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OnePlus reports massive YoY smartphone shipment growth globally
2021 has been a rather interesting and exciting year for OnePlus. The company has launched tons of new affordable devices thanks to its popular Nord series, while its main series is now considered to be in the flagship category. And even though we may not get a new OnePlus 9T Pro or a 9T at all, it seems that the company is heading in the right direction, as recent reports show amazing growth.
OnePlus is a different company from the one that gave us several flagship killers years ago. It is now a different beast. According to recent information from CounterPoint Research, OnePlus was the fastest growing OEM in the US in the first half of 2021, reaching 428 percent YoY growth. You can't deny that this is rather impressive, considering that the company entered the US Market just three years ago with the OnePlus 6T.
Still, things get even more impressive when we find that the company has recently announced its global shipment numbers.
"Global technology brand OnePlus today announced a significant milestone for its global smartphone shipments, reporting a 257% YoY shipment growth globally for the first half of 20211. The brand also achieved significant sales growth across each of its key markets including the United States, Europe, India and China in the first half of 2021, driven by its global smartphone portfolio including its latest flagship series, the OnePlus 9 series, and its new mid-range products, the Nord and Nord N series."
What's even more amazing is knowing that OnePlus has managed these amazing numbers while the tech world is still being affected by an ongoing pandemic. Pete Lau, founder of OnePlus said,
"Despite a number of significant global challenges, 2020 was a remarkable year for OnePlus as we updated our business strategy to expand our user base. This year, we continued to strengthen our flagship offering by taking a big step in building a truly premium camera system with the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro, while introducing even more accessible products with the OnePlus Nord product line. The growth we see now demonstrates that our approach to offering a premium experience together with competitive pricing is in line with our community's needs."
We will have to wait and see how the company's new decisions may affect or improve these numbers. Remember that rumors claim that OnePlus may skip this year's T series, but that may be because of the global chip shortage, meaning that we could get a new T device next year. Also, OnePlus has recently joined OPPO, which will give us more years of major upgrades, and who knows what else.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Jan 30, 2014) – Fullpower® today announced the new MotionX-24/7 App for iPhone.
MotionX-24/7 leverages patented algorithms at its core to deliver the highest quality medical-grade 24/7 sleep monitoring, snore/apnea, and resting heart rate detection and activity tracking available for the iPhone. The algorithms for sleep monitoring, apnea and snore detection, and heart rate tracking have been significantly improved in this version with the help of the feedback of millions of MotionX users. This is a milestone in that the quality and accuracy of MotionX is on par with state-of-the-art polysomnography equipment, yet run on an iPhone.
The Fullpower patent portfolio includes more than 40 issued patents and more than 70 patents pending. Broad coverage for the MotionX Technology Platform introduces a new and necessary approach for continuous activity and sleep monitoring and analysis, with applications spanning a variety of health and fitness, medical, and navigation applications. Fullpower's ongoing innovation translates to continually broadening and deepening of the IP related to the MotionX-24/7 Plug & Play Ecosystem for Wearable.
"Fullpower's MotionX leadership position in powering wearable ecosystems is measured in years — no one else comes close," said David Provost of Body Monitor Review.
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Comic Review: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D – Masterworks, Vol. 3
December 31, 2021 by Talking Pulp	in Comic Review, Reviews and tagged action, adventure, Ant-Man, Archie Goodwin, Avengers, Baron Strucker, Barry Windsor-Smith, book, Captain America, Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), comics, Dick Ayers, Gary Friedrich, Goliath, Hate-Monger, Herb Trimpe, Hydra, Iron Man, Jim Steranko, Marvel, Nick Fury, review, Rick Jones, Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema, sci-fi, Scorpio (Marvel), spy, superhero, The Vision, thriller, Wasp, Yellow Claw
Published: February 15th, 2018
Written by: Jim Steranko, Gary Friedrich, Roy Thomas, Archie Goodwin, Ernie Hart, Steve Parkhouse
Art by: Jim Steranko, Frank Springer, Herb Trimpe, Barry Windsor-Smith, Dick Ayers, Sal Buscema
Marvel Comics, 309 Pages
I started with Masterworks, Vol. 3 because it is a collection of what's considered to be the most beloved work featuring Nick Fury, as the solo star of his own stories.
This also takes the character, puts him in S.H.I.E.L.D. and makes him a cool, hip superspy, as opposed to a military hero on the battlefields of war.
Marvel, like everyone else at the time, wanted to capitalize off of the '60s spy craze that started with the first James Bond film, Dr. No in 1962. That movie inspired its own sequels, a slew of rip-offs, parodies, pulp novels and comics. So, instead of creating a new character, Marvel reworked one that was already pretty popular but existed in a genre that was drying up.
A lot of this is written and has art done by Jim Steranko. A lot of people worked on the issues in this collection, though, but Steranko is the guy that has always been given most of the credit for this groovy reinvention of Nick Fury.
Tapping into the '60s era spy genre, this is trippy and colorful and it stands out in a really unique way when compared to the other Marvel titles of the time. I love the hell out of the art and the style in these comics and it's why I've picked up a lot of the single issues, over the years.
I was never as captivated by the stories, as much as I was by the visuals, however. But the stuff featuring Nick Fury fighting Hydra and the multi-issue arc pitting him against the Hate-Monger were really damn enjoyable.
I never got to read all of these issues and experience the bigger picture. I'm glad that I finally did, though, as it's really different than what was the standard '60s Marvel fare. Plus, it's also infinitely better than anything Marvel's doing these days.
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Internet provides a golden key for startups who are looking for a quick takeoff with lower capital investments. Technology startups mushroomed with the birth of the world wide web.
Optic fiber cables and Cloud Technology gave further fillip to startup entrepreneurs as it improved availability of internet and brought down operating costs significantly.
Online Education, Social Media, Availability of information at the click of a mouse, e-commerce, online payment system, internet banking etc. are host of conveniences enjoyed by those who have access to internet.
Startups and Internet- What is Internet?
A current example is the GetGlue from AdaptiveBlue. If you visit a movie blog, and read about a particular film, it immediately links to sites where you can buy or rent that film. Another example is WolframAlpha, an amazing computational engine that went live recently, which creates intelligent results, graphs, and reports from any natural language question.
As you search the Web, the browser records your interests in your local storage. The more you use the Web, the more your browser learns about you, and the more relevant will be your results.
The term global village applies as customers and suppliers can access the web anytime anywhere. The reach becomes global.
Social Media has provided tremendous opportunities to build network. Building network is the lifeline of any business.
Setting up any business requires money for both capital as well as running costs. On both accounts internet has given opportunities for a low cost or a lean startup.
Internet has given opportunities to compete with big players.
E- mail has enabled instant reach and also brought down communication costs tremendously. Sharing relevant information with use of passwords has helped confidentiality. The businesses operating across the continent can communicate with any one at any time.
Internet has eliminated the distance and enables instant sharing of social events among family members and friends.
There are many parts of the world where internet has not penetrated. Speeds are also low thus restricting the use.
Theft of data, misuse of personal information, syphoning of money from bank accounts etc. pose a grave danger. Encryption Technology has developed well but hackers still get an edge over this technology.
Teens and vulnerable groups spend long hours on social media causing social disorders.Personal relationship has taken a beating.
Internet has become an integral part of our life. The explosion of smart phones and mobile internet has given opportunities to the term m-commerce, m-payment etc. Smart Phone apps can create mobile wallet.
Like all things associated with internet security, hacking has become a major threat. This again throws up more opportunities for development of products and services in the security area.
Technology like any new invention has always two sides to the coin. Internet has become an inseparable part of our life and developments like Internet of Things which is offering smart technology, will further accelerate the use of internet and cloud solutions.


