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Shakespeare or Fakespeare?
August 14, 2015 Race Hochdorf
I'm going to start this article off with a bit of a rant and confess something right off the bat: I cannot— cannot— with all that is in me, stand William Shakespeare. As a lover of literature and the arts, I just don't get the hype. To begin with, I have never found his stories to be as breathtakingly brilliant as so many claim. In fact, Shakespeare seems to have a habit of creating protagonists that are impossible for the reader to identify with or see themselves in. I was annoyed by Romeo and Juliet, who I felt were vapid teenagers given to whim and easily duped, and annoyed with the story overall for its very twisted, very mistaken portrayal of what love actually is; and I also detested Hamlet, because I thought he was a creep who had an obvious incestuous attachment to his mother, and who further was paralyzed by his own neurosis. These are not main characters a normal reader would want anything good to happen to, and the stories themselves don't draw a person in. That's an entirely subjective opinion, I know, but can we all at least stop pretending that Shakespeare was a literary genius?
And perhaps my rebellion against the bard is due, also, to the pretentious assholes who claim to enjoy reading him today. Enough with the act! Unless you're reading a modern translation of his work (which I certainly did), you simply do not understand what William Shakespeare is saying. You don't. Nobody does. The language and the themes are so antiquated, that you can no more read the original Shakespeare and understand it than you could read a 1611 edition of the King James Bible and understand it.
But without a doubt it is Shakespeare being called "the greatest writer in English literature" that really chaps my khakis. Charles Dickens trounces Shakespeare in eloquence of language, complexity of plot, and moral depth. As does Voltaire, as does Alexander Dumas, as does P.G. Wodehouse. The idea that Shakespeare's writing is unique in its "beauty", distinct from the aforementioned writers and many others, is an idea I have yet to see backed up with any sort of strong argument. To clarify, I don't mean to say that Shakespeare was a terrible writer (that award is shared by James Joyce and F. Scott Fitzgerald), but he also shouldn't be the hallowed jewel of the English-speaking world.
In short, Shakespeare may in fact be the most overrated writer in human history to date. Much ado about nothing.
But now that you know of my feelings toward the writings of William Shakespeare, let me tell you now why I wish to deprive the man even of his gross mediocrity. You see, as much as I don't care for the stories themselves, I also don't believe William Shakespeare ever actually wrote them to begin with. To be sure, a man named William Shakespeare did exist, and there is more than enough evidence to prove that. But it is likely that the man served as a "public face" for an anonymous author who enjoyed anonymity for unknown reasons. We'll get to candidates for who the real Shakespearean author possibly was in a moment, but for now, let me show you the reasons why Shakespeare's authorship should be doubted in the first place.
I Don't Believe William Shakespeare Wrote The Stories Attributed To Him, Because The Stories Contain A Knowledge Of Royal Life Inconsistent With Shakespeare's Background.
Shakespeare grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, a market town where sheep were distributed and cattle were slaughtered. It was not a place where English elites had a large presence. Neither one of William's parents, John and Mary Shakespeare, could write (they "signed their names" with a mark as was common with people who were illiterate), and there is no evidence that William Shakespeare's daughters could write (we do not have a single piece of paper bearing their signatures). This would seem to strangely imply— if the conventional view of Shakespeare authorship is to be believed— that the generation before William couldn't write, then William could, then the generation after him could not again. It has been proposed that William Shakespeare learned how to write by attending King's New School, but no records or evidence have been found to support this claim.
More than merely his literacy being under question, however, there is also the subject matter he allegedly wrote about. During the 16th and early 17th century, sports such as hunting, falconry, tennis, and lawn-bowling were considered aristocratic activities that the common person simply would not have known very much about. Yet Shakespeare writes of all of these sports in intricate detail. Shakespeare also included in his plays details about how court politics and customs worked, despite him not having a way to learn about any of those things given his station in life.
Remember that this is a time when information was not as easy to come by as it is today. For me to write a book called "Life In The White House", for instance, despite me never having been to the White House, is not a problem. I have libraries, the internet, and documentaries that could tell me what living in the White House is like. But that was not the case in Shakespeare's day. It was rare for someone below the class of elites to have an in-depth knowledge of how the English elites lived. This, in my opinion, makes Shakespeare's authorship of plays involving royalty (which was nearly all of them) extremely questionable.
I Don't Believe William Shakespeare Wrote The Stories Attributed To Him, Because The Elitist Way He Portrays Commoners In His Plays Is Inconsistent With What His Attitude As A Commoner Would Be.
Shakespeare often portrayed commoners two different ways in his plays: either as comical fools or dangerous mobs. Characters a part of the elite— good or evil— by contrast were cunning, quick-witted, and intelligent. The famous American poet Walt Whitman took notice of this in his November Boughs (1888) when he said, "Shakespeare's comedies have the unmistakable hue of plays, portraits, made for the divertissement only of the elite of the castle, and from its point of view. The comedies are altogether unacceptable to America and Democracy."
But it isn't just the unflattering way Shakespeare portrayed commoners that is inconsistent with his being one. He also writes like he's part of the English elite in what are alleged to be his personal sonnets. Take for instance a portion of his 91st Sonnet: "Thy love is better than high birth to me." How would Shakespeare know what "high birth" was like in order to make the comparison? This seems a likely slip-up on the part of the true writer of the personal sonnets. A writer, say, who would have been an elite of some sort and not someone of common birth.
Why Would The Anonymous Author Choose Shakespeare To Be The "Front" For His Works?
So far, if you're following me, what I have claimed is that another— more learned— individual of noble birth wrote the Shakespeare plays and sonnets, and that this individual (whoever he is) arranged for the commoner William Shakespeare to take the credit while they enjoyed anonymity. The question that follows, then, would be why a member of the elite class would choose Shakespeare to be the face for his writings, and how a member of the elite class would have even known William Shakespeare at all.
As to the question, first, of why William Shakespeare would have been chosen by a nobleman or member of royalty, quite frankly it was because he was the perfect choice. While William did indeed grow up in Stratford-upon-Avon, he was able to make a successful life in London as a real estate merchant and as an actor. Being a well-known actor in London, Shakespeare would not have had a problem convincing others that he was capable of writing plays, as long as those others didn't know he was illiterate and despite the subject material being outside the realm of knowledge he could have possibly acquired.
As to the question of how a nobleman would have even known about the existence of William Shakespeare in order to approach him in the first place, it's important to recognize that Shakespeare was a successful businessman when it came to real estate, and being an actor, he used his funds to build a theater company that put on plays. This would certainly have earned him enough of a reputation for an ambitious member of the nobility to take notice. In sum, William Shakespeare became an appealing choice for being the "face" of the writings, because Shakespeare had the means to purchase more property and build more theaters throughout London to make productions of the real writer's plays, and to do so more rapidly than anyone else. A member of nobility who wanted to write dangerous commentaries on society and culture, then, had the perfect opportunity to do so through Mr. Shakespeare.
But then… Who Did Write The Plays?
Given the writer's knowledge of 16th century English "upper class" life and the writer's attitude and portrayal of commoners, it seems obvious that whoever wrote the Shakespearean plays belonged to nobility.
There are theories suggesting that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and a courtier poet, was the true author of the Shakespeare works. The main case for this is the similarity between events of Edward's life as told in his biography and events in Shakespeare's plays. There are Shakespeare-skeptics who believe William Stanley, the 6th Earl of Derby, was the true author. Stanley was married to Elizabeth de Vere whose maternal grandfather is thought to have been the inspiration for the character Polonius in Hamlet. You'll notice of course that there's still a deVere connection with William Stanley as the author. What aspects of "Shakespeare's" characters couldn't be taken by Stanley from Edward's life, could have been taken from his wife Elizabeth's grandfather. To top it off, Stanley also had business connections to King's Men, the theater company that Shakespeare owned. It is also entirely possible that William Stanley and Edward de Vere could have collaborated in some way.
But another candidate— and my personal favorite— is Sir Francis Bacon. I like Bacon as a candidate because there is (allegedly) a code left in the Shakespearean play Love's Labour's Lost that declares him to be the true author: a Latin mouthful found in Act 5, Scene 1— "Honorificabilitudinitatibus"— which can be used as an anagram that yields "Hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti orbi" ("These plays, the offspring of F. Bacon, are preserved for the world") Furthermore, I like Bacon as the writer because one doesn't need an anagram to tie him to the Shakespearean plays, there's plenty of connections right on the surface of the texts. There are moments in the plays where "Shakespeare" rephrases sayings found in Bacon's writings: "Poetry is nothing but feigned history" (Bacon, The Advancement Of Learning) becomes "The truest poetry is the most feigning" (Shakespeare, As You Like It); "He wished him not to shut the gate of your Majesty's mercy" (Bacon, The Works Of Lord Bacon) becomes "The gates of mercy shall be all shut up" (Shakespeare, Henry V). In fact in 1883, a Mrs. Henry Pott, who edited Bacon's Promus, found as many as 4400 parallels between his work and the work of William Shakespeare.
Famous Shakespeare-Skeptics
Lest you think that this is just some wild kooky historical conspiracy theory that some no-name writer with a blog has attached himself to, think again. Mark Twain wrote an entire book about his suspicions (Is Shakespeare Dead?, 1909), saying most notably "Shall I set down the rest of the Conjectures which constitute the giant Biography of William Shakespeare? It would strain the Unabridged Dictionary to hold them. He is a Brontosaur: nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris." Sigmund Freud stated very matter-of-factly in his Autobiographical Study (1927), "I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him."
But perhaps it was Ralph Waldo Emerson who was the most damning critic of Shakespeare's alleged authorship when he wrote in Representative Men (1850), "As long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show. But when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, 'How does he profit me? What does it signify?'… the Egyptian verdict of the Shakespeare Societies comes to mind; that he was a jovial actor and manager. I cannot marry this fact to his verse. Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man, in wide contrast. Had he been less, had he reached only the common measure of great authors, of Bacon, Milton, Tasso, Cervantes, we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate: but that this man of men, he who gave to the science of mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed, and planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos—that he should not be wise for himself;—it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement."
***Update February 12th, 2016*** I've returned to this essay to post a speech at the bottom that was made by Tom Regnier LL.M. Tom Regnier was a Harlan F. Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School and was made President of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship in 2015. His talk is definitely one of the better lectures I've seen on the Shakespeare authorship question.
My information about Shakespeare's family and environment comes from two books put out by Oxford University Press titled Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells (2001) and William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life by S. Schoenbaum (1987).
Information on the parallels between Bacon's work and Shakespeare's, can be found in two books: Frank W. Wadsworth's work The Poacher From Stratford: A Partial Account Of The Controversy Over The Authorship Of Shakespeare's Plays (University of California Press, 1958), and James Shapiro's Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
Information about the anagram found in Love's Labour's Lost can be found in K.K. Ruthven's book Faking Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
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Overheard at Trinity post causes trinicat debate
Julia Weis|October 19, 2018
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When junior Abbi Bowen posted a photo of a mauled bird carcass on the Overheard at Trinity Facebook page, she was hoping to spark a debate about the role of cats on campus.
"We just need to rile people up or something. I never post on Overheard at Trinity, but I just did it because I knew people would freak out about it. When we came across that bird that was obviously torn apart by a cat, we were just fed up with the fact that no one is really talking about it," Bowen said.
Cats have lived among Trinity students for about 14 years. The Cat Alliance, an independent nonprofit directed by Trinity staff, has supervised the feral cat population through feeding them, as well as spaying, neutering and medicating sick cats. Students often join the organization to help feed and monitor the cats.
"When we started this program 14 years ago, there were 60+ cats on campus. Through our system of management, we are down to just over 20," said Vee DuBose, a co-founder of the Cat Alliance and the publications designer in the Office of Strategic Marketing and Communication.
According to DuBose and Mindy Morales, another founding member of the Cat Alliance, Trinity students have a warm perception of cats living on campus and regard them as pets. Students frequently approach members of the Cat Alliance to tell them the cats were part of the reason why they chose to attend Trinity.
However, Bowen is a part of the growing population that worries the cats are harming Trinity's ecosystem.
"Because outdoor cats are seen as invasive species, it's important for the local ecology that you don't just have this other species messing with it," Bowen said.
Bowen's opinion is shared with several biology professors, such as Kelly Lyons. To raise awareness of the potential harm cats bring to Trinity's natural environment, Lyons co-wrote a column with professors Michele Johnson, Troy Murphy and David Ribble for the Trinitonian in 2016. Comments on the Overheard at Trinity post by Bowen on Oct. 5 referenced the column, which was also published in the Rivard Report. Lyons still believes that the cat situation warrants a more serious discussion.
"We need to have a better policy on campus. It's only fair to the wildlife on campus and other animals that people may like to look at and enjoy that we do something about the cats. They have significant effects on wildlife. If you care at all about urban biodiversity, you really need to be involved in the cat management part of it," Lyons said.
Steffanie Mortis, a director for the Cat Alliance and assistant editor and education and programming coordinator for TU Press, doesn't see the cats as a large threat to wildlife on campus.
"The Trinity cats are very well fed. For the most part, they are elderly, senior cats. Many of them are not in good shape to go out hunting. As far as we know, there haven't been a lot of reports of signs that the cats have been hunting, like bird carcasses or feathers. That said, we can't stop cats from being cats, even though they're fed regularly," Mortis said.
The directors said the criticisms of the cats' effect on Trinity's ecosystem have not been sent to them directly. They also feel that the cats do not pose as much a threat to birds as flying into glass windows does, as they've frequently spotted dead birds outside of windows around campus.
"The people who are concerned about the bird population should lobby the university to pay for the special glass to keep birds from smashing into it," Morales said.
Junior Emma Frieze witnessed the dead bird that Bowen posted a photo of, saying it had collided with a window.
"I saw the bird on the ground, dead. It looked like it had run into the window, because it's neck was snapped and there was nothing gross around it. I saw the Facebook post and thought, 'I don't really care what the point of this is.' The bird was already dead, please let the cat eat it," Frieze said.
Lyons feels that if the school were to keep the cats indoors, the risk for harming biodiversity would be mitigated.
"One of the things that I probably didn't mention enough in the [2016] Trinitonian article is that we need a 'cat-atorium' — a cat porch that can be attached to a building. Students can go in and see the cats, but they stay indoors. If we have a cat-atorium, students can come and walk them. That would solve a lot of the problem. Having cats roaming around is bad for the cats, it's not great for the students and they really shouldn't be in students' dorm rooms," Lyons said.
The Cat Alliance emphasized that their care-taking methods were modeled after larger universities and are becoming popular at colleges across the state and country.
"There might be a misperception that we're crazy cat people who just feed cats, but what we do is carefully thought out. Not just by us, but by many respected universities with a scientific approach and we carry it out that way as well. We're careful — we're not just out there feeding cats and throwing out kibble and ignoring everything else," Morales said.
Lyons and Morales do agree on one issue: the cat overpopulation problem is man-made.
"TNR [Trap-Neuter-Return] as a program is not Plan A for any cat. But because of the world, and especially because of the pet ownership culture in San Antonio, man has indeed created this problem. It's going to take years to resolve the problem of overpopulation of pets. We're with plan B, and that is to do something as humanely as we can in a way that benefits as many as possible. It's not perfect, we know that," Morales said.
Lyons feels that a viable option to regulate the cat population would be to enforce the use of leashes. She wants students to continue the discussion, but only if it's from a logical perspective.
"We would love to do a panel discussion and really blow the top off of this. The problem is that, we find over and over again, the discussion becomes very quickly about the love of the cats. That's not a rational discussion," Lyons said. "We feel that we can come to the table as scientists with evidence, with solutions and suggestions, but we're not really open to being skewered by a very emotional perspective on this."
with additional reporting by Kaylie King

