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Pioneer Struggles: Death of a Pioneer
By The Citizen on November 29, 2022
Excerpt from The Neponset Messenger (newspaper), Friday, Feb. 24, 1905, page 1, column 5:
"Isaac Bailey Blake, one of the most prominent residents of Neponset, passed away Monday afternoon. Mr. Blake had been a hale and hearty man and seldom had been sick. Just one week ago, he contracted a severe cold and this, with his advanced age, resulted in his death.
Mr. Blake was born in Peacham, Vermont, on Dec. 3, 1822, and at the time of his death was 82 years, 5 months and 18 days of age. He married Mary J. Pratt in Vermont and in 1856 came to Neponset when it was but a hamlet. He was a founder of the Congregational Church in 1858 and had been an active member until his death.
No one was more prompt and more faithful in service and attendance. For 46 successive years, he was engaged in the lumber business. He held many offices of public trust and responsibility and discharged his duties with marked fidelity and honesty.
Beautiful indeed was the life of the deceased and the Congregational Church was unable to seat all who wished to pay their tributes. The beautiful floral offerings were from the Sunday school classes where he served as superintendent. Every store was closed and school was dismissed.
The students marched in procession from the school to the church. Rev. H.L. Hartwell conducted the services, and the remains were laid to rest in Floral Hill cemetery. Survivors include his present wife, Jennie E. Pettitt, and his five children, Ira A. and Albert H., of Kewanee, and Matthew I., Anna M., and Wilbur G., all of Neponset. He was preceded in death by two wives, Mary J. Pratt and Elizabeth W. Craig and two children Harry L. and Mary A."
My recent stories have featured pre-Civil War Bureau County families, Methodist Church circuit riders and abolitionists. Some individuals become notable by their obituaries, and I wanted to learn more about this one.
Isaac Bailey Blake's grandparents were Henry and Molly Blake, who also lived in Peacham, Vermont. Since he was the oldest grandchild, I'm sure he heard war stories about "The Revolution."
Major Henry Blake fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 with Colonel Stark's New Hampshire Regiment. His great-grandfather, a corporal, died of smallpox serving with the Northern Continental Army, Still Water, New York.
Our Revolutionary War lasted six long years and the outcome often was in doubt. Many of Grandpa Henry's stories have been confirmed by his wartime diary. The positive influence on his 10-year-old grandson unfolds in the rest of his life story.
His Congregational faith was passed down from the earlier Blakes who left England as religious rebels. The New England Genealogical Register confirms great-great grandfather John Blake emigrated from England on the ship Resolution in 1678 to pursue religious freedom. I rather think the families' independent spirit and confidence may have driven their grandson to the Illinois frontier.
Isaac Bailey Blake was a teacher for a time in Vermont and also learned about carpentry and cabinet making. A cabinet and fancy cherry desk he made are still treasured in the family. So the lumber business was a natural fit for this young entrepreneur.
The huge Barren Grove timber lay to the north and the first railroad had just been built through Neponset. The lumber demand was exploding for brand-new towns and homes, in addition to windows, doors and nails. Timing and luck met knowledge and hard work.
In 1858, Isaac formed a partnership with Joseph Lyford and started the first lumberyard in the area. Lyford had stepped up earlier in 1855 and was the first Neponset mayor. He stayed on as mayor for 20 years until Henry Carse was elected. Carse served for 16 years.
They saw a lot of growth and a Civil War during their 36-year combined tenure. The lumberyard ownership changed hands a few times in 50 years, but Isaac Blake always was the manager. A family member still has the "IB" branding iron that marked the Neponset lumber. This was to promote advertising and discourage theft.
Isaac's love for learning came alive as the lumberyard office also became Neponset's first library. I.B. Blake was a director on the first library board and authorized the purchase of 365 books. Talk about a pioneer.
The Blake family's Revolutionary War service was not lost on later generations. A Kewanee chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution was started in 1897 in one of the original frame homes in town.
In 1915, Georiella B. Blake, Isaac Blakes' granddaughter was accepted with DAR registration No. 114697. She married Dr. Warren T. Heaps, son of Annawan's I.G. Heaps who served with distinction in the Civil War's 27th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment. (see Pioneer Struggles No. 11 – Civil War Hero – in the April 23 Bureau County Republican, page 11)
Revolutionary War Corporal Henry Blake Sr. and Major Henry Blake would pop their uniform buttons to learn of their offspring. Here are just a few: great-great-great-great grandson Col. Ellis D. Blake, Army, World War II and great-great-great-great-great-grandsons Col. Phillip L. Blake, Army; Lt. Col. Douglas B. Blake, Army; Lt. Col. Robert E. Blake, Army; and Lt. Col. Jamie J. Wittmeyer, Marines.
Great-great-great-great-great granddaughter Jani Wittmeyer Wells confirmed and documented eight generations of direct lineage to Revolutionary War soldier Major Henry Blake.
Deborah Coe, DAR state regent and Delores Nanninga, Kewanee Chapter, accepting Jani Wittmeyer Wells, standing, application on 7 Nov. It was also the chapter 125th birthday celebration. (Photo provided by Dick Wells/)
Wittmeyer Wells presented the DAR application and 41 pages of supporting evidence last month to registrar Gail Ripka of the Kewanee Chapter No. 5064IL. It was approved and has been forwarded to the state and national DAR folks for final review.
A Bureau County pioneer obituary is a good place to begin a local history lesson. The exciting part is seeing how the rest of the life came to be. We can remind ourselves to reflect and respect our family trees and think about how our lives are going to add value. We have today to make a difference. Every day is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
• Lt. Col. Dick Wells (retired) has an economics degree and master's degree in military history and is a property owner on the Neponset Great Sauk Trail. He always has been interested in pre-Civil War pioneer history and has been reading several first-person accounts. This is article No. 15 in the series Pioneer Struggles. Next will be Pioneer Education.

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Bobcat Softball Puts League-High Eight on PBC All-Academic Team
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) announced the 2019 PBC Softball All-Academic Team Wednesday, with a league-high eight members of Georgia College Softball (34-17) making the list.
Seniors Caroline Snider (Tennille) and Kayla Price (Indian Land, South Carolina) juniors Danielle Rubin (Canton) and Amber Coy (Warner Robins) and sophomores Sarah Couch (Madison), Haley Howell (Rochelle), Rebecca Lawrence (Vidalia), and Jessie Morris (Vidalia) took in the honor for the Bobcats.
Snider is a 3.67 in Mass Communication while Price has a 3.36 in Exercise Science. Coy boasts a 4.00 in Nursing and Rubin has a 3.85 in Special Education. Lawrence has a 4.00 in Political Science, Morris a 4.00 in Biology with a Chemistry minor. Couch adds a 3.90 in Management, while Howell owns a 3.82 in Exercise Science, adding a Physical Education minor. Three of the four 4.00 GPAs on the list belong to Georgia College.
Snider earns the award for the third time in her career, and Price her second or each season they were eligible. Coy makes her second appearance on the list, and it's the first such honor for Rubin, Couch, Howell Morris and Lawrence. The Bobcats tied with UNC Pembroke for most players to make this year's list.
The team is part of a season-long program recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of PBC student-athletes in the classroom as well as on the field. To be eligible for the All-Academic team, a student-athlete must 1) participate in at least half of his/her team's events and be either a starter or significant contributor; 2) achieved a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and 3) completed at least one full academic year at his or her current institution and has reached sophomore athletic eligibility. The Peach Belt Conference Sports Information Directors oversee the program.
The No. 5-seed Bobcats are in action Friday, May 3 at 6:30 a.m., taking on No. 4-seed Flagler College in the PBC Quarterfinals in Dahlonega.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner Cup and the 2017 PBC Sportsmanship Institution of the Year, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up- to-the- minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