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General News: ICC Introduces New Rules; Players Will be Sent Off for Misconduct
General News ICC Introduces New Rules; Players Will be Sent Off for Misconduct
Dubai: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has introduced a number of changes to its playing conditions which will be effective in all series starting 28 September or later.
The significant changes include a restriction on the dimensions of the bat, the introduction of player send-offs for misconduct and changes to the Decision Review System, all of which will commence from the two upcoming Test series – when South Africa hosts Bangladesh and the one between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the United Arab Emirates.
The ICC playing conditions will now incorporate the relevant clauses from the MCC Laws of Cricket (2017 Code), meaning that all the playing regulations will be captured in one document for each format.
ICC General Manager – Cricket, Geoff Allardice said: "Most of the changes to the ICC playing conditions are being made as a result of changes to the Laws of Cricket that have been announced by the MCC. We have just completed a workshop with the umpires to ensure they understand all of the changes and we are now ready to introduce the new playing conditions to international matches."
To maintain the balance between bat and ball, the playing conditions now restrict the size of the edges of the bats as well as their thickness. The restriction on the length and width of bats remain unchanged but the thickness of the edges can't be more than 40mm and the overall depth can be 67 mm at the most. Umpires will be issued with a new bat gauge, which they can use to check a bat's legality.
In a new playing condition pertaining to players' conduct, a player can now be sent off the field for the rest of the match for any serious misconduct, meaning it will apply to Level 4 offences while the Level 1 to 3 offences will continue to be dealt with under the ICC Code of Conduct.
Threatening to assault an umpire, making inappropriate and deliberate physical contact with an umpire, physically assaulting a player or any other person and committing any other act of violence all constitute Level 4 offences.
The above changes will be applicable across all formats, as will be a change in the DRS rules by which a review will now not be lost in case of a decision that remains unchanged, solely as the result of an 'umpire's call'.
As for DRS in Test matches, there will be no more top-up reviews after 80 overs of an innings, meaning that there can only be two unsuccessful reviews in each innings, while the DRS will now also be allowed to be used in T20Is.
An important change with respect to run outs is that if a batsman is running or diving towards the crease with forward momentum, and has grounded his/her bat behind the popping crease but subsequently has lost contact with the ground at the time of the wickets being put down, the batsman will not be run out. The same interpretation will also apply for a batsman trying to regain his/her ground to avoid being stumped.
For boundary catches, airborne fielders making their first contact with the ball will need to have taken off from within the boundary, otherwise a boundary will be scored.
Also, a batsman can now be out caught, stumped or run out even if the ball bounces off the helmet worn by a fielder or wicket-keeper.
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No, I haven't gotten Quake II yet — I don't know how much I'd play it. I never really got into Quake. I don't really play computer games much anymore, though I don't really know why. I guess my life is full enough right now.
I've spent some time browsing Elfwood recently. It's an archive of work by amateur fantasy artists, and a lot of it is extremely good. I recommend the Top 250 list. I love fantasy art, and have done a bit of sketching myself. Don't be surprised; I'm not that good. But maybe with some practice….
We had a good time with my relatives. I was, of course, working most of the time they were here, but we managed to hang out together for quite a bit. It's nice to have relatives that you can talk to and have fun with.
I'm starting to get worried about my Be, Inc. stock — at the moment I'm in the hole $45 on it. Still, I'm confident it'll make an upturn in a few weeks, or even months; it's being mentioned everywhere, from U.S. News and World Report to the AST home page.
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It's actually one of my favourites. The colour lasts a long time and stands out . It's a great product but I wouldn't expect anything less from Calvin Klein .. would you?
I have a feeling I have done a post on this little primer before however I have been asked too show all 33 items in my top make up draw .
So this item is a tad expensive ( however I got it cheaper on a plane ). I had heard of smashbox products and dared to buy one . This primer says it has no oil however it is the MOST oilest primer ever.
However does it do what it says? Yes you will look like a model or a edited picture . It will make your make up look flawless.
1. Brush or sponge – use what you want however I feel for a base layer use a brush then to make sure there's no streaks . Nothing worse than that!
Check your colour is right ! To do this go to a beauty expert at a local beauty place for instance mac or boots . Try testers . Do not ever feel obligated to buy that "super perfect foundation " when you think hellllll no I look weird as hell . It's okay to just ask for advice .


