about the role of religion in society that are inimical to Catholic ideas, and that in that legal culture, drunk on Positivism and Rawls and all the nastiest detritus of the Enlightenment, many anti-Catholic champions emerge, whether they know it or not. And, I recognize that our government, and the various activist one-issue groups that populate Washington, are largely staffed by lawyers drawn from that culture. I will leave it to legal scholars to figure out how to fix their own profession and its culture of scholarship.
But, I will also point out that among the principal legal difficulties making it unlikely the Church would win redress on the issue of the HHS mandates is the Supreme Court decision in Employment Division v. Smith, a decision written by none other than that noted liberal, anti-Catholic zealot, Justice Antonin Scalia. It was Scalia, not President Obama, who wrote, "Although a State would be "prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]" in violation of the Clause if it sought to ban the performance of (or abstention from) physical acts solely because of their religious motivation, the Clause does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a law that incidentally forbids (or requires) the performance of an act that his religious belief requires (or forbids) if the law is not specifically directed to religious practice and is otherwise constitutional as applied to those who engage in the specified act for nonreligious reasons. See, e.g., Reynolds v. United States, 98 U. S. 145, 98 U. S. 166-167. The only decisions in which this Court has held that the First Amendment bars application of a neutral, generally applicable law to religiously motivated action are distinguished on the ground that they involved not the Free Exercise Clause alone, but that Clause in conjunction with other constitutional protections." Hmmmm. Looks like a crimped view of religious liberty is not only found in the Obama administration.
Glendon goes on to argue that, "The ability of religious persons and groups to participate in public deliberation about the conditions under which they live, work and raise their children is also at risk." Again, I have to ask, really? Have we been watching the same debate the last few months? It seems to me that the Church has never been more active in the public square. It is true that there has been political pushback: I may not like Planned Parenthood, but they, too, have a right to try and shape the public debate and if we are going to go after them, you can bet they are going to come after us. That is how politics works.
George Weigel, in the National Review, brings back John Courtney Murray to chastise liberal Catholics with betraying their own patrimony. As regular readers will recognize, I am not convinced that Murray was not more part of the problem than the solution. Certainly, one has a hard time imagining Pope Benedict uttering these words of Murray's regarding the Declaration on Religious Liberty: "The real difficulty, however, is that the argument [for religious liberty] from man's duty to search for the truth, whatever its value, does not deserve the fundamental place in the structure of a demonstration of the right to religious freedom." I also have trouble thinking Benedict XVI would share Murray's contention that one of the theological implication of the Decree on Religious Liberty was "the secularity of the secular," which reflects Murray's continued insistence on a dualism that Pope Benedict finds problematic to say the least.
Weigel also states that the current religious liberty debate reflects, among other things, "the failure of the Catholic Church to educate the faithful in its own social doctrine" and "the reluctance of the U.S. bishops' conference to forcefully apply that social doctrine — especially its principle of subsidiarity — during the Obamacare debate." What to say? George Weigel has decided to make a career out of misunderstanding subsidiarity and the entire social doctrine of the Church, so pleased with himself for sneaking a few nods towards capitalism into the text of Centesimus Annus. But, those sentences read today like Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History," written in the afterglow of the fall of Communism. Certainly, they were not reflected in last year's note on faith and finance from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, a note that Weigel dismissed as the work of non-experts who work in a "rather small office in the Vatican Curia." And, I don't think the few encomiums to capitalism Weigel cherishes were reflected in Pope Benedict's more recent, and more trenchant, critique of capitalism, when he said, "The world of finance, while necessary, no longer represents an instrument that favors our well-being or the life of mankind, instead it has become an oppressive power, that almost demands our adoration, mammon, the false divinity that truly dominates the world." Tell me, Mr. Weigel – Does Pope Benedict XVI represent a "rather small office in the Vatican curia"?
I have many, many difficulties with some of my Catholic friends who range themselves on the left politically and, especially, theologically. But, it is not they who are diminishing the important argument about religious liberty, but Glendon and Weigel, blinded as they are, and reducing the discussion to a partisan cause. They both see the world through thoroughly partisanized lenses; how else to explain their failure to mention, say, the religious liberty issues raised by anti-immigration laws? How else to explain their horror at a health care mandate without even a mention of the moral obligation that we all, as humans, have to provide health care for our fellow humans? Viewing the world through a partisan lens is their right, to be sure, but could they cut with the suggestion that anyone who disagrees with them must be motivated by ignorance of the faith or of American history?
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On May 1, Victor Vescovo made a record completing the deepest-ever solo underwater dive. Having reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, he found out that there was another representative of the human world – the plastic.
Victor said he found a plastic bag and candy wrappers on the sea floor, some 35,853 feet below the surface.
Vescovo made the trip as part of his Five Deeps expedition, which is being filmed by the Discovery Channel. The 53-year-old financier and retired naval officer is conducting detailed sonar maps of the deepest parts of the ocean. Trips to the Atlantic Ocean's Puerto Rico Trench, the South Atlantic's South Sandwich Trench and the Java Trench in the Indian Ocean have already been completed. The details of the Mariana Trench trip were just released Monday. Finally, Vescovo will explore the Arctic's Molloy Deep this August.
"I criss-crossed all over the bottom looking for different wildlife, potentially unique geological formations or rocks, man-made objects, and yes, trying to see if there was an even deeper location than where the Trieste went all the way back in 1960," Vescovo told CNN of his most recent trip. (The Trieste was the first submersible to explore the Challenger Deep.)