The Company plans to initiate commercialization during the first half of 2009.
Tel Aviv, Israel, June 26, 2008 – Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN) announced today the discovery and experimental confirmation of a novel combination of four biomarkers for early detection of drug-induced nephrotoxicity. Data demonstrate that the biomarker signature may enable a much earlier prediction of drug-induced kidney toxicity during pre-clinical trials in rats in comparison to traditional diagnostic methods such as histopathology or clinical chemistry.
"Improved pre-clinical biomarkers for kidney toxicity would dramatically reduce the time and costs required to prioritize and select lead candidates for progression through drug development stages," said Anat Cohen-Dayag, Ph.D., Vice President of Diagnostic Biomarkers and Drug Targets at Compugen Ltd.
The biomarkers were discovered through the use of Compugen's Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Discovery Platform. A key component of the discovery effort was the integration of proprietary expression and clinical data derived from biological samples provided by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. These samples were generated by Teva in a preclinical study designed specifically for this project pursuant to a Collaborative Research Agreement between Compugen and Teva. Using various expression profile datasets, as well as statistical and machine-learning tools, a classifier consisting of a novel combination of four biomarkers was identified with a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of more than 85%.
Following the discovery of this 4-biomarker combination, it was experimentally tested in a blind evaluation study, with rats treated with vehicle-control, negative control compound or drugs that had previously failed in preclinical trials due to nephrotoxic effects. In this study, the 4-biomarker combination accurately identified the nephrotoxic drugs after a short period of exposure to the drugs, identifying the toxic effects within five days of exposure compared with up to 28 days required for visible pathological damage, the traditional diagnostic method.In addition, the biomarker combination successfully predicted the relative levels of toxicity of the compounds that were tested.
The collaboration agreement with Teva, announced in January 2007, granted Teva a license to use any discovered markers for internal research and development activities. Compugen retained the commercialization rights for licensing such markers to other companies, as well as rights for internal use.Compugen currently plans to commercially introduce the markers through licensing arrangements during the first half of 2009.
Current tools for diagnosis of kidney function involve blood tests, such as blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine levels, which show significant results only after substantial kidney injury has occurred. The pharmaceutical industry spends considerable amounts of money, time and effort trying to detect toxic drug effects as early as possible in order to avoid the progress of such drug candidates into more expensive drug development stages. Since the kidney is one of the primary sites of drugs toxicity, early detection of nephrotocxicity in the preclinical stage of drug development is an important unmet need.
This Platform relies on Compugen's LEADS and MED infrastructure platforms and additional public and proprietary data sources. Various algorithms and statistical and machine learning tools are used for the discovery of novel RNA transcripts that can serve as diagnostic biomarkers. The platform has been designed to allow the discovery of single and multiple combination biomarkers and to be broadly applicable for the discovery of such biomarkers for any organ toxicity and for specific disease biomarker discovery, such as for various epithelial cancers and atherosclerosis.
Compugen's mission is to be the world leader in the discovery and licensing of product candidates to the drug and diagnostic industries under milestone and revenue sharing agreements. The Company's increasing inventory of powerful and proprietary discovery platforms is enabling the predictive discovery – field after field – of numerous therapeutic and diagnostic product candidates. These discovery platforms are based on the Company's decade-long focus on the predictive understanding of important biological phenomena at the molecular level. Compugen's current collaborations include Biosite, Medarex, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (a Johnson & Johnson company), Roche, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc., and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. In 2002, Compugen established an affiliate,Evogene Ltd. (TASE: EVGN.TA), to utilize the Company's in-silico predictive discovery capabilities in the agricultural biotechnology field.For additional information, please visit Compugen's corporate Website at www.cgen.com and Evogene's corporate Website at www.evogene.com.


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NGC 4835 (другие обозначения — ESO 269-19, AM 1255-455, IRAS12552-4559, PGC 44409) — галактика в созвездии Центавр.

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Do Higher MPGs Really Equal Savings?
What is the monthly payment (purchase or lease)?
What is the insurance cost?
What is the fuel cost?
When all of these considerations are combined the buyer gets a clearer picture of how much a vehicle will cost per month or per year.
"brand new" model, it is a hybrid version of a car that Toyota has been making for some time, the Yaris. Look at the two side by side and the similarities will be obvious.
The Yaris has a starting price of $14,115 and gets up to 38mpg hwy.
for a total monthly cost of $365.03.
So, the Prius C (Yaris with batteries) will cost you and extra $63.33/mo and we haven't factored long term costs (what happens when the batteries need to be replaced?) Not to mention insurance costs, usually higher on hybrids compared to the gas counterparts due to replacement costs.
Lastly, since the Prius C is a hot seller dealers will be less likely to sell it for a discount.
The Yaris is an overlooked car with discounts available.
If you are in the market for a hybrid for the "green" factor they may be worthwhile, though you should look into the overall carbon-footprint of the vehicle especially when it comes to the environmental impact of the assembly.
But, if you are going to buy a hybrid to save money, look at the complete picture and make sure it works out in your favor.