We've all been there: We set a list of resolutions to take into the new year, stick with them for a few weeks (maybe a month), and then we just…stop. Of course, breaking a bad habit or starting a new routine is hard work, so don't feel too bad. You're not alone! In fact, 80% of resolutions fail by February, and tons of those well-intended goals are health related. So how do you break the vicious cycle and change yourself for good? Would you believe me if I told you your slow cooker can help you keep your New Year's resolutions?
Surprisingly, using your slow cooker is the best way to jump-start your New Year's resolution to eat healthier. This miracle machine can make a dish for every meal of the day, and with minimal effort to boot. We've made a list of the wide array of recipes you can cook in the Crock Pot to help you keep those resolutions. Start this year off on the right foot, and keep it going well past February!
Can you believe it's possible to make a healthy version of French toast? There's no better way to cozy up on a cold winter morning than with a deliciously comforting breakfast like this. By using whole wheat bread, almond milk, and coconut sugar, this morning treat can be enjoyed as part of your New Year's resolution to eat healthier!
We pack in a ton of savory flavors with this hearty and spicy breakfast casserole. It has the best ingredients to start your day off right: protein from the eggs, calcium from the cheese, and healthy carbs like potatoes to keep you feeling fuller for longer. Combined with heart-healthy olive oil and plenty of veggies, and you've got a perfectly well-balanced breakfast!
Can you tell we like French toast? It's all about those complex carbohydrates and fiber that keep you feeling satisfied long after you're done with breakfast. This fun variation uses potassium-rich bananas, and the delicious cinnamon and vanilla spices add sweet and cozy flavors. Perfect with your morning cup of coffee!
There are so many health benefits of turmeric, including its anti-inflammatory properties. Take advantage of this delicious super spice by making carrot soup. It's rich and creamy, making it a perfect pair with a side salad for a quick lunch. Simply combine all ingredients and let it go!
Chowders are traditionally heavy and loaded with unhealthy fats, but this version will deliver the flavors you love without all the extra calories. Made with a few pantry staples, this soup can be made in a flash! Feel free to experiment with the toppings to create the perfect soup for you!
Chicken and wild rice soup is one of those ultimate comfort foods. This lightened up version is perfect on a cold day when you don't feel like leaving the house. Plenty of spices like sage, thyme, and rosemary give this dish an amazing depth of flavor. Serve it up with whole wheat bread for a meal that will please everyone!
A warm casserole straight out of the oven is a great cold-weather dinner, but you could also use your slow cooker to make this healthy dish even easier. Adding complex carbs with whole grain rice and veggies gives this meal plenty of fiber. Plus, the chicken adds much-needed protein to keep you feeling full. With only 327 calories per serving, you won't feel guilty about going back for seconds!
Yes, even foods like meatloaf can be made in a slow cooker! Plenty of protein makes this meal hearty and healthy. This recipe also packs a spicy punch with the addition of cumin and cayenne pepper. Simply combine all the ingredients into the pot and cook away. Make a glaze to top it off and you'll have a Mexican twist on an American classic!
Quinoa has become a wildly popular, healthy grain lately, but we like using this complete protein in a new way. Loaded with veggies and chicken, we love how all the spices pair together in this dish. Once it's done, immediately top it off with cheese for a deliciously gooey dish!
Do you believe us now that your slow cooker can help you keep your New Year's resolutions? With so many great recipes to choose from, don't give up on your resolution before you've even gotten started! Taking the first steps into a resolution can be scary, especially if you go in thinking you're going to fail. But if you take everything one step at a time and don't give up at the first sign of trouble, your body will adjust and you'll feel better than ever!
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Earthquakes in New Zealand
As New Zealand and other areas in the Pacific Ocean passed the May 21, 6 p.m. local time unscathed, despite predictions by Harold Camping that the hour would signal the beginning of the end of the world, many seemed to breathe a public sigh of relief – some tongue-in-cheek and others more seriously – on Twitter and other social media forums.
Although it was not the first time Oakland-based Camping (89) forecast the apocalypse, this date marked the most attention-grabbing of his doomsday predictions. The unprecedented publicity was spurred by a worldwide $100-million campaign of caravans and billboards, financed by the sale and swap of TV and radio stations.
Camping broadcast what he told viewers would be his final 'Open Forum' TV and radio show Thursday night. The Times' Christopher Goffard reported that when Camping, a former engineer, wrapped up the program he's hosted for decades, he shook hands with a couple of crewmen. "I probably won't see you again" – he announced.
The map above shows recent seismic activity in the world, as reported by the U.S. Geological Survey on Saturday morning, shortly after midnight in Los Angeles.
Below is a look at what people were saying as the predicted start of the apocalypse came and went.
New Zealand Earthquakes.
Harold Camping's prediction of doomsday beginning on May 21 has proven to be wrong.
The self-styled prophet predicted the end of the world would begin in New Zealand at 6 p.m. local time, but the destruction has failed to materialize. Camping claimed a single massive earthquake would begin in New Zealand, and it would travel around the world to San Francisco at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
The University of Washington's John Vidale says Camping's prediction of a single earthquake ending humanity is not feasible. Vidale believes that a magnitude 10 earthquake would have to break a subduction zone to create massive destruction, but the worst case scenario would be located off of a coastline and not under a city.
Although an entire coastline would be ruined by tsunamis in Vidale's scenario, the earthquake would not wipe out all of humanity.
Camping is an 89-year-old who taught himself how to interpret the Bible. His prediction was based upon his own research. Although Camping may have some followers, his own children and grandchildren refused to believe in his May 21 prediction. Only his wife offered her support.
Camping has not made a public comment since New Zealand survived his predicted doomsday time.
Nothing is as it was before Feb. 22. Sport, sadly for many, is no exception.
Facilities, especially on the eastern side of the city, were hit hard in the quake, displacing teams and whole sporting organisations.
QEII is munted. It's unclear when, or even if, it will be rebuilt.
Porritt Park is the same.
A decision is still to be made on its future. Tennis's Wilding Park will be saved despite massive damage.
However, all sports have been affected in one way or another.
QEII was developing as not just the home for swimming and athletics, but as a crucial sporting hub. Canterbury Cricket used the Village Green as a home ground, gymnastics had its home on site as did the New Zealand Academy of Sport.
Academy acting chief executive Selwyn Maister told The Press that QEII was becoming the premier sporting venue in the country.
"Bar none" – he said. "It had investment from the council and Sparc were lining up too. That's what makes this such a shame."
But, as they say, the show must go on.
The academy is now based at Pioneer Stadium, but it doesn't have all of its high-performance goodies.
Some staff and athletes have moved to the Dunedin academy base while many individual programmes have been drastically altered.
"We're doing what we can to make it work" – Maister said.
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John Lewis Partnership Corruption Bribery Exposé
The Carroll Foundation Trust and parallel Carroll Maryland Trust multi-billion dollar offshore tax fraud bribery scandal has recently disclosed that Gerald Carroll's Farnborough Aerospace Development Plc and Carroll Aircraft Corporation Plc group structures were "centered around" HM Ministry of Defence high level officials in this case of international importance.
Sources have revealed that the sudden death of a HM Ministry of Defence retired Permanent Secretary who was Chairman of the Carroll Aircraft Corporation is fueling feverish speculation that his demise was actually cold blooded murder in a bungled attempt to cover-up the criminal liquidation of major operating divisions of the Carroll Global Corporation's worldwide interests spanning an incredible sixteen years.
Further sources have revealed that Gerald Carroll's Farnborough Aerospace Aerospace Centre in Hampshire England was "targeted" by BAE Systems and HSBC International within the framework of a systematic break-up embezzlement operation which effectively was impulsed by the fraudulent incorporation of UK Companies House "parallel registered" Farnborough Aerospace Development Corporation Plc Strategic Research & Development Corporation Plc and Carroll Aircraft Corporation Plc group structures.
Scotland Yard "leaked" sources have disclosed that the Carroll Foundation Trust criminal "standard of proof" prosecution files contain forensic specimen exhibits of fraudulently incorporated HSBC International offshore accounts Barclays International offshore accounts and Coutts & Co Gerald Carroll accounts which embezzled a staggering two hundred million dollars of the Carroll Foundation Trust's huge treasury investment holdings.
This source also said that the dossiers contain forensic specimen exhibits of the co-ordinated break-ins burglaries theft and criminal seizure offences that were "targeted" at Gerald Carroll's multi-million dollar Eaton Square Belgravia penthouse and Westminster residences following a complete refusal by the Metropolitan Police to provide assistance covering a bizarre six to eight years.
Dr Jane Newell Resumé:
Dr Jane Newell is chair of the John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust and was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the pensions industry and to charity in the 2013 Queens New Year's Honours list.
