Hydrology Research (2010) 41 (3-4): 346-354.
The deposition of sediment in the inundated floodplains of rivers, particularly in their deltas, improves the water quality of the rivers themselves and of their receivers. It would be very useful if ways to increase the amount of sediment deposition could be identified. An investigation into a number of possibilities was carried out in the delta of the River Nemunas. Various factors can influence the increase or decrease of sediment deposition, e.g. the increase of water discharge flowing through the river valley, the growth of bushes on the floodplain, the building of road banks across the valley and changes in growth stages of grass (which affect its ability to entrap sediments). The effects of these factors are discussed, and the most successful ways for improvement in the Nemunas delta are proposed. Similar methods may also be applicable in other river deltas.


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Outspoken atheists hope to stem the influence of Christianity
The polls repeatedly show that the United States is a religious country, with 90 percent of Americans saying they believe in God or a supreme being and more than 40 percent saying they attend religious services each week.
But there is another group, much smaller and less-often heard from: unbelievers. In recent months, in books and on a sold-out off-Broadway stage, these religious skeptics have been raising their voices.
In the one-woman off-Broadway show Letting Go of God, for example, Julia Sweeney, the former Saturday Night Live star, tells the audience: "This Old Testament God makes the grizzliest test to people's loyalty. Like when he asks Abraham to murder his son Isaac -- as a kid we were taught to admire it. I caught my breath reading it.
"What kind of sadistic test of loyalty is that, to ask someone to kill his or her own child -- and isn't the proper answer, 'No'?"
She is just as hard on the New Testament.
"It was really hard to stay on Jesus' side when he started saying really aggressive, just hateful things," she said. "In Matthew he says, 'I come not to bring peace but a sword.'"
Equally harsh on religion is evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, whose book The God Delusion currently occupies the No. 1 spot on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list for religion titles. Dawkins argues that there is no evidence for a creator and is among the best known -- and surely also among the most strident -- of modern atheists.
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction," Dawkins said at recent book signing in Washington. "A petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak. A vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser. A misogynistic, homophobic, racist, malevolent bully."
He was a little kinder to the late Pope John Paul II.
"He suffered an assassination attempt in Rome and attributed his survival to the intervention of Our Lady of Fatima," Dawkins told the audience. "A maternal hand guided the bullet. One cannot help wondering why she didn't guide it to miss him altogether."
While much of the renewed militant atheism comes as a reaction to the strident rhetoric of the religious right, theologian Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School said he thinks Dawkins is behaving just like those he criticizes.
"I think of Richard Dawkins as the kind of Jerry Falwell of the atheists," Cox told the PBS program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. "He takes the most narrow and the most legalistic side of religion and makes that religion -- and then he's against it."
Another religious skeptic, neuroscientist Sam Harris, has written two books emphasizing what he sees as the lack of evidence supporting religion: The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation.
"The usefulness of religion, the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good, is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine," Harris said.
"Faith," he added in a recent speech, "is really the license that reasonable people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail."
Cox, however, thinks the scientists miss the point, arguing that unlike the material world, God is unprovable.
"It's when they step over and scientists say, 'There isn't any God because, look, we can't prove him.' Well, the canons of proof are not applicable to that question, and it's not something that can be proved or disproved."
The religious skeptics say that religion is not the only source for morality and ethics.
"If religion were the only durable foundation for morality, you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved," Harris said. "You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon."
Paul Kurtz, one of the nation's leading secular humanists and head of the Center for Inquiry, puts the emphasis differently.
"Secular humanists are defined not by what they are against -- we are not naysayers -- but what we are for. And we are for a humanistic world in which some of the basic human values and principles have an opportunity to be realized," he said.
The center has opened a Washington, D.C., office to counter what it sees as faith-driven public policy, especially the federal ban on funding embryonic stem cell research and the ongoing attacks on the teaching of evolution.
"We are concerned with the fundamentalist religion everywhere," Kurtz told a recent news conference in Washington, "and their alliance with political ideological movements to block science."
Cox said that, on balance, he welcomes the challenge from the current crop of atheists.
Atheism "always makes a comeback, I think, when religious people get too arrogant," he said. "When they begin to look as though or speak as though they know it all. When they begin to impose themselves in ways that are unwelcome to other people in society. Then atheism is kind of, for me, a welcomed critique of this arrogance."
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Now we come to the importance of walking in the Spirit and growing in the Lord. We cannot say we abide in God when we are absorbed by our fleshly appetite and deeds; many fail to walk in the Spirit thereby depriving themselves of Spiritual growth. If we are to grow in the Spirit we must understand in God there is no darkness and if we say we have fellowship with God and continue in darkness (sin) we become liars unto ourselves and the truth is not in us.
"This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us." (1st John 1:5-10).
We must develop an understanding of the entire Testimony of Yeshua Hamashiach (Jesus Christ) if we are to understand God's grace and mercy. There are many today that fail to understand that we do not continue in knowing we are in sin and willfully sin, sin separate us from God, this is why Yeshua (Jesus) came, to reconcile us to God, as long as we continue in the faith. If we fail to repent of willful sin, we will fall under the judgement of God and we will be consumed by the fire of God, (Hebrews 10:26-31).
Yeshua (Jesus) came to set us free from sin, not that we should continue in willful sin. The Gospel of Jesus Christ has been watered down by those that fail to understand the truth of the salvation message and fail to teach our walk with God must be in truth and in holiness. The tradition of men has robbed us of the truth of God and of Yeshua (Jesus). Understand, Yeshua gives those that abide in him power to overcome the flesh and power to overcome the world. Our power comes when we accept Christ, abide in Christ by obey the word of God. We must receive understanding of truth and light from God through the Holy Spirit and not from man unless that man is truly speaking by the Spirit.