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San Francisco Giants' Benito Santiago, #33, gets hit by a pitch in the 6th inning of their opening game on Friday, April 5, 2002 at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco, Calif. San Francisco beat San Diego 3-1. (Contra Costa Times/Jose Carlos Fajardo) (Photo by JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)
This was the year that The House That Steroids Built almost won a World Series by cheating, but thanks to the Anaheim Angels, the MLB world was spared that horror (for the time being). We can also thank the managerial ineptitude of Dusty Baker, who would also blow it during the 2003 playoffs, once again in historic fashion. We know Dusty is fine with cheating, too, as it has been his pattern.
We still believed back then that cheaters would not prosper in baseball, although the 2004 Boston Red Sox deprived us of that hope, and since then, it's been a lot of cheating champs parading through America with the rewards of their fraud on display. You'd think the majority of fans would reject this reality, but alas … some fan bases are so depraved, they're fine with it when it benefits them.
Anyway, we start with the usual suspect: Barroid himself. Over four consecutive PED-infused seasons (2001-2004), the Steroid King himself topped his peers in OBP, SLG, OPS, and OPS+. This was the season he set his career high in OPS+ (268) while also posting a .370 batting average at age 37. His career best up to this point had been the .336 he hit during the 1993 season, his first with the Giants.
Note, too, that this was first season of Bonds' MLB career where he did not steal double-digit bases. With just 9 steals, it was clear he didn't have the leg speed any more that he'd had prior to his PED use (28 steals in 1998). Thus, again, you know Barroid wasn't legging out infield grounders to get his batting average so superficially high. Nope, something else was at play here, cleanly and clearly.
So, how did it all rub off on his teammates this year? Let's see …
Exhibit B: Benito Santiago
At age 37, this former All-Star catcher boosted his OPS by 100 points suddenly, and he was later implicated in the BALCO scandal, too. Santiago claimed, "Yeah, I got the steroids, but it was a mix-up with the pharmacist. What I needed was hemorrhoid cream—you know, like George Brett—and they thought I ordered steroid cream. Soon as I saw what it was, I sent them back. Hey, don't laugh. You think it's fun squatting behind the plate for nine innings with hemorrhoids?"
Seriously, that's what he said. When you're done laughing, consider that in 2001, he watched Bonds explode for 73 HRs, while he managed just a .664 OPS at the same age as Barroid. Obviously, Santiago wanted some magic for himself heading into the 2002 season, and he got it, boosting that OPS to .765—a number he had not managed in a full season since 1996. Coincidence? He would have you believe so.
After posting a .753 OPS at age 38 in 2003, Santiago secured $4.35M in contracts from the Kansas City Royals (2004) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (2005). This guy clearly made the decision—perhaps in conjunction with the organization—in December 2001 to commit to PEDs, because after the Giants paid Santiago a mere $500K in 2001 to stink, they re-upped him for 2 more years and almost $4M in salary.
Exhibit C: Kirk Rueter
This junkballer somehow carved out a 13-year career in MLB despite striking out less than 4 batters per 9 IP throughout his time in the majors. At age 31 in 2002, though, he posted a career-low ERA (3.23) despite coming off four prior seasons where he put together a combined 4.54 ERA in 750-plus innings. How did he suddenly turn a corner in 2002? Good question.
Two things stand out: Rueter gave up 9.0 hits per 9 IP in 2002, another career low for a full season, and his WHIP (1.267) was the lowest ever for him, as well. His K rate didn't rise, either, so somehow Rueter had something extra on his pitches that gave hitters less of a chance than ever before to hit the ball well. What could possibly have made this happen for Rueter in Year 10 of his otherwise forgettable career?
Gee, we wonder. Ahem. What we do know is that Rueter's salary in 2001—almost $4.9M—was ridiculously high for a bad pitcher, and after 2002, the Giants proceeded to give him more than $19M more in salary before they waived him after the 2005 season. His 2003-2005 combined ERA? Just a tick under 5.00, actually (4.94). All that for a guy who never made an All-Star team or earned Cy Young votes.
Exhibit D: Jay Witasick
This is a classic San Francisco move: trade for an age-29 pitcher with a career ERA of 5.32 at that point, after four other teams have given up on him, and in the one season he pitches for the Giants, he turns in an unbelievable performance (2.37) as the S.F. organization pays him the same amount he'd made in the prior three seasons combined, when he was terrible. Why would a team do that? You know why.
Witasick then moved to the San Diego Padres in 2003, managed by PED enabler Bruce Bochy at the time, and made another $2.5M. Overall, he made more than $5M more in salary after his one year in The House That Steroids Built—which is impressive for a guy with a full career ERA of 4.64 who struggled to stay in the majors for 12 years while playing for 7 different organizations.
His 1.5 WAR was the highest single-season mark of his career, and with the Giants clinching a postseason spot by just 3.5 games over the Los Angeles Dodgers, you see why he had potential value for the S.F. organization. It's the little guys like that you don't expect to be cheating who are actually doing so, in all probability, and winning you games. No wonder the Giants gave him a raise for being a sucker.
Conclusion: Same old story in the City by the Bay, in truth
We often think of what Doug Glanville said/wrote about PEDs being worse cheating than sign stealing: We see three players who had careers dwindling or hanging by a thread, and they chose to use in order to get more paydays. The Giants dutifully supplied the financial reward(s), and it turned into a win-win situation for both players and team, basically.
The Giants were desperate to win, being massively in debt after being gifted the Bay Area baseball market by Bud Selig—they needed a winner. They almost got there in 2002, and in the grand scheme of the universe, we always be thrilled an asshole like Bonds never won a championship. At least most of the 2010/2012/2014 Giants were "nice" people—sit down, Aubrey Huff.
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A visiting professor of HKU, when preparing a talk on e-commerce, came across my earlier article on the Octopus card. The subject was relevant to his talk so he asked me for the source of the information. I duly referred him to the two newspaper articles I read in January this year. Professor Roger Clarke delivered his talk at HKU on 25 October. The subject of the talk was on the the security of mobile payments. I append below the main points of his presentation.
Before the age of information technology, monetary transactions depended on cash, cheques, and instructions and arrangements on direct credits and debits. These have been in use for a long time and we could fully appreciate their advantages and disadvantages. They are reasonably secure but are sometimes slow and cumbersome. Then credit card was introduced. It provides only low-grade security even when used at point-of-sale. The insecurity is much more problematic in MOTO (mail-order and telephone-order) transactions, also known as 'card not present' transactions. But the convenience of credit cards is greatly appreciated by consumers; and merchants are forced to bear the risk arising from fraud.
When information technology was mature by the end of the last century, financial institutions introduced new computer-assisted services to the customers such as automatic teller machines using account cards. Such services employ stronger form of authentication, usually a PIN in addition to the physical hard-coded cards, both need to be protected by the customers and the bank's internal system.
After the Internet was born, the first wave of Internet commerce started in the late 1990s. From the very beginning, Internet payment mechanism is a great challenge. Many approaches have been tried, but most payments continue to depend on credit cards, which is a scheme considered not sufficiently secure even in 'meatspace' with fixed-connection mainframe systems. Credit-card transactions over the Internet adopts the same low-security approach as MOTO transactions, although the transmission of credit-card details has increasingly been protected using channel encryption (Secure Socket Layer). On the other hand, Internet banking has matured into a relatively secure set of services. Financial transactions over the Internet have emerged with secure banking infrastructure that could provide most of the protections. A range of other electronic payment schemes were proposed in the late 1990s, including electronic cash, micro-payment, electronic payment instructions and stored-value cards. None survived. There are many successors and they vary from highly insecure to moderately secure.
As we enter the mobile payment era, using a wide array of wireless networks, we inherit the characteristics of the payment schemes that are already in place. Most significantly, credit card payments which are insecure become even more so when conducted using handheld consumer devices. In many cases, debit payments prove to be much more susceptible to fraud because of the context in which data is captured, and the reduced capacity of handheld devices to implement the protections that are expected in Internet banking applications.
The current wave of e-commerce is mobile/handheld/wireless. People expect everything to be done quickly, simply and intuitively. It appears that many modern consumers have a cavalier attitude to risk even when making payments, and particularly when making frequent payments of relatively small sums of money.
The chip inside Hong Kong's Octopus Card, which has been in use for a decade, is now inside many Japanese mobile phones. RFID Tags for paying road tolls are well-established. Visa has announced trials of its payWave and MicroTag technologies, embedded in key-rings. Other approaches, such as those from Paybox, PayPal and RingGo, let people use their mobile phones to communicate payment instructions. Common to all of these schemes are security weaknesses that represent risks to the consumer. The most apparent threat is unauthorized transactions, variously through errors, rogue devices, rogue transactions, and capture of authenticators by malware that has been infiltrated into the consumer device. There is an enormous range of vulnerabilities that consumers cannot be expected to take responsibility for infrastructure that they neither understand nor control. The key elements of a secure approach to mobile payment are not sufficiently satisfied by the new payment mechanisms that are currently being proposed, developed, deployed and in some cases even used.
We need to know more before we can judge whether mobile payment mechanisms are secure enough to attract consumers to use them in the first place and to keep them comfortable with using them once they have started. There is also a dire need for the providers of technology and services to take responsibility for the insecurity inherent in their schemes, and not try to impose liabilities on consumers. Mobile payments can be faster, more convenient and less of an obstacle - not only for consumers but for thieves too.