In December 1991 the newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell died suddenly and shortly afterwards it was discovered that some four hundred and forty million pounds was missing from his companies' pension fund leaving thirty thousand pensioners potentially bereft.
The Maxwell Pensioners' Trust was established by the Government in July 1992 to help solve their plight and Jane Newell was appointed a trustee along with Sir Ewen Broadbent and Lord Cuckney.
Jane Newell chaired the pensions schemes of the Dixons' Group United Utilities the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme the deputy chair of Glaxo Trustee Companies a trustee of the GlaxoSmithKline Pension Plan and chair of the Royal Mail Pension Plan being the second largest scheme in the country with assets of twenty four billion pounds.
Jane Newell has also shown long standing commitment to public service across a wide range of roles – a non-executive director of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital Trust a 10 Downing Street Cabinet Office and Home Office "assessor for appointments" in the Police Prison and Fire Services. A trustee of Common Purpose Charitable Trust and a magistrate in Liverpool.
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Houses of Holes
Hiroko Oyamada's novels inhabit the borderlands between fantasy and reality, an uncanny landscape played for horror and comedy.
December 22, 2022 issue
Hiroko Oyamada; illustration by Leah Reena Goren
Weasels in the Attic
by Hiroko Oyamada, translated from the Japanese by David Boyd
New Directions, 71 pp., $13.95 (paper)
The Hole
New Directions, 116 pp., $13.95 (paper)
The evening I received a copy of Weasels in the Attic, I heard noises in my attic. I told my wife it was probably a squirrel. I knew it was not a squirrel. "Listen, when you think about buying a house, give it some real thought, okay?" says Saiki, a fortysomething man in Hiroko Oyamada's novel. "Once the weasels show up, you're done for."
The noises—a tentative scraping, followed by a dedicated digging—woke us up. They began in the ceiling directly over our heads before scurrying to the wall, which I began smacking. The intruder was chastened but soon resumed its efforts. I kept up the smacking every few minutes, with increasing force but the same result. We worried the creature was trying to burrow through the drywall. After a reprieve of several minutes, long enough for us to fall back asleep, the scratching grew more insistent. It seemed closer to the far side of the wall, which runs along a hallway. After a minute the timbre of the sound suddenly changed, as if some resistance had been cleared. In a panic I grabbed the item closest at hand: Oyamada's slim paperback. I burst through the bedroom door to see a gigantic rat sticking its head through a gnawed-open hole in the wall. I screamed (shrieked might be more precise) and, gripping the book like a mallet, braced for a confrontation. When I flipped the light switch, however, the rat's head reconfigured itself into the small globe that lights the hallway. A sconce.
Oyamada, who was born in 1983, has said that her first novel, The Factory, was inspired by such a momentary hallucination. She was working as a temp at a large car factory near Hiroshima, where she was born and still lives. One day, when she glanced up from her desk she saw, by the printing station, a woman holding a giant black bird. Oyamada replays the scene on the final page of the book: "She had a tight grip on its wings, but it wasn't trying to fly away. It was definitely alive, surveying its surroundings." In the novel, the woman, holding the bird in front of her, walks out of the office without comment. In reality, Oyamada realized that the woman was not holding a bird at all but some printer component—a toner cartridge, perhaps. Oyamada quit and wrote The Factory, choosing to spend her days in the hallucinated reality rather than the actual one. That novel and the two that followed—The Hole and Weasels in the Attic—vibrate with such images, which seem to flicker between mirage and deadpan realism, and lurk in the imagination like a haunting.
An exterminator caught the rat in our attic, we sealed every minute gap in the roof we could find, and that (so far) has been the end of it. In Weasels in the Attic, Saiki tries the same approach without success. After quickly capturing several weasels, the exterminator tells him that it would be a lot cheaper if he bought and tended his own traps. For months Saiki's traps fill almost as soon as he sets them. Each time, he drives his captive fifteen miles away into the mountains and releases it from its cage. But the weasels keep coming. They are a considerable nuisance, and not just because of the noises and the bother of emptying the traps. There is also the stench ("Let me tell you, weasel crap stinks like hell"), the mess (they construct their dens out of chewed-up insulation and clumps of fur), and the fleas they attract. Saiki's wife develops an allergic reaction that causes her arms to swell and turn bright red.
"But all you've got to do is find the hole, right?" asks Saiki's old childhood friend, the novel's narrator.
That's impossible, Saiki explains. His house, in a remote countryside, is old and riddled with gaps and crevices. "When you think about it," writes Oyamada, "Japanese homes are full of holes." But for some reason the weasels ignore Saiki's neighbors.
Over dinner at Saiki's house, a grotesquely rich boar stew, the narrator's wife recalls that during her childhood, her parents also had a weasel problem. The infestation got so bad that a putrid liquid began dripping from the attic. She too developed a rash, all over her body. Her father and grandfather set a trap and soon caught one—an adult female. "Great," announced her grandmother. "We got one of the parents." But the weasel didn't look like an adult. It was very cute: covered in golden fur, with little ears, a flat snout, and tiny legs that wriggled about in the cage. She wanted to keep it as a pet.
Her parents told her to go play while they released the weasel into the wild. But she refused to leave its side. She describes watching in horror as her grandparents filled a garbage can with water and submerged the cage. The weasel, she recalls, made a horrible sound, unlike any she has heard since, a series of piercing shrieks. The grandmother explained that this was the ideal outcome. The shrieking of the mother weasel sends a message to the rest of her family: "This house is dangerous…Don't stay here or they'll drown you…Leave and don't come back… Goodbye."
It's a good thing we got the mother, said the grandmother. Father weasels grow belligerent. Babies scream for help. Nothing, said the grandmother, is nearly as effective as the death agony of a mother weasel: "The mother's the best."
This is a novel, in case it wasn't already clear, about the decision to have children.
Oyamada's novels, translated by David Boyd into impassive and frictionless English, inhabit the borderlands between fantasy and reality, an uncanny landscape disrupted by surprises that can be played as easily for comedy as for horror. With each novel Oyamada has migrated in the direction of realism, though her advances have been subtle. The Factory is set entirely within a facility the size of a city, or even a nation-state: "A world of its own." Employees enjoy the use of apartment complexes, supermarkets, bookstores, karaoke bars, a bowling alley, a fishing center, a hotel, a post office, a bank, a travel agency (but who would dream of leaving?), a shrine, and a museum exhibiting the art of factory employees ("It's definitely worth a look," says a proud supervisor). The campus has only four entrances (north, south, east, and west), and it is bisected by a river too wide to see across. When asked to describe the difference between the two factory zones, an employee says: "Everything over there is more, uh, physical. The buildings here are so metaphysical." Metaphysical to the point of theoretical: the factory's product is inscrutable, to its employees and to the reader, and ultimately irrelevant. A rigid but seemingly arbitrary secrecy settles over the campus. "It's best if you're careful with what you say to people outside the factory," says the supervisor. "You never know who's watching. Be sure to obey the rules."
The novel follows three new hires, all of them about thirty, who were at professional dead ends before they found their way to the factory. Or did the factory find them? None of the characters actively pursued their positions but were pressured to apply by a brother, a girlfriend, an adviser. A recently fired "systems engineer" is hired as a copyeditor for corporate documents. A liberal arts major who has never held a job for longer than a year accepts an offer to join the Shredder Squad, feeding documents into a paper shredder for seven hours a day. A taxonomist of moss is asked to install green roofs on the factory's buildings.
The new employees don't fully understand why they've accepted these jobs or, for that matter, what they do every day. The shredder spends most of the novel dining with her colleagues at the factory's restaurants and exploring the grounds. The papers reviewed by the copyeditor are banal and increasingly incomprehensible. "There's no reason to think anyone even sees the documents once I've checked them," he says. "I have no clue if I'm doing my job correctly." Sometimes the documents return to his desk unchanged; sometimes they have acquired additional errors.
The moss biologist tries to explain to anyone who will listen that while he's an expert on moss, he doesn't know the first thing about green roofs. Nobody cares. "Figure it out as you go," a supervisor tells him. "We understand that it could take months, years. Don't worry about that." So he stops worrying and stops working. Ultimately his only obligation is to lead the families of factory workers on an annual Moss Hunt, during which they tour the property's "unsettlingly dark" forest, identifying species of moss. "What I want to know is why I'm here," he asks in exasperation. "If they don't need me, then why am I here?" It is tempting to extend the metaphor of Oyamada's factory to all of modern industrialized society. What kind of factory have we built? And what exactly are we making?
The similarities between the trials of Oyamada's characters are not a flaw of the novel but its driving conceit, one she emphasizes through a delicate formalistic choreography. The three narratives unfold in alternating chapters, but the chapters are unlabeled, distinguished only by page breaks. The characters are rarely named and their circumstances so alike that pages can pass before it is clear which character we're reading about.