Red Carpet Life resulted from a conversation between friends desiring to put their love into action.
Founded by Cindy Keating and Renae Kulhawe, the two friends believe it's not what you say you believe that matters; it's what you do with your belief.
Love in action is what changes the world.
Seeing the importance of teaching their children that loving people and serving others deeply matters, but that it's hard to make time in our already busy schedules, Cindy and Renae created an easy solution to help people rally together to serve and love their communities: 1 day of service, 4 times a year.
Since its initial event, people from all walks of life have rallied together to join the efforts.
Red Carpet Life is about giving spotlight to love in action.
The first Red Carpet Life chapter launched in Kelowna, BC, Canada, in the Fall of 2017.
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Indigenous culture through an Indigenous lens
by Lexi Wright February 4, 2018 September 4, 2020
Many people will say that there's nothing as scary in film photography as shooting street photography. It's adventurous, difficult and unpredictable. What was once the most accredited form of photography has been quietly pushed aside by today's high-tech digital sensors — but not for photographer Soloman Chiniquay.
Chiniquay currently resides in Vancouver but spent most of his life on the Morley, Alta. reserve. He became interested in film photography around 16 years old, the same time he picked up an interest in movies.
"I've always worked in commercial photography, but a friend got me into 16mm film. I got hooked on that and started shooting film ever since. I used street photography to practice my skills but then I ended up liking street photography more than anything else," says Chiniquay.
Chiniquay is currently working on a long-term project documenting as many Indigenous reserves as possible through the lens of his film camera.
The Bearspaw Chiniki Elder's Lodge stands desolate on a cold winter day. Shot in Morley, Alta. Photo by Soloman Chiniquay.
"I want to try document the culture and the people. There are a lot of documentary projects centered around Indigenous peoples, but not really from an Indigenous perspective. I want to preserve my culture and present things from a more Indigenous view."
Photographing children has proven to produce some of his most memorable images.
"Childhood on reserves is different from most of Western society. For children living on a reserve, your parents leave you to your own devices, specifically for boys. After the age of four you're basically on your own. It sounds bad but it's actually really interesting and it's been a positive experience for me. Childhood is something that resonates with me."
"One time my little brother and his friends wrote some horribly offensive things on a sign. They were so little and didn't even understand what they were writing. It was just so interesting to see different reactions to social norms."
Chiniquay says that capturing social and political activism is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding parts of his documentary work. Shot at the NODAPL march in November of 2016 in Calgary, Alta. Photo by Soloman Chiniquay.
In terms of trying to document his own reserve, Chiniquay says it can be difficult at times but he has developed an approach to overcome any unforeseen challenges.
"I always come from a place of respect and I don't usually just show up and start photographing. I usually wait until I'm part of the situation. On the street, I normally just jump into whatever action I see, but it's certainly a different process on the reserve."
The immediate gratification that comes with digital photography is part of the reason Chiniquay chooses to shoot film.
"I try not to leave my house without my camera. My main camera is actually broken, but that's the way I like it. The lens on it is fine, but the only thing I am able to change is the film speed. Generally I'm super technical — but throwing away those technicalities makes photography more challenging for me," says Chiniquay.
Chiniquay says he is more inspired to take photographs of places that appear mysterious and abandonded. Shot in Morley, Alta. Photo by Soloman Chiniquay.
A gallery of Chiniquay's photographs focusing on reconciliation will be featured on Feb. 7 at Mount Royal University as part of Exposure Festival 2018, alongside other installments. Chiniquay says his next steps are to continue photographing as many things as possible and as often as he can.
"Publishing my work in a book or a monograph would be the end goal. That's where I see myself going, but I have no idea what my future holds. It's exciting because I never know where my work is going to end up or who is going to feel inspired by it."
lwright@cjournal.ca
Editor: Sarah Allen | sallen@cjournal.ca
How one Calgary-based photographer uses her work to connect with her culture
Video: How film photography is making a comeback in a digital world
Time for a new lens: The hidden racism behind photography
by Lexi Wright, Calgary Journal

Indigenous culture through an Indigenous lens

by Lexi Wright, Calgary Journal
February 4, 2018

 Many people will say that there's nothing as scary in film photography as shooting street photography. It's adventurous, difficult and unpredictable. What was once the most accredited form of photography has been quietly pushed aside by today's high-tech digital sensors — but not for photographer Soloman Chiniquay.

Chiniquay currently resides in Vancouver but spent most of his life on the Morley, Alta. reserve. He became interested in film photography around 16 years old, the same time he picked up an interest in movies.

"I've always worked in commercial photography, but a friend got me into 16mm film. I got hooked on that and started shooting film ever since. I used street photography to practice my skills but then I ended up liking street photography more than anything else," says Chiniquay.

Chiniquay is currently working on a long-term project documenting as many Indigenous reserves as possible through the lens of his film camera.

The Bearspaw Chiniki Elder's Lodge stands desolate on a cold winter day. Shot in Morley, Alta. Photo by Soloman Chiniquay.

"I want to try document the culture and the people. There are a lot of documentary projects centered around Indigenous peoples, but not really from an Indigenous perspective. I want to preserve my culture and present things from a more Indigenous view."

Photographing children has proven to produce some of his most memorable images.

"Childhood on reserves is different from most of Western society. For children living on a reserve, your parents leave you to your own devices, specifically for boys. After the age of four you're basically on your own. It sounds bad but it's actually really interesting and it's been a positive experience for me. Childhood is something that resonates with me."

"One time my little brother and his friends wrote some horribly offensive things on a sign. They were so little and didn't even understand what they were writing. It was just so interesting to see different reactions to social norms."

Chiniquay says that capturing social and political activism is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding parts of his documentary work. Shot at the NODAPL march in November of 2016 in Calgary, Alta. Photo by Soloman Chiniquay.

In terms of trying to document his own reserve, Chiniquay says it can be difficult at times but he has developed an approach to overcome any unforeseen challenges.

"I always come from a place of respect and I don't usually just show up and start photographing. I usually wait until I'm part of the situation. On the street, I normally just jump into whatever action I see, but it's certainly a different process on the reserve."

The immediate gratification that comes with digital photography is part of the reason Chiniquay chooses to shoot film.

"I try not to leave my house without my camera. My main camera is actually broken, but that's the way I like it. The lens on it is fine, but the only thing I am able to change is the film speed. Generally I'm super technical — but throwing away those technicalities makes photography more challenging for me," says Chiniquay.

Chiniquay says he is more inspired to take photographs of places that appear mysterious and abandonded. Shot in Morley, Alta. Photo by Soloman Chiniquay.

A gallery of Chiniquay's photographs focusing on reconciliation will be featured on Feb. 7 at Mount Royal University as part of Exposure Festival 2018, alongside other installments. Chiniquay says his next steps are to continue photographing as many things as possible and as often as he can.

"Publishing my work in a book or a monograph would be the end goal. That's where I see myself going, but I have no idea what my future holds. It's exciting because I never know where my work is going to end up or who is going to feel inspired by it."

 lwright@cjournal.ca

Editor: Sarah Allen | sallen@cjournal.ca

This article first appeared on Calgary Journal and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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El Carretera Panafricana, también conocida como la  Carretera Cairo-Ciudad del Cabo es la Carretera Transafricana 4 (TAH 4) (en inglés: Cape to Cairo Road, Pan-African Highway y Greath North Road), es parte del proyecto de la Red de Carreteras Transafricanas que actualmente se encuentra siendo desarrollada por la Comisión Económica de las Naciones Unidas para África, el Banco Africano de Desarrollo y la Unión Africana. La ruta cubre una distancia de 10.228 km.

El proyecto inicial, diseñado por Cecil Rhodes a petición del Imperio británico, era atravesar África de norte a sur, uniendo El Cairo y Ciudad del Cabo. Se previó que enlazara las principales ciudades coloniales británicas en el continente; además de los dos puntos últimos, Johannesburgo, Pretoria, Harare (entonces llamada Salisbury), Lusaka, Nairobi y Jartum. Mucho tiempo después, se prevé su finalización dentro de la Red de Carreteras Transafricanas.

El primer intento de hacer la ruta en un vehículo motorizado fue el del capitán Kelsey en 1913 y 1914, inconcluso debido a la muerte de Kelsey en Rodesia en las garras de un leopardo. El primer intento exitoso fue el de Chaplin Court Treatt, entre 1924 y 1926.

Historia
Hacia 1890, el Imperio británico planeó una carretera que se extendería de norte a sur del continente africano, pasando por las colonias británicas de la época, como la Unión de Sudáfrica, Rhodesia del Norte, Rhodesia del Sur, Nyasalandia, Kenia, Sudán y Egipto. El camino crearía cohesión entre las colonias y le daría a Gran Bretaña la influencia política y económica más importante y dominante sobre el continente, asegurando su posición como potencia colonial global. La carretera también uniría algunas de las ciudades más importantes del continente, como Ciudad del Cabo, Johannesburgo, Pretoria, Harare (entonces Salisbury), Lusaka, Nairobi, Jartum y El Cairo.

El principal proponente de la ruta fue Cecil John Rhodes, aunque prefirió el ferrocarril. El África Oriental Alemana (Tanganica, ahora Tanzania) era una brecha en los territorios británicos, pero Rodas, en particular, sintió que Alemania debería ser un aliado natural. Poco antes de su muerte, persuadió al káiser alemán para que permitiera el acceso a través de su colonia a la línea telegráfica del Cabo a El Cairo (que se construyó al norte de Ujiji pero que nunca se completó). En 1918, Tanganica, se convirtió en colonia británica y la brecha territorial terminó.