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Is There a Middle Ground for Apple and the FBI?
Nobody wants to make our cell phones less secure. But we all want the authorities to be able to chase down terrorists (unless you happen to be a terrorist). Here's an idea that might break the impasse.
As everyone knows by now, the FBI asked Apple to open a "back door" to the phone of the terrorist who shot a bunch of people in San Bernardino.
When I first heard this, I was shocked.
How could Apple refuse to help the FBI? National security is at stake.
But smart people I respect told me to slow down and not form any rash judgments.
To open a back door to one phone could result in a leak that would make it possible for all kinds of people -- including hackers and terrorists -- and governments -- to rush through the new back door opening.
And if Apple bends for U.S. authorities, what's to prevent China or Russia or Iran or some other country from making the same demands of Apple when one of their citizens causes "trouble"?
Had we all had cell phones during the American Revolution, it's pretty clear the British authorities would have demanded access to the cell phone records of Sam Adams, Paul Revere, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and many others.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
But now we have ISIS. This scourge feels very different than anything that has come before.
Surely we want to stop any plot we can in its tracks.
So is there an answer?
I don't know that there is an answer that will satisfy many, but here's a try.
First, the FBI should get a proper court order asking Apple's help.
Apple should continue to resist in court, setting up a trial over this issue.
Both sides would have to agree that if Apple cooperates with the FBI in this one case, no legal precedent would be set. This would be a one-time exception.
The FBI could then hand the phone over to Apple.
Apple could then do its own forensics in a very private and concealed way.
Whatever Apple learns about the terrorists, it would turn over to the FBI.
Apple would then need to work very hard to make sure whoever unlocked the back door never reveals to the outside world what he or she has done.
Apple is outstanding when it comes to keeping secrets; surely this is one it could protect as well.
Then, both sides can await to see how the courts eventually rule on this. And that decision would govern the rules of the road going forward.
I suppose it's possible to argue that there is no rush here. The husband-and-wife terrorists are dead, the damage has been done.
But the husband knew enough about the phone to turn off the cloud storage feature prior to the terrorist attack, so maybe there's something hidden inside the phone he didn't want revealed. That seems pretty obvious.
So if the FBI is to get any useful intelligence out of the phone, it needs to move quickly -- if it's not already too late. Any bad guys the terrorists were talking to surely have covered as many tracks as they can.
But this issue won't go away, so we might as well get a ruling from the courts, the sooner the better.
It's not just terrorists who will be affected by all this -- we're talking thieves, kidnappers, murderers and other bad guys.
And of course, everyday citizens are affected as well. We have rights, too. We want our government to do everything in its power to stop the bad guys.
Apple has rights here, as well. If opening a back door hurts its sales, that could hurt both Apple and the American economy.
Whatever ruling comes from the courts must apply to all phone manufacturers. I'm guessing this would soon lead to discussions about email accounts, social media pages and the like.
I know we don't want to make it easy for authorities to spy on innocent citizens, but it feels like sometimes we need to make exceptions to the rules. We live in rather extraordinary times, when someone can carry around a dirty bomb in a suitcase.
I am by no means claiming terrific insight or wisdom here and I invite others to comment on this. This is a question society needs to answer -- and quickly. We need a court ruling.


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Home Gossips Why i was attacked – FUTA Student beaten by colleagues narrates.
Why i was attacked – FUTA Student beaten by colleagues narrates.
Obinna ude
Boluwatife Adekunle, the female undergraduate of the Federal University of Technology Akure,FUTA Ondo State, who was physically assaulted by two ladies and a guy all said to be student of the institution, has given more insight into why she was attacked.
The young lady, who says she wants justice served, told SaharaReporters on Tuesday in Akure, the state capital, that she was attacked by her colleagues for revealing how one of their boyfriends forcefully tried to have an affair with her.
Adekunle revealed that she was assaulted in one of the private hostels in FUTA outside the school campus by the group in a bid to be disgraced among fellow students.
She said, "The whole issue started few weeks ago. I and one of the ladies in the video called 'Faith' were roommates in a hostel outside campus.
"Her boyfriend began asking me out but I felt it was not proper for me to date him. I rejected his advances.
"But instead of him to leave me alone, the guy kept disturbing me, so I had to report him to Faith because I don't want trouble.
"Before then, I had been having some issues with Faith as she had been living a wayward life on campus which I didn't like.
"From that point, she started seeing me as talking bad about her to people around our area.
"During this period, her boyfriend kept pestering me to date him but I refused.
"Instead of Faith to caution her boyfriend, she accused me of planning to sleep with her man.
"On the day that I was assaulted, she invited me to a room in one of the hostels and boyfriend and other ladies were inside the place already.
"Immediately I entered the place, they locked the door and asked me to kneel down while the guy was asking if he ever asked me for a date.
"Since I refused to kneel down, they began to beat me and also tried to strip me naked.
"They used a stick to hit me on my head and punched me on my face. The guy used horse whip to flog me several times.
"They said they would make sure they disgraced me on campus, I pleaded with them but they refused and I was about to faint when they stopped beating me.
"As I speak, I feel pains all over my body due to the beatings. Their plan was to kill me. I want them arrested and face the consequences of their action."
While condemning the attack on her daughter, the victim's mother, Mrs Florence Adekunle, said they wanted justice over the matter.
She said, "I was in the church on Sunday when her brother called me that they saw Boluwatife in a video and she was beaten up.
"I can't imagine how friends would treat a fellow student like this. I'm aware that the school authority and even the police have taken up the matter, all the same we want justice."
Following the incident and the widespread criticism that greeted it, the management of FUTA had announced the indefinite suspension on the students seen in the viral video assaulting Boluwatife.
Spokesperson for the institution, Adegbenro Adebanjo, confirmed this in a statement in Akure on Monday.
He identified the names of those suspended as Popoola Olaniyi Agboola (300L), Oluwadare Faith Tobiloba (200L), Nandi Yohanna Jessica (200L), Ajuwon Tolani Emmanuella (100L), Emmanuel Funmilayo Taiwo (100L) and Alao Olabimpe Cecilia (100L).
According to him, FUTA would not tolerate any form of indiscipline among students of the institution.
Adebanjo said, "As a consequence of their suspension, they are precluded from all academic and related activities indefinitely and barred from the university and its precincts forthwith.
"At the conclusion of ongoing investigations, the law of the university as contained in the handbook and oath of matriculation which all students are made to sign and subscribe to, will be visited on those found culpable."
Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Adie Undie, told SaharaReporters that all the students involved would be invited for interrogation.
He said, "We have started investigation on the matter. I have asked my men to brief me continuously on the findings."
-Sahara Reporters
FUTA
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* Dec 1 I got it so you can drag gates around the robot interior and the wires behave as expected. Also added (12/2) the ability to rotate a gate, to make prettier circuitry. Once you could solder a NOT-gate (aka "power-supply") to a thruster, the robot started moving.
 If a NOT gate's input is unconnected, then the output is "hot", making it a convenient source of power for other circuitry.
* Dec 7 (Pearl Harbor Day) brought another big refactor where the concept of a "walkable" surface was removed as being "just another object, like every other." Again, the inner-gerwerkkins of the code were greatly simplified.
* Dec 8, added robot-inventory. Also, stop all the timers/movement, etc., on app-to-background/app-will-terminate.
* Dec 9: refactor day.
– Refactored object templates out of farm into their own templates db.
– Refactored Mebot (your "avatar") out of top-level DB and put into farm's contents.
– Correctly/nicely working farm-save and -restore.
* Dec 11: circuitry uses battery-power, now, and stop working if the battery goes dead.
One of your early-on tasks in the game will be to build a battery charging station (and/or new batteries 🙂 ). At some point, I'll have to add the "automated solar-charger" panel so that, if you ever fully kill your only battery, you can get back up & running again to continue the game Possibly, a fresh battery will be an IAP (in-app-purchase) item. Either way, the tutorial will need to walk you through keeping your batteries going.
For now, batteries last ridiculously long — you can barely drain them, even if you try. I think I want power management, as well as building better batteries (learn tech) and more efficient circuitry (learn more tech) to be part of the set of resources you need to manage. We'll see how that all shakes out.
* Dec 17: added the "view robot in action" button that allows you to be in the robot's interior watching/editing the circuitry, but also see the farm, so you can watch what your robot is doing.
* Added "Settings" and a volume control, because few things annoy me more than games that make noise and don't have their own volume control separate from the device's master volume.