As their identities erode, so does their work: technical documents reviewed by the copyeditor disintegrate, merging into his own stream of consciousness. Time blurs accordingly. Oyamada flits between disparate events, months or years apart, from paragraph to paragraph, without transition or comment. Though it seems as if the events of the novel unfold over the first few weeks after the workers are hired, it later becomes clear that fifteen years have drifted by.
What might be baffling or frustrating in the hands of a clumsier writer assumes in Oyamada's novels the quality of an enchantment. The reader, like the factory's employees, learns to submit to the slipstream. One can rail against the mindlessness of corporate life, Oyamada suggests, or embrace it. But one can't escape it. In The Factory's final scene the shredder woman imagines herself becoming a black bird and flying to the ocean, an image that could as easily be taken as a symbol of transcendence as of despair.
Oyamada's factory shares the same psychic architecture as the luxury tower of J.G. Ballard's High-Rise, the endlessly vast underground hospital of Kobo Abe's Secret Rendezvous, and the meticulously recreated apartment building of Tom McCarthy's Remainder, claustrophobic novels that shrink society within the confines of a single deranged edifice. The more rigidly a world is structured, the more disturbing the incursions of disorder and chaos. The Factory shares those novels' preoccupation with themes of social control, surveillance, and social hierarchy, though Oyamada's restraint brings her closer in sensibility to McCarthy than to Ballard or Abe. She would never begin a novel, as Ballard does in High-Rise, with a narrator eating the roasted hindquarter of his pet Alsatian, though there is a constant ominous hum suggesting that horrors on the order of canophagy are imminent.
Where, in Oyamada's fluorescent-lit and temperature-controlled worlds, does this horror come from? The natural world, naturally—or at least what poses as the natural world, its inhabitants having been entrapped and neutered and poisoned by civilization. The factory hosts an eerie menagerie of novel species that have evolved to adapt to their industrial landscape. Giant flocks of identical cormorants, which never seem to produce offspring, spend their days staring longingly toward the factory walls. Packs of grayback coypu, a relative of the swamp rat that southern Louisianans call nutria, nest in the factory's drainage pipes and grow to the size of seals; "washer lizards," which spend their entire lives in the factory's cleaning facilities, subsist on detergent, lint, and grime. In Weasels in the Attic we have, besides its eponymous critters, various aquaria of tropical fish, including a sharp-tailed baby bonytongue that in a nightmare leaps from its tank onto the sleeping narrator's belly. The demonic presence at the bottom of The Hole is simply known as "the black animal."
The Hole is narrated by Asa, who is so indistinguishable from The Factory's shredder that she might as well be the same person. Nearly thirty, Asa quits her job as a temporary worker when her husband is transferred to a branch office in the countryside not far from his parents' home. Or homes—his mother owns and rents out the house next door. The previous tenants have just left, she informs her son. A rent-free house, next to the in-laws: What could go wrong?
The house and its environs become another factory, a world of its own, with its own code of secrecy. It is summertime, unbearably hot, and the neighbors are all exceedingly old. Asa never sees a cat, a dog, or even a bird. A river runs through the area, but it is choked with so much waste that it looks "like it was made of gelatin." Nobody goes outside, at least not while the sun is up, apart from a band of feral children who gambol in the shadows, just out of view. Where are their parents? Do they have parents?
Asa, jobless and friendless and aimless, her social calendar blank for the foreseeable future, falls into a psychological hole. Then she falls into an actual hole—a hole in the ground. She is led there by the black animal, a darkly charismatic beast about the size of a retriever, with wide shoulders, muscular thighs, yellow eyes, white fangs, and a long, pointy snout. She first encounters the animal on the riverbank while walking to the local 7-Eleven. She trails it through tall grass until she finds herself at the bottom of a hole about five feet deep. "The hole felt as though it was exactly my size," she says. "A trap made just for me."
One expects, at any second, that the black animal will lunge with gnashing teeth, that the flocks of black birds will rise in a sudden Hitchcockian assault, that the boar meat in the fatty stew will be revealed to be weasel meat. But Oyamada is careful to avoid detonating any of her lit bombs. After Asa spends a few minutes at the bottom of the hole, she is helped out of it by a well-dressed neighbor holding a parasol. "So, um, are there lots of holes around here?" asks Asa. "I really couldn't tell you," says the neighbor, mimicking one of The Factory's functionaries. "You'd better stay on the path. Don't get too close to the river."
There are, it turns out, lots of holes around there. "This place is full of holes!" one of the feral children exclaims. "They're everywhere." There are also lots of mysterious biting red bugs, a grandfather who waters the garden in the middle of the night in a grinning, catatonic daze, and a brother-in-law whom Asa's husband has somehow neglected to mention to her. Asa, like most of Oyamada's characters, and occasionally Oyamada's readers, often feels like she's the only one not in on the joke. She realizes that she has no idea what her mother-in-law does for a living, she can't explain what her husband does at his office, and she knows nothing about her father-in-law, who with two or three line edits would vanish from the novel entirely.
When she asks questions, they go unanswered. At the grandfather's funeral, Asa asks her husband for fond memories of him. "What makes you ask?" he responds, as if she's demanded to know the capital of Paraguay, before he returns his attention to his phone. Soon Asa stops bothering to ask. When she discovers that her husband has a secret brother who has been living in solitude for twenty years in a shack behind her mother-in-law's house, his only companion the black animal, she doesn't even raise it with him: "What would I do if he said they weren't brothers? If that were true, then who was he? And what would I do if they were brothers? How could I respond to that?"
In The Hole, the bland formality of corporate life has spread, like an infection, to the family home. In Weasels in the Attic, it extends to the bedroom. When forty-year-old married couples are forced to discuss intimate matters with each other, they speak with the stilted bashfulness of middle schoolers in sex-ed class:
"Have you been, um, handling things…yourself?"
"Handling things?" I stared at my wife, confused. "What things?"
"How can I put it…I mean do you ever, um…You know…" I was shocked by the look she was giving me.
"Oh, you mean…Use my hand and stuff to…Do I do that?"
"Yeah." She nodded. I had no idea what to say. My face must've been bright red.
"No, never, not since we got married…"
American readers might be inclined to detect, in such exchanges, a criticism of Japanese culture. But Oyamada's tone is never satirical or polemical—she is the anti–Ryu Murakami. She shies away from geographical and cultural references, apart from the obsessively, even luridly itemized meals. (Boyd, to his credit, doesn't bother trying to translate terms like inarizushi, azuma, and okara, all of which are used to characterize the same dish.) Her worlds begin small and shrink—to the size of a cubicle, or a hole. A trap made just for me.
One of the few characters willing to question the status quo is Asa's shut-in brother-in-law. For all we know he is a product of Asa's subconscious, since we never see him interact with anyone else. Though friendly to Asa, he explains that he has cut himself off from the world out of disgust with humanity. He reserves his greatest disdain not for greed or evil but for the human submission to what he calls "this current that never stops," which is to say inertia, or liberal democracy, or capitalism.
When Asa asks him why the neighbors avoid speaking of the black animal, despite all the dangerous holes it digs, he replies: "What would you expect?… Most folks don't see what they don't want to see." Most folks, at least, avoid speaking about disagreeable things. When people stop asking questions, Oyamada suggests, they can numb themselves to any monstrosity. Why has the river been allowed to become so polluted? Why do young people, no matter how unhappy they are, feel that they must mate and have children, beginning the cycle anew? Why do we allow ourselves to be so easily diverted by technology that we cannot sustain conversations with our loved ones? Why do we give ourselves fully to meaningless jobs in the service of faceless—and often psychopathic—corporations?
The answers to such questions are not especially mysterious, and Oyamada is not interested in pursuing them. Her subject is avoidance: the absurd contortions a person will perform to avoid seeing the world as it really is. Avoidance begins as farce and ends as horror, eroding not only one's sense of reality but one's own identity. Travel too far down this path and it becomes impossible to tell the difference between a printer cartridge and a bird, a husband and a total stranger, a weasel and a newborn child.
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The founder of present day Nipomo, William G. Dana of Boston, was a sea captain. Dana's travels led him to California where he married Maria Josefa Carrillo of Santa Barbara. In 1837, the 38,000-acre (150 km2) Rancho Nipomo was granted to Captain Dana by the Mexican governor. The Dana Adobe, created in 1839, served as an important stop for travelers on El Camino Real between Mission San Luis Obispo and Mission Santa Barbara. The adobe was a stage coach stop and became the exchange point for mail going between north and south in the first regular mail route in California. The Danas had children, of which 13 reached adulthood. They learned both English and Spanish, as well as the language of the Chumash natives.
Nipomo is the location of one of the most famous photographs of the Great Depression, "Migrant Mother", by Dorothea Lange. Thompson Road was originally US Highway 101, on which Lange no doubt traveled. The current US 101 freeway was constructed in the late 1950s.