In addition to the plastic, Vescovo's team think they have discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans, BBC News reported. However, the scientists plan to test if the animals collected have already encountered humanity in the form of microplastics. A 2017 study found microplastics in crustaceans in six of the deepest parts of the ocean, including the Mariana Trench.
Unfortunately, researchers have earlier found litter at the bottom of the ocean's deepest trench, Victor Vescovo is not the first. In 2018 scientists documented at least 3,000 pieces of litter in the trench, including a plastic bag at 36,000 feet below sea level. About 8 million tons of plastic enter the world's oceans every year. With such scenario, there gonna be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.
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Today at Computex in Taipei, Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang announced the availability of a drastically upgraded version of Issac. Nvidia calls the next-gen robotics system the next step in autonomous machines as it reportedly brings AI capabilities to a new set of industries.
The company has been talking about this platform some time, touting its capabilities and use cases. A Jetson Xavier SoC provides the processing with more than 9 billion transistors, it delivers over 30 TOPS (trillion operations per second). Inside the Xavier is a Volta Tensor Core GPU, an eight-core ARM64 CPU, dual NVDLA deep learning accelerators, an image processor, a vision processor and a video processor.
The platform developer kit will be available in August for $1,299 and includes the Isaac robotics software.
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Headined "Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends," the New York Times article criticizes the privacy protections of device-integrated APIs, which were launched by Facebook a decade ago. Before app stores became common, the APIs enabled Facebook to strike data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers, including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung, that allowed them to offer Facebook features, such as messaging, address books and the like button, to their users.
There are already many, many reasons to attend TechCrunch's first blockchain event this coming July 6 in Zug, Switzerland. You'll hear from industry leaders including Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan and Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, but here's a further sweetener: we will have a follow-on event the very next day.
We're excited to announce that we'll hold an Ethereum Meetup on July 7, the day after the 'TC Sessions: Blockchain' event. TechCrunch is producing this event with support from the Ethereum Foundation and other members of the Ethereum community.
To recap: the TC Sessions: Blockchain event takes place July 6 in Zug, the Swiss Canton know as 'Crypto Valley,' and it'll be followed by the Ethereum Meetup produced by TechCrunch on July 7th from 1-6pm at the Casino, the same venue as the blockchain event the day before.
A follow-on meetup is a first for our single-day 'TC Sessions' events, which TechCrunch produces to cover important emerging topics like robotics, AR/VR and tech diversity. The second-day event in Zug reflects the strong demand we've seen from readers who are keen to further explore and understand the blockchain space.
This meetup will feature core developers and leaders from the Ethereum ecosystem, including Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation developer Karl Floersch, and others. It will cover a range of topics on the technical side, including presentations and discussions around issues of scaling, protocol improvements, and improvements to consensus among other topics.
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"I think AR is big and profound," Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC.
"I don't think there is any sector or industry that will be untouched by AR," he told Vogue.
"I think AR is that big, it's huge. I get excited because of the things that could be done that could improve a lot of lives," he told The Independent.
Behind a lot of that talk is belief in the tech's utility down the road, but until Apple is ready to experimenting with AR tech in core iOS features, all of the chatter around AR having plenty of utility today feels a bit half-hearted. I'll be very interested to see if the company announces any AR integrations in iOS 12 tomorrow that add new utility or if Animojis are still about as far as they're willing to go.
While nearly every major tech company spent 2017 opining about the potential of AR, there still doesn't seem to be much that consumers can show for it. Google made a few interesting announcements surrounding the technology at its I/O conference last month, most fascinating was an AR walking mode being tested for Google Maps. Apple Maps is in desperate need of an upgrade and it makes sense for that to be the starting point for where its integrations begin.
AR is definitely one of Apple's longer term investments, but it's also one that may not see much payoff in the short term.
While Apple has been content to let many of their long-term bets iterate through awkward phases underground in the R&D labs, ARKit has been thrust onto hundreds of millions of devices while still in that odd, what-are-we-supposed-to-do-with-this stage. AR is more broadly one of those unique scenarios where everyone can imagine a potential end-case, it's how it gets there that's the head-scratcher and Apple seems to need developers to take on the risk of experimenting.
At Apple's developer conference keynote tomorrow, the company seems poised to showcase new developments for its ARKit augmented reality platform. Chief on the list of expected upgrades (via Reuters) is a system of sharing coordinated point clouds between phones so that multiple users can run AR apps in a shared experience, aka AR multiplayer.
Where Apple will definitely highlight ARKit's potential is in the gaming sector. Gaming has always been more-engaging with multi-player, but how that really looks with augmented reality is anyone's guess. It's been two years since Pokémon GO was released and for all of the attention that title received, it isn't entirely clear how AR capabilities contributed to its success.
Games that integrate a multiplayer ARKit are going to have to make a lot of discoveries on their own. Playing games with friends in AR will gain a hyper-local edge but will lose much of the freedom offered by online gameplay in terms of connecting gamers seamlessly. There are countless other UX questions that will also still need to be experimented with.
Augmented reality is a truly exciting technology and Apple's efforts to lead the pack in building developer support has built up a lot of initial enthusiasm from that crowd, but to keep that excitement Apple's going to need to start proving out some of those use cases for users on their own and put its big bet deeper into users' daily digital lives.


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