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I am wondering if it is possible to set R-Wipe&Clean so that when it clears files they go to the recycling bin.
This would be an added safeguard if you found you made a mistake and wanted to retrieve them.
If this option is not available, please consider it for future upgrades.
Frankly, I don't quite clear understand what you mean.
If you want to wipe files in the Recycle Bin, you may include it in the wiping and cleaning task. Or you may wipe the files from Windows explorer. But the files will gone for good. If you want not to wipe those files, you may exclude it from the wiping and cleaning task. But the files will be accessible in Recycle Bin.
Thanks for the information and sorry for the confusion.
I am referring to when you clear thing from your computer with R-Wipe & Clean, such as temp files, cookies, etc. Instead of them being deleted or wiped, I am wanting them to be moved to the Recycling Bin. Then, I would leave them there for a while to see if everything continued to work Ok and then later permanently delete them from the Recycling Bin.
This could be an added safety measure.
Well, here you have a point. But most likely that will be too confusing for a regualr user.
Maybe, this could be added as an advanced option. I use another app called ClearProg which has this as an option which is simply set in the main options panel. With R-Wipe & Clean, you could have 3 options instead of 2, ie "Move to Recycling Bin", "Delete", and "Wipe".
Could this suggestion be passed on to the development team to consider?
Actually, you can do some things right now. For example, you may preserve cookies from certain sites. Go to Internet -> Cookies, and move the necessary cookies to Favorites.
You may see cookie's content by clicking it.
Thanks for the information which is quite helpful.