As a freelance code writer, my job requires me to stay up to date on all the latest technologies and software. Over the years I've come across some great applications, both for computers and for smart phones. Today I'll be reviewing some smart phone apps that I think have some great utility. The apps I am talking about are cell phone spy apps. There are many different cell phone spy apps to choose from. However, many of these apps are lacking in quality, support or, both. That is why I've decided to write this review, to give you, the general public, some insight into the best cell phone spy apps on the market today.
As I said earlier, there are many different cell phone spy apps to choose from. And I've had the chance to test just about all of them. Just like with computer code writing, if you don't test something out first you can't be sure if it'll work. So after some extensive testing I bring you a list of the best cell phone spy apps available today.
I tested these apps so you don't have to!
Highster Mobile is an excellent smart phone app that gives you all the features that you would normally expect from a cell phone spy app. Features like the ability to view texts, images, and call logs from a targeted phone from your own personal device. This no-jailbreak program allows you to view all the phones information without having physical access to it. The only downside I found while testing Highster Mobile is that it has no geo-fencing capabilities. This is an important feature for parents who want to keep track of their children's location.
While Highster Mobile is certainly an exceptional cell phone spy app. In my opinion, the best phone spy app 2017 is without a doubt DDI Utilities. Not only would I rank it as the best cell phone spy app of the year, it's also one of the best smart phone apps I've ever had the pleasure of testing. All the features of a cell phone spy app are available on an easy to use interface. The installation process was so simple that just about anyone can do it. And if you happen to run into any problems, you can always contact the live customer service representatives.
If you would like to learn more about these apps, check out this blog dedicated to cell phone spy apps!


To improve rural livelihoods in vulnerable communities of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by maintaining agricultural activities and restoring farmers' employment opportunities.
Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Economic and Social Development Centre of Palestine.
2 640 beneficiary households (760 in the Gaza Strip and 1 880 in the West Bank, or 15 840 individuals).
Rehabilitated 280 dunums of orchard demonstration plots with fencing poles for grape plots and avocado plantlets.
Distributed 360 irrigation network packages, 8 000 sacks of organic fertilizer and 440 rolls of plastic sheets for mulching to 420 households to rehabilitate 420 dunums of open fields.
Rehabilitated 150 dunums of greenhouses with 150 rolls of plastic sheets, 50 rolls of insect-proof nets, 50 double-door systems, irrigation networks, fertilizer and pheromone lure.
Constructed 34 rainwater cisterns and two water reservoirs, and rehabilitated nine wells.
Rehabilitated 50 small ruminant sheds of 60 metres2 each.
Distributed mobile sprayers to 19 herders' associations and one MoA research station to control small ruminant parasites, and 150 milking machines and 150 butter churns to 300 herder households.
Upgraded Al 'Arrub rangeland nursery with 250 m2 of plastic sheets and 1 000 m2 of shading.
Trained 12 farmers' groups on quality management and marketing skills; 45 laboratory technicians and agronomists on horticulture nurseries management, certification and sanitation; and 450 beneficiaries on integrated pest management, crop management and plant production and good agricultural practices.
Improved the quantity, quality and marketability of production through the restoration of assets, rehabilitation of farming infrastructure and increased access to resources.
Assisted beneficiaries in restoring their productive capacity and decreasing production costs through optimized irrigation, new varieties of fruit trees and improved small ruminant shed design.
Increased accessibility and availability of water for irrigation and livestock, decreasing farmers' and herders' reliance on water from expensive tanker trucks.
Strengthened the marketing capacity of grassroots farmers' organizations through training.