El proyecto de la carretera cayó en decadencia después de la independencia de Egipto e Sudán, la Gran Depresión Económica de la década de 1930 y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Dificultades diplomáticas

Con Alemania
La idea de unir las colonias británicas en África nació en la década de 1890. Una de las propuestas más importantes fue la de Cecil Rhodes, cuyo apellido dio nombre a Rodesia. Rhodes pretendió que la vía fuera férrea. Uno de los problemas era la presencia alemana en el continente, pero Rhodes imaginó que éstos se convertirían en aliados de los británicos y no habría disputas de ningún tipo. Su optimismo se basaba en la línea de telégrafo (nunca completada) que había proyectado entre Ciudad del Cabo y El Cairo, para la que había obtenido el permiso del káiser alemán. La idea de construir la carretera continuó viva incluso después de la independencia de Egipto en 1922, pues aún estaba bajo una gran influencia británica.

Con Francia

Otra fuente de problemas era Francia, que de forma similar y al mismo tiempo, quiso construir una carretera que atravesara África de este a oeste, uniendo sus colonias desde Senegal a Yibuti. Los franceses enviaron una expedición para formar un protectorado en el sur de Sudán en 1897 y a buscar rutas para atravesar Etiopía. La expedición fue cortada por una flotilla de navíos británicos que estaba en el Nilo. Este enfrentamiento, llamado Crisis o incidente de Fachoda, provocó un conflicto diplomático entre los dos Estados.

La carretera hoy en día
La vía se ha construido en parte, especialmente en el sur. Atraviesa países enteros como Sudáfrica, donde se la llama N1, y Zambia, donde recibe el nombre de Gran Carretera del Norte (Great North Road) y Cairo Road (en Lusaka). Sin embargo otros tramos no han sido terminados, especialmente los que van de Kenia a Egipto. Los problemas que encuentra su construcción son varios, como por ejemplo las guerrillas y los conflictos étnicos que asuelan Sudán.

Actualmente, la Comisión Económica de las Naciones Unidas para África, el Banco Africano de Desarrollo  y la Unión Africana tienen un proyecto para completar la carretera bajo el nombre de Carretera Transafricana 4 (TAH 4), como parte del proyecto de la Red de Carreteras Transafricanas.

Imperio británico
Carreteras de África
Transporte de Egipto
Transporte de Sudán
Transporte de Tanzania
Transporte de Kenia
Transporte de Etiopía
Transporte de Zambia
Transporte de Zimbabue
Transporte de Botsuana
Transporte de Sudáfrica

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using namespace std;

map<string, double> Recommender::tfidf(string documentFilePath, string documentsFilePath, bool useStopWords) {
	map<string, double> result;

	this->useStopWords = useStopWords;
	this->document = this->readDocument(documentFilePath);
	this->documents = this->getVocabulary(documentsFilePath);

	int totalNumberOfTerms = this->document.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < totalNumberOfTerms; i++) {
		string currentTerm = this->document[i];
		int numberOfTimesTermAppears = this->getNumberOfTimesTermAppears(currentTerm, this->document);
		double tfidf = this->calculateTfIdf(numberOfTimesTermAppears, totalNumberOfTerms, currentTerm);
		result[currentTerm] += tfidf;
	}

	this->weights = result;
	return result;
}

map<string, double> Recommender::tfidf(string query, vector<string> documents, bool useStopWords) {
	map<string, double> result;

	this->useStopWords = useStopWords;
	this->document = this->splitLineToWords(query);
	int totalDocumentsSize = documents.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < totalDocumentsSize; i++) {
		this->rawDocuments.push_back(documents[i]);
		this->documents.push_back(splitLineToWords(documents[i]));
	}

	int totalNumberOfTerms = this->document.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < totalNumberOfTerms; i++) {
		string currentTerm = this->document[i];
		int numberOfTimesTermAppears = this->getNumberOfTimesTermAppears(currentTerm, this->document);
		double tfidf = this->calculateTfIdf(numberOfTimesTermAppears, totalNumberOfTerms, currentTerm);
		result[currentTerm] += tfidf;
	}

	this->weights = result;
	return result;
}

vector<double> Recommender::recommend(map<string, double> weights) {
	vector<double> similarities;
	if (weights.size() == 0) return similarities;

	vector<double> queryVector;
	for (auto const &entry : weights) {
		queryVector.push_back(entry.second);
	}

	int totalDocumentsSize = this->documents.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < totalDocumentsSize; i++) {
		vector<double> documentVector(queryVector.size());
		bool hasEqualTerms = false;
		int documentSize = this->documents[i].size();
		for (int j = 0; j < documentSize; j++) {
			string currentTerm = this->documents[i][j];
			bool queryTermExistsInDocument = false;
			int foundIndex = 0;
			int idx = 0;
			for (auto const &entry : weights) {
				if (entry.first == currentTerm) {
					queryTermExistsInDocument = true;
					foundIndex = idx;
					hasEqualTerms = true;
					break;
				}
				idx++;
			}
			if (!queryTermExistsInDocument) continue;

			int numberOfTimesTermAppears = this->getNumberOfTimesTermAppears(currentTerm, this->documents[i]);
			int totalNumberOfTerms = documentSize;
			double tfidf = this->calculateTfIdf(numberOfTimesTermAppears, totalNumberOfTerms, currentTerm);
			documentVector[foundIndex] = tfidf;
		}
		if (!hasEqualTerms) {
			similarities.push_back(0);
			continue;
		}
		double dotProduct = Utils::calculateDotProduct(queryVector, documentVector);
		double queryNormalized = Utils::normalizeVector(queryVector);
		double documentNormalized = Utils::normalizeVector(documentVector);
		double centeredCosineSimilarity = dotProduct / (sqrt(queryNormalized) * sqrt(documentNormalized));
		similarities.push_back(centeredCosineSimilarity);
	}

	return similarities;
}

vector<string> Recommender::getSortedDocuments(vector<double> similarities) {
	vector<string> result;
	int similaritiesSize = similarities.size();
	if (similaritiesSize == 0) return result;

	vector<int> used;
	while (result.size() < similaritiesSize) {
		double max = -DBL_MAX;
		int maxIndex = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < similaritiesSize; i++) {
			bool isUsed = false;
			int usedSize = used.size();
			for (int j = 0; j < usedSize; j++) {
				if (used[j] == i) {
					isUsed = true;
					break;
				}
			}
			if (isUsed) continue;
			if (similarities[i] > max) {
				max = similarities[i];
				maxIndex = i;
			}
		}
		used.push_back(maxIndex);
		result.push_back(this->rawDocuments[maxIndex]);
	}

	return result;
}

double Recommender::getRatingPrediction(vector<vector<double>> &ratings, int rowIndex, int colIndex) {
	vector<vector<double>> originalRatings;
	int ratingsSize = ratings.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < ratingsSize; i++) {
		originalRatings.push_back(ratings[i]);
	}

	double similaritiesSum = 0;
	double ratingsSum = 0;
	vector<pair<int, double>> neighbourhood = this->getNeighbourhood(rowIndex, colIndex, ratings, originalRatings);
	int neighbourhoodSize = neighbourhood.size();
	if (!neighbourhoodSize) return 0;
	for (int i = 0; i < neighbourhoodSize; i++) {
		similaritiesSum += neighbourhood[i].second;
		ratingsSum += originalRatings[neighbourhood[i].first][colIndex] * neighbourhood[i].second;
	}