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Q: Filtering ol.layer.Vector locally by feature properties I have an openlayer-3 web app that I need to do some filtering of layers on.  The layer happens to be from a WFS source.  I would like the option to filter as a GetFeature CQL request to the server and also filter locally on the data.
I have not gotten the CQL request working yet.  In the mean time, I would like to filter the vector data locally based on the feature properties like in Openlayers 2.  Is there a way to do this easily?  Has the Filter object not been included in ol3 on purpose?
EDIT: I would love to have a filter like this in ol3:
http://dev.openlayers.org/examples/cql-format.html

A: I have found a solution by parsing the CQL filter and filtering out the features before adding them to the layer.
/* Your filter ... */
var cql = "STATE_ABBR >= 'B' AND STATE_ABBR <= 'O'";

/* Gets all the features from the current extent */
var features = new ol.format.WFS().readFeatures(response);

/**
 * Find a way to parse your CQL filter, for example, replace the 'AND's into '&&'s
 * It would be better to build a parser. You can use this: http://pegjs.org/
 */

/* Filters the features */
features = features.filter(function (feature) {
    return feature.get('STATE_ABBR') >= 'B' && feature.get('STATE_ABBR') <= 'O';
});

/* Adds the features to the layers */
layerWFS.getSource().addFeatures(features);

Try building a parser with PEGjs
Your parser should transform this
"STATE_ABBR >= 'B' AND STATE_ABBR <= 'O'"

into this
feature.get('STATE_ABBR') >= 'B' && feature.get('STATE_ABBR') <= 'O'

See the example here
The key is really PEGjs here. :) I hope I helped...

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Mt Kenya can and is climbed at all times of the year. If possible however, it is best to avoid the two rainy seasons that may start in mid March and last through till mid June, the long rains, and from the late October through till end of November, the short rains. The driest times on the mountain are usually January till mid March and again July through mid October.


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Tags: nfl | concussion | settlement | approved
NFL Concussion Settlement: Federal Judge Gives Preliminary OK to Deal
By Newsmax Wires | Tuesday, 08 July 2014 10:57 AM
The NFL concussion case advanced Monday after a federal judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement that would compensate thousands of former players.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia came about two weeks after the NFL agreed to remove a $675 million cap on damages, The Associated Press reported. Brody had previously questioned whether that would be enough money to pay all claims.
"A class action settlement that offers prompt relief is superior to the likely alternative — years of expensive, difficult, and uncertain litigation, with no assurance of recovery, while retired players' physical and mental conditions continue to deteriorate," Brody wrote.
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More than 4,500 former players have filed suit, some accusing the league of fraud for its handling of concussions. They include former Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett and Super Bowl-winning Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon, who suffers from dementia.
The settlement is designed to last at least 65 years and give $1 million or more to retirees who develop Lou Gehrig's disease and other profound neurological problems.
"This is an extraordinary settlement for retired NFL players and their families — from those who suffer with neuro-cognitive illnesses today, to those who are currently healthy but fear they may develop symptoms decades into the future," plaintiffs' attorneys Sol Weiss and Christopher Seeger said in a statement.
NFL senior vice president Anastasia Danias said in a statement that the league was "grateful to Judge Brody for her guidance and her thoughtful analysis of the issues as reflected in the comprehensive opinion she issued today."
The original settlement included $675 million for compensatory claims for players with neurological symptoms, $75 million for baseline testing and $10 million for medical research and education. The NFL would also pay an additional $112 million to the players' lawyers, for a total payout of more than $870 million.
The revised settlement eliminates the cap on overall damage claims but retains a payout formula for individual retirees that considers their age and illness. A young retiree with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, would receive $5 million, a 50-year-old with Alzheimer's disease would get $1.6 million and an 80-year-old with early dementia would get $25,000.
Even with the cap removed, both sides said they believe the NFL will spend no more than about $675 million on damage claims by ex-players.
Critics of the deal have said the league, with annual revenues approaching $10 billion, was getting off lightly. They could raise objections at a fairness hearing scheduled for Nov. 19, and ultimately opt out of the settlement.
However, they would then face the risk of a protracted legal fight, and would have to prove any injuries were caused by NFL concussions and not any suffered in youth or college sports. The proposed NFL settlement had originally barred claimants from seeking a separate settlement against the NCAA, but that clause has been removed. A separate lawsuit is pending against the NCAA in Illinois.
"I think the judge has forced them to make improvements," said University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias, who teaches product liability law. "I think she always felt she had an obligation to the players, to be sure they were getting a fair deal . . . given the treatment to date."
The settlement would be capped at $4 million on behalf of players diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after their deaths, such as San Diego star Junior Seau or Pro Bowler Dave Duerson. Both of their families, through lawyers, have expressed concerns about the settlement. Duerson died at age 50. A family lawyer has called their projected $2.2 million award to the family "not adequate."
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Tuesday, 08 July 2014 10:57 AM