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Born 1951 - studies at University of Copenhagen 1973-79 in history, history of religion and islamic studies and obtained the degree of dr. phil. in 1988 with a dissertation entitled Studies in the Genesis and Early Development of the Caliphal Taxation System.
From 1981 to 1984 I was part of a team establishing The Center for MIddle East Studies at the UNiversity of Odense, I cunducted a research initiative sponsored by The Danish Research Council for HUmanities about Islam and Muslims in Denmark from 1986 to 1988, and from 1989 to 1992 I had a post.doc. at The Institute for History, University of Copenhagen. In 1992 I was attached to The Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen as Associate Professor and served as Director of Studies from 1993 to 1996 and then as Director of the Institute from 1996 to 2001. From 2001 to 2005 I was Director of the Danish Institute in Damascus and on my return I became Associate Professort at the Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review


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By Sophie on 16 Dec 2020
The Covid-19 Crisis has impacted many sectors, particularly charities who have seen a catastrophic collapse in earned and fundraised income resulting from the pandemic.
This year, most charity events have been cancelled & moved online. While we've watched companies adapt impressively well by transitioning to virtual events, there's always the worry: will as many people sign up for a virtual event? Will it be as successful without the charged atmosphere of a crowded space? Will anyone talk about it on social?
Find out how we helped Breast Cancer Ireland have their biggest year yet by bringing the Great Pink Run online.
The Great Pink Run is Breast Cancer Ireland's biggest fundraising event of the year. It has been running for 10 years across the Phoenix Park and Kilkenny Park, with a great atmosphere and sense of community. Due to the pandemic, this year they had no option but to make it a virtual event. But would there be any momentum or excitement? Would people be motivated to take part without the fun that comes with an organised event?
The short answer is…YES!
With a strong creative concept and a digital first approach, we set to work on making this an event everyone would want to take part in. There were 4 key elements that ensured this campaign was a success from a digital point of view:
Strong Creative Concept
Influencers & Ambassadors
1. Creative Concept: Turning the Globe Pink
We came up with the creative concept which was 'Run The World for Breast Cancer Ireland'. We set a collective goal of covering 40,070 kilometres before the end of the Great Pink Run weekend, which is the equivalent of running a full circumference of the world.
We decided that for our virtual run, participants could do their own race, anywhere they wanted, for as many kilometres as they liked.
On the Great Pink Run website, we then designed a globe and an online tracking device where they could log their distance once they'd completed their run. As they logged their kilometres, they could watch as the globe turned pink in front of their eyes! From this, our mission was born: Turn The Globe Pink for Breast Cancer Ireland!
The interactive element of our audience logging their kilometres on the website and seeing the globe turning pink ended up being a really effective way to create a buzz and get people talking about the event.
This creative was also consistent across online and offline channels throughout the campaign.
2. Influencers and Ambassadors
The use of influencers and ambassadors such as Georgie Crawford, James Patrice and Sonia O'Sullivan played a huge role in engaging our audience. We were able to create some excellent video pieces that could be shared across all channels and expand our reach. Georgie Crawford's Instagram post received almost 3k likes, while James Patrice's video garnered almost 30k video views.
3. UGC
User Generated Content was vital this year more than ever to create a sense of community and togetherness for everyone taking part in the run. We encouraged all participants to share their photos and use the hashtag #GreatPinkRun on the day. These images would be automatically pulled on to the interactive content, so when you go to log your distance you would see everyone else who had taken part. This was essential to generate a sense of community. It's estimated that there were more than 30,000 interactions with the hashtag #GreatPinkRun across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
4. Strong remarketing campaign
We utilised a full funnel strategy for this campaign, ensuring we drove awareness with great upper funnel content and implemented a strong remarketing campaign targeted to all engagers and website visitors. Once someone had signed up to the Great Pink Run, we continued to target them, encouraging them to share pics when they received their run pack, or use the hashtag on the day, or share our running tips content.
The Results: Virtual Wins!
This year was the most successful Great Pink Run that Breast Cancer Ireland have ever had.
- Amount raised: €960,000 in total, with €547,000 of that coming from online donations. This was an amazing 254% above target and overall it was 49% more than what was raised in 2019.
- Number of registrations: 15,000. This was 200% above target, and 47% more than last year.
- Distance ran: 65,000 km. Which means that yep- you guessed it -we ran MORE than a full circumference of the globe at 40,070km. We ran 1.4 times around the world, to be precise! Not only that, but considering 5,500 people logged their kilometres on our website out of a total 14,870 people who registered, we most likely ran even FURTHER than this!
The Wolfgang Takeaway
User Generated Content is essential to generate that sense of community that we are at risk of losing when an event goes virtual. Through a strong UGC campaign, sharing of real stories and amplification through brand ambassadors you can ensure all participants feel like they are part of a community. The best marketing is that which comes from your own customers, if you can build your army of brand advocates through social media, you are on to a winner.