	double res = ratingsSum / similaritiesSum;
	return res;
}

double Recommender::getGlobalBaselineRatingPrediction(vector<vector<double>> &ratings, int rowIndex, int colIndex) {
	double meanRating = Utils::getMean(ratings);
	double userMeanRating = Utils::getRowMean(ratings[rowIndex]);
	double itemMeanRating = Utils::getColMean(ratings, colIndex);

	double result = fabs(meanRating + (itemMeanRating - meanRating) + (userMeanRating - meanRating));
	if (isnan(result)) return 0;
	return result;
}

vector<pair<int, double>> Recommender::getTopCFRecommendations(vector<vector<double>> &ratings, int rowIndex, int limit, int includeRatedItems) {
	vector<pair<int, double>> recommendations;
	vector<vector<double>> originalRatings;
	int ratingsSize = ratings.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < ratingsSize; i++) {
		originalRatings.push_back(ratings[i]);
		if (i == rowIndex) {
			Utils::subtractRawMeanFromVector(ratings[rowIndex]);
		}
	}

	vector<pair<int, double>> neighbourhood = this->getNeighbourhood(rowIndex, ratings, originalRatings);
	int neighbourhoodSize = neighbourhood.size();
	if (!neighbourhoodSize) return recommendations;

	int userRowSize = ratings[rowIndex].size();
	for (int i = 0; i < userRowSize; i++) {
		if (includeRatedItems == -1 && ratings[rowIndex][i] != 0) continue;

		double similaritiesSum = 0;
		double ratingsSum = 0;
		for (int j = 0; j < neighbourhoodSize; j++) {
			similaritiesSum += neighbourhood[j].second;
			ratingsSum += originalRatings[neighbourhood[j].first][i] * neighbourhood[j].second;
		}

		double predictedRating = ratingsSum / similaritiesSum;
		if (!isnan(predictedRating)) recommendations.push_back(make_pair(i, predictedRating));
	}

	int recommendationsSize = recommendations.size();
	if (!recommendationsSize) return recommendations;

	struct compareRecommendations {
		inline bool operator() (const pair<int, double>& a, const pair<int, double>& b) {
			return (a.second > b.second);
		}
	};
	sort(recommendations.begin(), recommendations.end(), compareRecommendations());

	if (limit != -1 && recommendationsSize > limit) {
		recommendations.erase(recommendations.begin() + limit, recommendations.end());
	}

	return recommendations;
}

vector<string> Recommender::readDocument(string documentFilePath) {
	vector<string> result;

	ifstream file(documentFilePath);
	if (!file.good()) return result;
	string str;
	vector<string> document;
	getline(file, str);
	result = this->splitLineToWords(str);

	return result;
}

vector<vector<string>> Recommender::getVocabulary(string documentsFilePath) {
	vector<vector<string>> result;

	ifstream file(documentsFilePath);
	if (!file.good()) return result;
	string str;
	while (getline(file, str)) {
		this->rawDocuments.push_back(str);
		vector<string> document;
		document = splitLineToWords(str);
		result.push_back(document);
	}

	return result;
}

vector<string> Recommender::splitLineToWords(const string &line) {
	vector<string> document;
	stringstream s(line);
	string word;
	while (s >> word) {
		transform(word.begin(), word.end(), word.begin(), ::tolower);
		if (this->useStopWords) {
			const bool isStopWord = STOP_WORDS.find(word) != STOP_WORDS.end();
			if (isStopWord) continue;
		}
		document.push_back(word);
	}

	return document;
}

int Recommender::getNumberOfTimesTermAppears(const string& term, vector<string> document) const {
	return std::count(document.begin(), document.end(), term);
}

int Recommender::getNumberOfDocumentsWithTerm(string& term) const {
	int count = 0;
	int totalDocumentsSize = this->documents.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < totalDocumentsSize; i++) {
		if (this->getNumberOfTimesTermAppears(term, this->documents[i]) >= 1) {
			count++;
		}
	}

	return count;
}

double Recommender::calculateTfIdf(int numberOfTimesTermAppears, int totalNumberOfTerms, string currentTerm) const {
	double totalDocumentsSize = this->documents.size();
	double tf = numberOfTimesTermAppears / (double)totalNumberOfTerms;
	int numberOfDocumentsWithTerm = this->getNumberOfDocumentsWithTerm(currentTerm);
	double idf = log(totalDocumentsSize / (double)numberOfDocumentsWithTerm);
	idf++;
	double tfidf = tf * idf;

	return tfidf;
}

vector<pair<int, double>> Recommender::getNeighbourhood(int rowIndex, int colIndex, vector<vector<double>> &ratings, vector<vector<double>> originalRatings) {
	double normA = Utils::normalizeVector(ratings[rowIndex]);
	vector<pair<int, double>> similarities = this->getSimilarities(ratings, normA, rowIndex, colIndex, originalRatings);

	struct comparePairs {
		inline bool operator() (const pair<int, double>& a, const pair<int, double>& b) {
			return (a.second > b.second);
		}
	};

	sort(similarities.begin(), similarities.end(), comparePairs());

	return similarities;
}

vector<pair<int, double>> Recommender::getNeighbourhood(int rowIndex, vector<vector<double>> &ratings, vector<vector<double>> originalRatings) {
	double normA = Utils::normalizeVector(ratings[rowIndex]);
	vector<pair<int, double>> similarities = this->getSimilarities(ratings, normA, rowIndex, originalRatings);

	struct comparePairs {
		inline bool operator() (const pair<int, double>& a, const pair<int, double>& b) {
			return (a.second > b.second);
		}
	};

	sort(similarities.begin(), similarities.end(), comparePairs());

	return similarities;
}

vector<pair<int, double>> Recommender::getSimilarities(vector<vector<double>> &ratings, double normA, int rowIndex, int colIndex, vector<vector<double>> originalRatings) {
	vector<pair<int, double>> similarities;
	int ratingsSize = ratings.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < ratingsSize; i++) {
		if ((int)i == rowIndex) continue;
		if (originalRatings[i][colIndex] != 0) {
			double dotProduct = Utils::calculateDotProduct(originalRatings[rowIndex], originalRatings[i]);
			vector<double> subtractedRawMeanVector = Utils::getSubtractRawMeanFromVector(ratings[i]);
			double normB = Utils::normalizeVector(subtractedRawMeanVector);
			double cosineSimilarity = Utils::calculateCosineSimilarity(dotProduct, normA, normB);
			similarities.push_back(make_pair(i, cosineSimilarity));
		}
	}

	return similarities;
}

vector<pair<int, double>> Recommender::getSimilarities(vector<vector<double>> &ratings, double normA, int rowIndex, vector<vector<double>> originalRatings) {
	vector<pair<int, double>> similarities;
	int ratingsSize = ratings.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < ratingsSize; i++) {
		if ((int)i == rowIndex) continue;
		double dotProduct = Utils::calculateDotProduct(originalRatings[rowIndex], originalRatings[i]);
		vector<double> subtractedRawMeanVector = Utils::getSubtractRawMeanFromVector(ratings[i]);
		double normB = Utils::normalizeVector(subtractedRawMeanVector);
		double cosineSimilarity = Utils::calculateCosineSimilarity(dotProduct, normA, normB);
		similarities.push_back(make_pair(i, cosineSimilarity));
	}