With four rounds to go until the end of the regular season, Fenerbahce is considered the favourite to return to the top of Europe for the second time in three years.
The 2017 EuroLeague champions have been the best and most consistent team in the competition so far. They became the fastest club to qualify for the playoffs in the history of the league, while they are close to earning the top spot on the table.
They have also secured the home-court advantage and are in a position of strength to reach the Final Four for a fifth straight season.
Fenerbahce head coach Zeljko Obradovic has once again created a very deep and talented roster, which consists of some of the best EuroLeague players.
Kostas Sloukas and Jan Vesely have been the backbones of the team and their presence is paramount for the squad's success. Concurrently, Nicolo Melli and Luigi Datome play at very high standards in every game, while Bobby Dixon is a game changer coming off the bench.
For his part, Nikola Kalinic is a defensive specialist, while Marko Guduric and Joffrey Lauvergne offer decent solutions on both ends of the floor. Even Erick Green has found his place in coach Obradovic's tactics, even though he is not considered the most consistent player.
Against Barcelona on Friday (15/03), Fenerbahce showed why they are the number one favourite to lift the trophy. Despite trailing until the middle of the fourth quarter (37-50, 66-76), the Turks closed the game on a 22-6 run to seal the deal (88-82).
Barcelona made a decent performance for almost 35 minutes, but Fenerbahce stepped up and turned things around, claiming a crucial victory at home.
Once again, coach Obradovic saw Sloukas lead the way (22 points, 11 assists), but the stellar performance of Dixon (19 points) and some crucial shots by Melli and Datome were also vital in the team's effort to remain competitive.
The Turkish team used a rather peculiar way to defeat the Catalans, as they tried 38 three-pointers along with an all-time low 19 two-pointers.
These 38 three-pointers were the most attempted by a team coached by Obradovic in the competition this century.
In addition, Fenerbahce can be equally productive defensively, too. The squad has the best defence in the entire league, conceding 74.4 points per game.
At the same time, the Turks have the highest two-point and three-point percentage among the 16 teams, with 58.89% and 44.52%, respectively. As a result, they are also on top in True Shooting, with 55.09%.
Furthermore, Fenerbahce has the fourth best offence, averaging 84.77 points per game, while the team is third in index rating (99.27) and assist-turnover ratio (159.61) and fourth in assists (19.85) and free-throw percentage (80%).
The aforementioned numbers show why the 2017 EuroLeague champions have dominated their opponents so far and are one step away from clinching the top spot in the standings.
Even though CSKA Moscow was initially considered the number one favourite by most betting websites in the UK, Fenerbahce has surpassed the Russians and now are the odds-on favourite to play in another Championship Game.
With that in mind, the question is whether there is any opponent (CSKA, Real Madrid, Anadolu Efes, for instance) that can stop coach Obradovic and his players from winning the second EuroLeague title in three years.
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Q: How To Fetch Email Ids Of My Facebook Friends I am trying to fetch the email ids of all my facebook friends from my android app. As of now I am able to fetch only the name and some facebook id. Please help me with your suggestions.

A: You can´t get the emails of friends. You can only get the email of users who authorized your App - with the email permission.
All friend permission have been removed with v2.0 of the Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog#v2_0
...but afaik it was never possible to get emails of friends.


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Q: How to look for repeated rows and then delete one of them? I was wondering if anyone knows how to delete repeated rows.. Say for example,
   A        B       C

1  1        3       4
2  2        6       9
3  TEST     1       2
4  TEST     1       2
5  Both     1
6  Hi               2
7  None     3       3
8  Loud     4       4

For the particular example above, TEST was repeated twice.. In some other cases, the name can be some other kinds such as NOON, Morning, etc.. And row 8 does not necessary be the last row.
I have no idea of how to compare the rows to check for repeated names and then delete them away. I need to run a macro with this and so i will need VBA. If you know it, please share it with me.. Will be thankful!
Attempt for codes:
Sub Macro1()
    Dim LastRow As Long, n As Long, rowstodelete As Long

    LastRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

    For n = 1 To LastRow

        With Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(n, 1)
            If .Cells(n, 1) = .Cells(n + 1, 1) Then
                rowstodelete = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(n, 1)
                Rows(rowstodelete).Select
                Selection.Delete Shift:=xlUp
            End If
        End With
    Next n
End Sub

Unfortunately, there were runtime error over at the .Cells(n, 1).. I have no idea why it is.. if you know something can share with me or modify it alittle. will be thankful!

A: It is recommended that when deleting rows, always do it in reverse mode. See this code. Also you do not need to select the cell before deleting. That will slow down your code :)
Sub Sample()
    Dim LastRowcheck As Long, n1 As Long

    With Worksheets("Sheet1")
        LastRowcheck = .Range("A" & .Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

        For n1 = LastRowcheck To 1 Step -1
            If .Cells(n1, 1).Value = Cells(n1 + 1, 1).Value Then
               .Rows(n1).Delete
            End If
        Next n1
    End With
End Sub

Here is an even better and faster way.
Sub Sample()
    Dim LastRowcheck As Long, n1 As Long
    Dim DelRange As Range

    With Worksheets("Sheet1")
        LastRowcheck = .Range("A" & .Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

        For n1 = 1 To LastRowcheck
            If .Cells(n1, 1).Value = Cells(n1 + 1, 1).Value Then
                If DelRange Is Nothing Then
                    Set DelRange = .Rows(n1)
                Else
                    Set DelRange = Union(DelRange, .Rows(n1))
                End If
            End If
        Next n1

        If Not DelRange Is Nothing Then DelRange.Delete
    End With
End Sub

FOLLOWUP

any idea why reverse row deletion is better? – franklin 29 secs ago

When you delete a row, your For loop messes up as you are targeting set number of rows. You have to then write extra line of code , as you did, to keep track of the rows that you deleted. It also slows down your code :) When you delete in reverse then you don't have to account for the deleted row as it falls out of the current running loop. This way your code is faster. But then like I mentioned above, if you are not using reverse row deletion then use the 2nd code that I gave. That is even faster.
One point that I would like to mention though. If you are using Excel 2007/2010 then the one line code that @brettdj suggested is the fastest :)

A: Manual
Bill Jelen's website offers three non-VBA techniques

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*All Versions: Use the Unique Option in Advanced Filter

*Xl 07/10: Use Conditional Formatting to Mark Duplicates

*Xl 07/10: Use Remove Duplicates icon

For (3) the equivalent VBA would be something like this (for no headers)
ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$C$100").RemoveDuplicates Columns:=1, Header:=xlNo

Handling existing duplicates
My free Duplicate Master addin will let you

*

*Select

*Colour

*List

*Delete

duplicates on either cells, entire rows (which appears to be your question) or certain columns in a row
But more importantly it will let you run more complex matching than exact strings, ie

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*Case Insensitive / Case Sensitive searches

*Trim/Clean data

*Remove all blank spaces (including CHAR(160))

*Run regular expression matches

*Match on any combination of columns (ie Column A, all columns, Column A&B etc)

A: I have attempted my code once again and it can work out well.. Thanks! I will share it here to answer similar questions in the future!
  Sub Macro1()

  Dim LastRowcheck As Long, n1 As Long, rowschecktodelete As Long

  LastRowcheck = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

  For n1 = 1 To LastRowcheck
    With Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(n1, 1)
      If Cells(n1, 1) = Cells(n1 + 1, 1) Then
        Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(n1, 1).Select
        Selection.EntireRow.Delete
     End If
   End With
  Next n1

  End Sub

A: Easiest way to do this in VBA (in 2007 or higher):
Worksheet("Sheet1").Range("A1").CurrentRegion.RemoveDuplicates(Array(1, 2, 3))
Depending on your worksheet layout you might need to adjust Range("A1").CurrentRegion to your data range...

A: I think we need to sort the data first before running this macro to remove the duplicates completely.