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require 'minitest/autorun'
require 'minitest/mock'
require "bkwrapper/backup/pg_backupper"

describe Bkwrapper::Backup::PgBackupper do
  before do
    @test_project_name = "testproject"
    @db_username = "username"
    @db_password = "password"
    @db_name = "database"
    @backup_filename = "xxx-#{@test_project_name}.backup"
    @pg_backupper = Bkwrapper::Backup::PgBackupper.new(@test_project_name, @db_username, @db_password, @db_name)
  end

  it 'should construct the right filename' do
    @pg_backupper.stub :prefix, "xxx" do
      @pg_backupper.backup_filename.must_equal @backup_filename
    end
  end

  it 'should construct command properly' do
    @pg_backupper.stub :prefix, "xxx" do
      @pg_backupper.backup_command.
        must_equal "PGPASSWORD=#{@db_password} pg_dump -U #{@db_username} -Fc #{@db_name} > /var/tmp/#{@backup_filename}"
    end
  end
end

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The writing commission wasn't an easy one. It came with requests from three publications. The local Croydon newspaper wanted a double-page spread about Alvin's career to coincide with a review of the gig. A religious publication wanted some material on Alvin who some time before had been quite vocal about Christianity but who had become much quieter about that following some very difficult press he had received following his divorce from Liza Goddard. There was also a rock music magazine who had seen Alvin on "This Morning" talking about attending an Eagles show and who wanted to explore his musical tastes outside of 50s rock 'n' roll. This one had an added advantage for me since at the time I was involved in writing and editing a publication for Eagles fans so if the interview went well there was the possibility of a fourth piece.
However, aside from meeting a real hero, I had a second reason to be nervous. As well as being a professional writer, my day job had changed a few years before that date. I'd become a Christian minister and I felt a little like someone going into a situation with lots of excess baggage – I wasn't at all sure how that one would go down.
I contacted Flying Music who were in charge of the tour and they understood about the Sereyna complication and that was fine. I arrived at the stage door several hours before the show and was presented with my Access All Areas pass and left to wander around. We ran into Suzi Quatro who was also on the tour bill and we chatted informally for a while and then after a stroll around the theatre to get my bearings, I was ushered into Alvin's dressing room – to find he hadn't arrived.
10 minutes or so later Alvin and Julie (his wife) arrived and I could hear some brief words outside the door. Alvin: "There's a guy in there"; Julie: "Yes, he's here for an interview but it's okay, he's like Steve (Flashman, A Christian minister and musician, who was a friend of the family and who had done some TV with Alvin). Ah! Time to relax a little.
In come Alvin in street clothes and Julie already in her stage gear. Introductions, handshakes etc.. Alvin took a swift look around and then headed straight back to the door, saying that he had something important to deal with first and this would just have to wait. I'm getting uptight again.
10 minutes later, Mr Stardust returns with a can of soda and a bag of salt and vinegar from Walkers. He presented them to Sereyna and said, "pop and crisps". My daughter looked at him with the same kind of admiration in her eyes that I'd felt watching his stagecraft on Top of the Pops performing "You, You, You" more than 20 years before. It took her a long time to get over the glow of that moment.
After that the interview went like a charm. We talked about a broad range of subjects for over an hour and then after a brief moment doing the fan bit of getting some autographs on a few things I'd brought along, it was time to go and talk to some fans who were waiting for the show to get more material for the articles.
I remember that while he was signing, Alvin said to Julie about the George Tremlett biography he was signing for me that he thought this was the one where the author had got most of his facts wrongs. I'm not so sure. It always seemed broadly correct to me.
After the show, things didn't go so well. I wrote up my notes and got ready to submit them to my agent ready for publication. However, in the meantime I had a phone call from the guy who was then Alvin's manager (I can't remember his name, but I think Alvin parted company with him a couple of years later) who sounded anxious. He asked me to fax my interview notes to him. Now this was highly unorthodox but because it was Alvin I complied and 30 minutes later, it came back with red ink all over it telling me the things I couldn't use. It felt like I'd just had my Physics homework marked when I was 16 – felt like I was back at school.
I protested that the notes were a verbatim account of what Alvin had said but the guy wasn't going to be moved and frankly the heart and the soul had been ripped out of any possibility of making a worthwhile article out of the shreds that were left. It wasn't a good scenario.
After that whenever I met Alvin, he was a little cautious. I couldn't tell whether it was because he'd done a 90-minute interview with me and nothing had come of it or whether he simply didn't warm to me on some level. Usually, it doesn't bother me if someone doesn't like me but the child in me really wanted to be like by Alvin Stardust.
The would-be article sits in my files unpublished. Some years later, I opened a theatre in London which had a broad remit for the arts. We discussed who to get for opening night. We wanted someone who could pull off a performance that could embrace more than 5 decades of popular music. Only one name came to mind. Alvin Stardust. We booked Alvin and then the opening of the theatre was delayed for technical reasons for nearly a year and by the time the theatre was due to open, we had other things in our calendar waiting to come in. So, Alvin never played there. I never asked him for his fee (which we had paid upfront) back. I don't think he needed us to do that, but it seemed like a nice gesture.
One of the best moments of my life was when Alvin said "pop and crisps" to make my daughter feel special, comfortable and at home in a strange environment.
That was a measure of the man behind the black leather gloves and what kind of special person he was.
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Q: Create unique dataframe For each city (here : NY, Chicago) I have 3 csv files with 2 columns like this :
file 1 : ID, 20101201
file 2 : ID, 20101202
file 3 : ID, 20101203
Each file name is like this : "Chicago_ID_20101201.csv"
The 2nd column name is representing a date in this format YYYYMMDD.
I want to create a unique file for each city with a dataframe containing 4 columns: ID and the 3 other columns referring to each date in these files.
cities = ["NY","Chicago"]
dates = ["20101201", "20101202","20101203"]

for city in cities:
    df = pd.DataFrame()
    for date in dates:

        file_name = f'{city}_ID_{date}.csv'

        df[date] = pd.read_csv('[...]')

        print(df[date])

Plus i would like to know if there is a way to avoid giving the list of dates in the case that i would want to do it for an entire month.
Thanks

A: You can read each dataframe, store them in a list, set the ID as index and concatenate them to get one ID column and three other date columns:
cities = ["NY","Chicago"]
dates = ["20101201", "20101202","20101203"]

for city in cities:
    df_list=[]
    for date in dates:
        file_name = f'{city}_ID_{date}.csv'
        df_list.append(pd.read_csv(file_name, index_col='ID'))
    df = pd.concat(df_list, axis=1)
    print(f'This is the dataframe for {city}', df)

For your second question, you can create any date range, using pandas daterange:
pd.date_range(start="20101101", end="20101201", freq='D').strftime('%Y%m%d')

Output:
Index(['20101101', '20101102', '20101103', '20101104', '20101105', '20101106',
       '20101107', '20101108', '20101109', '20101110', '20101111', '20101112',
       '20101113', '20101114', '20101115', '20101116', '20101117', '20101118',
       '20101119', '20101120', '20101121', '20101122', '20101123', '20101124',
       '20101125', '20101126', '20101127', '20101128', '20101129', '20101130',
       '20101201'],
      dtype='object')

A: Use pathlib:
import pandas as pd
import pathlib
import collections

# the path to your csv files
DATA_DIR = pathlib.Path("cities")
cities = collections.defaultdict(list)

# Collect data
for file in DATA_DIR.glob('*_ID_*.csv'):
    city = file.stem.split('_')[0]
    df = pd.read_csv(file, dtype=object).drop_duplicates('ID')
    cities[city].append(df.set_index('ID'))

# Build city files
for city in cities:
    df = pd.concat(cities[city], axis=1).reset_index()
    df.to_excel(DATA_DIR / f'{city}.xlsx', index=False)

Now you have two files Chicago.xlsx and NY.xlsx.

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Q: VerifyError: Error #1079: Native methods are not allowed in loaded code I have an Android/iOS app compiled in AS3. I was having issues and was advised to upgrade to Flash Builder 4.7 (from 4.6). I did so, and when I try running with the new Air 3.4 I get the following error:
VerifyError: Error #1079: Native methods are not allowed in loaded code.

A: So I tried uninstalling Flash Builder 4.7 64 bit and installing the 32 bit version. This didn't help (same issue).
But then I tried something different. So my workspace was originally my Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 (as I had many AS3 projects in that workspace and wanted to just load that up in 4.7). Apparently this caused my issue (or at least it went away when I did the following).
I decided to use Flash Builder 4.7's default workspace (Users\\Adobe Flash Builder 4.7) instead of switching to 4.6. I then imported my existing projects that lived in my 4.6 directory. Compiled and it ran fine!
I guess there is an issue when upgrading from Flash Builder 4.6 to 4.7 and using the old workspaces from 4.6... Not sure why it caused that bizarre error but I'm glad to be able to move on.

A: Same issue for me. I fixed this by:
Project -> Properties -> Library Path ->
clearing out the old libraries here from fb 4.6 and clicking 'add air sdk'.

A: I had this problem. It turned out to be because in
Project -> Properties -> Library path
An earlier version of playerGlobal.swc was referenced rather than the default one provided as part of the Air SDK. Removing that and manually adding the playerGlobal SWC from the Air SDK resolved the problem.
(Apparently Playerglobal.swc includes just the interface definitions, including native methods, for classes that are in the Player).

A: This is what helped me (may help someone else as well).
I am on FB 4.6 and I remember well that I updated my SDK to Apatche 13.0. After that libraries in my projects messed up. I removed project (also deleted files) and than imported copy of the same project again. Worked like a charm.

A: In my case, the problem was in the build script. I upgraded to AIR SDK 22, but the build task contained:
<target-player>11.1</target-player>

Either removing this parameter or changing the value to 23.0 solved the problem.