This weekend, as we hadn't any plans for sure, I decided to make a short "raid" around our vecinity regions of La Rioja (EA1/LR) and Soria (EA1/SO) new for me.
To make it more interesting for my son Oier, we organized at the same time a visit to the exposition of "ichnites" -dinosaur footprints- quite abundant at La Rioja (which is already famous around the world because of its wines).
So, saturday morning (31/5/2014) we headed towards Enciso, a small village near Arnedo, and 2 1/2 hours from Bilbao. After arrival, we went to our hostel to have our room booked, and just later, to "El barranco perdido" a complex at Enciso, which blends an ichnites exposition, archaeological works for children, and an adventure complex, with ropes, flying foxes, bow throwing, and some more activities on open air. There we spent some hours, until 15:00 UTC when we left for activating the first SOTA summit.
EA2CW(the small one) & Co.
At the beginning, SOTA was a secondary target, as the weather was said to be quite bad, with rain, storms and strong winds. But we were happy to have some time of good (good enough at least) weather.
On our way to Sierra El Palo (EA1/LR-039), 1268m, 6 pts. we found some places around Enciso where the footprints have been found. There were also several 1:1 scale reproductions of various dinosaurs. It's hard to understand which size they were unless you can see it!
Sierra el Palo summit, 1268 m.
The weather was getting worse, but the path to the summit was not too long -about 1,5 km- so finally, we decided to hike and, after arriving, we mounted the FT-817 with the small telescopic antenna SPX-100 that I carried among the norcal doublet. As the wind became stronger, and the rain started, we were only able to make a very short activation on 14 mhz. Just spotting and 15 min of operation to make 13 QSOs.
Before getting all wet, we left the summit quick. At least, during the descent, we could watch some delightful panoramas, as the one below.
A bit later, we were to the hostel at Enciso for dinner and then straight to bed.
Next day, sunday, we were ready to make our second summit, about 60 km south from Enciso, but already in the EA1/SO region. The chosen summit was Cayo, EA1/SO-010, 1709 m. and 8 points.
The ascent was short (about 1 km) and the day was sunny, but there was a very strong wind, and Oier -even we found a small shelter near the summit- didn't want to spend more time than needed to make the activation.
Again I chose to mount the telescopic antenna, because I was sure that the 6 m. pole would fly free on such heavy winds. I used also 6 short ground wires of about 3 meters long, which were enough to make qsos on 14 Mhz (CW) with N1EU (589) and CU3AA (59+9) On the other side, the signals from EU were quite lower... ask the propagation gods why! I was lucky enough to make S2S QSOs with Andy MM0FMF/P, Tom M1EYP/P and Barry MW0IML/P. Just half an hour only on 14 mhz for 32 QSOs.
To recover from cold and efforts, we had later a splendid meal -salad and lamb chops- at Almazara (Soria) during our returning trip to Bilbao.
What more can you ask for? 2 new regions, 2 (unfortunately short) new summitss of 6 & 8 points, and -for short- a good SOTA weekend! Well, don't forget the dinosaurs!


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Klaus-Peter Thaler (Eckmannshausen, 14 de maig de 1949) va ser un ciclista alemany, que fou professional entre 1976 i 1988. Combinà la seva participació en curses en carretera amb el ciclocròs, especialitat en la qual es proclamà campió del món els anys 1985 i 1986.

Durant la seva carrera esportiva destaquen dues etapes al Tour de França, una a la Volta a Espanya i la classificació final de la Volta de les Tres Províncies.

Palmarès en ruta
 1973
 1r al Gran Premi de Lillers
 1974
 Vencedor d'una etapa de la Milk Race
 1975
 Vencedor d'una etapa del Gran Premi Guillem Tell
 1976
  Campió d'Alemanya en ruta amateur
 1977
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Tour de França
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Andalusia
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Astúries
 1978
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Tour de França
 1979
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Critèrium del Dauphiné Libéré
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Alemanya
 1980
 1r a la Volta de les Tres Províncies i vencedor de 2 etapes
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Espanya
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la París-Niça
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Astúries
 1982
 Vencedor de 2 etapes a la Volta de les Tres Províncies

Resultats al Tour de França
 1977. Abandona (17a etapa). Vencedor d'una etapa
 1978. 35è de la classificació general. Vencedor d'una etapa
 1980. 37è de la classificació general
 1981. 49è de la classificació general
 1982. 90è de la classificació general

Resultats a la Volta a Espanya
 1977. 3r de la classificació general
 1980. Abandona. Vencedor d'una etapa

Palmarès en ciclocròs
 1973
  Campió del món amateur en ciclocròs
 1976
  Campió del món amateur en ciclocròs
 1981
 1r al Ciclocròs d'Igorre
 1985
  Campió del món en ciclocròs
 1987
  Campió del món en ciclocròs

Enllaços externs
 Fitxa de Klaus-Peter Thaler a sitiodeciclismo.net

Guanyadors d'etapa al Tour de França alemanys
Portadors del mallot groc del Tour de França alemanys
Ciclistes de Rin del Nord-Westfàlia
Campions del món de ciclocròs


For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, 1 regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, 2 that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.
I think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and completely overwhelmed, and we thought we would never live through it.
We don't want you in the dark, friends, about how hard it was when all this came down on us in Asia province. It was so bad we didn't think we were going to make it.
We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.
1 tn Grk "brothers," but the Greek word may be used for "brothers and sisters" or "fellow Christians" as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1., where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning "brothers and sisters" is cited).


This project is a study of the integration of migrant populations in contemporary China. The main objective is to analyze how different groups, especially "migrants" versus "locals", interact and see each other within urban areas. It also features the development of a software used to estimate and to record information related to the integration of a group of individuals with regard to another group.
The study of diversity, here understood as variations of shared understandings between groups of people, is highly relevant for China, since it is home to a very large and diverse population. The high-speed economic growth in the last decades was accompanied by significant changes, including a very rapid urbanization characterized by the emergence of mega industrial cities and massive internal migrations towards these new industrial poles, which house approximately 300 million mobile workers known as the "floating population" (liudong renkou 流动人口).
In cities such as Beijing, groups composed by people of different backgrounds end up sharing a same urban space. However, these individuals are often not incorporated as residents, due to the bind to one's birthplace enforced by the household registration system (hukou 户口) in China. The aim of this research is to understand how, in this context, these various groups identify themselves, how they identify other groups, and to what extend they understand the ways of living and of thinking of people involved in "other groups".
The project addresses these core research questions through a new and innovative methodological tool known as the Imitation Game. Inspired by the work of famous mathematician Alan Turing, and adapted for the social sciences by sociologists Harry Collins and Robert Evans at Cardiff University, this approach consists of conducting experiments between social groups understood as different one from another (either by the researchers or by the individuals themselves, e.g. Catholics and Protestants, migrants and locals etc.). During the experiment, members of two (or more) groups are invited to interact with each other by asking and answering questions and trying to identify who is who. The experiment is administered through specific software which regulates and records the participants' interactions.
In the context of this research project on China's internal migrations, the Imitation Game methodology is used to compare Beijing's native residents (i.e. holders of a Beijing "resident permit" or hukou 户口) with migrants from Hebei province (i.e. holders of Hebei resident permits). The members of these two groups are invited to ask and answer questions between each other and try to identify which answer(s) come from "locals" or from "migrants". The score of each group is subsequently analyzed along with the sets of exchanged questions and answers. Together with Basile Zimmermann's framework of waves and forms, the results of the imitation game are expected to provide a detailed account of the groups' shared interactional expertise (Collins and Evans 2002), and contribute to identify possible forms (Zimmermann 2015) enabling or preventing the integration of migrants in the municipality of Beijing. To these ends, the thesis also entails the development of a mobile app of the Imitation Game software, better suited to Chinese users and designed to collect the necessary qualitative and quantitative data.
This project is registered in Information Systems and hosted by the Institut Confucius de l'Université de Genève. It is led by Dr. Basile Zimermann and prof. Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo.
For more information please contact the project's main researcher Ozan Sahin.
Zimmermann B. (2018). "Trois regards sur la notion de « culture chinoise » ". Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 72(1), pp. 87-116.
Sahin, O. (2017). « From technocracy to citizen science: The nature of expertise and the place of experts in our societies ». In Blog Scientifique de l'Institut Confucius, Université de Genève.
Sahin, O. (2014). « Technologies de l'information et expertise interactionnelle: rencontres et travaux avec QIU Zeqi et Harry Collins ». In Blog Scientifique de l'Institut Confucius, Université de Genève.
"La culture flottante: transmission et évolution des formes culturelles dans la Chine contemporaine". Summer school, Confucius Institute at the University of Geneva, July 2018.
"Migrations, integration and 'cultural diversities': Understanding the migrants' integration in Beijing through the Imitation Game". Social Studies of Expertise and Experience Workshop #11, University of Geneva, May 2017.
Social Studies of Expertise and Experience Workshop #11, with the participation of Melbourne University, University of Virginia, Arizona State University, University of Waterloo, Villanova University, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Helsinki, University of Ottawa, Wilfrid Laurier University, James Madison University (see the flyer). Organized by the Institut Confucius in collaboration with Cardiff University and Renmin University. University of Geneva, May 2017.
"Waves, Forms, and the Imitation Game", Social Studies of Expertise and Experience Workshop #9, School of Social Sciences, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom, May 2015.
"Information technology, organization and social change in China" (see the video), followed by "Tacit Knowledge, Interactional Expertise and the Imitation Game" (see the video). Workshop, conferences and sociological experience with professors Harry Collins (Cardiff University) and QIU Zeqi (Peking University), organized by the Institut Confucius in collaboration with the Graduate Institute. University of Geneva, March 2014.
"Waves and Elements: Toward a new conceptualization of culture", School of Social Sciences, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom, December 2013.