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Haven: Sci-Fi Co-op RPG About Interracial Lovers Launches In 2020 For Consoles, PC
February 20, 2019 February 20, 2019 OAG Staff
The Game Bakers announced that a brand new adventure game is on the way called Haven, which is about two lovers who make an escape from their world and venture into a completely new world where they must struggle against the inhabitants and find a haven in which they can learn to love each other through the turmoil of survival.
The game was announced with a teaser trailer featuring the two main characters flying across a red surface while creating grassy earth beneath them. Some house-synth plays in the back, which sounds very much like Danger's tracks from Furi, which had one of the best soundtracks in gaming back in 2016.
You can check out the teaser trailer below.
As The Game Bakers have noted on the Steam store page, this is not Furi 2. Although, something makes me think that maybe that counter-announcement could be a red herring and maybe this does tie into Furi 2? Or maybe I've just been led around by the nose too often by marketing from people like Hideo Kojima.
Anyway, Haven is an adventure RPG that will be released on home consoles and PC in 2020. The game will be a single-player game with the option to play co-op with a significant other.
The announcement briefly teases the dialogue system and the combat system, which appears to be turn-based like a traditional JRPG. We don't actually get to see much of the gameplay, but with a year to go before release there's plenty of time to explore that concept.
Most notably, however, is that the game's story centers around an interracial relationship between two star struck love birds.
It's rather obvious what sort of sociopolitical messaging is being presented in the game.
The entire premise centers around the two lovers escaping from their home world in order to find a new life together on a lost planet while they fight for their own survival and come to terms with their love.
It's a rather distinct message that has been echoed throughout a lot of media lately, including movies, music, and even commercials.
This kind of controversial take on storytelling hasn't always gone down well with the general public. Nevertheless, The Game Bakers, a French studio located in Montpellier, will try their hand at crafting a narrative around this concept, which many could very well classify as getting "woke".
We'll see how well it does when it releases in 2020 on PC and home consoles.
To follow the development of Haven you can visit the Steam store page.
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As mentioned in a previous post we spend our summer months at home to get away from humidity, bugs and hurricanes south of the border and head north to see family and friends and hopefully add a few shiny coins to the cruising kitty. We have two Duece and Half Military 6x6 tankers that we do summer contract work for wildland fires here in southern Oregon. As this summer approached the fear of large fires in our forests this summer was in high gear. At one point I heard that the fire danger was supposed to be 300% greater than anytime in the last 5 years.
Fires were rampant throughout Oregon and Washington this summer but here in southern Oregon we did not have one substantial fire. They were all very small and after speaking with the managers of each of the four districts that we are contracted with, not a single private contractor was hired in any of those districts. The rest of the state pretty much turned black this summer but southern Oregon is still green. Although we could have used the money working fires, it is a great blessing that our area dodged a major bullet this summer.
After sitting for most of the summer, Marne and I decided that we needed to earn some money somehow so we re-purposed the trucks and set about delivering water to rural property owners who needed water due to failing wells over the last several years of drought. We did not make a ton of money but learned the ropes and we will definitely use the new found knowledge that we gained in the water delivery business as we enter into next summer here at home waiting for fires.
That's a wrap on the summer. We are packed and ready to roll out Monday heading south through southern California and on to Mexico.
We have been here stateside for a little over 4 months now and it is getting close to the time to pack up, bug out and head south. According to Google Maps it is 1505 miles from home base here in southern Oregon to the Liahona based in San Carlos, Sonora Mexico. The drive can be done in 2 long days but recently I have made it a 3 day trip. This time around we plan to make it 4 days with stops in Huntington Beach, San Diego, Tucson then south across the border to SC.
Today found Marne and me packing up White Lightning, our trusty 1991 Honda Civic. Over the last 4 months we have accumulated quite a pile of stuff to bring down with us to the boat including a new windlass, two new deck hatches, new running rigging, LED Christmas lights, fishing gear, and a LOT more. Not to mention all of the provisions that we know we can't find in Mexico, not the least of which are several bags of premium coffee beans. The last items to be added to the load will be two brand new surfboards that I bought out of San Diego and we will pick them up on the way through and put them up on the roof rack.
We spent about 3 hours packing and repacking until we finally got every last item shoe horned into the not so spacious car. It is definitely loaded to gills and the suspension is slammed which will make it very slow going up the mountain passes out of the valley and then again going up the Grapevine on the approach into Los Angeles. The last time I went south the car was similarly loaded down and if I hit a bumpy section on the freeway doing 60 or 70 mph the muffler would drag and a slew of sparks would spew out from under the car. In Mexico they have long, rounded speed bumps just before you enter each little town. Those I had to cross diagonally in order to not get high centered. Doing so usually solicited negative responses from whatever vehicle was behind me as they were trying to figure out why I crossed over the bumps at a 45 degree angle and in the process used up both lanes. All part of the fun and adventure!
Departure day is set for Wednesday, Sept. 30th. It has been a long summer and we are both out of our minds excited to blow this pop stand and head to Mexico.
Pretty slammed but ready to roll south of the border.
That is about as much as this trunk can handle!
The back seat still has our two bags of clothes and personals to be loaded as well as the new ice maker...It will be full too!


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Princeton, NJ (Blawenburg)
About Princeton, NJ (Blawenburg)
Blawenburg median real estate price is $606,813, which is more expensive than 79.4% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey and 85.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Blawenburg is currently $2,666, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 80.3% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey.
Blawenburg is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Princeton, New Jersey.
Blawenburg real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) . Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Blawenburg neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
In Blawenburg, the current vacancy rate is 1.7%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 93.2% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Blawenburg is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
Notable & Unique: Length of Commute
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Blawenburg neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 18.4% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of all neighborhoods in America.
Executives, managers and professionals make up 78.1% of the workforce in the Blawenburg neighborhood which, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is a higher proportion of such high-level people than is found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America. For this reason, this neighborhood really stands out as unique.
If you come to know the people here, you will recognize that you're in the company of one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. In fact, a mere 1.0% of America's neighborhoods are wealthier than the Blawenburg neighborhood. Real estate here is exceedingly well-maintained, and similarly, tends to maintain its value over time. The cars driven are mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Lexus. If the public schools aren't up to snuff, the residents of this neighborhood preferentially send their children to private preparatory schools. Vacation to Disney? Yes, but equally popular are summers in Europe.
In addition, the rate of college educated adults in the Blawenburg neighborhood is a unique characteristic of the neighborhood. 81.5% of adults here have received at least a 4-year bachelor's degree, compared to the average neighborhood in America, which has 22.6% of the adults with a bachelor's degree. The rate here is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, if you are planning to retire in New Jersey, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, Blawenburg may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in New Jersey, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.3% of neighborhoods in NJ. If a New Jersey retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates and highly educated executives.
Finally, priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the Blawenburg neighborhood may actually hold the key. 65.4% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 14.1% of the Blawenburg neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 95.0% of America's neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Blawenburg neighborhood has more Armenian and Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry and 31.0% have Asian ancestry.
Blawenburg is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighbors in the Blawenburg neighborhood in Princeton are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 66.9% of America's neighborhoods.
In the Blawenburg neighborhood, 78.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 10.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (10.5%), and 2.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Blawenburg neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, Langs. of India, Spanish and Russian.
In the Blawenburg neighborhood in Princeton, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (31.0%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report German roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (8.4%), among others. In addition, 28.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Blawenburg neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (18.4%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (78.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (14.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
AGE OF Princeton, NJ (Blawenburg) HOMES
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Employment Industries in Blawenburg
in Blawenburg
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Princeton VIOLENT CRIMES
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District Quality Compared to New Jersey
Better than of NJ school districts.
Quality Rating Compared to NJ*
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Housing Affordability Trends: New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area
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Hillmer, Norman. "Herbert Cyril Thacker". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 15 December 2013, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/herbert-cyril-thacker. Accessed 19 April 2019.
Herbert Cyril Thacker, army officer (b at Poona, India 16 Sept 1870; d at Victoria 2 June 1953). Thacker, briefly chief of the general staff in 1927-28, was commissioned in the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1891.
Herbert Cyril Thacker, army officer (b at Poona, India 16 Sept 1870; d at Victoria 2 June 1953). Thacker, briefly chief of the general staff in 1927-28, was commissioned in the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1891. He fought in the SOUTH AFRICAN WAR and accompanied the Japanese army as military attaché during the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05, the first appointment of its kind for a Canadian officer. Thacker commanded divisional artilleries of the CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, 1915-19. He took the position of chief of the general staff reluctantly and despite ill health.