	return similarities;
}


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Q: Wrong Icon Installed by Xcode I have been pulling my hairs for the past few days. It appears I am the first one who has experienced this problem because I could not find anything that is even close through Internet searches. The problem that I have experienced is the following:
Icon for retina iPad of iOS 6.1 and prior (size 144x144) and Icon for iPhone of iOS 7 (size 120x120) are not installed correctly. If I use asset catalog, when installing my app on iPad (retina) with iOS 5, the iPhone icon (120x120) is installed. iPhone with iOS 7 works fine using the same icon (120x120). If I don't use asset catalog, but instead add the icons to the info.plist (CFBundleIcons array), it goes the other way around. iPad icon is fine this time (144x144 icon was installed). But iPhone uses the iPad icon (144x144).
What's more strange is that this is not a problem with one of my two targets. It is only a problem for the second target. The second target was created by duplicating the first one. I have compared the info and settings of the two projects, but did not see any difference (other than bundle identifiers and product names etc., of course).
I've upgraded my Xcode to 5.0.2 and that makes no difference.
I'd appreciate it if anybody could shed some light on this.
Update #1: I tried to use the icons from the first target and the problem is still there. So it's not related the icon png files. It's target related. Also tried to clean the project, delete the app from the devices to no avail.
Update #2: When I use plist instead of asset catalog, what's (incorrectly) installed on my iPhone (iOS 7) is not the 144x144 icon. It is 144x144 icon for iOS 6.1 and prior. It's still an incorrect icon.
Update #3: This is actually easy to reproduce. I created a cocos2d project from scratch this time (the Hello World project). Tried to add all the icons using the two ways introduced in the following technical article from Apple:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1686/_index.html
When using the asset catalog, 120x120 icon was installed on my iPad (retina) with iOS 5.
When using the project editor, 152x152 icon was installed on my iPad (retina) with iOS 5.
In both cases, what is supposed to be installed is the 144x144 icon. Will probably contact Apple on Monday.

A: I filed a tech-support case with Apple and confirmed that this is a known issue (as of 02/10/14). I open a bug report with Apple. This issue is not noticeable for most people because icons are all resized from one design. Even though the wrong icon is installed, it is barely noticeable (the icon is still resized to to the correct size on the device automatically). This is noticeable when you want to use different icon design on different iOS. For example, the icon curvature for iOS 7 is different. There is no workaround according to the Apple support.
Hope this is useful for anyone who runs into the same issue.
Regards,
Ryan

A: Make sure you don't have the older icons named with the an older version of Xcode's default icon names (Icon.png, Icon@2x.png, Icon-72.png). I have found that when these names exist, they are used even if other icon names are specified.

A: Try cleaning the project. Command-Shift-K , that usually fixes such issues

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Diversity in the workplace, reflecting the diversity in our communities, will make a tangible contribution to addressing wider inequality issues in society.
At the heart of our programme is a commitment across Government and our delivery partners to advance the interests of all our young people. By offering young people - from as early as during their primary/nursery school education - a clear picture of all the career choices available to them, we will equip them with the skills and knowledge to make more informed choices throughout their school studies and beyond.
This underlines the Government's commitment to fairness and social solidarity. The First Minister has made clear that this Government will have a relentless focus on improving the public services and economy of Scotland, and tackling inequality.
To achieve sustainable economic growth, we will need to develop the talents of all our young people. The Commission's report sets out the challenge and our response is to see our action not as separate activity but as an approach to advancing equality embedded throughout our response to the report's recommendations.
Throughout the programme is the message, delivered in activity in schools, colleges and by employers, that all careers can be open to our young people. And through a national campaign, we will support parents and carers as they help young people to make choices at key points in their lives about the future. Similarly we will develop guidance to help teachers and practitioners work with young people as they explore the advanced provision on offer to them.
We recognise that this change in hearts and minds - the ability to realise opportunities are available to all - will not happen overnight: we are already working with delivery partners and local government to embed these principles of fairness and equality throughout their services to young people. There are specific actions throughout the programme that will address concerns in the Commission's report, for example, improving gender balance on some Modern Apprentice frameworks. Our success measures - at annex B - demonstrate we are ambitious about tackling this imbalance and have developed targets that encourage systemic change rather than small incremental improvements. We want young people quickly to see more options available to them.
While we are committed to a mainstream change of provision in education and training, we recognise that some groups need extra support and guidance. Throughout the plan, there are instances when specific interventions are needed to drive change, for example, in the plan being developed by the Scottish Funding Council, Skills Development Scotland and others to reduce the gender imbalance in education and training.
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Somaliland At Cross Roads-1!By Ibrahim M, Mead.
April 22, 2019 - Written by Editor:
In a conflict-ridden horn of Africa, Somaliland is a rare success story. Although the international community has not recognized the independence of this resurrected from the ashes 2nd Republic of Somaliland. Somaliland functions with complete autonomy. Somaliland is a de-facto state for over the last 27years. It has built a functioning democracy and relatively strong institutions of government; this is particularly impressive achievement in comparison to the repeatedly failed Mogadishu-based Somalia administrations. This progress, however, remains fragile, now more than ever. Somaliland's continued stability is by no means guaranteed. It faces more challenges, both internal and external than ever, which it must overcome if it is to continue its promising development – and if it is to have any chance of receiving the international recognition she deserves which is its ultimate goal. With Municipal and Parliamentary elections overdue, I do not see any serious moves and undertakings to realize that national duties which is to hold the elections on time by the government. It is also the duty of The political parties to facilitate the elections take place by cooperating with the government! It is however the solemn duty of the government to do this task.
The role of the government:
the government is 'responsible primarily for making public policy for an entire society. Services and holding elections are their primary duty. Unfortunately both K-1 and K-2 failed that duty dismally. In this circle of failures both the government and the opposition are the clients of this merry-go-round political inconsistencies and failures!
The roles of the opposition.. Being in Opposition is not just about opposing the Government. "There are instances the Opposition agrees with the Government. That is when the government is doing the right thing, and then it's natural for the Opposition to agree with the government. On the other hand, the opposition must expose the other side of the coin that is not shiny which the government otherwise prefers to hide from the public view. This role is vital for protecting the society from the excesses and corruption of power that innately exist wherever executive power resides.. The opposition failed their duty, as the government did her national duty of holding elections and uniting the people.
The failure of the government and the opposition created a vacuum:
Scavengers are not hovering above any more; they are on the ground already. They want to dismantle the constitution and through that process they want to create unrest and eventually civil war. Unfortunately, they even get receptive ears in some quarters because Somaliland is
Divided and the government of the day has failed to address and remedy this problem in the right way.More you see certain activities going on these days in Hargeisa more you worry.
It took us to un-dug and got Somaliland out from that grave for over 30 years, and not only that, we paid incredible blood and treasure to do that. In the end we came back home in 1991 by sacrifices and martyrdom of our people.
Some people are now digging for Somaliland a mass grave. Somaliland sits on mass graves of her own already. Those who were part of the genocide or were cheerleaders of the dark history of Somaliland are roving around the county and the government may even pay their expenses!
As Somaliland is divided now, one has every reason to smell a rat when some bad people came back to Somaliland! These personalities were against S /L most of their lives; however some are newly converted and indeed believe in their country Somaliland, but some are not; even though they say in their mouth what is not in their heart. What they say in their mouth does not correlate to their practice and believes.
There is a pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection in Mr. Galayd's so called political
"Tabliiq" whatever that means! So BE AWARE SOMALILAND.
To avoid that trap and other self-made ones President Musa's administration must do the following and more forthwith:
1-Mr. Musa must hold the overdue House and Municipal elections with no delay
2-Contact, collect and accommodate and address the issues which alienated some communities
3-Resolve Hassan Dalab family land issue as soon as possible
4- Establish grownup counsel of advisors which the president utilizes in difficult times and in all times.
5- Revisit your government and Ministries of Finance and Interior must be part of the solution
Absent of the above five point advice will render Somaliland to failure and we do not want Somaliland to fail.
However peace and prayers
Ibrahim M Mead
Meadgd@gmail.com