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Q: How to find out if an object from an array is present also in another array Hi,
I have 2 objects that contain arrays of objects within like this:
var array1 = {"id":"car", "name":"honda", "virtues":[{"price":99}, {"size" : ""}, {"condition" : "new"}]};

var array2 = {'userid' : '2', 'username' : 'john','prefs' : [{"price":1}]};

I dont care for size all I want is price and condition so I want to find out if those are present also in array2 so I did this:
calceffect = function(myarray) {
 myarray.map(x => {
  for(let key in x) {
   if(key!= 'size') {
    array2.prefs.map(d =>
     {
      for(let k in d) {
       if(k == key){
        console.log('present');
       } else {
        console.log('absent');
       }
      }
     }
    );
   }
  }
 });
}

calceffect(array1.virtues); //in this case it will output 'it is present' for "price" and 'absent' for "condition"

it works as expected, however I find it like a little too convoluted. Is there a cleaner way to get the same result?
Thank you.

A: You could get the keys, count and get the result

const
    getKeys = a => a.flatMap(o => Object.keys(o)),
    a = { id: "car", name: "honda", virtues: [{ price: 99 }, { size: "" }, { condition: "new" }] },
    b = { userid: '2', username: 'john', prefs: [{ price: 1 }] },
    add = (object, d) => v => object[v] = (object[v] || 0) + d,
    counts = {}
    result = { common: [], unique: [] };

getKeys(a.virtues).forEach(add(counts, 1));
getKeys(b.prefs).forEach(add(counts, -1));

Object.entries(counts).forEach(([k, v]) => result[v ? 'unique' : 'common'].push(k));

console.log(result);

A: there is a way that you can use the built in JavaScript methods such as filter and some to check if the price and condition properties are in array2.prefs.
One way you could refactor this is making a function that returns a boolean:
let array1 = {"id":"car", "name":"honda", "virtues":[{"price":99}, {"size" : ""}, {"condition" : "new"}]};

let array2 = {'userid' : '2', 'username' : 'john','prefs' : [{"price":1}]};

First we filter out the objects in array1.virtues that have a price or condition, secondly we use the every method to check if all objects satisfy the condition that there exists at least one object in array.prefs that has both a price and a condition. some method is used to check for the existing object.
let priceAndCondition = array1.virtues.filter(x => x.price || x.condition).every(x => array2.prefs.some(y => y.price && y.condition));

console.log(priceAndCondition);

A: You can achieve it by using below code -
// create an array of the desired keys to check
const desiredKeys = ['price', 'condition'];

// check if each desired key is present in array2 prefs
const presentKeys = desiredKeys.filter(key => array2.prefs.some(pref =>
pref.hasOwnProperty(key)));

// output the result
presentKeys.forEach(key => console.log(`${key} is present`));

If you want to use array of undesired keys, then you can use below code -
// create an array of the desired keys to check
const unDesiredKeys = ['size'];

// check if each desired key is present in array2 prefs
const presentKeys = unDesiredKeys.filter(key =>
      array2.prefs.some(pref => !pref.hasOwnProperty(key)));

// output the result
presentKeys.forEach(key => console.log(`${key} is present`));

A: this is good?
var array1 = {
    "id":"car",
    "name":"honda",
    "virtues":[{"price":99}, {"size" : ""}, {"condition" : "new"}]
};

var array2 = {
    'userid' : '2',
    'username' : 'john',
    'prefs' : [{"price":1}]
};

const value1 = Object.values(array1);
const value2 = Object.values(array2);
const vObj1 = value1.filter(item => typeof item === "object");
const vObj2 = value2.filter(item => typeof item === "object");
const obj1 = vObj1[0];
const obj2 = vObj2[0];

for(let index of obj1){
    for(let index2 of obj2){
    console.log(Object.keys(index2).filter(test => test ===  Object.keys(index)[0]));
    }
}