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Q: I want to make a Shiny app but I keep getting an error saying that an object can't be located It says "Error: Cannot open "Zipcodes_Poly"; The file doesn't seem to exist." The object is in my global environment and my working directory is properly set. Moreover, the code runs when I make a choropleth with the same object. I want to convert it into a shiny app in a script titled "server.R" but it keeps crashing. What could I be doing wrong?
#-----------------------------------#
# Server Script                     #
#                                   #
#-----------------------------------#

# This is the server logic for a Shiny web application.
# You can find out more about building applications with Shiny here:
#
# http://shiny.rstudio.com
#

#------------------------------------
# Beginning Shiny Code
#------------------------------------

# This line begins the shiny app

#-------------------------
# Maps
#-------------------------

 # Use these coordinates to center the map
# Load the required libraries
library(dplyr)
library(sf)
library(leaflet)

shinyServer(function(input, output) {

 # Read in the datasets
Zipcodes_Poly <- read_sf("Zipcodes_Poly")
place_data <- read.csv("place_data.csv")

# Create a grouping variable for the Risk column in place_data
place_data$group <- cut(place_data$Risk,
                        breaks = c(0, 25, 50, 75, 100),
                        labels = c("0-24", "25-49", "50-74", "75-98"))

# Perform a left join on the datasets based on the zip code
place_data$CODE <- as.character(place_data$CODE)
zip_merge <- left_join(Zipcodes_Poly, place_data, by = "CODE")

# Create the popup for each zip code polygon
zip_popup <- paste("Zip Code:", as.character(zip_merge$CODE),
                   "
",
                   "
Risk Index:
",
                   as.character(zip_merge$Risk),
                   "
Poverty:",
                   zip_merge$Poverty,
                   "
Education:",
                   zip_merge$Education,
                   "
Unemployment:",
                   zip_merge$Unemployment,
                   "
Crime:",
                   zip_merge$Crime,
                   "
ACEs:",
                   zip_merge$ACEs)

# Color the zip code polyggons based on the grouping variable
nicecolors <- colorFactor(c("#FBDA93", "#F39953", "#DF5258", "#C63542"),
                          zip_merge$group)

# Create the leaflet map object
map <- leaflet(Zipcodes_Poly) %>%
  fitBounds(-124, 34, -62, 40) %>%
  addProviderTiles("CartoDB.Positron") %>%
  addPolygons(stroke = TRUE, smoothFactor = 0.2, fillOpacity = .8,
              color = ~nicecolors(group))

# output the map
 output$map <- renderLeaflet(map)

 })

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Funding threatens young photographer Kgomotso Tleane's future
By Karabo Ledwaba - 09 March 2018 - 14:50
Kgomotso Neto Tleane
Young photographer Kgomotso Neto Tleane is once again faced with the possibility of having to put his dreams on hold due to lack of funds.
Tleane who was forced to drop out in his third year of law school at the University of Johannesburg, could miss out on an opportunity to learn from industry greats in New York if his fundraising efforts do not bear fruit.
The Alexandra-born photographer has been chosen to attend the New York Portfolio Review.
The event, taking place in April, is an opportunity for photographers to come together and have their work reviewed by successful people in the industry. The photographers will have a chance to network with industry creatives, art gallery owners and other up and coming photographers.
"It's a big deal for a photographer," he says.
Tleane is one of 160 photographers to be picked from over 3000 applicants from all corners of the world.
"A friend of mine from Nigeria, who is also a photographer, attended the review last year. He encouraged me to apply this year. I didn't think I would get in and I almost missed the deadline", he says.
Although excited about going to New York, the lack of funds for the expenses has been an issue for Tleane. He is now selling print copies of his work to raise the funds.
"The review doesn't pay for the ticket or accommodation but I have been receiving a lot of support. Some people have been willing to donate, Mikey on twitter wrote a thread about me that went viral. Besides money, people are also being emotionally supportive", he said.
The young photographer is most excited about his positive portrayal of black people, and black spaces being exposed to the global community. He also hopes to inspire young people from backgrounds such as his.
He wants to be an example of a successful creative that they can look up to.
Visit Tleane's website here for donations and to view his work.
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SOURCE: Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Lufthansa Group airlines raise number of passengers to 12.5 million in April 2019
Number of passengers rises by 3.0 percent year-on-year
Capacity utilisation up by 2.0 percentage points to 83.3 per cent
Strongest passenger growth at Vienna hub
In April 2019, the Lufthansa Group airlines welcomed 12,5 million passengers. This shows an increase of 3.0 percent compared to the previous year's month. The available seat kilometres were up 4.0 percent over the previous year, at the same time, sales increased by 6.5 percent. In addition as compared to April 2018, the seat load factor rose by 2.0 percentage points to 83.3 percent.
Cargo capacity increased by 9.3 percent year-on-year, while cargo sales decreased by 4.2 percent in revenue tonne-kilometre terms. As a result, the Cargo load factor showed a corresponding reduction, decreasing by 8.4 percentage points to 59.3 percent.
Network Airlines with more than 9.3 million passengers
The Network Airlines including Lufthansa German Airlines, SWISS and Austrian Airlines carried more than 9.3 million passengers in April – 5.0 percent more than in the prior-year period. Compared to the previous year, the available seat kilometres increased by 4.1 percent in April. The sales volume was up by 6.7 percent over the same period, with an increasing seat load factor by 2.0 percentage points to 83.3 percent.
In April, the strongest passenger growth of the network airlines was recorded at the Vienna hub with 5.9 percent. The number of passengers increased by 4.3 percent in Frankfurt and Zurich each, in Munich they increased by 2.6 percent. The underlying offer also increased to varying degrees: in Vienna by 6.8 percent, in Munich by 6.2 percent, in Zurich by 4.6 percent and in Frankfurt by 1.9 percent.
Lufthansa German Airlines transported more than 6.2 million passengers in April, a 4.9 percent increase compared to the same month last year. A 3.6 percent increase in seat kilometres corresponds to a 6.4 percent increase in sales. The seat load factor rose by 2.2 percentage points to 82.9 per cent.
Eurowings increases supply and sales
Eurowings (including Brussels Airlines) carried around 3.2 million passengers in April. Among this total, 2.9 million passengers were on short-haul flights and around 300,000 flew on long-haul flights. This corresponds to a reduction of 2.3 per cent compared with the previous year, resulting from a reduction of 4.1 per cent on short-haul flights and an increase of 19.1 per cent on long-haul flights. April capacity was 3.4 percent above its prior-year level, while its sales volume was up 5.8 percent, resulting in an increase of seat load factor by 1.9 percentage points to 83.1 percent.
In April, the number of seat-kilometres offered on short-haul routes was decreased by 3.4 per cent, while the number of seat-kilometres sold decreased by 0.6 per cent over the same period. This results in a seat load factor of 82.6 per cent, which is 2.3 percentage points higher on these flights. On long-haul flights, the seat load factor increased by 0.8 percentage points to 84.1 per cent over the same period. The 18.0 per cent increase in capacity was offset by a 19.1 per cent increase in sales.
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Bing has had a relationship with Facebook since 2008, and it has just become more involved. The latest announcement regarding Bing's relationship to Facebook appeared on Bing's blog on the 5th of this month.
This is an exciting time for us as we continue to work with Facebook on great new experiences for customers. As you know, Bing has been very focused on helping customers make important decisions. We believe that counsel from family and friends can be a big part of that process. Going deeper in web search experiences with Facebook, in addition to the collaboration we announced last October about bringing public data from Facebook's API into the search experience, will enable us to do great things together for our customers.
By providing Facebook with its websearch functionality, Bing can get around the strong Google brand, and get its search tools in front of people where they already are, rather than attempting to change existing habits the hard way. Bing's features are comparable to what Google provides through their search experience, and Bing's intent to become a decision engine and their integration of Wolfram Alpha has a lot of potential.
When you stop and consider the social networks that Microsoft is already heavily invested in, working with Facebook makes a lot of sense. The quote: "…bringing public data from Facebook's API into the search experience…" is interesting in what it points to. Google is leveraging their own social data through Gmail, Google Reader, etc, to further enhance their own search results, and to provide a better ad product.
How Bing will use the data is collects from Facebook will be very interesting. As a recommendation engine, Facebook is incredibly effective, and the volume of data that they collect is very cool, or very scary, depending on your views. Data mining how links, information, video and photos are shared, tagged and recommended would be invaluable for Bing. Between these announcements and the development of Google Social, search will be a very different place in five years time, at the latest.
It is very silly to write off Microsoft too quickly. While they did release Vista and they have gone through anti-trust litigation, they still have considerable resources, and large companies can still be creative and agile.