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The High Tension Between Green Day And Bon Jovi
Su YeniocakAugust 28, 20212 mins read
Green Day has been on the rock music scene since 1987 and has been one of the leading names of punk rock not just with their music but also with their fashion style. The band became one of the best-selling artists of all time as they sold over 75 million records worldwide.
Although the band is successful, Green Day's lead guitarist and singer Billy Joe Armstrong has been criticized for making aggressive political statements. Many fans argue that his sensitivity and passion towards social and political issues have negatively affected Green Day's music.
Not withholding his sharp tongue, in 2012, Armstrong stated in an interview with Kerrang! that the worst band they have ever played with was Bon Jovi. Not long after the punk vocalist made this comment about Bon Jovi, he had a nervous breakdown in Las Vegas because of Usher. Shortly after that, he checked into rehab as he struggled with substance abuse.
Here is what Armstrong said about Bon Jovi:
"The best band we've shared a stage with is probably The Hives, they're a great live band. As for the worst, oh boy, I have to go with Bon Jovi."
How Did Richie Sambora Respond To Billy Joe Armstrong's Comment?
Bon Jovi's guitarist Richie Sambora didn't seem to be extra bothered by Armstrong's comment because he did not even remember playing with Green Day. In an interview he gave to Rolling Stone, the guitarist laughingly stated that he had no recollection of Green Day opening for Bon Jovi and sarcastically said that he is sorry they had a bad time.
Here is Sambora's answer to Armstrong's comment:
"I have no idea what happened with that, I actually don't recall them opening for us, either I was incapacitated at that point or I just don't remember it. I'm sorry he had such a bad time."
There haven't been any updates on this tension between Green Day and Bon Jovi since 2012. However, it doesn't seem like the two bands will tour together in the future.
Billie Joe ArmstrongBon JoviGreen DayRichie Sambora
Su Yeniocak
Hi I'm Su! I am interested in everything about music, fashion and photography. Feel free to email me if you have any suggestions. su@metalheadzone.com


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Category: Failure
The Grapes of Laugh
Art, Failure, History, Ideas, Mythology, Photos, Storytelling, Success, Travel
I thought I would publish this post in an effort to re-engage with my so called digital sketch book. This piece, titled The Grapes of Laugh was made whilst I was living in New York in 2015 and undertaking a particularly life altering workshop, Functional and Intuitive Art with artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
I have been attempting to process my experience during this time for the last four years now, and failing! I have a blog post in my drafts on here that I hope to finish at some point but I have no idea when that will happen,
This particular object serves as a reminder to be happy or perhaps more accurately it acts as a conduit for happiness. Due to its interactive ability; the lid can be opened or closed, happiness can be contained or allowed out so you can get a quick dose of it. The glass grapes were bought in China Town and signify prosperity and ov course the air bnb I was living in had a stained glass sticker of grapevines on the window in the bathroom.
I recently had a job interview where I had to bring an object and talk about it. I chose this item and in order to transport it had to close it up. I am NEVER doing that again……. The normally stressful, but manageable journey was absolute hell, even involving a rush hour crush and a spider, and I had to reschedule the interview.
I did actually get the job in the end though, perhaps because the grapes were returned to their rightful open state during it. Needless to say I'm never closing it up again!
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Mirko Virius Gallery Visit
Art, Failure, History, Ideas, Painting, Story, Storytelling, Success
In this post I will be talking about The Croatian Association of Naive Artists.
Last summer I had the pleasure of visiting the Mirko Virius Gallery in Zagreb, Croatia. The artist's exhibited at the gallery are all Naive Artists, in the sense that they have had little or no formal artistic training. They also adopt their own creative style which is normally characterised by its childlike or 'naive' quality. Proportion and more importantly, realism is not the focus of these works, yet the simplicity and imagination of these works somehow presents a truer reality.
Sometimes formal training can remove the wonder and true creativity of the practitioner, or it can insert certain ideas and concepts into the artist's mind and force their hand into a certain discipline or style.Whilst it is great and necessary to learn about what has come before, sometimes creativity needs to come from deep within the artist, without any restraints.
The gallery is named after Mirko Virius, a peasant and self-taught painter who became a forerunner of Croatian Naive Art after participating in the First Exhibition of Peasant Painters. Despite only being an active painter for three years (1936-1939), his paintings captured the politics behind social themes in paintings such as The Beggar, The Plowing and The Overturned Cart. Virius was arrested during World War II due to his political activities and taken to a Nazi concentration camp in Zemun, Serbia, where he died in 1943. His tragic fate was immortalised by his friend Generalić, who painted The Death of Virius, one of his most famous paintings.With these events you can begin to see just how important a role naive art has played in Croatian history.
I feel more of an affinity myself towards Naive Art, or Outsider Art, in the sense that even though I have an arts education background I do not feel that connected to the mainstream art world. I create work purely because I cannot imagine not doing so and I create work primarily for myself.
I am also including a link to a good friend of mine's blog. Clare Brown is currently living in Split, Croatia (I'm not jealous at all…..) and has written a piece about her visit to the Croatian Museum of Naive Art (which is just up the road from the Mirko Virius Gallery).
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Work Programme 69 – Arnold Pollock
Architecure, Art, Failure, Film, Filmmaking, History, Mythology, Performance Art, Story, Storytelling, Travel
©Huw Bartlett 2014
For the final week I invited Actor/Artist/Bodybuilder/Documentary Filmmaker Arnold Pollock to exhibit. His was a unique situation in that he is from Manchester so would be making work from scratch or using whatever he could bring down with him. But this gave Arnold the chance to truly create something in response to the gallery space as initially the space was all he had.
Using his current interest in acting (he's been on Corrie don't you know!) and previous experience in documentary film making Arnold created a film that combines his interaction with Brighton and its inhabitants. He accurately describes the film as '… the result of pursuing every meaningful coincidence during my stay.' Most of these coincidences revolved around, and occurred due, to his incredible charm. This charm made it possible for Arnold to swipe personal text messages off of strangers phones which are then used as scripts, acted out with new strangers.
The film also depicts local scenes which perhaps locals would normally overlook, and all pretence is somehow stripped away from whimsical beach scenes such as in the clip below and replaced with an endearing honesty.
It was the perfect way to end the residency. The film left me with a new love for my hometown and showed the true potential of CAC when someone enters it with a blank slate and only their interests as a starting point.
Also screened during the exhibition was Arnold's documentary of him and friend James walking the Trans Pennine Trail:
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'Is it a bird…? Is it a Plane…?' DIY 11: 2014
Art, Failure, Fashion, Hyper reality, Ideas, Live Art, Misogyny, Performance Art, Photos, Story, Storytelling, Success
After doing a DIY Workshop last year through the Live Art Development Agency I decided to apply for another workshop this year. The one that really caught my eye was run by performance artists The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein and Martin O'Brien.
Along with fellow participants Katy Baird, Sophie Cullinan, Ria Hartley and Emelía Antonsdóttir Crivello, the idea of the superhero as a catalyst for performance making was explored. My boundaries were well and truly pushed from the get go as we learned hip hop dances, frolicked in washing up liquid (not that I could let go enough to do much frolicking!) and recited Hamlet to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star.
I learnt a lot about myself over the three days, particularly about my attitude to success and failure. The tasks were specifically hard for me as I operate under the assumption that there is a right way and a wrong way to do everything, that I need to constantly be in control of myself and my surroundings and on some perverse level enjoy constantly telling myself that I am doing it all wrong and failing. The workshop helped me to see how ridiculous these notions are and that the most interesting situations that open up a dialogue revolve around things going wrong, almost reaching their goal but not quite and just generally failing.
The three days were finished off with a photo shoot in which we show-cased our developed superhero characters. Mine was Kyphosisa (Kyphosis being the medical term for a hunch back which I have a mild case of). She represents the acceptance of flaws and failure, showing that when we finally do this great, powerful things can happen.
The whole experience was incredibly mind altering and where I had previously been using other bodies in my work I finally realised that my own body signified the same things, generic success in the sense that it's able, relatively fit and white. I had previously wanted to train myself to the standard of a bodybuilder and use this point from which to create work and a discourse, however I now realise there is much a more interesting space in which to do this with my body as it is now. This has prompted me to do a performance myself which I will talk about in my next post.
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Robert Carpenter
Robert Carpenter (right) with Thomas Hayward
Robert Carpenter (1832-1901) was one of Cambridgeshire's and England's greatest-ever cricketers.
Robert Carpenter was born on 18 November 1832 in Cambridge at 48 Mill Road. His father, George (1818‒1849), was a butcher. Robert became a professional cricketer around 1854. In Cambridge he became known as the 'Old Gardener', because of his custodianship of Parker's Piece (until 1881). He played in 1856 for Cambridge town against the University.
He first appeared for the United All England Eleven at Lord's in June 1858, and played with that team throughout the 1860s, becoming its lead batsman. His highest score in first-class cricket was 134 for the All England Eleven against Yorkshire in 1865. He also played for Cambridgeshire (then a first-class county eleven) during the 1860s together with batsman Tom Hayward (the uncle of the younger Tom Hayward buried in Mill Road Cemetery) and fast-bowler George Tarrant, the three players who dominated that team in its heyday.
In 1859, he toured America with the first English overseas touring team under George Parr, and Australia in 1863/64 under the same captain. He was an attacking batsman, especially off the back foot. (For further details of his career and style of playing, see the download 'Carpenter Death Notice'.)
Robert Carpenter death notice
After his retirement in 1876, he umpired, including two test matches. At his death on 14 July 1901, he left a widow, Eliza. He was buried in Mill Road Cemetery on 17 July 1901—see the download 'Carpenter Funeral'.
Robert Carpenter funeral
One of his sons, Herbert (1869‒1933) played for Essex 1888‒1920.
Monument and Inscription
While Carpenter was definitely buried in Mill Road Cemetery (17 July, 1901), his grave was not transcribed by the Cambridgeshire Family History Society and has not been found to this day.
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Proiectul KaZantip, numit uneori "Republica KaZantip ", care a devenit în anul 2000 "Republica Portocalie Autonomă Kazantip" este un fel de utopie creată în jurul unui eveniment sportiv, apoi a unui festival internațional de muzică electronică și de dans, creat în 1993, la " cap Kazantyp ", situat pe coasta de nord-vest a Crimeii.