Mathura Nirgude giggles and says in a loud whisper, "They have not taught us anything." She is sitting by a bullock cart near her one-room house in Take Harsha village in Nashik district's Trimbakeshwar taluka. Most of the village's roughly 1,500 residents are from the Thakar Adivasi community.
Until December 2017, 11-year-old Mathura was studying in Class 5 at the zilla parishad (ZP) School in Dahalewadi village, around eight kilometres away. Then the state government shut it down. She now attends Class 6 in a school run by a non-governmental organisation in Avhate village, nearly four kilometres from Take Harsha.
When the ZP school in Dahalewadi shut down, the school in Avhate took in its 14 students, says Bhagwan Madhe, an education activist based in Vavi Harsha village in the same taluka. "It does not get any grant from the state, and they don't run it seriously," he adds. The Avhate school – Shri Gajanan Maharaj Vidyalaya – only holds classes twice a week.
But Mathura's loss of her ZP school in Dahalewadi is not an exception. Tens of thousands of children across Maharashtra have seen their schools closing down in the last few years.
Between 2014-15 and 2017-18, the Maharashtra government, led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, shut down 654 ZP schools, according to numbers obtained through a query (that I filed in June 2018) under the Right to Information Act. The Maharashtra Prathamik Shikshan Parishad's response said that from 62,313 ZP schools in the state's 36 districts in 2014-15, the number was down to 61,659 in 2017-18.
And the number of students decreased from nearly 6 million in 2007-08 to a little under 5.1 million in 2014-15, and then to around 4.6 million in 2017-18.
In April 2018, Education Minister Vinod Tawde said that the government has only shut schools with 10 or fewer students because it was unviable to run them. Those students, he said, have been accommodated in nearby ZP schools. In January 2018, the state proposed closing down 1,300 more schools. Education activists have strongly opposed this move.
Mathura and other students in her village though fell off the ZP roster. Her mother Bheema says the nearest still-open ZP school is further from Avhate, in Samundi, nearly 10 kilometres away. "As the girls grow up, we worry for their safety," she says, sitting with her toddler in her lap.
According to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, a state-run school must be available within a kilometre of students up to Class 5, and within three kilometres for students till Class 8. "But this is not adhered to in many places," says Madhe.
The zilla parishads are district councils, with administrators headed by a collector nominated by the state government. In Maharashtra, the ZPs took over schools from district boards in 1961-62, and have been running them since. Most of these are primary schools, from Class 1 to 7 or 8; a few are till the secondary level of Class 9 and 10; and fewer still have Class 11 and 12.
The ZP schools offer free education, and most of the students are from families of farmers, agricultural labourers and others who cannot afford private schooling. Among them are Adivasis and Dalits – Scheduled Tribes constitute 9.4 per cent of Maharashtra's population, and Scheduled Castes make up 11.8 per cent of the state's population (Census 2011).
However, instead of providing an equal shot at education to all children, successive governments have consistently neglected public education in Maharashtra.
The Economic Survey of Maharashtra shows that during 2007-08, the state government's expenditure on primary, secondary and higher secondary education was Rs. 11,421 crores or 1.90 per cent of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP). A decade later, in 2018-19, the allotment for school education (and sports) has grown to Rs. 51,565 cores, but this is just 1.84 per cent of the total budget – pointing to the state's disinterest and diminishing allotment for schools.
Seeking a better education for their kids, some parents transfer them to private schools, often at great cost and hardship to the family. In Modnimb village in Madha taluka of Solapur district, 40 students dropped out and joined a private school nearby in 2017, says the ZP school teacher Parmeshwar Survase.
Besides, says Ahmednagar-based educationist Herambh Kulkarni, many families want their kids to know English well, which is why parents prefer an English medium school to ZP schools, where the medium of instruction in Maharashtra is Marathi.
So from a little over 1.2 million students enrolled in Class 1 in 2007-08 in Maharashtra's ZP schools, 10 years later, in 2017-18, merely 30,248 students – or just 2.5 per cent – passed their Class 10 examinations from these schools, according to data obtained through the RTI.
Even taking into account that most ZP schools are only up to Class 7 or 8 (and not Class 10), the numbers still do not look good. In 2009-10, ZP schools in the state had over 1.1 million students in Class 1. Eight years later, by 2017-18, there were only 123,739 students in Class 8 – that is, 89 per cent of the students dropped out in between.
However, the number of students in ZP schools is also dropping due to migrations. When farmers and labourers seasonally migrate for work, they take along their children. From the agrarian districts of Marathwada, the migrations are growing – and at least 6 lakh farmers migrate within the region or to western Maharashtra and Karnataka to work as sugarcane cutters between November and March, according to Rajan Kshirsagar, veteran communist farm leader.
When a student has to drop out, very often it is the girls in the family. Only one-fourth of women aged 15-49 in Maharashtra have completed 12 or more years of schooling, compared with 34 percent of men, says the National Family Health Survey 2015-16.
Her neighbour though says most of the girls in the village get married by 15 or 16. In the animal shed, Manjula unties the bulls and gets ready to leave for the afternoon. "I liked attending school," she says.
Now though, in the hamlets and small villages like Vavi Harsha and Take Harsha, with state-run ZP schools closing down in large numbers, even that slim chance at an education is receding for rural Maharashtra's children.


We have an update on the homicide investigation in Oroville.
Oroville, Calif.--The Butte County Sheriff's Office officials have now identified the man found shot in the head Saturday morning as 21 year-old Lorenzo Paz II of Oroville.
Paz was found shot to death Saturday inside a home on the 2900 block of Greenville Street.
The autopsy is scheduled for this week. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Butte County Sheriff's Office at 530-538-7671.


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Cuttings for these plants were given to me by my Uncle Ernie who farmed outside of St. Louis from 1930 to 1960. While I visited one weekend, he gave the vines to me and said "stick these in the ground, they'll grow". I wish he was still with us so I could learn from his experience. How did he cut them to ensure their viability? I haven't been able to reproduce that success. Though I was successful in moving the mature vines 20 years ago from a previous farm during a January thaw. They are a treasured part of the diverse domestic and wild fruit plants thriving on the Farm.
I pruned the vines during the warmer days of the first 3 months of 2016 . With only 150 feet of plants, I can be somewhat intentional about each cut. I attempt to prune according to the vine's inclination. Through observation, I try to understand what the vine is indicating it wants and needs to do to thrive. I am past trying to cut it into submission. My Concords are a bit unruly but very productive.
The vines are fed annually with compost I produce on site. The mixed hardwood sawdust mulch reduces the need for irrigation. I defend them from diseases (especially the black rot fungus-Guignardia bidwellii) using botanical teas made from plants (especially willow) on the farm.
Each bunch of juicy Concords is selected for harvest by hand when it reaches a deep blue/black color and exudes the heady aroma of grape jam. That usually occurs in late August. Concords do not ripen all at once.
Concord grapes are said to be a cultivar derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca (also called fox grape) – one of some forty-plus varieties native to North America growing along the East Coast from Maine to South Carolina.


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Q: How do I detect a Lock This Computer command from a WPF application? Would prefer an answer in C#, .Net 3.5 using WPF (Windows Forms also okay)
I have an application that is essentially a toolbar window or tray icon.  It needs to detect if a user locks his/her workstation and walks away in order to update the person's status in a centralized system.
I can detect a session switch or a logout easily enough, using the SystemEvents, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to detect or receive an event on Lock.
Thanks for any assistance.

A: When you handle the Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.SessionSwitch event (which it sounds like you're already doing to detect logout), check to see if the Reason is SessionSwitchReason.SessionLock:
 using Microsoft.Win32;
 // ...
 // Somewhere in your startup, add your event handler:
    SystemEvents.SessionSwitch +=
       new SessionSwitchEventHandler(SystemEvents_SessionSwitch);
 // ...

 void SystemEvents_SessionSwitch(object sender, SessionSwitchEventArgs e)
 {
     switch(e.Reason)
     {
         // ...
         case SessionSwitchReason.SessionLock:
            // Do whatever you need to do for a lock
            // ...
         break;
         case SessionSwitchReason.SessionUnlock:
            // Do whatever you need to do for an unlock
            // ...
         break;
         // ...
     }
 }

A: You need to P/Invoke WTSRegisterSessionNotification.

A: Here is something from CodeProject.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/DetectWindowslockunlock.aspx


Booktuber and blogger, I devour any lost words crossing my way and I share them under the pseudonym of Bulledop.
From fantastic to classic literature, I select my readings according to my mood and inspiration.
My favourite genres are contemporary, fantasy and historic literature, but I am open to any styles, provided that they do not include too much blood and murders.
You'll find me, a long-winded insupportably insupportable girl, on my chain sharing my literary selection.
Behind the screen, I am Emilie, 25 years old, bookseller and all my teeth still.