Lauren Wasser, right, with double amputee athlete Amy Purdy, left.
Model Lauren Wasser lost her left leg after surviving tampon-related toxic shock syndrome (TSS) back in 2012.
On January 11, she had her other leg amputated because of lingering complications.
Before the surgery, Wasser wrote on Instagram that she was "in great spirits."
Model Lauren Wasser made headlines across the world in 2012, when a case of tampon-related toxic shock syndrome (TSS) left her without her right leg and left toes.
On January 11, the 29-year-old had a surgery to amputate her left leg, according to a series of Instagram photos posted by Wasser's partner.
The amputation had been planned for a while. Back in November, Wasser wrote an op-ed for Instyle.com revealing that the loss of her left leg was inescapable.
"I'm in daily excruciating pain," she wrote. "I have a golden [prosthetic] leg that I am completely proud of, but my left foot that has an open ulcer, no heel, and no toes [...] In a few months, I'm inevitably going to have my other leg amputated."
In an Instagram post from January 8, Wasser shared a brief pre-surgery message with her followers, writing, "Life is about to be so different, again! I'm in great spirits though and ready for my next chapter."
Over the past week, Wasser's partner, photographer Jennifer Rovero, posted Instagram photos and video that show the model with her left leg amputated and bandaged.
"Surgery was January 11th at 7:30 a.m. It's now January 16th at 1:45 p.m. and my babe is doing great," Rovero wrote in a caption of one post. "There's moments of muscle cramping and nerve pain but despite all of that she's getting up!"
After the surgery, Wasser got a visit from double amputee snowboarder Amy Purdy. The two posed for photos together on Wasser's hospital bed.
"Thank you for showing me that life is only going to get better and that I have so much life to live," Wasser wrote on Instagram.
In the years since her harrowing brush with TSS, Wasser has used her platform to warn women about its dangers. But it's important to put her story in context.
TSS happens when certain types of bacteria produce a dangerous toxin that can send the body into shock and make our vital organs fail, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It can be treated, but it may be fatal in up to 50% of cases, the NIH reports.
Prolonged tampon use can create the perfect environment for these bacteria to flourish — but tampons aren't the only way people get TSS. It can also happen after childbirth, when using certain birth control devices like a diaphragm, and in people who have burns, post-surgery wounds, and other inflammatory conditions, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders.
Today, tampon use is linked to less than half of call TSS cases, according to NIH, and the disease is very rare overall. The Cleveland Clinic reports that the incidence of period-related TSS is roughly one case per 100,000 menstruating women.
Still, Wasser's story is a powerful reminder that when TSS happens, it's serious.
To lower the risk of TSS, use tampons with the lowest absorbency required for your flow, alternate between tampons and pads when you can, change your tampons every four to eight hours, and don't use tampons when you don't have your period, the Cleveland Clinic notes.
It's also important to be aware of TSS symptoms. They include confusion; diarrhea; feeling generally sick; headaches; fever and/or chills; muscle aches; nausea and vomiting; red eyes, mouth, or throat; and a red rash that looks like a sunburn and peels after one or two weeks, according to the NIH. Get immediate medical help if you develop a fever or rash and feel ill after using a tampon.


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Laura Toropainen
How we got through the first wave of COVID19 without compromising New Things Co Values.
The first wave of COVID 19 hit Finland, and the world, pretty hard - as we all know. Most people and companies had to re-evaluate how they work, make savings, and cope with drastic changes in people's personal lives.
Our company was no exception, and we got sidelined - hard. The effects on our company started in March.
In a nutshell, this is what happened:
Our biggest client closed doors on us.
Business projections were grim, foreseeing losses that could cripple our company.
The lockdown forced 95% of our employees to work solely from home.
Our internal happiness stats went down by almost 30%.
In the news, we saw that a lot of companies started to furlough staff and make layoffs, which would have been the easy way out. After all, personnel costs have the biggest impact especially in a consulting company with fixed monthly salaries like ours.
However, furloughing goes against our core values; empathy, transparency and curiosity. It's truly a moment of crisis when those values are put to the test. Our team was determined that we could not follow this route.
Together with everyone in our employe, we started to look for and internally discussing other solutions that would prevent us from following the grim trend of letting staff go. We cut costs wherever we could, sodas and beer, office supplies, performing audits to get rid of redundant licenses. However, the biggest savings-wise impact was found with our holiday arrangements.
If you have asked yourself "why does HR need to know my holidays in advance?", here's one potential reason. We saved approximately 50,000€ by allowing people to exchange holiday bonuses for extra holidays and more by doing meticulous planning of the holiday season.
In addition, we put the teams' heads together and our full force into sales - but alas, our sales also stalled. Our usual closing rate dropped significantly and the number of leads coming in was so much smaller than usual. You could almost smell the fear affecting the whole economy.
Nevertheless, our sales hustle was on fire and for the month of March and April, together we pushed through to find leads, make proposals and drag them to the finish with everything we had.
How did we do then - you might ask? By May we made one of the best months in our history in terms of revenue and closed on a couple of fantastic projects so that nearly everyone in our company was off the bench.
By coming together to pull on the same rope and thanks to the heroic team efforts, we also saw a huge growth in the happiness numbers, which were likely also affected by the looming holidays and sunny weather.
With a little careful optimism, we might be able to say that we will make it through this crisis. But as it goes for everyone else in the world right now, we are not out of the woods just yet. Although we are now definitely able to focus more on the future instead of reacting to the immediate.
In September things seem to almost be back to normal and as a small company, we are able to have people in the office together, which makes a huge difference for those who value working with others and the community in general.
We are also now back to growing our team once again and are enthusiastically contacting all people who are looking to make a jump to a more people focused company.
If you want to work for a company that doesn't waive their values even in a crisis, check out our available careers and drop us a message. Speak soon.
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Deficit Round Robin (DRR), also Deficit Weighted Round Robin (DWRR), is a scheduling algorithm for the network scheduler. DRR is, like weighted fair queuing (WFQ), a packet-based implementation of the ideal Generalized Processor Sharing (GPS) policy. It was proposed by M. Shreedhar and G. Varghese in 1995 as an efficient (with O(1) complexity) and fair algorithm.

Details
In DRR, a scheduler handling N flows is configured with one quantum  for each flow. This global idea is that, at each round, the flow  can send at most  bytes, and the remaining, if any, is reported to the next round. In this way, the minimum rate that flow  will achieve over a long term is ; where  is the link rate.

Algorithm
The DRR scans all non-empty queues in sequence. When a non-empty queue  is selected, its deficit counter is incremented by its quantum value. Then, the value of the deficit counter is a maximal number of bytes that can be sent at this turn: if the deficit counter is greater than the packet's size at the head of the queue (HoQ), this packet can be sent, and the value of the counter is decremented by the packet size. Then, the size of the next packet is compared to the counter value, etc. Once the queue is empty or the value of the counter is insufficient, the scheduler will skip to the next queue. If the queue is empty, the value of the deficit counter is reset to 0.