Simboluri
Litera Z, și mai ales o valiză galbenă cu colțuri metalice cromate sunt principalele simboluri ale festivalului și ale republicii KaZantip.
Valiza asta este o parte din  "fetișurile statale" (enumerate la art. 14 din constituție.). Originea acestei tradiții este un vechi basm rusesc, în care un om oferă copiilor bomboane scoase dintr-o valiză galbenă și reușește să-i facă fericiți. Morala este următoarea: la KaZantip, cei care știu cum să facă pe alții fericiți primesc, la rândul lor, bucurie și fericire...

Valiza galbenă a apărut în 1998. De atunci, valiza galbenă cu colțuri cromate este un simbol național kaZantip, fetișul, mândria și un document de identitate care dă dreptul la liberă trecere pe teritoriul acestei republici.

Potrivit site-ului oficial al proiectului, "culoarea națională a Țării Fericirii" era portocaliul, dar în lumina evenimentelor politice care s-au desfășurat în Ucraina, în perioada 2004-2006, republica a decis să schimbe de la portocaliu la negru.

Ochelarii de soare, pantalonii scurți, tricourile sunt port național în KaZantip unde nudismul este tolerat și chiar încurajat, ( ... ), dar atributul național al cetățeanului kaZantip este vetusta valiză galbenă care dă dreptul la intrare fără viză în Republică. Această republică are o constituție care în art. 16 prevede că este "documentul de bază al statului. Toți cetățenii republicii sunt obligați să o citească măcar o dată".

Proiectul KaZantip este cunoscut mai ales prin reuniunile sale anuale, care durează o lună. El are loc, în fiecare an, de la sfârșitul lunii iulie până la sfârșitul lunii august, găzduind acum mai mult de 100 000 de oameni adunați în jurul a sute dintre cei mai buni DJ-ei ruși și străini, dansatori, muzicieni și diverși creatori, sau în jurul celor 10 piste de dans sau mai multe, și (în 2010) 30 de baruri și restaurante, 2 cinematografe în aer liber, 3 stații de kitesurfing .

Geografie
Numele Kazantip vine de la numele capului și al  peninsulei unde s-a inițiat proiectul.

KaZantip poate schimba, uneori, locul și perimetrul; KaZantip avea nevoie de un nou spațiu pentru noua Republică de mult timp și, în 2001, o suprafață de mai mult de  a fost aleasă pe coastă, in apropierea satului Popivka sau Popovka. În 2010, acest domeniu s-a extins la mai mult de , dar se poate  uneori extinde un pic mai mult decât atât. De câțiva ani, teritoriul Republicii și-a schimbat anual amplasamentul, așa că poporul ei și vizitatorii au trebuit să caute locul ascuns în fiecare august.

Începând cu anul 2001, festivalul are loc în Popivka (în limba rusă Popovka, la  de la Evpatoria și la   de Simferopol), stațiune balneară rusă, situată pe coasta de sud-vest, la mai puțin de două ore cu mașina de Simferopol, capitala Crimeei, o destinație de vară populară printre turiștii din fosta URSS, cum este Côte d'Azur în Franța. Marile orașe sunt Simferopol, Sevastopol, Evpatoria și Ialta. În iulie și august, climatul este cald și uscat (ca la Barcelona). La țărmul mării, căldura este foarte suportabilă.

Caracteristicile " festivalului "

Proiectul Kazantip este cunoscut mai ales pentru marea petrecere pe plajă (beach party) organizată pe una dintre cele mai frumoase plaje ale Mării Neagră. Acest " festival " este în tradiția marilor festivaluri, precum Burning Man în Statele Unite ale Americii, Love Parade sau Street Parade.

Creatorul și inițiatorul său este un rus misterios cunoscut sub numele de Nikita I. Numele lui real ar fi Nikita Marșunok.

Se spune că el a făcut din KaZantip un "festival alternativ", care include o parte din tineretul de bani gata din Moscova.

Istoria "Republicii" KaZantip
Istoria "Republicii" KaZantip începe în 1992 , în Crimeea , cu ocazia unui concurs de windsurfing plăci, o primă întâlnire, care n-a atras decât 78 windsurferi și mai puțin de 600 de spectatori.
Nikita Marshunok, care era pe atunci președinte al asociației de windsurf, a dorit să refacă competiția la sărbătoarea focului. El a început să mixeze muzică de plajă, dar încă nu era foarte impresionant.

Un an mai târziu, în același loc, Nikita Marșunok a adunat un public mult mai mare, printre care se aflau DJ-ei cunoscuți.

Peninsula KaZantip a devenit un loc de întâlnire tradițional, în jurul rămășițelor unei centrale nucleare din Crimeea abandonate încă din timpul construcției (În 1997, președintele a găzduit o seară cu totul aparte în centrală, așa-numita "Noaptea Reactorului ", care va fi preludiul " nopților atomice").