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2021-10-17 - ALEX BOYD
CALGARY—It's his last full workday at Calgary City Hall before the first election in more than a decade in which he isn't a contender — but even if Mayor Naheed Nenshi were inclined to be maudlin, there isn't time.
"Everyone said, 'Once you bang the gavel on your last council meeting — which was nearly a month ago — then you just coast; you pack up your office and pop the popcorn and watch the show,' " he says, calling Friday in a window between meetings.
"But you may have noticed we're in a public health emergency."
It's been 11 years since Nenshi, who, in a recent opinion piece, described his past self as a "nerdy schlumpy professor," shocked those inside Alberta and out by taking 40 per cent of the vote in Calgary, handily defeating the well-known alderman and former news anchor expected to beat him.
For many, the surprise victory of the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city, and argu- ably the first of any major city in the western world, symbolized the ways in which a city known for cowboys and conservatism was changing.
An editorial cartoon in a national newspaper at the time showed a grinning Nenshi driving a Stampede-style chuckwagon, the horse in front of him scrawled with one word: "progress."
Perhaps more than most politicians, Nenshi has also been a leader forged in fire.
When a reporter mentions some of the generational challenges he's faced, such as the flooding of Calgary, the welcoming of evacuees from the Fort McMurray fire and a global pandemic, Nenshi cheerfully jumps in to continue the list: "economic dislocation, the climate crisis, reconciliation, racism …"
"I would just like to very clearly point out that correlation does not equal causation," he jokes.
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They are crises that not all believe Nenshi has handled well. His popularity has fallen over the years and some say he's contributed to a more combative tone in Calgary municipal politics. Yet, the impression he's left over a decade seems undeniable.
It's going to be "incredibly hard" to leave while the city is still midcrisis, he says. Case numbers in the hard-hit province are finally trending downwards, but Alberta has learned, to its peril, what it means to declare the pandemic over too quickly.
"Certainly, when I made my decision in April, I thought and hoped, like everyone did, that I would be able to help get us through this pandemic and would be able to turn over a post-pandemic city," he says.
"That I would be able to turn over a place where we got a little bit of money in the bank, and a clean slate for the new mayor to do great things, and it hasn't quite turned out to be that way."
When he was first elected, Nenshi was regularly stopped in the city and asked for photos — though he notes this was the pre-selfie era — but he was surprised to realize he had also become one of the select group of Albertans casually known outside the province.
He recalled his first trip to Toronto as mayor, sitting on the plane and telling his chief of staff how nice it would be to take the subway and grab takeout without being recognized — until he got off at the airport and picked up a copy of a Toronto paper, which had run his photo on the third page.
While he calls his national profile an "enormous honour," Nenshi says it always irritated him that he was often portrayed in national media as the face of the "new Alberta." For starters, he was first elected at 38, having spent most of his formative years in Alberta, and, secondly, the framing carried with it ideas of what his province was and what a leader should be.
"It wasn't fair and it wasn't great to Alberta," he says. "And sort of the breathless, 'Oh my God, he's a person of colour and he's a different religion, and how weird is that?' I also found very strange."
As uneasy as the public mantle of being the first Muslim mayor has been at times, there has also been meaning to it.
"You know, as much as I sort of rankled against all those 'firsts' early on, they are true, and they're part of the whole story of who I am. So I shouldn't run away from that," he says. "That's life, isn't it? You take the bitter with the sweet."
Within Calgary, his legacy has been more nuanced. He was the first mayor in recent years to come from east Calgary, one of the most ethnically diverse parts of the city. He is fond of saying that his family's is a typical Canadian immigrant story. (Setting aside, of course, that most people don't end up being mayor.)
When his parents were living in Arusha, Tanzania, in the 1960s, his father used to get copies of the Toronto Star, from which he learned about this wintry country he'd never seen. One day, the paper ran a photo of the new city hall and Nathan Phillips Square, a public gathering place named for another mayor that opened in Toronto in 1965, and vowed to one day visit the building.
They arrived in Toronto months before Nenshi was born, eventually striking out on a cross-country journey in a 1974 Dodge Dart to settle in Calgary when the future mayor was a toddler.
"Sometimes we were poor, sometimes we were very poor, and sometimes we were just a little bit poor," he said in a 2019 video for a non-profit called Everyone's Canada. But what he lacked in money he made up in opportunities, he said. He went to excellent public schools, "haunted" the public library and explored the city on public transit.
From those roots grew an unflagging booster for Calgary, and not just the stereotypical version many Canadians have in their heads. People outside Calgary are at least a little bit less likely to call it Cowtown today, Nenshi notes.
But like broken clocks, some stereotypes are occasionally true, and Nenshi jokes that he became mayor mostly to ride a horse in the Calgary Stampede parade — a special political privilege traditionally granted only to mayors and, more recently, to premiers.
But, jokes aside, he says the time in the saddle has always been a chance to see his city from a new angle, and he'll never forget riding his horse through recently flooded streets in 2013, or mounting up with a mask for a scaled-down version this year.
There are some signs that the community has continued to shift since then, too. Increasingly, Alberta is no longer the
petro-powerhouse of past boomtimes and roughly a third of Calgary's downtown office towers now sit empty.
In recent years, council meetings have often run late into the evening as councillors publicly sparred in meetings and online. His critics are quick to say Nenshi's fondness for verbal sparring can veer into arrogance. Nenshi himself has said one of his biggest regrets includes decisions made about budget and business support as the city struggled with dropping revenue while buildings sat vacant.
Then, there's the failure to bring the Olympics back to the city.
In 2018, he threw his weight behind the plebiscite that asked Calgarians whether the city should make a bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics — the majority said no. The following year a ThinkHQ poll found his approval rating had dropped to 39 per cent, slightly more than half of what it had been just five years before.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and some of his ministers have publicly butted heads with municipal leaders who have been vocal about many have said is a failure to do their duty with pandemic restrictions, often downloading things such as mask mandates onto the cities.
Nenshi, never one to mince words, called the United Conservative provincial government "the most incompetent he's ever seen" on CTV's Power Play last month.
For their part, at least one minister has tried to brand Nenshi as "Trudeau's mayor," a distinctly made-in-Alberta insult.
Nenshi says that as much as he might personally have liked to stay on and give longtime former Mississauga mayor Hazen McCallion a run for her money in terms of political longevity, it was time to step back, trust that the community will continue to do great things, and let other voices in. (Though he admits that when he watches the mayoral debates involving the current 27 hopefuls he sometimes wonders, "Wait, did I mean those voices?")
Still, he calls the coming climb out of the pandemic a "wet clay" moment, in which new leadership will have the opportunity to create something different and special — though they'll have to do it quickly, before the window closes.
His belief that this country is a place where people from anywhere, of any background, can find belonging remains mostly intact, he says.
Politics may be getting more divisive, but Nenshi urges those who follow in his footsteps to focus on the most voices, not the loudest. Even in Alberta, at a time when COVID-19 vaccines have become a political football, the vast majority of people have chosen vaccination, he points out.
"Certainly the voices of indignation and anger are growing louder, but they're so small; they're such a tiny minority of who we are," he says.
"The fact that we're spending all of our time on these meaningless people? We've got to stop that. We can't ignore it. We got to take it very, very seriously. But we also cannot valorize it, we cannot raise it up. If I never hear from Maxime Bernier ever again, that would be a good day."
For now, he swears he truly has no idea what he plans to do next — a prospect he finds "remarkably liberating." He's going to take a break, maybe travel to the U.S. once the border reopens, and think about new jobs in the new year.
With that, he ducks into his next meeting.
It's been 11 years — and four states of emergency — since Naheed Nenshi shocked those inside Alberta and out by taking 40 per cent of the mayoral vote in Calgary
JEFF MCINTOSH THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO Naheed Nenshi jokes he became mayor in order to ride a horse in the Calgary Stampede parade, a special privilege reserved for mayors and premiers. But Nenshi also says his time in the saddle allowed him to see his city from a unique vantage point.
TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO While Nenshi says part of him wanted to stay on and try for the record of former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion, left, in office, it was time to let other voices speak. Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson, back, is also stepping down this election.
JEFF MCINTOSH THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO Nenshi, fire chief Bruce Burrell, left, Alberta premier Alison Redford and prime minister Stephen Harper examine a map of the flooded areas of Calgary in June 2013. The flood was one of the first major crises that Nenshi would deal with as mayor.
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