 Variables and Constants
     const integer N             // Nb of queues
     const integer Q[1..N]       // Per queue quantum
     integer DC[1..N]            // Per queue deficit counter
     queue queue[1..N]           // The queues

 Scheduling Loop
 while true do
     for i in 1..N do
         if not queue[i].empty() then
             DC[i]:= DC[i] + Q[i]
             while( not queue[i].empty() and
                          DC[i] ≥ queue[i].head().size() ) do
                 DC[i] := DC[i] − queue[i].head().size()
                 send( queue[i].head() )
                 queue[i].dequeue()
             end while
             if queue[i].empty() then
                 DC[i] := 0
             end if
         end if
     end for
 end while

Performances: fairness, complexity, and latency

Like other GPS-like scheduling algorithm, the choice of the weights is left to the network administrator.

Like WFQ, DRR offers a minimal rate to each flow whatever the size of the packets is. In weighted round robin scheduling, the fraction of bandwidth used depend on the packet's sizes.

Compared with WFQ scheduler that has complexity of O(log(n)) (n is the number of active flows/queues), the complexity of DRR is O(1), if the quantum  is larger than the maximum packet size of this flow. Nevertheless, this efficiency has a cost: the latency, i.e., the distance to the ideal GPS, is larger in DRR than in WFQ. More on the worst-case latencies can be found here.

Implementations

An implementation of the deficit round robin algorithm was written by Patrick McHardy for the Linux kernel and published under the GNU General Public License.

In Cisco and Juniper routers, modified versions of DRR are implemented: since the latency of DRR can be larger for some class of traffic, these modified versions give higher priority to some queues, whereas the others are served with the standard DRR algorithm.

See also
 Scheduling algorithm
 Fair Queuing
 Generalized processor sharing
 Weighted Fair Queuing
 Weighted round robin
 Fairness measure

Notes

References

External links
 UC Berkeley EE122 lecture: Efficient fair queueing using deficit round robin

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Renata is a multidisciplinary artist whose artistic expressions are large format drawing, paintings, installations, immersive pieces - drawing, painting and sculpture and digital works.
All her most recent work in painting, drawing, sculpture and installation derive from reflections on camouflage dating back to 2003 with the Iraq invasion. This opened in her a profound need to explore the genre of landscape as an otherworldly setting constructed with what seem elusive fragments of memories.
Renata uses elements of landscape as signifiers while knocking at the door of the collective subconscious. Renata's landscapes are set usually in settings with a static narrative, devoid of people, all while Renata searches for a "Menacing Beauty": as attractive as uneasy, mesmerising as it is broody that lets us believe there is something intangible behind the foliage that could be distinctly unfriendly.
Renata uses painting as the starting point for many other artistic expressions. She is very invested in hand-intensive process and with her interaction with materials. Renata is drawn to emphasise the inherent materiality of her work, as she is always looking to develop the sculptural possibilities of her art.
Fernandez studied in Caracas Fine Art in the Armando Reveron University Institute (UNEARTE), and Social Sciences, Media and Drama in Universidad Catolica Andres Bello.
In 2021 Renata recently showed at 'First Batch of Tarts", Tart Gallery London / Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition. She showed at Women's Lockdown Art Exhibition, Zabludowicz Collection, London. With BOS Gallery, Dublin in several group shows during the first lockdown. Was selected for AMALGAMA in its first edition in 2019. Showed in Maddox Arts in Mayfair as part of HER NATURE (2017) among other exhibitions there. Fernandez was selected for the Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2016 and 2018, Mall Galleries. Her latest solo show was TROPICO CAMUFLADO in the Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (2013-14). Her work is in several private collections worldwide.
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By Sabah Karimi January 18, 2017 Start a Business
Venturing into the world of entrepreneurship can be exciting. But, the early days of a business are also the time when your venture is most vulnerable to failure. About 25 percent of startups fail within the first year, and 50 percent fail within the first four years, according to figures from Statistic Brain.
Several hidden traps can cause startups to fall short within a few years — or months. If you are just starting out, make sure to avoid these common business mistakes.
Neglecting Market Research
You'll have plenty of ideas during the launch phase, and coming up with brilliant ideas is part of startup culture. However, many of those ideas will be difficult to execute. Undertake some market research to determine whether you are moving into a profitable space or a saturated market, and whether you are just chasing a fleeting idea.
Guidelines for successful market research are pretty much the same around the world, and the Government of Western Australia's Small Business Development Corporation has some good suggestions:
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Identify potential customers
Learn about existing customer segments
Understand your competitors
Identify any pricing and promotion opportunities
The development corporation urges you to have a system in place to collect and analyze data so you can make informed decisions about your business venture. Without this type of data and information, it will be difficult to keep up with customer needs and the demands of the market. That can result in business failure.
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Being Too Optimistic
It's good for entrepreneurs to have an optimistic outlook, but don't ignore red flags that can lead to business failure. The book "Write Your Business Plan" — written by the staff of Entrepreneur Media — emphasizes the importance of looking for errors in your business plan to avoid presenting "an overly optimistic view, especially of such elements as sales, cost, and profit margins."
Startups typically rely heavily on projections and forecasts during the launch phase. During this process, it's important to take a conservative stance and not always expect the best. Such a sober-minded analysis can prevent you from falling victim to the biggest business mistakes, such as depending on a skewed vision that might never come to fruition.
Hiring the Wrong People
You need a strong team to build your business and take it to new heights. Hiring the right people is critical to your success. Neglecting to review resumes in detail, forgetting to conduct background checks or failing to ask for references are startup mistakes that can have a negative impact on your business now and in the long run.
Make a list of traits you want in each employee so you can look for signs of these characteristics during the job interview. Consider a candidate's personality as well as his experience, because he will work with a team of peers and need to be somewhat social to adapt to the environment easily. You can also work with a recruiter who can do the legwork to find the strongest candidates for a given position.
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Believing There Is No Competition
Even if you're the first to market or have stumbled into an untapped niche, there's no guarantee you'll be leading the way for long. If you're just starting out, you probably do not have a lot of intellectual property, patents and trademarks — or even a proven business model — in your hands.
So even if you have a so-called "first-mover advantage," any large company with a bigger budget and more resources can replicate your idea or business plan relatively quickly. That company can take the lead on anything you have already created and turn itself into your biggest competitor.
In fact, 72 percent of startup founders said their initial intellectual property was not a competitive advantage, according to the Startup Genome Report, co-authored by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. So, if you're the first to turn your hobby into a business, don't get comfortable just yet.
Work with the mindset that your competition is already out there. That viewpoint can help you make intelligent decisions that will protect your company, ideas and vision. Perform research to keep tabs on competitors and learn from them.
Scaling Too Soon
Seventy-four percent of high-growth internet startups fail because of premature scaling, according to Compass, which provides automated management reports and benchmarks for small- and medium-sized online merchants. On the other hand, startups that scale properly grow about 20 times faster than those that scale prematurely, Compass said.
Recently funded companies that attempt to grow by spending money too quickly might find themselves backtracking to recover those expenses. Instead, invest time and resources into generating revenue. The smartest thing you can do with funding is to continue generating revenue without increasing expenses significantly.
Owning your own business is exciting, but remain calm and focused when trying to grow your venture. Don't scale up and spend more to spur growth until you've built a solid foundation and have reached a point of consistency in revenue per month, or per quarter. Scaling prematurely can set you back and leave you falling behind as you scramble to keep up with bills and stay ahead of the competition.
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