 2000 - festivalul a fost ținut lângă satul Vesiolovo (Весёлого) (lângă Sudak)
 2001-2013 - în satul Popovka, Ievpatoria.
 2005 - Sloganul festivalului "KaZantip-2005": "Următoarele festivale Kazantip vor fi organizate pe Marte".
 15 iulie-26 august 2006 - "KaZantip 2006".
 21 iulie-26 august 2007 - "KaZantip-2007", a fost numit "Z.15", a marcat cea de-a 15-a aniversare a acestui eveniment.
 26 iulie-30 august 2008, KaZantip 2008 (Z.16). Sloganul și conceptul Z.16 - "O nouă formă de viață".
 1-21 august 2009, KaZantip 2009 (Z.17).
 6-7 august 2010, "KaZantip 2010" (Z.18).
 6-21 august 2011, "KaZantip 2011" (Z.19), Tematica: Roboții.
 31 iulie-18 august 2012, "KaZantip 2012" (Z.20) este a XX-cea aniversare a festivalului.

Religia
Republica are o religie de stat, definită drept "Credința în minuni"."Cetățenii altor confesiuni nu sunt persecutați de lege, dar trec drept niște cinici cu care este mai bine să nu ai de a face".

Galerie

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Festivaluri de muzică electronică


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Mikel Zarrabeitia Uranga (* 14. Mai 1970 in Abadiño,  Provinz Bizkaia, Autonomen Region Baskenland) ist ein ehemaliger spanischer Radrennfahrer.

Sportliche Karriere
Mikel Zarrabeitia, dessen Vater ebenfalls Radsportler war, lernte im Alter von drei Jahren Fahrrad fahren. Seine ersten Rennen bestritt Mikel Zarrabeitia Querfeldein, bei denen er bis zur Juniorenkategorie antrat; er spielte zudem Fußball und betrieb die traditionelle baskische Sport Sokatira (Tauziehen). Sein Vater überzeugte ihn, sich auf Straßenradsport zu konzentrieren. Auch sein älterer Bruder Juan Antonio Zarrabeitia Uranga war Radrennfahrer.

1991 wurde Zarrabeitia Profi. Sein erster Erfolg war im Jahr 1992 der Gesamtsieg und ein Etappensieg bei der Vuelta a La Rioja. Bei der Vuelta a España 1994 gelang Zarrabeita als Gesamtzweiter hinter dem Schweizer Tony Rominger seine beste Grand Tour-Platzierung. Anschließend blieb er wegen anhaltender gesundheitlicher Probleme längere Zeit ohne Erfolge.

1997 entschied Zarrabeitia  den Trofeo Comunidad Foral de Navarra, die Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta sowie eine Etappe der Aragon-Rundfahrt für sich, 2001 gewann er eine Etappe von Euskal Bizikleta. Während der elften Etappe der Vuelta a España 2000 – auf der Abfahrt vom Rabassa-Pass in Andorra – versuchte er, mit der Hand nach seinem offenbar defekten Geschwindigkeitsmesser zu greifen. Dabei gerieten die Finger zwischen die Speichen des Vorderrads, worauf er zu Fall kam. Er verletzte sich an einem Finger, so dass die Kuppe amputiert werden musste.

2002 gewann Mikel Zarrabeitia die Gesamtwertung des heimischen Rennens Euskal Bizikleta sowie die Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia. Er war am Sieg seines Teams ONCE bei den Mannschaftszeitfahren der Burgos-Rundfahrt und der Vuelta a Espana beteiligt. In seinem letzten Jahr als Aktiver, 2003, belegte er den zweiten Gesamtrang bei Paris–Nizza.

Nach seinem zweiten Platz bei der Vuelta 1994 galt Zarrabeitia als neues großes Talent des spanischen Radsports und als Nachfolger von Marino Lejarreta. Die in ihn gesetzten Erwartungen konnte er nicht erfüllen, unter anderem, weil er im Laufe seines Sportlerkarriere zwei Bandscheibenvorfälle und einen schweren Autounfall hatte.

Erfolge
1992
 Gesamtwertung und eine Etappe Vuelta a La Rioja
1997
 Trofeo Comunidad Foral de Navarra
 Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta
 eine Etappe Aragon-Rundfahrt
2001
 eine Etappe Euskal Bizikleta
2002
 Gesamtwertung und eine Etappe Euskal Bizikleta
 Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
 Mannschaftszeitfahren Burgos-Rundfahrt
 Mannschaftszeitfahren Vuelta a Espana

Grand-Tours-Platzierungen

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Radsportler (Spanien)
Spanier
Geboren 1970
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Each time God removed another barrier that blocked my sight of him and each time I was made a little more whole. I want you to understand that God has not left you. He knows everything you have gone through, he knows you are in need of healing.


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What You Need To Know About Black Widow Control In Lehi, Utah
March 15, 2021 - Spiders
Pest infestations happen all the time in the Lehi, UT area, but one pest specifically gives owners fits and that's the black widow spider. While many spiders are relatively harmless, this species is not one of them. In fact, black widow spiders are arguably the most famous spiders in the country because of the potential danger they pose. This spider is easy to recognize thanks to its shiny black coloring, thin legs, and the classic red hourglass-shaped mark present on its abdomen. Besides its physical traits, this spider is also known for its venom, which can make spider bites seem even scarier.
As a rule, black widows prefer warmer temperatures of 70 degrees or higher. As such, you'll likely find them in warmer areas of the building. If those areas are also dry and dark, then you have the perfect nesting ground for the black widow spider.
How Dangerous Are They?
Just because a pest has venom, that doesn't mean they're an automatic danger to people. In truth, black widow spider bites are incredibly rare and generally occur when the spider feels threatened more than anything else. With that in mind, let's take a look at what makes their bite dangerous in the event it does occur.
Black widows possess venom that is 15 times stronger than the venom possessed by rattlesnakes. It's only thanks to their small size that humans don't suffer as badly in comparison. However, common symptoms of a bite have been observed and include muscle aches, nausea, and even diaphragm paralysis, which can lead to breathing complications. In some cases, a fever is experienced along with pain and increased blood pressure.
Fortunately, there is rarely any long-term damage or other complications. Keep in mind that small children, the elderly, and immune-compromised people are most at-risk for complications, which is why seeking medical attention should always be the first thing you do in the event of a spider bite.
Preventing A Black Widow Spider Infestation
Like with any pest, it's always better to practice prevention instead of control when it comes to black widow spiders. That's why we've compiled a handy list of prevention tips, so you can keep your Lehi property better protected. The best tips we have include:
No Clutter: This spider loves to hide and thrives in areas full of clutter. Keep the clutter to a minimum, and you'll eliminate their hiding spots.
Proper Firewood Storage: Any firewood on the property should be stored a minimum of 20 feet away from the building. Even better, it should be on a raised structure instead of on the ground.
Check For Other Pests: Spiders are predators that feed on insects. In most cases, you have a spider infestation because you have a pest infestation. Carefully check for signs of other pests to control potential spider populations.
Professional Pest Control: Without a doubt, the best way to prevent a spider infestation is to invest in ongoing pest control from a qualified pest control company. Investing in pest control today means you won't have to worry about pests invading tomorrow.
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At the end of the day, the last thing you want to deal with is a spider infestation in your home. In the case of black widows, they pose a serious threat to your health and wellbeing and are a sign you have other pest problems. Our team at All States Lawn & Pest is here for you no matter what pest concerns you have.
If you're experiencing a black widow spider infestation, then give our team at All States Lawn & Pest a call to discuss your home pest control options and take the first step towards becoming pest-free again. We are a local, veteran-owned company offering residential and commercial pest control. Call us today for a free quote.
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